Professor Nair received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1976; his Master of Science (1978) and Doctor of Engineering Science (1983) degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University, New York, USA.  He joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1985 where he has since taught and conducted research in the area of composite materials.  In 2006 he joined Amrita University, India, where he is the Dean for Research and Head of the DST Centre for Nanotechnology.  He is the coordinator for the MFPI sanctioned Food Analysis and Research Centre at Kochi.  His current specialty is nanomaterials and nanocomposite materials, biological interactions of nanomaterials, medical and biological applications of nanomaterials and application of nanomaterials in energy storage and production. In 1986 he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Ronald Reagan for research in composite materials. Dr. Nair is also the recipient of the National Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Centre Award from the Government of India in 2006  for a Centre in Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Research based on Nanomaterials.  

16 years of research & teaching experience at IIT-Kharagpur, AEC-Bhatkal, and Amrita. Has around 60 publications in national & international journals and conference proceedings. Has organized a series of workshops and summer schools in e-commerce, fractals, chaos, neural networks, and wavelets for industry and academia. Currently on deputation to the Center for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN). Authored a book on“Insight into Wavelets”, published by Prentice Hall, New Delhi.

Nine years of industrial experience with 3M Company in Minnesota, Texas, and California (USA). Seven years of experience in academic research as a graduate student at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Certification of Six Sigma Black Belt Training from 3M. Successfully led quality improvement/cost reduction projects in various 3M Company manufacturing plants in the US, Canada, Singapore, and Japan. Trained over 600 engineers, managers, and operators in statistical methodology & software, and Six Sigma. Has authored and co-authored several publications in US technical journals. Expertise in GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and Internal Auditing.

Dr. Ramachandran K. I. is currently working as Research Faculty, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Production Engg, Amrita Institute Of Technology.B.Tech. in Mechanical engineering from Govt. Engineering College, Trichur under Calicut University. M.Tech (Mech. engineering) from IIT-KanpurPhD in Manufacturing Engineering from IIT-Madras.His research interests are Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid dynamics, Wavelets, Signal Processing and Partial Differential Equations. He is senior member of SME. He is a member of ASME, SIAM, ISA, Institution of Engineers, Computer Society of India and ISTE. He has many papers to his credit and has participated and conducted several conferences/workshops in India.

Mr.Pradeep Achan
CTO, Amrita Technologies

14 years of experience in software development and deployment of enterprise applications on variety of platforms. Worked for organizations in USA like Sun Microsystems, Network Associates, Nortel Networks and Tata Unisys. Currently Chief Technology Officer, Amrita Technologies and Project Leader of Amrita Hospital Information System, a complex ERP application covering Clinical, administrative and financial areas. Experience in developing Operating System level software led to the design and development of Health Care Middleware Operating System, a Patent Pending technology for Amrita Technologies. Primary research inclinations are in Bioinformatics; guided several UG and PG Projects

AMMA appointed Dr.P.Venkat Rangan as Vice Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in July, 2003. He was professor, Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and founder and director of multimedia lab at the university. Dr. Rangan has been the recipient of President of India’s gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai in 1984. He ranked first again in his graduate studies in Computer Science at Cornell University. His Ph.D. research work at UC Berkeley, California was again judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM. He has also won several prestigious awards including the NCR Research Innovation Award in 1991 and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) National Young Investigator Award in 1993, and 25 best entrepreneurs of US Award by the President of America in 2000. Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, at the age of 33, was one of the youngest full professors at the University of California, San Diego.He has also been Founder CEO of Yodlee Inc., which is a multi-national leader in online aggregation services. The company holds 99% of market share of the back engine for the world’s leading financial portals including leaders like Citi Bank, Bank of America etc. He has to his credit 30 patents and has published over 100 research papers.

Dr.V.Sivakumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering having doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in the area of Solid Mechanics in 2006. Prior to research, working for FE code development software companies, Altair Engineering and EASi Technologies at Bangalore as a team leader. While doing the masters programme in structural engineering involved in a research project at ADA, Bangalore, development of a capacitance based accelerometers sponsored by SSPL- New Delhi with Dr.A.R.Upadhya, who is now the Managing Director, NAL, Bangalore. At IIT Madras, involved in a project sponsored by VSSC, ISRO for rocket case stress analysis. Totally having nine years of experience including with Amrita University about one year in teaching, having done many structural analysis with various fields like building frames, automotive bodies and aerospace structures. The areas of interests presently concentrating are: the non-linear structural mechanics, composite mechanics and bucking analysis with real imperfections. Exposure in most of the FE codes like ABAQUS, NASTRAN, LS-DYNA, ANSYS and HYPERWORKS.

Sarith P Sathian recently finished his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras. He primarily works in the areas of Gas Dynamics (experimental and computational). He has been working as the Project Officer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras in various projects of national importance sponsored by ISRO, DRDO, ARDB etc. As part of his PhD work, he developed laser based measurement technique which can be used effectively in low density hypersonic flows. Earlier he obtained his M.S in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras. M.S thesis was in the area of Rarefied Gas Dynamics. Before joining IITMadras for his higher studies, he spent two years in Amrita as a lecturer in the department of mechanical engineering. Has two years industrial experience in the field of CAD/CAM/CAE.
He is a recipient of WOS Fellowship from United States Air Force Office for Scientific Research. Published papers in refereed international journals and conferences.
His current area of research includes Compressible internal and external flows, DSMC computation of rarefied gas flows, Aero thermodynamics, Shock tube flows, hypersonic wakes.

