Carnegie Mellon University (GPA: 3.90/4) — Pittsburgh, PA

• Finite Elements for Mechanics
• Computational Analysis of Transport Phenomena
• Numerical Methods in Engineering
• Probability and Estimation Methods for Engineering Systems
• Continuum Mechanics and Multiscale Modelling
• Inelasticity
• Robotic Materials: Designs, Principles & Mechanics
• Mathematical Techniques for Chemical Engineering
• Sensors, Circuits, and Data Interpretation and Management for Infrastructure Systems
• Multiple Criteria Decision Making
• Computability Theory

College of Engineering Guindy (CEG), Anna University (GPA: 8.4/10.0) — Chennai, India

• Transform Techniques and Partial Differential Equations
• Structural Analysis II
• Construction Materials and Techniques

Programming Languages

• Python
• C++
• C

Scientific Computing and Engineering Tools

• FEniCS
• Ansys
• Linux
• Git
• Slurm
• CMake
• Command Line

Supporting Tools and Environments

• SolidWorks
• AutoCAD
• Blender
• ArcGIS
• LaTeX
• MS Office
• Adobe Suite

Journeyman Fellow — DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (via ORAU)

• Fellowship supporting full-time doctoral research in computational mechanics at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Performed large-scale numerical simulations using Department of Defense high-performance computing resources.

Teaching Assistant — Carnegie Mellon University

• Supported graduate-level instruction through office hours, grading, and student mentoring.
• Assisted with coursework focused on probabilistic modeling and estimation methods.

Grader — Carnegie Mellon University

• Evaluated coursework and examinations for undergraduate and graduate students in solid mechanics.
• Provided structured feedback to support conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills.

Project Associate — Indian Institute of Technology Madras

• Contributed to experimental studies on corrosion of post-tensioned concrete systems.
• Performed electrochemical testing and material characterization to assess durability and degradation mechanisms.

Site Safety Engineer Intern — Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Supported on-site safety compliance and operational oversight in a building retrofitting project.

Phase-field Thermomechanics of Dynamic Fracture

Developing coupled thermo-mechanical phase-field models for dynamic fracture, incorporating heat transfer, elastodynamics, and damage evolution. Implemented staggered and implicit time-integration schemes to analyze stability, energy dissipation, and crack propagation under impact loading.

Computations performed using allocated high-performance computing resources on the PSC Bridges-2 supercomputing system.

• Recipient, Computing Allocation MCH240083 - High-performance computing grant on NSF HPC network system supporting large-scale thermomechanical fracture simulations.
• Presenter and Session Co-Chair, Modeling and Simulation session, Fracture in Metals: Insights from Experiments and Modeling Across Length and Time Scales, Materials Science & Technology Conference (2024)
• Contributed presentation, SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (2024)
• Finalist, ASTM M.R. Mitchell Student Presentation Forum on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics (2023)

Cornering Aerodynamics Analysis of a Formula SAE Race Car

Designed controlled simulation experiments to assess the sensitivity of aerodynamic performance to flow curvature, leveraging high-performance computing workflows to quantify efficiency tradeoffs under realistic operating conditions.

GIS-Based Seismic Hazard and Building Vulnerability Assessment for Chennai

Abstracted physics-based structural simulations into regression models to enable large-scale spatial screening of seismic response across an urban building inventory.

Smart Chess Board

Implemented an embedded signal-processing pipeline for calibrated load-cell data, using averaging and threshold detection to localize discrete object placement from distributed force measurements with ~90% accuracy.