Mr. Vinay Babu is working as lecturer in the School of Petroleum Technology (SPT). He joined the institute in july 2009. He holds M.Sc. in Applied Geology from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand in 2006 and M.Tech. in Petroleum Exploration from Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad in 2009. He has total one year of working experience with Hindustan Zinc Limited (Vedanta Resources Plc.) as a Jr. Geologist and was involved in field mapping, virgin area exploration, reserve and resource modeling etc. He is well exposed to various geological and geophysical software packages like Petrel, Hampson-Russell, Geosoft, Datamine, Matlab etc. He had several government scholarships during his academic career including MHRD scholarship in M.Tech studies. He completed his M.Tech project in the area of Shaly-sand Formation Evaluation.

His project titled as:
Real time Monitoring of Well site and Geological Data and Their Formation Evaluation.

Specialization:
Petroleum Exploration.

Research Interest:
Well Logging and Formation Evaluation, Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy, Basin Analysis.