Prof.Vallath Nandakumar was awarded his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1982, in Electrical Engineering(Electronics). He was awarded his M.S. and Ph.D. in Superconducting from one of world's best Universities, the University of California at Berkeley, has accepted to full-time lead AMRITA UNIVERSITY's TIFAC NATIONAL CENTER of EXCELLENCE (CORE). Dr. Nandakumar has also been researcher at well known electronics multinational companies such as, Tektronix Inc., and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he served as a design manager for digital integrated circuits and communication chips.

Joshua Freeman graduated from the University of Oklahoma, in the United States with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, with an options leading towards a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He discovered engineering while in college and decided to pursue a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, also at the University of Oklahoma.
While at the University, he worked with an array or Electric and Solar powered vehicles which competed and won in various national competitions. Upon graduation, he went to work for General Motors, where he was involved in their Diesel Electric Hybrid Bus program for many years. He spent time in the Field Engineering Department with the hybrids and also for the Allison Transmission Division heavy duty automatic transmissions. Primary skills specialized in were control system diagnostics and repair, instrumentation, data collection and measurement, data analysis, and test engineering. Other skills applicable to WINSOC include experience with photovoltaic solar cells, batteries, and Controller Area Network (CAN) systems.
Joshua has teaching experience at Amrita University, India, in subjects such as Automotive Engineering and Renewable Energy. He headed the Robotics Lab at the University and guided various university and student level projects. He is currently on deputation as a Research Associate for the WINSOC project.

Dr Krishna is the Program Co-Director, Indo-US & International Initiatives at AMRITA University, and until recently was based in San Francisco Bay Area, United States of America. She has a Ph.D. in Semiconductor Fabrication from Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and over 26 US Patents to her credit. She has had key roles in the Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Initiative for Higher Education and Research, signed into agreement in 2005 by about 20 of the top US Universities including Harvard, Princeton, SUNY Buffalo, etc. (www.amrita.edu and www.amrita.edu/indo-us) as well as the University of California-India Research Initiative in 2006. Most recently, together with Maneesha Ramesh, Dr. Krishna Sree Achuthan co-presented a series of seminars on the Indo-European Winsoc Project at prominent US Universities such as UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCSD, Purdue, MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Krishna is also the lead faculty advisor on the Indian side for the joint Amrita-UT Austin student project effort in which a team of 10 students from Amrita and UT Austin are jointly carrying out a mega cross-continental project for their honors degree.

Dr.M.P.Chandrasekharan took his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from University of Kerala, M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D in the area of Industrial Management from IIT Madras. He was the founder Director NIT Calicut. He has a good number of Publications in International Journals and there are 34,000 items listed by “Google Search ” under “M P Chandrasekharan”. He is a referee to six International Journals.

He is the Founder Director, National Institute of Technology, Calicut: June 2002 - June2003, Referee to six International Journals (IJPR, IIE, EJOR, Omega, JOM, Annals of OR), Advisor, UPSC Selection Committee from 1999, Expert Member, Senior Faculty Selection Committee, IIT Madras ( 1995 - 1997) and IIM Kozhikode, Delivered the F W Taylor Memorial Lecture in the Annual Convention of Institution of Engineers (India) 2002, at Chennai. He led an expert team to investigate the reasons of the Rail Accident dated 22.06.2001 on Bridge No. 924 (Kadalundy).

Nikhil K. Kothurkar joined Amrita Vishwa Viyapeetham in 2007 after completing higher studies in the US. He has a B.E. (Polymer Engineering) from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, University of Pune, India where his final year project was “Hollow Fiber-Reinforced Polyester, Wind Turbine Blades”. In 1999, he moved to Gainesville, Florida, USA, to pursue his graduate studies in the University of Florida, Materials Science and Engineering Department. He worked as a graduate research assistant under the guidance of Dr. Anthony B. Brennan. His research project was developing inorganic-organic particulate nanocomposites for ultrafast infrared optical sensor protection from destructive laser attacks. He graduated with a doctoral degree in August 2004, after defending his dissertation entitled “Solid State Cadmium Sulfide-Polymer Nanocomposites”. He was offered a position as a postdoctoral research associate in the Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory, University of Florida, for two years. Here developed rugged and crack-free sol-gel photocatalyst coatings on metal and ceramic substrates. He also worked on a project to develop lower cost hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells. He further worked as a Research Scientist in the Clean Energy Research Center, University of South Florida for a year in the fields of photocatalysis and its applications in biomedical devices, and hydrogen production by biomass gasification.
His fields of interest are nanomaterials, photocatalysis, biomedical materials and devices, low cost waster treatment, alternative energies. Currently he is teaching Environmental Science and Engineering and Materials Science, at Amrita.

Dr. Murali Rangarajan has recently joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham as an Assistant Professor. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering in 1997 from Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi through Madurai Kamaraj University. During this time, he worked on design and lab scale development of a PEM electrolyzer to dissociate potassium sulfate. He obtained his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1999, wherein he worked as a part of a team involved in the development, testing and installation of software sensors for online optimization of an atmospheric crude distillation unit (CDU) at the Indian Oil Corporation, Mathura Refinery, India. He then joined the University of Florida, Gainesville USA for his doctoral studies. He obtained his PhD in 2006 for a dissertation titled “Polymer-Induced Forces at Interfaces” in which he studied equilibrium forces of compression of physisorbed polymer layers using lattice mean-field theories and simulations, and biophysical modeling of the motility of Listeria monocytogenes propelled by actin filaments. He worked brief as a visiting research scholar (post-doctoral fellow) at the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida on modeling and simulation of alternate energy systems, including combined power/cooling thermodynamic cycles and thermochemical methods of hydrogen production.
His current research interests include modeling and simulation of confined complex fluids, modern control strategies for crude oil processing units, petroleum reservoir engineering, alternate energy systems for fuel and cooking, and developing innovative strategies to improve engineering education.

