Qualification

Ph.D. (2015) - Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India.

PDF/Teaching Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa: 25.07.2022 to Till date.
• Assistant Professor (Grade-III), Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa: July 2019 – 24.07.2022.
• Assistant Professor (Grade-II), Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa: July 2014– July 2019.
• Assistant Professor (Grade-I), Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa: July 2009 – July 2014.

Administrative Experience

• Member, Product development, monitoring and commercialization committee, of Research and Development Cell, YV University from August 2022.
• Coordinator, Incubation center named Center for Innovative Nanoengineered technologies (CINT) from April 2022.
• Warden, YVU Hostels (Girls) from November 2021.
• Worked as Head, Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology from September, 2018 – DEC, 2020 (2 Y 3M) .
• Worked as Member, National & State Events Committee, YV University from August 2018 to August 2020 (2 Y) .
• Worked as Member, Students Welfare council, YV University from September 2018 to September 2020 (2 Y) .
• Working as a member, Equal opportunities cell, of Yogi Vemana University August 2020 to till now.
• Working as Member, Board of Studies in Materials Science and Nanotechnology from 17.06.2010 to till now.

Research Projects

Ongoing

• A New archetype for development of Flexible Nano Hybrid Supercapacitor for large scale electric energy storage with high performance | SERB | INR. 41,84,796.
• Sophisticated flexible supercapacitor for high energy storage application based on nanomaterials | DST, SEED Division | INR. 44,07,868.

Completed

• Synthesis, Characterization and photocatalytic efficacy of Carbon nanotube-TiO2 nanohybrid for enhanced hydrogen production under solar irradiation | UGC | Rs.13,85,000/- | 2015 – 2018.
• Nano-ferrites and Carbon Nanotubes Composites for Efficient Hydrogen Production by Solar Water Splitting | Naval Research Board, India | Rs. 18,35,363/- | 2016-2020.

Research Students

Ph.D Awarded

• Dr. N. Ramesh Reddy | Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon nanotube-TiO2 nanohybrid for enhanced hydrogen production under solar irradiation | Dec, 2019.

Ph.D Pursuing

Mr. U. Bharagava | Nano-ferrites and Carbon Nanotubes Composites for Efficient Hydrogen Production by Solar Water Splitting.

Achievements / Awards : 11

• Awarded Young Achiever Award-2020 by Institute of Scholars(InSc), Bangalore, India. • Awarded Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences, 2018.
• Awarded Summer Research Fellowship (Teacher)-2018 by Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
• Selected for Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Programme fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, India.
• Awarded Gold Medal for highest CGPA in M.Tech. Materials Science at NITT during 2007-09.
• Received Institute Day prize of Silver Medal for being topper in the I & II semesters at NITT.
• Awarded as Outstanding Student in M.Tech. Materials Science for the year 2008-09 by the Alumni Association of NITT.
• Received II Prize for BEST POSTER AWARD in poster presentation competition in National Conference on Recent Advances in Surface Engineering (RASE 09) held at NAL Bangalore during Feb. 26-27, 2009
• Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by UGC&CSIR under Lecturership.
• Qualified GATE (physics) - 2007 with all India Rank of 572 and received GATE Fellowship from 2007-2009.
• Paper on “Experimenting with Innovative Prism” has been selected for best ten experiments for All India competition of Physics Experiments Conducted by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) held at Jabalpur in Nov 2006.

Research Publications in National & International SCI Journals : 36

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Number of Book Chapters (National / International) : 05

Number of Books Published (National / International) : Nil

Number of Conference / Symposia Organized : 01

Number of Conference / Symposia Attended : 15

Membership in Prestigious Academic Bodies

• Member, European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association (ENNA).
• Member, Indian Institute of Metals (IIM).
• Life Member, Electron Microscopy Society of India (EMSI) (LM-1138).
• Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) (L34624).
• Life Member, Materials Research Society India (MRSI) (LMB 2915).
• Life Member, Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC).
• Life Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG- 212828).
• Member, Indian Chapter, International Association of Hydrogen Energy.

Reviewed Research Papers of Various Scientific Journals

• Journal of colloids and Interface Science.
• International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
• Indian Institute of Metals.
• Journal of Hazardous Materials.
• International Journal of Applied Physics A.

Ph.D. Thesis Adjudication

Numbers of Ph.D. thesis submitted to various universities were adjudicated.