About Me
Where chemical engineering meets computation
I am a Process Engineer 3 at Applied Materials and a Ph.D. graduate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Rice University. My work sits where process engineering meets computation: taking a physical understanding of reactors, flows, and materials, and turning it into models and tools that make real processes run better.
My doctoral research at Rice centered on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes by floating catalyst CVD, and on the plasma and aerosol physics that govern it. Along the way I built deep expertise in computational fluid dynamics, plasma processing, aerosol science, and reaction engineering, plus the instinct to reach for simulation whenever an experiment alone could not answer the question.
I believe the most interesting engineering problems get solved when domain expertise meets good computational tooling. Whether it is a CFD model that explains an unexpected deposition profile or a script that turns a folder of microscope images into a particle size distribution, I enjoy building the thing that lets you ask a bigger question.
Outside of work I enjoy dancing, reading fiction, and hiking. I welcome questions, suggestions, or feedback, so feel free to contact me at jui.junnarkar@gmail.com.