Karthik Reddy Peddireddy Address: Apt # 802, 3643 SW 20th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32607 Email: [email protected] Webpage: peddireddyp.googlepages.com Cell: (412) 613-3589 OBJECTIVE

To obtain a full time position that will utilize my analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA (May 2009) Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces (CPS) GPA: 3.85/4 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India (May 2008) Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering GPA: 8.02/10*

WORK* EXPERIENCE

Chemical Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Research Staff Member, August 2009• Copper Deposition and Growth over ZnO Nonpolar (100) and (110) Surfaces: A DFT Study • Functional Theory StudyGuides : Dr. Aravind Asthagiri, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida Institute for Solid State Research (IFF), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany Invited Research Intern, May 2007-July 2007 • Effect of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) on the phase behavior of Water/Alkane/AOT microemulsions • Guides: .Jurgen Allgaier and Prof. Dieter Richter, IFF 5-Nuetron Scattering High Polymer Engineering Laboratory (HPEL), IIT Chennai, India Invited Research Intern, May 2006-July 2006 • Viscometric studies of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) and Limonene system • Guides: Prof. Susy Varughese and Prof. Abhijith Deshpande , HPEL, Chemical Engineering

RESEARCH* EXPERIENCE

The Department of Physics, CMU Pittsburgh, USA Masters Research Project, December 2008- May 2009 • Marangoni driven flow of surfactant solutions on mucin solutions • Guides: Prof. Stephen Garoff , Physics, Prof. Robert D. Tilton, Chemical Engineering, CMU Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Guwahati, India Undergraduate Thesis, August 2006- May 2008 • Thermal and catalytic pyrolysis of waste plastics • Guide: Prof. A. K. Ghoshal, Head of Chemical Engineering, IITG Chemistry Department, IIT Guwahati, India, January 2007- May 2008 • Poly (3-hexylthiphene) to fullerenes. Kinetic modeling and analysis of thermal degradation pathways • Guide: Dr. Parameswar K Iyer, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, IITG

PUBLICATIONS*

Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Guwahati, India, January 2006- April 2006 • Numerical analysis of adsorption in a packed bed column using OCFE method • Guide: Dr. Sasidhar Gumma, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, IITG •

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Karthik Reddy P., Chowlu A.C., Ghoshal. A. K., “Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Model-Free Coupled Direct Search Methods for Kinetics of nano crystalline ZSM-5 Catalyzed Decomposition of Polypropylene (PP)”, Applied Catalysis A: General, 351 (2) (2008), 195-203 Karthik Reddy P., Prashant J. Gautam, Dilip K. Singh, A. K. Ghoshal, Parameswar K. Iyer " Mechanistic investigation, kinetic modeling and analysis parameters of poly(3-hexylthiphene) degradation to fullerenes", Polymer Degradation and Stability, doi:10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2009.05.018 Saha B., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal. A.K., “Hybrid Genetic Algorithm to Find the Best Model and the Globally Optimized Overall Kinetics Parameters for Thermal Decomposition of Plastics”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 138 (2008), 20-29. Saha B., Karthik Reddy P., Chowlu A.C., Ghoshal. A.K., “Model-free Kinetic Analysis of n-HZSM-5 Catalyzed Pyrolysis of Polypropylene (PP)”, Thermochimica Acta, 468 (1-2) (2008), 94-100.

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Chowlu A.C., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal. A. K. ,“ Pyrolytic Decomposition and Model-Free Kinetics Analysis of Mixture of Polypropylene (PP) and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) ”, Thermochimica Acta, 485 (1-2) (2009), 20-25. Saha B., Chowlu A.C., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal A.K., “Effect of Aluminium Content in Al-MCM-41 Catalyst on Decomposition of Low Density Polyethylene”, International Journal of chemical sciences,5 (4) (2007), 1552-1560.

CONFERENCES Dew B., Przybycien T.M., Garoff S., Tilton R.D., Karthik Reddy P., "Surfactant Formulation Principles for Self-Dispersing Aerosol Drug Carriers Based On Marangoni Flow in the Pulmonary Airways", AIChE annual meeting (2009) - oral (Accepted) • Saha B., Chowlu A.C., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal A.K., “Effect of Aluminium Content in Al-MCM-41 Catalyst on Decomposition of Low Density Polyethylene”, NCFCE (2008) – Oral • Karthik Reddy P., Jurgen Allgaier, "Effect of PEG and Salt Concentration on the Phase Behaviour of Water/Alkane/AOT Microemulsions", NCFCE (2008) – Poster • Karthik Reddy P., "Viscometric Studies of Expanded Polystyrene and Limonene System", CHEMCON, (2007) – Poster IMPORTANT TECHNICAL REPORTS & PRESENTATIONS • A new approach to Modeling the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Heterogeneous Materials (2009) • Flory-Huggins interaction parameter - a review (2008) • Purification and separation of carbon nanotubes (2008) • A review on preparation and applications of polymer nanocomposite membranes (2008) • Analysis of separation of n-Heptane, Toluene and Methanol using Chemsep (2007) • The effect of various parameters involved in packed bed reactors used for a selected reaction scheme using polymath (2007) • Heat Exchanger Network design for a problem containing 4 hot streams and 5 cold streams using THEN software (2007) • Desulphurization of gas oil (2007) • Production of 10,000 L per annum of Bio-Diesel from Jathropha (Feasibility Report) (2007) • Design of an ethanol producing reactor by optimizing cost of fabrication and operation using MATLAB (2006) • Design of a packed bed extraction tower by optimizing cost of fabrication and operation using MATLAB (2006) • Absorption in a sieve tray tower (2006) • Thermodynamic representation of high-pressure vapor-liquid equilibria (2006- IITG & 2008- CMU) • Study on dielectric behavior (2006) • Ethyl alcohol production by fermentation and starch production from maize – process calculations (2006) • Study on degree of mixing (2006) INSTRUMENTS: TGA, DSC, SAXS, GC, SEM, UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, BET, GPC, NMR, Small Particle Size SKILLS Analyzer, Spinning Drop Tensiometer, Tensile Tester, Goniometer, Du Nouy Ring, Wet Chemistry Techniques. COMPUTER: MS Office, C/C++ & DS, VASP, Matlab, MathCAD, CHEMCAD, Origin, Polymath, Reacat, THEN, CHEMSEP, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. •

ACTIVITIES & HONORS†

Student member - American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2008 – present Student member - American Physical Society (APS), 2009-present Student member - Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), 2005 – present Recipient of a scholarship of 3350 euros for summer internship in IFF Juelich, Germany Prathibha award from Andhra Pradesh state government for academic excellence (2004) Best paper presentation award for a paper presented in NCFCE conference (2007) Recipient of ‘A’ certificate for two years training in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) (2001) Certificate of Merit, National Science Olympiad (1999) 1st place in state level and 3rd place in South Indian level mathematics exhibitions (2000) Organizer, 1st Student Chemical Engineering Congress (SCHEMCON), IITG, 7th to 9th December, 2005

REFERENCES

Prof. Annette Jacobson < [email protected] >, Tel: +1 412 268 2244 Professor, CPS program director, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prof. Stephen Garoff , Tel: +1 412 268 6877 Professor, The Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prof. A. K. Ghosal , Tel: +91-0361-2582251 Professor, Head of the Department, Chemical engineering Department, IIT Guwahti, India Dr.Jurgen Allgaier< [email protected]>, Tel: +49-2491-61-2541/2610 Research scientist, IFF-NST forscungszentrum , Juelich, Germany.

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