ARNAB GUPTA
1317 University City Blvd., Apt 9
Blacksburg, VA 24060.
Email: arnab@vt.edu
Web: arnabocean.com
PROFILE
Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Mechanics, with additional experience in automotive safety research.
Experienced in the mechanics, damage evolution and Non-Destructive Evaluation of composite laminates,
especially using Acoustic Emission. Also experienced in performing mechanical experiments, data analysis,
statistics and digital signal processing. Skilled in computer programming.
Seeking full-time positions where my background in composite mechanics, wave propagation and data
analysis can be applied in new and challenging areas. Eager to diversify and expand my research experience
by investigating and exploring new research areas and problems.
EDUCATION
• Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics (GPA: 3.68)
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
Expected 2016
• Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (First Class)
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
May 2007
RESEARCH AREAS
• Solid mechanics. In particular, mechanics of composite materials.
• Wave propagation in laminates and anisotropic media; wave propagation as a tool for
Non-Destructive Evaluation and health monitoring of composites.
• Failure mechanisms and damage development in composites.
• Acoustic Emission, Acousto-Ultrasonics and wave propagation in laminates.
• Automotive safety research, including human factors engineering and connected vehicle systems.
EXPERIENCE
Ph.D. Candidate — Engineering Mechanics
Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics (BEAM) Department, Virginia Tech.
Aug 2007 to present
• Investigate damage evolution and health monitoring in composite laminates.
• Received American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Graduate Fellowship in 2008.
• Assess and experimentally monitor damage development in composite laminates.
• Use wave propagation theories in dispersive media to analyze damage development.
• Apply data analysis techniques, such as Wavelet Transforms, to analyze spontaneous
Acoustic Emission and Pencil Lead Break signals.
Graduate Research Assistant
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Virginia Tech.
• Provide research and data analysis expertise for multiple projects at Center for
Advanced Automotive Research (CAAR) and Connected and Advanced Vehicle Systems Group.
• Assessed utility of vehicle-mounted Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), requiring
significant Digital Signal Processing skills and MATLAB expertise. Implemented
advanced multi-channel adaptive filters to remove noise and improve data accuracy.
• Authored and co-authored research proposals and white-papers in performance
analysis as well as human factors engineering studies of automotive safety systems.
• Developed and executed data analysis algorithms to study vehicle performance and
human factors data for multiple projects. Projects include study of next generation invehicle warning systems, as well as analysis and deployment of connected vehicle
systems for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Systems Engineering project.
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Jan 2011 to present
Graduate Teaching Assistant
BEAM (formerly ESM) Department, Virginia Tech.
Aug 2007 to Dec 2010
• Instructor for ESM 3064: Mechanical Behavior of Materials Lab for 7 semesters and
multiple lab sections each semester. Also assisted other instructors and graded
student performance.
• Taught and led experiments that used, among others, Instron and MTS mechanical
testing machines, various hardness testing machines, and Charpy notch-impact
testing machines.
GRADUATE COURSEWORK
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Continuum Mechanics
Composite Analysis
Wave Propagation in Solids
Mechanics of Composite Materials
Introduction to Finite Element Methods
Theory of Plates and Shells
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Statistics in Research
Applied Tensor Analysis
Multiscale Modeling of Damage in Composites
Digital Signal Processing in Mechanical Measurements
Advanced Musculo-skeletal Biomechanics
Mechanical and Structural Vibrations.
SKILLS
• Research: Experienced in engineering laboratory work, running various experiments.
Data analysis, Digital Signal Processing, Statistics in research.
• Numerical computation: MATLAB, Mathematica.
• Software development: C++, SQL, HTML5 and CSS3, Mercurial.
• Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Unix.
• Other: Familiar with Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, LaTeX, usual Windows and Mac software.
• Photography. Received five FIAP (Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique) Acceptances at two
International photography contests at Linz, Austria. Member of Jadavpur University Photographic Club. Several
photos have been on public exhibition at Kolkata, India and Linz, Austria.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
• Tracking Progressive Damage Development in Composite Materials, by Arnab Gupta and Dr.
John Duke, Jr., at the 23rd Annual ASNT Research Symposium and Spring Conference,
Minneapolis, MN.
March 2014
• Characterizing Damage Development in Crossply Laminates Using Simulated Acoustic Emission,
by Arnab Gupta and Dr. John Duke, Jr., Materials Evaluation, April 2012, Vol. 70, No. 4.
April 2012
• Detecting Damage Transitions in Laminated Composites using Acoustic Emission, by Arnab
Gupta and Dr. John Duke, Jr., at the 12th International Symposium on Nondestructive
Characterization of Materials (NDCM-XII), Blacksburg, VA.
June 2011
• Characterizing Damage Development in Cross-Ply Laminates Using Acoustic Emission, by
Arnab Gupta and Dr. John Duke, Jr., at the 20th Annual ASNT Research Symposium and
Spring Conference, San Francisco, CA.
March 2011
• Assessment of Service-induced Damage for Sustainment of Composite Material Structures, by
Dr. John Duke, Jr., Douglas Harold and Arnab Gupta, at the 19th Annual ASNT Research
Symposium, Williamsburg, VA.
March 2010
• Assessing Service-induced Mechanical Deterioration of Aircraft Composite Materials Using
Deterioration-induced Wave Propagation, by Arnab Gupta and Dr. John Duke, Jr., at the
2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, Blacksburg, VA.
June 2009
• Detecting Fiber Breaks in Composite Materials: Modeling and Experiment, by Arnab Gupta and
Dr. John Duke, Jr., at the 18th Annual ASNT Research Symposium and Spring
Conference, St. Louis, MO.
March 2009
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