Professional Experience

Assistant Professor  Mechanical Engineering IIT Dharwad Sep 2023 - current

Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus May 2022 - Aug 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Sep 2020 - May 2022

Postdoctoral Scholar Mechanical Engineering NC State University (NCSU) Mar 2019 - Aug 2020

Assistant Manager Suspension group (R&D) Bajaj Auto Limited Aug 2010 - Jul 2013

• 🏅 Vedant Wagh (🎓 B.E., IIT Dharwad), who worked in our lab on SMA vibrations and CFD simulations of oscillating plates to understand cooling effects, has received an MS admit from Texas A&M University and Georgia Tech 🏛️. He will be joining the MS program at George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech 🐝 🏛️, with a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) under the supervision of Dr. Cyrus Aidun. 🎉 (Spring 2026)

• 🏅 Chaitanya S. Nayak (🎓 B.E., BITS Pilani Hyderabad), who worked in our lab on his thesis and additionally on a project on application of deep learning techniques to image datasets, has been admitted to the Ph.D. program at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech 🐝 🏛️, with a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) under the supervision of Dr. Cyrus Aidun. 🎉 (Fall 2025)

• 🏅 Vansh Yadav (🎓 B.E., IIT Dharwad), who worked in our lab on Shape Memory Alloys, has received acceptance letters to the MS program at Texas A&M University, Purdue University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Georgia Tech 🏛️ at the Department of Material Science and Engineering. 🎉 (Fall 2025)