Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Assistant Professor 02/ 2015 – Present

• Presently guiding 3 PhD scholars on Physics of Ceramic Materials, Transport Phenomena in Layered Porous Materials and Construction Materials.

Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Assistant Professor 01/ 2014 – 02/2015

• Mentoring 2 PhD scholars on subjects of Energy for Water and Construction Materials.

Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Assistant Professor 03/ 2012 – 12/2013

• Guided 2 Master scholars on the wetland hydrodynamics -Small constructed wetlands (with water plants) for arid regions to treat waste water at point of source.
• Guided a Master Thesis on Electro-kinetics and Transport Phenomena in Reactor Columns.- for a potable and decentralized column bioreactor for individual rural households

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Post-Doctoral Associate, 02/2011- 02/2012

Advisor: Prof. John H Lienhard V, Director, Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy Rohsenow Kendall Heat and Mass Transfer Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

• Lead the Studies on life cycle energy analysis for water extraction, supply, treatment, recycling and end use in municipal sector;
• Performed studies on Water Management strategies for Petroleum Industries
• Represented MIT at meetings of the BP Energy Sustainability Challenge Collaborative Program
• Collaborated with researchers at Princeton on studies on ceramic water filter.

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH College of Engineering

Post-Doctoral Fellow, 06/2010 - 02/ 2011

Advisor: Prof. Larry C Brown

• Worked on Structural behavior of porous materials for water filtration
• Developed mathematical models for contaminant transport through porous media filters
• Worked on a paper integrating stochastic hydrology to computational flow mechanics

Graduate Teaching/Research Associate, 06/2010 - 02/ 2011

Advisor: Prof. Alfred Soboyejo

• Instructor for Construction Systems Management course CSM 205 for Managers- Basic Engineering – Introduction to Civil Engineering
• Instructor for Course on Probabilistic Methods in Engineering – FABE 735- for Graduate Students – Subject deals with probabilistic models , multivariate analysis, multi-parameter stochastic methods.
• Teaching Assistant for CSM 546 and AERO 510.01- Civil Engineering Structures and Aerospace Structures – Subject deals with theory experiments in structural engineering ; Bending moments, Stress, Material variability, How properties Bio-materials such as bones change in space. [ Under Prof. Tom Marshall and Prof. William Shepherd]
• Research on empirical and theoretical analysis on water flow through porous media
• Application of computational flow methods in simulating Constructed wetland agricultural water treatment system processes.
• Structural analysis of clay ceramic porous materials.

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics,

Graduate Research Assistant, 08/2004-05/2006

Advisor: Prof. M A Rob Sharif ( Also worked with Prof. Richard C. Bradt from Department of Material Science and Engineering

• Studies on flow modeling of molten steel and purification strategies for Steel
• Incompressible flow simulations on Industrial Tundish
• Use of properties of Spinels at high temperatures

Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo- RWC, Pusa Campus, New Delhi

Design Engineer, 09/2003-06/2004

Advisor: Dr. Raj K Gupta and Dr P M V Subbarao (IITD)

• Development of micro-turbo pump
• Integration of canal based irrigation systems
• Turbine blade design and construction

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India

Project Associate, 02/2002-09/2003

Area of work: Turbo machine design and transmission system design

Advisor: Prof. P M V Subbarao

• Vane design for impulse micro hydro devices
• Materials development and turbo device fabrication