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IITK Research scholars

Research scholars at IIT Kanpur occupy a central position in the institute's relentless pursuit of academic excellence and research innovation. Handpicked for their outstanding academic achievements and recognized research potential, these scholars are catalysts for progress and play an indispensable role in propelling the institute forward. As they converge from diverse academic backgrounds and regions, they create a dynamic community that thrives on collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and collective ambition.
Research scholars embark on a transformative academic journey, immersing themselves in an environment that encourages inquiry, fosters intellectual freedom, and stimulates creativity. They are encouraged to question conventional wisdom, challenge assumptions, and seek novel solutions to complex problems. This culture of intellectual exploration not only benefits the scholars but also enriches the entire academic community.

Browse Research Scholars by Department

Browse Research Scholars by Department

Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Dhayalan R

Guide: A. K. Ghosh

Research Topic: Conventional and Unconventional Parameter Estimation from Real flight Data.

Aalok Kumar Jha

Guide: C. S. Upadhyay

Research Topic: Doctoral:Structural instability of Aircraft wing and Rotor Masters:Analyses of Fully Flooded and Sta...

Aarti Gupta

Guide: Tanika Chakraborty

Research Topic: Optimal Loan Waiver for Indian Agricultural households.

V M Krushnarao Kotteda

Guide: Sanjay Mittal

Research Topic: Air Intakes are one of the major components of any aircraft engine. It contributes uniquely to the g...

Alok Mishra

Guide: Ashoke De

Research Topic: Large Eddy simulation on Linear Cascade blades of compressor.

Dinesh Kumar S. J.

Guide: Abhijit Kushari

Research Topic: Active and Passive Control of Hooting In Gas Turbine EnginesCombustion Instabilities are the most de...

Vivek Pandey

Guide: Abhijit Kushari & Ashoke De

Research Topic: Gas Turbine Combustor simulation and experiments

YASAR ARAFATHU

Guide: Alakesh Chandra Mandal

Research Topic: Experimental investigation of bypass transition in turbulent boundary layer

Joydeep Bhowmik

Guide: Debopam Das

Research Topic: Unsteady Aerodynamics, Flapping wing MAV and UAVs, Multi-rotors, fixed wing drones

Subhabrata Koley

Guide: P. M. Mohite & C. S. Upadhyay

Research Topic: Effect of statistical strengths on intiation on propagation of damage in Fibrous Composites.

Anshul Khandelwal

Guide: Kamal Poddar & Debopam Das

Research Topic: The topic of my research is flow past an airfoil oscillating asymmetrically in pitching motion. The ...

Chandrala Lakshmana Dora

Guide: Debopam Das

Research Topic: Flow and acoustic characteristics of compressible vortex rings

Biological Sciences & Bioengineering

Aditya Arora

Guide: Professor Dhirendra S. Katti

Research Topic: Articular cartilage is a tissue that is frequently damaged in disease and trauma. My work deals with...

Virender

Guide: Ashwani Kumar Thakur

Research Topic: My work is focused on understanding the self-assembly mechanism of small molecules and peptides comp...

Nadim Ahamad

Guide: Professor Dhirendra S. Katti

Research Topic: Since there are vast number of infectious diseases surrounding humans. T.B. Malaria,Polio, AIDS and ...

Civil Engineering

Abhijeet Swain

Guide: Professor Priyanka Ghosh

Research Topic: Finite Element analysis of Dynamic response of closely spaced Machine Foundations.

Abhijit Gupta

Guide: Durgesh C. Rai

Research Topic: DESIGN OF CONCRETE BEAMS WITH TRANSVERSE OPENINGSIn multistory buildings , we find service ducts suc...

Abhishek Chakraborty

Guide: Professor Tarun Gupta & Sachchida Nand Tripathi

Research Topic: Secondary organic aerosol formation and properties specially during fog episodes.

Vaibhav Singhal

Guide: Durgesh C. Rai

Research Topic: In-plane and out-of-plane seismic behaviour of confined masonry walls.

Varun Kumar Singla

Guide: Vinay Kumar Gupta

Research Topic: Rotational SeismologyUsing principles of wave-propagation in elastic media, the characteristics of r...

Vikas Kumar Vidyarthi

Guide: Ashu Jain

Research Topic: Knowledge Extraction of trained ANN Hydrological Model

Ambika Kuity

Guide: Animesh Das

Research Topic: Microscopic study in asphalt mix

Amit Singh Chauhan

Guide: Professor Tarun Gupta

Research Topic: Instrument development for aerosol measurements. Measurement and identification of bioaerosols prese...

Vishwajeet Khan

Guide: Rajesh Sathiyamoorthy

Research Topic: DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS

Vivek B

Guide: Prishati Raychowdhury

Research Topic: The experimental investigation is planned so as to encapsulate the complete behavior of the structur...

Anumita Mishra

Guide: Nihar Ranjan Patra

Research Topic: Pile foundation

Pankaj Kumar Rai

Guide: Shivam Tripathi

Research Topic: Partitioning Evapotranspiration into Evaporation and Transpiration fluxes using Stable Isotopes of O...

Electrical Engineering

Abhishek Anchal

Guide: Professor Pradeep Kumar K.

Research Topic: Quantum OpticsPhoton EntanglementLight Squeezing for Gravitational Wave detectionOptical Phase Conju...

Research Topic: Wideband Antenna Array

Abhishek Kumar Jha

Guide: Mohammad Jaleel Akhtar

Research Topic: Microwave Material Characterization, Microwave Absorbing Materials, Nanocomposites, Microwave Sensor...

Abhishek Sharma

Guide: Animesh Biswas

Research Topic: Substrate Integrated Waveguide, Dielectric Resonator Antennas

V Sateeshkrishna Dhuli

Guide: Y. N. Singh

Research Topic: Modeling and Analysis of Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks

Vineel Kumar Veludandi

Guide: K. Vasudevan

Research Topic: Information and Coding theory, Wireless Communications.

Devika Kataria

Guide: S. Sundar Kumar Iyer

Research Topic: Organic solar cell

Akash Agarwal

Guide: Aditya K. Jagannatham

Research Topic: Signal Processing, Communication and Networks

Research Topic: Spintronics 

Shruti Mehrotra

Guide: Shafi Qureshi

Research Topic: Ultra thin body (UTB) Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) MOSFET

Sinnu Susan Thomas

Guide: K. S. Venkatesh

Research Topic: Computer Vision Multimedia Signal Processing

Anuj Nandanwar

Guide: Laxmidhar Behera

Research Topic: Cyber Physical System, Mobile Robots

Industrial & Management Engineering

Vinayak Arvind Drave

Guide: R. R. K. Sharma

Research Topic: Trying to make more efficient human resource supply chain in highly labor intensive organization...

Amit Kumar Shukla

Guide: Uday S. Racherla

Research Topic: Patent Information is a gold mine of information both Technical and Business related. This is unique...

Amritesh

Guide: Subhas Chandra Misra

Research Topic: Credence Quality in online informational services

Saba Iqbal

Guide: R. R. K. Sharma

Research Topic: Relating Organization Strategies, Structure, Culture And Management Control Systems To The Different...

Tesfaye Tolu Feyisaa

Guide: R. R. K. Sharma

Research Topic: Supply Chain Management

Pratima Verma

Guide: R. R. K. Sharma

Research Topic: Work on Horizontal Strategy with topics:Relating Organization Culture and Structure to enhance the H...

Research Topic: FinanceBackground- Mathematics

Materials Science & Engineering

Vinod Kumar Dwivedi

Guide: Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Research Topic: Study of Transport and Magnetic Properties of Pyrochlore Iridates.

Mechanical Engineering

Vikram Soni

Guide: Arvind Kumar

Research Topic: Transport Phenomena in Alloy Melting and Re-solidification.

Vineet Nair

Guide: Ishan Sharma & Viswanathan Shankar

Research Topic: Fluid-Solid interactions

Dev Prakash Satsangi

Guide: Professor Nachiketa Tiwari

Research Topic: "Acoustical Considerations in Design of SONAR Domes". SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging) system is...

Devi Prasad

Guide: Sovan L. Das

Research Topic: Caste and Biradarism

Amarjit Prakashrao Kene

Guide: Sounak Kumar Choudhury

Research Topic: Comparative Assessment Through Experimentation And Modelling Of Different Automatic Tool Condition M...

Amit Kumar Rai

Guide: Shakti S. Gupta

Research Topic: Dynamics and Vibration Analysis of moving point load on the Elastic Materials. Background is from "S...

Siva Prasad AVS

Guide: Sumit Basu

Research Topic: The topic of my PhD thesis is "Simulations of High Velocity Impact Phenomena in Solids Using Smoothe...

Digendranath Swain

Guide: Debopam Das

Research Topic: Flow and acoustic characteristics of compressible vortex rings.

Research Topic: The impact, freezing, and melting processes of a hollow droplet on a surface.

Divyansh Patel

Guide: J. Ramkumar

Research Topic: Wire Electrochemical Machining Wire electrochemical machining (Wire ECM) is an anodic dissolution pr...

Research Topic: Topic: Quantitative and qualitative analysis of three-dimensional natural convective flow and heat t...

