Biography/CV

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Education

• Ph.D. + M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2016–2022
  • GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • Concentation : Computational Science and Engineering
  • Minor : Statistics
• B.Tech. (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), 2012–2016
  • GPA: 9.67/10.0
  • Honours focus : Computational Mechanics

Positions

• Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC, 2017–2022
  • Focus areas
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, UIUC, 2019–2021
  • Designed and delivered lectures for ME447 : Computational dynamics and design of soft systems.
• Unilever Leaders Intern, Unilever Ltd., India, May 2015–July 2015
  • Designed an autonomous mechanism to change reels of soap wrappers and implemented it onsite (projected savings of ~$100k per annum per factory)

Awards

• UIUC Grainger MAVIS fellow
• Article in focus, Nature Communications
• Cover, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• H.C. Ting fellow, Mechanical Engineering, UIUC
• IITM Z-Wing Award (for all-round performance)
• IITM Dr. Vivekanand Kochikar Award (for best academic performance)
• IITM Dr. Dinesh Balagangadhar Prize (for best academic performance)
• Nissan Global Foundation Scholarship (for all-round performance)
• Awarded KVPY fellowship
• Awarded DST-Inspire fellowship

Focus areas

• Continuum (fluid/solid) mechanics
• Numerical algorithms
• High-performance computing
• Software at scale
• Statistical and deep learning
• Forward and inverse-design via stochastic optimization

See projects for more details.

Skills

Programming: (modern)C++, Python, [z|ba]sh, JavaScript, R
HPC: SIMD intrinsics, Intel TBB, OpenMP, CUDA, MPI
Machine Learning: Pytorch, Tensorflow
Data & Design: Paraview, Adobe Illustrator
Toolchain: Git, CMake, setuptools, CI
Markup: Latex, Markdown, org-mode, HTML5, CSS
Libraries: Boost, SDL2, Brigand, Blaze, Pybind11, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas