PROSPECTUS

APPLIED MECHANICS
2022-23

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI

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 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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 CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 1-3
1.1 Administration 2
2. ACADEMICS 4-9

CONTENTS
2.1 Academic System 4
2.2 Academic Structure 4
2.3 Research and Innovation 6
2.4 Collaborations 6
2.5 Student Exchange Programmes 6
2.6 Academic Outreach and New Initiatives 6
2.7 Academic Programmes 7
3. ADMISSIONS 10-17
3.1 Undergraduate Programmes 10
3.2 Postgraduate Programmes 10
3.3 Joint Degree Programmes 11
3.4 Scholarships 11
3.5 Admission to Postgraduate Programmes 13
3.6 Medals and Prizes 17
4. FEES 18-20
4.1 Fees Payable by Students of the Entry Year 2022 18
4.2 Foreign National Visiting Students 19
4.3 Mode of Payment 19
4.4 Deadlines for Payment 20
4.5 Refund of Fees 20
5. STUDENT LIFE ON CAMPUS 21-28
5.1 Student Affairs Council (SAC) and its five Boards 21
5.1.1 Board for Hostel Management (BHM) 22
5.1.2 Board for Recreational and Creative Activities (BRCA) 22
5.1.3 Board for Sports Activities (BSA) 22
5.1.4 Board for Student Publications (BSP) 22
5.1.5 Board for Students Welfare (BSW) 22
5.2 National Service Scheme (NSS) 23
5.3 National Cadet Corps (NCC) 23
5.4 Counselling Service (CS) 23
5.5 Office of Accessible Education (OAE) 23
5.6 Initiative for Gender Equity and Sensitization (IGES) 23
5.7 Student-Teacher Interaction 23
5.8 National Sports Organization (NSO) 24
5.9 Co-curricular and Academic Interaction Council (CAIC) 24
5.10 Hostel Allotment 25
5.11 Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) 26
5.12 Departmental Professional Societies 26
5.13 Medical Facilities 26
5.14 Alumni Association 27
5.15 Conduct and Discipline 27
5.16 Honour Code 28
5.17 Institute Policy on Ragging 28
5.18 Policy against Sexual Harassment 28

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 6. ACADEMIC UNITS 29-228
Applied Mechanics 29
Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology 37
Chemical Engineering 41
Chemistry 47
Civil Engineering 53
Computer Science and Engineering 63
Design 71
Electrical Engineering 75
Energy Science and Engineering 83
Humanities and Social Sciences 91
Management Studies 97
Materials Science and Engineering 105
Mathematics 111
Mechanical Engineering 115
Physics 123
Textile and Fibre Engineering 133
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics 141
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences 145
Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (formerly ITMMEC) 151
Centre for Biomedical Engineering 157
Educational Technology Services Centre 161
Computer Services Centre 165
National Resource Centre for Value Education in Engineering 171
Optics and Photonics Centre 175
Centre for Rural Development and Technology 181
Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation and Cyber-physical Systems Engineering (formerly IDDC) 187
Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre 191
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology 195
Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management 199
Kusuma School of Biological Sciences 205
School of Interdisciplinary Research 211
School of Public Policy 215
Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence 219
Interdisciplinary Research Programmes 225
Interdisciplinary M.Tech. Programmes 227
7. MAJOR CENTRAL FACILITIES 229-240
7.1 Central Research Facility (CRF) 230
7.2 Industrial Research and Development Unit 233
7.3 Central Workshop 237
7.4 Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF) 238
7.5 Office of Career Services (OCS) 239
7.6 Central Library 239
8. ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE 241-251
Honour Code - Undertaking 252

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1. INTRODUCTION
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one of the Twenty Three IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for
training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India.

INTRODUCTION
Established as College of Engineering in 1961, the Institute was later declared as an Institution of National
Importance under the “Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963” and was renamed as “Indian
Institute of Technology Delhi”. It was then accorded the status of a Deemed University with powers to
decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees.
The Institute was declared as an "Institute of Eminence" by the Government of India in 2018.
Since its inception, around 56,000 students have graduated from IIT Delhi in various disciplines including
Engineering, Physical Sciences, Management, and Humanities & Social Sciences. Of these, 6,353 students
graduated with Ph.D. degree and 18,614 students graduated with B.Tech. degree. The rest obtained
Master’s Degree in Engineering, Sciences and Business Administration. These alumni today work as
scientists, technologists, business managers and entrepreneurs. There are several alumni who have moved
away from their original disciplines and have taken to administrative services, active politics or are with
NGOs. In doing so, they have contributed significantly to building of this nation, and to industrialization
around the world.
IIT Delhi is situated in Hauz Khas in South Delhi, which is a landmark place in the colourful and chequered
history of Delhi. Bounded by the Sri Aurobindo Marg on the east, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Complex
on the west, the National Council of Educational Research and Training on the south, and the Outer Ring
Road on the north, the Institute campus is flanked by Qutub Minar and the Hauz Khas monuments.
Well connected to the major city centres by open and wide roads, the Institute campus is about 19 k.m.
away from the Delhi Main Railway Station, 14 k.m. from the New Delhi Railway Station, 21 k.m. from the
Inter-State Bus Terminal (Kashmere Gate) and 10 k.m. from Delhi Airport. Delhi Metro has two gates opening
at the Institute Campus.
Campus of the Institute extends to an area of 320 acres. With many topographical features, imaginatively
laid out with picturesque landscape, numerous buildings of various nature and stature, and clean and wide
roads, the campus presents a spectacle of harmony in architecture and natural beauty.
The campus area is divided into four functional zones : (i) Residential zone for students; (ii) Residential zone
for the faculty and other supporting staff; (iii) Academic zone for academic buildings and workshops; and
(iv) Cultural-cum-social and recreational zone for students.
The campus also offers amenities like Staff Clubs, Hospital, Shopping Centre, Banks, Post Office, Telecom
Centre, Community Centre, Stadium, Playing Fields, etc. The Students Activities Centre provides all facilities
for students’ extra-curricular activities and physical development.
The central double-storied recreation block with a swimming pool and a gymnasium hall offers amenities
such as squash courts, hobbies workshops / seminar rooms, music rooms and other multipurpose rooms
for reading and indoor games. The amphitheater with large capacity constructed in modern style is an
added amenity to the centre.
IIT Delhi has been extending its boundaries. One extension campus has been established in Sonepat,
Haryana over 50 acres of land allocated by Haryana Government. A Technopark filled with high class
facilities has been set-up there. Another extension campus will come up in near future in Jhajjar, Haryana
over 50 acres of land.

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 1.1 Administration
IIT Delhi is an autonomous statutory organization functioning within the “Institutes of Technology Act” as
amended by “The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963”.
The Indian Institutes of Technology are administered centrally by the IIT Council, an apex body established
by the Government of India to co-ordinate the activities of these Institutes.
The Hon’ble Minister of Education of the Government of India is the Chairperson of the IIT Council. Each
Indian Institute of Technology has a Board of Governors responsible for its overall administration and control.

Chairperson,
Board of Governors
Dr. R. Chidambaram is the Chairperson, Board of Governors of
IIT Delhi. Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram became the Director of
the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in 1990. He was
Chairperson, Atomic Energy Commission from 1993 to 2000.
He was the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India
and the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee to
the Cabinet from 2001 to 2018. He is presently the DAE-Homi
Bhabha Professor in BARC.
Dr. Chidambaram has made important contributions to many
aspects of our nuclear technology. He has D.Sc. Degrees (h.c)
from thirty Universities from India and abroad. He has more
than 200 research publications in refereed journals and all his
research work has been in India.
He was Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the IAEA during
1994-95. During 1990-99, he was a member of the Executive
Committee of the International Union of Crystallography, the
Dr. R. Chidambaram last three years as its Vice-President. He has been Chairperson,
Board of Governors of IIT Bombay (1994-97) and of IIT Madras (2008-2011) and Member, Space Commission
(2009-2014). Dr. Chidambaram is currently Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIT Jodhpur. He is also
a Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University.
Dr. Chidambaram is a Fellow of all the major Science Academies in India and also of the National Academy
of Engineering and the The World Academy of Sciences Trieste (Italy).
He has received many awards and honours, notable among them are the C.V. Raman Birth Centenary
Award of the Indian Science Congress Association in 1995, the Distinguished Materials Scientists of the
Year Award of the Material Research Society of India (MRSI) in 1996, R.D. Birla Award of the Indian Physics
Association in 1996, Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Nuclear Society (2006), The
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2009) and the C.V. Raman
Medal of the Indian National Science Academy (2013). Lifetime Achievement Award of A.P. Akademi of
Sciences (2014), Lifetime Achievement Award of the Council of Power Utilites(2014). Dr. Chidambaram was
awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award in India, in 1999.
His initiatives as Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India, include the setting up of the Core
Advisory Groups for R&D in various technology sectors, the creation of RuTAG (Rural Technology Action
Group) centered in 7 IITs, the establishment of SETS (Society for Electronic Transactions and Security),
helping nucleate the Centres of Excellence in Nanoelectronics, the National Knowledge Network and
initiating an R&D programme on the design of the Advanced Ultra Supercritical Thermal Plant, through a
consortium of IGCAR, BHEL and NTPC.

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 Director
Prof. Rangan Banerjee is the Director of IIT Delhi since February

A D M I N I S T R AT I O N
2022. He is on lien form IIT Bombay where he served as the
Forbes Marshall Chair Professor in the Department of Energy
Science and Engineering – a Department that he helped start
in 2007. He has done his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. His areas of interest include energy
management, modelling of energy systems, energy planning
and policy, hydrogen energy and fuel cells.

Prof. Banerjee currently has been on the editorial board of

Energy and Sustainable Development, International Journal
of Sustainable Energy, International Journal of Sustainable
Engineering, International Journal of Thermodynamics, Solar
Energy Advances, Global Transitions (Energy Transitions). He
has been involved in setting up a MegaWattscale Solar Thermal
Prof. Rangan Banerjee
Power Testing, Simulation, Research Facility sponsored by the
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and was the faculty
advisor of Team Shunya- India’s first student team in the solar Decathlon Europe finals. He has been
involved in advising the city, state regulatory commission and energy agency, Planning Commission, Niti
Aayog, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on energy issues and worked with several Indian and
international industries.

Prof. Banerjee has been the Dean (R&D) and received the Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT Bombay
and is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is also an Adjunct faculty (Honorary) in
the Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University.

THE SENATE
The Senate decides the academic policy of the Institute, and approves curriculum, courses & examination
results. It appoints committees to look into specific academic matters arising from time to time. The
teaching, training and research activities of various departments at the Institute are constantly under
review to improve both facilities and standard. The Director of the Institute is the Chairperson of the Senate.

INSTITUTE COMMITTEES
Financial advice to the Institute is rendered by the Finance Committee. Similarly, there is a Buildings and
Works Committee to advise on matters relating to buildings and works activity. These committees are
appointed by the Board of Governors. In addition, there are a number of other committees like the Board
of Academic Programmes, Board of Educational Research and Planning, appointed by the Senate to help
the administration in the efficient running of the Institute.

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 2. ACADEMICS
IIT Delhi provides science-based engineering education with a view to produce quality engineer-scientists.
The curriculum provides broad based knowledge and simultaneously builds a temper for the life long
process of learning and exploring.

2.1 Academic System

At the undergraduate level, a student needs to do compulsory foundation courses in the areas of basic
Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Engineering Sciences apart from departmental requirements.
At postgraduate level, several specializations, in the form of various M.S.(R), M.Tech., M.B.A., M.Des., M.P.P.,
P.G. D.I.I.T., and M.Sc., are available and the students get an exposure and training in research in their chosen
fields. The Institute has strong Ph.D. programmes and the students carry out advanced research under the
guidance of the members of the Institute faculty.
The Institute undertakes a major revision of its curriculum periodically. From the academic session 2013-
14, a new undergraduate curriculum has been in place and the new postgraduate curriculum has been
implemented from the academic session 2015-16.
The Institute follows the semester system. An academic year runs from July through June next year and
comprises two semesters. Typically, the 1st semester starts in the last week of July and ends in the 1st week
of December; and the 2nd semester starts in the first week of January and ends in the 2nd week of May.
Additionally, the summer semester which starts in the 3rd week of May and ends in the 2nd week of July, is
utilised in some exceptional cases. Detailed activities are given in the Semester Schedule that is available
before the start of every semester.

2.2 Academic Structure

The major academic units of the Institute are the Departments, Centres, and Schools. Interdisciplinary
research is organized in programmes. The various academic units are listed below, and details are given
latter in this document. The activities of Departments include teaching at all levels and research. The
Centres focus on interdisciplinary research and some teaching mostly at the postgraduate level.

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 • Applied Mechanics
• Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering

ACADEMICS
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Design
• Electrical Engineering
• Energy Science and Engineering (formerly CES)
• Humanities and Social Sciences
DEPARTMENTS • Management Studies
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics
• Textile and Fibre Engineering (formerly Textile Technology)

• Applied Research in • Optics and Photonics

Electronics • Rural Development and
• Atmospheric Sciences Technology
• Automotive Research and • Sensors, Instrumentation
Tribology and Cyber-Physical Systems
• Biomedical Engineering Engineering
• National Resource Centre for • Transportation Research and
Value Education in Engg. Injury Prevention CENTRES

• Amar Nath and Shashi • School of Public Policy

Khosla School of Information • School of Interdisciplinary
Technology Research
• Bharti School of • Yardi School of Artificial
Telecommunication Intelligence
Technology and Management
• Kusuma School of Biological
SCHOOLS Sciences

• Opto-Electronics and Optical

Communication Research Programme
• VLSI Design Tools and Technology

INTERDISCIPLINARY
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

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 2.3 Research and Innovation
IIT Delhi places strong emphasis on research & development, and innovation. Faculty members undertake
research in the fields of their interest. Many postgraduate students and some undergraduate students are
also involved in these activities, as the curriculum provides facilities for the same. While some research
is funded by the Institute, majority of research activities / projects are funded by sponsoring agencies
and / or industries. All projects funded by government agencies and some industry funded projects are
managed through the Institute’s ”Industrial Research and Development (IRD) Unit”. Innovative technology
development and industrial outreach are also facilitated by the ”Foundation for Innovation and Technology
Transfer (FITT)”, a non-profit society associated with IIT Delhi and located on the campus.

2.4 Collaborations
IIT Delhi is actively involved in collaborative programmes with industry, academia, and governments at the
national and international level to remain at the forefront of scientific and technological developments
and share knowledge for mutual benefit. The Institute has 107 ongoing International Memorandum of
Understanding established with various organisations/institutions from countries worldwide. During
the 2021-22 period, Institute has signed 11 International Memorandum of Understandings, including
countries like Hong Kong, Spain, Netherlands, Argentina, South Korea, Canada etc. In addition to this, An
online workshop to build connections between researchers at IIT Delhi and eight New Zealand Universities
(the University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria
University of Wellington, Auckland University of Technology, Lincoln University, Massey University) was
held on Nov 23. The workshop held under the aegis of the IIT Delhi- New Zealand Centre also marked the
launch of the Seed fund for Research collaboration. IIT Delhi has signed an agreement with Delft University
of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, for a Seed Fund to promote research collaboration between
faculty members at the two Institutes. The Fund will invite applications from faculty members interested
in partnering with colleagues at TU delft. Selected proposals would be provided funding for a year with
the expectation that the collaborators would, during this period, prepare a more significant proposal for
funding from an external agency.

2.5 Student Exchange Programmes

IIT Delhi encourages students to exchange programmes with leading institutions across various countries.
Studying abroad allows students to get exposure to multi-cultural and global environments and to
experience the host country with incredible new outlooks, customs, and activities. Under numerous
exchange programmes, students get an opportunity to visit foreign universities, and students from different
foreign universities also visit IITD. Foreign exchange programmes range from a semester exchange to a
year-long exchange. During this programme, the students get an insight into how other country works and
what features are embedded in their culture. Student exchange exposure enhances students’ own decision-
making and independent thinking skills. For more information please visit https://international.iitd.ac.in/
student-exchanges/
Under Erasmus+ Mobility Programme, IITD students can apply for Erasmus+ scholarships either by applying
directly to the course coordinator or through an exchange. Erasmus+ offers short-term mobility to European
universities from other parts of the world for students, researchers, and staff.

2.6 Academic Outreach and New Initiatives

The Academic Outreach Initiatives at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi attempts at building meaningful
interfaces with academic peers and the society at large. All Outreach initiatives at the Institute are deeply
informed by our obligations to both these communities. IIT Delhi uses the Outreach platform to share the
results of our scientific work with different sections of the society, while also continuously learning and
improvising on our own research queries, and methodologies, based on the feedback received from them.

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2.7 Academic Programmes
IIT Delhi offers a variety of academic programmes for students with a wide range of backgrounds leading to
the degrees listed below:

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) :

ACADEMICS
All Departments, Centres and Schools offer Ph.D. programmes.

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) :

»» M.Tech. in Engineering Analysis and Design
»» M.Tech. in Biomolecular and Bioprocess Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Molecular Engineering : Chemical Synthesis & Analysis
»» M.Tech. in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Rock Engineering and Underground Structures
»» M.Tech. in Structural Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Water Resources Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Construction Engineering and Management
»» M.Tech. in Construction Technology and Management
»» M.Tech. in Environmental Engineering and Management
»» M.Tech. in Transportation Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Energy & Environment Technologies and Management
»» M.Tech. in Renewable Energy Technologies and Management
»» M.Tech. in Communications Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Computer Technology
»» M.Tech. in Control and Automation
»» M.Tech. in Integrated Electronics and Circuits
»» M.Tech. in Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Drives
»» M.Tech. in Polymer Science and Technology
»» M.Tech. in Materials Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Power Systems
»» M.Tech. in Mechanical Design
»» M.Tech. in Industrial Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Production Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Thermal Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Applied Optics
»» M.Tech. in Solid State Materials
»» M.Tech. in Fibre Science and Technology
»» M.Tech. in Textile Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Textile Chemical Processing

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 »» M.Tech. in Radio Frequency Design and Technology
»» M.Tech. in Electric Mobility
»» M.Tech. in Atmospheric-Oceanic Science & Technology
»» M.Tech. in Biomedical Engineering
»» M.Tech. in Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS)
»» M.Tech. in Energy Studies
»» M.Tech. in Cyber Security
»» M.Tech. in Instrument Technology
»» M.Tech. in Optoelectronics and Optical Communication
»» M.Tech. in Telecommunication Technology and Management
»» M.Tech. in VLSI Design Tools and Technology

Master of Science (Research) [M.S.(R)] :

»» M.S. (R) in Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology
»» M.S. (R) in Applied Mechanics
»» M.S. (R) in Automotive Research and Tribology
»» M.S. (R) in Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management
»» M.S. (R) in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology
»» M.S. (R) in Chemical Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Civil Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Computer Science and Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Energy Science and Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Electrical Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Mechanical Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Materials Science and Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
»» M.S. (R) in VLSI Design Tools and Technology
»» M.S. (R) in Sensors, Instrumentation and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering
»» M.S. (R) in Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS)
»» M.S. (R) in Transportation Safety and Injury Prevention

Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A) :

»» M.B.A.
»» M.B.A. (with focus on Telecommunication Systems Management)
»» M.B.A. (with focus on Technology Management), (part-time evening programme)

Master of Design (M.Des.) :

»» M.Des. in Industrial Design

Masters of Science (M.Sc.) :

»» M.Sc. in Chemistry
»» M.Sc. in Cognitive Science

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»» M.Sc. in Economics
»» M.Sc. in Mathematics
»» M.Sc. in Physics

Masters of Public Policy (M.P.P.)

ACADEMICS
Postgraduate Diploma
»» P.G. D.I.I.T (Naval Construction)
(for candidates sponsored by the Indian Navy)
»» Joint P.G. Diploma in Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (VLFM)
(Jointly with NITIE Mumbai)

Dual Degree (B.Tech. and M.Tech.) :

»» B.Tech. & M.Tech in Chemical Engineering
»» B.Tech. & M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
»» B.Tech. & M.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) :

»» B.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology
»» B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Civil Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Power and Automation)
»» B.Tech. in Energy Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Engineering and Computational Mechanics
»» B.Tech. in Materials Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing
»» B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Production and Industrial Engineering
»» B.Tech. in Engineering Physics
»» B.Tech. in Textile Technology

Bachelor of Design (B.Des.)

The details of these programmes are given under specific Departments, Centers, and Schools in this
Prospectus as well as in the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

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 3. ADMISSIONS
Admission to IIT Delhi is possible through various entrance examinations, like the Joint Entrance
Examination (JEE), Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED), Graduate Aptitude
Test in Engineering (GATE), Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED), Common Admission Test
(CAT) and Joint Admission Test in M.Sc. (JAM), for its various degrees and programmes.

3.1 Undergraduate Programmes

Admission to all Undergraduate Programmes listed in Chapter 2 are made through the Joint Entrance
Examination (JEE) (Main and Advanced) for B.Tech. (for further information, please visit JEE website:
http://jee.iitd.ac.in/) and Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) for B.Des.
(for further information, please visit UCEED website: http://www.uceed.iitb.ac.in/2022/).

Visiting Studentship
A student, who is registered for an Engineering / Technology degree in a recognized Institute / University in
India or abroad, is eligible for being considered as a visiting student at IIT Delhi, for a maximum period of 6
months / one semester. More details can be obtained from the Academic Section of the Institute.

Summer Research Fellowship

In order to expose students from other Engineering Colleges / Institutes to the ongoing research activities
at IIT Delhi, Institute has introduced Summer Research Fellowship programme for undergraduate students
from other engineering Institutes. IIT Delhi will offer fellowship or interns can also be supported from
budget of sponsored /  consultancy projects, through an outside fellowship (eg. KVPY, INSA, INAE, etc.) or
institutional MoUs. Further details can be obtained from the Academic Section of the Institute.

Admission of UG students to PG programmes with advance standing

UG students of IIT Delhi with advance standing are eligible for admission to PG programmes at IIT Delhi.
Details are given in the Courses of Study.

3.2 Postgraduate Programmes

Procedure for Admission
Applications are invited from candidates by advertising the programmes in March/October every year.
Subsequently, the candidates have to apply online as specified in the advertisements.
In general, admission are made through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) for M.Tech.
programmes, Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED) for M.Des., Common Admission Test (CAT)
for M.B.A., and Joint Admission Test (JAM) for M.Sc. programmes. For detailed eligibility conditions and
mode of selection, please see section 3.5 on page 13.
Admission to Ph.D. / M.S. (Research) programme is also possible any time during the year through
Department Research Committee (DRC) / Centre Research Committee (CRC) / School Research
Committee (SRC) with the approval of Dean, Academics. For more details, please visit the Institute
website - www.iitd.ac.in

IIT DELHI FOLLOWS RESERVATIONS IN ADMISSIONS (BOTH UG AND PG) AND CHARGES FEES AS PRESCRIBED
BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA FROM TIME TO TIME.

Migration from one PG Programme to another PG Programme of the Institute

Provision exists for the PG students of the Institute to move from (i) M.Tech. / M.S. (R) to Ph.D., (ii) M.Tech. to
M.S. (R), and (iii) M.S.(R) to M.Tech. The details of the provisions are available in the Courses of Study.

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ADMISSION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS
Applications from foreign nationals for admission to the various postgraduate programmes (M.Sc. / M.
Tech. / M.S. (Research) / M.Des. / M.B.A. / M.P.P. / Ph.D.) at the Institute are received directly by the Institute.
For more details please visit: https://international.iitd.ac.in/
• International Ph.D. Fellowship Programme (IPFP) : IIT Delhi has announced the International

ADMISSIONS
Ph.D. Fellowship Programme (IPFP), as an effort to attract talented young minds globally. Under this
programme, fellowships to international Ph.D. students are given at par with Indian students. (For
more details and application process, please visit: http://intladm.iitd.ac.in)
• International Masters Scholarship Programme: A limited number of scholarships are available for
International M.Tech./M.Des./M.S.(R) Students, who have not qualified GATE/CEED. The assistance is
at par with Indian students. However, such students will be selected by a Central Committee on the
recommendations made by respective academic units at the time of selection.
• Applicants under Cultural Exchange Fellowship Programme : The foreign nationals desiring
admission to a postgraduate programme (M.Sc. / M.Des. / M.Tech. / MBA / M.S. (Research) / M.P.P. / Ph.D.)
at IIT Delhi under this Fellowship programme, are required to apply to the Indian High
Commissions / Embassies, in their respective countries. After examining the case of the applicants, they
will recommend / sponsor the names to the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi,
which in turn, will recommend the applicants to this Institute for selection through due process.
• Students under Memorandum of Understanding : Admission of foreign nationals to the various
postgraduate programmes (M.Sc. / M.Tech. / M.S. (Research) / M.Des. / M.B.A. / M.P.P. / Ph.D.) at the
Institute will be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of the MoU agreed to between IIT
Delhi and the Country/University / Institution concerned.

3.3 Joint Degree Programmes

IIT Delhi is actively pursuing Joint Degree Programmes at the doctoral level with the following
internationally acclaimed institutions:
• IIT Delhi and University of Queensland (UQ) have launched a joint Ph.D. programme recently. Under
the programme, Ph.D. students (from India, Australia and elsewhere) will be admitted. IITD/QU faculty
will jointly formulate projects and Students will be jointly selected against these projects. Students in
this academy will spend 3 years at the parent institution and at least 1 year at the partner. Students
who successfully complete all the requirements of the programme will be awarded a joint degree by
both institutions. (For more details, please visit: https://www.uqidar.org)
• IIT Delhi and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan have initiated an Industry funded
Joint Doctoral Degree Programme (JDP). An academic and student exchange will be developed through
the JDP whereby students who successfully complete all the requirements of the programme will be
awarded a joint degree by both institutions. Students will be admitted at both institutions, at the time
of joining or after they join the regular Ph.D. Programme. (For more details, please visit: www.iitd.ac.in).

3.4 Scholarships
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
Institute Merit-cum-Means (MCM) Scholarships
The Institute offers Merit-cum-Means scholarships to undergraduate students in engineering and
technology. These scholarships are offered to about 25% of the students. The present value of Merit-cum-
Means scholarship is D1000/- per month for General/OBC/EWS students and the recipient is exempted from
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 Institute Merit Prizes and Certificates
The Institute offers Merit prizes and Certificates to the top 7% of the students of each 4-year B.Tech., and
5-year Dual Degree programmes each semester up to the 8th / 10th Semester. The value of merit prize is
D2500/-.
Institute Free Studentship-U.G.
The Institute offers free studentship to 10% of the students on the basis of means alone.
Scholarship provision for SC, ST, & PwD students: Tuition fee exemption is admissible to all SC / ST/PwD
students irrespective of their parents’ / guardians’ income, Institute offers several other benefits to students
from these categories.
Donor Scholarships: There are several other scholarships in operation at the Institute. These scholarships
have been established by grants from alumni, individuals, trusts and organizations.

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
M.Sc. and M.P.P. Programmes
Merit-cum-Means scholarship of D1,000/- per month and tuition fee waiver are permissible to M.Sc. and
M.P.P. Programmes students to the extent of 25% of the sanctioned strength as per Institute rules. Only
those students are eligible whose parents’ gross income is upto D4.5 lac per annum for all categories of
students / as per govt. orders as applicable .
M.Tech., M.S. (Research), and M.Des. Students: The Institute does not award any scholarship to the
students of M.Tech., M.S. (Research), and M.Des. Programmes. However, a scheme for financial assistance
is in operation. Apart from the teaching / research assistantships, there are a number of fellowships and
scholarships Instituted by industries, alumni, and individuals for such students.
Ph.D. Students: Although the Institute does not award any scholarship, a scheme for the award of Teaching / 
Research Assistantship for providing financial assistance to the students exists. Under this scheme, those
students, who are admitted on full-time basis, are offered Teaching/Research Assistantship, provided they
are not getting any other equivalent fellowship.

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3.5 Admission to Postgraduate Programmes
Selection
Degree Status Minimum Eligibility for Admission
basis
M.Sc. Full Time At least 55%* aggregate marks or 5.5 CGPA/CPI out of 10 without JAM (for
rounding-off (taking into account all subjects including languages and Maths,

ADMISSIONS
subsidiaries, all years combined) for General/OBC (Non Creamy Layer)/ Chemistry,
EWS category candidates (taking into account all subjects, including Physics,
languages and subsidiaries, all years combined) in the qualifying degree. Economics)
For Candidates with letter grades  / CGPA on other scales, the COGJET/
equivalence will be decided by the Institute. GATE/ JAM/
For M.Sc. (Chemistry), Bachelor’s degree with Chemistry as a subject NET &
for three years /six semesters and Mathematics at (10+2) level. For interview (for
M.Sc. (Mathematics), Bachelor’s degree with Mathematics as a subject Cognitive
for at least two years/four semesters. For M.Sc. (Physics), Bachelor’s Science)
degree with Physics as a subject for two years / four semesters and
Mathematics for at least one year/two semesters.
For M.Sc. (Cognitive Science), Qualifying Degree: B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./
B.M.S./B.Tech./B.E./B.Stat./B.Math. or equivalent
For M.Sc. (Economics), Qualifying Degree: B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.Tech./
B.E./B.Stat./B.Math. or equivalent
M.Tech. Full Time B.E./B.Tech. / M.Sc. or equivalent with (a) CGPA 6.00 on a 10 point scale GATE
or 60% marks in aggregate for General/OBC (Non Creamy Layer)/EWS
Category with valid GATE score. B.Tech. from IITs with CGPA of 8.00
without GATE are also eligible for admission. AMIE / Grad. IETE are
eligible, subject to condition at Note 7.

Part Time B.E./B.Tech. / M.Sc. or equivalent in relevant field with (a) CGPA 6.00 Written test
on a 10 point scale or 60% marks in aggregate for General/OBC (Non and /or
Creamy Layer)/EWS Category and minimum experience (as per table interview
3.5.1). Must submit No Objection Certificate from employer (as per Note
4) Organisation should be located within 50km. of IIT Delhi. Also see
Note. 4.
Sponsored Same as for M.Tech. part time requirements and Sponsorship -Do-
 Full Time Certificate from the employer as per Note 5.
M.Des. Full Time B.E./B.Tech. / B.Des. / B.Arch. or equivalent in relevant field with CGPA CEED and
6.00 on 10 point scale or 60% marks in aggregate and a valid CEED interview
score.
M.B.A. Full Time Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (Minimum 3 years after 10+2) with CAT
(Generic) CGPA of 6.00 on 10 point scale or 60% marks in aggregate for General/
OBC (Non Creamy Layer)/EWS Category.
Full Time Bachelor’s degree in Engg. / Technology /Architecture / Pharmacy /  CAT
(with B.Sc. Agri. Engg. (Minimum 4 year after 10+2) or Bachelor’s degree
focus on in any branch of Physical  / 
Chemical / 
Mathematical Sciences
Telecom- like Physics  / Chemistry / Mathematics  Statistics / Computer
munication Application / Electronics Sciences / Environmental Science or
Systems Computational / Information science /Agriculture or Bachelor's degree
Mgmt.) in Commerce / Economics / CA/ ICWA with CGPA of 6.00 on 10 point
scale or 60% marks in aggregate for General/OBC (Non Creamy Layer)/
EWS Category.
Part Time Same as M.B.A. full-time (Telecommunication Systems Management) Selection on
(evening) requirements and two-years experience. Also see Note 6. Peformance
(with (SoP) and
focus on interview
Technology
Mgmt.)

*Passing marks in case of admissions through JAM for the Year 2022-23.

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 Selection
Degree Status Minimum Eligibility for Admission
basis
M.S. (R) Full Time/ Same as the corresponding M.Tech. requirements Same as the
Part Time • For the currently registered students in Centrally Funded Technical corresponding
sponsored Institutes (CFTIs) having CGPA of 8.0 or above (on a 10 point scale) M.Tech.
Full Time /  at the end of 6th semester or later, in B.Tech. / B.E./Integrated requirements.
Part Time M.Tech. / Integrated M.Sc. programmes (or any other programme of
minimum four years duration, admission to which is on the basis
of JEE), the requirement of GATE / National Examination is waived
for consideration of admission the M.S. (R) programme in IIT Delhi.
Moreover, such students must have obtained CGPA of 8.0 or above
at the time of graduation (and before they formally register for the
M.S.(R) programme).
• The requirement of GATE / National Examination is waived for
consideration for admission to the M.S.(R) programme for all
graduated of CFTIs with a B.Tech. / B.E. / Integrated M.Sc. (or any
other programme of minimum four years duration, admission to
which is on the basis of JEE) with CGPA of 8.0 or above at the time
of graduation.
• The Requirement of GATE / National Examination is also waived for
M.A. / M.Sc. from IITs with CGPA 8.0 or above.
However, if a candidate admitted to M.S. (R) programme following the
above criterion wanted to convert to M.Tech. programme, he / she
should also meet the shortlisting criteria of the M.Tech. programme, in
addition to the conversion criteria (including requirement, if any, of a
valid examination in GATE / National Examination).

M.P.P. Full Time Five-year bachelor’s degree such as M.B.B.S., BA LLB (Hon.), B.Arch. Written test
or equivalent; four-year bachelor’s degree such as B.Tech., B.Sc. (Ag.), and / or
B.V.Sc., or equivalent; postgraduate degrees such as M.A., M.Sc., interview
M.Phil., Integrated M.Sc./M.A., M.Tech. or equivalent with 60% or 6.00
CGPA on a 10 point scale.

Ph.D. Full Time Master degree in Engineering  / Technology or master degree in Written test
Science / Humanities or equivalent in relevant discipline with and / or
CGPA 6.00 on 10 point scale or 60% marks in aggregate for interview
General / OBC / EWS category. Full time students who do not possess
M.Tech. or equivalent degree are required to have a valid GATE/CEED*
Score or UGC / CSIR / DBT / ICMR / INSPIRE fellowship examination for
Sciences / Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines. OR B.Tech. or
equivalent with CGPA of 7.0 on a 10 point scale or 70% aggregate
marks and qualified GATE or UGC / CSIR / DBT / ICMR / INSPIRE fellowship
examination for Biomedical Engg., candidates having M.B.B.S. with
60% marks or more are eligible provided they have qualified ICMR.
The Candidates having Postgraduate degree of Doctor of Medicine
(MD) / Master in Surgery (MS) with 60% marks or more after MBBS will
also be eligible for admission to Ph.D. Programme in CBME.
• For the currently registered students in Centrally Funded Technical
Institutes (CFTIs) having CGPA of 8.0 or above (on a 10 point scale)
at the end of 6th semester or later, in B.Tech. / B.E. / Integrated
M.Tech. / Integrated M.Sc. programmes (or any other programme of
minimum four years duration, admission to which is on the basis
of JEE), the requirement of GATE / National Examination is waived
for consideration of admission the Ph.D. programme in IIT Delhi.
Moreover, such students must have obtained CGPA of 8.0 or above
at the time of graduation (and before they formally register for the
Ph.D. programme).

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 • The requirement of GATE / National Examination is waived for
consideration for admission to the Ph.D. programme for all
graduates of CFTIs with a B.Tech. / B.E. / Integrated M.Sc. (or any
other programme of minimum four years duration, admission to
which is on the basis of JEE) with CGPA of 8.0 or above at the time
of graduation.

ADMISSIONS
• The Requirement of GATE / National Examination is also waived for
MA or M.Sc. graduated from IITs with CGPA 8.0 or above.

Part Time Same as for Ph.D. full time and minimum experience (as per table Written test
3.5-1) and No Objection from the employer. and / or
interview

Sponsored Same as for Ph.D. full time and Certificate from employer (as per Note -Do-
Full Time or 8.) No GATE / National examination required (Note.11)
Part Time

Part Time Same as for full-time Subject to conditions stipulated in Note 12. -Do-
Foreign
National
Posted in
Delhi

PMRF Under the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) Scheme, -Do-
certain number of fellowship are allocated to the Institute. While
PMRF fellows are governed by the same academic rules as any
other research scholar, the selection of PMRF fellows is through a
centralized process across all IITs/IISc. (For more details, please visit:
https://pmrf.in)

IITD - QU For admission in QU and IITD joint Ph.D. programme. (please visit: -Do-
Joint Ph.D. https://www.uqidar.org)

IITD - NYCU Under this programme, each Institute would admit students to its -Do-
Joint Ph.D. HOME Institute as per their own criteria. Students would have to
apply for admission to the HOST Institute when they have identified
Co-Supervisor. HOST Institute will select as per its own criterion. The
students apply to the Host Institute for admission within 12 months of
their admission to the HOME Institute.

NOTES:
1. 15% seats are reserved for SC candidates, 7.5% for ST candidates, 27% for OBC (non-creamy layer)
candidates and 10% for EWS candidates.
2. For SC, ST and PD candidates, relaxation of 5% marks or 0.5 CGPA (on ten point scale) in the qualifying
degree will be provided. Relaxation in CGPA to 5.50 or in marks to 55% in the minimum qualifying
criteria may be permitted to those General / OBC / EWS candidates who possess M.A. Degree in English
for admission to Ph.D. programme in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences.
3. 5% of the seats allocated for full-time students, excluding sponsored students, students drawing
assistantship from other sources and foreign students, are reserved for Persons with Disability (PwD)
for admission to various Postgraduate Programmes. The candidates selected against the quota for PwD
be placed in the appropriate category viz. SC / ST / OBC / EWS / General Candidates depending upon the
category to which they belong.
4. No Objection Certificate should state that the candidate is permitted to pursue studies on part time
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 5. Sponsorship letter (on letterhead of the sponsoring organization) should state that period of study will
be treated as on duty with usual salary / allowances and he / she would be fully relieved and granted
study leave for the period of studies.
6. For part-time MBA programme, the classes are held in the evening.
7. Candidates with AMIE/grad. IETE fulfilling the minimum eligibility criteria can be considered for
admission as visiting students for completing 24 earned credits of undergraduate courses as prescribed
by the respective programme after which they have to appear for GATE and apply afresh for admission
to M.Tech. programme.
8. The letter should state that he / she is permitted to pursue studies on part time basis and that
(i) his / her official duties will permit sufficient time for research,
(ii) facilities for research are available at the place of work,
(iii) he / she will be permitted to reside at the Institute for at least 6 months* during his/her registration
for the degree (not applicable if organization is within 50 km of IIT Delhi).
*If the course credit requirement recommended by a Department / Centre / School is more than 12,
then the residency requirement for part time Ph.D. Candidates holding degrees from other Institutes /
Universities and working in organisations outside Delhi will be 12 months.
9. Full-time applicants coming on study leave must show proof of at least 3 years (2 years in the case of
M.Tech. degree holders) study leave when appearing for the interview.
10. CGPA is Cumulative Grade Point Average. For the purpose of admission at IIT Delhi, the conversion
factor of 10 would be used for converting percentage to CGPA (divide by 10). However, this conversion
to CGPA will only be applied in case of the primary method of evaluation followed in the graduating
institution of the candidate seeking admission is percentage marks.
For CGPA with scales of other points, a linear interpolation will be used i.e.
G=GX*10/X
where G is the GPA on 10 points scale and GX is the GPA on 'x' point scale. Conversions worked out using
the above formula for some scales are given in the following table:

% CGPA 10 CGPA 9 CGPA 6 CGPA 4

50 5 4.5 3 2
55 5.5 4.95 3.3 2.2
60 6 5.4 3.6 2.4
70 7 6.3 4.2 2.8
75 7.5 6.75 4.5 3
80 8 7.2 4.8 3.2
90 9 8.1 5.4 3.6
The minimum prescribed 60 / 55 / 50% marks in aggregate (of all the years / Semesters of the qualifying
examinations) is calculated by IIT Delhi as per the following example:-
1st semester % 2nd semester %
1st year 250/400 62.50 290/400 72.50
2nd year 205/400 51.25 280/400 70.00
3rd year 210/400 52.50 350/400 87.50
4th year 240/400 60.00 150/400 75.00
Total 905/1600 1070/1600
• Aggregate (%) (of all the years/semesters) 1975 / 3200 = 61.71%

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11. Sponsored (Full-time) / Part-time candidates are not required to possess GATE / CEED score for admission
to postgraduate / Ph.D. programmes.
12. The registration of foreign nationals, posted in Delhi, to Ph.D. Programme on part-time basis can be
made on the terms and conditions as under :-

ADMISSIONS
(i) The admission will be subject to production of Research Visa for study at IIT Delhi.
(ii) The candidate should satisfy all the requirement as applicable to part-time scholars.

Table 3.5.1 : Experience required for admission to part-time Ph.D. / M.Tech. / M.S.(R) Programmes.

For admission to Work

part-time Qualifications Experience (Post
programme Qualification)

Ph.D. M.E./M.Tech./M.S.(R)/M.D. or Equivalent Nil

Ph.D. B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc./M.A./M.B.A./MBBS or equivalent, from 1 Year

CFTIs/Central Universities

Ph.D. B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc./M.A./M.B.A./MBBS or equivalent, and 1 Year

working in IIT Delhi* (Project or Regular)
*Through proper channel

Ph.D. B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc./M.A./M.B.A./MBBS or equivalent, from 2 Years

institutions other than CFTIs/Central Universities

M.Tech./M.S.(R) B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc. or equivalent, from CFTIs/Central 6 Months

Universities

M.Tech./M.S.(R) B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc. or equivalent, and working in IIT Delhi* 6 Months

(Project or Regular)
*Through proper channel

M.Tech./M.S.(R) B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc. or equivalent from institutions other than 1 Year

CFTIs/Central Universities

3.6 Medals and Prizes

IIT Delhi also awards numerous medals and prizes to the students on the basis of examination / project and
all-round performance in sports, co-curricular activities, etc. At present there are over 100 such medals and
awards in operation.

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 4. FEES
The fees payable by 2022 entry year students are given in Table below:

4.1 Fees Payable by Students of the Entry Year 2022

Tuition Fees (per Semester)

Programme Tuition Fee
B.Des./B.Tech. / Dual degree# r 1,00,000**

M.Sc. r 10,000

M.Tech./ M.S. (R)/ M.Des./ M.P.P. (Receiving Institute / Project Assistantship or r 25,000
Teaching position holders)
M.Tech. / M.S. (R) / M.P.P. /M.Des. / PG DIIT (Sponsored, FT / PT & Non-teaching r 1,00,000
position holders)
Ph.D. (Full Time) r 10,000

Ph.D. (Part Time / Sponsored) r 25,000

M.B.A. Self-financing Full Time r 2,60,000

Part Time r 1,95,000

Foreign National@ SAARC Countries US$ 1,000

B.Tech./Dual Degree Non SAARC Countries US$ 2,000
@The fee for the foreign nationals joining PG/Ph.D. programme will be at par with Indian students.

Other charges (to be paid every semester alongwith Tuition Fee)

A Institute Fees
Examination fees r 2,000

Registration / Enrolment fees r 1,000

Gymkhana r 1,500

Medical fees r 1,000*

Internet and computer access fee r 1,000

Transport charges r 100*

Total r 6,600

B Hostel Fees B.Des./B.Tech./ MBA/M.Sc. Ph.D./M.Tech./M.Des./M.S.(R)/PG DIIT

Dual Degree
Hostel seat rent r 13,250 r 13,250 r 13,250

Total r 13,250 r 13,250 r 13,250

C Other Payments
Student Distress Fund Scheme (each semester) r 500

Insurance Scheme (yearly) r 500

Total r 1,000

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 D. One Time payment to be paid at the time of admission

Non Refundable
Admission fees r 2,500

Student welfare fund r 1,000

Modernization fees r 2,000

Benevolent fund r 500

FEES
Alumni fees r 2,500

Training and Placement charges r 2,000

Total r 10,500

E Refundable
Institution security deposit r 5,000

Library security deposit r 5,000

Total fees payable at the time of admission r 10,000

1. Total other charges payable for B.Tech., Dual Degree, M.Sc., and MBA (with hostel) r41,350, without
hostel r28,100.
2. Total other charges payable for Ph.D. / M.Tech. / M.S.(R) / P.G. D.I.I.T. / M.Des. / M.P.P. (with hostel)
r41,350, without hostel r28,100.

NOTE :
1. # The tuition fee in 9th semesters and later will be r 5,000/- per semester for Dual-degree programmes.
2. *Medical fee and transport charges are applicable to full time students only.
3. **1/3rd of tuition fee for student with family income between r 1 lac to r 5 lac per annum. Other students
(other than SC, ST & PwD) whose family income is less than r 1 lac per annum will get 100% tuition fee
exemption.
4. Thesis fee for M.S.(R) and Ph.D. is r 500/- and r 5,000/- respectively and shall be payable at the time of
submission of thesis.
5. All SC, ST & PwD students will get 100 % tuition fee exemption.
6. Hostel is available only to full time students subject to availability.
7. Messing and electricity charges will be calculated on completion of each semester and will be notified
separately.

4.2 Foreign National Visiting Students

Following are the tuition fees per semester, chargeable from Self-financing foreign National Students
including those seeking admission as visiting students :
I) US $ 1,000 for SAARC Countries.
ii) US $ 2,000 for other Countries.

4.3 Mode of Payment

(a) Institute dues:
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 Payment by challan slip is allowed only to the following:
(i) students who have taken loan from a bank (for educational purposes), or
(ii) students who are holders of a scholarship from outside sources who directly send cheque(s) for
fees in the name of the Institute.
(b) Mess dues: Payment Portal for payment of Hostel Mess Fees:-
Please click on the following URL  -  https://ecampus.iitd.ac.in/scorner

4.4 Deadlines for Payment

(a) Institute dues:
(i) All Institute dues are to be paid in full before the last date for Late Registration (this is typically one
week after the first day of classes)
(ii) Students who do not pay the required amount by this date, or those who make partial payments,
shall have their registration cancelled. Registration will be restored on payment of fees and a fine
as stipulated in the Institute rules.
(iii) In case of new entrants, the fees are to be paid on the day of registration at the time of joining the
Institute.
(b) Mess dues: All Mess dues are to be paid on or before the allotment of hostels.

4.5 Refund of Fees

The whole amount of fees / other charges deposited by the students will be refundable after deduction of
I1,000/, if the students do not join the programme after paying the dues and leave the Institute by applying
for refund on or before the date of registration. No refund of fees will be permissible to students who have
registered for the programme but leave immediately thereafter. In such cases, only caution money will be
refunded.

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 STUDENT LIFE ON CAMPUS
5. STUDENT LIFE ON CAMPUS
The ambience of student life and activities on the campus is to provide an invigorating and creative
environment which promotes independent thinking and introspection and leads the young students to
become more aware of the consequence of their own actions.
Students are given suitable accommodation in the campus along with opportunity to participate in co-
curricular activities, sports and games recreation, shopping, etc., are provided to the students on campus.
Special efforts are also made to promote and strengthen student-teacher interaction. Counselling Service
has been set up to assist and morally support students in their initial adjustment, and to deal with any
difficulties, they may have during their stay at the Institute.
The pace and mode of student life in the IIT Delhi campus is planned, implemented, and supported by the
following student bodies:
5.1 Student Affairs Council (SAC) and its five Boards:
5.1.1 Board for Hostel Management (BHM)
5.1.2 Board for Recreational & Creative Activities (BRCA)
5.1.3 Board for Sports Activities (BSA)
5.1.4 Board for Student Publications (BSP)
5.1.5 Board for Student Welfare (BSW)
5.2 National Service Scheme (NSS)
5.3 National Cadet Corps (NCC)
5.4 Counselling Services (CS)
5.5 Office of Accessible Education (OAE)
5.6 Initiative for Gender Equity and Sensitisation (IGES)
5.7 Student-Teacher Interaction Committee (STIC)
5.8 National Sports Organization (NSO)
5.9 Co-curricular and Academic Interaction Council (CAIC)

5.1 Student Affairs Council (SAC)

The Student Affairs Council is a joint student-faculty Senate committee to deal with overall policy
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 The SAC co-ordinates the activities of the various student organizations, viz., Boards for Recreational and
Creative Activities, Sports, Hostel Management, Students Publications and Student Welfare. It also works to
promote the student interests and endeavors to create healthy traditions in campus life.

5.1.1 Board for Hostel Management (BHM)

The Board for Hostel Management is responsible for policy formulation, co-ordination, and review of all
matters relating to management of the Halls of Residence. It implements and manages all decisions, rules
and regulations laid down from time to time by the Student Affairs Council and the Authorities of the
Institute.

5.1.2 Board for Recreational and Creative Activities (BRCA)

The BRCA is the one-stop destination to get away with college stress and indulge in various recreational
and creative activities. It gives a platform to nurture and showcase one's talent in co-curricular hobbies. The
Showstopper is Rendezvous, our own cultural fest (one of the largest cultural festivals in India) which sees
glamourous pro-nites and competitions on a national level. The board has a plethora of clubs serving the
needs of the diverse IIT Delhi community:
Fine Arts and Crafts Club, Hindi Samiti, Music Club, Wellness Club, Debating Club, Dance Club,
Photography and Films Club, Quizzing Club, Literary Club, Dramatics Club, SPIC MACAY.

5.1.3 Board for Sports Activities (BSA)

Sports and games are essential components of human resource development and help in promoting good
health and spirit of healthy competition, which, in turn, has a positive and deep impact on the holistic
development of personality of the Youth- a potential source of energy, enthusiasm and inspiration. Board
for Sports Activities (BSA) had been looking after this important component for the development of sports
environment in the campus. It ensures that adequate facilities are given to sportspersons.
Some of our facilities are- a cricket field with four turf wickets, four flood-lit cricket practice pitches, flood-
lit hockey and football grounds, three flood-lit volleyball and two basketball courts, eight flood-lit tennis
courts (four synthetic and four clay courts), tennis practice wall, two squash courts, one badminton hall, two
table tennis halls with synthetic flooring, one weight-lifting hall, Olympic size swimming pool, kid’s pool,
two multi-gyms, a flood-lit stadium with 400 meters athletics track, flood-lit jogging track and ancillary
arrangements for all the games.
Construction of a new multipurpose hall with facilities for badminton, table tennis and squash courts, is
under progress.

5.1.4 Board for Student Publications (BSP)

The Board for Student Publications covers the viewpoint of the student community on various aspects. It
encourages creativity and expression among the students. It’s a platform which brings awareness and allows
thought-provoking discussions on pertinent issues. It publishes journalistic analyses, holds book fair, and
organizes various competitions throughout the year.
Every year, - the signature Literati Festival is celebrated by BSP. Several speakers from the media, activism
and writing space are invited in the festival.

5.1.5 Board for Student Welfare (BSW)

The Board for Student Welfare is a student body set up with an intention to look after the Welfare of the
Student Community. BSW has always been dedicated towards helping the Student Community in every
aspect of life in IIT Delhi. The Board adheres to a principle of making itself the organization of the students,
for the students, and by the students.

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Mentorship covers all mentoring facilities for freshers. Operations cover well-being of students, metal health
support and some events organized throughout the year.

5.2 National Service Scheme (NSS)

The National Service Scheme IIT Delhi, with a volunteer base of over 2000 students and faculties, believes in
growing together with the society. It aims at generating empathy in volunteers while serving the society. It
works in various domain- Education, Health, Environment, Society etc.
Some projects running in these domains, which give ample opportunities to students for participation are:
Vidya Teaching Project, Food4Thought, Aarohan, Neem School Project, She Codes Project, Teach for
India, Blood Donation, Mental Health, Substance Abuse Project, Climate Crusade Project, Green Warriors,
Animal Care, Eduride Volunteering, Gender Mainstreaming, Old Age Home and many more.

5.3 National Cadet Corps (NCC)

The National Cadet Corps is an organization aiming at the development of leadership, character, comradeship,
spirit of sportsmanship and the ideal of service, among the youth in educational institutions. The motto of
NCC is “Unity and Discipline”.

5.4 Counselling Service (CS)

Counselling Services support the students to enhance their efficiency and output to perform better and to
cope with various distresses. They also address problems of IITD faculty and staff as per their requirement.
Counselling involves therapies based on cognitive, behavioral, rational, emotive, supportive, existential, and
interpersonal and intrapersonal and personality domains of an individual.
There are 6 counselors at present in the campus.

5.5 Office of Accessible Education (OAE)

To establish a complete accessible system to help the students with special need, this office has been
set-up in 2021. It is supporting the students with assistive devices and technical training programme. It is
also conducting workshops for disability awareness in the campus.

5.6 Initiative for Gender Equity and Sensitization (IGES)

IGES aims to create a safe and violence-free educational atmosphere for all, irrespective of diversities in
identities of gender, sex, caste, class, ethnicity, language, race, disability, and sexual orientation. IGES also
advocates a zero-tolerance policy against sexual harassment.

5.7 Student-Teacher Interaction

The Institute encourages students to come in close contact with teacher. The Student-Teacher Interaction
Committee (STIC) facilitates and promotes contact between teachers and students.

Student–Teacher Interaction Committee (STIC)

STIC encourages healthy and informal interaction of students with their teachers outside the boundaries
of classrooms environment. Teacher can take their students to trip, for get-together and can have informal
interaction. Dinners are organized in the hostel every semester where students can invite their teachers in
their hostels. STIC also organizes dinners exclusively for all freshers with their teachers who were teaching
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 societies are encouraged to organize informal activities in their departments and STIC Partially supports
monetarily.

Class Committees and Course Committees

In order to bring about greater contact between students and teachers, Course Committees and Class
Committees are constituted, comprising of both, students and faculty. These committees discuss academic
matters relating to the course or class concerned.

Student Advisors
A student advisor is appointed by the Department for a group of 10-12 students in the B.Tech., and dual-
degree (B.Tech. and M.Tech.) programmes. Student are encouraged to keep in constant touch with his / her
adviser regarding all academic affairs. The advisor, in turn, will provide the student with suitable advice
regarding courses, academic load, and rules and regulations, etc. governing his / her academic programme.
Student’s registration each semester is carried out through the office of his / her advisor. The student advisor
is also expected to keep in touch with the student’s general performance and welfare both formally, as well
as through informal channels.

Programme Coordinators
The administration of all postgraduate programmes is facilitated by a faculty member designated as the
Programme Coordinator. The Programme Coordinator helps students regarding all registration and course
related matters.

5.8 National Sports Organization (NSO)

NSO is a classification in the scheme of education formulated in furtherance of setting a climate of sports
consciousness and improvement of physique among the youth during their period of education. Sports is
included in the curriculum at IITD.

5.9 Co-curricular and Academic Interaction Council (CAIC)

The council is a joint committee of undergraduate students, postgraduate students and faculty which aims at
maximal interaction between students and faculty, a good academic atmosphere and an efficient decision-
making process based on consultation; and through these it aims to promote an overall development of
students for the maximum realization of their potential. The provides feedback on all academic and allied
matters. CAIC has following constituent clubs and societies:

Robotics Club
The Club strives to stimulate interest in robotics among the students of the institute. Besides making a
serious endeavour to spread knowledge on Robotics and its diverse applications, it also stands by the subtle
acronym of TEAM - ‘Together Everyone Achieves More'.

Axlr8r Club
Axlr8r Formula Racing is a group of undergraduate students from different departments who design and
fabricate open wheel electric formula race cars. So far, the club has designed 3 electric vehicles and 5
combustion vehicles. It aims to promote e-mobility in India and strive to revolutionize the future of electric
mobility in India.

Aeromodelling Club
The Club is a group of aeromodelling and aviation enthusiasts with an innate desire for flying. Aeromodelling
is a work of art where engineering and creativity synergize in developing sophisticated flying systems.

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This Club is a group of Physics and Astronomy enthusiasts who organise lecture sessions, discussions and
observation sessions and competitive events throughout the year.

Devclub
DevClub strives to spread applied computer science culture among the students of the Institute. Club
combines the likes of coding, web development, android app development and much more to come up
with new and innovative, out-of-the-box solutions.

Economics Club
The vision of the Economics club is to promote knowledge on economics & financial education, training &
imparting practical skills, and introducing people to economic, in a way that gets them interested to pursue
the area further.

iGem Club
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) club aims to solve real-world challenges by
building genetically engineered biological systems to advance research in synthetic biology.
For more details (about Societies) please visit: https://caic.iitd.ac.in/

5.10 Hostel Allotment

One important part of student life in IIT Delhi is hostel. The hostels in the campus are run and managed
under BHM (Board for Hostel Management).
The number of seats required in the hostels for yearly admitted students are not sufficient to accommodate
all, so few categories of full-time students who are not residing within 12km of distance from IIT Delhi are
given preference over others. The categories are:
1. All female students
2. B.Tech./Dual Degree students
3. M.Sc. students
4. Students with special need
5. Foreign students
Other students would be accommodated if seats are left after above allotments else, they are required to
arrange for their own accommodation.
At present, eleven boys’ hostel and three girls’ hostel are operational.
The boys’ hostels are: Nilgiri, Karakoram, Aravali, Jwalamukhi, Satpura, Zanskar, Kumaon, Vindyachal, Shivalik,
Girnar and Udaigiri.
The girls’ hostels are: Kailiash, Himadri and Nalanda.
Each Hostel is self-contained with amenities such as a reading room, indoor games room, a lounge and
a dining hall with mess, a computer room and TV in common room. All rooms have been provided with
Internet facilities.
In Nalanda hostel the additional facility of kitchen is available for girls with choice of self-cooking. This
facility is possible as the Nalanda Apartments meant for family accommodation are converted into hostel to
meet the shortage of girl’s accommodation. So, the students staying (on sharing basis) in Nalanda may cook
themselves and use basic kitchen appliances in their apartments.
Three new hostels: Dronagiri, Saptagiri & Sahyadri are soon going to be operational. These are fully air-
conditioned and have 1200 rooms with single seat capacity.
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 5.11 Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC)
Entrepreneurship Development Cell is a student-run body working with an aim to promote, foster and
nurture entrepreneurship amongst the student community at IIT Delhi. It works as a primary student body
of the institute which helps the young aspiring minds to explore and open the doors of the promising and
exciting world of entrepreneurship. The initiatives and activities of the cell are not just aimed at promoting
and creating awareness about entrepreneurship as a career choice, they also aim to nurture entrepreneurial
skills through different events, workshops and competitions, and provide all kinds of support to budding
student entrepreneurs, ranging from mentorship and skill-development to facilitating the process of
incubation-related activities. EDC IIT Delhi continuously works towards facilitating entrepreneurship
education and developing a comprehensive resource pool.
In this pursuit, it organizes a plethora of events and initiatives, which includes the following:
• Exclusive Townhall Sessions with top entrepreneurs of the world
• Workshops, Guest Lectures and Bootcamps on entrepreneurship
• Mentorship Sessions with experienced entrepreneurs
• Annual Business and Entrepreneurship Conclave
• Facilitate Student - led startups in Legal Services
• Investor Meet-ups and Pitching Sessions
• Online Entrepreneurship Resource Portal
• Facilitate in Incubation Related Activities
• Business Plan Competitions
As an institute, IIT Delhi has always been at the forefront to support entrepreneurship and is proud to be the
alma mater of a large number of Indian Unicorn founders, with many luminary alumni who have made their
mark in the entrepreneurial sphere. EDC IIT Delhi provides a myriad of opportunities to all the interested
students to interact with various entrepreneurs and top industry leaders, while providing them with a great
platform to learn, network and gain exposure to the entrepreneurial world. Working along with FITT IIT
Delhi, EDC IIT Delhi ensures a smooth support to the budding entrepreneurs, ready to transform their ideas
into reality.

