Prof B V Babu

1. Faculty Advisor, Turbulence-95, Inter-Departmental Seminar Presentation Competition of Technical Papers by students of DDIT, Nadiad, April 7-9, 1995.

2. Convener, One day Seminar on Total Quality Management (Incorporating ISO – 9000) jointly organized by Institution of Engineers (INDIA) Gujarat State Center and DDIT Nadiad, May 6, 1995.

3. Organizing Committee Member & Resource Person, Package Program on Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers, organized by Department of Chemical Engineering & DDIT Alumni Association of DDIT Nadiad, Inder Residency, Ahmedabad, December 21-23, 1995.

4. Coordinator, State-level Inter-Collegiate Oral Quiz and Seminar presentation competition, DDIT Nadiad, March 2, 1996.

5. Faculty Advisor, Turbulence-96, Inter-departmental Seminar Presentation Competition of Technical Papers by students of DDIT Nadiad, April 6-9, 1996.

6. Organizing Committee Member & Resource Person, 3-Day Course on Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers & Chemists, jointly organized by Department of Chemical Engineering of DDIT Nadiad and Ankleshwar Industries Association, Ankleshwar, July 12-14, 1996.

7. Coordinator, Seminar and Intensive Course on Process Control and Simulation for Chemical and Metallurgical Industries, BITS Pilani, April 4-7, 1997.

8. Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, March 17-April 28, 1998.

9. Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, September 08-November 17, 1998.

10. Organizing Committee Member, One Day Workshop on Passive Solar Architecture organized by Centre for Renewable Energy & Environment Development (CREED), sponsored by Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES), Government of India, BITS Pilani, February 23, 1999.

11. Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, June 22-July 17, 1999.

12. Coordinator & Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, February 24-April 20, 2000.

13. Coordinator & Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, September 05-November 22, 2000.

14. Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on “Women and Development in India–Issues & Challenges” jointly organized by BITS – Pilani and Rajasthan State Commission for Women (RSCW)–Jaipur (supported by UNICEF & IREDA), BITS Pilani, January 19-20, 2001.

15. Resource Faculty Member, Seminar and Intensive Course (SIC-2001) on “Novel Separation Techniques and their applications to Indian Chemical Industries” organized by Chemical Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, March 21-23, 2001.

16. Coordinator & Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, September 11-November 28, 2001.

17. Coordinator & Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, February 05-April 23, 2002.

18. Organizing Committee Member, Seminar on “Reorienting Social Science Education for meeting Societal Objectives: Focus on Professional Education” jointly organized by BITS Pilani & Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI) New Delhi, BITS Pilani, March 8-9, 2002.

19. Organizing Committee Member, International Conference on “Population, Development & Environment” organized by BITS Pilani and jointly supported by United Nations Population Fund (UNPF)-New Delhi, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)-Mumbai & University Grants Commission (UGC)-New Delhi, BITS Pilani, March 15-16, 2002.

20. Coordinator & Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, September 04-November 27, 2002.

21. Organizing Committee Member, 35^th Engineers’ Day–Theme: Indian Small Scale Industries in Globalization Scenario, BITS Pilani, September 16, 2002.

22. Organizing Committee Member, Asia Regional Workshop on “Improving Mobility for the Rural Poor: Achieving Sustainable Motorized and Non-Motorized Rural Transport” organized by the Rajasthan Regional National Forum Group of the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), BITS Pilani, September 23-26, 2002.

23. Organizing Committee Member, International Symposium on Emerging Trends in Genomics and Proteomics Education & Research, jointly organized by BITS-Pilani and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)-Bethesda (Maryland, USA), BITS Pilani, January 12-13, 2003.

24. Coordinator & Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, February 05-April 23, 2003.

25. Program Committee Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 12-16, 2003.

26. Organizing Committee Member, 36^th Engineers’ Day–Theme: Improvement in Values in Engineering Profession, BITS Pilani, September 15, 2003.

27. Organizing Committee Member, National Conference on Integrated Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management (ISWRPM-2003), BITS Pilani, October 11-12, 2003.

28. Organizing Committee Member, International Conference on Conflict Resolution: Peace and Development, organized by BITS-Pilani, Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM)–Maryland (USA), and Indian Institute of Advance Study (IIAS)–Shimla, in association with Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA)-New Delhi, BITS Pilani, October 28-29, 2003.

29. Organizing Committee Member, Second Conference on Disaster Management Case Histories, BITS Pilani, November 14-16, 2003.

30. Organizing Committee Member (Publicity Chair), The Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2003), National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 15-17, 2003.

31. Session Organizer, Special Session on “Evolutionary Computation”, The Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2003), National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 15-17, 2003.

32. Program Committee Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), Seattle, Washington, USA, June 26-30, 2004.

33. Project Coordinator & Resource Faculty, Academic Refresher Course Programme-I for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 10-July 24, 2004.

34. Session Chair, Invited Session on “Engineering Applications of Evolutionary Computation Techniques”, The Eighth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI-2004), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 18-21, 2004.

35. Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Control Technologies (CCCT-2004), Sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin and The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), Austin, Texas, USA, August 14-17, 2004.

36. Organizing Committee Member, Asia Regional Workshop on “Promoting Sustainability of Community-based Rural Transport Infrastructure” organized by the Rajasthan Forum Group (Rajasthan) & BITS Pilani, sponsored by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) & International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), BITS Pilani, September 6-8, 2004.

