Past appointments

Department Chair (2020-2024), Senior Professor (2021-2024), Professor (2011-2020), Associate Professor (2006-2011), Reader (2002-2006), and Fellow (1998-2002), Dept. of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Post Doctoral Fellow (with Prof. Watt W. Webb), Cornell University, 1994 – 1998

Lab Facilities

Electrochemical Workstation, COSMO-RS, & TURBOMOL

High Pressure Reactor

MAGNETIC STIRRER AND HOT PLATE

Multimeter

Temperature controlled water bath

Weighing Balance

PPMS

Physical Property Measurements System

Quantum Design PPMS with vibration sample magnetometer insert provides state-of-the-art electrical transport and magnetization measurements down to 2 K temperature and up to 9 tesla magnetic field.

PPMS Evercool-II : a cryogen-free system for the Physical Properties measurement platform using a GM Cryocooler
Nominal Liquid Helium Capacity: 6 liters
Temperature range: 2 – 325 K
Magnetic field up to 9 Tesla
Vibrating Sample Magnetometer Option:
* Coil-set bore: 6.3 mm
* Calibrated oscillation frequency : 40 Hz
* Typical oscillation amplitude : 2 mm peak
* Typical rms sensitivity: <10^-6 emu
* Powder samples, films with substrate 3 mm x 5 mm are possible
* Liquid samples are not possible

User Charges:

* Rs 2000 per booking of up to 4 hrs.
* Sample capsule Rs 1000 per unit for VSM extra.

Contact

For inquiries and booking,

please email ppms.phy [@] goa.bits-pilani.ac.in.

Links:

Requisition Form 1 for BITS Pilani users

Information for External (non-BITS Pilani) Users

Overview

Researcher IDs

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5662-0071
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-v37tOcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55560851000
Vidwan: https://bits-pilani.irins.org/profile/275042
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Harpreet-Bedi

PhD Supervised

S. No.	Name of Student	Year of completion	Title of thesis	Co-guides (if any)
1.	Manpreet Singh	2018	Assessment of Potential of Marble Slurry as a Mineral Admixture in Concrete	Dr. Dipendu Bhunia
2.	Vidhi Vyas	2020	Development of Data-Driven Decision support Approaches using Non-Destructive Testing for Enhancing Pavement Management Systems	As co-supervisor
3.	Rishabh Bajpai	2023	Experimental Study on Ambient Cured Fly Ash Based Geopolymer Binder Using Silica Fume and Calcium Hydroxide	No

Administrative Experience

In the Pilani Campus (1995 – 2004)

Served as Instructor for 2nd Year BITS Students for PS-I in BARC (B’bay) May-July 1996. Had to fight with Director BARC to obtain accommodation for students in the BARC Campus. This facility was initially promised to our students, but was then withdrawn due to the conducting of the International Mathematics Olympiad in BARC at the same time. Some vacant quarters were later temporarily allotted to BITS students for the duration of the program.
Served as a Nonresident Warden for Krishna Bhavan (Boys Hostel) for 4 years (May-97 to May-2001)
Other duties some time during Aug’1998 to Aug’2002 ( 2 years each) a. Disciplinary Committee Member under Dean Student Welfare. b. Coordinator of Student Counseling services. c. Library Committee member.
Served as PS-I Instructor in Pune Center, (May-July 2000) and during this time established contact with C-DAC Pune, as a result of which BITS opened a PS-II program with C-DAC, and its employees enrolled in DLPD programs in BITS.
In the following year (May-July 2001) as PS-I Instructor, I established contact with Mahindra British Telecom, (MBT-Pune) leading to their employees pursuing BITS-DLPD programs
Lead a team of 4 invigilators on NTPC invigilation duties once in NTPC-Talcher, Orissa, and once in NTPC-Charkhi-Dadri, Delhi
Faculty Coordinator of the Physics Journal Club for the Physics Group in BITS Pilani for one year.
Served as Vice President of the Indian Physics Association (IPA) Pilani Chapter for 2 years.
Conducted ITW (Intensive Teaching Workshop) in BITS Pilani for newly joined faculty members earmarked for transfer from the Pilani Campus to the Goa Campus during the 2nd Sem’2003-04
Senate Member from 2001 to present.

In the Goa Campus (2004 – Present)

Chief Warden : From July-2004 to April’2009 in BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus.

ITW BITS-Goa : Coordinator of ITW in BITS–Goa in Jan-May 2005 for newly joined faculty members teaching at the Goa Campus.

Convener : Disciplinary Committee. (2007 – 2009)

Member : Faculty Recruitment Committee for Physics and Biology Departments in 2011-12.

Chairperson : Faculty Recruitment Committee for Mathematics from 2011 to present and for Physics Department from 2012 to present.

Member : Doctoral Research Committee (DRC) from 2011 to present.

Member : Doctoral Advisory Committee for 2 Ph.D. Students.

Member : Task force on Academic Programs & Pedagogy (APP) from Aug-2009 to Aug’2012. This Task force was constituted by Chancellor Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla and the VC to help steer BITS-Pilani to achieve higher levels of excellence in teaching and research.

Review (Journals and Conferences)

Journal reviewer

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (Elsevier)
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)
Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering (SPRINGER)
Materials Today Communications (Elsevier)
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy (SAGE)

Journal reviewer

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (Elsevier)
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)
Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering (SPRINGER)
Materials Today Communications (Elsevier)
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy (SAGE)

Journal reviewer

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (Elsevier)
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)
Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering (SPRINGER)
Materials Today Communications (Elsevier)
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy (SAGE)

Technology Libraries

Predictive Technology HSPICE Models

Low STandby Power (LSTP) Multi-Gate Devices

20 nm nFET	20 nm pFET
16 nm nFET	16 nm pFET
14 nm nFET	14 nm pFET
10 nm nFET	10 nm pFET
7 nm nFET	7 nm pFET

High Performance (HP) Multi-Gate Devices

20 nm nFET	20 nm pFET
16 nm nFET	16 nm pFET
14 nm nFET	14 nm pFET
10 nm nFET	10 nm pFET
7 nm nFET	7 nm pFET

Low Power (LP) Single-Gate Devices

High Performance (HP) Single-Gate Devices

Crystal Structures

Visualization of Electronic and STructural Analysis or VESTA (link) is a highly recommended free tool for studying, analyzing, and visualizing the following structures. VESTA may also be used to study more complicated structures using super-cells.

Antimonides (link)
Arsenides (link)
Carbides (link)
Carbonates (link)
Clays (link)
Pure elements (link)
Halides (link)
Hydrides (link)
Hydroxides (link)
Ice (link)
Intermetallics (link)
Nitrides (link)
Other miscellaneous (links)
Oxides (link)
Phosphides (link)
Selenides (link)
Silicates (link)
Sulfates (link)
Sulfides (link)
Telurides (link)
Titanates (link)
Zeolites (link)

Journal Templates

IEEE Transactions Articles (download)
IEEE Transactions Color Articles (download)
IEEE Conference Articles (download)
Elsevier Articles (download)
Springer Articles (download)
Wiley Articles (download)
AIP Articles (download)
Taylor & Francis Articles (download)

Useful Links

Free online symbolic calculations: https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Free online graphing calculator: https://www.desmos.com/
Free online latex symbol editor: https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
Free online electronic material database: http://www.matprop.ru/
Free online conversion tool: https://www.online-convert.com/
Free online mathematical handbook: http://people.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/
Free online pdf editor: https://www.ilovepdf.com/

Institutional Contribution

BITSAT :

Coordinator for BITSAT exam in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022.

Practice school :

Practice school instructor for IGCAR and MAPS in 2014.

Practice school instructor for NCAOR and Goa Shipyard in 2015.

Practice school instructor for Avidia labs and My web partners in 2024.

Administration :

1. Department Seminar coordinator from 2016-2019.

2. Member of Doctoral Research Committee - 2016-2021

3. Convener of Doctoral Research Committee - 2021 - 2024.

4. Faculty in-charge of Teaching-Learning Center - 2021-2023.

5. Associate dean of digital learning - Work integrated learning program - 2023 - present

Consultancy Activities

M/S Rakon, Design and development of low power circulators for space applications

Study resources

Engineering Graphics

A. Engineering Graphics Recap: Projection of straight line when True Lengths are given

B. Engineering Graphics Recap: Projection of straight line when Apparent (FV & TV) Lengths are given

Links

Google Scholar Link

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tw6EL6UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

I am interested in the design and analysis of biomarkers for (i) brain tumor detection and (ii) breast cancer detection. and (iii) ECG signal detection and processing methods.

PhD Thesis Adjudication : External PhD thesis adjudication is in progress (complete details will be furnished after report submitted)

Doctoral Thesis

Paramkusham Spandana, “A Novel Approach for Classification and Early Detection of Breast Cancer using Image Enhancement, Image Segmentation and Feature Extraction on Mammograms” (Ph.D. awarded during Convocation, 2019).
Supervisor : BVVSN Prabhakar Rao , Co-supervisor : KMM Rao

Manu Gupta “Non-invasive methods for Glioma grade classification using MR images” (Ph.D. awarded during Convocation, 2019)
Supervisor : BVVSN Prabhakar Rao , Co-supervisor : Venkateswaran R

Madhuri Bayya “Battery Monitoring source side excitation with voltage pulse sequence” (Ph.D. awarded during Convocation, 2018)
Supervisor : BVVSN Prabhakar Rao , Co-supervisor : Moorthy Muthukrishnan

Priyanka BG “Memristor Based Neural Networks for Signal Processing Applications” (on going)

Supervisor : BVVSN Prabhakar Rao

Undergraduate Thesis / Projects

Supervised more than 10 UG students Thesis work
Supervised more than 80 Projects (SOP/LOP/DESIGN) for UG students

Reseacrh Interest

Comparative Literature, Literary and Narrative Theories, Gender and Queer Theory, Masculinity Studies, Queer Politics and Subcultures, Cultural Studies, Environmental Humanities, 1930s-50's Malayalam Literature

Other Important Assignments

Institutional Responsibilities

Practice School
- 2012 at the Tata Iron and Steel Factory, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
- 2013 at the Tata Iron and Steel Factory, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
- 2014 at the Tata Iron and Steel Factory, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
BITSAT Examination
- 2016 at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
- 2018 ar Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.

Other Engagements

Member Library Committee (Department of Physics)
- 2013 - 2014
- 2017 - 2018
- 2019 - 2020
Conveynor, DRC Committee (Department of Physics)
- 2013 - 2014
Sandbox Committee Member
- 2018 - 2019

To be updated.

Personal Website

https://sites.google.com/view/sabyasachidey/home

This is the author

Administrative Work

Administrative

Experience

Associate Dean, Academic Undergraduate Studies 2018- 2022

Associate Dean, Academic Registration and Counseling 2009- 2018

Warden, Residential, 2006-2014

Mess Affairs In-charge 2007-2009

Nucleus member, ARC 2004-2009

Nucleus member, Instruction Division 2004-2009

Faculty In-charge for implementation of ERP for Student Registration, academic lifecycle. Goa was the first campus and student registration the first module which was implemented on ERP.

Mess In-charge for implementation of online system for student mess selection, billing, leave applications.

Faculty In-charge for Medals committee for Goa Campus

Faculty In-charge for Convocation committee

Member of various committees:

Convener of the Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA), CSIS Goa.

Convener of the Departmental Level Shortlisting Committee (DLSC), CSIS Goa.

Member of the Examination Monitoring and Coordination Committee

Member of the DRC and DLSC CS&IS Dept, Timetable committee, Higher Degree Counseling committee,

Memberships

1. Comp. Society of India, Lifetime Member (ID# 00171540), since March 2007.

2. Member of Institute of Engineers India (MIE). [M-138687-5].

Education & Employment

Education:

BSc (Hons. & Distinction), Govt. College Bhawanipatna, Sambalpur University, 1987.
MSc (Chemistry), P.G. Dept. of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, 1989.
PhD Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, 2001 (defended July 2000), Advisor: Professor Pinaki Gupta-Bhaya, Thesis title: Studies in Statistical Mechanics of Macroionic Solutions

Employment Record:

Professor, BITS, Pilani - K. K. Birla Goa Campus (Since Mar 2023)
Associate Professor, BITS, Pilani - K. K. Birla Goa Campus (Feb 2015 - Feb 2023)
Assistant Professor, BITS, Pilani - K. K. Birla Goa Campus(Aug 2007 with retrospective effect from Jan 2006 - Jan 2015).
Lecturer, BITS, Pilani - Goa Campus (Jul 2004 - Dec 2005).
Lecturer, BITS, Pilani – Pilani Campus (Mar 2004 - Jul 2004).
Scientific coworker, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany (Aug 2002 - Nov 2003).
Post-doctoral Fellow, Univ. of California, Davis, USA (Dec 1999 - Jun 2002).

Administrative Work

DPEC Chairperson	Biological Sciences	Jan, 2024	Till date	DPEC evaluation process and review process
Faculty Chairperson AWC	Biological Sciences	1^st Feb 2023	Till date	Campus level animal welfare committee works to take initiative and address the issues in a professional manner
Prof.Suman Kapoor best thesis Award: Selection committee	Biological Sciences	2022	Till date	Short listing thesis for the best thesis award
Faculty Chairperson DLSC	Biological Sciences	29 June 2022	Till date	Department level shortlisting for faculty selection
Human Ethics	Member	8th Jan 2020	27th May 2023	Review Project proposals, to review ethical issues
DCA	Member	2020	Till date	Review curriculum, decision making on new courses and grade moderation responsibilities
DRC Committee	Member	2018	2020	Department research related evaluation, decision making
Warden	CH4 Hostel	2011	2013	Ladies hostel warden
Nuclear Member	Administration	2013	2015	Matters related to administration

Oral/Poster presentation& Workshop

Workshop Attended: DAE Platinum Jubilee and Global Cancer Consortium Workshop, ACTREC, Mumbai, 5th, February, 2024.
Poster Presentation: Global Cancer Consortium, ACTREC, Mumbai, 3rd to 4th February, 2024.
Chaired Session in the SBC annual Conference: 92nd Annual Meeting Society of Biological Chemists, BITS, Goa Campus, Dec18-20,2023.
Proteomics Day: Organised by Department of Biological Sciences, BITS, Goa, 18th March 2023.
Oral Presentation: Amity University 17th & 18th October, International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology: current discoveries and future perspectives, 2023.
presented paper: PEGylated Bimetallic Gold - Silver nanoparticles Synthesis and Potential Radiosensitizer and CT contrast agent against Oral Cancers, International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICONSAT), (Conducted by DST, India and S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkota, Mar 5-7,2020.
Chaired the session: Drug Delivery and Cell Therapy, International Conference on Biomaterial -based Therapeutic Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, IIT , Kanpur, 28Nov-1Dec,2019.
Invited Speaker :One Pot Synthesis of Pegylated Doxorubicin loaded Sliver Nanoparticles Against Oral Cancer as Drug Delivery system, International Conference on Biomaterial -based Therapeutic Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, IIT , Kanpur, 28Nov-1Dec,2019.
Training on Good clinical practice, Current regulatory and ethical requirements for conducting clinical trials/research in India, Banaras Hindu university, Varanasi, (conducted by CDSA), Nov 27-28,2019.
Organizer: Academy-Industry Accelerate Radiation Research and clinical translation, International symposium, Gokarma Oncology Association with BITS –Pilani, Goa, 8-9 October 2018 at Goa University.
Vijayashree Nayak and Priyanka Dwivedi: A study on nutritional supplement retinoic acid microencapsulation induced sustained drug release for the treatment of arthritis;International Conference on Challenges in Drug Discovery and Delivery (ICCD3), BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, March 2-4, 2017.
Vijayashree Nayak and Priyanka Dwivedi: Bioactive molecules incorporated gelatine sphears as a mode of sustained drug release for therapeutic applications, University of California, USA.14th-17th Aug, 2017.
Laxminarayan and Vijayashree Nayak:Effect of bile acids and and TGF-beta signalling in intestinal cancer cells.International Conference on Challenges in Drug Discovery and Delivery (ICCD3), BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, March 2-4, 2017
Vijayashree Nayak and Yogesh Walwalkar:(Best Poster -Faculty award) Chronic S.typhi persistence in gallbladder quorum sensing and persisters. Gut microbe2016-an international perspective, 21-22 Oct, 2016
Priyanka Dwivedi and Vijayashree Nayak: A novel 3D chitosan,gelatine, chondroitin sulphate scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering; Stony Brook University, NewYork,USA;29^th June to 3^rd July,2015
Vijayashree Nayak " Gold nanoparticles induced drug delivery system in treatment of cancer" 34th annual convention of Indian association for cancer research. Cancer research: from bench to bedside. 19-21 Feb, 2015, jaipur, India .
Vijayashree Nayak "Regulation of molecular mechanism involved in chronic diseases associated with gall bladder carcinoma, 3rd annual conference of Molecular pathology Asociation of India. International symposium on Emerging role of molecular diagnostics in cancer genomics, 14-15, 20014, The Llit, Mumbai, India.
Vijayashree Nayak and Yogesh Walwalkar (Feb,2014):Regulation of molecular mechanism involved in chronic diseases associated with gall bladder carcinoma, MPAI, International conference, Mumbai , Oct 2013.
4th International conference on Stem cells & cancer (ICSCC-2013): Proliferation,Differentiation &Apoptosis, 19th-22nd Oct,2013.
Archana Sharma, Ashok Kumar, Vijayashree Nayak: Gelatin-carreagenin scaffolds for neural tissue Engineering, BIND-12, young researchers session, Dec 9^th to 11^th2012, IISC. Bangalore
Pryanka Dwivedi, Ashok Kumar, Vijayashree Nayak: gelatin chitosan scaffolds for cartilage cells, BIND-12, young researchers session, Dec 9^th to 11^th2012, IISC. Bangalore
Archana Sharma, Ashok Kumar,Vijayashree Nayak: Preparation of hybrid scaffolds for neural tissue engineering, IIT, Rourkela,2015.
A novel 3D chitosan,gelatine, chondroitin sulphate scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering; Stony Brook University, NewYork,USA;29^th June to 3^rd July,2015.
Vijayashree Nayak and Yogesh Walwalkar (Feb,2014):Regulation of molecular mechanism involved in chronic diseases associated with gall bladder carcinoma, MPAI, International conference, BARC,Mumbai , Oct 2013.
Vijayashree Nayak and Yogesh Walwalkar: Study on molecular approach and signaling mechanism in gall bladder carcinoma;.Lalith Intercontinent, Sahara , Mumbai, Oct 13-15,2013.
Pryanka Dwivedi, Ashok Kumar and Vijayashree Nayak; Development of a novel three dimensional chitosan-gelatin-chondroitin sulphate (CGC) cryogel scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering, International Conference on design of Biomaterials (Bind) 12, Dec 9-11,2012.
Archana Sharma, Tanusree Vishnoi, Ashok Kumar and Vijayashree Nayak; Supermacroporous PEG-Gelatin and Carrageenan-Gelatin cryogel matrix for tissue engineering applications, , International Conference on design of Biomaterials(BIND) 12, Dec 9-11, 2012
4^th International conference on stem cells & Cancer (ICSCC 2013): Proliferation, differentiation and Apoptosis, 19-22 October, 2013 Haffkin Institute, Parel, Mumbai.
Vijayashree N & Manoj Hariharan “Therapeutic applications of nano gold particles” Symposium on Nano Materials and their Applications, Fergusen College, Pune, March 4^th to 6^th, 2009.
Vijayashree N & Deepti “Chondrocyte culture on Collagen matrices” International Conference on Biomedical Engineering & Nanotechnology (on 21^st to 23^rd Oct, 2008), Kolhapur, Pune.
Krishnamurthy N, Vijayashree N et al (2007) “Study of the effect of electromagnetic radiation over gst enzyme of the swiss albino mice” in Indo-US symposium on engineering analysis and stimulation at Bangalore.
.D Singh and Vijayashree N (2006) “Chondrocyte culture on 3D collagen matrices” International conference on design of biomaterials & XVII annual meeting of society for biomaterials and artificial organs, India, Dec 8-11, 2006
Vijayashree N et al, Effect of Taxol as a anticancer agent in mouse model, International conference on radiobiology (2005), Dept of Radiobiology, KMC Maniapal, India
Workshop
"Workshop on Biomedical Materials" organised by the Dept.of Biotechnology & Metullergical and material Engineering, IIT, Madras, 23rd-24th June 2017
Novel Sanitation approaches and emerging trends in waste water treatment system (NSA 2017), 19-21Dec 2017.
BIRAC workshop on BIO-Enterpreneurship grant - writing & intellectual property management, 18-19 Feb,2016, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus.
Multicolor Immunophenotyping:Standardisation & Applications, March 9-11,2012, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

Other Key Roles

Administrative Responsibilities:

S. No	Particulars of the role
1	Member of Departmental Research Committee Since June 2024.
2	Conducted practice school in Flaisoft, Bhopal (May-July, 2024).
3	Conducted BITSAT EXAM in Jabalpur (May 2024).
4	Core Member of YEB: Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for School Students 2024 organized at BITS Pilani K K Birla, Goa Campus, India. Link - https://www.bits-yeb.com/
5	Library Committee member since June 2023
6	Nucleus Member - AGSRD, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus Since February 2023
7	Faculty member for open day (National Science Day) 2023.
8	Core Member of YEB: Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for School Students 2023 organized at BITS Pilani K K Birla, Goa Campus, India. Link - https://www.bits-yeb.com/
9	Member of Departmental Committee on Academics Sine June 2022
10	Conducted BITSAT EXAM in Jabalpur (May 2021).
11	Faculty Convenor, SFC, January 2017 - July 2020, BITS Pilani K K Birla, Goa Campus, India
12	Lab in-charge of the RF & Microwave Radiation Lab at BITS Pilani K K Birla, Goa Campus, India. (Till June 2022)
13	Conducted practice school in western central railways, Jabalpur (May-July, 2017).
14	Conducted practice school in AIIMS, Bhopal (May-July, 2018).

Journal Reviewer:

S. No	Particulars of the Journal
1	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT)
2	IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.
3	AEU – International Journal of Electronics and Communication, Elsevier
4	International Journal of Rf-MICAE, Wiley
5	Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEMWA), Taylor & Francis.
6	International Journal of Electronics, Taylor & Francis
7	International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technology, EuMA

IMP

Interested students are encouraged to reach out via email at prasadp@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in or schedule an appointment by calling 0832 2580 497 to discuss potential research opportunities. For the upcoming PhD admission process, I am particularly interested in exceptionally talented students eager to work in robotics, specifically in areas such as underwater robots, aerial robots, surgical robots, and humanoid robots. I am also open to considering highly capable students with a strong interest in automobile engineering and/or other relevant field in the engineering.

Other Experience

Administrative Experience:

Head, Department of Chemistry (Nov 2013 - Nov 2015) .
Hostel Warden (Jun 2006 to Dec 2013 & Jan 2018 to Dec 2018) .
Convener, Contract Evaluation Committee, BITS Pilani- Goa (Dec 2009 – Aug 2011).
Nucleus Member, General Administration, BITS, Pilani-Goa (year 2004-05).

Assignments handled in Department/Institute:

Chairperson, Campus Level Selection Committee for BITS Pilani International Travel Award (June 2024- May 2026).
Member, campus level Infrastructure Committee (June 2024 - May 2026).
Member, Campus Level Committee for Space Audit and Implementation (Feb 2024 - May 2024).
Convener, Departmental Research Committee (Jan 2016 to Nov. 2017 & Dec 2019 to July 2024) - 5+ yrs
Member, Campus Anti-Ragging Committee (AY 2023-24).
Member, Campus Level Grievance Redressal Committee (For Faculty) (2 yrs, Sept-21 - Aug-22).
Member, Research Board (2 years, starting 08-Dec-2019).
Member, Departmental Research Committee (May 2011 - Dec. 2013, Nov 2017 - Nov 2019) - 4+yrs.
Convener, Departmental Committee of Academic (04-Nov-2018 to 17-Dec-2019).
Member, Departmental Committee of Academic (2 years, starting 05-Nov-2016) & (18-Dec-2019 to 03-Nov-2020).
Member, Project Lakshya Implementation Team (Oct-2018), Thrust Area: Alumni Relations, Workstream-2: Policies, Office Structure, Data Bases and Events etc..
Co-Chair, “5th International Conference on Research Frontiers in Chalcogen Cycle Science & Technology (G16 Asian)”, Organized by UNESCO-IHE and NITK Surathkal in association with BITS Pilani – Goa Campus and IIT Guwahati, Dec 19 – 21, 2016 at Goa, India
Chairman, “National Conference on New Frontiers in Chemistry - From Fundamentals to Applications (NFCFA 2015)”, Organized by Department of Chemistry, BITS, Pilani – K K Birla Goa Campus, Dec 18-19, 2015.
Member, Library Committee (Jan 2013 - Dec. 2013).
Member, Convocation committee, 2013.
Warden in-charge, Hostel Allotment, 2011 & 2012.
Member, Organizing Committee, INDO – UK International Workshop on Advanced Materials and their Applications in Nanotechnology (AMAN 2014), BITS Pilani – K. K. Birla Goa campus, May 17-19, 2014.

Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Emerging Technologies: Micro to Nano 2013 (ETMN-2013), BITS Pilani – Goa campus, Feb. 23-24, 2013.
Member, Organizing Committee, International Workshop on Biosensors for environmental analysis, BITS Pilani – Goa campus, Feb. 21-23, 2006.
Treasurer (2006 – 2008), Vice President (2009), Campus Durga Puja Committee.
Resource personal, Training Workshops (I & II) for Higher Secondary School Teachers of Goa, Oct. 22-23 & Nov. 26-27, 2005.
Resource personal, Special interactive lectures to students (12^thStandard) of Navy Children School, Goa, Aug. – Dec. 2005.

Assignments handled outside:

Member, Selection committee (Asst. Prof. Physical Chemistry), Goa University, July 2024, Jul-2019.
Member, Recruitment committee for Chemist, Goa Public Service Commission (2017-18).
Chancellor's nominee, Chemistry Faculty selection (Assistant prof., Associate prof. & Professor) Goa University, Feb 13-18, 2014.
Resource personal, Refresher Courses in Chemistry for College/University Teachers, organized by UGC-HRDC, Goa University (Dec 1 - 21, 2017).

Other Assignments:

BITSAT question paper preparation (Dec 2011, March 2014, April 2022)
BITSAT question moderation (Oct 2018-Feb2019, Feb 2024).
Regularly participate in PhD question paper preparation & moderation.
Instructor, PS – I, 2004 (CFTRI, Mysore) & 2006 (NIO, Goa).
Proctor, BITSAT (Goa) 2005 & 2008.
Chemistry question paper setter and evaluated for many Indian universities.

Research Page

Awards and Honours

Appreciation of work as Chief Warden from Director, BPDC for extraordinary dedication and service to the Institute and to community of students, staff and faculty during the COVID situation on campus. Jan 2022.
Industry Immersion Program of BITS-Pilani. To work at CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)-Nagpur, India for 8 weeks (6th June – 31st July 2019).

Reviewer

Applied Energy (Elsevier)
Electrochimica Acta (Elsevier)
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier)
International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis)
International Journal of Energy Research (Wiley)
Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology (Wiley)
Ionics (Springer)
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Elsevier)
Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier)
International Journal of Exergy (Inderscience)

Institutional Responsibilities

Chief Warden. BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. Mar 1st 2020 – May 16th 2022.
Hostel warden. BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. April 11th 2019 – Feb 29th 2020.
Convener, Doctoral research committee. Mechanical Engineering Department, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. From August 1st 2020 for two academic years.
Member, Committee for the workload matters (Institute level). BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. Jan 19th 2023 – 31st July 2023.
Member, Doctoral research committee. Mechanical Engineering Department, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. September 20th 2022 for two academic years.
Member, Anti-ragging committee, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. From October 11th 2020 for one academic year.
Member, Committee for Combating Sexual Harassment, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. From August 1st 2020 for two academic years.
Member, Library committee, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. From December 21st 2019 for two academic years.
Member, Doctoral research committee. Mechanical Engineering Department, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. September 11th 2018 for two academic years.

Conferences Organized

Convener. 2^nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020), Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, March 19-21, 2021.
Organizing Committee Member. International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials & Manufacturing Technologies (IMMT 2019), Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, November 20-22, 2019.
Organizing Committee Member. International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2018), Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, December 5-7, 2018.
Organizing Committee Member. International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials & Manufacturing Technologies (IMMT 2017), Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, November 28-29, 2017.

Research Interests

Molecular Genetics

We are primarily interested in understanding the molecular basis of susceptibility to complex diseases. Towards this goal, we develop and use cell-based models by using transgenic techniques or by treatment with disease-inducing agents. We are presently focusing on neurological disorders and oral cancer. Using our experience in genetic analysis, we also strive to develop reliable and better diagnostic tools for infectious and genetic diseases. A brief description of the currently active research areas.

Schizophrenia (SZ):

SZ is a complex disorder with an incidence of ~1% in different populations in the world. Although exact etiology is not established, genetic, epigenetic, chemical imbalance, brain structural abnormalities and environmental factors are implicated. The genetic susceptibility of SZ is six-times more than its general incidence. We are investigating the association of copy number variants (CNVs) and SNPs with SZ in Indian patients using Illumina PsychArrays and extensive bioinformatics using machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify patterns with higher predictive/diagnostic value.

Human Genetics

Genome-wide studies in patients and controls have suggested a number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and copy number variants (CNVs) among Caucasian studies. Till date, there is only one genome-wide study from India studying the SNPs and none on the CNVs. We developed i-MLPA, an improved method of CNV detection and showed that CNVs of 15q11.2 (BP1-BP2) region are not associated with schizophrenia among Indian patients. This CNV is a variant of uncertain significance and its association with an abnormality is not clear. We also conducted the largest CNV study involving this CNV in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and showed that deletions are associated with dysmorphic features. Currently, we are studying CNVs of 15 regions that stand a higher probability of confirming in replication studies among Indian patients.

15q11.2 region

Infinium PsychArray Analysis of SNPs identified for neurological disorders

We have been screening 50,000 SNPs associated with neurological disorders, tag SNPs and exon SNPs in schizophrenia patients and controls using Infinium PsychArrays with an aim to replicate the disease-associated variants with schizophrenia patients in India. Initial data suggests that the variants reported in Caucasian patients are not likely to be confirmed in the Indian patients. In a pilot study, we have identified ~320 variants with a high promise of replication in a larger size sample. Data is being generated to confirm many novel variants that were identified in patients.

Stem cell Models

(A) DNMT1 overexpression, schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

High discordance rates between monozygotic twins indicate epigenetic mechanisms in SZ. Of the main modifications of the epigenome, we currently focus on DNA methylation aberrations and dysregulation of DNA methylation machinery, particularly DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1). Overexpression of DNMT1 is associated with SZ, bipolar and epilepsy disorders but the molecular basis of DNMT1 overexpression and its relationship with abnormal neurodevelopment is unknown. Since DNMT1 overexpression results in mid-gestational lethality, we have developed genetically modified mouse embryonic stem cells that overexpress different levels of DNMT1 (400% and 200%) and investigating their neurodevelopmental abnormalities using genome-wide methylation and transcriptome analysis. The obtained results are being explored further to delineate the mechanisms underlying SZ and other neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, autism, bipolar disorders and neurodegenerative disorders like multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s, etc.

Suggested Reading (For more information, click!):

Oral Cancer:

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Research Miscellany

Some research grants I have been involved with:

2023: PI on an Industrial Research Agreement as TCS Affiliate Professor for INR 3,900,000; co-PI on a New Venture Fund grant for USD 350,000 to develop a training program for undergraduates and working professionals in Data Science in Climate and Health
2022: Co-PI on Department of Biotechnology grant ‘DBT project BT/PR40236/BTIS/137/51/2022 ”Developing Predictive Models for ’druglikeness’ of small molecules” for approximately INR 9,600,000
2021: PI on an Industrial Research Agreement as TCS Affiliate Professor for INR 3,120,000
2020: PI on an Industrial Research Project with Reflexis Corp. for approximately INR 2,160,000; PI on an Industrial Research Grant with TCS (DataLab3) for approximately INR 1,275,000; PI on a TCS Innovation Grant for approximately INR 1,500,00)
2019: I was the main technical lead for the University in a successful grant proposal for Alumni funding of USD 1,00,000 for a Centre; PI on TCS Industrial Projects (DataLabs1,2) for approximately INR 5,000,000.
2018: Erasmus+ mobility grant for exchange of faculty and students between Goa and Porto (approximately 20,000 EUR).
2017: I am the only investigator in a CORE research grant EMR/2016/002766 on “Knowledge-Rich Deep Models for Optimisation”. This is for approximately 2,300,000 awarded by the Indian Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB); TCS Research Advisory for approximately INR750,000.

My current research interests:

AI for Science: including the use of ML models for computational drug-discovery; and constructing logical models of systems from their behaviour using meta-interpretative learning;
Neural-Symbolic Learning: Constructing models that combine deep neural networks with symbolic learning. This examines both the inclusion of domain-knowledge into neural-networks through the use of symbolic learning; and the construction of explainable models for deep networks;
Intelligible AI: formal models for 2-way intelligibility between agents that predict and explain. This has applications to the design of human-in-the-loop AI systems, which require both human and machine understand the information they provide to the other.

OTHER INFORMATION

Membership in Professional bodies-

Member of Asian Council of Science Editors since 2018.
Life Member of Society of Biological Chemists (India) [Membership No. 4470].
Life Member of Society For Bacteriophage Research and Therapy[Membership ID: SBRTLM00082]

Editor/Reviewer (peer-reviewed journals/Books): Recognized reviewer for Nucleic Acid Research, Nature Scientific Rep, BBA: Molecular Cell research, Microbial Pathogenesis, Molecular Biotechnology [Have received recognition in the form of Certificate of Appreciation].
Recognized reviewer for SERB proposals, UGC proposals.

Administrative roles:

Faculty In Charge [Academic Counseling and Monitoring Division](2018-2022).
Convenor of Departmental Research committee, Biological sciences ( 2022- June, 2024)
Convenor for Stuident Faculty Council [First degree] [2022-Present]
Question setter for BITSAT 2022 Question Bank Moderation Team Goa
Member of BITS Pilani Institute Innovation Council [IIC] [Feb, 2023-Present]
Member of DLSC since 2021

Other Contributions

Lab Development responsibility right from furniture design to procurement of equipments, setting up of experiments and designing the lab manual, for the following labs:

Analog Electronics Lab
Digital Design Lab
VLSI Lab
Electronic Instruments and Instrumentation Technology

Simulation Tools: Verilog, P-Spice, LabVIEW, Eagle, Fluidsim, PLC

Hardware: FPGA & PSoC

Was the first Instructor Incharge to organize the following courses at BITS Goa Campus

B.E Courses:

Microprocessors Programming & Interfacing
Digital Electronics & Computer Organization now known as Digital Design
Digital Electronics & Microprocessors ( course for students of Information Technology
Analog Electronic
Analog & Digital VLSI Design
Transducers & Measurement Systems

Introduced: CS F213: Object Oriented programming using Java

M.E. courses: VLSI Design

WILP course: (Distance Learning programme for working professionals)

Electronics & Microprocessors

Contribution to the following articles of "Electronics For You", Asia's most popular Electronics magazine, EFY .

Twinkie Twinkie little LEDs, Sept. 2011 issue

http://electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/circuitarchives/view_article.asp?sno=784&id=12362

Test & Measurement: Fuelling Technological Advances, Oct.2011 issue http://www.electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/circuitarchives/view_article.asp?sno=671&id=5267&article_type=7

Invited Talks:

"Contemporary option available to today`s kids in terms of their education /the courses available in India. (IFB Global Systems on 31st May, 2014
"Recent Trends in Engineering and their impact on Consumer Electronics" (IFB Global Systems on 26th Dec, 2015)

Membership:

Member of Computer Society of India, CSI
Member for Association for Computing Machinery, ACM

Reviewer of the following PhD Thesis:

"Delay Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks", thesis submitted for Doctor of Philosophy, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, 2016
Development of an intelligent methodology using soft compuitng for early decision making for diagnosis of cancer"thesis submitted for Doctor of Philosophy, Shri Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, 2017

Workshops organised/conducted:

Co-ordinator for the following workshops at BITS Pilani-K.K.Birla Goa CampusMain co-ordinator for a 3-day workshop on FPGA with VI-Microsystems, Chennai during the academic year 2006-2007
Main co-ordinator for 3-day PSoC workshop conducted by Cypress Semiconductors in the academic year 2007-08
Sub-cordinator for the Intensive Teaching Workshop in the academic year 2012-13
Sub-cordinator for the Workshop on Teaching Pedagogies organised by Teaching and Learning center, for all the faculties of the institute in the academic year 2015-16.
Sub-cordinator for the Intensive Teaching Workshop for newly joined faculties in the academic year 2015-16.
Sub-cordinator for the Workshop on Teaching Pedagogies for newly joined faculties organised by Teaching and Learning center in the academic year 2016-17.
Sub-cordinator for the "Regional Workshop on Outcome Based Learning using Pedagogy Framework Model conducted by BITS Pilani in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur in Feb, 2017.
Member of the Cadence workshop conducted by the EEE department in the academic year 2015-16

Departmental Assignments

Member of DLSC (Department Level Shortlisting Committee)
Member of Senate
Member of DCA (Departmental Committee for Academics)
Lab In-charge for Electronic Design lab since 2005-2024

Institutional Assignments

Institute Level:

Faculty Co-ordinator for Technology Incubator Programme (2015-16)
CH2 hostel warden (2012-2014)
Nucleus Member of General Admin (2011-2012)
Nucleus Member of Teaching and Learning Centre ( 2015-2018)
BITSAT duty 2024

Industry Linkage:

PS-II faculty mentor at IFB, Goa (2012-2016)
PS-II faculty mentor at Persistent Systems Pvt.Ltd. Goa (2014-2015)
PS-I faculty mentor at MetaCopper Pvt.Ltd. Goa (2009)
PS-I faculty mentor at Mormugao Goa (2009)

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITES

ADMINISTRATION DUTY/INITIATIVES

Practice school faculty at Royal Enfield (Chennai), My Web Partner (Jalalabad), CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory (Chennai) and Diya Robotics (Chennai) in June-July 2024
Organizing committee member of Internation Conference https://pm-idics-2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1
Organizing committee member of National level workshop on Additive Manufacturing (Click here to view the Linkedin post)
Member of the CORE TEAM for Young Entrepreneurs' Boot Camp (YEB) at BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus. https://www.bits-yeb.com/
Conducted Viva for Work Integrated Learning Programme of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani every semester.
A notable contribution to the Work Integrated Learning Programme of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani by teaching the course on Finite Element Methods for a total duration of three semesters and another course on Statistical Quality Control throughout one semester.
Member of the Question paper setting team for Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test (BITSAT) during Semester II 2021-22.
Guided B.E. students of BITS PILANI K. K. Birla Goa campus to develop in-house Digital Image Correlation software (https://github.com/iniyanakila/BITS-DIC).
Delivered a webinar on August 29, 2020 to the faculty members of BITS PILANI K. K. Birla Goa campus during the COVID pandemic on the usage of parametric quizzes in Moodle.
Organized a stall demonstrating Real-time 3D scanning, Digital Image Correlation setup and 3D printing applications in Open House 2021-22 and Open House 2022-23.
Updated the Website of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whenever updates were to be made as per the instructions of HoD.
Performed all duties assigned to me by the HoD.
Represented BITS Pilani Goa campus in the Biotech Startup Expo-2022

RESEARCH GUIDANCE

Ongoing guidance to two full-time PhD students and one part-time PhD student.
Completed guiding two Special Projects, eight Study Projects, nine Design Projects, and twelve Laboratory Projects
Completed guiding two first degree theses and one higher degree thesis.

OTHER NOTEWORTHY RESEARCH OUTCOME

Rajesh Kumar, N.I. Thiruselvam, Kiran Mali, Poster presented in the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials & Manufacturing Technologies (IMMT) 2023, titled “Design and development of functionally graded Double Rounded V Hierarchical (DRVH) auxetic lattice structure – A Finite Element study”.
S. N. Grama, N. Iniyan Thiruselvam, Sankara J. Subramanian, Non-Uniqueness in Anand Model Parameters Estimated for SnCu Solder Using Digital Image Correlation and Virtual Fields Method, 2020, Social Science Research Network (SSRN). DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3675735

Optics & Photonics News – image of the week selections

: Flowery projection of a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)

: Blue color gradient

: Matrix of light lines

Positions held

Head of Department, EEE Department BITS Pilani K.K.Birla Goa Campus (2019 onwards)
Local Organizing Committee, IEEE APSCON 2024
Technical Program Committee Member, Compute in Memory Group, 61st Design Automation Conference DAC, San Francisco, 2024
Track Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems, (iSES) 2024.

Additional information

		Reviewed papers of reputed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Royal Soc. Chem, BMC, PLoS, WILEY etc. Fungal Biology International J. Pharmaceutics (ELS) Current Microbiology (Springer) HELIYON PLosOne Water & Environment Journal Analytical Methods (RSC) Journal of Applied Microbiology Int. J. Peptide Res & Therapeutics (Springer) Microbial Cell Factories BMC Microbiology Int. J. Env. Sci & Tech (IJEST) BMC Biotechnology Microbial Pathogenesis Bioresources and Bioprocessing Bio Med Research International Journal of Food Science & Technology Journal of Microbiology and Antimicrobials Guest Editor on the topic "Biosensors for Detection of Waterborne Pathogens: Recent advances and Future Horizons" for the journal 'Frontiers in Water'
Award		Awarded the “Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing” by Senior Editors of prestigious journal ‘Fungal Biology’ and Elsevier.
Award		Awarded INSA Visiting Scientist Fellowship by INSA in June 2017
Award		Was Selected for Industry Immersion Programme.

