Faculty | IIT Gandhinagar

Bhaskar Datta, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
*Associate Professor (Jointly With Chemistry)*
Research Interests: Investigation of groove-modified nucleobases on Y-family DNA polymerase activity, Construction of metal nanowires based on biomolecular templates, Structure-function correlations of unorthodox DNA structures.

Sharad Gupta, PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Protein Aggregation and their Role in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Role of Post Translational Modifications on protein aggregation and toxicity, Peptides as Molecular Probes / Therapeutics in Alzheimer’s Disease and related disorders, Role of Proteomics in understanding the effect of disease modifying therapies, Difficult Peptide Synthesis and Novel Scaffolds.

Sharmistha Majumdar, PhD (Cornell University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Evolution of mobile genetic elements/ transposons: mechanisms of transposition and control, modifications of function in transposase homologs, Genomic and proteomic analysis of transposases and transposase homologs.

Pratik Mutha, PhD (Pennsylvania State University)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Sensorimotor control and learning, Movement disorders after neurological damage, Brain lateralization.

Karla P. Mercado-Shekhar, PhD (University of Rochester)

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Tissue elasticity imaging, Shear wave imaging, Quantitative ultrasound techniques, High-frequency ultrasound imaging, Tissue characterization

Umashankar Singh, PhD (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany + Uppsala University, Sweden)

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Cytoprotection, Cellular stress response and gene expression vis-à-vis retrotransposon evolution, Co-ordination between different cellular processes by multifunctional proteins

Virupakshi Soppina, PhD (Gulbarga University)

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Kinesins and intracellular transport

Vijay Thiruvenkatam, PhD (Jiwaji University)
*Assistant Research Professor*
Research Interests: Structural biology of macromolecular complexes, Chemical Crystallography, Insitu cryo-crystallizations of liquids.

Neeru Singh, PhD (University of Delhi South campus)
*Post-Doctoral Fellow*
Research Interests: Experimental oncology to identify the molecular targets relevant to gynaecologic cancers, specifically, cervical cancer for effective chemotherapeutic drug treatment and drug development, Cancer molecular biology including gene expression and regulation

Dipesh Shah, PhD (GTU, Ahmedabad)
*Post-Doctoral Fellow*
Research Interests: Networked Control System, Sliding Mode Control, Biomedical Instrumentation and Advance Control System

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Chemical Engineering

Sameer V. Dalvi, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Precipitation and stabilization of nanoparticles in aqueous suspensions, Engineering stable microbubbles formulations for biomedical applications, Supercritical fluid processing.

Pratyush Dayal, PhD (University of Akron)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Self-oscillating polymer gels, Structure development in polymer blends and solutions, Polymer processing.

Chinmay Ghoroi, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*B. S. Gelot Chair Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Particle engineering for dry powder processing involving cohesive fine particles, Drug formulation for the desired dissolution and controlled release, Solid-phase reactions for functional materials development

Kabeer Jasuja, PhD (Kansas State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Synthesis of inorganic nanosheets analogous to graphene, Fundamental science at the interface of nanosheets, Designing novel nano composites.

Nitin Padhiyar, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Process optimization and control, Multi-Objective optimization (MOO), Genetic algorithms, Dynamic optimization, Model predictive control (MPC), MOO based MPC.

Mithun Radhakrishna, PhD (Columbia University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Protein aggregation, Chaperone mediated protein folding, Polymer coacervation.

Kaustubh Rane, PhD (University at Buffalo)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Interfacial phenomena at solid-fluid and fluid-fluid interfaces, Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Molecular simulations.

Babji Srinivasan, PhD (Texas Tech University)
*Assistant Professor (Jointly With Electrical Engineering)*
Research Interests: Design, Control and Monitoring of Complex systems with Human-in-the-Loop; Design for enhancing situation awareness in humans; Modeling, Control and optimization of Wastewater Treatment systems

Prachi Thareja, PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: In-situ rheology of crystallizing fatty acid pastes, Powder coating and powder flow characterization, Rheology and small angle light scattering of surfactant solutions.

Jai Prakash Chaudhary, PhD (CSIR-Central salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute Bhavnagar)
*Post Doctoral Fellow*
Research Interests:Extraction & Modification of polysaccharides, Seaweed polysaccharides /biomass based metal nano composites, Seaweed based Bio-fertilizers, Development of improved process for effluent treatments from textile & dye industry

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Chemistry

Chandrakumar Appayee, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Development of Novel Double-Hydrogen Bond Donor catalysts, Asymmetric Amine Catalysis, Asymmetric synthesis of bio-active molecules, Study of small molecules for targeted diseases

Sudipta Basu, PhD (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology Dortmund)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Chemical Biology of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Development of self-assembled novel nano-scale materials, Design and synthesis of small molecules for understanding cancer biology, Organic synthesis, Nanobiotechnology.

Bhaskar Datta, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
*Associate Professor (Jointly With Biological Engineering)*
Research Interests: Investigation of groove-modified nucleobases on Y-family DNA polymerase activity, Construction of metal nanowires based on biomolecular templates, Structure-function correlations of unorthodox DNA structures.

