• Dr Suresh Kumar Govindarajan secured his doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Science, IISc–Bangalore, working on “Fluid Flow through Saturated Subsurface Formations”.
• He then worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow @ Queens University, Canada; and as Research-Assistant-Professor @ University of North Dakota in US, before landing @ IIT-Madras.
• His Research Interest includes Reservoir Simulation on Multi-Phase Fluid Flow through Heterogeneous, Carbonate, Coal-Bed-Methane & Shale-Gas Reservoirs; Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods; Geothermal Reservoir Characterization; and Geo-Sequestration of Carbon-di-oxide.
• He became Professor on 24th July 2015 and Senior-Professor (HAG) on 1st July 2022.
• He has published 188 Scopus-indexed Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles; and he has completed guiding 19 Doctoral Students & 7 MS Students, so far.
• He is figuring in Top 2% Scientists Worldwide (released by Stanford University) continuously from 2020 (till date). He has received Best-Paper-Award for 10 times in International Conferences.
• With more than 3200 citations in Scopus; and 4500 citations in Google-Scholar, he also has authored 10 Single-Author Journal Articles to his credit.
• And, he is passionate about Fundamental Research on Up-scaling-Issues and Drainage-Principles of ‘Multi-Phase Fluid Flow through Saturated Subsurface Reservoirs using Darcian Approach.
• 1. Published 188 Scopus-Indexed Journal Articles
• 2. Published 26 Scopus-Indexed International Conference Papers
• 3. Published 5 Scopus-Indexed Book Chapters
• 4. Guided (and Awarded) 19 Ph D Scholars (6 in Civil Engineering & 13 in Petroleum Engineering)
• 5. Guided (and Awarded) 7 MS Scholars (3 in Civil Engineering & 4 in Petroleum Engineering)
• 6. Currently Guiding 6 Ph D Scholars & 2 MS Scholars [As on July 2025]
• 7. Global Ranking: Figured in Top 2% Scientists Worldwide (2020-2021)
• 8. Global Ranking: Figured in Top 2% Scientists Worldwide (2021-2022)
• 9. Global Ranking: Figured in Top 2% Scientists Worldwide (2022-2023)
• 10. Global Ranking: Figured in Top 2% Scientists Worldwide (2023-2024)
• 11. Received Best Paper Awards for 10 Times in International Conferences
• 12. 18 Times served as Expert Committee Member (Faculty Selection & Promotion) @ IITs/INI
• 13. 17 Times served as External Examiner for Doctoral Theses
• 14. Once served as Expert Member for Reviewing Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad (Nov 2022)
• 15. 3213 Citations (Documents: 211 h-index: 28) in Scopus &
• 16. 4519 Citations (h-index: 33; i10-index: 115) in Google Scholar
• 17. Served as Setter, Vetter & Chief Paper Setter - GATE PE Paper
• 18. Developed Reservoir Simulation Laboratory
• 19. Served as NCC Chief Coordinator @ IIT Madras for 12 years & 8 months [April 2009 - December 2021]
• 20. Our Research Scholars from Reservoir Simulation Group have Published 11 Scopus-Indexed Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles in 2025 so far.
• 21. Currently teaching 3 Core Courses: PE6030 Reservoir Engineering [July-Nov 2025]; PE6031 Reservoir Simulation [Jan-May 2025]; PE6312 Enhanced Oil Recovery [Jan-May 2025]
• Official Page [IIT Madras]
• Linkedin Page [suresh-kumar-govindarajan-97738118]
• Scopus ID: [57217596517]
• GOOGLE SCHOLAR PAGE
• RESEARCH GATE
• IRINS [61643]
• ORCID [0000-0003-3833-5482]
• Web of Science RESEARCHER ID [C-3849-2015]
• NATIONAL EXPERT ID (VIDWAN)

• CO2 Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers and Depleted Oil/Gas Reservoirs
• Reservoir Engineering
• Reservoir Simulation
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
• Groundwater Hydraulics
• Contaminant Hydrogeology
• Enhanced Geothermal-Energy System (EGS)
• Flow through Fractured/Shale-Gas/CBM Reservoirs

• Worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow @ University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA between Nov 2003 and June 2005
• Worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow @ Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada between June 2005 and May 2006
• Worked as Assistant Professor @ IIT - Guwahati between June 2006 and May 2007
• Joined IIT – Madras on 16th May 2007 as Assistant Professor
• 16th May 2007 - 31st May 2010: Assistant Professor - Department of Civil Engineering, IIT-Madras
• 1st June 2010 - 24th July 2015: Associate Professor - Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT-Madras
• Joined as Professor on 24th July 2015
• Joined the present position as Professor (HAG) on 1st July 2022

Ph.D.

