Dr. Raj is a post-doctoral researcher who obtained his B.S in Mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur in Kanpur, India. He completed his Masters and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He possesses over five years of expertise in the field of computational material science, with his most notable contributions in the development of computational tools for atomistic simulations as well as machine learning models for automated in-situ quality assurance. His current research interests include modeling of materials in extreme environments, nanoscale energy transport mechanisms, additive manufacturing, and reinforcement learning.