Deepti Gupta
Professor
Textile Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Dr. Deepti Gupta is Professor in the Department of Textile Technology at IIT Delhi. She completed her PhD from the same department in 1995 and joined as a faculty in 1997. She has 18 years of teaching and research experience and has published more than 40 papers in national and international journals of repute. She has guided two Ph.D. and several M.Tech. projects at IIT. She has been researching the problem of body size chart development for Indian ready made garment industry for the last 6 years. She has published several papers in international journals and spoken at national and international conferences on the subject. Her team has generated a huge data base of accurate anthropometric data of various segments of the Indian population. This has been analysed extensively to propose a unique, computer aided solution to the extremely complex problem of garment sizing. Negotiations are going on with several brands for transfer of know how.
Research Interest
Surface Functionalisation of Textiles, Anthropometrics, Functional Clothing
Publications
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Deepti Gupta, Avik Banerjee, Protective clothing - Body armour - A historical perspective, Industria Textila, Dec.2008.
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M. L. Gulrajani, Deepti Gupta, S. Periyasamy, S. G. Muthu, Preparation and application of silver nanoparticles on silk for imparting antimicrobial properties, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 108 (1), (2008)614 - 623, 10.1002/app.27584 .
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Deepti Gupta, T A Amera and R. Chattopadhyay, "Electrically Conducting Textiles" Asian Technical Textiles , Vol. 4, No1, 47- 50 ( 2010).
