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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Annual Report 2014-15

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 Contents FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK ACADEMICS INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES FACULTY ACTIVITIES STUDENT ACTIVITIES STAFF ACTIVITIES EXTERNAL RELATIONS SUPPORT FOR The Institute ORGANISATION VISION, MISSION AND VALUES Contents PG 8 | FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK Short Courses Invited Lectures PG 12 | ACADEMICS Continuing Education Programmes Programmes Offered (2014-15) Distinguished Visitors • Undergraduate/ Postgraduate Distinguished Honorary Professors • Doctoral Guest Professors Developments at IITGN • Globalisation of IITGN'S Curriculum Wins PG 48 | INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES World Education Award 2014 Permanent Campus Development • HRD Minister’s Visit Selection of Architects • IITGN Director Reappointed Computer Center • BOG approves two new Centres Research Facilities • Peer Review of IITGN • Molecular and Cellular Biology Facility (MCBF) • IITGN’S Construction Workers’ Welfare • Computational Nanoelectronics Laboratory Programme Wins National HUDCO Award • Friction Stir Welding (FSW) • Internationalisation: Collaborative Courses • Hearing Protector Test Module • Curriculum Partnerships • High Performance Computing (HPC) Lab Activities at IITGN • Fuel Cell Research Laboratory • Third Convocation • Renewable Energy Laboratory • Academic Advisory Council Meeting • Waste Water Treatment Laboratory • Leadership Conclave • The Archaeological Sciences Centre (ASC) • International Conference on Safety • Indian Regional Navigation Satellites System • Design for a Billion Conference Receiver • Foundation Programme 2014 • Virtual Reality Motion Capture System • India Ki Khoj: An Inter-Institutional • SysIDEA Lab Interaction • Colloids Engineering Laboratory • India at ISCTE, Lisbon Laboratory Facilities • CE and MSE Curriculum Meetings • Chemical Engineering • Summer Research Internship 2014 • Chemistry • TEDx IIT Gandhinagar • Civil Engineering • PHASE 2015 • Electrical Engineering • Hindi Diwas @ IITGN • Material Science and Engineering • Swachh Bharat Mission • Mechanical Engineering • Rashtriya Ekta Diwas • Physics • Cancer Awareness Week @ IITGN Library • Good Governance Day Medical Centre • IITGN Essay Competition Physiotherapy Centre • Urdu Poetry Day Care Centre • Piano Concert Scholarships for Students PG 66 | FACULTY ACTIVITIES • Merit-cum-Means Scholarships Sponsored Projects • Gita and Prithwish Goswami Scholarship • Projects Sanctioned during 2014-15 • S C Mehrotra Scholarship • Ongoing Sponsored Projects • Niteen P Sant Scholarship Consulting Projects • Scholarships for Excellence • Projects Sanctioned during 2014-15 IITGN Incubation Centre (IIC) • Ongoing Consulting Projects Conferences/Workshops/Symposia/Seminars Awards and Recognition

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 5 Honorary Work • Halla Bol 15 Academic Lectures by Faculty • 50th Inter-IIT Aquatic Meet Other Faculty Activities • 50th Inter-IIT Sports Meet • Professional Activities • VIBES’14 Publications • Indian College Basketball League • Books • Khelmahakumbh • Book Chapters • Petroleum Cup 2015 • Journal Papers • Annual Sports Awards for Academic Session • Conference Papers 2013-2014 • Posters Presented Other Student Activities • Magazine/Newspaper Articles • ONGC Cambay Visit • Book Reviews • Field Trip • Pre-Prints (E-Print Archives) • Technical Report PG 124 | STAFF ACTIVITIES • Working Papers Other Staff Activities • Other Publications PG 126 | EXTERNAL RELATIONS PG 114 | STUDENT ACTIVITIES USAID Support Co-Curricular Activities Industry Outreach • Campus Placements • Industry Partnership Retreat • Summer Internships 2014 • Industry Open House • Mechanism/Gadget Open House IITGN Teams up with Space Applications Centre (SAC) Extra-Curricular Activities Participation in Vibrant Gujarat • Amalthea"14 India-US Technology Summit and Knowledge Expo • Blithchron"15 Reaching out • IGNITE 1.0 International MoUs • Summer Camp 2014 National MoUs • UDAAN’14 Summer and Winter Internships in 2014 • Jashn • Foreign Institutions • Winter Carnations • Domestic Institutions Special Occasions Class of 2014 Graduates pursuing higher studies • Independence Day Celebrations​ • ​Teacher’s Day Celebrations​ PG 142 | SUPPORT FOR the institute • ​Republic Day Celebrations​ Industry Support • ​Students on Dean’s List Felicitated​ • Major UL Grant for Safety Centre • ​IITGN UG Student Journal Article​ • Ricoh Company, Ltd • ​Spic Macay at IITGN • GMDC Chair • Movie Screenings • Nielsen Grant for Internationalization • Dance Workshops Major New Donors • Hasta-La-Vista • Support by Dr Kiran Patel • Ahmedabad Model United Nation • Support by Dr Prabhakar Goel • Festivals @ IIT Gandhinagar • Narendra Kumar Jain Chair • Shed-6​ List of Donors • Phd​ Fellowships IITGN Foundation appoints Executive Director Awards And Recognition • Cash Award for Research​ PG 152 | ORGANIZATION • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award Board of Governors Student​ Achievements Finance Committee Sports News Building and Works Committee

6 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Senate Standing Committees of the Senate • Senate Academic Performance Evaluation Committee (SAPEC) • Senate Academic Programmes Committee (SAPC) • Senate Scholarships and Prizes Committee (SSPC) • Senate Student Affairs Committee (SSAC) • Senate Library Committee Academic Officials Student Leadership Faculty • Distinguished Honorary Professors • Guest Professors Non-teaching Staff against Regular Positions PhD Scholars • PhD Scholars under IITGN-PRL MoU MTech Students • 2104 Batch • 2013 Batch • 2012 Batch MSc Students • 2014 Batch • 2013 Batch MA Students • 2014 Batch PGDIIT Students • 2014 Batch • 2013 Batch • 2012 Batch BTech Students • 2014 Batch • 2013 Batch • 2012 Batch • 2011 Batch • 2010 Batch • 2009 Batch

PG 192 | VISION, MISSION AND VALUES • Core Features • Principles • Values • Mission • Vision • Goals

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 7 From The director's desk From the Director's Desk

From The director's desk The Institute is seven years old and that is a being widely acknowledged. We received the very short span of time in the life of a university. national award for “Best Practices to Improve the Nevertheless, the Institute has made tremendous Living Environment 2013-14” from the Housing progress during these years and has been and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO). recognised for its vibrancy, its academic ethos and culture, and its energetic faculty, staff and Our relationships with several universities students. overseas are now reaching a high level of maturity. These include our ties with California Institute of The highlights of the last year are as follows: Technology (USA), University of Saskatchewan The construction work at the permanent campus (Canada), Japan Advanced Institute of Science has progressed extremely well and the Institute and Technology (Japan) and with ISCTE-Lisbon expects to start moving to the Palaj in July 2015. University Institute. In fact, the Presidents of the The progress has been more than satisfactory last two universities visited the Institute during considering that the land was handed over to us the year. only in July 2012. It is our belief that the campus will be known for its several innovative features At the time of President Barack Obama's visit to and we hope that it will inspire not just future India in January 2015, a Joint Declaration of Intent students and faculty, but also generations of was signed between USAID and MHRD with the architects, planners and educationists. intention to support a newer IIT (or IITs) in India with the broad aim of intensifying collaborations Our initiatives for the welfare of construction in research and development as well as in workers and their families at the Palaj site are entrepreneurship. IIT Gandhinagar was identified

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 9 as the IIT that would receive initial support. Many visitors to the Institute comment on the Substantial progress has since been made in collaborative culture and vibrancy at the Institute, operationalising this support from the USAID. and the enthusiasm and engagement of faculty, staff and students. All of this would not have IITGN’s strategy for internationalisation was been possible without the extraordinary faith, awarded the World Education Award 2014 at the confidence that the numerous well-wishers, World Education Summit, New Delhi on Aug 8, friends and donors have shown in the Institute 2014. IITGN was declared winner in the category and for the unstinting support that they have of “Global Collaborative Learning” at the annual provided. The Institute is fortunate to have an summit, organized by Elets Technomedia along extremely supportive Board of Governors and the with others. generous support of the Central and the State Governments. Finally, we owe a special word of Our efforts to provide international exposure gratitude to the faculty, staff and students of to the students through internships and VGEC Chandkheda and its Principal Dr Rajul Gajjar participation in conferences are distinctive In for their exemplary hospitality. India, and now the Nielsen Company has started to provide substantial funds to nurture this It has been a great opportunity for all of us to initiative. be associated with the Institute and we take in striving to build a world-class university that will During the year, more than Rs 5 crores in contribute to solving the societal problems. The philanthropic contributions were received by the entire IITGN community is committed to prove Institute. We also signed an MoU for a multi-million itself worthy of the huge resources and the gift to fund a Centre for Sustainable Development confidence that our country has put in us. from Dr Kiran Patel, a cardiologist based in Tampa (Florida). Encouraged by the progress of For me personally, these past few years at IITGN the Institute, the IIT Gandhinagar Foundation in have been most enjoyable. I am grateful to the the US has now recruited Mr Ravi Mistry, a San Board of Governors and the Government of India Francisco based NRI, as a paid Executive Director for giving me the opportunity to continue to lead of the Foundation. This will significantly improve the Institute for another five years. our capacity to raise funds.

Our alumni are doing exceedingly well with many pursuing higher education in top universities Professor Sudhir K Jain worldwide. Several students have taken up Director entrepreneurship. The company GridAnts that was set up by the first-batch of BTech alumni of the Institute is now receiving external funding from reputed US-based venture capitalists. Inspired by their success, many more entrepreneurial ventures are emerging from our students and alumni.

The Institute went through a 2-stage peer- review of all aspects of its functioning. Numerous innovations at the Institute were lauded by the committee which remarked that these “serve as a template for new institutions starting out in any field.”

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 11 ACADEMICS Programmes Offered (2014-15) Developments at IITGN Activities at IITGN Scholarships for Students IITGN INCUBATION CENTRE (IIC) Conferences/Symposia/Workshops/Seminars Short Courses Invited Lectures Continuing Education Programmes Distinguished Visitors Distinguished Honorary Professors Guest Professors PROGRAMMES OFFERED (2014-15) Undergraduate / POSTGRADUATE DOCTORAL BTech / MTech and PGDIIT Ancient and Medieval India Chemical Engineering Biological Engineering Civil Engineering Chemical Engineering Electrical Engineering Chemistry Materials Science and Engineering Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Cognitive Science Computer Science and Engineering MSc Earth Sciences Chemistry Electrical Engineering Cognitive Sciences History Mathematics Language and Literature Physics Materials Science and Engineering Mathematics MA Mechanical Engineering Society and Culture Philosophy Physics Political Science Psychology Social Epidemiology Sociology South Asian Studies

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2014 August 7 - 8, New Delhi GLOBALISATION OF IITGN’S CURRICULUM WINS WORLD EDUCATION AWARD 2014 IIT Gandhinagar was awarded the World Education Award 2014 at the World Education Summit, New Delhi on Aug 8, 2014. IITGN was declared winner in the category of Global Collaborative Learning at the annual summit, which is organized by Elets Technomedia, All India Confederation for Women’s Empowerment through Education (AICWETE), National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). IITGN was recognized for its outstanding performance in globalizing its curriculum, which includes study abroad opportunities for nearly a third of its undergraduate students, engaging a large number of international faculty, collaborative courses and projects with leading international Institutes and participation of international students in its programmes.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 13 HRD MINISTER’S VISIT The Union Minister for Human Resource Development and Chairperson of IIT Council Smt Smriti Zubin Irani visited IITGN on Jun 13, 2014. During her visit she interacted with the academic officials and students, and visited the teaching and research laboratory facilities. Prof Sudhir K Jain briefed the minister about the innovative developments in the Institute. Smt Irani discussed at length, the challenges faced by new IITs and ways to overcome these. IITGN DIRECTOR REAPPOINTED introduce them to the cultures, people, and areas IITGN Director Prof Sudhir K Jain has been of India with which they are not familiar. reappointed for a second five-year term, effective Jun 2014. Prof Jain, an internationally renowned PEER REVIEW OF IITGN scholar in earthquake engineering and professor The External Peer Review of IIT Gandhinagar was of civil engineering at IIT Kanpur, joined IIT carried out on Aug 28-29, 2014 by a peer review Gandhinagar as its first director in June 2009 on committee comprising eminent persons namely, a five-year term. Prof Jain said, "At IITGN, we are Prof G K Mehta, Hon Eminent Scientist, Inter- privileged to have the unique opportunity to build University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi; Prof an institution from the ground up and we have Indira Rajaraman, former professor, IIM Bangalore set ourselves the ambitious task of becoming and member of 13th Finance Commission; Mr one of the world’s leading institutions of higher Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT Technologies Ltd, learning over the next decade. We have recruited New Delhi. At the start, the committee was world-class faculty, developed an exceptionally apprised of the genesis of the Institute and its innovative undergraduate curriculum and built academic and administrative structure by the several distinctive centres and programmes. director and the deans. This was followed by Undoubtedly, the next five years will be as individual presentations outlining the academic enriching and exciting as the last five as we and research activities and achievements of the pursue the goal of global leadership in education." engineering, sciences and HSS disciplines. The committee members also reviewed the laboratory, BOG APPROVES TWO NEW CENTRES library and hostel facilities before finally meeting At its meeting held on Dec 2, 2014, the Board of with undergraduate and graduate students to Governors approved proposals on the creation of hear about their experience of life at IITGN. The a Centre for Cognitive Science and a Centre for peer review exercise was a time for introspection Sustainable Development. The board approved and stock-taking for the Institute. The wide- the creation of the IIT Gandhinagar Innovation ranging and thought-provoking discussions will and Entrepreneurship Centre (IIEC) to support be immensely helpful as IITGN grows in the years incubation and technology commercialization ini- ahead. tiatives. It also approved a proposal for creating the IIT Gandhinagar Explorer's Fellowship, which enables students to undertake travel and

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 IITGN’S CONSTRUCTION WORKERS’ electrical and sanitation facilities. The contractors WELFARE PROGRAMME WINS NATIONAL are required to implement safety measures. A HUDCO AWARD comprehensive group insurance cover is also IIT Gandhinagar’s Construction Workers’ Welfare required for all workers and their supervisory staff. Programme won the National HUDCO Award In addition, regular health camps are organized for Best Practices to Improve the Living for the workers. Environment 2013-14. The award recognizes both institutional commitments to construction workers’ welfare and safety, as well as the efforts of Nyasa, the community volunteer programme of the Institute. The Institute ensures dignified and clean housing conditions for construction workers by including special conditions in all its contracts that make it obligatory for contractors to construct clean, hygienic and well ventilated workers’ housing with adequate water supply,

INTERNATIONALIZATION: COLLABORATIVE COURSES IIT Gandhinagar has collaborated with foreign universities in developing joint courses that en- able cross cultural experiences for students and faculty. Typically in these collaborative courses student and faculty teams are engaged in inten- sive immersion in fieldwork and research. They spend time on both campuses or meet in virtual classrooms through video-conferencing. In the course titlted Disruptive Design for Health, stu- dents from the Calfornia Institute of Technolo- gy, collaborated with IITGN students on several CURRICULUM PARTNERSHIPS teams to design a spill-proof spoon for patients IIT Gandhinagar and ISCTE-Lisbon University of advanced Parkinson’s disease. This innovation Institute, Portugal, have signed an agreement won the Gandhian Technological Innovation under which the master’s degree from IITGN’s Award in Mar 2015. In 2015, student and facul- Cognitive Science programme and ISCTE’s ty teams from IITGN collaborated with the School Complexity Sciences programmes will be offered of the Arts, University of Northampton, UK, on a in partnership and course credits transferred be- course Where Technology Meets the Art, to de- tween the two institutes. velop design interventions in India’s handicraft industries.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 15 ACTIVITIES AT IITGN

THIRD CONVOCATION Medal, Chemical Engineering- BTech (Akshay The third convocation of the Institute was Jain), Electrical Engineering BTech (Shah held on Aug 2, 2014 at which a total of 161 Nisarg Nikhil), Mechanical Engineering BTech students comprising 123 BTech, 36 MTech and (Shashank Agarwal), Outstanding Innovation 2 PhD students were conferred degrees. Mr K (Kotak Yash Prashant), Integrity and Exemplary Venkataramanan, chief executive officer & Human Qualities (Sushrut Pramod Meshram), managing director, Larsen & Toubro was the chief Outstanding Research BTech (Akshay Jain), guest at the event. In his convocation speech Mr Outstanding Research MTech (Rachit Prasad), Venkataramanan reminded the students about Outstanding Research PhD (Sumitava their responsibility in a world where India and Mukherjee), Overall Outstanding Performance China will lead the world. Dr Baldev Raj, chairman in Sports (Suresh Choudhary), Outstanding of IITGN's Board of Governors (BoG) and president Performance in Outdoor Sports (Gavasane Ritu of the International Council of Academies of Milind), Outstanding Performance in Athletics Engineering and Technological Sciences, presided (Suresh Choudhary), Outstanding Performance over the event. The President’s Gold Medal in in Arts and Culture (Bhaskarjyoti Das), Pioneer BTech and MTech programmes were awarded Batch Award for Outstanding Leadership (Katre respectively to Dhwanil Shukla and Ritesh Jain. VibhavVikas), Best Performance in the core courses on Engineering Graphics, Manufacturing Other awards included: Institute Gold Medal, and Workshop Practice (Katre Vibhav Vikas), Chemical Engineering BTech (Pranav Bagaria), Best Performance in core courses of Mathematics Electrical Engineering BTech (Shashank Tyagi), (Shashank Tyagi), Best Performance in core Mechanical Engineering BTech (Dhwanil Shukla), courses in Physics (Aishwarya Agrawal), Best Institute Gold Medal, Chemical Engineering MTech Performance in core courses in Humanities and (Mishra Nidhi S), Electrical Engineering- MTech Social Sciences (Katre Vibhav Vikas), Best (Ritesh Jain), Mechanical Engineering MTech Overall Performance in Humanities and Social (Rachit Prasad). Institute Silver Medal, Chemical Sciences Subjects (Shaliwahan Singh Rathore). Engineering BTech (Pamulapati Sushma Sri), Electrical Engineering BTech (Aishwarya Agrawal), Mechanical Engineering BTech (Shashank Agarwal), Director’s Gold Medal, BTech (Kotak Yash Prashant), Director’s Silver

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING Prasad, former director, IIT Delhi; Prof Indira The 4th Academic Advisory Council meeting was Rajaraman, former professor, IIM Bangalore; Prof held on Jan 5, 2015. This annual event provides the V S Raju, former director, IIT Delhi; Prof Dheeraj Institute strategic inputs and external perspectives Sanghi, IIT Kanpur; Prof Shyam Sunder, Yale on key academic issues. The participants this University, USA; and Prof Satish K Tripathi, State year included Prof Pratim Biswas, Washington University of New York, Buffalo, USA. The agenda University, St Louis, USA; Prof Rajendra Kumar included improving faculty research productivity, Bordia, Clemson University, USA; Prof Nitesh postgraduate students issues connected with Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA; Prof the imminent move to the permanent campus Frederick Coolidge, University of Colorado, and developing strategic relationships with USA; Prof Rosa Maria Perez, ISCTE- Lisbon foreign universities. University Institute, Portugal; Prof Surendra

LEADERSHIP CONCLAVE Dwivedi, Bellsystem24 Inc, USA; Mr Sarthak The 5th Leadership Conclave met on Jan 6, 2015 to Jain, GridAnt Technologies; Shri Sushil Kapoor, guide the Institute its short-term, medium-term, Technical Textiles Business, SRF Ltd; Shri Sanjay and long-term strategic issues. The conclave Lalbhai, Arvind Mills Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad; Shri discussed ideas on fund-raising initiative by the Kamal P Nanavaty, Reliance Industries Limited, Institute, engaging with professional bodies and Mumbai; Shri Hasmukh P Rama, JHM Hotels, Inc, organizations, and creation of a research park Greenville, USA; Prof Akshai Runchal, Analytic at IITGN's permanent campus. The participants & Computational Research Inc, California, USA; included Prof Pratim Biswas, Washington Shri Kushal Chand Sacheti, Galaxy USA Inc and University, St Louis, USA; Prof Nitesh Chawla, Key Items Inc, New York; Shri Maheswar Sahu, University of Notre Dame, USA; Prof Rosa retired additional chief secretary, Industries & Maria Perez, ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Mines, Government of Gujarat; Shri Bhupen Portugal; Prof Surendra Prasad, former director, Shah, technopreneur; Shri Arvind Singhal, IIT Delhi; Prof Indira Rajaraman, former professor, Technopak Advisors Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon; Dr IIM Bangalore; Prof V S Raju, former director, Pramath Raj Sinha, 9.9 Mediaworx Pvt Ltd; Shri IIT Delhi; Prof Dheeraj Sanghi, IIT Kanpur; Prof Ukabhai Solanki, Big Saver Foods Inc, USA; Shri Satish K Tripathi, State University of New York, K Sridhar, Ricoh Innovations Pvt Ltd, Bangalore; Buffalo, USA;Shri Harsh Bhargava, Bankworld Shri Naveen Tewari, InMobi, Bangalore; and Incorporated, USA; Shri Ajai Chowdhry, former Shri A M Tiwari, Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals chairman, HCL Infosystems Ltd; Shri Kamalesh Limited, Vadodara.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 17 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SAFETY FOUNDATION PROGRAMME 2014 The IITGN Safety Centre in association with The Foundation Programme is IITGN’s flagship Underwriters Laboratories Inc. organized the 2nd programme designed for the incoming batch of International Conference on Safety (ICS 2014) first year BTech students. This dynamic immersion from Dec 2-6, 2014. A pre-conference workshop programme nurtures students in a holistic and on Process Safety Education was conducted by engaging manner through workshops, talks Prof Daniel Crowl from Michigan Technological and projects on the themes of creativity, social University. As part of the conference a awareness, leadership and communication, Symposium on Process Safety (SPS 2014) was values and ethics, and sports and physical fitness. also held to commemorate the 30th anniversary The programme was conducted during Jul 21 – Aug of the Bhopal Gas Disaster. A short course on 24, 2014 and was inaugurated by Prof Sanjeev Design and Safety of Structures under Fire Sanghi, member of the Board of Governors, IIT was also conducted by Prof Gaurav Srivastava, Delhi along with IITGN alumni Sarthak Jain, CEO, Prof Dhiman Basu, IITGN; Dr Venkatesh Kodur, GridAnts Technologies and Shrankhla Narya, Michigan State University, USA; and Dr Anthony independent visual artist. The highlight this Abu, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, year was a talk by Mr Kailash Satyarthi, winner Dec 5-6, 2014. The conference was organized by of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. In his talk titled Prof Rajagoplan Srinivasan and Prof Chinmay "Engineers can fight social injustice better: Ghoroi. a personal story", Mr Satyarthi spoke about his efforts to rescue children from the scourge of child labour not just in India, but worldwide. Other talks included Frugal Innovation (Prof Anil Gupta, executive vice chair, National Innovation Foundation), Corporate Leadership (Mr Sanjeev Rangrass, CEO, ITC Agri-Business), Science and Entrepreneurship (Prof Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard University), Gandhian Vision of Civilization (Rajni Bakshi, author and journalist) and Environmental Sustainability (Ms Manju Menon, former Nehru-Fulbright fellow) among DESIGN FOR A BILLION CONFERENCE others. A number of workshops dynamically A three-day international conference titled engaged students and included activities such Design for a Billion was organized from Nov as sketching (Mr Jayanti Naik, noted sculptor, 7-9, 2014 by the Design & Innovation Centre. ceramist and design educator), theater (Mr Nearly 200 designers, researchers, educators, Dakxin Bajrange, award-winning filmmaker, practitioners, and entrepreneurs from across playwright and activist), creating animations the world came together at IITGN to discuss and comics (Prof Shekhar Mukherjee, National the implications and future of design for mass Institute of Design), poetry (Prof Bill Wolak, impact. Speakers at the event included Dr Klaus William Patterson University) and numerous Krippendorff, University of Pennsylvania, USA; other interesting events. The 5-week long Dr Jonas Wolfgang, Institute of Transportation programme ended with in the event Eureka,a Design, Germany; Dr Jean Joseph Boillot, co- cultural program that was coordinated by Mr chairman of the Euro-India Economic & Business Stefan Haves, acclaimed director, creator and Group (EIEBG); Dr Gjoko Muratovski, head, producer of circus, theater and film, and Scholar- Communication Design at AUT, New Zealand, Mr in-Residence at IITGN. The 2014 Foundation Suresh Sethi, vice president, Whirlpool Design Programme was coordinated by Prof Anirban Asia; and Mr Satish Gokhale, founder of Design Dasgupta, Prof Surjeet Kour, Prof Sairam Directions Pvt Ltd. The conference was organized Mallajosyula, Prof Sharmistha Majumdar and by Prof Achal Mehra and Prof Bhaskar Bhatt. Prof Pratik Mutha.

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ongoing partnership and intellectual exchange between the two universities. Faculty members who attended the event included Prof Rosa Marie Perez, Prof Nuno Guimaraes, Prof Jorge Louca, INDIA KI KHOJ: AN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL Prof Jaison Manjaly, Prof Meera Mary Sunny INTERACTION and Prof Srinivas Reddy. It was also attended The third round of India Ki Khoj was held in Dec by UG and PG students Bruno Gaminha, Pedro 2014. It was inaugurated by Padmashree Urvashi Pombo, Hamza Mohd Zubair, Kinley Mehra and Butalia, founder, Zubaan Books (an impint of Kali Anshul Gupta. The event concluded with dance for Women). Ms Butalia shared with students of and music performances by Lajja Sambhavnath, Caltech and IITGN a nuanced overview of women's Srinivas Reddy and Stephen Bull. struggle for empowerment in India, stories of small and big changes, as well as unchanging nature of CE and MSE CURRICULUM MEETINGs patriachy. This was followed by a delightful account Separate brainstorming meetings were organized on conventions of romance in Hindi film songs to finalize the curricula for the four year BTech by Nasreen Munni Kabir. As students of both programs in Civil Engineering and Materials institutions were exposed to various subjects by Science and Engineering. The civil engineering which to understand both continuities and shifts meeting was organized on Nov 22, 2014 in which in a globalizing and aspirational India. Monojit 11 external experts from industry and academia Majumdar shared truth tests and decisions in participated and deliberated on various aspects print media; Zahir JanMohammed spoke on the of the curriculum. The materials science and increasing ghettoisation and invisible lives in India engineering brainstorming meeting with 8 and United States; Shefalee Vasudev provided external experts was held on Dec 10, 2014. Both the lens of fashion to understand tradition and the review meetings identified the coverage of modernity. Besides several lectures, including base programs and made several suggestions those on caste and religion, the students also on possible modes and extent of exposure in learnt of the North Eastern states and their the respective disciplines to facilitate enhanced uneasy relation with mainstream India. Field trips industrial experience of students during the four to heritage sites, the Bhasha centre for tribal years of their study. languages and workshop on Hindustani classical music were other highlights of the program. SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP 2014 The Summer Research Internship Programme INDIA AT ISCTE, Lisbon (SRIP) 2014 was organized during May - Jul at On June 24, 2014 faculty members and students IITGN to foster research activities of students. from IITGN and ISCTE-IUL organized an event The applicants were asked to choose among 68 India at ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal to celebrate the project titles spread across various disciplines

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 19 offered by IITGN faculty. A total of 171 students PHASE 2015 participated in SRIP 2014. Of them 88 were from An Indo-UK Workshop on Photonics for Health, IITGN and 83 from 44 other institutions across Atmosphere, Safety (PHASE 2015) was India. Towards the end of SRIP 2014, a poster organized on Jan 16-17, 2015 to seed discussions session was organized on Jul 11, 2014 to showcase among early-career researchers from the two the research outputs of the summer interns. Prof countries regarding the role that photonics can Gaurav Srivastava, Prof Shanmuganathan play in research and in teaching. It is envisaged Raman and Prof Pranab Mohapatra coordinated that the deliberations will lead to research the event with guidance from Associate Dean collaborations between the participants. The Prof Bhaskar Datta. workshop was attended by academicians, researchers and industrialist from IIT Madras, TEDx IIT GANDHINAGAR IIT Bhubaneshwar, the Physical Research IITGN hosted its firstTEDx IIT Gandhinagar Laboratory, Ahmedabad, the Space Applications on Aug 31, 2014 in collaboration with TED, a Centre, Ahmedabad and Sterlite Technologies, non profit organisation devoted to Ideas worth Aurangabad. Two plenary talks were given by spreading. The event featured seven eminent Prof Walter Johnstone from the University of personalities from diverse domains: Dr Vidyadhar Strathclyde, Glasgow, and by Prof Bishnu Pal Oke, inventor of the 22 shruti harmonium; Harun from the Ecole Mahindra, Hyderabad. A session Robert, India's biggest kids' icon and animation was conducted specifically for students to make film-maker; Khurshed Batliwala, faculty at Art them aware of the huge potential that Photonic of Living and director of WAYE (World Alliance technologies and their importance in the modern for Youth Empowerment); Neeti Kailas, a social world. entrepreneur and winner of the Rolex 2014 Award for Enterprise; Rajat Nagpal, filmmaker HINDI DIWAS @ IITGN and entrepreneur; and Jiten Thukral and Sumir The Institute celebrated Hindi Diwas on Sep 13, Tagra. The event was organized by Akhilesh 2014 to mark the significance of Hindi. Speaking Gotmare, Mudit Rathor, Vaibhav Palkar and at the event, Prof Sudhir K Jain, director, said Vidyanand Wagh. that Hindi serves as a common thread that binds

SWACHH BHARAT MISSION RASHTRIYA EKTA DIWAS In keeping with the nation-wide Swachh Bharat Rashtriya Ekta Diwas was observed on Oct 31, Mission launched on Oct 2, 2014, IITGN organized 2014 to commemorate the birth anniversary of a pledge-taking ceremony and a cleanliness drive Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. On this occasion around in the areas adjoining the campus. Students, faculty 200 students, faculty and staff took a pledge and and staff members participated in the event. participated in the Run for Unity campaign.

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 together the diverse population of the nation. URDU POETRY Students, faculty and staff members actively Mehfil-e-Adab, an evening of participated in a poetry recital event. The event Urdu Poetry, by Ms Hamida Banu also hosted fun and entertaining games including Chopra, University of California, an open challenge of Amir Khusrao's riddles, Berkeley and her students was and Complete the Muhavra in which one half organized at IITGN on Feb 19, of a popular Hindi proverb was given and the 2015. participants had to complete the remaining half. PIANO CONCERT CANCER AWARENESS WEEK @ IITGN A piano and violin concert by internationally IITGN's Centre for biomedical engineering renowned pianist Dr Hao Huang and violinist conducted a week-long programme to create Dr Rachel Vetter Huang both from Scripps basic awareness about cancer. A series of lectures College, Claremont, California, USA better known were delivered by eminent oncologists Dr Usha as The Mei Duo, was held at IITGN on Jan 8, 2015. Bohra and Dr Vishal Choksi, Apollo Hospitals, This was the first live western classical music Ahmedabad, and Dr Arun Shet, St John's Hospital, concert organized at IITGN. The Mei Duo has been Bangalore, Oct 7-12, 2014. The programme was awarded grants for excellence in performance organized by Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran and and scholarship by both the National Endowment Prof Vijay Thiruvenkatam. for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA. Rachel and Hao Huang GOOD GOVERNANCE DAY have performed in such venues as Merkin Hall in Good Governance Day was observed at IITGN on Abraham Goodman House, Coolidge Auditorium Dec 24, 2014. A competition on Use of Technology in the Library of Congress and the National and Innovation in Promoting Good Governance Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D C. was organized to mark the occasion. The winners The Mei Duo concert at IITGN was followed by a were Gaurav Sharma, Anshul Gupta, Yash week long lecture series on aspects of western Pratap Singh and Ashish Kumar Sehra. music such as Jazz and American Chamber Music by Dr Huang and Dr Vetter Huang. During their IITGN ESSAY COMPETITION 10 day visit to IITGN, the Huangs interacted with The IITGN essay competition, announced in Jan several members of the IITGN community in 2014, to describe the journey of IITGN from its formal and informal settings. They wrote about inception till the year 2035 received a total of their memorable visit to IITGN in Scripps College's 44 entries. Of these, 8 entries were selected leading campus newsletter. for the reading session. The authors presented their ideas in short interactive sessions held on Jan 16, 2015. The essay titled We are Infinite by Harsh Gupta, BTech, IITGN, was adjudged as the best essay jointly with the essay titlted Towards light- vision 2035 by Nitesh Pandey, Researcher, IARC Mumbai. The writers received a MacBook Air each.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 21 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS Merit-cum-Means Scholarships awarded to a first year undergraduate student. Merit-cum-Means (MCM) scholarships were This scholarship carries an amount Rs 1500 per awarded to 112 undergraduate and 8 postgrad- month for ten months and tuition fee waiver. uate students of general and OBC categories A student who qualifies for MCM scholarship is during the year 2014-15. These scholarships are eligible for this scholarship. Relan Udit Surendra awarded to meritorious students (a high JEE/JAM is the recipient of this scholarship for the year rank for first year students and CPI greater than 2014-15. 6.5 for senior students), whose parents have lim- ited income (up to Rs 4.5 lakhs per year). An MCM S C Mehrotra Scholarship scholarship carries tuition fee waiver (current val- The S C Mehrotra Scholarship is awarded to a ue Rs 90,000 per year) and Rs 1000 per month second year civil engineering undergraduate for ten months. student for six semesters. A second year civil engineering student who qualifies for MCM In addition to the MCM, tuition fee waivers (Free- scholarship is eligible for this scholarship. The ships) were awarded to 14 undergraduate and 3 value of the scholarship is Rs 1500 per month for postgraduate students who did not qualify for ten months. Vaddineni Srija is the recipient of MCM on merit, but needed financial assistance. All this scholarship for the year 2014-15. students of SC/ST category avail the tuition fee waiver. In addition, 26 undergraduate and 2 post- Niteen P Sant Scholarship graduate students in the SC/ST category whose The Niteen P Sant Scholarship is awarded to sec- parents' income was within the limit prescribed ond year civil engineering and materials science for MCM scholarships were granted the facility and engineering undergraduate students for six for free food in the student mess and Rs 250 per semesters. A second year student who qualifies month for ten months. for MCM scholarship is eligible for this scholarship. The value of the scholarship is Rs 20000 per year Gita and Prithwish Goswami and tuition fee waiver. Anurag Goyal (civil engi- Scholarship neering) is the recipient of this scholarship for the The Gita and Prithwish Goswami Scholarship is year 2014-15.

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Scholarship for Excellence IITGN has instituted several merit scholarships for outstanding performance in academics, sports, art and culture, and social work and leadership. These scholarships are different from the Merit-cum- Means scholarships and are awarded only on the basis of outstanding achievements in the respective fields. The scholarship carries a stipend of Rs 2000 per month for 10 months. Excellence scholarships for the academic year 2014-15 have been awarded as follows: Scholarship for Excellence in Academics Scholarship for Excellence in Arts & Tushti Shah (CPI 9.03), Preet Shah (CPI 9.94), Culture Mishita Jaiswal (CPI 9.94) and Prathmesh The Scholarship for Excellence in Arts & Culture Bhatt (CPI 9.58) from third year batch are the is awarded to upto 2 students for outstanding new recipient of the Scholarship for Excellence performance in cultural and other art festivals as in Academics for the year 2014-15. Among the evidenced at the Inter-IIT cultural meet or similar second year students, Nishit Shetty (CPI 8.69), national events. Shubham Patil is awarded the Kushal Salecha (CPI 9.58) and Radhika Patil (CPI scholarship for Excellence in Art & Culture for the 9.88) are the new recipients of the scholarship. year 2014-15. Rishab Anand (CPI 10.00), Anikesh Kamath (CPI 9.70), Bhargav Chauhan (CPI 9.98) and Prerna Scholarship for Excellence in Social Work Singh (CPI 9.22) are the new recipients of the & Leadership scholarship from first year batch. The Scholarship for Excellence in Social Work and Scholarship for Excellence in Sports Leaderships is awarded to upto 2 students for The Scholarship for Excellence in Sports and outstanding leadership exhibited by the students Games is awarded to upto six students for either in Institutional affairs (including organising outstanding performance in sports and games as events and in discharging responsibilities in evidenced in the Inter IIT sports meet or similar managing students office), or in social work. national events. Parth Sane, Animesh Kumawat Eepsit Tiwari and Akash Keshav Singh are and, Nisha Rawat are awarded scholarship for awarded the scholarship for Excellence in Social excellence in sports for the year 2014-15. Work & Leadership for the year 2014-15.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 23 IITGN INCUBATION CENTRE (IIC) Innovation and Entrepreneurship different companies. International Exposure 12 students from the third and fourth year of In Dec 2014, the Board of Governors (BoG) the BTech programme received exposure to approved the Institute’s IP and incubation policies international entrepreneurship ecosystems designed to provide more transparency in creating during a two-week intensive program on high-value startups and expedite interaction entrepreneurship at Technion Israel Institute with the industry. The BoG also approved the of Technology, Israel. Eepsit Tiwari was a creation of the IIT Gandhinagar Innovation recipient of the Rajeev Motwani Young and Entrepreneurship Centre (IIEC) to support Entrepreneurship Fellowships in summer incubation and technology commercialization 2014, which enabled him to gain exposure to the initiatives. In January 2015, IIT Gandhinagar Silicon Valley ecosystem. received approval to set up an incubator under the Technology Business Incubator (TBI) program Dr Hiran Vedam was part of an international of Department of Science and Technology. The delegation that visited Israel as part of Technion TBI is envisioned to have wet and dry labs and e.Xplore AC program for international scholars rapid prototyping infrastructure (hardware and held from Sep 9-14, 2014. This gave her an software) to support high technology startups. opportunity to interact with entrepreneurship scholars from 13 different countries andAn Incubation Advisory Committee (IAC) understand their entrepreneurship ecosystems. comprising of Dr Madhu Mehta (iCreate), Mr Ms Rachel Shalom from Technion spent time Sushanto Mitra (LeadAngels), Prof Harry in IIT Gandhinagar from Dec 2014-Mar 2015 as a Yuklea (Technion), Dr H K Mittal (NSTEDB-DST) visiting faculty. During her stay she conducted a and Ms Rachael Shalom (Technion) met on Jan short course and coordinated the launch of WinS, 19, 2015 to advise the Institute on the strategy IIT Gandhinagar's program to promote technology and policies for creating sustainable incubation entrepreneurship among women. Prof Harry activities. Yuklea from Technion visited IIT Gandhinagar from Jan 15-24, 2015 to provide his expert advice In March 2015, Mr Anand Pandey joined on developing IIT Gandhinagar's incubation and the Institute as the Assistant Technology entrepreneurship programs. Commercialization Manager. He earlier worked at National S&T Entrepreneurship Development Infrastructure: (Incubation Board, Department of Science and Technology. centre) Mr Pandey has an MTech degree in biotechnology The IIT Gandhinagar Incubation Centre (IIC) is from Uttarakhand Technical University and well connected with the commercialization postgraduate diploma in intellectual property infrastructure in Ahmedabad and has strong rights from the National Law University, Jodhpur. connections with several ecosystem partners and incubators in Ahmedabad, other IITs and Intellectual Property NCL. IIC currently has one non-resident and two In 2014, IIT Gandhinagar filed two patent resident incubatees (TinkerTank and Lumos). applications and one design registration. The The Institute's first incubatee GridAnts recently Institute is actively commercializing these received its first round of external funding. The registered technologies. Institute has introduced a deferred placement policy in Oct 2014 that enables students to Eye Tracker System opt out of placements while they pursue their This technology enables post-stroke therapy entrepreneurial dreams. Nine students from the based on eye-gaze diagnosis and operant graduating batch took the option to start three conditioning with minimal expert intervention.

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 The resulting system reduces the cost of by Lead Angels in Bangalore on Aug 8, 2014. delivering post-stroke care in the comfort of the • Ms Soumya Harish attended a three-day patient’s home. PI: Prof Uttama Lahiri. incubator capacity building workshop on building an incubator for social ventures Multi-parameter Patient from Nov 26-28, 2014. The workshop Monitoring System was organized by Centre for Innovation, This technology enables measuring multiple Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) and physiological parameters of a patient non- Deutsche Gese llschaftfür Internationale invasively using a pulse-plethysmogram sensor Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) at IIM Ahmedabad. and a pressure sensor. It allows the monitoring • Mr Anand Pandey attended a two-day and displaying physiological parameters of a introductory workshop conducted by Venture patient rapidly with minimal discomfort. PI: Prof Centre in Puneon setting up and running an Uttama Lahiri. in-house patent cell. • Dr Hiran Vedam attended TechCircle startup Design: Street Bin 2014 (Mumbai Edition) in Mumbai on Dec 17, This street bin design attempts to overcome 2014. most of the problems associated with dustbins by providing the following features (1) robust single WinS (Women in Startup) - component (2) stable to prevent toppling (3) out An initiative for fostering of reach animals (4) directional to enable ease-of- techno-entrepreneurship use and (5) translucent to enable segregation. PI: skills among women Prof Dinesh Korjan. IIC has launched WinS, a unique program to foster tech-based entrepreneurship skills among women Seminars and Courses: in India by creating an active network of women Courses entrepreneurs, supporters and enthusiasts. The • Entrepreneurship: Talking Sharp by Ms program created an active network of women Rachel Shalom, Technion Israel Institute of professionals, women entrepreneurs (aspiring Technology, Israel, Jan 20- Feb 3, 2015. and inspiring) and others who want to support • Social Entrepreneurship by Mr Ketan creation of such ventures in the Ahmedabad- Deshpande and Mr Santosh Huralikoppi, Gandhinagar area. Eminent speakers to deliver Mar 28-29, 2015. presentations at the group include Ms Rama • Engineering Entrepreneurship that Moondra, successful trainer and coach; Mr focuses on a variety of skills necessary Abhishek Desai, Digicorp, Ms Renu Mittal, for being a successful entrepreneur by Cotton Route and Dr Hiran Vedam, IITGN. Dr Arnab Sarkar and Mr Raj Jaswa, Spring 2015.

Seminars • Research2Rupees seminar was organized in partnership with Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM), Feb 4, 2015. • Prior Art Search seminar was organized by Ms Mita Sheikh, senior associate & patent agent, Krishna and Saurastri Associates, Mar 21, 2015.

Capacity Building: • Ms Mouli Kethineedi attended a one-day workshop for incubation managers conducted

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 25 CONFERENCES/ SYMPOSIA/ WORKSHOPS/ SEMINARS Conferences, symposia, workshops and seminars Voltamp etc., and faculties from engineering on focus themes are vital academic activities that institutions of Gujarat. help stimulate discussions on different areas of importance. Many of these activities invite par- ticipation from other organisations and enhanc- es the Institute's visibility to the outside world. The following activities were organized during 2014-15: • A one-day workshop on Design and Devel- opment of Indoor Remotely Controlled Airships by Prof Rajkumar S Pant, IIT Bom- bay, May 1, 2014. • A one-day workshop on Remote Sensing of • A two-day workshop on Industrial Hazard Dholavira & Environs by Dr M B Rajani, an Identification using HAZOP by Shri G Vish- expert on remote sensing applications to ar- wanathan, former deputy general manager, chaeology, Aug 5, 2014. Indian Petrochemicals Corporation (now RIL), • International workshop on Fire Investiga- Vadodara and Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan, tion, Aug 24, 2014 and international work- IITGN, Oct 11-12, 2014. shop on Enclosure Fire Dynamics, Aug 25, • A workshop on Scarred Nations: Partition 2014 by Dr Björn Karlsson, Director General in the Indian Subcontinent was inaugu- of the Iceland Construction Authority and an rated by Prof Sanjay Palshikar, Hyderabad Associate Professor at the University of Ice- Central University with a talk on Nation and land. nationalism followed by a talk on Witness- • The 8th National Frontiers of Engineering ing Partition by Prof Tarun Saint, Hindu (NatFOE-08) Symposium with “Safety" as College, Nov 7, 2014. its main theme and the four sub-themes in- • A one-day workshop on Foundation of Per- cluding: Earthquake engineering and safety; sonality: When Abhishek Meets Rahul by Process and fire safety; Road safety and Cog- Ms Sarita Shah, psychotherapist and behav- nition and safety was organized during Sep ioral trainer, Nov 15, 2014. 5-6, 2014. Nearly 30 faculty members from • An industry workshop to review the Civil En- institutes, such as IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, IIT gineering curriculum coordinated by Prof Delhi, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Amit Prashant & Prof Dhiman Basu was Bombay, IIT Roorkee, NIT Rourkela, NIT Patna held on Nov 22, 2014. and NIT Surat, shared their ideas and informa- • A one-day workshop on Networking, Nego- tion with eminent engineers. The symposium tiation & Communication by Mr Ulhas Ka- was attended by 75 participants & coordinat- mat, CEO, I-Create India, Nov 30, 2014. ed by Prof Pranab Mohapatra, Prof Dhi- • Rozgar Evam Udhyamitha Vikas Karyakram man Basu, Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan, was organized by NEEV (Nurture & Empower Prof Chinmay Ghoroi, Prof Krishna Prasad, Entrepreneurial Ventures), an IITGN commu- IITGN and Prof Vinod Vasudevan, IIT Kanpur. nity outreach programme and I-Create India, • A three-day workshop on Low-cost High- a non-profit organization; for aspiring entre- Tech Automation was conducted by Prof preneurs from IITGN staff and their family N Ramakrishnan, and Prof Joycee Mekie, members, Dec 5-8, 2014. Sep 25-27, 2014. It was attended by near- • A two-day workshop on Archaeometallurgy ly 53 participants from industries such as and Archaeology was organized by the Ar- DRDO, DRDL, Mahindra & Mahindra, NFC, NIF, chaeological Sciences Centre, IITGN and Ar-

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 chaeological Survey of India (ASI), Dec 8-9, 2014. valedictory lectures were given by eminent • A two-day self-development workshop on historians Dr Upinder Singh and Dr Nayan- Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Taken by Ms jot Lahiri, University of Delhi. Over twenty Meenaskhi Kirtane, psychotherapist and scholars from around the country delivered behavioural trainer, Jan 10-11, 2015. research papers. • A workshop on Adding Sustainability to • Padayatricks, a brainstorming session cen- Engineering Courses by Prof Cliff David- tred on the Pedestrian in the City was orga- son, Syracuse University and Prof Ted Rus- nized by the Safety centre at IIT Gandhinagar sell, Georgia Tech, Jan 14, 2015. on Feb 7, 2015. • The first Indo-UK workshop onPhotonics • A one-day workshop on Variational Anal- for Health, Atmosphere, Safety and Edu- ysis and Optimization by Prof Jagmohan cation (PHASE 2015) Jan 16-17, 2015 saw Tyagi, Mar 2-8, 2015. participation from academicians, research- • Symposium on Mathematical and Compu- ers and industrial persons from India and tational Biology in association with National the UK. The speakers included Prof Walter Network for Mathematical and Computational Johnstone, Dr Michael Lengden and Dr Biology (NNMCB), Pune, Mar 21-22, 2015. Gordon Flockhart from the University of • A workshop of talks titled The Modern, Strathclyde, Glasgow; Prof Bishnu Pal, Ecole the Colonial, and Beyond, hosted by IISER Centrale Mahindra, Hyderabad, Shri Arup Pune and IIT Gandhinagar included talks on Banerjee, Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Zoology for a Colony and the Making of Ahmedabad; Dr Goutam Samanta from PRL India’s Fauna by Dr John Mathew; The Ahmedabad. The event was coordinated by Magic in Magical Realism: Implications Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty. for Fictional Worlds by Dr Pooja Sancheti; • A one-day workshop on Maritime Gujarat and Technologically Crafting Heritage: and the Western Indian Ocean: Cultural The Cultural Politics of Vernacular Music Routes Through Time in collaboration with Documentation in India by Dr Aditi Deo, Project Mausam, featured a keynote address IISER Pune, Mar 27, 2015. by Prof Michael Pearson, University of New South Wales, Australia, Jan 19, 2015. • A one-day workshop on IP Awareness by SHORT COURSES Mr Gouraj Yadav and Mr Ojas Sabnis, Hour- A variety of short courses are offered throughout glass Research, Mumbai, Jan 24, 2015. the year to increase the choice and flexibility of course offerings, as well as to benefit from the ex- pertise of visiting faculty and experts from varied backgrounds who visit the campus for short dura- tions. The following short courses were delivered during 2014-15 by recognized experts in their re- spective fields. • A five-day short course onTensor Mathe- matics in Constitutive Modeling by Prof Gyan Vikash, Shiv Nadar University, Noida, Jul 9-13, 2014. • A short course on Crystallography by Prof T Ramachandran, former faculty at IITKanpur, Aug 11-25, 2014. • A two-day workshop on the History and Ar- • A short course on X-ray Diffraction by Prof T chaeology of Ancient India was organized Ramachandran, former faculty at IIT Kanpur, by the IITGN Archaeological Science Centre Sep 8-18, 2014. during Jan 30-Feb 1, 2015. The inaugural and

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 27 • A short course on Financial Considerations Models by Prof Amit Prashant, IITGN, Jan in Engineering Decisions by Dr Kasivis- 19-23, 2015. vanathan Chelvakumar, president of EPIR • A short course on Entrepreneurship: Technologies, Chicago, Sep 2-11, 2014. Talking Sharp by Ms Rachel Shalom, Tech- • A short course on Displacement-based nion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, Jan Methods in Seismic Design and Assess- 20-Feb 3, 2015. ment by Dr Katrin Beyer, EPF Lausanne, Oct • A short course on Dream Interpretation by 20-24, 2014. Prof Frederick Coolidge, Scholar-in-Resi- • A short course on Development Studies by dence, IITGN, Jan 24-25, 2015. Dr Sandeep Pandey, co-founder of Asha for • A short course on Electron Microscopy by Education, Nov 1-2, 2014. Prof T Ramachandran, formerly with IIT • A two-day short course on The Psychology Kanpur, Jan 28-Feb 10, 2015 of Conservation & Sustainability by Dr Jo- • A short course on Building a Start-up Com- lina Ruckert, University of Washington, Nov pany and Business Plan Presentation by 8-9, 2014. Mr B V Jagadeesh, managing director, KAAJ Ventures, San Francisco, CA, Feb 5-10, 2015. • A short course on Language Contact in South Asia by Dr Hugo C Cardoso, Universi- ty of Lisbon, Feb 14-15, 2015. • A two-day short course on Vector Spaces and Applications by Prof Ravi Banavar, IIT Bombay, Feb 19-20, 2015. • A three-day short course on Transport of Sediments by Prof Pranab Kumar Moha- patra, IITGN, Mar 02-04, 2015. • A two-day short course on Introduction to Computer Networking by Dr Amit Saha, Cisco, Mar 14-15, 2015. • A short course on Geotechnical Investiga- • A short course on Intersections of Law & tions for Structural Engineering by Prof V Technology by Ms Kelly Dhru, Research S Raju, Prof Ajanta Sachan and Prof Amit Foundation for Governance in India (RFGI), Prashant, IITGN, Nov 13-15, 2014. Mar 21-22, 2015 • A short course on Computational Methods • A two-day short course on Social Entre- in Engineering using MATLAB by Prof Ni- preneurship by Mr Ketan Deshpande and tin Padhiyar, IITGN, Dec 17-19, 2014 Mr Santosh Huralikoppi, FUEL, Mar 28-29, • A short course on Applied Digital signal 2015. Processing by Prof Nithin V George, IITGN, Dec 08-12, 2014 • A short course on Fiber-reinforced Polymer INVITED LECTURES Matrix Composite Materials by Prof Ra- The following invited lectures were delivered by jendra Bordia, Clemson University, USA, Jan experts who were invited to the Institute to share 5-16, 2015. their insights in their fields to kindle scholarly in- • A short course on Mechanics in Engineering terest in the students in a diverse range of topics. by Prof Chandrakant Desai, Distinguished • Breaking the tradition- whole crude Scholar-in-Residence, IITGN & Regents Pro- oil fractionation then hydrotreating or fessor Emeritus, University of Arizona, Jan whole crude oil hydrotreating then frac- 6-13, 2015. tionation? by Prof Iqbal M Mujtaba, Univer- • A short course on Soil-Structure Interac- sity of Bradford, UK, April 2, 2014. tion: Computer Applications and Material

