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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), situated in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and is a public institute of higher education declared to be an Institute of National Importance by Government of India

FACULTY DETAILS OF IITGN:
Bhaskar Datta, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Chemistry)
Research Interests: Investigation of groove-modified nucleobases on Y-family DNA polymerase activity, Construction of metal nanowires based on biomolecular templates, Structure-function correlations of unorthodox DNA structures.


Sharad Gupta, PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Protein misfolding in Alzheimer's and Huntington's Diseases, UPS impairment in neurodegenerative disorders, Targeting shared cellular pathways for therapeutic intervention, Novel antimicrobial peptidomimetic scaffolds.


Sivapriya Kirubakaran, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Chemistry)
Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry and crug discovery, Drug discovery: Infectious diseases (H.pylori) and cancer (stomach and lung), Chemical biology of cancer: Screening of small molecules to identify novel oncogenes.


Sharmistha Majumdar, PhD (Cornell University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Evolution of mobile genetic elements/ transposons: mechanisms of transposition and control, modifications of function in transposase homologs, Genomic and proteomic analysis of transposases and transposase homologs.


Pratik Mutha, PhD (Pennsylvania State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Sensorimotor control and learning, Movement disorders after neurological damage, Brain lateralization.


Vijay Thiruvenkatam, PhD (Jiwaji University)
Assistant Research Professor (Jointly With Physics)
Research Interests: Structural biology of macromolecular complexes, Chemical Crystallography, Insitu cryo-crystallizations of liquids.




Rajendra Mehta, PhD (University of Nebraska)
Scholar-in-Residence
Research Interests: Cancer chemoprevention and drug discovery.


Harsh Bais, PhD (CFTRI, Mysore)
Professor
Research Interests: Root Microbiome, Root genomics and beneficial plant microbe intearctions


Virupakshi Soppina, PhD (Gulbarga University, Gulbarga)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Kinesins and intracellular transport


Umashankar Singh, PhD (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany + Uppsala University, Sweden)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cytoprotection, Cellular stress response and gene expression vis-à-vis retrotransposon evolution, Co-ordination between different cellular processes by multifunctional proteins
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Chemical Engineering

Sameer V. Dalvi, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Precipitation and stabilization of nanoparticles in aqueous suspensions, Engineering stable microbubbles formulations for biomedical applications, Supercritical fluid processing.


Pratyush Dayal, PhD (University of Akron)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Self-oscillating polymer gels, Structure development in polymer blends and solutions, Polymer processing.


Chinmay Ghoroi, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Particle engineering for dry powder processing, Powder coating and flow characterization of cohesive fine particles, Multi-phase reactions involving particulate solids.


Kabeer Jasuja, PhD (Kansas State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Synthesis of inorganic nanosheets analogous to graphene, Fundamental science at the interface of nanosheets, Designing novel nano composites.


Nitin Padhiyar, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Process optimization and control, Multi-Objective optimization (MOO), Genetic algorithms, Dynamic optimization, Model predictive control (MPC), MOO based MPC.


Arnab Sarkar, PhD (Catholic University of America)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Optical fiber fabrication processes, Vapor phase processing of amorphous materials, Liquid phase processing of materials.


Babji Srinivasan, PhD (Texas Tech University)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Electrical Engineering)
Research Interests: Performance monitoring of closed-loop systems, Fault diagnosis in process systems, Sensor placement for state estimation in dynamic systems, Design, modeling and optimization approaches in basic droplet based microfluidic devices.


Rajagopalan Srinivasan, PhD (Purdue University, West Lafayette)
Professor
Research Interests: Safe & environmentally benign process design & operations, Supply chain management & enterprise optimization, Computational systems biology.


Prachi Thareja, PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: In-situ rheology of crystallizing fatty acid pastes, Powder coating and powder flow characterization, Rheology and small angle light scattering of surfactant solutions.