Dr. Kumar Rajamani, Ph.D. (Switzerland) Senior Scientist, Philips Research - Asia

Dr. Kumar Rajamani joined the Department of Computer Science Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai as an Assistant Professor in May 2008. Prior to this assignment he was working as a Senior Scientist at Philips Research Asia – Bangalore. His research focus during this period included health care technologies for emerging markets. He has two patents filings on a heart disease screening device to his credit. He completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2006 from M.E. Müller Research Center, University of Bern, Switzerland under the guidance of Prof. Martin Styner. His dissertation was titled “Three Dimensional Surface Extrapolation from Sparse Data using Deformable Bone Models” in which he studied different schemes to extrapolate extremely sparse landmarks and surface points to obtain a complete, highly probable three-dimensional surface representation. He received his Masters in Technology (M.Tech) in Computer Science in 2002 and Masters of Science (M.Sc) in Mathematics in 2000, both with distinction from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Andra Pradesh, India. His main field of expertise is in shape modeling, shape deformation and statistical shape analysis. He has a good background in Biomedical Image Processing, Medical Image Analysis, Image guidance in Computer Aided Surgery, Active Shape Models, Segmentation, Registration, Feature Extraction and 2D Image Mosaicing.

Dr. Radha Guha did her B.E. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India and M.S in Production Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. She received her doctorate degree in Computer Systems and Software from the EECS dept. of University of California, Irvine in Dec. 2007. She has joined Amrita University in May 2008. Her current research topic has been efficient resource management and application architecture configuration for the reconfigurable computing platform of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for faster and efficient computations of the compute intensive applications. She is also interested in research on various Computer Graphics and Visualization techniques and wireless sensor network applications. Before joining the academia, she worked as a senior Software System Engineer and also as an Electrical Engineer for several years.

Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Vayalakkara Sivadas carried out doctoral studies in Transverse Turbulent Jets utilizing optical diagnostic techniques at IIT-Bombay as a CSIR-Fellow and at German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR)-Göttingen as a DAAD-Fellow. Thereafter worked in the area of sprays, especially on liquid film disintegration studies at the Thermodynamics Laboratory, IST-Lisbon under European Commission project DIME, Direct Injection Spray Engine Processes Mechanisms to Improve Performance. As part of this program, he participated in a short-course on Latest Advances in Spray Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh - PA under the coordination of Prof. Norman Chigier. Before joining Amrita, he was at Nanyang Technological University-Singapore teaching undergraduate courses in mathematics and fluid mechanics, as well as carried out research in surface wave dynamics under Singapore-Stanford Partnership (SSP). Research areas of his interest are Surface Wave Dynamics, Sprays, Interfacial Instabilities and Chaos.
Invited member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)-2002.
Biographical profile appeared in the 17th (Millennium) 18th editions of Marquis Who is Who in the World and 32nd 33rd editions of Who’s Who in Finance and Industry.
Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) Fellowship, 2000
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, 1991
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Fellowship, 1987

Amit has more than 11 years of industry and R&D experience working in companies such as Agfa Healthcare(Canada), Biztravel(part of Rosenbluth International)USA, and is currently pursuing his Research Career in
sponsored R&D projects at Amrita Research Labs, Amritapuri.

Dr. Ganesh Udupa, Associate Professor & Head, Mechanical Engineering. Dept. M.Tech in Prod Engineering Systems Technology and Ph.D., in Mechanical Engineering (Precision Engineering and Metrology ). Research Fellow, School of MPE, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Presently as SMA Fellow, SMPE, NTU.

Researcher. Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Industrial; experience at IT industries, Satyam, Ford (IT Division) Detroit and Deloitte Chicago. He is currently working for the WINSOC project.

Jayaraj Poroor has more than 13 years of industry and R&D experience, working in companies such as Pacific Bell (now AT&T), Califronia. His primary research interests are wireless networking and information security. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D.

Kamal Bijlani, Head of E-Learning Initiatives, Led and consulted at advanced software startup companies from MIT and Stanford. An expert in software, multimedia, and video, also won an award for a documentary, and led several multimedia productions. BE in Electronics from BITS Pilani and Masters in Computer Science from Michigan.

Maneesha V. Ramesh, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science. B.E. in Mechanical Production Engineering, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram. MBA from Amrita University, Coimbatore. Doing her Ph.D. (expected in 2008). She has a dual specialization in Systems Management and Finance Management. MRITA’s project coordinator for WINSOC project. PhD scholar at AMRITA University.

Radha has done M.C.A from R.E.C., Warangal. Has 8 years of teaching experience and is currently working in Amrita Research Labs on E-learning project.

Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Sr. Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering.. B.E from College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy. Has extensive industry experience in Bay Area, California with companies like ST Microelectronics, Phoenix Technologies etc.

