Our faculty are engaged in teaching and research in the areas of Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Manufacturing Science, Solid Mechanics and Design, and Nuclear Engineering and Technology.
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IC Engines, alternate fuels, Vehicular Pollution, Laser Diagonistic Techniques, Micro- sensor Development and Lubricating Oil Tribology.
Sumit Basu, Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore sbasu@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7506(O)/ 3055(R) 304 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Computational Micromechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Modelling of Materials across length scales, Finite deformation theories and Non-linear FEM.
Bishakh Bhattacharya, Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore bishakh@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
+91-512-259-7824 (O) / 7913 (Lab) 103 Northern Laboratories I Applied Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory | Homepage
Active & Passive Vibration Control, Active Shape Control and Adaptive Structures, Intelligent Gripper Design, Smart Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Child-Robot Interaction Design, Neural Oscillation and Multi-scale Brain-modelling.
Jishnu Bhattacharya, Associate Professor PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor jishnu@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7684 (O) 302 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Renewable energy storage, thermal management of portable energy sources, energy storage materials, computational material science, thermodynamic analysis of energy harvesting and storage, heat transfer, low cost energy options.
Bio MEMS, Lab on Chip, Nano Technology, Microsystems Fabrication and MicroFluids.
C. Chandraprakash , Assistant Professor PhD, Penn State chindamc@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6743 (O) 211 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Acoustic materials, thermal NDE, multifunctional materials, soft robotics, and instrumentation
Anindya Chatterjee , Professor PhD, Cornell University anindya@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6961 (O) 357 Faculty Building | Homepage
Dynamics and vibrations; material damping and fatigue; applied solid mechanics; hysteresis; systems with delays and fractional order dynamics; statistics of engineering test data.
Malay K. Das, Professor PhD, Penn State mkdas@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7359 (O)/ 8206 (R) 210 Southern Laboratory | Homepage
Electrochemical energy conversion and chemically reacting systems.
Bhaskar Dasgupta, Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore dasgupta@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6681 (O)/ 8706 (R) 201 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Santanu De, Associate Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore sde@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6478 (O)/ 8709 (R) 304A Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Turbulent Combustion, Flame Stabilization, Droplet and Spray Combustion, Soot Formation and Emission.
Ashish Dutta, Professor PhD, Akita University, Japan adutta@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7562 (O)/ 8710 (R) 338 Faculty Building | Homepage
Humonoid Robotics, Intelligent Control System, Micro-sensors and actuators, Bio-robotics, IPMC based assembly.
Shyam Sunder Gopalakrishnan, Assistant Professor PhD, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Univ Lyon 1 shyamsg@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2321 (O) 368 Faculty Building | Homepage
Instabilities in hydrodynamics, Biological fluid flows, Porous media flows, Nonlinear optics, Out-of-equilibrium systems
Anurag Gupta, Professor PhD, UC Berkeley ag@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6161 (O)/ 8297 (R) 359 Faculty Building | Homepage
Geometry and mechanics of defects and singular interfaces in slender structures; Topological and differential geometric methods in continuum mechanics; Finite deformation plasticity; Nonlinear elasticity and biological growth; Mechanics of Indian musical instruments.
Shakti S. Gupta, Professor PhD, Virginia Tech ssgupta@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6110 (O)/ 8410 (R) 212 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Linear/Nonlinear Structural Mechanics, Mechanics of Nanomaterials and their Characterization using Molecular Simulations.
K.R Guruprasad, Associate Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore krgprao@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2328 (O) 402 Faculty Building | Homepage
Robotics-Mechanics and Control, Motion Planning, Multi Robots Systems, Cooperative Control, Exo-Skeleton Control, Voronoi Partition and its Applications.
Pranav Joshi, Assistant Professor PhD, Johns Hopkins University jpranavr@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2023 (O) 301 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Experimental fluid mechanics, turbulent flows and heat transfer
Kamal K Kar, Professor PhD, IIT Kharagpur kamalkk@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7687 (O)/ 8703 (R) 203 Advanced Centre for Materials Science | Homepage
Materials for Energy Conversation and Storage, Bioimplants, High Performance Multifunctional Composites
Arvind Kumar, Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore arvindkr@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7484 (O)/ 8708 (R) Northern Laboratories I Manufacturing Science Lab | Homepage
Metal additive manufacturing — AM process, product and application development, DfAM; Heat transfer, CFD, DPM; Multiphysics, multiscale modelling of manufacturing processes (additive manufacturing, casting, welding, surface coating), Process, defects, microstructure and properties predictions; Machine learning tools for manufacturing; Droplet interaction with surfaces; Thermal storage, Waste heat recover.
Virkeshwar Kumar, Assistant Professor PhD, IIT Bombay virkeshwar@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2334 (O) NL-1-115R, Northern Lab Manufacturing Science Lab | Homepage
Casting, Welding, Additive Manufacturing, Evaporation, Transport Phenomena, Natural Convection, Flow Visualization, Experimental heat transfer and phase change materials.
Mohit Law, Associate Professor PhD, University of British Columbia mlaw@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6897 (O) 103 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Machining dynamics; Machine tool design and analysis; Dynamic substructuring; Vibration damping, isolation and control; Process-machine interactions; High performance machining; Model order reduction; Machining with robots.
Umesh Madanan, Assistant Professor PhD, University of Minnesota umadanan@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2162 (O) 302 Faculty Building | Homepage
Thermal convection, heat and mass transfer analogies, optical techniques, boiling and two-phase flow, porous media convection
Akhilesh Mimani, Assistant Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore amimani@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2088 (O) OLD IME Building, below the Drawing Hall | Homepage
Array processing methods for acoustic source localization, Computational acoustics and aeroacoustics, Duct and muffler acoustics, Mechanical vibration.
