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	Department	Areas of Interest
Prof Abhijit Kshirsagar	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Power Electronics and Drives Renewable Energy Solar Inverters EV Chargers Power Supplies
Prof Achyut Mani Tripathi	Computer Science and Engineering	Deep Learning for Sound Classification Adversarial Attacks Knowledge Distillation Multi-modal Learning Audio-Visual Question Answering Audio-Visual Scene Classification
Prof Amar Keshav Gaonkar	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Computational Mechanics Applied Mechanics Model order reduction Thin Film Dynamics
Prof Amarkumar Ayodhyasingh Kushwaha	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Design and optimization of electromagnetic devices Electromagnetic analysis of electric machines Modelling and control of permanent magnet machines Eddy-current couplers and brakes Thermal analysis of power-electronic converters
Prof Amarnath Hegde	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Geotechnical Engineering Geosynthetics and Ground Improvements Soil Dynamics and Vibration Isolation Stability of Earth Retaining Structures Computational Geotechnics
Prof Ambarish Kulkarni	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
Prof Ameer K Mulla	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Multi-agent systems Decentralized control System identification Static and differential games Algorithm development Optimization and optimal control Traffic modelling
Prof Amlan K Barua	Mathematics	Computational Materials Science Computational methods for PDEs
Prof [Ms] Anbukkarasi Rajendran	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Welding Casting Corrosion Materials characterization Physical Metallurgy Mechanical Metallurgy
Prof Aniket Vasantrao Kataware	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Pavement Materials Pavement Evaluation. Pavement Management System Sustainable and Resilient Pavements Pavement Design and Analysis
Prof Animesh Kumar Sahoo	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Renewables Grid-tie Inverters Control Power Electronic Systems Grid Forming Technology Microgrids
Prof B N Bharath	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Cellular networks federated learning bilevel optimization distributed stochastic optimization signal processing.
Prof Bal Krishna Chaube	Biosciences and Bioengineering	Cardiovascular Disorder Metabolism in Health and Disease Vascular Biology Cancer Metabolism Endothelial Cell Biology Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism Metabolic Disorders Cellular Bioenergetics Angiogenesis
Prof Bhalchandra Laxmanrao Tembe	Chemistry	Chemistry Yoga Indian Knowledge Systems
Prof D Narasimha	Physics
Prof [Ms] Debalina Chakravarty	Humanities, Economics, Arts and Rural Technologies	Energy Economics Urban Economics
Prof Dhiraj V Patil	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Mesoscopic and particle based approaches as: lattice-Boltzmann method discrete element method for the analysis of: thermal fluid flows non-Newtonian flows turbulence high-speed flows.
Prof Dhriti Ranjan Dolai	Mathematics	Random Schrodinger operator Functional analysis.
Prof Dhriti Sundar Ghosh	Physics	Solar Cells Thin-Films
Prof Dileep A D	Computer Science and Engineering	Pattern Recognition Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis Machine Learning and Deep Learning Speech Technology, Computer Vision
Prof [Ms] Gayathri Ananthanarayanan	Computer Science and Engineering	Hardware Performance analysis Efficient deployment of Edge-AI applications on Heterogeneous Multi-processor Platforms (HMPSoCs) and security aspects of AI applications in safety critical systems.
Prof Giridhar Rajesh Bande	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Industrial By-Products for Sustainable Development Ground Improvement Techniques Design of Coastal Geotechnical Structures
Prof Gopal Krishna Kamath M	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Control and Security of Cyber-Physical Systems Intelligent Transportation Networks Delayed Dynamical Systems Communication-Control Co-Design
Prof Gopal Sharan Parashari	Humanities, Economics, Arts and Rural Technologies	Applied Microeconomic theory Applied game theory Economics of Conflict Agricuture
Prof Group Captain Prahlad Joshi	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Blast analysis of composite and monolithic materials Blast mitigation and fragment estimation of materials under dynamic loading
Prof Hemanth Kumar Chinthapalli	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Structural Engineering Structural Dynamics Structural Fire Engineering
Prof Hiranya Deka	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Multiphase Flow Drops Bubbles Rheology Thermal Safety
Prof Jivnesh Balasaheb Sandhan	Computer Science and Engineering	Deep learning machine learning Natural Language Processing Sanskrit Computational Linguistics
Prof Jolly Thomas	Humanities, Economics, Arts and Rural Technologies	Metaphysics Philosophical Logic Ethics
Prof K V Jayakumar	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Hydrology Water Resources Climate Change Adaptation and Environment Management
Prof [Ms] Kavita Devi	Physics	Nonlinear optics and Photonics Optical parametric oscillators Nonlinear frequency conversion Optical frequency comb and nonlinear optical properties of novel materials.
Prof Kedar Vithal Khandeparkar	Computer Science and Engineering	Cyber Physical Systems Data Science and Cyber Security in Smart Grids Applied Machine Learning.
Prof Keerthi M C	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	turbomachinery aerodynamics flow control experimental fluid mechanics
Prof Konjengbam Anand	Computer Science and Engineering	Natural Language Understanding Sentiment Analysis Machine Translation Information Management Data Mining
Prof Koteswararao Kondepu	Computer Science and Engineering	5G Terrestrial Networks Convergence of wired and wireless technologies Optical networks design, analysis, and optimization Communication networks reliability
Prof Koushik Saha	Physics	Molecular dynamics Electron-Ion Spectroscopy Trapped ion dynamics Remote Sensing
Prof Kundan Kumar Singh Sagar	Chemistry	Bioinorganic, nanocluster, catalysis, small molecule activation
Prof Mahesh Gudem	Chemistry	Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Polaritonic phenomenon in molecules Photochemistry Multi-reference methods Quantum dynamics QM/MM
Prof [Ms] Meenatchidevi Murugesan	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Combustion Thermoacoustics Nonlinear dynamics Hydrogen Ammonia
Prof Mohana Rao Balaga	Humanities, Economics, Arts and Rural Technologies	Currency Crises International Price System Exchange Rate Pass-Through and International Finance.
Prof [Ms] Nagaveni S	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	RF Energy Harvester System in RFID Piezo/Thermal/Solar Energy Harvesting Systems Wireless Power Harvesting in Bioimplants RF Integrated Circuits
Prof Narayan S Punekar	Biosciences and Bioengineering	Microbial Biochemistry Molecular Enzymology Nitrogen Metabolism in Fungi Recombinant DNA techniques Fungal Molecular Genetics & Metabolic Engineering
Prof Naveen Kadayinti	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Mixed signal Integrated circuits Design Analog IC Design Instrumentation circuits MEMS
Prof Naveen M B	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	4G/5G/beyond 5G mobile communications Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems Internet of Things (IoT)
Prof Nikhil D Hegde	Computer Science and Engineering	Parallel Computing Scientific Computing Programming Languages
Prof Nilkamal Mahanta	Chemistry	Bioorganic and physical organic chemistry chemical biology protein biochemistry enzyme mechanisms natural products biosynthesis antimicrobial resistance biofuels
Prof Omkar Baswaraj Bembalge	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Liquid state processing of Metals and Composites Establishing Manufacturability via Processing Maps and Wear Maps Modelling and Constitutive Analysis of Electric Assisted Deformation Severe Plastic Deformation Metal Foam Casting
Prof Prabuchandran K J	Computer Science and Engineering	Reinforcement Learning
Prof Pradeep Gururaj Yammiyavar	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Industrial Product Design & Innovation UX-UI User Experience Design Human Computer Interaction Design Built Environment & Infrastructure Design
Prof Pratyasa Bhui	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Power Systems Smart Grid Renewable Energy
Prof Punnag Chatterjee	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Smart structures vibration and dynamics aeroelasticity energy harvesting
Prof R Prabhu	Physics	Quantum Information Theory; Its interface with Many-Body Physics and Quantum Optics; Relativistic Quantum Information; Quantum Communication.