• 1. Kandala Viswakanth (OE20D400) Numerical and Data-Driven Modelling of Low Salinity Water Flooding in Sandstone Reservoirs: Integrating Physics and Machine Learning (Individual Guidance) [Thesis Submitted: July 2025]
• 2. Tummari Naga Venkata Pavan (OE19D012): Numerical Investigations on Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Geo-Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers (Individual Guidance) [Awarded: May 2025]
• 3. Susmit Chakraborty (BT16D301): Numerical Investigations on Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery in a Sandstone Petroleum Reservoir (with Prof. Gummadi) [Feb 2023]
• 4. Nitha Ayinippully Nalarajan (CE15D007): Numerical Investigations on Dynamics of Capture Zones in Heterogeneous Aquifers with Recharge Wells (with Prof Nambi) [July 2022]
• 5. Subhashini Nainar (OE16D004): Enhanced methane recovery from a non-dewatered CBM gas reservoir by sequestering supercritical CO2: Numerical investigations (Individual Guidance) [July 2022]
• 6. Bokam Rajasekhar (CE14D035): Mitigating Human Health Risk due to Petroleum Contamination of Groundwater through Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Treatment (with Prof Nambi) [July 2021]
• 7. Sridharan C (OE14D033): Application of Mathematical Models To Optimize Drilling Performance (Individual Guidance) [May 2020]
• 8. Gaonkar Omkar Damodar (CE13D033): Influence of Soil Microbial Kinetics and Organic Amendments on Subsurface Pesticide Fate and Transport (with Prof Nambi) [June 2019]
• 9. Vivek (OE13D010): Numerical Investigations on accelerating Trapping Mechanisms of Sequestrated CO2 in Saline Aquifer (Individual Guidance) [Jan 2019]
• 10. Renu Valsala (OE13D038): Numerical Modeling on Transport of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Saturated Sub-Surface Systems (Individual Guidance) [Jan 2019]
• 11. Sivasankar (OE12D024): Enhanced Oil Recovery by Microbial Flooding with Temperature, pH and Salinity Effects: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation (Individual Guidance) [July 2018]
• 12. Samarth Patwardhan (OE12D009): Impact of Fracture Conductivity Reduction on Productivity of Shale Gas Petroleum Reservoirs (Individual Guidance) [Oct 2016]
• 13. Mohana Sundaram (CE09D011): Spatio-Temporal Prediction of Groundwater Level and Recharge in a Heterogeneous Domain Using an Integrated Transfer Function Noise and Numerical Modelling Approaches (with Dr. Balaji) [Sep 2016]
• 14. Rajesh Kanna (OE11D005): Experimental Investigations on Bio-surfactant Induced Enhanced Oil Recovery (with Prof. Gummadi) [July 2016]
• 15. Srinivasa Reddy Devarapu (OE11D019) A Generalized Implicit Compositional Numerical Modeling on In-Situ Combustion of Heavy Crude Oil in Petroleum Reservoirs (Individual Guidance) [July 2015]
• 16. Vasudevan (CE10D005): Mass Transfer and Transport of Multi-Component Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Groundwater System (with Dr. I. M. Nambi) [July 2015]
• 17. Tushar Sharma (OE10D017): Synthesis, Characterization and Performance Evaluation of Nanoparticle Stabilized Emulsions for Improved Oil Recovery (with Dr. Jitendra Sangwai) [Feb 2015]
• 18. M. Berlin (CE10D010): Nitrogen Species Transport and Transformation in Unsaturated Porous Media (with Dr. I. M. Nambi) [Feb 2015]
• 19. N. Natarajan (CE07D011): Numerical Modeling of Co-Colloidal Reactive Solute Transport in a Single Rock Fracture (Individual Guidance) [July 2012]

M.S.