Gaganpreet Singh

Guide: J. Ramkumar

Research Topic: Laser

Humanities

English

Apala Das

Guide: Gurumurthy Neelakantan

Research Topic: Doctoral:Modernist poetry and aesthetics, Continental philosophy, Phenomenological criticism

Payel Pal

Guide: Gurumurthy Neelakantan

Research Topic: Rediscovering America: The Politics of Humanism in the Select Fictions of Toni Morrison and Joyce Ca...

Philosophy

Psychology

Anu Malik

Guide:

Research Topic: Impact of Cognitive Adaptation, Emotion Regulation, Stigma and Gender on Mental Health: A study of P...

Anuja Khanna

Guide:

Research Topic: Exploring mental health among the second generation of the 1984 anti-sikh riots survivors

Yogesh Chandra

Guide: Professor Braj Bhushan

Research Topic:

Aditi Jublie

Guide: Professor Devpriya Kumar

Research Topic:

Roli Pandey

Guide:

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Nidhi Yadav

Guide:

Research Topic: Cognitive factors, authentic leadership and organizational outcomes

Sociology

Amithy Jasrotia

Guide: Arun Kumar Sharma

Research Topic: "Factors facilitating and inhibiting educational achievements in a disadvantaged community: A study ...

Manjima Das

Guide:

Research Topic: Doctoral: Economic Sociology, Consumer psychology

Inter-disciplinary Programs

Materials Science Programme

Ajay Vardhaman B. S

Guide: J. Ramkumar

Research Topic: Lubricant tribology. 

Alekha Tyagi

Guide: Kamal K. Kar

Research Topic: Electrocatalytic activity of nano carbon forms.

Arun Kumar Agarwal

Guide: Siddhartha Panda

Research Topic: TCR in Doped Polymeric Films: Temperature monitoring is needed for various applications, including h...

Asheesh Kumar

Guide: Kamal K. Kar & Malay Kumar Das

Research Topic:

Ashish Kumar Mall

Guide: Rajeev Gupta & Professor Ashish Garg

Research Topic: Structural, Magnetic, Dielectric and Multiferroic Properties of YCrO3 Potential applications of mult...

Iram Malik

Guide: Kamal K. Kar

Research Topic: Thermoelectric Materials.

Chhatrasal Gayner

Guide: Kamal K. Kar & Malay Kumar Das

Research Topic: Research Topic: Understanding the role and interplay of processing conditions, structural disorders ...

Sciences

Earth Sciences

Imran Khan

Guide: Professor Debajyoti Paul & Rajiv Sinha

Research Topic: High Resolution Paleoclimate Reconstruction and Sediment Sourcing of buried Channels in Satlej-Yamun...

Kanchan Mishra

Guide: Rajiv Sinha

Research Topic: Sediment dynamics and sediment connectivity in the Kosi basin: implications for river hazards....

Suneel Kumar Joshi

Guide: Rajiv Sinha

Research Topic: Groundwater Structure and Dynamic in Ghaggar River Basin in North West India Using Hydro-Geological ...

Physics

Imran Khan

Guide: Professor Debajyoti Paul & Rajiv Sinha

Research Topic: High Resolution Paleoclimate Reconstruction and Sediment Sourcing of buried Channels in Satlej-Yamun...

Pankaj Chaturvedi

Guide: Gautam Sengupta

Research Topic: Interface between gravitational physics and exotic phases of low temperature matter.

Bahadur Singh

Guide: R. Prasad

Research Topic: Topological Insulators, Weyl Semimetal and Topological phase transitions

Himanshu Pandey

Guide: R. C. Budhani & R. Prasad

Research Topic: The half-metallicity with high degree of spin polarization combined with high Curie temperature of t...

Kamalika Nath

Guide: Satyajit Banerjee

Research Topic: I am interested in studying the magnetic properties of nanostructured magnetic systems such as nanow...

Ritu Gupta

Guide: Zakir Hossain

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Debarchan Das

Guide: Zakir Hossain

Research Topic: Strongly correlated electron systems have attracted considerable attention of condensed matter physi...

Rahul Kothari

Guide: Professor Pankaj Jain

Research Topic: Cosmological Implications of Gravitation Theories with Torsion 

Tultul Biswas

Guide: Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Research Topic: My research interests are in zitterbewegung, wave packet dynamics, transport and thermoelectric phen...

Uday Bhanu Paramanik

Guide: Zakir Hossain

Research Topic: Superconductivity and Magnetism in Pnictides.My research activities are in the investigation of the ...

Ravindra Kumar Verma

Guide: Professor Pankaj Jain

Research Topic: Particle Physics and Cosmology 

Sayandip Ghosh

Guide: Avinash Singh

Research Topic: Magnetism and superconductivity in iron pnictidesMagnetic excitations in different magnetic ordered ...