Name: Palash V Acharya College: National Institute of Technology, Karnataka Do you classify your college amongst the top 20 or 30 in India? : yes (Ranked amongst top 10) Branch: Mechanical Field of Interest: Microfluidics (particularly droplet and bubble dynamics based on electrokinetic based actuation principles) Degree Goal: PhD GPA: 8.55 Toppers GPA: 9.5 GRE: not written yet expected 310+ --------------------------------------------- Internships: (If applicable) 1) IAS Fellowship (May-June 2013)/ IIT Kharagpur Microfluidics Lab/ Prof Suman Chakraborty/Dynamics of Long bubbles in cylindrical micro capillaries 2) IISc Bangalore (May-June 2012)/Prof Saptarshi basu/ Forced Vibrations of an axisymmetric droplet in partial contact with a solid support 3) Crompton Greaves (December 2013)/ Six Sigma Department -------------------------------------------------- Submitted or Accepted Publications: Journal: 1) Influence of disjoining pressure on the dynamics of steadily moving long bubbles inside narrow cylindrical capillaries(Second Author)/Physical Review E/Impact Factor: 2.3 2) Effects of wall slippage on the dynamics of long bubbles in cylindrical micro channels(First Author)/Physical Review E 3) A novel Micro bubble based micro pump: synergizing intertial properties with other effects(First Author)/Physics of Fluids(Manuscript under review process) 1.9 Patent: 1) Efficient and economic radiation vault/ Patent filed on June 12, 2013 Aggregate Publication Statistics: 3 international journal papers, 1 pending patent --------------------------------------------------------- Projects: (other than the internship ones mentioned above) 1) IIT Kharagpur/ Analyzing slip related effects on the dynamics of steadily moving long bubbles in narrow cylindrical micro channels(manuscript sent to journal) 2)NITK/ Micro bubbles based micro pump: synergizing inertial properties with other effects/Major project thesis (manuscript sent to journal) 3)NITK/ Design of a radiation free vault for a medical chamber containing an active particle accelerator (patent filed) 4) NITK/Fabrication of an All-Terrain vehicle for BAJA racing event; primary work was related to the design and optimization of engine and transmission subsystem of the vehicle 5)NITK/ Finite elemental analysis of a crack propagation in human tooth under thermo-mechanical shock loading 6) Two mini projects as a part of course work --------------------------------------------------------- Recommendations: 1) Prof Suman Chakraborty/IIT Kharagpur /Strong 2) Prof S M Kulkarni/NITK/Strong 3) Dr Saptarshi Basu/IISc/Moderate --------------------------------------------------------‘ Misc Achievements: 1. Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship 2. Awarded ‘Best All rounder of the year” by “Times of India” Please do evaluate the above mentioned profile and suggest some safe, moderate and ambitious universities in US and Europe. Really need some advise regarding universities!! Any assistance would be of great help!! :
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:20:50 +0000
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