A QUEST to SOAR HIGH
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Annual Report 2011-12 A QUEST TO SOAR HIGH INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD Contents CONTENTS 3 Director's Message 4 Board of Governors 6 Core Faculty 28 Course Composition 30 Campus Events 44 Fractional Credit Courses 45 Funded Research Projects 47 Publications in International Peer-Reviewed Journals 51 Publications in International Conferences 55 Honours and Awards 55 Invited / Contributed Talks 58 Seminars @ IITH 59 Training & Placement 60 Research Labs ON I NG INNOVAT I R I INSP 2 FROM THE DIRECTOR IIT Hyderabad – Tinkering with Innovations We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle From the Director 3 Invention and innovations have been the inaugurated the Nanotechnology Center. governing vision for IIT Hyderabad. This In the year 2012-13, IITH will start a new vision is reflected in all aspects of IITH – academic program in Design and also add research and development, teaching, new Fine Arts to the Liberal Arts department. Thus, campus development, student activities and we are moving towards creating an administration. This vision is reinforced by the ecosystem for a holistic education. fact that IITH has over 55 sponsored research projects in the last three years with a sanction The development of the first phase of the amount of approximately Rs 50 crores. Just permanent campus has been done with a in the last year, IITH faculty published 135 futuristic vision and rigour expected of IITs. papers in peer-reviewed international journals This phase will consists of 3 academic and international conferences. IITH has buildings, hostels, faculty and staff housing. three research centers – Nanotechnology, IITH’s ongoing collaboration with Japan is very X-Materials, and Cyber Physical Systems / active. Japanese architects have finalized the Internet of Things; many more centers are in designs of the International Guest House and the offing. IITH has active collaboration with the Sports and Cultural Complex. The design industries in India and abroad. of the state-of-the-art Lecture Hall complex On the academic front, IITH is scaling rapidly and EE-CSE complex has begun. Moreover, while maintaining the highest academic quality. Japanese faculty will be visiting IITH for more In the coming semester – Aug 2012 – IITH will than a year and also teach courses and have close to 1050 students; approximately participate in research. 575 B.Techs., 50 M.Sc., 220 M.Techs., and 205 IITH now has MoUs and active collaboration Ph.Ds. This is indeed a significant rise from the with eight leading US universities and two 111 B.Tech. students that were admitted to IITH leading Japanese universities. IITH has had in 2008, when IITH began operating. Today several visiting faculty from USA, France and IITH has 12 vibrant departments, each growing Canada, who taught fractional credit courses. at a very rapid pace. Moreover, there is a lot of emphasis on research in all the courses taught The Placement Cell has been very active. at IITH. Due its efforts, the placement at IITH is almost 100%. IITH has taken a proactive step As can be seen in the report, IITH has very in starting a student counselling cell called dynamic faculty, the total strength in August ‘Sunshine’. Student activities are very vibrant 2012 reaching close to 95. On the academic on the campus with major activities like the front IITH has made several innovations, most cultural-cum-technology festival ‘Elan’, clubs notable being, fractional credit courses, B. like Torque, Cephied, Arts Club, Rang De Tech. Minor in Entrepreneurship, and starting Manch, etc. a unique B.Tech. program in Engineering Science – the key feature of this program is IITH is extremely thankful to Ordnance Factory that it completely opens the doors to different - Medak for providing a beautiful campus while specializations and provides a holistic in transition, and the necessary infrastructure to engineering education. The basic structure is – accommodate the students, faculty, and some the first 2.5 years state-of-the-art research laboratories. (5 semesters) the student does courses in IITH is creating a unique holistic educational Math, Physics, Chemistry, and different fields of ecosystem that will foster cutting-edge engineering. In the last 1.5 years (3 semesters) ON research, learning and entrepreneurs. It is I the student then specializes in any field of his / providing an environment wherein students and her choice – specialization is completely open: faculty are not afraid to experiment with high- It could be any branch of engineering, sciences, risk ideas. liberal arts or design. NG INNOVAT In the year 2011-12, former President Dr I R APJ Abdul Kalam taught a 1-credit course at Prof UB Desai I IITH on ‘Empowering 3 Billion’. Dr CNR Rao delivered the Foundation Day lecture and also INSP 4 BOARD OF GOVERNORS