Associated Faculty
Amit Agrawal
Research Interests: Turbulence, PIV, Heat Transfer, Rarefied Gas Flows, Microfluidics
I work in the fields of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer using experimental, theoretical and simulations tools. My research group's problems are mainly drawn from the areas of Microfluidics and Turbulent flows. Among our research interests are: development of innovative microdevices for various applications; theoretical development of higher-order continuum transport equations and related experiments; synthetic jet and microchannel based cooling of electronic devices; wake interaction from multiple bodies; etc. We have developed a microdevice for blood-plasma separation; also microdevices for three-dimensional hydrodynamic focusing, and for maintaining constant wall temperature. We have provided the first analytical solution of the Burnett equation (a higher-order continuum transport equation), for any configuration. Further, keeping the limitations of Burnett and Grad equations in mind, we derived a new set of Onsager-consistent equations, which are supposedly more general continuum transport equations then the Navier-Stokes equations. We have demonstrated synthetic jet and microchannel based device for cooling of electronic devices requiring small working distance and input power. Our research work is documented in over 125 journal articles. The work has appeared on the cover page of prestigious journals such as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and highlighted in the media. The work has been conducted by 13 PhD and 50 MTech students (who are all well placed in various Industry/Academia), along with 4 Postdoctoral Fellows. Currently, I have an active research group comprising several very dedicated students, postdocs and project staff. I am serving as the Editor of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science and Sadhana; also as Editorial Board Member of Nature Scientific Reports along with two other journals.
Himanshu J. Bahirat
Research Interests: Renewable Energy Sources, Grid Integration of Renewable Energy, Offshore Wind Energy, DC Wind Farms, Transients in Power Systems, Circuit Breakers, HVDC Grids, DC Power Systems, Multi-terminal DC Networks, Power Electronics
Parag Bhargava
Research Interests: Powder Processing, Shape Forming of Ceramics Rheology of inks, pastes Synthesis of weakly agglomerated nanoparticles Dental Materials, Glasses and glass ceramics Silver pastes for various applications; Screen printed sensors / devices Scaling-up and Product development.
Debanjan Bhowmik
Research Interests: Nanomagnetism and spintronics, Neuromorphic computing, Quantum computing and quantum machine learning
Dr. Debanjan Bhowmik is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and was formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (2017–21). He obtained his BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2010. He obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, in 2015, working in the field of nanomagnetism and spintronics. Currently, he works on Artificial Intelligence based on emerging devices, e.g. spintronic devices, and emerging architectures, e.g., crossbar-array architecture and quantum architecture.
Kowsik Bodi
Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Electric Propulsion, Reacting Flows, Compressible Flows
Shiladri Chakraborty
Research Interests: Power Electronics for Renewable Energy and Transportation Electrification, High-Frequency-Isolated Converters, Soft-Switching, Wide Bandgap Devices, Magnetics, Power Semiconductor Packaging, Multi-Physics and Multi-Objective Converter Design
I am a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. I work in the field of power electronics and energy conversion. I did my Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, M. Tech. from IIT Kanpur and B.E. from Jadavpur University in 2019, 2012 and 2008 respectively. From 2018 to 2021, I was a post-doctoral associate at the University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
Tanushree H. Choudhury
Research Interests: Large area of layered materials, like 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) mono-component films, alloys and heterostructures by CVD, Controlling defects sites to impact nucleation, growth and properties of layered material monolayers and heterostructures, In-situ and controlled environment study of layered materials to investigate real time evolution of growth and properties, Synthesizing oxide nanostructure by solution-based techniques with tailored morphology and thermal stability.
Dr. Tanushree H. Choudhury obtained her B.Sc. Physics from North-Eastern Hill University and M.Sc. in Materials Science from Anna University. She received his PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University as a postdoctoral researcher. She was affiliated with 2D Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform at Penn State as an assistant research professor. She joined the Department of Materials Engineering and Materials Science, IITB is an assistant professor in 2021. Prof. Choudhury’s research interest is the synthesis of oxide nanostructures and layered van der Waals materials. During her Ph.D., she worked on the synthesis and thermal stability of anodized zirconia nanostructures for her thesis. She also designed and built a chemical vapor deposition system to synthesize graphene, Si nanowires, and MoS2 in IISc. She synthesized wafer-scale monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides as part of her postdoctoral research in Penn State, USA. She has been involved in developing the process for synthesizing wafer-scale monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides like WS2, MoS2, and WSe2. She has also been instrumental in designing and upgrading tools required for large-area synthesis involving hazardous gases. She has also investigated the mechanism involved in controlling the nucleation density and orientation of these TMD films, which can result in single-crystal TMD monolayers. She was granted the Gladys Snyder Educational grant in 2018.
Titas Dasgupta
Research Interests: Thermoelectric materials and devices,Thermoelectric metrology and instrumentation, Physics of heavily doped semiconductors
Madhav P. Desai
Research Interests: VLSI Circuits and Systems, VLSI design and design automation, Graph theory and combinatorics
Madhav P. Desai received the B.Tech. in Electrical engineering from IIT Bombay in 1984, and the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During the period 1992-1996, he worked in the Semiconductor Engineering Group at the Digital Equipment Corporation in Hudson, MA, where he was a Principal Engineer. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. Dr. Desai's interests are in the areas of VLSI design and design tools, circuits and systems, and combinatorial algorithms. His doctoral work involved the study of the Simulated Annealing algorithm, which is a popular combinatorial optimization technique. While at Digital, Dr. Desai worked on timing verification, delay modeling, circuit and interconnect optimization and contributed to the design of two of the world's fastest CMOS microprocessors. Dr. Desai has been the recipient of GTE and Schlumberger Graduate Fellowships. He has served as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the SIAM Journal on Control, and various conferences.
