Experience

Research, industry & teaching

From enterprise information security at TCS to cleanroom research at IIT Delhi — with five teaching assistantships along the way.

Career

Experience timeline

  • July 2024 – Present

    Graduate Research Assistant (MS Research)

    Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi · Supervisor: Prof. Santanu Manna

    Thesis: design and analysis of planar log-periodic sawtooth antennas for terahertz applications — full-wave HFSS simulation across a seven-parameter geometry space (0.1–1.2 THz), graphene impedance modeling via a Python Drude model, and an automated Python GDSII layout flow.

    • Fabricated gold antenna patterns on Si/SiO2 with graphene feed-point THz detection
    • Built measurement automation: Keithley 2401 SMU I–V via PyVISA/SCPI, HRS750 spectrometer control, and TCP/IP piezo nanopositioning inside a closed-cycle cryostat (300 K → 4 K)
    • Designed measurement PCBs in Altium Designer and KiCad; poster presented at SAMDeV 2025, IIT Kharagpur
  • July 2021 – October 2022

    Information Security Analyst

    Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Hyderabad · 1 year 4 months

    Firewall rule-base review, insider-threat analysis, DLP control, technical security assessments, and access reviews for enterprise clients.

    Firewall ReviewInsider ThreatDLPAccess Reviews
  • January 2021 – June 2021

    Undergraduate Research — Bachelor's Thesis

    SASTRA Deemed to be University, Tamil Nadu · Quantum Random Number Generation and Applications

    Designed quantum circuits for true random number generation exploiting superposition and entanglement; developed quantum-to-classical interfaces with Qiskit/Python on IBM Quantum hardware; applied QRNG to image encryption with statistical randomness validation.

    Quantum ComputingQiskitCryptography

Teaching

Teaching assistantships — IIT Delhi

Digital Electronics — ELL201 & ELL1401

IIT Delhi · 2024 – 2026

Conducting tutorials and laboratory sessions on digital logic design — combinational and sequential circuits, finite state machines, memory elements, FPGA programming in Verilog/VHDL — plus grading and one-on-one mentoring.

Digital DesignVerilogFPGA

Electromagnetics — ELL212

IIT Delhi · 2024 – 2026

Tutorials on transmission lines, waveguides, and radiation; supporting problem-solving sessions and grading for the core undergraduate electromagnetics course.

ElectromagneticsTransmission LinesRadiation

Intro to Electrical Engineering — ELL101 & ELP101

IIT Delhi · 2024 – 2026

Laboratory supervision on circuits and instrumentation (oscilloscope, multimeter, function generator); tutorials on KVL/KCL/Thevenin/Norton analysis and SPICE simulation for first-year students.

Circuit AnalysisLab TeachingInstrumentation

Training

Professional training & certifications

Quantum Design Workshop — UCLA

Transmon readout fidelity

Built transmon–cavity devices in Qiskit Metal, sweeping pad dimensions and coupling capacitance; extracted dispersive shift χ via LOM and pyEPR; modeled pointer-state separation under homodyne detection in QuTiP. Released an open-source tool mapping geometry to single-shot readout fidelity bounds.

Qiskit MetalpyEPRQuTiP

QMD Hands-On Workshop — IIT Delhi

Superconducting qubits & photonics

Schematic and layout of a transmon qubit with coupled readout resonator in Keysight ADS QuantumPro, tuned by parametric sweeps with energy-participation-ratio analysis; silicon photonic ring filter design with fabrication-ready GDS in Keysight Photonic Designer.

ADS QuantumProEPR AnalysisPhotonic Design

Atomistic Device Simulation — IMPULSE Technology

Nanomaterial modeling training

Nanomaterial and nanodevice modeling with RESCU (DFT+DFPT) and NanoDcal (DFT+NEGF); quantum device modeling in QTCAD — Poisson–Schrödinger electrostatics, confinement, and transport.

RESCUNanoDcalQTCAD

Open to research & industry opportunities

Available for full-time R&D and engineering roles, internships, and consulting from June 2026 — PhD positions also welcome.

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