D. C. Sikdar (Ph.D.) is an associate professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, with more than two and half decades of teaching experience. Prof. Sikdar has published many papers in national and international journals of repute. he has received Best Research Thesis Award from Karnataka State Bio-fuel Development Board for guiding M.Tech Thesis on "Development of Bio-Hydrogen Dependent Fuel Cell using Micro Algae" in 2012. Prof. Sikdar is also a member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE).