Sign up for Virtual Chats here. | View Academic Calendar 2023-24 here. | Admissions for TLP Class of 2024 are closed. | Admissions to BTech program are closed. 

Dr. Srikant Srinivasan

Associate Dean, Academics, Plaksha University



Area of Expertise

  • Nanoelectronics
  • IoT systems

 

Research Interests

  • Precision agriculture
  • Computer vision
  • Machine learning
  • Beyond-CMOS devices

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
  • M.S. in  Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, USA
  • BTech in Electronics & Communications Engineering, VNR-VJIET, JNTU - Hyderabad, India

 

Past Associations

  • Associate Dean (courses), Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, USA
  • Post-doctoral Fellow/ Data Scientist, Iowa State University, USA

Bio

Prior to joining Plaksha, Dr. Srikant Srinivasan was an Associate Professor in the School of Computing & Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, where he was also the Associate Dean (courses). He graduated with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, USA and was awarded an Outstanding Dissertation in Magnetism award by the American Physical Society, as well as a student innovator award for developing nanomagnet-based computing devices as an alternative to traditional silicon transistors. Subsequently, he worked as a Post-doc, Data Scientist and later as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in interdisciplinary engineering domains such as materials informatics and high-throughput plant phenotyping at the Iowa State University, before joining IIT Mandi. At IIT Mandi he was working on sponsored research projects related to precision agriculture and was also strongly involved in interdisciplinary curriculum design and execution for undergraduate students. He was the PI for the multi-institution collaboration – FarmerZone, which delivers agricultural advisories to farmers across multiple states in India. He is a recipient of the Ramalingaswami Re-Entry fellowship by the Department of Biotechnology, and currently serves as a program review committee member for DBT’s flagship program Biotech Kisan. He is an advisor and equity holder in Arnetta Technologies Pvt Ltd, an incubatee of IIT Mandi.