Khanindra Pathak — Advisor

Dr. Khanindra Pathak, Professor of Mining Engineering and Advisor, STEP, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Kolkata and of Centre for Teaching Learning and Virtual Skilling, Senior Vice President, Asset Management Society of India (AMSI), Former positions include: Managing Director of Science and Technology Entrepreneur's ParkI, IIT Kharagpur; Director and Professor-In-Charge of IITKGP Research Park, Kolkata, Dean (infrastructure, IIT Kharagpur) and Independent Director, Coal Indian Limited, HoD of Mining Engineering Department of the University of Technology, Lae, PNG. B. Tech. (1983 in Mining Machinery) & M.Tech.( Opencast Mining) from ISM Dhanbad and Ph.D. and DIC from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London. Worked with Neyveli Lignite Corporation and Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, before joining the Indian School of Mines in the Department of Engineering and Mining Machinery as a Lecturer to teach Drilling Technology, Maintenance Engineering, Mining Machinery, and Bulk Material Handling. He works in the field of surface mining and environmental management including the application of GIS, remote sensing, and IT in mining. He has published more than 125 national and international papers on interdisciplinary subjects, including surface mining, mining machinery, and mining environment. He was actively involved with the Centre of Educational Technology, IIT Kharagpur in a Pedagogic research project, sponsored by MHRD, GoI. He also authored two books and also contributed a chapter of the Encyclopedia of Life Support System (EOLSS) published under the UNESCO project. Prof Pathak carried out industrial projects in the country and abroad in collaboration with many countries like the UK, Slovakia, Slovenia, China, Austria, Italy, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. Environmental Protection Agency of the Republic of Ireland, through Imperial College, implemented the environmental noise modeling approach of Prof. Pathak's Ph.D. work for an ecological noise map of the country in 2002. Known for innovative contributions to Environmental Management, he is a council member of Mining, Geological, and Metallurgical Institute of India, and President of the Institution of Engineers (India) Kharagpur Local Chapter. He received the National Geo Science Award for 2014 from the President of India, besides other awards like Bala Tandan award for the year 2007-2008 and Sir John Dunn Medal for 2008-2009 awarded by the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI)

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Location: Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Experience: 11 yrs 4 mos