Development of novel sensors and sensing techniques leveraging acoustics, phononics, and electromagnetics to solve important problems across various industries.

Polymer informatics: Atomistic simulations and machine learning studies for switchable thermal transport in polymers.

I leverage phonon engineering to modulate phononic and electronic properties in semiconducting systems for thermoelectric and quantum information applications. • Engineering phononic systems for quantum applications: My research focuses on tuning spin-phonon and magnon-phonon interactions in solid-state spin qubits and magnetoelastic crystals, respectively, for quantum information processing applications. To this end, I employ phononic crystals, surface acoustic, and high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonators, and recruit various concepts from photonics and optomechanics.• Engineering nanophononic systems for energy transport applications: As a part of this research, I carried out detailed studies on quantum tunneling through semiconductors, including direct band-gap and indirect band-gap cases with possible inter-valley tunneling. Performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on LAMMPS to study the phonon transport through Si/Ge superlattices to evaluate effective thermal conductivity and interface resistance. Employed density functional theory (DFT), density functional perturbation theory (DFPT), electron-phonon Wannier (EPW) techniques for electronic bands, electron-phonon, and electron-impurity scattering calculations in strained Si/Ge superlattices.• Mentored 3 undergraduate researchers from the discovery learning apprenticeship program.

As a research assistant for Summer 2022, My research involves performing heat transfer analysis, particularly thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity analysis of porous thermal coatings using COMSOL Multiphysics.

Fall 2021: ASEN 5014 Linear Control SystemsSpring 2022: ASEN 3111 Aerodynamics

• As a senior engineer and a rotodynamics researcher, my work in rotordynamic energy analysis and non-linear dynamics with harmonic balance method resulted in a journal and a conference article published in ASME (listed in the publications section below).• I developed MATLAB programs for the in-house rotordynamics tool which includes developing formulations for various analyses like critical speed, unbalance, maneuver, and transient analysis, and wrote export functions to multiphysics tools, such as NASTRAN and Ansys. • As a Six Sigma-Green Belt certified professional, I helped integrate and reuse 3 different aero simulation tools.• Developed a prototype for cabin management systems which stood as one of the top 5 prototypes in the 'Pitch Your Prototype' competition held in Honeywell India.

• My work mainly focused on deriving and simulating mathematical formulations for shape memory alloy non-linear phase transformation using Mathematica and Matlab. • Alongside my shape-memory alloy work, I was also a part of the stability analysis team of the lightweight locomotive project and contributed to buff load and self-weight load analysis on a composite locomotive in ANSYS.• I was awarded the GE Bronze award by Dr. Vidyashankar Buravalla for 'Expertise and Clear Thinking' during my internship.

As a research intern, I developed micromechanics models for piezoelectric fiber composites under the supervision of Dr. Raja Samikkannu. My work on active and passive damping of nano-fiber piezo composites culminated in an ASME conference paper.

I performed a predictive analysis of shimmy instability of nose-wheel landing gears under the guidance of Dr. Srinivasa Suryanarayanan.