Dr. Renjith Ravindran

Dr.V. R. RENJITH Professor Division of Safety and Fire Engineering School of Engineering Cochin University of Science and Technology,Kochi, Kerala, India.

Dr. Renjith Ravindran received his Ph. D. in Safety from CUSAT in the year 2011. His master degree is in Industrial Safety from NIT Trichy (with first rank and gold medal).He has over 22 years of teaching experience in the field of Safety and Fire Engineering. In addition to teaching, he is a researcher, consultant, trainer and quiz master in the field of safety. He has published more 55 papers in international Journals and conferences and prepared 20 consultancy project reports for different industries. He is editor and reviver of reputed journals published by Elsevier (Journal of loss prevention in process industries, Applied soft computing, Engineering failure analysis). IEEE access, Springer, Wiley (Risk Analysis). A dozen students are working under him for their Ph.D. He has guided more than two dozens of master thesis in the field of Safety and risk analysis. His major research interest is to improve the capability of tools used in safety and risk analysis by incorporating artificial intelligence and soft computing techniques. He has developed two Massive open online course for CUSAT in the field of Safety. He has visited more than 200 industries in India and abroad. He has visited several counties which Includes USA, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE and Sultanate of Oman. ( Former Head of Fire Safety Engineering and Management Dept., International College of Engg. & Management, Muscat, Oman)