IISc ChemE Symposium and Alumni Meet 2023

Speakers

Keynote Speaker: Prof Ashutosh Sharma

Ashutosh Sharma is an Institute Chair Professor and CV Seshadri Chair Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has also taken over as the President of the Indian National Science Academy. He is the founding Coordinator of DST Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication and Chairman of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is best known for his pioneering research work in the areas of colloids, thin film, interfaces, adhesion, patterning and in the fabrication and application of self-assembled nano-structures.

Plenary Speaker I: Prof. Guruswamy Kumaraswamy

Professor Guruswamy (Guru) Kumaraswamy is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Guru’s research interests are in the area of structure-property relations in polymers and nanocomposites, waste valorization, and sustainable materials. Guru is primarily an experimentalist and his group uses tools such as rheology and small angle X-ray and neutron scattering to probe materials microstructure.

Plenary Speaker II: Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy is an institute chair professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras and a core member of the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI. He is currently the dean of global engagement, IIT Madras. His research interests are in the areas of data science, ML and AI and he has been working in these areas for nearly 30 years.

Invited Speaker: Prof. Indranil Saha Dalal

Prof Indranil Saha Dalal completed his M.E., in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005 and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2013. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Kanpur. His research aims at a multi-scale analysis of the dynamics occurring at different length scales and their interplay with any imposed flow on the system.

https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/isd.htm

Invited Speaker: Prof. Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya

Prof. Rajdip Bandyopadhaya completed his M.E. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2000. Currently, he is a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay. His research interest primarily revolves around the comprehensive study of Nanoparticles, Mesoporous Materials, Nanocomposites, Smart and Switchable Surfaces, and Aerosol Science.

https://www.che.iitb.ac.in/faculty/rajdip-bandyopadhyaya

Invited Speaker: Prof. Anugrah Singh

Anugrah Singh is currently a professor in the department of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He completed PhD from IISc in the year 2000 under the guidance of Prof. Prabhu Nott. Prior to joining IIT Guwahati in 2004 he worked at Fluent India (now Ansys) as CFD engineer and post-doctoral fellow at Technion (Israel). His research interest are in the field of Multiphase Flow, Flow through Porous Media and Rheology of Complex Fluids.

https://iitg.ac.in/chemeng/faculty_profile.php?name=ans

Invited Speaker: Dr. L Srinivasa Mohan

Dr. Srinivas Mohan completed his M.E. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2000. Currently, he is working as a distinguished engineer at ANSYS. His professional interest lies in using machine learning as a framework to create models that help to reduce the physical testing of products with Virtual Validation, predict the need for maintenance with Digital Twins, and ensure testing data informs the design of next-generation products.

https://in.linkedin.com/in/srinivasamohan

Invited Speaker: Dr. Mahendra Nandawar

Dr. Mahendra Nandawar completed his M.E. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2015. He is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Insitute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. His research interest primarily revolves around the comprehensive study Energy (Redox Flow Batteries, Static Batteries, Supercapacitors, Photovoltaic Cells, Fuel Cell), Water (Capacitive De-Ionization, Selective Ion Recovery/Removal), Hydrogen (Electrochemical Generation and Utilization) and Modeling and simulation (CFD, Population Balance Modeling)

https://chemical.iitism.ac.in/chem_faculty_detailsA

Invited Speaker: Prof. Sunil Thamida

Dr. Sunil Kumar Thamida is currently working as an Associate Professor & Head in Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati. He is a Ph.D holder in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has completed his M.E. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He has 5 years of Industrial R&D experience (Unilever & General Motors R&D) and 14 years of Teaching & Research experience (RVRJCCE, NIT-Warangal & IIT Tirupati). His Research experience is in Transport Phenomena, Microfluidics, Corrosion simulations & Process scale-up, and he has guided 4 PhD scholars and 8 M.Tech student research projects to completion. He has authored a book on Transport Phenomena: Chemical Processes and published more than 25 articles in international peer reviewed journals. He is recipient of an award of excellence titled M P Chary Memorial Medal Award from Indian Institute for Chemical Engineers (IIChE).

https://iittp.ac.in/people/faculty/chemical-engineering-department

Invited Speaker: Dr. Girish Muralidharan

Dr. Girish Muralidharan completed his M.E. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2013. Currently, he is working as Senior Research Scientist in Unilever.

