Parth Shah, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Managed a multi-year project with Saudi Aramco, presented monthly updates and progress to the Aramco R&D team. • Developed and demonstrated "smart" strategies for enhanced oil recovery applications in collaboration with Saudi Aramco. • Developed a theoretical framework to understand and predict the diffusiophoresis under varied physico-chemical environments and tested the predictions using careful experiments.• Analyzed thousands of microscopy images using ImageJ, R, Python, and Matlab for particle position and orientation tracking.• Mentored a graduate student and a postdoc, presented at 3 technical conferences, and 3 publications are in preparation. Assisted 2 other labs to solve complex research problems in the field of microfluidics.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Discovered two patentable surfactant formulations for multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) that will enable P&G to diversify their supply chain and accelerate the launch time of their new body wash by ∼ 6-12 months.• Reduced the formulation design space by 75% by developing a predictive model for MLV formation and validated the model through a DOX design of strategically identified ∼ 50 experiments.• Collaborated with the corporate analytical team to streamline the framework for TEM, SAXS and NMR characterization of MLV phases, which decreased the characterization time from ∼ 1 month to ∼ 1 week.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Spearheaded Impact Consulting, LA Local Hub’s first-ever consulting project and founding member of the LA hub.• Led a diverse team of 4 consultants from sustainability, social impact and finance backgrounds to devise app development and growth strategy for a crowdfunding app that connects artists and fans.

• Worked with a global team of 6 consultants from the US, Canada, and India to validate product-market fit by developing and conducting surveys for an app that connects pets, pet owners, and pet-care service providers.• Performed data analysis on over 150 survey responses and presented recommendations on product features and pricing to the CEO. Profiled target user characteristics and developed user personas from the survey responses.• Identified bugs in the app and suggested changes in user interface design to make it more user-friendly, which were incorporated and thus enabled the successful product launch.

• Identified the most promising wastewater treatment process for the paint industry by determining the techno-economic feasibility of 7 different chemical treatment processes.• Presented the work at two technical conferences, won three awards, and co-authored one research publication.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Solved the company’s wastewater treatment problem with two Ph.D. student researchers by developing a novel chemical process, which improved the wastewater treatment efficiencies from 20% to more than 95%, thereby making the water recyclable and reducing the treatment costs potentially by 40-50%.• Presented the research work and the proposed solution to the R&D team. The work was much appreciated, and considerable interest was shown in the scale-up of the process.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Chemical Engineering, 4.0 Gpa

• Dow Discovery Fellowship - department's top honor for a rising third-year Ph.D. student who has made outstanding strides in research.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, 9.38 Gpa

• Reliance Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship - full tuition waiver for four years of engineering. • Narotam Sekhsaria Undergraduate.

Higher Secondary School Certificate, Science, 93.69%

Secondary School Certificate, 93.45%