Kevin Jose

PhD Student
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow

University of Southampton

Hi!

I am a third year PhD student in the Computational Engineering and Design Group at the University of Southampton, UK.

I am part of the EU’s H2020 InDEStruct project. You can read a profile article about me and my work here.

My latest work demonstrates the existence of branched flows in thin elastic plates. Read the paper here and the blog post here.

I graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur in 2017 with a BTech-MTech (Dual Degree). My master’s thesis was in the area of musical acoustics.

Education

MTech in Mechanical Engineering (Dual Degree), 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
BTech in Mechanical Engineering (Dual Degree), 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Experience

PhD Student / Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow

University of Southampton

May 2019 – Present Southampton | Lem

Researching effect of structural periodicity in mechanical wave propagation characteristics
Industrial applications of the aforementioned will be explored at Vestas-Aircoil, Denmark

Specialist Consultant

Boston Consulting Group

Nov 2018 – May 2019 New Delhi

Worked on a profit turnaround program for one of India’s largest steel manufacturers
Wrote a Python based code to collect and summarize defect occurrence in the final product. This was later deployed at the plant for use in maintenance planning and execution.

PhD Candidate

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Aug 2017 – Oct 2018 Brooklyn

Conducted research in the areas of electro-active materials (results published in Appl. Phys. Lett.) and wearable assistive technology
Took four graduate courses (GPA: 3.7 / 4.0)
Served as teaching assistant for two semesters for an undergraduate course
Received Best PhD Qualifying Exam Performance Award from the department