Graduate Student
Biography
Hi, I’m Prady, a third year PhD student in Nuclear Engineering at UTK. I completed my undergraduate studies in India and an MS in Physics at Northwestern University. At Northwestern my master’s thesis in the experiment “Cryogenic Optical Cavity Comparison to Search for Dark Matter,” involved building a fiber interferometer to compare time delays between optical cavities.
During the first two years of my PhD at UTK, I worked on an ARPA E project developing a diamond based microfluidic alpha spectrometer (DiMAS) for MC&A in LF MSRs. In my first year I obtained the alpha response of a microchannel based diamond detector and in my second year I focused on fabrication and testing of microfluidic based diamond detectors. The fabrication was performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) using FIB, RIE, and an MA6 mask aligner. I joined the DISMAT group in Fall 2025, where I am currently studying irradiation effects and phase transformations in lanthanide sesquioxides.
I'm also an EF-GTA at UTK, teaching two lab sections: Physics for Engineers (EF-151). I am a huge Game of Thrones fan and in my free time I follow international politics and current affairs.