CHAIRMAN MEMBER MEMBER Mr Ajai Chowdhry Dr K Mohandas Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Founder – HCL Vice Chancellor Chairman & CEO Chairman & CEO, Kerala University of Health and Biocon Limited, Bengaluru HCL Infosystems, Noida Allied Sciences Thiruvananthapuram EX-OFFICIO Prof UB Desai Director Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Board of Governors 5 MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER Mr Mammen Mathew Mr MG Gopal Mr RP Sisodia CMMI MRF Limited, Chennai Principal Secretary _________________________ Department of Higher Education _________________________ Govt of Andhra Pradesh _________________________ ON I SENATE NOMINEE SENATE NOMINEE SPECIAL INVITEE Prof Vinayak Eswaran Prof Faiz Khan Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi NG INNOVAT I Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Chemistry Director R I Indian Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Technology Madras Hyderabad Hyderabad INSP 6 CORE FACULTY Biotechnology & Biomedical Engineering (BBE) Chemical Engineering (CH) Chemistry (CY) Civil Engineering (CE) Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Electrical Engineering (EE) Liberal Arts (LA) Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Mathematics (MA) Mechanical Engineering (ME) Physics (PH) Core Faculty 7 Faculty Strength in Various Departments BBE PH 4 8 CH 12 ME 11 Total Strength of the Faculty CY MSE 8 5 85 ON MA I CE 4 6 LA 8 CSE NG INNOVAT 7 I EE R I 11 INSP 8 Deans Faiz Ahmed Khan Ph.D - University of Hyderabad Professor, HoD & Dean - Academics Areas of Interest: Synthetic Organic Chemistry; Transition Metal-mediated Reactions in Organic Synthesis, Discovery of new Methodologies and Control of Stereo-chemistry in Organic Synthesis, Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural products, Chemical Synthesis in Ionic Liquids, Supported Catalysts. Email: [email protected] Phone: +91-40-23016084 (O) / 23017040 (R) Vinayak Eswaran Ph.D - State University of NY at Stony Brook, USA Professor, HoD & Dean - Faculty Areas of Interest: Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. Email: [email protected] Phone: +91-40-23016009 Kolluru VL Subramaniam Ph.D - Northwestern University, USA Professor, HoD & Dean - Planning Areas of Interest: Structural Strengthening using Bonded FRP Sensor Development for Monitoring Concrete; Damage Detection in Concrete; Concrete Durability Email: [email protected] Phone: +91-40-23016093 Core Faculty 9 Biotechnology & Biomedical Engineering Basant Kumar Patel NK Raghavendra Ph.D - BHU Ph.D - IISc Assistant Professor & HoD Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Molecular Biology of Prion and Amyloid Areas of Interest: Critical Interactions Between HIV-1 Integrase Diseases; Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Genetics; Enzyme and Human Proteins During Infection; Development Bio-chemistry and Bio-physics of Protein Misfolding. of Small Molecule Inhibitors of HIV-1 Integrase and LEDGF/p75 Email: [email protected] Interaction as Potential Drug Molecules; Characterization of Addition Host Proteins Critical for HIV-1 Integration, in Addition Phone: +91-40-23016008 to LEDGF/p75, Such that novel Drug Targets Can be Developed. Email: [email protected] Phone: +91 (40) 2301 7056 Renu John Ph.D - IIT Delhi Assistant Professor Thenmalarchelvi Rathinavelan Areas of Interest: Novel Non-invasive Bio-imaging Techniques; Coherence Imaging and Microscopy Techniques; Ph.D - University of Madras Molecular Contrast Agents and Targeted Molecular Imaging; Assistant Professor Nanoparticles; Targeted Drug Delivery and Biophotonics Areas of Interest: Bacterial Glycobiology; Transition State Applications. Structures of Proteins, DNA Protein Interaction; Nucleic Acids Email: [email protected] Structure and Dynamics. Phone: +91-40-23016097 Email: [email protected] Phone: +91 (40) 2301 7067 ON I Anindya Roy Ph.D - IISc NG INNOVAT Assistant Professor I R Areas of Interest: DNA Damage and Repair Processes; I Mutagenesis; Carcinogenesis. Email: [email protected] INSP Phone: +91-40-23016083 10 Chemical Engineering Vinod Janardhanan Dayadeep Monder Ph.D - KIT - Germany Ph.D - University of Alberta - Canada Assistant Professor & HoD Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Chemically Reacting Flows; Areas of Interest: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Multi-scale Modeling Elementary Heterogeneous Kinetics. of Next Generation Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Email: [email protected] First Principles Catalysis. Phone: +91-40-23016073 Email: [email protected] Phone: +91 (40) 2301 7052 Anand Mohan Debaprasad Shee Ph.D - Texas A&M - USA Ph.D - IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Cardiovascular Mechanics; Areas of Interest: Catalysis on Metal and Metal Oxide: Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity; Multifuctional