Employment History
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur, India (May 2020–present)
Postdoc, Gal Shmuel's Group, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering , Technion-IIT, Israel (May 2019–March 2020)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur, India (May 2020–present)
Postdoc, Gal Shmuel's Group, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering , Technion-IIT, Israel (May 2019–March 2020)
Ph.D., Manish M. Joglekar's Group, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India (2015–2019)
M.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India (2013-2015)
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India (2009–2013)
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Applied Mechanics (July 2025-present)
Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (February 2025-present)
Associate Editor, Programmable Materials Journal (Cambridge University Press)
SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (2023).
Editorial Board Member, European Journal of Computational Mechanics (June 2023-present)
Best Paper Award, European Journal of Computational Mechanics (2021)
Start-up Research Grant (SRG), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (2021)
INSPIRE Faculty Award, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2019)
Technion Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel (2019)
Gold Medal, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (2016)
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Smart Engineering Materials (ICSEM), Bengaluru (2016)
Wave propagation in soft electro-active polymer composites, AICTE –Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored 5 Days Training Programme on Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures, M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur, September 07-11, 2020.
Modelling of Soft Active Smart Materials, AICTE-AQIS sponsored Online Six Days Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Eclectic Research Trends in Manufacturing (Part-3), Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur, March 15-20, 2021.
Geometric Nonlinearity, 6 Days online Faculty Development Programme on Advanced FEA, IIT Jammu, June 23-28, 2021.
Modelling of Soft Active Materials, AICTE (ATAL) sponsored online Faculty Development Programme on Novel Materials, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Delhi NCR Campus, August 23-27, 2021.
Soft Electroactive Polymers: Modeling and Applications in Soft Robots, Faculty Development Programme on Robotic Systems: Trends, Opportunities and Research Directions, V R Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, October 28-30, 2021.
Design of smart electro-active actuators, AICTE ATAL sponsored Faculty development program on Design Thinking, Government Engineering College Bikaner, 17-21 January, 2022.
Numerical Modeling of Soft Electroactive Polymers, SERB sponsored, seven-day online workshop (KARYASHALA) on Application of Statistical Tools and Modelling in Engineering and Science, SVNIT, Surat, 07-13 March, 2022.
Soft Electroactive Elastomers: Modeling and Applications in Soft Robotics, Faculty Development Programme on FEM & its Applications in Recent Material Technology, Government Engineering College Bikaner, 10-14 March, 2022.
Brief Overview of FEM, Faculty Development Programme on FEM & its Applications in Recent Material Technology, Government Engineering College Bikaner, 10-14 March, 2022.
Computational Modeling of Soft Dielectric Elastomers, IUMRS-ICA 2022, IIT Jodhpur, 19-23 December, 2022.
Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Modeling and Applications in Soft Robots, Recent Advances in Robot Technology (RART-2024), MANIT Bhopal, 8-12 July, 2024.