Chandrakumar Appayee, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Asymmetric Catalysis, Supramolecular catalysis, Asymmetric synthesis of bio-active molecules, Study of small molecules for targeted diseases.


Bhaskar Datta, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Biological Engineering)
Research Interests: Investigation of groove-modified nucleobases on Y-family DNA polymerase activity, Construction of metal nanowires based on biomolecular templates, Structure-function correlations of unorthodox DNA structures.


Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Synthesis of photoactive p-conjugated materials for understanding their optical properties and synthesis of ionic liquids and examining their suitability as photophysical / photochemical media for various photo-processes.


Iti Gupta, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Boron based NIR dyes and their conjugates, Derivatives of corroles and N-confused porphyrins with novel properties, Metal complexes of Dipyrrins.


Kapil Juvale, PhD (University of Bonn)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry: Design and synthesis of small molecules for different biological targets and their biochemical evaluation to discover new therapeutics.


Saumyakanti Khatua, PhD (Rice University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Plasmonics, Nano-optics


Sivapriya Kirubakaran, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Biological Engineering)
Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, Drug discovery: infectious diseases (H.pylori) and cancer (stomach and lung), Chemical biology of cancer: Screening of small molecules to identify novel oncogenes.


Sairam Swaroop Mallajosyula, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Carbohydrate-Protein interactions, Novel DNA constructs, Molecular mechanics force field development.


M Paramasivam, PhD (Osmania University)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Design and synthesis of novel pi-conjugated molecules for optoelectronic applications such as dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC), Bulk heterojunction solar cells (BHSC), etc.


Sudhanshu Sharma, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Materials, Electrochemistry, Catalysis.


M. Vedamalai, PhD (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Enzyme activated florescent probes and inhibitor for enzymes, Biomarker for detection of intracellular molecules and drug delivery, Synthesis of bio-functional carbon nanomaterials, Synthesis of Platinum based coordination complexes.




Santanu Bag, PhD (Northwestern University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Thin-film solar cell fabrication from earth-abundant elements, Solution processing of inorganic materials, Materials chemistry, Solid state synthesis, Flexible electronics.


Arnab Dutta, PhD (Arizona State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Bio-inorganic chemistry, alternative energy research.
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Civil Engineering

Dhiman Basu, PhD University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Rotational components of earthquake ground motion (rotational seismology), Asymmetric and setback buildings (complex structures), Seismic isolation.


Indrajit Ghosh, MSc (University of Surrey)
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Analytical solution of plate with various loading and boundary conditions, Hybrid, composite structural analysis and design, Dual-purpose structural hollow beams, Modular structural designs.


Sudhir K. Jain, PhD (California Institute of Technology)
Director; Professor
Research Interests: Earthquake engineering, Structural dynamics.


Ashwini Kumar, PhD (University of Waterloo)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Stability and large deformation of structures, Theoretical stress analysis, Post-buckling and non-linear response of laminated plates.


Vimal Mishra, PhD (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Surface water hydrology, Climate variability and climate change, Global food and water security, Water resources management, Large scale hydrologic modeling.


Pranab Kumar Mohapatra, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Research Interests: Hydraulics and water resources engineering, Transients in pipe flow, Transients in open channel flow, Frequency domain analysis in pipe flow.


Amit Prashant, PhD (University of Tennessee)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Constitutive modeling for granular materials, Numerical modeling of geotechnical structures, Earthquake geotechnical engineering.


Ajanta Sachan, PhD (University of Tennessee)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Material characterization, Dynamic behavior of soils, Liquefaction and cyclic instability in soils, Strain localization using DIA technique and microfabric study using XRD, SEM, AFM.


Gaurav, PhD (University of Minnesota)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, Structural fire engineering, Computational mechanics.




Jelena Pantelic, PhD (University of California)
Visiting Professor


Rajesh Dhakal, PhD (Tokyo University)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Seismic design of RC Structures, Loss optimisation seismic design, Probabilistic seismic risk analysis, Seismic loss estimation.


