About
I am a PhD researcher in Aerospace Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in the Wave Mechanics and Metamaterials Laboratory with Dr. Pavel Galich.
My work brings together elastic waves, magneto-active materials and architected lattices, and turns them toward components that isolate vibration, absorb impact and control sound. Before the PhD I spent two years designing tyres, building finite-element procedures and validating them against experiments. That industrial grounding, in load cases, validation and manufacturability, shapes how I take research toward application.
I want to be a strategist who builds: to plan carefully, own the execution, and grow an engineering company that turns architected-material technology into fielded components, in service of Hindu civilisation.
Education
- PhD, Aerospace EngineeringTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology. Advisor: Dr. Pavel Galich
- MTech, Rubber TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Advisor: Dr. Narayan Chandra Das
- BTech, Mechanical EngineeringLovely Professional University. Advisor: Dr. Himanshu Ranjan Verma
Experience
- PhD researcherWave Mechanics and Metamaterials Laboratory, Technion, Haifa
- Closed-form wave speeds for bulk and surface modes in magneto-active solids, identifying which modes a field can tune.
- Ultrasonic pulse-echo measurements of that selectivity in 3D-printed iron–PLA under fields up to 1.6 T.
- Maxwell-stress-consistent criteria for choosing magnetoelastic model coefficients.
- Friction and matrix confinement to improve energy absorption and dissipation in auxetic lattices.
- Assistant Manager, Design and DevelopmentRalson Tyres, Pithampur, India (graduate engineer trainee until 2022)
- Established finite-element procedures for two-wheeler and truck-bus radial tyres, validated against experiments.
- Automated post-processing in Python and proposed design improvements for truck-bus radial tyres.
- Intern, Product DevelopmentApollo Tyres Global R&D Centre, Sriperumbudur, India
- Characterised ply bulge failure in truck-bus radial tyres.
Fellowships and awards
- Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth ScholarshipTechnion
- Lady Davis FellowshipTechnion
- AICTE GATE ScholarshipIIT Kharagpur
- LPU ScholarshipLovely Professional University
Skills
Modelling and simulation. Nonlinear finite-element analysis in COMSOL; magneto-mechanical and hyperelastic constitutive modelling; analytical and numerical wave-propagation analysis in MATLAB.
Experiments. Ultrasonic pulse-echo characterisation; testing under controlled magnetic fields with electromagnets; 3D printing by fused filament fabrication and stereolithography; mechanical testing of metals, plastics and elastomers.
The mark
The logo is the Sudarshan Chakra. Each part carries a meaning from the Gita and a meaning from mechanics, and the two line up.
| Element | In the Gita | In mechanics |
|---|---|---|
| Sudarshan Chakra | The discus appears in the Gita itself: Arjuna sees Krishna bearing it (11.17) and asks to see him again with discus in hand (11.46). Chapter 3 speaks of the wheel of action that each person keeps turning by doing their duty (3.16). | A spinning rotor, like the reaction wheel whose micro-vibration a satellite instrument must be isolated from. |
| Eighteen blades | The eighteen chapters of the Gita, and the eighteen days at Kurukshetra in which strategy became action. | A bladed disc with eighteen-fold symmetry. Its vibrations are waves running around the rim: a rotor is a periodic medium. The sweep of the blades gives the direction of rotation. |
| Heavy outer ring | What binds eighteen chapters into one teaching. | The rim and load path, and the kind of free surface along which Rayleigh and Love waves travel. |
| Circle | The boundary of the yantra, enclosing the space within. | An interface between media, where waves reflect, convert and are guided. |
| Three triangles, nine points | Three for Brihaspati, whom Krishna names chief of counsellors (10.24), and for the three gunas of chapter 14. The nine points form the Navagraha of the Jyotisha tradition, in which Brihaspati is guru of the devas. | Triangulation is why lattices are rigid: a pin-jointed triangle cannot deform. Star-shaped re-entrant cells are a known family of energy-absorbing auxetic lattices. |
| Surya at the centre | Krishna first taught this yoga to Vivasvan, the Sun (4.1); of lights he is the radiant Sun (10.21). In the Vishnu Purana the chakra is forged from Surya’s own radiance. The twelve rays are the twelve Adityas. | The source: energy radiating outward along rays. Read the other way, the precious payload at the centre, protected by everything around it. |
| Saffron and navy | Saffron is fire and sacrifice, energy given in action. Navy is depth and steadiness, the rain-cloud colour of Krishna in tradition. | Energy and structure. The whole mark is energy governed by structure: waves and vibration governed by architected material. |