Admin Duties and Institute Contribution

· Faculty Advisor, SAE BITA Goa Collegiate Club, BITS Pilani Goa Campus from 14^th Feb 2023 to present

· Faculty-in-charge of Placement Unit, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus from 01/01/2022 to present (Please, visit Placement Unit Website to know more about us and Why to recruit from BITS Goa)

· Member of Placement Faculty Advisory Council at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus - AY 2022-23

· Member of Departmental Research Committee (DRC) from 28/08/2022 to present

· Member of campus level Committee for Outreach Programs at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus from 01/07/2022 (for 2 years)

· BITSAT Station Observer for BITSAT Station at Nashik during BITSAT 2022

· DCA Member from 07/08/2021 till 27/07/2022

· Worked as counselor for ACB students (Sem I, AY 2019-20)

· Organizing Member DST sponsored Synergistic Training program Utilizing the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (STUTI) - 2022 at Goa Campus from 26/09/2022 to 02/10/2022

· Hosted two (2) seminars :

o Prof. Rajesh Piplani of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on 9th Jan 2020

o Mr. Dilip Chabbria of DC design on 3rd Feb 2019 during Quark

· Active reviewer for following journals:

ASME-Journal of Energy Resources
Applied Sciences
C-Journal
Smart Materials and Structures journal
MDPI - Materials
Sensors
IEEE- TIE
Journal of Vibroengineering

Research Lab

Opportunities for Collaboration

I consider available opportunities for collaboration with individual(s), group(s), Institution(s), organization(s), or Industry(ies) to be attractive enough if these provide for launching new future relevant ventures for training, up-skilling, re-skilling, or acquiring new skills for effective self-learning, education, tapping individual research potential or joint research potential for the betterment of our Institute.

Find me in office Chamber D-218, Department of EEE, BITS, Pialni K. K. Birla Goa Campus, with prior appointment.

Institutional Contribution

I have recently completed twenty four years of service at BITS, Pilani. I joined BITS, Pilani, Pilani (Rajasthan) on 16^th August, 2000, with field experience of nine years in research, consultancy, development and also teaching at post-graduate level at Centre of Energy Studies and Research, (CESR) Indore. As a Coordinator appointed for the newly established Centre for Renewable Energy and Environment Development (CREED), I was responsible for maintaining and further development of educational and research activities at the CREED. The prior experience helped me develop funded programs at Pilani Rajasthan and start Ph.D. research program in the areas related to renewable energy.

In May, 2004, I was transferred to BITS, Pilani Goa-Campus, in very early stages of its development then. I was entrusted the responsibility of Faculty In-charge (Administration) of the Campus. In the capacity of Faculty In-charge (Admin) I did contribute to development of the Institute on all fronts, including setting requisite offices and recruitment of essential staff and faculty, mentoring newly recruited faculty and staff members, development of instructional laboratories to be managed by different Groups (now Departments), and coordinating all essential services to complete satisfaction of the stake-holders. As a senior member of the faculty of the Institute, I did coordinate setting up research facilities, particularly in the area of solar energy systems, wind energy systems and developing network with related departments of Government and Institutions in the state of Goa. The first sponsored project sponsored by the MNRE through GEDA, was completed during Aug, 2009 to August, 2012. The outcome of the project completed helped continue developing new research programs and facilities on the Campus.

As a senior faculty member of the EEE Group, I could coordinate setting up of instructional Labs for the students of the FD program offered by the Group. For certain courses, where faculty members were not available, I did develop capability to teach courses that were new to me. New activities, such orientation of new recruits, intensive teaching workshop, training of technical staff were conducted where limited human resource was required to participate in capacity building for the Institute.

I served as Faculty In-charge (Administration) from 02 June, 2004 till 15^th, April, 2011. Thereafter, I served as Faculty In-charge (Faculty Affairs) until January, 2015. Also, I served as the Head of the Department, Dept of EEE, from 21^st November, 2013 till 21^st November, 2017.

I continue to contribute to the Institutional Development, to the best of my capabilities and whenever I am entrusted with new responsibility I tend to rise to the occasion and deliver!

Conferences and Symposia

Invited Lectures

1) Transformation and Expression of a Na⁺-dependent high affinity bicarbonate transporter, SbtA in Nicotiana chloroplasts. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Namitha Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra in “3rd World Plant Genomics and Plant Science Congress" July 15-16, 2019, in Osaka, Japan.

2) Targeting chloroplast bicarbonate transporter BicA and SbtA to chloroplasts of Nicotiana for enhanced CO₂ fixation. Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology (GPMB 2017) September 11-13, Valencia, Spain

3) Cyanobacterial CCM genes for improving photosynthetic yield and water use efficiency during heat stress in C3 plants. International workshop to develop climate resilient cereals. November 2-5, 2016, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.

4) Improving C3 plant productivity using cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters. Proceedings of the 7^th Indo-Global Summit and Expo on Food and Beverages. October 8-10, 2015, New Delhi, India

Presentations (Poster and Oral)

1) Transit peptide and membrane protein leader determine the chloroplast targeting of SbtA; Namitha Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra & Sandhya Mehrotra, 'International Conference on 'Environmental Sustainability and Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges' 16^th -19^th November 2022; Goa

1) Namitha S. Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra; Screening membrane protein leader sequences for targeting of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters BicA and SbtA to C3 chloroplast; Emerging Trends in Biotechnology; BIOSANGAM 2022; MNNIT, Allahabad, Prayagraj, India; March 10-12; 2022.

2) Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. “Expression Patterns of AtAVT6 Genes Underlying Abiotic Stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Conference on Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, India, from 10-12 September 2021.

3) Pinky Dhatterwal, Samyadeep Basu, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. “Genome wide analysis of W-box element in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals TGAC motif with genes down regulated by heat and salinity” presented at International Symposium on advances in plant biotechnology and genome editing & 42^nd meeting of plant tissue culture association, organized by ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, India, from 8-10 April 2021.

4) Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra, Expression studies of an amino acid transmembrane transporter (AtAVT6D) from Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Virtual Conference on Plant Specialized Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering (PSMME), organized by CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India, from 14-16 October 2020.

5) Namitha Nayak, Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra & Sandhya Mehrotra; Screening membrane protein leaders for specific targeting of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters to the IEM of C3 plant chloroplasts, a National Virtual Conference on ‘Current Trends and Challenges in Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 20-21st November 2021; Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, New Delhi & Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus; 20th -21st November 2020.

6) Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra, Anthony J. Miller and Rajesh Mehrotra, “Functional characterization of an amino acid transmembrane transporter (AtAvt6D) from Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Virtual Conference on Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment, organized by Genome Research Limited, Cambridgeshire, UK, from 12-14 October 2020

7) Integration and Expression of a Na⁺-dependent high affinity bicarbonate transporter, SbtA in Nicotiana chloroplasts. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Namitha Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra^.Plant Genetics and Genomics conference’ organized by SRMIST, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 24^th -25^th January 2020.

8) Inorganic carbon transporters in lower photosynthetic organisms. Vandana Deopa, Kohei Yoneda, Sandhya Mehrotra, Yusuke Matsuda "Bilateral seminar between Japan and USA" 1^st – 3^rd Oct 2019, Kyoto international community house, Kyoto, Japan

9) In-silico analysis across four plant genomes reveals over-representation of AAAG cis-elements in dicots as compared to monocots, Zaiba Hasan Khan, Anish Shah, Sandhya Mehrotra, Chandra Shekhar, Rajesh Mehrotra. National Conference of Plant Physiology-2017, Emerging Role of Plant Physiology for Food Security and Climate Resilient Agriculture. Indian Society for Plant Physiology, New Delhi.

10) Panchsheela Nogia, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. Transient expression and localization of a cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter BicA into chloroplasts of Nicotiana benthamiana. 8th International Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability; Oct 30- Nov 4, 2017, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

11) Heterologous expression and in silico analysis of carboxysome protein ccmM of an early diverging cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceous PCC 7421. Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. 8th International Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability; Oct 30-Nov 4, 2017, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

12) An insight into the Regulatory Components of Carbon Concentrating Mechanisms in Aquatic Unicellular Photosynthetic Organisms. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. EMBO Conference on “Micro and metabolic regulators in plants, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala 01-04 February 2017.

13) ACGT cis regulatory elements as mediator of plant stress response. Rajesh Mehrotra, Pinky Dhatterwal, Zaiba Hasan Khan, Sandhya Mehrotra. EMBO Conference on “Micro and metabolic regulators in plants, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala 01-04 February 2017.

14) Strategies for installing SbtA- a cyanobacterial sodium dependent bicarbonate transporter to chloroplasts of model C3 plants to enhance CO₂ fixation, National conference of plant physiology: Challenges in crop physiology research: from molecular to whole plant, NCPP 2016. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra December 8-10, 2016, University of Agricultural Studies (UAS), GKVK, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

15) Extensive duplication and subfunctionalization of a nitrate transporter gene in Arabidopsis thaliana: Multiple factors involved in paralog retention P. Nogia, V. Tomar, G.K. Sidhu, R. Mehrotra, S. Mehrotra, Plant genome evolution: A current opinion conference, 6-8th September 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

16) Analysis of the promoter region of an amino acid transmembrane transporter from Arabidopsis thaliana reveals internal duplication of 196 base pairs R. Mehrotra, A. Jain, Z. Khan, C. Sangwan, S. Mehrotra, Plant genome evolution: A current opinion conference, 6-8th September 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

17) Vipul, Sachin Saxena, Purva Bhalothia, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra: Genome wide analysis of W-box in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals skewed distribution of TGACACATTTTGAC sequence in chromosome 1. Presented in IIT Kanpur "5th Annual International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology (BIOTECH 2015)" held at IIT, Kanpur during March 13-15, 2015

18) Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Characterization of RubisCO and Carbon Concentration (CCM) proteins of Gloeobacter violaceous PCC7421 FAF-115, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

19) Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. Introducing cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter gene (BicA) into inner envelope of C3 plant chloroplast to enhance carboxylase activity of RubisCO. FAF-114, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

20) Vandana, Rajesh Mehrotra, and Sandhya Mehrotra. Approaches for transplastomic integration of SbtA- a high affinity sodium bicarbonate transporter to C3 plants for enhanced CO₂ fixation. FAF-116. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India

21) Purva Bhalothia, Anshu Alok, Bhaskar Sharma, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Cloning and characterization of protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) like promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana. FAF-27, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

22) Kaushik Renganaath K, Shashank Pandey, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Revisiting endosymbiosis in the light of nuclear mitochondrial cross talks mediated by the members of the telomere system. FAF-135, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

23) Sandhya Mehrotra and Prabodh Kumar Trivedi. Light regulates the splicing of the petB and petD introns of the psbB operon in Populus deltoides. PLANT BIOLOGY EUROPE, FESPB/EPSO 2014 Congress. The Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland, June 22-June 26, 2014

24) Screening of candidate proteins as sources of transit peptide elements for targeting cyanobacterial genes into the inner envelope of a C3 plant chloroplast. Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. Indo Mexico workshop on Biotechnology: Beyond borders, Organized by CSIR, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune and CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Consejo, Mexico October 7-9, 2013, Pune.

25) Occurrence and distribution of inorganic carbon transporters across various phyla of cyanobacteria. Tomar V, Sidhu GK, Mehrotra R and Mehrotra S. Indo Mexico workshop on Biotechnology: Beyond borders, Organized by CSIR, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune and CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Consejo, Mexico, October 7-9, 2013, Pune.

26) Purva Bhalothia, Anshu Alok, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra: Cloning and characterization of protein phosphatase 2C like promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana. 3^rd international conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics. February 24-25, 2013, Rome, Italy.

27) Characterizing operons encoding RubisCO and Carbon concentrating mechanism proteins in a primitive cyanobacterium, Gloeobacter violaceous. Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. The 38^th Lorne conference on protein structure and function, 10-14^thFebruary, 2013, Lorne, Victoria, Australia.

28) Analyzing structural and functional evolutionary links between RubisCO and Carbon concentration mechanism proteins. Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu and Sandhya Mehrotra. International Conference on Industrial Biotechnology, Nov 21-23, 2012, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India.

29) An efficient protocol for isolation of high quality cellulose from stem of Calotropis procera. Somnath Maji, Panchsheela Nogia and Sandhya Mehrotra. International Conference on Industrial Biotechnology, Nov 21-23, 2012, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India.

30) Rajesh Mehrotra, Ipshita Zutshi, Sachin Sethi, Purva Bhalothia and Sandhya Mehrotra: Patterns and evolution of ACGT repeat cis element landscape across four plant genomes. Next generation plant science 26-28^th September 2012, Cologne, Germany.

31) Diversity of lipase producing microbial strains obtained from oil contaminated soils and their hydrolytic activity. Rajesh Mehrotra, Shobha Mehra, Sandhya Mehrotra, Bhavya Ravi. Proceedings of 3rd ICERT conference in Penang, Malaysia, 30th May-1st June (2012) pg200-209.

32) Ajay Sethuraman, Ashish Kumar Runthala, Hiroki Ashida, Sandhya Mehrotra (2011) Analyzing molecular evolution of Phosphoribulokinase, a key Calvin cycle enzyme, through examining the function of its homologue in heterotrophic bacterium Escherichia coli (2011) National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, 2011, BITS, Pilani.

33) Kono Takunari, Sandhya Mehrotora, Hiroki Ashida, Akiho Yokota: "The molecular evolution of phosphoribulokinase for completion of the Calvin cycle" Gordon Research Conferences CO₂Assimilation in Plants: Genome to Biome, Les Diablerets (2011) Switzerland.

34) Sandhya Mehrotra, Akiho Yokota and Hiroki Ashida (2011) A novel active form of phosphoribulokinase coexists with ordinary phosphoribulokinase in the genome of the primitive cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceous. The 18^th Penn State Plant Biology Symposium, May 18-21, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.

35) Takunari Kono, Mehrotra Sandhya, Akiho Yokota, Hiroki Ashida: Bona fide phosphoribulokinase and RuBisCO in methanogenic archaeon, Methanospirillum hungatei. Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry convention in 2012, Kyoto, Japan, March 25^th, 2012

36) Uthra Balasubramanyam, Akhil Bajaj, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra (2011) Diversity of lipase producing bacterial strains of oil contaminated soils and their hydrolytic activity. Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 27^th April- 1^st May, Prague Czech Republic.

37) Takunari Kono, Mehrotra Sandhya, Akiho Yokota, Hiroki Ashida: Molecular evolution of phosphoribulokinase for completion of the Calvin cycle. Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry convention in 2011 Kyoto, Japan, March 26^th

38) Takunari Kono, Mehrotra Sandhya, Akiho Yokota, Hiroki Ashida: The molecular evolution of phosphoribulokinase for completion of the Calvin cycle. The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists Sendai, Japan, March 22, 2011.

39) Uthra Balasubramaniyam, Akhil Bajaj, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. Hydrolytic activity and diversity analysis of lipase synthesizing bacteria from oil contaminated soils. National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, 2011, BITS, Pilani.

40) Madhulika Rai, Bhavya R., Shuvendu Kumar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. Isolation and characterization of fungal DNA collected from oil fields for the purpose of biodiesel production. National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, 2011, BITS, Pilani.

41) Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra (2010) Understanding the interactions between cis acting upstream sequences in the regulation of gene expression in Plants. National Conference on Bioprospecting: Access for Sustainable development, Feb 19-20. MNIT, Allahabad.

42) Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra, Akhil Bajaj, Purva Lohan: Promoter activation by ACGT in response to salicylic acid and abscisic acids is differentially regulated by the spacing between two copies of the motif: in the international conference on emerging trends in Biotechnology (ETBT-2009) and 6^th annual convention on Biotechnology, INDIA (BRSI), Banaras Hindu University. 4-6 DEC 2009.

43) Sandhya Mehrotra, Hiroki Ashida, Akiho Yokota: Analysis of the molecular evolution of Phosphoribulokinase, a key Calvin cycle enzyme, in primitive cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus. The 49th Annual meeting of JSPP (Japan Society of plant physiologists), March 20-22, 2008, Sapporo Convention center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

44) Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi and Pravendra Nath: A Lecture on “Molecular characterization and expression analysis of RubisCO large subunit gene from chloroplast of Populus deltoides. At VIII National Symposium on relevance of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, March 1-3, 2001, The American College, Madurai. India

45) Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi and Pravendra Nath: RubisCO large subunit gene from chloroplast of Populus deltoides: Nucleotide sequence and expression. At: Second symposium on Current advances in Molecular Biochemistry: Applications in health, environment and agriculture, November 9-11, 2000, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India.

46) Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi and Pravendra Nath. Light regulated accumulation and processing of transcripts in chloroplasts of Populus deltoides. In: First ICGEB symposium on plant signal transduction, October 4-6, 1999, International centre for genetic engineering and biotechnology, New Delhi, India.

47) Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi, Pravendra Nath and P.V. Sane: RubisCO large subunit gene from chloroplast genome of Populus deltoides. In: Society of Biological chemists (India), December 19-21, 1998, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

About Me

Degree: Ph.D.

Contact Details

Email: halanprakash@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Phone: 0832 – 2580344

About me

Ph.D. Thesis Title: "Photooxidation studies of nickel(II) complexes of azamacrocyclic ligands in aqueous and non-aqueous solvents"

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry (2003):University of Madras. Research work carried out at School of Chemistry, Department of Inorganic Chemistry and National Centre for Ultra fast Processes, Chennai. INDIA. Mentor: Prof. P. Natarajan, FNA, FASc.

M.Sc., Chemistry (1997): Department of Chemistry, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. INDIA. (First Class with Distinction).

B.Sc., (1995): Department of Chemistry, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. INDIA. (First Class with Distinction, Best outgoing student). Qualified GraduateAptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 1997, India. Junior Research Fellow, (JRF) and Senior Research Fellow (SRF) (1997-2003), Department of Science and Technology, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

2005-2008: Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship and Takeda Science Foundation Research Fellowship (Takeda Pharmaceutical, JAPAN) at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, JAPAN and Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, JAPAN. Supervisor: Prof. Shun Hirota.

2003-2005: Visiting Fellow (Post-doctoral Fellowship) at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, INDIA : Supervisor. Prof. Shyamalava Mazumdar.

Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

K.A.Geetha

Professor

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Chamber No. A 313/13,

BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus

NH- 17B Zuari Nagar, Vasco-Da-Gama

Goa, India

Tel (Office): +91-0832-2580232

Mobile +91 8805209235

kageetha@gmail.com ; geetha@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/geethaka/profile

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YK8RQWEAAAAJ&hl=en

Orcid ID: org/0000-0002-4390-6027

Scopus Author ID: 50061219800

Research ID: S-4721-2019

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EDUCATION

PhD in Tamil Dalit Studies

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras (2004-2009).

Title: Tamil Dalit Literature: Production, Institutionalization and Reception

M Phil in English

Department of English, University of Madras (1989-1990)

Area of Specialization – African-American Drama

Title: The Theme of Absurdity in the Plays of Ed Bullins

M A in English

Department of English, University of Madras (1987-1989)

BA in English

Department of English, University of Madras (1984-1987)

CERTIFICATIONS

Lectureship Eligibility Test, UGC- NET: 1991

PGCTE, EFLU, Hyderabad, 1998

TEACHING INTERSTS

Cultural Studies

Post-Colonial Literatures

Dalit Literature

COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING AT PRESENT

Cultural Studies
Post Colonial Literatures
Dalit Literature
Literary Theory
Technical Communication
Phonetics and Spoken English
Advanced Communicative English
Theoretical Approaches to Liberal Studies
Linguistics
Caste and Gender in India

COURSES DESIGNED & INTRODUCED

Post Colonial Literatures - HSS F340 singly designed and introduced the course in BITS – 2015

Caste and Gender in India-HSS F369-singly designed and introduced the course in BITS – 2019

WILP – Critical Analysis of Literature and Cinema - BSDC*ZC322 co-authored the course design and guided the teaching faculty – 2020

M.Phil. – Theoretical Approaches to Liberal studies HSS G512 – co-authored the course design and introduced in BITS, Goa – 2019

COURSES DEVELOPED

Literary Criticism- ENGL C 331/HSSF335-redesigned the handout and course contents and introduced in BITS Goa – 2012

Linguistics – HSS F222 - redesigned the handout and course contents and introduced in BITS, Goa – 2012

Cultural Studies - GS F242 - redesigned the handout and course contents – 2014

WILP – Cultural Studies- BSDCH ZC242- prepared the Teacher’s notes for the course – 2021

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (BITS, Goa)

2023 – till date: Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus

2018- 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus, Goa

2010 - 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural Studies

Dalit Studies

Women Studies

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries: Literary Interventions by Tamil Dalits. Cambridge Scholarly Publications: UK (2014 ) ISBN 978-1-4438-6808-2
An Introduction to Tamil Dalit Literature Emerald Publishers : India (2022) ISBN 9789392188190

JOURNAL ARTICLES/ESSAYS

(Co-authored with Gyanesh Govindarajan et al).“Enhancing Social Capital and Reciprocity through Community News Media during Covid-19: A Study of Video Volunteers: Online Information Review Vol.47:7(2023)1396-1414. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-09-2022-0514 (Web of Science & Scopus Q1 H index – 64; Impact factor 5.4)
(co-authored with Bhuhan Sharma) “ Casteing Gender : Interstional Oppression of Dalit women” Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 22 : 10 (2021) 1-7 (Scopus Q3)
Entrenched Fissures : Caste and Social Differences among the Devadasis” Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 22 : 4 (2021) 87-96 (Scopus Q3)
“ Embedded Heirarchies and Subjugated differences : A Study of Tamil Dalit Women”in Reading Dalit : Essays on Literary Representations” (Ed) GJV Prasad. Pencraft International, New Delhi (2020) pp- 122-131
“Housing the Unhomely: A Study of Srilankan Panchamar Fiction” (2020) Interventions: International Journal of Post Colonial Studies Vol 22: 7 (2020) 951-965 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1784023 (Web of Science & Scopus Q1)
“ Memory as Communication : An Analysis of the Reclamation of Panchami Lands” Interventions : International Journal of Post Colonial Studies Vol 22: 8 (2020) 1110-1122 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1753549 (Web of Science & Scopus Q1)
“In Perennial oppression : Internalised Ideologies of the Devadasis” Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 21: 2 (2020) 67-7https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss2/7 (Scopus Q3)
“Stripping Illusions and Mirroring Realities: Ed Bullins, the Absurdist” IUP Journal of English Studies Vol.XIII: 1 (2018) 23-32. (Scopus Q2)
“ Shifting Terrains : The Fashioning of the Tamil Dalit Subject” Readings on Dalit Identity : History, Literature and Religion Ed. Swaraj Basu Orient Blackswan: Hyderabad (2016) 261-279
(with) Priyanshu Gupta “ Cultural in Context – Divergences in Rural and Urban Consumer Behavior International Journal of Communication Vol 25 : 1-2 (2015) 77-95
“Not a Literature of Lament : An Analysis of Emerging themes and Trends in Tamil Dalit Literature” IUP Journal of English Studies Vol 10 : 3(2015) 50-58 (Scopus Q2)
“ Unified Tamil Dalit Identity: Problematics and Anomalies” Prose Studies : History, Theory, Criticism Routledge : U.S.A Vol 36 Issue 2 (2014) 130 – 140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2014.933575 (Web of Science & ScopusQ1)
“A Dalit Among Dalits : The Angst of Tamil Dalit Women” Literature of our Times: Post Colonial studies in the Twenty First Century Ed.s Bill Ashcroft et al. Rodopi Press:NewYork (2012) 411-432 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207393_027
“From Panchamars to Dalit: The Evolution of Tamil Dalit Writing” Prose Studies History,Theory,Criticism Routledge : U.S.A Volume 33 Issue 2 (2012) 117-131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.632220(Web of Science & Scopus -Q1)
(with O.J.Joycee) “Self-Consciously Indian, Sub-Consciously Judaic : A Study of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems” Conspectus: A Journal of English Studies Volume 6 (2012) 45-55
“Societal Transformation Through Literature: A Study of Students’ Response to Tamil Dalit Literature” Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial StudiesVolume13 No.3 (2011)398-421http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.597598 (Web of Science and Scopus Q1)
“Representation and Resistance: Strategies in Bama’s Karukku and Raj Gautaman’s Siluvai Raj Sarithiram” Journal of Post Colonial Writing Routledge : U.K. Volume 47Issue3, (2011) 320-329http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.564899 (Web of Science and Scopus Q1)
“Roles” (Trans.) No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South India Dossier 1:
Tamil and Malayalam Edited by K. Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu Penguin, India (2011) 75-80
"In Need of Translation: An Analysis of Srilankan Dalit Literature” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. (2010) Volume 41 33 44 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/viewFile/35085/28976 (Web of Sciences & Scopus Q2)
(with K.Srilata) “From Subjugation to Celebration- A Study of Bama’s Karukku and Sangati” Language Forum,.Vol.33 No.1. June (2007) 85-97
(with K.Srilata) “Tamil Dalit Women: Subjugated Differences” Akshara: International Annual Research Journal of Critical and Creative Writing Vol. 4. March 2008, 24-30.

PUBLICATIONS (IN TAMIL)

A.Geetha “Virivu Perum Porulum Marupadum Adaiyalamum” Kaalasuvadu Kaalasuvadu Pathipagam : Chennai Issue 107 (2008) 57-58

http://www.kalachuvadu.com/archives/issue-

INVITED TALKS/ WORKSHOPS

Invited speaker at the National conference, “Gender Writes: A Dialogue on Rewriting the Gender”, Vidya Probodhini college, Goa, April 2024
Resource person – State level workshop on Understanding Research Methods”, Goa State Research foundation, Goa, February 2024
Resource person – State level Workshop on Research Methodology in English language and literature, DMRC College, Asagao, Goa, August 2023

" Cultural theory and Literary Studies" at the International PDP on Emerging Trends in English Studies organized by Patrician College of Arts & Science, Chennai, July 2023
Resource person - workshop on Research Methodology for Language teachers at the Faculty Development program organized by Directorate of Higher Education, Goa State Research Foundation and Goa University. June 2023
" Literary History of Tamil Dalit Literature" at the Lecture series on Tamil studies organized by Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, Sri Sri University, Odisha, June 2023
"Gendering Caste : A Study of Dalit Women" at the Faculty development Webinar on Gender Sensitization organized by B.T.M.College, West Bengal. in July 2020

Memory as Communication" at the Plenary session of the International Conference on Cultural Semiotics of English language and Literature organized by ELTAI(English Language Teachers Association of India) and Hindu College, Chennai in March 2018

“Caste and gender :Interlocking Oppression" at the UGC sponsored National Seminar on The "Politics of Gender", at Vimala College, Thrissur March 2015

Asserting Identities : Marginality and Resistance in Tamil Dalit women" at the National Symposium on "Women's Voices" at SDNB Vaishnav, Chennai, February

PAPERS PRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL& NATIONAL CONFERENCES

" Estrangement and Precarity: The Living Deaths of Srilankan Tamil Dalits" at the Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Sorbonne Université, Faculte des Lettres, Paris, France, June 2023
(with G.Gyanesh " Women as Counter publics : A Feminist Critical Discourse of the Farmers' Protest" accepted for presentation in the 8th World Conference on Women Studies organised by TIIKM and Bridge water State University, Virtual presentation , 12-14 May 2022
“A Study of Caste and Social Hierarchy within the Devadasi System” at the 6^th World Conference on Women Studies organized by TIIKM and Bridge Water State University , July 2020, Virtual presentation
“Muted Voices: Intersectional Oppression of the Dalit Devadasi” at the 5^th World Conference on Women Studies organized by TIIKM and Bridge Water State University in Bangkok, April 2019
“Fiction and Reality: Reclamation of Panchami Lands” at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Multidisciplinary Research” organized by American College, Madurai at Tamil Centre, Singapore, December 2017,
“Reading Srilankan Literature as Dalit Literature " at an International Conference held at the University of Humboldt, Berlin, May 2017

" Marginalized within the Periphery: An analysis of Tamil Dalit women" at the International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture organised by The Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune, February 2016
“Fissures and Divergences: A Study of Tamil Dalit Identities” at the National Workshop cum Seminar on “Counter Writing- Dalits and Subalterns”, Central University of Hyderabad & ICSSR, October 2014
“Being Dalit, Being Woman – An Analysis of Bama’s Sangati and Imayam’s Beasts of Burden” at the VII World Conference & XV All India English Teachers Annual Conference on Globalization and Literature at Nehru Arts College, Hubli, Karnataka , April 2010
“A Dalit among Dalits : The angst of Tamil Dalit women” at the 14th Triennial ACLALS Conference, Vancouver, Canada ,August 2007
Geetha “Subjugated Differences – Positioning Tamil Dalit women” at the Second International &38^th Annual ELTAI Conference at Chennai, Feb. 2007
(with K.Srilata) “The Self in Dalit Autobiographies- Personal or Collective?” at the International Conference on Common wealth literature, IIT Roorkee, Oct.2005
(with O.J.Joycee “Self-Consciously Indian, Sub-Consciously Judaic : A Study of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems” at the International seminar, Benares Hindu University, Jan.2005

RESEARCH PROJECTS - ONGOING

A project proposal titled " Museum Effect: A Case Study of Goa State Museum and Goa Chitra Museum" approved by SPARC - Rs.67,17,538. (Collaboration with University of Victoria, Canada & University of Vienna, Austria)

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

A collaborative research project with Prof. Bonnie Zare, Director, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech University, U.S.A - "A cross cultural study on Reader Response to Dalit Women Short Stories" (forthcoming)

THESIS SUPERVISION

PhD Thesis: Gnanabharathi. “Alterations and Adapatations : An analysis of the Indigenous Spaces of Nilgris Irulas (Completed - 2019)

PhD Thesis: Sushant Kishore. “The Performative Politics of Ethnocultural Nationalism in India: Thespian and Quotidian Performances in Hindu Nationalism” (Completed – 2019)

PhD Thesis : Priteegandha Naik “ Dalit Futurism : Caste and Gender in Indian Science Fiction” (Completed 2023)

PhD Thesis -Mahesh Varghese. ‘To Make live and Let Die’: A study of the Life, Death and its Governance in Select Malayalam Fiction” (in progess)

PhD Thesis : Fernandes Ann Rochelle. " Unearthing Silenced Histories: Re-reading Portuguese colonialism through the lens of Adopted Children in Goa" (in progess)

PhD Thesis: Basma Mahfoud. Research on the linguistic and cultural translations of Dalit Literature - Co-supervision with Prof. Judith Misrahi Barak, University of Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France (subject to approval from AGSRD)

Undergraduate Thesis: Abhishek Prabhakar. “Economic flows of Globalization” (2014)

Undergraduate Thesis: Kaushal Sapre. “The Indianness of Indian Art: A Semiotic study”(2014)

PHD THESIS EVALUATION

2016 – University of Madras - PhD Thesis titled “Gendered Passions and Masculinity Construction: Reflections on Tamil Identity during 1930’s”

2020 – University of Madras – PhD thesis titled “Writing for the Children as a Child – A Study of Ruskin Bond’s Craft of Writing”

2020 – Manomaniam Sundaranar University – PhD thesis titled “The Narratives of Amitav Ghosh: Palimpsest and Fact-Finding Dichotomy”

2022 – Mahatma Gandhi University – PhD thesis – “The Dialectics of the Anthropomorphic Subaltern: A Study of Select Texts from Contemporary Popular Culture”

2022 –Calicut University – PhD Thesis titled “Subversive Survival: Trauma and Post Traumatic Resilience in Select North-East Indian Literary Imagination”

EDITORIAl/PEER- REVIEWING ASSIGNMENTS

Invited by University Grants Commission (UGC) to review applucations submitted for Research Grants and Post Doctoral fellowships – 2023

Joint Editor Special Issue on Dalit Women , Journal of International Women Studies, Vol 22:10 (2021)

Journal of Post Colonial Writing, Taylor and Franscis

Journal of Intercultural communication, Taylor and Francis

Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Sage

Journal of South Asian Studies, ESCI

SEMINARS / WORKSHPS ORGAINSED

Organizer for events of CADALFEST (Celebrating Adivasi and Dalit Arts and Literature Festival) a project funded by UK Arts and Humanities research council, Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial Studies Centre and the research center EMMA at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France.

20th October 2022- Moderator for Formations – Adivasi and Dalit Futurism: Artists Subash Thebe Limbu and Osheen Siva in Conversation, jointly organized by Nottingham Trent University and Bonington Gallery, U.K
12th November 22 - CADALFEST workshop – organized a Workshop on Dalit Futurism by artist Osheen Siva at BITS Goa- jointly organized by University Paul Valery Montpellier III, France and Nottingham Trent University, U.K.

Coordinator , National seminar on “Place, Space ,Travel, Displacement, Exile” organized by Department of Humanities& Social Sciences, BITS Pilani & IACLALS, February 2015
Coordinator, National level workshop on “ Innovative Pedagogies for Enhancing the Employability skills for Students” organized by Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Goa campus, September 2013

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Head, Department of Humanities and Social Science, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus ( May 2022 till date)

Presiding Officer – Internal Complaints Committee, BITS Pilani, Goa campus (October 2020- January 2023)

Convenor, Departement Research Committee, Dept.of HSS, (Nov.2019 – May 2022)

Nucleus Member – Academic Undergraduate Studies Division (August 2018-Feb 2023)

Resident Warden, Women’s Hostel, BITS Pilani, Goa (July 2016-Dec 2021)

Member, Academic Counseling Board , BITS Pilani, Goa (Aug 2018- May 2022)

Member- Department faculty search Committee (July 2018 -tilldate)

Member - Department Student Faculty Council (2016)

Member – Mess committee (2016-2018)

Member, Library Committee , BITS Pilani, Goa (Aug2011-2013)

Coordinator, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Goa (August 2010 – August 2018)

Convener - Publications Committee- Convocation (2016-2019)

NAAC SSR Data Preparation team – Nucleus member -(March – October 2022)

Project Lakshya - Nucleus member for Academic Research (2018-2019)

GATI Project – Nucleus member(Oct.2021-Till date)

BITSAT Question Bank -Member (Feb - April 2017)

Administrative Responsibilities

Current

Head of the Department, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus (Since 16 June 2024)

Past Responsibilities

Nucleus Member, Academic- Graduate Studies and Research Division (AGSRD), BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus (2021-2024)
Member, Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA), BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus (1 Aug 2020 - 31 July 2022)
Member, Departmental Research Committee (DRC), BITS Pilani Dubai Campus (1 Aug 2020 - 31 July 2022)
Member, Library Committee, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus (21 Dec 2020 - 20 Dec 2021)

Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences Organized

Co-conveners of 3rd International Conference on Environmental Sustainability -New Paradigms and Developments (ICES 2023) from 26-29 November organized by Department of Civil Engineering along with Biotechnology & Chemical Engineering Department BITS Pilani- Dubai Campus in collaboration with the Society of Environmental sustainability, India and International center for Biosaline Agriculture(ICBA)
Co-organizer of the first, second and third edition of BITS Research Day in 2022, 2023 & 2024, respectively at BPDC being a nucleus member of AGSRD, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus.
Co-organizer of GIS day 2019 and 2022.
Organized a webinar series on 'Sustainable Water Resources Management under Climate Change’ on 23rd Oct, 20th Nov & 11th Dec 2021, invited distinguished international speakers.

Attended Webinars/Training Programs

Participated in a 5-day online short-term Course on Machine Learning and its Applications to Civil Engineering, organized by National Institute of Technology Srinagar, from 02 Nov to 06 Nov 2020.
Participated in a 5-day training program on "Advanced Tools & Techniques for Hydrological Investigation" organized by the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee during 22-26 Feb 2021.
Attended workshop on 'Programming for Geospatial Hydrological Applications' organized by UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands from 02 March-30 April 2021.
Participated and completed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program on 'Introduction to NASA Resources for Climate Change Applications' on 29 Sep & 06 Oct 2021.
Attended webinar on “Technological Developments and Career Opportunities in Geospatial Industry” organized by TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi on 28th April 2021.
Participated in the webinar on “Coastal Ecosystems: Sustainable Livelihoods and Protection from Climate Change” conducted by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India on 23rd September 2021.

