Responsibilities

• PES UNIVERSITY | Biotechnology Department | Bangalore, India | 2000+ employees Professor and Ex-Chairperson 2017 – present Professor and Chairperson 2013 – 2016 Associate Professor 2011 – 2013 Assistant Professor 2009 – 2011 § Oversaw a team of 15 faculty, 180 undergraduate students, 20 graduate students, PhD students and 6 staff § Guided undergraduate student projects, MS and PhD students § Obtained extra mural funds and collaboration within and across Departments § Set up Research Laboratories and Centre for Sustainable Green Energy § Established Collaboration with industry (Novozymes) and academia (Arizona State University) § Coordinated International Summer Research Internship for undergraduate students § Conducted Research and added value to the Department by publications and patents § Taught courses for undergraduate students

Responsibilities Held

• SIT | Chemical Engineering Department | Tumkur, India | 1500 – 2000 employees Assistant Professor 2007 – 2009 § Taught Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Engineering courses to undergraduates § Conducted Workshops, Conferences and Industrial visits § Obtained extra mural funds and conducted research
• NARASIMHAN CONSULTING | Phoenix, Arizona, USA | 15 -20 employees Environmental Consultant 2005 - 2007 § Designed and developed a water treatment plants in Rio Hondo, New Mexico § Provided Consulting services to clients in the area of water treatment plant
• ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | Tempe, Arizona, USA | 20000+ employees Research Scientist – Environmental Engineering Laboratory 1999 - 2005 § Provided scientific insight, creativity and technical expertise vital for leading pioneering investigations in the removal of organics during Soil Aquifer Treatment § Developed predictive models, designed experiments, recorded data and analyzed results § Planned, scheduled, allocated resources and guided laboratory teams
• PROSOFT SYSTEMS INC. | Burlington, Massachusetts, USA | 10 – 15 employees Application Engineer 1997 – 1999 § Delivered technical leadership and management skills essential for developing, validating and testing automated control programs for this provider of world class software solutions 2 § Collaborated with clients to define software functional requirements and gathered technical specifications
• GENZYME CORPORATION | Framingham & Allston, Massachusetts, USA | 30000+ employees Process Engineer 1992 – 1997 § Conducted bench, pilot and manufacturing scale process studies for one of the world’s foremost biotechnology companies on various products rhATIII, Vianian and plasmid DNA § Designed experiments, established protocols, troubleshooted problems, wrote Standard Operating Procedures to validate process quality functions, optimizing manufacturing processes § Boosted purity and productivity of licensed products such as Ceredase, Cerezyme and hTSH § Developed containers for stability studies and shipping
• ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | Tempe, Arizona, USA | 20000+ employees Research Associate – Chemical, Bio and Materials Engineering Department 1989 – 1992 § Developed an Immobilized Soft Metal Affinity Chromatography resin for protein purification, including qualitative and quantitative assay for resin characterization § Performed process development studies for separation and purification of recombinant compounds for Genencor International, Incorporated

Expertise / list of subjects handled

• Taught courses for undergraduate students
• Guided undergraduate student projects, MS and PhD students
• Taught Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering Subjects

Research Interest

• Manufacture of Biofuels, Green Energy, Nanobiomaterials and Computational Biology

Research projects (current)

• Establishing Proof of Concept for Sustainable Green Energy
• Established a Center for Sustainable Green Energy

Research Guidance

• Guiding 4 PhD Research Scholars
• Guided 2 MSc Engineering by Research Students
• Production and optimization of Halobacterium species
• Production of biofuels from microalgae
• Protein Structure Prediction

Conferences

• Presented at National and International Conferences

Journals

• Author of several international peer reviewed Journals

Others

• Awarded International Patents
• Reviewer of 7 International Peer Reviewed Journals - Elsevier
• Editor of 2 Journals