Ramesh Bhakthavatchalu, Assistant Professor – ECE Department. M.E (Applied Electronics) from College of Engineering, Guindy. Extensive experience in India and USA including companies like Cirrus logic, Syntest Technologies.

Ranganathan. R, Coordinator, Amrita VRC. M.A Kerala University, Former Accounts officer of Kerala State Road Transport corporation. Experience in administrative as well as accounts branches of the public sector undertaking in managerial cadre.

Renu M. R., Asst. Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg. M.Sc. (Engg.) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Research scholar at Indian Institute of Science.

Dr. Sreedhar K.M., Assistant Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Chemistry, M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University.

Dr. Sreelatha .P, Assistant Professor & Chair Person, Department of Physics. M.Phil degree in Physics & Ph.D in Physics. More than ten years experience in research and seven years experience in teaching Graduate and Post Graduate level.

Sriram Karunagaran, Bachelors Degree from University of Madras. Sr. Design Engineer at Alliance Semiconductors, California. He is current working with Amrita Research Labs for the past three years on Wireless Telematics.

Sudharsan. S, ASIC Design & Verification Engineer. Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronics), in 1998 from University of Madras. Verification & Product Engineer with ATI Research Silicon Valley Inc, SantaClara CA.

Sureshkumar. P, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Electronics and Communications. ME from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in System Science and Automation. Worked at Center for Research in Intelligent systems laboratory, University of California, Riverside.

Vipin Pavithran, Researcher TIFAC CORE Cyber security. Over 10 years of industrial experience. Involved in guiding students for IBMs TGMC (students won 5th prize) and Sun Microsystems Code For Freedom Contests.

Dr. Manjula Nair, Associate Prof., Electrical & Electronics Engg.Received Ph.D in Power Quality Improvement from IIT Delhi & M.Tech in Power Systems from Calicut University.

Dr. K. Sangeeta, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science. Received Masters in Science in Mathematics from Bhopal University, Bhopal and Ph.D from IISc Bangalore.

Dr. Aravindakshan.M, Coordinator, Centre for Environmental Studies. Ph.D., from the University of Madras and Post-Doctoral programme at the University of Hawaii, USA. Has over 40 years of experience in teaching, research, extension and research Management in Tropical Horticulture. He was a visiting in the University of Paraiba, Brazil.

Dr. Bhagawan S.S, Professor , Chemical Engg. and Material Science. M.Sc. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, D.I.I.T in High Polymer & Rubber Technology and Ph.D., from IIT, Kharagpur.

Prof. Devarajan A.T., Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engg. Post Graduate from IIT Bombay. Head of Power Electronics Group at the R&D center of Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation,Trivandrum.

Dr. Goshteeswaran .S, Professor, Mechanical Engineering. M.E.in Industrial Engg. from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and Ph.D., in Mechanical Engineering.

Guruvayurappan.K, D.M.E in mechanical Engineering from the CPT ,Chennai and having 20 Years Industrial experience.

Ilangovan.S, Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering . M.E. in Production Engineering from Bharathiar University. His areas of interest is Production Engineering.

Dr. Isha T.B, Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engg. M.Tech in Power Electronics from Calicut University and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur.

Dr. Jayakumar. M, Associate Professor & Vice Chairman, Electronics & Commuication Engg. PhD. in Microwave Electronics from the University of Delhi. He was a recipient of Dr. K.S.Krishnan Research fellowship in Engineering by Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India.

Dr. Joshi C. Haran, Professor, Mechanical Engineering. M.Sc. in Thermal Power from Regional Engineering College, Calicut and Ph.D from University of Huddersfield, UK.

Mahadevan .S, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Sciences. M.Tech in Microwave and Radar Electronics. Currently pursuing Doctoral degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Amrita.

Manoj .P, Head, Indo US Department. BEng from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. MBA in IT Management, University of Surrey, UK and MS in Information Systems from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with industry experience in Singapore and Australia.

Meera B.Sasikumar, Asst. Professor, Chemical Engg. and Material Science. Received M.Tech in Polymer Technology from Cochin University of Science and Technology.

Dr.Mini K.M, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering. Ph.D in Structural Engineering from Anna University,Chennai.

Dr. Mohandas.K, Professor & Head, Mechanical Engineering. Received M.Tech.and Ph.D.(Reliability Engineering and Maintenance) from I.I.T,Madras.

Dr.N.N.Pillai, Professor Emeritus in Civil Engineering, Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur, 1965., Post Doctoral Fellow at Univ. of waterloo, Canada, RMHL Colorado, and Univ of Cannecticut, USA, Served as faculty member at Univ. of Connecticut.

Dr. Padmanabhan T.R. Professor Emeritus, Doctorate in Control Systems from IIT Kharagpur; was in IIT faculty for 15 years -Research in nonlinear systems; 20 years in Industrial R & D - heading teams in dev. of products in Industrial controls & Power Electronics, Was head of Amrita School of Engg for 5 years.

Dr. Padmanabhan Nambiar T.N., Professor and Chairman,Electrical & Electronics Engg. Ph.D from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Raghuram.P, Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering. M.E. in Production Engineering from Anna University.

Ramesh Kumar .K, Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering. ME - Production Engineering from Bharathiar University. Areas of Inerest are Optimization, Simulation Modeling, CAM.

Sanjivi Arul, Asst. Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Received MS in Systems and Information, from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan..

Dr. Sasi K Kottayil, Professor and Vice Chairman, Electrical & Electronics Engg. Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in Wind electricty generation.

Satheesh Babu T.G., Lecturer, Dept. of Sciences. M.Sc.in Chemistry from Gandhigram Rural Univeristy. Currently he is working towards his PhD in the area of biosensors.

Dr. Sethumadhavan. M, Associate Professor in Dept. of Information Technology and is currently working in TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security. He as a Ph. D in Number Theory from Calicut Regional Engineering College.

Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Milano University. Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, and a Ph.D., in computational science from the University of Milan. His current area of research is mathematical modeling of single granule neurons and network functions of the cerebellar granular layer.

Dr.Somasundaram .K, Associate Professor in Mathematics, M.Phil in Mathematics from St, Joseph’s College, Trichy and Ph.D in Mathematics. International Educator, Cambridge Biographical Centre, England.

Prof. Subba Rao. R, Chairman, Chemical Engg. and Materials Science. B.E. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and PG Diploma from Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. Has 30 years of industrial and 11 years of academic experience

Dr. Thirumalini.S, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. M.E. from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering by Coimbatore Institute of Technology.

Anand. R, Amrita Technologies. M.S. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,Ohio. Worked in Oracle Corp, Redwood City, California ,Server technologies division for over seven years Specializing in databases, synchronization technologies.

Prema Nedungadi founder of the eLearning software package from Amrita Learning. She has 14 years of management experience in the software industry and a Masters degree in Computer Science from JNU, New Delhi. Previously an owner of a successful software consulting corporation in Pleasanton, California. At Sybase Inc., CA.

Raghu Raman with more than 17 years of Technology and Leadership experience in the development and delivery of Enterprise-class Software applications. CEO of Amrita Technologies. Previously an Entreprenuer with NEC Research Labs, USA . Former Vice President of Engineering at Saltare Inc. and Promptu Corporation, Executive Director of Product Development at Informix and IBM. He holds a MCA from JNU, New Delhi and a MBA. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California , Berkeley.

Ramesh Raghavan – Chief Software Architect, has done his M.Sc Computer Science at Bharathidasan University, Trichy. He has over 18 years of experience in designing and developing complex enterprise applications. He has architected software systems for various industries including Telecommunications, Healthcare and Finance.

26 years of academic experience, including 21 years at various US Universities such as Oklahoma City University, San Francisco State University, Pace University,University of San Francisco and New York University. Also taught in academic programs in Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Publications in US academic journals such as the “Journal of International Business Studies”, and the “Journal of International Money & Finance”. Worked briefly with the United Nations (Center for Transnational Corporations) in New York and with Rollei Corporation in Singapore.

Taught at Stanford Business School for 5 years, guest lectured at Harvard Business School, and 12 years teaching experience is taking a course on “BPM-Managing Change ”. He did his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering in four years from University of Pittsburgh, USA. He has held senior management positions in leading Corporates in the USA like Intel, 3Com, Capital Group and Soros Fund Management, owned by the brilliant investor, Mr. George Soros, where he was Managing Director. He has published 2 books: “Business Telecommunications” and“Business Telematics,” by the leading business book publisher in the USA. He was a finalist for the Distinguished Teaching Award at Stanford and has interacted with business leaders like Bill Gates, Michael Dell and Gordon Moore. He has also been on the boards of directors of many technology firms, and now focuses his efforts on helping large charitable organizations.

More than 10 years of combined teaching and research experience at UC Berkeley as a graduate student, where he earned masters degrees in Economics, Marketing Science, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Doctoral work was on the post-Ph.D choices and career outcomes of foreign-born US PhDs in Science & Engineering. Extensive experience in academic research. Worked with several research projects in UC Berkeley both in the fields higher education and transportation research involving the econometric modeling of individual choice behavior. Publications include a forthcoming chapter in “The Ph. D Passport to Multiple Destinations,” edited by Maresi Nerad and Joseph Cerny and papers in international journals including “Transportation Research Record,” “International Higher Education.” Worked with Ponds India Ltd. for around three years as Area Sales Manager, planning, implementing, and controlling the sales of Pond’s products in specified geographical locations in the Southern and Eastern parts of India. Current Teaching interests include International Business, Research Methods, and Marketing.

Over 12 years of teaching and research experience. Recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for 12 consecutive months to pursue advanced research at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo under the auspices of the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Foreign Researchers. Has qualified the National Educational Test (NET) for Lectureship in Economics conducted by University Grant Commission, New Delhi. Publications in scholarly international journals, such as the Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, and Opsearch.

Ten years of experience in international development working in nature conservation and development projects in Madagascar, Vietnam, Lao PDR, and India with the Cornell Institute for Food, Agricultural and Development (CIIFAD), WWF-Indochina, ADB, UNDP, and GFA Terra Systems (Germany). Consulting assignments included project design and implementation, design of monitoring and evaluation systems, impact assessment, training needs analysis and training delivery, and strategic planning. Brief consulting visits to Thailand and Cambodia. 18 months of grassroots rural development experience with NGOs in Gujarat and Maharashtra. Two years of teaching experience. Co-author of the book Spatial Planning for Nature Conservation in Vu Quang Nature Reserve: A Landscape Ecology Approach published by WWF Indochina

Managing INDO-US Center at AMRITA Bangalore Campus since January 2006.
Prior to AMRITA was working as Director, Software Global Business Unit, HP, Cupertino, CA, USA. Worked for 11 years in HP. Prior to HP, worked 5 years as a Technolgy and Business Consultant in Price Waterhouse, LA, CA, USA.
Have a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCLA, CA, USA and B.E. Bangalore University in Electronics and Communications.
On board for several start-up companies in Silicon Valley, CA.

