Experience
Research and teaching roles
Aug 2022 – Present
Research
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Maryland, College Park
Working on thermal management of data centers and electronics through sponsored research spanning two ARPA-E COOLERCHIPS projects and a Northrop Grumman collaboration. My work combines two-phase cooling, system-level simulation, scientific software development, and experimental testing and validation.
Technical Scope
- Sole developer of the two-phase flow module within MOSTCOOL for next-generation data center cooling system design
- Developed a branch-first adaptive tearing solver that improved convergence robustness in two-phase flow modeling by 25× over the current state of the art
- Contribute beyond the two-phase solver to broader MOSTCOOL integration across thermal, energy and reliability workflows
- Support a second ARPA-E effort with the University of Florida on membrane-assisted two-phase cooling architectures for 1 MW data center racks
- Work with Northrop Grumman on encapsulated phase change material slurry with dielectric fluid cooling, including modeling and ongoing cold-plate design and characterization
Research Leadership, Coordination, and Proposal Development
- Provide day-to-day research execution across sponsored efforts by helping translate PI-level direction into executable technical tasks and next steps
- Coordinate meetings, milestones, deadlines, and deliverables across collaborators to keep multi-party projects on track
- Support proposal development, technical framing, and planning for sponsored research efforts
- Bridge communication across collaborators by organizing discussions, aligning technical priorities, and maintaining continuity across evolving project tasks
Jul 2019 – Mar 2022
Research
Research Assistant
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
Developed higher-order numerical schemes and scientific solvers for compressible flow problems, with validation against benchmark Euler and Navier–Stokes cases.
- Developed higher-order implicit shock-capturing schemes for compressible flow simulations based on linearization of implicit flux Jacobians
- Created and validated numerical solvers for Euler and Navier–Stokes equations against benchmark problems
- Built foundations in CFD, finite volume methods, and nonlinear PDE solver development
Aug 2022 – Present
Teaching
Teaching Assistant
University of Maryland, College Park
Instructed lab sessions for undergraduate and graduate thermal engineering courses.
ENME462 — Vibrations, Controls, and Optimization II (Fall 2023)
Instructed lab sessions using MATLAB and Simulink for dynamic system modeling, control design, and engineering optimization.
ENME808D / ENME765 — Thermal Issues in Electronic Systems (Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
Instructed lab sessions using Ansys Icepak, guiding students through electronics cooling simulation workflows and thermal analysis.
Dec 2019 – May 2021
Teaching
Teaching Assistant
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
Supported coursework and student projects across advanced computational and numerical methods courses.
ME 612 — Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
Supported coursework and student projects in advanced CFD topics including compressible flow modeling and high-order schemes.
ME 412 — Computational Fluid Dynamics
Assisted with numerical setup, code development, and simulation interpretation for standard CFD problems.
MA 201 — Numerical Methods
Supported coursework and student problem-solving using MATLAB across root-finding, integration, and ODE methods.