Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, April 2009 - present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2003-06

Industrial Experience
GE  Global Research, Bangalore, 2008-09
Cummins Research and Technology  India, Pune, 2006-08
Tata Motors, Pune, 1995-96

Research Interests
I am primarily interested in  the fields of computational and applied mechanics. Some of the areas of my interest are:

Openings
I am looking for PhD students who are interested in working in the field of computational mechanics.
    The projects will be concerned with systematic development of efficient parallel model reduction techniques to perform realistic computer simulations for coupled thermo-mechanical and coupled fluid-structural problems. These problems are of great relevance form the point of view of design and analysis of mechanical components in various industries. e.g. electronic industry (MEMS design), automobile industry (engine components design), power generation (gas turbine component design). Though model reduction techniques for computationally intensive problems have been developed earlier, a majority of them rely on full scale simulations to build the reduced order models. The main goal of the model reduction techniques which will be developed during the course of the project will be to reduce the computational efforts of very large scale simulations (degrees of freedom > 10⁶) without resorting to a a priori full scale simulations.
    Specifics of the projects can be obtained by getting in touch with me.