IISc Profile
2012
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012
Contents
Foreword
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The Court
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The Council
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Administration
x
Division of Biological Sciences
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics
Molecular Biophysics Unit
Centre for Ecological Sciences
Centre for Neuroscience
Central Animal Facility
Primate Research Laboratory
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Division of Chemical Sciences
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
Department of Organic Chemistry
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
Materials Research Centre
NMR Research Centre
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Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics
Department of Mathematics Department of Physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics Programme
Centre for High Energy Physics
Centre for Contemporary Studies
Centre for Cryogenic Technology
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Division of Electrical Sciences
Department of Computer Science and Automation
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
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Division of Mechanical Sciences
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Materials Engineering
Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing
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Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Management Studies
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Divecha Centre for Climate Change
Centre for Earth Sciences
Centre for Sustainable Technologies
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Central Laboratories and Facilities
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre
Centre for Nano Science and Engineering
Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems
Archives and Publications Cell
International Relations Cell
JRD Tata Memorial Library
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Outreach Activities
Centre for Continuing Education
Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning
Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy Society for Innovation and Development (SID)
Intellectual Property Cell
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY)
Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology
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Inter-disciplinary Programme
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Directors
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Honorary Fellows/Centenary Visiting Professors
112
Endowed Chairs for Faculty
113
Endowed Visiting Chairs/DST-IISc Centenary Chair
116
Lectures
118
Centenary Lectures
123
Awards for Faculty
125
Medals for Meritorious Students
127
Acknowledgement
130
Foreword
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was conceived as a ‘Research Institute’ or ‘University of
Research’ by Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, in the final years of the 19th century. A long period of
almost thirteen years was to elapse from the initial conception in 1896 to the birth of the institute
on May 27, 1909. The early history of the Institute is a fascinating chapter in the story of higher
education and scientific research in India. The cast of characters in the drama that led to the establishment of the Institute includes, in addition to its charismatic and generous founder J.N. Tata,
figures from the pages of Indian history. There is Swami Vivekananda, whom J.N. Tata befriended
on his famous voyage to the United States, the Maharaja of Mysore, Shri Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV
and his mother then acting on his behalf, and Lord Curzon the Viceroy of India, whose first task
on arrival on December 31, 1898 was to receive a draft proposal prepared by the Provisional
Committee set up to plan the establishment of the Institute. The plan was shepherded through
many difficult years by Burjorji Padshah, a close associate of J.N. Tata. Unfortunately, J.N. Tata
died in 1904 unaware that his vision would indeed be realized a few years later. When the British
Government finally issued the Vesting Order in 1909, an unmatched experiment in higher education and research was launched in India. IISc is truly the first example of a public-private partnership in this country; an institution, whose evolution over a century is testimony to the robustness
of its foundations.
The Institute occupies nearly 400 acres of prime land in Bangalore, generously donated by
the Maharaja of Mysore in March 1907. Indeed, the contribution from the princely state of
Mysore was the decisive element in determining the location of J.N. Tata’s proposed institution.
Remarkably, in a gesture unmatched in the annals of private philanthropy in India, Tata did not
wish his name to be associated with the Institute. His dream was to create an institution that
would contribute to the development of India. The name, Indian Institute of Science, which was
finally chosen, reflects in every way the wishes of J.N. Tata. Visitors to Bangalore who seek out
IISc still have to ask local residents for directions to the ‘Tata Institute’, a clear recognition that
Jamsetji Tata’s act of generosity has remained undimmed in public memory, despite the passage
of a century.
The Institute began with only two departments: General and Applied Chemistry and ElectroTechnology. The first Director, Morris W Travers began the task of organizing the Institute shortly after
his arrival in India at the end of 1906. Travers began the construction of the main building, which
is one of Bangalore’s landmarks today. The Departments of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
were among the earliest to be established. The Physics department came into being in 1933, when
C.V. Raman became the first Indian Director of the Institute. In the century that has passed since its
inception, IISc has grown to become India’s premier centre for research and postgraduate education in science and engineering. The evolution of the Institute over the past one hundred years has
mirrored the development of science and technology in India. A long history, a strong tradition of
academic research and an ambience that favours scholarly activity have been important elements
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in making the Institute a most attractive place for students and faculty. As the Institute has grown,
several new areas of research have been established, many of them for the first time in India. The
Institute’s departments in fields ranging from Biochemistry to Aerospace Engineering have served to
nucleate research and development in both the public and private sectors. The faculty and alumni
of the Institute have been responsible for establishing and spearheading many new institutions and
programs across the country, reflecting in a real sense, a major contribution of this centre of learning to national growth and development. Homi Bhabha conceived the idea of the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research (TIFR) and an Atomic Energy Program while working in the Department
of Physics. Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of India’s space program was an alumnus. Following his
premature death, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was built by the farsighted
leadership of Satish Dhawan, who simultaneously held the position of the Director of the Institute
with the greatest distinction. The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur was established by J.C. Ghosh, who was the Director of IISc in the critical period 1939–48, during which
much of the activity in engineering was initiated at the Institute. Many of India’s most distinguished
scientists have been associated with the Institute as students or faculty. Notable among them
are G.N. Ramachandran, Harish Chandra, S. Ramaseshan, A. Ramachandran, C.N.R. Rao and
R. Narasimha. Alumni of the Institute head many major organizations in India and abroad.
The Institute offers a variety of Master’s degree programs in Engineering, an integrated Ph.D.
(post- B.Sc.) program in Sciences and Ph.D. programs in a wide spectrum of disciplines in science
and engineering. Last year the Institute launched a 4-year undergraduate program leading to a
B.S. degree, with an opportunity for students to obtain a broad foundation in science, including
an exposure to research. The research laboratories at the Institute are extremely well equipped.
Many national facilities are housed at the Institute. The library and computational facilities at the
Institute are amongst the best in India. A major program for modernizing laboratories is underway.
The Institute hosts hundreds of visitors from India and abroad every year and is the venue for
many major national and international academic events.
The face of science and engineering research has been changing very rapidly over the past few
years. In approaching the second century of the Institute many new activities have been initiated.
Notable among them are the interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in Mathematical Sciences and
Nanoscience and Engineering. A new program in Bioengineering has been launched this year.
These programs are intended to blur the traditional boundaries between disciplines, thereby promoting cross-disciplinary research. An M.Tech. program in Transportation Engineering was introduced in 2010 and a Master’s program in Management with a focus on Technology Management
and Business Analytics was started last year. New centres in the areas of Earth Sciences, Climate
Change and Neuroscience have been established in the last few years. The Institute hopes to
foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research in a vigorous fashion in the years to come.
The Institute is also committed to promoting post-doctoral research in the areas of science and
engineering.
The Institute engages in interactions with society and industry through a variety of outreach programs. The Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy (CSIC) and the Society for Innovation
and Development (SID) promote collaborative interactions with industry, while the Centre for
Continuing Education (CCE) provides an opportunity for working scientists and engineers to
enrich themselves academically. The Institute actively promotes programs that encourage bright
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young school and undergraduate students to undertake research careers. The Institute administers the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) program of the Department of Science and
Technology (DST). The Institute’s commitment to socially relevant research is specifically emphasized by the activities undertaken at the Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST), together
with the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST), which is housed on the
campus.
The Institute completed a century of existence in 2009. It has embarked on a new phase of expansion and renewal. To live and work at the Institute is a special privilege. The Faculty, Staff and
Students of the Institute can be rightly proud of its past and optimistic about its future.
P BALARAM
July 2012
THE COURT
PRESIDENT
Ratan N Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons Ltd., Mumbai
MEMBERS
P Rama Rao, Hyderabad
Ashoke Sen, HRI, Allahabad
Ashok Thakur, Secretary MHRD, Dept. of Higher Education, GOI, New Delhi
Sudha Murty, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation, Bangalore
Sushanta Dattagupta, Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati Univesity, Santiniketan
K R Shashidhar, Commissioner, Dept. of Collegiate Education, GOK, Bangalore
R K Krishna Kumar, Director, Tata Sons Ltd., Mumbai
T S Sridhar, Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, GOTN, Chennai
Saroj K Poddar, Chairman, Gillette India Ltd., Kolkata
S N Agarwal, Chairman, Bhoruka Power Corporation Ltd., Bangalore
Pamod H Lele, Chief Executive, P D Hinduja National Hospital
& Medical Research Centre, Mumbai
Chairman, AICTE, New Delhi
Samir K Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR, New Delhi
Er Har Sarup Chahal, VC, Deenabandhu Chotu Ram University of Science and Technology,
Murthai, Haryana
A M Pathan, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga
Damodar Acharya, Director, IIT Kharagpur
Devang V Khakhar, Director, IIT, Mumbai
K Kasturirangan, Member, Planning Commission, New Delhi
V S Ramamurthy, Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
V Babu Sathian, President, IISc Alumni Association, Bangalore
P Balaram, Director (Ex-officio)
N Balakrishnan, Associate Director (Ex-officio)
Members of the Council who are not otherwise members of the Court and
Professors of the Institute (Ex-officio)
N Mohan Das, Registrar (Ex-officio)
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THE COUNCIL
CHAIRMAN
K Kasturirangan, Member, Planning Commission, New Delhi
MEMBERS
Ashok Thakur, Secretary, MHRD, Dept. of Higher Education, GOI, New Delhi
N K Sinha, Addl. Secretary, MHRD, Dept. of Higher Education, GOI, New Delhi
G Madhavan Nair, Former Chairman, ISRO, Bangalore
Siddaiah, Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, GOK, Bangalore
L V Nagarajan, Principal Secretary, Dept. of Finance, GOK, Bangalore
J J Irani, Director, Tata Sons Ltd., Mumbai
A N Singh, Managing Trustee, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai
Ajit Kembhavi, Director, IUCAA, Pune
Murli Manohar Joshi, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
N Dharam Singh, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Ashok S Ganguly, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
P Rama Rao, Hyderabad
Er Har Sarup Chahal, VC, Deenabandhu Chotu Ram University of Science and Technology,
Murthai, Haryana
A M Pathan, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga
Chairman, AICTE, New Delhi
Samir K Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR, New Delhi
P Balaram, Director (Ex-officio)
N Balakrishnan, Associate Director (Ex-officio)
M R N Murthy, Dean, Science Faculty (Ex-officio)
B N Raghunandan, Dean, Engineering Faculty (Ex-officio)
N Mohan Das, Registrar (Ex-officio Secretary)
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ADMINISTRATION
DIRECTOR
P Balaram
PhD (Carnegie Mellon)
FNA, FASc, FNASc, FTWAS
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
N Balakrishnan
PhD (IISc) FASc, FNAE, FNA, FNASc, FTWAS
REGISTRAR
N Mohan Das
PhD (Anna)
DEPUTY REGISTRARS
K Panneer Selvam
PhD (Gandhigram Rural)
Uma Chandran
MA, LLB (Bangalore)
PGDPM (NIPM), GDMM (IIMM)
ASSISTANT REGISTRARS
T S Vishwanath
BSc (Bangalore), PGDM & PGDHRM,
(IGNOU)
V Nagaraja
MA (Mysore)
M J Nandeesh
MSc (Mysore), PGDMM (Annamalai)
Aparna Kandi
BE (VTU)
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
Indumati Srinivasan
MA (JNU, New Delhi), PGDPPM (IIMB)
DEPUTY FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
M Krishna Murthy
PhD (Bangalore)
ACCOUNTS OFFICER
P Manivannan
MA (Madras)
INTERNAL AUDITOR
S R Lakshminarasimhan
BCom (Mysore)
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
G R Nagabhushana
MBBS (Mysore)
PGDM&CH (IGNOU)
MEDICAL OFFICERS
C Satish Rao
MBBS (Mysore)
L Sharada
MBBS (CMC Vellore), DGO (Vellore)
R Nirmala
MBBS (MGR Medical)
OFFICERS (other areas)
SECURITY OFFICER
M R Chandrasekhar
BSc (Mysore), LLB (Bangalore)
OFFICER IN-CHARGE
(Public Information/Official Language Unit)
V Thilagam
PhD (Bangalore)
GYMKHANA
President
Siddartha P Sarma
PhD (Maryland)
SENIOR SPORTS OFFICER
C P Poonacha
BA (Mysore)
MP Ed (Karnatak)
HOSTELS
Chairman, Council of Wardens
A M Umarji
PhD (IIT/Madras), MRC
Associate Chairman
L Umanand
PhD (IISc), DESE
Honorary Wardens
Dipshikha Chakravortty
PhD (Pune), MCB
Muddu Sekhar
PhD (IISc), Civil Engineering
Abha Misra
PhD (IIT/Bombay), IAP
Aveek Bid
PhD (IISc), Physics
P Thilagar
PhD (IIT/Kanpur), IPC
Administration xi
Ganesh Nagaraju
PhD (IISc), BC
ADVISOR (Students Affairs)
Anjali A Karande
PhD (Bombay)
STUDENTS COUNSELLORS
P K Das
PhD (Columbia)
J M Chandra Kishen
PhD (IISc)
G Jagadeesh
PhD (IISc)
Anjula Gurtoo
PhD (IIM, Ahmedabad)
Chairpersons of Departments
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING:
Debasish Ghose
ARCHIVES & PUBLICATIONS CELL:
A G Menon
BIOCHEMISTRY:
H S Savithri
CENTRAL ANIMAL FACILITY:
K Somasundaram
CENTRE FOR ATMOSPHERIC & OCEANIC
SCIENCES:
G S Bhat
CENTRE FOR CAMPUS MANAGEMENT &
DEVELOPMENT:
B V Venkatarama Reddy
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDIES:
R Gadagkar
CENTRE FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION:
P Venkataram
CENTRE FOR CRYOGENIC TECHNOLOGY:
S Kasthurirengan
CENTRE FOR EARTH SCIENCES:
A G Menon
CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES:
R Sukumar
CENTRE FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS:
B Ananthanarayan
CENTRE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE,
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION & URBAN
PLANNING:
T G Sitharam
CENTRE FOR NANOSCIENCE &
ENGINEERING:
Rudra Pratap
CENTRE FOR NEUROSCIENCES:
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
CENTRE FOR PRODUCT DESIGN &
MANUFACTURING:
Anindya Deb
CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL
CONSULTANCY:
J M Chandra Kishen
CENTRE FOR SPONSORED SCHEMES &
PROJECTS:
CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE
TECHNOLOGIES:
Sudhakar M Rao
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING:
Prabhu R Nott
CIVIL ENGINEERING:
C S Manohar
COMPUTER SCIENCE & AUTOMATION:
Y Narahari
DIVECHA CENTRE FOR
CLIMATE CHANGE:
J Srinivasan
ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION
ENGINEERING:
P Vijay Kumar
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING:
P S Sastry
ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS ENGINEERING:
K Gopakumar
INORGANIC & PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY:
A G Samuelson
INSTRUMENTATION & APPLIED
PHYSICS:
K Rajanna
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CELL:
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CELL:
G Rangarajan
J R D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY:
R Krishna Murthy
MANAGEMENT STUDIES:
M H Bala Subrahmanya
MATERIALS ENGINEERING:
Vikram Jayaram
MATERIALS RESEARCH CENTRE:
K B R Varma
MATHEMATICS:
Mrinal Kanti Ghosh
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING:
R Narasimhan
MICROBIOLOGY & CELL BIOLOGY:
V Nagaraja
MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS UNIT:
Dipankar Chatterji
MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION,
DEVELOPMENT & GENETICS:
P Kondaiah
NMR RESEARCH CENTRE:
S Vasudevan
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY:
Santanu Bhattacharya
PHYSICS:
H R Krishnamurthy
PRIMATE RESEARCH LABORATORY
Aditya Murthy
ROBERT BOSCH CENTRE FOR CYBER
PHYSICAL SYSTEMS:
S Asokan
SOLID STATE & STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY
UNIT:
D D Sarma
SOCIETY FOR INNOVATION &
DEVELOPMENT:
Jayant M Modak
SUPERCOMPUTER EDUCATION &
RESEARCH CENTRE:
R Govindarajan
DEPARTMENTS
Department of Biochemistry
Profile
The department of Biochemistry was started in 1921
and was recognized as a Centre of Advanced Study
in Biochemistry in 1968 by the University Grants
Commission, and has remained so ever since. The
Department offers excellent PhD and post doctoral
programmes. More than thousand PhDs and two
thousand fellows have been trained.
Major Research Areas
Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics, Structure
and function of Proteins and Enzymes, Molecular
Immunology, Virology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology,
Systems Biology and Bioinformatics.
Current Research
Some of the current research projects in the department are:
Investigation of heme biosynthesis in the malarial parasite and development of new antimalarial drug targets,
molecular biology of DNA-DNA pairing and strand
exchange promoted by RecA proteins of Escherichia coli
and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, molecular genetics of
chromosome synapsis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae; reg-
ulation of telomere maintenance and cell senescence,
homing endonucleases; development of DNA vaccine
for rabies; cellular immune response against viruses and
immunomodulation, structure and function of viral
encoded proteins, molecular mechanisms of assembly, replication and movement in single stranded RNA
and DNA plant viruses; biochemical and structural
studies on pyridoxal phosphate dependent enzymes;
restriction-modification enzymes and DNA mismatch
repair proteins – their utilization as model systems to
study protein-DNA interactions; DNA repair, recombination, genomic instability and cancer in mammalian
cells; delineating the mechanisms of action of glycodelin and the role of oligosaccharides in the regulation
of activity; design of immunotoxins of abrin for tumor
therapy, gene regulation and signal transduction during
embryo development and seed development in plants;
identification of triacylglycerol biosynthetic pathways
in developing cotyledons and oleaginous yeast; biotechnological production of pharmaceutically important
alkaloids and terpenoids found in medicinal plants –
plant and fungal bioactive secondary metabolites;
characterization and functional roles peptidases from
Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium; mouse
CD4+ T cell activation; interferon modulated genes and
roles of free radicals, understanding the mechanisms of
protein translocation into mitochondria, protein folding: understanding the mechanism and regulation in
eukaryotic system, iron-sulphur cluster biogenesis, role
Department of Biochemistry 3
of heat shock proteins in health and diseases; role of
molecular chaperones in the biogenesis of proteins in
eukaryotic cells; evaluation of heat shock proteins as
drug targets against malaria; molecular analysis of
chromosome condensation and sister chromatid cohesion during mitosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, char-
acterization of enzymes involved in ubiquitin-mediated
protein degradation; characterization of host genes
involved in antiviral response; biology & biotechnology of Pichia pastoris, metabolic flux balance analysis
and modeling of pathways relevant to Mycobacterium
tuberculosis.
Chandra Nagasuma R
PhD (Bristol), Associate Professor
Manjunath R
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
D’Silva, Patrick
PhD (IIT/Mumbai), Assistant Professor
Muniyappa K
PhD (IISc), FNASc, FASc, FNA,
FTWAS, Professor
Ganesh Nagaraju
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Jayabaskaran C
PhD (IISc), MNASc, Professor
Karande, Anjali Anoop
PhD (Bombay), Professor
Laloraya, Shikha
PhD (UW – Madison),
Associate Professor
Nandi, Dipankar
PhD (Calif, Berkeley), Professor
Raghavan, Sathees C
PhD (BHU), Assistant Professor
Rajasekharan, Ram
PhD (IISc), FNAASc, FNASc, FASc,
FNA, Professor (on lien)
Rao, D Narasimha
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNASc, FNA,
Professor
Savithri H S
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
Professor
Utpal Tatu
PhD (llSc), FASc, Professor
Vathsala P G
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Rangarajan P N
PhD (IISc), FNASc, FASc, Professor
Established
Phone
Fax
Email
URL
Chairperson
Degree Programs Offered
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+91-80-2293 2473
+91-(080)-2360 0814
office@biochem.iisc.ernet.in
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H S Savithri
PhD and Int PhD
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Profile
Areas of current research
The Department has been recognised as a FIST
level II Department by the Department of Science
and Technology and a Centre for Advanced Studies
in Molecular Medical Microbiology by the Indian
Council for Medical Research, and the UGC Centre
for Advanced Studies.
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Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology –
Major Research Areas
Cell and Molecular Biology, Molecular Microbiology,
Molecular Immunology, Molecular Virology,
Genetics and Development, Plant Molecular Biology.
Current Research
The Department has emphasized research on problems related to infectious diseases of bacterial and
viral origin and also modern molecular and cell biology. It is the focal point of research on infectious
diseases in the campus. The research carried out by
the Department has received recognition and financial support from national and international agencies.
MCB was the earliest in the country to introduce formal teaching and research in Molecular Biology and
is presently involved in training post-doctoral fellows,
PhD and Integrated PhD students.
Gene structure, organization and expression; tissue
specific and developmental stage-specific expression; molecular basis of differentiation in plants;
molecular genetics of flower development; global
regulation of genes in Candida in response to stress,
melanosome biogenesis and protein trafficking,
molecular basis of RNA splicing in yeast; molecular biology of cancer; regulation of expression of
growth factors and oncogenes; DNA-protein interactions; eukaryotic transcription regulation.
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Microbiology and Immunology – Structure, organization and regulation of genes involved in transcriptional activation in bacteria; DNA topoisomerases;
DNA repair; regulation of cell division in mycobacteria; bacterial virulence/pathogenesis; initiation of
protein synthesis; molecular biology and immunology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; mechanism
of action of antiviral and anticancer compounds;
immunology of bacterial and viral infections.
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Molecular Virology – Transcription and replica-
tion of RNA viruses; immune responses to viral
proteins; mechanism of action of antiviral agents;
viral expression vectors; recombinant vaccines;
molecular biology of morbilli viruses, rotavirus,
Japanese encephalitis virus, hepatitis C virus and
enteroviruses.
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology 5
Ajitkumar P
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Rajanna C
MSc (Bangalore), Technical Officer
Talawar, Ramappa K
MSc (Karnatak), Technical Officer
Balaji K N
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Rao, C Durga
PhD (IISc), FNASc, Professor
Chakravortty, Dipshikha
PhD (Pune), Associate Professor
Saumitra Das
PhD (Calcutta), FNA, FASc, FNASc,
Professor
Varshney, Umesh
PhD (Calgary), FNA, FASc, FNASc,
Professor
Indi S S
PhD (Exeter, UK)
Senior Scientific Officer
Somasundaram, Kumaravel
PhD (Madurai Kamaraj), FNA, FASc,
FNASc, Professor
Nagaraja V
PhD (IISc), FNA, FASc, FNASc,
Professor
Vijaya S
PhD (IISc), Professor
Vijayraghavan, Usha
PhD (Caltech), FNA, FASc, Professor
Subba Rao, G
PhD (JNU), Assistant Professor
Nath, Utpal
PhD (Bombay), Assistant Professor
Surin William Rasican
PhD (JNU), Scientific Officer
Established
Phone
Fax
Email
URL
Chairperson
Degree Programs Offered
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+91-80-2293 2413
+91-(080)-2360 2697
office@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in
http://www.mcbl.iisc.ernet.in
V Nagaraja
PhD and Int PhD
Department of Molecular Reproduction,
Development and Genetics
Profile
The activities of this department are directed towards
generating an integrated research program in reproductive biology, cell-developmental biology and genetics.
Major Research Areas
Reproductive Biology, Developmental Biology, Stem
Cell Biology, Bacterial and Human genetics, Signal
Transduction, Cancer Biology, Protein structure and
function.
Current Research
Our current interests in the area of reproductive biology include (1) physiology and cell biology of ovarian
functions and in particular growth factors/hormonesmediated regulation of folliculogenesis; delineation
of apoptotic regression of corpus luteum and effects
of pesticides on adrenal and gonadal functions. Also,
the research on cross-talk among bone, glucose and
fat metabolism during pregnancy and lactation is
being investigated, employing transgenic mouse
model systems. (2) Cellular and molecular regulation of gamete maturation, preimplantation embryo
development and blastocyst hatching-implantation
phenomena. (3) The role of gonadotropins and testosterone in spermatogenesis; cloning, expression and
structure-function relationships of glycoprotein hormones and their receptors is being investigated.
Novel proteins important for cyclic nucleotide signaling in mycobacteria have been identified and characterized. Studies on signal transduction mechanisms
are focused on the roles of receptor guanylyl cyclases
Department of Molecular Reproduction Development and Genetics 7
and cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases and tyrosine kinases, as also on the evolutionary aspects of
adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases. The spatio-temporal
dynamics of signal transduction is also an area of
investigation wherein bacterial two­ component systems and eukaryotic GPCR­MAPK pathways are
studied using live cell imaging and other traditional
methods.
development is also being explored. Gene signatures
that predict different clinical categories of breast cancer are being explored. The role of growth factors in
regulating gene expression during differentiation and
disease is also an active interest. (3) The development
of Drosophila and zebra fish as model systems to
study human muscle development, cardiomyopathies
and nemaline myopathies is being attempted.
In cell-developmental biology, studies are being conducted to understand the correlated influences of
cellular calcium, cell cycle phase and intercellular signaling in determining the pattern of gene expression
in the social amoeba Dictyostelium.
In genetics, research is directed towards uncovering
the reasons behind the existence of cryptic genes as
well as the role played by these genes during the normal bacterial life cycle and in evolution. In the area of
human genetics, the molecular-genetic basis of human
genetic disorders is being investigated; the mapping,
isolation and mutational analysis of genes causing
different genetic disorders such as microspherophakia, anencephaly, Parkinson’s disease and primary
microcephaly are being investigated. In addition, the
roles of the BRITl and ASPM genes in human brain
develop are also being actively investigated.
In stem cell biology, (1) using mouse ES-cell and iPScell lines, the molecular basis of pluripotent stem
cell differentiation to lineage-specific cell types such
as cardiac and neural cell types is being investigated.
(2) The cellular and molecular basis of carcinogenesis is being investigated using oral and breast cancer
as model systems and the role of stem cells in cancer
Arun Kumar
PhD (BHU), DABMG, Professor
Mahadevan S
PhD (Tufts), FASc, Professor
Rangarajan, Annapoorni
PhD (NCBS), Associate Professor
Saini, Deepak K
PhD (AIIMS), Assistant Professor
Medhamurthy R
PhD (Saskatchewan),
Associate Professor
Seshagiri, Polani B
PhD (IISc), Professor
Dighe, Rajan R
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNASc, FNA,
Professor
Kondaiah P
PhD (Osmania), Professor
Nanjundaiah, Vidyanand
PhD (Chicago), FASc, FNA, Professor
Visweswariah, Sandhya S
PhD (IISc), FASc, Professor
Nongthomba, Upendra
PhD (Mysore), Assistant Professor
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Paturu Kondaiah
PhD and Int PhD
Molecular Biophysics Unit
Profile
The research activities in the Unit are concerned
mainly with the structure, conformation and interactions of biomolecules, with the objective of understanding biological activity in molecular terms. The
general strategy has been to employ modern synthetic,
biochemical, spectroscopic, X-ray crystallographic,
computational methods, molecular modelling and
molecular biological, electrophysiological techniques
for the realisation of this objective.
Current Research
Computer simulation to study biomolecular interactions; knowledge based prediction and design of protein and nucleic acid motifs; computational genomics
to study gene sequences and protein functions.
X-ray crystallography – covering structure and interactions of amino acids, peptides, ionophores, drugs
and other effector molecules, protein crystallography,
virus crystallography and structural genomics.
