Awards and Honours

Leadership positions in scientific bodies:

President, International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences, Germany (www.owls-society.org, 2018- present)
President, Indian Biophysical Society (May 2023 – present, biophysicsindia.org)
Co-Founder and President, Fluorescence Society, India (2016-2023, fluorescencesociety.org)
Co-Founder and Coordinator, Biophysics Pashchim, India (2011-2024, https://biophysicspashchim.wixsite.com/biophysicspashchim)

Awards, Honours, Fellowships:

Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
Visiting Professorship, IIT Bombay, (2019-2022)
Best Teacher Award, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2017
VM Kulkarni Endowment Lectureship, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, 2014
Patent Award, TIFR Alumni Association, 2013
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Toronto, (Feb. 2010 – August 2010)
Wellcome Trust (UK) Senior Overseas Research Fellowship (2001-2006)
SICO National Instrumentation Award, National Academy of Sciences, India, 2001
Honorable Mention Citation for Excellence in Teaching, University of Rochester, 199o

Editorial positions in international scientific journals

Executive Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society (2023- present)
Senior Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, American Chemical Society (2020- 2023)
Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal (Journal of the Biophysical Society, Cell Press), (2021 – present)
Member, Editorial Board, Biophysical Chemistry, Elsevier (2020- 2023)
Member, Editorial Board, ACS Chemical Neuroscience (2019- 2024)
Member, Editorial Board, Methods and Applications of Fluorescence (2020-present)
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Optics (a Springer Journal, 2012-present)
Member, Editorial Board, Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express (IOP Publishing, 2016- present)

Membership in Professional Bodies

Fellow of Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, India – Fellowship No. F/7349
Life member of Indian Pharmacy Graduates Association (IPGA) – (IPGA/LM/1312)
Life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India - (UP/LM – 077)
Member of Society for Ethnopharmacology – (SFE/18/I-1279)
Member of the Indian Phytopathological Society
Member of International Cytokine and Interferon Society - ID1299024

Awards and Fellowships

International Travel Award funded by Nectar Therapeutics Private Ltd., 2019
Awardee of INSA Visiting Fellowship 2008.
Awardee of DAAD- Short Term Fellowship 2004, Germany (University of Tuebingen).
Awardee of Best Oral Presentation award in Indian Pharmaceutical Congress-2003, Chennai. (P' cog & Phytochem.)
Recipient of CSIR – Senior Research Fellowship for doing Ph. D.
Recipient of UGC Fellowship for doing M. Pharmacy

Academic and Administrative Experience

Head of the Department of Pharmacy (2019 - 2024)
Project Advisory Committee member (Biomedical and Health Sciences) of DST SERB (Since Aug 2022)
Convener of “Doctoral Research Committee” (2011 – 2015)
Acted as Nucleus member of “Sponsored Research and Consultancy Division” (2010-2019)
Convener of “Departmental Committee for Academics” (2018-2019)
Acted as “Purchase committee member” of BITS (2018-2020)
Acted as “Discipline Committee member” of BITS (2018-2019)
Senate Member of BITS-Pilani University (Since 2015)
Member of the Institute Hygiene Committee
Guided M. Pharm dissertations and B. Pharm theses
Guided several lab and study-oriented projects for First and Higher degree students

Professional Experience

*Designation*	*Duration*	*Name of the Institute/University*
Professor	Since June 2021	BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana State
Associate Professor	Jan 2015 – May 2021	BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana State
Assistant Professor	May 2010 – Jan 2015	BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana State
Assistant Professor	Nov –2005 to May 2010	IIT-Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Reader	Aug-2005 to Nov-2005	Institute of Foreign Trade & Management, U.P. Technical University, Moradabad, U.P.

Academic Qualification

Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry) from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. (2005)
M. Pharmacy (Pharm. Chem.) from IIT (BHU), Varanasi (2001)
B. Pharmacy from The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai (1999)

Achievements

Best Poster Award at 26th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2022)

Overview

Convener

3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technologies (IMMT-2023), 20th-23rd November 2023
Workshop - 3D Printing at Young Entrepreneur Bootcamp (YEB) 2023
Technical Session Chair, International Conference on Recent Advances in Science and Engineering (RAiSE), MAHE, Dubai, 2023
IBM, Artificial Intelligence Practitioner Certificate: Instructor
Workshop - Re-Engineered 2023

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities

Associate Head - Centre for Research Excellence in National Security (CRENS)
Cross-Campus Department Committee on Academics
Department Committee on Academics (DCA)
Department Research Committee (DRC)
Composite Manufacturing laboratory in-charge
Club ASHRAE-BPDC in-charge

FDPs attended

Navigating the Intellectual Property Minefield: A Hands-on Workshop on Prior Art, Patent Search, and Claims Drafting, BITS Pilani, 2023
Attended Workshop on Global Conversations in Mechanical Engineering: Bridging Innovation and Sustainability, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, 2024
Crafting Compelling Proposals: A Grant writing workshop, BITS Pilani, 2023
Faculty development program on Pedagogy & Technology-enabled Education, IIT Jodhpur, 2023

Others

Technical Session Chair, International Conference on Recent Advances in Science and Engineering (RAiSE), MAHE, Dubai, 2023

Awards and Honours

JSPS Postdoctoral award (standard) by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - 日本学術振興会 (2022-2024)
Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship by Institute of International Education, US (2019-2020) [Honourable mention in Govt. of India's Technology and Innovation Portal: Link]
Distinguished Student Award by American Physical Society (2019)
DGRAV Student Travel Grants for April 2019 Meeting by American Physical Society (2019)
INSPIRE SHE Scholarship (During BSc. and MSc.) by Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 by ANID, Chile

Referee of International Journals

Physical Review Letters (APS)
Physical Review D (APS)
Classical and Quantum Gravity (IOP)
Physics Letters B (Elsevier)
General Relativity and Gravitation (Springer)
European Physical Journal - Plus (Springer)
Physica Scripta (IOP)
International Journal of Modern Physics A (World Scientific)
Mathematical Reviews (AMS)

Qualified national exams

National Eligibility Test (NET), Dec. 2015 (All India Rank: 45 (CSIR JRF))
National Eligibility Test (NET), June 2016 (All India Rank: 46 (CSIR JRF))
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics, 2015
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics, 2016
Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) in Physics, 2016

Awards and recognitions

Second Best poster presentation.

Amol Shindikar, Radhakrishnan Mahesh.”Widely marketed irrational β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations in India lack activity against contemporary ESBL clinical isolates collected from Indian Hospitals”. CIDSCON 2023, 7-9 July 2023, Chennai , India.

Best poster award.

Bajaj, Shivanshu; Mahesh Radhakrishnan., “Effect of Escitalopram and Galantamine in Combination on Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress (CUMS) Model of Depression in Swiss Albino Mice with an Emphasis on BDNF, cAMP, Neuroinflammation, and Oxidative Stress” during 4th Science Conclave Cum National Biomedical Research Competition, held on , 2023 at ESIC Medical College in collaboration with Society of Young Scientist (SYS), AIIMS, Delhi.

Achievements

Achieved 8th place worldwide in successfully solving the IEEE International Circuit Analysis and Design Contest (2017-2018), organized by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), alongside 17 other participants who completed the challenge. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8447461

Received Merit Certificate for solving an open challenge problem in Electro-Magnetic Theory class consisting of finding the volume of an N-Dimensional Integral at NIT Agartala in 2014.

Achievements

Received “International Travel Support (ITS) Grant” from DST to attend a conference CLC 2022 held at ICB:CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain (Sep 2022)

Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing awarded to Kamalesh Kumar, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal from Journal of Engineering Research and Reports on 24th September, 2024.

Achievements and Awards.

Secured CSIR JRF in Mathematics
Secured CSIR SRF in Mathematics
Secured AIR 3 of GATE-2009 in Mathematics
Awarded as a Young Scientist by KVRSS for the year 2015
Received INSPIRE Faculty Award by DST for the year 2017(not availed)
Received Excellent Teacher Award by BITS Pilani Goa Campus for the year 2024

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Best Paper Award, Awarded Medal for the Best Paper on ‘Road Research’ by the Indian Roads Congress (P.W.D Bihar, India).

Gold Medal, Awarded for securing the first rank in M.Tech., NITC.

Honors & Awards

Recipient of National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF) Scheme funded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India in the year 2021 (File No. PDF/2021/001915).
My NPDF project "Mathematical modelling and analysis of spatiotemporal dynamics of parasite-induced ecosystems" has been selected for Annual Report 2023-24 of SERB, Govt. of India.
Received Financial Support from IIEST, Shibpur to present research article at ICMSAO'19 organized by University of Bahrain on 15-17 April 2019 at The Grove Hotel & Conference Center, Bahrain.
Received financial grant under the scheme International Travel Support (ITS) funded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India to participate BIOMATH 2018 held at Sofia, Bulgaria during 24-29 June 2018 (File No. ITS/2018/001637).
Qualified NET (National Eligibility Test Jointly organized by CSIR-UGC) held on 22-06-2014 and 23-12-2012 .
Secured All India Rank-106 in Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. organized by IIT Madras.
Received merit-cum means scholarship during M.Sc. at IIT Madras (2010-2012).

Awards and Honours

University Gold Medalist - B. Sc Physics - 2001
University Gold Medalist - M. Sc Physics - 2003
Brain Korea 21 postdoctoral Fellowship - 2009-2010
CNRS Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2010-2012

Awards

Significant Academic Contributions

Started a new course, “FPGA Based System designing,” first time at BITS Pilani University.
Developed state-of-the-art VLSI CAD LAB facility
Established Digital signal processing Lab with sustainable solution

Award

Received best paper award for the research paper “Lookup Table-Based Low-Power Implementation of Multi-Channel Filters for Software Defined Radio” in 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems, Dec 2017, Bhopal, India.
Received funds to visit NTU Singapore for research collaboration during June – July 2013 from BITS, Pilani.
Received 5th Position in Utkal University in Undergraduate study.

Significant Publications in the Last in the Three Years

Japa, Aditya., Majumder, M.K., Sahoo, S.K. and Vaddi, R., “Hardware Security exploiting post-CMOS Devices: Fundamental device characteristics, State-of-the-Art Countermeasures, Challenges and Roadmap”, in IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 4-30, thirdquarter 2021, doi: 10.1109/MCAS.2021.3092532.
Apurva Kumari, S. K. Sahoo and M. C. Chinnaiah, "Fast and Efficient Visibility Restoration Technique for Single Image Dehazing and Defogging," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 48131-48146, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3068446.
Mrunali Wagh, Puneeth S B, Sanket Goel and Subhendu K Sahoo, “Development of Laser-Induced Graphene-based Automated Electro Microfluidic Viscometer for Biochemical Sensing Applications” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 68(10), pp. 5184-5191, 2021
Japa, Aditya, Manoj Kumar Majumder, Subhendu K. Sahoo, and Ramesh Vaddi. "Tunnel FET‐based ultralow‐power and hardware‐secure circuit design considering p‐i‐n forward leakage." International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 48, no. 4 (2020): 524-538
Kumar, Ganjikunta Ganesh, and Subhendu K. Sahoo. "Power-efficient compensation circuit for fixed-width multipliers." IET Circuits, Devices & Systems (2020).
Ganesh Kumar Ganjikunta; Subhendu Kumar Sahoo; “An Area and Power-Efficient Variable-Length Fast Fourier Transform for MR-OFDM Physical Layer of IEEE 802.15.4-g” IET Computers & Digital Techniques, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 193-200, 9 2020, doi: 10.1049/iet-cdt.2018.5260.

Honors

Our Brain tumor Research featured in Times of India year book Higher Education in India in 2017

Nominated for USERN Prize in 2021

Based on my Publications records MDPI invited and offered a complete fee waiver of 3800 Swiss Francs to publish two articles in their Journal Diagnostics during the year 2022 and 2023

VinFuture Pize Award committee invited me as nominator in 2024

Nominated for Full Membership in Sigma Xi in 2024 in recognition of my scholarly achievements and contributions to the advancement of knowledge in my field

Invited by the National Science Center, Poland to review a grant proposal as an external expert

Conference Awards

Second Best paper award with M Sanjay for paper entitled “Heterogeneity of cash markets and the hedging effectiveness of agricultural commodity futures in India – lessons for contract optimization” at SEBI- NISM Conference 2020.
Second Best paper award with M Sanjay for paper entitled “Optimizing hedging effectiveness of Indian agricultural commodity futures - a simulation approach” at SEBI- NISM Conference 2021.

Academic Achievements, Innovations and Societal Outreach

DCC Sub-Committee Member - Quantum Technology Division, Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC), DOT, Govt. of India
AI COE Consortium Member, IISC lead, Phase 1 with a budget of 2 CR on Oral Cancer Completed
Project Approved - Between Goa of Goa, DTE, CARES and BITS, Goa Campus on Coding and Robotics for Schools
Sanctioned Project - On Surgical Robotics and Imaging, Funded by BITS BioCYTIH Foundation
OPERA Award - For Research and Teaching - CSIS, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India (2022-2027)
Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship in Israel - EE/CS, Technion, Israel (2020 - 2021)
Semiconductor Research Corporation Fellowship in US - CSE, UCSD, USA (2012-2019)
Technion Visiting Scholar & Postdoctoral Fellowship - EE/CS, Technion, Israel (2018 - 2020)
UC San Diego PhD Fellowship - CSE, UCSD, USA (2012-2019)
IITM-Intel Joint MS Fellowship Award - Intel’s University Research Program (2008-2010)
Admits and Fellowships to IISC/IITK/IITM - For their MS in CS Programs
In top 250 Computer Science Aptitude Test (GATE exam) - Country-wide Merit List
In top 20 in Physics, Chemistry and Math Tests - State-wide Merit List; In top 100 in School Board - State-wide Merit List

To be updated.

Honors and Awards

Served as a member of the subcommittee for recommending the ICIAM ( International Congress on Industrial and
Applied Mathematics) 2023 Su Buchin Prize.:
Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory, US), Chair.
Tanniemola Liverpool (University of Bristol, UK).
Amiya Kumar Pani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India).
Precious Sibanda (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa).
Pingwen Zhang (Peking University, China).
This prestigious prize was awarded to Jose Mario Martinez Perez (University of Campinas, Brazil)
in ICIAM 2023 in Tokyo.
Institute Committees:
*Convenor of the Committee for Best Thesis Award, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus.
* Chairman of the Committee for designing and developing New four year B.E. programme on Mathematics and Computing, which was approved by Senate in December, 2023.
Fellowships of Academies (Names, year).
• Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Allahabad: 2002.
• Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences ( FASc), Bangalore : 2012.
• Fellow of ISMMACS ( Indian Society for Mathematical Modeling and Computer
Simulation): 2021
Research Based Awards.
• Professor S.C. Bhattacharya Award for Excellence in Pure Sciences-2016 from IIT
Bombay.
• Felicitated and awarded a trophy with a citation by Honorable Rajnath Singh, Home
Minister of Govt. of India for outstanding contributions in industrial and applied mathematics
during the silver jubilee conference of the Indian Society for industrial and applied mathematics
(ISIAM) held at Sharda University, Greater Noida, during 29-31 January, 2016, see for more
details: http://www.math.iitb.ac.in/akp award.pdf
• Institute Chair Professor, IIT Bombay for a period of three years during April 2011- March
2014, the second term during May 2014- May 2017, and the third term during May, 2017- May,
2020.
• IRCC, IIT Bombay Best Research Paper Award from IIT Bombay for the year 2010.
• C. L. Chandana Award for distinguished and outstanding contributions to Mathematics re-
search and teaching in India (2002).
• Awarded Best Young Mathematician by the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Math-
ematics for outstanding contributions in Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and
Industrial Mathematics. (2000).
• Nominated ICTP Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical
Physics from January 2003 until 31st December 2008.
Other (specify).
– Member of the subcommittee for the 2023 ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and
Applied Mathematicians) Su Buchin Prize Prize.
see, https://iciam.org/2023-iciam-prizes-recipients-and-committees
– Member of the subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and
Applied Mathematicians) Maxwell Prize.
see, http://www.iciam2015.cn/ICIAM%20Announces%202015%20ICIAM%20Prizes.html

– One of the Panel member representing South Asia in the Round Table discussion on ‘Devel-
oping Mathematics in the Developing World’ held on 19th July, 2007 in the 6th International
Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 07) held in Zurich during July 16-
20,07.
(see, https://www2.math.ethz.ch/iciam07/scientific program/round tables )
– One hour invited talk on Particle Size Distribution in Emulsion Polymerizations : Some
Computational Issues, in the session on Applied Analysis and Industrial Mathematics in the
Third World Congress on Nonlinear Analysts 2000, held in Univ. Catania (Italy), during 19-
26th July’2000.
– Plenary talk on ‘Discontinuous Galerkin Method: An old Wine in a New Bottle’ in the inter-
national conference on Recent development in Applied and Computational Mathematics held in
Chiangmai Univ. during January 4-7, 2011.
– Plenary Talk in the International Conference on ‘Computational Methods in Applied Mathe-
matics (CMAM-5)’ held in Humboldt University, Berlin during July 30 - August 3, 2012.
– One hour Invited Bama Charan Das Memorial talk on ‘Industrial Mathematics : Key to
Key Technologies and its Impact on Research and Education in Mathematics’ in the National
Conference on ‘Recent Trends in Mathematics & Computing’ and 27th Annual Conference of
Orissa Mathematical Society (March 11-12th ’2000), held in Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.
– Key Note Address on Role of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology in the 30th
Orissa Mathematical Society and National Conference on Role of Mathematics in Engineering
and Technology (Orissa) during 22nd to 23rd February’ 03.
– Professor Rama Nath Mohanty Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Navier-Stokes Equations: A
Million Dollar Open Problem’ in the 30th Orissa Mathematical Society and National Conference
on Role of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology (Orissa) during 22nd to 23rd February’
03.
– Professor Sankar Prasad Mishra Memorial Lecture on ‘How to Compute a Fair Price
for an Option Derivative in Financial Market: A Case Study and Its Mathematical
Implications’ in the 31st OMS Conference held in the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar during
7th to 8th February’ 04.
– Inaugurated the UGC sponsored Conference on ‘Surprises in Mathematics and Their
Applications’ held in Vivekanand College, Chembur during January 17, 2005 and September, 06.
– B. C. Das Memorial Invited Talk on ‘Can Mathemaicians help to extract more oil from the
oil field’ in OMS Conference held in Vyasanagar College, Jajpur Road during January 26-29,07.
– Inaugurated the workshop and gave 14th Professor P.D. Sharma Memorial Lecture
entitled ‘Navier-Stokes Equations: A Million Dollar Open Problem’ in the workshop on Fluid
Dynamics helpd in Jaipur University, Jaipur during August 07-08,2011.
– 45 minutes invited talk on ‘Semigroup theoretic approach to partial differential equations’ in
the Indian Science Congress held in Baroda (3-8 January’92).
– One hour invited talk on Particle Size Distribution in Emulsion Polymerizations : Some
Computational Issues, in the session on Applied Analysis and Industrial Mathematics in the
Third World Congress on Nonlinear Analysts 2000, held in Univ. Catania (Italy), during 19-
26th July’2000.
– Invited as a Resource person in the International Workshop on ‘Analysis and Applications’,
held during 15-17th May’2000 in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Chiangmai
University, Chiangmai (Thailand).
– Invited as a Resource person and gave 10 hour lectures on ‘Scientific Computing’ in the
National Training Programme and Workshop on Industrial Mathematics at Kelaniya University,
Colombo ( Sri Lanka) during 26–30th December’01.

– 45 minutes invited talk on ‘Finite Element Analysis of PDEs: A Bird’s Eye View’in the
Symposium on ‘PDE, Scientific Computing and Applications’ in the 75th Annual Conference
of Indian Mathematical Society held in Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil during ec. 27-
30,2009.
– Plenary Talk in the International Conference on ‘Computational Methods in Applied Mathe-
matics (CMAM-5)’ held in Humboldt University, Berlin during July 30 - August 3, 2012.
– One of the Conveners of four workshops for industry participants; three Industry-IIT Meets;
seven study group meetings on industrial problems out of which three are in collaboration with
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM); five study group meetings
on industrial problems under NPDE-TCA programme; seven international workshops (one in
University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka in 2001, one in Chiangmai University, Chiangmai ( Thailand),
one with Brunel Univ. (UK),4th with Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany) and recent one
called Indo-German Advanced Workshop in IMA, Bhubaneswar during Feb 22-March 02, 2013).
three advanced level instructional schools on modern PDEs, four international conferences in
IITB and another two international conferences : one in MS University, Vadodara and other in
IIT Kanpur, etc.
– One of the members of organising committees of several international conferences in India and
abroad with more recent one is in UFPR, Curitiba(Brazil) during December 4-10,2010 and other
in Chiangmai University, Chiangmai ( Thailand) during January 06-07, 2011, and etc.
– In honor of my 60th birthday, a conference on Recent Advances in PDE: Theory, Computa-
tions and Applications was organized from June 8–10, 2017 at the IIT Bombay to acknowledge
his outstanding contribution for the growth of applied mathematics in India. The conference
brought together national and international experts in the area and paved a way for discussion
on theoretical as well as computational aspects of PDEs with emphasis on challenging scientific
and industrial applications.
– In honor of my 65th Birthday and 60th Birthday of Professor Carsten Carstensen an International
Conference on Computational Partial Differential Equations and Applications (ICCPDEA-2022)
was organised in BML Munjal University, Noida during September 6-8,2022.

Achievements

BITS Pilani opens new Bengaluru Center in HSR Layout, aims to develop budding entrepreneurs and researchers

I have established and managed several initiatives and programs that support start-up creation and growth, such as the BITS Goa Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship Society (BGIIES), the BITS BIRAC BioNEST, the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, and the Idea to Start-up course. I have supported over 100 start-ups to receive funding, mentoring, incubation, and/or networking opportunities, and have created a pool of mentors and speakers from the BITS alumni network and the Indian start-up ecosystem. I have set up tech focused incubators and attracted startups from across the country , with young innovators and reputed scientists.

Establishing: Two incubators (TIDE 2013 and BioNEST 2017-recognised as in top 10 bio incubators in India by Biospectrum) a fund of Rs 3.15 cr (SISFS 2022), the incubation Society (BGIIES 2020). Last but with the biggest reach, running the flagship New Venture Creation (NVC) course across our four campuses since 2012 with pro bono support of alumni from across the world. As speakers, evaluators and mentors. And sometimes as investors.

Selected Awards and Honours

Technical Session Chair - ChEmference 2023, BITS Pilani Goa Campus 30th Sept-2nd Oct 2023.
Chief guest on the occasion of ‘World Environment Day – 2023’ at Paradeep Phosphates Ltd. Zuarinagar Goa on 3rd of June, 2023, organized by Green Triangle Society, Goa.
Technical Session Chair for International Conference on Reaction Engineering (ICRE 2021) held at National Institute of Technology Raipur (May, 2021)
Best Oral Presentation Award During conference on “Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science (ACES-2020)” held at IISER Bhopal, Feb 2020.
Early Career Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB)-DST, 2019.
Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) award, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, 2017
The electrochemical society (ECS) travel award in the Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division (2016).
Session Chair for The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Pacific Rim conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (2016) - Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry General session.

Achievements

Reviewer for the following journals:

Qualitative Research in Financial Markets

Journal of Financial Economic Policy

Faculty Achievements

Delivered an oral presentation at the “Biotechnology for Better Tomorrow” (National Research University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 16^th & 17^th May, 2024). Title of the talk 'The lytic proteins of bacteriophage Phi11-our shield to counter Antimicrobial resistance'.Was awarded the Best Oral presenter certificate.

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Shortlisted as a finalist in C-CAMP AMR Quest 2020. Presented a proposal on 'Development of Therapeutic phages to combat antibiotic
resistant Staphylococci infections in livestock and humans'

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:da01bcad-c42d-48e5-b1f5-9f03da0735f6

Achievements: Recent to the very distant past

2023, 24: TCS Affiliate Professor

2022: Visiting Professor, Australian Centre for Health Informatics, Macquarie University,

Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales

2021: Google “Impact Scholar” (AI for Social Good Program),

TCS Affiliate Professor, BITS-Pilani

2020: Top 2% of AI Scientists in a worldwide survey by Elsevier and Stanford University

2015: Class of 1981 Chaired Professorship, BITS-Pilani

2012: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, British Royal Academy of Engineering.

2012: Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford

2011: Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales

2009: Ramanujan Fellowship

1998: Nuffield Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Mathematics

Research Fellow, Green College, Oxford

1992: Pacific Diagnostics Prize

1987: Harold G. Conde Memorial Fellow

Australian Post Graduate Research Award

Australian Government Higher Education Scholarship

University of New South Wales Dean’s Scholarship

1983: Tyree–Westinghouse Scholar for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Awards

Distinguished faculty award at the BITSAA first global meet held at New Delhi in 2011, at the hands of the C.M. of Maharashtra

Major Achievements

Received most prestigious J C Bose National Fellowship that will be valid from 2024 to 2029.
Project Director of BioCyTIH, a 125 crore project from DST-SERB. This is the only mega national mission mode project funded to private institutes. The project is on Bio-Cyber Physical Systems.
More than 22 projects are funded within all 3 BITS Pilani campuses in India. One of the highest funded project in BITS Pilani system. Currently, we are looking for the most potential innovators and engage them in our newly built BITS-BioCyTIH Innovation Center at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.
Worked with several faculties and received at least 6 major projects in the institute that are funded from DST, SERB, DBT. Total amount of fund is about 132 crores.
Introduced of new courses and Teaching in several biological subjects at BITS Pilani, Goa campus
Coordinating with several scientists at BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus for giving handouts on time, Making questions, Taking exams and attending exams as invigilator in all the exams related to the subjects taught.
Edited a new book on Nucleic Acid Biology and its Application in Human Diseases comprising more than 500 pages from Nature, Springer, 2023.
Published large number of high impact papers (total number: 23) in international journals (Average impact factor more than 9.5) including one publication in Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 with impact factor 61.2
Several patents including detection systems for Thermostable insulin, Covid 19 antiviral peptide, detection system for of ammonia and urea and detection of cysteine.
Chairman, Board of Directors, National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER-Hajipur). Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Pharmacology, Ministry of Coal and Fertilizer, New Delhi. This will be valid till 2025.
Became member of selection committee of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
Became expert core member for faculty selection of CSIR institutes like CMAP, IGIB, CDRI, CFTRI etc. and also IISER-Tirupati.
Arranging, Attending and presenting in national and international conferences. Joint Convener, Society for Biological Chemists (SBC-2023), December 18-20, 2023.
Edited a new book on Nucleic Acid Biology and its Application in Human Diseases comprising more than 500 pages from Nature, Springer, 2023. Twelve chapters written by renowned national and international researchers in the field. More than 5000 copies of the book is sold throughout the world and the book is now available in most of the world famous institute libraries.
Published 23 papers in last 4 years with average impact factor of more than 8.0 including one in Chemical Society Reviews (Impact factor: 61.0), from Royal Society of Chemistry. The average impact factor of all publications together has reached above 9.0
Chairman, Board of Governors, NIPER-Hajipur, Bihar (under ministry of Chemical and Fertilizer). 2022 onwards.
Became expert scientist of Recruitment and Assessment Board (RAB), CSIR- New Delhi. Scientist recruitment done in recent times in major Indian institutes like, IGIB, New Delhi; CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow; CMAP, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow.
Selected as the Member of scientist selection core committee IISER-Tirupati.
Selected as the Sectional Committee member, Indian Academy of Science (IAS), Bangalore from 2022 onwards.
Joint Convener, Society for Biological Chemists (SBC-2023). The conference is organized at the BITS-Pilani, Goa campus during December 18th to 21st, 2023. More than 100 national and international speakers and about 1000 students participated in this mega event.
Received two major patents on, 1. Design and optimizing peptide that stabilizes insulin (TRL-6), in the process of commercialization Guffic Bioscience Limited and other international companies. Currently, it is in phase 1 stage to look for bioavailability and bio degradability. 2. Small peptide as therapeutic against Covid 19.
Guiding as PI for Four Ph D students and two Research Associates, Three Ph D students will finish their degree in 2027. Research Associates in the BioCyTIH project and DBT are working on translation research at the BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus and Bose Institute, Kolkata. Received new DBT project (94 lakhs). One SRF and one RA will be recruited.
MOU for doing collaborative research with, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata; NCCS, Pune; Bose Institute, Kolkata
Convener, International conference VAIBHAB (Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik Summit), A global summit of overseas and resident Indian scientists and Academicians, Oct 15th, 2020). Attended several National and International conferences as chair/ speaker.
Served as task Force member on the Basic and Disease Biology programs at DBT, DST and CSIR, Govt of India, New Delhi. (2020-till date)

Recognitions and Participations:

Senior Professor & Shri B K Birla & Shrimati Sarala Birla Chair Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at BITS-Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus (2020- 2025)
Chairman, Board of Governors (BoG), Under Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizer, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research – Hajipur, Patna (2022- 2027).
Project Director, 2021-2025, National Mission Project (125 Crores) for the Bio-Cyber Physical Systems and Technology Innovation Hub. BioCyTIH Foundation, BITS-Pilani.
Member of the Senate/ Academic Council, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani)
Director, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata, 2015 August to Dec 2019.
Director, North-East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST), Jorhat, Assam (Acting Director, 2018- 2019).
Founder Director, CSIR-IICB-TRUE Translation Research Unit of Excellence, Kolkata, Inaugurated, 2016
Scientist selection as Domain expert (Nominated by DG-CSIR), CSIR-Recruitment and Assessment Board (RAB), 2021- 2026.
Project Director, Kalyani Cohort, Systems Medicine Cluster for Translation research on Oral and Cervical Cancer, 145 Crores project, DBT, New Delhi
Senior Professor, ACSIR, New Delhi 2015-2019.
Development Group of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi Task Force member, Basic Biology and Animal Science, DBT, New Delhi, 2019-2022
Member, Sectional Committee, Indian Academy of Science, IAS, Bangalore
Research Council Member, CCMB, Hyderabad, 2017-2020.
Research Council Member, IMTECH, Chandigarh, 2017-2020.
Convener, Sectional Committee, Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (2017 onwards)
Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Sciences (FAScT), 2016
Reviewer of Journals: Virology, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Cell Biology International, Elsevier, International Journal of Cancer, Journal Bioscience, International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, FEBS Journal, PLoS journals, Scientific Reports, CMLS, iScience etc.