Papers in Conferences

Yogeeswari, P, Therapeutic Strategies and Drugs under Investigations for Triple Negative Breast cancer. 2nd Indo Oncology Summit (CME Accredited), 15-17 November 2019, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.
Dusane A., Dwivedi S., Yogeeswari, P, In-house mGluR5 inhibitors as a therapeutic approach towards Autism: In-silica and in-vitro investigations. IBRO-APRC Associate School on Blood-Brain Barrier: From Basic Physiology to Neurological Disorders, 4-9 November 2019, Chandigarh, India.
Yogeeswari, P, High Quality Sweet Lime juice powder compositions with enhanced real fruit content and stability for food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. International Conference on Biotechnological Innovations in Food and Healthcare, 27-28 January 2019, Dubai. (Best Presentation Award)
Yogeeswari, P, Multiple crystal structure modeling in structure-based drug discovery: Case studies on successful diverse lead identification. 18th International Conference on Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 18-19 October 2018, Dubai.
Sawle, A., Gangadhar M., Yogeeswari, P, Pharmacological intervention to study the effect of antinocicpetive curcumin analogue in a rat model of migraine. International Society for Neurochemistry-ESN meeting, 20-24 August 2017, Paris, France. (Travel partially supported by BITSAA)
Dwivedi, S., Medishetty, R., Kulkarni, P., Yogeeswari, P, Zebrafish larvae model: A novel approach to study Autism. International Society for Neurochemistry-ESN meeting, 20-24 August 2017, Paris, France. (Travel supported by DST)
Gangadhar, M., Isava, O., Yogeeswari, P, Antiinflammatory compound with SIPSC blocking potential: A promising therapeutic approach for neurological pain disorders. International Society for Neurochemistry-ESN meeting, 20-24 August 2017, Paris, France.
Yogeeswari, P, Cathepsin D inhibitors as potential therapeutics for breast cancer treatment against triple negative and triple positice breast cancers. Keystone Symposium on Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy: Taking place a mainstream oncology (C7-2017), 19-23 March 2017, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Accepted with BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION GLOBAL HEALTH TRAVEL AWARD.
Dwivedi, S., Medishetty, R., Kulkarni, P., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P, Zebrafish Larva model: A novel approach to study Autism. 2nd International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)/APRC Chandigarh School of Neuroscience, 14-22 December 2016, Chandigarh, India. WON THE THIRD BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD.
Sawale, A., Martharasala, G., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P, Screening studies of new chemical entities to evaluate their efficacy on rat model of migraine. 68th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 16-18 December 2016, Vishakapatnam, India.
Soni, V., Suryadevaraya, P., Samala, G., Singh, A., Yogeeswari, P, , Sriram, D., Nandicoori, V.K., Depletion of M. tuberculosis GlmU from infected murine lungs effects the clearance of the pathogen. BioAsia 2016, 8-10 February 2016, Hyderabad, India
Shubham, D., Alokam, R., Srikanth, R., Piyush, B., Sriram, D, Yogeeswari, P, Targeting orphan nuclear receptor RORA as a therapeutic option for Autism Spectrum Disorder. International Conference on "Cutting edge Pharmacology: Contemporary Issues and Future Challenges" & 48th Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society, 18-20 December 2015, Rajkot, Gujarat.
Brahmam, M., Bobesh, K.A., Mikila, M., Reshma, S.L., Sriram, D, Yogeeswari, P, Development of 1,2,3-triazolo quinoline hybrid analogues as mycobacterial DNA gyrase inhibitors. Conference on Drug Discovery and Development : Global scenario-Indian Perspective, 20-21 November 2015, NIPER, Hyderabad.
Reshma, S.R., Shalini, S., Yogeeswari, P, Sriram, D., Development of quinoline derivatives as potent Mtb lysine aminotransferase inhibitors targeting latent tuberculosis. Conference on Drug Discovery and Development : Global scenario-Indian Perspective, 20-21 November 2015, NIPER, Hyderabad.
Bobesh, K.A., Reshma, S.R., Nikhila, M., Yogeeswari, P, Sriram, D., N-Benzyl-3,3-dimethoxyhexahydro-2H-furo[3,2-b]pyrrol-6-yl) methanesulfonamides as mycobacterial DNA gyrase inhibitors. Conference on Drug Discovery and Development : Global scenario-Indian Perspective, 20-21 November 2015, NIPER, Hyderabad.
Srikanth, R., Alokam, R., Gangadhar, M., Susruth, J., Sriram, D, Yogeeswari, P, Design, Synthesis and Pharmacological evaluation of novel 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine derivatives as potent and selective A2A adenosine receptor antagonists in the treatment of epilepsy. 7th Asian Association of Schools of Pharmacy (AASP) Conference, 30 October-2 November 2015, Taipei, Taiwan.
Hasitha, S.A., Battu, M.B., Yogeeswari, P.; Sriram, D. Identification of novel non-peptidic inhibitors for Cathepsin K in treatment of breast cancer bone metastasis: Pharmacophore-based 3D QSAR, molecular docking and biological evaluation. Gordon Research Conferences: Computer Aided Drug Design, 19-24 September 2015, Mount Snow in West Dover, VT, USA.
Srilakshmi, R.R., Sridevi, J.P., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D. Design, Synthesis and Biological evaluation of Benzothiazole derivatives as Mtb Lysine aminotransferase Inhibitors. National Conference on Drug Discovery and Development in Chemistry- Applications in Pharma Industry (DDDC-2015), 14-15 September 2015, Tirupati, India.
Brahmam, M., Renuka, J., Sridevi, J.P., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D. Development of novel quinolone p-phenylenediamine hybrid analogues mycobacterial DNA gyrase inhibitors to improve the cardio safety profile. National Conference on Drug Discovery and Development in Chemistry- Applications in Pharma Industry (DDDC-2015), 14-15 September 2015, Tirupati, India.
Bobesh, K.A., Renuka, J., Sridevi, J.P., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D. Substitution of the N-linked aminopiperidine class with piperazine moiety to the mycobacterial gyrase domain to reduce the hERG toxicity profile. National Conference on Drug Discovery and Development in Chemistry- Applications in Pharma Industry (DDDC-2015), 14-15 September 2015, Tirupati, India.
Gangadhar, M., Alokam, R., Sriram, D, Yogeeswari, P, MG2, a novel semicarbazone derivative, reduces neuropathic pain by inhibiting the expression levels of neuroinflammatory mediators. 2015 Keystone Symposia: C8: Pathways of Neurodevelopmental Disoders, 16-20 March 2015, California, USA.
Gaus, A., Mishra, R.K., Alokam, R., Singhal, S.M., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P., Evaluation of 2,6-diaminopyrimidines as novel Rho kinase inhibitors using animal models of treatment of neurological disorders. 66th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress: India- Pharmacy of the World, 23-25 January 2015, Hyderabad, India.
Priyanka, P.; Aruna, M.; Banumurthy, N.L.; Yogeeswari, P.; Sriram, D. Effect of feature selection on Kinase Classification Models. International Conference on Computational Intelligence: Health and Diseases (CIHD), 27-28 December 2014, Vishakapatnam, India.
Priyanka, P., Reshma, A., Aruna, M., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D., Comparative modeling combined with Molecular dynamics and Docking studies to identify potent inhibitors of PKMzeta and Biological evaluation. 9th Brain Research Conference: Neuroprotection: Basic mechanism and translational potential, 13-14th November 2014, Washington DC, USA.
Ganesh, S.; Radhika, N.; Devi, P.B.; Yogeeswari, P.; Sriram, D. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 6-methylimidazo[2,1-b]thiazole-5-carboxylic acid derivatives as novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis pantothenate synthase inhibitors. 15th Tetrahedron Symposium- Asian Edition: Challenges in Bioorganic and Organic Medicinal Chemistry, 28-31 October 2014, Singapore.
Srikant, B., Methuku, S., Tharun, K.G., Shewta, M., Sridevi, J.P., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D., Chakraborti, A.K., Alpha-Sulphonamidophosphonates and bis alpha-aminophosphonates: New leads towards infectious disease chemotherapy. 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, 10-14 August, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Renuka, J., JeanKumar, V., Bobesh, A., Vijay, S., Devi, P.B., Venkat, K.P., Priyanka, S., Keerthana, S., Pushkar, K., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D., Design and biological evaluation of novel antibacterial inhibitors against DNA GyrB from clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Gordon Research Conferences, 10-15th August 2014, Maine, USA.
Srikanth, R., Reshma, A., Kulkarni, P., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P., Structure-based drug design, synthesis and screening of Adenosine A2A antagonists as novel antiepileptic agents. 11th European Congress on Epileptology, 29th June-3rd July 2014, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kakan, S.K., JeanKumar, V.U., Devi, P.B., Shalini, S., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P., Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lysine aminotransferase: Design, synthesis and in vitro evaluation of small molecule compounds. International Conference on "Drugs for the Future: Infectious Diseases", Antimicrobial Drug Discovery: Challenges and Perspectives, 27-28 March 2014, NIPER, Hyderabad, India. (WON THE BEST PAPER IN POSTER SECTION)
Shravan, M, Renuka, J., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D., Design and biological evaluation of novel Staphylococcus aureus DNA gyrase inhibitors. International Conference on "Drugs for the Future: Infectious Diseases", Antimicrobial Drug Discovery: Challenges and Perspectives, 27-28 March 2014, NIPER, Hyderabad, India.
Devi, P.B., Saxena, S., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P., Screening and Identification of Potent Inhibitors against pantothenate synthetase- An important target Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. 3rd ScienceOne Conference on Drug Discovery and Development (SCDDD), 21-23 January 2014, Dubai.
Yogeeswari, P., Patrisha J.T., Sriram, D., Structure-based drug design utilizing multiple crystal structures to design anti-viral agents, 3rd ScienceOne Conference on Drug Discovery and Development (SCDDD), 21-23 January 2014, Dubai.
Mishra R.K., Matharasala G., Srivastav G., Singhal S.M., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P., Evaluation of antinociceptive properties of novel Rho Kinase inhibitors using animal models of neuropathic pain, 46th Annual Congress of the Indian Pharmacological Society IPSCON-2013, 16-18th December 2013, Bangalore, India.
Matharasala G., Mishra R.K., Srivastav G., Singhal S.M., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P., Novel semicarbazone derivatives effective against Diabetic peripheral neuropathy, 46th Annual Congress of the Indian Pharmacological Society IPSCON-2013, 16-18th December 2013, Bangalore, India.
Saketh, S.D., Reshma, A., Srikant, V., Sriram, D., Yogeeswari, P., BIA-6: A novel AKT inhibitor with potent activity in lung cancer, 15th World Conference on Lung Cancer, 27-30 October 2013, Sydney, Australia.
Madhu Babu, B., D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Targeting microglial cathspsin S to treat neuropathic pain: Drug design and biological evaluation, 8th Congress of the European Federation of IASP Chapters- Pain in Europe VIII, 9-12 October 2013, Florence, Italy.
P. Yogeeswari, R.K. Mishra, A. Semwal, D. Sriram, Evaluation of antinociceptive properties of novel curcumin derivatives using animal models of neuropathic pain, 5th ASEAPS (Association of South-East Asian Pain Societies Conference), Pain: The Unseen Disease, 2nd-5th May 2013, Singapore.
J. T. Patrisha, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Discovery of novel small molecule inhibitors of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease: Pharmacophore modeling, 3D QSAR studies and High-throughput screening, 2nd UK-India MedChem Congress, 22-23 March 2013, Hyderabad.
B. K. Andrews, V.U. Jean Kumar, J. Renuka, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Discovery of novel benzimidazole class of antibacterial agents targeting the ATPase domains of DNA gyrase, 2nd UK-India MedChem Congress, 22-23 March 2013, Hyderabad.
A.T. Dharmaraja, A. Mallika, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, H. Chakrapani, Small molecule reactive oxygen species generator as antimycobacterial agents, 2nd UK-India MedChem Congress, 22-23 March 2013, Hyderabad.
M. Siddharth Sai, V.U. Jean Kumar, A. Reshma, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, In-Silico design, Synthesis and in-vitro screening of novel inhibitors of Chorismate mutase enzyme involved in Shikimate pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 2nd UK-India MedChem Congress, 22-23 March 2013, Hyderabad.
P. Ganesh, V.U. Jean Kumar, P. Sridevi, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Development of novel substituted benzoxazolinone derivatives as potential antitubercular agents, 2nd UK-India MedChem Congress, 22-23 March 2013, Hyderabad.
M. Brahmam, J. Renuka, V.U. Jean Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, In-Silico discovery of novel phenylenediamine class of antibacterials as potential DNA gyrase inhibitors, 2nd UK-India MedChem Congress, 22-23 March 2013, Hyderabad.
P. Santosh, V.U. Jean Kumar, A. Reshma, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Development of carvacrol derivatives as potential inhibitors of MTB chorismate mutase, 2nd UK-India MedChem Congress, 22-23 March 2013, Hyderabad.
S. Sahithi, J. Renuka, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, In-Silico Design and in-vitro assay of inhibitors of pathogenic Staphylcoccus aureus DNA gyrase, 5th International Symposium of Drug development for Orphan/Neglected Diseases, 26-28 February 2013, Lucknow.
P. Santosh, V.U. Jean Kumar, S. Saxena, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, In-Silico Design and Synthesis of Novel Nitrothiazole derivatives as potential inhibitors of MTB CysK1, 5th International Symposium of Drug development for Orphan/Neglected Diseases, 26-28 February 2013, Lucknow.
A.Seal, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, D.J. Wild, OSDD Consortium, 3D Virtual Screening of PknB inhibitors using data fusion methods, 1st Official Conference of the International Chemical Biology Society, 4-5 October, 2014, Cambridge, MA, USA
P. Yogeeswari, A.S.K. Reddy, J.V. Ragavendran, Arvind Semwal, Ram Kumar Mishra, D. Sriram, Spironucleus linked GABA analogues as potential antiepileptic agents acting through GABA mediation and inhibiting nitric oxide and free radicals, 10th European Congress on Epileptology, 30th Septemeber -4th October 2012, London, United Kingdom.
Ram Kumar Mishra, Reshma Chowdary, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Design of Novel Rho Kinase Inhibitors for the treatment of Diabetic Complications using Energy-based Pharmacophore Modelling, In-silico screening and Docking studies, 3rd World Congress on Diabetes & Metabolism,24-26 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
P. Sripriya, M. Soumya, Reshma Alokam, P. Susruta, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Structure Guided Design of Inhibitors for SH3 domain of p47^phox subunit of NADPH Oxidase 2 implicated in various human disorders, 3rd World Congress on Diabetes & Metabolism,24-26 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
M. Saketh, Ram Kumar Mishra, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Design of Novel Protein Kinase Inhibitors for the treatment of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy using Energy-based Pharmacophore Modelling and Docking studies, 3rd World Congress on Diabetes & Metabolism,24-26 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
A. Mallika, Shubmitha Bhatnagar, A. Ravi, V.U. Jean Kumar, T.H. Manjashetty, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Novel acridinone derivatives: Design, synthesis, SIRT1 enzyme and tumour cell growth inhibition studies, 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology,13-15 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
Reshma Alokam, Jean Kumar, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Identification of novel inhibitors of Chorismate mutase enzyme involved in Shikimic pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Design and In-vitro screening, 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology,13-15 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
P. Venkat Koushik, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Designing Small Molecule Inhibitors of NMPRTase as Anticancer leads using in silico approach, 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology,13-15 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
J.T. Patrisha, K. Sridevi, K. Shruti, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Discovery of New Small Molecule Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: Pharmacophore modelling, 3D-QSAR studies and High-throughput screening, 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology,13-15 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
Madhu Babu, B., Madhuri Chandra, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Discovery of New Microglial Cathepsin S Inhibitors for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain: Pharmacophore modelling, 3D-QSAR and High-throughput screening, 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology,13-15 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
Devi, P.B., Mallika A., P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Development of Pantothenate Synthetase Inhibitors for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection: Design and Enzyme Inhibition, 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology,13-15 Septemeber 2012, Hyderabad, India.
Jean Kumar V.U, Manoj C., Vijay Soni, Patrisha J.T., Mallika A., Yogeeswari P., Nandicoori, V.K., Sriram D., Discovery of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis GlmU inbibitors, 16th Annual Conference of the Swedish Structural Biology Network, 15-18 June 2012, Talberg, Sweden.
Omer Poyraz, Robert Schnell, Jean Kumar V.U., Yogeeswari P., Sriram D., Gunter Schneider, Discovery of inhibitors targeting the Mycobacterium tuberculosis O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase (OASS) CysK1 as potential agents against mycobacterial latency. 16th Annual Conference of the Swedish Structural Biology Network, 15-18 June 2012, Talberg, Sweden.
P. Ravichand, Ramakrishna Vadrevu, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Structure-based Pharmacophore Modeling and Virtual screening of β-secretase Inhibitors, International Conference on Advances in Biological Sciences, 15-17 March 2012, Kannur, Kerala, India.
Monika Sharma, Arvind Semwal, V. Deekshith, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Discovery of newer triazolo[3,4-b]thiadiazoles for the treatment of neuropathic pain: Pharmacophoric hybrid approach for multifunctional lead development, 4th International Conference on Drug Discovery & Therapy, 12-15 February 2012, Dubai, UAE.
A. Ravi Kiran, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Prediction of bioactivity and toxicity of BITS Database compounds using empirical and focused scoring techniques, 63rd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress 2011, 19-21 December 2011, Bangalore, India.(WON THE BEST PAPER IN PODIUM SECTION)
A. Monika, A.V. Ramani, V.U. Jean Kumar, H.M. Thimmappa, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, One pot synthesis of novel substituted 1,3-thiazinylisonicotinamides, in-vitro evaluation and pre-pharmacokinetic profile studies for the treatment of tuberculosis, 63rd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress 2011, 19-21 December 2011, Bangalore, India. (WON THE SECOND BEST PAPER AWARD IN POSTER SECTION)
M. Siddarth Sai, A. Mallika, V.U. Jean Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, In-silico design and synthesis of small molecule inhibitors of human SIRT1, 63rd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress 2011, 19-21 December 2011, Bangalore, India.
V. Mahesh Kumar, Sunil Kumar Sharma, V.U. Jean Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Design, Synthesis and in-vitro evaluation of novel imidazo-quinaxolone derivatives as potential anti-tubercular drugs, 63rd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress 2011, 19-21 December 2011, Bangalore, India.
Sunil Kumar Sharma, V. Mahesh Kumar, V.U. Jean Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Design, Synthesis and in-vitro evaluation of novel 4-aminopiperido-thiazole derivatives as potential antitubercular agents, 63rd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress 2011, 19-21 December 2011, Bangalore, India.
Yukti Singh, Monika Sharma, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Neurotoxicological evaluation of BITS candidate drugs in four animals models, XXXXIVth Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society, 19-21 December 2011, Manipal, India.
V. Deekshith, Monika Sharma, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Evaluation of analgesic activity of new chemical entities in two rodent models of pain, XXXXIVth Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society, 19-21 December 2011, Manipal, India.
M. Gangadhar, Monika Sharma, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Preclinical evaluation of some novel heterocycles against postoperative pain, XXXXIVth Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society, 19-21 December 2011, Manipal, India.
Monika Sharma, M. Ganghadhar, Binita Kundu, Arvind Semwal, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Pharmacological profiling of triazolone derivatives as new leads for neuropathic pain treatment, XXXXIVth Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society, 19-21 December 2011, Manipal, India.
Siddarth Sai, M., Jean Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Design, synthesis and in-vitro evaluation of novel piperido-hydrazine derivatives as potential anti-tubercular agents, MedChem-2011 Conference on Anti-infective drug Discovery & Development, 28-29th October 2011, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.(WON THE BEST PAPER IN POSTER SECTION)
P. Yogeeswari, A.Sunil Kumar Reddy, Arvind Semwal, M. Arjun, D. Sriram, Multifunctional drug lead discovery for the treatment of neuropathic pain including trigeminal neuralgia and diabetic neuropathy: Combination of GABA receptor, cannabinoid receptor and nitric oxide as targets, 14th Asian Chemical Congress, 5-8 Septemeber 2011, Bangkok, Thailand.
Jean Kumar, Thimmappa H.M., Pritesh Bhatt, Srividya M., P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, In-silico design and synthesis of novel 2-(1-aminocyclobutyl)-2-hydroxy acetic acid as potential inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase, RSC MedChem-2011, 25-26th February 2011, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Thimmappa H.M., P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis and evaluation of isonicotinoylpyrazolopiperidine derivatives for the treatment of tuberculosis, RSC MedChem-2011, 25-26th February 2011, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Monika A., Thimmappa H.M., P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide mediated one pot synthesis of novel substituted 1,3- thiazinylisonicotinamides and evaluation for the treatment of tuberculosis, RSC MedChem-2011, 25-26th February 2011, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Mallika A., Ravikiran A., P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Development of homology model and docking studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis sirtuin protein (Rv1151c), RSC MedChem-2011, 25-26th February 2011, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India.
P. Yogeeswari, A. Sunil Kumar Reddy, A. Semwal, D. Sriram, Novel role of GABAergic anticonvulsant compounds in alleivating neuropathic pain in two animal models, 43rd Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society & International Conference on Pharmacology & Translational Research & ICMR Centenary Year Celebrations, 13-16th December 2010, NIN, Hyderabad, India.
Monika Sharma, A. Sunil Kumar Reddy, A. Semwal, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Effectiveness of Newer Lipophilic GABA analogues against epilepsy, 43rd Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society & International Conference on Pharmacology & Translational Research & ICMR Centenary Year Celebrations, 13-16th December 2010, NIN, Hyderabad, India.
P. Yogeeswari, M. Arjun, A. Semwal, R. Thirumurugan, D. Sriram, Novel role of GABAergic Anticonvulsant Compounds in allievating neuropathic pain like behaviour in rodent models of incisional pain by inhibiting nitric oxide, 24th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Pain, 6-8 February 2009, Hyderabad, India.
P. Senthil Kumar, M. Dinakaran, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, A. China, V. Nagaraja, Synthesis and antimycobacterial activities of novel 6-nitoquinolones-3-carboxylic acid, 59 th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress,20-23rd December 2007, Varanasi, India.
A. Sunil Kumar Reddy, D. Sriram, V. Ranganadh, P. Yogeeswari, Synthesis of newer N-spiro substituted GABA derivatives as anticonvulsants, 59th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress,20-23rd December 2007, Varanasi, India.
Meena K. Purohit, Niloufer M, P. Senthil Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, A facile microwave-assisted synthesis of novel 3,5-dinitrosalicylamides and their antimycobacterial activity, 59th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress,20-23rd December 2007, Varanasi, India.
Niloufer M, Meena K. Purohit, P. Senthil Kumar, J. Vaigunda Ragavendran, M. Arjun, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Synthesis, antiallodynic and antihyperalgesic activities of 5-(4-nitrophenyl)furoic 2-acid hydrazones in two in-vivo models of neuropathic pain, 59th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress,20-23rd December 2007, Varanasi, India.
D. Sriram, M. Dinakaran, R.V. Devakaram, P. Yogeeswari, Synthesis and antimalarial activity of aromatic amino analogues of artemisinin, 58th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 1-3rd December 2006, Mumbai, India.
A.S.K. Reddy, Y. Nageswari, S.K. Patel, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Newer GABA analogs as CNS agents: Synthetic integration of GABA in 1,2,4-triazol-2H-3-one, 58th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 1-3rd December 2006, Mumbai, India.
P. Senthil kumar, M. Dinakaran, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis and in vitro antimycobacterial activity of some novel fluoroquinolones, 58th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 1-3rd December 2006, Mumbai, India.
J.V. Ragavendran, I. Vikram Reddy, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis of 4-{[(3Z)-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-3H-indol-3-ylidene]amino}-N-substituted phenyl) butanamides possessing antiallodynic and antihyperalgersic activities in two rat models of neuropathic pain, 3rd International Symposium on Current Trends In Drug Discovery Research CTDDR - 2007, 17 - 21st February 2007, Chandigarh, India.
D. Banerjee, T.R. Bal, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, L. Sebastin, A. Desai, S.N. Madhusudhana, V. Ravi, Isatin derivatives inhibit Japanese encephalitis virus entry and replication in-vitro, 3rd International Symposium on Current Trends In Drug Discovery Research CTDDR - 2007, 17 - 21st February 2007, Chandigarh, India.
P. Senthil Kumar, M. Dinakaran, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis and antitubercular activities of 1-(cyclopropyl/t-butyl/4-fluorophenyl)-1,4-dihydro-6-nitro-4-oxo-7-(substituted secondary amines)-1,8-naphthyridine-3-carboxylic acid, 3rd International Symposium on Current Trends In Drug Discovery Research CTDDR - 2007, 17 - 21st February 2007, Chandigarh, India.
A.S.K. Reddy, J.V. Ragavendran, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Pharmacological screening of candidate anticonvulsants in the animal model of febrile seizures, 3rd International Symposium on Current Trends In Drug Discovery Research CTDDR - 2007, 17 - 21st February 2007, Chandigarh, India.
K.N. Purna, P. Dhakla, P. Senthil Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, 5-Nitro-2-furaldehyde thiosemicarbazones: Synthesis and in-vitro antimycobacterial activities, 3rd International Symposium on Current Trends In Drug Discovery Research CTDDR - 2007, 17 - 21st February 2007, Chandigarh, India.
M. Dinakaran, C. Yogesh, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis of various 7-substituted-1-t-butyl-1,4-dihydro-8-methyl-6-nitro-4-oxo quiniline-3-carboxylic acid, 3rd International Symposium on Current Trends In Drug Discovery Research CTDDR - 2007, 17 - 21st February 2007, Chandigarh, India.
P. Yogeeswari, Synthesis of 4-(1,3-Dioxo-1,3-dihydro-2H-isoindol-2-yl)N-(substitutedphenyl)butanamides possessing antiallodynic and antihyperalgesic activities in two rat models of neuropathic pain, 11th APTI National Convention, 1-3 September, 2006, Bangalore, India (WON THE BEST PAPER IN PODIUM SECTION)
P. Yogeeswari, R. Kavya, V. Reddy, D. Sriram, Newer approaches in the design of Anticonvulsants effective in hyperthermia-induced febrile seizures, 6th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress, 16-19th Novemeber 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
D. Sriram, S. Mehta, Discovery of lesser neurotoxic and effective anticonvulsant agents active in four animal models of seizure, 6th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress, 16-19th Novemeber 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
V. Ragavendran, R. Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, Design of GABA uptake inhibitors: Synthesis and anticonvulsant properties, 6th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress, 16-19th Novemeber 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
D. Sriram, M. Dinakaran, R.V. Devakaram, P. Yogeeswari, Synthesis and antimalarial activity of aromatic amino analogues of artemisinin, 58th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 1-3rd December 2006, Mumbai, India.
A.S.K. Reddy, Y. Nageswari, S.K. Patel, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Newer GABA analogs as CNS agents: Synthetic integration of GABA in 1,2,4-triazol-2H-3-one, 58th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 1-3rd December 2006, Mumbai, India.
P. Senthil kumar, M. Dinakaran, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis and in vitro antimycobacterial activity of some novel fluoroquinolones, 58th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 1-3rd December 2006, Mumbai, India.
Rohit Nelli, P. Senthil Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Microwave-assisted synthesis of some novel 2-[3-(4-bromo-2-fluorobenzyl)-4-oxo-3,4-dihydrophthalazin-1-yl]-N-substituted amides, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
V. Ranganadh, P. Roheeth Kumar, M. Mallika, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis of copper complexes of thiosemicarbazones as antitumour agents, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
J.V. Ragavendran, R. Kavya, S.K. Patel, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Design and synthesis of 4-[(2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-3H-indol-3-ylidene)amino] butanmaides as 4-aminobutyric acid (GABA) mimetics, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
Y. Nageswari, P. Sahithya, J.V. Ragavendran, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Synthesis and anticonvulsant evaluation of 2,6-dimethylphenylaminoacetylamino butanamides, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
M. Mallika, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Design and synthesis of gold (III) and platinum (III) complexes of aryl-substituted semicarbazones as antitumour agents, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
Jatinder Kaur, Simarjeet Kaur, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Pharmacophore modeling of COX-2 inhibitors, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
Debjani Banerjee, M. Dinakaran, P. Senthil Kumar, R.V. Devakaram, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis and Antibacterial evaluation of Phenothiazine derivatives, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
Bhargava, P. Senthil Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis of certain 7-substituted fluoroquinolones, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, 7-8th April, 2006, Pilani, India.
Y. Nageswari, J.V. Ragavendran, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Design and Synthesis of 4-(1,3-Dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)butane hydrazones as anticonvulsant pharmacophoric hybrids, 2^nd International Symposium on Drug Discovery & Process Research, 10-12^thFeb, 2006, Belgaum, India.
J.V. Ragavendran, S.K. Patel, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Design and Synthesis of Newer amino derivatives of 4-aminobutyric acid as anticonvulsants, 2^nd International Symposium on Drug Discovery & Process Research, 10-12^thFeb, 2006, Belgaum, India.
R. Kavya, J.V. Ragavendran, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Pharmacological evaluation of the analgesic efficacy of candidate anticonvulsant compounds in neuropathic pain models, 2^nd International Symposium on Drug Discovery & Process Research, 10-12^thFeb, 2006, Belgaum, India.
M. Shalini, J.V. Ragavendran, P.R. Kumar, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Quantum mechanical modeling of aryl semicarbazones as anticonvulsants, 2^nd International Symposium on Drug Discovery & Process Research, 10-12^thFeb, 2006, Belgaum, India.
P. Yogeeswari, J.V. Ragavendran, Animal models of seizures, '6^th EMBL International Predoc Symposium "Animal Models - Tips and Tricks from Nature", 11-13^th May 2005, Rome, Italy.
P. Yogeeswari, Drug design based on Molecular hybridization and integration, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
D. Sriram, T.R. Bal, P. Yogeeswari, Aminopyrimidinimino isatin analogues: Design and synthesis of novel non-nucleoside HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors with broad spectrum Antimicrobial properties, National Symposium on Futiritic trends in Pharmacotherapeutics and formulation development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, March 4-5^th, 2005.
P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, P. Roheeth Kumar, Development of Anticonvulsant leads by integrating structure-based drug design and database screening, National Symposium on Futiritic trends in Pharmacotherapeutics and formulation development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, March 4-5^th, 2005.
R.V. Devakaram, N.S. Myneedu, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Microwave-assisted synthesis and anti-YFV activity of 2,3-diaryl-1,3-thiazolidin-4-ones, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
P.R. kumar, G.A. Nilkanth, P. Yogeeswari, Rational approach for the design of a central nervous system active chemical library, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
K. Srikanth, V. Ranganadh, D.R.K. Vyas, B. Murali Krishna, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Design of anticonvulsant drug database, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
V.N.R. Pavan Kumar, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, T.R. Bal, QSAR studies on Non-Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors belonging to phenylethylthiazolylthiourea, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
P. Kudyar, P. Yogeeswari, M. Shalini, D. Sriram, Synthesis of 2,5-dimethylphenyl substituted semicarbazones as anticonvulsants, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
K. Purna Nagasree, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Newer isonicotinoyl hydrazones: Synthesis and in-vitro antimycobacterial activity, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
J. V. Ragavendran, P. Yogeeswari, R. Thirumurugan, D. Sriram, In-vitro and ex-vivo enzyme inhibition studies on some BITS anticonvulsant compounds, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
M. Shalini, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, J. P. Stables, Synthesis of some 4,5-(substituted diphenyl)-2H-1,2,4-triazole-3(4H)-one derivatives and their anticonvulsant properties, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
R. Kavya, S. Tiwari, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Synthesis and in-vitro cytotoxicity evaluation of gatifloxacin Mannich bases, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
T.R. Bal, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram, Aminopyrimidinimino isatin analogues: Design and synthesis of novel non-nucleoside HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors with broad spectrum Antimicrobial properties, International Symposium on Recent Advances in drug design and delivery systems, 26-27^th Feb, 2005, BITS, Pilani, India.
R. Kavya, R. Thirumurugan, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari; “Pharmacological Evaluation of aryl(heteroaryl) semi(thio)carbazones for CNS activity” 55th Indian Pharmaceutical congress, Chennai, December 19-21, 2003.
J. Vaigunda Ragavendran, R. Thirumurugan, I. Sridharan, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari; “4-amino butyrate amino transferase (GABA-T) inhibition as a possible mechanism of some novel anticonvulsant aryl semicarbazones”, 55th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Chennai, December, 19-21, 2003.
R. Thirumurugan, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari; “Design and synthesis of novel aryl semicarbazone derivatives as anticonvulsants with GABA and glycine mediated mechanism”, International symposium on drug discovery and process research, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, January 23-25, 2003.
T. R. Bal, D. Sriram, P. Yogeeswari, Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors for the treatment of AIDS, International symposium on Emerging trends in Genomics and Proteomics education and research, BITS, Pilani, Jan 12-13^th, 2003.
K. Jyothi Mallika, R. Thirumurugan, N.S. Chakravarthy, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram; “Tetrahydro-2H-1,3,5-thiadiazine-5-(4-Pyridyl carboxamide)-2-thione derivatives as prodrugs for isoniazid : synthesis and Antituberculous Activity”, 54th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Pune, December, 13-15, 2002.
I. Sridharan, B. Archana, R. Thirumurugan, P. Yogeeswari, D. Sriram; “γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) level studies on novel anticonvulsant compounds in rat brain tissue preparation”, 54th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Pune, December 13-15, 2002.

International Visits

Dubai, UAE, BITS-Pilani, Dubai campus conference on Biotechnological Innovations in Food and Healthcare, January 2019.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Entrepreneurship summit, December 2018.
Dubai, UAE- Speaker at 18th International Conference on Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry held in October 2018
Irvine, California, USA- Visited UCI Technology Business Centre for a Business Plan Competition in June 2017.
Barcelona, Spain- Speaker at the 8th Annual Congress of Neurotalk-2017 in May 2017.
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada-Presented research paper at the Keystone Symposia on Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy in March 2017
Lille and Paris, France- Research exchange visit to Pasteur Institute at Lille and Paris in April 2015.
Buenos Aires, Argentina- To receive IASP2014 award for excellence in Pain research among the developing country scientists in October 2014.
Dubai, UAE- To present a research paper on Antiviral drug design in the 3rd ScienceOne Conference on Drug Discovery & Development in Jan 2014.
Kiev, Ukraine- Visited Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology and Institute of Organic Chemistry for a collaborative research visit in May 2013.
Singapore- Presented a research paper on Neuropathic pain research in the 5th Association of South-East Asian Pain Societies Conference in May 2013.
Durban, South Africa- Visited KwaZuluNatal University for collaborative research visit and K-RITH as invited speaker in February 2013.
Belem, Brasil- Visited Federal University of Para on a collaborative research visit during September 2012.
Stockholm, Sweden- Visited Karolinska Institute on a collaborative project visit during May 2012.
Stockholm, Sweden- Visited Karolinska Institute on a collaborative project visit during October-November 2010.

International student exchanges and training

1. Mr. Ahik Seal, Ph.D. student of Indiana University, Bloomington, USA was offered training in CADD lab for 3 months from June 2012-August 2012 under IUSSTF RISE program under the supervision of Prof. P. Yogeeswari and Prof. D. Sriram.

2. Mr. Edikarlos, Ph.D. student of Federal University of Para, Brazil spent 2 months for research project training in Drug Synthesis during November 2012-December 2012 sponsored by IBSA project.

3. Ms. Glacia Nascimoto, Ph.D. student of Federal University of Para, Brazil spent 2 months for research project training in High-throughput cell assays during November 2012-December 2012 sponsored by IBSA project.

4. Mr. Guilherme Peterson, Ph.D. student of Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Tuberculose, Brazil was on exchange fellowship under Science Without Borders for 6 months at our CADD and Drug screening lab from October 2013 till April 2014.

5. Mr. Bomba Tatsinkou Francis Desire, Ph.D. student of University of Dschang, Cameroon was on exchange fellowship supported by NAM S&T Centre under the research training fellowship for developing countries scientist in our Neuropathic pain research lab from March 2014 till September 2014.

6. Ms. Kenia Pissinate, Post Doc of Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Technologia em Tuberculose, Brazil was on exchange fellowship under Science Without Borders for 2 months at our CADD and Drug synthesis labs under the supervision of Prof. Yogeeswari and Prof. Sriram from 1st Feb 2015 till 31st March 2015.

7. Ms. Mediesse Kengne Francine, Research Assistant, The Biotechnology Centre of Nkolbisson, University of Yaounde I Messa is being approved on exchange fellowship supported by NAM S&T Centre under the research training fellowship for developing countries scientist in our Research lab from May 2015 till October 2015.

Research Collaborations

National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA
National Cancer Institute, USA
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
The University of Queensland, Australia
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Pasteur Institute, University of Lille, France
University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
Federal University of Para, Belem, Brazil
Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology National Academy of Science, Ukraine
Faculty of Medicine of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Technologia em Tuberculosis, MCT/CNPq, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Incozen Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad
Rutger's The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Basavatarakam Indo-US Cancer Hospital, Hyderabad, India
Army College of Dental Sciences, Hyderabad

Professional Experience

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Physiology Journal (SCI, IF:4.56)
Associate Editor for IEEE Access (SCI, IF-3.37) .
Associate Editor, IET Electronics Letters (SCI, IF-1.30)
Guest editor for the special issue entitled as " Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Physiological Signal Analysis" from Frontiers in Physiology Journal (SCI, IF-4.56).
Associate Editor, Biomed Research International, Hindawi Journal (SCI, IF-3.41).
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
Reviewer, IEEE Sensors Journal.
Reviewer, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
Reviewer, IEEE Access.
Reviewer, IEEE Systems Journal.
Reviewer, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier.
Reviewer, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier.
Reviewer, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal, Elsevier.
Reviewer, Knowledge-based System Journal, Elsevier.
Reviewer, Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier.
Reviewer, Signal Processing, Elsevier.
Reviewer, PLOS One Journal.
Reviewer, IET Systems Biology.
Reviewer, IET Science, Measurement and Technology.
Reviewer, IET Biometrics.
Reviewer, IET Signal Processing.
Reviewer, IET Image Processing
Reviewer, IET Electronics Letters
Reviewer, IET Healthcare Technology Letters.
Reviewer, Medical, and Biological Engineering and Computing, Springer.
Assistant Reviewer, Journal of Circulation, American Heart Association, USA.
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member, International Conference On Machine Intelligence And Signal Processing (MISP), IIT Indore, 2017.
Conference Reviewer, ROPEC, 2017.
Conference Reviewer, SPCOM, 2016.
Conference Reviewer, NCC, 2016.

Other Information

Institutional Activities

Present :

Senate Member, 2005 onwards.
Treasurer, Technology Business Incubator (TBI), 2012 onwards
Member, Department Level Shortlisting Committee (DLSC), August, 2015 onwards

Previous: Hyderabad Campus

Faculty In-Charge (FIC), Alumni Affairs, 1st September, 2014 to 3rd August,2018.
Member, Doctoral Research Committee (DRC), August, 2008 to August, 2014.
Chairman, Vigilance committee, 2013-2014
Member, Examination committee, 2013-2014
Convener, Space Planning Committee,2013-2014
Member, Student Faculty committee, 13th Sept.,2008 to 12th Sept., 2009.
Member, Academic Advisory Council,10th Febraury,2009 to 9th February,2010.
Member, Task Force, Campus Life, Mission 2012| Vision 2020
HOD, (earlier known as Group Leader), Department of Civil Engineering, BITS, Hyderabad Campus, 28th August, 2008 to 27th October, 2010.
Faculty In-Charge (FIC), General Administration, 2010 to 2012.
Faculty In-Charge(FIC), Maintenance Unit, 2010-12
Faculty In-Charge(FIC), Educational Hardware Unit, 2010-11
Member, Campus Level Short Listing Review Committee, Hyderabad Campus, 14th Feb., 2013 to 13th Feb., 2015.
Chair Person, Department Level Short Listing Committee, Civil Engineering Department, Hyderabad campus, 14th Feb, 2013 to 13th Feb., 2015.
Convener, (committee to prepare a master plan for the campus upgradation), Growth Plan,17th November, 2011 to 10th November, 2012.
Faculty In-Charge, PSD, August, 2009 to September, 2010.
Member, Building & Works committee, 9th April 2011 to 8th April,2014.
Coordinator, BITSAT, Hyderabad City Center II and III, 2015,2016 and 2017.
Coordinator, Project Implementation Group, DST-FIST, 9th January, 2014 to 11th March, 2016 (Ref. No.: SR/FST/ETI-352/2013).
Site In-Charge, Hyderabad New Campus, January, 2006 to December, 2007

Previous: Pilani Campus

Coordinator, Off-Campus Programmes (PS & WILP), Hyderabad Centre, June 2001 to December, 2005.
Warden, Ashok Bhawan, 28th December,1998 to 17th May, 2001.
Non-Resident Warden, Vyas Bhawan, 16th December,1994 to 27th December,1998.
Professor In-Charge, Civil Engineering Association, 1st February, 1993 to 31st January,1995.
In charge, Planning cell, PS Division, August,1999 to May,2001.
In charge, Instruction cell, PS Division, August,1997 to July,1999.
In charge, Organisation cell, PS Division, August,1995 to July,1997.
Joint Secretary, Staff Association
Member, Library Committee

Professional Activities:

Memberships in Professional Organisations

Fellow Member, Indian Geotechnical Society(IGS), New Delhi, 2011 onwards (LF 0466).
Life Member, The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi, 1994 onwards (LM 17579).

Evaluation of M.E or Ph.D. Thesis outside BITS

Evaluation of Ph.D. Thesis of Mr. D.V.C. Mohan Rao B., "Analysis and Optimization of Prismatic and Axisymmetric Shell Structures", JNTU, Hyderabad, January, 2012.
Evaluation and Examiner for Ph.D. Thesis of Mr. Boda Dean Kumar, "Wind Effects on Typical Tall Structures", JNTU, Hyderabad, May,2011.
Examiner, Question paper setting for B. Tech, M. Tech and Panel member for Ph.D. seminars. 26th March,2016. JNTU, Hyderabad.
External Examiner, M.Tech., Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, (A.P.) on 30th June, 2018.
External Examiner, M.Tech., Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, (A.P.) on 8th October,2016.
External Examiner, M.Tech. Thesis (6 students) on 30-01-2010, JNTUCE, Hyderabad. (Lr. No. JNTU/CEH/CIVIL/M.TECH/(SE)/PROJECT/2009-10)
External Examiner, M.Tech. Thesis (6 students) on 11-09-2008, JNTUCE, Hyderabad. (Lr. No. JNTU/CEH/CIVIL/M.TECH/(SE)/PROJECT/2008-09)
External Examiner, M.Tech. Thesis (4 students) on 15-04-2004, JNTUCE, Hyderabad. (Lr. No. JNTU/CEH/CIVIL/M.TECH/(SE)/PROJECT/2003-04)
External subject expert for the Faculty Ph.D. progress of Civil Engineering Department on 7th March, 2020, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
External subject expert for the Faculty Ph.D. progress of Civil Engineering Department on 25th May ,2019, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
External subject expert for the Faculty Ph.D. progress of Civil Engineering Department on 14th Sept.,2017, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad.

Question Paper Setting

B.E. (V semester), “Theory of Structures-I”, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, November, 2019.
M.Tech.(II semester), “EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN OF BUILDINGS”, JB Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad,18th September, 2015.
M.Tech.(II semester), “PRINCIPLES OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING”, JNTU, Hyderabad, 30th March, 2015.

Faculty Selection Committee

External Expert for Faculty Recruitment, Department of Civil Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, 17th July,2019.
External Expert for Faculty Recruitment, Department of Civil Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, 23rd May,2018.
Expert member in Teacher’s Selection Committee, Department of Civil Engineering, K. L. University, Guntur(A.P.), 12th April,2018.
Member, Staff Selection Committee (SSC), act as University Nominee in affiliated colleges of JNTU, Hyderabad, (2016-17).
Member, Fact Finding Committee (FFC), act as University Nominee in affiliated colleges of JNTU, Hyderabad, (2014-15).
Member of Technical Committee, Board of Studies, M.E.(Structures), Vignan University, Guntur, (A.P.), 2020.
Member of Technical Committee, Board of Studies, M.E.(Structures), Sri Vasavi College of Engineering, 2016,2017&2108, Hyderabad
Member of Technical Committee, Board of Studies, B.E. (Civil Engineering), CMR College of Engineering, 2015, Hyderabad

Chief guest

Chief Guest for Inauguration of One-week short term training Programme, sponsored by AICTE, Org.by Department of Civil Engineering, SRM Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, 17th June, 2019.
Guest of Honour, 1st International Conference on Civil Engineering Practices and Trends (I-CONCEPTS-2018), CMR College of Engineering & technology, Hyderabad, 21st December,2018.
Chief guest for Inaugural function of ICI chapter, Dhanekula Institute of Engineering & Technology, Vijayawada, (A.P.),6th Jan.2018.
Guest-of-Honour at the Valedictory Function the All India Seminar on “The Integrated Design Approach for Better Buildings” 30th June, 2015 at Visvesvaraya Bhavan, Khairatabad, Hyderabad, Org. by The Institute of Engineers (India), A.P.

Advisory committee

Member, Advisory committee, 1st National Conference on “Recent Advances in Civil Engineering(NCRACE-2019)”, Org.by JNTU, Hyderabad, 28th June,2019
Member, Organising committee, one-day workshop on “Bitumen Rheology (BITURHEO 2017)”, Org. by BITS, Hyderabad, 22nd Sept.,2017.
Member, Organizing Committee, International conference on "Innovations in Structural Engineering (IC-ISE2015)", 14-16 December, 2015. Org. by Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Member, Advisory & Technical Committee, National conference on “Advances in Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Development (ACEID-2014)”, Org. by Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, 6-7th Feb.,2014.

Reviewer

International conference on Innovations in Structural Engineering, 14-16 December, 2015. Organized by Osmania University, Hyderabad.
5th International conference on Science, "Engineering & Environment (SEE)", Bangkok, Thailand, Nov.11-13,2019.

Chairing sessions

5th International conference on “Science, Engineering & Environment (SEE)", Bangkok, Thailand, 11-13 November, 2019.
International Conference on "Land Slides and Slope Stability (SLOPE-2015)" 27-30 September, 2015, Bali, Indonesia.
International conference on "Innovations in Structural Engineering (IC-ISE2015)", 14-16 December, 2015. Org. by Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Miscellaneous:

Coordinator of Tree Plantations of 5000 siblings in Hyderabad Campus with the help of Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited, 10.01.2012.
Organized One-day workshop on Green Building Practices & Impact on Environments Performance (GBP&IEP-2010), 23rd October, 2010 at BITS, Hyderabad Campus.

New web tools designed for research

New webtools designed in our lab for research that are being made available online

1. M1GS Target site finder:

An automated tool that predicts all the best possible target RNA sites for M1GS, an engineered bacterial ribozyme used to cleave any RNA of interest as a gene knockdown or reverse-genetic tool across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. It takes into consideration the secondary structure of RNA molecules predicted by RNAWebserver in combination with requirements of M1GS for binding and cleavage of the target RNA.

Web Link: http://navinbiotools.in/m1gs/

2. Primer design tool:

A custom-made primer design tool that upon submitting a query DNA sequence and specific set parameters, provides a list of all the best possible forward and reverse primers in the form of an excel sheet. It uses the APIs provided by Integrated DNA technologies to calculate the physical properties of different primers.

Web Link: http://navinbiotools.in/pdt/

Both the tools were designed by Navin Chandra VP (Former M.Sc. Biological Sciences student of BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus and a Project Fellow in our lab).

Research Interest

GM lab focuses on the following research areas

Epigenetic regulation of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene regulation and genomic instability in plants.

For this topic, we mainly use Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system, but we are extending our studies to rice (Oryza sativa) model system.

Funding:

DST-SERB, Government of India,

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus

(Several hundred lines of Arabidopsis and gene constructs received as Kind Gift from the laboratory of Prof. Craig S. Pikaard, Hughes Medical Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.)

Relevant publications (GM as first or coauthor or corresponding author):

Gireesha Mohannath*, Anastasia McKinlay^#, Navinchandra Venkata Puppala^#, Ramya Enganti^#, Gargi Prasad Saradadevi^#, Todd Blevins and Craig S. Pikaard*. DNA hypermethylation and condensed chromatin correlate with chromosome-specific rRNA gene silencing in Arabidopsis.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.03.526984v1

(* Corresponding author; # equal contribution)

Gargi Prasad Saradadevi^#, Dalen Fultz^#, Murali Krishna Ramgopal^#, Abirami T. Subramanian, Gerin Prince, Vivek Thakur, and Gireesha Mohannath*. (2023). Structural variation among assembled genomes facilitates development of rapid and low-cost NOR-linked markers and NOR-telomere junction mapping in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Reports 42, 1059-1069.

(*Corresponding author;#equal contribution)

Gargi Prasad Saradadevi, Abirami T. Subramanian^#, Shryli Kedambadi Shreekar^#, and Gireesha Mohannath*. (2023). Characterization of a new histone deacetylase 6 (hda6-11) mutant allele in Arabidopsis thaliana.Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. (2023). DOI:10.1007/s13562-023-00831-7.

(*Corresponding author; # equal contribution)

Gargi Prasad Saradadevi#., Neha Priyadarshini#, Aveepsha Bera# and Gireesha Mohannath*.(2020). Together we are on; together we are off- A conserved rule for ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene regulation? Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 29(4):743-753.

(* Corresponding author; # equal contribution)

Gireesha Mohannath, Frederic Pontvianne and Craig S. Pikaard. (2016). Selective nucleolus organizer inactivation in Arabidopsis is a chromosomal position-effect phenomenon. (2016). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA137(47): 13426-13431.
Chinmayi Chandrasekhara, Gireesha Mohannath, Todd Blevins, Frederic Pontvianne and Craig S. Pikaard. (2016). Chromosome-specific NOR inactivation accounts for selective rRNA gene silencing and dosage control in Arabidopsis. Genes & Development 30:177-190.

