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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS Among the 4 students to be awarded IET India regional Scholarship for western region designed to reward individual excellence and innovation among undergraduate engineering students (2013) Secured All-India Rank 702 amongst more than 5,00,000 candidates in IIT JEE (2011) Ranked among top 0.1% of successful candidates of CBSE in Mathematics and Hindi (2008) Pursuing minor in Industrial Design Centre INTERNSHIPS INTERACTIVE DEFORMATION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURES (May-Jul 2013) Prof Stephane Redon, Group Leader-NANO-D, INRIA Grenoble, France Awarded gratification from Campus France, French national agency that works for promotion of higher education Adapted an algorithm designed in "As Rigid as Possible Surface Modeling" for interactive molecule deformation Implemented prototype code for 3D visualization of deformation of flexible molecules as rigidly as possible The code is incorporated in SAMSON, software platform developed for modeling and simulating nanosystems EFFECT OF POLYMER ON TURBULENT INTERMITTENCY (Dec 2013- present) Prof. Samriddhi Sankar Ray, International Centre of Theoretical Sciences- TIFR, Bangalore Examined the effect of drag reduction due to polymers addition in decaying turbulence Developed a systematic understanding of the effect of the suppression of small scale structures (via polymers) on the intermediate scale intermittency as a function of the polymer relaxation time and the polymer concentration Observed variation in reduction of energy losses on addition of varying polymer concentration in turbulent flow Verified previous results using Finitely Extensible Nonlinear Elastic - Peterlin (FENE-P) model of polymeric flows KEY PROJECTS RESIDUAL PROPERTIES VARIATION (Dec2012) Prof Sandip Roy, Chemical department, IIT Bombay Carefully studied the 3-parameter corresponding states principle proposed by Pitzer that are used to correlate the volumetric and thermodynamic properties needed for process design Examined variations of residual thermodynamic properties with reduced parameters and acentric factor Verified the values for Residual internal energy and enthalpy in the Lee-Kesler tabular form using Matlab Processed the data of same, which are adapted in the book “Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” BIOSYNTH: STUDENT BIODIESEL INITIATIVE (May - June 2012) Student Initiative of installing biodiesel plant at IIT Bombay Worked under the guidance of Prof S Mahajani to figure out the end point of trans-esterification process Performed experiments to extract biodiesel from waste vegetable oil and sunflower oil Conducted extensive evaluations to ensure adherence of produced biodiesel with current ASTM standards AMAN DAY CARE CENTRE PROJECT (Nov 2012) Under Prof Raja Mohanty, IDC, IIT Bombay Worked with children at the crèche, understanding their perception and visualization of outside world Introduced them to different forms of artwork and cultural activities
