Materials Science Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Materials Science Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)
Development of Novel Semiconductors for Photovoltaic Applications.
Development of Boron Rich Heterojunction Neutron Detectors.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Taught Elements of Materials Science LAB to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students.Duties included designing and setup of weekly experiments, holding office hours and grading lab project reports.Responsible for training and teaching lab procedures to new Graduate Teaching Assistants.
Ph.D. , Chemical and Materials Science , 2004 — 2009
MS , Mechanical Engineering , 2002 — 2004
B.Tech , Mechanical Engineering , 1998 — 2002
American Society for Mechanical Engineers
Indian Institute of Foundrymen
Indian Society for Technical Education
* The paper "A. N. Caruso, Ravi B. Billa et al., Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 16(10), L139(2004)", was selected as one of the best papers of 2004 in JPCM. http://ej.iop.org/pdf/jpcm/2004_top_papers.pdf
* Awarded with a cash prize for the best student presentation in Surface Science at 38th Midwest Regional ACS Meeting, Columbia, Missouri, November 2003.
* Founding Member of the Graduate Students Association at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.