Convocation Magazine

Editorial

Hearty congratulations to the graduating class of 2023!

You are joining a community of over 3600 distinctive alumni who have made their mark in every profession. Today, our country and the world need leaders like you. The graduating class of 2023 is the university’s proud contribution to society.

You have fought through the pandemic with patience and fortitude. Your adaptability, resilience, and dedication deserve to be celebrated, and the lessons you have learned in these uncertain times will always stay with you. Please take a moment to savour what you have achieved.

Along with you, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence congratulates all those who stood by you during this time: your parents, siblings, grandparents, your extended families, and friends. We are humbled and grateful that they trusted us with an important part of your life.

Moreover, at this momentous occasion, a special thank you to your faculty and all other members of the university community who made this possible.

The lessons you have learned here will help you provide equanimous leadership to carve out many more spectacular success stories. Please return to share your success stories and resilience, inspiring our students and us all.

We know you will always value the many fond memories, strong friendships, and heart-warming anecdotes of your time at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, and we are confident that all of you will stay connected with your alma mater.

The entire faculty and staff at the university wish you all the very best for an exciting future.

Green Core The University’s

Sustainability is at our core for us at Shiv Nadar IoE. Our unwavering commitment to Sustainable Development Goals has ensured that we incorporate these ideals in our institutional practices, academic mission, and partnerships.

Adopted in 2015 by 193 countries, the Sustainable Development Goals provide a common international framework for concrete action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity by 2030.

The overarching Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework has driven Shiv Nadar IoE to leap into the sustainability movement. We are integrating the idea of sustainability on campus in many ways – teaching and learning, research, institutional practices, and partnerships.

Almost every university department offers sustainability courses and has faculty members researching these topics. Two of the

priority research areas for the University are environment and energy. We are incredibly fortunate to have the University’s 300-acre biodiverse campus, which serves as a “living lab.”

The University is home to over 10,000 trees, 700 unique plant species, 125 bird species, and much more. In addition to preserving our campus’s biodiversity, we have taken significant steps toward environmental sustainability. It includes solar initiatives, the sewage treatment plant,

composting of biowaste, and energy conservation measures.

On-site conservation methods are the most effective ways to conserve biodiversity. Here, botanical gardens play a significant role in conserving valuable plant genotypes locally. They provide resources to study and conserve plants and make the diversity of plant species known to all.

The University’s unique Thematic Botanical Garden, only the second

varieties, including hybrid and cultivated varieties).

Dadri development project

Shiv Nadar IoE’s Dadri development project (DPP) is a roadmap of how the University can participate in the progress of the community in which it is located. This commitment is shared by the university leadership, staff, and students and is instilled in the core of the University’s academic mission.

Robust Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) policy

domains. It applies to every step in the life cycle of the process and services, i.e., a cradle-to-grave assessment. Recognizing our community as an essential asset, we are committed to providing safe and healthy working conditions for students, teachers, researchers, staff, and campus visitors.

Energy, water, and food waste management

in India, is an essential milestone in conserving our valuable germplasm for study, research, and general awareness.

This Thematic Botanical Garden in the University, undertaken after ecorestoring degraded wetlands, is spread over an area of 4.2 hectares (10.4 acres).

The garden has 3000 plants in the main garden and 12 theme gardens belonging to 805 taxa (691 plant species, two subspecies, and 112

The University has an active and robust EHS policy to embed sustainability in its institutional practices. The policy aims to make effective and efficient use of university resources; minimize any adverse environmental impact; comply with relevant legislation, and encourage the university community to develop a sustainable approach to their work and lifestyle. The EHS policy applies at each stage of development of academics and extracurricular activities and services, from research to full-scale operation, in all its

The University has initiated concrete measures to monitor and reduce carbon footprint on campus. For example, saving energy, water, and paper; reducing food wastage; organic food practices; increasing alternative energy; running sustainable transport, concrete steps to a no-plastic campus, tree plantation, and water conservation, to name a few. We have collaborated with the Shiv Nadar Foundation to develop a comprehensive ESG framework for the university and launch programs in this area.

Sustainability through partnerships

While spearheading sustainability on campus and in the adjoining community, we intend to

take the lead in SDG 17 by collaborating actively with higher education institutions, organizations, and the community to facilitate knowledge transfer, research, and good practices.

• The Department of Chemical Engineering has collaborated with local industries, including Kawatra paper mills, Dadri, Kings International Ltd, Unnao (Leather industry), and nearby restaurants, to help them find sustainable and ecofriendly solutions for waste management and convert waste into energy.