Manish Kumar, PhD (State University of New York)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Seismic isolation of nuclear structures.


Ketki Sharma, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Water treatment, Capacitive deionization, Reverse osmosis, Neutron imaging.
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Computer Science and Engineering

Bireswar Das, PhD (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational complexity theory and algorithms, Algebra and computation.


Anirban Dasgupta, PhD (Cornell University)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Algorithms for large scale data, Social networks, Computational social science, Crowdsourcing, machine learning.


Souradyuti Paul, PhD (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Information security, Cryptography, Theoretical computer science.


Krishna Prasad, PhD (University of Cambridge)
Assistant Professor (Cognitive Science) (Jointly With Social Sciences)
Research Interests: Brain imaging (fMRI) & Cognitive science, Learning & decision making, Consumer behaviour & neuroeconomics, Machine learning & artificial intelligence.



Kamalakar Karlapalem, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Professor
Research Interests: Database systems, Data analytics and visualization, Electronic contracts and workflow systems, Multi agent systems
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Design

Dinesh Korjan, PEDID-PD (NID, Ahmedabad)
Adjunct Faculty
Research Interests: Systemic design intervention in complex, real world problems, Passive/Active methods of traffic control, Devices for provision of drinking water, Alternative solutions for comfort cooling.


Amit Sheth, PGD (NID, Ahmedabad)
Adjunct Faculty
Research Interests: Wayfinding, Design strategy, Inclusive design



Vijayaraghavan Chariar, PhD (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Design and development of innovative products and systems for promoting conservation, Improving ecology, Enhancing inclusion and livelihoods.

Earth Sciences

Vikrant Jain, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Earth surface processes, River science, External forcings and river’s future, Glacio-fluvial coupling, Geomorphic applications in stream management.


Pradeep Srivastava, PhD (Peoples' Friendship University, Moscow)
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Physical and mathematical modeling of imaging processes?,? Remote sensing?, ?Generation and utili?z?ation of spatial data infrastructure.?
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Electrical Engineering

Arup Lal Chakraborty, PhD (University of Strathclyde)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Tunable diode laser spectroscopy for gas parameter measurement, Calibration-free wavelength modulation spectroscopy for recovery of absolute gas absorption line shapes, Fiber-optic sensing.


Nithin V. George, PhD (IIT Bhubaneswar)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Active noise control, Adaptive signal processing, Hearing aid design, Soft computing.


Ragavan K., PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Diagnostic testing and condition monitoring of power apparatus, Mathematical modeling of transformers, Rotating machines, System identification in frequency domain.


Uttama Lahiri, PhD (Vanderbilt University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Virtual Reality based Human Computer Interaction used in affective computing, Eye Tracking and Physiology based modeling techniques, Human Robot Interaction used in cognitive studies.


Joycee M. Mekie, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: VLSI Design, Asynchronous circuit design.


Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Semiconductor devices and technology.


K. V. V. Murthy, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Signal processing, Image processing, Wavelets, Neural networks, Numerical analysis, Engineering education.


Naran M. Pindoriya, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Restructuring power systems - Technical and economical issues, Applications of heuristic optimization algorithms in power system, Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and their application to load and price forecasting.


S. Rajendran, MTech (IIT Madras)
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests: High speed packaging machines – VFFS and HFFS technologies, Liquid packing machines – high speed applications, CO2 laser - metal processing applications.


Shanmuganathan Raman, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computer vision, Computational photography, Computer graphics.


R Sharan, PhD (University of Waterloo)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Technological progress and human values, Semiconductor devices, Transducers and instrumentation, Noise, Engineering education.


Babji Srinivasan, PhD (Texas Tech University)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Chemical Engineering)
Research Interests: Performance monitoring of closed-loop systems, Fault diagnosis in process systems, Sensor placement for state estimation in dynamic systems, Design, modeling and optimization approaches in basic droplet based microfluidic devices.



