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Research

Research Areas

Soft active materials and their device applications
Soft Robotics
Mathematical modeling of functional/smart/advanced materials
Asymptotic modeling for multifunctional structures: membrane, plate and beam theories

Sponsored Research/ Ongoing Projects

September 2022 - Ongoing: SERB-POWER Grant - Large deformation modelling and instability analysis in soft electro-magneto-elastic membrane actuators, PI.
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.
Amount: INR 36.8 lakhs.
January 2022 - Ongoing: Wearable soft robotics for Upper Limb Muscle Power Augmentation with BMI interface, Co-PI (with Prof. S. Roy (PI), Prof. S. Bhasin (Co-PI), Prof. L. Kumar (Co-PI) and Prof. S. Prakash (Co-PI, AIIMS Delhi)).
Funding Agency: Joint Advanced Technology Center, Defense Research and Development Organization, New Delhi, India.
Amount: INR 870 lakhs.

Completed Projects

November 2019 - November 2020: Wearable soft robotics for Upper Limb Muscle Power Augmentation with BMI interface-A proof of concept study, Co-PI.
Funding Agency: Joint Advanced Technology Center, Defense Research and Development Organization, New Delhi, India.
Amount: INR 80.63 lakhs.
October 2018 - October 2021: Early Career Research Award - Computationally Efficient Modeling of Magnetostrictive Materials with Application to Vibration Energy Harvesting, PI.
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.
Amount: INR 46.4 lakhs.
June 2018 - June 2019: CARS Project - Modeling and Analysis of BiTe based Nanostructured Materials, PI.
Funding Agency: Solid State Physics Lab, Defense Research and Development Organization, New Delhi, India.
Amount: INR 9.48 lakhs.
2015 - 2016: NSF EPSCoR Start-up Award - Modeling, Characterization and Design of Advanced Ferroic Materials with Application to Efficient Light Harvesting Devices, PI.
Funding Agency: Institute of Functional Nanomaterials, NSF EPSCoR - Puerto Rico.
Amount: $190,378.

Awards and Fellowships

2016 - 2020: Kusuma Young Faculty Incentive Fellowship, IIT Delhi.
2015 - 2016: NSF EPSCoR Faculty Start-up Award, Puerto Rico.
2007 - 2008: University Fellowship, The Ohio State University.
2003 - 2007: Pratibha Scholarship, awarded by the state of Andhra Pradesh (as partial support for undergraduate education).

Seminars and Invited Talks

Design and Modeling of Magnetostrictive Material Based Energy Harvesting Devices, Indo-Polish Workshop on Energy Harvesting, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, December 12, 2022.
Modeling of Electro-Magneto-Elastic Membrane Structures with Application to Soft Actuator Devices, European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS), Oslo, Norway, June 5-9, 2022.
Thermodynamic Modeling of Magnetostrictive Materials and their Applications}, Workshop on Recent Advances in the Modeling of Inelastic Response and Integrity Assessment of Metals (organized by Indian Society of Applied Mechanics), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, January 11, 2022.
Nonlinear Asymptotic Modelling of Magnetoelastic Structures, Distinguished Mechanics Seminar, University of Houston, Texas, USA, August 30, 2019.
Asymptotic Modelling of Magnetoelastic Structures, Symposium on Non-Classical Advanced Mechanics of Materials, IISc Bengaluru, India, July 9-11, 2019.
Nonlinear Asymptotic Modelling of Thin Magnetoelastic Structures, Pravartana 2019: Symposium on Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, March 31-April 1, 2019.
Modelling Challenges in Coupled Magnetoelastic Material Systems, Discussion Meeting on Mechanics/Materials Interface, Coorg, Karnataka, February 18-22, 2018.
Modelling, Analysis and Design of Magnetostrictive Material based Structures, Invited Speaker at International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures, Hyderabad, India, December 29, 2017.
Continuum Modelling of Thermo-Electro-Magneto-Mechanical Systems, Frontiers of Mechanics Colloquium, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, November 25, 2017.
Asymptotic Reduced-Order Modelling of Multifunctional Composite Structures, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, July 10, 2015.
Asymptotic Reduced-Order Modelling of Multifunctional Composite Structures, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, July 8, 2015.
Unified Continuum Modelling of Thermo-Electro-Magneto-Mechanical Behavior with Application to Multifunctional Materials, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, USA, July 29, 2014.
Modelling of Thermo-Electro-Magneto-Mechanical Behavior with Application to Multifunctional Structures, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA, April 9, 2014.

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