Dr. Prem Nair is the Medical Director of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Chairman of the Digestive Diseases Institute at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. He completed his MBBS from National Medical College, Residency in the Department of Internal Medicine from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and took his Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Fellowship from Los Angeles County Hospital, California. He was a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California and Director of Gastroenterology at the USC-Good Samaritan hospital for Ten years prior to his return to India.

Dr Ajit N. Babu who directs the Center for Digital Health at the Cochin campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is Professor and Chairman for the Institute of Medical Informatics and Multimedia Education at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Cochin. After completing his MBBS at Trivandrum Medical College, Kerala, Dr Babu completed his post-graduate residency in internal medicine at North Shore University Hospital of Cornell University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. During his training, he was the winner of the Syntex/MEDICINE award for excellence in clinical practice. He got a degree of Master in Public Health (MPH) from Saint Louis University (SLU) in 1998 and became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in 1999. He also has had advanced training in medical informatics through the National Library of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Massachusetts in 2000. Dr. Babu returned to India in 2004 to set-up the Institute of Medical Informatics and Multimedia Education at AIMS as well as the Center for Digital Health. He continues to retain faculty appointment at Saint Louis University.

Dr. Kuriakose has had his training in dentistry from University of Mysore, India, Medicine from University of Bristol, UK, General surgery from University of Bristol, Maxillofacial surgery from University of Newcastle, head and neck surgical oncology from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York. He has completed American Head and Neck Society accredited training in advanced head and neck oncology, fellowships of Royal college of surgeons of Ireland, England and Edinburgh, completed exit examination of U.K. intercollegiate board of examination in Maxillofacial surgery and is board certified by American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. From 1999 to 2003 he served as Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at New York University and was the Director of Head and Neck Oncology Translational Research Program of New York University. He continues his affiliation with New York University as a part-time Associate Professor. He is editorial review board member of six international journals.Since November 2006, he joined Amrita Institute of Medical Science as professor and chairman of head and neck institute of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin. His research group focuses on early detection and prevention of oral cancer

Dr. Ganesan completed his MBBS & MD(Gen.Medicine) from JIPMER and then moved to UK. He is also a Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences (MNAMS). He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and has specialized training in Medical Oncology accredited by Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training (JCHMT-UK). He has worked as Senior Registrar at St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, Royal London Hospital, London and was a Visiting Fellow in Medical Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston & Fox Chase Cancer Institute, Philadelphia. He secured his doctorate (Ph.D) for a study of bcr and abl genes and their products in Philadelphia chromosome positive leukaemia’s from University of London.
His teaching experience include lectures on cancer for MRCP, M.Phil, Ph.D and undergraduate & post graduate students. He has been an Examiner at University of Oxford (DM)(D.Phil), Melbourne (Ph.D), Manchester(MD), Glasgow (MD), etc.
He has more than 100 publications and he has handled extramural scientific research grants exceeding 1.2 million pounds.
He was appointed as a Clinical Scientist by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and joined the newly established ICRF Medical Oncology Unit at Oxford in May 1990 as a Consultant in Medical Oncology. The position at the Consultant level had evolved leading to an integrated programme of research in gynaecological cancer and testicular cancer. The Clinical research programme, which has focused primarily on early phase I/II trials taking cognizance of preclinical research. The trials include improving the initial management of ovarian cancer, role of thalidomide, gene therapy and monoclonal antibody therapy. He has established Laboratory in the Institute of Molecular medicine at Oxford to understand the molecular genetic changes important in the pathogenesis of epithelial ovarian cancer. His main scientific research interests are in signal transduction and cancer genetics. Prior to joining AIMS, he was Reader/Honorary Consultant at University of Oxford, CRUK (Cancer Research UK) Dept. of Medic al Oncology, Churchill Hospital and Head, Ovarian Cancer Group, CRUK Molecular Oncology Laboratories, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.

He is currently setting up a research institute at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences to do Scientific research (www.aimshospital.org/research) in addition to being head of the cancer institute

Dr. Ajit Kumar Varma, Endocrinology, Diabetic lower limb and Podiatric Surgery. Recieved his M. S in General Surgery from University of Pune in 1990, he has immense experience in trauma surgery, major elective and emergency general surgeries.

Dr. Ajithakumari K, MBBS, DA, Senior Specialist, Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine. Diploma in Anesthesiology at Goa University and Palliative Medcine at the International School of Cancer Care at Oxford, UK. Medical Officer at the Amrita Kripa Charitable Hosptial in Kalpetta, Wyanad, a hospital dedicated to the tribes of Wyanad .

Prof. Balakrishnan.V, Professor of Gastroenterology & Former Chairman of Dept. of Gastroenterology. MD, Delhi University, DM (Gastroenterology)- PGI,Chandigarh. Was Director and Professor of Gastroenterology,Medical College, Trivandrum, HoD. 48 years of Undergraduate and 46 years of Postgraduate Teaching Experience.

Dr. Balu Vaidyanathan of PaediatricCardiology PG in Pediatrics from All India Institute of Medical Sciences and cardiology training (DM) from Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology. Responsible for the feotal cardiology program at AIMS. Awarded Commonwealth fellowship by the Government of India.