37. Organizing Committee Member, National Seminar on “Meeting Communication Challenges at Workplace” organized by Languages Group, BITS Pilani, supported by AICTE New Delhi, BITS Pilani, September 10-11, 2004.

38. Organizing Committee Member, National Conference on “Structural Engineering and Mechanics (SEM–04)” organized by Civil Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, supported by DST, CSIR, and UGC of New Delhi; and DAE, BRNS, BARC of Mumbai, BITS Pilani, September 24-25, 2004.

39. Project Coordinator & Resource Faculty, Academic Refresher Course Programme–II for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, October 9–November 22, 2004.

40. Organizing Committee Member, Symposium on “Prediction in Ungauged Basins for Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management (PUBSWRPM–2004)” organized by Civil Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, supported by CSIR and UGC of New Delhi; and Indian National Committee on Hydrology, Roorkee, BITS Pilani, October 30, 2004.

41. Organizing Committee Member, Advanced Training Programme on “Water Resource Development and Management for NABARD Officers” organized by Civil Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, November 3-7, 2004.

42. International Program Committee Member, 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS-2004), jointly organized by the IEEE SMC Society Singapore Chapter and IEEE R&A Society Singapore Chapter, Singapore, December 1-3, 2004.

43. Organizing Committee Member (Publicity Chair), 2^nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2004), Palmerston North, New Zealand, December 13–15, 2004.

44. Technical Programme Committee Member, 2^nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2004), Palmerston North, New Zealand, December 13–15, 2004.

45. Coordinator & Organizing Faculty Member, Intensive Teaching Workshop, BITS Pilani, February 10-April 21, 2005.

46. Project Coordinator, Professional Skills Development Programme for the Junior Executive Trainees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, February 21–April 21, 2005.

47. Resource Faculty Member, Workshop on Energy Saving in Steam Systems, organized by Centre for Renewable Energy and Environmental Development (CREED), BITS Pilani and Thermax Babcock and Wilcox Limited, Pune, BITS Pilani, April 26-30, 2005.

48. Program Committee Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), Washington DC, USA, June 25-29, 2005.

49. Program Committee Member, International Conference on Management Engineering and Informatics (MEI-2005), Texas, Austin, USA, July 24-27, 2005.

50. Program Committee Member, The 3^rd International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Control Technologies (CCCT-2005), Texas, Austin, USA, July 24-27, 2005.

51. Organizing Committee Member, Seminar on Entrepreneurship Culture: Issues & Challenges of Small and Intermediate Entrepreneurs (SIEs) at Grassroots Level, BITS Pilani, September 2-4, 2005.

52. Program Committee Member, The Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2005), National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 13-16, 2005.

53. Program Committee Member, The 2^nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-2005), Pune, India, December 20-22, 2005.

54. Local Advisory Committee Member, National Conference on Design for Product Life Cycle (DPLC-2006), BITS Pilani, February 17-18, 2006.

55. International Program Committee Member, The 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems (CIS-2006), jointly organized by IEEE R&A and SMC Singapore Chapters, Bangkok, Thailand, June 7-9, 2006.

56. Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Nanotechnology-Materials and Methods (To meet Global Challenges) (CIT NANOTECH-2006), CIT Coimbatore, June 23-24, 2006.

57. Program Committee Member, The 2^nd International Symposium on Management Engineering and Informatics (MEI-2006), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 16-19, 2006.

58. Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences (KCC-2006), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 16-19, 2006.

59. Organizing Secretary, National Conference on Environmental Conservation (NCEC-2006), BITS Pilani, September 1-3, 2006.

60. Coordinator & Resource Faculty, Academic Refresher Course Programme–III (Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering) for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, November 06–December 05, 2006.

61. Coordinator & Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-4 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, December 08, 2006–January 09, 2007.

62. Technical Programme Committee Member, The 3^rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA-2006), Palmerston North, New Zealand, December 12–14, 2006.

63. Coordinator & Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-5 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, January 12–February 13, 2007.

64. Advisory Committee Member, 13^th National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids with Special Focus on Biomimetic Systems (NATCOSEB XIII-BIMS), organized by Chemistry Group of BITS-Pilani in Collaboration with Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology, Jadavpur, Kolkata, BITS Pilani, February 22-24, 2007.

65. Programme Committee Member, The Second International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences (KCC-2007), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 8-11, 2007.

66. Programme Committee Member, The 3^rd International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics (MEI-2007), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 8-11, 2007.

67. Technical Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (Emerging Methods Towards Frontier Technologies) (CIT ICOMS-2007), CIT Coimbatore, August 27-29, 2007.

68. Program Committee Member, The Second International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2007), Zhengzhou Henan Province, China, September 14-17, 2007.

69. International Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2007), Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore, September 25-28, 2007.

70. Resource Faculty, Workshop on Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer for the Employees of Engineers India Limited (EIL) New Delhi, organized by Research & Consultancy Division of BITS Pilani at EIL-New Delhi, October 12-13, 2007.

71. Expert Team Member, Technology Clinic, 2^nd National Convention on Energising Entrepreneurship Through Innovation, BITS Pilani, November 2-3, 2007.

72. International Program Committee Member, The Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2007), Palmeston North, New Zealand, November 28-30, 2007.

73. Program Committee Member, The 3r^d Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-2007), Pune, India, December 17-19, 2007.

74. Program Committee Member, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI-2008). Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, co-sponsored by the International Neural Network Society, Evolutionary Programming Society and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, WCCI 2008 is composed of the 2008 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2008) and the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hongkong, June 1-6, 2008.

