AAYUSH PATEL

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WORK EXPERIENCE

SprintRay Inc. Los Angeles

R&D Process Engineer December 2018-Present

• Implemented 6S in Resin Testing Laboratory and reduced man hour required for testing a resin by 17 minutes, increasing efficiency by 12%.

• Initiated development of data base from Resin Testing experiments and designed experiments to isolate factors responsible for Print Stability, Thermal Stability, Surface Finish and Cure Time and improved workflow to reduce false positives.

• Engineered heating mechanism for Post Curing, boosting efficiency by 150% and reducing heating time by 15 minutes, using results from extensive simulations on Autodesk CFD and developed Prototype to showcase Proof of Concept.

• Designed heating mechanism for uniformly tensioning Low Surface Energy Plastic increasing manufacturing capacity by 25% and decreasing rejections by 50%.

University of Southern California Los Angeles

Graduate Research Assistant April 2017-December 2018

• Built models for Fault Diagnosis/Labelling and Soft Sensor applications, processing data from SIMULINK, on MATLAB and Python incorporating Supervised (Canonical Correlation Analysis) and Unsupervised Learning (Hierarchical Clustering/Principal Component Analysis) techniques.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India Bombay

Process Engineering Intern May 2015-June 2015

• Aligned a team of 5 interns to analyze operations of Deethanizer and Demethanizer columns and developed Process Flow Diagrams

(PFD) for Ethane Propane Recovery Unit handling 300 ton per hour gaseous feed.

• Created Piping and Instrumentation Diagram(P&ID) from Process flow diagram and implemented process optimization techniques operated by ONGC to translate it to HYSYS simulation achieving increase in efficiency of 1.7%. Steel Authority of India Limited Durg

Material Engineering Intern May 2014-June 2014

• Led a cross-functional team of 9 interns to oversee production of 26-meter rails for Indian Railways and it's destructive and non- destructive testing for quality management.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles

Master of Science, Chemical Engineering May 2018

Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Process Data Analytics and Machine Learning Thermodynamics NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Raipur

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering May 2016 Mathematical Modeling Process Dynamics and Control Mass Transfer SKILLS

MATLAB Aspen HYSYS ANSYS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Process Optimization Design of Experiments (DOE) Wet Chemistry High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Failure Modes Effect Analysis (FMEA) COMSOL Machine Learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) R Python Mathematica Minitab Supervised Learning (CCA/CCCA/PLS) JMP Unsupervised Learning (PCA/PCR/Clustering) Statistical Process Control (SPC) SolidWorks Finite Element Analysis (FEA) MASTERS THESIS

“Big data challenge via Tennessee Eastman Process (TEP)” January 2017-May 2018

• Developed control strategy for Tennessee Eastman plant on SIMULINK using recycle valves maintaining pressure level in reactor and stripper to prevent plant shutdown.

• Presented poster at Texas Wisconsin California Control Consortium and leveraged Process Control requirements and challenges in large scale industries to Enhance TEP as industrial Big Data Problem, establishing veracity, variety and volume problems for soft sensor development and benchmarking virtualization models. PROJECTS

“A study on Pin-Fins and comparison of Pin Fins with different Fin Structures” May 2015-May 2016

• Engineered Pin Fins with Circular and Elliptical Cross-Sections with Triangular and Square Pitch and subjected it to 10 different flow-rates using 3 fluids to determine rate of heat transfer as function of flow rate, fluid density and orientation using Finite Element Analysis(FEA) on ANSYS.

“Solar Tracking using Photoelectric Diodes” May 2013-May 2014

• Created an innovative mechanism leveraged by Solar Panels to track sun using Photoelectric Diodes with increase in tracking efficiency of 3% and presented a paper at International Student Conference at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Texas Wisconsin California Control Consortium (TWCCC) – Participant

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) - Member