Bio
I grew up in Tumakuru, Karnataka, India and pursued a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the Siddaganga Institute of Technology and my Master's degree in Nanotechnology at The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru. I gained valuable research experience as a research project assistant at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India. I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under Prof. Karthik Shankar where I am working on fabricating plasmonic nanoparticle assemblies and forming their heterojunctions with nanostructured semiconductors for applications in solar energy harvesting and catalysis. I am also researching the advanced optical and electronic characterization of plasmonic core-shell nanostructures using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy and X-ray/UV photoelectron spectroscopy.
Distinctions: Currently, I hold an Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship. I received the Nano-Micro Letters Best Student Paper Award at the 2022 Canadian Symposium for Catalysis, held in Vancouver, BC. I obtained a MITACS Globalink Award in 2022 which allowed me to conduct nanomaterials and plasmonics research in the labs of Prof. Ulrich Heiz and Dr. Arash Kartouzian at the Technical University of Munich. Prior to that, I was awarded a Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020. In 2022, I obtained grant funding worth $4,000 from CMC Microsystems in the form of a Micro & Nanotechnology (MNT) Voucher.