- Highlighted as an “Editor’s Choice” in the journal Science. For rRNAs, its location, location, location. Science, 22 Jan 2016: Vol. 351, Issue 6271, pp. 351.

- Recommended by Faculty 1000 (interesting hypothesis): Renate Schmidt, F1000, 2016: DOI: 10.3410/f.726063326.793521106.

- Highlighted as ‘NORs as units of rRNA gene regulation’ in: McStay B. (2016).Nucleolar organizer regions: genomic ‘dark matter’ requiring illumination. Genes & Development 30:1598-1610.

Gireesha Mohannath* and Craig S. Pikaard. (2016). Analysis of rRNA Gene Methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana by CHEF-conventional 2D Gel Electrophoresis. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, NJ) 1455: 183-202.

(* Corresponding author)

Epigenetic and epigenomic approaches to improve crop plants:

For this topic, we are mainly working on rice (Oryza sativa) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Funding

DST-SERB, Government of India,

DBT, Government of India

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus

Relevant publications: (GM as corresponding author):

Gargi Prasad Saradadevi#, Debajit Das#, Satendra K. Mangrauthia#, Sridev Mohapatra#, Channakeshavaiah Chikkaputtaiah#, Manish Roorkiwal#, Manish Solanki, Raman Meenakshi Sundaram, C.N.Neeraja, Akshay S. Sakhare, Suneetha Kota*, Rajeev K Varshney,*, and Gireesha Mohannath*. (2021). Genetic, epigenetic, and genomic approaches to enhance salt tolerance of plants.Biology 10, 1255

(* Corresponding author; # equal contribution)

- The article has been selected as one of the excellent articles published in Biology during November-December 2021

- The article has been published as part of the Special Issue 'Crop Improvement Now and Beyond'.

Molecular breeding and genomic approaches to improve rice yield under low nitrogen conditions

For this topic, we are mainly working on rice (Oryza sativa). If successful, the findings can be extended to other cereals/millets that are evolutionarily more related to rice plants.

Funding

ICAR-NASF, Government of India

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus

Regulation of rRNA genes in Oral/head and neck cancer.

Funding agencies:

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus

Relevant publications:

Neha Priyadarshini^#, Navinchandra Venkatarama Puppala^#, Jayasree Peroth Jayaprakash, Piyush Khandelia, Vivek Sharma, and Gireesha Mohannath*. (2023). Downregulation of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes in human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cells is linked to rDNA promoter hypermethylation. Gene. Sep 9:147793. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2023.147793.

(* Corresponding author; # equal contribution)

Antiviral defense and cellular stress response in plants

For this topic, we mainly work on Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana benthamiana as model systems.

Funding agencies:

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus

(Several gene constructs received as kind Gift from the laboratory of Prof. David M. Bisaro, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, USA)

Relevant publications (GM as first or coauthor):

Aaron N. Bruns*, Sizhun Li*, Gireesha Mohannath and David M. Bisaro. (2019). Phosphorylation of Arabidopsis eIF4E and eIFiso4E by SnRK1 Inhibits Translation. FEBS Journal. 286(19): 3778-3796.

(*Equal contribution)

- Highlighted as the Editor’s choice (2019) FEBS Journal. 286 (19).

- Highlighted in the commentary article: Miller and Dinesh-Kumar. 'A new mechanism for translational control in plants'. (2019) FEBS Journal. 286(19): 3775-3777.

Gireesha Mohannath, Jamie Wolf, Hui Wang, Cody Buchman, Veena Patil, Youn Lee, Allie Varner and David M. Bisaro. (2014). A complex containing SNF1-related kinase (SnRK1) and adenosine kinase (ADK) in Arabidopsis. PLoS One. 9(1):e87592.
Cody Buchmann, Shaheen Asad, Jamie N. Wolf, Gireesha Mohannath, and David M. Bisaro. (2009). Geminivirus AL2 and L2 proteins suppress transcriptional gene silencing and cause genome-wide reductions in cytosine methylation. Journal of Virology. 83(10): 5005-5013.

- Highlighted by the Editors of Journal of Virology in the ‘Spotlight’ section of the journal: Geminivirus Proteins Suppress Transcriptional Gene Silencing and Methylation. (2009). Journal of Virology p.4717.

To Explore multiple molecular biology tools for basic and translational research

Various molecular biology tools being explored for different purposes:

Tool: TRBO, an engineered Tobacco Mosaic Virus-based breakthrough technology vector system to highly overexpress proteins (in transient manner) of interest using a rapid and low-cost plant system.

Purpose:

To enhance genome editing efficiency
To overexpress/oral feeding of proteins of therapeutic interest

iii. To overexpress proteins for purification and analysis (enzyme analysis, proteomics, etc)

Tool: M1GS an engineered bacterial ribozyme, as a RNA-cleaving/reverse-genetic tool

Purpose:

To develop as a novel anti-cancer modality by downregulation of rRNA genes in cancer cells
To establish this tool as a reverse-genetic tool in plants

Tool: Inhibitors of epigenetic modifiers

Purpose:

To improve genome-editing efficiency
To improve rates of mutagenesis

Tool: RNA mimics of GFP

Purpose:

To develop a new virus (RNA)-detecting tool
To establish this system in plants

Funding agencies:

ICMR, Government of India

DBT, Government of India

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus

(Several M1GS constructs received as kind Gift from the laboratory of Prof. Venkat Gopalan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, USA)

Relevant publications (GM as corresponding or coauthor)

Shifa Bushra Kotwal#, Nidhi Orekondey#, Gargi Prasad Saradadevi#, Neha Priyadarshini#, Navinchandra V. Puppala#, Mahak Bhushan, Snehasri Motamarry, Rahul Kumar, Gireesha Mohannath* & Ruchi Jain Dey*. (2023). Multidimensional futuristic approaches to address the pandemics beyond the COVID-19. Heliyon (Cell Press) 9 e17148.

(*Corresponding authors; # equal contribution)

Navinchandra Puppala, Purnima D*, Gireesha Mohannath. (2022). Recent advances in the use of Nanocellulose and Nanolignin in the delivery of biological and non-biological rugs: A review.Cellulose 30: 1334-1354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-022-04977-w

(* Corresponding author)

Research Interest

Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Institutional Economics

Social Contribution

Details of philanthropric work

Senior volunteer for Association for India's Development (AID) on behalf of the Morgantown chapter

(presided 2011-2012, now serving as mentor and project co-ordinator).

Served as coordinator and assisted in raising funds for the following projects:

1. Maternal and Neonatal healthcare in the slums of Nagpur (Amhi Amachya Arogyasathi)

[2012-2014, raising and supporting $4478 worth of funds over 2 years]

https://aidindia.org/amhi-amchya-arogyasaathi/

2. Berabhenge School at Amlasole, West Bengal for the underprivileged (in association with the Micro Centre For Community Development And Research)

[2013-2016, raising and supporting $9974 worth of funds over 4 years]

https://suzyexpress.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/soul-of-amlasole/

3. Agrarian Crisis for Farmers in Andhra and Telengana (in assoc. with the Vanasiri Rural Development Society)

[2016-18, raising and supporting $6558 worth of funds over 2 years].

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/Y3Fp6CcumJhRIEwl2WeUMM/Agrarian-crisis-the-challenge-of-a-small-farmer-economy.html

4. Begum Rokeya Academy School in Jharkhand catering to the villages on the border of WB and Jharkand with emphasis on tribal women (in assoc. with Mohammed Bazar Backward Classes Development Society)

[2016-2018, raising and supporting $4350 worth of funds over 2 years]

https://aidindia.org/creating-livelihood-opportunities-west-bengal/

5. Agariya - Solar Pumps in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat

[2016-17, raising and supporting $2500 worth of funds for 1 year].

https://aidindia.org/agariya-solar-pumps/

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/anjali-jaiswal/solar-pumps-help-indian-women-salt-workers-escape-poverty

Other Information

Membership of Societies

Life Member of :

1. American Society for Microbiology (ASM)-since 2013

2. Society of Biological Chemist (SBC), India- since 2008

3. Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI)- since 2009

4. Life Member of Probiotic Association of India (PAI)-since 2017

5. Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility- since 2021

6. Society for Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology- Since 2021

Department and Institutional Contributions

Over the past 6 years, I have had the privilege of serving the institution in various capacities, contributing to its growth and success. Here are some of my notable institutional contributions:

1. Streamlined ME thesis, RP allotment, QP/AK collection, and teaching duty allocation as the DCA convener (2 years, 2020-2022). Developed mechanisms to ensure timely collection, review, and submission of handouts, promoting uniformity, speed, accuracy, and transparency in academic processes.

2. Engaged as a DCA member for 6 years (2017-2023), actively participating in institutional decision-making and contributing to the development of academic policies and initiatives.

3. Contributed to the faculty screening process as a member of the DLSC and served as an interview panelist, ensuring the selection of highly qualified individuals to join the institution.

4. Currently serving as a member of the Space and Budget committee of the Department of Biological Sciences (from 2023 onwards). Identifying space, infrastructure, and budget requirements, and providing solutions to bridge gaps and address needs promptly.

5. Actively involved in the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee, assessing animal study protocols to protect animal rights and promote efficient study design. Utilized expertise in animal models, biosecurity, and biosafety to enhance ethical practices and knowledge within the institution.

6. Organized and participated in various events such as Synapsis, conferences, international talks, and science outreach talks in colleges, promoting knowledge sharing and fostering academic engagement.

7. Served as a core member of the team of examiners for PhD entrance, interviews, and qualifying exams, ensuring fair and rigorous evaluation of candidates.

8. Fulfilling BITSAT duties, including question paper preparation and moderation, contributing to the smooth conduct of the examination since 2017.

9. As the convener of the Department Welfare Committee in 2021, worked closely with scholars and faculty members to identify infrastructure needs and communicate them to the relevant authorities, facilitating the department's growth.

10. Actively involved as a core team member in designing an ERP-based grant management system, collaborating with the SRCD and accounts departments to streamline processes such as UC/SOE/ZBSA.

11. Led the project and course curriculum design for the Indo-Franco Campus application jointly submitted by BITS campuses, fostering international collaborations and academic partnerships.

12. Engaged as a Scientific Organizing Committee Member for the Society for Biological Chemist Conference to be held in BITS Goa, contributing to the organization and success of the event.

13. Served as a member of the Science Steering Committee of the Department of Biological Sciences, responsible for coordinating multiple teams within the department, other departments within the institute, and external institutions to secure multi-crore national and international grants.

14. Actively involved in networking with postdoctoral researchers and talented candidates at national and international conferences and events, encouraging them to consider applying to BITS Pilani (all campuses) for future faculty positions.

15. Established connections with funding agencies, funders, and institutions in India and abroad, aiming to attract significant national and international grants to support the institution's research and development initiatives.

Major Consultancy Activities (At BITS, Pilani – Pilani and Hyderabad Campuses)

• One of the coordinators for the consultancy on testing VG, PMB, PG grades of bitumen samples along with bitumen emulsions for Bitumen Corporation India Pvt Limited, Mumbai. Duration: November – December 2021. Consultancy Amount: Rs. 1,18,000

• One of the coordinators for the consultancy on repair of rain damaged stabilized Wet Mix Macadam (WMM) layer near Lucknow, Basti, UP., sponsored by M/s. P.P. Pandey Infrastructure Private Limited, Lucknow. Duration: January 2020 - February 2020. Consultancy amount: Rs. 47,200

• One of the coordinators for the major consultancy activity of testing of soil for Palamuru RangaReddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) and Dindi Lift Irrigation Scheme (DLIS) projects, sponsored by M/s. Palamuru RangaReddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS), Irrigation Department, Telangana State, during October 2016 - September 2019. Consultancy Amount: Rs. 81,96,000

• One of the coordinators for the consultancy on Bitumen & Aggregate Testing, sponsored by M/s. Ashoka Buildcon, Nashik., Duration: August 2018 - October 2018, Consultancy amount: Rs. 51,000

• Team member for proof checking of bridges., sponsored by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services., Duration: August 2017 - November 2017. Consultancy Amount: Rs. 11,21,000

• One of the coordinators for the laboratory testing of aggregate, sponsored by M/s. Palamuru RangaReddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS), Irrigation Department, Telangana State., Duration: August 2017- October 2017. Consultancy Amount: Rs. 1,29,800

• One of the coordinators for the testing of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) material for use in bituminous mixtures, sponsored by M/s. Ashoka Buildcon, Nashik., during July 2017 to August 2017, Consultancy Amount: Rs. 27,750

• Member of State Technical Agency and Principal Technical Agency for the PMGSY program at the Department of Civil Engineering, BITS, Pilani, Pilani campus during 2005 to 2008 and scrutinizing the large number of village road proposals from technical as well as financial points of view on prorate basis. (This is a process which was carried out for 2.5 years and the total worth of the project is available with Pilani campus).

• Coordinator along with Prof. AK Sarkar, BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus for a series of 7-one-week training programmes at BITS Pilani - Pilani campus during 2005 to 2006 for the Panchayat Raj Engineers (35 engineers per each session) working for PMGSY project roads in the states of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab. Delivered many theoretical and practical training sessions along with other experts during these programmes. Project Cost:

7 (programmes) x 35 (participants) x 7 (days) x 1500 (cost per day per participant) =

Rs. 25,72,500

• Team member for estimating the Safe Bearing Capacity (SBC) for a number of sites in the state of Rajasthan (both field and laboratory investigations) – During 2005 to 2008

• Played a major role in signing an MoU with Govt. of Haryana for third party checking of works in a few districts of Haryana, which again is a continuous consulting process – During 2005 – 2008)

• Carried out large scale experimental investigations on Renolith, a product suggested by NRRDA, Govt. of India for soil improvement on a consultancy basis for use in rural roads on a consultancy basis

In addition to the above, actively participated as a team member in many small consultancy activities at Pilani campus (Safe bearing Capacity of Soil, water tank evaluations etc) and also in Hyderabad Campus (Aggregate and bitumen testing)

Consultancy Activities (At NIT, Warangal)

Study Team Member for the following Feasibility Studies

• "Feasibility Study for a Proposed Expressway on Hyderabad - Vijayawada Link on B-O-T Basis", sponsored by M/s HUDA, Rao & Rao during May, 1995.

• World Bank III National Highway Project on "Traffic Projections on Major District Road from Tiruchirapalli to Madurai via Melur" as a part of feasibility study for converting the existing MDR into National Highway during 1999.

• "Preparation of Feasibility and Detailed Project Report for Rehabilitation and Upgradation of NH7 Phase II Programme of North - South & East - West Corridors Project in India - Km 464/000 to Km 474/000 of Nagpur - Hyderabad & Km 10/000 to Km 22/300 of Hyderabad - Bangalore Sections" sponsored by M/s MC Consulting Engineers (p) Ltd., Hyderabad during 1999

• "Economic Feasibility of Raipur Bypass Road" sponsored by M/s Capital Fortunes Limited, Hyderabad during October 2000 to February 2001.

• "Feasibility study of Group C Bond Roads in Madhya Pradesh" sponsored by M/s Capital Fortunes Ltd., Hyderabad during March 20001 to June, 2001

• “Feasibility of Chhattisgarh Roads” during March 2002 to July 2002

• “Feasibility of Flyovers in Vijayawada city” sponsored by VGTM, UDA, Vijayawada during July 2002 (Ongoing)

Study Team Member for the following Highways & Pavement Investigation Studies

• “Checking the Design of Rigid Pavement for Extended Apron for Hyderabad Airport" for Airport Authority of India, Hyderabad during November - December 2000."Investigation of Accident Prone Haul Roads in the open coal mines near Ramagundam" sponsored by M/s Singareni Collieries Ltd. during March, 2001

• “Investigation of the damages caused to the pavement on Narketpally - Addanki Highway (APSH2 Project)” on behalf of General Insurance Corporation during December 2000 - January 2001 (A case study of CRB base course failure). Check measuring selected village roads, CD works, bunds etc. constructed under Food for Work Programme carried out by the Panchayat Raj Department of Govt. of Andhra Pradesh in Warangal district during April, May 2002.

• World Bank Sponsored Consultancy Project on Benkelman Beam Deflection and Bump Integrator Studies on Gudihutnoor Palakollu Road" in association with M/s STUP Consultants, New Delhi during 1995-’96

• Several consultancy projects on "Road Unevenness Studies” Viz. covering several National, State highways both within and outside the state of Andhra Pradesh

• Pavement Investigations Carried-out at the Food Corporation of India, Kazipet during June – July 2002, sponsored by the Food Corporation of India, Kazipet.

Study Team Member for the following Traffic Engineering & Other Related Studies

• "Hyderabad Area Transportation Study - Database Studies (DB-HATS II)", sponsored by Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA), Hyderabad, conducted by the Centre for Transportation Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Warangal during 1998-'99.

• "Tirupati Area Transportation Studies - Traffic Improvement Plans for Tirupati Town" taken up at Tirupati, sponsored by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, Tirupati and Organised by the Centre for Transportation Engineering, REC, Warangal during 1996 and 1998.

• Parking Studies at Tirumala", sponsored by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, Tirupati during 1999.

• “Demand Estimation for Hyderabad Sub-Urban Rail Passenger Travel", sponsored by the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA), Hyderabad during 1999.

• Fly-over usage and Opinion Surveys at Hyderabad", sponsored by Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA), Hyderabad during 1999.

• Axle Load Spectrum Studies on several locations viz. Visakhapatnam - Itchpuram Highway (NH5), at Eluru on National Highway 5, on East Coast Road between Chennai and Mahabalipuram.

Study Team Member for Other Civil Engineering Related Studies

• Many In-situ, destructive and non-destructive flexible and rigid pavement investigations in the states of AP and TN

• Bump Integrator, Benkelman Beam, DIPSTICK, Axle Load Spectrum Studies, Field CBR investigations on many Expressways, National and State Highways in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India

• Investigating the failures on the taxiway and runway of Hyderabad airport and redesigning the taxiway and runways along with the team of Prof. S. Raghava Chari, Prof. N V Rama Murthy and Prof. V Ramana Murthy, NIT Warangal during 2002 to 2004

• Structural design of Necklace Road in Hyderabad along with the team of Prof. Raghava Chari, Prof. N V Rama Murthy and Prof. B P Chandrasekhar, NIT Warangal, sponsored by HUDA, Hyderabad

• Actively participated in routine consultancy activities of the Group and also did exclusive works like design of Intersections, black spot analysis for accident prone areas with other faculty members

Special Studies

• Member of State Technical Agency for the PMGSY program at the Transportation Division of Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal during 2001-2004 and scrutinizing the road proposals from technical as well as financial points of view for the PMGSY roads proposed in the state of Andhra Pradesh

• Resource Person for a series of one-week training programmes at National Institute of Technology, Warangal during the year 2003 to 2004 for the Panchayat Raj Engineers (35 engineers per each session) working for PMGSY project roads in the state Andhra Pradesh. Delivered many lectures along with other experts during these programmes

• Coordinator for a series of many one-week training programmes at Engineering Staff College of India, Gachibowli, Hyderabad during the year 2004 for the Panchayat Raj Engineers (35 engineers per each session) working for PMGSY project roads in the state Andhra Pradesh. Delivered many theoretical and practical training sessions along with other experts during these programmes

Professional Activities

Peer review activities

· No of papers reviewed for international journals: more than 30

· Recipient of “certificate of outstanding contribution in reviewing” from Elsevier

Ph. D theses examined

1. Experimental investigations of heat transfer improvement in tractor radiator with metal oxide form of nano fluid. R. Ravisankar, Supervisor; VSK Venkatachalapathy, Department of mechanical engineering, Pondicherry engineering college, Puducherry, October 2018.

2. Studies on the enhancement of productivity in double slope solar still. S. Karthikeyan, Supervisor; N. Alagumurthi, Department of mechanical engineering, Pondicherry engineering college, Puducherry, September, 2018.

Facilities

Nanomagnetism Lab Facilities

DC Magnetron Sputtering Unit

Helmholtz Coil with Power Supply

Low Temperature Resistivity Measurement

Workstation for micromagnetic simulations

Central Facilities

Electron beam evaporator, XRD, SEM

Scientific Reviewer

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing: Applied Physics Letters.
Nature Portfolio: Scientific Reports.
IoP Publishing: Journal of Physics: D.
IoP Publishing: Physica Scripta.

ORCID

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Brief

Dr. Upendra Mohan Bhatt did his Ph.D. in Microelectronics and VLSI from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, in 2020.
He has been offered a Post-Doctoral research fellowship by the Institute of Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering, Semiconductor Test and Reliability, at the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, in 2021.
He has worked as a Co-Op with Applied Materials Inc., Gloucester, Massachusetts (MA), USA.
His key publications include 3 research publications in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and a conference paper in the Solid State Device and Materials (SSDM) International Conference conducted at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Seminars, Workshops Attended

Online course on Leadership in City-wide Inclusive Sanitation conducted by Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) offered from 05 March 2022 - 14 May 2022
Faculty Development Programme on"Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM)" from 09.12.2021 to 11.12.2021 Conducted by ASCI, Hyderabad.
Two-day Online Workshop Energy Plus and Design Builder: Building Energy Simulation Workshop by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) on 10 and 11th December 2020.
Online training programme on "Sustainability Commitment in Educational Campuses" was conducted by CSE on July 16th-17th, 2020.
One day workshop on planning and delivering flipped classes using MOOC platforms was conducted at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, on Friday, 10 July 2015.
Participated in Faculty Development Workshop(FDW) 2015 - An initiative of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Society of Knowledge Networks held on 7th and 8th February 2015.
Two-day Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on 15th and 16th November 2014 at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa.
Participated in Faculty Design Workshop for faculty as part of Technology Entrepreneurship Programme - An initiative of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Society of Knowledge Networks held on 28th and 29th March 2014.
One-day workshop on Zero Liquid discharge – Adaptability and impact on chemical, pharmaceutical and Bulk drug companies conducted by Jeedimetla Effluent Treatment Ltd ( JETL), Hyderabad at Hyderabad on November 30, 2013.
Anthropogenic impacts on water resources and soils: An Indo-French perspective at Bangalore 23-27 November 2009.
National Seminar on Forest, Water and People, 29-30th July 2004. NIH Belgaum.
International Conference on Hydrology and Watershed Management organised by Centre for Water Resources, JNTU Hyderabad from 18 -20 Dec 2002.
Work Shop on Environmental Issues, GRI, Gandhigram. Tamilnadu, 27- 28 April 2001.
Lake 2000-International Symposium of Lakes and Wetlands during November 27-29, 2000, at IISc Bangalore.
National Symposium on Remote Sensing Application for Natural Resources, ISRS - 1999, Bhubhaneshwar, held during March 22-24, 2000.
Conference on Current Environmental Status of Coimbatore District, held at PSG Arts College, Coimbatore. 1998

Workshops/Training Programmes/ Seminars/ Conferences Organized

Member, Organizing committee, Workshop on Research Methodology(2015) April 3-4, 2015, Organized by Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Hyderabad campus
Member, Organizing committee, One day National Seminar on“Indian Space Technology-Present and Future” (NSIST-2014), 1st May 2014, Organized by BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad
Member, Organizing committee, Workshop on Research Methodology (2015) April 11-12, 2014, Organized by Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Hyderabad campus.
Member, Organizing committee, National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Planning, Management and Impact of Climate Change April 5 - 6, 2013 Organized by Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Hyderabad campus.
Member, Organizing committee, Workshop on Recent Advances in Climate Modeling for Water Resources Planning and Management Organized by Centre of Excellence in Water Resources and Management (CEWRM) Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad November 19, 2011.

Administrative Appointments

At BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus

Current

Head of the Department, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. (Since 1st Oct 2020)

Past Appointments

In Charge, Students Activities Centre, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus ( January 2012 - Oct 2021)
Faculty In-Charge, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus(April 2011- July 2014; December 2015 - November 2020)
Department Faculty Representative, Placement, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2011-2013, December 2016 - Jan 2019)
Nucleus Member, Sponsored Research and Consulting Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2012 - 2018)
Member, Institute Purchase Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. (2017 - 2018)
Convenor, Departmental Research Committee, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (Oct. 2014 - Nov. 2016)
Practice School - I Instructor
- May - July 2016 Centre: Thiruvananthapuram
  - Centre for Development of Imaging Technologies, Kerala State Electronic Development Corporation
- May - July 2022 Centre: Online
  - Udaan, Bengaluru
  - Amara Raja - EPC, Hyderabad
  - Amara Raja Infra, Hyderabad
Non-residential warden, Gandhi Bhavan, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2011 - January 2015)
Faculty Placement Coordinator, Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2011-2013)
Faculty In-Charge, Geodesy Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2014 - December 2015)
Faculty Member Representative, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Technology Entrepreneurship Programme (TEP), An initiative of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Society of Knowledge Networks and various engineering colleges in AP September 2013 -2017)

Institutional contribution

017 (BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus)
2020: Station names: BPCL Mumbai refinery, BPCL Noida, IOCL Guwahati refinery)

BITSAT:

2023 HD BITSAT question preparation and moderation
2017 (BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus)
2014 (Guwahati centre, Assam)
2013 (Vishakhapatnam centre, Andhra Pradesh)
2012 (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus)

PS-1 Assignments:

2023: Station names: Hyderabad (Lightspeed photonics, Nirmann organization, T-HUB)
2020: Station names: BPCL Mumbai refinery, BPCL Noida, IOCL Guwahati refinery)
2018 Station name: Ab-inbev india ltd., Sangareddy, Telangana).
2018 as faculty co-instructor (Ramco cement, Jaggayapet and Vasant Chemical, Hyderabad)
2012: Station name: Kothagudem, Andhrapradesh)

OTHER MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

DPEC Chairperson (2024)
DCC member, (Aug-2021 to till date)
DLSC Chairperson, (Aug-2021 to till date)
DCA member, Dept of Chemical Engg, (Dce-2022 to till now)
DRC member, Dept of Chemical Engg, (Dce-2020 to Nov 2022)
HoD, Dept of Chemical Engg, (Oct-2016 to Sept-2020)
DRC Convener (Aug-2014 to Nov-2016)
DRC member (from Aug- 2012 to July 2014)
Convener of occupational hazard and health safety committee for Hyderabad campus (Nov 2014 to Oct 2016).
Convener of departmental committee of academics (August 2012 to August 2014)
NRW for Ram Bhavan (from Feb- 2014 to Jun- 2017)
Co-convener of national conference ICE-2013
Organizing member of Indian Space Technology-Present and Future” (NSIST-2014)

Project/Workshop Funding:

5G Lab.
Sponsor: TCIL, Government of India, 2023
Sanctioned Amount: = Rs. 71.25 Lakhs (TCIL) + 14.25 Lakhs (BITS, Pilani) = Rs. 85.5 Lakhs
RobustXAI-MalDetect: Adversarially Robust and Explainable Artificial Intelligence based Malware Detection System.
Sponsor: NCoE-DSCI, 2023
Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 5.9 Lakhs
OptimusPrime: Transformer for Security.
Sponsor: SKM-2019
Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 2.5 Lakhs
US-India collaborative Working Group on Secure Digital Financial Payment Systems and Financial Inclusion.
Sponsor: IUSSTF (IUSSTF/AUG/WS/162/2019)
Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 10 Lakhs
Neutron Stars as a Source of Potential Continuous Gravitational Wave Emitter.
Sponsor: BRNS, 2013-2016
Sanctioned Amount: 18 Lakhs
Workshop on Gravitational Wave Data Analysis.
Sponsor: IUCAA, 2012
Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 4,30,450/-

Employments

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, India(March 2023 - Continuing).
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, India(July 2018 - February 2023).
Lecturer/Assistant Professor (I/II), Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, India (January 2006 - June 2018).
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Wise Observatory, Tel Aviv University, Israel (March 2005 - December 2005).
Project Associate (ASTROSAT), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India(August 2003 - February 2005).
Project Scientist, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India(March 2002 - July 2003).
Junior/Senior Research Fellow, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India (1997 - 2001).

Administration

Faculty In-charge, Computer Centre (Jan. 2023 - Continuing).
Hostel Warden (Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2022).
Practice School-I Instructor, Hyderabad (2021), Pune (2019, 2015, 2014 and 2013), Goa (2011 and 2017), Bokaro (2010).
Department Research Committee Memeber (2014 - 2017, 2019 - 2022).
BITSAT, May 2006 and 2007, Goa.
Developed new course title "Mathematical Foundations in Computer Science (Study in Advanced Topics) for the Pre-PhD students, 2017.
Instiute level member of the Anti Ragging Committee and anti Ragging squads (2014 - Continuing).
Mess Committee Member (2016 - 2017 and 2018 - 2019).
Library Committee Member (Dec. 2013 - Dec. 2014).
Member/Convener of the Departmental Committee on Academics (2014-2016, 2018- 2019, 2019-2023).
Co-ordinated/Mediated for Practice School-I station at IUCAA, Pune, 2012.
Cross-campus committee member to redefine the curriculum of B.S. and M.S. Programmes related to CS & IS in order to provide options for students with different level of educations, 2014.
Cross-campus committee member for the classification (Tier-I/II/II) of the HPC journals and conferences, 2014.
Member of Website Monitoring Committee of the BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 2012.
Academic Registration and Counselling (Registration of students).

Memberships/Expert

Expert for the recruitment of Assistant and Associate Professor, NFSU, Goa Campus, December 2023.
Expert for the recruitment of Assistant and Associate Professor, NFSU, Goa Campus, September 2023.
Expert for the recruitment of Assistant and Associate Professor, Angel Institute of Technology and Design, Assagoa, Goa, August 2023.
Expert for the recruitment of Assistant and Associate Professor, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Goa, July, 2023.
Panellist, Impact of 5G Technology on Financial Fraud, Goa Police Ideathon held at BITS, Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Dec. 23, 2022.
Expert for the recruitment of Assistant Professor, Angel Institute of Technology and Design, Assagoa, Goa, October, 2022.
Technical program committee, DFRWS-2022, USA, July 11 - 14, 2022.
Expert for the recruitment of Assistant Professor, Angel Institute of Technology and Design, Assagoa, Goa, October 12, 2022.
Technical program committee, International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in the Artificial Intelligence Era, The University of Texas at San Antonio, October 08 - 09, 2021.
Global advisory board, RAF Global, a non-denominational, not-for-profit international organization committed to improve the quality of life primarily in Africa and Asia.
Technical program committee, International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Artificial Intelligence Era, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, December 21 - 22, 2019.
Institute Co-ordinator, Regional Academic Centre for Space, Joint Venture of MNIT Jaipur and ISRO, Bangalore.
Technical program committee, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference (AICCC 2018), 21-23 December, 2018, Tokyo, Japan.
National Advisory Board, International Conference on Chip, Circuitry, Current, Coding, Combustion and Composites (I7C), 16-17, Nov. 2017, Sri SaiRam College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India.
Technical program committee, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, 13-16 Sept. 2017, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India.
Technical program committee, International Conference on Data Science Analytics and Applications (DaSAA 2016), 7-9, Dec. 2016, Chennai, India.
Technical program committee, Third International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI-2015), Aug. 10-13, 2015, Kochi, India.
International Scientific Board, 6th World Conference on Information Technology, 30 Aug. - 01 September 2015, Las Vegas, USA.
Member of the Indian Gravitational Wave Observatory Consortium.
Professional Member, Association for Computing Machinery, No. 1575867, 2015-16.
Local Committee Member, Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Telescope, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla, Goa Campus.

Books

Secure Knowledge Management In The Artificial Intelligence Era, Proceedings, 9th International Conference, SKM 2021, San Antonio, TX, USA, October 8–9, 2021.
Editors: Ram Krishnan, H. Raghav Rao, Sanjay K. Sahay, Sagar Samtani and Ziming Zhao
Publisher: Springer, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2022.
ISBN: 978-3-030-97532-6

Special issue on Advances in Secure Knowledge Management in the Artificial Intelligence Era.
Editors: Sanjay K Sahay, Nihita Goel, Murtuza Jadliwala and Shambhu Upadhyaya
Publisher: Springer, Information Systems Frontiers, 2021.
ISSN: 1387-3326

Secure Knowledge Management In Artificial Intelligence Era, Proceedings, 8th International Conference, SKM 2019, Goa, India, December 21–22, 2019.
Editors: Sanjay K. Sahay, Nihita Goel, Vishwas Patil and Murtuza Jadliwala
Publisher: Springer, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2020.
ISBN: 978-981-15-3816-2

Data Analysis of Gravitational Waves
Author: Sanjay K. Sahay
Publisher: Svenska fysikarkivet, Stockholm, 2008
ISBN: 978-91-85917-05-1118

Visits

- Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Pune, India.
  [May 20 -June 21, 2019, July 01 - 15, 2019, June 02 - 17, 2018, Mar. 05 - 11, 2018; Dec. 21 - 30, 2016; 19 May - 17 July 2015; 18 May - 19 July 2014; 15 Dec. 2013 - 08 Jan. 2014; 19 May - 15 July 2013; 11 - 18 Nov. 2012; 17 - 27 Dec. 2011; 17 - 21 Oct. 2011; 16 June - 05 July 2009; 30 June - 14 July 2007; 19 - 25 Nov. 2006; 07 Feb. - 15 April 2001; 22 June - 22 Aug. 2000; 02 Feb. - 19 Mar. 2000; 08 - 26 Dec. 1999; 01 July - 27 Aug. 1998; 20 Jan. - 19 Mar. 1998; 09 Aug. - 30 Sept. 1997.]

- Invited to visit, Louisiana State University, USA, <span "="">Mar. 08 - 14, 2004.

- Raman Research Institute,, Bangalore, India, <span "="">Mar. 09 - 14, 2003.
- Centre for Theoretical Studies, I.I.T. Kharagpur, India, <span "="">Sept. 20 - 30, 2000.

Student corner – SKA Activities

Few interesting videos -

1. Can machine think? R. Feynman (click)

2. Knowing versus understanding. R. feynman (click)

3. Secret of Concentration. Swami Sarvapriyananda (click)

4. Positive psychology. Seligman (click)

5. Secret of happiness. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (click)

Semester 2, 2021-2022

Students who are interested to work on project problems in Semester 2, 2021-22, are requested to fill the google form (click here) on or before 20th November 2021.
List of students selected for Project type course- Semester II, 2021-22 (click here) (NEW)

Project topics:

1. Machine Learning and Neutron star Equation of State

2. Deep learning for gravitational wave forecasting of neutron star mergers

3. Bose-Einstein condensation through machine learning

4. Machine Learning for the solution of Schrodinger Equation

5. Convolutional Neural Network and direct detection of dark matter

6. Machine Learning Applied to the Reionization History of the Universe in the 21 cm Signal

7. Quantum Potential prediction using Deep Neural Network

Semester 1, 2021-2022

NEW: List of students who may work under my supervision in Semester 1, 2021-22 after getting registered into project type courses is available here.

Area of Study Project Problems

Astronomy & Astrophysics

1. The cradle of life: Astro-biology

2. Extraterrestrial Intelligence

3. Cosmology expansion rate measurement

4. Nature of Dark Matter

5. Cosmology(acceleration) with Dark Energy

6. Gravitational lensing

7. Gravitational wave in Astronomy

8. Hydrogen-I science in cosmology

9. Re-ionisation problem

10. Transient universe

11. Supernovae and its remnants

12. Pulsar science

13. Angular momentum in cosmology

14. Galaxy formation and Dark Matter

15. Radio-Astronomy

16. The world as viewed by HST

Computer Projects

1. GEAS(General Education Astronomy Source) project

UG Thesis problems:

High Energy Physics:

After the discovery of Higgs particle (also known as GOD particle) at Large Hadron Collider@CERN on 4th July,2012, the next question now people are asking: what's next? Is there anything beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics? Is there any kind of New Physics. If yes, how it looks like and how to probe this. Can one test these ideas in high energy colliders e.g. proton-proton Large Hadron Collider, electron-positron Linear Collider?

Problem: Searching for New Physics signatures at high energy electron - positron linear collider.

Prerequisites: Understanding of Special Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and familiarity with the basics of Particle Physics.

Astrophysics:

In 1987 the core collapse supernova (SN1987A) was observed in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The total energy emitted in SN1987A explosion was larger than that by 10 billion Suns. The kinetic energy of the explosion carries about 1% of the gravitational binding energy of about ergs and the remaining 99% going into neutrinos.

Now the numerical neutrino light curves can be compared with the SN1987A data where the measured energies are found to be “too low”.It is remain unclear whether this anomaly is due to a statistical problem or whether there is some New Physics.

Problem: Constraining new physics from supernova, relic density constraint

Prerequisites: Special Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Particle Physics. Some familiarity with Quantum Field Theory may be useful.

To know more about my research work and my group, click here.

SKA India: BITS Goa student activities: Recently, Five students from BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa campus working in the Radio Telescope project under the leadership of Dr. P K Das took part in the event Vigyan Samagam 2019. They conducted two session (i) Astro Quiz and (ii) Radio Telescope making workshop during the SKA week (17th - 23rd June, 2019). A complete report for this is available here (click).

Exploring the Universe with the world’s largest telescope

What is SKA?
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international project to build a radio telescope tens of times more sensitive and hundreds of times faster at mapping the sky than today’s best radio astronomy facilities. Simply put: the world’s largest game changer radio telescope. It is not a single telescope, but a collection of various types of antennas, called an array, to be spread over long distances.
What are the Objectives of the SKA project?
The SKA will be used to advance humanity’s knowledge. Its primary objectives are

(a) To answer fundamental questions of science of nature, such as

1. How did the Universe, and the stars and galaxies contained in it, form and evolve?
2. What is the nature of ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’
3. Is there life somewhere else in the Universe?

(b) The SKA will collect and process vast amounts of data and will stimulate cutting-edge advances in high-performance computing and Big Data science – especially the processing, analysis and visualization of very large data sets.

Who is building the SKA telescope and what will be the cost of the project?
The SKA project is a international enterprise with currently 11 member countries (Australia, Canada, China, United Kingdom India, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, The Netherlands and India) forming the international SKA Organisation.100 research institutions and companies are involved in this SKA project. Its Headquarter is located in Jodrell Bank Observatory near Manchester, UK.

Project cost: The total cost of the project is 2 billion euros.

What is the SKA-India consortium?

To execute activities related to SKA projects in India, a SKA-India consortium has been formed. Under this consortium several Research Institutes, IITs, IISER, NISER, Universities of India come together for exploring, formulating, practicing and promoting activities related to the SKA project and its allied aspects.

Regular member of SKA-India consortium:

BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa campus has signed a MoU on 13th July,2016 to become a Regular Member of the SKA-India consortium.

Other Regular Members of this consortium includes TIFR, NCRA,RRI, IUCAA, IIA, IISc, SINP,PRL, IIT Kanpur, IISER, NISER, Delhi University, JMU, MGU, Presidency college, Kolkata etc to name a few.

Executive Council of SKA-India consortium:

The consortium has an Executive Council for executing and managing various activities of the Consortium.

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa campus has nominated Dr. PRASANTA KUMAR DAS, a faculty in the Department of Physics as the member of the Executive Council of the SKA-India consortium.

To track on the progress in SKA telescope project work browse the site maintained by SKA-IndiA(click)

Vigyan Samagam 2019: In order to highlight the value and impact of fundamental research to a broad cross-section of audience including students, academicians and industry, and to further strengthen India's participation in mega-science projects, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) are jointly organising a multi-venue mega-science exhibition, Vigyan Samagam 2019. Six major International/National projects (1) European Organisation for Nuclear Research (TMT) take part in this mega-science exhibition, Vigyan Samagam. LIGO),(6) Square Kilometer Array (SKA) and (7)Thirty Meter Telescope (CERN),(2) Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), (3) India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), (4)International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) (5) Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. A first-of-its-kind, Vigyan Samagam shall be hosted in a caravan mode at four major Indian cities as per the following schedule:

Mumbai - 8th May to 7th July, 2019

Bengaluru: 29th July to 28th September, 2019

Kolkata: 4th November to 31st December, 2019

Delhi: 21st January to 20th March, 2020

More details are available here: https://vigyansamagam.in/

SKA India: BITS Goa activities

Recently, Five students from BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa campus under the leadership of Dr. P K Das took part in the event VS-2019. They conducted two session (i) Astro Quiz and (ii) Radio Telescope making workshop during the SKA week (17th - 23rd June, 2019). A complete report for this is available here (click).

Lab photos

FACULTY PROFILE

Prof. Rabi Narayan Panda

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science

Pilani, K K Birla-Goa Campus, NH 17B Bypass Road, Zuarinagar 403726, GOA, INDIA

Phone: 0091-(0)8322580311(Office), 0091-9518984037(Mobile),

E-mail: rnp@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Google Scholar Link:

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=aqvgTqgAAAAJ&hl=en

[Educational Background]

Ph. D. in Chemistry (Broad Area: Solid State Chemistry and Nanomaterials) (1993-1998)

Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Ph. D. Thesis Title: Synthesis, Characterization, Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Transition Metal Nitrides

M. Sc. in Chemistry (Specialization: Physical Chemistry), (1991-1993)

School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Burla, Odisha, India.

[Employment Record]

Feb. 2015- xxxx, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India.

Feb. 2006-Feb. 2015, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India.

March 2005- Aug. 2005, Post doctoral researcher , Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,

Research Area: Microstructure and Magneto-transport Properties of Spintronic Materials

Nov, 2004-Mar, 2005, Post Doctoral, DST sponsored project, Indian Institute of technology, Kanpur, 208016, India.

Research Area: Synthesis and Properties study of Transition Metal Nitride

July, 2003-June 2004, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute of Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. (Now: KIT)

Research Area: Magnetism of Thiol-capped Co-Pt nano-particles.

May, 2002-April, 2003, Post doctoral, Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Plank Institute fur Kohlenforschung, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

Research Area: High Surface Area Mo and W based Nitride Materials: Materials Development and Catalysis

Sept., 2000-April, 2002, Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engg., National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Research Area: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties studies of Bio-Materials (HA) and Magnetic Nano-particles / Thin film (Metallic/Alloys/Ferrites)

Nov., 1999- Aug., 2000, Research Associate, Surface Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India.

Research Area: Surface Studies of Polymer thin film using AFM and GIXD technique.

July, 1998-Oct. 1999, Senior Project Associate, Department of Physics and Center for Laser Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Research Area: Photo-luminescence and Micro-Raman techniques for Diseased Tissue Diagnosis.

