CONFERENCE Organised: 

 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Materials Science and Technology (ICETMT-2025), held on 19-20 June 2025. 

STTP Organised: 

• Organised a Short Term training program on Characterization Techniques and Data Analysis of Functional Materials  from 3rd March 2025 to 7th March 2025.

• Organised a national level STTP (Short Term training program) on Characterization Techniques and Data Analysis of Functional Materials   from 29th Jan 2024 to 2nd Feb 2024.

• Organised a national level STTP (Short Term training program) on Characterization Techniques and Data Analysis of Functional Materials   from 19th -23rd December 2022

• Organised a national level STTP (Short Term training program) on Material Synthesis, Characterization technique, and data analysis tools for research beginner from 25th -30th October 2021. 

• Organised a national level STTP (Short Term training program) on Material Synthesis, Characterization technique, and data analysis tools for research beginner from 20th Novenber -5th December 2020. 

Expert Talk, Guest Lecture & Webinars

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on “Next generations of energy storage devices"  on 12/06/2025. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Ramdas Balan, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, CMRIT, Bengaluru.

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on ““Advanced materials & Sensors: integrated life support system for combat aircraft:innovation in aerospace Technology"  on 26/03/2025. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. J. K. Radhakrishnan, Associate Director, Head Life support systems, DEBEL, DRDO, Bengaluru.

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on ““Electrochemical Sensors: Pioneering New Pathways in Biomolecular analysis"  on 18/12/2024. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Dr. Jyothi C. Abbar, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bengaluru.

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on “Curcumin and gold nanoparticles comprising polymer membranes for wound healing applications"  on 26/09/2024. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Varsha Brahmkhatri, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, CMRIT, Bengaluru.

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on ““Drug Discovery : The art of making medicines” on 06/06/2024. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Gururaj Shivashimpi, CEO-Sudhishubha Chemsynthons, S. P. 183, KSSIDC Industrial Estate, Anekal Taluk, Bangalore

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on “Progress in development of chemosensors for gases”  on 28/03/2024. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Priti Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, CMRIT, Bengaluru.

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on “High temperature Superconductors”  on 08/10/2023. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Tukaram Shet, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, CMRIT, Bengaluru.

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on ““Applications of schiffs base as optical chemical sensors””  on 26/04/2023. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Priti Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, CMRIT, Bengaluru.

• Organised a Hands-On Training Session on  “RF Magnetron Sputtering System” on 12/01/ 2022. The Resource person for the workshop was Mr. Rahul Pllai, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry, CMRIT. 

• Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on “Investigation of intermolecular interaction and structural diversity in Fluorinated organic Compounds"  on 28/11/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Dhananjay Dey, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, CMRIT, Bangalore.

• Conducted an expert talk on " Development of anion sensors using small molecules"  on 28/10/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Priti Gupta, Associate professor, Department of Chemistry and Head CoE-Sensors and Nanoelectronics, CMRIT, Bangalore

• Conducted an expert talk on " Development of Pyrene-Based Chemosensor for Detection of Picric Acid"  on 16/09/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Prabhat Gautam, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, CMRIT, Bangalore.

• Conducted a webinar on ' Advanced Research on Tiny Particles and its Impact on Air Quality"  on 17/08/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr Sreekanth Vakacherla,  Senior Research Scientist, The Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP).

• Conducted an expert talk on " Expert Talk on Bandgap Variations and Photodegradation. Efficiency on Inclusion of SiO2 in TiO2-rGO Nanocomposite for Research on High Performance Photocatalysis"  on 27/07/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Chaitanya Lekshmi , Associate professor, Department of Chemistry CMRIT, Bangalore

• Conducted an expert talk on " Research towards the development of chemosensors for fluoride ion sensing"  on 26/05/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Priti Gupta, Associate professor, Department of Chemistry and Head CoE-Sensors and Nanoelectronics, CMRIT, Bangalore.

• Conducted a webinar on ' Opportunities in Energ/core Technology Sector: How relevant are Engineering Skills in indian and Global context"  on 09/04/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Indranil Rudra,  Manager, Shell Technology Centre, Bangalore.  

• Organised a workshop on PCB design on 9th and 10th March 2022. The Resource person for the workshop was Snehal Jayachander, first-year ECE branch student.  

• Organised a webinar on " Rapid Green Analytical Methodologies for Environmental and Clinical Analysis" on 09/02/2022. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Vinoth Kumar, Associate Professor & Research Faculty, Department of Medicinal and Applied Chemistry & Research Centre for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. 

• Conducted a webinar on "Application of Defect Enriched Anisotropic Nanomaterials towards electrocatalysis" on 27/01/2021. The resource person of webinar was Dr Subrata Mondal, Assi. professor, Department of Chemistry, Dinhata College, Cooch Behar.

• Organized a webinar on "Nanomaterials based gas sensors" on Nov 17th, 2021 by Dr. sandip paul choudhury, Asst Prof, NIT Nagaland, Dimapur. 

• Rahul pillai attended research methodology workshop organised by VTU from Jan 12- 26, 2020 

• Organized Computational workshop on “Modelling & Simulation of Multiscale systems” at CMRIT during July 2015.

• Organized National Conference on “Scope of Advanced Materials in Energy and Environment-SAMEE 2013” at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore held during August 2013.