Education
He has received his Doctor of Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
He has received his Doctor of Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
He was then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. He started his independent academic career as an Assistant Professor of IIT Kanpur in 1965. Later he became a Professor and finally the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department of IITK. He also served as the Dean of Students Affairs at IITK. He was the founding director of the Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre.
In 2008, the C. V. Seshadri chair of professorship was instituted at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Professor Ashutosh Sharma is the present occupant of this chairman