Synthetic, physico-chemical and spectroscopic studies covering ionophores and membranes; biologically
active peptides, oligonucleotides, DNA binding drugs
and oligosaccharides. Biological chemistry - folding,
structure and function of proteins and molecular
chaperones; sequence specific structure and functions of DNA; DNA-protein interaction; genomics;
proteomics; regulation of gene expression; protein
engineering; membranes; ionic channels and electrophysiology, NMR analysis of protein structure, single
molecule biology, stress response in bacteria, biology
of pathogenic microorganisms.
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Badarinarayan
AMIE, Scientific Assistant
Balaram P
PhD (Carnegie Mellon), FASc, FNA,
FNASc, FTWAS, Professor
Bansal, Manju
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNASc, FNA,
Professor
Murthy M R N
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
FTWAS, Professor
Narayanan, Rishikesh
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Raju S
MSc (Annamalai), Technical Officer
Ramasamy P
MSc (Bharathidasan),
Scientific Assistant
Chatterji, Dipankar
PhD (lISc), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
FTWAS, Professor
Govindaraju M
MSc (Annamalai), Scientific Assistant
Sikdar, Sujit K
MedSci (Kyushu), FASc, Professor
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Suguna K
PhD (IISc), FNASc, Professor
Surolia, Avadhesha
PhD (Madras), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
FTWAS, M-IMBN, Professor (on lien)
Varadarajan, Raghavan
PhD (Stanford), FASc, FNA, Professor
Sarma, Siddhartha P
PhD (Maryland), Associate Professor
Gopal B
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Srinivasan N
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNASc, Professor
Vijayan M
PhD (IISc), FNA, FASc, FNASc,
FTWAS, DAE Homi Bhabha Chair
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Dipankar Chatterji
PhD and Int PhD
Centre for Ecological Sciences
Profile
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Animal Communication and Bioacoustics – A major aim of
this research is to understand the causes and consequences
of animal behaviour in natural environments at both proximate and ultimate levels, for which we use acoustic communication as the model. We aim to understand the structure,
diversity, perception and function of acoustic communication signals, taking into account physiological, ecological
and evolutionary factors. The methods employed are both
reductionist (using behaviour and physiology) and synthetic (using simulations), with concurrent quantification
of the natural abiotic and biotic environment. Research
projects span the areas of bioacoustics, animal behaviour,
community and habitat ecology, and systematics.
This is the first Centre of Excellence supported by the Ministry of
Environment and Forests, Government of India with an emphasis on field-oriented research. It offers exciting opportunities for
research in a variety of areas in ecology. These include animal
behaviour, evolutionary biology and sociobiology, community
ecology and biogeography, molecular genetics and conservation
biology, and climate change. Research is being carried out on a
number of taxa, ranging from ants to elephants, and including
wasps, crickets, spiders, herpetofauna, birds and mammals.
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Applied Evolutionary Ecology – We are interested in the conse-
quences of individual behaviour for populations and the application of approaches from behavioural ecology and evolution
towards conservation. Examples of our research include decision-making by antelope in fragmented grassland landscapes
and the consequences of these decisions towards crop damage; oviposition decisions by female mosquitoes and the consequences towards larval population dynamics and mosquito
population control; and the role of extreme mating strategies
of a mammal disperser on the spread of an invasive plant.
Current Research
The Centre concerns itself with research in the following
major areas:
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Animal Behaviour and Sociobiology – The research in this
field addresses the following questions: What favours the
evolution of sociality in certain groups of animals? What
role do social animals ranging from wasps to elephants play
in biological communities? What is the adaptive significance
of mimicry in ant-mimicking spiders? What are the behavioural and chemical bases for the success and evolution of
such mimicry systems? What are the behavioural strategies
that predators and prey utilise and how do they change at
different scales, and with different levels of community complexity? How do animals reconcile conflicting information?
What are the mechanistic and adaptive basis of grouping
and collective coordinated motion in animals? What are the
ecological conditions and evolutionary processes that lead
to variation in mating systems across species? What tactics
do individuals show to attract mates, fight off competitors,
and respond to predators? What information do individuals
use to choose mates and determine levels of predation risk?
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Community
Ecology and Biogeography – The aim of this
research is to understand the distribution and diversity of
organisms at various spatial scales from local communities
to macroecological scales, and at various levels of organisation from genes to ecosystems. We combine field ecology,
phylogenetic information and ecological modelling to understand evolutionary and biogeographic patterns. We address
the following questions: How are biological communities
organised? What determines the diversity and composition
of species occurring in any community? How do diversity
patterns change at different scales, i.e. at landscape and
regional levels, along elevational and latitudinal gradients?
How do metapopulation dynamics and island biogeography help in understanding the effects of forest fragmentation on diversity? How can this information inform
conservation prioritization?
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Climate Change and Tropical Forests – Understanding and
mitigating the impacts of climate change is one of the main
challenges in society. This research asks: How do various forest ecosystems in India sequester carbon? What is the impact
of climate change on forests in India? What is the potential of forestry as a climate mitigation option? How can we
strengthen the economic and institutional aspects of forestry
mitigation options and adaptation to climate change?
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Ecophysiology – We are particularly interested in under-
standing the physiological mechanisms that vertebrates
use to survive under different ecological conditions. For
example, how do hormonal stress responses vary within
and among species along habitat gradients and across geographical areas? Does the same physiological mechanism
underlie different behavioural strategies?
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evolution of mutualisms such as those between ants and
ant-plants and between figs and fig wasps? We also address
questions about the visual communication between plants
and animals, i.e. visual ecology. We have established a
chemical ecology facility at CES equipped to investigate
the chemistry of compounds involved in these interactions.
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Forest ecology – The dynamics of forests are influenced by
a number of intrinsic and extrinsic factors – plant species’
functional traits, local species interactions, topography
and soils, climate, fire, pests, herbivory by large mammals,
dispersal agents, and direct human impacts. Several questions, relating to both basic and applied ecology, are being
investigated since 1988 within a network of permanent
forest plots (one 50-hectare plot and 20 1-hectare plots)
in the Nilgiris in the Western Ghats. This research aims
to examine the relation between the functional traits of
plants and their response to various climatic factors and
fire, as well as measure changes in carbon stocks within
different vegetation components.
 Wildlife biology – Studies of
elephants in this region have
characterized their distribution in relation to forest cover
and land-use patterns, impact of ivory poaching on population structure (male:female ratio) and dynamics, aspects of
elephant-human conflicts, population genetic structure, and
social organization. We have been monitoring the long-term
dynamics of the elephant population of the Nilgiris since
1988 and been involved in devising strategies for successful
conservation of the Asian elephant. Research is ongoing on
the long-term population structure, dynamics and genetics
of the elephant populations as well as human-elephant conflict. Research is also being carried out on ecology and evolutionary biology of marine turtles, including population
biology and genetics, and behaviour and movements. The
research focuses on olive ridley turtles on the coast of India,
leatherback turtles in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
and green turtles in the Lakshadweep Islands.
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Mathematical
and spatial ecology – We have established
a mathematical ecology laboratory to investigate, analyze
and predict ecological patterns in space and time. For
example, we study how local interactions among nearby
animals lead to collective synchronous motion in animal
groups. Research is underway to predict and analyze patterns of animal movement in various scenarios such as
foraging, migration and predator-prey interactions. We
are also developing mathematical models to understand
spatial organization of vegetation in Indian ecosystems.
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Molecular
Ecology – Modern molecular genetic tools in
conjunction with new data analysis methods have revolutionized the fields of ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation biology. At CES, we have established a molecular
ecology laboratory to take advantage of molecular genetic
approaches in addressing certain questions in these areas of
research. For example, at the genetic level, how is molecular
diversity distributed within and among populations and species? Research projects underway include population genetics of large mammals (Asian elephants, gaur, Nilgiri tahr),
marine turtles, and phylogeny of Hemidactylus geckos.
Facilities
The Centre has excellent facilities for theoretical as well as
experimental research in plant, animal and human ecology as
well as the social behaviour of insects. Field research facilities
are maintained at Karkala near Kudremukh National Park
(Dakshin Kannada district), and Masinagudi near Mudumalai
Sanctuary (Nilgiri district) where a variety of ecological studies are being carried out. Field stations have recently been
established at a number of other sites including in Rushikulya
on the Orissa Coast, and Kadmat, Lakshadweep.
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Plant-animal Interactions – What is the evolutionary ecol-
Some available analytical facilities include:
Molecular Ecology Laboratory
Mathematical Ecology Laboratory
ogy of species interactions in pollination, seed dispersal
and herbivory systems? What are the behavioural and
chemical bases for such interactions? What favours the
Balakrishnan, Rohini
Associate Professor
Joshi, NV
Associate Professor
Thaker, Maria
Assistant Professor
Borges, Renee M
Professor
Karanth, Praveen
Assistant Professor
Bhat, DM
Senior Scientific Officer
Gadagkar, Raghavendra
Professor
Nanjundiah, Vidyanand
Professor, Adjunct Faculty
Pillai, N N Janardanan
Technical Officer
Guttal, Vishwesha
Assistant Professor
Shanker, Kartik
Assistant Professor
Ramachandra, TVR
Scientific Officer
Isvaran, Kavita
Assistant Professor
Sukumar, R
Professor
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R Sukumar
PhD, Int PhD
Centre for Neuroscience
Profile
Understanding the structure, function and development of the brain in health and disease represents a fascinating challenge. It requires studying the brain across
different levels of organization using molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive and computational approaches.
Created in the centenary year of IISc, the Centre will
leverage the existing expertise at the institute in engineering, mathematics, physics and biology to create a
vibrant, interdisciplinary group to address problems
that are beyond the capabilities of individual investigators. The Centre recruits faculty across wideranging disciplines to establish a strong program in
basic neuroscience. At the same time, it has developed
strong links with clinical centres in order to introduce
an element of translational research.
Major Research Areas
 Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience
 Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
 Computational Neuroscience
Current Research
Some of the current research areas are:
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Elucidating redox signaling mediated molecular
mechanisms in synaptic processes and pathogen-
esis of neurodegenerative diseases with a goal
towards translating into rational disease-modifying therapies. (Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath)
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Analysis of molecular pathways that control neurogenesis and determination of neuronal phenotypes during development and in embryonic stem
cells differentiation. (Shyamala Mani)
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Visuomotor control and decision-making using
a combination of behavioral, electrophysiological and computational techniques in humans and
non-human primates. (Aditya Murthy)
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Visual perception and object recognition using
behavioural studies in humans, single-neuron
recordings in monkey visual cortex and computational modeling (S P Arun)
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Neural mechanisms of selective attention and the
role of brain rhythms in cortical processing using
chronically implanted micro-electrode arrays
in monkeys and macro-electrodes in humans.
(Supratim Ray)
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Neuronal, morphological and molecular basis of
learning and memory using small animal behavior, optical spectroscopy and microscopy. (Balaji
Jayaprakash)
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Arun S P
PhD (Johns Hopkins)
Assistant Professor
Rangarajan G
P/MA, Associate Faculty
Sinha, Anindya
Adjunct Faculty
Jayaprakash, Balaji
PhD (TIFR), Assistant Professor
Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi
PhD (Mysore), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
FTWAS, FAMS, Professor
Veni Madhavan C E
P/CSA, Associate Faculty
Mani, Shyamala
PhD (SUNY, Syracuse)
Associate Professor
Ray, Supratim
PhD (Johns Hopkins)
Assistant Professor
Murthy, Aditya
PhD (Pittsburgh)
Associate Professor
Seshagiri, Polani
P/MRDG, Associate Faculty
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Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
PhD and Int PhD
Vishwamitra, Sanjaya
Adjunct Faculty
Central Animal Facility
Profile
The CAF is involved in the breeding and maintenance
of laboratory animals for biological research and providing infrastructure for animal experimentation.
Major Research and Activities
The Central Animal Facility is integrated functionally
into two units for administrative convenience:
• Small Animal Facility
• Centre for Infectious Disease Research
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Small Animal Facility
The small animal facility breeds and maintains genetically pure inbred strains of different species of animals for use by various investigators of the Division
of Biological Sciences and other disciplines. The
animal species bred and maintained include Wistar
rats, Sprague Dawley rats, New Zealand White
rabbits and several strains of mice (C57BL/6,
BALB/c, CD1, C3HeJ and Swiss albino). These
animals are used extensively in research involving
frontal areas of science. A special facility with a
controlled environment/clean atmosphere is utilized
for breeding of above said strains as well as special
strains of immuno-compromised mice (nude mice
and knock out mice).
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Centre for Infectious Disease Research
The Centre for Infectious Disease Research and
the Biosafety laboratories have been conceived
and built to provide infrastructural support to
infectious disease research. With a view to enable
IISc faculty to address topical research questions
in a multidisciplinary manner pertaining to the
numerous new and emerging infections, IISc has
established a world class BSL-3 facility. The BSL-3
facility comprises approximately 15000 sq. ft. of
built up space with generous contributions from the
Department of Biotechnology and the Sir Dorabji
Tata Trust. The facility includes internationally
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certified biosafety cabinets, horizontal autoclaves
with intricate safety features, carbon-di-oxide incubators, -80°C freezers, aerosol infection equipment,
refrigerated high speed centrifuges, and individual
ventilated caging system for animal experimentation. In addition to separate ducting for rooms
dealing with different types of pathogens, negative
air pressure relative to the environment, 4 double door horizontal autoclaves of unique custom
design, and protective HEPA filters at every return
air riser outlet, the BSL-3 facility also has in place
utility lines for carbon-di-oxide and liquid nitrogen that can be serviced from outside the facility,
visitor view panels, constant monitoring through
a panel of 10 video cameras, along with fire and
smoke alarms, emergency shower and captive waste
treatment to safeguard the environment. The IISc
BSL-3 facility was subjected to third party validation and certification by Messers Bassler-Hoffman
of Switzerland.
Somasundaram, Kumaravel
PhD (Madurai Kamaraj), Professor
Ravindranath H Aladakatti
PhD (Karnatak), Scientific Officer
Balaji K N
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor,
Convenor, Small Animal Facility
Shivakumar K R
MSc (Mysore), Technical Officer
Ramachandra S G
PhD (UAS),
Principal Research Scientist
Established : 1971
Phone : SAF : +91-80-2293 2457
PRL : +91-80-2293 2735
CIDR : +91-80-2293 3063/64
Fax : +91-(080)-2360 6569
Email : caf@caf.iisc.ernet.in
chairman@caf.iisc.ernet.in
URL : http://caf.iisc.ernet.in
Chairperson : Kumaravel Somasundaram
Primate Research Laboratory
Profile
The Primate Research Laboratory (PRL) is involved
in the breeding and maintenance of nonhuman primates for biological research. The PRL houses bonnet
monkeys (Macaca radiata). The PRL was established
in 1965 to provide facilities and assist investigators
to undertake research using non-human primates.
Research employing monkeys include reproductive
biology, neurobiology and other allied areas of biology. The facility has a modern surgical theatre.
Major Research and Activities
 Reproductive Biology
 Neuroscience
Aditya Murthy
PhD (Pittsburgh), Associate
Professor and Convener PRL
Ramesh V
MSc (Bangalore), Technical Officer
Established : 1965
Phone : +91-80-2293 2735
Chairperson : Aditya Murthy
Department of Inorganic and
Physical Chemistry
Profile
Current Research
The Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
is devoted to modern research and teaching in
Chemistry. Since its inception as one of the two
founding departments of the Institute in 1911,
the department has distinguished itself as a centre for innovative and pioneering research in a wide
range of areas in inorganic and physical chemistry.
It was elevated to the status of a UGC Centre of
Advanced Study in 1980 in recognition of its achievements in these fields. It has been sponsored under
Funds for Improvement of Science and Technology
Infrastructure in Universities & Higher Educational
Institutions (FIST) by the Department of Science &
Technology, Govt. of India.
The areas of current research are:
Major Research Areas
Molecular Structure, Dynamics & Spectroscopy,
Quantum Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy, Solid State
Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Chemical Kinetics, Poly­
mer Chemistry, Boron Chemistry, Organometallics,
Coordination Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry,
Quantum Dynamics, Nanostructured Materials,
Theoretical Chemistry, X-ray Crystallography,
Magnetic Materials, Supramolecular Chemistry,
Statistical Mechanics, Transport in nano-junctions,
solution-phase simulations.
 Molecular structure and quantum chemistry –
Rotational, vibrational and electronic spectroscopy; supersonic jet spectroscopy; magnetic
resonance spectroscopy; quantum chemistry;
molecular electronic structure calculations.
 Chemical kinetics and dynamics – Solvation
dynamics, ligand-protein interaction kinetics; high
temperature chemical kinetics related to combustion and atmospheric chemistry.
 Laser spectroscopy – Time resolved absorption and
Raman spectroscopy; study of ultrafast electrontransfer processes; molecular nonlinear optics and
spectroscopic application of nonlinear optical techniques in solution; photochemistry and photophysics of excited states; photodissociation of small
molecules relevant to the atmosphere and environment by time resolved spectroscopy.
 Biospectroscopy – Use of infrared and Raman
microscopy to study biological and biomedical
research problems.
 Solid state chemistry – Layered materials and
intercalation; oxides of high surface area; heterogeneous catalysis.
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 Electrochemistry – Electroanalytical chemistry;
 Bioinorganic chemistry – Modelling the functional
 Theoretical chemistry – Theoretical problems in
 Organometallic/Coordination chemistry – Synthesis,
organized assemblies; electrochemical biosensors;
electro-chemical energy conversion and storage;
electrocatalysis; conducting polymers.
classical and quantum dynamics; soft condensed
matter and biophysical chemistry; applied theoretical chemistry; computational chemistry; statistical mechanics. Transport in nano-junctions,
solution-phase simulations.
and structural properties of metalloproteins; anticancer active metal complexes; artificial nucleases;
selenoenzymes; zinc hydrolases.
structure and reactivity of organometallic compounds, metal clusters and magnetic clusters;
Supramolecular chemistry; metal-organic based
extended frameworks; host-guest chemistry of
nanoscopic cages; homogeneous catalysis.
 Polymer chemistry – New polymerization meth-
odologies; conjugated polymers; hyperbranched
polymers; conformational control in synthetic
polymers; statistical mechanics of polymers.
 Physical chemistry of materials/nanostructured
 Chemistry of Boron – Boron containing conjugated polymers; chemosensory materials, optoelectronic materials and planar chiral Lewis acids
for asymmetric catalysis.
materials – Host-guest chemistry in layered and
porous solids; heterogeneous catalysis and zeolites; structure of elemental boron and boron-rich
solids; metallic nanoparticles – synthesis, properties, catalysis; organic thin films – self assembly;
Langmuir-Blodgett films; NLO properties.
Arunan E
PhD (Kansas State), FASc, Professor
Munichandraiah N
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Sandya S
PhD (Kerala), Scientific Officer
Chakravarty A R
PhD (Calcutta), FASc, FNA, Professor
Nethaji M
PhD (Madras), Chief Research
Scientist
Sanjay Prasad
MTech (Anna), Scientific Officer
Cherayil, Binny J
PhD (Chicago), Professor
Ramakrishnan S
PhD (U Mass, Amherst), FASc,
Professor
Das P K
PhD (Columbia), FASc, Professor
Sai G Ramesh
PhD (Wisconsin-Madison),
Assistant Professor
Jagirdar, Balaji R
PhD (Kansas State), Professor
Mugesh G
PhD (IIT/Bombay),
Associate Professor
Sampath S
PhD (IIT/Madras), FASc, Professor
Mukherjee, Partha Sarathi
PhD (Jadavpur), Associate Professor
Samuelson A G
PhD (Cornell), Professor
Sebastian K L
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA Professor
Thilagar P
PhD (IIT/K), Assistant Professor
Umapathy S
PhD (Otago), FAS Professor
Upendra Harbola
PhD (JNU), Assistant Professor
Vasudevan S
PhD (IIT/K), FASc Professor
Established : 1911
Phone : +91-80-2293 2382
Fax : +91-(080)-2360 0683
+91-(080)-2360 1552
Email : office@ipc.iisc.ernet.in
URL : http://ipc.iisc.ernet.in
Chairperson : A G Samuelson
Degree Programs Offered : PhD, Int PhD
Department of Organic Chemistry
Profile
biologically significant protein domains; enzyme
active site mimics.
The Department is involved in teaching and research
in all the frontier areas of organic chemistry. The
Department has been recognized as a Centre for
Advanced Study by the UGC and gets support from
DST under the FIST program.
 Carbohydrate Chemistry – Studies of glycosylation
reactions, synthetic modifications of monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, studies of biological
and material properties of glycosides and neoglycoconjugates.
 Organic Materials – Study of organic and aqueous
Major Research Areas
gels and functional gels, structure of novel molecular materials; structural studies of photochemical reactions and nonlinear effects in constrained
media, synthesis of bile acid derived dendrimers;
synthesis of hyperbranched macromolecules and
dendrimers; structural, functional and interfacial
studies; nanocomposites.
Bio-inspired Chemistry, Carbohydrate Chemistry,
Chemical Biology, Organic Materials, Physical
Organic Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry and
Asymmetric Synthesis.
Current Research
 Physical Organic Chemistry – Reaction mechanisms and kinetics; studies of dynamic phenomena, equilibria; stereochemistry; correlation of
substituent properties.
 Bio-inspired Chemistry & Chemical Biology –
Design, synthesis of novel lipids and evaluation of functional models of membranes and
membrane bound enzymes; organic reactions
in supramolecular assemblies, micelles, vesicles,
etc., gene transfection and molecular recognition
of DNA, enzyme inhibitors. Development of
novel telomerase inhibitors. Design and synthesis
of covalent peptide binding elements: hydrogen
bond mimics; structural and functional mimics of
 Synthetic Organic Chemistry
& Asymmetric
Synthesis – Stereoselective total-synthesis of bioactive natural products; molecules of diverse
structures; biologically interesting molecules; new
synthetic reactions and reagents, asymmetric synthesis; synthesis of non-natural products with unusual
properties; asymmetric catalysis; green chemistry.
Bhattacharya, Santanu
PhD (Rutgers), FASc, FNA, Professor
Mukherjee, Santanu
PhD (Cologne), Assistant Professor
Chandrasekhar, Sosale
PhD (London), Professor
Prabhakaran E N
PhD (IIT/K), Assistant Professor
Jayaraman N
PhD (IIT/K), FASc, Associate Professor
Prabhu K R
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Maitra, Uday
PhD (Columbia), FASc, FNA,
Professor
Prasad K R
PhD (Pune), Associate Professor
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PhD (Hyderabad) FASc, FNASc,
FNA, Professor
Guru Row T N
PhD (IISc), FASc, P/SSCU,
Associate Faculty
Chandrasekaran S
PhD (Madras), FASc, FNA, FTWAS,
Honorary Professor
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+91-80-2293 2403
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Santanu Bhattacharya
PhD, Int PhD
Solid State and Structural
Chemistry Unit
Profile
The Unit provides opportunities for research and
teaching in areas of solid state, structural, surface and
materials chemistry. The Unit has established strong
interactions with other departments through interdisciplinary and inter-departmental research programmes. It contributes to the Institute’s Integrated
PhD programme in Chemistry and the IISc Young
Fellowship programme.
The University Grants Commission has recognised
the Unit as a Centre for Advanced Study in Solid
State Chemistry. The Commission has also extended
support to the Unit under its Science and Technology
Infrastructure Improvement Programme. Recognising
the importance of postdoctoral research as part of
the professional training of scientists, several research
associates continue to be encouraged at the Unit.
Major Research Areas
Structure and Properties of Oxides, High temperature, Superconductivity, Strongly Correlated Systems,
Nanomaterials, X-ray Crystallography and Charge
Densities, Biophysical Chemistry, Reaction Dynamics,
Statistical Mechanics and Computer Simulations in
the Condensed State, Microporous and Mesoporous
Inorganic complexes, Organic memory devices, Plastic
crystals and Materials, Electrochemistry with emphasis on, Batteries, Fuel Cells and Supercapacitors.
Current Research
The areas of current research are:
Synthesis of new materials, structure, electronic and
magnetic properties of oxides, chalcogenides and
related materials – covering preparative solid state
chemistry; amorphous solids; Nanomaterials, solid
ionics, materials electro-chemistry with emphasis on
batteries, fuel cells and supercapacitors; solid state
electro-chemistry; oxide catalysis; electron states
in molecules, solids and surfaces (X-ray spectroscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy; EELS, etc.);
high temperature superconductivity; metalinsulator transitions; phase transitions in solids; colossal
magnetoresistance; fullerenes; carbon nanotubes;
theoretical solid state chemistry of strongly correlated
systems; X-ray crystallography (structural aspects of
bio-organic and bio-inorganic systems; electron density distribution and chemical bonding); molecular
relaxation phenomena; reaction dynamical statistical
mechanics and interfaces and other frontier areas of
theoretical chemistry. Soft matter, ion conductivity
materials, mesoporous materials for drug storage and
control release. Organic materials for solar cells, polymer nanocomposites.
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Bagchi, Biman
PhD (Brown), FNA, FASc, FNASc,
FTWAS, Professor
Natarajan S
PhD (IIT/Madras), FASc, FNASc,
Professor
Satish Patil
PhD (Wuppertal, Germany),
Associate Professor
Bhattacharyya, Aninda J
PhD (Jadavpur), Associate Professor
Pandey Anshu
PhD (University of Chicago)
Assistant Professor
Shivakumara C
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Desiraju, Gautam R
PhD (Illinois), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
FTWAS, Professor
Giridhar Madras
PhD (Texas A&M), P/CE,
Associate Faculty
Govindaraj A
PhD (Mysore),
Principal Research Scientist
Guru Row T N
PhD (lISc), FASc, FNA, FRSC,
Professor
Jayaram V
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Kannan K R
MSc (Engg) (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Ramasesha S
PhD (IIT/K), FASc, FNA, FTWAS,
Professor
Rao C N R
DSc (Mysore), PhD (Purdue),
DSc (hc), ScD (hc), LLD (hc), FASc,
FNA, Hon FRSC, FRS, FTWAS,
Linus Pauling Research Professor,
INSA Albert Einstein Research
Professor, National Research
Professor, Honorary Professor
Shukla A K
PhD (IIT/K), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
FNAE, UGC-BSR Faculty
Vasan H N
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Vasanthacharya N Y
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Vasudevan S
PhD (IIT/K), P/IPC, FNA, FASc,
Associate Faculty
Sarma D D
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNASc, FNA,
FTWAS, Professor
Venkatesh H M
BSc LLB (Bangalore),
Scientific Assistant
Sathishkumar R
MTech (Madras), Scientific Officer
Yashonath S
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, Professor
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D D Sarma
PhD and Int PhD
Materials Research Centre
Profile
To promote materials science activities in a coordinated manner, the Materials Research Laboratory was
established in 1978. The laboratory functioning within
the Division of Physical and Mathematical sciences
and run by a committee of distinguished faculty drawn
from different departments was mandated to promote
interdisciplinary research programmes in materials
and provide centralized services on a few sophisticated,
major instruments. A programme of direct admission
to research was initiated in 1985, making a change in
the character of the Materials Research Laboratory
and was renamed as Materials Research Centre
(MRC). Currently, the Centre enjoys the status of a
department for all academic activities, with additional
responsibility for promoting interdisciplinary research
in Materials Science. The Centre continues to provide
critical sophisticated equipment support to the entire
campus. The Centre has the distinction of belonging
to both the science and engineering faculty and administratively belongs to the Chemical Sciences Division.
