Curriculum Vitae
Roles, research, awards, and education — last updated July 2026
Ayush Srivastav
System Engineer, ECU Cooling
Volvo Group
Volvo Group
Contact
Education
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering
Rank
7/174
Year
2022
Result
CGPA 8.99/10
All India Senior School Certificate Examination (Grade 12)
Board
CBSE
Year
2018
Result
89.8%
All India Secondary School Examination (Grade 10)
Board
CBSE
Year
2016
Result
CGPA 10/10
Skills
Domain Knowledge
Thermal & energy systems; EV powertrain (battery/cell, MCU, BMS); ECU thermal mgmt.; BESS
Thermal & energy systems; EV powertrain (battery/cell, MCU, BMS); ECU thermal mgmt.; BESS
Systems Engineering
Requirements, SystemWeaver, ISO 26262/FuSa, SFMEA, risk register, DFA/DFAM, V&V
Requirements, SystemWeaver, ISO 26262/FuSa, SFMEA, risk register, DFA/DFAM, V&V
Simulation & Modeling
GT-Suite, Simulink, STAR-CCM+; 1D vehicle performance, 1D thermal modelling, 3D CFD
GT-Suite, Simulink, STAR-CCM+; 1D vehicle performance, 1D thermal modelling, 3D CFD
Testing & Validation
CANalyzer, Sakura; Energy mapping, thermal runaway, CT scanning, system validation
CANalyzer, Sakura; Energy mapping, thermal runaway, CT scanning, system validation
Data Analytics
Python, MATLAB, C/C++, Git; PowerBI, fleet & telematics analytics, ROM modelling; LaTeX
Python, MATLAB, C/C++, Git; PowerBI, fleet & telematics analytics, ROM modelling; LaTeX
Design & CAD
NX, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Creo, MeshMixer, Mimics
NX, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Creo, MeshMixer, Mimics
Industries of Interest
Automotive
Electric Vehicles
BESS
Renewable Energy
Data Center Cooling
Outside work
- Trekking — completed the Kudremukh peak trek (1,892 m, 22 km), Karnataka's third-highest peak and a UNESCO biodiversity hotspot
- Fitness — gym 4×/week, 5 km runs (PB 34 min), and 1 km pool swims (PB 47 min)
- Reading — a member of Bengaluru Bookies, exploring the city's independent cultural spaces from aPaulogy Gallery to the Mythic Society Library
Work Experience
Volvo Group, Bengaluru
Function and Software Defined Vehicle
System Engineer, ECU CoolingAug 2025 – Present
- Own the ECU cooling system as component owner — setting the concepts, topology, and thermal budgets that control units and power electronics have to live within.
- Work closely with Volvo teams and suppliers to pin down requirements and keep every ECU inside safe temperature and pressure limits, across the full spread of duty cycles.
- Weigh 1D and CFD tradeoffs against real vehicle thermal validation, backed by DFMEA/SFMEA and risk registers, to get cooling hardware to production.
Ola Electric, Bengaluru
System Integration
Manager – Simulation & ModelingApr 2024 – Jul 2025
- Evaluated NCA/NMC/LFP cells from BAK, LG, CATL, and BYD across form factors; integrated cell data into vehicle models to predict performance per variant; used cycle-life data with a degradation model to estimate SoH for warranty decisions.
- Built and validated full-vehicle digital twins (battery, PDU, motor, MCU, charger); trained Reduced Order Models (ROMs) — polynomial surrogates enabling sub-second prediction of range, top speed, and acceleration for rapid design decisions.
- Leveraged fleet-level cloud data analytics across vehicle variants to analyse real-world customer drive and charge patterns, directly informing charging-strategy optimisation and broader product direction.
Assistant Manager – Simulation & ModelingJul 2022 – Mar 2024
- Defined product specifications to achieve target performance and range using 1D vehicle simulations for resistance, efficiency, motor, battery, and transmission sizing, and to predict performance, range, and charging time.
- Developed lumped-parameter and FE thermal models for battery, motor, MCU, and charger to predict temperature rise and assess the impact of temperature-driven battery current deration on performance, range, and charging time.
- Conducted vehicle energy-mapping tests to quantify losses across battery, MCU, motor, transmission, and wheels; used the test data to validate simulation and thermal models, improving overall system efficiency.
Vehicle Engineering InternFeb – Jun 2022
- Conducted cell- and battery-level thermal runaway and BMS short-circuit testing to investigate root causes of EV fire incidents; CT-scanned ideal, defective, and burst cells to analyse defects leading to spontaneous fire.
- Performed battery-pack- and vehicle-level thermal runaway testing with different solutions to develop and patent a cost-effective propagation-prevention solution using ceramic wool, cutting cost by 6× for AIS-156 (Amd-3) compliance.
- Supported the solution's transition to production — mechanical design refinement, BMS software protection logic for field-level thermal-runaway detection, and manufacturing handoff.
Research Experience
KU Leuven, Belgium
Remote Intern
Guide: Dr. Satanik Mukherjee & Prof. Liesbet GerisJun 2021 – Jan 2022
Articular cartilage repair for osteochondral defects — Repository ↗
- Showed that mechanical loading on an MSC-seeded hydrogel scaffold implanted in an osteochondral defect drives differentiation predominantly toward fibrous tissue rather than hyaline cartilage — matching the Kelly–Prendergast mechano-regulation prediction for low-stiffness scaffolds, making the mechanical case for scaffold stiffness tuning in cartilage repair.
