Dr. Ramesh Rebba works at General Motors, Warren, MI as a Senior CAE Engineer in the Electrification CAE Group. As a global simulation owner, Dr. Rebba is responsible for developing and implementing standard analysis work for all battery cell related simulation within GM. As part of Department of Energy/NREL CAEBAT project, Dr. Rebba is member of the GM team developing CAE tools for battery system design in collaboration with external software and technical partners.

Dr. Rebba's primary interests include battery mechanics, multi-physics modeling, uncertainty quantification, and model verification and validation (V&V). He received a BS in Structural Engineering from IIT, Madras, India; an MS and PhD both from Vanderbilt University in the area of computational model validation. He is an active member of the NAFEMS Stochastics Working Group, ASME committee on verification and validation of computational solid mechanics models, and SAE. Dr. Rebba has DFSS Black Belt certification at GM.