Blade Structure Design:

• Development of large wind turbine blades for SUMR (Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor) project funded by ARPA-e.
• Structural design of a 20% scale (of 13.2MW) demonstration wind turbine at NREL.
• Development of a multi-fidelity digital twin based on wide array of data from initial design, manufacturing and ground testing.
• Investigation of aero-elastic instabilities like flutter in large wind turbine blade design.

Active Aerodynamic Control:

• Development and optimization of 3.4MW, 10MW and 15MW turbine models including baseline controllers and detailed blade structures for reduction in LCOE using active aerodynamic controls (funded by ARPA-e under the OPEN 2018 program).

Tool Development:

• Development of design tool called AutoNuMAD for large wind turbine blade structure research using MATLAB.
• Development of a MALTAB-Simulink based environment to run OpenFAST loads analysis in parallel.

Wave Energy Converter:

• Development of a coupled structural dynamics model of the Sandia National Laboratories wave energy converter and the Caderock MASK Basin bridge for controls design.

Dream Kit:

• Product design for an electronic prototyping platform aimed elementary school children. Also collaborated with Industrial design partners for manufacturability study for mass production.

Administration:

• Assisted in the making of company policies to conform to Government of India regulations on Startups.

Warranty Analysis:

• Streamlined analysis and countermeasure implementation procedures to minimize warranty claims leading to a 33% reduction in engine related warranty claims.

Continuous Variable Transmission:

• Large project leader for a cross functional team to enhance the Continuous Variable Transmission (CVT) for Honda Activa, India’s largest selling two-wheeler vehicle. Proposed countermeasures lead to 60% reduction in pre-delivery warranty claims in the first month.

Global Honda Quality Standards(GHQS):

• Defined and authored the Standard Operating Procedures for a newly established department of Market Quality and Engineering based on GHQS, a derivative of ISO 9001:2008.