Introduction

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Michael D. Graham’s lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I earned my PhD in 2022 working under the guidance of Prof. Arezoo M. Ardekani at Purdue University. Before that, I completed my undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2017, where I worked with Prof. Suman Chakraborty. During my undergrad, I also participated in a research project at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany in the lab of Prof. Heinz Pitsch.    

My research interests include complex fluids, fluid-structure interactions, and data-driven methods. My PhD research focused on the flow of viscoelastic fluids through porous media, where I studied pore-scale flow instabilities and their effects on the sample-scale transport of fluids and particles. Additionally, I investigated the motility and flagellar elastohydrodynamic interactions of sperm cells in complex flows. As a postdoctoral researcher, my current research focuses on the dynamics of elastoinertial turbulence and the development of reduced-order models of its dynamics using machine learning. In another application of data-driven methods, I use data assimilation to extract physical parameters challenging to measure experimentally.