Dr. Chitrathara. K, Professor, Surgical Oncology. MD in Resident Training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Delhi University and MCh in Genito-urinary Surgery,. Trained in Gynaecologic Oncology, LEEP for Managing CIN, Genito - Urinary Surgery & Renal Transplantation. Worked as Sr. Consutant in Surgical Oncology, Lakesshore Hospital, Kochi. ICRETT fellowship. Introduced Loop Electrosurgical Excisional Procedure at Retional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, First lady Urologist of Kerala, Started Genito-Urinary Endoscopy (Diagnostic and Therapeutic).

Dr. Deepthy Menon, Assistant Professor at Centre for Nanosciences. Ph.D in Physics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, with five years of post-doctoral experience, in Technical University of Eindhoven, and at the International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology. Recipient of the “Best Thesis Award” constituted by the Indian Laser Association in 2002. Young Research Award from International Union of Materials Research Societies (1999), Young Scientist Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India 2002, and Rapid Young Investigator Grant from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India 2007.

Dr. Dilip Panikar, Professor and Head of Dept. of Neurosurgery. M.S. in General Surgery from M.S.University, Baroda in 1986 & M.Ch. Neurosurgery) SCTIMST, Trivandrum in 1989.

Dr. Haridas Kottaram Krishna Das, MD, DM, DNB (Card), Clinical Professor, Chairman & HOD of Department of Cardiology. MD in General Medicine from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal,. DM in Cardiology from Sree Chithra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science & Technology, Trivandrum. Rotary Vocational Excellence Award and EMEX Traveling award for professional excellence in Cardiology.

Dr. Jayakumar R.V., Professor of Endocrinology. MD in Medicine from Trivandrum Medical College in 1973. D.M. in Endocrinology, 1976-77 from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh. MRCP from the U.K.Royal College of Physicians in 1982. Fellow (FRCP) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Awarded the Best Clinical Research Doctor Award( Dr P.A.Alexander Award) by the IMA Academy of Medical Specialities in 2001. Best Professional Doctor award by Indian Diabetes Education Association in 2008.

Dr Kannan Vaidyanathan, Head - Metabolic Disorders Laboratory. MD (Biochemistry) from Medical College, Trivandrum, Post doctoral fellowship DBT-PDF, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dept of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Under Dr Kumaravel Somasundaram.

Dr. Krishna Prasad joined us in September 2008. Appointed as Assistant Professor at the Amrita Center for Nanosciences in Kochi , he has post-doctoral research experience from Stanford University Medical School in California , USA . Dr. Prasad completed his PhD in 2006 at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology. His PhD dissertation was titled, “Effect of bio-mimetic matrix molecules on differentiation of endothelial cells grown in-vitro on biomaterials for tissue engineering.”

Through out the five years of his doctoral studies, Dr. Prasad was supported by an institute fellowship, having qualified for it after obtaining first rank. A rank-holder throughout his academic career, he also obtained the second rank in the entire university when completing his MSc in Medical Biochemitry at the Mahatma Gandhi University .

Dr. Prasad has nearly a dozen publications in journals and conferences to his credit. Recently he traveled to Lausanne in Switzerland , to present research papers at the joint meeting of Tissue Engineering Society International and European Tissue Engineering Society. He was supported by a travel grant from DST.

Dr. Prasad’s research areas are investigating the possible uses of bio mimetic materials in regenerative medicine and vascular tissue engineering. He is currently participating in the Amrita Center for Nanosciences projects, viz tissue engineering for bone regeneration and stem cell differentiation for tissue engineering. We welcome him to Amrita.

Dr. Kavitha Radhakrishnan Dinesh, MD, Microbiology. MD in Medical Microbiology, from Kasturba Medical College,Mangalore. Worked as Clinical Microbiologist and teacher at Father Muller’s Medical College,Mangalore and at Academy of Medical Sciences, Pariyaram.

Dr. Krishna Kumar.R, MD, DM, FACC, FAHA, Professor and Head of Department of Pediatric Cardiology. Fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. Expertise in congenital heart disease management in developing countries with limited resources, development of inexpensive devices and strategies for non-surgical closure of heart defects and, education through development of teaching/training software for cardiovascular imaging.

Dr. Krishnakumar N. Menon, Neuroscience Laboratory. Master of Science Preliminary, Biochemistry from Monash University, Ausralia (1991) and Doctor of Philosophy, Neuroimmunology from Latrobe University, Australia (1996). Was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Neuroimmunology Laboratorhy, Australia (1996), JSPS Post Doctoral Fellow at the Neural Information Laboratory, Japan (1997-99),CREST-JST Research Fellow, Japan(1999- 2000),Postdoctoral Research Fellow, U.S.A.(2000-02),Research Investigator, University of IOWA, USA (2002-05),Senior Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia.

Dr Manzoor K, Associate Professor in ACNS and specializing in the area of Nanotoxicology, Nanomedicine and Cancer-nanotechnology. Served as Staff-scientist in Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense Awarded Technology Developer of the Year 2006, National Science Day Award for Nano Research 2005, Young Scientist of the Year 2004, and Best Laboratory Scientist of the Year 2003. 25 international publications on functional nanomaterials and international patents (PCT) on nanotechnology.

