Honors and Awards
• Awarded UCL's Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), Principal investigator, ‘Acoustophoretic manufacturing’, UCL, UK, 2022-2023.
• International Travel Support Travel award by Future Digileaders - Digital Futures, Sweden, 2022.
• International Travel Support Grant, Conference travel award by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action DENORMS, UK, 2019
• Research Assistant Fellowship, by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. (2018-2019)
• Best Paper Presentation Award, 11th International Conference on Electrowetting and drop dynamics on functionalized surfaces, Netherlands, 2018.
• International Travel Support Grant, Conference travel award by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2016.
• Samsung Best Poster Presentation Award, in 3rd Annual CeNSE Student Research Symposium, Indian Institute of Science, India, 2015.
• Certificate of appreciation, for organizing IEEE Authorship Workshop titled “How to write a quality Technical Paper” held at IISc, India, 2014.
• Executive Member, IEEE Sensors and Nano Technology Council, at CeNSE, IISc, India. (2014-2018)
• PhD Research Fellowship Award, by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. (2013-2018)
• All India Rank-242 in Physics Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2013 examination, India, 2013.
• Department Rank 2, Engineering Physics batch, BTech, Delhi Technological University, India. (2009-2013)
• Event Head, ‘AURORA 2.O’, Annual technical festival, Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, India, 2012.
• Recipient of scholarships and certificate of merit, in Engineering Physics Department, BTech, Delhi Technological University, India. (2009-2010)
• Certificate of Excellence by DAV Institute of Management, DAV School, Delhi, India, 2009.
• Mathematics Highest Score Award, board examination conducted by D.A.V. EDUCATION BOARD, D.A.V. College Managing Committee, India, 2005.
Invited Talks and Events
• Invited talk, at the PlasmoMat-2022 conference, Metamaterials and Plasmonics World Forum- 2022, London, UK, 2022.
Talk Title: MEMS and Microfluidics in Acoustic Metamaterials
• Invited to “Future Digileaders - Digital futures” program, for application in “MEMS and Microfluidics for Interactive Human-Technology Systems”, 2020.
• Invited talk, in the COMSOL Seminar, NMIT College, Bangalore, India, 2018.
• Invited visit, Mechanical Engineering Department, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea, 2016.
Education and Research Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (MEMS and Microfluidics in Acoustic Metamaterials): July 2020 - Current
University College London (United Kingdom)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Fabrication of Metamaterials): February 2019- July 2020
University of Sussex (United Kingdom)
Research Associate (Droplet Microfluidics): August 2018 – January 2019
Indian Institute of Science (India)
PhD in Nanoscience Engineering: August 2013 - March 2019
Indian Institute of Science (India)
Dissertation: Droplet Interface Oscillations using Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD) for Open Chip Microfluidic Applications
Integrated Masters in Nanoscience Engineering: August 2013 - July 2015
Indian Institute of Science (India)
Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics (with a Major in Electronics and a Minor in Material Science): August 2009 - July 2013
Delhi Technological University, formerly Delhi College of Engineering (India)
Leadership Positions
Presenter, at the CS I/O (Impact + Innovation + Entrepreneurship) Lab Series, UCL, UK, Apr-Jun 2021.
Organizer, of a Speculative Design workshop on ‘Acoustic Metamaterials’ at UCL, London, UK, 24 Feb 2021.
Presenter and managed a team, at the UCL CS Expo showcase at Computer Science (CS) dept., UCL, London, UK, 28 May 2021.
Postdoctoral representative, School Research Degree Committee, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK, 2019-2020.
Organizer, of the ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures & Systems at IISc, Bangalore, India, 2017.
Organizer, Think Nano conference, 2nd IEEE Nanotechnology workshop, IEEE Authorship Workshop, and many national events at IISc, India, 2014-2018.
Managed a team, of 6 students for the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) event in JETTOY REGIONAL OLYMPICS 2011 at Delhi, India, 2011
Industrial Experience
Internship, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Delhi (India): June 2012 -July 2012
Internship, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), U.P. (India): December 2011 –January 2012
Internship, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd, U.P. (India): June 2011 -July 2011
Skills
MEMS FABRICATION - Lithography, Wet Etching and Dry Etching, Thin-film Deposition (PECVD, Sputtering, Thermal Evaporator), Mask designing, Spin and Dip coating
MEMS CHARACTERIZATION - Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Optical profilometer, Atomic force microscope (AFM), X-Ray diffractometer (XRD)
ACOUSTICS & MICROFLUIDICS - Acoustic field transmission and measurement, Transducer phased array mapping, Goniometer, High-speed camera imaging, Molding and Casting (PDMS), Soft lithography for fabricating microfluidic channels, Polymerase Chain Reaction.
CODING & SOFTWARES - MATLAB, COMSOL Multiphysics, C/C++, LabVIEW (Basic), Elmer, Basic Python
DESIGN & ANALYSIS - CleWin, L-Edit, Photoshop, Google Sketchup, AutoCAD, Origin, MS Office
Hobbies
Poem writing (https://fortunate-avalanche.blogspot.com/), painting, problem-solving and listening to music.