Project Coordinator
Prof. Muraleedharan V R
Professor VR Muraleedharan, a Development Economist, with primary research interest in the field of Healthcare Economics, has been teaching at the Department of HSS, IIT Madras, since 1988.
He is currently engaged in a five-year comparative research project on health economics and financing, funded by DFID (London), as part of a Consortium of 10 institutions (from India, Kenya, Tanzania, Thailand and South Africa, http://resyst.lshtm.ac.uk) . His most recent contribution to the book “Good Health at Low Cost: what makes an effective health system?” (2012) analyses developments in the healthcare delivery system of Tamil Nadu over the past 30 years. Currently, he is engaged in piloting Universal Health Coverage in two poor blocks of Tamil Nadu.
Working Group Members
Project Advisor
Rangarajan Ganesan
I am an ardent canvasser for sustainable manufacturing & Green Buildings.I am now associated with PARFI ( PanIIT Reach for India ) which is providing vocational training & education to thousands of under-privileged boys & girls from Rural India, and with the Group on “Technology and School Education System” in CTaP.
Project Scientist
Vipin Venugopal
Vipin has done his Masters in Thermal System Design and is currently pursuing his Ph.D from IIT Madras. Prior joining CTaP he was working with Forbes Marshall in as a designer of expander used in cogeneration. His present research interests are in field of exergy analysis of energy systems and expander technology for CHP applications.
Project Associate
Dhipankumar Kanakasabapathi
Dhipankumar is basically a Mechanical Engineer with a master’s in Resource Recovery – Sustainable Energy Technology, from University of Borås, Sweden. Prior to joining CTaP, he worked on optimization of process design, construction, operation & maintenance of Biomass Gasifier on power generation and various thermal energy applications along with techno-economic assessment studies for various biomass based energy generation projects in South East Asia & East African countries.
At CTaP he is working on various assessment studies like energy consumption pattern in Indian Process Industries, potential for sectoral energy conservation, optimizing firm level energy efficiency and improving overall effective energy utilization by means of detailed energy audit and assessment.
Project Associate
Karthick Vengatesh Kumar
Karthick is basically an electrical engineer and a BEE certified Energy Auditor who has experience in conducting energy audits. He was working as an energy engineer in a textile spinning mill and later associated with a private consulting company and has conducted number of energy audits in industries, commercial buildings such as apartments, hospitals, educational institutions, etc.
Project Associate
Rajesh M
Rajesh is a B.Tech graduate in Information Technology and has keen interest on efficiently utilizing the colossal healthcare data. Previously he has worked on open source NSSO, Census, CMCHIS data, to yield more meaningful insights on the level of care delivered and to measure the effectiveness of the Healthcare System.
At CTaP, currently he is working on the project “Pilot Universal Health Coverage in Rural Areas of Tamil Nadu”, focusing on effective utilization of public primary health care services.
Associated Faculties
| Faculty Name | Working Group | Website |
| Ashok Jhunjhunwla | Energy | http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ashok/ |
| Bhaskar Ramamurthi | Energy | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/bhaskar |
| Krishna Vasudevan | Energy | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/krishna.vasudevan |
| Lakshmi Narasamma | Energy | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/lakshmin |
| Shiva Nagendra | Waste Management and Environmental Health | http://www.civil.iitm.ac.in/?q=shiva_con |
| Arun Kumar Thittai | Medical Technologies and Society | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/akthittai |
| Solly Benjamin | Innovations in Informal Market | https://hss.iitm.ac.in/index.php/faculty/institute-faculty?id=35 |
| Devdas Menon | Others | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/dmenon |
| Meher Prasad A | Others | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/prasadam |
| Satyanarayana K N | Others | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/satyakn |
| Koshy Varghese | Others | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/koshy |
| Ashwin Mahalingam | Others | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/mash |
| Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam | Medical Technologies and Society | http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~mohan/ |
| Umakant Dash | Universal Health Coverage | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/dash |
| Murthy B.B.S | Waste Management and Environmental Health | http://www.civil.iitm.ac.in/?q=murty_edu |
| Ligy Philip | Waste Management and Environmental Health | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/ligy |
| Satyanarayanan Seshadri | Energy | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/satya |
| Santosh Kumar Sahu | Energy | https://hss.iitm.ac.in/team-members/santosh-kumar-sahu/ |
| Indumathi Manivannan Nambi | Waste Management and Environmental Health | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/indunambi |
| Mahesh Panchagnula | Energy | http://apm.iitm.ac.in/fmlab/mvp/ |
| Venkatesh G | Technology and School Education System | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/venkateshg |
| Sureshbabu M | Technology and School Education System | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/sureshbabum |
| Mathangi Krishnamurthy | Medical Technologies and Society | https://www.iitm.ac.in/info/fac/mathangi |
| Girija Vaidyanathan | Universal Health Coverage & Medical Technologies and Society | gigiv_40@yahoo.com |
Former Associates
Sai Charan
Education Technology in Higher School Education
B.Tech., Electrical Engineering (2016) IIT Madras
venkatasaicharanreddy@gmail.com
Ankit Jain
Education Technology in Higher School Education
Mechanical Engineering (2016) IIT Madras
bhaiji.ankitjain1993@gmail.com
Dr. Jessica Seddon
Dr. Jessica Seddon served as a senior fellow at CTaP during 2014-15. Her areas of expertise includes governance in housing/shelter policy and urban water resource management.
jseddon@okapia.co
Somya Sethuraman
Somya Sethuraman worked as a project associate on urban housing policy.
Aparna Anantha krishnan
Aparna worked on the use of mobile technology in health care in south India.
Manjari Shankar
Manjari worked on the use of mobile technology in health care in south India.
Sudha Rani
Sudha worked on the Universal Health Care Project
Dharmesh Shah
Dharmesh served as the Project Advisor in CTaP delivering ideas for waste management projects
Dr. Rakhal Gatinode
As a Senior Scientist, Rakhal worked on vaccine related decision making and environmental epidemiology
Devi Asokan
Devi worked on Technology & Engineering Education project exploring the role of technology in improving the process of learning