Blogs

I have been writing regular blogs for the MIT grad admission office for sharing my personal and academic experiences at MIT over the past few years. I have also written a few articles on public policy matters and a few more are in pipeline. The link to a few of them are below:

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Rethinking orientation in the COVID-19 era: How the MIT graduate orientation is reforming itself this year JULY 2020

The Bright Side of Isolation: A few positive aspects of social distancing MAY 2020

Learning to Sail: A unique recreation activity offered at MIT DEC 2019 

Giving Back to Society: How I got involved in service activities at MIT AUG 2019

Learn to Swim: One of the many free PE classes offered at MIT JUN 2019

You Can't Run Before You Walk: Navigating the initial stressful months at MIT APR 2019

A Perfect Campus Tour: See most of MIT in 30 minutes MAR 2019

What India Can Learn from AIDs Fight to Reduce Impact of COVID-19: The Quint MAY 2021

EPA should protect America’s children by further revisions of the Lead and Copper Rule: The Bulletin MAY 2021

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Future/Upcoming:

• Flint Water Crisis and role of Lead and Copper Rule

• Role of Science policy in the growth of Indian generic medicine industry

• An unconventional great group: India's Mission on Mars

• Importance of youth participation in Science policy: Invited article (MIT policy review and Behind Science KAIST)  

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RECENT NEWS

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March 2022 | I successfully defended my doctoral thesis on `Reduced-order
modeling of granular intrusions driven by continuum approaches'.  

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December 2021 | I have accepted the offer to join Exponent Inc as an
associate in mechanical engineering practice at their Menlo Park office
starting April 2022.

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November 2021 | I have accepted the position of associate editor at MIT Science Policy
Review Volume III

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October 2021 | I won runner up award for my research on 3D reduced order modeling
in granular media at Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE) 2021 

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September 2021 | I will be delivering a talk on reduced-order modeling of granular
materials at International Society For Terrain-Vehicle Systems on September 15, 2021 
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August 2021 | My collaborative article with KAIST highlighting the Importance of youth
participation in the Science policy has been published in the MIT Science Policy Review 
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July 2021 | Our work on modeling granular materials with continuum modeling
has been published in Soft Matter

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June 26, 2021 | My work on granular locomotion being covered in MIT news in
Regards to Mathworks Fellowship 2020-21 

MIT news
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June 25, 2021|Our work on modeling granular materials with continuum modeling
has been accepted in SoftMatter

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May 2021 | Awarded Edward L. Horton Fellowship Award 2021 for outstanding 
contribution to the MIT graduate community over the years. The award was officially
awarded on May 14th, 2021 

MIT Award website

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May 27, 2021 | Our opinion editorial on shortcomings of USA EPA's Lead and Copper
Rule Revisions published in the 'The  Bulletin'.

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May 17, 2021 | My opinion editorial on What India Can Learn from AIDs Fight to
Reduce Impact of COVID-19 published in the 'The  Quint'.

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April 28, 2021 | Spoke at EPA's public listing session on the latest form of Lead and
Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR)

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Our Paper titled 'Surprising simplicity in the modeling of dynamic granular intrusion' 

was published in Science Advances on April 23, 2021
Link : https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/17/eabe0631

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News Coverage:

  1) Phy.org                        2) MIT News

  3) EurekAlert!                  4) Newswise

  5) ScienceNewsnet         6) Scimag

  7)  Bioengineer               8) Facebook (MIT MechE)

  9) FloridaNews              10) 4state News

11) My Doll 

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April 14th, 2021 | Gave a workshop on the past, present, and future of the Flint
water Crisis at MIT Water 

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