I am a Direct PhD student working under the guidance of Dr.Zhang at CMSC. I graduated in 2021 from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras with an honors degree majoring in Aerospace Engineering. My current area of research is about the progressive damage of composite materials. I am employing a continuum based damage approach called the "Smeared Crack Approach (SCA)" to model the progressive damage. Our lab is at IMI (Indiana Manufacturing Institute) which is off-campus.