Vidya Shetty K

Designation: 

Professor (HAG)

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Friday, October 20, 2000

Professional Experience: 

> 27 years

Contact Details

E-mail: 

vidyaks95[at]nitk.edu.in

Telephone: 

+91-824-2473606 (off)
Academic Background
  •  B.E. (Chemical Engg.) Bangalore University, India
  •  M.Tech. (Industrial Pollution Control) (KREC (now NITK) Surathkal, Mangalore University), India
  •  Ph.D. NITK Surathkal, India
Areas of Interest

Environmental biotechnology, Environmental nanotechnology, Nano-photocatalysis, Wastewater treatment, Water Disinfection, Bioleaching

Complete Profile

Significant Projects
  1. CSIR ASPIRE Project Microbial-mediated synthesis of metal-based nanocomposites from electronic waste for water disinfection and development of a flow-through water disinfection system with the immobilized nanocomposites, funded by CSIR. For 3 years 2024-26, for approximately Rs.26.29 lakhs. Status: Ongoing 
  2. DST Joint  Research Grant under Water Technology Initiative (WTI)  a collaborative Research Project with IIT Bombay : project titled “ Integrated Photocatalytic and Membrane Bioreactor Process for Effective Removal of Emerging Contaminants and Disinfection” with total funding of 72.32 lakhs.  three years duration from 2021-24. Status: completed
  3. DST-SERB Project “Batch and Continuous Photocatalytic Degradation of Azo dyes using Ag core-TiO2 Shell Structured Nanoparticles in Free and Immobilized form” Cost: 20.39 lakhs 2011-2013. Status: Completed
  4. MHRD-NMEICT Project “Development of Virtual lab-Process Control Reaction   Engg. & Unit  Operations lab” Rs.16.6 Lakhs 2010-2014. Developed a virtual lab which is available online. Status - Completed
  5. Coordinator and member of the Project Implementation Committee for DST-FIST-2014, funded by DST ,GoI for Departmental infrastructure development for Rs. 220 lakhs. Status - Completed
Supervision of Ph.D

Ongoing: 05
Completed: 12

Postdocs:
Completed - 01 (Institute fellow)
Ongoing - 01 (ANRF-NPDF)

Significant Publications
  1. Shetty, Preethi, and Vidya Shetty Kodialbail (2026) Immobilization of agrowastes-derived CuxO/TiO2 nanocomposite as PES-photocatalytic beads for degradation of ciprofloxacin in solar light-driven batch stirred and airlift fluidized bed reactor." Catalysis Today: 115904.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2026.115904
  2.  Sophia, S., & Shetty K, V. (2026). Kinetic and Mechanistic Insights into the Catalytic Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol, a Priority Water Pollutant over CuxO/Cu Multi-Metallic Nanocomposite Derived from Waste Printed Circuit Boards. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.(2026) 65 (26): 13601–13616. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.6c00838
  3. Shetty, P., & Shetty Kodialbail, V. (2026). Solar photocatalysis using Ag@ TiO2 core-shell nanocomposite for the degradation of ciprofloxacin, an emerging water pollutant: a promising approach towards environmental sustainability. Environmental Sustainability, 9(1), 245-261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42398-026-00419-6
  4. Preethi Shetty and Vidya Shetty Kodialbail (2025), Fabrication of CuxO/TiO2 hybrid nanocomposite by the synergetic effect of mixed phytoextract of agro-waste materials for enhanced visible-light-induced photocatalytic activity in degradation of ciprofloxacin, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1038,182605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2025.182605
  5. Pai, Shraddha, and Vidya Shetty. "Scaling up green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their immobilization for water disinfection in a “Point of Use” fixed bed unit." Journal of Water Process Engineering 79 (2025): 108977 
  6. Sophia, S., & Shetty, K.V. (2024). Extracellular synthesis of heteroatom doped copper oxide nanoparticles from electronic waste–Transforming waste to resource for the remediation of nitrophenol contaminated water. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 12(3), 112966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.112966 
  7. Madhavan, M., Shetty Kodialbail, V. & Saidutta, M.B (2024). Performance of Fluidized-Bed Bioreactor in Copper Bioleaching from Printed Circuit Boards using Alcaligenes aquatilis. Waste Biomass Valor 15, 1213–1224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-023-02202-8.   

