Background

Physics, software & engineering

Academic training and experience, from satellite electronics at ISRO to computational materials research at Purdue.

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Experience

Academic & professional history

Graduate Research Assistant Purdue University Jan 2025 – Present
  • Conducting micromagnetic simulations to study spintronic behavior in quantum metamaterials; discovered new magnetization modes in moiré materials.
  • Applying machine learning for model discovery from experimental spintronics data using PINNs and Fourier Neural Operators.
  • Writing memory-efficient, parallelized Julia code for ODE/DAE solvers in ferroelectric material modeling at HPC scale.
Graduate Teaching Assistant — Advanced C Programming Purdue University Aug – Dec 2024
  • Mentored students on algorithmic problem solving and software optimization in a graduate-level C programming course.
Graduate Research Assistant — DARPA NanoSim Purdue University Oct 2021 – Jun 2024
  • Contributed to DARPA's NanoSim project via NEGF-Maxwell co-simulation framework.
  • Modeled and simulated micro/nano semiconductor structures; optimized code efficiency and simulation scalability for HPC clusters.
Scientist / Engineer SD (Senior Scientist) ISRO, India Jul – Aug 2021
  • Led a team to tape out MMICs, performed design verification, and developed laboratory automation protocols for device characterization.
Scientist / Engineer SC ISRO, India Jul 2017 – Jul 2021
  • Led design of strategic satellite payloads (GSAT-7R, RISAT-2B) including microwave communication and remote sensing systems.
  • Developed GaN-based MMIC power amplifiers and LNAs for high-frequency X-band and C-band modules.
  • Established a semiconductor characterization lab from scratch; automated wafer probing workflows, increasing measurement throughput by ~1000×.
  • Miniaturized the RISAT-2B radar transponder, significantly reducing weight and volume while enhancing payload reliability.
Education

Academic training

Purdue University · USA
Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering
2023 – Present · GPA: 4.0
Phase Field Modelling of Quantum Metamaterials
Advisor: Prof. Pramey Upadhyaya
Committee: Peide Ye · Sumeet K. Gupta · Zubin Jacob
Purdue University · USA
M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021 – 2023 · GPA: 3.76
Numerical simulation of micro/nano semiconductor structures at high frequency using the Drift-Diffusion model
IIT Mandi · India
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
2013 – 2017 · CGPA: 8.78
Minor in Management
Graduated with distinction
Skills

Technical toolkit

Languages

Julia (primary) Python C / C++ MATLAB LaTeX / Beamer Lua (Neovim)

Julia Ecosystem

GLMakie / Makie DifferentialEquations.jl Symbolics.jl StaticArrays.jl Lux.jl / NeuralOperators.jl CUDA.jl Gridap.jl (FEM)

Simulation Tools

Cadence Virtuoso Cadence AWR Microwave Office Keysight ADS ANSYS HFSS TCAD (Silvaco) OOMMF

Methods

Spectral PDE (FFT / ETD) NEB / CI-NEB Spin dynamics (LLGS) Phase-field modeling PINNs / FNO / DeepONet FEM (Nédélec elements) HPC / GPU computing