PhD Candidate, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA
[Email: ankitrohatgi@hotmail.com; LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rohatgi]
I am a graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA. I did my undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (IIT Kanpur) with a major in Chemical Engineering. I was born in New Delhi, India and have been in the US since 2007. I am fluent in only English and Hindi, but I can understand most of the languages popular in the Delhi region (Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati & Haryanvi) in spoken form.
As a PhD student, I am studying the migration mechanisms in flowing suspensions of particles via theory, numerical simulations and experiments. Until now, I have developed a theory for diffusion in dilute suspension of spheres which has been experimentally verified by tracking motion of particles in a parallel plate geometry [AIChE]. I have also written several simulations to predict behavior of such a system. I am also interested in Computational Fluid Dynamics and microfluidic devices.
Besides research, I also like writing programs as a hobby. I have been writing small games and utilities since almost 2001, when I learned C++ in high school. Some of my creations from then can still be found online [Imager 3.1; Music Player; Graphical Window Manager for DOS]. At IIT, I was part of a UNIX user group called Navya where I learned how to manage Linux based DNS and web servers which were used exclusively by the student community. I also wrote several websites using PHP and MySQL. I am currently working on a HTML5 and Javascript based tool to extract data from images of plots and maps [WebPlotDigitizer].
Inspired by the research work involving optical particle tracking and image processing, I have taken up photography as a hobby. Until now, I had been making some timelapse videos with extremely cheap hardware, but I have recently acquired a dSLR and I am hoping to get some really good results from that.
Among outdoor activities, I like biking, hiking and water sports.
Copyright: Ankit Rohatgi, 2011