Presently the core faculty strength of the Centre is
nine. In addition, one honorary professor participates
in all the activities of the Centre. The Centre runs two
academic research programmes leading to the degrees
of PhD and MSc (Engg). On an average, the Centre
has 60 students on roll between the programmes, with
the majority enrolled in the PhD programme. It also
participates in the Integrated PhD programme of the
Division of Chemical Sciences. MRC attracts major
research projects, and funding both from national and
international agencies, and is a leader in both fundamental and applied Materials Science. This is reflected
both in publications and funding, which are among
the highest in the Institute.
Major Research Areas
Functional Ceramics and Composites, Electronic,
Electro-Optic and Optoelectronic Materials, Ferroic
Materials and High-Tc Superconducting Oxides, Thin
Films and Sensors, Glasses and Glass nano crystal
composites, Quantum Dots and Nano Epitaxy, III–V
Epitaxy and Stress analysis, Nano structures and
hybrids for energy applications, Biomaterials.
Current Research
The current focus of research is on functional materials. Present activities centre around the synthesis
and characterisation of materials, ceramic-based sensors, optoelectronic materials including luminescent
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phosphors, electronic ceramics, thin solid films, diamond coatings, Biomaterials, ceramic composites,
amorphous and metastable materials. The Centre has
undertaken a new initiative in nanomaterials, including nanopatterning. It has initiated a microstructural
characterisation of materials using transmission
and scanning electron microscopes and collaborated
extensively with other departments of the IISc. It
has a strong programme on materials science and
technology. An active programme on MOCVD and
MBE of III–V semiconductors is in progress. Physical
vapour growth of multicomponent oxide thin films is
being actively pursued. There is considerable activity on ferroic materials and high-Tc superconducting
oxides. Electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties
of materials at ambient and high temperatures and
pressures are being investigated. Multifunctionalities
of glass nanocrystal composites are being addressed.
Research activity on nanopatterning using a nanolithographic approach has been started. Theoretical
research covers defect physics, martensitic transformation, friction, dislocation dynamics and instabilities in plastic flow, using concepts of stick-slip and
growth instabilities in bifurcation and chaos. Research
on materials modelling includes multiscale simulation
and properties of nanostructures. Many of the current research projects listed below are on the development of nanostructures of functional materials.
Krupanidhi S B
PhD (Delhi), FASc, Professor
Ravishankar N
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Umarji, Arun M
PhD (IIT/Madras), Professor
Nanda, Karuna Kar
PhD (IOP), Associate Professor
Bikramjit Basu
PhD (Katholieke Belgium),
Associate Professor
Varma K B R
PhD (Madras), Professor
Raghavan, Srinivasan
PhD (Penn State), Assistant Professor
Rao C N R
DSc (Mysore), PhD (Purdue),
DSc (hc), ScD (hc), LLD (hc),
Hon FRSC, FASc, FNA, FRS,
Linus Pauling Research Professor,
INSA-Albert Einstein Research
Professor, Honorary Professor
Sahoo, Balaram
PhD (Duisberg), Assistant Professor
Singh, Abishek K
PhD (Tohoku), Assistant Professor
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K B R Varma
PhD, MSc (Engg) and Int PhD
NMR Research Centre
Profile
The NMR Research Centre had its inception in 1977
with the installation of the first superconducting
magnet-based high-field NMR spectrometer in the
country. It has continued to grow steadily over the
years retaining its leadership in the field of Magnetic
Resonance spectroscopy. The Centre has at present
seven NMR spectrometers covering a range of frequencies from 400 to 800 MHz with differing capabilities. The research interests of the faculty at the Centre
include – theoretical and experimental aspects of NMR,
development and applications of NMR based techniques for the study of liquids, solids and liquid crystalline mesophases, biomolecular NMR spectroscopy
and NMR quantum computing.
Major Research Areas
Nuclear
Magnetic
Resonance
Spectroscopy:
Applications and Development of NMR Techniques
to Biomolecular Structure Determination, Oriented
Molecules and Materials Science,
Computing by NMR techniques.
Quantum
Current Research
The activities of the Centre cover both theoretical
and experimental aspects of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. These include development of
new techniques for application to liquids, solids,
mesophase and biomolecules; studies of relaxation
phenomena, multidimensional and multiple quantum NMR spectroscopy; GFT and fast methods
for data collection and quantum computing. The
systems studied include oriented samples, liquid
crystalline phases, hydrogen bonded and supramolecular assemblies, peptides, proteins, nucleotides,
model-membranes, perfused cells and tissues, and
in-vitro studies of biological systems. In addition
the Centre is actively involved in the development
of software and hardware for new techniques and
special experiments.
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Atreya, Hanudatta S
PhD (Mumbai),
Assistant Professor
Raghothama S
PhD (IISc), MNASc,
Principal Research Scientist
Mathias P C
PhD (IISc),
Associate Professor
Ramanathan K V
PhD (IISc), FNASc, Professor
Suryaprakash N
PhD (Bangalore), FNASc, Professor
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S Vasudevan
Vasudevan S
PhD (IIT/K), FASc, Professor
Wilson P T
MSc (Madurai), Scientific Assistant
Department of Instrumentation and
Applied Physics
Profile
The department was established in the year of 1996
and pursues a wide area of interdisciplinary research
activities in the broad domain of instrumentation and
applied physics.
Major Research Areas
Microscopy and Nano-scale Imaging sensor development and Instrumentation, Material Science
and Engineering, Applied Photonics, Integrated
Systems and Electronics, Energy Systems, Mass
Spectrometry, System Design and Instrumentation,
Surface Engineering, Plasma Processing, optic and
Microfluidics Instrumentation.
Current Research
The Department of Instrumentation and Applied
Physics has a primary focus on applied and inter-disciplinary research. The current areas of research can
be broadly classified into the following zones:
 Microscopy and Nanoscale Imaging – Scanning
probe microscopy, fluorescence microscopy,
atomic force microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, nanoscopy, 3D nano metrology, point
spread function, multidimensional imaging and
reconstruction, nano manipulation, superresolution imaging, confocal microscopy, photophysics,
functional fluorescent nanoparticles, nanomechanical properties of biological samples, bioinstrumentation and bioimaging, magnetic tweezers.
 Sensors development and related Instrumentation – Piezoelectric & piezoresistive phenomena based
sensors for impact measurments and biomediacl
applications, radiation sensors, microgenerators,
etc.
 Material Science and Engineering – Novel semiconductors, nano-materials, metamaterials, mechanics of nanostructures, mass spectrometry, self
assembly.
 Applied Photonics – Optical and ultrasound
assisted optical tomography, quantitative flow
diagnosis of high-speed and turbulent flows,
reconstruction strategies for diffuse optical-,
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photo-acoustic and diffuse correlation tomography, fiber optics, lasers, thermal wave spectroscopy, fiber Bragg grating sensors, all optical
switching, photoconductivity studies.
sensing systems, mass spectrometry etc. machine
design and FEM analysis.
 Surface engineering – Physical vapor deposition
(PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD),
plasma enhanced CVD, ion plating techniques,
thin film growth mechanism and correlation
between structure and property, hard coatings,
Plasma surface modification.
 Integrated Systems and Related Electronics –
Integrated circuits, micro-electromechanicalsystems (MEMS), semiconductor device physics,
chalcogenide glasses, electrical switching and
phase change memories, electronics on flexible
substrates, ink-jet printed electronics, piezoelectric
sensors, optic fiber based sensing and instrumentation, electro-magnetics.
 Plasma Processing – Development of Plasma
Processes – Atmospheric, Conventional and ECR
plasmas – Plasma diagnostics – Surface modification of Polymers – Plasma assisted PVD and CVD
of thin films.
 Energy Systems – Thin film batteries, general
principles of energy harvesting, solar photovoltaic, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, novel solutions for energy storage, low power system design.
 Optics and Microfluidics Instrumentation – Imaging
flow Cytometry, Quantitative Phase Microscopy,
Optics and Microfluidics based Instrumentation,
Computational Imaging, Interferometry and
Non-destructive Testing, Three-dimensional shape
measurement techniques, High-throughput Cell
Characterization Techniques using Optical/fluorescence Microscopy in Microfluidics Platform.
 Mass spectrometry – Ion trap instrumentation,
shape optimization, novel trap design.
 System Design and Instrumentation – Design and
development of measurement systems eg. precision (nm) motion control, optics based stress
Ahuja, Sharath
MSc (Alagappa), Technical Officer
Misra, Abha
PhD (IIT/Bombay), Assistant Professor
Rao, L Kameswara
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Asokan S
PhD (IISc), FNASc, Professor
Mohanty, Atanu K
PhD (Polytech. N. Y), AP/SERC,
Associate Faculty
Rao, G Mohan
PhD (IISc), Professor
Chandran M
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Mondal Partha P
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Chatterjee, Vani V
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Gorthi, Sai Siva
PhD (EPFL), Assistant Professor
Nagaraju J
PhD (Nagarjuna), Professor
Gunasekhar K R
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Jayanth G R
PhD (Ohio State), Assistant Professor
Mathias P C
PhD (IISc), AcP/CNMR,
Associate Faculty
Menon A G
PhD (IISc), Professor
Mondal T K
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Rajan K
PhD (IISc), AcP/PHY,
Associate Faculty
Sambandan, Sanjiv
PhD (Waterloo), Assistant Professor
Shivaprakash N C
PhD (Mysore), Chief Research
Scientist
Somashekara B N
BSc (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Vasu, Ram Mohan
PhD (Aston UK), Professor
Vanitha M N
BE (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Rajanna K
PhD (IISc), Professor
Vijaya H S
MSc (Annamalai), Scientific Assistant
Ramgopal S
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Principal
Research Scientist
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K Rajanna
MTech, MSc (Engg), PhD
Department of Mathematics
Profile
Current Research
The Department of Mathematics has an active
research faculty with diverse research interests.
Research at the Department reflects an interest in
some of the most current topics in mathematics, as
well as work in interdisciplinary areas in which mathematics plays a key role.
 Algebraic
and Combinatorial Topology –
Combinatorial manifolds, PL-manifolds, minimal triangulation of manifolds, triangulation of
spheres and projective planes with few vertices,
pseudomanifolds with small excess, equivelar polyhedral maps.
 Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry –
Major Research Areas
Algebraic and Combinatorial Topology, Commutative
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Complex Analysis,
Differential
Geometry,
Functional
Analysis,
Harmonic Analysis, Low Dimensional Topology,
Nonlinear Dynamics, Partial Differential Equations,
Probability and Stochastic Processes, Mathematical
Finance, Representation Theory, Time Series
Analysis, Statistics, Numerical Analysis.
Study of derivation modules of curves and hyper
surfaces, connection with Zariski - Lipman conjecture, monomial curves, complete intersections
and set theoretic complete intersections, intersection theory of algebraic varieties, minimal number
of generators for ideals and modules, study of certain algebraic surfaces. Algebraic cycles, splitting
criteria for vector algebraic varieties.
 Complex Analysis – Several complex variables,
pluripotential theory and complex dynamical systems, integrable kernels, interpolation problems in
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several complex variables, complex approximation
theory.
 Differential Geometry – Geometry and topology of Einstein manifolds, topology of positively
curved manifolds.
 Functional Analysis – Hilbert modules, multi-
variable operator theory, indefinite inner product
spaces.
 Numerical Analysis – Finite element methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods, adaptive/multilevel
methods.
 Partial Differential Equations – Homogenization
of partial differential equations, controllability,
tomography and computations.
 Probability and Stochastic Processes – Random
matrix Theory, zeros of random analytic functions, stability and control of stochastic systems,
diffusion and related topics, stochastic dynamic
games, first passage time problems for anomalous
diffusion, long memory processes, mathematical
finance, random geometric graphs, superprocesses.
 Harmonic Analysis – Harmonic analysis on Lie
groups and integral geometry.
 Low Dimensional Toplogy – Toplogy of smooth
four-manifolds, especially connections with threemanifold topology via refinements of topological
field theories.
 Time Series Analysis – Application of time series
 Metric and Riemannian Geometry – Especially stability of curvature conditions under perturbation.
analysis techniques to neuroscience especially to
brain-machine interfaces, applications to geophysics.
 Nonlinear Dynamics – Coupled dynamical systems,
 Representation Theory – Representation of groups
synchronization, Turing patterns, applications of
Lie algebraic methods to nonlinear Hamiltonian
systems.
over local rings and local fields, Representation of
finite dimensional Artin algebras.
Manjunath Krishnapur
PhD (UC/Berkeley),
Assistant Professor
Seshadri, Harish
PhD (SUNY, Stony Brook),
Associate Professor
Datta, Basudeb
PhD (ISI), FASc, Professor
Misra, Gadadhar
PhD (SUNY, Stony Brook), FNA,
FASc, Professor
Singla, Pooja
PhD (IMSc), Assistant Professor
Gadgil, Siddhartha
PhD (Cal Tech), Professor
Nandakumaran A K
PhD (TIFR-IISc), Professor
Thangavelu S
PhD (Princeton), FASc, FNA,
Professor
Ghosh M K
PhD (TIFR-IISc), FASc, FNASc,
Professor
Narayanan E K
PhD (ISI), Associate Professor
Thirupathi Gudi
PhD (IIT/B), Assistant Professor
Patil, Dilip P
PhD (TIFR-Bombay), Professor
Verma, Kaushal
PhD (Indiana), Associate Professor
Bharali, Gautam
PhD (Wisconsin), Associate Professor
Bhattacharyya, Tirthankar
PhD (ISI), Associate Professor
Iyer, Srikanth Krishnan
PhD (UC/Santa Barbara),
Professor
Mahesh Kumari
PhD (IISc), UGC Research Scientist ‘C’
Rangarajan G
PhD (Maryland), FASc, FNASc,
Professor
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M K Ghosh
PhD and Int. PhD
Department of Physics
Profile
The department of Physics was established by Prof.
Sir C V Raman in the year 1933. Many eminent scientists like Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai, G N
Ramachandran, S Ramaseshan and R Chidambaram
have all been either students or faculty of the
Department in the past. The department has strived
hard to continue this tradition of excellence and is now
an internationally recognized centre for research. The
department provides facilities for undergraduate teaching, post-graduate research and advanced instruction
in several areas of Physics such as Condensed Matter
Physics, Atomic Spectroscopy, Bio-Crystallography
and Astronomy and Astrophysics. It has introduced
many innovations in research and instructional activities that have contributed to the growth of physical
sciences in the country.
The department has been recognized as a Centre for
Advanced Study by the UGC and is supported by
Funds for Improvement of Science & Technology
Infrastructure in Universities & Higher Educational
Institutions (FIST) from the Department of Science &
Technology.
Major Research Areas
Condensed Matter Physics, Complex Systems and
Biology Inspired Physics, Bio-molecular Structure and
Biophysics, Atomic and Optical Physics, Astronomy
and Astrophysics.
Current Research
 Astronomy and Astrophysics – Cosmology, dark
energy. Physics around black holes and other compact objects. Nuclear astrophysics. Galactic astronomy, interstellar matter. Plasma astrophysics, solar
physics. Astrophysical fluid phenomena including
accretion disks and jets, variability of compact
objects and related Quasi-Periodic-Oscillation
phenomena, physics of gravitation, particle astrophysics including field theory in curved space-time,
early universe, neutrino astrophysics, dynamics
and evolution of interacting galaxies.
 Atomic and Optical Physics – Laser cooling, atom
trapping, laser tweezers, optical activity.
 Biocrystallography and Bioinformatics – X-ray
crystallographic studies of the structure and conformation of proteins, peptides and DNA. Denovo
design of peptides, stereodynamics and supercoiling of DNA, structural genomics, protein folding,
computational biology, drug design.
 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics – Optical
and transport properties of bulk and thin film semiconductors, photoluminescence, photoreflectance,
magneto-transport in narrow gap semiconductors,
amorphous semiconductors, DLTS, thermoelectrics,
bio-MEMS; spintronics and magnetism; crystal
growth, CMR manganites and multiferroics; nuclear
and electron magnetic resonance; molecular electronics, conducting polymers and their composites;
nanoscale physics: nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics; physics of nanodevices; Raman spectroscopy of strongly correlated oxides and manganates;
electrical, thermal and optical properties of polymer
nanocomposites; soft matter physics: dynamics, rheology, and chaos in complex, confined and glassy fluids; physics of soft nano composites; driven colloidal
and granular matter, superfluidity in liquid and solid
helium, diffuse optical tomography, ultrasound modulated optical tomography, algorithms and computer
architectures for medical imaging and microscopy.
 Theoretical Condensed Matter and Computational
Physics – Strongly correlated quantum systems –
giant magnetoresistance, high-Tc superconductivity,
quantum phase transitions, transport in strongly correlated systems, the physics of cold atoms and entanglement in many body systems; soft, living and driven
matter – self-propelled systems, vortex matter, complex fluid flow, granular matter; dense and confined
liquids and the glass transition; molecular modeling
of nanoscale and biological systems – nanotubes,
DNA and water; fluid and plasma turbulence; cardiac arrhythmias; medical imaging and tomography.
The Department of Physics also operates the Joint
Astronomy and Astrophysics programme (JAP) with
support from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics
(IIA), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO),
Bangalore and the Raman Research Institute (RRI).
The activities of JAP are given separately.
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Anil Kumar P S
PhD (Pune), Associate Professor
Menon, Reghu
PhD (IISc), Professor
Ramesh Chandra Mallick
PhD (IIT/M), Assistant Professor
Aveek Bid
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
PhD (Jadavpur), Assistant Professor
Saini, Tarun Deep
PhD (Pune), Assistant Professor
Basu, Jaydeep Kumar
PhD (Calcutta), Associate Professor
Natarajan, Vasant
PhD (MIT, USA), Professor
Choudhuri, Arnab Rai
PhD (Chicago), FASc, FNASc,
FNA, Professor
Pandit, Rahul
PhD (Illinois), FASc, FNA,
Professor
Satyamurthy K N
MSc (Bangalore), PGDI (Bangalore)
Scientific Assistant
Dasgupta, Chandan
PhD (Pennsylvania), FASc, FNA,
FTWAS, Professor
Prasad Vishnu Bhotla
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Sood, Ajay Kumar
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
FTWAS, Professor
Ganesan R
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Prateek Sharma
PhD (Princeton), Assistant Professor
Srinivas V C
BE (Bangalore), Technical Officer
Rajan K
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Suja Elizabeth
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Ghosh, Arindam
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Ramakumar S
PhD (IISc), Professor
Jog, Chanda J
PhD (Stony Brook), FASc,
FNASc, Professor
Ramanuja M N
PhD (IISc), MSc (IIT/M),
Senior Scientific Officer
Koteswara Rao K S R
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Ramaswamy, Sriram
PhD (Chicago) FASc, FNA,
Professor
Krishnamurthy H R
PhD (Cornell), FASc, FNA,
FNASc, FTWAS, Professor
Shenoy, Vijay B
PhD (Brown), Associate Professor
Subroto Mukerjee
PhD (Princeton), Assistant Professor
Venkataraman V
PhD (Princeton), Professor
Victor Suvisesha Muthu D
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Ramesh K P
PhD (Bangalore), Associate Professor
Maiti, Prabal Kumar
PhD (IIT/K), Associate Professor
Manjula M V
MSc (Annamalai), Scientific Assistant
Ramesh K
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
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H R Krishnamurthy
PhD, Int PhD and BS
Astronomy and Astrophysics Programme
Profile
This joint programme is organized in collaboration
with the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, the
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, and the
Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore to
encourage research and developmental activity in different areas of astronomy and astrophysics.
The programme runs with the support of the
Department of Physics, and is coordinated by a committee of members from the collaborating institutions.
Choudhuri, Arnab Rai
PhD (Chicago), FASc, FNASc,
Professor
Jog, Chanda J
PhD (Stony Brook), FASc, FNASc,
FNA, Professor
The staff of these institutions also participate in the
training program.
Current Research
Theoretical work on the early universe, the formation
and evolution of galaxies, plasma, astrophysics and
galactic, stellar and solar physics is carried out at the
IISc, RRI, IIA and ISRO.
Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
PhD (Jadavpur), Assistant Professor
Prateek Sharma
PhD (Princeton), Assistant Professor
Saini, Tarun Deep
PhD (Pune), Assistant Professor
Academic CoordinatorS
H R Krishnamurthy
T D Saini
Centre for High Energy Physics
Profile
quantum chromodynamics, quantum gravity and
string theory, non-commutative field theories, applications of field theory to condensed matter systems,
quantum computation.
The Centre for High Energy Physics which is now
housed in the Physical Sciences building, was established in 2004 after the Centre for Theoretical studies
was reorganized. It carries out research in elementary particle physics, quantum field theory, and their
applications to frontier areas of theoretical high
energy physics. The internationally recognized faculty
carries out independent and collaborative research at
the highest levels, supported by grants from national
funding agencies. The Centre runs its own PhD program as well as the integrated PhD program along
with Department of physics. The faculty also teach
at advanced national and international schools, and
serve on editorial boards of various journals.
Current Research
Research in different fields in theoretical high energy
physics and mathematical physics is carried out by the
faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and graduate
students at the center. The areas of interest include
quantum field theory, searches for new states of matter at high energy particle colliders, quantum chromodynamics, heavy ion collisions, string theory and
black holes, non-commutative geometry, quantum
wires and spin systems, quantum information theory
and quantum computation.
Major Research Areas
Elementary particle physics, quantum field theory,
the standard model of particle physics and beyond,
Ananthanarayan B
PhD (Delaware), Professor
Krishnan, Chethan
PhD (Austin), Assistant Professor
Sinha, Aninda
PhD (Cambridge), Assistant Professor
David, Justin Raj
PhD (TIFR), Associate Professor
Patel, Apoorva
PhD (Caltech), Professor
Vaidya, Sachindeo
PhD (Syracuse), Associate Professor
Godbole, Rohini M
PhD (Stony Brook), FASc, FNA,
FNASc, FTWAS, Professor
Sen, Diptiman
PhD (Princeton), FASc, FNA,
FNASc, Professor
Vempati, Sudhir Kumar
PhD (PRL), Assistant Professor
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B Ananthanarayan
PhD and Int PhD
Centre for Contemporary Studies
Profile
The Centre for Contemporary Studies, a seven year
old experiment at the Institute, endeavours to bring
to the campus some of the best practitioners of different disciplines in the human sciences, such as philosophy, sociology, economics, law, literature, poetry,
art, music, cinema etc. These scholars, drawn from all
over the world, visit and lecture at the Institute and
some are in residence for periods ranging from a few
days to several months. Students, faculty and staff of
the Institute as well a number of people from other
institutes in Bangalore attend these lectures. The aim
of this experiment is to forge useful and meaningful
interaction between the natural sciences and human
sciences with a special focus on understanding the
diverse research methodologies of different disciplines
and create opportunities to rethink the foundations of
our own disciplines – often the opportunity to criticize
the methodological foundation of another discipline
leads to a re-examination of the foundation of one’s
own discipline.
In addition to such one-off lectures, the Centre
offers (presently, once in two years), a one semester
Associate Faculty
course entitled “The Production of Knowledge –
A comparison of Natural and Social Sciences”. The
latest edition of this course was offered during AugDec 2010, and will next be offered in 2012. There
are also Visiting Scholar programmes and an innovative Library and Writing Fellowship programme
co-hosted with another institution that affords interdisciplinary scholars an institutional environment to
work in. The Centre has now moved to the former
JNCASR building near the Health Centre.
Pratap, Rudra
P/ME
Chanakya H N
PRS/CST
Gadagkar, Raghavendra
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, FTWAS,
Foreign Assoc US NATLAcad Sci,
Professor
Ramakrishnan S
P/IPC
Ramaswamy, Sriram
P/Phy
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Chairman: +91-80-2360 7253
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Email : ragh@ces.iisc.ernet.in
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Chairperson : Raghavendra Gadagkar
Centre for Cryogenic Technology
Profile
A large spectrum of research activities in the
Institute is critically dependent on the reliable and
adequate supply of cryogens. CCT has been successful in producing and supplying liquid nitrogen
and liquid helium to all the users in the Institute
and also in supporting the need for cryogens in
various R&D and medical institutions in and
around Bangalore. CCT has produced and supplied
~4,25,000 litres of liquid nitrogen and ~35,000
litres of liquid helium in current year. In addition, a
new liquid helium plant (Linde 1610) has been successfully commissioned in the premises of Physical
Sciences Department.
Current Research
Major Research Areas
Cryocoolers, heat transfer, cryogenic instrumentation, cryogenic treatment on metals, helium recondensation, cryoadsorption.
Karunanithi R
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Kasthurirengan S
PhD (Bombay), Professor
Pulse tube and thermoaccoustic coolers, heat transfer,
liquid level sensors for cryogens, calibration of temperature sensors, cryotreatment on metals, helium/
nitrogen recondensation system, cryosorption pumps.
Nadig D S
MTech (IIT/Kharagpur), Senior
Scientific Officer
Upendra Behera
MTech (IIT/Kharagpur), Senior
Scientific Officer
Subhash Jacob
PhD (IISc), Professor
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S Kasthurirengan
Department of Computer Science
and Automation
Profile
The department pursues fundamental research in
Computer Science and Intelligent Automation. It
is recognized by the UGC as a Center of Advanced
Study and has also been awarded a grant from the DST
under the FIST program. The top 100 cited papers
by the faculty and students of the Department have
received 20,000 citations (as of December 31, 2011,
Source: Google Scholar).
Major Research Areas
Algorithms and Complexity; Graph Theory and
Combinatorics; Cryptography and Information
Security; Computational Topology and Computati­
onal Geometry; Formal Verification; Programming
languages and Software Engineering; Compiler
Design; Distributed Computing; Computer Archi­
tecture, Operating Systems, Storage Systems; Data­
base Systems, Pattern Recognition, Machine
Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Mining; Game
Theory and Mechanism Design; Stochastic Control
and Optimization.
Current Research
There are three main research clusters in the
Department and the following list provides the principal topics in which research is being actively pursued.
 Theoretical Computer Science – Algorithms,
algorithmic algebra, graph theory, combinatorial
geometry, computational geometry, computational topology, coding theory, cryptology, logic,
formal verification.
 Computer Systems and Software – Computer
architecture, multi-core systems, parallelization,
embedded systems, energy aware computing,
compilers, operating systems, storage systems,
database systems, distributed computing, cloud
computing, systems security, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, performance
modelling, graphics, visualization, program analysis, software engineering.
 Intelligent Systems – Pattern recognition, machine
learning, convex optimization, graphical models,
soft computing, data mining, information retrieval,
bioinformatics, social network analysis, network
science, reinforcement learning, stochastic control
and optimization, stochastic simulation, electronic
commerce, game theory, auctions and mechanism
design, cognitive systems.
