Nov 2024 – Aug 2025 · 9 mos

• Entrepreneurship is about impact, mentorship, and empowering others, and I look forward to supporting fellow founders.

Aug 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs

• Part of Lab Embedded Fellowship Program (LEEP), at OakRidge National Laboratory - funded by the US Department of Energy

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Building sCO2-based long duration energy storage and Heat Battery. Now part of Grid8

Feb 2021 – Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos

May 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Product development and management for AI-related solutions (OpenVINO AMI on AWS and Open Seismic) + OSDU activities
• Formulated the AI strategy for the Energy sector by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
• Led the Deep Learning R&D for the Energy sector including oil & gas

Jul 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Owned critical steps in fabrication processes for 10 and 14nm node silicon chips
• Monitored wafer fabrication and product performance based on data and statistics
• Managed technicians in the fab, their tools' productivity, maintenance and yields
• Conducted data analysis to audit the health of module and implemented fixes in collaboration with internal stakeholders

Jan 2017 – Jun 2017 · 5 mos

• Oil and gas production enhancement:
• Designed and developed a novel device (Rock-on-Chip) to measure fluid properties for Shale rocks using nanofluidics.
• Built Machine Learning Models for optimizing oil production from Shales.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

• Fellow (2014-2017) and Affiliate Scientist at Energy & Geoscience Institute, University of Utah.
• Molecular simulations for CO2-based EOR/sequestration in Shale rocks
• Conducted research on thermodynamic fluid properties in shale rocks
• Machine Learning for enhancing the production of liquids
• Worked with internal and external stakeholders to develop research proposals
• Co-coordinated global workshops, and events related to energy

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of shale systems, CO2 sequestration in nano pores

Jul 2013 – Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Salt Lake City Area, USA

• Graduate Research Assistant and Fellow of Energy & Geoscience Institute. Manas was awarded the best graduate thesis award (for Dept of Chemical Engineering) in the commencement ceremony for his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.
• Thesis: Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Fluids in Shale Reservoirs: Effect of the Presence of Kerogen and Confinement.
• Areas of focus:
• 1. Thermodynamics modeling
• 2. Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• 3. Experiments: Nanofluidics
• Experienced in Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling, Reservoir Characterization and Earth Modeling, Reservoir Simulations, proficient in fabricating lab-on-a-chip devices.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Built geologic model for Eagle Ford Shales. Contributed to 'Liquids from Shales' project

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo · London Area, United Kingdom

• Conducted an in-depth study on history and current situation relating to petroleum exploration and production in a far eastern country.

Oct 2011 – Nov 2011 · 1 mo · Jharia, India

• Studied coal geology of Jharia Basin formation, its exploration activities, mining of coal.
• Applied coal beneficiation processes, proximate analysis of coal and Jhama.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Manhattan, KS-United States of America

• Worked on a testing and refining the timing of hydrologic evolution during the latest Pleistocene regressive phase of Lake Bonneville with Dr. Joel Spencer. Work was presented in GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, USA (9–12 October 2011)

May 2011 – Jun 2011 · 1 mo · London Area, United Kingdom

• -Performed tasks relating to scientific evaluation of oil & gas investment prospects in the far east

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos

• Undertook work in two broad areas, namely, sedimentology and mineral separation. A wide range of sedimentological work was performed on different cores taken from an artificial reservoir in area Cadder in Glasgow, Scotland followed by interpretation of the depositional environment.