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 • Influence of low-level stimulus features • Cyber defense of critical infrastructure on high-level stimulus categorization- systems, by Prof Vittal S Rao, director, behavioral and neural evidence, by Dr Smart Grid Energy Centre, Texas Tech Univer- Bhuvanesh Awasthi, University of Wiscon- sity, July 22, 2014. sin-Madion, USA, April 4, 2014. • A series of lectures on Optimizing pure Nb • Structural engineering design and prac- for particle accelerators; a multifunction- tice: examples and career advice, by Mr al material with many conflicting design John Pao, president, BogdonovPao Associ- constraints; Characterization, analysis, ates Ltd, Vancouver, Canada, April 7, 2014. and simulation of the influence of meso- • Leveraging your knowledge and skills for texture on heterogeneous deformation; success in your professional career, by and Influence of microstructure, crystal Prof Vinay Khanna, visiting faculty at pre- orientations, deformation, and recrys- mier Institutes in India, April 14, 2014. tallization on high temperature metallic • The Pakistan paradox instability and re- material performance, by Prof T R Bieler, silience, by Prof Christophe Jaffrelot, a Michigan State University, USA, July 28-29, French political scientist specializing in South 2014. Asia, April 14, 2014. • On the complexity of some graph/multi- • Water treatment technologies and over graph decomposition problems, by Prof all view on recent advancements in water Shailesh Tipnis, Illinois State University, July treatment, by Dr T N V V Rao, head, Water 31, 2014. Solution, UL, April 15, 2014. • Introduction to probability theory and • Community water treatment technolo- stochastic processes, by Prof Krishna B gies and experience with the existing Athreya, Iowa State University, August 1, plants, by Mr Ravindra Sewak, director, 2014. Safe Water Network, April 15, 2014 • Engineers can fight social injustice better • Education abroad-engineering, privat- - a personal story, by Mr Kailash Satyarthi, ization and the new middle class in neo- internationally acclaimed child right’s activist liberalizing India, by Dr Aalok Khandekar, and pioneer in the fight against child slavery, Maastricht University, Netherlands, April 16, August 4, 2014. 2014. • Small voices sing big songs: music and • BIAcore (SPR) for studying biomolecular the development imaginary in Western interactions, by Dr Annette Person, GE Rajasthan, India, by Dr Shalini Ayyagari, Healthcare Life Science, Sweden, May 19, 2014. an ethnomusicologist who specializes in the • Microcalorimetry: Technology and appli- music of South Asia, August 12, 2014. cations, by Dr Natalia Markova, GE Health- • Picture Abhi Baki Hai, by Prof Rachel Dw- care Life Science, Sweden, May 19, 2014. yer, School of Oriental & African Studies, • How to make teaching more interactive/ London, August 13, 2014. challenging, by raising the level of prob- • The barriers in the search for a cure for lems given in standard textbooks, by Prof cancer: Recent understandings and ad- M K Harbola, IIT Kanpur, July 4, 2014. vances, by Prof Shiladitya Sengupta, Har- • Synchrotron radiation facility at RRCAT, vard Medical School and MIT, August 19, 2014. by Dr Sudip K Deb, former head, Indus Syn- • Nanodevice technology and smarter plan- chrotron Utilization Division, Raja Ramanna et initiatives, by Dr Murali Kota, chief tech- Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), In- nologist, IBM India Semiconductor Research dore, July 7, 2014. and Development Centre, August 22, 2014. • Large and great earthquakes in the sta- • Elementary particles in our Universe and ble continental region of India, by Prof J the search for Higgs boson, by Prof Ra- R Kayal, Institute of Seismological Research, ghavan Rangarajan, PRL Ahmedabad, Au- Gandhinagar, July 10, 2014 gust 29, 2014.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 29 • An entrepreneur's journey of ideas, trials • Basic awareness about cancer, by emi- and success, by Mr Pranit Banthia, founder nent oncologists Dr Usha Bohra, Dr Vishal and CEO, Hi Tech group of companies, Ahmed- Choski, Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad, and Dr abad, August 30, 2014. Arun Shet, St John’s Hospital, Bangalore, Oc- • Capitalizing on the economy of expertise, tober 7-12, 2014. by Dr Rajendra Bera, chief mentor at Acadin- • Learning and deciding from uncertain net Education Services India Pvt Ltd, Banga- data, by Prof R N Singh, CSIR-National Geo- lore, September 3, 2014. physical Research Institute, Hyderabad, Oc- • Emerging revolution in India’s energy sec- tober 10, 2014. tor, by Prof Rajendra Singh, Clemson Uni- • Optical-matter: creating nanomaterials versity, September 3, 2014. with light, by Dr Uttam Manna, The James • Aesthetics and politics: Community and Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Octo- conflict transformation through theatre, ber 27, 2014. by Prof Henry Schwarz, general editor, • Internet freedom: hot-button challeng- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Stud- es, by Dr Nikhil Moro, scholar and teacher of ies, September 4, 2014. digital media law, October 30, 2014. • From IIT to mapping genes by Ms Anu • Application of technology to develop hu- Acharya, CEO, mapmygenome, September 4, man qualities and be a happy achiever, by 2014. Dr Ronak Shodhan, engaged in academic, • Orientation programme on New face of counseling, social and philanthropic services, administration in the IIT system for the October 31, 2014. non-teaching staff of IITGN by Shri D K • Culture and psychology, by Prof Lilavati Ghosh, former registrar, IIT Bombay, Septem- Krishnan, IIT Kanpur, November 7, 2014. ber 6, 2014. • Telling new stories with old bones: under- • Engineering a sustainable future by Prof standing Harappan migration through ar- Nirmal Sethia, California State Polytechnic chaeological bone chemistry, by Mr Benja- University, Pomona, September 11, 2014. min Thomas Valentine, Dartmouth College, • From Dandy to Dandi: Gandhi's journey USA, November 10, 2014. to social justice, by Prof Tara Sethia, Cali- • Risk assessment of petroleum oil storage, fornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona, by Dr Ravi Kumar Sharma, IIT Roorkee, No- September 11, 2014. vember 13, 2014. • Queer movement in India: rights, strug- • Black holes in the universe, by Prof Ran- gles and activism, by Mr Pallav Patankar, jeev Misra, Inter University Centre for As- director, HIV programmes of India's first reg- tronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, No- istered LGBT NGO, The Humsafar Trust, Mum- vember 17, 2014. bai, September 11, 2014. • Energy spectrum of buoyancy-driven tur- • Thought experiments, models and the bulence, by Prof Mahendra K Verma, IIT heuristic power of metaphors in science, Kanpur, December 5, 2014. by Prof Bipin Indurkhya, AGH University • From powders to shapes, components of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, and devices through powder synthesis, September 11, 2014. shape forming and assembly, by Prof • Patterns of life and death: using physics Parag Bhargava, IIT Bombay, December 5, to understand complex dynamics in hu- 2014. man physiology, by Prof Sitabhra Sinha, • Scaling relationships for mechanical be- Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, havior in nanocrystals, by Prof Atul H September 19, 2014. Chokshi, IISc Bangalore, December 12, 2014. • Biogas technology, by Dr Sharad Kale, • Changing role of libraries and librarians: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, experience of Drexel University libraries September 23, 2014. by Mr Jay Bhatt, Drexel University Libraries,

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 USA, December 23, 2014 Claremont, January 15, 2015 • The case for a holistic technical view of • Is India's Northeast a 'different' cultural sustainability and impetus for better de- category?, by Prof Samir Das, University of signs, by Dr Subhas K Sikdar, National Risk Calcutta, January 15, 2015 Management Research Laboratories, Cincin- • Gravitational wave astronomy: opening nati, USA, December 30, 2014 new windows to the universe, by Dr Sanjit • What did the Bayesian ideal observer Mitra, IUCAA, Pune, January 16, 2015 teach us about vibrotactile perception?, • Science learning, spatial cognition and by Dr Arindam Bhattacharjee, University of representation, by Dr Shamin Padalkar, Toronto, December 30, 2014 University of Pune, January 16, 2015 • Wide bandgap (WBG) power electronics, • Engineering education: Curriculum, by Dr Krisha Shenai, vice president, LoPel teaching and learning, by Prof Subrata Corporation, Naperville, Illinois, USA, January Ray, IIT Mandi, January 21, 2015 1, 2015 • Reporting the other India, by Mr Jaideep • Construction of gender, by Prof Lina Fruz- Hardikar, The Telegraph, January 23, 2015 zetti, Brown University, January 5, 2015 • Urdu calligraphy, by Prof Kalamuddin, Urdu • A formalization of the role of uncertain- calligrapher, January 23, 2015 ty in services and their embodiment in • Growth of carbon nanostructures by cat- goods, by Prof Devanathan Sudharshan, alytic chemical vapor deposition, by Prof University of Kentucky, January 6, 2015 Subrata Ray, IIT Mandi, January 23, 2015 • Stone beads of the Indus civilization: • Silicon photonics for fiber optic commu- technology and trade, by Prof Jonathan nications and Journey of a physicist as a Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin, Mad- technology entrepreneur, by Dr Kal Shas- ison, January 8, 2015 tri, Cisco, January 30, 2015 • Shear localization in three-dimension- • A country of our own: imagining India, al amorphous solid, by Dr Pankaj Kumar 1915-2015, by Dr Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre Mishra, Weizmann Institute of Science, Isra- for the Study of Developing Societies, New el, January 8, 2015 Delhi, February 3, 2015 • Understanding consumers for Behavioral • Creative writing, by Prof William Herbert, interventions, by Prof Raghunath Singh British poet and author, February 3, 2015 Rao, University of Texas, January 8, 2015 • Working with head and heart aligned: My • Change of norms and creativity: a cogni- experiences with starting 108 emergen- tive perspective on normativity by Prof cy services project, by Dr Sudhakar Vara- Bipin Indurkhya, International Institute of nasi, founder of Emergency Management Information Technology, Hyderabad, January Research Institute(EMRI), February 5, 2015 9, 2015 • Fourier transforms and application to sig- • An interactive session with Mr Arun M Ku- nal processing, by Prof V D Pathak, former- mar, US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, ly with M S University of Baroda, February 12, January 10, 2015. 2015 • Advances in nano-modified, multifunc- • Disaster management - understanding tional fiber reinforced concrete materials disasters, the uncommon do’s and don’ts for sustainable infrastructure, by Dr Nem- and an insight of Indian Air Force relief kumar Banthia, University of British Colum- operations, by Wing Commander Dinesh bia, January 12, 2015. Vaswani, IAF, February 13, 2015 • All that Jazz: jazz music through the blues, • Do I love you, or the 'me' in you?, by Ms Sa- by Prof Hao Huang, Scripps College, Clare- rita Shah, psychotherapist and behavioral mont, January 13, 2015 trainer, February 14, 2015 • American art music for violin and piano by • Music of India and Europe: connections Prof Rachel Vetter Huang, Scripps College, and parallels, by Stephen Bull, violinist,

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 31 February 18, 2015 • Solar Impulse: the world flight powered • Exploring and explaining the diversity of by the sun, by Mr Michael Pietig, ABB Solar Indo-Portuguese and The impact of the Impulse technology alliance, March 13, 2015 Portuguese language in South Asia, by Dr • Monetization of IP, by Mr Akash Bhavsar, Hugo Cardoso, University of Lisbon, Febru- Sky Quest Technology Group, March 14, 2015. ary 18-19, 2015 • Prior-art search, by Ms Mita Sheikh, Krish- • The quantum and the continuum: Ein- na and Saurastri Associates, March 21, 2015. stein's dichotomous legacies, by Prof Par- • Data based decision making in small and thasarathi Majumdar, Ramakrishna Mission medium enterprises, by Dr Arvind Saraf, Vivekananda University, Kolkata, February 19, Entrepreneur, March 24, 2015 2015. • Leveraging the climate change challenge: • Tectonic, climatic, and surface processes new technologies and opportunities for at orogenic plateau margins, by Dr Ras- sustainable growth, by H E Mr François mus Thiede, Institute of Earth and Environ- Richier, Ambassador of France to India, mental Science, University of Potsdam, Ger- March 25, 2015 many, February 24, 2015 • Solar fuels: splitting water and natural • IT in India: trends and patterns, by Mr Avi- photosynthesis: chemistry of food and nash Vashistha, Accenture India, March 10, cooking, by Dr Siddharth Dasgupta, NSF 2015 Centre for Chemical Innovation: Solar Fuels at • East of Suez - glass beads, bangles, mir- Caltech, USA, March 27-28, 2015 rors and more from India, by Prof Jan Kock, • Estimating India's future needs of elec- Aarhus University, Denmark, March 12, 2015 tricity, by Prof S P Sukhatme, distinguished • Religion, culture and technology, by Prof honorary professor, IITGN, March 30, 2015 Braj Sinha, University of Saskatchewan, Can- ada, March 13, 2015

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMMES A two-day TEQIP conclave on electrical and mechanical engineering sciences was held on Mar 13-14, 2015. Sixty one faculty members representing 14 engineering institutes from Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh participated in the conclave. The participants made presentations on the facilities in their respective institutes. The themes of the conclave were industry-academia interaction and undergraduate research. In the session on the first theme experts from industries and academia Mr Akhilesh Magal, GERMI, Mr emphasize undergraduate research. Different Venugopal Pisharody, Ingersoll Rand and Prof modes of undergraduate research were H J Nagarsheth, SVNIT expressed their views brainstormed. Separate sessions on project- on roles of engineering institutes and industries. based undergraduate teaching and importance The discussion was coordinated by Prof Naran of entrepreneurship were conducted by Dr Hiran Pindoriya, Prof Pratyush Dayal and Prof Vedam and Prof Superb Misra from IITGN. The Harish P M. Active participation by the delegates participants also formed seven groups to discuss resulted in several realistic recommendations. the difficulties they encounter in their institutes The second theme was conducted by Prof Amit and came up with ideas on the conclave themes Prashant and Prof Pranab Mohapatra to for implementation.

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 33 DISTINGUISHED VISITORS SHRI KAILASH SATYARTHI RECTOR ISCTE Nobel laureate Kailash Prof Luís Antero Reto, Rector, Satyarthi visited IIT ISCTE, University Institute of Gandhinagar as one of the Lisbon visited the Institute during eminent speakers of the Feb 15-20, 2015 to strengthen Foundation Programme academic and research relations 2014-2015. The winner of between the two institutes. the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize spoke to the IITGN community H E MR VENKATESAN ASHOK on Aug 4, 2014 about how H E Mr Venkatesan Ashok, former Ambassador engineers can fight social of India to the Czech Republic and current injustice better. In his talk Shri Satyarthi recounted Consul General of India (San Francisco) made a his own story of having trained as an electrical special visit to the Institute in October to discuss engineer and how his work evolved to solving the building collaborations between IITGN and deeply rooted issue of child trafficking and labour various universities and industries in California. in India and around the world. He also strongly Ambassador Ashok met with several faculty encouraged IITGN students to work towards such members across several disciplines to discuss social issues, even if at a small level. Shri Satyarthi ways to develop strategies to strengthen also interacted with the children under the wings academic, industrial and professional ties of Nyasa, IIT Gandhinagar’s community outreach between India and the US. program for children of construction workers.

JAIST DELEGATION to send a team of students to study at IITGN and A delegation of four members from JAIST also look at its interdisciplinary studies programs". visited IITGN during Jan 16-17, 2015 to explore Other members included Mr Hiroyuki Iida, Mr opportunities for collaboration. Mr Tetsuo Shungo Kawanishi and Mr Ryo Maezono. Asano, President, JAIST said, "We are planning

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 MR ARUN KUMAR H E MR FRANÇOIS RICHIER IIT Gandhinagar hosted The Ambassador of Mr Arun Kumar, US France to India, Mr Assistant Secretary Francois Richier, of Commerce, Global visited IIT Gandhinagar Markets at IITGN on Mar 25, 2015. The on Jan 10, 2014. Mr objective of his visit Kumar said risk in was to interact with entrepreneurship is students and faculty over-rated. He made members and to raise this observation while awareness about the interacting with over 21st Conference of 100 students during the Parties (COP21) his visit to the Institute. of the United Nations Mr Kumar, who is Framework Convention also the director general of the US and Foreign on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will take Commercial Service, was in Gandhinagar for the place in Paris in Dec, 2015. He delivered a lecture Vibrant Gujarat Summit. He also spoke about on Leveraging the climate change challenge: failure in entrepreneurship. 'A failure after trying new technologies and opportunities for your level best is appreciated in Silicon Valley and sustainable growth followed by an interaction many doors are open for such people to come join session. During the interaction, students and corporates. However, there are other cultures faculty members asked questions related to where failures are a stigma." He appreciated climate change and sustainability as well as IITGN's emphasis on entrepreneurship so that climate change negotiations. The ambassador students don't look for jobs, but are in fact create emphasized the need for clean energy to tackle more jobs in the market. the adverse implications of climate change. He highlighted that renewable energy can play a vital role in the development of India. The COP21 aims to provide a better platform for climate change negotiations and to develop strategies for climate change mitigation. An effective and equitable international agreement will be critical for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global temperature rise. France, as the host and chair, of the COP21 is committed to the role of an impartial facilitator for forging an ambitious agreement at COP 21. In this context, Ambassador Richier addressed several issues related to the global fight against climate change PROF JONATHAN MARK KENOYER and the role of France as chair of the upcoming Prof Jonathan Mark Kenoyer visited IIT conference in December. The way forward is to Gandhinagar on Jan 8, 2015 along with Dr Dennys ensure sustainable growth that creates wealth, Frenez of Italy and Mr James Lanning, a research jobs, and social progress. Ambassador Richier scholar from University of Wisconsin-Madison. also highlighted Indo-French cooperation in the Prof Kenoyer gave a talk on Stone Beads of the field of climate change, including scientific and Indus Civilization: technology and trade. He technology cooperation. also held meetings with Institute officials.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 35 DISTINGUISHED HONORARY PROFESSORS Prof J B Joshi Limited. He rejoined HAL in 1982 as chief designer Prof J B Joshi is an eminent pro- in Nasik Division. He was deputed to DRDO in 1985 fessor of chemical engineering and assumed charge as director of the Aeronauti- and J C Bose National Fellow of cal Development Establishment (ADE), Bangalore. the Institute of Chemical Tech- During 1995 he was elevated as Distinguished nology (ICT), Mumbai as well as Scientist by DRDO. As programme director and the DAE–Homi Bhabha Distin- chief designer of the Light Combat Aircraft, he guished Chair Professor of the successfully directed the project leading to flight Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai. testing and clearance for limited series produc- His research interests are mainly in the field of tion. His work contributed to the development computational fluid dynamics (CFD), transport of a state-of-the-art high-technology fighter air- phenomenon and non-linear dynamics in mul- craft. He is the Fellow of Aeronautical Society of tiphase systems, energy, biological wastewater India (former President of the Society), National treatment, petroleum residue upgradation, en- Academy of Sciences and Indian National Acad- zyme engineering, gas inducing impellers/sur- emy of Engineering. He received Distinguished face aerators, NOx abatement. He has supervised Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Science over 65 doctoral students and contributed in 350 and from IIT Bombay. He was awarded National peer-reviewed international journals and 26 na- Aeronautics Prize and FIE Foundation Award in tional journals along with several conferences 1996. He received SBI-Pragna Puraskar in 2001; and books. He has about 40 years of experience the Dr Y Nayudamma Memorial Award 2001; and in teaching and research. He has designed novel the DRDO Technology Leadership Award for 2001. reactors, processes and plants which are in suc- He was honoured with the Padma Shri by Govern- cessful commercial operation in India and abroad. ment of India in 2002. The Indian National Acad- He is an active consultant to large sections of the emy of Engineering conferred upon him, the Life- chemical process industry. He has won several time Contribution Award in Engineering, 2006. national and international awards and honors He was awarded Shri Om Prakash Bhasin award such as Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sci- for Science & Technology for the year, 2007 in ences (1987), Fellow of Indian Academy of Sci- the field of engineering including Energy & Aero- ences (1991), Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Prize for space. He received DRDO lifetime achievement Engineering Sciences (1991), Fellow of the Indi- award in 2008. He was formerly vice-chancellor an National Science Academy, New Delhi (1995), of the University of Hyderabad till 15 July, 2005. Best Teacher Award from the Maharashtra Gov- He is the chairman, research council, Centre for ernment for the year 2004. In 2007 the Ameri- Wind Energy Technology, Chennai, Distinguished can Chemical Society (ACS) selected him among Guest Professor, Department of Aerospace Engi- the top 100 research scientists over a period of neering, IIT Bombay, Indian technical coordinator 40 years of industrial and engineering chemistry for India-Trento/Italy S&T program, Pratt & Whit- research on the basis of high impact publications. ney chair professor at University of Hyderabad; Dr D S Kothari, DRDO Chair at ADA, Bangalore. Prof Harinarayana Kota Prof Harinarayana Kota graduat- Prof Surendra Prasad ed from Banaras Hindu Univer- Prof Surendra Prasad received sity (BHU) in Mechanical Engi- his education at IIT Kharagpur neering, received his postgrad- and IIT Delhi. He has served IIT uate degree in aero-engineering Delhi for more than four de- at IISc, Bangalore and PhD at IIT cades, having held a number of Bombay. He started his career in academic and administrative 1967 at Hindustan Aeronautics positions including the post of

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 the director. He is an eminent academician and Prof V S Raju researcher and has received numerous honours Prof V S Raju former director of for teaching and research including the Vikram IIT Delhi (1995-2000) obtained a Sarabhai Research Award in Electronics and bachelor’s degree in engineering Telecommunications (1987), the Shanti Swarup from Andhra University, a mas- Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Sciences (1988), ter’s degree from IISc Bangalore the Om Prakash Bhasin Prize for research in elec- and a doctorate from the Karl- tronics and communications (1994), the VASVIK sruhe University of Technology, Award for Information Technology (2006), the Germany. During his academic career of 42 years Lifetime Achievement Award of the Systems So- he was also a part-time member at the Telecom ciety of India (2011), the distinguished alumnus Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and worked award of IIT Kharagpur. He was also honoured in various capacities at IIT Madras. He was also with an honorary doctorate by the Loughborough the chairman of the Naval Research Board, DRDO University, UK in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Indi- and member of several boards and committees an National Academy of Engineering, the Indian dealing with technical education and research in National Science Academy, the Indian Academy the country. He is a Fellow of the Indian Nation- of Sciences and the National Academy of Science al Academy of Engineering and was its honorary and has been a member of the governing body of secretary. The Federal Republic of Germany hon- CSIR and CSIR Society, Government of India and ored him with the Commander’s Cross, the high- boards of many IITs, NITs and other engineering est award given to a foreigner. Institutes. Prof Suhas P Sukhatme Prof V Rajaraman Prof Suhas P Sukhatme pro- Prof V Rajaraman obtained a fessor emeritus, IIT Bombay, BSc (Honors) in physics from received his ScD (Doctor of Sci- Delhi University, completed SM ence) from Massachusetts In- in electrical engineering, Mas- stitute of Technology in 1964 sachusetts Institute of Technol- and is widely known for his out- ogy, USA, and PhD from Univer- standing contributions to teach- sity of Wisconsin, USA. He has ing and research. He is the author of two wide- held several important positions including IBM ly known text books on heat transfer and solar Research Professor of Information Technology, energy. He is the recipient of many honours and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientif- awards including the Prince of Wales Gold Medal ic Research, Bangalore; professor and chairman, from BHU in 1958, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Prize in 1983 and the Om Prakash Bhasin Founda- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and senior tion Award for Engineering in 2001. He was the professor and head of Computer Centre, IIT Kan- first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award pur. He has been director of several companies of IIT Bombay in 2001. He was conferred an hon- including CMC Ltd, New Delhi; Canbank Computer orary doctor of science degree by the Banaras Services Ltd, Bangalore; and Encore Software Ltd, Hindu University in 2001. He was awarded the Bangalore. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2001. by the President of India in 1998. He is also the re- cipient of the Zaheer Medal for Research in Engi- Prof Nitish V Thakor neering, Indian National Science Academy; Shanti Prof Nitish Thakor is a professor of biomedical en- Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (CSIR); Homi Bhabha gineering, electrical and computer engineering, award of UGC, and Lifetime Achievement award and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University, from Dataquest; the Indian National Academy of and leads the Laboratory for Neuroengineering. Engineering; the Computer Society of India; and He is also the director of the Singapore Insti- Systems Society of India. tutefor Neurotechnology (SINAPSE) at the Na-

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 37 tional University of Singapore. airplane flight, through low-altitude rocketry, and He earned his undergraduate in the design and evaluation of renewable energy degree from IIT Bombay in 1974 technologies. Prof A V Anilkumar has established and PhD from the University of the Sastry Endowment at the Institutein memory Wisconsin, Madison in 1981. Prof of his parents Smt Amba and Shri Venkatasubba Thakor’s expertise is in the areas Sastry. Originally from the villages of Amrutur and of neural diagnostic instrumen- Nanjangud in Karnataka, they had the opportuni- tation, neural microsystem, neural signal process- ty to reside at various locations throughout India, ing, optical imaging of the nervous system, neural while Shri Sastry worked as a field service engi- control of prosthesis and brain machine interface. neer at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Air Force He is a co-author of more than 250 refereed jour- Detachments. As parents, they strongly empha- nal papers and is currently the editor-in-chief of sized the importance of education and responsi- Medical and Biological Engineering and Comput- bility to society. His research focus includes ex- ing. He was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Trans- perimental fluid dynamics, rocket propulsion, drop actions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation and bubble dynamics, bio-encapsulation; energy Engineering from 2005-2011. Prof Thakor is the conversion, wind, thermoelectrics, biodiesel; ma- recipient of the Research Career Development terials processing: float-zones, directional solidi- Award from the National Institutes of Health and fication the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow Dr Nikhil Balram of the American Institute of Medical and Biolog- Dr Nikhil Balram is President and ical Engineering, IEEE, the Founding Fellow of CEO of Ricoh Innovations Cor- the Biomedical Engineering Society, and Fellow poration, a Silicon Valley com- of International Federation of Medical and Bio- pany that develops innovative logical Engineering. He is also a recipient of the technologies and creates new Centennial Medal from the School of Engineering, businesses for Ricoh Company University of Wisconsin (2008), Honorary Mem- Ltd. With over 20 years of expe- bership from Alpha Eta Mu Beta Biomedical Engi- rience, Dr Balram is widely regarded throughout neering student Honor Society. He received the industry and academia as an expert and innova- award of Technical Excellence in Neuroengineer- tor in video and display technologies across mul- ing from IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology tiple platforms and has been an officer of several Society and the Distinguished Alumnus Award in publicly listed companies. He has won numerous 2012 from IIT Bombay and the Centennial Medal awards including a 2012 Gold Stevie Award for Ex- from the University of Wisconsin, Madison School ecutive of the Year in the Electronics category in of Engineering in 2012. the 9th Annual International Business Awards, a 2012 Fellow Award by the Society for Information Display (SID) and the 2011 Alumni Achievement GUEST PROFESSORs Award by Carnegie Mellon University. Dr Balram is an adjunct professor of electrical engineering Prof Anilkumar Amurtur at Carnegie Mellon University, visiting professor Prof Anilkumar Amurtur is an of vision science at the University of California, aerospace engineer on the fac- Berkeley, a guest professor of design and innova- ulty at Vanderbilt University. He tion at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhi- has been a NASA investigator of nagar, and serves on the Industry Advisory Board microgravity fluid flow phenom- (IAB) at the School of Engineering at Santa Clara ena on Space Shuttle flights and University. He has over 60 US patents granted or on the International Space Sta- pending, more than 30 technical publications, in- tion. His current interests are in the design and cluding two invited book chapters, and has given evaluation of novel energy conversion systems for over 25 keynote speeches at major conferences

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 worldwide, including most recently the Interna- Dr R S Bisht tional Business Forum at the 2013 Ricoh Wom- Dr R S Bisht, joint director gen- en’s British Open at St Andrews, UK. He received eral (retd), Archaeological Sur- his BS, MS and PhD in electrical engineering from vey of India; has more than 35 Carnegie Mellon University. years experience in archaeolog- ical research, conservation and Dr Achintya K Bhowmik environmental development of Dr Achintya K Bhowmik is the national monuments and admin- founding general manager and istration. He pursued his MA in Ancient Indian His- chief technology officer of the tory and Culture, Lucknow University; PGDA from perceptual computing group at School of Archaeology; and PhD from Kumaun Intel Corporation, where he leads University. He has also been associated with the research & development, en- Department of Archaeology and Museum Hary- gineering, and marketing of ad- ana; and Department of Archaeology & Museum vanced computing products and solutions based Punjab. Presently, Dr Bisht is the President of the on natural sensing and interaction technologies, Society for Marine Archaeology; and Chairman of intuitive interfaces, immersive applications and the National Screening and Evolution Committee, user experiences, branded as “Intel®RealSense nominated by Government of India in the Ministry Technology”. Previously, he served as the chief of of Culture. He is the recipient of the Padma Shri staff of the personal computing group, Intel’s larg- and Acharya Narendra Dev Alankar in 2013. est business unit with over $30 billion revenues. Prior to that, he led the advanced video and display Prof Rajendra Bordia technology group, responsible for developing and Prof Rajendra Bordia is an inter- enabling power-performance optimized multime- nationally recognized scholar dia processing and display technologies for Intel’s whose research is at the inter- computing products. His previous work includes section of materials science and development of all-digital liquid-crystal-on-sil- mechanics and is focused on icon microdisplay technology, fast electro-optic fundamental and applied studies modulation and integrated optoelectronic cir- in the processing and properties cuits for high-speed communication networks. of complex material systems for energy, environ- As an adjunct and guest professor, he has ad- mental and high temperature applications. He is vised graduate dissertation research and taught currently professor and chair of the Department graduate-level courses on advanced sensing and of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson human-computer interactions, computer vision, University. He was earlier the chair of the Mate- digital image processing, display technologies rials Science and Engineering Department at the and electro-optics at the University of California, University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Berkeley, Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea, undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and University of California, Santa Cruz Extension, from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and the Liquid Crystal Institute of the Kent State (1979) and his M S (1981) and PhD (1986) degrees University. He has over 150 publications, includ- in materials science and engineering (minor in sol- ing two books titled Interactive Displays: Natural id mechanics) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Human-Interface Technologies and Mobile Dis- In 2002, he was elected as a Fellow of the Ameri- plays: Technology & Applications. He also has 27 can Ceramic Society, Fellow of the Indian Institute granted patents. He is an associate editor for the of Metals in 2010 and an Academician in the World Journal of the Society for Information Display and Academy of Ceramics in 2012. He received other the editor for two special volumes on Advances in prestigious awards including: Humboldt Senior OLED Displays and Interactive Displays. Scientist Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2007); Nation- al Young Investigator Award (NSF) (1992-1997);

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 39 DuPont Young Professor Award (E I duPont Co) bia Institute of Technology, Van- (1993-1996); International Expert Award from couver, Canada. She completed Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany here PhD in Earthquake Engi- (1996, 2001 and 2002). A dedicated teacher and neering from IIT Roorkee. Prof mentor ,Prof Bordia was selected as the Teacher Brzev also served as director and of the Year seven times by students in his de- vice president of Earthquake partment at the University of Washington (1994, Engineering Research Institute, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2006. 2009, 2011 and 2012); Oakland, California, USA from 2001-2003. She was the sole recipient of the Marsha Landolt Dis- was the member of various research projects and tinguished Graduate Mentor Award from the Uni- programs which include review panel of National versity of Washington (2007) and was the sole Science Foundation (NSF), NEES program; review- recipient of the Outstanding Educator of the Year er of NSF Partnerships for International Research by the Ceramic Education Council of the American and Education and reviewer of NSERC research Ceramic Society (2012). Prof Bordia is an associ- proposals (various programs). She is the founding ate editor of the Journal of the American Ceram- editor-in-chief for a major international project ic Society (1988- to date); Editor of the Journal World Housing Encyclopedia (www.worldhousing. of Ceramic Processing Research (1999-to date) net). Prof Brzev has over twenty five years of ex- and editor-in-chief of the Ceramics International perience in structural design and rehabilitation of Journal (2009 – to date). He was a member of the buildings, commercial, institutional facilities and Board of Directors of the American Ceramic Soci- lifelines; participated in numerous design projects ety (2008-2010). and studies of existing facilities in Canada, India, Russia, Chile, Peru, former Yugoslavia, Egypt, Al- Prof Bijoy H Boruah geria and Jordan. As a seismic engineering consul- Prof Bijoy H Boruah, currently tant to the World Bank and to the Government of associated with Indian Institute Maharashtra, India, she prepared a management of Technology, Delhi complet- strategy and technical guidelines for repair and ed his BA (Honours) in Philoso- retrofitting/reconstruction of over 200,000 ma- phy, Dibrugarh University, India; sonry residences damaged in the September 30, MA, Banaras Hindu University; 1993 Latur earthquake in India. Prof Brzev also MLitt, University of Oxford, UK; participated in reconnaissance studies after sev- and PhD from University of Guelph, Canada. Prof eral earthquakes, including the 2010 Maule, Chile Boruah has also served as a Professor at IIT Kan- earthquake, the 2003 Boumerdes, Algeria earth- pur, and Senior Fulbright Fellow at University of quake, and the 1993 Maharashtra, India earth- Texas at Austin, USA. He has been a member of quake. She has published over eighty papers and Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR); reports, published in journals, presented at con- Research and Publication Committee, ICPR; mem- ferences and delivered several invited seminars. ber, Advisory Committee, Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Uni- Prof R P Chhabra versity; visitor’s nominee, Faculty of Humanities Prof R P Chhabra completed his and Social Sciences, North Eastern Hill University; BE in Chemical Engineering from external member, Academic Council, Mata Vaisno University of Roorkee, ME from Devi University; member, External Advisory Com- IISc Bangalore and PhD from mittee for Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Monash University, Australia. He Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani; mem- has been associated with Indian ber, Institute Ethics Committee, Fortis Memorial Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Research Institute, Gurgaon. University of New South Wales, Sydney; Univer- sity College of Swansea; Monash University, Clay- Prof Svetlana Brzev ton; and University of Sydney. He has also been Prof Svetlana Brzev is Professor at British Colum- a member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engi-

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 neers, Kolkata; Alumni Association, University of Prof Dipan K Ghosh Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee); and Alumni Associa- Prof Dipan K Ghosh is currently tion, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is professor of physics at IIT Bom- a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, bay. He is condensed matter the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, the theorist who worked primarily National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indi- in low-dimensional magnetic an National Academy of Engineering. Prof Chhab- systems. He is best known for ra was the recipient of Herdillia Award of the Indi- his work on exact solution of an Institute of Chemical Engineers for Excellence a one-dimensional many-body problem which in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering and is widely known in the literature as the Majum- the Amar Dye-Chem Award of the Indian Institute dar-Ghosh model. He has authored a textbook on of Chemical Engineers for Excellence in Research mechanics and thermodynamics and several web and Development for a Chemical Engineer below books. Prof Ghosh has served IIT Bombay in sev- the age of 35 years. eral capacities including its dean and deputy di- rector. He was awarded IITB’s Best Teacher award Mr Michel Danino in 2000. In 2011 he was awarded the Lifetime Mr Michel Danino has been an Achievement Award of IITB for his contributions independent student of the In- to institution building. He has been the president dian civilization since he came to of the Indian Physics Association (2005-07) and India in 1977. He has authored is currently the chief editor of Physics News. He papers and books in French and is a member of the Academic Council of Homi English. His recent titles include Bhabha National Institute(DAE), Centre for Basic The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sciences of DAE at the University of Mumbai and Sarasvati (Penguin India, 2010) and Indian Culture IIS University, Jaipur. Prof Ghosh was the provost and India’s Future (DK Printworld, 2011). He has (vice-chancellor) of Navrachana University at Va- lectured on the origins of Indian civilization from dodara in 2012 and established the engineering archaeological, ancient historical and cultural program there. He is a member of the Board of perspectives at many Institutes of higher educa- Governors of SVNIT, Surat. tion across the country. He was a visiting faculty at IIT Kanpur in 2011 and is currently a visiting Dr Bipin Indurkhya faculty at IIM Ranchi. He is also a member of the Dr Bipin Indurkhya is professor of course committee for the CBSE’s elective course computer science and the head for classes 11 & 12 on Knowledge traditions and of the Cognitive Science Lab, practices of India and has co-edited the course’s IIIT Hyderabad. He received his two textbooks. PhD from University of Massa- chusetts, Amherst and master's Dr Pravinray D Gandhi degree from Philips Internation- Dr Pravinray D Gandhi is currently al Institute of Technological Studies, Eindhoven, director of corporate research at The Netherlands. He also contributed as visiting UL. He received his BTech from professor in the teaching and research program IIT Delhi and PhD from the Uni- of many institutes which include Department of versity of Notre Dame. His focus Computer Science and the Department of Cogni- is on quantifying fire risks and tive Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Po- hazards and has been involved in land); Computer Science and Philosophy Depart- developing new test methods and standards. He ments, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (Turkey); Uni- is currently working with the fire safety commu- versity of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; Computer Science nity and universities to improve fire science edu- Department, Takushoku University, Tokyo, Japan; cation. Department of Computer Science, State Univer- sity of New York, Buffalo, New York; Department

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 41 of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, contributions to the aluminium industry, the Hin- Tufts University, Medford, Sept.; Computer Sci- dustan Zinc Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of ence Department, Boston University, Boston and Metals in 1994 for significant contributions to Institute of Computer Science and Society, Albert nonferrous metallurgical industry, the Certificate Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany. His multidi- of Appreciation from AIME in 1987. He also won mensional research activities have been funded an award in the metallographic contest organized from different international and national funding by the American Society of Metals in 1965. Shri organisations like National Science Foundation Subodh Jain has also published nearly 100 publi- (NSF), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific cations in international and national journals and Research (NWO), Japan Society for the Promotion in conferences proceedings. of Science (JSPS), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), India, Depart- Dr Raj Jaswa ment of Science and Technology (DST), Intel Cor- Dr Raj Jaswa is an accomplished poration, Rediff.com, Samsung Global Research serial technology entrepreneur. Outreach Program and Xerox Open Innovation His most recent role was that Project. He has recently initiated new activities in of CEO and chairman of Dyy- the field of remote sensing applications in archae- no from 2009 to 2012. Dyyno's ology and has received many grants. user-friendly communication platform seamlessly transports Shri Subodh Kumar Jain audio, video, text, graphics and voice for live, in- Shri Subodh Kumar Jain com- teractive instant sharing with audiences of un- pleted his BE degree in civil en- limited size across multiple devices. From 2003- gineering from University of 2008, he volunteered full-time for TiE Silicon Val- Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) in ley, serving as president from 2005 to 2008 and 1974. He served in the Ministry as a director from 2003 to 2004. Dr Jaswa was of Railways and superannuat- the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Selectica ed from the position of Member from 1996 to 2002. During Raj’s tenure, Selectica Engineering, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, became the leading configuration software ven- ex-officio secretary to the Government of India. dor with customers like General Electric, BMW, He is currently working as honorary expert in civ- Cisco, Samsung, and Dell. Selectica went public in il engineering of the Hyderabad Metro Rail. Shri 2000 with a peak market value of $5 billion, and Subodh Jain has been closely associated in vari- was named in the Forbes 500, Deloitte & Touche ous capacities with all the metro rail networks in Technology Fast 500, Software 500, Inc 500, and the country. He was also the head of the entire Interactive Week 500. Dr Jaswa had previously engineering activities of Indian Railways involv- co-founded Opti in 1988, where he served first as ing projects worth Rs12000 crores. His immense EVP of Sales and Marketing and then as president contribution in the Indian railways has been ac- until 1996. Opti went public in 1993 with a peak knowledged by a number of awards. He was market value of $350 million. Earlier in his career, awarded the Best Innovation of the Year Award Dr Jaswa worked for Intel, General Electric, and 2006 - 2007 by the Railway Board for the special Chips & Technologies. He received a bachelor's high-speed Diamond Xing and has been felicitat- degree in electrical engineering from the Indian ed by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Institute of Technology in Bombay, a master's de- Madhya Pradesh and was presented with a silver gree in electrical engineering from the University plaque for bringing about significant improve- of Toronto and an MBA from Stetson University. ment of the state's railway services. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Electron Prof Dinesh Kant Kumar Microscope Society of India in July 2012, the Nal- Prof Dinesh Kant Kumar is a professor in RMIT co Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals University, Melbourne, Australia and the pro- in 2006 (the year of inception) for outstanding gramme director for Biomedical Engineering. He

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 earned his PhD in Bioelectronics Lanka. He also achieved distinctions and awards from IIT Delhi and BE in electri- in the area of his interest, mainly in music and cal engineering from IIT Madras. sports. He has given many performances as con- Prof Kant has received many cert player of south Indian drums and accompa- awards including the European nied the renowned maestro M L Vasanthakumari. Union'sErasmus Mundus teach- He was also the national weightlifting champion ing award (2009-2010), Capes in 1979 and 1980. (Brazil) senior Professorial Fellowship award (2012- 2013) and senior Professorial Fellowship Prof A K Mittal Award of the Australian Academy of Science Prof A K Mittal received his (Australia-India Research partnership). He was BTech (Honors) and MTech from also the recipient of 2 research supervisor awards IIT Kharagpur, MS and PhD from and has supervised to completion 20 research Case Western Reserve Univer- students including 17 PhD and 3 master's degree sity. He has been associated students. He holds five patents and has published with IIT Kanpur and the Kellogg 321 peer reviewed papers with total number of ci- School of Management, North- tations of over 4000 and h-index of 24. Prof Kant western University, USA. Prof Mittal is the Fellow is the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions of of the Institution of Engineers, India, member of Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering Operations Research Society of USA, president (TNSRE). He is the editor of the Journal of Med- of Operational Research Society of India and Life ical and Biological Engineering (JMBE). Prof Kant member ISTE. is also the founder of the international confer- ence IEEE Biosignals and Biorobotics for the past Prof S L Narayanamurthy 5 years. He has received various major grants in- Prof S L Narayanamurthy ob- cluding the ARC Network Grant (2006- 2012), the tained his PhD degree in chem- ARC contribution value $ 2,300,000 for 5 years ical engineering from the Uni- and $ 300,000 grant as the leader of the educa- versity of Bradford in 1971 as tion and international exchange program. a Commonwealth Scholar. He served IIT Bombay for nearly Dr K Chelva Kumar four decades as a faculty mem- Dr K Chelva Kumar completed his ber, head of department and dean. His research BS degree in mechanical engi- interests are in the areas of separation processes neering from Peradeniya Univer- and food process engineering. Prof Narayanamur- sity, Sri Lanka, and followed it up thy received the Lifetime Achievement Award of with an MS and PhD from Califor- IIT Bombay in 2004 in recognition of his diverse nia Institute of Technology and and seminal institution building contributions as MBA from University of Califor- a teacher, a team builder, and facilitator of R&D, nia, Irvine. He is the president of EPIR Technolo- resource mobilization and alumni networking. He gies, Inc, Bolingbrook, IL. Dr Chelvakumar has also has also received awards for excellence in pro- served on various senior administrative positions cess/technology development jointly with his col- in various organisatoins that include Saint Louise leagues. Prof Narayanamurthy served IIT Gandhi- Regional Hospital, Gilroy, CA, Caritas Business Ser- nagar for nearly four years as a visiting professor vices, Redwood City, CA, St Francis Medical Centre, and guided the academic programmes of the Lynwood, CA, ReproNet, Los Angeles, CA. He has fledgling Institute for two years. His current pro- accomplished excellent results during his assign- fessional interests are in the areas of engineering ments in different organisations. Before that, education, food process engineering and mento- he was the faculty in California State University, ring. Los Angeles & Fullerton campuses, CA, Carnegie Mellon University and Peradeniya University, Sri

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 43 Dr Sandeep Pandey was elected as Fellow of Indian National Acade- Dr Sandeep Pandey earned his my of Engineering in 2010. Prof Rai received his PhD degree in mechanical engi- BE (Honors) degree from the National Institute neering from University of Cal- of Technology, Tiruchirapalli (1989), an MS from ifornia, Berkeley in 1992 and is the University of Oklahoma, Norman (1992) and a currently a social activist based Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in Lucknow. He is deeply com- (1996). He is coordinator of National Information mitted to his work that includes the right to ed- Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at IIT ucation, work, food, information, human rights, Kanpur and serves on the Board of World Seismic empowerment of marginalised communities, Safety Initiative (WSSI) of International Associa- grassroots democracy, anti-corruption move- tion of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). ments, land reforms, communal harmony, nuclear disarmament and peace, peace and friendship be- Prof B Rajani tween India and Pakistan, corporate accountabili- Prof B Rajani research interests ty and people’s politics. He is currently part of the are in the area of Landscape Socialist Party. Dr Pandey’s work is mainly in the Archaeology. She uses space/ rural areas. He concentrates on issues affecting air- based remote sensing im- the daily lives of people. His organisation helps ages to study features on the people access benefits through various govern- earth’s surface and subsurface mental social welfare schemes by fighting corrup- to extract information that im- tion. He is also part of movements where people proves the understanding of the archaeology of are struggling to establish their rights over natu- an area. She complements remote sensing study ral resources that are under threat because the with ground truth and GPS survey, and integrates government allows them to be usurped by corpo- spatial information from multiple sources using rates. He is deeply involved in building a genuine Geographic Information System (GIS) technolo- grassroots political alternative to the mainstream gies. She did her doctoral research in the field of politics dominated by corruption. space-based archaeological investigations at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Prof Durgesh C Rai Bangalore and was awarded a PhD by the Univer- Prof Durgesh C Rai is a professor sity of Mysore in 2011. She received the Rachapu- in the Department of Civil Engi- di Kamakshi Memorial Young Geospatial Scientist neering at the Indian Institute of Award for this work. She conducted post-doctoral Technology Kanpur. Prior to join- research for a year at NIAS, and subsequetly held ing IIT Kanpur, he was a research the position of assistant professor in the MTech fellow at the University of Michi- GIS programme at NIIT University (NU), Neemra- gan (1996-1997) and on the fac- na from 2011 to 2013. Her recent work includes ulty of the Department of Earthquake Engineering a study of the archaeological remains in the envi- at IIT Roorkee (1997-2001). His research interests rons of Nalanda as a Fellow of Nalanda University are in design and behaviour of structures under (2013-2014). She is currently the recipient of the earthquake loads, experimental investigations, Homi Bhabha Fellowship for writing a manual on supplemental damping, seismic rehabilitation, remote sensing and GIS applications to archaeol- masonry structures and seismic design codes. ogy. She is a guest faculty in Archaeological Sci- He has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers ences Centre, IIT Gandhinagar, and visiting facul- in journals and conferences in the area of struc- ty, NU, Neemrana. tural and earthquake engineering. He received the 2000 Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Prof T R Ramachandran Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (USA) Prof T R Ramachandran received his BE in metal- and the Young Engineer Award from the Indi- lurgy from the Indian Institute of Science Banga- an National Academy of Engineering (1999). He lore in 1960, an MSc degree from the McMaster

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 University Canada in 1965 and and the NALCO Gold Medal in 2006, the year of a PhD from the University of its inception, by the Indian Institute of Metals. His Wales UK in 1969. He had been research interests are in the areas of energy con- on the faculty of the Indian In- servation and environmental control in aluminium stitute of Technology Kanpur industry, physical metallurgy of aluminium alloys for two decades, 1969-89. He and applications of electron optical techniques to was the head of the Department metallic materials. of Metallurgical Engineering at lIT Kanpur during 1986-88 and the head of the Materials Science Prof A Ramanathan Programme in 1987-89. Almost all the research Prof A Ramanathan holds a PhD projects that he had supervised during his stint degree in economics from Mum- at lIT Kanpur were related to structure-proper- bai University. He is a senior pro- ty relationship in aluminium alloys. He was the fessor and a former head of the founder director of the Jawaharlal Nehru Alumin- Department of Humanities and ium Research Development and Design Centre Social Sciences of IIT Bombay. (JNARDDC) Nagpur during the period 1989-99. He is a well known quantitative He was also the National Project Director of the economist with rich expertise particularly in the UNDP project on the establishment of the Jawa- teaching of research methods in social sciences. harlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development Further, in tune with the academic and research and Design Centre (1989-96). He was an Emeri- temper of IIT Bombay, Prof Ramanathan has tus Scientist at the Nonferrous Materials Technol- gained good knowledge of many multi-disci- ogy Development Centre Hyderabad from 1999 plinary topics of current relevance in the country. where his main interests were in the development He specializes in managerial economics, applied of grain refiners and specialized master alloys for econometrics and social cost-benefit analysis. the aluminium industry. He has been closely asso- Prof Ramanathan has published a number of ar- ciated with the Indian aluminium industry, serving ticles in Indian and international journals. He has as part-time director of the National Aluminium guided 24 PhD students, including very senior of- Company (1991-93), the Bharat Aluminium Com- ficials from industries, government and banks. He pany (1994-97), Paradeep Carbons (2002-2006) has also guided 20 MPhil dissertations. and presently Alufluoride. He has served on sev- eral committees set up by the government to as- Prof Mythily Ramaswamy sess the performance of some major aluminium Prof Mythily Ramaswamy is a producers in the country. As the founder director professor and currently the dean of JNARDDC he was involved in organising a num- at the Tata Institute of Fun- ber of research projects and workshops on topics damental Research Centre for covering bauxite, alumina and aluminium produc- Applicable Mathematics, Ban- tion, molten metal processing and downstream galore. She is one of the leading activities. He has lectured extensively in these figures in the country in the field areas both in India and abroad. He has been a con- of partial differential equations and specifically sultant to several industries in the areas of molten in analysis and applications to control problems. metal processing and alloy development. He has She received her BSc and MSc degrees from the organized a number of courses on electron mi- University of Bombay and PhD from University of croscopy in IIT Kanpur; in the last year and a half, Paris 6, France. he has conducted electron microscopy courses in NML Jamshedpur, NIFFT Ranchi, IGCAR Kalpak- Prof Dheeraj Sanghi kam, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, NIT Surathkal, NIT Prof Dheeraj Sanghi, dean of academic affairs is Trichy and IIT Bombay. For his outstanding contri- professor of computer science and engineering at butions in the field of nonferrous metals, he was IIT Kanpur. His research interests are in the area awarded the Hindustan Zinc Gold Medal in 1994 of computer networks with special focus on pro-

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 45 tocols at different layers, IPv6, ogy and experimental therapeutics and American mobility and security. He served Association for Cancer Research. Dr Sengupta is as the director of LNM Institute the recipient of DoD Breast Cancer Research Pro- of Information Technology, Jai- gram Collaborative Innovators Award, the Mary pur for two years. He is passion- Kay Ash Foundation Career Award, the DoD era ate about technical education in of Hope scholar Award, the Indus Technovator India and writes regularly about award and the Coulter Foundation Young Investi- it in magazines and blogs. He received his BTech gator Award in Bioengineering. from IIT Kanpur, and MS and PhD from the Univer- sity of Maryland, College Park. Prof Koshy Tharakan Prof Koshy Tharakan is Profes- Dr Shiladitya Sengupta sor in Department of Philosophy, Dr Shiladitya Sengupta is cur- Goa University. He received his rently the Assistant Professor PhD degree from University of of Medicine and Health Sciences Hyderabad in the area of philos- and Technology at Harvard Med- ophy of social science. His area ical School Brigham & Women’s of interest is philosophy of so- Hospital. He completed his BS cial sciences and phenomenology, where he has and MS from the All India Insti- made significant contribution. He has also con- tute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and PhD from tributed in the area of environmental ethics and University of Cambridge (Trinity College). He is a mentored PhD students in this area. Member of the American Society for Pharmacol-

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 47 INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES Permanent Campus Development Selection of Architects Computer Centre Research Facilities Laboratory Facilities Library Medical Centre Physiotherapy Centre Day Care Centre At IITGN the process of improving and expanding the infrastructure and other facilities related to research and teaching is a continuous one. The construction of the Institute’s permanent campus is in the final stage. The temporary campus has also grown during this time to meet the rising needs of the faculty and students.

cricket ground, a practice pitch, a football ground, PERMANENT CAMPUS some volleyball pitches and a basketball court are DEVELOPMENT being developed. The undeveloped pockets of land (ear-marked for future constructions) were The development of Phase-1A of constructions of greened with extensive plantations in the form of the permanent campus have reached advanced a mix of flowering plants, some vegetable shrubs stages, and despite challenges. The Institute has and some utility plants. Installation of rooftop been able to follow the original schedule without solar PV panels and a central biogas plant for any significant delays. IITGN plans to start moving generating energy by processing organic waste to its permanent campus in July 2015 in line with generated on campus is underway. In parallel, its earlier plans, and hopes to welcome the new IITGN has also started to develop a few ravines on batch of students on the 400-acre campus on campus with the intention of their stabilisation the banks of the Sabarmati river. The campus and promoting biodiversity. has an ambience that is conducive to academic endeavours and is located in a neighbourhood that is well connected and rapidly developing. SELECTION OF The high-profile GIFT City near the permanent campus site is ramping up its operations, the ARCHITECTS road and services network near the campus site IITGN conducted a national-level design have been significantly upgraded, other national competition to select the architect to design the institutes are coming up near the campus, and next phase of hostels, guest house and director's several defence establishments and a large forest residence. Initially, IITGN received concept designs reserve area are situated in the immediate vicinity from 43 architectural firms. An evaluation of the campus. committee reviewed proposals from interested architectural consultants and short-listed The student hostels with capacity of 1200 along eight firms who then made final presentations. with housing and academic buildings took its final M/s Neeraj Manchanda Architects were shape. In addition to these major works, IITGN selected by an independent jury that judged the has taken up development of several additional presentations. amenities. Some basic sports facilities including a

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 49 COMPUTER CENTRE INFORMATION SYSTEM AND The academic office will be able to carry out TECHNOLOGY FACILITY activities such as student admissions, reg- The Information Systems & Technology Facility istrations, results management and course (ISTF) at IITGN has come a long way to provide and management through the IMS portal. The enable wide-ranging services to the IITGN com- time-table coordinator will be able to create munity. ISTF’s state-of-the-art networking in- and manage the academic time-table through frastructure enables provisioning of information a user friendly drag-drop interface available systems and computational facilities to all users in IMS. Some of the other useful functional- regardless of whether they stay on the campus ities that will be made available through IMS or outside it. The IITGN community consists of include on-campus smart card for cashless around 1200 users including faculty, students transactions, biometrics for mess, integration and staff. The goal of the ISTF is to provide better with library management system and learn- infrastructure and services for the Institute’s vari- ing management system. ous IT needs. The following are the key highlights 2. General Administration: This module will ca- of activities and projects undertaken by ISTF ter to administrative processes including pro- during the last year. cesses for joining and relieving of employees, submission and processing of leave requests, Information Systems submission and processing of claims for LTC, IITGN conceptualized an Institute Management soft loans, travel requests, medical claims, System (IMS) that would interconnect various process for managing employee performance departments online and provide a single window appraisal etc. In addition employee service re- service to students, faculty and staff. This will cords will also be maintained by the IMS. The serve to automate IITGN's operations and help the module will enable the management of fac- Institute move closer towards being a paperless ulty and staff recruitments. Applications will office. The project kicked-off in Jul 2014 and de- be received online and the entire processing velopment is underway. The system is geared to of applications will be done through IMS. The go live in Jul 2015. The Payroll module developd training management module will facilitate using the package Tally emerged as an early go- the processing of various training requests, live module when it was launched in Dec 2014, planning and executing training and record- thereby completely automating the generation of ing of training feedback. A separate module payslips in the Accounts Section. named legal cell will enable the management of RTI requests. Some of the key highlights of the system for each 3. Materials Management: This module fa- department and various user communities at IIT- cilitates all activities related to purchase of GN are as follows: equipment funded by the both Institute and 1. Academics: This module covers the entire externally sponsored projects. Users can sub- gamut of activities of a student's academic mit online requests as part of the purchase life-cycle management. A dedicated online proposal request process. The request will student portal is designed to provide not only then be received at the purchase section a one-stop access to various student-centric through IMS and processed. The entire ten- services from other sections, but also online der management and e-procurement will be access to academic details. Students will be done through a third-party platform called able to submit medical claims, branch change Tender Wizard. Users can raise requests for requests, travel requests, scholarship appli- stationary, both in-stock and fresh procure- cations, applications for financial aid, request ment. A separate module for mail room will for counselling services, register for EWYL allow for a centralized management of inward programmes, submit fees and other suchre- and outward mails. quests through the online student portal. 4. System Administration: This module will

