Santosh Shanbhogue
Research Scientist at MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantosh Shanbhogue is a research scientist at MIT with a decade of experience driving R&D in energy and propulsion, focused on decarbonizing transportation and process industries. He transforms ambiguous scientific questions into deployed technologies, policy guidance, publications, and patents, securing funding from governments, OEMs, startups, and corporate R&D. His technical breadth spans hydrogen and ammonia utilization in engines, fuel cells and turbines; oxy-fuel processes for C2 synthesis; nano-second plasma flow control; biomass/waste thermochemical conversion; meso-scale combustion for photonic power; and hypersonic propulsion and facilities. He combines hands-on experiment and facility building with grant-writing, market/customer discovery, and leading interdisciplinary international field teams. An active contributor to Cantera, he has extended combustion simulation tooling with new counterflow twin premixed flame models and enhanced example usability, reflecting his knack for making advanced simulations more accessible. Trained as an aerospace engineer (PhD, Georgia Tech; BTech, IIT Madras), he pairs deep fundamentals with pragmatic engineering to move concepts from lab to field.
10 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
simulations10
simulation10
computational-chemistry10
python10
data-analysis8
documentation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Cantera/cantera
May 2016 - Apr 2022
Chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 16 PRs, 116 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Santosh contributed significantly to the Cantera project, focusing on the development of new features and examples. They implemented a new `CounterflowTwinPremixedFlame` class and example using Python. The user also added plotting functionalities to the existing premixed twin flame example, improving the usability of the simulations. Furthermore, they updated the example by correcting strain rate calculation and adding a consumption speed calculation.
pythontoolboxchemicalmeta-analysisthermodynamics
santoshshanbhogue/cantera
May 2016 - May 2024
Chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite
Contributions:81 pushes, 14 branches in 8 years 1 month
pythonchemicalthermodynamicskineticstransport
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