NATIONAL LEVEL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES


NATIONAL LEVEL ADVISORY COMMITTEES

  • Chairman, Council of Management, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India (https://www.jncasr.ac.in/) (2022-2024)

  • Chairman, Working Group on Nanotechnology, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt of India, 2022-2024

  • Chairman, National Coordination Committee, Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) Programme for Doctoral students (2019-2021)

  • Chairman, Expert Committee to Review Charter of DRDO Labs, 2020

  • Chairman, Expert Advisory Group on Biomedical Device and Technology Development Programme, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2020-2022)

  • Chairman, MHRD-DRDO Task force for "DRDO-Academia Interactions for Achieving Leadership in Futuristic Technologies", 2019

  • Chairman, Expert Group for evaluation and recommendation of various proposals for training and skill development, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India (2019-2022)

  • Member, Governing Council (2019-2021), C-DAC

  • Chairman, Research Council, Solid State Physics Laboratory, DRDO (2019-21)

  • Chairman, Industry Relevant R & D (IRRD) Scheme of SERB, Govt. of India (2018-2021)

  • Chairman, Research Council, Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh (2017-2020)

  • Chairman, Governing Body, The Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2018-2021)

  • Member, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) (2018-2021)

  • Chairman, Prime Minister's Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research (jointly operated by CII, DST and FICCI), Govt. of India (2017-2020)

  • Chairman, Nano Applications and Technology Advisory Committee (NATAG), DST Nano Mission, Govt. of India (2018-2020)

  • National Coordinator for Nanotechnology domain, IMPacting Research INnovation and Technology (IMPRINT-1), India (2015-17)

  • Co-Chairman, Indo-Taiwan Joint Committee on Science & Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Govt.of India

  • Chairman, Nano Applications and Technology Advisory Group (NATAG) Proof-of-Concept Expert Committee (NATAG-POCC), Nano Mission, Govt. of India

  • Vice-President, Materials Research Society of India (2015-2018)

  • Council Member, DST Nano Mission, Govt. of India

  • Member, Research Council, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, Kerala (since 2015)

  • Member, Research Advisory Board, Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences, Bangalore (an autonomous institute under the DST, Govt. of India)

  • Member, Planning & Development Advisory Committee (PDAC), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt. of India

  • Member, Institute Governing Body, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum

  • Member, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt. of India

  • Member, Expert Committee for "Development of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT)" under the Technology Systems Development Programme (TSDP), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India

  • Chairman, Working Group on Nanotechnology for North Eastern Region, Nanotechnology development programme of Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India

  • Member, Industry Advisory Committee, Modified Special Incentives Package Scheme (M-SIPS), Electronics System Design & Manufacturing Sector, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt . of India

  • Member, Board of Governors (BoG), Institute of Nano Science & Technology (INST), Mohali (Punjab)

  • Member, Governing Council, National Centre for Molecular Materials Research (NCMMR), Thiruvananthapur

  • Chairman, Innovation Council on Nanoelectronics, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Govt. of India (since 2011)

  • Member, "Nano Applications and Technology Advisory Group (NATAG), NANO MISSION, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India (2008-2012)

  • Member, Governing Council, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI) Hyderabad (since 2012)

  • Member of Research Council, "Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani" (since 2010)

  • Member, Expert Committee, DST; India-U.S. Grand Challenge: Affordable Blood Pressure Measurement Technologies for Low-Resource Settings in India and the U.S

  • Member, Vision Group on Nanotechnology, an apex Advisory Body for promotion of Nano-Science and Technology in the State of Karnataka, Govt of India (since 2010).

  • Member, Core committee, National Semiconductor Vision 2020, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA)

  • Member, "Working Group on Nanotechnology", Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India (2005)

  • Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC), Electrical, Electronics & Computer Engineering, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India (since 2007)

  • Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC), Bio-medical Engineering, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India (since 2008)

  • Member, Programme Advisory & Review Committee (PARC-4), National Programme on Micro and Smart Systems (NPMASS), Govt. of India

  • Member, Academic and R&D Initiatives in the area of Info-Nano-Biotechnology for the 11 th Five Year plan, Govt of India

  • Member of Academic Planning, Advisory & Evaluation Boards of various Universities and Educational Institutions in India

  • Member/Chairman of various research project monitoring committees including the (i) Electronic Design Centre project, SAMEER, Chennai (ii) Nano-Metrology facility at the National Physical Laboratories, Delhi (iii) Nano-device Characterization project at VNIT, Nagpur (iv) Nano-scale MOSFET project at Punjab University (v) Explosive Detection project at SSPL, New Delhi etc.