Arnab Dutta, PhD (Arizona State University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Bio-inorganic chemistry, alternative energy research.

Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Synthesis of photosensitive p-conjugated materials for a variety of optical and biological applications

Iti Gupta, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Boron based NIR dyes and their conjugates, Derivatives of corroles and N-confused porphyrins with novel properties, Metal complexes of Dipyrrins.

Saumyakanti Khatua, PhD (Rice University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Plasmonics, Nano-optics

Sivapriya Kirubakaran, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, Drug discovery: infectious diseases (H.pylori) and cancer (stomach and lung), Chemical biology of cancer: Screening of small molecules to identify novel oncogenes.

Sairam Swaroop Mallajosyula, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Carbohydrate-Protein interactions, Novel DNA constructs, Molecular mechanics force field development.

Sudhanshu Sharma, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Materials, Electrochemistry, Catalysis.

Gayatri Joshi, PhD (Purdue University)
*Post Doctoral Fellow*
Research Interests: Development of gold nanostructure assemblies for enhanced single molecular spectroscopy, Devising novel approach that advance sensing efficiency for plasmonic transducers.

Sethulakshmi N, PhD (Cochin University of Science and Technology)
*Post Doctoral Fellow (Jointly With Material Science & Engineering)*
Research Interests: Magnetic materials, magnetoelectrics, Magnetocaloric effect, Low temperature spin ordering mechanism, Frustrated magnetism, Two dimensional magnetism, Multifunctionality of minerals, Perovskites.

Sopan Shinde, PhD (IISER Pune)
*Post Doctoral Fellow*
Research Interests:Development of novel small molecules for understanding the role of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum in cancer, Organic Synthesis, Chloride transporters.

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Civil Engineering

Dhiman Basu, PhD (State University of New York)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Ground motion characterization and seismic hazard, Performance based earthquake engineering, Complex structures, Structural health monitoring

Udit Bhatia, PhD (Northeastern University Boston)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Critical Infrastructure Resilience, Network Science, Ecological Dynamics, Machine Learning, Climate Variability and Change.

Svetlana Brzev, PhD (IIT Roorkee)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Seismic design and rehabilitation of reinforced concrete and masonry structures, Earthquake risk mitigation in developing countries, Development and applications of base isolation and seismic damper devices.

Sarvesh Chandra, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Soil Structure Interaction, Ground Improvement, Underground Openings and Railway track modelling.

Rishi Gupta, PhD (University of British Columbia)
*Scholar-in-Residence*
Research Interests: Shrinkage and self-sealing characteristics of concrete and development of ‘crackfree’ cement composites, Advanced materials for structures- Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete, Structural health monitoring of infrastructure, Durability and corrosion studies of reinforced concrete , Sustainable construction technologies: Rammed earth, pervious concrete, insulated wall systems

Sudhir K. Jain, PhD (California Institute of Technology)
*Director; Professor*
Research Interests: Earthquake engineering, Structural dynamics.

Ashwini Kumar, PhD (University of Waterloo)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Stability and large deformation of structures, Theoretical stress analysis, Post-buckling and non-linear response of laminated plates.

Manish Kumar, PhD (State University of New York)

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Performance-based earthquake engineering, Passive structural control, Seismic isolation, Characterization of earthquake shaking, Seismic risk assessment, Concrete and masonry structures, Blast-resistant design, Concrete printing.

Vimal Mishra, PhD (Purdue University)
*Associate Professor (Jointly With Earth Sciences)*
Research Interests: Surface water hydrology, Climate variability and climate change, Global food and water security, Water resources management, Large scale hydrologic modeling.

Pranab Kumar Mohapatra, PhD (IIT Kanpur)

Professor

Research Interests: Hydraulics and water resources engineering, Transients in pipe flow, Transients in open channel flow, Frequency domain analysis in pipe flow.

C N Pandey, PhD (North Gujarat University)

Visiting Professor (Jointly With Earth Sciences)

Research Interests: Carbon sequestration of coral reefs of Gujarat, Status of grasslands of Saurashtra and Central Gujarat, Potential area mapping for mangrove restoration in South Gujarat, Kachchh and Saurashtra.

Amit Prashant, PhD (University of Tennessee)
*Professor*
Research Interests: Constitutive Modeling for Granular Materials, Numerical Modeling of Geotechnical Structures, Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Applications of Geosynthetics.

G. V. Rao, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
*Visiting Professor,* *Civil Engineering*
Research Interests: Ground improvement, Soil reinforcement, Geosynthetics, Natural fibres, Pavements and geo-evnironment.

Ajanta Sachan, PhD (University of Tennessee)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Liquefaction & Cyclic Instability; Dynamic Behavior of Soils, Unsaturated Cohesive Soils, Special Soils: Micaceous, Soft, Laterite, Expansive, Experimental Studies on Strain Localization.

Gaurav, PhD (University of Minnesota)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, Structural fire engineering, Computational mechanics.