• The Department of Civil Engineering has established the Agricultural Water Management field laboratory to address critical issues in agricultural water management and the food and water security nexus. The Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, have marked these research areas as of national importance. These areas are also aligned with the focus of the government’s national missions on more crops per drop (increasing water use efficiency), har khet ko pani (increasing management) of the National Water Mission. The Government of India and the University co-funded the lab to serve as a state-of-theart research facility in water management. It has an extensive crop experimentation facility equipped with a drip irrigation system and research equipment for monitoring crop and soil parameters. Work is underway to develop a farmer laboratory for decision-support systems for improved water use efficiency under a regulated deficit drip irrigation regime in the backdrop of climate change. This project will provide watersaving solutions for the two widely grown and consumed crops, rice and wheat.

Other ongoing plans and initiatives

• The University continues to innovate and create solutions to issues of sustainability. Here are some of the plans and initiatives in progress,

• To evolve the Shiv Nadar IoE campus as a living lab

• PNG connections for all residents, dining halls, clubs, etc., are in progress and set to be achieved by the end of the year

• Concrete measures to enhance solar power from the current capacity of 400KW to 2000KW, which will lead to huge savings on electricity reduction in carbon footprint

• Review, analysis, and refurbishment of laboratories for the safety of operations and environmental conservation

We have started to document the journey of Shiv Nadar IoE towards contributing to SDGs, including the highlights of learning, research, partnerships, and institutional practices.

• Dr. Ankit Gupta, assistant professor, department of Mechanical Engineering, in collaboration with his team (Rakesh Rayapureddi, Vaibhav Sehgal, and Amith Palacherla), has created the integrated autonomous paddy stubble reaper with the baler to offer a practical solution to the traditional problem of stubble burning - the inherent cause for air pollution in north India during the winter months.

• Revival of compost plant and enhancement of capacity from 200 kg to 400 kg

• Wastepaper recycling and product development

• Tree Plantation

• Carbon neutral efforts and computation

Vice-Chancellor 2022-23 Report From

Our honourable Guests, our Founder Mr. Shiv Nadar, Mr. Chancellor, Trustees, Members of the Board of Management, Deans, Colleagues and the graduating class of 2023 and your families:

It is my great honour to welcome all of you to the Ninth Convocation Ceremony of the Shiv Nadar Institution Of Eminence (IoE).

On behalf of the university, it is my privilege to confer Honorary Doctorates of Science on two highly distinguished individuals:

Padma Shri Professor Rohini Godbole has inspired a generation of scientists in India. She is a renowned physicist who has made outstanding contributions to the theory of elementary particle physics. Professor Godbole is dedicated to promoting science education and gender equity in STEM fields. She has served on several national and International committees as part of her service to the scientific community. She was a

Member of the DST-DAE expert committee for the CERN-India Project; a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of India (SAC-C); a member of the International Advisory Committee, Asia-EuropePacific-Schools on High-Energy-Physics (AEPSHEP), a member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (USA) to mention a few. She was involved in bringing out the “INSA Report: Access for Indian Women to Careers in Science,” the first such study in India. She has also served on several committees related to women in

phenomena, and used them to design sensitive devices for practical applications. His publications, totalling close to four hundred, cover many topics. Several of his innovations have been patented. His extensive research in condensed matter physics, with special emphasis on Raman scattering and nanotechnology, has led to many path-breaking findings and inventions of daily and scientific uses.

And now, in this stellar gathering, it is my honour to present my report of this august institution for the year 2022-23:

of Engineering, (ii) School of Natural Sciences, (iii) School of Humanities & Social Sciences, and (iv) School of Management & Entrepreneurship. We are also home to an Academy of Continuing Education (ACE) to support lifelong learning.

Today, Shiv Nadar IoE offers 18 undergraduate degree programs [B.Tech., B.M.S., B.Sc. (Research) and BA (Research)], 7 Master’s programs [M.Sc., M.F.A., M.A., M.Tech. and MBA], and 17 Ph.D. programs.

science, including as a Chairperson, Advisory Committee of the Department of Science and Technology, for implementing the Gender Advancement Transformative Initiative (GATI).

Padma Shri Professor

Ajay Kumar Sood is the Principle Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and Chairperson of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. He has developed some of the finest experimental techniques, applied them to discover many fascinating natural

Within a short span of just ten years, Shiv Nadar IoE has defined a new trajectory for higher education in India. I believe that the recognition of the university as the youngest Institution of Eminence by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, is a testament to this trajectory. As we look forward to the next decade, we will continue to drive foundational thinking within, across, and beyond disciplines – be it sciences, management and entrepreneurship, engineering, humanities and social sciences, or art.

Currently, the university has four schools: (i) School

We currently have 3525 students enrolled at the university – of these, 2559 are undergraduates, 561 are graduate students, 389 are doctoral students, and 16 are in integrated programs. The diverse student body, coming from 27 states and Union Territories in the country, is a testament to the growing reach of the university.

