Akash Deep started his PhD at UoG in February 2023, working in the areas of additive manufacturing, cellular composites, machine learning and digital twinning. Prior to this, he spent two years at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD), investigating various electrical damage sensing techniques in nanocomposites. He received his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), India, where he studied the mechanical behaviour of hybrid composites.