I am interested in applying computational methods to tackle problems (anything of interest). I am also interested in building infrastructure for performing those computations!

Currently I am focussed on applying data analytics and machine learning methods in the context of industrial internet-of-things at Agilent Technologies, Melbourne, Australia. Previously, I worked in Samsung R&D Bangalore, India as a Senior Chief Engineer, focussing on lithium-ion batteries.

My academic background involves a Masters and Ph. D. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras , and a couple of post-doctoral stints at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Universite Libre de Bruxelles. As a scientist, till date, I have actively published numerous research articles and contributed material to three books.

In the process, I have learnt these programming languages:

• Python, R, Erlang/Elixir, Rust, Scala, JavaScript, Matlab, C/C++, Fortran

I like programming in general and of late I have discovered the joys of functional programming as well as the art of distributed computing.

The fields that I have touched upon are:

• Building infrastructure for Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT)
• Use of machine learning methods for life estimation, fault diagnosis and prognostics of lithium ion batteries
• Application of data learning approaches for material design and prognostics
• Development of machine learning workflow for materials screening
• Electrochemical systems such as lithium ion batteries and renewables
• Wireless charging technology
• Development of charging algorithms for lithium ion batteries
• Materials for next generation devices and energy storage
• Electrochemical modelling of lithium-ion battery systems
• Membranes and electrolytes for seawater desalination
• Material science as well as soft condensed matter/ complex fluids
• MD simulations of polyelectrolytes and force field parametrization
• Effects of substrates on liquid crystal phase transitions
• Simulations of living polymer (actin) filaments
• Effects of solvent on dynamics of membranes
• Lipid flip-flop in membranes
• Active fluids: self-propelled particles

Some of the specialised techniques that I have learnt and used are:

• Dissipative Particle Dynamics
• Molecular Dynamics (atomistic/mesoscale)
• Monte-Carlo & Kinetic Monte-Carlo
• Ab-initio/DFT computations
• Multiparticle-collision dynamics
• Lattice-Boltzmann simulations
• Brownian Dynamics and
• Continuum modelling