At the age of 15, after becoming a National Science Talent Scholar, I was accepted as a freshman at I.I.T. Madras from which I graduated in the Top 2%. I won a Research Assistantship to work at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs as part of my M.S. research at Univ. of California, Berkeley. I transferred to Stanford University for my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering working in Computational Fluid Dynamics.

At Stanford, I was a Teaching Assistant for the Applied & Engineering Mathematics year-long...