Prof. A V S Kamesh is a distinguished academic and administrator, currently serving as Professor and Associate Dean (Academic Operations and Accreditation) in the Department of Management at the Paari School of Business (PSB). With extensive experience spanning academia, consulting, and institutional leadership, Dr Kamesh has built a strong reputation in the fields of Human Resource Management, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior.
Prof. Kamesh brings over two decades of professional experience across teaching, research, and industry engagement. He served as a Professor and Associate Professor at KLEF (Deemed to be University), Guntur, where he contributed significantly to academic development, curriculum design, and student mentorship. In addition to his academic roles, he has worked as a management consultant and freelancer in Hyderabad, offering expertise in Project Management and Organizational Development. His consulting experience includes a tenure with Codebees Technologies, where he supported project management initiatives. He also collaborated with the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and Andhra Pradesh Police for projects on Capacity Building and Culture Change Management.
His research interests focus on Positive Psychology, Leadership, Performance Analytics, Workplace wellbeing, Employee Retention, Change Management, and Strategic Human Resource Management, with a strong emphasis on understanding organizational dynamics and enhancing workplace effectiveness. Dr Kamesh published research articles in reputed journals and has published Indian Patents. Dr Kamesh secured research grants from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) up to INR 1 Crore and successfully competed sponsored projects on Women Entrepreneurship and Glass Ceiling Effect in Academia. Dr Kamesh is also actively engaged in academic and professional communities, holding membership in the National Human Resource Development Network (NHRD), India.
Recognized for his academic excellence early in his career, Dr Kamesh qualified the UGC National Eligibility Test and was awarded the prestigious Junior Research Fellowship. His continued contributions to teaching, research, and academic leadership play a vital role in shaping future management professionals and strengthening institutional excellence at PSB.
With his deep expertise in Human Resource Management and Organizational Leadership, Dr Kamesh continues to foster a culture of academic rigor, innovation, and quality assurance, preparing students to navigate the evolving challenges of the modern business environment.
Prof. Ranjit Thapa is an acclaimed academician with more than a decade of experience in the teaching and research domain. He has been a part of the SRM educational institutions for the past ten years. Before becoming the Dean of the School of Engineering and Sciences (SEAS), he held various positions, including the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Sciences (SEAS) and Head of the Department of Physics at SRM university-AP.
He began his career as a Research Associate at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 2011. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. He worked at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, for six years, and this marked the beginning of his journey with the SRM group of educational institutions.
Science and Engineering Research Board awarded the International Travel Grant to him in 2014. He also got the ICTP-Full support Fellowship in 2015 to attend the Materials Science for Energy Storage Workshop at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. In 2016, he got an Associateship in the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India. He was honoured with the Young Scientist Research Award in 2018 by the Department of Atomic Energy, India.
Prof. Ranjit Thapa is a core member of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science and a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association. He has done a total of eight government-funded project works, published two patents and authored more than 140 research papers during his career. Currently, he is developing a “Materials database” under the funded projects. He has guided five PhD students to date. In 2016, under his leadership, SRM Institute of Science and Technology established a High-performance computer centre on the Chennai campus.
Prof. Ranjit Thapa is an expert in understanding the electronic structure of materials using first principles analysis and molecular dynamics approach. Professor Ranjit Thapa’s research works are primarily focused on density functional theory-based investigation of low dimensional materials as a catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR), CO oxidation and absorber materials for solar cells. The main contributions are: “electron-doped 2D system as a metal-free catalyst”, “inverse catalyst”, and “pi electron descriptor”. Structural and electronic descriptors are identified to define the catalytic activity of graphene. The above works were published in the journals such as Nano-Micro Letters (2023), Chemical Science (2022), PNAS (2022), Advanced Functional Materials (2022, 2015), ACS Nano (2022, 2021), Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2022, 2021, 2015, 2014); Applied Catalyst B: Environmental (2021), CARBON (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019); Journal of Power Sources (2020, 2020); Advanced Materials Technology (2019); SMALL (2018), Nano Energy (2018), ACS Applied Materials & Interface, (2023, 2016, 2015), ACS Catalysis, (2014), Nature Communications (2013).
He was an invited speaker at several national and international seminars, symposia and workshops, including Recent Advancements and Innovation in Solar Energy (RAiSE), Asian Meetings on Ferroelectrics (AMF), National Conference on Electronic Structure (NCES), Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science and many more. During his service, he also guided and conducted several conferences at SRM University-AP, like the Second International Conference on Materials Genome, National Conference on Electronic Structure, etc.
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