5.12 Departmental Professional Societies

Most of the Departments / Centres / Schools have professional societies managed by the faculty and students
to promote academic and professional interests. These societies also facilitate student-teacher interaction
outside the classroom.

5.13 Medical Facilities

The Institute Hospital is a 14 bedded well equipped primary Health Care facility providing OPD treatment
and admission for minor medical ailments. Being located in the centre of the campus, our patients have easy
access to the medical facility. The Hospital has an outsourced Apollo Pharmacy which is open from 8 am
to 8 pm providing good quality medicines. The Hospital is managed by a team of full time eight allopathic
doctors, one homeopathic doctor, one dental doctor and six doctors on contract basis from outsourced
agency for OPD and emergency morning, evening and night duties on weekdays and holidays providing
24x7 availability of doctors in the emergency. The hospital has a basic composite laboratory and one
outsourced advanced pathology laboratory. The Dental unit is well equipped and the dental surgeon is
managing all dental emergencies including minor oral surgical procedures. The Biomedical waste protocol
is followed as per Government guidelines..

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field of Cardiology, ENT, Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Neurology, Dermatology, Pulmonology
and Pediatrics on some day of the week as per visiting specialists schedule displayed on the hospital website.
The doctors are assisted by efficient Nurses, Physiotherapist and other Paramedical staff and manage
primary emergencies while serious patients are referred to All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS),
Safdarjung Hospital (SJH) or IIT empanelled hospitals in an Ambulance which is available 24x7 on all days.
The employees also have facility of health insurance which enables the working and retired beneficiaries to
seek all the indoor and surgical treatment in good hospital covered under the insurance scheme.
All UG and PG students can also avail of vidyarthi (group) mediclaim personal accidental insurance policy
with M/S National Insurance Co. Ltd. Details Email- ID: [email protected].
IIT Delhi Hospital is a recognized centre for pulse polio immunization and was government covid
vaccination centre for few months. The Hospital provides medical aid during Sports meet, Rendezvous,
Annual Convocation, other Cultural functions and events. Free educative and health check-up camps were
provided for the IIT community before pandemic. The group A employees also get the facility of annual
health checkup at IIT empanelled hospital. The preventive Health Check up is done throughout the year for
staff as well as students. All new appointments undergo medical examination in the hospital before they
join the Institute.
The Hospital has developed a triage area in covid pandemic to segregate the fever cases from other
patients. There is covid testing facility within the institute where both Rapid Antigen Test and covid RT
PCR test are done. The hospital functions round the clock to allay fears related to covid as well as efficiently
provide online consultations for patients in quarantine and home isolation. A designated transit home
isolation and quarantine facility is provided for students on campus.

5.14 Alumni Association

The IIT Delhi Alumni Association (IITDAA) was established in 1966. All IITD Alumni are members of the
IITDAA. The Association has multiple chapters spread over the entire globe. The Indian chapters are in the
cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Jaipur, Mumbai, NCR
East and South and Pune. We have international chapters in Australia, UK, Qatar, Germany, Italy, Denmark,
USA and South Arabia among other nations.
Some goals of the Association are:
• To promote and foster mutually beneficial interaction between the alumni and the current students of
the institution,
• To encourage the alumni to take an active and abiding interest in the work and progress of the Institute,
• To organize and establish Benevolent and Scholarship Funds to help the needy and deserving students,
• To institute prizes and awards for outstanding project work, research papers or other professional
activities by the students of the Institute,
• To raise public awareness of the role of technology in the economic and social development of the
nation.

5.15 Conduct and Discipline

A student shall conform to a high standard of discipline and shall conduct himself, within and outside the
precincts of the Institute, in a manner befitting the students of an Institution of national importance. He /she
shall have the seriousness of purpose and shall in every way, train himself to lead a life of earnest endeavor
and co-operation. He / she must follow strict ethical standards. Under no circumstances he /she will adopt
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students, respect to the Wardens of the Halls of Residence and the teachers of the Institute and pay due
attention and courtesy to visitors.

5.16 Honour Code

In order to promote ethical behaviour, the Institute requires every student to agree to abide by the Honour
Code. At the time of admission, every student has to sign the Honour Code and submit a copy to the
respective academic section. Violations of this Code are taken very seriously and may result in suspension
or expulsion. The Honour Code is given on the inside back cover of this document.

5.17 Institute Policy on Ragging

Ragging is banned in the Institute. If a student is found to have indulged in ragging in the past, or if it is
noticed later that he / she has indulged in ragging, then he / she may be expelled from the Institute.

5.18 Policy against Sexual Harassment

Institute has a policy against sexual harassment and is committed to providing an environment free from
sexual harassment of women at the workplace.

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6. ACADEMICS UNITS

DEPARTMENT OF
APPLIED MECHANICS
 Sanjeev Sanghi, Ph.D. (CUNY)
Professor
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence
Numerical and Analytical Studies of Turbulent Flows, Head of the Department
Chaos and Dynamical Systems, Finite Element Method
(FEM), Educational Software, Proper Orthogonal
Decomposition.

Sriram Hegde, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Amitabh Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (UIUC) Senior System Programmer/Manager
Associate Professor Computer Aided Design (CAD),
Fluid Mechanics, Fluid Structure Interaction, Design Optimization, Hydrodynamic
Multi-Phase Flows, Turbulence. Stability and Transition Delay, Finite
Element Applications, Heat Transfer.

Narsing Kumar Jha, Ph.D. (IISc. Bangalore)

Vamsi K. Chalamalla, Ph.D. (UC San Diego) Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Experimental Fluid Mechanics Two-phase
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Biological
Ocean Modeling, Stratified Turbulence. and Complex/Polymeric Fluid Flows, Environmental
Flows, Flow Instabilities, Micro-fluidics.

Souvik Chakraborty, Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee) Santosh Kapuria, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor Professor
Machine learning in Mechanics, Digital Twins, Smart Composite and Sandwich Structures, Structures
Stochastic Mechanics, Stochastic Dynamics, Inverse Health Monitoring, Active Vibration Control, Functionally
Problems in Mechanics, Reliability analysis, Design Graded Materials and Structures, Coupled Multi-Physics
under Uncertainty, Multi-scale Systems, Physics- Problems, Wave Propagation, Computational Mechanics,
informed Deep Learning, Stochastic Mechanics. Digital Twins, Nanomechanics.

Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Carnegie Ajeet Kumar, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.)

Mellon University)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Theory of Rods, Plates and Shells,
Continuum Mechanics, Inelastic Behavior of
Crystal Elasticity, Computational Materials
Solids, Multiscale Materials Modeling, High
Science, Multi-objective Optimization
Temperature Creep and Fatigue Resistant
Nano-Mechanics, Numerical Analysis.
Materials, Discrete Dislocation Dynamics.

Puneet Mahajan, Ph.D. (Montana State Univ.)

Murali R. Cholemari, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Professor
Associate Professor Composites: Homogenization and Mechanical
Turbulent Flows, Optical Flow Measurement, Properties, Low and High Velocity Impact of
Applied Fluid Mechanics. Composites; Precision Glass Molding, Helmets,
Snow Mechanics, Finite Element Applications.

Anupam Dewan, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Professor Prapanch Nair, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Assistant Professor
LES, RANS, Partially-averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS)
Numerical Methods for Fluid Flow and Multiphysics,
Approach,Turbulent Jet Impingement Heat Transfer,
Meshless Methods, High Performance Computing,
Turbulent Plume, Heat Transfer over a Square Cylindeheat
Transfer Enhancement in Microchannel, Binary Alloy Machine Learning in Fluid Mechanics.
Solidification and Solar Distillation.

Prateek Gupta, Ph.D. (Purdue)

Assistant Professor Rajdip Nayek, Ph.D. (University of Waterloo)
Theoretical and Computational Fluids and Molecular Assistant Professor
Mechanics, Nonlinear Waves in Fluids, Nonequilibrium Inverse Problems in Dynamical Systems,
Thermodynamics, Computational Statistical Mechanics, Bayesian Inference, State Estimation,
Multiscale Modeling Techniques, Shock Waves, Machine Learning for Digital Twins,
High Order Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Pdes, System Identification, Structural Health Monitoring.
Electrohydrodynamics, High Performance Computing.

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B.P. Patel, Ph.D. (MNNIT, Allahabad) Sawan S. Sinha, Ph.D. (Texas A & M)
Professor Professor
Nonlinear Static/Dynamic Analysis of Shells. Theory and Modeling of Compressible Turbulence,

APPLIED MECHANICS
Composite Structures, Functionally Graded Structures, Hypersonic Flows, Flow-thermodynamics of
Bimodular Composite Structures, Continuum Damage Steam Turbines, Scale-resolving Methods of
Mechanics, Multiscale Modelling of Nano-Structures. Turbulence Computations.

Sitikantha Roy, Ph.D. (Utah State Univ.) Vikrant Tiwari, Ph.D. (South Carolina Univ.)
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Soft Robotics, Biomechanics, Computational
Digital Image Correlation, Impact Mechanics,
Mechanics, Smart Structures, Mechanics of Multi-
Dynamic Fracture Mechanics, Product Design &
functional Polymer, Surgical Simulation, Medical
Analysis, Fuel Cell.
Device, Data Driven Mechanics, Machine Learning.

Pradyumna S., Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) S.V. Veeravalli, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.)
Associate Professor Professor
Functionally Graded Materials, Structural Experimental Investigation of Turbulent
Dynamics, Stability, Composite Structures, Flows, Stability Theory, Design method
Smart Structures, Plates and Shells. for Sustainable Development.

Sushma Santapuri, Ph.D. (Ohio State)

Assistant Professor Hari Vemuri, Ph.D. (Imperial College London)
Mathematical Modeling of Functional/Smart Assistant Professor
Advanced Materials, Electrodynamics of Continua, Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Aeroacoustics,
and Asymptotic Theories for Smart Composite Boundary-layer Receptivity, Flow Stability and
Structures, Thermodynamics of Functional Materials, transition, Flow Control, Noise Control, System
Rod and Plate Theories, Multiferroic Materials and Identification, Modern Robust Control.
their Applications.

Arghya Samanta, Ph.D. (UPMC, France) S.N. Singh, Ph. D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Emeritus Professor
Falling Film Instability, Multi-layer
Fluid Mechanics, Internal and External Flows,
Channel Flow, Flow Transport Through
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Two-phase
Porous Media, Modal and Non-modal Stability,
Flows, Flow Instrumentation, Wind Energy.
Oscillatory Flow Instability.

Arjun Sharma, Ph.D. (Stanford University) Vijay Gupta, Ph.D. (Minnesota)

Assistant Professor
Honorary Professor
Compressible Flows, Numerical Simulations,
Experimental Aerodynamics, Bio-fluid Mechanics,
Large-eddy Simulation, Turbulent Flows
Educational Technology.
and Acoustics.

Yunus Patel, M.S. (Cornell University)

Gaurav Singh, Ph.D. (Imperial College London)
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Assistant Professor
Fluid Mechanics, Product Design, Design
Fracture Mechanics, Composite Mechanics,
Engineering, Manufacturing Technology,
Contact Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics.
Workshop Pactice.

M.K. Singha, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) N.K. Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
INSA Distinguished Scientist
Stability and Dyanmaics of Beams, Plates, Shells
Impact Mechanics, Large Deformation of
and Lightweight Structures. Composite, Functionally
Metals and Composites at Low, Medium
Graded and Sanwich Panels. Behaviour of Materials
and High Rates of Loading.
and Structures at Different Loading Rates.

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 Lt. Cdr. Ravi Kumar, M.Tech. (IIT Kharagpur) Cdr. Vikram Singh, M.Tech. (IIT Bombay),
DIIT (IIT Delhi) PGDIIT (IIT Delhi)
Adjunct Faculty Adjunct Faculty
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Corrosion Science and Engineering,
Marine Hydrodynamics, Warship Design, Submarine Design, Composites for
Submarine Design. Naval Applications.

Cdr. Amit Punia, M.Tech. (IIT Kharagpur),

PGDIIT (IIT Delhi)
Adjunct Faculty
Warship Design, Naval Architecture,
Ocean Engineering.

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INTRODUCTION
The Departmental activities in teaching and research can be broadly classified under the headings of Solid

APPLIED MECHANICS
Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics and Design Engineering.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department offers a B.Tech. in Engineering and Computational Mechanics. The B.Tech. Programme focuses
on basic as well as the emerging areas of mechanics such as Bio-Mechanics, Nano-mechanics, Multi-scale and
Multi-physics modelling. The courses in the programme cover recent trends in computational techniques
(FEM, CFD, parallel processing), high performance computing, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
etc. The students are exposed to fundamental and latest techniques in experiments and its importance for
model validation. Students from other departments can also obtain minor degree in Applied Mechanics
with specialization in Computational Mechanics.
Basic courses in Mechanics, Experimental Methods and Analysis, and Design Engineering that are part of the
undergraduate core curriculum. Faculties are also involved in guiding undergraduate students of various
programmes in their mini and major projects.

POSTGRADUATE
The Department offers Masters of Technology programmes in – (i) Engineering Analysis & Design. Students
admitted to the M.Tech. Programme in Engineering Mechanics can opt for specialization in either (a)
Engineering Mechanics (b) Product Design. With in Engineering Mechanics students can choose to work
in Solid Mechanics or Fluid Mechanics. A masters of Science (Research) programme is also offered with
specialization in Applied Mechanics. A Postgraduate Diploma course in Naval Construction is also offered,
in collaboration with the Indian Navy, to officers sponsored by Indian Navy. The course is of one and a half
years duration.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Department has been involved in the following broad areas of research:
• E lasticity, Plasticity, Large Deformations, Manufacturing Analysis, Impact and Crash worthiness,
Composite Materials, Composite Plates and Shells, Off-shore Structures, Smart Structures, Snow
Mechanics, Computational Methods for Stress Analysis and Structures, Structural Optimization,
Finite Element Method, Seismic Analysis of Tall Structures, Parallel Computing, Non-linear Dynamics
and Chaos, Stability and bifurcation theory, Nano-mechanics, Bio-mechanics, Impact Mechanics,
Continuum Damage Mechanics, Probabilistic Mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring and Fracture
Mechanics, Machine Learning in Mechanics, Physics-informed Deep Learning, Digital Twins, Stochastic
Mechanics, Inverse Problems in Mechanics, Solid Mechanics Inverse Problems in Dynamical Systems,
System Identification, Structural Health Monitoring, Creep and Fatigue Resistant Materials, Discrete
Dislocation Dynamics.
• ydrodynamic Stability Theory and Turbulence, (Theory Computation and Experimental), Low
H
Dimensional Modelling, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Computational Fluid Dynamics;
Compressible Flows; Industrial Aerodynamics and Pollution Dispersion, Wind Effects on Structures,
Diffusers, Impellers, Combustors, Hypersonic Flows, Renewable Energy, Experimental Fluid Mechanics,
Fluid structure interaction, Two-Phase Flows, Polymer Hydrodynamics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics,
Biological and Complex/Polymeric Fluid Flows, Machine Learning in Fluid Mechanics, Theoretical
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 Thermodynamics, Computational Statistical Mechanics, Multiscale Modeling Techniques, Shock
Waves, High Order Methods for Fluid Mechanics and PDEs, Electro-hydrodynamics, High Performance
Computing, Aeroacoustics, Noise Control.
• Computer Aided Design, Design Engineering, Reliability Engineering.
Besides, the Department also organizes seminars, symposia, short-term courses and advanced summer schools
for faculty of engineering institutes and engineers from industry. It also undertakes industrial consultancy
work and has in hand both short and long-term projects sponsored by the government agencies and private
industrial organizations.
Doctoral research is currently being carried out in:
Large Deformations, Impact Mechanics, Plasticity, Analysis of Manufacturing Processes, Composite Materials,
Composite Plates and Shells, Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos, Off-shore Structures, Smart Structures,
Snow Mechanics, Stress analysis and finite element application, Damage mechanics, Computational
Methods for Fluid Flows, Pollution dispersion, Flow through Fluid Machines, Pipeline Engineering, Wind
Engineering, Hydrodynamic Stability, Transition, Turbulence, Bio-fluid Dynamics, Computer Aided Design,
Design Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Availability and Maintainability Engineering, Metal Foams,
Nanocomposites, Friction Stir Welding, Pattern Formation in Granular Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue
Crack Propagation, Environmental Cracking, Failure Analysis and Mechanical Properties of Solids, Nano-
mechanics, Biomechanics, Stratified Flows, Design under uncertainty, Physics-informed Deep Learning and
Stochastic Mechanics, Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Fluid Structure Interaction, Two-Phase Flows, Polymer
Hydrodynamics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Department has well-equipped laboratories, workshop and library facilities. The laboratories and their
major facilities are as follows:
• Computation Laboratory: Graphics Workstations with engineering software such as ANSYS, ABAQUS,
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• Design Optimization Laboratory: Workstations, Dual Processor–Softwares such as IDEA, ABAQUS,
FLUENT, MATLAB, MATHCAD.
• Fluid Mechanics Laboratory: Pilot plant test loop for slurry transportation, pilot plant for flow rate
measurement up to 8 cusecs, Bohlin viscometer, Weissenberg Rheogoniometer, Water tunnel with
advanced measurement techniques.
• Gas Dynamics Laboratory: Industrial wind tunnel (1.6m x 1.6m x 10 m test section closed loop),
Environmental wind tunnel (2m x 2m x10m suction type; is currently being renovated and may qualify
for a central facility to be used by Civil Engineering Department, Mechanical Engineering Department
and Atmospheric Sciences) and low turbulence wind tunnels, Wide angle diffuser rigs. Instruments:
PIV(2D/3D), LDV, Hot wire Ancomometry, Pressure and Strain Scanners.
• Instruments: PIV (2D/3D), LDV, Hot wire Ancomometry, Pressure and Stain Scanners.
• Impact Mechanics Laboratory: Split Hopkinson Bar apparatus (tension and compression), High velocity
projectile launch system, Dynamic three point bend test facility, Ultra high speed cameras, High speed
data acq. system.
• MTS Laboratory: 250 kN and 25 kN & MTS machine with facilities for mechanical testing, fracture
mechanics testing and fatigue testing.
• Strength of Materials Laboratory: 25 T Computerized Universal Testing machine (Zwick), 50 T Instron
m/c, 10T and 100 T hydraulically operated Universal Testing m/c, Avery machines for hardness, impact,
torsion and fatigue testing, Drop hammer facility (Instron 9250 HV) modified for Helmets. Stereo Zoom
Microscope (Leica), 50 kN UTM machine with thermal chamber and bending/compression/fracture
accessories (Zwick), Camera (Basler).
• Biomechanics/Soft Material Lab: 5kN UTM, AFM, Inverted Microscope Optical Bench, Sample
preparation facility.
• Stress Analysis Laboratory: Photo-elastic bench, Reflection polariscobe, Moire fringe equipment,
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 • Workshop: The departmental workshop has a number of machines that include Lathe machines, vertical
milling machines, shaping machine, drilling machines, bench grinders, high temperature furnace,
welding sets etc.
• Composites Lab: Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Moulding, Fixtures for testing composites and micro-
CT scanner.

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BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING
AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

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 D. Sundar, Ph.D. (Pondicherry Univ.)
Professor
Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics,
Head of the Department
Genome Engineering, Synthetic Biology.

K.J. Mukherjee, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Professor
Associate Professor Bioprocess Optimization and Scale up. Primary Interest
Wastewater Treatment-physico-chemical and is in Designing Host Platforms for Over-expressing
Biological, Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment. Metabolites and Recombinant Proteins and Linking
then with Bioprocess Strategies for Overproduction.

Lucinda Elizabeth Doyle, Ph.D.

(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Atul Narang, Ph.D. (Purdue Univ.)
Assistant Professor Professor
Electromicrobiology, Microbial electrochemistry, Systems Biology of Microbial Gene Regulation.
Electrochemically-active Microorganisms.

Ravikrishnan Elangovan, Ph.D. (Florence Sunil Nath, Dr. Ing. (Braunschweig Univ. Germany)
University)
Professor
Associate Professor
Bioseparation, Mechanism and Thermodynamics of
Single Molecule Biophysics, Fluorescence
ATP-based Molecular Machines, Molecular Systems
Spectroscopy, Molecular Motors,
Biology/Engineering.
Skeletal Muscle Mechanics.

Ishaan Gupta, Ph.D. (EMBL & University of

Heidelberg, Germany) Shilpi Sharma, Ph.D. (Ludwig Maximilians
Assistant Professor Univ. of Munich, Germany)
Biostatistics and Functional Genomics, RNA Biology, Professor
Aging, Neurodegeneration and Organ degeneration, Functional Microbial Ecology.
Parasitology.

Ritu Kulshreshtra, Ph.D. (Delhi Univ.) Kumari Priti Sinha, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Professor Assistant Professor
RNAi Technology, MicroRNAs in Cancer Biology, Bio-microfluidics,
Cancer/Disease Biomarkers, Hypoxia Research. Biophysics, Electrohydrodynamics.

Ashish Misra, Ph.D. (Rutgers The State University

of New Jersey, New Brunswick) T.R. Sreekrishnan, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor Professor
Metabolic Analysis and Engineering, Waste Engineering, Environmental Biotechnology.
Clinical Diagnostics, Bioprocessing.

Prashant Mishra, Ph.D. (JNU) Preeti Srivastava, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor
Professor
Enzyme Science and Engineering, Pharmaceutical
Microbial Genetics.
Proteins, Bio-nano-technology, Drug Delivery.

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BIOCHEMICAL ENGG. & BIOTECHNOLOGY

The Department offers a unique blend of scientific expertise in applied biological sciences, chemical and
biochemical engineering. It strives for application of this expertise to evolve various biotechnological
products, processes and services through:
• Generation of highly trained human resource capable of quantitative analysis of biological systems to
facilitate their role in manning modern bioprocess industries and to provide an integrated approach to
research and development in biotechnology.
• Evolving research and development programmes to develop products and provide services in bio
energy, environment and therapeutics.
• Leading global innovations in Bioprocess Technology, Applied Biological Sciences and facilitate
participation in industrial consulting and sponsored research.
• Dissemination of knowledge generated through short term courses, workshops and conferences.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department offers a four year B.Tech. Programme.

POSTGRADUATE
At postgraduate level the department offers M.Tech. and M.S. (Research) Programmes.

RESEARCH AREAS
Some of the focal areas of research of the department are:
• Bioprocess Engineering
• Cell and Molecular Biotechnology
• Downstream Processing
• Systems and Computational Biology
• Bionanotechnology
• Environmental Biotechnology
• Functional Genomics
Doctoral research (PhD) is being carried out in the following areas:
Microbial physiology and biochemistry, Metabolic engineering, Recombinant DNA technology,
Enzyme science and engineering, Animal and plant cell fermentations, Bioreactor design and analysis,
Bioseparation and downstream processing systems, Biological waste treatment, Biological molecular
machines, Biosensors, Drug delivery systems and Protein-DNA recognition and Bionanotechnology.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Department is well equipped for the teaching and research programmes and the equipment and
facilities are regularly modernized as per requirements. Major equipment and facilities are:
• Bioreactors: Several bioreactors with capacities ranging from 0.5 to 300 litres, equipped with
instruments for monitoring and control pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, measuring & controlling
volumetric gas flow rate, and gaseous O2/CO2 levels. A pilot plant facility is available for transferring
laboratory scale data to industrial scale.
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 • Analytical Equipment: Multiplexed MS, FTNIR with
probe, Spectrofluorimeter with probe, Elemental
analyzer, HPLC, IC, GC, FPLC, GC-MS, ICP-MS, LC-
MS and other chromatography systems; visible and
UV spectrophotometer, CD Spectropolarimeter;
Spectrofluorimeter; Fluorescene microscope and Flow
cytometer.

• Molecular Biology: Several molecular biology labs

containing standard equipment such as laminar flow
chamber, CO2 Shaker Incubator, anaerobic work
cabinet, centrifuges, water baths, sonicators, lyophilizer,
isoelectric focusing unit, scanning laser densitometer,
PCR, and RT-PCR electroporation-electrofusion system.
There is also a lab equipped with a scintillation counter
for working with radioisotopes.

• Computing Facility: A separate computation lab with

several PCs is also available. A Bioinformatics Centre
sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology,
Government of India, under the Biotechnology
Information System Network (BTISnet) is also housed
in the department.

• Upcoming state-of-the-art imaging and genomics

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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 Anil K. Saroha, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Multiphase Reactors,
Head of the Department
Environmental Engineering.

Suddhasatwa Basu, FNAE, FNASc., Ph.D. Gaurav Goel, Ph.D. (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
(IISc., Bangalore)
Associate Professor
Professor
Transport at Nanoscale, Structure-property
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology,
Solvophobic Interactions and Self-assembly.
Electrochemical Energy Storage & Engineering

Ashok N. Bhaskarwar, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Mohammad Ali Haider, Ph.D. (Univ. of Virginia)
Professor
Associate Professor
Interfacial Engineering, Chemical Reaction
Heterogeneous Catalysis,
Engineering, Pollution-prevention Technologies,
Biorenewable Chemicals and Biofuels.
Chemical Product Design.

Divesh Bhatia, Ph.D. (Univ. of Houston) Rajesh Khanna, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Professor
Automotive Catalysis, Transient Catalytic Systems,
Phase Separation, Thin Liquid Films, Mist
Gas Cleanup and Conditioning,
Reactors, Colloids and Interfacial Science.
Hydrogen Engines and Emissions.

Vivek V. Buwa, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Hariprasad Kodamana, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Model Based Control, System Identification,
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flows,
Process Monitoring, Bayesian Inference,
Reactor Engineering.
Process Data Analytics.

Paresh P. Chokshi, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Manjesh Kumar, Ph.D. (University of Houston)
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Hydrodynamic Stability, Theoretical /Computational Novel Material Synthesis, Characterization and Design,
Polymer Physics, Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Mechanistic Study of
Polymer Processing. Functional Material Failure Modes.

Shalini Gupta, Ph.D. (NC State Univ.) Kamal K. Pant, FNAE, FNASc., Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor Professor
Colloidal Interactions and Nanoscale Heterogeneous Catalysis and Reaction Kinetics,
Engineering, Molecular Self-assembly, Catalytic Hydrocarbon Conversion Processes,
Microfluidics, Nanolithography. Water Treatment.

Somnath Ghosh, Ph.D. (Univ. of

Twente, Netherlands) Sudip K. Pattanayek, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor Professor
Microfluidics, Fluid Mechanics, Polymer Physics, Biopolymers Under Flow, Polymer
Functional Colloids Synthesis and their Nano-composites.
Interaction, Interfacial Engineering.

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Jyoti Phirani, Ph.D. (Univ. of Houston) Sreedevi U., Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Professor
Associate Professor
Heterogenous Catalysis & Reaction
Flow through Porous Media, Reservoir Simulation,
Engineering, Thermochemical & Chemical
Enhanced Oil Recovery, Unconventional Energy
Pathways to Renewable Liquid Fuels,
Resources.
Green Chemical Technologies.

Manoj C. Ramteke, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Anil Verma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor Professor
Modeling and Optimization of Chemical and Sustainable Environergy Electrochemical Systems:
Polymeric Systems, Meta-heuristic Algorithms, Batteries, CO2 Electrochemical Reduction to
Process Planning and Scheduling. Hydrocarbons, Microbial Fuel Cell, Graphene Synthesis
and Application in Energy Devices, C/C Composites.

M.K.S. Verma, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Anurag Singh Rathore, Ph.D. (Yale Univ.) Assistant Professor
Professor Fluid Mechanics, Flow Instability in Flexible Channel/
Biosimilars, Bioprocessing, Quality by Design Tube, Microfluidics, Medical Devices, Bio-inspired
(QbD), Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Design, Lithium-ion Batteries, Electrochemical
Multi-variate Data Analysis (MVDA). Modeling, Battery Management System (BMS).

Shantanu Roy, Ph.D. (Washington Univ.) Sharad K. Gupta, Ph.D. (Brooklyn

University)
Professor
Emeritus Professor
Multiphase Reactor Engineering, Multiphase
Transport Phenomenon,
Flows, Radioactive Trace Particle Tracking.
Membrane Separation Process.

Jayati Sarkar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)

Associate Professor
Ratan Mohan, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Instabilities, Adhesion, Debonding, Emeritus Professor
Dewetting and Pattern Formation of Soft
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Process
Thin Films, Computational Fluid Dynamics,
Engineering, Thermodynamics.
Self-organization of Complex Fluids,
Granular Materials.

Anupam Shukla, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) K.D.P. Nigam, Ph.D. (UDCT, Mumbai)
Professor Honorary Professor
Membrane Synthesis & Separations, Modeling of Flow Systems, In-line Mixing,
Electrochemical Systems Engineering. Multiphase Flow Reactors.

Vikram Singh, Ph.D. (Cornell University) R.R. Sonde, Ph.D. (IIT Mumbai)
Visiting Professor
Assistant Professor
Conceptualizing Technology Roadmap, Business
Low Reynolds Number Fluid Mechanics-
Development, Building High Performance Teams,
suspensions and Emulsions, Colloids
Cross Cultural Management, Strategic/Operational
and Aerosols, Geothermal Energy.
Management, Building Innovative Services.

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 INTRODUCTION
The Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) at IIT Delhi, one of the finest in India, is dedicated to providing
the best education, research practices and ecosystem to all its associated members. The undergraduate and
postgraduate students can choose from a wide range of courses and research projects from the Department’s
meticulously designed academic programme. The courses span from fundamental sciences to complex
mathematical relationships and engineering design aspects of chemical and biological process technology.
The students are rigorously trained and evaluated on a continuous basis so that they are well prepared to
be leaders in whichever field they choose to pursue may it be academia, industry, technology management,
entrepreneurship or working for a social cause. The course curriculum is upgraded every ten years to keep
up with the changing scenario, requirements and technological advancements around the world.
The Department maintains a vibrant research profile and currently boasts of having one of the best group
of faculty members in the country who are not only experts in their respective fields of research but are
also engaged in multidisciplinary projects that cater to the broader economic, societal and environmental
development and growth of the country. The Department maintains a close liaison with a large number
of chemical, biotech companies and design organizations because we believe it is essential to perform
basic fundamental scientific research alongside the applied one. The faculty regularly undertakes
consultancy assignments in which postgraduate students can make great contributions and students at the
undergraduate level are constantly encouraged to identify industrial organizations for summer internships.
Every faculty member has a well-equipped lab in which advanced instruments are kept for use by all the
students. Some of the facilities include liquid-liquid extraction columns, autoclaves, large capacity blowers,
compressors, gasifiers, combustors, pyrolysis systems, bubble and packed columns, circulating fluidized
beds, batch and continuous flow reactors, carbon-dioxide absorption systems, bench-top optical and
electron microscopes, FTIR, GCMS, TGA, DTA, TPD/TPR, submicron particle size analyzer, powdered particle
shape analyzer, high speed photographic equipment, data loggers, high speed multipoint recorders, HPLC,
ion chromatograph, CHN analyzer, viscometer, GC with mass spectrometer, atomic absorption spectrometer,
automatic contact angle goniometer and tensiometer, radioactive particle tracking (RPT) system, spin
coater and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscope, BET Surface Area Analyser, Malvern Mastersizer
3000, Integrated Confocal Raman Microscope & Atomic Force Microscope, Formulaction Turbiscan Tower.
The Department also has two pilot plants and a newly furbished central characterization lab that currently
houses an XRD, rheometer and a surface texture analyzer. More instruments are constantly added to this
repertoire.
In addition to the analytical instrumentation facilities, there are also extensive computing facilities and
softwares like Aspen Plus, SimSci, Fluent, CFX and Promax that are made available to the undergraduate
and research students for carrying out their project work. The Department has also set up a state-of-the-art
pollution control and testing laboratory and a process research laboratory provided with 40 intel core 2 duo
computers and a state-of-the-art Tata-Honey Well Automation Laboratory.
Once a week, the department organizes a research seminar in which external speakers or our own Ph.D.
students present their research work. This helps the students to stay abreast with the latest developments
in the Chemical Engineering field and also gives them a perspective about their own research from a global
view standpoint. Summer and winter schools under quality-improved programme (QIP) are also organized
from time to time. With so much happening in the department, we strongly urge you to join us as a student,
staff or faculty, or at least pay us a visit when you are in the neighborhood.

VISION
The Department’s long-term vision is to become a world leader as a developer of technologies related to
energy, environmental protection, novel materials, and healthcare. The Department has been prolific in
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
simulation from molecular to process scales, and manufacturing technology for production of biotech
therapeutics. We would like to build on our strengths and strive for national and international presence in
these areas by continuing our fundamental research and technology development initiatives, and further
strengthening our bachelors, masters and doctoral programmes. We expect that these endeavors will not
only attract superior faculty but will provide and create an enabling ecosystem for students to explore,
innovate and smoothly transition into the professional arena. The Department would like to build focused
research programmes networked with industry, institutions, universities and government agencies. We
would like to develop/co-develop effective and affordable technologies scripting joint IPR in partnership
with industry, or through consortia leading to spin-offs. The Department strives to promote a technology
temperament in society at large, especially to young minds through extensional activities via technology
enhanced video and web based distance learning courses, creation of virtual laboratory and resource centres
and participating in policy making and public debates.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The Department offers two undergraduate degrees, one leading to a 4 year B.Tech. and the other to an
integrated 5 year Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech.). At the postgraduate level, the Department offers M.Tech.,
M.S. (Research) and Ph.D. degrees. The teaching at the undergraduate level aims at providing the students
a broad-based education in theory and practice of Chemical Engineering keeping in view the current and
future requirements of the country. At the postgraduate level, students are trained to assume independent
responsibilities by laying emphasis on self study component in courses and assigning them TA duties to
mentor UG students. Opportunities are provided to the students at all levels to get acquainted with the
latest developments in the various areas of Chemical Engineering. Our institute also has an M.O.U. with
Ethiopia and we regularly get students from there as part of our M.Tech. and Ph.D. foreign programmes.

UNDERGRADUATE
B.Tech. students need to do a compulsory foundation courses in the areas of basic sciences, humanities,
social sciences and engineering sciences along with Departmental core and elective courses. Departmental
courses constitute about half of the total curriculum. Some of the core chemical engineering subjects include
fundamentals of mass/heat transfer, chemical reaction engineering, process control, thermodynamics,
fluid mechanics, plant design and economics. Students also do open electives to broaden their repertoire
of interdisciplinary knowledge-base. Further, there is provision to do a minor degree, for example in
computer science and engineering, for which a student needs to do additional credits in the minor area to
be eligible for the minor area specialization.

POSTGRADUATE
The 5 year dual degree programme (integrated B.Tech. + M.Tech.) in Chemical Engineering is viewed as
a high-value added course fit for students who wish to enhance the scope of their B.Tech. degree with
one additional year of research experience. The students can take additional elective courses which opens
avenues for better placements both in academia and in the industry. The masters of technology (M.Tech.)
is a standard two year programme after B.Tech. comprising of one year of rigorous coursework followed
by an year of research training under the guidance of a ChE faculty supervisor. The Department also offers
M.S. (Research) programme in Chemical Engineering which includes first semester of course work followed
by three semesters of rigorous research work. There are also provisions for doing a part-time M.Tech./MS
for persons already employed in the industry and are looking for value addition in their knowledge base
and resumes.
The highly motivated individuals choose to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Chemical
Engineering as this is an intensively research-driven programme. The students are also expected to qualify
a set of the advanced chemical engineering courses in their first year while maintaining a minimum CGPA
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advanced materials, process modeling simulation, optimization, process control, pharmaceutical
biotechnology, environmental engineering and waste management.

RESEARCH AREAS
The ChE faculty is actively engaged in basic and applied research leading to the award of many Masters
and PhD degrees. These projects are sponsored by industries, user organizations and government funding
agencies (DST, DBT CSIR, DRDO, MNRE, etc.). The projects are directed towards development of innovative
and indigenous technologies for processes relating to efficient heat and mass transfer, design of biosimilars,
biomass thermo-chemical conversion processes, hydrodynamics and cold flow studies in trickle beds,
packed beds and bubble columns, membrane transport studies, recovery of metals from spent catalysts,
oil recovery from emulsion effluents, natural gas production from gas hydrates, solid oxide fuel cells, waste
water treatment and design of novel diagnostic bioassays. The research activities of the department can be
broadly classified in the following subareas.
• Battery and Fuel Cells • Molecular Dynamic Simulations
• Bioseparations and Bioprocessing • Petrochemical Technology
• Colloids and Nano Scale Engineering • Polymer Physics and Engineering
• Computational Fluid dynamics • Process Data Analytics
• Density Functional Theory Simulations • Process Intensification
• Fluid and Particle Mechanics • Reservoir and Refinery Processes
• Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis • Renewable Energy Engineering
• Interfacial Engineering • Water Treatment
• Model based Optimization and Process Control

HPLC Microreactor Unit Optical Microscope

Radioactive Particle Malvern Mastersizer 3000 Bet Surface Area Analyzer

Turbiscan Tower UV-VIG Spectrophotometer 3D-controlled Micro Imaging

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 Narayanan D. Kurur, Ph.D. (California
Institute of Technology)
Professor Head of the Department
NMR Methodology.

Debkumar Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D. (I.A.C.S.) Shivajirao L. Gholap, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Professor Assistant Professor
Metalloporphyrin Catalyzed Oxidation Natural Product Synthesis and Their
Reactions of Organic and Organometallic Biological Studies, Development of New Synthetic
Compounds, Kinetics & Mechanistic Studies. Method and its Application in Organic Synthesis.

Biswarup Chakraborty, Ph.D. (I.A.C.S.) Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Ph.D. (JNCASR, Bangalore)

Assistant Professor (Jointly with DMSE, IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Computational Materials Science,
Polyoxometalate Based Hybrid Nanostructure,
Non-adiabatic Charge Carrier Dynamics,
Bifunctional Materials for Photo- and/or Electro-
Machine Learning for Accelerated Functional
catalysis, Small Molecule Activation; CO2 Reduction
Materials Discovery, Optoelectronics in Emerging
and H2O Oxidation, Kinetics Study and Reaction
Materials, Defects in Semiconductors,
Mechanism.
Ion-dynamics in Functional Solids, Spintronics.

Chinmay K. Hazra, Ph.D. (Westfälische

Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Pramit K. Chowdhury, Ph.D. (Iowa State Univ.)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Development of New Synthetic Methods,
Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Protein Folding
Activation of Small Molecules Such as CO2 and CO,
using Single Molecule Confocal Microscopy.
Catalysis, Remote Functionalizations, Physical
Organic Chemistry, Reaction Mechanisms.

Shashank Deep, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor
V. Haridas, Ph.D. (NIIST, Trivandrum)
Physicochemical Characterization of Macromolecule Professor
Interaction and Biophysical Studies of Protein Folding
Chemical Biology of Peptides and Proteins,
and Protein Aggregation Surface using Multinuclear
Biophysics of Peptide/Protein Folding.
NMR Spectroscopy, Fluorescence, Microscopy and
different Calorimetric Techniques.

Tanmay Dutta, Ph.D. (Calcutta University) Pravin P. Ingole, Ph.D. (University of Pune)
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Biochemistry, Enzymology, Molecular Electrochemical Techniques,
RNA Biology, Genetics. Electroanalysis, Nanomaterials.

Anil J. Elias, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Nidhi Jain, Ph.D. (Delhi Univ.)
Professor
Professor
Nanocatalysis in Organic Synthesis,
Synthetic Main Group and
Ionic Liquids, Structural Studies of
Organometallic Chemistry.
DNA-Carcinogen Adducts.

Ashok K. Ganguli, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Tarak Karmakar, Ph.D. (JNCASR, Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Enhanced Sampling,
Nanomaterials, Superconductors,
Machine Learning, Applications in Biophysics,
Dielectric Oxides and Intermetallics.
Materials, and Nano-bio Systems.

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Hemant Kumar Kashyap, Ph.D. (Jadavpur
Univ.) Arunachalam Ramanan, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Associate Professor Professor
Statistical Mechanics of Soft-matter, Solid State Chemistry, Crystal Engineering,
Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Natural and Synthetic Materials.
Ionic Liquids, Lipid-membranes.

CHEMISTRY
Sunil Kumar Khare, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) N.G. Ramesh, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Professor Professor
Biochemistry, Enzyme Technology, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Carbohydrate
Applied Microbiology Synthesis. Chemistry, Asymmetric Synthesis.

Subrata Kundu, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Sudipta Raha Roy, Ph.D. (NIPER-Mohali)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Synthetic Organometallic and Main-group
Organic Synthesis, Catalysis,
Chemistry, Phosphorus Chemistry,
Organometallic Chemistry.
Main-group Radicals.

Soumik Siddhanta, Ph.D. (JNCASR,

Kuntal Manna, Ph.D. (Iowa State University, USA) Bangalore)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Surface-enhanced Spectroscopic Techniques,
Catalysis, Metal-organic Frameworks. Bioimaging, Bioanalytical Chemistry,
Applications of Nanomaterials in Biology.

Sameer Sapra, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Selvarajan Nagendran, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Professor
Nanomaterials, Semiconductor Nanocrystals,
Chemistry of Group 13 and 14 Elements
Quantum Dots, Light Emitting Devices,
with Special Emphasis to the Low-valent
Charge Transfer and Photovoltaics including
Compounds of Silicon.
DSSC and QDSC.

Sajesh P. Thomas, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Siddharth Pandey, Ph.D. (Univ. of North Texas) Assistant Professor
Professor X-Ray Quantum Crystallography Studies of Weak
Optical Spectroscopy, Advanced Fluorescence Intermolecular Interactions, and Unusual Chemical
Techniques, Molecularly Organized Media, Bonds; Crystal Engineering; Solid-State Formulation of
Environmentally Friendly Solvent Systems, Pharmaceutical Drugs; Design and Structure-Property
Chemosensors, Photophysical Processes. Relations of Functional Molecular Materials;
Computational Crystallography.

Nalin Pant, Ph.D. (Princeton Univ.) Jai Deo Singh, Ph.D. (Lucknow Univ.)
Professor Professor
Theoretical and Experimental Studies Chemistry of Chalcogens/Organo-chalcogens
on Molecular Conformation, and their Applications in Organic Synthesis &
Molecular Recognition. Catalysis, Organic Metals and Superconductors.

Sayantan Paria, Ph.D. (Indian Asso. for the

Cultivation of Sci.) Ravi P. Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor Professor
Bioinspired Inorganic Chemistry, Water Oxidation, Nitrene Asymmetric Catalysis, C-H and C-F Activation,
Transfer, Late-transition Metal-oxo Complexes, Spectroscopic Total Synthesis of Small Molecules.
Characterization of Metastable Reaction Intermediates.

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 Ravi Shankar, Ph.D. (Panjab Univ.) B. Jayaram, Ph.D. (City Univ. New York)
Emeritus Professor
Professor
Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation,
Inorganic Polymers, Organometallic
Physicochemical Model for DNA Sequence
Chemistry/ Coordination Chemistry of
Analysis, Ab Initio Protein Structure Prediction,
Silicon, Germanium and Tin.
Active Site Directed Drug Design.

Janakiram Vaitla, Ph.D. (National Chemical

Laboratory) Ajai Kumar Singh, Ph.D. (Delhi Univ.)
Assistant Professor Emeritus Professor
Sulfur Ylide Chemistry, Carbene Mediated Transformations, Organochalcogen Ligand Chemistry,
Synthesis of Natural Products, Conversion Carbon Dioxide Designing of Metal Complexes for
to Valuable Chemicals, Activation and Functionalization of Catalyzing Organic Reactions.
Relatively Inert Bonds, Photoredox Catalysis.

M. Ramu Yadav, Ph.D. (University of Hyderabad) Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, Ph.D.

(Princeton Univ.)
Assistant Professor
Visiting Faculty
Co-operative Catalysis, Decarboxylative Reactions,
Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics,
New Fluorination Reactions, Asymmetric Catalysis,
Computational and Systems Biology,
Artificial Metalloenzyme Catalysis.
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics.

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The Department offers M.Sc., M.Tech. and Ph.D. programmes in Chemistry and also caters chemistry courses
for B.Tech. students in engineering disciplines. It provides good opportunities for research at doctoral and
post-doctoral level on a variety of topics in conventional and interdisciplinary areas of Chemistry. As a part of
its academic activities, the department organises seminars, symposia, summer schools as well as winter
workshops. It also undertakes industrial consultancy projects and has ongoing collaborative research

CHEMISTRY
projects in frontier areas with institutions in India and abroad.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
POSTGRADUATE
M.Sc.
The Four-Semester Master of Science in Chemistry is designed to provide a broad-based training in physical,
inorganic and organic chemistry. Courses in biochemistry and analytical chemistry are also included in
the core programme. Students are offered choice of electives in various specialized areas like solid state
chemistry, organometallic chemistry, statistical mechanics, bioorganic chemistry and immunochemistry.
Students are required to also take two electives from outside the department. The project in second year
initiates the students into research work in various branches of Chemistry.
M.Tech.
The M.Tech. Programme in “CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS & ANALYSIS” is one-of-a-kind programme in the country
which provides advanced training in the design, synthesis, separation, and characterization of molecules
while preparing students for careers in industry or academia. In addition, students are offered choice of
electives in various specialized areas of chemistry, chemical and polymer engineering and management.
It culminates in a year-long project where the foundation for scientific research is laid.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Department is actively engaged in research including doctoral research, in all contemporary areas of
chemistry. Major disciplines include Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Physical Chemistry and Biochemistry.
• Analytical Chemistry: Optical Spectroscopy, Environmental / Chemical Analysis, Electroanalytical
Methods.
• Biochemistry: Peptide Synthesis for Molecular Device Construction, Computer Aided Molecular Design,
Enzymology, e-Immobilization, Biocatalysis and Bioconversions, Microbial Biochemistry, Fermentation
and Bio-remediation, Extremozymes and Extremopiles, Proteomics, Nucleic acid biochemistry, Nano-
biocatalysis and nanotoxicity, structural biology, inhibition of amyloid formation, ligand receptor
interaction.
• Inorganic Chemistry: Organometallic Chemistry of Main Group/Transition Elements, Polyoxometalate
chemistry, Solid-state chemistry, Inorganic Polymers. Supramolecular Chemistry, Metallo porphyrins as
Catalysts, Intermetallic Compounds, Coordination chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Nanocrystalline
Solids, Coordination Polymers, Crystal Engineering, Bio-inspired catalysis, Catalysis through
Organometallic Compounds.
• Organic Chemistry: Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products and New Synthetic Methods,
Transition–Metal Compounds in Organic Synthesis, Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry, Asymmetric
Synthesis and Catalysis, Peptides, Proteins and other Natural Products, Chemistry of Singlet Oxygen,
Molecular Recognition and Organization, Supramolecular Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Kinetics and
Mechanism of Organic Reactions, Ionic Liquids in Organic Synthesis.
• Physical Chemistry: Statistical Thermodynamic investigations of Chemical and Biochemical Systems
via Computer simulations, Electrochemical techniques, Electrocatalysis/Photocatalysis, Nanomaterials,
NMR methodology, Biophysical Chemistry, Fluorescence spectroscopy (Ensemble and Single
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 Nanomaterials. Carbon dioxide reduction, energy storage, water splitting, artificial photosynthesis,
surface chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis, Quantum and classical computer simulations on
chemical and biological systems, Theoretical Studies on Protein-DNA, Drug-DNA and Receptor-
ligand Interactions. Simulation Methods for Quantum Systems, Clusters, Magnetic and Photophysical
Properties of Intercalated Materials. Structural and Physico-Chemical Characterization of Protein-
protein Interaction and Protein Stability, Understanding Complex Fluidic Systems, Computational
materials science, Optoelectronic Materials, Ion Dynamics, Machine Learning, Spintronics,
Low-Dimensional Materials.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The following equipments are available as part of the department facilities:

• Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer (Bruker) • Gel Permeation Chromatography

• Powder X-ray Diffractometer (Bruker) • High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph
• DPX-300 NMR Machine (Bruker) (Waters 1525) GPC
• 500 MHz NMR • Vapour Pressure Osmometer (Knauer)
• FTIR Spectrometer (Nicolet, Protege 460) • Polarimeter (Rudolph)
• Electrochemical (CH Instruments) and • Ion Chromatograph (792 Basic IC, Metrohm)
Spectro-electrochemical set-up (Metrohm Autolab, • Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and
PGSTAT-302N) Computational Biology
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer (Lambda Bio 20 • Glass Blowing
Perkin Elmer / Model 330, Hitachi, Beckman) • Polymerase Chain Reaction System
• Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer (Perkin Elmer) • Gel Documentation System
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (Perkin Elmer) • CD Spectrometer
• C,H,N Analyzer 2400 (Perkin Elmer) • Dynamic Light Scattering System
• Steady-State Fluorescence Spectrometer • Glove Box
• Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer • ESI MS/MS Mass Spectrometer (Bruker)
• Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography • Confocal Microscope (Nanonics)
• Gas Chromatograph (Dionex)

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 G.V. Ramana, Ph.D. (Rensselaer, USA)

Head of the Department

Professor
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Dynamic
Site Characterization, Machine Foundations,
Environmental Geotechnology, Geosynthetics.

B.J. Alappat, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) B.R. Chahar, Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee)
Professor Professor
Environmental Engineering, Solid Waste Canal Design, Groundwater Modelling and Artificial
Management, Incineration and Waste-to-Energy, Recharge, Seepage and Drainage, Stream - Aquifer
Fluidized Bed Operations. Interaction, Optimization, Numerical Techniques.

Sumedha Chakma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

R. Ayothiraman, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Associate Professor
Professor Settlement in Landfills, Gas Generation from Landfills,
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Geotechnical GIS Based Landfill Management, Bioreactor Landfill,
Engineering, Pile Foundations, Deep Excavation and Infiltration Characteristics of Different Vegetation
Tunnelling in Soft Ground, Problematic Soils and and Landuse, Watershed Management, Water
Ground Improvement, Experimental Geotechnics. Contamination and Remediation, Open Channel
Hydraulics, Contaminant Hydrology.

Arnab Banerjee, Ph.D. (University of Auckland) T. Chakraborty, Ph.D. (Purdue Univ.)

Assistant Professor
Professor
Metamaterial, Structures, Wave Propagation,
Foundation Engineering, Soil Plasticity and
Nonlinear Dynamics, Contact Modeling, Structural
Constitutive Modeling, Blast Loading in Soil,
Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Bridges, Finite
Soil-Structure Interaction and Underground
Element Analysis, Vibration, Structural Analysis &
Construction in Soil and Rock.
Optimization, Dams.

Sahil Bansal, Ph.D. (NTU Singapore) Manoj Datta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi.)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Geotechnical Engineering, Geoenvironment,
Engineering Reliability Estimation, Risk and Loss
Landfills, Ash Ponds, Tailings, Ground
Modelling, Uncertainty Quantification, Structural Health
Improvement, Slope Stability, Dams,
Monitoring, Optimal Design, Rare Event Simulation.
Offshore Geotechnology.

Suresh Bhalla, Ph.D. (NTU, Singalore) N.K. Garg, Ph.D. (Wales Univ.)
Professor
Professor
Structural Mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring,
Water Resources System, Finite
Smart Materials & Structures, Tensegrity Structures,
Element, Watershed Modelling,
Underground Structures, Bio-mechanics, Green
Irrigation Management, CAD.
Structures.

Debayan Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (IIT Gandhinagar)

Assistant Professor Ashok Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Constitutive Modelling of Frictional Materials, Professor
Experimental and Computational Geomechanics, Structural Engineering,
Instability and Bifurcation in Soils, Image Processing and Earthquake Engineering,
Instrumentation, Mechanics of Porous Media, Numerical Health Monitoring of Structures.
Modelling of Geotechnical Structures.

Shashank Bishnoi, Ph.D. (EPFL, Switzerland) Supratic Gupta, Ph.D. (Nagoya Univ.)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Structural Engineering, Concrete Mechanics, Self
Experimental and Numerical Studies into Hydration of
Compacting Concrete, High Performance Concrete,
Cements and Supplementary Cementitious Materials,
Utilization of Fly Ash, Marble Powder and Granite
Sustainability, Durability and Life Cycle Costs of
Powder in Low Strength Concrete, Foam Concrete,
Concrete Structures.
High Strength Concrete and Fibre Reinforced Concrete.

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Gazala Habib, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) N.M. Anoop Krishnan, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Source and Atmospheric Aerosol Characterization, Atomistic and Multiscale Simulations of Construction

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Regional Air Quality, Health, Source Apportionment Materials, Mechanics and Physics of Glasses and
Modelling, Climate and Health Effect and Cementitious Materials, Radiation Damage and
Climate Modelling. Nuclear-Waste Immobilization, Nanomaterials,
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

A.K. Jain, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Alok Madan, Ph.D. (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Professor
Professor
Design of RCC and Steel Structures, Earthquake
Earthquake Engineering, Nonlinear Structural
Engineering, Wind Engineering, Offshore Structures,
Dynamics, Concrete Structures, Computing in
Dynamic Testing of Structures.
Structural Engineering, Structural Masonry.

K.N. Jha, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) J. Uma Maheswari, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Professor Associate Professor
Construction Project Management, Project Success Design Management, Automation in Design
Factors, Schedule-Cost Estimation, Computer and Construction, Digital Project Modeling
Applications in Project Management, Asset including BIM.
Management.

Rajib Basu Mallick, Ph.D. (Auburn University,

D.R. Kaushal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) USA)
Professor Professor
Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering, Pavement Engineering; Design, Construction and
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Sediment Transport, Maintenance; Sustainable and Resilient Pavements;
Hydraulic Structures, Slurry Pipeline, Flow Recycling, Energy Harvesting, Moisture Damage,
Instrumentation. Development of Test Methods and Specifications for
Mix Design and Quality control.

A.K. Keshari, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) B. Manna, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

Professor
Professor
Foundations for Industrial Machines,
Groundwater Flow and Pollution Modelling,
Dynamic Soil-Pile Interaction, Soil Dynamics,
Remote Sensing and GIS, Hydrology, Optimization
Foundation Engineering, Geotechnical
and FEM, EIA and Hydrogeological Hazard.
Earthquake Engineering.

Rakesh Khosa, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) M. Manoj, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Assistant Professor
Professor
Transportation Planning, Activity/Travel Demand
Water Resources Systems, Stochastic
Modelling, Long-Term Mobility Decisions, Travel
Processes, Conflict Resolution and
Behaviour Data Collection, Built Environment and
Hydrologic Modelling of Large River Basin.
Travel Behaviour, Econometric Modelling.

Sri Harsha Kota, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University, Vasant A. Matsagar, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
USA)
Professor
Associate Professor
Structural Engineering, Earthquake and Wind
Formation, Transformation and Chemical Mechanisms
Engineering, Offshore Structures, Fiber Reinforced
of Air Pollutants Near Roadways, Development of Air
Polymer Composites, Finite Element Analysis, Blast &
Quality Models, Estimation of Emission Factors, Source
Fire Engineering, Multi-hazard Protective Structures.
Apportionment of Air Pollutants, Regional Air Quality.

Arun Kumar, Ph.D. (Drexel Univ.) A.K. Nema, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Professor
Professor
Environmental Engineering, Modelling,
Human Health Risk Assessment,
Simulation and Optimization of Environmental
Nanoparticles, Water Treatment,
Systems, Integrated Waste Management,
Decision-making, Emerging Contaminants.
Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment.

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 Nezamuddin, Ph.D. (Univ. of Texas) V. Arya, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Biological Wastewater Treatment, Physico
Transportation Network Analysis, Transportation
Chemical Treatment of Water and Wastewater,
Logistics and Optimization, Traffic Operations,
Removal of Emerging Contaminants, Advanced
Intelligent Transportation Systems, E-mobility.
Oxidation Processes.

Prashanth Vangla. Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Assistant Professor
Kalaga R. Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Interface Behavior of Particulate and Continuum
Professor Interfaces, Morphological Characterization of Soils
Based on Digital Image Processing, 3D Printing in
Mass Transit Planning, Traffic Flow Modelling
Geosynthetics and Granular Materials, Bio-inspired
and Travel Demand Modelling, Road Safety.
Geotechnics, Characterization and Quantification
of the Pore Structures of Granular Materials, Site
Characterization and Monitoring.

Manabendra Saharia, Ph.D. (University B. Bhattacharjee, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

of Oklahoma, USA) Emeritus Professor
Assistant Professor Durability of Concrete, Rebar Corrosion,
Flood Forecasting, Land Surface Modeling, Cement based Composites, Construction
Radar and Satellite Precipitation, Statistics, Technology, Building Science, Green Building,
and Machine Learning, Human Computation. Sustainability.

Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) A.K. Gosain, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Emeritus Professor
Supplemental Damping and Energy Dissipation,
Integrated Watershed Modelling, GIS
Earthquake Engineering, Performance Based Seismic
Hydrological Modelling, Irrigation Management,
Design, Strengthening, Retrofitting, Steel & Concrete
Enviornmental Impact Assessment.
Structure, Large-Scale Seismic Testing, Dampers.

J.T. Shahu, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Mukesh Khare, Ph.D. (New Castle Univ.)
Professor
Emeritus Professor
Geotechnology for Tracks and Pavements,
Air and Vehicular Pollution Modelling, Indoor
Ground Improvement, Reinforced Structure,
Air Pollution, Urban Air Quality Management.
Foundations, Tunnels.

Deepanshu Shirole, Ph.D. (Colorado School of

Mines, Golden, USA)
Shashi Mathur, Ph.D. (Delaware Univ.)
Assistant Professor
Emeritus Professor
Geotechnics, Rock Mechanics, Rock Physics,
Groundwater Contamination Bioremediation
Civil Build Materials, Non-Destructive Evaluation,
of Soils, Flow through Porous Media,
Ultrasonics and Acoustical Techniques,
Phyto-remediation, Biodegradation in Landfills.
Imaging Procedures, Electrokinetic Material
Mediation, Damage Analysis and Healing.

Aravind K. Swamy, Ph.D. (New K.S. Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Hampshire Univ.)
Emeritus Professor
Associate Professor
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering,
Pavement Engineering, Constitutive
Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering
Modeling of Pavement Materials, Damage
Geology, Seismic Microzonation.
Mechanics.

Dhanya C.T. Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Associate Professor
Hydroclimatological Modelling, Nonlinear
Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Stochastic Hydrology,
Optimization in Water Resource Systems, Data
Mining in Hydrology, Water Resources Management.

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The Civil Engineering Department at IIT Delhi was established along with the inception of the Institute

CIVIL ENGINEERING
in 1961. It now offers a regular four year Bachelors of Technology degree in Civil Engineering, and eight
different M.Tech. Programmes along with M.S. (Research) and Ph.D. Programmes in different frontier areas
of research in Civil Engineering. The Department has faculty of international reputation and possesses
laboratories/research/computational facilities comparable to any lead in university of the world. It
promotes industry-academia interaction through consultancy services and undertakes cutting-edge
research through sponsored research projects. The department also takes a lead role in ensuring that
the advancements in Civil Engineering and Technology reach service professionals through training and
continuing education programmes. The Department undertakes curriculum development activities by
updating the existing course, developing new courses and preparing resource materials for teaching.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Undergraduate curriculum is broad-based and is designed to introduce the students to the wide range
of problems encountered by civil engineers. The major components of the curriculum are Geotechnical
Engineering, Structural Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and
Transportation Engineering.