Awards, Honours, Recognitions

Awards, Honours, Recognitions:

Received Research Excellence Award in Basic Science, a BITS Goa,
Recipient of BK 21 fellowship of Korea Government for Postdoctoral studies, 2006-2007.
Recipient of DST Fast-Track sponsorship for young scientists.
Recipient of UGC-JRF, CSIR-JRF and CSIR-SRF for doctoral studies.
Qualified GATE, 1998.
CSIR travel grant for Singapore visit to attend ICMAT2017.
I am featured in the “League of Extra Ordinary Chemists” in the newsletter of the Tokyo Chemical Industries (TCI) (India) Pvt. Ltd. Volume 13.

Membership of Professional Societies:

Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC). [membership no. 574182]

Member of American Chemical Society. [membership no. 30064322]

Life member of Indian Association of Cultivation of Sciences.

Life member of Chemical Research Society, India. (life member, LM1610)

Life member of Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists, India (ACCTI) [LM/234/2014].

Life member of Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences, India (ISRAPS, No. 522).

Life member of Association of Separation Scientists and Technologists (ASSET)

Editorial board member of the following international journals: 1) Frontiers in Chemistry (from 2019); 2) General Chemistry (from 2019); 3) Oriental Journal of Chemistry (from 2016); 4) Transstellar Journal Publications and Research Consultancy Private Limited (TJPRC, from 2015).

Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry (from 2022).

Achievements

NBHM (national) scholarship for M.Sc. awarded by National Board for Higher Mathematics from

2003 to 2005.
Selection for NBHM (departmental) scholarship for M.Sc. awarded by National Board for Higher Mathematics from 2003 to 2005.
Qualified the UGC-CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Human resource Development group, Examination Unit in 2005.
Selection for VSRP program at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, summer 2005.
VATAT postdoctoral fellowship at University of Haifa, Israel from 2013 to 2016.
METRIC Grant, Project title: A study of homotopy invariants of a model category. Sponsored by SERB, India, 2018-2021.

Achievements

Awarded the CIHR Training Program in Reproduction, Early Development, and the Impact on Health (REDIH) post doctoral fellowship award to work as a post doctoral researcher in Montreal, Canada, January, 2012.
Awarded the second position for talk on “Biodiversity-Indian /hotspots and its conservation’ in the M.Sc. Seminar series 2003-2004, Dept. of Zoology, BHU, Varanasi.
Awarded the first oral presentation in the 25^th conference conducted by the Symposium on Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE), India.
Received the one of the four best presentation award in the International Conference and Humboldt-Kolleg on the Structural characterization and spectroscopy of materials relevant to nanotechnology, biomedical and geobiology, 2008.
Received a gold medal for the best poster presentation at the National Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology, Mumbai, 17-19^th December, 2009.
Visited the laboratory of R Sridaran, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA, for a period of two and a half months, 2007.
Presented a poster in the 4^th Indo Australian Conference in Biotechnology, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.
Received The Membership in Reproduction and Endocrinology (MRE) Award given by the Society of Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE), 2019.
Received The Prof. G P Talwar Gold Medal Award given by the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility (ISSRF), 2021.
Received The Prof. M A Akbarsha and Prof. M Michael Aruldhas Gold Medal Award given by the Society of Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE), 2021.
The National Academy of Sciences, NASI, India, member, selected 2023.

Achievements worthy of International recognition

Session chair of PHOTOMECHANICS - iDICs conference organized by the chairs of PhotoMechanics and the International DIC Society, France, 2024
An active member of International Digital Image Correlation Society https://idics.org/.
Only Indian in the Scientific Committee of PHOTOMECHANICS - iDICs conference organized by the chairs of PhotoMechanics and the International DIC Society https://pm-idics-2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1
Visited Experimental Mechanics group of the research institute “Institut Pascal” at Université Clermont Auvergne (Clermont Ferrand, France) to carry out Indo-French collaborative research work. Expenses for the travel (two-way airfare) and stay in France up to 3000 Euros were borne by Université Clermont Auvergne, Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Awards

Teaching Excellence Award, 2023
OPERA (Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics) Award, BITS Pilani 2018
Multiple Divisional Awards at Intel Corporation for improving circuit performance and yield on 22nm and 10nm technologies
J.N. Tata Endowment Fund for Engineers. 2001
Young Engineering Fellowship, 2000
Merit Scholarship for all semesters in BITS Pilani, 1997-2001

Achievements

The article “Viscous diffusion induced evolution of a vortex ring” has been selected by Editors of Physic of Fluids as an Editor’s Pick

Faculty Achievements

Professional Recognition:

Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)
Invited Affiliate Member of Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of American Chemical Society
Life member of The Association of Separation Scientists and Technologists (ASSET)
Life member of Indian Photobiology Society
Life Member of Indian Institute of Metal
Life member of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Reviewer panel member of New J Chemistry
Reviewer panel member of RSC Advances
Research Board, Advisor of Transstellar Journal Publications and Research Consultancy Private Limited (TJPRC).
Recipient of DST FAST Track young scientist project.
DST International travel grant for Singapore visit.
CSIR travel grant for Italy visit.

Awards and Honors

Recipient of Research Initiation Grant (RIG) and Additional Competitive Grant (ACG) from Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India.
Recipient of international travel grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Taiwan to present the paper at 2019 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference held at San Jose, USA.
Best Technology Development Award at IIT Indore in January 2019 (as part of the six-member team)
Best oral presentation award in 6^th International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities (ISIF 2017), New Delhi, India, for the session “CMOS Technology extended-Novel systems and approaches”.
The paper entitled “Hysteresis Free sub-60 mV/dec Subthreshold Swing in Junctionless MOSFETs” presented in 31^st International Conference on VLSI Design and 17^th International Conference on Embedded System (VLSID 2018), Pune, India, was shortlisted in top 10 best papers out of 90 accepted technical papers.
The research paper entitled “Transforming Gate Misalignment into a Unique Opportunity to Facilitate Steep Switching in Junctionless Nanotransistors” published in Nanotechnology selected for the Labtalk at nanotechweb.org.
Qualified National Eligibility TEST (NET) with Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) Award conducted by University Grants Commission (UGC) in June, 2013.
Gold Medalist in the Master of Science (Electronics) at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 2013.

Achievements

Professional Awards

Senior Member of IEEE
Senior Research Associate, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste.
DST 2004 International travel grant award for attending INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETISM (ICM'94), Warsaw.
ICTP grant for visiting the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 1994.

Achievements….

► Nominated as 'Fellow of Royal Society of Biological Science' (FRSB), UK in 2024.

►Received Educationist Per Excellence Award: 2023 by IIHT, India.

► Awarded ‘Young Investigator’ Pilot Project Grant by DBT ‘Cancer Biology Mission’ in 2016-2020.

►Awarded “Appreciation Certificate” by Memorial Sloan Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA, in 2008 for outstanding leadership and commitment in the Cancer Research in 2009.

►Awarded Research Associateship by Department of Cell and Molecular Biology [CWRU, Cleveland, USA in 2007.

►Offered a Fellowship by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), New York, USA for Post-Doctoral Training in 2004.

►Published a paper in one of the high-ranking Cell Press Journal about the role of some proteins in maintaining germ line stem cells niche in 2007, this paper was subsequently selected as top 20 cited papers in USA for the year 2007.

►Received CSIR, SRF by Govt. of India, New Delhi in 2002.

Contributions

Events and Workshops:

Organizing member (Exhibition stalls): 71st Annual Technical Meetings and 55th National Metallurgist Day, NMD-ATM, 2017 of Indian Institute of Metals at BITS during Nov 11-14, 2017.
Organizing member (venue organizer): BRNS meeting at BITS during May 12-13, 2016.
Organizing member (stage organizer): International Conference on Emerging Miniaturized Technology Micro to Nano (EMTM2N) at BITS during Feb 22-23, 2013.
Organized (Coordinator) short term workshop on “Hypermesh” with coordination with Design Tech and Altair team for B.Tech and M.Tech Students at BITS during Oct. 1-2, 2016. A certificate has be prepared and distributed for all participants.

Department Contributions:

Selection Committee member: For recruitment of Workshop Superintendent and Workshop Staff for 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Interview panel member: For Faculty recruitment at department level from 2014-Till date.
Interview panel member: For Ph.D. student selection from 2014-Till date.
Convener of the Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA), from Nov 2017 to Nov 2018.
Member of the Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA), from Nov 2016 to Nov 2017.
Member of Departmental Research Committee (DRC) for the year 2015-2016.
Member of Library Committee for the year 2013 – 2015.
Prepared Ph.D Poster for attracting aspirants from Industries and Academics during 2013 and the same is used for many years. Identified list of Industries and Academic Institutions for sending posters to attract candidates.
Worked in a team to develop courses such as (i) Production Techniques Lab, (ii) MEL Lab, (iii) Engineering Optimization and (iv) PPC simulator for WILP
Faculty Coordinator for Placement division for students of Department of Mechanical Engineering (2016-2017) and conducted pre-placement lectures.
Represented Goa campus on using FlexSim simulator in industrial environments as part of introducing software to WILP division, held during 26th-28th March 2015 at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.
Worked in a team to revise BE (Mechanical Engineering) curriculum 2020.
Established Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Facility at Workshop in 2016.

Institute Contributions:

Nucleus member of Academic Research Division (ARD), 2017-2018.
Warden for AH-9 hostel from 2016 to 2019.
Member of committee for selection of best project under Suresh Ramaswamy memorial award (SuRa Award) during 2015-Till date.
Member of committee for Project selection and guidance in SANDBOX Lab during 2018-19. Guided students for procurement of various machines.
Member of committee for Project Lakshya under Faculty Recruitment process headed by BITS Goa campus Director during 2019 - 2020.
Faculty coordinator for the annual cultural festival “WAVES-2018”, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus.
Member of IIM Goa Chapter (BITS) and contributed to various activities. Appointed as Treasurer for 2020-2021 and part of executive committee for 2019-2020.
Instructor for PS I at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (IGCAR) during summer 2013.
Instructor for PS I at Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS), Kalpakkam during summer 2013.
Instructor PS I at Redipalayam Cement Work (Aditya Birla group) during summer 2017.
Performed the duty of Presiding Officer during Goa Legislative assembly Elections, 2017.

Personal Developments:

Invited talk on “Surface coating and TBC” at FDP on Cutting Edge Technology and Contemporary Research in Mechanical Engineering, organized by Saranathan College of Engineering,Tiruchi on 11^th June 2019.
Invited talk on “Recent trends in FEA” at Modern Engineering College, Pune on 13^th February, 2016. The theme of the workshop is to introduce nonlinear FEA for students of undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Invited talk on “SCM-New Trends” at Supply chain Event @ TATA motors limited Thane on 14^th June, 2016 at Vivanta by Taj, Panji, Goa. The audiences are from various Industries: Buyers, Procurement and Senior Officials of Logistics & Service.
Invited talk on “μED-Milling: Process and Tool wear compensation” at 4th Theme Meeting on “Micro Nano Technology in Service of Rural India” at Pandharpur on 12^th -13^th April, 2015. The theme meeting is to showcase the developments at BARC, RRCAT, IITK, IITB, IITD, PSG, BITS Goa, National Labs and societal work being pursued by these centers.
Nominated by Anna University, Chennai as an Examiner to evaluate the Ph.D. Thesis for research scholar Ms. R.Rekha (Reg.No.2010S2012014) and conducted Viva-Voce examination on 27.09.2017 in Saranathan College Engineering, Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu.
Nominated by Anna University, Chennai as an Examiner to evaluate the Ph.D. Thesis for research scholar Mr. TG Arul (Reg.No. 10960321006) and conducted Viva-Voce examination on 01.07.2017 in, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
Reviewer for many Journals and Conferences
Member of Society: IIM, IIIE, ASME, IEEE

Awards

Frederick Palmer Prize 2021 - Awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), UK for best research paper of the year in the Journal ' Structures & Buildings, Proceedings of the ICE, UK'
NUS Research Scholarship (2013-2017) - Awarded for PhD at the National University of Singapore
Birla White Yuvaratna Award 2010 - National level 1st Prize (75000 INR cash award) for research on white cement, presented by Birla White Cements Pvt. Ltd.
Harshvardhan Poppireddy Memorial Young Leader Award 2011 - For all-round performance during under-graduation
Lakshmi Narayana Gold Medal 2011 - Institute level 1st rank for overall academic aggregate during under-graduation
Mohammad Mujeebuddin Memorial Gold Medal 2011 (under-graduation)
Osmania University Rank Certificate - Ranked 5^th among all affiliated institutions under Osmania University (under-graduation)

Achievements

Scientific leadership [e.g., any significant roles in the greater academic community]. Major editorial responsibilities, service on external committees, conference organization, technology licensing (or company start-up), public outreach activities, and institutional administrative responsibilities (e.g., departmental or student committees)

Appreciation as reviewer (i) Royal Society of Chemistry (ii) American Chemical Society: (iii) Wiley & Elsevier Journals, since 2012.
Life member of the Society of Environmental Chemistry and Allied Sciences (SECAS), INDIA, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, from 2012.
Invited affiliate Member, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK., 2013.
Executive member of the Society of Environmental Chemistry and Allied Sciences, (SECAS), INDIA, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, from 2014.
Awarded EACH- Excellence in Analytical Chemistry Visiting Lecturer at University of Tartu, Estonia, under the Erasmus + Funding, EU, 2016.
Convener, Fourth International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes, 2016, at BITS, Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus. India, AOP-2016
Guest Editor, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Elsevier, Published Special issue, Advanced Oxidation Processes at BITS, Pilani, AOP-2016.
Project Lakshya Champion from BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus. Worked closely with Boston Consultancy Group (BCG) for review and upgradation of policies concerning the Faculty & Staff of BITS Pilani, 2017.
Convener, First School on Advanced Oxidation Processes S-AOP, held in Goa, India, at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, (BITS-Pilani), K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, 2018.
Head of Department (HoD), Chemistry, BITS, Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, since 2019 to till date
Invited expert member in the Goa State Pollution Control Board Committee for Environment audit, and disposal of hazardous wastes, 2020.
Nodal Officer for Vigyan Jyoti Project, DST, India, and BITS Pilani, 2020. Coordinated several invited talks and workshop by BITS faculty for the school students. BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus is a knowledge partner (KP) in this DST sponsored project, to Kendriya Vidyalaya School, Canacona Goa of JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA CANACONA, SOUTH GOA (GOA), Phase - 2), This project is an Initiative to promote interest in Science & Technology amongst Girls Students (Sponsored & Funded by Dept. Of Science & Technology, Govt. Of India).
Co-opted expert member in the first meeting of Programme Advisory Committee for Earth and Atmospheric Sciences of DST, International cooperation Division, DST, India DST, India, 2022, Evaluation of BRICS country international cooperation research projects (on water research).
Lead Editor of the book title Photo- and Electrochemical Water TreatmentFor the Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern. Edited by Halan Prakash, Rita S. Dhodapkar and Kevin G. McGuigan, Hardback ISBN: 978-1-83916-501-6, PDF ISBN: 978-1-83916-735-5, Royal Society of Chemistry Publications, Book Series:Chemistry in the Environment, No. of Pages: 410, Publication date:21 Dec 2022 https://doi.org/10.1039/9781839167355

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-83916-501-6

Research Excellence Award, 2023, Awarded by BITS, Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, 2023.

Awards

Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovative Student Project Award, Doctoral Level, 2017
OPERA (Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics) 2017 – BITS Pilani
Certificate of Excellence (2016) – GE Appliances / Tech Mahindra
Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) - Lockheed Martin - Gold Medal - Top 10 Innovation Award 2015 - IC2 Business Development Support.
National award (Govt. of India) for Technology Innovation in various Field of Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastic Processing Industry – 2015.
Young Innovator Of India at Health Technology Innovations (IIT Bombay) under "Make In India" Conclave – 2015.
Best Oral Presentation Award in Research Scholars Day- Department of Chemical Engineering-2015.
IChemE Global Award (Top 5 shortlist) for Dhirubhai Ambani Award for Outstanding Chemical Engineering Innovation for Resource-Poor People (held in Birmingham - Nov 5th 2015).

Awards/Fellowships/Others

Selected for Indian National Science Academy's bilateral exchange program to visit Hebrew University of Jerusalem in June-July 2017.
DST travel award to attend Plant genome evolution, a current opinion conference at NH Grand Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6-8th September 2015.
Indo- Australia Science and technology early career visiting fellowship from December 2012 to March 2013 to visit the laboratory of Prof. Dean Price of Plant Science Division, Australian National University, Canberra by the Indian National Science academy.
DST travel award to attend the 18th Penn State Plant Biology Symposium at Pennsylvania State university, Pennsylvania, USA. May 2011.

5. Conference organized: Co-Convener, BITS Conference on Gene and Genome Regulations (BCGGR-2016), February 18-20, 2016, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, India

6. Reviewed Research articles for

Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Journal of Phycology, Reviewer of journal genes and genomics (Springer), Reviewer of International Journal of Biotechnology & Bioengineering

7. Evaluated international collaborative research project from IC/IMAPCTS Canada and DBT, India

8. PAC member for OEC PAC 2021, Evaluated projects for SERB, India

9. Delivered talk in Bilateral BITS-TAU Workshop on Food Safety and Security, November 21-22, 2016

10. External examiner at IIS University, Jaipur in October 2017.

11. Invited/selected as examiner of PhD thesis from Punjab University and VNSGU, Surat.

Awards and other research activities

Achievements

Received "Very Good" grade for ECR project sponsored by SERB (2020).
Early Career Research Award from DST-SERB (2016-19)
Best Presentation Award in the IUMRS Conference at IISc Bangalore (2013)
DST Young Scientist Travel Grant (2011)
MHRD Fellowship for pursuing PhD (2009-14)
Gold Medalist in M Tech (2009)
GATE Fellowship (2007-09)

Editorial Positions

Associate Editor (Guest) in Frontiers in Materials - 2022

Reviewer Activity

DST-SERB grant applications
UGC grant applications
ACS Applied Nanomaterials
Nature Scientific Reports
Journal of Energy Storage
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Ceramics International
International Journal of Fatigue
Journal of Non-crystalline Solids
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
Energies
Batteries
Sustainability
Materials
Qeios
Symmetry
International Journal of Pressure Vessels & Piping
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Journal of Composite Materials
Materials Today Proceedings
Macromolecular Symposia
Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies
International Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management
Journal of Petroleum and Gas Engineering
Applied Sciences
Energy Storage
International Journal of Materials Research
Journal of Nanomaterials

Awards and Recognition

Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) Award, Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, India, 2021
ACS Spring Meeting Travel Award, American Chemical Society, USA, 2017
Best Poster Award, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA, 2016
Best Poster Award, Florida International University, Miami, USA, 2016
Best Thesis Award, Indian Institute of Science, India, 2016
Best Seminar Award, Indian Institute of Science, India, 2013
Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR-JRF), Govt. of India, 2010
Integrated-PhD Fellowship, Indian Institute of Science, India, 2008
Cunningham Memorial Prize for highest marks in Chemistry, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, India, 2008

Awards and Achievements

Teaching Excellence Award, 2023 , BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
European Union Center of Excellence, Project: R&D collaboration between industries and universities under changing IPR regime in the European Union, Principal Investigator, 2008
Teaching Assistantship, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, USA
Tom Slick Fellowship: Awarded to exceptional PhD candidates to support dissertation work
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Texas A&M University, USA
American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Travel Grant, 2011
Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Texas A&M University, USA
1st Place winner, 7th Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium, Texas A&M University
2nd Place winner, Student Research Symposium, 2011, Texas A&M University
International Education Fee Scholarship, Texas A&M University
AUF-Liberal Arts Graduate Student Scholarship, Texas A&M University
Who's Who Among Students in American Universities
Ford Foundation Scholarship: Awarded to top 3 students in M.A. course at J.N.U.
National Scholarship, Govt. of India for performance in B.Sc. Economics Honour
Swami Lokeswarananda Scholarship, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
Dhiresh Bhattacharya Award for B.Sc. Economics Honors: 1st place in College
National Scholarship, Government of India (1996, 1998)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Prof. Subhadeep Banerjee is the founder director of the startup firm FLUORESIGHT BIOPROBES PVT. LTD. incubated at BGIIES bioincubator, dealing with manufacturing of novel fluorophores for bioimaging.

FLUORESIGHT BIORPBES PVT. LTD is the proud recipient of the prestigious Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) of DBT-BIRAC in their 21st call.

Company website

Achievements

Delegated as Session Chair for the “International Conference on Applied Economics and Finance”, organized by BITS Pilani, November 3-4, 2023.

Delegated as Session Chair (Track - Investment Management) for the International Conference, “FORE International Finance Conference 2022” organized by FORE School of Management, New Delhi on 25-26th November, 2022.

Delegated as Session Chair in the International Conferences: “Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance, Singapore”.

Awarded “Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing” by the Journal of the Operational Research Society for the year 2021.

Founder and In-charge of “Behavioral & Economic Lab” at the Department of Economics & Finance, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus.

Ad-hoc reviewer for, “Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing”, “Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance”, “Journal of Operational Research Society”, “Review of Behavioral Finance”, “VILAKSHAN - XIMB Journal of Management”, “Decision”, “Finance Research Letters”, “Financial Innovation”, and “Economic Systems”.

Awards & Recognitions

Received full funding grant from Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to attend the workshop in 2019 at ICTP, Italy. (Ref: SMR/3294/TA31040420)
Secured All India 3rd Rank in recruitment of Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering through NPIU-TEQIP III project (2017) of MHRD and World Bank.
Awarded ‘Young Scientist Fellowship’ as International Travel Support (ITS) from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India to attend Summer Program at the University of Tokyo & ICHARM, Japan in 2016. (DST Ref. No.: ITS/1938/2016-17)
Awarded “Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP)”, funded by the Netherlands Government to attend the short course at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands in 2016 (Ref No: CS-SA/CLB/mta/51079) and 2017 (Ref No: CS-SA/CLB/1034438)
Received partly fellowship grant from UN-CECAR to attend the training program at SLIIT, Sri Lanka organized by United Nations University, Japan in 2015.

Awards

Received "Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leaders" citation at 6th World Education Congress on 23 Nov 2017.
Received "WOMEN IN EDUCATION" Award from The Dewang Mehta National Education Awards on 15th April 2017.
Received the Best Paper Award (Runner) in I-CARE 2013 (5th IBM Collaboration Academia Research exchange) for the paper titled “Comparative study on effectiveness of standard bug prediction approaches”
Finalist for “INAE YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE YEAR – 2009”.
Conclave Invitee for “GOOGLE INDIA WOMEN IN ENGINEERING” award in February 2008.
Received “Best paper of the year 2008” in the computer Engineering section at Annual technical Session by institution of Engineers AP state center.
Received “YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE YEAR 2007” award from Andhra Pradesh state govt and the Institution of Engineers AP state center.
Received BEST PAPER OF THE SESSION award for presenting a paper on “Data Mining Approaches for Insilco Drug Design” in the International Conference on systemics, Cybernetics and ICSCI 2005 organized by Pentagram Research Center Pvt Ltd in Jan-05.

Awards & Fellowship

Received Highly Commendable Research Paper Award (jointly with Dr. Kaushik Bhattacharya) at the 2nd PAN IIM World Management Conference held at IIM Kozhikode during November 5-8, 2014.
Awarded UGC-NET Certificate in Economics (December 2012).

Achievements

Awards:

Recipient of "Most Prominent Contributors to Innovation" presented at the World Innovation Congress 2023 and citation endorsed by Asian Innovation Congress & Awards, The Business Leader of the Year and World Sustainability, Feb 2023.
One of the top 75 women entrepreneurs of the country profiled in a Coffee Table book released by Prime Minister during the 7 th foundation day ceremony of BIRAC in 2022.
First runner up of TiE Global Women Entrepreuner Pitching Competition 2022.
South India Women Achiever's Award for 2019 under the category of "Outstanding Educator" received on 22nd December 2019 at Chennai organised by Syrafills.
TiE-BIRAC WinER Award 2019 for Women in Entrepreneurial Research received at the 7th Foundation Day Ceremony of BIRAC on 19th March 2019, New Delhi, India.
Best Paper Award in the Category of Food Research Jan 2019-at the International Conference on Biotechnological Innovations in Food and Healthcare, 27-28 January 2019, Dubai, UAE.
Recipient of Outstanding Research Faculty Award for the academic year 2017-18 certified by Careers 360 in the Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics discipline as one of the top 10 knowledge producers in India.
Received "Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leaders" at the World Education Congress 2017 held at Taj Lands, Mumbai on 23rd November 2017.
Recipient of Women in Education Award presented at the Dewang Mehta National Education Awards function held at Institute of Public Enterprises, Hyderabad on 15th April 2017.
Recipient of BILL and MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION GLOBAL HEALTH TRAVEL AWARD 2017 to present paper at the Keystone Symposium on Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy at British Columbia, Canada in March 2017.
Received i3 Gold Award for Best Innovator of the year 2016 at the 8th India Innovation Initiative conducted by CII, DST, AICTE and Yi at New Delhi, 18-19th Oct 2016.
Recipient of BITSAA Prof. Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award for the year 2015.
Awarded the Best Drug Discovery Innovation for the start up idea at the International Knowledge Millennium Conference 2015 (IKMC2015): Spreading the Innovation Spirit at Hyderabad, 2-3 Nov 2015.
International Association for the Study of Pain conferred an Award for Excellence in Pain Research and Management in Developing Countries under the Basic Science research category received at the 15th World Congress on Pain, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2014. (View in this link http://www.iasp-pain.org/Meetings/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=3291&navItemNumber=3297.
Recipient of INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH “Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize 2010” for excellent biomedical research honored in August 2013.
Recipient of "YOUNG PHARMACY TEACHER OF THE YEAR 2007" awarded by the Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India.
Best Paper in Podium presentation was awarded in the 11th APTI national Convention held in September 1-3, 2006 at Bangalore for the paper entitled "Synthesis of 4-(1,3-dioxo-1,3-dihydro-2H-isoindol-2-yl)-N-(substituted phenyl)butanamides possessing antiallodynic and antihyperalgesic activities in two rat models of neuropathic pain".
Recipient of "Young Scientist" by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India under Fast track Funding scheme.
Recipient of “Sevaratna” Dr. R.Venkatesalu Gold Medal for securing First rank in B.Pharm of The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University.
Recipient of Tamilnadu Pharmacy Scientific Trust, Chennai Gold Medal for Topper in B.Pharmacy in the Tamilnadu State
Recipient of First Prize award in Tamilnadu State, Chennai. for B.Pharmacy awarded by The Tamilnadu Pharmacy Council
Awarded Junior Fellowship by the UGC during the period 1996-1998.
Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by the UGC during the period 2000-2001.