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Agarwal, Shivani
PhD (Illinois), Assistant Professor
Bhatnagar, Shalabh
PhD (IISc), Professor
Jacob, T Matthew
PhD (Wisconsin), P/SERC,
Associate Faculty
Ravindran Kannan
PhD (Cornell), Adjunct Faculty
Jagadish N
BE (Mysore), Technical Officer
Sarma V V S
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, FNAE,
Honorary Professor
Kanade, Aditya
PhD (IIT/Bombay), Assistant Professor
Shevade, Shirish K
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Chandran, L Sunil
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Kumar, P Vijay
PhD (Southern California),
FIEEE, P/ECE, Associate Faculty
Srikant Y N
PhD (IISc), Professor
Chatterjee Sanjit
PhD (ISI Kolkata), Assistant Professor
Murty, M Narasimha
PhD (IISc), FNAE, FNASc, Professor
D’Souza, Deepak
PhD (CMI), Associate Professor
Narahari Y
PhD (IISc), FNA, FASc, FNAE,
FNASc, FIEEE, Professor
Bhattacharyya, Chiranjib
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Bhattacharya, Indrajit
PhD (Maryland), Assistant Professor
Dukkipati, Ambedkar
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Gopinath K
PhD (Stanford), Professor
Govindarajan R
PhD (IISc), FNAE, P/SERC,
Associate Faculty
Govindarajan, Sathish
PhD (Duke), Assistant Professor
Hansdah R C
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Haritsa, Jayant R
PhD (Wisconsin), FASc/FNAE/FNASc
P/SERC, Associate Faculty
Natarajan, Vijay
PhD (Duke), Assistant Professor
Patil D P
PhD (TIFR), P/MA,
Associate Faculty
Susheela Devi V
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Uday Kumar Reddy
PhD (Ohio State) Assistant Professor
Veni Madhavan C E
PhD (IISc), Professor
Viswanadham N
PhD (IISc), FNA, FASc, FNAE,
FIEEE, FTWAS,
INAE Distinguished Professor
Pushparaj B K
DTE (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Raghavan K V
PhD (Wisconsin), Assistant Professor
Ramesh Hariharan
PhD (Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences),
Adjunct Faculty
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Y Narahari
PhD, MSc (Engg), ME [Computer Science and Engineering],
ME [Systems Science and Automation] (Jointly with EE)
Department of Electrical Engineering
Profile
The Department pursues advanced and fundamental
research in Electrical Engineering. It is recognized by
the UGC as a Center of Advanced Study.
Major Research Areas
Power systems, Power electronics, High voltage
engineering, Energy Studies, Real-time Systems,
Sensor Networks, Digital Signal Processing, Speech
Processing, Multimedia systems, Computer Vision,
Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Machine
Learning.
Current Research
 Power Systems – Advanced power system analy-
sis, power system dynamics and computer control;
voltage stability; applications of expert systems
and artificial neural networks; computer aided
protection and design of distribution systems,
FACTS applications for VAR control; distribution systems; distribution automation; deregulated power system operation. Study of demand
side management, distributed generation.
 Power Electronics and Drives – Electro-magnetics,
switched mode power conversion, compact SMPS
employing soft switching, power quality, distributed generation, PWM techniques, digital control of industrial drives, induction motor drives;
control of slip-ring induction machines, current
source inverter drives for induction and synchronous machines, high power converters, multilevel
inverters, digital controller design, permanent
magnet machines, high performance filter design
for distributed generation and power quality.
 High Voltage Engineering – Insulation engineer-
ing, dielectric materials, power apparatus, diagnostics and condition monitoring, HV testing and
measurement, partial discharges, overvoltages,
protection, EHV/UHV transmission, electromagnetics, lightning protection, EMI/EMC, pulsed
power and air pollution control.
 Sensor Networks and Real-Time Systems – Sensor
networks resource management and communication protocols, real-time scheduling, multiprocessor utilization bounds, soft real-time applications,
real-time communication and QoS routing.
 Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine
Learning – Computed tomography- 2D and
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3D reconstruction, compression of CT images,
computational study of vision, image understanding, motion analysis and object tracking, statistical techniques in computer vision, steganography,
digital forensics, computational photography, distributed camera networks, video analytics, medical
image processing, Document image analysis and
Bhaskar K
MCA (Bangalore), Technical Officer
Champaka M K
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Scientific Officer
Chandra Sekhar S
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
John, Vinod
PhD (Wisconsin), Assistant Professor
Joy Thomas M
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Lawrence Jenkins
PhD (Notre Dame), Professor
Muthuvel, Arigovindan
PhD (EPFL), Assistant Professor
Nagendra Rao P S
PhD (IIT/D), Professor
Narayanan G
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
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recognition, pattern classification, noisetolerant
learning, temporal data mining, statistical models.
 Signal Processing – Adaptive filtering and active
noise cancellation, machine listening, audioretrieval, spike extraction in MEA recordings,
online handwriting recognition.
Pramanik, Manojit
PhD (Washington),
Assistant Professor
Rajanikanth B S
PhD (IISc), Professor
Rajgopal K
PhD (IISc), Professor
Ramakrishnan A G
PhD (IIT/M), Professor
Ramakrishnan K R
PhD (IISc), Professor
Rathna G N
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Sen, Indraneel
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Shenoy U J
PhD (IISc), Principal Research Scientist
Subba Reddy B
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Suryanarayana P V
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Scientific Officer
Thukaram D
PhD (IISc), Professor
Udayakumar
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Venu Madhav Govindu
PhD (Maryland), Assistant Professor
Sastry P S
PhD (IISc), FNAE, Professor
Satish L
PhD (IISc), Professor
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P S Sastry
PhD, MSc (Engg), ME (Electrical Engineering),
ME (Systems Science & Automation) jointly with the CSA Department,
ME (Signal processing) jointly with the ECE Department
Department of Electrical Communication
Engineering
Profile
The Department pursues advanced and fundamental
research in the areas of communication and networking, signal processing, microelectronics, microwaves,
and photonics. It is recognized by the UGC as a
Centre of Advanced Study.
Major Research Areas
Communication theory and systems, information
theory and coding, wireless communication systems,
communication networks.
Signal processing theory and applications: speech and
audio processing, biomedical signal processing, array
processing, compressive sensing and sparse signal
recovery.
Photonics and optical communications, electromagnetics, microwaves, antennas, micro-nano electronics:
devices, circuits and technology. Biophotonics and
biosensors.
Current Research
 Communications – Information theory, distributed
joint source-channel coding; error control coding
including space-time codes, network coding, codes
for storage systems codes on graphs, coded modulation and pseudorandom sequences; CDMA,
wireless mobile communication, energy harvesting communication, multiuser detection, MlMO,
OFDM, cooperative communications, wireless
channel modeling, cognitive radio communications. Interference modeling, physical layer security,
secure multi party computation, green communication, machine learning for communication.
 Communication Networking – Physical-layer design
of energy harvesting communications; wireless
channel estimation and data detection MIMO.
Modelling, analysis, optimization and control of
resource allocation in wireline and wireless networks; scheduling in networks; quality of service
in heterogeneous networks; cross-layer design
in wireless networks; energy efficient protocols.
Wireless sensor networks: self organisation, distributed signal processing, system architectures for
various applications, distributed computing algorithms for sensor networks, algorithms for energy
management in sensor networks. Communication
protocol specification and verification, AI applications to communication networks and their
management, mobile agents, multimedia communication, ubiquitous computing. Cognitive radio
communication.
 Photonics – Fiber-optic communications and networks systems (MOEMS); Biophotonics: Biosensors.
 Electromagnetics – Passive and active circuits (RF
and microwave), microwave antennas. microstrip
antennas, fractal designs in electromagnetics,
ultrawide band microwave systems, millimeter and
sub-millimeter wave components and systems,
composite materials for microwave applications,
computational electromagnetic, single power
integrity, EMI in high speed chip-package systems, Integrated millimeter wave systems.
 Nanoelectronics and VLSI – Nano-CMOS tech-
nology, non-classical transistor design, transistor variability in nanoelectronics, adaptable
circuit design, integrated MEMS sensors, VLSI
architectures for high performance computing,
low power techniques in hardware and software.
Communication circuits and architectures, software and hardware for embedded systems and
system-on-chip, formal and informal verification technologies, fault-tolerant and self-healing
system design, bio-electronics. Technologies for
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pattern recognition, classification, and machine
learning. CMOS based analog, mixed signal and
RF integrated circuits.
varying signal models. Neural coding of signals,
sparse notation, algorithms for speech and audio
coding, speech and music recognition, and speech
and music enhancements applications to audio
indexing, watermarking, and hearing aids.
 Signal Processing – Time-frequency analysis: digi-
tal filter structures, spectrum estimation, signal
detection and denoising. Multirate signal processing, filter bank sparse signal recovery design, semiblind and robust channel estimation, distributed
spectrum sensing, signal processing in extremely
low power sensors.
Signal processing for indoor positioning and navigation.
Speech and Audio Processing – Speech and audio
(music) signal modelling; auditory and time
Statistical signal processing – Space-time signal
processing, algorithms with application to wireless
communication systems, acoustic signal separation using microphone arrays, radar processing.
Biomedical Signal Processing – Processing of biomedical signals using nonlinear dynamical techniques; abnormality detection in ECG and EEG
signals; connectivity study of networks in the
brain.
Anandi Giridharan
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Gopalaiah S V
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Rajan, B Sundar
PhD (IIT/K), FNA, FNAE, FNASc,
Professor
Badrinarayana T
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Hari K V S
PhD (UC San Diego), Professor
Ravishankar M K
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Bharadwaj, Amrutur
PhD (Stanford), Associate Professor
Bhat, Navakanta
PhD (Stanford), Professor
Banerjee, Gaurab
PhD (Washington),
Assistant Professor
Chockalingam A
PhD (IISc), FNAE, FNASc,
Professor
Hegde G S
BSc (Karnatak), BE (Bangalore),
Scientific Assistant
Kumar, Anurag
PhD (Cornell), FIEEE, FNA,
FNAE, FASc, Professor
Kumar, P Vijay
PhD (USC), FIEEE, TATACHEM Chair,
Professor
Sharma, Vinod
PhD (Carnegie-Mellon),
Professor
Shivaleela E S
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Sreenivas T V
PhD (TIFR/B), Professor
Kashyap, Navin
PhD (Michigan), Associate Professor
Srinivas, Talabattula
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Gope, Dipanjan
PhD (Washington),
Assistant Professor
Malati Hegde
PhD (IIT/K), Principal Research
Scientist
Sundaresan, Rajesh
PhD (Princeton), Associate Professor
Elizabeth Rani K
BTech (JNTU/Kakinada),
Technical Officer
Mehta, Neelesh B
PhD (Caltech), Associate Professor
Ghosh, Ambarish
PhD (Brown), Assistant Professor
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Mukherji, Utpal
ScD (MIT/USA), Associate Professor
Murthy, Chandra R
PhD (UCSD), Assistant Professor
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PhD (Sheffield), FIEE, Professor
Vinoy K J
PhD (Penn State), Associate Professor
Varma, Manoj
PhD (Purdue), Assistant Professor
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Vijay Kumar P
PhD, MSc (Engg), ME (Telecommunication) ME (Signal Processing)
jointly with EE, ME (Microelectronics) jointly with DESE
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
Profile
Current Research
The department pursues advanced research in power
conversion, semiconductor device modeling, communication networks, electromechanics, sensors and
actuators, intelligent controlling, VLSI and embedded systems with special emphasis on implementation methods. It is recognized as a resource centre for
many educational projects.
Power converters for high power applications, high
performance drives, power converter topologies and
control for EV applications. Bond graph modeling
for power electronic systems, alternate energy systems
(solar, wind). Optimal routing and scheduling in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, performance analysis of TCP connections over 802.11 WLANs, Energy
harvesting with applications in sensor networks. Non
classical MOSFET device, single electron transistor,
quantum cellular automata, rapid single quantum
flux, CMOS-Nano hybridization. Electromechanics,
sensors, actuators based smart materials,: intelligent
controlling, instrumentation, sensor development,
robotics. Electromagnetic interference and compatibility.
Major Research Areas
Power Converters and Controls, Semiconductor
Device Modelling, Communication Networks, VLSI
Design, Electromechanics, Biomechatronics, Sensors
and Actuators, Intelligent control.
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Chalapathi Rao N V
PGDM (IIM/B),
Principal Research Scientist
Dagale, Haresh
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Joy Kuri
PhD (IISc), Professor
Krishnakumar M
MTech (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Prabhakar T V
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Ramachandran P
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Scientific Assistant
Dinesh N S
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Kuruvilla Varghese
MTech (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Saravanan A P
BSc, PG Dip Instrumentation
(Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Diwakar J E
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Mahapatra, Santanu
PhD (EPF Lausanne),
Associate Professor
Sachidananda C R
DTE (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Gopakumar K
PhD (IISc), FIETE, FNAE, FIEEE
Professor
Mahesh G V
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Gunasekaran M K
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Nagakrishna V
ME (Bharatiyar), Scientific Assistant
Jamadagni H S
PhD (IISc), Professor,
Senior Member, (IEEE),
Member (Part time) TRAI
Pittet, Andre
PhD (EPF Lausanne),
Chief Project Advisor
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PhD (Georgia Tech),
Assistant Professor
Sudharshan G
BE (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Umanand L
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Vasantha K B
DEE (Bharatiyar), Scientific Assistant
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K Gopakumar
PhD, MSc (Engg), MTech, ME
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Profile
The department was established in 1942 as the
Department of Aeronautical Engineering to meet the
expanding needs of the Hindustan Aircraft Company
(currently Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.). The activities in the department have seen a tremendous transition since then and now cover both aeronautics and
space science and engineering. The department has
26 faculty members, 11 scientific staff and about 180
graduate students. The department with its wind tunnels, shock tunnels and structural testing facilities
caters to a large number of R&D projects of national
importance. In recent years, the department has
developed several futuristic concepts and technologies for the aircraft and space industry in advanced
materials in the avionics, energy sector and the automotive industry. The Research focus has recently been
broadened beyond traditional aerospace engineering
by including various evolving aspects of autonomous
flight, bio-inspired design, human factors and nanobio-technologies.
The department works in close association with the
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and
with various Defence Research & Development
Organization (DRDO) laboratories. Several research
centers such as the Center for Gasification and
Propulsion Laboratory (CGPL), UGC Centre
for Advanced Studies in Aerospace Propulsion,
Aeronautical Research & Development Board (ARDB)
Center of Excellence in Aerospace Computational
Fluid Dynamics, and ARDB Center of Excellence in
Composite Structures and Technology (ACECOST)
work in close collaboration with various organizations at national and international level on cuttingedge research topics. A large number of international
collaborations exist with universities in the USA,
Canada and the European Union and with multinational companies such as Boeing, Pratt & Whitney
and General Motors.
Major Research Areas
Fundamental aspects of Fluid Dynamics, Computa­
tional Fluid Dynamics, High Speed Flows, Low Speed
Aerodynamics, Fatigue and Fracture, Non-Destructive
Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring,
Composite Materials and Structures, Multifunctional
Materials and Smart Structures, Micro and Nanotech­
nologies, Nonlinear Mechanics, Helicopter Dynamics,
Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity, Combustion
and Propulsion, Combustion Acoustics, Flight Vehicle
Guidance, Computational Algorithms, Aerospace
Electronic Systems, Guidance Control and Dynamics
of Aerospace underwater Vehicles, Micro Aerial
Vehicles, Co-operative Controls, Swarm Control
Satellite Image Classification.
Current Research
Fundamental Aspects of Fluid Dynamics Prediction
of transition, structure of turbulent boundary layers,
turbulence management, flow instabilities, flows in
complex geometries, control of fluid flows/flow separation, vortex dominated flows.
 Computational Fluid Dynamics – Aerospace applications, algorithms: kinetic schemes, unstructured
meshes, meshless solvers, DNS/LES; unsteady
flow computations using chimera cloud of points.
 High Speed Flows – Study of supersonic and
hypersonic flows, advanced high speed flow diagnostics. Simulation of high enthalpy flows at high
speeds using shock tube/shock tunnel and hypersonic wind tunnel; re-entry aerodynamics; real
gas effects, gas dynamic lasers, shock wave applications, high temperature chemical kinetics and
dusty gas dynamics, computation of high speed
flows, industrial and bio-medical applications.
 Low Speed Aerodynamics – Aerodynamic interfer-
ence; model studies of flight vehicle configurations,
unsteady aerodynamics of oscillating airfoils, transitional flows, turbulence and stability.
 Fatigue and Fracture – Constitutive modeling of
fatigue in metallic and composite materials; mechanisms of defect formation and crack initiation
and their influence on the life of structural components; dynamic fracture due to impact and high
strain rate loading; complex fracture processes in
composites and design of composites considering
these effects in next generation aircraft structures.
 Non-Destructive Evaluation and Structural Health
Monitoring – Development of advanced methods
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and tools for non-destructive evaluation of structural components with guided ultrasonic wave,
x-ray tomography, infrared thermography and
optics; design and instrumentation of hardware and
software for Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring;
rapid diagnosis of structural health using sensor
network, laser and wireless technologies; solving
damage detection and quantification problems in
complex systems like aircraft, automotives and
spacecraft; probabilistic prediction of failures and
remaining life of structures and subsystems, use of
such information in vehicle usage management and
prevention and failure.
 Composite Materials and Structures – Mathematical
modelling involving mechanics and physics of
ceramic/polymer/metal fiber reinforced polymer
matrix composites, understanding micro and nanoscale behaviour of these composites using theoretical
modelling and experimentation; processing and secondary manufacturing studies of composite materials
and structural components; sustainable manufacturing of composite structures; design methodology for
improved stiffness and strength properties; dynamic
reponse of composite structures under vibratory,
acoustic and impact loadings. Multi-Functional
Materials and Smart Structures Piezoelectric, magnetostructive, shape memory and non-Newtonian
fluidic materials and their novel properties which can
be applied to sense, alter and control objects with
applications in smart structures, vibration suppression, energy harvesting, smart electronics and biointerface; integration of these materials into systems
to achieve a combined set of functions; technological
applications related to aircraft and spacecraft, automobile, unmanned air vehicles, robots, human health
care, safety and early warning systems.
 Micro- and Nano-technologies – Nano- and micro-
scale phenomena in solids and liquids and their
applications in synthesis and phase transition of
materials, sensing through electronics, ionics and
photonics, coatings and thin films and composite
materials; improvement of mechanical, thermal
and electronic properties by suitable synthesis and
design of materials and microand nano-scales.
 Structural
Dynamics and Aero-elasticity –
Structural dynamics, wave propagation, fluid structure-interaction and finite element techniques,
aeroservoelasticity and smart aeroservoelastic
systems, nonlinear vibration of joint-dominated
structures, flutter of airfoils with local structural
nonlinearities, unsteady aerodynamics, nonlinear
control synthesis for vibrations, unsteady flow
past oscillating airfoil and airfoil cascades.
 Nonlinear Mechanics – Geometric and material
nonlinearities and their interaction; nonclassical phenomena in upcoming multifunctional
materials, multibody systems and futuristic aerospace structures; inflatable structures; micro
air vehicles; nondeterministic concurrent multiscale modelling based on variational asymptotic
methods.
 Helicopter Dynamics – Optimal and neural controllers for helicopter vibration minimization, active
suppression of dynamic stall, thin walled composite beams; aeroelastic analysis of smart helicopter
rotor, health monitoring of helicopters, design
optimization of helicopters for vibration reduction; modelling of composite helicopter rotors;
finite element methods in helicopter dynamics.
 Combustion and Propulsion – Study of full chemistry effects in fluid flows, flame propagation,
extinction and ignition in boundary layer flows,
combustion of droplets, computer simulation of
reacting flows, combustion in separated flows,
radiation from engine exhausts, spray characteristics of liquid propellant rockets and gas turbine
engines, space electric propulsion, MPD thrusters,
chemistry of propellants; space propellant management, DNS of turbulent combustion; numerical modelling of solid rocket motors; combustion
instability in rockets and gasturbine engines.
 Combustion Acoustics – Acoustic emission from
flames, oscillatory combustion, combustion of
coal.
 Flight Vehicle Guidance – Guidance systems
for flight vehicles, remote sensing, radar signal
processing, optimization of antenna arrays and
apertures under practical constraints, distributed
processing; collision avoidance of automated
guided vehicles, decentralized multiple-agent decision making, cooperative control of MAV swarms,
path-planning algorithms.
 Computational Algorithms – Scheduling problems,
distributed systems, evolutionary computation.
 Aerospace Electronic Systems – Civil air naviga-
tion, GPS and hybrid navigation systems, landing
systems – ILS and MLS, aviation safety, aviation
weather surveillance, radars for aviation, weather
and ATC.
 Control and Dynamics of Aerospace Vehicles –
Spacecraft formation flights, dynamics and control
of smart structures, control of aerospace vehicles,
autonomous unmanned air vehicles, robust control system synthesis for aircraft, precision satellite
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attitudes and rates estimation, orbital rendezvous,
reentry vehicle dynamics and control of reusable
vehicles; dynamic inversion for nonlinear and
optimal control synthesis using neural networks.
Balakrishnan N
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNAE, FNASc,
FNA, FTWAS, Professor
Balakrishnan N
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Bhat, M Ramachandra
PhD (IISc), Chief Research Scientist
Bhat, M Seetharama
PhD (IISc), FNAE, Professor
Dey, Jyotirmoy
PhD (IISc), Professor
Ganguli, Ranjan
PhD (Maryland), FNAE, Professor
Ghose, Debasish
PhD (IISc), FNAE, Professor
 Satellite Image Classification – Using neural networks and genetic programming approaches. Mobile
robotics and underwater vehicles Path planning and
guidance.
Lakshmisha K N
PhD (IISc), Professor
Ratnoo, Ashwini
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Mahapatra P R
PhD (IISc), FNAE, Professor
Reddy K P J
PhD (BIT/Ranchi), Professor
Mani V
PhD (IISc), Professor
Roy Mahapatra D
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Mathew, Joseph
PhD (MIT), Professor
Samanta, Arnab
PhD (Illinois), Assistant Professor
Nagashetty K
MSc (Engg), (Bangalore),
Scientific Assistant
Saravanan S
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Naik, G Narayana
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Gopalakrishnan S
PhD (Purdue), FNAE, Professor
Omkar S N
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Harursampath, Dinesh Kumar
PhD (Georgia Tech),
Assistant Professor
Oommen, Charlie
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Hemchandra, Santosh
PhD (Georgia Tech),
Assistant Professor
Padhi, Radhakant
PhD (Missouri), Associate Professor
Jagadeesh, Gopalan
PhD (IISc), FNAE, Professor
Kandagal S B
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Kulkarni P S
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Raghunandan B N
PhD (IISc), FNAE, Professor
Rajan N K S
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Sheshadri T S
PhD (Georgia Tech),
Associate Professor
Sivakumar D
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Suhasini, Gururaja
PhD (Washington), Assistant Professor
Surendranath V
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Vasudevan B
MASc (Toronto), Principal Research
Scientist
Venkatraman, Kartik
PhD (IIT/M), Associate Professor
Ramesh O N
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Rao, S V Raghurama
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
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Debasish Ghose
PhD, MSc (Engg), ME
Department of Aerospace Engineering 53
Joint Advanced Technology Programme
Profile
JATP is a collaborative program between the
Institute and the Defence Research and Development
Laboratory, Hyderabad, set up primarily for research
and development in propulsion, aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, guidance and control, radar
engineering, optoelectronics, air liquefaction, DSP,
matrix composites, power supply and interdisciplinary areas such as fluid-structure and structure-control interactions. The investigating groups are drawn
from the departments of Aerospace Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and
Automation, Physics, Centre for Electronics Design
and Technology, Cryogenic Technology as well as
other departments in the Institute. While some projects
now under investigation aim at generating fundamental results, the others aim at creating design and analysis data for various national aerospace projects.
About 124 projects have been sanctioned in the different areas mentioned above and 118 have been completed. Six (6) are currently in process and many are
in the pipeline. Many developmental aspects of aerospace vehicles such as structural design, aerodynamics design, control and propulsion systems have been
tackled through these R&D projects. The faculty of
JATP participates in Committee meetings, recruitment and assessment, and conduct review meetings. Currently, the hypersonic R&D Program has
been identified as one of the key areas for sponsored
projects.
Current Research
 Studies on Pulse Detonation Engine.
 Adaptation of OPENFOAM for GPU Processors.
 Aerodynamic Studies on Performance of LCA Wing
with Vertex Generator(VG) using CFD Tools.
 Development
of Modelling and Design
Framework for Sheet Metal Spring back.
 Non- Linear Autopilot Design.
 CFD Analysis of Base Drag Reduction of Missile
Configurations.
A project on Numerical and Experimental investigations of viscous flows over a complete Aircraft jointly
between Department of Aerospace Engineering &
M/s. Bombardier, Canada.
JATP also has the facility to sanction in-house short
term explorative projects in emerging areas. The current in-house projects are:
 Computational Analysis of High Powered Engines
for Combat Vehicles.
 Modulation Analysis of time Varying Signals.
 Study of Crack Propagation Behaviour due to
Application of Electric Current.
 Inkjet printing of conducting copper lines paper.
 Porous conducting nano composites derived from
gelation of multiwall carbon nano tubes in bicontinuous polymer blends.
 Synthesis and characterization of In doped
Cu2GeSe3 solid solution.
 Carbon nanotube-polymer based smart composite for armour applications.
 Study of high temperature high performance
PbTiO3-BiscO3 based ferroelectric piezoelectric
ceramics.
 Electrically Conducting Polymer nano composites.
 Self correcting circuits with nano-robots.
JATP has a number of Computing Systems and Multi
Media Projecting facilities. A cluster of computers
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having 32 and 8 Nodes Parallel Processors has been
installed at JATP. Shared memory architecture based
parallel computer around Dual Core also been assembled and used for several projects. Also Network
Storage Device upto 12TB Data procurement in
advanced stage. Establishment of Computational
Mechanics Laboratory (CML) to carryout low speed
and high speed Computational Aerodynamics and
Biofluids.
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The following R&D Projects with DRDL have been
initiated:
 Impact Analysis for Hypersonic Technology
Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV).
 Ultra Hard Materials for Hard Coating.
 Design of Locking System Elements based on
Impact Dynamics.
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+91-80-2293 2510/2360 1521
+91-(080)-2360 0649
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Ranjan Ganguli
Department of Aerospace Engineering 55
ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell
Profile
The Cell has been established with the support of
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and
draws upon the research base and expertise available
at ISRO and the Institute for promoting research and
development in areas relevant to the technological
needs of the Indian Space Programme. The Cell provides support for research projects, visiting scientists,
and technical publications.
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The Cell coordinates activities relating to the IIScISRO Educational Program (HEP), which provides a
technical forum to discuss problems of current interest. It also caters to the growth of academic activities
by providing facilities to ISRO engineers sponsored
for ME/MTech/research programmes in various
departments of the Institute.
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+91-80-2293 2503/2525
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Joseph Mathew
Department of Chemical Engineering
Profile
The Department of Chemical Engineering was
started in 1943 as a wing of the Division of Pure and
Applied Chemistry and acquired independent status
in 1947. Over the last six decades, the department has
evolved significantly, reflecting changes in the Indian
chemical industry and the chemical engineering profession worldwide. Today, the department is engaged
in research activities in various frontier areas in
Chemical Engineering. It is recognized by the UGC
as a Center of Advanced Study.
Major Research Areas
Biochemical Engineering; Colloids; Complex Fluids;
Environmental Engineering; Liquid-phase Adsorption;
Modelling and Simulation; Nanotechnology; Reaction
Engineering; Solid-fluid Phase Equlibria; Therapeutic
Engineering; Transfer Processes; Thermodynamic
Properties of Gas Hydrates.