75. International Program Committee Member, The 2008 IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems (CIS 2008), Chengdu, China, June 3-6, 2008.

76. Program Committee Member, The Fifth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2008), Linz, Austria, June 19-21, 2008.

77. Program Committee Member, The First International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation (IMETI 2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 29-July 2, 2008.

78. Programme Committee Member, The Third International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences (KCC-2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 29-July 2, 2008.

79. Programme Committee Member, The 4^th International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics (MEI-2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 28-July 2, 2008.

80. Programme Committee Member, The 12^th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI-2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 29-July 2, 2008.

81. Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Soft Skills Development and Academia Perspectives, BITS Pilani, September 19-20, 2008.

82. Program Committee Member, The Third International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2008), Adelaide, Australia, September 28-October 1, 2008.

83. Advisory Committee Member, International Convention on Water Resources Development and Management (ICWRDM), BITS Pilani, October 23-26, 2008.

84. Coordinator & Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-6 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, January 07–February 03, 2009.

85. Technical Program Committee Member, The 4^th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2009), Wellington, New Zealand, February 10-12,, 2009.

86. Coordinator & Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-7 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, February 04–March 03, 2009.

87. Invited Main Speaker, Workshop on Application of Advanced Tools/Techniques in Research, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, Goa, March 6-7, 2009.

88. Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-8 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, March 14–April 10, 2009.

89. Member, Advisory Committee, National Workshop on Water Conservation and Sustainable Development of Society (WCSDS-2009), Organized by MBM Engineering College, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur & Department of Environment, Government of Rajasthan, at MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur, March 15, 2009.

90. Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE-CEC-2009), Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009.

91. Program Committee Member, Chinese Decision and Control Conference (CDCC-2009), Guilin, China, June 17-19, 2009.

92. Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-9 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 29–July 24, 2009.

93. Program Committee Member, The 2^nd International Symposium on Academic Globalization (AG-2009), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 10-13, 2009.

94. Program Committee Member, The 3^rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management (KGCM-2009), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 10-13, 2009.

95. Program Committee Member, The 4^th International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences (KCC-2009), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 10-13, 2009.

96. Program Committee Member, The 5^th International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics (MEI-2009), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 10-13, 2009.

97. Program Committee Member, The 7^th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT 2009), Orlando, Florida, USA. July 10-13, 2009.

98. Program Committee Member, The 13^th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI-2009), Orlando, Florida, USA. July 10-13, 2009.

99. Program Committee Member, The 15^th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS-2009), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 10-13, 2009.

100. Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-10 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, August 13-September 09, 2009.

101. International Program Committee Member, 6^th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2009), Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009.

102. International Program Committee Member, FIRA (Federation of International Robo-Soccer Association) Robo World Congress-2009, Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009.

103. Program Committee Member, The 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC-2009), Ulsan, Korea, September 16-19, 2009.

104. International Program Committee Member, International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC-2009), Madeira, Portugal, October 5-7, 2009.

105. Technical Program Committee Member, The International Workshop on Bio-inspired Computing and Communications- (BICC 2009), organised in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Communications-ICUMT (ICUMT-Workshop-42), Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 13-14, 2009.

106. Program Committee Member, The 4^th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2009), Peking University, Beijing, China, on October16-19, 2009.

107. Program Committee Member, The 4^th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-2009), Tumkur, India, December 16-18, 2009.

108. Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-1 for the Employees of Bharat Aluminum Company Limited, Korba, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, February 26-March 25, 2010.

109. Program Committee Member, The 16^th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, April 6-9, 2010.

110. Program Committee Member, 8^th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, April 6 -9, 2010.

111. Program Committee Member, The SPRING 4^th International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management (KGCM-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, April 6-9, 2010.

112. Advisory Committee Member, National Conference on Environmental Conservation and Management (NCECM-2010), Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur, May 10-12, 2010.

113. International Program Committee Member, 15^th FIRA (Federation of International Robotsoccer Association) Robot World Cup and Congress, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore, May 15-19, 2010.

114. Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-11 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 21-July 19, 2010.

115. Resource Faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-2 for the Employees of Bharat Aluminum Company Limited, Korba, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 25-July 22, 2010.

116. Track Chair & Program Committee Member, 4^th IEEE intentional conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and the 4th IEEE intentional conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) (IEEE CIS-RAM-2010), Singapore, June 28-30, 2010.

117. Program Committee Member, The 3^rd International Symposium on Academic Globalization (AG-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 29-July 02, 2010.

118. Program Committee Member, The SUMMER 4^th International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management (KGCM-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 29-July 02, 2010.

119. Program Committee Member, The 6^th International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics (MEI-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 29-July 02, 2010.

120. Program Committee Member, The International Symposium on Science 2 and Expansion of Science (S2ES-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, June 29-July 02, 2010.

121. Resource Faculty, Staff Development Programme on Innovative Teaching Techniques for Transport Phenomena organized by ITM Universe, Gwalior, July 12-17, 2010.

122. Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE-CEC-2010), Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010.

123. Program Committee Member, The 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC-2010), ChangSha, China, August 18-21, 2010.

124. Program Committee Member, Fifth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2010), Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, September 8-10, 2010.

125. Program Committee Member, The 7^thInternational Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2010), Bangalore, India, September 15-17, 2010.

126. Program Committee Member, The Fourth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC-2010) Shenzhen, China, December 13-15, 2010.

