I am a Ph.D. trained technologist with a focus on using SciML (Scientific Machine Learning) for weather/climate applications. Before joining Excarta, I was a Member of Research Staff at famed Silicon Valley based Xerox PARC, where I built SciML tools for various applications including climate and energy for projects funded by DARPA and NASA. During my Ph.D. from UMass Amherst, I co-founded the ICEnet Consortium, a SciML effort that leveraged AI to develop predictive machine learning algorithms to improve engine design, helping create fuel-efficient engines capable of meeting stricter environmental regulations. The ICEnet consortium partners included NVIDIA, MathWorks, and Siemens among others. I am also a former core team member of Climate Change AI, a global non-profit that catalyzes impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. My early Ph.D. research included developing reduced order models (ROM) for advanced propulsion systems, working in close collaboration with U.S. DOE national laboratories - Argonne National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, in a $2.1 million industry funded project, Spray Combustion Consortium. My models have been implemented within commercial software code Converge CFD, and are in use by major automotive engine makers from around the world.
I currently live in San Francisco, California with my wife and cat and in my free time, enjoy going on long bike rides, runs and hikes in Northern California.
Equilibrium Energy, Principal AI Scientist, 2024 - present.
San Francisco, CA
Excarta, Inc., Founding Team and Founding Scientist, 2022 - 2024
San Francisco, CA
At Excarta, I use state-of-the-art AI to build foundational models for weather forecasting. Excarta is backed by renowned institutional investors and VC firms.
Xerox PARC., Member of Research Staff, 2021 - 2022
Palo Alto, CA
At Xerox PARC, I served as the co-PI for applied AI deep-tech projects in climate and healthcare funded by DARPA, NASA and Xerox Healthcare.
ICEnet Consortium, co-founder, 2019 - 2021
Amherst, MA
Co-founded an industry funded consortium with my doctoral advisor to explore the use and improve adoption of AI into engineering research and design. Partners included NVIDIA, MathWorks, SIEMENS among others.
Total Energies, HPC/AI Research Scientist Intern, Summer 2020
Pau, France
At Total Energies, worked on developing non-intrusive AI based methods to investigate asset faults
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Machine Learning Visiting Researcher, 2019-2020
Los Alamos, NM
At LANL, built deep learning surrogate models for forecasting energy mixing in oceans
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2016 - 2021
Thesis area: Scientific Machine Learning for fluids [Ph.D. Thesis]
Doctoral advisor: Prof. David P. Schmidt
B.S., Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, 2009 - 2013
Specialization: Civil Engineering
Climate Change AI (2021-2023)
Led an impactful AI x climate workshop at NeurIPS (world's largest AI conference) with Turing Laureate, Prof. Yoshua Bengio.
- co-organized workshops at ICLR 2020, AAAI 2022/23
Part of the core-team at CCAI and led the monthly newsletter effort, growing readership from 6K to over 10K in 18 months.
AISC (2020)
Organized talks for AISC webinar series on AI and climate/weather.
Reviewer (papers, grants and proposals)
Regularly served as reviewer for journals such as Nature Machine Intelligence,
Environmental Data Science, IJMF, Atomization and Sprays, and conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR among others.
Advisory Board, Big Data program, Cal State University, East Bay
Served as a mentor and advisor to startups in the deeptech space building novel hardware and software solutions in the fight against climate change