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Eight NRI engineers
elected highest professional distinctions honored
List of US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) this year
Washington, Feb 26, 2004
The National Academy of Engineering
(NAE) has elected 76 new members and 11 foreign associates, NAE President
Wm. A. Wulf announced today. This brings the total U.S. membership to
2,174 and the number of foreign associates to 172.
Election to the National Academy of
Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded
to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made "important
contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant
contributions to the literature of engineering theory and practice,"
and those who have demonstrated accomplishment in "the pioneering
of new fields of engineering, making major advancements in traditional
fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches
to engineering education."
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- Arup K. Chakraborty,
Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair,
department of chemical engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
For the application of theoretical chemistry to practical problems,
including immune system recognition, polymer interfaces, sensor technology,
and catalysis
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Biography- Professor; B.T. Chemical
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (1983); Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering, University of Delaware (1988); postdoctoral fellowship,
University of Minnesota;professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley; professor, Department of Chemistry
(1997); Allan P. Colbun Award of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AIChE); Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award; National
Young Investigator Award; Miller Research Professorship; ICI Fellowship
of the Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.); and a Shell Young Faculty
Professorship.
Research Interests
Research in my group focuses on the development and use of quantum
and statistical mechanical approaches to elucidate complex phenomena
pertinent to systems that are of pragmatic importance. Within this
central theme, work in my group encompasses four broad areas: [1]
Cell-Cell Recognition in the Immune System, [2] Polymer Science and
Engineering, [3] Sensor Technology for Pathogen Detection, and [4]
Heterogeneous Catalysis. Sophisticated theoretical and computational
methods are developed in my group to study problems in each of these
areas. Our work is closely synergistic (often collaborative) with
the world's leading experimental researchers in these fields. My research
represents a crossroads of various disciplines, and the twelve doctoral
students and postdoctoral fellows in my group are drawn from disciplines
that include chemical
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Rakesh K. Jain,
director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory, department of radiation
oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
For the integration of bioengineering with tumor biology and imaging
gene expression and functions in vivo for drug delivery in tumors.
Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.
Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology
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Education
Institution Degree Year Field of Study
Indian Institute of Technology/Kanpur B.Tech. 1972 Chemical Engineering
University of Delaware M.Ch.E. 1974 Chemical Engineering
University of Delaware Ph.D. 1976 Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Tumor pathophysiology and Bioengineering: Molecular,
cellular, anatomical and functional imaging, tumor angiogenesis and
microcirculation, tumor-host interactions, tumor microenvironment, vascular
and interstitial transport in tumors, delivery of molecular and cellular
medicine to tumors, mathematical modeling.
Professional Appointments
1976-1978 Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering
Columbia University, New York, NY
1978-1979 Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
1979-1983 Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
1983-1991 Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1991- Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology
Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1991- Director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
MA
1991- Affiliated Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and
Technology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1995- Member, Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program, Harvard Medical
School
Visiting Professorships
7/83 - 12/83 Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1/84 - 4/84 Visiting Professor of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
4/84 - 6/84 Visiting Professor of Radiology
Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA
8/90 - 1/91 Visiting Professor of Pathophysiology
University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
2/91 - 5/91 Visiting Professor of Surgical Research
University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Awards and Honors
1979 George Tallmann Ladd Award, Carnegie Mellon University
1980-1985 Research Career Development Award, National Cancer Institute
1983 B.F. Ruth Lecturer, Iowa State University, Ames
1983 Allan P. Colburn Lecturer, University of Delaware, Newark
1983-1984 Guggenheim Fellow
1984 Research Award, International Institute for Microcirculation
1986 Hugh C. Muldoon Lecturer, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
1990 Abbott Microcirculation Award, European Society for Microcirculation
1990-1991 Senior Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
Germany
1992 Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering
1992 Kurt Wohl Lecturer, University of Delaware, Newark
1993, 1994 Instrumentation for Physiology and Medicine Award, American
Microcirculation Society
1993-2000 Outstanding Investigator Grant, National Cancer Institute
1994 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
1995 Whitaker Distinguished Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Society
1996 Eugene M. Landis Award, Microcirculatory Society
1996-1999 Board of Directors, Biomedical Engineering Society
1999 William D. Kaplan Lecturer in Nuclear Medicine, Harvard Medical
School
1999 Berkeley Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
2000 Bioengineering Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2001 Honorary Fellow, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
2002 Gerritsen Award, Microcirculatory Society
2003 Alumni Wall of Fame, University of Delaware
2003 The Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
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Pradman P. Kaul,
Chairman and chief executive officer,
Hughes Network Systems Inc., Germantown, Md.
( leadership in the development of satellite communication networks)
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Pradman P. Kaul, Chairman of Hughes Software Systems is also the Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer for Hughes Network Systems, a 1.4 billion
dollar (US) division of Hughes Electronics Corporation.
Among other responsibilities, Mr. Kaul oversees all Hughes enterprises
in India, which include Hughes Software Systems, Hughes Network Systems
India, Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd., and Hughes Tele.Com.
Previously, Mr. Kaul has served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Operating officer as well as Director of Engineering. In this role,
he oversaw the development of new digital communications equipment for
handling voice, data and television systems.
Playing a pioneering role in the satellite industry, which saw Hughes
Network Systems conceiving the COMSAT and VSAT technology, Mr. Kaul
has a number of patents to his name.
Bringing a keen sense of strategy, technology and market focus, Mr.
Kaul has led Hughes into the world of mobile satellite communication
systems (mobilsat).
Among others, his achievements in pioneering the first commercial operation
of TDMA system in the world as Program Manager for the Telesat TDMA
System that was installed in Canada in January 1975 and his technological
innovation in transmitting color television signals using various bit
reduction techniques as manager of the High Speed Logic Program at COMSAT
Laboratories in Clarksburg, Maryland are remarkable.
Mr. Kaul believes in building a tradition of excellence through a commitment
to innovation and technological leadership, a vision that has driven
growth of the company from $90 million to over a billion dollar enterprise
in 1997.
Mr. Kaul received a Masters Degree in Electrical engineering from the
University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelors Degree in Electrical
Engineering from The George Washington University. He has written many
works on the technology of satellite communications.
Member, Board of Directors of the University of Maryland Foundation
Member, National Advisory Council, George Washington University
Member, Advisory Board of Knowledge Cube, Inc.
Charter Member, The Indus Entrepreneurs/TIE - India CEO High Tech Council
Chairman of the Board, Hughes Software Systems - Publicly listed company
Member, Board of Directors, Optimos
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Kishor C. Mehta,
P.W. Horn Professor of Civil Engineering and director,
Wind Engineering Research Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.S
Systematic studies of structural damage caused by windstorms and leadership
in the development of structural design standards for wind loads.
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Education
B.S.E in Civil Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1957
M.S.E in Civil Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1958
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, The University of Texas, 1965
General Background
Dr. Mehta has developed a unique ability to bring experts from several
disciplines together and focus their attention on a complex interdisciplinary
problem. He is Director of the NSF-funded Cooperative Program on Wind
Engineering (with Colorado State University) and the NIST/TTU Cooperative
Program for a Windstorm Mitigation Initiative. These programs include
faculty from civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering, atmospheric
sciences, architecture, mathematics and economics. His experiences as
Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of WISE have
given him an understanding of how to champion an interdisciplinary team.
Dr. Mehta is recognized nationally and internationally as an authority
in the field of wind loads on structures and wind engineering. He has
devoted the last twenty-nine years of his professional career to teaching,
conducting research, offering short courses and seminars, and consulting
for problems relating to wind loads. As chairman of the task committee
on wind loads of the American National Standards Institute Committee
A58 and of the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee ASCE 7,
he played a major role in the development of the wind load provisions
of ANSI A58.1-1982, ASCE 7-88, and ASCE 7-95. He has been a board member
of the American Association for Wind Engineering since 1976, and was
elected in 1985 to a four-year term as President of the organization.
Recently he was selected as Chairman of the International Association
for Wind Engineering for a four-year term (ending in 2003). He is past
chairman of the National Research Council Committee on Natural Disasters.
This involvement has provided him with an understanding of the latest
developments in the field of wind engineering and of their real-world
application.