127. Program Committee Member, 9^th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT 2011), Orlando, Florida, USA, March 27-30, 2011.

128. Program Committee Member, The 17^th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS-2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, March 27-30, 2011.

129. Program Committee Member, The Spring 5^th International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management (KGCM-2011), Orlando, Florida, USA, March 27-30, 2011.

130. Program Committee Member, IEEE SSCI (Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence) Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (IEEE-SSCI-FoCI-2011) Paris, France, April 11-15, 2011.

131. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE SSCI (Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence) Symposium on Differential Evolution (IEEE-SSCI-SDE-2011) Paris, France, April 11-15, 2011.

132. Program Committee Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011), Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011.

133. Program Committee Member, The 4^th International Symposium on Academic Globalization (AG-2011), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 19-22, 2011.

134. Program Committee Member, The 7^th International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics (MEI-2011), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 19-22, 2011.

135. Program Committee Member, The 2^nd International Symposium on Science 2 and Expansion of Science (S2ES-2011), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 19-22, 2011.

136. Advisory Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Process Automation, Computing and Control (IEEE-PACC-2011), CIT, Coimbatore, India, July 20-22, 2011.

137. Program Committee Member, First International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC-2011), Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET), Kochi, Kerala, India, July 22-24, 2011.

Chief Guest/Keynote Address

1. Chief Guest and delivered the Keynote Address at the Inaugural function of 2-day National Seminar on Eco-friendly Chemical Technologies in New Millennium organized by UDCT, Amravati University, February 7-8, 2002.

2. Chief Guest and delivered the Keynote Address on the eve of Human Rights Day on Influence of Science & Technology on Education organized by Sri Vidya Public School, Tuni, December 10, 2002.

3. Invited as Keynote Speaker to deliver the Keynote Address at the International Conference on Desert Technology (DT-7), Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur, November 9-14, 2003.

4. Chief Guest and delivered the Keynote Address on Opportunities and Challenges for Education in India & BITS Philosophy of Education organized by Sri Vidya Public School, Tuni, June 25, 2004.

5. Chief Guest for flag hoisting and receiving the Guard of Honour on 58^th Republic Day of India celebrations at Vidhyashram Public School, Pilani, January 26, 2007.

6. Chief Guest for flag hoisting and receiving the Guard of Honour on 62^nd Independence Day of India celebrations at Shri Udairam Ji Padia Vidya Mandir (Girls Senior Secondary School), Pilani, August 15, 2008.

7. Invited as Keynote Speaker to deliver the Kenote Address at the Workshop on Process Modeling and Simulation, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, November 6-7, 2009.

8. Chief Guest and delivered the Inaugural Address at the Inaugural function of Staff Development Programme on Innovative Teaching Techniques for Transport Phenomena organized by ITM Universe, Gwalior, July 12-17, 2010.

9. Chief Guest, Sri Krishna Janmashtami Utsav Celebrations, Goenka Vidya Mandir Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Pilani, September 02, 2010.

10. Chief Guest, Inaugural Function of Chem-X-Sere, IIChE Student Chapter Technical Festival, BITS Pilani, October 01-03, 2010.

Seminars/Symposia/Workshops/Conferences Attended

1. 35th Annual Session of IIChE (CHEMCON-82), A.U.College of Engineering, Waltair, December 16-19, 1982.

2. All India Seminar on “Risk Management and Public Liability Insurance” jointly organized by IIChE Ahmedabad & Baroda Regional Centers and The Oriental Insurance Company Limited, Ahmedabad, Bhaikaka Bhawan, February 14, 1987.

3. Program on “Educational Utilization of Indian Standards in Chemical Engineering” organized by Bureau of Indian Standards, Express Hotel, Baroda, September 26, 1987.

4. National Seminar on “Chemical Industry: Past, Present and Future” organized by IIChE Western Region (Bombay, Baroda, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Nagpur) on the eve of Dr HL Roy Birth Centenary Celebrations, Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay, September 14, 1990.

5. Seminar on “Challenges for Chemical Engineers in India over the next decade” organized by Chemical Engineering Association (ChEA) of IIT Bombay (Silver Jubilee Meeting), Lecture Theatre, IIT, Bombay, March 16, 1991.

6. 44th Annual session of IIChE (CHEMCON-91), “Radial liquid distribution studies in trickle-bed columns”, A.C.College of Technology, Madras, December 18-21, 1991.

7. ChEA Annual Seminar on “Petrochemicals-2000” organized by Chemical Engineering Association of IIT Bombay, Lecture Theatre, IIT Bombay, September 12, 1992.

8. Eighth Symposium on “Lubricants Additives Waxes & Petroleum Specialty Products (8th LAWPSP Symposium)”, IIT Bombay, January 21-23, 1993.

9. One day Seminar on “Recycling of Industrial Waste–Recent trends” organized by DDIT Alumni Association, DDIT Nadiad, March 20, 1993.

10. 47th Annual session of IIChE (CHEMCON-94), IIT Kharagpur, December 14-17, 1994.

11. Workshop on “Project Finance” organized by DDIT Alumni Association, DDIT Nadiad, June 16, 1996.

12. 14th National Conference of Environmental Engineers, “Positive Decision making in waste management towards achieving sustainable development-A Perspective”, Institution of Engineers (India), AP Centre, Hyderabad, August 7-9, 1998.

13. 51st Annual Session of IIChE (CHEMCON-98), AU College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam, December 16-19, 1998.

