Dr. CHAKRAVARTHULA, Kiran

Education

P.G. Diploma in Innovation and Design Thinking, Emeritus Institute of Management, Singapore in collaboration with MIT, Columbia Business School, and Tuck, USA

Ph.D. (Engineering - Engineering Physics), Louisiana Tech University, USA

M.S. (Applied Physics), Louisiana Tech University, USA

M.S. Microsystems Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, USA

M.S. Engineering (Biomedical Engineering), Louisiana Tech University, USA

B.Tech. (Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering), Acharya Nagarjuna University, India

Aug ’19

2012

2010

2007

2006

1999

Keywords

Engineering Ethics, Educational Technologies, Project-Based Learning

Design Thinking and Methods, Education Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Sensors, Home Automation, Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Instrumentation

High Energy Physics, Particle Physics, Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD)

Microsystems, Nanotechnology, MEMS Applications

Protein Engineering, Biochemistry, Biomaterials, Nanobiotechnology

Biomedical Sensors, Biomedical Imaging, Assistive Technologies

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (EIE),

Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology (“VNRVJIET”), India

Since Dec ’12

Subject Taught

Entrepreneurship

Professional Ethics and Human Values

Design Sensitisation

Principles and Applications of Nanotechnology

Micro ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)

Bio-Medical Instrumentation

Green IT

Environmental Studies

Virtual Instrumentation

Electronic Circuit Analysis

Elements of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Laboratory

Sensors and Measurements Laboratory

Pulse and Digital Circuits Laboratory

Electronic Devices and Circuits Laboratory

Electronic Circuit Analysis Laboratory

Technical Seminars (Panellist)

Comprehensive Viva Voce (Panellist)

Year (Branch)

III B.Tech.

(Open Elective for all Branches)

III B.Tech.

(Open Elective for all Branches)

I B.Tech.

(All Branches)

IV B.Tech. (EIE)

IV B.Tech. (EIE)

III B.Tech. (EIE)

III B.Tech. (EIE)

I B.Tech. (EIE)

IV B.Tech. (EIE)

II B.Tech. (EIE)

II B.Tech. (CSE, IT)

II B.Tech. (EIE)

II B.Tech. (EIE)

II B.Tech. (EIE)

II/III B.Tech. (EIE)

IV B.Tech. (EIE)

IV B.Tech. (EIE)

Number of Students

176

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Undergraduate Major (Capstone) Projects Guided

Report Generation and Fault Detection of an Automatic Coil Packaging Machine

Smart Shopping Experience Using Mobile and IoT

Estimating Oxygen Content in Learning Environment

Visual Music for the Hearing Impaired

Adaptive Mentoring System Using Fuzzy Logic

Remote Vocal Communication to Aid Speech-Impaired Persons

Microsoft Kinect®-based Wheelchair Navigation

(2nd prize among 180 entries globally, 2016 IEEE Maker Project)

Measurement of Blood Conductivity and Clotting Time

Head Motion-Controlled Wheelchair Using MEMS Accelerometer

HPLC Troubleshooting and Analysis Range Increment

Intelligent Distance And Mileage Estimation for Automobiles (IDAMEA)

2018–’19

2018–’19

2017–’18

2016–’17

2016–’17

2015–’16

2015–’16

2014–’15

2014–’15

2013–’14

2013–’14

Research Experience

DØ Collaboration, Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory (FNAL/ "Fermilab"), USA

Member

Calorimeter and Muon system monitoring at FNAL during the particle collision experiments

Evaluation, testing, and replacement of electronic components in the Inter-Cryostat Detector (ICD) section of the DØ Detector

Center for Applied Physics Studies, Louisiana Tech University, USA (“LaTech”)

Graduate Research Assistant

High Energy Physics:

Fermilab’s Tevatron Collider is used to accelerate and collide protons and antiprotons very close to the speed of light and analyze the data to understand the universe through particle physics concepts. Louisiana Tech University is a part of the Fermilab’s DØ Collaboration which works with the data recorded by the DØ detector of the Tevatron. All the research responsibilities listed below also amounts to work done as a Member of the DØ Collaboration.

  • Defining a new, triple differential observable to study the transition from soft QCD processes to hard QCD processes
  • Azimuthal angular separation pertaining to collision events with two or more jets is chosen as the differential parameter
  • First measurement of rapidity dependence in studying additional radiation produced in collisions
  • Also measured transverse momentum dependence; previous work noted the dependence but no quantification was made earlier
  • Found that the dijet azimuthal decorrelations decrease with increase in jet transverse momentum and increase with increase in jet rapidity
  • Selecting relevant data for the analysis such that all well-defined regions of the detector are covered, making this study
  • Correcting the data for detector effects using Monte Carlo simulations
  • Results compare well to Next-to-Leading Order theory predictions in central and intermediate jet rapidity regions and when azimuthal separation is not large

Tools used: C++/ROOT programming

Bionanotechnology Laboratory, LaTech

Graduate Research Assistant

Protein engineering: Research was aimed at developing biodegradable wound dressings.

  • Designing and synthesizing RGD-containing, 32-meric polypeptides in solid-phase
  • Layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly of Poly-L-Lysine and Poly-L-Glutamic Acid (PLL-PLGA); LbL assembly of synthetic polypeptides
  • Studying solution-phase peptide synthesis techniques to manufacture PLL and PLGA, properties and applications of RGD- containing peptides, pathology of wounds

Techniques and tools used: Apex 396 Automated Multiple Peptide Synthesizer, LbL assembly, Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM), UV-Vis spectroscopy, Circular Dichroism spectroscopy, protein deconvolution, centrifugation, lyophilization, filtration and dialysis

BioMINDS Laboratory, LaTech

Graduate Research Assistant

Biomedical Sensors/Imaging: Involved in multiple projects in the lab.

  • Designing Fabry-Pérot Micro Interferometer (FPMI) for micromanufacturing with silicon substrate
  • Studied polymeric materials that can serve as transparent, flexible substrates for surface-localizable imaging array
  • Studying surface micromachining and bulk micromachining techniques for manufacture of FPMI array
  • Developing an etchant to selectively etch GeO2-containing silica core material of 0.25-mm thick imaging fibre guide which has F-containing silica cladding
  • LbL assembly of Poly DoDecyl Acrylate and Poly Styrene Sulphonate (PDDA-PSS) on to the etched optical fibre bundle
  • Loading dye-coated nanoparticles on coated optical fibre bundle, to prepare biomedical imaging sensors
  • Designing a holder for the chuck that holds the optical fibre bundle
  • Selective patterning of the imaging fibre guide

Techniques and tools used: Wet etching, LbL assembly, AutoCAD, QCM, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Roughness Surface Tester (RST), sonication, fluorescence microscopy, image processing, MATLAB

2010–’11

Jun ’09–Aug ’09

2008–’12

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2003–’05









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Other Work Experience

STM Journals, India

Editor, Journal of Control and Instrumentation

STM Journals

VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, India

Coordinator, Global Relationships Office (GRO @ VNRVJIET)

Coordination of all international collaboration and creating a global brand image for VNRVJIET

Innovation Activities Coordinator, Institute Innovation Council

Coordination of innovation-related events and hackathons at VNRVJIET

Single Point of Contact (SPoC) for T-Hub

Coordination of innovation activities with the (soon-to-be) Largest Incubator of India, T-Hub

Faculty Mentor (VNRVJIET and VJ Instt. of Mgmt. Teams), TiE Grad 2019–'20

TiE Grad Programme is conducted by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Hyderabad Chapter

Faculty Coordinator, Press & Media Committee

Drafting of English and Telugu Press Reports for all events at VNRVJIET since 2015; Coordinator presently

Team Lead-EIE, Competency Development Centre

Identifying Training Needs for relevant competencies for B.Tech. (EIE) students

Single Point of Contact (SPoC) for J-Hub

Coordination of innovation activities with J-Hub

Single Point of Contact (SPoC) for ELEVEN01, BLOCK 91, and IdeaLabs

Coordination of innovation activities pertaining to Blockchain technology

Founder & Faculty Coordinator, Ecficio

The Institute’s Annual Entrepreneurship Fest

Coordinator (Department-level), Centre for Presencing and Design Thinking

Curriculum Design and Teaching of Design courses for I and III B.Tech. starting Academic Year 2018–’19

