Kumer Saurav Keshri

R&D professional with experience in heterogeneous catalysis, analytical instrumentation, and advanced data analytics. Extensive experience in working under regulatory environments like GMP/ISO/NABL, contributing to method development, investigation, and machine learning-driven solutions to complex datasets. Demonstrated experience in catalyst designing, characterization, reaction optimization, and predictive modelling of catalytic processes. Contributed to drug filing and deficiency responses, technical insights leading to successful sales opportunities, and authored research publications in international peer-reviewed journals by international and industrial collaborative projects. Have experience in computer programming by Python and intermediate fluency in French (DELF B1 Certified)

1. "Machine Learning-Driven Evaluation of Benzyl Alcohol to Benzaldehyde Conversion over Functionalized CeO₂ Catalysts from Past Research Publications" (Unpublished work)

- An independent and collaborative meta-analysis based on python based exploratory data analysis, feature importance evaluation and predictive modelling of catalytic process. Demonstrates the use of packages like scit-learn, XGBoost, SHAP, UMAP etc to obtain data insights and 92% prediction accuracy of catalytic yield

2. "Applied Data Science Capstone Project" by IBM and Coursera

- Completed as part of "IBM Data Science Professional Certificate". The project invloved the data collection, analysis and prediction about SpaceX Falcon-9 launches. The core skills used in this project were webscraping, data wrangling, data visualization and machine learning by languages like python and SQL.

3. "Data Science Project: MATLAB for the Real World " online Capstone by MathWorks through Coursera

"DELF B1" in French Language issued by The French Ministry of National Education

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications
(Complete list available in Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=eaFtLJsAAAAJ)

• Keshri, K. S.; Bhattacharjee, S; Singha, A; Bhaumik, A; and Chowdhury, B; Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates of different epoxides using CO2 as a C1 Building Block over Ag/TUD-1 catalyst: A Solvent Free Approach. Molecular Catalysis 2022 doi.org/10.1016/j.mcat.2022.112234
• Keshri, K. S.; Spezzati, G.; Ruidas, S.; Hensen, E. J. M.; Chowdhury, B. Role of Bismuth on Aerobic Benzyl
  Alcohol Oxidation over Ceria Polymorph-Supported Gold Nanoparticles. Catalysis Communications 2020, 140,
  106004
• S. Kanungo, K.S. Keshri, E.J.M. Hensen, B. Chowdhury, J.C. Schouten, M.F. Neirad'Angelo, Direct epoxidationof
  propene on silylated Au-Ti catalysts: a study on silylation procedures and the effect on propane formation,
  Catalysis Science & Technology, 8 (2018) 3052-3059.

Book Chapter

• Keshri, K. S., Chowdhury, B. Ceria-based Nano-Composites: A Comparative Study on Their Contributions to
  important Catalytic Processes. Synthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites (Springer
  Nature) 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1350-3_13

Conferences / Workshops

• Oral Presentation in Asia Pacific Congress On Catalysis, Bangkok- Thailand (August 4-7, 2019)
• Poster Presentation in 17 th National Workshop on Catalysis for Clean Energy and Sustainable Future, IIT Delhi (31
  May 2019 -01June 2019)
• Poster presentation in "Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS-2018)" at IIT GUWAHATI, December 6-8, 2018