Vidya is a Research Associate for Professor P. Chris Hammel's Research Group.  He is interested in understanding spin transport for fundamental scientific purposes and device application purposes.  He is working on developing novel detection tools towards the goal of understanding and manipulating spin transport. He is closely involved in developing the Scanned Spin Precession Microscopy tool.  Vidya is also interested in developing spin-based devices. Towards this end, he is involved in developing a Hanle-Effect based magnetometer.