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Vasantha Kumar Govindan

Passionate hard-working Bioprocess Engineer. Currently pursuing a master's in Bioprocess Engineering and actively looking for internship opportunities that could fetch me an exposure to industrial settings and unique challenges that I can work on. Love to work on process scale-up problems and Downstream processing techniques such as chromatography

Key Skills

MATLAB
Controller design
Process Modelling and Simulation
Chromatography
Reactor Design and Analysis
Process optimization
Strain Selection

Internship

May 2019
May 2019
Quality Control Supervisor
Kwality Milk Foods Ltd., Kancheepuram, IN
Kwality Milk Foods Ltd., is a dairy-based food processing industry. It has two plants in Chennai and Kanchipuram for processing various kinds of milk products such as fresh milk, curd, Ice creams, Frozen desserts, and Ghee. It is a leading player in the local market around Kanchipuram along with Hatsun in marketing dairy based foods
Gained experience in the various biochemical and microbiological techniques that were used to assess the quality of the processed food. Actively monitored manufacturing area to  identify the key factor behind the contamination of certain foods 

Education

Sep 2020
May 2022
Master of Technology (M.Tech) in
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Jul 2016
Sep 2020
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Government College of Technology
Anna University

Certifications

2018
Biomimetics and Biological Soft Materials
IIT, Hyderabad
2019
Computer Aided Drug Design
Biotecnika and Schrodinger
2019
Cell Culture Technologies
NPTEL and IIT, Kanpur
2018
Functional Genomics
NPTEL and IIT, Kanpur
2018
Human Molecular Genetics
NPTEL and IIT, Kanpur

Achievements

2019
Smart India Hackathon - 2019 (Hardware Edition)
In SIH-2019, one of the world's largest Hackathon at the time I with my team consisting of 6 members worked on devising a protocol for quantifying the amount of active antibiotics in the treated effluent wastewater from biopharmaceutical industry. We worked with Aurobindo Pharma, Hyderabad on this problem statement. Although we couldn't come up as a winner in this competition I and my team had gained a good amount of experience from this event
Runners in SKASC TROPHY 2019
 SKASC Trophy is a state-level intercollegiate cricket tournament that was held from 07 Jan 2019 to 12 Jan 2019. In this tournament, I along with my college team emerge as a runner in the final 

Hobbies & Interests

  • Cricket
  • Movies
  • Gaming
  • Internet Surfing

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Tamil
(Native)

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