Ankur Pariyani, PhD is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Near-Miss Management LLC (www.nearmissmgmt.com), where he focuses on product development and innovation (Phone: 267-603-2378; Email: pariyani@nearmissmgmt.com). He has authored several papers in leading journals in the area of risk analysis. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati, both in chemical engineering.
He has a passion to innovate novel yet simple solutions to address challenging problems. Within the Near-Miss Management research team, he has developed breakthrough engineering techniques for identifying critical near-misses and predicting incidents in plants, setting a strong conceptual foundation for future growth.