experience

Research, industry, and teaching roles across additive manufacturing R&D, hardware prototyping, and heavy-industry mechanical engineering.

Seven years split between industry and research, and the movement between them is the point. I started in heavy industry, designing process equipment and piping that had to survive fabrication, installation, and a maintenance crew. That grounding shaped the doctoral work that followed: not only why extrusion-printed parts fail between layers, but what could be changed on the machine to stop it. The printhead that came out of that research is now a patented product I am helping bring to market.

Co-Founder and Technical Lead

Increscent, Inc. · Texas, USA · August 2022 to present

Commercializing the university-developed in-situ annealing printing method covered by U.S. Patent 12,496,776 B2. Built the staged R&D and commercialization roadmap, authored the proposals behind a $50,000 NSF I-Corps Team award and two SBIR Phase I applications, and ran the customer discovery that turned laboratory results into product requirements.

→ Full detail on the industry projects page

Graduate Student Researcher

The University of Texas at Arlington · Arlington, Texas, USA · August 2021 to 7 August 2026

Doctoral research on interlayer bonding, void formation, and fracture behaviour in extrusion-based additive manufacturing, combining designed experiments, thermal and tomographic imaging, and finite-element modelling.

Additive manufacturing research laboratory at UT Arlington, with industrial and desktop FFF printers, a robotic composite deposition cell, and a printed UAV wing section
The lab at UT Arlington where the dissertation work was carried out.
  • Integrated MWIR thermography, X-ray μ-CT, tensile/DMA/Mode-I testing, and SEM fractography to link interfacial thermal history, void morphology, and structural response.
  • Ran randomized full-factorial programmes, including a 2×3×5 design across 60 print batches, analysed with GLM/ANOVA, Type III sums of squares, and Tukey HSD.
  • Raised interlayer toughness by up to 68% in ABS and Mode-I fracture resistance by 92% in short-fiber ABS, while cutting the coefficient of variation in fracture toughness from 20.1% to 9.5%.
  • Built μ-CT-informed Abaqus RVEs and Abaqus/Explicit cohesive-zone DCB and SENB models, calibrated against ASTM D5528 and D5045 testing.
  • Designed and prototyped the adaptive in-situ annealing printheads behind one issued and one pending U.S. patent.

→ The dissertation · papers by category

Mechanical Engineer

Super Petrochemical Limited · Bangladesh · October 2018 to October 2019

Process equipment and piping design, CAESAR II stress analysis, and workshop operations supporting a $10M mooring and pipeline programme. Coordinated a 70-person workshop and maintenance crew and reduced oil-tanker construction and maintenance costs by roughly 10%.

Petrochemical distillation columns lit at night
The plant at night.
Barge and tanker sections under construction in a dry dock
Vessel sections under construction in dry dock, where the tanker build and maintenance work was carried out.

→ Full detail on the industry projects page

Teaching Assistant

The University of Texas at Arlington · Arlington, Texas, USA · September 2021 to August 2026

Graduate and undergraduate mechanical engineering courses spanning additive manufacturing, solid mechanics, thermodynamics, and engineering analysis.

→ Courses and enrolments