Faculty Research Awards 2018: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar honours top authors across 24 disciplines

Ashish Jha | March 22, 2018 | 11:55 AM IST

NEW DELHI, MARCH 20: The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar today felicitated top researchers across 24 disciplines at Careers360 Faculty Research Awards in New Delhi.

Recognising the efforts of India’s brightest minds in the field of academic research, the minister presented top authors the Awards which carried a cash prize of Rs 50,000 and a citation.

“The quality of research determines the overall quality of education and its evolution. The recognition to these academic researchers is a great move towards encouraging more research activities across discipline,” Prakash Javadekar said.

The Union Minister added that institutions in higher education domain must focus on qualitative research activities to bring in innovation that can help enhance the teaching-learning quality also.

As many as 254 academic researchers across 24 disciplines were shortlisted towards determining the Awards constituted by Careers360. The researchers were shortlisted basis the publicly available data of their research work in different areas like Engineering, Medicine, Science, Management, Economics, and Environmental Science.

The 24 disciplines for ‘Faculty Research Awards 2018’ included Engineering Sciences, Computer Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Psychology, ‘Business, Management and Accounting’, ‘Economics, Econometrics and Finance’ among others. The ‘Most outstanding Researchers’ in these 24 different disciplines were chosen based on a composite score generated by evaluating the academic output in SCOPUS indexed journals for the year 2015 –17, citation count and h-index.

The weightage to the three parameters was reached by averaging differential weightage suggested by 20 top academics of Indian origin ranging from Innovation Guru Prof. R A Mashelkar to celebrated corporate advisor and academician Prof. Nirmalya Kumar. The list also includes Harvard Business School Dean Dr Nitin Nohria, renowned academician and institution-builder Dr Pritam Singh, National Law University Bangalore Vice-Chancellor Dr R Venkata Rao, besides many other renowned academicians in India and abroad.

Faculty research Awards 2018: Outstanding Authors

Discipline	Author's Name	Author's Affiliation
Materials Science	Dr. Sabu Thomas	Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kottayam, India
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	Dr. Ashok Pandey	Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India
Chemistry	Dr. Ähmed Kamal	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology Division, Hyderabad, India
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	Dr. Rajeev Kumar Varshney	International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics	Dr. Dharmarajan Sriram	Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Department of Pharmacy, Pilani, India
Business, Management and Accounting	Dr. Ravi Shankar	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Management Studies, New Delhi, India
Decision Sciences	Dr. Amaresh Chakrabarti	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Bangalore, India
Psychology	Dr. Rajesh Sagar	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, New Delhi, India
Neuroscience	Dr. Jayantee Kalita	Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Lucknow, Department of Neurology, Lucknow, India
Immunology and Microbiology	Dr. Shyam Sundar	Banaras Hindu University Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Medicine, Varanasi, India
Computer Science	Dr. Sudip Misra	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kharragpur, India
Chemical Engineering	Dr. Parag R. Gogate	Institute of Chemical Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mumbai, India
Veterinary	Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta	National Dairy Research Institute India, Karnal, India
Engineering	Dr. Bhim Singh	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Health Professions	Dr. Sandip Basu	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Mathematics	Dr. M. Mursaleen	Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Mathematics, Aligarh, India
Environmental Science	Dr. S. Venkata Mohan	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Bioengineering and Environmental Sciences (BEES), Hyderabad, India
Economics, Econometrics and Finance	Dr. Sugata Marjit	Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Earth and Planetary Sciences	Dr. Sanjit Mitra	Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India, Pune, India
Energy	Dr. Gopal Nath Tiwari	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Center for Energy Studies, New Delhi, India
Medicine	Dr. Viswanathan Mohan	Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India
Dentistry	Dr. Avani Raju Pradeep	Research Institute, Department of Periodontics, Bangalore, India
Social Sciences	Dr. Rajaram Nityananda	Azim Premji University, School of Liberal Studies, Bangalore, India
Physics and Astronomy	Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Besides the top authors in each discipline, distinguished researcher in many disciplines were facilitated with special mention at the Award ceremony. AICTE Chairman Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe facilitated the distinguished scholars with a cash prize of Rs 20,000 and a citation.

Faculty research Awards 2018: Honorary Mention

Subject Areas	Name	Author's Affiliation
Veterinary	Dr. Kuldeep Dhama	Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Avian Diseases Section, Bareilly, India
Engineering	Dr. Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Electrical Engineering, New Delhi, India
Management	Prof Debapratim Purkayastha	ICFAI Business School (IBS)-Hyderabad, ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE)
Chemical Engineering	Dr. Asim Bhaumik	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Department of Materials Science, Kolkata, India
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics	Dr. Navin Ashok Patil	Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Department of Pharmacology, Manipal, India
Materials Science	Dr. Sanjay Kumar Umar Nayak	Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology India, Patia, Chennai, India
Computer Science	Dr. Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan	Vel Tech RR SR Institute of Technology, Chennai
Health Professions	Prof. Niranjan Bhattacharya	Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Translational Science, Kolkata, India
Microbiology	Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia	University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Business, Management and Accounting	Dr. Zillur Rahman	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Management Studies, Roorkee, India
Dentistry	Dr. Gargi Sachin Sarode	Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Pune, India
Computer Science	Dr. Mita Nasipuri	Jadavpur University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kolkata, India
Economics, Econometrics and Finance	Dr. Anand Teltumbde	Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai, India
Chemistry	Dr. Balasubramanian Sridhar	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Centre for X-ray Crystallography, Hyderabad, India
Nutrition	Anura Vishwanath Kurpad	St. John's Research Institute, Department of Nutrition, Bangalore, India
Psychology	Ganesan Venkatasubramanian	National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, The Schizophrenia Clinic, Bangalore, India
Mathematics	Dr. Indranil Biswas	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, School of Mathematics, Mumbai, India
Physics and Astronomy	Dr. Archana L. Sharma	University of Jammu, Department of Physics, Jammu, India
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	Dr. Sanjay Kalra	Bharti Hospital and BRIDE, Department of Endocrinology, Karnal, India
Medicine	Dr. Sanjay Kalra	Bharti Hospital and BRIDE, Department of Endocrinology, Karnal, India
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	Dr. Rakesh Pankaj Kumar	National Dairy Research Institute India, Animal Biotechnology Centre, Karnal, India
Arts and Humanities	Dr. Bayya Yegnanarayana	Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani, India / International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, Speech Processing Laboratory, Hyderabad, India

A power-packed panel of Academicians and Recruiters also discussed on the challenges in recruitment of faculty members. The panel was moderated by Mr Sanjay Modi, MD, APAC & Middle East, Monster.

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