Faculty Coordinator, VICASA

City-wide rallies for Vignana Jyothi Initiative for Campaign Against Substance Abuse (VICASA)

Faculty Coordinator (Department-level), Career Vision ApproachTM

Conducting Career Vision Sessions for I year B.Tech. (EIE) students in five components of Career Vision, viz. TED Videos, Inspirational Talks, ED Cell Activities, Skills & Euphoria, VNR Differentiators

Coordinator, Convergence 2k19

Planning and Execution of Convergence 2k19, the Institute's Annual Technical Symposium, with specific responsibilities pertaining to Design, Publicity and Press, Souvenir, and sharing responsibilities on Website Updation

Associate Editor, Vignana Vartha Quarterly News Bulletin

Editorial Board Representative from the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Team Member, Career Vision ApproachTM

Coordinator for “Inspirational Talks”, Feedback Forms and Reports

Faculty Coordinator, Telugu Literary Club Vignana Jyothi Sahithi Vanam

Founding Faculty coordinator of the student activity club to promote Telugu culture and literature

Faculty Coordinator (Department-level), Student Activities

Industrial Tours, Matrixing, Freshers' Day Event and Farewell Event

Coordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

Drafting of the Institute's Quality Manual

Louisiana Tech University, USA

Graduate Assistant, International Student Office

Updating and maintaining international student records and performed other miscellaneous office work; proactively designed and maintained the Office website (2005–’11); also proactively designed and maintained the websites for the Association of Indian Students (2000–’02, 2009–’11) and the International Student Association (2005)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry

Teaching and Supervision of laboratory experiments for UG students in two different laboratory courses in Inorganic Chemistry

Graduate Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering

Design and maintenance of websites for the Department of Civil Engineering

Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), India

Project Trainee, Components Group

Project work on CAD design of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) and manufacturing process of double-sided and multi-layered PCB


Since 2015



Since 2019


Since 2019


Since 2019


Since 2019


Since 2019


Since 2019


Since 2018


Since 2018


Since 2018


Since 2018


Since 2017


Since 2017


Jul ’17


Since 2016



Aug.–Sep. 2019


2013–’18


2013–’16


2013–’15



2013–’14


May ’13–Nov ’13



Jul ’05–Nov ’05

2003–’04

Mar ’00–Aug ’00



Jun ’97

Publications, Talks, Presentations, and Posters

Books

  • K. Chakravarthula, “Study of Jet Transverse Momentum and Jet Rapidity Dependence of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations with the DØ Detector” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Louisiana Tech University), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing (ISBN: 9781267765338) (Citations as of October 2019: 1)

International Journal Publications

  • The DØ Collaboration (Primary authors: K. Chakravarthula, M. Wobisch), “Measurement of the Combined Rapidity and pT Dependence of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations in p̅p collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV”, Physics Letters B 721:212–219

(DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.03.029; 2018 Impact Factor: 4.162; Citations as of October 2019: 29)

  • M. Wobisch, K. Chakravarthula, R. Dhullipudi, L. Sawyer, M. Tamsett, “A New Quantity for Studies of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations”, Journal of High Energy Physics 2013:172

(DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)172; 2018 Impact Factor: 5.833; Citations as of October 2019: 15)

  • D.T. Haynie, S. Balkundi, N. Palath, K. Chakravarthula, K. Dave, “Polypeptide Multilayer Films: Role of Molecular Structure and Charge”, Langmuir 20(11):4540–4547

(DOI: 10.1021/la036330p; 2018 Impact Factor: 3.683; Citations as of October 2019: 99)

International Conference Posters

  • Dr. Kiran Chakravarthula, Manjula Sri Rayudu, Sandhya Kode, “POGIL for Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering”, 13th Annual POGIL National Meeting, St. Louis, MO, USA, May 30–June02 2015 (2015)
  • Sandhya Kode, Jyotsna Cherukuri, C. Kiran, Clif Kussmaul, “Enhancing Engineering Education through POGIL and Learning by Doing”, 11th Annual POGIL National Meeting, St. Louis, MO, USA, June 01–04 2013 (2013)
  • Balkundi, S.; Chakravarthula, K.; Palath, N.; Dave, K.; Haynie, D.T., “Insight into Polypeptide LbL Assembly Using Model Peptides Poly-L-Lysine and Poly-L-Glutamic Acid”, (4th Annual) Louisiana Materials Research and Development Conference, Lafayette, LA, 2nd place in MS-level Poster Competition ($300), Nov. 04–05 (2003)