POSTGRADUATE
The Postgraduate courses of the Department cover a wide range and enable students to specialize in one
of the programmes listed below and also to study courses in other fields of interest in the department.
In addition, each M.Tech. student is required to do a major project which involves introduction to the
methodology of research or design and development and submit a dissertation. The specialization in
M.Tech. Programmes are:
• Construction Engineering and Management
• Environmental Engineering and Management
• Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
• Rock Engineering and Underground Structures
• Structural Engineering
• Water Resources Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• Construction Technology and Management (Industry Sponsored)

RESEARCH AREAS
The Department offers doctoral and post-doctoral research programmes in the following areas:
• Building Science and Construction Management: Quantification in Industrial Research, Quantitative
Techniques and Monitoring in Management of Capital Projects, Network Techniques for Scheduling
and Resources Allocation Problems, Contract Management, Value Engineering. Durability, Creep,
Shrinkage and Temperature Effects of Concrete, Fiber Reinforced and Special Concrete, Corrosion of
Reinforcing Steels, Energy Efficient Building, Building Sciences, Asset Management, Project Success
Factors, Green Buildings.
• Design, Planning and Management, Lean Construction, Automation in Design & Construction.
• Engineering Geology: Weathering Processes and their Effects, Petrography of Aggregate, Rock Drill
Ability, Geomorphology, Terrain Evaluation, Landslide Hazard Zonation, Seismic Microzonation and
Waste Disposal in Rocks, Hill Slope Engineering.

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 • Environmental Engineering: Water Supply and Wastewater Engineering, Industrial Pollution Control,
Physico-Chemical, Biological and Thermal Treatment Techniques for Wastes and Wastewaters, Emerging
Molecules in the Environment, Solid Waste Management, Fluidized Bed Reactors, Carbon Sequestration,
Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment, Microbiological Risk Assessment, Environmental Indices,
E-Waste Management, Nanoparticles in the Environment, Human Health Risk Assessment, Air Pollution
and Control, Urban and Regional Air Quality Management, Indoor Air Pollution, Aerosols, Chemical
Constituents, Precursor Gases, Source Profile Development, Atmospheric Chemistry, Receptor
Modeling, Climate Modeling, Benchmarking, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Personal Care
Products in Environment, Incineration, Waste-to-energy.
• Geoenvironmental Engineering: Hazardous Waste Landfills, Municipal Solid Waste Landfills, Ash
Ponds, Ash Utilization, Mine Tailings Dams, Waste Mounds, Liners, Covers, Vertical Barriers, Geotechnical
Reuse of Waste Materials.
• Offshore Structure: Fixed and Floating Offshore Oil Production Platforms-Steel Jackets, Concrete
Gravity Platforms-Guyed Towers, Tension Leg Platforms, Articulated Towers, Modelling of the Sea
Environment: Soil-Structure-Fluid Interaction, Model Analysis for Linear and Non-linear Systems,
Submarine Pipeline, Dynamics of Floating Bodies.
• Rock Engineering: Strength and Deformation of Rocks and Rock Masses, Joint Systems, Application
of Finite Element Method, Boundary Element Method and other Methods, Stresses and Deformation
around Underground Openings, Stability of Rock Slopes, Subsurface Exploration by Geophysical
Methods, Geomechanics Modelling, Underground Support Systems, Ground Improvement, Servo
Controlled Stiff Testing Machine, Environmental Hazards.
• Soil Engineering: Shear Strength Behavior under Generalised Stress and Strain, under Partial
Saturation, under High Stresses, under Cyclic Load, Shallow and Deep Foundations, Constitutive
Relationships of Soils, Application of Finite Element, Boundary Element and Finite Difference Methods
to Analysis of Problems of Flow, Stability, Substructures, Earth and Earth Retaining Structures and Soil-
Structure Interaction, Reinforced Soil Structures, Geosynthetics, Marine Geotechnology, Environmental
Geotechnology, Landfill Engineering, Ground Improvement, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering,
Seismic Microzonation, Geotechnology related to Roads and Railway Tracks, Geomechanics from micro
to macro, Bio-Geotechnics, Geohazards, Mechanics of granular materials, Computational geomechanics,
Particulate discrete element modelling.
• Structural Engineering: Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability, Elasto-plasticity, Wave Propagation,
Performance-based Seismic Design, Strengthening, Large-scale Seismic Testing, Micro-structural
Modeling, Hydration of Cements and Supplementary Cementitious Materials, Smart Materials &
Structures, Metamaterials, Structural Health Monitoring, Bio-mechanics, Engineered Bamboo Structures,
vibrational and Renewable Energy Harvesting, Sustainability, Durability and Repair of Concrete
Structured, Blast, Fire and Wind Engineering, Multi-hazard Protective Structures, Green Building, Non-
destructive Evaluation, Structural Dynamics and Control Systems, Mechatronics, Engineering Reliability
Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, Machine learning and artificial intelligence for structures and
construction materials.
• Surveying and Remote Sensing: Land and Geographic Information Systems, Multipurpose Surveys
using Aerospace Data, Remote Sensing Applications to Land and Water Resources, Environmental
Problems, Analytical Photogrammetric Control Extension.
• Transportation Engineering: Travel demand modeling, Public transport planning and operations
(BRT, Metro, LRT, Bus systems), Traffic engineering and management, Traffic flow modeling and
simulation (heterogeneous traffic), Pedestrian dynamics and evacuation modeling, Transportation
system analysis, E-mobility, Urban and regional transportation system planning, Planning and modeling

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Highway safety analysis, Evaluation of pavement materials, Modeling of pavement materials, Pavement
Design and Modelling Economic Analysis to Transportation Systems, Airport engineering, Continuum

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damage mechanics, Recycling of pavement materials, Bitumen rheology, Sustainable and Resilient
pavement Engineering, Application of Artificial Intelligence, Composite pavements.
• Water Resources Engineering: Surface and Groundwater Hydrology, Flood Forecasting, Hydraulic
and Hydrological Modelling, Irrigation, Drainage, Erosion and Sedimentation Problems, Mathematical
Modelling of Geophysical Systems, Planning and Management of Water Resources Systems,
Environmental Impact Assessment, Groundwater Contamination, Bio-remediation, Watershed
Managememt, Physically Based and Statistical Modelling of Hydrologic Systems, Rationalization of
Floods through Pattern Analysis, GIS and Remote Sensing, Finite Element and Optimization Methods in
Water Resources, Slurry Pipeline, CFD Modelling of Multiphase Flows.
Doctoral research is being carried out in the following areas:
Structural Dynamics and Control Systems, Elastodynamics and Stability, Smart materials & Structures,
Structural Health Monitoring, Engineered Bamboo Structures, Micro-Structural Modelling of Cements
and Supplementary Cementitious Materials, Durability of Concrete Structures, Multi-hazard Protective
Structures, Green Building, Earthquake Engineering, Wind Engineering, Structural Control, Reinforced
Concrete Structures, Bridge Engineering, Offshore Structures, Tall Buildings, Soil Structure Interaction, Fiber
Reinforced Polymer Composites, Fire Engineering, Blast Resistant Structures, Waste Utilization in Building
Materials, Corrosion of Concrete/Reinforced Concrete, Performance Life Prediction of Structure, Fatigue,
and RC Mechanics, Neural Network, Brick Masonry, Constitutive Modelling: Creep, Elastoplasticity, Damage
of Concrete, Rebar Band Modelling Self Compacting and High Performance Concrete, Smart Structures
Non-Destructive Testing & Evaluation of Structures.
Geological Engineering, Rock Weathering, Aggregate Reaction, Rock Mechanics, Geophysical Methods,
Stability of Rock Slopes, Underground Structures, Numerical, Physical and Geomechanical Modelling,
Physical and Geomechanical Modelling, Geosynthetics in Infrastructure Projects, Soil Mechanics,
Foundation Engineering, Earth Dams, Earth Retaining Structures, Geosynthetics, Reinforced Soils,
Environmental Geotechnology, Marine Geotechnology, Earthquake Geotechnics, Soil Dynamics, Landfill
Engineering, Geotechnology for Roads and Railway Tracks.
Biological Processes for Wastewater Management: Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactors, Constructed
Wetlands, Compact Activated Sludge Process, Urban Water, Water Quality Modeling, Urban Air Quality
Management including Monitoring and Modeling, Indoor Air Pollution Modeling, Vehicular Pollution
Modeling, Source and Atmospheric Aerosol Characterization, Emission Inventory Development, Receptor
Modeling, Climate Modeling, Human Health Risk Assessments, Nanoparticle Removal, Nanoparticle Toxicity
to Bacteria, Multi-criteria Multi-objective Multi-stakeholder Decision making, Emerging Molecules in the
Environment, Carbon Sequestration through Mineral Carbonation, Engineered Landfills, GHG emissions
from reservoirs, Circulating Fluidized Bed Operations, Environmental Forensics. Thermal performance of
buildings and Energy Efficient Building Design.
Contraction Management System Engineering and Design, Transport planning, Transport policy,
transportation safety, construction work zone safety, Heterogeneous Traffic flow modeling, Traffic safety
and capacity of hill roads, Mass transportation planning, Fuzzy systems, urban transport infrastructure
planning and design, Expert systems in transportation engineering, Environmental impact assessment,
Non-motorized transport planning, Modeling of pedestrian behavior, Geometric design of transportation
infrastructure, Characterization of pavement materials, Pavement design (flexible and rigid), Damage
modeling of bitumen and bituminous mixtures, Constitutive modeling of pavement materials, Recycling
of civil infrastructure materials, Rheology of asphaltic materials, Condition assessment of highway
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 Impact Assessment of Transportation and Urban Environment, Multispectral Image Analysis and Pavement
Characterization, Optimization of Recycling Techniques, Development of Laboratory test for Composite
Pavements and Permeability of Surface Pavement layers.
Mathematical Modelling in Water Resources, Flood Forecasting, Statistical Modelling in Hydrology, Water
Resources Systems, Surface and Ground Water Quality Modelling, River Hydraulics, Applications of Remote
Sensing Techniques in Water Resources, Soil Characteristics, Watershed Modelling, Vegetation and Crop
response to Moisture, Application of Neural Networks in Water Resources Modelling, Bio-remediation of
Soils, Irrigation Water Management, Climate Change and its Impact on Water Resources, GIS Applications
in Water Resources Modelling, Morphotectonic and Geological Studies, Natural Hazards such as Landslides,
Coastal Erosion etc. and Environmental Monitoring, Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensed Data, Digital
Terrain Modelling and Computer Applications and Photogrammetry.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
• Structural Engineering Laboratories is a cluster of 11 laboratories, namely Concrete Structures
Laboratory, Heavy Structures Laboratory, Materials Research Laboratory, Smart Structures and
Dynamics Laboratory, Structural Analysis Laboratory, Structural Simulation Laboratory, Advanced
Dynamics Laboratory, Construction Technology Laboratory and Construction Simulation Laboratory
and Multiphysics and Multiscale Mechanics Laboratory, Multi-Hazard Protective Structures Laboratory.
This laboratory cluster has facilities to test material strength and prototype structures. Some of the key
equipment includes strain controlled dynamic compression testing machine (4000 kN), MTS actuator,
mercury intrusion porosimeter, atomic force microscope, high temperature furnaces, differential
scanning calorimeters, corrosion testing facilities, portable dynamic shaber, high tech data logging
systems and special interrogation systems for structural health monitoring based on smart piezoelectric
sensors. It houses fire furnace (1300° C) with universal testing machines. In addition, it has state-of-the
art shake table and large strong floor for conducting destructive tests on large specimens.
• Computational Laboratory is equipped with two Xenon Servers with Windows 2003 server Edition,
for domain control and as license server, 50 core 2 Duo/Quad systems with 4GB of RAM and Windows
7 Enterprise Operating System. All the systems are connected to IITD LAN through Gigabit switches.
The laboratory is equipped with some of the latest software viz. Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office
projects 2007, ArcGIS V10.0, Bentley Civil Engineering Software including STAAD pro V8i, Microstation,

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 MX Road, WaterGEMS, SewerGems, StormCAD, Matlab V2012a, Abaqus V11.0, Ansys V14.0, Plaxis 2D,
RocScience, GeoStudio V2007, SAP2000 V15, Etabs V9.0, SAFE V14.0, SAFIR etc. The laboratory is also
equipped with a 3000 ANSI Limens LED Projector mounted on the ceiling for conducting computer-

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aided tutorial classes and presentations. The laboratory has been equipped with PA system comprising
of wired and wireless microphones and 6 speakers connected through a Digital Amplifier and a 12
Channel Mixer.
• Soil Mechanics Laboratory has facilities for testing soils under generalised stress-strain conditions
(universal triaxial cell), under high confining pressures (up to 1400 kg/cm2), in large size specimens (100
mm diameter), and under partially saturated conditions. Computer controlled GDS triaxial test system
is available. It has equipment for measurement of electric resistivity, thermal conductivity, testing
soils under dynamic conditions, etc. and for model tests. Equipment to carry out field investigations
by drilling boreholes, standard penetration tests, collection of undisturbed samples, plate load tests,
dynamic cone and static cone penetration tests are available. A specially built tank 7x3x3 m. with
a reaction frame of 40 ton. capacity to test prototype models of retaining walls (active and passive
conditions), bridge abutments, geotextile reinforced walls, pile foundations, and footings, to study
the thermal conductivity of soils, stability of model submarine pipelines, pullout behaviour of model
anchors and skin friction behaviour of model piles. Facilities have been developed for the assessment of
strength and friction behaviour, hydraulic behaviour, construction serviceability of geosynthetics (both
natural and polymeric). Soil dynamics testing facilities include SASW for soil profiling, block vibration
test, dynamic pile load test etc. MASW Shear wave velocity field testing apparatus, Geosynthetics test
equipment for pullout, interface and sliding.
• Rock Mechanics Laboratory has facilities to test intact rocks and jointed rock masses, to model and test
the modelled materials. The laboratory has the following equipment: a loading frame (500 ton vertical
load, 100 ton lateral load) to test up to 70 x 70 x 70 cm. Specimens, with system for monitoring cell
pressures and volume changes, loading and unloading sequences, biaxial and triaxial testing unit (up to
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 wave velocity apparatus, borehole extensometer, core drill cutting and lapping machines. Laboratory
extensions exist to study the foundations of dams, tunnels and strata control problems with 100 channel
data logger.
• Transportation Engineering Laboratory has facilities to test aggregates, bituminous materials,
bituminous mixes as well as soils. Digital Master Loader with the ability to test marshal and CBR
specimens, connected with the data logger, Video Image processing system, Digital Video Camera,
Software MX-ROADS, CUBE. The laboratory is also equipped with accelerated polishing equipment,
skid resistance tester, automatic vehicle counting devices, etc. Pavement evaluation by Profilograph,
Roughometer and Benkelmann beam apparatus. Traffic data collection system (miovision), Rut tester,
Dynamic shear rheometer.
• Environmental Engineering Laboratory is equipped to examine water and wastewater chemically,
physically, bacteriologically and biologically. Filtration columns, pilot scale rotating biological contactors,
mini ion exchange plant, Simulated landfills, cold model re-circulating fluidized bed reactor, etc. are
available for conducting research. It has the facilities of a constant temperature room and a dark room
with a microbiological camera. An advanced instrumentation room houses modern equipments e.g.
GCMS, AAS, HPLC, microprocessor based UV 2000 spectrophotometer, TOC Analyzer, digital gas liquid
chromatograph, Dedicated microbial quality facility, digital electronic ion analyser, flame photometer,
Digital Balance, Microbalance, digital microprocessor based DO and Ion meter, digital pH controller,
indoor air quality monitor, air velocity meter, handy air samplers, respirable dust monitors, Bio-aerosol
Sampler, Stack monitoring kit, Indoor air quality chamber, Bomb calorimeter and many other allied
analytical equipments for the analysis of water / wastewater / air / organics / inorganics / metals. Besides,
flue gas analyzer, RSPM Monitor for monitoring PM10 and Impactor based PM 2.5 monitor, multi-stream
cyclon based monitor, Ozonator and Weather station are available.
• Surveying and Remote Sensing Laboratory is equipped with precise survey instruments for field
surveying like Total, Station, GPS, Digital & Auto Level, etc. Precise angle measuring equipment measuring
upto 1” and electronic distance measuring equipment of accuracy 1:50,000 are also available.
• Engineering Geology Laboratory is equipped for research work in the field of geochemistry, geophysics
and industrial mineralogy, qualitative assessment of minerals for hydroelectric projects can be carried
out. Data base is available for preparing landuse map of any area in India. PCs with large variety of
softwares are available to process the geological data. There is a good geological museum with large
collection of minerals, rocks, fossils and models.
• Water Resources Simulation Laboratory has two components. The laboratory is equipped with
latest computational tools available in the area of Water Resources. The laboratory is equipped
with 35 core2 Duo and i7 processors, LAN facilities for satellite image processing and application
softwares dealing with ARCGIS and Expert System (LEVEL 5 OBJECT). Experimental facilities
include Advanced Hydrologic System, Hydraulic Work Bench, Spectrophotometer, lon Meter and
other instruments for carrying out a detailed water quality analysis. River Hydraulics Facility in
the form of two flumes enables model studies, sediment transport analysis, dam break and flood
wave propagation studies. Bench scale test facility for slurry transportation pipeline systems is
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 Prem Kumar Kalra, Ph.D. (EPFL, Switzerland)
Professor
Computer Graphics, 3D Animation.
Head of the Department

Chetan Arora, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Abhijnan Chakraborty, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor and TBO Group Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor and Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow
Social Computing, Information Retrieval,
Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
Fairness in Machine Learning.

Amitabha Bagchi, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Ashish Chiplunkar, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Professor
Assistant Professor and Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow
Data Algorithmics and Analytics,
Algorithm Design, Stochastic Problems.
Probability and Networks.

Nikhil Balaji, Ph.D. (Chennai Mathematical Keerti Choudhary, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Institute) Assistant Professor and TBO Group Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor and TBO Group Faculty Fellow Fault-Tolerant Algorithms, Extremal
Automata Theory, Quantitative Verification, Graph Structures, Dynamic Algorithms,
Computational Complexity. Graph Realizability.

M. Balakrishnan, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Naveen Garg, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor (Microsoft Chair)
Professor (Janaki and K.A.Iyer Chair)
Embedded Systems, Assistive Technology,
Algorithms, Optimization.
System Level Design.

Rahul Garg, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Subhashis Banerjee, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Professor
Professor (Ministry of Urban Development Chair)
Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics,
Computer Vision, Real-time Systems, Robotics.
Neuroimaging, High Performance Computing.

Sorav Bansal, Ph.D. (Stanford Univ.) Ragesh Jaiswal, Ph.D. (Univ. of

California, San Diego)
Associate Professor (Microsoft Chair)
Associate Professor
Compiler Design and Optimization.
Algorithms, Complexity Analysis.

Srikanta Bedathur, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Abhilash Jindal, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Associate Professor (DS Chair of Artificial
Assistant Professor and Tbo Group Faculty Fellow
Intelligence)
Operating Systems, Mobile
Data Management, Knowledge Discovery
Systems, Program Analysis.
and Data Mining, Information Retrieval.

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Irvine)
S. Arun Kumar, Ph.D. (TIFR, Bombay)
Professor (Prof. Anshul Kumar Chair)
Professor
Embedded Systems - architectures and Compilers,
Semantics and Verification.
Cache and Memory Technologies, Energy-efficient
Computing, VLSI Design Automation.

Amit Kumar, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.) Kolin Paul, Ph.D. (Bengal Engineering
College, Calcutta)
Professor (Jaswinder & Tarvinder Chadha
Professor (Microsoft Chair)
of Operations Research Chair)
Embedded Systems, Hardware
Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization.
Security, Reconfigurable Computing.

Subodh Kumar, Ph.D. (Univ. of North Carolina) Rohan Paul, Ph.D. (University of Oxford)
Professor (Uma-Puruskar-Liril Gupta Chair
Assistant Professor and Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow
in Future Computing Technologies)
Human Robot Interaction, Language Grounding,
Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Parallel
Symbolic Reasoning.
Programming, High Performance Computation.

Venkata Vivek Kumar Koppula, Ph.D. Sanjiva Prasad, Ph.D. (Stony Brook Univ.)
(University of Texas, Austin)
Professor
Assistant Professor and
Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow Semantics and Verification, Programming
Languages, Concurrent Systems, Formal
Quantum Cryptography, Lattice based
Foundations of Networks and Security.
Cryptography, Code Obfuscation.

Vireshwar Kumar, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Maya Ramanath, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Associate Professor
Assistant Professor and Tbo Group Faculty Fellow Database Systems and Information
Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Retrieval, Semantic Web Data Management
Systems, Applied Cryptography, Including Information Extraction, Query
Adversarial Machine Learning. Processing, Result Ranking and Reasoning.

Kumar Madhukar, Ph.D. (Chennai Mathematical Sayan Ranu, Ph.D. (Univ. of California, Santa
Institute) Barbara)
Assistant Professor Associate Professor (Nick McKeown Chair)
Program Verification, Model Checking, Syntax-Guided- Data Mining, Network Science, Spatiotemporal Data
Synthesis. Analytics, and Bioinformatics.

Mausam, Ph.D. (Uni. of Washington, Seattle) Huzur Saran, Ph.D. (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Professor (Jai Gupta Chair) Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language High Speed Networks,
Processing, Machine Learning. Graph Theory & Algorithms.

Rahul Narain, Ph.D. (Univ. of North Carolina) Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Ph.D. (Univ. of Illinois)
Assistant Professor and Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow Professor (Usha Hasteer Chair)
Computer Graphics, Animation, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems,
Numerical Methods. Cyber Security, IoT.

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 Aaditeshwar Seth, Ph.D. (Univ. of Waterloo) Deepak Kapur, Ph.D. (MIT, USA)
Associate Professor
Honorary Professor
Information and Communication Technologies for
Formal Methods, Program Analysis, Distributed
Development, Media Analysis,
Computing and Social Aspects of Computing.
Computer Networks.

Rijurekha Sen, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)

Assistant Professor and Pankaj Gupta Faculty Umesh Vazirani, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
Fellow
Honorary Professor
Mobile and Embedded Systems (Hardware
Quantum Computing.
Architecture, OS, Sensing, Efficient Processing,
Security), Computational Sustainability.

Sandeep Sen, Ph.D. (Duke University) Anish Arora, Ph.D. (UT Austin)
Adjunct Faculty
Professor (Microsoft Chair)
Dependable Distributed and
Computational Geometry, Algorithms.
Networked Systems.

Parag Singla, Ph.D. (Uni. of Washington, Seattle) Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Ph.D. (IUniversity
Associate Professor
of Pennsylvania)
Neuro Symbolic Resaoning, Probabilistic Adjunct Faculty
Graphical Models, Machine Learning,
Security and Privacy, Formal Verification.
Artificial Intelligence.

Subodh Vishnu Sharma, Ph.D. (University Sanjeev Khanna, Ph.D. (Stanford

of Utah)
University)
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Faculty
Formal Verification, Program Analysis,
Theoretical Computer Science.
Concurrent Systems, System Security.

Rohit Vaish, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Gopalan Nadathur, Ph.D. (University of

Assistant Professor Pennsylvania)
Algorithms and Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Adjunct Faculty
Computational Social Choice, Game Theory. Programming Language.

Anshul Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Yogish Sabharwal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Adjunct Faculty
Emeritus Professor
High Performance Computing Group
CAD for VLSI, Computer Architecture.
IBM India Research.

Rajeev Shorey, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

B.N. Jain, Ph.D. (Stony Brook University) Adjunct Faculty
Honorary Professor Communication Networks,
Computer Networks, Network Security. Data Analytics, Machine Learning
and Artificial Intelligence.

S.N. Maheshwari, Ph.D. (Northwestern Univ.) Gautam Shroff, Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute)
Honorary Professor
Adjunct Faculty
Algorithms, Parallel Processing,
Computing, Security Data Science,
Information Systems.
Artificial Intelligence

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGG.

IIT Delhi has been active in Computer Science education and research since the early 1970s. The Department
of Computer Science and Engineering was established in 1982. It currently has 37 full-time faculty members,
all with PhDs from leading institutions and recognised in their fields of expertise, with a plan to grow to
around 42 in the coming two years. Apart from full time faculty members, the Department currently has
several distinguished honorary and emeritus professors, adjunct faculty from leading research laboratories
and international universities, and several visiting faculty members, all of whom participate in teaching
and research activities.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The CSE department currently offers a 4 year B.Tech., a 5-year Integrated Dual Degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.),
M.Tech., M.S. (Research) and Ph.D. programmes in Computer Science and Engineering. It offers a minor area
programme for non-majors, as well as 6 specialisations each for B.Tech. and M.Tech. students. Undergraduate
students from other disciplines can join the M.Tech. programme with Advanced Standing. In addition, the
department participates in interdisciplinary M.Tech. programmes in VLSI Design, Tools & Technology, the
Ph.D. and M.S. (Research) programmes of the Khosla School of Information Technology, the Bharti School
of Telecommunication M.Tech. programmes, and will participate in interdisciplinary programmes in Cyber-
security and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. The curricula are in line with current international
trends, and are also used as model curricula by other Indian universities and colleges.
The current student strength in the department is about 674 (355 in Undergraduate, 168 in Dual Degree,
95 in Masters and 53 in Doctoral programmes). Admission to the programmes is highly competitive - for
the undergraduate and dual-degree programmes, there is a nation-wide Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)
Advanced. At the Masters/Ph.D. level, only students with a score of 99 percentile or better in the nation-
wide GATE exam are offered admission. A significant number of employed computer professionals are also
enrolled in our postgraduate programmes as sponsored candidates.
The curricula are comprehensive in their coverage of various aspects of computer science including
algorithms and computational theory, architecture and systems software; networks; reliability and security;
data analytics; graphics, vision and computing applications, especially those involving AI and machine
learning. The emphasis is on design, methodology, analysis and good software practices. As part of the
degree requirements, undergraduate, dual-degree and masters students are expected to complete a two-
semester project which may involve developing a subsystem that typically contributes to fulfilling the
objectives of a research project.

RESEARCH AREAS
• Algorithms and Complexity Theory: (associated faculty: Amitabha Bagchi, Ashish Chiplunkar, Naveen
Garg, Ragesh Jaiswal, Amit Kumar, Sandeep Sen, Keerti Choudhary, Nikhil Balaji and Venkata Koppula,
S.N. Maheshwari, Rohit Vaish).
Algorithmic graph theory, Computational geometry, Randomized algorithms, Approximation
algorithms, Complexity theory, Online algorithms, and Cryptography.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): (associated faculty: Chetan Arora, Amitabha
Bagchi, Subhashis Banerjee, Srikanta Bedathur, Rahul Garg, Mausam, Rohan Paul, Sayan Ranu,
Aaditeshwar Seth, Parag Singla, Abhijnan Chakraborty and Vireshwar Kumar, Rohit Vaish).
Reinforcement learning and AI planning, Neuro-symbolic ML, Probabilistic graphical models, Statistical
relational learning, Extreme classification, Embodied artificial intelligence, Ethical AI, Fairness and
reliability in ML, Privacy issues in ML, ML for social networks, ML applications to healthcare, AI for
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 • Natural Language Processing (NLP): (associated faculty: Srikanta Bedathur, Rahul Garg, Mausam and
Maya Ramanath).
Intelligent information systems, Information extraction, Question answering, Dialog systems,
Knowledge-base completion, Neural architectures for NLP.
• Databases and Data Analytics: (associated faculty: Srikanta Bedathur, Amitabha Bagchi, Mausam,
Maya Ramanath, Sayan Ranu, Aaditeshwar Seth, Parag Singla and Abhijnan Chakraborty).
Intention mining, Policy driven databases, Information retrieval, Information dissemination in
social networks, Semantic web data management, Opinion mining, Indexing and querying in graph
databases, Spatio-temporal data analytics, Data wrangling.
• Architecture and Embedded Systems: (associated faculty: M. Balakrishnan, Preeti Ranjan Panda, Kolin
Paul, Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Rijurekha Sen and Anshul Kumar).
Hardware-software co-design, Embedded systems design, Reconfigurable computing, Fault-
tolerant computing, Hardware implementations, Temperature-aware architectures, Energy-efficient
architectures, Design-for-debug, Cache memory, 3D and non-volatile memory, Architectural extensions
for mobile security, Architectures for machine learning, Architectures for computer vision, Secure
architectures.
• Graphic, Vision and Human-Computer Interfaces: (associated faculty: Chetan Arora, Subhashis
Banerjee, Prem Kalra, Subodh Kumar and Rahul Narain, Rahul Garg and Rohan Paul).
Computer graphics, Virtual reality, Computer vision, Digital image and video processing, Mobile
multimedia, Embedded computer vision, Robotic vision, Medical image analysis.
• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems: (associated faculty: B.N. Jain, Huzur Saran, Rijurekha
Sen, Aaditeshwar Seth and Vireshwar Kumar).
Mesh networks, 4G LTE/ WiMAX, Cognitive radio, Cellular network measurements, Wireless networks,
Network security, Operating systems security.
• Programming Languages, Semantics and Verification: (associated faculty: Sorav Bansal, S. Arun-
Kumar, Sanjiva Prasad and Subodh Sharma, Kumar Madhukar).
Programming language semantics, Theory and practice of concurrent systems, Process algebras,
Distributed computing, Program analysis and verification, Logic in computer science, Applications of
verification in network models, multiprocessors, and relaxed memory models and Language-based
security.
• Operating Systems, High Performance Computing and Systems Software: (associated faculty: Sorav
Bansal, Sobodh Kumar, Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Subodh Sharma and Abhilash Jindal).
Compiler design, mobile operating systems and device drivers, Virtualization, Operating systems for
IoT systems.
• Information and Communication Technologies for Development: (associated faculty: M.
Balakrishnan, Kolin Paul, Rohan Paul, Aaditeshwar Seth and Rijurekha Sen).
Poverty mapping, Urbanization, Bias in mass media, Computer systems for less-literate populations,
Content distribution in rural areas, Community radio, Community media, Mobile health, Assistive
Technology, Governance and accountability.
• Neuroinformatics and Medical informatics: (associated faculty: Chetan Arora and Rahul Garg).
Brain Imaging, Functional MRI (fMRI), Electroencephalography (EEG), Near-infrared spectroscopy
(NIRS), Human Functional Connectome.
• Cyber Security and Secure Information Systems: (associated faculty: Ragesh Jaiswal, Sanjiva Prasad,
Huzur Saran, Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Subodh Sharma, Venkata Koppula and Vireshwar Kumar).

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architectures and Embedded systems, Network security, Blockchain-based systems, Privacy and data
protection, Electronic voting, Digital identity.
Sponsored Research and Funding
The CSE Department faculty works on funded research projects in all areas of computer science research.
Currently funded project budgets amount to around I569 million, of which around I500 million is from
Indian government agencies, about I70 million from Indian and international industrial sources. The
department also participates in institutional computing and network infrastructure projects worth
I188 million (79 million from internal sources, 13.5 from industrial sources and 95.5 million from other
government sources) million and interdisciplinary projects with other departments worth I40 million. In
addition, current faculty consultancies are worth approximately I7 million.
The department is thankful to its alumni for their generous support which has been a key enabling factor
for its growth and achievements. Recently, Mr. Mohit Aron, B.Tech. CSE, 1995, gifted 1 Million USD to help
the department establish itself as the world leading Computer Science Department.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
Computing resources in the department include several high-end servers, server clusters, and data storage
systems. All of these are networked and connected to more than 150 PCs and workstations. Every faculty
member, staff and Ph.D. student has a fully networked workstation with access to the Internet and adequate
long term storage space in the central repository. Every undergraduate and postgraduate student is also
given full access to the Internet and the Department servers. Besides. All laboratories in the Department
also provide full access to the internet and to the central repository. Other major equipment include EDA
software, multi-million gate FPGA based prototyping and validation system, robot platforms etc. The PCs
and workstations are connected through 10/100 mbp/s links. The departmental network is connected to
the Institute-wide network through two 10Gbps links switched fiber optic line with 10 Gbps link to the
outside world.
The major laboratories are:
• General Computing Lab: This laboratory supports the general purpose computing needs of most
students. It houses more than 70 workstations and provides full email and internet access. The servers
provide the software required for laboratories in most of the Department courses.
• Digital Hardware Design Lab: This laboratory supports the training and project needs of students in the
area of digital hardware design. Facilities include microprocessor based system design and FPGA based
design equipment.
• Advanced Networking Lab: Besides providing access to ERNET and internet services, the laboratory
supports development of multimedia communications and applications, ATM protocol stack, wireless
and mobile communications, network security and simulation studies in high-speed networks.
• Vision & Graphics Lab: This laboratory supports development efforts in two areas, namely real-
time vision and graphics. The facilities include the latest graphics workstations, robot manipulators,
computing clusters, virtual reality and other state of the art equipment.
• VLSI Design & Tool Lab: This laboratory, established in 1996 with support from Philips Semiconductors
as part of the VLSI Design, Tools and Technology programme houses a state-of-the-art CAD facility
consisting of several servers and workstations. P4 clients, X-terminals, plotter and VLSI design software.
The CAD facility features in-house, commercial and public domain software (including Cadence and
Synopsys) for VLSI synthesis and simulation.
• Database and Analytics Lab: This lab features multiple high-end servers and GPU clusters, along
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textual and streaming data.
• Verification Lab: This laboratory hosts several workstations supporting various specialized model-
checking and verification tools.
• Architecture Lab: This lab houses state of the art workstations, and a Dell storage server for supporting
research activities in high performance computer architecture and modern embedded systems.
• Cyber Security Research Lab: The mandate of the cyber security lab is to carry out fundamental
research in the areas of Cryptography, Computer Systems & Network Security and Advanced Information
Systems Security. The main focus is on developing provably secure algorithms to meet the efficiency
and security demands of emerging technology trends such as cloud computing.
• Data Analytics Lab: Data analytics as a field of computer science is comparatively new and is an
amalgamation of other fields such as data management, information retrieval, machine learning,
natural language processing, data mining and statistics. It is concerned with consuming and processing
large amounts of diverse data, including, text (HTML web pages, online books, scientific publications,
etc.), structured data (for example, data residing in database systems), video, audio, etc. to derive useful
insights. The current focus of the lab is on processing large scale text-data and large scale graphs.
Open Information Extraction, Coherent Large-Scale Multi-Document Summarization, AI Applications
to Crowd-sourcing, Commonsense Knowledge Extraction and Natural Language Processing over
Microblogs.
• Cloud Computing Lab (HIPC Lab): The lab contains infrastructure facilities for research in high-
performance computing, operating system and compiler design, distributed and cloud computing.
• The Dynamics Lab: This lab works on works on a number of current problems in nonlinear science,
ranging from a study of time delay dynamics to dynamical chimeric states, to problems of computational
neuroscience, systems biology, and nonequilibrium statistical physics.
• SAPIEnt Lab: Systems & Algorithms Protecting Indian Environment. The word SAPIEnt itself means
humans, for whom we need to take good care of the environment. This Lab is works on road traffic
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 Aneesha Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)

Head of the Department

Associate Professor
Creativity, Culture & Design, Neuro-cognition of
Creativity, User Experience Design, Information
Design.

Jay Dhariwal, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Charu Monga, Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Design for Health and Wellness in the Built
Visual Communication, Filmmaking, Animation,
Environment, Product Design, Data Driven
Digital Media, Game Design, Cultural Construction,
Design, Mechatronics, Engineering Design,
Design Research.
Design for Energy Efficiency.

Subir Dey, Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati) Sumer Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Product Design, Transportation Design,
Comics Studies, Illustration, Graphic Design,
Design for Sustainability, Design Sketching,
Designing for Children.
Computer Aided Surfacing, Design Innovation.

Gourab Kar, Ph.D. (Cornell University) Srinivasan Venkataraman, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Human Factors and Ergonomics, Sedentary
Design Creativity and Innovation, Design Theory and
Behavior and Health, Universal/Inclusive Design,
Methodology (incl.Design Thinking), Virtual Reality, AI in
Environmental Design Research, Body-conscious
Design, Inclusive Design, New Product Development.
Design, Social and Cultural Factors in Design.

Jyoti Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati) P.V. Madhusudhan Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Professor
Human-computer Interaction, Design for Emotion
Product Design, Computer Aided Design, Design of
and Persuasion, Design for Usability, User
Medical and Assistive Devices.
Experience Design.

Pramod Khadilkar, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Associate Professor Sabyasachi Paldas
Behavioral Design, Design for Human Professor of Practice
Development, Design for Base of the (Economic) Industrial Design, Product Detailing.
Pyramid, and Social Innovation.

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D E PA R T M E N T O F D E S I G N
The Department of Design was established in the year 2017 and traces its roots to the Instrument Design
and Development Centre (IDDC), which has been pioneering design education at IIT Delhi since 1994.
Presently the Department has expert faculties in the three main Design domains of Industrial Design,
Communication Design, and Interaction Design. The Department offers Doctoral (Ph.D.) and Masters
in Design (M.Des.) programmes, and will start a Bachelors in Design (B.Des.) programme from the
2022-2023 session. It also offers a Minor in Design for B.Tech. students. Being an integrated part of IIT Delhi,
the Department of Design offers multi-dimensional learning opportunities to all the students.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Bachelor of Design (B.Des.) Programme
The Department of Design will offer a full-time B.Des. programme with the first batch scheduled to start in
2022-23. The programme is four years duration, and admission is through UCEED. The B. Des. programme
at IIT Delhi will offer a diverse range of courses that would cater to the current requirements of academia,
industry, and society. The extensive 4 years of design education ensures that a B.Des. graduate becomes a
responsible designer and is able to translate ideas into demonstrable solutions through the adoption of a
human-centered design process. The programme offers courses from all the major domains of design like
product design, interaction design, and communication design to name a few.

Master of Design (M.Des.) in Industrial Design Programme

The full-time M.Des. programme caters to the requirement of the society and industry for designers capable
of creating human-centered solutions that respond to the needs of people, technology, and businesses.
The programme is two years duration, and admission to the programme is through CEED. The core of the
programme involves an immersive studio experience with hands-on practice that is complemented by
user-centered, research-driven and industry-sponsored projects. The programme emphasizes the
development of 21st-century designerly skills that are needed for nurturing the design leaders of the
future.

Ph.D. in Design
The Department of Design offers robust full-time and part-time Ph.D. programmes which can be
inter-disciplinary in nature. The Ph.D. programme encourages researching design from multiple perspectives
such as Technology, Humanities, Management, Sociology, Psychology, etc. to name a few domains.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Department of Design offers opportunities in the following Research domains pertaining to Design:
Industrial Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Communication Design, Applied
Ergonomics and Human Factors in Design, Universal and Inclusive Design, Human-Computer Interaction,
Design Automation, Materials & Design, Design for Product Life-Cycle, Art & Design, Product Aesthetics,
Digital Media & Design, Design & Culture, Animation, Film making, Digital Heritage, Neuro-cognitive aspects
of Creativity, Creativity and Innovation, Design Theory & Methodology, Design Policy, Design Strategy, and
Design Management.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The department of Design consists of fully functional and well-equipped spaces that act as labs as well
as learning spaces for the design students and researchers. The following spaces act as the labs in the
department:

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 • User Experience Lab: The UX lab is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for Usability Testing and
User Experience Testing using behavioural and physiological tools like Eye Tracking, Pupillometry,
Electroencephalography (EEG), Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), Behavioural observation software
(Morae) and Facial recognition and physiological data integration tool (iMotion). Studies on emotional
and cognitive responses to designed products are undertaken in this lab.
• Sustainability Lab: The lab for sustainability grooms students in the area of environmental
sustainability, which includes intervention in the longevity of products, afterlife, Serviceability, Circular
Economy, Packaging Design, Framework for Sustainability, Aesthetics for Sustainability, Culture and
Society for Sustainability, Intervention in Rural ecosystem. It houses a material research facility, leaf
extraction machine, and Compression molding machine. The lab also hosts sponsored research and
consultancy projects in the domain of sustainability, Ayurveda, and other related fields.
• Vehicle design lab: The vehicle design lab grooms students for the design of transportation systems,
automotive styling, Sketching and rendering of concepts in a virtual environment, clay modelling, and
development of representation models of concept vehicles. It houses a marker rendering facility and a
clay modelling facility.
• Makerspace: Makerspace is a DIY facility for people who like to make things, are curious about how
stuff works, or would like to learn new skills in tinkering. Makerspace is equipped with machines such
as laser cutters, waterjet cutters, CNC routers, 3D printers, PCB prototyping stations, soldering stations,
welding kits, and various hand and power tools.
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Lab: The ErgoLab is designed as a flexible facility for research work
on usability, human performance, comfort, health, environmental simulation and user preferences.
The ErgoLab is in process of acquiring measurement systems for surface electromyography, energy
expenditure, motion analysis, force and pressure mapping, environmental assessment, and performance
and productivity assessment software.
• QuEST Lab: This lab works in designing products and solutions for Quality of Life Enhancement using
Science and Technology. Among other things, the lab houses Weather Station, Reference equipment
for Air Quality Monitoring, Thermal Imaging Camera, Background Oriented Schlieren Imaging setup,
Sensors for Indoor Environmental Quality.
• DIVINE Lab: DIVINE (Design and Innovation in Villagepreneurs Ecosystem) lab is a sponsored lab that
facilitates research in the Indian rural ecosystem and facilitates students to visit villages and take up
design projects relevant to rural ecosystems.

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 DEPARTMENT OF
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
 Jayadeva, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
GSV Chair Professor
Machine Learning, Neuromorphic Engineering, Head of the Department
VLSI Design, Swarm Intelligence Optimization.

Abhijit R. Abhyankar, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Shouribrata Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Columbia

Professor Univ.)
Power System Analysis and Optimization, Power Professor (NXP/Philips Chair)
System Security, Power Markets, Smart Grids, Analog and RF Circuit Design and VLSI,
Distribution System Analysis and Optimization, Power Analog and Digital Filter Design, Low Power
System Flexibility, Electricity Regulatory and Policy and Low Voltage Circuit Techniques,
Matters. Measurement and Instrumentation Techniques.

Arpan Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Sumeet Agarwal, D.Phil. (Oxford Univ., U.K.) Assistant Professor
Associate Professor Communication and IoT Networks; Cyber Physical
Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Systems: Design, Analysis, Control, Learning and
Systems Biology, Evolution and Evolvability, Cyber-security, Blockchain; Signal Processing and
Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Resource Allocation for Radar; Statistical Signal
Public Health Informatics. Processing; Networked Estimation; Applications of
Reinforcement Learning.

Soutik Betal, Ph.D. (University of Texas) S. Chaudhury, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

Assistant Professor
Professor (Dhananjoy Chair)
Nanorobotics, Electromagnetic Medical Devices
Computer Vision, Multimedia Systems,
and Implants, Nanofabrication, MEMS, Terahertz
Computational Intelligence.
Devices, Electronic Devices and Sensors.

Shubhendu Bhasin, Ph.D. (Univ. of Florida) Amol Choudhary, Ph.D. (University of

Southampton, UK)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Nonlinear Control, Adaptive Control of Uncertain
Photonics, Integrated Optics, Microwave Photonics,
Nonlinear Systems, Robotics, Autonomous Systems,
Optical Communications, Nonlinear Optics, On-chip
Reinforcement Learning Control, Approximate Dynamic
Lasers, Frequency Combs, Ultrafast Lasers,
Programming, Differential Games.
Photon-phonon Interactions.

Manav Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (Oslo Univ.)

Professor
Signal Processing for MIMO Communication Systems, Anandarup Das, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Cooperative Communications, Ultra Wideband (UWB) Associate Professor
Communications, Non-Coherent Decoders, Cognitive Power Electronics, High Power Multilevel Converters,
Networks, Coding Theory of MIMO Communication Electric Drives, Modular Converters, Power Quality.
Systems, Power Line Communication, Satellite
Communications.

Debanjan Bhowmik, Ph.D. (University of Subashish Datta, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)

California Berkeley) Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Linear Control Theory, Robust Control and
Magnetism, Spintronics, Micromagnetics, LMIs, Graph Theoretic Control and Multi-
Memory Devices, Condensed Matter Physics. agent Systems.

Swades K. De, Ph.D. (State Univ. of New York)

Ranjan Bose, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania Univ.) Professor
Professor (Microsoft Chair) Performance Modeling and Analysis, Wireless
Wireless Communications, Broadband Wireless Communication Networks and Systems, Energy
Access, Ultra Wideband Communications (UWB), Harvesting Wireless Networks, Broadband Wireless
Information Theory and Coding. Access and Routing, Network Coexistence, Smart
Grid Networks, IoT Communications.

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Anuj Dhawan, Ph.D. (North Carolina State University, USA)
Professor S.D. Joshi, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Nanomaterials, Plasmonics, Photonic devices, Biosensors, Professor
Biomedical Devices, Nanofabrication, Growth and Self-Assembly Statistical Signal Processing, Image Processing,
of Novel Optical and Electronic Materials, Integrated Nano-scale Theoretical Approach to Signal/Image Analysis.
Systems, Computational Electromagnetic, Sensors: Fiber-optic
and Chip-based, Biophotonics and Bioimaging.

Abhisek Dixit, Ph.D. (K U Leuven Belgium)

Professor (NXP/Philips Chair)
I.N. Kar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Silicon based Gubits and Cryogenic CMOS for Professor
Quantum Computing, Hot-carrier and TDDB Reliability
Nonlinear Control and Stability
of RF CMOS Devices and Circuits for WiFi/5G/6G
Analysis, Cyber-physical System, Time-
Applications, Radiation Effects in CMOS, SPICE based
delay System, Robotics.
Compact Models for Analog Mixed-signal and RF
Technology PDKs.

Abhishek Dixit, Ph.D. (Ghent University) Subrat Kar, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Assistant Professor Professor (Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair)
Optical Networks, Fibre-Wireless Photonic Switching, Optical Networks,
Converged Networks. Computer Communication Networks.

Saurabh Gandhi, Ph.D. (MIT) M. Jagadesh Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT, Madras)

Assistant Professor Professor
Computational neuroscience Biosignal Nanoelectronics, VLSI Device Modeling
processing Dynamics of complex biological and Simulation, IC Technology and Power
systems. Semiconductor Devices.

Tapan Kumar Gandhi, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Associate Professor Lalan Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Computational Neuroscience, Neuro-Inspired Assistant Professor
Engineering, Biomedical Signal and Array Signal Processing, Brain Source Localization,
Image Processing, Machine Learning, BCI for Soft Exosuit/Exoskeleton.
Assistive Technology.

Gourab Ghatak, Ph.D. (Telecom ParisTech, Amit Kumar Jain, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
France) Associate Professor
Assistant Professor High Power Converters, Electric Motor Drives
Wireless Communications, Stochastic Geometry for Electric Vehicle and Traction Locomotives,
IoT Networks, ML for Wireless Communications Electric Machine, Design, Energy Storage,
Reinforcement Learning. Renewable Energy Etc.

Ankesh Jain, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Harshan Jagadeesh, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Design, Data
Coding Theory, Wireless Security,
Converters (ADC and DAC), Phase Locked Loop
Cyber-physical Systems, Wireless
(PLL) and Clock Synthesizers, High Speed Circuit
Networks, Distributed Storage.
Design, Low Voltage Circuit Design.

S. Janardhanan, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Sandeep Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)

Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Model Free Control, Robotics,
Optimization, Signal Processing, Machine
Time-delayed Systems, Sliding Mode Control, Model
Learning, Graphical Models.
Order Reduction, Controller Co-design.

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 Brejesh Lall, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) B.K. Panigrahi, Ph.D. (Sambalpur Univ.)
Professor
Professor
Multiscale Modeling of Stochastic Processing,
Power Quality, FACTS Device, Power System
Widescale Cyclostationary Process Representation,
Protection, AI Application to Power System.
Physical Layer in Wireless Communication.

Dhiman Mallick, Ph.D. (Tyndall National

Institute, University College Cork) Deepak U. Patil, Ph.D. ( IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
MEMS, Energy Harvesting, Magnetic/ Optimal Control, Multi-Agent Systems,
Piezoelectric/Magnetoelectric Devices, Switched and Hybrid Systems.
Micro-power Management.

R.K. Mallik, Ph.D. (Univ. of Southern California)

Shankar Prakriya, Ph.D. (Univ. of Toronto)
Professor (JC Bose Fellow)
Professor
Communication Theory and Systems,
5G, Beyond 5G and 6G Communications.
Difference Equations, Linear Algebra.

S. Mishra, Ph.D. (R.E.C. Rourkela) Sumit K. Pramanick, Ph.D. (IISc.,

Bangalore)
Professor (Power Grid Chair)
Assistant Professor
Power System Engineering, Intelligent
High Frequency Link Converters, Multilevel
Techniques for Control of Power System and
Converters for Machine Drives, Grid Connected
Power Quality Studies, Renewable Energy.
Converters, HVDC Circuit Breakers.

Bhaskar Mitra, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) A.P. Pratosh, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Vision and Image Processing Audio, Speech and
MEMS and Microfabrication, Microfluidics, Plastic
Music Analytics And Learning (Deep Learning,
MEMS, Microplasmas, Gas Phase Nanofluidics.
Sequential Modelling And Transfer Learning).

Saif Khan Mohammed, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Mustafijur Rahman, Ph.D. (University of
Minnesota, Twin Citites, USA)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Communication Theory, Information Theory, Wireless
CMOS Analog/RF/m-Wave Integrated Circuits &
Communication in High Mobility Scenarios, Delay-
Systems, CMOS Cryogenic Integrated Circuits &
Doppler signal Processing, Massive MIMO Systems.
Systems For Quantum Computers.

Soumya Shubhra Nag, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Sumantra Dutta Roy, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor Professor
Power Electronics, DC-DC Converters, High Gain Inverters,
Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Pattern
Electric Vehicle, Renewable Energy System, DC Distribution
Recognition and Machine Learning, Medical
System, Marine Ship and Aircraft Power Supply, Power
Electronics Converters, Mainly DC-DC Converters, High Gain
nformatics, Biometrics, Bioinformatics, Music
Inverters, Impedance Source Converters. Information Retrieval and Analysis.

Rakesh Kumar Palani, Ph.D. (Univ. of Mukul Sarkar, Ph.D. (Technical University of Delft)
Minnesota, Minneapolis) Associate Professor
Assistant Professor Solid State Imaging, CMOS Image Sensors, Bio-Inspired
Analog/RF Mixed Signal Design, Data Converters, Vision Systems, Neuromorphic Imaging, Analog/Digital
Low Power Circuits, Frequency Reference Circuits. Circuit Design, Optoelectronics and Photonics.

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Nilanjan Senroy, Ph.D. (Arizona State Univ.) Vivek Venkataraman, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.)
Assistant Professor (Joint Faculty Phy/EE)

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Professor
Nonlinear & Quantum Optics, Fiber & Integrated
Power System Stability and Control, Wide Area
Photonics, Light-Matter Interaction & Atomic Physics,
Measurement and Control, Statistical Techniques
All-Optical Devices & Novel Light Sources, Optical
in Power Systems, Power Quality.
Signal Processing and Communication.

Kaushik Saha, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor of Practice
Shaunak Sen, Ph.D. (California Instt. of Tech.) Semiconductor memory deign, Digital ASIC design,
Associate Professor Digital audio / video systems, Multimedia coding
Control Systems, Dynamical Systems. and compression, Real time embedded system
architecture and design, Wireline communication
systems, Swarm intelligence.

Madhusudan Singh, Ph.D. (Univ. of Michigan)

Associate Professor B. Bhaumik, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Flexible Electronics, Maskless Lithography And Printing Emeritus Professor
Methods, Organic And Inorganic Photovoltaics, Organic
Biological Neural Networks, Analog and
Light-emitting Diodes, Nanoscale Transport, Sustainability,
Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors, Device Design and
Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits.
Characterization.

Sreyam Sinha, Ph.D. (Cornell University) V.K. Jain, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Emeritus Professor
Assistant Professor
Noise Study and Modeling, Digital
Power Electronics, Resonant Converters,
Communications, Data Communications and
Electric Vehicles, Wireless Power Transfer.
Optical Communications and Networks.

Seshan Srirangarajan, Ph.D. (University of Bhim Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Minnesota, USA) Emeritus Professor (SERB National Science Chair
Assistant Professor Professor)
Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Drives,
Wireless Sensor Networks, Optimisation, HVDC, FACTS, Power Quality, Renewable Energy,
Machine Learning. DSP Based Control of Power Converter and Drive.

Manan Suri, Ph.D. (INPG, France) Vinod Chandra, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor Visiting Faculty
Non-volitile Memory, Neromorphic & AI Communication Systems, Fault Tolerant
Hardware, Semiconductor Cyber Security. Computing Systems, Optical Communication.

M. Veerachary, Ph.D. (University of the Ryukyus Japan)

Professor
Power Electronics, High Frequency Switch-Mode Power
Conversion, Fuzzy-neuro Controllers for PE systems, DSP
based Controllers, Object Oriented Modeling of PE Systems,
Development of MPPT Controllers for Space/Photovoltaic
Sources, Photovoltaic Power Conversion, Intelligent Controllers
for VRMs, Digital Control Theory and Applications.

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 INTRODUCTION
The Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Delhi, was established in the year 1961. The department runs 2
undergraduate programmes and 9 postgraduate programmes to cater to teaching and research needs in all
areas of electrical engineering such as Integrated electronics and circuits, Tele-communications, Computer
technology, Control & Automation, Power systems & Power electronics.
The department offers instruction at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels with the aim of providing
a sound background in the areas of electrical, electronics and computer engineering to the brightest
students of the country. The courses are tailored to the needs of technical manpower in the country and the
world over, being aligned to the needs of a technologically self-reliant India, in the ever expanding fields of
communications, computers, control, electronic circuits and power engineering.
The department has been rich in world class postgraduates, research scholars and faculty. There are two
Fellows, IEEE, in the department and many other faculty members are Fellows of several national and
international scientific bodies. The faculty members of the department are constantly engaged in research
on technologies of national and global importance and regularly publish in IEEE and other top international
journals. The departmental faculty actively engaged in research, development, technology transfer, industrial
consultancy, continuing education programmes, curriculum and laboratory development, software
development and organization of seminars, workshops, and conferences in related areas. The department
has active interaction with industries, alumni, governmental agencies and utilities to stay abreast of the
research and development needs of the technology ecosystem of the country and the world.
With an aim to enhance the cross-fertilisation of ideas, the departmental faculty participate enthusiastically
in a number of interdisciplinary centres and programmes in the Institute, through research, instructional
activities, and human resource development projects. In particular, the department has a close interaction
with Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management,
the Industrial Design and Development Centre, the Centre for Energy Studies, the Centre for Biomedical
Engineering, the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and the Department of Physics.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department offers B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Power and
Automation). These two programmes with different foci provide the desired breadth and inter-disciplinary
exposure to the students so that they can pursue any of the diverse areas of Electrical Engineering (e.g.
Computer and embedded systems, design and fabrication of VLSI, intelligent robotic systems, cognitive
and bio-inspired technologies, control systems, telecommunications and computer networking, wireless
communication systems, signal and information processing, micro and nano-electronics, electromagnetic
and electrochemical systems, power engineering, renewable energy, electrical transportation systems,
green technologies etc.) either in an industry-based or research-based career.
The B.Tech. programme in Electrical Engineering (Power and Automation) concentrates on automation
technologies and power engineering catering to the current needs of intelligent and effective energy
management. Students of this B.Tech. Programme also have an option of specializing in specific areas by doing
additional courses.

POSTGRADUATE
The Department offers M.Tech., M.S. (Research) and Ph.D. programmes in Electrical Engineering.

M.Tech. Programme
The Department offers six specialized postgraduate programmes leading to an M.Tech. degree:
• Communication Engineering
• Computer Technology

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
• Integrated Electronics and Circuits
• Power Systems
• Power Electronics, Machines and Drives
In addition, the Department jointly conducts industry sponsored interdisciplinary M.Tech. programmes
specializing in:
• Opto-electronics and Optical Communications (jointly with Physics Department).
• VLSI Design, Tools and Technology (VDTT) (jointly with the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics
and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering).
• Construction Technology and Management (jointly with the Civil Engineering Department and
Mechanical Engineering Department).
• Telecom Technology and Management through the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology
and Management (jointly with the Department of Management).
The full-time M.Tech. programmes are normally of four semesters duration. The department has recently
introduced a six semester (three year) M.Tech. programme, with enhanced scholarship. The students
enrolled in this three year programme help in the development and maintenance of existing and upcoming
laboratories. This gives them an opportunity to develop hands-on experience with state-of-the-art facilities.

M.S. (Research) Programme

The M.S. (Research) programme is appropriate for students aspiring to a career in research and development
in the industry or in teaching. In contrast to students in the M.Tech. programme, the M.S. (Research) students
are required credit fewer courses and carry out a high quality research project.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Department offers a doctoral programme with a view to push the frontiers of knowledge and to explore
new and emerging areas. The brightest undergraduate and Masters students and teachers in engineering
colleges are particularly encouraged to enroll for the Ph.D. programme. The various research activities are
coordinated by different research groups within the department, reflecting the diverse research interests of
the faculty. The different research areas covered by these groups are given below:
• Communication Engineering Group: Performance Analysis of Communication Systems, Cooperative
Communications, Cognitive Radio, Information Theory and Coding, Communication Networks, Secrecy
and High speed wireless and Wireline Communications, MIMO, Image / Video coding, Multirate Signal
Processing, Array Signal Processing, Source Localization and Tracking, Optical Communication and
Networks, FSO, Micro and Nano Photonics, Photonics and Switching, Electromagnetics, Plasmonics
and Plasma Science, Molecular Communications, 5G, Beyond 5G and 6G Communications, IoT; Cyber-
physical Systems: Design, Analysis, Control, Learning and Cyber-security, Blockchain; Radar; Statistical
Signal Processing; Networked Estimation; Reinforcement Learning.
• Computer Technology Group: Computer Vision, Multimedia Systems, Image Processing, Computer
Networks, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Parallel Computation, Neural Computation,
Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Music Information Retrieval, Bioinformatics, Machine
Learning, Biometrics.
• Control Engineering Group: Robust Control, Robotics, Optimal Control, System Identification, Reinforcement
Learning Control, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control, Adaptive Control, Cooperative Control and Path
Planning, Sensor Fusion, Guidance and Navigation, Sliding Mode Control, Interval Analysis in Control Design,
Computational Methods for Simulation and Control, Modeling and model order reduction, Attitude Control

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 and Structural Control, Numerical Modeling and Simulation, Embedded Control Systems, Applications to
Biomolecular Circuits, Time-delayed Systems, Control of Cyber-physical Systems, Model-free Control.
• Integrated Electronics and Circuits Group: Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials, Flexible electronics,
Sensors, Optoelectronic and Photonic devices, Field-Effect and Bipolar devices, MEMS devices, Memory,
Spintronics, Thin Film and Solution-Processed Devices, Energy Harvesting and Scavenging devices, Analog,
Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit, RF Circuits, Power Management Integrated Circuits, Data Converters, Low
Power and Low Voltage Circuits, Compact Device Modeling, Machine Learning, MEMS and Microfabrication,
CMOS Image Sensors, Emerging Non-Volatic Memories.
• Power Engineering Group: Electrical Machines, Energy Conversion, Power Electronics, Power Quality,
Drives, Power and Energy Systems, Protection, Stability, Optimization, Energy Conservation, HVDC and
FACTS, Applications of Microprocessors and Computers in Power and Drives, Renewable Energy Systems
(Small Hydro, PV, Wind), and Energy Audit and Efficiency, Solar Inverters and Power Supplies.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Department maintains an extensive library, a departmental workshop and an ergonomically designed
committee room equipped with video conferencing facility. The department has well equipped laboratories
with extensive hardware and software facilities for teaching and research in the following areas:
• Basic Electrical Engineering • Microprocessor Applications
• Measurement • Control and System Engineering
• Communications • Process Control
• Microwaves • Electronic Circuits and Networks
• Integrated Optics • Electrical Machines and Drives
• Signal and Information Processing • Power Systems
• Optical Communications and Optical Signal • Power Electronics
Processing • VLSI Design
• Computer Technology, Computation • Electrical Energy Audit and Energy Conservation
• Multimedia and Distributed Computing • Electrical Machines
• Robotics and Distributed Control • Energy Instrumentation
• Microprocessor Development Systems • IoT, CPS and Networks Lab.
• Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials, and
Device Fabrication.
Most electronic experiments within a frequency limit of 40GHz, can easily be conducted in the laboratory
facilities of the department.

