Late Prof. Chetput Venkatasubban Seshadri was a distinguished Indian chemical engineer. Prof. Seshadri earned his Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh & later worked as a Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined IIT Kanpur as Assistant Professor in 1965 and later became a full professor. He left IIT Kanpur in 1974 to join Kasturi Paper Food and Chemicals Ltd., Bangalore, where he set up India's first fodder-yeast plant. 
In 1976, he joined the Shri A. M. M. Murugappa Chettiar Research Center in Chennai as its founder Director. It was at this Research Center he helped develop several appropriate technologies, including Spirulina Algae. For this effort, he was awarded the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj award for S&T for rural development in1981. 
Friends, relatives & well-wishers of Late Prof. C. V. Seshadri set up Prof. C. V. Seshadri Memorial Distinguished Lecture Series under his name. The lecture Series is conducted by the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay 
 

CVS Lectures:
 2025 - Prof. Naremdra Dixit, IISC Bengaluru

2023 - Prof. Ganpati Ayappa, IISc Bengaluru

2019 - Prof. Ajit Sapre, Reliance

2018 - Prof. Agnimanshu Ghatak, IIT Kanpur

2017- Dr. Amit Biswas, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

2016 – Prof Shankar Narasimhan, IIT Madras

2015 - Prof. V. V. N. Kishore, TERI, Delhi

2014- Prof. Rakesh Agarwal, Purdue University

2013 – Prof. Ashok Bhaskarwar, IIT Delhi

2012 – Prof. Deepak Kunzru, IIT Kanpur

2011 – Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, IIT Kanpur

2010 - Prof. K. Keshava Rao, IISc Bengaluru