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 take care of horizontal activities across the popular software are ANSYS, Star CCM+, Au- Institute. For example, processing of online todesk Inventor, AspenTech, Mathematica, PSCAD meal requests for various events and activi- 4.2, STATA 11.1, AutoCAD, Lab-View, Cadence, ties, guest house booking, conference room TCad, Matlab, Xilinx, ISE, Origin, ETab, Arc-GIS. booking, classrooms management, IT service helpdesk etc. The users will be notified either The Institute also houses VEGA, a High by email or through SMS. SMS gateway inte- Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) that gration is part of this module. enables the users to perform parallel computing 5. Finance & Accounts: This module cuts and GPU computing relevant to their research across various modules and links processes interests. In addition to HPCC, the Institute has a that have a monetary component. This mod- separate setup, powered by two high-end nodes ule will provide a platform for the accounts with NVIDIA K20Xm Tesla cards, as part of the team for efficient dealings of various service NVIDIA Cuda Teaching Centre; these nodes are requests and accounts management. The connected to country-wide GARUDA network payroll sub-module which is part of F&A mod- provided by C-DAC. ule is currently being used to process salaries of IITGN employees. New Initiatives 6. External Connect: The module on external The ISTF team constantly undertakes various in- connect includes all activities related to the house projects to enhance their skill sets and stay R&D Office. For example, creation, approval up-to-date with recent technology. The team has and management of various project propos- successfully completed the following projects: als, online advertisement and recruitment of project staff, support for the office of Career Centralized login to all the public machines using Development Services (CDS), management of OpenLDAP (Open Lightweight Directory Access alumni relations and outreach, management Protocol). The system enables the users to use of donations received by IITGN , management their respective login credentials for access to of MoUs etc. these machines and other online services provid- 7. Content management system (CMS): CMS ed by IITGN. will be used to manage the content for news- letters, IITGN website and other content that Pilot project on cloud computing that is based IITGN generates from time to time. on the open source software Open Nebula. Using this platform, the users can create their Computing and Network own virtual machines by way of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Infrastructure (VDI). The platform also supports The campus is well connected over 1Gbps high both cold and hot migration of virtual machines. speed optical fiber network with 1Gbps internet Pilot project on file hosting service portal based on link from National Knowledge Network (NKN). open source software Owncloud. It is envisioned The campus and student hostel areas are WiFi that the centralized storage to all the users shall enabled. The ISTF team has successfully setup be provided using this platform. The platform the necessary infrastructure, the wireless point- uses OpenLDAP and SSL and its integration with to-point network, to provide network connectiv- Dropbox has already been demonstrated. ity from the current temporary campus in Chan- dkheda to its upcoming permanent campus in Connecting IITGN to EDUROAM wireless network. Palaj. The construction of the permanent campus Using this service, which is available across the is monitored 24x7 through video cameras and can world, the users can obtain internet connectivity be viewed in real-time at any location. via WiFi across the campus and also when visiting other participating institutions using their lap- ISTF maintains an extensive software repository tops, smartphones and other portable devices. for needs of various disciplines. Some of the most

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 51 Outreach activities es, Mentor Graphics tools such as Questa, ADMS, The ISTF has been an active contributor and par- Eldo, etc. and Calibre. It also includes Coventor- ticipant in many of the Institute's initiatives and ware for MEMS simulation and Xilinx ISE and Viva- events. The team provides round-the-clock sup- do for FPGA synthesis. The CONREL is equipped port for various events and activities. Some of the with high-end FPGAs such as KC 705. The CONREL recent contributions towards outreach by ISTF are: research group has signed an MoU with IMEC Bel- 1. Conducted a two day workshop entitled “ICT gium for chip tape-out. The first test chip for the Infrastructure: Towards a Digital Network” study of synchronizers was fabricated through which included lectures followed by hands- the Europractice program at IMEC, Belgium with on sessions based on the lectures. The partic- financial support received from the Department ipants for this workshop were from engineer- of Science and Technology (DST). The laborato- ing colleges in Gujarat. The objective of the ry also has the semiconductor device character- workshop was to give a crash course to col- ization laboratory equipped with probe station leges in configuring and troubleshooting the and other facilities. The ongoing projects include network related problems in their Institutes. synchronizer studies, low-power neuromorphic 2. IITGN participated in Vibrant Gujarat Sum- architectures, network-on-chip architectures, mit 2015 where the ISTF showcased its pi- radiation-hard by design, IP integration issues, lot Cloud Computing environment. The ISTF computational nanoelectronics, computational members interacted with visitors and ex- lithography, compact modeling and high-voltage changed information about recent technolo- devices. gies and shared information about opportuni- ties available at IITGN. FRICTION STIR WELDING (FSW) Friction stir welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining process, where a rotating tool forms the weld due RESEARCH FACILITIES to severe plastic deformation. The tool rotating at high rotational speed generates heat due to fric- MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY tion at the tool-workpiece contact surface. The FACILITY (MCBF) rotating tool moves along the weld line and forms The Molecular and Cellular Biology Facility is a joint by deforming the softened plasticized ma- well-equipped with many instruments required terial. Lack of fusion during FSW avoids issues to carry out standard molecular biology and bio- such as solidification cracks, porosity, distortion chemistry experiments. The existing facilities are and mechanical properties. The FSW machine at being supplemented with additional equipment IIT Gandhinagar is capable of joining various ma- like ultrasonicator and nanospectrophotometer. terials such as aluminium, copper, magnesium, In 2014, the MCBF also added a cell culture facility steels etc in solid state. The machine has a 12.5HP in compliance with Biosafety Level 2 with instru- electrical motor for tool rotation and can generate ments like biosafety cabinet, CO incubator, auto- 2 enough torque to join hard materials. The motor mated cell counter, inverted fluorescence micro- can be rotated upto 3000 rpm. This machine is scope, liquid N cryopreserver, temperature-con- 2 capable of measuring various process parameters trolled water bath and refrigerator-freezer. during friction stir welding such as tool rotation speed, welding speed, plunge force, feed force, COMPUTATIONAL NANOELECTRONICS torque, and power. Apart from the main machine, LABORATORY (CONREL) we have developed various tools to join different The Computation Nanoelectronics Laborato- materials including polymers and fixtures to join ry (CONREL) is equipped with tools, boards and different sizes of the workpiece materials. equipment related to VLSI Design and semicon- ductor devices. The laboratory has all the tools HEARING PROTECTOR TEST MODULE ranging from device level simulations to tape out, The Hearing Protector Test System consists of such as TCAD, Cadence tools suite with 10 licens- a GRAS 45CA hearing protector test fixture, a

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 microphone setup comprising of externally po- source softwares have been implemented on the larized pressure microphones (GRAS 45AG), system. NODE-X is connected to GARUDA- the pre-amplifiers and power modules; and a GRAS Indian Grid and a MOU between CDAC Bangalore 42AP intelligent piston phone for calibration. In and IITGN. CDAC Pune has allotted a few accounts addition to measuring the performance of hear- facilitating large scale scientific computing on the ing protector devices, the setup can be used to National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) measure the level of noise cancellation provided –ParamYuva at CDAC Pune. In conjunction with by active noise control headphones. The module this, CD-Adapco has provided IITGN with unlimit- may also be used to check the characteristics of ed licenses for Star-CCM+multi-physics and CFD hearing aids if an artificial pinna is connected to software licenses for enabling large scale scien- the existing setup. tific computations on NPSF. IITGN has also been appointed by CDAC as the Indian Grid Certification HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Lab Authority for Ahmedabad. HPCLab@IITGN started life in 2011/2012 with the es- In 2015, a new HPC System named VEGA, has tablishment of NODE-X, a been set up to meet the increasing demands of hybrid multi-core and GPU HPC on campus with research funding from De- based high-performance partment of Electronics and Information Tech- computing (HPC) platform nology (DEITY), Department of Science and Tech- for advancing research and nology (DST) and IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN). VEGA teaching in computation- is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) al science and engineering of Fujitsu make with 8.8 TFlops (Peak) and 7.4 and for the promotion of the Tflops (sustained), has a nomenclature of mas- use of GPU accelerators and ter and compute nodes with Intel processors and CUDA programming for HPC. two GPU nodes each with Intel as well as NVID- IA K20Xm Tesla cards. The storage of the HPCC The lab is having seven networked workstations is equipped with Dual-Controller based SAN and set up with partial support from IIT Gandhinagar, has a usable capacity of 25TB that connects to Fujitsu and Nvidia. The initial main compute en- the master node through I/O nodes. The inter- gines for this system are the two Celsius R-670 node communication takes place through the In- workstations consisting of Intel CPU cores and finiband backbone and Gigabyte Ethernet Switch. Nvidia Tesla GPU cards. The system runs on the Currently VEGA has 192 Intel cores and 5376 GPU Ubuntu Linux Operating System and the job cores in each GPU node. scheduling is managed by an open source soft- ware Torque. Many software packages ranging from compil- ers to parallel computing softwares such as MPI, The remaining five high-end workstations form OpenMP, and parallel scientific libraries such as a computational design cluster to facilitate high PETSc, MAGMA and PLASMA, both commercial fidelity computational modeling and visualization and open-source softwares for Computational of engineered systems. In 2013, the cluster has Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Meth- been expanded to include another R-670 work- ods (FEM) have been installed and are being used station. These are widely used in the graduate for teaching and research in high fidelity com- level and a computer science minor course on Al- putational engineering analysis and design of gorithms on Advanced Computer Architectures. In multi-disciplinary engineered systems. Plans are Feb 2013, IIT Gandhinagar was granted recogni- underway to continually upgrade the HPC System tion as a Nvidia-CUDA Teaching Centre and since to support all the HPC needs of IIT Gandhinagar. 2015 as the Nvidia GPU Education Centre. FUEL CELL RESEARCH LABORATORY Several popular CAE softwares as well as open The Fuel Cell Research Laboratory has been com-

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 53 missioned and is fully operational. The laborato- actions in various domains of power engineering ry has been equipped with industrial ventilation such as power generation, transmission, distribu- system that can achieve 25 ACH (air changes tion and utilization of electrical energy. The cus- per hour) during normal operation and 50 ACH tomized hardware and firmware setup has been in case of leakage of harmful gases as detected procured from Lab-Volt, USA. The laboratory by gas detectors. The laboratory has sensors for hardware composed of customizable and scalable specific gases that have been deployed at various 3-phase AC power supplies, 3-phase synchronous locations. These sensors are connected to a cen- motor/generator and induction machines, trans- tral monitoring and control system that is based mission lines network and transformers, power on a real-time controller. The real-time controller electronics and HVDC hardware, energy storage is equipped to receive, interpret and take appro- devices, and embedded data acquisition and con- priate action on the inputs received from each of trol would reproduce a fully functional electric the individual sensors. The control actions involve power grid with major components and technol- shutting off the supply of certain gases from ogies involved. outside of the laboratory, audio visual alarm and increasing the ventilation rate in the laboratory. WASTE WATER TREATMENT LABORATORY The placement of the sensors has been guided by The Waste Water Treatment Laboratory has all computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations the modern facilities required for water and waste that have been performed on a model of the lab- water analysis with its own aerobic reactor for oratory. The CFD simulations have also helped in biological nutrient removal process. The lab has sizing and designing the ventilation system. various state-of-the-art facilities. The nitrous and nitric oxide sensors are used to quantify dissolved nitrous and nitric oxide formed during aerobic treatment of waste water. This is the first such facility in India that could to measure dissolved nitrous and nitric oxide online in waste water. The automated online dissolved oxygen (DO) gives continuous measurement of DO of the water be- ing treated in the aerobic reactor. The commercial software SIMBA will be used to model large scale treatment plants. This software is being used by IITGN research team to model and analyze waste water treatment systems at Amul Dairy. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) of waste water samples is measured by the closed reflux method. It can analyse 12 samples in a single 2-hour run. RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY The Total Kjeldal Nitrogen (TKN) measurement This laboratory (both hardware and firmware) instrument is a leading edge instrument. It has in- allows the user to emulate the structure and be- built automated scrubber and distillation system havior of an electrical power system and renew- attached to a heating digester to prevent any able energy resources with most of the different leakage of harmful gases to atmosphere. Aerobic types of components and technologies involved. bioreactor is an open channel contemporary reac- This intergraded hardware and software platform tor, which can treat 80 litres of waste water in a provides students and researchers the unique continuous mode. It has two inbuilt tanks of 120 ability to conduct experiments on power systems, litres capacity each to store the raw and treated power converters, renewable energy generation water separately. The pH, DO, conductivity and and electrical machines. It also involves system TDS electrodes provide accurate values of the re- study, design and testing under normal/fault lated parameters in waste water samples. conditions and observes the effect of controller

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL plane. It is interfaced with the Motion monitor SCIENCES CENTRE (ASC) (Innsport, Chicago, IL) as well as autonomously The Archaeological Sciences Centre (ASC) is en- developed software to provide a virtual reality gaged in carrying out multi-disciplinary investiga- environment, which enables recording of arm mo- tions of the site of Dholavira and other Harappan tion data under a variety of different task condi- sites. Some of the projects initiated are as follows; tions. This system can be integrated with a range (1) chemical characterization of copper samples of external devices including EMG, EEG and TMS from Dholavira (2) palaeoclimatic investigations equipment, which allows quantification as well of northern Rajasthan based on the palaeobo- as disruption of neural activity during arm motor tanical evidences like phytolith, diatom and pollen tasks. from the site of Karanpura, Rajasthan (3) archae- obotanical investigations of the site of Rupnagar, SysIDEA LAB Punjab through the analysis of charred grains (4) A few motion control experiments were conduct- ceramic analysis of Dholavira excavations (5) bead ed in the SysIDEA lab. The research team is cur- drilling technology of the Harappans through the rently developing two other experimental setups. samples from Karanpura, Dholavira, Daimabad One is an image-based constitutive-law estima- and Sanauli. The ASC is utilizing the various fa- tion setup while the other is a new multiple-de- cilities available at IIT Gandhinagar for the above gree of freedom under-actuated motion control analysis. These facilities includes scanning elec- setup that will help to analyze trackability con- tron microscope with EDS, x-ray diffraction and cepts and path-planning controllers. microscopes available with the discipline of bio- logical engineering. COLLOIDS ENGINEERING LABORATORY A state-of-the-art laboratory facility has been INDIAN REGIONAL NAVIGATION developed for the preparation and characteriza- SATELLITES SYSTEM (IRNSS) RECEIVER tion of nanoparticles/microparticles to be used IITGN has received an IRNSS receiver from IS- in pharmaceuticals and biomedical applications. RO-SAC to examine its navigation error charac- The laboratory has a set-up for nanoparticle pro- teristics, which has been installed on the roof of duction using a probe sonicator (Sonics VC 505), a building. The latitude, longitude, altitude and a particle size analyzer (Beckman Coulter LS other measurements of the receiver are being 13320) for the measurement of particle sizes in gathered and analyzed at regular intervals. The the range of 40nm-2mm and particle sizing sys- research team provides a monthly report on the tems (PSSS) zeta analyzer (NICOMP380 ZLS) for statistics of the errors in the position, velocity and estimation of zeta potential of aqueous suspen- other measurements of the receiver to ISRO-SAC. sions of nanoparticles. A Martin Christ freeze dry- IITGN is also using this data to improve the accura- er (Alpha 1-4 LD plus) is available for preparation cy of the digital elevation mapping (DEM on which of dry powder samples. A facility to produce aque- the research team is currently working. The DEM ous suspensions of drug nanoparticles using sub- of the Himalayan mountains is being carried out critical CO2 (at 30-70 bar) is also available which using low-Earth-orbit satellites with a synthetic includes a 5-liter high-pressure vessel (operating aperture radar and IRNSS receiver, the latter for conditions: 200 bar, and 100 C). A facility to pro- inertial navigation. A detailed knowledge of the duce and characterize aqueous∘ suspensions of error characteristics of the IRNSS receiver will help microbubbles is also available. These microbubble to improve the DEM accuracy upto decimeter scale. suspensions are emerging as a major tool in ultrason- ic contrast imaging and drug delivery applications. VIRTUAL REALITY MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM This custom-made system uses electromagnetic sensors (Ascension trakStar, Northern Digital) to record arm movements made in the horizontal

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING mass spectrometer (Waters) and cyclic voltam- The laboratory facility in the Chemical Engineer- eter (CH Instruments), a powder XRD (Bruker), ing discipline has an extensive range of modern a Lifespec-II TCSPC (Edinburgh), a multimode experimental setups. Fluid mechanics exper- 8 atomic force microscope (Bruker), a scanning imental set-ups include Reynolds experiment electron microscope (JEOL) a circular dichroism apparatus, Bernoulli’s apparatus, friction factor (CD) spectrometer (JASCO), 3 Flex-BET surface through different pipes, equivalent length of pipe area analyzer (Micromeritics, USA), TGA-DSc and fittings, orifice and venturi-meter, and centrifu- Gas Chromatography. Other research equipment gal pump characteristics. Unit operations/mass such as digital polarimeter (Anton-Paar), an FT- transfer operations experimental set ups include IR spectrophotometer (Thermo Scientific), digital ball-mill, sieve plate/simple distillation, packed- melting point apparatus (MR-VIS), a photochem- bed absorption tower, and solid-liquid/solid-gas/ ical apparatus (Luzchem), UV-Vis instruments liquid-gas mass transfer. The experimental set- (Shimadzu and Analytik Jena), a spectrofluorim- ups pertaining to heat transfer operations in- eter (Horiba-JobinYvon), high pressure liquid clude heat exchangers of various types such as chromtography system (Agilent) are also used shell and tube/double pipe/coiled plate/fluidized/ for teaching and research. The wetlab is well finned tube, and other experiments such as heat equipped with fume hoods, rotary evaporators transfer in agitated vessel, heat transfer in lami- (Buchi, IKA), analytical balances (Shimadzu, Met- nar/turbulent flows, and absorptivity of different tler) and regular facilities such as Schlenk lines, materials. Chemical reaction engineering setups heating mantles, ovens, freezers, hot plates and cover Batch/PFR/CSTR reactors. Process control stirrers. and dynamics setups include simple pendulum, bulb thermometer, interacting and non-interact- CIVIL ENGINEERING ing tanks, on-off controllers, and PID control. The Civil Engineering curriculum includes an exten- facility also includes special characterization fa- sive material testing program for the undergrad- cility such as UV spectrophotometer, HPLC, GC, uate students. The testing program in the Struc- and particle size analyzer, and a computer facili- tural Engineering Laboratory: includes compres- ty for process simulation laboratory. Simulation sive strength test of concrete; compaction test of tools such as ANSYS, STAR-CCM, AspenTech suite, concrete; slump test of concrete for workability; MATLAB and COMSOL are also available. consistency test of concrete (Ve Be consistency); soundness test of concrete; bulk density estima- CHEMISTRY tion of concrete; specific gravity test; setting time The Chemistry discipline enjoys access to sev- test for cement; grading of aggregates; compres- eral research facilities. These include a 500MHz sive strength of mortar; compressive strength Ascend FT NMR (Bruker), a Synapt G2S ESI-QToF of bricks; prism test for masonry; water absorp-

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 tion test for bricks; and initial rate of absorption surement facility, chemical test, muffled furnace of brick. Other facilities for the PG students to (900°C) for organic matter evaluation in soils, demonstrate some fundamental components optical and digital LCD microscopes for study- of structural dynamics includes instrument like ing shape of coarse grained soil (sand) particles, electro-dynamic shaker, sledge impulse hammer, suction pressure measurement including conven- sensors and data acquisition systems, waveform tional tensiometer, sensor based tensiometer, fil- generator and dynamic signal analyser. The sen- ter paper testing method setup and dew point po- sors include a variety of accelerometers, velocity tentiometer setup, direct shear device for shear seismometers and displacement transducers de- strength of cohesionless soils, unconfined com- pending upon the applications. The postgraduate pression (UC) testing device for shear strength of students are also given some basic exposure on cohesive soils, vane shear test for soft soils, two non-destructive testing through ultrasonic pulse triaxial test setup with data acquisition equip- velocity measurement and impact concrete ham- ment (DAQ) and analysis software for measuring mer. The Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory shear strength of all soil types with the facility of supports UG and PG teaching and research focus- accurate measurement of pore pressure response ing on core subject material as well as the breadth and volume change under compression loading of research interests being pursued by the MTech conditions (UU,CU,CD tests). Advanced automat- and PhD students. The lab is equipped with ba- ed triaxial setup with additional facility for exten- sic soil testing equipments as well as high-end sion loading test, kotest and stress path test, fully research equipment. The equipment are used to automated cyclic triaxial test setup (0.01-10Hz, measure the mechanical properties of soils, which stress and strain controlled, hydraulic-cum-pneu- include index property, permeability, compress- matic operation) for liquefaction potential and ibility, shear strength and dynamic properties. dynamic properties of soil (high-strain amplitude test; 10-4% to 10-2%); bender element system for The Geotechnical Laboratory has the following fa- shear modulus of soil (low-strain amplitude test; cilities/equipments: index property and soil clas- 10-6% to 10-4%), design software such as GEO5, sification, falling head permeability test for fine GiD, STADPro, CSI-SAP, slurry consolidation setup grained soil and constant head for coarse grained developed at IITGN laboratory for preparing the soil, proctor testing setup (compaction test): remolded specimens of fine grained soils con- standard & modified, three 3-gang pedometer sists of self-reacting 250kg reaction frame with setup (consolidation test), swell pressure mea- four double-stroke pneumatic pressure cylinders

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 57 and four consolidation cells, in-situ soil testing include widely used software tools such as Mat- including plate load test of 300kN capacity with lab, Synopsis TCAD tools and Cadence analog/dig- motorized anchoring system for bearing capaci- ital design tools. The laboratory is also equipped ty, standard penetration test (SPT) and dynamic with ARM, PIC controller, AVR and microcontroller cone penetration test (DCPT) with automatic free boards as well as a precision magnetic analyzer. fall hammering system, ground penetration radar The power systems simulation laboratory has (GPR) with mono and bistatic operations includ- PSCAD software licensed for 25 nodes. ing antennae of frequencies 100MHz, 400MHz with bistatic operation and 200MHz and 900MHz The latest additions include a facility for fabricat- with monostatic operation. ing printed circuit boards (PSBCs), DSP starter kits for conducting real-time signal processing experi- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ments, a data acquisition system (National Instru- The Electrical Engineering discipline currently ments) to strengthen the machines and controls offers six laboratory courses to its undergradu- laboratory and solar PV laboratory kits for PV cell/ ate students and one basic laboratory course to module/system characterization. students of other engineering disciplines. The laboratories are also well equipped for advanced The laboratory facilities now available for re- experiments and research. search include the following:

The Electronics Engineering Laboratory has The Photonic Sensors Laboratory focuses on Gunn diode-based microwave test benches and research in the field of optical physical and chemi- antenna trainer kits to train the students in RF ex- cal sensors. The major area of thrust is tunable di- periments. It also has facilities for microprocessor ode laser spectroscopy to measure concentration, and microcontroller-based embedded systems pressure and temperature of gases for industrial experiments.The Electrical Machinery laboratory and medical applications. Another area of focus is has 5 sets of test benches with each set incorpo- the detection of adulteration in food and bever- rating the following machinery and control mod- ages. The lab is equipped with several narrow line ules: a DC machine, a synchronous machine and width near-infrared and mid-infrared laser diodes an induction machine. The bench also includes for the detection of methane, acetylene, carbon panel meters, sensors for speed torque measure- dioxide, ammonia and water vapour. A state-of- ment, power electronic controllers for field and ar- the-art Semiconductor characterization lab- mature power supply, variable frequency drive for oratory with a 6-inch probe station, parametric the induction motors and synchronizer for parallel analyzer, a dynamic signal analyzer and ICCAP operation of alternators. The Power Electronics software has been developed for detailed wa- and Drives Laboratory has FPGA based (Spar- fer-level characterization using I-V, C-V, pulse, ton/Xilinx) DSP controllers and intelligent power noise and reliability measurements. An Affective modules for the control of induction motors, BLDC Computing System Laboratory equipped with motors, PMAC motors, dc (shunt or separately ex- physiological signal data acquisition system and cited) motors and switched reluctance motors. virtual reality programming platform for research The Control Systems Laboratory has process on adaptive psychophysiology based systems. control trainer modules that include simulators The VLSI Design lab facility has been now en- of various types of feedback control systems. PID hanced with almost all the necessary software controllers and lead/lag compensators are also in and a considerable amount of hardware support. place. Process measurement kits are available to Real-time Power Engineering Simulation (RT- measure parameters such as temperature, level, PES) test bed is a fully digital real-time simulation position, velocity and acceleration. The laboratory platform. It has been set-up to study the behavior also has a comprehensive two-channel vibration of the electrical system as a “virtual”prototype. analyzer to study vibrations in flexible structures. The actual computer-controlled HIL and RCP ca- The computational facilities of the discipline pability of RTPES test bed provide the opportuni-

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ty to test the performance of the various equip- MM–237, M/s Milman thin film systems Pvt Ltd) ments/controllers before introducing them into with facility for co-deposition from two targets. the real environment. All types of metal, semiconductor and insulator films can be deposited using this deposition unit. MATERIALs SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING The laboratory is also equipped with a four-point The Materials Science and Engineering discipline probe measurement system to measure the resis- has state-of-the-art equipment for materials tivity of the semiconductor thin films. characterization focusing on thin film processing and characterization, biomaterials and joining of Wet Lab and liposome preparation facility – materials. These include the following equipment This lab houses the instruments necessary for and facilities: preparing liposomes and protein-lipid complexes. The instruments include ultrasonic processor, an- Ambient scanning probe microscope (Multi- alytical weighing balance, dessicator with vacu- mode-8-AM, Bruker) –This high-end instrument um pump, centrifuge, incubator and autoclave. is equipped with basic and advanced modes, such as, contact, non-contact, lateral, magnet- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ic and electric force, phase imaging, STM/STS The Mechanical Systems Design Laboratory and c-AFM. Along with the measurement of the (MSDL@IITGN) supports the execution of struc- film quality, its roughness and particle size, this tured experiments on the behavior of mechanical instrument also measures the magnetic force, components and systems has test rigs such as electrostatic force and conductivity profile of the planar linkages, cams, gear box, whirling of shaft, relevant samples. All kinds of solid samples can be balancing of machines and mechanical vibrations. measured with this instrument. The gear-box test rig allows fault-detection such as broken tooth by way of vibration characteris- X-ray diffraction System (D8 Discover, Bruker) tics. –This is a floor-mounted fully automatic x-ray diffraction (XRD) system. In addition to the basic powder diffraction (Bragg-Brentano geometry) facility, it has separate modules for non-ambient high temperature (up to 1600°C) studies, small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and thin film anal- ysis (grazing incidence).

Friction stir welding equipment –The friction stir welding machine is designed to weld plates Solid and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory: The in linear manner. The machine is capable of pro- Solid Mechanics Laboratory has two Mts universal viding up to 50kN axial thrust and can accommo- testing machines of 100 kN and 200 kN capacity, date a maximum platesize of 800mm length and Charpy impact testing machine of 450J capaci- 600mm width. The machine is controlled using a ty (Mts), torsion testing machine (500 nm) and high-end PLC module. The user-friendly software Rockwell and Vickers hardness testing machines allows for ease of setting all relevant parameters (Zwick Roell), and a fatigue testing machine. The such as tool rotary speed, feed, torque and force fluid mechanics laboratory has setups for con- for x-axis and on tool shoulder (z axis). During stir ducting experiments on fluid statics and fluid dy- welding operations these parameters are record- namics. Several common turbo machines such as ed and can be retrieved. gear pump, centrifugal pump, pelton wheel along with various flow measuring devices and accesso- Thin Film Laboratory –The Thin Film Laboratory ries have also been installed. carries out film deposition using an RF magnetron sputtering unit (model: table-top sputter coater Manufacturing Laboratory: The Manufacturing

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 59 Laboratory has facilities such as lathes, milling machine, vertical machining centre, electric dis- charge machine, welding, fitting and tin smithy equipment. It supports courses on Manufacturing Practices and Processes and supports manufac- turing activities in Integrated Design and Manu- facturing courses. It also serves as a workshop for fabrication of undergraduate student projects as well as research-related equipment and accesso- ries.

Control Systems Laboratory: The Control Sys- tems Laboratory is shared between several dis- tron-spin resonance, the study of the interaction ciplines and covers a range of experiments that between the magnetic field and the magnetic di- help the students understand both the theory pole moment associated with the orbital angular and design aspects of control system and the momentum of electron by Zeeman effect, inter- implementation aspects. The test rigs provide ferometers like Fabry-Perot and Mach-Zehnder hands-on experience with sensors, data acquisi- which are used extensively in measurement of tion, calibration, stability analysis, PID controller extremely small changes in wavelength, distanc- tuning, modeling from experimental data, root- es and for measuring refractive indices of various locus-based design to meet performance criteria. substances, experiments on lasers include the There are test-rigs for temperature control of hot study of intensity profile of a laserbeam and ex- water baths, liquid level control, inverted pen- periments on optical waveguides. Keeping in mind dulum control, servo motor control, and control the significant role that electronic instrumenta- trainer kits which are used to give an application tion plays in experimental physics, the laboratory oriented view of control systems. also offers various introductory experiments on electronic components like FET, MOSFET, logic PHYSICS gates, operational amplifiers, signal modulation The Physics Teaching Laboratory is equipped with (AM, FM, PWM). Other high-end equipment that state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for con- are in the pipeline include X-ray diffractometer ducting experiments and demonstrations at the for elemental analysis, crystal growth and crys- undergraduate level. Over the past one year, it has tal density measurements. Apart from standard been significantly expanded to conduct advanced experiments students are encouraged to partic- experiments at the MSc level. The MSc physics ipate in proposing new experiments as part of laboratory consists of eleven experiments cover- the standard curriculum. The physics laboratory ing topics in optics, solid-state physics, spectros- houses an astronomical telescope to encourage copy and modern physics. The procured state- students to develop interest in this area. It has a of-the-art equipment include apparatus to study reflector with an eight-inch mirror of focal length the Hall effect and measurement of energy band 1200 mm on a Dobsonian mount and fitted with gap in semiconductors, the study of interaction of lunar as well as a solar filters. Many students use an external magnetic field with an electron spin it regularly to observe planets, star clusters and and measurement of gyromagnetic ratio by elec- other cosmic objects.

60 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 61 LIBRARY The library is an integral part of the Institute’s nals and SAE Digital Library making a total of 38 academic and research work. It has continued to e-resources. The library also subscribed to num- build and expand its collection both in print and ber of selected journals from major publishers. digital form, and design and deliver innovative services in support of teaching, learning, research CIRCULATION (LENDING) AND and other scholarly activities taking place on the INFORMATION SERVICES campus. During the last year, the library initiat- Circulation Service ed a number of important activities and services The total number of documents issued and re- which are presented here briefly. turned during the year was 22161 and 20553 respectively. This reflects a significant increase COLLECTION in comparison to previous years (issue 14742 and Books, Technical Reports, Theses & return 13917). Dissertations and Audio Visual Collection The library collection consists of research mono- Library Extended Opening Hours (24/7) graphs, text books, reference books, conference The library opening hours were extended to 24/7 proceedings, CDs, VCDs and DVDs covering the hours during the mid-semester and the end-se- areas of academic and research interest of the In- mester examinations in both semesters in the ac- stitute. Subsequent to the decision taken in the ademic year. 16th Senate meeting, the library has also started to develop a special collection of children books. Information/Reference Services The following table presents additions during the The library has been actively promoting reference year 2014-15. and information services (in person or over the campus network) to its user community. In 2014- Table: 1 Collection Added 15, the library continued and introduced new ser- Type of Additions Total collec- vices such as new additions of books with links to Collection in 2014-15 tion as on publisher website, a weekly alert of publications originating from the Institute and an alert about Books 3100 20746 the book of the week. It also created a catalogue Children Books 872 872 of MTech dissertations, a virtual reference collec- CDs 98 821 tion with links, citation styles, e-print archives and updated 31 bibliographies on different subjects. VCD/DVDs 110 451 Technical Reports 456 456 RESOURCE SHARING Theses 35 46 The library has always taken an active part in availing the benefits of sharing resources with Total 4671 23392 other major libraries in the cities of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar as well IITs, NITs, IIMs, IISERs, Print Journals and Magazines CSIR and DELNET member libraries in the country. During the year the library discontinued subscrip- This is done through inter-library loan and docu- tion to 33 journals that were not utilized and are ment delivery services. now Open Access. A set of 15 new journals were added, taking the total number of subscribed jour- Inter-Library Loan nals to 139. This is in addition to a large number The library borrowed 135 books as compared to (over 8000) of scholarly e-journals subscribed. 57 books in the previous year and loaned 7 books to other libraries through the inter-library loan Digital Resources service. In addition to the existing 36 resources, the li- brary added two new resources viz. Nature jour-

62 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Document Delivery Service of Library Services in Engineering Colleges The number of articles requested and received from Oct 13-14, 2014 for librarians of the colleges from other libraries has increased three-fold. A covered under the TEQIP Program. The event was total of 9519 articles were procured (as com- attended by 17 participants. pared to 3312 last year) from other libraries and delivered to our faculty members and students. DIGITAL REPOSITORY Besides getting papers from other libraries to The library has created a ‘Digital Repository’ meet the Institute's requirements, the library also (http://repository.iitgn.ac.in/) using the wide- delivered 1062 papers to other libraries on their ly used open source DSapce software to collect, request. organize, manage and provide access to scholarly publications. MEMBERSHIPS Organizational Membership The membership of INDEST, INFLIBNET e-consor- LIBRARY STAFF ACTIVITIES tia, Developing Library Network (DELNET) along Library Staff Visits to Technology with nine other library and professional bodies Libraries and Training was renewed in order to avail the benefits of vari- As part of staff development policy of the Insti- ous services. In addition, the library enrolled as an tute in respective domains, three of the regular Institutional Member of American Concrete Insti- staff members namelyPanna Chaudhary, Tapas tute(ACI). Kumar Das and Viral Asjola (all senior library and information assistants) visited the libraries Library Memberships of IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, TIFR, JNU and BITS Pilani. The library has introduced five new membership These visits gave them valueable exposure to the schemes that enables members to use library practices adopted by well-established libraries resources and services against prescribed fee or and also helped them to build relations with staff even free of cost. The membership categories are members of these institutes. They have also at- a)industries & corporate houses, b) alumni mem- tended various professional workshops and sem- bership, c) academic institutions and government inars held in Ahmedabad. departments, d) individual (students, academi- cians, and researchers affiliated to academic insti- NEW INITIATIVES tutions) and e) IITGN community family members. The library has created subject resource guides in the disciplines of Archaeology, Biological Sci- LIBRARY ORIENTATION & TRAINING ences, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Intel- Library Orientation for Freshers lectual Property Rights, Open Access Resources, The library organized four orientation sessions Physics, Electronic Theses & Dissertation, Pat- for BTech students from Jul 23-26, 2014 and two ent Resources, Standards and Specifications Re- sessions for MTech and PhD students on Jul 25 source using open source software called Subject and Dec 27, 2014 respectively to familiarise them Plus. This will help greatly to create awareness, with the resources and services offered by the li- promote use of library resources and efficient- brary. ly manage references. In addition, subject liai- son activities are being initiated to build disci- Training Sessions & Workshops pline-wise resources. The necessary expertise The library organized different sessions onSci - in implementing Zotero, Mendeley and other eFinder on Feb 4, 2015, ChemSpider on Jul 10, reference management software is being de- 2014 and Scopus Jul 14, 2014 & Mar 31, 2015 re- veloped to efficiently manage citations and refer- spectively. These sessions were useful in spread- ences. ing awareness about how best to use these da- tabases for literature survey. The library also or- ganized a two-day workshop on Modernization

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Three qualified medical practitioners are available PHYSIOTHERAPY CENTRE at the Institute 9am to 9:30 pm on week days A physiotherapy centre has been started at the to provide medical care and advice to students, Institute with Dr Arvind Chauhan (BPhysio) staff and faculty. Hospitalization expenses of all available at the centre for two hours every day. students are covered under a medical insurance The physiotherapy department is well equipped policy. A trained male nurse and an assistant with electrotherapy machines (short wave are available on a full-time basis to provide first- diathermy (SWD), IFT, TENS, muscle stimulator, aid and for routine medical services such as paraffin wax bath (PWB), cervical and lumbar checking temperature, blood pressure, blood traction, ultrasound machine, hot and cold packs, sugar, oxygen levels and dressing wounds. They and exercise therapy equipment (shoulder wheel, also assist in maintaining medical supplies and physioball, therabands, rope and pulley for keeping medical records. The other facilities shoulder exercise, springs, weights cuffs (sand include an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine, bags), wall ladder for shoulder). The centre also oxygen, nebulizer therapy for asthma and chronic offers treatment of orthopaedic conditions such obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), otoscope as arthritis, tennis elbow and for neurological and a suction machine for ear examination, eye conditions like sciatica, cervical spondylosis. check-up facility, and a 24-hour vehicle facility Post-operative and post-fracture physiotherapy for patients in case of emergency. The SAL management, recovery from sports injuries, Hospital Ahmedabad is on the Institute’s panel spinal rehabilitation in postural problems are also of approved hospitals. The Institute has a modest available. The patients are also advised about in-house pharmacy that has all kind of commonly basic exercises and general guidelines for weight used medicines and a blood collection centre. management and general well being.

large collection of children's books and toys, two DAY CARE CENTRE small play areas, a private nursing area for babies, a kitchenette and a separate partitioned sleep area. The Day Care has taken several measures to ensure safety and security, including an advanced fire-safety and alarm system, CCTV monitoring system, first-aid kit, doctor on call, high hygiene standards and adequate child proofing. The cen- tre is actively engaged in fun and developmental activities such as drawing, clay modelling, danc- ing, singing and indoor games. The day care also intermittently organizes short-term structured The IITGN Day Care Centre is a community ini- programs such as music and movement sessions, tiative to provide a safe, secure and nurturing story-telling sessions and summer camp through environment to the children from IITGN families volunteer-driven initiatives. The day care has also while their parents are at work. It caters to chil- facilitated interaction between parents and var- dren between the ages of 6 months and 6 years, ious coaches for activities such as football and and operates from Monday to Friday from 9am to chess for children 6 years and older. 6pm. The centre has a recreational section with a

64 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 65 faculty activities Sponsored Projects Consulting Projects Awards and Recognition Honorary Work Academic Lectures by Faculty Other Faculty Activities Professional Activities Publications Faculty members at IITGN are engaged in a wide range of academic activities that relate to research and development, consultancy, publications, and honorary work for other academic organizations. The activities described below cover these areas and also list recognition received by IITGN faculty in their various disciplines. • Intelligent adaptive virtual reality based SPONSORED PROJECTS stroke rehabilitation platform for elderly, PROJECTS SANCTIONED DURING 2014-15 DST-SEED sponsored by DST-Department of • Heat transfer and visco-plastic flow Science & Technology-SEED. Principal inves- based model for friction stir welding of tigator: Prof Uttama Lahiri, Electrical Engi- copper-YSRA: Young Scientist Research neering Award sponsored by BRNS - Board of Re- • Smart non-invasive health monitoring de- search in Nuclear Sciences. Principal inves- vice for elderly sponsored by IEEE Region10 tigator: Prof Amit Arora, Materials Science Humanitarian Technology (HT). Principal in- and Engineering vestigator: Prof Uttama Lahiri, Electrical En- • Research collaboration agreement for gineering natural evaporative effluent treatment, • River basin scale hydrological investiga- sponsored by Sagar Drugs and Pharmaceuti- tion & characterization using variable cals Pvt Ltd. Principal investigator: Prof Atul infiltration capacity (VIC) model, spon- Bhargav, Mechanical Engineering sored by the National Remote Sensing Cen- • Process efficiency and stability of auto tre (NRSC), Hyderabad. Principal investigator: thermal reformers in diesel-based marine Prof Vimal Mishra, Civil Engineering fuel cell systems, sponsored by Naval Mate- • Hydrologic modeling and climate change rials Research Laboratory, DRDO laboratory. impact assessment in the Ganga river ba- Principal investigator: Prof Atul Bhargav, sin sponsored by the Ministry of Environment Mechanical Engineering and Forest (MoEF), Government of India. Prin- • Computational aero-elastic assessment cipal investigator: Prof Vimal Mishra, Civil of transonic compressor rotor blades, Engineering sponsored by Gas Turbine Enabling Technol- • Motor adaptation and skill learning in Par- ogy Initiative, Ministry of Defence. Principal kinson’s disease sponsored by Science and investigator: Prof Murali Damodaran, Me- Engineering Research Board, DST. Principal chanical Engineering investigator: Prof Pratik Mutha, Biological • Sediment dynamics and sediment con- Engineering nectivity in the kosi basin: implications • Microstructure studies of self-assembled for river hazards, sponsored by Interna- Cu(In1-xGax)Se2(CIGS) nanodots on ZnO tional Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel- thin film sponsored by Council of Scientific opment (ICIMOD). Principal investigator: Prof and Industrial Research CSIR. Principal inves- Vikrant Jain, Earth Sciences tigator: Prof Emila Panda, Material Science • Modeling spread of vector borne diseases and Engineering in urban areas from a spatially interacting • Designing impact evaluations for gram network perspective, sponsored by Sci- varta under SWASTH, Bihar, India spon- ence and Engineering Research Board. DST. sored by International Initiative for Impact Principal investigator: Prof Shivkumar Jolad, Evaluation (3IE). Principal investigator: Prof Physics Malavika A Subramanyam, Humanities & • Meshfree implementation of cardiac elec- Social Science trophysiology, sponsored by Science and • Development of a self-contained PV-pow- Engineering Research Board, DST. Principal ered domestic toilet and wastewater investigator: Prof Shankarjee Krishna- treatment system, sponsored by Bill and moorthi, Mechanical Engineering Melinda Gates Foundation with a sub-con-

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 67 tract from Caltech to IITGN. Principal investi- gator: Prof Murali Damodaran, Mechanical gator: Prof Babji Srinivasan, Chemical Engi- Engineering; co-PIs: Prof Atul Bhargav, Me- neering chanical Engineering and Prof Naran Pin- doriya, Electrical Engineering ONGOING SPONSORED PROJECTS • Aptamer-magnetic nanoparticle con- • Characterization of rotational seismic ex- structs for multiplexed detection of food- citation, sponsored by the Department of borne pathogens, sponsored by the Depart- Science and Technology. Principal investiga- ment of Science and Technology. Principal tor: Prof Dhiman Basu, Civil Engineering investigator: Prof Bhaskar Datta, Chemistry • Ethanol auto thermal reforming: design • Dynamics of self-sustained chemo-me- optimization through experimental and chanical oscillations of active polymer modelling studies, sponsored by the De- gels, sponsored by the Department of Sci- partment of Science and Technology. Princi- ence and Technology. Principal investigator: pal investigator: Prof Atul Bhargav, Mechan- Prof Pratyush Dayal, Chemical Engineering ical Engineering • Development of low-cost intelligent • Quantitative near-and mid-infrared head-phones for improving social inter- wave-length modulation spectroscopy for actions of children with autism spectrum gassensing applications, sponsored by De- disorders, sponsored by the Department of partment of Science and Technology. Princi- Science and Technology. Principal investiga- pal investigator: Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty, tor: Prof Nithin V George, Electrical Engi- Electrical Engineering neering • A novel process for precipitation and sta- • Dry coating of nano-additives for energy bilization of drug nanoparticles in aque- efficient cement clinkerization, sponsored

ous suspensions using CO2, sponsored by by the Department of Science and Technolo- Department of Biotechnology. Principal in- gy. Principal investigator: Prof Chinmay Gho- vestigator: Prof Sameer V Dalvi, Chemical roi, Chemical Engineering Engineering • Photochemical and photophysical studies • Rapid precipitation and stabilization of of donor-acceptor substituted aryl and drug nanoparticles using ultrasonical- heteroaryl polyenes, sponsored by Council ly-driven mixing device, sponsored by De- of Scientific and Industrial Research. Principal partment of Science and Technology. Princi- investigator: Prof Sriram Kanvah Gundime- pal investigator: Prof Sameer V Dalvi, Chem- da, Chemistry ical Engineering • Photo-processes of donor-acceptor sub- • Engineering stable and bio-compatible stituted polyenes in ionic liquid media, microbubble formulation for biomedical sponsored by the Department of Science and applications, sponsored by Department of Technology. Principal investigator: Prof Sri- Biotechnology. Principal investigator: Prof ram Kanvah Gundimeda, Chemistry Sameer V Dalvi, Chemical Engineering • Carbaporphyrins with in built arene moi- • High-fidelity computational design of ety: their synthesis, characterization and engineered systems on HPC platforms, metal coordination study, sponsored by sponsored by the Department of Information the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Technology. Principal investigator: Prof Mu- Principal investigator: Prof Iti Gupta, Chemistry rali Damodaran, Mechanical Engineering • Synthesizing single-atom thick inorgan- • Value addition to the initial design of a ic nano sheets isomorphous to graphene low-cost windmill for pumping brine and by developing chemical exfoliation strat- electricity production in rural areas-a egies for layered boron-based materials, GRiDS@IITGN-NIF initiative, sponsored by sponsored by Department of Science and National Innovation Foundation, Department Technology. Principal investigator: Prof Ka- of Science and Technology. Principal investi- beer Jasuja, Chemical Engineering

68 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 • How are context and health of older adults generation in protein-lipid systems:elec- related incorporation of geospatial analy- tro- statics and hyperphobicity, sponsored sis into sociology of aging, sponsored by by the Department of Science and Technolo- ICSSR. Principal investigator: Prof Tannistha gy. Principal investigator: Prof Abhijit Mish- Samanta, Humanities & Social Sciences. Co- ra, Materials Science & Engineering PI: Prof Shivakumar Jolad, Physics • Measurement to management (m2m): • An experimental investigation to locate improved water use efficiency and agri- and assess the severity of winding defor- cultural productivity through experimen- mations in power transformers, sponsored tal sensor network sponsored by Media Lab by the Department of Science and Technolo- Asia, Ministry of Communications & Informa- gy. Principal investigator: Prof Ragavan K, tion Technology. Principal investigator: Prof Electrical Engineering Vimal Mishra, Civil Engineering • Intelligent virtual reality based gaze-sen- • Statistical learning of category informa- sitive social communication system for tion: a neuro-imaging investigation, spon- children with autism spectrum disorder, sored by Cognitive Science Research Initiative sponsored by the Department of Science and of the Department of Science and Technol- Technology, Principal investigator: Prof Utta- ogy. Principal investigator: Prof Krishna ma Lahiri, Electrical Engineering Prasad Miyapuram, Computer Science and • Post-stroke tele-neurore habilitation Engineering using an operant conditioning paradigm • Effects of device geometries and design under volitionally driven transcutaneous rules on the performance and reliability neuro- muscular electrical stimulation of advanced MOS devices with high-Kgate funded by the DST, and Institute National de dielectrics and metal gates sponsored by Recherche en Informatiqueet en Automa- the Department of Science and Technology. tique (IN-RIA) under the Indo-French Pro- Principal investigator: Prof Nihar Mohapa- gramme in Information and Communication tra, Electrical Engineering Science & Technology (ICST). Principal inves- • Global stability analysis of spatially de- tigator: Prof Uttama Lahiri, Electrical Engi- veloping axisymmetric boundary layers, neering and Dr Anirban Dutta, Université sponsored by Aeronautics Research and De- Montpellier, France velopment Board (ARDB). Principal investi- • A cognitivist exploration of the concept gator: Prof Vinod Narayanan, Mechanical of privacy behavior and experience spon- Engineering sored by Department of Science and Tech- • A novel system-identification-based ap- nology. Principal investigator: Prof Jaison A proach for understanding the deforma- Manjaly, Humanities & Social Science bility of DNA, sponsored by Department of • Exploring internationally collaborative Science and Technology. Principal investiga- projects where the arts meet technolo- tor: Prof Harish P M, Mechanical Engineering gy, sponsored by British Council’s Knowledge • Delayed reconstruction of unknown in- Economy Partnerships (KEP) programme. puts of dynamical systems, sponsored by Principal investigator: Prof Achal Mehra, the Department of Science and Technology. Humanities & Social Science and Victoria Principal investigator: Prof Harish P M, Me- Dean,The School of the Arts, The University chanical Engineering of Northampton, UK • Fabrication and a detailed microstructur- • Experimental studies of metastability in al Fabrication and detailed microstruc- different synchronizers, sponsored by the tural films with ZnO buffer layer for the Department of Science and Technology. Prin- photovoltaic applications, sponsored by cipal investigator: Prof Joycee Mekie, Electri- the Department of Science and Technology, cal Engineering Principal investigator: Prof Emila Panda, Ma- • Molecular-scale membrane curvature terials Science and Engineering

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 69 • Oxidation behavior of rare magnetic thin films, sponsored by DRDO, Principal investi- CONSULTING PROJECTS gator: Prof Emila Panda, Materials Science PROJECTS SANCTIONED DURING 2014-15 and Engineering • Understanding surface properties of fine • Short-term generation scheduling in powders for DPI Application for Wock- power systems under uncertainty/inter- hardt. Principal investigator: Prof Chinmay mittent characteristics of renewable en- Ghoroi, Chemical Engineering ergy sources (RES) and demands, spon- • Applicability of clause 7.9 of IS: 1893- sored by Department of Science and Tech- 2002 for Srinivas Resort Limited, Hyderabad. nology. Principal investigator: Prof Naran Principal investigator: Prof Sudhir K Jain, Civ- Pindoriya, Electrical Engineering il Engineering • Virtual geotechnical laboratory, sponsored • Intel (R) Galileo course work development by Ministry of Human Resource Development. for Intel Ltd, Principal investigator: Prof Joy- Principal investigator: Prof Amit Prashant, cee Mekie, Electrical Engineering Civil Engineering • Providing hydrologic model output for In- • Investigation of object motion categories stitute of Rural Management Anand. Principal in dynamic natural scenes and their ap- investigator: Prof Vimal Mishra, Civil Engi- plications, sponsored by the Department of neering Science and Technology. Principal investiga- • Climate change impact assessment for tor: Prof Shanmuganathan Raman, Electri- the state of Madhya Pradesh for State Knowl- cal Engineering edge Management Centre on Climate Change.

• CO2 reforming of methane to generate Principal investigator: Prof Vimal Mishra, syngas using nanostructured doped ox- Civil Engineering ides and nanoporous aluminosilicates, • Development of downscaled and bias-cor- sponsored by the Department of Science and rected projection for columns and Nicara- Technology. Principal investigator: Prof Sud- gua and Colombia for DTU Management En- hanshu Sharma, Chemistry gineering. Principal investigator: Prof Vimal • Experimental and theoretical investiga- Mishra, Civil Engineering tions of polymerization-grade ethylene • Vetting of design and drawings of 10 nos. synthesis, sponsored by the Department of drainage siphons for KTECHNOCARE Princi- Science and Technology. Principal investiga- pal investigator: Prof Pranab Kumar Moha- tor: Prof Sudhanshu Sharma, Chemistry patra, Civil Engineering • Data-driven control loop performance • MMS SWIR magnet holding cage for IGTR– assessment & diagnosis tool: implemen- RP. Principal investigator: Prof N Ramakrish- tation in waste water treatment system, nan, Mechanical Engineering sponsored by the Department of Science and • Low-cost automation system for Konark Technology. Principal investigator: Prof Babji Group of Companies, Mumbai. Principal inves- Srinivasan, Chemical Engineering tigator: Prof N Ramakrishnan, Mechanical • Colloidal particles self-assembly in liquid Engineering crystals, sponsored by the Department of • District Human Development Re- Science and Technology. Principal investiga- port-Ahmedabad for Gujarat Social Infra- tor: Prof Prachi Thareja, Chemical Engineer- structure Development Authority. Principal ing investigator: Prof Tannistha Samanta, Hu- • An investigation on eigen value problems manities and Social Sciences and qualitative theory of fully nonline • Failure investigation analysis of steel arelliptic equations, sponsored by National chimney at Sanghi Industries Ltd Vadodara, Board of Higher Mathematics. Principal inves- Gujarat. For Rakesh Narula & Co, Vadodara, tigator: Prof Jagmohan Tyagi, Mathematics. Gujarat. Principal investigator: Prof Gaurav

70 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Srivastava, Civil Engineering • Applicability of Intel atom processor for low-power computing systems and em- ONGOING CONSULTING PROJECTS bedded applications for Intel Higher educa- • Computational fluid dynamics for hi-tech tion programme. Principal investigator: Prof outsourcing services. Principal investigator: Joycee Mekie, Electrical Engineering Prof Murali Damodaran, Mechanical Engi- • Smart grid pilot project–UGVCL for Uttar neering Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (UGVCL), Gujarat. • Industrial computational fluid dynamics Principal investigator: Prof Naran M Pin- activities for Hi-Tech OS. Principal investi- doriya, Electrical Engineering gator: Prof Murali Damodaran, Mechanical • Design of barricades with improved effi- Engineering ciency for Raksha Shakti University. Principal • Identification of an optimal disinfectant investigator: Prof Amit Prashant, Civil Engi- for the preservation of RO purified water for neering, Co-principal investigator: Prof Bhas- "Sarvjal" Piramal Waters Private Ltd. Principal kar Bhatt, Design investigator: Prof Sharad Gupta, Biological • Improving the present hydraulic system Engineering for Peass Industrial Engineering Pvt Ltd. Prin- • Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, cipal investigator: Prof N Ramakrishnan, Research and Management (IITRAM): To Mechanical Engineering provide assistance and guidance for the • Productivity assessment & enhancement newly established university Institute of In- for ACME Air Equipments Pvt Ltd, GIDC. Princi- frastructure, Technology, Research and Man- pal investigator: Prof N Ramakrishnan, Me- agement (IITRAM) for Government of Gujarat. chanical Engineering Prof Sudhir K Jain is the Principal investiga- • Analysis of slopes at Ghatkopar for Satra tor and Prof S P Mehrotra the Convener and Property Developers Pvt Ltd, Mumbai. Prin- Nodal Officer of IITGN for IITRAM Cell cipal investigator: Prof Ajanta Sachan, Civil • National level expert instituteto advise Engineering and oversee the scheme on state level an- • Cost-benefit analysis of integrated chor institutes in the focus sectors spon- scheduling and production control for ABB sored by the Government of Gujarat. Principal Global Industries and Services Ltd. Principal investigator: Prof Sudhir K Jain, Civil Engi- investigator: Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan, neering Chemical Engineering

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 71 AWARDS AND RECOGNITION The following faculty members have received munity of India. GICEA is a premier Institute of civil special awards and recognition by external bodies engineers and architects and is a non-govern- during 2014-15. ment organization.

Prof Amit Arora has received the DAE Young Prof Vikrant Jain was invited to be the member Scientist Research Award for a research project of State Advisory Committee on Floods and titled 'Heat flow and visco plastic flow based Drought, Bihar State Disaster Management Au- model for friction stir welding of copper'. thority (BSDMA), Government of Bihar.