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 K.A. Subramanian, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Professor
Hydrogen Energy, Alternative Fueled Internal
Combustion Engines/Vehicles, Hydrogen Backfire
Head of the Department
and Combustion, Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Zero-Emission
Vehicles, Hybrid System, Integrated Energy System.

Sumit K. Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. (IIT Vipin Kumar, Ph.D. (NTU, Singapore)

Kharagpur) Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Electrochemical Energy Storage
Power Electronic Converters, Multilevel Converters, Using Metal-Sulfur Batteries, and
Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Micro-grid. Li-Ion/Na-Ion Supercapacitors.

Subhendu Dutta, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Ramesh Narayanan, Ph.D. (Jadavpur Univ.)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Fusion Energy, Plasma Sources in Different
Application of Power Electronics in Solar Photovoltaic
Geometries, with Emphasis on ECR and RF sources,
Systems, AC-DC Hybrid Nanogrid Systems, EV
Plasma Thrusters, Waste-to-Wealth, Plasma Sources
Charging.
for National/Societal Application.

Rahul Goyal, Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee) Sandeep Pathak, Ph.D. (University of

Assistant Professor Cambridge, U.K.)
Hydropower, Hydraulic Turbines, Experimental and Associate Professor
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Cavitation, Sand Fabrication of Perovskite Based Photovoltaic Devices,
Erosion. Photo-physical Properties.

K. Ravi Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Dibakar Rakshit, Ph.D. (The Univ. of Western
Assistant Professor Australia)
Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Associate Professor
Systems, Solar Industrial Process Heating, Thermal Thermal Energy Storage, Building Energy Efficiency,
Energy Storage, Hydrogen Storage, Forecasting of Passive Air Conditioning, Battery Thermal Management
Solar Radiation and Energy Audit. (BTMS).

Kaushik Saha, Ph.D. (University of Waterloo,

Canada)
Satyananda Kar, Ph.D. (IPR) Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Two-phase Flows in the Automotive and Power
Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Applications Generation Sectors, Internal Combustion Engine
(Biomedical, Waste Water Treatment, Waste to Energy), Processes, Waste Management in Thermal Plasmas and
Plasma Sources (DC, RF, Microwave). Syngas Combustion, NOx after-treatment with Urea-SCR,
Coupling of Internal Nozzle Flow with Spray Atomization.

Supravat Karak, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Bibhuti Bhusan Sahu, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Plasma Science and Diagnostics, Technological
Organic Electronics, Polymer & Hybrid Solar Cells,
Plasmas at Low and Atmospheric Pressures, Plasma
Photodetecters, Sensors.
Nanotechnology.

Vamsi K. Komarala, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Debaprasad Sahu, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Silicon Hetero Iunction Solar Cells,
EECR, Plasma Thruster, Plasma based
Nano-science and Nano-photonics Concepts for
ion Implantation, Magnetized Plasma Dynamics.
Enhancing Solar Cell Performance.

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ENERGY SCIENCE & ENGG.

Associate Professor
Emeritus Professor
Plasma Physics, Laser-plasma, E.M. Wave
Solar Photovoltaics, Semiconductor
Interactions with Plasmas, Optics of Plasmas,
Nanoparticles, Hybrid Systems and
Turbulence & Reconnection in Space & Laboratory
Embedded Systems.
Plasmas, Plasmonics.

S.K. Tyagi, Ph.D. (CSS, Meerut) Tara C. Kandpal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Emeritus Professor
Associate Professor
Solar Thermal Utilization, Techno-economics
Solar-Biomass, Energy Conservation,
of Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy
Energy and Exergy Analyses.
Education and Training.

R.K. Malhotra, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Ashu Verma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Professor of Practice
Associate Professor Energy Transition, Oil & Gas, Bio- Fuels, Hydrogen,
Power System Analysis Optimization and Planning, I C Engines, Fuel Cells, Gasification Technologies,
Building Energy Management Systems, Microgrids. Environment protection, Carbon Capture
Utilisation & Sequestration.

T.S. Bhatti, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Emeritus Professor
Power Systems, Multi-Machine Systems,
Isolated Hybrid Power Systems, Wind Energy Systems
& Rural Electrification Systems.

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 INTRODUCTION
Energy forms an integral part of all the scientific and engineering disciplines. Since the demand for energy
world-over has been leading to rise of known as well as future sources of energy. Study of energy resources
and technologies for their efficient utilization has great impact on economic and social life of a country. Energy
experts are needed for developing sustainable solutions for meeting energy demand without adversely affecting
the environment. The Department has mandated itself in training and research in Energy Engineering for serving
the energy needs of the country with special emphasis on energy efficiency, renewable and alternative energy
technologies and energy-environment interaction.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department offers a four year B.Tech. Programme in Energy Engineering. It is also offering several electives
in the emerging areas of Energy and Environment for UG students as open category courses.

POSTGRADUATE
The Department offers the following post-graduate programmes, as full-time/part-time programme for
Engineering graduates and Science post-graduates, leading to the award of M.Tech. Degree:
• M.Tech. in Energy Studies (Interdisciplinary Programme)
• M.Tech. in Energy & Environment Technologies and Management
• M.Tech. in Renewable Energy Technologies and Management (sponsored students only)
• M.S.(R) in Energy Science & Engineering
• Ph.D.

RESEARCH AREAS
The major research groups of the centre are:
• Electrical Power and Renewable Energy Systems • Internal Combustion Engines and Alternative Fuels
• Plasma Science and Technology • Solar-Photovoltaics
• Solar-Thermal • Wind and Hydro
• Energy Storage • Energy Systems Simulation
The focused topics of doctoral and post-doctoral studies as well as sponsored research at the centre are:
• Renewable Energy Technologies (Solar Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal, Biomass, Hydro and Wind):
Solar, wind, biomass, water and other energy sources are cleaner and perennial energy sources which the
nature has provided for the use of mankind. The Department has done extensive work on solar thermal
technologies and solar photovoltaic systems. Design of solar hot water systems, dryers, space heating/
cooling systems, thermal power generation and industrial process heating systems is performed by using
state-of-art software. Studies on developing clean and efficient biomass cookstoves have also been initiated.
The focus of the photovoltaics group has been on thin film based (2nd generation) and Dye-sensitized,
Organic and Perovskite (3rd generation) solar cells fabrication and device analysis. The nanocrystalline
materials for photo-electrochemical and organic solar cells are being developed. The studies also include
implementation of nanophotonics concepts for enhancing solar cell performance, and silicon heterojunction
solar cells based on amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon and carrier-selective contacts; perovskite-based
photovoltaic devices and their long-term stability; understanding the correlation between photo-physical
properties and microstructural properties of semiconducting thin films. Development of novel materials for
low-cost and high-performance photovoltaic devices is also under progress.
Under organic solar cells, use of organic polymers and other related hybrid semiconducting materials to
maximize efficiency in the collection and harvesting of solar energy is being studied. The research group
mainly focuses on the physics, material science and device engineering with the aim to develop innovations
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vapor compression heat pump, thermoelectric-cooler-generator (TEC/TEG) and biomass combustion
device testing facilities are available for both M.Tech. and Ph.D. students. The required instruments like the
portable gas analyzer, particulate matter analyzer (PM2.5 and PM1.0) bomb calorimeter and microbalance
were procured during the last three years. The R&D works in the area of solar-biomass-hybrid refrigeration,
biomass-solar-desalination, vapor adsorption, clean biomass combustion for cooling, heating, cooking,
desalination, and other industrial applications is on-going.
The focus of the research in hydropower is to investigate the off-design and transient operations of the
hydraulic turbines. The main objective of the study is to understand the flow dynamics inside the turbine
using both experimental and numerical techniques during steady-state and transient operating conditions.
The study also includes the investigations of cavitation and sand erosion in hydraulic turbines.
The wind energy is considered as one of the first kind of renewable energy sources after the evolution of
the solar energy. Exergies in the wind power generation gains greater interests to the researchers in past
few decades. Both HAWT and VAWT exhibited a remarkable and comparable performance. The research on
the wind turbine focuses on performance enhancement and understanding of the mechanism of flow using
experimental and numerical techniques.
• Internal Combustion Engines and Alternative Fuels: Globally, conscious efforts are being made to
undertake research and development activities to facilitate transition towards low carbon options in all
sectors of the economy. Promoting the use of alternative fuels as clean fuel in internal combustion engines /
vehicles for transportation as well as for power generation is an important initiative in this context. The
cutting-edge technologies for utilization of alternative fuels including methanol, ethanol, biogas, hydrogen,
biodiesel and dimethyl ether in internal combustion engines are being developed. Life-cycle analysis and
Greenhouse gases of alternative fuels are being studied for screening of sustainable fuels for internal
combustion engines. The hybrid technologies including IC Engines with Electric System, IC Engines with
Fuel cells and IC Engines with renewable energy system are being studied. A strong research linkage with oil
& gas industries and automotive engine manufacturers is fostered to develop the required technologies. The
further research work is focused towards achieving sustainable energy and environment.
• Energy Conservation and Management: One of the main aims of buildings is to provide internal
environment where one can have visual as well as thermal comfort. This is partly provided by an energy
efficient building design and/or by providing energy efficient end use devices. By using sophisticated
computer modelling, the building group in the Centre assists the architects to arrive at an optimum design to
achieve better day lighting and minimize the air conditioning load. Additionally, the group can also undertake
the design and fabrication of building automation systems to reduce energy related operating costs.
Thermal Energy Storage Studies pertaining to adequate façade to contrive a comfortable indoor environment
with reduced active HVAC power requirements are carried out at Department of Energy Science & Engineering.
This basically aims at designing thermally conducive environment for hot climatic conditions through
deployment of phase change materials (PCMs) in building envelopes that can store the excess incoming
heat through the envelope as latent heat (at constant temperature) and later release the stored heat to the
colder ambient at night. In cold regions, PCMs packed under building floor can maintain a comfortable floor
temperature for a long time by gradually releasing latent heat while undergoing phase change.
Besides this medium temperature range thermal energy storage system designs for perennial supply of
thermal energy, required for non-conventional refrigeration and cooling system are also studied. Recently
the Department started exploring ultra-high temperature thermal energy storage systems to store electrical
spillage as ordained by the concept of thermal batteries.
The research activities, related to battery storage, that will be undertaken at Department will specifically
focus on enhancing the energy storage capabilities of the electrochemical energy storage devices, such
as lithium ion batteries, sodium-sulfur or lithium-sulfur batteries, and advanced batteries by employing
nanoscale materials. These energy storage technologies would be used in combination with renewable
energy sources (e.g., solar PV), and also to power electric vehicles, thus cutting down overall greenhouse
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 is presently focusing on will be one of the vital components for the future of a “clean energy landscape”.
Besides electrochemical energy storage devices, flexible and stretchable chemically and electrochemically
active devices will also be developed to sense and monitor environmental degradation.

• Fuel Technology: The major challenge in effective utilization of Indian coals has all along been its high
mineral content. In this context, initiatives have been taken at the IIT Delhi resulting in solubilization of
the major part of the coal substance by extraction at the atmospheric pressure with combinations of
polar organic solvents which are recycled. The extract is zero ash and can be treated as organic feedstock
for further processing. This process has been termed as organo-refining of coals contributing to the
development of clean coal technology potentially useful for the coal based power generation and for steel
power plants. Bioleaching and bio-solubilization have also been found suitable to dimineralise the coal.
Other activities include conversion of coal to liquid, utilization of coal extracts for value added end-uses such
as a chemical feedstock, conversion of the products of coal gasification to synthetic natural gas methane,
coal delsulphurization etc.

• Electrical Power and Renewable Energy Systems (EPRES): The growing capacity of renewable energy
based installations makes it necessary to develop efficient operation and control techniques to analyse
and optimize the unbalanced distribution/transmission network. The intermittent nature and forecast
uncertainties in renewable energy sources and loads must be considered in any analysis and design. The
holistic grid/micro developments utilizing the energy management systems incorporating resource, demand
side management, cloud/shared storage, effective use of battery/PV inverters, mobile loads in terms of
electric vehicles etc. will lead to more certain and robust electrical systems. Many of the villages in India are
electrified but have limited availability of the electricity. To address the technical challenges with respect to
present and near-future scenario of the Nation, following research areas are the key focus of EPRES group:
»» Development of energy management systems (EMS) for microgrid operations, buildings.
»» Design and development of tools and techniques for distribution system operators (DSO) operation
for LV/MV unbalanced distribution networks, power electronics based interconnects, Renewable based
Multiple Distributed Generations, Electric Vehicles, etc.
»» Development of Power Converters for small, medium and high-power applications in Renewable energy.
»» Development of controls strategies for load frequency, voltage control and controller test facility for
various types of micro-grids.

• Plasma Science and Technology: The lab was established in 1980 as “Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPL)” of
the Department of Energy Science and Engineering [formerly Centre for Energy Studies] and the Department
of Physics at IIT Delhi. The lab evolved to become one of first experimental plasma laboratories to be setup in
an educational institution.
The initial focus of the lab was on high power microwave plasma interaction in conducting waveguides for
an understanding of the physics of plasma loaded waveguides (for use in plasma applications). Subsequently
similar studies were conducted on helicon waves as well. Over time, the focus of the lab shifted to the
development of ECR-based novel plasma sources for a wide range of applications for industry and scientific
use. With the induction of several young faculties to the lab over the past decade, the lab has expanded its
scope of research, and today it includes areas like development of ECR-based plasma thruster, large area
ECR-based hydrogen beam source, high pressure ECR plasma source, rf plasma diagnostics, atmospheric
plasma jets, and their applications. The Lab has also received funds under IoE as well as from PSA to initiate
activities on Plasma-based Waste Management & Waste-to-Wealth.
With the expansion of the lab’s activities, the laboratory is now spread over three separate labs: “Plasma
Physics Laboratory”, “ELNIBS Laboratory” and “Plasma Applications Laboratory” under the common banner
“Plasma Lab”.
Extensive theoretical work has been undertaken on waves, instabilities in the ionosphere magnetosphere
and laboratory (fusion) plasmas. Significant work on nonlinear dynamics of plasmas including self
organization and chaos to study plasma behaviour at high power particularly in fusion phenomenon has
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LABORATORY FACILITIES
Facilities are available in the Department for education and training as well as for facilitating industry-academia
interaction.
• Renewable Energy: Thin Film Deposition Facility, temperature Dependant I-V Characterization of Solar
Cells using Solar Simulator, Quantum efficiency measurement system, Impedance and capacitance-voltage
measurement System, Excitonic Solar Cell Fabrication Facility, Carrier Mobility Measurement Set-up, Time
Resolved Photoluminescence Set-up, 25 kWp Roof Top Photovoltaic Generator, Thermal Conductivity
Analyzer, U Value Measurements, Alphatometer and Emissometer, Solar Transmittance Measurements, Fuel
Technology, Gas Chromatograph: Gas Analyzer, Proximate Analysis of Fuels, UV-Visible Spectrophotometer,
Bomb Calorimeter, Pyrolyzer, Pyrheliometer with Sun-Tracker.
• Electrical Power and Renewable Energy Systems: Software tools for power system analysis and
optimization with renewable power generation and dynamic loads, real time digital simulator for hardware
in loop simulations, laboratory scale Micro-Hydro Power Generation, doubly fed induction generator, Long
Transmission Line Models, Wind/Solar emulator, power converters etc.
• Internal Combustion Engines and Alternative Fuels: Facility to measure flame kernel growth, backfire,
injection, ignition, combustion, performance and emissions characteristics of internal combustion engines
for alternative fuels; Instruments include Non-dispersive Infrared (NDIR) analyzer, FTIR analyzer, smoke meter,
piezo-electric transducer, optical encoder and sensor and combustion analyser; Advanced facilities include
Research Engine, Backfire measurement in hydrogen fuelled engine, CRDI Engine test rig, hydrogen engine
test rig, DME fuelled engine test rig, RCCI/HCCI combustion engine, methanol fuelled test rig with oxygen-
combustion; Computational facility such as simulation/computational Fluid Dynamics software to study
the important engine processes including backfire, injection, spray, ignition, combustion and emissions.
’Constant volume chamber for spray and combustion diagnostics has been developed in the laboratory of
Engines and Unconventional Fuels.’
• Plasma Science and Technology: Plasma sources of different kind, viz. ECR (electron cyclotron resonance),
RF (radio frequency), DC (direct current) etc. A Compact ECR Plasma Source (CEPS) for producing high
density plasma; Large Volume Plasma System (LVPS) using multiple CEPS, for plasma processing application;
Automated Langmuir probe system for plasma characterization; High resolution spectrometer for study
of plasma emission spectroscopy; Plasma Simulation Facilities; Scalable plasma sources and advanced
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 • Energy Efficiency and Conservation and Energy Simulation: Portable energy audit instruments like
temperature, humidity, velocity meters, surface temperature reading instruments, clamp type voltmeter,
ammeter and power factor meter. A collection of excellent software backed by a comprehensive data base.
The software packages can be used for Energy Efficient Building Design, Solar Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal
System Design, Hybrid System Design and Calculation of AC loads. Optimal Power System Expansion Model
including the Environmental Impacts and Design and Analysis of Electrostatic Monitoring Precipitator.
• Energy Systems Simulations: Simulations play a vital role in the research of energy studies at Department.
Computer simulations are used by the faculty members from Electrical and Power Systems, Plasma Science
and Technology, Solar Thermal, Internal Combustion Engines and Automotive Sprays research groups.
High-end workstations and desktops are available at the computational laboratory of the Department.
Energy Science & Engineering faculty members have also initiated integrating Artificial Intelligence with
their simulation framework for further advancement in the predictions and analysis of performance of
energy systems.

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 DEPARTMENT OF
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
 Angelie Multani, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal

Head of the Department

Nehru Univ.)
Professor
Indian Theatre in English, Culture Studies,
Gender/Studies, Contemporary Fiction.

Ankush Agrawal, Ph.D. (IGIDR, Mumbai) Arjun Ghosh, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.)
Associate Professor Professor
Development Economics, Performance Studies, Authorship, Intellectual
Applied Econometrics. Property, Digital Humanities.

Vibha Arora, Ph.D. (Oxford Univ.)

Professor
Samar Husain, Ph.D. (IIIT Hyderabad)
Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Associate Professor
Development, Globalization and Transnationalism, Visual Human Sentence Processing, Natural Language
Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Gender and Development, Parsing, Natural Language Modeling, Dependency
Social Research Methods, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Grammars, Cognitive Science.
South Asia, the Himalayan Region and their Diaspora.

Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D. (University of Farhana Ibrahim, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.)

Delhi) Professor
Associate Professor
Sociology of India, Nationalism and
Sociology of Organisations and Work, Prison Studies,
the Nation, State, Sociology of Religion,
Ethnography of the State, Gender and Masculinities,
Urban Neighbourhoods, Violence and the Carceral Historical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology,
Complex, Ethnographic Methods. Migration, Kinship, Qualitative Research Methods.

Yashpal A. Jogdand, Ph.D. (University

Arudra V. Burra, Ph.D. (Princeton University, USA) of St. Andrews)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy. Social Identity, Intergroup Relations,
Humiliation, Prejudice and Stereotyping.

Pritha Chandra, Ph.D. (Univ. of Maryland) Ravinder Kaur, Ph.D. (Delhi Univ.)
Professor
Professor
Social Change, Sociology of Development, Gender,
Linguistics, Theoretical Syntax, Language
Kinship, Family and Marriage, Anthropological
Acquisition (1/2nd), Politics of Language.
Demography, Sociology of India.

Sisir Debnath, Ph.D. (University of Virginia) Stuti Khanna, D. Phil. (Oxford Univ.)
Assistant Professor Associate Professor
Development Economics, Modernism, Postcolonialism Twentieth-
Applied Microeconomics, Century Literature, Indian Writing in
Health Economics. English, Cities and Gender.

Divya Dwivedi, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Reetika Khera, Ph.D. (Delhi School of
Associate Professor Economics)
Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, Associate Professor
Narrative Theory, Literary Theory, Economic Development, Education, Health
Gandhi Studies, Political Cartooning. and Nutrition, Indian Economy.

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of Technology ) Languages University, Hyderabad)
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Sociology of Agriculture, Sociology of Food and Phonology and Syntax, Theoretical Frameworks: Optimality
Nutrition, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Theory, Lexical Phonology, Distributive Morphology,
Rural and Agrarian Policy. Minimalism, Minor Research Area Language Teaching:
English Language Teaching, Task-based Language Teaching.

Simona Sawhney, Ph.D. (Univ. of California)

Dickens Leonard, Ph.D. (University of Hyderabad) Associate Professor
Assistant Professor South Asian Language and Literature,
Anti-caste Thought and Community. Postcolonial Literature and Theory,
Sanskrit Literature, Literary Theory.

Kamlesh Singh, Ph.D. (Univ. of Rajasthan)

Debasis Mondal, Ph.D. (ISI, Kolkata) Professor
Associate Professor Positive Psychology, Applied Positive Psychology,
International Trade, Economic Environmental Psychology, Psychometrics,
Growth, Public Economics. Community Psychology, Rural Women and
Adolescents.

Saptarshi Mukherjee, Ph.D. (ISI, Delhi) Purnima Singh, Ph.D. (Allahabad Univ.)
Professor
Associate Professor
Social and Applied Social Psychology,
Mechanism Design, Social Justice, Identity, Inter Group Relations,
Choice and Game Theory. Cognition and Culture.

Sumitava Mukherjee, Ph.D. (IIT Varsha Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)

Asssociate Professor
Gandhinagar)
Assistant Professor Behavioural Decision Making and Choice
Behaviour, Dual Process Theories of Decision
Cognitive Science, Judgement and
Making, Heterogeneity and Constraints in
Decision Making.
Decision Making.

Sourabh B. Paul, Ph.D. (Uni. of British Columbia) Naveen Thayyil, Ph.D. (Tilburg University)
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Labour Economics, Empirical Development, Trade Policy, Law, Techno-science and Democratisation, Regulatory
R&D and Firm Productivity, Technology Spillover and Issues in New and radical Technologies, Democratisation of
Labour Market Effects, Health and Nutrition, Household Regulation of Technology, Risk Regulation, Use of ethics in
Behaviour Analysis, Crime and Inequality, Applied Technology Regulation, Development of Technologies and
Microeconomic Theory. Public Contestations, Public Participation in Regulation.

Bharati Puri, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.)

Associate Professor Jayan Jose Thomas, Ph.D. (IGIDR,
Philosophy of Culture and History, Moral and Political Mumbai)
Philosophy, Contemporary Thought and Intellectual History, Professor
Deep Ecology, Buddhism/and Politics, Exile and Travel,
Labour, Capital and Technology in Indian
Religion/and Politics, Religion in East Asia, Peace Studies,
Tibet/Tibetan Literature and Politics, Ethnicities and Margins, Industrialization.
Culture Religion and Politics in Ladakh, Children and Literature.

Sarbeswar Sahoo, Ph.D. (National Univ. Singapore) C.A. Tomy, Ph.D. (Univ. of Hyderabad)
Associate Professor Professor
Postcolonial State, Civil Society and Democratization,
Philosophy of Mind and Cognition,
Adivasis of India and the Politics of Development, Hindu
Philosophy of Science, Scepticism,
Nationalism, Neo-liberal Globalization and Social Inequality,
Sociology of Religion and (Anti-Christian) Violence. Metaphysics and Self.

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 Milind Wakankar, Ph.D. (Columbia Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Ph.D. (Cambridge Univ.)
University) Emeritus Professor
Associate Professor Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive
Science and Cultural, Studies, Critical
Indian Mystical Traditions and the Modern
Theory, Postcolonialism, Gender, Creative
Critique of Caste.
Writing, Narratology.

Ashwini J. Vaidya, Ph.D. (Univ. of Colorado, Bijoy Boruah, Ph.D. (Uni. of Guelph, Canada)
Boulder)
Adjunct Professor
Assistant Professor
Philosophy.
Computational Linguistic.

Sanil V., Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur)

Professor
V. Upadhyay, Ph.D. (McMaster University, Canada)
Philosophical investigations into Art, Science, Adjunct Professor
Technology, Literature and Social Sciences, Reason
Development Economics,
and Revolt, Violence, Hate and Revenge, Contemporary
Political Economy, Indian Economy.
Indian thought, Intellectual traditions of Kerala,
Philosophy of Biology.

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HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Department of Humanities & Social Sciences is an integral part of the Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi. The Department houses most of the major disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities with
disciplinary and multi-disciplinary Ph.D. programmes, as well as a diverse range of Undergraduate elective
courses at different levels. In addition to these, the Department also runs a Language Learning Centre for
strengthening English Language skills. We also run short-term courses in French, German, Spanish and
Japanese for students who wish to learn a foreign language.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
IITs are mandated to pursue teaching and research in science, technology and arts. IIT Delhi regards
knowledge of Humanities and Social Sciences as a core value. All UG students must complete a minimum
of 15 credits in HUSS courses. The courses offered for UG students are drawn from all the disciplines of the
Department: Economics, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Policy Studies, and Sociology and
some are also inter or multi-disciplinary. Courses are divided between 200 level and 300 level, and some
advanced UG students may also choose to opt for 700 or 800 level courses, apart from doing an independent
research paper in any of the HUSS disciplines.
Minor Area Programme: B.Tech. Minor Area Programme in Economics was initiated in 2017, which is very
popular among the UG students.

POSTGRADUATE
Ph.D.
The Department has a robust Ph.D. programme which is both disciplinary as well as inter-disciplinary, We
have both a full-time as well as part-time Ph.D. programme to enable those who may be working to continue
their academics. HUSS is one of the few departments that offer a genuine interdisciplinary approach to
academics that is both based on a strong disciplinary foundation and yet open to non-traditional ideas and
approaches. we promote and support multidisciplinary work of the kind that is possible only when creative
researchers from various disciplines are in close locational and intellectual proximity through pre-Ph.D,
courses that provide a specialized disciplinary perspective as well as collaboratively taught courses which
have a broader inter-disciplinary orientation, We also have Post-Doctoral positions where young doctorates
are encouraged to continue their research in a supportive and intellectually exciting atmosphere.
M.Sc.
The Department started two full-time M.Sc. programmes in Cognitive Science and Economics in the
2020-21 academic year.
M.Sc. in Cognitive Science: The programme will familiarize students with diverse theories, methods, and
tools to understand the architecture and functioning of the human mind. It also envisages developing new
state-of-the-art labs involved in finding better solutions to cognitive challenges and questions faced in the
Indian scenario. It integrates teaching and learning through a multidisciplinary and diverse pedagogical
curriculum. The MSc programme trains students to pursue academic careers and to work at the crossroads
of academic-industry linkages for advancing and leading intellectual creation in the cognitive science
space. The graduates from this programme could work in diverse sectors from basic research, brain sciences,
management, engineering/design (robotics, smart software, and technology, human-machine interaction),
social organizations; or decide to pursue higher education in cognitive science or any of its allied disciplines.
M.Sc. in Economics: The programme draws on the strengths of mathematics, computer science, and other
science and engineering disciplines. It is designed for students with bachelors degree in any discipline with
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 two-semesters long project that would prepare students for research. It aims to impart advanced training in
economics with a focus on quantitative skills. The curriculum is designed so as to give exposure to broader
issues related to developmental challenges in India and beyond. Students choose fields of specialisation in
core economics and emerging areas at the intersection of economics with other social sciences as well as
computer science and mathematics.

RESEARCH AREAS
Doctoral research is being carried out in: Organisational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Social
Psychology, Positive Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology; Sociology of Culture
and Knowledge, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Religion, Gender Studies, Visual Sociology,
Environmental Sociology, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Agrarian Studies; Economic Theory, Development
Economics, International Economics, Quantitative Economics, Transport Economics, Environmental
Economics, Industrial Economics, Indian Economy, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Mechanism Design;
British Literatures, Theory of Criticism, Indian and Postcolonial Literatures, Performance Studies, Indian
Political Thought, English Language, Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Studies. English
Language, Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Studies; Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics,
Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Law, Techno-Science
and Democratization, Philosophy of Science, Technology and Social Sciences. History of Science, Sociology
of Science, Technology and Society. Interface of Science and Technology with Humanities; Vulnerability and
Adaption to Climate Change, Disaster Management Policy, Mitigation to Climate Change, Energy Policy,
Social Identity, Intergroup Relations, Intergroup Contact and Social Change, Leadership and Collective
Mobilisation.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
Cognitive and Behavioural Science (CBS) Laboratory: The CBS lab caters to the research needs of the
Ph.D. scholars and faculty members. The lab is equipped with basic and state-of-the-art equipments in
Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics. This includes an SR research 1000 Plus eye-tracker. The lab has
several PCs for conducting behavioural experiments. It also has a high performance computing server to
handle computationally intensive research tasks.
Economics Laboratory: The Department has an Economics Laboratory, located in MS 627B. The laboratory
provides access to computing facilities for research and training in economics and is very popular among
our Ph.D. students for research and collaborative work. The computers in the labs are equipped with popular
open source and proprietary packages like R, STATA, Matlab, and Python. The Department has subscriptions
to database such as ASI, EPWRF, NSSO, and PRIME.
Another computing laboratory, jointly for the M.Sc. students of Cognitive Science and Economics
programmes, is coming up shortly.
The Department has a Language Learning Centre offering support to all first year students to enhance
their language and communication skills. Besides, we have several other tools useful for research including
cloud computing, Grammarly, and access to a centralised supercomputing facility. The central library of the
Institute subscribes to several journals from different publishers including Elsevier and collections such as
JSTOR and is also a part of DELNET.

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 DEPARTMENT OF
MANAGEMENT STUDIES
 Seema Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Economics & Finance.
Head of the Department

Kanika T. Bhal, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) M.P. Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Professor, Dhananjaya Chair
OB, HR, Business Ethics & Corporate Governance,
Information System Policy & Strategy.
Leadership and Culture.

P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)

Harish Chaudhary, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Abdulaziz Alsagar Chair Professor
Associate Professor Information and Communication Technologies &
Marketing, HR and OB. Development (ICTD, ICTs & Government,
Social Media & Business Practices).

Eri Ikeda, Ph.D. (Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam,

Neeru Chaudhry, Ph.D. (Monash Univ., Australia) Netherlands)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Finance and Accounting.
Economics.

Sanjay Dhir, Ph.D. (Fellow, IIM Lucknow)

Associate Professor Sonali Jain, Ph.D. (IIM Ahmedabad)
Strategic Thinking, Strategic Innovations, Assistant Professor
Ambidexterity, Corporate Strategy, Finance & Accounting.
Alliances and Joint Ventures.

Amlendu Kumar Dubey, Ph.D. (IGIDR, Mumbai) Arpan Kumar Kar, Ph.D. (Fellow, XLRI)
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Macro Economics, Development & Environmental Digital Economy, Digital Business,
Economics, Applied Econometrics. Data Science, ML/AI Application.

Gourav Dwivedi, Ph.D. (Fellow, IIM Lucknow) Smita Kashiramka, Ph.D. (BITS, Pilani)
Assistant Professor Associate Professor
Operations Management, Game Theory, Banking, Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial Markets
Operation Strategy, Project Management. & Institutions and Corporate Finance.

Agam Gupta, Ph.D. (Fellow, IIM Calcutta) Jitendra Madaan, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Sharing Economy, Platform Ecosystems,
Supply Chain Management, Reverse Logistics,
Organizational Ecology, Computational
Sustainable Operations, Disaster Management.
Social Science, and Networks.

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Vivek G. Nair, Ph.D. (IIM Calcutta) Sushil, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Abdulaziz Alsagar Chair Professor
Assistant Professor

MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Strategic Management, Strategic Alliances and
Subjective Career Success, Careers of Diverse
M & A, Flexible Systems Management, Strategic
Groups, Flexible Work Arrangements, Meritocracy, and
Change & Flexibility, Technology Management, Creative
Management Education.
Problem Solving, Waste Management.

Surendra S. Yadav, Ph.D. (Univ. of Paris,

Biswajita Parida, Ph.D. (Fellow, IIM Ahmedabad) Sorbonne, Paris)
Assistant Professor Emeritus Professor
Marketing, Consumer Beharviour, Advertising, Corporate Finance, International Finance, International
Branding, Product Management. Business, Security Analysis & Portfolio Management,
General Management.

Prasanna Ramamoorthy, Ph.D. (Fellow, IIM P.K. Jain, Ph.D. (Delhi Univ.)
Ahmedabad)
Honorary Professor
Assistant Professor
Finance & Accountancy.
Production and Quantitative Methods, Operations.

Mahim Sagar, Ph.D. (IIITM, Gwalior)

Professor
Mayur Chikhale, Ph.D. (Stevens Institute of
Professor Marketing, Public Policy Marketing, Technology, USA)
Product Management, Telecom Policy Research, Full-Time Visiting Faculty
Community Drive Marketing/Branding of Public &
Private Goods/Service.

Ravi Shankar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Amar S. Gupta Chair Professor of Decision Science
Juhi Raghuvanshi, Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee)
Operations &
Visiting Faculty
Supply Chain Management, Decision Science,
Technology Management, Business Analytics.

Surya Prakash Singh, Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur

PDF, NUS Singapore-MIT USA Alliance)
Professor Neeraj Sanan, Ph.D. (University of Manchester)
Operations Management, Manufacturing Systems, Adjunct Faculty
Optimization Techniques, Operation Research,
Strategy.

Shveta Singh, Ph.D. (Univ. of Allahabad)

Sudhir K. Jain, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Ex. Professor, DMS, IIT Delhi & Former Vice Chancellor,
Professor Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra (J&K)
Financial Management, Security Analysis Adjunct Faculty
& Portfolio Management, Corporate
Managerial Economics,
Governance & CSR.
Entrepreneurship and IPRs.

Shuchi Sinha, Ph.D. (Univ. of London)

Associate Professor Arup Roy Choudhury, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Leadership, Managing Change Workplace Spirituality, Professor of Practice
Workplace Deviance, HR & OB.

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 GUEST FACULTY
Prof. Prem Vrat, Ex-Professor, IIT Delhi & Ex-Director, IIT Roorkee Prof. Priyanka Vallabh, MDI Gurugram
Prof. D.K. Banwet, Ex. Professor, DMS, IIT Delhi Prof. Alka Gupta, New Multan Nagar, New Delhi
Prof. Anuradha Balram, Chief Cord, Awakened Citizen Programme Prof. Manpreet Kaur, Bharti Vidyapeeth Institute of Management,
NGO of R.K. Mission
Paschim Vihar
Prof. Parul Gupta, MDI Gurugram
Prof. Himanshu Manglik, President – WALNUTCAP Consulting LLP,
Prof. Michael Hopkins, Chair and Partner of MHC International Ltd. (MHCi), U.K. Delhi
Prof. Sabri Boubaker, Champagne School of Management, (Group Prof. Peter Trkman, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics
ESC Troyes) Finance & Accounting Department Troyes, France Kardeljeva ploscad 17, 1000 Ljubljana
Prof. Nakul Gupta, MDI Gurugram
Prof. Adrian, Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at
Prof. Thomas Jospeh, IIM Udaipur the University of Queensland, Australia

Prof. Prabhat Kumar, Advocate and Consultant (Corporate Affairs) Mr. Tarun Gupta - CTO, Chief Architecture,
Technology Partner and Advisor
Prof. Marcos Severo, Federal University of Goias, Brazil
Prof. Sandeep Goyal, CEO Shared Value (Institute of Dr. S.N. Gosh, ACISI (UK), Chartered Institute for
Competitiveness) Security & Investment, U.K.

Prof. A.K. Nigam, Director HR & CSR- Whiteswan Consulting Group (WCG India) Dr. Nikhil Kumar Varma, Advisor QBRICS INC
Prof. Manmohan Chaturvedi, CISO Academy, Gurugram Ms. Sapna Popli, Professor of marketing - IMT Ghaziabad
Mr. Piyush Sharma, CEO Zee Entertainment Prof. Anshul Jain, Assistant Professor, Finance MDI Gurugram
Prof. Shibashis Mukharjee, Assistant Professor, IIM Bangalore
Prof. Ashish Mohan, DGM JCB India
Prof. V. Upadhyay, Adjunct Faculty HUSS IIT Delhi
Mr. Vimal Kishore, Professional CA
Prof. Anita Lal Tripathi, Head- Centre for Entrepreneurship Fore
School of Management, New Delhi Prof. Sunil Gupta, Consultant- Higher Education

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INTRODUCTION

MANAGEMENT STUDIES
The Department currently runs three variants of the MBA programme: a two-year full-time MBA programme,
a two-year full-time MBA programme with focus electives on ‘Telecommunication Systems Management’
and a three-year Executive MBA programme with focus electives on ‘Technology Management’. Department
offers functional electives in Economics, Finance, Marketing, Information Systems, Strategy, Operations
Management, Human Resource etc. The students in a two-year full-time MBA programme are admitted
through a rigorous screening process of CAT (Common Admissions Test)*, Written Aptitude Test (WAT) and
Personal interview.
Department of Management Studies (DMS) has heavy research orientation as its forte, which is further
used extensively for designing courses to respond to the current industry issues. The course content is
contemporary and has involved various stakeholders, including industry experts, CEOs and our alumni.
DMS faculty who have served on various UN-related bodies and international professional associations
are widely acclaimed internationally for their contributions in knowledge generation and research
publications. Stanford has ranked DMS 2nd for its research output among IIMs and IITs. The faculty
members work nationally and internationally for consulting activities and research projects and have
been widely acclaimed for their contributions. To date, in more than three decades of existence, over
200 PhDs have been groomed by Department. The faculty has contributed at the highest policy level
committees of the Government of India (GoI), served on various boards of corporate entities, as Chairman
‘All India Board of Management Education’ of AICTE and contributed to the establishment of the 5th
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Kozhikode, and 7th Indian Institute of Management at Shillong.
The Department faculty has published over 80 books and over 1200 papers in various ‘A’ category journals
and conference volumes. DMS has a world-class IT infrastructure with a high faculty-to-student ratio. DMS
has a rich software repository that facilitates computer-aided instructions and enables hands-on experience
in leading business enterprises. The Global Field Study is a unique initiative that provides the students of
DMS international exposure through their visits to various other countries like Germany, Singapore, China
(Beijing & Shanghai), Malaysia, Brussels, Netherland, Belgium, France, Australia and Japan.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department offers several courses to undergraduate students as electives and also offers a Minor Area
in Business Management and Entrepreneurship.
PEDAGOGY
The Department places heavy emphasis on experiential and process-oriented learning. The pedagogical
toolsinclude extensive use of Harvard case studies (HBS), simulation exercises, industry-oriented project
work, eight weeks of summer projects, 3 weeks of Social Sector attachment and the like, to facilitate the
same. The process – oriented learning is further enhanced by Global Field Study (GFS), which students
undertake for their projects. Besides honing up individual decision-making skills, enough emphasis is laid
on developing team skills and value-focused decision making. Extensive research and consultancy have
gained wide peer-level recognition back the teaching.

Masters of Business Administration

With the unique features of systems orientation and a blend of creativity and analytical problem-solving
skills, MBA Full Time is aimed to develop holistic managers who internalize a synthesis of conventional
and modern management – thinking and who can comfortably adapt to changing business requirements.
The programme provides the students with various routes to the industry, matching its requirements
with their skills and predispositions. Every student gets the opportunity to take courses in major streams:
Information Systems, Finance, Marketing, Strategic Management, Human Resource Management and
Operations Management.. Along with the functional electives, the students also get a cross-functional
perspective.

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 Masters of Business Administration (Telecommunication Systems Management)
The MBA Full-Time Program with a focus in Telecommunication Systems Management is a hallmark
of techno-managerial excellence imparted to the scholars at DMS. This programme is comprehensive
in nature, involving all the business functions – Information Systems, Finance, Marketing, Strategic
Management, Human Resource Management, with an emphasis on Telecommunications Systems
Management, which provides a strong foundation in Telecom Technology, Business and Regulation.
This programme draws Telecom technology inputs from Bharti School of Telecom Technology and
Management of IIT Delhi. The inclusive nature of the program fosters the creation of effective managers
across different domains, equipping them with holistic skills and a strategic advantage when it comes to
leading business in the Telecom sector.
Masters in Business Administration (for Working Executives)
For the Indian industry to gain global competitiveness, effective management of technology is crucial. This
would mean using technology as a strategic variable to gain competitive advantage and would require
an organization to critically understand technology planning and strategy processes, management of
technology transfer and absorption, management of innovation and R&D and more. The Executive MBA
programme with focus electives on ‘Technology Management’ aims to fulfil these requirements so as to
enable the managers to effectively contribute to evolving core competencies in the Indian industry. This
programme is designed to impart management education to working executives.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Department of Management Studies has a full-fledged Ph.D. programme in Management. With its
liberal multidisciplinary approach, the department provides excellent ambience for research amidst
the world class infrastructure at IIT Delhi. Department of Management Studies, IITD ranked 4th in India
QS World University Ranking for Business and Management Studies in 2022 and ranked 5th in National
Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking 2021.

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The research areas are broadly classified into the following areas:
• Economics
• Finance and Accounting
• Operations and Supply Chain Magement
• Information Technology and Systems
• Strategy and Technology Management
• Marketing
• HR-OB
The full-time doctoral students will receive financial aid as below. The students are required to do academic
duty for 8 hours per week (excluding their research work) as a Teaching Assistant (TA). TAs will be assisting
the faculties in developing the course content, taking tutorials and grading. Fellowship is extended for
the fifth year, only on the basis and review of the work. Students will be provided financial support for
attending national and international conferences as per the institute norms.

Period of Assistantship
(With B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc./M.Tech.
Assistantship Amount
or
Equivalent Qualification)

First 2 year of registration r 31,000/- Month

Next 3 year of registration r 35,000/- Month

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 LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Department of Management Studies has seven fully air-conditioned Wi-Fi enabled lecture theatres
equipped with LCD projectors to ensure the best possible environment for learning. The auditorium has
a seating capacity of over 120 and hosts numerous guest lectures, seminars and other programs. There
is also an exclusive library in addition to the central library of the institute. The following laboratories
facilitate learning and research:
• Research Lab
• Operations Lab
• Behavioral Lab
• Strategy and Competitiveness Lab
• Centre of Excellence in Entrepreneurship
• Centre of Excellence “National Centre of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance and Corporate
Social Responsibility”
• Information System and Data Science Lab
An extensive collection of software packages and databases such as SPSS, e-Views, Ace Equity,
Bloomberg, AMOS, Vensim, I-Think, LISRD, NViVO, STATA, Hummingbird Knowledge Management Suite,
Prowess, LINGO, ARENA etc. are available in the laboratories. Further, the Behavioral Laboratory has in-
house camera, TV and specialized software to help the students hone their behavioural skills.

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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

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 Josemon Jacob, Ph.D. (Iowa State Univ.)

Head of the Department

Professor
Polymer Synthesis, Semiconducting Polymers, Polymer
Based LEDs and Photovoltaics, Block Copolymers
Biodegradable Polymers, Polymerization Catalysis.

Krishna Balasubramanian, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Suryanarayana Vikrant Karra, Ph.D. (Purdue
University)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Layered 2D Materials like Graphene TMD, bP and such for
Computational Materials Science, Energy Storage &
High Speed Electronic Transport, RF Devices, Molecular
Conversion Materials, Lithium-ion Batteries and Solid Oxide
Separation. Ultra-fast and Quantum Optics Wart Excitons
Fuel Cell Materials, Microstructural Evolution of Metals
in 2D Materials and Quantum Wells. Superconductors for and ceramics, High Temperature Power Plant Component
Qubits, Entangled Photons and THz Defection. Materials, Phase Field Modeling.

Shib Shankar Banerjee, Ph.D. (IIT Patna) Divya Nayar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Functional and Smart Elastomeric Materials, Compounding
Computational Materials Chemistry, Molecular
and Processing of Polymers (Conventional and Reactive),
Simulations of Soft Matter (Polymers, Biomolecules),
Mechano-adaptive Composite Materials, Advanced
Manufacturing of Polymers, 3D Printing of Functional
Macromolecular Solvation Thermodynamics,
Elastomeric/Polymeric Materials and Soft Material. Self-assembly in Nanomaterials.

Ayan Bhowmik, Ph.D. (Univ. of Cambridge, U.K.) Suresh Neelakantan, Ph.D. (TU Delft)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Alloy Design, Superalloys, High-temperature Refractory Metal
Mechanical Behaviour of Advanced Materials in Bulk and
Alloys, Advanced Manufacturing (Selective Laser Melting,
Porous Forms, Materials Characterization. Current Interest in
Direct Laser Deposition) and Repair Technology (Metal Cold
β Titanium Alloys, TRIP Steels & Ti-, Ni- and Fe- Based: Shape
Spray, Electropulsing, Localized Induction Heating), Phase
Memory Alloys, Stochastic Fibre Networks and Auxetic (i.e.
Transformation and Crystallography of High-temperature
Negative Poisson’s Ratio) Materials/Composites. Main Focus
Alloys, Structural Characterization Using Microscopy and
on in-Situ Transformation Effect on Deformation Behaviour and
Diffraction Techniques, Bulk and Micro-Mechanical Testing of
Structure-property Correlations in Metallic Materials.
Materials.

Ankur Goswami, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Leena Nebhani, Ph.D. (Karlsruhe Institute
Assistant Professor of Technology)
Associate Professor
Fabrication of MEMS Device for Detection, Sensing
and Energy Harvesting Application. Structure Property New Synthetic Routes for Polymer and Surface
Functionalization Based on RAFT Polymerization and Click
Correlation in Oxide, 2D Semiconductors. Understanding
Chemistry, Antimicrobial Hydrogels and Cryogels for Water
Electronic, Magnetic and Piezo Properties of Materials Disinfection, Synthesis and Polymer Functionalization of
Using Various Scanning Probe Technique. Organically Modified Silica.

Nitya Nand Gosvami, Ph.D. (NUS, Singapore)

Assistant Professor
Fundamental Mechanisms of Friction and Wear of Materials, Rajesh Prasad, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge)
Nanotribology of Engineering Materials and Industrial Lubricant Professor
Additives, Nanoscale in Situ Methods in Tribology, Surface
Physical Metallurgy, Heat Treatment, Phase
Science & Engineering, Failure Analysis of Materials, Nanoscale
Aspects of Corrosion of Materials, Development of Novel Transformation, Metal Foams, Granular Materials.
Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques, Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology.

Nirat Ray, Ph.D. (MIT)

Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Ph.D. (JNCASR, Bangalore) Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Joint Faculty Synthesis and Characterization of Nanomaterial Based
Computational Materials Science, Non-adiabatic Charge Designer Solids and Nanocomposites; Electron Beam
Carrier Dynamics, Machine Learning for Accelerated Lithography; Electronic Charge Transport and Optical
Functional Materials Discovery, Optoelectronics in Properties; Semiconductor Nanostructures; Organic and
Emerging Materials, Defects in Semiconductors, Ion- Molecular Organic Semiconductors And Device Applications;
Materials for Non-volatile Memory; Magnetic Nanowires and
Dynamics in Functional Solids, Spintronics.
Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Spintronics; Multiferroics;
Computational Material Science.

Jayant Jain, Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Associate Professor Lakshmi Narayan Ramasubramanian,
Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Alloy Design, Microstructure-
Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Property Relationship, Microstructure Manipulation, Characterization Assistant Professor
of Materials, Phase Transformations, Texture and Anisotropy Mechanical Behaviour of Metals and Alloys, Metallic
of Materials, Thermo-Mechanical Processing, Crystal Plasticity
Glasses Fracture, Fatigue , Indentation and Structural
Simulations. Fatigue In Materials, Nanoscale Creep and Fatigue,
Nanoindentation, Nanomechanics, Fracture and Failure Analysis. Integrity of Materials, Additive Manufacture Materials.

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Sampa Saha, Ph.D. (Michigan State Univ.) A.K. Ghosh, Ph.D. (Suny Buffalo)

M AT E R I A L S S C I E N C E & E N G G .
Associate Professor Emeritus Professor
Biodegradable Polymeric Materials, Polymer Rheology and Processing, Polymer Reaction Engineering,
Brushes, Electro Hydrodynamic Co-jetting, Micro Polymer Blends and Alloys, Mixing and Compounding,
and Nano-Structured Materials, Multi-layered and Computer Aided Modelling, Polymeric Nano-composites,
Multi-compartmental Polymeric Particles. Polymer Film Processing, Cellular and Biopolymers.

Sangeeta Santra, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Rajesh Kr. Sharma, Ph.D. (BHU)
Assistant Professor Visiting Faculty
Solid State Diffusion, Thermodynamic-kinetics Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Microstructure, Superconducting Materials , Crystal Growth and Epitaxy, Defects in Semiconductors
Interfacial Reactions of Multimaterial Systems and Quantum Magneto-transport, High Resolution X-ray
Advanced Functional Materials. Diffraction, Secondary ion Mass Spectrometry.

Bhabani K. Satapathy, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor
Ashok K. Ganguli, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Morphology and Phase Behaviour of Block Copolymers, Professor, Joint Faculty
Polymer Blends and Composites, Micromechanics,
Nanomaterials, Superconductors,
Fracture and Fatigue of Polymer Nano-composites,
Dielectric Oxides and Intermetallics.
Tribology of Polymer Based Materials, Biotribology,
Thermo-mechanical Behaviour of Biomaterials.

Bijay P. Tripathi, Ph.D. (CSMCRI, Bhavnagar)

Assistant Professor
Functional Materials and Membranes with Tailored Properties,
Next-generation Membranes for Water, Energy, and Separation,
Clean Water Generation (Micro, Ultra, and Nanofiltration),
Antifouling and Antibacterial Surfaces and Membranes,
Nanostructured Membranes for Molecular Separation,
Membranes, Separators, and Electrodes for Energy Generation
and Storage, Flow Catalysis for Synthesis and Environmental
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 INTRODUCTION
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) has been established on 1st January 2018
for developing and undertaking research on materials for specific end uses. It holds the privilege of being
the only materials research and engineering department in Delhi-NCR region. The principal thrust of the
department is manpower development and research for enhancing the fundamental knowledge as well as
developing new materials. The department emphasizes interaction with the related industry. The changing
needs of the industry are kept in view while designing and upgrading teaching and research programmes.

Mission
To provide frontier education in Materials Science and Engineering at the postgraduate level to:
• Achieve excellence in education and research to meet the growing needs of the society.
• Expose the students broadly to research intensive curriculum for skill enhancement to suit the global
market.
• Provide an environment conducive to innovation, creativity, implementation of new ideas and team
spirit so as to foster young and fresh talents.
• Promote high standards of professional ethics.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The Department currently has two M.Tech. Programmes, one in Polymer Science and Technology and the
second one in Materials Engineering with a combined intake of ~35 students. A small number of seats under
these programmes are also allocated for M.S.(R) Programme. Admission to these programmes is through the
GATE exam held every year. Also, the first batch of students for B.Tech. in Materials Engineering with an intake
of 40 students started in 2020 for which the admission is through JEE. We also have a Ph.D. Programme with
close to 100 research students currently working on various aspect of Material Science and Engineering.

RESEARCH AREAS
High Performance Materials:
• Metals, Glass and Ceramics: Structure-property correlation in advanced materials, Fracture and
Fatigue, Indentation, nano-scale friction and wear, Material characterization using advanced microscopy,
phase transformations, solid-state diffusion controlled reactions, Synthesis and characterization of
metal matrix composites, Light metals and alloys, 3D printed metals and alloys, Auxetic materials, Bulk
metallic glasses and composites, functionally graded materials, nanomaterials. Advanced ceramics,
high entropy alloys, materials for extreme environments, thermal barrier coatings, alloy processing
and properties, refractory metals and compounds, aluminide bond coats. Optical glass, toughened
and tempered glass, structural and functional ceramics and glass-ceramics.
• Polymers: Synthesis of polymers, structure-property correlation in polymers, rheology and processing
of polymers, functional and smart elastomeric materials, polymer matrix composites, tribology
and mechanical behaviour of polymers, 3D printing of functional elastomeric/polymeric materials,
membranes for various applications, antifouling, and antibiofouling materials and membranes, redox
polymers, materials for energy storage, separation and purification, organic-inorganic hybrid materials,
catalytic materials and nanomaterials for catalysis and environmental applications, 2D materials,
graphene, Covalent organic frameworks, biodegradable materials and biomaterials, organically
modified mesoporous silica nanoparticles, surface engineering using controlled radical polymerization
techniques, recycling of materials, 3D printing.
• Computational Materials Science: First-principles-based materials design, micromagnetic simulations,
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materials science, Optoelectronic Materials, Ion Dynamics, Machine Learning, Spintronics, Low-

M AT E R I A L S S C I E N C E & E N G G .
Dimensional Materials.
• Functional Materials: Semiconductor nanostructures and device applications, magnetic nanowires
and magnetic tunnel junctions for spintronics device applications, MEMS/NEMS devices, solar cell,
organic.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
• Material Chemistry Lab: Freeze Dryer, Specialised Polymerization set- ups , Distillation apparatus
including Vacuum Distillation, Rotary Vacuum Evaporator, Constant Temperature Baths., Deionized &
Distilled Water Apparatus, Hot Air Ovens, Vacuum Ovens, High Precision Balances, High Speed Stirrer,
Glove Box, Spin Coater.

• Material Characterization Laboratory: Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), Thermo-gravimetric

/ Analyser (TGA), Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC), FTIR Spectrometer, Nanoparticle Analyzer,
Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer, UV-Visible Spectrometer, Fluorescence Spectrometer, , Zeta Sizer, High-
performance liquid chromatography, Atomic Force Microscopes, Scanning Electron Microscope with
EDS, Optical microscopes with heating and cooling stage, Optical emission spectroscopy, Dynamic
Contact angle measurement system, Four Probe Electrical Conductivity Apparatus, Vector Network
Analyzer, WVTR, OTR, Fluorescence Microscopes, FE-SEM.

• Material Processing Lab: Single-screw Extruder, Twin-screw extruder, Injection Moulding Machine.,
Compression Moulding Machine, 3D-Printing, Two-roll Mill, Chase Friction Dynamometer, Batch
Foaming unit, Tool Grinding Machine, Scrap Grinding Machine, Pulveriser, Plasma Coater, Autoclave
for Microcellular Foaming, Micro-compounder, Micro-injection Molding Machine, HAAKE Film Blowing
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 • Material Testing Laboratory: Bohlin Capillary Rheometer, Malvern parallel plate Rheometer, Anton
Paar M702 Rotational Rheometer, Zwick-Z250-UTM with video extensometer, Zwick Z-10-UTM, MTS,
Polarized Light Optical Microscopy, Aramis-GOM strain field analyser, Impact Tester, Nanoindentation,
Micro and Nano-Hardness Testers.

• Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Maximum point resolution - 0.4 nm: Maximum
magnification - 12 lacs, Facilitated with EDX.

• Central Facilities for Materials Testing: Scanning Electron Microscope, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Facility, Transmission Electron Microscope, Atomic Force Microscope, Raman Spectrometer, Liquid
Nitrogen Plant, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope, Wide Angle X-ray Diffractometer.

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 S. Dharmaraja, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Professor (Institute Chair Professor)
Applied Probability, Queuing Theory,
Head of the Department
Performance Modeling, Financial Mathematics.

Biplab Basak, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) N. Shravan Kumar, Ph.D. (Madras Univ.)
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Algebraic Topology, Combinatorial Topology
Abstract Harmonic Analysis.
and Discrete Mathematics.

N. Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Univ. of London) V.V.K. Srinivas Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Natural Language Processing,
Computational Partial Differential Equations.
Statistical Modeling, Semantic Web.

Aparajita Dasgupta, Ph.D. (York Subiman Kundu, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech.

University, Toronto, Canada)
Univ.)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Harmonic Analysis, Pseudo-differential
Topology, Measure Theory.
Operators.

Minati De, Ph.D. (ISI Kolkata) Anant Kumar Majee, Ph.D. (TIFR-CAM)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Data Structures & Algorithm, Approximation
Stochastic Conservation Laws, Stochastic
Algorithms, Combinatorial and Computational
Optimal Control in Ferromagnetism.
Geometry.

Debdip Ganguly, Ph.D. (TIFR-CAM) Aparna Mehra, Ph.D. (Delhi Univ.)

Assistant Professor Professor
Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Programming, Fuzzy
Geometric Analysis. Optimization, Financial Mathematics.

Surjeet Kour, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Mani Mehra, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Numerical Method,
Commutative Algebra, Group Theory.
Wavelets Method for PDEs.

Harish Kumar, Ph.D. (ETH Zurich) Vivek Mukundan, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Computational Methods for Partial
Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry.
Differential Equations.

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Anima Nagar, Ph.D. (Gujrat Univ.) Ekata Saha, Ph.D. (The Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Topological Dynamics.
Number Theory.

M AT H E M AT I C S
Sivananthan Sampath, Ph.D. (IIT Madars)
B.S. Panda, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Associate Professor
Professor Applied Harmonic Analysis, Inverse Problems,
Algorithmic Graph Theory, Graph Theory, Learning Theory.
Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Ritumoni Sarma, Ph.D. (TIFR, Bombay)

Associate Professor
Shiv Prakash Patel, Ph.D. (TIFR Mumbai) Algebraic Groups.
Assistant Professor
Representation Theory, Automorphic forms,
Number Theory.

Punit Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati)

Assistant Professor
Numerial Linear Algebra,
Nearness Problems in Control Theory.
Kamana Porwal, Ph.D. (IISc. Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Finite Element Methods for PDEs and
Optimal Control Problems.

R.K. Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor
Algebra, Cryptography.

Amit Priyadarshi, Ph.D. (Rutgers University)

Assistant Professor
Fractal Dimensions, Positive Operators.
Vikas Vikram Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Stochastic Games, Chance Constraints,
Stochastic Optimization.

Ashutosh Rai, Ph.D. (The Institute of

Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
Assistant Professor
Theoretical Computer Science,
Parameterized Complexity, K. Sreenadh, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Graph Algorithms. Professor
Differential Equations and Analysis.

S.C. Sekhara Rao, Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur)

Professor A. Tripathi, Ph.D. (Univ. at SUNY, Buffalo)
Professor
Parallel Computing, Numerical Analysis.
Number Theory, Combinatorics and
Graph Theory.

Biswajyoti Saha, Ph.D. (The Institute of Viswanathan Puthan Veedu, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Approximation Theory, Fractal Functions.
Number Theory.