[Selected Accomplishments]

Development of citrate and borohydride routes for the synthesis of Fe based binary and ternary nitrides.
Development of a new ternary nitride, FeMoN₂.
Fabrication of soft magnetic materials with tunable magnetic properties (Fe-N and Fe-Ni-N systems).
Fabrication of Hard magnetic materials (Co based ferrites, Fe-Pt and CoCrPt based) for recording media applications.
Fabrication of Bio-compatible hydroxyapatite nano-materials and coatings on Si
Distinguishing malignant, benign and normal human breast tissues by laser optics.
Development of High surface area and porous Mo, W and V based nitride ceramics for the catalytic application.
Synthesis of Thiol capped Pt nano-particles.
Development of Urea route for synthesis of soft magnetic iron and cobalt nitrides.
Synthesis of transition Fe, Ni Co based metal and alloy nano-systems with core-shell structures.
Synthesis and characterization of coated semiconductor nano-crystals in colloidal and nano-crystalline form.
Development of newer chemical synthesis routes for synthesizing Fe-Pt, CoPt materials with high Coercive Force.
Synthesis of Fe and Co based nitrides by metal-ethylene diamine complex study on nanostructure(shape) dependent magnetism.

[Honors and Awards]

1991: B. Sc. (Chemistry Honors) 1^st class with distinction and 7^th rank in Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.

1991-1993: Recipient of National Scholarship during M. Sc.

1993: 1^st class with 4^th rank in M. Sc. (Chemistry) in Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.

1993: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engg. (GATE) conducted by IITS, India.

1994: Qualified National Eligibility Test(NET) in Chemical Science for teaching and research conducted jointly by UGC and CSIR, INDIA.

Sept. 2000- April, 2002, Recipient of post doctoral fellowship from National Science Council, Taiwan (Host: Department of Materials Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan).

July 2003-July 2004: Awarded Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, (Host: Institute of nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany)

Mar, 2005-Aug., 2005, Recipient of post doctoral fellowship from National Science Council, Taiwan (Host: Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan).

LIST of OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Major)

2012-13 : One Year : Library Member

2013-2018 (July): Nucleus Member, Academic Research Division (ARD).

2016 Jan-Dec : One Year : Library Member

2017 : NMD-ATM - 2017, Local Organizing Committe Member, IIM Goa Chapter

Summer Term: May - July, 2019 : Practice School(I), Domain of Interest: Biomedical Pharma/Diagnostic Lab

2019: Contribution in BITSAT related Task.

2022-2024: Departmental Research Committee(DRC) Member

Selected Professional / Invited Seminars

Invited seminar on “Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Binary and Ternary nitrides’’, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1999, India.
Invited Seminar on “ Magnetic Properties of Fe Based Binary and Ternary Materials”, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1999, Calcutta, India
Departmental Seminar on “Mossbauer and Magnetic Properties of Nitride materials”, at Department of Materials Science and Engg., National Tsing Hua University, (2001) Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Invited Seminar on “Magnetic Properties of Materials at Nano-Dimenssion” at Institute of nano-technology, Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe, 2002, Germany.
Departmental Seminar on “Synthesis and property study of materials at reduced dimension: A focus on catalytic application” at Max Plank Institute of Coal Research, Muelhein an der ruhr, Muelheim, 2002, Germany.
Invited Seminar on “ Properties of Materials at reduced dimension” at IIT Rookee, 2005, India.
Invited Talk on “Synthesis, Characterization, Magnetic, Electronic and Surface Properties of Materials at Reduced Dimension” at Dept. of Physics, Osmania University in connection with the International Conference on Recent trends in nanostructured Materials and their applications (ICRNM-2008), 19-20 Dec., 2008.
Invited Talk on “Synthesis and property study of transition metal nitride nano-materials” at School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Odissa, in connection with National Seminar on ‘Recent trends in Chemical Sciences’ (RETICS-2010) , Feb. 19-21, 2010.
Invited talk on “Synthesis and characterization of transition metal nitride nano-materials” at School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Odissa in connection with Silver Jubilee Annual Conference of Orissa Chemical Society and National Conference on Molecule , Dec. 24-26, 2011.
Invited talk on “Characterization of Nano-materials” in connection with UGC Sponsored National Seminar: Nanomaterials; Synthesis; Characterization and Applications at Department of Chemistry, Smt. Pavatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science, Margao-Goa, 2-3 Feb, 2012.
Invited talk on ‘’ Novel Synthesis, Characterization and magnetic properties of alloys and nitride nanomaterials’’ , National Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences (RETICS-2014), 14-15^thNovember, 2014, School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Burla, Orissa.
Invited talk on ‘’Surface Functionalized Nano-materials as Bio-materials’’ in connection with UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar: Advances in Colloid Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Smt. Pavatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science, Margao-Goa, 14^th, 2015.
Invited Talk on‘‘Tuning of Magnetic Properties of nanostructured materials developed by novel synthetic strategies”, ‘International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications, ICMAGMA-2017’, Feb. 1-3, DMRL, Hyderabad, INDIA.
Invited Talk on Novel Chemical Synthesis, Characterization and Tailoring of Magnetic Properties of few selected magnetic systems, National Conference on Advances in Material Science (AMS-2024), Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Khandola, Marcela – Goa, India, 2024.

Reviewer and Membership :

Reviewer of the international Journals: Selected journal Titles: Nano-Scale Research Letter, Materials Science and Engg, B, Materials Lett. , Journal of Magn. Magn. Mater., Dalton transactions, Materials Advances, Electrochimica acta, Energy & fuels, SN Applied Science etc.

Reviewer Profile:

https://publons.com/researcher/1445839/dr-rabi-narayan-panda/

Book Reviewer and Member of professional Global Network:

Tata-McHills, OUP, PHI learning PVT: Minimum 1 title each

Humboldt Network, DAAD Alumni.

Life Member: Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology (ISST), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Magnetics Society of India(MSI),

Indian Institute of Metal (IIM), Goa Chapter, Society for Materials Chemistry(SMC), BARC, Mumbai, India.

Guest Editor in 'Journal of Nanomaterials' (Year: 2014-15), Special Issue Title: Advanced Nanoporous Materials: Synthesis, properties and applications

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Administrative Responsibilities

Administrative Roles

Library Committee, Member (Dec 2021- Dec 2022)

GATI SAT Member (2021- 2023)

Department Publicity and Outreach, Incharge (March 2021- present)

My research focuses on Urban ethnography, emotional cartography, migration and diaspora identity, immigrant rights, ethnic economy, folklore and indigenous geography.

High Voltage LAB Facilities

100 KV AC/DC Source and Control Panel

3 stage 300 KV 3 KJ Impulse Generator

C and Tan-delta Test Kit (Schering Bridge)

Vaccum and Pressure Vessel

Rod Gap Apparatus - Horizontal

Sphere Gap Apparatus

Rain Making Equipment

Salt Fog Chamber

Electrolytic Tank

Various Electrodes

Creative Projects

Music Videos

"Theerap," featuring artists Indulekha Warrier and Venomiss. Music by Rayson K. Alex. YouTube, Rose Apple Creatives, 2021. Link
"Arikathekku | The Homing Journey," featuring Arshad, Najim. Music by Rayson K. Alex. YouTube, Satyam Audios, 2020. Link
"Is Silence your answer?," Music by Rayson K. Alex and Tom Thomas. YouTube, Rose Apple Creatives, 2022. Link

Video Documentaries

Alex, Rayson K., and Arun Bose, directors. The Story of Mudugar. Produced by Cockroach in Cocktail Productions, 2005. Link
Box of Rain: The Story of a Legacy Forest. Produced by Media Lab. BITS Goa, 2024. Link

Details of PhD thesis supervision

Details Of PhD Thesis Supervision

Ajay Gaude. Employing Metacognition in Handling Secondary School Children’s Problem Behaviours: A Case Study (Degree Awarded in 2023)

Hajara Abdul Hameed. Predicting depression and wellbeing among young adults in India: a metacognitive skills-based model (Degree Awarded in 2023)

Sebastian R, Intra-Inter conflicts and sustainability issues in the Fisheries of Goa: An Environmental Ethical Approach (Degree awarded in 2020)

Karan Sharma, An inquiry into the effects of regimes of morality on the experience of freedom as an authentic self-expression among queer individuals in India (Ongoing).

Lopamudra Dewan, Research area Sociology of Education (Co-guide, Ongoing)

Gokul Sisir, A social psychological approach to scientific creativity: a study of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (Ongoing)

Shirodkar Pratiksha Chandrakant, The Role of Creativity in Meta-Moral Cognition: Study of Moral Decision Making Among Student-Teachers in Goa (Ongoing)

Mythreyi K. Environment Education (Ongoing)

AtreVes Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (BIG-BIRAC Funded)

About the Startup

AtreVes Healthcare is a research and innovation-driven healthcare company aimed at developing and commercializing healthcare-related products. Our USP lies in providing novel formulations at affordable prices to the Indian and Global population as well as designing pharmaceutical products to combat shortages and slower supplies.

This startup was incepted by Prof. Akash Chaurasiya and his research scholar Ms. Kanan Panchal on 18^th Sept 2023. Mirroring this, the company is named after a pair of Guru-Shishya rishis of ancient India, Rishi Atreya and Rishi Agnivesh, translating into AtreVes – aiming towards the betterment of the healthcare system and overall quality of life.

Our Products & Technological expertise lies in:

Development of novel healthcare products
Specialty Products – Nanotherapeutics, Complex Injectables, Differentiated Products
Customized Products like Liposomes for Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Application
Lyophilized Product development using advanced strategies

Key Milestones

Atreves has been awarded and supported by the prestigious and highly competitive Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) – 23, funded by BIRAC/DBT, GoI.
AtreVes successfully established a laboratory infrastructure at TBI, BITS Pilani – Hyderabad Campus in Dec 2023.
Efficiently strategized innovative product pipelines and initiated quality-driven developmental activities.

About the Founders

Dr. Akash Chaurasiya

Dr. Akash Chaurasiya is an experienced researcher with work experience in R&D of various pharmaceutical companies like Dabur Research Foundation, Fresenius Kabi, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories & Amneal Pharmaceuticals. During this tenure, he primarily worked on formulation development of complex products, i.e., liposomes, nano-suspensions, lyophilized products, etc., for regulated markets like US, EU, etc. Dr. Chaurasiya has played a pivotal role in developing, scaling up, and regulatory filing of these complex products and acted as co-inventor in several patents/applications. Dr. Chaurasiya also received the “Best Excellence and Innovation Award” and “Spot Recognition Award” during his tenure in Dr. Reddy’s lab. Moreover, Dr. Chaurasiya is part of various patents, research articles, book chapters, and national/international conference proceedings.

Ms. Kanan Panchal

Ms Kanan Panchal is a young formulation scientist with experience in developing complex healthcare products for enhancing the treatment modalities of different diseases. Securing a gold medal during her masters from BITS Pilani, she took a vertical transfer into the Ph.D. program. During this tenure, she has been involved in the development of various pharmaceutical formulations and shared co-inventorship in multiple patents. Additionally, Ms Panchal has authored/coauthored various publications, including research/review articles and book chapters. She has also presented her research work in various national and international forums and have also been awarded for the same. Besides the academic and entrepreneurial facet, she is a trained Kathak & Folk dancer with a distinctive interest in varying art forms.

Connect With Us At

TBI, BITS Pilani - Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal, Medchal District – 500078, Telangana, India.

atreveshealthcare@gmail.com; dr.akashchaurasiya@gmail.com; kananpanchal09@gmail.com

Professional Activities

Worked as Guest Editor for the special Issue "Graph Theory and Algebraic Structures" of the Journal of Mathematics (IF: 1.4) with Prof. X. Ma (lead Guest Editor)

Reviewer of the following journals

Journal of Algebra and Its Applications
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics, Algorithm and Applications
Open Mathematics
Experimental Mathematics
AMS: Mathematical Reviews (Reviewer Number: 106551) https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/author?authorId=1069979

PhD Thesis Examiner: University of The Western Cape (South Africa)

Membership:

Life member of The Indian Mathematical Society (IMS)

Memberships:

Life member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society (RMS).
Life Member of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM).
Life Member of the Indian Association for Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics.
Member of American Mathematical Society.
Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Work Experience:

Worked as a Teaching Assistant for B. Tech. at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay from 2000 to 2004 for Basic Calculus, Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, Computational Methods in Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, and System of Differential Equations.
Visited Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore under IISc-TIFR Short Term Visitors Program from June 01, 2003, to June 18, 2003, and worked with Prof. A. K. Nandkumaran on Optimal control problems involving partial differential equations.
Worked as a Research Associate in the project WebOPT (Asia IT & C contract ASI/B7-301/97/0126-73). It was a joint project with Brunel University (U.K.). This project aimed to develop an optimization environment and offer it as an Application Service provider (ASP) solution.
Visited the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, under the Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics (IFCAM) Visitors Program during the period from May 24, 2014, to June 24, 2014, and worked with Prof. A. K. Nandkumaran and worked on Optimal control of the velocity term in a Kirchhoff plate equation with multiplicative control.
Visited School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia, from May 21 to July 22, 2016, under the University Immersion program. I worked with Dr. Bishnu Prasad Lamichhane on the numerical computation of optimal control problems involving partial differential equations.
Worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, from July 2006 to December 2006.
Worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, from December 2006 to May 2021.
Working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, from June 2021 to till date. Courses Taught/Handled in BITS-Pilani Goa Campus: Numerical Analysis, Mathematics-I (Calculus), Mathematics-II (Linear Algebra and Complex Analysis), Mathematics-III (Ordinary Differential Equation and Partial Differential Equations), Optimization, Functional Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations (advanced level), Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations, Nonlinear Optimization, and Partial Differential Equations (advanced level).

Administrative Experience:

Worked as an internet and intranet website management coordinator for the BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus.
Worked as a Warden of a hostel in BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus from January 2009 to December 2013.
Worked as a Member of the Institute Disciplinary Committee from July 19, 2018 to July 18, 2019.
Member of the Standing Committee for Student’s Discipline from October 5, 2020, to October 4, 2021.
Member of Placement Faculty Advisory Council (PFAC) from 2018 to 2022.
Worked as a Convener of the Department Research Committee (DRC) till November 27, 2017 and then from June 2022 to June 2024.
Worked as a Member of the Department Research Committee (DRC) from November 2017 to December 2019 and from June 2024 to till date.
Member of Department Steering Committee.
Member of the Department Event Management Committee.
Member of Cross Campus Departmental Committee for Academics.

Seminars and conferences

Oral Presentation

S. K. Nandi, R. B. Nahomi, J. Rankenberg, M. Glomb and R. H. Nagaraj “Molecular mechanisms for protein crosslinking in human lens: the role of glycation mediated crosslinking of α-crystallin-client complexes”, ARVO Annual Meeting, USA (May, 2020).
S. K. Nandi, A. Rehna, A. K. Panda, A. Biswas - “S52P Mutation within T-cell Epitope Region of Mycobacterium leprae HSP18 Decreases Its Chaperone Function by Destabilizing the Structural Integrity”, Annual Convention of Chemists – 2012 of Indian Chemical Society (held at NITTTR, Bhopal during December 12th –December 15th, 2012).

Poster Presentation

R. H. Nagaraj, S. K. Nandi, J. Rankenberg, S. Rakete, R. B. Nahomi, M. Glomb and M. Linetsky “Carboxitin inhibits glycation-mediated protein crosslinking in the lens”, ARVO Annual Meeting, USA (May, 2020).
S.K. Nandi, R.B. Nahomi, P. Harris, C. Michel, K. Fritz, and R.H. Nagaraj-“The Absence of SIRT3 and SIRT5 Promotes Acylation of Lens Proteins and Improves the Chaperone Activity of a-Crystallin in Mouse Lenses”, The School of Pharmacy’s Research Retreat, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA (August 9-10, 2018).
S. K. Nandi, Stefan Rakete, Rooban B. Nahomi, Cole Michel, Alexandra Dunbar, Kristofer Fritz, and Ram H. Nagaraj- “αB-Crystallin is the Major Succinylated Protein in Human Lenses”, ARVO Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (May 7-11, 2017).
S. K. Nandi, A. Chakraborty, A. K. Panda, S. S. Ray, A. Bhunia, A. Biswas - “Effect of ATP on the Structure and Functions of Mycobacterium leprae HSP18: Clue for Developing New Drug Targeting Strategy for Leprosy”, National Science Day (held at IIT Bhubaneswar, 2015).
S. K. Nandi, R. B. Nahomi, R. H. Nagaraj, A. Biswas - “N^ε-acetyllysine Mimic at K92 of Human αB-crystallin Improves Its Chaperone and Anti-Apoptotic Activities”, Advances in Chemistry and their Biological and Industrial Relevance ACBIR-2012 (held at NIT Rourkela, 2014).
S. K. Nandi, A. K. Panda, A. Biswas - “Effect of Ser52 to Pro52 Mutation on the Structure & Chaperone Function of M. leprae HSP18”, Research Scholars’ Day (held at IIT Bhubaneswar, 2013).
S. K. Nandi, A. K. Panda, A. Biswas - “Enhancement in Chaperone Activity of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Small Heat Shock Protein HSP 16.3 in Presence of ATP”, Research Scholars’ Day (held at IIT Bhubaneswar, 2011).

Professional Experience

March, 2023 – Till date: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani- K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa 403726, India
February, 2015 – February, 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani- K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa 403726, India
August, 2007 – January, 2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani- K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa 403726, India
June, 2006 – July, 2007: Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Group, BITS Pilani- K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa 403726, India
March, 1999 – July, 2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Allahabad Agricultural Institute , Allahabad – 211 007, India
August, 1995 – July, 1996: Lecturer, Christian Engineering College, Oddanchatram, Tamil Nadu– 624619, India
1993 – 1995: Shift Engineer, GPP Beverages and Food Ltd (A Joint Sector Undertaking of KSIDC), Trivandrum, India
1991-1992: Graduate Engineering Trainee, Hindustan Latex Limited, Trivandrum, Kerala– 695005, India

Responsibilities in Department and Institute

Associate Dean of Grant, Consultancy and Industrial Research (GCIR) since June 2023
Member of Institute Wide Committee for Academic Curriculum Review since May 2023
Chairperson of Department Level Selection Committee (DLSC) May 2023 – July 2024
Member of Campus Level Team for IQAC since April 2023
Member of Academic Counselling Board since March 2023
Nucleus member of AUGSD since 2023
House Allotment Committee member of BITS PILANI K K Birla Goa Campus, 2020-2022
Member of Department Level Selection Committee (DLSC) since August 2020
Committee member for review of proposals under “Additional Competitive Research Grant for new Faculty”, July 2018 – July 2022
Member of Department Level Selection Committee (DLSC) since February 2015
Ex-Officio member and Chairperson, Departmental Research Committee (DRC), January 1, 2014 - November 21, 2017
Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, November 21, 2013 - November 21, 2017
Convener, Departmental Research Committee (DRC), May 24, 2011 - December 24, 2013
Member of sub-committee research board, since August 29, 2012
Member, Cross-Campus Departmental Committee for Academics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani-K. Birla Goa Campus
Faculty coordinator for workshop on computational fluid dynamics, January 2-5,2013
Faculty coordinator for Intensive Teaching Workshop, Second Semester 2011-2012
Faculty coordinator for Mechanical Engineering Students’ Association (MESA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and Aerodynamics club, 2006-2022
Non-resident warden, AH 6, BITS Pilani-K. Birla Goa Campus, 2007-2013
Reception in-charge of hostel allotment for fresher 2010

To be updated.

BITSAT duty carried out.

(1) BITSAT duty done in summer 2005 at Hyderabad.

(2) BITSAT duty done in summer 2014 at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada.

(3) BITSAT duty done in summer 2019 at Delhi center 1 from May 14^th to 27^th.

P S 1 Assignments carried out.

(1) P S 1 duty done at Visakhapatnam in summer 2015 (Steel Exchange of India Limited, Green City, Vijay Nirman Constructions and Sarada Metals).

(2) P S 1 duty done at New Delhi in summer 2016 (Indian Red Cross Society).

(3) P S 1 duty done at Malkhed, Karnataka in summer 2017 (Rajashree Cements, Ultratech).

(4) PS 1 assignment carried out online at Swecha Developers, Guchibowli, Hyderabad during summer 2022.

(5) PS 1 assignment carried out at Pilani at four centers in off-line mode in summer 2023 (Birla Science museum, PARC, Cognix ltd. and online at SaasDen Faridabad).

Other activities carried out.

(1) I am the TREASURER of BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY for the past three years.

(2) I am the Incharge and single point of contact in coordinating and further taking care of Glass ware and Plastic ware requirement for the Department of Biological Sciences, Pilani campus for every year enable to process the précised requirement.

(3) Jointly with Dr. Manoj Kannan, I am responsible for Academic Counselling and Discipline related activities.

(4) I am the Library committee member from Biological Sciences department for the academic years 2021-24.

(5) I am Department representative in Placement unit committee.

ABOUT ME

Brief Biography

Ananth Bharadwaj (Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, India. He is currently working as full time Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS Pilani, Dubai campus.

In past he worked as Assistant Professor in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. Further, his research works are published in various highly reputed international journals such as IEEE Transactions.

His current research interests include near-field resonant based wireless power charging solutions for various applications such as, biomedical implants, electric drones, portable electronic devices, and electric vehicle applications.

The list of research areas is listed as follows:

Research Areas

Magnetic-Field Forming for Resonant Wireless Power Transfer Applications.
Novel compensation topologies for Near-Field Wireless Power Transmission.
Metamaterial Based Wireless Power Transfer.
Study of Super Conductors and Copper Wires in Liquid Nitrogen Chambers.
Wireless Power Transfer for Biomedical Applications.
Localization of Rx Coils using Magnetic Field Distributions.
Simultaneous Capacitive and Inductive Wireless Power Transfer.
Electric Vehicle Powertrain Modelling.
Study of Halbach Magnetic Coils for Hyperloop Transportation.

Seminars and Conferences:

Seminars

Invited Talks:

Basic understanding of promoters with respect to different genes expression and regulation in plant genome; Promoter isolation from plant genome and their artificial synthesis for any target trait.19th Dec 2022 19th Dec PAU,Ludhiana
AtAVT6 family of amino acid transporters of A. thaliana as target for crop improvement 19th dec 2022,PAU Ludhiana
Designing, synthesizing and validation of salinity stress responsive promoter in plants 20th dec 2022, Punjab Agriculture university, Ludhiana
Differential regulation of promoter activation: governed by ACGT cis -regulatory elemetns 20th ,Dec 2022,Punjab Agriculture university
AtAVT6 family of amino acid transporters of Arabidopsis thaliana as target for Crop Improvement “2nd Edition of Global Conference on Agriculture and Horticulture” (Agri 2022) during September 01-03, 2022. France
Promoter activation by ACGT cis regulatry elements is diffentially regulated by spacing between the copies of the motifs on 27th October 2022 in Calicut university.
Prof Rajesh Mehrotra was a co chair in “40th World Conference on Applied Science Engineering And Technology (40th - WCASET)” held on 30and 31st Dec. 2021 in Goa.
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered an invited talk in International conference on Genomics and breeding for crop improvement on 4th -6th dec 2019.The title of the talk was ACGT cis regulatory elements in plant gene expression: A comparative Genomics Perspectives
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered a talk entitled Chromatin architecture in different stress responses at department of Molecular Plant Science, on 26th june University of Edinburgh, UK.
Rajesh Mehortra delivered a plenary talk entitled ACGT element and its role in stress tolerance at Saurashtra university on 26th February,2019.
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered a talk in 9th Seed congress on February 19th -21st,2019.The title of the talk was Seed storage protein gene regulation a jigsaw puzzle.
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered a talk in IIIE Goa chapter on the topic Green revolution on 28th January 2019 in Goa college of Engineering.
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered a talk on How to design smart question paper in 3rd National Teacher’s congress,3rd Jan -6th Jan2019,Pune
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered an invited talk in Life scienceresearch and its interface with engineering and allied sciences (Nov-3),2018 at BITS,Pilani,Pilani Campus.
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered a talk entitled Scientific writing: pleasure and pain : A personal experience on 24/3/2018
Delivered a talk as plenary speaker .The title of the talk was" Genomic analysis of cis regulatory element and its validation in model plant Arabidopsis thalianareveals spacer distance between ACGT cis elements governs differential gene expression in response to salicylic acid and abscissic acid in Multidisciplinary international conference on green earth:A panoramic view in B.N.Bandodkar college of science ,Mumbai (12-13 Jan 2018).
Delivered a talk entitled Learning to teach and teaching to Learn by TLC Pilani on 10/9/2017
Spacer distance between ACGT element is responsible for differential gene expression ; An invited lecture in 'International workshop to develop climate resilient cereals'' November 3-5, 2016, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
Spacer distance between ACGT cis regulatory elements governs differential gene expression in model plant Arabidopsis thaliana in "Recent Advances in Biological Sciences, Biotechnology and Sustainable Development", during 18-19 March 2016. Udaipur.
Rajesh Mehrotra delivered an invited talk in Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology in Institute of Ag Sciences,Banaras Hindu University.The title of the talk is " Promoter activation by ACGT in response to salicylic acid and abscisic acids is differentially regulated by the spacing between two copies of the motif" in 2014
Nobel laureate Prof Aaron Ciechanover was interviewed by Prof Rajesh Mehrotra, Professor ofBiological Science, BITS Pilani, on 29th November 2012 at the Institute. Click the link : http://youtu.be/vRDZaub5VYw
Invited talk on Teaching Pedagogy in Shivalik college of engineering, Dehradun on 23rd december 2012.
Gave a invited talk in Navodyala Vidyalaya in 2011. In Pursuit of Science.
Rajesh Mehrotra Title of the talk : In Pursuit of Science : 19th National Children science congress under face to face interaction session organized by DST, Rajasthan held at Jaipur from 27th to 31st december 2011.
Rajesh Mehrotra Title of the talk : Cloning and characterization of Protein Phosphatase 2C like promoter. 19th National Children science congress under face to face interaction session session organized by DST, Rajasthan held at Jaipur from 27th to 31st december 2011.
Rajesh Mehrotra Title of the talk: From green revolution to gene technology. An invited talk in Faculty development programme on technological waste : a potential threat to survival.Nov 16-28,2009 sponsered by All India council of technical education.
Rajesh Mehrotra, Swapnil, Jitendra Panwar. Global Warming: A Monster in Action. An invited talk presented in Glowar-08 held on March 5th 2008 in Bikaner.

Conference Proceedings:

(A) Research:-

Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. “Expression Patterns of AtAVT6 Genes Underlying Abiotic Stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at

International Conference on Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, organized by Lovely Professional University, India, from 10-12 September 2021.

Pinky Dhatterwal, Samyadeep Basu, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. “Genome wide analysis of W-box element in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals TGAC motif with genes down regulated by heat and salinity” presented at International Symposium on advances in plant biotechnology and genome editing & 42nd meeting of plant tissue culture association, organized by ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, India, from 8-10 April 2021.
Pinky Dhatterwal Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra, Expression studies of an amino acid transmembrane transporter (AtAVT6D) from Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Virtual Conference on Plant Specialized Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering (PSMME), organized by CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India, from 14-16 October 2020.
Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra, Anthony J Miller and Rajesh Mehrotra, “Functional Characterization of an amino acid transmembrane transporter (AtAvt6D) from Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Virtual Conference on Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment, organized by Genome Research Limited, Cambridgeshire, UK, from 12-14 October 2020
In-silico analysis across four plant genomes reveals over-representation of AAAG cis-elements in dicots as compared to monocots, Zaiba Hasan Khan, Anish Shah, Sandhya Mehrotra, Chandra Shekhar, Rajesh Mehrotra. National Conference of Plant Physiology-2017, Emerging Role of Plant Physiology for Food Security and Climate Resilient Agriculture. Indian Society for Plant Physiology, New Delhi.
Heterologous expression and in silico analysis of carboxysome protein ccmM of an early diverging cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceous PCC 7421, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra., 8^thInternational Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability; University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Transient expression and localization of a cyanobacterial bicabonate transporter BicA into chloroplasts of Nicotiana benthamiana., Panchsheela Nogia, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra., 8^thInternational Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Engineering C₃ Plants with SbtA, a Cyanobacterial Transporter, for Enhancing CO₂ Fixation., Vandana Deopanée Tomar, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra, ICPBPS 2017 : 19th International Conference on Plant Biology and Plant Sciences,Tokyo, Japan
In-silico analysis across four plant genomes reveals over-representation of AAAG cis-elements in dicots as compared to monocots., Zaiba Hasan Khan, Anish Shah, Sandhya Mehrotra, Chandra Shekhar, Rajesh Mehrotra. National Conference of Plant Physiology-2017,Emerging Role of Plant Physiology for Food Security and Climate Resilient Agriculture23-25, November,2017, organized by Department of Plant Physiology, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur and Indian Society for Plant Physiology, New Delhi .
Transient expression and localization of a cyanobacerial bicabonate transporter BicA into chloroplasts of Nicotiana benthamiana. Panchsheela Nogia, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. 8^thInternational Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability; Oct 30- Nov 4, 2017, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Heterologous expression and in silico analysis of carboxysome protein ccmM of an early diverging cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceous PCC 7421.Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, VandanaTomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. 8^thInternational Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability; Oct 30-Nov 4, 2017, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
ICRF193 delays spindle elongation and produce archery bow phenotype in dividing fission yeast cells Rajesh Mehrotra1,#, Norihiko Nakazawa1, and Mitsuhiro Yanagida1,* 1G0 Cell Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation, Uruma, Okinawa 9042234, Japan # Department of Biological sciences, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031,DNA Physics India 9-11March 2017,BITS Pilani
ACGT cis regulatory elements as mediator of plant stress response. Rajesh Mehrotra, Pinky Dhatterwal, Zaiba Hasan Khan, Sandhya Mehrotra. European Molecular Biology Organisation Conference on “Micro and metabolic regulators in plants, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala 01-04 February
An insight into the Regulatory Components of Carbon Concentrating Mechanisms in Aquatic Unicellular Photosynthetic Organisms. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. EMBO Conference on “Micro and metabolic regulators in plants, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala 01-04 February
Strategies for installing SbtA- a cyanobacterial sodium dependent bicarbonate transporter to chloroplasts of model C3 plants to enhance CO2 fixation, National conference of plant physiology: Challenges in crop physiology research: from molecular to whole plant, NCPP 2016. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra December 8-10, 2016, University of Agricultural Studies (UAS), GKVK, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Genomic wide analysis reveals that T or A nucleotides are preferred to other nucletide in the interspacer region between TGAC and ACGT,TGAC and TGAC, TGAC and CCGAC. Chetna Sangwan, Vipul Samaydeep Basu, Sandhya Mehrotra and rajesh Mehrotra, BITS conference on gene and genome regulation, Feb 08-10,2016, BITS, Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan, INDIA.
Going the cyanobacterial way to increase C3 plant productivity. Panchasheela Nogia, Vandana Tomar, Gurpreet Kaur Sandhu,Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra, BITS conference on gene and genome regulation, Feb 08-10,2016, BITS, Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan, INDIA.
Genomic wide analysis of Arabidopsis Thaliana reveals high frequency of ACGT elements in promoter of amino acid transmembrane transporter. Zaiba H Khan,Sandhya Mehrotra and rajesh Mehrotra, BITS conference on gene and genome regulation, Feb 08-10,2016, BITS, Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan, INDIA.
Genomic wide analysis of ACGT/CRE in arabidopsis Thaliana reveals frequency of ACGT_CRE is higher than CRE_CRE. Rajesh Mehrotra,Chetna Sangwan, Sandhya Mehrotra, Vandit Gandotra and Zaiba H. Khan in 3rd International Plant Physiology Congress"Challenges and strategies in Plant Biology Research" december 11-14, 2015, JNU, New Delhi India.
Occurence and arrangement of three multisubunit inorganic carbon transporters in cynobacteria. Vandana Tomar, Gurpreet Kaur Sandhu, Panchasheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra in 3rd international Plant physiology Congress" Challenges and strategies in Plant Biology Research" december 11-14, 2015, JNU, New Delhi India.
Improving C3 plant productivity using cynobacterial bicarbonate transporterr, An invited lecture in " proceedings of the 7th Indo-Global summit and expo on food and beverages", October 08-10, 2015 New Delhi, India.
Vipul, Sachin Saxena, Purva Bhalothia , Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra :Genome wide analysis of W-box in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals skewed distribution of TGACACATTTTGAC sequence in chromosome 1.Presented in IIT Kanpur "5th Annual International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology (BIOTECH 2015)" held at IIT, Kanpur during March 13-15, 2015
Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra.Characetrization of RubisCO and Carbon Concentration (CCM) proteins of Gloeobacter violaceous PCC7421 FAF-115, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.
Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. Introducing cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter gene (BicA) into inner envelope of C3 plant chloroplast to enhance carboxylase activity of RubisCO. FAF-114, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.
Vandana, Rajesh Mehrotra, and Sandhya Mehrotra. Approaches for transplastomic integration of SbtA- a high affinity sodium bicarbonate transporter to C3 plants for enhanced CO2 fixation. FAF-116. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.
Purva Bhalothia, Anshu Alok, Bhaskar Sharma, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Cloning and characterization of protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) like promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana. FAF-27, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.
Kaushik Renganaath K, Shashank Pandey, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Revisiting endosymbiosis in the light of nuclear mitochondrial cross talks mediated by the members of the telomere system. FAF-135, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.
Rajesh Mehrotra and Vishesh Jain : Genome wide analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana reveals high frequency of AAAG(N)7CTTT motif .PLANT BIOLOGY EUROPE, FESPB/EPSO 2014 Congress. The Convention centre, Dublin, Ireland, June 22-June 26, 2014
Rajesh Mehrotra, A Mori, S. Shigeaki and Mitsuhiro Yanagida. Screening of genes that regulates the localization of Ght5 in low glucose sensitive mutants.Presented in Intellectual cluster meeting at Naha (Japan) in december
Purva Bhalothia, Anshu Alok, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra: Cloning and characterization of protein phosphatase 2C like promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana.3rd international conference on Bioscience,Biochemistry and Bioinformatics. February 24-25, 2013,Rome Italy.
Rajesh Mehrotra,Ipshita zutshi, Sachin Sethi,Purva Bhalothia and Sandhya Mehrotra :Patterns and evolution of ACGT repeat cis element landscape across four plant gemones. Next generation plant science 26-28th september 2012, Cologne Germany.
Rajesh Mehrotra, Amit Yadav and Purva Lohan (2011) Evidence for directed evolution of larger size motif in Arabidopsis thaliana. The 18th Penn State Plant Biology Symposium, May 18-21, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.
Uthra Balasubramanyam, Akhil Bajaj , Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra (2011). Diversity of lipase producing bacterial strains of oil contaminated soils and their hydrolytic activity. Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 27th April- 1st May, Prague Czech Republic.
Purva Bhalothia, Prasali Banshal and Rajesh Mehrotra (2011) Cloning and characterization of Protein phosphatase 2C-like promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana. International conference on New Horizons in Biotechnology, Nov 21-24, Trivandrum.
Uthra Balasubramaniyan, Akhil Bajaj, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra (2011) Hydrolytic activity and diversity analysis of lipase synthesizing bacteria from oil contaminated soils. National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, BITS, Pilani.
Madhulika Rai, Bhavya R., Shuvendu Kumar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra Isolation and characterization of fungal DNA collected from oil fields for the purpose of biodiesel production. National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, 2011, BITS, Pilani.
Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra (2010) Understanding the interactions between cis acting upstream sequences in the regulation of gene expression in Plants. National Conference on Bioprospecting: Access for Sustainable development, Feb 19-20.MNIT, Allahabad.
Akhil Bajaj and Rajesh Mehrotra (2010) Screening of microorganisms for lipase activity. National Conference on green and Sustainable chemistry, Feb 19-21,2010, BITS, Pilani.
Norihiko Nakazawa1, Rajesh Mehrotra2, and Mitsuhiro Yanagida1,3 1Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan 2Department of Biological sciences, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, IndiaThe G0 Cell Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation, Uruma, Okinawa 904-2234, Japan (2009) Fission yeast Condensin and DNA topoisomerase II are required for chromosome segregation even after entry into anaphase. 5th international fission yeast meeting Oct 26-31,2009,Tokyo ,Japan.
Norihiko Nakazawa1, Rajesh Mehrotra2, Kenichi Sajiki3, Alejandro Villar Briones3, andMitsuhiroYanagida1,3 1Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan 2Department of Biological sciences, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India. The G0 Cell Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation, Uruma, Okinawa 904-2234, Japan Fission yeast Condensin and DNA topoisomerase II are required for chromosome segregation even after entry into anaphase. 4th international workshop –Cell regulation in division and arrest. Nov-30th –Dec 2nd. Okinawa , Japan.
Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra, Akhil Bajaj, Purva Lohan: Promoter activation by ACGT in response to salicylic acid and abscisic acids is differentially regulated by the spacing between two copies of the motif: in the international conference on emerging trends in Biotechnology (ETBT-2009) and 6th annual convention on Biotechnology, INDIA (BRSI), Banaras Hindu University.4-6 DEC
Rajesh Mehrotra, Norihiko Nakazawa and Mitsuhiro Yanagida (2008) ICRF-193 interferes with spindle elongation in dividing S pombe cells. 12th international conference on the interface of Chemistry-Biology in Biomedical research held on February 22-24, 2008, BITS, Pilani.
Swarna Kanchan, Rajesh Mehrotra and Shibasish Chowdhury (2008) Retrogressive evolution of DNA repair system: A genomic study. Bioinformatica Indica ,17-19th Jan 2008Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala, India.
Rajesh Mehrotra, Norihiko Nakazawa and Mitsuhiro Yanagida (2007) Prolonged localization of securin on mitotic spindle in top2-191 mutant cells paper the International symposium on applied Phycology and environmental biotechnology held from October 29 th-31st , Pilani, India.

(B) Teaching:-

Participated in CII National Summit on quality in Education: 22-23 September,2015 at CII Institute of quality, Bangalore.
Attended Turnitin Academic Integrity seminar-16th November,2015 at Bangalore which helped to frame the anti plagarism policy of BITS,Pilani.
Presented a paper entitled smart question paper design to enhance student learning and engagement in examinations in the national conference in opportunities and challenges in class room teaching.

Institutional Contribution:

Institutional Contribution and Other responsibilities:

Member,task force mission 2012 and member project Lakshya (faculty recruitment team)
Senate member BITS Pilani (2014 onwards…till date)
Member, Institute Biosafety committee, BITS,Pilani Pilani Campus (2012-2015)
Member, Departmental Research Committee (2012-2016)
Member, Department committee on Academics (2012-2016)
Convener, Department committee on Academics (September 2016 to December 2017)
Nucleus member Placement division BITS,Pilani 2009-2014.
Placement faculty (Pfac), Department of Biological Sciences BITS,Pilani ,(2010-2014)
Library Committee member, Department of Biological Sciences,BITS,Pilani(2012-2013).
Convener, BITS Conference on gene and genome regulation (BCGGR-2016) February 18-20 2016.
Member organizing committee Molecular Techniques: Cell to DNA (MTCD-2014) workshop during April 10-12, 2014.
Member organizing committee, Molecular International Conference on "Nascent Developments in Chemical Sciences: Opportunities for Academia-Industry Collaboration" (NDCS-2015) was organized by the Department during October 16-18, 2015.
Organizing committee member, International Symposium on Applied Phycology and Environmental Biotechnology, Oct 29 – 31, 2007, BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
Convener, Bilateral workshop between BITS,Pilani and Tel Aviv university on Food security and safety held on 21-22nd Nov 2016.
Organising Secretary XLII All India Cell Biology Conference and 2nd International Conference on Trends in Cell and Molecular Biology 21st to 23rd December 2018.
Co Convener in 'Current Trends and Challenges in Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology'.2020 Nov 20-21.
IPCD organized global meet entitled Computational Modeling and Simulation: Recent Innovations, Challenges & Perspectives during October 16-November 07, 2020.

Professional Engagements (Misc.)

Current (Selected)

Chairman, Institute Biosafety Committee: BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee: Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Malaria Research, India
Member, Advisory Board: Indian Council of Medical Research Malaria Mission (IMM), India
Member, Advisory Board: Malaria Elimination Research Alliance, India
Member, Hub Governing Body (HGB): BITS BioCyTiH Foundation, India

Past (Selected)

Member, Special Emphasis Panel: National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIH), Department of Health & Human Services, USA
Reviewer (International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research): National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIH), Department of Health & Human Services, USA

Bioinformatics Tool Developed

Shekhawat, S. S., Vijaya Kumar S., Das A (2007). EGF – LD Finder for identification of EGF like domains. (EGF LD Finder).

Summary:

EGF-like domains are found in a variety of proteins and are usually implicated in protein-protein interactions. EGF-like domains can be categorized into 3 types TYPE-I, TYPE-II and TYPE-III EGF domains based upon their structure and function. EGF like Domains Analysis & Comparison Package is a web based Bioinformatic tool that can analyze the given sequence and predict if it contains EGF-like domains. Given a Sequence in any format, it would search for EGF type domains in it and also specify the positions of these domains if any. The tool is GUI based and has been developed using JAVA Applet Programming. EGF like Domains Analysis & Comparison Package also shows the relative graphical positioning of these domains and one can query for the sequences of these domains. The tool also consists of an EGF library, which has about 200 different sequences that contain EGF domains in them. The program uses basic Bioinformatic searching algorithm technique to match to a particular given sequence. It first searches for a set of six Cysteines in the sequence and passes it on for further analysis. Once a set of six Cysteines has been identified, the program looks for whether the given part of the sequence matches to Type-I, Type-II or Type-III domain, based on weight given to each type of domain. As the sequence is matched to each of the Types, a count is increased for each of them. The matching is first carried out on the basis of sequence and then based on the gaps between each of the Cysteines in each of the Domain Types. Once a residue is matched to the set standards the count is increased and once it does not match the count is decreased and so on for each of the domain. Finally all three counts are compared and the Type of Domain identified. If all the counts are too low to be compared then the result is ‘NO EGF like Sequences Found’.

Administrative Experience

Dean, Research & Consultancy, BITS Pilani (April, 2010 - June, 2012)

One of the nodal control points for conceptualization, implementation and monitoring of all processes related to the PhD Programme of BITS (across campuses and the PhD Aspirants Scheme). Actively involved in process formalization and standardization across campuses with the objective of enhancing creative research and ensuring quality of the work performed. Nodal control point for monitoring and facilitation of project related funding from various sources, in Pilani campus. Facilitator, for Higher Degree and First Degree Research Oriented Courses. Involved in multi-divisional activities required for achieving the points mentioned above.

