vita

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2017
  • Dissertation: Rheology, Mechanics and Transport in Granular Materials: A Versatile Computational Framework
  • Major advisor: Prof. Tim Fisher
• Bachelors of Engineering (Honours), Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 2009

Experience

• Applied Math Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2020 - present)

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Labs (2017 - 2020)

• Graduate Research Assistant, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University (2011 - 2017)

• Design Engineer, Aircraft R&D Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, India (2009 - 2010)

Professional Activities

• Invited session chair, Flow of Dense Granular Materials and Suspensions, APS March Meeting 2021, March 2021

• Session co-chair, Granular Physics and Geomechanics, Society of Engineering Sciences Virtual Technical Meeting, September 30 2020

• Conference co-chair, GRC Connects: Granular Matter, September 1 2020

• Conference co-chair, Gordon Research Seminar on Granular Matter, June 2020, Easton MA (rescheduled for 2022 due to Covid-19))

• Discussion leader, Gordon Research Seminar on Batteries, February 2020, Ventura CA

• Discussion leader, Gordon Research Seminar on Granular Matter, July 2018, Easton MA

• Proposal reviewer, U.S. Department of Energy - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Novemeber 2020

• Ad-hoc journal referee: Physical Review (Letters/E/Research/Applied), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Granular Matter, Soft Matter, Journal of Electrochemical Society, Computational Materials Science, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Joule, Journal of Applied Mechanics

Teaching Experience

• Instructor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
  • Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale (online course)
  • Developed Wolfram Mathematica CDF tools as homework and course aids
  • Assisted the main instructor Prof. Tim Fisher in drafting the course textbook (Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale, World Scientific, 2013)
• Teaching Assistant, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
  • Numerical Methods in Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer (Ph.D. course) - 1 semester
  • Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale (Masters course) - 2 semesters
  • Heat and Mass Transfer (Undergraduate course) - 6 semesters