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 INTRODUCTION
The Department offers courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It runs a five year dual
degree programme (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) in Mathematics and Computing, a four year B.Tech. programme in
Mathematics and Computing, and a two year M.Sc. programme in Mathematics. The Department also has
an active Ph.D. programme.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department offers a five year dual degree programme (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) in Mathematics and Computing
and a four year B.Tech. programme in Mathematics and Computing at undergraduate level. The dual degree
programmes have replaced former five year integrating M.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing programme
from 2013 onward. The aim of these programmes is to build a broad based theoretical background of
Mathematical Sciences and practical training in Computing, Numerical Methods, and Mathematical and
Statistical Modeling. Graduate of these programmes will be ready for a career in research and development
in software industries, financial institutes and for a research-based career.

POSTGRADUATE
The Department offers a two-year post B.Sc. course leading to the degree of Master of Science in Mathematics.
The main feature of this programme is that during the first year it makes the student familiar with basic
theory in all the streams of Mathematics-Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Operations
Research, Computer Science. And in the second year, the student has an option of choosing modern
advanced courses in some specialized area(s).

RESEARCH AREAS
Doctoral research is being carried out in all major areas of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics and
Operation Research and Theoretical Computer Science and its application.
The major research area of the department are: Algebra, Graph Theory, Computations PDEs, Cryptography,
Partial Differential Equations, Financial Mathematics, Natural Language Processing, Number Theory,
Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Parallel Computing, Topological Dynamics, Topology, Wavelets and its
Applications, Harmonic Analysis, Fractals, Inverse Problems, Learning Theory, Stochastic Game Theory.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Department has three well-equipped Computing Laboratories with PCs and supporting software. These
Laboratories are available to students for training and implementation of their computer programmes on
assignments during courses or project work.

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 M.R. Ravi, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Head of the Department

Professor
Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid
Dynamics, Combustion, Biomass
Energy, Rural Energy Systems.

Abhishek Das, Ph.D. (WMG, The University of

Krishnakant Agrawal, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Warwick, U.K.)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Turbulent Reacting Flows, Gas Turbines and IC Electric Vehicle Battery Joining, Joining of Lightweight
Engines, Aero-acoustics, Combustion Dynamics Materials and Structures, Modelling and Simulations of
and Emissions. Various Joining Processes, Non-Traditional Machining,
Process Control, Metrology and Measurement.

S. Aravindan, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Debabrata Dasgupta, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

Assistant Professor
Professor
Microfluidics and Microscale Transport
Ceramics, Composites, Welding,
Processes, Computational Fluid Dynamics,
Nano-Manufacturing.
Multiphase Transport.

Supreet Singh Bahga, Ph.D. (Standord Univ.) Naresh V. Datla, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Electrohydrodynamics,
Fracture and Fatigue, Composites, Biomechanics.
Heat Transfer.

Naresh Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Subhra Datta, Ph.D. (Northwestern Univ.)
Professor Associate Professor
FRP Composite Materials, Processing and Micro-scale Fluid Mechanics,
Manufacturing, Injection Molding, Biomaterails. Lectrokinetics, Microfluidics.

Nomesh B. Bolia, Ph.D. (Univ. of North Carolina)

Professor S.G. Deshmukh, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Professor
Operations Research, Stochastic Modeling, Application
of MDP to Various Control Problems, Application of OR Supply Chain Management,
to Logistics and Economics. Quality Management, Information Systems.

Anoop Chawla, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) J.K. Dutt, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor, (Henry Ford Chair)
Professor
CAD, CAE, Dynamics, Bio-mechanics,
Rotor Dynamics, Vibration and Control.
Road Safety, Impact and Blast Mechanism.

Devendra K. Dubey, Ph.D. (Purdue

Ashish K. Darpe, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) University)
Professor Associate Professor
Machinery Health Monitoring, Rotor Dynamics, Computational Materials Science, Molecular
Vibration and Noise Engineering. Modeling, Nanomechanics, Biomaterials and
Biomechanics, Finite Element Modeling.

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Sudarsan Ghosh, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) D. Ravi Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Professor

MECHANICAL ENGG.
Professor
Grinding of Ceramics and Superalloys, Machining
Metal Forming, Mechanical Metallurgy.
of Titanium Alloys, Surface Engineering.

Anurag Goyal, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech) Mayank Kumar, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of
Assistant Professor Technology USA)
Thermo-fluid Systems, Heat Transfer, Refrigeration and Assistant Professor
Air-conditioning, Waste-heat Recovery, Thermal Energy Multiphysics Simulations of Energy Conversion
Storage, Building Energy Efficiency, Water Purification Systems, Turbulent Multiphase Reacting Flows, Coal
and Desalination. Gasification & Clean Coal Technology.

Amit Gupta, Ph.D. (Univ. of Central Florida) Kusum Meena, Ph.D. (Auckland University of
Technology New Zealand)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Energy Storage, Flapping Wing Additive Manufacturing, Auxetic
Aerodynamics, Microfluidics. Metamaterials, Laser Material Processing.

Harish Hirani, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Kaushik Mukherjee, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Orthopaedic Biomechanics & Implant Design,
Bearings (Hydrodynamic, Rolling Element, and
Developmental Biomechanics, Bone and Joint
Magnetic), Synthesis and Application of Smart
Mechanobiology, Mechanics of Human Movement,
(Magnetorheological Fluids).
Finite Element Analysis.

Sunil Jha, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) S.V. Modak, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor Professor
Advanced Machining and Finshing Vibration Engineering, Experimental Modal
Processses, Micro and Nanofinshing, Analysis, Finite Element Model Updating in
Mechatronics, Robotics. Structural Dynamics, Vibro-acoustics.

Jitendra P. Khatait, Ph.D. (University of Sudipto Mukherjee, Ph.D. (Ohio State Univ.)
Twente)
Professor (Volvo Chair)
Associate Professor
Mechanism, Robotics, Mechanical System
Precision Machine Design, Flexures,
Design, Impact Biomechanics.
Medical Devices, Robotics.

Sangeeta Kohli, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Prithviraj Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. ( IIT

Madras)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics,
Machining of Ceramics, Cutting Tool Development,
Renewable Energy Technology.
Joining, Surface Coating and, Vacuum Tech.

Rama Krishna K., Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Pulak Mohan Pandey, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Kinematics and Mechanisms, Geometric Modeling
Rapid Prototyping, Unconventional Machining,
for CAD and Manufacturing, Mechanics and
Finite Elements, CAD/CAM.
Machine Design.

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 Shaurya Shriyam, Ph.D. (Univ. of Southern
R.K. Pandey, Ph.D. (Banaras Hindu Univ.) California)
Professor Assistant Professor
Bearing Lubrication, Tribological Elements Data-Driven Optimization for Problems in Automation,
Design, Engine Tribology, Lubrication Logistics and Healthcare; Complex Resource
in Metal Forming. Distribution Networks; Multi-agent Planning and
Reinforcement Learning.

Satinder Paul Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

B. Premachandran, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Professor
Professor Dynamics of Rotary Machinery,
Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics. Composite Materials, Machine Design,
Active Vibration Control, Nano-Mechanics.

Varun Ramamohan, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Sujeet Kumar Sinha, Ph.D. (Imperial
College London)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Probabilistic Modeling, Simulation and Optimization,
Nano-tribology, Bio-tribology, Polymer Tribology,
with Applications in Healthcare Systems Engineering.
Materials in Mechanical Design.

P. Venkateswara Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)

P.M.V. Subbarao, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Professor
Machining of difficult to machine materials,
Experimental Turbulence, Tomography, Power
Grinding of Ceramics, Micro/Nano
Generation Systems and I.C. Engines.
Manufacturing, Sustainable Machining.

Prabal Talukdar, Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati)

Anjan Ray, Ph.D. (Michigan State Univ.) Professor
Professor Radiative Heat Transfer, Porous Media,
Combustion, Heat Transfer. Convective Drying, Reheating Furnace, Inverse
Problems, Thermal Protective Fabric.

Bahni Ray, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Bhupinder Godara, M.Tech. (IIT Delhi)
Professor of Practice
Assistant Professor
Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Product
Multiphase Flow, Physics of Fluids,
Design With a Focus on Sustainable,
Micro Fluidics, Computational Fluid
Environment Friendly and Affordable
Dynamics, Stability Analysis, Traffic Flow.
Technologies for India.

Subir K. Saha, Ph.D. (McGill Univ.) Prem Vrat, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Honorary Professor
Professor
Industrial Engg. & Operation Research, Supply
Multibody Dynamics, Robotics,
Chain Management, Total Quality Management,
Design, Mechatronics.
Value Engineering.

Sagar Sarkar, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Kiran Seth, Ph.D. (Columbia Univ.)
Assistant Professor
Honorary Professor
Laser Material Processing, Laser Additive
Padma Shri
Manufacturing, Online Process Monitoring and Control,
Operations Research, Applied Probability Models,
AI and ML in Additive Manufacturing, Fatigue and
Fuzzy Models.
Fracture in Additive Manufacturing.

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A.D. Gupta, M.Tech. (IIT Delhi) P. V. Madhusudhan Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Guest Faculty Joint Faculty

MECHANICAL ENGG.
Industrial Engineering, Operation Research, Product Design & Realization, Computer Aided
Value Engineering, Industrial Quality Control. Design & Manufacturing.

T.K. Kundra, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Priya Vashisth, Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee)
Guest Faculty DST-Inspire Faculty
Mechanical System Design, Concurrent Smart Functional Biomaterials
Engg., Vibration Design, CAD/CAM, Finite (Drug Delivery and Biomedical Implants),
Element Model Updating. Tissue Engineering.

Suresh Anand, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Adjunct Faculty
Operations Research, Manufacturing and
Marketing Operations, Strategic Decision
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 INTRODUCTION
The faculty members of the Department of Mechanical Engineering are engaged in research encompassing
a wide variety of areas. Research of an inter-disciplinary nature is being performed in collaboration with
faculty of other departments, centers, and schools of the institute, and with select faculty from other
institutions in India and abroad. The research is largely supported by sponsored projects and consultancies.
These research areas form a major portion of the topics of doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. The
research and teaching broadly cover topics in design, industrial, production and thermal engineering. A
wide variety of courses in the above areas are offered by the department at all levels.
The research and teaching activities are supported by 16 skilled staff who manage 28 laboratories. The
laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. The department is also host to faculty on sabbatical
from Indian and foreign institutions, DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellows, and postgraduate and undergraduate
students from several institutions/universities in India and abroad. Several faculty members serve as
experts on national and international technical committees.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The Department faculty offer courses at various levels catering to various degree programmes.
The Department offers two undergraduate programs leading to the Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.)
degree with specializations in (i) Mechanical Engineering, and (ii) Production and Industrial Engineering.
The Department offers four postgraduate programmes leading to respective Master of Technology
(M.Tech.) degrees with a specialization in Mechanical Design, Industrial Engineering, Production
Engineering, and Thermal Engineering. Also, a Master of Science (Research) (M.S.(R)) programme is offered
in these specializations. Currently, there are more than 300 Ph.D., 170 M.Tech., and 30 M.S.(R) students in
the department.
The faculty also participate in interdisciplinary Master of Technology programs in Construction Technology
and Management, Computer Applications, Polymer Science and Technology, Industrial Tribology &
Maintenance Engineering, Energy Science and Engineering, and Transportation Engineering. The faculty also
participates in the Master of Design program and activities of the Khosla School of Information Technology.
Several faculty members have also been engaged in improving rural technologies for enhanced livelihood.
Various topics under the main areas of the department are listed below:
• Mechanical Design: Mechanical vibrations, Rotor dynamics, Damped structures, Composite structures,
Smart structures, Active vibration control, Experimental modal analysis and identification, Structural
dynamic modification, Finite element model updating, Dynamic design, Noise engineering, Condition
monitoring, Bearing dynamics, Lubrication, Bio-tribology, Tribological Coatings, Mechanical system
design, Computer-aided mechanical design, Computer-controlled mechanisms, Vehicle dynamics,
Modeling the impact of vehicles, Impact biomechanics, Concurrent engineering design, Mechanisms,
Robotics, Multi-body dynamics, Application of multi-body dynamics in design, Analysis of rural
engineering systems, Mechatronics, Sensors and actuator design, MEMS, Design of micro-systems,
Nano-mechanics, Artificial intelligence applications in mechanical engineering, Expert systems for
design and manufacturing, Mechanical engineering applications to medical science.
• Industrial Engineering: Operations research, Applied probability, Stochastic modeling and
simulation, Project management, Supply chain management, Computer integrated manufacturing
systems, Facilities planning, Value engineering, Flexible systems, ERP, Intelligent manufacturing
systems, e-business, Quality and reliability engineering, Maintenance management, Manufacturing
system design and analysis, Service system design, Production planning and control. OR applications
to healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation, policy, governance, finance.

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• Production Engineering: Metal cutting, Metal forming, Welding, Metal casting, Material
characterization, Nontraditional manufacturing processes, Measurements and metrology, Grinding of
ceramics and metal matrix composites, Processing of polymers and composites, Injection moulding,

MECHANICAL ENGG.
Microcellular injection moulding, Finite element applications in manufacturing, CAD/CAM, Rapid
prototyping, Intelligent manufacturing, Micro and nano-manufacturing, Biomaterials and medical
implants, Nano-composites, Modeling of material behavior, Lean concepts in machine tool design.
Magnetorheological Finishing, CNC Finishing Systems, Smart Manufacturing – IIoT, Augmented Reality,
Digital Twin
• Thermal Engineering: Flame propagation, Flame stability, Heat transfer to/from flames, Combustion,
Fire dynamics and fire safety, Internal combustion engines: alternative fuels, engine modelling and
simulation, HCCI combustion in an engine, Biomass utilization, Experimental and modelling studies
of gasifiers, Biomass stoves, Sustainable energy systems, Energy-efficient equipment and devices,
Waste heat utilization, Renewable energy systems, High-temperature natural convection, Cooling of
electronic components, Micro-channel heat transfer, Transport phenomena in micro- and nano-fluidic
devices, Heat transfer enhancement, Combined conduction-radiation problems, Heat transfer in two-
phase flows, Eco-friendly energy conversion, refrigeration and air-conditioning, Thermal system design
and simulation, Particle-laden flows. Microfluidics, Flapping wing aerodynamics, Energy Storage, Heat
Exchangers, Solar Cooling Technologies, Microscale Heat Transfer.
• Interdisciplinary Research: Transportation research and injury prevention program, Energy, quality
and productivity audit of rural industries, Medical implants, Autonomous robotics, Development of
composite materials, Atmospheric convection, Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG).

Mechanics and Material

Characterization
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The Department has 28 well-equipped laboratories which cater to the needs of research and teaching
activities. The Production Engineering, Welding, Metrology, Machine Tools & CNC laboratories encompass
the different machinery required for manufacturing and inspection. A state-of-the-art Micro-manufacturing
laboratory houses sophisticated machines for micro- and nano-manufacturing. Laboratories that cater
to the activities in the area of mechanical design include Mechatronics, Vibration and Instrumentation,
Vibration Research, Mechanism and Simulation, Bio-tribology, Tribological coatings and Design Research
laboratories. A Computer-Aided Graphics instruction Laboratory (CAGI Lab), equipped with computers, and
drawing and design software packages is used for imparting training in mechanical design. Microfluidics,
Combustion, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning, Internal Combustion Engines, Turbo-machinery and
Heat Transfer Laboratories serve the needs of research and teaching in thermal engineering. Industrial
Engineering Lab houses teaching and research activities in the areas of Operations Research, Health care, OR
and Health Systems, Public Policy and Governance, Transportation, Clean Air and Manufacturing Analytics.

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Matter
Experiment

Computational
Condensed and
Matter Theory Statistical
Physics

DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICS

Physics
of
High Energy Quantum Matter
Physics and
Information
Systems

Optics
Plasma
and
Physics
Photonics
 R. Chatterjee, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)

Head of the Department

Professor
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - novel
Magnetic Multi-functional Materials: Bulk and
Nano/Thin Film forms.

Aditya Narain Agnihotri, Ph.D. (TIFR, Rajendra S. Dhaka, Ph.D. (UGC-DAE CSR, Indore)
Mumbai) Associate Professor
Assistant Professor Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Electronic
Structure, Thin Films, Strongly correlated Systems,
Ion-atom Collision Physics, Ion-irradiation
Surface-Interface Physics, High-Tc Superconductors,
of Biologically Relevant Molecules.
Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy.

Sujin B. Babu, Ph.D. (Univ. du Maine, France) Joyee Ghosh, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.)
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Quantum and Nonlinear Optics,
Aggregation of Colloids, Porous Media,
Quantum Information Technologies,
Low Reynolds Number Swimmers.
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

Varsha Banerjee, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Pradipta Ghosh, Ph.D. (IACS Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Phenomenological Analyses of Physics Beyond
Statistical Mechanics of Complex Spin System,
the Standard Model in the Areas of Neutrino
Surface Growth Phenomena, Fractal Architectures
Physics, Higgs Physics, Leptonic Flavor Violation,
and their Characterization.
Dark Matter and Collider Studies.

Saswata Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (IACS, Kolkata)

Santanu Ghosh, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.)
Associate Professor
Professor
Computational Materials Science, Energy Conservation,
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics,
Catalysis, Graphene, Genetic Algorithm, Machine
Thin Film, Ion Materials Interaction.
learning.

Sujeet Chaudhary, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Sankalpa Ghosh, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.)
Professor
Professor
Bose Einstein Condensate of Cold Atoms,
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics:
Quantum Hall Effect, Graphene,
Thin Films, Magnetism, Spintronics.
Topological Insulator.

Abhishek Muralidhar Iyer, Ph.D. (IISc., Banglore)

Assistant Professor
Amita Das, Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur)
Different Aspects of Particle Physics Phenomenology: Investigation of
Professor Strong Dynamics in the Context of Both QCD and QCD like Theories.
Plasma Physics, Laser Plasma Interaction, Flavour Physics of B and K Mesons and Investigating their Reach in
Particle and Fluid Simulation in Plasma. the Current and Future Experiments (eg. LHCb, BELLE-2, NA62 etc).
New Data-Driven Techniques for Current (eg. LHC) and Future
Colliders (eg. FCC-hh, FCCee etc).

Pintu Das, Ph.D. (Uni. of Saarland, Germany) Bhaskar Kanseri, Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Magnetism at
Quantum Optics, Ultrafast and Non-linear Optics,
Nanometer Scale, Charge Carrier-dynamics (Low-frequency)
Optical Coherence and Interferometry, Polarization
as well as Atomic/Nanometer Scale Electronic Phenomena
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Neeraj Khare, Ph.D. (BHU) Amruta Mishra, Ph.D. (Utkal Univ.)
Professor Professor
Nano-Structure Functional Oxides, Novel Superconductivity in Quark Matter and Ultra-cold
Magnetic Materials, Superconductors, Atoms, In-medium Hadron Properties and Observable
SQUID, Solar Cells. in High Energy Accelerator Experiments.

PHYSICS
Sunil Kumar, Ph.D. (IISc., Banglore) Pranaba Kishor Muduli, Ph.D. (Humboldt Univ.
& PDI, Berlin)
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Altrafast Optics and Spectroscopy,
Spin Torque Induced Magnetization Dynamics,
Plasmonics, Electron Correlated Solids.
Spintronics and Nanomagnetism.

Deepak Kumar, Ph.D. (TIFR, Mumbai)

Assistant Professor
Rohit Narula, Ph.D. (MIT, USA)
Experimental Soft Matter Physics, Current Research Assistant Professor
Interest Includes Interfacial Phenomena in Soft and
Condensed Matter Theory, Raman Spectroscopy.
Highly Deformable Systems as well as the Complex
Dynamics of Driven Granular Matter.

Brajesh Kumar Mani, Ph.D. (PRL, G. Vijay Prakash, Ph.D. (Andhra Univ.)
Ahmedabad)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Nano-photonics, Quantum Functional
Computational Condensed Matter Physics,
Materials, Inorganic-organic Nano-hybrids,
Computational Many-body Physics,
Non-linear Optics.
Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations.

Kaustuv Manna, Ph.D. (IISc., Banglore) Sarthak Parikh, Ph.D. (Princeton University)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Experimental Investigation of Various Topological
Theoretical High Energy Physics and Mathematical
Phase of Matter, Specialization on Single Crystal
Physics (Gauge/Gravity Duality, Conformal Field Theory,
Growth, Magnetization, High Magnetic Field
P-adic Field Theories, Quantum Information Theory).
Electrical and Thermal Transport Measurements.

Hitendra K. Malik, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) V. Ravishankar, Ph.D. (Lehigh Univ.)

Professor
Professor
Plasma Physics: Particle Acceleration, Instabilities,
Semiconductor Physics, Devices and
Fusion, Microwaves-plasma Interaction, Solitons,
Technology, Organic Semiconductors,
Space Plasmas, THz Radiation Generation,
Nano-technology.
Hall Thrusters, Plasma-material Interaction.

Rahul Suresh Marathe, Ph.D. (RRI Banglore) Bodhaditya Santra, Ph.D. (Univ. of
Associate Professor Groningen, Netherland)
Non-euilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Assistant Professor
Biophysics Theory, Modelling, Simulations. Cold Atom Quantum Technology.

Sujit Manna, Ph.D. (IACS, Kolkatta) Vikrant Saxena, Ph.D. ( IPR Gandhinagar)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Computational Plasma Physics, Laser-plasma
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum
Interactions, Nonlinear Waves and Solitons in
Materials, Unconventional Super-conductivity, MBE,
Plasmas, XFEL Irradiation of Rare Gas Clusters,
Spectroscopic Imaging (STM/STS).
Plasma based Particle Acceleration etc.

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 Kaushik Sen, Ph.D. (University of Fribourg, Rajendra Singh, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru
Switzerland) Univ.)
Assistant Professor Professor
Determination of Fundamental Interactions and Semiconductor Materials and Processing,
Dynamics in Quantum Materials using Polarized Wide Band Gap Semiconductor, Semiconductor
Raman Scattering and Synchrotron X-rays. Nano-wires, Semiconductor Wafer Bonding.

Manisha Thakurathi, Ph.D. (IISc., Banglore)

Amartya Sengupta, Ph.D. (Rutgers Univ. Assistant Professor
& NJIT)
Dynamics and Topological Aspects of Quantum
Assistant Professor
Systems, Interaction, Disorder Effects, and Transport
Experimental Ultrafast Optics, THz in Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Systems.
Spectroscopy, Optical Spectroscopy at High
P-T, Mineral Physics.

Folke Tobias Florus Toll, Ph.D. (Hamburg

Univ., Germany)
Tarun Sharma, Ph.D. (Tata Institute of
Assistant Professor
Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Assistant Professor High Energy Physics.
String theory, Quantum Field Theories,
Supersymmetry, Higher Spin Symmetry,
AdS-CFT, Fluid-Gravity Correspondence.

R.K. Varshney, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor
Fibre and Integrated Optics, Nonlinear
A.K. Shukla, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Optics, Fiber Optic Sensors, Fiber Lasers.
Professor
Laser, Semiconductor, Raman Spectroscopy, lon
Implantation, Laser Annealing Superconductors
and Nanoscience. Vivek Venkataraman, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.)
Assistant Professor (Joint Faculty Phy/EE)
Nonlinear & Quantum Optics, Fiber & Integrated
Photonics, Light-Matter Interaction & Atomic Physics,
All-optical Devices & Novel Light Sources, Optical
Signal Processing and Communication.
J.P. Singh, Ph.D. (JNU Delhi)
Professor
Nano-Structure Growth, Nano-science,
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. M.R. Shenoy, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Emeritus Professor
Optoelectronics, Fibre and Integrated Optics,
Optical Fiber Components, Nonlinear Guided
Wave Optics.
Suprit Singh, Ph.D. (IUCAA Pune)
Assistant Professor
Matter-gravity Interaction in Cosmology, Black Holes,
Analogue Spacetimes and Quantum Gravity, and the
Emergence of Classicality. Once Classical, we are G.B. Reddy, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
involved in Observational Cosmology Including Emeritus Professor
Astrophysical Magnetic Fields on Galactic and Thin Film Technology, Smart Windows,
Extragalactic Scales. Nano-structured Films.

Aloka Sinha, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) B.R. Mehta, Ph.D. (IITD)(Schlumberger Chair)
Professor Adjunct Professor
Nonlinear Optics, Liquid Crystals, Thin Film and Nanostructured Materials, Inorganic-
Optical Information Processing, Biometrics. organic Hybrid Interfaces, Resistive Memory,
Thermoelectric, Photo Electro Chemical and Solar
Cell Devices.

Pankaj Srivastava, Ph.D. (Rajasthan Univ.) Yoshiro Azuma, Ph.D. (Univ. of Oregon, USA)
Professor
Visiting Professor (Japan)
Experimental Solid State Physics,
Atomic and Molecular Physics, Particularly Many-
Electronic Structure of Materials,
electron Effects Probed by Synchrotron Radiation.
Surface-interface Physics.

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INTRODUCTION
The Department is engaged in advanced research in several areas of physics and offers a variety of
courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Department offers a B.Tech. programme in
Engineering Physics, M.Sc. programme in Physics, and M.Tech. programmes in (i) Solid State Materials, (ii)
Applied Optics, and (iii) Opto-electronics and Optical Communications (an interdisciplinary programme,

PHYSICS
jointly with the Electrical Engineering Department).
The Department has well-equipped teaching laboratories and an excellent research infrastructure. The
research is broadly focused on topical areas like Condensed Matter Physics, Optics and Photonics, Plasma
Physics, and Theoretical & Computational Physics. State-of-the-art research on contemporary topics like
Nanoscience and Nano-technology, Energy Materials and Devices, Magnetism, Spintronics, Optical Fibers
Sensors & Devices, Photonic Crystals, Optical Memory, Microwave and Laser-plasma Interaction, Quantum
Optics Optical Imaging etc. is being carried out.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department offers a variety of courses to all undergraduate students at IIT Delhi under the catagories
of Basic 'Science course' and 'Elective Course' requirements. The Department also offers a set of specific
'Core Courses' for the undergraduate programme 'Engineering Physics'. These courses are also available
to undergraduate students of other engineering disciplines as Open Electives. Department offers
programme linked courses to UG students of some other branches. Department also offers two minor
area to UG Programmes.

B.Tech. in Engineering Physics

The programme in Engineering Physics stresses the basic physics that underlies most developments in
engineering, and the mathematical tools that are important to all engineers and scientists. This emphasis,
combined with hands-on-experience of working with modern computers, electronics, lasers and other
equipments, culminates in an excellent preparation for a broad range of careers. There is also provision
for students to opt for one of that two departmental specializations : 1) Nano-Science & Technology 2)
Photonics Technology 3) Quantum Technologies.

POSTGRADUATE

M.Sc. in Physics
The M.Sc. (Physics) programme is designed to impart masters-level education in Physics through various
lecture courses and laboratory classes. The department also offers three specializations in the broad areas
of Optics & Photonics, Material Science and Theoretical Physics.

M.Tech. in Solid State Materials

The Solid State Materials programme encompasses science and technology of materials, their synthesis,
characterization and applications in devices. The programme prepares graduates to take-up challenges
in research and development in Solid State Technology, Nanoscience and Technology, Materials Science
and Engineering, and Semiconductor Technology and Processing.

M.Tech. in Applied Optics

The Applied Optics programme, which has been running in IIT Delhi since 1966 is primarily designed
to emphasise the “Applied” nature of modern and classical optics. The programme is suited to the
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 Interdisciplinary M.Tech. in Optoelectronics and Optical Communication
This Interdisciplinary programme is offered Jointly by Physics and Electrical Engineering Department.
This programme trains students in the areas of Fiber & Integrated Optics, and Optical Communication and
Networks, which are useful to various industries.

RESEARCH AREAS
Doctoral and Post-doctoral research is being carried out in:
• Condensed Matter Experiments: The research activity of condensed matter experimental (CME)
group at the Physics department covers a wide range of topics such as (i) nanostructured materials,
thin films and devices, (ii) novel magnetic multifunctional and topological materials, (iii) spintronics
and magnetism, and (iv) wide band gap semiconductors such as GaN and Ga2O3, AlGaN/GaN
heterostructures, 2D quantum materials like grapheme, transition metal dichalchogenides and thin-
films of half Heusler alloys Growth and nanoscale devices based on semiconductor nanowires, and (v)
optical properties of condensed matter e.g., ultrafast dynamics of condensed matter with femtosecond
laser. CME group houses several specialized laboratories as well as several departmental facilities.
The CME group has close links with Central Research facilities (CRF) and Nanoscale Research Facility
(NRF) of the Institute. NRF houses Class 100 and 1000 clean rooms as well as several characterization
facilities. At present, the department has an X-Ray diffractometer, an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy,
a SQUID magnetometer, a physical property measurement system (PPMS), ultrafast-optics laboratory
(also housing a Raman spectrometer and a photoluminescence set-up), a pulsed laser deposition
(PLD) system and an atomic force microscope as departmental facilities. Individual research labs also
have several state-of-the-art facilities, the details of which can be found by visiting the corresponding
laboratory web pages.

• Condensed Matter Theory: The CMT group has an interdisciplinary focus with broad research interest
spanning form first principles based simulation of designing new materials and understanding
their properties using “state-of-the-art density functional theory (DFT) and beyond methods” to
the theoretical modelling transport and other properties of various condensed matter systems. We
also theoretically model transport in quantum Hall systems, graphene, and topological insulators.
Quantum simulation of exotic condensed matter phases with Ultra-cold atoms is another area of
expertise. Our research also aims to theoretically discover and characterize different topological
phases consisting of fractional fermions and Majorana fermions with features uniquely advantageous
for topological quantum computing. Using DFT we probe the fundamental physics and related
technological applications for atomic and many-atomic complex systems. Some properties of our
interest include electronic and band structure, electric and magnetic properties, phonons, magnons
and electromagnons in complex (anti)ferroic oxides bulk and nanostructures. We also use ab initio
calculation to explore the viability and rational design of real-world functionalized CNT metastable
photoswitches and Single-Photon Emitters (SPEs). We also theoretically model transport in quantum
Hall systems, graphene, and topological insulators. Quantum simulation of exotic condensed matter
phases with ultra-cold atoms is another area of expertise. Our research also aims to theoretically
discover and characterize different topological phases consisting of fractional fermions and Majorana
fermions with features uniquely advantageous for topological quantum computing.

• Statistical and Computational Physics: Statistical Physics is devoted to understanding macroscopic

assemblies of identical particles. Such systems appear over a wide range of length scales in many
different fields. We study diverse systems of contemporary interest, ranging from classical solids,
exotic liquids, soft materials, mesoscopic systems and active matter to name a few. Broadly, our
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liquid crystals, ferronematics and patchy colloids; (iii) miniature heat engines, and particle and heat
transport in mesoscopic systems; (iv) motility of micro-organisms on surfaces and Micro-swimmers in
Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids; (v) pattern formation in granular materials; and (vi) mechanics
of extremely flexible structures such as thin films. We use a variety of analytical techniques from
equilibrium and Non-equilibrium statistical physics, computational techniques such as Monte Carlo,

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parallel tempering, molecular dynamics and graph cuts along with experiments involving State-of-art
imaging techniques and sensitive mechanical characterization.

• High Energy Physics: High energy physics encompasses both the very small and the very large distance
scales — of elementary particles (femtometer scale) and of the observed universe (cosmology)!
It is well described by the standard model, which brings together three fundamental Interactions —
electromagnetic, weak and strong.

Collider physics is a tool which combines both perturbative and non perturbative aspects of these
interactions. We study particle production in collider interactions in an attempt to understand both. In
particular, strong interaction, described by quantum chromodynamics, is per se notoriously difficult.
We employ effective field theoretical techniques to understand its non perturbative aspects — to
study low energy properties of hadrons and quark gluon plasma. We also use them to study particle
production in gravitational fields, and also some aspects of quantum gravity.

Standard model, though stupendously successful, is still incomplete which makes HEP even more
exciting. There are several theoretical problems; even more, there are experimental hints for rich
physics beyond the standard model. We study this in the context of topics such as neutrino physics
and dark matter.
• Optics and Photonics: Historically the Physics Department at IIT Delhi has a strong background in
broad areas of Optics and Photonics. IIT Delhi started the first Optics Master’s programme in the
country in 1960’s. At present the Physics Department has approximately 15 faculty members engaged
in Optics and Photonics related research. Current research activities span a wide ranging topics that
include areas of fundamental importance (e.g. Physical Optics, Statistical Optics, Singular optics
and inhomogeneous polarization states, quantum photonics, non-linear optics, nano-photonics/
metamaterials, light propagation in random media) as well as cutting edge applied research areas
(e.g. integrated optics and optical communication, holography, microscopy/nanoscopy, optical
metrology, computational imaging, green photonics, illumination engineering, Bio-photonics
including applications to medical diagnostics, THz optics, ultrafast optics, spectroscopy, optical
tweezers, beam engineering, atmospheric optics and development of optical sensors). Optics and
Photonics faculty have number of collaborations across different disciplines within IIT Delhi (electrical
engg, biosciences/biomedical engg, material science, chemistry), as well as outside IIT Delhi with
DRDO, ISRO and other national research facilities like CSIR labs, as well as medical schools/hospitals
(e.g. AIIMS), and industry. The department hosts a DST-FIST facility on ultrafast optics that has State-
of-the-art instrumentation enabling collaborative work with various disciplines.
• Physics of Quantum Materials & Information Systems: The 3 focussed attempts in Quantum
Computation (QC) are- (i) Majorana-based Topological Quantum Computation (TQC) (ii)
Superconducting qubits based QC and (iii) Trapped ion based QC. Importance of the field is evident
from the fact that Google and IBM have invested heavily in superconducting qubits while Microsoft
has invested in Majorana qubits.
The focus of our Department are towards (i) Cold Atom-based quantum technologies, (ii) Quantum
Photonics and (iii) General Quantum Materials like Topological Insulators, quantum well based
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 In cold atom based technologies, the atoms are cooled to million times colder than room temperature
using precisely frequency tuned lasers. The inherent quantum nature of atoms and photons allows
one to design versatile quantum systems and fully control their properties by simple and clever
approaches. These technological and conceptual developments will lead us to build large scale
quantum information processing network, quantum computation protocols for solving industry and
society relevant problems.
A group of researchers, in the department are studying Topological Semi-metals, a quantum phase
of matter that host Dirac and Weyl fermions. They study the transport properties of these exotic
materials under very low temperature, high magnetic field and high pressures and realise the exotic
quantum features in the laboratory scale.

• Plasma Physics: Plasmas are known to be the fourth state of matter. These contain large number of
positive ions and electrons in almost equal number along with some neutral particles. Negative ions
can also occur in plasmas and also there can be dust particles, referring to them as Multi-component
/ dusty plasmas where the charge neutrality holds good. However, the dynamics of plasma greatly
alters due to the presence of such additional charges. Each plasma species can contribute to different
application of plasma. For example, electrons are responsible for high frequency phenomena
including EM radiation generation, whereas the ions contribute to the synthesis of materials, surface
hardening, sputtering, deice fabrication etc.
Plasma group primarily working in the broad research areas of intense laser-plasma interaction,
Plasma-material interaction, plasma propulsion, plasma based radiation sources, and dusty plasmas.
We employ theoretical approach including nonlinear physics as well as numerical methods, namely,
hydrodynamics, molecular dynamics and Particle-in-cell (PIC) techniques to investigate some of the
above areas and also perform experiments.

• Atomic and Molecular Physics: Our area of interest is ion-atom/molecule/cluster/ices collisions.

Heavy ion impact Ionization and fragmentation of the molecules of biological and astrophysical
interest are studied. Our area of expertise include secondary electron spectroscopy, Recoil-ion-
momentum spectroscopy and Infrared spectroscopy. We are also interested in development of
equipments which are useful in atomic physics experiments and our aim is to collaborate with the
industry to make them commercially available.

• Astrophysics: Research in the Astrophysics group at the Physics Department, IIT Delhi revolves
around open questions such as:
a) What is the small scale structure of space time?
b) How do the matter and gravity interact in the quantum picture?
c) What leads to the emergence of “classical” reality?
d) What are the quantum effects in gravity and how to test them?

In tandem with this, we also make contact with observations in Astronomy and Astrophysics, especially
employing Optical and Radio data. In an ongoing effort in this direction, we are involved in mapping
the magnetic field of our galaxy, the Milky way, through pulsar observations.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Department has Well-equipped laboratories for both teaching and research programmes. Some of
the major research laboratories are: Solid State Physics Laboratory, Thin Film Laboratory, Magnetics
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Laboratory, Fibre and Integrated Optics Laboratory, Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory, Optical Image
Processing Laboratory, Quantum Electronics Laboratory. A large number of facilities are available in
these and other laboratories and these include: Electron Microscopes (HRTEM, FESEM, TEM, SEM), Atomic
Force Microscope (AFM), Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), MOKE Microscope, Scanning Auger
Microprobe (SAM), Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA). Photovolatic, Thermoelectric
and Photo electro chemical Characterization facility, Powder and Thin Film X-ray Diffractometers, XRR,
FTIR Spectrophotometer, Laser Raman Spectroscopy System, SQUID Magnetometer, Dielectric and
Ferroelectric Set-up, Arc-melting, Auto Lab General Purpose Eletrochemical System, Optical Multichannel
Analyser, Closed-cycle Helium Cryotip System, High Power Argon-ion/Neodymium/YAG/Excimer/Dye/Ti:
Sapphire Lasers, Optical Photon-correlator, Plasma Diagnostics System, PPMS Facility, Microwave Processing
of Materials in a single (E- or H- field) or multiple mode. Ultrahigh Vacuum Units, Vacuum Coating Units, DC
and RF Sputtering Units, Concave Reflection Grating, Spatial Light Modulators, Optical Transfer Function
Bench, Holographic Recording Set-up, Coherent Filtering Set-up, Facility for Optical Phase Conjugation
with Photorefractives, Facility for Fabrication of Tunnel Diodes, Solar Cells, Thin Film Devices and Integrated
Circuits, Optical Fibre Splicing and Characterisation Set-up, In-line Optical Fibre Components Fabrication
and Testing, Fabrication and Characterization of Planar Optical Waveguides, Erbium doped fibre amplifiers,
Optical Spectrum Analyser, Wavelength Meters, High resolution Microscope, DWDM wave length tuned
Laser Diode light sources, Long Period Fiber Grating fabrication, variety of optical fibre sensors, and Facility
for making High Temperature Superconductors, Plasma and Photo CVD Units, DLTS, PL Facility, Optical CD
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 A new Ultra Fast Optics (UFO) facility has been developed in the Department via a DST-FIST Project. This
UFO facility is a unique facility that caters to diverse fields of Inter-disciplinary research, wherever the
research activity demands high power and ultrafast light. This facility, serves a wide variety of research
activities aiming at the studies of spatial and temporal dynamics of light-matter interaction or Stand-
alone experiments. Potential beneficiary disciplines of the faculty are expected in the field of Optics,
Nano-photonics, Material Science & Nano-science and Technology, Plasma Physics, Optoelectronics,
Biology, Biotechnology, Medicine, Chemistry and Private Industries. The facility is expected to be useful
to the research of other departments/Centers/Schools of IIT Delhi namely, Chemistry, Biochemical and
Biotechnology, Biomedical, Electrical, Textile, CARE, IDDC, Materials Science and Engineering, and School
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 DEPARTMENT OF
TEXTILE AND FIBRE ENGINEERING
 R.S. Rengasamy, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Garment Technology, Mechanics of Yarns
and Machines, Clothing and Comfort, Oil Spill
Head of the Department
Removal using Fibrous Materials, Nonwovens,
Extreme Cold Climate Clothing.

Ashwini K. Agrawal, Ph.D. (Univ of Rochester) Apurba Das, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor Professor
Fibre Science & Technology, Polymers, Smart Textile Clothing Comfort, Nonwoven & Technical Textiles,
Materials, Nano materials, Plasma Processing, Compression Bandage, Protective Clothing, Yarn
Composite Fibres. Manufacturing, Instrumentation.

R. Alagirusamy, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech.) Dipayan Das, Ph.D. (Tech. Univ. of Liberec)
Professor Professor
Textile Performs for Composite Applications, Nonwoven Products & Processes: Fibrous Air Filters,
Natural Fibre Composites, Short Staple Spinning, Fiber-reinforced Composites, Theory of Textile
Structure Property Relationship of Yarns, Textile Structures, Fiber-to Yarn Engineering, Statistical
Reinforced Concrete. Analysis and Optimization.

S. Wazed Ali, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Associate Professor
Sourabh Ghosh, Ph.D. (Basel Univ., Switzerland)
Functional Finishing of Textiles (Broadly, Textile Professor
Chemistry - Dyeing & Finishing), Nanotechnology in
Tissue Engineering,
Functional Materials (Polymers & Textiles), Eco-friendly
Medical Textile, 3D Bioprinting.
/ Green Chemical Processing of Textiles, Electro-
active/ Piezoelectric Polymers and Textiles.

B.K. Behera, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Bhuvanesh Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Professor
Biomaterials, Biotextiles, Tissue Engineering,
Fabric Manufacturing, 3D Weaving and Textile
Wound Care Systems, Intelligent Polymers
Structural Composites, Textile Reinforced Concrete,
& Fibres, Plasma Processing, Nano-biotechnology
Mechanics of Textile structure, Project Management.
and Nanomaterials.

Vijaykumar Narayandas Baheti, Ph.D. (TU

Liberec, Czech Republic)
Assistant Professor Deepti Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Advanced Materials Utilizing Fibrous Industrial Wastes; Professor
Ball Milling of Fibrous Materials in Dry and Wet Condition; Eco Friendly Finishing of Textiles, Garment Sizing,
Activated Carbon Fabric Structures; EMI Shielding and Functional Clothing, Product Development.
Joule Heating Fabrics; Textile Reinforced Composites and
Concrete Structures; Recycling of Textile Wastes.

B.S. Butola, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Manjeet Jassal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Professor
Speciality & Innovative Polymeric Materials
Shear Thickening Fluids and Ballistic Textiles,
for Textile Applications, Smart Textiles,
Textile Finishing With Metal Oxides and Bio
Nanomaterials and Nanomaterials reinforced
Materials, Polymeric Nano Composites.
composites, Electrospinning.

R. Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Mangala Joshi, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor
Professor
Nanotechnology Applications in Textiles, Polymer
Yarn Manufacturing Processes,
Nanocomposite Fibres, Nanofibres and Nanocoatings,
Quality Assurance, Ropes and Cordages,
Bioactive and Functional Textiles, Material Development
Product Development.
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 Sumit Sinha Ray, Ph.D. (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
Abhijit Majumdar, Ph.D. (Jadavpur Univ.)

TEXTILE & FIBRE ENGG.

Assistant Professor
Professor
Air/Water Filtration,Porous Materials for Energy
Soft Body Armour, Ultra-violate Radiation Protection, Applications, Experimental and Theoretical Thermal-
Soft Computing, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Fluid Sciences at the Micro/Nanoscale, Characteristics
Sustainable Supply Chain Management. and New Methodologies of Nonwoven Micro/Nanofiber,
Biomaterials, Drug Delivery.

Javed Nabibaksha Sheikh,

Bipin Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Ph.D. (I.C.T. Mumbai), FSDC
Assistant Professor Associate Professor
Fabric Engineering, Knitting, E-textiles, Personal Sustainable Textile Chemical Processing,
Protective Equipments, Medical Textiles. Functional Modification of Fibrous Polymers,
Recycling of Polymeric Waste, Natural Dyeing.

Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor Rajiv K. Srivastava, Ph.D. (KTH, Sweden)
Fiber Reinforced Composites, Green Technologies Professor
using 2D Materials like Grapheme and Mxene, Porous and Fibrous Matrices, Reactive Electro-
Single Polymer Composites, Green and Sustainable spinning and Prototyping, Green Polymerization
Technologies, Technology Intervention in Handlooms, Methods, Biodegradable Polymers.
Color Science.

Bhanu Nandan, Ph.D. (Kanpur Univ.) Harun Venkatesan, Ph.D. (The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R)
Professor
Assistant Professor
Fibrous Materials for Energy Storage and
Textiles for Sustainability, Ultralight and Porous
Catalysis, Electro-spinning, Polymer Physics,
Materials for Thermal Regulation, Silk Science,
Nanomaterials via self-assembly.
Biomimetics.

Amit Rawal, Ph.D. (Univ. Bolton) S.M. Ishtiaque, Ph.D. (Tech. Univ. of Liberec)
Professor Emeritus Professor
Nonwovens, Modelling of Fibrous New Spinning Technologies, Yarn Structure,
Assemblies, Technical Textiles. Machine Design, Textile Management.

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 INTRODUCTION
The Department offers a B.Tech. Programme in Textile Technology and three M.Tech. programmes in
Textile Engineering, Fibre Science and Technology and Textile Chemical Processing, besides offering the
Doctoral programme.
The departmental activities are focused on niche and futuristic area, such as technical & smart textiles,
nanotechnology applications, biotextiles, engineering of functional apparel, etc. The department has
tie-ups with several universities in India and abroad.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The B.Tech. programme in Textile Technology covers development and characterization of the polymeric
raw materials and methods of conversion of the same into textile materials followed by further value
addition and appropriate engineering into niche products. Issues related to the management of the
production facilities and marketing the products are also covered adequately.

POSTGRADUATE
The M.Tech. programme, in Textile Engineering focuses on training for mechanical processing of textile
fibres into various textile products. The M.Tech. programme in Fibre Science and Technology trains
students for the manmade fibre industry as well as in the chemical processing of textile materials. M.Tech.
programme on Textile Chemical Processing focuses on advanced science and technology used in wet
processing and trains students for the Textile Chemical Processing industry.
All M.Tech. programmes train students for both research and academic careers.

RESEARCH AREAS
Current areas of doctoral and post-doctoral research include study of structure and properties of fibres
and fibrous materials, analysis and design of yarn and fabric formation systems, mechanics of production
processes, comfort properties of textiles, optimization and mechanism of dyeing and preparatory processes,
eco friendly processing, micro encapsulation, antimicrobial finishes, nanotechnology applications,
plasma treatment, design of technical textiles, smart and innovative textiles, electroconductive textiles,
medical textiles and tissue engineering, polymer composites and apparel engineering. The activities are
supported by several funded projects.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Department has several state of art laboratories which are briefly described below:
• Fibre Science and Fibre Production Laboratory: This Laboratory houses facilities starting from
fibre Production to fibre Characterization. It hosts a complete range of characterization equipment
such as DSC, TGA and TMA, Brookfield Rheometer, FTIR, Wide angle X-ray diffractometer, sonic
modulus analyzer, etc. It also houses facilities for polymerization from small to pilot scale. Recently
bicomponent fibre production facility has also been installed.

• Yarn Manufacturing Laboratory: This Laboratory houses a wide range of machines for producing
yarns with different technologies at research as well as production scale. Staple fiber yarns can be
produced by using ring, and friction spinning technologies. Miniaturized spinning machines are also
available for Small-scale preparation of yarn samples.

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Savio lab model Orion winding machine and sectional warping machine with all controls. In weaving
Section- projectile, rapier, water jet and airjet looms as also a sample loom along with single end
sizing and warping machine are installed. Apart from these, the lab is equipped with needle loom
for tape and label, Staubly electronic dobby and Bonas electronic jacquard. Weaving section is also
equipped with a CAD station system for both woven and printed design. Knitting section includes flat
knitting and circular machines. Nonwovens Research laboratory is part of this lab. Industrial sewing
machines constitute the garment technology facility.

• Textile Chemical Processing Laboratory: Housed in this laboratory are lab scale versatile equipment
for chemical processing of textile fabrics, yarns and fibres. In addition, the laboratory contains
relevant analytical/testing equipment for assessing performance of treatment imparted to textiles
including computer colour matching system, spectrophotometers, fastness tester, Flame retardancy
tester and a full-fledged antimicrobial testing facility. Textile chemistry laboratories are equipped
with a wide range of dyeing, printing and finishing machines including IR dyeing machines, HT-HP
dyeing machine, lab scale jigger and padding mangles. New additions include magnetic levitation
based yarn dyeing system, Plasma machine for surface functionalization, Weather-o-meter, Cone
calorimeter, Limiting oxygen index tester, Vertical flammability tester, Electro-chemical work station,
Freeze dryer and Rota evaporator, BOD, Padding mangle, Drying & curing chamber, High temperature
steamer, etc.
• Textile Testing Laboratory: Physical Testing Laboratory of the department is a state of the art lab for
testing textile fibers, yarns and fabric.

»» Fiber Testing: Physical properties of fibers like length, strength, fineness and maturity etc. can
be accessed with various basic instruments such as bear sorter, fiber fineness tester, HVI for
measuring basic properties like fiber length, maturity, fineness and strength.

»» Yarn Testing: Physical Properties of yarns are important for its further use in fabric production.
Various physical properties of yarns affect the fabric quality. Several instruments are available
for yarns testing including Yarn Evenness Tester, Auto Twist Tester, Instron Tensile tester, CSP
measuring machine, Yarn Hairiness Tester, Yarn to yarn and yarn to metal Friction meter etc.
»» Fabric Testing: Physical and thermal properties of fabric are of practical importance in many
advanced engineering applications. Most common physical and thermal properties are thickness,
areal density, tensile strength, tear strength, flexural rigidity, drapability, crease recovery, Pilling
and abrasion, bursting strength, air permeability, water vapor permeability, moisture management
behavior, fabric hand value, thermal conductivity, thermal resistance, thermal insulation behavior
and Hydrostatic head testing . Several instruments are available for the above fabric testing such
as Instron tensile strength Tester, Kawabata tester (tensile, compression, shear and bending
module), water wicking tester, WVTR, Bursting strength tester, Moisture management Tester.
• SMITA Research Laboratory: SMITA Research Lab has emerged as a prime centre of research in
the field of Smart Materials and Innovative Textile Applications. Centre has been instrumental in
developing novel technologies with key focus on areas like nanomaterial based specialty finishes
and coatings, advanced composite fibres and films, nanofibres, responsive materials, atmospheric
pressure plasma processing and wearable electronics. SMITA Research Lab owns the world class and
most modern state of the art facilities under one roof for ultra-precision analysis and development
of the next generation technologies. Some of the important facilities are High Resolution TEM 200
KV with EDS and EELS, FESEM with Oxford EDS system, FESEM with peltier stage, 400 MHz Solid and
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 Tester, Capillary flow porometer, Rotational Rheometer, Melt Capillary Rheometer, Pressure Drop
Analyser with Particle Counter, Electrical property measurement system, GCMS, FTIR-ATR, Differential
viscometer and RI detector, DSC, TGA, AFM etc. Centre has a fully equipped chemical lab and houses top
notch sample preparation and pilot facilities like Padding, drying and curing units, Plasma processing
unit, Bicomponent fiber melt spinning unit, Pilot Reactors, Microbial testing lab, Continuous melt
coating unit, Electrospinning systems, Twin Screw Extruder, high temperature muffle furnace, IR
dyeing and laundrometer machine, hydrothermal reactors, spin coater, environmental chamber, etc.
• Aerostat and Airship Material - Processing and Characterization Lab: A state of the art laboratory
has been set up under Smart and Intelligent Textiles (SITEX) vertical of Joint Advanced Technology
Centre (JATC) sponsored by ‘Defence Research and Development Organisation’, Govt. of India for
developments related to Aerostat and Airship Hull. The focus of this lab is to develop advanced
coated and laminated textiles using specialty fabrics, polymeric resin and films and adhesives to get
light weight, strong, weather resistant material with excellent gas barrier properties. Major processing
facilities are– Single Screw Extruder with Extrusion cast Line, Twin Screw Extruder with Mini Injection
Moulding machine, Hot Melt Coating and Laminating Machine and Solution coating machine. The
testing and characterisation include– Thermal system (DSC/TGA/DMA), FTIR, Weatherometer, UTM,
Gas Permeability Tester and Flex Durability Tester.
• Extreme Cold Weather Clothing Laboratory (ECWCL): Major facilities of this laboratory include a
large climatic Chamber & 34-Zone Newton Thermal manikin with motorized walking motion stand as
a part of SITEX (Smart and Intelligent Textiles) funded by DRDO (Defense Research and Development
Organization), Government of India under JATC (Joint Advanced Technology Centre) initiative. The
emphasis of this laboratory is to do focused research in developing Light-weight extreme cold climate
Multi-layer clothing system for Indian soldiers deployed at Siachen Glacier, the highest battle field on
the Earth. The other facilities pertaining to ECWCL are: In-house developed fabric thermal insulation
tester placed inside a climatic chamber, and Water-vapor transport testers.
• JATC Soft Body Armour Materials Laboratory: The objective of this research lab is to develop soft
body armour materials using high performance fibres like Kevlar, Dyneema, Spectra, Zylon etc. 2D and
3D fabric structures are woven by varying various structural parameters on single rigid rapier loom.
Often these fabrics are treated with silica based Shear Thickening Fluid (STF) and nano additives.
Finally, fabrics and soft armour panels are evaluated for impact resistance using drop tower and
ballistic resistance using 9 mm lead core bullet.
The facility houses Sample loom for 3D weaving, Compression moulding machine, Super mass collider,
Padding mangle, High energy drop tower, Rheometer and UV transmittance analyser.
• Focus Incubation Centre for 3D Weaving and Structural Composites: This centre was established
with the financial support from Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India. The objective of this centre is
to develop variety of innovative 3D woven structures such as 3D solid structures, spacer fabrics,
honeycombs, profiled fabrics, tubular structures, aerodynamic structures, stiffeners and 3D auxetic
structures primarily suitable for structural composite preforms. The centre also converts these complex
3D fabrics into their respective composite materials. Apart from development of various 3D fabrics
and structural composites, the center is equipped with the facilities to characterize these materials.
The characterization includes mechanical performance, structural analysis, damage analysis and
surface morphology investigation of preforms as well as composites. As of now, the department has
already acquired some major facilities such as 3D weaving machine using multi beam looms as well
as creel fed loom, 4-axis Filament winding machine, Compression moulding machine, VRTM system,
UTM with flexural, compression, shear test modules, Impact testing both by drop weight and Izod
system, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Fabric thermal tester, and many other ancillary equipment
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• Regenerative Engineering Laboratory: This laboratory houses experimental facilities to conduct
research at the interface between fundamental and applied research, by combining the principles
of Textile Technology (Medical Textiles) and Tissue Engineering to (a) develop novel engineering
solutions for complex clinical diseases; (b) gain better qualitative and quantitative understanding of
the tissue micro-environmental conditions fundamental for tissue development and pathogenesis; (c)
develop patient-specific constructs by 3D Bioprinting.

• Computer and Microprocessor Laboratory: Facilities in these labs are used by students for course
work, internet search, preparing reports, analyzing test data and preparing presentations. The
microprocessor section of this lab is used to teach control and monitoring systems.

• Resource Centre and Library: The resource centre is a repository of resources essential for
investigators to further their research, for a student to continuously upgrade his knowledge database
and for a teacher to keep abreast with the state of art in today’s world of textiles. The resource centre
has a wide compilation of books, reports, theses (Ph.D., M.Tech. and B.Tech.) and journals. It also has
a rich collection of samples of technical textiles for various applications.

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APPLIED RESEARCH IN ELECTRONICS
 Arun Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Digital Signal Processing, Speech, Audio and
Head of the Centre
Underwater Acoustics, Multi-sensor Data Fusion.

Mahesh P. Abegaonkar, Ph.D. (Pune Univ.) Ankur Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Microwave Engineering, Antennas, Metasurfaces, MOS and III-V Device Design, RF CMOS
Periodic Structures. Circuit Design, Wireless Power Transfer.

Monika Aggarwal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Rahul Mishra, Ph.D. (NUS, Singapore)
Professor Assistant Professor
Signal Processing, Communication, Sensor Nanoelectronics, Spintronics,
Array Processing and Underwater Acoustics. Neuromorphic Devices.

Pushparaj Singh, Ph.D. (NTU, Singapore)

Prabhu Babu, Ph.D. (UU, Sweden) Associate Professor
Associate Professor Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Sensors
Signal Processing and Communications, and Micro-systems, Nano Devices, Through-silicon
Machine Learning and Optimization. via Interconnects and Packaging, MEMS/NEMS for
Biomedical Applications.

Ananjan Basu, Ph.D. (Univ. of California) R. Bahl, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor Emeritus Professor
Microwave and Millimeter-wave Engineering, Sensor Signal Processing, DSP System Design,
Antennas, Microwave Imaging. Underwater Acoustics, Bio-Acoustics.

Samaresh Das, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) S.K. Koul, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor Emeritus Professor
Quantum Electronics, Optoelectronics, Microwave and Millimeter Wave Engineering,
THz and Nano Electonics. Antennas and RF MEMS.

Kirti Dhwaj, Ph.D. (University of California, Ulrich L. Rohde, Ph.D. (Clayton Univ., USA)
Los Angeles, USA) Honorary Professor
Assistant Professor Microwave circuits, (Amplifiers, Oscillators and
Filter/Antenna Systems. Mixers ) as well as Frequency Synthesizers.

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APPLIED RESEARCH IN ELECTRONICS

The Centre for Applied Research in Electronics focuses on research and training in specialized areas of
Electronics. These areas are Signal Processing, Microwaves and Microelectronics. The Centre has several
excellent laboratory facilities for intensive Hands-on Post-graduate training and conducting advanced
research work.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
POSTGRADUATE
M.Tech. in Radio Frequency Design and Technology (RFDT) [Duration: 2 years/4 Semester]
A multidisciplinary Masters programme in Radio Frequency Design & Technology (RFDT) is offered by the
Centre. The programme provides specialization in Signal Processing / Microwaves / Microelectronics. This
course is unique in India imparting hands-on training that focuses on hardware and experimental work
in a wide range of topics like real-time digital signal processing and applications, speech and audio signal
processing, wireless and underwater communications, antenna design, active and passive circuit design at
microwave and millimeter wave frequencies, fabrication of solid-state devices, MEMS based sensors and
actuators, RF MEMS etc. The projects done by the students provide an opportunity to do applied research
work that is often of great relevance to industry.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Centre offers doctoral programme that is highly rated in the country.
• Microwaves and RF: RFIC and RFMEMS, Imaging and Surveillance, RF Digital Co-design, Active and
Reconfigurable Antennas and Arrays, High Power Solid-state Systems, Nonlinear Modeling and
Measurements, Components & Systems up to THz.
• Signal Processing: Acoustic Signal Processing for Underwater and Air applications, Speech and Audio
Signal Processing, Signal Processing for Communications, Sensor Array Signal Processing, Multi-Sensor
Data Fusion, Signal Processing for IoT.
• Microelectronics: MEMS and Microsystems, Nanoelectronics, Microsensors development for defense,
space, health and environmental monitoring, mm-wave and THz devices and technologies.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Centre has several State-of-the art facilities, this includes:
• Water-tank facility for underwater acoustics experiments
• Acoustic Anechoic Room for air acoustics/audio experiments
• Transducers, sensors, amplifiers and other electronics equipment for underwater and air acoustic research
experiments
• Multi-channel data acquisition systems
• Computational platforms for high-speed DSP
• ABM Mask Aligners
• Laser writer (direct lithography)
• Multi-target DC and RF sputtering system
• E-test for microdevices (under variable temperature and pressure)
• E-beam evaporator
• Reactive Ion Etching
• Diffusion and oxidation furnace
• HF vapour etching systems
• RF Anechoic Room for antenna testing and characterization
• Vector network analyzers (up to 1THz) and Spectrum Analyzer (up to 40 GHz)
• Probe stations, Free space material property measurement
• RF MEMS and EM simulation tools
• Microwave Signal Sources
• THz detector testing bench

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ATOMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

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 Krishna Mirle AchutaRao, Ph.D. (Tulane Univ. USA)
Professor
Climate, Climate Modelling, Climate Model Validation,
Climate Variability, Climate Change Detection and Head of the Centre
Attribution, Ocean Heat Content, Sea-level Rise,
Air-sea Heat Transfer and Climate Data Analysis Tools.

