Sridhar Seetharaman

Sridhar Seetharaman is the vice dean for research and innovation in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Seetharaman will oversee the Fulton Schools’ Office of Research and Innovation, which provides strategic support for faculty development of their research portfolio, and engages with key stakeholders across the Fulton Schools, throughout ASU and beyond.

Professor Seetharaman joined ASU from the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines where he served as the associate vice president for research and technology transfer. 

Throughout his career, Seetharaman has successfully built strategic partnerships and executed key initiatives across industry, government and the academic community. 

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy selected Arizona State University to receive up to $70 million to establish a new Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute devoted to the challenge of fighting greenhouse gas emissions from industrial process heating. ASU will lead the multi-institution effort known as Electrified Processes for Industry Without Carbon, or EPIXC, directed by Seetharaman. 

EPIXC joins the DOE’s six other Manufacturing USA institutes, which convene the nation’s brightest minds to solve the country’s toughest manufacturing challenges and move novel electrification processes out of the lab and into the market.