 Book(s):

  1.  Recent Advances in Chemical Engineering-Select Proceedings of ICACE-2015 (2016).Editors: I. Regupathi, Vidya Shetty K, T. Murugesan, Springer, Singapore.
Achievements
Awards:
  1. Prof. Satish Dhawan Young Engineer State Award  for the Year 2017 for outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Sciences:  Instituted by the Govt. of Karnataka: Award received on August 6 2018, from the Honourable Chief Minister of Karnataka at the Indian Institute of Science in the presence of Prof. C.N. R. Rao and IISc Director Prof. Anurag Kumar
  2.  Institution  of Engineers Mangalore Local Centre Young Engineer Award: Presented at the Engineers Day celebration on 15th September 2018 organized by Institute of Engineers, Mangalore Local Centre, Kodagu , Dakshina Kannada, Udupi Engineers’ Association and Institution of Engineers, Mangalore branch
  3. ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ by M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Received the Honour  during the Alumni Meet Milana -2018 held on 18th August 2018 at MSRIT
  4. IIChE NRC Awardfor  Best Paper published in the Journal-Indian Chemical Engineer in 2023, awarded to Dr. Vidya Shetty K, Dr. Minimol M and Dr. M.B. Saidutta for the  paper entitled Bioleaching of zinc from e-waste by A. aquatilis in a fluidised bed bioreactor. The award was presented during the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON-2024) of IIChE  heldat NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, during December 27-30, 2024
  5. Prof.Vidya Shetty K and her student Ms. Deeksha Mathew  received the “Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers -SISIR Kumar Mitra Memorial Award for the Second Best Technical Paper published in Indian Chemical Engineer during the year 2022” during the Inaugural session of  IIChE-CHEMCON 2023 on 27th December 2023
  6. Prof. Vidya Shetty K and Arpitha C received a Best Paper Award for a paper titled: Hydrogen Production Using Green Synthesised Copper Oxide Modified Titanium Dioxide Photocatalyst  presented in a Technical Session at Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers-CHEMCON-2025 held at Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu during 27-20, 2025
  7. Prof. Vidya Shetty K and her team of students (Chetan M, Shivani R.J, Preethi, Deekshitha, Anjali. S Pawar, Thanush Shetty) of Chemical Engineering Department is awarded the Best Paper award for the paper "Bio-chemo sequential synthesis of silver oxide nanoparticles embedded in TiO2 shell (BioAg2O@TiO2): A visible light active photocatalyst for dye degradation" presented at   IIChE-CHEMCON-2023 held at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata during 27-30 December 2023.
  8. Best paper award for a paper titled “Visible light irradiated photocatalytic reduction of CO2 using novel PANI/CuO nanocomposite in aqueous medium” authored by Ms. Deeksha Mathew and Prof.Vidya Shetty K in the International Conference on Recent Technologies and Advanced Materials for Green Energy and Sustainable Environment (RTAMGESE-Online) organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli held during. March 12-13, 2021

 Patents:

  1. Patent No. 553703: “Bacterial-Based Synthesis of Core-Shell AgO@TiO2 Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Water Disinfection and Dye Degradation”  (Application Number:  201741044068 dated 08/12/2017) granted on 30/10/2024. Inventors: Vidya Shetty K, Afshan Kilpady, Deekshitha
  2. Patent Number. 572001:  “Sequential Batch Bioleaching Process Employing Alcaligenes  aquatilis And   Chromobacterium Violaceum” (Application Number: 202441016635 dtd. 07-03-2024 )   granted on 14/10/2025. Inventors : Minimol M,    Vidya Shetty K,     M. B. Saidutta
  3. Patent No. 594041: “TiO2 Modified with Copper Oxide Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Degradation of ciprofloxacin and Method Thereof.” ( Application Number:202541055044 dtd.   date:7-6-2025.).Granted on 01/07/2026. Inventor(s): Vidya Shetty K, Preeth

 Research Experience Abroad: 

  1. Visiting Researcher at Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada for Research collaboration with Prof. Vinay Prasad during June 15 to July 4 2014 (three weeks.
  2. Visiting Researcher at Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyung Hee University,Suwon, South Korea for 2.5 months during May-July 2011, for collaborative research with Prof.Chang Kyoo Yoo.
  3. Visiting Researcher at Center for Environmental Biotechnology, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, US(1 week) during June 2008 for research interactions with Prof. Bruce Rittmann on Environmental Biotechnology.
  4. Visiting Researcher at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Texas, US (3 weeks) during June-July 2008 for research interaction with Prof. Mike Wong on nano-catalysis

Remarks

Detailed CV: 

https://chemical.l1.nitk.ac.in/sites/default/files/CV_VSK__15%20Oct%202026.pdf

Publications: 

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=AGCoCy4AAAAJ&hl=en

R&D Projects: 

https://chemical.l1.nitk.ac.in/article/dr-vidya-shetty-k-r-d-projects

Conferences / Workshops: 

https://chemical.l1.nitk.ac.in/article/dr-vidya-shetty-k-conferences-and-workshops

Miscellaneous: 

https://chemical.l1.nitk.ac.in/article/dr-vidya-shetty-k-miscellaneous
 

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Department of Chemical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal
P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangalore - 575 025
Karnataka, India.

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