Dr. Krishna Etika(Assistant Professor)
Department of Chemical Engineering
BITS Pilani,
Pilani Campus.
I graduated with a B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering securing University Rank 1 from Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh in the year 2003. Further, I completed M.Tech. degree in Materials Science and Engineering (Polymers) from IIT Kharagpur in the year 2005. After M.Tech. I had a brief tenure at CEAT Ltd. in Bhandup, Mumbai prior to moving to USA for doctoral studies. I got enrolled at Cornell University for a Ph.D. program initially but later transferred to Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas from where I received my Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in the year 2010. My Ph.D. research was primarily focused on controlling the dispersion state of nanoparticles using stimuli-responsive polymers.
After Ph.D., I worked for Intel Corporation in U.S.A as a Technology Development Process Engineer from Jan 2011 to May 2014 prior to relocating to India due to personal reasons. At Intel, my work spanned in the areas of reactive ion etching and materials development for high density interconnect applications. After moving to India, I took up a temporary assignment with IIT Madras in terms of Institute PostDoctoral Fellowship during Nov 2014-Aug 2015 and later joined as a faculty member (Associate Professor) in the department of Chemical Engineering in Vignan's (Deemed to be) University in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. At Vignan, I served as both Head, Chemical Engineering and Dean, Academics during 2016-2018. Since March 2018, I am working as a faculty member in the department of Chemical Engineering at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. My research interests lie towards developing advanced materials for engineering applications. I am passionate about materials research and I strongly believe that innovations at this end will make this world a great place to live.