Current Research
 Biochemical Engineering – Bioleaching of ocean
nodules and sulphides; kinetics of enzymatic reactions in supercritical fluids; metabolic control and
sensitivity analysis of bioreactors; optimisation
and control of fermentation processes using genetic
algorithms; transport and kinetic modelling of
multiphase bioprocesses.
 Colloids – Crystallization; formation of nanoparticles in micelles; liquid-liquid dispersions; Ostwald
ripening; solubilization in surfactant solutions;
stability of emulsions.
 Complex Fluids – Analysis of slow granular flow;
flow of powders in bins, channels, and hoppers;
fluid mechanics of suspensions; hydrodynamic
stability of flows on flexible surfaces; rheology of
liquid crystalline materials; continuum modeling
of two phase flows.
 Environmental Engineering – Activated car-
bon fabric studies; biosorption of heavy metals;
defluoridation of drinking water; polymer recycling; remediation of contaminated soils with
supercritical fluids; solid waste management; synthesis of biodegradable polymers.
 Modelling and Simulation – Bubble nucleation;
CFD modelling of process equipment; hydrogen storage; modelling of nanoparticle synthesis;
molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation of confined fluids and interfaces; nanoparticle crystallization; population balance equations;
reactive mixing in turbulent flows; simulation of
self assembling systems.
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behaviour of gas hydrates; self-assembly of nanoparticles; phase transition in confined fluids.
 Nanotechnology – Functional nanoscale architectures; guided self-assembly to form 2D and 3D
superlattices; semiconductor nanowires; synthesis
of metal nanoparticles.
 Therapeutic Engineering – Drug pharmacokinetics
and rational therapy optimization; dynamics of
HIV and hepatitis C virus infections; theoretical
immunology; virus-cell interactions.
 Reaction Engineering – Kinetics of reactions medi-
ated by ultrasound and microwaves; multiphase
sonochemical reactors; photocatalysis; polymer
synthesis and degradation reactions in supercritical fluids; sintering reactions using microwaves;
transport processes and reactions in packed beds.
 Transfer Processess – Multicomponent precipi-
tation; separation and extraction of amino acids
and metals; transport processes in supported liquid membranes.
 Thermodynamics – Adsorption in zeolites and
activated carbons; kinetics of nucleation; phase
Ayappa, K Ganapathy
PhD (Minnesota), Professor
Dixit, Narendra M
PhD (Illinois), Associate Professor
Giridhar Madras
PhD (Texas A&M), Professor
Mudakavi J R
PhD (IIT/Madras),
Principal Research Scientist
Nott, Prabhu R
PhD (Princeton), Professor
Sudeep Punnathanam
PhD (Purdue), Assistant Professor
Venugopal S
PhD (Purdue), Assistant Professor
Pillay, S Armugam
MSc (Madurai), Technical Officer
Kesava Rao K
PhD (Houston), FASc, Professor
Kumaran V
PhD (Cornell), FASc, FNAE, Professor
Raghuram P T
MSc (Engg), (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Modak, Jayant M
PhD (Purdue), FNAE, Professor
Sanjeev Kumar Gupta
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
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Prabhu R Nott
PhD, MSc (Engg), ME
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Profile
Current Research
Mechanical Engineering activities at the Indian
Institute of Science commenced with the establishment of the Department of Internal Combustion
(IC) Engineering in 1945. The mechanical engineering section of the Power Engineering Department
was established in 1951, and later became a fullfledged Mechanical Engineering Department. The
IC Engineering Department merged with the ME
Department to give it its present form in 1970. The
department offers Master of Engineering, MSc
(Engg) and PhD programmes. The activities in the
department can be broadly classified into the following groups: Mechanical Systems, Thermal
Science and Fluid Mechanics, Material Science and
Nanotribology, Dynamics, Microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) and Acoustics, Optimal design, and
Biomechanics.
 Mechanical Systems and Design – Structural and
Major Research Areas
Mechanical Systems and Design, Thermal Sciences
and Fluid Mechanics, Combustion energy systems,
Internal Combustion Engines, Technical Acoustics,
Biomechanics, Tribology, MEMS, Semi-solid
Forming, computational mechanics, and Fracture
mechanics.
dimensional synthesis of kinematic and compliant mechanisms; theoretical kinematics; multidisciplinary design optimization; dynamics and
control of robot and multi-body mechanical systems; computer-controlled mechanical systems;
hybrid automotive vehicles; bio-medical devices;
constructing 3D models from sketches, assembly
sequence planning and evaluation, tools for early
stages in design, vibrations, structural shape and
topology optimization, kinematic assembly modeling, geometric and topological modeling.
 Microsystems – Modelling, design, and micro-
fabrication of micro-electro-mechanical systems
(MEMS); energetics of micro and nano devices;
nano-mechanics; acoustic sensors, rate gyroscopes,
accelerometers, ultrasound sensors, force sensors
and polymer pumps; development of analysis
tools for coupled multi-physics problems; optimal
synthesis methods for MEMS; micromanipulation; In-situ TEM nanoindentation, deformation
mechanisms of materials. Effect of roughness and
surface asperities on the solid-liquid interface.
 Fracture Mechanics and Tribology – Fretting fric-
tion mechanics; impact fracture and fragmentation dynamic, mixed mode, indentation; thin film;
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polycrystalline diamond, super hard ceramics,
multilayered and bond coated coating structures,
contact mechanics of impact and indentation,
nanotribology of boundary lubrication; metal cutting, soot, detergents, fuel additives, metal working, development of nanoparticle (fullerene) based
lubricants and coatings, scanning probe microscopy, wear mechanism of metals in IC engines.
Fracture of single crystals and amorphous metals,
Eco-friendly lubricants, friction in metal forming.
electronic systems; Heat and mass transfer in
buildings, natural ventilation, heat and mass transfer in food products; two-phase flows and heat
transfer, heat transfer in renewable energy systems;
numerical heat transfer; refrigeration and air-conditioning; adsorption coolers and gas storage;
mathematical modelling and simulation of thermal systems; thermal modelling and experimentation in solidification, arc welding pools, laser
welding of dissimilar metals, surface alloying.
 Biomechanics – Nonlinear mechanics of soft bio-
 Combustion & Spray Research, IC Engines – Multi-
logical tissues, elastomers and protein rubbers,
cell mechanics, mechanotransduction, bio-micro
manipulation, miniature bio-reactors and cell culture in scaffolds, computational design of proteins
and tissue engineering.
 Metal Casting and Advanced Manufacturing –
Semisolid forming, die casting, squeeze casting,
mould design and metal flow analysis, computer
aided design of near-net shaped castings; friction
stir welding, friction stir processing.
 Fluid Mechanics – Multiphase stability; stability
of unsteady boundary layers; unsteady boundarylayer separation; transition and turbulence; turbulence modelIing, fish-like propulsion.
 Thermal Sciences – Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard
convection; double-diffusive convection, mixed
convection, heat pipes, thermal management of
dimensional modelling of in-cylinder processes
including two-phase flow, turbulence and combustion chemistry; cold-start emission reduction
technologies; diesel engine combustion chamber
geometry optimization; alternative fuel research,
bio-lubricants: high-efficiency biogas-fuelled
engine technology; application of laser-based
diagnostic techniques in engine research; fuel
spray characterization using shadowgraphy and
interferometric Mie imaging techniques; trappedvortex based combustor research.
 Technical Acoustics – Automotive noise control;
vibration diagnosis of rotating machinery; acoustics of ducts and mufflers; industrial noise control;
acoustic characterization of absorbing materials.
Sound from turbulent flows, asymptotics in structural acoustics, nonlinear structural acoustic interactions.
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Ananthasuresh G K
PhD (Michigan), FNAE, Professor
Gurumoorthy B
PhD (Carnegie-Mellon), Professor
Satish V Kailas
PhD (IISc), Professor
Arakeri, Jaywant H
PhD (CalTech), FASc, FNAE, Professor
Himabindu M
PhD (Anna), Scientific Officer
Bobji M S
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Jog, Chandrashekhar S
PhD (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),
Professor
Saptarshi Basu
PhD (Connecticut),
Assistant Professor
Dharuman C
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Senior Scientific
Officer
Dibakar Sen
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Dutta, Pradip
PhD (Columbia), FNAE, FASME,
FASc, INAE Chair Professor, Professor
Ghosal, Ashitava
PhD (Stanford), FNAE, Professor
Munjal M L
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, FNAE,
FNASc, Honorary Professor,
INAE Distinguished Professor
Narasimham G S V L
PhD (IISc), Chief Research Scientist
Narasimhan R
PhD (CalTech), FASc, FNA,
FNAE, Professor
Shukla, Ratnesh
PhD (UCLA), Assistant Professor
Sonti, Venkata R
PhD (Purdue), Associate Professor
Srinivasan J
PhD (Stanford), FNA, FASc,
FNAE, Professor
Thirumaleswara Naik R
PhD (IIT/Delhi), Scientific Officer
Tomar, Gaurav
PhD (IIT/K), Assistant Professor
Govardhan, Raghuraman N
PhD (Cornell), Associate Professor
Pratap, Rudra
PhD (Cornell), Professor
Venkataraman M K
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Scientific Officer
Gundiah, Namrata
PhD (UC Berkeley),
Assistant Professor
Ravikrishna R V
PhD (Purdue), Associate Professor
Yogendra Simha K R
PhD (Maryland), Professor
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R Narasimhan
PhD, MSc (Engg), ME
Department of Materials Engineering
Profile
Established in 1945 as Department of Metallurgy
and re-named in 2006, the Department of Materials
Engineering has active research groups exploring the
exciting world of materials. With its rich history of
accomplishments, it is recognized as a leading academic centre in materials education and research. It
has been a Centre for Advanced Study (a recognition
conferred by the University Grants Commission)
since 1990. It won a nation-wide competition in 2008
to host the UGC Networking Resource Centre for
Materials (NRC-M) which now fosters collaboration
between IISc faculty with research groups at other
Indian institutions, and facilitates advanced research
training of postgraduate students and young faculty
through Summer and Winter Schools.
The Department’s research interests span a broad
spectrum that include materials processing, mechanical behaviour, thermodynamics and diffusion, ferroelectrics, polymer nanocomposites and devices, organic
photovoltaics, biomaterials, thin films, texture and
grain boundary engineering, and computational materials science. The research groups work on challenging
problems in almost all materials classes: light alloys
and composites, high temperature materials, metallic
foams, bulk metallic glasses, structural ceramics, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, and polymers. The
phenomena being explored also span multiple length
and time scales: electronic structure of materials,
nanomaterials and nanodevices, microstructural evolution, and bulk behaviour. The department publishes
over 90 research papers each year in ISI journals.
Currently, the department offers postgraduate programmes leading to masters and doctoral degrees.
Starting in January 2013, it will start offering courses
in the Materials stream of the undergraduate programme of IISc.
Current Research
 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy –
Bioleaching of copper, zinc, gold and silver ores;
biocorrosion; bio-environmental control; mineral
beneficiation; mathematical and physical modeling and simulations of metallurgical processes;
solid flow behaviour in shaft reactors; electroslag
refining.
 Physical Metallurgy – Diffusion in binary and ter-
nary systems, with applications to electronic packaging, processing of superconducting wires and
thermal barrier coatings; Bulk metallic glasses;
high entropy alloys; phase field simulations of
microstructural evolution; deformation and transformation textures at micron and sub-micron
length scales; micro- and nanostructures produced
by far-from-equilibrium processes such as welding of dissimilar metals, laser and electron-beam
welding, surface alloying, spray forming, rapid
solidification, mechanical alloying, and equi-channel angular processing.
 Mechanical Behaviour – Development of experimen-
tal and theoretical tools for studying mechanical
behaviour of thin films, coatings, and micropillars; microstructure-property correlations in bulk
metallic glasses, shape memory alloys, metallic
foams, advanced Ti-, Al- and Mg-alloys, ceramics,
polymers, and ultra-fine and nanocrystalline materials. Effect of temperature and ultra-high strain
rates; superplasticity; cavitation failure; friction,
wear, and tribology; processing and mechanical
properties of metal-matrix and polymer-matrix
composites; fracture and failure analysis.
 Ceramics – Synthesis of metalstable multi-compo-
nent oxides and ultra-fine powders; low temperature
consolidation of glasses and nanocrystalline ceramics; grain boundary sliding and diffusion creep in
doped and two-phase ceramics.
 Biomaterials – Polyelectrolyte multilayer films and
capsules for drug delivery and diagnostics. Tissue
engineering, Regenerative medicine, Medical
implants.
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electric materials (scutterudites and tellurides);
oxide based semiconductors (titania and zirconia). Electromigration in solid films and liquid
metals; thermo-electro-mechanical excursions and
their effects on short and long term reliability of
microelectronic packages.
 Functional Materials – Electroactive polymers,
organic photovoltaics, nanoelectronics and sensors; Polymer blends, carbon nanotube and grapheme based polymer nanocomposites, ferroelectric,
pyroelectric, relaxor ferroelectric, magnetic, and
multiferroic materials; high-temperature thermo-
Abinandanan T A
PhD (CMU), Professor
Avadhani G S
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Jayaram, Vikram
PhD (Stanford), FASc, FNASc,
FNAE, FACerS, Professor
Ramamurty U
PhD (Brown), FNAE, FASc,
Professor
Karthikeyan S
PhD (Ohio State), Assistant Professor
Ranganathan S
PhD (Cambridge), FASc, FNA,
FNASc, FNAE, FTWAS, FIIM,
Emeritus Professor
Babu V
AMIM (Kolkata), Technical Officer
Kishore
PhD (IISc), Emeritus Professor
Banerjee, Dipankar
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNA, FNAE,
FNASc, Professor
Kumar, Praveen
PhD (USC), Assistant Professor
Kumar, Subodh
PhD (London), Professor
Bose, Suryasarathi
PhD (IITB), Assistant Professor
Chatterjee, Kaushik
PhD (Penn Stat), Assistant Professor
Chattopadhyay K
PhD (BHU), FASc, FNASc, FNA,
FNAE, FIIM, Professor
Chokshi, Atul H
PhD (USC), FASc, FNASc, FNA,
FNAE, FIIM, Professor
Deshpande R J
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Scientific Officer
Gupta, Govind S
PhD (Wollongong), Professor
Jacob K T
PhD (London), DSc (Engg),
(London), FASc, FNASct FNA,
FNAE, FIIM, Emeritus Professor
Narayana B V
PhD (SVU),
Principal Research Scientist
Natarajan K A
PhD (Minnesota), DSc (IISc), FASc,
FNASc, FNAE, FIIM, Emeritus
Professor
Padaikathan P
MSc (Engg), (Bangalore),
Scientific Officer
Ranjan, Rajeev
PhD (BHU), Assistant Professor
Ravi R
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Srivastava, Chandan
PhD (Alabama), Assistant Professor
Subramanian S
PhD (Mysore), Professor
Surappa M K
PhD (IISc), FNAE, FNA, Professor
(on lien as Director, IIT/Ropar)
Suwas, Satyam
PhD (IIT/K), Associate Professor
Paul, Aloke
PhD (Delft), Associate Professor
Raichur, Ashok M
PhD (Nevada), Professor
Ramamurthy, Praveen C
PhD (Clemson), Assistant Professor
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Vikram Jayaram
ME, MSc (Engg), PhD
Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing
Profile
Current Research
The Department promotes teaching, research, industrial interaction and prototype development activities
in the field of Product Design and Manufacturing at
the Institute. It offers a 2-year M Des programme in
Product Design and Engineering. The department
conducts both fundamental and applied research at
the Master and PhD levels in areas of relevance to
design and manufacturing.
Research into innovation and sustainability is primarily focused on supporting the early stages of product
development. Current research includes investigating
the nature of and influences on design creativity and its
links with exploration and biometric triggering processes, automated synthesis and embodiment of design
concepts including micro and nanosystems, biomimetrics, knowledge capture and reuse, design for variety,
distributed collaborative design and shared workspaces, and analysis and mitigation of environmental
impacts of products during product development.
The Infrastructure for product development is available at the Centre through its excellent fabrication
facilities, a precision tool room, and skilled manpower specializing in various trades. The department is endowed with state of the art infrastructure
for conducting cutting edge research into design and
manufacturing.
Major Research Areas
Design Methodology, Human Factors, Product
Design, Product Safety and CAE, Product Information
Modeling, Design of automotive Systems, Digital
Human Modeling, VR & Haptis, 3D product sketching, computerized anthropometry, mechanisms &
mechatronics, Human Engineering, Eco Sustainability,
collaboration and knowledge engineering.
Research areas in ergonomics include computerized
anthropometry, digital human modelling for ergonomic design and product evaluation, workspace and
visibility analysis, sketch based interface development
for early design phases visual perception modeling, the
development of products for the physically challenged.
In addition to various ergonomics studies, current
interest areas in human engineering include research
on biosensor development, biomechanics, biomedical
instrumentation, signal processing of different human
potentials like ECG, EMG, EEG etc. for a better
understanding of human behaviour and response.
Problems of current interest in the areas of
Mechanisms and Mechatronics are computer aided
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synthesis of mechanisms, sketch based exploration
of articulated motion in products, intelligent assembly planning, bio-mimetic locomotion and walking
machines, and deployable mechanisms.
tion of lightweight vehicle platforms with electric
and hybrid-electric power-trains is being studied and
implemented. Advanced computer-based methodologies are being developed for efficient and optimized
design of structural systems for human protection
under low to high velocity impact conditions.
Research in computer tools for product design is
focused on the areas of reverse engineering, direct
rapid prototyping, modelling information flow in
product design and product lifecycle management.
The Major areas of focus in the virtual reality laboratory are: Haptics enabled precise Virtual Simulation
Assembly processes, generation of assembly sequences
and system assemble plans, assessment of assemblability, knowledge, insighted product and process
definitions, acquisition of expert and sustainable manufacturing.
A major area of interest is CAD and CAE driven
design of automotive systems including lightweight
vehicles for meeting multifunctional requirements
embracing attributes such as styling, ergonomics,
NVH, durability, and crashworthiness. The integra-
Ananthasuresh G K
PhD (Michigan), Professor,
Associate Faculty
Arakeri, Jaywant H
PhD (CalTech), Professor,
Associate Faculty
Chakrabarti, Amaresh
PhD (Cambridge), HonFIED,
Professor
Chalapathi Rao N V
PGDM (IIM/B), PRS/DESE,
Associate Faculty
Deb, Anindya
PhD (SUNY, Buffalo), Professor
Sen, Dibakar
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Diwakar J E
PhD (IISc),
Principal Research Scientist
Ghosal, Ashitava
PhD (Stanford), Professor,
Associate Faculty
Gurumoorthy B
PhD (Carnegie-Mellon),
Professor
Mani, Monto
PhD (IIT/Madras), AP/CST,
Associate Faculty
Mathew, Mary
PhD (IISc), AcP/MS, Associate Faculty
Satish V Kailas
PhD (IISc), P/ME, Associate Faculty
Shivakumar N D
Senior Scientific Officer
Maiti, Rina
PhD (IIT/Bombay), Assistant Professor
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Anindya Deb
J E Diwakar
PhD, MSc (Engg), MDes
Department of Civil Engineering
Profile
The Department has been in the forefront of
advanced research in Civil Engineering and has also
been pro-active in industrial interaction and technology development. The Department is recognized
as a Centre for Advanced Studies by the University
Grants Commission. The Department has served
as the nodal centre for execution of the National
Program on Earthquake Engineering Education and
National Program for Capacity Building of Engineers
in Earthquake Risk Management.
Current Research
The four main areas of research are Geotechnical
Engineering, Water Resources and Environmental
Engineering,
Structural
Engineering,
and
Transportation Engineering.
Geotechnical Engineering
 Soil Behaviour – Clay mineralogical and suction
controls in the engineering response of soft clays,
expansive clays and collapsing solid; Influence of
chemical additives with applications to improvement of difficult ground; Mechanical behavior of
sands through advanced elemental testing.
 Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering – Pre and
post liquefaction behaviour of soils; Effect of
non-plastic fines on the cyclic behaviour of sand;
Determination of dynamic properties of soil in
the laboratory; Seismic hazard analysis and local
site response; Seismic microzonation; Dynamic
behavior of retaining structures and substructures;
Earthquake resistant design using geosynthetics.
 Soil Reinforcement and Geosynthetics – Geo­
synthetic reinforced soil slopes, geocell supported
soil structures and soil nailed walls, geosynthetic
clay liners, geosynthetics in unpaved roads and
response of soils reinforced with coir fibers and
waste plastics.
 Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics – Investi­
gations of bearing capacity through numerical
limit analysis; Micromechanics of granular media
through discrete element modeling.
 Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering – Reliability
and Risk assessment in site characterization and
design; Reliability based design of shallow and
deep foundations, earth dams, buried pipes, retaining structures and unsaturated slopes; Load resistantance Factor Design of retaining walls, MSE
walls, soil nailed structures for static and seismic
loading.
 Rock Mechanics – Experimental and theoretical
 Foundation Engineering – Analysis of shallow and
deep foundations through analytical, model and
field studies; Soil structure interaction; Analysis
and design of offshore foundations.
aspects of rock mechanics, Analysis and design
of structures in rock; Static and seismic response
of jointed rock; Stabilization of rock slopes; Blast
induced fracture in rock.
 Geophysical Exploration – Site characterization
 Railway Geotechnical Engineering – Ballast char-
and geophysical exploration using Multi-channel
Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW), Spectral
Analysis of Surface Waves (SASW), Ground
Penetration Radar (GPR).
 Geoenvironmental Engineering – Influence of
chemical contamination on the hydro-mechanical
behavior of soils; Design of clay liners and protection systems for deep geological, nuclear waste
repositories; Constitutive modeling of Municipal
Solid Waste (MSW); Behaviour and constitutive
modeling of unsaturated soils; Characterization
and utilization of municipal soild waste and fly
ash in geotechnical engineering applications;
Geochemistry of contaminated aquifers.
acterization through laboratory and field studies;
Experimental studies on degradation and fouling
of ballast.
Water Resources & Environmental Engineering
 Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology – Natural
and anthropogenic climate changes, Impact of
climate change on hydrology, Modeling uncertainties associated with general circulation model
(GCM) outputs, downscaling GCM outputs to
river basin and sub-basin scales, regionalization
of hydrologic parameters, stochastic modeling of
hydrologic extremes, rainfall and stream flow predictions. Groundwater recharge and levels.
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 Surface Water Hydrology – Rainfall-runoff mod-
eling; hydrologic forecasting; regional frequency
analysis of floods, precipitation and low-flows;
runoff generating mechanisms; modeling chaotic
behavior of rainfall and stream flows; hydrologic
droughts; data mining applications to model
hydrologic extremes; contaminant transport in
surface waters; remote sensing applications.
 Groundwater Hydrology – Groundwater resources
assessment at various scales in hard rock aquifers;
water balance models; recharge modeling; predictive models for groundwater dynamics due to
climatic variations and land use changes; remote
sensing and GIS applications in groundwater
assessment and management; integrated urban
groundwater management; tunneling & groundwater.
 Groundwater Quality – Solute transport in ground-
water; modeling reactive solutes in fractured
medium; stochastic finite element for modeling
contaminant transport in heterogeneous medium;
modeling of flow and transport from landfills;
biodegradation; modeling water rock interactions
in groundwater; nitrate and salinity in groundwater in agricultural catchments.
 Vadose Zone Hydrology – Development of models for prediction of moisture and contaminant
movement in different soil horizons, identification
of soil moisture characteristics, field experiments
for prediction of moisture movement at watershed
scales, role of heterogeneity in moisture and contaminant redistribution, soil moisture assimilation and modeling; satellite soil moisture retrieval,
crop model (STICS) calibration for crops in South
India; inversion of crop models to estimate soil
hydraulic properties.
 Multiphase Flows – Movement of NAPL con-
taminant in porous/fractured aquifer systems,
identification of capillary pressure/saturation
relationships, development of general purpose
multiphase flow models, application on coastal
aquifers, CO2 disposal in abandoned aquifers and
geothermal reservoirs.
 Water Resources Systems – Reservoir operation;
surface water quality management; conjunctive
use of surface and groundwater; application of
stochastic optimization; fuzzy systems & artificial
neural networks; remote sensing and GIS application in hydrology and irrigation management.
 Urban Water Distribution Systems – Performance
of water networks, predictive and inverse modeling, application of control algorithms, leakage
control and energy minimization, water quality
modeling in urban networks, contaminant transport in urban networks and use of soft computing,
application to field problems.
 Environmental Hydraulics – Design and improving
the efficiency of water and waste water treatment
plants; reuse of waste water.
Structural Engineering
 Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering –
Earthquake engineering; modeling of natural phenomena; random vibration; safety and reliability of structures; nonlinear dynamics; Structural
dynamics of bridges, dams, buildings and industrial structures; active and passive vibration control of structures; smart materials for vibration
control in composites; dynamics of randomly
parametered structures; structural reliability;
multivariate extreme value theory; earthquake
response analysis of extended multi-support structures; modal testing and damage detection using
vibration data; structural system identification;
real time substructure testing; condition assessment and health monitoring of existing structures; application of particle filters in structural
engineering; vibration control of structures using
semi-active devices (MR dampers) and development of control algorithms.
 Fracture Mechanics of Concrete & Composites –
Application of fracture mechanics to plain and
reinforced concrete; application of fractal geometry and fractal functions in fracture mechanics;
Numerical modeling of plain concrete fracture;
analysis of mixed mode fracture of quasi brittle softening materials like concrete; application
of fracture mechanics of layered composites to
understand delamination; mixed mode fracture at
interface between dissimilar materials with application towards safety assessment of dams; residual
fatigue life assessment of concrete structures; correlation between fracture and damage; numerical
methods for determination of thermal bi-material
stress intensity factors – line integral, domain integral and weight function methods; fatigue crack
propagation in plain and reinforced concrete; use
of acoustic emission (AE) technique, digital image
correlation (DIC), scanning electron microscopy
(SEM) and micro- indentation to study the fracture process in quasi-brittle materials.
 Structural Masonry and low carbon building mate-
rials – Studies on brick masonry structures; influence of interfacial bond strength on masonry
behavior; earthquake resistant design of masonry;
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characteristics of fly ash based roofing files;
strength and stability of rammed earth walls; dissemination of building technologies; strengthening of load-bearing masonry and masonry
in-filled structures using FRP; energy in buildings;
thermal conductance in building components;
Characterization of mortars and concrete using
iron ore tailings as fine aggregate.
 Reinforced, prestressed, fibre reinforced and high
performance concrete – Experimental and analytical studies on the behavior of fiber reinforced high
strength concrete members. Application of nonlinear finite element analysis to fiber reinforced concrete. Studies on the use of glass and carbon FRP
composite plates and fabrics as a means of repair
and retrofitting concrete members; development
of self compacting concrete with fiber cocktails for
repair of concrete members; creep and shrinkage
studies in normal and heavy density concrete and
high performance concrete; behavior of concrete
under high temperature, methods of repair for
fire damaged structures; constitutive modeling of
concrete accounting for Hygrothermo-mechanical
coupling effects.