Prof Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Wireless Communication Optical Communication Optical Networks Computer Networks Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence
Prof Rajeswara Rao M	Chemistry	p-conjugated organic compounds Porous organic polymers NIR-absorbing systems open-shell biradicaloids
Prof Rajshekar K	Computer Science and Engineering	Computer Architecture Runtime Verification Trusted Systems
Prof Rajshekhar V Bhat	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Wireless communications Low-latency communications Machine learning for communications Satellite communications
Prof Rakesh Lingam	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Metal Forming & Plasticity Incremental Sheet Forming Numerical analysis of forming processes Computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Digital Twins in Manufacturing IIoT
Prof Ramchandra Phawade	Computer Science and Engineering	Theoretical Computer Science Concurrency, Automata Theory and Logic in Computer Science Petri nets: connections with product systems, expressions Modelling and analysis of timed, concurrent systems using Petri nets Formal verification of Timed systems
Prof Ramesh Nayaka	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Structural Engineering and Materials Construction Technology and Management 3D Concrete Printing
Prof Ramjee Repaka	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Heat Transfer Applied Thermal Engineering Bioheat Transfer Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy (RFA and MWA) Biofluid Mechanics Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Thermal Management of Electric Vehicles
Prof Ravi Chandra Dutta	Chemical Engineering	Gas Separation and Storage Development of CO2 capture technologies Development of Novel Energy Storage Devices Drug Delivery using Nanoparticles Molecular Dynamic and Monte Carlo Simulations
Prof [Ms] Ridhima Tewari	Humanities, Economics, Arts and Rural Technologies	Literature Gender Studies Modernism Feminist Philosophy
Prof Ruma Ghosh	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Resistive Gas sensors Biosensors Nanomaterials Sensors for environmental monitoring healthcare and precision agriculture
Prof S R Mahadeva Prasanna	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Speech Processing Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Prof Sagnik Sen	Mathematics	Structural graph theory Graph homomorphisms
Prof Sairam Boggavarapu	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Electromagnetic Design of Electric Motors and Transformers Electromagnetic Design Aspects of Electric Vehicles Computational Electromagnetics Modelling and Loss Characterization of magnetic materials.
Prof Samarth S Raut	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Cardiovascular Biomechanics Biomechanical Engineering Computational Mechanics Patient-specific modelling
Prof [Ms] Samatha Benedict	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Flexible electronics Biomedical sensors
Prof Samba Raju Chiluveru	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Edge computing accelerator for ML/AI applications High performance deep learning accelerators Inference model optimizations Speech processing/enhancement and Digital signal processing
Prof Sanatkumar P Rajamane	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Civil Engineering
Prof Sandeep R B	Computer Science and Engineering	Algorithms, Graph Theory
Prof Sangamesh Deepak R	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanical Systems Static Balancing Compliant Mechanisms
Prof Santosh Kumar	Physics	Superconductivity- Vortex Dynamics Permanent Magnets Single Crystal Growth
Prof Saroj Mondal	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Power Management Integrated Circuits Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Energy Harvesting Circuits for Powering the IoT.
