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Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

• Ensuring that the fabricated MEMS devices meet performance specifications, yield targets, and quality standards.
• Translating the conceptual designs into detailed engineering drawings and specifications, considering fabrication constraints and process capabilities.
• Conducting feasibility studies to evaluate the technical and commercial viability of proposed MEMS designs.
• Overseeing the fabrication process in the cleanroom, working with process engineers to ensure the accurate realization of the designed structures.
• Identifying the specific requirements of the MEMS device and determining the appropriate fabrication process to achieve the desired functionality.
• Conceptualizing and modelling MEMS devices using specialized software tools such as COMSOL to predict their behaviour and performance.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Employed physical vapour deposition to create magnetostrictive films using FeGa, FeGaB, and FeCo materials.
• Optimized nanofabrication processes to control film properties, such as thickness and crystalline structure.
• Worked with the Naval Research Laboratory to integrate these films into magnetic sensor prototypes.
• Performed comprehensive characterizations, evaluating magnetic and mechanical traits.
• Lead AlScN microcantilever development, aiming to reduce internal stress via physical vapor deposition.
• Designed and implement fabrication processes for high-quality microcantilever structures.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• A PMUT Integrated Microfluidic System for Fluid Density Sensing
• Fabricated a Piezoelectric Micro-machined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUT) integrated with a microfluidic device to sense static and real-time density.
• Paper published in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.An Optofluidic Dye Concentration Detector Based on Pulsed Photoacoustic Effect
• Detected the concentration of methylene blue in a microfluidic channel via pulsed photoacoustic effect.
• Paper published in SPIE 2021 Conference.Towards the Development of Backing Layer for Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers
• Fabricated a PMUT to engineer its quality factor by deposition of parylene C on the surface.

Bangalore

• Mono-Dispersed Spraying using Super-hydrophobic sieves
• Fabricated a super-hydrophobic sieve using wet etch technique (i.e., growing nano-rods on a surface)
• The goal is to achieve mono-dispersed droplets using different pore opening of the superhydrophobic sieve.Droplet dynamics over super-slippery surfaces
• Fabricated a super-slippery sieve using etching technique followed by oil coating.
• Drop dynamic studies to see the effect on jet length, jet velocity and break time at different Weber number.Droplet impact dynamics of fluids over sieves
• Understanding droplet impact dynamics of a Newtonian fluid, Non-Newtonian Fluid and Viscoelastic fluids over Super-hydrophobic, Hydrophobic and hydrophilic sieve with different droplet impact velocity.Automation of.

Kapurthala, Punjab, India

• Improvement of a paint job on LHB railway coaches
• An industrial project on improvement of the paint job on Railway Coaches was done in a manner to increase the quality and the net profit of the factory.
• INR 160,000 and 7 days were saved per month on the units produced.

Master Of Science In Engineering, Master Of Science In Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: 1st place in Intra-College Soccer Matches:- Aug 2017. 1st place in Intra-College Water Polo Matches:- Sep 2017..