Curriculum Vitae

Application of Nondestructive evaluation techniques for industrial quality control applications such as

- Thickness inspection of Thermal Barrier coatings using thermal imaging, Eddy current testing, and Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

- Online monitoring of CMT welding processes using IR thermography for defect detection.

- Online inspection of continuous cast steel billets using infrared thermal imaging

- Development of advanced radiography imaging system for application in a safe, quick and reliable inspection of critical welds in the Shipbuilding industry.

- Development of Automatic defect-recognition system for Xray Digital Radiography inspection of High energy Materials

Entrepreneur First is a talent investor, they bring together extraordinary people from diverse backgrounds and experiences to build startups from scratch. We explored several interesting technological solutions, exploring the market, validating the technology, speaking to customers, and researching prototypes. Detect and report quality-compromised and counterfeit drugs, adulteration in the food industry using a mobile cloud-based cost-effective hyper-spectral AI device, Infrared thermal imaging-based realtime energy efficiency monitoring for oil refineries are some of the ideas that we worked on.

Primary research interest was directed in the area of developing quantitative models and designing experimental schemes for utilizing infrared frequencies for flaw detection, imaging and material characterization.

- Computational modelling of anisotropic heat diffusion in fiber reinforced polymer composites

- Development of image processing algorithms for defect feature extraction

- Inverse analysis for defect characterisation in composite materials

- Microstructure-based Material Modeling for Heat conduction phenomena in Polycrystalline Materials using Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method;

- Determination of surface cracks in steel billets at elevated temperature using Laser assisted Thermography.

- Thermographic nondestructive testing of composite materials

Researcher exchange program as part of European Union Project: HEMOW

Research Laboratory: Electromagnetic NDT Research Group ,ZUT, Szczecin

Collaborative Research with Prof. Thomasz Chady and Dr. Barbara Szymanik

- Terahertz imaging and time domain analysis for material defect identification

- Active Infrared Thermography for defect identification in composite materials, Supported by European Commission Project HEMOW: health Monitoring of Offshore Wind Farms

- Worked on a joint project between IIT Madras and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) for the development of Online weld quality monitoring for AA2219 liquid propellant tanks using Infrared thermal Imaging technique.

- Worked in the aerospace division Manufacturing unit of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Bangalore for the real-time measurement of thermal images on TIG welding of Aluminum alloys for satellite launch vehicles.

- Worked on the development of 2D and 3D finite element models for the prediction of temperature profiles during TIG welding.

- Developed optimization criteria using inverse algorithm for the energy input of Tungsten inert gas welding.

- Worked on different active infrared thermography technology for the defect identification on aerospace materials such as Honeycomb Structure.

- Characterized materials such as metal alloys, composites and rubber using active infrared thermography technique.

University of Montpellier

• Degree Name: Ph.D.

• Field Of Study: Mechanics and Civil Engineering

• Dates attended: 2011 – 2014

Developed a multi-physics computational model for the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding process.

Computational modeling of various transport phenomena during the arc welding process.

Multivariable Process Optimization for heat flux identification.

IIT Madras

• Degree Name: Master of Science (MS) by research

• Field Of Study: Mechanical Engineering

• Dates attended: 2008 – 2010

Developed an online weld quality monitoring system using infrared thermal imaging for joining of Liquid Propellant Tanks of Satellite Launch Vehicles.

Institution of Engineers of India (IEI), Kolkata

• Degree Name: Bachelor's degree

• Field Of Study: Mechanical Engineering

• Dates attended: 2002 – 2006

2014 Institute Postdoctoral Research Grant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.

2011 PhD Grant, University of Montpellier 2, France.

2007 Qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers, GATE 2007, India.