Award Information:
The objective of the University of Alberta-IIT Kanpur Seed Grant program is to support collaborative research between faculty from both universities.
For the grant, PIs from the University of Alberta and IIT Kanpur jointly applied by submitting a detailed proposal. Each selected proposal has been awarded CAD 25,000 $ by the University of Alberta.
The University of Alberta-IIT Kanpur Seed Grant 2024 program is also supporting up to 4 Joint Doctoral Degree Program (JDP) students from IIT Kanpur by providing CAD 20,000 to the students for a 12-month visit.
The following 8 faculty members have received the grant for 2024:
| S. No. | IITK PI (Name and Department Affiliation) | U of Alberta PI (Name and Department Affiliation) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raju Kumar Gupta Sudarshan Narayanan Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering |
Lingzi Sang Department of Chemistry |
| 2 | Tarun Gupta Department of Civil Engineering |
Ran Zhao Department of Chemistry |
| 3 | Debabrata Goswami Department of Chemistry |
Karthik Shankar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 4 | Lalit M. Pant Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering |
Marc Secanell Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| 5 | Ashish Garg Srinivas Karthik Yadavalli Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering |
Xihua Wang Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 6 | Raghavendra Ragipani Department of Chemical Engineering |
Gonzalo Zambrano Narvaez Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 7 | Chunendra K Sahu Department of Civil Engineering |
Morris Flynn Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| 8 | Rahul Mangal Department of Chemical Engineering |
Xueha Zhang Department Of Chemical and Materials Engineering |