Summary
Rikesh is a first-year PhD student at Imperial College London under the supervision of Prof. Guillermo Rein as part of Imperial Hazelab. His PhD focuses on creating artificial intelligence algorithms that help fire engineers design safer tall-buildings made of timber. His project is funded by EPSRC and ARUP.
Rikesh holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London, and an MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. During his masters, he was under the supervision of Dr. Chris Tighe focusing on designing and validating a tubular flow-through pressure relief device using computational and experimental methods.