Career

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Timeline

A123 Systems GmbH, Germany · Simulation Lead, EMEA · Nov 2022 – Present Final validation authority for all EMEA simulation deliverables. 6 major RFQs, 2 multi-million euro 48V contracts won. Motorsport (Porsche racing) battery pack simulation. Self-initiated physics-based tooling in production use.

Volvo Trucks R&D, India · Lead – Simulation & Analysis (Senior Manager) · Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 Led 10-person multidisciplinary team. Developed PINN degradation + charging model for fleet mobile app — ~90% accuracy, seconds of compute.

Caterpillar R&D, India · Performance Engineer · Sep 2021 – Feb 2022 Built battery simulation team from scratch. Set up cell testing facility end-to-end. Degradation models for NMC/LFP from experimental data.

Mercedes-Benz R&D India · Technology Lead (Domain Expert) · Jun 2018 – Sep 2021 Battery and simulation SME. 5× business growth. Delivered Battery Thermal Model Configurator — 60% reduction in model dev time, deployed across Stuttgart.

Mercedes-Benz R&D India · Senior Engineer (Top Expert) · Jun 2015 – Jun 2018 Built EV/HEV/PHEV extensions on in-house full-vehicle simulation framework. DC-DC thermal model at 96% accuracy. BMS, charging, ADAS integration. 2 patents filed.

Hero MotoCorp, India · Deputy Manager, R&D · Nov 2013 – May 2015 1D/3D engine modelling, structural and fatigue analyses. Engine mount optimisation methodology.

TVS Motor Company, India · Member, R&D · Nov 2011 – Oct 2013 Chassis structural analysis, topology optimisation. ANSYS APDL macros — 50% reduction in pre-processing time.

Victoria University, Melbourne · Research Intern · Jun 2009 – Aug 2009 CFD fire modelling with Genetic Algorithms. Published.

Education

M.Tech — Mechanical Engineering | IIT Kanpur | 2010–2011 Thesis: Critical Velocity and Standing Waves in High-Speed Tires

B.Tech — Mechanical Engineering | IIT Kanpur | 2006–2010

Languages: English (Professional) · German (A2, in progress) · Hindi (Native)

Additional AI Projects

Alongside the simulation day job, a parallel track of AI and local-LLM tooling has been running since around 2016 - initially PowerShell automation, now local LLM systems, RAG pipelines, and code-intelligence tools, all built to run on-premise (LM Studio / Ollama) for GDPR-compliant deployment.

Key pieces: a Codebase Indexer and Hybrid Code Analyzer that give local LLMs structural and runtime understanding of a repository before they touch code; a domain-specific Battery Expert AI combining LoRA fine-tuning with multi-domain RAG; and the PINN degradation model deployed in production at Volvo. → How the local-LLM infrastructure was built

Patents & Publications

• Patent: Cooling system for fuel cell vehicle/EV — Inventor’s Award, Mercedes-Benz · 2016
• Patent: Efficient power recapturing from vehicle suspension — Mercedes-Benz · 2017
• Publication: Estimating wood material properties for CFD fire modelling — Victoria University, 2010

Academic & Research Projects

Work that doesn’t fit the professional timeline but shaped how I think.

M.Tech Thesis — Standing Waves in Tires | IIT Kanpur, 2011 Contact mechanics and wave propagation in high-speed pressurised rotating tires. Full analytical treatment of the critical velocity problem. → Project page

Final Year Project — Micromanipulation with Polymers | IIT Kanpur, 2010 Micro gripper design with automated controls.

Other research-driven work:

• Genetic Algorithm for parameter estimation — inverse problem: recover material parameters from simulation output
• Satellite fuel slosh modelling — fluid dynamics in zero-gravity environments
• Nutational damping in triaxial rotors — rigid body dynamics, energy dissipation
• Rattleback motion simulation — non-intuitive chirality in rigid body rotation

Additional Publications

• Neural network based chiller modelling
• A methodology to optimise the design of front fender for drag using ANN and Firefly algorithm — Hero MotoCorp
• Analytical study of rotating rings: standing waves in rotating tires — IIT Kanpur