Senior R&D Engineer, Ansys, Inc., Canonsburg, PA (Oct '25 - Present)
Material Modeling, Nonlinear FEM, Computational Mechanics, Software Development
Bug fixes for the Chaboche kinematic hardening model for non-isothermal loading to resolve negative plastic work issues
Development of battery thermal abuse and swelling models capabilities
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (Oct '23 - Oct' 25)
Reduced Order Multiscale Modeling and Quantum Computing-based Computational Mechanics
Developed a reduced-order multiscale framework for architected materials with hard (viscoplastic-hyperelastic) and soft (hyperelastic) phases under large deformations
Achieved multiscale order reduction by replacing fine-scale problems with an LSTM-based surrogate; calibrated material properties in direct numerical simulations in collaboration with experimentalists
Design of quantum circuits for stiffness matrices in FEM discretizations to solve a steady-state diffusion equation in a 1-d heterogeneous domain, utilizing a variational quantum linear solver algorithm
Utilized a randomized quantum adiabatic computing protocol combined with quantum signal processing to simulate Hamiltonian evolution for solving linear systems arising from FEM discretizations
PhD Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Aug '19 - Sep '23)
HPC-enabled FEM solvers for Plasticity, Crack Propagation, and Soft Actuators
Reduced runtimes 4× on HPC clusters by developing parallel FEM/FVM solvers in C++/PETSc for dynamic crack propagation; demonstrated static fault friction laws, supershear cracks
Built an object-oriented C++ framework for nonlinear PDEs of inverse design in actuation of soft membranes (leveraging finite-strain theory) formulated via dual variational principles
Developed a robust Newton-Raphson scheme (along with local N-R at each integration point) with approximate Jacobians for cases where the Jacobian is singular or undefined
Enhanced C++/deal. ii codes to capture size-dependent plasticity in thin films and interface-driven failure in nanolaminates using a finite-strain dislocation mechanics-based plasticity approach
Mechanical Developer, Siemens Ltd., Gurgaon, India (Jul '18 - Jul '19)
FEA and Design Engineering for Turbine Components
Performed thermal-stress and low-cycle fatigue analysis of SGT-400 turbine vane rings using Abaqus and NX
Optimized designs through cross-functional collaboration, reducing production costs by 20%
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics (Aug '19 - Sep '23)
MS in Computational Mechanics (Aug '19 - Dec '21)
Ph.D. Thesis: A study of nonlinear deformations and defects in the actuation of soft membranes, rupture dynamics, and mesoscale plasticity
Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. Amit Acharya
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India
M.Tech. in Engineering Mechanics (Jul '16 - Jun '18)
Master's Thesis: A computational approach to obtain nonlinearly elastic constitutive relations for 1-d continua and nanostructures
Master's Advisor: Prof. Ajeet Kumar
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
B. Tech. in Civil Engineering with Minor in Mechanical Engineering (Jul '12 - May '16)
Fenves Travel Grant '23 awarded by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at CMU
U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics '23 (USNCCM17) travel award
Multiscale Materials Modeling '22 (MMM10) travel award
Julia and Michael Ellegood CEE Strategic Graduate Fellowship '19
Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Dean's Fellowship '19
Prof. B. Karunes Memorial Award '18 for the best Master's thesis in Solid Mechanics at IITD
Selected for Summer Undergraduate Research Grant for Excellence (SURGE) '15 at IIT Kanpur