Achievements

AWARDS:

Best Paper Presentation Award at 3^rd International Conference on Signal Processing and Machine Learning (SPML 2020) for the paper “An Instance Segmentation approach to Food Calorie Estimation using Mask R-CNN”, Beijing, China Oct 24^th 2020.
Best oral presentation award. Won second prize in Data Science application category. “Machine learning in biofuels”, International Conference by Biotechnology Society of Nepal (ICBSN-2021), Feb 12-15 2021, Virtual conference
Best paper award at 11^th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications for the paper “Indian Stock Price Prediction using Long Short Term Memory” Cardiff, UK 2023.

Awards and Honours

School Topper (T.J.T.R. High School, Tearberia, West Bengal) in Secondary Examination,1996
School Topper (I.C.M.M. High School, Khukurdaha, West Bengal) HSE, 1998
Achieved 1st class with honours in B.E from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2003
Obtained MHRD Fellowship in M.E from BESU Shibpur, Howrah, 2003-2005
Obtained Institute Fellowship in PhD from IIT Delhi, New Delhi, 2005-2010
Obtained DST International Travel Support Grant, 2012
Obtained UGC International Travel Support Grant, 2013
SERB, DST Project Fund under the FAST TRACK SCHEME for Young Scientist, 2013.

Awards and Recognitions

Fellowship

Awarded International Fellowship by the Urban Studies Foundation, supporting research-stay for seven months at the geography department of University College London. For more details, please visit the following link-

https://www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/grantees/dr-harsh-mittal/

Recent reviewership

Critical Policy Studies
Policy Studies Journal
International Review of Public Policy
Local Government Studies

Distinctions and Awards

Won best paper awards in the following conferences: ICSE 2021, IEEE CONECCT 2021, IEEE ANTS 2018, IEEE CONECCT 2018.
One of the finalists of the Idea stage 5G security call for ideas initiative (jointly by the National Center of Excellence, Data Security Council of India, and Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India.)
Received OPERA award from BITS Pilani (2015-19), Pilani campus.
Secured MHRD scholarship during Ph.D. at IISc, Bengaluru, during Jan. 2009–Oct. 2014.
Listed as one of the selected candidates in early faculty induction programme (EFIP) during 2006-07 at IISc Bengaluru.
Awarded teaching assistantship during M.Tech studies.
Received the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) scholarship for pursuing M.Tech in the national institute of technology (NIT), Calicut, during 2005-2007.
Cleared Indian engineering services entrance written exam in Electronics and Communication discipline (IES-2005) and also appeared for oral interview at Delhi.
Secured 98.31 percentile in graduate aptitude test in engineering (GATE) 2005.
Stood second in technical quiz conducted by EECE association, SVUCE, Tirupati.
Secured 100% marks in mathematics in second year B.Tech.
Secured 492 rank in engineering, agriculture and medical common entrance test (EAMCET).
Secured 100% marks in mathematics in intermediate (plus two) second year.
Received Telugu vigyana parithoshikam (merit scholarship) in secondary school from 8th to 10th class.

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Awards and Honours

2023 International Senior Biomedical Scientist Fellow @SickKids Toronto (ICMR-DHR)

2021 India Alliance Senior Fellow (Wellcome Trust – DBT, India)

2020 Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research & Academics (BITS)

2019 Category A Talent Certificate (Foreign Experts Affairs Bureau, Hubei, China)

2018 Venia Legendi (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

2017 Dr. Habilitation (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

2016 Heisenberg Program Fellow (German Research Foundation, German

2015 Young Scientist Award in Microbiology (Robert Koch Foundation, Germany)

2014 Carl Asmund Rudolphi Medal (German Society of Parasitology, Germany)

2015 Indian National Science Academy Fellow (University of Delhi, India)

2006 Research Associate Fellowship (German Research Foundation, Germany)

2003 Postdoctoral Fellowship (National Institute of Health, USA)

1999 PhD Scholarship (German Research Foundation, Germany)

1999 National Eligibility Test - Junior Research Fellow (CSIR-UGC, India)

1997 MSc Studentship (Department of Biotechnology, Government of India)

PhD Guidance

Awards

Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) - Outstanding PhD Thesis award at National Level, 2015

Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Iyengar Award 2015, Best PhD research in 52nd Convocation, IIT Madras, 2015.

OPERA Award (Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Teaching (2015-2020)

Competitive Research Grant, BITS Pilani, 2016

Institute Post-Doctoral award for early submission of Ph.D. thesis at IIT Madras.

Best Green India proposal. Kriya 2015, Chennai. 2014.

Best research presentation award, Research talk series (ReJoys). IIT Madras 2013.

Awards, Recognitions & Projects

Awards and Achievements:

Awarded Computational Research Grant on "Less common topological phenomenon in materials" at NERSC Supercomputing & Exa-Scale Facility, USA 2021.

Awarded Computational Research Grant on "Spin fluctuations and Ising Superconductivity" at XSEDE - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA 2020.

Invitation for Visit and Presentation at the Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York 2020.

Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania and University of California Davis, USA 2019.

Offered PhD Fellowship at University of Pittsburgh, State University of New York and TIFR Mumbai 2010.

NHMFL NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Florida State University, USA (2011 - 2016).

Golden Key International Honour Society Membership, USA 2014.

Qualified CSIR NET (JRF), JAM, GATE, WBJEE.

Projects Completed:

Topic: Quantum Oscillations in Dirac & Weyl Semimetals

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Location: NHMFL, Florida State University, USA

Duration: 2011 - 2016

Topic: Quasiparticle properties and Excitons in 2D Materials

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Duration: 2017 - 2018

Topic: Process Image Analysis using Big Data, Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Funding Agency: SRNL/ Department of Energy USA

Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Duration: 2019 - 2020

Topic: Spin fluctuations and Superconductivity in Real Materials for Quantum Information

Funding Agency: Naval Research Laboratory USA

Location: QSEC GMU, Fairfax/ Washington DC, USA

Duration: 2021 - 2023

Awards

Telangana Academy of Sciences (TAS) - Young Scientist Award for the year 2019 in the field of “Engineering Sciences”.
Prof. N.R. Kuloor Memorial Award for the outstanding PhD thesis for AY2017-18, IISc Bangalore.
Recipient of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Scholarship, India.
Hindustan Platinum award for the best poster on a topic of “Pt, Ru substituted TiO2 catalysts for dry reforming of methane” in 17th National Workshop on Challenges in Catalysis Science and Technology – 2016 conducted at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India.
Recipient of DST travel grant for young scientist to attend an international conference of advanced energy materials, AEM -2016, University of Surrey, London, United Kingdom.
University second rank in B.Tech., Chemical Engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University.
First place in solving a design problem in the event of CHEMICAL3LOGY at CHEMCLAVE’10, IIT Madras.
Secured 173 and 117 ranks (top 1% in India) in national level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2009 (in 3rd year of UG) and 2010.

Honors

Member, American Chemical Society
Life Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (LM-73214)
Reviewed 50+ research articles and Recognized Reviewer for Applied Catalysis A: General (Elsevier), Applied Surface Science (Elsevier), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier), Bulletin of Material Science (Indian Academy of Sciences), Advanced Powder Technology (Elsevier), Energy & Fuels (ACS), ACS Omega (ACS), Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier), Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (American Scientific Publishers), Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (Springer), Solid State Sciences (Elsevier), International Journal of Energy Research (Wiley), Catalysts (MDPI), Atmosphere (MDPI), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI), Sustainability (MDPI), Materials (MDPI), Chemical Engineering Research and Design (Elsevier), Frontiers in Energy Research (Frontiers).

Media Mentions

Premji calls upon IISc students to give back to society
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/premji-calls-upon-iisc-students-to-give-back-to-society-761044.html

Conferences and Seminars

Presented a paper titled ‘Spice Wars, Explorers and Pirates in the Indian Ocean as represented in Comic Books for Children’ in IGU Conference Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought (Session 5- "Images and imaginaries of the Sea") in University of Milan, Italy on 6-7th June 2023.
Presented a paper titled "Representation of Violence: Women and Maritime Attacks in Indian Ocean in Comic Books for Children" at the two-day National Conference Women, Narrative & Agency: Enhancing Women’s Empowerment in India by Probing Violence, Gender Discrimination and Recuperation & Voices Unheard: An Approach to Indigenous Indian Literature organized by the Department of HSS, IIT Roorkee, on April 12 & 13, 2023
Presented a paper titled Representation of Hydrocolonialism and Spice Feuds in Popular Culture and Literature in an International Seminar on Popular Culture and Contemporary Literature in Pondicherry University, November 10-11, 2022.
Presented a paper titled The Ambivalence of ‘belonging’ and ‘un-belonging’ to the Jew Street: A Critical Analysis of Sethumadhavan’s novel Aliyah in a conference titled The Street and The City- Moments organized by School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 7- 9, 2022.
Presented a joint paper with Ms. S. M Mithuna titled Re-Presenting the Hinterland: Chenkalchoola and the Reconfiguration of Social Imaginary at the International conference Hinterlands: Cultural and Literary Perspectives organized by the University of Wroclaw, Poland, March 18-20, 2022.
Presented a paper titled Recalibration of the Colonial and Gender Paradigms by Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi during 1921- 1934 in a National Conference Celebrating Unheard Voices of Charismatic Women in Indian writing in English organized by IIT Roorkee on 3^rd December, 2021.
Presented a joint paper titled Conditional Kinship: Mahe and Muziris remembering their Overseas Visitors with Ms. Revathy Hemachandran in the National Conference Contextualizing Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Culture and Translation organized by GITAM University, Hyderabad held between Jan 6-8, 2020.
Presented a paper titled Maritime Politics along the Pepper Highways of Malabar: Revisiting the Representations of Arab-Portuguese Spice feud in Literary works in Re-calibrating Diasporas Conference at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia held between 27- 28^th June, 2019.
Presented a paper titled Inducing ‘Precarity’ through Cultural Stereotypes: Interrogating the popular stereotypes of the Parsi community in an international conference titled “Challenging Precarity” organized by AURO University, Surat in collaboration with the University of Northampton (UK) and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) between January 27-29^th 2019.
Presented a paper titled The propensities of being a Gulf Wife: Re- Examining the fictional narratives of Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People in a national conference titled “Language and Literature: Transgressing Boundaries” organized by The Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment (FSLE- India) and Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Delhi on 31^st Jan 2019.
Presented a paper titled Defying the ‘Difference’: Understanding the Scamper for Space amongst the Migrant Middle class in Mumbai through literary representations in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang in the ICL 2018 on 26^th July 2018.
Presented a paper titled “Unravelling the spice politics & Cosmopolitanism of Kochi: Emerging alternate representations in N. S Madhavan’s Litanies of Dutch Battery” at national conference on Comparative Humanities: Re-Configuring Humanities across cultures at EFL University, Hyderabad from 5^th to 7^th April 2017.
Attended and presented a paper titled “Beyond Spice trade and temple conquests: Palimpsest memories of colonial regimes along the Malabar coastline in the native imagination” at a conference organised by South Asian Literary Association (SALA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A from 2^nd to 4^th January 2017.
Presented a paper titled Gauging the role of Socio-cultural events in selection of themes in Temple Art Forms like Krishnanattam and Koodiyattam in a National Conference on " Epic in India" held in Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad (HCU) held from 24- 26th August 2016
Presented a paper Negotiating faith and culture: Lives and world-view of boatmen in Banaras in a seminar titled “Framing India through Perspectives from Elsewhere” in Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla on 27-29 July.
Attended and presented a paper titled Challenging Matrilineal Identities Lost in Space and Time: A cross examination of Kerala women through the representations from selected Indian English Fiction in a two day National Conference organized by IIT-Roorkee and Sahitya Academy 21-22 March 2015.
Presented a paper titled Re-Imagining the narratives of the Gulf Diaspora in Literature at the 15th Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Conference, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, 6-8th Jan 2015.
Presented a paper Mapping Madness: A Critical Analysis of Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom at the International Conference on “Globalism and The New Literatures” organized by Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies at OUCIP, Hyderabad, 3-5 February, 2014.
Presented a paper titled Trauma Narratives in the works of Parsi writers, UGC sponsored National Conference, St Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala in Sep 2013.
Presented a paper titled Globalization of Cuisines: Rethinking the role of Food in the recent Indian of English Fiction in International Seminar on South Asian Literature & Culture, Pune in Sep 2013.
Participated in International Conference as a delegate on Corporate Culture and Spirituality, Bangalore. (Feb 2013)
Presented a paper titled Diasporic consciousness in the works of Anita Nair at the National Conference on "The Frontiers of English Literature & The Patterns of English Language Teaching" organized by the Discipline of English Studies, Department of M & H, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad on 9 - 10 November 2012.
Presented a paper on Stereotyping in the works of Parsi writers in an International Conference on Diversity in New Literatures organized by Indian Society for Commonwealth studies, 16-18 December, 2010.

Workshops Attended:

Participated in a National Workshop on Understandings Social exclusion Concepts and Context Organized by Department of Social Exclusion Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 29th October, 2010.
Participated in the "Memory Studies Workshop" organized by IIT Madras on 26th- 30 April 2021.
Participated in the "Food, Memory Machines" Workshop organized by IIT Madras on 17- 20 August, 2021.

Honours and Awards

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Key Note Speaker in International Conference on, “Computational Applied Sciences and itsApplications (ICCASA)",University of Engineering and Management, Jaipur
Marquis Who's Who, Marquis Who's Who selected the biography for inclusion in the 10th Anniversary (2008-2009) Edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering

Awards and Recognitions

National Doctoral Fellowship (SRF) awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India in April’2013

National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (RA) awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India in May’2018

Golden Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for 2018 to 2022

Trusted Reviewer for IOP awarded by the Institute of Physics in September’2020

Elevated to Senior Member Grade of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on October’2021

Received Joint Best Presentation Award in 15th International Conference on Sensing Technology, 5th-7th December'2022 in Sydney, Australia.

Awards and recognition

Awarded National Post Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF) in 2020
Full membership of the Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) consortium in 2021
Awarded GravNet grant in 2022
Awarded Inspire Faculty grant in 2022

Awards & Fellowships

Awarded Visiting Professor Fellowship to visit Prauge, Czech Republic for 1 month under Senior Scientist category of INSA-CAS International Bilateral Exchange/ Collaboration Programme 2016.
Best Oral Presentation Award in International Conference on Biotechnology & Bioengineering (ICBB-2014), October 29-30, 2014, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, Dubai.
Awarded Visiting Professor Fellowship to visit South Korea for 3 months under Junior Scientist category of INSA-NRF International Bilateral Exchange/ Collaboration Programme 2011-12
Awarded DST Young Scientist Fellowship Project by DST, New Delhi under SERC Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientist.
Awarded University Research Scholarship during Ph.D. by Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur.
Earned position in the renowned books published by Marquis Who’s Who LLC, United States of America.
Bio-graphy published in various books by International Biographical Center (IBC), Cambridge, England.
Qualified State Level Eligibility Test in Botany (RPSC) in 2001.

Awards/Honors:

1. Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Energy Research (Wiley-Hindawi).

2. Editorial Board Member (Review Editor) of Process and Energy Systems Engineering (Section of Frontiers in Energy Research).

3. Session Chair at ChEmference 2023, 10^th Chapter, BITS Pilani-Goa Campus (September 30 - October 02, 2023).

4. Guest Editor, Materials Today: Proceedings.

5. Invited to conduct a workshop on “Process simulation and optimization using Aspen HYSYS” at PSE Asia-10, IIT Madras, 2022.

6. National organizing committee member of the 10th Asian Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE Asia-2022), IIT Madras.

7. Young Researcher Award, 2021 (Institute of Scholars)

8. Invited reviewer to evaluate the curriculum and research at School of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Seoul National University [QS Department Ranking, 2020: 25], 2021

9. NUS Research Scholarship [2014 – 2018].

10. GATE scholarship by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, 2012 – 2014.

11. Winner of Pankaj P Patel Trust Essay Competition, 2011, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) [Topic: Clean Green Technology].

12. Selected for the final round of Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search Examination (JBNSTS), 2008.

Reviewers for various international journals like:

- IECR (Industrial Engineering & Chemistry Research, ACS)
- Computers & Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
- Journal of CO₂ Utilization (Elsevier)
- PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science)
- Energy Conversion and Management (Elsevier)
- International Journal of Sustainable Energy (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Surfaces and Interfaces (Elsevier)
- Separation and Purification Technology (Elsevier)
- Education for Chemical Engineers (Elsevier)
- Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier)
- Frontiers in Energy Research
- Process Biochemistry (Elsevier)

Achievements

Dr. Jagadeesh Anmala, Professor

Contact Details:

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar
Kapra Mandal, Medchal Dist

Hyderabad, Telangana – 500078

Email: jagadeesh@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Phone: 040-66303545

About the Faculty

Co-ordinator, Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (CEWRM), November 1, 2021 till date.

HOD, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus From November 6, 2013 to September 30, 2016.

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (from Aug 17th 2009 to January 31st 2015).

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (from February 1st 2015 to 28th February, 2023).

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (from 1st March, 2023 till date).

Visiting Faculty, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA in 2005.

Visiting Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA in 2004.

Visiting Faculty, Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA in 2003.

1.Ph.D, Civil and Environmental Engineering, May 2000, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

2.MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, May 1999, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

3.MS, Civil Engineering, May 1996, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.

4.B.Tech, Civil Engineering, May 1994, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (Bombay), India.

Institutional Contribution

Co-ordinator, Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (CEWRM), November 1, 2021 till date.

Team Member, Departmental Level Short Listing Committee (DLSC), Feb 2015 till date.

Head, Department of Civil Engineering, November 6th 2013 to September 30th 2016.

