Amip Shah

Biography

As a Principal Research Scientist at HP Labs, Dr. Amip Shah leads research, technology development, and commercialization activities in the space of energy and sustainability, particularly focusing on the emerging “Internet of Things” and its associated implications for a new class of “cyber-physical” systems. His current work is focused in the area of next-generation infrastructure, with an emphasis on enabling technologies for cities of the future.

Amip received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, with highest honors, from Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey; followed by Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds a certification in Management of Technology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Research interests

Since 2011, Amip has served as Research Manager and Principal Investigator for the “Resource Management as a Service” (RMaaS) project at HP Labs, which seeks to build scalable hardware, software, and services that can effectively manage physical resources like electricity, gas, water, and waste across residential, commercial, and industrial facilities. By working real-time across the data aggregation, storage, analysis, application, and automation layers, the RMaaS team is at the leading edge of holistic end-to-end solutions for the Smart Grid and Smart Buildings era.

Amip was previously an active contributor to the Sustainable Data Center (SDC) research project at HP Labs, which was focused on integrating resources that consume available energy in a data center (such as IT, power, and cooling equipment) with the sources that provide available energy to the data center (such as the utility grid, on-site backup generators, and off-grid distributed power sources). By holistically exploring such integration of supply and demand from a life-cycle perspective - from extraction of the resources, to manufacturing and transportation, through consumption and end-of-life - the SDC team successfully developed a leading-edge solution for "net zero energy" data centers.

Prior to the SDC project, Amip was part of a program at HP Labs focused on sustainable design, where his research revolved around diverse topics related to life-cycle assessment (LCA), product and process design methodologies, as well as the socio-economic impacts of technology. His contributions have helped improve the efficiency, scalability and accuracy of 'triple bottom line' sustainability models, and have led to the development of toolkits for assessing value chains across different business ecosystems. Earlier, he was a research scientist in the Enterprise Software and Systems Lab (ESSL) at HP Labs, where he was involved with integrated end-to-end thermomechanical architectures for managing devices, systems, and data centers.

More broadly, Amip's interests include areas in thermal management, especially for electronics cooling applications; chip and system packaging; and a wide range of topics related to sustainable development and technology policy, especially for emerging economies. He is also active in serving the engineering profession, having participated in numerous program committees, on executive boards, and as author / speaker at international conferences.

Publications

Amip has authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers and reports in the areas of energy management, environmental sustainability, thermal management, electronics packaging and energy policy. He has also been named on over 70 invention disclosures, several of which have been filed as patent applications within the U.S. and abroad.

Professional activities

Amip is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served on the program committee, as session chair, and as peer reviewer for numerous conferences and journals, and has held various leadership positions within ASME over the years, including Student Section Vice-Chair and Chair (Rowan University); Section Vice-Chair and Chair (Santa Clara Valley Section); ECLIPSE intern with Board of Governors; member of VOLT Emerging Leaders Program Committee; member of EPPD (Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division) Committee on Manufacturing, Materials, and Processes; and member of District D and Affinity Communities Operating Boards.