Process Engineering

Bela Deepak Joshi

**** * ****** ******, ********* #2F, Chicago, IL 60607 312-***-****; ****.*******@*****.***

Professional Profile:

Over 5 years of advanced academic and research experience in the fie ld of chemical engineering and process technology

More than 3 years of research experience in process development and chemical separations

6 weeks industrial internship in R&D with RPG Life Sciences Ltd. India

Work Experience

Teaching Assistant in the department of chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago Jan 2014 – Present

- Grade and critic problem sets and homework, decide course assignments

- Conduct review lectures and discussion sessions

- Instruct a group of 25 students and assist in experiments

Industrial Internship : Research and Development intern – Mumbai, India

RPG Life Sciences (Leading Pharmaceutical Industry; Rama Prasad Goenka Enterprises) May 2012- June 2012

API and process development

- Involved in analysis of product irregularities and quality control tests for shelf life determination of API. (HPLC, GC,FTIR)

- Investigated production processes & optimized process parameters involved in catalytic chemical reactions leading to cost

savings of $2 million

- Assisted in development & implementation of new API processes and 100x reactor scale up (pilot plant) for optimi zation of

parameters

Chemical Manufacturing plant (API) (clean room experience)

- Investigated unit operations such as distillation, filtration, granulation, powder processing

- Assisted in process optimization calculations; Material balances for different process systems

- Involved in scale up from pilot plant to pr oduction of chemical substances for commercial purposes

- Gained in plant experience with Process Safety Management system

- Experienced with utilization of six sigma methodology

Education:

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering ( MS Thesis ) (GPA: 3.52/4.0) Aug 2013 – May 2015 (Expected)

University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Related coursework: Transport Phenomenon, Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering, Micro hydrodynamics & Membrane

Transport, Thermodynamics & Fluid Phase Equilibria, Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering, Renewable energy

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Technology (GPA: 9.23/10.00) Aug 2009 – April 2013

Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) (Formerly known as UDCT), Mumbai, India

Related coursework: Process Technology, Unit Chemical Engineering Operations, Chemical Project Economics, Spectroscopic

Analysis of Substances, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Advanced Chemistry (Analytical, Physical, Organic, Inorganic), Material & Energy

Balance, Nanotechnology, Catalysis & Processes, Industrial Management, Process Control & Design of Experiments (DOE),

Biochemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Industrial management

Technical Skills:

- Computer tools : C, C++, MATLAB, FORTRAN, R (Programming language for Statistics), Polymath, AutoCAD, Aspen, MS office

- DOE software: Minitab, Modde, Design Expert

- Analytical Instruments: HPLC, GC,, SEM, EDS, FTIR, Polarimeter, MS, UV/Vis Spectrophotometry, Ellipsometry, Goniometer

- Unit Operations, Process Equipment: Wet Milling, Granulation, Rollar Compactor, Compressor, Jet Milling, Spray Drying,

Research Experience

Research student “Advanced Material Research Laboratory” - Chicago, IL (MS Thesis) Jan 2014 - Present

“Process Development of Atomic Layer Deposition reactor for infiltration of TiO2 in biomaterial”

Advisor: Prof Christos Takoudis

- Modification and optimization of process variables for thin film deposition (correlate to ALD reactor parameters),

monitoring nano-thickness

- Characterization of infiltration by SEM, TEM and EDS techniques and statistical data analysis

- Investigation of surface modifications (water con tact angle & roughness) and heterogeneous nucleation for

remineralization study

- Assist in ALD/CVD development projects on semiconductor materials and Ti nanotubes, photosensitive material

Bela Deepak Joshi

1074 W Taylor Street, Apartment #2F, Chicago, IL 60607 312-***-****; ****.*******@*****.***

Process optimization, scale up & downstream processing of a novel stereospecific biotransformation reaction

Dec 2012 - April 2013

(Undergraduate Thesis) Guide: Prof K.G. Akamanchi

- Developed a greener technique of immobilization for a stereospecific steroid biotransformation at C17 (beta isomer)

- Characterization of batch process and 10x scale up batch

- Optimization of process parameters, catalyst amount and reactor parameters for maximum throughput, capacity uti lization

&recovery of purest form of the end product with successful scale up

- 30% cost savings in commercial production of 3 methyl ester of β- Estradiol with return of investment of 3.68 years

Academic projects

Techno-economic Feasibility of Wave Energy Integrated Ships Jan 2014-May 2014

- Investigation of available wave energy converters and their material to practically integrate with ship

- Involved in the design of the integrated ship, calculations for energy production and cost of the project

Sedimenting viscous drop modelled as a swarm of Stokeslets Jan 2014- May 2014

- Calculated velocity field inside and outside the droplet

- Methods: established formulae for volumetrically distributed stokeslet & Monte Carlo quadrature of the Green’s function

- Generated streamlines using FORTRAN 95 and R (Programming language for statistics)

Purification of proteins using separation techniques Jan 2013

- Assisted in protein separation using gel electrophoresis and chromatography

- Investigated various unit operations for commercial purification of proteins

- Examined various novel chromatographic techniques for purification of solution of prot eins.

Investigation & selection of material for Pervaporation Technology for azeotrope separation July 2012 - Nov 2012

- Compilation and graphical analysis of data of available membranes

- Data-driven methods to identify, select and improve separation process

- Mathematical modelling of the separation process

Ceramic Based Membrane Technology For Oxygen Separation Jan 2012

- Identified ideal working conditions required for maximum efficiency & studied material specifications

- Studied mechanisms of oxygen separation in solid electrode & MIEC &modifications based on the performance influencing

factors

“Young Innovators Choice Competition Industry defined problem, Indofil” Jan 2012

- Developed 2 scalable and cost effective processes for regio-selective alkylation of 1h-1,2,4 Triazole

- Deliverable – Expected about 95% yield of the desired 1-alkylated isomer for the proposed processes

International Publication

Bela Joshi, Shirin Shinde, Ashish Khinvasara, Sumedh Joshi; “Cationic Polymers as Biodegradable Vectors for plasmid DNA Delivery ”

;“Pharma Utility” Volume 7; Issue 3; Aug 2013

Professional presentations and conferences

“Infiltraion of Ca HAp using TiO2 using Atomic Layer Deposition”; Bela Joshi et. al., Cl inic and Research Day 2015, Chicago,

Illinois, USA, 2015

“Ceramic Based Membrane Technology For Oxygen Separation” ; Bela Joshi and Shirin Shinde, Exergy Poster Presentation,

Mumbai, India, January 2012

“Cationic Polymers For efficient gene delivery”, Bela Joshi et al., Exergy Paper presentation, Mumbai, India, January 2012

(Second position)

“PPO Copolymer for Efficient Gene Delivery for Cancer Treatment”; Bela Joshi, 2nd International Conference on Stem Cells and

Cancer Research, Pune, India, October 2011 (Consolation Prize)

Leadership Experience:

Editorial Head and Secretory of the Technological Research Journal at the Undergraduate Institute (July 2011 – April 2012)

Event Head at the National Level Annual Cultural Festival of ICT (Jan 2012)

Honors and Awards:

Active member of “Institute of Biomaterials, Tribocorrosion and Nanomedicine, Chicago”.

Recipient of “B.Tech. Merit Prize” under the ICT Students’ Funds for Second year, Third Year and Forth year B. Tech for securing

Second, Third and Third place respectively among all the 7 branches of B. Tech. (ranked in top 2% of the class).

Awarded a scholarship from AICTE, India for all 4 years of undergraduate degree in chemical technology (2009-2012)

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