Engineer Mechanical

Kunal Shah, Ph.D.

**** * **** ***, # *-*** Phone: 971-***-****

Kennewick, WA 99336 Email: *****.*****@*****.***

Seeking a job solving cutting edge technological problems. Interests

include low-k/high-k dielectric materials, material design of nanostructure

materials; predicting the electronic structure, mechanical, thermal,

chemical properties of materials; next generation electronic nanodevices.

EDUCATION

2005 Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida,

Gainesville, FL

Advisor: Dr. Susan B. Sinnott

2003 M.S., Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida,

Gainesville, FL

2000 B.E., Polymer Science, L.D. College of Engineering, Gujarat

University, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Scientist 2009-

Present Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Richland, WA

. Leading efforts to estimate defect formation energies, ionization

potentials, electron mobilities, carrier life time to identify new

candidate semiconducting gamma radiation detection materials using

materials informatics

. Guiding efforts for optical property based band gap estimation methods

for semiconducting radiation detection materials

. Lead scientist for multiscale modeling to deliver toolkit for

lightweight alloys across multiple length scales

Sr. Research Scientist 2005-

2008 Intel Corp., Portland, OR

. Directed efforts to predict dielectric properties of low-k/high-k

dielectric materials of microelectronic devices (quantum modeling)

. Guided activities to identify failure mechanism (prevent outgassing)

of low-k dielectric polymer materials interfaces

. Led efforts to predict mechanical properties (stress-strain behavior,

energy release rate, tensile strength, fracture properties) and

thermal properties (coefficient of thermal expansion during thermal

cycling) of low-k dielectric polymeric materials of microelectronic

device (using large scale atomistic modeling)

. Conducted project to predict adhesion properties of interfaces of low-

k/high-k dielectric materials interfaces of microelectronic devices

(using quantum and large scale atomistic modeling)

. Lead scientist for universal force-field development for

microelectronic device materials application to run large scale

atomistic modeling simulations

. Senior scientist for infrastructure development of large atomistic

simulations and quantum simulations

. Provided guidance for improved parallelization to run large scale

atomistic simulations on 1000s of nodes (billions of atoms)

. Managed a project to achieve polymer dielectric as low as k < 2.3

(prediction and experimental results) by polymer material design

Graduate Research Assistant 2000-2005

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida, FL

Computational modeling studies of materials

. Developed Micelle-MD, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation code to study

surfactants/micelle properties and behavior in aqueous media and at

solid/liquid interface to model Chemical Mechanical Polishing slurry.

Ported at nanoHUB Purdue University

. Parallelized Micelle-MD with different schemes to distribute workload

over multiple processors. Analyzing performance and comparing

performance of physical and virtual machines

. Led efforts to study morphology, structure and mechanical properties

of self-assembled micelle in aqueous media and at interface

(silica/graphite surfaces)

Process Engineer (Student Intern) 1999

Process Engineer, Kabra Extrusion Technik Inc., India (A German

collaboration)

. Worked as an intern at the assembly line of polymer products

SKILLS

Technical

. Semiconductor Device Physics: Carrier transport, bandstructure

calculations (geometry and material dependent ), role of high-k on

bandstructure to enable process development of 45, 32 nm scale devices

. Quantum Simulations: Density functional method, polarizability for

dielectric constant of materials, quantum effects in nanodevices, band

structure calculations (GAUSSIAN, VASP, WIEN2K)

. MD Simulations: MD simulations method with atomistic approach, force

field development and implementation, charged interaction with Ewald

summation, statistical mechanics. (Micelle-MD, LAMMPS, NAMD, GROMACS)

. Monte Carlo Simulations: Implementation of Monte Carlo simulation

method to study energy minimization and equilibrium of the system

. Continuum Simulations: Merging Continuum simulation method with MD

simulation method involving molecular mechanics and macroscopic thermo-

fluid transport

. Programming Skills:

o Involved with scientific programming for more than 8 years with

the use of C, C++ and FORTRAN

o Parallel Programming with MPI: MPI (Message Passing Interface)

libraries, parallel algorithms, distributing workload schemes -

modified atom decomposition and spatial decomposition,

performance analysis

Leadership

. Manage interns and junior engineers at PNNL

. Responsible for knowledge transfer and design of experiments from

computational simulations predictions

. Managed a computational/experimental group of 5 people at Intel Corp.

. Professional affiliation: American Chemical Society (2006- present)

PATENT

USPTO #200********, "Polymer interlayer dielectric and passivation

materials for microelectronic device", 2009

PUBLICATIONS

. "Morphology of surfactant aggregates in aqueous media: Molecular

Dynamics simulations", Patrick Y. Chiu, Kunal Shah, Susan B. Sinnott,

submitted for review

. "Identification of new candidate semiconducting gamma radiation

detection materials via informatics-based property maps", Kim F.

Ferris, Kunal J. Shah, Dumont M. Jones, invited paper, IEEE Nuclear

Science Symposium, 2010

. "Assessing optical property-based band gap estimation methods for

semiconducting radiation detection materials", Timothy B. Seifert, Kim

F. Ferris, Kunal J. Shah, Dumont B. Jones, invited paper, IEEE Nuclear

Science Symposium, 2010

. "Nanoindentation of surfactant aggregates", Patrick Y. Chiu, Kunal

Shah, Susan B. Sinnott, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 349

(1), 196-204, 2010

. Internal technical reports, Intel Corp.

o "Solution of outgassing and failure of polymer interlayer

dielectric and passivation materials interfaces for next

generation microelectronic devices ", 2008

o "Improvement strategies of adhesion and mechanical properties of

polymer interlayer dielectric and passivation materials for next

generation microelectronic devices", 2007

o "Development of methodologies to predict stress vs. strain

curves and failure resistance of materials for next generation

microelectronic devices", 2006

. "Comparison of morphology and mechanical properties of surfactant

aggregates at water-silica and water-graphite interfaces from

molecular dynamics simulations", Kunal Shah, Patrick Y. Chiu, Susan B.

Sinnott, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 296 (1), 342-349,

2006

. "Micelle", Kunal Shah, Patrick Y. Chiu, Jing Xu, Susan B. Sinnott,

DOI: 10254/nanohub-r1653.2. (DOI: 10254/nanohub-r1653.2), 2006

. "Study of properties and behavior of surfactants and micelles at the

solid/liquid interface using molecular dynamics simulations", Kunal

Shah, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida, 2005

. "Morphology and mechanical properties of surfactant aggregates at

water-silica interfaces: Molecular Dynamics simulations", Kunal Shah,

Patrick Y. Chiu, Mayank Jain, Jos Fortes, Brij Moudgil, Susan B.

Sinnott, Langmuir, 21 (12), 5337 -5342, 2005

REFERENCES

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