Veeresh Deshpande
Research Interests: 3D Integration, Neurmorphic computing, Ferroelectric and resistive memory devices
Gopal Dixit
Research Interests: PetaHertz electronics, Two-dimensional materials
After receiving Ph. D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Dr. Gopal Dixit joined center for free-electron laser science (CFEL), Hamburg Germany as a scientist. In 2013, he moved from Hamburg to Max-Born Institute (MBI) Berlin Germany. During Ph. D., he received DAAD fellowship to perform research at Technical University Munich. He has received several prestigious fellowships, such as JSPS, Marie-Curie, Ramanujan, Early Career Research Award, and DAAD Research Ambassador award. He is also visiting scientist at Tsukuba University, MBI Berlin and MPI-PKS Dresden Germany. His work has been featured in MIT Technology Review, NBC News, FORBES, The Hindu to name but a few.
Pradeep Dixit
Research Interests: Microsystems Packaging, 3D Interconnects
Dr. Pradeep Dixit is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. Pradeep has earned his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore in year 2008. Pradeep worked as as senior researcher in the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) and in Packaging Research Center, Georgia Tech. He received Norman Hackermann Young Author Award in 2006 for his work on aspect ratio dependent copper filling process. He has published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests are in the Micromachining, 3D interconnects and Microsystems Packaging.
Siddhartha P Duttagupta
Research Interests: Tera Hertz Spectroscopy, Wireless RF Power Transfer (highly directive reflect-array antenna), Silicon Photo Multiplier (avalanche photo-diode array based single photon detector), Photo Electro Chemical Power Converter (ultra-low light intensity operation), High Performance Computing (real-time, non-uniform, photo-intensity mapping), Mobile Green Hybrid Power Platforms (air-borne, off-shore, sub-surface monitoring)
Dr. Siddhartha Prakash Duttagupta obtained BTech (Honours) in Electronics from IIT Kharagpur, India, and PhD from University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA (dissertation title: Porous Silicon based Optoelectronic Integrated Devices- Materials characterization, Fabrication and Testing). Research effort is focused on (i) Micro, Nano-fabricated devices- optimization and application, and (ii) Integrated Electronic Systems- design and deployment. The cumulative impact of 112 publications is reflected in 3003 citations and an h-index of 21 and i-10 index of 32 (ref. Google Scholar, July 15, 2015). Dr Duttagupta holds one US patent (2015) and has filed for more than 20 patents in Micro, Nano-scale Sensors and Actuators and in Green Power Circuits and Systems. He has also authored five monographs which cover aspects of platform technology development in Ambulatory ECG Monitoring, Precision Cooled High Performance Computing, and Micro Fuel Cells. Dr. Duttagupta has been actively involved in the development of Research Centers of Excellence in the USA and in India. Single PI led on-going research is being sponsored by agencies such as the AOARD (US Army), DRDO (India), Nipro (Japan), and Tata Consultancy Services. Partner organizations include Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India), Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (Pune, India), Tata Consultancy Services (Mumbai), and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Mumbai University)
Prasanna S. Gandhi
Research Interests: Fluid instabilities for micro-fabrication, synthesis of compliant mechanism systems, Dynamics and control of ultra-flexible systems, 3D microfabrication.
Udayan Ganguly
Research Interests: Hardware Encryption, Physical Unclonable Functions, One Time Programmable Memory, Smartcard
Udayan Ganguly received the B.Tech. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the IIT Madras, in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2005 and 2006 respectively. In 2006, Udayan joined Applied Materials to serve as the technical lead for Flash Memory Applications Development at Applied Materials’ Front End Product Division, Sunnyvale, CA. He has joined Dept. of Electrical Engineering in 2010. He has authored/ co-authored 50+ journal, 90+ conference and 25+ patents (applied/granted). His research interests are in semiconductor device physics and processing technologies for advanced memory, computing, security and neuromorphic systems. He has contributed to the TIFAC National Vision for ICT 2035. He has won the Dr. PK Patwardhan Technology Development Award 2018. In 2022, he won the Abdul Kalam Tech Innovation National Fellowship. He has been an Editor for IEEE Electron Devices Letters since 2020.
Swaroop Ganguly
Research Interests: Quantum Biomimetic Technologies, Semiconductor Modeling & Simulation - from Materials to Devices to Circuits
Dipti Gupta
Research Interests: Flexible/Stretchable/Printed electronics, Wearable Electronic devices and Sensors for healthcare applications, Energy harvesting and storage Devices, 3D printing
Dr. Dipti Gupta is working as a Professor at Metallurgical Engineering and Material science (MEMS) department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India. She received her B-Tech from IIT Kanpur and continued her M-Tech and Ph.D. degree in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering in the same institute. Later she worked as a BK-21 Postdoctoral Fellow at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea and as an EPSRC Research Associate at Imperial College, London, U.K.. She also spent two years with Department of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea as BK Assistant Professor.
She is recipient of prestigious SERB Power Fellowship and serves as Associate Editor of American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Electronic Materials. Currently, she is associated with Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) on IOT/IOE where she would be contributing towards Health-IOT, Sensors and Data Analysis. She is also associated with Center of Excellence in Nano electronics (CEN), IITB-Monash Research Academy (an initiative of IITB and Monash University), Wadhwani Research Center for Bioengineering (WRCB), Koita Center for Digital Health (KCDH), National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), located at IIT Bombay, India. Her research activities are funded by competitive programs of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), Scientific and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Wadhwani foundation, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Tata Center for Technology and Design (TCTD) etc.
Shalabh Gupta
Research Interests: High-Speed Serial Links Data Center Interconnects / Optical Interconnects Optical Fiber Communication Systems Silicon Photonics CMOS Analog/RF/mmWave Integrated Circuits & Systems Microwave Photonics and Radio-over-Fiber Signal Processing for Communication Systems Beamforming Antenna Systems
Shalabh Gupta received B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2001, and M.S. and PhD degrees from UCLA in 2004 and 2009, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. For his PhD, he worked on the development of high-resolution high-speed analog-to-digital converters using optical techniques. From 2003-2006, he worked in the industry on the design of analog integrated circuits for high-speed serial links and RFICs for wireless communications. He also spent some time at NEC Labs (Princeton, NJ) to learn and contribute in the area of high speed coherent optical links. Since 2009, he has been with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he is currently a professor of Electrical Engineering. His current research interests include electronic and photonic integrated circuits and systems for wired, wireless and optical communications, and more specifically for high-speed interconnects.
Dinesh Kabra
Research Interests: Optoelectronic Materials and Device physics, Advanced Spectroscopy and Structural Studies, Semiconductor Physics of halide perovskites and organic semiconductor thin-films.
Prof. Dinesh Kabra is Forbes & Marshall chair professor of Energy Science and Engineering and Professor in department of Physics at IIT Bombay, Mumbai - India. DK is faculty in-charge for emerging PV technologies at National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE) at IITB and also associated faculty member for Centre for Semiconductors for innovations and technologies (SEMIX). Prior to joining the IIT Bombay, DK was an independent Herchel Smith Research Fellow at Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge, UK. He did his PhD at JNCASR, Bengaluru-India. DK is recipient of DST Solar Challenge Award 2022, Early Research Achiever Award 2015 and Best Paper Award 2016 of Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre, IIT Bombay. His research focus involves Energy Materials and devices, like; single junction & tandem Solar Cells, Transparent PV, In-door PV and optoelectronic devices. He is an expert in transferring the fundamental photo-physics and device physics of emerging photonic materials like halide perovskite and molecular semiconductors into the design of high-performance devices. His research group has published more than 100 peer reviewed reputed publications and more than 10 international and national patents, many of them licensed and tech-transferred to the industries in the domain of energy and optoelectronics.
Anil Kottantharayil
Research Interests: CMOS device physics, design and modelling, Materials for advanced CMOS devices CMOS device physics, design and modelling, Materials for advanced CMOS devices, Electrical characterization, Gate oxide reliability and hot-carrier effects, Radiation effects on MOS devices
Anil Kottantharayil received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology Calicut, in 1993, the M. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 1997, and the Dr.Ing. degree (summa cum laude) from the Universitat der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany, in 2002.
From 2001 to 2006, he was with the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Leuven, Belgium, where he worked on FinFETs, metal gate, and high-κ integration in logic technologies. Since 2006, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests are in the areas of novel MOS devices, memory technologies, graphene based devices, and silicon-based solar cells and modules. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 papers and conference presentations, and is an investor/co-inventor of more than 10 national and international patents in these fields. He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He was the Head of the Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Science (CRNTS), and the Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (SAIF) at IIT Bombay during June 2018 - December 2021. He is also a regular reviewer for 16 international journals.
Anshuman Kumar
Research Interests: quantum photonics, 2D semiconductors, metamaterials
B. Tech. from IIT Bombay, PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, please check our website http://loqm.tech.
Pramod Kumar
Research Interests: Nano-structure based haptics sensors, gas sensors: Study of charge carrier transport properties; Integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in various sensors: Analyzing sensor response with the help of AI, machine learning algorithms, and artificial neural networks; Organic/inorganic field effect transistor and diodes: High band gap semiconductors, organic semiconductors, charge carrier transport study, and effect of trap sites. Effect of molecular arrangement on charge carrier transport and traps; Device trap density measurement with the help of capacitance measurements; Energy generation and storage devices: Study the effect of molecular and atomic arrangement on the performance of energy storage devices; Piezoelectric sensors: Study various piezoelectric materials in thin films and nano-structured forms.
BSc, MSc from Delhi University, Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi. After Ph.D. joined as postdoctoral fellow at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and later as research scientist at Biorobotics center, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Currently serving as assistant professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Apurba Laha
Research Interests: • III-Nitride semiconductors and heterostructures: Growth using Molecular Beam Epitaxy • III-Nitride Nanowires: Growth and Devices • Optoelectronics devices such as Green Laser Diode, UV LED • Oxide based electronics: Epitaxial rare earth oxides (high-K dielectrics) on III-Nitride substrates for MOSHEMT application. Physics of nanostructure growth • Solid phase epitaxy of semiconductor and oxide materials, Encapsulated solid phase epitaxy, Molecular Beam epitaxy, Mismatch epitaxy.
