Current member
Professor · Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Office: Room 529, 3401 Walnut St (PICS SUITE)
- Patel Group roles
- Principal Investigator
- Education
- Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, 2007
- B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2001
Awards and Honors
- 2022 Helmholtz Award by the IAPWS
- 2022 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
- 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award by Penn’s AIChE Student Chapter
- 2019 Van Ness Award from the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 2019 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- 2018 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the Computers in Chemistry (COMP) division of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
- 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award by Penn’s AIChE Student Chapter
- 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry
- 2017 NSF CAREER Award
- 2016 Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting Young Investigator Award
- 2015 Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Research award