Aashish Gaurav
Senior Technology Manager, Plastics Recycling Technology at KBR, Inc.
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAashish Gaurav is a Senior Technology Manager specializing in plastics recycling and circular economy technologies with nine years of engineering and R&D experience across industry and academia. He leads development and commercialization of KBR’s Hydro-PRT chemical recycling platform, aligning R&D, market analysis, and global sales to qualify early adopters and scale modular commercial solutions. His background spans petrochemical process design, techno‑economic and emissions analysis, and hands‑on reactor and catalyst work from his PhD and roles at NOVA Chemicals and University of Waterloo. Aashish pairs deep process modeling and experimental skills with product-focused consulting experience, having delivered fuel-additive innovations and reactor improvements that translated into measurable efficiency and emissions gains. He is also an active contributor to open-source scientific tooling, with back-end and test automation work on the well-known SymPy project around special functions and Meijer G-function tests. Based in Houston, he combines academic rigor and practical commercialization acumen to drive sustainable plastics-to-hydrocarbon technologies.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors and Masters in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Bachelors and Masters in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
math-functions10
python10
sympy10
maths10
integrations9
testing9
math9
integrate9
computer-algebra8
mathematics8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sympy/sympy
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:133 commits, 29 PRs, 148 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aashish primarily contributed to adding and modifying features related to special mathematical functions and integrals. They implemented the `is_number` property for the `HyperRep` class and wrote corresponding unit tests. Additionally, the user fixed TypeErrors and integrated unit tests for specific issues related to the Meijer G-function. The user also worked on Latex related changes and added new tests.
computer-algebra-systempythonmathcomputer-algebrascience
ashishkg0022/Gsoc-proposal-Rubi
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 commits in 10 months
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