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6 students are currently pursuing their PhD program. He was directly involved into the fields during deputation to Institute of Reservoir Studies, ONGC under Industry-Academic interaction program for 1 year. Dr. Mandal carried out collaborative research work with Department of Petroleum Engineering, Institute of Curtin University of Technology under the Australia-India Joint Research Program, 2016. He is enriched with diversified experienced through collaborative research with University Technology of Petronas, Malaysia and National University Singapore. Dr. Mandal is a member of Enhanced Recovery Screening committee of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Govt. of India. He Ranked within top 1% in the field of energy by an independent study done by Stanford University scientists in 2020. Dr. Mandal is admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry for his outstanding performance in petroleum Chemistry. He is also an active member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), USA and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), India.

Keka Ojha is a professor in Petroleum Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad India and teaching various courses of Reservoir Engineering and Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources since 2005. At present, she is the Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering.

Prof. Ojha holds PhD and M. Tech Degrees in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, prior to her B.Ch.E degree (Hons) from Jadavpur University in Chemical Engineering. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow from University of Notre Dame University, USA before joining IIT(SIM), Dhanbad.

Dr. Ojha has published 84 peer reviewed papers in journals of repute besides conference publications of similar volume and a book, which are the outcome of about 25 R &D and consultancy projects on EOR, fracturing fluids, Coalbed Methane, Water Shut-off jobs, Shale Gas in addition to a number of EDP courses offered to the executives of various E & P companies operating in India. She is an active member of various national and International professional bodies including SPE-USA, MGMI, IIChE. Dr. Ojha is a member of the editorial board of one of the journal and an active reviewer of various petroleum engineering related journals of her research area under various other publishers. Her academic knowledge is enriched with field experience during one year deputation program in ONGC as well as academic collaborations with Curtin University, Unversiti Teknology Petronas, National University, Singapore.

Contribution of Dr. Ojha in petroleum engineering academics is recognized by SPE through "2019 SPE South Asia Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty". She and her research team bagged the first winner prize for presentation in conferences for a number of occasions.