ISMAANA, in collaboration with IIT (ISM) Dhanbad is initiating a program for IIT (ISM) students to pursue internship opportunities in North American universities. Initially internship could be carried out online. A committee consisting of several faculty members from North American universities and experts from industries is proposed. Dr Ram Madhab Bhattacharjee Dean IRAA IIT (ISM) has consented to be the liaison from IIT (ISM) and he may include other faculty members from IIT (ISM) in this committee. Dr Anil Kumar of ISMAANA has kindly consented to lead this effort.

Several of North America based faculty members including Dr. Mrinal Sen, Dr. Ganesh Thakur and Dr. Akhil Datta Gupta were all were encouraging of this effort. We believe internship opportunities like this could open up prospects in future for IIT (ISM) students to pursue graduate studies in North American universities as well as improve their career prospects. At present we have 5 students in internship program, 3 with Dr. Anil Kumar and 2 with Dr. Amit Acharya of Carnegie Mellon U.

The list of proposed committee members is as follows. We estimate it may require 1 to 2 hours/week of faculty members’ time to provide internship/mentoring guidance for 1 student.

Proposed Members of this committee include

Dr. Anil Kumar – ISMAANA – Lead
Dr. Mrinal Sen – UT Austin -Geophysics mrinal@utexas.edu
Dr Akhil Datta Gupta – TAMU – PE – datta-gupta@tamu.edu
Dr Kingshuk Sinha – U. of Minn – ksinha@umn.edu
Dr. Sanjay Srinivasan – Penn State – sanjays@psu.edu
Dr Chandra Rai – OU – crai@ou.edu
Dr. Sumit Verma – UT Permian Basin – sumit.verma@alumni.ou.edu
Dr. Amit Acharya – Carnegie Mellon U- acharyaamit@cmu.edu
Dr. Hemanta Sarma – U. of Calgary – hemanta.sarma@ucalgary.ca
Dr. Indranil Bardhan – UT Austin – indranil.bardhan@mccombs.utexas.edu –
Dr. Someshwar Kesh – U. of Central Missouri – kesh@ucmo.edu
Dr. Santanu Khataniar – U. of Alaska – skhataniar@alaska.edu
Dr. Ganesh Thakur _ U. of Houston – PE – drganeshthakur38@gmail.com
Dr Deblina Sarkar – MIT – Comp. Sc. – deblina@mit.edu –
Dr Raja Ramani – Penn State – Mining – rvramani001@yahoo.com
Dr. Pradeep Talwani – U. of S. Carolina – Geophysics – talwani@geol.sc.edu
Dr. Hemanta Mukherji – Consultant and Lecturer – PE – hemanta@ipointoil.com
Mr Shivaji Dasgupta- Geophysical expert and consultant.

From IIT (ISM)
Dr Ram Madhab Bhattacharjee – rmbhattacharjee@iitism.ac.in