Mission 2012 and Vision 2020 for BITS Pilani

As Leader, Task Force 8 (TF8), People (Hygiene), involved in conceptualization and implementation of Policies such as the BITS Seed Grant Scheme, BITS Sabbatical Policy, the BITS Start-UP Policy (for providing some initial funding to recruited faculty) and others- aimed at providing a suitable work environment for the furtherance of education.

Group Leader, Biological Sciences Group, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (January, 2007 – April, 2010)

Involved in the creation of a team of individuals, with varying talents, to enhance teaching at both first degree and higher degree levels and strongly emphasize and implement a research focus in the Group. The basic caveat followed was that creative, target oriented research is a natural basic requirement for creative teaching, and would enhance quality of the overall educational experience. Involved in providing the leadership required to attempt excellence in the Department, which encompassed various aspects, ranging from facility design, fund arrangement, supply chain management and all types of maintenance related issues. It was an exhilarating experience to attempt to create a hygienic work environment for the benefit of students, faculty colleagues and the BITS system, which has strong links with various National and International Systems.

To be updated.

Administrative Responsibilities

Member, Departmental Committee on Academics, Dept. of CSIS. Sep 2022 onwards
Nucleus Member, Sponsored Research and Consultancy Division. July 2020 to June 2022
Faculty Advisor, Google Developer Student Club
Campus Facilitator and Certified Trainer, Google Cloud Readiness Program

Responsibilities:

Core Organising Committee Member, MCAUIS 2022 Workshop, co-located with IEEE MIPR 2022.
Leading the MultiCog research group at BITS Pilani.
Coordinator for the Machine Intelligence research group MISHA at Bennett University (May 2017 to May 2018)
Coordinator for the Cyber-security Society "SherLocked" at Bennett University (Jan 2018 to May 2018)
Technical Program Co-chair for the 6th Security and Privacy Symposium at IIIT Delhi, April 2018.
Track and Sessions Co-chair for the Fifth International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education, Jan 2018.
Publications Chair for the 1st International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science, Dec 2017.
Organising committee member: Security & Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur, February 2014.
Organising committee member: Symposium on Information Security, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus, November 2013.
Organising committee member: International Workshop on Information Security, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus, December 2012.

Collaborators:

Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli, IEEE Fellow. NUS Singapore
Prof. F. Richard Yu, IEEE Fellow. Carleton University
Prof. Mohsen Guizani, IEEE Fellow. Qatar University
Prof. Biplab Sikdar, Associate Professor, NUS Singapore
Prof. Prateek Saxena, Assistant Professor, NUS Singapore
Prof. En-Hua Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Eng., NTU Singapore
Prof. Kang-Hai Tan, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Eng., NTU Singapore
Prof. Husrev Taha Sencar, QCRI, Qatar
Prof. V. N. Venkatakrishnan, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Multimodal Cognition Research Group (MultiCog)

About

The Multimodal Cognition research group (aka MultiCog) at BITS Pilani is a group of researchers who leverage multimodal information and AI to study, analyse and build real-world systems for Computer Vision, Cyber-security and Healthcare applications. The MultiCog group is led by Dr. Pratik Narang.

The research at MultiCog spans across Machine/Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Natural Language Processing, IoT analytics, and Data Science.

Students interested to work with MultiCog should refer to the For Students / Research pages for more details.

Workshops/Conferences Organized

Organizer of "3^rd Group Monitoring Workshop cum 6^th meeting of re-constituted expert panel on FAST TRACK PROPOSALS FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS" in Physical and Mathematical Sciences held at BITS Pilani Goa Campus during Jan. 11-12, 2007.
Member of the organizing committee of the International Workshop on "Advances in Computational Partial Differential Equations" holding at BITS-Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus from February 7 to March 5, 2011.
Organizer of Instructional Workshop on Graph Theory and Applications during at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, April 28-29, 2011.
Academic Coordinator of National Instructional Workshop on Graph Theory and Applications, at DST Center for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, during May 23-29, 2011.
Organizer of School on Graph Algorithms during at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa, December 15-19, 2011.
Convener of a National level “Advanced School on Graph Algorithms” at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa, sponsored by National Board of Higher Mathematics NBHM and Department of Science Technology and Environment (DSTE) Goa, during July 23-27, 2012.
Local convener of Research Promotion Workshop on Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms, at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa, sponsored by National Board of Higher Mathematics NBHM in collaboration with School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research(TIFR) Mumbai, during Jan. 17-19, 2013.
Convener of Indo-German Pre-Conference School on Algorithms and Combinatorics at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa, sponsored by National Board of Higher Mathematics NBHM in collaboration with RKM Vivekananda University, Belur Math and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany during February 13-14, 2017.
Conference Chair of 3^rd International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM-2017) during February 16 -18, 2017.
Conference Chair of International Conference on Discrete mathematics and its Applications to Network Science (ICDMANS 2018), during July 07-10, 2018.
Organize the Workshop on Line Graphs and Labeling of Graphs, during January 18-19, 2023.

Institutional Contribution:

Worked as Resident Hostel Warden in Student Welfare Division since July 01, 2006 to Dec. 31, 2013.
BITSAT Examination duty May 19-30, 2016 in BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa.
BITSAT center coordinator at Lucknow-2 during May 17-26, 2018.
BITSAT center supervisor at Gorakhpur during August 02-07, 2022.
Actively involved in CONVOCATION during 2014-2019.
Instructor in Practice School-I in 2006 in Goa.
Invigilation Duties in Work Integrated Learning Program (WILP) four times.
Worked as Instructor in Graphs and Networks since 2011 to Dec 31, 2015, Discrete Mathematical Structures for Computer Science in the current semester in Work Integrated Learning Program (WILP) since 2011 to Dec 31, 2015, January-May 2017.
Resource Person in Teacher Training Workshop during October 22-23, 2005 and November 26-27, 2007 for Higher Secondary School Teachers of Goa Board.
Acted as Head of Department of Mathematics (Jan.01, 2010-July 31, 2010, May 20, - July 21, 2014, August 05, 2016-Dec. 31, 2016).
Convener, Departmental Research Committee (till 2013) Member of DRC since 2010-2018.
Member, Cross Campus Departmental Committee for Academics (Since 2010).
Member, Contract Committee of the institutes (Since 2012 till 2015).
Chairman, Department Level Shortlisting Committee (Since 2008).
Member of Project Implementation Group, DITS-FIST Scientific Computing Lab, Department of Mathematics since 2015.
Convener of Students Faculty Council (2012-2019).
Member of Students Faculty Council since 2012 till date.
Member of Board of Research Studies (University Wide) (2014-2016).
DCA Convenor of Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus.
Faculty member of D. Entrance Test since July 2013.
Member of Disciplinary Action Committee of institute during March 11, 2015- March 10, 2016.
Instructor of Pre-Ph.D. course works for the Department of Mathematics, Biological Sciences.
D. Qualifying Examiner for the Department of Mathematics, Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering.

To be updated.

International Travel

1. City University, Hong Kong, China

Period: 8th Oct 2015 to 12th Oct 2015

Purpose: To present a research paper titled "Cluster, Allocate, Cover: An Efficient Approach for Multi-Robot Coverage" in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

2. Hiroshima University, Japan

Period: 3rd Dec 2015 to 22nd Dec 2015

Purpose: Selected to attend SAKURA Science Program (SSP-2015) on High Speed Robot Vision. The program was fully sponsored and administered by Japan Science and Technology Agency and was hosted by Robotics Laboratory of Hiroshima University, Japan.

3. Macau SAR, China

Period: 5th Dec 2017 to 8th Dec 2017

Purpose: To present a research paper titled "Balanced Partitioning of Workspace for Efficient Multi-Robot Coordination" in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics.

4. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Period: 12th Dec 2018 to 15th Dec 2018

Purpose: To present a research paper titled "Experimental Evaluation of Multi-robot Online Terrain Coverage Approach" in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics.

5. Bari, Italy

Period: 06th Oct 2019 to 09th Oct 2019

Purpose: To present a research paper titled "A Graph Partitioning Approach for Fast Exploration with Multi-
Robot Coordination" in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC).

6. Houston, Texas, USA

Period: 12th Nov 2019 to 14th Nov 2019

Purpose: To present a research paper titled "Efficient Content Caching for Named Data Network Nodes" in 16th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous)

ADMINISTRATION

28) Chairperson - Sports Advisory Committee from 1st August 2024 to 31st July 2026.

27) Head - Department of Mechanical Engineering from 21st November 2017 to 17th May 2022.

26) Working as Faculty Co-ordinator for WAVES November 2023.

25) Working as a Member of Energy group in “Energy Environment and Green Audit” committee formed for K K Birla Goa campus for a period of 2 years since 17^th June 2023.

24) Working as a Member for Project Lakshya since 12 October 2018 in the "Research as a Thrust Area".

23) Chairman - Doctoral Research Committee (DRC) and Department's Committee on Academics (DCA) from 21st November 2017 to 17th May 2022

. [Started ME Mechanical Engineering and co-ordinated to update thermal engineering related courses and overall co-ordinator (Goa campus) while updating BE Mechanical Engineering Curriculum.]

22) Involved as Panel Member for the Faculty and Staff Recruitment for the Department, Workshop and Maintenance unit etc.

21) Faculty-in charge of Central Workshop Unit from 21st November 2017 to 17th May 2022.

20) Worked as Warden - AH-6 Hostel at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus for 4 years since 1st January 2014.

19) Worked as Convener of Doctoral Research Committee (DRC) of Department of Mechanical Engineering for 2 years since 1st January 2016.

18) Worked as a one of the Team members for Energy Conservation of BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus and for AC Plant with other team members.

Also started working as member of EEGA (Energy, Environment, and Green Audit Assessment) for the NAAC Accreditation from 17th June 2023.

17) Worked as Faculty Coordinator - Placement division for the students of Department of Mechanical Engineering.

16) Working as SAE Faculty Coordinator for SAE BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus since January 2013 to till date. (BAJA, SUPRA, SAE AERO teams under this club are working excellent and till date students have presented five in-house fabricated Cars / design for flying objects at different competitions held in India).

15) Worked as Member of Academic Counseling Board (ACB) for 2 years since July 2014 to July 2016.

14) Worked as a Member representing K K Birla Goa Campus for Institutional Knowledge and Analysis (IKA) Cell.

13) Worked as PS-I Instructor (online mode) at Birla Polyfibers Harihar and Birla White Cements Jodhpur in May- July 2022.

Worked as PS-I instructor (ONSITE Mode) for Goa Shipyard Ltd, Goa, Mormugao Port Trust Ltd., Goa, Pentair Water India Pvt Ltd Goa, Putzmeister Goa, Carscan (ONLINE mode) Pune May- July 2023.

Also took initiative in Summer 2023 to start PS-II station at L&T Mindree group.

12) Worked as Faculty Coordinator for BITSAT 2022 (Session-II, Centre: KIT Kolhapur).

11) Arranged a Workshop on “Development of Electric Vehicle, Software, Architecture and Control” alongwith EEE department on 8th September 2022.

10) Goa Legislative assembly election duty as Presiding officer on 3rd and 4th February 2017.

9) Worked as Moderator for Questions on Thermal engineering related courses for Higher Degree Admission Test 2017 of BITS –Pilani.

8) Worked as Expert related with Thermal Engineering Subjects for UPSC EXAMINATION, UPSC Delhi, India.

7) Worked under PS Duty for Mission - Enhancing Students PS-I Experience to Power Stations. I have worked in May-July 2017 for PS-I to monitor Power Plants (Adani Power Mundra, Adani Power Tiroda, Adani Power Ahmedabad, Essar Power Jamnagar, Essar Power Hazira, Hindalc, Nalco). Visited Essar Power Jamnagar and Adani Power Tiroda as an expert from Mechanical Engineering Department for technical guidance to students in their PS-I projects.

6) Worked on Energy Conservation and Co-generation in Sugar Factories under Industry Immersion Program of BITS Pilani, May-July 2015.

5) Worked as PS-I Instructor at Pune in May- July 2013 for TATA Technologies, Thermax, and Kirloskar Pneumatics.

4) Worked as PS-I Instructor at Kolhapur in May- July 2012 for Caspro, and Kirloskar Oil Engines.

3) Arranged two days Workshop on "Electronics System in IC Engines" conducted by Medhavi Centre for Automotive Research.

2) Arranged National Level Conference - "1st Symposium and Workshop for Analytical Youth on Applied Mechanics", 4-6 July 2018. Conference was jointly arranged by BITS Pilani - K K Birla Goa campus and Indian Society of Applied Mechanics.

1) Arranged several Invited Talks where resource person were from DRDO, IITs (Bombay, Kanpur etc) and other abroad universities, ARAI Pune, industries such as (Siemens, GE etc), talk by Guinness Book Record Holder for "Longest Journey in Electric Car": Mr. Sushil Reddy (October 2023).

To be updated.

External Examiner

Ph.D.

1	Ms. Janhavi M. Karekar, Ion exchange selectivity and adsorption studies in aqueous and mixed media, of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Jnana Sangama, Belagavi, Karnataka State, India, 2020.
2	Mrs. Gauri Manas Lohar entitled "Radiation induced graft copolymers for enviromental remediation", of University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, 2020.
3	Mr. Myneni Venkataratnam entitled “Synthesis and characterization of Magnesium Oxide Nano Composites for adsorptive removal of cationic and anionic dyes from aqueous solutions” of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, 2018.
4	Abubakar Aisami entitled “Biodegradation of Phenol by Free and Immobilised Cells of three Locally-isolated Bacterial Strains, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, 2017.
5	Shubha Dwivedi entitled “Biological Removal of Fluoride from Industrial Waste Water” of Faculty of Biotechnology, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, 2016.
6	D. Maruthamuthu entitled “Synthesis, characterization and biological activities of some novel organic compounds” of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 24, 2016.
7	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, 2014.

M. Tech.

1	ITM University Gwalior, December 2013.

B.Tech.

1	Practical/Viva Examination, BTech (Chemical Engg.) students, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, July 2020.
2	Practical/Viva Examination, BTech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, April 2019.
3	Practical/Viva Examination, BTech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, December 2017.
4	Practical/Viva Examination, BTech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, May 2016.
5	Practical/Viva Examination, BTech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, May 2015.
6	Practical/Viva Examination, BTech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, January 2014.
7	Practical/Viva Examination, BTech (Chemical Engg.) students at Banasthali University, December 2012.

Sessions Chaired in Seminars/Conferences

1	Session Chair of session "Water and Wastewater Treatment", CHEM-CONFLUX 2020 organized by MNIT Allahabad, Feb 14-16, 2020.
2	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.

Journal Reviewer

Desalination and Water Treatment (Desalination)
International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (Berkeley Electronic Press)
Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier)
Process Biochemistry (Elsevier)
Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research
Journal of Advanced Research (Elsevier)
Adsorption Science and Technology (Multi-Science)
AIChE Journal (Wiley)
Industrial Chemistry & Engineering Research (Wiley)
Bioremediation Journal (Taylor and Francis)
International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Global Research)
Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology (Wiley)
Journal of Food Processing and Technology (OMICS)
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)
Applied Water Science (Springer)
African Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Academic Journals)

Industrial Training / Visit

Visited The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT Ltd), Kochi, Kerala (March 31 – April 1, 2014) as part of PS-I enhancement program taken by Practice School Division.
Visited Ultra Tech Cement Kotputli Rajasthan, July 26, 2012.
Visited Aditya Birla Science & Technology Company (ABSTC), Mumbai and TRC (Thaluja and Ahura Centre) for the possible collaborative research work during June 25 - 28,2012.
Visited Reddipalayam Cements Works, Reddipalayam (March 15 - 16, 2012) and Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai (March 19 - 20, 2012) as part of PS-I enhancement program taken by Practice School Division.
Visited IndoGulf fertilizer plant for the discussion on short term training program for their employees, December 15 – 17, 2011.
Visited ICT, Mumbai (March 27 - 28, 2012) and IIT Kanpur (April 23 - 24, 2012) for laboratory infrastructure development as a member of cross campus departmental committee.
Visited Birla Cellulosic Kharach, Bharuch, Aditya Birla Group Company, to identify the research area for collaborative research, June 19 – 24, 2011.
Visited Bharat Aluminum Company Ltd., Korba, for discussions on BITS Collaborative Programme on Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering for their Employees, March 3 - 5, 2010.
Visited Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL), Udaipur for discussions on BITS Collaborative Programme on Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering for their Employees, 2008.
Visited Hindustan Zinc Limited Udaipur from Feb 20 - 23, 2007 to give students training in the plant and making them understand the relation between theoretical and practical approach.
Visited of Hindustan Zinc Limited Udaipur from January 1 - 3, 2007.
DLPD Contact Program of BITS for BS (Power Engineering), at various locations (Tanda, Unchahar, Vindhyachal, Kawas, Korba) of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), July – December, 2005.
Practice School –I Faculty, Practice School Program of BITS, TISCO, Jamshedpur, May – July, 2003.
Practice School –I Faculty, Practice School Program of BITS, KLR Industries, Hyderabad & CMC Limited, Hyderabad, May – July, 2004.
Two week industrial training in Polymerization Department Shree Synthetics Limited, Ujjain, M.P.

Education & Professional career

EDUCATION & Professional Career:

Education: Ph.D. (Materials Science: Broad Research Topic: Phase diagrams and Thermodynamics of Metal oxides), Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2000.
M.Sc.Ed. (Chemistry), Regional College (Institute) of Education (affiliated to University of Mysore), 1993, First Class.
B.Sc.Ed. (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics), Regional College (Institute) of Education, (affiliated to University of Mysore, 1991), First Class.
Post-doctoral Fellow (Broad research topic: Metal oxide thin films), Department of Electronics Engineering, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University (formerly National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU)), Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, R. O. C.(January 2001 - July 2005).
Present Position (Teaching, Research & Institutional): BITS-Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus (Department of Chemistry):
(i) Mentored First-degree degree students in their project-type courses in the area of First-principle computational study of solids, Materials cartography and study project courses on recent topics in Physical chemistry and Materials Science.
(ii) As Instructor-in-Charge: Chemistry I (I Sem: 2009-10), Chemistry Project Lab (II Sem: 2009-10 & 2010-11), General Chemistry (I Sem: 2013 and 2015), Chemistry Laboratory (II Sem: 2016, II Sem2023).
(iii) PhD Course/Research: Supervising Ph.D. students, PhD Entrance Test Question paper preparation as Coordinator, DAC Member and internal review of Project proposals and a few CDRF proposals.
(iv)Conducting Orientation session on ‘Concepts in Chemistry’ for first-degree international admits (July 2019, October 2022).
(v)Participated in the organization of Conference: NFCFA 2015, NFCFA 2017, NFCFA 2019, NSRP 2023 and Department outreach activities during PANIWATER conference 2020 and visit by college students.
(vi) Participated as an Instructor and delivered a lecture on the topic ‘BET Surface area analysis’ in STUTI (Synergistic Training Program Utilizing Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (supported by DST and Shivaji University, Kolhapur) and held at BITS-Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa campus during the week: September 26 to October 2, 2022.
(vii) Member of organizing committee in Department day celebrations (2017, 2018, 2019).
(viii) Member, Basic Science Committee (2016-2017), Member/Convener of Departmental Committee for Academics (DCA) for Department of Chemistry (Nov.2016-2021) and Mentor for ACB category students.
Administrative & Institute Assignments:
(i) Nucleus Member in General Administration, August 2008–February 2013.
(ii) Nucleus Member in AUGSD, December 2018-present.
(iii) Library Committee member representing Department of Chemistry (From Dec.2013 to Nov 2014, Dec.2018-2020).
(iv) Participated in BITSAT duty in May 2006 as Centre Coordinator (Chennai & Coimbatore), in 2009 as Proctor (Chennai), in 2014 as Proctor (Goa), in 2015 as Centre Coordinator (Coimbatore & Mysore), BITS HD Admission duty 2020 (online).
(v) WILP Instructor Feb.2022-Jan. 2023 (Physical and Inorganic Chemistry: B.Sc. Pharmaceutical Sciences), WILP invigilation (on campus pre-pandemic) and Reviewer of Abstracts: ICONWIL2024.
(vi) Practice School (PS) Instructor in May 2007 (Kozhikkode), 2008 (Kozhikkode), 2013 (Goa), 2016 (Goa).
(vii) Participation in Convocation: Faculty coordinator/leader for the Chemistry students (2011-13, 2015-18, 2022), WILP candidates (2019), Faculty Volunteer: Livestreaming Hall (2024).
Professional Membership:
Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Goa Chapter (2016 to present):
Participated as a member of the organizing committee for the inauguration of IIM Goa Chapter (September 2016) and NMD-ATM 2017 (November 2017). 2023-24: Continuing as an active member in the role of office bearer in IIM.

Conferences

Singh, S., & Guha, M. (2019). CSR Breadth or Depth? Exploring the CSR and Firm Performance Linkage in Mandatory CSR Regime, Southern Management Association Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.
Singh, S., & Guha, M. (2018). The CSR Engagement of Firms: The Influence of Industry and Community Peers, Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Hyderabad, India. Paper was nominated for Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Prize.
Singh, S., & Guha, M. (2018). Industry Influence on a Firm’s Social Community Spending: Evidence from India, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. (Accepted, not attended)
Singh, S., Thirumalesh, M.A., Akram, Ul M., & Guha, M. (2018). Export Performance of SME’s in India and China: The Effects of Institutional Environment, Foreign Link, Resources and Capabilities of Firms, Academy of International Business India Chapter, Shimla, India.
Singh, S. (2017). Experiential Learning: Analyzing Success and Failures in Indian Telecom Sector, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. (Accepted, not attended)
Singh, S., & Guha, M. (2016). Literature Review on Organization Learning in Past Fifteen Years (2001-2015), Strategic Management Forum, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Noida Campus, Lucknow, India.

Administrative Responsibilities

Faculty member in Alumni Relations Committee
Faculty member in Industry Relations Committee
Faculty member in Webinar Committee

To be updated.

Seminar & Conferences

SAS Faculty Development Program on ‘Designing curriculum for Big Data management, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning’ held during 3-6 Nov 2020.
41st Annual ISMS Marketing Science Conference organized by INFORMS held in University of Roma Tre, Rome on June 20-22 2019 and presented a paper titled " Economic Order Quantity Model for Technology Items with Imperfect Quality and Deterioration where Demand follows Multi-Stage Diffusion Dynamic".
Special session in Chalkidki (24 - 25 June 2017) of the 5th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI) 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.
5th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI) 2017 organized by Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (ATEI) and Manchester Metropolitan University held in Thessaloniki, Greece on 21, 22 and 23 June 2017 and will be presented a paper titled "Optimal pricing strategies for two successive generations of consumer durables"
International Conference on Marketing Technology and Society (MARCONF16) organized by IIM Kozhikode during September 29 - October 1, 2016 and presented a paper titled “Effective Marketing Strategy using Two-warehouse Inventory Model”.
Workshop on "Design of Programs / Curriculum with focus on Experiential Learning" 8th to 10th February' 2016 in the Hyderabad campus of BITS Pilani
7^th International Conference on Information Technology & Business Intelligence (ITBI-15) organized by IMT-Nagpur at RIT, Goa Campus during 21-23 Jan, 2016 and presented a paper titled “Impact of Network Externalities and Churn Analysis of Indian Telecom Market”.
FORE International Operations Conference 2015 (FIOC-2015) organized by FORE, New Delhi during 26-27 December and presented a paper titled “Stage wise Innovation Diffusion with a Dynamic Market”.
4^th Asian Management Research and Case Conference (AMRC) 2015 on Management Issues in Emerging Markets for Sustainable Business Organized by Universiti Sains, Malyasia during 10 – 11 January 2015 and presented a paper titled "Intergenerational Effects of Diffusion on CDMA and WCDMA Technologies under Direct Network Externalities"
International Conference on Operations Research for Sustainable Development in Globalized Environment Organized by Operational Research Society of India, Calcutta Chapter held during January 6-8, 2012 in the venue of Calcutta Business School and presented a paper titled “Direct and Indirect Network Effects on the Diffusion of Multi Generational Telecommunication Products”
National Meet on History of Mathematical Sciences held during January 7-9, 2010 in the venue Conference Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007.
4th International Conference on Quality, Reliability and Infocom Technology (ICQRIT) (Trends and Directions) held during December 18-20, 2009 in the venue of University of Delhi, Delhi and presented a paper titled “A General Model for Adoption of successive Technologies”.
11th National Conference of Indian Society of Information Theory and applications held during October 24-26, 2009 in the venue Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College, Sarhali (Tarn Taran) and presented a paper titled “Determining Adoption Pattern with pricing using Two Dimensional Innovation Diffusion Model”.
International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Marketing held during April 18-19, 2008 in the venue Institute of Management technology, Ghaziabad, India.
International Conference on Modeling, Computation and Optimization held during January 9-10, 2008 in the venue SQC & OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi-16, and presented a paper titled “Optimal Advertising Expenditure Strategies of Two Successive Generations of Consumer Durables”.
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming for Decision Making: Theory and Application held during January 10-11, 2007 in the venue SQC & OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi-16, and presented a paper titled “Dynamic Optimal Control Policy in Price and Quality for High Technology Product”.

Administrative Responsibilities

Head, Department of Management (Sept’ 2021 – Present)
Program Co-ordinator MBA in Business Analytics (Oncampus)
Faculty in-charge, Time Table (2018-2020)
Nucleus Member of AUGSD (2018-Present)
Nucleus Member of the MBA WILP Academic Program Committee (2015 – Present)
Member of D.L.S.C. (2019-Present)
SFC Committee Member (Sem2 2014-15 & Sem1 2015-16)
Placement Faculty Member(2014-2020)
Member Of D.C.A (Sem2, 2014-15 - 2018)
Member Of D.R.C (Sem1, 2016-17 - 2020)
Member of Lab Committee (Sem1, 2014-15 - 2018)
Member Of Library Committee 2015-16)
Acting as Doctoral Advisory Committee member for Ph.D. Students

Other Professional Experiences and Activities

Advisory Board member of the International Conference on Sustainable Materials, Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering (ICSMMIE 2022) held during July 1 & 2, 2022 in the venue Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Industrial Engineering & Management, Tumkur
Member of the technical committee of 11^th Annual International Conference on Computer Games Multimedia & Allied Technologies (CGAT 2018) held during 09-10 April, 2018 in the venue Hotel Fort Canning, 11 Canning Walk, Singapore 178881.
Convener, 2^nd International Conference on Evidence Based Management 2017 (ICEBM2017), held during March 17-18, 2017 in the venue BITS Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan.
Coordinator, Annual HR Conclave 2017: Bridging the Talent Gap - Issues and Challenges, held on January 20, 2017 Organized by Department of Management, BITS Pilani in collaboration with Work Integrated Learning Program (WILP) in the venue India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, Delhi – 110003
Convener, International Conference on Evidence Based Management 2015 (ICEBM2015), held during March 20-21, 2015 in the venue BITS Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan.
Member of the technical committee of 2nd Annual International Conference on Information Technology Security (ITS 2011) held during 24 - 25 November, 2011 in the venue 10 Anson Road, International Plaza, Singapore 079903.
Member of the technical committee of Annual International Academic Conference on Infocomm Technologies in Competitive Strategies (ICT 2011) held during 19 - 20 September, 2011 in the venue Singapore Management University, Administration Building, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065.
Member of the technical committee of Annual International Conference on Information Technology Security (ITS 2010) held during 29-30 November, 2010 in the venue Information Technology Security 2010, 10 Anson Road, International Plaza, #14- 04, Singapore - 079909
Member of the technical committee of Annual International Conference on Infocomm Technologies in Competitive Strategies ICT 2010) held during 25 - 26 October, 2010 in the venue Singapore Management University, Administration Building, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065.
Member of the program committee of 4th International Conference on Quality, Reliability and Infocom Technology and Mathematical Modeling and related Optimization Techniques (Trends and Future Directions) held during 18 - 20 Dec, 2009 in the venue Conference Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007.
Member of the program committee of International workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Optimization Techniques held during December 14-17, 2009 in the venue of University of Delhi, Delhi-11007.

Administrative Responsibilities

Nodal Officer and Project Lead, Gender Advancement for Transforming Institutions (GATI) Project at BITS Pilani, sponsored by WISE-KIRAN Division, Department of Science and Technology, GoI, (1st August 2021 to 31st January 2023).
Head, Department of Management, (1st September 2020 to 9th October 2020)
Head, Department of Management (1st September 2018 to 31st August 2020)
Convener, MHRD-Institute Innovation Council (IIC) (October 2018 to April 2019)
Member Appraisal Committee for Non-Teaching Staff. (2022)
Faculty-In-Charge (Pilani Campus), Center for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) (1st June 2015 to 31st August 2018)
Joint Secretary, PIED Society (1 August 2015 to 15th September 2018): Successfully led execution of TIDE grant (Facilitated the implementation of TIDE Scheme sponsored by DeitY, GOI, seed grant sanctioned Rs. 155 Lakhs for five years from April 2012 to March 2017). (Number of start-ups funded through TIDE Scheme: 8)
Executive Committee member, PIED Society (16th September 2013 to 15th September 2018)
Faculty-In-Charge, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) (1st September 2012 to 31st August 2018)
DLSC member, Department of Management (1 July 2018 to till date)
DLSC member, WILP (Department of Management)
Member, Research Board, BITS Pilani
Convener, HR Conclave 2019 organized at Pilani Campus.
Chair, 3rd ICEBM Conference 2019 organized at Pilani Campus.
Co-convener, 6th Indo-German Workshop on 6th Indo-German Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship, Jointly organized by BITS Pilani and TU Braunschweig, Germany, held on 17-18 September 2018, (Convener - Prof. Kuldeep Sangwan).
Member, DCA (1st September 2016 to 31st August 2018)
Member, DRC (1st September 2016 to 31st August 2018)
Convener, Student Faculty Council (1st September 2016 to 31st August 2018 and October 2020 till date)
Member, Senate as Assistant Professor (For 2 years, 2014 to 2016)
Member, Standing Committee for Students' Discipline (March 2011 to March 2013)
Member, DRC (September 2012 to September 2014)
Convener, DRC (November 2014 to August 2016)
Faculty Coordinator - Guest faculty at department level (October 2012 - August 2016)
Faculty Instructor, Practice School - I (2010 & 2012)
Convener, Tech Bazaar 2011 & 2012 organized at Pilani Campus.

Administrative Responsibilities

Convener - PILOT Program - Department of Management, BITS Pilani (2022 onwards)
Faculty Incharge MASSOC (2018 onwards)
SPOC and Convener - Cognitive Essential Skills with Maker Bhavan Foundation (2021 onwards)
Core member of Departmental Research Committee ( 2020 September onwards)
Faculty Coordinator - INTERFACE (2019 onwards)
Core Member - Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani - Pilani Campus (2018-2020)
Coordinator HR Conclave (2017,2019)
Ex Member of Placement Audit Committee
Ex Coordinator of Departmental Information Committee - Responsible for preparing reports and filling up questionnaires for Ranking Surveys, NAAC accreditation, UGC data and Annual Reports
Ex Member of Student Faculty Council
Ex Member of BITS Cooperative Purchase Committee
Part of the Organizing Committee of International Conference on Evidence Based Management (ICEBM 201 5 )
Actively involved in the MBA admission process over several years as a member of the team that conducted GD at Hyderabad , Bangalore and Pilani
Invigilator for BITSAT duty in Chennai during May 2009, 2013 , 2016
As coordinator of Internal Seminars of the Department, scheduled and facilitated seminar presentations of research scholars and faculty members on a weekly basis
As member of Library committee was actively involved in various initiatives related to procurement of relevant databases, online books and journals
Evaluated reports and conducted midsem ester evaluation of PS II students
Evaluated dissertation topics and conducted Viva for WILP students
Identified and listed as a part of curriculum revision, additional materials/books to be used from Books 24x7 for WILP course Principles of Management
Guided MBA students in preparing their résumé and improving their presentation skills
Evaluated and shortlisted APOGEE presentations 13) Judged several events at INTERFACE , an yearly management event
Involved in conducting Managemen t Development Program for Branch Managers of Bank of Rajasthan
Involved in conducting classes & evaluation components for Academic Refresher courses of Hindustan Zinc Ltd
Involved in conducting classes & evaluation components for BALCO
Involved in conducting classes for BITS - AEES - Mumbai Collaborative Programme
Part of the organizing committee of Tech Bazaar held during Apogee
Part of the organizing committee of International Conference on Soft Skills Development Strategies: Corporate and Academia Perspectives
Part of the organizing committee of 2nd National Convention on Energizing Entrepreneurship through Innovation
Involved in modification of question bank (Reading comprehension) of MBA entrance examination
Involved in invigilation and correction of MBA entrance examination papers

Workshops/Seminars/Virtual Conferences Participated

Participated in a FICCI FUTURE-X Faculty Development Program on "Online Teaching- Learning Tools & Pedagogies", 20-24 July
Participated in the “The Republic of Letters’ -A virtual conference for the best minds in learning to reboot and redesign higher education in India,, June 24-26, 2020 organized by Ashoka University and Harappa Education
Attended a webinar on "Online Teaching and Learning" organized by TLC Hyderabad on on June 30,2020
Attended a Webinar by Harvard Business Publishing on ‘Designing a Curriculum for Online and Hybrid Classes’ on June 9,2020
Attended a Webinar by Harvard Business Publishing on ‘Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities in Online Case Teaching: Insights from Two Case Teaching Experts’ on June 3, 2020
Attended a Webinar by Harvard Business Publishing on ‘COVID-19’s Impact on the Future of Higher Education: What University Leaders Should Be Thinking About Now’ on May 20, 2020
Participated in Academy Of Management Discoveries Workshop by Prof. Peter Bamberger, INDAM, Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli on January 02, 2020
Participated in “Learning 4.0: Connecting the Dots; Reaching the Unreached -The Second Annual Future of Learning Conference 2019” at IIM Bangalore from January 405, 2019
Participated in the Workshop on Management Research in India: Current State and Future Directions by Prof. Naresh Khatri, Prof. Arup Varma, Prof. Pawan Budhwar, INDAM, Indian Institute of Management, Indore from December 18, 2017.
Participated in a Professional Development Workshop on Teaching Effectiveness by Prof. Jyoti Bachani, Prof. Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan, INDAM, Indian Institute of Management, Indore from December 19, 2017.
Participated in a Professional Development Workshop Indian Insights: Integrating Individuals, Institutions & Innovations by Prof. Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, Prof. Jyoti Bachani , INDAM, Indian Institute of Management, Indore from December 19, 2017, INDAM, Indian Institute of Management, Indore from December 20, 2017,
Participated in the a Publication Workshop Prof. Pawan Budhwar (Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Management) Prof. Peter Bamberger (Incoming Editor-in-Chief, Academy of Management Discoveries) Prof. Anoop Madhok (Schulich School of Business, Canada)
Participated in the Workshop on Common Shortcomings in Manuscripts Submitted to Management Journals by Prof. Naresh Khatri, Prof. Arup Varma, Prof. Pawan Budhwar, INDAM, Indian Institute of Management, Indore from December 20, 2017.
Participated in a two day National Workshop on Outcome Based Learning using Pedagogy Framework Model, during 28-29 November, 2016 under a funded project of the HRD Ministry, Govt. of India. This workshop was organized by the Teaching Learning Centre (TLC), Pilani Campus in collaboration with the Centre for Educational Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.

Administrative Responsibilities

Head of Department [ Management Department]Sept. 2012- Aug. 2016 (4Years)
Group Leader [Management Group]Jan.2005- June 2010 ( 5years 6 Months)

Development Programs

Management Development Programs

Managerial Excellence and Effective Branch Management for Chief and Senior Branch Managers of The Bank of Rajasthan.
Managerial Excellence and Effective Branch Management for Officers of The Bank of Rajasthan.

Executive Development Programs

Academic Refresher Course Programs for Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur.
Professional Skills Development Program for Junior Executive Trainees, Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur.

Faculty Development Programs

“Tools and Techniques in Statistics and Simulation” from 29^th September to 1^st October 2011, held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus.
2-day workshop on Research Methodology organized by Departments of Humanities and Social Sciences, Eco. & Finance and Management on 23^rd & 24^th February 2019.
7-day workshop on Academic Writing organized by Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences held at BITS PILANI from 5th-11th April, 2019.

Adminstrative responsibilities

Dr. Rani has been involved with following administrative tasks for past years at BITS Pilani:

Head of Department (Sep 2016 - Aug. 2018)
Nucleus member, Department Research Committee (August 2014 - till date)
Nucleus member, MBA admissions (Aug. 2012- till date)
Nucleus member, Departmental Student Faculty Council.
Coordinator for M.Phil Program in Health and Hospital Systems Management , BITS, Pilani (Sep 2010 to May 2013)
Part of WILP Departmental Committee.
Nucleus member of Practice School (PS) Division, BITS, Pilani from 2005 to 2009.
Professor-in-charge, Management Association, Department of Management, BITS Pilani.
Faculty-in-charge of Institute Finctions (Sep. 2012 to Aug. 2014).

Professional Development

Workshops attended

Attended 3-day 1st Capability Building Workshop on Case Writing, organized by All India Management Association (AIMA) in Collaboration with The Case Centre, UK held at AIMA Office, New Delhi (August 2017)
2-day Case teaching workshop organized at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in Oct. 2015 organized jointly by IIM A and Harvard Business School and delivered jointly by faculty from both the organizing institutes (attended).
2-day Retail Workshop with 2 external resource persons and 125 participants across 2 BITS campus (Pilani and Hyderabad) in Nov. 2013 (attended & part of organizing team)
3-day Faculty Development Program on “Tools and Techniques in Statistics and Simulation” in Sep. 2011, held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (attended & part of organizing team)

Conference organizing

3^rd International Conference on Evidence Based Management 2017 (ICEBM 2017), February 1^st and 2^nd, 2019, at BITS Pilani (attended & part of organizing team)
2^nd International Conference on Evidence Based Management 2017 (ICEBM 2017), March 17-18, 2017, at BITS Pilani (attended & part of organizing team)
1^st International Conference on Evidence Based Management 2015 (ICEBM 2015), March 20-21, 2015, at BITS Pilani (attended & part of organizing team)

Memberships

Member of Pilani Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development (PIED) Society, BITS Pilani
Member of Society for Evidence-Based Management
Member of Global Society for Flexible Management, New Delhi

Administration

Administrative Experience (Key Responsibilities)

Help administer, frame and implement policies and support BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus to run daily administration. One of the key officials for the Growth Plans (2004, 2012 and 2022-under discussion) of BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus for campus infrastructure.

Dean, General Administration, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus. (16-June-2014 to 13-Jun, 2023) | 3 Tenures.

[Registry of Goa Campus, HR, PayRoll, Security, Purchase, Contracts (Security, Housekeeping, Horticulture, Mess, Food Outlets), Public Relations]
Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus. (Jan–2014 Jun-2016) | University wide functions: Term Ending cases (Tenure and Non-Tenure Faculty), Extension of Superannuation (60 Yrs to 65 Yrs). Campus wide: Recruitment Interviews (Dept level and Campus level), Performance Management.
Faculty In-charge, Computer Centre, BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Aug–2004 to Dec-2013 (9-1/2 years).

(Other Responsibilities)

Warden and Officiating Chief Warden, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, Aug–2004 to July-2010 (6 years).
Faculty In-charge, Audio-Visual, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, Aug–2004 to July-2009 (5 years).
Coordinator for BITS Admission Test (BITSAT) & Higher Degree Test, since 2005 to 2013 (9 years).
Coordinator for Centre for Software Development (C.S.D.), Aug–2004 till 2011(7 years). Developed Applications: Salary Pay-Slip, Grade Analysis, Mess Management, Complaint Management (CC & Maintenance), Security Gate Entry/Exit Management, Asset Management (CC).
Non Resident Warden of hostel at BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus, Aug–02 to July–04 (2 years).
Nucleus Member of Educational Hardware Division, BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan, Dec–2000 to July–2004 (4 years).
Project In Charge for “Single Bearing Alternator” in Crompton Greaves Ltd., July– 1998 to June–1999 (1 year).

Major Implementations at University (BITS Pilani) Level

Centralized e-mail, file storage and Collaboration Solution (35,000 Users) [2012] (Remarkable Decision & Contribution)
Network (MPLS) Connectivity of BITS (Indian) Campuses to support ERP and BITS Connect 2.O [2011-12]
Network & Internet | Security and Availability [2012]
Identity Based Network and Internet Access Control (SSO) [2012]
Secured Wireless Connectivity (RUCKUS) at Institute Building and other key locations [2013]
Member, Setting up (Co-Hosting) Data Center (DC) at Mumbai (Aditya Birla Group, Ahura Center) [2011]
Member, Setting up Disaster Recovery (DR) Center at Hyderabad Campus [2012]

Specific Contributions at Institute (Goa Campus) Level

Implemented Centralized Purchase Process through ERP (Oct-2021)
Instituted Staff Excellence Awards for the non-teaching staff, (Feb-2017).
Implemented Cashless Campus (Mar-2017)
Instituted Socio-Cultural Association of faculty and non-teaching staff (2016).
Implemented BITS Connect 2.O [CISCO Telepresence: Conference Room, Classroom] for Goa Campus (2012-13)
Implemented Local Area Network (LAN) for the Institute (2004) as per WIPRO.
Designed and developed Network, Communication and Application server Administration System (2004/2005/2006).
Worked in project of BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus to setup Audio-Visual System across the academic block (A & C): Classrooms, Lecture Theatres, Library, and Computer Center (2004-2008).
Under the Project, Designed and developed an Audio-Visual System for an Auditorium of a capacity 2200 seats (2004-05).

Committees

Chairman/Convenor:

Chairman, Energy Environment Green Audit Committee | Jun-2023 to Jun-2025
Student Grievance Redressal Committee
Convenor, Non-Teaching Staff Review and Promotions (2021, 2018, 2015) and Member in 2012
Convenor, Convocation-2022 (11-Sep, 2022), 2019 (11-Aug, 2019), Convocation-2018 (13-Aug, 2018), Convocation-2016 (7-Aug, 2016) | Streamlined Convocation Ceremony Work in 2014 and supported the team in Convocation-2014 and Convocation-2015.
Convenor, Non-Teaching Staff Review and Promotions (2021, 2018, 2015) and Member in 2012
Single Point of Contact for Campus Response Team during Covid-19
Coordinator, Cross Campus level faculty appraisal committees (Sr. Prof & Prof. | Asso Prof. | Asstt Prof. | Lect) (Apr-May-Jun-2016) as an Associate Dean Faculty Affairs.
Chairman: Dept Level (Faculty Recruitment) Shortlisting Committee (Aug-2015 to Jul-2018)
Chairman, Non-Teaching Recruitment (2014-Till Date)
Chairman, Off-Campus, Mechanical Faculty Recruitment Shortlisting Committee (2015-16)
Leader of Task Force on ICT Infrastructure at BITS in Mission 2012 and Vision 2020 of BITS Pilani (2010-11-12)
Convenor, 71st Annual Technical Meetings and 55th National Metallurgist Day, NMD-ATM, 2017 of Indian Institute of Metals, 11-14-Nov, 2017. [1150 Participants, 250 Accompanied Persons | 1.8 Cr Sponsorship.

