Rs SaravananDr. Saravanan Ramiah Shanmugam is currently working as Assistant Research Professor in Biosystems Engineering Department at Auburn University, Alabama, USA. He has previously worked as a DST Inspire Faculty in the School of Chemical and Biotecnology, SASTRA Deemed University, India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He has worked as an Associate Scientist in AgraCity Crop & Nutrition Ltd., Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada. During his tenure he has registered two biofertilizer products towards commercialization and submitted the dossier for three other products to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). He has received Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Auburn University, Alabama, USA. He has received numerous research grants such as Alabama Agricultural Experimental Station (AAES)- SEED grant, Auburn University Intramural Grants Program and Ocean University of China (OUC)- Auburn University (AU) grants program. Currently, he has received a Core Research Grant from DST and has also completed another DST grant (DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship). He is currently involved with industry projects from Chameleon Speciality Chemicals, UK, EID Parry Nutraceuticals Pvt. Ltd. and CUB CSR funded work. He has also founded a start-up “ENVIROHIL Solutions” and currently incubated at ABLEST-TBI, SASTRA. The start-up focuses on converting organic wastes into food, fuel, fertilizer and a variety of products such as grease, soaps and shoe polish. His major research interests are biofuels production, wastewater treatment, nutrient and energy recovery from waste streams and biopolymer production. He has published more than 28 research articles in peer-reviewed International Journals and 4 book chapters including one in Elsevier. Read More Read Less