Experience

Employment Record

Since September 2004, working as an Assistant Professor at
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Period 1994 - 1998

ORGANIZATION	PERIOD	POSITION	NATURE OF WORK
Barber Ship Management Ltd. 42, Jalan Tun Razak Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA. Vessel:Car carrier M. V. Ganta	Two Years	Fourth Engineer Officer 1996 – 1998	Regular watch keeping as ‘Senior in Full Charge’ on main propulsion Marine Diesel Engine MITSUBISHI SULZER 6RND 68M, 11400 BHP, @150 rpm, with Auxiliary Vertical Boiler and Exhaust Gas Boiler of working pressure = 8 bar, Marine Generator Sets, 2 Nos., YANMAR – 6UAL-ST.
Larsen and Toubro Ltd. Shipping Group Bakhtawar, Nariman Point Mumbai 400021 INDIA. Vessel: Bulk carrier M. V. Pragati	One Year	Fifth Engineer Officer 1995 – 1996	Regular watch keeping as ‘First Assistant to Senior in Full Charge’ on main propulsion Marine Diesel Engine - MITSUBISHI SULZER 6RTA 58M, 9600 BHP, @116 rpm, with Auxiliary Vertical Boiler and Exhaust Gas Boiler of working pressure = 12 bar.
Larsen and Toubro Ltd. Shipping Group Bakhtawar, Nariman Point Mumbai 400021 INDIA.	One Year	Graduate Engineer Trainee 1994 – 1995	Received the Marine Engineering Apprenticeship Certificate from The Director General of Shipping, Government of India, Mumbai, India.

Teaching experience

Course instructor

            - Boiling and Condensation - (ME742: Postgraduate elective course, SEM-II:2006-07)
            - Conduction and Radiation - (ME641: Postgraduate compulsory course, SEM-I:2005-06, 2006-07)
            - Energy Conversion Systems - (ME301: Undergraduate compulsory course,
               SEM-II: 2004-05, 2005-06)
            - Heat and Mass Transfer - (ME341: Undergraduate compulsory course)

Course tutor/ Laboratory Instructor

            - Technical Arts Laboratory – (TA201: Undergraduate compulsory course)
            - Heat Transfer Laboratory - (ME471: Undergraduate compulsory course, SEM-I:2007-08)
            - Thermodynamics - (ESO202: Undergraduate compulsory course, SEM-I:2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07)
            - Communication Skills - (COM200: Undergraduate compulsory course, SEM-I:2005-06)
            - Introduction to the Profession - (ME100: Undergraduate compulsory course,
              SEM-II:2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07)

Special Courses/Lectures

Invited Lecture Series on Phase-Change Thermal Management Technology delivered at Mumbai and Delhi to industry participants during February, 2008

Invited Lecture Series on Heat Pipe Science and Technology delivered at five universities in Thailand during September, 2006

Invited Course (Short Term - 24 hrs, 12 Graduate Students) on "Heat Pipe Science and Technology"- Summer Vacation 2005 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

Other

Institute Teaching Assistant during the M. Tech. Program at IIT, Kanpur, India for two undergraduate laboratory courses: (a) Internal Combustion Engines, and (b) Engineering Graphics.

During undergraduate studies, privately taught Higher Mathematics for three years to the students of Higher Secondary, aspiring to appear in all-India examinations for admissions to university engineering education.

Research experience

Project #1 (completed)
Modernization of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Laboratory (ME) and
Research Initiation in Microscale Multi-phase Systems
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (Faculty initiation grant)
Budget: INR 1.0 million
Time: 1 Year
May 2005-April 2006

Project #2 (ongoing)
Development of Pulsating Heat Pipe Based Space Radiators
Indian Space Research Organization
Budget: INR 1.5 million
Time: 3 Years
May 2005-April 2008

Project #3 (ongoing)
Drop-wise Condensation on an Inclined Surface Exposed to a Vapor Flux
(with Dr. K. Muralidhar, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT, Kanpur)
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
Budget: INR 3.5 million
Time: 3 Years
July 2005-June 2008

Project #4 (ongoing)
Design and Development of Novel Pulsating Heat Pipe Based Compact Heat Exchangers
Department of Atomic Energy - Young Scientist Award
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
Budget: INR 1.0 million
Time: 3 Years
April 2006 - March 2009

Project #5 (ongoing)
Micro-devices for process applications
(in association with Dr. D. Kunzru, Dr. P. K. Panigrahi and Dr. S. Panda)
Department of Science and Technology
Budget: INR 50.0 million
Time: 5 Years
April 2007 - March 2012

In parallel with the doctoral research, very actively involved with the European Commission sponsored project (April 2000 – March 2003) titled ‘Development of High Dissipative Modular Electronic Packages’. The overall task involved the design, development and testing of a novel modular stacked 3-D cubical microelectronic package with potential applications in avionics, space and telecom sectors. The project partners were Thales Avionics (France), Alcatel Space (France), Nokia (Finland), Electrovac (Austria), Customs Interconnect Ltd. (United Kingdom), INSA Lyon (France) and IKE, University of Stuttgart (Germany). The task at IKE was to design, fabricate and test mini/micro heat pipe based thermal management strategies for the cubical electronic package.

