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Pramod P. Wangikar

Pramod P. Wangikar is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pramod P. Wangikar rather than just read about it. In short: Pramod P. Wangikar is an Indian chemical engineer and a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

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Reference excerpt

Pramod P. Wangikar is an Indian chemical engineer and a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Known for his studies in the field of bioenergy, Wangikar is a recipient of the Sartorius India Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2006.

Biography Pramod P. Wangikar, born in the Indian state of Maharashtra, graduated in chemical engineering from the Department of Chemical Technology University of Bombay in 1991 and moved to the US for his doctoral studies at the University of Iowa from where he secured a PhD in 1995. After completing his post-doctoral work in the US, he returned to India in 1997 to join the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay as a faculty member and serves as a professor at the institute. Wangikar is known to have done advanced research in the fields of structural bioinformatics and metabolic modeling. At IIT Bombay, the team led by him are exploring the possibilities on Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) using algae and biotransformation using enzyme engineering. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 96 of them. The Department of Atomic Energy selected Wangikar for the Young Scientist Award in 1997. He received the Career Award for Young Teachers of the All India Council for Technical Education in 1998 and the BOYSCAST fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2003. The year 2005 brought him two awards, the Young Engineer Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the G. R. Manudhane Excellence in Research Award of IIT Bombay. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2006. He received the Sartorius India Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) in 2016.

Selected bibliography Singh, M; Sasi, P; Gupta, V H; Rai, G; Amarapurkar, D N; Wangikar, P P (8 February 2012). "Protective effect of curcumin, silymarin and N-acetylcysteine on antitubercular drug-induced hepatotoxicity assessed in an in vitro model". Human & Experimental Toxicology. 31 (8): 788–797. Bibcode:2012HETox..31..788S. doi:10.1177/0960327111433901. PMID 22318308. S2CID 24096054. Vinh, Nguyen Xuan; Chetty, Madhu; Coppel, Ross; Wangikar, Pramod P. (1 October 2011). "GlobalMIT: learning globally optimal dynamic bayesian network with the mutual information test criterion". Bioinformatics. 27 (19): 2765–2766. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr457. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 21813478. Vinh, Nguyen Xuan; Chetty, Madhu; Coppel, Ross; Wangikar, Pramod P. (13 November 2011). "Dynamic Bayesian Network Modeling of Cyanobacterial Biological Processes via Gene Clustering". Neural Information Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 97–106. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24955-6_12. ISBN 9783642249549.

See also Modelling biological systems Biological network

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References

External links "dblp: Pramod P. Wangikar". dblp.uni-trier.de. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017. "CHEMCON2016 Award Lecture by Prof Pramod P Wangikar" (YouTube video). Murali D. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017.

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Pramod P. Wangikar

In research: Pramod P. Wangikar appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pramod P. Wangikar in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pramod P. Wangikar is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of IIT Bombay, Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian bioinformaticians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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