 Computational Mechanics – Studies on structural
shape optimization of reinforced and prestressed
concrete members; continuum damage mechanics; multiscale modelling; damage detection using
inverse techniques and safety assessment; nonlinear
finite element analysis; strain-space plasticity;
adhesively bonded trengthening of civil structures;
uncertainty quantification; stochastic finite element
methods; parallel computation for solving mechanics problems of large-scale systems; domain decomposition; mesh-free methods: hybrid schemes
bridging mesh-free and finite element methods;
unsymmetric and stabilized weak forms; discontinuous Galerkin methods; adaptive and multigrid schemes; geometrically exact beam and shell
theories; parametrization of 3D rotations; Cosserat
point theories; applications to mechanics of wrinkled and slack membranes and fluid-structure
interaction problems with large added mass effects.
 Inverse Problems via Stochastic Filtering – Semi-
analytical Monte Carlo filters; Rao-Blackwellized
particle filters; Girsanov filters based on exact
simulations of diffusion bridges; pseudo-dynamic
filters for regularization of ill-posed inverse problems with static measurements, ensemble Kalman
filters; applications of parameter dentifications of
large dimensional dynamical systems.
 Transportation Engineering – Sustainable trans-
portation planning, public transport planning
and management, optimization of transportation
systems, application of geo-informatics in transportation, driver behavior and road safety, traffic
management, road safety engineering, transportation needs and climate change, travel behavior.
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Allam M M
PhD (IISc), Professor
Murthy, Tejas G
PhD (Purdue), Assistant Professor
Shantha Kumar S
BE (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Anbazhagan P
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Nagesh Kumar D
PhD (IISc), Professor
Sivakumar Babu G L
PhD (IISc), Professor
Chandra Kishen J M
PhD (Colorado), Professor
Nanjunda Rao K S
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Sivapullaiah P V
PhD (IISc), Professor
Ghosh, Debraj
PhD (Johns Hopkins),
Assistant Professor
Kumar, Jyant
PhD (IISc), Professor
Madhavi Latha G
PhD (IIT/M), Associate Professor
Manohar C S
PhD (IISc), Professor
Mohan Kumar M S
PhD (IISc), Professor
Mujumdar P P
PhD (IISc), Professor
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PhD (Liverpool), Professor
Raghuveer Rao P
MSc (Engg) (Bangalore), Senior
Scientific Officer
Ramaswamy, Ananth
PhD (Louisiana), Professor
Rao, Sudhakar M
PhD (Poona), Professor
Roy, Debasish
PhD (IISc), Professor
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PhD (IIT/M), Associate Professor
Thallak, G Sitharam
PhD (Waterloo), Professor
Venkatarama Reddy B V
PhD (IISc), Professor
Venkatesha S
MSc (Engg) (IISc),
Senior Scientific Officer
Verma, Ashish
PhD (IIT/B), Assistant Professor
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PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
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C S Manohar
PhD, MSc (Engg), ME [Civil Engineering with specialization in
Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Water Resources
& Environmental Engineering], and MTech [Transportation &
Infrastructure Engineering]
Department of Management Studies
Profile
The department pursues applied and fundamental
research in the areas of economics, energy management, entrepreneurship, finance, human resource
management, intellectual property, marketing, operations management, operations research, project management, and public policy.
 Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Networking –
Social and technological contexts of entrepreneurship; Role of knowledge management and
networking in promoting entrepreneurial performance. Understanding decision making in entrepreneurial start-ups. A multi-stage process model for
leveraging knowledge in an organization.
 Finance – Modeling liquidity using AFT and logis-
tic regression in limit order markets. Comparison
of uni and multivariate XARCH and SVM models for volatility forecasts and exploitation.
Major Research Areas
Applied Operations Research, Applied Statistics,
Behaviour of inventors, Energy & Environmental
Policy and Management, Entrepreneurship and
Knowledge Networking, Finance, Human Resource
Management, Industrial Economics, Industrial
Relations, Innovation and Intellectual Property
Management, International Marketing, Language for
Specific Purposes, Marketing, Mobile based payment
systems, Operations Management, Organizational
Behaviour and Knowledge Management, Patent
pricing, Policy Studies, Project Management,
R&D Management, Services Marketing, Strategic
Management, Technology Management, Technology
and Sustainability, Translation and commercialization of intellectual property.
Current Research
 Applied Operations Research – Logistics and supply
chain management, and electricity planning, integer
programming. Control mechanisms for customer
buy down behaviour, Active demand management
in urban water distribution systems, Revenue management, and Energy systems modeling.
 Applied Statistics – Bayesian analysis of super
imposed renewal processes incorporating information on repair time. Bayesian model selection
using intrinsic bases factor. Bayesian accelerated
life testing.
 Energy & Environmental Policy and Management –
Assessment of Climate change mitigation imperative as a stimulus for universalizing rural energy
access in India; Development and demonstration
of rural Hybrid energy-enterprise systems; and
Analysis of nexus between energy and poverty in
the context of climate change.
 Human Resource Management, Organizational
Behavior and Knowledge Management – Manpower
planning, training and compensation system for
strategic growth, Measurement of collective intelligence at the team level, HR concerns in Urban
transportation and planning, Vocational training
and evaluation of Apprenticeship Act, assessment
of quality initiatives in the IT industry, organizational design, downsizing, patent strategy for
protecting competitive advantage, global virtual
teams in new product development, measurement
of competencies in the IT industry, and retention
strategies, personality assessment and behavioral
analysis.
Building flexibility into product development
teams, Development of multi construct framework for assessing work life balance, Collective
intelligence at the team level, Smart city technologies as drivers of innovation, Employee pension
schemes and Social security in India.
 Industrial Economics – An empirical examination
of changing innovation paradigm and competitiveness status of Indian economy in the global scenario since 1990s. Growth of start-ups in
Indian economy and its influence on SME growth.
External technology acquisition experience of
SMEs, and SME internalization.
 Industrial Relations – Labour policy in the current
national socio-economic context, restructuring
and privatization of state owned enterprises and
informal sector.
 Language for Specific Purposes – Research in
teaching of foreign languages and designing
teaching materials. Learning languages for specific
purposes.
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 Marketing, International Marketing, Services
 Project Management – Enhancing and upgrading
Marketing,
Strategic
Management
and
Transportation – Marketing of space services,
International marketing opportunities for IRS
data products and services, VALS model, international market opportunities for defence, corporate
philanthropy, strategies for optimum capacity utilization. Quantitative measures for business process reengineering, optimum strategy for aircraft
fuel conservation, key factors of consumer satisfaction for IT products, modeling of transport
sector – application of SERVQUAL to transport
sector, modeling global brands, assessment of
factors influencing oil production, roadmap to
knowledge process outsourcing, and development
of technology indicators.
project management capabilities. Knowledge-based
project systems design and analysis. Repre­sentation
and modeling of requirements engineering in software projects.
 Technology Management – Assessment of Nano
technology initiatives in India, Measurement of
innovation in SMEs, innovation in ICT sector, ICT
trends in R&D, Organizational competencies for
innovation in the ICT sector, Organizational interventions for patent culture, Commercialization
of patents, Price of singleton patents, Intellectual
property negotiations, Patent prior art analysis,
University intellectual property, University based
startups, Organization design for intellectual property management, Managing the R&D scientist,
Developing R&D road maps for industrial research,
Mobile payment systems, Medical innovations and
go-to market strategies, R&D Process management, Knowledge-based project systems design.
 Operations Management – Optimization in design,
planning, control and improvement of operations
in both manufacturing and service, private and
public sectors. Scheduling problems, particularly
scheduling of batch processors and/or discrete
processors in Semiconductor Manufacturing,
Steel Casting Industry, Gear Manufacturing, and
Foundry management.
 Policy Studies – Policy frameworks for sustain-
ability of industrial, human and social institutions (sectors: electricity, rural economy, informal
economy, health, environment, urban planning);
Employment regulations (formal and informal);
Corporate social responsibility; Direct and indirect (second and third order) regulatory impacts.
Akhilesh K B
PhD (IISc), Professor
Bala Subrahmanya M H
PhD (ISEC/Bangalore), Professor
Balachandra P
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Gurtoo, Anjula
Fellow (IIM/Ahmedabad),
Associate Professor
Iyer, Parameshwar P
PhD (California), Principal Research
Scientist
Ramachandran, Parthasarathy
PhD (Oklahoma State), Associate
Professor
Mathew, Mary
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Srinivasan R
FIIM (IIM/Bangalore), Professor
Mathirajan M
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Yadnyvalkya
MS (Engg), (Moscow), MA/Russian
(CIEFL), Principal Research Scientist
Mukhopadhyay C
PhD (Missouri), Associate Professor
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M H Bala Subrahmanya
PhD and MMgt
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Profile
Major Research Areas
The monsoon, which is so deeply woven into the fabric of Indian society and culture, is the prime motivator for the formation of CAOS. The focus of research
at the Centre is on understanding the monsoon and
its variability in the context of global climate. Tropical
oceans and their subtle coupling with the monsoon
are an integral part of the Centre’s research. The
Centre has attracted faculty and students from different branches of science and engineering because
monsoon research is interdisciplinary, and addresses
issues relevant to our society and our future. CAOS
is unique in the country in having expertise in theory,
observations and modelling. The faculty at the Centre
played a lead role in formulating the Science Plan of
the Indian Climate Research Programme, and in three
national monsoon field experiments, MONTBLEX
(1989–90), BOBMEX (Bay of Bengal, 1999) and
ARMEX (Arabian Sea, 2002–05) CAOS hosts the
Programme Office for the national programme CTCZ.
The Centre has been involved in developing satellite
meteorology programmes and new climate satellites.
The main research areas are atmospheric boundary
layer, clouds, aerosols, radiation in the atmosphere
and ocean, tropical convection, application of high
performance computing and grid computing for the
study of climate, modelling (parameterization) of
clouds and convection, intraseasonal to multidecadal
variability of monsoon rainfall, air-sealand interactions, subseasonal to interannual predictability, rainfall and hydrology, global carbon cycle and climate
change, and Indian Ocean circulation and thermodynamics.
The discoveries of a threshold in the surface temperature of the tropical ocean for the formation of raining
clouds, a dipole mode of the Indian Ocean climate,
change in the intensity of monsoon rainfall in a
warming globe, nonintuitive changes in entrainment
and mixing behaviour of laboratory cloud-like flows,
the study of orographic effects on the monsoons, and
high resolution simulations of Indian Ocean circulation are some of the highlights of the Centre’s work.
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The Centre has also developed methodologies to integrate knowledge of the monsoon in farming strategies for enhanced production.
Bala, Govindasamy
PhD (McGill), Associate Professor
Bhat G S
PhD (IISc), FASc, Professor
Chakraborty, Arindam
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Ghosh, Prosenjit
PhD (PRL/Ahmedabad), AP/CEaS,
Associate Faculty
Current research involves observational, data analysis
and modeling approaches, addressing problems in the
areas listed above.
Goswami B N
PhD (Gujarat), FASc, FNA, FNASc,
Professor (on lien)
Srinivasan J
PhD (Stanford), FASc, FNA, FNAE,
Professor
Nanjundiah, Ravi S
PhD (IISc), Professor
Sukhatme, Jai
PhD (Chicago), Assistant Professor
Satheesh S K
PhD (Kerala), FASc, FNA, Professor
Vinayachandran P N
PhD (IISc), FASc, Professor
Sengupta, Debasis
PhD (Bombay), Professor
Vuruputur, Venugopal
PhD (Minnesota), Assistant Professor
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G S Bhat
PhD, MSc (Engg), MTech (Climate Science)
Divecha Centre for Climate Change
Profile
The “Divecha Centre for Climate Change” was established at Indian Institute of Science in January 2009
with a generous financial contribution from Arjun
and Diana Divecha and the Grantham Foundation
for the Protection of the Environment. The primary
goal of this centre is create awareness about climate
change, conduct research on climate change and their
impact on the environment and explore ways to mitigate climate change.
Research Areas
During the past three years the centre has undertaken
many outreach activities to create awareness among
young people about climate change and its consequences. This has been done through lectures, workshops and quiz contests. There is an annual invited
public lecture called the “Jeremy Grantham Lecture
on Climate Change”. The centre has embarked on
a major research initiative to document and understand the factors that contribute to the retreat of
Himalayan glaciers. The centre has identified solar
photovoltaic power generation with concentrators as
a technology with great potential and is working with
Chroma Energy, Pune to establish a 10 kW system
in the Challekere campus of the Indian Institute of
Science. The centre is doing joint research work with
Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial
College, London on the impact of climate change on
water.
Bala, Govindasamy
PhD (McGill),
AcP/CAOS
Nanjundaiah, Ravi S
PhD (IISc),
P/CAOS
Sukhatme, Jai
PhD (Chicago),
AP/CAOS
Bhat G S
PhD (IISc), FASc,
P/CAOS
Ramasesha, Sheela K
PhD (IISc),
Visiting Research Scientist
Sukumar R
PhD (IISc),
P/CES
Chakraborty, Arindam
PhD (IISc),
AP/CAOS
Ravindranath N H
PhD (IIT/B),
P/CST
Vinaychandran P N
PhD (IISc),
AcP/CAOS
Ghosh, Prosenjit
PhD (PRL),
AP/CEaS
Satheesh S K
PhD (Kerala),
AcP/CAOS
Vuruputur, Venugopal
PhD (Minnesota),
AP/CAOS
Kulkarni, Anil V
PhD (Shivaji),
Distinguished Visiting Scientist
Sengupta, Debasis
PhD (Bombay),
P/CAOS
Mujumdar P P
PhD (IISc)
P/CiE
Srinivasan J
PhD (Stanford), FASc, FNA, FNAE,
P/CAOS
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J Srinivasan
Centre for Earth Sciences
Profile
Understanding the processes and natural events that
have shaped the interior and surface of the earth from
the time of its formation to the present is a challenge.
Established in 2007, the mission of the Centre for the
Earth Science is to undertake an innovative, multidisciplinary approach involving petrological, geophysical and geochemical tools to understand Earth
processes, both modern and past, its impact on the
biosphere as well as the role of the biosphere in modulating Earth processes. Equipped with state-of-theart analytical facilities and wide-ranging expertise, the
Centre seeks to provide quality education in Earth
Science and fuel interdisciplinary research for better
preparedness for the future.
Major Research Areas
Earthquake geology, seismic hazard analysis; seismotectonics; earthquake and tsunami recurrence; Major,
trace element and isotope geochemistry; geochronology; cosmochemistry; impact processes; Petrology;
Metamorphism; paleoclimate reconstruction.
Current Research
Reconstruction of earthquake history using geological evidence and using them to develop source models and style of deformation is an area that is being
pursued actively. Seismic source zones in the Central
Himalayas, NE India and the Rann of Kutch are
being explored. In the Rann of Kutch various geophysical techniques are used to map the subsurface
stratigraphy to quantify the response of the built environment to ground shaking from large earthquakes;
understanding response of interplate boundaries to
plate driving forces, trench segmentation, earthquake
and tsunami recurrence in the Andaman-Sumatra
subduction zone; using seismological, GPS and geological constraints to model tsunami generation and
recurrence.
Stable isotope studies to monitor and label atmospheric greenhouse gases like CO2 to establish a link
between climatic instability and temperature change;
estimating CO2 budgets, tracing pathways and interaction of terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric pools
of carbon; reconstruction of observed temperature
changes on a regional and global scale; understanding
sources and sinks of greenhouse gases and estimating their fluxes; reconstruction of regional and global
paleoclimate based on analyses of geological archives.
clumped isotopic composition of carbonate samples
to reconstruct a long-term climate of India.
Paleo-tectonic studies using geological, petrological,
geochemical and geochronological data; understanding lower crustal process in the early Earth to understand past tectonic activity; key areas of research
include major shear/suture zones in south India as
well as Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Cameroon, East
Asian terrains and some older terrains in Europe;
understanding rock magnetism and magnetic properties of minerals, its relations to metamorphism and
lower crustal processes.
Using short-lived (now extinct) radionuclides like
Sm (which decays to 142Nd, T1/2 ~ 103 Ma) to study
meteorites as well as ancient crustal rocks to understand early evolution of the Earth and its companions.
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Using radiogenic isotope systematic (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd,
U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf) to understand petrogenesis of igneous rocks particularly alkaline igneous complexes;
trace element and Nd isotopic provenance study
ancient sediments; using non-traditional stable isotopes of Ca, Mg, Si, Fe, Cr to understand modern
surface processes, paleo-seawater compositions and
paleo-redox.
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Chakrabarti, Ramananda
PhD (Rochester), Assistant Professor
Mujumdar P P
PhD (IISc), P/CiE, Associate Faculty
Sreenivasan, Binod
PhD (Cambridge), Associate Professor
Ghosh, Prosenjit
PhD (PRL), Assistant Professor
Nagesh Kumar D
PhD (IISc), P/CiE, Associate Faculty
Srinivasan G
PhD (PRL), Associate Professor
Krishnan, Sajeev
PhD (Okayama), Assistant Professor
Rajendran, Kusala
PhD (South Carolina), Associate
Professor
Sukhatme J S
PhD (Chicago), AP/CAOS, Associate
Faculty
Sengupta D
PhD (NIO), P/CAOS, Associate
Faculty
Venugopal V
PhD (Minnesota),
AP/CAOS, Associate Faculty
Manohar C S
PhD (IISc), P/CiE, Associate Faculty
Menon A G
PhD (IISc), P/IN, Associate Faculty
Established
Phone
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Degree Programs Offered
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A G Menon
PhD and MSc (Engg)
Centre for Sustainable Technologies
Profile
Major Research Areas
The Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST) which
was established as a Centre for ASTRA (Application
of Science & Technology for Rural Areas) in 1974, is
an inter-disciplinary research and technology development centre. It provides sustainable solutions to a
host of global concerns dealing primarily with energy,
buildings and the environment. The Centre’s focus is
on promoting sustainable technologies tailored to
suit local conditions of resource availability and habitation. Successful examples of CST’s diverse interventions are energy efficient wood burning devices,
biomethanation, biomass gasification, alternative
buildings and BiPV, water purification and defluoridation, sanitation, sustainable biomass for energy,
forestry, bioenergy & climate change, and environmental quality assurance-impact studies. The Centre
for Sustainable Technologies has also been carrying out rural extension activities at its Ungra Field
Centre, located about 110 km from Bangalore in
Kunigal Taluk, Tumkur District.
Bioenergy
CST (formerly ASTRA), having always followed the
adage that the world is a global village, is now evolving
to address modern-day energy and environment needs.
Keeping in mind current national and international
issues of concern, the Centre has started research programmes in MSc (Engg) and PhD covering a host of
modern issues such as converting industrial waste into
building products, tailoring clays to retain radioactive
waste, building sustainable habitats human settlements, producing climate responsive architecture and
planning, building comfort studies in tropical regions,
and tsunami and earthquake resistant shelters providing sanitation for near-coastal settlements, and applying desalination and bioremediation to waste-water
and decentralized energy planning.
In addition, looking ahead, CST is developing technologies for carbon mitigation, using nano-materials
to treat chromium and nitrate contaminated water,
bio-fuels, nitrogen recovery from contaminated surface and groundwater resources, biomass refineries
for gas (producer gas, hydrogen, etc), liquid fuels
and byproducts, energy generation from waste, lowcarbon buildings and climate change mitigation.
Efforts are also being directed towards policy studies
on energy, environment, and sustainable development
and in developing comprehensive design guidelines
for region specific green buildings and materials.
Thermochemical conversion for heat and power generation, hydrogen generation and BTL, biological
conversion, conversion devices for heat and power,
forestry and biomass production.
Alternative Building Technologies
Energy efficiency in buildings, functional performance of buildings, low-carbon building materials, reuse of industrial and mining waste, sustainability and
human settlements (habitats).
Climate-responsive architecture/buildings
Building comfort studies in tropical regions, solar-passive architecture, Building Integrated Photovoltaics
(BIPV), green buildings. Energy and Environment
Energy planning, natural resources management.
Integrated energy-environment policy, barriers and
strategies for promoting renewable energy technologies. aquatic toxicology, water pollution impacts
on biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems, population
dynamics and community ecology. Preserving vulnerable fresh water and marine species, coastal pollution,
vulnerability, mitigation and aquatic biota assessment.
Water & Sanitation
Treatment of water and wastewater, sustainable
ground water quality management, appropriate onsite
domestic (eco) sanitation, aquatic toxicology, water
pollution impacts on biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems, population dynamics and community ecology.
Coral reef Studies
Preserving vulnerable fresh water and marine species, coastal pollution, vulnerability, mitigation and
aquatic biota assessment.
Waste Handling
Appropriate waste treatment, Solid and Hazardous
waste management, energy from waste recycling,
small-scale bioremediation of organic waste-water,
characterisation and reuse of industry and mine
waste in building materials and geotechnical engineering applications.
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Climate change, Mitigation, Adaptation &
Vulnerability
Studies in forest, land use and biofuel sectors, climate
change impact, vulnerability and adaptation assessment, climate change policy.
Current Research
Bio-energy
 Efficient biomass combustion for meeting various
energy needs.
 Biological conversion using new concepts like solid-
state stratified bed bioreactors for soft biomass.
Plug-flow like reactors for biogas from biomass in
a 3-zone fermentation model for MSW feed stocks.
 Measurement of technology induced livelihood/
food security, knowledge and empowerment gaps,
individual and group knowledge relationships,
social mobility, etc. vis-a-vis participatory technology development and technology induction
among resource poor farmers.
 Thermo-chemical conversion techniques.
 Energy efficient devices to meet energy demands in
domestic as well as industrial sectors.
 Engines for biogas and producer gas applications.
Buildings
 Embodied energy in buildings and building materials
 Safe sanitation in areas with high water table:
modified pour-flush and compact three chamber
septic tanks for coastal regions.
 Environment-friendly, low energy buildings, low
carbon materials, and construction technologies.
 Thermal comfort in BiPV structures.
Policy
 Integrated energy-environment policy analysis.
 Prioritization of barriers and strategies for pro-
moting renewable and energy efficient technologies in India.
 Development of a framework for commercializing
sustainable technologies; energy, water, building, etc.
 Technology transfer and diffusion mechanisms for
sustainable technologies.
 Mitigation and adaptation policies.
Energy, environment and climate change
 Estimation of GHG inventory estimation for land
use and forest sector.
 Environmental and GHG implications of biofuel
production.
 Regional integrated energy plan.
 Bioenergy and clean development mechanisms.
 Ground water characterization and treatment
technologies (e.g. fluoride, arsenic and nitrate
treatment).
 Re-use of industry and mining waste materials in
Civil Engineering applications.
 Modification of clays to capture contaminants.
 Climate change vulnerability profiles and adaptation.
Technology Packages Developed
 Bio-film bioreactors for high-rate treatment of
coffee wastewater.
 Bioreactors for segregated urban solid wastes.
 Biogas plants for leaf biomass at cluster scales.
 Gasification technology for power generation in
gas-alone mode for village electrification, captive power generation and grid linked IPP (upto 1
MWe).
 Gasification technology for thermal applications
upto 5 MW th.
 Building integrated photovoltaics – roof integration design.
 Combustion devices for domestic and industrial
applications.
 Building design and sanitation technology for tsunami affected coastal (island) communities.
 Alternate building technologies; walls, roof, mudblock, efficient kilns, etc.
 Earthquake resistant designs.
 Package for fluoride contaminated water treatment.
 Bioenergy technologies for rural development.
 Methods for forest sector mitigation projects.
 Roof-integrated PV design for buildings.
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Education
Industrial Consultancy
CST offers PhD and MSc (Engg) programmes (equivalent to MS by research) in all the research areas mentioned above. This is an inter-disciplinary programme
that integrates domain-specific scientific knowledge
with relevant engineering/technologies in energy,
water, environment, etc. CST also periodically conducts specific training programmes.
The Centre, through its faculty, offers services to
industry and government agencies both in India and
abroad, in the areas of energy, buildings, water, environment and climate change.
Balachandra P
PhD (IISc), PRS/MS, Associate Faculty
Nanjunda Rao K S
PhD (IISc), PRS/CiE, Associate Faculty
Sanna, Durgappa D
PhD (KUD), Assistant Professor
Chanakya H N
PhD (UAS), Chief Research Scientist
Raghunandan B N
PhD (IISc), P/AE, Associate Faculty
Siva Kumar Babu G L
PhD (IISc) P/CiE, Associate Faculty
Dasappa S
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Ramachandra T V
PhD (IISc), SSO/CES, Associate
Faculty
Somashekar H I
MSc Ag (UAS), Technical Officer
Jayant M Modak
PhD (Purdue), P/CE, Associate
Professor
Monto, Mani
PhD (IIT/M), Assistant Professor
Rao, Sudhakar M
PhD (Poona), P/CiE, Associate Faculty
Ravindranath N H
PhD (IIT/B), Professor
Established
Phone
Email
URL
Chairperson
Degree Programs Offered
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Venkatakrishnappa D
MSc (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Venkatarama Reddy B V
PhD (IISc), P/CiE, Associate Faculty
1974
+91-80-2293 2447
chairman@astra.iisc.ernet.in
http://www.astra iisc.ernet.in/
Sudhakar M Rao
PhD, MSc (Engg)
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre
Profile
The Computer Centre was established in 1970 as a
central facility. The Centre became the Supercomputer
Education and Research Centre (SERC) in 1990 to provide state-of-the-art computing facilities to the faculty
and students of the Institute. The Centre is conceived
of as a functionally distributed supercomputing environment, housing leading-edge computing systems,
with sophisticated software packages. It is connected
by a powerful high-speed network. The Centre has
been created to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of
the Institute and is fully funded by the Ministry of
Human Resource Development (MHRD).
Ever since its inception, SERC has stimulated the
rapid growth of computer-based research, development, and training at the Institute. The powerful campus wide network has created an enhanced awareness
of network computing and information processing.
The Centre has been acting as a referral agency for several government and non-government organizations
in their pursuit to set up computing centres to suit
their user needs. The faculty of SERC are involved in
several consultancy and sponsored research projects
of government and non-government organizations.
Major Research Areas
Computer Aided VLSI Design, System-on-Chip,
Embedded
Systems,
Computer
Architecture,
Compilers, High Performance Computing, Computer
Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Computational
Topology, Computational and Numerical Electro­
magnetics, Database Systems, Fluid Mechanics, Finite
Elements in Moving Mesh and Fluid Dynamics,
Information Security, Multimedia Systems, Lattice
Gauge Theories, Quantum Computation, Medical
Imaging, Multiparameter radars, Numerical Linear
Algebra, Optical Physics, Parallel and Grid Computing,
Scientific Computing, Signal Processing, Video
Analytics, Computer Vision, Image Understanding,
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
and applications. Some of the key current research
areas and projects are:
 Computer Aided VLSI Design, System-on-Chip,
Embedded Systems – architecture space exploration for reconfigurable silicon cores, reconfigurable
computation structures on silicon cores, application synthesis/compilation on heterogeneous and
reconfigurable silicon multi-cores, streaming support on reconfigurable silicon cores, system virtualization.
 Computer Architecture, Compilers and High
Performance Computing – Architecture and compiler support for accelerator-based HPC architecture, computer system performance evaluation.
 Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization and
Computational Topology – Multiresolution representations for scientific visualization, topological
analysis of scalar fields, visualization in life sciences.
 Computational and Numerical Electromagnetics
– Design and analysis of ion traps for mass spectrometry, finite-difference time domain method,
finite element method, fast multi-pole techniques,
spectral iteration techniques, RCS prediction,
antenna design.
 Database Systems – Robust query processing,
power-efficient database engines, database tuning
and testing.