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Naresh Samtani, PhD (University of Arizona, Tucson)
*Scholar-in-Residence*
Research Interests: Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD), Strength limit states, Serviceability limit states, Stability analysis, Infiltration process in unsaturated soils, Reliability/risk analysis, Asset management, Ground improvement, Shallow foundations, Drilled shafts, Use of Local Available Sustainable Resources (LASR), Chloride-induced corrosion in buried concrete structures, Earth retaining structures (cut and fill walls)

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Computer Science and Engineering

Nipun Batra, PhD (IIIT Delhi)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Sensor networks, Machine learning, Computational Sustainability

Bireswar Das, PhD (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Computational complexity theory and algorithms, Algebra and computation.

Anirban Dasgupta, PhD (Cornell University)

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Algorithms for large scale data, Social networks, Computational social science, Crowdsourcing, machine learning.

Manoj Gupta, PhD (IIT Delhi)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Dynamic graph algorithms, Streaming algorithms, Randomized algorithms, Data-structures.

Neeldhara Misra, PhD (Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Parameterized and approximation algorithm design in various contexts (graph theoretic problems, problems arising in social choice, satisfiability, CSPs, and so forth).

Krishna Prasad Miyapuram, PhD (University of Cambridge)
*Assistant Professor (Cognitive Science) (Jointly With Social Sciences)*
Research Interests: Brain imaging (fMRI) & Cognitive science, Learning & decision making, Consumer behaviour & neuroeconomics, Machine learning & artificial intelligence.

Shanmuganathan Raman, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Associate Professor (Jointly With Electrical Engineering)*
Research Interests: Computer vision, Computational photography, Computer graphics, Machine learning.

Mayank Singh, PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Text Mining, Natural Language and Processing, Machine Learning, Network Science, Information Retrieval

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Sameer Gundurao Kulkarni, PhD (University of Göttingen)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined Networking, Cloud Computing, Power & Performance Optimizations, Network Security and Data Reliability, Green Computing, Virtual Machines & Virtualization, Embedded and Portable Devices, Distributed Systems.

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Creative Learning

Manish Jain, B.Tech. (IIT Kanpur)
*Associate Teaching Professor*

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Design

Manasi Kanetkar, M.Des. (IDC, IIT Bombay)
*Assistant Teaching Professor*
Research Interests: Pedagogy in design education, Semiotics and design

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Earth Sciences

Sanjay Singh Bora, PhD (University of Potsdam)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Spectral analysis of source, path and site effects; Regionalization of source and attenuation characteristics of strong ground motion; Ground Motion Prediction Equations (GMPEs) for seismic hazard analysis; Host-to-Target Adjustment (HTTA) of GMPEs.

Vikrant Jain, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
*Professor*
Research Interests: Earth surface processes, River science, External forcings and river’s future, Glacio-fluvial coupling, Geomorphic applications in stream management.

Manish Kumar, PhD (The University of Tokyo)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Pathways of contamination in Freshwater System, Build-up and Washoff of Micro & Emerging pollutants, Sources of the urban pollution and sustainability of urban water cycle under changing climate regime, Development of pollution assessment tools, remediation technique and management

Vimal Mishra, PhD (Purdue University)
*Associate Professor (Jointly With Civil Engineering)*
Research Interests: Surface water hydrology, Climate variability and climate change, Global food and water security, Water resources management, Large scale hydrologic modeling.

C N Pandey, PhD (North Gujarat University)

Visiting Professor (Jointly With Civil Engineering)

R. N. Singh, PhD (Banaras Hindu University)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Geophysical and environmental modeling, Geodynamics, Inverse methods, Mathematical modeling.

Pradeep Srivastava, PhD (Peoples' Friendship University)
*Adjunct Professor*
Research Interests: Physical and mathematical modeling of imaging processes, Satellite photogrammetry, Remote sensing from near and far, Spatial data infrastructures.

Saptarshi Dey, PhD (University of Potsdam)
*Inspire Fellow*
Research Interests: Tectonic geomorphology, Cosmogenic nuclide-based dating, Tectonically-active sedimentary basins, Field geology.

Ajit Singh, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
*Post Doctoral Research Fellow*
Research Interests: Fluvial Sedimentology and stratigraphy for drainage reorganisation, and channel avulsion processes and fluvial fan evolution; Sediment geochemistry for sediment provenance (U-Pb dating detrital zircons), and palaeoclimatic and palaeovegetation reconstruction.

Nirav Raval, PhD (Gujarat University)
*Post Doctoral Research Fellow*
Research Interests:Water and wastewater treatment, Synthesis of biopolymers and nano-adsorbents, Adsorption, Environmental Pollution Control (air/water purifications)

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Electrical Engineering

Arup Lal Chakraborty, PhD (University of Strathclyde)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Laser-based physical and chemical sensing, Tunable diode laser spectroscopy, Nano-biosensing

Nithin V. George, PhD (IIT Bhubaneswar)
*TEOCO Chair Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Active noise control, Adaptive signal processing, Hearing aid design, Soft computing.

Ravi Hegde, PhD (University of Michigan)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Computational Photonics, Nanophotonics, Silicon Photonics, Nanoelectronics High Performance Computing, Deep Learning for science and engineering.

Ragavan K., PhD (IISc Bangalore)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Diagnostic testing and condition monitoring of power apparatus, Mathematical modeling of transformers, Rotating machines, System identification in frequency domain.

