Research Scientist

• Jul 2023 - Present

Cheeky Scientist Associates

• Jan 2020 - Present

Senior Research Fellow

• Nov 2021 - Jun 2023

Collaborated with industry professionals to uncover new revenue-generation opportunities and strengthen relationships with high-profile industries. Led a team of 10 junior research fellows to optimize the UV lithography process to fabricate different microstructure patterns on silicon wafers for sensing applications. Maintained the following cleanroom equipment; 👉 Mask Aligner (SUSS MicroTec, MA6/BA6) 👉 Spin Coating Systems (spinNXG-P2) 👉 Thermal and Electron Beam (Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)) Evaporation (Hind Hvac; BC 300) - Plasma Cleaning & Thin Films Deposition (nanometer thickness) 👉 Wedge-Wedge Wire Bonder for electrical contacts. Providing demonstrations and hands-on training on cleanroom equipment to 10 undergrads and 9 new graduate students resulted in 2 publications and 1 presentation. Show less

Visiting Faculty

• Oct 2022 - May 2023

Undergraduate and postgraduate level teaching at the University Department of Information and Communication Technology (UDICT) and Basic & Applied Sciences (UDBAS). Laboratory Course - Engineering Physics to First Year B.Tech. Students (130). Course Code: 20UCC002B Theory Course: Atomic and Molecular Physics to Master Students (02) Course code: PHY 202 Physics Lab 3 Undergraduate and postgraduate level teaching at the University Department of Information and Communication Technology (UDICT) and Basic & Applied Sciences (UDBAS). Laboratory Course - Engineering Physics to First Year B.Tech. Students (130). Course Code: 20UCC002B Theory Course: Atomic and Molecular Physics to Master Students (02) Course code: PHY 202 Physics Lab 3

Assistant Professor (Contractual)

• Oct 2021 - May 2022

Teaching Instrumentation Practice (IP) and Digital Electronics subject to Undergraduate (UG) students offline and online using Google Classroom as a Learning Management System. Here, I gained good communication skills by interacting with undergraduate students through teaching optics related experiments. Teaching Instrumentation Practice (IP) and Digital Electronics subject to Undergraduate (UG) students offline and online using Google Classroom as a Learning Management System. Here, I gained good communication skills by interacting with undergraduate students through teaching optics related experiments.

Ph.D.

• Jan 2018 - Oct 2021

Completed Ph.D. (Physics) under the guidance of Dr. Mahendra D. ShirsatThe prime objective of this major research project was to fabricate a microstructure array having a 3 μm gap in between two Au electrodes over Si/SiO2 wafer. In this project, I have optimized the UV Lithography process in Cleanroom class 10000 for the fabrication of a microstructure array for water sensor applications.My responsibilities, in brief-✔Planning and designing of the experiments to develop Peptides Functionalized Conducting Polymer-Graphene Organic Field-Effect Transistor for detection of Aqueous Phase Pollutants.✔Development of water and gas sensors using semiconducting 1D and 2D and nanomaterials, including graphene and CNTs, organic conducting polymers, and Peptides.✔Characterization and analysis of microelectronic sensors, thin films, and nanomaterials: morphology, thickness, roughness, quantitative phase analysis, chemical composition, crystal structure, surface charge, electrochemical and semiconducting properties.✔Mentored graduate and research fellows on their projects, and transferred knowledge of existing work to new fellows so that the project could be completed. Show less

Visiting Faculty Member

• Jul 2017 - Dec 2017

The following subjects were taught in Industrial Automation to master's students:1. Transducer Technology (Theory) (IAC-112)2. Power Electronics (Lab) (IALC-141)3. Embedded System (Theory) (IALF-150)Apart from teaching, I have actively contributed to continuous internal assessment and semester-end examination duties as well.

Project Fellow (Research Assistant)

• Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

Joined as Project Fellow on a major research project entitled “Development of Smart Sensing Platform for Ambient Air Quality Monitoring” funded by the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Government of India. Here I gained the knowledge of scientific tools to provide materials characterization and data analysis. Joined as Project Fellow on a major research project entitled “Development of Smart Sensing Platform for Ambient Air Quality Monitoring” funded by the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Government of India. Here I gained the knowledge of scientific tools to provide materials characterization and data analysis.