About

I started programming in seventh grade, scribbling code into notebooks because the family computer crashed too often to trust it with unsaved work. That same restlessness showed up everywhere else — I read physics chapters that weren't on the syllabus, built models for school science fairs, and spent a stretch of high school tracking down anyone who could teach me how model rockets actually fly. On my first day at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, that hunt turned into a research assistantship: a professor building a real-time monitoring system for laser powder bed fusion of biocompatible magnesium implants took a chance on a first-year who clearly wanted in. I stayed on that project for two years, and I haven't really stopped since.

My work now sits at the intersection of Design, Manufacturing, and Thermal engineering — the three pillars of mechanical engineering. I use CFD to treat snow as a granular fluid with Bingham plastic behavior and design lattice structures that reduce avalanche impact, a project that won the Bhalodia–Khetan Research Excellence Award at IIT Gandhinagar and that I've since continued as an undergraduate research fellow. In parallel, I'm developing TPMS-based heat exchanger geometries to reduce pressure drop without sacrificing heat transfer, and pointing that same design instinct at biomedical engineering — including a 3D-printed mandibular implant technique, tested successfully on a tumour patient, that avoids the need for a bone graft. I don't think research is really about the paper count; it's about building things that hold up when it matters.

None of this happens in isolation. I lead the technical side of Apogee, PDEU's aerospace society, where I've spent three years on propulsion, structural design, and systems engineering for competition rockets — and learned nearly as much about budgets and team management as I did about thrust curves. I've played competitive lawn tennis for fifteen years and now serve as the university's Tennis Secretary; I trained in Karate long enough to push past being scared of it and take home a state-level bronze. I paint, worse on some days and better on others, ever since art classes at the Kanoria Centre first taught me to see problems as shapes. Somewhere between the CFD solver, the tennis court, and the sketchbook, curiosity has turned out to be the only throughline I need.