Jan 2003 - Oct 2008: PhD (Computational Aerodynamics), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore, India.
July 2000 - Jan 2002: MTech (Industrial Mathematics & Scientific Computing), Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
May 2001 - Dec 2001: MTech Thesis, Technomathematics Group, Department of Mathematics, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. (DAAD Fellowship)
Aug 1998 - April 2000: MSc (Applied Mathematics), Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
Experience
July 2024 - Present: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India.
Oct 2015 - July 2024 : Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India.
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015 : Post-doctoral fellow, Chair for Scientific Computing, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Nov 2010 - Aug 2014 : Post-doctoral fellow, Center for Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Feb 2013 - May 2013 : Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Technical Acoustics (ISTA), Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Mar 2010 - Oct 2010 : Post-doctoral fellow, Optimisation Group, Department of Mathematics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
July 2009 - Jan 2010 : Research Associate, Engineering Mechanics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India.
Oct 2008 - July 2009 : Research Associate, Combustion Gasification & Propulsion Laboratory (CGPL), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore, India.
July 2002 - Dec 2002 : Project Associate, AR & DB Centre of Excellence for Aerospace CFD, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore, India.
Research Interests
Discrete adjoint approaches for steady and unsteady flows
Aerodynamic optimisation
Higher-order meshfree methods for compressible flows
High performance computing
Current Research
Aerodynamic shape optimisation using meshfree methods.
Collaborators: Keshav S. Malagi, Dr. V. Ramesh, CTFD, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru, India and Prof. S. M. Deshpande, formerly from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, Bengaluru, India.
GPU accelerated primal and adjoint meshfree solvers for compressible flows.
Regent based implicitly parallel meshfree solvers for compressible flows.
Collaborators: Nischay Ram Mamidi, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Camden, USA. Dr. Elliott Slaughter, Computer Science Research Department, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA.