About me
PhD student
University of Rochester
I am a PhD student in the Lopatkin Lab, at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, programming microbial communities through plasmid conjugation.
Previously, I worked as a Research Engineer in the Digital Applications and Technology (DAT) team at GE Water/SUEZ WTS, where I developed advanced analytics for modeling industrial water treatment units. Before that, I worked as a Battery Control Engineer at BattGenie Inc. and M.A.P.L.E lab, implementing Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) algorithms for optimal charging of lithium-ion batteries.
I completed my Masters’ degree from University of Washington (UW), Seattle, where I was a graduate trainee of NSF funded UW Clean Energy Institute (CEI)’s DIRECT (Data Intensive Research Enabling Clean Technologies) program. I received my Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University(AU), Visakhapatnam, India.
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| May 22, 2025 | Received best poster award at the CECB symposium at the University of Rochester, NY, USA |
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| Apr 30, 2025 | Delivered a talk on “Engineering microbial consortia using HGT”, at Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar Series, University of Rochester, NY, USA |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Presented a poster in the Biological Engineering Division, at AICHE 2024, at San Diego, CA, USA |
| May 17, 2024 | Recieved Department of Chemical Engineering excellence in teaching award, for assisting in the coursework of “Numerical Methods and Statistics” course for the sophomore class. |
| Dec 15, 2017 | Selected as a NSF Clean Energy Institute (CEI) DIRECT Data Science Trainee, University of Washington, WA, USA |