Prof Bireswar Das’s paper 'Zero Knowledge Prof Kabeer Jasuja and Prof Babji Srinivasan and Circuit Minimization' with Prof Eric Allen- have been selected for the Inspire Faculty der has been selected for the Best Paper Award Award by the Department of Science and Tech- in the 39th International Symposium on Mathe- nology. The award is given to young scientists un- matical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS der the age of 32. 2014). The award is sponsored by The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Prof Shivakumar Jolad has been nominated as (EATCS). core working committee on District Human De- velopment Report of Ahmedabad, Gujarat Social Prof Anirban Dasgupta has been selected for Infrastructure Development Society, Government Google Research Award for the proposal titled of Gujarat. 'Algorithms for large network analytics'. The Google Research Awards aims to identify and Prof Ragavan K received the IIT Gandhinagar Ex- support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing cellence Award in Teaching for the year 2013- cutting-edge research in computer science, engi- 2014. neering, and related fields. Out of a total of 808 proposals received across 55 countries, IITGN Prof Alok Kumar Kanungo has been awarded a is the only Indian institute to receive this award publication grant towards a book titled 'Mapping among the 122 projects funded this year. Prof Indo-Pacific Beads vis-a-vis Papanaidupet' Dasgupta also has been awarded the Ramanujan that is under preparation. Fellowship, sponsored by the Department of Sci- ence and Technology (DST), Government of India. Prof Dinesh Korjan has been appointed as Men- tor with Dlabs, the Design led Incubator at ISB Prof Sameer V Dalvi (Chemical Engineering) re- (India Business School), Hyderabad. He was also ceived the IIT Gandhinagar Excellence Award in appointed on the Jury Panel on Packaging Design Research for the year 2012-2013. for Core 77 Design Awards 2015. And fileddesign registration for Street Bin Design (Regn.no: Prof Chinmay Ghoroi (Chemical Engineering) re- 265733 dated 17 September 2014). ceived the IIT Gandhinagar Excellence Award in Institution Building, for the year 2013-2014. Prof Harish Palanthandalam Madapusi re- ceived the IIT Gandhinagar Excellence in Insti- The Gujarat Institute of Civil Engineers and Ar- tution Building Award for the year 2012-2013. chitects (GICEA) felicitated Prof Sudhir K Jain on May 17, 2014 and awarded him an Honorary Prof Sharmistha Majumdar has been awarded Membership. The felicitation is in recognition of the Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship by his significant contributions to the field of earth- the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Sci- quake engineering practice and for his selfless ence and Technology for a period of 5 years. service to a diverse and dynamic learning com-

72 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Prof Barun Majumder has received the Ful- Prof Srinivas Reddy launched his book 'The bright Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out re- Dancer and the King', a translation of Kalidasa’s search at the Montana State University, USA. comedic play Malavikagnimitram, with a staged reading of Act II along with musical accompani- Prof S P Mehrotra received the prestigious Na- ment on Aug 19, 2014. Prof Reddy was invited to tional Metallurgist Award (Research & Aca- be the Contributory Editor in Sanskrit for the lit- demia) for the year 2014. The Ministry of Steel, erary e-journal Muse India. in association with the Indian Institute of Metals, recognizes outstanding contributions of metal- Prof Tannistha Samanta received the IIT Gand- lurgists and bestows this distinction on two per- hinagar Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014. sons every year. She was also invited as Visiting Assistant Pro- fessor in School of Arts & Science, University of Prof Vimal Mishra has been selected for the Na- Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, May 2014. tional Environmental Science Fellowship by the Ministry of Environment and Forest for the Prof Sudipta Sarkar has been awarded a visit- proposal Implications of land cover/land use and ing fellowship under Indian Scientists Visitor climate changes on soil moisture variability in India. Program for Spanish University of Santiago de- Compostela (PEIN Program). Prof Pranab Mohapatra was invited to be the member of State Advisory Committee on Prof Indranath Sengupta was invited to be the Floods and Drought, Bihar State Disaster Manage- member of the Board of Studies, Department ment Authority (BSDMA), Government of Bihar. of Mathematics, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Meghalaya. He was also invited Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay has been nominat- to be the member of GUJCOST for evaluation of ed as Council Member by the Indian Institute of research project proposals. Metals (IIM) for the year 2014–2015. Prof Babji Srinivasan received the DST-INSA IN- Prof Pratik Mutha has received the prestigious SPIRE fellowship for the project titled 'Advanced DBT - Wellcome Trust Fellowship an Early Ca- Optimization and Control of household energy reer Award for mentoring Dr Neeraj Kumar, a Re- management in Future Smart Grid Systems: Im- search Scholar in IIT Gandhinagar. plementation in a Lab-scale setup'.

Prof Souradyuti Paul was invited to be the member of Program Committee of 17th Inter- national Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC) 2014. He was also invited to be the member of Program Committee of Student Research Forum for the 16th International Con- ference on Distributed Computing and Network- ing (SRF-ICDCN) 2015. Prof Paul was also part of the Advisory Committee of National Workshop on Network and Information Security (organized jointly by ISTAR and IEEE Gujarat Section).

Prof Naran M Pindoriya has been elevated to the level of Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE USA.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 73 HONORARY WORK Prof Sanjay Kumar Amrutiya, Mathematics nal of Computational Fluid Dynamics • Reviewer, Proceedings of the National Acad- • Managing editor, International Journal of In- emy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sci- formation Technology ences • Reviewer for journals: AIAA Journal, Interna- tional Journal of Computational Fluid Dynam- Prof Amit Arora, Materials Science and Engi- ics, Engineering Optimization, Proceedings neering of the National Academy of Sciences, India • Technical paper evaluation for IIW Interna- Section A: Physical Sciences, Sadhana–Indi- tional Congress 2014 an Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sci- • Reviewer, International Journal of Advanced ence, PLOSOne Manufacturing Technology • Reviewed papers for the 53rd IEEE Conference • Reviewer, Transactions of the Indian Institute on Decision and Control Dec 2014 of Metals • Member, Conference Editorial Board of the 4th • Reviewer, Journal of Materials Processing International Conference on Parallel, Distrib- Technology uted, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineer- • External Member, Doctoral Committee, Mr ing, (PARENG 2015), Dubrovnik, Croatia, Mar Gaurang Joshi, PDPU, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 24-27, 2015; Also judged and voted for best • External Member, Doctoral Committee, Mr technical paper by a young scientists Rajesh S, PDPU, Gandhinagar, Gujarat • External examiner, 1MS thesis from IIT Ma- • External Member, Doctoral Committee, Mr dras, Chennai, Jul 2014 Ankit Dilipkumar Oza, PDPU, Gandhinagar, • External examiner and member of Viva-Voce Gujarat Committee for 2 PhD thesis (aerospace and applied mechanics) from IIT Madras, Chennai, Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty, Electrical Engineering May and Sep 2014 • Reviewer, Special Issue of Applied Physics B • Member, Expert Committee for review of pro- for papers presented at the Field Laser ap- posals for scientific validation and value ad- plications in Industry and Research (FLAIR dition in Grassroots Innovations at National 2014) Innovation Foundation • Member, Technical Programme Committeee, • Nominated member, Nirma University, National Conference on Communications Ahmedabad, Academic Body of the Faculty (NCC 2015) of Technology and Engineering from Mar 12, • Member, Technical Programme Committeee, 2013-Mar 11, 2016 13th International Conference on Fiber Optics • Invited member, faculty interview and se- and Photonics (Photonics 2014), IIT Kharag- lection committee, Mechanical Engineering, pur, Dec 2014 Ahmedabad University, Oct 2014 • Member, Standing Committee for appoint- Prof Vinod Chandra, Physics ment of Head of Department in Mechanical • Reviewer, book manuscript on theoretical Engineering, Nirma University, Jan 2015 physics, Cambridge University Press • Appointed Registration Authority at IIT Gand- • Member expert/evaluation committee in hinagar for the Indian Grid (Garuda) Certifica- physics, for Minor Research Projects in Phys- tion Authority (IGCA) by C-DAC Bangalore ics, Gujarat Council on Science and Technol- ogy, Department of Science and Technology, Prof Michel Danino, Humanities and Social Sciences Government of Gujarat, Mar 2015 • Appointed member, Indian Council of Histori- cal Research, Feb 2015 Prof Murali Damodaran, Mechanical Engineering • Appointed member, Executive Council, • Member, editorial board of International Jour- Banaras Hindu University, Mar 2015

74 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Prof Anirban Dasgupta, Computer Science and Portugal; 22nd European Signal Processing Engineering Conference (EUSIPCO 2014), Lisbon, Portugal. • Program committee: Conference of World • Selection Committee Member, PhD Interview Wide Web (WWW) 2015, ACM Conference of (Electronics and Communication Engineer- Data Science (CoDS) 2015, ASONAM 2015, ing), Gujarat Technical University, Sep 24, Web search and data mining (WSDM) 2015, 2014. International Conference on Data Mining • Member, Doctoral Committee (Electrical and (ICDM) 2014, Foundations of software tech- Electronics Engineering), Government Engi- nology and theoretical computer science neering College, Thrissur, Oct 1, 2014. (FSTTCS) 2014 • External Reviewer, Progress of doctoral can- • Co-Chair, World Wide Web PhD Symposium didates and PG students, Gujarat Technical 2015 University, Mar 24, 2014. • Chair, Best Paper Committee for CoDS 2015 • Member, Technical Programme Committee, • Senior Program Committee of CIKM 2015 National Conference on Communications • Area Chair of ICDM 2015 2015 (NCC 2015).

Prof Raghu Echempati, Mechanical Engineering Prof Chinmay Ghoroi, Chemical Engineering • Chaired a technical session on Micro-machin- • Member, Board of Studies, Department of ing, at IIT Guwahati, All India Manufacturing Chemical Engineering, Nirma University, Technology Design and Research (AIMTDR) Ahmedabad conference, Dec 13, 2014. • Member, Faculty of Technology and Engi- • Chaired technical sessions, ICIER 2015, Jan neering, Nirma University, Ahmedabad 2-3, 2015 • Reviewer, Powder Technology, Process Safe- ty and Environmental Protection, Journal of Prof Nithin V George, Electrical Engineering Geophysics and engineering • Reviewer for journals: Applied Acoustics (El- sevier); Automatica (Elsevier); IEEE Trans- Prof Iti Gupta, Chemistry actions on Very Large Scale Integration Sys- • Reviewed PhD thesis in Organic Chemistry, tems; Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing MNIT Jaipur, Oct 2014 (Springer); International Journal of Electrical • Reviewed research article for Sensors and Ac- Power and Energy Systems (Elsevier); Signal tuators B: Chemical (2014) an Elsevier Journal Processing (Elsevier); Digital Signal Process- publication ing (Elsevier); Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Elsevier); Expert Systems with Prof Hari B Hablani, Mechnical Engineering Applications (Elsevier); Journal of the Franklin • Reviewer, Journal of the Astronautical Scienc- Institute (Elsevier); Journal of Mechanical En- es, Springer Journals Editorial Office gineering Science (SAGE Publications); Inter- • Member, Editorial Board of Defence Science national Journal of Electronics and Communi- Journal, DRDO Publications cations (Elsevier); Proceedings of the Nation- • Doctoral Committee, Indian Institute of Space al Academy of Sciences, Physical Sciences Sciences and Technology, Thiruvanathapur- (Springer); Journal of Low Frequency Noise, am, Kerela Vibration and Active Control (Multiscience) • Reviewer for conferences: National Confer- Prof Sudhir K Jain, Civil Engineering ence on Communications 2015 (NCC 2015), • President, International Association for IIT Bombay; IEEE International Conference Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) on Signal Processing, Informatics, Commu- • Chairman, Search Committee for Executive nication and Energy Systems (SPICES 2015), Chairperson of the Gujarat Educational In- NIT Calicut; IEEE International Symposium on novation Commission (GIEC), Government of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2015), Lisbon, Gujarat

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 75 • Member, Board of Directors, Gujarat Interna- World Bank in Delhi, Feb, 2015; National Work- tional Finance Tech City (GIFT) shop on Ecosystem Services of River Ganga at • Member, Board of Directors, GIFT SEZ Limited WWF, India organized by National Institute of • Member, State Knowledge Advisory Board, Ecology, Delhi, Jul 2014 Government of Andhra Pradesh • Member, Board of Governors, Raksha Shakti Prof Kabeer Jasuja, Chemical Engineering University, Ahmedabad • Reviewer for Journal of Chemical Sciences • Member, Board of Governors, Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra-Indian Institute of Information Prof Shivakumar Jolad, Physics Technology, Design and Manufacturing (PD- • Core working committee member, District PM-IIITD&M), Jabalpur Human Development Report of Ahmedabad, • Member, Board of Governors, Institute of In- Gujarat Social Infrastructure Development frastructure, Technology, Research And Man- Society, Government of Gujarat agement, Ahmedabad • Principal Investigator, Evaluation of Pratham • Member, Court, Central University of Gujarat, Open School Education and Pratham support- Gandhinagar ed Schools in Gujarat and Rajasthan blocks, • Member, Executive Council, Central University funded by Pratham, India of Gujarat, Gandhinagar • Member, Gujarat Urban Development Mission Prof Mohan C Joshi, Mathematics • Juror, for the finals of the TATA Innovista, the • Reviewer, various scientific publications innovation program in Tata Group, Tata Group • Reviewer, scientific plan of the academic year Innovation Forum (TGIF) 2014 as a member of scientific committee of • Chief Guest, Open House of the Foundation the DST project entitled National Program on For Excellence (FFE), organized at the IIM Differential Equations Ahmedabad • President, IIT Roorkee Alumni Association, Prof Ragavan K, Electrical Engineering Ahmedabad Chapter • External examiner for conducting Viva-Voce • Member, Site Selection Committee to assess examination for ME, National Institute of suitability of land identified by the Govern- Technical Teachers Training and Research, ment of Goa for setting up of an IIT in the Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Sep 30, 2014 state Prof Rita Kothari, Humanities and Social Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain, Earth Sciences • Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Social • Reviewer for journals: Geomorphology, Earth Study, Surat, 2014 Surface Processes and Landform, Journal of • Panelist, Divided Tongues, Symposium on Earth System Science, Geografiska Annaler: Languages of the Partition, Apeejay Book Series A, Physical Geography, Physical Geog- Festival, New Delhi, Apr25, 2014 raphy, Natural Hazards, Geological Magazine, Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk, Current Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran, Biological Engineering Science. • Invited Advisory Committee Member (Exter- • Reviewer, project proposals submitted to nal) for PhD student’s research progress com- National Fund for Scientific & Technological mittee, Nirma University, Ahmedabad Development (FONDECYT), Chile, Sep, 2014; Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Aug 2013 Prof Sharmita Lahari, Humanities and Social • Reviewer, project report submitted to De- Sciences partment of Science and Technology (DST), • Evaluator, Fulbright Applications 2014-15 for India, Dec, 2013 United States Educational Foundation • Invited panelist in the Ganga Rejuvenation Environmental Flow Workshop, organized by Prof Uttama Lahiri, Electrical Engineering

76 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 • Reviewer, Journal of Medical Imaging and • Member, Selection committee for Minerals Health Informatics Awards, Ministry of Mines, Government of In- • Reviewer, Journal of Autism and Development dia Disorder • One of the Referees for evaluation of nomi- • Reviewer, American Journal of Autism nations for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards • Reviewer, IEEE Pervasive Computing • One of the Evaluators of Nominations for IIM • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous National Sustainability Awards Mental Development • Project Coordinator and Chief Editor of Histo- • Reviewer, Austin Journal of Autism & Related ry Book Project of IIT Kanpur Disabilities • Member, Senate of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Rae Bareli Prof Sairam Mallajosyala, Chemistry • Member, Department of Electronics and In- • Reviewer, Journal of Physical Chemistry, ACS formation Technology, Government of India, chemical biology, Biophysical Journal, PLOS constituted monitoring committee for the Computational Biology project environmentally sound methods of recovery of metals from printed circuit boards Prof Mona Mehta, Humanities and Social Sciences • Reviewer, American Political Science Review, Prof Joycee Mekie, Electrical Engineering Cambridge Journals, Antipode: A Radical Jour- • Member of faculty selection committee nal for Geography (Wiley) held in Aug 2014 for Electrical Engineering, • Guest faculty at IIM Ahmedabad Summer Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad School in Qualitative and Quantitative Re- • Committee member, Internal assessment search Methods, Jun 5, 2014 committee for Employees on Contractual posts at GTU, Ahmedabad, Jan 15, 2015 Prof Surya P Mehrotra, Materials Science and • Reviewer, IEEE Design and Test journal, IEEE Engineering International conference ASYNC 2015 • Chairman, Research Advisory Council of Jawa- • IEEE International conference VDAT 2015 harlal Nehru Aluminium Research Design and • Steering committee member, ASYNC 2015 Development Centre, Nagpur • Education day chair, VDAT 2015 • Member, Governing Council of Jawaharlal • Women in Engineering (WIE) Chair, VDAT 2015 Nehru Aluminium Research Design and De- velopment Centre Prof Krishna Prasad Miyapuram, Computer Sci- • Chairman, Research and Advisory Council of ence and Engineering Nonferrous Materials Technology Develop- • Reviewer for journals: Frontiers in Movement ment Centre, Hyderabad Science & Sport Psychology; Frontiers in Deci- • Member, Governing Council of Nonferrous sion Neuroscience Materials Technology Development Centre, • Member, Board of Studies, Computer Science Hyderabad and Information Technology, Nirma Universi- • One of the Directors of Board of Centre for ty, Ahmedabad Fly-Ash Research and Management • Member, Board of Governors of IITGN Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay, Materials Science • Member, Academic Council of Institute of In- and Engineering frastructure Technology research and Man- • Reviewer, Elsevier Journal and Springer on se- agement lected articles. • Coordinator, IITRAM Cell at IITGN • Member, Examination & Education Commit- • Member, Expert Committee for selection of tee as well as Member, SwarnaJaynti Endow- Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Awards, ment Fund committee of Indian Institute of National Academy of Sciences of India, Alla- Metals. habad • Member, selection committee at Indian Insti-

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 77 tute of Engineering Science and Technology 9-10, 2014 (IIEST), Shibpore, Howrah on Jun 14, 2014 • Chaired the 59th Meeting of PAC-MS of SERB • Assisted Union Public Service Commission held at IIT Gandhinagar, Nov 10-11, 2014 New Delhi in the Interview Board for selecting • Chaired the Planning Committee Meeting on Assistant Director Grade II (Metallurgy) New Jan 23, 2015 for the forthcoming 12th SERB Delhi on Feb 26 -27, 2015 School on Matrix Methods & Fractional Cal- • External examiner, PhD Thesis at Jadavpur culus scheduled at Peechi, Kerala, Apr-May, University, Kolkata 2015 • Invited Editor for a book Refractories for Al- • Associate Editor, Asian European Journal of uminium: Electrolysis and the cast house by Mathematics, World Scientific Publishers, Springer publishers. London and Singapore • Invited reviewer, Waste management Journal • Reviewer, MR, Mathematics Reviews (Ameri- by Elsevier publishers can Mathematical Society) • Elected as the mentor of Fabrication Sector as well as Mining and Mineral sector by Minis- Prof Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Me- try of Labour and Employment chanical Engineering • Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, Prof K V V Murthy, Electrical Engineering IEEE Control Systems Society • Member, faculty selection committee (2014- • International Program Committee, Indian Con- 2015) for IITRAM trol Conference, 2015 • Member, selection committee at New Delhi, • International Program Committee, Indian Con- for the selection of candidates for the award trol Conference, 2016 of Commonwealth Scholarship 2015 offered by the Government of UK, Dec 04, 2014 Prof Souradyuti Paul, Computer Science and En- • Member, Governing council committee &Ac- gineering ademic council committee, NMAM Institute • Program committee member, 17th Interna- of Technology, Nitte, Udupi, Karnataka State, tional Conference on Information Security Aug 12, 2014 and Cryptology (ICISC) 2014 • Member, faculty selection committee, NIRMA • Program committee, Student Research Fo- University, Ahmedabad, Jun 25, 2014 rum for 16th International Conference on Dis- • Member, Academic Advisory Board Meeting, tributed Computing and Networking (SRF-IC- Navarachana University, Baroda, May 8, 2014 DCN) 2015 • External member, BoG of NMAM Institute of • Advisory committee, National Workshop on Technology Nitte Education Society, Udupi, Network and Information Security (organized Karnataka State jointly by ISTAR and IEEE Gujarat Section) • External examiner, PhD thesis at Amrita Vis- waVidyapeetham, Bangalore Prof Naran M Pindoriya, Electrical Engineering • Member, Academic council of Institute of In- Prof Pratik Mutha, Biological and Electrical Engi- frastructure, Technology, Research and Man- neering agement (IITRAM) since Jun 2013 • Reviewer for journals: Journal of Neurophysi- • External examiner, PhD thesis Department of ology, Frontiers in aging neuroscience, motor Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National In- control, Experimental brain research, Neuro- stitute of Technology Jaipur (MNIT) science letters, PLoS One Prof Shanmuganathan Raman, Electrical Engi- Prof D V Pai, Mathematics neering • Chaired the 58th Meeting of Program Adviso- • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, ry Committee, Mathematical Sciences, PAC- Computer Vision and Image Understanding, MS of SERB, at University of Pune, Pune, Jun The Visual Computer, EURASIP Journal on Im-

78 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 age and Video Processing, Sadhana - Acade- Conference (IFAC)–2014; Journal of environ- my Proceedings in Engineering Sciences mental engineering and clean energy–2014; • Reviewer, 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine–2014; IFAC Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Sweden, 2014; conference 2014; IEEE Transactions on Con- 10th International Conference on Signal Pro- trol System Technology–2015; Industrial En- cessing and Communications (SPCOM), IISc gineering and Chemistry Research–2015 Bangalore 2014; IEEE International Confer- • Review panel member, IEEE International ence on Signal Processing, Informatics, Com- Conference on Energy, Power and Environ- munication and Energy Systems (IEEE SPIC- ment - 2015, NIT Meghalaya ES), NIT Calicut, 2015 • External Examiner for Masters & PhD disser- • Technical Program Committee Member: 9th In- tation of student, NIT Trichy dian Conference on Computer Vision, Graph- ics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP), IISc Ban- Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Chemical Engi- galore, 2014; 8th IEEE International Confer- neering ence on Advanced Networks and Telecommu- • Outstanding Reviewer, Computers and Chem- nication Systems (ANTS), New Delhi, 2014; ical Engineering Journal 2015 21st National Conference on Communications • Dr G P Kane Visiting Professorship in Chemical (NCC), IIT Bombay, 2015 Engineering, ICT Mumbai, 2015-2016 • Member, International Scientific Committee, Prof Ajanta Sachan, Civil Engineering International Conference on Chemical & Pro- • Reviewer, Soils and Foundations, Canadian cess Engineering ICheaP12, Milan, Italy, May Geotechnical Journal, Measurement, Elsevier 19-22, 2015 • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers • Member, International Programming Commit- (ASCE), USA tee, 12th International Symposium on Process • Member, American Society of Testing Meth- Systems Engineering (PSE-2015) and 25th ods (ASTM), USA European Symposium on Computer-Aided • Member, Clays & Clay Minerals, USA Process Engineering (ESCAPE25), Copenha- • Member, Earthquake Engineering Research gen, Denmark, May 31 –Jun 4, 2015 Institute (EERI), USA • Technical Committee Member, 2015 Global • Member, National Information Centre for Summit on Process Safety, Kuala Lumpur, Ma- Earthquake Engineering (NICEE), India laysia, Nov 3-5, 2015 • Member, International Program Committee, Prof Tannistha Samanta, Humanities and Social 5th World Conference on Safety in Oil and Gas Sciences industry, Okayama, Japan, Jun 8-10, 2014 • Member, International Editorial Board, Mi- • Member, International Program Committee, gration & Development, Routledge, London, 2014 Foundations of Computer-Aided Pro- 2015-2017 cess Design Conference (FOCAPD), Cle Elum, • Reviewer, The Journals of Gerontology: Series WA, USA, Jul 13 - 17 2014 B (Social Sciences), 2014-2015 • Conference Chair, 2nd International Confer- • External Thesis Examiner, Centre for Envi- ence on Safety 2014 and 3rd Symposium on ronmental Planning & Technology (CEPT), Process Safety, Ahmedabad, Dec 2 –6, 2014 Ahmedabad, 2014-2015 Prof Meera Mary Sunny, Humanities and Social Prof Babji Srinivasan, Chemical and Electrical Sciences Engineering • External examiner for MPhil thesis at Univer- • Reviewer for journals: Computers and Chem- sity of Hyderabad ical Engineering Journal–2014; IEEE Multi Conference on Systems and Control–2014; Prof Prachi Thareja, Chemical Engineering International Federation of Automatic Control • Session chair, Self and directed assembly of

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 79 molecules and particles–delivery and release, Prof Siddharth Y Wakankar, Humanities and 89th ACS Colloids Symposium 2015, Pitts- Social Sciences burgh, USA • Chaired an academic session as well as gave a key-note address in the Workshop on Tradi- Prof Vijay Thiruvenkatam, Biological Engineering tional Games and Folk-Games in Maharashtra, • Invited external expert member for PhD stu- organized by the Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan dent research committee of Charotar Univer- Samiti, Pune, Dec 27, 2014 sity of Science and Technology, Changa, Gu- • Inaugurated the two day National Seminar on jarat Mrigapakshishastra organized by the Sanskrit Department of the University of Mumbai, Prof Jagmohan Tyagi, Mathematics chaired and also delivered the Key-note ad- Reviewed articles for Mathematical Reviews dress, Sep 18, 2014 • Refereed articles for the Journals: Taiwanese • External examiner for three viva voces in the Journal of Mathematics, Indian Journal of Pure Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languag- and Applied Mathematics, Asian-European es, University of Pune, Dec 22-24, 2014 Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Sci- ences (NASA)

80 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 81 ACADEMIC LECTURES BY FACULTY In keeping with its goal of promoting a vibrant ac- Sanitation and water management in the In- ademic culture, the Institute encourages its fac- dus–Sarasvati Civilization, IIT Kanpur, Nov 8, ulty to deliver academic lectures on cutting edge 2014; Issues in indian metrology from harap- research in India and abroad. The lectures deliv- pa to Bhaskaracharya, lecture at International ered by various faculty members are as follows: Conference of the Indian society for history of mathematics, University of Pune and IISER Pune, Prof Sanjaykumar Amrutiya delivered series of Nov 28, 2014; Overview of science in ancient lectures in Annual Foundation School-1 held at india, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Nov Centre of Excellence in Mathematical Sciences, 28 2014; Science in ancient india: Overview Almora, Dec 1 –27, 2014. and reflections, Jan 27, 2015; Studying history of science in india, Indian Institute of Science Prof Amit Arora was keynote speaker on Heat (Material Research Centre), Bengaluru, Feb 4, transfer and material flow modeling of weld- 2015; How much science did ancient indians ing and joining, plenary talk, welding, joining know? Sastra University, Thanjavur, Feb 21, 2015. and additive manufacturing WJAM - Interna- tional Conference, Jan 19, 2015, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Prof Anirban Dasgupta delivered invited lec- Prof Arora also delivered a talk Adding a resis- tures on Faster projections and sketches in tance heat source during Friction Stir Weld- DAIICT Apr 17, 2014; Crowdsourcing at ERTE ing at TMS 2015 144th Annual Meeting, Walt Dis- 2014, IEEE Gujarat section, Jul 20, 2014; Learn- ney World, Orlando, Florida, USA, Mar 15-19 2015; ing from the crowd at the IUSSTF Symposium Tool wear during Friction Stir Welding: State in IISc, Jan 7, 2015; Learning from the crowd at of the Art and the challenges at International Flipkart Bangalore, Jan 9, 2015; Learning from Conference for friction based process- 2014, Sep the crowd at Comsnets, Workshop on social net- 3-4, 2014; Numerical modelling of tempera- works, Jan 8, 2015; Learning properties of large ture distribution during Friction Stir Welding networks at the machine learning and complex of Copper in IIW-International Congress, New networks workshop in IIT Kharagpur Mar 6, 2015; Delhi, Apr 9-11, 2014. Learning properties of large networks at the Indo-German workshop on Algorithms in ISI Kolk- Prof Sudarshan Bahl delivered talk on Cyber ata, Mar 9, 2015. psychology and ancient wisdom at the Cyber Psychology Seminar held at Gujarat Forensic Sci- Prof Bhaskar Datta delivered an invited lecture ence University, Gandhinagar, Feb 20-21, 2015. at International Conference on Water, Mahat- ma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, Jan 2015; Prof Michel Danino delivered Second Distin- Kaleidoscope, a discussion meeting of Chemis- guished Lecture Harappan expertise in civil try, at International Centre, Goa, Jul 2014. engineering, National Centre for Safety of Her- itage Structures (NCSHS), Department of Civil En- Prof Pratyush Dayal gave an invited talks in the gineering, IIT Madras, Apr 25, 2014; Exploring In- Young Investigators Meet (YIM) at MIT Boston, dian Civilization, IIT Kanpur, Aug-Nov 2014; The Nov 6, 2014; Using stability analyses to pre- infinite in indian mathematics and astrono- dict dynamic behavior of self-oscillating poly- my, C-DAC, Pune, Oct 7, 2014; What can mod- mer gels, APS March meeting 2015, San Antonio, ern india learn from ancient india, Spicmacay Texas, USA, Mar 2, 2015. lecture at IISER, Pune, Oct 8, 2014; Technology in the indus civilization, Variable Energy Cyclo- Prof Raghu Echempati delivered lectures on tron Centre, Kolkata, Oct 16, 2014; Sarasvati, the Real and virtual design & manufacturing in lost river, lecture at a Sand HI symposium at IIT education and in industry, AIMTDR 2015, IIT Kharagpur, Oct 17 2014; What can today’s india Guwahati, Dec 13, 2014; Sustainable assess- learn from ancient india?, IIT-BHU, Nov 5, 2014; ment, RRRM and Material Management Ed-

82 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ucation, National Conference on Sustainable Prof Hari B Hablani has provided GNSS-Aided manufacturing for a brighter future, MNIT, Jaipur, Integrated navigation course material, devel- Jan 2-3, 2015; Innovative curriculum with en- oped over six years, to Dr Raghunadh K Bhattar, trepreneurial-mindset, ICIER-IIM Bangalore; Course director-SATCOM, Sci./Engr SF, Space Ap- International Conference on Entrepreneurship plications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, for courses education and training, Jan 20-31, 2015; Appli- under Space Science and Technology Education cations of linear and nonlinear finite element in Asia and the Pacific, affiliated to the United Na- analysis with applications, MANIT, Bhopal, Feb tions, Jan 30, 2014. 27, 2015; Design and analysis of car truck stand, AISECT University, Mendua, Feb 28, 2015; Prof Sudhir K Jain delivered lectures on Earth- Finite element methods, Government College quake Engineering in India at the internation- of Engineering, Bargur, Tamilnadu, Mar 2-5, 2015. al workshop, IIT Delhi Dec 20-21, 2014; Some thoughts on undergraduate education in a Prof Nithin V George delivered invited lecture at seminar onArchitectural Education: Turmoil the TEQIP-II sponsored short course on Recent - opportunities - Future course, Indian Insti- advances in signal processing and communi- tute of Architects, New Delhi, Dec, 2014; Role cations, Malaviya National Institute of Technolo- and road map for Indian Universities towards gy, Jaipur, May 21, 2014; TEQIP-II sponsored staff the agenda of skill development in the Na- development programme on Alpha to Delta of tional Level Consultation on Skill development, Digital signal processing, TKM College of En- Employment and mobility in India, hosted by the gineering, Kerala, Jun 5-9, 2014; Alpha to delta National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), of Digital Signal Processing, Government En- Bangalore, Dec 22, 2014. Prof Jain delivered talk gineering College, Thrissur, Kerala, Sep 29-30, on Opportunities and challenges of building 2014; Soft computing, Babaria Institute of Tech- a world-class IIT from the ground up: The IIT nology, Vadodara, Gujarat, Dec 19, 2014. Gandhinagar story to pan-IIT alumni in a meet- ing organized by the IIT Alumni Club Bangalore, Prof Chinmay Ghoroi delivered invited lecture Dec 22, 2015; Strategy for education admin- on Reuse of sludge from chlor-alkali plant in istrators in the Chintan shibir organized by the 3rd International Conference on Recycling and re- State Education Department of the Government use of materials (ICRM –2014) at Kottayam, Kera- of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, Feb 12, 2015; the key- la, Apr 11-13, 2014. note speaker for a session during the UN World Conference on Disaster risk education, Council Prof Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda delivered invit- for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet ed talk at Golden Jubilee In-House symposium, Office, Sendai, Japan, Mar 14–18, 2015; Keynote Oct 16-17, 2014, IIT Bombay; Recent advances lecture at the opening of public forum event De- in biochemical research, Feb 14 2015, Depart- signing for a safe and secure home and com- ment of Biochemistry, Saurashtra University, Ra- munity organized by Architectural Institution of jkot. Japan (AIJ) in Sendai; inaugural lecture at IIT Kan- pur in a new lecture series started by IITK Mak- Prof Sharad Gupta delivered lecture on Ad- ing of the University and shared the story of IIT vanced research methodology for neurode- Gandhinagar, Nov 27 2014. generative disorders, Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Jul 10, 2014. Prof Vikrant Jain delivered lecture in MoES work- shop on Predictive near surface geoscienc- Prof Iti Gupta delivered an invited lecture in ICPP8, es: Integration of theory, data and models 8th International Conference on Porphyrins and at NEERI, Nagpur, Nov 2014; UNDP workshop on phthalocyanines on carbazole-corrole conju- Floods and waterlogging in Bihar: tools for gates, Istanbul, Turkey, Jun 21-27 2014. multi-hazard mapping and Mitigation, orga- nized by BSDMA and IITK at Patna, Oct 2014; Land

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 83 use land cover, erosion and sedimentation in ence on Recent trends in mathematical anal- the Koshi Basin, organized by International Cen- ysis and applications, IIT Roorkee, Dec 21-23, tre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICI- 2014; Solvability analysis and optimization, MOD) at ICIMOD Headquarters, Kathmandu, Ne- IWSCM-2015, MS University, Baroda, Jan 5-10, pal, Sep 2014; UNDP workshop on Implications 2015; Solvability analysis, Minimization the- of climate change on water resources and ory and controls, at NPDE (DST) workshop on agriculture organized by IITGN, IITK and IITB in Variational Analysis and Optimization, IITGN, Mar Bhubaneswar, Jul 2014. 2-8, 2015; Industrial mathematics and aca- demia-industry partnership under the auspic- Prof Kabeer Jasuja delivered invited lectures es of Industry Open House, IITGN, Aug 23, 2014; on Synthesizing aqueous dispersions of Resource person for Study group meeting on In- few layer thick nanosheets analogous to dustrial problems, Sponsored by NPDE (DST), graphene, 2nd Soft Matter–Young Investigators MS University, Baroda, Mar 23-27, 2015. Meet, IIT Madras, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Dec 2014; International Conference on Nano Bioma- Prof Ragavan K delivered lectures on electro- terials, International and Inter University Centre magnetics and power electronics analysis, for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma ANSYS Convergence 2014, Pune, May 6, 2014; Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, Jul 2014; Battle of currents, Pondicherry Engineering Col- Chemical Exfoliation of Layered Supercon- lege, Pondicherry, Aug 1, 2014; Power electron- ductor: An Avenue to Synthesize Boron-rich ics, Drives for electric vehicles, Shankersinh Quasi Two-Dimensional Nanostructures, APS Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology, Gandhi- (American Physical Society) Conference, San An- nagar, Sep 29, 2014; Applications of power tonio, TX, Mar 2015; Synthesis of Chemically electronics in electric drives, Shantilal Shah Modified Metal Boride Nano platelets: A New Engineering College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, Mar 2-3, Paradigm in Boron Based Nanostructures, 2015; Electrical machines - An introduction, ICNT (International Conference on Nanotechnolo- Gandhinagar Institute of Technology, Kalol, Mar gy), Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India, 31, 2015. Feb 2015; Synthesizing Few Atom Thick Boron based nanostructures Isostructural to Chemi- Prof Alok Kumar Kanungo was invited for Inter- cally Modified Graphene Sheets, AICHE (Amer- national Seminar on Archaeology and languag- ican Institute of Chemical Engineers) Conference, es and Joint annual conferences of Indian Ar- Atlanta, GA, Nov 2014; Chemical Exfoliation chaeological Society (IAS), Indian Society for Of Layered Borides: An Avenue To Synthe- Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies (ISPQS) size Boron-Based Nanosheets Analogous To & Indian History and Culture Society (IHCS), Chemically Modified Graphene Nanosheets, Deccan College Post Graduate & Research Insti- NCMST (National Conference on Materials Sci- tute(Deemed University), Pune, Oct 6-9, 2014. ence and Technology), Indian Institute of Space Prof Kanungo also delivered talks in a workshop on Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Maritime Gujarat and Western Indian Ocean, Jul 2014. IITGN, Jan 19, 2015; National Conference on Qua- ternary climate change: New approaches and Prof Shivakumar Jolad delivered invited talk at emerging challenges, Dec 15-16, 2014. mathematical biology research symposium on Host-pathogeninteractions supported by Indi- Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran delivered invited an Academy of Sciences, Coorg, Karnataka, Dec lecture at the prestigious Ramanbhai Foundation 2014. at Zydus-Cadilla Research Centre (ZRC), Ahmed- abad, Nov 19, 2014. Prof Mohan C Joshi delivered invited talk in 19th Annual GAMS Conference on Advances in math- Prof Dinesh Korjan delivered lectures in work- ematical modelling of real world problems, shop on Design thinking for engineering stu- SVNIT, Surat, Oct 3-6, 2014; International Confer- dents on behalf of Dlabs at Sasi Institute of Tech-

84 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 nology & Engineering, Tadepalligudem, Andhra ment industry for Indian power sector during Pradesh, May 23-25, 2014; Course in design Gujarat Manufacturing Show 2014, Ahmedabad, thinking for management students at BKMIBA Sep 19-20, 2014. (BK Majumdar Institute of Business Administra- tion), Ahmedabad University from Dec 2014 - Apr Prof Mona G Mehta was guest speaker for IIM 2015. Ahmedabad Winter School in Public Policy and Social Change, Dec 14-18, 2014. Prof Rita Kothari delivered invited talk, Ques- tions in and of language India in transition Prof Krishna Prasad Miyapuram delivered an series, Nehru Memorial Museum, New Delhi, Apr expert lecture titled Consumer neuroscience 11, 2014; plenary talk, language, anthropolo- as part of the international training program on gy and translation, Critical theories and critical Entrepreneurial management, Entrepreneurship practices conference, Hyderabad Central Univer- Development Institute of India, Mar 2015; He also sity, Apr 22 -23, 2014; Hinglish: the social life delivered a guest lecture in the course Internet of english New York University, Abu Dhabi, May Marketing for PGD-BE, Entrepreneurship Devel- 7, 2014. Prof Kothari was also invited speaker, opment Institute of India, Feb 2015. Post-chutnefying English: Is Hinglish a met- aphor? Hinglish workshop, Centre for developing Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay delivered 18th NASAS societies (CSDS), Aug 18-19, 2014; Unbordered plenary lecture on Current scenario on forma- memories: Partition in the western region, bility and superplasticity of advanced alumi- Brown University, Oct 6, 2014 and Is Hinglish a num alloys for Aerospace Industry at Nagpur metaphor? Boston University, Oct 8, 2014; Chan- on Dec 17, 2014; Status, challenges and oppor- digarh Literature Festival, Nov 2014. tunities in Developing environmental friend- ly aluminum alloys for automotive application Prof Surjeet Kour delivered a talk on Commuta- NMD/ IIM Pune, Nov 15, 2014; he also presented a tive Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (CAAG paper on evaluation of forming limit diagram 2015) in National Conference at IIT Guwahati, Feb of aluminum alloy 6061-T6 at Ambient Tem- 5-9, 2015. perature, TMS meeting at Orlando, Florida, USA, Mar 18, 2015; Formability characterization of Prof Joycee Mekie delivered lectures on Inter- aluminum lithium alloys used in Aerospace facing solutions for globally asynchronous Industry, ASME at Montreal, Canada, Nov 14-20, locally synchronous design at Innovations for 2014; presented a generic report on non-ferrous High performance (iHP), Germany, May 2015; Em- metal resources with special reference to bedded systems for low-cost automation as aluminum at Shastri Bhawan, Ministry of Mines, part of the CEP course on Low-Cost Hi-Tech Au- Government of India, Apr 16, 2014. tomation (LCHA), Sept 2014; Higher education in premier institutions and future prospects, Prof K V V Murthy the delivered keynote address Techfest FELICIFIC 2015, DDU, Nadiad, Mar 11, for the participants of a 5-day workshop on Mod- 2015; Overview of network-on-chip architec- elling Week organized by the Department of Ap- tures VLSI Circuit design and analysis (VCAD), plied Mathematics, MSU Baroda on Mar 17, 2015; Marwadi Institute, Rajkot, Mar 19, 2015; Timing Invited Lectures for a TEQIP-sponsored short issues on synchronous circuits, Marwadi Insti- course on Applied Digital Signal Processing at tute, Rajkot, Mar 19, 2015. IITGN on Dec 8-11, 2014; NMAM Institute of Tech- nology, Nitte, Udupi District, Karnataka on Dec 17, Prof S P Mehrotra delivered a keynote lecture 2014; IITRAM (Mentee Institute), Ahmedabad, in B R Nijhawan Symposium, held as a part of Aug 8, 2014; FDP on Audio and Speech Signal Annual Technical Meeting of Indian Institute of Processing, organized by the EC department of Metals, Pune, Nov 12-15, 2014; Growth and sus- SVNIT, Surat, Jul 7, 2014. tainability of electrical and electronic equip-

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 85 Prof Nitin Padhiyar delivered invited lecture on civilization of South Asia, Ahmedabad Univer- Role of modeling, simulation, and optimiza- sity Science lecture series Mar 20, 2015; Harap- tion chemical engineering in a technical festi- pan Civilisation as a part of Ahmedabad Univer- val Azeotrope, Government Engineering College, sity Science lecture series, Mar 20, 2015 at IET Bharuch, Mar 4, 2015; Emerging trends in prod- College, CEPT Campus, Ahmedabad. uct development, Parul Institute of Technology, Vadodara; Tools & trends for research in elec- Prof Srinivas Reddy delivered the following in- trical engineering, Shankersinh VaghelaBapu vited lectures - The future of liberal arts and Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Nov 25, science in India, Ashoka University, New Del- 2014; Process control: theory, application and hi, Mar 2015; Unlearning the learned; Care, advances, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Jul 7-8, compassion, and mindfulness Conference, 2014. AHIMSA Centre, Pomona, CA, Nov 2014; Devel- oping compassion through art; International Prof D V Pai gave invited lectures on Gamma con- Symposium for contemplative studies, mind vergence and viscosity approximation meth- and life, Boston, MA, Nov 2014; Union through ods for minimization problems, Advanced level sound: Indian Classical Music as Contempla- workshop on variational analysis & optimiza- tive practice; MAUSAM Indian Ocean Project, tion Sponsored by National Programme on Differ- Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Del- ential Equations (NPDE), DST and NBHM, at IITGN, hi, Sep 2014; Stallions of the Indian Ocean: Mar 2-7, 2015; Optimal recovery of functions in Horse trade in the sixteenth century Deccan; Approximation theory, Mar 16, 2015. Viagens de Longo Curso, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2014; White Prof Souradyuti Paul delivered a talk in the Na- foam on black water: Translating the first tional Workshop on Network, network simula- voyage of Vasco de Gama; Translating India, tion & Information security 2014, Gujarat. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr 2014; Sanskrit as a source, Prof Naran M Pindoriya delivered an invited never a target. lecture on Integration of distributed solar PV generation into secondary distribution Prof Ajanta Sachan delivered an invited lecture network in a National Workshop on Smart mi- on Liquefaction and related ground improve- cro-grids for autonomous zero-net energy build- ment techniques, Short term training program ings, IIT Mandi, Dec 14-15, 2014. on Ground improvement techniques and Soil structure interaction, BVM College, Vidyanagar, Prof V N Prabhakar delivered the Rao Bahadur Gujarat, Nov 17-21, 2014. K N Dikshit Memorial Lecture on Expanding the horizons of Harappan studies in Chautang Prof Tannistha Samanta gave an invited lecture Valley: Excavations at Karanpura, district Ha- on Mixed methods research for graduate stu- numangarh, Rajasthan, Department of Anthro- dents at the School of Planning, Centre for Envi- pology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, ronment & Planning Technology (CEPT), Ahmed- Oct 15, 2014; Harappan Civilization: The ear- abad, Mar 2015; Household context, social liest civilization of South Asia, Yale MacMillan capital and wellbeing of older adults in India, Centreorganized by South Asia Studies Council, College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatch- Feb 26, 2015; Understanding the spread of ewan, Canada, May 20, 2014; Why population Harappan Civilization during the third millen- age structure matters: Insights from the In- nium BCE in Drishadvati River Valley: Recent dian case, Census data dissemination workshop, excavations in Karanpura, Rajasthan, Depart- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Dec 15, 2014. ment of Anthropology, Yale University organized Prof Sudipta Sarkar delivered a lecture on Field by the Yale Council of Archaeological Studies Feb theoretic aspects of gravity, at IISER Mohali, 27, 2015; Harappan Civilization: The earliest Dec 2014.

86 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Prof Indranath Sengupta delivered invited lec- fying the building blocks of human error, IIT tures in Instructional School For Lecturers (ISL) Delhi, May 26, 2015; Quantifying the building on Galois Theory, at the SGGS Institute of Engi- blocks of human error during decision mak- neering & Technology at Nanded, Maharashtra, ing, ABB Corporate Research, Bangalore, Apr Dec 1-13, 2014; He was the UGC SAP guest on an 29, 2015; Quantifying the building blocks of advanced topic meant for faculties and re- human error during decision making, Centre search students at North-Eastern Hill University for Science, Technology and Policy, Bangalore, (NEHU), Shillong, Dec 11-19, 2014 and at the UGC Apr 28, 2015; Cognitive Engineering: Quanti- Sap Nehu Workshop & National Conference on fying the building blocks of human error, IIT Contemporary Mathematics, at North-Eastern Hyderabad, Apr 15, 2015; The science behind Hill University (NEHU), Shillong. dust explosions, One day seminar on Indus- trial & built environment fire safety, Forensic Prof Sudhanshu Sharma delivered keynote Sciences, Mumbai, Nov 17, 2014; Teasing out lecture on Understanding the electrochem- patterns in the industrial practice of sustain- ical differences between Pt doped and Pt ability through text mining, Rajiv Gandhi In-

dispersed CeO2 in a National Conference on stitute of Petroleum Technology, Rae Bareli, Nov Nanochemistry, Sam Higginbottom Institute, Al- 12, 2014; Cognitive Engineering: Quantifying lahabad, Nov 11, 2014; Materials for energy, the building blocks of human error, IIT Kanpur, environment and electrochemical applica- Nov 11, 2014; The Science Behind Dust Explo- tions, CSMCRI Bhavnagar, Nov 17, 2014; Cyber sions, Underwriters Laboratories Sixth Fire Safe- Psychology and Ancient Wisdom at the Cyber ty Council Meet, Mumbai, Sep 30 –Oct 1, 2014; Psychology Seminar conducted by Gujarat Foren- Orientation to the Oil & Gas Industry: a Scien- sic Science University, Gandhinagar. tist- educator’s perspective, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Jun 19, 2014; Prof Babji Srinivasan delivered invited Lecture Decoding the human’s effect on complex sys- on Control and optimization research group tems through data analysis, Kyoto University, multivariate control loop performance as- Japan, Jun 12, 2014; In the eyes of the beholder: sessment, at Praxair, SUNY Buffalo, New York, Decoding the human’s effect on complex sys- Jun 6, 2014. Prof Srinivasan was also keynote tems, ABB Corporate Research, Bangalore India, speaker on DST-PURSE sponsored by National May 20, 2014. Conference on Recent Trends in Instrumentation and Control (RTIC-2015), Mar 13-14, 2015. Prof Meera Mary Sunny was invited speaker at the National Seminar sponsored by UGC on Cog- Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan gave a keynote nitive Science and its Implications for Educa- lecture on Safety of Oil and Gas Industry, 5th tion and Lifelong Learning, Mar 26, 2015. World Conference, Okayama, Japan, Jun 8-11, 2014; Global Summit on Process Safety, Mum- Prof Prachi Thareja delivered an invited lecture bai, Dec 15-16, 2014; 2nd International Confer- in a workshop on Advanced analytical tech- ence on Safety, Ahmedabad, Dec 2-4, 2014; niques for materials characterization, at 89th AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Nov 16-21, ACS Colloids Symposium 2015, Pittsburgh, USA, 2014; Workshop on Safety and integrity man- Feb 23-24, 2015; Advanced analytical tech- agement of operations in harsh environment, niques for materials characterization (AAT- Oct 22-23, 2014, St. John’s, Canada; 8th CCPS Asia MC 2015) SVNIT Surat; Particle self assembly Pacific Regional Meeting onProcess Safety, in lyotropic hexagonal liquid crystals –effect Chennai, Sep 22, 2014; 8th National Frontiers of of particle loading, Shape and phase transi- Engineering, IITGN, Ahmedabad, Sep 5-6, 2014; tion kinetics, 89th ACS Colloids Symposium 2015, Trans-Atlantic research and development inter- Pittsburgh, USA; Liquid crystal orientations on change on sustainability, Estes Park, CO, USA, surfactant adsorbed solid glass surfaces: A Jun 3-6, 2014; Cognitive Engineering: Quanti- wettability and solid surface energy study,

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 87 89th ACS Colloids Symposium 2015, Pittsburgh, cessing Dec 8-12, 2014, Powered by TEQIP, IITGN. USA. Prof Sudhir K Jain participated in INDIASPORA Dialog at New Delhi to explore bold ideas for a vi- Prof Vijay Thiruvenkatam delivered an invited brant US-India partnership in New Delhi, Jan 25, lecture at Nirma University, Ahmedabad in the 2015. The Dialog was held in conjunction with Department of Pharmacology, Ahmedabad, Apr President Obama's visit to New Delhi for the In- 16, 2014 dian Republic Day parade in Jan 2015; He also participated in the Retreat of IIT Directors and Prof JagmohanTyagi delivered an invited talk at Chairpersons with the Human Resource Minister the Parul Institute of Engineering and Technol- at Goa, Jun 2014; Road safety Forum and Con- ogy, Limda, Vadodara, Jun 28, 2014; Industrial sultation Meeting organized by the Underwrit- problems at Department of Applied Mathemat- ers Laboratories Inc, in New Delhi, Nov 26, 2014. ics, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, M S Prof Jain attended National Advisory Commit- University of Baroda, Mar 18, 2015. tee meeting of the National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Nov 27, Prof Siddharth Y Wakankar delivered a lecture 2014. Prof Jain also visited Disaster Prevention on Manuscriptology in the Bombay University, Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, In- Sanskrit Department for the Manuscriptology Di- stitute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the University ploma Course, Sep 20, 2014; Sanskrit and its im- of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) and pact on the Indian languages in a workshop on Ricoh Co. in Tokyo. Manuscriptology in the GogateJogalekar College at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, Aug 5-7, 2014; chaired Prof Shivakumar Jolad participated in European a academic session as well as gave a key-note Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS)- 2014, address in the Workshop on Traditional games Lucca, Italy, Sep 2014. Prof Jolad has conducted and folk-games in Maharashtra, organized by survey on health, livelihood and education the Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Samiti, Pune, Dec at Palaj and Basan village as part of unapt Bharat 27, 2014. Abhiyan; engaged IITGN students in ASER-2014 survey conducted by Pratham in Ahmedabad for assessing learning levels of elementary school OTHER FACULTY children; organized a Symposium on mathe- matical and computational biology- under ACTIVITIES NNMCB (National network of mathematical and Prof Amit Arora was visiting scholar, University computational biology), Pune. of North Texas, Denton, Mar–Sep, 2014. Prof Mohan C Joshi was the national coordinator Prof Bhaskar Datta was involved in coordination of the Workshop on Variational Analysis and of TEQIP activities. Optimization, Mar 2-8, 2015, IIT Gandhinagar organized under the auspices of the National Pro- Prof Pratyush Dayal has served as head of the gram on Differential Equations (NPDE, DST). Institute Management Systems (IMS). He was also the convener of the Information Systems Prof Alok Kumar Kanungo, initiated the pro- and Technology Facility (ISTF). gram for making an online annotated bibliogra- phy of sciences in archaeology of South Asia Prof Nithin V George was the local coordi- as part of Archaeological Science Centre (ASC), nator, 59thMeeting of the Programme Advisory IITGN; Carried out a fieldwork in and around Kopia, Committee –Mathematical Sciences (Department Sant Kabirnagar District, Uttar Pradesh in Decem- of Science and Technology, Government of India; ber 2014 to collect modern botanical samples. Coordinator, Short Course on Applied Signal Pro- Prof Sharmistha Majumdar organized the

88 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 NNMCB Symposium on Mathematical and Com- Bangalore Dec 17, 2014; Harmonic analysis, putational Biology at IIT Gandhinagar, Mar PDEs and Geometric Measure Theory at ICMAT, 21-22 2015, under the premise of the National Madrid, Jan 12-16, 2015. Network for Mathematical and Computational Bi- ology, Pune of which IIT Gandhinagar is a member PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES institution. The book launch of Prof Rajmohan Gandhi’s new book Prince of Gujarat: The Extraordinary Prof Krishna Prasad Miyapuram co-organized Story of Prince Gopaldas Desai (1887-1951), a panel discussion and brain storming session published by Aleph Book Company was held on named Padayatricks! at IIT Gandhinagar; Panel- Jan 7, 2015. The book launch was accompanied ist, Cognitive perspectives on Road Safety: A by a conversation between Prof Gandhi, Schol- proposal, National Traffic Technology Summit, ar-in-Residence at IITGN and Mr Aakar Patel, Ahmedabad, Jan 2015; Speaker and Member, writer and columnist. organising team for Sub-theme: Cognition and Safety, 8th National Frontiers of Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, Sep 2014; Masters thesis examiner, Centre of Behavioral and Cognitive Science, Uni- versity of Allahabad, May 2014.

Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay has prepared a chap- ter on Aluminium for generic research of non-ferrous resources in India for Indian In- stitute of Metals and presented before the Sec- retary, Ministry of Mines, Government of India on Apr 16, 2013 along with the team members of In- dian Institute of Metals.

Prof K V V Murthy participated as an invited del- egate, in a 2-day workshop on: TEQIP-II: Good Governance, Leadership and Management Workshop organized by the National Project Im- plementation Unit (NPIU), New Delhi, Oct 14-15, 2014.

Prof Shanmuganathan Raman co-ordinated the Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP), IITGN. He was also a Member of Informa- tion Systems and Technology Facility (ISTF), IITGN and the IITGN Library committee.

Prof R Sharan had offered a 1-unit course on Engineering and Democracy: An Indian im- perative at IIT Hyderabad, Mar 9-19, 2015. The course was offered in collaboration withProf Bi- joy Boruah, Professor of Philosophy at IIT Delhi and also a guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar.

