AWARDS AND HONOURS
Professor Shweta has won the Swarnajayanti award, the ACM India award for outstanding contributions to computing by a woman, a best paper award at the flagship global conference Eurocrypt, best reviewer awards for Asiacrypt and CCS, and invited speakers at prestigious conferences like Asiacrypt, Latincrypt and “Women in Mathematics” and program co-chair for the flagship conference Asiacrypt.
She is currently honoured as the Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman Faculty Fellow at the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Madras.
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Post-quantum cryptography, notably, cryptography, is based on the hardness of lattice problems.
ii. Applications of blockchain technology to socially relevant issues
2. Professor Indumathi Nambi, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras – Profile, Awards and Recognitions
– Associate Editor – Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier–J C Bose Patent Award – IIT Madras Global and Alumni Affairs office
–Water Shero Award – PSA office Govt of India and Red Dot Foundation
–Gandhian Young Technology Innovator Award (GYTI) – Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI), New Delhi, India/ 2015
–Magudam Award for Best Innovation – Science and Technology Category, CNN New 18 / 2017
–Member (Two terms 2014-2019) – State Expert Appraisal Committee for EIA MOEF&CC, GoI
–Expert committee Member – Jal Jeevan Mission, MHUDA Evaluation Committee
–Technical Expert Committee Member Central Pollution Control Board, NCEF Project for remediation of Contaminated Industrial Sites 2016 – 2019
–Expert Committee Member, Solid Waste Management and Industrial Water Treatment – Chennai Corporation, Government of Tamil Nadu, India 2015- 2022, Chennai Metro Water and Sewerage Supply Board, Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board, 2016-23
–Technical expert committee – Kerala State Planning Board for Irrigation projects 2017
–Member, High-Level committee – Impact of ONGC oil exploration on environment field investigation 2021
–Member, NGT committee – Impact of Coal Flyash on environment around thermal power plants 2022
–National Expert , Solid Waste – Unnat Bharath Abhiyan Program for Rural Development GoI
–Technical Expert – Department of Science and Technology – Water Technology Program
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Groundwater – Contaminant fate and transport.
ii. Remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater – chromium, petrol compounds, pesticide & micropollutants
iii. Hazardous chemicals – Risk assessment and management
iv. Water treatment, wastewater reuse, solid waste management
v. Industrial Waste Water Treatment – Electroplating, tannery and textile.
vi. Environment Impact Assessment
vii. Electro Chemical methods for contaminated water & Soil
viii. Biogas from food waste .
ix. Microfuel cells coupled with wastewater treatment and chromium recovery.
x. Petro Chemical waste & wastewater treatment
xi. Removal of antibiotics & antimicrobial resistance in the water system
3. Professor Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi, MoRTH Chair Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, & Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, QUT, Australia.
–“Women Inventor with Maximum Patent Filing”, IIT Madras, 2023.
–Best paper award for the paper titled ‘Bandwidth Maximization for Split Phase Traffic Signals’, RATE Conference, 2022.
–Best paper award for the paper titled ‘Real-time Maximum Queue Length Estimation from Connected Vehicle Trajectories using Shockwave Analysis’, RATE Conference, 2022.
–Best paper award for the paper titled ‘Calibration of Microscopic Traffic Simulation for Signalized Intersections under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions’, RATE Conference, 2022.
–Arthur M. Wellington Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019.
–Best Women Engineer Award in Civil Engineering Division for the year 2018 – 2019, Institution of Engineers (India), Tamilnadu.
–Best paper award for the paper titled “Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost WiFi MAC Scanner as Traffic Sensor” in the ITS Workshop held as part of the 11th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2019), 2019.
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Traffic Flow Modeling
ii. Intelligent Transportation Systems
iii. Traffic Operations and Management
4. Professor Sujatha Srinivasan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras
AWARDS
–Appointed “Honorary Professor” by University College London, May 5, 2023.
–Awarded “Best Faculty Entrepreneur” by IIT Madras on the occasion of World IP Day, April 26, 2023
–The Pravartak Senior Faculty Fellowship Grant is awarded by the Pravartak Technologies Foundation
–NeoMotion (a startup from R2D2 co-founded by Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan) won the Most Impactful Startup Award from the Assistech Foundation at the 5th EMPOWER Conference held at IIT Madras Research Park Oct 13-15, 2022.
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Assistive Devices,
ii. User-centric Design,
iii. Movement Biomechanics and
iv. Rehabilitation
v. Engineering
5. Professor Preeti Aghalayam, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras
AWARDS
–Featured in “She Is: 75 Women in STEAM,” Office of Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India, 2022
–Amar Dye Chem Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Chandigarh, 2008
–IIChE Young Achiever Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Mumbai, 2007
–INAE Young Engineer, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Hyderabad, 2007
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Underground Coal Gasification.
ii. Reduction of Automotive NOx.
iii. Reduction of Large Reaction Mechanisms.
iv. Reactor Modeling.
6. Professor Nandita Dasgupta, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
AWARDS
–Alexander von Humboldt fellowship
–Erasmus Mundus fellowship
–MRSI Medal
–INAE Fellow
–Listed as one of the 75 Indian women engineers by INAE
–Featured in the book ‘She Is’ compiled by Red Dot in collaboration with the Office of PSA and British Consulate.
