Prof. Vishal Garg has been appointed as Project Committee Voting Member (PCVM) in the Standing Standard Project Committee (SSPC) 90.2 – Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings of The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Prof. Garg will be serving on the lighting subcommittee. This appointment is for 4 years starting 1 July 2021.
Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been awarded the PAKDD Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to a member of the PAKDD community who has made outstanding service contributions to the PAKDD, through organizational efforts, resulting in making PAKDD conferences successful and has taken exceptional leadership and responsibility towards his/her tasks.
Prof. Deva Priyakumar received the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal from the president of CSRI at the 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata from 26 – 30 September. He received this award for his significant contributions in computational chemistry to study reaction mechanisms and biological interactions.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is in the 10,000 Club of Google Scholar Citations. His Google Scholar h-index is 59 and i10-index is 171 with over 10,000 citations. Dr. Das has also been included in the top 2% of scientists world-wide in all fields and in the area of Networking & Telecommunications he has been ranked 321 in the world subject area for the year 2021. The ranking is based on an independent study done by the Stanford University, USA.
Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal Communication, Culture and Critique. Published by the International Communication Association (ICA) and Oxford University Press, Communication, Culture and Critique (CCC) is devoted to critical scholarship on communication, media, and cultural studies.
