Principal Investigator
I am a Mechanical Engineer and an applied Materials Scientist. In the past, I worked on interdisciplinary problems. Computationally, I studied thermomechanics of steels, eddy-current thermography, thin films as phononic and photonic crystals. Experimentally, I fabricated inhomogeneous Parylene-C thin films and studied their multifunctional behavior. My current focus is on these areas.
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Since joining IIT Kanpur, I have been an active member of
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The Indian Society of Applied Mechanics (a website I made)
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Mechanical Engineering Division, The Institution of Engineers (India)
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The Indian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing
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India Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering
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Acoustical Society of India
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Specialization
Computation: Wave mechanics and thermal diffusion
Experiments: Characterization of thin and bulk samples
Education
B. Tech and M. Tech in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras - 2010
Advisors: Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam and Prof. C. V. Krishnamurthy
PhD in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University - 2017
Advisors: Prof. Osama O. Awadelkarim and Prof. Akhlesh Lakhtakia
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Employment (major ones)
NVH Engineer, TATA Motors, 2010-11
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Jan 2018 - June 2024
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, July 2024 - present
Awards (major ones)
Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Penn State, 2015-16
Best PhD thesis award, Penn State 2017 [1] [2]
For detailed information, please see my CV