Rahul BharadwajDr. Rahul Bharadwaj is the Vice-President of Engineering and Business Development at Rocky DEM, Inc. Dr. Bharadwaj has over a decade of experience in the development, validation and application of computational tools such as Discrete Element Modeling(DEM), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Analyses for industries such as pharmaceutical, chemical, agriculture, mining, oil & gas, etc. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky (2003) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University (2006). He has since then held positions as senior scientist in Pfizer R&D and also as a consulting engineer at Jenike and Johanson Inc. He is also an active member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and is the founder and past-chair of its Process Modeling and Simulation Focus Group Read More Read Less