–Apart from these, several best paper/poster awards at different conferences
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Silicon and Compound Semiconductor Technology and Modelling
7. Dr Smita Srivastava, Dept of Biotechnology, IIT Madras
AWARDS
–Recommended for the DAAD (INDO/GERMAN) Scholarship programme during MS (Research) Degree program at IIT Delhi in 2002. However, did not avail the fellowship
–Best poster award, CHEMCON-2003, Bhubaneswar, India, 2003
–Acknowledged as a distinguished student of the Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology at IIT Delhi in the I2 Tech-2005 event held at IIT Delhi, 2005
–Fellowship award, International conference, APaCPA-2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007
–Foreign travel grant by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Department of Biotechnology) to attend the APaCPA-2007 conference in Malaysia, June 17-21
–Best Research paper award, International Conference, BIOTECH-2011 (Advances in Biotechnology), Singapore, 2011
–Session Chair, International conference BIOTECH 2011, Singapore, February 28-March 1, 2011
–Invited talk and Session Moderator, EPS Montreal International Renewable Energy Forum 2011, Montreal, Canada, August 15-16, 2011
–Travel grant award by Barwale’s Foundation, Hyderabad, India to attend an international Conference NHBT-2011 in Trivandrum, India, November 21-24, 2011
–The Rashtriya Gaurav Award by the Indian International Friendship Society (IIFS) in recognition of being a young achiever, during the annual ceremony held in New Delhi on May 4, 2012
–Invited to talk at the International Conference, New Horizons in Biotechnology (NHBT-2015), Thiruvananthapuram, November 22-25, 2015
–Invited speaker, Bioprocessing India-2015, Chennai, December 17-19, 2015
–Invited speaker, Session Chair, Bioprocessing India-2016, Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Mohali, India, December 15-17, 2016
–Short lecture, 3rd International Conference on Natural Products Utilization: from Plants to Pharmacy Shelf (ICNPU-2017), Plovdiv, Bulgaria, October 16-22, 2017
–Invited Speaker, Bioprocessing India-2017, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India, December 9-11, 2017
–Invited Speaker, Bioprocessing India-2018, Delhi, India, December 16-18, 2018
–Invited Speaker, International Conference on Traditional Medicine, Phytochemistry, and Medicinal Plants (TMedPM-2018), Japan, October 15-17, 2018
–Invited speaker, 4th International Conference on Natural Products Utilization: from Plants to Pharmacy Shelf (ICNPU-2019), Albena, Bulgaria, May 29 – 01 June 2019
–Invited Speaker, Symposium on Endophytes and their applications in Agriculture, GKVK campus, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, September 24-26 2019
–Convenor, Biological Engineering Society Conference (BESCON-2019), Chennai, October 18-19 2019
–Selected by the Institute leadership to be a part of the Symposium on Imagining India in 2047 held during March 7-9, 2022 through Innovation in partnership with the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Govt of India to evolve a Vision 2047 for India by being a member of the NUCLEUS and CELL body for Healthcare
–Selected by the Institute Leadership for the WLI- Women Leading IIT program organized by IIT Madras and Mckinsey& Co and GLOW, 2022. The programme kick-started from July 1-2, 2022@IITM
–Convenor and Speaker, AYURTECH CME Workshop and IITM-AYUTECH Lecture Series, IIT Madras, June 20 – 25, 2022
–Presented ‘The Camptothecin technology’ at IInvenTiv All IIT R&D research fair, IIT Delhi, 14 -15 October 2022
–Invited Speaker, The Institute of Mathematics (IMSc) Chennai on 15th November 2022 as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and IMSc60, Tuesday, 15 November 2022
–Invited Speaker, Webinar on fermentation technology invited by Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Kalapet, Puducherry, 27 April 2023
–Invited Speaker, International Conference on Biotechnology for Sustainable Bioresources and Bioeconomy (BSBB-2022) at IITG, 9th December 2022
–Received the Outstanding Women Researcher award, Venus International Women Awards, 2023
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Specialisation: Biochemical Engineering
ii. Research expertise: Plant cell and microbial technology
iii. Research Interest: Bioprocess development and optimization for large-scale in vitro production of high-value low volume phytochemicals
8. Professor Ligy Philip, Dean (Planning) & Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras
AWARDS
–Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC),
–Fellow of the National Academy of Engineers (FNAE),
–BOYSCAST fellowship Govt. of India
–YOUNG SCIENTIST RESEARCH GRANT The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Water Treatment and Rural Water Supply
ii. Domestic and Industrial wastewater treatment with emphasis on wastewater reuse and recycling
iii. Bioremediation of contaminated soils, air and water with heavy metals, pesticides and other hazardous organic compounds
9. Professor Sunetra Sarkar, Department of Aerospace Engineering
AWARDS
–2007 Rubicon Fellowship from the Netherlands Foundation for scientific research (NWO)
–2004 Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award from Zonta International Amelia Earhart
–2001 Fellowship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Conferences (MIT)
RESEARCH AREAS
i. Deterministic & stochastic treatment of nonlinear fluid- structure-interaction and fluid flow problems
ii. Unsteady fluid dynamics (of moving bodies)
iii. Nonlinear dynamics
iv. Uncertainty quantification
10. Professor Madhulika Dixit, Department of Biotechnology
AWARDS
–2004 Institute Research Development Award from IIT Madras
–2013 Young Faculty Recognition Award, YFRA from IIT Madras
–2011 Senior IYBA Award from DBT, Govt. of India
RESEARCH AREAS
The primary objective of her research team is to elucidate molecular and cellular mechanisms of normal and aberrant function of blood vessels under physiological and pathophysiological conditions respectively. The key areas we focus on are endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and edema. In order to obtain a holistic picture of these issues, we subscribe to the following approaches:
i. High-throughput screening for identification of changes in gene expression from clinical samples.
ii. In vitro tissue culture experiments to identify signalling intermediates altered under pathological settings. For this, we employ primary cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs).
iii. Validation of in vitro data through in vivo animal experiments.
iv. Use of viral vector-based gene delivery systems to rectify the faulty functioning of the signaling intermediates.
