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Fall 2022 - Fluid Mechanics (course instructor)Nominated for Distinguished AwardDouglas Teaching FellowshipFall 2023 - Fluid MechanicsDouglas Teaching Fellowship

High-throughput Xray compatible microfluidic platforms for protein crystallization & crystallographyGuide: Prof. Sarah L. Perry∙ Development of a novel electrowetting based microfluidic device∙ Added emphasis on using a low voltage actuation by incorporating conjugated polymer∙ Parallel development of centrifugal SU-8 and PDMS based microfluidic devices∙ Transition towards Roll-to-Roll processing to incorporate into existing manufacturing framework

Fall 2019 - Fluid Mechanics Spring 2020 - Microfluidics & AnalysisFall 2020 - Transport ProcessSpring 2021 - Thermodynamics IISpring 2022 - Microfluidics & Analysis

Role - Visiting Ph.D. StudentProject - Developing Microfluidic Platform for Single Cell RNA Sequencing. Advisor - Prof. Bart Deplancke

Fall 2017 - Mechanical OperationsSpring 2018 - Fluid Flow Lab

Master’s Thesis Project - IIT Kharagpur (August 2017 - April 2018)Enhancement in Thermal Conductivity of Copper Nanofluids Guide: Prof. Jayanta Chakraborty∙ Both 3D and 1D nanostuctures have been employed to check the thermal enhancement∙ Nanoparticles have shown 6% enhancement at 0.6%v/v in ethylene glycol as base liquid∙ Nanowires have shown 1.9% & 2.9% enhancement at 0.042%v/v in water & ethylene glycol∙ Linear dependence in thermal conductivity has been observed for increasing nanowire concentration∙ The thermal conductivity was analysed using KD2 Pro Thermal Properties analyserBachelor’s Thesis Project - IIT Kharagpur (May 2016 - April 2017)Fabrication of Copper Nanowires based Transparent Conducting Films Guide: Prof. Jayanta Chakraborty∙ Developed an economic non toxic alternative for ITO films.∙ New method was devised to synthesize copper nanowires of 50-100 nm dia. and 30-50 𝜇m length∙ Conductive ink was developed using Copper Nanowires and ethanol as base∙ Glass substrates were coated with the ink using spin, dip coating, drop casting & Meyer’s Rod∙ The glasses created showed a sheet resistance of 50 ohm/sq and a transparency of 90%∙ Alloy Nanowire with 20% nickel coating & copper core was developed to eradicate the oxidation

Social & Cultural at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence ∙ Elected representative of the hall of over 1750 students to lead in General Championship(GC).∙ Planned and implemented a budget of INR 370,000 for the welfare of student community.∙ Efficiently conducted 22 Interhall, 10 Open IIT events in single academic year.

Poultry Feather Keratin based Biopolymers for Waste Water Treatment Guide: Prof. Aman Ullah∙ Developed a new biosorbent for heavy metal removal from industrial waste water.∙ Folded globular structures of native keratin were modified to expose several functional groups∙ 380% increase in adsorption capacity was observed for the modified biosorbents at pH 4∙ FTIR data & ICP-MS were used as characterization tool∙ The work has been presented in CHEMCON 2017 held in Dec’17.