Prof. Dr. Korada Viswanatha Sharma

Speaker's Profile

 

Dr. Korada Viswanatha.Sharma (K.V.Sharma) is man of versatile talents. He is a native of Chennai, completed his B.Tech (Mechanical) in JNTUCE, Anantapur, M.Tech in M.E (Heat Transfer) in AUCE, Visakhapatnam and received his Ph.D from JNTU, Hyderabad with thesis titled “A Theoretical Investigation on Some Aspects of Saturated Pool Film Boiling”. He started his life as a researcher at AUCE before joining Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) in 1989, having an excellent teaching experience of 24 years holding various capacities such as Asst. Professor, Assoc. Professor, Professor of Energy and Head of the Centre for Energy Studies; visiting Professor University Malaysia Pahang and now currently he is looking after the Civil Engineering Department at JNTUH College of Engineering Manthani. 

After doing his Masters at AUCE, he worked as Research Assistant under Departmental Research Support Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, funded by UGC, New Delhi. He has good record of his numerous administrative works, a few of which are he has been the Chairman of Evaluation Committee for Starting New Colleges under All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, Expert Member for the Recruitment of faculty for Private Engineering Colleges affiliated to JNTU, Organizing Secretary for ISHMT-ASME International HMT Conference Jan 2008, Internal Member in University Purchase Committee for Nano Science and Technology at JNTUH, Chairman for Board of Studies in Energy Systems at JNTUH, Member of the Board of Studies in Nano Science and Technology at Institute of Science and Technology at JNTUH and so on. He is a Life Member of Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer, High Energy Materials Research Society of India, Indian Society for Technical Education, Solar Energy Society of India and a fellow member of Institution of Engineers. 

Under his guidance till now 14 students have obtained their Doctorate degree. He has published over 50 research papers in international journals. He has attended 69 international conferences and 17 national conferences. He bagged 5 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals for his inventions and publications and projects. He has obtained 6 patents out of which two are from India. He has published two books named ”Proceedings of the 8th ISHMT-ASME HMT Conference, JNTU Hyderabad, 2008” and “Energy Management and Conservation, IK Publishers, India, 2011”. He has received the University Best Researcher Cendekia Bitara Award for the year 2010 from the Chief Minister of Pahang State, Malaysia. One of his research scholars stood 4th at the National level competition held at Calcutta in Feb 2009. Finally coming to his projects He has successfully accomplished 8 projects & few others are in progress.