Two Telugu students have made the State proud making it into MIT's India
TR35 2012 young technology innovators list among the 20 selected across
the country for their innovative projects.
The list of innovators was recently released by the Indian Edition of MIT Technology review for the year 2012.
All the chosen innovators are under 35 years and have contributed in
diverse areas like computing, transportation, biomedicine, energy,
communications, materials and the web.
V.S.K. Murthy Balijepalli and Vanteru Mahendra Reddy – both presently
pursuing research at IIT Bombay hail from the State and their research
is being considered as path-breaking in their respective fields. While
V.S.K. Murthy made it to the list for developing a method to estimate
electricity cost, grid frequency and load that can help make power
networks smarter, Mahendra Reddy was chosen for development of a
lab-scale flameless combustion with liquid fuels.
They will present their innovations at the Emerging Technologies
conference at Bangalore this month in front of a team of eminent
scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA.
Mr. Murthy who did his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from JNTU
Hyderabad in 2007 was inducted into Ph.D programme in IIT Bombay based
on his B.Tech and M.Tech projects. Mr. Murthy who hails from
Vishakapatnam rejected job offers from top companies to do his Ph.D
given his interest in research.
His research work has a direct applicability in the forecasting of
electricity parameters like Electricity market price, load, wind energy
and frequency and has earlier bagged the Department of Science and
Technology (DST) - Lockheed Martin innovator award for being in top 50
technologies. Though he has several job offers in the US right now, Mr.
Murthy prefers to take up teaching position in the new IITs so that he
can pursue his research interests.
On the other hand, Mahender Reddy, alumnus of JNTU Kakinada and IIT
Kanpur, got into the list of innovators with his work on suppressing the
formation of oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and
unburned hydrocarbons that are responsible for acid rain.
Offers
Mr. Reddy, who is doing his Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering says that his
present work focuses on the development of a laboratory scale flameless
combustor with a typical 20 kW thermal input and using kerosene as fuel
and air as oxidizer at ambient conditions.
Hailing from Agraharam near Kavali, Mr. Reddy too plans to take up
teaching in the IITs rather than going abroad despite several offers
beckoning him.
