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Contact Information

Name Siddharth Anish
Professional Title Vehicle Dynamics Engineer
Email sidanish458@gmail.com
Location Varano De' Melegari (PR), Emilia-Romagna 43040

Professional Summary

Motorsport engineer with experience in Vehicle Dynamics and Trackside Engineering.

Experience

  • 2024 - 2025

    Modena, Italy

    Vehicle Dynamics Engineer
    More Modena Racing
    In charge of initial development of the Simulink model of the UniMoRe Formula Student car. Set up intial model with the Simulink blockset in Simulink. Initiated development of a custom Pacejka Magic Formula tyre model
    • Acheived high correlation of steady state lateral and longitudinal characteristics with test data from real car
    • Further concepts intended to recreate path of car using quasi-static data.
  • 2023 - 2024

    Pune, India

    Vehicle Dynamics (MBD) Engineer
    Applus+ IDIADA
    Member of the MBD department at IDIADA’s India headquarters. Ran simulations, conducted development and analysis of vehicle suspension, tyres and chassis systems for multiple OEMs
    • One of my main projects involved the automation of standard simulations in MSC Adams. Used Python, command line and AI to create a complete automation toolkit that ran and processed simulations, and created reports.
    • Used state of the art tyre models such as FTire to conduct simulations.
  • 2023 - 2023

    Chennai, India

    Race Engineer
    Indian Formula 4 Championship
    Won a scholarship by the United Motorsports Academy to participate in the 2023 Indian F4 and IRL seasons.
    • Worked on multiple cars with multiple responsibilities ranging from data analysis to tyre preparation.
    • Gained trackside expereince and skills. Understood the competences required to compete at a high level in a trackside, race engineering environment.
  • 2019 - 2023

    Mumbai, India

    Aerodynamics and Vehicle Dynamics Lead
    Orion Racing India
    Was a member of the aerodynamics and vehicle dynamics departments at the university’s electric Formula Student Team
    • Led a team of 20 engineers to design, manufacture, test and race an electric Formula Student car.
    • Designed and manufactured a carbon fiber aerodynamics package with a 15% improvement in aerodynamic efficiency.
    • Redesigned the kinematics and generated new dynamic data for the car.

Education

  • 2024 - present

    Emilia-Romagna, Italy

    Masters
    MotorValley University of Emilia-Romagna
    Advanced Automotive Engineering - Racing Car Deisgn
    • Vehicle Dynamics, Race Car Tyres, Chassis & Body Design, CFD & Aerodynamics
    • 1 of 3 extra EU students selected for the Racing Car Design curriculum at MUNER.
    • First year of the course is administered at UniMoRe and the second year is at the Dallara Academy.
    • The course features advanced theoretical concepts regarding Vehicle Dynamics, Structures, Aerodynamics and other key subjects. The second year of the course has a more applied emphasis and translates theory to real life race car design concepts.
  • 2019 - 2023

    Mumbai, India

    Bachelors
    K.J Somaiya College of Engineering (University of Mumbai)
    Mechanical Engineering
    • Was taught advanced theoretical and practical concepts in the field of Mechanical Engineering
    • Was a part of the university’s Formula Student Electric team - Orion Racing India.

Awards

  • 2023
    F4 Scholarship
    United Motorsports Academy

    Won a scholarship while attending the LIME Workshop by UMA in 2023. Scored among the top 30 particpants in the edn-of-workshop quiz to win the scholarship.

  • 2024
    Insta Face Award
    Applus+ IDIADA

    Awarded for delivering a project to a client and recieving appreciation for furthering the image of the company.

Publications

  • 2024
    Computational Analysis of Serpentine Nozzles
    Springer, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Volume 3

    It concerned an interpretation of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the properties of light and time. Special relativity incorporates the principle that the speed of light is the same for all inertial observers regardless of the state of motion of the source.

Skills

Vehicle Dynamics: Simulation, Modelling, Kinematics, Multibody Dynamics
Data Analysis: Data Engineering, Processing, Metric Creation
Programming: Python, Command Line, AI

Languages

English : Fluent
Hindi : Fluent
Tamil : Native speaker
Marathi : Elementary
Italian : Elementary
French : Basic

Interests

Motor Racing: Formula One, Endurance, IndyCar, NASCAR, MotoGP
Basketball: Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves
Guitar: Trinity Grade 8 certified
Music: Rock, Metal, Blues, Country, Rap, Pop

Certificates

  • MATLAB/Simulink Onramp - MathWorks (2023)
  • Certified Solidworks Professional - Dassault Systèmes (2022)
  • Performance Engineering in F1 - Motorsport Engineer (2022)

Projects

  • Suspension and Full Car Analysis using Adams Car

    Project for the Vehicle Dynamics course at MUNER using the default half car and full car models in Adams Car.

    • Characterized front and rear suspension parameters for optimizing vehicle handling performance.
    • Modifications to the front and rear suspension hardpoints were done using Adams Insight.
    • The modifications to the suspension systems resulted in various performance improvements which were quantified.
  • Ride comfort of a vehicle: Vibrational Analysis of a 7 Degrees of Freedom system

    Project for the Mechanical Vibrations course at MUNER.

    • Development and analysis of a seven degrees of freedom (7-DOF) vehicle dynamic model built in MATLAB/Simulink.
    • The aim was to evaluate the ride comfort on various scenarios considering 3 distinct road profiles (single bump, washboard and random).
  • Automation of standard simulations in MSC Adams Car

    Key project at Applus+ IDIADA.

    • Used Python and Command line with AI integration.
    • Created a one click tool for simulation, analysis and report creation.

References

  • Vivek Bardia - Manager at Applus+ IDIADA

    I am pleased to reccommend Siddharth Anish, who interned with Applus+ IDIADA under my guidance. Siddharth demonstrated exceptional technical and client managemnet skills, consistently applying his theoretical knowledge to practical scenarios effectively. I am confident he will excel in his future endeavors and make significant contributions to any organisation. (read full recommendation on LinkedIn).