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Member:

Campus Level Recruitment Committee
Cross Discipline Research Funding University wide Committee
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award Committee for Outstanding Research in Mechanical Engineering' for the academic year 2022-23, across the University.
Secretary, BITS Goa Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship Society (BGIIES) (Nov-2019 till date)
BITS 7th pay commission (2017)
Restructuring of Designation of Non-Teaching Staff (2018-19)
Campus level recruitment, Off-Campus (Mechanical) (2018-19)
University wide examination Committee (2014-Till Date)
Campus Level Examination Sub-Committee (Jul-2017 till date)
Purchase and Contracts (2011-14)
Students' Discipline (2004-2010)
Internal Quality Assurance (2017 till date)
Employees' PF Trust (2017 till date)
Complaints for Combating Sexual Harassment (2004 to 2008)
Performance Management System (University Level): 'Assessment of Performance of faculty members on Administrative front' (2015) as an Associate Dean Faculty Affairs.
Dept Level (Faculty Recruitment) Shortlisting Committee
Non-Teaching Recruitment (2004-2014)
Member, Non-Teaching Staff Review (2011)

Member of International / National Bodies

Chairman, Goa Chapter (Indian Institute of Metals, IIM) [Jul-2016 to Jul2018]

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
Member, Mechanical Engineering Society (MES), International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Singapore
Indian Institute of Mechanical Engineers
Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE)
Senior Membership, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Singapore
Member of Editorial Board, Intellectuals Society for Socio-Techno Welfare (ISST) Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Member of the Advisory Board of VEL TECH University, Chennai. [Aug-2012 to Jul-2015]
Visiting Professor, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE) Nagpur. [Aug-2014 to Jul-2016]
Member Board of Studies: Cummins College of Engg for Women, Pune. [AY: 2020-21 to AY: 2022-23]
Member Board of Studies: Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Sangli (MS). [May-2018 till Date]

To be updated.

Seminars

Attended one week online Faculty Development Program on "Applications of Mathematics in Business and Social Sciences" organized by Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre, Hansraj College during 18th March-24th March, 2021.
Presented my work on "Maximal non chained subrings of a ring" in International Conference on Algebras and its related Topics with Applications during December 17-19, 2019 held at the Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
Presented my work on "Maximal non λ-subrings of a commutative ring" in Conference on Algebra, Analysis and Applications organized by Ambedkar University, Delhi on May 10, 2019.
Presented my work on "λ-extensions and ∆-extensions of rings" in National Research Scholar Seminar on December 28, 2018 organized by Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Presented my work on "Properties of maximal subrings" in Conference on "Mathematical Sciences and Development" during December 22-24, 2018 organized by Institute of Basic Sciences, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra.
Presented my work on "Maximal subrings of a ring" in Research Scholar Seminar and Annual Conference of the Society of Mathematical Sciences (Delhi) during May 01-02, 2017 organized by Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Attended National conference on Algebra, Analysis, Coding and Cryptography (Sponsored by DRDO) held at Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, Delhi during 14-15 October, 2016.

Responsibilities

Professor In-charge, Mathematics Association (September 2024- ).
Worked as PS-I faculty in 2024.
Performed BITSAT duties in 2022 and 2023.
Instructor-In-charge of multi-section course (Mathematics-II in 2024).
Seminar coordinator (September 2022-August 2024).
In-charge of Computational lab of Mathematics department (September 2022-August 2024).

Professional Services

Member of ‘Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)’ from January 2015 – December 2018.
Member of ‘American Chemical Society (ACS)’ (February 2018-January 2019).
Organized an one-day seminar on 'Recent Advances in Bio-inorganic Chemistry' at BITS-Pilani Goa, India in 2023.
Actively participated in organizing international (SABIC-5 & SABIC-6 held in Kolkata in 2017 & 2024, respectively; 1st ICAIEFA held at BITS Pilani Goa) and national conference (NSRP-2023 & 89th IASc meeting; held at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus in 2023)
Served as Treasurer for an international conference IC-AIE-FA-2022, held at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus in 2022.
Served as independent reviewer for the ACS journals ACS Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering; RSC publishing journals Green Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and New Journal of Chemistry and Elsevier publishing journal Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical.
Evaluated applications of young minds under the Young Entrepreneurs Bootcamp (YEB) program conducted by BITS Pilani Goa campus in 2022.

To be updated.

Seminars and Conferences

Organised Conferences & Workshops

International Conference on Advances in Mechanics, Modelling, Computing and Statistics BITS Pilani, Pilani,19-21 March 2022.
48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Powers, BITS Pilani, Pilani, 27-29 Dec 2021.
Multiscale modelling approach to fluid flows involving phase change, University of Warwick, July 20, 2018.
Recent developments in the kinetic theory of gases, University of Warwick, July 27, 2017.

Conferences & Workshops Participation

International Conference on Advances in Transport Phenomena, VIT-AP University, Amaravati, July 16-18, 2022 (Invited).
66th Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM)'', VIT-AP University, Amaravati, 3-5 Dec 2021 (Invited).
Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Non-Equilibrium Processes, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 27 Sep 2021–01 Oct 2021 (Invited).
2nd International Conference on Fluids under Confinement, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, 14-31 March 2021 (Invited).
Short-term Online Training Programme for Faculty Members On MATHEMATICS WITH MATLAB AND MATHEMATICA, IIT Indore, 23-28 Nov 2020 (Invited).
Multiscale modelling approach in micro/nano-fluidics, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, 09-10 Dec 2019 (Invited).
International Workshop on Recent Advancements in Data Envelopment Analysis and Applications, BITS Pilani, Pilani, 10-11 July 2021.
International Workshop on Stochastic Simulation and its Applications, BITS Pilani, Pilani, 24-27 Dec 2019.
2nd Warwick Postdoctoral Symposium, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, May 7, 2019.
4th Meeting of the Multiscale and Non-Continuum Flows, Cranfield University (Cranfield, UK), October 3, 2018.
31st International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Glasgow, July 2327, 2018.
Technical Workshop on Micro and Nano Flows for Engineering, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK), March 24, 2017.
Multiscale Fluid Dynamics: Simulation, Experiments and Applications (Swinton park, Yorkshire, UK), December 13, 2016.
Higher Order Methods for Conservation Laws, NIMS (Busan, South Korea), August 25-27, 2014.
28th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Zaragoza (Spain), July 09-13, 2012.
1st European Conference on Gas Micro Flows, Skiathos Island (Greece), June 06-08, 2012.
7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver (Canada), January 18-22, 2011.
PIMS Workshop on Topics in Kinetic Theory, University of Victoria (Canada), June 29-July 03, 2009.
Moment Methods in Kinetic Theory, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), November 06-08, 2008.

Professional Activity

Workshops/Conferences Organized:

As Principal Organizer:

1. Indo-French Research Workshop on "Theory and Simulation of Hyperbolic PDEs arising in Mathematical Biology and Fluid Flow" at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India from 05th January to 11th January 2019 under the support of IFCAM.

Details can be found at https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/TSHPDE/Home

2. GIAN program on “Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Coagulant Fluid” at IIT Bhubaneswar, India from 25th July 2016 to 29th July 2016 under the support of MHRD India.

International expert: Prof. Joaquim M.C. Correia from univ. of Evora, Evora Portugal http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in//files/brochures/BR1465288646Rajesh_Kumar___MASC.pd

3. GIAN program on “Current Advances in Numerical Techniques for PDEs with Random Input Data” at IIT Bhubaneswar, India from 8th December 2016 to 13th December 2016 under the support of MHRD India.

International expert: Prof. Fabio Nobile from EPFL Switzerland, Switzerland. http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in//files/brochures/BR1472731198GIAN_CANT_PDE.pdf

As One of the Joint Secretaries:

1. International Workshop on "Stochastic Simulation and its Applications" organized by Dept. of Maths., BITS Pilani, Pilani campus during 24-27th December 2019.

2. International Conference and 22nd Annual Convention of Vijñana Parishad of India on "Advances in Operations Research, Statistics and Mathematics" organized by Dept. of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus during December 28-30, 2019.

As One of the Coordinators:

1. Global Meet on "Computational Modeling and Simulation: Recent innovations, challenges, and perspectives" organized by BITS Pilani, India during 16th October to 7th November 2020.

Reviewer Activities:

1) Reviewer for journals:

Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae

International Journal of Computer Mathematics

Computational and Mathematical Biophysics

2) Reviewer for conference proceeding:

International Conference on Computational Sciences - Modelling, Computing and Soft Computing 2020

(AIP Publishers)

Professional Services:

1. Member of Scientific Committee in West Asian Mathematical Schools (WAMS) on "Recent Developments and Applications of Partial Differential Equations, from Theory to Simulation", held at IIT Roorkee from 29th August-3rd September 2019, supported by CIMPA and IMU.

Conferences/Symposiums

International Congress of Mathematicians, Brazil, Aug. 01-09, 2018.
International Conference on Current Trends in Theoretical and Computational Differential Equations with Applications, South Asian University, New Delhi, Dec. 01-05, 2017 (Invited Talk).
International Conference on Current Trends in PDEs: Theory and Computations, South Asian University, New Delhi, Dec. 28-30, 2015 (Invited Talk).
Conference on Computational PDEs, TIFR-CAM Banglore, Dec. 21-23, 2015 (Paper Presentation).
International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015), China, Aug. 10-14, 2015.
National Conference on Recent Trends and Developments in Operation Research (NCRTDOR-14), BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Feb 22-23, 2014 (Paper Presentation).
International Symposium on Game Theory: Teaching and Applications, Central University of Rajasthan, Dec. 16, 2011.
International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, August 19-27, 2010.
ICM satellite conference on PDE and related topics at TIFR-CAM Banglore, August 13-17, 2010.
Year Long Programme on Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations: Theory & Applications, IIT Bombay, Nov. 20-23, 2009.
Indo-German Conference on PDE, Scienti c Computing and Optimization in Applications, IIT Kanpur, October 7-9, 2009 (Paper Presentation).
International Conference on Recent Trends in Computational Partial Differential Equations (ICCPDE-2008), IIT Bombay, December 10-13, 2008 (Paper Presentation).
International Conference on Topics on functional and Numerical Analysis (TOFNA-05), IIT Bombay, December 7-9, 2005.
National Symposium on Scienti c Computations with Applications to Partial Di fferentail Equations, IIT Kanpur, November 19-21, 2005.

Workshops/Seminars/Schools

Resource Person, ''NuMATS Five Day Residential Camp'', Department of Mathematics, IIST Thiruvananthapuram, June 14-18, 2019.
Invited lecture on “LATEX for Beginner’s” in National Workshop on MATLAB and LaTeX (NWML-2016), Department of Mathematics, Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Rewari (Haryana), Aug. 24-30, 2016.
Advanced Level Training Programme on Differential Equations, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, May 25-June 14, 2016 (Conducted Lab on FEM for elliptic and heat equations).
Advanced Workshop on Singularly Perturbed PDEs: Theory, Computation and Applications (AWSPPDEs-2016), IIT Kanpur, Mar. 24-28, 2016.
Pedagogical Training for Mathematics Teachers, ICT Mumbai, Nov. 2-7, 2015.
National Workshop on Latex and MATLAB for Beginners, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Dec. 24-28, 2014 (Resource Person).
Advanced Workshop on Computational Methods for Integral Equations and Application (AWCMIEA-2014), IIT Kanpur, Jan. 13-17, 2014.
Workshop on Optimization with PDE constraints, TIFR-CAM Banglore, Nov. 25 - Dec. 6, 2013.
Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW) at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, first semester 2013-2014.
National Workshop on Modelling and Computation at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Feb. 23-24, 2013.
Advanced Workshop on Non-Standard Finite Element Methods (AWNSFEM-2013), IIT Bombay, Feb. 11-15, 2013.
Advanced Instructional School on Partial Di erential Equations (AISPDE), TIFR Banglore, Dec. 15, 2008 - Jan. 6, 2009.
Instructional School on PDEs and National Symposium on Hyperbolic PDEs, IIT Bombay, July 14 - 17, 2008.
Summer School: Topics in Nonlinear PDEs, CIM/UC Coimbra, Portugal, June 22-27, 2007.
Instructional School on Modern Theory of PDEs, IIT Bombay, May 26 - June 23, 2007.
Indo-German workshop on Automatic Di fferentiation, Optimal Control and adaptivity with Applications (ADOCAA-06) IIT Bombay, Nov. 11-17, 2006.
Winter school 2005 on Introduction to partial di erential equations, IISc Banglore, Dec. 19-23, 2005.
Instructional Workshop on Algebraic Graph Theory, IIT Guwahati, Dec. 09-21, 2004.
Mathematical Training and Talent Search (MTTS) Program, a 4-week interactive program, sponsored by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) RIE Mysore, India, May 17-June 12, 2004.

Administrative Duties

Seminar In-Charge, Aug. 2020-2022.
Placement Team Member, Aug. 2020-2022.
Member of Academic Counselling Cell (A.C.C.).
Performed BITSAT Duty in 2015, 2018-2020.
Member of Committee to look into the discriminating complaints received from SC/ST students, faculty and staff members of BITS Pilani - Pilani Campus, Aug. 2019.
Member of Departmental Research Committee, Sep. 2018-Aug. 2020, Sep. 2016-Aug. 2018.
Member of Library Committee, Dec. 2017-Dec. 2020.
Computer Lab In-charge, Sep. 2018-Aug. 2020, Sep 2016-Aug. 2018, Dec. 2014-Aug 2016.
Departmental Function In-charge, Sep 2016-Aug. 2018.
Member of Teaching Learning Center, Sept. 2016-Aug. 2018.
Member of Student-Faculty Council (SFC), II Semester 2018-19, I Semester 2017-18, I Semester 2016-17, II Semester 2014-15.
Member of Project Implementation Committee for FIST Grant.
Convener of Infrastructure and Social Welfare Committee, Dec. 2015-Aug. 2016.
Website In-Charge, Department of Mathematics since Dec. 2014-Aug. 2016.
Worked as Organizing Secretary of National Workshop on Latex and MATLAB for Beginners, held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Pilani, Dec. 24-28, 2014.
Member of Infrastructure and Social Welfare Committee, Sep. 2014-Nov. 2015.
Convenor of Project type courses (Numerical Methods), I Sem. 2014-15, II Sem. 2015-16, II Sem 2017-18.
Member of the technical team of organizing committee for National Workshop on Modelling and Computation held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Pilani, Feb. 23-24, 2013.
Apart from above mentioned works, I was also involved in developing new courses, curriculum development of courses etc.

Membership of Professional Bodies

AMS Member, Jan.-Dec. 2018, Jan-Dec. 2014.
SIAM Outreach member, Jan.-Dec. 2018, July 2015 to Dec. 2016.
SIAM member of Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations,
Jan.-Dec. 2018, July 2015 to Dec. 2016.
Life Member of Indian Mathematical Society (IMS).
Life Member of Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM).
Life Member of Indian Academy for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation (IAMMS)

Extra Activities

Convener of International Conference and 22^nd Annual Convention of Vijñana Parishad of India on Advances in Operations Research, Statistics and Mathematics (AOSM 2019), during December 28-30^th 2019, Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Pilani.
Convener of “International Workshop on Stochastic Simulation and its Applications” during December 24-27^th 2019, Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Pilani.
Organizing committee member for “Symposium on Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics”, April 4, 2015, Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani.
Coordinator for National Workshop on LaTeX and MATLAB for Beginners, Dec. 24-28, 2014, Partially supported by DST–Rajasthan.
Acted as Joint Secretary in National Conference on Recent Trends and Developments in Operations Research under UGC-SAP, DRS I, 22-23, Feb 2014, organized by Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus, Pilani.
Organizing committee member in a National Conference on Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics & Operations Research, 4-5, Feb 2012, held at Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
Organizing committee member in a National Conference on modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics & Operations Research under UGC-SAP, DRS I, 4-5, Feb 2012, organized by Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
Organizing committee memberin Training Programm “Optimization and its Application”, December 24-29, 2008, Sponsored by DST, held at Banasthali University, under Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Organizing committee memberin workshop on “Bayesian Techniques and its Applications”,October 1-7, 2008 held at Banasthali University, under Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Program Committe member in DST sponsored Workshop on “Models of Embedded Computations”, March 15-19, 2007, held at Banasthali University, under Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Participated in a Department of Technology, Govt. of India, sponsered project “GyanJyot”, Badmare district in 2007.Organizing committeemember Training Program on “Stochastic Process Modelling: Concept, Theory and Application”, December 2-15, 2006, Sponsored by DST, held at Banasthali University.
Participated as Volunteer in National Conference on Operations Research and Information Technology during April 2-3, 2000 at Agra.
Participated as Volunteer in XXXI Annual Convention of ORSI and International Conference on Operations Research and Industry during Dec. 19-21, 1998 at Agra.

International/National Visits

Department of Mathematics, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, attended "International Conference on Applied Analysis and Mathematical Modeling (ICAAMM 2013)", during 2-5 June 2013.
Department of Production Management, Business School, Mannheim University, Germany during June 29 - July 02, 2014 to attend the Joint meeting of the GOR and the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Modelling.
Prof. Alok Goswami, Statistics and Mathematics Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, during 30-05-2015 to 4-07-2015.
Visited Prof. Raik Stolletz, Department of Production Management, Business School, Mannheim University, Germany, during Dec. 1, 2015, to Jan. 15, 2016 under Bilateral Cooperation funded by DFG (German science foundation).
Tinbergen Institute, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands to attend 11th International Workshop on Retrial Queues and Related Topics during 30-08-2016-02-09-2019.
NTU Singapore to attend the International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems 2019(ICCCS 2019), during 23-25 Feb 2019.

Start ups and Field Scale installations

Three start ups from my lab

BacTreat Environmental Solutions LLP – My own start up focusing on Resource Recovery from Septage and wastewater treatment - Implementing constructed wetland based treatment systems in 6 schools in Goa. Demonstrated Resource Recovery from Septage at Baina Sewage Treatment plant, funded by DBT BIRAC.
15% stake in Zycon Biosciences Pvt Ltd which is focusing on Enzyme production and Purification.
Co founder of Tissues Engineered Private Limited

Workshops / Conferences organized

India Benin workshop on Urban Rural Nutrient and Carbon cycle in collaboration with GIZ from 24^th – 27^th Nov 2018.
Convenor of workshop NSA 2017: “Novel Sanitation approaches and emerging trends in Wastewater treatment system” from 19-21 of December, 2017 in association with Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and UNESCO IHE, Delft, Netherlands
Convenor of International conference on “Terra preta sanitation and decentralized wastewater systems” in collaboration with Technical University Hamburg, Harburg, Germany, November 19 – 20, 2015
Convenor of National conference “Decentralized biogas digesters and their slurry management” in collaboration with Institute of Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects affiliated to Berlin Humboldt-University (IASP), Department of Biogene Resources, Berlin, Germany, during November 20 – 21, 2014
Short course on Wastewater Treatment october 11 - 13 2011 for public works department, Goa in collaboration with Dr.Michel Torrijos Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, INRA, Narbonne, France.
Convenor of International Water Association’s international conference on “Microbes in Wastewater & Waste Treatment, Bioremediation and Energy Production”. This conference is scheduled during January 24 – 27, 2011 at Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Pilani, Goa campus, Goa, India.
Convenor of American Society for Microbiology sponsored International Workshop on Bioremediation. Jan 4 – Jan 16^th 2010 in association with Prof. Max Haggblom, Rutgers University, USA
Convenor of Conference on Anaerobic Digestion and Renewable Energy through Microbes Jan 13 – 15 2009
Editorial member of Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences
Chief Editor of International Journal of Anaerobic digestion and Renewable Energy
Reviewer of International Journal “ Bioresource Technology”
Reviewer of “International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
Reviewer of “Journal of Petroleum Technology and Alternate Fuels”
Reviewer of “World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology”
Faculty in charge for Institute’s Biological Sciences club called “SYMBIONTS”

International Research Collaborations

Collaboration with University of KwaZulu-Natal – South Africa, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China and UNISC, Brazil as part of BRICS project
Collaboration with Unidade de Bioenergia e Biorrefinarias and Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade de Lisboa / University of Lisbon School of Agriculture, Lisbon as part of DST collaborative project.
Collaboration with EOOS Next Austria as part of Bill & Melinda Gates foundation project
Collboration with Georgia Tech, USA as part of Reinvented Toilet funded by Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
Collaboration with Caltech USA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on testing on site electrochemical wastewater treatment and recycling technology.
Collaboration with German Technical Cooperation, Technical University Hamburg, Harburg and International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Srilanka on Pilot scale studies of Terra Preta Sanitation.
Collaboration with Prof. Willy Verstraete and Prof. Korneel Rabaey, Ghent University on Reinvent the toilet Challenge project.
Collaboration with German Technical Cooperation, Technical University, Hamburg and Hamburg Wasser on GTZ-BMU – Waste to Energy project – ongoing. Currently appointed as consultant who will provide scientific back up. Total consultancy cost (Rs 10 lacs)
Sustainable energy production from solid food waste of a small community – Collaboration with Dr. Michel Torrijos, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, INRA, Narbonne, France. Under this collaboration funded by French Embassy, Vidhya Prabhudesai my PhD student will stay nine months in France to start the characterization of the various fractions of the wastes and to measure the methane potentials. Period : May 2009 – Jan 2010.
Isotope biogeochemical concepts to characterise the fate of organic chemicals in the environment with Dr.Hans Hermann Richnow, Head, Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany under bilateral cooperation in Science and Technology funded by International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Period : Jan 2009 – July 2009.

Member of Professional Societies

American Society for Microbiology
Society for Applied Microbiology
Association of Microbiologists of India
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society
International Solid waste Association
International Water Association
Biogas Forum India

Field Scale Installation - Research, Development and Deployment

Organizer of Conference/Workshop

The Annual Conference of Indian Women and Mathematics funded by funded by National Board for Higher Mathematics, DAE, Govt. of India and supported by Committee for Women in Mathematics, IMU (held at BITS Goa July 11-13, 2024), link: https://sites.google.com/goa.bits-pilani.ac.in/iwm-annual-conf-2024.
The Advanced Instructional School (AIS) on Functional Analysis, Operator Theory and Operator Algebra funded by National School of Mathematics (held at BITS Goa on 12th June - 1st July 2023), link: https://www.atmschools.org/school/2023/ais/fsotoa.

Reviewer of Journals:

Journal of Operator Theory
Journal of Indian Mathematical Society
International Journal Functional Analysis and it’s Applications

Additional Experience

Chaired a session in International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research, held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, February 8-9, 2019.
Resources person at "Three Days Workshop on Computational Techniques in Mathematics" from January 10-12, 2019 at Vivekanand Global University, VIT Campus, Jaipur (Rajasthan).
Member of Technical Programme Committee of International Conference on “Mathematical Modeling and Computing (ICMMC 2018), held at Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre, Jaipur, on April 6-7, 2018.
Chaired a session in International Conference on 2nd International Conference on Evidence Based Management (ICEBM 2017), held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, March 17-18, 2017.
Resources person at "National Workshop on LaTeX and MATLAB (NWLM)" from August 24-30, 2016 at Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Rewari (Haryana).
Invited lecture on “Some Applications on DEA” at VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic on June 09, 2016.
Chaired a session in International Conference on Evidence Based Management (ICEBM 2015), held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, from March 20-21, 2015.
Resources person of 5 days "National Workshop on LaTeX and MATLAB for Beginners (NWLMB)" from December 24-28, 2014 at BITS Pilani, with partial support from DST, Rajasthan.
Chaired a session in SocProS 2013 held at IIT Roorkee (Greater Noida Campus), Noida from December 26-28, 2013.
Member of Program committee of SocProS 2013 held at IIT Roorkee (Greater Noida Campus), Noida from December 26-28, 2013.
Chaired a session in National Conference on Recent Trends in Operations Research (NCRTOR 2013) held at ASET, New Delhi from April 11-12, 2013.
Invited for training lecture on MATLB Software Workshop held at The IIS University, Jaipur from March 17-18, 2013.
Reviewer of Journal of Applied Research and Technology.
Reviewer of European Journal of Operational Research.
Reviewer of International Journal of Operational Research.
Reviewer of Soft Computing.

Research Profile Links:

Adminstritive Positions

Head of the Department : September 2012 to August 2014
Member, Departmental Research Committee : September 2014 to August 2016
Member, Departmental Committee on Academics : September 2016 to August 2018

Membership of Professional Bodies

American Academic & Scholarly Research Center, USA: Life Member
International Association of Engineers(IAENG)
Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics : Life Member
Rajasthan Ganita Parishad : Life Member
Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer: Life Member
IAENG Society of Chemical Engineering
Rajasthan Academy of Physical Sciences: Life Member
IRED:Universal Association of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineers: 3Years

Research Interest and interesting links

Research Interest

Computational Physics

Condensed Matter Physics

Non-linear Dynamics & Chaos

Interesting links:

· Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers.... By Steven Weinberg

· Snapshots of a Physicist’s life: Online autobiography of J.D.Jackson

· · 100 Reasons to be a Scientist

· · “The unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences” – By Eugene Wigner

· · Why must scientists become more ethically sensitive than they used to be? – by John Ziman

· · Computational Physics

· · Numerical Recipes in Physics

· · Physics simulations

· · A New Kind of Science – by Stephen Wolfram

Criticism of “New Kind of Science” By Weinberg

· · Quantum Information and Physics of Information

· · FAQs in Physics: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/

Other Responsibilities

BITS Institutional Responsibilities

1	Member, University Senate, since June 2021
2	Convenor, Department Committee on Academics (DCA), Since 2020
3	Warden, Gandhi Bhavan Hostel, Since July 2018
4	Co-opt Member, University Senate, Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
5	Convenor, Department Research Committee (DRC) , 2016-2020
6	Faculty in charge, Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory, 2016-2020
7	Member, Library Committee, 2014-15
8	Member, Department Finance Committee, Since 2019
9	BITSAT Coordinator, Trivandrum Centre, 2015,2016 and proctor 2017,2018
10	SME Practice School-1 2017, 2018 Practice School -1 Instructor 2018, 2020
11	Organising Secretary , International Symposium on Wind Engineering and Wind Energy (ISWWE2016), 2016 at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus
12	As Organising Co-Convener for 2nd National Conference on Design and manufacturing technologies for Product Life Cycle, 2016 at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus

Community Service and Administration

2021-23 Member-Coordinator of the team corresponding to 'Criterion 6.3 Case Studies' and member of ‘Criterion 5.5 Gender Climate and Organisational Culture’ which are part of the project 'Gender Advancement for Transforming Institutions' (GATI project) supervised by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and the National Assessment and Accreditation of Council, India. (Status: Project Report for Criterion 6.3 completed on 18 April 2022 and tasks for Criterion 5.5 completed on 31 January 2023).
2020-22 Advisor to Gender Champions, BITS Pilani.
2020-22 Member of the Committee for International Academia and Research, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani.
2020 Member of the Humanities Sub-Committee, BSc. Computing and Design, Work Integrated Learning Programme, BITS Pilani.
2018-22 Programme Officer, National Service Scheme, BITS Pilani.
2018-22 Member, Departmental Committee for Academics, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani.
2018 Member of the Group for designing the curriculum BSc Computing and Design, Work Integrated Learning Programme, BITS Pilani.
2021-22 Non-Resident Warden, Shankar Bhawan, BITS Pilani.
2016-21 Non-Resident Warden, Ashok Bhawan, BITS Pilani.
2016-17 Member of the Teaching-Learning Centre, BITS Pilani.
2016 Coordinator of the Working Group that designed the curriculum for a first-degree undergraduate programme in Liberal Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani.
2013-15 Member of the Quality Assessment and Assurance Team, Mission 2015-Vision 2020, BITS Pilani.
2013-15 Member of the Departmental Research Committee, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani.

Membership

Life member, International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association. Sydney,Australia
Life member, Association for English Studies in India

Administration

Coordinator, Student Faculty Council(Since 2020)
Editor, University Wide Newsletter(2016 -2018)
Editor, BITSCAN (2015 to July 2021)
Nucleus Member, Publications and Media Relations Unit in BITS, Pilani ( 2007 to 2013)
Faculty-in charge ,Placement Feedback Advisory Counseling (PFAC) 2012
Member, Editorial Team, BITSCAN (2004 to 2013)
Member, Library Committee 2005-2006
Editor,Musings,2012-2013
Member Academic Counselling Cell(ACC)2010 to 2015
Member, Department Committee on Academics
Member, Doctoral Research Committee
Member ,Library Committee,2017
Student Faculty Council Member (iisem 2015-16)and Co-ordinator(isem 2016-17)
Prof Incharge,Ragamalika

Professional Experience

Academic and Administrative Experience

Internal

Convener, Department Committee on Academics (DCA), Department of HSS, BITS, Pilani (September 2020 – August 2022) & (September 2022 – August 2024)
Co-editor, Musings 2020 (An Anthology of Poems, Short Stories, One-act Plays and Paintings, Department of HSS, BITS, Pilani
Member, Humanities Sub-Committee for B.Sc. (Design and Computing), Work Integrated Learning Programs (WILP), BITS, Pilani (Second Semester, 2019 - 2020)
Resource Faculty, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS, Pilani (First Semester, 2019 - 2020)
Member, Academic Counseling Cell, BITS, Pilani (2019 - 2020)
Convener, Student Faculty Council (SFC), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (2018-2020)
Member, Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (2018-2020)
Member, Department Level Short-Listing Committee (DLSC), BITS, Pilani (2013 - 2020)
Member, BITS Team, Test Centre, BITS Admission Test (BITSAT) (2008 – 2017, 2019 & 2022)
In-charge, Recreational Activity Forum (RAF), BITS, Pilani (June 21, 2008 – January 11, 2019)
Associate Dean, Student Welfare Division, BITS, Pilani (November 11, 2014 - August 16, 2018)
Member, Department Research Committee (DRC), BITS, Pilani (2014 - 2016)
Warden, Ram Bhawan, BITS, Pilani (Pilani Campus) (2005 - 2015); (Combined with Budh Bhawan and Malviya Extension during 2012 - 2015)
Faculty In-charge, Financial Aid for Students (Merit Cum Need Scholarship), BITS, Pilani (2009 - 2014)
Nucleus Member, Student Welfare Division, BITS, Pilani (2009 - 2014)
Convener, Department Research Committee (DRC), BITS, Pilani (2012 - 2014)
Member, Research Board, BITS, Pilani (2012-2013)
Professor-in-charge, Languages and Humanistic Studies Association, BITS, Pilani (2011 - 2012)
Program Officer, National Service Scheme (NSS), BITS, Pilani (2008 - 2012)
Nucleus Member, Publications and Media Relations Unit, BITS, Pilani (2006 - 2009)
Member, Library Committee, BITS, Pilani (2007, 2010 & 2011)
Member, Academic Counseling Board, BITS, Pilani (2004 - 2006)
Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS, Pilani (Second Semester, 2004 - 2005)
Nucleus Member, Off Campus Work Integrated Learning Programs Division, BITS, Pilani (2000 - 2005)
Reviewer of a few Research Project Proposals in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pilani Campus

External

Member, Board of Studies, University Institute of Neural and Cognitive Sciences, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India (2019-2020)
Member, Board of Studies, Centre of Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India (2019-2020)
Technical Paper Reviewer, Annals of Bioethics & Clinical Applications, Medwin Publishers, Troy, Michigan, USA (2019-2021)
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Research in Business Studies, New Delhi, India (2018-2021)
Technical Paper Reviewer, People: International Journal of Social Sciences (Open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal published by GRDS Publishing) (2019)
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Communication, New Delhi, India (2007, 2008, 2011, 2018, 2019)
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences – IJHS, Secunderabad, Telangana, India (2019)
Paper-setter of undergraduate / postgraduate Philosophy courses of a reputed university

Professional Meetings

Chaired a Technical Session in International Conference on Research in Business (ICRB 2020) on “Together Towards Tomorrow: Tapping the Tempo” held at India International Centre, New Delhi, India on February 16, 2020
Attended an Intensive Workshop on “Research Methodology” held at Department of Humanities and Sciences, BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus, Pilani, India during February 09-11, 2015
Attended a Workshop on “Philosophy Teachers’ Meet on Methodologies and Measures” sponsored by ICPR, New Delhi held at Department of Philosophy, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India during March 21-22, 2013
Co-chaired a Technical Session in Third International ELT@I Rajasthan Conference on Interfacing Language, Culture and Technology, organized by Department of Humanities and Languages, BITS, Pilani, India during October 8-9, 2012
Attended a Workshop on “Contemporary Indian Identities, Philosophy and Art and the Philosophy of Literature” held at Department of Philosophy, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India during January 29-30, 2009
Chaired a session on “Moral Values and Human Nature” in National Seminar on Moral Goodness and Human Nature, sponsored by SAP, UGC, held at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India during March 14-15, 2007
Attended Faculty Development Program on “Professional Effectiveness” organized by Management Studies Group, BITS, Pilani, India during October 26-27, 2004
Attended a Global Convention on Peace and Nonviolence as the institute sponsored delegate held on January 31 and February 01, 2004 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, India. The Prime Minister of India, Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated the convention. Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi, India organized the convention.
Attended a Workshop on Conflict Transformation and Citizens’ Diplomacy held during Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2003 at BITS, Pilani, India.
Attended a National Workshop on Applied Philosophy and Professional Ethics held during November 18-20, 2001 at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

Professional Memberships

Life-time member of The Indian Philosophical Congress (IPC), Darshan Bhawan, 36, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110062 - http://indianphilosophicalcongress.in/ [Membership ID: 238]
Life-time member of Social Science & Humanities Research Association (SSHRA), a scholarly association - http://www.eurasiaresearch.org/ [Membership ID: ERCICSSH1908079]

National Collaborations

Dr. S. Ganguly, Assoc. Prof, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra-835215. India.
Dr. Dr. K V G Chandra Sekhar, Asst. Professor, Department of Chemistry, Assistant Dean - Practice School Division, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar, Shameerpet Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Andhra Pradesh -500 078. India.
Prof. Mitali Chatterjee, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Post-Graduate education and Research, 244-B, Acharya J.C. Bose Road, Kolkata-700020. West Bengal. India.
Dr. Palwinder Singh, Professor, Department of Chemistry, GNDU, Amritsar-143001, Punjab. India.
Dr. Naveen S, Scientist, Institution of Excellence, University of Mysore, Mysore- 570 006· Karnataka. India.

International Collaborations

Dr. Jan Balzarini, Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Minderbroedersstraat 10, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Rafael Balaña Fouce, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leon, Scientific Director of INBIOTEC (Spain), 24071 Leon (SPAIN).
Dr. Scott Franzblau, Professor and Director, Institute for Tuberculosis Research, MC-964 College of Pharmacy, Room 425, University of Illino's at Chicago, 833 S. Wood Street, Chicago. Illinois 60621-7231. USA.
Prof. Baojie Wan, Professor and Director, Institute for Tuberculosis Research, MC-964 College of Pharmacy, Room 412, University of Illino's at Chicago, 833 S. Wood St. Chicago, Illinois 60621-7231, USA.
Dr. Dr. Terry K. Smith, Reader in the Schools of Biology & Chemistry, Office B3.10 Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, The North Haugh, The University, St. Andrews, Fife Scotland. KY16 9ST. UK.
Dr. Yong-Tang Zheng, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Immunopharmacology, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223. P.R. China.
Dr. Larry Ming C. Chow, Associate Head & Associate Professor, Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Dr. Paul Horrocks, Professor, Huxley Building, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England, United Kingdom.
Dr. Manormoney Pillay, Scientist, Medical Microbiology & Infection Control, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban- 4000. South Africa.
Dr. Davie Cappoen, Universiteit Antwerpen, Laboratory of microbiology, parasitology and hygiene (LMPH), Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1 D.S.723, 2610 Wilrijk, België.
Dr. Tanya Parish, Vice President, Drug Discovery, Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1616 Eastlake Avenue E, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98102. USA.
Dr. Joazaizulfazli Jamalis, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
Dr. Luis Menéndez-Arias, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, c / Nicolas Cabrera 1, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid. Spain.
Dr. Enzo Tramontano, Department of Life Sciences and Environment, University Citadel of Montserrat, SS554 - 09042, Monserrato (Cagliari), Italia.
Dr. Marie-Aline Andreola, Laboratoire MFP, CNRS UMR-5234, Universite de Bordeaux, FR Transbiomed, 146 Rue Leo Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux, France.
Dr. Frauke Christ, Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, UZ St. Rafael, Kapucijnenvoer 33 block i - bus 07001, BE-3000 Leuven.

