I am a Postdoctoral Appointee in the Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, I received my Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Briac le Graverend. I completed my bachelor's and master's also in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. I have also held a short-term research appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

My appointments have allowed me to be involved in projects that span from fundamental science to large-scale commercial applications. At IIT Bombay and Texas A&M, I delved into characterizing the mechanical, thermal, and failure behavior of epoxy-based composites and Nickel-based high-temperature shape memory alloys, from a fundamental science perspective. At Argonne, I have been involved in characterizing similar material properties of advanced silicon-carbide based ceramics, for large-scale solar energy applications. I have pursued side projects that involved characterizing Nickel-based superalloys and polymers too. I have done so using both experimental techniques and computational models and reconciled the findings of one with the other. My skills related to them are listed below.