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SHORT COURSES

• Organization: International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy                        2015

– International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria                                         

Course Topic: Nuclear Knowledge Management

• Organization: Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP)                                 2014

- Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai, India                                     

Course Topic: Natural Circulation Phenomena and Passive Safety Systems in Advanced Water-Cooled Reactors

• Organization: Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India                 2011

Course Topic: Fusion reactor design

• Organization: Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), Delhi, India               2008

Course Topic: Bio-medical Imaging modalities & radiopharmaceuticals

RESEARCH VISITS

• ICTP-IAEA School on “Nuclear Knowledge Management,” 7 - 11 September 2015, ICTP, Miramare - Trieste, Italy

• HANARO Research reactor, Deokjin-dong, Yusong-gu, Daecheon, South Korea, 2011

• KORI nuclear power plant, Gijang, Busan, South Korea, 2011

• DHRUVA nuclear research reactors, BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India, 2009 

• APSARA nuclear research reactors, BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India, 2009

EDITORIAL & JOURNAL POSITIONS

Editorial Board Member

• International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology (http://ijtf.org/)

Journal reviewer

• ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME-JHT)

• ASME Journal of Journal of Energy Resources Technology (ASME-JERT)                      

• The Royal Society Interface Focus

• Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

• Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer (FHMT)

• Physics of Fluids (PoF)

• Heat Transfer Engineering (HTE)

• International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology (IJTST)

Conference reviewer

• ASME Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer (ASME-MNHMT), 2019

• ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (ASME-FEDSM), 2022

• American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers TFEC 2023

INTERNATIONAL INVITED TALKS

• “Computational Airflow Modeling Based Mitigation of Bioaerosol Transport”, 40th American Association for Aerosol Research, Annual Conference 2022.

• “Nuclear Power Plant and Thermal Stratification,” QIP Short Term Course on Radiation Health Safety and Security, IIT Kanpur, India, 2-7 March 2021.

• “Ventilation Systems and COVID-19”, Organized by Canadian Meat Council (CMC) and North America Meat Institute (NAMI) for the North American industries, USA and Canada, November 24, 2020.

• “Ventilation Systems and COVID-19”, Organized by Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC), for USDA, Government of Alberta, and health experts from USA and Canada, Dec 8, 2020.

PROFESIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP

• ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers professional member

• AAAR- The American Association for Aerosol Research professional member

• AAAS - American Association for The Advancement of Science

PROFESIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP

• Supported writing of Grant to National Science Foundation (selected)                      2021

• Supported writing of Grant to National Science Foundation (selected)                      2022

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Spring semester 2022, Co-Instructor for “Bioaerosols and modelling (course: BAEN 489/689)” at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• Guest Lecturer, Fall Semester 2021, 2022, for “applications of CFD to heat transfer research”, at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• Guest Lab Instructor, Fall Semester 2021, 2022, for “CFD Laboratory for sophomores”, at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

ADVISING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE

• Undergraduate student mentorship                                                                       2019-present

Role: Training students for simulations research work, checking their results, reviewing student work

• Graduate student mentorship                                                                                2020-Present

Role: Teaching CFD modeling methods, discussing problem solving approach, editing, and reviewing their simulation work, writing journal paper, critically reviewing presentations

ORGANIZATIONAL  SKILLS

• Co-organizer of “Workshop on CFD for predicting bioaerosols spread and containment” American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 40th Annual Conference 2022, Raleigh Convention center, Raleigh, NC, USA

• Organized National Workshop on "Development of Indian Youth as Nuclear Communicators”, 2015, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, India

• Organizing member of “Thorium Energy Conference”, 2015, Mumbai, India

• Organizing member of “International Workshop on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics”, 2014, Mumbai, India

• Organizing member of “National Conference on Power from Thorium”, 2014, Mumbai, India

SKILL & EXPERIENCE

• Computer skills: C/C++, Python, Paraview, ANSYS, OpenFOAM, SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD,

 RELAP, dsmcFOAM+, LabView, Origin, DPM simulations

• Knowledge Area: Heat & Mass Transfer, Thermal Hydraulics, Multi-Phase Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Power Plant operations, Aerosol Technology, HVAC systems, Reliability and Risk Analysis, Bayesian Networks