Education

Cambridge University Ph.D. in Engineering
(1995 - 1998)
Dissertation: Steady-state deformation behaviour of bituminous mixes

Cambridge University M.Phil. in Engineering
(1994 - 1995)
Dissertation: The deformation behaviour of idealised bituminous mixes
Subjects: Mechanics of Solids (94 %) • Materials (93 %)

Indian Institute of Technology B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
Bombay (1990 - 1994)

Research Interests:

• Mechanical behaviour of materials
• Metallic foams and cellular materials
• Mechanics of asphalt
• Discrete Dislocation plasticity
• Fatigue of a single crystal: animation

Employment History

March 07 – present
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara

Oct. 2004 – present
Senior Lecturer, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Jan. 2003 – Oct. 2004
Lecturer, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Sep. 2000 – Sep. 2001
Visiting Professor, Brown University, USA and Lindemann Fellow

Apr. 2000 –Jan. 2003
Assistant Lecturer, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Oct. 1999 – Apr. 2000
Maudslay Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Nov. 1997 – Oct. 1999
Research Associate, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Awards and Fellowships

Philip Leverhulme Prize (2003)
Lindemann Research Fellowship (2000 – 2001)
Maudslay Research Fellowship: Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999-2000)
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship (1995 - 1997)
Overseas Research Studentship (1995-1997)
W.G. Collins Fund Scholarship: University of Cambridge (1995 - 1997)
External Research Studentship: Emmanuel College (1995 - 1997)
Oxford and Cambridge Society of India Scholarship (1994 - 1995)

Peer review activities

• Editorial Board of “Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering” (Publisher: Institute of Physics)
• Associate Editor for the Journal “Experimental Mechanics”
• Reviewer for the following Journals: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids ; Acta Materialia; Scripta Materialia; Journal of Applied Mechanics; International Journal of Solids and Structures; International Journal of Mechanical Sciences; International Journal of Impact Engineering; Journal of Engineering Mechanics; Philosophical Magazine; European Journal of Mechanics A:/Solids; Finite Element methods in Engineering; Computer Modelling in Engineering & Sciences; Engineering Failure Analysis.

Selected invited presentations at International Conferences

• Invited speaker: IUTAM symposium on "Micron-scale plasticity", Copenhagen, 2006
• Invited speaker: "Needleman-Tvergaard Symposium", Providence, RI, 2006
• Keynote speaker: 7th World Congress of Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, 2006.
• Keynote speaker: Micro-structure Evolution and modelling conference, Madrid, 2005.
• Keynote speaker: Micro-structure Evolution and modelling conference, Madrid, 2005.
• Invited speaker: The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society meeting, New Orleans, USA, 2004.
• Invited speaker: Dislocations 2004, Nice, France, 2004.
• Invited speaker: 5th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003.
• Invited speaker: 6th International Conference on sandwich structures, Ft. Lauderdale, USA, 2003.
• Invited speaker: 8th International Conference on Fatigue, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002.
• Invited speaker: ASME winter meeting, New Orleans, USA, 2002.
• Invited speaker: US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Virginia, USA, 2002.
• Invited speaker: 10th International Conference on Fracture, Hawaii, 2001.
• Invited speaker: ASME Mechanics and Materials Conference, San Deigo, USA, 2001.
• Invited speaker: ASME Mechanics and Materials Conference, Blacksburg, USA, 1999.

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