I know Deepti for about two years now. She interacted with me when I was at bigtec as a project student and then she was my student at CMRIT, Bangalore. Deepti Mithrananda is an engineering graduate from VTU University, Bangalore, India. She is currently doing a six month project in my group. Deepti was the only student selected from the group of fifteen people who applied for the internship at CMRIT and basis of selection was a written test & interview. Deepti expressed her interest to study Professional Science Masters (PSM) or any science degree with a management touch. So, I recommended her doing a research project on grant, scientific article and research paper writing. Articulating an idea into a research proposal is one of the toughest skills in science and is a rarity now a days. My experience of being part of 12 funded proposals and my students winning more than 15 international awards including the last year's MIT young innovator of the year award, I felt I could help her attain these skills. The training was structured with the goal of helping her learning the essential skills. She has helped me to write 3 grant proposals, namely "Revival of Morellin: Revisiting the the only plant origin broad spectrum antibiotic" For CSIR, "Fly ash based desalination of seawater" for DST, and "Alum coated magnetite Nanoparticles for treatment of polluted water" for DBT. CSIR, DST and DBT are India's biggest granting agencies for scientific research. Her help in writing the grant proposals was substantial and the broad areas of the research topics given above shows her versatile scientific knowledge. She is part of a team which has won "IEEE R10 Young Engineers Innovator Award 2014" and this research award for her team has helped us to generate enough research evidence to apply for "Fly ash based desalination of seawater" for DST. She is also part of a research paper and the work in this direction is in progress and the paper will be communicated shortly. During her stay in my research group, we found her as an interesting student with promise of becoming a multidisciplinary scientist. I personally found that she can get along well with colleagues, eager to learn and her questioning and reasoning of science places her in top 5% of my students. During five years of my postdoc, seven years of

I know Deepti for about two years now. She interacted with me when I was at bigtec as a project student and then she was my student at CMRIT, Bangalore. Deepti Mithrananda is an engineering graduate from VTU University, Bangalore, India. She is currently doing a six month project in my group. Deepti was the only student selected from the group of fifteen people who applied for the internship at CMRIT and basis of selection was a written test & interview. Deepti expressed her interest to study Professional Science Masters (PSM) or any science degree with a management touch. So, I recommended her doing a research project on grant, scientific article and research paper writing. Articulating an idea into a research proposal is one of the toughest skills in science and is a rarity now a days. My experience of being part of 12 funded proposals and my students winning more than 15 international awards including the last year's MIT young innovator of the year award, I felt I could help her attain these skills. The training was structured with the goal of helping her learning the essential skills. She has helped me to write 3 grant proposals, namely "Revival of Morellin: Revisiting the the only plant origin broad spectrum antibiotic" For CSIR, "Fly ash based desalination of seawater" for DST, and "Alum coated magnetite Nanoparticles for treatment of polluted water" for DBT. CSIR, DST and DBT are India's biggest granting agencies for scientific research. Her help in writing the grant proposals was substantial and the broad areas of the research topics given above shows her versatile scientific knowledge. She is part of a team which has won "IEEE R10 Young Engineers Innovator Award 2014" and this research award for her team has helped us to generate enough research evidence to apply for "Fly ash based desalination of seawater" for DST. She is also part of a research paper and the work in this direction is in progress and the paper will be communicated shortly. During her stay in my research group, we found her as an interesting student with promise of becoming a multidisciplinary scientist. I personally found that she can get along well with colleagues, eager to learn and her questioning and reasoning of science places her in top 5% of my students. During five years of my postdoc, seven years of

I know Deepti for about two years now. She interacted with me when I was at bigtec as a project student and then she was my student at CMRIT, Bangalore. Deepti Mithrananda is an engineering graduate from VTU University, Bangalore, India. She is currently doing a six month project in my group. Deepti was the only student selected from the group of fifteen people who applied for the internship at CMRIT and basis of selection was a written test & interview. Deepti expressed her interest to study Professional Science Masters (PSM) or any science degree with a management touch. So, I recommended her doing a research project on grant, scientific article and research paper writing. Articulating an idea into a research proposal is one of the toughest skills in science and is a rarity now a days. My experience of being part of 12 funded proposals and my students winning more than 15 international awards including the last year's MIT young innovator of the year award, I felt I could help her attain these skills. The training was structured with the goal of helping her learning the essential skills. She has helped me to write 3 grant proposals, namely "Revival of Morellin: Revisiting the the only plant origin broad spectrum antibiotic" For CSIR, "Fly ash based desalination of seawater" for DST, and "Alum coated magnetite Nanoparticles for treatment of polluted water" for DBT. CSIR, DST and DBT are India's biggest granting agencies for scientific research. Her help in writing the grant proposals was substantial and the broad areas of the research topics given above shows her versatile scientific knowledge. She is part of a team which has won "IEEE R10 Young Engineers Innovator Award 2014" and this research award for her team has helped us to generate enough research evidence to apply for "Fly ash based desalination of seawater" for DST. She is also part of a research paper and the work in this direction is in progress and the paper will be communicated shortly. During her stay in my research group, we found her as an interesting student with promise of becoming a multidisciplinary scientist. I personally found that she can get along well with colleagues, eager to learn and her questioning and reasoning of science places her in top 5% of my students. During five years of my postdoc, seven years of