Convocation
2013
| IIT Kanpur held its 45 th annual convocation on 5 th July 2013 with the Honorable President Pranab Mukerjee as the chief guest of the program. During the convocation ceremony, the President also conferred the honoris causa degree of Doctorate of Science on Mr. NR Narayana Murthy, executive chairman of Infosys Limited and Professor Ashoke Sen, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. This was the first time that two alumni of IIT-Kanpur were being awarded the DSc. Many students were also awarded various medals and prizes for their meritorious performances. This year the President's Gold Medal and the Director's Gold Medal were awarded to Shubham Tulsiani (BTech/CSE) ,the Ratan Swarup Memorial Prize was awarded to Pranjal Saxena (BTech/CHE) and the Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma Medal was awarded to Karthick K.N. (BTech/Aero). A record 1327 students graduated this year. The Doctor of Philosophy degree was awarded to 132 students, the BTech degree was awarded to 359 students, the BTech/MTech dual degree was awarded to 138 students, the MTech degree was was awarded to 411 students, the MBA degree was awarded to 48 students and the diploma in visionary leadership for manufacturing programme was awarded to 33 students. The Gopal Das Bhandari Memorial Distinguished Teacher's Award was awarded to Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham of the Electrical Engineering Department. Prof Jagannatham received his BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, San Diego, U.S.A. His research interest is in the area of multimedia wireless communications.
Dr Manabendra Chandra has joined the Department of Chemistry. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Homepage: http://www.iitk.ac.in/chm/CHM/faculty.htm
Dr. Subhra Sankar Dhar has joined the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. Homepage: http://www.iitk.ac.in/math/faculty/subhra/
Dr. T.G. Gopakumar has joined the Department of Chemistry. He obtained his PhD from the TU Chemnitz, Germany. Homepage: http://www.iitk.ac.in/chm/CHM/faculty.htm
Dr. Sabuj Kumar Kundu has joined the Department of Chemistry. He obtained his PhD from Rutgers University,USA. Homepage: http://www.iitk.ac.in/chm/CHM/faculty.htm
Ashis Mandal has joined the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. . He obtained his PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
Dr. Saravanan Matheswaran has joined the Department of BSBE. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Homepage: http://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/saravanan.html
Dr. Dasari LVK Prasad has joined the Department of Chemistry. He obtained his PhD from the University of Hyderabad. Homepage: http://www.iitk.ac.in/chm/CHM/faculty.htm
Dr. Mohammad Arshad Rahman has joined the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences. He obtained his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, USA. Homepage: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~marshad/
About the speaker:
About the Donor:
Research
Fellowships to young faculty
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Dr.
Sandeep Anand has joined the Department of Electrical Engineering.
He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Homepage: 
Dr. Malhotra is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from IT, BHU
and received his Ph.D. (Energy Studies) from IIT,Delhi. He is
a full time Director on the Board of the Indian Oil Corporation
as Director (R&D). He is also a Board Member of Lubrizol India,
a JV Company of Indian Oil and Lubrizol USA. He has more than
35 years of research experience in the downstream petroleum sector
and is currently leading research at the R&D Centre of the Indian
Oil Corporation in areas such as refining technologies, lubricant
technologies, alternative energy, bio-technology, nanotechnology
and gasification. He is Chairman of Bureau of Indian Standards
(BIS) Committee (PCD : 3) responsible for formulating specifications
of petroleum products in India. He is on the Advisory Board of
the International Centre for Automotive Technology (l-CAT) under
the Ministry of Heavy Industries. He has published more than 140
research papers and holds 35 patents. He is the Founder President
of the Hydrogen Association of India, the President of the Indian
Chapter of the International Council of Combustion Engines (CIMAC),
the President of the Tribology Society of India, the Vice President
of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) India and the President
of the Indian Chapter of National Lubricating Grease Institute
(NLGI). 
Dr. R. S. Pandey Distinguished Lecture Series
is supported by Mr. Rakesh Pandey (BT/ME/1978). Under this lecture
series, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur organizes
one lecture in each semester by a distinguished person. Mr. Pandey
was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the IITK Foundation till
recently. In 2008, he was elected President of the IITK Alumni
Association. He is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Olin
College of Engineering, an Executive-in-Residence at Northeastern
University and a Mentor at Legatum Center, MIT, USA. His recent
work has focused on a) poverty alleviation through livelihood
improvement aided by technical innovations, and b) conducting
workshops for poor people towards empowering them through collective
problem-solving methods. He launched and ran Bose's subsidiary
in India(1995), started the Bose Technology Center in India (2003)
and created the Center for University and Industry Research. 
