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Eighth Academic Advisory Council

The Academic Advisory Council comprises of eminent and leading academicians and meets every year to discuss academic issues of priority to IITGN. The Academic Advisory Council provides strategic and external inputs on issues of key importance as the Institute grows from being a 1000 student Institute to one with 5000. In December 2018, the eighth Academic Advisory Council plans to discuss about Lateral entry to B.Tech. program, Ways to deal with students that are not doing well, Faculty recruitment and Curriculum review.
Participants
	Prof Ravi Banavar Professor Systems and Control Engineering IIT Bombay, Mumbai × Prof Ravi Banavar \| Professor, Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay Prof Banavar is a Professor in the Systems and Control Engineering group at IIT Bombay. He was the Convener of the group for nearly 6 years from 2009 onwards. His research interests are broadly in the area of geometric mechanics, nonlinear and optimal control, locomotion with applications in aerospace, mechanical and micro-robotics. He received his B.Tech from IIT Madras, MS from Clemson University and PhD from University of Texas, Austin. After a short stint as an instructor at the University of California, Los Angeles, he joined the Systems and Control group in IIT Bombay in 1993. He has held visiting appointments at TU Munich and Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette. He was the Pratt and Whitney Visiting Chair Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IISc from July - Dec 2015, a Visiting Professor from Jan - May 2017 in the Department of Electrical Engineering in IIT Gandhinagar, and is currently a Guest Professor in the same institute. He is an Associate Editor of the Elsevier journal, Systems and Control Letters, as also the Taylor and Francis publication, The International Journal of Control.
	Prof Pratim Biswas The Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor, Assistant Vice Chancellor Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering Washington University, St. Louis, USA × Prof Pratim Biswas \| The Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor, Chair, Department of Energy, Environmental and 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 more than 350 refereed journal publications, has presented several invited presentations nationally and internationally, holds eight patents and has spun off two start-up companies based on his inventions. He has won several teaching and research Awards including the 2015 Cecil Award given for exemplary accomplishments in Environmental Engineering by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the 2013 David Sinclair Award given for outstanding contributions by an established scientist by the American Association for Aerosol Research; the Distinguished Faculty Award by Washington University in 2012; the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2011, 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 is the current Vice President (and President Elect) of the International Aerosol Research Assembly and the Chair of the International Aerosol Conference to be held in St. Louis in 2018.
	Prof Frederick Coolidge Professor Psychology Department University of Colorado, Colorado, USA × Prof Frederick Coolidge \| Professor, Psychology Department, University of Colorado, USA Prof Coolidge is a Professor of Psychology at University of Colorado (UCCS), USA. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Florida and completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at Shands Teaching Hospital, University of Florida. He joined UCCS in 1979 and served as the Chair of the Department from 1986-1989 and as the Clinical Director from 1981-1984. Prof Coolidge is a three-time Fulbright Fellowship Award recipient (India, 1987, 1992, 2005). He has received three teaching awards including the lifetime designation, University of Colorado Presidential Teaching Scholar, received the UCCS Letters, Arts, and Sciences Annual Outstanding Research and Creative Works Award, 2004-2005, and the UCCS Annual Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, 2006-2007. Prof Coolidge is a member of the Association for Psychological Science and the European Society for Human Evolution. He teaches introductory statistics, cognitive evolution, dream interpretation as a psychotherapeutic technique, and evolutionary neuropsychology. He has published eight books and over 140 journal articles.
	Prof Vipin Kumar Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington, USA × Prof Vipin Kumar \| Professor, Graduate Program, Coordinator, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, USA Prof Kumar is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington, USA. He holds a BTech degree from IIT Kanpur in Mechanical Engineering, and M.S and MBA from University of Rhode Island in 1972 and 1974 respectively and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. Prof Kumar's professional interests lie in the areas of design and manufacturing, including product and process design. His research program focuses on microcellular and nanocellular polymers, a family of novel cellular materials expected to be used in a variety of applications in the decades to come. Prof Kumar has a special interest in innovation and technology transfer.
	Prof Mythily Ramaswamy Professor T.I.F.R. Centre for Applicable Mathematics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore × Prof Mythily Ramaswamy \| Professor, T.I.F.R. Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore Prof Ramaswamy is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at TIFR, Bangalore She was awarded the PhD from University of Paris 6 and has been visiting faculty at the University of Rome, University of Paris and Toulouse, University of Rutgers, State University of Mississippi and Virginia Tech. She was the Sofia Kowalewsky visiting Professor at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and received the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, 2016-17. Prof Ramaswamy’s research interest lies in Analysis of differential equations and applications to control problems. Recipient of the Karnataka State Kalpana Chawla award for women scientists, 2004, a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences-Mathematical Sciences and Boundary Value Problems. Currently she is also a guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar and serves as a Board member of IIT Gandhinagar and NIT Calicut Board of Governors and is a member of the IISERs standing committee.
	Prof Supreet Saini Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay × Prof Supreet Saini \| Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Prof Saini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he was an Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar (2010 - 2012), where he also headed the Faculty Search Committee among other responsibilities. Prof Saini completed his BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi (2005) and PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2010). He is the recipient of the Young Engineer Award 2017 (Indian National Academy of Engineering) and the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award 2011 (Department of Biotechnology). His research interests are in the area of evolutionary microbiology.
	Prof Dheeraj Sanghi Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur × Prof Dheeraj Sanghi \| Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur Prof Sanghi is currently Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He was a visiting faculty of Computer Science and Engineering from 2015 - 2017 at IIIT Delhi where he also served as the Dean of Academic Affairs and the Dean of External Relations. From 2008 – 2010, he was the Director, LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), a public-private partnership University in Jaipur. He was the Dean of Academic Affairs at IIT Kanpur from 2011- 2014. He has also been head of Prabhu Goel Research Center for Computer and Internet Security, and also of the Institute Computer Center. His other roles have included Student counseling, Graduate admissions, and Curriculum design. He is passionate about improving higher education and runs a popular blog on the topic. During 2006, he visited about 70 colleges in India to understand issues in higher education and advise students regarding career planning, including the need to do postgraduate studies. Prof Sanghi has a BTech from IIT Kanpur, and MS and PhD from University of Maryland.
	Prof Satish K Tripathi President State University of New York, Buffalo, USA × Prof Satish K Tripathi \| President, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA An internationally distinguished researcher and higher education leader, Prof Tripathi, was appointed the 15th president of the University at Buffalo in 2011. Prof Tripathi, who served as UB’s provost from 2004-2011, was dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California-Riverside from 1997-2004. Previously, he spent 19 years as Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, including seven years as department chair. Prof Tripathi graduated from Banaras Hindu University and holds a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, as well as three master’s degrees- one in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and two in Statistics from the University of Alberta and Banaras Hindu University. An active leader in the national higher education community, Prof Tripathi serves on the board of directors for the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, as a member of the Mid-American Conference Council of Presidents Executive Committee, and on the boards of the NCAA Division I, the Digital Preservation Network, and Internet2. Appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as an inaugural co-chair of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council in 2011, he served in this position until 2017.

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