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Balamurali A R
Balamurali A R completed his B.Tech in Information technology from the National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. Soon after graduating, he joined one of the top software companies in India based at Chennai as a developer. Over the next 3 year period, he worked on various technologies and has been part of many successful project endeavours. He joined The IITB-Monash Research Academy to solve frontline problems faced in computer science. His guides are Dr Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Dr Ingrid Zuckerman. He is interested in researching all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. His hobbies include photography and blogging.
Link to student's project: IMURA0097 |
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Jubina Balan
Jubina Balan graduated from Mumbai University with a major in Biotechnology and attained her M Tech in Biotechnology from Dr.D.Y .Patil University. She has worked at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre-Mumbai on the production of anti-cancerous compounds from Psoralea corlifolia using hairy root and callus culture. She also worked at the Centre for Genetic Research & Diagnostic Laboratory, M.G.M Hospital gaining experience in: -Human Cell& Tissue Culture Techniques, Karyotyping, FISH, Estimation of Abnormalities in Human Peripheral Blood, lymphocytes invitro and Human Syndromes. Together with Dr Paul Verma and Dr Huseyin Sumer (from Monash) and Prof Dulal Panda from IITB, she is working on the project “Generation and characterization of induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs) and studying checkpoint mechanism in human somatic cells and iPSCs”.
Link to student's project: IMURA0085 |
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Rupesh S Bobade
Rupesh S Bobade has completed ME from BITS Pilani and BE from Amravati University in Mechanical Engineering. Soon after masters, he has joined Knorr-Bremse of TATA Autocomps Group in Pune. He has worked there in R&D for almost one & half years. Due to research background and work, he has got motivated towards PhD. Here at IITB-Monash Research Academy, he will be working on Project Titled “Dynamics and Control of Parallel Robotic Manipulator with End Effector Constrains” under the guidance of Prof P S Gandhi (IITB) and Prof Chen Chao (Monash University).
Link to student's project: IMURA0106 |
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Emund Carvalho
Edmund Carvalho completed his M.Sc in Biochemistry from Pune University. After which he went on to pursue his Masters of technology in Biomedical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has currently joined IITB-Monash Research Academy to work on the project “In situ gelling nano-particulate systems for tissue engineering using stem cells” with Prof Rinti Banerjee(IIT Bombay) and Dr. Paul Verma (Monash University).
Link to student's project: IMURA0132 |
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Chittibabu G
Chittibabu completed his M.Tech in Biotechnology & Biochemical engineering from IIT Kharagpur. His research topic is “Production of recombinant proteins in Bacillus subtilis”. He is working under the guidance of Prof S.B.Noronha (IIT-Bombay) and Prof Ross Coppel (Monash University).
Link to student's project: IMURA0087 |
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Rimi Chakrabarti
Rimi has a mix of diverse academic backgrounds – she is an undergraduate degree in Zoology (Calcutta University) and completed a graduate degree in Biotechnology (Bangalore University). She worked as a trainee in a blood bank and as a microbiologist in a biotech firm before joining The Academy. Together with Prof Ross L. Coppel, Prof Brian M. Cooke, Dr Swati Patankar and Prof Dulal Panda she is working on a project that looks deep into the arrangement of Apicomplexan tubulin with a broad objective of developing novel, efficient chemotherapeutic agents. Besides being an avid reader, Rimi is a novice painter - her medium being glass.
Link to student's project: IMURA0084 |
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Jas Chawla
Jas Chawla completed his Dual Degree in Mechanical Engineering (B.Tech and M.Tech) from IIT Bombay in 2006. He worked with Prof. Shashikanth Suryanarayanan on Vehicle Dynamics for his Masters Thesis. Since graduating he's worked in a Data Analytics firm, researched in IITB with Prof. Shashikanth Suryanarayanan on Robotics and worked in an Engineering Services company. His work at the IITB-Monash Academy would be on 'Small Wind Energy' and he'll work with Prof Shashikanth Suryanarayanan from IITB and Prof Brian Falzon from Monash University. Jas loves to travel and cycle, and is an amateur photographer. He maintains a photoblog at http://e-motion.in/bohemian/colorstreak/
Link to student's project: IMURA0145 |
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Niraj Ramesh Dayama
Niraj presents a blend of diverse academic backgrounds - a degree in Mechanical engineering followed by masters in computational engineering from the IIT. Niraj has eight years of consulting experience with major multinational companies of India and is a visiting faculty for colleges in Pune University. His interests include algorithms, database design and corporate soft skills.
Link to student's project: IMURA0118 |
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Wasim Feroze G.S.
Wasim completed his BE in Polymer Science and Technology from SJCE, Mysore and M.Tech in Plastics Technology from CIPET, affiliated to Anna University, Chennai. His passion for achieving clean energy propelled him to work on Nanocomposite membranes for PEM fuel cells as his M.Tech project and to continue his quest he joined The Academy for higher studies under the guidance of Prof Manoj Neergat (IITB) & Prof Bradley Ladewig (Monash) to work on “Novel composite membranes for methanol fuel cell”.
Link to student's project: IMURA0136
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Siddharth Gadkari
Siddharth is a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University and an M.S in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University. Alongside his M.S coursework he was involved in research on drug and viral delivery using biodegradable hydrogels. This exposure has motivated him to enroll for a PhD program at The IITb-Monash Research Academy. He is working on the experimental and theoretical investigation of the electrospinning process, under the guidance of Dr R Jagadeeshan, Dr P Sunthar, and Dr R Thaokar.
Link to student's project: IMURA0016 |
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Deepak Garg
Deepak Garg completed his M.Tech from IIT Bombay with a specialization in Reliability Engineering and completed his Master’s Thesis in the area of Software Reliability. He has a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. After completing his M.Tech, he has joined the Academy to do his PhD. He is working under the guidance of Prof Ajit K. Verma, Prof A. Srividya, Dr Sita Ramakrishnan, Dr S. Ling on the project of "Improving testing techniques and reliability study for web based applications".
Link to student's project: IMURA0123 |
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Gunjan Gupta
Gunjan Gupta completed her M.Tech. in Metallurgical Engg. & Materials Science from IIT Bombay. Her strength lies in the area of planning, coordinating and organizing. She is proud of her positive attitude, passion and determination for work. Her hobbies are traveling, chatting and doing adventurous things. Now she is doing Ph.D. on topic “Conducting Polymer Corrosion Resistance Coating for Aircraft applications” under the supervision of Prof A.S.Khanna (IIT Bombay) and Prof Nick Birbilis (Monash).
Link to student's project: IMURA0113 |
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Priyanka Gupta
Priyanka has completed her B.tech in Biotechnology from West Bengal University of Technology. Soon after, she joined the PhD program at The IITB-Monash Research Academy to work on “Optimization and designing of bioreactors for stem cell applications” under Prof Thouas from Monash University and Prof Jadhav from IITB. Apart from tinkering with cells and test tubes, she is interested in books, music and dance.
Link to student's project: IMURA0046 |
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Shamsuddin N. Ladha
Shamsuddin has completed his MS in Computer Science from Loyola University of Chicago, US. He worked in the capacity of Software Engineer for 4 years before joining The IITB-Monash Research Academy to do his Ph.D. He is primarily interested in Computer Vision and currently working on “Projector Camera Systems” under the guidance of Prof Sharat Chandran and Prof Kate Smith-Miles.
Link to student's project: IMURA0091 |
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Kamal Kumar Murari
Kamal has completed his Masters in Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. After completing his post graduation, he worked in TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) for over 3.5 years and Center for International Projects, Columbia Water Center India for about a year. In IITB-Monash Research Academy, he is working with Dr Subimal Ghosh and Dr Eduardo Daly. His research topic is “Impact of Climate Vulnerability and Climate Change on Water Availability at a River Basin Scale”, aiming at development of an integrated eco-hydro-climatological model for assessing the impact of global climate changes on soil moisture and vegetation.
Link to student's project: IMURA0101 |
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Ajay Nagesh
Ajay has graduated with a M.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. He holds a Bachelor's degree in the same area from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. After his Masters he had a brief stint as a software engineer at Citrix Systems. His areas of interest lie at the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning. His research work is focused on Learning for Semantic Parsing and is under the guidance of Prof Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Prof Geoff Webb. He enjoys reading history, fiction, philosophy, is an amateur quizzer, is interested in languages and is a self-professed connoisseur of movies.
Link to student's project: IMURA0195 |
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Naveen S
Naveen started his career as Jr Health Inspector in Kerala Government Health Services. While in service he did his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Applications through Indira Gandhi National Open University. After further completing a Master of Engineering in Computer Science (Anna University) Naveen joined The Academy to undertake a PhD. He is working with Prof Krithi Ramamritham, Dr Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Prof Bala Srinivasan and Dr Shonali Krishnaswamy in the area of “Statistical Relational Learning for Sensor Networks”.
