2024-2025
August 2025: The CARES group had a very productive month!
Saumya was awarded the Late Shri Girish Vishnuprasad Desai Award for Academic Excellence in the Integrated MSc-PhD program category.
Pranav won the Institute Silver Medal for his excellent academic performance throughout the Dual Degree program.
Pranav, Rishika, and Tharun were awarded their BTech-MTech degrees.
Ravinder, Pranjal, and Srinidhi attended the Healthy Buildings 2025 conference in Hyderabad, where IITB and BITS Hyderabad organized a round table discussion on IAQ in institutional environments.
Srinidhi also attended the Indian Clean Air Summit 2025 in Bangalore.
June 2025: Pranav, Rishika, and Tharun successfully defended their Dual Degree thesis. Congratulations!
Ravinder and Srinidhi showcased ongoing indoor air quality work in the Industry Day on Indoor Air Quality Management at IIT Bombay. Srinidhi's talk is posted here. Do look for a preview of our ongoing work!
May 2025: Saumya Yadav was awarded the Late Shri Girish Vishnuprasad Desai Award for Academic Excellence in the Integrated MSc-PhD program category.
April 2025: Srinidhi and Pavitra collaborators presented a series of talks and a panel discussion on choices and implementation of air quality modelling tools to advance clean air goals for India in Delhi.
January 2025: Srinidhi presented a seminar on the wicked problem of nitrogen management at CSTEP, Bangalore.
May-June 2024: Srinidhi spent 6 weeks as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California Berkeley with Professor Joshua Apte's group as a part of the Pavitra project.
April 2024: Srinidhi was invited to provide research talks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St Louis. She showcased recent research outcomes on reactive nitrogen and dietary impacts on climate change that were developed in the CARES group.
March 2024: Srinidhi was invited as an Expert Speaker by NEERI (Mumbai) to talk about Agriculture and Climate Change.
March 2024: Rishi attended the National Workshop on Improving Air Quality Management through Modelling and Forecasting at IIT Goa.
February 2024: Deepakshi and Saumya gave research presentations at the International Nitrogen Conference in New Delhi.
February 2024: Srinidhi has been appointed to the American Geophysical Union’s GeoHealth Early Career Editorial Board (ECEB).
January 2024: Srinidhi and Deepakshi were invited as Expert speakers at AICTE's Training and Learning Academy (ATAL) sponsored Faculty Development Program organized by Sardar Patel College of Engineering. Deepakshi presented her research at the AGU conference in online mode.
2022-2023
December 2023: The CARES group attended the Indian Aerosol Science and Technology (IASTA) conference in Navi Mumbai. Shilpi, Rishi and Deepakshi presented their research progress.
October 2023: Saumya and Srinidhi attended the South Asian Nitrogen Hub Annual Meeting in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
August 2023: Congratulations to Mahim (Dual Degree), Nandhini and Sumeet (MTech) for successfully graduating from ESED! CARES lab is thankful for their research contributions!
June 2023: Srinidhi attended the ORF-CSTEP organized workshop on reduced complexity models in Bangalore.
March 2023: Deepakshi has received the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship! This fellowship will support her PhD research on reactive nitrogen challenges from agriculture in India.
January 2023: Saumya won the best poster award at the Climate Action Now 2022-2023 segment III workshop organised by the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
December 2022: Srinidhi attended the annual South Asian Nitrogen Hub Annual Meeting in Male, Maldives.