Prof Jagmohan Tyagi participated in the confer- ence on the Variational Methods at TIFR-CAM,

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 89 PUBLICATIONS Books configuration and directed motion of responsive Divekar Mukund H and Bhate Nitin V, Heat gels”, in Engineering of Chemical Complexity II, Transfer Laboratory: Orientation, Protocol and DOI: 10.1142/9789814616133 0009, World Sci- Design Methodology. Mumbai, IN: Penram Inter- entific, 2014, pp 149-168, ISBN: 9789814616126 national Publishing (India) Pvt Ltd, 2014, ISBN: 9788187972907 Halim Iskandar and Srinivasan Rajagopalan, “Process synthesis approaches for enhancing Gandhi Rajmohan, Prince of Gujarat: the ex- sustainability of batch process plants”, in Synthe- traordinary story of Prince Gopaldas Desai: 1887- sis, design, and resource optimization in batch 1951. New Delhi, IN: Aleph Book Company, 2014, chemical plants, CRC Press, 2015, pp 151-183, ISBN: 9789383064069 ISBN: 9781482252415

Rath Arnapurna and Das Bhaskarjyoti*, Devi: a Joglekar P P, Prabhakar V N and Mittra S K, “An- journey through photo-poetry. New Delhi, IN: Au- imal remains from the mature Harappan context thors press, 2014, ISBN: 9788172738372 at Karanpura, Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan: a preliminary report”, in Recent Researches on Reddy Srinivas (Tr), Malavikagnimitram: the Indus Civilization Maritime Archaeology in India, dancer and the king (Kalidasa). New Delhi, IN: Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2015, pp 87-96, Penguin Books Ltd, 2014 (Transl. from Sanskrit), ISBN: 9788173201455 ISBN: 9780670086870 Kanojia Gagan*, Malireddi Sri Raghu*, Book Chapters Chowdary Gullapally Sai* and Raman Shan- Allender Eric and Das Bireswar, "Zero knowledge muganathan, “Who Shot the Picture and and circuit minimization", in Lecture Notes in Com- When?”, in Advances in Visual Computing, DOI: puter Science, DOI: 10.1007/9783662444658_3, 10.1007/9783319143644_42, Cham: Springer vol 8635, Springer International Publishing, 2014, International Publishing, 2014, pp 438-447, ISBN: pp 25-32, ISBN: 9783662444641 9783319143637

Danino Michel, "Climate and environment in the Kirubakaran Sivapriya and Thiruvenkatam Indus-Sarasvati civilization", in Ratnaśrī: gleanings Vijay, “Diverse applications of Nanotechnology from Indian archaeology, art history and Indology: in Biomedicine, Chemistry, and Engineering”, in papers presented in memory of Dr N R Banerjee, Handbook of Research on Diverse Applications of New Delhi: Kaveri Books, 2015, pp 39-47, ISBN: Nanotechnology in Biomedicine, Chemistry, and 9788174791641 Engineering, DOI: 10.4 018/978-1-4666-6363-3. ch001,IGI Global, 2014, ISBN: 9781466663633 Das Bireswar, Enduri Murali Krishna* and Red- dy Vinod Kumar*, “Logspace and FPT algorithms Kothari Rita, “From conclusions to beginings: for graph isomorphism for subclasses of bounded my journey with partition”, in Partition: the long tree-width graphs”, in WALCOM: Algorithms and shadow, Zubaan Books, 2015, pp 31-47, ISBN: Computation, DOI: 10.1007/9783319156125_30, 9789383074778 Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp 329-334, ISBN: 9783319156118 Mehta Mona G, “Partisan dreams, fractured homeland: Gujarati diaspora politics in America”, Deb Debabrata, Dayal Pratyush, Balazs Anna C in Pluralism and democracy in India debating the and Kuksenok Olga, “Modeling stimuli-induced re- Hindu right, New York: Oxford University Press,

90 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 2015, pp 327-345, ISBN: 9780195395532 oti, “Cell voltage noise in aluminium smelting”, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, Mishra Abhijit, “Structural transitions in lipid DOI: 10.1007/s12666-013-0348-5, vol 67, no 3, membranes: Mechanism for cell-penetrating pep- pp 275-283, Jun 2014 tides”, in Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, DOI: 10.1016/B978- 0-12-418699- Agnihotri A, Pathak S U and Mukhopadhyay Jy- 6.00005-9, London: Burlington, 2014, pp 103-137, oti, “Effect of metal pad instabilities on current ISBN: 9780124186996 efficiency in aluminium electrolysis”, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, DOI: 10.1007/ Miyapuram Krishna Prasad, Pamnani Ujjval*; s12666-013-0349-4, vol 67, no 3, pp 315-323, Doya Kenji and Bapi Raju S, “Inter Subject cor- Jun 2014 relation of Brain activity during visuo-motor se- quence learning”, in Lecture Notes in Computer Agnihotri Harsha, Palakollu Veerabhadra* Science, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12637-1 5, vol and Kanvah Sriram, “Selective photoisomeri- 8834, Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp zation of methyl substituted nitro diphenylbu- 35-41, ISBN: 9783319126364 tadienes”, Journal of Photochemistry and Pho- tobiology A: Chemistry, DOI: 10.1016/j.jphoto- Pai D V, “Well-Posedness, Regularization, chem.2014.07.019, vol 293, pp 40-49, Aug 2014 and Viscosity Solutions of Minimization Prob- lems”, in Nonlinear Analysis: Approximation Alex T C, Kumar Rakesh, Roy S K and Mehrotra Theory, Optimization and Applications, DOI: S P, “Mechanically induced reactivity of gibbsite: 10.1007/9788132218838_5, New Delhi: Spring- Part 1. Planetary milling”, Powder Technology, er India, 2014, pp 135-164, ISBN: 9788132218821 DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2014.05.028, vol 264, pp 105-113, Sep 2014 Sharma Manoj K* and Mukhopadhyay Jyoti, “Evaluation of forming limit diagram of aluminum Alex T C, Kumar Rakesh, Roy S K and Mehrotra alloy 6061-T6 at ambient temperature”, in Light S P, “Mechanically induced reactivity of gibbsite: Metals 2015, DOI: 10.1002/9781119093435. Part 2. Attrition milling”, Powder Technology, DOI: ch52, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015, pp 10.1016/j.powtec.2014.05.029, vol 264, pp 229- 307-314, ISBN: 9781119082446 235, Sep 2014

Journal Papers Ali Ahmed Farag and Majumder Barun, “To- Aadhi A*, Apurv Chaitanya N*, Jabir M V, Singh wards a cosmology with minimal length and max- Ravindra P and Samanta Goutam K, “All-period- imal energy”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, DOI: ically poled, high-power, continuous-wave, sin- 10.1088/0264-9381/31/21/215007, vol 31, no gle-frequency tunable UV source”, Optics Letters, 21, Nov 2014 DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.000033, vol 40, no 1, pp 33- 36, Jan 2015 Ali Ahmed Farag, Faizal Mir and Majumder Barun, “Absence of an effective horizon for black holes in Adhitya Arief, Cheng Siew Fun, Lee Zongda and gravity’s rainbow”, EPL (Europhysics Letters), DOI: Srinivasan Rajagopalan, “Quantifying the Ef- 10.1209/0295-5075/109/20001, vol 109, no 2, fectiveness of an Alarm Management System Jan 2015 through Human Factors Studies”, Computers & Chemical Engineering, DOI: 10.1016/j.compche- Ali Haider*, Mishra Vimal and Pai D S, “Observed meng 2014.03.013, vol 67, pp 1-12, Aug 2014 and projected urban extreme rainfall events in India”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmo- Agnihotri A, Pathak S U and Mukhopadhyay Jy- spheres, DOI: 10.1002/2014 JD022264, vol 119,

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Apurv Chaitanya N*, Aadhi A*, Singh Ravindra P Bhattacharjee Srijit* and Sarkar Sudipta, and Samanta Goutam K, “Type-I frequency-dou- “Physical process first law and caustic avoidance bling characteristics of high power, ultrafast fiber for Rindler horizons”, Physical Review D, DOI: laser in thick BIBO crystal”, Optics Letters, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.024024, vol 91, no 2, Jan 10.1364/OL.39.005419, vol 39, no 18, pp 5419- 2015 5422, Aug 2014 Bhattacharya Kaushik, Chakraborty Joydeep, Das Basu Dhiman, Constantinou Michael C and Whit- Suratna and Mondal Tanmoy*, “Higgs vacu- taker Andrew S, “An equivalent accidental ec- um stability and inflationary dynamics after BI- centricity to account for the effects of torsional CEP2 and PLANCK dust polarisation data”, Jour- ground motion on structures”, Engineering Struc- nal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, DOI: tures, DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2014.02.038, vol 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/12/001, vol 2014, no 69, pp 1-11, Jun 2014 12, Dec 2014

Bawa Nupur, Jain Vikrant, Shekhar Shashank, Bhuria Nidal R* and Sachan Ajanta, “Shear Kumar Niraj and Jyani Vikas, “Controls on mor- strength and constant rate of strain consolidation phological variability and role of stream pow- behaviour of cement-treated slurry-consolidated er distribution pattern, Yamuna river, western soft soil”, Current Science, vol 106, no 7, pp 972- India”, Geomorphology, DOI: 10.1016/j.geo- 979, Apr 2014 morph.2014.05.016, vol 227, pp 60-72, Dec 2014 Chopra A, Panda Emila, Kim Y, Arredondo M and Behera Chitta Ranjan*, Srinivasan Babji, Chan- Hesse D, “Epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3) dran Kartik and Venkatasubramanian Venkat, O3-PbTiO3 thin films on La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 bot- “Model based predictive control for energy effi- tom electrode”, Journal of Electroceramics, DOI: cient biological nitrification process with minimal 10.1007/s10832-014-9936-y, vol 32, no 4, pp nitrous oxide production”, Chemical Engineering 404-408, Jun 2014 Journal, DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.01.044, Jan 2015 Dalvi Sameer V and Joshi Jignesh R*, “Model- Bhardwaj Adit* and Raman Shanmuganathan, ing of microbubble dissolution in aqueous medi- “Robust PCA-based Solution to image composi- um”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, DOI: tion using augmented lagrange multiplier (ALM)”, 10.1016/j.jcis.2014.09.044, vol 437, pp 259-269, The Visual Computer, DOI: 10.1007/s00371-015- Oct 2014 1075-1, Jan 2015 Danino Michel, “From Sarasvati to Ganga”, Sand- Bhargav Atul, Lyubovsky Maxim and Dixit hi: A Journal of Science and Heritage Initiatives, Marm#, “Managing fuel variability in LPG-based vol 1, no 1, pp 32-35, Feb 2015 PEM fuel cell systems-I: Thermodynamic simula- tions”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Das Sudipta*, Balsukuri Naresh*, Praseetha DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.08.068, vol 39, no E Kesavana* and Gupta Iti, “Difunctionalized 30, pp 17231-17239, Oct 2014 N-Confused porphyrins: synthesis, fluorescence, and electrochemical studies”, Australian Journal Bhattacharjee Srijit* and Majumdar Par- of Chemistry, DOI: 10.1071/CH14383, Nov 2014 thasarathi, “Gravitational coleman-weinberg potential and its finite temperature counter- Dayal Pratyush, Kuksenok Olga and Balazs Anna part”, Nuclear Physics B, DOI: 10.1016/j.nucl- C, “Directing the behavior of active, self-oscillating

92 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 gels with light”, Macromolecules, DOI: 10.1021/ Dutta Anirban, Lahiri Uttama, Das Abhijit, Nit- ma402430b, vol 47, no 10, pp 3231-3242, May sche Michael A and Guiraud David “Post-stroke 2014 balance rehabilitation under multi-level electro- therapy: a conceptual review”, Frontiers in Neu- Deb Debabrata, Kuksenok Olga, Dayal Praty- roscience, DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00403, vol 8, ush and Balazs Anna C, “Forming self-rotating Dec 2014 pinwheels from assemblies of oscillating poly- mer gels”, Materials Horizon, DOI: 10.1039/C3M- Dwivedi Gaurav*, “Existence of solution for bi- H00083D, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 125-132, 2014 harmonic systems with indefinite weights”, Dif- ferential Equations & Applications, DOI:10.7153/ Densmore Alexander L, Sinha Rajiv, Sinha Swati, dea-06-29, vol 6, no 4, pp 495-516, Sep 2014 Tandon S K and Jain Vikrant, “Sediment storage and release from Himalayan piggyback basins Dwivedi Vinay* and Damodaran Murali, and implications for downstream river morphol- “Computational aeromechanics of a manuever- ogy and evolution”, Basin Research, DOI: 10.1111/ ing unmanned aerial vehicle with variable-inci- bre.12116, Mar 2015 dence wings”, Journal of Aircraft, DOI: 10.2514/1. C033102, Mar 2015 DeSantis Amy S, Adam Emma K, Hawkley Louise C, Kudielka Brigitte M and Cacioppo Echempati Raghu, LeBlanc Nathan Marshall, John T, “Racial and ethnic differences in diur- Sahu Ankita, and Dani Theodore Paul, “Quick-re- nal cortisol rhythms: are they consistent over turn mechanism revisited”, Computers in Educa- time?”,Psychosomatic Medicine, DOI: 10.1097/ tion Journal, vol 24, no 2, Apr-Jun, 2014 PSY.0000000000000131, vol 77, no 1, pp 6-15, Jan 2015 Eskandari M, Mohtadi-Bonab M A, Basu R, Nezakat M, Kermanpur A, Szpunar J A, Nahar Shreyans* Dhara Anulekha and Luc Dinh The, “A solution and Baghpanah A H “Preferred crystallograph- method for linear variational relation problems”, ic orientation development in Nano/Ultraf- Journal of Global Optimization, DOI: 10.1007/ ine-Grained 316L stainless steel during marten- s10898-013-0095-5, vol 59, no 4, pp 729-756, site to austenite reversion”, Journal of Materials Aug 2014 Engineering and Performance, DOI: 10.1007/ s11665-014-1340-x, vol 24, no 2, pp 644-653, Dhuria Mansi, Hati Chandan*, Rangarajan, Ra- Feb 2015 ghavan and Sarkar Utpal, “Explaining the CMS eejj and e/pTjj excess and leptogenesis in super- Fulpagare Yogesh* and Bhargav Atul, “Ad- string inspired E6 models”, Physical Review D, DOI: vances in data centre thermal management”, Re- 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.055010, vol 91, no 5, Mar newable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, DOI: 2015 10.1016/j.rser.2014.11.056, vol 43, pp 981-996, Mar 2015 Dixit Marm#, Fulpagare Yogesh*, Shukla Ja- lay, Basarkar Pratik#, Parikh Dhrupad#, Jain Gallus Jennifer, Juvale Kapil* and Wiese Mi- Rajat* and Bhargav Atul, “Design of fuel cell chael, “Characterization of 3-methoxy flavones systems laboratory for hydrogen, carbon mon- for their interaction with ABCG2 as suggested by oxide and hydrocarbon safety”, Internation- ATPase activity”, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta al Journal of Hydrogen Energy, DOI: 10.1016/j. (BBA) - Biomembranes, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbam- ijhydene.2014.08.094, vol 39, no 31, pp 17929- em.2014.08.003, vol 1838, no 11, pp 2929-2938, 17940, Oct 2014 Nov 2014

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 93 Gangwar Bhanu Pratap*, Palakollu Veer- Gupta Iti, Balsukuri Naresh*and Das Sudipta*, abhadraiah*, Singh Archana*, Kanvah Sriram “Carbazole-corrole and carbazole-prophyrin dy- and Sharma Sudhanshu, “Combustion synthe- ads: synthesis, fluorescence and electrochemical sized La2O3 and La(OH)3: recyclable catalytic studies”, New Journal of Chemistry, DOI: 10.1039/ activity towards knoevenagel and hantzsch reac- C4NJ01086H, vol 39, no 1, pp 482-491, Oct 2014 tions”, RSC Advances, DOI: 10.1039/C4RA08353A, vol 4, no 98, pp 55407-55416, Oct 2014 Jain Deepak, Mukherjee Abhijit and Kwatra Naveen, “Local micromechanics of moisture dif- Garattini Remo and Majumder Barun, “Electric fusion in fiber reinforced polymer composites”, charges and magnetic monopoles in Gravity’s International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Rainbow”, Nuclear Physics B, DOI: 10.1016/j.nu- DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.20 14.04.031, vol clphysb.2014.04.005, vol 883, pp 598-614, Jun 76, pp 199-209, Sep 2014 2014 Jain Sudhir K and Brzev, Svetlana, “Promoting Garattini Remo and Majumder Barun, “Na- sustainable and earthquake safe building con- ked singularities are not singular in distorted struction practices in India”, Canadian Civil Engi- gravity”, Nuclear Physics B, DOI: 10.1016/j.nucl- neer, Spring 2015, pp 29-32, 2015. physb.2014.04.014, vol 884, pp 125-141, Jul 2014 Kalaga Dinesh V*, Dhar Anu, Dalvi Sameer V and Gavasane Ritu*, Ardhapurkar P M and Atrey M Joshi Jyeshtharaj B, “Particle-liquid mass transfer D, “Prediction of thermo-physical properties of in solid-liquid fluidized beds”, Chemical Engineer- argon at cryogenic conditions using modified ing Journal, DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.02.038, vol Benedict-Webb-Rubin equation of state”, Indi- 245, no 1, pp 323–341, Jun 2014 an Journal of Cryogenics, DOI: 10.5958/2349- 2120.2014.00828.0, vol 39, no 1, pp 207-212, Kannan S, Ghosh Subimal, Mishra Vimal and Oct 2014 Salvi Kaustubh, “Uncertainty Resulting from Multiple Data Usage in Statistical Down- Ghatage Swapnil V*, Peng Zhengbiao, Sathe scaling”, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: Mayur J, Doroodchi Elham, Padhiyar Nitin, 10.1002/2014GL060089, vol 41, no 11, Jun 2014 Moghtaderi Behdad, Joshi Jyeshtharaj B and Ev- ans Geoffrey M, “Stability analysis in solid-liquid Karde Vikram* and Ghoroi Chinmay, “Influence fluidized beds: experimental and computation- of surface modification on wettability and surface al”, Chemical Engineering Journal, DOI: 10.1016/j. energy characteristics of pharmaceutical excip- cej.2014.06.026, vol 256, pp 169–186, Jul 2014 ient powders”, International Journal of Pharma- ceutics, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2014.09.002, vol Ghosh Datta Shohini; Reynolds Christopher; Goud 475, no 1, pp 351-363, Nov 2014 Yugender K* and Datta Bhaskar, “Interaction of YOYO-1 with guanine-rich DNA”, Journal of Biomo- Kaur Jasmeet, Nandy D K*, Arora Bindiya and lecular Structure and Dynamics, DOI: 10.1080/ Sahoo B K*, “Properties of alkali-metal atoms 07391102.2013.807752, vol 32, no7, pp 1155- and alkaline-earth-metal ions for an accurate es- 1163, Jul 2014 timate of their long-range interactions”, Physical Review A, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.91.012705, vol Gupta Iti and Praseetha E Kesavana*, “Carba- 91, no 1, Jan 2015 zole substituted boron dipyrromethenes”, Dalton Transactions, DOI: 10.1039/C4DT01160K, vol 43, Kothari Rita (Tr.), “Agrahaaramnee Bilaadi [Tam- no 32, pp 12405-12413, Jun 2014 il story by Dilip Kumar]”, Shabdashrishti, vol 2, pp 35-41, Feb 2015

94 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Kothari Rita, “Scarred lives: the partition expe- morph.2014.04.031, vol 227, pp 73-86, Dec 2014 rience of Sindhi Hindus as explored by Nandita Bhavnani”, Himal South Asian: a review magazine Kuriakose Selvia* and Lahiri Uttama, “Un- of politics and culture, vol 27, no 4, pp 278-291, derstanding the psycho-physiological implica- Dec 2014 tions of interaction with a virtual reality based system in adolescents with autism: a feasibility Kothari Rita, “Scholarship on Banni”, Economic & study”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Political Weekly, vol 49, no 21, pp 5, May 2014 Rehabilitation Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/TN- SRE.2015.2393891, Jan 2015 Krishnamoorthi Shankarjee, Perotti Luigi E, Borgstrom Nils P, Ajijola Olujimi A, Frid Anna, Pon- Laskar Fazlul I* and Pallamraju Duggirala, “Does naluri Aditya V, Weiss James N, Qu Zhilin, Klug Wil- sudden stratospheric warming induce meridio- liam S, Ennis Daniel B and Garfinkel Alan, “Simula- nal circulation in the mesosphere thermosphere tion methods and validation criteria for modeling system?”,Journal of Geophysical Research: Space cardiac ventricular electrophysiology”, PLoS ONE, Physics, DOI: 10.1002/2014JA020086, vol 119, no DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114494, vol 9, no 12, 12, pp 10133-10143, Dec 2014 Dec 2014 Laskar Fazlul I*, Pallamraju Duggirala and Kumar Devashish, Mishra Vimal and Ganguly Veenadhari Bhaskara, “Vertical coupling of at- Auroop R, “Evaluating wind extremes in CMIP5 mospheres: dependence on strength of sudden climate models”, Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/ stratospheric warming and solar activity”, Earth, s00382-014-2306-2, Sep 2014 Planets and Space, DOI: 10.1186/1880-5981-66- 94, vol 66, no 1, Aug 2014 Kumar Manish*, Gayen Kalyan and Saini Su- preet, “Elementary mode analysis reveals that Laskar Fazlul I*, Pallamraju Duggirala, Veenad- Clostridium acetobutylicum modulates its meta- hari Bhaskara, Vijaya Lakshmi T, Reddy M Anji and bolic strategy under external stress”, Molecular Chakrabarti Supriya, “Gravity waves in the thermo- BioSystems, DOI: 10.1039/C4MB00126E, vol 10, sphere: solar activity dependence”, Advances in no 8, pp 2090-2105, May 2014 Space Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2014.12.040, vol 55, no 6, pp 1651-1659, Jan 2015 Kumar Manish, Rai Durgesh C and Jain Sudhir K, “Ductility reduction factors for masonry-Infilled Liew Wan Te; Adhitya Arief and Srinivasan Ra- reinforced concrete frames”, Earthquake Spectra, jagopalan, “Sustainability trends in the pro- DOI: 10.1193/110512EQS322M, vol 31, no 1, pp cess industries: A text mining-based analysis”, 339-365, Feb 2015 Computers in Industry, DOI: 10.1016/j.comp- ind.2014.01.004, vol 35, no 3, Apr 2014 Kumar Neeraj#, Manjaly Jaison A and Sunny Meera Mary, “The relationship between ac- Mallajosyula Sairam S, Vanommeslaeghe Ken- tion-effect monitoring and attention capture”, no and MacKerell Alexander D, “Perturbation of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, DOI: long-range water dynamics as the mechanism for 10.1037/xge0000032, vol 144, no 1, pp 18-23, the antifreeze activity of antifreeze glycoprotein”, Feb 2015 The Journal of Physical Chemistry, DOI: 10.1021/ jp508128d, Vol 118, no 40, pp 11696-11706, Sep Kumar Rakesh, Jain Vikrant, Babu G Prasad 2014 and Sinha Rajiv, “Connectivity structure of the Kosi Megafan and role of rail-road transport Manwani Krishna* and Panda Emila, “Thermo- network”, Geomorphology, DOI: 10.1016/j.geo- dynamics of interface formation between Hexa-

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 95 Peri Hexabenzocoronene and Cupric oxide”, Thin 191-196, Jun 2014 Solid Films, DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2015.01.032, vol 577, pp 6-10, Feb 2015 Mukherjee Sumitava*, Srinivasan Narayanan and Manjaly Jaison A, “Global processing fosters Mishra Vimal, Ganguly Auroop R, Nijssen Bart donations toward charity appeals framed in an and Lettenmaier Dennis P, “Changes in observed approach orientation”, Cognitive Processing, DOI: climate extremes in global urban areas”, Environ- 10.1007/s10339-014-0602-8, vol 15, no 3, pp mental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088/1748- 391-396, Aug 2014 9326/10/2/024005, vol 10, no 2, Feb 2015 Mukhopadhyay Dyutiman*, “The neuro-philos- Mishra Vimal, Kumar Devashish, Ganguly Auroop ophy of archetype in visual aesthetics: from Plato R, Sanjay J, Mujumdar Milind, Krishnan R and Shah to Zeki and beyond”, PsyArt, Dec 2014 Reepal*, “Reliability of regional and global cli- mate models to simulate precipitation extremes Mutha Pratik K and Haaland Kathleen Y, “Cog- over India”, Journal of Geophysical Research: At- nitive aspects of motor control”, Cortex, DOI: mospheres, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021636, vol 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.03.001, vol 57, pp 299- 119, no 15, pp 9301-9323, Jul 2014 300, Aug 2014

Mishra Vimal, Shah Reepal* and Thrasher Brid- Mutha Pratik K, Stapp Lee H, Sainburg, Robert L get, “Soil moisture droughts under the retrospec- and Haaland Kathleen Y, “Frontal and parietal cor- tive and projected climate in India”, Journal of Hy- tex contributions to action modification”, Cortex, drometeorology, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0177.1, DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.03.005, vol 57, pp 38- vol 15, no 6, pp 2267-2292, Dec 2014 50, Aug 2014

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Moody Dustin, Paul Souradyuti and Smith-Tone Nandy D K* and Sahoo B K*, “Relativistic calcu- Daniel, “Improved in differentiability security lations of radiative properties and fine structure bound for the JH mode”, Designs, Codes and Cryp- constant varying sensitivity coefficients in the tography, DOI: 10.1007/s10623-015-0047-9, astrophysically relevant Zn II, Si IV and Ti IV ions”, Feb 2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Soci- ety, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2707, vol 447, no 4, Mukherjee Payel C* and Rath Arnapurna, “De- pp 3812-3823, Jan 2015 sire and the déclassé: body and religion in our lady of Alice Bhatt”, eDhvani: University of Hydredabad Pahlajani Chetan D, Sun Jianxin, Poulakakis Io- Journal of Comparative Literature, vol VI, Jan 2015 annis and Tanner Herbert G, “Error probability bounds for nuclear detection: improving accura- Mukherjee Sumitava*, Nargundkar Mai- cy through controlled mobility”, Automatica, DOI: thilee* and Manjaly Jaison A, “Monetary primes 10.1016/j.automatica.2014.08.025, vol 50, no 10, increase differences in predicted life-satisfac- pp 2470-2481, Oct 2014 tion between new and old Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)”, Psychological Studies, DOI: Pahlajani Chetan D, Sun Jianxin, Poulakakis Ioan- 10.1007/s12646-014-0259-5, vol 59, no 2, pp nis and Tanner Herbert G, “Performance bounds

96 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 for mismatched decision schemes with Poisson in surface coatings incorporating SiC partic- process observations”, Systems & Control Letters, ulates into microalloy steel using TIG tech- DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2014.11.006, vol 75, pp nique”, Materials Science and Technology, DOI: 69-76, Jan 2015 10.1179/1743284 713Y.0000000481, vol 30, no 12, pp 1506-1514, Oct 2014 Pai D V, “Viscocity approximation methods for minimization and fixed point problems - a relook Patwardhan Apoorv*, Patidar Rohan* and “, The Mathematics Students, vol 83, no 1-4, pp George Nithin V, “On a cuckoo search optimiza- 53-72, 2014 tion approach towards feedback system identifi- cation”, Digital Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1016/j. Palakollu Veerabhadraiah* and Kanvah Sri- dsp.2014.05.008, vol 32, pp 156-163, Sep 2014 ram, “a-Cyanostilbene based fluorophores: ag- gregation-induced enhanced emission, solva- Peng Zhengbiao, Doroodchi Elham, Sathe Ma- tochromism and the pH effect “, New Journal of yur, Joshi Jyeshtharaj B, Evans, Geoffrey M and Chemistry, DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ01103A, vol 38, no Moghtaderi Behdad, “A method for calculating 12, pp 5736-5746, Dec 2014 the surface area of numerically simulated ag- gregates”, Advanced Powder Technology, DOI: Palakollu Veerbhadraiah* and Kanvah Sri- 10.1016/j.apt.2014.08.005, vol 26, no 1, pp 56- ram, “Diphenylpolyene-Cholesterol Conjugates 65, Jan 2015 as Fluorescent Probes for Microheterogeneous Media”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photo- Peng Zhengbiao, Ghatage Swapnil V*, Dorood- biology A: Chemistry, DOI: 10.1016/j.jphoto- chi Elham, Joshi Jyeshtharaj B, Evans Geoffrey M chem.2014.02.013, vol 281, pp 18-26, May 2014 and Moghtaderi Behdad, “Forces acting on a single introduced particle in a solid-liquid fluidised BEd”, Panchal Kartik C* and Kanchan Sumit, “Volumet- Chemical Engineering Science, DOI: 10.1016/j. ric efficiency appraisal and cold flow study of for- ces.2014.04.040, vol 116, pp 49-70, Sep 2014 mulae student vehicle”, International Journal for Technological Research in Engineering, vol 2, no Prabhakar V N and Majid Jaseera C, “Preliminary 7, Mar 2015 results of excavation at Karanpura, a Harappan settlement in district Hanumangarh”, Man and Paplal Banoth, Nagaraju S, Palakollu Veer- Environment, vol 39, no 2, pp 13-41, 2014 abhadraiah*, Sujatha Kodam, Kanvah Sriram, B Vijaya Kumar and Kashinath Dhurke, “Recyclable Prashant Amit and Penumadu Dayakar, “Uncou- Bi2WO6-nanoparticle mediated One-pot mul- pled dual hardening model for clays considering ticomponent reactions in aqueous medium at the effect of overconsolidation and intermediate room temperature”, RSC Advances, DOI: 10.1039/ principal stress”, Acta Geotechnica, DOI: 10.1007/ C4RA07708C, vol 4, no 97, pp 54168-54174, Oct s11440-015-0377-9, Mar 2015 2014 Rahaim Matt, Reddy Srinivas and Christensen Patel Narendra* and Padhiyar Nitin, “Modi- Lars, “Authority, critique, and revision in the San- fied genetic algorithm using box complex meth- skrit music-theoretic tradition: rereading the od: application to optimal control problems”, Svara-mela-kalānidhi”, Asian Music, DOI: 10.1353/ Journal of Process Control, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpro- amu.2015.0001, vol 46, no 1 (Winter/Spring cont.2015.01.001, vol 26, pp 35-50, Feb 2015 2015), Jan 2015

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Sahay Arvind, Mukherjee Sumitava* and De- Sengupta Anand et al, “Implementation of an wani Prem Prakash, “Price discount framings on F-statistic all-sky search for continuous grav- product bundles with shipping surcharges in the itational waves in Virgo VSR1 data”, Classical Indian market: examining the weighted-additive and Quantum Gravity, DOI: 10.1088/0264- and reference-dependent models”, Journal of In- 9381/31/16/165014, vol 31, no 16, Aug 2014 dian Business Research, DOI: 10.1108/JIBR-05- 2014-0026, vol 7, no 1, 2015 Sengupta Anand et al, “Improved upper lim- its on the stochastic gravitational-wave back- Samanta Tannistha, Chen Feinian and ground from 2009-2010 LIGO and Virgo data”, Vanneman Reeve, “Living arrangements and Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev- health of older adults in India”, The Journals of Lett.113.231101, vol 113, no 23, Dec 2014 Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbu164, Sengupta Anand et al, “Methods and results of Dec 2014 a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Sarlegna Fabrice R and Mutha Pratik K, “The Virgo detectors”, Physical Review D, DOI: 10.1103/ influence of visual target information on the on- PhysRevD.89.122004, vol 89, no 12, Jun 2014 line control of movements”, Vision Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.07.001, Jul 2014 Sengupta Anand et al, “Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-en- Sarmah Abhishek* and Mukhopadhyaya Jyo- ergy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and ti, “Crashworthiness of automobile components IceCube”, Physical Review D, DOI: 10.1103/Phys- made from aluminium alloys: a review”, IIM Metal RevD.90.102002, vol 90, no 10, Jun 2014 News, vol 18, no 1, Feb 2015 Sengupta Anand et al, “Search for gravitational

98 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 radiation from intermediate mass black hole bina- jani Chetan D, “Optimal navigation for vehicles ries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint sci- with stochastic dynamics”, IEEE Transactions ence run”, Physical Review D, DOI: 10.1103/Phys- on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/ RevD.89.122003, vol 89, no 12, Jun 2014 TCST.2015.2389275, Jan 2015

Sengupta Anand et al, “Search for gravitation- Singha Rattandeep, Gupta Sandeep, Raman al wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate Shanmuganathan, Chakraborty Prodyut, Shar- mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005- ma Puneet, Sharma Rakesh Kumar, Brown Larry C, 2010”, Physical Review D, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRe- Wei Xiaohua and Plappally Anand, “Comparative vD.89.102006, vol 89, no 10, May 2014 analysis of hydrodynamics of treatment wetlands using finite volume models with empirical data”, Sengupta Anand et al, “Search for gravitational Desalination and Water Treatment, DOI: 10.1080 waves associated with g-ray bursts detected by /19443994.2014.957957, Sep 2014 the interplanetary network”, Physical Review Let- ters, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.011102, vol Sinha R, Sripriyanka K, Jain Vikrant, Mukul,Ma- 113, no 1, Jun 2014 lay, Murty C V R and Bansal Dipanshu, “Avul- sion threshold and planform dynamics of the Sengupta Anand et al, “The NINJA-2 project: Kosi River in north Bihar (India) and Nepal: a GIS detecting and characterizing gravitational wave- framework”, Geomorphology, DOI: 10.1016/j.geo- forms modelled using numerical binary black hole morph.2014.03.035, vol 26, pp 157-170, Apr 2014 simulations”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/11/115004, vol 31, no Sivanaresh Satya M* and Mohapatra Nihar Ran- 11, May 2014 jan, “Analysis and modeling of the marrow width effect in gate-first HKMG nMOS transistors”, IEEE Sengupta Anand et al, “Narrow-band search of Transactions on Electron Devices, DOI: 10.1109/ continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab TED.2015.2398870, Mar 2015 and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data”, Physical Re- view D, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.022004, vol Spinner Tim, Srinivasan Babji and Rengaswamy 91, no 2, Jan 2015 Raghunathan, “Data-based automated diagnosis and iterative retuning of proportional-integral (PI) Sengupta Anand et al, “Directed search for grav- controllers”, Control Engineering Practice, DOI: itational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO 10.1016/j.conengprac.2014.03.005, vol 29, pp data”, Physical Review D, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRe- 23-41, Aug 2014 vD.91.062008, vol 91, no 6, Mar 2015 Srinivasan Babji, Nallasivam Ulaganathan and Shah Reepal* and Mishra Vimal, “Development Rengaswamy Raghunathan, “An integrated ap- of an experimental near-real-time drought mon- proach for oscillation diagnosis in linear closed itor for India”, Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI: loop systems”, Chemical Engineering Research 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0041.1, vol 16, no 1, Feb 2015 and Design, DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2014.07.004, vol 93, pp 483-495, Jan 2015 Shah Reepal* and Mishra Vimal, “Evaluation of the Reanalysis products for the Monsoon Season Srivastava Gaurav and Shah Harsh L*, “Mod- Droughts in India”, Journal of Hydrometeorology, eling of moisture in masonry structures: a case- DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0103.1, vol 15, no 4, Aug study of structures in Chandkheda, Ahmedabad”, 2014 International Journal of Civil and Structural Engi- neering, vol 1, no 4, Dec 2014 Shah Shridhar K, Tanner Herbert G and Pahla-

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 99 Subramanian Chandrasekaran* and Kanaga- Tomar Gaurav* and Mohanty Subhendra, “Muon raj Ragavan, “Rapid Tracking of Grid Variables anomalous magnetic moment and positron ex- Using Prefiltered Synchronous Reference Frame cess at AMS-02 in a gauged horizontal symmet- PLL”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and ric model”, Journal of High Energy Physics, DOI: Measurement, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2366275, 10.1007/JHEP11(2014)133, vol 2014, no 11, Nov no 99, Nov 2014 2014

Suthar Kuldeep*, Roy Arko* and D Angom, Tyagi Jagmohan, “Nontrivial solutions for singu- “Acoustic radiation from vortex–barrier interac- lar semilinear elliptic equations on the Heisen- tion in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate”, Journal berg group”, Advances in Nonlinear Analysis, DOI: of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Phys- 10.1515/anona-2013-0027, vol 3, no 2, May 2014 ics, DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/47/13/135301, vol 47, no 13, Jul 2014 Upadhyay Abhishek* and Chakraborty Arup Lal, “Residual amplitude modulation method im- Sweeney Sinbad, Berhanu Deborah, Misra Su- plemented at the phase quadrature frequency perb K, Thorley Andrew J, Valsami-Jones, Eugenia of a 1650nm laser diode for line shape recovery and Tetley Teresa , “Multi-walled carbon nano- of methane”, IEEE Sensors Journal, DOI: 10.1109/ tube length as a critical determinant of bioreactiv- JSEN.2014.2358714, vol 15, no 2, pp 1153-1160, ity with primary human pulmonary alveolar cells”, Feb 2015 Carbon, DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.06.033, vol 78, pp 26-37, Nov 2014 Upham Chester, Derk Alan R, Sharma Sudanshu, Metiu Horia and McFarland Eric W, “CO2 methan- Thiruvenkatam Vijay, Chen Qiang and Wang ation by Ru-doped ceria: the role of the oxidation Jia-huai, “Prediction of horseshoe configura- state of the surface”, Catalysis Science & Technol- tion in neural receptors: Dscam isoforms”, Acta ogy, DOI: 10.1039/C4CY01106F, Jan 2015 Crystallographica Section A, DOI: 10.1107/ S2053273314084952, vol 70, no a1, Aug 2014 Vo Thi, Venkatasubramanian Venkat, Kumar Sanat, Srinivasan Babji, Pal Suchetan, Zhang Thorat Alpana Ankush* and Dalvi Sameer V, Yugang and Gang Oleg, “Stoichiometric control “Solid-state phase transformations and storage of DNA-grafted colloid self-assembly”, Proceed- stability of curcumin polymorphs”, Crystal Growth ings of the National Academy of Sciences of the & Design, DOI: 10.1021/cg501814q, vol 15, no 4, United States of America (PNAS), DOI: 10.1073/ pp 1757-1770, Feb 2015 pnas.1420907112, vol 112, no 16, pp 4982-4987, Mar 2015 Thorat Alpana Ankush* and Dalvi Sameer V, “Particle formation pathways and polymorphism Vollmer Sebastian, Harttgen Kenneth, Subra- of curcumin induced by ultrasound and additives manyam Malavika A, Finlay Jocelyn; Klasen during liquid antisolvent precipitation”, CrystEng- Stephan and Subramanian S V, “Association be- Comm, DOI: 10.1039/C4CE02021A, vol 16, no 48, tween economic growth and early childhood nu- pp 11102-11114, Oct 2014 trition - Authors’ reply”, The Lancet Global Health, DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70380-8, vol 3, no Thorat Alpana Ankush*, Yadav Manishkumar 2, pp e81, Feb 2015 D and Dalvi Sameer V, “A simple criterion for sta- bility of aqueous suspensions of ultra-fine par- Vollmer Sebastian, Harttgen Kenneth, Subra- ticles of a poorly water soluble drug”, Langmuir, manyam Malavika A, Finlay Jocelyn; Klasen DOI: 10.1021/la500825j, vol 30, no. 16, pp 4576- Stephan and Subramanian, S V, “Association be- 4592, Apr 2014 tween economic growth and early childhood

100 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic curves for major urban areas in India”, 2014 AGU and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and mid- Fall Meeting, San Francisco, US, Dec 15-19, 2014 dle-income countries”, The Lancet Global Health, DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70025-7, vol 2, no Angira Deekshi* and Thiruvenkatam Vijay, 4, pp e225-e234, Apr 2014 “Gamma secretase activating protein as a potent drug target for Alzheimer’s disease”, The Raman- Vollmer Sebastian, Harttgen Kenneth, Subra- bhai Foundation 7th International Symposium on manyam Malavika A, Finlay Jocelyn; Klasen Current Trends in Pharmaceutical SciencesAd- Stephan and Subramanian S V, Association be- vances in New Drug Discovery & Development, tween economic growth and early childhood nu- Zydus Research Centre, Ahmedabad, IN, Feb 2-4, trition - Authors’ reply”, The Lancet Global Health, 2015 DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70268-2, vol 2, no 9, pp e501-e502, Sep 2014 Apurv Chaitanya N*, Aadhi A*, Jabir M. V, Kumar Vinayak, Singh Ravindra P and Samanta Goutam Xu Shichao, Adhitya Arief and Srinivasan Ra- K, “Optimization of frequency-doubling of high jagopalan, “Hybrid Model-Based Framework power, high repetition rate, femtosecond fiber la- for Alarm Anticipation”, Industrial & Engineering ser in “thick” nonlinear crystal”, 12th International Chemistry Research, DOI: 10.1021/ie4014953, vol Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Indian 53, no 13, pp 5182-5193, Apr 2014 Institute of Technology Kharagpur, IN, Dec 13-16, 2014 Zou Jing, Hannula Markus, Misra Superb, Feng Hao, Labrador Roberto Hanoi, Aula Antti S, Hytti- Arora Amit, “Heat transfer and material flow nen Jari and Pyykkö Ilmari, “Micro CT visualization modeling of welding and joining”, Welding, Joining of silver nanoparticles in the middle and inner ear and Additive Manufacturing International Confer- of rat and transportation pathway after trans- ence 2015, Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv, IL, Jan tympanic injection”, Journal of Nanobiotechnolo- 18-20, 2015 gy, DOI: 10.1186/s12951-015-0065-9, vol 13, no 1, Jan 2015 Arora Amit, Sahlot Pankaj* and Banjare Prag- ya N*, “Adding a resistance heat source during Conference Papers Friction Stir Welding”, 2015 TMS Annual Meeting Aadhi A*, Apurv Chaitanya N*, Singh Ravindra P & Exhibition, Orlando, US, Mar 15-19, 2015 and Samanta Goutam Kumar, “Continuous-wave, high Power, single-frequency, tunable ultraviolet Arora Ankita* and Mishra Abhijit, “Mechanism source based on all periodically poled crystals”, of bacterial membrane poration by Antimicrobial 12th International Conference on Fibre Optics and Peptides”, APS March Meeting 2015, American Photonics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharag- Physical Society, San Antonio, Texas, US, Mar 2-6, pur, IN, Dec 13-16, 2014 2015

Agrawal Aishwarya* and Raman Shanmuga- Bansal Naman* and Raman Shanmugana- nathan, “A novel LBP based operator for tone than, “Regularized Tone Mapping Using Edge mapping HDR images”, 10th International Confer- Preserving Filters”, 21st National Conference on ence on Signal Processing and Communications Communication (NCC-2015), IIT Bombay, IN, Feb (SPCOM-2014), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) 27- Mar 1, 2015 Bangalore, IN, Jul 22-25, 2014 Bapat Akash*, Ravi Adit and Raman Shan- Ali Haider* and Mishra Vimal, “Development muganathan, “An iterative, non-local approach of sub-daily intensity duration frequency (IDF) for restoring depth maps in RGB-D images”, 21st

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 101 National Conference on Communication (NCC- ser diodes to classify cold drinks brands and inter- 2015), IIT Bombay, IN, Feb 27- Mar 1, 2015 rogate an FBG-based temperature sensor”, 12th International Conference on Fibre Optics and Pho- Batchu Rajasekhar* and Pindoriya Naran, “Op- tonics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, timal energy scheduling for a smart home inte- IN, Dec 13-16, 2014 grated with solar PV and battery energy storage”, International Conference & Exhibition on Smart Chatterjee A, Karde Vikram*, Saroj Sanjay* and Grids and Smart Cities, Indian Smart Grid Week Ghoroi Chinmay, “Partial least squares analysis (ISGW 2015), Bangaluru, IN, Mar 3-5, 2015 for property prediction of binary blends”, CHEM- CON 2014, Dr S S Bhatnagar University Institute Bhandari Neelesh* and Damodaran Murali, of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Panjab “Computational Modeling of Positive Displace- University, Chandigrah, IN, Dec 27-30, 2014 ment Pumps”, 5th International and 41st Nation- al Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference Chavan Roshan A*, Fitch Katherine E and Palan- (FFMP-2014), IIT Kanpur, IN, Dec 12-14, 2014 thandalam-Madapusi Harish, “Recursive input reconstruction with a delay”, 2014 American Con- Bhandari Neelesh* and Damodaran Murali, trol Conference, Portland, US, Jun 4-6, 2014 “Computational Study of a Low Cost Rope Washer Pump for Brine Pumping Application in Rural Ar- Chierichetti Flavio, Dasgupta Anirban, Kumar eas”, ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids En- Ravi and Lattanzi Silvio, “On learning mixture gineering Division Summer Meeting, Chicago, US, models for permutations”, 2015 Conference on In- Aug 3-7, 2014 novations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2015), New York, US, Jan 11-13, 2015 Bhardwaj Adit* and Raman Shanmuganathan, “PCA-HDR: A Robust PCA Based Solution to HDR Chierichetti Flavio, Dasgupta Anirban, Kumar Imaging”, 10th International Conference on Signal Ravi and Lattanzi Silvio, “On reconstructing a hid- Processing and Communications (SPCOM-2014), den permutation”, Approximation, Randomiza- Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, IN, Jul tion, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms 22-25, 2014 and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2014), DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2014.604, Bhattacharjee Dipanjan, Chattopadhyay Anupam Dagstuhl, DE, Sep 4-6, 2014 and Jain Vikrant, “Polyphase neotectonic move- ments in the Gavilgarh Fault Zone, central Indi- Damodaran Murali, “The role of high fidelity an craton: evidences from geomorpho-tectonic computational modelling in fire safety engineer- analysis”, European Geosciences Union, General ing”, 8th National Frontiers of Engineering (8Nat- Assembly 2014, Vienna, AT, Apr 27 - May 02, 2014 FOE), Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, IN, Sep 5-6, 2014 Bhattacharya Sutapa*, Kumar Deepesh*, Chauhan Arvind* and Lahiri Uttama, “Classi- Das Laya*, Srinivasan Babji and Rengaswamy fication of degree of hand flexion using surface Raghunathan, “Datadriven approach for perfor- electromyogram signal”, 23rd IEEE Internation- mance assessment of linear and nonlinear Kal- al Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive man filters”, 2014 American Control Conference, Communication (RO-MAN ‘14), Edinburgh, UK, Portland, US, Jun 4-6, 2014 Aug 25-29, 2014 Das Saroj Kumar*, James Asha Liza* and Jasu- Chakraborty Arup Lal, Mallik Rahul, Joshi ja Kabeer, “Chemical exfoliation of layered super- Ameya* and Gupta Ankita*, “Using tunable la- conductors: an avenue to synthesize boron-rich

102 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 quasi two dimensional nanostructures”, APS Gangi Reddy Salla, P Chithrabhanu, Prabhakar March Meeting 2015, American Physical Society, Shashi*, Aadhi A* and Singh Ravindra P, “Re- San Antonio, Texas, US, Mar 2-6, 2015 covery of orbital angular momentum states after scattering”, 12th International Conference on Fibre Dasgupta Anirban, Kumar Ravi & Sarlos Tamas, Optics and Photonics 2014, IIT Kharagpur, IN, Dec “On estimating the average degree”, 23rd Inter- 13-16, 2014 national World Wide Web Conference, WWW ‘14, Seoul, KR, Apr 7-11, 2014 Gangi Reddy Salla, Prabhakar Shashi*, Ali An- war M A, Banerji Jagannath and Singh Ravindra P, DeSantis Amy and Subramanyam Malavika, “Modelling of scattered optical vortices”, 12th In- “Does state-level women’s autonomy contribute ternational Conference on Fibre Optics and Pho- to state-level variation in birth outcomes in In- tonics,IIT Kharagpur, IN, Dec 13-16, 2014 dia?”,142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, US, Nov 15-19, 2014 Gullapally Sai Chowdary*, Malireddi Sri Ra- ghu* and Raman Shanmuganathan, “Dynamic Dwivedi Vinay* and Damodaran Murali, “Com- object localization using hand-held cameras”, 21st putational modeling of the aerodynamics and National Conference on Communication (NCC- flight mechanics of maneuvers of UAV induced 2015), IIT Bombay, IN, Feb 27- Mar 1, 2015 by variable-incidence wings”, 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Atlanta, US, Jun 16- Gunda Harini*, Das Saroj Kumar* and Jasuja 20, 2014 Kabeer, “Synthesis of chemically modified metal boride nanodiscs: a new paradigm in boron based Endla Naveen Kumar* and Kanagaraj Raga- nanostructures”, 2nd International Conference on van, “Analysis on demagnetization characteristics Nanotechnology (ICNT-2015), Haldia Institute of of spoke configured interior permanent magnet Technology, IN, Feb 19-22, 2015 rotors”, IEEE International Conference on Pow- er Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems(IEEE Gupta Iti, Balsukuri Naresh* and Das Sudipta*, PEDES 2014), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, IN, Dec 16-19, “Corrole carbazole conjugates”,8th International 2014 Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP), Istanbul, TR, Jun 22-27, 2014 Enduri Murali Krishna* and Jolad Shivakumar, “Human mobility and spread of vector borne dis- Gupta Sonia* and Bhargav Atul, “Design and eases”, European Conference on Complex System performance calculation of a solar aided super- (ECCS’14), Lucca, IT, Sep 22-26, 2014 critical coal-fired plant with thermal energy stor- age”, ASME 2014 Power Conference, Baltimore, Evans G M, Doroodchi E, Sathe M, Peng Z, Hoque US, Jul 28-31, 2014 Mand Ghatage Swapnil V*, “Influence of ener- gy input on behaviour of multiphase processes”, Ingole Prashant*, “A gardener in the Wasteland International symposium on mixing in industrial Jotiba Phule’s fight for liberty: Caste in contem- processes VIII (ISMIP8), Melbourne, AU, Sep 15- porary Indian graphic narrative”, 2ndInternational 17, 2014 Conference on Language, Literature and Com- munity (LLC 2015), Bhubaneshwar, IN, Feb 21-22, Gandhi Vaibhav*, Qu Yun and Prasanna Viktor, 2015 “High-throughput hash-based online traffic clas- sification engines on FPGA”, International Confer- Ingole Prashant*, “Literary representation: dalit ence on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs and non-dalit politics”, CLAI, XII International Con- (ReConFig 2014), Cancun, MX, Dec 8-10, 2014 ference on Culture, Arts, and Socio-Political Move-

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 103 ments in South Asia: Comparative Perspectives trepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Development Comparative Literature Association of India and Institute of India, Ahmedabad, IN, Feb 18-20, Centre for Rajasthan Studies and Department of 2015 Urdu and Persian, University of Rajashtan, Jaipur, IN, Mar 1-4, 2015 Kanojia Gagan*, Malireddi Sri Raghu*, Gul- lapally Sai Chowdary* and Raman Shanmuga- Jain Ritesh*, Rucker Holger and Mohapatra Ni- nathan, “Who Shot the Picture and When?”,10th har R, “Optimization of Si MOS transistors for THz International Symposium on Visual Computing detection using TCAD simulation”, 2014 Interna- (ISVC), Las Vegas, US, Dec 8-10, 2014 tional Conference on Simulation of Semiconduc- tor Processes and Devices, Yokohama, JP, Sep Kanoria Akshay A*, Panchal Kartik C* and Da- 9-11, 2014 modaran Murali, “Computational aerodynamic analysis of annular wing unmanned aerial vehi- Jain Sudhir K, Basu Dhiman, Ghosh Indrajit, cles”, 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Rai D C, Brzev S, Bhargava L K, “Application of con- SCI-TECH Forum 2015, Kissimmee, US, Jan 4-5, fined masonry in a major project in India”,10th US 2015 National Conference on Earthquake Engineer- ing: Frontiers of Earthquake Engineering (NCEE Kanoria Akshay A*, Panchal Kartik C* and 2014), Anchorage, US, Jul 21-25, 2014 Damodaran Murali, “Computational estimation of aerodynamic characteristics of airships”, 16th James Asha Liza* and Jasuja Kabeer, “Chemical Aeronautical Society of India CFD Symposium, exfoliation of layered borides: an avenue to syn- National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, IN, thesize boron-based nanosheets analogous to Aug 11-12, 2014 chemically modified graphene nanosheets”, Na- tional Conference on Materials Science and Tech- Kaushik Rahul Anand* and Pindoriya N M, nology (NCMST-2014), Indian Institute of Space “Power flow control of hybrid AC-DC microgrid Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapu- using master-slave technique”,2014 IEEE Confer- ram, IN, Jul 28-30, 2014 ence on Energy Conversion (CENCON 2014), Johor Bahru, MY, Oct 13-14, 2014 Joshi Kalpesh* and Lakum, Ashok, “Assessing the impact of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on Kothari Rita, “Questions in and of language”, In- distribution network operations using time-se- dia in Transition Series, Nehru Memorial Museum ries distribution power flow analysis”, IEEE Inter- and Library, New Delhi, IN, Apr 11, 2014 national Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (IEEE PEDES 2014), IIT Bom- Kothari Rita, “Beyond Chutnefying English”, Hin- bay, IN, Dec 16-19, 2014 glish Workshop, Centre for Study of Developing Societies, SARAI and University of London, UK, Joshi Kalpesh* and Pindoriya Naran, “Reactive Aug 18 - 19, 2014 resource reallocation in DG integrated secondary distribution networks with time-series distribu- Kothari Rita, “Interrogating Translation Prac- tion power flow”, IEEE International Conference tices”, Indian Languages Mela, Centre for Indian on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Sys- Languages in Higher Education and Tata Institute tems(IEEE PEDES 2014), IIT Bombay, IN, Dec 16- of Social Sciences, Mumbai, IN, Sep 20-21, 2014 19, 2014 Kumar Deepesh*, Goyal Yash*, Nair Sunil*, Joshi Rajiv and Shah Mihika*, “Creativity and en- Chauhan Arvind* and Lahiri Uttama, “Design of trepreneurship”, 11thBiennial Conference on En- a physiologically informed virtual reality-based in-

104 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 teractive platform for individuals with upper limb Auroop and Nijssen Bart, “Observed climate ex- impairment”, 23rd IEEE International Symposium on tremes in global urban areas”, European Geosci- Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO- ences Union, General Assembly 2014, Vienna, AT, MAN ‘14), Edinburgh, UK, Aug 25-29, 2014 Apr 27 - May 02, 2014

Kumar Gourav* and Pindoriya Naran M, “Out- Madaan Gaurav and Jolad Shivakumar, “Evolu- age management system for power distribution tion of scientific collaboration networks”, 2nd IEEE network”, International Conference on Smart International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Electric Grid 2014, KL University, IN, Sep 19-22, Data 2014), Washington, US, Oct 27-30, 2014 2014 Madhu K*, Srinivasan Babji and Srinivasan Kumar Puneet* and Srivastava Gaurav, “FE Rajagopalan, “Towards the development of an analysis of RCC masonry infill panels subjected to operator Cognitive assessment model for process thermal exposure”, 2nd International Conference control applications”, 2nd International Conference on Safety (ICS) 2014, IIT Gandhinagar, IN, Dec 2-6, on Safety, IIT Gandhinagar, IN, Dec 2-4, 2014 2014 Mandhyan Amar*, Srivastava Gaurav and Kumar Puneet*, Raviprakash P*, Srivastava Krishnamoorthi Shankarjee, “Development of Gaurav and Bhatt Bhaskar, “Redesigning police web application for shape and topology optimi- barricade system for riots”, International Confer- zation of truss structure and gusset plates”, XXIV ence on Safety (ICS) 2014, IIT Gandhinagar, IN, International Workshop on Computational Micro- Dec 2-6, 2014 mechanics of Materials, Madrid, ES, Oct 1-3, 2014

Kumbar T S and Sherikar Amruth, “Role of librar- Mehta Rounak*, Shah Preet*, Gupta Harsh*, ies in promoting the use of open education re- Bhat Prathamesh*,Gandhi Vaibhav*, Kale sources (OER) in India: a study of NPTEL resources Kimaya*, Taldevkar Madan*, Singh Akash*, and major technology libraries”, 35th Annual IATUL Ghoroi Chinmay, Bhargav Atul and Karnik Conference, Aalto University in Espoo, Helsinki, FI, Amey*, “Conversion of a CNG-powered au- Jun 2-5, 2014 to-rickshaw to an electric rickshaw designed for Indian conditions”, SAE International, DOI: Kuriakose Selvia*, Krishnappa Babu, Pradeep 10.4271/2014-01-1968, Apr 8, 2014 Raj#, Shah Griva and Lahiri Uttama, “Virtual re- ality-based social communication task for Autism: Mekie Joycee, “Effect of dynamic frequency physiology as bio-markers to anxiety”, South Asia scaling on interface design for rationally-related International Autism Conference 2015 (SAIAC multi-clocked systems”, 20th IEEE International 2015), India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, IN, Feb symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Sys- 7-8, 2015 tems (ASYNC 2014), Potsdam, DE, May 2014