Membership in scientific bodies

Life Member of Tamilnadu State Pharmacy Council (4488-A1)
Life Member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association (I.P.A/BIH/JHAR/LM/0061)
Life Member of The Indian Science Congress Association (L27131)
Life Member of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India [RA / LM/ 340]
Life Member of Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists [LF-718/2015]
Life Member of the Indian Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and Technologists [LM / 1501 /2015] Life Member of Indian Pharmacy Graduates Association [LM 5929/2016]
Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education [LM109572/2016]
Life Member of Indian Council of Chemist [LM/2017]

Administration

Acted as Practice School Instructor at Jaipur and managed three centres : JDA, KEC and FRI with 41 students
Faculty in Charge of Departmental Seminar/ Colloquium 2016-17
As ACC MEMBER, I organized an event Coffee with Profs which was well received by both students and faculty.
Organized Deepawali Milan and Holi Milan get together for the dept for being the faculty in charge of Recreation Activities.
Heading the Department of Languages since 2010.
Editor of Semester Magazine, BITSCAN since 2008
Acted as DAC (Doctoral Advisory Committee) for 3 Research Scholars
Member of Disciplinary Committee of the institute for the academic year 2010-2011
Acted as an expert for the selection of the Aditya Birla Scholarship 11 August 2010
Editorial Board Member , CURIE, a quarterly journal for 2008-2009.
On the Editorial Board of BITSCAN, a Semester Magazine during 2008-2009.
Non- resident warden of Meera bhavan for 5 years.
Several times acted as subject expert for recruitment of English teachers in BET schools.
Nominated as the library committee member in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009.
Resource person for Intensive Teaching Workshop for eight years from 2000-2008.
Coordinator for Skill development programme during 2005-6 and 2006-7.
Coordinator for Communicative English Programme in both the semesters from 2002 to 2009.
Acted as an expert on the Ph. D. Qualifying panel.
Has been paper setter for Kota Vardman Open University, Sanskrit University, Jaipur, Choudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa
Spoken English Programmes for Birla Institutions Community Centre, Pilani (KaLA) run from August 2006 to Nov. 2006 and second batch from 30-01-2007 to 03-04-2007.
Faculty In-Charge of Teaching Learning Centre from 1 September 2020 to 31 October 2021.
Nucleus Member, Alumni Relation Unit from 1 March 2019 to 31 August 2020.
Editor of BITS ECHO from March 2019 to October 2020 and drafted the Editorial Policy of the same for smooth collection, drafting, editing, formatting and authenticity of the contents.
Editor of Strategic Report to COVID-19, BITS Pialni, Pilani Campus, published online on 31 May 2019
Participated in Study India Program for Hiroshima University students (25 Feb – 7 March,2019)
BITSAT duty in Ahmadabad in 2018 and in Pilani 2019
Member, Departmental Level Shortlisting Committee (DLSC) for faculty recruitment (from March 2013)
Member of Library Committee in 2018-19
Member of Senate since 2013
Member of Doctoral Research Committee 2016-2018
Member, Doctoral Advisory Committee for Research Scholars

Conferences & Seminars

Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper entitled Do Indian College Students Need Cross Cultural Training? at International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture (ICLLC), Pune, Maharashtra, India during 15th to 17th December 2017 organized by Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune.
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper entitled Rethinking Muticulturalism and Maximizing Learning in Indian Classrooms at ELT@I IV International Conference in association with RELO and British Council at Kanoria PG Mahila Mahavidyalya, Jaipur during 30-31 October 2017
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a co- authored paper entitled Using Mutimodal Tools for Teaching Mutiliteracies in Indian ELT Classrooms at ELT@I IV International Conference in association with RELO and British Council at Kanoria PG Mahila Mahavidyalya, Jaipur during 30-31 October 2017
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a co- authored paper entitled Enhancing Written Communication Skills of College Students through Online Collaborative Tutorials in a Multicultural Classroom at ELT@I IV International Conference in association with RELO and British Council at Kanoria PG Mahila Mahavidyalya, Jaipur during 30-31 October 2017
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper entitled Redefining Pedagogy Using Technical Scaffolding for Teaching Advanced ESL Learners at 9th Edition International Conference ICT for Language Learning organized by Pixel in collaboration with Libreria Universitaria at Florence, Italy 17-18 November 2016.
Lata, Pushp attended a National Workshop on Outcome based learning jointly organized by Teaching and Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus and IIT Kharagpur during 28 – 29 November 2016.
Lata, Pushp Attended and presented a Concept Note on “Creating a user-generated learning environment through Flipping Classroom: An Experiential Pedagogy” at National Convention on Current Practices and Future of Classroom Teaching at Higher Education Level, organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences & Teaching Learning Centre at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Pilani campus during 30th Sept.-01 Oct. 2016.
Lata, Pushp Sanjay Kumar and Sonal Bhagat, Tracing Variegated Streaks of Feminism in the French Lieutenant’s Woman through Pinteresque Jigsaw presented the paper in absentia at 2nd World Conference on Women’s Studies at Colombo, Sri Lanka. During 5-6 May 2016
Lata, Pushp Attended and presented a Paper 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 Sathyabhama University, Chennai in collaboration with RELO and IEEE during 14-15 November 2014.
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a Paper on “Developing Intercultural Competence for Effective Teaching of Communication Skills” at 9th International and 49th Annual ELTAI Conference at VIT Jaipur, 21-23 August 2014.
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper on “Why we need to transform ELT at Tertiary Level” at Sadaa Third International Conference being organized on the theme “Language, Literature & Library: Disruptive Digressions & Digital Dimensions” in collaboration with the Manipal University, Jaipur from 22 to 24 January 2014.
Lata, Pushp attended a four days Workshop on Research Methodology at JK Lakshmipat University, Ajmer Road, Mahapura during 15 May- 19 May 2013.
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper on “Integration of Web based Interactive and Multimedia Learning Materials for Off-Campus Students: A Case Study” at Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2012), Global Science and Technology Forum during 9 - 10 July 2012 at Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore
Lata, Pushp attended and presented papers on “Integrating Web 2.0 Tools for Enhancing Collaborative Writing Skills: Challenges and Prospects” and “Enhancing Learner Autonomy through Self Instructional Materials”, at 3rd ELT@I International Conference held at BITS, Pilani during 8-9 October 2012.
Lata, Pushp Officially participate in the round table discussion for Strengthening the Humanities and Liberal Arts Courses/ Programmes which was held in Hotel Hyat, New Delhi on 11 October 2011
Lata, Pushp participated as an invited speaker and delivered a paper on Fostering Value based education among Engineering Graduates through Humanitites and Liberal Arts at International Conference at JUIT, Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh during 22-23 September 2011.
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper on “Revisiting Course Curriculum and pedagogy through Students Responses and Reflective Strategies” at International ELTAI Conference held at VIT, Jaipur during 4-5 November 2011.
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper on “Articulating the Issue of Alienated Identification in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Works” at International Seminar on Margins and Nation Spaces : The Aesthetics of Cultural Expression during 8-9 February 2008 at Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
Luhach, Suman, Pushp Lata and Kirti Singh attended and presented a paper entitled Emergency Remote Teaching and Technology Comfort: Mapping Perceptions of English Teachers from Schools in Rural Areas of Rajasthan during COVID- 19 Crisis" at a peer reviewed International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (ICON-BITS 2021) organized by Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus during 29-31 July 2021.
Kumar, Deepak and Pushp Lata attended and presented a co- authored paper entitled, Exploring the Parameters of Syllabus from Teachers’ Perspective at a peer reviewed International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (ICON-BITS 2021) organized by Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus during 29-31 July 2021.
Lata, Pushp presented a poster on Experiential learning through Multimodal Pedagogy for Better Students’ Engagement in Cross Cultural Skills Course at BITS Pilani, a peer reviewed conference on Best Teaching Practices for Engaged Student Learning jointly organized by Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad during February 13-15, 2020.
Gaur, Manusmiriti and Pushp Lata attended and presented a paper entitled Critical Pedagogy Practices in Engineering Education in India: Insights from English Language Classroom at ELT@I Golden Jubilee International Conference in association with RELO and British Council at Amity University, Noida during 9-12 October 2019
Lata, Pushp presented a paper entitled Capacity Building through Cross Cultural Skills among Engineering Graduates of India: A Case Study of Cross Cultural Skills Course at BITS Pilani. 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering Enhancing Future Skills and Entrepreneurship during September 16-17, 2019. A peer reviewed conference jointly organized by Technische Universität Braunschweig and BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. Scopus-listed proceedings book (publishing group: Springer Nature).
Lata, Pushp presented a paper entitled Digital Training for Language Teachers: An Exploration into Online Writing Tutorials at Oxford Education Research Symposium Spring Meeting: 20, 21 & 22 March, 2019, at Green Templeton College in the University of Oxford. A peer reviewed conference.
Aayushi Malhotra, Sailaja Nandigama and Pushp Lata presented a co- authored paper entitled Gendered Communication in Development Discourse and Practice in the International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research organized by Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani- Pilani Campus during 8th -9th , 2019
Lata, Pushp and Shrija Majumdar presented a co- authored paper entitled Transformation of Perception about Cross Cultural Communication under the Influence of Social Media: An Impact Study in the International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research organized by Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani- Pilani Campus during 8th -9th , 2019.
Shivangi Priya and Pushp Lata presented a paper entitled Language Promotion and the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India at the 40 th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India, A peer reviewed conference, held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 05-07 December 2018.
Lata, Pushp participated and presented a paper on Flipping Classroom Teaching for Better Learning: An Experiential Pedagogy in the National Workshop on Synergy between Teaching and Research in Indian Academia organized by Teaching Learning Centre, BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus during March 26-27, 2018
Lata, Pushp and Shivangi Priya attended and presented a paper entitled Culture, Language and Identity: A Sociolinguistic Study at the International Conference on Media, Culture and Ethics organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences during 9th and 10th February 2018.
Lata, Pushp, Kaushik Ramesh Iyengar and Smiti Yadav attended and presented a paper entitled Intercultural Competence among Indian Youth: Need for Training at the International Conference on Media, Culture and Ethics organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences during 9th and 10th February 2018
Lata, Pushp attended and presented a paper entitled Fostering Critical Thinking among Engineering Graduates: A Task Based Approach, National Workshop on Improving Synergy Between Teaching And Research In Indian Academia (Istria 2018), BITS, Pilani on March 26-27, 2018

Seminars/conferences/ workshops organized and the source of funding (national/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any

I with my co-conveners- Dr. Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya, Dr. Sailaja Nandigama and Prof. Devika, organized a seven- day long Academic Writing Workshop for research scholars during 5 April – 12 April 2019 which was attended by 46 research scholars and 13 faculty members from varied disciplines acted as the resource persons.
As Convener I organized the Third ELT@I International Conference on Interfacing Language, Culture and Technology, October 8-9, 2012 BITS Pilani, Pilani campus. 135 delegated from India and Abroad participated and presented their papers.
The Birth Centenary of Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore on 12 May and also organized a function on the National Education Day which is celebrated to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of our first education minister of free India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. All faculty members and students enthusiastically participated in both the events.
Organized the Constitution Day on 15 December 2015 in NAB Auditorium. It was a tribute to B R Ambedkar, who played a very significant role in the framing of the Indian Constitution as the chairman of the Drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly.
As the Faculty In-Charge of Teaching Learning Centre I conducted 12 major events from 1 September 2020 to 31 October 2021 namely, NEP Webinars: Naya kshitij for School Teachers; Faculty Development Programme; Coding Workshop for KIDS (ICWK-2021; NEP Naya kshitij: School Teachers’ Training Workshop; ITW Workshop; NEP 2020 : Naya Kshitij for higher education – Webinar; TLC Projects; TLC Students’ Team Blog; TALEEM: a TLC News Letter; and Setting up TLC Studio.
As the Chairperson, I organized a peer-reviewed International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies [ICON-BITS 2021]- BITS Pilani, Pilani campus. 172 delegated from India and Abroad participated and presented their papers.

Research Positions

I am currently looking for Ph.D. students to work on the following domains:

1) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or Drones- Security, other communication protocols

2) 5G- network slicing and other areas

3) Internet of Things

4)Edge Computing and Machine Learning

5) Other vibrant topics in Embedded Systems

If you are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. under my supervision and have a funding from agencies like UGC/CSIR JRF/SRF, please write to me

gssc [AT] pilani [dot] bits-pilani [dot] ac [dot] in

The minimum criteria for the applicants will be

1) M.E. in Embedded Systems/ Communication Engineering/ Electronics or any equivalent degree from an institute of repute with a CGPA of at least 7.0 or 70% (in percentage system)

2) Good publication record will be desirable

3) A zeal to publish in top-tier journals

Working with me, the candidate will get an opportunity to work with reputed researchers across the world like

1) Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

2) Prof. Biplab Sikdar, National University of Singapore

to name a few.

To be updated.

SOP/DOP/LOP (Study Projects)

Our Research Group homepage (BITS IoT lab): https://bitsiotlab.com/

Dear Students,

We are currently working on several projects, which are listed below. You can apply for (SOP/DOP/LOP) by filling out the Google form using the below link.

Eligibility: Student should be from A7/A3/A8 (or having these in their dual degree), CGPA cut-off: 7

Pre-requisites

a. For ML projects in the list, applicant should have Sound knowledge of Machine Learning & Deep Learning concepts (CNNs, RNNs, GANs, etc.). They must also have Excellent programming skills in Python (particularly Pandas, TensorFlow, Keras, and Torch to name a few)

b. Strong paper writing skills and willing to write a research paper with me (and not just
code!).

Available Projects,

1. AI for Healthcare (Computer vision/ image analysis, Computational Pathology, MRI, CT Scan and AI Explainability)

2. Computer Vision (image enhancement/ reconstruction) for autonomous cars/ UAV etc.

3. Qauntum computing for IoT / Security (for students having dual in B5 physics)

4. Golang development (developing server side blockchain applications; blockchain understanding is not essential)

5. App developer having JavaScript skills and ready to learn Decentralized App development

Application form Link:- https://forms.gle/i7bn4QiW2uHpQqV59 (you can click link/ copy and paste link in browser)

Application Deadline: 21^th November night (The form has been closed and the selection process is in progress)

Interviews/ Interaction: 21st/ 22nd

Release of results: as and when selection happens latest by 27th nov

About our Research Group:

Students can visit our research group page at https://bitsiotlab.com/. We collaborate with world renowned researchers/ universities and the students will get an opportunity to work on cutting edge research problems.

*Note: Please note that the SOP will be rigorous (not casual) and you would be expected to prepare a journal paper as a part of the SOP/DOP/LOP work. On account a high number of Letter of Recommendation (LOR) requests, LOR request in future will only be entertained if the student has a good journal publication as a part of the project type course work.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Vinay Chamola (Link)

Research Position Available

Postdoctoral Position

Interested candidate may apply through National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) under Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, India. We will assist you to prepare a research proposal in the research area of our common interest. NPDF open for 1^st May to 30^th May, 2019

Ph.D. Position (Full Time)

One JRF position is available under a Department of Biotechnology, India sponsored project with working area "Nanomaterials based sensor system for breath analysis”. The fellowship amount will be Rs. ~31000/- per month (first 2-years) and ~35000/- (last year). GATE, NET qualified candidates are preferable. Tentative time of the advertisement and interview will be first week and last week of July, 2019 respectively.

CSIR-JRF or UGC (NET)-JRF qualified candidates interested to pursue Ph.D. in the area of ‘nanomaterials based solid state devices’ may apply any time of the year.

Ph.D. Position (Part Time)

Interested candidate may also apply for part time Ph.D. in the area of Device modeling, Signal processing and pattern recognition.

Interested candidate may send their brief resume to arnab.hazra@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

Symposium on Carbon Nanomaterial Electronics (SCNE) 2019

Nanomaterials Gas Sensor Laboratory

TiO2 Nanotubes Array

Positions Open

PhD Positions

GATE/NET (JRF) qualified students interested in exploring electromagnetic wave propagation while designing and developing

UWB/MIMO Antennas,
Frequency Selective Surfaces
Metamaterials/Metasurfaces
Optical Waveguides & Devices
Optical Sensors
Optical Networks

and are proficient in use of

CST-MWS,
ANSYS HFSS
VPIPHOTONICS

may contact by sending an e-mail with their latest CV attached,

to rahulsinghal@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

Candidates with own fellowship and working professionals (Aspirant Scheme) can apply anytime in a year. For further details, kindly click following link: https://www.bitsadmission.com/phdmain.aspx

Conference Presentations

2024

99. Gemcitabine-HDAC inhibitor drug conjugates as potent and targeted anticancer therapeutics against solid tumors: Sravani Pulya, Ganesh Routholla, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Hyderabad; Date: March 7- March 9, 2024.

98. A Selective Histone Deacetylase 3 Inhibitor: PT3 Enhances Learning and Memory in a Novel Object Recognition Mouse Model: Darakshan Begum, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Hyderabad; Date: March 7- March 9, 2024.

97. Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel pyrazino-hydrazide chemotypes as selective HDAC3 inhibitors with potent in vivo antitumor therapeutic efficacy against triple-negative breast cancer: Ambati Himaja, Sravani Pulya, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Hyderabad; Date: March 7- March 9, 2024.

96. Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Novel Compounds in an LPS-Induced Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model: Sripathi Nikhitha, Swati Biswas, Onkar P Kulkarni, Balaram Ghosh: Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Hyderabad; Date: March 7- March 9, 2024.

95. Development of HDAC3- selective Inhibitors as Anti-cancer Agents with potent in vivo Therapeutic Efficacy: Regula Sanjeev, Ganesh Routholla, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Hyderabad; Date: March 7- March 9, 2024.

94. Identification of selective HDAC3 inhibitor by pharmacophore-based and structure-based virtual screening, 3D QSAR, ADMET analysis, and dynamic simulation: Debojyoti Halder, Goverdhan Lanka, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Hyderabad; Date: March 7- March 9, 2024.

93. pH-sensitive HPMA-based polymeric Gemcitabine conjugated nano-construct for the treatment of breast cancer: Tarun Patel, Milan Paul, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Hyderabad; Date: March 7- March 9, 2024.

92. Light Degradable Chlorin e6 Pro-Drug Micelles for Oral Cancer Treatment; Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Research (TransMat 2k24), Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi; Date: Feb 1 – Feb 4, 2024.

91. Copper-Zinc Metal Complex Exhibiting Bactericidal and Antibiofilm Activity by Membrane Damage and Quorum Sensing Inhibition; Prafful P. Kothari, Sri Ganga Padaga, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Research (TransMat 2k24), Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi; Date: Feb 1 – Feb 4, 2024.

90. Antibacterial and Anti-quorum sensing activity of Glycol-chitosan poly (lactic acid) (1:1) conjugate nanoparticles encapsulating Ciprofloxacin for the treatment of Bacterial keratitis; Sri Ganga Padaga, Himanshu Bhatt, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Research (TransMat 2k24), Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi; Date: Feb 1 – Feb 4, 2024.

89. Polyphenol conjugated Graphene Oxide system for effective delivery of Bortezomib for the management of oral cancer; Naitik Jain, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Research (TransMat 2k24), Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi; Date: Feb 1 – Feb 4, 2024.

88. Cinnamic acid conjugated Poly (D, L-Lactide) polymeric micelles for targeted delivery of Bortezomib to treat cancer; Shishira P S, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Research (TransMat 2k24), Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi; Date: Feb 1 – Feb 4, 2024. [Best poster award]

87. Tyrosine kinase inhibitor-loaded nanoparticles targeting breast cancer stem cells for improved treatment efficacy in HER2-positive breast cancer: Varshini Are, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Research (TransMat 2k24), Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi; Date: Feb 1 – Feb 4, 2024.

2023

86. Polymeric Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles Loaded with Doxorubicin for Combined Photothermal and Chemotherapy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Asif Mohd Itoo, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 21st International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems at Mukesh Patel Auditorium, NMIMS Campus, Navyug Society, Navpada, JVPS Scheme, Vile Parle West, Mumbai-400047, India. Feb 24 - 25, 2023. [Best poster award]

85. 3D-Bioprinted Inherently Antibacterial Contact Lens Carrying Antimicrobial Peptide Payload for Ocular Infections: Sanjay Ch, Priyasha Mishra, Sri ganga Padaga, Balaram Ghosh, Sanhita Roy, and Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 21st International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems at Mukesh Patel Auditorium, NMIMS Campus, Navyug Society, Navpada, JVPS Scheme, Vile Parle West, Mumbai-400047, India. Feb 24 - 25, 2023.

84. Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of In-vitro Antibacterial activity of Pluronic F127 coated Metal oxide nanoparticles: Sri Ganga Padaga, Milan Paul, Sanjay Ch, Balaram Ghosh, and Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 21st International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems at Mukesh Patel Auditorium, NMIMS Campus, Navyug Society, Navpada, JVPS Scheme, Vile Parle West, Mumbai-400047, India. Feb 24 - 25, 2023

83. Olaparib and oxaliplatin combination@ human serum albumin nanoparticles inhibit tumor proliferation in triple-negative breast cancer mouse model: Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 21st International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems at Mukesh Patel Auditorium, NMIMS Campus, Navyug Society, Navpada, JVPS Scheme, Vile Parle West, Mumbai-400047, India. Feb 24 - 25, 2023

82. Protein-vitamin nanoparticles for treatment of therapy- insensitive breast cancer: Sneha Das, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 21st International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems at Mukesh Patel Auditorium, NMIMS Campus, Navyug Society, Navpada, JVPS Scheme, Vile Parle West, Mumbai-400047, India. Feb 24 - 25, 2023

81. Development of benzamide-based HDAC3 selective inhibitors with potential anti-tumour activities in vivo animal model: Ganesh Routholla, Sravani Pulya, Tarun Patel, Milan Paul, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

80. Discovery of hydrazide based HDAC3 selective inhibitors as therapeutics for the treatment of cancer: validated by in vivo mouse model: Sravani Pulya, Ambati Himaja, Rishitha Kaminedi, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

79. Discovery of hydrazide based HDAC3 selective inhibitors as therapeutics for the treatment of cancer: validated by in vivo mouse model: Sravani Pulya, Ambati Himaja, Rishitha Kaminedi, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

78. HPMA-polymer based stimuli-sensitive Gemcitabine nanoaggregate for the treatment of breast cancer: Tarun Patel, Milan Paul, Asif Mohd Itoo, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

77. Pharmacophore-based virtual screening, 3D QSAR, Docking, ADMET, and MD simulation studies for the identification of novel HDAC3 selective inhibitors: Goverdhan Lanka, Darakhshan Begum, Balaram Ghosh*, Yogeeswari Perumal, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

76. Antibacterial activity of F127 coated Cerium oxide nanoparticles against Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Sri Ganga Padaga, Milan Paul, Sanjay Ch, Balaram Ghosh and Swati Biswas, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

75. Polymeric Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles Loaded with Doxorubicin for Combined Photothermal and Chemotherapy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Asif Mohd itoo, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

74. 3D-Bioprinted Inherently Antibacterial Contact Lens Carrying Antimicrobial Peptide Payload for Ocular Infections: Sanjay Ch, Priyasha Mishra, Sri Ganga Padaga, Balaram Ghosh, Sanhita Roy, and Swati Biswas, National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India 500078 on 6-7 January 2023.

2022

73. Hypoxia reversing combination chemo-photodynamic therapy for oropharyngeal carcinoma: Milan Paul, Asif Mohd Itoo, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: BIO-Remedi 2022 (An international conference on Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine and Devices) held at IIT Guwahati, India from Dec 14th - Dec 18th, 2022.

2021

72. Moxifloxacin HCl delivery via thermo-responsive mixed micelles in bacterial keratitis: Sanjay ch, Milan Paul, Padaga Sriganga, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Virtual Conference on Biomaterial-Based Therapeutics, Engineering and Medicine (BIOTEM-2021): Organized by Departments of Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Under the aegis of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine India (STERMI) Co-organized by The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), December 17 - 20, 2021.

71. Oxaliplatin Pt (IV) prodrugs conjugated to Human serum albumin as potential antitumor agents: Milan Paul, Nageswara Rao, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Virtual Conference on Biomaterial-Based Therapeutics, Engineering and Medicine (BIOTEM-2021): Organized by Departments of Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Under the aegis of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine India (STERMI) Co-organized by The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), December 17 - 20, 2021.

70. Retinoic acid-conjugated poly (D,L-Lactide) based micelles as a nanocarrier system for effective delivery of doxorubicin in cancer: Soniya Kumbham, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Virtual Conference on Biomaterial-Based Therapeutics, Engineering and Medicine (BIOTEM-2021): Organized by Departments of Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Under the aegis of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine India (STERMI) Co-organized by The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), December 17 - 20, 2021.

69. pH-Responsive Pro-drug Nanoparticles of Gemcitabine for Cancer Treatment: Tarun Patel, Milan Paul, Kondapaneni Likhitha Puran, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*: International Virtual Conference on Biomaterial-Based Therapeutics, Engineering and Medicine (BIOTEM-2021): Organized by Departments of Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Under the aegis of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine India (STERMI) Co-organized by The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), December 17 - 20, 2021. [Best Poster Presentation Award- 3^rd Prize]

68. Chitosan oligosaccharide lactate conjugated Pluronic F127 Micelles for the treatment of Bacterial keratitis: Sriganga Padaga, Sanjay Ch, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International Virtual Conference on Biomaterial-Based Therapeutics, Engineering and Medicine (BIOTEM-2021): Organized by Departments of Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Under the aegis of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine India (STERMI) Co-organized by The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), December 17 - 20, 2021.

67. Structure-based Hierarchical Virtual Screening of Antiviral Libraries for the Discovery of New Molecular Entities as SARS-CoV-2 main Protease Inhibitors: Goverdhan Lanka, Balaram Ghosh, Sarita Rajender Potlapally: Annual Conference of Indian Council of Chemists (ICC 2021), organized by Department of Chemistry, Satavahana University, Karim Nagar, Telangana, 29th to 30th December, 2021

66. Development of HPMA-based Polymeric Micellar Systems for the Delivery of Anticancer Chemotherapeutics: Balaram Ghosh*, Yamini Bobde, Milan Paul, Tarun Patel: International Virtual Conference on Biomaterial-Based Therapeutics, Engineering and Medicine (BIOTEM-2021) : Organized by Departments of Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Under the aegis of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine India (STERMI) Co-organized by The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), December 17 - 20, 2021

65. Development of novel o-hydroxy benzamide based HDAC3-selective inhibitors as anticancer agents with promising in vivo potential: Ganesh Routholla, Sravani Pulya, Tarun Patel, Milan Paul, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*: the 10th annual conference of the International Chemical Biology Society, ICBS 2021: Looking towards the next decade of chemical biology (e-conference): November 11- 13, 2021.

64. Discovery of novel hydrazide chemotype-based HDAC3 selective inhibitors with potent in-vivo anti-tumour activities: Sravani Pulya, Tarun Patel, Milan Paul, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*: the 10th annual conference of the International Chemical Biology Society, ICBS 2021: Looking towards the next decade of chemical biology (e-conference): November 11- 13, 2021.

63. Gemcitabine Conjugated block HPMA-based pH-sensitive Nanoconstruct for Cancer Treatment: Tarun Patel, Milan Paul, Kondapaneni Likhitha Purna, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh*: the 10th annual conference of the International Chemical Biology Society, ICBS 2021: Looking towards the next decade of chemical biology (e-conference): November 11- 13, 2021.

62. All-trans-retinoic acid-conjugated N-(2 hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide-based micelles for effective delivery of doxorubicin in breast cancer: Yamini Bobde, Milan Paul, Tarun Patel, Swati Biswas, and Balaram Ghosh*, Controlled Release Society 2021 (CRS-2021) Virtual Annual Meeting: July 25 - July 29, 2021.

61. Oleanoic Acid Conjugated Human Serum Albumin- A Nanocarrier for Effective Delivery of Doxorubicin and Combination Therapeutic Effect in Oral Cancer: Soniya Kumbham, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 19th International e- symposium On Advances in technology and business potential of new drug delivery systems; Date: 25th-27th February 2021

60. Harnessing Chitasan Vitamin E Succinate Conjugated Supramolecular Micellar Nanoaggregate for Effective Loading of Oxaliplatin as Breast Cancer Therapy: Asif Mohd itoo, Milan Paul, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 19th International e- symposium On Advances in technology and business potential of new drug delivery systems; Date: 25th-27th February 2021.

59. Oxaliplatin-Conjugated Stimuli-Sensitive Albumin Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Breast Adeno-Carcinoma: Milan Paul, Nageswara Rao, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: CRS-IC, 19th International e- symposium On Advances in technology and business potential of new drug delivery systems; Date: 25th-27th February 2021.

Presentations before 2021

58. Yamini Bobde, Swati Biswas and Balaram Ghosh: Delivery of Doxorubicin Using pH Responsive Polymer: 18^thInternational Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems, Controlled Release Society- Indian Chapter; 28-29 February 2020; Vile Parle East, Mumbai - 400 099

57. Yamini Bobde, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: A pH Sensitive Polymeric System for the Delivery of Chemotherapeutics in Cancer: 8^th Annual Conference on Navigating Translational Discoveries under the auspices of International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (IICT-Hyd) between 02-04 Nov, 2019

56. Ganesh Routhala, Sravani Pulya, Tarun Patel, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Development of Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitors with Preferential Isoform Selectivity for HDAC3: 8^th Annual Conference on Navigating Translational Discoveries under the auspices of International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (IICT-Hyd) between 02-04 Nov, 2019

55. Sravani Pulya, Tarun Patel, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: Design and Synthesis of Novel Isoform Selective Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors: 8^th Annual Conference on Navigating Translational Discoveries under the auspices of International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (IICT-Hyd) between 02-04 Nov, 2019

54. Soniya Kumbham, Himanshu Bhatt, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: Oleanolic acid-conjugated poly(D, L-Lactide)-based micelles as a nanocarrier system for effective delivery of doxorubicin and combined therapeutics effects in oral cancer: 8^th Annual Conference on Navigating Translational Discoveries under the auspices of International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (IICT-Hyd) between 02-04 Nov, 2019

53. Ch Sai Sanjay, Balaram Ghosh, Sanhita Roy, Swati Biswas: Development of polymeric nanoparticles for the efficient delivery of fluroquinolone antibiotic for the treatment of bacterial keratitis: 8^th Annual Conference on Navigating Translational Discoveries under the auspices of International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (IICT-Hyd) between 02-04 Nov, 2019

52. Milan Paul, Soniya Kumbham, Himanshu Bhatt, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: Co-delivery of paclitaxel and chlorine e6 using nanopartcles for NIR light triggered chemo-photodynamic combination therapy in cancer: 8^th Annual Conference on Navigating Translational Discoveries under the auspices of International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (IICT-Hyd) between 02-04 Nov, 2019

51. Nilanjan Adhikari, Sk. Abdul Amin, Balaram Ghosh and Tarun Jha: DFT-based quantum chemical descriptors and alignment dependent 3D field calculations of metalloenzyme meprin β inhibitors: a quantitative SAR assessment: 4^th Annual Conference of Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (SSX), India: 19^th to 21^st September 2019, IISc Bangalore, India

50. Bhatt Himanshu, Sri Vishnu Kiran Rompicharla, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: Transferrin Receptor targeted vitamin-E-conjugated dendrimers for the delivery of paclitaxel in cancer: Controlled Release Society (CRS) Indian Chapter, 17^th International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400 059, India, 1st Feb - 2nd Feb 2019

49. Soniya Kumbham, Himanshu Bhatt, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: Oleanolic Acid-Conjugated Poly (D, L-ctide)- Based Micelles as a Nanocarrier System for Effective Delivery of Doxorubicin in Oral cancer: Controlled Release Society (CRS) Indian Chapter, 17^th International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400 059, India, 1st Feb - 2nd Feb 2019

48. Biotin Conjugated Multifunctional PAMAM Dedrimers for the Delivery of Paclitaxel: Rompicharla SVK, Kumari P, Ghosh B, Biswas S: 16^th International Symposium organized by Controlled Release Society (CRS) Indian Chapter, Mumbai 400 059, February 23-24 February, 2018.

46. Enhanced Phototoxic Effect of Chlorin e6 Conjugated Poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(d, L- lactic acid) Polymeric Micelles Evaluated in Monolayers and 3D Spheroid Model: Kumari P, Rompicharla SVK, Ghosh B, Biswas S: 16^th International Symposium organized by Controlled Release Society (CRS) Indian Chapter, Mumbai 400 059, February 23-24 February, 2018

46. Modified Albumin nanoparticles for the delivery of Curcumin in cancer: Bobde Y, Kumari P, Biswas S, Ghosh B: 16^th International Symposium organized by Controlled Release Society (CRS) Indian Chapter, Mumbai 400 059, February 23-24 February, 2018.

45. Vitamin-E Conjugated Dendrimers for the Delivery of Paclitaxel: Bhatt H, Rompicharla SVK, Ghosh B, Biswas S: 16^th International Symposium organized by Controlled Release Society (CRS) Indian Chapter, Mumbai 400 059, February 23-24 February, 2018.

44. Benzamide Derivatives as Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitors and Potential Anticancer Agents: Prakruti Trivedi, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: 21^st National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-21) under the auspices of the Chemical Research Society of Indi (CRSI) at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (CSIR_IICT-Hyderabad) between 13-16 July, 2017.

43. Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors as potential Anticancer agents: Prakruti Trivedi, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: International conference on “Pharmaceutical Education-Academia Relation to Industry-Current Scenario” 17th & 18th March 2017, Organized by Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Science and Technology, JNTUH, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500085

42. Cell uptake and cytotoxic potential of curcumin loaded solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) for cancer drug delivery: Himanshu Bhatt, Sri Vishnu Kiran Rompicharla, Neeraja Komanduri, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International conference on “Pharmaceutical Education-Academia Relation to Industry-Current Scenario” 17th & 18th March 2017, Organized by Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Science and Technology, JNTUH, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500085

41. Transferrin-anchored polymeric micelles for improved anticancer drug delivery in solid tumors: Omkara Swami Muddineti, Preeti Kumari, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International conference on “Pharmaceutical Education-Academia Relation to Industry-Current Scenario” 17th & 18th March 2017, Organized by Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Science and Technology, JNTUH, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500085

40. Curcumin Loaded Solid Lipid nano particles for Improved Delivery to cancer cells: Sri Vishnu Kiran Rompicharla, Himanshu Bhatt, Aashma Shah, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International conference on “Pharmaceutical Education-Academia Relation to Industry-Current Scenario” 17th & 18th March 2017, Organized by Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Science and Technology, JNTUH, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500085

39. Development of Photosensitizer-Incorporated Polymeric Micelles for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapeutic Efficacy: Preeti Kumari, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: International conference on “Pharmaceutical Education-Academia Relation to Industry-Current Scenario” 17th & 18th March 2017, Organized by Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Science and Technology, JNTUH, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500085

38. Design, Synthesis and Biological Activity of Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents: Prakruti Trivedi, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh: The Ramanbhai Foundation 8th International Symposium on Current Trends in Healthcare: Advances in New Drug Discovery and Development: Feb 2-4, 2017, Ahmedabad, India.

37. Photosensitizer-loaded poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(d,l-lactic acid) polymeric micelles for effective photodynamic therapy: Preeti Kumari, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: The Ramanbhai Foundation 8th International Symposium on Current Trends in Healthcare: Advances in New Drug Discovery and Development: Feb 2-4, 2017, Ahmedabad, India.

36. Cholesterol and D-alpha Tocopherol Conjugated Lipidic Micelles for Improved Delivery of Chemotherapeutics with Reversal of Multiple Drug Resistance: Omkara Swami Muddineti, Preeti Kumari, Asmitha Vanaparthi, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) 2016, November 13-17 at Colorado, USA

35. Cholesterol-Modified Polylactide-Based Micelle for Effective Delivery of Curcumin: P. Kumari, O. S. Muddineti, B. Ghosh, S. Biswas: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) 2016, November 13-17 at Colorado, USA

34. Transferrin modified Vitamin E coupled lipidic mixed micellar system as nanocarriers for tumor directed delivery of curcumin: Omkara Swami Muddineti, Preeti Kumari, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) 2016, November 13-17 at Colorado, USA

33. Cell Penetrating Peptide Octa-Arginine Anchored Multifunctional PAMAM Dendrimer for the Delivery of Paclitaxel: Sri Vishnu Kiran Rompicharla, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) 2016, November 13-17 at Colorado, USA

32. “Development of Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents” Prakruti Trivedi, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh; National Conference on Advanced Therapeutics-2016 (ACT-2016; CSIR-Chemical Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India. [Awarded as Best Poster]

$31. Poly(caprolactone)-based polymeric micelles for the delivery of a histone deacetylase inhibitor as anticancer therapy; Dr. Balaram Ghosh*, Sri Vishnu Kiran Rompicharla, and Swati Biswas: 2^nd Annual World Congress of Smart Materials-2016 (WCSM-2016) March 4 – 6, 2016, Singapore under focus 502: Smart Materials for Pharmacy and Drug Delivery.

30. Preeti Kumari, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas. "Development of transferrin functionalized poly(ethylene glycol)/poly(lactic acid) copolymeric micelles as a potential delivery system". International Conference on Nanostructured Polymeric Materials and Polymer Nanocomposites, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. 13-15 November, 2015.

29. Vitamin E-Conjugated Lipid Based Polymeric Micelles for Improved Delivery of Chemotherapeutics in Cancer: Omkara Swami Muddineti, Preeti Kumari, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas. Controlled Release Society, July 26 – 29, 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland.

28. D-α-tocopherol conjugated co-polymer based polymeric micelles for improved delivery of chemotherapeutics with reversal of multiple drug resistance: Omkara Swami Muddineti, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas; International Symposium on Nanotechnology & Cancer Theranostics -2015 (ISNACT - 2015) at IIT Mumbai, 19^th to 21^st February, 2015.

*27. Development of Isoform Selective HDAC3 inhibitors as Long-Term Memory Enhancers: Prakruti Trivedi, Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh; 66^th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress at Hyderabad, 23^rd to 25^th January 2015.

*26. Preparation, characterization and in vitro evaluation of methoxy polyethylene glycol-polylactide (MPEG–PLA) polymeric micelles as nanocarrier for the delivery of chemotherapeutic drug curcumin in cancer: Preeti Kumari., Prit Lakhani., Balaram Ghosh., Swati Biswas; 66^th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress at Hyderabad, 23^rd to 25^th January 2015.

*25. One step Synthesis, characterization, stability and PEGylation of polymer stabilized gold nanoparticles for chemotherapeutics: Omkara Swami M., Srinivas Ajjarapu, Balaram Ghosh, Swati Biswas; 66^th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress at Hyderabad, 23^rd to 25^th January 2015.

$24. Inhibition of HDAC3 for the Enhancement of Long-Term Memory: Balaram Ghosh^*, Surya A. Reis, Adam J Hendricks, Ralph Mazitschek, Stephen J. Haggarty; International conference on Chemical Biology: Disease Mechanism and Therapeutics (ICCB-2014) February 6-8, held at IICT, Hyderabad, India.

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23. Krista Hennig, Surya Reis, Wen-ning Zhao, Chelsea Groves Kuhnle, Nadine Joseph, F.A. Schroeder, Mike Lewis, Balaram Ghosh, Iren Kurtser, Jennifer Gale, Yan-Ling Zhang, Ralph Mazitschek, Florence Wagner, Edward Holson, Tracy Petryshen, Daniel Fass, Li-Huei Tsai, Stephen Haggarty: Chromatin-Modifying Complexes Involved in Memory and Mood Disorders as Novel Therapeutic Targets: Poster presented at the 65^th Annual Meeting of the MGH Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC 2012) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School, MA, USA, April 18 & 19, 2012.

$22. Balaram Ghosh, Dan Fass, Krista Hennig, Surya Reis, Wendy Zhao, Ji-Song Guan, Ralph Mazitschek, Li-Huei Tsai, Stephen J. Haggarty: Probing Epigenetic Mechanisms Involved in Cognition and Neuroplasticity: HDAC Inhibitors that Potentiate CREB-Mediated Transcription: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting; November 13-17, 2010; San Diego, CA, United States.

$21. Balaram Ghosh, Sanjib Gogoi, Soumava Santra, Tamara Antonio, Maarten E. A. Reith, Aloke K. Dutta: Discovery of multifunctional molecules possessing dopamine agonist activity at D2/D3 receptors along with iron chelation and antioxidant activities: Pharmacological characterization in vitro and in vivo: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting; November 13-17, 2010; San Diego, CA, United States.

$20. Balaram Ghosh, Daniel Fass, Ji-Song Guan, Wendy Zhao, Surya Reis, Li-Huei Tsai, Stephen J. Haggarty:Crebinostat: A highly potent histone deacetylase inhibitor discovered in a CREB-reporte gene screen: The New York Academy of Science (NYAS) meeting on “Behavioral Epigenetics” October 29-30, 2010, University of Massachusetts, Bostom, MA, United States.

19. Surya A. Reis, Krista Hennig, Wendy Zhao, Balaram Ghosh, Thomas Nieland, Daniel Fass, Stephen J. Haggarty: Discovery of small-molecule probes targeting epigenetic-mediated neuroplasticity: histone deacetylase biochemical and cellular assays: The New York Academy of Science (NYAS) meeting on “Behavioral Epigenetics” October 29-30, 2010, University of Massachusetts, Bostom, MA, United States.

$18. B. Ghosh; T. Antonio; M. Reith; A. Dutta: Bifunctional dopamine D3 selective agonist as novel antiparkinsonian agents: Evaluation of selected compounds in Parkinson's disease animal model: 240^th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, August 22-26, 2010; Boston, MA, United States.

17. B. Ghosh, T. Antonio, J. Zhen, A. K. Dutta, M. E. Reith: Development of bivalent dopamine D2/D3 agonist as new generation therapeutic agents for treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting at Chicago, IL, United States Oct. 2009.

$16. Balaram Ghosh, Juan Zhen, Maarten. E. A. Reith, Aloke Dutta: Development of multifunctional drugs for the neuroprotective treatment of Parkinson's disease.” Annual Mid-Atlantic Graduate Student Symposium in Medicinal Chemistry. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, July 2008.

15. Swati Biswas, Juan Zhen, Balaram Ghosh, Maarten. E. A. Reith, Aloke Dutta: Identification of optically active lead molecules developed based on hybrid 7-{[4-(4-Phenyl-piperazin-1-yl)-butyl]-propyl-amino}-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-naphthalen-2-ol- molecular template exhibiting low nanomolar affinity for D3 receptor: Lead molecule exhibiting long duration of rotational activity in the Parkinson’s Disease animal model experiment.: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting at San Diego, CA, USA, November, 2007.

14. Swati Biswas, Balaram Ghosh, Maarten. E. A. Reith, Aloke Dutta: Novel triple dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine transporters blockers as potent antidepressant: Characterization of a lead molecule in in vitro and in vivo pharmacological assays: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting at San Diego, CA, USA, November, 2007.

$13. Further structure activity relationship (SAR) study of novel hybrid 7-{[2-(4-Phenyl-piperazin-1-yl)-ethyl]-propyl-amino}-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-naphthalen-2-ol analogs focusing on modification of the N-aromatic moiety: Development of a highly potent and selective lead molecule for the D3 dopamine receptor.: Ghosh, Balaram; Zhen, Juan; Reith, Maarten; Dutta, Aloke.: 233^rd American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, March 25-29, 2007.

$12. Synthesis and anticancer activity of some 5-N-Substituted-2- (substituted benzenesulphonyl) glutamines; Balaram Ghosh, Bikash Debnath, Soma Samanta, Shovanlal Gayen and Tarun Jha; International Convention of APTI, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, will be held on 1^st to 3^rd October 2004.

11. Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Study on Some Substituted Benzamides as Dopamine D₂ Receptor Antagonists; Soma Samanta, Bikash Debnath, Shovanlal Gayen, Balaram Ghosh, Anindya Basu and Tarun Jha, International Convention of APTI, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, held on 1^st to 3^rd October 2004. 10.Identification of Pharmacophoric Requirements for Histamine H₄ Receptor Binding Affinity: QSAR Study on Some Indolylpiperazines; Bikash Debnath, Shovanlal Gayen, Soma Samanta, Ghosh Balaram, Anindya Basu and Tarun Jha; International Convention of APTI, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, held on 1^st to 3^rd October 2004.

9. Synthesis, Screening and QSAR Study of Some 1, 5-N, N'-Disubstituted -2- (Substituted benzenesulphonyl)- Glutamamide Analogues as Possible Anticancer Agents; Shovanlal Gayen, Bikash Debnath, Soma Samanta, Balaram Ghosh and Tarun Jha; International Convention of APTI, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, held on 1^st to 3^rd October 2004.

*8. Structure Based Drug Design of Glutamine Analogs to Search for New Potential Anticancer Drugs: Tarun Jha, Ch. Anilkumar, B. Ghosh, and K. Srikanth. 6^th National Conference On Stucture Based Drug Design: Search For New Drugs, India, 38, 22-24 February, 2002.

*$7. Synthesis of Derivatives and Analogs of Glutamic Acid for Possible Anticancer Activit: Balaram Ghosh, K. Srikanth, Ch. Anilkumar, Dipendu Goswami, Supratim Roy and Tarun Jha. Indian Science Congress, Jan 2000; Pune, India.*6. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of some substituted Benzenesulphonyl glutamine analogs for possible Antineoplastic Agents: Ch. Anilkumar, K. Srikanth, Balaram Ghosh, Dipendu Goswami, A. U. De and Tarun Jha. Indian Science Congress, 2000; Pune. India.

*$5. Studies on some Glutamine analogs as possible Anticancer Agents: Balaram Ghosh, K. Srikanth, Ch. Anilkumar, T. Jha , 51^st Indian pharmaceutical Congress (IPC), 1999, Indore, India.

4. Synthesis and Pharmacological screening of some substituted Benzenesulphonyl glutamine analogs for possible Antineoplastic Activity: K. Srikanth, Ch. Anilkumar, Balaram Ghosh and T. Jha. 51^st Indian pharmaceutical Congress (IPC), 1999 at Indore, India.

3. Structure-Biological Activity Relationship Studies on some Glutamine Anti metabolites-The Inhibitors of Precursors of primary DNA Structures: Diptendu Goswami, K. Srikanth, Ch. Anilkumar, Balaram Ghosh, A. U. De and Tarun Jha. XIII International Biophysics Congress, 27-29 September, 1999 at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta. India.

2. Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) studies on some Cancer Chemotherapeutic Agents: Jha T., Srikanth K., Roy K., Ghosh B., Bhattacharya S. and Banerjee S. Frontiers in Pharmacology and Therapeutics in 21st Century, ICPT 22, 1999; New Delhi. India.

1. Chemoimmunotherapeutic studies of Cancer: Srikanth K., Kumar Anil Ch., Ghosh Balaram, Ghose Ashoke, De A. U., and Jha Tarun-Frontiers in Pharmacology and Therapeutics in 21st Century, ICPT-21, 1999; New Delhi. India.

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Practice school faculty at Royal Enfield (Chennai), My Web Partner (Jalalabad), CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory (Chennai) and Diya Robotics (Chennai) in June-July 2024

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Conducted Viva for Work Integrated Learning Programme of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani every semester.

A notable contribution to the Work Integrated Learning Programme of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani by teaching the course on Finite Element Methods for a total duration of three semesters and another course on Statistical Quality Control throughout one semester.

Member of the Question paper setting team for Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test (BITSAT) during Semester II 2021-22.

Guided B.E. students of BITS PILANI K. K. Birla Goa campus to develop in-house Digital Image Correlation software (https://github.com/iniyanakila/BITS-DIC).

Delivered a webinar on August 29, 2020 to the faculty members of BITS PILANI K. K. Birla Goa campus during the COVID pandemic on the usage of parametric quizzes in Moodle.

Organized a stall demonstrating Real-time 3D scanning, Digital Image Correlation setup and 3D printing applications in Open House 2021-22 and Open House 2022-23.

Updated the Website of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whenever updates were to be made as per the instructions of HoD.

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Represented BITS Pilani Goa campus in the Biotech Startup Expo-2022

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Ongoing guidance to two full-time PhD students and one part-time PhD student.

Completed guiding two Special Projects, eight Study Projects, nine Design Projects, and twelve Laboratory Projects

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