Professional Recognition:

Organiser of "International Conference on Drug Discovery (ICDD) 2020" in association with Schrodinger Inc, USA at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus, 29th Feb-2nd March 2020.
Jury Member of the Prestigious initiative of Merck Young Scientist Award 2019 & 2021.
Nominated Member, Steering Committee, Rajasthan State Level Implementation of Startup Policy Drafting and Commissioning of iStart Program since September 2017.
Member, Board of Studies, Anurag Group of Institutions since 2019.
Member, Board of Studies, JNTU, Hyderabad since 2019.
Program Committee member of "World Congress on Cancer Research" held at Goa on 5-7 October, 2017.
Scientific Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Trend Setting Innovations in Chemical Sciences & Technology-Applications in Pharma Industry (TSCST-2015) held on 16-18 December 2015 under TEQIP-II, JNTUH, Hyderabad
Expert Reviewer, Neurobiology projects, DBT, Govt. of India
Scientific Reviewer, "International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing" Organised by Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vishakapatnam, 19-20 Dec 2015.
Resource person, "Brainstorming Session on Retrosynthesis", at the National Conference on Infectious Diseases- A Medicinal Chemistry Perspective, sponsored by DST & KSCTC held on 29-30 Aug 2014, AIMS, Kochi.
Expert Reviewer, "International Conference on Computational Intelligence: Health and Diseases" Organised by IBCB, Vishakapatnam, 27-28 Dec 2014, Andhra University, A.P.
Program Technical Committee Member, 3rd ScienceOne Conference on Drug Discovery and Development (SCDDD) 2014, Jan 21-24, Dubai.
Commisioning Editor of an international journal, "International Journal of Drug Design & Discovery" published by Pharma Book Syndicate, India.
Member, Institutional Ethical Committee, Molecular Diagnostics, Counselling, Care & Research Centre, Coimbatore, India
Chairperson, Institutional Ethical Committee, Army College of Dental Sciences, Hyderabad, India
Editorial Advisory Board Member of an international journal, "Recent Patents on CNS Drug Discovery" published by Bentham Science Publishers (USA & The Netherlands).
Editorial Advisory Board Member of an international journal, "International Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis" published by Bioinfo Publishers, USA.
Editorial Board Member of an international journal "International Journal of Biomedical Sciences" published by Master publishing group, USA.
Editorial Board Member of an international journal "Therapeutic Targets for Neurological Disorders" published by Smart Science & Technology, USA.
Editorial Board Member of an international journal "The Pharma Professionals" published by Clinfocus Research Pvt. Ltd., India
Member, Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE)
Member, Confederation of Women Entrepreuners (COWE)
Member, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
Member, Canadian Pharmaceutical society
Member, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
Life Member, Indian Pharmacological Society (IPS)
Life Member of Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India (APTI)
Member, Board of Studies for Pharmaceutical Sciences, JNTU, Hyderabad.
Ph.D. Examiner, JNTU, Hyderabad
Expert reviewer of the International journals of

· Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (ACS, USA)

· Journal of Chemical Information & Modeling (ACS, USA)

· European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier)

· Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier)

· Drug Discovery Today (Elsevier)

· Recent Patents on CNS Drug Discovery (Bentham)

· Current Enzyme Inhibition (Bentham)

· Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (Blackwell Publishing)

· Brain Research (Elsevier)

· International Journal of Biomedical Science (Master Publishing group, USA)

· Archive der Pharmazie (Wiley VCH)

· European Journal of Pain (Elsevier)

· Brain Research (Elsevier)

· Medicinal Research Reviews (Wiley)

· Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (Informa Health)

· Expert Opinion on Drug Safety (Informa Health)

· Archive der Pharmazie (Wiley)

· Drug Discovery Today (Elsevier)

Awards and Recognition

Won V. V. Narlikar Best Thesis Award 2016-2018 by Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation.
Corporate membership of International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation from 2019 to 2022.
INSPIRE fellowship for Bachelor and Masters level basic sciences from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2017.

Award Fellowships and Recognition

Received International Recognition, "World’s top 2% Scientists”, list based on Elsevier/Stanford University 2021 data.
Certified Senior Data Scientist, United States Data Science Institute (USDSI™), 2021
Received 120$ as Honorarium from Elsevier for reviewing a book proposal.
Recognition for the Contribution to the International Conference (ROPEC 2017, Ixtapa, Mexico) as Special Session Organizer.
Awarded Certificate for the second position in M.Tech Examination.
Outstanding reviewer award by Biomedical Signal processing and Control Journal, Elsevier, 2016.
Outstanding reviewer award by Knowledge-based system Journal, Elsevier, 2017.
Outstanding reviewer award by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2017.
MHRD Ph.D. Fellowship (2013-2017)
GATE M.Tech Fellowship (2011-2013).

Awards

SERB - International Research Fellowship Award ( SIRE - 2022) for collaboration with University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Canada for research on "Virtual Inertia Monitoring in Active Distribution Networks".

Achievements

Awarded for achievement in the project "Indicators for Disaster Preparedness" by the Provention Consortium and the World Bank, at Washington, D.C. July 28, 2006, for achievements in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

4) BITS Pilani Sparkle Grant: Generating Actionable Information for Social Welfare Queries using Large Language Models, Total Outlay: INR 2,00,000

3) BITS Pilani New Faculty Seed Grant: Developing Novel AI-based techniques for assisting Indian Legal System, Total Outlay: INR 20,00,000

2) OpenAI Researcher Access and API Award, Awarded GPT-4 OpenAI credits worth $7000 for researching fair usage of Large Language Models.

1) Grant from Ministry of Tribal Research. Machine Translation of Indian Tribal Languages

Global Distinguished Young Scientist Award-2023, IEEE Industry Application Society.

CSIR Travel Grant- 2023, CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi.

Research Excellence Travel Award-2023, IIT Delhi.

Best Paper Award, 2023 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Technologies (GlobConHT), Maldives.

Honors

Gold medal for securing top rank in University of North Bengal in Microbiology (Hons.).
Gold medal for securing top rank in University of North Bengal in Biotechnology.

Personal Highlights

Seminars

S.No	Name of Award	Awarding Agency	Year
1	Dr. Anji Reddy award for Best Scientist	Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories	2020
2	Dr. J.M. Khanna Memorial Distinguished Career Achievement Award	CSIR-CDRI	2018
4	GPAT-2010	Secured AIR- 2 out of 40000 candidates	2010
5	Gold Medalist (Post graduation)	IIT BHU	2013
6	University topper (graduation)	Kumaon University	2010
7	CSIR- CDRI Incentive Award for Publications	CSIR-CDRI	2015
8	GATE-CSIR JRF and SRF from 2012 onwards	CSIR	2012-2017
9	Postgraduate GATE Fellowship	AICTE	2010-2012
10	International Travel grant	DST	2015

Achievement

Honours:

Felicitated by the Vice Chancellor, BITS, Pilani, in appreciation for more than 25 years of dedicated service at BITS on 31^st August,2014.
Felicitated by the Director, BITS, Pilani - Hyderabad campus for major contribution to the Phase-I completion of New Campus construction at Hyderabad on 8th November,2014.

Academic Achievements

Awarded full travel grant for XXX Meeting of the Economics of Education Association, held in Porto, Portugal, June 30- July 1, 2022 (could not attend).
Received: Certificate of excellence in Reviewing- in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the 2018 Global Conference on Business and Economics organized by the Association of North America Higher Education International, Inc.
Sudatta Banerjee's (co-authored) paper "Determinants of Female Autonomy across Indian states" was adjudged the best paper of the session award at the 5th International Conference on Economics, Business and Management - ICEBM 2014 held Dec 27-28, 2014 in Phuket Island, Thailand
2007-2010 Awarded the Senior Research Fellowship by The University Grants Commission.
2005-07 Awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by The University Grants Commission.
2004- Qualified NET (National Eligibility Test) for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lecturership, jointly conducted by The University Grants Commission, National Educational Testing Bureau.
2005- Qualified the Tenth State Level Eligibility Test for Lecturership, conducted by The West Bengal College Service Commission (Accredited by University Grants Commission, New Delhi).
2002-04 Awarded National Scholarship by the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, National Scholarship Scheme.

Awards/Fellowships

DST-International Travel Award (March 2020)
Young Investigator Meet (2019) India Bioscience
INSPIRE Faculty Award Jan, 2018 (Selected)
UGC-DS Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2017)
Bristol-Myers Squibb Scholarship, India (2011)
Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, India. (2010-2013)
Junior Research Fellowship, CSIR, India. (2008-2010)

Awards / Honors

Accelerate Vigyan 'VRITIKA', Summer Internship grant received from SERB-DST (Department of Science & Technology) Govt. of India, 2022.
Start-up Research Grant (SRG), research grant received from SERB-DST (Department of Science & Technology) Govt. of India, 2021 - 2023.
Young Researcher Fellowship (NPDF), research grant received from SERB-DST (Department of Science & Technology) Govt. of India, 2017 - 2019.
International Credit Mobility Grant received at University of Texas at Arlington, Texas-USA, 2015.
International Conference Travel grant from UNITN for EUROBRAKE, Germany, 2015.
Early Stage Researcher Fellowship (Ph.D.) received at Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento-Italy, 2013 - 2016.
Visiting Researcher at Brembo S.p.A., Via Brembo n. 25, 24035 Curno (BG) Italy.
Fellow Member of International Association for Engineering and Management Education (IAEME).
Fellow Member of Innovative Scientific Research Professional Malaysia. [LM171899314]
Life Member of Tribology Society of India (TSI) [LM # 5209].
Life Member of Malaysian Tribology Society (MYTRIBOS) [LM # L0220].
Hon. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Automotive Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Research [ISSN: 2229-9270].
Senior Member of Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME)

[SM # SMISME20200203].
Reviewer: WEAR Journal-Elsevier.

HONORS & AWARDS

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
Transportation in Developing Economies (TiDE)

SUB-EDITOR (AT015)
Transportation Research Board, USA (Freight Demand Modelling)

CO-CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 2023

HANDLING EDITOR
Transportation Research Record, USA, 2021 – Present

STANDING COMMITTEE MEMBER (AT015)
Transportation Research Board, USA, 2021 – Present

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 2020 – Present

ASSOCIATE RESEARCH PARTNER
CoE-SUFS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, 2019 – Present

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER
Transportation Research Group India 2016 – Present

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
University of Regina, Regina, Canada, 2015

MEMBERSHIPS

Life Member – Indian Road Congress, India – LM 250749
Life Member - Institute of Urban Transport (IUT), India - M 1562
Life Member - Transportation Research Group (TRG) India – LM 20087
Member, Easter Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) – RM-19-19-0176, 2019 – 2021
Member, World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) – 2019 - 2021
Member, PMGSY Principal Technical Agency (PTA), NRRDA, Govt. of India, 2016

Honors and Achievements

2024, Invitation for Editorial Board Membership, Nature Scientific Reports.
2023, Invitation for Technical Committee Membership, Asian Concrete Federation.
2023, Certificate of Reviewing, fib Journal of Structural Concrete.
2022, Guest Editor, “Volume Stability and Durability of Alternative and Sustainable Binders”, Frontiers in Built Environment
2022, Member, Scientific Committee, 1st International Online Conference on Infrastructures (IOCI 2022)
2021, Session Chair, The First International Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering (ICRACE) 2021, 17th to 19th September 2021, NIT Silchar
2021, Lead author RILEM TC 294 MPA Chapter on Fiber Reinforced Alkali-Activated Concrete [FR-AAC]
2021 Selected as global leader for the RILEM TC 294 MPA round robin test (RRT) working group 7 [AAC with fibers]
2020 Technical Committee Member, RILEM TC 294 MPA.
2020 Certificate of Reviewing, Journal of Cleaner Production (ELSEVIER)
2020 Certificate of Reviewing, Waste Management (ELSEVIER)
2020 Certified Publons Academy Mentor, Practical Peer Review Training Course.
2019 Certificate of Reviewing, Journal of Environmental Management (ELSEVIER)
2018 - 2024 Certificate of Reviewing, Construction and Building Materials (ELSEVIER)
2015 Valued Reviewer Recognition, Construction and Building Materials (ELSEVIER)
2015 BITS OPERA Award.
2013 Graduated with Doctorate from WVU with 4.0 GPA
2013 West Virginia University Dissertation Fellowship.
2012 ASCE Freeman Fellowship.
2012-13 Treasurer, ASCE - Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) at WVU.
2011 Engineer-In-Training, West Virginia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.
2011 ASCE Virginias' Conference, part of the judges' panel for the 'Concrete Bowling Competition' and assisted in the design of the 'Concrete Canoe' made by Team WVU.
2009 PCI "Big Beam Contest", 4th Place in Zone-IV (along with Adam Justice, Matt Anderson, and Soumya Sundar Chowdhury).

Awards and Recognitions

Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship (2017-2022)
Awarded with Life membership of Indian Society of study of Reproduction and Fertility
Global Scholarship Awards
Keystone Symposia eSymposia meeting eSymposia | Tuberculosis: Science Aimed at Ending the Epidemic International; December 2-4, 2020
• Keystone Symposia’s eSymposia on Integrating Metabolism and Immunity - EK16. International; January 25-28, 2021
• Keystone Symposia’s eSymposia, "The Microbiome: From Mother to Child" ; International; January 18-20, 2021.
• Keystone Symposia’s eSymposia on Synthetic Biology: At the Crossroads of Genetic Engineering and Human Therapeutics - EK41 ; International; May 3 – 4, 2021
• Keystone Symposia’s eSymposia on Innovative Vaccine Approaches, International, June 28-30, 2021
Senior Research Fellow (2005-2008): Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [Govt. of India].
Travel Grant for participation in International conference (Keystone symposium ‘Immunologic memory and host defense’, Colorado, USA) (2009): International Travel Scheme, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India].
CSIR/UGC – Junior Research Fellow: National Eligibility Test December 2002, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Tech., Govt. of India. (2003-2005)
Monsanto Student Fellowship for Post Graduate students (2001-2003).
Awarded by University of Delhi for outstanding performance in B. Sc Hon. in Biochemistry (1998-2001).

Other Accomplishments

1. Doctoral Studies under GLOBAL COE (GCOE) program funding from Japan Govt 2009-2012

2. 1^st Rank holder in M.Tech Power Electronics

3. DST International Travel Grant for attending and presenting research paper at IGARSS2016, IEEE conference by Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, 2016, Beijing, China

Awards Received

Received National Level Commendation Certificate Award from the Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi for a research paper published in the Highway Research Bulletin (Traffic), Highway Research Board, Indian Roads Congress during 59th Annual Session of IRC

Technical Committee Member for BIS Code of Practice

Appointed as a technical committee member the following BIS code of Practice

Method for testing tar and bituminous materials: Determination of saturates Naphthene aromatics polar aromatics and Asphaltenes (New Indian Standard Code)

Advisory Board Member

Advisory Board Member of Indian Road Safety Campaign, run by IIT, Delhi under the Government of India's “Transport Research Injury Prevention (TRIPP) Programme”

Advisory Board Member Link: http://road-safety.co.in/advisory.html

Editorial Board Member

Green Building and Construction Economics - Universal Wiser Publisher
Energies - MDPI - Guest editor for a special publication "Special Issue: Advances in Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Buildings"

Journal Reviewer

Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (Elsevier)
ACI Materials Journal - American Concrete Institute
Results in Engineering, Science Direct
International Journal of Engineering
Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier)
Journal of Building Engineering (Elsevier)
Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Series A (Springer)
Materials Letters (Elsevier)
Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing
Sustainability, MDPI Publishers
Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier)
Materials (MDPI)
Buildings (MDPI)
TRB annual meetings Reviewer
Indian Concrete Journal
Ain Shams Engineering Journal
Journal of Ecological Indicators
Green Buildings and Construction Economics
Journal of Environmental and Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering - English edition (Elsevier)
Materials Today Communications (Elsevier)

Member of board of studies:

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad for the UG (Civil Engineering) Programs
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) College of Engineering for the PG (Transportation Engineering) program
Osmania University College of Engineering, Hyderabad for the UG (Civil Engineering) Programs
Vasavi College of Engineering (Autonomous), Ibrahim Bagh, Hyderabad for UG (Civil Engineering)
VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Technology (VNRVJIT), Hyderabad for UG & PG (Civil Engineering)
CVR College of Engineering, Ibrahimpatnam, RR District for both UG and PG programs
QIS College of Engineering & Technology, Vengamukkapalem, Ongole for both UG and PG programs

Member of board of Examination:

MIT World Peace University, Pune for all the examinations conducted by the university

Member of Advisory board:

Advisory Board of the School of Construction (SoC), NICMAR University (NU), Pune

Review Committee Member

Review committee member for UGC FRG (Fellowship and Research Grant) committee

Other Achievements

First rank holder in B. Sc. Physics
One of my papers republished in Virtual Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Awarded "Centre of Excellence Fellowship" for post doctoral programme in Japan
Reviewer in referred international journals (Elsevier and Springer Publishers)
External examiner for M. Tech Thesis, Physics Department, Central University, Hyderabad
Expert committee member for Physics in KVPY Interview, Central University, Hyderabad
Reviewer in DAE Solid State Physics symposium
Ph.D thesis reviewer and examiner
Young Scientist Fast Track Project received from the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2010
Received "Bharat Jyoti Award" and "Glory of India, Gold Medal Award", towards the contribution in the field of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2012
Organising Committee Member in Solid State Ionics Conference, BITS - PILANI, 2017
Selected to Attend Research Based Pedagogical Tools Workshop, Jaipur, 2018
Chaired a Session in International Conference on Multifunctional Materials, Hyderabad, 2019
National Advisory Committee Member in International Conference on Research Frontiers in Sciences, Nagpur, 2021
Chaired a Session in International Conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications, BITS - PILANI, Hyderabad, 2022
National Advisory Committee Member in International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research and Management, Saikheda, MP, 2022

Achievements

Life time member of Magnetics Society of India (MSI)
Professor P. Jayarama Reddy Gold medal for University first in M.Sc Physics, Sri Venkateswara University (2002)
Professor B. P. Nagi Reddy Prize for University first in M.Sc Physics, Sri Venkateswara University (2002)
Mrs. Seetha Gopalakrishnan prize for University first in M.Sc Physics, Sri Venkateswara University (2002)
S. A. Rama Murthy foundation award for college first in B.Sc (1999)

During Doctoral Thesis Work (2017-2023)

Conferred with the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, IIT Kanpur at the 56th Convocation of the institute (2023).
Conferred with the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award by Indian Laser Association at DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-31), held at IIT Kharagpur (2022).
Featured Article in Applied Physics Letters (AIP Publishing): Our article on spectroscopic ellipsometry-based determination of topological order has been adjudged as one of journal’s best articles and promoted as a Featured Article (2022).
Third Position in "100 Seconds Thesis" Competition organized by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Kanpur Chapter (2021).
Best Poster Presentation Award at SCQPT organized by OSA Student Chapter NISER, Bhubaneswar (2021).
Best Poster Award by IEEE- Photonics Society at IEEE-Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP)-2019 at IIT Guwahati (2019).
Second Position in Technical Writing Competition organized by OSA-IEEE-PS Student Chapter, IIT Bombay (2021).
First Position in Technical Writing Competition organized by OSA-IEEE-PS Student Chapter, IIT Bombay (2020).

During Professional Experience (2010-2017)

General Manager’s Meritorious Award (NTPC Ltd.): For successfully handling critical 210MW thermal generating unit emergencies (2015).
Represented FGUTPP in NTPC Open Competition for Executive Talent (NOCET): Drafted a roadmap on NTPC’s Foray in Solar Thermal Business (2014).
CMD’s Gold Medal (NTPC Ltd.): Adjudged as Best Officer Trainee (Electrical) among the whole 2011-Batch Executives (2013).
Director’s Meritorious Certification (NTPC Ltd.): For securing highest marks in NTPC’s one year executive training program (2013).

During Undergraduate Studies (2006-2010)

Best Engineer Award among a graduating batch of nearly 500 engineers (2010).
Shri Ram Murti Smarak Trust Meritorious Student Fellowship: For distinction in academic performance (2007).

Established the technology spoke iHUB of DIVYASAMPARK IHUB ROORKEE at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

(A joint initiative of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
and IIT Roorkee, under National mission on interdisciplinary Cyber Physical
systems- NMICPS)

DIVYASAMPARK IHUB ROORKEE FOR DEVICES MATERIALS

AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION

DIVYASAMPARK IHUB ROORKEE FOR DEVICES MATERIALS

AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION

Talks Organized

Conducted an Invited talk on Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning in the EEE Department on 25th April 2024

Awards

Awarded a prestigious grant from EUMW to attend EUMC 2019 worth 750 euros and complimentary registration.
Awarded travel grant of INR 50K from Visvesvaraya Fellowship (Govt. of India) to attend prestigious conference EUMC 2019.
Second Prize for Filter Design Contest in IMaRC 2015
Receipt of Prestigious Award of Visvesvaraya Fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Department (MHRD), India in August
Best Report Award: Received best report award in the IEEE D. program, held during IMaRC (International Microwave and RF Conference) organized by IEEE MTT Society on December 10- 12, 2015, Novotel, Hyderabad after being nominated by IIIT Delhi, to participate.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Awarded Institute PG Passing Out Color award for the performance throughout the stay at IIT Bombay [April 2017]
Awarded Department Citation for the performance throughout the stay at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay [December 2016]
Awarded Travel Grant to attend the international conference (ICOTOM-17), from MRSI (Materials Research Society of India), Mumbai Chapter [July 2014]
Awarded Best oral presentation award in the 6^th National Symposium for Materials Research Scholar’s (MR-14) held at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India [May 2014]
Awarded Institute Organizational Color for the year 2013-14 by IIT Bombay Student Gymkhana [April 2014]
Awarded Department Organizational Special Mention for the academic year 2012-13
Awarded MHRD Fellowship from Govt. of India for pursuing PhD degree at IIT Bombay [July 2010-June 2015]

Awarded Gold Medal by Haryana State Governor for standing 1^st position in B.Tech. (Mechanical Engg.) [April 2010]

Significant Achievements

Published over 570 research papers in reputed international journals.
Publications received more than 17,300 citations; h-index 60.
Published 34 review articles and contributed 10 chapters in books.
Total number of patents 432 (Granted 306 and Filed 126).
Five (5) of the US patents have been licensed to a pharmaceutical company for their clinical development at an upfront payment of Rs. 5 million and milestone payments of about Rs. 24 million apart from royalties on the sales.
Provided Human Resource Development and over 110 students have obtained their
D. degrees under the guidance.
Delivered over 150 invited lectures at different international/national meets and seminars.
A large number of NCE’s and ICE’s have been developed, and some new lead compounds (4 to 5) are undergoing detailed biological studies for their development as potential anticancer agents.
Played a keyrole in the conceptualization and establishment of Biotechnology Incubation Centre (BTIC) at Biotech Park, Genome Valley, Hyderabad, being operated by Alexandria.
Created and established Pre-Biotechnology Process Generator facility at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) and also was involved in the facility creation for the Chemical Biology.
Organized many National and International conferences like Indo-German Symposium in September 1996, National Symposium in Chemistry in January 2000, 12^th CRSI National Symposium in February 2010 and Royal Society of Chemistry, London MedChem Congress 2011 and 2013.
As the Project Director of NIPER, Hyderabad for about seven years, played an important role in the establishment and functioning of this National Institute.
A National Centre for Research and Development in Bulk Drugs (NCRDBD) has been conceptualized and obtained necessary approvals to setup at NIPER Hyderabad campus with a project cost of Rs. 90 crores. This will be an innovative R&D provider in the field of bulk drugs and offer competitive and eco-friendly technologies in specified areas products and processes.
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the journals like ChemMedChem (Wiley), Chem.Com. (RSC), J. Saudi Chem. Soc. (Elsevier) and Letters in Drug Design & Discovery (Bentham).
Expertise has attracted prestigious international projects from Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Japan, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Japan, Shiratori Pharmaceutical Co., Japan, Dupont, USA, IndUS Pharmaceuticals, USA, apart from international academic collaborations with Imperial College London, Kings College London, Greifswald University, University of Cape Town, King Saud University and University of Michigan.
Expertise has attracted prestigious international projects from Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Japan, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Japan, Shiratori Pharmaceutical Co., Japan, Dupont, USA, IndUS Pharmaceuticals, USA, apart from international academic collaborations with University of Portsmouth UK, Imperial College London, Kings College London, Greifswald University Germany, University of Cape Town South Africa, King Saud University, University of Michigan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Achievements

Founder of IDEA-3D startup that was incubated at TBI-BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2014-2017). The startup objective was to develop value added products by using biomaterials for 3D-printing for biomedical applications. The funding was provided by BIRAC, DBT, India.
Serving as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Global Medical Education and Research Foundation (GMERF) an integral part of the Global University Foundation (2024-current).
Contributed as a core member for the Interdisciplinary Research Imperative team as part of Mission 20/20 program (2012-2015) initiated by BITS-Pilani.
Contributed as a core member for the Classroom Teaching and Pedagogy Imperative team as part of Lakshya program (2016-2019) initiated by BITS-Pilani.
Contributed in drafting the Materials Science and Engineering Minor program that has been conducted multiple times at BITS-Hyderabad since its inception in 2014.

HONOURS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS:

2024: Principle investigator in FCT, Portugal Project EAGER (Budget: 49,907.35 €)

2023: Principle investigator in PRR, Portugal Project PRODUTECH (Budget: 277,789.28 €)

2023: Principle investigator in PRR, Portugal Project VIAFOOD (Budget: 84,999.00 €)

2022: “Topical Advisory Panel” MDPI electronics journal

2022: INL-BINA, Israel research grant for the collaborative project (€15,000.00 for INL)

2021: Global Faculty Research Seed Grant, UT Austin, USA ($10,000.00 US dollar)

2019: IDEA2 Global contestant, MIT, USA. Title: Microneedle for biomedical application

2018: IEEE MEMS Conference travel grant ($1000.00 US dollars)

2018 & 2019: Outstanding contribution in reviewing, Elsevier Microelectronics Engineering

2017: R&D100 Award Finalist, USA. Project Title: “MEMS-Particle accelerator”

2017: Journal cover page “AIP Review of Scientific Instruments Journal”, Vol 88 no. 6,

2016: Journal cover page “IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering” 26, no. 6,

2015: Best Ph.D. Thesis award: Institute for Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS), India

2015: Travel Grant from DST, CICS, ICMR, to participate in international conferences

Awards/Fellowships

- Co-authored paper titled "X-Swarm: Adversarial DRL for Metamorphic Malware Swarm Generation" has been awarded (Rs. 5,000/-) K. Shankar Meritorious Paper Award-2022 in conference student doctoral category respectively by IEEE Bombay section.

