C V Seshadri

Dr. Chetput Venkatasubban Seshadri (14 April 1930 – 17 September 1995) was a distinguished Indian chemical engineer.[1][2] He has received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He was then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. He started his independent academic career as an Assistant Professor of IIT Kanpur in 1965. Later he became a Professor and finally the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department of IITK. He also served as the Dean of Students Affairs at IITK.[3]

He was the founding director of the Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre.[4] During his tenure as a director, this Research Center won Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development in 1981.[3][5]

In 2008, the C. V. Seshadri chair of professorship was instituted at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.[6] Prof. Ashutosh Sharma is the present occupant of this chair.[7]

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