Apurba Laha is currently a professor at the department of electrical engineering, IIT Bombay. After his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, in 2004, he moved to Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH). He was later offered a senior scientist position at the same university (LUH) in 2007, and two years later, he became the group leader to lead a research group on functional oxide and semiconductor thin films and nanostructures.
In 2009, Dr. Laha was nominated among the best three researchers from Leibniz University Hannover for Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Price awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
At IIT Bombay, Dr. Laha leads a research group working on the epitaxial growth of GaN, AlN, InN, and their alloys and heterostructures using a plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE) technique. His group also focuses on the design and fabrication of various III-Nitride electronic and optoelectronic devices such as high electron mobility transistors (HEMT), light emitting diodes (LED), LASER diodes (LD), and photodetectors (PD). Dr. Laha has published 120 articles in international journals and conference proceedings and delivered more than 60 invited talks.
Saurabh Lodha
Research Interests: 2D materials and devices, Wide bandgap power devices, CMOS process integration and device physics, Metal-semiconductor interfaces
Prof. Saurabh Lodha is an Institute Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in India. He graduated from IIT Bombay in 1999 with a B. Tech (EE) followed by a Masters (ECE) and PhD (ECE) from Purdue University, USA, in 2001 and 2004 respectively. From 2005-2010 he worked at Intel Corporation in Portland, USA, on the research and development of 45, 32 and 22 nm Si CMOS technologies. He joined IIT Bombay in 2010 where he is also the PI of the IITB-OSU Frontier Research Center. His research interests span devices and materials in the areas of advanced CMOS technologies, 2D (opto)electronics and gallium oxide power electronics. He has been awarded the Swarna Jayanti fellowship (2017) and the Young Career Award (2020) by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has (co-)authored 86 peer-reviewed journal publications and 8 patents; his work has been cited more than 4200 times (h-index of 33 (Google Scholar)). He is a senior member of IEEE and has supervised 13 PhD students and 6 Postdocs.
Suddhasatta Mahapatra
Research Interests: Quantum Electronics, Quantum Information, and Quantum Computation, Group IV Epitaxy and Optoelectronics, Silicon/Germanium Spintronics, Thermoelectric materials, modules, and generators
Souvik Mahapatra
Research Interests: Electrical characterization, modeling and simulation of micro/nano electronic devices, Design Technology Co-Optimization, Ageing impact on circuits, NBTI/PBTI and Hot carrier degradation in MOSFETs, High-k gate dielectrics, Advanced CMOS devices - scaling and reliability, Flash memories - 3D NAND, Solar cells
Sandip Mondal
Research Interests: Flash Memory devices including (i) Physics Solid-state Devices, (ii) Electronic Devices and Circuits, (iii) Microelectronics, (iv) Neuromorphic Engineering, (v) Electronic System Design Engineering, (vi) Packaging The physics and technology of semiconductor devices, Neuromorphic Engineering for Artificial Intelligence, Materials & devices for brain-inspired computing, Flash memory technology – Floating gate, SONOS, Charge trapping materials, Flexible electronics using cost-effective solution-processed semiconductor and dielectrics, High-k gate dielectrics, Deep level and interface trap characterization, electronic transport, Ultra-High-speed Capacitance Voltage Measurement System and Technology (uHSCV), Integrated circuits, and system design with emerging CMOS devices, Quantum Technologies with Quantum Dots (QDs) and Nanoparticles (NPs) based devices, Packaging technology
Prof Sandip Mondal received Ph.D. in Physics, from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Subsequently, he gained industrial research experience from Western Digital Corporation (SanDisk India Device Design Center) as a Staff Engineer (scientist) in the Device Research group (R & D Engineering) from January 2018 to September 2019). Before joining IIT Bombay he worked as a post-doctoral scholar in materials engineering at Purdue University, USA from September 2019 to January 2021.
Awards and Nomination:
2022 INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2022
18-12-2018 Memory Technology -Recognition for exemplary dedication and effort on BiCS BinZZ Blue release for USB by Anand Venkitachalam, Vice President, R & D Engineering, Western Digital
06-09-2018 Memory Technology - Recognition for exemplary dedication, effort on Brahma-II 1TB drives with BiCS 512 Gb eX3 2P by Anand Venkitachalam
2017 Foreign Travel Grant Award for USA by CSIR, Govt. of India
2016 International Travel Award for USA by ITS, SERB, DST, Govt. of India
2011 – 2016 Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship by UGC, Govt. of India
2015 International Travel Award for USA by CeNSE, IISc, Bangalore
2012 National Eligibility Test (NET), conducted by HRD-CSIR, Govt. of India
2009 – 2011 Integrated PhD Scholarship (2009 – 11), Dept. of Physics, IISc, India
1999 – 2008 National Scholarship Awards, Government of India
1999 – 2000 Science Talent Research Test by Jatiya Vigyan Parishad, India
2001 Achievement cum Diagnostic test in Mathematics by Centre for Pedagogical Studies in Mathematics, India
Research experience
Purdue University, USA (Sep 2019 - Sep 2021):
My present research is focused on the fabrication and characterization of micro/nano-devices using strongly-correlated oxide semiconductors such as nickel oxide (NiO), neodymium doped nickel oxide (NdNiO3), vanadium dioxide (VO2), yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and Gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC) to emulate non-associative neuromorphic learning behaviours in living organisms for artificial intelligence. The main goal of this project is to understand the physical phenomenon of materials for neuromorphic computing/machine learning applications, which evokes an extensive interest in the condensed matter physics and engineering disciplines. In this study: (a) multi-component oxide thin films and metal electrodes are grown in non-stoichiometry growth chambers (physical vapour deposition); (b) utilizing them, neuromorphic devices are fabricated in the class 10 cleanroom at the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, USA; (c) finally, the devices are characterised in the in-house (controlled environment) high-speed impedance measurement system that is capable of measuring the electrical properties of neuromorphic devices in a time scale of nanoseconds (ns).
