Vishal Ahuja

Experience

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  Institute Of Chemical Technology

  May 2009 - Jun 2009

  Summer Training Programme (Undergraduate Research)

  Worked on a research project titled ‘Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Quantitative Structure Property Relationships’ under the guidance of Prof. S. S. Bhagwat at I.C.T. Mumbai.

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  Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

  May 2010 - Jun 2010

  Summer Internship (Industrial Training)

  Trained in general refinery operations and in particular the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (B.P.C.L.) Mumbai Refinery at Mahul, Mumbai Worked on a design project titled ‘Design of Multi-stage Steam Jet Ejectors and Inter-stage Condensers’

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Mar 2012 - Jul 2013

  Teaching Assistant

  Assisted Prof. Mani Bhushan at IIT Bombay for two courses on Probability and Statistics (6 months each). My responsibilities included grading exams, conducting problem solving sessions and teaching Programming in Scilab to a class of more than 50 second year chemical engineering students which I particularly enjoyed the most.Assisted Prof. Sanjay Mahajani at IIT Bombay for a course on Chemical Engineering Design. My responsibilities included conducting problem solving sessions, teaching Modeling in Aspen and guiding final and pre-final year chemical engineering students on their design projects. Show less

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  Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  Jun 2012 - Jun 2012

  4th GlobalTech Workshop & Summer Camp on Sustainable Water Management in Urban Centres

  The GlobalTech Workshop is an annual event organized by 'The Global Alliance of Technological Universities' which is a network of the world’s top technological universities. I feel very fortunate to have got the opportunity to attend this workshop as the participation was limited to 25 students from around the world. As a part of this summer camp, I attended a series of seminar-style interactive lectures by local and international experts on sustainable water management and also visited various water treatment facilities including NeWater Treatment facility (for reclamation of used water) and the Hyflux Desalination plant.I greatly benefited from a unique multi-cultural interaction experience thanks to the diverse group of highly motivated students selected from all over the world (10 nationalities) Show less

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  University of Twente

  Sept 2013 - Feb 2018

  Graduate Researcher

  My research experience at the University of Twente comprised of theoretical work as well as flow simulator development for studying flow of non-Newtonian fluids such as polymer solutions using coarse-grain Molecular Dynamics simulations. The main output of the Ph.D. thesis (linked herewith) is the development of a novel computational technique called Hydrodynamically Coupled Brownian Dynamics (HCBD) which is documented in the paper: Ahuja, V. R., Van Der Gucht, J., & Briels, W. J. (2018). Hydrodynamically Coupled Brownian Dynamics: A coarse-grain particle-based Brownian dynamics technique with hydrodynamic interactions for modeling self-developing flow of polymer solutions. The Journal of chemical physics, 148(3), 034902. Show less

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  Shell

  Apr 2018 - now

  Researcher - Computational Science

  I work as a Computational Research Scientist at Shell Technology Center Bangalore. My focus area is Scientific Image Analysis & Physics Simulations. During my experience at Shell, I have worked on developing flow simulators as well as a number of Computer Vision solutions with applications in a wide variety of areas such as lubricants, engine oils, corrosion and asset integrity.