• Spearheaded electrical hardware engineering efforts at lithium-ion battery startup company aiming to set up India’s first Gigafactory for mass production of novel electric vehicle batteries.• Established manufacturing process for lithium-ion cell production at MWh production capacity in pilot manufacturing plant facility in South Korea. • Led successful certification of cells for international shipment from Korea following rigorous electrical, mechanical and thermal testing to meet UN38.3 safety standards for lithium-ion batteries.• Provided engineering expertise to customers on battery pack development and vehicle integration, including pack design guidelines to achieve desired thermal and mechanical performance for diverse categories of vehicles (e.g., 2-wheelers, 3-wheelers, 4-wheelers and heavy-duty/off-road vehicles) and operating conditions.

• Led design and analysis efforts within the Electrical Hardware org. at Rivian for meeting a variety of electronic packaging, safety, reliability and manufacturing requirements.• Optimized performance for components such as vehicle electronic control units (ECUs), 12V battery, ADAS cameras, radars, sensors, and electronic connectors.• Developed thermal management strategies for next-generation vehicle architecture. Designed and implemented active and passive thermal management solutions for electronic systems into production.• Led product and engineering excellence by partnering with multiple teams – e.g. body, interiors, platform architecture, battery, electrical distribution systems to provide multidisciplinary support.

• Provided complex technical and strategic solutions to clients operating in diverse industry sectors such as consumer products, manufacturing technology, autonomous vehicles, transportation, consumer electronics and industrial equipment. • Advised clients on critical product design and process evaluation issues, product performance, safety and recall issues, and accident and failure investigation. • Managed multidisciplinary projects with a team of technical associates and steering them to successful completion by delivering in-depth, long term solution frameworks within tight timeframes.

Built high performance, next-generation autonomous electric vehicles and clean-air, sustainable technology. I. Leadership Experience - International Automotive Safety Program Management• Led program for achieving 5-star vehicle safety requirements for the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro-NCAP).• Navigated program through multiple challenges involved in preparation for obtaining Euro-NCAP certification spread over a two-year duration, including baseline establishment, development of countermeasures, pre-official test series and final official test series in Europe.• Steered engineering/manufacturing teams (60+ members) including Vehicle Test, Body-in-White, Seats, Chassis, Closures, Exteriors, Interiors, Autopilot, Battery, Quality through a tight timeline towards performance target. Bridged solutions with European test partner to effectively implement upcoming protocol revisions and more stringent assessment metrics.II. Technical Experience - Design for Crashworthiness and Durability• Led development of full-vehicle numerical simulation models using the Finite Element Method to enable improved and efficient design for safe, robust vehicle components that can withstand highly dynamic impact and loading events, targeted towards crashworthiness and durability. • Enabled accurate prediction of complex mechanical behavior and solving multi-physics problems by implementing multiple modeling, computational, optimization and programming platforms such as LS-DYNA, Abaqus, Ansys, Hyperworks, Digimat, Beta CAE, TOSCA, LS-OPT and Python.III. Innovation - Enhancing Production Throughput• Developed innovative solution to address critical Model-3 production ramp bottleneck, outside regular job responsibility.• Set-up experiments to prove concept on pilot scale in a mini-lab next to production line; Achieved significant cycle time reduction in process for production vehicles. Technique not implemented previously in automotive industry.

• Team lead for development of reconfigurable portable robotic systems made up entirely of soft materials, with applications in biomedical rehabilitation and wearables. Developed simulation models by characterizing complex non-linear mechanical behavior using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for achievement of flexible, predictable actuation motion.• Brought industry partnership with Oculus VR to develop soft robotic exosuit prototypes targeted towards an enhanced VR experience for gaming. Validated model predictions with experimental testing, to obtain desired motion/force profiles in robotic actuators with embedded mechanical intelligence.

• Led thermal system design and modeling for development of a novel cooling platform to address extreme thermal dissipation in high power electronic devices for defense and military, in partnership with Raytheon Company and Stanford University. • Developed simulation models to optimize mechanical design and enable energy-efficient, high reliability operation of devices. Collaborated with IBM Corporation to implement final device layouts with integrated cooling system into production.

Developed fabrication processes for Intel's next generation microprocessors using state-of-the-art equipment and materials; Lead scientific research enabling manufacture of innovative device architectures coupled with the realization of these architectures; Designed, executed and analyzed experiments throughout stages of development to meet challenging engineering specifications for new technology processes.

Major: Mechanics and Microsystems (School of Engineering)Minor: Finance (Sloan School of Management)

• Invented a new manufacturing technique to generate programmable hierarchical architectures for self-structured mechanical systems comprising soft materials at small length scales, with applications in multi-material composites and sensors• Developed models to evaluate limits of success by implementing elastic-plastic deformation theories• Achieved significant reduction in manufacturing time and cost compared to traditional manufacturing methods.