I am an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Before IIT Palakkad, I worked as an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Warangal and as a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Jan C Aurich's group at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität, Germany (Formerly, Technical University Kaiserslautern). I obtained my PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. My broad areas of research interest are grinding and advanced finishing processes. Keen to explore the mechanics, physics, and mathematics of processes.