Academic/Professional Experience
2021 - Present; Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati , Assam, INDIA.
​
2015 - 2021; Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati , Assam, INDIA.
2013 - 2015; Post Doc, (Prof. Linda Hsieh-Wilson)
Department of Chemistry ,California Institute of Technology, CA, USA.
2011 - 2012; Post Doc, (Prof. David Crich)
Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, MI, USA.
2006 - 2011; PhD in Organic Chemistry, (Prof. Y. D. Vankar)
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP, INDIA.
2003 - 2005; M.Sc. in General Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA
Grants Secured:
2020-2023 DST-EMR: “Synthesis of 1-C, 2-C, 3-C-Branched Pyranosides and Heptanosides, Higher-Carbon Sugars, L-Sugars and All the Epimers of Sialic acids and KDN Non-Ulosinic acids from Perlin Aldehydes” for three years (PI).
2016 – 2019 DST-Early Career Research Award: Dissecting the mechanistic understanding of sialic acid glycosylations utilizing (R)-2- phenylcyanoethane as a novel multipurpose protecting group: Application towards the synthesis of Legionaminic acid and its glycosides for three years (PI).
2016 – 2017 Start up grant, IIT Guwahati:” Iminium catalysis for glycosylation reactions:Organocatalytic Stereoselective Dehydrative Glycosylation of 2-Deoxy Sugars” for one year.
Invited Lectures & Posters:
13. Delivered a Flash Presentation titled “Sterically Strained Bronsted Pair Catalysis for Carbohydrate Chemistry” at XXI NOST-Organic Chemistry Conference held from November 25-28, 2021 at The Leela Palace Hotel, Chennai..
12. Delivered a lecture titled “Sterically Strained Bronsted-Pair Catalysis for the Stereoselective Synthesis of 2-Deoxyglycosides” on June 24, 2021 in Asia Glyco-webinar” Organized by Osaka University, Japan.
11. Delivered a lecture titled “Role of Organocatalysis in Carbohydrate Chemistry” on March 3, 2021 as a part of "Teaching and Learning of Green Chemistry: Nurturing a new generation of chemists” Sponsored by MHRD, Govt. of India under PMMMNMTT SCHEME, organized by NIT Warangal.
10. Delivered a lecture titled “2,4,6-tri-tert-butylpyridine in carbohydrate chemistry: Beyond a proton trapping agent” at ICarE-meetings organized by IISER Pune on DEc 18, 2020.
​
9. Delivered a lecture titled “The Curious Case of the Non-nucleophilic Base 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylpyridine: Development of its Salts as Organocatalysts” at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India, March 05, 2020.
8. Delivered a lecture titled “Organocatalytic synthesis of 2-deoxyglycosides” in a symposium “Contemporary Facets in Organic Synthesis” at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, December 22-24, 2017.
7. Delivered a lecture titled “Glycochemistry enroute to Glycobiology” at IISER Mohali, Punjab, India, February 9 – 10, 2017.
6. Delivered a lecture titled “Organocatalysis” as a resource person for the KIC-TEQIP short term course on “Novel Catalysis for Industrial Use” hosted by the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India, Aug 24th 2016.
5. Presented a poster titled “First Organocatalytic Dehydrative Glycosylation of 2-deoxysugars” in “100 years of Chemical Bonding” Symposium at IICT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, August 4 – 5, 2016.
​
4. Presented a poster titled “A journey from polymeric heparin to comprehensive HS tetrasaccharide library” at Division Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125.
3. Delivered a lecture titled “Dissecting the Influence of Oxazolidinones and Cyclic Carbonate Groups in Sialic Acid Chemistry” in “The 8th Annual Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium,” Wayne State University, MI United States, October 4 – 5, 2012.
2. Presented a poster titled “Chemistry of 2-nitroglycals: Synthesis and their utility” ILS-Merck Joint symposium in “Chemical Technology in Drug Discovery” NOVOTEL Hotel, Hyderabad, India, April 22 – 24, 2011.
1. Delivered a lecture titled “Chemistry of 2-Nitroglycals: A One pot three component approach towards 2- C-branched glycosides” in 5th JNOST conference held by National Organic Trust Symposium in IIT Kanpur, December 4 – 9, 2009.”