Life Updates

Awarded the Mittals and Ritchies Distinguished Fellowship/ MAE Dissertation Fellowship by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at OSU for Autumn 2026.

Selected as a participant for the 2026 Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences hosted by The Oden Institute, Sandia National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab and The Santa Fe Institute. I'll be talking about my research titled, "Beyond Performance: Designing Photonic Systems in Extreme Conditions"!

Our work titled Fracture simulation and delamination behavior of HfO₂/SiO₂ nanolaminates under femtosecond laser interaction: a mechanistic approach got published in SPIE proceedings. This work also received The Alexander Glass Best Oral Presentation Award at SPIE Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials 2025.

First time teaching MECHENG 2020: Mechanics of Materials at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at OSU during Autumn 2025 semester as an Instructor of Record. Taught a class of 57 students, delivered lectures, and supervised undergraduate teaching assistants.

Got my Masters in Mechanical Engineering from OSU!

Attended my first USNCCM (18th U.S. National congress on computational mechanics), received NSF Student Travel Award and two of our works were presented titled Multi-physics Topology Optimization for Advanced Electromagnetic and Photonic Applications (this was a keynote delivered by my advisor) and Multi-physics Fracture Analysis of Laser-Induced Damage in Multi-layer Dielectric Coatings.

Received Graduate Student Research Excellence Award in Manufacturing and Materials awarded by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at OSU.

My final project from Finite Element Analysis course got published titled Optimization of Fixations for Additively Manufactured Cranial Implants: Insights from Finite Element Analysis in Biomimetics!

Attended a week long 2023 Frontiers in Design Representation (FinDeR) Summer School with Travel grant at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

Presented a poster in 2023 Ohio State Materials and Manufacturing Conference (MMC) by IMR, OSU.

Runners Up GTA Award for teaching assistantship for the course MECHENG 3870: Measurement and Data Analysis by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at OSU.

Presented our work Effect of Fixations on Biomechanical Performance of Additively Manufactured Cranial Implants in The International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE). Fun fact about this work: It was the final project for my Finite Element Analysis course and later got published!

My first conference! Presented our work Multi-objective Multi-physics Topology Optimization of Electromagnetic Waveguide Structures in The 16th International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials (FGM22).

My undergrad research work got published in Safety Science titled Effects of unsafe workplace practices on the fire safety performance of ready-made garments (RMG) buildings.

My co-authored paper from my research lab Breast Asymmetry Evaluation Using Objective Measures after Breast Cancer Surgery got published in Scientific Research!

Started my PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the MMIDL Multi-functional Materials and Intelligent Design Lab (MMIDL) with Dr. Alok Sutradhar.