Experience

I was fortunate to be mentored by some of the best people and work with great minds, which helped me understand several technical concepts both in breadth and depth as well as their real world implications. A subset of my experience is listed here. Some of my projects can be found on my Github page and a few others on my LinkedIn profile.

Note: I don’t believe in the classification of these experiences into distinct Research and Teaching categories. I am a firm believer that research and teaching have a complex coupling. The de-coupling done here is only for making the website look organized…

Research Experience

Post-doc Research Associate at WEMPEC: Design of high performance electric machines
- Since Spring 2023
- Advisor: Prof. Eric Severson
- Project funded by the US. Dept. of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Research Internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories: Numerical Analysis and Optimization of Electric Machines
- Summer 2021
- Advisor: Dr Bingnan Wang
Research Assistant at WEMPEC: Development of an axial flux machine integrated with a hydraulic pump
- Fall 2018 - Spring 2023
- Advisor: Prof. Eric Severson
- Project funded by the US. Dept. of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Independent Study / Extension of ECE 512 Project: Design and testing of a GaN H-bridge and re-design of PEGO power electronics educational lab kit
- Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 (paused due to CoVID-19)
- Advisor: Prof. Giri Venkataramanan
Research Assistant at IIT-Madras: Development of CNC drives and an HF link inverter
- Fall 2016 - 2018
- Advisor: Prof. Krishna Vasudevan
- Funded by Govt. of India - Dept of Heavy Industry (CNC drive project) and ARCI (HF link inverter).
Undergraduate Research Project: Unipolar SPWM based reactive power compensator
- June 2014 - June 2015
- Advisor: Prof. Nagesh Prabhu
- Funded by KSCST, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore (Recognised as best project of the year 2015)

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant at UW-Madison
- ECE 713: Electromagnetic Design of AC Machines
- A flagship graduate level WEMEPC course that teaches the electromagnetic design of rotating machines from first principles.
- Responsibilities: Mentoring students in an active learning class; Preparing solution sets to in-class exercises, exams, homeworks and projects; Teaching class sessions on FEA analysis; Grading; Conducting office hours to clarify student queries.
- Instructor: Prof. Eric Severson - Fall 2019-20
- ECE 412: Power Electronic Circuits
- A graduate level WEMEPC Course
- Responsibilities: Mentoring students in an active learning class; Creating problem sets and preparing solutions to in-class exercises, exams, and homeworks; Grading exams; Conducting office hours to clarify student queries.
- Instructor: Prof. Eric Severson - Spring 2021
- ECE 353: Introduction to Microprocessor Systems
- An undergraduate laboratory
- Responsibilities: Mentoring students in the lab - programming the TI Tiva C series MCU using Kiel; Grading; Proctoring exams; Conducting office hours to clarify student queries.
- Instructor: Prof. Joe Krachey - Fall 2018-19
- ECE 210: Introductory Experience in ECE
- Responsibilities: Teaching and mentoring freshmen in a basic electrical engineering lab. Skills taught include circuit connections, soldering, programming an MCU and interfacing with peripherals such as an LCD touch screen, joystick etc.
- Instructor: Prof. Mark Allie - Fall 2018-19
Teaching Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Responsibilities: Preparing solution sets to exams; Conducting office hours to clarify student queries; Grading
- Instructor: Prof. Gaurav Raina - 2017-18
- Electric Machines Laboratory
- Responsibilities: Supervising two groups (2-3 students in each group) in the electric machines laboratory; Viva-voce exams and grading for each experiement;
- Instructors: Prof. Krishna Vasudevan, Prof. Srirama Srinivas, and Prof. Kamalesh Hatua - 2016-18