Recent News

• March, 2025: Got outstanding reviewer award in 2024 for the journal 'Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties'

• December, 2024: Attended 'Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) 2024' in Las Vegas, NV

• October, 2024: One year work anniversary in Panasonic Energy of North America!

• August, 2024: Paper accepted in Measurement Science and Technology journal- "Depth-resolved characterization of centrifugal disk finishing of additively manufactured Inconel 718"

• March, 2024: Paper accepted in journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society  (JOM)- "Evolution of Surface Roughness of Wrought and Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 During Centrifugal Disc Finishing"

• October, 2023: Joined Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA), Sparks, NV as a Senior Process Engineer

• June, 2023: Defended my Ph.D. dissertation! Done and dusted!

• May, 2023: Paper accepted in Materialia- "On the formation of pileups during nano-scratching of Inconel 718 produced using additive manufacturing"

• April, 2023: Awarded the Neibel Ph.D. completion fellowship from the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State!

• January, 2023: Joined Tesla Giga-factory Austin, TX as a Cell Manufacturing Intern!

• September, 2022: NAMRC'22 paper is online, read it here!

• May, 2022: Joined Volvo Group Trucks as Lean Manufacturing Intern!

• May, 2022: Became the finalist in Millennium Cafe Pitch Competition, 2022 organized by PPG industries.

• April, 2022: Won the 3rd prize in College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS), 2022 organized by College of Engineering, Penn State

• March, 2022: Paper accepted in NAMRC'22- "Process Monitoring: Distinguishing Defect Shapes by Strain Field Signatures".

• March, 2022: Paper published in MDPI Crystals Journal's special issue 'Defects in Crystals'- Effect of Prior Surface Textures on the Resulting Roughness and Residual Stress during Bead-Blasting of Electron Beam Melted Ti-6Al-4V

• February-March 2022: Attended TMS 2022 Conference in Anaheim, CA! Presented my research works in a talk titled 'Hardening Rate Dependent Deformation Behavior of Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 during Nano-scratch'.

• October, 2021: Won the second prize in Lab Safety Poster Design Contest organized by Materials Research Institute (MRI), Penn State

• July, 2021: Won the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), Philadelphia Scholarship!

• April, 2021: Won the 3rd Prize in Graduate Exhibition 2021, Penn State showcasing my research work to general audience. Here is the video that I made!

• January, 2021: Became a student affiliate of Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), Penn State!

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