Kuriakose Selvia*, Praveen Kumar K*, Ragha- Mohapatra Satyajit*, Gupta Hari Shanker, Mo- vanl P and Lahiri Uttama, “A step towards anxi- hapatra Nihar R, Mehta Sanjeev and Chowdhury ety-sensitive virtual reality based social commu- Arup Roy, “Design of sample-and-hold for 16-bit nication platform: implication on physiology for 5 MS/s pipeline analog to digital converter”, 2nd children with autism”, International Meeting for IEEE International Conferenceon “Emerging Tech- Autism Research (IMFAR-2014), Atlanta, US, May nology Trends in Electronics, Communication and 16, 2014 Networking (ET2ECN-2014), Surat, IN, Dec 26-27, 2014 Lettenmaier Dennis, Mishra Vimal, Ganguly

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 105 Mudali Utkal Ranjan* and Kanagaraj Ragavan, al angular momentum poincaré sphere”,12th Inter- “Dynamic modeling and control of shunt active national Conference on Fibre Optics and Photon- power filter”, 18th National Power Systems Con- ics, IIT Kharagpur, IN, Dec 13-16, 2014 ference (NPSC-2014), IIT Guwahati, IN, Dec 18- 20, 2014 Panchal Kartik C* and Damodaran Murali, “Computational Modeling of the Flowfield in the Mukherjee M, Gupta A and Prashant Amit, “Ef- Vicinity of an Electric Vehicle Platform”, 5th Inter- fect of confining pressure on strain localization national and 41st National Fluid Mechanics and of a sand specimen under plane strain condition”, Fluid Power Conference (FFMP-2014), IIT Kanpur, 14th International Conference of International As- IN, Dec 12-14, 2014 sociation for Computer Methods and Recent Ad- vances in Geomechanics (IACMAG-2014), Kyoto, Panda Emila, “A high-resolution transmission JP, Sep 22-25, 2014 electron microscopy analysis to understand the growth of multi phase oxide-films due to ther- Mukherjee Mousumi, Gupta Anurag and Prashant mal oxidation of Al-Mg alloys”, International Con- Amit, “Effect of loading condition on the localiza- ference on Electron Microscopy & XXXV Annual tion behavior of sand”, 5th International Congress Meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (IC- (EMSI 2014), New Delhi, IN, Jul 9-11, 2014 CMS 2014), Chennai, IN, Dec 10-13, 2014 Pandey Saurav, Patidar Rohan* and George Muralidharan Srikanth, Vasudevan Arun Balajee, Nithin V, “Design of a Krill herd algorithm based Chintapalli Shiva Pratheek and Raman Shan- adaptive channel equalizer”, 22nd IEEE Interna- muganathan, “A novel approach to the extraction tional Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing of multiple salient objects in an image”, IEEE In- and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2014), Sar- ternational Conference on Signal Processing, In- awak, MY, Dec 1-4, 2014 formatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES 2015), NIT Calicut, IN, Feb 19-21, 2015 Patel Tvarit*, Singh Chetan* and Panda Emi- la, “Study of nanoscale local conductance of Al Nair Arun* and Batchu Rajasekhar*, “Demand doped ZnO thin films with varying substrate tem- response algorithm incorporating electricity mar- perature using Conducting probe atomic force mi- ket prices for residential energy management”, 3rd croscopy”, European Materials Research Society International Workshop on Software Engineering Fall meeting 2014, Warsaw, PL, Sep 15-19, 2014 Challenges for the Smart Grid (SE4SG), Hyder- abad, IN, Jun 1, 2014 Perotti Luigi E, Ponnaluri Aditya V, Krishnamoor- thi Shankarjee, Borgstrom Niles P, Ajijola Olujimi Nair Divya N# and Thiruvenkatam Vijay, “Struc- A, Klug William S, Ennis Daniel B and Garfinkel tural insights into plasmepsin V, an aspartic pro- Alan, “From cells to ventricles: understanding the tease from plasmodium falciparum”, The Raman- mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation through bhai Foundation 7th International Symposium on multiscale modeling”, 7th World Congress on Bio- Current Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences “Ad- mechanics, 2014, Boston, USA, Jul 6-11, 2014 vances in New Drug Discovery & Development”, Zydus Research Centre, Ahmedabad, IN, Feb 2-4, Pillai Manish* and Narayanan Vinod, “CFD 2015 based prediction of erosion rate for tangentially fired pulverized coal boiler”, ASME 2014 Power P Chithrabhanu, Aadhi A*, Gangi Reddy Salla, Conference, Baltimore, USA, Jul 28-31, 2014 Prabhakar Shashi* and Singh Ravindra P, “Con- struction of coherent and partially coherent orbit- Prabhakar Shashi*, Gangi Reddy Salla, Aadhi

106 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 A*, Samanta Goutam K and Singh Ravindra P, Rani Shivani#and Prashant Amit, “Difficulties in “Continuous-variable entanglement in optical 1D modelling and analysis of monopile subjected vortex beams”, 12th International Conference on to lateral force”, Geo-Shanghai 2014, Shanghai, Fibre Optics and Photonics, IIT Kharagpur, IN, Dec CN, May 26-28, 2014 13-16, 2014 Rath Arnapurna and Rath Sura P, “The dark spac- Prabhakar V N, “Analysis of the ernestite stone es of British Raj in India: the ‘Memsahib’ wife and drills from Dholavira excavation”, 22nd conference the ‘other woman’, between the bungalow and of the European Association for South Asian Ar- the brothel”, XVII International Conference, jointly chaeology and Art (EASAA 2014), Stockholm, SE, organized by The Forum on Contemporary The- Jun 30-Jul 04, 2014 ory, Baroda and The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies, Shreveport, USA, Interna- Prabhakar V N, “Maritime contacts of the Harap- tional Centre, Goa, IN, Dec 21-24, 2014 pans with mesopotamians”, Maritime Gujarat and the Western Indian Ocean Cultural Routes Raviprakash P* and Srivastava Gaurav, “De- Through Time, IIT Gandhinagar, IN, Jan 19, 2015 velopment of matrix method for the analysis of RCC frames subjected to fire”,International Con- Prabhakar V N, “Recent excavations at the ference on Safety (ICS) 2014, IIT Gandhinagar, IN, Harappan site of Karanpura, Rajasthan”, 43rd Dec 2-6, 2014 Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison Con- course Hotel, Madison, US, Oct 16-19, 2014 Reddy Patlolla Prathap* and Datta Bhaskar, “Challenges and promises of modifying cyanine Prabhakar V N, “Science and Archaeology in In- dyes for programmed assembly”, Kaleidoscope: A dia: challenges and outcomes”, 43rd Annual Con- Discussion Meeting in Chemistry, The Internation- ference on South Asia, Madison Concourse Hotel, al Centre, Panaji, IN, Jul 3-6, 2014 Madison, US, Oct 16-19, 2014 Rengaswamy Raghunathan, Srinivasan Bab- Prasad Rachit*, Dwivedi Vinay* and Damoda- ji and Spinner, Tim, “Detection of stiction in in- ran Murali, “Computational modelling of fixed teracting systems using a Hammerstein model and rotary wing aerodynamics operating in close approach”, 5th International Symposium on Ad- proximity to wavy free surfaces”, 32nd AIAA Ap- vanced Control of Industrial Processes (ADCONIP plied Aerodynamics Conference, Atlanta, US, Jun 2014), Hiroshima, JP, May 28-30, 2014 16-20, 2014 Sachan Ajanta, “Liquefaction behavior of Guja- Prashant Amit and Vikash Gyan, “Consolidation rat soil”, Workshop on Soil Liquefaction, Technical characteristics of clay using constant rate of de- University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE, May 15-16, formation test“,National Conference on Geo-In- 2014 novations, Golden Jubilee Conference of IGS Ban- galore Chapter, IISc Bangalore, IN, Oct 30-1, 2014 Sahlot Pankaj* and Arora Amit, “Tool wear during friction stir welding: state of the art and Rai D C, Jain Sudhir K, Murthy C V R and Bansal D, the challenges”,International Conference on Fric- “Construction and load rating of a large capacity tion based Processes (ICFP-2014), Indian Insti- reaction floor-wall assembly for lateral load test- tute of Science, Bengaluru, IN, September 3-5, ing at IIT Kanpur“, 10th U.S. National Conference on 2014 Earthquake Engineering: Frontiers of Earthquake Engineering (NCEE 2014), Anchorage, US, Jul 21- Sahlot Pankaj*, Badheka Vishvesh J and Arora 25, 2014 Amit, “Numerical modelling of temperature dis-

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 107 tribution during friction stir welding of copper”, translation”, National Young Researcher’s Semi- IIW International Congress 2014, New Delhi, IN, nar on (Re)-Imagining World Literature, Centre for Apr 09-11, 2014 English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Salvi Govind, Sharma Puneet and Raman Shan- New Delhi, IN, Mar 20-21, 2015 muganathan, “Efficient image retargeting for high dynamic range scenes”, 5th International Shah Vrutangkumar V* and Palanthanda- Conference - The Next Generation Information lam-Madapusi Harish, “Experimental verification Technology Summit, CONFLUENCE-2014, Amity of observations relating to Parkinsonian trem- University, Noida, IN, Sep 25-26, 2014 or”,2014 American Control Conference, Portland, USA, Jun 4-6, 2014 Samant Aditya Amol* and Srinivasan Raja- gopalan, “Identifying patterns in CSB accident Shah Vrutangkumar V*, Goyal Sachin and investigations using text mining”, International Palanthandalam-Madapusi Harish J, “Explo- Conference on Safety (ICS 2014), IIT Gandhinagar, ration of diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease before Ahmedabad, IN, Dec 2-4, 2014 onset of tremor”, Indian Control Conference (ICC 2015), IIT Madras, IN, Jan 5-7, 2015 Samant Aditya Amol* and Srinivasan Rajago- palan, "Patterns in process safety”, AIChE Annual Sharma Chandresh*, Bhavsar Punitkumar Meeting, Atlanta, US, Nov 16-21, 2014 Kanubhai*, Srinivasan Babji and Srinivasan Rajagopalan, “Cognitive studies in process con- Samanta Tannistha, “Recasting ‘Active Aging’ in trol using eye gaze tracking information”, 2nd India: implications for theory and policy”, Geronto- International Conference on Safety, IIT Gandhi- logical Society of America’s 67th Annual Scientific nagar, IN, Dec 2-4, 2014 Meeting, Washington, DC, US, Nov. 5-9, 2014 Sharma Chandresh*, Bhavsar Punitkumar Saxena Krishna Kumar*, Agarwal Sanjay and Kanubhai*, Srinivasan Babji and Srinivasan Mukhopadhyay Jyoti, “Effect of machining pa- Rajagopalan,”Understanding Cognitive behavior rameters on surface roughness in µ-EDM of con- of process operators during abnormal situations ductive SiC”, 2014 ASME International Mechanical through eye tracker studies”, AIChE Annual Meet- Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, ing, Atlanta, USA, Nov 16-21, 2014 CA, Nov 14-20, 2014 Sharma Chandresh*, Srinivasan Babji and Sri- Saxena Krishna Kumar*, Mukhopadhyay Jyo- nivasan Rajagopalan, “An approach to identify ti and Ramesh K V, “Formability characterization the cognitive load on the operator using pupillom- of aluminium lithium alloys used in spacecraft in- etry information”, 2nd International Conference on dustry”, 2014 ASME International Mechanical En- Safety, IIT Gandhinagar, IN, Dec 2-4, 2014 gineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, CA, Nov 14-20, 2014 Sharma Himanshu* and Damodaran Murali, “Computational modeling of a novel fire extin- Shah Krupa* and Kanagaraj Ragavan, “Locat- guisher design”, 5th International and 41st Nation- ing mechanical deformations in electromagnet- al Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference ic model of transformer winding”, 18th National (FFMP-2014), IIT Kanpur, IN, Dec 12-14, 2014 Power Systems Conference (NPSC-2014), IIT Gu- wahati, IN, Dec 18-20, 2014 Sharma Himanshu*, Damodaran Murali and Gandhi Pravinray, “Computational modeling of the Shah Krupa*, ”Khemi and the politics of English condensed phase aerosol based fire extinguish-

108 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 er”, Computational Modelling of the Condensed Thomas Pooja S*, “Of uncertain borders: Ahmed- Phase Aerosol Based Fire Extinguishe, Chicago, abad’s Sarkhej Roza”, Association for Asian Stud- USA, Aug 3-7, 2014 ies-in-Asia and National University of Singapore (AAS-NUS), International Conference Asia in Mo- Somani Dipen* and Raman Shanmuganathan, tion: Heritage and Transformation, Singapore, SG, “Decision tree for corner detection”, IEEE Interna- Jul 17-19, 2014 tional Conference on Signal Processing, Informat- ics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES Thomas Pooja S*, “Viewing Bhadra of pedestri- 2015), NIT Calicut, IN, Feb 19-21, 2015 an vision and the pleasurable city”, 2nd Biennial International Conference, Association for Critical Srinivasan Rajagopalan, “Enhancing safety Heritage Studies (ACHS), Australian National Uni- knowledge in students: the IIT Gandhinagar ex- versity, Canberra, 2-4 December, 2014 perience”, 2014 Global Summit on Process Safety, Mumbai, IN, Dec 15-16, 2014 Tyagi Shashank*, Katre Vibhav* and George Nithin V, “Online estimation of secondary path Srinivasan Rajagopalan, ”Cross referencing in active noise control systems using generalized process safety standards”, 8th CCPS Asia Pacific Levinson Durbin algorithm”, 19th International Regional Meeting on Process Safety, Chennai, IN, Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP Sep 22, 2014 2014), Hong Kong, HK, Aug 20-23, 2014

Srivastava Anand Suman, Agarwal Sanjay and Upadhyay Abhishek* and Chakraborty Arup Saxena Krishna Kumar*, “Effect of solid lubri- Lal, “Accurate recovery of a methane absorption cant on surface quality in turning of Al 6061 al- line using the residual amplitude modulation loy”, 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engi- method implemented at the phase quadrature neering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, CA, frequency of a laser diode”, Field Laser Applica- Nov 14-20, 2014 tions in Industry and Research (FLAIR 2014), Flor- ence, IT, May 5-9, 2014 Srivastava Gaurav and Shah Harsh L*, “Mod- eling of moisture in masonry structures: a case- Varier Rohith* and Pindoriya Naran M, “A nov- study of structures in Chandkheda, Ahmed- el active anti-islanding protection scheme for abad”,International Conference on Advances grid-interactive roof-top solar PV system”, 18th in Civil, Structural and Mechanical Engineering National Power Systems Conference (NPSC- (CSME 2014), City University of Hong Kong, HK, 2014), IIT Guwahati, IN, Dec 18-20, 2014 Aug 26-27, 2014 Vats Karishma, Subramanyam Malavika and Subramanian Chandrasekaran* and Kanaga- Pahwa Smriti, “Simple assessments to demystify raj Ragavan, “Adaptive sampling period adjusted complementary feeding: Leveraging a successful sliding DFT for synchronous reference frame PLL”, literacy initiative assessment approach”, 4th An- IEEE International Conference on Power Elec- nual Conference of Infant and Young Child Feed- tronics, Drives and Energy Systems (IEEE PEDES ing International Workshop on Paediatric Nutri- 2014), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, IN, Dec 16-19, 2014 tion & Drug Safety (IYCNCON 2014), Nims Univer- sity, Jaipur, IN, Dec 5-7, 2014 Thiruvenkatam Vijay, Chen Q and Wang J, “Pre- diction of horseshoe configuration in neural re- Vo Thi, Venkatasubramanian Venkat, Kumar San- ceptors: dscam isoforms”, 23rd Congress and gen- at, Srinivasan Babji, Pal Suchetan, Zhang Yu- eral assembly of the International Union of Crystal- gang and Gang Oleg, “Stoichiometric control of lography (IUCr2014), Montreal, CA, Aug 5-12, 2014 DNA-grafted colloid self-assembly”, APS March

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 109 Meeting 2015, American Physical Society, San ence Annual Meeting, Washington DC, US, Nov Antonio, Texas, US, Mar 2-6, 2015 2014

Yadav Taruna* and Lahiri Uttama, “Comput- Kumar Sanjay* and Datta, Bhaskar, “Efficient er-assisted interactive system: understanding extraction of carotenoids from orange peel using its implications on Psychophysiology”, 2nd Inter- nano-biocatalyst”, 1st International conference national Conference on Signal Processing and on Emerging Trends of Nanotechnology in Drug Integrated Networks (SPIN 2015), Amity School Discovery (INDD 2014), University of Delhi South of Engineering and Technology, Noida, IN, Feb 19- Campus, IN, May 26-27, 2014 20, 2015 Mekie Joycee, “Building new generation chips Yajnik Urjit A, Sarkar Anishnu, Mishra Sasmita using asynchronous logic”, Intel Asia Innovation and Borah Debasish, “Flowering to bloom and Summit, Taipei, TW, Nov 18-19, 2014 bloom to gloom of PeV scale supersymmetric left- right symmetric models”, UNICOS CharanFest, Modi Parth, Shah Reepal* and Mishra Vimal, Chandigarh, IN, May 13-15, 2014 “Projections of extreme precipitation events in India from regional and global climate models”, Posters Presented 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, US, Dec 15- Arora Ankita* and Mishra Abhijit, “Bioengi- 19, 2014 neering behind bacterial membrane poration by antimicrobial peptides”, International Conference Palakollu Veerabhadraiah*, Vasu Anuji K* and on Polymeric Biomaterials, Bioengineering and Kanvah Sriram, “Analyte dependent aggregation Biodiagnostics, New Delhi, IN, Oct 27-30, 2014 of alpha-cyanostilbene: utiliy as aqueous media probe”, 8th Asian Photochemistry Conference, Bhardwaj Adit* and Raman Shanmuganathan, Trivandrum, IN, Nov 10-13, 2014, Poster no. 119 “HDR imaging using augmented Lagrange multi- pliers (ALM)”, 35th annual conference of the Euro- Pancholi Dhruv*, Singh Yash Pratap* and pean Association for Computer Graphics (EURO- Bhatt Bhaskar, “Phone application for enhancing GRAPHICS 2014), Strasbourg, FR, Apr 7-14, 2014 physical therapy experience”, Design for Billion In- ternational Conference, Indian Institute of Tech- James Asha Liza* and Jasuja Kabeer, “Synthe- nology, Gandhinagar, IN, Nov 7-8, 2014 sis of nanosheets comprising boron honeycomb lattice: ultrasonication and chelation mediated Singh Vijay#, Juvale Kapil*, Thiruvenkatam strategies”, International Conference on Soft Ma- Vijay and Kirubakaran Sivapriya, “Structural terials (ICSM-2014), Malaviya National Institute of and functional characterization of Inosine-5’-mo- Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, IN, Oct 6-10, 2014 nophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH): A novel therapeutic gateway for Helicobacter pylori infec- Kanoria Akshay A* and Damodaran Murali, tion”, The Ramanbhai Foundation 7th Internation- “Parallel Matlab implementation of the lattice al Symposium on Current Trends in Pharmaceuti- boltzmann method on GPUs”, 21st annual IEEE cal Sciences “Advances in New Drug Discovery & International Conference on High Performance Development”, Zydus Research Centre, Ahmed- Computing (HiPC 2014), Hotel Cidade De Goa, abad, IN, Feb 2-4, 2015 Goa, IN, Dec 17-20, 2014 Thorat Alpana Ankush* and Dalvi Sameer V, Kumar Neeraj#, Manjaly Jaison A and Mutha “Non-classical crystallization of curcumin”, Nu- Pratik K, “Visuomotor adaptation influences per- cleation - A Transition State to the Directed As- ceptual decision-making”, Society for Neurosci- sembly of Materials: Faraday Discussion, Leeds

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Vasu Anuji K* and Kanvah Sriram, “Effect of ion- Rath Arnapurna (Tinker-Bee), “Let it bee”, Fun- ic liquids on fluorescence properties of donor-ac- damatics, no. 1Q, Jul18, 2014 ceptor substituted diphenylbutadienes”, 17th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, National Rath Arnapurna (Tinker-Bee), “To the postmas- Chemical Laboratory, Pune, IN, Feb 6-8, 2015 ter”, Fundamatics, no 1Q, Jul 18, 2014

Magazine / Newspaper Articles Book Reviews Danino Michel, “Misinterpretations in ‘Searching Mukherjee Payel C* and Rath Arnapurna, for Saraswati’”, The Hindu, Apr 21, 2015 “Reading the South Asian Woman, Review of the book: The woman who flew by Nasreen Jahan”, Danino Michel, “Neglect of knowledge tradi- The Book Review, vol 38, no 8, pp 376, Aug 2014 tions”, The Hindu, Jan 4, 2015 Rath Arnapurna, “Rotations of Unending Time: Danino Michel, “Origins of Hinduism”, BBC Knowl- Selected Poems of Sitakant Mahapatra”, Journal edge Magazine, vol 5, no 2, pp 79-80, Feb 2015 of Ecocriticism, vol 6, no 2, pp 14-21, Jul 2014

Kothari Rita, “Adhuniktavadi sanskrutik varso” (in Pre-Prints (E-print Archives) Gujarati), Navgujarat Samay, Ahmedabad, pp 13, Ali Ahmed Farag, Faizal Mir and Majumder Barun, May 18, 2014 “Absence of an effective horizon for black holes in gravity’s rainbow”, arXiv, Cornell University Li- Kothari Rita, “Bhagwanni jem angrejina pan brary, DOI: arXiv:1406.1980v1, Jun 2014 aganya avtaro che, teno anand mano” (in Gujara- ti), Navgujarat Samay, Ahmedabad, pp 5, Sep 7, Bai Rukmani*, Bhalla Pankaj* and Singh Navin- 2014 der, “Theory of the electron phonon relaxation time in cuprates: Reproducing the observed tem- Kothari Rita, “Gandhiji thoda varshe nava nava perature behaviour”, arXiv, Cornell University Li- sandarbhoma tapasani mange che” (in Gujarati), brary, DOI: arXiv:1412.7295, Dec 2014 Navgujarat Samay, Ahmedabad, pp 5, Oct 5, 2014 Bambhaniya Gulab, Goswami Srubabati, Khan Kothari Rita, “Gayo e samay jyare dehne chodine Subrata, Konar Partha and Mondal Tanmoy*, aatmani amartani vaat karta aapne!” (in Gujara- “Looking for hints of a reconstructible seesaw ti), Navgujarat Samay, Ahmedabad, pp 14, Jun 1, model at the Large Hadron Collider”, arXiv, Cornell 2014 University Library, DOI: arXiv:1410.5687, Oct 2014

Kothari Rita, “Janita urdu lekhak manto bhartiy Bambhaniya Gulab, aKhan Subrata, Konar, Partha nagrik hata ke pakistani?” (in Gujarati), Navgujarat and Mondal Tanmoy*, “Constraints on a seesaw Samay, Ahmedabad, pp 5, Sep 21, 2014 model leading to quasi-degenerate neutrinos and signatures at the LHC”, arXiv, Cornell University Kothari Rita, “Mari kalama samajnu nirupan kha- Library, DOI: arXiv:1411.6866, Nov 2014 ru ke nahin?” (in Gujarati), Navgujarat Samay, Ahmedabad, pp 5, Aug 10, 2014 Basak Tanushree, Mohanty Subhendra and Tomar Gaurav*, “Explaining AMS-02 positron Kothari Rita, “Samay sathe parivartan ke mul- excess and muon anomalous magnetic moment bhut siddhanto: tamara santanone baney sikhvo” in dark left-right gauge model”, arXiv, Cornell Uni- (in Gujarati), Navgujarat Samay, Ahmedabad, pp versity Library, DOI: arXiv:1501.06193, Jan 2015

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 111 Becattini F, Inghirami G, Rolando, V, Beraudo A, Del brary, DOI: arXiv:1409.0965, Sep 2014 Zanna L, De Pace A, Nardi M, Pagliara G and Chan- dra Vinod, “A study of vorticity formation in high Faizal Mir and Majumder Barun, “Incorporation energy nuclear collisions”, arXiv, Cornell Universi- of generalized Uncertainty principle into lifshitz ty Library, DOI: arXiv:1501.04468, Jan 2015 field theories”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1408.3795, Aug 2014 Bhatt Jitesh R and Pandey Arun Kumar*, “Pri- mordial magnetic field and kinetic theory with Gangopadhyay Aalok*, Tripathi Shivam Berry curvature”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, Mani*, Jindal Ishan* and Raman Shanmuga- DOI: arXiv:1503.01878, Mar 2015 nathan, “SA-CNN: dynamic scene classification using convolutional neural networks”, arXiv, Cor- Bhattacharjee Srijit* and Sarkar Sudipta, nell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1502.05243, “Physical process first law and caustic avoidance Feb 2015 for Rindler horizon”, arXiv, Cornell University Li- brary, DOI: arXiv:1412.1287, Dec 2014 Jolad Shivakumar, Roman Ahmed, Shastry Ma- hesh C, Gadgil Mihir and Basu Ayanendranath, “A Bhattacharya Kaushik, Chakrabortty Joydeep, Das family bounded divergence measures based on Suratna and Mondal Tanmoy*, “Higgs vacuum Bhattacharyya coefficient”, arXiv, Cornell Univer- stability and inflationary dynamics in the light of sity Library, DOI: arXiv:1201.0418, Sep 2014 BICEP2 results”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1408.3966, Aug 2014 Kumar Girish* and Mahajan Namit, “B?K*l+l-: Zeroes of angular observables as test of standard Dhuria Mansi, Hati Chandan*, Rangarajan Ra- model”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arX- ghavan and Sarkar Utpal, “Explaining the CMS eejj iv:1412.2955, Dec 2014

and e/pTjj excess and leptogenesis in superstring inspired E6 models”, arXiv, Cornell University Li- Nandy D K* and Sahoo B K*, “Quadrupole shifts brary, DOI: arXiv:1501.04815, Jan 2015 for the 171Yb+ ion clocks: experiments versus theories”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: Dhuria Mansi, Hati Chandan*, Rangarajan Ra- arXiv:1408.4683, May 2014 ghavan and Sarkar Utpal, “Falsifying leptogenesis for a TeV scale W±R at the LHC”, arXiv, Cornell Uni- Roy Achintya Kumar, Sengupta Indranath and versity Library, DOI: arXiv:1503.07198, Mar 2015 Tripathi Gaurab, “Minimal graded free resolution for monomial curves in A4 defined by almost Dhuria Mansi, Hati Chandan*, Rangarajan Ra- arithmetic sequences”, arXiv, Cornell University ghavan and Sarkar Utpal, “The eejj Excess Signal at Library, DOI: arXiv:1503.02687, Mar 2015 the LHC and Constraints on Leptogenesis”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1502.01695, Roy Arko* and Angom D, “Thermal suppression of Feb 2015 phase separation in condensate mixtures”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1502.00473, Dwivedi Gaurav*, “Picone’s identity for p-bihar- Feb 2015 monic operator and its applications”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1503.05535, Mar Roy Arko* and D Angom, “Fluctuation and inter- 2015 action induced instability of dark solitons in single and binary condensates”, arXiv, Cornell University Enduri Murali Krishna* and Jolad Shivakumar, Library, DOI: arXiv:1405.6459, Jul 2014 “Spatial patterns of spread of dengue with human and vector mobility”, arXiv, Cornell University Li- Roy Arko*, Gautam S and Angom D, “Evolution

112 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 of goldstone mode in binary condensate mix- Suthar Kuldeep*, Roy Arko* and D Angom, tures”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arX- “Fluctuation driven topological transition of bi- iv:1501.03590, Jan 2015 nary condensates in optical lattices”, arXiv, Cor- nell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1412.0405, Dec Sengupta Anandet al, “A directed search for 2014 gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arX- Tomar Gaurav* and Mohanty Subhendra, “Muon iv:1412.0605, Dec 2014 anomalous magnetic moment and positron ex- cess at AMS-02 in a gauged horizontal symmetric Sengupta Anandet al, “Characterization of model”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arX- the LIGO detectors during their sixth science iv:1403.6301, Nov 2014 run”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arX- iv:1410.7764, Oct 2014 Technical Report Bobbio Andrea*, Dario Bruneo, Davide Cerotti, Sengupta Anandet al, “First all-sky search for Gribaudo Marco and Marco Scarpa, “An intelligent continuous gravitational waves from unknown swarm of Markovian agents”, DiSIT, Computer Sci- sources in binary systems”, arXiv, Cornell Univer- ence Institute, UPO, Alessandria, IT, Technical Re- sity Library, DOI: arXiv:1405.7904, May 2014 port TR-INF-2014-06-01-UNIPMN, Jun 2014

Sengupta Anandet al, “Improved upper limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background Working Papers from 2009-2010 LIGO and Virgo data”, arXiv, Cor- Samant Tannistha, “Household context, social nell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1406.4556v1, capital and wellbeing of older adults in India”, Jun 2014 Building Knowledge base on Population Age- ing in India, Working Paper Series II No-2, United Sengupta Anandet al, “Methods and results of Nations Population Fund (UNPF), New Delhi, IN, a search for gravitational waves associated with 2014 gamma-ray bursts using the GEO600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, Other Publications DOI: arXiv:1405.1053, May 2014 Danino Michel, “New perspectives on our cultur- al pasts [invited lecture at Fifth Pupul Jayakar Me- Sengupta Anandet al, “Narrow-band search of morial Lecture on 18th April 2013]”, in Indian Na- continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab tional Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data”, arXiv, Cornell Booklet, 2015 University Library, DOI: arXiv:1410.8310, Oct 2014 Gangopadhyay Jagriti*, “Women and trade Sengupta Anandet al, “Search for gravitational unions in the informal sector”, Wiego.org, Jun radiation from intermediate mass black hole bi- 2014 naries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: Kothari Rita, “Koni koni chhe Gujarat”, Kafila.org, arXiv:1404.2199v2, Apr 2014 Blog, Sep 26, 2014

Suthar Kuldeep*, Roy Arko*and D Angom, Kothari Rita, “The Hindi imbroglio - videshi na- “Acoustic radiation from vortex-barrier interac- tionalism?”,Kafila.org, Blog, Jun 24, 2014 tion in atomic Bose-Einstein condensate”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1312.7811, May 2014

*Student, #Staff ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 113 STUDENT activities Co-Curricular Activities Extra-Curricular Activities Special Occasions Award and Recognition Student Achievement Sports News Other Student Activities Students are actively encouraged to participate in extra-curricular and co-curricular activities to en- rich their overall academic experience and develop their personalities. Students have excelled at such activities throughout the year and continue to initiate new ones. CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITES CAMPUS PLACEMENTS University of Singapore, Singapore; Rajeev Circle Of the 78 undergraduates who sought place- Fellowship for Entrepreneurs, CA, USA; SUTD, ments, 66 students were successful in securing Singapore; Singapore University of Technology placements of their choice. The organizations & Design, Singapore; Technion, Israel Institute of that offered campus placements for the outgoing Technology, HAIFA-Israel; Texas A&M University, UG batch in 2014 included Alkyl Amines Chemicals TX, USA; University of California Merced, CA, USA; Limited; Altair Engineering India Pvt Ltd; AVTEC Underwriters Laboratories, Chicago, USA; Cisco Ltd; Bombardier Transportation India Pvt Ltd; Systems USA; Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Ma- Cognizant Technology Solutions; Dover Corpora- laysia, University of Notre Dame, USA; University tion, DRDO; eClerx Services Ltd; GNFC Ltd; Gold- of Saskatchewan, Canada; University of Washing- man Sachs; GSFC Ltd; Hero MotoCorp Ltd; Hospira ton, USA; University of Southern California, USA; Healthcare; Ishi Systems; The Indian Steel & Wire Washington University, USA. Products Ltd (ISWPL) (Sub of Tata Steel); Larsen and Toubro Ltd; National Instruments Systems Sixty one students spent their summers in indus- (India) Private Limited; Polyplex Corporation Lim- tries such as A-Ray Systems Pvt Ltd; Asaan Jobs; ited; Reliance Industries Ltd; Ricoh Innovations Asea Brown Boveri Ltd; Automation Teknix; Bhilai Pvt Ltd; Timetooth Technologies Pvt Ltd; Tirth Steel Plant; Bosch; Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd; Agro Technology Pvt Ltd; XScire Technologies Pvt CD-adapco; Ecolibrium Energy Pvt Ltd; Education- Ltd and ITM University among others. al Initiatives; Fluidyn; General Electric Foundation; Hindustan Aeronautics Limited; Hero MotoCorp SUMMER INTERNSHIPS 2014 Ltd; Indian Oil Corporation Ltd; Ishi Information Nearly 165 undergraduate IITGN students did Systems India Pvt Ltd; Jyoti Ltd; Kota Super Ther- their internships in universities; research insti- mal Power Plant Station; Maruti Suzuki India Pvt tutes, PSUs and various industries during the Ltd; PRAVAH (NGO); National Thermal Power summer of 2014. Corporation Ltd; Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd; Rakshak Foundation (NGO); Reliance Indus- Forty six of these students went to Indian aca- tries Ltd; Ricoh Innovations Pvt. Ltd.; Sai Impex; demic and research institutions such as Space Sandvik Asia Pvt Ltd; Sarvajal; Schneider Electric Application Centre (ISRO), Indian Institute of Sci- India Pvt Ltd; Semi-Conductor Lab-Department ence Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology of Space-Government of India; Satluj Jal Vidyut Madras, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Nigam Ltd; SM Auto Stamping Pvt Ltd; Tata Mo- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and IIT- tors Ltd; Tata Power Ltd; Texas Instruments; UV- GN. Fifty eight students did their internship at Softs Technologies Pvt Ltd; Underwriters Labora- foreign universities such as California Institute tory India Pvt Ltd; Vehicle Factory Jabalpur; Wipro of Technology (Caltech) USA; Clemson Universi- Ltd. ty USA; Columbia University USA; Case Western Reserve University USA; DAAD Wise Programme MECHANISM/GADGET OPEN HOUSE - Technische Universit ät München - Germany, The 2011 BTech mechanical engineering batch Duke University USA; Ecole Nationale Superieure held a Gadget/Mechanism open house Apr 21, d’Arts et Netiers, Paris, France; EPIR Technolo- 2014 in which they displayed prototypes they gies - Bolingbrook, IL, USA; Institute of Chemical had developed for the course Synthesis and Anal- & Engineering Sciences, Juroug Island, Singa- ysis of Mechanisms. Students worked in groups to pore, ISCTE-Lisbon University Lisbon; National identify problems that they would like to address

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 115 with a mechanism or mechanical gadget and eventually developed a preliminary prototype. The prototypes included sugarcane leaf remover, multiple-degree-of-freedom washing machine, panipuri machine, police barricade, battery swap- ping machine for electric vehicles, tree planter, embroidery thread cutting machine, foot-operat- ed tap, dosa preparing machine, human exoskel- eton for weight lifting and under-car mechanic trolley.

EXTRA CURRICULAR BLITHCHRON’15 ACTIVITIES The 7th edition of Blithchron, the annual cultur- al festival of IIT Gandhinagar held on Jan 17-18, 2015 included a laser-themed EDM Nite featuring internationally acclaimed artist, DJ Nucleya and a foot-tapping Coke Studio Nite featuring leading Indo fusion-rock band Swarathma. Apart from a group of 50 students coming from Mumbai, the fest saw participation from IIMA, NID, NIFT, CEPT, PDPU and HL College. Technical events of Blith- chron this year included Laser Assassins, Robo Sumo, Race and Kabbadi.

IGNITE 1.0 AMALTHEA’14 IIT Gandhinagar’s first ever Intra-College Science The 5th edition of Amalthea, the annual technical and Technology Fair Ignite 1.0 showcased a wide summit was held from Oct 11-12, 2014. The theme spectrum of applications of science and technol- of the summit was Ideate and Innovate. Eminent ogy used in day-to-day life on Feb 7, 2015. Nearly speakers at the conclave included Dr R Chidam- 50 students showcased their products ranging baram, principal scientific advisor, Government from foldable bridge to illusion-based items to of India; Dr Gurtej Sandhu, Director of Advanced driver-less car robot prototype. Technology Developments, Micron Technology Inc.; Mr Sumit Chowdhury, president, Reliance Jio SUMMER CAMP 2014 Infocom; Mr A S Kiran Kumar, director, Space Appli- Sixteen members participated in the six-week cations Centre, ISRO; Dr Aravind Chinchure, chair long summer camp that was held from Jun 9-24, professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2014. The camp offered activities such as yoga, Symbiosis International University, Dr Anil Bhard- swimming, aerobics, and cycling. This summer waj, director, Space Physics Laboratory, ISRO; and students were drawn to cinematography, an- Dr N Ravichandran, professor, IIM Ahmedabad. droid application development, photography and The Design and Innovation Expo had active par- various other extracurricular activities. IITGN has ticipation from some of the tech giants like Micro- hosted a summer camp, which offered courses soft which showcased its Garage Initiative Ripple. on Statistical Computing and Android Application Trendy gadgets like Google Glass, Google Card- Development and Cinema and Visual Representa- board, and Leap Motion were also showcased. tions. In addition to the faculty, working profes- Other prominent exhibitors included ISRO, Bisko sionals and experts have taught the two courses. Labs, ITER, Light Logics and AHA 3D Printer. The course on cinema was taught by Sameer

116 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 UDAAN’14 and students. The event included musical perfor- UDAAN’14 - the formal dinner night for the gradu- mances and speeches by graduating students ating batches of BTech, MTech and PhD students and faculty members on their IITGN experiences. was held on Apr 13, 2014. The event was attend- The event was organized by a team led by Eepsit ed by nearly 300 members, including faculty, staff Tiwari and Saurabh Singhal.

Bakshi, a professional photographer, jointly with WINTER CARNATIONS Prof Satyaki Roy and Prof Shatarupa Thak- The Cultural Council organized ‘Winter Carna- urta Roy who are faculty members at IIT Kan- tions’on Nov 9, 2014. The theme this year was pur. The other course was taught by the faculty Pirates vs Cruisers. The sheds on one side were along with Goutam Mallick, a professional from decorated to give the feel of the deck of a cruise Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). A workshop on ship while the other side was made to look like a Design Principles and a workshop on poetry were pirate ship. The event featured a live orchestra for held as a part of the summer camp. Apart from music, a fire juggler, artists to perform the native these the summer camp also involved activities dance of an Indo-African tribe and various compe- such as swimming, power yoga, aerobics, paint- titions. The students, faculty and staff members ing, sketching and various sports. The camp was managed food and game stalls. Winter Carnations organised by Prof Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi. was organized by a team led by Mudit Rathor and Palak Sadani. JASHN The 4th edition of Jashn, the intra-college cultural festival, Jan 2-5, 2015 added three more flagship SPECIAL OCCASIONS events The Prom, Live Angry Birds and Me- INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS hfil-e-Jashn. It also featured Art Expo that had The 68th Independence Day celebrations held on 'Dreams' as the theme. The title for MuSTY (Mu- Aug 15, 2014 began with the flag hoisting ceremony sical Sensation of The Year) went to Khyati Rel- by the Director Prof Sudhir K Jain. On this occasion han while the runner-up was Ankita Joshi. The 114 students who featured on the Dean’s List 2013- various events were organized by Mudit Rathor, 14 (semester II) by securing an SPI of 8.5 or higher, Sanket Shah, Vishvendra Singh in association were felicitated. This was followed by a cultural pro- with Vivek Prakash and the Arts Club. gramme that included patriotic songs, poems, and a short skit about the trial of Bhagat Singh.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 117 TEACHER’S DAY CELEBRATION Week, South Asian Week and Horror Week. These The students have invited faculty members for screenings were held under the leadership of celebration of Teachers Day. The students and Yash Pratap Singh. faculties together enjoyed many informal activi- ties and every faculty received surprise messages DANCE WORKSHOPS from the student body. • A week-long workshop on Garba was orga- nized by the Dance Club ahead of Navratri on REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS Sep 11-16, 2014, in which the club members The 66th Republic Day celebrations held on Jan 26, mentored enthusiasts. 2015 began with flag hoisting byProf Sudhir K • The dance club organized a Contemporary Jain, director, IITGN and Dr R K Gajjar, the princi- Dance Workshop by a professional choreog- pal of VGEC. On this occasion Excellence Awards rapher, Mr Yash Pandya on Oct 17-19, 2014 for Non-Teaching Staff for the year 2014 were - These workshops were organized under the declared. The staff members and students who leadership of Abhigna Bhatt. had secured medals during Inter-IIT Sports Meet were also felicitated. HASTA-LA-VISTA A celebration with graduating students was orga- STUDENTS ON DEAN’S LIST FELICITATED nized on Aug 1, 2014, on the eve of the Convoca- Based on the performance during Semester I of tion. Students enjoyed interacting with them and Academic Year 2014-15, a total of 82 BTech stu- had fun dancing to the music played by a DJ. dents featuring in the Dean’s list were felicitated with a letter of appreciation and a topical book AHMEDABAD MODEL UNITED NATIONS (Serious Men by Manu Joseph). The programme Ahmedabad Model United Nations (AMUN) was concluded with a cultural programme organized organized on Aug 15-16, 2014 by the Literary by students. Club in association with AIESEC. It involved public speaking, debating, and writing skills, in addition IITGN UG student journal article to critical thinking, teamwork, and raising leader- The article titled on a cuckoo search optimiza- ship abilities. tion approach towards feedback system iden- tification authored by Prof Nithin V George FESTIVALS @ IIT GANDHINAGAR and two of his students Apoorv Pathwardhan, The Cultural Council organized several festivals and Rohan Patidar is among the top three most which showed huge enthusiasm from students, downloaded articles from the Digital Signal Pro- include Independence Day, Janmashtmi, Garba cessing journal, published by Elsevier. Night, Diwali, New Year, Uttarayan, Republic Day and Traditional Day. SPIC MACAY at IITGN The IITGN chapter of SPICMACAY (Society for the SHED-6 Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Abhinaya, the drama club and TIMELINE, the vide- Among Youth) presented their first concert of the ography club together produced Shed-6, the first year by sitar and tabla maestro Pandit Nayan ever sitcom of the Institute to depict the crazi- Ghosh on Jul 31, 2014. The IITGN Spicmacay Her- ness that students witness during their amazing itage Club presented another concert with well- journey at IITGN. The first edition had 5 episodes known North Indian classical vocalist Pt Sarathi and every episode was greatly appreciated by the Chatterjee on Sep 2, 2014. community.

MOVIE SCREENINGS PHD FELLOWSHIPS This year Cinematheque hosted screenings at IIT Gandhinagar has been selected for the pres- regular intervals catering to the varying inter- tigious Visvesvaraya PhD fellowships in the ests of student community. Some of the week- areas of Electronic System Design and Manufac- long sessions included: The Mentorship Week, turing, Information technology and IT-enabled French Week, Entrepreneurship Week, Chinese services.

118 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 AWARDS AND RECOGNITION CASH AWARD FOR RESEARCH At its 9th meeting held on Mar 28, 2013 the BoG approved a cash award scheme to incentivize under- graduate and postgraduate students for papers published in peer-reviewed journals. The following students were given cash awards during the year 2014-15.

Name of the Student Programme Discipline Amount Adit Bhardwaj BTech (Alumnus) Electrical Rs 25,000 Akhilesh Gotmare BTech Electrical Rs 12,500 Rohan Patidar BTech Electrical Rs 12,500 Gaurav Mahamuni BTech Mechanical Rs 12,500 Shreyans Nahar BTech Mechanical Rs 5,000 Chitta Ranjan Behera MTech (Alumnus) Chemical Rs 25,000 Jignesh Rajendrakumar Joshi MTech (Alumnus) Chemical Rs 25,000 Manishkumar D Yadav MTech (Alumnus) Chemical Rs 37,500 Nidal Raj Bhuria MTech (Alumnus) Civil Rs 25,000 Shivani Rani MTech (Alumnus) Civil Rs 25,000 Vinay Dwivedi MTech (Alumnus) Mechanical Rs 25,000 Vikram Karde PhD Chemical Rs 25,000 Alpana Ankush Thorat PhD Chemical Rs 25,000 Harsha Agnihotri PhD Chemistry Rs 12,500 Naresh Balsukuri PhD Chemistry Rs 20,833 Sudipta Das PhD Chemistry Rs 20,833 Praseetha K PhD Chemistry Rs 33,334 Bhanu Pratap Singh Gangwar PhD Chemistry Rs 12,500 Veerabhadraih P PhD Chemistry Rs 25,000 Haider Ali PhD Civil Rs 25,000 Reepal Dinesh Shah PhD Civil Rs 25,000 Neeraj Kumar PhD (Alumnus) Cognitive Science Rs 25,000 S Chandrasekaran PhD Electrical Rs 25,000 Yogesh Fulpagare PhD Mechanical Rs 12,500 Selvia Kuriakose PhD Electrical Rs 25,000 Satya Sivanaresh M PhD Electrical Rs 25,000 Vinal Patel PhD Electrical Rs 25,000 Abhishek Upadhyay PhD Electrical Rs 25,000

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 119 GANDHIAN YOUNG TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AWARD Dhyey Shah, Eepsit Tiwari and Rajesh Pati- dar received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award from the Biotechnology Indus- try Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) SRISTI Award for the design of a spill proof spoon for pa- tients of advanced Parkinson’s disease.

research work at Institut Fur Umformtechnik, STUDENT Universitat Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. ACHIEVEMENTS • The team comprising Mihir M Bhalerao, Parag Chitnis and Om Margaj under the • Anurag Pillutla and Om Margaj, 2nd year me- guidance of Prof Anulekha Dhara was chanical engineering students have been se- judged ‘meritorious’ in the Mathematical lected for the GE Foundation Scholar Lead- Contest in Modeling (MCM) 2014. The MCM ers Program under which they will receive is organized by the Consortium for Mathemat- a scholarship amount of $2250 each for the ics and its Applications (COMAP), a US-based next two years. They participated in the “En- non-profit organization. ergize to Innovate”workshop organized by the • Manish Chawla, PhD student, has received GE Foundation at the Jack F Welch Technology Fellowship from DST for the workshop on Centre, Bangalore from Jun 15-18, 2014. Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning • Abhishek Navarkar received the Charpak organized by National Mathematics Initiative Scholarship to pursue his internship at the and IIT Madras, Chennai, Mar 23 –28, 2015. Institute of Mechanics and Engineering, Bor- • Manish Chawla, PhD student, has received deaux. Fellowship from DBT for workshop on Com- • Krishna Kumar Saxena, a 2nd year MTech putational Approaches to Memory and Plas- student of materials science and engineer- ticity organized by National Centre for Biologi- ing, working under the supervision of Prof cal Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, Jun 28 –Jul 12, Jyoti Mukhopadhyay has received German 2014 DAAD fellowship to carry out master’s thesis • Manish Chawla received the Santander In-

120 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ternational Summer School fellowship • German Water Partnership Award- India, for doctoral students from Frontiers in Neu- 2014 (2nd prize) was awarded to Reepal Shah roeconomics organized by the University of (PhD student, Civil Engineering) at the 2nd Heidelberg & Santander, Germany, Apr 7 –17, India-German Water Partnership-day 2014, 2014. Kochi, Oct 6, 2014. He was awarded for out- • Ankita Arora received the Springer Best Stu- standing results of applied research work or dent Oral Presentation Award and cash prize practical applications in the field of sustain- of Rs 20,000 at the International Conference able water resources management in India. on Polymeric Biomaterials, Bioengineering He received a momento/certificate, cash and Biodiagnostics, New Delhi, Oct 27-30, prize of Rs 20,000 and all-expense paid trip 2014. to attend the meeting. • Veerabhadraiah Pakallolu received the • Manish Kumar received the Young Pre- Best Poster Award for the poster at the 8th senter Award at Clostridium XIII (13th Inter- Asian Photochemistry Conference, Trivan- national Conference on the Genetics, Phys- drum, Nov 9-13, 2014. iology and Synthetic Biology of Solvent and • S Chandrasekaran, a PhD student of elec- Acid-forming Clostridia), Sep 19-21, 2014, trical engineering received Posoco Power Shanghai, China. System Award (PPSA-2015) for his doctoral • Asha Liza James (PhD student) won Best research work. The award carries a citation Poster Award at ICSM (International Con- and a cash prize of Rs 60,000. ference on Soft Materials), Malaviya Nation- • Sneha N Ved has been awarded the Intel al Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, PhD fellowship for the project proposed by Oct 2014 for poster titled "Synthesis of Dr Joycee Mekie titled Asynchronous-syn- nanosheets comprising boron honeycomb chronous on-chip communication (ASOCC) lattice: ultrasonication and chelation mediat- network design for low-power multi-core ar- ed strategies". chitectures. SPORTS NEWS HALLA BOL 15 IIT Sports Meet held from Dec 12-19, 2014 at IIT Halla-Bol, an all-night intra-college annual sports Bombay. festival was organized from Mar 20-29, 2015. The games played with modified rules included Futsal, VIBES’14 Tug of War, Frisbee, Touch Rugby, Foot Volley, Gul- The Basketball Men’s team won the Champion- ly Cricket, 7 Stones, 3 a side Baddy, Basky, Dodge ship Trophy at Nirma University Sports Festival by ball and Kho-Kho. defeating Institute of Business Management (44- 42), Apr 14, 2014. Krishan Meena’s performance 50Th INTER-IIT AQUATIC MEET was outstanding in the finals. The performance of Animesh Kumawat won the silver medal in Manoj Kumar, Sanjay Meena, Prince Singh and 200m back-stroke, bronze medals in 100m back- Ashish Anarse was also commendable through- stroke, and 1500m freestyle at the 50th Inter-IIT out the tournament. Aquatic Meet held during Oct 1-4, 2014 at IIT Bombay. Nisha Rawat won a silver medal in 50m Indian College Basketball League breast-stroke and Parth Sane won bronze med- IIT Gandhinagar men’s basketball team secured als in 50m butterfly and 50m back-stroke. third position in the Challengers Indian College Basketball League (ICBL), Dec 8-10, 2014 in 50TH INTER-IIT SPORTS MEET Ahmedabad. It was organized by the Basketball Taruna Yadav won a bronze medal in Shot Put Federation of India (BFI) for college-teams across (women) with a throw of 7.32m at the 50th Inter Gujarat.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 121 KHELMAHAKUMBH throw at PDPU, Gandhinagar, Feb 5-6, 2015. The boys' basketball team won the gold medal in Khel Mahakumbh tournament, Oct 13, 2014. The team members were each awarded a cash prize of OTHER STUDENT Rs 4,000. Four players of the team: Krishan Mee- na, Manoj Kumar, Sanjay Meena and Prince Singh ACTIVITIES have been selected to represent the Gandhinagar ONGC CAMBAY VISIT district team in the state-level sports tournament Twenty five students from various disciplines vis- of Gujarat. The girls' basketball team won a bronze ited the ONGC Cambay site along with Prof Raja- medal in the tournament. gopalan Srinivasan and Prof Abhay Gautam, Mar 13, 2015. Students got an opportunity to witness OTHER SPORTS EVENTS activities conducted in ONGC and interact with se- The girls' volleyball team won a gold medal in nior ONGC officials. Additionally they also visited Shaurya 14, the inter-college sports tournament the Lunej Musuem, ONGC drill site and the ONGC conducted by IIM Ahmedabad on Oct 10-12, 2014. Production Installation site and were exposed to direct use of technology and its implementation. The IITGN girls' badminton team comprising Vais- hanvi Patil and Swasti Medha defeated PDPU FIELD TRIP to win the DAIICT Concurs-14 Singles & Doubles A team consisting of Prof Amit Prashant, Prof Championships. Ajanta Sachan, Mr Michel Danino, Mr R S Bisht, Prof V N Prabhakar, Prof Alok Kanun- PETROLEUM CUP 2015 go, Silky Agrawal, Mantu Majumdar, Vinod V Taruna Yadav won a gold medal in discus throw, and Sandhya Mishra visited Dholavira during Dec silver medal in shot put and a bronze medal in jav- 5-6, 2014 to carry out a preliminary ground pen- elin throw; Aditya Shah won a gold medal in tri- etrating radar survey under the aegis of Archae- ple jump; Pradeep Diwakar won a silver medal in ological Sciences Centre, IITGN in collaboration discus throw and a bronze medal in shot put; and with Archaeological Survey of India. Sampada Gharpure won a silver medal in javelin

ANNUAL SPORTS AWARDS FOR ACADEMIC SESSION 2013-2014 The following awards for the academic year 2013- Best Player of the Year (staff) 14 were given in different categories on the basis Santosh Raut of the performance of students. Badminton Open (singles) Best Player of the Year (boys) Ishan Upadhyay Animesh Kumawat Badminton Open (doubles) Best Upcoming Player of the Year (boys) Kanak Sharma and Pranshul Saini Aditya Shah Badminton Open Singles (girls) Best Player of the Year (girls) Aishwarya Agarwal Nisha Rawat Badminton Open Doubles (girls) Best Upcoming Player of the Year (girls) Aparna Arya and Pratyusha Challa Srija Vaddineni Table Tennis Open Best Player of the Year (faculty) Nikhil Sharma Naran Pindoriya

122 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 123 STAFF activities Other staff activities SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM (STTP) A short-term training program on Implementa- tion Power Electronic Systems, was conducted by SVNIT and hands-on practice sessions were conducted by experts of PSIM software and PG students at SVNIT, Surat for 5 days from Dec 29, 2014 - Jan 2, 2015. Mr Ankur Navdiwala and Ms Palak Bagiya, both junior laboratory assistants 22nd INTER-IIT SPORTS MEET of the Electrical Engineering discipline, attended Ms Twinkle Patel received the Best Athlete Tro- the 5-day program. The training helped partic- phy (women) for winning three gold medals in ipants to strengthen their basics and enhance 100m, 200m and long jump events at the 22nd their practical knowledge in power electronics. Inter-IIT Staff Sports Meet, Dec 22-26, 2014. She set a new Inter-IIT record in long jump and 200m FACULTY & STAFF PICNIC race. Ms Laxmi Hirani won silver medals in shot- A picnic was held on Nov 16, 2014 at the Gujarat put and 100m race. IITGN bagged the Athletics Forest Research and Training Institute, Gandhi- Championship Trophy (women) for outstanding nagar. Nearly 100 people, including faculty, staff overall performance. and their family members turned out for the pic- nic. There were a wide variety of very enjoyable outdoor and indoor activities for both children OTHER STAFF and adults were organized by the co-ordinators Prof Madhumita Sengupta, Prof Chandraku- ACTIVITIES mar Appayee and Prof Harish P M. ORIENTATION PROGRAMME A one-day orientation programme for the EXCELLENCE AWARDS TO STAFF non-teaching staff of the Institute was organized Excellence Award for non-teaching staff for the on Sept 6, 2014. The objective of the programme year 2014 were conferred on Ms K Naga Mouli, was to apprise the staff with the IIT system and executive officer;Mr Shreejit B Menon, junior the new face of administration. The program was superintendent; Mr Rohitkumar B Chaudhary, conducted by Shri D K Ghosh, former registrar of junior technical superintendent; Mr Sanjayku- IIT Bombay. The emphasis was on understanding mar K Kachiya, junior laboratory assistant; Mr the IIT culture and delivery of timely and quality Dineshji S Thakor, office attendant; andMr Up- support service. endrabhai J Chauhan, guest house attendant. Through these awards the Institute formally rec- PEER REVIEW ognizes the sustained devotion and exemplary IIT Gandhinagar attaches utmost importance to service of its employees. excellence in performance of all its employees. To ensure excellence, performances of employees need regular peer-review. Accordingly, a process has been initiated by the institute to peer-review the performances of its ministerial staff, especial- ly the officers. The first peer-review was carried out on Sep 19-20, 2014 by an expert committee Ms Mouli Mr Shreejit Mr Rohitkumar consisting of prominent administrators of aca- demic institutes. After review, the employees were briefed about the improvements required in the specific areas.

