Prof Pennan Chinnasamy

Background

1. • Prof. Chinnasamy has experiences teaching undergrads at Wesleyan University (CT, USA) during his Master’s program and at the University of Missouri (MO, USA) during his PhD. He was handling field, lab and theoretical courses during his tenure as a teaching assistant. His students have ranked him high in the annual teaching evaluations in all institutions. After getting research and teaching experiences in USA, he moved to Asia to contribute to important large scale research projects with the World Bank, ADB and ACIAR funds. He has led projects funded by World Bank, ACIAR, ADB and local government funds in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. In particular he has 8 years of field experience in field hydrology and modeling, and hence can adapt a model to suit the micro climatic variations that occur at site scale.
   • Over the past years, he has had fruitful collaborations with many professors, scientists and water policy makers, and he is confident that he can bring his experiences in high quality research, teaching and diversity to any reputable organisation. He always felt that he was part of the academia, as he continued to teach modelling practices for water managers through workshops in India, Nepal and Singapore.
   • He is currently an Assistant Professor with Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay. He is a faculty with the Center for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) Department, which focuses on enhancing sustainability in water, energy and food for rural regions. It is a highly applied field, wherein the research and teaching directly impact the most vulnerable bottom 80% of the population.
   • He specializes on groundwater issues in India, where groundwater extraction is the highest in the world. He is also associated with Center for Policy Studies (CPS), IIT Bombay;  interdisciplinary programme (IDP) in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay and  Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (C-MInDS), IIT Bombay.