Dr. Mehta has provided specialized consulting services for wind load-related
problems to organizations such as NCR Corporation, Indiana Bell, Burns
& McDonnell, Brown & Root, NASA, and others. His research and
consulting experience have helped him to develop guidelines and standards
for wind loads, site specific design basis wind speeds, and tornado-resistant
design for shelters and building functions. He has shared his expertise
and enthusiasm with students and professionals over the years. He teaches
a yearly short course in engineering for extreme winds as well as frequent
short courses across the nation for ASCE. He receives numerous inquires
from professionals relating, in particular, to application of ASCE 7-95.
Dr. Mehtas philosophy of guiding students to follow their own
inquisitiveness into effective research has garnered him praise from
his graduates and honors from the university.
Professional Chronology
Design Engineer, Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corp., New York City and
Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona (1958-61); Research/Teaching Assistant, University
of Texas at Austin (1961-64); Horn Professor of Civil Engineering, Texas
Tech University (1964-present), Director, Wind Science and Engineering
Research Center (1988-present); Interim Dean of College of Engineering
(1994-95).
Memberships
Chairman, International Association for Wind Engineering; Past-Chairman,
ASCE Task Committee on Wind Loads; Past-President, American Association
for Wind Engineering; Past-Chairman, National Research Council Committee
on Natural Disasters; ASCE Committee on Electrical Transmission Structures;
ASCE Committee on Aerodynamics; Steering Committee for National Multihazard
Mitigation Council, Wind Damage Mitigation Committee of Insurance Institute
for Property Loss Reduction; American Meteorological Society; American
Concrete Institute; American Society of Civil Engineers (Fellow); Sigma
Xi, Chi Epsilon, National Society of Professional Engineers, Registered
Professional Engineer (Texas).
Awards
Honorary Membership in ASCE, Distinguished Service National Hurricane
Conference Award, Whos Who in America, Strathmores Whos
Who, Engineering Award from the National Hurricane Conference; AAWE
Award of Appreciation, P.W. Horn Professor of Texas Tech University,
Halliburton Education Foundation Award of Excellence
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Siva S. Banda,
Senior scientist and leader, Control Science Center of Excellence, Air
Force Research Laboratory,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
For leadership in the development of multivariable control theory and
its applications to an array of military vehicles
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Dr. Siva S. Banda is a senior scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory
(AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA. He performs and
directs research and development activities at the AFRL Center of Excellence
in Control Science. His primary responsibility is the transition of
basic research results from control theory to the aerospace industry.
Dr. Banda has written or co-written more than 160 archival articles
and nine technical reports and books, and he has delivered more than
60 invited lectures. He is a technical adviser to the Air Force Office
of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, National Research Council and several leading
academic institutions worldwide. He served as an Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, an editor of the
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and an editor
of the Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics. He is the Vice Chair
for the contributed papers of the 2001 American Control Conference,
the General Chairman of the 2002 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference, and a former board member of the American Automatic Control
Council.
He is a Fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory, American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
He is the recipient of the 2000 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award.
Dr. Siva S. Banda who leads the Control Science Center of Excellence,
at the AFRL, where he performs and directs basic and applied research
that supports the future vision of the Air Force. His primary responsibility
is the transition of basic research results from control theory to the
aerospace industry. After high-level discussions with Air Force operational
personnel in the Air Combat Command, Dr Bandas task is to translate
the future Air Force operational needs into a list of future technologies
by enlisting the broader academic community. This is at the heart of
Dr Bandas mission. His current research efforts focus on autonomous
and cooperative control of multiple unmanned air vehicles, guidance
and control of transatmospheric vehicles, aerodynamic flow control and
formation control of micro satellite clusters.
Banda says that the Air Force interest in access to space and NASAs
focus on the development of the next generation of reusable launch vehicles
has provided new opportunities for researchers to develop technologies
that support the objectives of civilian and military space programs.
He recently solicited proposals from scientists that will reduce development
costs, reduce turn-around time and increase overall vehicle safety and
reliability.
After earning a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Regional
Engineering College, Warangal (1974), Banda went on to earn his Ph.D
(1980) in aerospace engineering, from the University of Dayton, Ohio.
