Soumitri Garudapuram

Soumitri Varadarajan is the Deputy Dean of Industrial & Interior Design at the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT.

Awards:
- Program Innovation, University Award, 2005, Awarded to The Learner Centered Project, Industrial Design Program, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

- Innovation, Portfolio Award, 2005, Awarded to The Learner Centered Project, Industrial Design Program, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

- Indo-German Greentech Award for Environmental Excellence, 2001, Awarded to the Campus Recycling Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

- Hindu Hitachi Scholarship Award, 1991–1992, Hitachi Research Centre (Tokyo) and Nippon Columbia (Denon, Shirakawa), Hitachi Ltd., Japan

- GIA Award, 1996, British Council India - Travel Grant to tour Design Schools in UK

International academic assignments and collaborations:
- Clothing Care in Kumaon Hostel at IITD, 2001–2003, IITD-Milan Polytecnic, Milan, Italy, (Carlo Vezzoli)
- Anxious Objects, December 2002, Les Ateliers, Paris, France
- Indian Food and objects, October 2000, Syracuse University, USA, Coordinator: Prof. Glen Hougan
- Story Telling: A two week project on ways to design, December 1999, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
- Lecture, Izmir Institute of Technology (IYTE), June 1997, Izmir, Turkey
- Jury Member, June 1996, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Invited positions:
- Adjunct Professor, Foshan University, Foshan, PRC
- Adjunct Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC
- Adjunct Professor, Ambedkar University, New Delhi, India
- Research Fellow, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India