Mechanical Engineering (Also part of Centre for Materials Engineering)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cape Town (UCT)

03/2021- 03/2026

Awarded: 09/2026

Thesis: Changes in mechanical and microstructural properties in steel alloys as a result of blast loading.

Research focus:

Experimental and microstructural investigation of stainless-steel alloys under blast loading, integrating mechanical testing, EBSD-based microstructural characterisation and analytical analysis to investigate the effects of crystal structure, phase-dependent deformation, strain partitioning and loading conditions on mechanical response and structural integrity.

Key research areas:

• Mechanical behaviour under extreme loading

• Blast loading conditions

• Stainless-steel alloys

• EBSD and microstructural characterisation

• Mechanical and micro-tensile testing

• Crystallography and deformation behaviour

• Structural integrity

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AIML)

Electronics & ICT Academy, National Institute of Technology, Warangal (jointly with Edureka)

02/2021 – 02/2022

Project: Action recognition using pose estimation, ML model for auto insurance industry, Building a conversational Chatbot.

Focus:

• Artificial intelligence

• Machine learning

• Data analysis

• Predictive modelling

• Python programming

Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering,  Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)

09/2013 – 10/2015

Thesis: Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polyester Composite Fatigue Crack Monitoring Using Acoustic Emission 

Research focus:

Investigating of fatigue damage progression and life prediction in glass-fibre-reinforced polyester composites (GFRP) using acoustic emission (AE) monitoring and time–frequency analysis, establishing correlations between AE parameters, damage evolution and cycles to failure for early damage detection and fatigue-life prediction.

Key research areas:

• Composite materials

• Acoustic emission

• Fatigue damage

• Structural health monitoring

• Damage characterisation

• Fatigue-life prediction

Industrial design & Technical drawing 

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vali-e-asr Technical and Vocational College of Tehran

02/2007 – 07/2009

Thesis: The production process of Pride automobile crankshaft 

Technical drawing 

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Applied Science & Technology, Industrial Scientific & Applied Education Center of Khorasan

02/2003 – 02/2005