I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Granular Materials Lab at the University of California Davis. My current research focus lies in the quantification of micro-scale behavior of granular soils using novel experimental methodologies and particle-based multi-physics numerical simulations. My core research interests includes granular material mechanics, fundamental soil mechanics, biogeotechnics, and computational geotechnics. Currently, I am working on understanding the monotonic and cyclic behavior of well-graded coarse-grained soils and the effect of the soil fabric on liquefaction risk assessment. Additionally, I am working on the Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) of soil treated with Microbial-Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP).

Before UC Davis, I got my Master’s in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. At IIT-Delhi, I was part of numerous research and consulting projects, mostly on ground improvement, sustainability, and geo-environmental engineering. For my master’s thesis research, I worked on Discrete Element Modelling at Zentrum Geotechnik of Technical University of Munich for seven months under the DAAD scholarship.

At UC Davis, most of my time is dedicated to three G’s:

1. Granular Materials Laboratory (GML) : where I do all my research,
2. Geotechnical Graduates Student Society (GGSS) : as a member, outreach coordinator (2020-2021), field trip coordinator (2019-2020), and website coordinator (2019-2021).
3. Graduate Program Committee (GPC) : department-wide committee where I work with faculty on topics related to student well-being, outreach, peer mentorship, and student teacher communication.