Education Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA PhD candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering Expected May 2012 Advisor : Prof. Nikolaos V. Sahinidis GPA: 4.0/4.0 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering May 2007 GPA: 8.62 / 10.0 Reasearch Interests Optimization Algorithms for Mixed integer optimization, global optimization, combinatorial optimization and non-linear optimization, Graph theory algorithms, Chemical process engineering Drilling Fluids Drilling fluids for high pressure/high temperature (HP/HT) application, Drilling fluid additives, Modeling of complex fluids, Simulation of complex fluids Computer Aided Molecular Design Polymer Design, Environmentally conscious product design, Molecular Modeling, Property models for pure components and mixtures Scientific and Professional Societies AIChE: American Institute of Chemical Engineering SPE: Society of Petroleum Engineers SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics INFORMS:  Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences   Refereed Publications Design of Secondary Refrigerants: A Combined Optimization& Enumeration Approach Apurva Samudra and Nikolaos V. Sahinidis Design for energy and the environment : Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design,2009 Awards & Honors NSF Travel award for FOCAPD 2009 Graduate Fellowship for doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon University Recipient of Bharat Petroleum Higher Studies Scholarship Awarded Corporal rank by National Cadet Corps, India, in Annual training camp Selected for Indian National Mathematics Olympiad Selected for Indian National Chemistry Olympiad Recipient of National Talent Search Scholarship in India