Professor Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, was selected for the Poonam and Prabhu
Goel Chair. His research interests are in IC engines, alternate
fuels, vehicular pollution, laser diagonistic techniques , micro-
sensor development and lubricating oil tribology. Homepage:
Professor A K Sharma, Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences, was selected for the P K Kelkar Chair. His
research interests are in social demography and social statistics,
neo-social movements, social development, social aspects of science,
Gandhian theory, representations of health and illness and the
sociology of HIV/AIDS. Homepage: 
Professor S N Singh, Department of Electrical
Engineering, was selected for the Sri J N Gupta and Smt M D Gupta
Chair. His research interests are in power system restructuring,
FACTS technology, optimal power dispatch and security analysis,
power system dynamics, operation and control,distribution system
planning and demand side management,application of genetic algorithms
and artificial neural networks in power systems Homepage:
Professor Rajiv Sinha, Department of Civil
Engineering, was selected for the Pandit Girish Ranjan and Sushma
Rani Pathak Chair.His research interests are in fluvial geomorphology
and sedimentology, lacustrine sedimentology, remote sensing applications
and climate change. Homepage: 
Professor Vinod Tare, Department of Civil Engineering, was selected
for the Sir M Visvesvaraya Chair. His research interests are in
water and waste water treatment, modelling and simulation of environmental
systems.
Professor Y D Vankar, Department of Chemistry,
was selected for the Mr. and Mrs. Gian Singh Bindra Chair. His
research interests are in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry of
biological relevance (glycosidase inhibitors,functionalisation
of carbohydrates leading to glycosyl and sugar amino acids, amino
sugars and o- and c-glycosides and the development of newer synthetic
methods. Homepage: 
Dr Adrish Banerjee, Department of Electrical
Engineering, was selected for the P K Kelkar Research Fellowship.
His research interests are in cognitive radio, error control coding,
wireless communications and optical communications. Homepage:
Dr Kantesh Balani, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering,was selected for the P K Kelkar Research
Fellowship. His research interests are in bone implant materials,
molecular modeling of interfaces, nano- composites and the multi
length scale abridgement.
Dr Samit Ray Chaudhuri, Department of Civil
Engineering, was selected for the P K Kelkar Research Fellowship.
His research interests are in structural dynamics and earthquake
engineering. Homepage: 
Dr Priyanka Ghosh, Department of Civil Engineering, was selected
for the Class of 1982 Research Fellowship. His research interests
are in bearing capacity of foundations, numerical analysis, retaining
walls and earth pressure theory. Homepage: 
Dr Yogesh M.Joshi, Department of Chemical Engineering, was selected
for the P K Kelkar Research Fellowship. His research interests
are in structure and dynamics of colloidal glasses and gels, soft
matter and rheology of complex fluids. Homepage: 
Dr Amey Karkare, Department of Computer Science And Engineering,
was selected for the P K Kelkar Research Fellowship. His Areas
of research interest are in compilers,data flow analysis and heap
analysis.
Dr Vimal Kumar, Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences, was selected for the Class of 1982 Research
Fellowship. His research interests are in economics of conflict,
microeconomic theory, political economics, economic growth and
technological development and game theory. Homepage: 
Dr. Kumar Ravi Priya, Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences was selected for the Class of 1970 Research
Fellowship. His research interests are in health psychology, cultural
psychology, alternative paradigms of psychology and research methods.
Dr.
Jayant K Singh, Department of Chemical Engineering, was selected
for the Class of 1970 Research Fellowship. His research interests
are in thermodynamics, selective adsorption and separation, energy
storage materials, wetting transition, self assembly and crystallization
at nanoscale.
Dr Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, Department
of Electrical Engineering, was selected for the Class of 1979
Research Fellowship. His research interests are in meta-materials,
microwave antennas, dielectric resonator and its applications,
microwave filters, finite-difference time-domain (fd-td) technique,
wireless power transfer and electromagnetics.
Dr Nischal K Verma, Department of Electrical Engineering , was
selected for the Devendra Shukla Faculty Fellowship. His research
interests are in machine learning, biometrics, GMM, HMM, fuzzy
systems, clustering algorithms, coloe segmentaion and video image
sequence recognition. 
Dr Pankaj Wahi, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, was selected for the P K Kelkar Research Fellowship.
His research interests are in non linear dynamics and vibrations.
Professor
Amit Kumar Agarwal, Department of Physics, has been awarded the
NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for the year 2013.
Homepage: 
Professor Binay Kumar Pattnaik, Department
of Humanities & Social Sciences, has been appointed as the
Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC),
Bangalore. Homepage: 
Professor Gautam Biswas, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
has been appointed as the Director of IIT Guwahati. Homepage:
Professor Sanjeev K Aggarwal, Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, has been appointed as the
Director, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus. Homepage: 
Professor Shantanu Bhattacharya, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the Young Scientist
Award 2013 of the Institute on Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS).
Homepage:
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Dr
Anupam Pal passed away on 24th June, 2013. He was diagnosed with
colon cancer. He obtained his PhD from Pennsylvania State University
(PSU) in the field of gastrointestinal biomechanics. He continued
as post-doctoral fellow in the same university before coming back
to India as an Assistant Professor in 2006 in the Department of
Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at IIT Kanpur where he continued
till mid-2012. After that he moved to Kolkata and joined Bose Institute
for a brief period before joining the Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata. Besides being a researcher he was also a prolific photographer
who had developed his passion for the camera during his undergraduate
days in Jadavpur University.
Workshops,
Conferences and Meets 
Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and
Challenges: |
Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Challenges:
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The Department of Electrical Engineering in association with the
BSNL IITK Telecom Center of Excellence (BITCOE) organized a three
day short course titled "Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and
Challenges" from 22nd to 24th July 2013. Wireless sensor networks
are easy to deploy and enable real-time data aggregation on an unprecedented
scale. Thus they are ideally suited for applications in diverse
areas such as disaster warning systems, crop/ environment monitoring,
health care and in strategic areas such as defense reconnaissance,
surveillance etc. The basic structure of the course covered innovative
algorithms for WSN power management, sensor communication, ranging,
localization, distributed processing and dynamic routing. A WSN
demonstration session was also organized, which provided practical
exposure to WSN technology. The lectures were delivered by Prof.
Ajit Chaturvedi, Prof. Adrish Banerjee, Prof. Ketan Rajawat and
Prof. Aditya Jagannatham, members of the Advanced Wireless Communications
group in the EE department at IIT Kanpur. Such short courses are
organized by the Electrical Engineering department as a part of
showcasing the cutting edge research being carried out at IIT Kanpur
in various areas of wireless communications such as 3G/4G wireless
technologies, Cognitive Radio, MIMO-OFDM based broadband wireless
communication systems etc. Further, these also serve to promote
awareness in the industry and amongst potential graduate students
towards the M.Tech/ Ph.D. program at IIT Kanpur. 
The Department of Electrical Engineering in association with the
BSNL IITK Telecom Center of Excellence (BITCOE) organized a three
day short course titled "Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and
Challenges" from 22nd to 24th July 2013. Wireless sensor networks
are easy to deploy and enable real-time data aggregation on an unprecedented
scale. Thus they are ideally suited for applications in diverse
areas such as disaster warning systems, crop/ environment monitoring,
health care and in strategic areas such as defense reconnaissance,
surveillance etc. The basic structure of the course covered innovative
algorithms for WSN power management, sensor communication, ranging,
localization, distributed processing and dynamic routing. A WSN
demonstration session was also organized, which provided practical
exposure to WSN technology. The lectures were delivered by Prof.
Ajit Chaturvedi, Prof. Adrish Banerjee, Prof. Ketan Rajawat and
Prof. Aditya Jagannatham, members of the Advanced Wireless Communications
group in the EE department at IIT Kanpur. Such short courses are
organized by the Electrical Engineering department as a part of
showcasing the cutting edge research being carried out at IIT Kanpur
in various areas of wireless communications such as 3G/4G wireless
technologies, Cognitive Radio, MIMO-OFDM based broadband wireless
communication systems etc. Further, these also serve to promote
awareness in the industry and amongst potential graduate students
towards the M.Tech/ Ph.D. program at IIT Kanpur. Published
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