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IIT Kanpur Diamond Jubilee Year "Celebrating 60 Years: In Pursuit of Excellence" Brochure Board of Governors Prof. Vimal Kumar Economic Sciences Dr. Koppillil Radhakrishnan Prof. A. R. Harish Chairperson Electrical Engineering Prof. Shikha Dixit Prof. Abhay Karandikar Humanities and Social Sciences Director (Ex-officio Member) Prof. R. N. Sengupta Industrial and Management Engineering Prof. Uday Shanker Dixit Prof. Monica Katiyar Shri Deepak Ghaisas Materials Science and Engineering Dr. S. S. Sandhu Prof. Amit Mitra Prof. S. N. Singh Mathematics and Statistics Prof. T. N. Singh Prof. P. Venkitanarayanan Prof. Debopam Das Mechanical Engineering Prof. M. L. N. Rao Prof. R. Vijaya Physics Heads of Inter-Disciplinary Programmes Key Institute Administrators Prof. Bishakh Bhattacharya Prof. Abhay Karandikar Cognitive Science Programme Director and Chairperson, Senate Prof. Shantanu Bhattacharya Prof. Manindra Agrawal Design Programme Deputy Director Prof. S. N. Tripathi Prof. Achla Misri Raina Environmental Engineering and Management Dean, Academic Affairs Prof. Rajeev Gupta Prof. Onkar Dikshit Materials Science Programme Dean, Administration Prof. P. Venkitanarayanan Prof. Sumit Ganguly Nuclear Engineering and Technology Dean, Digital Infrastructure & Automation Prof. H. Wanare Prof. Debasis Kundu Photonics Science and Engineering Programme Dean, Faculty Affairs Prof. Y. N. Singh Chairpersons & Conveners of Standing Dean, Infrastructure and Planning Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi Committees of Senate Dean, International Relations Prof. S. Ganesh Prof. Abhay Karandikar Dean, Research & Development Chairperson, Senate Educational Policy Committee Prof. B. V. Phani Prof. D. P. Mishra Dean, Reasearch & Alumni Chairperson, Senate Curriculum Development and Prof. P. Shunmugaraj Monitoring Committee Dean, Students' Affairs Prof. R. Gurunath Shri K. K. Tiwari Convener, Senate Educational Policy Committee Registrar and Secretary, Senate & Board of Prof. Saktipada Ghorai Governors Chairperson, Senate Elections Committee Prof. Abhay Karandikar Heads of Departments Chairperson, Senate Honorary Degree Committee Prof. Anish Upadhyaya Prof. A. K. Ghosh Chairperson, Senate Library Committee Aerospace Engineering Prof. J. Ramkumar Prof. D. S. Katti Chairperson, Senate Nominations Committee Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Prof. N. Kaistha Prof. Animangsu Ghatak Chairperson, Senate Post-Graduate Committee Chemical Engineering Prof. R. Gurunath Prof. Amalendu Chandra Chairperson, Senate Rules Committee Chemistry Prof. A. K. Jagannatham Prof. S. N. Tripathi Chairperson, Senate Scholarships & Prizes Civil Engineering Committee Prof. Sandeep Shukla Prof. P. Shunmugaraj Computer Science and Engineering Chairperson, Senate Students' Affairs Committee Prof. Javed N. Malik Prof. Ashish Garg Earth Sciences Chairperson, Senate Under-Graduate Committee Chairpersons, Board of Governors SI. No. Name Period From To 1 Dr. Sampurna Nand, C.M., U.P. 1959 1960 2 Shri C.B. Gupta, C.M., U.P. 1960 1965 3 Shri Padampat Singhania 1965 1971 4 Dr. S. Hussain Zaheer 1971 1974 5 Dr. M.L. Dhar 1975 1978 6 Shri L.M. Thapar 1978 1980 7 Prof. P. Venkateswarlu, Director, IITK (Officiating Chairperson, BoG) 1980 1980 8 Prof. R.N. Dogra 1980 1985 9 Dr. A.S. Ganguly 1985 1990 10 Dr. S. Ganguly 1990 1993 11 Prof. R.C. Malhotra, Director, IITK (Officiating Chairperson, BoG) 1993 1994 12 Shri Govind Hari Singhania 1994 1997 13 Shri Hari Shanker Bhartia 1997 2003 14 Prof. C.N.R. Rao 2003 2006 15 Prof. M. Anandakrishnan 2006 2015 16 Prof. Indranil Manna, Director, IITK (Officiating Chairperson, BoG) 2015 2015 17 Shri R.C. Bhargava 2015 2018 18 Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Director, IITK (Officiating Chairperson, BoG) 2018 2019 19 Dr. Koppillil Radhakrishnan 2019 to date Directors SI. No. Name Period From To 1 Prof. P.K. Kelkar 14.12.1959 11.04.1970 2 Prof. M.S. Muthana (Officiating Director) 12.04.1970 11.12.1970 3 Prof. M.S. Muthana 12.12.1970 23.12.1974 4 Prof. Jagdish Lal 24.12.1974 01.05.1976 5 Prof. A. Bhattacharya 02.05.1976 20.01.1980 6 Prof. P. Venkateswarlu 21.01.1980 28.02.1981 7 Prof. S. Sampath 01.03.1981 31.08.1986 8 Prof. A.K. Mallik 01.09.1986 21.06.1991 9 Prof. M.P. Kapoor (Officiating Director) 22.06.1991 24.05.1992 10 Prof. R.C. Malhotra 25.05.1992 30.09.1997 11 Prof. K.A. Padmanabhan 01.10.1997 14.09.2001 12 Prof. Ashwini Kumar (Officiating Director) 14.09.2001 16.10.2001 13 Prof. Sanjay G. Dhande 16.10.2001 06.11.2012 14 Prof. Indranil Manna 07.11.2012 07.11.2017 15 Prof. Manindra Agarwal (Officiating Director) 08.11.2017 17.04.2018 16 Prof. Abhay Karandikar 18.04.2018 to date 52ndn Convocation,Convoocation, 20192 EXHORTATION Remember that your knowledge and intellectual attainment is the most sacred wealth of the nation. You shall therefore, use it in a manner befitting the honour and dignity of your country and of your alma mater. You shall make every effort, in all circumstances, to uphold the dignity of your profession and integrity of your character.You shall endeavour, in every way, through thought, word and action, to bring about the well-being of people. You must live a well-disciplined life. Never forget the commandment of the sacred scriptures: “Thou shalt perform deeds that are commendable and no others.” 