Experience

Professional Experience

Project Research Scientist, FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, Powai, India | Sep 2016 - Present
  • Project Management: Overall coordinator of process modelling & simulation research and development carried using DWSIM & OpenModelica in FOSSEE project.
  • Research & Development: Development of secondary processing units for refinery simulation, unit operation models and thermodynamic packages for steady-state chemical process simulator using OpenModelica and DWSIM.
  • Content Curation: Review of process flowsheets developed and submitted as a part of DWSIM Flowsheeting Project, creation of spoken tutorials for learning DWSIM and OpenModelica.
Associate System Engineer, IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India | Aug 2014 - Sept 2015
  • Regression Testing: Member for regression testing team of Bell Canada web application.
  • Automation Testing: Responsible for contribution to Automation testing framework development.
  • Test Reporting: Engaging in calls with developers to get the bug fixed and providing updates to Test & Project Managers.

Internships

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India | Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
  • Literature Survey: Perform literature survey to convert batch process for production of Pendimethalin to a continuous process.
  • Energy & Mass Balance: Perform streamwise energy and mass balance for the proposed flowsheet.
  • Design and Economics: Design of equipments (reactors & distillation columns) involved in the process and performing economic evaluation of the plant to find the payback period.

Teaching

  • Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023: Design Lab I, IIT Bombay
  • Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024: Design Project, IIT Bombay
  • Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2023, Spring 2024: Overview of Indian Chemical Industry, IIT Bombay