Yashwanth Yadavalli graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in 2012 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Computer Science . During his Bachelors he worked on developing Lattice Boltzmann Method based solvers. He is a direct doctoral student at Purdue under the advisement of Dr. Garimella. Currently he is working on the project Thin heat pipes for low power applications.