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KARAN KUMAR
Prime Minister's Research Fellow
School of Energy Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Education
2018-PRESENT
School of Energy Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
CPI: 9.0/10.0
2014-2018
School of Biotechnology,
National Institute of Technology Calicut
CPI: 8.32/10.0
2014
Intermediate of Science
Bihar School Examination Board, Patna
Percentage: 72% (Top 1% of BSEB Board)
2012
Matriculation
Bihar School Examination Board, Patna
Percentage: 84.4% (Rank 1 holder in School)
Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Investigation and Enhancing the Production of Alcoholic Biofuels using Systems Metabolic Engineering Approach
B.Tech
Project Title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Conjugation of Carbon-Based Nanostructured materials With Anticancer and Antibiotic Drugs for Better Efficacy and Internalization into respective hosts
HSSE (12th)
College Name: A. K. Gopalan Inter College,
Sultanganj, Bhagalpur (Bihar)
Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Hindi, and English
SSC (10th)
School Name: Krishna Nand Suryamal Intermediate High School, Sultanganj, Bhagalpur (Bihar)
Academic Courses
Courses undertaken during Ph.D. (6 credit each)
Grades
BT501 Biotechniques AA
BT620 Biosensors AB
BT612 - Systems Biology BB
BT609 Bioprocess Engineering AB
CL622 Molecular Simulations: Principles and Applications AB
BT619 Essentials of Genetics AB
CPI
9.0
Skills: Equipment/Software
Technical equipment proficiency:
Gas Chromatography, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
Ultrasonic Bath and Horn
UV/Vis- Spectrophotometer, Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
96 Well Plate Reader
Gel Electrophoresis Unit: Agarose Gel Electrophoresis and SDS- Poly Acrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
Light Microscope, Inverted Microscope
Dynamic Light Scattering Spectrometer
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Technical/Software Skills:
Programming Languages: MATLAB, Python, R, LaTeX, Bash/Terminal CLI, Git
Operating Softwares: Windows, Linux, Ubuntu
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) and Google Office Suite (Docs, Slide, Sheets, Drive), LaTex, NotePad++;
Professional Softwares: Gaussian, GaussView, Packmol, PyMOL, Visual Moelcular Dynamics (VMD), Gromacs, NAMD, UCSF Chimera, MATLAB, Origin, Avogadro, ChemBioOffice Suit (ChemDraw, ChemBio3D, etc.), MasterNova, MathType
Bioinformatics softwares/WebTools: ClustalW, BLAST, iDEP, GALAXY, I-TESSER, MODELLER, Mauve, Prokka, GapSeq, OpenBabel, Systems Biology Workbench, IMG/MR, AutoDock, VegaZZ, MGLTools
Reference Management: EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley
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Soft Skills:
Collaboration skills, Leadership skills, Communication skills, Journal search, Networking skills, Team Work
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PMRF Deliverable
Teaching/Tutoring/Training:
Teaching in the neighbouring institute as per PMRF modalities
August 2021 - Present : North Gauhati College
Course title : Analytical Chemistry
Level : Undergraduate (B.Sc, 5th Semester)
Class strength: 30
Department : Department of Chemistry
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February' 21 - June' 21 : North Gauhati College
Course title : Analytical Chemistry - I
Level : Undergraduate (B.Sc, 3rd Semester)
Class strength: 20
Department : Department of Chemistry
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Technical Assistant (TA) for High-end Instruments at IIT Guwahati
Gas Chromatography : March 2019 to Present
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography: March 2019 to Present
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Internship Training to budding researchers
Winter INternship in BIOinformatics and Computational Biology- 2021 (WINBIOCB' 21)
Internship period : November 1st, 2021 to Present
Mode of Internship : Virtual (Online)
Number of Trainees enrolled: 7
Role : Trainer/ Organiser / Host
Teaching in neighborhood
Teaching underprivileged students at DISHA, IIT Guwahati
Subject : Mathematics and Science
Class : 5th to 10th
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Previous Responsibilities
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Technical Support Coordinator | Research Conclave 2019. September 2018 - March 2019
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Mathematics Tutor | Disha, IIT Guwahati. September 2018 - March 2019
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Branch Representative | Training & Placement Cell, NIT Calicut. July 2017 - April 2018
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Study Room Admin (Student Representative) | Central Library, NIT Calicut. January 2016 - March 2018
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Branch Counselor and Class Representative. August 2016 - May 2018
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Treasurer | Biotech Students' Association, NIT Calicut. 2016 - 2018
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Executive Member | TATHVA'18, NIT Calicut. 2018
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Executive Member | Students' Affairs Council (SAC), NIT Calicut. 2016​
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Research Project Internship | AcSIR-Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Summer Intern Fellow at CSIR- Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow. June 2017- July 2017
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Summer Research Internship | School of Biotechnology, NIT Calicut. June 2016-July 2016
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