Sagnik Dey, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Vimlesh Pant, Ph.D. (Univ. of Pune)
Professor Associate Professor
Air Quality, Climate Change and Human Health, Physical Oceanography, Ocean Modelling, Air-sea
Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interaction, Remote Sensing Interaction, Atmospheric Aerosols, Meteorological and
of the Earths Climates System. Oceanographic Observations.

Yama Dixit, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, UK) Sajeev Philip, Ph.D. (Dalhousie University,
Canada)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Proxy Reconstructions and Paleoclimate Dynamics,
Earth’s Climate and Global Surface Air Quality, Carbon
Changes in Hydrology, Abrupt Climate Change and
Cycle and Greenhouse Gases Science, Public Health
Impacts on Ancient Societies.
Impacts due to Aerosols and Trace Gas Exposure.

Sarvesh Kumar Dubey, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) A.D. Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Atmospheric Modelling, Atmospheric Dynamics,
Ocean State Forecasting, Storm Surge Modeling,
Numerical Weather Prediction, Climate Modeling,
Coastal Circulation, Internal Waves.
Observational Analysis and Tropical Meteorology.

Dilip Ganguly, Ph.D. (Physical Res. Lab., Somnath Baidya Roy, Ph.D. (Rutgers, USA)
Ahmedabad)
Professor
Associate Professor
Land-atmospheric Interaction, Deforestation,
Aerosol-cloud-precipitation Interaction, Cloud
Agriculture, Carbon Cycle; Mesoscale and Boundary
Parameterization, Radiative Forcing and Climate
Layer Modeling, Regional Climate Change; Renewable
Change, Climate Sensitivity and Feedback Processes,
Energy Meterology.
Climate Diagnostics, Monsoon Dynamics.

Ravi Kumar Kunchala, Ph.D. (University of

Pune) Sandeep Sukumaran, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Atmospheric Chemistry, Transport Modeling, Climate Modeling, Indian Summer
Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gases, Monitoring Monsoon, Climate Change.
and Modeling of Greenhouse Gases.

Saroj K. Mishra, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Maithili Sharan, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor Emeritus Professor
Climate Modelling, Indian Monsoon, Climate Projection, Air Pollution Modelling, Atmospheric Boundary Layer,
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation and Adaptation, Computational and Mathematical Methods,
Tropical weather and Climate. Physiological Fluid Dynamics.

Manju Mohan, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor
Numerical Modeling of the Atmospheric Boundary Bayer,
Chemical Transport Modeling and Atmospheric Pollution
Studies, Heat Island Measurements and Modeling, Urban
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AT M O S P H E R I C S C I E N C E S
The Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) was set up in the year 1979 with the objective of undertaking
modelling studies of atmospheric and oceanic processes for a better prediction of monsoon and its
variability. Subsequently, the Ministry of Education, Government of India funded the Centre under the
Sixth Five Year Plan, The Centre was also Co-sponsored by the India Meteorological Department with a
view to initiate research and mathematical modelling in meteorology in an academic institute, In 1981,
the Planning Commission upgraded CAS to an advanced Centre for research, In order to complement its
research activities, the Centre started the Ph.D. programme in atmospheric sciences which was the first of
its kind in the country, In 2008, CAS started the M.Tech. programme in “Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
& Technology” with the support of Ministry of Earth Sciences and Indian Space Research Organization, In
the year 2011, the UG Minor Area Programme “Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” was initiated, which
is the only one of its kind in the country. Currently, the Centre has faculty strength of 13. In the last five
years, 30 Ph.D. and 50 M.Tech. degrees have been awarded by the Centre. Based on the number of research
publications, degrees awarded, courses offered and student/faculty strength criteria, we estimate that CAS
is ranked nationally among the top two Centres/Departments in the field. According to the 2011 US National
Academy of Sciences benchmarking criteria, we also compare favorably with all US Centres/Departments in
our discipline.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Currently CAS has three vibrant teaching programmes, namely:
• B.Tech. Minor Area in Atmospheric Sciences
• M.Tech. in Atmospheric-Oceanic Science & Technology
• Ph.D.

UNDERGRADUATE
The Centre has initiated Minor Area Programme in Atmospheric Sciences since 2011-12. In this minor area
programme, there are six courses exclusively designed for UG students, which deal with fundamentals of
weather, climate, climate change, oceanography, monsoon, earths physical processes climate modeling.
UG Students need to take at least 2 courses from this pool for minor area.
The students also have options for 26 electives where they have a wide range of choice from various
applied courses covering all important topics in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, In order to complete
the Minor Area Programme in Atmospheric Sciences, students need to earn 20 credits from among these
courses. A minor area project of 5 credits is also introduced as part of the minor area programme to facilitate
completion of 20 credits.

POSTGRADUATE
i) The M.Tech. Programme in Atmospheric-Oceanic Science & Technology is designed to train students
from diverse backgrounds in the exciting field of Weather and Climate. The courses are also oriented to
help the graduate students get employed in government organizations, public and private sectors or
continue in a doctoral programme within the country and abroad. There are 11 core courses including
three bridge courses and a Major Project. Major projects provides an opportunities to students to
work on State-of-art- research topics in diverse areas of Weather, Climate and Atmospheric transport of
pollutants. In addition to these core courses, there are a number of electives which include all State-of-
the-art topics in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Some special modules for one credit are also floated
every semester which are usually timed with the visits of distinguished scientists from inside the country
and abroad.
In order to complete the M.Tech. programmes in Atmospheric Sciences, students’ need to earn 54
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 ii) The Ph.D. programme is for highly motivated students Interested in an academic career. In addition to a
thesis on a State-of-the art topic, students are required to complete 12 (for M.Sc. qualifying degree) or 6
(for M.Tech. qualifying degree) credits of coursework.

RESEARCH AREAS
The goal of CAS is to carry out cutting-edge Interdisciplinary research and create highly skilled manpower
through M.Tech. and Ph.D. Programmes In 4 core areas: atmospheric modeling, oceanic modeling, air
pollution and climate science. In the last five years, CAS faculty has published about 200 publications in
Peer-reviewed SCOPUS Journals. Regular seminars by distinguished speakers of International repute from
India and abroad are arranged in the Centre so that our faculty and students can keep abreast of the latest
scientific developments in the field.
Key Research Areas:
• Atmosphere: Numerical Modeling of the Atmosphere, General Circulation, Tropical Meteorology and
Indian Monsoon, Land-Surface Process Modeling, Land-Atmosphere Interaction, Chemical Transport
Modeling.
• Ocean: Ocean Modeling, Coastal Processes, Ocean State Simulations and Forecasting, Storm Surges and
Inundation.
• Climate: Climate Dynamics, Climate Variability and Changes, Climate Change Detection & Attribution,
Global and Regional Climate Modeling, Climate Projections, Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Weather,
Health, Agriculture, Water Resources and Energy, Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions, Paleoclimate.
• Air Pollution Modeling: Urban Meteorology, Chemical Transport Modelling, Air Quality and Health
Impact Studies, Heat Island Measurements and Modelling, Fog Prediction.
• Applied Mathematics: Numerical Methods, Data Assimilation and Adjoint Modeling, Inverse Modeling,
GPU Computing.
• Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy Meteorology, Renewable Energy Resource Assessment and
Forecasting.

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LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Centre for Atmospheric Sciences is establishing a State-of-the-art Atmospheric Observatory at the IIT
Delhi Sonipat Campus. The following laboratories are in the Main Campus:
• Computing Server Lab
• Climate Modelling Lab
• Air Quality Modelling Lab I & II
• Atmospheric Measurement Lab
• Mesoscale Modelling Lab
• Remote Sensing Lab
• Ocean State Forecasting Lab
• Atmospheric Observatory at Sonipat Campus

a) IIT Delhi PADUM HPC System:

Partial funding is provided by CAS in the form of DST-FIST grant (500TB & 60 Tera-Flop) for the
procurement of the Hybrid High Performance Computing Facility named PADUM (1 Peta-flop, 1500TB)
at IIT Delhi. CAS receives more computing time compared to users from other department of IIT Delhi
on the PADUM HPC system.
IIT Delhi HPC PADUM system has following configurations:
• High Power Hybrid Computational Facility of 1 PFlops
• Total 606 compute nodes (382 CPU + 201 GPU + 23 Xeon Phi nodes)
• In addition, there are 4 general login nodes, 2 GPU login nodes and 2 Xeon Phi Login nodes.
• Storage capacity of 1500 TB
b) Sikka: A 320 TB Storage-cum-data analysis server located in the Center’s Computing Server Lab.
c) Storage: A 115TB data storage server located in the Center’s High Computing Server Lab.
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 The computing laboratories at the Centre are equipped with State-of-the-art desktop workstations for data
analysis and visualization with software’s such as ERDAS imagine, ArcGIS etc.
The following equipment are available for atmospheric pollution and related observations:
• Aethalometer
• Albedometer
• AQMS IMD-IITD SAFAR station
• Automatic Weather Station
• Ceilometer
• GHG Analyzer
• Microtops Radiometer
• PM10, PM2.5, Ozone, CO and NOx analysers
• 10 metre tall Met. tower

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AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH
AND TRIBOLOGY
(Formerly ITMMEC)
 B.K. Panigrahi, Ph.D. (Sambalpur Univ.)
Professor
EV, Charging Infrastructure, IoT & Cyber Security.
Head of the Centre

Saptarshi Basak, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Deepak Kumar, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Assistant Professor Associate Professor
Design of Special Machines for Automotive Metal Working, Nanotribology, Contract
Applications, On-board Generation Systems, Mechanics, Atomic Force Microscopy,
Control and Estimation in Variable Speed AC Drives. Surface/Interface Analysis.

J. Bijwe, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Shahab Fatima, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

Professor Assistant Professor
Tribology of Polymers/Composites, Machinery Health Monitoring, NVH, Acoustical
Oil Analysis for Condition Monitoring. Natural Materials, Reliability and Maintenance.

Akhil Garg, Ph.D. (NTU Singapore) Krishna Raj R., Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Li-ion Battery Pack Design,
Powertrain-drives and Control for Electric
Thermal Management of Batteries,
Vehicles, more Electric Aircraft Power System,
Reusability of Battery Packs,
Multilevel Converter Topologies for Drives.
Intelligent Optimization.

Husain Kanchwala, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Naresh Tandon, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Emeritus Professor
Applied Dynamics and Vibrations, Rotordynamics
Machine Health Monitoring,
of Vehicular Transmissions, Vehicle Propulsion,
Noise Engineering, Vibration,
Vehicle System Dynamics and Control, Systems
Noise and Acoustic Emission.
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AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TRIBOLOGY

The Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART) was established in May 2019 with a vision to
promote interdisciplinary research in the area of Electric Vehicle (EV), energy storage and other relevant
areas. The centre envisages strong networking and collaboration among various academia, industries,
research labs in India and abroad to carry out cutting edge research.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
POSTGRADUATE
The new M.Tech. Programme in “Electric Mobility” is multidisciplinary in nature and will cover key aspects
related to electric vehicles, drivetrain, chargers and charging infrastructure, battery energy storage
systems, battery management system, reusability of energy storage elements, reliability, automotive
health monitoring, Automotive NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness), vehicle dynamics, autonomous and
connected vehicles, vehicular telematics, and materials for electric vehicle, along with hands on practice and
design in laboratories.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
• Electric Vehicle Laboratory • Dyno Laboratory
• Powertrain Laboratory • Battery Laboratory
• Charging Infrastructure laboratory • Project Laboratories
• Automotive Health Monitoring Laboratory • Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratory
• Design and Data Analytics Laboratory • Tribology laboratory

KEY FACILITIES AVAILABLE

• Grid Simulator • Machine Fault Simulator
• Battery Management System • Acoustic Camera
• Rapid control Prototyping Platform • Data Acquisition Systems
• Battery Tester • 4 microphone Transmission loss setup
• Battery Emulator • Modal Exciter
• attery Electrochemical Impedance
B • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
Measuring System • Sound Quality Analyzer
• Battery Pack Spot Welding Machine • Thermal Imaging Camera
• Battery Cell Simulator • Battery Simulation software
• AC and DC Simulator • Electric Vehicle modelling software
• Chargers and Charge Discovery System • Power Quality Analyzer

Ongoing Research Areas:

Power Electronics and Drives for Electric Mobility: The focus is on the design and development of high-
power density power electronics converters, onboard chargers, machines for electric vehicles, power
train technology and various controllers for drives and converters. Development of various novel control
algorithms for converters and motor drives is one of the key focus at present. The future plan is for the
development of fuel Cell-based electric buses in association with various industry partners.
Charging Infrastructure: A great emphasis is given for the design and development of Level1, Level2
chargers, Fast DC chargers, battery swapping stations etc. Researchers are also involved in the development
of various intelligent algorithms for the placement of fast charging stations and battery swapping stations in
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 Battery and Battery Management System: In context of batteries, the key areas of research at CART are (a)
Battery materials; (b) Novel thermal management system for maintaining temperature uniformity among
the cells and restrict the rise of maximum temperature above normal conditions; (c) Digital twin based on
IoT; sensors; cloud computing; Multi-physics modelling and machine learning for Real-time monitoring
of SoC and SoH of batteries under dynamic discharge conditions; (d) Aging controlled fast charging of
batteries by evaluation of optimal charging current, and simultaneously optimizing charging time and
capacity.
Automotive Health Monitoring and NVH: The thrust of the research is on the development of an
intelligent fault diagnosis and prognosis system for electric vehicles and remaining useful life estimation of
components of electric vehicles. The research is also focused on the improvement of NVH (Noise, Vibration,
and Harshness) characteristics of the electric vehicle by developing strategies for noise characterization,
control, and detection of electric vehicles.
Autonomous Vehicles: The modern vehicles come with a myriad of sensors and hence it makes design
sense to integrate additional sensors to enable autonomy, starting from systems for lane departure to
parking assists to complete driverless platoons. The research focus is mainly to enable sensor fusion to
enable perception, developing embedded system with safety properties running millions of codes in an
autonomous EV system. Close collaboration with faculty in CSE, ME and EE working in the area of Robotics,
embedded systems and AI/ML will lay the foundation for a strong research programme in autonomous
vehicles.

CART Inauguration EV Battery Charging Setup facility from Grid

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BATTERY TESTING SYSTEM

Battery Regenerative Testing Cell Tester & Simulator

• Regenerative battery energy • Bidirectional Power

discharge/charge Supply Design
• Module/Pack surface • Battery Pack Voltage
temperature monitoring Simulation Ability
• Cell and Pack level testing at • High Precision V-I
OCV and HPPC Measurements
• DCIR Testing • P
arallel Operation for
• Testing of different Charging current sharing design
Protocol • Short-circuit Simulation
• Bi-directional Battery Test via BMS
Emulator

Environmental Chamber BMS Emulator

• C
ell, Module and • NTC/PTC Simulation;
Pack Testing at Emulation of
specific temperature temperature sensors
and humidity • Extended Fault
• Temperature Range: Simulations
-20 ºC to 100 ºC • R-ISO Check
• H
umidity: 10% RH to • Emulate Isolation
98% RH Resistor
• H
igh Precision Cell
Emulation

Electrochemical Workstation Multi-channel Potentiostat

• Polarization curve • Voltammetry

plotting • Internal Impedance
• Multi-cell Multi- • Pulsed Test
Tasking Voltammetry
• Ohmic drop
• Arbitrary Current Determination
Potential & Time
• Urban Cycle
Measurements
Simulation
• Automatic Series
• Corrosimetry
Measurements
• IV Characterization

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Automotive Condition Monitoring
Simulation of rotating machine faults and diagnosis using AI-based
Machinery Fault Simulator condition monitoring techniques.

Faults Diagnostic Techniques

• Motor Fault Unbalance • Vibration Monitoring
• Bearing Defect Misalignment • Motor Current Signature Analysis
• Gear Box Fault Crack Shaft • Noise Monitoring
• Acoustic Emission
• Thermography

Development of intelligent fault diagnosis and prognosis system for Motor Test Rig
automotive and allied components.

Components Analysis Methods

• EV Motors • Artificial Intelligence
• Bearings • IoT
• Gear Box • Sensor Fusion
• Signal/Image Processing

Automotive Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) Measurement

Estimation of acoustic parameters using an array of microphones and

Acoustic Holography and Beamforming particle velocity transducers.

Noise Source characterization and

Control Modal Analysis
• Sound Intensity Measurement • Resonant Frequency
• Noise Source Identification and • Structure-borne Noise
Ranking • Mode Shapes
• Transfer Path Analysis
• Airborne Noise Measurement

Sound quality and overall characteristics measurement to enhance Sound Quality Measurement
drive comfort and experience.
Head and Torso Simulator (HATS)
• Loudness • Roughness • Prominence Ratio
• Sharpness • Tonality
Sonoscout (8 Channel DAQ with CAN BUS)
• Battery Temperature • Air Quality • ECU Data Analysis
• Tire Pressure • EV Motor Parameter • NV characteristics

Pass-by Noise Test Estimation of vehicle sound to limit its contribution towards traffic
noise.
Noise Source Identification
• Pedestrian Alertness System • Exhaust Noise of ICE
• Sound Pressure Measurement • Aerodynamic Noise
• Sound Power Determination • Tyre Screeching Noise
• Sound Intensity Identification

Acoustical Material Test Setup

Material Performance Metrics

• Sound Absorption Coefficient • Sound Transmission Loss
• Noise Reduction Coefficient • Sound Transmission Class
• Flow Resistivity Measurement

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 Naresh Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
FRP Composite Materials, Processing and
Head of the Centre
Manufacturing, Injection Molding, Biomaterails.

Deepak K. Agrawal, Ph.D. (University of Amit Mehndiratta, M.B.B.S., D.Phil. (University

of Oxford, U.K.)
Cambridge, U.K.)
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Quantitative Medical Image Analysis for CT
Computational Medicine, Physiological Modeling,
and MRI, Perfusion and Diffusion Imaging,
Synthetic Biology, and DNA Nanotechnology.
Neuro-rehabilitation, Mobile Healthcare.

Biswarup Mukherjee, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)

Assistant Professor
Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. (IICT, Hyderabad) Ultrasound Imaging, Bioinstrumentation,
Assistant Professor Sensors, Biomechatronics, Rehabilitation
Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, and Prosthetics, Haptics.
Cancer Diagnosis & Therapy.

Parvaiz A. Shiekh, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)

DST INSPIRE Faculty
Sachin Kumar B., Ph.D. (IISc. Bangalore) Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Exosome
Assistant Professor Engineering, Immunomodulation, Oxygen Therapy.
Biomaterials, Application of Raman Microscopy and
Spectroscopy for Tissue Engineering, Graphene-Polymer
Composite, Cancer Metabolism, Liquid-liquid Phase
Separation in Biology, Fibrin-platelet Interaction.
Anup Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) Techniques/Methods based on Exogenous
or Endogenous Contrast Agents, Medical Image
Arnab Chanda, Ph.D. (Univ. of Alabama) Processing and Data Analysis.
Assistant Professor
Artificial Tissues, Footwear, Sensors,
Wearable Technologies, Entrepreneurship. Harpal Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Medical diagnostics, Drug Delivery Systems,
Antimicrobial Polymers, Polymeric Hydrogels,
Nanobiotechnology, Polymer based
Sandeep Kumar Jha, Ph.D. (Bhabha Atomic Implants & Medical Devices.
Research Centre, Mumbai)
Associate Professor Neetu Singh, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech., USA)
Biosensors; Nanoparticle Sensing; Microfluidic Associate Professor
Lab-on-a-chip; Capillary Electrophoresis Microchip; Design of Nano-structured Materials for
Immobilization and Stabilization of Biomolecules. Biomedical Implants, Cancer Diagnostics &
Therapy, Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery,
Study of the Bioactivity of Nanostructures and
Finding Structure-bioactivity Relationships.

Deepak Joshi, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Assistant Professor Veena Koul, Ph.D. (Kashmir Univ.)
Biomedical Instrumentation, Emeritus Professor
Rehabilitation Engineering.
Biomaterials, Medical Devices, Clinical Diagnostics,
Drug/Gene Delivery Systems, Nanomedicine.

Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, Ph.D. (Iowa State

University, USA)
S.K Guha, Ph.D. (St. Louis University)
Associate Professor
Honorary Professor
Biomechanics, Diagnostics, Design and Development
Padma Shri, 2020
of Implants (Orthopaedic & Orthodontics), Fabrication/
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Centre for Biomedical Engineering was established in 1971 as a Joint programme of Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. The Centre has applied engineering
principles to address medical and biological problems. It has faculty from diverse backgrounds who are
actively engaged in various interdisciplinary research activities. In addition, the centre has collaborative
projects with major institutes and hospitals in India and abroad. Over the years, it has become a premier
centre for biomedical research in the country and has provided interdisciplinary base to develop health
care technologies. In the last two decades the focus has expanded to include medical imaging, tissue
engineering, nanomedicine, implants, biomedical devices, and informatics approaches for the prevention,
diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The Center has a Ph.D. programme and M. Tech. programme in Biomedical Engineering. Various courses
relevant to Biomedical Engineering, which are open to undergraduate and graduate students at IIT Delhi are
offered by the Centre.
Some of the courses being offered include Introduction to Basic Medical Sciences for Engineers, Industrial
Biomaterial Technology, Research Techniques in Biomedical Engineering, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials,
Biosensor Technology, Medical Imaging and Processing, Emerging Biomedical Technology & Health Care,
Biomechanical Design of Medical Devices, Cancer: Diagnosis and Therapy, Point-of Care-Medical Diagnostic
Devices, Orthopaedic Device Design, Biofabrication, Nanomedicine, and Computational Biomechanics.
M.Tech. students from CBME are pursuing higher studies from reputed universities around the world. Several
students are currently employed in leading biomedical and healthcare related companies.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Centre’s research focus spans in four thrust areas:
• Bio-Instrumentation: Biosensor, Molecular markers in diseases, Lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidics, Biomedical
transducers and sensors, Neuro endoscopy, Integrated healthcare, Assistive devices & rehabilitation,
DNA based diagnostics.
• Biomaterials: Nanomedicine, Controlled drug delivery systems, Soft skin regeneration, Targeting of
bioactive molecules to brain and cancer, Wound care healing, Tissue engineering, Medical diagnostics
and therapy.
• Biomechanics: Orthopaedics, Orthodontics, Computational analysis and software packaging,
Neuromechanics, Neural prosthetics, Soft tissue mechanics, Artificial tissue.
• Medical Imaging: Development of protocols, techniques, methodology and software tools along
with evaluation of their clinical potential; Medical image processing, Quantitative image analysis;
Applications of Machine-learning /Deep-learning.
The average number of Ph.D. students graduated over the last 5 years per faculty has been 4.4 and the
average SCOPUS cited publication per faculty is 8. The Center has received extramural research funding
of ~10 Crores from government funding agencies and ~20 Lakhs as industrial consultancy for the year
2019-2021.
Recently major facilities such as Confocal laser scanning microscope, Raman Spectroscopy with imaging and
Flow cytometer has been installed. New labs based on drug delivery, laser micromachining, Lab-on-a-chip
and image processing have been established.
Technology Developed by the Centre Include:
MRI Compatible Knee Joint Axial-Load Exerting Device, Wearable gait analysis system, Novel kit for assay
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 Implementations thereof, Contra Lateral Limb Controlled Prosthetic Knee Joint, Wireless ECG patch and
system for obtaining High Definition mobile ECG, A Surgical Stapler, Bilayer dressing for wound healing;
Biocompatible graphene quantum dots for drug delivery and bioimaging applications, Green Florescent
Carbon Dots for pH Sensing.
The Centre has in Past Transferred Following Technologies to Industries:
Heat sealable coatings onto paper for adhesion with PVC polyester and polystyrene films for packing
application, Immobilization of aminoacylase on functionalized acrylics for production of 6- aminopencillinic
acid from pencillin, Antimicrobial acrylic bone cement for fixation of hip and knee joints, Polymeric
nanoparticles and process of preparation thereof for delivery of peptide based anticancer agents, Contra
Lateral Limb Controlled Prosthetic Knee Joint, Iontophoretic Transdermal Device for delivery of Declofenac,
Opto- electronic Hemoglobinometer and Intelligent Artificial Leg.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Centre has the following laboratory facilities:
• Biomechatronics • Nanomaterial Synthesis Lab
• Bioelectronics, Biomechanics & Fabrication • Laser Micromachining Lab
• Biomaterials, Biosensor • Lab-on-a-chip
• Pre-Clinical and Animal Experimentation (AIIMS)
• Biomedical Instrumentation
• Bio-signal Processing
• Medical Imaging Processing
• Soft Tissue Engineering
• Molecular Biology
• Drug delivery Laboratory
• Nanoparticles Characterization • Bio-therapeutics
• Biomaterials Instrumentation • Aritficial Tissue Lab

Injection Molding BOY XXS 3D-Printer –Stratasys Objet30 OrthoDesk 400 W CW Fibre Laser

Device Testing Laboratory Dual Laser (CO2 + Fibre Laser) High resolution Spectrometer HR2000 ES

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 Amit Gupta, Ph.D. (UCF)
Professor

Head of the Department

Lithium-ion Battery Modeling and Optimization;
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics;Multiphase Flows;
Flapping Wing Aerodynamics; Surrogate Modeling and
Analysis; Parallel Computing.
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Shouribrata Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Columbia University) Kolin Paul, Ph.D. (Bengal Engineering of
Professor College, Calcutta)
Analog Circuit Design and VLSI, Analog and Digital Filter Professor
Design, Low Power and Low Voltage Circuit Techniques, Embedded Systems, Affordable Healthcare,
Measurement and Instrumentation Techniques. Reconfigurable and Adaptive Computing.
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Sanjeev Sanghi, Ph.D. (City University)

Ashok Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Professor
Professor Numerical and Analytical Studies of Turbulent Flows,
Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Chaos and Dynamical Systems, Finite Element Method
Technology Enhanced Learning, Web based Courses. (FEM), Educational Software, Proper Orthogonal
Department of Civil Engineering Decomposition.
Department of Applied Mechanics

Shalini Gupta, Ph.D. (North Carolina State Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Ph.D. (University of
University, USA) Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Associate Professor Professor
Colloid Interactions and Nanoscale Engineering, Self-assembly Secure Computer Architectures, Architectures for ML
of Molecules at Interfaces, On-chip Devices for Particle Accelerators and AR/VR Systems, Energy Harvesting
Manipulation and Assembly of Colloidal Structures, Biosensors Systems, Hardware support For Operating Systems,
for Diagnostic Applications, Bioresponsive Nanomaterials, Iot Security, Cyber-Architectures of Electrice Vehicles
Microfluidics and Nanolithography.
and UAVs.
Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Prem K. Kalra, Ph.D. (EPFL, Switzerland)

Professor
Computer Vision Based Modeling and Rendering,
3D Visualization and Animation and Image/Video
Super-resolution.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

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EDUCATIONAL TECH. SERVICES

The Educational Technology Services Centre (ETSC) is actively engaged in providing and promoting the
use of Educational Technology within the Institute and also at the national level. Some of the activities are:
design, development and dissemination of video and web-based instructional resources; provision and
maintenance of A/V equipment for classroom teaching; organization of training programmes for faculty,
staff and professionals across the country and undertaking sponsored research and consultancy projects;
audio/video conferencing for faculty selection interviews and other meetings including Ph.D. viva voce
examination; e-learning and distance education using video conferencing facility.
The Centre has a modern video studio and recording and editing facilities. Multiple studio-classrooms are
available for on-line recording of courses. Non-linear editing set up and streaming servers are available
for post-production and video streaming respectively. ETSC uses the Sony ANYCAST system and the New
Tek Tricaster system in the Video Studio and in two lecture theatres for non-linear editing and recording.
Video conferencing facilities have been installed in two lecture theatres and in the Conference Room of
ETSC. The facility is being used for faculty interviews, meetings and distance education.
Some of the new initiatives of the ETSC include projects sponsored by MHRD, Swayam, Swayam-Prabha
and IIT-PAL. Under Swayam, ETSC actively encourages faculty members of the institute to develop MOOCs
(Massive Open Online Courses) to be disseminated country-wide. ETSC is responsible for recording, post-
production and uploading content into the Swayam platform, as well as, hand-holding faculty members
towards developing content. Under Swayam-Prabha, ETSC manages 2 TV-channels (Civil Engineering and
IIT PAL). In IIT-PAL ETSC engages in working with faculty members of the institute towards content creation,
recording, post-production and managing of TV channels (Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology).
In addition, courses for Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) have been recorded, edited and
uploaded on SWAYAM. These courses will be treated as Faculty refresher course forcareer advancement
scheme (CAS) for promotion.
During the lockdown period due to COVID-19 pandemic, ETSC has played a major role in reaching out to
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 K. Narayanan, M.Sc. (Delhi Univ.), PDCA
Senior System Manager (SG)
D.B.M.S., System Analysis and Design,
Head of the Centre
System Administration, Web Design & ERP.

Manish Agarwal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Pragya Jain, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
System Manager
System Architect
Parallel Processing, Cloud Computing &
HPC & Administration, Large Scale Molecular
Virtualization, Systems Administration,
Simulations, Parallelization of Analysis Codes.
Numerical Analysis.

Jaya, M.Tech. (IIT Delhi)

System Architect
P.K. Baboo, Ph.D. (Berhampur) System Administration, Application Software,
Senior System Manager (SG) Object Oriented Programming,
Database Management Systems, System Analysis Programming Languages, DBMS.
and Design, System Administration.

Sunil Kak, M.Tech. (IETE)

System Manager
Rajesh Bhat, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) System Administration,
System Manager Management of PC Services.
Artificial Intelligence, Distributed and Network
Computing, Component & Object Technologies in JAVA,
Image Processing, E-education Technologies, System
Administration, Intelligent Imaging in Medicine and GIS.
N.C. Kalra, M.Tech. (IIT Delhi)
Senior System Manager (SG) (on contract)
Networking, Internet Computing,
Microprocessor Based System Design,
System Programming.
Raj Kumar Chauhan, M.C.A. (MITS, Gwalior)
System Manager
Networking & Systems Administration.
Gopal Krishen, M.Sc. (Kurukshetra Univ.)
System Manager
Hardware, Networking, Cloud Computing &
Virtualization, System Administration,
Database Management and DBA.

P.K. Gupta, M.Tech. (IETE)

Senior System Manager (SG)
D.B.M.S., System Analysis and Design, Ram Lal, Ph.D. (Jamia Milia Islamia University)
System Administration. System Manager
System Administration, Information Technology,
E-governance, MATLAB programming,
Image Processing & Object-oriented Programming.

Ajay Guleria, Ph.D. (NIT Hamirpur) Gaurav Munjal, B.Tech. (DCRUST)

System Manager
System Architect
Network & System Administration.
Application Programming,
System Administration, DBMS,
Web Development, OSS|BSS Systems.

S.R. Hegde, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) M. Mallikharjuna Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
System Manager
Senior System Manager (SG)
ERP Implementation, ANN applications in Control
CAD/CAM/CAE Service.
of Building Frames and Software Development.

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COMPUTER SERVICES CENTRE

The main objectives of the Computer Centre are to:
• rovide round the clock computing and networking facilities to serve a user population of 12000+ users
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consisting of UG students, PG students, Research Scholars, Faculty & Staff of the Institute and also to
visiting faculty and students.
• Implement and maintain system & application software.
• Implement and manage the Institute Network.
• Provide Computer lab facility to students for the conduct of UG/PG lab courses & exam.
• Work on cutting edge technology & provide Services to users based on new technology.
• Provide support both in development & administration of ERP related module implementation.
• Provide support to online teaching and training to Institute employees.

COMPUTING FACILITIES
The Centre is equipped with 144 HP/CISCO UCS blade servers out of which 112 Blade Servers are used for
Cloud computing with 200 TB of virtualized storage and 32 blade servers with 130 TB of storage for user
homes and infrastructure use like email, proxy, web services etc. The Centre has also given order for 32
blade servers of CISCO which will be received by the end of March, 2022. CSC also has around 450 Desktop
computers under Windows and Linux environment connected over a switched fast Ethernet. Uninterrupted
Power Supply is provided through 2x 80 KVA MGE UPS system and DG set.

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC)

The HPC facility in the Data Centre consists of the following:
Compute Nodes: 606 (CPU nodes: 405, GPU nodes: 201)
Haswell nodes (422 nodes):
• GPU (161 nodes): NVIDIA K40 (12GB)
• CPU (261 nodes): 2x E5-2680 v3 2.5GHz/12-Core
• RAM: 64 GB
• 12 CPU and 8 GPU nodes have 512 GB RAM each
Skylake nodes (184 nodes):
• GPU (40 nodes): NVIDIA V100 (32GB)
• CPU (144 nodes)
• RAM: 96GB
• 40 GPU and 8 CPU nodes have 192 GB RAM each
In addition, we have 6 login nodes for job submission, monitoring etc.
Storage: Home space: 678 TB and Scratch space: 3430 TB.

PC SERVICES
There are five PC Labs in the CSC premises having 220+ Desktop computers under Windows and Linux
environment. Besides this there are four Computing labs in the Lecture Hall Complex (LHC) having about
230+ desktop computers running Ubuntu and Windows 10. Every user has been provided a Kerberos user-
account and password for logging into the system and also for using Internet facility. The PC Labs in the
main building of the Centre are open Round-the-Clock for authorized users. These labs are extensively used
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 NETWORK SERVICES
The Institute LAN is a state-of-the-art switched network with dual redundant connectivity with a 10 Gbps
backbone. The core and distribution network are deployed using single-mode fiber. The passive design
consists of three rings of 12 tubes of 12 core fibers, one each for the east campus, the central academic
campus, and the west campus. Each ring passes through both the primary data center site (DC) and the
secondary disaster recovery site (DR). The infrastructure for internet access, firewall, and core switches
are deployed in a redundant active-active cluster configuration. IIT Delhi is connected to the National
Knowledge Network (NKN) with 10 Gbps dual connectivity from Power Grid and RailTel. The connectivity
includes virtual routing service, Internet Connectivity, and connectivity with other Institutes connected on
the NKN backbone.
The access network, consisting of approximately 475 plus edge switches for end-user connectivity through
UTP cabling in the departments, hostels, and blocks. Network access is provided to every student, faculty, staff,
and guest. The facility has been extended to each lab, classroom, seminar hall, office, room in guesthouses.
Internet and Intranet access is available in faculty/officer homes via GPON over fiber (750+ houses) and
ADSL connectivity over internal telephone lines. The centralized Wi-Fi access through 1400+ wireless access
points is available in the whole academic, hostel area, guesthouses, RCA, and Hospital, etc. The IITD wired
and wireless network is also extended to IITD’s Sonipat campus through a point-to-point link.
Many network services, including mail, web, VPN, NTP, HPC, domain name, etc. is being provided over this
network.

FACILITIES/SERVICES
• All Services are authenticated and authorized using a central Kerberos system.
• The email facility is also provided to all the users with webmail interface “Round cube”.
• Baadal is a Cloud computing environment that provides virtualized computing resources for for
academic and scientific environments. Some of the main features of Baadal are: Dynamic Resource
scheduling and power management; Facilities for suspend, resume, shutdown, power on/off, specifying
resource requirement of VM; and Dynamic resource utilization monitoring.
• he Data Center (DC) consists of Cisco UCS B200 : Five chassis with 40 blade servers – 16 blades each
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with 2x12 Cores Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v2 @ 2.40GHz with 128 GB RAM, 8 blades each with 2x14
cores CPU E5 with 256 GB RAM and 16 blades each with 2x18 cores CPU Intel Xeon Gold 6140 with 256
GB RAM.
• The Disaster Recovery Data Centre (DRDC) is situated in the SIT building. The DRDC has been built by
IBM and can support a total IT load of 60 KW. The DRDC has the same hardware configuration as
Data Centre (DC).
• The CSC provides Infrastructure Services through Virtualization technology.
• T he CSC has Microsoft Volume Licensing EES agreement for the Campus under which Microsoft
software such as Windows Server, Windows OS, MS Office, Office365, Visual Studio etc. are available for
use. We also have access to one Drive academic account as well as all services including MS Teams.
• T he center also has the following third-party software packages: MATLAB, Mathematica, Ansys,
COMSOL, LabVIEW, Materials Studio, Intel Parallel Studio, PGI compilers, Origin lab Pro, etc. available on
the CSC webpage.
• The centre maintains local repositories of several popular open-source software.
• T he CSC has configured moodle a public domain course management software, for use by faculty and
students for the courses running during the semester.
• I IT Delhi is also a part of Eduroam, a global WIFI roaming programme across academic campuses
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provided for user community. The utility supports storing and sharing of files, images, music and
documents, contacts, calendars, tasks etc.
• T o facilitate downloads of data files through non-standard ports, download Server: download.iitd.
ac.in can be used. and to facilitate download of huge data for Research, proxy server xen03.iitd.ac.in
(Research proxy) can be used. The faculty has been authorized to provide download permissions to their
students from the webpage.
• Virtual web hosting facility can be used for securely hosting all websites of the form http://xyz.iitd.
ac.in which are not maintained by CSC. In addition, CSC maintains large number of websites including
IITD main websites and some departmental websites.
• ser web pages is available for the use of faculty and Ph.D. students for hosting their webpages on the
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server web.iitd.ac.in
• To provide Internet access to visitors, faculty and officers have been authorized to create user account
for their visiting faculty & students.
• T o facilitate limited access within IITD, CSC has a separate web server privateweb.iitd.ac.in where users
can have their personal web pages.
• VPN facility is provided to the users for accessing IITD internal network from outside IIT Delhi. The faculty
have been authorized to create cert-keys for their own use and their advisees from the VPN webpage on
the CSC website. Users can also send a mail to [email protected] for availing VPN facility.
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers are synchronized with standard internet time servers with time
drift less than a few milliseconds and can be used by all users.
• RTG and RRD Health Graphs have been provided to see the Status Reports of the Various System
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activities/ Services.
• LA ticketing systems- SLA for Networking & SLA for Software have been provided for resolving User
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problems pertaining to Network and Software issues.
• RP modules are provided for: Academics, Convocation systems, Hostel Accounts, Personnel
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Management System, CDN, Central Accounts, Audit System, Security Unit, IIT Hospital, Guest House, IRD
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CENTRE FOR
VALUE EDUCATION IN ENGINEERNG
 Sangeeta Kohli, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

Head of the Centre

Professor
Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics,
Renewable Energy Technology.
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Sneh Anand, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) S.K. Gupta, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) M.R. Ravi, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Shubhendu Bhasin, Ph.D. (Univ. of Florida) Amit Kumar Jain, Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati) Anjan Ray, Ph.D. (Michigan State Univ.)
Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering

G. Bhuvaneswari, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Manjeet Jassal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Jayshree Santosh, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Electrical Engineering Textile and Fibre Engineering Computer Service Centre

P.R. Bijwe, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Saroj Kaushik, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) S.K. Saha, Ph.D. (McGill Univ.)
Emeritus Professor, Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Nomesh Bolia, Ph.D. (Univ. of North Carolina) Jyoti Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Kiran Seth, Ph.D. (Columbia Univ.)
Mechanical Engineering Design Emeritus Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Niladri Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Univ. of London) Anushree Malik, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Kamlesh Singh, Ph.D. (Univ. of Rajasthan)
Mathematics CRDT Humanities & Social Sciences

Harish Chaudhary, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Parag Singla, Ph.D. (Washington Seattle Univ.)
Management Studies Textile and Fibre Engineering Computer Science and Engineering

V.M. Chariar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Bhanu Nandan, Ph.D. (Kanpur Univ.) D. Sundar, Ph.D. (Pondicherry Univ.)
CRDT Textile and Fibre Engineering Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Devendra K. Dubey, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Rajesh Prasad, Ph.D. (Cambridge Univ.) Rajiv K. Srivastava, Ph.D. (KTH, Sweden)
Mechanical Engineering Applied Mechanics Textile and Fibre Engineering

Rahul Garg, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Rajendra Prasad, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Santosh Satya, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Computer Science and Engineering Emeritus Professor, CRDT CRDT

Amit Gupta, Ph.D. (Univ. of Central Florida) P.V.M. Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) V.K. Vijay, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
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National Resource Centre for Value Education in Engineering (NRCVEE) was setup in 2001. The role of the
Centre is to create awareness in the technical community about human values. Accordingly, the mandate
of NRCVEE is to identify, develop and disseminate techniques by which engineering students and
practicing engineers can be motivated to imbibe human values and appreciate their impact on technology
development, professional ethics and human welfare.

NRCVEE
ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The Centre offers elective courses for UG and PG students. The Centre runs a Ph.D. programme to support
interdisciplinary research on topics that pertain to the impact of science and technology on human values
and professional ethics and vice-versa. The Centre also provides a platform for faculty from across the
institute to engage with students through projects, courses and other activities so as to develop better
understanding of issues related to human values and technology. The Centre acts as a catalyst in the activity
of sensitizing the campus community at large to these issues through lectures by eminent personalities. It
also organizes several workshops on meditation, self-enquiry and the like for students and other campus
residents.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Centre supports research primarily through its Ph.D. program in the following areas:
• Holistic Health and Wellness: All issues pertaining to holistic view of individual’s health and wellness.
These include modern scientific research on proven mind-body techniques for physical and mental
health, such as Mindfulness, Yoga, Tai-Chi, Qi-Gong, Ayurveda, Holistic nutrition and others. Yogic
Neuroscience, Indian Psychology, Cognitive Sciences, Clinical trials on Yoga and Ayurveda, fMRI-based
Neuroimaging (fMRI), EEG, MEG, PET, fNIRS.
• Leadership for Sustainable Development: Various aspects of holistic and sustainable development.
Notions of development which go beyond purely material well-being, and consider other aspects of
human/societal well-being such as intellectual, emotional and overall happiness. Notions of development
which encompass sustained co-existence among human-beings as well as with nature. How to create
leadership (in various walks of life - especially in engineering/technology) for taking forward these
alternate views on development.
• Inner Development: Understanding first person mental phenomena, especially those pertaining to
Meditation, Mindfulness and Contemplation in a rigorous academic framework. Theoretical frameworks
for alternative worldview based on deep contemplative insights. Teaching and research on first person
mental phenomena through accurate and reproducible observations.
Inner and Outer Harmony through Music and Arts. Classical music, dance and art forms that promote
introspection, concentration, various aspects of self-awareness and devotion. Evolution of parallel
streams of classical music in India. Development of classical art forms through folk art forms. Societal
awareness through classical music. Streams of thought in classical music. Connections between carnatic
music and sufism. Technology-based analysis and dissemination of music.
• Value Education and Technology: Teaching the teachers, tools and techniques for inculcating value
education to students, especially at tertiary level of science and engineering. Research on effectiveness
of various techniques for value education. Newer models of education. Use of technology for large scale
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 FACILITIES
The Centre has a unique collection of books and audio-visual material on topics pertaining to science,
spirituality, human values and ethics. It also has a meditation room that can accommodate 30 people and is
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CENTRE
 Joby Joseph, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Photonics, Applied Optics, Holographic Data Storage,
Digital Holography, Optical Data Security, Photonic
Head of the Centre
Crystals, Photonics Metamaterials, Super-resolution
imaging, Photonic biosensing.

Kedar B. Khare, Ph.D. (Univ. Rochester) Anurag Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Emeritus Professor
Associate Professor
Fiber Optics, Integrated Optics, Gradient Index Optics,
Optics/Photonics, Computational Imaging,
Applied Optics, Numerical Modelling of Guided Wave
Inverse Problems, Compressive Sensing.
Optical Devices.

P. Senthilkumaran, Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Benjamin Lionel, M.Tech. (IIT Delhi)

Professor of Practice
Professor
Electro-optic Systems, Optical Instrumentation,
Applied Optics, Singular Optics, Physical Optics.
Armoured Fighting Vehicles.

Vishal K. Vaibhav, Ph.D. (Max Plank Institute, Arun Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Germany) Visiting Professor
Assistant Professor Optical Waveguides, Fiber and Integrated
Non-linear Optics, Computational Physics, Optic Sensors, Polarization Mode Dispersion
Numerical Analysis of PDEs. and Polarization Devices, Plasmonics.

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O P T I C S A N D P H O TO N I C S
Optics and Photonics Centre has been created recently at IIT Delhi, with a vision to establish an academic
unit of eminence, dedicated to innovations in teaching, research and technology development in the area
of Optics and Photonics. Its mission is to develop into a globally-competitive ‘look-up-to’ Centre in India for
all areas in Optics and Photonics, from fundamentals to cutting-edge research & innovation, for teaching,
training, certification, product development and entrepreneurship.
The Centre will undertake research, development and innovation, and manpower training in all areas of
Optics and Photonics, keeping a balance between classical and modern areas. The Centre will collaborate
with government establishments and industry to undertake R&D in the areas of importance for them. The
Centre aims to synergize and significantly enhance the activities in Optics and Photonics at the institute,
particularly in view of the strong interdisciplinary nature of the subject. The Centre would pursue innovations
in traditional areas such as optical engineering, instrumentation, and laser technology as well as modern
areas at the cutting edge of R&D such as ultrafast optics, silicon photonics, nanophotonics, biophotonics,
quantum photonics and terahertz photonics. The Centre will be working in collaboration with a number of
faculty members from other academic units such as Physics, Electrical Engineering, and SeNSE.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The Centre will have primarily Ph.D. Research and M.Tech. and M.S. (Research) Programmes.
i. Ph.D. Programme: Ph.D. programme that caters to both fundamental and applied research, with
emphasis given to interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Students with varied background such as
physics, engineering and biological sciences would be trained in relevant areas.
ii. M.Tech. and M.S.(R) Programmes are being planned and are likely to be introduced from the next
academic year.

RESEARCH AREAS
The Centre is currently focusing on the following five research theme areas, with further details as:
• Lasers & Guided Wave Optics: Lasers, High Power Lasers and laser optics, Laser Systems and Applications
in Medicine, Defence, Communications (including VLC), and Manufacturing, Guided wave optics, Fiber
optics and Optical communication, Integrated optics, Fiber lasers and amplifiers, specialty fibers and
sources.
• Optical Engineering: Geometric optics, Optical design, testing and fabrication, Micro-optics, Large-size
Optics, Optical Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology, Optical devices and sensors. Illumination
Engineering, Lighting and optical sources and radiation measurement (photometry, colorimetry and
radiometry), Adaptive Optics, Free-space optics, Physical and Statistical optics, Wave propagation,
Singular optics, Polarization optics, Diffractive and micro-optics, freeform optics, Atmospheric, oceanic
and space optics, Scattering, Remote sensing (LIDAR) and sensors.
• Imaging, Sensing and Biophotonics: Fourier optics and optical signal processing, Holography, Image
processing, Machine vision, Optical data storage, Computational Imaging and Sensing, Imaging systems,
Microscopy, Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) & Mixed Reality (MR)- 3D display, vision and
communication technology, Bio-medical optics and biophotonics, Vision, color, and visual optics,
Nanoscopy for biological samples, Biosensors.
• Nanophotonics: Nano-photonics, Plasmonics, Photonic Metamaterials, Photonic crystals, Optics at
surfaces, Micro-/Nano-Optics, OE-MEMS, Optical Materials, Detectors, Optoelectronics, Liquid crystal
photonics, Spectroscopy, Polymer Photonics, Green Photonics, Silicon photonics, solar cell optics,
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 • Ultrafast and Quantum Optics: Nonlinear optics and applications, Terahertz optics and photonics, IR
& Mid-IR Optics, Ultrafast optics, Extreme Optics, Atomic and molecular physics, Quantum Integrated
Photonics, Quantum Information, Quantum Technologies.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Centre will establish well-equipped state-of the art laboratory facilities for teaching and research in
Optics and Photonics. Current research laboratories are:

Photonics Research Laboratory:

The Photonics Research Laboratory lead by Professor Joby Joseph is currently involved in research and
developmental activities in areas such as: phase controlled 3-D interference lithography for fabrication
of large area photonic structures, studies on photonic resonant structures for biosensing and other
applications, Design and fabrication of photonic metamaterials and metasurfaces, Super resolution
optical imaging using structured illumination, Shock-wave analysis using Schlieren and shadowgraphy
techniques etc. Experimental facilities available include: 1D, 2D, 3D Interference Lithography setup,
JEOL Tabletop SEM, Femtofiber laser, He-Cd Laser 325 nm and 442 nm, Coherent Genesis laser 355nm,
Toptica blue mode laser 405 nm, He-Ne laser 632.8nm, Cobolt samba lasers 532 nm, Holoeye Spatial
Light Modulators, UV-VIS spectrometer, Spin Coater, Hot plates, Digital Balance, Centrifuge systems, Box
furnace, 3D Printers etc.

Photonics Research Laboratory

Computational Imaging Laboratory:

The computational imaging laboratory headed by Prof. Kedar Khare works on novel imaging concepts
that use optical design and advanced reconstruction algorithms to realize unprecedented imaging
performance beating traditional limits in terms of resolution, accuracy, imaging speed, field-of-view, etc.
A number of successes over the last several years include system concepts based on our optical phase
reconstruction and phase engineering algorithms that allow imaging with “incomplete” data. Collaborative
work with other departments at IIT Delhi including CBME and KSBS has also yielded number of novel
results with important system implications. A high resolution phase microscope product has recently
been introduced commercially through our efforts – the first full-fledged unit is now installed in IIT Delhi’s
Central Research Facility (CRF) for generic use. The microscope provides full-resolution holographic 3D
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Computational Imaging Laboratory

Singular Optics Laboratory:

The Singular optics Laboratory lead by Professor P. Senthilkumaran is active in Physical optics research.
Current research activities are in the areas of phase and polarization singularities, correlation optics,
interferometry, diffractive optics, polarization optics and topological aspects of light fields. The group is
also actively engaged in the design and fabrication of elements for laser beam shaping, spectral beam
combining and structured beam generation. It is also involved in non-destructive optical testing and
metrology. In collaboration with various other labs this group also carries out research in statistical optics,
beam propagation, imaging, photonic crystals and in bio-medical optics. Some of the experimental facilities
available in this laboratory are: all type of interferometers, Stokes camera, He-Ne lasers, various diode lasers
in the 1030-1100nm wavelength range, spatial light modulators, spiral phase plates and q-plates, laser beam
profilers and Arcoptic tunable phase retarders.

Singular Optics Laboratory

Computational Photonics Group:

Computational Photonics Group focuses on developing computational methods for waveguide modelling
and wave propagation. These methods are used for device modelling. In the past, variational methods for
modes of optical fibers and integrated optical waveguides have been developed. Also developed were
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 microstructured fibers (MoF) and fiber Bragg gratings (FBG). Another device that has been a subject of study
is photonic lantern for which new and simple propagation method has been developed. Using this method a
protocol for optimization of photonic lanterns has been developed. Currently, methods are being developed
for propagation of higher order modes in few mode optical fibers and for optical angular momentum
(OAM) modes. Another area that is of current focus is the development of methods for non-paraxial and
bidirectional vector wave propagation which will be useful for modelling silicon photonic devices.
Efforts are also underway in generalizing the conventional Fourier transform to integrable nonlinear systems.
The resulting transform is known as the nonlinear Fourier transforms (NFT) which has found application in
optical communication. It is also an important tool for design and characterization of fiber Bragg gratings
and grating assisted co-directional couplers for various communication and sensing applications. The group
has demonstrated a family of Cooley-Tukey type Fast NFT algorithms for encoding and decoding information
carried by optical signals in single mode fibers in the nonlinear regime of operation.

Computational Photonics Group

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 P. M. V. Subbarao, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Head of the Centre

Professor
Thermal Engineering, Energy Resources and
Technologies.
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Ram Chandra, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Hariprasad P., Ph.D. (Univ. of Mysore)
Assistant Professor Associate Professor
Anaerobic Digestion of Biomass; Environmental Biology and Biotechnology,
Agricultural Machines and Power. Applied Secondary Metabolites.

Vijayaraghavan M. Chariar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Jatindra K. Sahu, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Professor
Food Engineering, Green Extraction &
Ecological Sanitation, Design for Sustainability,
Encapsulation, Food Tribology,
Traditional Knowledge Systems.
Food Safety & Quality.

Kavya Dashora, Ph.D. (CAZRI, Jodhpur) Ajay Saini, Ph.D. (TISS, Mumbai)
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Governmentality Studies, Rural Development,
Biosensors, Non-chemical Pest Management,
Isolated Indigenous Communities, Northeast
Agricultural Technologies, Panchgavya.
India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Pooja Ghosh Satyawati Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Assistant Professor
Professor
Solid Waste Management,
Biomass Production, Conversion and Utilization;
Bioenergy, Bioremediation,
Mushroom Technologies.
Environmental Toxicology.

Priyanka Kaushal, Ph.D. (TU Wien Vienna) V.K. Vijay, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor Professor
Biomass-to-energy, Energy Systems; Biogas, Renewable Energy, Rural
Technology Assessment and Carbon Neutrality. Industrialization, Rural Energy Systems
& Entrepreneurship.

Vivek Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Sunil K. Khare, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor Joint Faculty
Paper Technology, Waste Water & Microbial Screening & Molecular Biology.
Ecofriendly Technology. Department of Chemistry

Anushree Malik, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Kamal K. Pant, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Joint Faculty
Professor
Green Technologies for Sustainable Energy
Bioremediation, Waste Water,
& Environment.
Management, Algal Technologies.
Department of Chemical Engineering

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 Ramesh Raliya, (Smart Aerosol Technologies, USA)
S.N. Naik, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty

RURAL DEVELOPMENT & TECH.

Emeritus Professors
Design & Development of Nanoscale Materials;
Biofuels, Oils, Fats and Waxes Technology, Translational Research (Lab to Land); Regulatory; Policy
Extraction of Natural Products & Support & Predictive Analyses; Execution of Pilot to
Value Addition of NTFPs. Industry Scale Projects; Exploring Inter-disciplinary
Applications of Nano-forms.

Vijay P. Bhatkar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Honorary Professor
Nitya Sharma, Ph.D. (BHU)
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Santosh Satya, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Honorary Professor
Megha Mathur, Ph.D. (IIS University)
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 INTRODUCTION
The Centre for Rural Development and Technology (CRDT) was established to coordinate and provide
inputs for scientific and technological advancements in the rural sector by giving technical back-up for the
sustainable rural development.
The guiding mission of CRDT is to sensitize the students towards the pressing societal needs and developing
solutions forthe same.Special emphasis is on sustainable utilization of resources and close loop recycling
technologies. The centre aims to generate a sustainable technology base through synergy of modern S&T
interventions and Traditional Knowledge.The centre undertakes appropriate teaching, research, technology
dissemination and outreach related activities, and network with other technical institutions, grass root
organizations, government agencies, and rural industries, for improving living conditions and generating
livelihood.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
UNDERGRADUATE
The Centre offers many elective courses to undergraduate students.

POSTGRADUATE
The Centre offers twenty-nine courses with strong lab or field component to postgraduate students as
electives. Our basket of academic courses is designed to provide wide range of courses spanning over Rural
Resources, Governance, Traditional and Emerging Technologies and Natural Product Development.

Ph.D.
CRDT has a pool of over 135 research scholars working on diverse aspects of rural development and
technology. Scholars are rigorously trained in subject/research and evaluated on a continuous basis to
carve future leaders in variety of professions such as academia, industry, developmental organizations,
entrepreneurship or think tanks.

RESEARCH AREAS
The main research areas of the centre are:
• Rural Resources, Energy & Environment: Rural energy systems, biogas production, enrichment and
bottling, algal biofuels/biorefinery, biodiesel, biomass gasifiers, biomass cookstoves, engine conversion
kits, picohydel systems, environment and climate change, monitoring, bioremediation and detoxification
of environmental contaminants, Solid-liquid waste treatment & valorization, life cycle assessment, etc.
• ocal Governance, Social Systems & Grassroot Innovations: Rural Infrastructure, Design for
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sustainability, green product development,Traditional Knowledge & Values, Ecological sanitation and
nutrients recovery, Rural Development and Governance, culture and indigenous people, Agri/artisanal
tools and livelihoods, Rural Planning and Entrepreneurship Development, etc.
• icrobio, Nano & Biomass Technologies in Rural Settings: Sustainable biomass production,
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conversion and utilization, rapid composting & bio-manures, bio-inoculants and bio-pesticides, applied
secondary metabolites, environmental biotechnology, bio-economy and panchgavya, nanotechnology,
block chain technology in agriculture, etc.
• ood, Health and Nutrition: Green extraction, encapsulation and value addition of bioactive, 3-D food
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printing, food tribology, sustainable food production systems, food quality and safety, bio-formulations
for stored food products, value addition of non-timber forest, Medicinal and nutraceutical mushrooms,
medicinal and aromatic plants and herbs, post-harvest technology, agro-waste management.

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RURAL DEVELOPMENT & TECH.

industrial consultancies funded by various national and international agencies. Currently, large number of
research projects and extension activities are undertaken by our faculty, funded by various Government and
Private funding agencies. Besides CRDT has a strong presence on International platforms through sustained
bilateral/multilateral international collaborations. In the last five years, CRDT has to its credit over 306 high
impact journal publications, 13 books, 28 patents, and 3 start-ups.
CRDT also uses the social entrepreneurship route as a mechanism for creating impact in several areas. The
Centre regularly offers Short-term Courses as well as Training Programmes for both national and international
participants with background in community development, research, policy making, entrepreneurship and
governance. CRDT plays a lead role in coordinating pan-India initiatives such as the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
(UBA). UBA, a flagship programme of Ministry of the Human Resource Development, aims to bring a
transformational change in rural development by active participation of higher academic institutions with
local communities, and reorientation of academic curricula and R&D design of knowledge institutions in the
country. The wide network originating from such efforts provides CRDT a unique platform for consultation
and dissemination.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Centre has established need based academic and core research labsequipped with some state-of-the-
art research equipment. The Centre has a privilege of 7 acres of open land space inside IIT Delhi campus
(Mahatma Gandhi Gramodaya Parisar) to enable the pilot testing of technologies before making tangible
contributions on land.
The major research laboratories are:
• Applied Microbiology Lab
• Agro Ecology Lab
• Food & Bioprocess Engineering Lab
• Agro-Forest Products Processing Lab
• Applied Biomass Lab
• Biogas Research Lab & Test Centre
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 • Biochemical Lab Biogas Enrichment and Bottling Lab
• Cook-stove Lab
• Environmental Biotechnology Lab
• Food and Bioprocess Engineering Lab
• Frugal Innovation Lab
• Regional Testing and Knowledge Centre for Clean Cook-stoves
• Supercritical Fluid Extraction Lab
• Agricultural Nano-biotechnology Lab
• Air Quality Lab

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Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation and
Cyber-physical Systems Engineering
 Anuj Dhawan, Ph.D. (North Carolina State
University, USA)
Professor
Plasmonic Devices, Optoelectronic Devices, Chemical Head of the Centre
and Biological Sensors, SPR and SERS based Sensors,
Nanofabrication, Flexible Electronics, Integrated
nano-scale systems, Integrated Photonic Devices, and
Computational Electromagnetics.