Nitin Khanna, PhD (Purdue University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Multimedia security - sensor forensics, Signal processing for healthcare, Low complexity imaging, Image and video processing.

Dinesh Kant Kumar, PhD (IIT Delhi)
*VAJRA Adjunct Faculty*
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering and signal processing, Bio-inspired systems, Biomedical image analysis, Motivating science and engineering researchers.

Uttama Lahiri, PhD (Vanderbilt University)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Virtual Reality based Human Computer Interaction used in affective computing, Eye Tracking and Physiology based modeling techniques, Human Robot Interaction used in cognitive studies.

Joycee M. Mekie, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Approximate computing, Low power SRAM, Radiation hardened systems, Asynchronous design.

Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Nano-scale devices physics, Device and circuit interaction in advanced devices, Reliability of semiconductor devices, Compact Modeling, Computational Lithography, Analog IC Design.

Naran M. Pindoriya, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Restructured power systems – Operation and management, Smart distribution grid and microgrids, Load demand and electricity price forecasting.

S. Rajendran, MTech (IIT Madras)
*Associate Teaching Professor*
Research Interests: High speed packaging machines – VFFS and HFFS technologies, Liquid packing machines – high speed applications, CO2 laser - metal processing applications.

Shanmuganathan Raman, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Associate Professor (Jointly With Computer Science and Engineering)*
Research Interests: Computer vision, Computational photography, Computer graphics, Machine learning.

Himanshu Shekhar, PhD (University of Rochester)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Therapeutic ultrasound, Nonlinear imaging, Ultrasound contrast agents, Ultrasound-assisted drug delivery, Intravascular imaging and therapy, Medical device development.

Babji Srinivasan, PhD (Texas Tech University)
*Assistant Professor (Jointly With Chemical Engineering)*
Research Interests: Performance monitoring of closed-loop systems, Sensor placement for state estimation in dynamic systems, Design, modeling and optimization approaches in basic droplet based microfluidic devices.

Shivashankar Sukumar, PhD (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur)
*Post Doctoral Research Fellow*
Research Interests: Smart distribution system, Microgrids, Renewable Energy Integration, Energy management.

Madhu Vadali, PhD (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
*Assistant Professor (Jointly With Mechanical Engineering)*
Research Interests: Dynamic Systems, Control Systems, Smart Manufacturing, Laser Based Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Robotics

Justin Joseph, PhD (NIT Raipur)
*Post Doctoral Research Fellow*
Research Interests: Medical Image Computing, Biosignal Processing, Clinical Engineering

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Humanities

Mohd. Mubashshir Ahsan, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
*Lecturer*
Research Interests: Arabic and Islamic studies in India, Translation : Arabic to English, Hindi, Urdu, and vise versa.

Arka Chattopadhyay, PhD (Western Sydney University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: 20th Century Literature: Modernism and Postmodernism, Modern Theatre, European Avant Garde Fiction, Continental Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Bengali Vernacular Literature and Transnationalism, Translation Theory, Modern Poetry, Affect Studies.

Tina Chaudouet, Master's Degree (University of France-Comté)
*French Language Trainee Teacher*
Research Interests: Performing Arts

Sharada C. V., PhD (Deccan College, Pune)
*Assistant Professor (Archaeological Sciences)*
Research Interests:Archaeozoology and Taphonomy, Bioarchaeology, Application of Sciences in Archaeology, Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction, Human-environment Interactions in the Past and Present.

Michel Danino
*Visiting Professor (Jointly with Archaeological Sciences)*
Research Interests: Archaeology and history of ancient India, history of Indian science and technology, Indian heritage, cultural education

Alok Kumar Kanungo, PhD (Deccan College)
Assistant Research Professor (Archaeological Sciences)
Research Interests: Who owns the past, Understanding history and origin of the nagas, History and origin of glass.

Sharmita Lahiri, PhD (University of Houston)
*Assistant Professor (English)*
Research Interests: Indian writing in english, Postcolonial literature and theory, Feminist literature and theory, Multiethnic literature, Writing and composition.

Leslee Lazar, PhD (National Brain Research Centre)
*Assistant Teaching Professor*
Research Interests: Neuroscience of Design, Science Communication, Cultural Cognition, Behavioral Change.

Jaison A. Manjaly, PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
*Jasubhai Memorial Chair Associate Professor (Philosophy)*
Research Interests: Curiosity, Embodied cognition and Moral decision.

Angus McBlane, PhD (Cardiff University)
*Visiting Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Cultural theory, Embodiment, Environmental humanities, Merleau-ponty, Phenomenology, Posthumanism, Posthumanist philosophy, Science and technology, Visual culture.

Achal Mehra, PhD (Southern Illinois University)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Online media, Media management, Investigative reporting, Media law, Media ethics, Censorship, International communications, Comparative media systems, Mass media and society.

Arnapurna Rath, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Assistant Professor (English)*
Research Interests: South-Asian Literature, Critical Theories, Bakhtin Studies, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities

Madhumita Sengupta, PhD (University of Calcutta)
*Assistant Professor (History)*
Research Interests: British rule in Assam, Colonial practices and policies in India, Linguistic identities, Middle class responses to colonial rule.