Mr Sanjaykumar Mr Dineshji Mr Upendrabhai

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 125 EXTERNAL RELATIONS USAID support INDUSTRY OUTREACH IITGN TEAMS UP WITH SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE (SAC) PARTICIPATION IN VIBRANT GUJARAT INDIA-US TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT AND KNOWLEDGE EXPO Reaching Out International MoUs National MoUs Summer and Winter Internships in 2014 Class of 2014 Graduates pursuing Higher Studies Abroad/in India USAID Support

A Joint Declaration of Intent was signed on Jan assess institutional needs and discuss strategies 23, 2015, ahead of President Obama’s India visit, with senior IITGN administrators. Their discus- between the Ministry of Human Resource Devel- sions covered a wide range of possible areas of opment (MHRD) and the United States Agency for support including strengthening research capa- International Development (USAID) for providing bilities, student and faculty exchanges, leader- support to Indian Institutes of Technology. The ship development, networking, communication declaration calls for intensifying collaborations strategies, and entrepreneurship. in Research and Development (R&D) and entre- preneurship and identifies IIT Gandhinagar as the initial IIT for support. A team of three USAID representatives, comprising Mr Mitch Kirby, se- nior education advisor; Dr Sheila E Desai, India senior science and technology advisor; and Dr Eric M Johnson, senior research economist with RTI International, visited IITGN on Feb 10, 2015 to

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 127 INDUSTRY OUTREACH

INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP RETREAT Ltd, Ahmedabad; Shri D K Gupta, executive vice As a part of IIT Gandhinagar’s plan to expand and president, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Mumbai; Shri scale-up its engagement and communication Kel Kearns, director Manufacturing, Ford India, with industry a Industry Partnership Retreat Sanand; Shri Piyush Mathur, president, Indian held on May 9, 2014.30 leading industrialists Operations, Nielsen India; Shri K Sridhar, manag- Shri Aamir Akhtar, CEO - Lifestyle fabric - Den- ing director, Ricoh Innovations Pvt Ltd, Bangalore; im, Arvind Ltd, Ahmedabad; Shri Vimal Ambani, and Prof Mahesh Tandon, managing director, managing director, Tower Overseas Ltd, Ahmed- Tandon Consultants Pvt Ltd, New Delhi; attended abad; Shri Partho Ghose, executive vice presi- to discuss ways to strengthen industry-academia dent, Business Development, KHS Machinary Pvt relationship.

INDUSTRY OPEN HOUSE Delegates from more than 50 industries from all over India explored opportunities to partner with IIT Gandhinagar at the Institute’s firstIndus - try Open House on Aug 23, 2014. The event is a part of IITGN’s plan to expand and scale-up its engagement and communication with industry. IITGN director Prof Sudhir K Jain said, “IITGN val- ues its engagement with the industry. We have several strong, ongoing partnerships with sever- al companies, such as Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Ricoh Japan and Nielsen. The Industry Open House aims to build on this engagement and Grid Torrent; Adani; TCS; IBM and Hospira, as well open up new ideas and opportunities.” The event as several academic and research Institutes, in- showcased IITGN’s expertise, infrastructure and cluding the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR); capabilities through presentations, posters, labo- Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad ratory and library visits, idea pitches, and instru- (MICA); Centre for Environmental Planning and mentation and product demonstrations. Leading Technology University(CEPT); and Physical Re- Indian industries, such as Maruti Suzuki; Cadila search Laboratory (PRL), participated in the event. Pharmaceuticals; TVS; Reliance Industries; Smart

128 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 IITGN TEAMS UP WITH SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE (SAC) IITGN has teamed up with the Space Applications promote active collaboration between the two Centre (SAC) of Indian Space Research Organisa- Institutes. Under the MoU, IITGN students will tion (ISRO) for research collaboration in the areas undertake research internships at SAC on joint re- of electronics, signal and image processing, and search projects of common interest to IITGN and electro-optical systems modeling. The director of SAC. In turn, IITGN will host scientists from SAC IITGN Prof Sudhir K Jain and the director of SAC who wish to engage in teaching and research, and Shri A S Kiran Kumar signed a Memorandum of those interested in pursuing a higher degree. Understanding (MoU) on May 26, 2014 at SAC to

PARTICIPATION IN INDIA-US TECHNOLOGY VIBRANT GUJARAT SUMMIT AND IIT Gandhinagar participated in the Vibrant Gujarat KNOWLEDGE EXPO Summit in Gandhinagar between Jan 7-13, 2015 by setting up stalls in the educational pavilion and IIT Gandhinagar participated in the India-US Tech- the MHRD pavilion. The stall in educational pavil- nology Summit and Knowledge Expo in Greater ion focused on the various academic programs Noida as part of the IIT Pavilion from Nov 18-22, at the IITGN and the primary themes governing 2014. them such as emphasis on student experience, innovation in curriculum, industry and communi- ty outreach and integration of research. The stall in the MHRD pavilion showcased the Institute's research programs and prototypes developed by- students and faculty. It was also an opportunity for our entrepreneurs to showcase their products. The start-up TinkerTank showcased the agarbat- ti-making machine and 4Dea showcased the vir- tual tour of the IITGN campus. Participation in this exhibition gave IIT Gandhinagar an opportunity to increase its visibility among the thousands of local and international participants visiting the stalls.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 129 130 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Gandhinagar Foundation, in association with reaching out alumni of the IITs, IIMs, IISc and BITS. Prof Jain, • Prof Achal Mehra participated in the Univer- Prof Satish Tripathi, president of SUNY Buffa- sity Partners meeting of Underwriters Lab- lo and Vivek Wadhwa, fellow, Duke Universi- oratories Inc in Chicago from May 5-8, 2014. ty participated in the panel moderated by Dr Prof Mehra also delivered a presentation on Prabhu Goel, technologist & developer. Prof Internationalisation at IIT Gandhinagar Jain and Prof Dayal attended the Young Inves- at the Pan-IIT Conference in Toronto, Can- tigator Meet 2014 in Boston, USA, Oct 11-13, ada, from Jun 6-8, 2014 and visited several 2014. Prof Mehra visited Tampa, Florida for Canadian universities, including University of development initiatives, Oct 1-2, 2014. Toronto, McMaster University and the Univer- sity of Waterloo. • Prof Jain gave an inaugural lecture on the “Making of a University” lecture series at IIT • Dr Baldev Raj, chairman of the Board of Gov- Kanpur, Nov 27, 2014. Prof Jain also gave a ernors and Prof Sudhir K Jain, director at- talk “Opportunities and challenges of building tended a day-long Conference of Chairmen a world class IIT from the ground up: The IIT of Boards of Governor and Directors of IITs Gandhinagar Story" at IISc Bangalore, Dec 23, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, Aug 22, 2014. 2014. President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were lead speakers at • Prof Sudhir K Jain, Prof Amit Prashant and the conference. Prof Kabeer Jasuja visited the Japan Ad- vanced Institute of Science and Technology • Prof Sudhir K Jain attended the 10th US (JAIST) in March 2015 to discuss collaboration National Conference on Earthquake En- possible between IITGN and JAIST. gineering from Jul 21-25, 2014, and chaired the Executive Committee meeting of In- ternational Association for Earthquake Engineering, in Anchorage, Alaska. He took this opportunity to visit well-wishers and friends of the Institute in Tampa (Florida), Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco. During Aug 11-14, 2014 he visited four universities in Singapore.

• Prof Amit Prashant visited institutes in Ar- izona and California, USA for research collab- orations, Jul 5-19, 2014. Prof Prashant also visited West Coast USA, and the Canada with Government of Gujarat delegation and Uni- versity of Tennessee, USA, Aug 20-Sep 7, 2014.

• Prof Sudhir K Jain, Prof Achal Mehra and Prof Pratyush Dayal visited IITGN well-wish- ers and friends in California, New York, Wash- ington DC, and Boston, Oct 2-13, 2014. They attended a seminar on “Meeting the 21st Cen- tury Challenges in Technology Education" in Santa Clara, on Oct 4, 2014 organized by IIT

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 131 IITGN has been continually building relationships with organizations and individuals both in India and abroad, to support its varied activities and help the Institute grow and it signed the following Memo- randum of understanding in 2014-15. INTERNATIONAL Mous

Organization/Institution Objective

A major gift to IIT Gandhinagar by Dr Kiran C Patel, For supporting excellence, in the area of sus- USA tainability

Project for harmonization and cross Centre for Chemical Process Safety, AIChE referencing of safety and process New York, USA safety standards

To send Chinese language teachers to IITGN in Confucius Institute Headquarters (HANBAN), its effort to support Chinese language educa- China tion programs at IITGN

To encourage direct contact and co-operation Consortium of Finnish Higher Education between faculty and staff, departments and Institutions, Finland research institutions

EUNICER - Eurasian University Network for the In- Shared responsibilities in undertaking the ac- ternational Cooperation on Environmental Risks & tion funded by the education, audio-visual and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy & Hunan cultural executive agency University, Changsha, P R China

Association for improving scope for Masters ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon degrees in cognitive sciences by IITGN and com- (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal plexity sciences by ISCTE-IUL

Memorial University of Newfoundland Collaboration on academic and research activi- Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ties

To develop relations between the two institu- Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, tions in international education, research, ser- Kingdom of Thailand vice and other related activities

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Undergraduate student exchange programme Pasadena, California, USA

132 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 NATIONAL Mous

Organization/Institution Objective

Documentation, sampling, testing, interpreta- Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi tion of archaeological samples from Dholavira

To ensure a mutually beneficial relationship be- Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development tween DMICDC and the IITs so as to bring in the Corporation (DMICDC), New Delhi academic expertise available with the IITs

Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR), To administer and manage large scale Ahmedabad household surveys

Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, To assist in curriculum and laboratory Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad development, and in faculty recruitments

M/s EdGate Technologies Private Limited, For analog attach lab and analog lab setup at University Program partner of Texas Instruments, IIT Gandhinagar Bangalore

To carry out river basin scale hydrological National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad investigation and characterization using variable infiltration capacity model

Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Department of For IRNSS Navigation receiver field trial and Space, Government of India, Ahmedabad data collection

Tata Consultancy Services Limited For intensifying academic cooperation

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 133 Summer and Winter Internships in 2014 foreign Institutions Host Institution Student Name Discipline Aalok Gangopadhyay, Nishant N Rao, Electrical Engineering California Institute of Technology Shivam Mani Tripathi (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA Prathamesh Ganesh Bhat, Mechanical Engineering Rounak Mehta, Aashrith K S Case Western Reserve University, Ajinkya Tupkar Jain Electrical Engineering OH, USA

Cisco Systems, USA Ravi Kumar Electrical Engineering

Clemson University, SC, USA Rajesh Patidar Mechanical Engineering

Sudiksha Sridhar Chemical Engineering Columbia University, NY, USA Apoorv Patwardhan Electrical Engineering

DAAD Wise Programme, Tech- nische Universität München, Raj Shah Electrical Engineering Germany

Duke University, NC, USA Durvesh Shinde, Ishan Upadhyaya Electrical Engineering

Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts Abhishek Navarkar Mechanical Engineering et Netiers, Paris, France

Akshay Goyal Electrical Engineering EPIR Technologies, Bolingbrook, IL, USA Abhay C A Mechanical Engineering

Rizu Khanwilkar Electrical Engineering Institute of Chemical & Engineer- ing Sciences, Singapore Ayush Choudhary Mechanical Engineering

ISCTE, Lisbon University, Lisbon Anshul Gupta Mechanical Engineering

Pamarthi Chandra Kanth, Electrical Engineering Thrinath Reddy National University of Singapore, Singapore Soham Harshe, Vadera Meet Prakashbhai, Milan Singh, Mechanical Engineering Sachit Vekaria

134 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Host Institution Student Name Discipline Rajeev Circle Fellowship for Eepsit Tiwari Mechanical Engineering Entrepreneurs, CA, USA

Singapore University of Prateek Baldwa, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Electrical Engineering Technology & Design, Singapore Salecha Kushal

Dave Ujash Rameshwar Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, HAIFA, Israel Karma Patel, Akash Keshav Singh, Mechanical Engineering Dhyey Shah Sukriti Gakhar, Aditya Samant, Chemical Engineering Tushti Shah Texas A & M University, TX, USA Madan Janardan Taldevkar Mechanical Engineering

Wagh Vidyanand Girish, Manjot Singh Chemical Engineering

Underwriters Laboratories, CH Suryavinay Koundinya Electrical Engineering Chicago, USA Sanjit Jena, Shubham Pachori, Rakesh Mechanical Engineering Ranjan, Vaichal Saurabh Sandeep

Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Akash Mechanical Engineering Malaysia University of California Merced, B Manasa Mechanical Engineering CA, USA

University of Notre Dame, IN, USA Mayank Shekhar Mechanical Engineering

Rahul Khandait, Shaurya Seth Chemical Engineering

University of Saskatchewan, Sas- Prashant Verma Electrical Engineering katoon, Canada

Shreyans Nahar Mechanical Engineering

University of Southern California, Vaibhav Gandhi Electrical Engineering USA, Viterbi-India Programme

University of Washington, WA, Sahil Mehta, Joy Narang, Mechanical Engineering USA Akshay Randad

Monish Bhangale Chemical Engineering Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA Gaurav Mahamuni Mechanical Engineering

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 135 domestic Institutions Host Institution Student Name Discipline

A-Ray Systems Pvt Ltd Devendra Meena Mechanical Engineering

Aasaan Jobs Ajay Devedwal, M Surya Mechanical Engineering

Asea Brown Boveri Ltd B Shanmukha Manoj Chemical Engineering

Automation Teknix Kimaya Uday Kale Electrical Engineering

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd Himanshu Yadav Electrical Engineering

Bhilai Steel Plant Rocky Dongre Mechanical Engineering

Bosch Nandan Paresh Vora Chemical Engineering

Tsravan Kumar Chemical Engineering CD-adapco Ronak Khandelwal, Mechanical Engineering Sai Teja Pachipulusu

Ecolibrium Energy Pvt Ltd Preet Shah Electrical Engineering

Educational Initiatives Shah Sanket Viren Mechanical Engineering

Fluidyn Dhruv Pancholi Chemical Engineering

General Electric Foundation P V S Anurag Mechanical Engineering

Hero MotoCorp Ltd Rahul Harnotia Mechanical Engineering

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Rajat Shiv Chand Mechanical Engineering

Reddy Dwarakanath, Ayushi Patel Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Science Banga- lore Pranshul Saini Mechanical Engineering

Sanchayni Bagade Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Tushar Anchan, Patil Radhika Pramod Mechanical Engineering

Palkar Vaibhav Abhay, Mihika Shah, Chemical Engineering Nishit Shetty Gullapally Sai Chowdary, Gaurav Gupta, Chitranshu Kumar, Somani Dipen Om- prakash, Shrikant Patel, Rohan Patidar, Electrical Engineering Malireddi Sri Raghu, Mukesh Singh Indian Institute of Technology Rawat, Alok Singh, Abhishek Soni Gandhinagar Nirmal Jayaprasad, Mahesh Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Karan Palaskar, Rahul Kumar Pandey, Lalit Prajapat, Gaurav Mechanical Engineering Sharma, Yash Pratap Singh, Konduru Venkata Naga Sai Ravi Teja, Margaj Om Vijay, Vishal Yadav

136 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Host Institution Student Name Discipline

Adappa Ashray Amarnath, Prashant Chemical Engineering Shekhar

Indian Institute of Technology Byrapuram Venkata Vijaya Bharath R Electrical Engineering Kanpur Koushik Mani, Shashank Nigam, Pardeep Phullay, Muzammil Rawoot, Mechanical Engineering Ritwik Shukla

Indian Institute of Technology K Abhishek, Sunil Sahra Chemical Engineering Madras

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Sagar Chawla Chemical Engineering

Ishi Information Systems India Pvt Ashwin Dalvi Electrical Engineering Ltd

Jyoti Ltd Mihir Milind Bhalerao Mechanical Engineering

Kota Thermal Power Plant Station Vishvendra Singh Mechanical Engineering

Aryan, Utsav Mistry, Maruti Suzuki India Pvt Ltd Mechanical Engineering Utkarsh Panchbhai

Sanjay Kumar Meena Electrical Engineering National Thermal Power Corpora- tion Ltd Pradeep Kumar Mechanical Engineering

Hema Choudhary, Sweta Parmar, Chemical Engineering Vinod Rangi, Palak Sadani Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd Krishan Kumar Meena, Divyansh Mechanical Engineering Tripathi

Olam International Ltd G N Lakshminarasimhan Mechanical Engineering

Pravah (NGO) Lavdeep Kaur Chemical Engineering

Rakshak Foundation (NGO) Raj Shekhar Electrical Engineering

Reliance Industries Ltd Abhishek Sancheti Chemical Engineering

Pankaj Gautam Ricoh Innovations Pvt Ltd Electrical Engineering Shisode Sushil Kumar

Sai Impex Hydarali M T Mechanical Engineering

Dilip Kumar Badgurjar Chemical Engineering Sandvik Asia Pvt Ltd Chetan Kumar Choudhary, Electrical Engineering Manoj Kumar

Sarvajal Anoop Pinjala Chemical Engineering

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 137 Host Institution Student Name Discipline

Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd Deep Rahul Electrical Engineering

Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd Rajat Chaudhary Electrical Engineering

Semi-Conductor Lab, Department Ankita Sharma Mechanical Engineering of Space, Government of India

SM Auto Stamping Pvt Ltd Saurabh Singhal Mechanical Engineering

Naman Bansal, Prashant Kumar, Abhishek Ranjan, Mehta Yash Sanjay, Electrical Engineering Space Application Centre, ISRO Jatindeep Singh

Bhargav Chauhan Mechanical Engineering

Kamanuru Vamsidhar Reddy, Abhishek Electrical Engineering Singh Tata Motors Ltd Hiralal Mechanical Engineering

P Sandeep Reddy Electrical Engineering Tata Power Ltd Vivek Prakash Mechanical Engineering

Parth Gudhka, Mishita Jaiswal, Heda Texas Instruments Electrical Engineering Shashank Kamlesh

Virendra Singh Panwar Chemical Engineering

Underwriters Laboratory India Pvt Vaibhav Mathur Electrical Engineering Ltd

Sujit Dunga Mechanical Engineering

UVSofts Technologies Pvt Ltd Latika Meena Electrical Engineering

Vehicle Factory Jabalpur Nikita Patta Mechanical Engineering

Wipro Ltd Vinit Joshi Electrical Engineering

138 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 CLASS OF 2014 GRADUATES pursuing HIGHER STUDIES ABROAD-IN INDIA

Name Institute Programme Discipline at IITGN

MTech

Amita Bedar IIT Bombay - Monash Academy PhD Chemical

Bergische University, Wuppertal, Ritesh Jain MTech Electrical Germany

Laya IIT Gandhinagar PhD Electrical

Satyajit Mohapatra IIT Gandhinagar PhD Electrical

Sreejith R IIT Delhi PhD Electrical

Roshan Anandrao Chavan IIT Gandhinagar PhD Mechanical

Rachit Prasad Virginia Tech PhD Mechanical

Materials Science & Rohit Mishra IIT Gandhinagar PhD Engineering

P Raja Mohan Reddy IIT Gandhinagar PhD Civil

BTech

Pranav Bagaria Texas A & M University PhD Chemical

Durgesh Bagri Hindu College, University of Delhi MA Chemical

Bhaskarjyoti Das NID Ahmedabad MDes Chemical

Akshay Jain Texas A & M University PhD Chemical

Mayank Jhalaria Cornell University MS Chemical

Rohan Kokane IIM Lucknow PGP Chemical

Sanket Mahajan IIM Calcutta PGP Chemical

Smit Shah Texas A & M University PhD Chemical

Pamulapati Sushma Sri Rice University PhD Chemical

Aishwarya Agrawal Virginia Tech PhD Electrical

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 139 Name Institute Programme Discipline at IITGN

The University of North Carolina, Akash Bapat MS and PhD Electrical Chapel Hill

Yash Goyal Virginia Tech PhD Electrical

Ameya Joshi Stanford University MS Electrical

Snigdha Manogyna IIM Ahmedabad PGP Electrical

Kartik Saxena University of California, Irvine MS Electrical

Smit Soni University of California, Irvine MS Electrical

Balaji Venkatesh University of California, Irvine MS Electrical

Spandan J Das Cornell University MEngg Mechanical

Ritu Gavasane IIM Calcutta PGP Mechanical

Deep Karpe University of Florida MS Mechanical

Saksham Kohli IIM Lucknow PGP Mechanical

Nihar Kotak Carnegie Mellon University MS Mechanical

Bhavya Madasu IIT Madras MTech Mechanical

Nakul Nuwal Purdue University MS Mechanical

Ankita Sharma IIM Ahmedabad PGP Mechanical

Dhwanil Shukla Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Mechanical

140 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 141 SUPPORT FOR The institute INDUSTRY SUPPORT MAJOR NEW DONORS DONORS LIST IITGN FOUNDATION APPOINTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IITGN has developed strategic partnerships with leading universities, industries and R&D organiza- tions abroad for student and faculty exchanges and research collaborations. Several partnerships forged in the last year will benefit the students and the faculty. INDUSTRY SUPPORT MAJOR UL GRANT FOR SAFETY Centre IIT Gandhinagar has received a five-year grant from the Underwrit- ers Laboratories Inc (UL) to develop safety initiatives at the Insti- tute. The grant supports undergraduate and post-graduate re- search projects for students of IIT Gandhinagar. IITGN will also use the grant to set up a fire engineering laboratory and other safety research and education initiatives. Underwriters Laboratories Inc (UL), USA is a not-for-profit product safety testing and certi- fication organization. Under the five-year grant, IITGN will collabo- rate with UL on major safety initiatives.

RICOH COMPANY, LTD Ricoh Company Ltd, has given a major grant to IIT Gandhinagar for the establishment of a Centre for Design and Innovation at the In- stitute. The grant is used by the Institute for curriculum develop- ment, student projects, organisation of meetings and conferences and academic and industrial collaborations in the areas of design and innovation. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh is a global technol- ogy company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services.

GMDC CHAIR Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (GMDC), a 50-year- old company with primary interests in minerals, lignite and energy has set up a GMDC Chair at IITGN in the areas of materials, minerals, metallurgical engineering and earth sciences. The GMDC Chair will enable the Institute to provide additional financial support to out- standing faculty and students.

NIELSEN GRANT FOR INTERNATIONALISATION The Nielsen company has been providing significant to support for internationalisation programmes at IITGN. Nielsen Holdings NV (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer informa- tion, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and related properties. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 143 MAJOR NEW DONORS

Dr Kiran Patel Dr Kiran C Patel, a cardiologist based in Tampa (Florida), has made sig- nificant financial contribution to IITGN to support research activities in the area of sustainable development. Dr Patel is the chairman of the Pa- tel Foundation for Global Understanding, a non-profit organisation that develops and funds a wide variety of programs in health, education, arts and culture. He has provided generous help in developing and funding a variety of programs in these areas, both locally and around the world. His support enabled the creation of the Dr Kiran C Patel College of Global Sus- tainability, in University of South Florida. He has served as chairman of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), a professional organisation representing over 40,000 physicians. In 2003, Dr Patel was appointed to the University of South Florida Board Of Trustees by Florida's governor. In 2004, Dr Patel was awarded the Cultural Contributor of the Year Award by the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. He earned his MBBS in Medicine from Smt N H L Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad and completed his Cardiology Fellowship from a Columbia University affil- iated program.

DR PRABHAKAR GOEL Dr Prabhakar Goel has joined the growing list of significant benefactors of the Institute. His donation will enable the Institute to recruit outstand- ing faculty and international visitors. Dr Goel holds a BS degree from IIT Kanpur (1970) and a PhD in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1974). Dr Goel held positions in engineering and technical management with IBM and Wang Laboratories. In 1990 Dr Goel was rec- ognized as Entrepreneur of the Year for New England by Inc magazine and Ernst Young. Since 1992 Dr Goel has been a private venture capitalist involved with several companies. He currently serves on the boards of In- side Vault Inc and FusionOps Inc. Dr Goel is an active philanthropist and has supported many organizations with his contributions, most notably the Foundation for Excellence which he founded in 1994. FFE has funded over 13,000 students in India at the college level. Dr Goel is also a found- ing member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), which provides a forum for networking and promotes entrepreneurship among members of the Indus region communities.

Narendra Kumar Jain Chair Mr Atul Jain, chairman and CEO of TEOCO, has made a major contribution to support IITGN. His donation will be utilized to create the Narendra Ku- mar Jain Chair at the Institute in honour of his father. Mr Jain founded TEOCO in 1994 with the idea of principled entrepreneurship and employee ownership. TEOCO focuses on business ethics, with a particular emphasis on its core values of alignment with employees, clients and community. Today, TEOCO is a leading global organisation with operations in six con- tinents providing cost, routing, revenue and network management solu- tions to top communications service providers worldwide.

144 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Donors list Name Category City More than Rs 1 crore Dr Kiran C Patel well-wisher Tampa, USA

Rs 5,00,000 - Rs 24,99,999 Anonymous well-wisher USA Silicon Valley Community Foundation well-wisher Stanford, USA Prabhakar Goel well-wisher Fremont, USA Atul Jain well-wisher Vienna, USA Arvind Jain well-wisher Pleasanton, USA Anjali Joshi well-wisher Los Altos Hills Avi Nash & Sandra Nash well-wisher Greenwich, USA

Rs 1,00,000 - Rs 4,99,999 Sudhir K Jain faculty Ahmedabad Amrutur Anilkumar well-wisher Tennessee, USA Durga Bearings Mumbai Pvt Ltd well-wisher Mumbai Ruyintan Mehta & Dr Monica Mehta well-wisher Watchung, USA Vegesna S Raju well-wisher Hyderabad

Rs 25,000 - Rs 99,999 S P Mehrotra faculty Ahmedabad D V Pai faculty Ahmedabad D P Roy faculty Ahmedabad Deepak Bhagat well-wisher Fremont, USA Neotia Foundation well-wisher Kolkata Sant Das Gupta well-wisher Lorton, USA Rajen Jaswa well-wisher Saratoga, USA Achal Mehra well-wisher Torrington, USA Gaurav Sant well-wisher Los Angeles, USA Shyam Sunder & Manjula Shyam well-wisher New Haven, USA Nitish Thakor well-wisher Clarksville, USA

Rs 5,000 - Rs 24,999 Tanmay Balwa alumnus San Francisco, USA

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 145 Name Category City Andrea Babbio faculty Ahmedabad Atul Bhargav faculty Ahmedabad Arup Lal Chakraborty faculty Ahmedabad Michel Danino faculty Ahmedabad Sriram K Gundimeda faculty Ahmedabad Mohan C Joshi faculty Ahmedabad Sharmistha Majumdar faculty Ahmedabad Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra faculty Ahmedabad S L Narayanamurthy faculty Bangalore N Ramakrishnan faculty Ahmedabad Arnapurna Rath faculty Ahmedabad Srinivas G Reddy faculty Ahmedabad R Sharan faculty Ahmedabad Sudhanshu Sharma faculty Ahmedabad Meera Mary Sunny faculty Ahmedabad Siddharth V Wakankar faculty Ahmedabad Prem Kumar Chopra staff Ahmedabad Meena Joshi staff Ahmedabad T S Kumbar staff Ahmedabad Pijush Majumdar staff Ahmedabad Sunita Menon staff Ahmedabad R T Shah staff Gandhinagar C S Sharma staff Ahmedabad Sonam Srivastava staff Noida Anonymous well-wisher Abhay Bhushan well-wisher Palo Alto, USA Dipan Kumar Ghosh well-wisher Mumbai Timothy Huff well-wisher Nashville, USA Penram International well-wisher USA Paul Jennings well-wisher Pasadena, USA Ashok Jhunjhunwala well-wisher Chennai Rachelle Kucera Mehra well-wisher Torrington, USA Kamal Nanavaty well-wisher Mumbai K R Padiyar well-wisher Bangalore Samir Raiyani well-wisher Fremont, USA Partha Sarkar well-wisher Ames, USA

146 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name Category City Institute of Industrial Sciences well-wisher Allahabad P Chandra Shekhar well-wisher Mumbai Abhishek Singhal well-wisher USA Balkrishna Soneji well-wisher Ahmedabad V P Technologies well-wisher Atlanta, USA

Upto Rs 4,999 Patil Atharva Abhay alumnus Kolhapur Shubham Agarwal alumnus Bangalore Shashank Agarwal alumnus Agra Aishwarya Agrawal alumnus Korba Shah Smit Alkesh alumnus Vadodara Pranav Bagaria alumnus Korba Amita Bedar alumnus Sivpuri Neelesh Bhandari alumnus Bhopal Adit Bhardwaj alumnus Jaipur Shubham Bhargav alumnus Jind Hariomlaxminarayan Bhargava alumnus Dhar Ashita Chandnani alumnus Bikaner Vora Ajay Chandubhai alumnus Rajkot Pavanagundla Raghavendra Chary alumnus Nalgonda Suresh Kumar Choudhary alumnus Jalore Spandan Jyoti Das alumnus Guwahati Bhaskarjyoti Das alumnus Chirang Soni Smit Dilipbhai alumnus Savli Patel Prashant Dineshbhai alumnus Mumbai Kohli Saksham Dineshkumar alumnus Pune Vinay Dwivedi alumnus Durg Mangesh Popatrao Gangarde alumnus Ahmednagar Sanjay Kumar Gill alumnus Jhunjhunu Karpe Deep Girish alumnus Mumbai Yash Goyal alumnus Agra Adit Gupta alumnus Mumbai Nuthalapati Sri Harsha alumnus Guntur Deshmukh Sumit Hemant alumnus Thane Akanksha Jagwani alumnus Burhar

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 147 Name Category City Akshay Jain alumnus Indore Nishank Jain alumnus Mumbai Ritesh Jain alumnus New Delhi Sherry Jain alumnus Ahmedabad Mayank K Jhalaria alumnus Mumbai Gagan Kanojia alumnus Gwalior Rohan Sambhaji Kokane alumnus Pune Tejaswi Kota alumnus Guntur Yash Prashant Kotak alumnus Vadodara Manne Sri Sudhamsu Krishna alumnus New Delhi Aryan Kumar alumnus Bihar Sharif Dasari Yashwanth Kumar alumnus Visakhapatnam Gourav Kumar alumnus Purnea Bhavya Madasu alumnus Bellampalli Akshay Mall alumnus Ghaziabad Navneet Meena alumnus Karauli Sushrut Pramod Meshram alumnus Nagpur Gavasane Ritu Milind alumnus Pune Utkal Ranjan Muduli alumnus Bhubaneswar Sunil Nair alumnus Ajmer Arun Gopalakrishnan Nair alumnus Kochi Shah Nisarg Nikhil alumnus Mumbai Nakul Nuwal alumnus Bhilwara Prateek Nyati alumnus Chittorgarh Chetan Chandrakant Patil alumnus Thane Rachit Prasad alumnus Ahmedabad Kotak Yash Prashant alumnus Vadodara Sreejith R alumnus Palakkad Shah Jinesh Rajesh alumnus Mumbai Shaliwahan Singh Rathore alumnus Kota Hoosein Safdari alumnus Indore Amit Sahu alumnus Hoshangabad Achari Sandesh Sanjay alumnus Pune Sanjay Saroj alumnus Navi Mumbai Kartik Saxena alumnus Mumbai

148 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name Category City Bansude Shubhangi Shamsundar alumnus Osmanabad Arjita Sharma alumnus Ahmedabad Himanshu Sharma alumnus Indore Pratyush Shastri alumnus Bhilai Dhwanil Shukla alumnus Ahmedabad Tarkeshwar Singh alumnus Kolkata Patel Tanay Somnath alumnus Valsad Ankit Suchanti alumnus Bangalore Prerit Terway alumnus Ahmedabad Avinash N Tumkur alumnus Mumbai Shashank Tyagi alumnus Meerut Naveen Deepak V alumnus Karimnagar Rohith Varier alumnus Hyderabad M J Balaji Venkatesh alumnus Chennai Chopra Deepti Vijay alumnus Ahmedabad Katre Vibhav Vikas alumnus Thane Karanam Vinay alumnus Hyderabad Anirudha Vishvakarma alumnus Ujjain Joshi Ameya Yashwant alumnus Pune Bala Saranya Yeleswarapu alumnus Vijaywada Sanjaykumar Amrutiya faculty Ahmedabad Vinod Chandra faculty Ahmedabad Nithin V George faculty Ahmedabad Harish P M faculty Ahmedabad KVV Murthy faculty Gandhinagar Ritu Agarwal staff Ahmedabad Jay Mehta staff Ahmedabad Santosh Raut staff Ahmedabad Shashin A Raval staff Ahmedabad Jagdish Rawat staff Ahmedabad Komal Tarunkumar Sangtani staff Ahmedabad Viral Shah staff Ahmedabad Gaurav Kumar Singh staff Ahmedabad Pallavi Chilka student Ahmedabad Manish Kumar student Ahmedabad

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 149 Name Category City Dibyendu Debnath well-wisher Guwahati Kiran Magiawala well-wisher Hawthorne, USA Anand Rajkamal well-wisher Kolkata Gaurav Sharma well-wisher Bangalore Hart Singh well-wisher Madison, USA

IITGN FOUNDATION APPOINTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IIT Gandhinagar Foundation, a worldwide capital campaign with primary focus US-based charitable trust, an- on the US, as well as serving as a liaison between nounced the appointment of donors and IITGN on important initiatives sup- Mr Ravi Mistry as its first ex- ported by the donors. Previously, Mr Mistry was ecutive director. Mr Mistry will member of the founding team of Virident Sys- be responsible for designing tems, a technology startup based in the Silicon and managing the Foundation’s Valley.

150 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 151 organization Board of Governors Finance Committee Building and Works Committee Senate Standing Committees of the Senate Academic Officials Student Leadership Faculty Non-teaching Staff PhD Scholars MTech Students MSc Students MA Students PGDIIT Students BTech Students BOARD OF GOVERNORS Chairman Prof S P Sukhatme Dr Baldev Raj former Director, IIT Bombay & President, International Council of Academies of former Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Engineering and Technological Sciences & Mumbai Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore Prof Sudhir K Jain Director MemberS Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Shri J P Agrawal, DANICS Ahmedabad Director (Technical & Higher Education) Administration of Daman & Diu (UT) Secretary Secretariat, Moti Daman Shri P K Chopra Registrar Prof S P Mehrotra Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Professor-in-charge, (External Relations, Ahmedabad and Research & Development) Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

Shri Kamal Nanavaty President-Strategy Development Reliance Industries Limited Navi Mumbai

Shri D J Pandian, IAS Chief Secretary Government of Gujarat Gandhinagar

Prof Deepak B Phatak Subrao M Nilekani Chair Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Bombay, Mumbai

Prof Surendra Prasad former Director Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi

Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan Professor Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 153 FINANCE COMMITTEE Chairman Dr Baldev Raj President International Council of Academies of Engineer- ing and Technological Sciences & Director National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore

MemberS Prof Sudhir K Jain Director Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

Prof D P Roy Professor-in-charge (General Administration) Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

Prof S C Sahasrabudhe former Director Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Gandhinagar

Shri Amarjeet Sinha, IAS Additional Secretary Department of Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development New Delhi

Shri Yogendra Tripathi, IAS Joint Secretary (Integrated Finance Bureau) & Financial Advisor Ministry of Human Resource Development New Delhi

Secretary Shri P K Chopra Registrar Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

154 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 BUILDING AND WORKS COMMITTEE Chairman Prof Sudhir K Jain Director Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

MemberS Prof N Chhaya former Dean, Faculty of Architecture CEPT University Ahmedabad

Shri A K Jain former Special Director General Central Public Works Department New Delhi

Dr Prabhat Kumar Distinguished Scientist and former Chairman and Managing Director Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd, Kalpakkam Tamil Nadu

Prof Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi Associate Dean (Campus Development) Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

Shri L P Srivastava former Additional Director General Central Public Works Department & Advisor (Works) Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

Shri K S Wagh Chief Advisor (Civil Infrastructure) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai

Secretary Shri P K Chopra Registrar Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 155 SENATE Chairman Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan Prof Sudhir K Jain Prof Jagmohan Tyagi Director Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Secretary Ahmedabad Shri P K Chopra Registrar MemberS Prof Sudarshan Bahl Student Invitees Prof Atul Bhargav Harsh Gupta Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty Aashrith Koundinya Prof Neelkanth Chhaya Akash Keshav Singh Prof Sameer Dalvi Naveen Deepak V Prof Murali Damodaran Prof Anirban Dasgupta Prof Bhaskar Datta Prof Pratyush Dayal Prof H B Hablani Prof Vikrant Jain Prof Mohan Joshi Prof Rita Kothari Prof Ashwini Kumar Dr T S Kumbar Prof Harish P M Prof Jaison Manjaly Prof Achal Mehra Prof S P Mehrotra Prof Abhijit Mishra Prof Pranab Kumar Mohapatra Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Prof K V V Murthy Prof Vinod Narayanan Prof D V Pai Prof Rosa Maria Perez Prof Amit Prashant Prof R R Puri Prof N Ramakrishnan Prof Raghavan Rangarajan Prof Nagesh Rao Prof Srinivas Reddy Prof D P Roy Prof Ajanta Sachan Prof Arnab Sarkar Prof Indranath Sengupta Prof Anand Sengupta Prof R Sharan Prof G K Sharma

156 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 STANDING COMMITTEEs OF THE SENATE Senate Academic Performance Senate Library Evaluation Committee (SAPEC) Committee (SLC) Prof D V Pai, convenor Prof R Sharan, chairman Prof Amit Prashant, dean (Academic Affairs) Prof Pratyush Dayal Prof Dhiman Basu Dr T S Kumbar Prof Bhaskar Datta Prof Mona Mehta Prof Nithin George Prof Sanmuganathan R Prof Kabeer Jasuja Prof Sudipta Sarkar Prof Indranath Sengupta Mr Jay Sudani Ms Goldy Yadav Senate Academic Programmes Committee (SAPC) Prof Amit Prashant, chairman, dean (Academic Affairs) Prof Atul Bhargav Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty Prof Sameer Dalvi Prof Bhaskar Datta Prof Jaison Manjaly Prof Abhijit Mishra Prof Srinivas Reddy Prof Ajanta Sachan Prof Anand Sengupta Prof Jagmohan Tyagi Ms Geethanjali Savithri Ms Tushti Shah

Senate Scholarship and Prizes Committee (SSPC) Prof Jaison A Manjaly, chairman, dean (Student Affairs) Prof Anirban Dasgupta Prof Kabeer Jasuja Prof Surjeet Kaur Prof Pratik Mutha

Senate Student Affairs Committee (SSAC) Prof Jaison A Manjaly, chairman, dean (Student Affairs) Prof Atul Bhargav Prof Bhaskar Datta Prof Nithin George Prof Sharmistha Majumdar Prof Srinivas Reddy Mr Aashrith Koundinya Mr Akash Keshav Singh Mr Akshay Randad Mr Palak Sadani

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 157 ACADEMIC OFFICIALS Prof Sudhir K Jain Prof Srinivas Reddy Director Advisor, Cultural Events

Prof Amit Prashant Shri C S Sharma Dean, Academic Affairs Coordinator, Communication & Life Skills Programme Prof Bhaskar Datta Associate Dean, Postgraduate Studies Prof Sudhanshu Sharma Warden, Ashok Vihar Hostel Prof Abhijit Mishra Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies Prof Achal Mehra Dean, Strategic Planning and Special Initiatives Prof Jaison A Manjaly Dean, Student Affairs Prof G K Sharma Professor-in-charge, Faculty Affairs Prof Atul Bhargav Associate Dean, Student Welfare Prof Sameer Dalvi Advisor, Sports Associate Dean, Faculty Relations

Prof Anirban Dasgupta Prof Pratik Mutha Warden, New Boy’s Hostel and also Coordi- Chairman, Faculty Search Committee and nator, Career Counseling and Industry Visits Associate Dean Faculty Recruitment

Prof Gaurav Prof S P Mehrotra Head, Career Development Services Professor-in-charge, External Relations and Coordinator, Placement & Internship Professor in-charge, Research and Development

Prof Nithin George Prof Ravikumar Bhaskaran Coordinator, Doctoral Students Honorary Advisor, External Affairs

Prof Kabeer Jasuja Prof Vikrant Jain Head, Student Counseling Service Associate Dean, External Projects

Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran Prof D P Roy Coordinator, Masters Students Professor-in-Charge, General Administration and Professor-in-charge, Engineering Disciplines Prof Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi Coordinator, Higher Education Prof D V Pai Professor-in-Charge, Humanities and Science Prof Uttama Lahiri Disciplines Warden, Girl’s Hostel Prof Harish P M Prof Superb Misra Associate Dean, Campus Development Advisor, Technical Activities

158 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 STUDENT LEADERSHIP The following students were declared elected as office bearers for the academic year 2015-16:

General Secretary : Vishvendra Singh Technical Secretary : Shubham Malav Sports Secretary : Aditya Shah Academic Secretary : Akhilesh Gotmare Cultural Secretary : Palak Sadani

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 159 FACULTY

Discipline Designation PhD/ Last Degree Specialization Biological Engineering

Protein misfolding in Alzhei- University of Sharad Gupta Assistant Professor mer’s and Huntington’s Pittsburgh, 2009 diseases

Genomic and proteomic Cornell University, Sharmistha Majumdar Assistant Professor analysis of transposases 2006 and transposase homologs

Assistant Professor Pennsylvania State Sensorimotor control and Pratik Mutha (jointly with Electrical University, 2009 learning Engineering)

Chemical Engineering

Supercritical fluid process- Sameer V Dalvi Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2007 ing University of Akron, Pratyush Dayal Assistant Professor Self-oscillating polymer gels 2007 Particle engineering and Chinmay Ghorai Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2007 powder processing Kansas State Synthesis of two-dimen- Kabeer Jasuja Assistant Professor University, 2011 sional nanomaterials Process optimization and Nitin U Padhiyar Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2008 control Catholic University Optical fiber fabrication pro- Arnab Sarkar Visiting Professor of America, 1973 cesses Purdue University, Computational systems Rajagopalan Srinivasan Professor West Lafayette, biology 1998 University of In-situ rheology of crystal- Prachi Thareja Assistant Professor Pittsburgh, 2008 lizing fatty acid pastes

Chemistry

IISc, Bangalore Chandrakumar Appayee Assistant Professor Asymmetric catalysis 2008 Carnegie Mellon Nucleic acid based chemical Bhaskar Datta Assistant Professor University, 2004 biology

Sriram V Gundimeda Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2001 Bio-organic chemistry

Macrocyclic receptors & Iti Gupta Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2005 expanded porphyrinoids

160 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Discipline Designation PhD/ Last Degree Specialization IISc Bangalore, Medicinal chemistry and Sivapriya Kirubakaran Assistant Professor 2007 drug discovery

Sairam Swaroop JNCASR, Bangalore, Carbohydrate-Protein Inter- Assistant Professor Mallajosyula 2009 actions

IISc Bangalore, Sudhansu Sharma Assistant Professor Materials, electrochemistry 2009

Civil Engineering

Rotational seismology, com- Dhiman Basu Assistant Professor SUNY, Buffalo, 2012 plex structures Earthquake risk mitigation Svetlana Brzev* Visiting Professor IIT Roorkee, 1994 in developing countries University of Gaurav Assistant Professor Uncertainty quantification Minnesota, 2011 Analytical solution of plate University of Surrey, Indrajit Ghosh* Adjunct Professor with various loading and UK, 1967 (MSc) boundary conditions Earthquake engineering, Sudhir K Jain Director, Professor Caltech, 1983 structural dynamics University of Stability and large deforma- Ashwini Kumar Visiting Professor Waterloo, 1974 tion of structures Purdue University, Vimal Mishra Assistant Professor Surface water hydrology 2010 Hydraulics and Water re- Pranab Kumar Mohapatra Professor IIT Kanpur, 1999 sources engineering University of Constitutive modeling for Amit Prashant Associate Professor Tennessee, 2004 granular materials

University of New Innovative, interdisciplinary Satwant Rihal* Visiting Professor Mexico, & integrated structural en- Albuquerque, 1969 gineering design

University of Ajanta Sachan Assistant Professor Material characterization Tennessee, 2005

Computer Science & Engineering

Politecnico of Andrea Bobbio* Visiting Professor Reliability engineering Torino, 1969 Institute of Math- Computational complexity Bireswar Das Assistant Professor ematical Sciences, theory and algorithms Chennai, 2010 Cornell University, Algorithms for large scale Anirban Dasgupta Associate Professor 2005 data

Katholieke Univer- Information security, cryp- Souradyuti Paul Assistant Professor siteit Leuven, Bel- tography, theoretical com- gium, 2006 puter science

All listing as on March 31, 2015 *For part of the year ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 161 Discipline Designation PhD/ Last Degree Specialization University of Illi- Fault-tolerant and Kishor S Trivedi* Visiting Professor nois, Urbana, 1974 dependable computing

Design

NID, Ahmedabad, Industrial design & new Bhaskar Bhatt* Assistant Professor 2003 product engineering Systemic design NID, Ahmedabad, Dinesh Korajn Adjunct Faculty intervention in complex, 1983 real world problems IIT Bombay Amit Sheth Adjunct Faculty Wayfinding design (ongoing)

Earth Sciences

Vikrant Jain Associate Professor IIT Kanpur, 2001 Earth surface processes

Peoples’ Friendship Theoretical mechanics & Pradeep Srivastava Adjunct Professor University, Moscow, control systems Russia, 1983 Electrical Engineering Tunable diode laser spec- University of Arup Lal Chakraborty Assistant Professor troscopy for gas parameter Strathclyde, 2010 measurement

Design & development in Prakash Dandekar* Visiting Professor IIT Bombay, 1975 Internet of Things(IoT)

Syracuse Inter-disciplinary curriculum Ramesh Gaonkar* Visiting Professor University, 1975 design and evaluation IIT Bhubaneswar, Active noise control, adap- Nithin V George Assistant Professor 2012 tive signal processing IISc Bangalore, Ragavan K Assistant Professor Transformer diagnostics 2006 Virtual reality based human Vanderbilt Uttama Lahiri Assistant Professor computer interaction used University, 2011 in affective computing

Joycee M Mekie Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2009 VLSI design

Semiconductor devices and Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2003 technology

K V V Murthy Visiting Professor IIT Bombay, 1977 Electrical network theory

University of HVDC and FACTS, power K R Padiyar* Visiting Professor Waterloo, system dynamics and con- Canada,1972 trol

Restructuring power sys- Naran M Pindoriya Assistant Professor IIT Kanpur, 2009 tems- technical and eco- nomical issues

162 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Discipline Designation PhD/ Last Degree Specialization

High speed packaging Associate Teaching IIT Madras S Rajendran machines-VFFS and HFFS Professor (MTech), 1988 technologies

Shanmuganathan Raman Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2011 Computational photography

University of Technological progress and R Sharan Visiting Professor Waterloo, Canada, human values 1968 Texas Tech Control loop performance Babji Srinivasan Assistant Professor University, 2011 monitoring

Humanities Jamia Aligarh Hami Banu Chopra* Visiting Faculty University, 1971 Urdu poetry (Adeeb Kamil) Visiting Assistant Pro- Northwestern Racial/ethnic and socioeco- Amy DeSantis* fessor University, IL, 2009 nomic health disparities Sichuan University, Guo Fei Visiting Faculty Chinese lauguage tutor 2007 French Lauguage Tu- University of Tou- Laurent P G Fradet French language tutor tor louse, 2013 Assistant Research Lisbon University Bruno Gaminha* Complex adaptive systems Professor Institute, 2012 Assistant Research Deccan College, Alok Kumar Kanungo Archaeology Professor 2003 Hinglish, communities in Gujarat University, Rita Kothari Associate Professor Banni (Kutch), cultural his- 2000 tory of Sindh & Gujarat University of Postcolonial literature and Sharmita Lahiri Assistant Professor Houston, 2008 composition IIT Kharagpur, Experience, consciousness, Jaison A Manjaly Assistant Professor 2008 rationality Southern Illinois Online media, media Achal Mehra Professor University, management Carbondale, 1985 Krishna Prasad Miyapu- University of Cam- Brain imaging (fMRI) & cog- Assistant Professor ram bridge, UK, 2008 nitive science

B N Patnaik* Visiting Professor CIEFL, 1977 Linguistics & Phonetics

Harappan archaeology with Kurukshetra V N Prabhakar Visiting Faculty emphasis on application of University, 2012 sciences in archaeology

Manuel Ramos* Visiting Professor ISCTE-IUL, 2000 Symbolic anthropology

All listing as on March 31, 2015 *For part of the year ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 163 Discipline Designation PhD/ Last Degree Specialization

South-Asian literature, Crit- Arnapurna Rath Assistant Professor IIT Bombay, 2010 ical theories, Bakhtin stud- ies, Creative writing

University of Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu Srinivas Reddy Assistant Professor California, Berkeley, literary traditions 2011

Colonial India and the socio University of - political history of Assam Madhumita Sengutpa Assistant Professor Calcutta, 2009 from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

University of Gaurav Sukhija* Research Associate Microeconomics Illinois, 2011 M S University of Games in Sanskrit literature Siddharth Wakankar Visiting Professor Baroda, 1995 and manuscriptology

Material Science & Engineering

The Pennsylvania Friction stir welding, heat Amit Arora Assistant Professor State University, transfer and visco-plastic 2011 flow University of Vir- Interface structure and dy- Abhay Raj Singh Gautam Assistant Professor ginia, 2009 namics Mineral processing and pro- S P Mehrotra Visiting Professor IIT Kanpur, 1973 cess metallurgy

University of Illi- X-Ray diffraction, mem- Abhijit Mishra Assistant Professor nois, Urbana-Cham- brane properties paign, 2010

Imperial College Biomaterials and Tissue en- Superb Misra Assistant Professor London, UK , 2007 gineering Structure – property cor- Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Visiting Professor IIT Bombay, 1982 relation Max Planck Insti- Investigations of thin films Emila Panda Assistant Professor tute, Germany, and nanostructured mate- 2009 rials

Mathematics

Harish-Chandra Tannakian group schemes, SanjayKumar Amrutiya Assistant Professor Research Institute, Moduli spaces, Vector bun- Allahabad, 2012 dles

Anulekha Dhara* Assistant Professor IIT Delhi, 2010 Nonsmooth Optimization

Purdue University, Mohan Joshi Visiting Professor Nonlinear Analysis USA, 1973

Surjeet Kour Assistant Professor IIT Kanpur, 2013 Simple Derivations

Purdue University, N R Ladhawala Adjunct Professor Harmonic analysis 1976

164 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Discipline Designation PhD/ Last Degree Specialization

University of Illi- Probability theory and Sto- Chetan Pahlajani Assistant Professor nois, Urbana-Cham- chastic processes paign, 2007

Functional analysis, Approx- D V Pai Visiting Professor IIT Bombay, 1972 imation theory IISc Bangalore, Commutative algebra, Alge- Indranath Sengupta Associate Professor 2001 braic geometry

Ordinary differential equa- Jagmohan Tyagi Assistant Professor IIT Kanpur, 2008 tions, elliptic partial differ- ential equations

Mechanical Engineering

Illinois Institute of Composite materials, stress B D Agarwal* Visiting Professor Technology, 1972 analysis

Meerut University, Sudarshan Bahl Visiting Professor Solid State Physics Meerut (MPhil)

University of Mary- Fuel cell systems. design Atul Bhargav Assistant Professor land, College Park, and simulation 2010

Aerospace engineering: Cornell University, Murali Damodaran Professor aerodynamics, flight me- 1987 chanics and aeroelasticity University Paris 6, Emmanuel Deriat* Visiting Professor Viscous flows 1999 Design of machine ele- Raghu Echempati Visiting Professor IIT Kharagpur, 1976 ments and mechanical as- semblies IISc Bangalore, Navigation, Guidance, and H B Hablani Visiting Professor 1972 Control of Flight Vehicles. Shankarjee Krishnamoor- Computational structural Assistant Professor UCLA, 2013 thi and solid mechanics

Vinod Narayanan Assistant Professor JNCASR, 2006 Fluid mechanics

University of Mich- Systems and control theory, Harish Palanthanda- Assistant Professor igan, Ann Arbor, system identification (da- lam-Madapusi 2007 ta-based modeling)

Manufacturing, automation N Ramakrishanan Visiting Professor IIT Bombay, 1980 & composite materials Tech University Fluid dynamics and fluid D P Roy Visiting Professor Aachen, 1976 machinery

Moscow Power G K Sharma Visiting Professor Engineering Thermal engineering Institute, 1974

Physics

All listing as on March 31, 2015 *For part of the year ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 165 Discipline Designation PhD/ Last Degree Specialization Quark-Gluon-Plasma and Vinod Chandra Assistant Professor IIT Kanpur, 2009 relativistic heavy ion colli- sions

Beyond the standard mod- Michigan State el – model builidng and LHC Baradhwaj Coleppa Assistant Professor University, 2009 phenomenology of new states

The Pennsylvania Networks - complex sys- Shivakumar Jolad Assistant Professor State Universi- tems., information theory ty, 2010

University of Barun Majumder Assistant Professor Calcuta, Quantum cosmology 2008 (ABD)

Theoretical quantum op- tics, quantum mechanics, Bombay University, random matrix theory of R R Puri Visiting Professor 1981 quantum chaos, interaction of radiation with charged particles traversing a cavity

University of Pune, General relativity and black Sudipta Sarkar Assistant Professor IUCAA, 2009 hole thermodynamics

Detection of gravitational Anand Sengupta Assistant Professor IUCAA Pune, 2005 waves, aspects of CMB data analysis

Assistant Research Jiwaji University, Small molecules X-ray Vijay Thiruvenkatam Professor (jointly with 2009 crystallography Biological Engineering) Social Sciences

Democracy, ethnic conflict, University of Mona Mehta Assistant Professor civil society, nationalism and Chicago, 2010 identity politics in India

Social structures, social Rosa Maria Perez Visiting Professor ISCTE, Lisbon, 1992 segregation University of Social demography, aging in Tannistha Samantha Assistant Professor Maryland, 2012 developing countries

International school, Technion International entrepreneur- Rachel Shalom* Visiting Faculty Institute of Tech- ship program executive lead nology, Israel (Pursuing)

Socioeconomic context and D Sc, Harvard Malavika Subramanyam Assistant Professor neighbourhoods on nutri- University, 2009 tion and diabetes

University of Visual attention, attention Meera Mary Sunny Assistant Professor Warwick, 2011 capture

166 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Distinguished Honorary Professors

