I am a curiosity-driven researcher working on a wide range of fluid dynamics problems, specifically those related to environmental and geophysical flows. My overarching research goal is to formulate reduced-order/minimal models of complex flow problems. My current research work focuses on:

a) Density stratified flows (specifically, oceans): Stratified shear instabilities, internal gravity waves, submarine topography's role in internal wave propagation, and ocean mixing.

b) Surface waves: Wave-current-topography interactions in coastal oceans and how these influence cross-shelf tracer transport, fluid analog of black/white holes and Hawking radiation.

c) Vortex dynamics for problems ranging from vortices in planetary atmospheres to vortices shed by fishes and flapping foils.

d) Collective behavior: fish-school patterns and their energetic benefits.

e) Inverse problems in oceanography: Mapping sea-floor topography from information available at the ocean surface.

While theoretical analysis is my key focus, my group has developed multiple, process-oriented in-house codes (e.g. vortex methods, high-order spectral, finite-difference Boussinesq NSE solver in terrain-following coordinates) for conducting numerical experiments. My work has applications in ocean mixing, wave energy harvesting, off-shore structure protection, ocean pollution mitigation, and turbulence control.

• Nov 2023 - Present: Senior Lecturer of Fluid Mechanics, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee, UK.

• Sep 2019 - Oct 2023: Lecturer of Environmental Fluid Mechanics, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee, UK.

• Feb 2019 - July 2019: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany.

• Dec 2014 - Jan 2019: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India.

• Nov 2013 - Dec 2014: Postdoc, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, USA.

• July 2013 - Oct 2013: David Crighton Fellow, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.

• June 2013: PhD, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver.