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Private: Dr. Tanmay Banerjee

Ramanujan Fellow, Department of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus Rajasthan, India

Professional Recognition & Fellowships

  • MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022) by the European Commission, Horizon Europe.
  • Ramanujan Fellowship (2022) by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India.
  • Promising Young Structural Engineer Award (2021) by Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE National Awards).
  • Ministry of Human Resources & Development (MHRD) Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
  • Research Excellence Travel Award (2019) by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Awarded to top 5% research scholars only).
  • Research Scholar Travel Award (2019) by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
  • International Travel Award by Indian National Science Academy for attending Structural Stability Research Council Annual Stability Conference 2019 in USA.
  • International Travel Grant by Science and Engineering Research Board for attending Structural Stability Research Council Annual Stability Conference 2019 in USA.
  • International Excellence Scholarship, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds (2013), for pursuing MSc(Eng) Structural Engineering. (Declined as this course was not valid in India)

Best Thesis/Dissertation Awards

  • Distinction in Doctoral Thesis Award (2020) by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
  • Ph.D. Thesis nominated among top 3 Doctoral theses in Civil Engineering, by Indian National Academy of Engineering.
  • Best Project Award (2012) at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore.

Academic Excellence Awards

  • Gold Medalist at University level for securing First Rank during M.Tech. in Structural Engineering at Kurukshetra University.
  • Best Outgoing Achiever of the Year 2012 at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore.
  • Best Intern of the year 2011, Consulting Engineers, Srinagar, Polo View, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Best Paper Awards/Prizes in Technical Events

  • Best Paper Award, Civil Engineering, National Conference on Emerging Fields in Engineering & Sciences (EFES 2015).
  • First Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a National Level Technical Symposium (Recent Advances in Civil Engineering) in 2012 at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, India.
  • First Prize Award in a technical debate during a National Level Technical Symposium (Recent Advances in Civil Engineering) 2012 at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, India.
  • First Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a National Level Technical Fest (NIRMAAN) in 2011 at B.M.S. College of Engineering Bangalore, India.
  • First Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a National Level Technical Fest (SRUSHTI) in 2011 at R.V. College of Engineering Bangalore, India.
  • First Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a National Level Technical Fest (NIRMITEE 2K10) in 2010 at Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune, India.
  • First Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a National Level Technical Fest (NEEV) in 2010 at R.V. College of Engineering Bangalore, India.
  • Second Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a Student Lecture Competition organized by the Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering at National Aerospace Laboratories in 2011 Bangalore, India.
  • Second Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a National Level Technical Fest (VERTECHX.1) in 2010 at M.V.J. College of Engineering Bangalore, India.
  • Second Prize Award in a technical paper presentation event during a National Level Technical Fest (SAMEEKSHA) in 2011 at M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore, India.

  • Head of the Max Planck Partner Group at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, appointed by Max Planck Society, Germany, 2024.
  • Selected for oral presentation by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the “Networking Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation” Leipzig, Germany 3-5th April 2019. 
  • Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers from Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany, 2018.
  • Postdoctoral fellowship, Max Planck Society, Germany, 2017. 
  • GRC Carl Storm International Diversity Award from Gordon Research Conference on “Solid State Chemistry” New London, NH, United States, 2016. 
  • International travel support from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, to attend Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on “Solid State Chemistry” 2016.
  • Best poster award in Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) “17th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry” in CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, 6-8th February 2015.
  • Best oral presentation award in “ICMS-JNCASR-University of Cambridge- Sheikh Saqr Laboratory Winter School on Frontiers of Materials Science”, Bangalore, India, 1-5th December 2014.
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Chemistry, 2012 (All India Rank 16).
  • Qualified joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for JRF, December 2011 & June 2012 examination.

Awards and Achievements

2023, Awarded as EAI Senior Member Class of 2022.
2022; Received SERB SIRE research grant to visit University of Essex, UK
      to pursue research on project entitled "Implementation of IRS-based NOMA-aided
      Cooperative D2D Communications System".

2021; Delivered a Faculty Research Seminar on "D2D Communications: A path towards 5G and beyond

cellular networks", at BITS Goa Campus

2020; Delivered a Seminar on "Device to device communications: A paradigm for 5G and next-generation

cellular networks", at VIT Bhopal University.

2020; Sponsorship Committee Co-chair, IEEE ANTS Conference, Delhi

2019; Sponsorship Committee Co-chair, IEEE ANTS Conference, Goa

2017; Awarded DST SERB Travel grant, IEEE GLOBECOM Singapore.

2016; 3 Days Workshop on Cooperative Communications for 5G, IIT-Kanpur, Kanpur, India

2014; 10 days Summer School on Wireless Networks, Microsoft Research India, IISc-Bangalore

2014; GATE qualified, AIR-474

2012; Conducted a Matlab Workshop for 300 Students, ITM University Gwalior, Gwalior, India

2010; Secured Rank-I (M.Tech, 2nd Semester), NIT-Warangal, Warangal, India

2010; Worked as a Placement Coordinator, NIT-Warangal, Warangal, India

2009; GATE Qualified, AIR-743

  

About Faculty

Project Director for BITS BioCyTiH Foundation a Technology Innovation Hub  under National Mission on  Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems NM-ICPS DST Govt of India (Funding Rs 125 Crore) .

Coordinator for DBT BUILDER Level III (2022- 2024) project total funding Rs 8.73 crore.

He has been appointed in various national/international committees (Research advisory Committee of ICAR, CIPHET Ludhiana Min of Agriculture for 3 year 2021-2024,

Appointed expert by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council BIRAC New Delhi for the panel Devices and Diagnostics for BIPP, SIBRI and PACE schemes (June 2023 to May 2026).

Appointed member of the Scientific Panel SP -07 of Food Safety Standards Authority of India FSSAI Min. of Health and Family Welfare GOI (March 2026 to Feb 2026).

Nominated member from India for CODEX Electronic Working Group CCFT18 for 2023 and 2024.

Appointed PRISM Impact Review Committee of DSIR GOI.

Appointed expert member of  Indo -Russian Project Committee by DBT GOI.

Appointed expert for Indo French Project Committee of French Embassy for Red Biotechnology program.

Elected Vice President of BITS Goa Innovation Incubation and entrepreneurship Society  BGIIES (2021-2025)

Founding Secretary and subsequently elected Chairman of Indian Institute of Metals Goa Chapter 2016-17.

Appointed Member Goa State Innovation Council IP Committee since 2021 

Appointed expert for SPMVV Tirupati Incubator of DSIR and member 2020-22

Appointed member of Education Committee (Academic representative) by  Goa  Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

 

 

Awards and Achievements


Achievements

Till 2024           Citations: 2742, h-index: 26, i10 index: 49

2018                 ACM-India Test of the Time Award for a 2008 publication

2014 onward Recipient of Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics award from BITS Pilani 2007       Key contributor to form global internship program at Infosys, won best mentor award

2006                 Recipient, Infosys excellence award for innovation


Honours and Awards

Awards and Distinctions

  • CSIR RA Fellowship 2018-2019
  • Winner of GARUDA CHALLENGE 2012 organized By CDAC
  • Runner Up in OutstandingYoungChemicalEngineers(OYCE) 2016
  • Best Speaker of the session in CHEMFERENCE 2010
  • 3rd Award for Poster Session in International Conference on Environmental Health and Technology held in IIT Kanpur 2010

Faculty Achievments

1) I am the "Teaching Excellence Award 2024" winner at the level of Associate Professor and above at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa. 

2) I got an International Travel Support grant from SERB, DST, New Delhi, for participating in an international conference in Italy in the year 2023. 

3) I was awarded "AHLFORS SEMINAR AWARD 2018" from the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa. 

4) I was awarded the prestigious "INDO USA Raman Postdoctoral fellowship" in 2013. 

5) I qualified NET for LS + JRF exam in 2003.

6) I got JRF from CSIR, New Delhi, during my Ph. D. at IIT Roorkee.

7) I got an SRF from CSIR, New Delhi, during my Ph. D. at IIT Roorkee.

 


Peer-reviewing activity

Served as a Reviewer for the Following Journals: (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4122-3174)

  1. Nature Communications (1)
  2. Advanced Materials (1)
  3. Chemical Engineering Journal (15+)
  4. Small (2)
  5. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (1)
  6. ACS Applied Biomaterials (1)
  7. ACS Omega (2)
  8. Waste Management (1)
  9. Separation and Purification Technology (1)
  10. Materials Chemistry and Physics (3)
  11. Langmuir (1)
  12. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering (1)
  13. Journal of Nanoparticle Research (1)
  14. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (2)
  15. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (2)
  16. Fibers & Polymers (3)
  17. Chemistry & Biodiversity (1)
  18. ChemistrySelect (2)
  19. ChemCatChem (1)
  20. Applied Surface Science Advances (1)
  21. Catalysis Letters (1)
  22. Polymer Chemistry (2)
  23. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology: B (1) 
  24. Advanced Polymer Technology (10+)
  25. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B (2)
  26. Results in Chemistry (1)
  27. Arabian Journal of Chemistry (1)
  28. ACS Materials Letters (1)
  29. RSC Advances (2)
  30. ACS Applied Nano Materials (1)
  31. Semiconductor Science & Technology (1)
  32. Physica Scripta (1)
  33. Journal of Materials Chemistry C (1)
  34. Catalysis Letters (1)
  35. Colloids and Polymer Science (1)
  36. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (1)
  37. Carbon Letters (1)
  38. European Polymer Journal (1)
  39. Water, Air and Soil Pollution (1)
  40. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (1)
  41. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (1)
  42. Research on Chemical Intermediates (1) 
  43. Dalton Transactions (1)
  44. Catalysis Science & Technology (1) 
  45. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A (1)

 

 


Awards and Honours

Leadership positions in scientific bodies:

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

Awards, Honours, Fellowships:

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

Editorial positions in international scientific journals

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

 

 

 


Membership in Professional Bodies

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

Awards and Fellowships

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

Academic and Administrative Experience

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

Professional Experience

Designation

Duration

Name of the Institute/University

Professor

Since June 2021

BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana State

Associate Professor

Jan 2015 – May 2021

BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana State

Assistant Professor

 May 2010 – Jan 2015

BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana State

Assistant Professor

Nov –2005 to May 2010

IIT-Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Reader

Aug-2005 to Nov-2005

Institute of Foreign Trade & Management, U.P. Technical University, Moradabad, U.P.


Academic Qualification

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

Achievements

 

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


Overview


Convener

  1. 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technologies (IMMT-2023), 20th-23rd November 2023
  2. Workshop - 3D Printing at Young Entrepreneur Bootcamp (YEB) 2023
  3. Technical Session Chair, International Conference on Recent Advances in Science and Engineering (RAiSE), MAHE, Dubai, 2023
  4. IBM, Artificial Intelligence Practitioner Certificate: Instructor
  5. Workshop - Re-Engineered 2023

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities

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

FDPs attended

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

Others

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

Awards and Honours


Referee of International Journals

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

Qualified national exams

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

Awards and recognitions

Second Best poster presentation.
  • Amol Shindikar, Radhakrishnan Mahesh.”Widely marketed irrational β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations in India lack activity against contemporary ESBL clinical isolates collected from Indian Hospitals”. CIDSCON 2023, 7-9 July 2023, Chennai , India.
Best poster award.
  • Bajaj, Shivanshu; Mahesh Radhakrishnan., “Effect of Escitalopram and Galantamine in Combination on Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress (CUMS) Model of Depression in Swiss Albino Mice with an Emphasis on BDNF, cAMP, Neuroinflammation, and Oxidative Stress” during 4th Science Conclave Cum National Biomedical Research Competition, held on , 2023 at ESIC Medical College in collaboration with Society of Young Scientist (SYS), AIIMS, Delhi.

Achievements


Achievements

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

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


Achievements and Awards.

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

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

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


Honors & Awards

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

Awards and Honours

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

Awards

 Significant Academic Contributions

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

 

Award

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

 

Significant Publications in the Last in the Three Years

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

 


Honors

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

Nominated for USERN Prize in 2021 

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

VinFuture Pize Award committee invited me as nominator in 2024

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

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

 

 


Conference Awards

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

 


Academic Achievements, Innovations and Societal Outreach

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

 

To be updated.


Honors and Awards

  • Served as a member of the subcommittee for recommending the ICIAM ( International Congress on Industrial and
    Applied Mathematics) 2023 Su Buchin Prize.:
    Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory, US), Chair.
    Tanniemola Liverpool (University of Bristol, UK).
    Amiya Kumar Pani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India).
    Precious Sibanda (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa).
    Pingwen Zhang (Peking University, China).
    This prestigious prize was awarded to Jose Mario Martinez Perez (University of Campinas, Brazil)
    in ICIAM 2023 in Tokyo.

  • Institute Committees:
      *Convenor of the Committee for Best Thesis Award, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus.
      * Chairman of the Committee for designing and developing New four year B.E. programme on Mathematics and Computing, which was approved by Senate in December, 2023.

  • Fellowships of Academies (Names, year).
    • Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Allahabad: 2002.
    • Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences ( FASc), Bangalore : 2012.
    • Fellow of ISMMACS ( Indian Society for Mathematical Modeling and Computer
    Simulation): 2021
  • Research Based Awards.
    • Professor S.C. Bhattacharya Award for Excellence in Pure Sciences-2016 from IIT
    Bombay.
    • Felicitated and awarded a trophy with a citation by Honorable Rajnath Singh, Home
    Minister of Govt. of India for outstanding contributions in industrial and applied mathematics
    during the silver jubilee conference of the Indian Society for industrial and applied mathematics
    (ISIAM) held at Sharda University, Greater Noida, during 29-31 January, 2016, see for more
    details: http://www.math.iitb.ac.in/akp award.pdf
    • Institute Chair Professor, IIT Bombay for a period of three years during April 2011- March
    2014, the second term during May 2014- May 2017, and the third term during May, 2017- May,
    2020.
    • IRCC, IIT Bombay Best Research Paper Award from IIT Bombay for the year 2010.
    • C. L. Chandana Award for distinguished and outstanding contributions to Mathematics re-
    search and teaching in India (2002).
    • Awarded Best Young Mathematician by the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Math-
    ematics for outstanding contributions in Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and
    Industrial Mathematics. (2000).
    • Nominated ICTP Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical
    Physics from January 2003 until 31st December 2008.
  • Other (specify).
    – Member of the subcommittee for the 2023 ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and
    Applied Mathematicians) Su Buchin Prize Prize.
    see, https://iciam.org/2023-iciam-prizes-recipients-and-committees
    – Member of the subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and
    Applied Mathematicians) Maxwell Prize.
    see, http://www.iciam2015.cn/ICIAM%20Announces%202015%20ICIAM%20Prizes.html

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

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


Achievements

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

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

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


Selected Awards and Honours

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

Achievements

Reviewer for the following journals:

 

Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 

Journal of Financial Economic Policy 


Faculty Achievements

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

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

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Achievements: Recent to the very distant past

        

  2023, 24:         TCS Affiliate Professor

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

                             Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales

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

                              TCS Affiliate Professor, BITS-Pilani

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

2015:                  Class of 1981 Chaired Professorship, BITS-Pilani

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

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

2011:                Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales

2009:               Ramanujan Fellowship

1998:               Nuffield Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Mathematics

                         Research Fellow, Green College, Oxford

1992:              Pacific Diagnostics Prize

1987:              Harold G. Conde Memorial Fellow

                        Australian Post Graduate Research Award

                       Australian Government Higher Education Scholarship

                       University of New South Wales Dean’s Scholarship

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

 


Awards

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


Major Achievements

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

 

Recognitions and Participations: 

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

Awards, Honours, Recognitions

Awards, Honours, Recognitions:

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

Membership of Professional Societies:

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

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

Life member of Indian Association of Cultivation of Sciences.

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

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

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

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

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

Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry (from 2022).


Achievements

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

    2003 to 2005.

  • Selection for NBHM (departmental) scholarship for M.Sc. awarded by National Board for Higher Mathematics from 2003 to 2005.

  • Qualified the UGC-CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Human resource Development group, Examination Unit in 2005.

  • Selection for VSRP program at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, summer 2005.

  • VATAT postdoctoral fellowship at University of Haifa, Israel from 2013 to 2016.

  • METRIC Grant, Project title: A study of homotopy invariants of a model category. Sponsored by SERB, India, 2018-2021.


Achievements

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

Achievements worthy of International recognition

 

  1. Session chair of PHOTOMECHANICS - iDICs conference organized by the chairs of PhotoMechanics and the International DIC Society, France, 2024

  2. An active member of International Digital Image Correlation Society https://idics.org/.

  3. Only Indian in the Scientific Committee of PHOTOMECHANICS - iDICs conference organized by the chairs of PhotoMechanics and the International DIC Society                                                               https://pm-idics-2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1                       

  4. Visited Experimental Mechanics group of the research institute “Institut Pascal” at Université Clermont Auvergne (Clermont Ferrand, France) to carry out Indo-French collaborative research work. Expenses for the travel (two-way airfare) and stay in France up to 3000 Euros were borne by Université Clermont Auvergne, Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.


Awards

 

  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2023 

  • OPERA (Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics) Award, BITS Pilani 2018

  • Multiple Divisional Awards at Intel Corporation for improving circuit performance and yield on 22nm and 10nm technologies

  • J.N. Tata Endowment Fund for Engineers. 2001

  • Young Engineering Fellowship, 2000

  • Merit Scholarship for all semesters in BITS Pilani, 1997-2001


Achievements

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


Faculty Achievements

Professional Recognition:

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

Awards and Honors

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

Achievements

Professional Awards

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

 


Achievements….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Contributions

Events and Workshops:

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

Department Contributions:

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

Institute Contributions:

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

Personal Developments:

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

Awards

 

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

Achievements

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

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

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

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

Awards

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

Awards/Fellowships/Others

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

 

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

6. Reviewed Research articles for

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

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

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

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

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

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

 


Awards and other research activities

Achievements

  • Received "Very Good" grade for ECR project sponsored by SERB (2020).
  • Early Career Research Award from DST-SERB (2016-19)
  • Best Presentation Award in the IUMRS Conference at IISc Bangalore (2013)
  • DST Young Scientist Travel Grant (2011)
  • MHRD Fellowship for pursuing PhD (2009-14) 
  • Gold Medalist in M Tech (2009)
  • GATE Fellowship (2007-09)
Editorial Positions
  • Editorial Board Member in Nature Scientific Reports - 2024
  • Associate Editor (Guest) in Frontiers in Materials - 2022
Reviewer Activity
  • DST-SERB grant applications
  • UGC grant applications
  • ACS Applied Nanomaterials
  • Nature Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Energy Storage
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Ceramics International
  • International Journal of Fatigue
  • Journal of Non-crystalline Solids
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Journal of the European Ceramic Society
  • Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • Energies
  • Batteries
  • Sustainability
  • Materials
  • Qeios
  • Symmetry
  • International Journal of Pressure Vessels & Piping
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Journal of Composite Materials
  • Materials Today Proceedings
  • Macromolecular Symposia
  • Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies
  • International Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management
  • Journal of Petroleum and Gas Engineering
  • Applied Sciences
  • Energy Storage
  • International Journal of Materials Research
  • Journal of Nanomaterials

Awards and Recognition

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

Awards and Achievements

  1. Teaching Excellence Award, 2023 , BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
  2. European Union Center of Excellence, Project: R&D collaboration between industries and universities under changing IPR regime in the European Union, Principal Investigator, 2008
  3. Teaching Assistantship, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, USA
  4. Tom Slick Fellowship: Awarded to exceptional PhD candidates to support dissertation work
  5. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Texas A&M University, USA
  6. American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Travel Grant, 2011
  7. Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Texas A&M University, USA
  8. 1st Place winner, 7th Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium, Texas A&M University
  9. 2nd Place winner, Student Research Symposium, 2011, Texas A&M University
  10. International Education Fee Scholarship, Texas A&M University
  11. AUF-Liberal Arts Graduate Student Scholarship, Texas A&M University
  12. Who's Who Among Students in American Universities
  13. Ford Foundation Scholarship: Awarded to top 3 students in M.A. course at J.N.U.
  14. National Scholarship, Govt. of India for performance in B.Sc. Economics Honour
  15. Swami Lokeswarananda Scholarship, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
  16. Dhiresh Bhattacharya Award for B.Sc. Economics Honors: 1st place in College
  17. National Scholarship, Government of India (1996, 1998)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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

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

Company website


Achievements

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

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

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

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

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

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

 


Awards & Recognitions

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

Awards

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

Awards & Fellowship

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

Achievements

Awards:

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

 Professional Recognition:

  1. Organiser of "International Conference on Drug Discovery (ICDD) 2020" in association with Schrodinger Inc, USA at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus, 29th Feb-2nd March 2020.
  2. Jury Member of the Prestigious initiative of Merck Young Scientist Award 2019 & 2021.
  3. Nominated Member, Steering Committee, Rajasthan State Level Implementation of Startup Policy Drafting and Commissioning of iStart Program since September 2017.
  4. Member, Board of Studies, Anurag Group of Institutions since 2019.
  5. Member, Board of Studies, JNTU, Hyderabad since 2019.
  6. Program Committee member of "World Congress on Cancer Research"  held at Goa on 5-7 October, 2017.
  7. Scientific Advisory Committee MemberInternational Conference on Trend Setting Innovations in Chemical Sciences & Technology-Applications in Pharma Industry (TSCST-2015) held on 16-18 December 2015 under TEQIP-II, JNTUH, Hyderabad
  8. Expert Reviewer, Neurobiology projects, DBT, Govt. of India
  9. Scientific Reviewer, "International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing" Organised by Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vishakapatnam, 19-20 Dec 2015.
  10. Resource person, "Brainstorming Session on Retrosynthesis", at the National Conference on Infectious Diseases- A Medicinal Chemistry Perspective, sponsored by DST & KSCTC held on 29-30 Aug 2014, AIMS, Kochi.
  11. Expert Reviewer, "International Conference on Computational Intelligence: Health and Diseases" Organised by IBCB, Vishakapatnam, 27-28 Dec 2014, Andhra University, A.P. 
  12. Program Technical Committee Member3rd ScienceOne Conference on Drug Discovery and Development (SCDDD) 2014, Jan 21-24, Dubai.
  13. Commisioning Editor of an international journal, "International Journal of Drug Design & Discovery" published by Pharma Book Syndicate, India.
  14. Member, Institutional Ethical Committee, Molecular Diagnostics, Counselling, Care & Research Centre, Coimbatore, India
  15. Chairperson, Institutional Ethical Committee, Army College of Dental Sciences, Hyderabad, India
  16. Editorial Advisory Board Member of an international journal, "Recent Patents on CNS Drug Discovery" published by Bentham Science Publishers (USA & The Netherlands).
  17. Editorial Advisory Board Member of an international journal, "International Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysispublished by Bioinfo Publishers, USA.
  18. Editorial Board Member of an international journal "International Journal of Biomedical Sciences" published by Master publishing group, USA.
  19. Editorial Board Member of an international journal "Therapeutic Targets for Neurological Disorders" published by Smart Science & Technology, USA.
  20. Editorial Board Member of an international journal "The Pharma Professionals" published by Clinfocus Research Pvt. Ltd., India
  21. Member, Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE)
  22. Member, Confederation of Women Entrepreuners (COWE)
  23. Member, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
  24. Member, Canadian Pharmaceutical society
  25. Member, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
  26. Life Member, Indian Pharmacological Society (IPS)
  27. Life Member of Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India (APTI)
  28. Member,  Board of Studies for Pharmaceutical Sciences,  JNTU, Hyderabad.
  29. Ph.D. Examiner, JNTU, Hyderabad
  30. Expert reviewer of the International journals of

       ·         Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (ACS, USA)

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

       ·         European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier)

       ·         Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier)

       ·         Drug Discovery Today (Elsevier)

       ·         Recent Patents on CNS Drug Discovery (Bentham)

       ·         Current Enzyme Inhibition (Bentham)

       ·         Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (Blackwell Publishing)

       ·         Brain Research (Elsevier) 

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

       ·         Archive der Pharmazie (Wiley VCH)

       ·         European Journal of Pain (Elsevier)

       ·         Brain Research (Elsevier)

       ·         Medicinal Research Reviews (Wiley)

       ·         Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (Informa Health)

       ·         Expert Opinion on Drug Safety (Informa Health)

       ·         Archive der Pharmazie (Wiley)

       ·         Drug Discovery Today (Elsevier)

Awards and Recognition

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

Award Fellowships and Recognition

  • Received International Recognition, "World’s top 2% Scientists”, list based on Elsevier/Stanford University 2021 data.

  • Certified Senior Data Scientist, United States Data Science Institute (USDSI™), 2021

  • Received 120$ as Honorarium from Elsevier for reviewing a book proposal.

  • Recognition for the Contribution to the International Conference (ROPEC 2017, Ixtapa, Mexico) as Special Session Organizer.

  • Awarded Certificate for the second position in M.Tech Examination.

  • Outstanding reviewer award by Biomedical Signal processing and Control Journal, Elsevier, 2016.

  • Outstanding reviewer award by Knowledge-based system Journal, Elsevier, 2017.

  • Outstanding reviewer award by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2017.

  • MHRD Ph.D. Fellowship (2013-2017)

  • GATE M.Tech Fellowship (2011-2013).


Awards

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

Achievements

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Research Excellence Travel Award-2023, IIT Delhi.


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


Honors

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

Personal Highlights

Seminars

 

S.No

Name of Award

Awarding Agency

Year

1

Dr. Anji Reddy award for Best Scientist

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

2020

2

Dr. J.M. Khanna Memorial Distinguished Career Achievement Award

CSIR-CDRI

2018

4

GPAT-2010

Secured AIR- 2 out of 40000 candidates

2010

5

Gold Medalist (Post graduation)

IIT BHU

 

2013

6

University topper (graduation)

 

Kumaon University

2010

7

CSIR- CDRI Incentive Award for Publications

CSIR-CDRI

2015

8

GATE-CSIR JRF and SRF from 2012 onwards

 

CSIR

2012-2017

9

Postgraduate GATE Fellowship

 

AICTE

2010-2012

10

International Travel grant

 

DST

2015


Achievement

Honours:

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

Academic Achievements

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

Awards/Fellowships 

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

Awards / Honors

  • Accelerate Vigyan 'VRITIKA', Summer Internship grant received from SERB-DST (Department of Science & Technology) Govt. of India, 2022.
  • Start-up Research Grant (SRG), research grant received from SERB-DST (Department of Science & Technology) Govt. of India, 2021 - 2023.
  • Young Researcher Fellowship (NPDF), research grant received from SERB-DST (Department of Science & Technology) Govt. of India, 2017 - 2019.
  • International Credit Mobility Grant received at University of Texas at Arlington, Texas-USA, 2015. 
  • International Conference Travel grant from UNITN for EUROBRAKE, Germany, 2015.
  • Early Stage Researcher Fellowship (Ph.D.) received at Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento-Italy, 2013 - 2016.
  • Visiting Researcher at Brembo S.p.A., Via Brembo n. 25, 24035 Curno (BG) Italy.
  • Fellow Member of International Association for Engineering and Management Education (IAEME).
  • Fellow Member of Innovative Scientific Research Professional Malaysia. [LM171899314]
  • Life Member of Tribology Society of India (TSI) [LM # 5209].
  • Life Member of Malaysian Tribology Society (MYTRIBOS) [LM # L0220].
  • Hon. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Automotive Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Research [ISSN: 2229-9270].
  • Senior Member of Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME) 
    [SM # SMISME20200203].
  • Reviewer: WEAR Journal-Elsevier.

HONORS & AWARDS

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
Transportation in Developing Economies (TiDE)

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

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

HANDLING EDITOR
Transportation Research Record, USA, 2021 – Present

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

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

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

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER
Transportation Research Group India 2016 – Present

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

MEMBERSHIPS

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

 


Honors and Achievements

  • 2024, Invitation for Editorial Board Membership, Nature Scientific Reports.
  • 2023, Invitation for Technical Committee Membership, Asian Concrete Federation.
  • 2023, Certificate of Reviewing, fib Journal of Structural Concrete.
  • 2022, Guest Editor, “Volume Stability and Durability of Alternative and Sustainable Binders”, Frontiers in Built Environment
  • 2022, Member, Scientific Committee, 1st International Online Conference on Infrastructures (IOCI 2022)
  • 2021, Session Chair, The First International Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering (ICRACE2021, 17th to 19th September 2021, NIT Silchar
  • 2021, Lead author RILEM TC 294 MPA Chapter on Fiber Reinforced Alkali-Activated Concrete [FR-AAC]
  • 2021 Selected as global leader for the RILEM TC 294 MPA round robin test (RRT) working group 7 [AAC with fibers]
  • 2020 Technical Committee Member, RILEM TC 294 MPA.
  • 2020 Certificate of Reviewing, Journal of Cleaner Production (ELSEVIER)
  • 2020 Certificate of Reviewing, Waste Management (ELSEVIER)
  • 2020 Certified Publons Academy Mentor, Practical Peer Review Training Course.
  • 2019 Certificate of Reviewing, Journal of Environmental Management (ELSEVIER)
  • 2018 - 2024 Certificate of Reviewing, Construction and Building Materials (ELSEVIER)
  • 2015 Valued Reviewer Recognition, Construction and Building Materials (ELSEVIER)
  • 2015 BITS OPERA Award.
  • 2013 Graduated with Doctorate from WVU with 4.0 GPA
  • 2013 West Virginia University Dissertation Fellowship.
  • 2012 ASCE Freeman Fellowship.
  • 2012-13 Treasurer, ASCE - Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) at WVU.
  • 2011 Engineer-In-Training, West Virginia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.
  • 2011 ASCE Virginias' Conference, part of the judges' panel for the 'Concrete Bowling Competition' and assisted in the design of the 'Concrete Canoe' made by Team WVU.
  • 2009 PCI "Big Beam Contest", 4th Place in Zone-IV (along with Adam Justice, Matt Anderson, and Soumya Sundar Chowdhury).

Awards and Recognitions

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

Other Accomplishments

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

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

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


Awards Received

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

 

Technical Committee Member for BIS Code of Practice

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

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

 

Advisory Board Member

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

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

 

Editorial Board Member

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

  

Journal Reviewer

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

 

Member of board of studies:

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

 

Member of board of Examination:

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

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Member of Advisory board:

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

 Review Committee Member  

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

 


Other Achievements

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

Achievements

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

During Doctoral Thesis Work (2017-2023)

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

During Professional Experience (2010-2017)

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

During Undergraduate Studies (2006-2010)

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

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

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

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

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

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

DIVYASAMPARK IHUB ROORKEE FOR DEVICES MATERIALS

AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION

DIVYASAMPARK IHUB ROORKEE FOR DEVICES MATERIALS

AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION


Talks Organized

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


Awards

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

 


HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Awarded Institute PG Passing Out Color award for the performance throughout the stay at IIT Bombay [April 2017]
  • Awarded Department Citation for the performance throughout the stay at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay [December 2016]
  • Awarded Travel Grant to attend the international conference (ICOTOM-17), from MRSI (Materials Research Society of India), Mumbai Chapter [July 2014]
  • Awarded Best oral presentation award in the 6th National Symposium for Materials Research Scholar’s (MR-14) held at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India [May 2014]
  • Awarded Institute Organizational Color for the year 2013-14 by IIT Bombay Student Gymkhana [April 2014]
  • Awarded Department Organizational Special Mention for the academic year 2012-13
  • Awarded MHRD Fellowship from Govt. of India for pursuing PhD degree at IIT Bombay [July 2010-June 2015]
  • Awarded Gold Medal by Haryana State Governor for standing 1st position in B.Tech. (Mechanical Engg.) [April 2010]

Significant Achievements

 

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

Achievements

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

HONOURS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS:

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

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

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

2022: “Topical Advisory Panel” MDPI electronics journal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Awards/Fellowships

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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


Professional Accomplishments

Professional accomplishments: 

My CV (click)


Honours & Recognition- Awards

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

Awards


Honours

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

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

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


Awards and Recognitions

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

Honours & Awards

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

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

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

2004-2007: Senior Research Fellowship

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

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

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


Awards and Honours

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

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


Awards Received / Positions held / Achievements made

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

2024 - 2026: Department Research Committee Convener 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005: Associate Editor of ASLE-India Newsletter 

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

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

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

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


SPT Grant – 2024

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


Achievements

Fellowships & Awards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Post-doctoral Research Fellowship for Women, UGC, 2005


Awards

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

Achievements

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

FELLOWSHIPS/ AWARDS:

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

Awards and Scholarships:

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

Awards and Recognitions

  • Track Chair for Student Research Forum at IEEE APSCON 2024, Goa, India.
  • Associate Editor at Microelectronics Engineering Journal
  • Editorial Board of Springer Nature Graphene and 2D Materials
  • Young Scientist Award and Medal Lecture at ICLED 2023, Singapore
  • Visiting Assistant Professor at Tufts University, USA.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, USA.
  • Technical Committee Member, IWPSD 2023, IIT Madras
  • Tutorial Chair for ICST 2023, Hyderabad, India
  • Session Chair at IEEE ICEE 2023, Bangalore, India
  • Session Chair for Student Research Forum, IEEE APSCON 2023, Bangalore, India
  • Invited Talk at IEEE APSCON, 2023, Bangalore, India
  • Technical Committee Member, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Sensors and Actuators group
  • Golden Reviewer Award, IEEE EDS, 2023
  • Best Poster Award, IEEE ICEE 2020 (IIT Delhi - Virtual)
  • Best B.E Project Award to my Student Mr. Amogh BS by INAE, Govt. of India, 2020
  • Best Project Award, Anveshan Fellowship, 2020, Analog Devices
  • Indian Nanoelectronics User Program (INUP), IITB “Best Project Award” for the year 2017
  • Nominated for Best PhD Thesis by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in Electrical Engineering, 2018
  •  Best poster Award in International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials, IISC Bangalore, India2016.
  • International Travel grant recipient from DST, SERB, Govt. of India for attending IEEE NANO-17 in Pittsburgh, USA. (2017)
  • Gold Medalist in the department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM University with 9.25 pointer (2014). 

Workshops/Conferences Organised:

  • One of the organizers of the 3rd Group Monitoring Workshop cum 6th meeting of the re-constituted expert panel on Fast Track Proposals for Young Scientists in Physical and Mathematical Sciences held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, during January 11-12, 2007.

  • Co-convener of the International Workshop on Advances in Computational Partial Differential Equations held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from February 7 to March 5, 2011.

  • Co-convener of Advanced School on Graph Algorithms jointly organized by the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from July 23 to July 27, 2012.

  • Co-organiser of the research promotion workshop on Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms jointly organized by the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa and School of Technology and Computer Science, Mumbai, held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, during January 17-19, 2013. 

  • Co-convener of an advanced workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Advanced Finite Element Methods Jointly organized by NMI Bangalore and NPDE-TCA, IIT Bombay, held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from December 26, 2013, to January 3, 2014.

  • The organizer of the Advanced Level Training Program on Differential Equations jointly organized by the National Programme on Differential Equations: Theory, Computation, and Applications (NPDE-TCA), IIT Bombay, held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus, Goa, from May 25 to June 14, 2015. 

  • One of the organizers of Indo-German Pre-Conference School on Algorithms and Combinatorics and the 3rd International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM-2017) held at the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from February 13 to February 18, 2017. 

  • One of the organizers of the International Conference on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications to Network Science (ICDMANS-2018) held at the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from July 7 to July 10, 2018. I also acted as the Treasurer of the conference. 

  • Organized a Workshop on Analysis, Differential Equations and Computation at the Department of Mathematics in BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from November 12 to November 13, 2022. 

  • Co-organizer of the 9th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC-2023) held at the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, from January 06 to January 08, 2023. 

  • One of the organizers of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences held at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus in association with National Center for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa from November 03 to November 05, 2023.


Honours and achievements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ACHIEVEMENTS/ AWARDS/ PRIZES

ACHIEVEMENTS/ AWARDS/ PRIZES:

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

Resources






Computational Facilities

Cyclops 180 cores HPC 12 core High-Performance CPU Workstation


     

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    Achievements

    Awards and Honours

    2019

    BITSAA Global 30 Under 30 Award

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

    2018

    IET Hudswell International Research Scholarship

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

    APS GSNP Student Speaker Award Finalist

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

    Forbes 30 Under 30 – Europe (Shortlisted)

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

    APL ‘Featured’ Badge

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

    2017

    John Winbolt Prize

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

    UK Doctoral Researcher Award

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

    PRL Editors’ Suggestion

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

    2014

    Mantra Innovator of the Year

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

    The Second UAE Undergraduate Student Research Competition (UGSRC)

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

    2013

    ASME Young Engineers Paper (YEP) Contest

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

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

    Semifinalist, the SIEMENS Middle East Student Award

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

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

     

    Fellowships and Scholarships

    2019

    Henslow Research Fellowship (Shortlisted)

    • Issuer: St. Edmunds’ College, Cambridge
    • Placed 1st in Engineering

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

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

    Early Career Research Fellowship (Longlisted)

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

    2018

    Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (Shortlisted)

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

    Early Career Research Fellowship (Longlisted)

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

     2016

     NIST Seminar Student Sponsorship

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

     2015

    Deans’ Forum Lecture Program Scholarship

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

    BiosCrete Bursary

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

    2014

    Cambridge Trust Scholarship

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

    BITS Pilani Merit Scholarship

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

    2013

    Mitacs Globalink Internship Award

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

    2010

    BITS Admission Test (BITSAT) Merit Scholarship

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

     

    Travel Awards

    2018

     IEEE Student Travel Support

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

    EFTF Student Travel Support

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

    IET Travel Award

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

    2017

    IEEE Student Travel Support

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

    W G Collins Endowment Fund

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

    2016

    Queens’ College Perry Fund

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

    W G Collins Endowment Fund

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

    IEEE Student Travel Support

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

    2015

    Queens’ College Graduate Student Fund

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

     2013

     ASME Young Engineers’ Paper Contest – Travel Grant

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

     

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    Awards & Other Important Contributions

    RECENT AWARDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
    • Dr. Pradipta Chattopadhyay had an Invited Talk on his Research in Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland, Europe on 20th June 2018, as part of INSA Bilateral Exchange Programme 2018 (recipient of INSA Award 2018).
    • The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Bilateral Exchange Programme (BEP) Award, 2018 
    • Proctor- BITSAT Duty- Delhi- May 2018.
    • PS-I Faculty, BITS-Pilani, Pilani, India, May-July for 2010, 2012-2017, 2019, 2021.
     
    OTHER AWARDS/CONTRIBUTIONS
    • Awarded National Scholarship Merit Certificate for performances in Secondary Examination, 1994 and Higher Secondary Examination, 1996.
    • Life Member of The Indian Institute Of Chemical Engineers.
    • Participated in Winter School  on  Advanced  Process  Modeling  and  Control,  NIT  Durgapur,  India,  Jan  19-30, 2009.
    • Former Chairman, IIChE Pilani Regional Centre. Have also been Honorary Regional Secretary for IIChE Pilani Regional Centre previously.
    • Former Honorary Regional Treasurer, IIChE Pilani Regional Centre. 
    • Former DCA Convener, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus
    • Former PFAC Member, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus
    • Former Coordinator, Student Faculty Council (SFC), Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus
    • Former Prof-In-Charge, Chemical Engineering Association & Coordinator- Student Chapter, IIChE Pilani Regional Centre (Jan 2016-Dec 2017).

     

     

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    Achievements

    Awards & Fellowships

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

    Achievements

    AWARDS

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

    MEMBERSHIP

    • IEEE Member (ID: 97082137)

    RESEARCH GRANTS

    • Received CSIR International Travel Grant.


     

     

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    Collaborations

     

    International Collaborations (Labs/Institutions):
     
    • Prof. Dr. Santiago Signorelli, Department of Plant Biology, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
     
     
    National  Collaborations (Labs/Institutions):
    • Dr. Philomin Juliana, CIMMYT-India
    • Dr. Dinakar Challabathula, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India

    Awards and Fellowships

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     
     

     

     

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    Institute Contributions

    BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

    • Member, Departmental Research Committee (DRC) {September 2022 – August 2024}
    • Coordinator, Department Website {January 2021– August 2024}
    • Faculty In-Charge, Analytical Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, {September 2020 – August 2024}
    • Member, Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA) {September 2020– August 2022}
    • Coordinator for Seminar/Webinar, Chemical Engineering, {September 2020-August 2022}
    • Proctor, BITSAT {Vijayawada, May 2019}
    • Instructor, Practice School-1, (May-July 2018), Nandi Group of Industries, Nandyal, A.P.
    • Member, Doctoral Advisory Committee [2 students] {2018-Present}
    • Faculty In-charge, Mechanical Unit Operations Laboratory {2018-2020}
    • Member, Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA) {September 2017– August 2018}
    • Member, Student Faculty Council (SFC)

     

    Professional Society

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

     

     

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    Professional Accomplishments

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

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

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

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

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

    6)    Lifetime Member, Indian Society for Plant Physiology.

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

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

     


     

     

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    Awards & Fellowships

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

    Academic Editor/ Reviewer for the journals

    1. PLOS ONE
    2. Journal of Molecular catalysis
    3. American Oil chemistry society Journals
    4. Plant Molecular Biology
    5. Plant Biotechnology Journal
    6. Plant Journal
    7. Journal of Genetics

    Academic Press Journals.Membership of Society:

    1. Life membership of the Biotechnology Society of INDIA.

     

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    Membership

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

     


     

    Recognitions: 

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

    Awards and Recognition

    Award and recognition:

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

    Academic Achievements:

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

    Academic/Professional Membership:

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


    Professional Experience

     

    Designation Place Period
    Associate Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus June 2021 onwards
         
    Assistant Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus August 2009-May 2021
         
    Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA October 2007-June 2009
    Project Assistant Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune January 2007-September 2007
    Senior Research Fellow (CSIR)
    Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
    July 2003-July 2006
    Junior Research Fellow (CSIR) Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune July 2001-July 2003
    • Qualified in the Joint-CSIR/UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Chemical Sciences (2001)
    • Member of the American Chemical Society (Membership No. 30018423) since 2008.
    • Life Member of the Chemical Research Society of India (Membership No. LM 1678) since October 2013

    Awards

    Krishna-C-Etika-Awards


     

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    Achievements

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

     

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    Awards/Honors/Distinctions Obtained

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

    Scholarship/Fellowship Awarded

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

     

     

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    Awards & Fellowships

     

    Awards:

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

     

    Fellowships:

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

     

     

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    Achievements

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

     

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    Achievement and Awards

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

    Achievements

    Award & Distinctions

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

    Guest Editor & Editorial Board Member

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

    Awards, Achievements and Recognition.

    AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    t.       Expert Member WRI, land restoration thematic group

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

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

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

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

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

     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    14.  University of Brunei, Brunei (Academic visitor)

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

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

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

    18.  Global Environment Facility, UN (Author)

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

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

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

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

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

    Achievements

    Teaching Achievements:

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

    Research Achievements:

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

    Other Achievements:

    Workshops/Seminars/Conclaves Organized

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

    Achievements

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

     

     

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    Awards & Honours

    Awards

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


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


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


    Honours


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

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


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


    Fellowships, Awards & Research Recognitions

    • The article "Confined Evaporation-Mediated Enhanced Residence Time of Levitated Water Drops over Deep Oil Pools"  Langmuir, 37 (46) (2021). (Article Link: Click Here.) got selected as the cover page article of the American Chemical Society Journal Langmuir. (Cover page Link: Click here)
    • Received the ‘Competitive Research Grant’ from BITS Pilani (January 2019).
    • Won the Keshav Rangnath Excellence in Research Award from IIT Madras (July 2018) - Best researcher award from IIT Madras (Based on the thesis and publication quality and quantity).
    • Institute Pre Doctoral Fellowship, IIT Madras, March 2018-August 2018
    • Research article titled "Correlating the contact line capillary number to the dynamic contact angle hysteresis in surfactant based nanocolloids" published in Physics of Fluids has been selected as Editor's Pick.
    • Article titled "Effects of interplay of nanoparticles, surfactants and base fluid on the surface tension of nanocolloids" published in European Physical Journal E has been selected as cover page article.
    • Scholarship for MS-PhD dual degree program, July 2014-February 2018, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India.

     

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    Grants

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

    • Research Inititation Grant, BITS Pilani (2019-21)

     

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    Referee work for

    • Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal,

    • Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics,

    • The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society 


     

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    Honors and Awards

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

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

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

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

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

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


     

     

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    Award/Recognition

    Award

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

    Refree/Reviewer

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

     

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    Achievements & Awards

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

    Award/Scholastic achievements /Fellowship

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

    Achievements

    2024    Member of the American Mathematical Society

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

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

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

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

     


     

     

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    Scholarships/Awards/Membership

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

    Award / Recognition

    Member of Editorial Boardy/Advisor Board

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

    Reviewer of the Journals

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

     

     

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    Professional Honour, Recognition and Engagements

    • Received "Best Researcher" award at the 3rd Edition of International Research Awards on statistical methods for analyzing the engineering data for the contribution and honourable achievement in innovative research on 25th May 2023.

    • Nominated as a member in the Board of Studies of Mechanical Engineering at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati.

    • Nominated as a member, Research Recognition Committee of Mechanical Engineering of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati

    • Received "Excellence & Dedicated Professional Achievement Award-2023", at International Award Convention in International Conference on Advanced and Applied Research(ICAAR-2023) organized by HLM Group of Institutions and SVDES Society Delhi on 1st April 2023.

    • Invited as a Guest of Honour for the Inauguration of AICTE-ISTE sponsored one week Induction programme on Advances in Engineering organized by All India Shree Shivaji Memorial Society College of Engineering (AISSMSCOE) Pune on 8th Dec 2021.

    • Invited as a Chief Guest for 2-day e-International conference on Recent Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology organized by Govindrao Wanjari College of Engineering and Technology Nagpur on 13th July 2020.

    • Appointed as a member of the consultancy cell for the development of Academic Programmes in Chaudhary Devilal University Sirsa. 

    • Invited as a Guest of Honour for the Inaguration of  AICTE sponsored STTP on Renewable Energy Sources held at St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering and Technology Nagpur during 18-23 Nov 2019.

    • Invited as a Guest of Honour for the Inaguration of International Conference on Advancements in Computing and Management (ICACM-2019) held during April 13-14 2019 at Jagan Nath University Jaipur. 

    • Felicitated by Decision Sciences Institute, USA for the contribution in Indian Subcontinent Region Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) during 12th ISDSI International conference held at SPJIMR during 27-30 Dec. 2018.

    • Worked as a President, ISDSI for 2 years (Dec 2016 to Dec 2018)

    • Organized 12th ISDSI International conference in association with SPJIMR Mumbai during 27-30 2018 at SPJIMR Mumbai 

    • Organized 11th ISDSI International Conference in Association with IIM Trichy during 27-30 December 2017 at IIM Trichy.

    • Organized 10th ISDSI International Conference in association with MET Institute of Management Nasik during 28-30 Dec. 2016 at Nasik.

    • Elected as a President, Indian Subcontinent Region Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) Regional body of DSI, Houston, Texas, USA for the period of two years (2017-2018).

    • Working as a external member of Board of Studies in Deptt. of Mechanical Engineering, Shridhar University, Pilani

    • Elected as a Secretary General of Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) USA for two years (2012-2014)

    • Engage as Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Manufacturing Systems publishing by Science Alert, USA.

    • Served as Reviewer for many reputed journals and conferences

    • Executed confidential work of Punjab Public Service Commission and Jharkhand Public Service Commission

    • Served as a Referee / Examiner for some PhD Theses, M. Tech, M.E. and M.S. Theses in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Management in certain universities and Institutions of Higher Learning

    • Served as a Member, Board of Examiners in Amravati University


     

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    Achievements


    Awards

     
    • Received grant to attend Excellence in Microsurgery Technique Training Course at the René Remie Surgical Skills Centre (RRSSC) in Almere, The Netherland 2021 
    • International travel award from DST to attend ECO-2017, Porto, Portugal 
    • Received CSIR SRF fellowship award 2016-2017 (Not Availed)
    • International travel award from DBT to attend 3rd TRP channel meeting (TRP-2015), Leuven, Belgium 
    • Received SRF fellowship award from NABI, Mohali 2015
    • Received JRF fellowship award from NABI, Mohali 2013
    • Received NIPER fellowship for post-graduation by securing 42nd all India merit in NIPER-JEE 2011
    • Received UGC fellowship for post-graduation by Securing 37th all India merit in GPAT-2011 (99.91 percentile)
     
     
    Other Merits
     
    • With all India Merit top 2, Selected as Research Officer (Scientist-I, Group A, Gazetted) at Head office, CCRAS-New Delhi, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India in 2022
    • Selected as Assistant professor of Pharmacology at Susruta School of Medical and Paramedical Sciences, Central University of Assam in 2021 

    Awards and Achievements

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


    Awards and Achievements

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

     

     

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    Honours & Membership

    Honours

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

    Memberships

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

    Awards

    SELECTED AWARDS 

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

    STUDENT AWARDS

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

     

     

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    Grants and Honors/Academic/Scholastic Achievements

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

     

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    Fellowships, Awards and Recognitions

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

     

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    Fellowships, Awards and Recognitions

    Awards for Supervised Research

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

    Research Awards

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

    Fellowships and Recognitions 

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

     

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    Award/Prize:

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

    Others professional credits

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

    Awards & Distinctions

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

    Invited Guest Lectures Delivered

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

     

     

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    Awards and Honours

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

     

     

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    Awards and honour

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

     

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    Awards and Achievements

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

     

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    For Prospective PhD Candidates

    Awards:         

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

    Editorial Services:

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

    Honours/ Awards/ Recognitions

    Event Organized,

    • Symposium on Carbon Nanomaterial Electronics (SCNE) during 8-9th November, 2019 at BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan under ages of SPARC-MHRD and CSIR, Govt. of India. Role: Convener.
    • Indo-Israel Workshop Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices (I2NMD-2018) on 2nd November, 2018 at BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus. Role: Co-Convener.
    Recipient,
    • "IEI Young Engineers Award"-Electronics & Telecomm. Eng. by Institute of Engineers in 2016
    • "Best PhD thesis award" by Institute of Smart Structure & System (ISSS), IISc Bangalore in 2016
    • "Best PhD thesis award" by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in the year of 2015.
    • INSPIRE Fellowship Award for PhD program sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), India in 2012
    • Silver medal award for 1st Rank in M.Tech in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India (currently IIEST, Shibpur) in 2011
    • MRSI Young Scientist award for best paper presentation in Young Scientist Colloquium-2014 organized by Material Research Society of India (MRSI), Kolkata Chapter and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, September 12, 2014
    • Best paper poster award in Young Scientist Colloquium-2013 organized by Material Research Society of India (MRSI), Kolkata Chapter, and Jadavpur University, August 28, 2013
    • Faculty position (Assistant Professor) offered by Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-G), Guwahati at the Dept. of Electronics & Communication Eng. in 2015
    • International Travel Fellowship in from SERB-DST in 2013 and 2018 and CICS in 2016

    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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

    REVIEWER OF JOURNAL(S)

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

    Awards, Honours & Fellowships

     

    Performance in National Eligibility Test (NET):

    •  UGC - CSIR NET (For Lecturership): Dec. - 2001.
    •  UGC - CSIR NET (Junior Research Fellowship/Lecturership): Jun. - 2002.
    Awards & Honours:
    • Ranked in Top 20 %  of UGC-CSIR NET (JRF), Jun. - 2002 : Called for the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Fellowship Test - 2003 held at Hyderabad.
     
    Fellowships:
     
    1.    Post Doctoral:
    • Selected as Post Doctoral Fellow at UCT - CERN Research Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
    • Selected as CSIR - Research Associate (RA). 
    • Availed Two months Summer Research Fellowship (SRF) at BHU, Varanasi during Summer - 2012 jointly sponsored by three Indian Science Academies under the Science Academies Summer Fellowship Scheme for University Teachers.
    2.   Doctoral:
    • CSIR - JRF : Feb. 2003 - Mar. 2005.
    • CSIR - SRF : Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2008.

     

     

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    Other Accomplishments

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

    Recognition:
    • External Expert for Project Fellow (PF), JRF, SRF Selection at CEERI, Pilani for different sponsored projects in Smart System Group & AI Group, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

    • Chaired Session on “International Symposium on Nanoelectronics and Information System, IEEE-INIS on 19-21 December 2016 at IITM Gwalior.

    • Delivered a talk on “Energy Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Autonomous IoT Systems using Emerging Non-Volatile Memories” The 121st TAOYAKA Program Seminar/HiSENS Seminar, on December 22, 2017 at Hiroshima University, Japan.

    Professional Development:
    • Co-Coordinatoof “ATAL Sponsored One Week Online FDP on Intelligent and Collaborative Robotics” at BITS-Pilani Campus during 13th – 17th September 2021.

    • Attended Faculty Development (FDP) Programme on VLSI Chip Design Hands-on using open source EDA” jointed organized by IITG, IITR, IITB at MNIT Jaipur, India during July 8-12, 2019.

    • Attended Faculty Development (FDP) Programme on Methodologies and Challenges in Digital IC and Memory Design jointed organized by SCL Mohali, MNIT at MNIT Jaipur, India during Dec 11-15, 2019.

    • Attended Faculty Development (FDP) Programme on “Mixed Signal CMOS ICs, Methodology of Circuit to Chip Design” at MNIT Jaipur, India during March 6-10, 2019.

    • Involved in International linkage development program (ILDP) from 16 -25 December, 2017 at Hiroshima University, Japan (Visited HU, Japan)

    • Involved in International linkage development program (ILDP) March 2018 at BITS, Pilani

    • Active member of the Organizing committee of 8th International Conference on Human Computer Interface (IHCI), jointly organized by BITS-CEERI Pilani, 12-13 December, 2016.

    • Involved in setting-up question paper for BITS-HD(Microprocessor), March-2017

    • Involved in developed of Handout of M.E(Microelectronics), Analog IC Design for WILP, 2016.

    • Involved in development of course content & lab assignments with Asst Prof. Pawan Sharma WILP, 2016.


     

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    Appreciation

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


    Awards

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

    Awards and Honors

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

     

     

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    Recognition and Awards

    • 2018: Received IEEE senior membership position   
      IEEE Region: R10 -Asia and Pacific,  Section: Rajasthan Subsection  
    • 2018: Member IEEE Solid State Circuits Society
    • 2011: Received international travel support from DST for attending 3rd International Asia Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (CAR– 2011), Shenzhen, China, 24-25 December, 2011.
    • 2010: My biography is included for publication in Who's Who in the world, 27th edition 2010
    • 2002:Received a project completion award from INTEL higher education as a part of curriculum development workshop on "Basics of Microelectronics" at IIT Bombay in 2002.
    • 2001:Won first prize in workshop on "developing communication skill" held at INTERFACE-2001 at BITS, Pilani 
    • 2000: Received MHRD scholarship (GATE-2000 Examination) during M.E.
    • 1996: Achieved 5th rank in B.E. Examination in Amravati university
    • 1990: Received National Merit scholarship for S.S.C. Examination
    Student's Award:
    • 2015: Under my supervision students (Vishal Varshney-Team Leader, Krishna Kant Garg, Amolak Singh, Gaurav Ghosh) received 4th rank in the e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC)-2015, sponsored by MHRD through the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT) and  held by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay

     

    Honours & Awards

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

     

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    Awards

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

     

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    Achievements

    Awards and Honours

    S.No.

    Honours/Awards

    Year

    1.

    Invited as the only researcher from University of Minnesota at Michigan Data Science Symposium, University of Michigan, USA

    2019

    2.

    Recipient of NVIDIA Academic GPU grant for applying deep learning in Hydrology

    2018

    3.

    Awarded “Best Paper Award at International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE-2018), Amity University, Uttar Pradesh 

    2018

    4.

    Awarded “Best Paper Award of ICWRCOE’15” at International Conference on Water resources, coastal and Ocean Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

    2015

     

    International Collaborations

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

    Other accomplishments

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

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


     

     

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    Awards and Honors

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

     

    Awards
    1. Best paper award for "Liquefaction Screening Criteria For Earth Dams." by Ravi kant Mittal, Gaurav Tyagi and Gourav Gill, presented at International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering and Sustainable Construction-ACESC'16, 30 March – 1 April 2016, organised by Department of Civil Engineering, SRM University, Chennai, India
     
    2.Second Prize in Best Paper Prizes for our Paper titled “Experimental Study on Waste Tire Chips-Reinforced Sand using Cyclic Plate Load Test” by S. Rawat, Ravi Kant Mittal and A. Satapathy presented at Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020. Awarded was sponsored by Springer Nature and given a gift voucher for the EUR 100 (one hundred Euros) as a felicitation for winning an award in the category Developments in Ground Improvement at Indian Geotechnical Conference, 17-19 December, 2020 at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. 

    Awards & Accolades

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

    International Visits

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

     

     

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    Awards and Honors

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

    Awards

    Sl. No

    Name of Award

    Awarding Agency

    Year

    1

    NAWA-ULAM Fellowship

    The Polish National Agency For Academic Exchange

    2022

    2

    SERB-POWER Fellowship

    SERB

    2021

    3

    Indian Scientists Abroad Under Bilateral Exchange Programme

    Indian National Science Academy (INSA)

    2017

    4

    Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA)

    BITS-Pilani

    2015

    5

    Visiting Scientist Fellowship

    Indian National Science Academy (INSA)

    2013-14


     

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    Grants Awarded

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

     

    Achievements

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

     

     

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    Awards & Fellowships

    2013

    Raman Post-doctoral Fellowship (previously known as 'Singh Obama' fellowship' tenable in USA for 2013 under India-US 21st century knowledge initiative.

    2013

    (March 14-20)

    Visiting Fellow in Department of Botany and Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India

    2011

    DST (Government of India) Travel Award for attending International Conference Abroad.

    2009

    Awarded DST Young Scientist Fellowship Project by DST, New Delhi under SERC Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientist.

    2006

    Awarded DBT Postdoctoral Fellowship by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India), (July 2, 2006 to July24, 2007).

    2006

    K. C Bose Young Scientist Award (Gold Medal) at a national symposium.

    2003

    Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2006).

    2001

    Research Assistant funded by Council of Science and Technology, UP in School of Biotechnology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (Jan 10, 2001 to Jan 9, 2003).

    2000

    Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test of Engineering (GATE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology.


     

    Awards and Recognition

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

     

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


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


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


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


    Awards/Fellowships

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

    Awards and honors

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

    Administrative Responsibilities

    Current Position:

    Coordinator, Global Sanitation Graduate School (From September, 2019).

    Member, WILP & Industry Connect, Project Lakshya (From October, 2018)

    Past Positions:

    Nucleus Member, Instruction Division (August, 2009 to December, 2012).

    Member, Curriculum Bench marking for MSc Bio Sc, BE Biotech & ME Biotech programs (March, 2010).

    Faculty Member, Academic Counseling Cell (August, 2010).

    Member, Curriculum Restructuring: Ecology & Environmental Science and Plant Physiology (July, 2011).

    Member, Departmental Research Committee, Dept. of Biological Sciences (July, 2011 to February, 2013).

    Program Coordinator, National Service Scheme (February, 2011 to September, 2012).

    In-charge, Timetable, Instruction Division (August, 2011 to September, 2012).

    Convener, Prof. V. S. Rao Prize for Innovation in Education (December, 2011).

    In-charge, Course Management System (January 2012 to December, 2012).

    Campus Coordinator, French courses, Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad (February, 2012 to September, 2012).

    Invited Faculty Member, Student Faculty Committee (March, 2012).

