Name: Prof. Srinivas Krishnaswamy

Present Designation: Professor

Date of joining: January 7^th 2005

Education: B.E. Chemical (Shivaji University), PhD (University of London; Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2004)

Work Experience (prior to joining BITS Pilani): 8 years, 9 months

Aug. 1991 – Aug. 1992 ---- Vijay Kumar refractories and Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.

Feb. 1993 – Aug.1994 ---- Oswal Petrochemicals

Sept. 1994 – Dec. 1999 ---- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Sept. 2003 – Sept. 2004 ---- Postdoctoral Research Assistant (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Career Progression in BITS Pilani

Years of experience   : 18 years

Assistant Professor    : 7/01/2005 (date of joining) to 31/07/2010

Associate Professor   : 1/08/2010 to 31/01/2015

Professor                    : 1/2/2015 till date

TEACHING CONTRIBUTION

Number of courses taught / FD student projects till date

First Degree core courses      : 14

Higher Degree core courses  :   6

Elective courses                     :   3

First Degree project type courses (students guided):  ~120 First Degree students

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION

Number of research proposals sanctioned funding: 10

Total funding approved / sanctioned till date: ~Rs. 930 lakhs / ~Rs. 841 lakhs

Funding Agencies: Aditya Birla Group, Ministry of Fertilizers, DST-SERB, Aditya Birla Science & Technology Centre, Centre for High Technology (Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas), GAIL (India) Ltd., Thermax Ltd., SPARC

Number of PhD students: 5 (completed); 6 (on-going)

Higher Degree Dissertations supervised: 10

Number of publications (Journals + Conferences): 18 (when in BITS) & 3 (before joining BITS)

Number of patents: 4 (3 granted, 1 published/examined)

CONTRIBUTION TO BITS ADMINISTRATION

Positions held

In-Charge Student Sports activities (K K Birla Goa campus): 4 years

Warden (K K Birla Goa campus): 1 year

Group Leader / HOD Department of Chemical Engineering, K K Birla Goa campus: 9 years (2006 – 2015)

Professor in-Charge (University wide CIIE): 4 years

In-Charge (Central Sophisticated instrumentation facility, (K K Birla Goa campus): 1.4 years

Dean (University wide) Academic Graduate studies Division: 2.6 years

Presently HOD Department of Chemical Engineering, K K Birla Goa campus (since May 2022)

Membership of Committees

·      Member of Department Recruitment Committee

·      Department Research Committee (Ex-Officio Chairman)

·      Member of Disciplinary committee (2006)

·      Member of Anti-ragging flying squad (2005 – 2006)

·      Member of committee for working of connectivity and Internet facilities in the Institute (2006)

·      Member of organizing committee regarding PM’s visit to BITS Pilani Goa campus (2006)

·      Member of Doctoral Advisory Committee (DAC)

·      Member of Academic Advisory Council (2008)

·      Member of Library committee

·      Member of recruitment committee (2008 – till date)

·      Member of organizing committee regarding APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to BITS Pilani Goa campus (2009)

·      Member of committee for combating HEPATITIS-A (2009)

·      Member of Convocation Committee (2011 - 2013)

·      Member of Committee involved in recruitment of non-teaching staff

·      Member of Senate

·      Member of CCFAC Committee related to faculty appraisals

·      Vice-Chairman of Research Board (as Dean AGSRD)

·      Convenor of Doctoral Advisory Committee (as Dean AGSRD)

·      Member of the Academic Counselling Board for on-campus programmes (as Dean AGSRD)

·      Member of Academic Monitoring Board for off-campus programmes (as Dean AGSRD)

Miscellaneous 

·      BITSAT Invigilator 2005

·      Have been part of student admissions, registration (2006 - 2013) and orientation (2010 - 2013)

·      Co-ordinator of NAAC visit in 2008

·  Task Force Leader for thrust area "Campus Life" as part of the Mission 2012 - Vision 2020 programme

·      Coordinator of the “Ïndustry Day” event at Hyderabad Campus in 2015

·      Led the Imperative related to Industry Engagement at part of Mission 2015 - Vision 2020

·     Associated with co-ordinating discussions with Mckinsey in relation to leveraging WILP programmes of the Institute 

·    Member of cross campus team associated with framing new course structure for specific BS Process Engineering programmes (WILP)

·     Part of the team that worked with the leadership during the IOE team visit (Jan 2020)

·      Coordinated development of the M.Tech Environmental Engineering programme as HOD in 2014 

AWARDS / OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

·      Doctoral student Fehad Nabi Khan received the Prime Minister’s fellowship for Doctoral Research

·      PhD funded by Modine Manufacturing Company USA