Chairperson, Department Research Committee (DRC), From December 2013 to September 30th 2016.

Founding Team Member, High Performance Computing Center (HPC), BPHC, Jul 2019 to Dec 2021.

Founding Incharge, Central CAD Lab, BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, From 2010 to August 31st 2014.

DCA Convener, Department of Civil Engineering, Dec 2018- Dec 2020.

PS-I Faculty, 2015-16.

BITSAT Proctor, 2010, 2011, 2013.

Team Member, Convocation Committee, 2012, 2013.

Member, Information Processing & Business Intelligence (IPBI), BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, From 2009 to 2010-11.

Incharge, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, From 2009 to 2011-12 & Dec 2020 till date.

Incharge, Hydraulics Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, From September 2020 till date.

Member, Department Research Committee (DRC), Department of Civil Engineering, From 2011-2013.

Registration Advisor, Department of Civil Engineering, from inception of the Campus (several times).

Team member, First-degree Admissions (3 times).

Examiner, Ph.D Qualifying Exams, BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.

Doctoral Advisory Committee (DAC) member for Ph.D research scholars at BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.

Workshops & Conferences Organized

Organizing Committee Member for

1. National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management and Impact of Climate Change, March 5-6, 2010.

2. Workshop on Recent Advances in Climatic Modeling for Water Resources Planning and Management, November 19, 2011.

3. National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Planning, Management and Impact of Climate Change, April 5-6, 2013.

4. Workshop on Research Methodology, April 11-12, 2014.

5. Workshop on Research Methodology, April 3-4, 2015.

6. Workshop on Integrated Urban Flood Management in Hyderabad: Technology Driven Solutions, October 31,2015.

7. Workshop on Research Methodology, April 11-12, 2016.

Membership

Life Member, The Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH)

Life Member, Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH)

Achievements

Achievements in Conference

“Best Reviewer Award” in 8th conference of Indian Academy of Management by Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai. (2023, January 6-8).
“Best Paper Award” at the Symposium on Work from Home-Issues and Challenges held on 18th and 19th November 2022 by School of Management Studies University of Hyderabad.
“Best Paper prize under HRM Track” in International Conference on Changing Business Paradigm, (ICCBP) organized by Management Development Institute Murshidabad, West Bengal, India on April 2021 (Joint Paper presented by Ph.D. Scholar Rajthilak R).
“First Prize under Oral presentation” Interdisciplinary Conference on Healthcare and Technical Research, Manipal. Oct 29-31, 2018 (Joint paper presented by Ph.D. Scholar Samrun Nessa).
"Best paper award" in conference sponsored by ICSSR in IPE on " Consumer perceptions towards frozen foods: A study of Hyderabad-Secunderabad twin cities” in Jan 2017.
Second prize in "Best paper award" at IMT Ghaziabad in 11th AIMS International Conference on Management on (21-24 Dec., 2013) for paper on "Predicting the Conflict style Intention to Manage Relationship Conflict".
"Best paper award” in HRM Track in The 13th International Consortium of Students in Management Research (COSMAR-13) at Department of Management Studies in IISc for paper on "Efficacy of Theory of Planned Behaviour : A study of task conflicts among Indian Software employees" held on Nov 2013.

Achievements

Junior research fellowship of the University Grants Commission, India.
Former Associate of the following research institutes :
1. The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
2. Jawaharlal Nehru center for advanced scientific research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India.
Awarded the ICTP-TRIL fellowship for one year post-doc with Prof. E. Arimondo, University of Pisa,
Italy (February 2003-2004).
Awarded the special research grant of the \German Science Foundation"(2005) to visit the research
group of Prof. Robert Graham, University of Essen, Germany.
Awarded the short term fellowship (2006) of DAAD, Germany to visit the research group of Prof.
Robert Graham, University of Essen, Germany.
Awarded the Endeavour Research Fellowship of the Australian Government for a 6 month research
position at the Nonlinear Physics Center, Australian National University (2007), Group of Professor
Yuri Kivshar.
Awarded 15 months Guest Scientist position at the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex
Systems, Dresden, Germany (2007-2008).
Awarded the short term fellowship (2011) of DAAD, Germany to visit the research group of Dr. Axel
Pelster, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
Visited the research group of Prof. Tobias Brandes, Technical University of Berlin, Germany under
DFG grant, June 2012.
Visited the research group of Prof. Axel Pelster, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
under DAAD grant, June 2015.
Selected as University Grants Commission-Associate Professor under the UGC-Faculty Recharge Pro-
gramme.
Appointed as Research Ambassador for German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2015.
Given the honor of \Speaker of Eminence" at Indian Institute of Technology-BHU 2015.
Recipient of the \Bharat Vikas Award", 2016.
Successfully completed epg-pathshala online course of University Grants Commission on Solid State
Physics. The course is now available on the UGC website.
Appointed as Research Ambassador for German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2022.

Achievements

1) Recipient of National Scholarship for post-graduation studies from Calcutta University (1995).

2) Best presentation award in a session, NSC, conference 2003 in IIT Kharagpur.

3) Recipient of Young Scientist Fast Track Award from Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India (2006-2009).

4) Best Poster Presentation Award in the International Conference on advances in Chemical Engineering (ICACE - 2013), NIT, Raipur, April, 5-6, 2013.

5) Special Jury Award for oral presentation on “Lipase mediated ester synthesis from different lactic acid bacteria through co-culture technique” in the International Conference on Biodiversity, Bioresources and Biotechnology, Mysore, India, Jan 30-31, 2014.

6) Nanotechnology based cheap diagnostic kit for Hepatitis C virus featured in Hindu newspaper on 13.03.2021 (https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/bits-pilani-hyderabad-develops-cheap-kit-to-detect-hepatitis-c-virus/article34055910.ece); highlighted in Times of India newspaper on 24.03.2021 (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/city-scientists-develop-kit-to-diagnose-hep-c covid/articleshow/81657724.cms); also captured in Eenadu newspaper on 24.03.2021.

(7) ‘New gold nanoparticle-based kit can detect dominant Hepatitis genotypes’ featured in Hindu newspaper on 27.07.2021.
(https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/new-gold-nanoparticle-based-kit-can-detect-dominant-hepatitis-genotypes/article35565675.ece. (published as Outside Back Cover page article in Analyst). (Featured in Hindu Newspaper on 27.07.2021).

(8) Awarded for poster presentation in CCM (Covergence of Chemistry & Materials) conference, 6-7 Jan, 2023, BITS, Hyderabad.

(9) Awarded for poster presentation in NC3 - 2023 (National Conference on Chalcogenide compounds and Applied Chemistry), 16-17 Mar, 2023, DIAT, Pune.

(10) Hemanjali M. R. Ganesan, Jayati Ray Dutta, " Quaternized Polydopamine Coatings Hosting Molecularly Dispersed Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Silver Salts ", BITS Dubai, ICES23 Dubai, 27-29 November 2023. Awarded Second prize for poster presentation.

Awards and Recognitions

Won the Macro Research Proposal 2018-19 with Dr. Rishi Kumar on the topic, “Sustainability of Cashless Banking in Unorganized Retail Sector: A Comparative Study of Two Districts of Telangana” worth Rs. 2,50,000/.

Got the best paper award for the paper titled, "Rising Wage Inequality in India - A Translog Cost Function Analysis)" from World Business Institute, Australia, 2011.

Awarded Associate Fellowship of World Business Institute, Australia on 22^nd March 2011.

Qualified UGC-JRF in 2006.

Qualified UGC-NET in 2005.

Awards and Recognition

2022 - Evaluator for Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) Scholars for Future Programme
2021 - Contributor to research agenda setting exercise on "Gender and COVID19", formulated by United Nations University International Institute of Global Health, Malaysia
2016 - Travel Grant from ISS Hague, Netherlands, to present research work at the 14th Development Dialogue
2014 - Represented India as a 'Young Scientist' in the 5th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in Economic Sciences, Germany
2011 - Awarded Prof. D. M. Nanjundappa Endowment Prize in Economics for topper in ISEC PhD Coursework
2009 - Awarded UGC - NET and JRF (Economics)

Peer Reviewing Assignments

2016 - 5th International Conference on Applied Econometrics
2017 - Sage Publications textbook manuscript in Public Finance
2020 - European Journal of Comparative Economics (SCOPUS)
2020 - Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (SCOPUS)
2021 - SN Business & Economics, Springer
2022 - SN Business & Economics (twice); Book Chapter on Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities, Springer
2023 - Regional Statistics (SCOPUS); Aarthika Charche: FPI Journal of Economics & Governance; Journal of Social and Economic Development (SCOPUS)

Achievements

Awards:

Received Dewang Mehta National Education Awards for “Best Professor in Biological Sciences” in Nov., 2018

Best Poster Awards:

Best Poster Award for research entitled “Saponins from plants under Indian agro-climatic condition as candidate for vaccine adjuvant”. International Conference on Advances in Chemical Biology and Biologics (ICACB, 2019) (CSIR-IICT Platinum Jubilee) from Feb 28 to March 2, 2019 at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad.
Best poster award for research entitled “Steroid hormone receptor mediated liposomal delivery system induces apoptosis in cancer cells in a targeted manner” in 5th International Conference on Stem Cells & Cancer (ICSCC-2014): Proliferation, Differentiation & Apoptosis from Nov, 08 to 10, 2014 held at JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi, India.

Achievement

Significant observation of my publication [Molecular Therapy 17(4):623-31] lead to the development of platform technology for cancer therapeutics.

Achievements

Fellowships and Honors

OPERA, BITS Pilani, 2017

DBT Ramalingaswamy Re-Entry Fellowship, DBT India. 2016

NCI Director's Innovation Program - Career Development Award. 2014

Khorana-Nirenberg-Indo-US Research Career Transition Award, NIH-DBT. 2011

Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, India.

Junior Research Fellowship, NBRC, India.

Silver medal for securing second position in M.Tech for the year 2004-2005.

Certificate of merit by GGSIPU, Delhi for coming third in All India Combined Entrance Test 2000.

Achievements

Awards and Fellowships

Best ACS-presenter award ACS fall-2021
International Travel Grant from DST
Postdoctoral research fellowship at University of New Mexico, USA (Funded by DOE)
Awarded the prestigious JRF and SRF by CSIR-2001
Qualified GATE-2001

Awards and Recognitions

International Awards

Recipient of prestigious Shirin Gadhia Sustainability Award 2019from Eco Center ICNEER in a function held at Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, Vadodara on 19th June 2019. Received the award at the hands of Mr. Artur Zawadski, Golbal CEO, Sunrise CSP Pty Ltd., Australia.

Stifterverband Scholarship byInstitut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany, 2019
Industrial scholarship by Indo Bharat Rayon, Indonesia (through BITS Pilani), visited PT. Indo Bharat Rayon, Purwakarta, Indonesiafor two weeks in summer 2011

National Awards

Institute Scholarship Under Industry Immersion Program, BITS, Pilani 2019
Institute ScholarshipUnder University Immersion Scheme to Visit University Abroad, awarded by BITS, Pilani, visited Clean Energy research Centre, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA as a visiting scholar June-July 2015.

Industrial Recognition as a Jury Member

Manoj Kumar Soni was a Jury member of 6th VDMA Manufacturing Excellence Award (Energy Efficiency & Conservation - Large Category) given at the 12^th VDMA Mechanical Engineering Engineering Summit on on Friday, the 13th of October, 2023*, at Hotel Taj Yeshwantpur in Bangalore., organized by Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) India., which is the India office of The German Engineering Federation (VDMA). The other jury members were Mr. Seenivasan Balasubramanian, Chief Executive Officer of International Aerospace Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd (IAMPL), Prof. (Dr.) Amaresh Chakraborty, Professor IISC Bangalore, and Ms. Anandi Iyer, Director Fraunhofer Gesellschaft India Office.

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Manoj Kumar Soni was a Jury member of 5th VDMA Manufacturing Excellence Award (Energy Efficiency & Conservation - Large Category) given at the 11^th VDMA Mechanical Engineering Engineering Summit on Friday, 16 September 2022, in Pune, organized by Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) India., which is the India office of The German Engineering Federation (VDMA). The other jury members were Mr. Seenivasan Balasubramanian, Chief Executive Officer of International Aerospace Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd (IAMPL), Prof. (Dr.) Amaresh Chakraborty, Professor IISC Bangalore, and Ms. Anandi Iyer, Director Fraunhofer Gesellschaft India Office.

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Manoj Kumar Soni was a Jury member of 4th VDMA Manufacturing Excellence Award (Energy Efficiency & Conservation - Large Category) given at the 10^th VDMA Mechanical Engineering Summit on, 8^th October 2021, organized by Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) India., which is the India office of The German Engineering Federation (VDMA). The other jury members were Mr. Seenivasan Balasubramanian, CEO, International Aerospace Manufacturing Pvt., Ltd (IAMPL) and Mr. Subodh Jindal CEO, STEER.

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Manoj Kumar Soni was a Jury member of 9^th Manufacturing Today Conference and Awards 2021, organized by Aditya Birla Group along with ManufacturingToday and LOCTITE, on 17^th Sept 2021. The other jury members were: Mr. Amol Nagar, Director Manufacturing Operations, Global Sourcing and Supply Chain, GE Aviation India Business; Mr. Jagdish Ramaswamy, President and CDO, Hindalco Ltd; Mr. Krishnan Sadagopan, Senior Vice President, Engine Development, Ashok Leyland Ltd; Mr. Mohammad Athar, Partner, Economic and Infrastructure Development, PwC; Mr. Partha Ghosh, Director Projects, Kalyani Steels Ltd; and Mr. Rajesh Nath, MD, VDMA India.

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Recognition as a Panelist in Symposiums Organized by Industries

Manoj Kumar Soni was invited as a panelist in the CEO Round Table Discussions on Knowledge Sharing and Strategy Development for "Sustainability as a Practice for Organizations" jointly organized by Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) India., which is the India office of The German Engineering Federation and LAPP on 3rd February 2023 (Friday) at Taj Lands End, Mumbai. The panelists were: Sanjay Khare, Vice President –Safety & Sustainability Strategy, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Lakshmikantha R J, Vice President of South East Asia & ANZ and Managing Director-India, EMERSON Automation Solutions – Fluid Motion & Control. Mr. Gary Bateman, Managing Director, LAPP India, Mr. Amar Variawa, Country Director - Public Affairs, Sustainability & ESG, and Manoj Kumar Soni. Mr. Philipp Porferl, Senior Head of International Projects ARQUM, Germany moderated the panel discussion.

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Manoj Kumar Soni was invited as a panelist in the 2022 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Sustainability in Higher Education supported by Wipro Earthian in collaboration with IIT Bombay on 1st- 2nd December 2022 held at the Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC) at IIT Bombay, Powai. He was a panelist for the topic "Design for Change - Imperatives for Engineering Education,” Moderated By: Yogendra Shastri (Chemical Engg, IIT Bombay). Speakers: Prof. Anand B Rao (CTARA-IIT Bombay), Manoj Kumar Soni (BITS, Pilani), Prof. Ravindra Gudi (Chemical Engg, IIT Bombay), Prof. S. Sivaram (IISER, Pune), Prof. Parthasarthi Sensarma (Electrical Engg, IIT Kanpur), Prof. Yogendra Shastri (Chemical Engg, IIT Bombay).

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Conferences

1. Oral presentation on the topic : Domination on Circulant Circ(n, {1,4}) Graphs

Conference Name : 8th International Conference of IMBIC conducted at Kolkatta form 21-12-2014 to 23-12-2014

2. Oral presentation on the topic: Domination on Circulant Graphs of two chord length

Conference Name : 1st IMA conference on Theoretical and Computational Discrete Mathematics conducted at Derby, UK. from 22-3-2016 to 23-3-2016.

Achievements

AWARDS

Senior Research Fellowship by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) during Doctoral Program at IIT Kharagpur. (2010-14)
Post Graduate Fellowship by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) during Master’s Program at IIT Kharagpur. (2006-08)
Price award for securing first place in state level competition on “Earthquake Resistant Building Design”.

ADVISORY BOARD

Board of Studies, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Matrusri Engineering College, Hyderabad.
Board of Studies, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology, VBIT, Hyderabad.
Editorial Advisory, International Journal of Scientific Research & Civil Engineering
Editorial Advisory, International Journal of Energy, Environment and Climate

MEMBER OF TECHNICAL BOARD

National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) - IIT-Kanpur, ID: 18SY195.
Structural Engineering Forum of India (SEFI)
International Journal of Structural Engineering, Inderscience Publishing
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Series, Springer Publishing

REVIEWER

Structures, Elsevier Publishing
Earthquakes and Structures, An International Journal, Techno-press Publishing
Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Springer Publishing
Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, Springer Publishing
Journal of Vibration and Control, SAGE Publishing
J. of Structural Stability and Dynamics, World Scientific Publishing
Advances in Structural Engineering (CEE), Multi-Science Publishing
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) Publishing
European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Taylor and Francis Ltd. Publishing
Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Science, Elsevier Publishing
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, , Taylor and Francis Ltd. Publishing
Journal of Religion and Health, , Springer Publishing
Material today proceedings, Scince Direct, Elsevier Publishing

Awards and Achievements

Post-Graduate Merit Scholarship, UGC, 2013-2015
Hari Prasad Saikia Memorial Award, Assam Academy of Mathematics, 2013
Phanidar Dutta Memorial Award, Cotton College, Guwahati, 2013
All India Rank 406 in Mathematics, GATE 2015
National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor in Mathematical Sciences, Joint CSIR-UGC Test, 2016

Awards and Achievements

DST INSPIRE Faculty fellowship, Government of India, 2021.
Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) Award, BITS Pilani, 2020
Awarded JENESYS 2019 fellowship (under Science and Technology theme) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan as part of Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths cultural exchange program.
Best Paper Award: P. Raghu, A. Rajagopal. Nonlocal Nonlinear Analysis of Composites, International Conference on Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications, 14^th -16^th, October 2017, IIITDM Jabalpur, India.
Excellence in research award by IIT Hyderabad for the year 2017 and 2018.
Achieved 99.63 (All India Rank 337) percentile in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), conducted by Government of India, 2014.

Achievements

Awards and Honours

Received IGS - Dr. M.D. Desai Memorial YGE Biennial Award 2022 for best paper in the category of "Geosynthetics and Natural Fibers" for the paper titled “Effect of Natural Fiber Reinforcement on Strength Response of Alkali Activated Binder Treated Expansive Soil: Experimental Investigation and Reliability Analysis” by Mazhar Syed and Anasua GuhaRay published in Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier, 273 (2021) 121743.
Appointed as Cross-appointed faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan (March 1st 2021 - March 31st 2023).
"2018 Outstanding Reviewer" Recognition from International Journal of Geomechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
"2017 Outstanding Reviewer" Recognition from International Journal of Geomechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
International Travel Grant (ITS) from DST, Govt. of India for presenting paper in International Foundations Congress Equipment Expo (IFCEE 2018) in Orlando, Florida in March, 2018.
Early Career Research Award (DST-SERB), 2016
"2015 Outstanding Reviewer" Recognition from International Journal of Geomechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
National Merit Scholarship in Madhyamik (2002) from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education
National Merit Scholarship in Higher Secondary (2004) from West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.
University Gold Medal for standing 1^st in order of Merit at the Bachelor of Civil Engineering, 2008, Jadavpur University.
Sumit Kundu Memorial Gold Centred Silver Medal for standing 1^st at the Bachelor of Civil Engineering, 2008, Jadavpur University.
Prof. Santimoy Niyogi Memorial Gold Medal for standing 1^st at the Bachelor of Civil Engineering, 2008, Jadavpur University.
Parthasarathi Ghosh Memorial Award for securing the highest aggregate of marks at the Bachelor of Civil Engineering, 2008, Jadavpur University.
Swapan Chandra Memorial Bronze Medal for securing the highest marks in the paper Design of Concrete Structures II and Design of Metal Structures II taken together at the Bachelor of Civil Engineering Final Examination, 2008, Jadavpur University.
GATE Scholarship for pursuing M.Tech in IIT Kharagpur from 2009 to 2011.
1^st in M.Tech (Geotechnical Engineering) in 2011 and 4^th among all M.Tech. , 2011 Civil Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur.
Institute Scholarship for pursuing Ph.D. in IIT Kharagpur (2011-2014).

Membership

Life Member, Indian Geotechnical Society (Membership No. : LM 3136)
Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (Membership No. : 9664893)
Life Member, Society of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University
Executive Committee Member, Indian Geotechnical Society, Hyderabad Chapter (2019-till date)

Reviewer

International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE (Outstanding Reviewer Recognition in 2015, 2017 and 2018)
International Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE
Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier
Geomechanics and Engineering: An International Journal, Techno Press
Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier
Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Elsevier
International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer
Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Springer
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, Springer
Arabian Journal of GeoSciences, Springer
SADHANA, Indian Academy of Sciences
Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology, Springer
International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor and Francis
Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Series A, Springer
CoGent Engineering, Taylor and Francis
Case Studies in Construction Materials, Elsevier
Transportation and Transit Systems, Frontiers in Built Environment - Review Editor
Journal of Earth System Science, Springer
Journal of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Elsevier
Scientific Reports, Nature
Indian Geotechnical Journal, Springer
Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Springer
Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing
International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, Springer
Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier
Indian Geotechnical Conference, 2015
Geo-Chicago 2016, ASCE
Geo-Risk 2017, ASCE
Indian Geotechnical Conference, 2017
Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India, 2018
Indian Geotechnical Conference, 2019
Indian Geotechnical Conference, 2022
Indian Geotechnical Conference, 2023
Geo-Congress 2020, ASCE
3rd Conference of the Arabian journal of Geosciences 2020, Springer
ICFSAET, 2021
Geo-Congress 2022, ASCE
Geo-Congress 2023, ASCE

Distinction

Organizing Committee Member, Symposium on GeoPractices 2021, Organised by Indian Geotechnical Society - Hyderabad Chapter, 27th November, 2021.
Organizing Committee Member, Webinar on "Practices and Advancements in Geotechnical Engineering - 2021", Organised by Indian Geotechnical Society - Hyderabad Chapter, 27th February, 2021
Organizing Committee Member, Symposium on GeoPractices 2020, Organised by Indian Geotechnical Society - Hyderabad Chapter, 28th November, 2020.
Organizing Committee Member, Webinar on Reinforced Soil Structures: Design Methods, Issues and Innovations - 2020, Organised by Indian Geotechnical Society - Hyderabad Chapter, 25th July, 2020.
Member, Board of Studies, Department of Civil Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad (2020 - 2024).
Organizing Committee Member, Symposium on GeoPractice - 2019, Organised by Indian Geotechnical Society - Hyderabad Chapter, 23rd November, JNTU Hyderabad.
Organizing Committee Member, National Conference on Geotechnical Applications GeoApps - 2019, Organised by Indian Geotechnical Society - Hyderabad Chapter, 30th March, IIT Hyderabad.
Advisory Board Committee Member, National Conference on “Futuristic Approaches in Civil Engineering (FACE 2019)”, 30^th and 31^st of August 2019, Mahindra Ecole Centrale
Session Chair, Ground Improvement and Retaining Walls, National Conference on “Futuristic Approaches in Civil Engineering (FACE 2019)”, 30^th and 31^st of August 2019, Mahindra Ecole Centrale

Achievements

Awarded DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award on July 2016 with a research grant of 35 lakhs by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.
Achieved MANA Postdoctoral Research fellowship at NIMS, Japan on Oct 2013.
Awarded NET-CSIR in chemical Science on Dec’ 2007 organized by UGC and CSIR-HRD group of Govt. of India
Got best poster award in PRC-2012 organized by Kolkata University.
Received best poster award in APSRT-2011 organized by IIT-KGP.
Served as a Guest Editor for the special issue of the journal "Materials" [MDPI, Impact Factor: 3.4 (2022); Cite score 5.2 (2022)] on the topic of "Theoretical Studies and Application of Energy Materials".
Publication (Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2019,7, 2871-2879) was in the top 5% (capped at top 100 papers) across the RSC journals in terms of citations in 2020.

To be Updated Soon

Some of the notable fellowships

1. Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) fellowship awared from BITS Pilani, India (2022)
2. Max Planck post-doctoral fellowship awared from Max Planck Society, Germany (2016)

Awards Honours & Fellowships

International Awards
16	Urology Care Foundation Travel Grant, AUA annual meeting 2013, Sandiego, USA, May 2013
15	Certificate of Merit award for poster presentation in the Asia ARVO, India, Oct 2013 (co-author)
14	Urology Care Foundation Travel Grant, AUA annual meeting 2012, Atlanta, USA, May 2012
13	AUA Foundation Research Scholar Program fellowship sponsored by Urology Care Foundation and Allergan, USA, 2012
12	Best oral presentation in the proceedings of the 3rd Oakland University Beaumont Health System biomedical research symposium, Nov 2012 (co-author), USA

National Awards
11	International Travel Grant, ICMR, India for ARVO annual meeting, Hawaii, USA, April 2018
10	International Travel Grant, DST, India for ARVO annual meeting, Florida, USA, May 2014
9	Senior Research Fellowship, AIIMS (CSIR funded), New Delhi, India, Apr 2009 to Mar 2011
8	International Travel Grant, DST, India for FIP/AAPS conference, New Orleans, USA, Nov 2010
7	Junior Research Fellowship, AIIMS (Ozone Pharmaceuticals funded), Sep 2006 to Jan 2009
6	Best Poster Prize, Indian pharmacological society conference (IPS), Dec, 2008
5	Dr. Ranga Travel Grant, from AIIMS, New Delhi, for IERG 2008
4	Best Oral Presentation Prize, Indian eye research group conference (IERG), 2008
3	Travel Grant, Poster presentation, Indian Pharmacological Society, New Delhi, Dec 2006
2	Best Thesis Work Scholarship award, Tamil Nadu pharmaceutical welfare trust for M.Pharm, 2005
1	Best outgoing student prize in M. Pharm (Pharmaceutics), K.M. College of pharmacy, Madurai, 2004-05.

Awards, Achievements, and Recognitions

November, 2021: Received the "Best Researcher Award" in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science, and Medicine, held on 12th November, 2021 in Chennai, India, Organized by VDGOOD Professional Association.
July, 2021: Received the "Elsevier Reviewer Recognition Award" and a "Certificate of Reviewing" in recognition to the reviews contributed to the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry since February, 2019.
March, 2021: Received the "Best Presentation Award" for presenting a research paper in an international conference on "Green Technologies for Sustainable Development" (GTSD - 2021), organized by Dharmsinh Desai University, Gujrat.
2015 - 2017 : Secured prestigious "Research Professor" position of Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
2014 : Selected as an Editorial Advisory Board Member of an international journal, Current Green Chemistry (Indexed in ESCI), Bentham Science Publishers
2011 - 2014 : Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR, Govt. of India
2009 - 2011 : Awarded Junior Research Fellowship by CSIR, Govt. of India
2009 : Stood among top 10 (General Category) in India in CSIR-UGC NET (National Eligibility Test) held in December, 2008 and subsequently called for the interview for the selection of the prestigious Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Fellowship
2008 : Qualified GATE in Chemistry : All India Rank - 176
2007 : Awarded Merit Scholarship of IIT Delhi (Top 25% students were awarded)
2007 : Qualified Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM) to IITs : All India Rank - 85

Faculty Development Program

Completed AICTE sponsored Short Term Course on "Application of Molecular Simulation and Machine Learning in Research", IIT Madras, March 21-26, 2022.

Achievements

Reviewers for International Journals
Invited reviewer for reviewing curriculum and research, School of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, 2022
Local Organizing Committee, International conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environmental Applications (NMTEEA), BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, 18-19 Feb 2022
President's Graduate Fellowship 2017-2018, a prestigious fellowship awarded to very few PhD students in NUS
Best Demonstrator for UG Research Laboratory, 2016
NUS Research Scholarship 2014-2017
Institute Silver Medal, IIT Bombay 2014
DBT Biology Scholarship, 2008
Mamraj Agarwal Rashtriya Puraskar, 2008

Achievements

Received a Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing by the Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2018.
Recipient of MEENAKSHI SUNDARAM'S BEST PAPER AWARD in APSMS congress in DEC '09.
Qualified GATE – 05 with AIR 150
Secured University III rank in M.Sc.
Awarded "THE BEST OUTGOING STUDENT" with a Silver medal in B.Sc.
Received a memento for 100% attendance in B.Sc.
Received a Cash Award for securing II place among the students of all Bharatiya Vidya Kendram, Visakhapatnam schools.

Professional Activities

Seminars Attended:

Attended Cyber Hygiene for Biomedical Institutions: Train-the-Trainers workshop at New Delhi organized by Health Security Partners (HSP), Washington DC, USA and Carnegie India from 17th April 2023 to 20th April 2023.
Attended a workshop on "Technology Translation and Societal Impact" organized by BITS BioCyTiH Foundation at BITS Pilani K. K Birla Goa Campus, Goa on 10th March 2023.
Attended IP Awareness/ Training Program under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission organized by Intellectual Property Office, India in March 2022 (on Invitation).
Attended Intel India Conclave for Leaders in Education '21 during 21st-22nd October 2021 which was a virtual event (on Invitation).
Track Chairat 16th IEEE INDICON 2019 on "IoT Data Analytics and Code Tamper-proofing" for the focused sessions during 13th-15th Dec 2019 at Rajkot, INDIA.
Session Chair at 25th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2019) for Emerging technologies, applications and services track, Ho Chi Minh City, Nov 2019, Vietnam.
Attended Intel India Academic Forum (IAF 2015) at New Delhi during Oct 8th-9th, 2015. This year's IAF theme was on Internet of Things, Bigdata analytics, and Cyber security.
Guest editor,Information Systems Frontiers: A Special Issue on Secure Knowledge Management in Big-data Era (Springer journal).
Program Committee Chair, International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Big-data era (SKM 2014), Dubai, Dec 8th-9th 2014.
Attended IITD-NU Joint workshop on Cyber Security at IIT, Delhi, February 7th-8th 2014. Participated in talks and panel discussions on Cloud and Network Security, Laboratories for Security research, etc. amongst the Indian participants, delegates and researchers from Nebraska University, Omaha.
Technical Co-Chair, Security and Privacy Symposium (SPS'14), February 20th-22nd 2014, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India.
Symposium Chair, Symposium on Information Security, Nov 15th-16th, 2013 at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad.
Attended and presented a poster on "Embedded OS Design & Implementation experiences on ATOM kits" (with my undergrad students Vishwajit K, and Sankalp S) at Intel India Academic Forum 2013 at Goa, India during 18th to 19th Sept 2013.
Attended Intel Embedded Faculty Summit 2013 at Chandler, Arizona, United States of America (USA) during 19th to 23rd Feb 2013. The theme of the summit was "Internet of Things (IoT)".
Program Committee Chair, 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2013), India.
Workshop Co-ordinator,International Workshop on Information Security (IWIS-2012), Dec 2012, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad.
Attended Microsoft Faculty Summit 2012 at Redmond, United States of America (USA) during 15th July to 17th July 2012. The theme of the summit was "Cloud computing and Big-data".
Symposium Co-Chair, Second Research Symposium at ICDCIT 2012, Bhubaneswar.
Attended round table discussion at International conference on Information securtity (Clubhack 2009) at Pune on 7th December 2009.
Attended the summer course on “Program Optimization for Multi-core Architectures” jointly conducted by Intel and IIT, Kanpur at Computer Science & Engineering department of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur during 29th June to 4th July 2009.
Attended nationwide PKI awareness program organized by CDAC, Hyderabad in the month of March 2009.
Attended National Conference cum Workshop on Issues related to IPRs: Opportunities & Challenges held at BITS, Pilani during 3rd and 4th March 2006.
Attended Microsoft Rotor Workshop at Microsoft Research, Hyderabad on .NET and Shared Source CLI during 5th and 6th November 2004.

PhD Thesis Examiner:

Anahita Namvar, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Nov 2023 (Title: Adversarial Machine Learning in IoT: Vulnerability Analysis and Robustness).
K Anuradha, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, PES University, Bangalore, June 2023 (Title: Modeling and Analysis of Demand Side Management).
Anuradha Goswami, Symbiosis Center for Information Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Nov 2021 (Title: Microblog based event analysis for Online Social Networks).
Samad Saadatmand Feyzrasa, School of Computer Sc. and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, July 2020 (Title: Evolutionary Algorithms for Incentivising Mobile Crowdsensing).
Sonal Yadav, Computer Sc. and Engineering Dept., Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Sept 2018 (Title: Exploration of Efficient Manycore Networks-On-Chip (NOC) Architectures).
Juhi Raviraj Srivastava, Computer Sc. and Engineering Dept., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangaluru Campus, India, January 2018 (Title: Cache Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Soft Computing Techniques).
Sudhir Kumar Mohapatra, Computer Sc. and Engineering Department, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, April 2017 (Title: Regression Testing of Object Oriented Programs).
Hasmukh Patel, Computer Engineering Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, Gujarat, India, Sept 2016 (Title: Modeling, Analysis and Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks).
Manish Shivshankar Chaturvedi, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, May 2016 (Title: Multi-modal design of an Intelligent Transportation System).
Tarun Narayan Shankar, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, June 2014 (Title: On the design of Cryptosystems using Elliptic curves).
Pradip Jawandhiya, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati (MS), July 2012 (Title: Design of efficient routing algorithms for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks).
Shabbir Ahmed, Network Research Lab, School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Aug 2010 (Title: Message Forwarding in People-centric Delay Tolerant Networks).
Girdhari Singh, CSE Department, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, INDIA, July 2009 (Title: Agent Based Real-Time System Modeling Based on UML).
Minal Kamlakar Bhise, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, INDIA, July 2009 (Title: Software Engineering Modeling Techniques for Semantic Web based Systems).
Bokarevo, Network Research Lab, School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Oct 2008 (Title: An Immunologically Inspired Self-Set for Sensor Networks).

Master's Thesis/Dissertation Examiner:

Gayathri Gorrepati(18MCME04), WiSi-Home: Development of WiFi sensing enabled safe home environment, MTech Dissertation, SCIS, UoH, Hyderabad, August 2023.
Yasaswini Tiramdas(18MCME22), Functional Safety Software Validation in Compliance with IEC 61508 FUSA Standard, MTech Dissertation, SCIS, UoH, Hyderabad, August 2023.
Mohammad Shadab(14MCMI04), Adaptive Evolutionary algorithms for Clustering, MTech Dissertation, School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH), Hyderabad, August 2016.
Manoj Kumar Patra(14MCMT38), Cognitive Internet of Things (IoT), MTech Dissertation, School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, August 2016.
G Vinod Kumar, Genetic Algorithm Based System Throughput Maximization in Cognitive Radio Network by Cooperative Spectrum Sensing, Master of Technology in Computational Techniques, Dept. of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, August 2015.
Manjunath Y, Probabilistic Routing, MTech Dissertation, Dept. of CS and Information systems, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, April 2012.
Jannatul Fardous, On the Use of Location Window in Geo-Intelligent HTTP Adaptive Streaming, Master’s Thesis (Research), School of Computer Sc. and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Aug 2012.

Memberships

Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education (LMISTE).
Member, The Institution of Engineers (IE), India.
Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Executive Member, Special Interest Group on Big Data Analytics (SIG-BDA), Computer Society of India (CSI).

In Technical Program Committees (TPCs):

27th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA-2022), April 2022, Hyderabad, India (Online Conference).
16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2019), Bhubaneswar, India, Jan 2020.
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE ANTS 2019), Goa, India, Dec 2019.
IEEE International workshop on foundations of Big data computing, In conjunction with HiPC 2015. Bengalaru, India, Dec 2015.
The International Workshop on Trusted Platforms for Mobile and Cloud Computing, (Collocated with IEEE Mobile Cloud 2014), April 2014, Oxford UK.
10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies, Bhubaneswar, Feb 2014, India.
2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, Mysore, August 2013, India.
19th IEEE International Conference on Networks, Singapore, Dec 2013, Singapore.
Compute-2013: 6th ACM India Computing Conference, Vellore, India.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Networks 2004, Singapore.
IEEE Local Computer Networks 2004, Tampa, Florida, USA.
IEEE Australian Telecommunications, Networks and Applications Conference 2004, Sydney, Australia.
First International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology 2004, Bhubaneswar, India.
International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT) 09, Bhubaneswar, India.
1st Annual International Conference on Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ATAI 2010), Thailand.
1st International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC 2011), Kochi.
3rd International Conference on Computer & Communication Technology (ICCCT 2012), MNNIT, Allahabad, India.
8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2012), Bhubaneswar, India.

Reviewer for Journals and Books

Review Editor, Cyber Security and Privacy journal, Frontiers of Big Data from May 2018.
Guest Editor, Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer from Jan, 2016.
Reviewed a Text Book on Artificial Intelligence from Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
Reviewer of CSI Transactions on ICT, Springer
Reviewer of Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, UK.
Reviewer of Wireless Networks Journal, Springer.
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Reviewer of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley.
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Others:

Member, PRSG from MeitY, Govt. of India for reviewing the progress of the project titled "Design and development of a solution for predicting multistage attacks using machine learning" implemented by C-DAC, Hyderabad during 2019-2021.
Member, CSIR-UGC NET Examination Committee, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Sept 2018.
Member, Interview Panel, Group A (Technical), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Hyderabad (Dec, 2016).
Member, Faculty recruitment committee, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Kota, Rajasthan (July, 2016).
External member, Empowered Committee for E-Governance, University of Hyderabad (UoH), Hyderabad from Dec 2015 till Dec 2017.
Panel member, PGP admission interviews (2015-2017 batch), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore, 13th Feb 2015.
Member, Jury Panel, Dynamic Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Excellence Awards 2014 organized by Grey Head Media; Ernst & Young, Mumbai, Oct 2014.

Achievements

Convener (Three Times) of International Conference on Evidence based management, Organized by Department of Management, BITS Pilani on 20-21 March 2015 , 17-18 March 2017, 1-2 Feb 2019.
Guest Editor of special issues on Evidence based management in Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, 2019
Guest Editor of special issues on Evidence based management in Journal of Modelling in Management, Journal of Management Practice 2015
Outstanding Paper award by Journal of Modelling in Management, Emerald Literati Network
Awarded with AIMS International Outstanding Young Management Researcher award 2015 at IBA Banglore on 19th Dec, 2015.
Awarded with AIMS International Outstanding Doctoral Management Student award 2012 at IIM Banglore on 7th Jan, 2013.

Awards

Shah-Schulman Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the area of Colloid and Interface Sciences, IIChE Award, 2021 (belated decision, 2022)
Best presentation at The 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environment Engineering (REEE 2022), held in Brest, France (virtual), 2022
Sumant Sinha Sustainability Leadership Award, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in collaboration with ReNew Power, 2020
CSIR Travel Grant, 2020
Research Scholar Travel Award, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2018
DST-INSPIRE fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2016 – 2020
Institute Gold Medal, M.Tech in Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, 2014
GATE scholarship by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2012 – 2014

Professional Achievements

Member, AIChE
Member, ACS
Life Member, IIChE
Associate Member, IE India
Convener, Second International Conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications (NMTE2A-2024), BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus, 2024.
Technical session chair, 5th Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Society International Conference, (AOSS-5, 2023), NIT Warangal, 2023.
Technical session chair (two sessions), SCHEMCOM 2022, NIT Warangal, 2022.
Guest Editor for special issue in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2022
Reviewer of various international journals like
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Energy Conversion and Management
- Energy
- International Journal of Ambient Energy
- Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy

Awards & Fellowships

Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (Junior Research Fellowship) held on 01-07-2001.
Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (Lectureship) held on 31-12-2000.

Awards & Fellowships

2017 ASM- IUSSTF Indo-US Research Professorship by American Society of Microbiology and Indo-US Science and Technology Forum to visit University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
INSA Bilateral Exchange Programme by Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi to visit Institute of Parasitology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, during June, 2017.
University Immersion award by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani to carry out research at University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA from June 8 – July 29, 2015.
Travel award by CSIR, New Delhi for attending International Conference "22nd Molecular Parasitology Meeting" held at MBL, WoodsHole, MA, USA from September 12 – 16, 2011.
Full Travel award from organizing committee ASTMH for presenting paper in the International Conference "59th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene" at Atlanta, USA from November 3 – 7, 2010.
Young Scientist Award for Best Poster Presentation at International Workshop on Molecular Epidemiology & Immunology Of Malaria and other Vector Borne Diseases at RMRCT, Jabalpur, M. P., INDIA, 2007.
Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India (2003 - 2006).

Recognitions

Campus Coordinator for organizing National Accreditation and Assessment Committee (NAAC) Peer Team visit to BITS Pilani during Decemeber 4 - 8, 2016
Organizing Secretary of the National Workshop on “Molecular Techniques: Cell to DNA” conducted by the Department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus from April 8 – 10, 2014 under the UGC-SAP.
Participated in DST sponsored National Workshop on Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics from August 6 – 8, 2014 at AIRF, JNU, New Delhi. The workshop was organized only for University faculties Assistant Professors and above.
International Workshop on Theoretical and Practical Course on "Molecular Approaches in Malaria Research and Vaccine Development", at ICGEB, New Delhi from 20th November - 1st December, 2006.

Awards/ Recognitions won by Students

Dr. Zarna R. Pala, awarded PhD in November 2017, selected for Post-Doctoral position at National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Dr. Gagandeep S. Saggu, awarded PhD in January 2017, currently working as Post-Doctoral Fellow at National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Zarna R. Pala, Vishal Saxena, Gagandeep S. Saggu, Sushil K. Yadav, R. P. Pareek, Sanjay K. Kochar, Dhanpat K. Kochar, Shilpi Garg. 2016 “Structural and Functional Characterization of an Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Scaffold Protein-SufA from Plasmodium vivax.” BITS Conference on Gene and Genome Regulation, at BITS Pilani, India, from February 18th – 20th (Ms Zarna, PhD student won Best Poster Award).
Zarna Rajeshkumar Pala, Shilpi Garg, Gagandeep Singh Saggu, Sanjay K Kochar, Vishal Saxena (2014). “Characterization of nuclear encoded hypothetical proteins involved in Fe-S cluster biogenesis in Plasmodium vivax.” Presented at 25th National Congress of Parasitology on “Global Challenges in Management of Parasitic Diseases: Host parasite interactions, Molecular Biology and Drug Development”, at CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, India from October 16-18. (Best Poster Award).
Zarna Rajeshkumar Pala, Shilpi Garg, Gagandeep Singh Saggu, Vishal Saxena (2014). “Characterization of nuclear encoded hypothetical proteins involved in Plasmodium vivax apicoplast metabolic pathways.” Presented at Recent Trends and Future Prospects of Microbiology and Biotechnology organized by Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tiberwala University, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan from March 3-4. (2nd Best Poster Award).
Zarna Pala RajeshKumar selected for 'Novartis Biotechnology Leader Camp 2012' held at Hyderabad, India. There she won the first prize in Team event.
Mr. Gagandeep S. Saggu, Dept. of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani working as PhD student of Dr. Vishal Saxena received the Best Young Scientist award for talk delivered on "Characterization of Isoprenoid pathway genes from Indian field isolates of Plasmodium vivax" in National Conference "Recent trends and future prospects of Microbiology & Biotechnology" held at Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tiberwala University (JJTU), Jhunjhunu from March 3rd - 4th, 2014.

Accolades

Academic Excellence

Recognized with the University First Rank and Gold Medal for exceptional academic performance during graduation
Stood as School Topper

Awards and Recognition:

Secured an International Exchange Scheme from Royal Society in collaboration with University of York, United Kingdom in 2023.
Won the iDEX - DISC 4 challenge in 2021 and received the grant award from DIO, DRDO.
Secured an Indo-Russian Joint Grant in collaboration with Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia in 2020.
Received the Young Achiever Award in 2019 from INSc, Bangalore.

Research and Projects:

Led various extra-mural funded projects from government and non-government agencies.
Served as a machine learning and data analytics consultant, delivering innovative products to diverse industry verticals.
Developed an AI-based COVID Screening tool for preliminary screening during the 2020 pandemic. The tool was deployed as open source in three government hospitals in Tamil Nadu, India, with the support of SASTRA Management.
Received several Best Paper Awards in reputable international conferences

Professional Engagement:

Member of the reviewer board for several international journals and program committees for international conferences and workshops.
Current memberships include the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and lifetime membership with the International Association of Engineers (IAENG).

Awards and Recognitions

Memberships/Fellowships

Affiliate Member (Royal Society of Chemistry, London)
Lifetime Member (Society for Ethnopharmacology, India)
Lifetime Member (Association of Pharmaceuticals Teachers of India)
Registered Member of Rajasthan State Pharmacy Council

Individual Awards

Top cited article for 2021-2022 [Biomedical chromatography]
Dr. P.D Sethi Memorial National Award 2019 for best research paper in HPTLC
Awarded 11^th DNA Innovative Education Leadership Award 2019 under “Best Professor in Pharmacy Studies” category.

Awarded Young scientist grant 2015 [DST-SERB]
Awarded Scheme for Young Scientist and Technologist grant 2015 [DST-SEED]
Awarded Best Poster presentation prize at International Conference on New Developments in Drug Discovery from Natural Products and Traditional Medicines held on November 16-20 in NIPER-SAS Nagar (Mohali) 2008
Awarded postgraduate research fellowship from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research during M. S. Pharm. (July 2001-December 2002).
Senior Research Fellowship” from Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of INDIA, New Delhi

Research Group Awards

Mr. SNC Sridhar [PhD Student] awarded with “Dr. Shyambalaji Achuthan Award for Excellence in the field of Pharmacology” for his work on Conophylline - A Potential Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitory Lead from Tabernaemontana divaricata: In silico, synthesis and In vitro studies” at the 1st National Biomedical Research Competition (NBRCOM-2018), held at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh on October 15, 2018
Mr. SNC Sridhar [PhD Student] conferred with BEST POSTER AWARD for the research work topic entitled “Synergy Approach Based Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitory Effects of Selected Indian Medicinal Plants as Anti-obesity Agents under the theme Advances in Pharmacological Evaluation of Herbal Drugs/Products of International Conference on Challenges for Global Competitiveness of AYUSH and Natural Products and IASTAM Oration Award Function 2018, held at Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University during February 2-4, 2018
Mr. Ginson George [PhD Student] awarded with 2nd prize in poster presentation on research group work entitled, “Development of Anti-Obesity Tea Polyphenol- Orlistat Combination by Synergy Guided Fractionation Approach” at the 6th International Biennial Conference on “New Developments and Drug Discovery from Natural Products and Traditional Medicines” at NIPER, S.A.S. Nagar, November 15-17 2018, Punjab, India.

Administration

Administrative Responsibilities

Faculty Incharge, Public Relations Office (March 2021 -Present)
Convener, Academia-Industry Interfacing Committee (Since September 2020)
Faculty Incharge, Public Relations (September 2018 - August 2020)
Faculty Incharge, VFAST and IC, (Since March 2014- August 2018)
Faculty Incharge, Reprography Section, PMRU (2011- August 2018)
Member, Department Academic Committee (September 2018 - August 2020 )
Member, Department Research Committee (2016- 2018)
Member, Department Academic Committee (2013-16)
Coordinator, Language Laboratory (Since 2010)
Non-Resident Warden of the Boys Hostel (2011 - 2016)
Nucleus Member, Publications and Media Relations Unit (PMRU) (2007-2018)
Member, Editorial Team, BITSCAN (2006-2014)
Member, GRE Preparation Course
Vice-President, Staff Association Executive Committee 2009-2010
Vice-President, Staff Association Executive Committee 2008-2009
Member, Staff Association Executive Committee (Joint Secretary, Convener for Lectures and Workshops) 2007-08
Member, Staff Association Executive Committee (Treasurer) 2006-2007
Member, Staff Association Executive Committee (Coordinator for Sports and Lectures) 2005-2006

Professional Development

Resource Person

Chaired a Session in the 4th International Conference on Evidence Based Management organized by Department of Management, BITS Pilani, PIlani Campus, during 24-25th February 2023.
Chaired a Session in the International Conference on Gender and Sexuality, organized by TIIKM, Srilanka, October 2022.
Invited Panel Speaker on 'Entrepreneural Professors Do Make Difference in Teaching', ADAMAS University, February, 2022.
Delivered Keynote speaker talk on "NEP2020 - Skills Based Higher Education- Opportunities and Challenges", at BKBIET, Pilani on the occasion on Founders' Day of IETE, 12th November, 2022
Two Day Research Methodology Workshop, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, 23-24 February 2019
One Day Faculty Development Program, Jaypee Institute of Engineering and Technology,8 June 2018
Lecture Series Delivered at Birla Sishu Vihaar, BET, Pilani February 2016
Three Day Faculty Development Program, Deshbhagat Group of Institutions, Punjab, 9-11 June 2011
Two Day Workshop on Communication and Soft Skills, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bikaner, 8-9 April, 2008

Attended/Participated

Representative Delegate in the Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave organized by Department of Higher and Technical Education, GoR, 2017
Intensive Workshop on Research Methodology, BITS Pilani, 9-11 February 2015
National Workshop on Research Methods and Data Analysis, Chitkara University, Punjab, 14-15 June, 2014
Workshop on Documentary and Short Film Making, BITS Pilani, 1-2 November 2008
Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship, EDIPR and Technology Business Development Unit, BITS Pilani, 23-24 November 2007
Faculty Development Program on Professional Effectiveness, Department of Management, BITS Pilani, 26-27 October 2004

Responsibilities Undertaken

Administrative Responsibilities

Current

Senate Member, BITS Pilani
Member, Departmental Level Selection Committee, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Academic Council, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana (Since March 2020)
Member, Employee Exit Review/ Retention Committee, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh (Since June 2021)
BoS Member, Department of Civil Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyala, Andhra Pradesh (Since October 2021)
BoS Member, Department of Civil Engineering, Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram, Andhra Pradesh (Since May 2022)

Past

Member, Interview Panel, Faculty Recruitment, Department of Civil Engineering, Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded, Maharashtra (August 27-28, 2023)
Committee Member, To Identify Best Faculty for an Award, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh August 2023)
Subject Expert, Faculty Recruitment Interview, Department of Civil Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad (June 02, 2023 | October 09, 2023)
Member, Committee to nominate Best Faculty for an Award, NIIT University, Neemrana, Alwar, Rajasthan (November 2022)
Associate Dean, Academic – Undergraduate Studies, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
Chairman, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
Convener, First Degree Teaching Assistantship Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
Member of Expert Committee constituted by Government of Telangana to look into the issues related to Intermediate Results in April 2019
Associate Dean, Instruction Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (Jan 2014 – August 2018)
Member, Project Lakshya: Team: Programs, Curriculum, Pedagogy and Quality Assurance
Task Force Member & Leader, Mission 2015: Vision 2020, Team: Quality Assurance & Assessment
Task Force Member, Mission 2012: Vision 2020, Team: Academic Programs & Pedagogy
Member, Fact Finding Committee of JNTU Hyderabad to the colleges as per the direction of the Hon’ble Supreme Court for the visit of Self-financing Institution for Grant of Temporary Affiliation for the Academic Year 2014-15
Head of the Department, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (Oct 2010 to August 2012)
Faculty In-charge, Educational Hardware Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2009 to January 2011; September 2013 to February 2014)
Faculty In-charge, Instruction Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2009 to January 2011)
Faculty In-charge, Maintenance Unit, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2011 to December 2011)
Faculty In-charge, Engineering Services Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2008 to July 2009)
Convener, Works Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Convener, Space Planning Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Chairperson, User Council, Hyderabad Campus Growth Plan Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
BoS Member, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh
Member, Examination Committee, BITS Pilani
Member, Academic Governing Committee, BITS Pilani
Member, Examination Subcommittee, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Member, First Degree Merit Scholarship Committee; Merit cum Need Scholarship Committee; Student Aid Fund Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Students Grievances Redressal Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Works Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Student Faculty Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Faculty Induction Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Academic Advisory Council, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Recruitment Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Member, 1.08 Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Team Member, Centre for Desert Development Technologies, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Member, Library Committee, Civil Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Incharge, Research and Consultancy Activities, Civil Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Incharge, Civil Engineering Association, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Incharge, Civil Engineering Association, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Organizing Committee Member for several conferences/ workshops held at BITS, Pilani
Nucleus Member, Instruction Division, BITS Pilani, Pilani and Hyderabad Campus
Incharge, Test Scheduling, BITS Pilani, Pilani and Hyderabad Campus
Incharge, Feedback and Monitoring Cell, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Executive Member, Staff Association, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Executive Member, Birla Institutions Community Centre, Pilani
Program Officer, NSS, BITS Pilani, Pilani and Hyderabad Campus
Non-Resident Warden, Bhagirath Bhawan, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Academic Responsibilities Undertaken

Reviewer for IEEE Journal of Evolutionary Computation, Expert Systems with Applications, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Environmental Modeling & Software Journal, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Information Sciences, Institution of Civil Engineers Journal of Water Management, Journal of Hydrology and many more
Reviewer for several books (Concrete Technology, Strength of Materials, Numerical Methods and Engineering Hydrology) published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Involved as a Consulting Engineer for Soil Testing, Concrete Mix Design, Slab, Cube, Material Testing for a few private companies and the Government of Rajasthan at BITS, Pilani

Administrative Work Experience

August 2018 - September 2021	Associate Dean, Academic-Undergraduate Studies Division BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
January 2014 - August 2018	Associate Dean, Instruction Division BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
September 2013 - February 2014	Faculty In-charge, Educational Hardware Division BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
August 2011 - December 2011	Faculty In-charge, Maintenance Unit BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
October 2010 - August 2012	Head of the Department, Department of Civil Engineering BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
August 2009 - January 2012	Faculty In-charge, Instruction Division BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
August 2009 - January 2011	Faculty In-charge, Educational Hardware Division BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
August 2008 - July 2009	Faculty In-charge, Engineering Services Division BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Achivements:

Dr. Chennu Ranganayakulu, Formerly Scientist H/Outstanding Scientist, Technology Director (General Systems) & Director (Materials Management), Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore, had developed an Environmental Control System (ECS) and different types of Compact Heat Exchangers (CHEs) and Valves for Tejas Aircraft through 33 years of during his service in HAL and ADA.