52ndn Convocation,Convoocation, 20192 Graduating Students 52nd Convocation 2019 52ndn Convocation,Convoocation, 201920 “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” Henry David Thoreau 52ndn Convocation,Convoocation, 2019202 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD)D) Aerospace Engineering Mishtu Mukherjee Prof. R. Sankararamakrishnan 11118071 (Thesis Supervisor) Saurav Kumar Ghosh Prof. Debopam Das Sequence diversity and structure-function Y9101066 (Thesis Supervisor) relationship in Formate/Nitrite Transporters (FNT): Experimental investigation of aerodynamics of Family-wide computational studies flapping wings at low Reynolds numbers Burra Gunasekhar Prof. Ashwani Kumar Thakur Rahul Kumar Soni Prof. Ashoke De 12118070 (Thesis Supervisor) 12101066 (Thesis Supervisor) Molecular insights into solubilization, aggregation Large-Eddy Simulation of Mixing Characteristics in and inhibition of N-terminal huntingtin fragments Strut Injectors involved in Huntington's disease V Raghavendra Prasad Prof. Abhishek Vithani Neha Prafulbhai Prof. Nisanth N. Nair 12101070 (Thesis Supervisor) 12118071 Prof. Balaji Prakash Inverse Flight Dynamic Analysis for Prediction of (Thesis Supervisors) Helicopter Rotor Blade Loads in Unsteady A QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Study of Enzymatic Maneuvering Flight Reactions in Hydrophobic Amino-acid Substituted GTPases and Sugar Nucleotidyltransferases Sagar Setu Prof. Abhishek 13101069 (Thesis Supervisor) Ritika Tiwari Prof. Bushra Ateeq Modeling, hardware-in-the-loop simulation and flight 13118071 (Thesis Supervisor) controller development for rotary wing UAVs - From Elucidating the role of SPINK1 in cancer progression first flight to autonomous autorotation Chemical Engineering Nidhi Sharma Prof. Tapan K. Sengupta 13201064 (Thesis Supervisor) High Accuracy Time-Accurate Computing of Three- Pranava Chaudhari Prof. Sanjeev Garg 10102073 (Thesis Supervisor) Dimensional Flows Modeling and Multi-objective Optimization of Maleic Anhydride Reactors Ajit Kumar Prof. A. K. Ghosh 14101262 (Thesis Supervisor) Machine Learning Methods for Aerodynamic Abhi Mukherjee Prof. Siddhartha Panda 11102061 (Thesis Supervisor) Modeling and Parameter Estimation Role of Surface Modification and Surface Energy Components in Attachment of Sensing Molecules in Biological Sciences & Bioengineering Strip Based Sensors Joshi Abhayraj Shrikrishna Prof. Ashwani K. Thakur Anurag Pramanik Prof. Sanjeev Garg 10218061 (Thesis Supervisor) 11102062 (Thesis Supervisor) Synthesis, Characterization and Bioassays of Reverse Engineering the Controlled Release of Nanoparticles Containing Polyglutamine Aggregation Paclitaxel Inhibitor Peptides for Crossing Blood-Brain Barrier in Huntington's Disease Astha Gupta Prof. Sandeep Verma 11102064 Prof. Nishith Verma Manu Vajpai Prof. R. Sankararamakrishnan (Thesis Supervisors) 10218062 (Thesis Supervisor) Dipeptide-Based Soft Structures: Solution Assessing non-obligate integral membrane protein Morphology, Interactions and Applications oligomerization: G-protein coupled receptors and major intrinsic proteins in focus Vivek Kumar Prof. Nitin Kaistha 11102083 (Thesis Supervisor) Pratik Rajendra Patil Prof. Ashok Kumar Economic Plantwide Control Techniques Applied to a 11118065 Prof. Balaji Prakash (Ext.) Reactor-Separator-Recycle Process (Thesis Supervisors) Attempts to Understand the Catalytic Mechanism Abir Ghosh Prof. V. Shankar Governing (p)ppGpp Synthesis in Rel Proteins 12102061 Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Thesis Supervisors) Thamarai Lingam A Prof. Pradip Sinha A Theoretical Study on Contact Instabilities of a Thin 11118068 (Thesis Supervisor) Viscoelastic Film: Influence of Moving Contactor, Epithelial cell size dynamics and inter-tissue Surface Curvature, and Patterns cooperation during thorax closure in Drosophila 52ndn Convocation,Convoocation, 20192 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 1 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD)D) Atanu Kumar Metya Prof. Jayant K. Singh Venneti Naresh Murty Prof. M. L. N. Rao 12102064 (Thesis Supervisor) 10107091 (Thesis Supervisor) Molecular Simulation Study of Ice Nucleation in the Application of Triarylbismuth Reagents under Presence of Foreign Substances Palladium Catalysis: Synthesis of Functionalized Tetrasubstituted Alkenes and Benzofuran Natural Ashna Srivastava Prof. Naveen Tiwari Products 12202062