- Co-authored paper titled "Towards adversarially superior malware detection models: An adversary aware proactive approach using adversarial attacks and defenses" has been awarded (Rs. 7,500/-) K. Shankar Meritorious Paper Award-2022 in journal student doctoral category respectively by IEEE Bombay section.

- Co-authored paper titled "Adversarial Superiority in Android Malware Detection: Lessons from Reinforcement Learning based Evasion Attacks and Defenses" has been awarded 1st cash prize of Rs. 20,000/- in a paper presentation competition by DSCI National CoE Cyber Security R & D and Innovation Roadshow 2023 held in collaboration with IISc Bangalore - CySecK.

- Co-authored paper titled "GreenForensics: Deep Hybrid Edge-Cloud Detection and Forensics System for Battery-Performance-Balance Conscious Devices" has been awarded 2nd cash prize of Rs. 15,000/- in a paper presentation competition by DSCI National CoE Cyber Security R & D and Innovation Roadshow 2023 held in collaboration with IISc Bangalore - CySecK.

- Co-authored paper titled "Robust Malware Detection Models: Learning from Adversarial Attacks and Defenses" has been awarded (Rs. 7,500/-) K Shankar Meritorious Paper Award-2021 from IEEE Bombay Section.

- Visiting Associateship, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India (2021-2024, 2018 - 2021, 2015 - 2018, 2012 - 2015, 2006 - 2009).

- Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Astrophysics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2005.

- Project Associate in the multiwavelength astronomy project (ASTROSAT), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India, Aug. 2003 - Feb. 2005.

- Project Scientist in Gravitational Wave, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, 2002 - 2003.
- Junior/Senior Research Fellow in a DST project on Gravitational Wave Data Analysis, 1997 - 2001.

Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing awarded to Prof. Kamalesh Kumar, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal from International Journal of Environment and Climate Change on 1st August, 2024.

Professional Accomplishments

Professional accomplishments:

Visiting Associate, IUCAA, Pune 2022.
Member of the Executive Council of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) - India consortium
Reviewer of EMR grants sponsored by DST SERB.
Reviewer of European Physical Journal C ( Area: Particles & Nuclear Physics)
Reviewer of International Journal of High Energy Physics
Reviewer of Advances in High Energy Physics, Hindawi Publishing Group
Reviewer of the Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. (Area: High Energy Physics & Astrophysics
Reviewer of Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

My CV (click)

Honours & Recognition- Awards

Qualified UGC- NET in Management in December, 2018
"Young Scientist Award" in the International Conference for Award Winners on Engineering Science and Medicine held on 12-Nov-2021 in Chennai, India.

Awards

Honours

Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania. August 2016-August 2018;
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2015-2016;
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2012-14;
Junior & Senior research fellowship from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2001-2004

Junior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2001-2003

Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. August 2016-August 2018
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2015-16
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2012-14
PhD Scholarship from Jadavpur University 2010-12
Senior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2003-2004
Junior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2001-2003

Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. August 2016-August 2018
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2015-16
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2012-14
PhD Scholarship from Jadavpur University 2010-12
Senior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2003-2004
Junior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2001-2003

Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. August 2016-August 2018
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2015-16
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2012-14
PhD Scholarship from Jadavpur University 2010-12
Senior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2003-2004
Junior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2001-2003

Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. August 2016-August 2018
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2015-16
Postdoctoral fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) 2012-14
PhD Scholarship from Jadavpur University 2010-12
Senior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2003-2004
Junior research fellowship by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2001-2003

Awards and Recognitions

SMC India bronze medal for the year 2021 for outstanding research in materials chemistry.
RSC Research Grant Award awarded by RSC, UK (Feb 2021).
Associate Fellow of the Telangana Academy of Sciences, India (2023).
Recent work on MOF material as a breath sensor got highlighted in Times of India newspaper. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/this-sensor-smartphone-app-detects-sleep-apnea/articleshow/81143285.cms
Marie Curie Actions International Research Staff Exchange award for visiting Synchrotron facility in Grenoble, France (2015).

Honours & Awards

2022: Awarded OPERA (Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics) award by BITS-Pilani

2014: Awarded Nanyang Assistant Professorship by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

2014: Awarded Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship equally funded by The Wellcome Trust, UK and Department of Biotechnology, India (not availed)

2004-2007: Senior Research Fellowship

2002: Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lectureship through Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET, December 2001) in Life Sciences.

2002: Lectureship in Life Sciences through State Level Eligibility Test for Lectureship (accredited by UGC) - West Bengal College Service Commission

2002: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2002) in Life Sciences with 99.16 percentile. All India Rank- 22.

Awards and Honours

Young Research Fellowship Award by Electrochemical Society (ECS) 229 meeting held in San Diego, California, USA, May 29 to June 2,
Recipient of DBT Foreign Travel grant for attending the International Conference (229^th ECS meeting) held in San Diego, California, USA, May 29 to June 2,
Technical Committee Member for the International Conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications (NMTEEA) in 2022 and 2023.

Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing awarded to Prof. Kamalesh Kumar, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the quality of the Journal from Advances in Research on 27th July, 2024.

Awards Received / Positions held / Achievements made

2023 - present: Department-Level Shortlisting Committee for Faculty Selection

2024 - 2026: Department Research Committee Convener

2022 - 2023: Awarded Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award (Research & Teaching) to teach and research at Western Washington University, USA.

2021: Nucleus member of Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, Goa

2019: Visiting Faculty at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Goa. The courses taught are “Understanding Films” and “Environmental Literature” (Semester 1)

2019: Faculty Coordinator of the Website of The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to 2017: Faculty Coordinator of the Film Club, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to present: Faculty Coordinator of the Environment Protection and Awareness Club, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to present: Nucleus Member of the Community Welfare Department, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2017 to 2022: Nucleus Member of the Media and Publication Department, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2017 to 2023: Member of the Editorial Board of BITScan, a semester magazine published by BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to 2021: Member of the Exhibition Committee of Convocation at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus

2017 (June to July): Awarded University Immersion Grant to visit University of Los Angeles, California, from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (under the guidance of Prof. Ursula K. Heise).

2016: Instructor at Practice School (a unique feature of BITS Pilani in providing industrial experience to students) at two stations namely, FACT, Aluva, Kochi and Helpage India, Kerala, Kochi.

2016: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival (Edition 3) at Dr. K.N. Modi University, Newai, Jaipur, Rajasthan on 17, 18 March 2016

2015: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival (Edition 2) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa on 08, 09, 10 October (www.teff.in)

2015: Nomination Jury Member of CMS Vatavaran 2015, New Delhi. CMS Vatavaran is the premier International Environment and Wildlife Film Festival in India.

2015: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival at Carmel College, Mala, Thrissur, Kerala, on 06 and 07 March. (Ms. Pretty John and Ms. Mary John were the coordinators)

2015: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, on 06 and 07 February. (Mr. K. Samuel Moses Srinivas and Mr. Joseph Thiyagarajan were the coordinators)

2014: Received ASLE, USA, grant of $1000 for creating an interactive video space in tiNai Ecofilm Festival 2015 website and to publish a book on Ecodocumentaries (http://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-grants-awarded/)

2014-2016: Member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Science and Technology Communication Programme, "Jal Sutra: Eco & WaSH Futures" of National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) of Department of Science and Technology under Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi (2014 - 2016)

2014: Founder and Founder-Director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival (www.teff.in)

2013: Member of the Organizing Committee of the Photo and Video competitions held at part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

2011-2012: Convened 24, The Film Club of Central University of Tamil Nadu

2010-2012: Director, Mudugar-Kurumbar Research Centre, Attappady, funded by World Oral Literature Project, University of Cambridge, London and Firebird Anthropological Foundation, U. S.A.

2010: Received British Prime Minister’s International (PMI - II) award to research at Queen’s University Belfast, UK

2008 – Present: Member of the Editorial team of Indian Journal of Ecocriticism - An annual journal of Organization for Studies in Literature and Environment-India (OSLE-India)

2006 – Present: Secretary, Organization for Studies in Literature and Environment-India (OSLE-India)

2001 – 2008: Directed music for more than five musical albums in Malayalam 2006 – Present Co-editor of OSLE-India Newsletter

2005: Associate Editor of ASLE-India Newsletter

2002: Served as the associate editor of Our Zone, a students’ periodical of the Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai

2001: Won the First Prize for wind instrument (western) in the University Youth Festival (Sopanam) held by the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

2001: Visited France for a cultural Transmission Programme for three months

2001: Served the President of Student Christian Movement of Mar Thoma College, Tiruvalla, Kerala

SPT Grant – 2024

Hareesh A. G., along with Sreekumar Jayadevan (IIT Ropar) & Manjari Chakrabarty (Visva-Bharati), have been awarded $1000 by the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) in 2024 for conducting a workshop on “Theorizing the Future of Ethics of Technology: Can Morals be Determined?”

Achievements

Fellowships & Awards

Short-term Visiting Fellowship, University of Bonn, Germany (May-June, 2024)

Short-term Visiting Fellowship, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June-August 2022.

JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research on 'Language, Culture and Critical Thinking: The possibilities of measuring objectives with task,' Role: Co-investigator, 2019 (Principal Investigators: Prof. Hideki Ohno, Daitobunka University, Prof. Chris Sheppard, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan).

Data Collection Abroad fellowship, ICSSR, on 'Meta-moral Cognition and Critical Thinking,' University of Kyoto, Japan, 2019.

Visiting Research Scholar, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan (2019).

Visiting Research Scholar, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan (2019).

Visiting Research Scholar, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Japan (May- July 2018).

Post-doctoral Research Fellowship for Women, UGC, 2005

Awards

Recipient of the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) fellowship of DST, Gov. of India (2007-2011).
Recipient of the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship (SPMF) of CSIR, India (2011-2016). The SPM fellowship was offered to the top rank holders of the National Eligibility Test of the CSIR, India. I had secured the 7th rank.

Achievements

Received Best Paper Presentation award in the "International Conference on Number Theory and Graph Theory" held at Department of Studies in Mathematics, University of Mysore, Mysuru, during June 27-29, 2019, Title of the paper: Clique number of the cyclic graph of infinite semigroup.

FELLOWSHIPS/ AWARDS:

Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship from TIFR-CAM, Bangalore (November 2019-May 2021) funded by DAE, Govt. of India.
Institute Research Fellowship from IIT Kharagpur (June 2014-June 2019) funded by MHRD, Govt. of India.
Qualified for CSIR-UGC NET ( June 2017) exam in Mathematical Sciences.
Qualified for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2014) exam in Mathematics.
Qualified Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM 2012) exam in Mathematics.
Awarded INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (July 2009-July 2014) from the Department of Science and Technology
(DST), Government of India.
Merit cum Means (MCM) scholarship (July 2012-May 2014) during M.Sc. from IIT Kharagpur.

Awards and Scholarships:

Secured all India 34th rank in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2000), conducted by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India.
Awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by GATE in 2000 and the Senior Research Fellowship from 2002 to 2005.

Awards and Recognitions

Track Chair for Student Research Forum at IEEE APSCON 2024, Goa, India.
Associate Editor at Microelectronics Engineering Journal
Editorial Board of Springer Nature Graphene and 2D Materials
Young Scientist Award and Medal Lecture at ICLED 2023, Singapore
Visiting Assistant Professor at Tufts University, USA.
Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, USA.
Technical Committee Member, IWPSD 2023, IIT Madras
Tutorial Chair for ICST 2023, Hyderabad, India
Session Chair at IEEE ICEE 2023, Bangalore, India
Session Chair for Student Research Forum, IEEE APSCON 2023, Bangalore, India
Invited Talk at IEEE APSCON, 2023, Bangalore, India
Technical Committee Member, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Sensors and Actuators group
Golden Reviewer Award, IEEE EDS, 2023
Best Poster Award, IEEE ICEE 2020 (IIT Delhi - Virtual)
Best B.E Project Award to my Student Mr. Amogh BS by INAE, Govt. of India, 2020
Best Project Award, Anveshan Fellowship, 2020, Analog Devices
Indian Nanoelectronics User Program (INUP), IITB “Best Project Award” for the year 2017.
Nominated for Best PhD Thesis by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in Electrical Engineering, 2018
Best poster Award in International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials, IISC Bangalore, India, 2016.
International Travel grant recipient from DST, SERB, Govt. of India for attending IEEE NANO-17 in Pittsburgh, USA. (2017)
Gold Medalist in the department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM University with 9.25 pointer (2014).

Workshops/Conferences Organised:

One of the organizers of the 3rd Group Monitoring Workshop cum 6th meeting of the re-constituted expert panel on Fast Track Proposals for Young Scientists in Physical and Mathematical Sciences held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, during January 11-12, 2007.
Co-convener of the International Workshop on Advances in Computational Partial Differential Equations held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from February 7 to March 5, 2011.
Co-convener of Advanced School on Graph Algorithms jointly organized by the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from July 23 to July 27, 2012.
Co-organiser of the research promotion workshop on Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms jointly organized by the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa and School of Technology and Computer Science, Mumbai, held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, during January 17-19, 2013.
Co-convener of an advanced workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Advanced Finite Element Methods Jointly organized by NMI Bangalore and NPDE-TCA, IIT Bombay, held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from December 26, 2013, to January 3, 2014.
The organizer of the Advanced Level Training Program on Differential Equations jointly organized by the National Programme on Differential Equations: Theory, Computation, and Applications (NPDE-TCA), IIT Bombay, held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from May 25 to June 14, 2015.
One of the organizers of Indo-German Pre-Conference School on Algorithms and Combinatorics and the 3rd International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM-2017) held at the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from February 13 to February 18, 2017.
One of the organizers of the International Conference on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications to Network Science (ICDMANS-2018) held at the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from July 7 to July 10, 2018. I also acted as the Treasurer of the conference.
Organized a Workshop on Analysis, Differential Equations and Computation at the Department of Mathematics in BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from November 12 to November 13, 2022.
Co-organizer of the 9th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC-2023) held at the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from January 06 to January 08, 2023.
One of the organizers of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus in association with National Center for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa from November 03 to November 05, 2023.

Honours and achievements

2019 Awarded Best Poster at the School of Pharmacy Research Retreat, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA

2019 Awarded 3rd prize in Poster presentation competition at Postdoc Research Day, University of Colorado Denver, USA

2015 Awarded 1st prize in Poster presentation competition at Research Scholar’s day celebration, IIT Bhubaneswar

2014 Awarded “Royal Society of Chemistry Best Poster Award”, at ACBIR 2014, organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Rourkela

2013 Awarded 3rd prize in Poster presentation competition at Research Scholar’s day celebration, IIT Bhubaneswar

2012 Awarded “Dr. D. S. Bhakuni Award” for best oral presentation at 49th Annual Convention of Chemists – 2012 of Indian Chemical Society held at NITTTR, Bhopal

2011 Awarded 2nd prize in Poster presentation competition at Research Scholar’s day celebration, IIT Bhubaneswar

ACHIEVEMENTS/ AWARDS/ PRIZES

ACHIEVEMENTS/ AWARDS/ PRIZES:

UKIERI Post Doctoral Research Fellowship (2007-08) at UCL, UK
EPSRC (UK) Post-Doctoral Research Position at University of Bath (2003-06)
INSA-Royal Society Post-Doctoral Research Award (2002-03)
Faculty Research Fellowship award by SICI-DFAIT , Govt. of Canada (2000-01)
Nehru Trust Short-Term Studies & Research Grant and Visiting Fellowship ,UK (1997-98)
INDO-US Sub Commission Fellowship (Dept. of Culture) for Small Studies in US (1987)
Medal for Highest Marks in Chemistry in West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (1979)
National Scholarship for 2^nd Rank in West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in 1977 (obtained throughout the academic period from 1977 to 1984)

Resources

Computational Facilities

Cyclops 180 cores HPC 12 core High-Performance CPU Workstation

To be updated.

Achievements

Awards and Honours

2019

BITSAA Global 30 Under 30 Award

Issuer: BITS Pilani
This award is given every three years to recognize and honor outstanding alumni of BITS Pilani under the age of 30 who have demonstrated excellence in one or more of many areas

2018

IET Hudswell International Research Scholarship

Issuer: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
This IET award is presented to a doctoral student from around the world for research excellence in engineering and technology

APS GSNP Student Speaker Award Finalist

Issuer: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, American Physical Society
One of the five finalists from around the world

Forbes 30 Under 30 – Europe (Shortlisted)

Issuer: Forbes
Identified as a potential candidate for the ‘2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 – Science & Healthcare – Europe’

APL ‘Featured’ Badge

Issuer: Applied Physics Letters
For publishing a noteworthy paper in Applied Physics Letters

2017

John Winbolt Prize

Issuer: University of Cambridge, UK
A century-old annual prize for the best paper published by a Cambridge PhD student in the field of ‘Engineering’

UK Doctoral Researcher Award

Issuer: Association of British Turkish Academics
Ranked 1^st in the UK for research excellence in the field of ‘Engineering Sciences’

PRL Editors’ Suggestion

Issuer: Physical Review Letters
For publishing an outstanding paper in Physical Review Letters

2014

Mantra Innovator of the Year

Issuer: Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS Pilani
For demonstrating an ability to invent or build innovative products or ideas in the labs

The Second UAE Undergraduate Student Research Competition (UGSRC)

Issuer: Abu Dhabi University, UAE
Ranked 2^nd in the field of ‘Mathematical Sciences’

2013

ASME Young Engineers Paper (YEP) Contest

Issuer: Fluids Engineering Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Ranked 3^rd in the field of ‘Fluids Engineering’

Finalist, the All IEEE-R10 Young Engineers’ Humanitarian Challenge

Semifinalist, the SIEMENS Middle East Student Award

Finalist, the Old Guard Technical Oral Presentation Competition, ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC) District J

Finalist, the Rapid Design Competition, ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC) District J

Fellowships and Scholarships

2019

Henslow Research Fellowship (Shortlisted)

Issuer: St. Edmunds’ College, Cambridge
Placed 1^stin Engineering

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowships in Engineering (Shortlisted)

Issuer: Royal Commission
One of the shortlisted candidates from the University of Cambridge

Early Career Research Fellowship (Longlisted)

Issuer: Colleges of the University of Cambridge
One of the longlisted candidates from more than 1000 initial applications

2018

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (Shortlisted)

Issuer: Royal Academy of Engineering
One of the shortlisted candidates from the University of Cambridge. Applicants are reviewed and ranked by their respective Heads of Division before being put through a University committee who select the most suitable candidates for submitting applications to the Royal Academy of Engineering

Early Career Research Fellowship (Longlisted)

Issuer: Colleges of the University of Cambridge
One of the 160+ longlisted candidates from more than 1000 initial applications

2016

NIST Seminar Student Sponsorship

Issuer: IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society
One of the 9 students from around the world who got selected through an open competition, to attend the 2016 Time and Frequency Seminar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA

2015

Deans’ Forum Lecture Program Scholarship

Issuer: Deans’ Forum, University of Tokyo, Japan
One of the 4 students from the Deans’ Forum universities (MIT, UC Berkeley, Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, KTH, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Tokyo and University of Cambridge) who got selected through nomination, to attend the lecture course on ‘Micro and Nanofluidics’ at the University of Tokyo, Japan

BiosCrete Bursary

Issuer: InnovCrete, Greece
One of the 25 students from European universities who got selected through an open competition, to attend the lecture course on ‘Acoustic and optical systems for studying biomolecular interactions’ at the University of Crete, Greece

2014

Cambridge Trust Scholarship

Issuer: Cambridge Trusts
Purpose: To pursue my PhD study at the University of Cambridge

BITS Pilani Merit Scholarship

Issuer: BITS Pilani
For securing a cumulative grade point average of above 9/10 in all the semesters

2013

Mitacs Globalink Internship Award

Issuer: Mitacs, Canada
One of the 105 Indian students who got selected through an open national competition, to pursue research in the summer 2013 at a Canadian university

2010

BITS Admission Test (BITSAT) Merit Scholarship

Issuer: BITS Pilani
Purpose: To pursue my undergraduate study at BITS

Travel Awards

2018

IEEE Student Travel Support

Issuer: IEEE
Purpose: To attend the 2018 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Olympic Valley, CA, USA

EFTF Student Travel Support

Issuer: EFTF and Société Française des Microtechniques et de Chronométrie (SFMC)
Purpose: To attend the 2018 European Frequency and Time Forum, Torino, Italy

IET Travel Award

Issuer: The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
One of the 12 IET members from around the world who received this award
Purpose: To attend the 2018 APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017

IEEE Student Travel Support

Issuer: IEEE
Purpose: To attend the 2017 Joint Conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum & IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Besancon, France

W G Collins Endowment Fund

Issuer: University of Cambridge, UK
Purpose: To attend the 2017 Joint Conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum & IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Besancon, France

2016

Queens’ College Perry Fund

Issuer: Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK
Purpose: To attend the 2016 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, New Orleans, LA, USA

W G Collins Endowment Fund

Issuer: University of Cambridge, UK
Purpose: To attend the 2016 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, New Orleans, LA, USA

IEEE Student Travel Support

Issuer: IEEE
Purpose: To attend the 2016 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, New Orleans, LA, USA

2015

Queens’ College Graduate Student Fund

Issuer: Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK
Purpose: To attend the BiosCrete workshop at the University of Crete, Greece

2013

ASME Young Engineers’ Paper Contest – Travel Grant

Issuer: ASME Fluids Engineering Division
One of the 5 finalists of ASME Young Engineers’ Paper Contest who received this grant, to attend the 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, San Diego, CA, USA

To be updated.

Awards & Other Important Contributions

RECENT AWARDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Dr. Pradipta Chattopadhyay had an Invited Talk on his Research in Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland, Europe on 20th June 2018, as part of INSA Bilateral Exchange Programme 2018 (recipient of INSA Award 2018).
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Bilateral Exchange Programme (BEP) Award, 2018
Proctor- BITSAT Duty- Delhi- May 2018.
PS-I Faculty, BITS-Pilani, Pilani, India, May-July for 2010, 2012-2017, 2019, 2021.

OTHER AWARDS/CONTRIBUTIONS

Awarded National Scholarship Merit Certificate for performances in Secondary Examination, 1994 and Higher Secondary Examination, 1996.
Life Member of The Indian Institute Of Chemical Engineers.
Participated in Winter School on Advanced Process Modeling and Control, NIT Durgapur, India, Jan 19-30, 2009.
Former Chairman, IIChE Pilani Regional Centre. Have also been Honorary Regional Secretary for IIChE Pilani Regional Centre previously.
Former Honorary Regional Treasurer, IIChE Pilani Regional Centre.
Former DCA Convener, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus
Former PFAC Member, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus
Former Coordinator, Student Faculty Council (SFC), Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus
Former Prof-In-Charge, Chemical Engineering Association & Coordinator- Student Chapter, IIChE Pilani Regional Centre (Jan 2016-Dec 2017).

To be Updated Soon

Achievements

Awards & Fellowships

Awarded J.R.F. and S.R.F. under GATE, Ministry of Human Resources, India.
Awarded DST Young Scientist Project under "Fast Track" scheme of SERB, 2005 to 2008.

Achievements

AWARDS

Best paper award in IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2020 in Power, HV and Control system category.
Best paper award in IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2020 in Signal processing and communication category.
2nd Runner up in Poster Presentation at 1st EE-RSF Research Day conducted in Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India.

MEMBERSHIP

IEEE Member (ID: 97082137)

RESEARCH GRANTS

Received CSIR International Travel Grant.

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Collaborations

International Collaborations (Labs/Institutions):

Prof. Dr. Santiago Signorelli, Department of Plant Biology, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay

National Collaborations (Labs/Institutions):

Dr. Philomin Juliana, CIMMYT-India
Dr. Dinakar Challabathula, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India

Awards and Fellowships

1. EMBO Short-Term Fellowship to visit Prof. Nanagaku’s Lab, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2020-2021 (declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

2. Banting & Best Diabetes Center (BBDC) Trainee Travel Award from BBDC, Canada (Declined, 2016)

3. Post Doctoral Fellowship from Canadian Diabetes Association (Diabetes Canada), Canada (Awarded for 2015-2018, Availed until June, 2017)

4. Post Doctoral Fellowship from BBDC, Canada (Declined, 2015-2016)

5. Won a prize for presenting a poster at Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, Aab-CVRI, University of Rochester, USA (2012)

6. ATVB 2012 Travel Award for Young Investigators from American Heart Association, USA (2012)

7. Wood-Whelan Research Fellowship from IUBMB (2010)

8. The Best Poster Award at The Society of Free Radical Research (SFRR), Hyderabad, India (2010)

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Institute Contributions

BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Member, Departmental Research Committee (DRC) {September 2022 – Present}
Coordinator, Department Website {January 2021-Present}
Faculty In-Charge, Analytical Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, {September 2020 – Present}
Member, Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA) {September 2020– August 2022}
Coordinator for Seminar/Webinar, Chemical Engineering, {September 2020-August 2022}
Proctor, BITSAT {Vijayawada, May 2019}
Instructor, Practice School-1, (May-July 2018), Nandi Group of Industries, Nandyal, A.P.
Member, Doctoral Advisory Committee [2 students] {2018-Present}
Faculty In-charge, Mechanical Unit Operations Laboratory {2018-2020}
Member, Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA) {September 2017– August 2018}
Member, Student Faculty Council (SFC)

Professional Society

Honorary Secretary, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Pilani Regional Center {January 2020 – September 2022}
Life Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)

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Professional Accomplishments

1) Faculty Advisor for the Regional Student Group-India of International Society of Computational Biology.

2) Genome Engineering/Editing Technology (GETin) Fellowship through IUSSTF and DBT to work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley (Feb 2018-Feb 2019).

3) Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship 2014-2019, by the Department of Biotechnology, India.

4) Associate Editor, Plant Biotechnology (speciality section of Frontiers in Plant Sciences and, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology).

5) Founding Member, Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Interaction and Networking Society.

6) Lifetime Member, Indian Society for Plant Physiology.

7) Certificate of appreciation for witnessing the Republic Day Parade, 2005 as a guest of Honourable Prime Minister of India in recognition of academic performance in post-graduation.

8) National Eligibility Test (CSIR-NET) qualified in 2003 among top 20%.

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Awards & Fellowships

Rajesh Mehrotra received the Prof VS Rao CR Mitra foundation best faculty award.It came with a citation and cash prize of Rs 1,00,000.
Indira Gandhi education excellence award ,2017 by International business council from IIEM, New Delhi.
Prof Rajesh Mehrotra received best educationist award 2017 for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research in Biology.
Recepient of INSA Bilateral exchange award to visit University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2016)
Prestigious visiting fellowship of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Japan, from June 15 - July 15, 2015, for studying the role of topoisomerase on dividing fission yeast cell in late mitosis using ICRF-193, an inhibitor of topoisomeraseII.
International travel award of DST 2014 for attending the conference in Dublin Ireland.
Visiting Foreign Scientist Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, ( July-Dec 2013).
Among 73 finalist out of 5641 nominations in Pearson Teaching award 2013.
Chair the session in ICERT conference held in Malaysia 2012 in Penang (May 30th June 1st).
Visiting Foreign Scientist Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, (June -July 2012)
Fellow Society of Applied Biotechnology, 2011.
Visiting Foreign Scientist Louisiana State University Feb 2011.
Visiting Foreign Scientist Kyoto University, May 30th 2009 –June 30th 2009 (Japanese Science and Technology Ministry)
Visiting Foreign Scientist Kyoto University, Dec 15th 2008 –Jan 15th 2009 (Japanese Science and Technology Ministry)
Visiting Foreign Scientist Kyoto University, June 1st 2008–July 25th 2008(Japanese Science and Technology Ministry)
DST young Scientist Project was awarded (2008).
Best poster award at the conference, Emerging trends in Biological Sciences, organized by Deptt. of Biotechnology and microbiology, Hindustan College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore India on Aug. 18th-19th 2005.
Council of scientific and Industrial research, Government of India, Senior research fellow 2002-2005.
Council of scientific and Industrial research, Government of India, Junior research fellow 2000-2002.
Qualified Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) National Examination Test in Genetics in 2002.
Qualified Graduate Aptitude test in Engineering (2001).All India rank 84.
All India topper in the Entrance test conducted by Banaras Hindu university (1998-99).

