Dr. Shailesh Upreti (President, C4V, New York, USA)

Dr. Shailesh Upreti (President, C4V, New York, USA), Adjunct Faculty


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  • Education: Post Doctoral Fellow (New York State University), Ph.D. Chemistry (IIT Delhi)
  • Email: shail_upreti@rediffmail.com
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: (i) Advance materials development for applied sciences and functional devices and Li ion batteries, (ii) Inventor of multiple breakthrough technologies (iii) Holds multiple US patents and their foreign equivalents in more than 30 countries (iii) Expert in bringing the technologies to market including one in the material recycling space, (iv) bringing new products to market, business development, Li-ion supply chain & industry networking, downstream processing and investigating organizational performance gaps, (iv) Well integrated into the global battery industry and serves on various advisory boards, (v) Adept in defining corporate commercial objectives, business support programs and achieving organizational goals while bringing new technology to market.
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Awards & Honours:
  1. He is an entrepreneur, mentor and inventor of multiple breakthrough technologies. In year 2017, he was recognized as 50 most influential Indian entrepreneurs in Energy space. He is president of Charge CCCV (C4V). He is also the Chairman for iMperium3 that is building two Giga factories in USA and Australia respectively. He is former member of the US Department of Energy's Frontier Research Centers at Binghamton. He is also a collaborator of Prof. Michael Stanley Whittingham, Nobel Prize Winner of year 2019 in Chemistry. With more than 16 years of exclusive experience in developing strategies to advance new technologies, his entrepreneurial work has shown substantial impact to trigger and influence many projects in academics as well as in industry. His findings have been published in 100+ peer-reviewed international journals and multiple technologies have been commercialized across the globe in various verticals. He holds more than six patents in the United States and their equivalent in 35+ countries. He is well integrated into the global energy & digital payment industry and serving on various advisory boards to bridge the gap between meaningful findings from applied research and commercialization. Recently he was also awarded with a cash prize of USD 500,000 in the world's largest business competition 76West for his innovative energy storage technology.
Website link
  1. https://www.hindustantimes.com/dehradun/uttarakhand-born-scientist-bags-us-award-for-developing-long-lasting-batteries/story-p4JWchcRuexOn0zOfuq3dK.html
  2. https://www.ciol.com/ev-battery-c4v-invests-rs-4000-cr-karnataka/

Department of Chemistry