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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PUBLICATIONS2
DOCTORAL STUDENTS1
CONTINUING EDUCATIONPERSONAL 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 housingIIT Kharagpur
Teaching Experience
- Architecture, NIT Rourkela, 14 May 2018 - Present
Total Publications: 10
S. Kumar and R. Sen,"Are larger or denser cities more emission efficient? Exploring the nexus between urban household carbon emission, population size and density", Applied Energy, Elsevier 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124500 Article
A. Darka, R. Sen, and B. K. Naik,"Feasibility study on energy saving scenarios of preinstalled vapour compression chiller based district cooling system", in 8th National and 2nd International Conference on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (NCRAC), IIT Madras, March 2024, View Details Inproceedings
R. Sen and F. Meggers,"Adopting district energy system in Indian context- what are the promises and obstacles?", in Conference fo Urban Affairs Association 2024, Urban Affairs Association 2024 Inproceedings
S. Kumar and R. Sen,"How do urban carbon dioxide emissions, urban scale and population density relate to each other? A literature based discovery", in 2022 IAUC Virtual Poster Session: Conference Abstract book 2022 Inproceedings
R. Sen, R. Bandyopadhyay, S. Bansal, S. Barman, and S. Sio,"De-carbonization and Environmental Planning Roadmap for Rourkela Steel City -a city under transformation", in Proceedings of the 58th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, 58th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, October 2022, https://brussels2022.dryfta.com/themes-tracks/216-programme/banners/proceedings Inproceedings
Architectural Form Finding with Parametric Design Tools Planning and Architecture (Workshop)
- Coordinator
- 03 Feb 2024 - 07 Feb 2024
- Brochure
- 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}
- PA2362 : Building Materials & Construction Sessional-IV {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]
Green retrofitting
Tapas Ranjan DasEnrolled: Aug 2024ContinuingSupervisor
Climate change and urban planning
Santosh KumarEnrolled: Oct 2021ContinuingSupervisor
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