Western Digital Corporation (Jan 2018 - Sep 2019):
I was involved in developing 96 layers of three-dimensional (3D) BiCS4-NAND flash memory technology. This opportunity enabled me to gain extensive hands-on experience in multi-generation (two- and three-dimensional) NAND flash memory design specifications and operation modes, device physics and reliability, memory qualification, product engineering test flow and memory system integration. I was greatly involved in path-finding storage system solution projects, ranging from higher-performance NAND to lower-cost memory feasibility studies.
Indian Institute of Science (Aug 2009 - July 2017):
The major focus of my work was developing novel fabrication and measurement techniques, including the growth of different types of materials for nanoelectronic devices such as thin-film transistors (TFTs) and memory devices. In the initial stages of my integrated PhD program (Master of Science (MS) + Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)), I worked on dielectric-made two-terminal memory devices using colloidal nanocrystals. Thereafter, I developed a new electrical measurement technique for two-terminal capacitive flash memory devices. To the best of my knowledge, it is the fastest measurement technique compared to all previously-employed measurement systems for such devices. The above devices were fabricated using a fully solution processing method. This is the first-ever report on fully solution-processed memory devices. In addition, I have fabricated a novel and robust flash memory-TFT using sol-gel dielectrics (ALPO, ZrO2, TiO2 and HfO2) and semiconductors (IGZO, IZO, In2O3 and ZnO2). This type of novel memory technology has not been reported so far due to limitations and optimization of the leakage current and intrinsic trap density simultaneously in the charge storage dielectric layers. Our group was the first to demonstrate a completely solution-processed flash memory device with equivalent performance as that fabricated by sophisticated high vacuum technology.
Rakesh G. Mote
Research Interests: Charged particle beam techniques (focused ion and electron beam) for nanofabrication/characterization
Rakesh Mote is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Bombay. His research interests are Charged particle beam techniques (focused ion and electron beam) for nanofabrication/characterization, plasmonics nanostructures for super-resolution and lithography applications, and non-conventional micromachining processes.
Rakesh served as a Scientist in the Plasmonics and Nano-integration group of A-STAR Institute of High-Performance Computing (IHPC), Singapore, for a couple of years and thereafter Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, before joining IIT Bombay. Rakesh obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011 and his M.Tech. from the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur.
Rakesh works on a charged particle beam technique (focused ion and e-beam), optical/photonic measurements, and optical simulations of the nanoscale structures. His research group has developed novel fabrication routes to achieve unique nanostructures/nano-architectures, TEM/APT sample preparations, and surface reorganization. The work has been published in journals of high repute like Advanced Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, APL Materials, etc., along with best paper and best poster/micrograph awards in flagship conferences/meetings like Microscope and Microanalysis Meeting (Microscopy Society of America), Melbourne Center of Nanofabrication, etc.
Triratna Muneshwar
Research Interests: Semiconductor materials, fabrication process modelling, Atomic layer deposition/etching (ALD/ALE), next-gen metallization
Working as Assistant Professor (since Nov 2021) in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay. Prior to this was working as Post-doctoral Research Associate at University of Alberta (2015 - 2021). I earned my PhD degree from department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta (2014), and undergraduate degrees (BTech and MTech Dual Degree) from department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science IIT Bombay
Bhaskaran Muralidharan
Research Interests: Computational nanoscale device modelling, Spintronics, Quantum devices
Prof. Bhaskaran Muralidharan obtained his B.Tech in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Bombay in 2001, his M. S. and Ph. D in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA in 2003 and 2008 respectively. Between 2008-2012, he was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the Institute for theoretical Physics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Since 2012, he has been a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, where he is currently a Professor. His core research area is computational quantum transport and its applications to modeling and simulation of “Beyond Moore” devices. His research output spans diverse areas of emerging nanoscale devices, ultimately built on top of a broad and fundamental foundation of utilizing quantum transport for novel functionalities. He was also the recipient of the APS-IUSSTF professorship award in 2014, the Shastri Indo-Canada fellowship 2019 and the SERB-STAR award in 2019. He is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award in IIT Bombay. He is an Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, on the Editorial board of Scientific Reports and Materials for Quantum Technology (IOP). He has also been a regular visiting Professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in the University of Waterloo, Canada. Recently, he has also been conferred with the prestigious Dhananjay Joshi fellowship, an Endowment from the Alumni of IIT Bombay for contributions to fundamental research.
