Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
Research Scientist, October 2022 to Present
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907,
United States.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Aug. 2020 to September 2022
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907,
United States.
Education
2020
Ph. D in Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
2019
M. S in Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
2015
M. Sc. in Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Rank: 1.
2013
B. Sc. Majors: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, St. Joseph’s college, Bangalore, India
Awards
Sigma Xi Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from WPI chapter of Sigma Xi (2020).
DCMP Graduate Student Travel Award at APS March Meeting, Denver, Colorado (2020).
Best teaching assistant award from Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester (2019).
Best graduate research award from Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester (2018).
Japan Computational Mathematical Science and Engineering Lecture Award for particularly excellent presentation at JASCOME symposium, Shodoshima, Japan (2017).
PhD Global Research Experience Award from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester (2017).
Travel Award from the Dean of Graduate studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).
Gold Medal (Bhagwat Saran Agarwal Memorial Medal) from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (2015).
INSPIRE Scholarship from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, throughout undergraduate and postgraduate education in India (2011-2015).
Teaching Experience
2015 – 2020
Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Conference instructor for mechanics, and electricity & magnetism courses. Lab instructor for mechanics, electricity & magnetism, and oscillations & waves courses. I have designed both course and lab materials.
Academic Service
Conference Organization
Technical Committee Member, Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials: IEEE Photonics Conference 2023.
Invited Session Organizer, Nano to Pico Photonics, Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) 2023.
Manuscript Reviewer
Light: Science & Applications (Nature), Journal of Applied Physics (AIP), Applied Physics Letters (AIP), AIP Advances (AIP), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (IOP), Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (IOP), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Wiley)
Research Mentoring
Mentored three undergraduate and three graduate students for their thesis. Co-authored several papers.
Education Outreach
Co-organized summer programs in Physics at WPI for primary and high school students in July 2019.
Scientific Community Service
Session Chair at APS March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Session Chair at Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) 2023, Snowbird, UT, USA.
Session Chair at SPIE Optics & Photonics 2022, San Diego, CA, USA.
Session Chair at APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA.
Presentations
Invited
7. Colloquium: Picoelectrodynamics: Atomistic Electrodynamic Theory of Matter, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA (November 30, 2022).
6. Invited talk: Picoelectrodynamics, SPIE Optics & Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA (August 22, 2022).
5. Invited talk: Picoelectrodynamics in Silicon, CMD29, Machester, UK (August 22, 2022).
4. Invited talk: Picoelectrodynamics in Silicon, META 2022, 12th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Torremolinos, Spain (July 22, 2022).
3. Colloquium: Picoelectrodynamics: Atomistic Electrodynamic Theory of Matter, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (May 27, 2022).
2. Colloquium: Quantum scattering with sources and absorbers, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, India (January 6, 2019).
1. Colloquium: Quantum scattering with sources and absorbers, Division of Physics, The Jikei university, Chofu, Tokyo (October 17, 2017).
Contributed
9. Picoelectrodynamics in Silicon, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 14, 2023).
8. Picoelectrodynamics: Atomistic Nonlocal Electrodynamic Waves in Silicon, APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV (March 9, 2023).
7. Pico-Photonics in Silicon, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (December 2, 2022).
6. Pico-photonics: Anomalous Atomistic Electrodynamic Dispersion in Silicon, APS March meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA.
5. Thermoelectric Enhancement in Lateral Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures, APS March meeting 2021, Virtual.
4. Versatile multiscale envelope function formalism to study electron transport in lateral transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures, APS March meeting 2020, Denver, CO, USA.
3. Quantum scattering in two-dimensional nanostructures using a novel method of sources and absorbers, APS March meeting 2019, Boston, MA, USA.
2. Carrier scattering with sources and absorbers in nanoscale Systems, APS March meeting 2018, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1. Quantum scattering theory and stealth finite element analysis, JASCOME symposium 2017, Shodoshima, Japan.
Professional affiliations
American Physical Society (APS)
Material Research Society (MRS)
Sigma Xi Honor society
Sigma Pi Sigma Honor society
National Academy of Inventors (NAI), WPI Chapter