Dr. Rishabh U. Shah

Dr. Rishabh U. Shah

Senior Data Scientist - Air Quality Applications

CV

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Professional Experience

Aclima

Senior Data Scientist - Air Quality Applications (Apr 2023 - present)
Air Quality Scientist (Feb 2022 - Mar 2023)

- Cross-disciplinary role between the Data Science team and Science Operations team
- Development of novel, consumer-facing air quality data products, often involving consumer-raised health concerns as the starting point to perform hypothesis testing (A/B testing, geospatial and time series analysis, etc.)
- Contributing to external facing reports, while grounding them in rigorous data science and atmospheric science
- Contribute to regular operations (data review, calibration and performance evaluation of sensors)

Ramboll

Senior Air Quality Consultant (Aug 2021 - Feb 2022)

Air pollutant emission inventories, dispersion, health risk assessment, compliance and permitting

Environmental Defense Fund

High Meadows Postdoctoral Fellow, Atmospheric Science (Mar 2020 - Jul 2021)

GIS modeling and mapping of large mobile air monitoring datasets in London, UK and Cangzhou, China

NOAA via CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder

Research scientist (Aug 2019 - Mar 2020)

Instrument development, laboratory experiments to study atmospheric chemistry of aerosols

Carnegie Mellon University

Postdoctoral researcher (Jul 2019)

Training graduate students on calibration, troubleshooting, maintenance of analytical instrumentation


Skills

Technical: Air pollution and atmospheric science, geospatial and time series analyses, applied statistics, mass spectrometry, instrument development

Communication: Scientific writing, data visualization, distilling technical results for non-technical audience, college-level teaching

Software:
Data wrangling and coding: R (preferred), SQL, Python, Matlab
Geospatial analyses: R (preferred), QGIS
Scientific writing: LaTeX
Data visualization: R (preferred), Tableau, Veusz, Igor Pro


Teaching Experience

Guest Lecture @ Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2018)
Prepared and taught a single 2-hour lecture on Köhler theory and cloud condensation nuclei physics to a PhD-level course on nanoparticle engineering.

Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2016, Fall 2017)
Engineering Thermodynamics

Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2014)
Environmental Social Science


Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2015 - 2019)

Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, Illinois, USA (2013 - 2015)

Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering
Gujarat Technological University - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (2009 - 2013)

More details to be added soon (conference talks, etc.)