Sashank Shivakumar
PhD Candidate at UC San Diego
Sashank Shivakumar
PhD Candidate at UC San Diego
San Diego, California
Overview
Work Experience
PhD Candidate
2020 - Current
Novel joining schemes for SiC subassemblies in concentrating solar power. Synthesis, consolidation, processing and characterization of advanced high temperature materials - bulk nanocrystalline/UFG/FG refractory multicomponent alloys, oxides, silicides, and borides. Extensive experience with: sintering techniques (FAST-SPS, tube, vacuum, and controlled atmosphere furnaces), custom processing equipment design, powder metallurgy, air sensitive materials handling etc. Characterization techniques: XRD, SEM, EDS, EBSD, FIB-SEM.
Senior Analyst: VC Investment
2022 - 2022
Portfolio support and sourcing for/of companies deploying breakthrough materials science and manufacturing technologies.
Shah Fellow: Technology Program Management
2021 - 2022
Engineer: Materials Science & Technology Development
2018 - 2020
Core technology validation for Brain Computer Interfaces.
Volunteer Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant
2017 - 2018
Nanocomposite Carbon Nanotube paints and coatings for non-invasive structural health monitoring of concrete via tomographic approaches. (ARMOR Lab, Prof. Kenneth Loh) TA for PHY2CL (Aug '17 - June '18) - Physics Lab: Electricity and Magnetism
Consultant
2015 - 2016