Pranav Agrawal

I am a mechanical engineer and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Sriram Narasimhan's lab at the University of California Los Angeles.  I received my B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. I received my Ph.D. in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. My current research focuses on the development of innovative methods to detect and localize leaks in underground water distribution networks using acoustic sensing. My PhD work focused on vibration modeling problems associated with cable-harnessed systems with aerospace and automotive applications. In the past, I have also worked in the area of nanomechanics and used molecular modeling techniques to solve problems related to buckling and vibrations of carbon nanotubes and graphene sheets. My research interests include vibration of continuous systems, acoustics, dynamics, signal processing, optimization, artificial intelligence, mechanics of composite structures, and molecular mechanics