As part of these activities, he has been involved in the establishment of ECS test rig and Qualification Test Facility at GTRE and Heat Exchangers test facilities at NAL, Bangalore, and BHEL, Vizag.

He established Compact Heat Exchanger development in India for the first time in India for Aircraft applications.

Experiences and Certifications

Professional Experiences (10 years 6 months till June 2021)

Associate Professor, BITS Pilani, June 2021
Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, April 2013 - May 2021 (8 Years 1 Months)
Project Assistant , IISc Bangalore, October 2012 - April 2013 (7 Months)
Project Assistant, IISc Bangalore, May 2005 - June 2006 (1 Years 2 Months)
Trainee Engineer, Neo- Parishrutan Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, January 2000 - July 2000 (7 months)

Professional Certifications

Certification online training programme on "Disaster Risk Reduction in Himalaya Region with a specific reference to Ladakh" on 21 Sep 2021 to 23 Sep 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Government Degree College Drass Ladakh
Certification online training programme on "54th Engieers Day- Lessons Learnt from Kashmir Flood-2014" on 15 Sep 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with The Institution of Engineers India Jammu and Kashmir State Centre
Certification online training programme on "Women led Sustainable and Decentralized Water Resource Management A Multi Stakeholders Perspective" on 25 Aug 2021 to 27 Aug 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute
Certification online training programme on "Hazard Risk Reduction to the Working Community Involved in Solid Waste Management" on 17 Aug 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Pondicherry University
Certification online training programme on "Covid-19 Psychological Impact of School Closures on Early Childhood" on 13 Aug 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with YWCA of Delhi
Certification online training programme on "Geo-Hazard Analysis and Management" on 26 Jul 2021 to 28 Jul, 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences University of Allahabad
Certification online training programme on "Climate Change and its Possible Impacts on Women and Children" on 21 Jul 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Central University of Jharkhand
Certification training on "Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Support Group" conducted by Symbiosis Centre for Emotional Wellbeing (SCEW) and organized by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on June 17-18, 2021.
Certification online training programme on "Disaster Resilient Waste Management for Sustainable Spaces" on 16 Jun 2021 to 18 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute
Certification online training programme on "Landslide Risk Management in Mizoram " on 15 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Department of Disaster Management & Rehabilitation Government of Mizoram
Certification online training programme on "Building Rural and Indigenous Womens Resilience and Livelihood in the Wake of COVID19 " on 14 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Chaintanya Area Networking and Development Initiatives (ANANDI) Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS)
Certification online training programme on "Earthquake Risk Preparedness in North East India " on 12 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with North Eastern Hill University Shillong
Certification online training programme on "Futuristic Research in Disaster Resilience" on 11 Jun 2021 to 13 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Department of Civil Engineering Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering Mysuru
Certification online training programme on "Environment and Land Use Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction" on 11 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Professional Studies
Certification online training programme on "Role of Cyber Security Technology in Disaster Management System" on 11 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with Sri Sri University
Certification online training programme on "Road Safety and Transport Infrastructure Resilience" on 08 Jun 2021 to 10 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with FICCI
Certification online training programme on "Ecosystem Restoration for Improved Relationship with Nature" on 05 Jun 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with The Institution of Engineers India J&K SC.
Certification online training programme on "Industrial Safety and Risk Management Green Clean and Safe Economy" on 05 Apr 2021 to 07 Apr 2021 organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India in collaboration with FICCI
Certification Webinar on “NGAGE – Next Generation Advocates for Gender Equity”, 10-12 December 2020, certified by NGAGE - Durga.
Certification Short Course on “Direct Use Applications of Low - to Medium Enthalpy Geothermal Resources”, 2-3 November 2020, certified by UNEP-ARGEO-C8, 8th African Rift Geothermal Conference
Certification webinar on “Naya Kshitij: NEP 2020 for Higher Education-Implementation, Preparedness, Challenges, and Way forward” 7 November 2020, Certified by Teaching Learning Center (TLC), BITS Pilani, Pilani campus.
Certification webinar on “UN75 Dialogue on Defense & Strategic Affairs: The North Western Border” held on 24 October 2020, certified by Rajasthan Team of Confederation of Young Leaders (CYL)
Certification webinar on “Naya Kshitij: NEP 2020 for Schools - Implementation, Preparedness, Challenges, and Way forward in schools in Rajasthan” September 2020, Certified by Teaching Learning Center (TLC), BITS Pilani, Pilani campus.
Certification webinar on “International Webinar on SMART CITY: Beyond the Pendamics”, July 2020, Certified by Birla Institute of Technology and Science, BITS Pilani.
Certification Workshop on “QGIS for Hydrological Applications”, 2019, Certified by TGIS.
Certification Program of 3 months Iron Lady Corporate Leadership Program 2019, Certified by Iron Lady and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Certification Workshop on "Anti-sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace", 2018 Certified by Labour Laws Institute
Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW) by BITS Pilani, 2013 (3 months)
Vocational Trainee at Braithwaite & Co, Kolkata, May 1998 (1 months)

Awards and Honor’s

Best speaker Award in 2nd International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering (NME 2019), conducted by Ghent University, Belgium, Duy Tan University, Nanjing Tech University, Dai Hoc Ton Duc Thang University, August 19-22, 2019 at Beijing, China.
The Institute Scholarship for pursuing Ph.D in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (August 2006 to July 2012)
The Institute Scholarship for pursuing MSc (Engg) in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (August 2000 to May 2003)
The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (2000)
Selected for M.Tech Programme in Structural Engineering at IIT Bombay (2000) with teaching assistantship
The National Scholarship in 10th standard (1992)
School Topper and Gold medalist in 10th standard (1992)
Student fee waiver (Based on Merit) throughout the middle School (1987-1992)

Academic Activities & Achievements

Peer review for international journals including Gene Reports, Molecular Simulation/Journal of Experimental Nanoscience & Journal of biomolecular structure and dynamics
Best Poster Award at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG) & International Symposium on Trends in Human Genetic Research & Management, at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore; 2-4 March, 2017
Recipient of the UGC-BSR fellowship for meritorious students in science at the Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India (Nov 2013 – Oct 2018)
Nominated Student Member of the Library Committee of South Campus at University of Delhi (2014–19)

Awards

Rajasthan EDUHACK

Rajasthan EDUHACK was a part of Rajasthan Hackathon 4.0, organized by Department of Information Technology and Communications, Government of Rajasthan during March 19 - 21, 2018. The award was won jointly by me and Dr. Ashutosh Bhatia.

Best Paper Award in ICCCS 2019

Received Best Paper Presentation Award in 2019 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS 2019) held in Singapore.

Session Chair

Session Chair in the following conferences:

7th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications, and Informatics (ICACCI 2018)
ICEBM 2015
ICEBM 2019

Achievements

Awarded "Outstanding Woman Researcher in Molecular Biology" in the 8th Venus International Women Awards (VIWA 2023).
Awarded “Dr. D. S. Kothari Post – Doctoral Fellowship (UGC)”: 2011 – 2013.
Best Participant in EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course on “Molecular and Evolutionary Genetics of Malaria” 21 November – 04 December, 2010 held at National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi
Qualified All India level CSIR – UGC NET (JRF) - LS, June, 2002 examination.
Department Topper (Zoology) in MSc. (2002)

Award/Fellowship Received

1. I have been placed among the top 2% scientists of the world according to the survey by researchers from Stanford University, USA in Nuclear & Particle Physics for 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023 for a single year category which has been published in a reputed international journal, PLOS Biology.

Citation: Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators.

DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.2: Version 2, Published: 8 Oct. 2020

DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.3: Version 3, Published: 19 Oct. 2021

DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.4: Version 4, Published: 10 Oct. 2022

DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.6: Version 6, Published: 4 Oct. 2023

2. Awarded Transilvania Fellowship (March 2023)

3. Fellow of Institute of Mathematics & its Applications (FIMA), London

4. Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), London

5. Visiting Associate, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune

6. Elected as a foreign member of the Russian Gravitational Society

7. Reviewer excellence award 2019 by Indian Academy of Sciences, India

8. Science Academies Summer Research Fellowship-2014.

9. UGC Visiting Fellow, Sardar Patel University during the academic year 2015-2016.

10. Prof. S. Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award, 2022 by BITS-Pilani

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Tensor Society

Editor, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, World Scientific, Impact Factor 1.8

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Q2 Journal, Impact Factor 3.0

Topic Editorial Board Member of “Universe”, Q2 Journal, Impact Factor 2.9

Editor, Journal of Innovation Sciences and Sustainable Technologies (JISST)

Scientific accomplishments and services

Expert Reviewer:

Physical Science Projects, SERB, DST, Govt. of India

University Grants Commission (UGC), research schemes

Referee/ Reviewer

Advances in Astronomy, Hindawi Publication

Advances in High Energy Physics, Hindawi Publication

Annalen der Physik, Wiley

Annals of Physics, Elsevier

Applications and Applied Mathematics

Astrophysics and Space Science, Springer

Canadian Journal of Physics, NRC Research Press

Chinese Journal of Physics, Elsevier

Chinese Physics B, IOP Science

Chinese Physics C, IOP Science

Classical Quantum Gravity, IOP Science

Communications in Theoretical Physics, IOP Science

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi Publication

European Physical Journal C, Springer

European Physical Journal Plus, Springer

Europhysics Letters, IOP

Foundations of Physics, Springer

Fortschritte der Physik - Progress of Physics, Wiley

General Relativity & Gravitation, Springer

Gravitation and Cosmology, Springer

Indian Journal of Physics, Springer

International Journal of Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Application, I K International

International Journal of Modern Physics D, World Scientific

International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Springer

Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Springer

Journal of Inequalities and Applications, Hindawi Publication

Journal of Modern Physics, Scientific Research

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics, Springer

MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS (AMS)

Modern Physics Letters A, World Scientific

Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier

New Astronomy, Elsevier

Pearson Books

Physica Scripta, IOP

Physical Review D, APS

Physics of the Dark Universe, Elsevier

Pramana, Springer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences, Springer

Results in Physics, Elsevier

Symmetry, MDPI

Turkish Journal of physics

Universe, MDPI

Zentralblatt MATHH (ZMATH)

Reviewer for MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS published by American Mathematical Society, Rhode Islands, U.S.A.

Reviewer for ZENTRALBLATT FUR MATEMATIK published Springer Verlag, Germany.

Life Member of Learned Societies:

1. American Mathematical Society

2. Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Society for Mathematical Sciences

3. Astronomical Society of India

4. International Association of Mathematical Physics

5. International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
6. Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation

7. Indian Society for Technical Education
8. Indian Mathematical Society

9. Orissa Mathematical Society

10. The Indian Science Congress Association

11. The Tensor Society of India

Awards & Achievements

Institutional

2014: Felicitated by the Director, BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus on November 8, 2014 for contributing to the completion of phase 1 of Hyderabad campus construction [Certificate & Photo]
2021:Felicitated by Director, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus for supporting the initiatives taken by the institute to mitigate the challenges faced by local communities during COVID-19 on January 4, 2021 (Certificate ) (Photo)

Editorial

Editor, Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing [With effect from July 1, 2020]
Associate editor, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Taylor & Francis [with effect from January 2015]
Associate editor, H2 Open Journal, IWA Publishing [May 6, 2019 - June 30, 2020]
Member, International editorial board, Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing [May 23, 2019-June 30, 2020)

Awards for Research Publications

2021: Secured first position/ best oral presentation for the paper entitled "Fuzzy Optimization Framework for Facilitating Best Management Practice in the Context of Urban Floods," in the Theme Soft Computing Techniques in Water Resources Engineering, 26th HYDRO 2021, International Conference, SV National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, December 23-25, 2021. Authors: Rohit Dwivedula, R. Madhuri, K. Srinivasa Raju, A. Vasan
2018: Secured first position/ best oral presentation for the paper entitled " Evaluation of rainfall-runoff model structures in R platform: case study, National symposium on emerging environmental challenges: an engineering approach (EEC 2018), jointly organized by CSIR- NEERI, Hyderabad zonal centre and BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus, February 16, 2018. Authors: B. Sriman Pankaj, K.Srinivasa Raju
2016: Best research paper award for the paper ‘Application of multiple linear regression as a downscaling methodology for Lower Godavari basin’ on subtheme climate change, drought assessment, and mitigation, International Conference on Water, environment, energy and Society (ICWEES-2016), jointly organized by AISECT university, India and Texas A & M university, USA, March 15-18, 2016, Bhopal. Authors: Gayam Akshara, K.Srinivasa Raju, Ajit Pratap Singh, A.Vasan
2015: Best paper award for the paper ‘Optimal integrated water resources management for Khadakwasla complex reservoir’ (session-III), i-Manager international conference on engineering and technologies (IICET-2015), held at Trivandrum, India, April 11-12, 2015. Authors: D.V. Morankar, K. Srinivasa Raju, A. Vasan
2014: S.N.Gupta Memorial Award for research contribution to water resources engineering by Indian Society for Hydraulics. The award was given during the inaugural session of the HYDRO-2014 international conference, MANIT Bhopal, on December 18, 2014. Er M.D.Kudale, President of the Indian Society for Hydraulics, gave the award, and an organizing committee member gave a souvenir.
2003: Latest top-rated article rating, International Society of robust engineering professionals, USA in the category of operations research/statistics for the paper 'Multicriterion decision making in performance evaluation of an irrigation system' published in European Journal of Operational Research, 112(3), pp.479-488, 1999. 1999: Highest quality rating, Anbar Electronic Intelligence, UK, for the same paper. Authors: K.Srinivasa Raju, C.R.S.Pillai
2002: Sir Arthur Cotton memorial medal by Institution of Engineers (India) during Indian Engineering Congress, Patna in December 2002 for the paper 'Multicriterion Q-analysis and compromise programming for irrigation planning', Vol 82, June 2001, Civil engineering division. The award consists of a citation and a medal. Authors: K. Srinivasa Raju, D.Nagesh Kumar.

Reviewing

2016: Outstanding contribution in reviewing from the editors of the Journal of Hydrology in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal
2014: Outstanding reviewer, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE for 2014.

Awards & Scholarships

Awards

Runner-Up - Best Student Paper Award at 27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec) 2013.

Scholarships

GATE Fellowship for M.E. at Jadavpur University, 2009 - 2011.
Institute Fellowship for Ph.D. at IIT Kharagpur, 2011 - 2016.

Awards & Recognition

Google AI for Social Good research award 2021

Recipient of the Google Impact Scholar Award under their “AI for Social Good” initiative for the project titled “Collating & Analyzing Multi-modal, Multi-lingual data for reducing Wildlife Crime”. It is one of the 30 projects selected globally for funding by Google Research. The award money: USD $10,000

India's leading women AI researchers

Recognized by “India AI” (a Govt. body which is an initiative of MEITY, NeGD, and NASSCOM) as one of the 8 powerful and talented women who are making their mark in the academic research areas of AI in the country on International Women's day 2021.

IBM Scalable Data Analytics Innovation Faculty Award 2010

Winner of IBM Research Innovation Award under the Smarter Planet Initiative. The award is in the area of Scalable Data Anlaytics for the research concept titled "Developing a Smart Crop Management System using Data Analytics". Award amount: $ 15,000 USD.

Seminars

Prof Jaideep has given seminars in several Institutes which include SESTEC, Mumbai, IIT Guwahati, ICT Mumbai, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad, Unilever R&D (Colworth, UK), Unilever R&D (USA), Unilever R&D (Bangalore & Mumbai), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (USA) among others. In 2022, Prof Jaideep delivered an Invited Plenary Talk at the annual meeting of WQIA (Water Quality India Association), in Bangalore. In November 2022, Prof Jaideep delivered an invited talk at SESTEC 2022, in ICT, Mumbai.

Achievements

2021 Prof SSR Memorial Teaching Excellence Award

On 5th September 2021, I was awarded Prof. SSR Memorial Teaching Excellence Award - 2021 instituted by BITS Alumni. This award is a tribute to Prof. S. S. Ranganathan, one of the illustrious faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Pilani campus during his two terms from 1978 to 2000. This annual award recognises the Best Teacher amongst the three Indian campuses of BITS Pilani. The award was constituted in 2017 and carries a Cash Award and a Plaque. I delivered a talk on ‘My Teaching-Learning Experiences' on that occasion and dedicated the award to all my beloved students.

