CV

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Education

• B.S. in Production Engineering, Gujarat Technological Engineering
• M.S. in Industrial Engineeering, Texas A&M University
• Ph.D in Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo

Awards

• NSERC CGS-D (2022): A 3 year federal award valued at CAD 105,000
• OGS/QEII-ST (2022) : A provincial award valued at $20,000 per year for 3 years (awarded but declined)
• America Makes AMNOW Challenge winner (2022) : A Department of Energy initiative involving commerical 3D printing data analysis and predictions.

Work experience

• 2021-Present: Additive Manufacturing researcher
  • Multi Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab
  • Duties included: Using data science to improve quality of metal 3D printed parts.
    • Building a data-centric approach towards effective ML on 3D printing data
    • Build an understanding of the data generated from printing metals (Thermal sensors, microscopy, complex CAD data, machine settings, etc.)
    • Building a hybrid database model to store a variety of data generated from metal 3D printing systems
  • Supervisors: Mihaela Vlasea
• 2022-Present: Teaching Assistant
  • University of Waterloo
  • Duties included: Assisting in graduate level courses on additive manufacturing and fluid power systems
  • Supervisors: Mihaela Vlasea, Sagar Patel
• 2017-2020: Manufacturing and Testing Engineer
  • Midmark Corporation
  • Duties included: Design and building manufacturing and testing systems
  • Supervisors: Mike Rose, Brent Pepple, Craig Rammel
• Summer 2015: Operations Co-op
  • Midmark Corporation
  • Duties included:line optimization
  • Supervisor: Charles Bretz