Sarvesh Mishra , Assistant Professor PhD, IIT Delhi msarvesh@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-279-2337 (O) 503H-M, Diamond Jubilee Complex | Homepage
Dipayan Mukherjee , Assistant Professor PhD, Ecole Polytechnique dipayanm@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-279-2353 (O) 503H-Q, Diamond Jubilee Complex | Homepage
Solid mechanics, Electro/Magneto-mechanics, Ion conducting solids, Instabilities, Mechanics of smart slender structures, Numerical homogenization, Computational mechanics.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Assistant Professor PhD, TU Delft smukherjee@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-679-2577 (O) 358, Faculty Building | Homepage
Turbulence, Active Matter, Complex Fluids, Droplet Dynamics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Numerical Simulations, Algorithmic Art and Data Visualization
Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor PhD, University of Bristol smukh@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7094 (O) 360 Faculty Building | Homepage
Mechanics of composites, Theory of Damage and failure, Numerical simulation of strain localization and fracture, Finite element method, Meshindependent and mesh-free methods, Numerical simulation of manufacturing processes.
K. Muralidhar, Professor PhD, University of Delaware kmurli@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7182 (O)/ 8421 (R) 301 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Optical Techniques, Flow Control Hierarchical Porous Media
Anikesh Pal, Associate Professor PhD, University of California San Diego pala@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6418 (O) 333 Faculty Building | Homepage
Turbulence, Machine Learning, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Atmospheric and Oceanic flows and Climate dynamics.
P. K. Panigrahi, Professor PhD, LSU, Baton Rouge panig@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7686 (O)/ 8307 (R) 301 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Laser Based Instrumentation, Flow Control, CAD of Thermal Systems, Turbulence, Micro-fluidics and Heat Transfer.
J. Ramkumar, Professor PhD, IIT Madras jrkumar@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7546 (O)/ 8661 (R) 115 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Micro/Nano Manufacturing & Machining Composites.
Ushasi Roy, Assistant Professor PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology ushasiroy@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
+91-512-259-2245 (O) 115K, Northern Lab-I | Homepage
Solid mechanics, Fracture mechanics, Plasticity, Finite element analysis, Microstructure-property correlation, Multiscale and multiphysics modelling of deformation and fracture.
Arun K. Saha, Professor PhD, IIT Kanpur aksaha@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7869 (O)/ 8553 (R) 210 Southern Laboratory | Homepage
Turbulence, Chaos & Bifurcation, Vortex Dynamics, Hotwire Anemometry, Gas Hydrates, Experimental Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer.
Abhishek Sarkar, Assistant Professor PhD, Iowa State University abhisheks@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7980 (O) First Floor Drawing Hall Complex
Energy-dense electrode materials, Nanomaterial synthesis, Magnetic-electrochemical interactions, Electrodeposition and corrosion, Lithium battery, Battery recycling, Laser-assisted synthesis, Polymer upcycling, Additive manufacturing, Modeling of energy storage and complex systems.
Subrata Sarkar, Professor PhD, IIT Madras subra@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7942 (O)/ 8462 (R) 355 Faculty Building | Homepage
Aditya Saurabh, Assistant Professor PhD, Technical University Berlin asaurabh@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2070 (O) 438 Faculty Building | Homepage
Dynamics of gas turbine (GT) combustors, flame dynamics, atomization of liquid fuels, alternative and biofuels in GT engines, suppression of noise and instabilities in combustors.
Anupam Saxena, Professor PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA anupams@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7988 (O)/ 8712 (R) 369 Faculty Building | Homepage
Basant Lal Sharma, Associate Professor PhD, Cornell University bls@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6173 (O)/ 8424 (R) 356 Faculty Building | Homepage
Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Dynamics of Discrete Chains and Lattices, Dislocation dynamics, Continuum modeling of Discrete Phenomena, Nonlinear Elasticity, Wave propagation.
Ishan Sharma, Professor PhD, Cornell University ishans@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6152 (O) 213B Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Mechanics of Granular media, Planetary science.
Sachin Y. Shinde, Assistant Professor PhD, IISc Bangalore sachin@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6939 (O) 439 Faculty Building | Homepage
Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Biofluiddynamics, Swimming and Flying, Fluid–Structure (Flexible) Interaction, Propulsion by Flapping Foils, Cloud Fluid Dynamics.
Tushar Sikroria, Assistant Professor PhD, University of Melbourne tsikroria@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2481 (O) 109 Southern Laboratories | Homepage
Turbulent compressible flows, multiphase flows, experimental techniques and turbomachinery.
Manjesh Kumar Singh, Associate Professor PhD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland manjesh@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-2108 (O) Nonlinear Mechanics Lab Old IME Building | Homepage
Soft Matter, tribology and rheology.
Niraj Sinha, Professor PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada nsinha@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7196 (O) 333 Faculty Building | Homepage
Nachiketa Tiwari , Professor PhD, Virginia Tech ntiwari@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6526 (O)/ 8175 (R) 201A Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
P. Venkitanarayanan, Professor PhD, University of Rhode Island venkit@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7528 (O)/ 8688 (R) 211C Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Nalinaksh S. Vyas, Professor PhD, IIT Delhi vyas@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-7040 (O)/ 8423 (R) 103 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Pankaj Wahi, Professor PhD, IISC Bangalore wahi@iitk.ac.inThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
0512-259-6092 (O)/ 7408 (R) 357 Faculty Building | Homepage