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C-326 LLR Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, Phone - +91-9163881350 Email mkmandelia@gmail.com
Academic Qualifications
Degree / Certificate (B-Tech + M-Tech) in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering Grade XII (ISCE) Grade X (ICSE) Year 2011 Institute, City Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur CGPA/% 7.98 / 10
2005 2003
St. Thomas Church School, Howrah St. Thomas Church School, Howrah
90.8% 93.0%
Entrepreneurship
Founder Canopus India a seed stage start up in waste water management targeting SMSEs
Responsibilities Initiatives/ Leadership Achievements/ Recognitions
Clients
Pitching the idea to attract seed round capital and maintaining investors relations Core Technology, Financials and Market analysis of the business plan Operations on field and customer relations Introduced the idea of working with specific industries by studying their manufacturing process to reduce operational costs of wastewater treatment Introduced the concept of recovering energy and materials of commercial value from wastewater Featured as the youngest of the top 20 innovators in India by MIT Technology Review magazine March, 2010 edition Was invited to speak in the session Is India Innovating at India Innovation Summit organized by CII with Mr I Vijaya Kumar, CTO, Wipro as the chairman of the session Successfully led the team to win several national and international business plan competitions including o 2nd prize of Rs 300,000 in national level business plan compeition called BEST organized by ABLE (Association of Biotech Led Enterprises) and DBT, Govt. of India o 2nd prize at Al Gore Sustainablility Tecnology Venture Competition beating four teams from IIMs o 2nd prize at Rice University Business Plan Competition 2010, Houston, USA represting India amongst 7 international teams selected outside of USA Sri Venkatarama Oil Industries Ltd, Samalkot o Designed an upgraded wastewater treatment system which can treat and recycle twice the volume of wastewater at 25% lower costs enabled by recovering valuable materials o Reduced the wastewater production by 20% and increase yields by 10% Consulting leading industries like L&T and Wipro for optimizing their wastewater systems Current project also includes design of plant for a hotel in Portugal Total Revenues INR 0.75 million (2009-2010)
Position of Responsibility
Head of Corporate Relations, Departmental Fest Genesis
Initiatives & Responsibilities
2007
Achievements
Conceptualized and executed the idea with a team for organizing a departmental festival to bridge the gap between industry and academia Reviewed sponsorship and publicity plan Operation and event management during fest Achieved corporate sponsorship of INR 0.5 million in times of global economic recession Was able to bring down some key industrialists for guest lectures The fest was attended by over 200 participants from all over India The fest was covered by Bio-spectrum magazine
Also served as Member of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur 2006 & 2007; President of school Science club called AHTOMS || Our work in wastewater treatment has featured in several national newspapers and magazines || Also won 1st prize at Clean Tech and Concipio, Global Entrepreneurship Summit, IIT Kharagpur
Internships
ICICI Knowledge Park, ICTPH
Work
December, 2009
Achievements
Designed and conceptualized a mathematical model for estimating economic benefits of an intervention in primary healthcare at rural level Developed protocols for interventions at the clinic level Conducted computational analysis to estimate most efficient financing model The mathematical models were accepted in the board meeting with immediate implementation The new suggested protocols have been adopted and are in use Selected for Global Internship Program with co-interns from MIT, Harvard, Cornell and others
Developed engineering systems for bio-hydrogen production Mathematical modeling and process optimization Standardization of protocols for molecular biology techniques Work produced two peer reviews Successfully fabricated a system for bio-hydrogen production
Designed and fabricated a system which could efficiently treat wastewater and simultaneously produce electricity using the concept of Microbial Fuel Cells Designed and conceptualized a mathematical model for estimating parameters for bio-hydrogen production System can achieve 60-70% reduction in parameters monitored for wastewater quality with estimated 90% more electricity compared to anaerobic digestion Provisional patent granted for design and application of the product for decentralized wastewater management in India
May-July, 2007
Achievements
Develop a GUI platform for speech recognition to assist children suffering from cerebral palsy Write a software code for specific parts of the project The work also involved considerable use of visual basic platform and java The Graphical User Interface platform was successfully developed and has now been extended to three other languages Was successful in reducing the run time of the program by 15% by using a clustering approach in the algorithm.
Co-Curricular Activities/Achievements
IIT-JEE rank of 1625 out of 300,000; Current Departmental Rank of 7 out of 19 students Presented technical paper on Genetic Algorithms at World Hydrogen Technology Conference 2009 1st Prize in Eureka, the technical paper presentation competition at Kshitij 2009 Part of the Gold winning team in Inter-hall Case study 2008 on Aravind Eye Care Hospital Part of the Bronze winning team in Inter-hall Product Design Competition 2008 Represented Eastern India and won 6th prize amongst 70 participating schools at International Science Olympiad Quanta, 2005 Awarded Outstanding Student of the Year for 8 consecutive years at school Have delivered introductory sessions on Intellectual Property Rights at BITS and IEM Kolkata.
Extra-Curricular Activities
1st Prize in Mission Mars, a simulation and coding event in 1st year at Kshitij 2007 Hosted several national and international events at IIT Kharagpur and in school Responsible for starting The Entrepreneur as the wall magazine at IIT Kharagpur Published several literary articles in various magazines at IIT and in school Successfully completed an year of NCC training Mentored students of standard 10 of Kendriya Vidyalaya as part of the NSS program