Resume

1. KUSHAL DHINOJA
(201)-887-6308 ■ 209 Hamilton Street Apt. 2, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901■ kushaldhinoja@gmail.com
Rutgers University – New Brunswick, New Jersey Sep’15- May’17
MS (Thesis) in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering.
University of Mumbai: Thadomal Shahani Engineering College – Mumbai, India Jun’11-Jun’15
Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering. Distinction
Ramdev Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Tarapur, India Dec’13 – Jan’14
 Worked as an intern and was part of the team engaged in the new drug development.
 Obtained operational knowledge of analytical instruments like HPLC, GC, FTIR, UV-VIS equipment.
Shree Chemicals, Ahmedabad, India Jun’13 – July’13
 Assisted in improving a method to recover solvent and studied the principles of polymerization.
 Intensive monitoring and control on manufacturing of Carbomers and coating polymers.
Gomati Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Tarapur, India June’12-July’12, Dec’12- Jan’13
 Studied the manufacturing process of the pigment - Phthalocyanine Blue BQ-BG (15:3).
 Optimizing Unit Operations like Drying, Distillation, Grinding, Filtration, Extraction and Mixing.
 Understanding and solving the problems related to Ball mill.
Engineering Research Center (C-SOPS), Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States. Feb’16 – present
 Research Assistant involved in multiple industrial projects from FDA, J&J, GSK, Gericke, Glatt and GEA.
 Expertise in process development for continuous manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals of solid oral dosage form.
Thesis (FDA initiative): Pharmaceutical material characterization and multivariate analysis. Feb’16-present
 As a Data Analyst, performed experimental design and used equipment like FT4, NIR, particle size analyzer.
 Use of Multivariate analysis like PCA & PLS for product & process development in continuous manufacturing.
Process Quality Engineer (GEA, GERICKE project): Characterizing Blenders & mixing cell. May’16-present
 Examined performance of Consigma feeders for 5 APIs and 15 Excipients to quantify agglomeration.
 Build small mixing cell and compared its performance to continuous blender along with Regression analysis.
Impregnation of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients onto Porous Carriers. Feb’17
 In this study the aim was to investigate the use of Methanol to impregnate Ibuprofen into Fujicalin.
 Gained knowledge on Coperion K-tron and SPDC software, UV dissolution tester and UV-VIS Spectrometer.
Determine the optimized process conditions for roll compaction. Dec’16
Developed a mechanistic approach to formulation, device design and operation of roll-compaction processes.
 Particle-level compaction studies using the finite element method (FEM) to simulate the operations.
Curing Alzheimer's disease by identifying & developing novel based Biological markers. Nov’16
Studying the importance of CSF Biomarkers viz. Aβ, total tau and phospho-tau-181 for curing AD.
Neuronal death’s manufacturing process for the cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease was studied.
Final year Project: Phthalocyanine Dyes and pigments. Jun’14-Jun’15
 Process description, market survey, material and energy balance, costing and mechanical design of equipment.
Project Engineering and Entrepreneurship management Jan’15-Jun’15
 Evaluation, implementation and project management, Project clearances, monitoring and control.
 Event Coordinator for Cooling tower & Extractor design, Poster presentation at CHEMERGENCE. Oct’14
 Held the designation of a Public Officer at Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE). Oct’14-Jun-15
 Presented a Poster on Multivariate analysis of Pharmaceuticals at Rutgers PharmaE day at BMS. Aug’16
Provided training to the FDA officials in the field of continuous manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals. Sep’16
 Executive Exhibitor at in-cosmetics North America exhibition event. Sep’16
 Won the ONGC poster presentation competition presenting on Innovative filtration ways. Oct’15
Analytical Skills: HPLC, NIR, Auto-applicator, Photo Spectrometer, GC, FTIR, UV-VIS equipment, TLC.
Computation Skills: UNSCRAMBLER, C, C++, MATLAB, BECKHOFF, TWINCATT, OPUS, MS Office.
Developed a Principal Component Multivariate Analysis technique to enable predictive capabilities for product
and process development in pharmaceutical manufacturing under the guidance of Dr. Fernando Muzzio and
Dr. Yifan Wang.
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