Curriculum Vitae
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General
| Full Name | Nirajan Adhikari |
| Contact | nadhika@purdue.edu |
Education
2018 - 2021
Purdue University - PhD in Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Area of concentration: Aerodynamics with minor in Propulsion
- Advised by Dr. Alina Alexeenko
- Thesis committee: Dr. Sergey Macheret, Dr. Jonathan Poggie, and Dr. Carlo Scalo
- Thesis: Investigation of Aerothermodynamic and Chemical Kinetic Models for High-Speed Nonequilibrium Flows
2015 - 2017
Auburn University - MS in Aerospace Engineering
- Advised by Dr. D. Stephen Nichols
- Thesis: Numerical Study of High Lift Configurations
2011 - 2014
Tribhuvan University of Nepal - BE in Mechanical Engineering
- At the Institute of Engineering, Central Campus, Pulchowk
- Thesis: A Study of Different types of Winglet Using CFD
Professional Appointments
2022 - present
Postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University
- Mentor: Dr. Alina Alexeenko
Summmer 2020
Experiential Intern at AbbVie
- Drug Product/Process Development group at AbbVie, North Chicago, IL
Workshops & Training
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Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ by NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI), Jun 2022
- Workshop on fundamentals of CUDA programming with C/C++; memory migration using asynchronous prefetching, concurrent streams for instruction-level parallelism, refactoring existing CPU-only applications
- Certificate of Competency
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Fundamentals of Deep Learning by NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI), Feb 2022
- Workshop on fundamentals of Deep learning; pre-trained model, convolutional neural netwok, data augmentation
- Certificate of Competency
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XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop - Summer Boot Camp, June 2019
- A Hybrid Computing Workshop by Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Hands on experience on parallel programming for hybrid computing system
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Introductory and basic level of training on MPI, openMP, and openACC
Skills
| CFD | ANSYS Fluent, SPARTA DSMC, TENASI, Stanford University Unstructured (SU2), Pointwise, ANSYS ICEM CFD |
| Programing | C/C++, Python, MATLAB, Open MPI, openACC, openMP, bash |
| Design | SolidWorks, ANSYS SpaceClaim |