I was born in Patna, India. Like many fortunate people, I have wonderful parents. They have always loved, guided and supported me. I have an affectionate younger brother who is also an engineer like me.

After staying in Giridih till the age of six, a time from which I still recollect wonderful memories, we moved to Patna to live in a joint family. There was never a dull moment with my brother and my cousins around. I went to school at Don Bosco Academy and made few great friends there. The teachers were excellent and there itself I developed an interest in Math. After taking my 10th board exams, I decided to prepare for a career in engineering. So, I moved to Bokaro to study at Delhi Public School for the next two years. I stayed with my grandmother, uncle, aunt and cousin and enjoyed every bit of it. The environment at DPS was conducive for my preparation towards entrance test for IIT. Problem-solving sessions in and out of class with friends were stimulating and helped build my concepts in math and science. I will always cherish those moments.

After DPS, I joined IIT Kharagpur, one of the greatest colleges to be in. I met wonderful friends there. There certainly wasn't a dull moment living in dorms with friends. At Kharagpur, I was introduced to computational techniques for materials modeling. I did an internship at Tata Steel, where I worked on a project to suggest an optimum rolling schedule based on quality and cost using evolutionary algorithm. I realized I liked programming and found its use in physical understanding of materials processing fascinating. Therefore, after finishing my bachelors, I decided to go for Ph.D to Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania. The setting is simply beautiful with so many state parks around. Here also, I made wonderful new friends and amazingly had some old friends from KGP as well to keep me company. Four years flew by.

I graduated from Penn State in December 2008. My Ph.D. thesis was focussed on better understanding of various physical aspects of Friction Stir Welding process by modeling heat transfer and plastic flow during welding.

Currently, I work at MEMC Electronic Materials in St Peters, Missouri,  and do computational modeling of fluid and solid mechanics involved in silicon materials processing.

I have been in US for almost five years now. It has been an incredible experience. I enjoy nature and outdoors and love to drive through scenic roads. I also have an abiding interest in reading and collecting popular Science and Math books.