Prof. V.Ramgopal Rao, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay has been elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences from Jan 1, 2009. Prof. Rao is also a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and has received the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award and the Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences in 2004 and 2005 respectively. He has over 200 publications in international journals and international conference proceedings and holds 2 patents with 7 US patents currently pending.

Prof. Rao works in the areas of Nano-scale Devices and Sensors. His work in the area of Nano-scale devices mainly deals with improving the performance & leakage requirements of conventional Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technologies, the technologies that go into building the modern day computers and mobile phones. As the minimum feature sizes in the CMOS technologies are scaled below the 50 nm regime, the leakage currents go up making these technologies unsuitable for mobile applications, which run on a battery. Prof. Rao's work essentially addresses the CMOS device optimization aspects to solve the scaling issues and he works closely with Infineon, Intel and IBM on specific industry problems in this area.

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		Prof. R. Murugavel, Professor, Department of Chemistry has been elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, India also from January, 2009. He has been a recipient of J. C. Ghosh Medal, Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship, Young Scientist Award of DAE, Swarnajayanti Fellowship of DST, and Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India. He is an elected fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Chemistry.

Prof Murugavel's research focuses on natural processes involved in the synthesis of zeolites. Zeolites play an technological role because of their applications as catalysts, reaction vessels, molecular sieves, detergents, and gas-storage devices. Prof Murugavel's research group at the Chemistry Department has been able produce designer zeolites by incorporating metals such as aluminium, zinc, copper, calcium, titanium and even rare-earth in the existing frameworks of silicates and phosphates. Potentially these have an ability to solve numerous problems associated with chemical industry. For instance one of its many applications will be on futuristic energy saving cars running on hydrogen. These in turn would need H2-storage materials for its tanks and this is where such zeolites would come into play.

http://www.chem.iitb.ac.in/people/Faculty/prof/rmv.html

Prof. Jugal Kishore Verma and Prof. V. K. Singh elected
Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

		Prof. Jugal Kishore Verma, Professor, Department of Mathematics, has recently been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Prof. Verma works in the area of commutative algebra. He has investigated a number of research topics such as Hilbert functions, Blowup Algebra, Local Cohomology and Volumes of Polytopes which relate to properties of algebraic structures that arise in number theory and geometry.

These structures provide useful language and techniques essential to the study of a number of applied areas such as optimization (used in scheduling tasks in industry, railways, and airlines), geometric modelling (used to create curves and surfaces for images in computer screen) and coding theory (used in storage and retrieval of information in compact discs, transmission of information over the Internet).
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		Prof. V. K. Singh, Professor in the Department of Chemistry has been recently elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Prof. Singh was also elected as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2004 and received Chemical Research Society of India, Medal (Jan 2000) for his significant contributions to chemical research.

His research group has been working in the area of organic synthesis and has developed indigenous methodologies for creating diverse types of compounds. It has generated significant new knowledge in organic chemistry that may also have varied applications including synthesis of compounds of pharmaceutical and cosmetic interest.