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School of Petroleum Technology believes that its reputation will also owe much to the outstanding calibre of its faculty; The School is in the process of building a world-class intellectual community of distinguished and dedicated faculty who will promote learning and knowledge building of a very high order. The School endeavors to create an environment of considerable academic freedom & research opportunity overlaid by meticulous, self-monitored standards of excellence and socially responsive practices.

We sincerely see that the faculty willingly submit themselves to distinctive, open and incessant process of assessment and feedback from the students. This will enable the faculty to refine course contents, teaching and delivery mechanisms. By way of structured mechanisms faculty plays an active role in the faculty-shared governance with a complete sense of belonging to School of Petroleum Technology.

The School also recognizes that research provides a major interface with the wider academia and industry and brings in international visibility. It provides new conceptual frameworks that enable reassessment and refinement of current practices and thinking. Pioneering interdisciplinary research by the faculty feeds directly into a better learning environment at the School fostering creativity and innovations indirectly to a wider audience of practicing engineers and teachers of technology.

School of Petroleum Technology believes that its reputation owes much to the outstanding calibre of its faculty; The school is in the process of building a world-class intellectual community of distinguished and dedicated faculty who will promote learning and knowledge building of a very high order. The school endeavours to create an environment of considerable academic freedom & research opportunity overlaid by meticulous, self-monitored standards of excellence and socially responsive practices.

We sincerely see that the faculty willingly submit themselves to distinctive, open and incessant process of assessment and feedback from the students. This will enable the faculty to refine course contents, teaching and delivery mechanisms. By way of structured mechanisms faculty plays an active role in the faculty-shared governance with a complete sense of belonging to the School of Petroleum Technology.

 
     
 
Core Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Prof. P.K. Banik, Director General
Ph.D, Moscow Mining Institute Director
Research Area: Cold Bed Methane, Underground Coal Gasification, Project Planning & Development
R. N Pandey
M. Sc. (Geophysics), IIT Kharagpur
Subject Area: Seismic-data processing & Prospect evaluation
Affiliation: GSPC Limited
Ajitkumar N. Shukla
Ph. D., IIT, Kanpur
Associate Professor
Research Area: Renewable Energy Technology,Energy Conversion Devices
M.Y. Farooqui
M. Phil (Geology), MSc (Geology),
Aligarh University
Subject Area: Petroleum Exploration & Production
Affiliation: GSPC Limited
Anil Markana
M.Tech( System and Control)
Lecturer
Research Area: Advance Process Control,
Optimal control, Distributed control, SCADA, Modelling
A.D. Mathur
M.Sc (Physics)
Subject Area: Chief Geophysicist & Logging
Affiliation: ONGC, Ahmedabad
Arun K. Sarma
Ph. D., Gauhati University, Guwahati
Associate Professor
Research Area: Basic & Application oriented Plasma Physics, Petrophysics.
L. K. Rai
M.Sc (Geophysics), BHU
Deputy General Manager
Subject Area: Well logging
Affiliation: ONGC, Ahmedabad
Ashish Sarkar
Ph. D., IIT, Kharagpur
Associate Professor
Research Area: Petroleum Geology, Micropaleontology
Dipti Kumar Banik
B.Sc. (Chemistry),
M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering)
Retired as Chief Advisor (SD), Oil India Limited
Subject Area: Operations Management for
Exploration, Appraisal and Development of
Oil & Gas fields
Bharatkumar Parekh
Ph.D., Saurastra University
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Development of Non- Linear optical materials and its applications. Development of Thin film sensors and thin film solar cell.
D. Panda
B.Tech. (Petroleum Engg), Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Subject Area: Drilling & Completion
Affiliation: GSPC Limited
Bhawanisingh G. Desai
Ph. D., M. S. University, Baroda
Assistant Professor
Research Area:
Palaeontology: Ichnology, Belemnites: Stratigraphy
Deepak Misra
B.Tech. (Petroleum Engineering)
ISM, Dhanbad
Subject Area: Production Engineering
Affiliation: GSPC Limited
G. P. Karmakar, Director
Ph. D. IIT Kharagpur
Research Area: Reservoir Engineering and Well Testing; Enhanced Oil Recovery using Polymers and Oilfield Waste Treatment using Polymers.
J V Ramana
M.Sc (Tech), Andhra University
Subject Area: Petroleum Geophysics
Affiliation: GSPC Limited
Jatin Patel
M. Tech. From Saradar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, Gujarat
Lecturer
Research Area: Solar Thermal Systems
Nikhil Raval
MBA (Strategic Management)
California State University
Bachelor in Finance, Michigan State University
Affiliation: Duke CE India
Lalita Ledwani
Ph. D., Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Natural Products (Fatty acids, Sterols, Natural Dyes), Environmental Science, Renewable Energy Sources, Corrosion & Petroleum
P. Chattopadhyay
M.Sc. (Applied Geology)
Subject Area: Oil Industry Activities
Nigam Dave
Ph. D., Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar
Associate Professor
Research Area: Indian English Literature
Shashank Sinha
M. Sc. (Applied Geology), MSc (Geology), M S University
Subject Area: Petroleum Geology
Affiliation: Geo Global Resource
Nishant Parikh
M.Tech - Systems and Control, IIT Bombay,
Lecturer
Research Area: Advance Instrumentation and Process Control, Nuclear Steam Generator Control, Multivariate Statistics based System Identification
S. P. S. Chauhan
BE (Petroleum, Indian School of Mines)
Subject Area: Drilling & Testing
Affiliation: GSPC Limited
Shrikant J. Wagh, Director-School of Nuclear Energy
Ph.D., IIT-Bombay
Professor
Research Area: Chemical Engineering, Extraction, Liquid Emulsion Membrane, Interfacial Polymerization
Srinivas Rao
M.Tech (Petroleum), Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Subject Area: Reservoir Engineering
Affiliation: GSPC Limited
Mrs. P.J. Shiny Rosy,
M.S Petroleum Engineering
Lecturer
Research Area: Hydraulic Stimulation, Matrix Acidizing treatments, Intelligent well technology.
PROF. (GSPC CHAIR)
R. L. Malhotra
Subject Area: Petroleum Production
Tajinder Pal Singh
Ph. D., Gujarat University
Associate Professor
Research Area: General Relativity & Gravitation
VISITING PROFESSOR
S. S. P. Singh
Specialization
- Stimulation & specialized production services.
- Production optimization.
- Artificial-Lift
Uttam Kumar Bhui
Ph.D. Jadavpur University
Associate Professor
Research Area: Petrology & Geochemistry, Petroleum Geology, Reservoir Engineering
 
Vijaykumar Srivastava
Ph. D., Bundelkhand University, Jhansi
Associate Professor
Research Area: Oil & Fats (Lipid Science), Environmental Science, Petrochemistry
 
Vishvesh J. Badheka
Ph.D., M. S. University, Baroda
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Welding Technology, Welding Metallurgy
 
Vinay Babu
M.Tech (Petroleum Exploration), ISM Dhanbad
Lecturer
Research Area: Formation Evaluation, Sequence Stratigraphy and Geo Sciences solutions