People
Professors-in-Charge
Dr. Ashish Garg
Center Coordintor (IITK)
Email: ashishg@iitk.ac.in
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/ashish-garg-iitk-group/
Dr. P.M. Ajayan
Center Coordintor (Rice)
Email: pma2@rice.edu
Webpage: https://ajayan.rice.edu/
Participating Faculty Members: IIT Kanpur
Dr. Abhishek
Department: Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Wind Energy, Rotary Wing Aeromechanics, Hover Capable Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)
Email: abhish@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Ashoke De
Department: Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Wind Energy, CFD, Aerodynamics
Email: ashoke@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Anand Singh
Department: Chemistry
Research Interests: Energy materials development
Email: anands@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Raja Angamuthu
Department: Chemistry
Research Interests: Storage materials development
Email: raja@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Goutam Deo
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Catalysis, carbon capture
Email: goutam@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Himanshu Sharma
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Carbon capture, alternative fuels
Email: sharmah@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Jayant Singh
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Materials design, Computational Materials
Email: jayantks@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Nitin Kaistha
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Process Control and Design, Process Engineering
Email: nkaistha@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Nishith Verma
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Catalysis, Carbon Capture, Storage
Email: nishith@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Raju Kumar Gupta
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Storage materials and devices, solar energy materials and devices, water remediation
Email: guptark@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Vishal Agarwal
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Computational Materials development
Email: vagarwal@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Anoop Singh
Department: Industrial and Management Engineering
Research Interests: Energy economics
Email: anoops@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Ashish Garg
Department: Material Science Engineering
Research Interests: Solar energy materials and devices development
Email: ashishg@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Anandh Subramaniam
Department: Material Science Engineering
Research Interests: Hydrogen energy storage and materials
Email: anandh@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Kanwar Singh Nalwa
Department: Material Science Engineering
Research Interests: Solar energy materials and devices development, device characterization
Email: ksnalwa@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Sarang Ingole
Department: Material Science Engineering
Research Interests: Solar energy materials and devices development
Email: sarang@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Shobit Omar
Department: Material Science Engineering
Research Interests: Storage and fuel-cells materials and devices development
Email: somar@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Pankaj Jain
Department: Physics
Research Interests: High Energy Physics
Email: pkjain@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Parthasarathi Sensharma
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Power Electronics for Renewable Generation
Email: sensarma@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Sandeep Anand
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Renewable sources based DC microgrid and power electronic converters for solar PV systems
Email: asandeep@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Saikat Chakrabarti
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Smart grid, Microgrid, Power system dynamics and stability
Email: saikatc@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Santanu Kumar Mishra
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Power Electronics
Email: santanum@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Jishnu Bhattacharya
Department: Material Science Engineering
Research Interests: Storage materials development, modelling
Email: jishnu@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Sameer Khandekar
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Phase-change heat transfer, Heat pipes, Electronics thermal management, energy systems
Email: samkhan@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Malay K. Das
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: CH4 Recovery from gas hydrate, CO2 sequestration in Marine Sediments Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Transport in porous media
Email: mkdas@iitk.ac.in
Dr. Suparno Mukhopadhyay
Department: Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Structural Identification and Health Monitoring, Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering
Email: suparno@iitk.ac.in
Participating Faculty Members: Rice University
Dr. Qilin Li
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Water and wastewater treatment, membrane processes.
Email: Qilin.li@rice.edu
Dr. Michael Sha-Nang Wong
Department: Chemical Engineering & Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Heterogenous catalysis, water treatment
Email: mswong@rice.edu
Dr. Aditya D Mohite
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Hybrid pervoskites, photovoltaics & opto electronic devices.
Email: aditya.d.mohte@rice.edu
Dr. Haotian Wang
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Energy storage, catalysis, green synthesis and energy devices.
Email: htwang@rice.edu
Dr. Rafael Verduzco
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Polymers & polymer-based photovoltaics.
Email: rafaelv@rice.edu
Dr. Thomas Patrick Senftle
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Computational modeling, electronic structure, catalysis.
Email: tsenftle@rice.edu
Dr. Boris I Yakobson
Department: Material Science & Nanoengineering
Research Interests: Theory and modeling; structure, kinetics, and properties of low dimensional systems.
Email: biy@rice.edu
Dr. Ted Loch-Temzelides
Department: Economics
Research Interests: Climate and Energy Economics; Sustainability and Conservation; Transportation
Email: tedt@rice.edu
Dr. Jun Lou
Department: Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Research Interests: Nanomaterial synthesis, nanomechanics and nanodevices for energy applications.
Email: jlou@rice.edu
Dr. Ming Tang
Department: Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Research Interests: Computational material science, energy storage
Email: mingtang@rice.edu
Dr. Pulickel Ajayan
Department: Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Research Interests: Nanomaterials, additive manufacturing, energy storage
Email: ajayan@rice.edu
Dr. Sibani Lisa Biswal
Department: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Energy storage, soft materials including colloids, polymers, and surfactants.
Email: biswal@rice.edu
Dr. Andrew Long
Department: Physics
Research Interests: Theoretical cosmology, elementary particle physics, and particle astro-physics.
Email: andrewjlong@rice.edu
Dr. Mustafa Amin
Department: Physics
Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamics of cosmological fields.
Email: mustafa.a.amin@rice.edu
Dr. Paul Padley
Department: Physics
Research Interests: Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
Email: padley@rice.edu
Dr. Satish Nagarajaiah
Department: Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Seismic Isolation, Adaptive Stiffness Systems, System Identification with Machine Learning.
Email: satish.nagarajaiah@rice.edu
