Amip Shah

Senior Research Scientist
Sustainable Innovations Reseac
Palo Alto

Biography

As part of the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory (SIEL) at HP Labs, Amip Shah is engaged with the development of novel ways to use information technology (IT) for improving the sustainability of the world around us. Prior to joining SIEL, Amip was a researcher 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.

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

Amip's current work is in the area of next-generation infrastructure, focused around enabling technologies for 'sustainable cities' of the future. Amip is also an active contributor to the Sustainable Data Center (SDC) research project at HP Labs, which seeks to integrate 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 is looking to develop solutions that can significantly reduce the environmental footprint of 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.

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.

Awards

  • Journal of Electronic Packaging Best Paper Award (2006-2007)
  • ASME Charles T. Main Gold Medal (2002)
  • ASME Arthur L. Williston Medal (2001)

Publications

Amip has authored or co-authored over 50 technical papers and reports in the areas of environmental sustainability, thermal management, electronics packaging and energy policy.

Professional activities

Amip is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society (IMAPS). He has served on the program committee, as session chair, and as peer reviewer for numerous conferences and journals.