Nikhil Goyal, a dual-degree student in our department, stood out with remarkable academic achievements. He received the prestigious President's Silver Medal 2014 for the highest CGPA across the 2009-Entry Dual-Degree Batch of Chemical Engineering. Right after the 2nd year, Nikhil was conferred with the Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) by Industrial Research & Development Unit (IRD), IIT Delhi. Based on his work, Nikhil published a paper entitled “Hydrogen Production by Steam Reforming of Model Bio-Oil using Structured Ni/Al2O3 Catalysts” (Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2013, 38: 912-933) along with Prof. K.K. Pant, which has 7 citations till date. Along with this, he has been an awardee of the IITD Semester Merit Prize for being in the top 7% students of the department twice (2011 & 2013) and the Jawahar Gajree Memorial Scholarship (2013) for his scientific contributions. Nikhil also qualified amongst the top 2% out of 2700+ extremely high quality applicants for Shell-NWOCS-PhD Programme 2013. He served as the Student Coordinator for Departmental Class Committee (2013-14). Nikhil will be joining the chemical giant Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. Japan as a Research Engineer in their Petrochemicals & Plastics Sector starting fall of 2014.
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