Administrative experience

Institute

	Treasurer of Alumni Association, IIT Kanpur since April 2008
	Nominated member of the academic senate of IIT Kanpur, December 2006 – November 2007.
	Nominated member of the academic senate of Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur (MP) during June 2006 - May 2008
	Chairman of Institute Transport Users Committee since June 2006
	Hostel warden (Hall VII) July 2005-June 2008, Warden-in-charge (March 2007-June 2008)

Department

	Departmental web-page coordinator since 01 September, 2007
	Member of B. Tech. Project Evaluation Committee from 01 June 2006 - 31 May 2007
	Member of Departmental Post Graduate Committee since December 2006
	Departmental Seminar Coordinator from 01 September 2005 - 31 August 2007
	Coordinator of the Heat Transfer and Refrigeration/AC Laboratory w. e. f August 2005
	Coordinator of winter industrial tour for B. Tech. students, December 2004

Short term courses

	Course Coordinator - Short Term course titled Modern Experimental Techniques in Mechanics of Fluids and Solids, IIT Kanpur, May 07-11, 2007 (in association with Dr. V. Venkitnarayanan, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
	Workshop Coordinator - National Workshop titled Fuel Cell Technology: Progress and Prospects, IIT Kanpur (supported by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi), Kanpur (UP), March 2007
	Workshop Coordinator - National Workshop titled Fuel Cells: Power Device of the Future, IIT Kanpur, February 2006. (in association with Dr. A. K. Saha, Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Academic/Research visits

	Invited professor at Center for Thermal Sciences (CETHIL), INSA-Lyon, France, May-July 2008.
	Invited professor at Heat Pipe Laboratory, University of Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 2006.
	Invited professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, May-July 2005.

Conferences/Seminars/Workshops participation

	2^nd Joint NTUS-IITK Workshop in Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering, Kanpur, April 2008.
	2^nd Research and Challenges (REACH) Symposium, Khajuraho (MP), India, March 2008.
	8^th ASME/ISHMT Int. Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Hyderabad, India, January, 2008.
	International Workshop on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics, BARC, Mumbai, January, 2008.
	1^st Joint NTUS-IITK Workshop in Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering, Singapore, July 2007.
	14^th International Heat Pipe Conference, Florianópolis, Brazil, April 2007.
	1^st Research and Challenges (REACH) Symposium, Parwanoo (HP), India, March 2007.
	7th ASME/ISHMT Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Guwahati, India January 2006.
	Introduction to Fuel Cell Technology, two day workshop at IIT Guwahati, India, January 2006.
	13^th International Heat Pipe Conference, Keynote Speaker, Shanghai, China, November 2004.
	5^th Minsk Int. Heat Pipes Seminar, Minsk, Belarus, September 2003.
	Annual Thermodynamic Colloquium, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, Wernigerode, Germany, October 2002.
	12^th International Heat Transfer Conference, Grenoble, France, August 2002.
	3^rd Int. Conf. on Transport Phenomenon in Multiphase Systems, Kielce, Poland, June 2002.
	5^th ASME/ISHMT Heat & Mass Transfer Conference, Kolkata, India, January 2002.
	Hydrogen Energy Technology Workshop - IIT, Chennai, India, December 2001.
	6^th International Heat Pipe Symposium, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2000.
	Vehicle Emissions and Control Technologies Workshop - IIT, Kanpur, India, July 1999.
	NACOMM’93 - National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, IIT, Kharagpur, India, December 1993.
	MECHVIBES’93 - National Mechanical Engineering Seminar, REC Kurukshetra, India, April 1993.
	National Seminar: Preserve Planet Earth, Institution of Engineers, Jabalpur, India, October 1993.

Student thesis advising (during doctoral research)

	Sanka Subrahmanyam, Mathematical modeling of closed loop pulsating heat pipes, M. Tech. thesis, IIT Guwahati, DAAD student exchange program (India), May 2003.
	Yahia Derbali, On some thermofluidic aspects of pulsating heat pipes, Student project (Diploma), Universität Stuttgart, IKE-5D-345, August 2003.
	Luckchoura Vivak, A study on the effect of vapor shear interaction on axially grooved heat pipes, Report No. IKE-5TN-1734-2002, February 2003.
	Cui Xiao, Artificial neural networks approach for modeling pulsating heat pipes, under Baden - Württemberg state fellowship (China), April 2002.
	Dollinger Nicolas, Pulsating heat pipes - Construction of experimental setups and with first results, Diploma project under 'Erasmus'-European student exchange program (France), September 2001.
	Welte Thomas, Cooling of 3D-microelectronic modules with integrated heat pipes, Report No. IKE-5D-339, Student project (Diploma), Universität Stuttgart, June 2001.
	Charoensawan Piyanun., Pulsating heat pipes: Thermofluidic characteristics and comparative study with single phase thermosyphon, under DAAD exchange program (Thailand), Report No. IKE-5TB-1648-01, February 2001.

Other skills

Trained in basic machine shop skills i.e. bench work, fitting, tooling, lathe work,

drilling, milling, wood work and other regular machine shop operations.

Trained in periodic and break-down maintenance of pumps, heat exchangers, low-pressure boilers,

air-conditioning equipment, diesel engines and other peripheral machines.

Communication (R/W/S)

Hindi

Marathi

English

German