Ravibabu Mulaveesala, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Associate Professor
Satish Kumar Dubey, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor InfraRed Vision and Industrial Imaging. Signal, Image and
Video Processing Techniques for Non-invasive Imaging/
Digital Holography, Laser Based Instrumentation for
Non-destructive Testing Methods. Non-destructive Testing
Measurement and Monitoring Systems,
& Evaluation. Structural Health Monitoring. Bio-medical
Opto-Electronic Sensing for PoC Diagnostics.
Imaging. Thermal Non-destructive Testing/Thermal wave
imaging. InfraRed Imaging.

Gufran Sayeed Khan, Ph.D. (University of

Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Chandra Shakher, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor Honorary Professor
Optical Instrumentation, Applied Optics, Aspheric Holography, Holographic Optical
Optics, Interferometry, X-Ray Optics, Diffractive Optical Elements, Fibre-optic Sensors,
Elements, Computer Generated Holography, Computer Optical Instrumentation.
Controlled Polishing, Diamond Turning.

Manish Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Assistant Professor D.T. Shahani, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Optical Microscopy, Optical Imaging, Optical Systems, Honorary Professor
Bio-Imaging, Fluorescence Microscopy, Light- Electronic Instrumentation,
sheet Microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Optical Electro-magnetics, Antennas.
Instrumentation.

Jasleen Lugani, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Assistant Professor I.P. Singh, Ph.D.
Quantum Optical Technologies, Integrated Quantum Visiting Faculty
Photonics, Quantum Information Processing, Non-Linear
Mechanical Instrumentation,
Optics, Optical Memories, Photon Pair Generation,
Photonic Processors, Integrated Optics Platforms,
Microprocessor Application.
Photonic Circuits.

Shahid Malik, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)

Assistant Professor A.L. Vyas, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Analog integrated Circuits, Signal Conditioning Visiting Faculty
Circuits, Biomedical Instrumentation, Embedded Electronic and Ultrasonic
Sensing Microsystems, Implantable/Injectable Instrumentation, Signal Processing,
Sensors, Sensing Prosthetic, and Remote Sensing Sonar Systems, Transducer Design.
Instrumentation.

Jolly Xavier, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Assistant Professor
Optoplasmonic Cavity-hybridized Ultra Sensitive Single
JOINT FACULTY
Molecule Biosensors, Integrated Nanophotonic and Joby Joseph, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Nanoplasmonic Devices, Tunable Quantum Optical Sources
and Frequency Combs, Quantum Photonic Sensors and Dalip Singh Mehta, Ph.D. (NPL Delhi/CCS Univ. Meerut)
Integrated Devices, Nanostructured Energy Harvesting
Devices, Integrated Reconfigurable Optical Micromachines
and Singular Optics, Opto-electro-mechanical Micro/Nano GUEST FACULTY
Devices and Applications. Rana Pratap Sircar, (Head of Innovation & Technology,
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The Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation and Cyber-physical System Engineering (SeNSE) - formerly
known as Instrument Design Development Centre (IDDC), is an interdisciplinary unit. It offers a M.Tech.
course in Instrument Technology and Ph.D. in specialized research areas combining multiple disciplines–
microelectronics, optics, electronic and photonic circuits, mechanical engineering and quantum optics to
design and develop complete systems. In keeping with modern trends, industrial/societal expectations vis-

SeNSE
a-vis the national goals, two more research areas - Sensors Technology and Cyber Physical Systems - have
been included in its theme and the centre has been renamed as SeNSE. The Centre has made significant
contribution through various sponsored R&D projects in developing Sensors/Systems for defense, medical
and industry. It aims to achieve the national goals and foster excellence in state-of-the-art technologies. After
it’s restructuring, SeNSE has six core areas of focus - optical engineering, electronic system design, advanced
optical fabrication, micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems, sensor technology and cyber-physical systems-
across three application domains - defense, medical and industrial applications.

Horizontals and Verticals Theme Areas and Collaborating Departments

Sensing, monitoring and measurement for

Instrumentation
Applications

Applications
Industrial
Defence

Medical

Collaborative Departments
in IIT Delhi

Optical Engineering Physics

Electronic System Design Electrical

Advanced Optical Fabrication Mechanical, DoD

Mirco-opto-electro-mechanical systems Electrical, Physics (NRF)

Sensor Technology Electrical, Physics (NRF)

Cyberphysical Systems Electrical, CSE

CARE CBME

Research topics undertaken at SeNSE include: Sensors and Transducers; Electronic and optical sensors;
Electronic Components and Circuits; Electronic circuit design (analog and digital); Electronic Techniques
for Signal Conditioning and Interfacing; Signal processing; Image processing and computer vision; CMOS
analog and mixed signal circuits & systems for sensors; Optical Metrology; Micro-optics; Aspheric and
freeform optics; Optical instrumentation; Holographic microscopy; Digital speckle pattern interferometry;
Optical coherence tomography; Display Devices and Technology; Quantum optical devices; Integrated
quantum technologies; Nanophotonic and Nanoplasmonic devices; Linear and nonlinear micro-resonator
integrated devices; Optical image processing; Machine Vision and Automation; Signal, Image and Video
Processing Techniques for Non-destructive Testing; Infrared Vision and Automation, Sub-surface Sensing
and Imaging, Industrial Imaging, Tera Hz, InfraRed, X-ray, and Ultrasound Imaging Modalities; Precision
Measurement Systems; Precision mechanics; Instrumentation and Control; Instrument Design and
Simulations; Mechatronics; Embedded systems; Sensors Systems; Smart Systems.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Interdisciplinary M.Tech. in Instrument Technology
This is an interdisciplinary M.Tech. program, aimed to develop and train the manpower for the industrial needs
requiring the knowledge and skills in different disciplines of science and engineering. The Center admits
the students from various streams i.e. Electronics/Electrical/Electronics & Communication/Instrumentation,
Mechanical engineering and Physics. Apart from theory courses, students also undergo rigorous laboratory
courses as part of the hands on training programme. This helps them contribute towards sponsored R&D
activities via their Masters projects.

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 RESEARCH AREAS
• Sensors and Transducers: Electronic and optical sensors; Electronic Components and Circuits; Electronic
circuit design (analog and digital); Electronic Techniques for Signal Conditioning and Interfacing; Sensor
Signal processing, Image processing; CMOS analog and mixed signal circuits & systems for sensors.
• Imaging Technologies: Optical image processing; Machine Vision and Automation; Signal, Image
and Video Processing; Techniques for Non-destructive Testing; Tera Hz, InfraRed, X-ray, and Ultrasound
Imaging Modalities, Infrared Vision and Automation, Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging, Industrial
Imaging.
• Optical Engineering and optical instrumentation systems: Optical 3D imaging with emphasis on
biomedical application, optical metrology, design and development of opto-electronic/electro-optic
sensors, NDT technology.
• Precision Mechanics: Precision optical and mechanical fabrication, Mechatronics, Microfluidics,
Composite and nanomaterials.
• Biomedical Instrumentation: NIR and IR imaging for biomedical application, wearable sensors for
health monitoring, design of point of care diagnostic devices. Fluorescence microscopy, Light-sheet
microscopy, Optical coherence tomography.
• Electronic systems, Instrumentation and Sensors (Integration): Design of electronic systems,
Industrial quality control, signal and image processing, non-destructive testing, Instrumentation and
Control, Display Devices and Technology.
• Microelectronics/MOEMS/Sensors Fab: MEMS/MOEMS based devices and their integration for sensing,
design of microelectronic devices. Nanophotonic and Nanoplasmonic devices; Linear and nonlinear
micro-resonator integrated devices.
• Cyber-physical systems: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to health applications/
public health, Embedded systems; Sensors Systems; Smart Systems, genetics and biological networks,
energy autonomous IoTs, resilient IoT and security of the Internet of Things.
• Quantum Technologies: Integrated quantum photonics, quantum device engineering, quantum non-
linear optics, Tunable quantum optical sources and Quantum photonic sensors.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
• CAD and Simulation Lab: Equipped with state of the art machines with CAD and Simulation software
to design and simulate various prototypes.
• Manpower Development in Instrument Technology (MDIT) Lab: Equipped with best facilities in
electronics design and instrumentation.
• Advanced Instrumentation Lab: Equipped with complete range of instruments to carry out DSP based
system design. 
• InfraRed Imaging Laboratory (IRIL): Equipped with state-of-the-art research facilities in the field of
Infrared Imaging for sub-surface sensing and imaging applications.
• Laser Application and Holography Lab: Equipped with state of the art facility to develop the sensors
and Laser based instruments for industrial and medical applications.
• Optical Metrology Lab: Works in opto-electronic and opto-mechanical area for precision measurement
and monitoring systems.
• Optical Workshop: Equipped with fabrication machines and metrology tools for the production
of optical elements such as mirrors, retroreflectors, lenses, parabolic optics, prisms and many other
components.

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AND INJURY PREVENTION
CENTRE
 Geetam Tiwari, Ph.D. (Uni. of Illinois, Chicago)
Professor
Transportation Planning: Expertise in transportation
planning and travel analysis, traffic safety and safety Head of the Centre
of vulnerable road users, public transport planning,
pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure planning, highway
safety and road safety audits.

Anoop Chawla, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Sudipto Mukherjee, Ph.D. (OHIO State)
Professor Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering: Expertise In Cad/Cam and Mathematical Dynamics, Vehicle Crash Modeling, Biomechanics.
Modeling, Biomechanics. Presently Involved in Computer Modeling of Currently Involved in Motorcycle and three Wheeler
Pedestrian Crashes with Truck Fronts, and Motorcycles with Cars, Fe Crash Modeling, Fe Modeling of Human Body,
Modeling of Human Body, Impact Characterization of Human Tissues.
impact Characterization of Human Tissues.

M.N. Sai Chand Chakka, Ph.D. (Univ. of New

South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Kalaga Ramachandra Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor Professor
Transportation Network and Safety Modelling: Department of Civil Engineering
Expertise in Traffic Simulation Modelling, Pervasive Transportation Engineering: Expertise in Mass Transit
Traffic Data, Surrogate Safety Measures, Highway Planning, Traffic Flow Modeling and Road Accidents
Safety, Simulation of Connected and Automated Analysis.
Vehicles, and Large-scale Network Planning.

Sanjeev Sanghi, Ph.D. (CUNY, New York)

N. Chatterjee, Ph.D. (London University) Professor
Professor Department of Applied Mechanics
Department of Mathematics Expertise in Turbulence, Fluid Mechanics,
Statistical Modelling, Big Data Analysis. Non-Linear Mechanics and Chaos, Pollution
Studies and Development of Educational Software.

Girish Agrawal, Ph.D. (Purdue University)

Rahul Goel, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty
Assistant Professor Professor in the School of Art & Architecture, O.P. Jindal
Global University (JGU)
Transport and Health: Traffic Injury Epidemiology,
Traffic Emissions and Air Pollution, Active Travel and Transportation Safety: Applications of Computations
Neural Networks; Geotechnical Data Analysis, Road
Physical Activity, Health Impact Assessment, Gender
Safety Law and Policy, Earthwork Optimization, Public
and Transport. Infrastructure, Informal Transport Networks, Public Health,
Urban Heat Island Effect, and Urban Development Policy.

Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Ph.D. (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Adjunct Faculty
K.N. Jha, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Director, Division of Statistics, Population Health Research
Professor Institute, McMaster University, Canada
Department of Civil Engineering Expertise in Nonparametric Methods, Observer Agreement,
Construction Technology and Management. Multilevel Analysis, Global Health, Methodology for Clinical
Trials, Injury Statistics, Statistical Graphics, Methodology for
Clinical Epidemiology, Meta Regression.

Ravinder Kaur, Ph.D. (Delhi University) Sarath K. Guttikunda, Ph.D. (IUniversity of Lowa)
Professor Adjunct Faculty
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Founder and Director, Urban Emissions, India
Sociology of Kinship, Marriage and Family, Air Pollution Models, Emissions Inventories,
Urban Social Anthropology, Migration Studies, Pollution Source Apportionment, Air Pollution Control
Gender Studies, Demographic Anthropology, Strategies, Environmental Policy, Capacity Building,
Sociology of India, Social Change. and Public Awareness.

Puneet Mahajan, Ph.D. (Montana) Mathew Varghese, MS(Ortho), MBBS

Professor Adjunct Faculty
Department of Applied Mechanics Head, Orthopaedics Department and Ex-Director,
Expertise in Dynamics and Vibrations. Currently St. Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi
Involved in Modelling Vibrations of Tractors and their Orthopaedic Surgery and Injury Analysis
Effect on Drivers, Helmet Impact Modelling. and Effects of Vibrations on Spines.

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A. Agrawal, Ph.D. (IGIDR, Mumbai) Reetika Khera, Ph.D. (Delhi School of Economics)
Department of Humanities & Social Science Department of Humanities & Social Science
Aravind K. Swamy, Ph.D. (New Hampshire Univ.) Rijurekha Sen, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Department of Civil Engineering Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Kaushik Mukherjee, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) S. Banerjee, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)

TRIP CENTRE
Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Manoj M., Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Sagnik Dey, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Department of Civil Engineering Centre for Atmospheric Sciences
Nezamuddin, Ph.D. (Univ. of Texas) Sourabh B. Paul, Ph.D. (Uni. of British Columbia)
Department of Civil Engineering Department of Humanities & Social Science
Ravi Shankar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Vikram Singh, Ph.D. (Cornell)
Department of Management Studies Department of Chemical Engineering

HONORARY PROFESSOR VISITING FACULTY

Hermann Knoflacher, Ph.D. (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) Suresh Jain, Ph.D. (IIT Tirupati)
V. Sumantran, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech) Vinayak V. Dixit, Ph.D. (University of New South Wales)
Chairman, Celeris Technologies Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (RCITI)

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 INTRODUCTION
The Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme has been operational for two decades and
has now been established as a Centre and renamed the TRIP-Centre. It is based at the Indian Institute of
Technology (Delhi) and is an interdisciplinary academic unit focusing on the reduction of adverse health
effects of road transport. TRIP-Centre attempts to integrate all issues concerned with transportation in order
to promote safety, active mobility, cleaner air, and energy conservation. Faculty members are involved in
planning safer urban and inter-city transportation systems, and developing designs for vehicles, safety
equipment and infrastructure for the future. Activities include applied research projects, special courses and
workshops, and supervision of student projects at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. The centre works
closely with vehicle industry both nationally and internationally. The centre will also promote collaboration
with construction (highway) industry and public transport agencies. TRIP Centre also organises short-term
courses and workshops on road safety and transport issues regularly.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Ph.D. Programme
IITD-TRIPP (now known as TRIP Centre) has been running Ph.D. programme since May 2004. At present there
are six institute fellowships allocated to TRIP Centre. Additional fellowship are available through industry/
research project partnerships. The Ph.D. programme is administered as per the IIT Delhi current norms.

M.S. (Research)
M.S. (Research) programme will be offered by TRIP Centre as per the current norms of IIT Delhi in coming
years.

RESEARCH AREAS
Transportation planning and traffic flow analysis for optimising mobility and minimising accidents and
pollution; Vehicle crash modelling, road safety studies, safer vehicle and helmet design; Studies related
to public transport, traffic management, road design and land use planning; epidemiology of factors
associated with road traffic injuries, injury analysis and pre hospital care; Studies on vehicle technology and
engines to minimise fuel consumption and pollution.
Thrust Areas
The broad areas of interest (indicative) are as follows:
1. Road planning and design interventions associated with traffic safety.
a. Road safety studies in collaboration with Industry and government organizations
b. Development of Intelligent Transport Systems including data analytics
2. Road user behaviour associated with traffic safety and sustainable transport systems
a. Sustainable transport policies inclusive of environment and safety
b. Development of modern innovative public transport systems for Indian metropolitan cities including
electric mobility.
3. Safety aspects of new vehicle technology in mixed traffic.
Safety of autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles safer bus designs.

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SCHOOL OF
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 Kolin Paul, Ph.D. (Bengal Engineering
College, Calcutta)
Professor (Microsoft Chair)
Affordable Health Care, Embedded Systems.
Head of the School
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Sanjiva Prasad, Ph.D. (Stony Brook Univ.)

Professor
Medical Applications of Computing.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

ASSOCIATED FACULTY
Sorav Bansal, Ph.D. (Stanford Univ.) Preeti Ranjan Panda, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine)
Operating Systems, Compilers.
Embedded Systems, CAD for VLSI.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Aaditeshwar Seth, Ph.D. (Univ. of Waterloo) Prem Kumar Kalra, Ph.D. (EPFL, Switzerland)
Computer Networks, Social Network Analysis, Information and
Computer Graphics, 3D Animation.
Communication Technologies for Development.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Anoop Chawla, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) P.V.M. Rao, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Product Design & Realization,
CAD, CAE, Dynamics, Bio-Mechanics, Road safety,
Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing.
Impact and Blast Mechanism.
Department of Design
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abhilash Jindal, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Rahul Garg, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics,
Operating Systems, Mobile Systems, Programme Analysis.
Neuroimaging, High Performance Computing.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Chetan Arora, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Rijurekha Sen, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Mobile and Embedded Systems (Hardware Architecture,
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
OS, Sensing, Efficient Processing, Security),
Computational Sustainability.
Harshan Jagadeesh, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Wireless Networks, Coding Theory, Security,
Distributed Storage, Information Theory. Rohan Paul, Ph.D. (Oxford University)
Department of Electrical Engineering
Human Robot Interaction,
Language Grounding, Symbolic Reasoning.
Huzur Saran, Ph.D. (Univ. of California Berkeley) Department of Computer Science & Engineering
High Speed Networks Graph Theory, Algorithms.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Ph.D. (University of Illinois)
Computer Architecture, Operating Systems.
M. Balakrishnan, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Department of Computer Science & Engineering
CAD for VLSI, Computer Architecture.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Srikanta Bedathur, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Data Management, Knowledge Discovery and
Mausam, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle) Data Mining, Natural Language Processing.
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing. Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Subodh Sharma, Ph.D. (University of Utah)
Maya Ramanath, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Formal Methods, Program Analysis, Concurrent Systems.
Database and Information Retrieval Techniques for Semantic Web Data Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Management, Information Extraction and Opinion Mining.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Sumeet Agarwal, D.Phil. (University of Oxford)
Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Systems Biology,
Niladri Chatterjee, Ph.D. (University of London) Evolution and Evolvability, Computational Linguistics,
Machine Translation, Artificial Intelligence, Reasoning, Cognitive Science, Public Health Informatics.
Statistical Modelling and Semantic Web. Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Mathematics
Vireshwar Kumar, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
Parag Singla, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle, WA) University (Virginia Tech))
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Security and Privacy in Cyber-physical Systems, Applied
Nuro-symbolic Reasoning. Cryptography, Adversarial, Adversarial Machine Learning.
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I N F O R M AT I O N T E C H N O L O G Y
A K Bhateja, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Manik Verma, D.Phil. in Engineering (University of Oxford)
Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Biometrics, Biometric Security, Artificial Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computational Advertising.
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Algorithms. Microsoft

Anupam Joshi, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Pawan Sinha, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute
Computer security, Artificial intelligence, Mobile computing. of Technology)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Neuroscience, Cognitive science, Artificial intelligence.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
B. Chandra, Ph.D. (Delhi University)
Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Data Analytics. Ashish Suri, M.B.B.S., M.Ch., D.N.B., M.N.A.M.S.
Neurosurgery, Skull base and Cerebrovascular Surgery, Endoscopic
Mahesh Chowdhary, Ph.D. (The College of William and Mary, Neurosurgery, Neuro-oncology, Epilepsy Surgery.
Williamsburg, Virginia) Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, AIIMS, Delhi
Internet of Things, Advanced Signal
Processing, MEMS, Sensor Fusion. Volker Sorge, Ph.D. (Universit at des Saarlandes, Germany)
Fellow and Director of Strategic Platforms and IoT Scientific Doc Analysis, Accessibility, Computer Algebra,
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 INTRODUCTION
The Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology was established with an endowment
from the distinguished IIT Delhi alumnus, Vinod Khosla (B. Tech, EE 1976). The objective of the School is to
foster inter-disciplinary, goal-oriented research, innovation and post-graduate education in Information
Technology. The School undertakes research in several interdisciplinary areas where there is a significant
application of Information Technologies. The School has its own supporting staff and students, and its own
joint faculty but encourages the participation of faculty members and students from other departments
who have an interest in novel applications of computing sciences and technologies.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
POSTGRADUATE
The School offers Ph.D. and M.S. (Research) programmes in Information Technology.
The M.S. (Research) programme is a 2 year inter-disciplinary programme that admits students with various
backgrounds. The school also develops and offers academic courses in a variety of application areas, for
which interested students from diverse disciplines may enroll.
In addition, the school also conducts an Interdisciplinary Program specializing in Cyber Security (jointly
with Maths, Management Studies, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).

RESEARCH AREAS
Doctoral research is being carried out in:
Scalable & Dependable Computing, Information Security, Biometrics, Information Storage and Retrieval,
Data Analytics, Social Network Analysis, High Speed Networks, Sensor Networks, Mobile and Web Based
Computing, Multimedia Systems, Embedded Systems, VLSI Design Automation, Internet of Things, Image
Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Medical Applications of IT, Computational and
Systems Biology, Computational Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Assistive Technologies, Human Computer
Interfaces, Information and Communication Technologies for Development, Data Science for Development,
Computational Sustainability, Geographical Information Systems, Blockchain Technologies, Location Based
Services, Other areas aligned with school activities.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The School has its own building, which houses specialized laboratories for collaborative and funded
research activities.
• Assistech Lab
• ICTD Lab
• Medical Applications of IT Lab
• Mobile & Machine to Machine Lab

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SCHOOL OF
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 Swades De, Ph.D. (State Univ. of New York)
Professor
Performance Modeling and Analysis, Wireless
Communication Networks and Systems, Energy Head of the School
Harvesting Wireless Networks, Broadband Wireless
Access and Routing, Network Coexistence, Smart Grid
Networks, IoT Communications.

Associated from Electrical Engineering Dept. Associated from Mathematics Dept.

Manav Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (Oslo University) S. Dharmaraja, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Ranjan Bose, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
Shouribrata Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Columbia University) Associated from CARE
Arpan Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Arun Kumar, Ph.D. (TIFR, Bombay)
Santanu Chaudhury, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Monika Aggarwal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Amol Choudhary, Ph.D. (Univ. of Southampton, UK) Ananjan Basu, Ph.D. (University of California)
Abhishek Dixit, Ph.D. (Ghent University, Belgium)
Gourab Ghatak, Ph.D. (Telecom ParisTech, France) Associated from Management Studies Dept.
Subrat Kar, Ph.D. ( IISc., Bangalore) Seema Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Sandeep Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Harish Chaudhary, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Lalan Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur) Arpan Kumar Kar, Ph.D. (XLRI)
Harshan Jagadeesh, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Jayadeva, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Mahim Sagar, Ph.D. (IIITM, Gwalior)
Shiv Dutt Joshi, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Ravi Shankar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Brejesh Lall, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Ranjan K. Mallik, Ph.D. (Univ. of Southern California) Adjunct Faculty
Sukumar Mishra, Ph.D. (Sambalpur University) S.K. Subidh Ali, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Saif K. Mohammed, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Vimal Bhatia, Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh, UK)
B.K. Panigrahi, Ph.D. (Sambalpur University) Arzad Alam Kherani, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Seshan Srirangarajan, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, USA) Dilip Krishnaswamy, Ph.D. (University of Illinois)
Vivek Venkataraman, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.) Aashish Mathur, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Soumava Mukherjee, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associated from Dhiman Saha, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Computer Science and Engineering Dept. Arun K. Singh, Ph.D. (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Prem Kalra, Ph.D. (EPFL, Switzerland) Anand Srivastava, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Huzur Saran, Ph.D. (University of California)
Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Ph.D. (Univ. of Illinois) Professor-of-Practice
Kolin Paul, Ph.D. (Bengal Engg. College, Calcutta) Krishna Kumar Sirohi, M.E. (IISc. Bangalore)
Vireshwar Kumar, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Atanendu Sekhar Mandal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
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TELECOM TECHNOLOGY & MGMT.

The Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management (BSTTM) functions jointly with the
Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, CARE,
Mathematics and Management Studies.
The Bharti School was set-up in the year 2000 through a grant from Bharti Enterprises with the following
objectives:
• To be a centre of excellence for education and research relating to all facets of Telecommunication
Technology and Management.
• To host state-of-the art laboratories and infrastructures, and a research environment so as to attract
the best faculty and students.
• To invite and encourage the best talent in telecommunications to be a part of the activities of the
School.
• To run graduate academic programmes (including M.S, M.Tech., MBA, Ph.D.) in collaboration with the
various Departments and Centres at IIT Delhi.
• To run continuing education programmes for personnel of the Telecom Industry.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The school offers the following postgraduate programmes:
Master of Technology (JTM): The M.Tech. (Telecom Technology and Management) programme is of 2
years (4 semester) duration. It is a full-time programme with classes during the normal working hours.
Part-time and Sponsored M.Tech. is also there, but at present there are no students under this programme.
Master of Science (Research) (BSY): M.S.(R) is a two-year programme for full-time students and three-
year programme for part-time students. Its emphasis is on research, with the thesis carrying 2/3rd of the
credits.
Doctor of Philosophy (BSZ): Ph.D. full-time admissions are based on performance in M.Tech./B.Tech. as
well as GATE Scores. Part-time admissions require 2 years’ experience in lieu of GATE scores.
Master of Business Administration (SMT): The MBA (with focus on Telecom Systems Management) is a
2 years (4 semesters) programme. It is designed to be convenient for practising professionals, with most
classes scheduled in the morning or evening.

TEACHING LABS
The lab has following facilities:
• Wireless Research Lab: Spectrum Analysers, Function Generators, Signal Generators, Network
Analysers, Antenna Measurement Kits, Simulation Software: CST Microwave Studio, Commsim and
EDA, Virtual Wireless Lab.
• Communication System and Signal Processing lab: This Eco-friendly Lab provides about 45
personal dedicated workstations. This secured access monitored lab is open for student access on
24/7/365 basis. The lab houses equipment for advanced experimentation in Signal Processing and
embedded Systems for use in modern communication systems.
This lab uses open source software – versions of Ubuntu - on all compute nodes. The other equipment/
facilities include Arduino, Raspberry Pi Boards, SDR (USRP) Boards, DSP and FPGA Boards, tool chains
for FPGA, DSOs with CAN/LIN triggering, Digital Multi-meters, EFI workstation, ESD workstation with
Soldering and De-soldering station, SMD Rework Station, Oscilloscope with FlexRay Trigger Capability,
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• Research Scholar Lab: The research group focuses on performance analysis of wireless
communication systems which is helpful in practical link design. Specifically, the work is on Cognitive
radio, and Smart grid technologies, Visible Light Communication (VLC), Free Space Optical (FSO)
communication over large Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) systems. These technologies play an
important role in enabling 5G communication. Another area is, providing routing solutions and
designing protocols for best path selection to enable wireless data transfer with high coding and
diversity gain. In 5G wireless networks, energy saving is an important area of research, for increasing
lifetime of the devices and networks. The activities are aimed at addressing various security issues
arising due to a presence of energy harvesting nodes in the network. For indoor communication in
future 5G networks, VLC and FSO technologies provide enhanced data rates, high energy efficiency
at lower costs. Work on optimizing power allocation in FSO for different channel models by exploiting
channel state information is also done in this lab.
Underwater acoustic channels are generally recognized as one of the most difficult communication
media in use today. Random fluctuations, large delay and Doppler spread, small bandwidth of
the acoustic signal and frequency dependent absorption make this channel extremely complex.
The advent of vector sensor recently has provided an opportunity to correct this bleak scenario
to some extent. In our research, we emphasize on performance analysis of underwater acoustic
communication system such as capacity, BER, outage probability and system design by using vector
sensors. In this lab, we are also planning to work on underwater optical and hybrid (acoustic and
optical) communication.
Security is non-negotiable and reliability is vital when it comes to defense applications. We are also
developing a scheme for identification of the channel coding type and estimation of channel coding
parameters of an intercepted demodulated satellite signal in collaboration with DRDO.
• Pervasive Telecom Lab: The pervasive telecom lab hosts several unique research initiatives. Central
to the theme is the idea that telecom devices can be made ubiquitous, and deployed in numbers which
are so large that data they gather is at a very high resolution. This data may be multi-dimensional
but even with two dimensions - of space and time - it is extremely useful. The resulting Internet
of Things and the Big Data flowing there from requires innovations in protocol stacks, hardware at
layers 1, 2 and 3 in large distributed back-end repositories and in inference engines for the analytics.
We have provisioned cloud repositories and have web-enabled several application domains such as
healthcare, agriculture and animal management.
• AIML Lab: Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have become today’s hot topics as AI and
ML technologies increasingly find their way into everything from advanced quantum computing
systems and leading-edge medical diagnostic systems to consumer electronics and “smart” personal
assistants.
AIML lab aims at improving the quality of life of students through technology by bringing end to end
multi- disciplinary researches to a single place.
• Next Generation Wireless Communication Lab: The The “Next Generation Wireless Communication
Laboratory” is focused on developing next generation wireless communication technologies( e.g.,
Large and Massive MIMO technologies, Cognitive Radio technologies, Physical Layer Security, Energy
harvesting, Green Communication, Device to Device communication, mmWave communication
systems). Emphasis will be on building new wireless communication systems and development of
new technologies. Facilities set up in this lab will aid technology development, and bring in large
amount of research grants from government and industry. This lab is expected to become a leading
wireless communication lab in India. It is expected to help faculty devote more attention to technology
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TELECOM TECHNOLOGY & MGMT.

technologies. This will lead to skill development which will satisfy industry needs.
• Advanced Wireless Lab: Advanced Wireless Laboratory (IIA-107), led by Prof. Manav Bhatnagar,
focuses on cutting edge research on next-generation wireless communications, with a primary
focus on limited feedback-based wireless communications, free-space optical communication,
power line communications (PLC), molecular communications, smart grid communications,
satellite communication, and underwater wireless optical communications. The lab engages in
research to ensure the security and privacy of wireless communication techniques employed in the
aforementioned areas. Research outcomes are disseminated via journal publications, conference
presentations, and presentations. Students pursuing Ph.D, M.Tech, and B.Tech in IIT Delhi implement
communication techniques in hardware using USRP kits.
• Samsung Digital Academy Innovation Lab: Samsung Innovation Lab is a state of the art research lab
of Bharti School, IIT Delhi under supervision on Prof. Brejesh Lall. With many PhD students working in
area of Computer Vision, Deep Learning and AI on many novel research ideas for solving novel social
as well scientific problems. The lab boasts multiple CUDA capable rack servers, workstations and
high end edge computing capabilities required for performing analytics on humongous data that is
captured by multiple sensors, cameras etc. A brief description of some of the research activities being
performed by the various Ph.D scholars along with support from PG and UG students follows: Sakshi
Ahuja is pursuing her work in brain tumor analysis performing segmentation of tumor from multiple
modalities and estimating tumor growth from pre and post-operative brain MRI database using deep
learning. Anushikha Singh performs computer aided diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis for the
Indian Subcontinent. This project involves segmentation of lung area in chest X-ray images followed
by rib suppression and identification of abnormalities present in different zones of chest X-ray image.
Ronak Gupta works on developing novel video compression methods for VR videos. He’s also working
on problems of detecting Traffic violation by vehicles from videos captured from a camera mounted
on a car. One of the sub-problems is to localize and classify the type of vehicles such as car, bus,
truck, auto & motorbike, pedestrians which are jaywalking or endangering on the road. Vinay Kaushik
is working on developing novel algorithms to map real world terrain using an inexpensive camera
in real time for AI based AR/VR apps such as gaming, navigation, automated driving, etc. Aditi is
analysing marine environment by detecting and tracking aquatic animals and predicting their long
term behaviour under water. She aims to predict the health of water bodies and also analyse the
underwater ecosystem. Piyush is working on characterizing deep networks for better understanding
how AI works and how can we make it better. Ayan is developing algorithms for better multirate
signal processing. There has also been research in developing salience based segmentation methods
for image retargeting, video super-resolution for future displays, action recognition framework
based on compressive sensing using Deep AI. There are several interesting cool projects going on
in Samsung Innovation Lab. There’s work on Air pollution monitoring and prediction, Agriculture
based projects for predicting health and various plant diseases aimed at benefiting farmers in India
and smart touch displays for classes. This lab is also part of organizing interesting challenges like
Celestini Project India where researchers help undergrads solve real world problems like air pollution,
vehicle to vehicle communication and women’s safety. The lab works for developing cutting edge
technology for solving novel problems in India.
• Systems R&D Labs:
a. Central Research Facility on Advanced Electrical Characterization (CRF-AEC) Lab: This lab
houses some of the high-end electrical characterization equipment meant for wafer and chip
level characterization of electronic devices and circuits down to cryogenic temperatures as well
as mm-wave frequencies up to 67 GHz. The lab also has facility to perform low frequency noise
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 b. High-frequency RF and Optical Communications Lab: In this laboratory, we process high-
frequency and high-bandwidth RF signals using photonic techniques such as microwave
photonics, nonlinear optics and integrated optics to increase the flexibility and functionality of
traditional wireless systems. Furthermore, we are working on Terabits-per-second high-capacity
coherent optical communication systems.
c. Communication Systems R&D Lab: The lab is designed to house the core equipment of the
proposed communication systems test and R&D bench at IIT Delhi as an Academia-Industry
Collaborative R&D exercise towards faculty research translation, industry-grade systems/product
development, and technology incubation. One of the key goals is to enable ourselves to come
up with the technology development capabilities for the Indian Strategic Needs in the area of or
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SCHOOL OF
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 James Gomes, Ph.D. (Tulane Univ.)
Professor
Neurodegenerative diseases, systems theory,
Head of the School
network biology.

Manidipa Banerjee, Ph.D. (UCSD) Aditya Mittal, Ph.D. (Drexel Univ.)

Professor
Professor
Hepatitis A Virus Entry, Using Viruses as
Kinetics and Self Assembly in Biological Systems.
Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery.

Tapan K. Chaudhuri, Ph.D. (Bose Institute) Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. (Inst. of

Microbial Tech.)
Professor
Professor
Chaperone Assisted Protein Folding, Protein
Modulation of Host Intracellular
Engineering and Molecular Biophysics.
Trafficking by Pathogens.

Archana Chugh, Ph.D. (Delhi Univ.)

Associate Professor
Tapan K. Nayak, Ph.D. (IISc. Bangalore)
Cell Penetrating Peptides, Marine Assistant Professor
Bioprospecting, Plant-based Therapeutics,
Ion Channel and Receptor Biology.
IPRs and Governance in Naval Life Science
Technologies.

Chinmoy S. Dey, Ph.D. (Jadavpur Univ.) Vivekanandan Perumal, Ph.D. (CMC Vellore)
Professor
Professor
Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatocellular Carcinoma,
Insulin Resistant (Type 2) Diabetes and
microRNA in Liver Cancer, G-quadruplexes in
Leishmaniasis, Signal Transduction.
Virus Genomes.

Saran Kumar, Ph.D. (National Univ. of Singapore) Ashok K. Patel, Ph.D. (IMS, BHU)
Assistant Professor Associate Professor
Vascular Biology, Cancer Metabolism, Tumor Biomolecular X-Ray Crystallography,
Heterogeneity, Vascular Aging, Cancer Stem Cells, Molecular and Structural Virology,
Cardiovascular Biology. Chromatin Remodeling and Diseases.

Saurabh Raj, Ph.D. (The Institute of

Photonic Sciences)
Bishwajit Kundu, Ph.D. (Inst. of Microbial Tech.)
Assistant Professor
Professor
Single molecule biophysics, DNA-protein
Protein Misfolding and Aggregation.
interactions, Kinetic studies of CRISPR-Cas
interactions, Cellular mechanochemistry.

Manoj B. Menon, Ph.D. (Hanover Medical Anita Roy, Ph.D. (Saha Institute of Nuclear
School, DE) Physics)
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Cell Biology and Signalling, Septin Cytoskeleton, Myeloid Hematopoesis, Megakaryopoesis
Regulation of Autophagy and Cell Death. and Platelet Biology, Myeloid Leukemia.

Shilpi Minocha, Ph.D. (University of Zurich)

B. Jayaram, Ph.D. (City Univ. NY)
Assistant Professor
Emeritus Professor
Regulation of Gene Expression, Metabolism,
Computational Biology, Molecular Design.
Liver Regeneration, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver
Department of Chemistry
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The School of Biological Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi was established in December 2008,
with a vision to promote innovative interdisciplinary research by interfacing modern biology with applied
engineering sciences, and to train scholars to be the next generation scientists capable of addressing
problems affecting human health and welfare.
The establishment of the School was guided by a National Advisory Committee (NAC) co-chaired by Prof.
Surendra Prasad, former Director IIT Delhi and Prof. M. Vijayan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The
mandate of the School is to work in the broad thematic areas of infectious diseases and non-communicable
disorders.
Currently, the School has 15 faculty members, 102 students and 11 postdoctoral fellows conducting inter-
and multi-disciplinary research at molecular, structural and systems levels. In addition to a vibrant Ph.D.
programme, the School offers an M.S. (Research) course, and a Minor degree programme in Biological
Sciences for IIT Delhi B.Tech. students. 48 students have graduated with PhDs, and 06 students have
graduated with M.S. (Research) degrees. The School has advanced equipment facilities and is funded by IIT-
Delhi, Kusuma Trust, DST, DBT, ICMR etc.
Vision:
To become the pioneers of modern interdisciplinary biological sciences by integrating emerging disciplines
with biological sciences, and to nurture and sustain a vibrant comprehensive programme in research and
instruction.
Mission:
Promoting goal-oriented innovative interdisciplinary research by interfacing modern biology with applied
engineering sciences to address problems affecting human health and welfare, and training scholars to be
the next generation scientists.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Currently, the School offers a Ph.D. Programme M.S. (Research) and a Minor Area option in Biological Sciences
for undergraduate students. The key strengths of these programmes are their multi- and inter-disciplinary
perspective of biological sciences. The flagship UG course of the School is SBL 100: Introductory Biology
for Engineers, a core requirement for all incoming UG students. This course, with a laboratory component,
is aimed at introducing students to modern biology with an emphasis on evolution of biology as a multi-
disciplinary field. Students are made aware of application of engineering principles in biology and how to
engineer robust solutions inspired by biological examples.
Ph.D. Programme: In general, there will be no restriction on the background of the student in terms of the
qualifying degree. However, it is expected that the student’s prior academic career will demonstrate interest
in the broad field of biological sciences. A student applying to the programme can have a B.Tech., B.E.,
M.Tech., M.E., M.Sc. or M.S. in any discipline of science and engineering. Interested/deserving candidates are
encouraged to apply as per the procedures at the IIT Delhi admissions website. Selection of Ph.D. students
is based on a written test (for the eligible applicants) followed by an interview (of those screened from the
written test). The written test will examine the analytical ability of students with examples from biology, and
does not require memorization of any biological terminologies. A sample question paper is available on the
School’s website.
After admission to the Ph.D. programme, the background needed for carrying out research work by the
students will be developed through a selection of courses from those developed for this Ph.D. programme,
and from existing courses in the Institute. The courses for the Ph.D. programme will be evolving continuously
with the aim of training the next generation of researchers in biological sciences. These courses will bring
together a combination of experiment and theory for understanding how biological systems work from the
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 Minor Area Programme: Academia and industry are realizing the rapid transformation of society driven by
bio-based economy. The impact of biological sciences on all aspects of human life, particularly, healthcare
and utilization of biodiversity for sustainable future, is evident. The creation of new technology and its
management will need a new genre of skilled human resources knowledgeable in the field of biological
sciences. Emerging technologies are now being created where biology meets the engineering sciences,
physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics. Engineering new materials and devices inspired
by nature, engineering drug delivery systems are but a few of a plethora of opportunities arising at the
interface of biological sciences. Keeping in view, the potential of biological sciences in various spheres
of life, the School of Biological Sciences has floated a Minor Area programme for undergraduate students.
Through this programme, a student will discover biology from an engineering science viewpoint. A student
will have the opportunity to explore a variety of areas within the diverse field of biological sciences or
specialize in a certain aspect of biological sciences by choosing courses in an area of interest.

DOCTORAL
In general, there will be no restriction on the background of the student in terms of the qualifying degree.
However, it is expected that the student’s prior academic career will demonstrate interest in the broad field
of biological sciences. A student applying to the programme can have a B.Tech., B.E., M.Tech., M.E., M.Sc. or
M.S. in any discipline of science and engineering. Interested/deserving candidates are encouraged to apply
as per the procedures at the IIT Delhi admissions website.
The background needed for carrying out research work by the students will be developed through a selection
of courses from those developed for this Ph.D. programme, and from existing courses in the Institute. The
courses for the Ph.D. programme will be evolving continuously with the aim of training the next generation
of researchers in biological sciences. These courses will bring together a combination of experiment and
theory for understanding how biological systems work from the cellular to the systems level.

M.S. (RESEARCH)
The M.S. (Research) programme was initiated to enhance existing teaching and research activities being
carried out by the School. Students will be trained on newer technologies currently desirable in the
industry and academia. The technological focus on the M.S. (Research) programme would be to provide
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The School will admit students from different academic backgrounds and levels of preparation. The board
guidelines for admission are:
i) Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any engineering discipline.
ii) Bachelor’s (four - year programme) or Master’s degree in any Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or
Life Sciences.
The admission will be according to Institute rules once a year. A student may enroll as a full-time or a
part-time candidate. Student admitted to the programme will be assigned course work according to
the requirements of the research problem. The credits and the minimum CGPA requirements will be
according to the Institute rules. The courses will be awarded to build the student’s background and to
impart knowledge in specific area. The student must take the all courses under the compulsory category
and the remaining credits from the other courses of the School or relevant courses from the Institute. The
research problems will be given by the faculty from their area of expertise. The student will complete the
problem assigned by the supervisor, execute the research work and write ca thesis that merits the award
of M.S. (Research) degree.

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The school has all facilities to carry out research in biological sciences. These include:
• Spectrophotometers
• Refrigerated tabletop centrifuges
• Ultracentrifuges
• Fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) and high pressure liquid Chromatography (HPLC) systems
• Gel imaging and documentation equipment
• PhosphorImager
• Cell culture facilities including hoods
• Incubators and inverted microscope
• CD machine
• Fluorimeter
• Real time PCR system for quantification of nucleic acids
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 • Confocal microscope for advanced cell biological studies
The new major equipment include:
• FACS Aria III
• Microarray platform comprising of Affymetrix system Gene chip 7G
• Gene chip Scanner 3000 7G
• Gene chip Fluidics Station
• Gene chip Hybridization Oven
• Real time PCR system (MX3000P)
• Lab chip GX
• Zephyr genomics workstation
• Cryo-EM system
In addition to all these, the school has access of a range of software licensed by the Insititute for teaching
and research. It has inter- and intra-net and dedicated access to the supercomputing computing facility
of IIT Delhi.

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 Rajendra Singh, Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.)

Head of the School

Professor
Semiconductor Materials and Processing,
Wide Band Gap Semiconductor, Semiconductor
Nano-wires, Semiconductor Wafer Bonding.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY MEMBERS

Department of Applied Mechanics Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Souvik Chakraborty, Ph.D. (IIT Roorke)
Vireshwar Kumar, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
Anupam Dewan, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) University)

Puneet Mahajan, Ph.D. (Montana State University)

Sushma Santapuri, Ph.D. (Ohio State) Department of Electrical Engineering
Jayadeva, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Dept. of Biochemical Engineering and Indra Narayan Kar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Biotechnology Brejesh Lall, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Shaikh Z. Ahammad, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Dhiman Mallick, Ph.D. (Tyndall National Institute,
University College Cork)
Ravikrishnan Elangovan, Ph.D. (Florence Univ.)
Mashuq-un-Nabi, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Ishaan Gupta, Ph.D. (EMBL & University of Heidelberg, Germany)
B. Panigrahi, Ph.D. (Sambalpur Univ.)
Prashant Mishra, Ph.D. (JNU, New Delhi)
Sumit Pramanick, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Atul Narang, Ph.D. (Purdue Univ.)
Manan Suri, Ph.D. (INPG, France)
Shilpi Sharma, Ph.D. (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich,
Germany)
T. R. Sreekrishnan, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Department of Energy Science and Engineering
Satananda Kar, Ph.D. (Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar)

Department of Chemical Engineering

Suddhasatwa Basu, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Department of Humanities & Social Science
Shalini Gupta, Ph.D. (NC State Univ.) Vibha Arora, Ph.D. (Oxford Univ.)
Anurag S. Rathore, Ph.D. (Yale University) Varsha Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Anil Verma, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
M. Ali Haider, Ph.D. (Univ. of Virginia) Department of Management Studies
Sanjay Dhir, Fellow, Ph.D. (IIM, Lucknow)
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Ph.D (IIT Kanpur)
Department of Chemistry
Surya Prakash Singh, Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur)
Shashank Deep, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
B. Jayaram, Ph.D. (City University NY)
Hemant Kumar Kashyap, Ph.D. (Jadavpur Univ.) Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Tanmay Dutta, Ph.D. (Calcutta University) Ankur Goswami, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
V. Haridas, Ph.D. (NIIST, Trivandrum) Nitya Nand Goswami, Ph.D. (National University of Singapore)
Shivajirao L. Gholap, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Suresh Neelakantan, Ph.D. (TU Delft)
Nirat Ray, Ph.D. (MIT)
Sangeeta Santra, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Department of Civil Engineering
Bijay P. Tripathi, Ph.D. (CSMCRI, Bhavnagar)
Babu J. Alappat, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Sumedha Chakma, Ph.D. ((IIT Delhi)
Tanusree Chakraborty, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Department of Mathematics
N.M. Anoop Krishanan, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Niladri Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Univ. of London)
Vasant Matsagar, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Harish Kumar, Ph.D. (ETH Zurich)

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Krishnakant Agrawal, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Sagnik Dey, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Naresh Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) Sandeep Sahany, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Anoop Chawla, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Ashish K. Darpe, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology
Devendra Kumar Dubey, Ph.D. (Purdue University, USA)
S. Fatima, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Amit Gupta, Ph.D. (University of Central Florida)
Pulak Mohan Pandey, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Varun Ramamohan, Ph.D. (Purdue University, USA) Center for Biomedical Engineering
Subir Kumar Saha, Ph.D. (McGill Univ.) Anup Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Satinder P. Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, Ph.D. (Iowa State University,
Kaushik Mukherjee, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) USA)
Sandeep Kumar Jha, Ph.D. (Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, Mumbai)
Department of Physics
Varsha Banerjee, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Saswata Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (IACS, Kolkata) Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
Rajendra Singh, Ph.D. (IUAC, JNU, New Delhi) Tapan K. Chaudhuri, Ph.D. (Bose Institute, Calcutta)
J.P. Singh, Ph.D. (IUAC, JNU, New Delhi) Manidipa Banerjee, Ph.D. (UCSD)
James Gomes, Ph.D. (Tulane University)
Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering
Shilpi Minocha, Ph.D (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
R. Alagirusamy, Ph.D. (Georgia University)
Aditya Mittal, Ph.D. (Drexel Univ.)
S. Wazed Ali, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. (Jadavpur University,
B.K. Bahera, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Kolkata)
Vijaykumar N. Beheti, Ph.D. (TU Liberec, Czech Republic) Vivekanandan Perumal, Ph.D. (CMC Vellore)
Apurba Das, Ph.D. (IIT Delh)
S.M. Ishtiaque, Ph.D. (Tech. Univ. of Liberec)
Bipin Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delh) Optics & Photonics Centre
Abhijit Majumdar, Ph.D. (Jadavpur University) Kedar Khare, Ph.D. (University of Rochester, NY, USA)
Bhanu Nandan, Ph.D. (MSRDE, Kanpur University)
Center for Rural Development and Technology
Javed N. Sheikh, Ph.D. (I.C.T. Mumbai)
V.M. Chariar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics Pooja Ghosh, Ph.D. (JNU, New Delhi)
Pushparaj Singh, Ph.D. (NTU, Singapore) Priyanka Kaushal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Samaresh Das, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Anushree Malik, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
Srinivas V. Veeravalli, Ph.D. (Cornell University, Ithaca, US) Satya Narayan Naik, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

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 INTRODUCTION
The School was founded in October 2017 with the objective to actively encourage our researchers and
students to stretch their boundaries and to collaborate with people from other disciplines to help bring
broader perspectives and ideas to research problems of different kinds. It is envisioned that the school
will not only accelerate growth of interdisciplinary research at IIT Delhi but would enable to engage with
faculty across Institutes such as AIIMS, JNU, NII, AIIA, DRDO, Washington University in St. Louis etc. It is
expected that over a period of time the School would be able to “seed” a number of inter-disciplinary
programmes that are unnoticed today. IIT Delhi already has a number of strategic interdisciplinary research
groups working on various issues including a few related to societal problems but with limited scope.
We believe that SIRe will serve as an ideal platform for the growing numbers of Centres of excellence
and MOUs with other organizations/institutes/research laboratories to undertake problems that require
solutions from completely different perspectives.
SIRe is a virtual school. Currently the School runs a Ph.D. programme. All faculty who have a registered
Ph.D. student at SIRe are associated faculty members of the School. Currently we have 82 Ph.D. students
registered at this School with 120 faculty members from 15 Departments, 06 Centres & 01 School. All
areas of science, engineering, humanities and management pursued at IIT Delhi are considered under
the umbrella of SIRe. IIT Delhi has signed MOUs with AIIMS, JNU, NII, AIIA, DRDO, Washington University
in St. Louis etc. Many students are already registered jointly with these institutions. Other institutions are
invited to participate in this endeavor and sign an MOU with IIT Delhi to enable them to register Ph.D.
students at SIRe.

MISSION AND VISION

IIT Delhi is a research-intensive institute. It has created SIRe to promote interdisciplinary research. Over
the past six decades, the institute has established several strong disciplines in the area of engineering,
science and humanities. The disciplines will remain a central element of the academic system but SIRe
will serve as a catalyst to bring together people from various departments and neighbouring academic
institutions and industry to solve complex questions and problems in cross disciplinary research. It will
inculcate scientific curiosity, and encourage faculty and students to congregate at the interfaces and
frontiers of disciplines and foster new research avenues.

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 Ambuj D. Sagar, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)

Head of the School

Professor
Science, Technology and Development, Innovation Policy
for Meeting Sustainability and Inclusivity Challenges,
Energy Innovation Policy and Strategies, Climate Change
Policy and Politics, and Higher Education Policy.

Debananda Mishra, Ph.D. (University College

Soutrik Basu, Ph.D. (Wageningen School of Social London)
Sciences (WASS)) Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Higher Education; Public Values and Publicness;
Science Policy, Innovation Systems, Agrarian Studies, Knowledge Systems; Start-Ups and Innovation;
Agri-innovation, Policy Studies. Organisational Theory and Development;
Public Administration.

Surajit Chakravarty, Ph.D. (University of South- Sanjay Mitra, Master of Public

ern California)
Administration (Harvard University)
Associate Professor
Professor of Practice
Urban Policy - Housing, Mobility, Public Participation,
Governance and Decentralization,
Small Towns, Digital Transformation of Cities.
Public Formulation, National Security,
Planning Theory - Informality, Planning Ethics, Diversity
Electricity Policy.
and Inclusion, Public Space and Public Time.

Rohit Chandra, Ph.D. (Harvard Kennedy Nandana Sengupta, Ph.D. (Tepper School
School)
of Business at Carnegie Mellon University)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Energy Policy, Political Economy of
Econometrics, Machine Learning, Survey
Infrastructure and Finance, Industrial History,
Design, Skilling, Indian Labour Market.
State Capitalism.

Kaveri Iychettira, Ph.D. (Delft University of Technology) Upasna Sharma, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Policy Design and Analysis; Energy Transitions in Developing
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management,
Countries; Institutional Analyses; Modelling for Policy
Information and Communication
Analysis (Computational Social Science, Agent-Based
Technologies for Agriculture, Climate
Modelling); Electricity Market Design; Decarbonizing
Change Adaptation.
Electricity, Mobility; Water-Agriculture-Energy Nexus.

Abhishek Malhotra, Doctor of Science (ETH

Zurich)
Assistant Professor
Policy Design for Low-Carbon Development, Innovation
in Clean Energy Technologies, Green Industrial Policy,
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The School of Public Policy is a newly-established entity in the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, which
is one of India’s premier engineering and education and research institutions. The IITD-SPP aims to be
an academic centre of excellence for domestic and global policy research, with a particular emphasis on

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science, technology, innovation (STI), and development that will contribute positively and significantly to
national and global policy processes on key issues of importance to India and other countries.
As a premier institute of technology, IIT Delhi is uniquely placed to engage with broader issues relating to
science and technology. It has the analytical and quantitative culture needed for engaging in STI policy
issues. Furthermore, many faculty members on campus already are engaged is some form or fashion with
S&T policy through their own work. As an academic institution, IIT Delhi offers a value-neutral location
for engaging with multiple/conflicting perspectives and its high profile also gives it convening power to
bring together stakeholders as well as engage with policy makers. The School will also link with emerging
programs at IIT Delhi such as those involving design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Overall, we expect
the SPP to add to policy-analytical knowledge and capabilities in the country, with a special, and much-
needed, focus on issues with a scientific and technical content, and couple this work to decision-making
processes at the local, national, and international levels.
Specific objectives of the IITD-SPP are to:
• Carry out world-class research on a range of topics that relate to the production and use of scientific
and technical knowledge for developmental goals in a changing global and domestic context;
• Develop policy proposals to address specific developmental challenges as well as strategies for their
implementation;
• Engage with high-level policy makers on ‘policy needs’, implementation strategy, and monitoring &
assessment;
• Promote a public dialogue with citizens, academics, and policy makers on policy and societal
implications of major scientific and technological changes;
• Help build local capacity for policy analysis and implementation through the training of the next
generation of scholars and practitioners and through the upgrading of the skills of existing personnel;
and
• Enhance IIT Delhi’s educational offerings, research profile, as well as social impact

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Ph.D. Programme
IITD-SPP offers a full-time and a part-time Ph.D. programme to highly motivated individuals interested in
working on research problems related to STI policy in the areas of Energy and Environment; Agriculture,
Food and Water; Internet, Digital Information and Society; Innovation Systems and Processes; Industry and
Economy; Technical Higher Education and Sustainable Habitats. IITD-SPP conducted its first round of intake
for the Ph.D. programme in May 2019 and has since then admitted a talented pool of students into its Ph.D.
programme in each successive round of admissions.

Master of Public Policy Programme

IITD-SPP has a flagship 2 year Master of Public Policy (MPP) programme focused on in Science Technology
and Innovation (STI) and Development. The objective of the program is to provide rigorous interdisciplinary
training to students from diverse backgrounds and to transform them into top-quality policy professionals
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 Future Plans for Academic Programmes
In the near term, once we recruit sufficient faculty, we anticipate the development of a minor in Science,
Technology and Public Policy (allowing focus on areas such as Technology and Innovation Policy,
Technology and Development, or Law and Technology, which would involve a structured sequence of
courses. Core courses for the minor will be designed in collaboration with various departments to enhance
the general education of undergraduate students by ensuring that they have basic exposure to, and
familiarity with, policy, legal, and societal aspects of science and technology issues. Courses may also be
organized as seminars to provide the opportunity for students to engage in cutting-edge discussions on
current public policy topics aligned with the School’s research areas that includes Science, Technology,
and Sustainable Development; Industrial Innovation and Organization; Health Systems and Innovations;
Science, Technology, the Future of Agriculture; Information Infrastructure; and Sustainable Habitats. With
further recruitment, we also expect eventually to develop Executive Education courses for policy-makers as
well as other senior personnel from relevant governmental, intergovernmental, and private organizations.
Over time, we can also imagine the exploration of a B.Tech.-MPP dual degree programme.

RESEARCH AREAS
While the School of Public Policy is only just beginning to get off the ground, some faculty members at
IIT Delhi have been engaging in STI policy research projects through a major grant from the Department
of Science and Technology – the DST-Center for Policy Research – as well as some smaller research grants
to individual faculty members. These include studying the productivity of technically-skilled returnees,
linkages of MNC R&D centers to the Indian innovation ecosystem, effectiveness of academia-industry
knowledge linkages, factors affecting the performance of publicly-funded incubators and ICT-based agro-
metrological advisories. We also have contributed to the development of a draft technology-led innovation
policy for DST and also held a number of workshops on various topics (such as inclusive innovation and
technology assessment). For further details, please visit https://spp.iitd.ac.in

Energy and Environment Agriculture, Food and Water Internet, Digital Information and Society

Industry and Economy Innovation Systems and Processes Technical Higher Education

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 Mausam, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle)
Professor (Jai Gupta Chair)
Neuro-Symbolic AI, Sequential Decision Making under
Uncertainty, AI Applications to Crowd-Sourcing and Head of the School
Education, Natural Language Processing, Markov
Decision Processes, Web Information Extraction,
Intelligent Information System, Question Answering,
Dialog Systems.