Dr. Narayanan V.A, DM,Professor and Head of Department, Gastroenterology. Received M.D. in General Medicine from Pune University and DM, Gastroenterology from PGI, Chandigarh. Served as Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology in Armed Forces Medical College, Chief of Medical Division and Consultant Gastroenterology at Army Hospital Referral & Research and was the Professor & Head Gastroenterolgy in Sree Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Madras. He was a Post Graduate teacher for 36 years in Pune University and Delhi University. He guided several DM & Ph.D students. Notable Projects are: Nutritional requirements of soldiers at high altitude, Survival rations, Physical efficiency and Caloric deprivation. He was given Amir Chand Research Award in the year 1991. He also was the President of Kerala Chapter of Indian Society of Gastroenterology during 2004.

Dr. Prakash Kamath, Clinical Professor in Cardiology. Received MD from Mysore University, DM (Cariology), AIIMS, New Delhi. Prior to this, was Consultant Cardiologist & Chief of Adult Cardiology, AIMS, Kochi. He received “MIROWSKI FELLOWSHIP” at Unviersity of Southern California -Good Samaritan Hospital. Established Cardiac arrhythmia and Electrophysiology service at AIMS, Kochi.

Dr. Sanjeev Vasudevan, MBBS, MD, DA -Additional Professor, Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine. Certificate in Palliative Medcine from International School of Cancer Care at Oxford, UK.

Dr. Satish. Raina, Ph.D., (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi), Professor Institute of Molecular Medicine. Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for his research on genetics of heat shock response and continued on theme of protein folding and heat shock regulation in the University of Utah and University of Geneva.

Dr. Sindhu Swaminathan joined Amrita Centre for Nanosciences as Assistant Professor in April 2008. She received her PhD from Cochin University of Science & Technology. She is having 5 years of postdoctoral experience in, National University of Singapore and IIT Bombay. Her research experience is closely related to the synthesis and structure property optimization of nanomaterials by bio-mimetic and wet chemical approaches. She is also interested in SPM based nanolithography for the fabrication of polymer based nano architectures. She is currently exploring the possibilities for the fabrication of cost effective photovoltaic devices with improved efficiency. This includes organic, inorganic and continuous hetro-junction solar cells.

Dr. K. R. V. Subramanian joined Amrita Centre for Nanosciences as Assistant Professor in July 2008. He obtained his Ph.D in 2006 from Cambridge University, England. Subsequent to the Ph.D, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His areas of research interest are nanomaterials processing and functional nanodevices, with a focus on development of materials and devices to harness clean energy sources (solar power).He work as part of a research team at Amrita Nanocentre, on a DST (Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) sanctioned project to develop low cost and efficient nanostructured photovoltaic devices.

Dr. Thampi M.V., Consultant Cytogeneticist and HoD of Dept. of Human Cytogenetic. Received M.Sc. Zoology and has registered his Ph.D in the Dept. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan. Previously at Biomedical Group of Bhabha Atomic Resarch Centre, Head, Low Level Radiation Research Laboratory (LLRRL),Kerala (1992-05). He has 33years of Clinical Research Experience.

Dr. Usha Menon .V Clinical Assistant Professor, Endocrinology & Diabetes. MRCP (UK) in 1996 and Fellowship in Diabetology in 2002. SHO in General Medicine in The Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom 1995-1997. Physician in General Medicine, Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly, Kerala (1997-99), Physician in Gneral Medicine with a special insterest in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji Islands 1999-2001.

Dr. D.M. Vasudevan, MBBS, MD, FAMS, FRCPath - Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry. Previously Founder Head, Cancer Research Laboratory at Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum (1979 to 82),Founder Head, Cancer Research Laboratory at Amala Cancer Research Centre (1982 to 87),Founder Dean, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, Founder Principal, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi. He received his M.D.(Biochemistry) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1971 and Post-doctoral Research at the Department of Immunology, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1972-1974. Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists FRC Path),1994. he as 40 years of teaching and research experience in Medical College and was Professor of Biochemistry for 23 years. He is Referee and Advisor of Board of Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, University of Calicut, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Academic Council, Amrita, Editorial Board J. OF EXPER. AND CLIN. CANCER RESEARCH., Europe. Guided 29 Ph.D., Authored Two Books.

Dr. Vijaykumar D.K. Professor and HoD, Dept. of Surgical Oncology. Received M.S. (General Surgery) from Poona University (1989), and M.Ch Surgical Oncology from Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Madras (1995). Previously Lecturer in Cancer Surgery, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, Asst. Professor Surgical Oncology, KMC, Manipal, Consultant Surgical Oncologist, Saumya Apollo Hospital.

Dr. Nair, joined us from MDS Pharma Services, USA, where he worked for the past 12 years as the Research Manager in the Lead Discovery Group. Dr. Nair was responsible for the coordination of New Assay Development and High Throughput Screening. He has been responsible for generating several million dollars in revenues over the past decade at MDSPS and has over 30 international publications to his credit.

Dr. Banerji joined us from RRL, Trivandrum and is a DAE Raja Ramanna Fellowship awardee as well as the former Head of Bioorganic Division, at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay

Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2000
M.Tech. Biotechnology, Anna University, Madras, 1992
M.Sc. Biotechnology, Cochin University, Cochin, 1989

Dr. Kumar joined us from University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Ph.D. Biochemsitry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA 1992
M.Sc. Microbiology. MS University of Baroda, Baroda 1985

Dr. Kumar joined us from Ceptyr Inc., USA.

Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (August 2002-May 2008).Teaching Assistant (TA) Project Facilitator (August 2006-August 2007), Graduate School-New Brunswick, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey– Invited to train new Life Sciences Teaching Assistants (TAs) joining Rutgers University in Fall 2006 and 2007