Prof [Ms] Satavisha Kayal	Chemistry	Asymmetric synthesis Hybrid catalysis Chiral Bronsted acid catalysis Phase-Transfer Catalysis
Prof Satish Naik	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Power Electronics Electric Vehicles Transportation Electrification DC Circuit Breakers Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Cryogenic Power Electronics
Prof Satyapriya Gupta	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Crystal Plasticity Modeling Lightweight and High temperature Materials Dislocation Dynamics Deformation Mechanisms in Metals Computational Materials Design
Prof Shashaank Aswatha Mattur	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	Digital Image Processing Computer Vision Pattern Recognition Remote Sensing Applied Machine Learning
Prof Shiv Prakash Patel	Mathematics	Representation theory Automorphic forms Covering groups
Prof Shivaprasad Sonnada Math	Physics
Prof [Ms] Shraddha Srivastava	Mathematics	Representation theory: Diagram algebras Finite groups Lie algebras
Prof [Ms] Shreedevi Masuti	Mathematics	Commutative Algebra
Prof Shrikanth V	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Vibrations Experimental Mechanics Tribology Nonlinear dynamics Low velocity impact mechanics Signal modulation using chaos
Prof Shrinivas R Kulkarni	Physics
Prof Siba Narayan Swain	Computer Science and Engineering	5G and Beyond Data Driven Networking Blockchains
Prof Somashekara M A	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Additive Manufacturing 3D/4D Printing Gradient Objects Fabrication Directed Energy Deposition Smart Material (shape memory alloys)
Prof Somil Yadav	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
Prof Sontti Somasekhara Goud	Chemical Engineering	Multiphase flows CFD Microfluidics Fluidization/Gasification Slurry transport
Prof Sreepathi L K	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Condensation Heat transfer Biodiesel Solar Thermal energy Gasification
Prof Subhash Mehto	Biosciences and Bioengineering	Inflammation Autophagy and Host-Pathogen Interactions
Prof Sudhanshu Shukla	Biosciences and Bioengineering	Cell Biology Cancer Biology Genomics Bioinformatics
Prof Sudheer Siddapureddy	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	fire dynamics heat transfer jet impingement battery cooling
Prof Sudhir Kumar Sahoo	Chemistry	Development of computational methods Computational materials science Designing of organic electrodes for battery and nitrogen reduction catalysts
Prof Surya Prakash R.	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Atomization and Sprays Multiphase Flows Combustion Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Prof Surya Pratap Singh	Biosciences and Bioengineering	Biomedical Spectroscopy Label free imaging Disease diagnosis Antimicrobial Resistance Biophysics
Prof Sushanta Kumar Sethi	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Computational Materials Science Self-clean coatings Multi-functional coatings Graphene CNT intercalation
Prof Suvamay Jana	Chemical Engineering	Biocatalysis Drug and Materials Discovery Drug Formulation Drug Delivery Computational Chemistry
Prof Swananda Marathe	Biosciences and Bioengineering	Neuroscience Neuropsychiatry Alzheimer's disease
Prof Tamal Das	Computer Science and Engineering	Software defined networking; Data center network architectures; Network function virtualization; Network Migration; High-speed networks
Prof Tejas Prakash Gotkhindi	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Elasticity Mechanics of Composite materials Fracture Mechanics Cellular Solids Computational Mechanics
Prof V Ravishankar	Physics	High Energy Physics Quantum Information and computation Classical Yang Mills Plasmas
Prof [Ms] Vandana Bharti	Computer Science and Engineering	Machine Learning / Deep Learning for Computer Vision Data Science Generative AI Multiobjective Evolutionary Computation Quantum-Inspired Optimization
Prof Veekesh Kumar	Mathematics	Transcendental Number Theory Diophantine Approximation Applications of Schmidt Subspace Theorem Irrationality of Odd Zeta values and related questions
Prof VenkappayyA R Desai	Civil & Infrastructure Engineering	Integrated water resources management flood/ drought management, water harvesting Hydrologic/ hydraulic engineering Traditional best management practices Sustainable facilities in water/ energy
Prof Vigneshwara Raja P	Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering	GaN HEMTs Power diodes and Transistors Semiconductor Detectors Trap Characterization Experiments
Prof Vijeth J Kotagi	Computer Science and Engineering	Wireless Communication Networks such as 4G and 5G Networks Internet of Things Network Vehicular Networks Applied Machine Learning in Communication Networks
Prof Vyom Sharma	Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Advanced Machining Processes Hybrid Manufacturing Electrochemical based Manufacturing Processes Smart Manufacturing Acoustic Metamaterials Industry 4.0