About Me

I’m Shashank, a Materials Engineer with a passion for Additive Manufacturing.

Outside of work, I pursue three primary hobbies: cooking, travel, and photography.

Materials Science

You can find more about my technical skills, interests, and experience in the Skills section.

Skills Research Coursework

Hobbies and other interests

Cooking

The kitchen is one big jumble of reaction-diffusion systems!

I love to cook! My time at the International House at UC Berkeley introduced me to a wide range of dishes from around the world. Since then, I have tried my hand at making dishes from around the world, and also experimenting with new dishes on my own.

Some of my cooking adventures end up on Instagram:

Travel

Portrait with car in Norway

I've been to:

12

Countries

23

US States

Here are some of my favorite places so far (in no particular order)

  • Søgnefjord (Norway)
  • Cadillac Mountain (Acadia National Park, ME)
  • Lego House (Billund, Denmark)
  • Lonar Crater lake (Lonar, Maharashtra, India)
  • Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Gas Works Park (Seattle, WA)
  • Museum of Printing (Haverhill, MA)
  • Space camp (Huntsville, AL)
  • Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
  • Norwegian Petroleum Museum (Stavanger, Norway)
  • Volvo Factory (Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • A tunnel inside Iceland's second largest glacier (Langjokull, Iceland)
  • Top of the Burj Khalifa (Dubai, UAE)
  • California Science Center (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Hoover Dam (one half in Nevada, one half in Arizona)
  • Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX)
  • Staten Island ferry (New York, NY)
  • Åland (Island off of Sweden, autonomous part of Finland)
  • Legoland (Billund, Denmark)
  • National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC)
  • A cruise under the Bay Bridge in SF (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)
  • Redding, CA (Skiing and sunbathing on a house boat, less than 24 hours apart!)

Other hobbies

  • Graphic design
  • Gardening
  • Home automation
  • Making things with Lego
  • Hobbyist 3D printing