Link to student's project: IMURA0088 |
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Akash Nigam
Akash has done his B.Tech in Information and Communication Technology from DA-IICT Gandhinagar in 2008. He did his B.Tech project at IIT Delhi and worked as Research Fellow at IIT-Bombay before joining the Academy for PhD in Dec 2009. He will be working at the Academy with Prof Ramgopal Rao (IIT Bombay) and Prof Malin Premaratne (Monash) for studying the "Transport in novel Semiconductor devices". His work includes both the analytical modeling and the experimentation in field of flexible electronics. Besides this, Akash has great interest in field games and he loves to read and blog.
Link to student's project: IMURA0080 |
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Saumya Nigam
Saumya graduated from Allahabad Agricultural Institute Deemed University with a major in Biotechnology in 2007. She has worked at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on a sponsored project focusing on the fabrication of targeted nano-sized drug delivery systems to cancer cells. Due to research inclination and work, she got motivated towards pursuing her doctoral studies. Together with Dr Qi Zhi Chen (Monash University) and Prof Dhirendra Bahadur (IITB), she has joined the IITB-Monash Research Academy to work on the project titled “Dendrimer-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles for peptide and gene delivery”.
Link to student's project: IMURA0190 |
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Bharat S. Padekar
Bharat has an M.Tech in Mechanical Design Engineering with distinction from College of Engineering, Pune. His research at The Academy involves elucidating the mechanism of stress corrosion cracking of Magnesium Alloys under the guidance of Dr V.S.Raja and Dr Raman Singh. Bharat has an experience of 11 years in the Auto Industry & 14 years in Engg. College with a conference paper to his name!
Link to student's project: IMURA0038 |
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Sharadwata Pan
Sharad completed his B.Tech and M.Tech in Biotechnology from JIIT University securing a high distinction. After working for 4 months as a Guest Faculty at the Dept. of Biotechnology, University of Burdwan (West Bengal), he joined The Academy to pursue his doctoral studies. His research interests include Rheology, studies of linear DNA, single polymer dynamics and molecular biotechnology. He is working at The Academy with Dr P. Sunthar (IIT Bombay) and Dr Ravi P. Jagadeeshan and Prof Tam Sridhar (Monash University).
Link to student's project: IMURA0033 |
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Avijit Paul
Avijit Paul has done B.Tech in Civil Engineering from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Itanagar. Previously, he has done his M.Tech in Civil Engineering with specialization in Hydraulics and Water resources engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Now he has joined IITB Monash academy for his PhD under the supervision of Dr Subimal Ghosh (IITB), Dr David McCarthy (Monash) and Prof Ana Deletic (Monash) His research topic is “Development and testing of stromwater quantity and quality models based on radar rainfall data”.
Link to student's project: IMURA0108 |
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Amrita Vishwanath Poyekar
Amrita completed her B.Tech in Polymer Engineering and Technology with distinction (73.8%). A motivated social activist, she has worked as a core member of CRY volunteer action group. Her specialization is in Polymer Engineering and Technology. Her hobbies include dance and web design. She will be working under the guidance of Dr A.R.Bhattacharya (IIT Bombay) and Dr George P. Simon (Monash University) in The Academy. Before joining IITB-Monash Research Academy, she worked as a Research Assistant at IITB for six months on the research project “Carbon Nanotubes based Polymer Composites”. Work at The Academy will include the study of issues related to Dispersion and Confinement of Multiwall Nanotubes in Immiscible Polymer Blends.
Link to student's project: IMURA0027 |
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Ramkumar Rajendran
Ramkumar has a B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering (University of Madras) and an M.E in Communication Systems (Anna University) with distinction. After working for two years as a Software engineer in TATA Consultancy Services, he joined The Academy to undertake a PhD . He is associated with the project “Mobiles for development” under the guidance of Prof K Ramamritham and A/Prof G Johanson.
Link to student's project: IMURA0052 |
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Ramesh K.V.
Ramesh K.V completed his M.Sc in Physics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Then he did his M.Tech in Computational Techniques from School of Physics, University of Hyderabad. He joined IITB-Monash Research Academy to work on the project “Bio-Membrane Hydrodynamics” with Dr Rochish Thaokar, Dr P. Sunthar (IIT Bombay) , Dr Prabhakar Ranganathan and Dr Ravi P. Jagadeeshan (Monash University).
