Research Interest: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Nimish Nagesh Kulkarni

Undergraduate Student, Department of Chemical engineering,


Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Mumbai-400076, India
Email: [email protected], Phone no: +91-9421302929

RESEARCH INTEREST
Multiscale Modeling, Computational methods and simulations, Energy sustainability

EDUCATION
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering
Overall GPA 7.64/10; Senior year GPA 9.09/10 (Expected graduation date: May 2015)

Saraswati Bhuwan College of Science, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India


Grade 12th Aggregate 86.16%, June 2010

Saraswati Bhuwan High School, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India


Grade 10th Aggregate 94.15%, June 2008

ACCOLADES
 Received Undergraduate Research Award (URA-01) at IIT-Bombay Dec’14
 Secured All India rank 816 in Joint Entrance Exam(IIT-JEE) among 0.5 million candidates, 2011
 Secured International rank of 119 in International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), 2009
 Received the National Talent Search (NTSE) scholarship awarded by Government of India, 2008
 Ranked First in Maharashtra state in Sanskrit and Mathematics in Secondary School exam, 2008

PUBLICATION
Nimish Kulkarni, Srikanth Divi and Abhijit Chatterjee; Cluster Expansion Model for Activation Energy of
Surface Diffusion Exchange Move And Two Atoms Hop Move of Typical metal systems; In preparation

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS


Development of Cluster Expansion Model for Metal Surfaces
Guide: Prof. Abhijeet Chatterjee, IIT Bombay Jan '14 – Present
 To develop a model predicting the rate constant of atomic surface diffusion of metals
 Using simulations in Fortran, created a database of pre-factor and activation energy barriers
associated with exchange moves of atoms on surface of a typical catalyst metal for large number of
different possible local environment
 Developed a Cluster Expansion Model by fitting the data to predict the rate constant of a particular
exchange move in a given environment of atoms

Development of Fast Fourier transforms code for 2-d system


Guide: Prof. Mukta Tripathy, IIT Bombay Aug '14 – Nov’14
 Performed a literature survey on Fast Fourier Transform for two dimensional radially symmetric
function in polar coordinates
 Wrote a C code to evaluate Fast Fourier Transform with most efficient and accurate method

SUPERVISED PROJECTS
Jaggery making process and its advancements
Prof. Sanjay Mahajani, IIT Bombay Jan’14-Apr’14
Centre for technology alternatives for rural areas, IIT Bombay
 Interviewed rural stakeholders to the check feasibility of small scale Mobile Jaggery making unit
 Contributed in development of process design of the unit by considering specifications and
constraints suggested by local stakeholders, especially changing conventional batch process into
continuous process
 Conducted Quality Data Analysis (QDA) to standardize the food quality of Jaggery and thereby
helping rural Jaggery manufacturers maintaining their product quality

Estimation of Salary of Baseball Players by Multivariate Regression


Prof. Mani Bhushan, IIT Bombay Feb’13 - Mar’13
 Crafted a model for prediction of salary of baseball pitchers in 1987 from available data of 1986
 Analyzed data and divided it into segments (training and testing) based on DUPLEX algorithm
 Carefully studied the variations of regressors with salary; transformed them on the basis of
symmetry

Micro-reactors Fabrication
Prof. Rohit Srivastav, IIT Bombay Jan’14-April’14
 Identified major consumer requirements and derived functional specifications of micro-reactor like
size structure residence time which are essential and supporting those requirements
 Outlined key steps to fabricate the micro-reactor device using Photolithography and Deep-reaction
ion etching (DRIE) techniques with given functional specifications
 Estimated the minimum number of masks required for fabrication process

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Reliance Industries Ltd. Jamnagar, India May '14 – July’14
Largest grass root petroleum refinery
 Designed experimental setup & standard operating procedure to test efficiency of deep bed filter
aimed at particulate matter from Heavy Coker Gas Oil stream of Hydrotreater plant
 Correlated filter efficiency with variables like flow rate, filter medium, pressure drop & optimized its
functioning by choosing relevant parameter values
 Impact – Direct use of results attained by lab scale experiments in proposing a key project to replace
current technology with deep bed filters
 Offered PPO (Pre Placements Offer) to work as Graduate Engineering Trainee

Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mumbai, India


One of the leading Public Sector Undertaking industry in producing fertilizers Dec '13
 Modeled heat exchangers using actual stream data from sulfuric acid plant via Excel and HTRI
software
 Generated design parameters from the above proposed design; compared with actual plant
parameters to analyze heat losses; suggested possible techniques to reduce the same

POSITIONS
Department Academic Mentor, Chemical engineering department, IIT Bombay Apr '14 – Present
 Assisting 2 academically weak students to cope up with academic load & improve their performance
 Mentoring 9 second year students by providing guidance to maintain healthy academic-
extracurricular balance

Class Representative, Fourth Year Chemical Engineering Batch, IIT Bombay Apr’14-Present
 Elected among 125 students to voice students issues among department authorities
 Coordinated with professors and teaching assistants and managed the class schedules, lab
timetables and overall smooth conduction of academic courses

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