I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University. My research focuses on designing for sustainable product life cycles. Currently my focus is on, (1) methods & tools for sustainability-based decision-making in lifecycle engineering, and (2) design & evaluation of technologies addressing sustainable development goals in developing world countries Previously, I was a postdoctoral Associate in the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Feb 2016 - June 2017). There, I worked on end-user needs identification, systems design & optimization, and sustainability assessment of village-scale, solar-powered, electrodialysis brackish water desalination systems for providing access to clean drinking water in developing countries. I received my PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in December 2015. At Purdue, I was working in the [C] Design Lab on developing data representations for the product design process that enable environmentally conscious design. I have over 20 peer-reviewed publications in conferences and journals, including the Journal of Mechanical Design, Computer-aided Design, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. I also have two patent applications on sustainability-based visualization techniques in collaboration with TATA Innovation Labs, USA. My work has received the best award in the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) International Design Engineering Technical Conference. Currently, I teach the Innovation Project course - a Master's level course IT Product Development at the Department of Computer Science. I will be starting a Master's course on Sustainable Design and Production at the Department of Engineering in the Autumn semester. I have taught courses on computer-aided design, rapid prototyping, and product design and received the Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Teaching Excellence from Purdue University’s College of Engineering. Recent Publications
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