I study materials
atom by atom.

From production floors to atomic-scale characterization

I started in production engineering at Maruti Suzuki — years of watching materials behave under sustained, real-world load, long before I had instruments to measure why. My PhD at George Mason University's Tribology and Surface Mechanics Lab focused on the tribological behavior of additively manufactured superalloys at elevated temperatures. Before returning to academia, I worked as a Tribology Application Scientist at Bruker, supporting tribological characterization across a range of applications. Now I work with advanced electron microscopy and atom probe techniques to characterize microstructure in advanced alloys at the University of Alabama's Advanced Materials Institute.

Teach the part textbooks leave out

Visual intuition, real experimental ambiguity, explicit assumptions, uncertainty, and interactive scientific reasoning. You don't have to take my word for any of this — step inside the instruments themselves:

Selected milestones

How the interactives are built

Scientific content and validation: Manisha Tripathy. Web implementation may use AI-assisted development tools. Every interactive page states its assumptions explicitly, cites the theory it builds on, and notes where it simplifies.

Notes and essays

Occasional writing on research, the industry-to-academia path, and how I think about surfaces that fail.