    Process Owner, Learning Management System, Enterprise Resource Planning (May, 2012).

    Lead Faculty Innovator, Centre for Innovation (August, 2012 to February, 2015).

    Faculty In-charge, Placement Unit (September, 2012 to February, 2014).

    In-charge, Student Feedback & Monitoring, Instruction Division (September, 2012 to December, 2012).

    Faculty In-charge, Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (June, 2013 to February, 2015).

    Leader, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Mission 2015 (June, 2013 to March, 2016).

    Associate Dean, International Programmes and Collaboration Division (January, 2014 to July, 2018).

    Convener, Departmental Committee for Academics (November, 2016 to October, 2018).

    Campus Coordinator, Project Management Office, Project Lakshya (August, 2017 to December, 2017).

    Member, Departmental Research Committee (September, 2019 to November, 2020)

    Associate Dean, Practice School Division (July, 2018 to September, 2021).

    Other Positions: 

    President, Tamil Sangam, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2010).

    In-charge, Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences (October 2011).

    Faculty Member, URJA, (November 2011).

    Committee Member, Steering Committee Meeting & visit of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh (December 2011).

    Transport Coordinator, Chancellor’s Visit (December 2011).

    Member, Committee for mid semester test pattern (March 2012).

    Coordinator, Transportation & Stay Arrangements, Convocation Committee (May 2012).

    Coordinator, Workshop for researchers in infectious diseases from Canada and India. (June 2012).

    In-charge, Pre-Convocation Events (August 2012).

    Coordinator, Transportation & Stay Arrangements, Alumni Advisory Committee (August 2012).

    Event In-charge, Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati, (August 2012 & January 2013).

    Coordinator, Jeevan Vidya Introductory Talk by Prof. Rajeev Singhal (November 2012).

    Coordinator, Farewell for outgoing students (November 2012).

    Member, UGC Innovation Project proposal submission team (February 2013).

    Event In-charge, Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati, (August 2012 & January 2013).

    Member, Quality Assessment & Assurance, Mission 2015 Workshop (March 2013).

    Coordinator, Convocation Documentation Sub Committee, Convocation 2013 (May 2013).

    Coordinator, Convocation Documentation Sub Committee, Convocation 2014 ( June 2014).


     

     

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    Awards and Honours

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

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

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

    4.  State merit scholarship 1980-82.

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

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

    7.  CSIR Research Associateship Award 1994.

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

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


    Awards and Honors (Selected) 

     
     
     
    30. Honorary Mention-Inspirational Teaching Award -2023 by TLC, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus. On the basis of voting of students and faculty colleagues.
     
    29. NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-2022 awarded by The National Academy of Science-India- one of the oldest academies of the country.
     
    28. Selected as the constituent Member of the reputed Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS)-2023 for the period of five years and will serve Academy from 2023 to 2028. INYAS is the part of INSA-Indian National Science Academy-one of the four national science academies.
     
    27. Eminent Educationist Award-2022- Nov. 2022.
     
    26. Educationist Award and Certificate of Excellence by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, non-profit society, registered under MCA, Govt. of India for the outstanding contribution in the field of education and research on July, 2022. 
     
    25. Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar, Bharat Gaurav Puraskar and Certificate of Excellence by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, non-profit society, registered under MCA, Govt. of India for the outstanding contribution in the field of education and research on March, 2022. 
     
    24. DBT-Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship-2021-2026 awarded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
     
    23. Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Award by the Gov of Switzerland -2016 (not taken).
     
    22. Ranbaxy Award for Young Scientist- 2016 awarded by Ranbaxy Science Foundation.
     
    21. Best Oral Presentation Award, Molecular Biophysics Symposium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India-2015.
     
    20. Indian Institute of Science Research Associateship Award-2016.
     
    19. Indian Institute of Science Research Jnr Research Associateship Award-2015.
     
    18. Young Scientist Travel Grant Award-2015, Department of Science and Technology-Government of India.
     
    17. Indian Institute of Science GARP Travel Grant Award-2015.
     
    16. Special Invitee at First Commonwealth Science Conference organized by Royal Society of London, Bangalore.
     
    15. Selected and participated in Workshop on Translation mentored by Sir VenkatramanRamakrishnan organized by Dept of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, Bangalore and NCBS, TIFR, Bangalore.
     
    14. Teaching Assistant Fellowship for 2 consequent years-2012, 2013 (Given to the top performing PhD student).
     
    13. Council for Scientific Industrial Research- Senior Research Fellowship-2012-2015.
     
    12. Council for Scientific Industrial Research- Junior Research Fellowship-2010-2012.
     
    11. All India Rank- 74th, 99.6 percentile,in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, Dept. of Education, Govt. of India. 
     
    10. Selected for teacher’s workshop at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark-2017.
     
    9. Short Oral Presentation (JAM) Award @ Delhi University.
     
    8. Best Poster Presentation @ Bangalore Biotech Fest. 2010.
     
    7. Prestigious Indian Council of Medical Research fellowship.
     
    6. Indian Institute of Science Scholorship-2010 (All India Rank-3).

    5. Member of DMS, Denmark and FEMS Society, Europe 2017.
     
    4. Permanent Life Member of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI).
     
    3. Selected for DBT Sponsored Workshop on Protein Folding organized by IISc Mathematics Initiative at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore  
     
    2. Nova Nordisk Travel Fund
     
    1. Merit Scholarship-Higher Secondary Studies
     

     


    Achievements

    Awards/ Honours

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

    Additional Qualifications

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

    Reviewer/Editorial Board Membership

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

    Selection Committee/Board Membership

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

    Awards/Recognitions

    1. Best Oral Presenter, in Virtual Global Congress on Sustainability for Growth and Development 18-19 July, 2020 organized by Nilai University Malaysia and Galgotias University, India.
    2. 1st Prize in Tennis-Doubles Match held at Staff Association, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus in 2014.
    3. Second prize for article "How to Teach Easily (Mathematics)?" in a national level competition organised by ANURAGAM (leading publication group of Tamilnadu) in 2011.
    4. Rank among first 20% candidates in UGC-CSIR NET-JRF Examination in 2002 for the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Test-2002.
    5. First prize for "Oral Presentation" and "Quiz Competition" at Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur on "B'Day celebration of Ramanujam (22nd December)" in year 1999 and 2000.
    6. 1st rank in all faculties (Arts/Commerce/Science) in Senior Secondary Examination at S.S. Jain Subodh Sr. Sec. School, Jaipur in 1994.
    7. Merit certificate in Secondary School Examination from Government of India, 1992.

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    Administration

     

    Dean, Engineering Services Division: Jan 2007 - June 2012

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

    Achievements:

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

     

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

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

     

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

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

    As Asst Unit Chief: 2000-2003

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

     

    As Group Leader, Civil Engineering: 1997-2000

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

     

    As Warden: 1996-2003

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

     

    As Group Leader, Engineering Technology: 1994-1997

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

     

    Committee Member

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

    Awards

     

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

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


    Faculty Achievement

    Best Inspirational Teacher Award, Department of Chemistry received from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus on 5th september, 2024.

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

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

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

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

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


    Achievements and Recognitions

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

    AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

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

    Selected Honors and Awards 

     

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

    Awards and Achievements

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

    Achievements

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


    Achievements

    Awards & Scholarships

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

    Research & Travel Grants

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

    Other Awards

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

     

    To be updated soon.


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

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

    Achievements

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

    Awards and Honours

    • ASCE J. James Croes Medal Award (2024) for the paper, “Geotechnical Visualization and Three- Dimensional Geostatistics Modeling of Highly Variable Soils of a Hydraulic Fill Dam,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

    • Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) Award, BITS Pilani, 2021
    • College of Engineering Summer Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
    • Academic Excellence Award in Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
    • Dean of Engineering Scholarship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
    • Certificate of Achievement in Recognition of Being Named to Tau Beta Pi, University of Texas at Arlington, 2018
    • 3rd position in GeoWall Competition, ASCE Geotechnical Frontiers in Orlando, FL, 2017
    • Civil Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Texas at Arlington, 2017
    • STEM Tuition Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2015-2018
    • Academic Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2015
    • Fellowship from MHRD, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2013-2015
    • 2nd Position in Instruo's Open Design Competition, Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur, 2012
    • Certificate of Merit for Securing 100% in Mathematics in Indian School Certificate Examination, 2009

    Achievements, Awards and Fellowships

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

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    Awards, Honours and Recognitions

    AWARDS:

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

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

    HONOURS AND RECOGNITIONS:

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

    Received recognition in the form of an editorial in ACS Omega for reviewing articles for the journal in the year 2017 and 2018. Name as reviewer cited in ACS Omega3, 595 (2018); ACS Omega4, 1700 (2019).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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