MoU
CoE–Materials and Sensors, Department of Chemistry, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Minimines Cleantech Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru on Jan, 2026.
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 9th March 2026 to 13th March 2026.
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 “Azane : From Fertilizer to Fuel - The versatile molecule of the future" on 14/03/2026. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Sanjiv P Maradur, Associate Professor & HoD, Department of Material Science and Catalysis, PPISR, Bengaluru.
Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on “Innovation in Electrochemical Energy Storage: From Fundamentals to Functional Materials" on 17/12/2025. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Debashish Ghosh, Associate Professor, Centre for Nano and Materials Science, Jain University, Bangalore..
Conducted an expert talk on Expert talk on "Unlocking the Quantum Advantage: Next-Generation Sensing Technologies" on 11/09/2025. The resource person of the webinar was Dr. Tribikram Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
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 " 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.