Viba Udupa

Experience

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  IEEE NITK

  Jan 2020 - Sept 2020

  Student member

  Student member at IEEE in NITK. A member of the ENVISION program and worked on the project about VTOL(Vertical take off and landing).

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  CSD Robocon NITK

  Jul 2020 - Jul 2021

  Mechanical subsystem Engineer

  My responsibility was to design an arrow throwing mechanism with worm gears and springs. Contributed design inputs for other designs.

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  IGNIT TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

  Aug 2020 - Sept 2020

  Design Engineer

  Designed a Thermal Management System(TMS) for Li-ion batteries using Fusion-360.

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  National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  Worked on a project titled, "Simulation of blood flow in common carotid artery with stenosis" under the guidance of Dr. Gnanasekaran N and Dr. Vishwanath K. P. Studied the effects of presence of stenosis in an artery on pressure and flow rate of blood at different heart beat rates and different severities.

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  IEEE NITK

  Mar 2021 - Mar 2023

  Responsible for guiding juniors with their club project selection and its completion. Worked on a project titled "Concept design for High Altitude hybrid UAV powertrain". Co-ordinated and organized several IEEE events such as "PitchPerfect", "Mystify", "Envision Knowledge sharing sessions", JAM and debate competitions. Managed and mentored projects and organized several events with large attendance from across the country.

  • Piston project head

    Mar 2022 - Mar 2023

  • Executive Member

    Aug 2020 - Mar 2023

  • Secretary (Piston SIG)

    Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
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  Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Jun 2021 - Sept 2021

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  Developed a Lattice Boltzmann Fluid solver in C programming language for 2D flow systems using the D2Q9 model under the guidance of Professor Sunil Manohar Dash. LBM technique is employed to solve standard benchmark problems such Lid-Driven Cavity and Natural convection in a differentially heated cavity. MATLAB is used for post-processing.

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  NYU Tandon School of Engineering

  Jun 2021 - Sept 2021

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  Selected into the 2021 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) in Additive Manufacturing: Cybersecurity and Machine Learning under Professor Nikhil Gupta. Mainly worked on two areas - developing various security features that could be embedded inthe CAD model to protect Intellectual Property of a model and threat vector analysis to find faultyfiles in a pile using statistical analysis and machine learning.

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  National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  Aug 2021 - Mar 2022

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  Worked under the guidance of Dr. Ranjith M in CFD. Discretized the 2D Navier-Stokes equations on a staggered grid using the Finite Volume Method and applied immersed boundary conditions to study the effect of blood flow in a stenosed artery on MATLAB.

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  May 2022 - Jul 2022

  Summer research fellow

  Worked under the guidance of Dr. Sundararajan Natarajan. Applied Finite Elements Method to discretize the Helmholtz equation and solve the eigenvalue problem with Bloch periodic boundary conditions to obtain the acoustic band structures for different 2D metamaterial geometries using Gmsh and MATLAB for application in noise-canceling structures.