Name Affiliation

Prof J B Joshi DAE Homi Bhabha Distinguished Chair Professor

Prof Harinarayana Kota Dr D S Kothari DRDO Chair at ADA,Bangalore

Prof Surendra Prasad former director, IIT Delhi

former chairman, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Prof V Rajaraman Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Prof V S Raju former director, IIT Delhi

Prof S P Sukhatme Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay

Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Prof Nitish Thakor Medicine

Guest Professors

Name Affiliation

Prof A V V Anilkumar Professor, Vanderbilt School of Engineering

Prof Nikhil Balram President and CEO of Ricoh Innovations Inc, USA

Chief Technology Officer & General Manager, Perceptual Computing Prof Achintya K Bhowmik Group, Intel Corporation, CA, USA

Prof R S Bisht Joint Director General (retd), Archaeological Survey of India

Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Prof Rajendra Bordia Clemson University, USA

Prof Bijoy Boruah Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi

Professor, Civil Engineering, Prof Svetlana Brzev School of Construction and the Environment, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Prof R P Chhabra Professor of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Prof Michael Danino Independent Scholar of Indian Civilization

Prof Pravinray Gandhi Director, Corporate Research, Underwriters Laboratories Inc

Prof Dipan Ghosh Provost (Vice-Chancellor), Navrachana University, Vadodara

Department of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Prof Bipin Indurkhya Technology, Poland

Shri Subodh Kumar Jain Member Engineering (Retd), Railway Board, New Delhi

Prof Rajen Jaswa CEO & Chairman, Dyyno

Prof K Chelva Kumar President, EPIR Technologies, Inc., Bolingbrook, IL

All listing as on March 31, 2015 *For part of the year ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 167 Name Affiliation

Prof Suchitra Mathur Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur

formerly with IIT Kanpur and Kellogg School of Management, Prof Ashok Mittal Northwestern University, USA

Prof S L Narayanamurthy former Dean, Academic Affairs, IIT Gandhinagar

Prof Sandeep Pandey Social activist, Lucknow and Co-founder, Asha for Education

Prof D C Rai Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Indian Institute of Science Prof M B Rajani campus, Bangalore Visiting Professor, Nonferrous Materials Technology Development Prof T R Ramachandran Centre, Hyderabad

Prof A Ramanathan Professor, IIT Bombay

Prof Mythily Ramaswamy Professor, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore

Prof Dheeraj Sanghi Dean, Academic Affairs, IIT Kanpur

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Brigham & Prof Shiladitya Sengupta Women’s Hospital

Prof Koshy Tharakan Associate Professor, Goa University

Scholars-in-Residence

Name Affiliation Assistant Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Ms Katrin Beyer Switzerland

Prof Frederick Coolidge Professor, University of Colorado​, USA

Regents Professor Emeritus, Engineering Mechanics, University of Ar- Prof Chandrakant Desai izona Research Professor, Centre for South Asian & Middle Eastern Prof Rajmohan Gandhi Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Special Projects, Manager at Earthquake Engineering Research Insti- Ms Marjorie Greene tute Professor, Department of Information Science and Technology, Univer- Prof Nuno Guimaraes sity Institute of Lisbon Director, Creator and Producer of Circus, Theater and Films, California, Prof Stefan Haves USA

Prof Jorge Louca ISCTE-IUL Lisbon University Institute

Former Director General, Central Power Research Institute, Prof M Ramamoorty Ministry of Power, Government of India Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Prof Satyaki Roy IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Prof Shatarupa Thakurta Roy IIT Kanpur

168 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 NON-TEACHING STAFF AGAINST REGULAR POSITIONS

Employee Name Designation

M Armugam Junior Laboratory Attendant

Suganya Arumugam Junior Technical Superintendent

Viral J Asjola Senior Library Information Assistant

Ramasimha B Junior Laboratory Assistant

Babloo Junior Laboratory Attendant

Palak R Bagiya Junior Laboratory Assistant

Sudeep Narayan Banerjee System Analyst/ Scientist B

Suvakanta Barik Junior Technical Superintendent

Timirben Yakunj Berawala Junior Assistant

Manu Pratap Singh Bhadauria Physical Training Instructor

Ram Babu Bhagat Assistant Registrar

Rahulendra Bhaskar Junior Technical Superintendent

Tushar Harshadkumar Brahmbhatt Junior Laboratory Attendant

K C Chandrajith Junior Superintendent

Pannaben P Chaudhary Senior Library Information Assistant

G C Chaudhary Superintending Engineer

Mayur Natvarbhai Chauhan Junior Laboratory Attendant

Krupeshkumar P Chauhan Junior Accountant

Yashwant Kumar Chouhan Assistant Engineer

Rohitkumar B Chaudhary Junior Technical Superintendent

Prem Kumar Chopra Registrar

Balkrishna J Darji Senior System Analyst

Tapas Kumar Das Senior Library Information Assistant

Sonali S Dawada Junior Assistant

Dineshbhai B Desai Junior Laboratory Attendant

Tej Bahadur Gurung Junior Assistant

Supin Gopi Junior Technical Superintendent

JagannadhamNaidu Gunoor* Junior Technical Superintendent

All listing as on March 31, 2015 *For part of the year ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 169 Employee Name Designation

Memo Gupta Junior Account Officer

Laxmi P Hirani Junior Lab Assistant

Yogesh Dattatraya Jade Junior Superintendent

Meena Joshi Assisant Registrar

Ashwin R K Junior Technical Superintendent

Jithesh V K Junior Superintendent

Sanjaykumar Karshanbhai Kachiya Junior Laboratory Assistant

Navdiwala Ankur Kanchanlal Junior Laboratory Assistant

Dharmeshkumar Vallabhabhai Kapadiya Junior Laboratory Attendant

Hani M Khamar Junior Assistant

Ram Nivas Kumavat Executive Engineer

T S Kumbar Librarian

Prajapati Ramanand Lalsaheb Junior Laboratory Attendant

Pijush Majumdar Assistant Registrar

Prashant G Makwana Junior Assistant

Saumya Malaviya Junior Assistant

Jay Mehta Junior Accountant

Shreejit B Menon Junior Superintendent

Tanha K Modi Junior Assistant

Vaishali Padhiar* Deputy Registrar

Dharmendrakumar S Panchal Junior Engineer

Sanjeev Kumar Pandey Junior Account Officer

Pragnesh D Parekh Junior Technical Superintendent

Dinesh H Parmar Physical Training Instructor

Darshan C Patel Junior Assistant

Sanketkumar J Patel Junior Technical Superintendent

Arika K Patel Junior Accountant

Kamini J Patel Junior Assistant

Sanjaykumar T Patel Junior Laboratory Assistant

Bhikhabhai R Patel Junior Laboratory Attendant

Jignesh S Patel Junior Laboratory Assistant

Twinkle Patel Junior Account Officer

Harshadkumar J Patel Junior Account Officer

170 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Employee Name Designation

Akash Mahendra Kumar Patel Junior Superintendent

Narendra J Rabadiya Junior Assistant

Santosh Raut Junior Superintendent

Shashin A Raval Assistant Registrar

Pranav S Rohit Assistant Registrar

Pavitra Kumar Rout Junior Accountant

Komal Sangtani Junior Assistant

Sujit Kumar Shah Junior Assistant

Viral Y Shah Junior Superintendent

Jigar Shah Junior Account Officer

Mukesh Sharma Staff Nurse

Gaurav Shukla Junior Superintendent

Nitin Shukla Junior Technical Superintendent

Gaurav Kumar Singh Junior Assistant

Pankaj Kumar Sinha* Assistant Registrar

Narendrakumar M Solanki Junior Accountant

Tenils Solanki Junior Superintendent

Mrugesh R Solanki Junior Superintendent

Raghuveer G Solanki* Junior Assistant

Nileshkumar B Soni Junior Engineer

Una Sujit Junior Superintendent

Sachin S Tawde Junior Technical Superintendent

Prabhuji J Thakor Junior Laboratory Attendant

Supresh S Thaleshri Junior Laboratory Attendant

Sunny Thomas Junior Laboratory Assistant

Hiren P Vadhavana Junior Laboratory Assistant

Dipen Mahendrabhai Vaghani Junior Assistant

Rajendra Vaishnav Junior Account Officer

Piyushbhai P Vankar Junior Assistant

Nand Lal Vishwakarma Junior Superintendent

Rahul J Wadhwani Junior Accountant

All listing as on March 31, 2015 *For part of the year ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 171 PHD SCHOLARS

Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor Rashmi Bhakuni Biological Engineering Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran Siddhant Bhoir Biological Engineering Prof Sharad Gupta Pallavi Chilka Biological Engineering Prof Bhaskar Datta

Geethanjali Savithri Prof Superb Mishra and Biological Engineering Dhakshinamurthy Prof Sharmistha Majumdar

Vivek Digamberrao Farkade Biological Engineering Prof Sharad Gupta Sanjay Kumar Biological Engineering Prof Bhaskar Datta

Sanghavi Hiral Manojkumar Biological Engineering Prof Sharmistha Majumdar Nalini Natarajan Biological Engineering Prof Vijay Thiruvenkatam Abhijeet Ojha Biological Engineering Prof Prachi Thareja Gayathri P Biological Engineering Prof Vijay Thiruvenkatam Poonam Pandey Biological Engineering Prof Sairam Swaroop Mallajosyula Krittika Ralhan Biological Engineering Prof Sharad Gupta

Prof Sameer Dalvi and Indumathi S Biological Engineering Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran

Guru Krishnakumar Viswanathan Biological Engineering Prof Sharad Gupta

Prof Nitin Padhiyar and Shital Arunbhai Amin Chemical Engineering Prof Pratyush Dayal

Thorat Alpana Ankush Chemical Engineering Prof Sameer V Dalvi Saroj Kumar Das Chemical Engineering Prof KabeerJasuja Deepa Dixit Chemical Engineering Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Asha Liza James Chemical Engineering Prof Kabeer Jasuja Vikram Ashok Karde Chemical Engineering Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Siddharth Vijay Kulkarni Chemical Engineering Prof Prachi Thareja

Prof Supreet Saini and Manish Kumar Chemical Engineering Prof Kalyan Gayen

Prof J B Joshi and Kalaga S Dinesh Kumar Chemical Engineering Prof Sameer V Dalvi

D Jaya Prasana Kumar Chemical Engineering Prof Pratyush Dayal Saket Kumar Chemical Engineering Prof Prachi Thareja Patel Narendra Madhavlal Chemical Engineering Prof Nitin Padhiyar

172 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor Sanat Chandra Maiti Chemical Engineering Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Hariharan P Chemical Engineering Prof J B Joshi and Prof Sharad Gupta Komal Upendra Pandey Chemical Engineering Prof Sameer V Dalvi Rupanjali Gurprasad Prasad Chemical Engineering Prof Sameer V Dalvi Awaneesh Kumar Upadhya Chemical Engineering Prof Sameer V Dalvi Sophia Varghese Chemical Engineering Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Harsha Agnihotri Chemistry Prof Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda

Prof Vijay Thiruvenkatam and Deekshi Angira Chemistry Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran

Naresh Balsukuri Chemistry Prof Iti Gupta Palakollu Veera Bhadraiah Chemistry Prof Sriram Kanvah Gundemeda Anuj Bisht Chemistry Prof Sudhanshu Sharma

Sudipta Das Chemistry Prof Iti Gupta Bhanu Pratap Singh Gangwar Chemistry Prof Sudhanshu Sharma Javeena Chemistry Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran Praseetha E K Chemistry Prof Iti Gupta Shikha Khandelwal Chemistry Prof Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda Katla Jagadish Kumar Chemistry Prof Sriram Kanvah Gundemeda Mahesh Kutwal Chemistry Prof Chandrakumar Appayee Sarkale Abhijeet Madhukar Chemistry Prof Chandrakumar Appayee Vijayalakshmi Pandey Chemistry Prof Iti Gupta Prathap Reddy Patlolla Chemistry Prof Bhaskar Datta Lata Rani Chemistry Prof Sairam Swaroop Mallajosyula Hadianawala Murtuza Shabbirali Chemistry Prof Bhaskar Datta Althaf Shaik Chemistry Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran Anju Tyagi Chemistry Prof Bhaskar Datta Anuji K V Chemistry Prof Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda Divya Vyas Chemistry Prof Sudhanshu Sharma Haider Ali Civil Engineering Prof Vimal Mishra Nakrani Dharmit Ashwin Civil Engineering Prof Dhiman Basu Abhigna Sandipkumar Bhatt Civil Engineering Prof Gaurav

Debayan Bhattacharya Civil Engineering Prof Amit Prashant

Prof Amit Prashant and Majid Hussain Civil Engineering Prof Ajanta Sachan

Prajakta Ramesh Jadhav Civil Engineering Prof Amit Prashant

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 173 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor Keerthi Priya Kasturi Civil Engineering Prof Vimal Mishra Rajkumari Kaurav Civil Engineering Prof Pranab Kumar Mohapatra Nasar Ahmad Khan Civil Engineering Prof Gaurav Prabhat Kumar Civil Engineering Prof Pranab Kumar Mohapatra Seethalakshmi P Civil Engineering Prof Ajanta Sachan Saloni Prashant Pandya Civil Engineering Prof Ajanta Sachan Patnayakuni Ravi Prakash Civil Engineering Prof Gaurav Gopala Krishna Rodda Civil Engineering Prof Dhiman Basu Reepal Dinesh Shah Civil Engineering Prof Vimal Mishra Harsh Lovekumar Shah Civil Engineering Prof Vimal Mishra Ankti Srivastava Civil Engineering Prof Ajanta Sachan Sunanda k Civil Engineering Prof Amit Prashant

Pradeep Raj K B Cognitive Science Prof Uttama Lahiri Nithin George Cognitive Science Prof Meera Mary Sunny Shruti Goyal Cognitive Science Prof Krishna Prasad Miyapuram Krishnesh Shantilal Mehta Cognitive Science Prof Jaison Manjaly

Prof Jaison Manjaly and Veli Milind Mehta Cognitive Science Prof Meera M Sunny

Dineshkumar S Cognitive Science Prof Pratik Mutha Abhishek Sahai Cognitive Science Prof Jaison Manjaly Tony Thomas Cognitive Science Prof Meera Mary Sunny

Computer Science & Prof Bireswar Das and Murali Krishna Enduri Engineering Prof Shivakumar Jolad

Computer Science & Sudhakar Kumawat Prof Souradyuti Paul Engineering

Computer Science & Prof Anirban Dasgupta and Prof Shi- Priodyuti Pradhan Engineering vakumar Jolad

Computer Science & I Vinod Kumar Reddy Prof Bireswar Das Engineering

Computer Science & Ananya Shrivastava Prof Souradyuti Paul Engineering

Computer Science & Devendra Mani Tripathi Prof Krishna Prasad Miyapuram Engineering

Computer Science & Choudhari Jayesh Tulsidas Prof Anirban Dasgupta Engineering

Akarsh A Earth Sciences Prof Vimal Mishra Shantamoy Guha Earth Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain Rahul Kumar Kaushal Earth Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain

174 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor Dushyant Kumar Earth Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain and Dr Vimal Mishra Vaibhav Kumar Earth Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain Ravi Kant Prasad Earth Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain Ramendra Sahoo Earth Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain Sonam Earth Sciences Prof Vikrant Jain

Prof Babji Srinivasan and Punitkumar Kanubhai Bhavsar Electrical Engineering Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan

Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan and Rishabh Abhinav Electrical Engineering Prof Babji Srinivasan

Balaganesh B Electrical Engineering Prof Naran Pindoriya

Prof Babji Srinivasan and Patel Nikita Bharatbhai Electrical Engineering Prof Rajgopalan Srinivasan

S Chandrasekaran Electrical Engineering Prof Ragavan K Kadam Sujay Dilip Electrical Engineering Prof Harish P M Naveen Kumar Endla Electrical Engineering Prof Ragavan K Kalpeshkumar Arvindbhai Joshi Electrical Engineering Prof Naran Pindoriya

Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan and Madhu K Electrical Engineering Prof Babji Srinivasan

Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra and Pardeep Kumar Electrical Engineering Prof Babji Srinivasan

Deepesh Kumar Electrical Engineering Prof Uttama Lahiri Sujeet Kumar Electrical Engineering Prof Harish PM Selvia Kuriakose Electrical Engineering Prof Uttama Lahiri Laya Electrical Engineering Prof Babji Srinivasan Satya Sivanaresh M Electrical Engineering Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Satyajit Mohapatra Electrical Engineering Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Rajendra Nagar Electrical Engineering Prof Shanmuganathan Raman Apoorva Ojha Electrical Engineering Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Vinal Patel Electrical Engineering Prof Nithin V George Diptiben Patel Electrical Engineering Prof Shanmuganathan Raman J Ram Prabhakar Electrical Engineering Prof Ragavan K

Prof Shanmuganathan Raman and P Praveenkumar Electrical Engineering Prof Nithin V George

Prof Ragavan K and Manju Bhashini R Electrical Engineering Prof Naran M Pindoriya

Batchu Rajasekhar Electrical Engineering Prof Naran Pindoriya Shah Krupa Rajendra Electrical Engineering Prof Ragavan K

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 175 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor Gupta Vikas Rajkumar Electrical Engineering Prof Shanmuganathan Raman Dwaipayan Ray Electrical Engineering Prof Nithin V George Anirban Roy Electrical Engineering Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty Zarin A S Electrical Engineering Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty Deepak Kumar Sharma Electrical Engineering Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Shiv Prakash Singh Electrical Engineering Prof Naran Pindoriya Abhishek Upadhyay Electrical Engineering Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty Naveen Deepak V Electrical Engineering Prof Ragavan K

Vishal Vashistha Electrical Engineering Prof Shanmuganathan Raman

Sneha Nitin Ved Electrical Engineering Prof Joycee Mekie Vinay Verma Electrical Engineering Prof Nithin V George

HSS (Cognitive Science & Manisha Chawla Prof Krishna Prasad Philosophy)

Nagireddy Neelakanteswar HSS (Cognitive Science & Prof Jaison Manjaly Reddy Philosophy)

Vijay Ramkaran Tripathi HSS (Economics) Prof Ramanathan Annie Rachel Sam George HSS (English) Prof Arnapurna Rath

Prof Arnapurna Rath and Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee HSS (English) Prof Koshy Tharakan

Pooja Susan Thomas HSS (English) Prof Rita Kothari Chirag Harendrabhai Trivedi HSS (English) Prof Rita Kothari Prof Sharmita Lahiri and Diti Vyas HSS (English) Prof Suchitra Mathur Dyotana Banerjee HSS (Political Science) Prof Mona Mehta Divita Singh HSS (Psychology) Prof Meera Mary Sunny Mukta Gundi HSS (Social Epidemiology) Prof Malavika Subramanyam Ankita Rameshkumar Shah HSS (Social Epidemiology) Prof Malavika Subramanyam Jagriti Gangopadhyay HSS (Sociology) Prof Tannistha Samanta

Humanities and Social Jahnu Bharadwaj Prof Madhumita Sengupta Sciences

Humanities and Social Anusmita Devi Prof Tannistha Samanta Sciences

Humanities and Social Prakash Gupta Prof Malavika Subramanyam Sciences

Humanities and Social Vasudeva Naidu K Prof Srinivas Reddy Sciences

Humanities and Social Prof Mona Mehta and Ingole Prashant Ramprasad Sciences Prof Rita Kothari

176 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor

Humanities and Social Jineesh P S Prof Madhumita Sengupta Sciences

Humanities and Social Venkateswaran S Prof Srinivas Reddy Sciences

Humanities and Social Bikash Sarma Prof Madhumita Sengupta Sciences

Humanities and Social Krupa Shah Prof Rita Kothari Sciences

Materials Science & Ankita Arora Prof Abhijit Mishra Engineering

Materials Science & Narendra Bandaru Prof Emila Panda Engineering

Materials Science & Singh Chetan Chandan Prof Emila Panda Engineering

Materials Science & Deepak Dwivedi Prof Emila Panda Engineering

Materials Science & Sasmita Majhi Prof Abhijit Mishra Engineering

Materials Science & Krishna Manwani Prof Emila Panda Engineering

Materials Science & Rohit Mishra Prof S P Mehrotra Engineering

Materials Science & Mahesh V P Prof Amit Arora Engineering

Materials Science & Sheetal Rameshchandra Pandya Prof Amit Arora Engineering

Materials Science & Pankaj Prof Amit Arora Engineering

Materials Science & Archini Paruthi Prof Superb Misra Engineering

Materials Science & Tvarit Ashokbhai Patel Prof Emila Panda Engineering

Materials Science & Poonam Ratrey Prof Superb Misra Engineering

Gaurav Dwivedi Mathematics Prof Jagmohan Tyagi Dharmendra Kumar Mathematics Prof Jagmohan Tyagi Ranjana Mehta Mathematics Prof Indranath Sengupta

Ram Baran Verma Mathematics Prof Jagmohan Tyagi Althaf A Mechanical Engineering Prof H B Hablani Zeeshan Ahmed Mechanical Engineering Prof Atul Bhargav Sarode Ajinkya Ashok Mechanical Engineering Prof Atul Bhargav

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 177 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor Renika Baruah Mechanical Engineering Prof Atul Bhargav Rameshkumar M Bhoraniya Mechanical Engineering Prof Vinod Narayanan Roshan Anandrao Chavan Mechanical Engineering Prof Harish P M Divyaprakash Mechanical Engineering Prof Murali Damodaran Yogesh Shantaram Fulpagare Mechanical Engineering Prof Atul Bhargav Akshay Anil Kanoria Mechanical Engineering Prof Murali Damodaran Ravi Kant Mechanical Engineering Prof Vinod Narayanan Prashant Kumar Mechanical Engineering Prof Vinod Narayanan Aditya Kumar Maharana Mechanical Engineering Prof Vinod Narayanan Sandeep Kumar Mishra Mechanical Engineering Prof Harish PM Ravi Prahladbhai Patel Mechanical Engineering Prof Vinod Narayanan Vrutangkumar Vinodkumar Shah Mechanical Engineering Prof Harish P M

Vivek Kumar Singh Mechanical Engineering Prof Atul Bhargav Ankita Sinha Mechanical Engineering Prof Atul Bhargav Mohammad Yousuf Jamal Physics Prof Vinod Chandra Amit Reza Physics Prof Anand Sengupta Soumen Roy Physics Prof Anand Sengupta Chakresh Singh Physics Prof Shivakumar Jolad

PHD SCHOLARS UNDER IITGN-PRL MoU Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Aadhi A Physics Upendra Kumar Singh Kushwaha Physics Aman Abhishek Physics Midhun M Physics Rukmani Bai Physics Tanmoy Mondal Physics Soumik Bandyopadhyay Physics Apurv Chaitanya N Physics Pankaj Bhalla Physics Vishnudath K N Physics Bharti Physics Dillip Kumar Nandy Physics Naveen Chandra Physics Newton Nath Physics Tanmoy Chattopadhyay Physics Arun Kumar Pandey Physics Manu George Physics Shashi Prabhakar Physics Chandan Hati Physics Pandey Kuldeep Rambabu Physics Chauhan Bhavesh Jaikumar Physics Anjali Rao Physics Nijil Lal C K Physics Arko Roy Physics Deepak K Karan Physics Kuldeep Suthar Physics Navpreet Kaur Physics Alok Ranjan Tiwary Physics Girish Kumar Physics Gaurav Kumar Tomar Physics Pradeep Kumar Physics Kumar Venkataramani Physics

178 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 MTECH STUDENTS 2104 BATCH

Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor

Chatte Amruta Bharat Chemical Prof Sameer V Dalvi Shreya Bunk Chemical Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Kritika Dixit Chemical Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Zade Anita Dnyanba Chemical Prof Nitin Padhiyar Mohd Umair Iqbal Chemical Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan Rahul Kumar Jha Chemical Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan

Mankad Jaivik Kartik Chemical Prof Nitin Padhiyar Akash Kumar Chemical Prof Babji Srinivasan

Arable Reshma Mallinath Chemical Prof Babji Srinivasan

Swasti Medha Chemical Prof Kabeer Jasuja Rahul Patsariya Chemical Prof Sameer V Dalvi Modak Shrikant Ramrao Chemical Prof Prachi Thareja Mallavarapu Deepika Rani Chemical Prof Babji Srinivasan Devina Ratnam Chemical Prof Kabeer Jasuja Ekta Sharma Chemical Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Nikhil Sharma Chemical Prof Pratyush Dayal Kumari Sushmita Chemical Prof Arnab Sarkar & Prof Sameer V Dalvi Dheeraj Tyagi Chemical Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan Rajput Vandana Chemical Prof Pratyush Dayal Ankita Verma Chemical Prof Prachi Thareja Syed Azhar Ali Civil Prof Vimal Mishra Asim Bashir Civil Prof Dhiman Basu Ahmad Zaki Ghafari Civil Prof Sudhir K Jain & Prof Dhiman Basu Vikalp Kamal Civil Prof Amit Prashant Ghumde Atik Kishorrao Civil Prof Gaurav S

Pavan Kushwah Civil Prof Gaurav Rojan Mathew Civil Prof Dhiman Basu Manas Chandan Mishra Civil Prof Ajanta Sachan Prashant Kumar Mishra Civil Prof Amit Prashant

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 179 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor

Harshit Nema Civil Prof Dhiman Basu Nikita Rankawat Civil Prof Sudhir K Jain Nandhita J S Civil Prof Vimal Mishra Bidhan Kumar Sahu Civil Prof Pranab Mohapatra Mohmad Mohsin Thakur Civil Prof Amit Prashant Pujari Omkar Abhay Electrical Prof Joycee Mekie Umap Abhijit Electrical Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Rachita Agrawal Electrical Prof Nihar Mohapatra Rohit Kumar Dang Electrical Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Kumar Gaurav Electrical Prof Babji Srinivasan Ritika Jain Electrical Prof Uttama Lahiri Rathod Milanbhai Jayantibhai Electrical Prof Nithin V George

Raminder Kaur Electrical Prof Joycee Mekie Aipathi Sai Kiran Electrical Prof Ragavan K Dharmendra Kumar Electrical Prof Jagmohan Tyagi Nikhil Cherian Kurian Electrical Prof Nithin V George Adarsh M Electrical Prof Joycee Mekie Jyoti Maheshwari Electrical Prof Nithin V George Prashant Mudgal Electrical Prof Babji Srinivasan Akshay Gadi Patil Electrical Prof Shanmuganathan Raman Gundabathini Rakesh Electrical Prof Naran M Pindoriya Saripalli Venkat Ramakrishna Electrical Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Bhajipale Jayshree Sadashiv Electrical Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Rahul Sadhwani Electrical Prof Ragavan K Puchalapalli Sambasivaiah Electrical Prof Naran Pindoriya Nikhil Singh Electrical Prof S Rajendran Bhoomika Sonane Electrical Prof Shanmuganathan Raman Chakraborty Priti Sridhar Electrical Prof Arup Lal Chakraborty

Patel Megh Vasantkumar Electrical Prof Uttama Lahiri

Sunny Verma Electrical Prof Uttama Lahiri Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra and Veeravarupu Vinay Electrical Prof Babji Srinivasan Manish Kumar Viswkarma Electrical Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Parikh Darshak Anantkumar Mechanical Prof N Ramakrishnan Mohit Garg Mechanical Prof Harish P M

180 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor

Rajanikant Atul Ghate Mechanical Prof Harish PM Abheeti Goyal Mechanical Prof Murali Damodaran Vishnu Kumar Gupta Mechanical Prof Atul Bhargav Ayush Jain Mechanical Prof Murali Damodaran Jhaveri Anshal Jayeshbhai Mechanical Prof Atul Bhargav Keshav Kumar Jha Mechanical Prof Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi Abhishek Joshi Mechanical Prof Vinod Narayanan

Brijesh Kumar Mechanical Prof Atul Bhargav

Shah Utsav Mineshbhai Mechanical Prof Harish P M Vachhani Milankumar Niteshbhai Mechanical Prof Vinod Narayanan Behere Siddhartha Ravindra Mechanical Prof Murali Damodaran

Singh Sumit Subhash Rita Mechanical Prof Murali Damodaran Vikas Sharma Mechanical Prof Atul Bhargav Satya Shrivastav Mechanical Prof Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi Nikhil Singh Mechanical Prof Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi Swapnil Mechanical Prof Vinod Narayanan Tibin M Thomas Mechanical Prof Vinod Narayanan and Prof G K Sharma Gurnani Sagarkumar Vijaykumar Mechanical Prof Murali Damodaran Sawadiawala Chirag Yogeshkumar Mechanical Prof Murali Damodaran Sarkar Aditya Anjan MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Ipsita Madhu Mita Das MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Diljit V J MSE Prof Emila Panda Amit Kumar MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Niladri Naskar MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Seema Negi MSE Prof Superb Mishra Amit Kumar Singh MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay

2013 BATCH

Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor

Gunda Harini Chemical Prof Kabeer Jasuja Dalip Kumar Chemical Prof Chinmay Ghoroi Preeti Rathi Chemical Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan Sarojini Tiwari Chemical Prof Babji Srinivasan Prafull Mani Tripathi Chemical Prof Sameer V Dalvi Silky Agrawal Civil Prof Amit Prashant and Prof Nithin George

All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 181 Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor

Rujuta Avinash Bhat Civil Prof Gaurav Kunal Vinayak Ghaisas Civil Prof Dhiman Basu Puneet Kumar Civil Prof Gaurav Mantu Majumder Civil Prof Amit Prashant

Amar Mandhyan Civil Prof Gaurav Kiran Prakash Rangwani Civil Prof Dhiman Basu S Smitha Civil Prof Ajanta Sachan

Gundeep Kaur Sudan Civil Prof Ajanta Sachan

Ravi Verma Civil Prof Dhiman Basu Mandar Suresh Bhoir Electrical Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Mohit Chand Electrical Prof Ragavan K Mohit Dineshkumar Ganeriwala Electrical Prof Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra Fathima Sinin P Electrical Prof Joycee Mekie Dhaval Shashikantbhai Solanki Electrical Prof Uttama Lahiri Chandra Sekhar Tunga Electrical Prof Joycee Mekie Taruna Yadav Electrical Prof Uttama Lahiri

Sudani Jay Arvindbhai Mechanical Prof Murali Damodaran

Pratik Suryakant Shirbhate Mechanical Prof Atul Bhargav Darshan Ajmera MSE Prof Emila Panda Abdur Rahman Al Azad MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Umang Bhupatrai Desai MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay

Deendayal Kumar MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay Vighnesh Prasad MSE Prof S P Mehrotra Rajiv Ranjan MSE Prof Abhijit Mishra Abhishek Sarmah MSE Prof Jyoti Mokhopadhyay Krishna Kumar Saxena MSE Prof Jyoti Mukhopadhyay

2012 BATCH

Name of the Student Discipline Supervisor

Palugulla Raja Mohan Reddy Civil Prof Dhiman Basu Anuradha Electrical Prof Joycee Mekie Irfan Ahmed Mechanical Prof Harish P M & Prof Abhijeet Mukherjee Pragya Nandan Banjare MSE Prof Amit Arora

182 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 msc STUDENTS 2104 BATCH

Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Payal Arora Chemistry Salman Suhail Physics Nayan Jyoti Boruah Chemistry 2013 BATCH Kanchan Chemistry Name of the Student Discipline Amit Kumar Chemistry Amit Chemistry Pavneesh Kumar Chemistry Nisha Hasija Chemistry Rohit Chemistry Palash Jana Chemistry Deepika Sharma Chemistry Ashok Kumar Chemistry Ravi Srivastava Chemistry Amarjyoti Das Mahapatra Chemistry Midhula Chandran Cognitive Science Abhishek Gahatraj Cognitive Science Aman Panwar Chemistry Kishore Kumar Jagini Cognitive Science Khyati Relhan Chemistry Devu Mahesan Cognitive Science Sampada Chandrashekhar Cognitive Science Gharpure Haby Koshy Mathew Cognitive Science Vipul Nair Cognitive Science Kinley Kucera Mehra Cognitive Science Karthikeyan Palanisamy Cognitive Science Ashwani Kumar Mishra Cognitive Science Rakhi Cognitive Science Ujjval Ashokkumar Cognitive Science Pamnani Pankhuri Saxena Cognitive Science Ratna Cognitive Science Dhruval Thakker Cognitive Science Simily Sabu Cognitive Science Aarti Bansal Mathematics Samyak Shah Cognitive Science Sarita Bugalia Mathematics Aditya Singh Cognitive Science Aman Gupta Mathematics Goldy Yadav Cognitive Science Kartik Kumar Mathematics Hamza Mohd Zubair Cognitive Science Nitesh Kumar Mathematics Shivam Dhama Mathematics Vipin Kumar Mathematics Ekta Mathematics Bharat Lal Meena Mathematics Shruti Gupta Mathematics Shyam Prakash Mathematics Ashwani Kumar Malik Mathematics Akash Kumar Physics Mukund Kumar Mishra Mathematics Harish Madhok Physics Nitin Mathematics Manish Physics Prem Singh Mathematics Akash Kumar Mishra Physics Mukesh Kumar Verma Mathematics Pritam Nanda Physics Nisha Nisha Physics Vishakha Mathematics All listing as on March 31, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 183 MA Students 2014 batch

Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline B Ratna Bharti Society and Culture Joshi Nupur Nitin Society and Culture Aakrati Vinod Gupta Society and Culture Utsav Singh Society and Culture Oza Bhargav Hiren Society and Culture Mudavat Srinivas Society and Culture Arun Krishna Society and Culture Saravanan V Society and Culture Asaf Ali Lone Society and Culture Rajan Varghese Society and Culture Tushar Meshram Society and Culture Sini Susan Varghese Society and Culture Bhandari Saumya Society and Culture Nareshkumar

PGDIT Students 2014 batch 2013 batch Name of the Student Discipline Jatin Arora Electrical Name of the Student Discipline Komal Abichandani Electrical Rituraj Chauhan Mechanical Vora Aditya Narendrabhai Electrical Mohammed Gowhar I Mechanical Ashwin R Kabasadgoudar Mechanical Dhruvil Mukeshkumar Shah Mechanical

184 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Btech Students 2014 batch

Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Roy Nikhil Aditya Chemical Devanand Civil Parash Aggarwal Chemical Veeravalli Sai Ganesh Civil Potturu Apurva Chemical Anusha Gupta Civil Gohil Vasudev Arvindkumar Chemical Pranav Kumar Gupta Civil Pawar Bhushan Chemical Kunal Jain Civil Himanshu Jaswant Singh Chauhan Chemical Prakrut Kansara Civil Ashish Gehlot Chemical Sushant Kumar Civil More Mayuresh Hiren Chemical Rohit Kumar Civil Siddharth Sheshadri K Chemical Pushpender Kumar Kuntal Civil Badri Vishal Meena Chemical Rathava Sanjeev Maheshbhai Civil Lakshmi Narayan Meena Chemical Kartik Mandlekar Civil Shersingh Meena Chemical Satish Kumar Meena Civil Arul Mozhi Devan P Chemical Homit Singh Pal Civil Mridul Pareek Chemical Heet Vasudevbhai Patel Civil Navdeep Prakash Chemical Satya Prakash Civil Konde Mandar Purushottam Chemical Anmol Kishore Raina Civil Jani Purvil Rahulbhai Chemical Solanki Vidhi Rasik Civil Abhinay Rana Chemical Sheru Aravind Reddy Civil Raveena Chemical Pranavkumar S Civil Arvind Roshaan S Chemical Ajay Singh Shekhawat Civil Bhaskar Jyoti Saikia Chemical Khushdeep Singh Civil Aashay Sandansing Chemical Vishal Kumar Sinha Civil Kapil Sharma Chemical Abhay Varshney Civil Navpreet Singh Chemical B Pranav Chakra Varthy Civil Lakshmi Gayatri Sivalenka Chemical Bhoge Shashank Vilas Civil Aditya Sundaram Chemical Vikas Yadav Civil Mukul Tyagi Chemical Ajay Electrical P R Vaidyanathan Chemical Patel Parva Apurva Electrical Varun Aggarwal Civil Rahul Raj Bharati Electrical Borse Dinesh Anil Civil Varade Amit Bhaskar Electrical Aketi Sai Aparna Civil Amit Bhongade Electrical V Avinash Civil Jagdish Choudhary Electrical Kamlesh Choudhary Civil Anmol Gaur Electrical

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 185 Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Aditya Goel Electrical Patel Zainab Shabbar MSE Himanshu Goswami Electrical Dileep Singh MSE Rachit Goyal Electrical Kotamsetti Ravi Teja MSE Bhavya Jain Electrical Setti Satya Sai Venkata Ravi Teja MSE Ashim Raj Konwar Electrical Ayushman Tripathi MSE Gottumukala Sai Rama Krishna Electrical Mitta Venkata Sai Viswanath MSE Koda Dinesh Kumar Electrical Akhilesh Mechanical Vikas Kumar Meena Electrical Prathamesh Badve Mechanical Himanshu Pal Electrical Yash Bohre Mechanical Vaishnavi Sunil Patil Electrical Shirpurkar Chinmay Deepak Mechanical Duthade Sanket Rajesh Electrical Vakharia Vismay Dilipkumar Mechanical Desai Ashutosh Rameshbhai Electrical Harshad Gawali Mechanical Sarvepalli Nagasai Vardhan Rao Electrical Solleti Goutham Mechanical Bagade Saurabh Sanjay Electrical Modi Harsh Jashvantbhai Mechanical Kshiteej Jitesh Sheth Electrical Janga Sai Kiran Mechanical Ayush Shrote Electrical Patel Pinank Kishorbhai Mechanical Nagare Ashwini Tukaram Electrical Rahul Kumar Mechanical Mayur Madhav Vishe Electrical Subodh Kumar Mechanical Rushil Shamkant Vispute Electrical Vivek Kumar Mechanical Yashovardhan Electrical Dabhi Parth Lalitkumar Mechanical Joshi Ankita Abhay MSE Sonar Chinmay Narendra Mechanical Garima Chaudhary MSE Tushar Nirmal Mechanical Deepak Dhariwal MSE Gohil Karan Nitinbhai Mechanical Sisara Pratikkumar Dhirubhai MSE Vaibhav S Pal Mechanical Dudhat Kunal Hansraj MSE Nishant Patel Mechanical M Barath Kanna MSE Prasanna Mechanical Aditya Kumar MSE Pragadeesh R R Mechanical Bhupendra Kumar MSE Vinod Ramakrishnan Mechanical Praneet Kumar MSE Ninama Rishilkumar Mechanical R Yashwanth Kumar MSE Singampalli Sai Rohit Mechanical Sushil Kumar MSE Panna Lal Saini Mechanical Ayush Mathur MSE Trivedi Jaldhir Sanjay Mechanical Antima Meena MSE Ahamed Naji Shaham Mechanical Jugal Mehta MSE Krishna Kumar Soni Mechanical Tandale Mohit Mukundraj MSE Dave Sowill Mechanical Kaustubh Shirish Panse MSE Relan Udit Surendra Mechanical Nithin Ramesh MSE Parab Amogh Vishram Mechanical

All listing as on March 31, 2015 186 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 2013 Batch Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Baviskar Pushpak Kailas Civil Gawas Ramchandra Babali Chemical Mayank Khewaria Civil Kushagra Bhargava Chemical Aashish Kose Civil Lakh Chand Chemical Dharmendra Kumar Civil Maurya Jainidhi Chandraveer Chemical Hemant Kumar Civil Rajat Kumar Gupta Chemical Punit Kumar Civil Devanshu Manoj Jain Chemical Rahul Kumar Civil Sargam Jain Chemical Sachin Kumar Civil Kanzariya Bhavya Jayantilal Chemical Shailendra Kumar Civil Kesani Kalyani Chemical Osker Civil Patel Kishankumar Kaushikbhai Chemical Praveen Pandey Civil Harsh Khandelwal Chemical Pomraj Prajapat Civil Purushottam Kumar Chemical Narendra Sarswat Civil Suman Kumari Chemical Mohammad Faisal Seh Civil Joshi Vaibhav Mohan Chemical Nikhil Sharma Civil Desadla Rushabh Pravin Chemical Prerna Singh Civil Priyanka Chemical Vaddineni Srija Civil Ramniwas Chemical Ajmeera Venkanna Civil Dewansh Rastogi Chemical Rishab Anand Electrical Nisha Rawat Chemical Damacharla Aravind Electrical Anurag Singhania Chemical Aparna Arya Electrical Sourabh Soni Chemical Ankit Pritam Bhange Electrical Sahilkumar Tabiyad Chemical Vora Aatman Chandresh Electrical Akshay Kumar Verma Chemical Aditya Ganesh Electrical Prince Kumar Verma Chemical Patil Shubham Hanumant Electrical Srinivasan A Civil Doshi Darshil Hiteshbhai Electrical Roshan Agarwal Civil Rushi Jariwala Electrical Abhishek Anand Civil Pathak Kapil Jayesh Electrical Sai Kiran Bojja Civil Anikesh Satish Kamath Electrical Manu Chaudhary Civil Samarth Kashyap Electrical Ram Pranav Agasthya Purhit Civil Jitendra Kuldeep Electrical Chavaly Pabbathi Akhil Kumar Electrical Shaleen Chhajer Civil Puja Kumari Electrical Bulabai Sreedhar Gopikrishna Civil Shubham Malav Electrical Sakkari Akash Goud Civil Siyaram Meena Electrical Anurag Goyal Civil Sumit Kumar Meena Electrical Mayank Jain Civil Shashank Mehra Electrical Rishabh Jain Civil Niharika Electrical Yogendra Jaiswal Civil

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 187 Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Kashyap Patel Electrical Suryakumar Mane Mechanical Vipin Prajapati Electrical Ramtekkar Shashank Manohar Mechanical Manav Raj Electrical Ankit Mittal Mechanical Chenchala Sai Ramana Reddy Electrical Rohit Nanavati Mechanical Vootla Krishna Sai Electrical Nishanth Mechanical Ekta Umesh Samani Electrical Biradala David Noel Mechanical Vyas Samir Electrical Shubham Patle Mechanical R Sanjana Electrical Pawan Mechanical Goel Pratham Rajkumar Saroj Electrical Valleti Sai Mani Prudhvi Mechanical Namana Naga Sindhu Electrical Somireddy Uday Kumar Reddy Mechanical Kshitij Singh Electrical Bubna Rakesh Rishi Mechanical Lokesh Singh Electrical Raut Abhishek Satish Mechanical Rajendra Singh Electrical Shah Jugal Saurin Mechanical Shah Aditya Suresh Electrical Kanak Sharma Mechanical Nikhil Tank Electrical Sarabjeet Singh Mechanical Amit Tiwari Electrical Guguloth Srinivas Mechanical Dinendra Pratap Singh Tomar Electrical Sharad Kumar Tiwari Mechanical Bhuwan Vyas Electrical Teki Vinay Mechanical Sakshi Yadav Electrical Amit Yadav Mechanical Bhumil Acharya Mechanical Joshi Ojas Yashwant Mechanical Ankit Agarwal Mechanical 2012 batch Venu Gopal Agarwal Mechanical Anurag Agrawal Mechanical Name of the Student Discipline Bhagat Rajan Balister Mechanical Palkar Vaibhav Abhay Chemical Thakor Nilaysinh Bharatsinh Mechanical K Abhishek Chemical Chauhan Bhargav Bipinbhai Mechanical Adappa Ashray Amarnath Chemical Prathyusha Challa Mechanical Sanchayni Bagade Chemical Harsh Chandra Mechanical Surendra Beniwal Chemical Manjeet Chaudhary Mechanical Himanshu Bikonia Chemical Bhosale Surajkumar Dhananjay Mechanical Sagar Chawla Chemical Rana Jainishkumar Dineshbhai Mechanical Hema Choudhary Chemical Jitendra Gehlot Mechanical Diwakar Pradeep Dayaram Chemical Vaibhav Gupta Mechanical Wagh Vidyanand Girish Chemical Chauhan Darshil Jitendrabhai Mechanical Kishore Kumar J Chemical Tanay Kankane Mechanical Dheeraj Kumar Kanoje Chemical Amber Kothari Mechanical Lavdeep Kaur Chemical Sumit Kumar Mechanical Mukesh Kumar Chemical Mundru Hemanth Surya Madhav Mechanical Sushil Kumar Chemical Mangi Lal Chemical

All listing as on March 31, 2015 188 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Vivek Maida Chemical Shubham Pachori Electrical Kanak Kumar Dasharathlal Nayak Chemical Shrikant Patel Electrical Virendra Singh Panwar Chemical Malireddi Sri Raghu Electrical Sweta Parmar Chemical Abhishek Ranjan Electrical Chaudhary Kunal Ramkishun Chemical Mudit Rathor Electrical Palak Sadani Chemical Medaramatla Sidhartha Reddy Electrical Sunil Sahra Chemical Kamanuru Vamsidhar Reddy Electrical Prashant Shekhar Chemical Byrapuram Venkata Vijaya Electrical Bharath Reddy Nishit Shetty Chemical Abhimanyu Singh Chemical Nikhil Samariya Electrical Manjot Singh Chemical Mehta Yash Sanjay Electrical Suman Kumar Singh Chemical Raj Shekhar Electrical Abhishek Verma Chemical Alok Singh Electrical Vikram Alriya Electrical Jatindeep Singh Electrical Deyyam Avinash Electrical Naman Singh Electrical Naman Bansal Electrical Prince Kumar Singh Electrical Rajat Chaudhary Electrical Manish Soni Electrical Gullapally Sai Chowdary Electrical N S Subrahmanya Teja Electrical Shashank Gautam Electrical Gudaram Sai Vaibhav Electrical Akhilesh Gotmare Electrical Tushar Anchan Mechanical Ashish Kumar Gupta Electrical P V S Anurag Mechanical Gaurav Gupta Electrical Mihir Milind Bhalerao Mechanical Ajinkya Tupkar Jain Electrical Rajat Shiv Chand Mechanical Rajat Singh Jeriya Electrical Sultania Yash Deepak Mechanical Muhammed Yaseen K Electrical Kunal Devedwal Mechanical Narendra Kawaria Electrical Rocky Dongre Mechanical Ajnadkar Chinmay Kishor Electrical Rahul Garg Mechanical Ch Suryavinay Koundinya Electrical Shah Shrey Hitesh Mechanical Chitranshu Kumar Electrical Chitnis Parag Jayant Mechanical Naveen Kumar Electrical Nirmal Jayaprasad Mechanical Prashant Kumar Electrical Sanjit Jena Mechanical Animesh Singh Kumawat Electrical Naveen Kumar Mechanical Salecha Kushal Electrical Penumaka Aruna Kumarudu Mechanical Paturu Veerabadra Lokesh Electrical Koushik Mani Mechanical Latika Meena Electrical Devendra Meena Mechanical Rajesh Kumar Meena Electrical Shashank Nigam Mechanical Sanjay Kumar Meena Electrical Karan Palaskar Mechanical Somani Dipen Omprakash Electrical Rahul Kumar Pandey Mechanical Shashank Kishore Pareta Mechanical

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 189 Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Karma Patel Mechanical Prem Prakash Meena Chemical Nikita Patta Mechanical Reddy Dwaraka Nath Chemical Pardeep Phullay Mechanical Shah Mihika Nitin Chemical Jithin Prabha Mechanical Dhruv Pancholi Chemical Mane Prasannajeet Pradip Mechanical Ankit Pandole Chemical Vadera Meet Prakashbhai Mechanical Ayushi Patel Chemical Anarse Ashish Pralhad Mechanical Parag Pradeep Kumar Ramteke Chemical Patil Radhika Pramod Mechanical Vinod Kumar Rangi Chemical Rakesh Ranjan Mechanical Aditya Amol Samant Chemical Muzammil Rawoot Mechanical Abhishek Sancheti Chemical Pranshul Saini Mechanical Chowhan Santhosh Chemical Vaichal Saurabh Sandeep Mechanical Shaurya Seth Chemical Vaijanapurkar Samarth Sanjiv Mechanical Tushti Shah Chemical Ankita Sharma Mechanical Sudiksha Sridhar Chemical Gaurav Sharma Mechanical Sukriti Chemical Ritwik Shukla Mechanical Bhangale Monish Sunil Chemical Harshvardhan Singh Mechanical Nandan Paresh Vora Chemical Abhinav Singh Mechanical Akshay Electrical Vishvendra Singh Mechanical Gangopadhyay Aalok Ashok Electrical Yash Pratap Singh Mechanical Thakkar Dhaval Ashwin Electrical M Surya Mechanical Prateek Baldwa Electrical Hydarali M T Mechanical Chetan Kumar Choudhary Electrical Konduru Venkata Naga Sai Shah Preet Devang Electrical Mechanical Ravi Teja Dalvi Ashwin Dinesh Electrical Divyansh Tripathi Mechanical Pankaj Gautam Electrical Margaj Om Vijay Mechanical Parth Gudhka Electrical Shah Sanket Viren Mechanical Mishita Jaiswal Electrical 2011 batch Mahajan Piyush Jeevan Electrical Heda Shashank Kamlesh Electrical Name of the Student Discipline Pamarthi Chandra Kanth Electrical Pinjala Anoop Chemical Rizu Khanwilkar Electrical Dilip Kumar Badgurjar Chemical Manoj Kumar Electrical Yashodeep Prabhu Chavhan Chemical Ravi Kumar Electrical Manasa Jangala Chemical Shah Raj Manish Electrical Rahul Prabhakar Khandait Chemical Vaibhav Mathur Electrical Banoth Surya Kiran Chemical Sanjay Kumar Meena Electrical Gubbala Pawan Kumar Chemical K R B Lokeswar Naik Electrical Turibilli Sravan Kumar Chemical Rao Nishant Nanubhai Electrical Bhumireddy Shanmukha Manoj Chemical

All listing as on March 31, 2015 190 | ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 Name of the Student Discipline Name of the Student Discipline Pathe Tilak Narendra Electrical Ramesh Kumar Mechanical Rohan Patidar Electrical Hira Lal Mechanical Patwardhan Apoorv Prakash Electrical B Manasa Mechanical Shinde Durvesh Pravin Electrical Shah Dhyey Mayankkumar Mechanical Deep Rahul Electrical Krishan Kumar Meena Mechanical Kondagorri Pridhvi Raj Electrical Rounak Mehta Mechanical Shisode Sushilkumar Rajendra Electrical Utsav Y Mistry Mechanical Gandhi Vaibhav Rajesh Electrical Shreyans Nahar Mechanical Dave Ujash Rameshwar Electrical Joy Narang Mechanical Mukesh Singh Rawat Electrical G N Lakshmi Narasimhan Mechanical Panuganti Sandeep Reddy Electrical Prasit Pal Mechanical Lingala Thrinath Reddy Electrical Utkarsh Prakash Panchbhai Mechanical Joshi Vinit Sanjay Electrical Rajesh Patidar Mechanical Abhishek Singh Electrical Lalit Prajapat Mechanical Abhishek Soni Electrical Vivek Prakash Mechanical Shivam Mani Tripathi Electrical Randad Akshay Purushottamji Mechanical Kale Kimaya Uday Electrical Mehta Sahil Ramesh Mechanical Ishan Upadhyaya Electrical Harshe Soham Ravindra Mechanical Prashant Verma Electrical Gupta Harsh Sanjay Mechanical Sane Parth Vishwas Electrical Mayank Shekhar Mechanical Himanshu Yadav Electrical Mahamuni Gaurav Shivhar Mechanical Abhay C A Mechanical Akash Keshav Singh Mechanical Akash Mechanical Milan Singh Mechanical Aryan Mechanical Saurabh Singhal Mechanical Navarkar Abhishek Chandrakant Mechanical Dunga Sujit Mechanical Ayush Choudhary Mechanical Pachipulusu Sai Teja Mechanical Ajay Devedwal Mechanical Eepsit Tiwari Mechanical Bhat Prathamesh Ganesh Mechanical Vishal Yadav Mechanical Anshul Gupta Mechanical 2010 batch Rahul Harnotia Mechanical Name of the Student Discipline Taldevkar Madan Janardan Mechanical Patil Chetan Chandrakant Chemical Vekaria Sachchit Kalyan Mechanical Akshya Kumar Chemical Ronak Khandelwal Mechanical Punit Rawat Chemical Saraswathibhatla Aashrith Mechanical Koundinya Ashish Kumar Sehra Electrical Bajrang Lal Kudi Mechanical 2009 batch Mahesh Kumar Mechanical Name of the Student Discipline Pradeep Kumar Mechanical Vaddheswaram Jashuva Mechanical

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 191 VISION MISSION AND VALUES Core Features Principles Values Mission Vision Goals VISION MISSION AND VALUES CORE FEATURES Values • A safe and peaceful environment • Meritocracy • Relevant and responsive to the changing • Unparalleled quality and excellence needs of our students and the society • Honesty, Integrity, Sincerity and Devotion • Academic autonomy and flexibility • Trust and freedom with accountability • Research Ambiance • Appreciation and celebration of creativity Willingness to try new ideas and make mis- Nature of faculty and students: • • takes - Faculty recruiting norms are much higher - • Social and Moral responsibility than most of the academic institutes in • Respect for every individual, and diversity India • Co-operation, Collaboration and Team Work -- Students are inducted strictly on a merit basis Mission • Sustainable and all-inclusive growth, includ- IIT Gandhinagar, as an institution for higher learn- ing community outreach programmes ing in science, technology and related fields, as- • Infrastructure: Liberal funding to the labo- pires to develop top-notch scientists, engineers, ratory facilities and amenities to make them leaders and entrepreneurs to meet the needs of comparable to those best in the world the society-now and in the future. Furthermore, • Administration: Exclusive concern of IIT Gand- in this land of Gandhiji, with his spirit of high work hinagar, and handled internally ethic and service to the society, IIT Gandhinagar -- Director given adequate powers to man- seeks to undertake ground breaking research, age most academic, administrative and and develop breakthrough products that will im- prove everyday lives of our communities. financial issues (within the framework) • Residential Campus: -- Leads to closer academic and social inter- Vision action between students and faculty • To shape IIT Gandhinagar into an exciting place for learning, teaching and research. -- Develops stronger community spirit and • To establish a process of learning that is free, provides opportunity to learn from each fulfilling and enjoyable experience. other • To provide an enabling environment to nur- -- Sustained academic ambiance resulting ture critical and creative minds, and to propel in higher creativity from everyone. them to greater heights of excellence in their pursuits. Principles • To create a vibrant atmosphere that breeds • Lifelong commitment to learning front runner innovators, scientists, engineers, • Encouragement of merit entrepreneurs, academicians and thinkers of • Passion and motivation for work tomorrow. • Professionalism • To provide opportunity for students to learn from wherever, however and whatever they • Respect for law choose to study. Concern for the improvement of the society • • To make IIT Gandhinagar the preferred des- • Transparency in functioning of the Institute tination for future generations of students, • Dedication to the Institute staff and faculty.

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 2015 | 193 Goals • To focus on lean engineering solutions for • To build and develop a world-class institution sustainable development. for creating and imparting knowledge at the • To be the leader for academic and industrial undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral collaborations in various disciplines, national- levels, contributing to the development of ly and internationally. the nation and the humanity at large. • To create awareness of the true significance • To develop leaders with vision, creative think- of learning and teaching. ing, social awareness and respect for our val- • To enrich local schools and communities ues. through value-added interactions. • To foster excellence in teaching and research • To encourage excellent language skills as part to make a global impact. of the institutional culture. • To engage in path-breaking research that • To prepare students not just for their first job, would influence national policies. but their last job as well. • To pursue sustainable technological solu- tions to societal problems.

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