Pradeep R Nair
Research Interests: Nanoscale devices for energy conversion, Nanoscale devices for Healthcare applications, Semiconductor device physics and reliability, Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)
Avradeep Pal
Research Interests: Josephson junctions, Superconductor-ferromagnet interactions (Superconducting Spintronics), Tunneling spectroscopy, Growth of thin films, UHV systems and nano-fabrication,Graphene mesoscopics
Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Research Interests: Neurotechnology, Electrochemistry, Batteries, Materials
Srinivasan is an electrochemist working at the cutting edge of advanced batteries, electrocatalysts for fuel production, and brain-machine interfaces. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at IIT Bombay. Previously, he was the Electrochemical and Materials Engineering Lead at Neuralink Corporation, an Elon Musk-founded company at the forefront of BMI technology. At Neuralink, he led the battery engineering and development program along with materials development for in vivo neural recording and stimulation. Srinivasan received his PhD from Stanford University in 2017 for his thesis on the design of new electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction to energy-dense fuels. Following his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the Chemical Engineering department at the University of California Berkeley on the surface passivation of high-energy Li-ion battery cathode materials for electric vehicle applications in partnership with LG Chem. Srinivasan has won several awards and fellowships for his work including the Rising Environmental Leaders Fellowship (Stanford University), Center for Molecular Analysis and Design Fellowship (Stanford University), Institute Silver Medal for Best Academic Performance (IIT Madras).
Sandip K Saha
Research Interests: Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flow, Two-phase flow, Electronics Cooling, Thermal Energy Storage, Green Buildings, Solar Energy
Sandip Kumar Saha joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, INDIA, in 2012 and is presently a Professor. He received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and his MSc (Engg.) and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, respectively. Prior to joining the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, he was with R&D TATA Steel, India, as a Researcher and with Applied Mechanics and Energy Conversion, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermal management of electronics, microchannel cooling, thermal storage systems for solar thermal applications and thermal management of buildings. He has authored or co-authored over 123 journal articles and filed for 6 patents. He has received the BASE Fellowship and Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, and the IIT Bombay research award 2020. He has been an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Research journals.
Kasturi Saha
Research Interests: Quantum sensing, photonics, quantum computing, high power devices
Kasturi Saha is an associate professor in IIT Bombay in the Electrical Engineering Department. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Paola Cappellaro's group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Prof. Alexander Gaeta's group in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics in Cornell University. Prior to that she did her M.Sc. from IIT-Delhi and B.Sc.(Hons.) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Her research interests include quantum sensing, nano-photonics, precision metrology, and quantum computation with solid state color defects. She is a recipient of the DST-INSPIRE faculty fellowship, IIT Bombay young faculty award and Venus international young investigator award.
Dipankar Saha
Research Interests: Microelectronics, Nanotechnology Novel and engineered materials LEDs, lasers and detectors Novel Transistors RF transistor design, fabrication, characterization and modelling Power electronic devices
Abhijeet L. Sangle
Research Interests: Nanocomposite thin films, Pulsed Laser Deposition, RF/DC/Pulsed DC sputter deposition, Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectrics, Photoelectrochemistry, Resistive Random Access Memories
Abhijeet L. Sangle obtained his B.Tech. + M.Tech. (5-year dual degree) in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science with a specialisation in Ceramics and Composites from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2011. Following that, he went to the University of Cambridge, UK to perform doctoral studies in Materials Science, supported by a scholarship from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust under the Cambridge-India partnership scholarship. During his doctoral work, he developed self-assembled vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films by using Pulsed Laser Deposition and demonstrated that strain tuning can be employed to induce ferroelectricity in an otherwise quantum paraelectric SrTiO3. He also developed extremely high surface area mesoporous films by selectively etching one of the two phases in the VAN films and showed improved photoelectrochemical hydrogen production using the mesoporous films. He further undertook a postdoctoral assignment at University of Cambridge to develop aerosol-jet printed flexible thermoelectric energy harvesting devices using bespoke inks.
Abhijeet later moved to work in corporate R & D, by joining Applied Materials India. During this time, his majority of the work involved developing large area piezoelectric thin films. After gaining corporate R & D experience of over 3 years, he moved back to work in academia and joined IIT Goa as an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences in 2021. He soon enough found an opportunity to work as an Assistant Professor at his alma mater, IIT Bombay, and has been employed there since 2022.
His current areas of research are developing novel VAN thin films by PLD and sputter deposition on Si substrates for energy storage, memory, thermoelectric and photoelectrochemical applications.
