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Researching Phase-Field Fracture and Scientific Machine Learning. Developing PhAST, a PyTorch-native GPU-accelerated differentiable physics engine for fracture mechanics. Published the field's first comprehensive review on ML for fracture mechanics (ranked #1 downloaded in EFM). Awarded the prestigious Tin Plate Workers Travelling Scholarship.

Collaborated with Prof. Jean-François Molinari on scaling ML surrogate models for complex fracture topologies. Integrated data-driven techniques with massive finite-element datasets.

Assisted Dr. Sathiskumar Ponnusami in mechanics and machine learning courses. Authored comprehensive, runnable PyTorch tutorials used by students. Awarded SST Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching Support.

Founded an engineering consultancy specializing in aerospace structural analysis tools. Built and shipped automated Python/MATLAB workflows that reduced 4-hour commercial structural sizing tasks to 5 minutes. Authored the BJSFM open-source bolted-joint stress-field solver.

Focus on solid mechanics, composite materials, and fatigue life prediction. Graduated top of the class. Read extensively from Bruhn and Niu for aircraft structural design principles.

Foundational engineering mechanics, thermodynamics, and manufacturing.