Mana Apoorva Shah, MA (Gujarat University)
*Lecturer*
Research Interests: Sanskrit and Prakrit grammar, Jain Kavya and Stotra literature, Manuscriptology.

Oishi Roy, PhD (University of Baroda)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Archaeological Sciences)
Research Interests: Archaeology of Megalithic Culture and Early Iron Age of Vidarbha, Ancient Iron Technology, Archaeo-Metallurgy and Archaeo-Chemistry, Ethnographic Study of Gondi Tribe and Experimental Archaeology.

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Anezka Sebek, PhD (The New School for Social Research)
*Scholar-in-Residence*
Research Interests: Art Media and Technology, Urban Sociology, Spanish Literature.

Atul Singh
*Visiting Professor (Humanities and Social Sciences)*
Research Interests: Global Economy, World Affairs, Geopolitics, Political Systems & Sustainability.

Amita Sinha, PhD (University of California at Berkeley)
*Scholar-in-Residence*
Research Interests: Cultural landscapes, Ethnography of the built environment, Body conscious design, Heritage Conservation, Sustainable planning and design

Frederick Coolidge, PhD (University of Florida)
*Scholar-in-Residence*
Research Interests: Behavior genetics, Cognitive archaeology, Personality assessment.

Vivek Venkitaraman Narayan, PhD (Stanford University)
*Assistant Professor (Humanities)*
Research Interests: Dalit Studies, gender studies, Anthropology of caste, Performance studies, Cultures of modernity, Postcolonial theory, Global intellectual history

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Library Science

Aditi Gupta, MLIS (The University of British Columbia)
*Scholar-in-Residence*
Research Interests: Exploring library perceptions, Exploring Reading habits and library usage

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Mathematics

Sanjaykumar Amrutiya, PhD (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry

Paresh Date, PhD (University of Cambridge)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Theory and applications of filtering (or recursive Bayesian inference) in nonlinear dynamical systems; Dynamic stochastic models in quantitative finance. Both the research areas are inherently multi-disciplinary and draw on the fields of stochastics, applied statistics and financial mathematics.

Atul Abhay Dixit, PhD (University of Illinois)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Analytic number theory, Special functions. Theory of partitions, modular forms and q-series

Mohan Joshi, PhD (Purdue University)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Nonlinear analysis, Probabilistic functional analysis, Mathematical system theory, Industrial mathematics.

N. R. Ladhawala, PhD (Purdue University)
*Adjunct Professor*
Research Interests: Harmonic analysis.

Chetan Pahlajani, PhD (University of Illinois)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Probability theory and stochastic processes, Dynamical systems.

Arnab Saha, PhD (University of New Mexico)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Arithmetic jet spaces, Connections of arithmetic jet spaces to p-adic Hodge theory as well as p-adic modular forms, Diophantine geometry

Bipul Saurabh, PhD (Indian Statistical Institute)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Operator Algebras, Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Groups

Indranath Sengupta, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Commutative algebra, Algebraic geometry.

Vishnu Dutt Sharma, PhD (Banaras Hindu University)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Quasilinear Systems of Partial Differential Equations; Conservation Laws, Nonlinear Gasdynamic and Shallow Water Waves; Lie Group Invariance for Solutions of PDEs, and Two-phase Flows

Jagmohan Tyagi, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Ordinary differential equations, Elliptic partial differential equations.

Akshaa Vatwani, PhD (Queen's University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Analytic Number Theory, Sieve Methods, Algebraic Number Theory

Joydip Saha, PhD (Jadavpur University)
*Post Doctoral Research Fellow*
Research Interests: Commutative Algebra

A. Akilandeeswari, Phd (Bharathiar University)
*Post Doctoral Research Fellow*
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Fractional Differential Equations

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Satyajit Pramanik, PhD (IIT Ropar)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, fluid dynamics, transport in porous media, asymptotic methods and perturbation techniques, nonlinear dynamics, numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, and scientific computing.

Rengarajan Srinivasan, PhD (Carleton University)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Applied probability, Queueing theory, Queueing networks, Markov chains

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Mechanical Engineering

Ravi Sastri Ayyagari, PhD (Illinois Institute of Technology)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Solid mechanics, Constitutive modeling, Computational mechanics, Continuum damage mechanics.

Atul Bhargav, PhD (University of Maryland)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Hydrogen production from hydrocarbon reforming, Fuel cell systems design and simulation, Heat & mass transfer, Palladium-based composite membranes for Hydrogen purification in fuel cell system applications.

K. Chelvakumar, PhD (California Institute of Technology)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Solar Power: cell physics, panel production, off-shore installations and solar power economics and finance, Finance and management for engineers, Healthcare finance and engineering mechanics.

Uddipta Ghosh, PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics, with special focus on electrokinetics of complex systems

Vinod Narayanan, PhD (JNU Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence, Chaotic advection, Compressible flows.

Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi, PhD (University of Michigan)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Systems and control theory, System identification (data-based modeling), Estimation and Kalman filtering, Input reconstruction, Applications of above areas to mechanical and biomechanical problems.