Professional Recognition

Departmental representative of Academic Counselling Cell (October 2022 onwards)
Expert for evaluation of Pilani Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Society (PIEDS) in2021.
Moderation of BITS Dubai question paper in Immunology (BIO F244) under KHDA scheme in 2020-2021 II Semester.
Reviewed 10 projects submitted under SITARE GYTI 2021 (March 2021)
Gave an invited interview to a Delhi based News Paper " The National" based on a review articlepublished by me in EJFA on “Therapeutic potential of camel Milk” (2016)
Invited as chief guest and gave motivational talk in inter school quiz competition conducted inSaboo college, Pilani on 23rd Oct, 2014.
Biological science department seminar coordinator for Research scholar (1920-21)
Flame Photometer In-Charge in Central Analytical Lab (2018 onwards)
Library Committee Member (2012-2014)
DCA Convener from 2012 -2014: Coordinated the course restructuring of M.Sc. and ME programs of the Biological Science Department.
Participated as member/coordinator of scientific sessions/events/workshops in numerous national/International conferences organized by the department of Biological Sciences
Student Faculty Committee (2015 onwards)
Review of Departmental Projects
Conduction crash course on Cancer Biology for placement division
Examiner at practical examination at Mandalia college, Pilani in Microbiology, Biochemistry,Home Science as well as Food and Nutrition.
Judge at poetry recitation competition at Birla Shishu Vihar. 2009.
Invited as chief guest in Primary Scholl at Basgaon at Annual Day celebration conducted in coordination with my India Team in 2010
Actively participated in several Workshops, conferences and lectures organized by TLC and Patent cell
Judge of various events APOGEE from 2006-2010 in Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences categories Best teacher award for teaching science in teachers day (1983) at Kendriya Vidhyalaya IIT,Kanpur
Qualified NET, GATE and TOEFL
Editorial Board of National Journal of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine
Life Member My India Team

Awards

Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Prof. B.B. Pandey Memorial Award (Instituted by IIT Kharagpur) - Pandey. A, Singh. K. S., Raju. S, and Sham. R., (2020) “Fundametal Limitations of Performance Grade Rutting and Fatigue Cracking Criteria of Bitumen” Journal of Indian Roads Congress,
Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Commendation Certificate for Research Publication - Sathya Kumar, Sridhar. R, Sudhakar Reddy , and Sunil Bose, (2008) “Analytical Investigation on the Influence of Loading and Temperature on Surface Cracking in Bituminous Layers,” Journal of Indian Roads Congress, Volume 69, No. 1.
Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Medal for outstanding research - S Bose, Sridhar. R, C Kamaraj, G Sharma, and G Kumar, (2005) “Investigation of Moisture Damage to Bituminous Pavement and Effect on Field Performance – Case Studies,” Journal of the Indian Roads Congress, Volume 66, No-3.
Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Bihar PWD medal for outstanding research - Sridhar. R, S Bose, G Sharma, and G Kumar, (2004) “Performance of Bituminous Mixes Modified by Waste Plastic Bags,” Highway Research Bulletin, Indian Roads Congress, Vol 71- .
Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Commendation Certificate for Research Publication S Bose, Sridhar. R, C Kamaraj, and Meena R K, (2003) “Performance-Based Mix Design Using Super-Pave Gyratory Compactor,” Journal of the Indian Roads Congress, Volume 64, No-2.

Awards

University Post Doctoral Fellowship at Aalto University (June 2022 - Feb. 2023).
Institute Post Doctoral Scholarship at IIT Bombay (Sept. 2021 - June 2022).
Research Travel Grant from International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), for presenting research work at the GeoCongress 2020, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Feb. 2020).
Overall Best Presenter award for the papers presented at Geo-Apps 2018 and Geo-Apps 2019.
Research excellence award for research performance at IIT Hyderabad for the years 2016 and 2017.
Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) scholarship to pursue internship at Ritsumeikan University, Japan for three months (2018).
National fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India to pursue doctoral studies at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India (2015-2020).
Pratibha Award from state Govt. of A. P. for the best performance in academics at Maters level (2016).
Research Travel Grant from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India for presenting research work at the 2nd international conference on unsaturated soils, PanAm Unsat-2017, held at Dallas, Texas, USA. (Nov. 2017).

Faculty Achievements

DBT- Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship 2018-19 (November 2019 onward) in BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus
UGC– Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (May 2018 to October 2019) in the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, North Campus, Delhi
ARO Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Institute of Plant Sciences, the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel (December 2013 to February 2018)
Research associate fellowship by ICAR- Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla (September 2013- November 2013)
CSIR network project Junior and Senior research fellowship during PhD in CSIR- Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar (Gujarat)
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2007) in Life science subject conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Faculty Achievements

Awards won under her guidance

Yatik Thakwani, 4th year chemical engineering student, was awarded Best Oral Presenter at the international conference on, “Technical Interventions for Sustainability -Chem Conflux ‘22”, which was jointly organized by University Sains Malaysia, and Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India during April 14th - 16th, 2022. The paper was prepared along with Anugraha Karwa (4th year Chemical Students)
Mr. Nishant Ashar and Ms. Abarino Santosh, 4th year chemical engineering students have participated and secured 3rd place in the DIAC, Best Innovative Engineering Project 2021, an event held on 22nd November 2021, for presenting their idea on “Extraction of celluose nanocrystals for biodegradable packaging film". They have received an amount of 10,000 AED as a cash prize.

Awards

Secured 2^nd position in the Haryana State Board (B.S.E.H.) in the Matriculation examination.
Secured 2^nd position in the Haryana State Board (B.S.E.H.) in Senior Secondary examination.
Secured 2^nd position in the B. Tech in the deemed University NIT Silchar (Assam).
Stood among the top 2.19 % among 0.1 million candidates in GATE-2010.
Topper of the batch Jan. 2011 for highest CGPA in Ph.D.
Obtained 3^rd prize in the State level Inter School Science Quiz Contest organized by the Haryana State Council for Science and Technology.
Awarded 2^nd position in the circuit designing contest- Circuitrix in Technoesis '08, NIT Silchar (Assam).
Awarded 1^st position in the microprocessor coding contest- Mnemonics in Technoesis '08, NIT Silchar (Assam).
Won Best Student Award for the year 2004 in S. M. Hindu Senior Secondary School, Sonepat (Haryana).
Won Best Paper award for "Dark field imaging in a bright field microscope using tailored polarization of Spoof Surface Plasmons," P. Arora, A. Krishnan, Photonics 2014, 2014.
Won Best Poster Award for "Refractive index and thickness sensing of sub-wavelength thin films using Surface Plasmon imaging," P. Arora and A. Krishnan, National Conference on Nano Science and Nanotechnology (NS&NT-2014), CRNN, 2014.
Won an MHRD scholarship during my stay at IIT Madras to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. studies.
Won Institute Research Scholar Award in 2016 on Institute Day in IIT Madras, Chennai.
The only research scholar selected from IIT Madras, Chennai, to attend the In-Residence Programme for a week at Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2016.
Won the International Travel Support (ITS) award from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2016.
Won Lady Devis fellowship for Postdoc. Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from the Ministry of Science and Technology Israel from 2016-2018.
Won Best Poster Award for "Demonstration of on-chip thermocouple detector in infrared regime through field enhancement by Plasmonic focusing," O. Keneth, P. Arora, N. Mazurski and U. Levy, Nano Conference, Jerusalem, (Israel), 2017.
Won Best Poster Award for "Dispersion engineering with plasmonic nanostructures for enhanced surface plasmon resonance sensing," P. Arora, E.Talker, N. Mazurski and U. Levy, Nano Conference, Jerusalem, (Israel), 2018.
Won Best Poster Award for "Integrated light-vapor interaction in mid-infrared, " Y. Sebbag, P. Arora, N. Mazurski, Y. Barash and U. Levy, Faculty day at HUJI, Jerusalem, (Israel), 2018.
Won Best Poster Award for "Recent Trends in Transducers and Actuators "at RTTA-2019 Workshop at CEERI Pilani (Rajasthan) 2019.
Won Young Scientist International Travel Support (ITS) from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2020.
Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member in November 2022.
S. Mehta, P. Raghunath, S. Shukla, and P. Arora won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference “EPIC 2022", Dec 15-17 at SRM University (India).
S. Patria, A. Singh, S. Shukla, and P. Arora won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference “EPIC 2022", Dec 15-17 at SRM University (India).
S. Shukla, Y. Tripathy, K. Sanghi, and P. Arora won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference Devices for Integrated Circuit (DevIC) 2023 in Kolkata.

AWARDS/HONOURS

Received Best Paper Award on “Alkali-activation potential of stone wastes by Akash Samadhiya, Dipendu Bhunia and Sayantan Chakraborty” in the Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS-2022) during 13-19 December, 2022.
Received Best Oral Presenter Award on “Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Innovative Hazardous Waste Valorizing Bricks with Conventional Bricks by Gaurav Tyagi, Anupam Singhal, Srikanta Routroy, Dipendu Bhunia, and Mukund Lahoti”, online F-EIR Conference 2021 - Environment Concerns and its Remediation, Chandigarh, 18-22nd October, 2021.
Received an invitation from Trinity College Dublin as a visiting academic funded by Science foundation Ireland-India fund, TCD and University-immersion programme, BITS Pilani (May-July 2014).
Full Scholarship (Ministry of Human Resource and Development of India) to undertake Ph.D. program in the department of Earthquake engineering on Structural Dynamics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (July 2003-July, 2007)
Full Scholarship (Ministry of Human Resource and Development of India) to undertake M.E. program in Structural Engineering, Bengal Engineering College (D.U.), Shibpur, Howrah (July, 2001 to January, 2003)
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) March, 2001

Research Fellowships & Conference Travel Grants

Fellowships

DST - Inspire Faculty Fellowship (July - 2017).
CSIR RA (Research Associate) Fellowship from CSIR, INDIA. - 2016 (did not avail).
National Postdoctoral Fellowship from DST-SERB, INDIA. - 2016.
Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, INDIA. - 2013-2015.
Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, INDIA. - 2012-2013.

International Conference Travel Grant

1. International Travel Support Grant from SERB, India to attend ICIAM 2019 conference, Valencia, Spain.

2. International Travel Support Grant from SERB, India to attend ICIAM 2023 conference, Tokyo, Japan.

Awards

1. Most Cited Articles 2020 in "Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements" Journal for the paper "Wave interaction with a submerged semicircular porous breakwater placed on a porous seabed. Volume 80, July 2017, Pages 18-37" from Elsevier.

2. Kottala Panduranga got best oral/poster presentation award in NCASM-2020 Conference (Sponsored by AIP)

3. Got recognition from ZAMM Journal ( Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik) published by Wiley Publication for my article "Integral equation technique for water wave interaction by an array of vertical flexible porous wave barriers" got the Editor's choice status.

4. Vipin V got best oral/poster presentation award in 7th International Conference on Advances on Clean Energy Research (ICACER 2022), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain, April 20-22, 2022.

5. Dr. Santanu Koley has been assigned as Guest Editor in a special issue in Water Journal (MDPI) (Q1 SJR 2021, IF: 3.530)

6. Dr. Santanu Koley, Kshma Trivedi, Vipin V, Santanu Kumar Dash, Kailash Chand Swami and Amya Ranjan Ray got the ICIAM 2023 FS1:Financial Support Program for Registration Fee. This includes a waiver of Registration fee JPY 50,000 (for Dr. Santanu Koley) and JPY 20,000 (for each PhD Students). Total group award amount: 1,50,000 JPY

7. Kshma Trivedi and Vipin V got CSIR Foreign Travel Grant to attend and present paper at ICIAM 2023 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 20-25/08/2023

8. Prof. Santanu Koley received "Very Good" grade in INSPIRE Faculty Project performance review by DST.

9. Prof. Santanu Koley was assigned as the chairperson for the session CT060, ICIAM 2023 conference, Tokyo, 20-25 August 2023 by the ICIAM conference secretary.

Memberships

1. American Mathematical Society (AMS)

2. Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)

3. IMS (Indian Mathematical Society) Life Member (L/2023/094)

Funded Projects

SERB SRG

Dr. Subhadeep Roy is funded with SERB Start-Up Research Grant (SRG) in 2023 with a total amount of 22,65,000 INR

BITS RIG

Dr. Subhadeep Roy is funded with BITS Research Initiation Grant in 2023 with a total amount of 2,00,000 INR

NFSG BITS

Dr. Subhadeep Roy is funded with New Faculty Seed Grant (NFSG) in 2023 with a total amount of 18,00,000 INR

Awards and Accolades

Recipient of Merit, National and Gate Scholarships during education.
Was instrumental in savings of Rs. 3.70 lacs p.a. by reducing the amount of Urea and DAP to be added in waste water by modifying BOD: N: P ratio in Star Paper Mills Ltd., Saharanpur.

Awards and Recognition

2023: Research proposal entitled “Edge-FL-based Intelligent IDS to Safeguard Sustainable HetIoT Applications against DDoS Cyberthreat” has bagged winning position at 4th Women in Research Forum, University of Sharjah, UAE.
2023: Team BITS PEEPS bagged the top 1% position among 7000+ participants in the LabLabAI’s OpenAI Stack Hack Hackathon for developing CodePro tool.
2019: Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellow from Chinese and Indian from Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Council for Higher Education, Israel.
2018: Best Paper Award in 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Wireless Computing and Networking (GCWCN-2018), Paper titled "Secure Scheduling for Cluster-based TDMA Schedule MAC in Wireless Sensor Network"
2016: Nomination for Best Thesis Award from Aalborg University, Denmark. Thesis titled "Green and Secure Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Network"
2012: Received Travel grants for attending WPMC 2012 and best paper nomination award at Taipei, Taiwan from WPMC 2012 Steering Committee.
2011: Recognition for contribution to Campus Connect Program from Infosys Technologies Ltd., Pune, India.20
2006: GATE 2006 All India Rank: 2729
2005: GATE 2005 All India Rank: 3374

Recognition

Member of UK fluid network (UKFN)
Active reviewer for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
2.5-year postdoctoral position funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
2-year postdoctoral position funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Mathematical Physics [ISSN: 2630-4600]
Gold medal in National Graduate Physics Examination: National Top 5 (2010)

Achievements

Awards:

1. DST-INSPIRE fellowship for exceptional undergraduate/postgraduate students in basic sciences 2008-2013, awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

2. Summer Research Fellowship 2012, awarded by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Work done at IACS, Kolkata.

3. Best masters’ thesis project award in Physics, IIT Kharagpur 2013.

4. Alumni associate fellowship awarded by the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) for 2023-2028.

Organisation:

1. Main organiser, “Unfashionable Pursuits: Informal Workshop on SCFT and Supergravity”, Beijing, China, November 2019.

2. Organiser, Journal Club seminar series in ITP-CAS Beijing for one year.

3. Organising body member, ”APCTP lecture series on physics beyond Lambda-CDM”, APCTP Pohang, December 2019.

4. Organiser, Regular seminar series, APCTP Pohang; OIST Okinawa.

5. Main organiser. “Flat Asymptotia”, Conference on asymptotic symmetries at OIST, 15-18th March 2021.

6. Main Organiser, “Integrability, Deformations and Chaos”, Okinawa, 25-27 July 2023

PhD Examiner

Dr Pratik N Sheth acted as a PhD examiner and evaluated the thesis entitled “Optimization of Process Parameters for the Production of Biodiesel Using Non-Edible Oils Under Microwave Condition” of "Nayak Milapkumar Gokulbhai", En. No. 149997105003 in Chemical Engineering of Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India working under the supervision of Dr. Amishkumar P. Vyas

Awards/Recognitions

Best Paper Award

Dr Pratik N Sheth has been awarded the "Best Paper Award" in the category of Renewable Energy Harvesting Technologies. on September 3, 2022 at International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Clean Technologies at Pandit Dindayal Energy University.

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Professional Affiliation

Council Member (2023-2026), Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore, INDIA
Member, American Chemical Society, Washington, USA
Life Member, Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, Lucknow, INDIA
Life Member, Indian Council of Chemists, Agra, INDIA
Life Member, Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore, INDIA
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Catalysis Journal (Bentham Science Publishers)

Foreign Visits

Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany (2019).
School of Pharmacy, Chapman University, Irvine, USA (August 2016).
Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Canada (December 2012-January 2013); Algarve, Portugal (April 21-25, 2013) to present a paper at the 5th Congress on Ionic Liquids.
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA (May 2013-June 2013, June 2012-July 2012, June 2011-July 2011, May 2010-July 2010, May 2009-July 2009, May 2008-July 2008 & May 2007-July 2007).

Awards and Honours

Council Member (2023-2026) Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore.
Bronze Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), Bangalore (2020).
INSA-Visiting Scientist Fellowship: Visited Germany under the International Scientific Collaboration and Exchange of Scientists Programme, INSA New Delhi (2019).
Prof S. Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award, BITSAA, BITS Pilani (2017-2018).
Three Year American Chemical Society Membership Award, American Chemical Society, Washington DC, USA (2015-2018).
Dr. Arvind Kumar Memorial Award, Indian Council of Chemists, Agra, India (2014).
ISCB Young Scientist Award, (Chemical Sciences), Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, Lucknow, India (2013).
International Travel Support under ITS scheme from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India to present paper in 5th Congress on Ionic Liquids held at Algarve, Portugal, April 21-25, 2013.
Harrison McCain Foundation Award for visiting professorship from Acadia University, Canada (2012).
Young Scientist Research Project under Fast Track Scheme from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India (Oct. 2007– Sept. 2010).
Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from UGC, New Delhi, India (July 2001 – April 2004).
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from UGC, New Delhi, India, (July 1999 - June 2001).
Science Meritorious Award from the University of Delhi, Delhi, India, (1998 – 1999).
National Scholarship under CAS scheme from University of Delhi, Delhi, India, (1997 – 1999).

