Houston, TX

Research Experience Directed Self-assembly of Block Copolymers for Water Filtration Aug • Fabricated polymer thin-film composite membranes with vertical nanoporous structure for oil/water separations • Established tunability in pore sizes between 20-50 nm and isoporous structure with wet and dry etching methods • Developed and performed pilot scale dead-end mode micro and ultrafiltration tests with oil/water emulsions Orientation & Order Dependent Tensile Deformation of Thermoplastic Elastomer • Correlated morphological changes in stretched SEPS films to develop their together structure-property relationships • Applied high temperature and pressure melt processes like molding and extrusion for films/sheets/pellets/filaments • Demonstrated 33% difference and > 12 MPa strength only by affinity and volatility changes in polymer solutions • Designed custom-built stretcher for utilization in in-situ SAXS experiments until 5x elongation and analyzed test data Design and Simulation of Cumene Production Plant using Zeolite • Simulated production process utilizing reaction kinetics of feedstream containing benzene & propylene in AspenPlus • Designed distillation columns for each reactant and modeled RGIBBS reactor along with heat exchanger and separator controls. Estimated hourly raw materials consumption for their corresponding annual production capacity pH Electrolyte Dependence Behavior of In2S3/TiO2 Photoanodes • Graphed & collected current density measurements using potentiostat at different pH levels of aqueous electrolytes • Translated and produced data in acidic, basic & neutral mediums of various anode materials with postulated tests based upon reduction potentials of H2O

Extrusion (microcompounding), Processing, Polymer Membrane Fabrication, ASTM Universal Tensile Testing, Thin Film Casting, Polymer Characterizations, Compression molding (Heat press), Finite Element Analysis and Design, Electrochemical

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aug 2018 – Aug 2023 University of Houston, Houston, TX|William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering|3.6/4 Master of Technology (M. Tech) Jan 2017 – Jul 2018 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India | Department of Chemical Engineering | GPA: 8.07/10.00 Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) Honors with Minor in Entrepreneurship Aug 2013–May 2017 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India | Department of Chemical Engineering | GPA: 8.02/10.00