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-Lead ongoing projects in the lab, manage collaborations, and present results to funding agencies and at International conferences.-Conceptualizing, designing, and conducting original research on Biological active materials composed of reconstituted cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins, cells, and tissues. -Serve as in-house expert on analytical tools related to image processing, 2D/3D particle tracking, PIV, and quantitative analysis using MatLab.-Contribute to writing papers, and grants and training incoming postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. -Contribute to teaching and designing graduate and undergraduate biomechanics courses offered at Yale.

-Conduct original research on Biological active materials composed of reconstituted cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins.-Conduct original research on mechanics of dynamics of cell spheroid/organoid culture. -Develop analytic tools and image processing routines in MatLab. -Simulate active cytoskeletal networks using Cytosim and Afines packages. -Contribute to writing papers and training graduate students, and undergraduates. -Contribute to teaching and designing graduate and undergraduate biomechanics courses offered at Yale.

-Conceptualizing and performing experiments to understand phases of microtubules during cell division.-Designing algorithms in MATLAB for automated feature detection and quantification of large multi-dimensional biological datasets.-Developing advanced image processing techniques.-Creating mathematical and physical models from first principles.

-Performing experiments to understand dynamical and mechanical behavior of large assemblies of complex shaped particles.-Designing novel algorithm and analysis techniques to quantify 3D features data from X-Ray CT scanners and high speed cameras.-Creating new automated experimental setup using LabVIEW.-Identifying crucial analogies among disparate fields of physics to develop novel quantification methodologies.

M.Sc. ThesisAnalysis of Non-equilibrium states in Magnetization Dynamics of FerromagnetsAdvisor: Prof. S. Murugesh, Dept. of Physics and Meteorology, Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur, India.

Experimental Investigation of 2-D Turbulence in Vertically Flowing Soap FilmsAdvisor: Prof. R. Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Simulation of Jamming in Granular Mixtures using Hard-sphere Binary Mixture ModelAdvisor: Dr. Supurna Sinha, Theoretical Physics Group, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

Radar Remote Sensing Applications in Wetland Habitat: IV. A Case Study of Keoladeo National Park Using SAR Texture AnalysisAdvisor: Dr. Hari Shanker Srivastava, Scientist-D, Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre, ISRO, Dehradoon.