Alok Kumar Kanungo, PhD (Deccan College)
Assistant Research Professor (Archaeology)
Research Interests: Who owns the past, Understanding history and origin of the nagas, History and origin of glass.


Rita Kothari, PhD (Gujarat University)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Hinglish, Communities in Banni (Kutch), Cultural history of Sindh & Gujarat, Issues of language & iIdentity in the Indian middle class.


Sharmita Lahiri, PhD (University of Houston)
Assistant Professor (English)
Research Interests: Indian writing in english, Postcolonial literature and theory, Feminist literature and theory, Multiethnic literature, Writing and composition.


Jaison A. Manjaly, PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor (Philosophy)
Research Interests: Experience, Consciousness, Rationality.


Achal Mehra, PhD (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Professor
Research Interests: Online media, Media management, Investigative reporting, Media law, Media ethics, Censorship, International communications, Comparative media systems, Mass media and society.


V. N. Prabhakar, PhD (Kurukhsetra University)
Visiting Faculty (Archaeology)
Research Interests: Harappan archaeology with emphasis on application of sciences in Archaeology.


Sidharth Shankar Rai, DPhil (University of Allahabad)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Archaeology)
Research Interests: Archaeometry, Electron microscopy and X-Ray microanalysis, Remote sensing and GIS application in Archaeology, Buddhist Archaeology, ancient history.


Arnapurna Rath, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor (English)
Research Interests: South-Asian literature, Critical theories, Bakhtin studies, Creative writing.


Srinivas Reddy, PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Assistant Professor (South Asian Studies)
Research Interests: Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu literary traditions, Vijayanagara history, Indian classical music traditions, Translation studies.


Madhumita Sengupta, PhD (University of Calcutta)
Assistant Professor (History)
Research Interests: British rule in Assam, Colonial practices and policies in India, Linguistic identities, Middle class responses to colonial rule.


Sandhya Sharma, PhD (University of Lucknow)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Archaeology)
Research Interests: Understanding Palaeoecology, Paleomonsoon, coastal and marine ecosystem especially during Holocene under varying natural and human induced changes, Sea level studies, Ethnobotany.


Vinod V, PhD (M.S University of Baroda)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Archaeology)
Research Interests: Harappan studies, Typo-technological study of ancient Indian ceramics, Ancient Indian Numismatics, Pre and Proto history of Indian subcontinent.


Siddharth Wakankar, PhD (M.S. University of Baroda)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Sanskrit grammar, Classical, scientific and technical Sanskrit literature, Games in Sanskrit literature and manuscriptology.




Shungo Kawanishi, PhD (University of Georgia)
Scholar-in-Residence
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Mathematics

Sanjaykumar Amrutiya, PhD (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Tannakian group schemes, Moduli spaces, Vector bundles.


Mohan Joshi, PhD(Purdue University)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Nonlinear analysis, Probabilistic functional analysis, Mathematical system theory, Industrial mathematics.


Surjeet Kour, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Commutative Algebra.


N. R. Ladhawala, PhD(Purdue University)
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Harmonic analysis.


Chetan Pahlajani, PhD (University of Illinois)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Probability theory and stochastic processes with applications to nuclear detection and mathematical biology.


D. V. Pai, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Approximation of vector-valued functions; Stability and well-posedness in optimisation and approximation.


Indranath Sengupta, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Commutative algebra, Algebraic geometry.


Akanksha Srivastava, PhD (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Numerical analysis, Non-linear partial differential equation, Finite element method, Finite difference method


Jagmohan Tyagi, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Ordinary differential equations, Elliptic partial differential equations.



Atul Abhay Dixit, PhD (University of Illinois)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Analytic number theory, Special functions. Theory of partitions, modular forms and q-series
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Mechanical Engineering

Atul Bhargav, PhD (University of Maryland, College Park)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Palladium-based composite membranes for Hydrogen purification in fuel cell system applications, Fuel cell systems design and simulation, Control algorithms for fuel cell systems.