14. One-Day Workshop on “Passive Solar Architecture” organized by Centre for Renewable Energy & Environment Development (CREED) & Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES), Government of India, BITS Pilani, February 23, 1999.

15. Second Meeting of Vice Chancellors/Directors of Indian & Nepalese Universities, supported by B.P. Koirala Indo-Nepal Foundation, BITS Pilani, April 2-3, 1999.

16. 52nd Annual Session of IIChE (CHEMCON-99), “1. Genetic Algorithms for Estimating Heat Transfer Parameters in Trickle Bed Reactors” and “2. Automated Design of Heat Exchangers using Artificial Intelligence based Optimization”, Panjab University, Chandigarh, December 20-23, 1999.

17. 53rd Annual Session of IIChE (CHEMCON-2000), “1. Evolutionary Computation strategy for optimization of an Alkylation Reaction” and “2. Adaptive networks for Fault Diagnosis and Process Control” [Adjudged the BEST PAPER presented in the Technical Session (Miscellaneous) at the above Conference], Science City, Calcutta, December 18-21, 2000.

18. Workshop on “Women and Development in India – Issues & Challenges” jointly organized by BITS–Pilani & Rajasthan State Commission for Women (RSCW) – Jaipur (supported by UNICEF & IREDA), BITS Pilani, January 19-20, 2001.

19. Intensive Workshop on “Testing Evaluation of Biomass Gasifier Systems and Related Laboratory Investigations” organized by Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute (SPRERI), Vallabh Vidyanagar, April 11-14, 2001.
20. 54th Annual Session of IIChE (CHEMCON-2001), “1. Optimization of Thermal Cracker Operation using Differential Evolution” and “2. Evolutionary Computation for Scenario-Integrated Optimization of Dynamic Systems” (Adjudged the SECOND BEST PAPER presented in the ‘Modeling Simulation and Control Session’ at the above Conference), CLRI, Chennai, December 19-22, 2001.

21. 2-day National Seminar on Eco-friendly Chemical Technologies in New Millennium, “Eco-friendly chemical technologies in new millennium (Keynote Address as Chief Guest)”, UDCT, Amravati University, February 7-8, 2002.

22. International Conference on "Population, Development and Environment" organized by BITS-Pilani (supported by UNPF, IIPS & UGC), “A Model for Efficient Resource Utilization: Development and Validation”, BITS-Pilani, March 15-16, 2002.

23. Joint International Conference of 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL’02), 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP’02) & International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD’02), Organized by: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University – Singapore, Sponsored by: Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees, Lee Foundation, In Co-Operation with: IEEE Neural Network Council, International Neural Network Society European Neural Network Society & SPIE, “A Differential Evolution Approach for Global Optimization of MINLP Problems”, Orchid Country Club, Singapore, November 18–22, 2002.

24. Workshop on Conflict Transformation and Citizens’ Diplomacy, organized by BITS-Pilani and Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, “Subtle Inner Self-understanding vs. Gross Outer Materialistic Awareness for Peace, Conflict Resolution and Development”, BITS Pilani, October 30–November 1, 2003.

25. International Conference on Desert Technology (DT-7), “Influence of Product Yields, Density, Heating Conditions, and Conversion on Pyrolysis of Biomass (Keynote Speaker)”, Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur, November 9-14, 2003.

26. Curriculum Development Cell Workshop on Heat Exchangers Design and Optimization, “Optimal Design of Heat Exchangers using Evolutionary Computation Techniques (Distinguished Speaker)”, IIT Delhi, March 26, 2004.

27. SERC School / CEP Course on Process Optimization, Data Driven Modeling and Advanced Process Control, “Global Optimization using Stochastic Search Methods (Distinguished Speaker)”, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, August 16-20, 2004.

28. Workshop on Energy Saving in Steam Systems organized by Centre for Renewable Energy and Environmental Development (CREED), BITS Pilani and Thermax Babcock and Wilcox Limited, Pune, “Energy Integration Analysis”, BITS Pilani, April 26-30, 2005.

29. International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Methodologies, “Life Cycle Inventory Analysis (LCIA) (Keynote Speaker)”, The Boulevard, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 4-5, 2006.

30. National Seminar on Bio Films: Challenges & Applications, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Bhavan' Research Center in Collaboration with University of Mumbai - Sesquicentennial Celebrations, “Biofilms in the Removal of VOCs and Foul Odors (Keynote Speaker)”, Mumbai, January 12-13, 2007.

31. Indo-US Workshop on Advances in Computational Optimization and Analysis of Systems, “Improved Differential Evolution for Single- and Multi-Objective Optimization: MDE, MODE, NSDE, and MNSDE (Invited Distinguished Speaker)”, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, February 07-09, 2007.

32. Workshop on Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer for the Employees of Engineers India Limited (EIL) New Delhi, “1. Energy Integration Analysis (HENS): Pinch Technology”, “2. Mass Transfer Operations”, “3. Energy Conservation Measures in Distillation” and “4. Produced Wastewater-Treatment Technologies”, EIL-New Delhi, October 12-13, 2007.

33. One-day follow up discussion meeting on New Research directions in the use of power beams for environmental applications (RPDM-PBEA-2007) to a Symposium on “Power beams for clean environment and processes” organized by Laser & Plasma Technology Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), “Chemical kinetics and dynamics of plasma assisted pyrolysis of assorted, non nuclear waste (Invited Distinguished Speaker)”, Mumbai, September 18, 2007.

34. International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-8), “Lateral Mixing in Trickle Bed Reactors”, IIT-Delhi, New Delhi, India, December 16-19, 2007.

35. Curriculum Workshop, Structure development for B.Tech & M.Tech programmes in Chemical Engineering, Invited Expert Member, MNIT, Jaipur, May 24-25, 2008.

36. Assessors’ Interaction Meeting for professional educational experts, Invited Peer Team Member, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore, October 23-24, 2008.

37. Indo-French Workshop on Biohydrogen Production under the aegis of Indo French Center for Promotion of Advance Scientific Research, organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)-New Delhi, “Biohydrogen-A Clean and Green Energy: Economic Perspective & Optimization Strategies (Invited Speaker)”, Hotel Jaypee Manor, Mussoorie, November 6-8, 2008.

38. Indo-US Workshop on Materials Design: Measurement, Modeling and Informatics, organized jointly by School of Materials Science and Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU)-Shibpur and Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics Collaboratory (CoSMIC-IMI), Iowa State University-USA with the support of Tata Steel-Jamshedpur and Stanley Foundation-USA, “Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization for Manufacturing Processes of Polymeric Materials (Invited Speaker)”, Kolkata, January 5-7, 2009.

39. Workshop associated with ‘National Mission Project on Education through ICT, initiated and sponsored by MHRD (GOI), for developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in e-learning’, IIT Kharagpur-Kolkata Campus, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, October 8-9, 2009.

40. Workshop on Application of Advanced Tools/Techniques in Research, “1. Modelilng & Simulation”, “2. Traditional Optimization Techniques and their limitations”, “3. Population-based search algorithms for optimization”, and “4. Energy Integration Analysis” (Invited Speaker), BITS Pilani Goa Campus, Goa, March 6-7, 2009.

41. Workshop on Process Modeling and Simulation, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), “Invited Talks on Process Modeling & Simulation, and Population-based search algorithms for single- and multi-objective optimization”, Dehradun, November 6-7, 2009.

42. Staff Development Programme on Innovative Teaching Techniques for Transport Phenomena, “Introduction to Transport Phenomena” and “Energy Integration Analysis (Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker)”, ITM Universe, Gwalior, July 12-17, 2010.

Sessions Chaired in Seminars/Conferences

1. Chairman, Technical Session-III (Energy Integration in Distillation Columns), Seminar and Intensive Course on Process Control and Simulation for Chemical and Metallurgical Industries, BITS Pilani, April 4-7, 1997.

2. Chairman, Technical Session-III, Seminar and Intensive Course (SIC-2001) on Novel Separation Techniques and their applications to Indian Chemical Industries, BITS Pilani, March 21-23, 2001.

3. Panel Discussion on Bio-mass Gasification at the Intensive Workshop on Testing Evaluation of Biomass Gasifier Systems and Related Laboratory Investigations organized by Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute (SPRERI), Vallabh Vidyanagar, April 11-14, 2001.

4. Chairman, Technical Session-IV (Consisting of a Keynote Address on “Pervaporation–a low energy alternative to distillation” by Prof V G Pangarkar- UDCT Mumbai, an Invited Talk on “Eco-Friendly fuels of new millennium by quality improvement and by alternate fuel” by Dr G K Ghoshal-LIT Nagpur, and 5 Technical Papers), National Seminar on Eco-Friendly Chemical Technologies in New Millennium organized by UDCT, Amravati University, Amravati, February 7-8, 2002.

5. Co-Chairman, Technical Session-III (Consisting of a Keynote Address on “Emerging Eco-Friendly Technologies for Pulp and Paper Industry” by Dr J D Dhake-Principal, AEC, Chikhali, and 7 Technical Papers), National Seminar on Eco-Friendly Chemical Technologies in New Millennium organized by UDCT, Amravati University, Amravati, February 7-8, 2002.

6. Chairman, Paper Presentation Session, 35^th Engineers’ Day–Theme: Indian Small Scale Industries in Globalization Scenario, BITS Pilani, September 16, 2002.

7. Chairman, Paper Presentation Session, 36^th Engineers’ Day–Theme: Improvement in Values in Engineering Profession, BITS Pilani, September 15, 2003.

8. Chairman, Session on “Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms (Fr1-SR04: J)”, 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2003), Canberra, Australia, December 8-12, 2003.

9. Chairman, Special Session on “Evolutionary Computation”, The Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2003), National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 15-17, 2003.

10. Chairman, Session on “Evolutionary Algorithms 2 (PS05)”, The Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS-2003), National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 15-17, 2003.

11. Chairman, Technical Session-3A, National Conference on Energy Management in Changing Business Scenario (EMCBS-2005), BITS Pilani, October 8-9, 2005.

12. Chairman, Chemical Engineering Session, International Congress of Chemistry and Environment (ICCE-2005), Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment, Indore , December 24-26, 2005.

13. Chair Person, Session-I, Plenary Lecture-II, “Drug Discovery & Development in 21^st Century: Challenges & Opportunities” by Dr B K Trivedi, CSO, DDR, Wockhardt Limited, National Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Research: Networking Opportunities between Academia & Industries, BITS Pilani, April 7-8, 2006.

14. Chair Person, Symposium 5.1: Immunology of bacterial and viral diseases, 33^rd Indian Immunological Society Conference, AIIMS New Delhi, January 28-31, 2007.

15. Chairman, PTs III - Plenary Talks (Robotics), International Conference on Emerging Mechanical Technology-Macro to Nano (EMTM2N-2007), BITS Pilani, February 16-18, 2007.

16. Chairman, Session XX, International Conference on the Interface of Chemistry-Biology in Biomedical Research (ISCBC-2008), BITS Pilani, February 22-24, 2007.

17. Chairman, Session I, Photonic Polymers: Materials, Devices and Applications (PPMDA-2008), BITS Pilani, April 03-04, 2008.

18. Expert Member, Curriculum Workshop, Structure development for B.Tech & M.Tech programmes in Chemical Engineering, MNIT Jaipur, May 24-25, 2008.

19. Chairman, Session V: Technology and Etiquettes, International Conference on Soft Skills Development and Academia Perspectives, BITS Pilani, September 19-20, 2008.

20. Expert Member, Workshop to draw an action plan for its newly started B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) Programme, Banasthali University, Banasthali Vidyapeeth, May 3-4, 2009.

Short Term Courses Attended

1. "Small Industry Orientation Training Program" conducted by Small Industry Extension Training Institute (SIETI, Government of India Society), Hyderabad (AP), March 27-29, 1983.

2. QIP Winter School on "Industrial Pollutants and their management” organized by Chemistry Department, IIT Delhi, December 4-18, 1986.

3. ISTE Summer School on "Mineral Resource Appraisal and Development” organized by Mining Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur (WB), May 25- June 5, 1987.

4. ISTE Summer School on "Microprocessor Applications” organized by Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palghat (Kerala), May 16-28, 1988.

5. ISTE Winter School on "Maintenance Management” organized by Production Engineering Department, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar (TN), December 5-16, 1988.

6. ISTE Summer School on "Recent Developments in Heat Exchangers" organized by Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Madras (TN), June 5-16, 1989.

7. ISTE Workshop on "Industry-Institute Partnership" organized by ISTE Chapter at DDIT Nadiad (Gujarat), April 25-27, 1994.

8. QIP Summer School on "Advances in the Production of Petrochemicals” organized by Chemical Engineering Department, University of Roorkee, Roorkee (UP), June 21-July 5, 1994.

9. "Intrabits Site Training Programme" organized by Centre for Software Development, BITS Pilani, February 7-12, 2000.

Invited Lectures/Talks Delivered

1. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, Package Program on Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical engineers, organized by Department of Chemical Engineering & DDIT Alumni Association of DDIT Nadiad, Inder Residency, Ahmedabad, December 21-23, 1995.

2. Delivered Lectures on “Heat Transfer”, 3-Day Course on Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers & Chemists, jointly organized by Department of Chemical Engineering of DDIT Nadiad and Ankleshwar Industries Association, Ankleshwar, July 12-14, 1996.

3. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, 3-Day Course on Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers & Chemists, jointly organized by Department of Chemical Engineering of DDIT Nadiad and Ankleshwar Industries Association, Ankleshwar, July 12-14, 1996.

4. Delivered an Invited Talk on “Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer in Trickle Bed Columns”, BITS Pilani, July 24, 1996.

5. Delivered Lectures on “Mathematical Modeling and Simulation”, Seminar and Intensive Course on Process Control and Simulation for Chemical and Metallurgical Industries, BITS Pilani, April 4-7, 1997.

6. Delivered Lectures on “Computers in Process Control”, Seminar and Intensive Course on Process Control and Simulation for Chemical and Metallurgical Industries, BITS Pilani, April 4-7, 1997.

7. Delivered an Invited Talk on “BITS Model of Education and its Flexibilities”, Sri Prakash Educational Trust, Payakaraopeta, June 08, 2000.

8. Delivered an Invited Lecture on “Character Building and Career Development”, Sri Prakash Educational Trust, Payakaraopeta, June 09, 2000.

9. Delivered Lectures on “Novel Adsorbents for solid-liquid separations”, Seminar and Intensive Course (SIC-2001) on Novel Separation Techniques and their applications to Indian Chemical Industries, BITS Pilani, March 21-23, 2001.

10. Delivered Lectures on “Process Integration”, Seminar and Intensive Course (SIC-2001) on Novel Separation Techniques and their applications to Indian Chemical Industries, BITS Pilani, March 21-23, 2001.

11. Delivered a Talk on “Knowledge, Experience and Ideas gained at CHEMCON-2001”, BITS Pilani, January 02, 2002.

12. Delivered a Talk on “BITS Educational System–Role of faculty members”, Tolani Maritime Institute, Induri, July 15, 2002.

13. Delivered a Talk on “BITS Model of Education–Flexibilities for students”, Tolani Maritime Institute, Induri, July 15, 2002.

14. Delivered a Talk on “Experience and Ideas gained at Joint International Conference of SEAL'02, ICONIP'02 & FSKD'02, attended during November 18 - 22, 2002, Singapore”, BITS Pilani, January 16, 2002.

15. Delivered a Talk on “BITS Educational System–Role & Responsibilities of Faculty members”, RL Institute of Nautical Sciences, Madurai, June 21, 2003.

16. Delivered a Talk on “BITS Model of Education–Philosophy & Flexibilities for students”, RL Institute of Nautical Sciences, Madurai, June 21, 2003.

17. Delivered an Invited Presentation on “Optimal Design of Heat Exchangers using Evolutionary Computation Techniques”, Curriculum Development Cell Workshop on "Heat Exchangers Design and Optimization", IIT Delhi, March 26, 2004.

18. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, “Mass Transfer Operations”, and “Heat Transfer Operations” of Basic Chemical Engineering Operations, Academic Refresher Course Programme for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 10-July 24, 2004.

19. Invited as a Guest Faculty and delivered an invited lecture on “Global Optimization using Stochastic Search Methods” on 16-08-2004, SERC School/CEP Course on ‘Process Optimization, Data Driven Modeling and Advanced Process Control’, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, August 16-20, 2004.

20. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, “Mass Transfer Operations”, and “Heat Transfer Operations” of Basic Chemical Engineering Operations, Academic Refresher Course Programme–II for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, October 9-November 22, 2004.

21. Addressed the students of collaborative programme on BS (Manufacturing Management) at Bharat Forge Lilmited (BFL), Pune, February 20, 2005.

22. Addressed the students of collaborative programmes on BS (Marine Engineering), and BS (Nautical Technology), TMI, February 21, 2005.

23. Delivered Lectures on "Energy Integration Analysis", Workshop on Energy Saving in Steam Systems, organized by Centre for Renewable Energy and Environmental Development (CREED), BITS Pilani and Thermax Babcock and Wilcox Limited, Pune, BITS Pilani, April 26-30, 2005.

24. Invited Seminar Talk on “Modified Differential Evolution for Optimization of Process Design and Synthesis Problems”, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, December 3, 2006.

25. Invited Distinguished Speaker, International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Methodologies, The Boulevard, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 4-5, 2006.

26. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations” and “Mass Transfer Operations”, Academic Refresher Course Programme–III (Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-1) for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, November 06–December 05, 2006.

27. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations” and Mass Transfer Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-2 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, December 08, 2006–January 09, 2007.

28. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations” and Mass Transfer Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-3 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, January 12–February 13, 2007.

29. Invited Distinguished Speaker, National Seminar on Bio Films: Challenges & Applications, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Bhavan' Research Center in Collaboration with University of Mumbai - Sesquicentennial Celebrations, January 12-13, 2007.

30. Invited Speaker, Indo-US Workshop on Advances in Computational Optimization and Analysis of Systems, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, February 7-9, 2007.

31. Invited Resource Faculty, Workshop on Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer for the Employees of Engineers India Limited (EIL) New Delhi, EIL-New Delhi, October 12-13, 2007.

32. Invited Speaker, "Chemical kinetics and dynamics of plasma assisted pyrolysis of assorted, non nuclear waste” at a one-day follow up discussion meeting on New Research directions in the use of power beams for environmental applications (RPDM-PBEA-2007) to a Symposium on “Power beams for clean environment and processes” organized by Laser & Plasma Technology Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai on September 18, 2007.

33. Invited Talk, "Differential Evolution Strategies", Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, October 23, 2007.

34. Invited Lecture, "Bio-inspired Evolutionary Approach for Optimization", APOGEE-2008, BITS Pilani, March 12, 2008.

35. Invited Peer Team Member, Assessors’ Interaction Meeting for professional educational experts, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore, October 23-24, 2008.

36. Invited Speaker, Indo-French Workshop on Biohydrogen Production under the aegis of Indo French Center for Promotion of Advance Scientific Research, organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)-New Delhi, Hotel Jaypee Manor, Mussoorie, November 6-8, 2008.

37. Invited Speaker, Indo-US Workshop on Materials Design: Measurement, Modeling and Informatics, organized jointly by School of Materials Science and Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU)-Shibpur and Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics Collaboratory (CoSMIC-IMI), Iowa State University-USA with the support of Tata Steel-Jamshedpur and Stanley Foundation-USA, Kolkata, January 5-7, 2009.

38. Delivered Lectures on "Fluid Flow Operations", Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-4 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, January 07–February 03, 2009.

39. Delivered Lectures on "Fluid Flow Operations", Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-5 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, Febraury 04–March 03, 2009.

40. Invited Talk, Practices vs. Performance, Staff Association, BITS Pilani, February 09, 2009.

41. Invited Lectures on Modelilng & Simulation, Traditional Optimization Techniques and their limitations, Population-based search algorithms for optimization, and Energy Integration Analysis, Workshop on Application of Advanced Tools/Techniques in Research, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, Goa, March 6-7, 2009.

42. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-8 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, March 14-April 10, 2009.

43. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-9 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 29-July 24, 2009.

44. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-10 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, August 13-September 09, 2009.

45. Invited Talk, Biomass gasification: A conversion technology for production of gaseous fuels, IIP Golden Jubilee Symposium on "Fossil Economy to Biomass Economy - Opportunities and Challenges", IIP-Dehradun, August 19-21, 2009.

46. Invited Lectures on Overview of Process Modeling & Simulation, and Population-based search algorithms for single- and multi-objective optimization, Workshop on Process Modeling and Simulation, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, November 6-7, 2009.

47. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-1 for the Employees of Bharat Aluminum Company Limited, Korba, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, February 26-March 25, 2010.

48. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-11 for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 21-July 19, 2010.

49. Delivered Lectures on “Fluid Flow Operations”, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering-2 for the Employees of Bharat Aluminum Company Limited, Korba, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, June 25-July 22, 2010.

50. Delivered Lectures on “Introduction to Transport Phenomena” and “Energy Integration Analysis”, Staff Development Programme on Innovative Teaching Techniques for Transport Phenomena organized by ITM Universe, Gwalior, July 12-17, 2010.

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