JOINT FACULTY

Sumeet Agarwal, Ph.D. (University of Oxford) N.M. Anoop Krishnan, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Systems Biology, Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Multiscale
Evolution and Evolvability, Computational Linguistics, Simulations, Data-driven Modeling and Discovery of
Cognitive Science, Public Health Informatics. Materials, AI and ML for Materials.
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Civil Engineering

Chetan Arora, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Sandeep Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor and Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow
Optimization, Machine Learning, Graphical Models,
Computer Vision, Machine Learning.
Signal Processing, Geometric Deep Learning.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

Srikanta Bedathur, Ph.D. (IISc. Bangalore)

Associate Professor Rohan Paul, Ph.D. (University of Oxford)
Data Management, Knowledge Discovery and Data Assistant Professor and Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow
Mining, Information Retrieval. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Learning,
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Estimation and Planning. Assistive Technologies.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Souvik Chakraborty, Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee) Sayan Ranu, Ph.D. (Univ. of

Assistant Professor California, Santa Barbara)
Deep Learning, Digital Twin, Stochastic Mechanics, Associate Professor (Nick McKeown Chair)
Stochastic Dynamics, Reliability Analysis, Design Under Machine Learning for Graphs, Data Mining, Spatio-
Uncertainty, Multi-scale Systems, Inverse Problems. temporal data analytics, Bioinformatics.
Department of Applied Mechanics Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Sitikantha Roy, Ph.D. (Utah State University)

Niladri Chatterjee, Ph.D. (University of London) Associate Professor
Professor Soft Robotics & Biomechanics, Artificial Muscle,
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Bioinspired Engineering, AI in healthcare, Surgical
Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistical Modeling, Simulation, Medical Device, Data Driven Computational
Mathematical Reasoning. Mechanics, Adaptronics and Smart Structure,
Department of Mathematics Machine Learning.
Department of Applied Mechanics

Arpan Kumar Kar, Ph.D. (XLRI) Parag Singla, Ph.D. (University

Associate Professor of Washington, Seattle)
Data Science, AI /ML Applications, Digital Associate Professor
Transformation, Social media, AI/ML Policy and Neuro Symbolic Reasoning, Probabilistic Graphical
Governance. Models, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.
Department of Management Studies Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Hariprasad Kodamana, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)

Assistant Professor
Machine Learning, Graphs, Optimization, Anomaly
Detection, AI for Manufacturing Systems.
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Ankush Agrawal, Ph.D. (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Amit Mehndiratta, D.Phil. (University of Oxford)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Research, Mumbai) Quantitative Biomedical Imaging, Clinical Radiology,
Agricultural Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics and Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients.
Demography, and Human Development. Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Aparna Mehra, D.Phil. in Engg. (University of Oxford)
Manish Agarwal, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Mathematical Programming, Fuzzy Optimization,
System Architect – High Performance Computing, Large Scale Molecular Financial Mathematics.
Simulations, Parallelization of Analysis Codes Department of Mathematics

Amitabha Bagchi, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Mani Mehra, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor (Jasvinder and Tarvinder Chadha Chair) Wavelets Methods for Partial Differential
Data Algorithmics and Analytics, Probability and Networks, Data Science. Equations, Numerical Methods.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Department of Mathematics

Sorav Bansal, Ph.D. (Stanford Univ.) Preeti Ranjan Panda, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Compiler Design and Optimization.
Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems, Cache Management
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
and Memory Technologies, Electronic Design Automation
and Design Methodology.
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Professor (TBO Group New Faculty Fellow)
Social Computing, Information Retrieval, Legal Analytics, Fairness in
Machine Learning. Kolin Paul, Ph.D. (Bengal Engineering College, Calcutta)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Affordable HealthCare -Science to Systems,
Hardware and Embedded Systems.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Arpan Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Armed Bandits, Cyber-Physical Systems,
Communication, Networks, Signal Processing, Security, Radar. Maya Ramanath, Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore)
Department of Electrical Engineering Database Systems and Information Retrieval, Semantic Web Data
Management, Knowledge Graph Construction and Applications.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Gourab Ghatak, Ph.D. (University of Paris Saclay)
Stochastic Geometry, Millimeter-Wave Communications,
5G Network Planning And Positioning In 5G. Manoj C. Ramteke, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Modeling and Optimization of Chemical and Polymeric Systems,
Nitya Nand Gosvami, Ph.D. (NUS, Singapore) Meta-heuristic Algorithms, Process Planning and Scheduling.
Fundamental Mechanisms of Friction and Wear of Department of Chemical Engineering
Materials, Nanotribology of Engineering Materials and Industrial
Lubricant Additives, Surface Science & Engineering, Failure Anurag S. Rathore, Ph.D. (Yale Univ.)
Analysis of Materials, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Nanoscience Continuous Processing, Analytical & Functional
and Nanotechnology. Characterization of Biosimilars, Data Analytics.
Department of Materials Science & Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering

Agam Gupta, Ph.D. (FPM, IIM-C) Manabendra Saharia, Ph.D. (Univ. of Oklahoma, USA)
Sharing Economy, Platform Ecosystems, Organizational Ecology,
Statistics and Machine Learning, Data Assimilation,
Computational Social Science, and Networks.
Land Surface/Hydrologic Modeling, Hydrologic Extremes,
Department of Management Studies
Flood and Drought Forecasting.
Department of Civil Engineering
Ishaan Gupta, Ph.D. (EMBL & University of Heidelberg)
Biostatistics and Functional Genomics, RNA Biology, Aging,
Neurodegeneration and Organ degeneration, Parasitology. Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Ph.D. (University of Illinois Urbana-
Department of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology Champaign)
Computer Architecture, Parallel Algorithms, Operating Systems.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Jayadeva, D.Phil. (IIT Delhi)
Machine Learning, Neuromorphic Engineering,
VLSI Design, Swarm Intelligence Optimization. Rijurekha Sen, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Department of Electrical Engineering Mobile and Embedded Systems (Hardware Architecture,
OS, Sensing, Efficient Processing, Security),
M. Ali Haider, M.S. & Ph.D. (University of Virginia (UVA)) Computational Sustainability.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence In Chemistry),
Development of Advanced Simulations Methods.
Department of Chemical Engineering Shaurya Shriyam, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Data-Driven Optimization in Automation, Logistics
Tarak Karmakar, Ph.D. (JNCASR, Bangalore) and Healthcare; Complex Resource Distribution
Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence In Chemistry), Development of Networks; Multi-agent Planning
Advanced Simulations Methods, Molecular Dynamics & Enhanced and Reinforcement Learning.
Sampling Simulations. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Chemistry Engineering
Anup Singh, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Lalan Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Medical Imaging, Quantitative Mulit-parametric MRI,
EEG Source Localization, Brain Computer Interface (BCI), ML Applications to Healthcare, Diagnosis, Treatment
Microphone Array Processing. Planning & Monitoring of Cancer and Osteoarthritis.
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 Manan Suri, Ph.D. (INPG, France) Ashwini Vaidya, Ph.D. (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
Non-volatile Memory, Neuromorphic & AI Hardware, Event Structures in Language, Multilingual Lexical Resources,
Semiconductor Cyber Security. Computational and Cognitive Models of Language.
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Humanities & Social Sciences

D. Sundar, Ph.D. (Pondicherry Univ.)

Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics,
Genome Engineering, Synthetic Biology.
Department of Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering

ADJUNCT FACULTY
Dinesh Garg (IBM Research), Ph.D (IISc., Bangalore) Manik Varma (Microsoft Research), D. Phil.
Machine Learning, Deep Generative Models, Latent Variable Models, Deep (Univ. of Oxford)
Adversarial Nets, Deep Nets for NLP, Convex Optimization, Game Theory, Machine Learning, Computer Vision,
Mechanism Design, and Auction Theory. Extreme Classification.

Prathosh A.P., Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Pradeep Shenoy (Microsoft Research), Ph.D.
Vision and Image Processing Audio, Speech and Music Analytics and (University of Washington)
Learning (deep learning, sequential modelling, and transfer learning). Data Mining and Modeling, Machine Intelligence,
Department of Electrical Engineering Natural Language Processing, Machine Perception.

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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi established ‘School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI)’ on its campus in

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September 2020 to strengthen education and research in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. IIT Delhi is
already one of the leaders in the country for research and educational activity in this broad area of artificial
intelligence. The goal of ScAI is to strengthen education and research in AI, Machine Learning and Data
Science, and to enable societal and commercial applications. ScAI has already brought together various IIT
Delhi faculty members individually invested in different aspects of the field, including (1) fundamental areas
of AI, such as deep learning and data science, (2) bridge areas, which connect the fundamental techniques
to specific domains based on the nature of data such as natural language processing and computer vision,
(3) application areas that apply AI techniques to specific domains such as healthcare and transportation,
and (4) policy and societal aspects pertaining to the widespread application and ethical adoption of AI.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
The school has already started its Ph.D. and MS (Research) programmes. It is starting an M.Tech. in Machine
Intelligence & Data Science (MINDS) in July 2022. Concurrently with the MTech programme, the school will
also start a dual degree M.Tech (Advanced Standing) in MINDS for IIT Delhi’s undergraduate students. In
due course, ScAI also envisions starting an Executive programme taught primarily via evening and weekend
classes. This programme will cater to the growing global demand by training industry and government
professionals in modern AI techniques, thus enriching country’s AI ecosystem. A key aspect of all of ScAI’s
programs is that they are open to all students irrespective of their undergraduate discipline.

RESEARCH AREAS
The research goals of ScAI are not only to create new knowledge, but also to seed start-ups and products
that will have a long-lasting economic impact on the nation. The school will have a four-fold research
agenda focusing on fundamentals of AI, bridge areas such as computer vision and natural language
processing, areas allied with AI such as policy, ethics, and cognitive science, and will have a strong focus on
applications of AI to domains such as healthcare, manufacturing, and intelligent robotics. Some exemplar
areas of research are as follows:
CORE & BRIDGE AI RESEARCH
• Deep Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Data Mining
• Probabilistic Graphical Models
• Information Retrieval, Knowledge Graphs
• Computer Vision
• Natural Language Processing
• Responsible AI

APPLIED AI RESEARCH
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing Process Optimization
• Social Media
• Transportation
• Materials Discovery
• Robotics & Physical AI

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 • Law Enforcement & Judicial Systems
• IoT & Hardware

Core & Bridge AI Research: Natural Language Processing

Applied AI Research: Materials

LABORATORY FACILITIES
The institute has allocated over 10,000 sq ft of space to School of AI, in which four computational laboratories
are being constructed for PhD, Masters and undergraduate students working on ScAI projects, which are
expected to be completed later in 2022. One AI-specific high performance supercomputer facility is also
expected to be functional in a year’s time. This cluster will comprise a large number of GPU-heavy machines
for training deep neural models and performing GPU-bound simulations. This will be in addition to the
institute-wide generic high-compute cluster that already exists on campus. In the medium term, ScAI
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VLSI Design Tools and Technology Programme

VLSI Design, Tools, and Technology is an interdisciplinary Masters level programme course offered by IIT
Delhi. The course is run by three departments : Electrical, Computer Science and CARE.
This is a completely sponsored programme, in which each candidate is sponsored by an industry or a
sponsored research project. Current and past sponsors include Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Cypress,
Cadence, Intel, Analog Devices, Nokia, NXP, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Nvidia, IBM, and ST Microelectronics.
Streams offered under VDTT are: Embedded Intelligence, ASIC and SoC Design, Micro and Nano Devices.
Scope for projects in analytics and IoT domain. Design your own Application Specific ICs or model your own
Semicon devices.
Once admitted, the students study in IIT Delhi for the first three semesters and have to work on a project at
the company site in the 4th semester. For more details visit: http://vdtt.iitd.ac.in/

Opto-electronics and Optical Communication Research Programme

The programme is focused for research in the field of Fibre Optics and Optical Communication. Main
participating departments / centres are Physics, Electrical Engineering, IDDC and CARE. This programme has
received fundings from the Government agencies like MHRD, DST, DIT (formerly DoE), and DoT. In addition,
R&D work has also attracted considerable international collaboration from universities in UK, France and
National Institute of Standards and Technology in USA. The development work has led to commercialisation
of a fibre optic educational kit and an erbium doped fiber amplifier.
The programme carries research in the following areas
Analytical and numerical modelling of the propagation characteristics of optical fibres and integrated
optical waveguides, design and simulation of novel in-line fibre optic components such as polarizers,
directional couplers, and mode filters, characterisation of birefringent fibres, development of optical
fibre-based sensors, nonlinear interactions in fibre and integrated optical waveguides, Optical Amplifier,
Coherent optical communication, Optical Networks, QoS issues of WDM Networks, SONET / SDH, fiber in
Access Networks, Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifiers (EDFA), Raman Fiber Amplifiers, Dispersion Compensating
Fibres (DCF), Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBG), fibre optic sensors for civil engineering structures, photonic band
gap fibres, free space optical systems, OCDMA systems, etc. For more details visit: http://oeoc.iitd.ac.in/jop/

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M.TECH. PROGRAMMES
 INTERDISCIPLINARY M.TECH. PROGRAMMES
Besides a number of regular courses that are offered at the postgraduate level by the academic departments/
centres, the Institute offers Interdisciplinary M.Tech. programmes which are managed by the Programme
Executive Committees and Programme Advisory Committees that are constituted by nominating faculty from
the concerned departments and centres. Each programme is looked after by the Programme Coordinator
who is appointed by the Director.

Masters of Technology Programmes

The institute recognises and actively supports academic activities jointly conducted by faculty across
the departments and centres. Such activities encourage teaching, research and industry/professional
interactions, these are listed below. The Interdisciplinary Post Graduate programmes are in the following
specializations:
Energy Studies: This programmes introduces students from different backgrounds to various aspects
of energy, sources, fuels, energy conversion and energy systems amongst others. Commercial and non-
commercial energy sources are covered.
Industrial Tribology and Maintenance Engineering: Various basic and applied aspects of tribology,
including wear and maintenance engineering are covered in this programme. Students are introduced to
diagnostic maintenance, reliability, availability and maintainability engineering as well as failure analysis.
Instrument Technology: This programme includes students to various instruments, electronic
techniques for signal conditioning and instrument design. The electives cover a wide range of topics in
instrumentation, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and physics.
Opto-Electronics and Optical Communication: This programme is jointly offered by physics and
electrical engineering departments. The courses cover a wide variety of basic and applied courses in fibre
optics, optical-electronics and digital communication.
VLSI Design Tools and Technology: This programme is taught by the faculty of computer science and
engineering, electrical engineering departments and CARE. The coursework includes courses on MOS,
VLSI and VLSI design and VLSI system. The students gain proficiency in the use of state-of-art tools in VLSI
design. The programme is largely supported by industries engaged in VLSI design.
Telecommunication Technology Management: A set of courses in digital communication and systems,
wireless communication and telecommunication management form the core of this programme. Faculty
of electrical engineering and management studies departments participate in the teaching of this
programme.
M.Tech. in Cyber Security: This programme is offered to students who are interested in advanced learning
and research in any area of Cyber Security.

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The Institute has following central facilities for smooth functioning of Academics, Research and Outreach.
• Central Research Facility (CRF)
• Industrial Research and Development Unit (IRD)
• Central Workshop
• Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF)
• Office of Career Services (OCS)
• Central Library

7.1 Central Research Facility (CRF)

Purpose and Aim of CRF
Central Research Facility (CRF) is a common instrument and fabrication facility of IIT Delhi created to
support students in their research activities. CRF has state-of-the-art analytical and instruments manned
by qualified personnel to provide sample testing and analysis to UG, PG, PhD students and other research
staff. The facilities are also made available, on payment basis, to other academic and research institutions,
industries and organizations in the neighborhood.
Various Facilities under CRF
Institute Central Research Facility is equipped with the following instrument and fabrication facilities.

CRF Hauz Khas Campus facilities

A. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY FACILITIES
1. Cryo HR-Transmission Electron Microscopy (Cryo HR-TEM)
2. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
3. High-resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM)
4. Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) with Oxford-EDX
5. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
6. Ultramicrotomy
7. Atom Probe Tomography
8. Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS
9. Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
10. Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA)
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M A J O R C E N T R A L FA C I L I T I E S
1. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (300 MHz, 400 MHz and 500 MHz)
2. NMR 400MHz with Liquid and Solid Probe
3. Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
4. MALDI-TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometry
5. Micro Raman Spectroscope
6. Electrospray Ionization- Liquid Chromatography (ESI-LC)-Mass Spectrometry
7. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)
8. Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)

C. OTHER FACILITIES
1. Liquid Nitrogen Facility
2. Glass Blowing Workshop
3. 3D Printing
4. Laser Cutting
5. Advanced Electrical Characterization, the facility is equipped with 4 instruments, namely:
• Cryo Prober • DC & LF Noise Setup
• Solar Simulator • RF & Loadpull System
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 D.  CRF SONIPAT FACILITIES
1. Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)
2. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
3. Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS)
4. Brunauer - Emmett - Teller (BET) Surface Area Analyzer
5. Cell Biology Lab : Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) & Confocal Microscope
6. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy Lab
7. Ion Milling System
8. Thermal Series
a) Differential Scanning Calorimeter DSC2500
b) Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer SDT650
c) Thermo Mechanical Analyzer TMAQ400
d) Dynamic Mechanical Analysis DMA850
9. Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF- SIMS)
10. Universal Testing Machine (UTM)
For more details on various CRF facilities, please visit the website www.crf.iitd.ac.in

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M A J O R C E N T R A L FA C I L I T I E S
The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi lays strong emphasis on sponsored research and industrial
interactions. The Industrial Research & Development (IRD) unit was specifically set up in the institute to
provide specialised administrative and managerial support for the operation of sponsored research projects,
consultancy jobs and other related research and development activities. Over the years, the institute has set
up many modern laboratories and supporting infrastructure through these projects. The institute has given
due emphasis to jobs of varied nature like trouble-shooting, product and process development, design
checks and investigation of problems of direct relevance to the needs of the country through time-bound
sponsored research projects and consultancy projects. The institute is actively involved in collaborative
programmes with national and international organisations and universities. The IRD unit manages these
projects and always looks forward to supporting projects of national importance that are also socially useful.
IRD ACTIVITIES
The IRD runs many schemes to encourage research and development among the faculty and students of IIT
Delhi. (For more details, please visit: https://ird.iitd.ac.in/)

IRD RESEARCH FUNDING - TRENDS & STATISTICS 43 FITT Sponsored Projects

r17.85 Crores
Sponsored Projects & Consultancy Jobs 71 FITT Consultancy Jobs
r11.36 Crores
A total of 632 sponsored projects and consultancies with a total
funding of R386.23 crores were undertaken through the IRD
unit and the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer
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(FITT) in the financial year 2021-22. Consultancy Jobs
r22.97 Crores
IRD Support to Faculty Members within the Institute
243 IRD Projects
• Research Grant for New Faculty: The IRD unit provides r334.05 Crores
IRD Consultancy
a one-time grant of Rupees one lakh to each new faculty IRD Sponsored Projects
member who joins the Institute. This Research Grant has FIIT Consultancy
FIIT Sponsored Projects
been given to forty-six new faculty members during the
Distribution of Sponsored Projects and Consultancies
Financial Year 2021-2022 to initiate new projects.
• Equipment Matching Grant for New Faculty: The Equipment Matching Grant allows a new faculty
member to purchase equipment sanctioned under a project. Faculty can avail of the grant within two
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 funding agency for the equipment under the project, whichever is lower. Equipment Matching Grants
to the tune of R2.9 crores have been sanctioned to sixteen new faculty members during the financial
year 2021-22.
• Sponsored Research Enhancement Actions (SREA) : Under SREA (1, 2 & 3) schemes, the IRD provides
support to senior staff to facilitate and enhance sponsored research activities, both in formulating/
writing research project proposals and coordinating research projects.
SREA 1: Assistance for formulating/writing major research project proposals involving multiple faculty
members from IIT Delhi or involving multiple Institutes with IIT Delhi as the Coordinating
Institute. The funds proposed for IIT Delhi should be to the tune of R5 crore or more. The IRD
unit also provides financial assistance for hiring a Project Consultant for two months during
project preparation.
SREA 2 : For a sponsored research project with a funding of R2.5 - 5.0 crores, the IRD provides top-up
funds required for hiring one Principal Project Officer for the duration of the project.
SREA 3 : For a sponsored research project with a funding of R5.0 crores or more, the IRD provides top-up
funds required for hiring one Project Consultant for the duration of the project.
Project Administrative Assistants (PAA)
The IRD Unit also implemented a scheme for providing Project Administrative Assistants (PAAs) to a group
of five PIs who have ongoing projects. These PAAs are assigned for secretarial support to the PIs in project-
related administrative and office work. At present more than 100 Principal Investigators (PIs) are utilising the
facility. Further, one extra PAA is also allocated to departments or centres on request. The department or the
centre can assign the PAA to a newly joined faculty member who does not have any project.
IRD SCHEMES FOR FACULTY MEMBERS
Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Project (FIRP): The FIRP scheme aims to enhance interdisciplinary and
collaborative research within the institute. A call for proposals is announced in research areas of national/
societal importance. The project proposals are evaluated by a team of external experts based on their merit.
Selected projects are given an initial grant of R10 lakhs for a duration of two years. It is expected that the joint
research team will submit at least one research project to an external funding agency on the completion of
the first year. The IRD has funded a total of 108 FIRP projects so far.
Multi-Institutional Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Project (MFIRP): In order to meet the current global
research challenges, the IRD unit has initiated Multi- Institute Faculty Interdisciplinary Projects (MFIRP) with
national and international institutions of eminence.
Under the scheme, funding is provided for joint MFIRP projects to a team of faculty members from two or
more institutions. There will be at least two PIs (one from each institute), and the total seed grant in general
will be R20 lakhs for two years, equally shared by IIT Delhi and the partnering institutions. So far, the IRD has
sponsored 140 MFIRP projects.
IRD SCHEMES FOR STUDENTS
Student Startup Action & Discover & Learn (1-2-3-4) Schemes: To enhance research aptitude among
undergraduate & graduate students and promote learning-by-research, the IRD launched the Student
Startup Action & Discover & Learn (1-2-3-4) schemes from the year 2016 onwards. Since then, Seventeen IRD
Student Startup Action projects and twenty-five Discover & Learn (1-2-3-4) projects are awarded in various
research areas of national interest.
Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA): The objective of the SURA scheme is to encourage
research & development activities among undergraduate students. The students are encouraged to take the
initiative in identifying investigations and analyzing research problems and formulating solutions. A total of
64 students were supported in 2021-22 under this scheme.
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who are drawing their fellowship/assistantship from the projects. These assistantships will be provided to

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the students once the projects get over and there is no other project to pay their assistantship. M.Tech./
M.S.(Research) students can be supported for a maximum gap period of six months and Ph.D. students
would be supported for a maximum gap period of one year. Thirteen students were supported in 2021-22
under this scheme.
IRD Early-Doc Fellowships are provided to Ph.D. students after successful completion of Ph.D. viva
examination. The main objective is to support the Ph.D. scholar for completing the manuscript writing
related to thesis work. A monthly fellowship of r40,000/- per month (including HRA) will be given to full
time Ph.D. students of IIT Delhi for a maximum period of 3 months w.e.f. the date of his/her Ph.D. viva.
Seventy one IRD Early-Doc Fellowships were approved during Financial Year 2021-2022.
Research Excellence Travel Award (RETA): Highly meritorious research scholars (full-time as well as part-
time) are awarded Research Excellence Travel Award (RETA) amounting to r1,50,000/- from IRD promotional
funds. RETA can be used only for a single conference travel. Total seventeen students have been awarded
for RETA this year.
Research Scholar Travel Award (RSTA): All the research scholars are awarded a travel grant under the
Research Scholar Travel Award (RSTA) up to a maximum of r80,000/- from the IRD Research Promotion
Fund, over and above an initial grant of r20,000/- provided by the institute. A total of 158 students have
been granted RSTA this year.
IRD SCHEMES FOR FACULTY MEMBERS
National Yang Ming University, Taiwan (NYCU)_IIT Delhi Programme
Academic Cooperation through an MoU signed between IIT Delhi and National Yang Ming University (NYCU)-
Taiwan. The following are the highlights:
1. The National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan and the National Yang Ming University (NYMU) of
Taiwan, merged to become a new entity National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU).
2. The coordination office at IIT Delhi became fully functional and operational.
3. Admission is open throughout the year and the details are available on the website : https://nctu-iitd.
iitd.ac.in/
4. A total of 6 students under the Joint Doctoral Degree Programme (JDP) have proceeded for NYCU,
Taiwan campus for research work.
5. 17 Ph.D. students who are jointly registered are pursuing course work/ research activities at their
respective institutions.
6. A NYCU-IIT Delhi Joint Webinar was organized to monitor the progress of the Joint-Doctoral Programme
(JDP) students.
7. 18 collaborative projects between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and IIT Delhi under
the Multi-Institutional Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Project (MFIRP) are currently operational in the
areas of:
• Artificial Intelligence,
• Internet of things (IoT)
• Cybersecurity, electrical and electronics, Renewable energy/clean energy, Biotechnology, drug
development and biomedical devices.
8. The progress of the project was reviewed between February 23-26, 2021, on a virtual platform.
MOUS EXECUTED & IMPORTANT RESEARCH INITIATIVES
This year, the Institute has signed twelve (12) major MoUs with International and National organizations/
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 1. Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D)
2. Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam (IIPE)
3. National Law University, Delhi (NLUD)
4. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
5. Mirrorsize, USA
6. SAMRIDH Healthcare Blended Financing Facility, National Health Authority, India
7. Tata Power
8. Maintenance Command Headquarters, Indian Air Force, Nagpur
9. Troop Comforts Ltd (TCL)
10. Tata Steel Limited
11. The University of Waterloo, Canada
12. RITES Limited
NEW CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE (CoEs)
Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Quantum Technologies: IIT Delhi has established a Centre of Excellence
(CoE) on Quantum Technologies to bring ongoing Quantum research activities in various departments
under a single umbrella. The CoE on Quantum Technologies at IIT Delhi will focus on thrust areas, including
Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Sensing and Metrology and Quantum Materials
and Devices etc.
IIT Delhi establishes a CoE in Smart Textiles under SMITA Lab: The National Technical Textile Mission
(NTTM), Government of India has funded a “Smart Materials and Innovative Textile Applications (SMITA)
Research Lab” at IIT Delhi. As a CoE, SMITA Research Lab will strive to bring faculty members, researchers,
and students from multiple disciplines such as Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering,
Physics, Biotechnology, and Design together to innovate and achieve good research outcomes. It aims to
work in areas of Smart and Functional Textiles using emerging materials and process technologies such as:
• Development of highly functional and high-performance textile materials using nanomaterials,
nanofibers, and nano-surface engineering
• Development of wearable textiles, also known as E-Textiles
• Development of functional textiles for biomedical applications
Centre for Advanced Research and Excellence in Disability and Assistive Technology (CARE-DAT): Based
on the leads of MFIRP IITD-AIIMS under the aegis of IRD, IIT Delhi has established a “Centre for Advanced
Research and Excellence in Disability and Assistive Technology (CARE-DAT)” jointly with AIIMS, New Delhi.
This CoE is funded by ICMR for a period of five years with a mandate to design technological solutions,
therapeutic protocols and clinical validation that can facilitate rehabilitation of patients with stroke.
New Centre to Synergize and Boost R&D Activities in Optics and Photonics Field: The next-generation
computing, secure communications and other areas are covered under the Optics and Photonics Centre,
which will play a pivotal role in the near future development of photonics-based quantum technologies,
including Optical imaging, Optical Metrology, Sources and Detectors of Light, Lasers, Fibre optics, Optical
communication, Optical sensors, Colour of light, Vision optics, Remote sensing, Illumination, Diffractive
optics, Adaptive optics, Holography, Fourier optics, Optical image processing, Opto-electronics, Optical data
storage, Optical computing, Microscopy, Bio-medical optics, Nonlinear optics, IR optics, Terahertz optics,
Photonic circuits, Nano-photonics, Plasmonics, Ultra-fast optics, Photonic quantum technologies etc.
GMR CoE for New Energy Technologies: GMR Power and Urban Infra Ltd., Mumbai and IIT Delhi signed an
LoI/MoU on February 17, 2022, for establishing the GMR Centre for Excellence on New Energy Technologies at
IIT Delhi. The CoE will undertake research & academic activities for interdisciplinary research and innovation
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M A J O R C E N T R A L FA C I L I T I E S
• A total of 632 sponsored projects and consultancies with a total funding of r386.23 Crores were
undertaken through the IRD & FITT units.
• New Faculty grant has been given to 46 new faculty members (r46 lacs).
• The Equipment Matching grant has been given to 16 faculty members (r4.59 crores)
• Under Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Project (FIRP) scheme, 108 projects have been funded by the
IRD unit so far.
• Under the Multi-Institutional Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Project (MFIRP) scheme, 140 projects
were selected for IRD support this year.
• Seven projects have been supported under the Student Startup and Discover & Learn schemes.
• Under the Research Excellence Travel Award (RETA), 17 students have been granted RETA this year.
• Under the Research Scholar Travel Award (RSTA), 390 students have been granted RSTA this year.
• A total of 65 Project Administrative Assistants (PAAs) have been attached to faculty members of the
institute this year.
• With International and National organizations/ universities, a total of 12 MoUs have been signed.
• Five CoE have been set-up with the Industry, Government & Institute Support.
• A total of 17 students were enrolled for joint doctoral program (JDP) with National Chiao Tung University
(NCTU), Taiwan.

7.3 Central Workshop

Central Workshop is one of the pivoting units of the institute which teaches conceptually “how” a product
comes to its present form by way of imparting core manufacturing education to all the first year students
of IIT Delhi. It also provides product manufacturing support to entire institute community in general and
undergraduate students in particular. More than 900 undergraduate students in their first year acquire
hands-on manufacturing skills in the Central Workshop. The Central Workshop not only introduces art and
science of manufacturing but also infuses confidence to take up product design and manufacturing activities
in future. The Central Workshop is also a place where B.Tech. students of Mechanical Engineering and B.Tech.
students of Production & Industrial Engineering acquire training and knowledge in specialized areas of
manufacturing like Metal Casting, Metal Forming, Metal Machining, Welding & Joining, CNC programming
and 3D Printing, Plastic Product manufacturing etc. M.Tech. students of Production Engineering also use the
Central Workshop facilities for their practical classes in various courses as well as for project and research
work. It also caters to the fabrication needs of students doing product design & manufacturing courses,
minor projects, B.Tech. project, Master’s thesis and Doctoral research. Large number of students use this
facility to build products and compete at national and international level product building competitions
like Formula student car, mini Baja, Robocon etc. The facility can also be used by external agencies for their
manufacturing and training needs during the vacation period.
The Central Workshop has eight different sections covering all areas of manufacturing technology. The
Central Workshop is fully equipped with traditional machine tools and presses as well as latest power tools
and other facilities. A new ‘CNC and 3D Printing Lab’ has been added to imbibe product realization through
computer generated geometries. A rapid prototype model can also be visualized by use of state of art
3D Printing technology in this new shop of Central Workshop. Laser cutting facility has also been added
recently. A state-of-art Robotic Welding Cell with Metal-inert-gas welding technology has been added as
a facility and demonstrator of Industry 4.0 technologies connected through Industrial IoT and enhanced
learning through Augmented Reality. Smart Manufacturing initiatives to demonstrate Central workshop as
Smart Factory through connected machines, capturing data and implementing manufacturing analytics are
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 The Central Workshop has undertaken efforts to reorganize, modernize and prepare for continuously
changing global manufacturing scenario. Efforts are also on to prepare students for a broader view of
manufacturing which involves planning and deploying optimum ways to transform raw material into
goods by integration of people, capital, processes, systems and enterprises to deliver products of value
to the society.

7.4 Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF)

The Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF) has been established with the support from Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology (MeitY) and IIT Delhi to support the interdisciplinary research in the area of
nanoscience and nanotechnology. The facility consists of class 100/1000 clean rooms with several state of
art fabrication/thin film deposition instruments and characterization facilities. The research programme of
NRF has been focused on both thematic areas of national importance and basic research with importance
to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. More than 50 faculty members from different
departments/centers of IIT Delhi are participating in cutting edge research at Nanoscale Research Facility.
Using the facilities at NRF, several deliverables related with nanophotonics, nanomagnetics, nanomechanics,
nanophotovoltaics, nanoelectronics and biosensing have been successfully demonstrated. The current
project of NRF “Nanoelectronics Network for Research and Application (NNetRA)” is mainly focussed to
develop nanoscale devices for health, agriculture, safety and energy sector. The emphasis is to develop
micro/nanoscale devices which can be given to users. It is also planned to explore new concepts/strategies
for developing future potential nanoscale devices.
Objective of the NRF
• To design, build and demonstrate nanoscale structure & devices.
• To investigate new concepts and fundamentals for nanoscale processes.
• To run and maintain different fabrication and characterization facilities.
• To provide exposure to students to the area of nanotechnology.
Facilities available
NRF has adequate characterization lab facilities with more than 20 equipments like XRD, SEM, RAMAN,
PL, AFM, UV-Vis, FTIR, DLS, GCMS, HPLC, AGM, Semiconductors characterizations and others. There is a
fabrication lab with EBL, Maskless lithography, Mask aligner and others. These facilities can be accessed
through online booking after registration to NRF website (https://nano.iitd.ac.in/). Presently more than
1500 users (faculty members and students of different departments and centres) of IIT Delhi are
registered for the access to these facilities. These facilities are also open to the other institutes and
industries across the country.
Seminars, visitors and training
Seminars, visitors and training to the students in the area of use of clean room and various facilities are
integrated regular feature of NRF. Ph.D./M.Tech./M.Sc./B.Tech. students are quite often given exposure to
these facilities at NRF through visits and demonstrations and many of them are given hands on training to
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such as UK, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Norway etc. Time to time, delegations and distinguish scientists

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from national and international universities have been visiting NRF. In Sept. 2021 an another very interesting
project “Indian Nanoelectronics Users Program - Idea to Innovation (INUP-i2i)” (funded by Meity) has been
implemented at NRF whose main objective is to create trained manpower in the area of nanotechnology.
Details of the program is available at (https://inup.iitd.ac.in/).

7.5 Office of Carrer Services (OCSs)

OCS interacts actively with organisations across the globe with the dual aim of ensuring that the students
are given adequate technical exposure and subsequently enabling them to get employment subsequently.
Internship
Students of B.Tech. and Dual Degree Programmes (from 2nd year to pre-final year), can opt for practical
training / internship during summer vacations. Students may avail credits for this towards partial fulfilment
of their Design & Practical Experience (DPE) component requirements subject to departmental norms of
their parent department.
Summer Internships for pre-final year students of M.Des., M.Sc. (Cog Sci) and M.Sc. (Eco) are also facilitated
by OCS.
Placement
An active and dynamic programme of securing job opportunities for students graduating from the
Institute is initiated by inviting organisations from across the globe to conduct selection processes and
interviews.
Organisations that have hitherto not participated in Training or Placement of the students are contacted
actively.
Support Services
OCS organizes lectures, seminars, and workshops throughout the academic year on various subjects such as:
career counselling, resume building, interview techniques, communication skills, soft skills etc. for students
to supplement the above information. Yukti: Building Relations (a career fair) is also organised annually.

7.6 Central Library

The IIT Delhi Library System comprises of a Central Library and about 34 Unit Libraries of departments,
centres, schools, etc., that collectively support the teaching, research, and extension programmes of the
institute. The Central Library is the early adapter of new and emerging technologies and provides state-
of-the-art user support services which include; ICT based services using Baadal cloud, Video Library,
E-Resources including E-Journals, E-Databases, E-Books, Computer and Networking Facilities, RFID
Technology, Faculty Profiling System (IRINS), Library App for Single Window Search, Discovery Service,
eNewsClipping Service, Ask the Librarian, Research Support Services and Outreach Programs, Institutional
Repository, Remote Login Facility and as the National Resource Centre for Library and Information Science
of Ministry of Education, Govt. of India (ARPIT), etc.
All the students, faculty, and staff of the institute are entitled to make use of the Library facilities. Similarly,
industrial establishments can avail the Library services on taking corporate membership of the library.
Retired teaching and non-teaching staff can also avail of the Library facilities. Anybody by being Institute
student or staff or faculty automatically becomes eligible to avail library facilities, but to make use of the
Issue/Return facility, one needs to get the smart card/ID card tagged from the library by completing some
formalities from the Front Desk/Circulation Counter on the first floor. The library currently has about 10,000
members and with a seating capacity of about 1,000.
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 1st floor and the Ground floor are open from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM (Weekdays), and 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM
(Weekends & Holidays). Reading Area remains open 24x7 hrs in normal situations.
The Central Library has substantial collections pertaining to physical sciences, engineering, technology,
biotechnology, computer and information technology, social sciences, management, etc. It is equipped
with a video viewing facility and has a sizeable collection of CDs of video lectures, kept in the Computer
Applications Division/Lab on the Ground floor. The library maintains a separate reference collection
consisting of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, handbooks, technical data, almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, in
print apart from online resources. It has built up a good collection of books in Hindi, which include books on
various subjects being taught and researched at the institute as well as general reading books.
The institute has access to over 60,000 full-text electronic journals/proceedings/standards and over 20
databases from reputed publishers. The institute has a collection of eBooks (including e-textbooks) from
different Indian and foreign publishers. The institute also subscribes to Grammarly Software for English
Correction. Almost all the electronic journals/proceedings/standards/eBooks/databases are accessible
remotely using the Single Sign-On (SSO)/Off-Campus system based on Shibboleth. The library has a
dedicated page (https://idp.iitd.ac.in) for accessing these resources remotely from outside the campus
using Institute Login and Password/Kerberos. A detailed guide and list of resources accessible from your
places of residence, outside of campus is available at: https://idp.iitd.ac.in
The Book Bank holds multiple copies of selected textbooks for making these available to the students for
the entire period of a semester, free of cost. Students can draw up to six books over and above for the whole
semester.
The Central Library also has a well-equipped computer lab facility with an internet connection for users to
access electronic resources and for their study and research work. This lab is also being used for hosting
trainings and workshops.
The Library has been using RFID technology from 2010, which facilitates the users: self-check-out of books,
self-check-in (book drop), to control theft, to find misplaced reading material, sorting, inventory accuracy,
stock verification procedures, security control, video surveillance, people counter, etc.
Another important aspect of the library is its Online Public Access Catalogue, through which you can check
the availability of the printed books and your record like Issue/Return/Overdue Books/Fine, etc. For every
transaction, an automatic email is sent on the registered email to stop misuse of your library card. The Web
OPAC (Book Search) is accessible at: http://libcat.iitd.ac.in:8080/opac. Extended Abstracts of the Theses
have also been made accessible through Library’s DSpace based Institutional Repository, which is available
at: http://eprint.iitd.ac.in. One can see the Profiles of all the Faculty Members at: http://iitd.irins.org. The
Library Mobile App is very useful and can be installed on Android or Apple devices by searching by the
name, Single Window Search for IIT Delhi e-Resources: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.
iitdelhieds&hl=en.
The library also arranges Printed Books or Journal Articles from other Libraries which are not available in
IIT Delhi through an Inter-Library Loan, request for the same may be sent through email or through Library
Circulation Counter (DELNET). If you are interested in recommending a book for the library, whether you
are a student or faculty, you can do so by using Offline Form or Online Form available at: https://library.iitd.
ac.in/book-recommendation. The library also hosts regular Workshops/Training for the Users and uploads
the Videos/PPTs on its site for reference at: https://library.iitd.ac.in/workshop-recording.
The library has a very good Photocopying, Scanning, Digital Printing, and Binding Facility within its premises
through an external vendor on a payment basis.
For further information about the Central Library and its Services, you may visit: https://library.iitd.ac.in
or download the Handbook https://library.iitd.ac.in/pdf/LibraryHandbook.pdf or explore the short Orientation
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqTnzmJvPOI&t=1s or Contact at: [email protected],
Phone: 011-26597017.

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STRUCTURE

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 THE VISITOR
Shri Ram Nath Kovind
(Hon’ble President of India)

CHAIRPERSON, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Dr. R. Chidambaram

DIRECTOR
Prof. Rangan Banerjee

DEPUTY DIRECTORS
Prof. S.G. Deshmukh (Operations)
and
Prof. Ashok K. Ganguli (Strategy and Planning)

DEANS
Prof. Shantanu Roy : Academics
Prof. K.K. Pant : Faculty
Prof. Sunil Kumar Khare : Research & Development
Prof. Naveen Garg : International Programmes
Prof. Arvind K. Neema : Student Affairs
Prof. J.T. Shahu : Infrastructure
Prof. P.V. Rao : Planning
Prof. Anurag Singh Rathore : Corporate Relations
Prof. P.V.M Rao : Alumni Relations
To be notified : Diversity & Inclusion

ASSOCIATE DEANS
Prof. Anupam Shukla : Academics (Curriculum)
Prof. K. Sreenadh : Academics (PG Research)
Prof. Pritha Chandra (Ms.) : Academics (ONI)
Prof. Nidhi Jain (Ms.) : Faculty
Prof. Sukumar Mishra : Research & Development
Prof. Pramit K. Chowdhury : Students Events
Prof. Deepti Gupta (Ms.) : Hostel Management
Prof. Reetika Khera (Ms.) : Student Welfare
Prof. Abhijit R. Abhyankar : Infrastructure (Electrical)
Prof. Shashank Bishnoi : Infrastructure (Renovation)
Prof. B. Premachandran : Infrastructure (Maintenance)

REGISTRAR
Dr. Deepika Bhaskar (Ms.)

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S T R U C T U R E
Rangan Banerjee, Chairperson Prashant Mishra B.J. Alappat
(Director) T.R. Sreekrishnan Neeraj Kumar Jha
Atul Narang Vasant Annasaheb Matsagar
Deputy Directors
Shilpi Sharma (Ms.) Bappaditya Manna
S.G. Deshmukh (Operations)
Ritu Kulshrestha (Ms.) D.R. Sahoo
Ashok K. Ganguli (Strategy &
Planning) K.J. Mukherjee Tanusree Chakraborty (Ms.)
Rajib Basu Mallick
Chemical Engineering
Deans
A.K. Saroha Computer Science and
Shantanu Roy
A.N. Bhaskarwar Engineering
J.T. Shahu
Rajesh Khanna (on eol) Prem Kumar Kalra
S.K. Khare
Vivek Vitthal Buwa Sanjiva Prasad
K.K. Pant Huzur Saran
Anil Verma
Arvind K. Nema S. Arun Kumar
Sreedevi Upadhyayula (Ms.)
Naveen Garg Kolin Paul
Sudip Kumar Pattanayek
P.V.M. Rao Amit Kumar
Suddhasatwa Basu (on lien)
P.V. Rao Sandeep Sen
Anurag Singh Rathore Chemistry S. Banerjee (on eol)
N.D. Kurur Amitabha Bagchi
Associate Deans
Ravi Shankar Subodh Kumar
Sukumar Mishra
Jai Deo Singh Rahul Garg
Pramit K. Chowdhury
D.K. Bandhopadhyay P.R. Panda
Deepti Gupta (Ms.)
Nalin Pant Smruti Ranjan Sarangi
Reetika Khera (Ms.)
Siddharth Pandey
Anupam Shukla Design
Anil Jacob Elias
K. Sreenadh Aneesha Sharma (Ms.)
N.G. Ramesh
Pritha Chandra (Ms.)
V. Haridas Electrical Engineering
Abhijit R. Abhyankar Shashank Deep Jayadeva
Shashank Bishnoi Sameer Sapra M. Jagadesh Kumar (on lien)
B. Premachandran S. Nagendran S.D. Joshi
Nidhi Jain (Ms.) Ravi Prakash Singh Ranjan Kumar Mallik
Applied Mechanics Civil Engineering Ranjan Bose (on deputation)
Sanjeev Sanghi G.V. Ramana I.N. Kar
S.V. Veeravalli Ashok Gupta Santanu Chaudhury (on eol)
Anupam Dewan Alok Madan M. Veerachary
Santosh Kapuria A.K. Jain Shankar Prakriya
B.P. Patel A.K. Keshari Manav Bhatnagar
Maloy Kumar Singha V.R. Gunturi Brejesh Lall
Puneet Mahajan B.R. Chahar Nilanjan Senroy
Sawan Suman Sinha Rakesh Khosa Sumantra Dutta Roy
R. Ayothiraman Shouribrata Chatterjee
Biochemical Engineering and
Biotechnology Suresh Bhalla Abhisek Dixit
D. Sundar R.R. Kalaga Subrat Kar
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Energy Science and Ashish K. Darpe Abhijit Majumdar

Engineering Subodh V. Modak Sourabh Ghosh
K.A. Subramanian Sujeet K. Sinha (on sabbatical) Amit Rawal
Vamsi Krishna Komarala S. Aravindan Bhupendra Singh Butola
Pulak Mohan Pandey (on lien) A.K. Agrawal
Humanities and Social
Sciences Prabal Talukdar
Applied Research in Electronics
Angelie Multani (Ms.) Sunil Jha (on sabbatical)
Arun Kumar
Sanil V. (on sabbatical leave) Sangeeta Kohli (Ms.)
Ananjan Basu
Ravinder Kaur (Ms.) Sudarsan Ghosh
Monika Aggarwal (Ms.)
Vibha Arora (Ms.) Nomesh Bolia
Atmospheric Sciences
Kamlesh Singh (Ms.) Materials Science and Krishna Mirle Achutarao
Farhana Ibrahim (Ms.) Engineering
Manju Mohan (Ms.)
Jayan Jose Thomas Josemon Jacob
Arjun Ghosh Rajesh Prasad (on sabbatical) Automotive Research
and Tribology
Bhabani Kumar Satapathy
Management Studies B.K. Panigrahi
Seema Sharma (Ms.) Physics Jayashree Bijwe (Ms.)
Ravi Shankar Ratnamala Chatterjee (Ms.)
Biomedical Engineering
M.P. Gupta V. Ravishankar
Naresh Bhatnagar
Mahim Sagar Rajendra Singh
Neeraj Khare Computer Services Centre
P. Vigneswara Ilavarsan
Pankaj Srivastava K. Narayanan
Surya Prakash Singh
Sujeet Chaudhary Pardeep K. Gupta
Shveta Singh (Ms.)
D.S. Mehta P.K. Babu
Kanika Tandon Bhal (Ms.)
Hitendra K. Malik Sriram Hegde
Mathematics R.K. Varshney Educational Technology
S. Dharmaraja Aloka Sinha (Ms.) Services Centre
R.K. Sharma Varsha Banerjee (Ms.) Amit Gupta
Amitabha Tripathi J.P. Singh
National Resource Centre
S.C.S. Rao Santanu Ghosh for Value Education in
B.S. Panda A.K. Shukla Engineering
N. Chatterjee Amruta Mishra (Ms.) Purnima Singh (Ms.)
Aparna Mehra (Ms.) Sankalpa Ghosh
Optics and Photonics
Amita Das (Ms.)
Mechanical Engineering Joby Joseph
Gaddam Vijay Prakash
M.R. Ravi P. Senthilkumaran
Anoop Chawla Textile and Fibre Engineering Rural Development and
Sudipto Mukherjee (on sabbatical) R.S. Rengasamy Technology
S.K. Saha B.K. Behera P.M.V. Subbarao
Anjan Ray R. Alagirusamy Anushree Malik (Ms.)
S.P. Singh Manjeet Jassal (Ms.) Satyawati Sharma (Ms.)
J.K. Dutt Mangla Joshi (Ms.) V.K. Vijay
Harish Hirani Apurba Das V.M. Chariar
Raj Kumar Pandey Dipayan Das Vivek Kumar

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S T R U C T U R E
Sensors, Instrumentation School of Interdisciplinary Chairperson, Time Table
and Cyber-physical Systems Research Committee (UG/PG)
Engineering Rajendra Singh Shaikh Z. Ahammad
Anuj Dhawan
School of Public Policy Six Members of the Faculty for
Transportation Research and their special knowledge
Ambuj D. Sagar
Injury Prevention Centre Ravikrishnan Elangovan
Geetam Tiwari (Ms.) Yardi School of Artificial Sayan Ranu
Intelligence Bharati Puri (Ms.)
Amar Nath and Shashi Mausam Saswata Bhattacharya
Khosla School of Information
Technology Sampa Saha (Ms.)
Three Educationists from Manidipa Banerjee (Ms.)
Kolin Paul Outside IIT Delhi
Venu Gopal Achanta Three Alumni Representatives
Bharti School of Anjan Ray
Telecommunication Technology Shahid Jameel
and Management Bharat Bhasker Sanjay Gupta
Swades De Rajiv Malhotra
Librarian
Four Student Representatives
Kusuma School of Biological Nabi Hasan
Kartik (Gen. Secy., SAC)
Sciences
Head, Central Workshop Sahil Chauhan (Gen. Secy., CAIC)
James Gomes
D. Ravi Kumar Manish Raj (M.Tech. Rep)
Tapan Kumar Chaudhuri
Vishakha Yadav (Ms.) (Research Scholar)
Aditya Mittal
One of the Warden
Chinmoy Sankar Dey Permanent Invitee
Sujin B. Babu (Nilgiri)
Amitabha Mukhopadhyay JR / DR / AR (Academics)
Bishwajit Kundu (on sabbatical) Chairperson, Grades & Registrar
Vivekanandan Perumal Registration (UG/PG) Deepika Bhaskar (Ms.)
Manidipa Banerjee (Ms.) Rajiv K. Srivastava (Secretary)

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 CHAIRPERSONS OF THE BOARDS
Rangan Banerjee Board of Educational and Research Planning, Executive Committee
of the Senate, Student Affairs Council
Sunil Khare Industrial Research and Development Board
Shantanu Roy Board for Academic Programmes

PRESIDENTS OF BOARDS FOR STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Samar Husain Board for Students Publications (BSP)
Sandeep Jha Board of Recreational and Creative Activities (BRCA)
Deepti Gupta (Ms.) Board of Hostel Management (BHM)
Assoc. Dean, (SA) (HM) Ex-Officio
Reetika Khera (Ms.) Student Teacher Interaction Committee (STIC)
Vice-Chairperson
Assoc. Dean, (SA) (SW) Ex-Officio
Vivekanandan Perumal Board for Sports Activities (BSA)
(President)
Reetika Khera (Ms.) Board for Students Welfare (BSW)
(President)
Assoc. Dean, (SA) (SW) Ex-Officio
Pravin Ingole Vice President, BSW & Coordinator, Student Mentorship
Programme
Pushparaj Singh Vice President, BSA
Rajendra Singh Dhaka Vice President, BRCA

LIBRARY
S.P. Singh Chairperson (ACL)

OTHERS
Gaurav Singh Advisor, Foreign Students
Samrat Mukhopadhyay Coordinator, NSS
Simona Sawhney (Ms.) Advisor, SC/ST Students
Vikram Singh Advisor, Persons with Disabilities (PwD) Students
Rajendra Singh Dhaka Coordinator, NCC
Sumedha Chakma Coordinator, SC/ST Preparatory Course

CHAIRPERSONS OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

K. Narayanan Computer User’s Committee (CUC)
Head, CSC (Ex-Officio)
S. Pradyumna JEE Chairperson (Advanced-2022)
S.P. Singh Advisory Committee for Library (ACL)
Prabal Talukdar Chairperson (GATE/JAM-2022)
Reetika Khera (Ms.) Head, Students Counselling Services (SCS)
President, BSW (Ex-Officio)
Neeraj Kr. Chaurasia Hindi Cell (Head)
Rajeev K. Srivastava Grades & Registration (UG & PG)
Shaikh Z. Ahammad Time Table Committee (UG & PG)

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S T R U C T U R E
M.Tech. Programmes
Kaushik Saha Energy Science & Engineering (formerly CES)
Shouribrata Chatterjee VLSI Design Tools & Technologies (EE/CS&E/CARE)
Gufran Sayeed Khan Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation Cyber-Physical System
Engineering (SeNSE)
Seshan Srirangarajan Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management (BSTTM)
To be notified Cyber Security

M.Tech. and Research Programmes

Joyee Ghosh (Ms.) Opto Electronics & Optical Communications (OEOC)
Amol Choudhary

Others
V.K. Vijay Unnat Bharat Cell (UBA) Cell

COORDINATORS OF CENTRAL FACILITIES

(Located in Departments/Centres)
D. Ravi Kumar 3D Printer & Laser cutting
Sitikantha Roy AFM
Ankur Goswami Atom Probe Tomography
Bishwajit Kundu Bio AFM
Manidipa Banejee (Ms.) Cryo HRTEM
Tapan K. Chaudhuri ESI-LC-MS
Archana Chugh (Ms.) FACS
Jayant Jain FESEM EDS Block - 4
Naresh Bhatnagar Femto Second Laser Cutting System
Javed Shiekh FTIR
Sayantan Paria Glass Blowing Workshop
Sameer Sapra HRTEM
Shaikh Z. Ahamad ICP-MS
Sujeet Chaudhury Liquid Nitrogen Facility
Bishwajit Kundu MALDI-MS
Sudipta Raha Roy NMR 300, 400 & 500 MHz (Liquid Probe)
J.P. Singh SEM
Santanu Ghosh SQUID Magnetometer
Bhanu Nandan TEM CRF Ultra microtome
Jayant Jain TEM, CPSE
Bhanu Nandan XRD
Ashwini K. Agrawal Under SMITA Research Lab
(a) Micro Raman Spectroscope
(b) FE SEM + EDS
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Jayant Jain Ion Milling
Ratnamala Chatterjee (Ms.) PPMS
Rajiv Srivastava Rheometer
Bhanu Nandan SAXS
Ashwini K. Agarwal Thermal Series Equipment
Dinesh Kalyanasundaram UTM
P.K. Muduli XRD
Amitabha Mukhopadhyay Cell Biology Lab

CENTRAL WORKSHOP
S. Aravindan Professor and Head

CHAIRPERSONS OF OTHER COMMITTEES

Rangan Banerjee (Director) Official Language Implementation Committee
Shantanu Roy, Dean (Acad.) Institute Lecture Series Committee
Shantanu Roy, Dean (Acad.) Standing Committee for Convocation 2022
Shantanu Roy, Dean (Acad.) Kendriya Vidyalaya Mangement Committee
Shantanu Roy, Dean (Acad.) Nursery & K.G. School Advisory Committee
J.T. Shahu, Dean (Infra.) Commercial Establishments & Licencing Committee
J.T. Shahu, Dean (Infra.) Commercial Establishments Monitoring Committee
J.T. Shahu, Dean (Infra.) House Allotment Committee
J.T. Shahu, Dean (Infra.) Air-conditioning Committee
Shashank Deep, Chemistry Hospital Advisory Committee
A.K. Saroha, Chemical Engg. Employees Welfare Committee
Ashok Gupta, Civil Engg. Institute Grievance Committee
S.G. Deshmukh, D.D. (Operations) Managing Committee of the Benevolent Fund Scheme
S.G. Deshmukh, D.D. (Operations) Executive Committee of IITD Staff Welfare Scheme

WARDENS OF HOSTELS
Seshan Srirangarajan Aravali
Vivek Kumar Jwalamukhi
Joyee Ghosh (Ms.) Kailash
Ankur Goswami Karakoram
Sri Harsha Kota Kumaon
Pintu Das Nilgiri
Arnab Chanda Shivalik
Prashanth Vangla Vindhyachal
N.M. Anoop Krishnan Girnar
Sumedha Chakma Zanskar
Jayant Jain Udaigiri
Priyanka Kaushal (Ms.) Himadri

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S T R U C T U R E
Anup Singh Dronagiri
Sahab Fatima (Ms.) Sanyadri
Paroma Sanyal (Ms.) Saptagiri
M.C. Ramteke Nalanda / IP / New Vindhyachal / Transit Accommodation
Sangeeta Santra (Ms.) Nalanda / IP / New Vindhyachal /
(Associate Warden) Transit Accommodation

PROFESSOR-IN-CHARGE OF DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Professor-in-Charge Shashank Bishnoi
(Guest Houses & Halls)
Professor-in-Charge Shaikh Z. Ahammad
(LHC)
Professor-in-Charge Nalin Pant
(EHLS Unit)

OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICES (OCSs)

Head  Anishya Madan (Ms.)

HINDI CELL
Head Neeraj Kumar Chaurasia

STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICE

Head Reetika Khera (Ms.)

ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTERISATION SUPPORT SERVICE

Head K. Narayanan

CVC
Chief Vigilance Officer Anurag Sharma

RTI
Public Information Officer Shiv Prakash Yadav
First Appellate Authority Kalyan K. Bhattacharjee
Transparency Officer Deepika Bhaskar (Ms.)

HOSPITAL SERVICES
Head Lily Khosa (Ms.)

CENTRAL LIBRARY
Librarian & Head Nabi Hasan
Deputy Librarian Neeraj Kumar Chaurasia
Assistant Librarian (SS) Shankar B. Chavan
Assistant Librarian (SS) Vijay Kumar Verma
Assistant Librarian (SS) Vanita Khanchandani (Ms.)
Assistant Librarian Mohit Garg
Assistant Librarian Manu T.R.

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Deepika Bhaskar (Ms.) Registrar
M.K. Gulati Joint Registrar (Legal Cell)
K.K. Bhattacharjee Joint Registrar (FAA, E-I, RTI, R&I, Travel Desk, Planning)
Atul Vyas Joint Registrar (Academics, Publication Cell)
Mohd. Shamim Deputy Registrar (Accounts)
N. Bhaskar Deputy Registrar (Health Unit, Vigilance Matters,
Nodal Officer for Public Grievances (PG), Director’s Office,
Gender Grievances & Related Works)
Alan V. Sinate Assistant Registrar (Store Purchase Section)
Mukesh Chand Assistant Registrar (Hostel Accounts)
Raj Kumar Gupta Consultant (On contract)
Deb Ranjan Mukherjee Assistant Registrar (Accounts, IRD Accounts)
Sanjay Pande Assistant Registrar (E-II)
Amitabh Mukherjee Assistant Registrar (Audit)
Suresh Kumar Gohar Assistant Registrar (Academics)
Anand Prakash Assistant Registrar (Student Affairs, IRD)
Rama Sharma (Ms.) Assistant Registrar (Recruitment Cell, Hindi Cell)
Rajeev Kumar Institute Engineer (On deputation)
G.K. Taneja Executive Engineer
Anuj Gaur Executive Engineer
Ashok Kumar Executive Engineer
Kripa Shanker Tripathi Executive Engineer (On deputation)
Ashish Kumar Vinodiya Executive Engineer
Rafat Jamal Assistant Executive Engineer
Prem Kumar Singhal Assistant Executive Engineer
Brahm Prakash Assistant Executive Engineer
Raju Ram Parihar Assistant Executive Engineer
Pradip Karamarkar Assistant Executive Engineer
Virbhan Singh Assistant Executive Engineer
Prem Singh Rawat Assistant Executive Engineer
Shiv Prakash Yadav Public Relations Officer
Bhupender Singh Principal Technical Officer
Uday Dadwal Technical Officer
Lily Khosa (Ms.) CMO (SAG), (Additional charge, Head, Hospital Services)
Ajay Kumar Jain CMO (SAG) & Associate Head, Hospital Services
M.K. Sagar CMO (SAG)
Anila Khosla (Ms.) CMO (SAG)

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S T R U C T U R E
Md. Ashafaque Hussain CMO
Sayed Yasmeen Raunaq (Ms.) Sr. Medical Officer
L. Pangerlemba Sr. Medical Officer
Rajlaxmi Borah (Ms.) Medical Officer
Shalini Singh (Ms.) Medical Officer (Dental) (On contract) (Consolidated)
Deepak Negi Sports Officer
Anishya Madan (Ms.) Industrial Liaison Officer & Head, Office of Career Services
Shachi Mathur (Ms.) Student Counsellor
Aakriti Astha (Ms.) Assistant Student Counsellor
Sandeep Sharma Security Officer, Incharge Transport Unit

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 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI
THE HONOUR CODE

I ....................................................................................................., Entry No. ................................................................ do hereby

undertake that as a student at IIT Delhi :

1. I will not give or receive aid in examinations; that I will not give or receive unpermitted aid in class work,
in preparation of reports, or in any other work that is to be used by the instructor as the basis of grading;
and

2. I will do my share and take an active part in seeing to it that others as well as myself uphold the spirit
and letter of the Honour Code.

I realise that some examples of misconduct which are regarded as being in violation of the Honour Code
include :

• Copying from another’s examination paper or allowing another to copy from one’s own paper;

• Unpermitted collaboration;

• Plagiarism;

• Revising and resubmitting a marked quiz or examination paper for re-grading without the instructor’s
knowledge and consent;

• Giving or receiving unpermitted aid on take home examinations;

• Representing as one’s own work, the work of another, including information available on the internet;

• Giving or receiving aid on an academic assignment under circumstances in which a reasonable person
should have known that such aid was not permitted; and

• Committing a cyber-offence, such as, breaking passwords and accounts, sharing passwords, electronic
copying, planting viruses, etc.

I accept that any act of mine that can be considered to be an Honour Code violation will invite disciplinary
action.

Date : ...................................... Student’s Signature ..............................................................................

Name .........................................................................................................

Entry No. ..................................................................................................

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