Dr. Harshal Akolekar is a Assistant Professor Grade II in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur. He graduated in Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.), Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He post-graduated in Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering from University of Melbourne, Australia. He also completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), CFD Methods for Turbomachinery Design that focused in the development of data-driven turbulence models for turbomachinery applications from the University of Melbourne. His expertise in Mechanical Engineering such as Aerodynamics; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Machine Learning; Machine Learning; Submarine Hydrodynamics; Turbomachinery.