With a background in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, I have worked across a wide variety of industries from Oil & Energy and Plant Automation to Microwave Engineering, Electronic Design and in Theoretical & Experimental Quantum Information. I am comfortable with various low and high level programming languages and in Electronic Design Automation tools for Digital & Microwave circuits. I have also co-founded deep tech startups and enjoy leading product development teams. Below are some more details.
Building data driven solutions to adapt to the growing challenges of extreme Climate Change events such as massive Wildfires and large scale Pest Outbreaks.
At Atomionics, we use Quantum Sensing to build more precise and universal sensors for inertial navigation. I lead the development of embedded systems for laser locking & spectroscopy, fast low noise sensing, and RF & Microwave applications. I am also designing an end-to-end electronic control and data acquisition system for atom-interferometry based gravimeter.
At Hamlit, we are building the future of two-wheeler safety and telematics solutions. Hamlit was one of the 14 deep-tech startups funded and incubated during the second cohort of the NUS GRIP initiative for translational research.
I primarily designed control electronics for cold-atoms experiments, including FPGA based systems for Laser locking and analog drivers for switching High-Voltage electrodes. At the Quantum Matter Lab, ultra cold Lithium-Potassium is used for building Quantum Simulators. Besides working on setting up an optical lattice for study of ultra-cold Lithium, I also built a laboratory journal system using REST APIs for OneNote through LabVIEW.
BPCL is an integrated public sector Oil & Energy conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, India. I worked in the Power & Utilities Dept. of Kochi Refinery handling the electronic control and operation of the 33kV-160MW Captive Power Plant comprising of 5 Gas Turbines. I also did continuous real-time electronic monitoring of the 33/11/6.6 kV gas/air-insulated switch-gears and all of the electrical motors, pumps & lighting.
Thanks to the kind guys over at the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, Govt. of Japan, I spent 11 weeks working at the headquarters of CPS, an industrial plant maintenance and construction firm based in Nagoya, Aichi. The internship was a great exposure to the corporate life outside of the global Japanese MNCs and included training in non-destructive testing, inspection, and maintenance.
I also designed and prototyped an automatic bolt polisher. More details here.
I spent two summers working with Prof. Urbasi Sinha on a Visiting Student Fellowship at the Quantum Information & Computing Lab which specialises in photonics-based implementations and has most recently been engaged in the development of India's first space-based Quantum Communication Network. I spent my first summer studying Quantum Correlations in the macroscopic domain, particularly Leggett-Garg Inequalities and Non-Invasive Measurements. Read here.
During my second visit, I was involved in the design, fabrication and testing of a 300MHz Beam Splitter for use in Microwave Quantum Optics experiments. Details here.
I spent a month on a Visiting Student Fellowship working with Prof. Ujjwal Sen of the Quantum Information & Computation group. It's a purely theoretical group and I spent my time there learning the basics of Quantum Cryptography and subsequently moving on to the study of Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution and the application of Bell-Type Inequalities to such protocols.