Academic researcher working at IIT Madras. I lead a research group with a current strength of 20 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Our interests are broadly in propulsion, combustion and energy. Specific problems of interest are combustion instabilities in propulsion systems, gasification of biomass and coal for hydrogen, activated carbon and biochar, syngas combustion and applicable combustion kinetics. Our work has attracted interest from cement and steel industries for their potential as decarbonization technologies. Our propulsion research has opened up new avenues for model based propellant design and design for instability free systems.