University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
PhD Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering*
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
MS in Chemical Engineering (Aug'19 - Dec'20)
Thadomal Shahani Engineering college, Mumbai, India
Bachelors in Chemical Engineering (Aug'15- May'19)
Intensifying H2 production using dynamic electrification: Conference talk, AICHE San Diego, USA, 2024
Dynamic electrification toward sustainable & enhanced catalysis: Conference talk, UCRA Warsaw, Poland. 2024
Enhanced Performance of Dynamic Temperature Pulsing: Conference talk, ISCRE28 Turku, Finland, 2023
Intensifying H₂ production using dynamic electrification: Conference talk, UCRA San Diego, CA, USA, 2024
Dynamic electrification in heterogeneous catalysis: Poster presentation, ISCRE27 Quebec, Canada, 2023
President of Indian Graduate Student Association at University of Delaware
President of Delaware Grad. Consulting Club
EmPower Peer Mentor
Research Lab Outreach team
2022 George W. Laird Fellow Candidate
CHEGSA 42nd Annual Symposium Poster Presentation
CHEMSA Master's Poster Presentation
Participated in SVNIT International conference for Green Chemistry (2021)
Created digital illustration describing MS program structure for Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University
Research Assistant at University of Michigan, USA
Using density functional theory to optimize geometry of WOx grafted on SiO as catalyst for metathesis. Estimating reaction path and energy.
Research Assistant at Lehigh University, USA
After completing my MS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in December 2020, I worked as a Research Assistant under Prof. Mittal at Lehigh University. This internship allowed me to explore bioinformatics as an application to use my gained knowledge in modeling and optimization. Here I optimized models for predicting relevant protein properties based on some input characteristics. Besides, another project in collaboration with Prof. Ali Mesbah has given me the opportunity to use Machine learning tools for comparing predictions of the the previously optimized models.
Summer Intern at Reliance Industries Limited, India
An internship at Reliance Industries Limited, an Indian conglomerate among the Fortune 500 companies, furnished me with valuable professional exposure in chemical engineering. As part of the Cracker Process Technology Department, I worked for two months on the world’s largest Ethylene Cracker project, titled “Refinery of Gas Cracker (ROGC),” at Jamnagar Refinery Hub. As a summer intern, I was chiefly responsible for sizing and verification of pump design adequacy for the existing De-ethanizer Column Bottoms Pump and process design of a Stripping Column to separate C4 and heavier hydrocarbons. These assignments were carried out at the organization’s newly commissioned ROGC plant. Tasked with implementing the initiatives that would increase the plant capacity (and, thus, company profits), the opportunity helped me understand how to apply academic knowledge to solve real-life problems in the petrochemical industry.
My efforts, which led to the new column being installed for commercial use, culminated into a successful presentation at the end of the internship; which received appreciation from my supervisors. The platform furnished me with corporate exposure and enhanced my teambuilding skills.
1. MS RESEARCH PROJECT
Catalytic Data Analysis of HD exchange reaction
Studying various possible subsurface hydrogen mechanisms for HD exchange performed on a CSAF using a micro reactor array
Uncertainty analysis in the form of error ellipses for estimated kinetic parameters
2. Mathematical optimization of nano-structured surfaces (Project Report)
Designing catalyst surfaces to atomic precision for enhancing certain properties by studying their structure function relationships. Used GAMS, ASE & Python
3. Analyses of microfluidic devices (Project Report)
Studied the transport phenomenon occurring in a microfluidic droplet based device in order to control and map behavior of multi phase fluid systems
4. Optimization in Very Large scale Vehicle Routing Problem (Project Report)
Used mathematical heuristics on Python to solve Vehicle Routing problem, a type of the classical TSP
5. Pyrolysis of waste plastic and rubber to fuel
Performed pyrolysis with Pyrocrat to study feasibility of converting waste plastic into usable fuel oil