Committees
I was the vice-chairman of GATE for three years, 2004-2007, and spent a lot of time there.I was an associate faculty and chairman of NCSI. I used to spend 2-3 per day on committee work from 2004-2014.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Convenor - Department Workshop, 2000-
Convenor - Department Curriculum committee, 2001-2006
Indian Institute of Science
Member - Committee for infrastructure development in the Institute, 1999-2002.
Member - Committee for waste disposal in the Institute, 1999-2002
Joint Secretary - Faculty Association, 2000-2002.
Member - Committee for holidays in the Institute, 2000-2002
Member - Committee for selecting students to ME/MTech programmes from ISRO/NAL etc., 1999-2003
Member - Committee for safety and security in the Institute, 2001-2005
Member - Committee for medical policies in the Institute, 2001-2006
Member - Committee for heritage fund in the Institute, 2002-2006
Chairman - Committee on selecting security agencies, 2003-2004
Member - Committee on voluntary retirement scheme, 2004-2005
Member - Committee on planning of the Institute campus, 2004-2006
Member - Committee for the design of institute web page, 2006
Member - Committee for the change of designation of secretarial staff, 2004-2007
Member - Committee for the selection of library trainees, 2005-
Member - Committee for the selection of trainees for the digital library, 2005-
Member - Committee for the selection of temporary secretarial staff, 2005- 2007
Member - Committee for the disposal of laboratory waste, 2005-
Member - Committee for the evaluation of secretarial staff, 2004- 2007
Member - Committee for the Library, 2004-2007
Member – Committee for the design of vehicle security stickers, 2005-2007
Member – Committee for the design and implementation of RFID access cards, 2005-2007
Member – Committee for the procurement of various spectroscopic equipment, 2006-2010
Member – Committee for quantifying academic excellence, 2006-2009
Member – Committee for computerization of academic records, 2006-2008
Chairman - Library Purchase committee, 2009- 2014
Chairman - Undergraduate committee, 2009-2010
Member - Design of IISc web page, 2010-2013
Member - Undergraduate committee on admissions, 2010-2014
Member - Undergraduate committee on purchase, 2010-2014
Member - Contract and tender management, 2009-2014
National Committees
Project assessment committee (PAC) member for Department of Science and Technology (DST) for the following:
· Chemical Engineering
· Materials, Mining Engineering
· Swarnajayanthi fellowship
· FIST proposals
· Bibliometrics
· National post doctoral fellowship
· Early Career Scientist
· SAIF proposals