In 2022-23, the university disbursed ₹10.04 crores as scholarships to students across levels and stipends worth approximately ₹18.33 crores to postgraduate and doctoral students.

Faculty achievements

Here are some of their achievements this year:

Dr. Harpreet Singh Grewal and Dr. Harpreet Singh Arora (Associate Professors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering), and Dr. Sumit Tiwari (Assistant Professor) have been listed among the top 2% of scientists in the world in a list by Stanford University.

Dr. Punarjit Roychowdhury, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, received the prestigious Professor M.J. Manohar Rao Award 2021 from The Indian Econometric Society.

Dr. Iram Ghufran, Department of Art, Media and Performance, was awarded the Spring Residency at the Alserkal Arts Foundation in Dubai, which prioritises researchdriven approaches.

Dr. Debarati Basu, Associate Professor, School of Management and Entrepreneurship, received the Best Paper Award at the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), London School of Economics.

We currently have 292 faculty members across our four schools, drawn from some of the top institutions in India and the world.

Professor Satyam Mukherjee, School

of Management and Entrepreneurship, received the Cypher 2022 award as one of India’s most prominent analytics and data science academicians.

Dr. Rohini Garg, Associate Professor, Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, was featured in ‘Vigyan Vidushi,’ published by Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. This book portrays the valuable contributions of 75 Indian women scientists.

Dr. Siddharth Mallavarapu, Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, was appointed Senior Fellow, SCRIPTS, Cluster of Excellence, Berlin International College of Research and Graduate Training (BIRT), Germany.

This year, Shiv Nadar IoE will host Dr. Jugal K Das, Dr. Lalit Kaurani, and Dr. Tanvi Deora, who have won the prestigious Ramalingaswami Reentry Fellowship awarded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Shiv Nadar IoE is the recipient of the largest number of fellowships received by any single department

or university in India this year.

Curricular innovations We further strengthened our outcome-based curriculum, enabling our students to acquire skills required for their careers beyond the university. This is accomplished through the following components of our curriculum:

The Research, Experiential and Applied Learning (REAL) component: Under this, undergraduates are required to take courses that train them to conduct research and participate in experiential learning activities such as internships, volunteer positions, or servicelearning projects within and outside the university.

The Value, Ethics, Leadership, and Service (VELS) component: Students must take courses that prepare them for leadership grounded in values, ethics and service to society.

The Design, Innovation, Skill, Entrepreneurship (DISE) component: These courses can also be combined with courses that fulfil REAL and/ or VELS requirements programs.

This year the School of Engineering embarked on an ambitious

modernisation of the Mechanical, Civil, Chemical and Electrical Engineering curricula. As part of this exercise, contemporary topics like remote sensing, machine learning, sensors, and risk and reliability analysis, have been included in its undergraduate curriculum.

The School has also launched an interdisciplinary minor program titled ‘Sustainable Energy Technologies’ for all undergraduate students. The program will be jointly run by the Chemical, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering departments and provide education on alternate and renewable energy sources.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is introducing a new specialisation in robotics and industrial automation in addition to its existing specialisation in computational techniques and energy technologies.

We also launched the Bachelor of Design program for 2023-24. The unique program will prepare design leaders capable of addressing multi-dimensional complex problems of the 21st century, contributing towards a more sustainable future. It adopts a humancentered approach to

design, imparting transdisciplinary education with a balance of social sciences, technology, and design courses.

Research and innovation Between July 2022-June 2023, our faculty received 30 new externally funded research projects for ₹5.58 crore.

In January 2023, we launched the Center for Himalayan Studies with the ambition to bring together a wide variety of disciplinary and sectoral approaches to studying a region that significantly influences the economic livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people. It focuses on four themes: economy; environment; geopolitics; and borders and identities, and bring together scientists, engineers, social scientists, and cultural studies scholars.

In Fall 2022, we launched the Center for Excellence in Epigenetics with the first STOMICS facility in India.

The university also launched a multidisciplinary research initiative on brain, neuroscience and cognition, which will research episodic memory, dementia, mental health, butterfly behaviour, and adult neurogenesis.

The Faculty Grants for Interdisciplinary Research program was launched to promote interdisciplinary research, under which six interdisciplinary teams were awarded a total of ₹1 crore.

Research at the university is not limited to the faculty and graduate students. Undergraduate students are required to engage in research as part of their curriculum as part of our unique Opportunities for Undergraduate Research (OUR) program. This helps undergraduate students at the university to understand the nuances of research and innovation while we strengthen their foundation with a broad multidisciplinary approach and provide a depth of learning in their major subject.

The High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPC) launch added another feather to our cap. Ranked 32nd fastest in India, Shiv Nadar IoE is the only private university in India with a supercomputer. The facility will help engineers, data scientists, designers, medical and other researchers solve significant, complex problems in far less time and at less cost than traditional computing. The HPC will also help reduce physical testing and create simulations.