Achievements/Media Coverage

Erasmus Mundus doctorate fellowship (Awarded in 2014) and Erasmus Mundus Master Fellowship (Awarded in 2007)

Awarded Best Researcher Award (Male) in the IAMRF AWARD 2023, by Innovative & Advanced Multi Disciplinary Research Foundation and Prerna Education Research Society during an event held at B. M. Institute of Engineering & Technology, Sonipat, Haryana on 5th September 2023.

Awarded Best Researcher Award in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine, held on 28 & 29 Aug 2021, Trivandrum, India, Organized by VDGOOD Professional Association.

Life Member of Phi-Beta-Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars.

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Awards & Recognitions

2023 Coursera Innovation Oustanding Achievement Award for the course "Introduction to Programming", taught as part of the online degree - B.Sc. in Computer Science, offerred by BITS Pilani.
Student Travel Award of 800$, IEEE Big Data 2016 (Awarded to 36 candidates out of 130).
Best Poster Paper Award - "A concurrent k-NN search algorithm for R-tree", ACM Compute 2015.

Academic Awards/ Fellowship’s

CRSI Bronze Medal Award-2024 by Chemical Research Society of India.
Professor D. K. Banerjee Memorial Lecture Award-2016” from Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc., Bangalore.
ISCB YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD-2016 IN CHEMICAL SCIENCES by Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, Lucknow.
Award of Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA)" during "2014-15 from BITS Pilani.
Award for the Best Oral presentation during FPCBS-2013 at Pune University, Pune.
Award of "INSA-Visiting Scientist Fellowship-2013" by INSA-New Delhi.
Award of Best Poster presentation during International Symposium on "Chemistry and Chemical
Biology of Natural Products" (CCBNP-2012) at IICT-Hyderabad (2012)
Award of “Fast Track Proposal for Young Scientist Scheme (2011)” by DST-New Delhi, India
Award of “IASc-INSA-NASI Summer-Fellowship-2011 (Visiting Faculty at UoH, Hyderabad)”
Award for the Best Oral presentation during NCNN-2010 at VNIT-Nagpur.
Award of “INOUE-Post-doctoral fellowship” by INOUE Research Foundation, Japan (2008).
Award of “Young Indian Scientist Grant” by BASF-India for year 2006-07.
Best poster Award on Science Day (28 Feb. 2006) at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.
Award of Senior Research Fellowship (2004, CSIR, Govt. of India, New Delhi)
Award of Lecturship (NET-CSIR) (2000-01, CSIR, Govt. of India, New Delhi)

Affiliations:

Life-Membership of the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists-Lucknow
Life-membership of Chemical Research Society of India-Banglore

Abroad Visiting Experience:

A Research collaborative visit to Tel Aviv University, Israel (05 days, December 2018).
A Research collaborative visit to Hiroshima University, Japan, (12 days, August-September 2018).
Visiting Professor at Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, (10 days, January 2017).
Visiting Professor at Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, (one month, June – July 2010).
Post-doctoral research fellow, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo (April 2008 – August 2009)
Visiting Young Indian Scientist at Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo(Two weeks May – June 2007).

Awards & Recognition

Travel Support for Visiting Researcher at University of North Texas, USA, 2022.
Awarded University Immersion Program for Visiting Faculty at National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2019
Travel Support for Invited Talk at Taiwan, 2017.
Travel Support for Visiting Researcher at Seoul National University, South Korea, 2017.
Chosen as the best researcher from VNIT Nagpur to meet Hon’ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee and to attend NITs Scholar In-Residence Programme at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

Awarded ‘BINANI Gold Medal 2013’ from Indian Institute of Metals for Best Paper published in Transactions of Indian Institute of Metals under Non-Ferrous Metallurgy category.

Awarded International Travel Grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. (DST reference number: SR/ITS/4745/2012-2013)
Awarded Foreign Travel Grant from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. (CSIR reference number: TG/8737/14-HRD)
Awarded Swarna Jayanthi Endowment Fellowship from Indian Institute of Metals to attend International Conference.
Awarded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP-Phase II) International Travel Grant

Awards/Honors

Awards and Recognition

Prof. S. S. Ranganthan Memorial Teaching Excellence Award 2022 by BITS Pilani on November 28, 2022.
Outstanding Engineering Services to Society Award by Institution of Engineers (India), Rajasthan State Centre, Jaipur on the occasion of 72nd Republic Day, 2021.
Awarded Senior Member, IEEE (USA) in 2019
Distinguish Teaching Award: Engineering by MTC Global Award for Excellence, Bangalore in 2015.
Awarded Fellow (F-119722-5) from The Institution of Engineers (India) in 2015.
Certificate of Appreciation from NTUST, Taiwan for research work carried during visiting Scholar in 2014.
Best Paper Award in IEEE 2nd Conf. on Engg. and Systems, held at MNNIT, Allahabad during April 12-14, 2013.
Bharat Jyoti Award along with Certificate of Excellence from the IIFS, New Delhi in 2013.
DST Young Scientist Award Project (Fast Track Scheme) in Physical Sciences in 2007.
Nominated for Young Scientist Award in 93rd Indian Science Congress in 2006.
GATE scholarship from Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India in 1996.
Gold Medal in Master’s degree after securing 1st position in University in 1995.

Honors

Session Chair in IEEE-EDKCON-2022 Organized by IEEE Kolkata Chapter during Nov. 26-27, 2022.
Session Chair 4th Int. Conference on "Devices for Integrated Circuits (DevIC 2021)" organised by IEEE EDS Kalyani Government Engineering College, to be held on 19- 20 May 2021.
Session Chair Symposium on Recent Technological Advancement in Wide/Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials, Devices and Applications: A Step Towards Aatm Nirbhar Bharat" organised by Dept. of EEE, BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan, on April 10, 2021
Session Chair in the Int. Workshop on Energy Management in Smart Cities (EMSC-2021), organised by Dept. of EEE, BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan, 25-26 March 2021.
Session Chair in the Virtual Symposium #1 on RF and Microwave Propagation, organised by Dept. of EEE, BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan on 30th January 2021.
Session Chair in 7th Int. Conf. on Microelectronics, Circuits and Systems (Micro-2020) organised by Delhi Technological University, Delhi during 25-26 July 2020.
Session Chair in 6th International Conference on Microelectronics, Circuits and Systems (Micro-2019) organised by Amity University, Kolkata during 6-7 July 2019.
Session Chair in International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research (iKER-2019 organised by Dept. of HSS, BITS Pilani during 8-9 Feb. 2019
Session Chair in IEEE-EDKCON-2018 Organized by IEEE Kolkata Chapter during Nov. 23-24, 2018.
Resources Person in two-day workshop on “Research proposal Writing” organized by Karunya University, Coimbatore, during May 2018.
Session Chair in ISRIA conference organized by Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani during 25-26 March 2018.
Guest of Honor during National Conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (ETCSEE-2016) organized by RPS Group of Institutions, Mahendergarh (HR), during April 9-10, 2016.
Session Chair in 7th Int. Conf. on MEMS, Nano and Smart Systems (ICMENS), 4-6 Nov. Malaysia, 2011.
Appointed as Member of Board of Studies (BoS) of DIT University, Dehradun in 2014.
Biography published in Marquis Who's Who in World in 2008.
Biography published in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering in 2007.

Achievements

Session Chair, "Sustainable Development” International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani (8th – 9th February, 2019)
Session Chair, First PAN IIT International Management Conference, held at Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee, Nov. 30-Dec. 02, 2018
Session Chair, "Hospitality Marketing and Management", 5th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI) 2017 organized by Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK during 21-23 June, 2017.
Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2016 for the research paper entitled "Identification and Prioritization of Corporate Sustainability Practices using Analytical Hierarchy Process" published in Journal of Modelling in Management, Emerald Publisher, UK
Young Scientist- Corporate Sustainability VIFRA Foundation Chennai, India, 2015
Guest Editor of Special Issue on: Evidence-based Processes in Business and Systems in International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSS), 2017
Guest Editor of Special Issue On: Evidence Based Management in accounting and finance in International Journal of Management Practice (IJMP), 2016
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Advanced Research in Operational & Marketing Management
Editorial Review Board of “Amity Journal of Management Research"

Award and Fellowship

Doctoral sandwich fellowship from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Services), Bonn, Germany for the year 2008-09.
Senior Research Fellowship from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India for the year 2008-10.
Junior Research Fellowship from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India for the year 2005-07.
Qualified GATE-2003, received the post graduate fellowship from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India for the year 2003-05.

Reviewer of International Journals

ARKIVOC, Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry, Synthetic Communication, Combinatorial Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Drug Design, Tetrahedron Letters

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Attainments

Chairman of following Online colloquia during 2021-2022:

online colloquium series "Nobel talk" during March-May 2022
BITS Alumni Colloquium: 2021 during Oct-Dec. 2021
Online Colloquium Series 2020-21 during March-May 2021

Worked as a faculty reviewer for the Quad Fellowship’s first cohort by the Schmidt Futures.

Convener and Local Chairman, DST-SERC School on TTAMCP-11 held at BITS, Pilani.

Resource Person:

Refresher course held at BITS, Pilani for the employees of H.Z. Ltd, Udaipur (2007)
DST-SERC School on TTAMCP held at BITS, Pilani (2011)

Executive member: Indian Society for Atomic and Molecular Physics (2011-2012)

Marie Curie Researcher:

10th January to 9th April, 2013 at University de Rennes1 (France)
10th June to 9th July, 2013 at LNF, Frascati (Italy)
20th May to 18th July, 2014 at University de Rennes1 (France)
25th May to 18th July, 2016 at Universite de Rennes1 (France)

10th April to 9th June, 2013 at IOP, Prague (Czech Republic)

NCC "C" certificate in Air Wing
Cleared NET-JRF-UGC-CSIR test in 1999 with JRF (CSIR)
JRF (CSIR): Jan, 2000-Dec., 2001
SRF (CSIR): Jan. 2002-Dec., 2004
Lecturer in BITS: 25th July, 2005 to 31st Dec., 2005.
Assistant Professor: 1st Jan. 2006 to 31st Jan., 2015.
Associate Professor: 1st Feb. 2015 to 28th Feb. 2023.
Professor: 1st March 2023 onwards

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Awards & Accolades

Recognitions

Won "Ekailavan Award" for academic excellence in 10th standard [School First]
Won cash award (Rs.10,000) for academic excellence in final year B.Tech (SGPA close to 9.8]
Completed B.Tech. (Hons.) Civil Engineering by taking four extra subjects outside Civil Engineering
Qualified GATE - Civil Engineering in the year 2005
Higher Degree and Ph.D with complete fee waiver at BITS Pilani - Pilani campus

AWARDS/RECOGNITION

Dr. Sailaja Nandigama is awarded USD 1000 for presenting paper in the 5th annual international meeting of FLARE network at the University of Michigan, USA during August 23-25, 2019, in ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN (USA), hosted by the University of Michigan, USA.

Recognized Subject Expert for the Spot Study for the Prime Minister's Awards for Public Administration (2014).

Doctoral fellowship from NUFFIC (NFP fellowship, International Institute of Social Studies) May 2003 – 2007.

Guest-Researcher for Developing Area Research Group (DARG) during the RGS_IBG AC2010 conference, (1-3 September 2010) of Royal Geographical Society situated at London, UK.

Post-Doctoral fellowship, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy group (FNP, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands) February 2010 – January 2013.

Editor and Reviewer for International Journals

Editor and Reviewer

Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (Springer Nature), (Scimago Q2 Journal)
Member of the Editorial board of the Journal of International Women's Studies, Bridgewater, USA, (Scimago Q3 Journal)

Reviewer for scientific articles in international Peer-reviewed journals (since 2008)

World Development (Elsevier)
Geoforum (Elsevier)
Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier)
Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis)
Development Policy Review (Overseas Development Institute, UK)
Planning Theory and Practice (Taylor & Francis)
Environmental Science and Policy (Elsevier)
Environment, Development and Sustainability (Elsevier)
Natural Resource Forum (A United Nations Journal)
Women's Studies International Forum (Elsevier)
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (Springer Nature)

Prof. SS Ranganathan Memorial Teaching Excellence Award, 2017 Conferred to Prof. P. Srinivansan

The Prof. SS Ranganathan Memorial Teaching Excellence Award, 2017 ceremony was held in BITS Pilani, Pilani campus on 4th September 2017. Prof. P. Srinivasan, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department of BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus was conferred this year’s award. This award carries a certificate and Rs. 100000/- of cash. Prof. Srinivasan was selected for this award through a well-defined procedure where he had to compete with 20 nominations received from three Indian campuses of the institute. A jury consisting of 5 members which included members from all the three campuses, and an alumni representative, went through all the nominations and arrived at a consensus decision to confer this year’s award to Prof. Srinivasan.

The Prof. SS Ranganathan Memorial Teaching Excellence Award, 2017 ceremony was graced by the BITS Pilani Vice Chancellor, Prof. Souvik Bhattacharyya, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus Director, Prof. A.K.Sarkar, Dean (Alumni Relations), Prof. Arya Kumar, Family members of Prof. S. S. Ranganathan, and a few alumni who have been instrumental in instituting this award in the memory of their beloved teacher, Prof. S. S. Ranganathan. On this occasion, apart from the Vice Chancellor, and the Director, Prof. Ranganathan’s wife and daughter also spoke on Prof. Ranganathan’s commitment to teaching and his love and care for students. They shared several incidents to highlight Prof. Ranganathan’s humane personality. Mr. NS Parthasarathy, an alumnus who was taught by Prof. Ranganathan shared his experiences and mentioned in detail how he along with some of his friends decided to pay tribute to their beloved teacher by instituting this award in his name. They have contributed a corpus fund of Rs 25 lacs for this purpose.

Prof. P Srinivasan, the awardee of this year’s Prof. SS Ranganathan Memorial Teaching Excellence Award, became quite emotional when his name was announced for this award. In his award acceptance speech, he thanked the jury for selecting him for this award. He mentioned how he decided to come to teaching profession when he saw his father receiving the teaching excellence award from the governor of his state. He dedicated this award to his parents. Prof. Srinivasan discussed about his teaching in great detail.

The function ended with a performance by Ragmalika members.

MILCA AWARD 2020 by CII

Received Platinum Award for the mentorship category in MILCA AWARD 2020 by CII
Recipient of Prof. V S Rao foundation: Prof C R Mitra Best Faculty award for the year 2022

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Awards

1. DBT Tata Innovation Fellowship 2016-2020

2. ICMR Shakuntala Amir Chand award for TB 2011

3. UGC Researcher Award 2014-2015

4. B.K. Birla sarala Birla Chair Professor 2011-2016

5. APTI Young Pharmacy teacher award 2006

6. Outstanding faculty award by Career 360, 2018

7. Visiting Senior Researcher, under Brazilian Government "Science without Border" Program 2014-2016

8. INSA Senior visiting researcher 2013

Awards/Recognitions

1. Fellow, Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, IETE, Contribution in AI (2020)

2. Leadership, Computer Society Global Outstanding Chapter Leadership Award, IEEE, Contribution in Outreach and Volunteer Activities, USD 1000 (2020)

3. Outstanding Alumni Award, Jawharlal Nehru National College of Engineering, for contributions to foundational research in AstroInformatics and continuing education (2020)

4. Best Paper Award, Steven Yu, V. Raychoudhury, S.Saha; Dynamic Taxi Ride-Sharing through Adaptive request Propagation Using Regional Taxi Demand and Supply, EAI, Mobiquitous (2021)

5.Best Paper Award, Main track of 34th IEEE International Conference on Industrial, Engineering Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems;J.Sarkar, S.Sarkar, S.Saha, S.Das; d-BTAI: the dynamic-Binary Tree Based Anomaly Identification Algorithm for Industrial Systems, IEEE, IEA/AIE (2021)

6. Advisor (Honorary), Center of Excellence in Data Science, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanada (2022)

Faculty Achievements

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Additional Responsibilities

At Present

Associate Dean, Student Welfare Division, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Member, Departmental Lab Committee

Post 2005

Chief Warden, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus (2018-22)
Member, Crisis Response Team (CRT) for COVID - 19
President, Staff Association, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus (2017-19)
Convener, Departmental Research Committee (DRC) (2016-18)
Convener, Team Convocation 2016-18 & 2022
Convener, Regional Science Congress, Jaipur region (in association with Jawahar Navoday Samiti) 2018.
Convener, Conference on DNA Physics, BITS Pilani 2017.
Member, Organizing committee of National Conference on Solid State Ionics BITS Pilani, 2017.
Nucleus Member, Academic Research Division (Ph.D. Monitoring) (2012-18)
Member, Departmental Committee for Academics (DCA) (2014-16)
Nucleus Member, Student Welfare Division (2008-12)
Non Resident Warden, Krishna Bhawan (2008-11)
Member, Student Committee for Discipline (2009-10)
Treasurer and Sports convener, Staff Association (2007-11)
Member, Organizing committee (Joint Secretary) of National Conference on Condensed Matter 2012.

Pre 2005

Category A Speaker in the Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit (TPSC), 2002-2006
Student Secretary, Indian Physics Association, Local Chapter.
Life Member, Indian Physics Association.
Member (Secretary), Organising Committee of VISION 2001, a conference organized by Ph.D. students, at B.H.U. on May 1, 2001.
Member (Student Secretary), Organising Committee of International Conference on Disorder, Complexity and Biology, organized jointly by B.H.U. and S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences from July 12-15, 2004.

Awards, Honors, Certificate courses and Distinctions

#	Name of Award	Awarding Agency	Year
36	Associate Editor, Microsystem Technologies	Springer Nature	2023
35	Editorial Board, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering	Institute of Physics (IoP)	2022
34	Fellow, IETE	IETE	2022
33	Associate Editor, Journal of Nanobiotechnology	BioMed Central (BMC)	2021
32	JSPS Invitation Fellowship	JSPS, Japan	2021
31	Editorial Board, Journal of Electrochemical Science and Engineering	International Association of Physical Chemists	2021
30	Dr C R Mitra Best Faculty Award	Prof V S Rao Foundation / BITS-Pilani	2021
29	Associate Editor, Applied Nanoscience	Springer-Nature	2020
28	Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience	IEEE	2020
27	Visiting Associate Professor with the UiT the Arctic University of Norway	UiT the Arctic University of Norway	2019
26	Senior Member, IEEE	IEEE	2019
25	Associate Editor, IEEE Access	IEEE	2019
24	Associate Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal	IEEE	2018
23	Fulbright Fellow 2015-16	Fulbright Foundation	2015
22	Travel grant to present two oral papers at Photonics West held in San Francisco during 28 Jan - 2 Feb 2017	SERB	2017
21	R&D Excellence Award by Bharat Ratna Professor C.N.R. Rao, FRS, Distinction in R&D output	UPES, Dehradun	2015
20	Letter of Appreciation with Special Award for Spearheading R&D activities	UPES, Dehradun	2015
19	R&D Excellence Award, UPES, Dehradun by Padma Vibhusan Dr. R. Chidambaram, Distinction in R&D output	UPES, Dehradun	2014
18	Outstanding performance award in R&D	UPES, Dehradun	2013
17	Young Scientist Fast Track Award (Research Project)	DST/SERB	2013
16	Travel Assistance for Energy and International Development: Understanding Sustainable Energy Solutions in Developing Countries Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya	EPSRC, UK	2012
15	International Travel Award to present paper to ‘Sustainable Energy Technologies’, Vancouver, Canada, September 2012	DST	2012
14	Editor, Journal of Nanotechnology	Hindawi	2011
13	Assistant Editor, Human Genome Journal	Springer	2010
12	Honorary Editor, Journal of Nanotechnology	Hindawi	2010
11	Assistant Editor, Human Genome Journal	Springer	2010
10	Advanced Course on Biotechnology and Intellectual Property	WIPO	2010
9	Advanced Course on Intellectual Property	WIPO	2010
8	ASTAR Young Investigator Award (funded project)	ASTAR, Singapore	2008
7	NIH Postdoc Fellowship	NIH / Stanford University	2006
6	Professional Development Grant	University of Alberta	2005
5	J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award	University of Alberta	2005
4	Best student paper award, Annual Meeting of the Electrostatics Society of America	Electrostatics Society of America	2005
3	NSERC PhD Fellowship	NSERC, Canada	2001
2	College Gold Medal	Ramjas College	1998
1	State Intermediate Rank Award	UP Government	1994

Scientific accomplishments and services

Reviewer of the DST, TSD Program (Government of India) grant applications.
Led organization of key scientific events, such as NRDC Innovate India 2014, Biannual R&D awards, Nano Energy Conference 2013 etc.
Coordinated visits by several key visitors, such as HE Mr. Pranab Mukherjee (then President of India during August 2013), Bharat Ratna Prof. C N R Rao, FRS (March 2015), Dr. R Chidambaram (Feb 2014).
Supervising two PhD students, and co-supervised one PhD student. Also supervised three postdoctoral fellows, five postgraduate students, and several other undergraduate students.
Currently supervising three PhD students and 2 Masters Students.
Reviewer-
- Sensors & Actuators B
- Biosensors and Bioelectronics
- IEEE Photonics
- Micro & Nano Letters
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Research
- Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series B
- Bioengineering & Biotechnology
- Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
- Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
- Microwave and Optical Technology
- Systems and Synthetic Biology
- HUGO Journal
- Analytical Chemistry
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Research
- Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering
- Journal of Biochips & Tissue Chips
- Materials Today Communications

Membership

Senior Member, IEEE
Life Member, Institute of Smart Systems and Structures
Life Member, Indian Society of Electrochemical Chemistry
Member, SPIE

Google Research Award 2021

Recipient of the Google Impact Scholar Award under their “AI for Social Good” initiative. “Collating & Analyzing Multi-modal, Multi-lingual data for reducing Wildlife Crime”. The award money is USD $10,000.

IBM Research Award 2010

Recipient of the IBM Scalable Data Analytics Innovation Faculty Award 2010 under their “Smarter Planet Initiative”. The award is in the area of Scalable Data Analytics for the research concept titled "Developing a Smart Crop Management System using Data Analytics". The award carried a cash prize of USD $15,000.

Click here to see the award letter from IBM

Click here to see other winners of 2010 Scalable Data Analytics Innovation Awards

Foreign Visits

Visited the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Medical Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA from August 1999 to December 1999 to do a Diploma course in Health System Management.
Visited Malaysia, Philippines, & Canada for short periods for presenting papers at international conferences.

Fellowships

USAID (US Agency for International Development) fellowship to do a PG Diploma in Health Systems Management at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, Period of fellowship: 4 months (August 99 - December 99
Qualified the national level joint CSIR-UGC JRF examination under the CSIR scheme, held in JAN'89. Period of fellowship: 5 years (April 90 - April 95)

Outside Interest

A serious player of Squash, TT, & Cricket and a keen sports enthusiast

Professional Administrative Positions:

Currently, working as Dean Administration, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus (May 2018 to present)
Currently, working as Secretary, Pilani Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Society (PIDES, BITS Pilani)
Served as University wide Dean, Academic Research at BITS Pilani (June 2012- May 2018)
Served as Chief Warden (Feb 2008- Sep 2011)
Served as Group leader (HoD) of Biological Sciences Department (Jan 2000- Jan 2008)
Coordinator, UGC SAP grant for Biological Sciences Department
Coordinator, DST FIST grant for Biological Sciences Department
Nucleus member, Educational Development Division (Oct 1994- Dec 1999)

Academic Achievements

Part of BITS delegation to Ben Gurian University, Negev Israel for research collaboration.
Appointed as “Country Expert” by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to represent India on a multi-country project “Impact of IPR on economic growth”.
Coordinator 42nd IANCAS National Workshop on Radiochemistry and Applications of Radioisotopes in collaboration with BARC, Mumbai.
Joint Coordinator International Symposium on Public Health Education: Indian Scenario and Challenges (April 9-11, 2005)
Coordinator International Symposium on Emerging Trends in Genomics and Proteomics Education and Research (Jan 12 -13, 2003)
Coordinator, International Symposium on Applied Phycology and Environmental Biotechnology, Oct 29 – 31, 2007, BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
Coordinator AICTE/ISTE Short-term training programme on Molecular Biology Techniques in Biotechnology.
Design and coordinated the establishment of Biotechnology lab, Radioisotope laboratory, Environmental Biotechnology laboratory, Plant tissue culture facility and greenhouse.
Coordinated INDO-Us project for biotechnology.
Reviewed several research articles for reputed scientific journals
Associate Editor, IUP journal.
Examined Ph.D. thesis submitted at Banaras Hindu University, IARI, NEHU, BR Ambedkar University, Rajasthan Agriculture University, Bikaner University, Punjabi University Patiala, Pune University, etc.
Member of Board of studies of NU, Bikaner University, ICFAI University, Shobhit University.
Academic council member of ICFAI University, Dehradun.

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DBT, ICMR and APTI Sponsored National Conference: Best Poster (1st Prize), 2016
NIPICON International Conference: Best Poster (IInd Prize), 2014
Pharmanext (AIPER): Best Poster, 2012
Indian Pharmaceutical Association Convention : Poster Award (Second Prize), 2012
Indian Pharmacological Society Convention : Best Poster (Neuropharmacology), 2011
Indian Pharmacological Society International Convention : P C Dandiya Award, 2011
Indian Pharmacological Society International Convention : Poster (top10), 2010.
Association of Pharm. Teachers of India Conference : Best Poster, 2009
Indian Pharmacological Society International Convention : Best Poster, 2008
Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Annual Convention : Best Poster, 2005

Published Papers

Best Published Paper Award (Assoc. of Pharm. Teachers of India Conf. 2014)
Prof. Duggirala Visweswaram & Prof. Sreemantalu Satyanarayana Award (Best published paper during the year-2013 in Ind. J. Pharm. Edu. and Res. - Pharmacology)
Best Published Paper Award (Indian Pharmacology Society Conf. 2013) NN Dutta Prize (Best Published Paper in Indian Journal of Pharmacology)
Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India Conference : Best Paper, 2012
Prof. Duggirala Visweswaram & Prof. Sreemantalu Satyanarayana Award (Pharmacology)
Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India Conference : Best Paper, 2011
Prof. Duggirala Visweswaram & Prof. Sreemantalu Satyanarayana Award (Pharmacology)

Achievements/Awards Conferred

Expert member in the Committee for University Innovation Cluster (UIC) constituted by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), DBT, Govt. of India to Screen new proposals and to review ongoing supported projects for a period of three years from 2016.
Participated as an expert member in the one day workshop on "Strengthening Publicly Funded Incubators" organized by Centre for Policy Research, IIT Delhi, on 04 December 2016 at IIT Delhi.
Conferred with Entrepreneurship Educator and Mentor Special Jury Award for promotion of Entrepreneurship Education in the Entrepreneurship Education Conclave organized by National Entrepreneurship Network in collaboration with Ministry of Skill and Entrepreneurship Development, British Council and Intel on 12th March 2015 in New Delhi.
Awarded Management Teachers Consortium (MTC) Global award for Excellence in contributing to Management education – 2012 on 1st September 2012.
Honoured with Distinguished Faculty Award in recognition and appreciation of dedication, interest, enthusiasm and attitude in accomplishing assigned mission of teaching by BITSAA International in the BITSAA Global Meet on 9th January 2011.
Successfully completed five different modules leading to completion of Entrepreneurship Educators Course (EEC) awarded by STVP, Stanford University, IIM Bangalore and National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) and became one amongst the first 20 certified Entrepreneurship Educators in India.
Awarded Goldman Sach 10000 Women awards certification Honours for participating in the mentor development program from 31st October to November 3rd 2009 in Bangalore organised by London Business School and National Entrepreneurship Network.
Contributed to the strategic moves for promotion of entrepreneurship development programmes for students and faculty members on campuses across country as Faculty Advisor in the NEN Faculty Advisory Board for the past 10 years.
Participated as member of the Expert Group Consultation on Developing a Manual on Youth Enterprise Development 16-18th March, 2011 at New Delhi organized by Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia Centre, Chandigarh in association with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.
Participated in a meeting organized by DFID in association with Technology Development Board, DST on a new programme - Innovative Ventures and Technologies for Development (INVENT) , aiming to establish and strengthen specialized incubators to support innovative entrepreneurs having a focus ion inclusive growth on 30th August 2013 at New Delhi.
Expert Member of a panel of experts for screening business plans short listed by Rajasthan Financial Corporation under their newly launched scheme – Yuva Udyamita Protsahan Yojana on 17th September 2013 in Jaipur.
Successfully completed curricular development “Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship Education – Theory and Practice “organised by Lester Center for Entrepreneurship, Berkeley, Indo US Science & Technology Forum, DST, Govt. of India and Intel between 12 & 13th December 2007 in Bangalore.
Participated as a jury member in the India Innovation Initiative – i3 Regional Fair 2011 organised by DST, Govt. of India, Agilent Technologies and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 4th November 2011 in New Delhi.
Member International Input Output Association and has subscribed to their Journal. Life member of Indian Society for Training & Development.
Participated in expert discussions on “Unlocking Value for Start-up Incubation through Corporate Engagement” organized by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in association with NEN on 27th January 2014 at IIT Delhi.

Conferences Organized

Two days Workshop on Entrepreneurship Awareness for Faculty Members of Northern Region wherein around 35 Faculty Members participated.
Entrepreneurship Culture – Issues and Challenges for Small & Medium Enterprises , 2-4th Sept. 2004
XIII All India Input-Output Research Association (IORA), India, Conference, 22 – 24, April 2005
Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship for Faculty Members 23-24th Nov. 2007, Funded by Indo US Science & Technology Forum.
Workshop on Promotion of Entrepreneurship Through Incubation, 30th March 2008, Funded by TBI, DST Grant.
One Day Workshop on “Creating Future: Be a Leader” in an era of Innovation was organized on 24th March 2008 for the benefit of students, in which around 90 students participated.
Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Management was organized on 25th April 2010. The workshop was sponsored by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and University Grant Commission, Government of India. 70 participants took advantage of the workshop.
Workshop on “Issues in Patenting “ - was organized on 9th September 2010 by Dr Mohan Dewan, Patents and Trade Marks Attorney of Dewan& Co. Around 55 faculty members took advantage of it.
Organized a one day workshop on Intellectual Property Management on 17th September 2011 at K K Birla Goa campus, BITS, Pilani. Workshop was sponsored by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India.
Organisedseven National Convention on Energizing Entrepreneurship in Academia through Innovation for promotion of technology entrepreneurship between 2006 and 2012. The primary objective of the convention is to raise responsiveness about innovation, venture capital and to offer possibilities for new business networking by bringing interested groups working for promotion of entrepreneurship at a common platform.
Organised and delivered presidential address in seven Conferences/Summits organized in the area of Marketing, IT , Finance and Operations between November 2014 and December 2016 at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi.

Books Written

Arya Kumar, Entrepreneurship – CREATING AND LEADING AN ENTREPRENERIAL ORGANISATION, Pearson April 2012.
Anil Bhat and Arya Kumar, Management – Principles, Processes and Practices, Oxford University Press, March 2008.
Anubhavananda and Arya Kumar, Management with a Difference - Insight from Ancient Indian Wisdom, Ane Books India, 2007.
Anubhavananda and Arya Kumar, Ethics in Management, Ane Books India, 2014.
Umesh Dhyani, Motilal dash, and Arya Kumar, Grassroots Entrepreneurship, Jain Brothers , New Delhi, 2004.
Anil Bhat and Arya Kumar, Principles of Management - Competencies/Processes/ Practices, 2nd edition of the book published with additional four chapters by Oxford University Press in June 2016

Professional Programmes Attended for Self Development

Participated in three programmes on Entrepreneurship Teaching for Faculty conducted by STVP Stanford and NEN in Mumbai in April and June 2006 and in Bangalore in January 2007.
Two Days “Think Tank” Programme organized for the Top Management of Canara Bank in March 1985.
Aftermath of Sixth Plan and Essentials of Seventh Plan, organized by FICCI in August 1984 at Bangalore.
2 Weeks Programme on “Organizational Techniques in Training” at NITIE, Mumbai during October 1985.
1 Day Programme on “MICR Technology for Cheque Clearance” organized by Indian Banks Association in Madras during April 1986.
9 Days Programme on “Organizational Stress” at NIBM, Pune during Jan-Feb. 1986.
1 Week Programme on Personal Computer Applications conducted by HCL, Madras in August 1987.
1 Month Two Phase “Workshop on Evaluation of Training” organized by NIBM, Pune in September 1986 and January 1987.
3 Days Programme on “Quality Circles” organized by NIBM, Pune in July 1987.
3 Days Programme on “Team Building “ conducted by COPE, Madras in July 1987.
10 Days Programme on “Project Finance” organized by NIBM, Pune in July 1989.
3 Days National Seminar on “Corporate Communication and Productivity” organized by CII in November 1989 at Delhi.
6 Days Programme on “Project Follow-up” organized by MDI, Gurgaon in September 1992.
3 Days National Seminar on “Banking and Monetary Policy Issues in India” organized by NIBM, Pune in March 1993.
2 Weeks Programme on “Executive Development “organized by JNIDB, Hyderabad in July 1994.
2 Days Programme on “India – The Trade Off” organized by CII in April 1995.
2 Days International Conference on “Financing infrastructure Projects” organized by ICRA in October 1996.
3 Days Conference of “Chiefs of Computer Policy and Planning Department on IT Strategy in Banks” organized by NIBM, Pune in July 1997.
6 Days Programme on Effective Management of Zone with Focus on Risk Management and Profitability” organized by NIBM, Pune in June 2001.
2 Days Workshop on “Pension and other Retire mental Benefits” organized by Institute of Socio Economic Research and Action, Delhi organized in February 2002.
2 Days Programme on “Operation of PC’s” organized by NIIT New Delhi.
4 Days Workshop on Managing for Excellence – Competitive Advantage Through People’ organised by International Management Institute, New Delhi in August, 2002 at Jaipur
2 Days INSOL India Congress covering Topics such as Corporate Good Governance and Development in Corporate Insolvency Regime” in October 2002 in Delhi.
2 Days National Conference on ‘Entrepreneurship Culture’ organized by BITS Pilani on 2-4th Sept. 2005.
Organized “National Convention on Energizing Entrepreneurship Through Innovation in Academia” in BITS, Pilani on 6th and 7th Oct. 2006.
Participated in the Indian Management Conclave 2015 organised by MBA Universe at Indian School of Business (ISB) between 29th July – 30th July 2015 at Hyderabad.
Participated in the 10th Annual Convention of Quality Council of India held between 7th and 8th August 2015 at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi.
Participated in the conference on “US Certification: Skill-sets for Global Credibility and Opportunities “ organized by IMA, Wiley and Miles Education on 18th Sept 2015 in New Delhi.

Recognition

"Modeling persistence in conditional volatility of asset returns" presented at International Conference on 11th International Conference on Business and Finance, January 8 and 9, 2015 organized by ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad. The paper won the 'best paper award' at the conference.

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