Link to student's project: IMURA0089 |
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Nilesh Raykar
Nilesh Raykar completed his M.Tech. in 'Design Engineering' from IIT Bombay securing first rank in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He worked for 19 years in the Heavy Engineering Division of M/S Larsen & Toubro Limited, Powai Works, in the field of design and special analysis of critical high pressure process equipment. He is working at The Academy with Prof S.K.Maiti and A/Prof. Raman Singh.
Link to student's project: IMURA0045 |
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Sreenivas Reddy
Sreenivas has done his M.Sc.(Tech) Engineering Physics (2006-2009) with specialization in Photonics from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. After that he worked in the Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIR Lab), Chandigarh on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors. Due to the work in the research laboratory under the guidance of senior scientists in the laboratory he got motivated towards PhD and joined in the Academy on project titled "Photonic Crystal Antenna-Design and Fabrication".
Link to student's project: IMURA0159 |
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Goutam Sen
Goutam completed his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology. He worked as an intern in Tata Consultancy Services for two months and as a project associate in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for one year. His inclination towards research and development motivated him to pursue a PhD at The Academy. He is currently working under the guidance of Prof Mohan Krishnamoorthy and Prof Narayan Rangaraj.
Link to student's project: IMURA0068 |
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Kunal Kumar Singh
Kunal Kumar Singh did his M.Sc in Geology in 2004 from University of Delhi. After working for two years as a Cartographic Editor (2004-06) in Dorling Kindersley (India) Ltd., at Delhi, he then went on to do M.Tech (2006-08) in Engineering Geology from Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad. He has been working at The Academy with Prof D.N. Singh and Dr Ranjith PG.
Link to student's project: IMURA0074 |
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Ganesh Soni
Ganesh completed his BE in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (now, NIT), Nagpur. Soon after graduating, he started to work as a Design Engineer in L&T, Mumbai, and developed many designs of rubber and plastic components. After two years of work experience, he has done his ME in Design Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. He also has gained teaching experience along with studies. He joint IITB-Monash Research Academy to investigate post buckling behaviour of composite laminates. His guides are Dr Ramesh Singh, Dr Mira Mitra and Dr Brian Falzon. He loves to write poems and is an amateur photographer.
Link to student's project: IMURA0071 |
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Anu Thomas
Anu Thomas did his M.Tech in Industrial Mathematics & Scientific Computing at IIT Madras, immediately after the completion of M.Sc(Mathematics) from Mahathma Gandhi University Kottayam. He worked as a Senior Engineer for two years in Emmeskay Systems Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Chennai. His achievements include DAAD- Indian Master Sandwich Scholarship-2006, Prof. Helmut Neunzert Endowment Prize, IIT Merit Prize, Third rank in GATE(Mathematics) 2005, CSIR-UGC JRF(2004), NBHM M. Sc. Scholarship (2003-05). He is currently working on “Integrated approaches to normally-sequential enterprise-wide optimisation problems” under the guidance of A/Prof Jayendran Venkateswaran, Prof Narayan Rangaraj (IITB) and Prof Mohan Krishnamoorthy(Monash).
Link to student's project: IMURA0067 |
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Vikram Vishal
Vikram Vishal graduated from Presidency College, Kolkata and did his M.Sc. in Applied Geology at IIT Bombay. He remained associated with Shell Oil, Malaysia, CIMFR, Dhanbad as intern and Tata Steel as Manager (Geology) and currently, Joint Secy. of Int. J. of Earth Sc. and Engg. His highlighted achievements include Gold Medal, Geol. Hons., Univ. of Calcutta, IIT JAM Rank 2, GATE Rank 3, Dr Coggin Brown Award and CSIR fellowship. As of now he holds publications on Coal Bed Methane, Petrophysical characterization and Slope Stability to his credit. He is researching with Prof T. N. Singh (IITB) and Prof R. P. Gamage (Monash Univ.). He enjoys working on social-environmental issues apart from feature writing and classical music. |
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Saroj Yadav
Saroj Yadav has done her Bachelors in Biochemistry from RVS College of Arts & Science and has completed her Masters in Biotechnology from IIT Bombay. Soon after, she joined the PhD program at the IITB Monash Research Academy. Together with Dr Dulal Panda and Dr Paul Verma she is working on the project “generation and characterization of cell cycle regulation of induced pluripotent stem cells”. Along with her scientific endeavours she is interested in arts and literature.
Link to student's project: IMURA0099 |
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