Academic Editor/ Reviewer for the journals

PLOS ONE
Journal of Molecular catalysis
American Oil chemistry society Journals
Plant Molecular Biology
Plant Biotechnology Journal
Plant Journal
Journal of Genetics

Academic Press Journals.Membership of Society:

Life membership of the Biotechnology Society of INDIA.

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Membership

Senior Member, IEEE.
IEEE Young Professional Society.
IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society

Recognitions:

Recepient of NVIDIA Academic GPU grant in Aug 2018.
Won the “Best PhD forum presentation” prize at the PhD forum of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS) 2014, Hyderabad, December 2014.
Awarded student travel grants from ACM to present research paper at ACM DEBS 2014 (Mumbai, India).
Awarded student travel grants from IEEE to present research paper at IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops 2014 (San Jose, USA).

Awards and Recognition

Award and recognition:

Junior Research Fellowship (1998-2001), MHRD, New Delhi Govt. of India.
Young Scientist (2003) by the Department of Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India).
Teacher’s Excellence Award (2023), BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa.
Distinguished Service Award (2024), Vijnana Parishad of India (VPI) on 25th Annual Conference of VPI on March 01, 2024

Academic Achievements:

Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Indian Academy of Mathematics, during 2011-2013.
Member of Advisory Board of Indian Academy of Mathematics, during 2013-2015.
Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Vijnan Parishad, India.
Member of Editorial Board of Journal of International Academy of Physical Sciences (JIAPS).
Associate Editors of South East Asian Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.
Member of the Reviewer Committee in Mathematical Review of American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Member of the Advisory Body of Department of Mathematics for the academic year 2010-11, 2014-16 in KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum.
Member of the Advisory Body of Department of Mathematics for the academic year 2012-14, Goa University.
Member of Executive Council of Academy of Discrete Mathematics and Application (ADMA) for the period of 2014-16.
Appointed as a University Nominee of Visvesvaraya Technological University to the Board of Studies in Mathematics of Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkuru, for two years (07/07/2017 to 06/07/2019).
Member of Committee for promotion and compounded increments, Directorate of Higher Education, Govt. of Goa as subject expert.
Member of Governing Body of Association for Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics till 2022.
Subject Experts in Goa Public Service Commission, Govt. of Goa.
Subject Experts in Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.
Appointed as a VC Nominee of Research Advisory Committee in the Department of Mathematics, Goa University.
DRC member in the Department of Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad.

Academic/Professional Membership:

Life member of
1. Ramanujan Mathematical Society
2. Indian Mathematical Society
3. Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
4. Academy of Discrete Mathematics and Applications (founder member)

Professional Experience

Designation	Place	Period
Associate Professor of Chemistry	Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus	June 2021 onwards

Assistant Professor of Chemistry	Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus	August 2009-May 2021

Postdoctoral Research Associate	Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA	October 2007-June 2009
Project Assistant	Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune	January 2007-September 2007
Senior Research Fellow (CSIR)	Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune	July 2003-July 2006
Junior Research Fellow (CSIR)	Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune	July 2001-July 2003

Qualified in the Joint-CSIR/UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Chemical Sciences (2001)
Member of the American Chemical Society (Membership No. 30018423) since 2008.
Life Member of the Chemical Research Society of India (Membership No. LM 1678) since October 2013

Awards

Krishna-C-Etika-Awards

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Achievements

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering - 2008 in Computer Science & Engineering: All India Rank 21, Percentile Score 99.88, GATE Score 749.
Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination - 1999: All India Rank 496.
National Standard Examination in Physics 1999: Placed in National Top 1%.
Indian National Mathematical Olympiad 1998: All India Rank 11.
Regional Mathematical Olympiad 1997, Uttar Pradesh: Rank 4.
XI National Level Science Talent Search Examination 1996: All India Rank 83 in Class 9.
X National Level Science Talent Search Examination 1995: All India Rank 2 in Class 8.

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Awards/Honors/Distinctions Obtained

External Academic Expert Members in Board of Studies (BoS) Constitution for Chemical Engineering, Galgotia University, Noida.
Member of committee: Chemical Engineering, Pilani local Centre, The Institution of Engineers, Rajasthan Centre (India).
Member of the Board of Studies of Faculty of Bio- and Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama University, Jeppiaar Nagar, Chennai, October – November, 2014.
External examiner for BTech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, January 3, 2014.
External Examiner, MTech Viva, ITM University Gwalior, December 17, 2013.
Invited Member in A day long workshop to review the existing scheme of the Engineering Services Examination conducted by the Commission organized by UPSC at the International Management Development Centre (IMDC) Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad on the 3^rd of October, 2013.
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner of Ms. E. Priya Rose entitled “Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Solution using Novel Acid Activated Artocarpus Hirsutus Bark” of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 24.
The paper, “Removal of toxic metal Cr(VI) from aqueous solutions using sawdust as adsorbent: Equilibrium, kinetics and regeneration studies” published in Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 150, Issues 2-3, August 2009, Pages 352-365 and authored by Dr Suresh Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering (co-authored with Prof B V Babu) has been listed as one among the most cited articles in the journal since 2008. The highly rated journal has an impact factor, 3.461.Source: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/chemical-engineering-journal/most-cited-articles/).
Chairperson of Workshop on Analytical Instruments for Chemical and Environmental Engineers (WAICEE) during March 22-23, 2013, BITS Pilani.
External examiner for B. Tech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, December 2012.
Vice-Chariman of Pilani Regional Centre of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE).
Session Chair of session "Separation Processes" in the Conference "Technological Advances in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (TACEE-2012)" held on March 23 - 24, 2012, BITS Pilani.
Invited Distinguished Speaker, “Computational Heat Transport” and “Separation Processes”, Staff Development Programme on Innovative Teaching Techniques for Transport Phenomena organized by ITM University, Gwalior, July 12-17, 2010.
Technical Consultant for Sangam (India) Limited Textile Industry, Bhilwara, for Removal of Color, BOD, and COD from Effluent Treatment Plant, 2009.

Scholarship/Fellowship Awarded

Awarded Travel Grant to attend conference abroad (2013) by CICS, Chennai.
Awarded Travel Grant to attend conference abroad (2013) by CSIR, New Delhi.
Awarded Travel Grant to attend conference abroad (2008) by INSA-CICS, Chennai.
Awarded Travel Grant to attend conference abroad (2008) by CSIR, New Delhi.
GATE Scholarship for M.Tech Degree, 2001 – 2002.

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Awards & Fellowships

Awards:

Sir C.V Raman Young Scientist Karnataka State Award -2002
ADA-DRDO excellency award for Design, Development and Testing of Environmental Control Systems - 1999

Fellowships:

Fellow of National Academy of Engineers FNAE, 2016 \
Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt, Germany, 2001

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Achievements

Conference paper nominated for Global Strategy Journal (GSJ) best paper prize at Strategic Management Society Special Conference 2018, Hyderabad, India
2012 – 2014 KIIT Merit Scholarship (Securing highest CGPA)

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Achievement and Awards

Master’s Thesis – “Heat transfer characteristics of laminar flow through a circular duct having integral transverse rib roughness and fitted with center-clear twisted tape” Nominated as one of the best “Innovative Student Project Award” in the year of 2012 by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), New Delhi.
Won Best Paper award at International Conference on Recent Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology, Goa – 16th March, 2014, On “Designing of an Aerofoil blades with 2-D geometry”.
Won Best Paper award and Golden Medal at International Conference on “Experimental investigation of drag and lift force on an airfoil shaped body at different angles” at Bangalore – 22nd June, 2014, at International Conference on Mechanical and Production Engineering.
Won Best paper award and Medal at International Conference on “Convective heat transfer enhancement in low Reynolds number of a circular pipe with full length twisted tape inserts” at Pune – 29th June, 2014, at International conference on Recent Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology – ICRISET.
Won Best paper award and Memento at International Conference on “Design and Fabrication of a Solar power unmanned aerial vehicle” at Chennai – 28th Sept, 2014, at International conference on Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.
Won Best and 3rd Best Poster award and Memento at International Workshop on “Frontier energy research with industry academia partnership” at IIT, Guwahati, 2015.
Won Best Paper award and Medal at International Conference on Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, Goa – 5th July, 2015, On “Heat Transfer Enhancement of Turbulent Flow of Air through a Circular Pipe and Fitted with Spring Tape”.
Won Best Poster award at International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering, NITK Surathkal, India – Dec20 -22, 2015, On “Experimental Investigation of Laminar Flow Heat transfer through a Circular Ribbed Duct Having Centre–Cleared Twisted-Tape Inserts”.
Won Best Paper award at International Conference on Nano for Energy and Water & Indo French Workshop on Water Networking, February 22-24, 2017, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India, on “Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics of Cu/Water Nanofluid in a Wavy Ribbed Channel”.
Received Young Scientist International Travel Support funding in 2017, sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship award from University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Achievements

Award & Distinctions

AIMS-Jaipuria Outstanding Management Researcher Award 2020
AIMS International Outstanding Young Management Researcher Award 2017, AIMS International, Vadodara 390008, India
Young Scientist Award- VIFRA 2015, VENUS International Foundation, Chennai - 600088, India.
Cited in Marquis Who's Who in the World (Twenty Eight-Thirtieth Edition, 2011-2013).
The National Research Foundation of Korea (Republic) Scholarship, to pursue the Post Doctoral Research at the Yonsei University, 2010.

Guest Editor & Editorial Board Member

Guest Editor of Special Issue on: Evidence-based Processes in Business and Systems in International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSS), 2017 Vol. 11 No. 1/2.
Guest Editor of Special issue On: Evidence Based Management for Services Sector in International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), 2016, Volume 8, Issue 4
Guest Editor of Special issue on: Trends and future directions in quality, reliability and infocom technology in Communication in Dependability and Quality Management, An International Journal (CDQM), Serbia, 2010, Volume 13, Number 3.
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Knowledge Management & Information Technology.
Editorial board member of Journal of Advanced Research in Operational & Marketing Management
Editorial board member of Amity Journal of Operations Management
Editorial board member of Progress in Human Computer Interaction

Awards, Achievements and Recognition.

AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS

a. Selected by the Bureau of the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories to participate to the "IPCC Expert Meeting on Reconciling Land Use Emissions" was held on 9th -11th July 2024 in Ispra (Varese), Italy (https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp)

b. Nominated as a member of Indian official delegation to the UN Climate Panel’s (IPCC) 55th session held in Feb 2022, where IPCC AR6 Working Group Report 2 was adopted (https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2022/04/FINAL-REPT-P-55.pdf; page 19)

c. Nominated to the Roster of expert of the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change with the specialization in the Land use Change and Forestry sector (https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/roestaging/Pages/RosterOfExperts.aspx)

d. Co-Chair to the Forest Ecosystems Group of the Commission on Ecosystem Management' in ‘The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); For a period of 2021-2025 (https://www.iucn.org/our-union/commissions/group/iucncem-forest-ecosystems-specialist-group)

e. Co-Chair to the Forest Ecosystems Group of the Commission on Ecosystem Management' in ‘The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

f. Member of global 'Commission on Ecosystem Management' in ‘The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’ for the Quadrennial Period 2017-2020

g. Appointed as a member for the ‘Thematic Task Group 6’ (to Promote the quality and coverage of forests consistent with social usages and ecological attributes of forests) constituted by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Govt. of India) to facilitate the preparation of India's Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions Development Strategy.

h. Appointed as a Team Leader of the ‘Sub-Committee of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Budgetary Aspects’ for preparation of Goa State Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.

i. Nominated as an expert member to Goa Government’s Landslide Committee

j. Selected as an expert member for the State (Goa State) Governing Council of the State Level Steering Committee for National Adaptation Funds for Climate Change (SLSC for NAFCC) for a period of 03 years, the council is chaired by Chief Minister (Reference: Official Gazette, Govt. of Goa Sept 2021 series II No. 25)

k. Member, Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for India's Third National Communication and BURs to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

l. Nominated as an experts to the Editorial Board of the IPCC Emission Factor Database (EFDB)

m. Joined the editorial board of the international journal "Tropical Ecology" in 2018 as an Associate Editor. "Tropical Ecology" is being published by the prestigious publishers Springer-Nature, and currently it has an impact factor of 1.333.

n. Our online climate policy tool ‘Financial Times climate change calculator’, won Statistical Excellence Award from Royal Statistical Society, London, 2016

o. Guest editor’ for the special issue "Restoring Degraded Lands to Attain UN-SDGs” for the international journal "LAND" (Impact Factor 4)

p. Nominated as a lead author to the regional assessment (Asia-Pacific) of Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) – 2015

q. Nominated as lead author to the regional environmental outlook (Asia-Pacific) of United Nations Environment Programme – 2014

r. Nominated as an author to the global environmental outlook of the United Nations Environment Programme - 2017

s. Expert Member Sustainable Development Goals Committee, Govt. of Karnataka

t. Expert Member WRI, land restoration thematic group

u. Awarded the prestigious National Environmental Sciences Fellowship, by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India - 2011

v. Selected and sponsored by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India for students and Nobel laureate meet in New Delhi - 2007

w. Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by CSIR, India - 2006

x. Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India in the field of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, secured position among top 20% of top CSIR-JRF awardees and invited for prestigious SPM fellowship examinations (2004)

y. Appointed as an Associate Head (In-charge), School of Interdisciplinary Research and Entrepreneurship (SIRE) BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, from January 2024.

POLICY OUTREACH TO GOVT. OF INDIA, STATE GOVTs. AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

1. Supported Govt. of Goa and NABARD in development of SAPCC for Goa state (https://gsbb.goa.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SAPCC%207.pdf)

2. Contributed to India's National GHG Inventory in form of its most recent Third National Contribution to UNFCCC (https://unfccc.int/documents/636235)

3. Contributed to Chapter 11 in ISFR, 2021 published by FSI, MoEFCC, Govt of India (https://fsi.nic.in/forest-report-2021-details)

4. Member to global 'Commission on Ecosystem Management' in ‘The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’ for the Quadrennial Period 2017-2020 and again for the period of 2021-2025

5. Co-editing a special issue titled "Restoring Degraded Lands to Attain UN-SDGs” for the international journal "LAND" (Scopus citation index = 1.4): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/special_issues/degraded_land_UN-SDGs

6. Organised a workshop titled “Data and Tool for Climate Resilience Planning in South Asia” on 13-14 August, 2018 at Future Earth South Asia Regional Office, IISc, Bangalore. The workshop was attended by Policy makers, Govt. officers, scientists, NGOs, Corporates and other stakeholders

7. National Inventory Systems & International Reporting (NISIR), Department of Environment, Govt. of Australia (India-Australia collaboration on the FullCAM GHG inventory model)

8. Ministry of Environment and Forests & Climate Change, Govt. of India Contributed to preparation of BUR-1 and BUR-2

9. Meghalaya Basin Development Authority, Govt. of Meghalaya, India

10. Environment and Policy Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka (Training and capacity building of Govt. officials)

11. Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad (Visitor)

12. State Academy of Training, Takyel, Imphal (Training and capacity building of Manipur state government officials)

13. Myanmar Department of Hydrology and Disaster Management, Nay Pi Taw, Myanmar (Expert visitor)

14. University of Brunei, Brunei (Academic visitor)

15. Financial Times, London (Collaborated on preparation of climate change calculator)

16. Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, UN (Lead Author)

17. United Nations Environment Programme, UN (Lead Author)

18. Global Environment Facility, UN (Author)

19. Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Govt. of India, Dehradun (Training of IFS officers)

20. Forest Survey of India, Dehradun (Collaborator in preparation of India’s national GHG inventory)

21. National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad (Collaborator in preparation of India’s national GHG inventory)

22. Administrative Training Institute, Mysore, Karnataka (For training the officers of the Karnataka Govt.)

23. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal (Training and capacity building of scientists from South Asia in CORDEX datasets)

Achievements

Teaching Achievements:

Case Studies, Role Play, In tray Exercises, Situational Judgement Test, Videos, Projects, Mock Interviews and other interactive activities were used in all the courses.
Presentation of students were video recorded and objective feedback was given to them to improve their presentation skills
Psychometric tools were administered to know personality type and job suitability
Students were asked to take up real time issues and work on them for projects. Appropriate findings were incorporated to make business changes
Developed material specific to medical profession for the course HHSM ZC417 which is targeted towards medical professions doing their masters in Hospitals and Health Systems Management
Guided MBA students in preparation of competency based resume and career objective
Been the Instructor In charge of multi section course MGTS F211 Principles of Management

Research Achievements:

Received the Best Paper Award for Innovative Research for a paper titled ‘Educating Generation Z- An Ethnographic Insight for Managing and Organizing Higher Education Institutions in the Indian Context’. Paper presented at the Second Conference of Aston India Centre for Applied Research (AICAR), held at Aston University, Birmingham from August 31 – September 1, 2018.
Presented a paper at the 76th Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), held at Anaheim, California from August 5-9, 2016. The paper was titled "How Global is 'Indian' Management - A Study of Management Practices in the Indian I.T. Sector".
Best Paper Award received for a paper titled "Indian Management Practices: A Chimera or Reality", presented in the International Conference on Management in the New World Order, held at IIM Ranchi from August 13-14, 2013
Attended a Faculty Development Program on 'Case Method Pedagogy' conducted at Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Other Achievements:

Workshops/Seminars/Conclaves Organized

Convened a HR Conclave titled ‘Workplace in the Era of Industry 4.0 – Skill Upgrading and Development’ on March 1, 2019 at BITS Pilani – Pilani Campus in collaboration with WILP.
Convened a HR Conclave titled 'Bridging the Talent Gap - Issues and Challenges' on 20th January, 2017 in India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in collaboration with WILP.
On behalf of Teaching Learning Centre, convened a 2.5-day conference on behalf of Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) in collaboration with the three campuses of TLC at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus between 12 -15 February, 2020. The theme of the conference was 'International Conference on Best Teaching Practices for Engaged Student Learning'.
On behalf of Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani – Pilani Campus convened the workshop called “Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW)” for orienting new faculty on 25-26 July, 2019
Delivered a collaborative session on “Reflective Teaching" in ITW organized by TLC at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus on 25th July, 2019.
As core member of Teaching Learning Centre and in charge of arranging workshops, coordinated and participated in a workshop on ‘Team Based Learning’ on March 9, 2019. Dr. Preman Rajalingam of LKC School of Medicine, Singapore engaged a one day hands on session for faculty participants from BITS Pilani - Pilani , Hyderabad and Goa Campuses.

Achievements

( Best Paper Award for Innovative Research) for paper titled ‘Educating Generation Z- An Ethnographic Insight for Managing and Organizing Higher Education Institutions in the Indian Context’. (Jayashree Mahesh & Anil K Bhat)presented at the 2nd International Conference of Aston India Centre for Applied Research (AICAR), held at Aston University, Birmingham from August 31 – September 1, 2018
(Recommended for Carolyn Dexter Award by reviewers of the ENT division.) Tiwari, P.; Bhat, A. K. and Tikoria, J. (2017) "The Mediating Role of Subjective Norms in the Formation of Social Entrepreneurial Intentions", accepted for presentation in session at the 2017 Academy of Management Conference (AOM) on August 4th-8th in Atlanta, Georgia.
(Awarded Excellent Paper Award) Preeti Tewari, Anil Bhat & Jyoti “Exploring the Factors Responsible in Predicting Entrepreneurial Intention among Nascent Entrepreneurs: A Field Research" 9^th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Sydney ,Sept. 2-3^rd,2016
(Highly Commended paper in the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.)Sharma, S.K. and Bhat, Anil. (2014), "Modelling supply chain agility enablers using ISM", Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol.9, issue 2
(Awarded best paper in its track)Mahesh Jayashree and Anil Bhat, "Indian Management Practices: A Chimera or a Reality", in the proceedings of International conference on 'Management in new world order' at IIM Ranchi, India (August, 2012)
Shiksha Ratan Puruskar,12^th July 2007 (India International Friendship Society)

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Awards & Honours

Awards

2012 | ‘Prof. S. Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award 2012’ | for academic excellence (in Teaching, Research) and Contribution to Institution Development | By Dr. Kumar Magnalam Birla (Citation, Rolling Plaque & INR 1.00 Lakh) | On 12-August-2012 at BITS Hyderabad Campus during 1st Convocation.

2011 | ‘Distinguished Faculty Award’ | Reconginition and Appreciation of dedication, interest, enthusiasm and attitude in accomplishing the assigned mission of teaching | By Mr. Prithviraj Chauhan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra in New Delhi during BITSAA Global Meet, 7-9-Jan-2011

2010 | ‘Kris Ramchandran Faculty Excellence Award’ (Certificate of Excellence) for the Achievements in Research, Teaching & Administration | By Prof. R K Mittal, Director BITS Dubai Campus | 21-October-2010 at BITS Goa Campus

Honours

2010 | ASME Certified instructor | Authorized Training Instructor, certified by American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) for training the Industrial professionals on:

Advanced FE Analysis (June-2010) | Computer Aided Design (Aug-2011) | Comp Aided Modelling & Advanced FEA (Dec-2011)

2012 | Mission-2012, Task Force Leader, ICT Infrastructure of BITS Pilani

Fellowships, Awards & Research Recognitions

The article "Confined Evaporation-Mediated Enhanced Residence Time of Levitated Water Drops over Deep Oil Pools" Langmuir, 37 (46) (2021). (Article Link: Click Here.) got selected as the cover page article of the American Chemical Society Journal Langmuir. (Cover page Link: Click here)
Received the ‘Competitive Research Grant’ from BITS Pilani (January 2019).
Won the Keshav Rangnath Excellence in Research Award from IIT Madras (July 2018) - Best researcher award from IIT Madras (Based on the thesis and publication quality and quantity).
Institute Pre Doctoral Fellowship, IIT Madras, March 2018-August 2018

Research article titled "Correlating the contact line capillary number to the dynamic contact angle hysteresis in surfactant based nanocolloids" published in Physics of Fluids has been selected as Editor's Pick.

Article titled "Effects of interplay of nanoparticles, surfactants and base fluid on the surface tension of nanocolloids" published in European Physical Journal E has been selected as cover page article.

Scholarship for MS-PhD dual degree program, July 2014-February 2018, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India.

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Grants

SERB-DST funded Start-up Research Grant 2021-23
Grant under OPERA (Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics) Award, BITS Pilani, 2019-
Research Inititation Grant, BITS Pilani (2019-21)

Review work

Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, MathSciNet Reviewer Number: 117851. Link to reviews: https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/search/publications.html?pg1=RVRI&s1=1070261&pg3=authreviews

Referee work for

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal,
Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics,
The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society

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Honors and Awards

· Awarded Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) grant, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 2021

· Selected for Travel Fellowship Award in ICBIC-XVII conference, China, 2015.

· Selected for Student Bursary Award in ICCC-41 conference, Singapore, 2014.

· Awarded Travel Fellowships from DST, CSIR and CICS for attending international conferences.

· Qualified National level competitive tests: Joint Admission Test for M. Sc. (IIT-JAM) in 2009, GATE in 2010 and CSIR-NET in 2010.

· Awarded ‘Merit-Cum-Means’ scholarship in B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Govt. of WB, India.

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Award/Recognition

Award

Awarded financial support from NBHM to attend International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018), Brazil, Aug. 01-09, 2018.
Awarded Dr. Prabhulal Bhatnagar memorial prize for being the most outstanding PhD student in Mathematics department, IIT Bombay for the year 2010-2011.
Awarded travel support from NBHM to attend International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, August 19-27, 2010.
Awarded travel support from NBHM to attend Summer School: Topics in Nonlinear PDEs, CIM/UC Coimbra, Portugal, June 22-27, 2007.
NET (National Eligibility Test) - 2006, 2008.
JRF and SRF from MHRD at IIT Bombay during 2005-2010.
GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering ) - 2005 (AIR-66).

Refree/Reviewer

Bulletin of Korean Mathematics Society.
International Journal of Computational Methods
Computer and Mathematics with Applications
International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

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Acheivements and Awards

Achievements & Awards

Received Belgian Committee of the International Water Association's Water Development Collaboration award for the year 2018 along with Prof. Korneel Rabaey, Ghent University, Belgium
Reinvent the Toilet Challenge Grant recipient 2014 from DBT BIRAC and Bill & Mellinda Gates foundation.
Member of Goa University’s “Internal Quality Assurance Cell”
Appointed by the Government of Goa as the Member of Expert committee constituted for technical evaluation of bids for the Municipal solid waste (MSW) processing facility going to be set up at Bainguinim, North Goa.
Mentor for Sustainable Biosolutions LLP , a BITS incubate company and they have won 1^st prize of 50 K at“TiE 50K Big Idea Business Plan Competition” final round held on 22nd May 2013 at TiE Hubli. The business plan was on an organic fertilizer developed in my lab (Applied and Environmental Biotechnology).
Two month fellowship from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under reinvitation programme for DAAD alumni. Worked with Dr.Marcell Nikolausz, Bioenergy department, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany from 20^th May 2012 till 18^th July 2012.
Recipient of American Society for Microbiology & Indo US Science and Technology Forum (ASM IUSSTF) Indo US Research Professorship October 2010 . Carried out Stable isotope probing at Rutgers University in the summer (June – July 2011).
Appointed as nodal officer by the Goa Government for monitoring Pollution in Comba well waters.
Two month fellowship from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under reinvitation programme for DAAD alumni. Worked under Prof. Matthias Kastner, Bioremediation department, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany from 20^th May 2008 till 20^th July 2008.
Received FEMS young Scientist award to present paper at the 14^th International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation symposium 2008.
Helmholtz association’s junior scientist award to present a poster at International conference on Environmental Biotechnology, Leipzig, Germany. 2006
Best paper award at National conference on Environmental Conservation, 2006 held at BITS-Pilani.
Recipient of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD – UGC) sandwich model fellowship for the year 2001 – 2002 and 2002 – 2003. Under this fellowship carried out laboratory work at UFZ – Centre for Environmental Research, Germany and obtained Ph.D degree from Anna University, India.
Scientific Panel member for Alcoholic Beverages - Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
Member of the Syllabus Sub Committee for framing the Curricula and Syllabi for B.E Environmental Engineering, Anna University, Chennai

Award/Scholastic achievements /Fellowship

Received Inspire Faculty Fellowship (2021).
Selected for The NBHM Post-Doctorate Fellowship in 2018 and 2020.
Selected for the award “Professor K Venkatachalaiengar scholarship” (best research scholar award) for 2016-17.
Selected for The Full Support among The Young Mathematicians (within age 40) at Iwota-15 Tbilisi, Georgia.
Recipient of The NBHM PHD-Fellowship (2012).
Declared successful in ‘Joint CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lectureship (NET)’ held on June 2012.

Achievements

2023 SERB-Startup Research Grant, funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, India.

2022 OPERA, funded by Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

2018 INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, funded by Department of Science and Technology, India.

2017 National Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, India.

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Scholarships/Awards/Membership

Best Paper Award in 2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering, Technology and Business Management (ICRTETBM 2023) Feb. 22-24, 2023
Best Paper Award in International Conference on Quality, Reliability and Control 2001
Fellow member (FIE) of The Institution of Engineers (India)
Senior member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering

Award / Recognition

Member of Editorial Boardy/Advisor Board

International Journal of Research and Reviews in Information Sciences ,UK
Scientific Journals International ,USA
American Journal of Fluid Dynamics, USA
Journal of Mathematics, USA
Exceling Tech Publisher, UK
American Academic & Scholarly Research Center (AASRC), USA
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, France
Global Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics Sciences.
Research Journal of Physical and Applied Sciences
Journal of Statistics and Mathematics
World Research Journal of Engineering and Technology

Reviewer of the Journals

Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer
Applied mathematics & Mechanics(Springer)
Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics
Computers and Fluids
JPGE
SJI
World Journal of Mechanics
Open J. of Fluid Dynamics
International Journal of Physical Sciences
Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
American Journal of Fluid Dynamics
‘Rajya Puruskar’ of Scouting.

