PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Applied Machine Learning)
Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, 2018. Hybrid AI approach (DWT, SVM, ANN) for machinery fault diagnosis; one patent and eight publications.
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Oct 2024 — present
Founder & Principal
Oravont Systems LLP · Noida
Defence-R&D and product practice in maritime acoustic stealth, machinery health monitoring, and AI for underwater acoustics. Current engagements include the NCIIPC Startup India AI Grand Challenge (PS12), iDEX DISC5 Challenge 10 (Indian Navy, Underwater Domain Awareness), a research collaboration in formation with IIT Delhi in association with a DRDO/NSTL programme, and iDEX open-challenge proposals as Principal Investigator. See Projects.
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2022 — Sep 2024
Senior Fellow
Centre for Air Power Studies · New Delhi
Final appointment before retirement. Led research on AI in naval and joint-force warfare, including a study for HQ Integrated Defence Staff on exploiting AI and autonomous / unmanned systems for joint combat power. Authored a book and two book chapters spanning AI in future warfare and quantum sensing and communication.
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2021 — 2022
Additional Director
Naval Trials & Acceptance Authority (NATAA) · Mumbai
Led acceptance and performance-refinement trials for new-construction ships and submarines prior to delivery to the Navy; specialist advice on noise-ranging and acoustic-stealth enhancement, benchmarking design limits against measured trials data.
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2015 — 2021
Head, Acoustic Stealth Group
Directorate of Submarine Design, Naval Headquarters
- Led the group accountable for designing submarine platforms for low underwater noise across India’s nuclear-submarine programme.
- Developed India’s first indigenous submarine acoustic model and formulated the acoustic-stealth design strategy for a new class of submarines.
- Institutionalised standardised equipment shock-mounting design methodology; authored requirements for indigenous anechoic coatings and shock-mounting hardware.
- Directed close collaboration with ATVP work centres and DRDO laboratories (NMRL, NPOL, NSTL) on system evaluation and indigenous equipment development.
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2010 — 2015
Faculty (M.Tech, Mechanical–Marine) · Head of Marine Engineering
DIAT, Pune · MILIT, Pune
Taught Marine Gas Turbines, Warship Transmission & Tribology, Mechanical Vibration Laboratory, Artificial Intelligence, MATLAB, CAD and FEA. Guided seven M.Tech dissertations; awarded Best Instructor (MILIT, 2014).
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1992 — 2010
Marine Engineering Officer
Indian Navy
Engineering appointments afloat and ashore: operation, maintenance and design of marine propulsion, power-generation and auxiliary machinery; Engineer Officer aboard warships; dockyard management at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam; instructor at INS Shivaji (2003–2005).
Education
Degrees
M.Eng, Marine Engineering
University of Pune, 2002.
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, 1991.