International Conference Talks/Abstracts

  • Kiran Chakravarthula, “Measurement of the Rapidity Dependence of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations and Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant”, American Physical Society April Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, Vol. 57, Issue No. 3
  • Kiran Chakravarthula (Presenter), Markus Wobisch, “Triple Differential Measurement of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations”, DØ Winter Physics Workshop, FNAL, Batavia, IL, USA
  • Kiran Chakravarthula (Presenter), “Measurement of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV”, American Physical Society April Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, Vol. 56, Issue No. 4
  • Kiran Chakravarthula (Presenter), Markus Wobisch, “Jet Transverse Momentum and Jet Rapidity Dependence of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations”, DØ Collaboration Meeting, FNAL, Batavia, IL, USA
  • Kiran Chakravarthula (Presenter), Markus Wobisch, “A New Observable to Study Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations”, DØ Collaboration Meeting, FNAL, Batavia, IL, USA

National Conferences/ Seminar Talks/ Publications

  • Kiran Chakravarthula, Dhananjaya Naidu Challa, “Gaps in Education in India and Approaches to address through Technological Interventions”, Proceedings of the National Seminar on Setting Technological Standards and Strategy for Higher Education, Feb. 01–02, 2018, Christ University, Bengaluru, India
  • Kiran Chakravarthula, “IoT and Ethics”, Refresher Course on Internet of Things, Dec. 03–22, 2018, JNTU, Hyderabad, India (Invited Talk)
  • Kiran Chakravarthula, “LASER: In a Nutshell”, National Seminar on Laser Technology and Its Applications, Nov. 29–30, 2017, VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, India (Invited Talk)
  • Kiran Chakravarthula, “IoT and Ethics”, Refresher Course on Internet of Things, Oct. 09–30, 2017, JNTU, Hyderabad, India (Invited Talk)


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Technical Expertise

Micromanufacturing: System Design, Finite Element Modelling/ Analysis, Mask Design, Photolithography, Dry/ Wet Etching

Bionanotechnology: Layer-by-Layer (LbL) Self-assembly, Polypeptide Design, Solution-Phase/ Solid- Phase Peptide Synthesis

Instrumentation: Fluorescence Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Spectroscopy, Oscilloscopy, Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCD)

Engineering Design: Multisim, LabVIEW, Solid Edge, CoventorWare, AutoCAD, MathCAD, OrCAD, ANSYS

Design Thinking: Human-Centered Design, System Inventive Thinking, Reverse Innovation

Programming: C/C++, Java, BASIC, MATLAB, Arduino Programming

Web Technologies: JSF, HTML, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, XML

Others: Microsoft Office, Open Office, LaTeX

Memberships and Affiliations

International Association of Engineers (IAENG)

Life Member

Instrument Society Of India (ISOI)

Life Member

Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)

Life Member

American Physical Society (APS)

Student Member

Association of Indian Students (AIS), LaTech

Founding Vice President (2000); President (2001); e-Coordinator (2004–’05); Special Officer (2005–’06); General Secretary (2009–’10); Active Volunteer (2000–’10); Compiling Author for the comprehensive student guide to aid Indian students going to the USA with specific emphasis on LaTech, "An Indian Student Guide to Tech" (2005–’12)

International Student Association (ISA), LaTech

President

Since 2019

Since 2013


Since 2013


2008–’12


2000–’10




2003–’04


Researcher Profiles

  • ORCiD: orcid.org/0000-0002-0859-0485
  • SCOPUS ID: 6504819748
  • Web of Science ResearcherID: Q-3470-2016
  • Academia.edu: https://vnrvjiet.academia.edu/KiranChakravarthula
  • ResearchGate.net: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kiran_Chakravarthula
  • Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=reTNQp8AAAAJ
  • Microsoft Academic: https://academic.microsoft.com/#/profile/KiranChakravarthula

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