RESEARCH INTERESTS
Kinetic modeling of plasma discharge in boundary layers for flow-control applications
Emissive sheath modeling for hypersonic heat transfer applications
Development of hybrid kinetic-fluid plasma models
Kinetic modeling of plasma sheath and plasma waves in multi-species plasma
RECOGNITION AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Outstanding Student Paper Award 'Honorable Mention'
International Conference on Plasma Sciences (ICOPS), 2020
MAVIS Future Faculty Fellowship
Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020-21
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Sciences Featured paper
Paper title - 'Kinetic modeling of spacecraft surfaces in a plume backflow region'
International Mathematical Modeling Contest in modeling COMAP, 2013
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Aug. 2016-Aug. 2022 (expected)
Tentative thesis title - 'Kinetic modeling of low-density cold plasma: plasma surface interactions and plasma waves'
Research Advisor - Prof. Deborah Levin
M.S University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Aug. 2014-Aug. 2016
Thesis title - 'Explicit stochastic schemes for transport in particle-resolved simulations'
Research Advisors - Prof. Nicole Reimer, Prof. Matthew West
B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India Jul. 2010-May 2014