ABOUT ME
I am a researcher with interests spanning the fields of ocean and atmospheric sciences, climate change, ship routing, development in resource constrained economies, public policy and education. I focus on developing fundamental knowledge and utilizing those to build usable systems that solve practical problems. During my Ph.D., I have developed a probabilistic regional ocean prediction system, optimal vehicle guidance schemes, and advisory services for sustainable fisheries management in India. Currently, I am a post-doctoral associate at MIT working on bringing-to-market the inventions that I completed during my Ph.D. I will join IISc Bangalore in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences in Jan 2019.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ocean Modeling
Development and applications of stochastic and deterministic primitive equation ocean modeling systems.
2014 - 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Computation
Uncertainty Quantification and Analysis
Probabilistic predictions and optimization utilizing dynamic stohcastic model order reduction schemes (e.g., Dynamically Orthogonal Field Equations).
Computational Engineering
Development of novel numerical schemes and software systems for computational fluid dynamics, especially stochastic PDEs and parallel computing.
Optimal Vehicle Guidance
Combining state of the art environmental state forecasts (ocean, atmosphere, traffic etc.) with fundamental planning PDEs for time-, energy-, risk- optimal path planning of ships, AUVs, drones, cars etc.
2012 - 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M., Computation for Design and Optimization
2007 - 2012
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
Bayesian Data Assimilation
Combining Models and Data for Geosciences and Climate Studies.