Vladan Prodanovic, PhD (University of British Columbia)
*Visting Professor (Dr Kiran C Patel Centre for Sustainable Development)*
Research Interests: Thermo fluid sciences including heat transfer with/without phase change, two phase flows, experimental fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, Application of heat transfer models in steel industry.

Superb Misra, PhD (Imperial College London)
*Assistant Professor (Jointly With Materials Science and Engineering)*
Research Interests: Biomaterials for tissue regeneration, Synthesis and reactivity of nanomaterials, Nanotoxicology.

Jayaprakash K R, PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Wave propagation in one and two-dimensional granular media. Elastic wave scattering at discrete nonlinear interfaces. Wave propagation in microfluidic droplet lattices. Nonlinear energy channeling in three-dimensional, locally resonant, unit-cell models and lattices.

N. Ramakrishnan, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Machining of composites, Non-traditional machining processes (EDM, AJM, etc), Computer integrated manufacturing, Industrial hydraulics and servo-hydraulics.

Debi Prasad Roy, PhD (T.H. Aachen)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics and fluid machinery.

Girish Kumar Sharma, PhD (Moscow Power Engineering Institute)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Thermal engineering.

Dilip Srinivas Sundaram, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Thermofluid sciences, Combustion, and Energetic materials

Jaichander Swaminathan, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
*Kanchan and Harilal Doshi Chair Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Thermal sciences, Water-energy systems, Industrial reuse and recycling

Madhu Vadali, PhD (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
*Assistant Professor (Jointly With Electrical Engineering)*
Research Interests: Dynamic Systems, Control Systems, Smart Manufacturing, Laser Based Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Robotics

Vineet Vashista, PhD (Columbia University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Design and control of mechanical systems, Human-centered robotics, Cable-driven robots, Human locomotor adaptation.

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Jyotika Ramaprasad, PhD (Southern Illinois University)
*Scholar-in-Residence (Dr Kiran C Patel Centre for Sustainable Development)*
Research Interests: Communication for social change and international communication.

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Materials Science and Engineering

Amit Arora, PhD (The Pennsylvania State University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Friction stir welding, Heat transfer and visco-plastic flow.

Abhay Raj Singh Gautam, PhD (University of Virginia)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Interface structure and dynamics.

Pradipta Ghosh, PhD (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Synthesis of nanocrystalline metals alloys and composites by severe plastic deformation techniques such as High Pressure torsion, Rolling and Rotary swaging, Microstructure characterization of nanocrystalline materials with SEM, TEM, EBSD, X-ray diffraction techniques, Characterization of deformation mechanisms in nanocrystalline materials with in-situ synchrotron experiments, Characterization of thermal and deformation induced instabilities in nanocrystalline materials.

S. P. Mehrotra, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Mineral Processing and Process Metallurgy, Transport Phenomena, Mathematical Modelling & Simulation, Process Design and Development, Process Control in Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy.

Abhijit Mishra, PhD (University of Illinois)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Peptide-lipid interactions, Design of antimicrobial peptides, Antibacterial coatings, Cell-penetrating peptides.

Superb Misra, PhD (Imperial College London)
*Assistant Professor (Jointly With Mechanical Engineering)*
Research Interests: Biomaterials and tissue engineering, Nanomaterials.

Jyoti Mukhopadhyay, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Structure-property correlation, Super plastic forming and formability of materials, Development of aluminum based alloys, Energy reduction & wastes utilization, Physical metallurgy, Materials science, Basic metal forming.

Emila Panda, PhD (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and University of Stuttgart)
*Associate Professor*
Research Interests: Transparent conducting oxides, Thin film solar cells, Interface thermodynamics.

Raghavan Ranganathan, PhD (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Atomistic/Molecular simulations of structure-property relations (mechanical, thermal and dynamic properties), Dynamics of soft matter including polymer blends and nanocomposites, Viscoelasticity of hard inorganic materials and composites, Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations in materials, Modeling reactive processes in materials subjected to extreme conditions.

Sethulakshmi N, PhD (Cochin University of Science and Technology)
*Post Doctoral Fellow (Jointly With Chemistry)*
Research Interests: Magnetic materials, magnetoelectrics, Magnetocaloric effect, Low temperature spin ordering mechanism, Frustrated magnetism, Two dimensional magnetism, Multifunctionality of minerals, Perovskites.

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Sriharitha Rowthu, PhD (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Wetting and dewetting phenomena, Soft Lithography, Colloidal processing, Tribology, Catalysis for corrosion protection

Andreas Schueler
*Scholar-in-Residence*
Research Interests: Novel nanostructured materials, Thin film technologies, Optical properties of thin films

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Physics

Prasanna Venkatesh B, PhD (McMaster University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests:Quantum Optics and Nanophysics, Ultracold Atomic Physics, Quantum Thermodynamics.

Rupak Banerjee, PhD (University of Calcutta)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Growth and structural characterization of nanomaterials and organic thin films, In-situ X-ray scattering studies of growth of small molecule organic semiconductors employed in organic photovoltaics.

