I am currently a faculty member in the Department of Applied Mechanics & Biomedical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. My research interests lie at the interface of scientific ML, inverse problems, robotics & control, and soft-mechanics.
I am also the faculty advisor of the Applied Mechanics Scholars Association and help the enthusiastic scholars community run the seminar series 42 Explained! and ChalkTalk. Outside work, I have a set of trinkets that keep me busy. You can access their progress using the links below. Write to me if you are interested in collaborating or would like to know more about any of these topics.
Résumé
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
- Soft Math group: Prof. L Mahadevan.
- Collaborators: Prof. Venkatesh N Murthy.
- Projects: Behaviour of animals & robots, Programming mechanical properties of soft/smart-materials.
Ph.D. in Physics
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India.
- Thesis: Mechanics of filaments and spherical particles: role of elasticity and hydrodynamic interaction.
- Advisors: Prof. Rama Govindarajan, Prof. Narayanan Menon.
- Collaborators: Prof. Vishal Vasan, Dr. Joel Marthelot.
M.S. in Mechanics
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.
- Thesis: Dynamo action in ABC flows: what is the effect of Fourier truncation at low Prandtl number?
- Advisors: Prof. Marc Brachet, Prof. Stephane Fauve.
- Recipient of the Charpak fellowship by Institut Français.
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai, India.
- Advisor: Dr. S. Jayavel.
- Recipient of the institute's Best thesis award.
Projects & Initiatives
Connect with me if you are interested in any of these projects.
Project Climate
Science of climate change, its impact and how we can adapt (under development...)
Agam Type Foundry
Foundry for Indic typefaces. Open typeface 'Madurai' is available online.
Not related to my institutional affiliation.
Pedagogical material on tools that might be of general interest.
