Outreach

  • Promoting Undergraduate Research in Engineering (PURE) mentor, Fall 2021.
    • Mentored two undergraduate students in online simulation sandboxing, data visualization and C++ build systems.
  • Active in dissemination of research via APS meetings, presenting 17 conference abstracts.
    • Awarded APS grant for research dissemination, 2019.
  • NCSA-NVIDIA AI Hackathon, 2020.
    • Developed a hackathon problem (“control of soft-octopus via ML”) using pyelastica.
    • Served as jury member and evaluated best control strategies.
  • Graduate member, Pi Tau Sigma honor society, 2017–2022.
  • Develop and maintain open-source software pyelastica,Elastica++,pyCFS(∼3000 downloads, ∼20,000 views, 10+ active user groups @ cosseratrods.org).
  • Served as Public Relations head for Shaastra 2016, Asia’s biggest student-run technical festival connecting STEM student community to academia, entrepreneurs, industry.