In 2017, NITI Aayog awarded Shiv Nadar IOE the prestigious Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) grant to partner with the Government of India’s effort to foster innovation and entrepreneurship and to cradle start-ups.

Since its formation, the Shiv Nadar IoE-Atal Incubation Centre has supported over 74 startups and currently has 28 tech-agnostic active start-ups, which have raised more than ₹7 crores from grants and funding. The extensive network of 25+ partners and 30+ mentors helped the top-performing startups generate an annual revenue of over ₹3 crores. The incubator has already carried out 85+ training, outreach events, and workshops to sensitise 3000+ young minds to foster entrepreneurship and stimulate innovation. The Center aims to differentiate its offerings for start-ups with corporate inclusion, stateof-the-art technology, and infrastructure.

The university is now home to an Additive Manufacturing Metal 3D Printer at the Atal Incubation Center from 3D Systems, USA.

We thank NITI Aayog, Government of India, for funding this facility. This facility will support

start-ups in developing functional prototypes and customised designs catering to their needs.

Student successes

Our students continue to make the university proud with their achievements.

Kolluru Venkata Srikanth, who graduated from Shiv Nadar IoE in 2019, secured UPSC All India Rank 1 in Forest Services examinations and will join the Indian Forest Service (IFS), Government of India.

Rafia Khatoon and Saumya Sharma, Class of 2023, from the Department of Sociology and International Relations and Governance Studies, co-founded Active Dreams, a womenfocused enterprise.

Shalini Yadav, Ph.D. scholar in Chemistry, has begun her post-doctoral work at Max Planck Institutes, Germany, under Professor Frank Neese, one of the top computational chemists in the world.

Padma Rigzin, Ph.D. scholar in Sociology, is one of the few scholars from India in recent times to receive a grant from the renowned WennerGren Foundation, USA. His research focuses on Ladakh, the region from which he hails.

Varun Mishra, B.Tech Shiv Nadar IoE, Class of 2015, who obtained his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College USA, is now Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Boston.

Our students also undertook enriching internship opportunities in leading global universities like Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Australian National University, University of WisconsinMadison, Nanyang Technological University, National Quemoy University, Mitacs and Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Higher education

Sanjana Maheshwari, a student of B.Sc. (Research) in Chemistry, Class of 2023, is off to University of Maryland to pursue a PhD in Astrochemistry. Sanjana has secured direct admission to a fully funded Ph.D. program with her B.Sc. degree. She also pursued a minor in Physics and participated in the Opportunities for Undergraduate Research (OUR) program, which helped build her research skills from the first year.

Rafia Khatoon from the Department of Sociology will join the University of Chicago for her Master’s. Harshit Sabharwal from Mechanical Engineering is joining the Technical

University of Delft, Nitya Mathur from International Relations and Governance Studies is joining the Royal College of Art, Shruthi TG from Department of Life Sciences will be joining Max Planck Institute, Germany for her masters, Adwait Sinha from Department of Economics is joining the École d’économie de Toulouse (TSE). They are part of a long list of students enrolling in foreign universities for higher studies.

Our students were offered several study abroad opportunities, and in the Summer of 2022, three undergraduate students went to the University of California Berkeley, Wisconsin Madison and Stanford University. Three students from the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies (Ananya Chaurasia, Tamiliniyaa R and Zeenat Pannikker) went for a fully funded semester abroad program at National Quemoy University, Taiwan in Fall 2022.

Three students (Ananya Singh, Electrical and Electronics Engineering; Maitreyi Nair, Chemical Engineering and Nalin Misra, Department of History) were selected to spend a semester at NTU

Singapore under the NTUIndia Connect programme.

Under the Future Research Talent, Sonal Garg from the Department of Physics will work on a research project with Prof Matthew Colless and Dr. Stefania Barsanti and their group at the Australian National University Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Meanwhile, Nishanthini Sampath from the Department of Chemistry will work on a research project with Professor Nick Cox and his group at the Australian National University Research School of Chemistry.

Aditya Verma from the Department of Chemistry received the DAAD-WISE internship and will head to Ruhr University this summer.

In our first year of partnership with SICI (Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute), Jyotika Singh (Department of Biotechnology), Pallavi Ramaswamy (Department of Biotechnology), and Tanya Gianchandani (Department of Economics) bagged the MITACSA Globalink Research Internship for the Summer of 2023. They are working with the University of Quebec and Dalhousie University in Canada.

Seven doctoral students, Ashish Srivastava (School of Natural Sciences), Jayanth Ivvala (School of Engineering), Mayank Garg (School of Engineering), Shalini Yadav (School of Natural Sciences), Ushasri Mukherjee (School of Natural Sciences), Mousumi Baruah (School of Natural Sciences) and Shayantini Chakraborty (School of Natural Sciences) presented their research work at the Global Young Scientist Summit, 2023 in Singapore.

Aditya Verma, our 4thyear Integrated B.Sc.-M. Sc. student in the Department of Chemistry will be heading to Ruhr University, Bochum, this summer on full funding provided by the DAAD.

Two undergraduate students have been selected for the prestigious Future Research Talent (FRT) Award, where they will spend a semester at the Australian National University.

Shiv Nadar IoE alums have been placed in many leading organizations, including Accenture, Adani Enterprise Ltd., Adobe, Airtel, American Express, Capgemini, Cushman & Wakefield, Deloitte, DE Shaw, Genpact, Google, Goldman Sachs, HCL Technologies, HSBC, HP Enterprises, IBM India, IQVIA, Ken Research, KPMG, Larsen & Toubro Technology Services Ltd., Lowe’s India, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Publicis Sapient, Schindler, Tata Technologies, WNS Global Services, amongst others.

Sports

The university strongly emphasises athletics as part of our commitment to holistic education. Hiran PY, Class of 2021, B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, secured a position in the

Also, in Summer 2022, seven undergraduate students went to foreign universities for a semester. Vishakha Chhaparwal (Management Studies), Niramay Kachhadiya (Computer Science and Engineering), Aryan Gupta (Mechanical Engineering), and Niveditha Narendranath (Computer Science and Engineering) went to the University of California, Berkeley. While Maahi Gupta (Department of Sociology) went to the University of WisconsinMadison, Rafia Khatoon of the same department went to Stanford University for a semester abroad.

Norwegian National Basketball team and has earned the honour of representing Norway in the forthcoming European University Championship set to take place in Portugal.

Unnati Bisht, a sports scholarship athlete (Badminton), Bachelor in Management Studies, has made a big jump in the world ranking from 1042 in 2019 to 394 in 2023.

Anjali, a sports scholarship athlete in Squash, Bachelor in Management Studies, has secured third position in the 36th National Games, Gujarat 2022.

Sunita Patel, another sports scholar in Squash, Bachelor in Management Studies, won the Maharashtra State Closed Championship, Pune 2023, and finished runners-up in the All India University Tournament, Mumbai 2023.

Our Basketball team won the IIT-BHU Spardha 2022 meet, clinching the Women’s Team Gold.

At IIT-Ropar’s Aarohan 2023 meet, our team won the Women’s Overall Team Gold in athletics clinching six gold, four silver, and two bronze medals.

At the Bennett University Sportikon 2023, the university won the Women’s Team Gold and men’s team bronze in badminton.

The university won the Women’s and Men’s Team Silver in tennis at BML Munjal University – Hero Challenge 2022. In the Bennett University Sportikon 2023, the university won the Men’s Team A Silver and Men’s Team B Bronze.

At the Association of Indian Universities squash event, the university won the Women’s Team Silver.

Global engagement

The university continued to host distinguished academics, business leaders, diplomats, authors, and experts for important conferences, seminars, and workshops. Some of the highlights were as follows:

• Visit and public lecture by Professor Serge Haroche, the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics.

• Launch of the Global Futures Lecture series, with Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University delivering the inaugural lecture.

• A dialogue on Evolving Digital Futures with thought leaders.

• An international dialogue on Women and STEM in collaboration with the Gender in Physics group of the Indian Physics Association.

Advancing Sustainability:

A core commitment

As a university, we are also firmly committed to preserving the biodiversity on our campus. Our lovely campus spread across 300 acres, is a rich flora and fauna habitat. Biodiversity is essential for sustainable development and human well-being. It is a bedrock for human and societal needs, including food, nutritional security, energy, medicines, and freshwater development. It also mitigates and provides resilience to climate change.

In this context, the university launched a unique Thematic Botanical Garden on campus. This essential milestone will help conserve our valuable germplasm for study, research, and general awareness. This Thematic Botanical Garden in the university, one of its kind in India, undertaken after eco-restoring degraded wetlands, will be spread over an area of 4.2 hectares (10.4 acres). Our Thematic Botanic Garden, comprising 11 thematic gardens, aids in the

conservation and research of various genotypes of plants and helps create awareness about plants and conserve their unique germplasm.

On the occasion of 75 years of Independence, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, and the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Antonio Guterres, launched U75: The National Movement of Net Zero on University Campuses, to be led by 75 universities across India. We have been selected as one of the 75 institutions for the National Movement of Net Zero University Campuses. We are very proud of the sustainability-related education we provide. Every student at Shiv Nadar takes a mandatory course in Environment and Sustainability. The Academy of Continuing Education launched the Executive Education Programme ESG for future-proofing designed to train participants to strategize, implement and assess ESC practices in their respective organizations through engagement with ESG experts.

Recognition

On August 3, 2022, we became India’s youngest

Institution of Eminence recognised by the Government of India. We are one of the only four private institutions in the country to receive this recognition.

We were ranked No. 1 India’s Best Young University (Careers 360 Young Universities Ranking of Private Universities 2023).

Research in the Natural Sciences has featured among India’s top 30 academic institutions as per the prestigious Nature India Index 2023. It stands No. 21 in biological sciences, No. 28 in Chemistry, and No. 28 in Natural and Health sciences among all Indian academic institutions.

Shiv Nadar IOE is the only private institution with a top 5A rating in Engineering in Delhi-NCR and Uttar Pradesh as per the Careers 360 ranking of Engineering colleges in 2023.

This year we participated in the global ranking framework of the Times Higher Education. Its Impact Rankings assess universities based on their research, teaching, and practices that advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We were ranked in the top 200 globally for SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation and

in the top 300 globally for SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy.

With respect to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), we ranked 62 in the ‘University’ category.

Let me conclude by thanking all of you for your support to Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. Inspired by the vision of our Founder and Chancellor, the trustees of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, our Chancellor, and all my colleagues – the faculty, staff and administrators, my dear students and alums, parents and family members, and friends: thank you for your support to Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, and for joining us on this momentous occasion. I am grateful to you all for helping us to make this year a success.

July 29, 2023

Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Vice-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Padma Shri awardee, Principle Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and Chairperson of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council

Dr. Ajay Kumar Sood, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize awardee, winner of the Homi Jehangir Bhabha Medal of Indian National Science Academy, Padma Shri awardee, Principle Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and Chairperson of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council, was born in Gwalior on 26 June 1951.

After completing his Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc), and post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, he joined IISc as an associate professor in 1988. During his tenure at IISc, he has produced an exceptional record of published research in the most sought-after journals, encompassing the breadth of condensed matter physics – “hard” and “soft.”

He has developed some of the finest experimental techniques, applied them to discover many fascinating natural phenomena, and used them to design sensitive devices for practical applications. His publications, totalling close to four

hundred, cover many topics. Several of his innovations have been patented. He has guided more than 30 Ph.D. theses.

Dr. Sood’s extensive research in condensed matter physics, with special emphasis on Raman scattering and nanotechnology, has led to many path-breaking findings and inventions of daily and scientific uses.

Through his experiments in 2003, Dr. Sood generated electrical signals by passing liquids over solids or through nanotubes and the scientific world has now termed this phenomenon Sood Effect.

Prof Sood has served the science community with great distinction in positions of leadership as President of the Indian National Science Academy and of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Secretary-General of The World Academy of Sciences, Chair of IISc’s Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Chair of key decision-making bodies, and editor of many influential journals. Prof Sood received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences in 1999 and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Award in Physics in 2000.

HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Dr. Rohini Godbole

Padma Shri (2019) recipient, Honorary Professor, Centre for High Energy Physics Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Professor Rohini Godbole fellow at the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and Padma Shri awardee, was born in Pune on 12 November 1952.

She pursued her Doctoral degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1979) and started her professional career as Visiting Fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), followed by a stint as a faculty member in the Department of Physics, University of Bombay. She subsequently joined the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in the Centre for High Energy Physics.

Her outstanding contributions to the theory of elementary particle physics has won her global recognition. She has worked extensively on various aspects of particle phenomenology, notably the Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model of particle physics. She is an Honorary Professor at the Centre of High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Professor Godbole has served on several national and International committees as part of her service to the scientific community. She was a Member of the DST-DAE expert committee for the CERN-India Project; a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of India (SAC-C); a Member of the International Advisory Committee, AsiaEurope-Pacific-Schools on High-Energy -Physics (AEPSHEP) to mention a few.

She is also an avid supporter of women pursuing careers in science and technology. She conceived and co-edited the book Lilavati’s Daughters, a collection of biographical essays on women scientists from India. She was a member of the committee which brought out the “INSA Report: Access for Indian Women to Careers in Science,” the first such study in India. She has also served on several committees related to women in science, including as a Chairperson, Advisory Committee of the Department of Science and Technology, for implementing the Gender Advancement Transformative Initiative (GATI). She was also the founding chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences Panel for Women in Science.

Dr. Ajay Kumar Sood

DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Congratulations to the Highest Rank Holders in the University Order of Merit

Degree Recipients

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Bachelor of Arts (Research) in English

Abhishek Sarma

Divisha Chaudhry

Ishita Bhatt

Kajal

Kalpana

Maitri Negi

Bachelor of Arts (Research) in History

Ankit Yadav

Gaurangi Malviya

SHRUTI T G

Bachelor of Science (Research)Biotechnology GOLD MEDALIST

J APARNA

Bachelor of Science (Research)Mathematics SILVER MEDALIST

Mrinali Behera

Peeyush Patil

Prerna Athreya

Priyamvada

Reena

Riddhi Dey

M Manashini

Srabondeya Haldar

Bachelor of Arts (Research) in International Relations

Abhishek Raj

Ananya Sood

Arbeena Jan

Eshita Trivedi

Harshvardhan Dhaka

Jaagriti Borah

Mallika Jain

Namrata Sarma

Natcharaju Niharika

Nitya Mathur

Pali Pranjal

Ravi Udaya Roshan

Sanjana J Saumya Sharma

Bachelor of Arts (Research) in Sociology

Sai Pravallika Dhaksharaju

Aadera Rammohan

Mouli Mehra

Rafia Khatoon

Bachelor of Science (Research) in Economics

Ajendra Kumar Neeraj

Arihant Krishna

Aryan Mahlawat

Beohar Adwait Sinha

Drishti Gupta

Jas Keith

Khush Paliwal

Kunal Dhingra

Master of Arts in English

Ashmeet Kaur

Jigyasa Sharma

Master of Design

Ajitha Raghavan

Ananjay Sharma

Ankit Gupta

Ashish Pande

Ishani Dayal

Ruchika Aggarwal

Sidharth T B

Simar Kaur

Aditi Agrawal

Kunal Sharma

Mahie Goel

Choudhary Niharika Dhaneshwar

Prakhar Goel

Reet Singh

Romeet Mukkolath

S Sai Satya Sri

Sankara Raghav S

Kalrav Vashishtha

Nandini Dogra

Jai Vardhan Singh

Jalaj Gautam

K Sai Krishna

Meher Gulati

Prakriti Gupta

Mule Phalguni Reddy

Shalabha Sarath

Sharda Nayak

Suhail Ahmad Khan

Taal Seth

Vanshika Singh Parihar

Vibhuti Bahl

Vidur Kumar

Sayan Jha

Shreya Negi

Vandita Sharma

Vidhi Jindal

Yousra Padder

Nikhil Joshi

Radhika Gupta

Taameen Shabir

Priya Saxena

Rameswar Sahu

Sarthak Tyagi

Swastika Kimothi

Master of Fine Arts

Sagar Gupta

Aastha Dutta

Bhanu Jindal

Gurdeep Singh

Kriti Malini

Master of Science in Economics

Agrani Gupta

Dakshita Kothari

Kashish Valecha

Munaf Ahmed

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics

Kshitiz Mishra

Varvada Meet Nareshkumar

Nikesh Kumar Ola

Pavni Anand

Rahul Juneja

Rajpure Sanika Anil

Paras Hasija

Prishita Talwar

Riya Hans

Sagarika Mehra

Shikha N Soni

Somya Dhiman

Tejasvi Shah

Vasudev M Nair

Degree Recipients

Bachelor of Science (Research) in Physics

Kavya S M

Agrima Sharma

Akshat Pandey

Amith A N

Ananya Selaparisetti

Anunay Mondal

Saptashya Ghosh

Twincle Halder

Devangi Agarwal

Harsh Gujrati

Kesavan Komandur

Pantho Chakraborty

Pisharady Vishnu Krishnan

R Susendaran

Integrated Bachelor of Science - Master of Science (Research) in Chemistry

Aniket Mishra

Gunjan Gupta

SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES

Bachelor of Science (Research) in Biotechnology

Abhishek Patel

Abhishek Subramanian

Aman Shah

Ananya Saumitra

Archana Cherukat

Arunima Raghav

Ashwin R

Bhuwan Abbot

Bishwesh Verma

Heli K Vora

Hriday Tripathi

Isha Saxena

Ishika Verma

Jahnavi Varma

Kavya Sahoo

Mansi Shekhawat

Merenienla Yaden

Merlyne Lawrence

Poornima U S

Radhika Khatter

Bachelor of Science (Research) in Chemistry

Abhay Dixit

Abhinav Joshi

Aditi Iyer

Garvisha Mittal

Krithik Shai M P

Naresh Gangwar

Sanjana Maheshwari

Saumya Singh

Bachelor of Science (Research) in Mathematics

Aakash Gopinath

Adhitya Swaminathan

Alok Kumar

Aravindan T S

Gautham Mahesh

Ishan Dasgupta

Samarendra

J Aparna

Kathyayani Rana

Rashiqa Dawood

Sakshi Shubh

Samhitha Prathivadi

Saurav Ranjan

Raivat Virendra Nandedkar

Ritwik Bandyopadhyay

Smriti Ranjan

Vennela S Vuruputuri

Pranav Gongi Reddy

Shruti T G

Shruti Tyagi

Snigdha Sarthak

Tanishq Jain

Tarani Jindal

Uday Raj Khanna

Varada Srivastava

Raazia Haider

Shraddha Tiwari

Sowmya S

Manasi Chandrachood

Sneh Bhandari

Swati G

Tanvee Mehrotra

Yatih Mangal

Divyanshu Rao

Akshay Jayakumar

Madhav Samanta

Vanama Eshwar

Master of Science (Research) in Chemistry

Prateek Rai Vithura R Tanya Garain

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry

Nirmalya Acharya

Patil Sachin Ramesh

Doctor of Philosophy in Life Sciences

Rajasri Sarkar

Shraddha Dubey

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics

Sushant Pokhriyal

Bhawna Malik

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics

Ananya Chattaraj

Ayana Sarkar

Dhirendra Sahoo

Sourav Mukherjee

Surajit Kalita

Anil Kumar

Kalpita Baruah

Amrita Chakrabarti

Preeti

Vishnu Shankar Mishra

Rahul Majethia

Veer Singh

Dwaipayan Chakraborty

Ritika Gupta

Rahul Ghosh

Monika Choudhary

SCHOOL

OF ENGINEERING

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering

Anant Bhagat

Ankush Sahani

Aryan Dey

Avaneesh Kumar Mishra

Chereddy Venkata Siddanth Reddy

Devang Patel

Diksha Omar

Geetesh Kumar

Harsh Vardhan Seth

Jagratkumar Patel

Jeremy Moses

Katyayani Kashyap

Maitreyi Nair

Musunuri V S Krishna Shriya

Nilay Patel

Routhu Siddartha Rao

Vemuri Sai Valli Indrani

Master of Technology in Civil Engineering

Shubhangi Agarwal Uday Jhunjhunwala

Master of Technology in Mechanical Engineering

Kakade Chhaya Maruti

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering

Shumyla Mehraj

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering

Navdeep Agrawal Laxmi Gupta

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering

Patil Dharmaraj Jijabrao

Saurabh Mishra Monika Bansal Purushottam Kumar

Doctor of Philosophy in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Goli Srikanth

Degree Recipients

Master of Business Administration

Adarsh Singh

Akansh Tiwari

Akarshan Bansal

Akshay Khandelwal

Akshita Maheshwari

Aman Jain

Ananaya Gupta

Anukul Pandita

Aradhya Rastogi

Arpita Gupta

Atharv Manocha

Divya Agarwal

Esha Tibrewal

Gauri Sharma

Heena Arora

Jigisha Bajpai

Kamini Kumari

Karnika Dubey

Karthik N

Mahak Singhal

Manisha Priya

Mansi Srivastava

Mehak Vasudeva

Nitika Aggarwal

Prachi Singh

Pratyaksha Singh

Rashi Tandon

Ridhima Jain

Rohit Sharma

Sakshi Jaiswal

Master of Business Administration (Executive)

Anuj Jain

Ashima Talwani

Shrey Pratap

Vivek Choudhary

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Bachelor of Management Studies

Aaryaman Nagpal

Aadi Juneja

Aadya Popli

Abharika Mohanty

Abhinav Agarwal

Aditya Mohan

Akshat Aggarwal

Anushka Anand

Anushka Sachdev

Apoorva Mishra

Archit Panday

Arni Gupta

Arsh Bassi

Ayush Sachdeva

Chirag Bhasin

Deepanshu Saatoria

Devanshu Pavan Kumar Rai

Divyam Rastogi

Harsh Vardhan Agrawal

Jahnvi Gohil

Jyotir Sondhi

Jatin Shrivastava

Ketan Gulpadia

Manas Rai

Manika Joshi

Manvi Gupta

Mehul Manoharan

Micky Dahiya

Nilanjana Kuthari

Pranav Sharma

Pratyush Singh

Rohanshu Piyush Agarwalla

Sampoorna Singh

Sejal Rohatgi

Sanaah Khurana

Saurabh Saini

Shaarvi Malik

Shreya Talur

Shruthi K

Shruti Soni

Sonal Chauhan

Suprapto Banerjee

Tanmay Khattar

Tejal Sharma

Vishakha Chhaparwal

Yashasvi Vishnoi

Samar Pratap

Sanjaay K

Shivam Chaudhary

Shivam Teotia

Shivansh Pathania

Shubham Gupta

Simran Tiku

Siva Sankaran Ram

Konda V N P L Sai Teja

Vartika Garg

Vibha Singh Tomar

Vidhi Yadav

Vishal Dhar Dubey

Vishesh Bandlish

Vyom Vashishth

Bibhudutt Sahu

Kanika Balooni

Khushboo

Prasun Sharma

Doctor of Philosophy in Management

Ankur Paliwal Keerat Bhurji

Roshan Negi

Taib Nawaz Naqvi

Tarun Pathak

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