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Professional Honour, Recognition and Engagements

Received "Best Researcher" award at the 3rd Edition of International Research Awards on statistical methods for analyzing the engineering data for the contribution and honourable achievement in innovative research on 25th May 2023.
Nominated as a member in the Board of Studies of Mechanical Engineering at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati.
Nominated as a member, Research Recognition Committee of Mechanical Engineering of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati
Received "Excellence & Dedicated Professional Achievement Award-2023", at International Award Convention in International Conference on Advanced and Applied Research(ICAAR-2023) organized by HLM Group of Institutions and SVDES Society Delhi on 1st April 2023.
Invited as a Guest of Honour for the Inauguration of AICTE-ISTE sponsored one week Induction programme on Advances in Engineering organized by All India Shree Shivaji Memorial Society College of Engineering (AISSMSCOE) Pune on 8th Dec 2021.
Invited as a Chief Guest for 2-day e-International conference on Recent Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology organized by Govindrao Wanjari College of Engineering and Technology Nagpur on 13th July 2020.
Appointed as a member of the consultancy cell for the development of Academic Programmes in Chaudhary Devilal University Sirsa.
Invited as a Guest of Honour for the Inaguration of AICTE sponsored STTP on Renewable Energy Sources held at St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering and Technology Nagpur during 18-23 Nov 2019.
Invited as a Guest of Honour for the Inaguration of International Conference on Advancements in Computing and Management (ICACM-2019) held during April 13-14 2019 at Jagan Nath University Jaipur.
Felicitated by Decision Sciences Institute, USA for the contribution in Indian Subcontinent Region Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) during 12th ISDSI International conference held at SPJIMR during 27-30 Dec. 2018.
Worked as a President, ISDSI for 2 years (Dec 2016 to Dec 2018)
Organized 12th ISDSI International conference in association with SPJIMR Mumbai during 27-30 2018 at SPJIMR Mumbai
Organized 11th ISDSI International Conference in Association with IIM Trichy during 27-30 December 2017 at IIM Trichy.
Organized 10th ISDSI International Conference in association with MET Institute of Management Nasik during 28-30 Dec. 2016 at Nasik.
Elected as a President, Indian Subcontinent Region Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) Regional body of DSI, Houston, Texas, USA for the period of two years (2017-2018).
Working as a external member of Board of Studies in Deptt. of Mechanical Engineering, Shridhar University, Pilani
Elected as a Secretary General of Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) USA for two years (2012-2014)
Engage as Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Manufacturing Systems publishing by Science Alert, USA.
Served as Reviewer for many reputed journals and conferences
Executed confidential work of Punjab Public Service Commission and Jharkhand Public Service Commission
Served as a Referee / Examiner for some PhD Theses, M. Tech, M.E. and M.S. Theses in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Management in certain universities and Institutions of Higher Learning
Served as a Member, Board of Examiners in Amravati University

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Achievements

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/jcde

Awards

Received grant to attend Excellence in Microsurgery Technique Training Course at the René Remie Surgical Skills Centre (RRSSC) in Almere, The Netherland 2021
International travel award from DST to attend ECO-2017, Porto, Portugal
Received CSIR SRF fellowship award 2016-2017 (Not Availed)
International travel award from DBT to attend 3rd TRP channel meeting (TRP-2015), Leuven, Belgium
Received SRF fellowship award from NABI, Mohali 2015
Received JRF fellowship award from NABI, Mohali 2013
Received NIPER fellowship for post-graduation by securing 42^ndall India merit in NIPER-JEE 2011
Received UGC fellowship for post-graduation by Securing 37^thall India merit in GPAT-2011 (99.91 percentile)

Other Merits

With all India Merit top 2, Selected as Research Officer (Scientist-I, Group A, Gazetted) at Head office, CCRAS-New Delhi, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India in 2022
Selected as Assistant professor of Pharmacology at Susruta School of Medical and Paramedical Sciences, Central University of Assam in 2021

Awards and Achievements

Prof. S.S.R. Memorial Teaching Excellence Award 2023

Awards and Achievements

Incentive award for best paper by CSIR-CDRI 2017
Incentive award for best paper by CSIR-CDRI 2016
Best oral presentation award at International Conference on Neutraceuticals and Diseases, organized by IIT-Guwahati, at Cochin, during 13th to 15th sept 2016.
Best oral presentation award at International Conference on Stem Cell and Cancer, organised by Institute of stem cell cancer and biotechnology, Pune, during 2nd to 5th oct 2015
Incentive award for best paper by CSIR-CDRI 2014
Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Innovative Research (CSIR), New Delhi (2015-2018).
Awarded Junior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Innovative Research (CSIR), New Delhi (2013-2015).
Received Gold medal for highest CGPA in M.S.Pharm.(2013)
Qualified GPAT 2012 with AIR-95
Received Gold medal for I rank B.Pharm.(2011).

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Honours & Membership

Honours

Distinguished Faculty Award at BITS Alumni Global Meet, 2011
Member of Information Technology (IT) Advisory Council for Govt. of Goa
Post Doctoral Fellowship from Department of Atomic Energy
One amongst ten faculty members in India invited to attend Microsoft Faculty Summit at Microsoft Research Labs, USA, 2016

Memberships

Board of Studies of College of Engineering, Pune
Vice President of the Goa Chapter of Computer Society of India, 2011
ACM Professional Member
Board of Studies of Chowgule College, Goa
Board of Studies, M S University Baroda
Member of Academic Audit Committee for Department of Computer Science, Goa University, India
Member of Board of Studies of Undergraduate program in Computer Science, Goa University, India

Awards

SELECTED AWARDS

Early Career Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)-DST, 2018.
William A. Casey Fellowship for Outstanding PhD Research Achievements and Publications, Drexel University, 2016.
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Student Travel Grant, 2015.
Electrochemical Society Awarded Student Membership, 2015-16.
George Hill Jr. Endowed Fellowship Award, 2014.
Ph.D. Teaching Fellowship, College of Engineering, Drexel University, 2014-15.
ISTE National Award for Best M. Tech. Thesis in Chemical Engineering instituted by Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd (IPCL), India, 2010.

STUDENT AWARDS

Congratulations to Shriram Radhakanth for receiving the "Best Presentation Award" at the International Conference on Chemical Engineering: Enabling Transition towards Sustainable Future (ChemTSF-2022) organized at IIT Roorkee, September 8-10, 2022.
Congratulations to Ishita for receiving the "Best Paper Presentation Award" at the International Conference on Advances in Chemical and Materials Sciences (ACMS)-2022, organized by IIChE-Kolkata.
Congratulations to Ishita for receiving the "Young Scholar Award" for outstanding performance in the Poster presentation at the International Conference on “Electrochemistry for Industry, Health & Environment (EIHE)-2020" held at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.

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Grants and Honors/Academic/Scholastic Achievements

Awarded with the Prestigious Young Tribologist Award sponsored by the The Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation Japan for his seminal contribution to the Nanoscale Biotribology in natural human joints.
Awarded with Institute of Physics (IOP) Trusted Reviewer status demonstrated a high level of peer review competence, with the ability to critique scientific literature to an excellent standard.
Awarded with Gold Medal for being the Overall Department Topper of the Master’s batch in Mechanical Engineering Department (2012-2014 batch of 50 M. Tech students) at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India.
Awarded the Best Paper at the International Conference on Advances in Tribology (ICAT 2014), held at NIT Calicut, India on Feb 21-24, 2014. (Rewarded with Gold Medal).
Awarded fellowship during Ph. D, from Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India, Jan 2014-D e c 2 0 1 9.
Awarded fellowship during M. Tech, from Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India, July 2012-M a y 2 0 1 4.

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Fellowships, Awards and Recognitions

Ranbaxy Science Scholar award- 2011 in Pharmaceutical Sciences on the research work entitled “BSA-PLGA based core-shell nanoparticles for delivery of gemcitabine”. The award carries a citation and Rs 50,000/- cash reward (~ USD 1000/-) cash reward.
International Travel Award from CSIR and CICS to attend the ‘38th Annual Meeting and Exposition of Controlled Release Society (CRS)’ held from 30 July -03 Aug ‘2011 at National Harbor, Maryland, USA.
GATE: Qualified GATE-04 with 99.8 percentile (All India Rank - 15)
NIPER Entrance Exam for “M. S. Pharm.” (2004): Qualified (All India Rank - 01)

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Fellowships, Awards and Recognitions

Awards for Supervised Research

The 3rd National Biomedical Research Competition's Award of Appreciation (fourth prize) awarded to Mr. Atharva Rajendra Bhide in the Pharmaceutical Sciences category (Oral) for research work titled“Evaluation of artemether loaded polymeric nanorods prepared by mechanical stretching of nanospheres” under the supervision of Dr. Anil Jindal. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 3000 and a certificate.
The prestigious Sun Pharma Science Scholar Award 2020 awarded to Ms. Dhanashree Surve in Pharmaceutical Sciences category for research work titled “Long-acting Nanoformulations for Targeted Delivery of Anti-infective Agents” under the supervision of Dr. Anil Jindal. The award carries a citation, a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 and a lump sum grant of Rs. 50,000 to meet the expenses for attending one international conference to present abstracts/posters.

Research Awards

SERB-Early Career Research Award (2018).
Eudragit Award (2017) for the best research paper titled Development of efavirenz loaded solid lipid nanoparticles: Risk assessment, quality-by-design (QbD) based optimisation and physicochemical characterisation in Indian region by Evonik Health Care, Germany. Award comprises of € 1,500 cash prize and a certificate.
Prof. M.L. Khorana Memorial Award (2010) for the best research paper in the field of Pharmaceutics & Bio-Pharmaceutics. Award contains a certificate, memento and Rs. 5000 cash prize.
Travel Grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST) to attend 37^th Annual Meeting and Exposition of Controlled Release Society, Portland, Oregon, USA on 10-14^th July, 2010

Fellowships and Recognitions

UGC Senior Research Fellowship, during 2008-2012
Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai Scholarship during 2005-2006
Department of Education, Government of India Scholarship under National Scholarship Scheme for 43^rd rank in the state in Senior Secondary
Research finding - Role of nanocarrier shape on drug targeting [J. Pharm. Sci., 2010, 99(6), 2576-2581) was appeared in “The Scientist” in April 2010 {Publisher LabX Media Group, Canada} and was globally recognized as cutting edge research in nanotechnology
All India 4^th Rank in GATE 2005 with percentile score 99.97
Life Member, Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI).

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Award and Recognition

Award/Prize:

GATE-qualified: 92.94(IIT-Roorkee-2003)
National Academy of medical Science- Membership Award-2021
University Immersion award: by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani ,to share and Improve and carry out research at Taipei medical University, Taiwan, from May 17– July 18, 2018.
Prof. Manjeet Singh-Gold Medal-Award-for research in molecular pharmacology in an International conference "Cutting-Edge Pharmacology:Contemporary Issues and Future Challenges"& 48th Annual Conf. of Indian Pharmacological Society (IPSCON-2015), December 18-20, 2015, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat
National Academy of medical Science- NAMS-Membership, Award, 2021, Govt of India
P P SuryaKumari Award (Gold medal with cash prize) for Best Published paper in Diabetes and metabolic disorder: Published in Biochem Biophysic Res Communic. 2014: 452(4):1009
First Prize for best paper presented (Sruthi R and Taliyan R) at International Conference On “Molecular Pharmacology,Drug Discovery and Nano-pharmaceuticals" (MPDDNP-2015), Chitkara University, Patiala, Punjab
Best Poster and Young Scientist Award (Sorabh Sharma and Rajeev Taliyan) at national symposium on 'Pharmacovigilance In India: Perspectives and Prospects', held at Sir Madanlal Institute of Pharmacy, Alampur Hauz, Agra Road, Etawah, UP-206001 on 14 March, 2015
First Prize for best paper presented at ICMR sponsored- Conference, SMGI-Etawa, Kanpur, 2012
International Conference: Attended and presented Research based paper in British Pharmacological Society-Pharmacology-2014, held at London, U.K, Dec-16-18,2014
National Conference: 47th annual Indian Pharmacological Society-IPSCON-2014, Guwahati 2014, Presented research paper (oral) under Prof. Manjeet Singh Award category, 28-30 Dec.2014
Awarded 10th position and a cash prize of INR 1,000/- for Oral Research Presentation under Pharmaceutical Sciences Category in 3rd National Biomedical Research Competition (NBRCOM) 2021, on 6th to 10th December 2021, jointly organized by AIIMS-Rishikesh, JNU-Delhi, PGI-Chandigarh, NIPER-Mohali, CDRI-Lucknow, IITR-Lucknow, and AIIMS-Jodhpur.Topic: “Lentiviral Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Overexpression and Rapamycin Treatment Ameliorates Amyloid Beta Induced Alzheimer Disease Pathology in Rats” (Abstract ID: NBRCOM-2021-A-19), Violina Kakoty (Presenting author), Rajeev Taliyan:Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani-333031, Rajasthan, India.
Awarded 5th position and a cash prize of INR 2,000/-, for Oral Research Presentation under Pharmaceutical Sciences Category in 3rd National Biomedical Research Competition (NBRCOM) 2021, on 6th to 10th December 2021. Jointly organized by AIIMS-Rishikesh, JNU-Delhi, PGI-Chandigarh, NIPER-Mohali, CDRI-Lucknow, IITR-Lucknow, and AIIMS-Jodhpur.Topic: ‘Brain Targeted Nanoformulation of Rosiglitazone for the Effective Suppression of Tumor Growth on Rat Model of Glioblastoma’, Sarathlal K C, V. Kakoty, D. Chitkara, R.Taliyan
Awarded 3 in International Conf on rd Best Poster Presentation,Life Sci Res & its Interface with Engineering and Allied Sci (LSRIEAS-2018) on st - 3rd November, 2018, BITS Pilani): ‘Evaluation of combinatorial neuroprotective efficacy of PPARγ agonist and HDAC inhibitor on SH-SY5H cell line’, Sarathlal K C ,D.Chitkara, R. Taliyan

Others professional credits

Reviewer: Journal of Translational Medicine: Molecular and cellular biology; Med.Chemistry Research; Journal of Experimental physiology, Journal of receptors and signal transduction , Behavioural Brain Research, etc.
Editorial member: J. of Bioassay, Scholars Academic Journal of Pharmacy (SAJP), Scholars Journal of Biosci

Awards & Distinctions

Qualified in GATE-2000
Received Topper and Best Student award during B. Pharmacy.
Received Merit scholarship from Jindal Education Trust, Bangalore.
Paper entitled "Design and Comparative Docking studies of novel 1-Phenyl-2,3,4,9-tetrahydro-1H-pyrido[3,4-b]indole-3-carboxylic acid analogs as Inhibitors of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase" presented at World Conference on HIV and AIDS organized by Institute For Holistic Medical Sciences, Kottayam and Ayurveda-Und Venen-Klink, Austria on November 09-11th, 2012. (Got third prize in poster presentation).
Mentored a JAKCOV team during DDH-2020 Innovate4newdrugs an initiative of AICTE & CSIR supported by the office of the principal scientific advisor, MHRD, Govt. of India, entitled “Screening of medicinal plants compound datasets against multiple targets of SARS-COV-2” (Category: T1 - COVID Specific Drug Discovery, PS ID: DDT1-03), won the first prize of Rs. 1 lakh and entered into phase-II, March 2021.

Invited Guest Lectures Delivered

An in-silico virtual screening, synthesis and evaluation of Isatin analogues as HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase inhibitor at Hospira Healthcare India Pvt, Ltd (a Pfizer Company), Chennai on 28-6-16.

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Awards and Honours

Dr. Pushp Lata received the Best Paper Award for the paper presented on “Enhancing Employability Prospects of College Students from Rural Background: Problems and Opportunities” at International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Language Teaching held at Sathyabama University, Chennai in collaboration with RELO and IEEE during 14 -15 November 2014.
Dr. Pushp Lata has also been awarded with Shiksha Ratan Award by India International Friendship Society for meritorious Services and remarkable performance. 27 Academicians across the country were felicitated with this award for their services and out of 27, there were nine women achievers. The ceremony was held at Speaker Hall, Constitution Club on 26 May 2011. The awards were given away by the Honourable Governor of Arunachal Pradesh General J.J.Singh and ex Governor of Tamil Nadu Mr. Bhisham Narayan Singh and ex Director CBI, Mr. Jogindra Singh.

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Awards and honour

Visiting scientist position in University of Rennes 1, France, Marie Curie Funding (June-July 2016)
Visiting scientist position in University of Rennes 1, France, Marie Curie Funding (June-July 2015)
Awarded for prestigious DAAD fellowship for two months duration (June-Aug 2014), within the scheme of university academics.
Marie Curie funded visiting scientist position in the University of Rennes 1, France for one month (May-June 2014), sponsored by 'MS Nano' Network of European Commission.
Selected for 'Young Invited Talk' in the 3rd international conference on Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces (PSI2014)", held at Puri Orissa (Feb. 2014).
Visiting scientist position in the University of Bremen, Germany, during 2013 summer vacation (May-June), sponsored by the University of Bremen.

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Awards and Achievements

Visiting Senior Researcher in IBS Center for the Physics of Complex Systems, Daejeon, South Korea, January-December 2020

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Awards and Honours

For Prospective PhD Candidates

Awards:

Fellow, IET ; Senior Member, IEEE, April 2020
Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists list compiled by experts at Stanford University, Oct 2021
BITS 30U30 Award
IETE Brig ML Anand Award (National Award), Aug’20
Best Paper Award “IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine”, Dec 2020
Best Paper Award “IET Quantum Communications”, Dec 2022

Editorial Services:

Area Editor,IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
Area Editor,Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier
Associate Editor,IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems
Associate Editor, IEEE Networking Letters
Associate Editor, IET Networks
Associate Editor, IET Consumer Electronics
Lead Co-Chair,IEEE GLOBECOM workshop
Lead Co-Chair,IEEE INFOCOM workshop

Honours/ Awards/ Recognitions

Event Organized,

Symposium on Carbon Nanomaterial Electronics (SCNE) during 8-9^thNovember, 2019 at BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan under ages of SPARC-MHRD and CSIR, Govt. of India. Role: Convener.
Indo-Israel Workshop Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices (I²NMD-2018) on 2^nd November, 2018 at BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus. Role: Co-Convener.

Recipient,

"IEI Young Engineers Award"-Electronics & Telecomm. Eng. by Institute of Engineers in 2016
"Best PhD thesis award" by Institute of Smart Structure & System (ISSS), IISc Bangalore in 2016
"Best PhD thesis award" by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in the year of 2015.
INSPIRE Fellowship Award for PhD program sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), India in 2012
Silver medal award for 1^st Rank in M.Tech in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India (currently IIEST, Shibpur) in 2011
MRSI Young Scientist award for best paper presentation in Young Scientist Colloquium-2014 organized by Material Research Society of India (MRSI), Kolkata Chapter and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, September 12, 2014
Best paper poster award in Young Scientist Colloquium-2013 organized by Material Research Society of India (MRSI), Kolkata Chapter, and Jadavpur University, August 28, 2013
Faculty position (Assistant Professor) offered by Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-G), Guwahati at the Dept. of Electronics & Communication Eng. in 2015
International Travel Fellowship in from SERB-DST in 2013 and 2018 and CICS in 2016

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member IEEE- No. 92803160 (Student Member 2013, Member 2015 onward).
Member IEEE Electron Device Society.
Member IEEE Sensor Council.
Member IEEE Photonic Society
Life member of Materials Research Society of India (MRSI)-LMB2563.

REVIEWER OF JOURNAL(S)

"Applied Physics Letter", Journal of American Institute of Physics
"Nanotechnology", Journal of IOP Science
“Sensor and actuators B:Chemical”, Journal-Elsevier
"Semiconductor Science Technology", Journal of IOP Science
“Material Science and Engineering B”, Journal-Elsevier
"Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics", Journal of IOP Science
"IEEE Sensor Journal", Journal of IEEE
"Smart Materials & Structures", Journal of IOP Science
" Materials Research Express", Journal of IOP Science
“Advances in Condensed Matter Physics”, Journal of Hindwai
"Journal of Material Science: Materials in Electronics", Journal of Springer
“Journal of Applied Physics”, Journal of American Institute of Physics
"IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology", Journal of IEEE
“Measurement Science & Technology”, Journal of IOP Science
“Journal of Electronic Materials”, Journal of Springer

Awards, Honours & Fellowships

Performance in National Eligibility Test (NET):

UGC - CSIR NET (For Lecturership): Dec. - 2001.
UGC - CSIR NET (Junior Research Fellowship/Lecturership): Jun. - 2002.

Awards & Honours:

Ranked in Top 20 % of UGC-CSIR NET (JRF), Jun. - 2002 : Called for the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Fellowship Test - 2003 held at Hyderabad.

Fellowships:

1. Post Doctoral:

Selected as Post Doctoral Fellow at UCT - CERN Research Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Selected as CSIR - Research Associate (RA).
Availed Two months Summer Research Fellowship (SRF) at BHU, Varanasi during Summer - 2012 jointly sponsored by three Indian Science Academies under the Science Academies Summer Fellowship Scheme for University Teachers.

2. Doctoral:

CSIR - JRF : Feb. 2003 - Mar. 2005.
CSIR - SRF : Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2008.

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Other Accomplishments

Reward:

Received Best Poster Award for the poster titled “Design of a programmable delay line with on-chip calibration to achieve immunity against process variation” presented at “The 26th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2022)” organized by Indian institute of Technology Jammu, 17-19 July 2022.

Recognition:

External Expert for Project Fellow (PF), JRF, SRF Selection at CEERI, Pilani for different sponsored projects in Smart System Group & AI Group, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
Chaired Session on “International Symposium on Nanoelectronics and Information System, IEEE-INIS on 19-21 December 2016 at IITM Gwalior.
Delivered a talk on “Energy Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Autonomous IoT Systems using Emerging Non-Volatile Memories” The 121st TAOYAKA Program Seminar/HiSENS Seminar, on December 22, 2017 at Hiroshima University, Japan.

Professional Development:

Co-Coordinator of “ATAL Sponsored One Week Online FDP on Intelligent and Collaborative Robotics” at BITS-Pilani Campus during 13th – 17th September 2021.
Attended Faculty Development (FDP) Programme on “VLSI Chip Design Hands-on using open source EDA” jointed organized by IITG, IITR, IITB at MNIT Jaipur, India during July 8-12, 2019.
Attended Faculty Development (FDP) Programme on “Methodologies and Challenges in Digital IC and Memory Design” jointed organized by SCL Mohali, MNIT at MNIT Jaipur, India during Dec 11-15, 2019.
Attended Faculty Development (FDP) Programme on “Mixed Signal CMOS ICs, Methodology of Circuit to Chip Design” at MNIT Jaipur, India during March 6-10, 2019.
Involved in International linkage development program (ILDP) from 16 -25 December, 2017 at Hiroshima University, Japan (Visited HU, Japan)
Involved in International linkage development program (ILDP) March 2018 at BITS, Pilani
Active member of the Organizing committee of 8^th International Conference on Human Computer Interface (IHCI), jointly organized by BITS-CEERI Pilani, 12-13 December, 2016.
Involved in setting-up question paper for BITS-HD(Microprocessor), March-2017
Involved in developed of Handout of M.E(Microelectronics), Analog IC Design for WILP, 2016.
Involved in development of course content & lab assignments with Asst Prof. Pawan Sharma WILP, 2016.

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Appreciation

Symposium on Frontiers of Development in Kigali, Rwanda (Feb 2018) fully funded (Rs. 1.5 Lakhs) by Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), UK.

Awards

Recipient of ‘International Travel Grant-2024’ from SERB, India for attending ICCP-13 held in Niagra Falls, Buffalo, USA.
Recipient of 'Young Scientist Award-2024' From Chemical Research Society of India
Recipient of 'DST INSPIRE faculty fellowship-2021'.
Recipient of 'Research grant-2021' from higher education authority (HEA) Ireland.
Group member and lab manager of the 'Chemical laboratory of the year-2021', an award from the Irish Laboratory Awards.
Group member and lab manager of the 'Laboratory team of the year-2020', an award from the Irish Laboratory Awards.
Recipient of ‘International travel grant (iitr/daa- 122/scdfnol-xii/184) ’ from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), India.
Recipient of ‘SPP Student Assistance Grant-2016’ from Society of Porphyrin and Phthalocyanines.
Recipient of ‘International Travel Grant (ITS/1174/2016-17)’ from SERB, India for attending ICCP-9 held in Nanjing, China.

Awards and Honors

Institute Silver Medal (First in M.Sc. Chemistry, Silver Medalist, 2009)
Departmental best project award (Best M.Sc. Project thesis, 2009)
Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET-2008) for pursuing doctoral study (from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Govt. of India and selected among top 20 % students)
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2009) all India rank 29.
Awarded Merit-Cum-Means (MCM) Scholarship, provides financial assistance to meritorious students to pursue
professional and technical courses in IIT (2007-2009).
Qualified Joint Admission Test to M. Sc. (JAM-2007) for admission in IITs, all India rank 7.
National Scholarship (2002-2004).

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Recognition and Awards

2018: Received IEEE senior membership position
IEEE Region: R10 -Asia and Pacific, Section: Rajasthan Subsection
2018: Member IEEE Solid State Circuits Society
2011: Received international travel support from DST for attending 3rd International Asia Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (CAR– 2011), Shenzhen, China, 24-25 December, 2011.
2010: My biography is included for publication in Who's Who in the world, 27th edition 2010
2002:Received a project completion award from INTEL higher education as a part of curriculum development workshop on "Basics of Microelectronics" at IIT Bombay in 2002.
2001:Won first prize in workshop on "developing communication skill" held at INTERFACE-2001 at BITS, Pilani
2000: Received MHRD scholarship (GATE-2000 Examination) during M.E.
1996: Achieved 5th rank in B.E. Examination in Amravati university
1990: Received National Merit scholarship for S.S.C. Examination

Student's Award:

2015: Under my supervision students (Vishal Varshney-Team Leader, Krishna Kant Garg, Amolak Singh, Gaurav Ghosh) received 4th rank in the e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC)-2015, sponsored by MHRD through the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) and held by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay

Honours & Awards

Panelist For The Young Investigator Award As A Part Of The Isa Technovation Awards 2007
Guided ME students, for Cadence Design Contest 2017, winner masters categoty, title--,Design and Implementation of Differential Power Analysis Attack Immune Encryption Circuit Based on Simon Block Cipher for Next Generation RFID Cards
CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION from TEXAS INSTRUMENT for guiding student team for India Innovation Challenge Design Contest
Member of editorial review board of Scientific Journals International , IETE technical review, 2006 , 2007 , IEEE potentials, 2007
Certificate of appreciation from cadence --- CADENCE DESIGN CONTEST 2012---second position (runner up) guided a team of studens.
Received the grant Rs. 8.30 lacs for the project on “Development of silicon prototype of low power and low noise clock-less pipelined/multi stages data -converter based on 180/90nm technology for low power portable self-trigger able integrated circuit applications” under seed grant from BITS, Pilani. PI- Dr.Anu Gupta
Prof. Anu Gupta in chaired a session in International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering (ICIEE 2017), February 22-24, 2017, Singapore
Prof. Anu Gupta in chaired a session in International Journal Conference on Advanced Electronic Systems (ICAES 2013), September 21-23, 2013

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Awards

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship in 2003
ADANI AWARD for teaching assistant during 1998 – 1999 for the course CH-102; Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 1996

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Achievements

Awards and Honours

S.No.	Honours/Awards	Year
1.	Invited as the only researcher from University of Minnesota at Michigan Data Science Symposium, University of Michigan, USA	2019
2.	Recipient of NVIDIA Academic GPU grant for applying deep learning in Hydrology	2018
3.	Awarded “Best Paper Award at International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE-2018), Amity University, Uttar Pradesh	2018
4.	Awarded “Best Paper Award of ICWRCOE’15” at International Conference on Water resources, coastal and Ocean Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka	2015

International Collaborations

University of Minnesota, USA
Iowa State University, USA
University of Wisconsin, USA
Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR), USA

Other accomplishments

Instrumental in establishing MoU between BITS Pilani and University of Minnesota. Have been actively working with University of Minnesota on several academic and research activities.
Organized (Lead coordinator) Global meet on Computational Modeling and Simulation: Recent Innovations, Challenges and Perspectives (http://discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/GlobalMeet/).

