Professor Ramkrishna’s research group is motivated by ideas in the application of mathematics to solving problems in chemical and biochemical reaction engineering. Such problems involve both model building towards capturing essential behavior of systems, and evolving the theoretical and experimental machinery for the identification of model parameters and phenomenological functions. Their research ideas arise from linear (operator methods) and nonlinear analysis of ordinary and partial differential equations, stochastic processes, and population balance modeling involving integro-partial differential equations. The major thrust is fundamental and inspired generally by key technological issues. Our focus is on problems associated with the production and conservation of energy.
- Chemical Reaction Engineering
- Dispersed Phase Systems
- Biochemical Engineering
- Applied Math
- Personalized Medicine
- Prof D. Ramakrishna delivered Dr. R. A. Mashelkar Endowment Lecture on “Chemical Engineering: A Burgeoning Field, But…” at the National Chemical Lab, Pune, India. Click here to view the recording.
- The perspective article “Whither chemical engineering?” by Prof. Ramkrishna and Prof. Richard Braatz has been published in AIChE Journal. Click here for the article
- Please click here to view the article “Is doing good science good enough?“, written by Prof. R. Kumar
- Hearty congratulations to Prof. Ramkrishna for being the 2021 recipient of the William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, sponsored by Wiley and administered by AIChE. He is featured in the latest issue of ChEnected. Click here for the article
- Group member Pelin was awarded the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for the final year of hear studies and she is one of the recipients of the 2021 Magoon Excellence in Teaching Award, awarded by the College of Engineering. Congratulations, Pelin!
- Old and current members of the Ramki group met virtually for a surprise Zoom event to celebrate Prof. Ramkrishna’s 82nd birthday.
- Group member Sana (Khanum)’s publication “Gravity-driven thermoviscous liquid film down a heated or cooled vertical cylinder” has been selected by the Phsical Review Fluids editors to be an Editors’ Suggestion. She pursued this work as a Master’s student with Prof. Naveen Tiwari at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
- Hearty congratulations to Lina (Aboulmouna) for successfully defending her thesis: “Towards Cybernetic Modeling of Biological Processes in Mammalian Systems—Lipid Metabolism in the Murine Macrophage.”
- Hearty congratulations to Pelin (Bulutoglu) for winning the 2020 GSO Symposium Poster Award! The title of her poster pitch was “An atomic level perspective on the mechanism of NaCl nucleation from highly concentrated solutions.”
- Hearty congratulations to Parul for successfully defending her thesis “Towards Understanding Neuropathy from Cancer Chemotherapy and Pathophysiology of Pain Sensation: An Engineering Approach.“
- Group member Parul Verma received the ChE Faculty Lectureship Award. In addition to a certificate and $500 monetary award, she is invited to give a thirty minute seminar talk about her research. Congratulations, Parul!
- Group member Parul Verma’s research on chemoterapy induced pain is covered in the Purdue Research Foundation newsletter, as well as newsletters of Health Canal and Medical Xpress.
- Group member Parul Verma received the Trainee Poster Award at the Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2019 with her poster “A Mathematical Investigation of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy”. Congratulations, Parul!
- Prof. Ramkrishna received the 2019 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. Click here for photos.
- Slides on Multiplicity in Biological Reactors and Music in Metabolism have been uploaded.
- Prof. Ramkrishna’s academic tree was prepared in celebration of his 80th birthday.
- Prof. Ramkrishna was honored in the AICHE meeting.
- Alan Min (junior undergraduate student working with Prof. Ramkrishna) wins Prestigious Barry Goldwater Award
- Professor Ramkrishna gave a talk in UCSD on “Metabolic Complexity: Is there Music Behind it?”. Here is the video of the talk.
- Festschrift honoring Ramkrishna published in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
- Workshop videos from: Design Principles for Engineering Biology: November 11-12, 2015 in Tysons Corner, VA
- Cybernetic models featured on PHYS.org
- Prof. Ramkrishna presented Purdue Sigma Xi Chapter Faculty Research Award
- Arvind P. Kudchadker’s Reminiscences of Prof. Ramkrishna
- Prof. Ramkrishna’s Reminiscences of Arnie Fredrickson
Alumni News:
- Congratulations to Ramki group alumnus Prof. Pedro E. Arce for being elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)!
- Prof. Pedro E. Arce and his co-workers have been awarded a $3M NRT-NSF Proposal on the use of the Gadugi philosophy for the FEW Nexus and powered by their Rennaissance Foundry Model.
- Past members of the Ramki Group and their families visit Prof. Ramkrishna and his wife, Geetha. See Gallery for photos.
- Professor Pedro Arce, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Tech University was selected unanimously by the Scholar Mentor Award Committee of the university to win the Scholar Mentor Award.
- Prof. Tanmay Lele visited Purdue BME on February 16, 2022 as part of their Distinguished Seminar series. The title of his talk is “Cancer Mechanobiology“.
- Dr. Parul Verma was awarded a grant by the Alzheimer’s Association, which will fund her salary and other research activities at UCSF for a 2-year period. Hearty congratulations!
- Dr. Meenesh R. Singh’s research on transport analysis of magnetophoresis got published in PNAS. Link to paper | Link to press release
- Dr. Tanmay Lele runs the BMES Annual Meeting as one of the co-organizers.
- With great sadness, we share the news that Prof. Prasad Dhurjati, a former member of the Ramki group and a Professor at the University of Delaware, has passed away today (June 30th, 2020.) Prof. Ramkrishna’s reminiscences of Prof. Dhurjati
- Professor Tanmay Lele (2002 PhD jointly with Jochen Lauterbach) is moving from the University of Florida to Texas A&M BME with a joint appointment with ChE thanks to a substantial research award from the state of Texas. Link to press release
- Dr. Meenesh R. Singh’s research on effect of solvent fluctuations on crystal growth rates got published in PNAS. Link to paper | Link to press release
- Dr. Meenesh R. Singh’s research on artificial photosynthesis was featured in TomoNews US. Here is the link to the video showcasting the work.
- Dr. Meenesh R. Singh’s research on artificial photosynthesis got published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
- Dr. Prasad Dhurjati’s op-ed based on their clean coal research was published in Newsweek.
- Dr. Prasad Dhurjati’s research on “Biogenic Methane Formation from Coal” using microbes from the termite gut made cover page in Udaily.
- Dr. Prasad Dhurjati’s research on brain cancer appeared in Udaily
- Dr. Terry Papoutsakis elected as member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Dr. Prasad Dhurjati’s research on osteoporosis highlighted in local University news
- Dr. Meenesh Singh featured in Chemistry World
- Dr. Prasad Dhurjati appeared on NPR Radio and Press