Jai Pathak, PhD

Jai Pathak has completed sixteen years in the bio-pharmaceutical industry in the Washington DC area in various roles related to drug product formulation development, drug product process development, tech. transfer, validation, and also similar core competencies in his current role in AstraZeneca Global Technical Operations, where has has worked on COVID and other infectious disease related products, and also on products for oncological and autoimmune indications. He has developed a keen technical interest in Automatic Visual Inspection, which is the subject of his talk today. Jai got his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Univ. of Rochester,& MS &Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, and he did two postdocs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) and at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL; Washington DC). During those years he specialized in the rheology of polymers and other complex fluids. His first job at MedImmune had a door opened because of this skillset in rheology- a pre-filled syringe is quite like a capillary rheometer. Jai lives with his wife, twin daughters, a dog and a cat in Arlington, Virginia, a stone's throw from this conference venue.