I was a Ph.D. student at the Materials engineering department, Indian Institute of Science, from October 2020 to December 2025. My research interests lie in the field of applied physics involving Photovoltaics, Energy Storage devices, Magnetism and Magnetic storage devices, and Memory-based Spintronic devices. I am interested in performing DFT-based calculations in understanding, analyzing, and predicting materials behavior. After my PhD, I started working as a Senior Computational Materials Scientist at N-ERGY, a US-based startup.
I completed my Master’s in Physics at the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka, where I completed my Master’s Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Kartick Tarafder. Before that, I completed my under graduation in Physics at Women’s Christian College, Chennai.
Apart from regular research, playing the violin and watching movies keeps me busy.
I was involved in the following publications during my tenure with the group.
- Effect of exchange-correlation functionals on the estimation of migration barriers in battery materials
- Reversible electrochemical lithium cycling in a vanadium(IV)- and Niobium(V)-based Wadsley-Roth phase
- Performance of the r2SCAN functional in transition metal oxides
- Optimal pre-train/fine-tune strategies for accurate material property predictions
- A literature-derived dataset of migration barriers for quantifying ionic transport in battery materials
- Leveraging transfer learning for accurate estimation of ionic migration barriers in solids