Education & Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Missouri - Kansas City

03/2023 - Present

Advisor: Mohammad Momeni

Developing codes and software focused on Path Integral Molecular Dynamics for theoretical and computational chemistry applications.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

New Jersey Institute of Technology

09/2021 - 02/2023

Advisor: Farnaz Shakib

Investigated non-adiabatic quantum dynamics methods, and developed a general-purpose non-adiabatic dynamics software package (SHARP Pack) capable of accounting for both electronic non-adiabatic transitions and nuclear quantum effects. 

Ph.D. in Computational Science

The University of Southern Mississippi

06/2017- 05/2021

Advisor: Parthapratim Biswas

Developed a multi-objective optimization approach to map the structure modeling via inversion of diffraction data with a few structural constraints for amorphous solids.     

Dissertation: "Data-Driven Approaches to Complex Materials: Applications to Amorphous Solids"  

M.S. in Physics

The University of Southern Mississippi

08/2015 - 05/2017

Investigated structural properties of transitional metal clusters by employing FMC optimization method.  

M.Sc in Physics

Tribhuvan University, Nepal

2010

Learned Quantum Mechanics, Classical and Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, Nuclear Physics.  

B.Sc in Physics

Tribhuvan University, Nepal

2006

Major in Physics and Minor in Computar Science and Mathematics. 

Oral & Poster Presentations

ACS NERM, 2022

Rochester, NY

American Chemical Society

   Oral Presentation

Oct 2022

ACS Fall Meeting, 2022

Chicago, IL

American Chemical Society

   Oral Presentation

Aug 2022

Gordon Research Conference  on Computational Materials Science and Engineering

Sunday River, Newry, ME

   Poster Presentation

Aug 2022

25th International Congress on Glass (ICG 2019)

Boston, MA

American Ceramic Society

   Oral Presentation

Jun 2019

S. A. S. Graduate Student Research Symposium

The University of Southern Mississippi

   Poster Presentation

Apr 2019

83rd Annual Mississippi Academy of Science (MAS) Meeting

Mississippi INBRE

   Oral Presentation

Feb 2019

MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit

Boston, MA

Materials Research Society

   Poster Presentation

Nov 2018

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition

The University of Southern Mississippi

   Oral Presentation

Nov 2018

2nd US School on Total Scattering Analysis

Oak Ridge, TN

SNS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

   Poster Presentation  

Aug 2018

S. A. S. Graduate Student Research Symposium

The University of Southern Mississippi

   Oral Presentation

Mar 2018

31st Annual CSP workshop on Recent Development in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics

Athens, GA

University of Georgia

   Oral Presentation

Feb 2018

APS March Meeting

New orleans, LA

American Physical Society

   Oral Presentation

Mar 2017

81rd Annual Mississippi Academy of Science (MAS) Meeting

Mississippi INBRE

   Oral Presentation

Feb 2017

30th Annual CSP workshop on Recent Development in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics

Athens, GA

University of Georgia

   Oral Presentation

Feb 2017

AWARDS

Graduate Student Travel Award

The University of Southern Mississippi

04/2019

Travel award to support attending National Meeting/Conference.

Online Course Certificates

2021 Qiskit Global Summer School on Quantum Machine Learning

IBM Qiskit

  

Jul 2021

Deep Learning Specialization

Coursera

  

Jul 2021

Machine Learning with Python

Coursera

  

Jun 2021

IBM Quantum Challenge

IBM

  

May 2021

Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach

Coursera

  

May 2021

Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp

Udemy

  

May 2021