Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Sree City

Dec 2020 – Aug 2021 · 8 mos · Bangalore

Nov 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Apr 2019 – Jun 2019 · 2 mos · Oxford, United Kingdom

• Research Science and Innovation Leadership Program at St Cross College of University of Oxford

Mar 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Consultation and services for designing materials from scientific computing, data-driven modeling for application areas: Catalysis, Polymers, Drug (design, development platform) Drug Delivery systems (polymeric and biological) cathode/Anode/Electrolyte for Batteries, Gas adsorption/separation materials, CO2 sequestration and conversion, Filtration, Paints etc.

Mar 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Philadelphia, New Delhi

• Define, grow and lead research development and innovation to articulate and continually develop pipeline by technical leadership, Implement a scalable, organisational design and delivery model to support new product development efforts
• Interface as a member of the discovery team in establishing compound advancement strategy and criteria while overseeing the transition of the lead compound into development
• Work closely with internal functional groups such as chemistry, biology, analytical, computation, formulation and project management, and actively participate in team strategy discussions for product development programs
• Effectively oversee and manage internal resources and Contract Research Organisations (CROs) and vendors used for early development studies
• Patent portfolio design, New patent filing, landscaping, competitive intelligence, licensing agreements discussions with potential clients
• Present key findings and influence thinking of program teams, R&D leadership, and investors
• Institutionalise digitalisation, and data driven innovation processes across multiple functions to ensure quality and faster convergence of pipeline to lead molecule

Mar 2015 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Senior Researcher for Chemistry/Physics/Materials, Flow Assurance, Gas Hydrate modelling, Additive Design, Formulation Design, Materials Modelling, Property Prediction, High Performance Computing.
• Single point of contact for establishing academia-industry collaborations for Shell Innovation R&D. Mentoring, technical leadership, innovation strategies, direct communication with the executives (VP and above) chief scientists for technology discussion and goal setting. Led projects in energy transition program.

Jan 2009 – Mar 2015 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Pune

• Group Leader, Faculty Member at Physical Chemistry and Material Science Division, Ph.D supervisor, Assistant Professor at AcSIR
• Managed a team of PhD students, project assistants, Master’s Students and post-doctoral fellow as Principal investigator
• Successfully received multiple grants from government, industries and public sector units for setting up the lab and performing advanced research
• Collaborated with several industry partners: Solvay, Continental AG, Invictus Oncology, Gas Authority of India Limited
• Established High Performance Computing (HPC) facility of 50 compute nodes, GPU nodes and file servers for my group at NCL
• Other management duties: faculty hiring committee, PhD student selection committee coordinator, institute homepage design and management, student’s council committee member

Nov 2005 – Nov 2008 · 3 yrs

• Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations of liquids and Polymers, HIgh Performance Computing, Data Storage and analytics

Oct 2000 – Sep 2005 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Quantum Chemistry, Density Functional Theory, Density Functionals, Semiconductor Low Dimensional Materials, Teaching