CHEMISTRY
Prof. K. L. Sebastian, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Quantum Chemistry and Statistical Mechanics
Prof. K. V. Govindan Kutty, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Materials Chemistry
Dr. Debarati Chatterjee, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Theoretical Chemical Physics, Biophysical processes, Soft Condensed Matter, Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Dynamics of Macromolecules, Biopolymers.
Dr. Dinesh Jagadeesan, PhD (JNCASR, Bangalore)
Research Area: Materials Chemistry, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Environmental Catalysis
Dr. Mintu Porel, PhD (University of Miami, Florida, USA)
Research Area: Design, Synthesis and Application of novel organic materials, Supramolecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Photochemistry
Dr. Padmesh A, PhD (Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand)
Research Area: Computational chemistry, Molecular Simulations, Advanced Sampling Techniques
Dr. Shanmugaraju Sankarasekaran, Postdoc (Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Research Area:Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Supramolecular Material Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry
Dr Supratik Sen Mojumdar, PhD (Jadavpur University)
Research Area: Protein folding, misfolding and aggregation using single molecule fluorescence and force spectroscopy.
Dr. Sushabhan Sadhukhan, PhD (Case Western Reserve University)
Research Area: Chemical Biology, Bio-organic Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Metabolomics, Proteomics
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Dr. Athira. P, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Predictions in Ungauged Basins, Hydrological Modelling and Uncertainty Analysis, Watershed Management, Landuse/Landcover change modelling, Climate change impact analysis
Dr. Divya. P. V, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Research Area: Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering, Geosynthetics and Ground improvement techniques, Reinforced earth walls and embankments, Engg. behaviour of soft clayey soils, Centrifuge Modelling and Image analysis
Dr. Anil Kumar M V, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Buckling and post-buckling behaviour of thin-walled open sections, Direct Strength Method, Hot-rolled/Cold formed Steel
Dr. Madhu Karthik M, PhD (Texas A&M University, USA)
Research Area: Reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, Structural evaluation of deteriorating structures, Non-destructive testing and evaluation, Bridge engineering
Dr. Subhasis Mitra, PhD (Auburn University, USA)
Research Area: Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Surface and Groundwater Hydrology
Dr. B. K. Bhavathrathan, PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Research Area: Transportation Systems
Dr. Sudheesh T K, PhD (The University of Florida, USA)
Research Area: Geotechnical Engineering: Deep Foundations; Soil Stabilisation; and Soil-Structure Interaction
Dr. Praveena Gangadharan, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Microbial Fuel Cells, Water/Wastewater treatment, Metal reduction/recovery, Electrochemical water/waste treatment
Dr. Sanjukta Chakraborty, Post doc (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Research Area: Vibration control of structures using passive and feedback control mechanisms,
Optimal control, Base isolation, Substructure shaking table test
Dr. Sarmistha Singh, Post doc (Auburn University, Auburn, USA)
Research Area: Hydroclimatology, Water Policy Analysis, Non-point Source Pollution, Water Resources Management
Dr. Senthilkumar V, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Construction Engineering and Management
Prof. Tom V Mathew (IIT Madras)
Visiting faculty
Dr. Sunitha K Nayar, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Physical and mechanical characterization of construction materials and systems, Characterization of special concretes, Fatigue characteristics of concrete, Long-term performance of FRC, Design of FRC systems, Modeling mechanical performance parameters for construction materials and systems
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Dr. Deepak Rajendraprasad, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Combinatorics, Graph Theory
Dr. Jasine Babu, PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Research Area: Theoretical Computer Science - mainly Graph Theory and Algorithms
Dr. Sahely Bhadra, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Machine Learning, Optimization, Bioinformatics
Dr. Piyush P Kurur, PhD (IMSc Chennai)
Research Area: Programming languages, Type theory
Dr. Albert Sunny, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Wireless Networks, Social Network, Transportation Networks
Dr. Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Reinforcement Learning; Stochastic Control; Deep Learning
Dr. Krithika Ramaswamy, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Parameterized Algorithms, Combinatorics, Algorithmic Graph Theory and Approximation Algorithms
Dr. Vivek Chaturvedi, PhD (Florida International University, USA)
Research Area: Power and thermal efficient task scheduling strategies for multi/many core processors, Reliability and energy efficiency in cloud data centers, Cyber (hardware) security, Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Sandeep Chandran, PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Research Area: High Performance Computing, Post-silicon Validation, Computer Architecture
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Prof. Vinod A Prasad, PhD (NTU Singapore)
Research Area: Digital Signal Processing, VLSI Signal Processing for Wireless Communications, Brain-Computer Interface Systems
Dr. Arun Rahul S, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Power Electronics, Motor Drives, Power converter topology and control, Multilevel power converters, Grid integration of solar energy, Pulse Width Modulation and switching techniques, Power Electronics and Power Systems
Dr. Arvind Ajoy, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Computational, theoretical and experimental aspects of nanoelectronics.
Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan T, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Wireless communication, Signal processing, Information and coding theory
Dr. Revathy P, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Micro/Nanoelectronics
Dr. Swaroop Sahoo, PhD (Colorado State University, USA)
Research Area: Microwave Engineering
Dr. Mahesh R Panicker, PhD (NTU, Singapore)
Research Area: Digital Signal Processing, Embedded Systems, Ultrasound Imaging
Dr. Sukomal Dey, PhD (IIT Delhi)
Research Area: Microwave and Millimeter wave Devices and Components, Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical System
Dr. Jobin Francis, PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Research Area: area of wireless communication. My research focuses on the design, analysis, and optimization of 5G cellular networks
Adjunct faculty
Dr. Venkata Vanukuru, Electrical Engineering, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Solid State Devices
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Dr. Shalina Susan Mathew, PhD (University of Hyderabad)
Research Area: Development Economics
Dr. Anoop George, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Research Area: Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy of Technology, Continental Philosophy
Dr. G. Sujatha, PhD (University of Madras)
Research Area: Gender, cultural and postcolonial studies; language and modernity; modern Tamil literature, translation studies, cinema and folk religious cults
Dr. Reenu Punnoose, PhD (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Research Area: Phonetics, Sociolinguistics, Bilingual language acquisition, world Englishes
Dr. Amrita Roy, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Area: Trade and Development, Economic Growth
MATHEMATICS
Dr. Ashok Kumar M, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Information, Statistics, and Probability
Dr. Sarath Sasi, PhD (Mississippi State University, USA)
Research Area: Partial differential equations
Dr. Lakshmi Sankar K, PhD (Mississippi State University, USA)
Research Area: Differential Equations, Nonlinear Analysis
Dr. G. P. Balakumar, PhD (Indian Institute of Science)
Research Area: Several Complex Variables
Dr. Jayanarayanan C R, PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore)
Research Area: Functional Analysis, Geometry of Banach Spaces, Approximation Theory
Dr. Rohith Varma, PhD (CMI)
Research Area: Algebraic Geometry
Prof. S H Kulkarni, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Research Area: Functional Analysis
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Prof. Pramod S Mehta, PhD (Loughborough University, UK)
Research Area: IC Engines
Prof. Job Kurian, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Gas dynamics
Dr. K. V. N. Surendra, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Fracture Mechanics, Elasticity
Dr. Krishna Sesha Giri, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Research Area: Combustion and laser diagnostics, Combustion modeling, Novel laser and optical diagnostic techniques
Dr. D. Chakradhar, PhD (NIT, Warangal)
Research Area: Non traditional machining, Machining
Dr. Kanmani S Subbu, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Research Area: Micro Manufacturing, Laser Surface Treatment, Additive Manufacturing and Composite Fabrication and Machining
Dr. D. Kesavan, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Surface Engineering, Welding Technology, Industrial Tribology, Additive Manufacturing
Dr. Samarjeet Chanda, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Heat and Mass Transfer, Inverse Problems in Thermal-Fluid Sciences, Interferometry Optimization
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan
Research Area: Computational Fluid Dynamics - Immersed Boundary Methods
Sports aerodynamics and mathematical modelling
Dr. Sovan Lal Das, PhD (Cornell University)
Research Area: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Contact Mechanics of Thin Structures, Lipid Bilayer Membrane
Dr. Santhakumar Mohan, PhD (IIT Madras)
Research Area: Field Robotics, Mobile Manipulators and Underwater Robotic Systems (Dynamics and Control), Parallel Robotic Platforms (Mechanical Design, Dynamics and Control), Assistive and Rehabilitation Robots (Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robots)
Dr. Afzaal Ahmed
Research Area: Non-conventional machining processes, Hybrid machining methods, Micro and nano machining, Deep hole drilling, Laser surface alloying, Laser based additive manufacturing processes, Wear and tribology studies of modified surfaces
PHYSICS
Prof. P. B. Sunil Kumar, PhD (RRI, Bangalore)
Research Area: Soft matter and Biological Physics
Dr. Prithvi Narayan P., PhD (TIFR, Mumbai)
Research Area: Quantum Field Theory, String Theory
Dr. Jayakumar Balakrishnan, PhD (National University of Singapore)
Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - 2D Materials and Perovskites
Dr. Uma Divakaran, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Research Area: Quantum mechanics, Non-equilibrium dynamics, Quantum phase transitions, Quantum Information
Dr. Soham Manni, PhD (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics- Magnetism and Superconductivity
Material Science - Single crystal growth