Arpan Bhattacharyya, PhD (Indian Institute of Science)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Holographic Principle and AdS/CFT Correspondence, Emergence of geometry from the microscopic degrees of freedom of certain type of ﬁeld theories, Relation between asymptotic symmetries of spacetime and soft theorem

Vinod Chandra, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Theoretical high energy physics: Physics of quark-gluon-plasma

Baradhwaj Coleppa, PhD (Michigan State University)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Beyond the standard model – model builidng and LHC phenomenology of new states

Krishna Kanti Dey, PhD (IIT Guwahati)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Active matter, Colloidal dynamics, Nanotechnology.

Gopinadhan Kalon, PhD (IIT Delhi)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Experimental (Soft) condensed matter physics, Graphene based nanofluidics/desalination techniques, Ion/Proton transport through confined structures, Device functionalities utilizing surface and interface physics, Two-dimensional heterostructures.

Ravinder Rupchand Puri, PhD (Bombay University)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Theoretical quantum optics, foundations of quantum mechanics, random matrix theory of quantum chaos and interaction of radiation with charged particles traversing a cavity.

Sudipta Sarkar, PhD (University of Pune, IUCAA)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Gravitation, Black hole physics, Thermodynamics and quasi normal modes, Field theory in curved space-time.

Anand Sengupta, PhD (IUCAA Pune)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Detection of gravitational waves, Aspects of CMB data analysis.

Satyapriya Bhandari, PhD (IIT Guwahati)
*Inspire Fellow*
Research Interests:Quantum dots, Surface modification, Energy application, Sensing and environmental cleanup

Siva Shankar, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Post-Doctoral fellow*
Research Interests:Graphene and other 2D materials by various liquid phase exfoliation methods, Graphene and 2D materials based conducting inks, Building integrated photovoltaics and solar power windows, Printable micro-super capacitors, 3D printing of graphene based inks, Graphene based Nano fluidics/desalination techniques, Electron microscopy (SEM and TEM)

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Social Sciences

Ambika Aiyadurai, PhD (National University of Singapore)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Biodiversity conservation, human-animal relations, natural resources management, indigenous people and livelihoods, conservation and development.

Nishaant Choksi , PhD (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
*Assistant Professor*
Research Interests: Semiotics; linguistic ethnography; script and writing systems; language and politics; aesthetics of language; Adivasi societies and history; Gujarat; Jharkhand/West Bengal border regions.

Mona G. Mehta, PhD (University of Chicago)
*Assistant Professor (Political Science)*
Research Interests: Democracy; Urban transformations and neoliberal politics, identity politics in India; Indian middle class politics; political thought of M K Gandhi

Krishna Prasad Miyapuram, PhD (University of Cambridge)
*Assistant Professor (Cognitive Science) (Jointly With Computer Science and Engineering)*
Research Interests: Brain imaging (fMRI) & cognitive science, Learning & decision making, Consumer behaviour & neuroeconomics, Machine learning & artificial intelligence.

A. Ramanathan, PhD (Bombay University)
*Visiting Professor*
Research Interests: Managerial economics, Monetary economics, Applied Econometrics, Cost benefit analysis.

Tannistha Samanta, PhD (University of Maryland)
*Assistant Professor (Sociology)*
Research Interests: Population studies, Social gerontology, Family sociology, Public policy, Health and quantitative methods.

Malavika Subramanyam, DSc (Harvard University)
*Assistant Professor (Social Epidemiology)*
Research Interests: The influence of socioeconomic context (at multiple levels and in multiple domains), neighborhood of residence, as well as macroeconomic factors on under nutrition, obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes.

Meera M. Sunny, PhD (University of Warwick)
*Assistant Professor (Psychology)*
Research Interests: Visual Attention, Attention capture, Visual marking.

Neeraj Kumar, PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)
*Post Doctoral Fellow*
Research Interests: Action, Perception, Motor control.

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Distinguished Honorary Professors

Surendra Prasad, PhD (IIT Delhi)
*Distinguished Honorary Professor, EE*
Research Interests: Signal processing and communication, Speech and image processing.

S. P. Sukhatme, ScD (MIT)
*Distinguished Honorary Professor, Mechanical Engineering*
Research Interests: Heat transfer, Energy

Nitish Thakor, PhD (University of Wisconsin)
*Distinguished Honorary Professor, EE*
Research Interests: Basic and applied research on Medical Instrumentation, Micro and Nanotechnology and Signal Processing with focus on Neuroengineering.

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Guest Professors

A. V. Anilkumar, PhD (California Institute of Technology)
*Guest Professor, Mechanical Engineering*
*Professor, Vanderbilt School of Engineering*

Amb. V. Ashok, Indian Foreign Service (retd.).
*Guest Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences*
Garwood Fellow and Senior Advisor on Smart Villages, University of California, Berkeley, USA India's ambassador to Czech Republic and Zimbabwe (2007, 2011)

Nikhil Balram, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
*Guest Professor, Design and Innovation*
*Head of Display R&D, Google LLC*

Ravi Banavar, PhD (University of Texas)
*Guest Professor, Mechanical Engineering*
Research Interests: Optimal control, nonlinear control, Geometric mechanics, Application areas - Mechanical (robotics), aerospace (launch vehicles, spacecrafts) and electrical power system networks.