Narendra S Shiradkar
Research Interests: Photovoltaic Module and System Reliability,Accelerated Testing and Lifetime Prediction, Physics of Failure and Electronic Device Failure Analysis Techniques, Photovoltaic Performance Modeling, Photovoltaic Power Plant Inspection and Monitoring Techniques, In-line Metrology and Characterization Techniques for Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing, PV Module Deployments and Manufacturing in India
Maryam Shojaei Baghini
Research Interests: Analog, Mixed-Signal and RF IC Design; Sensor-Systems; Neuromorphic Circuits, Energy Harvesting and Power Management Circuits and Systems
Maryam Shojaei Baghini (INAE fellow) is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Bombay. She received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, in 1991 and 1999, respectively. She worked for more than 2 years in industry on the design of analog ICs. In 2001, she joined Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Bombay, as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where she is currently a TATA Trust Chair Professor in Frugal Engineering. Maryam has published more than 320 peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers. She has 23 granted Indian patents and 6 granted US patents. Her research areas include analog/mixed-signal/RF IC design, sensor-systems, neuromorphic circuits, energy-harvesting circuits and systems and power management circuits. She is recipient/co-recipient of several awards, of which the recent award is the Qualcomm Faculty Award 2021 India. She was TPC Co-Chair of International VLSI Design Conference 2022, track chair of Smart Cities and Smart Village track in IEEE APSCON 2023 and the WSN Track Chair of IEEE Sensors Conferences 2018 and 2019. Maryam is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Sensors Council 2022-2024 and listed as one the 51 selected Women Achievers in STEM by CII (India) in 2021. She with her team of students have designed and tested 32 silicon proven IP designs fabricated in CMOS and BiCMOS technologies.
Shobha Shukla
Research Interests: Nanophotonic Devices, Metamaterials, Direct Laser Lithography
Professor Shobha Shukla is Professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. She obtained her doctoral degree at the State University of New York/SUNY Buffalo, USA. Subsequently, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her research interests are in the field of nanophotonics devices, water related technologies, metamaterials, and plasmonic devices. Prof. Shobha Shukla has published her research in several international journals and presented on international forums. She is also on the editorial board of ‘Scientific Reports’ by Nature Publishing group, ‘Nanotechnology’ & ‘Journal of Physics-Photonics’ by IoP publishing. Professor Shukla is currently heading the water innovation center (WICTRE) at IIT Bombay.
Research Activities:
At Nanostructures Engineering and Modeling (NEMO) laboratory, we comprehend nanodevices utilizing extraordinary properties of nanomaterials and nanostructures. Some of the research themes in which the NEMO group has actively contributed can be classified under energy storage and generation, Water, 2D materials and Metamaterials. About 20 PhD students are working on various research topics such as biosensors, super capacitors, dye sensitized solar cells, photonic crystals, optical metamaterials, solar concentrators, micro lenses, water purification using 2D nanomaterials, heavy metal detection sensors using 2D nanomaterials, plasmonic metalmaterials, high-K materials, nano generators, bioapplications and oil-water separation using 2D and 3D nanomaterials etc.
Water innovation center technology research & Education (WICTRE) is DST funded multi-institutional center located at IIT Bombay. The academic partners are IITB, IITH, NCL Pune and PDPU gandhinagar. The center also has ties with industries TATA and ONGC. The mission of the center is to develop industry-academia partnership to solve water related problems in the country. The current strength of the center include 18 full time faculty members and three visiting faculty members along with several research students. The interest of the center include but not limited to water purification, desalination, sensing, using various techniques.
Laxmeesha Somappa
Research Interests: Analog Digital & Mixed-Signal IC Design, Biomedical Circuits & Systems, Neuromodulation System on Chips, Oversampled Data Converters, MEMS Interface & Readout Circuits & Systems, Finite rate of Innovation & Sub-Nyquist Sampling, Compressed Sensing, Sensor Interface Circuits & Sensor networks
I have been in the VLSI domain for around nine years, with my research oriented mainly toward analog, digital and mixed-signal VLSI design, primarily for biomedical and sensing applications. I was associated with the Centre of Neuroprosthetics at Geneva and EPFL, Switzerland after my Ph.D. at IIT Bombay, India. Before this, I was associated as a visiting scholar with the Nanoscience Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK. I received my Master's from Indian Institute of Technology where I worked on ONFi compliant Nand Flash Controller. Prior to this, I have worked as an engineer at Tata Elxsi (Systems BU) and Qualcomm India (Memory IP).
Siddharth Tallur
Research Interests: • Embedded Systems and Sensors • Digital Systems and Signal Processing • Photonics and Frequency Control • Microsystems and MEMS • Ongoing projects: Electrochemical sensors for DNA and protein sensing, AMR, water quality monitoring, Acoustic and electromagnetic techniques for corrosion monitoring, Ultrasonic guided wave structural health monitoring, Vibration sensor systems for machine health monitoring
Shantanu Tripathi
Research Interests: Sensing, learning and intelligence, Mechanical & Environmental Reliability of Electronics, Solder Joint Fatigue, Dynamic Shock/Drop, Stress Use-Conditions, Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP), Tribology, Corrosion, Semiconductor Fabrication, Reliability of sensors, networks, and computation
Ashwin A. Tulapurkar
Research Interests: Spintronics, Physics of nano-devices, Spin-current induced magnetization switching, RF properties of spintronic devices, Noise, Thermoelectric effects
Ashwin A. Tulapurkar is working as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Bombay. He completed his B-Tech from IIT Bombay in Engineering Physics and Ph.D. from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research(TIFR) Bombay in 1992 and 1999 respectively. His research interest are Spintronics, Quantum Physics of Nano scale Devices, Spin Torques, Spin based oscillators, Noise and Thermoelectric Effects.
