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Prof. Sachchida Nand Tripathi is the inaugural Dean of Kotak School of Sustainability at IIT Kanpur and Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and jointly with the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering. Prof. Tripathi has recently been honored with the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Medal 2024, given in recognition for conducting exceptional research in developing regions.
In the past decade, Prof. Tripathi has undertaken seminal work in developing state-of-the-art air quality monitoring and management technologies in India. He is credited with implementing the first large-scale dense real-time sensor-based air quality network across two largest states located in the IGP region in India, which has encouraged several Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to adopt this technology for improving decision making. His work has directly impacted policy making at the national level, while continuing to guide over 25 Ph.D. thesis and mentored several successful startups who have gone on to become market leaders.
Prof. Tripathi’s broad area of work in atmospheric sciences includes aerosol-induced cloud invigoration effect, regional climate changes, AI/ML-enabled dynamic hyper-local source apportionment and low-cost sensor-based air quality monitoring. He is leading an international center of Excellence on Advanced Technologies for Monitoring Air quality iNdicator (ATMAN) under the aegis of Principal Scientific Adviser’s office to Government of India.
Prof. Tripathi is the Project Director of the “AI Centre of Excellence (AI-CoE) for Sustainable Cities,” an MoE initiative under the mission "Make AI in India, Make AI Work for India." The project focuses on scalable solutions for energy forecasting and logistic planning, digital twin for urban mobility, air quality monitoring and spike detection of pollution episodes, flood management, and smart microgrid planning, involving consortium of leading Higher Education Institutes in India and diverse industry partners to achieve optimal urban governance.
In recognition of his significant contributions, Prof. Tripathi has been honoured with numerous awards in Physical Science as well as in Engineering. He is the recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, J C Bose National Fellowship and Infosys Prize 2023 in Engineering and Computer Science. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and National Academy of Sciences of India (NASI), and recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus award of Banaras Hindu University. He also holds the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Chair Professorship at IIT Kanpur. He obtained his B. Tech from IIT BHU in Civil Engineering in 1992 and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics from University of Reading, UK in 2001. After a brief stint of post-doctoral research at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and University of Oxford, Prof. Tripathi joined IIT Kanpur as faculty in 2003.

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Employment (3)

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, IN

2003-07 to present | Professor (Department of Civil Engineering and joint faculty at the department of Sustainable Energy Department (SEE), IIT Kanpur.)
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University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2002-01 to 2003-07 | Post Doctoral Fellow (Department of Physics)
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre: Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

2000-12 to 2001-12 | Visiting Scientist (Environmental Assessment Division)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Reading Department of Meteorology: Reading, Reading, GB

1995 to 2000-12-16 | PhD./ Removal of Charged Aerosols (Department of Meteorology)
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Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, IN

1992 to 1994 | M.Tech (Environmental Engineering)
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Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, IN

1988 to 1992 | B.Tech (Civil Engineering)
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Works (2)

Local incomplete combustion emissions define the PM 2.5 oxidativ

Nature Communication
2024-04-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Sachchida Nand Tripathi
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Aerosol-induced intensification of cooling effect of clouds during Indian summer monsoon

Nature Communications
2018-09-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: chandan sarangi; Vijay Kanawade; Sachchida N. Tripathi; Abin Thomas; Dilip Ganguly
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Peer review (9 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS earth and space chemistry. (1)
Review activity for Environmental science & technology letters. (2)
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