K V Venkatesh's Biography

K V Venkatesh, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Dr KV Venkatesh is a professor of Chemical Engineering in IIT Bombay. He is also an associate faculty of School of Bioscience and Bioengineering at IIT Bombay. He got his B. Tech from chemical engineering from IIT Madras and later he pursued his PhD at Purdue University, USA. He joined the faculty of IIT Bombay in 1993 after his PhD. He has an extensive research experience in the areas of Systems and Synthetic Biology and Biosystems Engineering. He has contributed significantly to research in the areas of quantification of biological networks including genetic, signaling and metabolic pathways. He has 145 journal articles and book chapter to his credit. In recognition, he has won many national awards like the prestigious Swaranjayanthi fellowship from DST, INSA young scientist and INAE Young Engineers awards. He is an associate editor of BMC systems biology. He is an elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences.