About Dr. Alec Zhou

R&D Architect | SR&ED Strategist | Innovation Efficiency Expert

🚀 The Principle Consultant

Dr. Alec Zhou is a scientist-engineer with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and over 20 years of experience leading applied R&D across process engineering, biotech, food tech, and information technology.

Dr. Zhou helps teams like yours turn trial-and-error into structured innovation—and make that innovation fundable through SR&ED.

🧩 What Dr. Zhou Brings to Your R&D

  • 🔬 Scientific Research & Product Innovation
    Launched industry-first technologies and published peer-reviewed research while leading dozens of applied R&D projects.
  • 🧪 Experimental Design (DOE)
    Expert in designing smarter experiments that cut iteration cycles and increase insight yield—making your work easier to justify to CRA.
  • 💡 Inventive Problem Solving with TRIZ
    Certified TRIZ practitioner who helps teams crack technical contradictions and generate inventive concepts faster.
  • 🤖 AI, ML & Data Science for R&D
    Fluent in Python, SAS, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn; creator of AI tools that speed up hypothesis design, experiment planning, and claim readiness.
  • 🧬 Advanced Simulation (CFD/FEM)
    Deep modeling expertise in computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis for industrial process and product innovation.
  • 🧠 Cognitive Bias Control
    Author of 20+ newsletters on identifying and eliminating bias in R&D—so teams can innovate more efficiently and qualify more work for SR&ED.
  • 🧾 Strategic SR&ED Design
    Dr. Zhou doesn’t just help you file a claim. He helps you design eligibility into your science from the start—with tools like:
    • Live Engineering Log™ – audit-safe, real-time documentation
    • Innovation Efficiency Index™ – benchmarks your R&D’s SR&ED readiness
    • Audit-Signal Simulator™ – stress-tests your claim before CRA ever sees it

🧭 Our Mission

To help innovation teams build systems that are technically excellent, SR&ED eligible, and audit-ready by design—not by retrofitting.

“We bring engineering discipline to innovation—and make it fundable.”