Dr Dinesh O Shah
Endowment
Dr Dinesh O Shah is a native of Kapadwanj, Gujarat and received his BSc (1959), MSc from University of Bombay (1961) and PhD from Columbia University, New York (1965). He joined University of Florida as a joint faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Anesthesiology in 1970. He has received several awards at University, State, National and International level in teaching, research, and professional service. He was the First Charles Stokes Professor at University of Florida. Dr Shah’s research papers have received more than 21,000 citations in scientific papers and h-index of 73. For more details, please visit: dineshoshah.com/.
Current Occupant
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Dr. Kabeer Jasuja
Dr. Dinesh O Shah Chair
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
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Kabeer Jasuja
Kabeer Jasuja is currently an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Chemical Engineering. He began his academic career at IIT Gandhinagar in 2012. He received his B.Tech. degree from the IIT Kharagpur in 2007 and Ph.D. degree from Kansas State University in 2011. After his Ph.D., he also worked as a Post-doctoral research fellow at the Northwestern University till 2012.
His research group at IIT Gandhinagar has discovered a new family of boron-rich nanosheets isomorphous to graphene by revisiting the chemistry of layered metal diborides. Their work has presented fundamentally new perspectives on utilizing nanoscaled metal borides for changing some of our everyday technologies. For discovering this new family of nanomaterials, Kabeer received the INAE Young Engineer Award in 2018, and in 2019 he was selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is also a recipient of the INSPIRE faculty award. He serves as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
Kabeer believes that the most satisfying part of being an academician is the opportunity to work together with students and aid them in their learning process. He integrates methodical activities in his teaching to make the learning process fun and engaging. In 2015, he also received the Award for Excellence in Teaching by IIT Gandhinagar.
One of the foremost service activities in which Kabeer was involved was conceptualizing Peer Assisted Learning (PAL), an academic support scheme that we initiated to help students who face difficulties with their coursework. The program facilitates academic guidance to the freshmen by senior year students in an informal peer learning setting. This program has also been emulated by other IITs and higher education institutes. Kabeer also served the Institute as the Head, Counseling Services from 2014 to 2017 and as an Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies from 2018 to 2020. He is currently holding the responsibility of Dean, Academic Affairs. In 2020, he received the Award for Excellence in Institution Building by IIT Gandhinagar.
