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nilot-pal/README.md

Hi there!

πŸš€ About Me

πŸŽ“ I am Nilotpal Chakraborty, a 3rd year PhD student of Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech. I am working in the Laboratory of Transport Phenomena for Advanced Technologies, supervised by Dr. Rui Qiao(https://me.vt.edu/people/faculty/qiao-rui.html). I plan to graduate in late 2026. Prior to this, I earned a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering (first class with distinction) from NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2020.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» I have been doing research on Computational Fluid Dynamics since my undergraduate. Some of the projects I've worked on required use of commercial codes which I really enjoyed at first. However, as the problems I was working on got more novel and complex, I started writing my own code. That is when I realized that I was enjoying programming, as it is very close to math, my favorite subject. In 2020, I interned at IIT Madras working on extending features of FEST3D, an opensource computational fluid dynamic solver written in Fortran 90 for solving the Navier-Stokes equations on structured grids using state-of-the-art finite-volume methods. Apart from writing code for my academic projects, I got my first opportunity to write production level code when working at Zeus Numerix, a company specializing in defense applications. There, I got familiar with software design, OOP in C++ and version control. I never looked back ever since. Since the start of my PhD in 2022, I've made sure I enrolled in at least one programming-intensive course every semester. This has helped me build strong foundations in OOP, software design and ML apart from the following languages: Fortran, C++, Java, Python, C and MATLAB. Because my PhD requires me to present my ideas to the audience most of the time, I've developed a habit of spending a lot of time preparing for my presentations. This led me to this idea of making a portfolio website for myself where I can paint a broader picture of what I do. I recently started contributing to Open Source Projects and have contributed to two, SPHinXsys and awesome-portfolio-websites. I am really enthusiastic about learning new technologies like Machine Learning and Quantum Computing.

✈️ Outside the world of tech too, I enjoy pushing myself to develop new skills. I am an avid traveller, having travelled throughout India and some places in North America.

πŸ“š I make it a point reading books on personal development & financial literacy. My favorite ones are The Bhagawat Gita in the genre of personal development and Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki in the genre of financial literacy.

πŸ… Awards

πŸ› οΈ Skills

Languages

C++ java python MATLAB C fortran

ML/DL

Matplotlib NumPy Pandas scikit-learn SciPy TensorFlow

Testing

gtest junit pytest

πŸ–₯️ Workspace Setup

Ubuntu windows vs-code Sublime Text Spyder Jupyter Notebook Eclipse

πŸ”— Links

portfolio resume linked-in github gmail

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