Education and Honors:
PhD, Major in Civil (Structural) Engineering and Minor in Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Oregon Master of Software Engineering (OMSE) "Certificate in Principles of Software Engineering", Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI)/OHSU, Beaverton, OR
MS, Structural Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
BS, Civil Engineering, JNT University, Hyderabad, India
Work Experience:
Lam Research Corporation (Present)
Novellus Systems Inc, OR
Postdoctoral Scholar, Research Assistant, Oregon State University, OR
Used LS-DYNA, STAR-CD, Comet, ANSYS, etc.
Research contributions include simulations involving coupling of fluid, structure/solid and geomaterials, application of fully coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) to an ODOT bridge system that included CFD and a flexible structure.
Used HPC platforms - clusters with nodes ranging from tens to thousands. Used all major computing platforms.
Enhanced and parallelized a 3D numerical wave tank that uses Boundary Element Method (BEM), and compared with FEM results and laboratory experiment.
Helped set the requirements for the automation of creation of 3D wave basin models.
Unigraphics Solutions Inc (UGS/EDS PLM Solutions/EDS), OR
Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), OR
Engineering Mechanics Technology Inc (EMT), CA
Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE), India
Professional Memberships:
Materials Research Society (MRS)
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