Project Assistant

Aravind Chandrasekaran,

Email: abpo64@r.postjobfree.com

Permanent Address Present Address

Old Number 2, New Number 18, 336, Life Sciences Building - II,

Flat B-1,D. N. Plaza, National Tsing Hua University,

Fifth Main Road, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang Fu Road,

Thillai Ganga Nagar, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013

Chennai - 600061, R.O.C.

Tamil Nadu, India.

Phone: +91-44-226***** Phone: +886-0921201420

Career Objective

To pursue an academic career aimed at contributing to the advancement of theoretical and

experimental understanding of Chemical Engineering

To research on basic understanding of biological systems with an ultimate goal of improving

therapeutic, disease detection procedures.

Academic Record

Feb 2012 - Present

Master of Science (M.S.)

Institution: National Tsing Hua University,

No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C.

Major: Bioinformatics and Structural Biology.

Grade Point Average: 4.3/4.3

2007 - 2011

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

Institution: Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Pin-600025.

Major: Chemical Engineering.

Grade Point Average: 8.54/10 First class with Distinction(Cumulative of 8 Semesters)

2006 - 2007

Higher Secondary (Twelfth Grade)

Institution: Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School,

84, College Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Pin-600114.

Major: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology

Percentage: 95.5 (First class with Distinction)

2004 - 2005

Matriculation (Tenth Grade)

Institution: Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School,

84, College Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Pin-600114.

Percentage: 91.6 (First class with Distinction)

Industrial Experience

July 2011 - Dec 2011

Graduate Engineering Trainee at Reliance Industries Limited, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. I worked

in the Clean Fuels Project of Reliance Industries Limited at Jamnagar, India. (world s largest grass

roots re nery in terms of barrels of crude processed per day). The principle aim of the project was

to improve quality of Light Cycle Oil to be used in the Diesel Blend and Naphtha cuts to be used

in Gasoline to Euro-IV standards.

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Graduate Record Examination

Total: 1310/1600

Quantitative Section: 790/800 Verbal Section: 520/800 Analytical Writing: 4/6

Test Of English as a Foreign Language

Total: 110/120

Reading: 30/30 Listening: 30/30 Speaking: 23/30 Writing: 27/30

Publications

Aravind Chandrasekaran, Sudhir R. Jain. Kac s ring: Entropy and Poincar recurrence.

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Physica A 391, 3702 (2012).

Projects Undertaken

March 2012- April 2012

Project Title: Implementation of Ewald Summation in MPI, POSIX threads

and OpenMP library formats

Project Guides: Dr. Lee-Wei Yang,

Assistant Professor,

Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Dr. Jerry Chou

Assistant Professor,

Department of Computer Science

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Project Description: Ewald Summation was implemented in a 64 core server using MPI, POSIX

threads and OPEN MP parallel programming libraries in C. The codes were also analysed for time

optimisation and Pthreads version was established to be superior than the others.

May 2011- Dec 2011

Project Title: Generalized MATLAB code for solving a two-point boundary

value problem of an n statesystem formulated using

Pontryagin smaximum principle

Project Guide: Dr. Raj Chakrabarti,

Assistant Professor,

Department of Chemical Engineering

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Project Description: MATLAB code was developed to solve optimization problems with any number

of state and costate/control variables using Pontragiyan s maximum principle. Numerical solutions

were obtained using Self consistent iterative algorithm for steepest descent method and Shooting

method. We are in the process of developing a GUI for these problems.

Jan - April 2011

Project Title: Plant Design for Manufacture of Selegiline Hydrochloride

Project Guide: Dr.T.R.Kubendran,

Professor,

Department of Chemical Engineering

Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Project Description: For the output of 500 Kg per day, an enviroment friendly process with high

e ciency was chosen. Design of reactors and other equipments were computed in addition to Mass

and Heat Balances. Process Safety and Process economics were also analysed. (This project was

done as part of Final thesis submission for the undergraduate degree.)

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Sep - Dec 2010

Project Title: Toy model for protein synthesis - Translation of

mRNA to protein

Project Guide: Dr. Charles David Immanuel,

Visiting Faculty,

Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Pin-600025.

Project Description: An unsteady state model for translation of mRNA into protein was devised

and simulated. Entropy of the process was found to follow a trend similar to the one observed in

other biological systems.

May-June 2010

Project Title: Interplay of Nonlinear Dynamics and

Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Project Guide: Dr. Sudhir. R. Jain,

Scientist, Nuclear Physics Division,

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai,

Maharashtra, India.

Project Description: Kac s ring, a non-equilibrium model devised by Mark Kac was understood

and time evolution of entropy of the system was formulated. Simulation of a speci c unbiassed

ensemble of the same was also done. This was done as part of Summer Research Fellowship

Programme o ered by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. (pusblished

with Physica A.)

Nov-Dec 2009

Project Title: Tracking putative tunnels in proteins with

CAVER 2.0.

Project Guide: Prof. Hemalatha Balaram,

Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit,

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scienti c Research

(JNCASR) Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Project Description: Caver 2.0 is a software devised by Petr Benes and his co-workers to track

tunnels (empty voids) connecting the surface and interior of proteins. The work involved nding

such channels and comparing them with those reported in literature in AmidoTransferase class of

Enzymes.

May-June 2009

Project Title: Propensity calculations of the gene database

among members of Plasmodium genera

Project Guide: Prof. Hemalatha Balaram,

Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit,

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scienti c Research

(JNCASR) Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Project Description: The work involved writing Macro codes (Visual Basic) to nd the number of

amino acids in each protein of an organism and also frequency of each of the twenty amino acids

in each protein.It also involved propensity calculations of the processed data. The data obtained

were plotted and t to various probabilistic distributions using GraphPad Prism.

Computational Skills

Programming Languages: C, C++

Numerical Software: MATLAB

Parallel Programming Libraries: MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads

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Awards and Achievements

A water lter was designed and presented at Shaastra 08, a national level technical festival

organised by Indian Institute of Technology- Madras (IIT-M) and was chosen as the third

most innovative design with a cash prize equivalent to 1100 USD.

Selected for Summer Research Fellowship Programme 2010 (SRFP) by Indian Academy of

Sciences (IAS), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Co-curricular Activities

Presented a paper on Marangoni E ects Under electric Fields, at Technozion 09 organized

by National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT-W)

Participated in ChemSimulation, a simulation workshop on ASPEN Plus at Technozion 09

organized by National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT-W)

Participated in Chennai Science Festival-2008, organised by Science City, a Government

of Tamil Nadu initiative to create awareness among public on science. It involved creating a

prototype Bio-Gas reactor for domestic purposes.

Other Interests

A member of National Social Service Scheme (NSS Scheme) at Anna University, Chennai,

India.

Learnt Western Classical Music (Piano) for four years and am also trained in Indian Classical

Music (Carnatic Music).

Completed rst level (Forum I) in French at Alliance Francaise de Madras.

Taught Mathematics and Science for students of the economically less previlaged strata of

society.

Declaration

I do hereby declare that the particulars of information and facts stated herein above are true,

correct and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Aravind Chandrasekaran

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