Biography
I am a postdoctoral appointee in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, in Prof. Giulia Galli’s group. I work on using advanced electronic structure methods to probe point defects in inorganic materials for the design of quantum hardware and photoelectrodes for water splitting.
During my PhD, I used density functional theory in conjunction with statistical thermodynamics to study defects in oxides and at oxide/metal interfaces for applications such as hydrogen barrier coatings and resistive switching.
Broadly, I am keen on gaining expertise in developing and utilizing advanced ab initio methods (such as advanced sampling methods, many body perturbation theory, embedding techniques) that can take advantage of increasing computer power to account for realistic defects, temperatures, length- and time-scales. I wish to apply these methods, along with collaborations with experimentalists, to enable the discovery and design of materials for the computing (such as quantum and neuromorphic computing) and energy (such as hydrogen storage) industries.
Education
- PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (2022)
- Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology-Trichy, India (2016)