I am a geotechnical and tunneling engineer at HNTB in San Jose, California. I work on design aspects of soft ground tunnel projects. I am the 2024 Young Tunneler Award recipient by the Underground Construction Association (North America). I am an extensive researcher in civil engineering, tunneling, geotechnical engineering, and digital automation development. My interests lie in digitization of geotechnical and tunneling information, spatial variability and uncertainty quantification, application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in tunneling, geospatial assessments, and pushing the digital envelope for tunnel projects. I have eight years of professional experience in geotechnical and tunneling projects. I have a Ph.D. in Underground Construction and Tunneling from the Colorado School of Mines where I worked with Prof. Mike Mooney. My doctorate focused on risk assessment in tunnel projects considering soil variability and uncertainty. During my Ph.D., I have also worked as a consulting geotechnical and tunnel engineer on multiple tunnel projects in North America and South-east Asia. My work involved ground characterization, investigating the ground-TBM interaction, and instrumentation and monitoring data. Prior to starting Ph.D., I worked as a geotechnical engineer with CH2M (now Jacobs) in Des Moines, Iowa from 2013-2015. From 2015-2017, I was with AECOM as a geotechnical engineer on Mumbai Metro Line 3 underground corridor. I completed my M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from Virginia Tech. (2013) and have a B.Tech. in in Civil Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai (2011).