Since then he has been at WPAFB beginning his career as an aerospace
research engineer and moving step by step to a leadership role at the
AFRL.
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Rajagopal Raghavan
Senior staff associate (retired), Phillips Petroleum Co., Tulsa, Okla.
For pioneering contributions to the interpretation of pressure data
in wells to improve the definition, engineering, and production of complex
oil and gas reservoirs.
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Rajagopal Raghavan, Senior Staff Associate, Phillips Petroleum Co.,
is honored for his many years of dedicated leadership and service in
the Society and the petroleum engineering profession. An active SPE
member at both the section and national levels since joining in 1967,
Raghavan is a recipient of the 1981 Distinguished Achievement Award
for Petroleum Engineering Faculty and the 1988 Reservoir Engineering
Award. He served as Chairperson of the 1986, 1989, and 1999 Forum Series
in North America Steering Committees and was recently a member of the
Forum Series Coordinating Committee and Forum Series Implementation
Committee. Raghavan was also a member of the 1995 Forum Series in Asia
Pacific Steering Committee and a keynote speaker at that meeting. As
a Technical Editor on the Editorial Review Committee for many years,
he served as Review Chairperson during 1984-86 and Executive Editor
during 1997-99. He is also a former Chairperson of the Education and
Accreditation Committee and the Symbols and Metrication Committee, and
he was a 1990-91 Distinguished Lecturer. Raghavan has authored or coauthored
more than 90 technical papers, many of them SPE papers.
Before assuming his current position in 1990, Raghavan spent the majority
of his career in teaching and research positions at Texas A&M U.,
the U. of Tulsa, and Stanford U. His research interests include well-test
analysis, reservoir simulation, geothermal reservoirs, and rock compaction.
In addition to SPE, he is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences
and the American Geophysical Union. Raghavan holds a BS degree in electrical
engineering from the Birla Inst. of Technology in India, a BS degree
in petroleum engineering from the U. of Birmingham, and a PhD degree
in petroleum engineering from Stanford U.
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Shivaji Sircar,
Professor of practice, chemical engineering department, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pa.
For contributions to the fundamental science and technology of adsorption
separations and their applications in process industries.- Professional
Progress Award 1988, Presented by the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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Sircar retired last year as chief scientist in the adsorption science
division at Air Products and Chemicals Inc. after a 29-year career with
the firm. He holds 56 U.S. and 65 international patents, and has authored
157 technical publications and 123 technical presentations.
Sircar is a member of the advisory boards of the journals Adsorption,
Adsorption Science and Technology, and Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry Research. He received the Professional
Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in
1988 and the Industrial Gases Technology Award from AIChE in 2001. That
same year, a session in adsorption was dedicated in his honor at AIChEs
annual meeting
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Vijay Vittal,
Harpole Professor, department of electrical and computer engineering,
Iowa State University, Ames.
For improvements in real-time control and dynamic security assessment
for electric power systems
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Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 1982
M. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1979
B.E. B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 1977
Academic Experience
1993-1994 Program Director for Power Systems,
National Science Foundation, Division of Electrical & Communication
Systems, Washington, DC
1986-1990 Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1982-1986 Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Honors & Awards
2000 Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, Power Engineering
Society,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
2000 Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Departmental Award for Student Recognition of Outstanding Classroom
Performance.
1997 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
1989 Young Engineering Faculty Research Award, presented by the College
of Engineering,
Iowa State University.
1988 Faculty Award of Excellence, Presented annually by the NCR Corporation
to recognize outstanding contributions to the Academic Education of
Electrical Engineering Students.
1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, received from the President
of the United States in recognition of research and teaching abilities.
Text Books or Chapters in Books
Fouad, A. A., and V. Vittal, Power System Transient Stability Analysis
Using the Transient Energy Function
Method, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1992.
Bergen, A. R., and V. Vittal, Power System Analysis, Prentice Hall,
New Jersey, 2000.
V. Vittal, The Electric Power Engineering Handbook, L. L. Grigsby,
Editor and Chief, Direct Stability
Methods, pp. 11-42 11-54, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida,
2001
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