I am a final year joint PhD student at the University of Queensland and Indian institute of technology Delhi, research academy (UQIDRA) under Prof. Christopher Leonardi, Prof. Bahni Ray, and Prof. Travis Mitchell. My PhD reserach focus on the understanding the underlying mechanics of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) using continum mechanics based computational methods. I work on the FEniCS based in-house finite element solvers provided by my expert colloborators Prof Lik Chuan Lee, MSU, USA and Prof Sheikh Mohammad Shavik BUET.

I have recently submitted my PhD thesis (i.e., at the end of June 2025). I am looking forward to continue research as a post doc.

Research areas

Computational cardiac mechanics, finite element modelling, Computational fluid dynamics, Fluid structure interaction, lattice Boltzmann method, heat transfer, FEniCS and OpenFOAM.

Short bio

I finished bachelors in mechanical engineering from College of Engineering Thalassery, affiliated to Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) in 2016. I have received the fifth rank in the university for the same. In 2019, I finished my masters in heat power engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur (VNIT) by receiving academic excellence award and institute medal for securing highest CGPA. I continued in the institue till July 2020 as a Junior reserach fellow on a project entitled “Development of fluid-structure interaction solvers to analyse cerebral anuerysm” funded by DST, India. In September 2020 started my PhD at university of Queensland and Indian institute of technology Delhi, reserach academy (UQIDRA) on ``computational analysis on the mechanics of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction’’.

Outside research

I like to do sketching eventhough I am not an expert in it. I have uploaded some of my pen/pencil sketches in the Hobbies section of this website.