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Collaborating Faculty
Our experts are listed alphabetically by surname: A-B C-F G-J K-N O-R S T-Z
NAME LOCATION EMAIL SPECIALTY
Prof Dulal Panda IITB panda@iitb.ac.in Elucidating the role of microtubule dynamics in cellular processes and microtubule targeted drugs including anti cancer and anti-fungal drugs
Polymerization dynamics of bacterial cell division protein, FtsZ
Characterization of yeast and plant tubulins to understand the molecular specificity of microtubule targeted anti-fungal and anti-parasitic drug
Structure function studies of microtubule associated protein tau
Protein folding
Prof Prita Pant IITB pritapant@iitb.ac.in Thin-film materials
Modeling recoverable strains
in films of shape memory,
and magnetic shape
memory alloys
Prof Swati Patankar IITB patankar@iitb.ac.in Transcription regulation in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Bioinformatics analysis of P. falciparum genome sequence to uncover candidate noncoding RNAs
Screening natural product libraries for novel anti-malarial agents
Choice of translation initiation sites in P. falciparum
Dr Dnyanesh Pawaskar IITB pawaskar@iitb.ac.in Mechanics of Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)
Vibrational damping and nonlinear dynamics
Mechanical instabilities
Fracture, fatigue, and reliability
Engineering optimization
& design
Dr Malin Premaratne Monash malin@eng.monash.
edu.au
Bioengineering, optical physics, constrained programming, combinatorial optimization, communications network
Prof Ranjith
Pathegama Gamage
Monash (Civil
Engineering)
ranjith.pathegama.
gamage@eng.
monash.edu.au
Geosequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in coal,saline aquifers and basalt formations
Activation of faults due to the injection of high fluid pressures
Slope Stability of large deep, open cut mines
Stability of wellbore analysis
Underground longwall mining
Enhanced coal bed methane recovery, ECBM
Prof A M Pradeep IITB ampradeep@
aero.iitb.ac.in
Aerospace propulsion
Experimental aerodynamics
Flow charactristics and flow
control of internal flows
Experimental methods
and flow visualization
Prof R C Prasad IITB rcp@iitb.ac.in Fatigue, fracture & failure analysis
Fracture mechanics and failure analysis
Mechanical behaviour of materials
Mechanical characterization laboratory
Engineering polymers and composites
Physical metallurgy
Materials science for corrosion engineers
Prof V S Raja IITB vsraja@iitb.ac.in Passivity
AC impedance spectroscopy
High temperature and high pressure aqueous corrosion
Stress corrosion cracking
Weld-related corrosion
Failure analysis
Dr Ganesh Ramakrishnan IITB ganesh@cse.iitb.ac.in Statistical relational learning
Other topics in machine learning such as graphical models and support vector machines
Information extraction
Dr Sita Ramakrishnan Monash
(Software
Engineering)
sita.ramakrishnan@
infotech.monash.edu.au
Validation of distributed
software components
Compliance and
conformance testing
of software components
Validation of software
testing tools
Concurrent and distributed
systems and software
engineering
Component-based
architectures
O-O method, process, quality, metrics and testing
Web engineering and
technologies
Prof K
Ramamritham
IITB krithi@cse.iitb.ac.in Timeliness and consistency
issues in computer systems
Databases, real-time systems,
and distributed applications
Issues in the context of
dynamic data in sensor
networks
Embedded systems and
mobile environments
Information and communication technologies in socio-economic development
Prof R Raman IITB raman@iitb.ac.in Welding Metallurgy
Corrosion and surface
engineering
Chaos theory and fractals
Prof Abhiram Ranade IITB ranade@cse.iitb.ac.in Algorithms. Combinatorial optimization
Dr Prabhakar
Ranganathan
Monash Prabhakar.
Ranganathan@
eng.monash.edu.au
Rheology and continuum mechanics of living materials
(e.g. suspensions of motile cells, cytoskeletal networks, biomembranes etc.)
Mechano-transduction in
living cells
Reverse-engineering the
cell to design biomimetic microreactors
Prof Narayan
Rangaraj
IITB narayan.rangaraj@
iitb.ac.in
Railway Operations Management
Optimisation
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
O.R. Applications in the Aviation Sector
Pricing and Revenue
Management
Prof K V Krishna Rao IITB kvkrao@civil.iitb.ac.in Travel demand modelling
and forecasting
Behavioural travel
modelling
Urban land use transport
modelling
Public transit network
design
Traffic design and analysis
Pavement analysis, design
and management
GIS, GPS and microsimulation
in urban transportation
planning
Prof V Ramgopal Rao IITB rrao@ee.iitb.ac.in Nanoelectronics
Technology aware design challenges with emerging technologies (process-device-circuit interactions with multigate MOSFETs, polymer transistors, molecular electronics etc.)
CMOS reliability
Bio-MEMS