• 1. Nikhil (OE12S025) Numerical Modeling on Coupled Fluid Flow and Contaminant Transport in a Variable Fracture Aperture (Individual Guidance) [July 2015]
• 2. Rockey Abhishek (OE12S031) Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Chemically Enhanced Oil Recovery using Nano-particles in Fractured Reservoirs (Individual Guidance) [Feb 2015]
• 3. Rakesh (OE13S007) Numerical Modeling of Coupled Fluid Flow and Solute/Thermal Transport in a Heterogeneous Fractured Reservoir (Individual Guidance) [May 2016]
• 4. Tapan Kidambi (OE14S018) Geo-mechanical Analysis of Tight Gas Formations for Subsidence and Hydraulic Fracturing (Individual Guidance) [July 2017]
• 5. Vijai Kumar B (OE15S008) Integrated Petroleum Reservoir Study for Intervention and Field Development in Western Onshore Field of Cambay basin, India (Individual Guidance) [July 2017]
• 6. Awez Hanegaoukar (OE14S022) Numerical Modeling of Coupled Fluid Flow and Reservoir Geomechanics: Applications for CO2 Storage (Individual Guidance) [July 2018]
• 7. L Sugumar (OE12S010) Multiphase Solver for Porous Medium in Open-Foam (Individual Guidance) [April 2019]

M.Tech.

• 1. Shlok ketanbhai Panchal (PE23M013) "Impact of Permeability Heterogeneity on CO2 Injection and Plume Migration: A Novel Approach" (May 2025)
• 2. Mihir Jitendrakumar Panchal (PE23M006) "Numerical Investigation of CO2 sequestration by Capillary Trapping in Deep Saline Aquifers" (May 2025)
• 3. Shivashish Pandey (PE23M012) "Numerical Investigations on Carbon dioxide Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers" (May 2025)
• 4. Nikhil Kumar (PE23M007) "Numerical Investigations on CO2 Sequestrated Enhanced Oil Recovery" (May 2025)
• 5. Rasmika Ubhee (OE23M806) "Assessment on Role of Oil and Gas Industries During Global Energy Transition" (May 2025)
• 6. Koppisetti Devika (PE22M007): Numerical Simulation of Hot Water Flooding in Low Permeability Heavy Oil Reservoirs (May 2024)
• 7. Rahul J (PE21M011): “Eco-Friendly Adsorbent for Oil Spill Remediation” (May 2023)
• 8. Yarra Surya Teja (PE21M016): “Geological Carbon dioxide Sequestration – A Numerical Approach” (May 2023)
• 9. Dhavel Patel (PE20M003): “Production Prediction from Hydraulically Fractured Reservoir based on Material Balance Approach” (June 2022)
• 10. Harikirshnan P (PE20M005): “Modelling of EOR using Hot Water Flooding” (June 2022)
• 11. Gedela Kiran Prasad (PE20M006): “Numerical Simulation of Polymer Flooding EOR” (June 2022)
• 12. Mohit Patel (PE20M009): “Application of Machine Learning in Coal Bed Methane Gas Production Forecasting and Development” (June 2022)
• 13. Pichika Nikhil (PE20M011): “Numerical Simulation of Multi-Phase Fluid Flow in Petroleum Reservoirs” (June 2022)
• 14. Utkarsh Lall (PE19M009): Modeling of Multi-Mechanistic Transport of Gas through a Shale Gas Reservoir using a Dual Porosity Approach (June 2021)
• 15. Jayant Jharkhande (PE19M002): Numerical Modelling Of Multi-Phase Fluid Flow Through A Petroleum Reservoir For Optimal Oil Recovery (June 2021)
• 16. Kiran Elluri (PE19M014): Modelling of Multi-Phase fluid Flow through Heavy Oil Reservoirs using COMSOL (June 2021)
• 17. Pankaj Kumar (PE19M005): Modelling of Multi-Mechanistic Gas Transport through Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Reservoirs using COMSOL. (June 2021)
• 18. Abhishek Prajapati (PE19M012). Application of Artificial Neural Network For Estimating Permeability and Porosity via Petro-Physical Logs. (June 2021)
• 19. Abhishek Shinde: Numerical Modeling of Two-Dimensional Single-Phase Crude Oil Flow through Carbonate Reservoir (May 2019)
• 20. Gelli Aditya Sai Ram: Numerical Investigations on the Solution Trapping of Carbon-di0oxide in a Deep Saline Aquifer (May 2019)
• 21. Rohin Goyal: Numerical Modeling on Flow of Gas in an Artificially Fractured Shale Reservoir (May 2019)
• 22. Guduri Satya Sravya: Numerical Modeling of Gas Flow in Coal Bed Methane Reservoir (May 2019)
• 23. Thawrani Prashant Kamleshkumar: Numerical Modeling of Gas Production from Shale Reservoirs using Dual-Porosity Approach (April 2017)
• 24. Kaligi Amar: Numerical modeling of gas flow through coalbed methane reservoirs using dual porosity approach (April 2017)
• 25. Dheeraj Kumar: Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow in Fractured Hydrocarbon Reservoirs (April 2017)
• 26. Tony Chacko: Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery by CO2 Sequestration. (May 2013)
• 27. Kishore Javvaji: Experimental Investigations on Heavy and Light Oil Reservoirs using Air Injection Process (Along with Shri. P V Raju – IRS-ONGC) - (May 2013)
• 28. Sharad Gupta: Steam Injection Process in Heavy oil Recovery with Special Emphasis on Cyclic steam Stimulation”. (Along with Shri. P V Raju – IRS-ONGC) - (May 2013)
• 29. Sivasankar: Numerical Modeling of Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery. (May 2012)
• 30. Naga Bharat Reddy: Enhanced Oil Recovery from a Naturally Fractured Reservoir. (with Dr. Jitendra) (May 2011)
• 31. Aseer: Imbibition Process of Water Flooding in a Naturally Fractured Reservoir. (with Dr. Jitendra) (May 2011)
• 32. Satish Kumar: Numerical Modeling of Reactive Solute Transport in a Fractured Geothermal Reservoir (May 2010)
• 33. Renu: Numerical Modeling of Reactive Solute Transport in a Single Fracture with Fracture-Skin (May 2009)

1. Official Page [IIT Madras]
2. Linkedin Page [suresh-kumar-govindarajan-97738118]
3. Scopus ID: [57217596517]
4. GOOGLE SCHOLAR PAGE
5. RESEARCH GATE
6. IRINS [61643]
7. ORCID [0000-0003-3833-5482]
8. Web of Science RESEARCHER ID [C-3849-2015]
9. NATIONAL EXPERT ID (VIDWAN)
10. Publication Details:
11. Published in Scopus-Indexed Journals: 188
12. Published in Non Scopus-Indexed Journals: 39
13. Presented as Int. Conference Papers: 90
14. Best Paper Awards from Int. Conferences: 10

• Member – Selection Committee – Faculty Recruitment
• Expert Member, Faculty Selection and Promotion Committee, Faculty Selection and Promotion in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM) - Dhanbad – February 2025
• Expert Member, Faculty Selection Committee, Faculty Selection in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM) - Dhanbad – August 2024
• Expert Member, Faculty Selection Committee, Faculty Selection in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM) - Dhanbad – December 2023
• External Expert, Selection Committee, Faculty Selection in the School of Petroleum Technology @ PDEU – Gandhinagar – December 2023
• Expert Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Selection in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad - July 2023
• Expert Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Selection in the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience @ RGIPT – Jais – Amethi – February 2023
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Selection in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM) – Dhanbad – October 2022
• Member, Promotion Committee, Faculty Promotion in the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience @ RGIPT – Jais – Amethi – September 2022
• Member, Promotion Committee, Faculty Promotion in the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience @ RGIPT – Jais – Amethi – June 2022
• Member, Promotion Committee, Faculty Promotion Committee (For Selecting Full Time Professor & Associate Professor) – Department of Civil Engineering @ IIT-Bombay – April 2022
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering - Deysarkar Centre of Excellence in Petroleum Engineering @ IIT-Kharagpur – March 2022
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ Indian Institute of Petroleum Engineering and Energy (IIPE) - Vizag – October 2021
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Discipline of Civil Engineering – School of Engineering @ IIT-Mandi – August 2021
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience @ RGIPT – Jais – Amethi – June 2021
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience @ RGIPT – Jais – Amethi – April 2021
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience @ RGIPT – Jais – Amethi – Jan 2021
• Member, Promotion Committee, Faculty Promotion Committee (For Selecting Full Time Professor & Associate Professor) in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM) – Dhanbad – May 2019
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ Indian Institute of Petroleum Engineering and Energy (IIPE) - Vizag – June 2019
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment @ Indian Institute of Petroleum Engineering and Energy @ IIPE - Vizag – May 2018
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT-Kharagpur – March 2018
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Geology @ Guindy Engineering College - Anna University – October 2018
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT-Kharagpur – April 2017
• Member, Selection Committee, Faculty Recruitment in the Department of Civil Engineering @ IIT-Hyderabad – 2009
• Member – Other Committee
• Expert Member, Departmental Review Committee, Department of Petroleum Engineering @ IIT(ISM) – Dhanbad – November 2022
• Committee Member for Conducting Peer Review of the Centre of Excellence at IIT Guwahati – Jan 2011
• GATE Examination
• Petroleum Engineering – Chief Paper Setter – GATE 2021
• Petroleum Engineering – Chief Paper Setter – GATE 2019
• Petroleum Engineering – Paper Vetter – GATE 2018
• Petroleum Engineering - Paper Setter – GATE 2016
• Recent Invited Lectures:
• 1. Invited Lecture on “Conceptual and Mathematical Modelling of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport” delivered @ Department of Civil Engineering, IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad as a part of National Seminar on “Water Nexus 2025: Bridging Surface and Groundwater Resources – Utilization and Management”, held on 16th May 2025.
• 2. Invited Lecture on “Fundamentals on Modelling CO2 Sequestration in Saturated Subsurface Systems” delivered @ Department of Petroleum and Earth Sciences, IIPE - Vizag as a part of ‘High-End Workshop on Reservoir Simulation for CO2 Sequestration’ held on 10th July 2024.
• 3. Invited Lecture on “Role of Oil and Gas Industries during Global Energy Transition” organized by @ Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoengineering, RGIPT, Jais, Amethi as a part of SERB-sponsored Workshop on “Energy Transition-Sustainable Pathways”, held on 3rd April 2024.
• 4. Invited Lecture on “Climate Change and the Future of Oil and Gas Industries” delivered @ Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoengineering, RGIPT, Jais, Amethi as a part of ‘AAPG RGIPT Student Chapter’ held on 26th May 2024.
• 5. Invited Lecture on “Fundamentals of Fluid Flow through Petroleum Reservoirs” delivered @ Department of Petroleum Engineering, IIT Dhanbad as a part of ‘IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad Petroleum Engineering Programme’ held on 26th July 2023.
• 6. Invited Lecture on “Fluid Flow through Porous Media: Basics of Modeling” delivered @ Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati as a part of ‘IIT Guwahati SPE Student Chapter’ held on 12th May 2023.
• 7. Invited Lecture on “Fluid Flow through Petroleum Reservoirs: Basics of Modeling” delivered @ Department of Petroleum Engineering and Earth Sciences, UPES – Dehradun held on 30th March 2023.
• 8. Invited Lecture on “Petroleum Reservoirs: Basics of Reservoir Simulation” delivered @ Department of Petroleum Engineering, DIT University – Dehradun held on 30th March 2023.
• List of Doctoral thesis Evaluated:
• (As Doctoral Thesis External Examiner)
• 1. 2025 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad by Mr Ranjit Dutta (Admission No. 17DP000197): Simulation study of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Sequestration for a Mature Oilfield of Upper Assam Basin, India.
• 2. 2024 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad by Mr. Arvind Kumar (Admission No: 17DP000288): Development of an Integrated Deep Transient Testing Workflow and Multi-parametric Inversion based Numerical Reservoir Modeling for Improved Productivity Estimations.
• 3. 2023 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad by Ms. Neelu (Admission No: 18DR0088): Impact of Time-dependent Desorption and Pressure-dependent Diffusivity on Coalbed Methane Well Performance under Semi-steady state Flow Conditions.
• 4. 2023 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT-Guwahati by Mr. Vikas Kumar Sharma (Roll No: 176107010): Investigation of Multiphase Flow in Porous Micromodels using Micro-PIV Experiments and Numerical Simulations.
• 5. 2022 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT-Madras by Mr. Hariharasudhan V G (OE13D030): Modelling The Optical Properties of Particulates and Bubbles in Oceanic Waters with Implications for Remote Sensing.
• 6. 2022 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Mr. Biswadeep Pal (17DR000576): Extraction of Pour Point Depressant from Fruits and its use for Crude Oil Transportation.
• 7. 2022 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Ms. Prathiba Pillai (16DR000183): Synthesis and Characterization of Ionic Liquids for Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery.
• 8. 2022 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Mr. Abhinav Kumar (Admission No: 2015DR0198): Development of Nano-based Preformed Particle Gel (PPG) To Improve Performance of Water Shut-Off Jobs.
• 9. 2022 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Ms. Ekta Chaturvedi (16DR000280): Comprehensive Studies on Reservoir Aspects of Gas Hydrates and Thermodynamics & Kinetics of Hydrate Formation and Dissociation in the Presence of Different Additives.
• 10. 2021 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Mr. Bhola Kumar Paswan (2015DR0157): Development of Emulsion Based Drilling Fluid System for Shale Formation.
• 11. 2021 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from DIT – University, Dehradun by Mr. Gaurav Richhariya (Reg No: 1481072001): Development of Self-Healing Cement for Oil Wells
• 12. 2021 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Mr. Narendra Kumar Rawat (2016DR0045): Formulation and Characterization of Nanoemulsion for Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery
• 13. 2020 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Mr. Nilanjan Pal (2015DR0205): Gemini Surfactant Assisted Enhanced Oil Recovery: Synthesis, Formulation Design and Performance Assessment
• 14. 2018 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Mrs Archana: Improved Characterization of Porous Media using Tracer Technique: An Experimental and Numerical Study
• 15. 2018 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Mr. Rajeev Upadhyay: Studies on Pressure Dependent Permeability in the Flow Equations of CBM Reservoir under Transient and Semi-Steady State Conditions
• 16. 2017 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IIT (Dhanbad) by Ms. Sultana Begam: Study of Contaminant Concentration Distribution through Unsteady Groundwater Flow in Porous Formation
• 17. 2014 External Examiner for Ph D Thesis from IISc (Bangalore) by Mr. Sayanthan Ganguly: Analytical and Numerical Modeling for Heat Transport in a Geothermal Reservoir due to Cold Water Injection.
• Reviewer – Research Proposal
• 1. Reviewed SPARC Research Proposal – Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) Government of India – January 2020; Evaluated Proposal ID: 2247; Evaluated Project Title: Development of low cost indigenous oxygen carriers with high red-ox cyclic stability for Chemical Looping Combustion of high ash Indian Coals
• 2. Reviewed SPARC Research Proposal – Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) – Government of India – November 2019; Evaluated Proposal ID: 3071; Evaluated Project Title: Comprehensive Study on the Stability of Methane Hydrate Bearing Sands in the Continental Shelves
• 3. Reviewed SPARC Research Proposal – Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) – Government of India – January 2019; Evaluated Proposal ID: 600; Evaluated Project Title: Remediating Contaminated Groundwater Aquifers using Engineered Janus Particles
• 4. Reviewed UAEU Research Proposal – UAEU Research Grant Application, United Arab Emirates University – June 2017; Evaluated Project Grant type: UPAR (Sep 2017 – Sep 2019); Evaluated Project Title: On the Use of Single-Rate Mass Transfer Approaches for Modeling Solute Transport in Porous Media; Proposed Budget: AED 249,800