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Dr. Sofia Rani Shaik

Dr. Sofia Rani Shaik Email-ID: shaiksofia@rajagiri.edu

<p><span style="color:null"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Shaik Sofia Rani holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability and Organizational Design from the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. Her research interests are in Sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment, Techno-economic Assessment, Competency indicators and Human Resource Management. Dr. Sofia has publications in reputed international journals like SETA, IJGW, Energies, IOP series and so on. She has also participated in and presented at various international conferences. Apart from having 1 year teaching experience as Assistant Professor, she has an industrial experience of 6 years and served as Human Resource Manager before pursuing her doctorate. Dr. Sofia provided her services in Learning and Development area where she trained multiple employees on corporate behavior and managerial communication procedures. She has also served in other core areas of Human Resources like recruitment, performance appraisal and compensation management. Along with these, she delivered talks to undergraduate and post graduate management students on real-time corporate issues and culture.</span></span></span></p>

Educational Qualification

  • Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India (Rank 364 in World QS Rankings) in “Life Cycle and Techno-economic Assessments of Porous Radiant Burner and Proposed Organizational Design of the Entity Associated”.
  • MBA in Human Resources and Marketing from Osmania University.
  • B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from  Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Work Experience (Research /Teaching)

  • Worked as Assistant Professor at Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Symbiosis University, Hyderabad, India from 21 June 2023 to 31 August 2024 in Human Resource Management Department.
  • Worked as Associate Project Engineer in the Project entitled "Design and Development of energy-efficient and environment-friendly LPG and Kerosene cooking stoves with Porous Radiant Burners for household and largescale cooking applications” at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati from July 3, 2020 to June 2, 2021.
  • Worked as HR Manager at Innoval Digital Solutions (merged organization including Saturn Systemwares Pvt. Ltd.), Technopark, Trivandrum from July 2, 2018 to February 20, 2020.
  • Worked as HR Manager at Saturn Systemwares Pvt. Ltd, Technopark, Trivandrum from February 13, 2017 to June 29, 2018.
  • Worked as Client Relations Representative for recruitments with Monster.com, Hyderabad in the designation for Middle East and Africa region from February 14, 2011 to October 31, 2011
  • Worked with Knoah Solutions, Hyderabad in the designation of VSO, Level 2 from July 15, 2006 to October 28, 2007 for a period of 1 year and 3 months.

Area of Interest (Research /Teaching)

  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Techno-economic Assessment
  • Organizational Design
  •  Design Thinking
  • Human Resource Management / Industrial Relations
  • Organizational Behaviour

Journal Publication

  • Shaik, S.R., Muthukumar P., and Kalita P C. (2022). Life Cycle Assessment of LPG Cook-stove with Porous Radiant Burner and Conventional Burner – A Comparative Study. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment, 52, 102255 [IF: 7.1]
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.102255
  • Mahalingam, A. K., Shaik, S. R., Kaushik, L. K., Muthukumar P., and Kalita, P. C. (2022). Design and Lifecycle Assessment of Small-scale medical waste incinerators. Indian Chemical Engineers Journal [IF: 1.09] https://doi.org/10.1080/00194506.2022.2098180
  • Shaik, S. R., Mahalingam, A. K., Muthukumar P., and Kalita, P. C. (2022). Comprehensive Review on Medical Waste Incineration. International Journal of Global Warming [IF: 1.00] https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2022.122793
  • Nayanita K., Shaik, S.R., Muthukumar P. (2022) Comparative study of Mixed-mode type and Direct mode type Solar dryers using Life Cycle Assessment. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.102680 [IF: 7.1]
  • Palanisamy, M., Kaushik, L.K., Mahalingam, A.K., Deb, S., Maurya, P., Shaik, S.R. and Mujeebu, M.A., 2023. Evolutions in Gaseous and Liquid Fuel Cook-Stove Technologies. Energies, 16(2), p.763. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16020763 [IF: 3.0]

Conferences / MDPs Attended / FDPs Attended

  • Arun Kumar M., Shaik, S. R., Kaushik, L. K., Muthukumar P., Kalita, P. C. (2021). Life Cycle Assessment of Incinerator with Porous Radiant Burner, Conventional Burner and Electrical Heater- A comparative study. - Presented at International Conference on Recent Technologies and Advanced Materials for Green Energy and Sustainable Environment– RTAMGESE 2021, held on 12-13 March, 2021.
  • Shaik, S. R., Muthukumar P., Kalita, P. C. (2021). Life Cycle Assessment of LPG cook-stove with Porous Radiant Burner and Conventional Burner - A comparative study. - Presented at 1st International Conference on Water, Energy and Environment– WEECON 2021, held on 23- 24 December, 2021
  • Shaik, S.R., Muthukumar P., and Kalita, P.C., (2022). Life Cycle Assessment of Biogas Operated Porous Radiant Burner and Conventional Burner for Cooking Applications. - Presented at second International Conference on Renewable Energy – ICRE 2022, held on 25-27 February, 2022.
  • Shaik, S.R., Muthukumar P., and Kalita, P.C., (2022). Techno-Economic Assessment of LPG operated Porous Radiant Burner based Cook-stoves for Commercial Cooking Applications. - Presented at Second International Conference on Sustainable Energy, Environment and Green Technologies - ICSEEGT 2022, held on 24-25 June 2022 (Awarded the “best paper”) doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1084/1/012014
  • Shaik, S.R., Vaneeth K., Muthukumar P., and Kalita, P.C., (2023). Proposed Organizational Design for an entity to mass produce and commercialize PRB Cook-stoves. - Presented at International Conference on Contemporary Research in Management - ICCRM 2023, held on 11-12 January 2023
  • Shaik, S.R., Vaneeth K., Muthukumar P., and Kalita, P.C., (2024). Organizational Design and Competency Indicators Proposal to Commercialize PRB Cook-stoves. - Presented at International Conference on Global Business Transformation: Now, Next and Beyond - INCONSYM 2024, held on 30-31 January 2024
  • Shaik, S.R., Muthukumar P., and Jetti, R., (2024). Design and Proposal of Corporate Social Responsibility Model Enhancing Role of Human Resources to a PRB Cook-stoves Business Entity. - Presented at International Conference on Innovative Sustainable Development in Management - ICISDM 2024, held on 6-7 March 2024