Experience

Elucidata

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director, Data-centric AI

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Lead Scientist

  • Dec 2016 - Dec 2021



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Doctoral Candidate

  • Jan 2012 - May 2016

  • Developed patented photo-polymerization based sensing and signal amplification technology (PBA) for colorimetric diagnosis of diseases on low-cost paper devices (in collaboration with Whitesides Lab, Dept. of Chemistry, Harvard University) • Quantified the performance of the new PBA technology in a paper-based immunoassay for malaria; demonstrated that PBA is faster, easier-to-use, and produces results that are brighter and easier to interpret compared to traditional methods such as enzymatic amplification and gold-nanoparticle aggregation • Integrated the PBA-based malaria immunoassay with a hand-operated microfluidic device for blood plasma purification (in collaboration with Jensen Lab, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, MIT) • Developed a new method for designing semi-quantitative diagnostic tests by counting number of visible spots on a surface • Built a portable, light-weight, and customizable LED device to facilitate the use of photo-polymerization assays in point-of-care settings (in collaboration with D-Lab, MIT) Show less



Merck Sharp & Dohme Pharmaceuticals Pte. Ltd.

• Singapore

• Student Technical Consultant

  • Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Identified material-specific and environmental causes of cracks and other defects in capsule shells used for drugs and prepared a specific action-plan to address each cause (team of 2) • Conducted technical and economic feasibility analysis for solvent recovery from waste streams during manufacture of a drug; proposed changes reduced solvent consumption by >50%, and had potential economic benefits up to US$870k (team of 3) • Identified material-specific and environmental causes of cracks and other defects in capsule shells used for drugs and prepared a specific action-plan to address each cause (team of 2) • Conducted technical and economic feasibility analysis for solvent recovery from waste streams during manufacture of a drug; proposed changes reduced solvent consumption by >50%, and had potential economic benefits up to US$870k (team of 3)



General Mills

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Technical Consultant

  • Aug 2012 - Oct 2012

  • Modeled crystal size distribution in sugar coatings on cereal; designed pilot plant and lab experiments to relate process parameters during coating with the appearance of coated cereal (leader, team of 3) • Optimized process parameters in pilot plant study to reduce variability in weight distribution of an energy bar (team of 3) • Modeled crystal size distribution in sugar coatings on cereal; designed pilot plant and lab experiments to relate process parameters during coating with the appearance of coated cereal (leader, team of 3) • Optimized process parameters in pilot plant study to reduce variability in weight distribution of an energy bar (team of 3)



Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Masters Candidate

  • May 2010 - Jul 2011

  Combined computational fluid dynamics with population-balance theory to develop a first-principles model for initial study of a device to separate oil from oil-water emulsions without the use of chemical additives Combined computational fluid dynamics with population-balance theory to develop a first-principles model for initial study of a device to separate oil from oil-water emulsions without the use of chemical additives



Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

• India
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Internship

  • May 2009 - Jul 2009

  • Analysed processes for Microcrystalline Wax production based on parameters such as process reproducibility and product quality and identified the optimal process for feasibility analysis • Successfully designed and conducted initial experiments for the identified process • Analysed processes for Microcrystalline Wax production based on parameters such as process reproducibility and product quality and identified the optimal process for feasibility analysis • Successfully designed and conducted initial experiments for the identified process