Conservation of Biodiversity in the North Eastern States of India: Proceedings of Nerc 2022

Prof. Ramagopal Uppaluri holds B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam; M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. (Process Integration) from the University of Manchester, England. After a brief tenure of postdoctoral fellowship at Robert Gordon University, Scotland, he joined IIT Guwahati and eventually became one of the youngest Professor and Professor (Higher Academic Grade) of IIT Guwahati. Till date, Prof. Uppaluri has guided 15 Ph.D. students at IIT Guwahati. Presently, he is supervising 20 Ph.D. students in diverse fields of rural food processing, polymer science and technology, solar energy applications, machine learning, bio-fertilizers, food product design and development etc. He has published 116 international journal publications in diversified areas of chemical engineering and science. He has been awarded/filed 6 Indian patents in the field of enhanced oil recovery, noble metal composite membrane fabrication and nano-clustered palladium catalyst fabrication. He also completed several funded projects from DBT, CSIR, DST, DRDL, OIL and IOCL. His extra-curricular interests are in the field of Vedanta & Science and Consciousness Studies.

Dr. Latha Rangan

Prof. Latha Rangan holds M.Sc. (Plant Science) and Ph.D. (Plant Science, 2001) from University of Madras, India. After a brief tenure of post-doctoral research on rice biotechnology at De Montfort University, U.K., Prof. Rangan joined IIT Guwahati in 2004. Presently, Prof. Rangan is a senior professor (equivalent to higher academic grade) of Bio-sciences and Bio-engineering at IIT Guwahati. In the field of bio-diversity, she extensively focusses upon bio-resources of North-east India and through an integrative approach. Her research work enabled the exploration of newer research paradigms for in various aspects of bio-diversity and thereby foster sustainable agriculture strategies for the medicinal plants. Till date, the editor published over 100 articles in peer reviewed international journals, book chapters, conference proceedings and reviews. She also served as the Head of the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at IIT Guwahati and received substantial funding from various funding agencies including the DBT. She is an Elected Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India and recipient of prestigious awards including Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Lecture (Young Women Scientist) Award from the National Academy of Sciences, Prof Hiralal Chakravarty Award of Indian Science Congress, Women Scientist Award of Biotech Research Society of India, Young Scientist Award of Society for Chemist and Biologist and Dr J N Baruah Science Award for her significant contributions in the area of Plant Science.

Prof. Ramagopal V. S. Uppaluri
Prof. Ramagopal Uppaluri擁有安得拉大學Visakhapatnam的化學工程學士學位，印度理工學院坎普爾的化學工程碩士學位，以及英國曼徹斯特大學的過程整合博士學位。在蘇格蘭羅伯特·戈登大學短暫的博士後研究期間後，他加入了印度理工學院古瓦哈提分校，最終成為該校最年輕的教授和高級教授。到目前為止，Uppaluri教授在印度理工學院古瓦哈提分校指導了15名博士生。目前，他在農村食品加工、高分子科學與技術、太陽能應用、機器學習、生物肥料、食品產品設計和開發等多個領域指導著20名博士生。他在化學工程和科學的多個領域發表了116篇國際期刊論文。他在增強油藏回收、貴金屬複合膜製造和納米聚集鈀催化劑製造領域申請/獲得了6項印度專利。他還完成了來自DBT、CSIR、DST、DRDL、OIL和IOCL的多個資助項目。他在維達與科學以及意識研究領域也有額外的興趣。

Dr. Latha Rangan
Prof. Latha Rangan擁有印度馬德拉斯大學的植物科學碩士學位和植物科學博士學位（2001年）。在英國德蒙福特大學進行了短期的水稻生物技術博士後研究後，Rangan教授於2004年加入了印度理工學院古瓦哈提分校。目前，Rangan教授是印度理工學院古瓦哈提分校生物科學與生物工程的高級教授（相當於高級學術級別）。在生物多樣性領域，她廣泛關注東北印度的生物資源，並通過綜合方法探索了生物多樣性各個方面的新研究範式，從而促進了對藥用植物的可持續農業策略。到目前為止，該編輯在同行評審的國際期刊、專書章節、會議論文和評論中發表了100多篇文章。她還曾擔任印度理工學院古瓦哈提分校生物科學與生物工程系主任，並從各種資助機構獲得了大量資金，包括DBT。她是印度國家科學院的當選院士，並獲得了包括國家科學院P. Sheel紀念講座（年輕女科學家）獎、印度科學大會Hiralal Chakravarty教授獎、印度生物技術研究學會婦女科學家獎、化學家和生物學家學會青年科學家獎以及J N Baruah科學獎在內的重要獎項，以表彰她在植物科學領域的重要貢獻。