Second Academic Advisory Council

Prof. Pratim Biswas Chairman of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering Washington University St. Louis, USA

Prof. Biswas is the Chairman of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He has won several teaching and research awards including the recipient of the 1991 Kenneth Whitby Award given for outstanding contributions by the American Association for Aerosol Research and the Neil Wandmacher Teaching Award of the College of Engineering in 1994. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Science, St. Louis in 2003, and a Fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research in 2009. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Bombay in 2011; and the Distinguished Faculty Award from Washington University in 2012. Prof. Biswas has played a leading role at the National and International arena in the field of Aerosol Science and Technology by serving on several National Committees. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and an Ambassador to the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Prof. Biswas is also the Director of the McDonnell Academy Global Energy & Environment Partnership (MAGEEP) and a member of the Steering Committee for I-CARES (International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy & Sustainability). He is playing a leading role in advancing the state of art research in promoting Energy and Environmental areas, with a key role in establishing consortia such as CCCU (Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization) and SERIIUS (Solar Energy Research Institute for India and US). Prof. Biswas obtained his B. Tech from IIT Bombay, M.S from University of California and Ph. D from California Institute of Technology, USA.

Prof. Nitesh Chawla Chairman and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) and Data Inference Analytics and Learning Lab (DIAL) University of Notre Dame USA

Prof. Nitesh Chawla is the Frank Freimann Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), a University Research Institute, and Data Inference Analytics and Learning Lab (DIAL), at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He started his tenure-track position at Notre Dame in 2007, was promoted and tenured in 2011, and received the chaired position in 2012. Prior to Notre Dame, he was a Senior Risk Modeling Manager at CIBC. His research is focused on machine learning, data mining, and network science. He is at the frontier of interdisciplinary applications with innovative work in healthcare informatics, social networks, analytics, and climate/environmental sciences. He was recently awarded the IBM Watson Faculty Award in recognition of his work in Big Data and Analytics. He is also the recipient of multiple awards for research and teaching innovation including outstanding teacher awards (2007 and 2010), National Academy of Engineers, New Faculty Fellowship, and number of best paper awards and nominations. He is the Chair of IEEE CIS Data Mining Technical Committee (DMTC), and also the Chair of IEEE CIS Task Force on Big Data. He is the founder of Aunalytics, Inc.

Prof. Sam Mannan Regents Professor,Holder of the T. Michael O'Connor Chair Texas A&M University

Prof. Sam Mannan is Regents Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process ety Center at Texas A&M University. Before joining Texas A&M University, he was Vice esident at RMP, Inc., a nationwide engineering services company. In that capacity, he the national program manager for the Process Safety and Risk Assessment projects. experience is wide ranging, covering various aspects related to process design of chemical plants and refineries, process safety and risk assessment in the chemical process industries. Prof. Mannan is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions from AIChE, TAMU, IChemE including the recent "Bush Excellence Award" for Faculty in Public Service. Prof. Mannan received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Engineering University in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1978, and obtained M.S. in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1986 in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee Director Thapar University Patiala

Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee graduated in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1980. Thereafter he was associated with the Development Consultants where he designed the nuclear power stations for the Department of Atomic Energy and rocket launching stations for Indian Space Research Organization. He earned Ph. D from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1987. He has pursued post doctoral work in Max Planck Institute of Materials Research, Stuttgart and Institute of Computer Applications in Germany. Prof. Mukherjee joined Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1988 as a lecturer and became Professor of the same Institute in 1997. He has taken over the Directorship of the Thapar University, Patiala since 03 July 2006.

Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor,Department of Computer Science Indian Institue Of Technology Kanpur

Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi is currently Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Dean of Academic Affairs at IIT Kanpur. From 2008 - 2010, he served as the Director, LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), a public-private partnership University in Jaipur. His administrative experience includes running the Institute Computer Center, managing Graduate Admissions, cultural advisor to students, Student Counselling, managing UG education at IIT Kanpur (as Chairman of Senate Under Graduate Committee), design of CS curriculum, and Chairman of Health Center Users Committee. He has visited about 70 colleges in India to discuss issues related to career planning, future of IT industry, curriculum and various technical/research talks. Professor Sanghi has a B. Tech from IIT Kanpur, and M. S. and Ph. D. from University of Maryland.

Prof. Suhas P. Sukhatme Professor Emeritus Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Professor Sukhatme has been a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay since 1965. He was the Director of IIT Bombay during 1995-2000, and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Govt. of India during 2000-2005. Prof Sukhatme's areas of specialization are Heat Transfer and Energy. He is the recipient of many honours and awards and was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 1983. He was elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1986, a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 1987, a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1995 and a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences in 1999. He is the recipient of Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2001 and was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of IIT Bombay. Prof Sukhatme obtained the degree of B.Sc (Engg.) from Banaras Hindu University, S.M (Master of Science) and Sc.D. (Doctor of Science) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T). He is currently a member of the Board of Governors of IIT Gandhinagar.

Prof. Satish Tripathi President State University of New York Buffalo, USA

Prof. Satish K. Tripathi serves as President of the University at Buffalo. An internationally recognized computer scientist, Prof. Tripathi joined UB as Provost - the university's chief academic officer - on July 1, 2004, after serving as Dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He was one of the creators of the UB 2020 strategic plan to achieve academic and research excellence. Prior to joining UC Riverside in 1997, he was a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where his 19 years as a faculty member included being chair from 1988 -1995. He was a visiting professor at the University of Paris-Sud in France and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany while at the University of Maryland. He has published more than 200 papers and supervised more than 30 Doctoral and Postdoctoral student. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Buffalo Urban League. Prof. Tripathi is the first international-born president in UB's history, a fitting distinction for one of the most international universities in the U.S. In addition to a doctorate in computer science earned from the University of Toronto in 1979, he holds three master's degrees, one in computer science from the University of Toronto (1976) and two in statistics from the University of Alberta (1974) and Banaras Hindu University (1970). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree from IIIT Allahabad.