Biological Engineering
Dhiraj Bhatia, PhD (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Assistant Professor Research Interests: Structural DNA Nanotechnology, Chemical Biology
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) Assistant 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.
Sivapriya Kirubakaran, PhD (IISc Bangalore) Assistant Professor (Jointly With Chemistry) Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry and crug discovery, Drug discovery: Infectious diseases (H.pylori) and cancer (stomach and lung), Chemical biology of cancer: Screening of small molecules to identify novel oncogenes.
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) Assistant Professor Research Interests: Sensorimotor control and learning, Movement disorders after neurological damage, Brain lateralization.
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 (Jointly With Physics) Research Interests: Structural biology of macromolecular complexes, Chemical Crystallography, Insitu cryo-crystallizations of liquids.
Sugata Barui, PhD (CSIR-IICT) National Post Doctoral Fellow Research Interests: Cancer Chemical Biology: Designing and synthesis of small molecule kinase inhibitors and evaluation of their therapeutic efficacy in pancreatic cancer treatment.
Piyali Majumder, PhD (University of Calcutta) Post-Doctoral Fellow Research Interests: G-Quadruplex regulation on Autophagy Induction in Alzheimer’s Disease like conditions, Common signaling pathway of Alzheimer’s Disease and Type 2 Diabetes
Parimaladevi Palanisamy, PhD (Bharathiar University) National Post Doctoral Fellow Research Interests: Control of crystallization, co-crystallization and polymorphism of small molecular anti-cancer drugs, Purification and crystallization of protein (i.e., kinase), In-silico studies: small and macro molecular crystallography, docking studies.
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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
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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) 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.
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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 (Jointly With Biological Engineering) 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.
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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.
Marjorie Greene, Masters of Urban Planning (University of Washington) Scholar-in-Residence
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
Vimal Mishra, PhD (Purdue University) Associate Professor 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.
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.
Manendra Singh, PhD (IIT Roorkee) Post Doctoral Fellow Research Interests: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Liquefaction of soil, Seismic response of underground tunnels, Effects of train vibrations on underground tunnels and ground surafce.
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Computer Science and Engineering
Manu Awasthi, PhD (University of Utah) Assistant Professor Research Interests: Computer architecture and systems, emerging non volatile memory technologies technologies, processing in/near memory, memory and storage system design for big-data workloads, workload characterization   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, Pursuing (IIT Kharagpur) Assistant Research Professor Research Interests: Text Mining, Natural Language and Processing, Machine Learning, Network Science, Information Retrieval
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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) Associate 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
C N Pandey, PhD (North Gujarat University) Visiting Professor (Jointly With Civil Engineering) 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.
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: Tunable diode laser spectroscopy for gas parameter measurement, Optical physical and chemical sensing
Nithin V. George, PhD (IIT Bhubaneswar) 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 analysis of optical nanostructures, Plasmonics and meta materials, Super-resolution imaging, Plasmonic sensing and SERS, High performance numerical electromagnetics, Fibre optics, nonlinear fibre optics.
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: VLSI Design, Asynchronous circuit 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.
R Sharan, PhD (University of Waterloo) Visiting Professor Research Interests: Technological progress and human values, Semiconductor devices, Transducers and instrumentation, Noise, Engineering education.
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.
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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.
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Humanities
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.
Frederick Coolidge, PhD (University of Florida) Scholar-in-Residence Research Interests: Behavior genetics, Cognitive archaeology, Personality assessment.
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 (Archaeology) 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) Visiting Faculty Research Interests: Neuroscience of Design, Science Communication, Cultural Cognition, Behavioral Change.
Jordan Litman, PhD (University of Florida) Visiting 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
Vandana Luximon , MA (Aix Marseille University) French Language Trainee Teacher Research Interests: Indian Mythology, Women in Indian Mythology, Women in Indian Society.
Jaison A. Manjaly, PhD (IIT Kharagpur) 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) Teaching Associate Research Interests: Sanskrit and Prakrit grammar, Jain Kavya and Stotra literature, Manuscriptology.
Akanksha Tripathi, Post Graduate (BHU) Teaching Associate
Atul Singh, MBA (University of Pennsylvania) Visiting Professor (Humanities and Social Sciences) Research Interests: Global Economy, World Affairs, Geopolitics, Political Systems & Sustainability.
Mohd. Mubashshir Ahsan, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Post Doctoral Research Fellow Research Interests: Arabic and Islamic studies in India, Translation : Arabic to English, Hindi, Urdu, and vise versa.
Ruman Banerjee, PhD (University of Bristol) Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Archaeology) Research Interests: Indus Valley Civilization and Archaeology, Typo-technological study, Modelling, Simulation and experimentation of lithic materials and anthropology, Cognitive neuroscience and psychology.
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Ruth Aman, Ed.D.(Columbia University) Scholar-in-Residence
Maria João Amante, PhD (University of Alcalá, Spain) Scholar-in-Residence
Sharada Visweswara Channarayapatna, PhD (Deccan College) Assistant Professor (Archaeology) Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, Application of Sciences in Archaeology, Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction, Human-environment Interactions in the Past and Present.
Anezka Sebek, PhD (The New School for Social Research) Scholar-in-Residence Research Interests: Art Media and Technology, Urban Sociology, Spanish Literature.
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Mathematics
Sanjaykumar Amrutiya, PhD (Harish-Chandra Research Institute) Assistant Professor Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
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.
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.
Jagmohan Tyagi, PhD (IIT Kanpur) Assistant 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
Bibekananda Maji, PhD (Harish-Chandra Research Institute) Post Doctoral Research Fellow Research Interests: Number theory
Joydip Saha, PhD (Jadavpur University) Post Doctoral Research Fellow Research Interests: Commutative Algebra
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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.
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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.
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) Assistant Professor Research Interests: Thermal sciences, Water-energy systems, Industrial reuse and recycling
Madhu Vadali, PhD (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Assistant Professor 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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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.
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) Assistant 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.
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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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.
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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.

 

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.

Vijay Thiruvenkatam, PhD (Jiwaji University) Assistant Research Professor (Jointly With Biological Engineering) Research Interests: Structural biology of macromolecular complexes, Chemical crystallography, Insitu cryo-crystallizations of liquids.

 

Snigdha Ghosh, PhD (Homi Bhabha National Institute) Post Doctoral Fellow Research Interests: Spectral properties of QCD matter under high temperature and/or density under external magnetic field, Real Time formalism of Finite Temperature Field Theory, Heavy Ion Collision Phenomenology, Transport properties of hot and dense QCD medium, Relativistic Hydrodynamics

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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

 

Nikhil Balram, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University) Guest Professor, Design and Innovation President and CEO, Ricoh Innovations Corporation (RIC)

 

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, Archaeology 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

 

Bijoy Boruah, PhD (University of Guelph) Guest Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Philosophical aesthetics, Metaphysics of the self.

 

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

 

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

 

Dinesh Kant Kumar, PhD (IIT Delhi) Guest Professor, Electrical Engineering Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne Research Interests: Biomedical engineering and signal processing, Bio-inspired systems, Biomedical image analysis, Motivating science and engineering researchers.

 

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.

 

S. L. Narayanamurthy, PhD (University of Bradford) Guest Professor, Chemical Engineering Research Interests: Liquid-liquid contacting, Liquid-liquid reactions, Liquid-Liquid dispersions, Chemical engineering education.

 

V. N. Prabhakar, PhD (Kurukhsetra University) Guest Professor, Archaeology 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.

 

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

 

Himanshu Prabha Ray, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) Guest Professor, Archaeology Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

 

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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