- Implemented a mechano-regulation algorithm in MATLAB mapping local mechanical stimuli (octahedral shear strain and interstitial fluid velocity from Abaqus output) to MSC differentiation phenotype, iteratively updating cell-population distributions via coupled diffusion, proliferation, and apoptosis equations.
- Wrote a Fortran subroutine for a poro-hyperelastic constitutive model of the scaffold and built the full Abaqus–MATLAB loop: after each solve, MATLAB reads element-level strain and fluid-flow fields, recomputes properties from evolving tissue volume fractions, and writes updated inputs back into Abaqus.
Remote Intern
Guide: Dr. Suranjan Ram Ottikkutti & Prof. Dejiu ChenMay – Aug 2021
Socket Sense — a tailored fit of the future (Bachelor's Thesis) — Repository ↗ · Major Project Thesis ↗
- Delivered the biomechanical FEA layer of a KTH EU-H2020 mechatronics-twin framework for prosthetic socket optimisation (up to 60% rejection rates among lower-limb users), quantifying socket–stump interface pressure (peak ~35 kPa) and frictional stress (peak ~36 kPa) under combined donning and standing loads.
- Constructed an OpenSim transfemoral amputee model and ran inverse kinematics and dynamics on real gait-capture data to extract socket–stump piston forces, feeding them as physics-grounded load inputs into the FEA — force direction, magnitude, and time-history all departing from assumed boundary conditions.
- Built the ANSYS Workbench FEA model of a socket–stump–femur assembly: Neo-Hookean hyperelastic soft tissue (C10 = 11.6 kPa), frictional contact (μ = 0.23, Augmented Lagrange), and a 26-step load sequence (donning 50 N; standing 600 N), yielding deformation, stress, pressure, and frictional-stress maps.
Undergraduate Researcher
Guide: Dr. Deepak Kumar & Dr. Vinod YadavDec 2020 – Apr 2021
Modelling of hyperelastic spherical balloon actuator — Repository ↗
- Addressed a modelling gap in soft-robotics actuator design — prior balloon-actuator models ignored rotation — developing an analytical and FEA framework showing that increasing rotational speed (0 to 240 rpm) reduces critical inflation pressure and amplifies inner-periphery stresses.
- Derived the continuum-mechanics analytical model using the Augmented-Gent strain-energy function (C1 = 10.5 MPa, C2 = 0.09 MPa, Im = 84) for an incompressible thick-walled spherical actuator; implemented in MATLAB to compute radial and hoop stress distributions across varying pressure, wall thickness, and speed.
- Coded a custom UHYPER subroutine in Fortran implementing the Augmented-Gent model for Abaqus (absent natively) and ran FEA (CAX8H elements, 1600 elements / 5001 nodes) to validate the analytical model; stress distributions and elastic-instability curves agreed closely across all cases.
Undergraduate Researcher
Guide: Dr. John A. Santoshi & Prof. R.K. DwivediAug 2020 – Jul 2021
Post-surgery stability of Scaphoid bone fractures — Repository ↗
- Resolved the mechanism of scaphoid waist fracture — the most common carpal fracture site (70% of scaphoid fractures) — by building patient-specific FE models from CT scans of 12 wrists in ANSYS; axial loads of 1.6 kN and 4.0 kN at the STT joint reproduced a waist fracture in all 12 cases.
- Showed fracture location depended on load site: the anterior cortex failed in compression under trapezium-facet loading (peak von Mises 464 MPa at 1.6 kN) and in tension under trapezoid-facet loading (285 MPa).
- Extended the work to postoperative stability across 18 fixation configurations (single-screw, screw-and-K-wire, two-K-wire); identified the most stable setups, giving surgeons intraoperative guidance when placement deviates from plan.
Awards & Achievements
Selected as 1 of 22 scholars nationwide (only 2 in Mechanical Engineering) through merit review and interview; awarded ₹25 lakh for international MS study, with admits from Imperial, TU Delft, KTH, and Texas A&M — declined in favour of industry.
2025
Won a 1st-place ₹25,000 prize among nationally shortlisted researchers for measurable impact on environmental protection, instituted by TERRE Policy Centre; selected through application screening and a video interview. Certificate ↗
2022
Academic Excellence Award
2nd rank among 174 students in the 3rd year of B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering at MANIT Bhopal.
2021
Selected among the top 15 students nationwide by MYAS, Government of India — nominated through India's premier institutes (IITs, IIMs, NITs, AIIMS) — for the 13th BRICS Summit, serving as India's Youth Engagement representative at the VII BRICS Youth Summit. Certificate ↗
2021
Remote delegate for HCONF 2021 — Embracing Change, the flagship conference of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR), which has convened 10,000+ students and young professionals across 43 conferences in 15 countries since 1991. Certificate ↗
2021
2nd position and a cash prize of ₹31,000 in the Undergraduate Presentation Skill Contest at the 8th International Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (AFTMME). Certificate ↗
2020
Secured an All-India Rank of 10 out of 55 teams nationally in the Virtual round of eBAJA 2020, evaluated on design presentation and technical knowledge. Certificate ↗
2019
Ranked in the top 1.5% among 1.2 million candidates in the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) 2018.
2018
Full publication and patent list on the Publications page. Conference talks and slides on the Talks page. Projects in depth on the Work page.