Ankur Awadhiya, I.F.S.B. Tech, IIT Kanpur (2009)

Ph.D, IIT Kanpur (Thesis submitted)

Contact details

c/o Dr. Usha Awadhiya, Mandi Road, Torwa, Bilaspur C.G.Tel: (+91) 9044286165, 7376147187Email: ankura@iitk.ac.in, iitkian@gmail.comWeb: http://home.iitk.ac.in/∼ankura, http://www.facebook.com/iitkian

Education

2009-present Ph.D, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT KanpurCPI: 10 / 10Thesis title: Studies in Agarose-based bioplastic materialThesis submitted: June, 2014

2005-2009 B. Tech, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT KanpurCPI: 9.2 / 10Department Rank: 1, with an ‘A’ in all the departmental courses.

Class 12 (2005) CBSE Board, D.A.V. Public School, Bilaspur, C.G.Percentage: 91.0%Class Rank: 1

Class 10 (2003) CBSE Board, D.A.V. Public School, Bilaspur, C.G.Percentage: 91.6%Class Rank: 1

Other accomplishments / Extra-curriculars

• Secured All India Rank 25 in IFS examination 2013.

• Awarded the General Proficiency medal of IIT Kanpur for best academic performancein the discipline.

• Awarded Sri Binay Kumar Sinha Award of IIT Kanpur for the best B. Tech projectacross all departments in the institute.

• Awarded the Proficiency medal of IIT Kanpur for best project work in the BSBEdepartment.

• Awarded Academic excellence award of IIT Kanpur for best academic performance.

• Secured ‘A’ grades in all the social sciences courses so far at IIT Kanpur.

• Received CBSE merit certificates and laureate certificates in classes 10th and 12th for topposition in board exams.

• Awarded KVPY fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

• Awarded NTSE scholarship with 1st rank in the state.

• Twice selected in Indian National Biology Olympiad; secured 97% marks in NationalMathematics Olympiad.

• Qualified National Standard Examinations in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

• Achieved AIR 3 in National Science Olympiad.

• Taught children from underprivileged sections of the society. The work received a recommenda-tion under the National Service Scheme.

• Secured 1st position in ‘Smart Manager’ contest in Techkriti 2007, and 1st position in‘Vyakhya’ (lecturing contest) in Techkriti 2008 at IIT Kanpur. The topic was: ‘Dolly,Molly, Polly. . . What next? (Cloning)’

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• Achieved AIR 2 in All India Sanskrit Competitive exam conducted by Arya Vidya Sabha,DAV - the largest nongovernmental educational body in India, and received a scholarship for thesame.

• Received awards in quizzes, essay, drawing, debate and speech competitions at school and institutelevels.

• I was invited to attend the Republic Day parade in the Prime Minister’s box due to myeducational achievements.

• My summer internship work earned the ‘Best Summer Innovation’ award at IIT Kanpur.

Positions of responsibility

• Tutor for ESO219: Introduction to Biology (2010-11, 2011-12).

• Teaching assistant for BSE631: Developmental Biology II (2010-11).

• Teaching assistant for BSE292: Molecular Biology Lab (2009-10, 2010-11).

• Teaching assistant for ESO219: Introduction to Biology (2009-10).

• Coordinator, Seminar courses: BSE701 and BSE702.

• Post-graduate admission coordinator student.

• Member, Mess committee, Seventh Hall of Residence, IIT Kanpur.

• Worked as Accounts Secretary of the Physics society, where I was involved in collectionand channelization of financial resources for the optimal working of the society at IIT Kanpur.Also worked as Junior Marketing Executive for Megabucks, an international business andentrepreneurship festival hosted by IIT Kanpur.

Previous training

2009 - 2014 Ph.D project: Studies in Agarose-based bioplastic material.Developed and fabricated an inexpensive, biodegradable and biocompat-ible bioplastic for packaging and drug-delivery applications.Patent has been applied for.

July 2008 - April 2009 B. Tech project: Design and fabrication of novel systems for waterpurification.Developed and fabricated a cost effective system for the removal of mi-crobes and arsenic from drinking water.This project was awarded the Best B. Tech project Award.

2008 Development of a procedure to dissociate cells to facilitate their analysisAND Optimization of a robust and automated method for cell quantifica-tion, at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Biologics DevelopmentCenter, Hyderabad.My solution has been implemented in the R&D section of theindustry and also earned the ‘Best Summer Innovation’ awardat IIT Kanpur.

2007 Identification of genes specifically expressed in articular cartilage, underthe supervision of Dr. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, IIT Kanpur.These genes are potentially important in curing degenerative dis-eases like arthritis.

2006 Attended National Initiative for Undergraduate Science, HBCSE,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

2006 Cloning of MsDps2 gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis and determina-tion of molecular mass of MsDps protein; a KVPY project executedunder Dr. Dipankar Chatterji at IISc, Bangalore.

2005 Study of variation in the Seebeck coefficient of Silicon samples with dop-ing and temperature, a KVPY project executed under Dr. V.Venkataraman at IISc, Bangalore.

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Academic projects done

Biomaterials Fabrication of a novel thermo-responsive device based on smart polymersfor controlled delivery of mifepristone to vascular system.

Methods inBiotechnology

Purification of His-tagged β-glucosidase and on column renaturation ofthe inclusion bodies using a Cu2+ metal affinity cryogel matrix.

Environment Engi-neering

Air and Water pollution: Causes, Effects and Remedies.

Institute-wide study Hazardous materials used and created in BSBE and suggestions regard-ing their disposal

Bioinformatics Development of a program to corroborate the paper ‘Boeckmann et al.Protein variety and functional diversity: Swiss-Prot annotation in itsbiological context. C. R. Biologies’

Introduction tomanufacturing

1. Imitation of Chhattisgarh terracotta pottery using metallurgical pro-cesses.2. Fabrication of a laboratory ultracentrifuge.

Seminars and talks given

Life extending molecules playing advocates of death in cancers.Modelling intestinal cancer in Drosophila.Stoichiometry and energetics of microbial metabolism.Multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction.Oligonucleotide arrays.Cryogels and Smart Polymers.Dolly, Molly and Polly: What next? (A talk on possibilities of cloning)Remote Sensing and Human Health.

Languages known

Hindi (fluent)English (fluent)French (certificate course)

Computer skills

I am comfortable on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX platforms, and have experience in the fol-lowing languages and packages:

Java (Course work at IIT Kanpur)

C, C++ (Certificate courses at IIT Kanpur)

Fluent, Gambit, MATLAB (Course work at IIT Kanpur)

HTML, PHP, My SQL (Certificate course at IIT Kanpur)

LATEX

Bash scripting and sever setups (I developed and deployed backup servers, search engines,webservers and lab management system during my graduate studies.)

Personal

Date of birth: 05 May, 1987Citizenship: IndianMarital status: Unmarried

List of publications & References

Available on request.

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