Jitendra S KANODIA
Department of Chemical EngineeringEngineering Quad, Room A221,Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609-258-7196
jkanodia@princeton.edu
EDUCATION:
Fall 2007 – present Ph.D, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University.Fall 2002 – Spring 2007 Dual Degree (Integrated Masters and Bachelors of Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Faculty Advisor – Prof. Sirish L. Shah (University of Alberta), Dr. Arun Tangirala (IIT Madras)
3rd May ‘06 - 1st Aug ‘06
In the 3 month stint, I proposed the application of
ITC Ltd. Indian Leaf Tobacco Development Division, Guntur
9th May ‘05 - 8th July ‘05
I detailed the process flow sheet for two different solvent extraction techniques; Super Critical Fluid Extraction and Solvent Extraction using alcohol. I also made suitable suggestions for the course of action for the company for production of oleoresins from a variety of spices; chilies and turmeric in particular.
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras
Faculty Advisor: Dr. R Madhumathi
11th Dec ‘03 - 30th Dec ‘03
I briefly studied the international equity market and established a correlation between cash flow across India and the movement of ADR’s and GDR’s of Indian companies.
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras
Faculty Advisor: Prof. M. S. Ananth (Direction IIT Madras), Prof. B Viswanathan (IIT Madras)
Jan ’06 – May ‘07
I worked on Study of dynamic and steady state behavior of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells as my dual degree thesis project. I proposed and simulated a critical set of reactions of the large set of reactions that take place in the fuel cell that are required to explain the steady state behavior of the cell for different amounts of current.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Formation of the spatio-temproral pattern of
Dorsal during Drosophila Melanogaster embryogenesis. - Patterning of the super-family of Cadherins during Drosophila Melanogaster oogenesis.
- Simulating the patterns of various genes in the EGFR pathway on a two dimensional array of cells.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
- Recipient of College of Engineering Scholarship (2007-2008)
- Recipient of Department of Chemical Engineering Scholarship (2008)
- Podium position in Shaastra 2003 (Annual Technical festival at IIT Madras) for a structure building competition - Master Builder.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
- Representative for Class of 2012, Chemical Engineering in Graduate Student Committee.
- Handled all the financial transactions to the tune of 5 million Indian rupees as a Finance Coordinator in a 4 member team for IIT Madras technical festival (Shaastra - 2006).
- As a Public Relations Coordinator for IIT Madras technical festival (Shaastra - 2005), I worked in a team of 8 members to publicize various events and the whole festival in general, across the country through various media sources in order to encourage greater participation in future and create a brand value for Shaastra.
- Editor of Chemical Engineering Department Magazine; Alchemy, in ‘03-‘04.
- As the elected Mess secretary of Saraswathi hostel at IIT Madras in ’04-’05, I worked with all sections of the hostel towards improving food quality and variety and arranged several and varied food fiestas.
- Dance coordinator of Saraswathi hostel for inter-hostel competition for two consecutive years ‘03-‘05.
- Member of hostel dramatics team at IIT Madras that won the inter-hostel competition twice in a row.
- Active participation in quizzes, speaking events and other literary activities during annual festivals and inter-hostel competitions at IIT Madras.
- Gained podium position in inter school elocution competition in ’98.
- Member of various sports teams for Graduate College at Princeton University that won the overall Intramural Championship.
- Member of National Sports Organization for volleyball at IIT Madras and hostel member for football, athletics, water-polo and bridge at IIT Madras.
