Vishal Kandala is seeking employment in mechanical design and high performance computing. He has a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from VIT University in India. His relevant experience includes graduate research assistant work involving computational fluid dynamics simulations and teaching assistant duties in statistics. He has strong skills in areas such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, and programming languages including C/C++, Python, and MATLAB.

1. VISHAL KANDALA
College Station, TX,77840 · (979) 250 7375 · ​vishalkandala@tamu.edu​ · ​LinkedIn
Seeking full time employment in the fields of Mechanical Design, High Performance Computing for Analysis and Modelling.
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering​, GPA: 4.0 Aug 2019-May 2021
VIT University, Chennai, India
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering,​ GPR: 3.6 Jun 2014-May 2018
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Parallel Computing, Advanced CAE, Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Advanced
Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Turbulent Processes, Product Design, Partial Differential Equations, Probability and Statistics.
SKILLS
High Performance Computing,Computational Fluid Dynamics, Machine Learning, Product Design, Finite Element Analysis.
Design:​ ​DFA; DFM; GD&T;​ ​Modelling:​ SolidWorks, CATIA, Fusion 360; ​Analysis​:​ ANSYS, ABAQUS, Fluent, Hypermesh.
Programming: ​OS​:​ ​Linux, Windows​; ​Languages​:​ ​Bash Scripting, C/C++, Python, MATLAB, Octave, LATEX.
Libraries and Tools: CUDA, ​OpenMP, MPI, NumPy, SciPy, OpenFOAM, TensorFlow, Keras, ​gdb, valgrind, cuda-gdb, doxygen.
EXPERIENCE
Computational Thermo-Fluids Lab​, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Graduate Research Assistant; Advisors: ​Dr.Dorrin Jarrahbashi​; ​Dr.Adonios Karpe​tis. May 2020-Present
●Conducted literature review, analysis and formulated procedures to implement mole fraction based mixing models in C++.
Compiled CANTERA 1.8 and RadCal on the Terra Cluster and currently integrating multi-species Peng-Robinson EoS into
CANTERA using SLURM.
●Performing Large Eddy Simulation (LES) experiments of transcritical injection flow for various fuel mixtures such as
n-dodecane and N2 Mixture for validation of the reacting FOAM solver.
Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX ​Aug 2020-Present
Graduate Teaching Assistant; STAT 201: Statistical Inference.
●Holding 4 hours of Office Hour sessions for two sections with 108 and 126 students each.
●Conducting Stat Lab every week on the JMP statistical visualization module.
EPC Automation Pvt.Ltd, Hyderabad, India
Product Development Engineer ​Jan 2018-Feb 2019
●Lead a team of 2 on the end to end development of an economic CNC machine by adhering to Design for Assembly(DFA) and
Design for Manufacturing (DFM).
●Established design specifications, modelled using CATIA, analyzed tolerances (GD&T) and tested (ANSYS) the final product
and coordinated with process and manufacturing engineers at every step throughout the product development process.
PROJECTS
Gaussian Process Regression ​May 2020-Aug 2020
●Implemented Gaussian Process Regression algorithm for function approximation in C++ and tested it out on various
classification benchmark datasets and achieved an accuracy of 93%.
●Parallelized the code by utilising the CUDA library and achieved a speed up of 108.
2-D Compressible Euler (JST) Solver ​Jan 2020-May 2020
●Developed a Parallel, general-purpose Numerical solver for steady state, inviscid, compressible flows on a custom generated
boundary fitted poisson grid in C++ using MPI and OpenMP
●Implemented the Jameson-Schmidt-Turkel(JST) scheme, which is a Finite Volume approach with Godunov Reimann solvers for
cell interfaces and explicit pseudo time-stepping(FLO-3xx).
2-D Incompressible Euler (Chorin’s Projection) Solver ​Aug 2019-Dec 2019
●Modelled and implemented a Parallelized Solver for steady state, inviscid, incompressible flows on the Lid-Driven cavity
benchmark problem on a staggered grid using the Chorin’s Projection method in C++ on the Terra cluster using SLURM.
●Parallelized the Poisson equation solution which is implicit matrix inversion with reshaping, using MPI and OpenMP.

2. Design and Development of a Kitchen Lift ​May 2020-Aug 2020
●Developed a consumer product from scratch, undertook design specification, brainstorming, benchmarking, modelling
(SolidWorks) as well as tolerance analysis.
●Adhered to Industry Standards (ASTM, ANSI, OSHA) while considering DFA and DFM principles, utilized GD&T Principles
and FEA (ANSYS) to successfully complete an iterative design process. Produced drawings and fabrication reports along with
Bill of Material.
Aircraft Design Optimization ​Aug 2019-Dec 2019
●Designed a subsonic trainer aircraft using Roscom co-relations as a basic estimate which was further developed upon using a
custom-built vortex Lattice Method (VLM) code, the design was finally optimized using parameter gradient descent.
●Optimized the aerodynamic package of a trans-sonic aircraft utilizing custom VLM code and X-foil.
Undergraduate Projects
●Design and Fabrication of a foldable bicycle.
●Design and Development of a front swept wing for drag reduction of low speed vehicles (cars, trucks)
●Computational Analysis of the effect of nozzle geometry on exhaust properties of a Solid Propulsion engine.
WORK AUTHORIZATION
Authorized to work in the United States through CPT/OPT.
ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Leadership
Senator, Graduate and Professional Student Government, Texas A&M University. ​May 2020
Founding Chairperson of TAI ( SAE Aerodesign VIT University) ​Nov 2017
Lead Braking Engineer, BAJA SAE VIT University (Team Saksham) ​Oct 2016
Graphic Design Lead, TechnoVIT, VIT University ​Mar 2016
Volunteer Tutor(for high school kids from underserved communities), VITeach, VIT University Feb 2015
Awards
Aerospace Academic Excellence Fellowship ​2019​-​2020
Aerospace Academic Excellence Fellowship ​2020-2021
Winner of TATA UAV Challenge ( SAE Aerodesign)
Jun 2018
Best Undergraduate Research Project Award, VIT University. ​May 2018
2nd position at Baja SAE India ​May 2017
Certifications
Advanced CAE Certification (CATIA, Hypermesh, ABAQUS), Central Institute of Tool Design, India ​Dec 2018
Fundamentals of Deep Learning in Computer Vision, NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Jan 2020
Publication
Numerical Study of a modified double-spiked re-entry capsule;
Rajan, H, ​Kandala, V​, Singh, R; International Journal of Aerospace Engineering (2018).