Parinda Vasa
Research Interests: Nano-photonics, plasmonics, semiconductor nanostructures, 2D materials, ultrafast spectroscopy
Parinda Vasa, born in Mumbai, India, in 1977, studied physics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. She received a PhD in physics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, in 2006. During her PhD, she studied optical properties of semiconductor nanoparticle thin films. In the same year, she received a fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and later in 2008 the “Faculty for the future” Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation to conduct research at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany. Here, her research was focused on investigating novel metal-semiconductor plasmonic structures using nano-optics and ultrafast spectroscopy techniques. She is a faculty member at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) since 2011.
Her research interests include experimental exploration of energy transfer and dynamical processes in metal and semiconductor nanostructures. Since many of these processes occur on ultrafast timescale and nanometric length-scale, she makes use of ultrafast nano-optical techniques to probe light-matter interactions in nanostructured materials. Her expertise, knowledge and insights acquired in the field of ultrafast nano-photonics and its applications in active plasmonics, have prompted her to explore newer frontiers in science and search for solutions to higher efficiency all-optical devices. For her research work at IIT Bombay, she has received several awards and recognitions including Young Scientist Medal by INSA, SERB Women Excellence Award, B. M. Birla Science Prize in Physics, DST Young Career Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and SERB POWER Fellowship.
Aswani Yella
Research Interests: Nanostructured materials for photovoltaics, Organic-inorganic hybrid materials for light harvesting, Molecular electronics, Dye/semiconductor sensitized solar cells
Rajesh Zele
Research Interests: RF, Analog & Mixed-Signal Circuits for Communication Applications
Professor Rajesh Zele is the alumnus of IIT Bombay (B.Tech. 1989). He joined IIT Bombay as a Professor in Electrical Engineering Department after 22 years of industry experience. Before joining IIT, Prof. Rajesh Zele was the Director at MaxLinear, developing the next generation CMOS RF and Mixed-Signal SOCs for Digital Cable and Satellite Communications. Prof. Rajesh Zele has also served as the Vice President of MindTree, leading the team for Bluetooth and shortrange wireless transceivers. He founded the startup Alereon Semiconductors in Pune to develop ultra-wideband RFICs for Wireless USB products. Before Alereon, he was the Director of Engineering at Zilker labs developing power management products. He established Austin Design Center for the startup FET and managed the technical team responsible for 10Gbps optical networking products. Prof. Rajesh Zele has an extensive background in wireless transceivers at Motorola, where he was IC design manager for the Talk-About radio platform. He has presented talks at various IEEE conferences and symposiums. He has written over 20 papers, coauthored a book chapter and holds 8 US patents. Prof. Rajesh Zele has received Ph.D. in ECE from Carnegie Mellon University, MSEE from Oregon State University, and is also a Senior Member of IEEE.
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Vijay Parmar
Research Interests:
Vijay received a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Tulane University. Almost four decades of his career has primarily been in semiconductors and systems at large companies such as AMD and Intel and at several successful startups two of which he founded. His functional focus has been general management and go-to-market including strategy, marketing, sales and business development with a breadth of technologies and markets such as computers, telecom, networking, wireless, IoT, embedded systems, batteries, and enterprise software. He most recently spent several years as a partner at a venture fund and now advises and consults with various companies including venture-funded startups.
Niranjan A. Pol
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Niranjan holds MTech (Reliability Engineering) from IIT Bombay in 1997 and MBA (International Business/Finance) from Santa Clara University in 2005.
He is Senior Engineering Director and head for Seagate Research, India. In the past 25 years, he has served various engineering and management roles in Semiconductor, EDA and Systems verticals at Intel, Cadence, Sun Microsystems and LSI.
He is serving as the Vice President of VLSI Society of India (VSI) since 2018. Niranjan played active roles in organizing IEEE VLSI International Conference in India – notably as the Organizing Chair in 2013 and as the General Chair in 2018. Niranjan served on the Executive Council and Board of Directors for IESA (India Electronics and Semiconductor Association) during 2016-18. Currently he is serving as a co-chair for IESA’s Maharashtra Chapter for facilitating collaboration among Industry, Government and Academia.
Ashutosh Shastry
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Dr. Ashutosh Shastry is a multidisciplinary engineering executive focusing on medical device and diagnostics innovation. As the CTO of Evanostics, he championed the development of a point-of-care technology platform, harnessing the potential of silicon photonics. He led the engineering team at Corium International and spearheaded the MicroCor "Drug-in-Tip" transdermal patch project, integrating dissolvable microneedles. His research tenure at the University of Washington emphasized droplet microfluidics, where he leveraged super-hydrophobic surfaces in silicon, culminating in highly cited publications and patents.
Grounded in a solid academic foundation, Dr. Shastry's accomplishments trace back to IIT Bombay. Here, he completed his B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering and subsequently his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. During this period, as a research associate in the Electrical Engineering Department's microelectronics group, he pioneered BioMEMS research under the mentorship of Prof. Rakesh Lal. Further enhancing his professional expertise, he pursued an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology. His leadership trajectory in startups led him to assume the role of Senior Vice President of Engineering at Siphox. Currently, at Illumina, Dr. Shastry plays a vital role as an engineering leader in the Advanced Platforms and Devices Group, steering the development of the next wave of DNA sequencing technologies and products. Beyond his primary roles, he has been an advisory board member for UCLA's Bioengineering department and a reviewer for NIH and NSF SBIR Grant proposals. His leadership extends to EPPIC Global, where he served as President and continues to be an integral part of the Board of Directors.