Date: Oct 16-Nov 7, 2020. Selected papers were published in Springer book: Advances in Computational Modeling and Simulation.(2022). (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-7857-8)

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Awards and Honors

Merit-cum-means scholarship in B. Tech.
Prize for 1st position in B. Tech 3rd year.
National Fellowship form MHRD, India for M. Tech Study.
National Fellowship form MHRD, India for Doctoral Study.
Fellowship from Italian Ministry of Research for Post Doctoral Study.
Who’s who in the world 2009.

Awards

1. Best paper award for "Liquefaction Screening Criteria For Earth Dams." by Ravi kant Mittal, Gaurav Tyagi and Gourav Gill, presented at International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering and Sustainable Construction-ACESC'16, 30 March – 1 April 2016, organised by Department of Civil Engineering, SRM University, Chennai, India

2.Second Prize in Best Paper Prizes for our Paper titled “Experimental Study on Waste Tire Chips-Reinforced Sand using Cyclic Plate Load Test” by S. Rawat, Ravi Kant Mittal and A. Satapathy presented at Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020. Awarded was sponsored by Springer Nature and given a gift voucher for the EUR 100 (one hundred Euros) as a felicitation for winning an award in the category Developments in Ground Improvement at Indian Geotechnical Conference, 17-19 December, 2020 at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.

Awards & Accolades

Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from CSIR, New Delhi for 4 years.
Best Paper Award for the Research Paper Presented in Int. Conference on Advance Trends in Engg. Tech. & Research, at BKIT, Kota, 19-22 June 2015.
Chaired a Session at the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Concrete, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering.
Chaired two Sessions at the Structural Engineering Convention (SEC-2016), An International Conference, at SERC Chennai.
Member of Court (Senate) at Chaudhary Ranjit Singh University, Jind (Haryana) from 2014-2017.

International Visits

Visited USA, UK and Singapore for presenting the Research Papers in International Conferences.

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Awards and Honors

Academic Excellence Award- 2010 from IIT Hyderabad
The best poster presentation award on " Detailed Chemical Kinetic Modeling of In-Situ Thermal Reforming of Volatiles Derived from Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomas" at The 23rd International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE 23), Bangkok.
The Japan Institute of Energy Award- 2015 for Distinguished Paper on "Chemical Structures and Primary Pyrolysis Characteristics of Lignins Obtained from Different Preparation Methods" published in Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy, 93, 986-994 (2014).
The Japan Institute of Energy Award- 2016 for Distinguished Paper on "Numerical study on steam reforming of biomass tar using detailed chemical kinetic model" published in Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy, 94, 794-804 (2015).

Awards

Sl. No	Name of Award	Awarding Agency	Year
1	NAWA-ULAM Fellowship	The Polish National Agency For Academic Exchange	2022
2	SERB-POWER Fellowship	SERB	2021
3	Indian Scientists Abroad Under Bilateral Exchange Programme	Indian National Science Academy (INSA)	2017
4	Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA)	BITS-Pilani	2015
5	Visiting Scientist Fellowship	Indian National Science Academy (INSA)	2013-14

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Awards

Grants Awarded

Grant Grant- 2019-20, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), for Professional Development of Women Researchers, 1000GBP (approx Rs 88,000).
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Lab set-up (Fig.1 below). It is used for particle imaging in Bench-scale Circulating Fluidized Bed and is the only one of its kind among the BITS Pilani, campuses. PIV Camera was purchased with funds from ACRG (2017-2019), BITS Pilani, Rs 10 lakhs.

Achievements

Co-principal investigator of MRFF project from CSIRO, Australia(Aug 2021 – Dec 2022)
Developed a website CoviRx, curating a database of 7,817 FDA and TGI approved compounds.
Published articles in MDPI Data, PLOS One, Int J of Mol Sci., IEEE Big Data, IEEE ISBI in past 2 years.
Recently secured funding of 6.95L for WATCH pilot project from Department of Health Western Australia (Aug 2023- July 2024)

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Awards & Fellowships

2013	Raman Post-doctoral Fellowship (previously known as 'Singh Obama' fellowship' tenable in USA for 2013 under India-US 21st century knowledge initiative.
2013 (March 14-20)	Visiting Fellow in Department of Botany and Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India
2011	DST (Government of India) Travel Award for attending International Conference Abroad.
2009	Awarded DST Young Scientist Fellowship Project by DST, New Delhi under SERC Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientist.
2006	Awarded DBT Postdoctoral Fellowship by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India), (July 2, 2006 to July24, 2007).
2006	K. C Bose Young Scientist Award (Gold Medal) at a national symposium.
2003	Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2006).
2001	Research Assistant funded by Council of Science and Technology, UP in School of Biotechnology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (Jan 10, 2001 to Jan 9, 2003).
2000	Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test of Engineering (GATE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology.

Awards and Recognition

Excellent presentation award at ICCC'17 at Chengdu, China
CSIR Travel grant for Presenting papers in IEEE Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi
Recipient of Shastri Membership grant 2018
Session chair at SDN5GSC - Software Defined Networking for 5G Architecture in Smart Communities at IEEE Globecom 2018

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1. National Merit Scholarship (GOI) holder on the basis of Higher Secondary examination (2006)

2. All India Rank 364 in Civil Engineering, with a percentile of 98.32, GATE (2010)

3. Awarded best paper award in the 4th National Civil Engineering Students Symposium in IIT Bombay (2012)

4. Awarded international travel grant to attend TRB and WCTRS conference in USA (2014) and China (2016) from Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Government of India.

Awards/Fellowships

2021, Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University
2019, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh Travel Grant (Dartmouth College)
2018, University of Queensland Post-Thesis Fellowship
2016, The Asian Arts Society of Australia Prize (Best Paper)
2015, University of Queensland Graduate School International Travel Award
2015, Veronica Kelly Prize, Australasian Drama Studies (Best Paper)
2014, Dr John McCulloch Memorial Prize, University of Queensland (Best Paper)
2014, Teaching Excellence Award, University of Delhi
2010, Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University
2007, Special Assistant Program (SAP), University Grants Commission (UGC)
2007, National Eligibility Test, UGC

Awards and honors

DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship, DST, New Delhi – 2022
Langmuir Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in physical and theoretical chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India – 2017
Fellowship Equivalent to Institute Postdoc at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India – 2016

Administrative Responsibilities

Current Positions:

Coordinator, Global Sanitation Graduate School (From September, 2019).
Member, WILP & Industry Connect, Project Lakshya (From October, 2018).

Past Positions:

Nucleus Member, Instruction Division (August, 2009 to December, 2012).
Member, Curriculum Bench marking for MSc Bio Sc, BE Biotech & ME Biotech programs (March, 2010).
Faculty Member, Academic Counseling Cell (August, 2010).
Member, Curriculum Restructuring: Ecology & Environmental Science and Plant Physiology (July, 2011).
Member, Departmental Research Committee, Dept. of Biological Sciences (July, 2011 to February, 2013).
Program Coordinator, National Service Scheme (February, 2011 to September, 2012).
In-charge, Timetable, Instruction Division (August, 2011 to September, 2012).
Convener, Prof. V. S. Rao Prize for Innovation in Education (December, 2011).
In-charge, Course Management System (January 2012 to December, 2012).
Campus Coordinator, French courses, Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad (February, 2012 to September, 2012).
Invited Faculty Member, Student Faculty Committee (March, 2012).
Process Owner, Learning Management System, Enterprise Resource Planning (May, 2012).
Lead Faculty Innovator, Centre for Innovation (August, 2012 to February, 2015).
Faculty In-charge, Placement Unit (September, 2012 to February, 2014).
In-charge, Student Feedback & Monitoring, Instruction Division (September, 2012 to December, 2012).
Faculty In-charge, Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (June, 2013 to February, 2015).
Leader, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Mission 2015 (June, 2013 to March, 2016).
Associate Dean, International Programmes and Collaboration Division (January, 2014 to July, 2018).
Convener, Departmental Committee for Academics (November, 2016 to October, 2018).
Campus Coordinator, Project Management Office, Project Lakshya (August, 2017 to December, 2017).
Member, Departmental Research Committee (September, 2019 to November, 2020)
Associate Dean, Practice School Division (July, 2018 to September, 2021).

Other Positions:

President, Tamil Sangam, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2010).
In-charge, Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences (October 2011).
Faculty Member, URJA, (November 2011).
Committee Member, Steering Committee Meeting & visit of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh (December 2011).
Transport Coordinator, Chancellor’s Visit (December 2011).
Member, Committee for mid semester test pattern (March 2012).
Coordinator, Transportation & Stay Arrangements, Convocation Committee (May 2012).
Coordinator, Workshop for researchers in infectious diseases from Canada and India. (June 2012).
In-charge, Pre-Convocation Events (August 2012).
Coordinator, Transportation & Stay Arrangements, Alumni Advisory Committee (August 2012).
Event In-charge, Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati, (August 2012 & January 2013).
Coordinator, Jeevan Vidya Introductory Talk by Prof. Rajeev Singhal (November 2012).
Coordinator, Farewell for outgoing students (November 2012).
Member, UGC Innovation Project proposal submission team (February 2013).
Event In-charge, Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati, (August 2012 & January 2013).
Member, Quality Assessment & Assurance, Mission 2015 Workshop (March 2013).
Coordinator, Convocation Documentation Sub Committee, Convocation 2013 (May 2013).
Coordinator, Convocation Documentation Sub Committee, Convocation 2014 ( June 2014).

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Awards and Honours

1. First rank of merit at Intermediate of Science (I. Sc.) in Bhagalpur University.

2. Third rank of merit at Bechelor of Science (B. Sc.) pass course in Bhagalpur University.

3. First rank of merit at B. Sc. Honours course in Bhagalpur University and broken all the previous records of the University.

4. State merit scholarship 1980-82.

5. Merit-cum-means scholarship 1988-90 by IIT Kanpur.

6. Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitute Test in Engineering) 1990.

7. CSIR Research Associateship Award 1994.

8. Best Teaching Award for Tuitorship in MATH 102 by IIT Kanpur in 2001

9. Conferred the Fellow of ISMMACS awarded by the Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulations with Head Quarter at IIT Kanpur for his outstanding contributions in the field of Mathematical Modelling and Simulation.
10. Awarded JBS medal by the Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulations with Head Quarter at IIT Kanpur for his outstanding contributions in the field of Mathematical Modelling and Simulation.

Awards and Honors (Selected)

30. Honorary Mention-Inspirational Teaching Award -2023 by TLC, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus. On the basis of voting of students and faculty colleagues.

29. NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-2022 awarded by The National Academy of Science-India- one of the oldest academies of the country.

28. Selected as the constituent Member of the reputed Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS)-2023 for the period of five years and will serve Academy from 2023 to 2028. INYAS is the part of INSA-Indian National Science Academy-one of the four national science academies.

27. Eminent Educationist Award-2022- Nov. 2022.

26. Educationist Award and Certificate of Excellence by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, non-profit society, registered under MCA, Govt. of India for the outstanding contribution in the field of education and research on July, 2022.

25. Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar, Bharat Gaurav Puraskar and Certificate of Excellence by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, non-profit society, registered under MCA, Govt. of India for the outstanding contribution in the field of education and research on March, 2022.

24. DBT-Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship-2021-2026 awarded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

23. Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Award by the Gov of Switzerland -2016 (not taken).

22. Ranbaxy Award for Young Scientist- 2016 awarded by Ranbaxy Science Foundation.

21. Best Oral Presentation Award, Molecular Biophysics Symposium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India-2015.

20. Indian Institute of Science Research Associateship Award-2016.

19. Indian Institute of Science Research Jnr Research Associateship Award-2015.

18. Young Scientist Travel Grant Award-2015, Department of Science and Technology-Government of India.

17. Indian Institute of Science GARP Travel Grant Award-2015.

16. Special Invitee at First Commonwealth Science Conference organized by Royal Society of London, Bangalore.

15. Selected and participated in Workshop on Translation mentored by Sir VenkatramanRamakrishnan organized by Dept of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, Bangalore and NCBS, TIFR, Bangalore.

14. Teaching Assistant Fellowship for 2 consequent years-2012, 2013 (Given to the top performing PhD student).

13. Council for Scientific Industrial Research- Senior Research Fellowship-2012-2015.

12. Council for Scientific Industrial Research- Junior Research Fellowship-2010-2012.

11. All India Rank- 74^th, 99.6 percentile,in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, Dept. of Education, Govt. of India.

10. Selected for teacher’s workshop at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark-2017.

9. Short Oral Presentation (JAM) Award @ Delhi University.

8. Best Poster Presentation @ Bangalore Biotech Fest. 2010.

7. Prestigious Indian Council of Medical Research fellowship.

6. Indian Institute of Science Scholorship-2010 (All India Rank-3).

5. Member of DMS, Denmark and FEMS Society, Europe 2017.

4. Permanent Life Member of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI).

3. Selected for DBT Sponsored Workshop on Protein Folding organized by IISc Mathematics Initiative at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

2. Nova Nordisk Travel Fund

1. Merit Scholarship-Higher Secondary Studies

Achievements

Awards/ Honours

Best Paper Presentation Award, Virtual Global Congress on Sustainability for Growth and Development (GCSGD), July 18-19, 2020.
Best Paper Presentation Award, 18th ICMCSSE held at Stockholm, SWEDEN, July 11-12, 2016.
Merit-cum-means scholarship 1998-2000 by IIT Roorkee (formely UOR).
Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitute Test in Engineering) 2002.

Additional Qualifications

Qualified General Course on Intellectual Property by “WIPO” in 2010.
Qualified “O” Level course from DOEACC Society in 1997.

Reviewer/Editorial Board Membership

Reviewer of AIMS Mathematics (Scopus Q2, SCI, IF: 2.2) in May 2024.
Reviewer of International Conference on Work Integrated Learning - 2024, 15 -16 April 2024 (ICONWIL-2024)
Reviewer of Applied Mathematical Modeling (Scopus Q1, SCI, IF: 5) in March 2024.
Reviewer of Mathematics (Scopus Q2, SCI, IF: 2.592) in March 2024.
Reviewer of The 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM 2022).
Reviewer of Materials Today: Proceedings (Scopus Q2) in August 2021.
Reviewer of Palestine Journal of Mathematics (PJM) (Scopus Q4) in August 2021.
Reviewer of Defence Science Journal (DSJ) (Scopus Q3, SCIE, IF:0.9) in September 2020.
Reviewer of Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (DEDS) (Scopus Q3) in February 2019.
Guest editor of International Bulletin of Mathematical Research (IBMR) Volume 2, Issue 2 in June 2015.
Reviewer of International Journal of Modern Mathematical Sciences (IJMMS) in January 2013.

Selection Committee/Board Membership

Member of Board of Studies in Department of Mathematics, IIS (Deemed to be University) Jaipur in April, 2024
Appointed by UGC as Referee for the Scheme Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in January, 2023.
Member of the Interview Panel of certain posts of Lecturer Mathematics fat RPSC, Ajmer in July, 2022.

Awards/Recognitions

Best Oral Presenter, in Virtual Global Congress on Sustainability for Growth and Development 18-19 July, 2020 organized by Nilai University Malaysia and Galgotias University, India.
1st Prize in Tennis-Doubles Match held at Staff Association, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus in 2014.
Second prize for article "How to Teach Easily (Mathematics)?" in a national level competition organised by ANURAGAM (leading publication group of Tamilnadu) in 2011.
Rank among first 20% candidates in UGC-CSIR NET-JRF Examination in 2002 for the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Test-2002.
First prize for "Oral Presentation" and "Quiz Competition" at Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur on "B'Day celebration of Ramanujam (22nd December)" in year 1999 and 2000.
1st rank in all faculties (Arts/Commerce/Science) in Senior Secondary Examination at S.S. Jain Subodh Sr. Sec. School, Jaipur in 1994.
Merit certificate in Secondary School Examination from Government of India, 1992.

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Administration

Dean, Engineering Services Division: Jan 2007 - June 2012

Jan. 2007 - June 2012, I worked as Dean of Engineering Services Division responsible for complete planning, development, maintenance and new construction at institute, and campus area. I handled the Engineering Services including Workshop unit, Transportation section, and Reprography section. Dean has number of responsibilities like leading the team of faculty members, non teaching staff and helping staff of more than 300 personnel, involved in number of regular and other committees, planning and execution of new projects, getting the grants, networking with outside agencies and government officials, etc. and My work also included development of BITS, Pilani Hyderabad Campuses (~370 crores) which required regular monitoring of the construction work and working with Architect and Contractor for development of campus. Implemented Rainwater Harvesting and Green Architecture in new buildings.

Achievements:

Rainwater Harvesting in new buildings, Malviya Bh, Block - C
Negotiation to bring the civil cost of Hyderabad campus from 129 crore to 110 crores.
Construction of Women 's hostel: New static sunshade (designed and implemented)
Construction of Malviya Bhawan Hostel: implemented Static space (designed and implemented) for drying clothes
Quality Construction at low cost
Initiated the on-line complaint management system
Contributed in ERP as Asset Management Coordinator
Construction of New Science Block
Construction of Warden's house (Ashok and RP Bhawan)

Dean, Educational Hardware Division: Apr 2003-Dec.2006

I was primarily responsible for purchase of all equipment, hardware & software, across the Institute. As Dean, EHD, I designed new procedural manual and implemented new purchase processes and systems to bring transparency and efficiency. These systems are being practiced now also. Simultaneously, My work also included development of BITS, Pilani Goa Campus (~150 crores) which required regular monitoring of the construction work and working with Architect and Contractor for development of campus. Got material at discouted rate (upto 40% reduction) after negotiation.

As Unit Chief, Maintenance: July 2006 - Dec. 2006

As Unit Chief, Maintenance from July 2006 to Dec. 2006 was mainly responsible for complete planning,
development, maintenance and new construction at institute, and campus area.

As Asst Unit Chief: 2000-2003

As Asst. Unit Chief, Maintenance from 2000 to 2003 was mainly responsible for assisting in planning, development, maintenance and new construction at institute, and campus area.

As Group Leader, Civil Engineering: 1997-2000

As Head of the department I led the team of instructors, introduced new courses, got grants for modernizations of laboratories, designed new M.E. programmes, conducted number of consultancy work and other activities.

As Warden: 1996-2003

As a warden, from 1996 to 2003, carrying out the students elections, counseling on personnel and professional life, advising them on academic related matters were some of the duties carried out.

As Group Leader, Engineering Technology: 1994-1997

As Head of the department I led the team of instructors, introduced new courses, and coordinated with faculty members of different disciplines as it is a multi-disciplinary program.

Committee Member

I was involved in number of Institutional in-house assignments like nucleus member of Research and Consultancy division, nucleus member of Academic Registration Counseling division, Registration advisor, Member Of Doctoral Advisory Committee, Resource person- Intensive Teaching Workshop, Academic Counseling Board, Standing Committee for Student’s Discipline, Library Committee, Committee for Combating Sexual Harassment Problems, Campus Planning and Maintenance (Convener), House Allotment Committee (Convener), Purchase ommittee, (Convener), Centre for Desert Development Technologies (Coordinator) Staff Association (Vice President), Birla Institutions of Community Centre (Vice President), Progress Appraisal Committee For Non-Teaching Staff, Provident Fund Committee, and Other Investigating Committees from time to time. I have been the member of Senate (Highest academic decision making body of the Institute), and Research Board since last 15 years.

Awards

Shrimati Saroma Sanyal Memorial Medal by Institution of Engineers at Fifteenth Indian Engineering Congress at Hyderabad, 21st Dec. 2000.
Indian Building Congress Commendation Certificate at 7th Annual Convention on May 26, 2001 in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi for the best paper “Digital Imaging in Teaching Construction Process by Rajiv Gupta, M.K.Bhatt, and M.K.Rohil at the National Seminar on “Education and Training of Building Professional” held during 6th Annual Convention of IBC on April 20-22, 2000.
Awarded Gold Medal for best paper (Location – Allocation Model for DOTS using GIS) in Kota Chapter award at XII RAJAPICON; Association of Physicians of India. Rajasthan Chapter on 19 Oct 2002 at Alwar by Vice-President of India Shri Bhairon Singh Shekawat.
Awarded Gold Medal for best paper Clinical Diagnosis using GIS in chest X-ray in Kota Chapter award at XIII RAJAPICON; Association of Physicians of India, Bikaner. Rajasthan Chapter on 28 Feb. 2004 at Bikaner.

Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing awarded to Prof. Kamalesh Kumar, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal from Journal of Experimental Agriculture International on 12th June, 2024

Faculty Achievement

"Distinguished Woman in Science" award received from “Venus International Foundation by Centre for Advanced Research and Design”, on 02-03-2019.

RSC Best Poster Award achieved at the DAE-Second Symposium held on “Current Trends in Analytical Chemistry”-October 20-23, 2021, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.

Best Poster award received at the 19^th ISCBC International Conference, March 2-5, 2013, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) during 2004 MAY-DECEMBER 2005(RIES), As a visiting Professor at The Research Institute of electronic sciences Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JAPAN.

Recipient of Third Annual Dr. K. V. Rao Research Award-2003.Best Research work, Hyderabad, March, 2003.

Achievements and Recognitions

He is listed among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University based on publication and citation statistics for 2023(single year data). The list is published by Elsevier BV under Digital Commons data. (Link: August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" - Elsevier BV (digitalcommonsdata.com)
The article “Stability of Nanofluids: A Review” was listed among the top-cited papers published in Applied Thermal Engineering, Elsevier (2020-23). The same article is also listed among the 100 top-cited articles (Ranking 26 out of 100 based on the last five years' citation data) in the field of “Nanofluids” by ScholarGPS.
The article titled “A comprehensive insight into Waste to Energy conversion strategies in India and its associated air pollution hazard” was highlighted by India Water Portal in a news article published in May 2023 (Link: How do Indian waste to energy plants compare with their global counterparts?| India Water Portal)
Editorial Board Member, PLOS One Journal, March 2023 to Till Date
Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Thermal Engineering, April 2023 to Till Date

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Offered the editorial board membership of Scientific Reports, 2024.
Offered the editorial board membership of The Greek Chronicles, 2024.
Facilitatedwith a certificate by Elsevier journal for the invited review (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667242122000653) as it was undertaken by the United Nations under sustainable development goal for better health and wellbeing for all (UN-SDG), 2023.
Recipient of young paternity/parenthood grant award; International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), October 2021.
Scholarship awardee for e-poster presentation to attend “Vitamin D workshop” at virtual keynote symposium, United States, October 13-14^th, 2021.
Recipient of “Women Researcher Award” in “International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science, and Medicine” by VDGOOD professional association India, September 2021.
Project leader from the Department of Biological Sciences, for the Department of Biotechnology builder grant (DBT-Builder grant-2020) worth 1.5 crores (Indian rupees) towards the setup of patch-clamp electrophysiology at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, India, January 2021.
Recipient of Early Career Award; International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), September 2020.
Recipient of International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) world congress travel grant award for IBRO-meeting, Daegu, South Korea, 2019.
Recipient of an independent postdoctoral fellowship called “Restracomp”, at Sick Kid’s Hospital, Toronto, 2015-17.
Offered independent postdoctoral fellowship, The Hospital of Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, 2015-17.
Offered Postdoctoral fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, U.S.A 2016.
Offered Postdoctoral fellowship, National Institute of Health (NIH), Washington D.C, U.S.A 2015.
Offered Postdoctoral fellowship, The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMASS), Boston, U.S.A 2015.
The University of Victoria, Canada, Faculty of Science, James A. Laurette Agnew Award, 2014.
The University of Victoria, Canada, Faculty of Science, James A. Laurette Agnew Award, 2013.
The University of Victoria, Canada, William Wowchuk Memorial Graduate Scholarship
The University of Victoria, Canada, William Wowchuk Memorial Graduate Scholarship
The University of Victoria, Canada, Faculty of Graduate Studies Travel Grant 2011/2012.
Received Honorable Mention Award for the Canadian Student Health Research National Health Research (CSHRF) poster presentation competition, June 13, 2012, Manitoba, Canada.
Nominated by University of Victoria among the top 5% of doctoral students for presentation in Canadian Student Health Research Forum (CSHRF) 2012, in Winnipeg, Canada.
Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR/JRF)
Gold-Medalist at post-graduation, Patna University, Department of Biochemistry, India 2007.
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, (GATE), India 2007.
Gold-Medalist at graduation, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Department of Biotechnology, India 2005.

Selected Honors and Awards

Prestigious INSA Young Scientist Medal, 2016, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
DST-INSPIRE faculty fellowship, 2015, DST, Gov. of India (not availed).
BioAsia innovation award 2015, BioAsia, Hyderabad, India.
Special Award for Outstanding Dedication in Practical Teaching 2021, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
EMBO Best poster award on "Skin Cancer Prevention", Les Diablerets, Switzerland (April 2018).
Best poster award at International Conference on Bacterial expressions at NCBS, Bangalore,India (October 2013).
Best poster award, Sir Dorabji Tata symposium on “Mechanism of Microbial Pathogenesis”,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (March 2009).

•Prestigious INSA Young Scientist Medal, 2016, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
•DST-INSPIRE faculty fellowship, 2015, DST, Gov. of India (not availed).
•BioAsia innovation award 2015, BioAsia, Hyderabad, India.
•Special Award for Outstanding Dedication in Practical Teaching 2021, UNIL, Lausanne.
•EMBO Best poster award on “Skin Cancer Prevention”, Les Diablerets, (April 2018).
•Best poster award at International Conference on Bacterial expressions at NCBS, Bangalore,India (October 2013).
•Best poster award, Sir Dorabji Tata symposium on “Mechanism of Microbial Pathogenesis”,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (March 2009).

Awards and Achievements

Received Young Scientist Award by Telangana Academy of Sciences (TAS) in 2024
Selected as one of the Rising Stars in Materials Science by ACS Materials Au (ACS Publication) in 2024
Selected as one of the Emerging Stars in Organic Materials by Organic Materials (Thieme Publication) in 2024
Selected among the World's Top 2% Scientists (2023) as ranked by Stanford University (USA).
Received ‘The NASI- Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award’ in the field of Chemical Sciences by The National Academy of Sciences, India in 2022.
Received 'DST Young Scientist and Technologist (SYST) Award' in 2022
Received the 'Thieme Chemistry Journals Award' from the editorial board members of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, and SYNFACTS in 2022.
Received ‘MSCA-Seal of Excellence Award’ from the European Commission in 2021.
Received ‘Standard JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship’ from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan in 2018.
Received ‘DS Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship’ from MHRD-University Grant Commission, India in 2018
Received Junior and Senior Research Fellowship, (All India Rank: 63) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Lectureship Fellowship, Govt. of India in 2011.

