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{{ Infobox scientist
| name = Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram
| alma_mater = [[University of Madras]]<br>[[University of Notre Dame]]
| fields = photochemistry and solar energy conversion
| workplaces = [[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne]]
}}
'''Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram''' is a senior scientist and researcher in chemistry at [[EPFL|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]] in Lausanne. His major research interests are in photochemistry and solar energy conversion, storage. He is part of the research group that developed "Dye Sensitized Solar Cells". He is best known for his work in Tamil computing and as the founder of [[Project Madurai]].

==Life==
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Kalyanasundaram completed B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry at the [[University of Madras]] in 1969 and 1971 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from [[University of Notre Dame]] in 1976. Following a two-year post-doctoral work at the Royal Institution of London, UK, he joined the teaching and research staff of the Chemistry Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology where he remains till today. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and VIT University, Vellore, India. He also holds appointment as Overseas Visiting Professor at the Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Kalyanasundaram has authored over 120 research papers in international journals and 4 research monographs on his photochemistry research. His research papers are well-cited (over 22,000 citations with a h-index 49, placing him amongst the top chemists of Switzerland and of chemists of Indian origin).

==Works related to Tamil language==
* Created and is maintaining Tamil Electronic Library since 1995.<ref name="tamilelibrary">{{cite web|url=http://tamilelibrary.org/|title=Tamil Electronic Library - a comprehensive site on Tamil Language, Tamil Culture, Tamil Literature, Carnatic Music, Hindu Temples, Tamil Books, Tamil Radio and Television, ,..|publisher=tamilelibrary.org|access-date=2014-07-17}}</ref>
* Created the Tamil font [[Mylai Tamil Font|Mylai]] in 1989 which made it easier to type Tamil in computers without any specialized software.<ref name="tamilelibrary2">{{cite web|url=http://www.tamilelibrary.org/teli/mylai1.html|title=Mylai Tamil Font for preparation of Texts in Tamil Script on Computers|author=K. Kalyanasundaram|publisher=tamilelibrary.org|access-date=2014-07-17}}</ref>
* He spearheaded the initiative to create an 8-bit Tamil encoding [[TSCII]]. TSCII is the only Indic language encoding to be formally included in the global inventory of font encoding standards for world languages.
* Founded [[Project Madurai]] initiative to bring ancient (and modern) [[Tamil literature]] into digital format. Since its launch, Project Madurai has released etexts of over 500 important Tamil literary works, big and small, covering a wide time span (early Sangam Period classics) to works of contemporary authors), all genre texts and anthologies in poetry, prose, drama), without any preference for any one religious texts <projectmadurai.org> [https://www.projectmadurai.org Project Madurai](include core works of Saivaite, Vaishnavaite, Christianity and Islam) and of all regions (works of Indian as well as Sri lankan authors).
* One of the founding members of [[INFITT]] Chair 2007-2009; Vice-Chair 2004-2006; Member, Executive Committee 2000-2009, 2014-; Chair, Conf. Program Committee for Tamil Internet Conference (1999 -2004, 2011)

==Awards==
* Outstanding Scientist of Indian Origin, [[Chemical Research Society of India]] (CRSI), February 2012{{cn|date=August 2021}}
* Sundara Ramasamy Award for Contributions to Tamil Computing/Tamil IT, Tamil Literary Garden, [[University of Toronto]], 2008<ref name="venkatarangan">{{cite web|url=http://venkatarangan.com/blog/2008/06/dr-kalyanasundaram-awarded-sura-award-in-toronto/|title=Dr.Kalyanasundaram awarded Sura Award in Toronto | Venkatarangan.com Blog|publisher=venkatarangan.com|access-date=2014-07-17}}</ref>
* [[University of California, Berkeley]] Tamil Chair Award for "Taking Tamil to the e-World", Berkeley, 2009{{cn|date=August 2021}}

==Selected publications==
*Photochemistry in Microheterogeneous Systems, K. Kalyanasundaram, Academic Press, New York, {{ISBN|978-0-12-394995-0}}
* Photochemistry of Polypyridine and Porphyrin Complexes, K. Kalyanasundaram, Academic Press, London, 625 pages, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0123949929}}
*Kinetics and Catalysis in Microheterogeneous Systems, K. Kalyanasundaram and M. Grätzel, editors, Marcel Dekker, New York, Surfactant science Series, vol 38., 1991, {{ISBN|0-8247-8495-2}}
*Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. K. Kalyanasundaram, EPFL Press; CRC Press, Florida, USA , 2010, 604 pages, {{ISBN|9781439808665}}
*Photosensitization and Photocatalysis using Coordination Compounds, K. Kalyanasundaram and M. Grätzel, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1993, 468 pages, {{ISBN|978-94-017-2626-9}}

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