Faculty

 
 

Gouthama (PhD, IISc. Bangalore)

Office: Faculty Building 417

Phone: +91 512 259 7450

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 214

Phone: +91 512 259 7934

 

Lab 2: TEM Labs 107

Phone: +91 512 259 6049

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~gouthama

Specialization: Electron Microscopy, Physical & Mechanical Metallurgy

Areas of Interest: Structure Property Correlation, Shape Memory Alloys, Grain Boundary Engineering, Severe Deformation Processing

 
 

Kantesh Balani (PhD, Florida International University, Miami, USA)

Office: Laboratory of Biomaterials

Phone: +91 512 259 6194

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Biomaterials Processing and Characterization Laboratory

Phone: +91 512 259 7920

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~kbalani

Specialization: Electron Microscopy, Physical & Mechanical Metallurgy

Areas of Interest: Structure Property Correlation, Shape Memory Alloys, Grain Boundary Engineering, Severe Deformation Processing

 
 

Somnath Bhowmick (PhD, IISc. Bangalore)

Office: Faculty Building, 410

Phone: +91 512 259 7161

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab: Western Labs- 312A

Lab Phone: +91 512 259 6703

 

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Website: https://sites.google.com/site/somnathbhowmick/

Specialization: Computational materials science

Areas of Interest: Size dependent properties of nanomaterials, Ab-initiophase stability, Electronic structure calculations, Multiscale modeling.

 
 

Krishanu Biswas (PhD, IISc. Bangalore)

Office: Western Labs-210

Phone: +91 512 259 7720

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 210

Phone: +91 512 259 7720

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~kbiswas

Specialization: Nanomaterials, Phase Transformation, Electron microscopy, Alloy Design

Areas of Interest: Alloy Nanoparticles, Multicomponent Alloys, Deformation Behavior of High Entropy Alloys

 
 

Ashish Garg (PhD, University of Cambridge, U.K.)

Office: Western Labs 104

Phone: +91 512 259 7904

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 105,106,108

Phone: +91 512 259 7263

 

Lab 2: SCDT

Phone: +91 512 259 6620

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~ashishg

Specialization: Electronic Materials and Devices

Areas of Interest: Perovskite, Organic and Tandem Solar Cells, Energy Harvesting Materials and Devices, Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials and Composites, Development of Special Steels and Alloys, Materials Processing and Characterization

 
 

Anshu Gaur (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Office: Faculty Building 405

Phone: +91 512 259 7600

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab1: Western Labs-312

Phone: +91 512 259 6771

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~agaur

Specialization: Electronic Materials, Nano-Materials, Device Physics and Device Characterization

Areas of Interest: Materials for electronic devices, carbon based nanostructures, Device physics and simulation, computational materials science

 
 

Deepak Gupta (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Office: Western Labs 210A

Phone: +91 512 259 7353

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 105

Phone: +91 512 259 7263

 

Lab 2: Samtel Centre

Phone: +91 512 259 6088

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~saboo

Specialization: Device Materials

Areas of Interest: Organic Electronics: OLED/PLED, Displays, TFTs and Ultraviolet Electronics, Oxide and Transparent Semiconductors, Materials Development: Electronic and Optical, Defects in Semiconductors, Modeling and Simulation of Materials and Processes

 
 

Nilesh Prakash Gurao (PhD, IISc. Bangalore)

Office: Faculty Building-408

Phone: +91 512 259 6688

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab1: Western Labs-209A

Phone: +91 512 259 7757

 

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Website: https://sites.google.com/site/nileshgurao/home

Specialization: Crystallographic texture, Thermo-mechanical processing and Mechanical Behaviour of materials

Areas of Interest: Length and time scale effects in plasticity, in-situ deformation studies, Micro-Laue diffraction using synchrotron, crystal plasticity simulations

 
 

Sarang Ingole (PhD, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA)

Office: Faculty Building-406

Phone: +91 512 259 7089

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Lab 204

Phone: +91 512 259 7974

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~sarang

Specialization: Semiconductor materials, Micro and Nano-fabrication, Electrical Characterization of Materials

Areas of Interest: Materials for photovoltaic applications and energy storage, Self and directed assembly of nanomaterials, Electrochemical synthesis and deposition of materials

 
 

Shikhar Krishn Jha (Ph.D. from University of Colorado, Boulder, USA )

Office: WL-303D

Phone: +91 512 259 2094

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Ceramic Works Laboratory (WL-303C)

Phone: +91 512 259

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~skjha

Specialization: Advance material processing under externally applied fields and its effect on electrical, optical, and chemical properties of the materials

Areas of Interest: Thermodynamics of phase transformations, Structure of material, Interfaces, and Solid state physics

 
 

Monica Katiyar (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Office: Western Labs 113B

Phone: +91 512 259 7941

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 105

Phone: +91 512 259 7935

 

Lab 2: Western Labs 204E

Phone: +91 512 259 7915

 

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Website: http://www.iitk.ac.in/mse/emg/

Specialization: Opto-Electronic Materials and Devices

Areas of Interest: Electronic Materials and Devices, Organic Electronics, Thin Film Transistors, Memory Devices, Solid State Lighting, Sensors, Printable Electronics, Spintronic Materials

 
 

Kaustubh Kulkarni (PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA)

Office: Western Labs-302A

Phone: +91 512 259 6102

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Office: Western Labs-209A

Phone: +91 512 259 6060

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~kkaustub/

Specialization: Multicomponent Diffusion, Thermodynamics, Physical Metallurgy

Areas of Interest: Diffusional & Thermodynamic Interaction in Multi Component Systems & their Applications for Alloy Design, Light Weight Alloys for Automobile & Aerospace Applications, Joining of Dissimilar Metals.