https://in.linkedin.com/in/girish-muralidharan-43564813

Invited Speaker: Prof V Shankar

V. Shankar is currently the Mrs. and Mr. Gian Singh Bindra Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He obtained his B. Tech in Electrochemical engineering from CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi, and his M. E and Ph. D in Chemical Engineering from IISc Bangalore. After a post-doctoral stint at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, he joined IIT Kanpur in July 2002. His research interests are in the areas of laminar-turbulent transition in viscoelastic flows and in flow past deformable surfaces. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award of IIT Kanpur, and is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.

https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/vs.htm

Invited Speaker: Dr. Aarthi Thyagarajan

Aarthi is a strategy and digital innovation leader in the energy industry at Shell, focusing on energy transition. She is passionately leading the open source program, commercial digital ventures program, and building new business models that are native to digital R&D and operations at Shell. Under her leadership, Shell open sourced the "Real-Time Data Ingestion Platform (RTDIP)" via the Linux Foundation Energy (LFE) in 2022. Aarthi is leading the effective technology partnerships with other companies such as C3.ai, Kongsberg, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, Baker Hughes, etc and she manages the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI) globally within Shell. She also co-led the Maths, Computational and Data Science skillpool for 3 years since its inception starting 2020 and this has led to strong adoption of digital R&D technical standards and assurance processes by a community of about 400+ people at Shell. Over the past 16 years at Shell, she has held positions in the technology division covering technical, asset operations, strategy, commercial - all within the digital space. Aarthi also has extensive experience in reengineering business processes (eg: digital IP strategy), transforming businesses through technology (eg: creating a digital program virtual corrosion engineer), and leading new transformations (eg: leading the development of AI ethics at Shell).

Invited Speaker: Dr. Hari Ganesh

Dr. Hari Ganesh is an Assistant Professor at IIT Gandhinagar. He received his Ph. D. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked under the supervision of Drs. Michael Baldea and Thomas F. Edgar. Following, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University, under the supervision of Dr. Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos. He holds an M. Sc. (Engg.) in chemical engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a B. Tech. in chemical engineering degree from Amrita University, Coimbatore. He is a recipient of the Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowship, Excellence in Research Fellowship at IIT Gandhinagar, and best presentation award at Chemference national conference. He also leads an industry-academia joint consultancy project with a leading steel manufacturer in India.

https://people.iitgn.ac.in/~hariganesh/

Invited Speaker: Prof. Hamsa Priya

M. Hamsa Priya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. She received her B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad and M.E. from IISc Bangalore. She carried out her doctoral research with Prof. Michael Paulaitis at Ohio State University and later worked as a Post doctoral fellow in Dow Chemicals, Pune. Her current research focuses on comprehending biomolecular aggregation and self-assembly for understanding disease pathogenesis, designing drug delivery systems, and enhancing the stability of therapeutics.

Invited Speaker: Prof Rajnish Kumar

Rajnish Kumar is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras. He has more than 10 years of experience in research and teaching. His research interests are in the areas of unconventional energy resources including natural gas hydrates. He has received several awards including the Dr. YBG Varma award for Teaching Excellence in Chemical Engineering, NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award, and Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry [FRSC] in London UK.

Invited Speaker: Dr. L Tulasi Gandikota

Dr. Tulasi Gandikota is a chemical engineer & researcher by training and patent analyst with experience with a passion for technology commercialization by working with deep tech startups. Dr. Tulasi received a ME and PhD from IISc Bangalore and holds a PG Diploma in IP Law from National Law School of India. She has held various leadership roles in IP analysis and analytics. Currently, she is the CEO of Technology Business Incubator (TBI) at CeNSE, IISc.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tulasi-gandikota/

Invited Speaker: Dr. Sivaramakrishna Perala

Siva Perala is a scientist at Unilever R&D Bangalore. He earned his B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering Anantapur, and M.E. & PhD from IISc, Bangalore. He was awarded the Kuloor Memorial Medal for Best Thesis and the Shah-Schulman Award for his doctoral work. He worked as a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. His current research interests include new product development, process Intensification/scale-up, systems modelling, etc., toward innovation of a range of sustainable products with a complex rheology.

Invited Speaker: Mr. Amit Saxena

Amit is Principal Partner in TCS Purpose Institute and drives Health & Well-being Purpose programs with customers and partners. He also heads TCS Genomics & Personalized Medicine strategic initiatives. He pioneered TCS’ first DNA Sequencing Lab in Delhi which now forms the core of TCS business as well as research initiatives. He has spearheaded several innovation initiatives, such as setting up translational cancer research center in collaboration with TMC to disrupt cancer care, validating microbiome-based markers for early detection of diseases, incubating solutions for lab of the future & knowledge driven convergence of process development and manufacturing etc.

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