M. Damodaran, PhD (Cornell University)
Professor
Research Interests: Aerospace Engineering: Aerodynamics, Flight Mechanics and Aeroelasticity, Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computational Modeling of Engineered Systems, Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization.


Hari B Hablani, PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Navigation, Guidance, and Control of Flight Vehicles.


Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational structural and solid mechanics, Computational biomechanics.


Vinod Narayanan, PhD (JNU Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence, Chaotic advection, Compressible flows.


Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi, PhD (University of Michigan)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Systems and control theory, System identification (data-based modeling), Estimation and Kalman filtering, Input reconstruction, Applications of above areas to mechanical and biomechanical problems.


Superb Misra, PhD (Imperial College London, UK)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Materials Science and Engineering)
Research Interests: Biomaterials for tissue regeneration, Synthesis and reactivity of nanomaterials, Nanotoxicology.


N. Ramakrishnan, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Machining of composites, Non-traditional machining processes (EDM, AJM, etc), Computer integrated manufacturing, Industrial hydraulics and servo-hydraulics.


Debi Prasad Roy, PhD (T.H. Aachen)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics and fluid machinery.


Girish Kumar Sharma, PhD (Moscow Power Engineering Institute)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Thermal engineering.


Sudarshan K Bahl, MBA (Santa Clara University)
Visiting Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Amit Arora, PhD (The Pennsylvania State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Friction stir welding, Heat transfer and visco-plastic flow.


Abhay Raj Singh Gautam, PhD (University of Virginia)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Interface structure and dynamics.


S. P. Mehrotra, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Mineral Processing and Process Metallurgy, Transport Phenomena, Mathematical Modelling & Simulation, Process Design and Development, Process Control in Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy.


Abhijit Mishra, PhD (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: X-Ray Diffraction, Membrane properties, Cell-penetrating and Antimicrobial Peptides, Peptide-lipid interactions.


Superb Misra, PhD (Imperial College London, UK)
Assistant Professor (Jointly With Mechanical Engineering)
Research Interests: Biomaterials and tissue engineering, Nanomaterials.


Jyoti Mukhopadhyay, PhD (IIT Bombay)
Visiting Professor
Research Interests: Structure-property correlation, Super plastic forming and formability of materials, Development of aluminum based alloys, Energy reduction & wastes utilization, Physical metallurgy, Materials science, Basic metal forming.


Emila Panda, PhD (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and University of Stuttgart)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Transparent conducting oxides, Thin film solar cells, Interface thermodynamics.
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Physics

Srijit Bhattacharjee, PhD (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Quantum field theory, Electroweak vacuum instability, Quantum field theory in curved spacetime, Inflationary cosmology, Finite temperature field theory.


Vinod Chandra, PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Physics of strong interaction: Quark-gluon plasma, Quantum-chromodynamics, Relativistic dissipative fluid mechanics.


Baradhwaj Coleppa, PhD (Michigan State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Beyond the standard model – model builidng and LHC phenomenology of new states


Shivakumar Jolad, PhD (The Pennsylvania State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Networks-complex systems, Information theory, Population dynamics


Barun Majumder, PhD (IISER Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Quantum cosmology, Quantum gravity phenomenology.


Sudipta Sarkar, PhD (University of Pune, IUCAA)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Gravitation, Black hole physics, Thermodynamics and quasi normal modes, Field theory in curved space-time.


Anand Sengupta, PhD (IUCAA Pune)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Detection of gravitational waves, Aspects of CMB data analysis.


Vijay Thiruvenkatam, PhD (Jiwaji University)
Assistant Research Professor (Jointly With Biological Engineering)
Research Interests: Structural biology of macromolecular complexes, Chemical crystallography, Insitu cryo-crystallizations of liquids.



Contact details :
Address: Vishwakarma Government Engineering College Complex, New CG Road, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382424
Phone: 079 3241 9484

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