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Bay Shore, New York, Us

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

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

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

Boulder, Colorado, Us

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.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

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.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

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

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• 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.

Boston, Ma, Us

• 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.

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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.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Master’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering