M. S. Ananth

Madaboosi Santanam Ananth is an Indian academic who served as the director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from 2001 to 2011.[1][2] He was presented with The Herdillia award for excellence in basic research in chemical engineering.

M S Ananth
Born1945 (age 77–78)
India
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Florida, Gainesville
Alagappa College of Technology, Guindy, Chennai
Known forThermodynamics
AwardsHerdillia award for excellence in basic research in chemical engineering (IIChE 1994)
Scientific career
FieldsChemical engineering
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology, Madras
Doctoral advisorKeith E. Gubbins

Biography

He did his schooling in Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School.[3] Ananth is an alumnus of Alagappa College of Technology, Chennai, where he completed his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering with a gold medal. Subsequently, he obtained his M.E. and Ph.D.(1972) degrees from University of Florida, Gainesville.[4] His doctoral work at the University of Florida was on molecular thermodynamics, and his advisor was Keith E. Gubbins, a famous British-born internationally renowned scientist, who figures in the list of "hundred great chemical engineers" in America after the post-war years, and who is a distinguished professor at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

He was a visiting faculty at Princeton University(1982–83) and a visiting scientist at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado(1990–91).[5] He was a visiting scientist in the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado (1990–91), in RWTH, Aachen, Germany (summer 1983 and summer 1999) and a visiting thermodynamics expert in Aspen Tech, Massachusetts, US (summer 1991).

He has held various senior positions such as the head of the department, dean of academic courses and dean of academic research.

Ananth is the head of NPTEL's Project Implementation committee,[6] and the NPTEL program is often referred to as his 'brainchild'.[7] He also serves on the boards of companies, including Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited, Neyveli Lignite Corporation and Medlab Asia.[8]

Research interests

Awards, honors and memberships

References
  1. "PROF. M.S. ANANTH IS THE NEW DIRECTOR OF IIT-CHENNAI". Govt. of India, Press Information Bureau. 21 December 2001. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
  2. "Scientific Indian". The Hindu. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  3. "Star-studded 175th b'day for MCC school". The Times of India. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  4. "New Director for IIT-Madras". The Hindu. 22 December 2001. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
  5. Mohanty, Meera (8 December 2005). "We want action, not daya or karuna". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
  6. NPTEL FAQ
  7. India's Online Science and Engineering Course Now Free for Students Everywhere
  8. "Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Officers and Directors, Ananth, M. S., Brief biography". Reuters Finance. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.