Achintya Bhowmik, PhD (Auburn University)
*Guest Professor, Electrical Engineering*
*Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Starkey Hearing Technologies*

R. S. Bisht, PhD (Kumaun University)
Guest Professor (*Archaeological Sciences)*
*Joint Director General (Retd.), Archaeological Survey of India & Padma Shri Awardee, 2013*

Rajendra Bordia, PhD (Cornell University)
*Guest Professor, Material Science & Engineering*
*Professor and Chair of the Department, Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University*

R. P. Chhabra, PhD (Monash University)
*Guest Professor, Chemical Engineering*
*Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur*
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics of multiphase systems, Non-Newtonian fluid-particle mechanics, Transport properties of molten salts and metals.

Pravinray Gandhi, PhD (University of Notre Dame)
*Guest Professor, Mechanical Engineering*
*Business Development Director, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.*
Research Interests: Fire related problems, Theoretical foundation for ignition of materials.

Ramesh Gaonkar, PhD (Syracuse University)
*Guest Professor, Electrical Engineering*
Research Interests: Inter-disciplinary curriculum design and evaluation, Applications of microprocessor & microcontrollers, Designing embedded systems

Walter Nils Hakala, PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
*Guest Professor,Humanities & Social Sciences*
Research Interests: Literature and languages of North India and Central Asia; lexicography; Mughal and early colonial South Asian history; South Asian Islam, Sufism and epigraphy

Rajen Jaswa, MBA (Stetson University)
*Guest Professor,* *Electrical Engineering*
*Managing Director, Jaswa & Company*
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship skill development, Global business strategies, Agile product development, Customer acquisition and retention, Business plan and model development.

Ashok Joshi, PhD (IIT Bombay)
*Guest Professor, Mechanical*
Research Interests: Structural Dynamics, Aeroservoelasticity & Aerothermoservoelasticity, Reentry Guidance, Modelling, Navigation, Guidance and Control of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Lilavati Krishnan, PhD (McMaster University)
*Guest Professor,* *Humanities & Social Sciences*
*Rtd. Professor, IIT Kanpur*
Research Interests: Distributive justice, Prosocial behaviour, Cross-cultural/cultural issues, Indigenous concepts in psychology.

Jordan Litman, PhD (University of Florida)
*Guest Professor*
Research Interests: Epistemic curiosity and its relationship to knowledge-seeking and problem-solving behavior, Health, stress & coping, and tendencies to seek or avoid information relevant to coping, Interactions between personality, memory, emotion and motivation in self-directed learning,Psychometrics, quasi-experimental design, factor analysis, path analysis, and SEM

V. N. Prabhakar, PhD (Kurukhsetra University)
*Guest Professor (Archaeological Sciences)*
Research Interests: Harappan archaeology with emphasis on application of sciences in Archaeology.

Durgesh C. Rai, PhD (Universty of Michigan)
*Guest Professor, Civil Engineering*
*Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur*
Research Interests: Experimental seismic behavior of structures, Seismic evaluation and strengthening, Energy dissipation devices, Masonry and Steel-RC composite members.

T. R. Ramachandran, PhD (University of Wales)
*Guest Professor, Material Science and Engineering*
*Visiting Professor, Nonferrous Materials Technology Development Centre, Hyderabad*

Mythily Ramaswamy, PhD (University of Paris)
*Guest Professor, Mathematics*
*Faculty, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics*
Research Interests: Partial differential equations , Nonlinear functional analysis, Optimal control problems.

Pramod Rastogi, PhD (University of Franche Comté)
*Guest Professor, Electrical Engineering*

Srinivas Reddy, PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
*Guest Professor*
Research Interests: Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu literary traditions, Vijayanagara history, Indian classical music traditions, Translation studies.

Dheeraj Sanghi, PhD (University of Maryland)
*Guest Professor, Computer Science & Engineering*
*Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur*
Research Interests: Computer networks, Protocols, TCP/IP, IPv6, Network security, Telecom regulation.

Shyam Sunder, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
*Guest Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences*
*Professor, Yale School of Management & Department of Economics*
Research Interests: Financial reporting, information in security markets, statistical theory of valuation, and design of electronic markets.

Mahesh Tandon, PhD (University of Hyderabad)
*Guest Professor, Civil Engineering*
*Managing Director, Tandon Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi*

Koshy Tharakan, PhD (University of Hyderabad)
*Guest Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences*
*Associate Professor, Goa University*
Research Interests: Entrepreneurial finance, Economics of innovation, Firm theory

Chapin Thomas, PhD (University of Connecticut)
*Guest Professor, Chemical Engineering*
Research Interests: Emerging Trends in The Areas of Energy, Materials and Fire Science

M. Venkataraman, M.Tech (IIT Madras)
*Guest Professor, Civil Engineering*
*Vice President, Indian Chapter of International Geosynthetics Society*

Harsh Bhargava, MBA (Harvard Business School)
*Guest Professsor, Humanities & Social Sciences*

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