 
 

Tanmoy Maiti (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Office: Faculty Building 409

Phone: +91 512 259 6599 / 6994

Fax:

Lab 1: Western Labs 204A

Phone: +91 512 259 6802

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~tmaiti/

Specialization:Electronic Materials & Devices Nanophotonics

Areas of Interest: Clean Energy, Thermoelectrics, Perovskite Solar Cell, Plasmonics, Oxide Electronics, Pyroelectronics, Ferroelectrics, Semiconductors, Memory Devices

 
 

Dipak Mazumdar (PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

Office: Western Labs-101

Phone: +91 512 259 7328

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs-101A

Phone: +91 512 259 7977

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~dipak

Specialization: Steelmaking, Modeling

Areas of Interest: Process Metallurgy

 
 

Kallol Mondal (PhD, IIT Kharagpur)

Office: Western Labs-113A

Phone: +91 512 259 6156

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs-205

Phone: +91 512 259 7648

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~kallol/

Specialization: Physical Metallurgy, Glassy Alloys

Areas of Interest: Glassy Alloys, Nanocrystalline Alloys, Coating

 
 

Rajdip Mukherjee (PhD, I.I.Sc. Bangalore)

Office: Faculty Building 407

Phone: +91 512 259 6449

Fax:

Lab 1: Western Labs-312

Phone: 6903

 

Email: rajdipm[at]iitk.ac.in

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Specialization: Microstructure Modelling and Simulation

Areas of Interest: Phase-field Modelling, Multiscale Modelling, Phase Transformations

 
 

Shobit Omar (PhD, University of Florida)

Office: Advanced Center for Materials Science Building, 203 (E)

Phone: +91 512 259 7427

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs-109

Phone: +91 512 259 6750

 

Lab 2:

Phone: +91 512 259 6752

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~somar

Specialization: Ionic Conductors, Ceramic Processing, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Thermal Barrier Coatings

Areas of Interest: Electroceramics, Oxide and Protonic Ceramic Conductors, Structural Ceramics

 
 

Sandeep Sangal (PhD, University of Manitoba, Canada)

Office: Western Lab Extension 114

Phone: +91 512 259 7167

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Lab Extension 116

Phone: +91 512 259 7975

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~sangals

Specialization: Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy

Areas of Interest: Structure-Property Correlations, Microstructural Characterization, Stereology, Image Processing, Development of Web-Based Educational Aids

 
 

Rajiv Shekhar (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Office: Faculty Building 416

Phone: +91 512 259 7016

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 103A

Phone: +91 512 259 7694

 

Lab 2: Western Labs 103E

Phone: +91 512 259 7001

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~vidtan

Specialization: Electrochemical Materials Processing

Areas of Interest: Molten Salt Electrolysis, Electrodeposition

 
 

Shashank Shekhar (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA)

Office: Western Labs-304A

Phone: +91 512 259 6528

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs-104 D

 Phone: +91 512 259 7278  

Lab2: Western Labs-304 B

Phone: +91 512 259 6479

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~shashank

Specialization: Severe Plastic Deformation Grain Boundaries, Triple Junctions

Areas of Interest: Thermomechanical Processing, Grain Boundary Engineering, Machining, Surface Engineering.

 
 

Amarendra Kumar Singh (PhD, IIT Kanpur)

Office: Western Labs-101

Phone: +91 512 259 6810

Fax:

Lab 1: Western Labs- 101C

Phone: +91 512 259 6277  

Email: amarendra @iitk.ac.in

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Specialization: Process Modelling & Simulations

Areas of Interest: Steel Refining and Casting, Extractive Metallurgy, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, Solidification Processing, Sustainable Manufacturing

 
 

Sudhanshu Shekhar Singh (PhD, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA)

Office: Western Labs-303A

Phone: +91 512 259 6908

Fax:

Lab 1: Western Labs-303B

Phone: +91 512 259 6480

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~sudhanss/

Specialization: 3D/4D Materials Science, Mechanical Metallurgy

Areas of Interest: Nanoindentation, Micro-mechanical testing, Lightweight alloys, Deformation behavior of alloys, Laser processing of materials

 
 

Anandh Subramaniam (PhD, IISc. Bangalore)

Office: Western Labs 210B

Phone: +91 512 259 7215

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 207

Phone: +91 512 259 7147

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~anandh

Specialization: Physical Metallurgy & Materials Science, Metastable Materials

Areas of Interest: Nanomaterials, Amorphous Materials, Epitaxial systems, Interfaces in materials, Crystallography, Quasicrystals
Tools: Transmission Electron Microscopy, Finite Element Method.

 
 

Anish Upadhyaya (PhD, Penn State, USA)

Office: Faculty Building 419

Phone: +91 512 259 7672

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs 208

Phone: +91 512 259 7342

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~anish

Specialization: Powder Metallurgy, Sintering of Ferrous & Non-Ferrous Alloys & Composites

Areas of Interest: Materials Processing, Powder Metallurgy, Sintered Particulate Alloys & Composites, Microwave Processing

 
 

Vivek Verma (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Office: Faculty Building-418

Phone: +91 512 259 6527

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

Lab 1: Western Labs-206

Phone: +91 512 259 6949

 

Lab 2: CESE -201

Phone: +91 512 259 6261

 

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Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~vverma/

Specialization: Biomaterials, Biodegradable Polymers

Areas of Interest: Protein Patterning, Wound Dressing Material , Drug Delivery, biodegradable Plastics, Water Remediation.

 
 

Visiting Faculty

Dr BB Agrawal (PhD, IIT Kharagpur)

Office: Faculty Building-403

Phone: +91 512 259 2089

Fax: +91 512 259 7505

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Specialization: Extractive Metallurgy

Areas of Interest: alternate ironmaking technologies, sponge ironmaking, pelletmaking