Dr. Sriram Devanathan

Biography

Dr. Sriram Devanathan is the Head of Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologies and Professor & Vice-chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He comes to Amrita with ten years of industrial experience at the 3M Company in Minnesota, Texas and California (USA) and seven years experience in academic research as a graduate student at Iowa State University, USA, where he also received his Ph. D. He has a Certificate of Six Sigma Black Belt Training from 3M, and has successfully led quality improvement/cost reduction projects in various 3M Company manufacturing plants in the US, Canada, Singapore and Japan. His areas of interest include Low-cost Materials, Waste-to-Energy Technologies, Process Intensification,Six Sigma, Fault Diagnosis, Empirical Modeling, Data Mining, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, and Process Modeling & Simulation. He has trained over 600 engineers, managers and operators in statistical methodology and software and Six Sigma. Dr. Sriram has significant expertise in CGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) and Internal Auditing. He is the author of several publications in US technical journals.

Research Interest

His areas of interest include Low-cost Materials, Waste-to-Energy Technologies, Process Intensification,Six Sigma, Fault Diagnosis, Empirical Modeling, Data Mining, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, and Process Modeling & Simulation.