Kalyan Nadella Email & Phone Number

Itasca, Illinois, United States

Itasca, Illinois, United States

Continuation of my duties as Sr. Electro acoustic engineer with additional responsibility of technical team lead for BA commercial business.

Greater Chicago Area

• Multi-physics and lumped element simulations to predict the behavior of acoustic products• Developed, modified and tested prototype couplers and transducers for meeting customer targets• Assisted Application Engineers with technical support escalations that require deeper subject matter expertise • Closely worked with other design and test engineers to test, and characterize designs• Coordinate and guide factory engineers to build modified and prototype products• Benchmarked competitive transducers for evaluation• Interacted with customer engineers to present test data, and co-develop innovative and strategic products

Greater Chicago Area

NVH research lead in driving innovation for development of next generation sound packagingmaterials Developed next-gen acoustic materials for NVH solutions in collaboration with OEMs Performed formulation cost-reduction coordinating prototype and production trails

Aec Building, Dearborn, Mi 48121

Collaborated to expedite product development of heat exchangers, brackets, hoses and cooling modules by performing modal, frequency response, durability (fatigue) and thermal analyses using transient and PSD (power spectral density) input loads Improved CAE correlation with vehicle test data to reduce product development costs for future modelsActively supported durability issues and mid-cycle cost reduction efforts in current production vehicles

United States

* Manufacturing and poling of advanced piezoelectric transducer: Macro fiber composite based frequency-steerable acoustic transducers (MFC- FSAT) in collaboration with Vibration and Wave Propagation lab at Georgia Institute of Technology.* Continuing research efforts started during doctoral studies

United States

Active Aeroelasticity and Structures Research Lab (A2SRL) (a2srl.engin.umich.edu)Thesis: Numerical Simulation of Guided Waves in Thin Walled Composite StructuresNumerical Simulations:* Developed and implemented a multi-physics computational framework to model dynamics and wave propagation in fiber-reinforced composites*Accurately modeled stress wave propagation characteristics, electromechanical effects and interaction with damage in composite laminates supporting development of structural healthmonitoring systems using the framework Theoretical Effort:* Implemented a 3D elasticity based theoretical formulation to model stress wave propagation in composite and multi-layered materials* Validated the calculated displacement fields with laser vibrometry experiments* Accurately predicted important wave propagation characteristics such as radial attenuation and the effect of transducer radius on amplitude of induced stress wave field ExperimentalWork:*Built and tested advanced piezoelectric transducers and carbon fiber composites for wave propagation studies* Monitored waves generated by various transducers including piezoelectric wafers, macro fiber composite (MFC) and Composite Long-Range Variable-Length Emitting Radar (CLoVER)using laser vibrometry experiments* Compared propagation characteristics and damage interaction measurements against theoretical and numerical results

United States

Student Instructor for senior design labDepartment of Aerospace Engineering* Organized and supervised lab experiments for several lab sections* Graded lab reports and held office hours to assist students

• Contributed to reduce the variety and number of parts used by suggesting single part (Complexity reduction).• Achieved complexity reduction of Horns and the Fuel Lid cable in the assembly line of middle segment cars.• Solved the complication of improper fitment of front glass windshield in Tata-Sumo and its variants.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi

Masters, Aerospace Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta PiGraduate Research Assistant. Graduated with PhD in Aerospace Engineering. Thesis.

Bachelor Of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 8.3/10

Activities and Societies: NTS scholar (NCERT)Dorm football (soccer) capt. Dorm secretary.