Achievements

Awards/Honors:
• Among the World's Top 2% Scientists as ranked by Stanford University of single year category in 2021 and 2022.
• Recipient of Research Excellence Award 2020 from Institute of Scholar
• Outstanding Scientist Award 2016 for the contribution and achievement in the field of Pharmaceutical Science: Venus
International Foundation – Center for Advanced Research and Design.
• “Frank O. Taylor” BEST GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD 2008, awarded by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Wayne State University for the outstanding performance in research and graduate studies.
• Graduate Research Assistantship, Wayne State University (2005-2009)
• Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commissions, New Delhi, India for MS studies (1998-2000)ples of SDN and Network Virtualization

Achievements

Awards & Scholarships

June 2023: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.
October 2022 - January 2023: Research Consultancy at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy.
October 2021 - July 2022, September 2022 - January 2023: “Alain Bensoussan” Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).
January 2021 - September 2021: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from National Research Council (CNR) Italy.
August 2019 - May 2020: Research Assistantship from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
August 2017 - July 2019: Senior Research Fellowship from MHRD, Govt. of India.
December 2016: Richard E Merwin Student Scholarship from IEEE Computer Society. (Award: USD 1,000)
November 2013 - July 2017: Senior Research Fellowship from ITRA, Govt. of India.
December 2013: Winner of GE Edison Challenge 2013, GE John F. Welch Technology Center, Bangalore. (Award INR 10,00,000.00)

Research & Travel Grants

October 2018-June 2019: Selected for Plugin Cycle 2 startup cohort with a grant of INR 10,00,000.
August 2015–January 2017: Received Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) of INR 41,79,000 from DBT, Govt. of India.
December 2018: Best Conference Travel Grant support from IIT Kharagpur for presenting my paper at IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
December 2014: Travel Grant from DST, Govt. of India for presenting my paper at IEEE CloudCom, Singapore.
December 2014: Conference Travel Grant from IEEE CloudCom 2014. (Award: SGD 1,000)

Other Awards

October 2017: IEEE TechSym 2016 (I served as Organizing Chair) selected for 2017 Darrel Chong student activity award in GOLD category.

To be updated soon.

Gained recognition in teaching as an associate fellow, I have attended and passed Developing as a Teacher in Higher Education (DAT-HE) course at the University of Glasgow.
International Dictyostelium postdoctoral researcher award 2021.
SERB-IUSSTF, Indo-US, Post-doctoral fellowship (IUSSTF), 2016.
DST-National postdoctoral fellowship (2016), Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Award of travel grant to attend Annual International Dictyostelium Conference, 2013 from Department of Science and Technology and Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
Junior research fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. Junior and senior research fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India.
GATE 2009, MHRD, Govt. of India.

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Gained recognition in teaching as an associate fellow, I have attended and passed Developing as a Teacher in Higher Education (DAT-HE) course at the University of Glasgow.
International Dictyostelium postdoctoral researcher award 2021.
SERB-IUSSTF, Indo-US, Post-doctoral fellowship (IUSSTF), 2016.
DST-National postdoctoral fellowship (2016), Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Award of travel grant to attend Annual International Dictyostelium Conference, 2013 from Department of Science and Technology and Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
Junior research fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. Junior and senior research fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India.
GATE 2009, MHRD, Govt. of India.

Achievements

Awarded a Gold medal for being a topper in the M.S. (Pharm.)
Qualified in GATE 1998 (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in Pharmacy with a percentile score of 98.80 (All India Rank – 25).

Awards and Honours

ASCE J. James Croes Medal Award (2024) for the paper, “Geotechnical Visualization and Three- Dimensional Geostatistics Modeling of Highly Variable Soils of a Hydraulic Fill Dam,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) Award, BITS Pilani, 2021
College of Engineering Summer Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
Academic Excellence Award in Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
Dean of Engineering Scholarship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
Certificate of Achievement in Recognition of Being Named to Tau Beta Pi, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
3^rd position in GeoWall Competition, ASCE Geotechnical Frontiers in Orlando, FL, 2017
Civil Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Texas at Arlington, 2017
STEM Tuition Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2015-2018
Academic Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2015
Fellowship from MHRD, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2013-2015
2^nd Position in Instruo's Open Design Competition, Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur, 2012
Certificate of Merit for Securing 100% in Mathematics in Indian School Certificate Examination, 2009

Achievements, Awards and Fellowships

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder. [2019]
Mukhopadhyay Graduate Fellowship, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder. [2019]
CU-Boulder Dean’s Graduate Assistantship, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder. [2016-2017]
ChBE Doctoral Fellowship, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder. [2016-2020]
AFST (I) Kharagpur Chapter Anurag Kanti Award for Best Master’s Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. [2015]
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Fellowship, Government of India. [2013-2015]
Winner of Inter College Quiz Competition, Students’ Chapter of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE). [2013]

World’s Top 2% Scientist from BITS Pilani

Awards, Honours and Recognitions

AWARDS:

Prof. S. Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award, 2019 by BITSAA International.

Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar, 2021 by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, New Delhi.

HONOURS AND RECOGNITIONS:

Editorial Board Member as Review Editor (June 2022 - till date): Frontiers in Chemistry – Chemical Biology

Received recognition in the form of an editorial in ACS Omega for reviewing articles for the journal in the year 2017 and 2018. Name as reviewer cited in ACS Omega, 3, 595 (2018); ACS Omega, 4, 1700 (2019).

Received author rewards from American Chemical Society for publishing two articles in the journals published by ACS in the year 2014 (J. Phys. Chem. C, 118, 2735 (2014); J. Phys. Chem. B, 118, 3582 (2014)).

Invited Speaker in the Satellite SIS-2024 organized by the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune on June 21, 2024.

Invited Speaker in the 24^th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solutions-2024 organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus in association with the Society for Industrial Chemistry & Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology from June 16-20, 2024. Chaired a technical session.

Invited Speaker in in the 21^st.National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids (NATCOSEB XXI) Organized by the School of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur Chhattisgarh, under the auspices of the Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology, Kolkata, from November 23-25, 2023. Chaired a technical session.

Invited Speaker in the Two Days’ National Symposium On “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023: Discovery and Synthesis of Quantum Dots” Organized by the Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh during November 21-22, 2023. Chaired a technical session.

Invited speaker in the Physical Chemistry Section of 58^th Annual Convention of Chemists and International Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences held online at the Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta on December 22, 2021

Invited Speaker in XIXth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions and Biocolloids (NATCOSEB-XIX) organized by the Department of Chemistry, Amity University, Kolkata under the aegis of Indian Society for Surface Science & Technology (ISSST), Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata held during October 18-20, 2019. Chaired a technical session.

Chairperson in one of the Technical Session of the Physical Chemistry Section of the Indian Chemical Society in 57th Annual Convention of Chemists held at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay during 26-29th December 2020.

Invited Speaker in 4th International Conference on Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications (ICN 2019) organized by International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala and Institut Jean Lamour, UMR CNRS 7198-Unversite de Lorraine, Nancy Cedex, France during 12-14 April 2019. Co-Chaired a technical session in the same conference.

Invited Speaker in the Department of Chemistry, Manipal University, Jaipur on April 14, 2018.

Invited Speaker in XVIIIth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids (NATCOSEB 2017) during 10-12 November 2017 organized by School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Sambulpur, Odisha under the aegis of Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Invited Speaker in XVIIth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids (NATCOSEB 2015) organized by School of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur, Chhattisgarh under the auspicious of the Indian Society for Surface Science & Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata during November 4-6, 2015.

Invited Speaker in XVIth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions and Biocolloids (NATCOSEB) organized jointly by the Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology, Kolkata and Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai during November 28—30, 2013.

Invited Speaker in the National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics (NCCMP), Department of Physics, BITS Pilani during February 24-25, 2012.

Invited Speaker in the Conference on Photochemistry and Luminescence (CPL-2012) held at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati during March 9-10, 2012. Co-chaired a technical session in the same conference.

Invited Speaker in the National Seminar on Membranes, Microemulsions, and Self-Assembled Systems (MMSAS) held at Department of Chemistry, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Rangpo, Sikkim during September 28-30, 2010. Chaired a technical session in the same seminar.

Invited Speaker in the National Conference on Disperse Systems held at Assam University, Silchar, Assam during November, 23-25, 2006.

Resource Person in the UGC Refresher Course in the subject “Theoretical and Computational Chemistry” held in BITS, Pilani.

Resource Person in the Academic Refresher Course for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaypur held in BITS, Pilani.

Reviewed research articles for the journals, Langmuir, Energy & Fuels, Soft Matter, RSC Advances, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, European Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Surface Science and Technology, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, Advances in Physical Chemistry, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of Molecular Liquids, ACS Omega, ChemistrySelect, Analyst, Carbohydrate Polymers, Journal of Luminescence, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Journal of Solution Chemistry, Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, Separation Science and Technology.

Associate Editor (2011-2012), Global Journal of Physical Chemistry.

CSIR Research Associate, April 1998 – November 1999, IIT Kanpur.

Senior Project Fellow (DAE sponsored), August 1997 – December 1997, IIT Kanpur.

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), IIT Kanpur, 1992.

Junior and Senior Research Fellowship, July 1992 to July 1997, IIT Kanpur.

National Scholarship, 1986 - 1990, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.

Awards

"Best Industry Aligned Research" at the Computer Society of India TechNext India 2018
Student Award by Sematic web science association for ISWC, Kobe, Japan, 2016
Research Student Award for the Winter School on Big Data and Cloud Computing organized by IBM Research India, 2012
Microsoft travel grant for K-CAP, NY, USA, 2015.
Best Poster Oskar award at the IITB-Monash Annual Symposium - December 2012.
University Topper for ME (CSE-IT) – 2004
Best Outgoing Student ME (CSE-IT) – 2004

Achievements

Awards:

Awarded Bronze Medal by the society Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha® in “Rasayan 9”, April 2021.
Awarded Inspire Faculty in Chemical Sciences, January 2017, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Member of the Editorial Board:

Editorial Board Member of the Journal 'Prayogik Rasayan' Published by Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha®

Achievements

Black and Yellow Modern Business Webinar Poster (1)

Received position of 'Visiting Professor' at Tokyo University of Science for a period of 6 months in 2024. The financial assistance includes travel, accommodation, Lab & Library visit.
Received Travel fund from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo for a collaboration visit.
DST-International Travel support to attend SIAM conference on Mathematical and Computational issues in Geoscience', Erlangen, Germany, 2017.
SIAM student travel award to attend the conference SIAM AM-USA, 2012.
Best paper award in IEEE-International Conference On Advances In Engineering, Science And Management (ICAESM -2012).
DST-International Travel support to attend International conference at Minnepolis, Minnesto, USA, 2012.
National Eligibility Test (NET), 2011.
Junior Research Fellowship awarded by Indian School of Mines Dhanbad on the basis of an all India examination (2010 -2011).
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2010.
Meritorious Student Scholarship in M.Sc., 2007-2009.

Ph.D. Thesis and Master Thesis Supervised

PhD and Master THESIS SUPERVISION

(A) Ph.D. Thesis Supervised

Dinesh Kumar, “Study of Failure and Stability of Laminated Composite Plates with Cutouts,” BITS Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan, (Successfully Defended, 2011).

Funding Agency: CSIR, New Delhi and KK Birla Academy

Madappa, “Response and Micromechanics Based Design of Engineered Cementitious Composite Structures,” BITS Pilani, (Successfully Defended on December 29, 2012).

Funding Agency: DST, New Delhi.

Gregory, Chukwuemeka Ezeokpube, “Finite Strip Analysis of Continuous Box Girders Bridges Including the Effects of Shear Deformation,” Visiting Ph.D. Research Scholar from University of Nigeria, 2011-2012.

Himanshu Chawla, “Study of Structural Response and Strengths of Thin-walled FRP Composite Girders,” BITS Pilani, (Defended his PhD thesis on July 7, 2018)

Funding Agency: UGC New Delhi.

Pankaj Munjal, “Development and Usage of Innovative Ductile Composite Materials for Repair and Retrofitting of Concrete and Masonry Structures,” BITS Plani, (defended his PhD on July 27, 2018)

Funding Agency: DST New Delhi, and ABG.

Shaik Hussain, “Investigation of the Effect of Carbonation on the Properties of Concrete,” BITS Plani, Co-Supervisor (defended his PhD thesis on July 9, 2018)

Funding Agency: DST New Delhi.

Sudhir, V., “Postbuckling Response, failure, and strength of functionally graded composite material plates,” (Successfully defended on October 09, June 2021)

Funding Agency: CSIR New Delhi

Pulleti Siva Sankar, Postbuckling Response, Failure, and Strength of Natural Fiber Based Functionally Graded Composite Plates, (In Progress)

Funding Agency: CSIR New Delhi

Ankit Singh Mehra, “. Study of Structural Behaviour and Failure Characteristics of FRP-Concrete Composite Beams, (In Progress)

Funding Agency: BITS Pilani

Naveen Singh Thakur, “Performance of photo-catalyst in self-cleaning constructions material,” (In Progress)

Funding Agency: Sobhasaria Group of Institutions, Sikar

Poletti Sai Kumar, Behaviour of Double Skin FRP Tubular Columns (DSFTCs) under Axial Compression, (In Progress). Funding Agency: BITS Pilani (Institute Fund)

Brijesh Kumar Singh, “Studies on mechanical performance of sintered flyash lightweight aggregate in concrete (PhD Aspirant Scheme Candidate, In Progress),

Funding Agency: NCCBM, Haryana

Kathir, Vadivel, “Fabrication and Failure Characterization of Functionally Graded Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Simultaneous High Strain Rates and Elevated Temperature,” (In Progress).

Funding Agency: ARDB/DRDO New Delhi. (Collaborative Project between IIT Delhi and BITS Pilani)

Debjyoti Roy Chowdhury (Entry No. 2022CEZ8120), “Development of Functionally-Graded Hybrid Fiber-

Reinforced Polymer Composites for High Strain Rate and Elevated Temperature Aeronautical Applications, (Registered at IIT Delhi)

Funding Agency: ARDB/DRDO New Delhi. (Collaborative Project between IIT Delhi and BITS Pilani)

(B)Master of Engineering Thesis/Dissertations Supervised

Fabrication, Failure, and Strength of Carbon Composite Twisted Cable Strands and Stirrups, Master’s Project, supervised at Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA, May 2000.

Candidate Name: Ashraf Gendy

Determination of elastic critical loads of multistory frames by conjugate method, M.S., Thesis, Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, India, April, 1999.

Candidate Name: S. Pandey

Effect of boundary conditions on response and strength of symmetric laminates under bi-axial compression, M.S. Thesis, Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, India, April, 1999.

Candidate Name: Alok Pandey

Nonlinear response and strength of laminates under transverse loads, M.S. Thesis. Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, India, August, 1998.

Candidate Name: Pushkar Nath

Response and strength of laminated coupons subjected to in-plane bending loads, M.S. Thesis, Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, India, and March, 1998.

Candidate Name: Srikanth, S.

Strength of symmetrically laminated coupons under tension, M.S. Thesis, Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, India, March, 1998.

Candidate Name: Akhilesh Singh

Effect of load parameters and rest time after application of single overload cycle on fatigue life, M.S. Thesis, Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, India, May, 1993.

Candidate Name: Kamlesh Kumar Singh

Torsional Behavior of Ferrocement box-beam: A simplified Theoretical Approach, NIT Warangal, (Andhra Pradesh), 2005.

Candidate Name: Vikash

Design Approach of NSM FRP Reinforcement for Strengthening of R.C. Beams, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), 2005.

Candidate Name: Manish R. Kondekar

Design and Response of CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced polymer) prestressed I-Section Bridge Girders, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), December, 2006.

Candidate Name: S. Madappa

Experimental Investigation of Flexural and Shear Response of SCC Beams, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), May 2007.

Candidate Name: Vedula V. Ramana Murty

Torsional Behavior of FRP Strengthened of R. C. beam, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), Dec., 2007.

Candidate Name: Kamal Kumar Sharma

Nonlinear Response and Failure of Laminated Composite Plates under In-Plane Bending Loads, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), Dec. 2007.

Candidate Name: Surendra Madhao Tople

Design and Dynamic Analysis of Composite Pipe with Manufacturing Perspective, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), May. 2008.

Candidate Name: Sandeep Lingampally^* (This candidate belongs to Mechanical Engg. Group other master students belong to Civil Engg. Group).

Seismic Response of Piping System, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), May 2008.

Candidate Name: V. V. Kamalakar

Analysis and Design of FRP Reinforced ECC Beams in Flexure and Shear, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), May 2008.

Candidate Name: Rohit Kumar Yadav

Post buckling Behavior of FRP Laminate Plates with Cutouts, BITS Pilani, (Rajasthan), December 2009.

Candidate Name: S. Anitha Priya Dharshani

Flexural and Shear Response of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) Beams Cast with PVA Fibers, June 2010.

Candidate Name: Deepak Munichakkravarthy M.

Effect of Layer Thickness and Length of Plastic Hinge of PVA-ECC on the Behaviour of Ordinary Steel Reinforced Beams, June 2010.

Candidate Name: Mikhil Gajjar

Failure and Strength of FRP Composite Panels under In-plane Shear Load: An Experimental Study, May 2011.

Candidate Name: Zafar Mahmood

Dynamic Characteristics of Laminated Composite Plates, An Experimental Study, December, 2012. Candidate Name: Himanshu Chawla

Development of Innovative Ductile FRP Systems for Rehabilitation of Masonry Structures, December, 2012.

Candidate Name: Mukund Lahoti

Application of Element Free Galerkin Methods to Solid Mechanics, December 2012.

Candidate Name: B. Rahgvenrda (2010H106434P)

Hygrothermomechanical Response of a Laminated Composite Beam, December, 2012.

Candidate Name: Gaurav Watts (2010H106432P)

The Study of Flexural Response of Laminated Flanged Sections Beams, May 2013.

Candidate Name: Pankaj Munjal (2011H143010H)

Finite Element Analysis of Timoshenko Beam made of Functionally Graded Materials,

Candidate Name: Shambhu Singh ( 2011H141085P)

The Study of Flexural Response of FRP Strengthened Masonry Structures,

Candidate Name: Thammishetti Nikesh (2011H143038P)

The Study of Postbuckling Behaviour of Composite Plate under In-Plane Bi-axial Compression,

Candidate Name: Digambar S. Killedar (2011H141086P)

Structural Properties of Sustainable Concrete made with Industrial Waste Products,

Candidate Name: N. Mahalaksmi (2011H143033P)

Influence of Boundary Condition on the Lateral Torsional Buckling of Thin-Walled FRP Girders,

Candidate Name: Prashant Kumar Jha (2012H143089P)

Study of FRP Prestressed Bridge Girders,

Candidate Name: Ameen Syed (2012H143086P)

Response of FRP Strengthened Masonry Structures under Blast Loading

Candidate Name: Aditi Chauhan (2013H143059P)

Mechanical Characteristization of Functionally Graded Composites

Candidate Name: Ranjitha B. (2013H143055P)

Flexural Response of Sandwich Masonry Beams

Candidate Name: Richa Patil (2013H144042P)

Mesoscale Modelling of Concrete and Impact Echo Analysis-Wave Interaction and Parametric Analysis

Candidate Name: P. V. Ponambala Moorthi (2014H144044P)

Postbuckling Response, failure and strength of Functionally Graded Composite Plate

Candiate Name: Abhishek Peri (2014H143051P)

37. Performance evaluation of concrete filled double skinned FRP tubular columns subjected to axial

compression

Candidate Name: Susmit Sunil Kute (2020H1430063P)

Administrative Work Performed by Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh

Administrative Works Performed:

Dean of Infrastructure and Planning at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus since June 2024.
Head of Civil Engineering Department, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, January 2007 to August 2012.
Faculty Advisor to the SEI Graduate Student Chapter (GSC) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since September 08, 2022.
Coordinator of Training Program for ONGC Engineers on “Recent Developments on Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Concrete Structures,” from April 25-29, 2022.
Coordinator of Partnership 2020:US-India Higher Education Cooperation Workshop held on March 04, 2022, on Bio-Based Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites for Civil Engineering Infrastructure.
Coordinator of Partnership 2020:US-India Higher Education Cooperation Workshop held on July 29, 2021, on Bio-Based Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites for Civil Engineering Infrastructure.
Organized a 5-day AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) workshop on the Faculty Development Program from July 25-29, 2021, sponsored by AICTE New Delhi.
Coordinator, UGC-SAP Project, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, 2012-2017.
Coordinator, DST-FIST Project, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, 2012-2017.
Indian Team Lead Partner of UK-India Education Research Initiatives (UKIERI) wherein 8 Indian Universities (BITS Pilani, IIT Delhi, MNIT Jaipur, NIT Jalandhar, SVNIT Surat, NIT Surathkal, GNDEC Ludhiana, and SRM University) and Two Universities from U.K. (University of Dundee and University of Bath) during 2008-2011
Coordinator of Ireland-India Concrete Research Initiatives (IICRI): 2011-To date
Coordinator of DRDO-BITS Pilani Workshops held in March and April 2021
Coordinator of 5-day AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Faculty Development Program (FDP) during July 25-29, 2021
NCC Officer at MNNIT Allahabad, 1992-1993
Warden of Hostel, MNNIT Allahabad, 1997-1999
Assistant Hostel Warden, MNNIT Allahabad, 1992-1993
Assistant to Dean of Academic Affairs, 1997-1999
Officer in charge of Various sports (Kabbadi and Volleyball), 1992-1993
Officer in Charge of Strength of Material Laboratory, 1997-1999
Officer in Charge Time-Table at MNNIT Allahabad, 1992-1993

Awards Received by Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh

Awards & Accolades and Recognitions

Awarded with “ICI-UltraTech Outstanding Concrete Technologist Award” on 22^nd March 2024 at Hotel Royal Orchid, Jaipur.
Elected Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers, UK (FICE)
Selected as expert member of BIS to represent India as a member of ISO TC 71/SC 6/ WG6 Committee on FRP Material Properties in May 2023.
Nominated as Principal member of CED 54 Concrete Reinforcement Sectional Committee of Bureau of Indian Standards, Government of India, May 2023 as representative of BITS Pilani.
Appointed as Associate member of the main committee on Standards Committee for ASCE/SEI 7-Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures for the 2028 cycles since March 30, 2023
Elected Fellow of Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE (F. SEI), December 2022.
Established SEI Graduate Student Chapter of ASCE at BITS Pilani which is first of its kind in India and second outside the USA.
Elected as Fellow of Indian Association of Structural Engineers (FIAStructE) on June 25, 2022.
Elected Fellow of Coalition for Disaster Resilience Infrastructure (F. CDRI, since May 20, 2022)
Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Computational Methods in Structural Engineering (specialty section of Frontiers in Built Environment).
Appointed as Member of SEI Global Activity Division Committee (GAD) for Inter-Organizational Collaboration, April 03, 2022.
Elected as Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, December 11, 2021.
Nominated as Expert member for Developing FRP shelters for High Altitude Areas for Defense needs by CCE(R&D), DRDO, Ministry of Defense through E-mail dated 25^th October 2021.
Invitation by Deepali Designs and Exhibition to develop design for FRP shelters in High Altitude Areas for Defense Sectors, through E-mail dated 23^rd October 2021.
Awarded the Best Paper Award by The Indian Concrete Journal for the Year 2020 (Paper Appeared in April Issue of 2020)
Invited by CIDC (Construction Industry Development Council) to join the esteemed group of faculty members of CIDC Academy of Construction Engineering (CACE) through letter#2223/CACE/2021 dated Feb. 9, 2021.
Awarded “Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar” and Certificate of Excellence by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, New Delhi, 28^th, 2021.
Honoured to deliver Invited Video Lecture at Indian Construction Week (ICW 2020) held at Delhi on 2^nd December, 2020, and organized by Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) an Apex body established by NITI Ayog, Government of India.
Awarded as the “Best Academician of the Year 2020 Award” by the Honorable Governor of Rajasthan, Shri Kalraj Mishra during Eminent Engineers Award Ceremony organized by Institition of Engineers, Rajasthan State Center, Jaipur on Engineers Day (15^th September, 2020).
Selected as Member of Sectional Committee as Reviewer of MHRD Scheme on Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN) January 01, 2020.
Invited by Provost, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland for Faculty Appraisal at the level of Professor, Nov. 2019.
Appointed as committee member of Research Advisory Committee for PhD students of NIRMA University, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, 2019.
Appointed as Editorial Board Member of Enliven: International Journal of Advances in Civil Engineering 2019.
Invited to Conduct Interview on 21^st July at UPSC, New Delhi for Lecturers
Appointed as committee member for Campus Level Faculty Appraisal Committee, BITS Pilani, Feb, 2019.
Serving as a Committee Member for Campus Level appointment for Non-tenured faculty members, BITS Pilani.
Appointed as Chartered Engineer (INDIA) by Institution of Engineers on June 12, 2018
Selected by NBA (National Board of Accreditation) as Evaluators of Technical Institutions, May 2018.
Biographical note has been included in Asia Pacific Who’s Who (Vol. XIV), Publisher: Rifacimento International, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 11002, May 05, 2016.
Acted as Expert Advisory Committee for DST Rajatsthan (Jaipur) Projects funding in Civil Engineering Discipline on 29^th January 2016.
Acted as Advisor to the UPSC, New Delhi for interview of Center of Soil and Materials Research Station (CSMRS) Scientists from B to C and C to D during December 16-18, 2015.
Honored as Guest of Honor at National Conference on Advances in Civil and Environmental Engineering to be held at BRCM College of Engineering and Technology, Bahal, Bhiwani, Haryana.
Received The Best Paper Award at ACEE2015 (International Conference on Advances in Civil & Environmental Engineering Penang, Malaysia) on 29th July, 2015.
Biographical-note has been included in Emerald Who's Who in Asia, Vol-II, (Ref#. RI/EWWA-PH/2015 dated 5/8/2015).
Honored as Chief Guest at 48^th Engineers’ day Function, BRCM College of Engineering and Technology, Bahal, Bhiwani, Haryana, 15^th September, 2015.
Biographical-note has been included in Asian American Who’s Who (Vol. VII), 2015.
Honored as Honored as Guest of Honor at Seminar on Mitigation of Seismic Effects on Infrastructure Projects, Sponsored by UGC, New Delhi, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, March 30, 2015.
Selected for inclusion in the 8^th edition of Asian Admirable Achievers, RIFACIMENTO INTERNATIONAL, Editor Ravi Bushan, New Delhi, India, 2015.
Biographical note included in Famous India: Nation’s Who’s Who, 2015.
Invited as an Expert Committee Member for Comments on Honey Combing of Vivekanand Lecture Theatre Complex at MNIT Jaipur along with Prof. Bishwajeet Bhattacharjee, Feb. 24, 2015.
Acted as an Advisor to UPSC New Delhi for Conducting Personality Test of Engineering Services Examinations Candidate (January 13-17, 2014).
Honored as Honored as Guest of Honor at Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Computational and Experimental Methods for Advance Research in Composites, MNIT Jaipur, June 12-16, 2013
Nominated as Expert member of BIS committee for test methods on fibre reinforced cementitious composites
UGC Nominee for expert member of UGC-DRS (SAP) Advisory Committee of Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam for 2012-2017.
Selected (on June 20, 2013) as Editorial Board Member of Journal of “Civil Engineering and Architecture”, published by Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Acted as an Advisor to UPSC New Delhi for Conducting Personality Test of Engineering Services Examinations Candidate (May 6-10, 2013).
Appointed as Program Coordinator UGC-SAP (DRS-I) from April 2012-March 2017.
Editor of IJEE (International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering)
Honored as Chief Guest at 3rd National Conference on Recent Trends in Concrete Composites for Structural Systems (RTCCSS-09), Erode, Tamilnadu, India, April 03, 2009.
Appointed as Vice-Chairman of CAFET Innova Technical Society CITS India Council, 2009.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, LTU, Michigan, USA, 1999-2004.
Manchester WHO’S WHO, 2004-2005
Professional Civil Engineer (PE), Michigan, USA ((License No. 6201051470)
I.P. Fellowship, IIT Kanpur, 1993-1996.
Junior Research Fellowship, MNNIT Allahabad, 1987-1988.
National Merit Scholarship, NIT Warangal, 1981-1985.
Integrated Scholarship, GIC Ballia, 1977-1981.
Associate Member of ACI 440 Committee
Member of American Society for Civil Engineer (397383)
Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (LM No. 1596)
Life Member of Indian Concrete Institute (LM No. 8608)