Resume
Publications
A. Shrivastava, N. Gundiah, “Methylglyoxal crosslinking increases the fracture toughness of gelatin hydrogels”, Mechanics of Materials, 176 (2023) 104524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2022.104524
A. Shrivastava, M. Supreeth, N. Gundiah, “Crack Propagation and Arrests in Hydrogels are linked to Tip Curvatures” (under review in Extreme Mechanics Letters).
Conferences
International Conferences
Oral Presentation at 9th World Congress of Biomechanics, Taipei, July 10-14, 2022, titled “The Dynamics and Growth of Bubbles in Gelatin Hydrogels using Cavitation Rheology”.
Oral Presentation at Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, U.S., June 13-16, 2022, titled “Crosslinks increases the fracture resistance of gelatin hydrogels”.
Poster Presentation at International School of Soft Matter, Cargese, France, July 12-23, 2022, titled “Failures in gelatin hydrogels”.
Poster presentation at Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, & Biotransport Conference (SB3C) June 14-18, 2021, titled “Crosslinks and Toughness of Gelatin Hydrogels in Tissue Engineering”.
National Conferences
Oral Presentation at 4th Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition, IIT Hyderabad, India, December 14-16, 2022, titled “Methylglyoxal Crosslinking increases fracture toughness of gelatin hydrogels”.
Oral Presentation at ME@75 Research Frontiers Conference, IISc Bengaluru, India, June 29th - July 1st, 2022,titled “Failures in gelatin hydrogels”.
PhD
2018 - Present
Ph. D.
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Currently, I am pursuing Ph. D. at Biomechanics Laboratory (under the guidance of Prof. Namrata Gundiah), Mechanical Engineering Department, IISc, in the broad research area of 'Mechanics of Soft materials'.
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In May 2019, I was awarded Prime Minister's Research Fellowship.
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Graduation
2013- 2017
B. Tech
J.S.S. Academy of Technical Education, Noida - 201301
UPTU, Lucknow
I obtained my B. Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from JSS-ATE, Noida affiliated to Uttar Pradesh state university.
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Here I got my fundamentals in Mechanical Engineering which intrigued me to pursue further research in this field.
School Education
2012- 2013
Senior Secondary School
Mahatma Hansraj Modern School, Jhansi (U.P.)
I have done my 12th Standard from my hometown Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and scored 89.00 %.
CBSE, New Delhi
2010 - 2011
High School
Mahatma Hansraj Modern School, Jhansi (U.P.)
I have done my 10th Standard from my hometown Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and scored 91.20 %.
CBSE, New Delhi
Skills
Experimental Techniques
Matlab
Constitutive Modelling
Catia & Solidworks
Languages
English
Hindi (Native)
Teaching Experience
Active member of 'Science for Rural India' group at IISc from Jan 2021 - May 2022, which aims to ignite curiosity in school students towards science. As part of the group, I created and demonstrated science experiments with explanation digitally to school students.
Course instructor of 'Introduction to Continuum Mechanics' course under the PMRF-ISSS Teaching Programme – facilitated by the Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS) (July 2021 – November 2021).
Teaching assistant at Kendriya Vidyalaya, IISc branch (Jan 2021 – Jun 2021)
Teaching assistant for the course ME 261 – Engineering Mathematics, offered by the Mechanical Engineering Department, IISc (Oct 2020 to Feb 2021)