National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

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BIOGRAPHY

Roshmi Sen is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Planning and Architecture at NIT Rourkela since 2018. Roshmi was awarded PhD in 2021 from IIT Kharagpur. Her doctoral research work evaluated mass housing building envelopes in a multi-objective optimization framework interconnecting areas of Housing and Community Planning with Building Science research. She was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru doctoral research fellowship (2016-17) which provided her with an opportunity to work as a research intern with C.H.A.O.S lab at the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment, Princeton University where she observed how a building science lab operates. During this research internship, she was introduced to the area of “low-exergy cooling in tropics”. Previously, she has worked with urban housing poverty issues. Her Master in City Planning dissertation submitted in 2011 was related to the development of a “slum upgrading toolkit” considering Kolkata as case study. Also, with her post-graduation dissertation as a background study, she along with her co-inventor patented and prototyped a kinetic bunk-bed cum work-space arrangement to address the problem of space crisis in mixed use living conditions as found in urban slum areas. She is currently working towards technology transfer of this product. Before her doctoral degree, she has worked with a renowned Architectural Firm named M/s Haven Architects and has handled big projects as Urban Planner and Architect. She is eager to mentor research students in designing systems and prototyping products that would help mitigate global problems of energy and inequality.

EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Sustainable Urbanism, Building Sciences
Areas of Interest
  • Climate responsive architecture and urban planning
  • Slum upgrading and inclusive development
  • District cooling in Indian cities

Roshmi Sen Assistant Professor Grade-II

Planning and Architecture

senr@nitrkl.ac.in

0661 - 246 2769

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CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Roshmi Sen

Assistant Professor Grade-II

Planning and Architecture

Room Number: TI-211

Department of Planning and Architecture, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2021

Ph.D.
Energy efficiency in affordable mass housing
IIT Kharagpur

Teaching Experience
  • Architecture,  NIT Rourkela,   14 May 2018 - Present


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Total Publications: 10
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R. Sen, S. P. Bhattacharya, and S. Chattopadhyay,"Are low-income mass housing envelops energy efficient and comfortable? A multi-objective evaluation in warm-humid climate", Energy and Buildings, vol.245, no.111055, Elsevier 2021, 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111055       Article

R. Sen, S. P. Bhattacharya, and S. Chattopadhyay,"Comfort-energy nexus in naturally ventilated affordable mass housing with alternative constructions in the developing world", in EGU General Assembly 2021, EGU 2021 2021, 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8003       Inproceedings

R. Sen and S. Chattopadhyay,"Evaluating affordable housing schemes – a conceptual framework for a triple bottom line approach towards sustainability accounting", in Proceedings of Resilient and Liveable City Planning (RLCP) 2020, RLCP 2020 2021       Inproceedings

R. Sen, E. Teitelbaum, and F. Meggers,"Community cooling infrastructure from waste heat among diverse building types in Rourkela Steel Township, India", in Proceedings of IBPC 2021, 8th International Building Physics Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, IBPC 2021 2021       Inproceedings

R. Sen and A. Kar,"A Two-Tier Compact Bed cum Workspace Combination Readily Reconfigurable from Bed to Workspace and vice versa", Indian Patent Office, vol.na, no.na, pp.na 2021       Misc

Architectural Form Finding with Parametric Design Tools Planning and Architecture (Workshop)

  • PA2801 : Climate-Responsive Architecture {Theory}
  • PA3906 : Estimation, Costing and Specification {Theory}
  • PA4301 : Advanced Building Materials {Theory}
  • PA441 : Advanced Building Materials {Theory}
  • PA486 : Advanced Structural Design and Systems {Theory}
  • PA5401 : Advanced Structural Systems {Theory}
  • PA6400 : Sustainable Development {Theory}
  • PA6405 : Environmental Planning {Theory}
  • PA1112 : Architectural Design-I {Practical}
  • PA1114 : Visual Arts {Practical}
  • PA1302 : Building Construction Sessional - I {Practical}
  • PA1402 : Visual Arts - II {Practical}
  • PA1901 : Non-Graphic Computer Applications {Practical}
  • PA2902 : Architectural Tour and Field Study - I {Practical}
  • PA3102 : Architectural Design - V {Practical}
  • PA3901 : Interior Design {Practical}
  • PA3902 : Architectural Tour and Field Study - II {Practical}
  • PA3904 : Estimation, Costing and Specification Sessional {Practical}
  • PA412 : Architectural Design-VIII {Practical}
  • PA431 : Advanced Building Construction Studio {Practical}
  • PA4901 : Academic Portfolio {Practical}
  • PA5013 : Architectural Photography Studio {Practical}

Executive Ph.D. Students [2]
Climate change and urban planning
Santosh Kumar
Enrolled: Oct 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Green retrofitting
Tapas Ranjan Das
Enrolled: Aug 2024
Continuing
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship,   2016
Memberships / Fellowships
  • Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), lifetime member,   2022
  • Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE),   2021
  • Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI), lifetime member,   2021
  • International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), India,   2019
  • Council of Architecture of India (COA),   2018