 Information Security and Multimedia Systems –
Design and analysis of intrusion detection systems,
streaming protocols for web based multimedia,
optimization and control of mobile wireless sensor network systems.
 Lattice
Gauge
Computation.
Theories
and
Quantum
 Medical Imaging.
 Multiparameter Radars – Scattering models for
weather targets, weather radars, fractals.
 Numerical Linear Algebra – Norms and condition
numbers of a matrix.
Current Research
SERC is engaged in research programs in areas relating to high performance computing systems design
 Optical Physics – Optical properties of nanocom-
posite materials, optical properties of surface/subsurface particles, parallel computing for dipole
lattices.
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 Parallel and Grid Computing – Large-scale parallel
application optimization on computational grids
and state-of-the-art supercomputers, adaptivity
and fault tolerance of HPC applications, middleware for parallel processing systems.
 Scientific Computing – Computational stochastics, Constrained dynamics and optimization,
Application to multiscale systems.
 Signal Processing – Robust speech and speaker
recognition, signal compression for satellite imagery and video, optical character recognition for
Indian languages.
 Adaptive finite element method (hp-fem) for multiphase flows.
 Efficient and Robust Numerical Scheme for
Parallel Computation
Radiative transfer.
of
Multidimensional
 Development of computational methods for
studying protein-protein interaction.
 Correlating protein dynamics and function.
 Algorithms, Softwares and databases to analyze
nucleic acid sequences and protein structures.
 Development of Internet computing engines
and knowledge bases for the analysis of protein
sequences and structures.
 Video
Analytics, Computer Vision, Image
Understanding – Human action/activity analysis, object detection and tracking, event detection
and recognition, image/video quality assessment,
human computer interaction.
The Centre is also involved in several sponsored
research projects in collaboration with many government and private agencies. Its clientele include different departments of the Government of India, public
and private sector undertakings, and multinationals
such as AMD, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, IBM,
Lucky Goldstar, Microsoft, Nvidia, Philips Research,
ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, etc. Many
of these projects have fed critical inputs to various
national initiatives in High Performance Computing
and Communication Technology.
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Patel, Apoorva
PhD (Caltech), Professor
Balakrishnan N
PhD (IISc), FASc, FNAE, FNA,
FNASc, Professor
Lakshmi J
PhD (IISc), Principal Research
Scientist
Bhakthavathsalam R
PhD (IISc), Senior Scientific Officer
Mathias P C
PhD (IISc), Associate Professor
Raghuraman K P
MSc (Phy), (Bharatidasan),
Technical Officer
Chandrappa T A
MSc (Bangalore), Scientific Assistant
Minj, Filbert
MTech (JNU), Senior Sientific Officer
Raha, Soumyendu
PhD (Minnesota), Associate Professor
Ganesan, Sashikumaar
PhD (Otto-von-Guericke, Germany),
Assistant Professor
Mohanty, Atanu K
PhD (Brooklyn Polytech),
Assistant Professor
Rajaraman V
PhD (Wisconsin), Honorary Professor
Govindarajan R
PhD (IISc), FNAE, Professor
Muralidharan M R
MTech (Mysore),
Principal Research Scientist
Gowranga K H
MSc (Engg), (IISc), Scientific Assistant
Gundu Rao A
BE (Bangalore), Technical Officer
Haritsa, Jayant R
PhD (Wisconsin), FNASc, FNAE,
FASc, Professor
Jacob, T Matthew
PhD (Wisconsin), Professor
Krishna Murthy R
ME (IISc), Chief Research Scientist
Krishnamurthy H
ME (IISc), Chief Research Scientist
Nalini S
MSc, MPhil (Bangalore),
Scientific Assistant
Nandy S K
PhD (IISc), Professor
Natarajan, Vijay
PhD (Duke), Assistant Professor
Negi, Yoginder Kumar
MTech (Delhi), Scientific Officer
Saqquaf S S
BE (Bangalore), Technical Officer
Sekar K
PhD (Madras), Associate Professor
Vadhiyar, Sathish S
PhD (Tennessee), Associate Professor
Venkatapathi, Murugesan
PhD (Purdue), Assistant Professor
Venkatesh Babu R
PhD (IISc), Assistant Professor
Yalavarthy, Phaneendra K
PhD (Dartmouth),
Assistant Professor
Pal, Debnath
PhD (Jadhavpur), Associate Professor
Established
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URL
Chairperson
Degree Programs Offered
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+91-80-2293 2737/2738
+91-(080)-2360 2648
office@serc.iisc.ernet.in
http://www.serc.iisc.ernet.in
R Govindarajan
PhD, MSc [Engg], MTech (Computational Science)
Centre for Nano Science and Engineering
Profile
The Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (E)
focuses on research and education in the broad area
of nano scale science and technology covering topics such as nano scale electronics, devices, materials,
micro and nanoelectromechanical systems, bio and
nanophotonics, bioelectronic interfaces and integrated small-scale systems. In addition to the research
programs of the core faculty, the Centre runs a multidisciplinary research and training program involving
more than 40 faculty members from various departments of engineering and basic sciences at the Indian
Institute of Science. The Center has state-of-the-art
nano-fabrication and characterization facilities to
enable the development of cutting- edge nanoscale
technologies for various applications.
Major Research Areas
Some of the topics currently pursued at CeNSE
are NanoCMOS Transistors, Non Silicon Based
Transistors, Novel Memory Architectures such as
FeRAM, MRAM and Phase Change Memory,
High-K Gate Dielectrics, Spintronics, Photovoltaic
Devices, Testing and Characterization of Nanoscale
Phenomena, NEMS, Magnetic Materials for RF-­
CMOS, Bio-Sensors and Actuators, Acoustic Sensors,
Inertial Sensors, CMOS-MEMS Integra­tion, Energy
Harvesting and Power MEMS, Organic Electronic
Devices and Sensors, Polymer and Nanophotonic
Devices,
Soft
Lithography,
Self-Assembled
Monolayers (SAM), Shape Memory Materials and
Devices, Ferroelectrics and Phase Shifters, Simulation
and Modeling of Nanoscale Phenomena, RF MEMS
Novel System Architecture Paradigms, Optical
MEMS, Chemical and Gas Sensors.
Major Facilities
1. National Nanofabrication Centre consisting of
a comprehensive 1400 sq. ft. clean room facility
with following capabilities,
ü Photolithography:
Laser writer, Coater and Developer Station,
Double-sided and Single-sided Mask Aligners,
E-beam Lithography
ü Deposition:
Oxidation Furnaces, CVD, LPCVD, Plasma
CVD, ALCVD, E-beam Evaporation, RF
Sputtering, Dual-Ion Beam Sputtering, Pulsed
Laser Deposition
ü Etching:
Wet etching, RIE, DRIE, CMP, Lift-off and
Supercritical Drying
ü Packaging:
Wafer Bonder, Dicer, Wire Bonder, Stereolithography
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Cleanroom corridor inside the National Nanofabrication Centre.
2. Micro and Nano Characterization Facility with
the following capabilities
ü Material Characterization:
Dual-Beam FIB, FESEM, Particle Analyzer,
AFM
ü Electrical Characterization:
Wafer Probe Stations, Semiconductor Device
Analyzers, Vector Network Analyzers, RF Signal
Sources, Storage Oscilloscopes
3. In addition, there will be separate labs in the
Centre that will cater to polymer processing, electrochemistry, electro-optics, DNA/bio circuits,
systems integration, MEMS and NEMS characterization, neuron and tissue culture.
ü Mechanical Characterization:
Micro System Analyzer, 3D Optical Profilo­
meter, Rate Table, Pressure Calibrator, Acoustic
Microscope, UTM
ü Optical Characterization:
Micro-Raman, PL and EL Measurement, FTIR,
Solar Simulator, Variable Angle Spectro­scopic
Ellipsometer
CORE FACULTY
Bhat, Navakanta
PhD (Stanford), Professor
Ghosh, Ambarish
PhD (Brown), Assistant Professor
Naik, Akshay
PhD (Maryland), Assistant Professor
Raghavan, Srinivasan
PhD (Penn. State), Assistant Professor
Pratap, Rudra
PhD (Cornell), Professor
Varma, Manoj
PhD (Purdue), Assistant Professor
Established
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Degree Programs Offered
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+91-80-2293 3291/3276
chairman@cense.iisc.ernet.in
http://www.cense.iisc.ernet.in
Rudra Pratap
PhD
Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems
Profile
Major Research Areas
Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems,
established with a generous philanthropic grant by
the Robert Bosch Foundation, aims to engage in
applied research on Cyber Physical Systems – an
emerging interdisciplinary area that brings together
advances in distributed sensing, wireless communication, networking, computing, controlling physical
devices, algorithms, and other allied technologies.
The Centre, in addition to focusing on fundamental
and applicable research on Cyber Physical Systems,
will consider applications such as tele-medical care,
urban transportation, water networks, environmental monitoring, energy-efficient buildings, emergency
response, disaster management, smart agriculture,
etc. In line with the current view that Cyber Physical
systems are likely to transform how we interact with
the physical world by creating an Internet of physical
objects and not just computing and communication
devices, the Centre will undertake research projects
that are likely to lead to innovative technology products that will have an enormous impact on society.
The Centre will also interact with the industries and
support entrepreneurial activities to help transfer the
technologies developed in the Centre to the world at
large.
The research and development activities of the
Centre can be best viewed as a grid of verticals and
laterals where verticals indicate the application areas
and laterals represent enabling techniques common to
multiple applications. At the intersection of the verticals and laterals lie the specific research projects. The
Centre has initiated five verticals, namely, agriculture, buildings, healthcare, transportation, and water.
Some of the laterals identified include algorithms;
analytics, software, and middleware; design and prototyping; electronics; modeling and simulation; networks; and sensors.
Current Research
Research done at the Centre comprises five programmes: agriculture, buildings, healthcare, transportation, and water. Projects under each programme
cover multiple disciplines and are coordinated and
executed by faculty of the Institute and the technical staff of the Centre, which includes Chief Member
of Technical Staff (CMTS), Principal Member of
Technical Staff (PMTS), Senior Member of Technical
Staff (SMTS), Member of Technical Staff (MTS),
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Student volunteers sending SMS alerts to registered visitors about the campus
events on the IISc’s Open Day on March 3rd, 2012.
Research Associates, Technicians, Entrepreneurs in
Residence, and administrative staff. Selected projects
of the Centre include:
 Cyber Surgery and Remote Patient Care
The Centre also pursues short-term small projects,
called the  projects, that focus on developing innovative products in the area of cyber physical systems.
Selected  projects include:
 Touch Screen Anywhere
 Remote Neonatal Monitoring and Intervention
 Decentralized low power desalination via field
 Zero Energy Building
 Sensor System for Monitoring Stroke Patients in
effect − A water bottle for desalination
Rehabilitation
 Verified Real Time Operating System for Multicore
Processors
 Formal Analysis of CPS Protocols and Software.
Bharadwaj, Amrutur
PhD (Stanford), AcP/ECE
Ananthasuresh G K
PhD (Michigan), FNAE, P/ME
Established
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Asokan S
PhD (IISc), FNASc, P/IAP
2011
+91-80-2293 3430
+91-(080)-2293 2046
office@cps.iisc.ernet.in
chairman@cps.iisc.ernet.in
URL : http://cps.iisc.ernet.in
Chairperson : S Asokan
Associate Chairs : G K Ananthasuresh
Amrutur Bharadwaj
Archives and Publications Cell
Profile
There are three Series of Publications that this committee oversees:
The Archives Cell was established on May 17, 2007.
Subsequently it was enlarged to include a publications wing and was renamed as the Archives and
Publications Cell (APC) on January 31, 2008.
IISc Centenary Lecture Series (ICLS)
The APC has a two-fold responsibility. The first is to
collect, catalogue and preserve all documents, photographs and other articles of relevance to the Institute.
The second is to coordinate and facilitate the publication activities of the Institute.
The activities of several Committees are coordinated
by the APC. These Committees include:
Archives
Ahuja, Sharath, Coordinator, TO/IN
Nirmala Das, Consultant
Sowmitri Ranganathan, Consultant
IISc in-house publication committee
Asokan S, P/IN, Chairperson
Ahuja, Sharath, TO/IN, Member
Ghosal, Ashitava, P/ME, Member
Panneer Selvam K, DR, Member
Thilagam V, PRO, Member
IISc Lecture Notes Series (ILNS)
Misra, Gadadhar, P/MA, Series Editor
Jog, Chandrashekar S, AcP/ME
Joy Kuri, AcP/DESE
Sebastian K L, P/IPC
Sen, Diptiman, P/CHEP
Sandhya, Visweswariah, P/MRDG
IISc Research Monographs Series (IRMS)
Kesava Rao K, P/CE, Series Editor
Misra Gadadhar, P/Math
Krishnamurthy H R, P/PHY
Kumar P Vijay, P/ECE
Ramasesha S, P/SSCU
Vijayaraghavan, Usha, P/MCB
Office
A G Menon, P/IN, Chairperson
Kavitha Harish, Stenographer Gr II
Panduranga G, Consultant
Narasimha P, Secretarial Assistant
Journal of the Indian Institute of Science
Archives
Activities: An exhibition ‘IISc in the News – an exhibition of press cuttings’ arranged in the Main Building
as part of the ‘Open Day’ celebrations, on March 3rd
2012.
Guru Row T N, P/SSCU, Editor
Ananthasuresh G K, AcP/ME, Member
Asokan S, P/IN, Member
Borges, Renee M, AcP/CES, Member
Ghose, Debasish, P/AE, Member
Natarajan, Vasant, P/PHY, Member
Sengupta, Debasis, P/CAOS, Member
Shaila M S, P/MCB, Member
Vinoy K J, AP/ECE, Member
Kavitha Harish, Editorial Assistant
IISc Press-WSPC Publications
Kumar, Anurag, P/ECE, Chairperson
Ananthasuresh G K, AcP/ME, Convener
Kesava, Rao K, P/CE
Misra, Gadadhar, P/Math
Pandit, Rahul, P/PHY
The Chairperson, APC (Ex-officio)
Scanning and uploading: (1) Annual Reports: All
Annual Reports (from 1909–till date) have been
scanned and uploaded. (2) Court Records from
1938 available both in soft and hard copies. (3)
Council Proceedings-hard copies have been collated.
(4) Mr. B. V. Subbarayappa’s papers (around 2000
pages) have been compiled, digitized, OCR’ed and
uploaded. (5) Materials from the National Archives
have been scanned, wherever possible OCR’ed and are
ready for uploading. (6) News paper clippings related
to the Institute have been down loaded for the period
1990–1995, 2009–till date (650 pages). Additionally all
news paper clippings collected in the Archives (from
its inception) are being digitized. (7) Oral Archiving:
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A video recording of Mr. K. V. Sheshadri was carried out. (8) 3 videos, ‘In Step with Future’, ‘Creative
Consultancy’ and ‘Athreya’ are converted from tape
to digital format and made available for screening.
They have also been uploaded on the Archives site.
(9) Wall Calendars of the Institute from 1999–till
date have been digitized and uploaded. (10) Speeches
delivered by important dignitaries on special occasions have also been digitized and uploaded (10 nos.)
In all, approximately 16,500 pages have been scanned,
OCR’ed and uploaded in the current year.
In-house publication
The following in-house publications were brought out
in the current year:
IISc-Profile 2011–12; Scheme of Instructions 2011–12;
Telephone Directory 2011–12; Annual Report (Hindi/
English) 2010–11; Annual Accounts (Hindi/English)
2010–11; Admission poster 2012; Budget Estimate;
Draft minutes of the Court Meeting 2011; Integrated
PhD poster 2012; IISc Wall and Desk Calendars 2012;
UG Poster and Information Brochure 2012 and application form; Talent Development Centre Report.
Journal of the Indian Institute of Science
The Journal of the Indian Institute of Science has
been published by the Institute since 1914. In early
years Journal published original research work carried
out by the faculty and students of the Institute as well
as other institutions around the world. Since 2007,
however, the Journal format was changed. It became
a quarterly Journal and published only invited review
articles, each issue being guest edited by eminent
researches. In the year 2011, Volume 91 of the Journal
was published; the four special issues were entitled:
No. 1. Special issue on Algebra and its applications,
(Guest Editor: Dilip P. Patil, Dept of Mathematics,
IISc); No. 2. Physics and Applications of Amorphous
Semiconductors − Recent Advances, (Guest Editor:
Prof. S. Asokan, Dept of Instrumentation and Applied
Physics & Applied Photonics Initiative, IISc); No. 3
Bio-fluid Mechanics (Guest Editor: Prof. Jaywant
H. Arakeri, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, IISc);
No. 4 Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, (Guest
Editor: Prof. G. Mugesh, Dept of IPC, IISc).
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IISc Press-WSPC Publications
IISc Press and World Scientific Publishing Company
(WSPC), Singapore have a joint publishing collaboration to co-publish textbooks and monographs
in all major disciplines. There are three Series of
Publications that this committee oversees:
IISc Centenary Lectures Series (ICLS)
The books in the ‘IISc Centenary Lectures Series’
comprise the transcripts of the lectures and the compilation of selected articles by designated eminent
scholars and researchers from all over the world.
IISc Lecture Notes Series (ILNS)
The IISc Lecture Notes Series consist of books that
are reasonably self-contained and can be used either
as text books or as self-study manuals at the postgraduate level in science and engineering. The books
are based on material that has been class-tested for
the most part.
IISc Research Monographs Series (IRMS)
The ‘IISc Research Monographs Series’ comprises
state-of-the-art monographs written by experts in
specific areas. The books will include, but are not limited to, the author’s own research work.
In the current year, IIScPress published the following
Monograph:
‘Crystal Engineering’ a textbook by Gautam R
Desiraju, Jagadese J Vittal, Arunachalam Ramanan.
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A G Menon
International Relations Cell
Profile
The International Relations Cell (IRC) of the Indian
Institute of Science was set up in 1998. A Committee,
with members from each Academic Divisions of the
Institute, is responsible for the functioning of IRC.
The IRC oversees and coordinates all the international programmes of the Institute. In particular, it is
responsible for the following:
ü Admission of foreign students to the Institute.
ü Facilitating the Institute’s links with international
partners.
ü Promoting academic collaborations and student/
faculty exchange programmes with institutions
and universities abroad.
ü Formulating and helping in signing Memoranda
of understanding (MOUs) between IISc and
institutions abroad for collaborative research and
student exchange.
Over the years, the institute has attracted a large
number of visitors and delegations exploring possible
collaborations in specific areas of research and student and faculty exchange. The Institute has signed
MOUs with several Institutions abroad for co-operation in research and exchange of students and faculty.
These institutions are from the USA, UK, Germany,
France, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Australia,
Sweden, Nepal, Norway, Korea, Taiwan, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa and Mauritius.
ü Maintaining a data base of all IISc International
Co-operation Programmes, visits of foreign delegations, etc.
ü Acting as an advisory body to the growing number
of foreign students and visitors at the Institute.
Chockalingam A
P/ECE, Member
Rangarajan G
P/BC, Member
Umapathy S
P/IPC, Member
Pratap, Rudra
P/ME, Member
Subramanian S
P/Mat. Eng, Member
Vijayraghavan, Usha
P/MCB, Member
Ramamurty U
P/Mat. Eng, Member
Thilagam V
Hindi Officer/Admin, Member
Registrar
Member Secretary
Established
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+91-(080)-2360 2567
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G Rangarajan
J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library
Profile
The JRD Tata Memorial Library has completed its centenary year of establishment in 2011. It is regarded as
one of the best scientific and technical libraries in India.
With an excellent blend of print and electronic resources
in the form of books, journals, reports, standards and
patents, the library collection is one of the finest in the
country particularly in the field of science and technology. This rich and valuable collection has some rare
reference materials and several important journals. The
total print collections exceed 5 lakh volumes. The electronic resources cover most professional society publications and also several bibliographic and Scientometric
databases. As a support system for Information services
on the campus, the library is committed to
ü Maintaining pre-eminence in information resource
gathering so that the faculty and researchers will
have access to a comprehensive information repository.
ü Provide comprehensive access to core eResources.
The library is easily accessible to the academic and
research community on the campus and is located in
about 5,000 sq.mts. area.
Facilities Available For Users
The Library has reading rooms for research and text
books, separate rooms for current periodicals, abstracts,
technical reports, standards and patents and stack
rooms for books and bound volumes of periodicals.
Compact Storage area for placing pre-1986 bound volumes of periodicals and pre-1976 books have been set
up. The Library has a well equipped binding section.
User Terminals are provided to access Online Public
Access Catalogue (OPAC) in the ground and first floors
of the library.
Services
Library offers regular library services such as reference services, referral services; book lending service
and on-line public access catalogue through LibSys.
Federated searching of e-journals has been enabled.
The Document Delivery Service (DDS) is also provided to organizations, and individuals on a no-profit
basis.
Activities
Regular house keeping operations of the library
include acquisition of books, subscription to journals
and databases, classification and cataloguing. It also
provides gateway services to various information literacy and information repository services. The library
offers a two year on-the-job training programme for
M.L.I.Sc graduates and for students with DLISc.,
BLISc. or JOC qualifications. More details can be
found on the library website http://www.library.iisc.
ernet.in
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of Prof. N. Balakrishnan of IISc, Bangalore. The
library on its own and through its participation in
the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, provides access
to a large number of e-resources which include
e-journals, ebooks, e-standards, and bibliographic
and scientometric databases as given below
Access to Bibliographic databases: INSPEC
on EiVillage, MathScinet, Scifinder Scholar,
etc.
Scientometric databases: SCOPUS and Web
of Science.
e-books: The Library has access to e-books
from Springer, Elsevier, Annual Reviews and
CRC Press, etc.
e-Standards: Indian Standards from Bureau
of Indian Standards, ASTM Standards etc.
Archives /backfiles: The library has online
access to archival/back issues to some of the
major resources of Elsevier Science, Wiley
Inter-Science, Institute of Physics Publishing
and American Physical Society, ACS, SIAM,
and JSTOR – a scholarly Journal Archive
resource.
 Library Automation and Database related activi-
ties – The library uses standard library management software, for its in-house operations.
Web-OPAC through LibSys is provided to the
users who can interact with the system to search
the library collection to know the availability of
a required book or journal etc. They can make
online reservation if the book is issued to some
other user. Maintaining library holdings through
LibSys database, e-Journals database, e-backfiles
database & a library portal are some of the database related activities of the library.
 Barcode & RFID Technology – The entire book,
bound volume of periodicals and theses collections of the library are bar coded. RFID technology has also been implemented on a pilot basis
and a small set of the collection is RF tagged.
 Partnership with other Organizations – The
National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM)
has recognised the J.R.D. Tata Memorial library
as the Regional Center for Mathematics for the
Southern region and continues to award special
grants for developing the collection of books on
Mathematics.
 J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library Annexe and Digital
 MHRD INDEST-AICTE Consortium and Access
to Electronic Resources – Library is one of the core
members of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium
set up by the Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD) on the recommendation
made by an Expert Group under the Chairmanship
Library – The Digitization of Institute theses, and
out-of-copyright books from the main library collection is an important activity carried out at the
library annexe. It also houses print collections of
standards and theses. Electronic thesis and dissertation access: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Anuradha K T
PhD (Mysore), ADISc (ISI),
Technical Officer
Nagarjuna, Pitty
ME (Satyabhama),
Scientific Officer
Rout S K
A.D.I.Sc. (DRTC,ISI), M.L.I.Sc.
(IGNOU), Technical Officer
Chudamani K S
PhD (Bangalore),
Deputy Librarian
Nagendra V N
MA (Kanpur),
Scientific Assistant
Sandhya B C
M.Lib.Sc. (Mysore),
Technical Officer
Jayakanth, Francis
PhD (BU), MLIS (Madras)
Scientific Assistant
Nirmala Devi K
M.Lib.Sc. (Annamalai),
Assistant Librarian
Srinivasan, Pushpa
MSc (Bangalore),
Technical Officer
Krishna Murthy R
ME (IISc), Chief Research
Scientist, Library In-charge
Puttabasavaiah
M.Lib.Sc. (Mysore),
Deputy Librarian
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R Krishna Murthy
Centre for Continuing Education
Profile
The Centre was established with the primary objective of making the resources of the Institute available
to people employed in universities, R&D laboratories
and industries. It has now grown considerably in the
range and depth of its activities.
Major Activities
Quality Improvement Programme (QIP); CCE – Proficience Courses, Short term, Sponsored and Self
supporting courses, Curriculum Development, High
School Science Teachers Programme, Mathematics
Olympiad, Extension Lectures, etc.
Current Research
The Centre has been actively pursuing research in
Ubiquitous Leaning Mechanism Developments.
Recently, the Centre has developed an Internet based
interactive online system for teaching and also better student assessment. Besides this, the Centre has
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Raghunandan B N
P/AE Dean, Faculty of Engineering,
Member
Diwakar J E
CDC Coordinator and
PRS/CPDM Proficience, Invitee
conducted several intensive research oriented training
programmes for the benefit of small scale and multinational industry personnel. The Centre is also actively
involved in higher education quality improvement
programmes and has participated in national policy
on pedagogy training for all Engineering Teachers in
the Country and conducted a couple of workshops
on engineering pedagogy.
Kumar, Anurag
P/ECE Chairman, Division of
Electrical Sciences, Member
Lawrence Jenkins
P/EE, Chairman, SCC, Member
Established
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+91-(080)-2360 0911
office@cce.iisc.ernet.in
chairman@cce.iisc.ernet.in
URL : http://www.cce.iisc.ernet.in
Chairperson : P Venkataram
Chattopadhyay K
P/MT, Chairman,
Division of Mechanical Sciences,
Member Registrar, IISc Member
Venkataram P
P/ECE, Chairman
Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable
Transportation & Urban Planning (CiSTUP)
Profile
Other areas
The Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was established in the year 2009
during the centenary celebrations of Indian Institute
of Science, in collaboration with the Government of
Karnataka. The mandate and vision of CiSTUP is to
produce knowledge that addresses the unique urban
issues specifically on sustainable urban transportation along with other related topics of infrastructure
and urban planning. Further, the centre will conduct
training programmes, capacity building and also
develop expertise and provide complete technological
and planning solutions for urban renewal and development programmes related to urban transportation
and infrastructure engineering.
Traffic flow around TTMCs, e-auto rickshaw,
Bus priority lane, Fleet changes, Vertical exhaust,
Biodiesel; Requirment of software with O R tools
to optimize resources and meet the variable demand
for Bus System.
The main areas of specialization and interest are Infrastructure, Sustainable Urban Transportation and Urban
Planning. Among these areas, Sustainable urban transport is the prime focus for the activities of the centre.
Our Centre has been true to its motto of being a
Vehicle for Analytical thinking to improve the unique
urban issues. The uniqueness of the Centre has been
the practical, implementable solutions suggested for
day to day issues on infrastructure, sustainable transportation and urban planning instead of only giving
theoretical/research oriented measures.
Major Research Areas
Traffic and transportation engineering, Urban infrastructure, Building & Construction Engineering,
Urban Sprawl and Planning, Tunneling engineering
and underground space utilization, Climate Change,
Geohazards and disaster mitigation, Environmental
Impact Assessment, ICT for Transportation/Infrastructure, & Urban economics and social issues.
Established : 2009
Phone : +91-80-2293 2521/2043/3251/3252
+91-80-2346 8207
Fax : +91-(080)-2346 8207
Email : chairman@cistup.iisc.ernet.in
URL : http://www.cistup.iisc.ernet.in
Chairperson : T G Sitharam
Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy
Profile
• Software development
The Institute encourages and promotes interaction
between its faculty and industries/research organisations. The aim of such interaction is to link academic
work with problem-solving in real life. The Centre
for Scientific and industrial Consultancy (CSIC) was
formally established to give institutional support and
encouragement to Institute – Industry interaction.
The CSIC has catalysed and nurtured scientific and
industrial consultancy projects of national importance and relevance.
• Technical advice and guidance on industry in-house
R&D
Major Activities
• Mathematical modeling of sintering process
Industry Interaction, Campus Recruitment, Auditoria
Management.
• Practical memory refresh in linux
• Complex technical investigations and evaluation
• Technical evaluation and support for patenting
ideas, products and processes.
For all the above tasks, CSIC draws upon the vast
expertise and state-of-the-art facilities available in
various departments, centres and laboratories.
Some recent projects undertaken are:
• Electronics interface for MEMS ultrasonic sensor
Industry interaction
• Light scattering properties of non-particle assemblies and associated thin films
Some of the technological services provided through
CSIC projects are:
• Kernel methods for understanding data generated
from workloads
• Design and development of products and processes
• Flash as a new storage tier
• Transfer of technology
• Distributed storage codes for content distribution
• System design and analysis
• Interaction between superalloys and the bond coats
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• Ratcheting analysis and material characterization
for Chaboche model analysis
• Evaluation of synergic nano-composites
During the academic year 2011–12, 365 students registered for placement, out of whom 300 participated
and 252 got placed. The number of industries who
came for placement interviews was 70, out of which
17 of them had come for the first time. Our students
got placed in multi-national companies including
IBM Researh, Microsoft Research, Texas Instruments, Intel Technologies, Airbus Engineering Centre,
Yahoo R&D, Goldman Sachs, General Motors, General Electric and others. Beside these, many Indian
companies such as Ashok Leyland, TVS Motors,
Mahindra and Mahindra, Bharath Electronics, Tata
Motors, Tata Consultancy Services and others have
offered placements to our students.
Campus Recruitment
Auditoria Management
The Placement Section at CSIC is the link between
our students and employers. The employers come
from a wide spectrum of industries and government
R&D bodies.
CSIC manages the programmes and activities at the
National Science Seminar Complex (NSSC) and the
Satish Dhawan Auditorium (SDA).
• An action plan for mitigating wildlife – human
conflicts
• Experimental studies on optical probes
• Assessment of the impact of climate change on
forests in Karnataka
• Development of climate change vulnerability profiles for different states in India
• Measurment of turbulence on model in wind tunnel
Established
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J M Chandra Kishen
N C Shivaprakash
Society for Innovation and Development (SID)
Profile
The Society for Innovation and Development (SID)
was founded in the year 1991. The mission of SID is
to enable development and diffusion of IISc’s innovations in science and technology by creating a purposeful and effective channel to help industries and business
establishments to compete and prosper in the face of
global competition, turbulent market conditions and
fast moving technologies. SID strives to bring the
intellectuals at IISc and the fruits of their research and
development closer to industries and business establishments, which in a mutually beneficial way with the
prosperity of the nation, as the ultimate goal.
SID is a society registered under the Karnataka Societies Act, with a symbiotic relationship with IISc. It draws
from and provides access to intellectual and infrastructural resources of IISc. SID creates infrastructure in
IISc and promotes interdisciplinary activity.
Through collaborative interactions with more than
200 organizations including Indian Public Sector
Units, Indian and Foreign Multinational companies,
SME’s, Government and semi Government agencies,
SID has successfully completed more than 550 R&D
projects involving 200 faculty members of IISc.
Joint R&D Centres
SID promotes joint R&D programs with corporate
research centres housed on the IISc Campus. The
proximity of these Centres to the research laboratories
of faculty enables focused interactions.
Currently the following R&D centers are operational
in the IISc-SID Campus
 FMC India Pvt Ltd
 Tata Motors Ltd
 Society for Asian Nature Conservation Foundation
Individual or Group Projects
SID undertakes research and development projects
based on individual or joint proposals from the faculty
and scientists of IISc in collaboration with industries,
business establishments, and national and international organizations.
 Phyto Biotech Private Limited
Entrepreneurship Cell
An Entrepreneurship Cell was constituted in SID with
a view of strengthening all activities related to entrepreneurship and technology transfer.
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A few alumini of the Institute, with vast industry
experience, have accepted to be the part of the Cell to
give shape to the activities.
General Agreements
Other Modes
 Volva Corporation
SID can formulate new, innovative modes of interaction to suit the specific needs of any proposed collaborative activity between IISc scientists and external
agency.
Agreements with the following companies have been
signed during the period.
 Saint Gobain
 Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems
 I2n Technologies Private Limited
 Pratt & Whitney Micron, USA
Project Details
New Projects Initiated (2010–2011)
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On-going Projects
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Incubation Centre
The following incubate companies operate under the
Incubation Centre provided by SID.
Visitors
SID's popularity has been increasing at the national/
international levels and has resulted in various heads
of corporate and academic institutions visiting SID.
Some of them are:
 Panasonic
 Mymo Wireless Technology Pvt Ltd.
 Airbus
 Instrumentation Scientific Technologies Pvt Ltd.
 Rolls Poyce
 Gamma Porite Electrotech Pvt Ltd.
 Medtronic
Chief ExEcutive:
Jayant M Modak
P/CE
Resource Executives:
S Gopalakrishnan
P/AE
Mary Mathew
AcP/MS
Amaresh Chakrabarti
P/CPDM
P Kondaiah
P/MRDG
P K Das
P/IPC
Navkant Bhat
AcP/ECE
Established
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+91-(080)-2331 4314
office@sid.iisc.ernet.in
http://www.sid.iisc.ernet.in
Intellectual Property Cell
Profile
The Intellectual Property Cell (IP Cell) of the Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) was set up in 2004. It was
started with the primary objective of protecting and
maintaining the Intellectual Property of the Institute.
This, coupled with the twin objectives of transfer of
technology and IPR consultation, has resulted in the
evolution of the IP Cell from a basic office to a frontline administrative entity. The IP Cell aims to promote
awareness among the IISc community of the importance and relevance of Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) in the present day. In other words, the IP Cell is a
one-stop window for all IP-related issues at the Institute.
Currently, the IP Cell serves actively as the “nodal
agency” of IISc that reviews various research agreements, NDA’s, MTA’s, license agreements, and MoU’s
to ensure that they are consistent with the IP Policy
officially adopted by the Institute in 2005. Based on
the requirements, IP Cell engages itself in drafting,
amending and/or negotiating the agreements with
outside organizations and is working towards pursuing a systematic, mutually-beneficial engagement with
research-based national and international companies in order to encourage them to partner with IISc.
The IP Cell is also working towards simplified and
standardized “Model Agreements” that serve the
needs and the interests of IISc best, thus enhancing
significantly the responsibilities of the office.
The IP Cell made strong representations on behalf of
IISc to the Government regarding the Protection and
Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill
(PUPFIP Bill), a new legislation being considered by
Parliament, which was introduced in the 2008 winter
session of the Rajya Sabha. The Bill aims to ensure the
protection of all intellectual property resulting from
government support for R&D. It prescribes that intellectual property (IP) that results from research undertaken with public funds must be protected, with strong
penalties for failing to do so. IP Cell drew the attention
to the adverse implications of the Bill in its present
form, and is seeking to alter provisions in the Bill in a
manner that it achieves its stated goals and serves the
public interest even better.
In its drive towards the valorization of the IP within
the portfolio of the Institute, the IP Cell has entered
into a technology license agreement with Phyto
Biotech Ltd., a Biotech company based in Kolkata,
West Bengal. Similarly, it entered into an amended
License agreement with Intellectual Ventures (I.V),
a US-based company focused exclusively on licensing
IP from universities around the world. The agreement with IV which was revised in 2009 was again
revised/amended in 2010 to be more favourable to
IISc. This company basically helps us evaluate our IP
and position them in potential markets, thereby creating applications for IISc’s inventions and discoveries.
Additionally, the IP Cell, with the help of the inventors, has entered into license agreements with the public sector companies-Balmer Lawrie and BHEL. The
IP Cell is also engaged in discussions with Phillips, the
Netherlands-based multi-national company, Lakshmi
Life Sciences of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and with
the Government of Malaysia.
Similar efforts are in progress with other Companies,
and it is hoped that 2012 will be a very busy year, with
a slew of patents getting commercialized.
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IISc’s IP filing over the years, is illustrated below.
Associate Faculty
Mary Mathew
AcP/MS
Established
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+91-(080)-2346 4088
ipoff@admin.iisc.ernet.in
chairip@admin.iisc.ernet.in
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY)
Profile
Fellowship Details
The Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) is
a programme initiated by the Department of Science
and Technology, Government of India to encourage
students of Basic Sciences to take up research career
in Basic/Natural Sciences. This programme is administered by the IISc, in association with the Zonal Centres at IISER (Kolkata), HBCSE (Mumbai).
Fellowship Value
Qualifications
Rs. 4000/-p.m.
XII Std./+2
The aim of the programme is to identify and encourage
talented students with an aptitude for research. This
programme strives to assist the students to realise their
potential and to ensure that the best scientific talent is
tapped for research and development in the country.
The KVPY programme is open to Indian Nationals
for study in India. Students joining class 11 (+1) to second year bachelor’s degree programme in Science such
as BSc., BS., Integrated MSc., MS., during the academic year in which the award are made are eligible to
apply for the KVPY fellowship under various streams.
A processing fee of Rs. 200/- (Rs. 100/- for SC/ST) is
charged at the time of applying. The payments of the
processing fee is, however, exempted for physically and
visually challenged students and girl students.
Rs. 5000/-p.m.I to III year BSc/BS/Int.
MSc/Int.MS
Rs. 7000/-p.m.I/II year MSc/IV/V year BS/
Int. MSc/MS
Contingency GrantFour months Fellowships per
year
KVPY fellows will be eligible to attend the Interview/
Counselling for admission to the five year Integrated
MS Programme conducted by the Indian Institue of
Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata/
Pune/Mohali/Bhopal/Thiruvananthapuram. KVPY
fellows SA/SX/SB are also eligible to apply for 4 year
Bachelor of Science (BS) programme conducted by
IISc Bangalore.
Summer Programme
Summer programme in prestigious research and educational institutions in the country is organized, every
year to fresh awardees.
Fellows on Roll – As on 30.04.2012
Stream
ContinuingFresh award
Provisional
SA
311
SB
154 66
SX
187
283
854
SP (Basic
Science- including
Engineering students) 89* 27**
SP (Medicine) 57 10
Total
798
1240
* including 20 engineering students
** including 12 engineering students
Generous fellowships (Rs. 4000–Rs. 7000 p.m. plus
conti­ngency grant equal to 4 months of fellowship
per year) are given (up to the pre-PhD level) to the
selected students.
Vijyoshi Programme
For the last three years (2009–2011) the KVPY has
organized a programme known as Vijyoshi (Vigyan
Jyothi Shivir), a new initiative programme sponsored
by DST. It is a direct contact programme of students
who have excelled in (Basic Science) and accomplished
scientists from India and abroad.
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Convener
Chandrasekaran S
Hon. P/OC
Co-Convener
Gadadhar Mishra
P/Math
Members of the Basic
Committee
Ashok Raichur M
P/Mat.E
Das P K
P/IPC
Subburaman B K
Adviser – Head, Admin
Karande Anjali Anoop
P/BC/CAF
Padmanabhan K G
Anil Kumar P S
AcP/Phy
Established : 1999
Phone : +91-80-2293 2975/2976
2360 1008/2360 2367
Fax : +91-(080)-2360 1215
Email : kvpy@admin.iisc.ernet.in
URL : http://www.iisc.ernet.in/kvpy
http://www.kvpy.org.in
convener : Chandrasekaran S
Administrative Officer
Karnataka State Council for
Science and Technology
Profile
Major Programmes
Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology
(KSCST) was established in the year 1975. It is one
of the first State S&T Councils to be set up in the
country. KSCST is an autonomous S&T organization
under Department of Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka.
 Natural Resources Data Management System
(NRDMS)
During the last three and half decades of its existence, KSCST has been pro-actively engaging itself
to identify locale specific needs/problems in the broad
areas of Agriculture, Water, Education, Energy, Ecology and Environment, Habitat, Health, Solid and
Electronic waste and Infrastructure. In co-operation
with the Indian Institute of Science and several other
premier R&D institutions in the state, KSCST executes many projects and programmes, leading to S&T
based solutions such as providing access to energy for
cooking and lighting, making available potable and
safe drinking water, alternate building technologies,
which prevail as the issues of highest priority even
to this day, thereby improving quality of life of people. Over the years, a number of technologies have
been translated, from research and demonstration
phase, to the implementation and operational phase.
KSCST has also been providing necessary support to
the Central and State Governments for the formulation of S&T based policies and its wider acceptance
by carrying out activities like scientific survey, project
implementation, co-ordination & monitoring, organization of science meets and awareness campaigns.
The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India advocated KSCST as a model to all
the states.
Vision: Application of Science & Technology for the
management of resources, improvement of environment, quality of life and socio-economic conditions
of the people of Karnataka.
Mission: Co-ordinate R&D activities for generation of knowledge for S&T based interventions,
development and popularization of appropriate
technologies for adaptation by the civil society to
overcome local specific problems and, inspire and
improve human resources of the S&T sectors in
the state.
 Karnataka State Spatial Data Infrastructure
(KSSDI)
 Student Project Programme (SPP)
 Rainwater Harvesting (RWH)
 Biofuel Programme
 State Awards for Scientist and Engineers
 State Science and Technology Conference
 National Science Day
 Patent Information Centre
Ongoing Projects
 Bacteria Free Water for Drinking by Silver Treatment (BFWDST)
 Assessment of the Status of Kalyanis (Village
Ponds) and measure for rejuvenation in different
Agro-climatic zones of Karnataka using Geo-Spatial technologies
 Digital Geospatial Data Generation and Terres-
trial Scanning for 3D Reconstruction of Heritage
Site at Hampi
 Frontier lecture series on Science & Technology
on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of
Bharatha Rathna Sir M. Vishveshvaraya
 The Development of Organic Seedings of Horticultural Crops by Rural Farmers and Dissemination of the Technology
 Organising Workshops on ‘Identification of Strategies for Mapping of S&T Needs in the State of
Karnataka’ – Phase II
 Organisation of National Spatial Data Infrastructure – 11th Meeting NSDI-11 at Bangalore
 Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Documentation of Watershed works under IWMP
programme
 Suvarna Bhoomi Yojane (Kolar, Chikaballapur
and Bijapur)
Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology 109
Secretary
Executive Secretary
M S Mohan Kumar
P/CiE
M Prithviraj
Established : 1975
Phone : +91-80-2334 1652/2334 8848/
2360 1824/2331 1394
Fax : +91-(080)-2334 8840
Email : office@kscst.iisc.ernet.in
office@kscst.org.in
URL : http://www.kscst.iisc.ernet.in
http://www.kscst.org.in
Inter-disciplinary
PROGRAMME
Mathematical Sciences
The Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences is administered by the IISc Mathematics
Initiative (IMI). This programme provides an unique opportunity for students to work in areas
spanning mathematics, biology, physics and engineering. Students can work in any of the interdisciplinary research areas mentioned below. Each selected student will work with two research
supervisors (from two different Departments). For example, a student can have supervisors from
Mathematics and an Engineering Department or Biology and an Engineering Department.
System biology; computational neuroscience; computational biophysics; computational biology; evolutionary biology; theoretical biology; viral dynamics; constrained biomolecular dynamics; mathematical immunology; numerical analysis; computational fluid dynamics and scientific
computation; wireless communication and sensor networks; stochastic optimal control; mathematical finance; partial differential (algebraic) equations; optimization; computational geometry
and topology; computational geometry and data visualization; inverse boundary value problem
in the context of imaging; coding theory and techniques; game theory.
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
The area of nanoscience followed by nanotechnology is truly an interdisciplinary area with the
convergence of many disciplines like physics, chemistry, biology, material science and engineering. Realizing the importance of nanoscience and nanotechnology and attempting to promote its
growth, the Institute has recently launched Institute Nanoscience Initiative (INI). Under this program, state-of-the-art facilities like high resolution transmission and scanning probe microscopes,
nearfield optical microscopes, e-beam writing etc are made available to users. Research programs
involving faculty members from more than one department includes areas like biosensors and
drug delivery, nanocomposities, nanotubes, nanomechanics, nano -catalysts, Nano devices etc.
Bioengineering
The interdisciplinary PhD program in bioengineering is designed to prepare students with engineering, medicine, or science background to become well-rounded professionals and researchers
to address the growing needs in the area of bioengineering in academia and industry. Each student
in this program is advised by two faculty members from two different academic departments of
the Institute. A comprehensive curriculum is being developed to make all the students in this program become familiar with essential topics that include engineering mathematics, algorithms and
programming, biomaterials, thermodynamics and transport phenomena, biomechanics, biology,
physiology, experimental and computational techniques in bioengineering, irrespective of their
prior background.
The program aims to initiate and nurture novel research at the interface of biology and engineering by interacting with medical researchers and practitioners. Current research areas under
this programme include, but not limited to, biodesign, biomechanics, biofluids, biolubricants,
biomaterials, biomedical products, biotechnology, biomedical imaging, cell mechanics, clinical engineering, healthcare technology, mechanobiology, medical electronics, muscular control,
nano-biology, synthetic and systems biology, tele-medicine, tissue engineering, and allied topics.
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Directors
Directors
M W Travers Alfred Bourne Martin Onslow Forster
C V Raman Jnan Chandra Ghosh
M S Thacker S Bhagavantam S Dhawan S Ramaseshan C N R Rao G Padmanaban
Goverdhan Mehta
P Balaram Nov 1906–June 1914
Oct 1915–Mar 1921
Nov 1922–Mar 1933
April 1933–July 1937
Aug 1939–Dec 1948
Sept 1949–Aug 1955
Mar 1957–Dec 1962
Dec 1962–July 1981
Aug 1981–July 1984
Aug 1984–July 1994
Aug 1994–July 1998
Aug 1998–June 2005
Since July 2005
Joint/Associate/Deputy Directors
S Ramaseshan
Joint Director
G Padmanaban
Deputy Director
A Sridharan
Deputy Director
M Vijayan
Associate Director
N Balakrishnan
Associate Director
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1993 – 94
1994 – 97
2000 – 04
Since Sept 2005
Officiating/In-charge/Acting Directors
Alfred Hay
Officiating Director
B Venkateshachar
Director-in-Charge
E V Ganapathi Iyer
Acting Director
K Sreenivasan Acting Director
D K Banerjee
Acting Director
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April 1971–Mar 1972
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Centenary Visiting
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Honorary Fellows
Alfred Hay
J J Sudborough
J K Catterson Smith
H J Bhabha
M O Forster
H E Watson
Vithal N Chandavarkar
Jawaharlal Nehru
M Visvesvaraya
C V Raman
J R D Tata
A L Mudaliar
Vikram M Sarabhai
D S Kothari
R Choksi
G K Chandiramani
S Dhawan
Indira Gandhi
M G K Menon
G N Ramachandran
S Bhagavantam
A Ramachandran
S Moolgaokar
Raja Ramanna
C N R Rao
A P J Abdul Kalam
Ratan N Tata
M S Swaminathan
R Narasimha
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Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor, Israel
Prof. Joseph Zyas, France
Prof. Jean Marie Tarascon, France
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Department
ABB
1996–97 1997–2000 2000–01 2001–03 2003–04 2004–06 2006–09 2012–15
Prof. K Parthasarathy Prof. M S Naidu Prof. R S Nema Prof. K R Padiyar Prof. G R Nagabhushana Prof. H P Khincha Prof. V Ramanarayanan Prof. P S Sastry
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AMRUT MODY
1995–98 1998–01 2001–04 2004–07 2007–10 2011–13
Prof. S S Krishnamurthy Prof. S Chandrasekaran Prof. S Ramasesha Prof. Biman Bagchi Prof. K L Sebastian Prof. K B R Varma
Prof. P K Das
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(Joint Award)
2003–06 2006–09 2009–12 2012–15
Prof. V Sasisekharan Prof. J D Padayatty Prof. V S R Rao Prof. N R Moudgal Prof. M Vijayan Prof. P R Adiga Prof. N Appaji Rao Prof. Madhav Gadgil Prof. T Ramasarma Prof. P S Sastry Prof. P V Subba Rao Prof. K P Gopinathan Prof. K R K Easwaran Prof. P Balaram Prof. A Surolia
Prof. M R S Rao
Prof. Rabindranath Nayak Prof. Dipankar Chatterji Prof. Manju Bansal Prof. Sandhya S Visweswariah
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Year Name KSIIDC
1985–87 Prof. R Kumar 1987–89 Prof. A K Rao 1989–90 Prof. N S Lakshmana Rao 1990–93 Prof. G N V Rao 1991–94 Prof. S Ranganathan 1991–94 Prof. A Sridharan 1991–94 Prof. M L Munjal 1991–92 Prof. S Sathyanarayana 1992–95 Prof. D P Sen Gupta 1993–96 Prof. H S Mukunda 1994–97 Prof. K T Jacob 1994–97 Prof. T S Nagaraj
1994–97 Prof. Y V R K Prasad 1997–2000 Prof. A V Krishna Murty
2000–03 Prof. B Dattaguru 2003–05 Prof. R Narayana Iyengar 2006–09 Prof. M K Surappa 2009–12 Prof. Jaywant H Arakeri 2012–15
Prof. P P Mujumdar
Department
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Prof. P S Narayanan Prof. K P Sinha Prof. T V Ramakrishnan Prof. N Kumar Prof. N Mukunda Prof. R Rajaraman Prof. E S Raja Gopal Prof. M A Viswamitra Prof. Phoolan Prasad Prof. S V Subramanyam Prof. Anil Kumar Prof. P L Sachdev Prof. J Pasupathy Prof. J Ramakrishna Prof. A K Sood Prof. H R Krishnamurthy Prof. Rohini M Godbole
Prof. Rahul Pandit Prof. Chanda J Jog
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1996–97 1997–2000 2000–03 2003–06 Prof. M A Ramaswamy Prof. K P Rao Prof. S M Deshpande Prof. N Balakrishnan AE
AE
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2006–09
(Joint Award)
2009–12
(Joint Award)
2012–15
Prof. B N Raghunandan Prof. P R Mahapatra
Prof. M Seetharama Bhat
Prof. C R L Murthy
Prof. K P J Reddy
AE
AE
AE
AE
AE
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1991–94 1991–94 1991–94 1991–92 1992–95 1992–95 1994–97 1994–97 1994–97 1997–2000 2000–03 2003–06 2006–09 2009–12 2012–15
Prof. V Krishnan Prof. V Rajaraman Prof. M A L Thathachar Prof. T R Kasthuri Prof. K J Rao Prof. N Viswanadham Prof. K M Madyastha Prof. G S R Subba Rao Prof. B S Sonde Prof. Y V Venkatesh Prof. J Gopalakrishnan Prof. K Chattopadhyay Prof. S B Krupanidhi Prof. A G Samuelson Prof. P Vijay Kumar
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MR
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EC
Endowed Visiting Chairs
Year Name ADITYA BIRLA
2003 Prof. H K D H Bhadeshia 2003 Prof. T Debroy 2004, 2005–06
Prof. Rishi Raj 2005 Prof. John Pethica 2006 Prof. Vaughan R. Voller 2006–07 Prof. Amiya K Mukherjee 2006–07 Prof. Guruswami Ravichandran
2012
Prof. Lalit Anand
ALUMNI
2004 Dr. R Chidambaram BRAHM PRAKASH
99–2000 Prof. T R Anantharaman 2000–01 Prof. R R Tummala 2001–02 Prof. Brij M Moudgil 2002–03 Prof. Subhash Chander 2003–04 Prof. Subra Suresh 2005–06 Prof. R Ramesh 2006–07 Prof. Subhash Mahajan 2009 Prof. Ing. Gunther Eggeler 2010 Prof. S Chandrasekar Prof. Tanguy Rouxel 2011
Prof. Antony David Rollett
National Physical Laboratory,
New Delhi
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, USA
University of Florida, USA
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
University of Califronia, USA
Arizona State University, USA
Universitat Bochum, Bochum
Purdue University, USA
University of Rennes, France
Carnegie Mellon Univerity, USA
DUPONT
2005 University of Lehigh, USA
Prof. Anand Jogata Department
University of Cambridge, UK
The Pennsylvnia State University, USA
University of Colarado, USA
University of Dublin, Ireland
University of Minnesota, USA
University of California, USA
California Institute of Technology, USA
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA
Principal Scientific Adviser,
Govt of India, New Delhi
G N RAMACHANDRAN
2006, 2008–09
Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan
2008
Prof. Tom Blundell
MRC Lab of Molecular Biolog,
Cambridge, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
I G SARMA MEMORIAL
2002–03 Prof. N Sundararajan
Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
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Prof. SATISH DHAWAN
2001 Prof. K R Sreenivasan
2002 Prof. S S Iyengar Yale University, USA
Louisiana State Univesity, USA
SUNDARARAJAN
2001 Prof. Romila Thapar 2002 Prof. S K Ramachandra Rao 2002 Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan 2003 Prof. Ramachandra Guha 2004 Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee 2005 Prof. Ashok V Desai
2006–07
Prof. U R Anantha Murthy 2008–09
Prof. Rajan Gurukkal 2011
Prof. S L Byrappa Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
Mysore University
New Delhi
Bangalore
Secunderabad
New Delhi
Bangalore
School of Social Sciences,
Kottayam
Mysore
PRATT & WHITNEY
2011
Prof. Dilip R Ballal 2012
Dr. Jayant S Sabnis
Univ. of Dayton, USA
VP, System Functional Design,
Pratt & Whitney Corpn, USA
DST-IISc Centenary Chair
2011
Prof. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan
2011
Prof. Bruno Ricco
2011
Prof. Tom Albright
2012
Prof. P M Ajayan
MRC Laboratory, Cambridge UK
Universita di Bologna, Italy
Salk Institute, San Diego, USA
Rice University, Houston
Texas, USA
Lectures
Memorial Lectures
J N TATA
H J Bhabha
Atomic Energy in the Indian Economy S Bhagavantam
The Widening Spiral of Science and Technology Vikram A Sarabhai
Science and World Affairs with special reference to developing countries
P B Gajendragadkar
The Imperatives of an Indian Federation M G K Menon
The Social Conscience of Science Malcom Adiseshaiah
Growth: Its Imperatives and Limits H N Sethna
Energy: Systems, Development and Policy Raja Ramanna
The Safety of Nuclear Installations D S Kothari
Science and Self-Knowledge M S Swaminathan
Indian Agriculture at the Crossroads LK Jha
Technology and Development Nani A Palkhiwala
The Ideal of Human Unity and the North-South Dialogue
Abid Hussain
The Eighth Plan: Some Strategic Perspectives E S Venkataramaiah
Higher Learning in India: Legal and Social Aspects Vasant Sathe
Economic Reforms and Structural Change in Indian Polity
APJ Abdul Kalam
Towards a World Knowledge Platform Gopalkrishna Gandhi
The Peoplehood of India M CT M CHIDAMBARAM CHETTYAR
K L Rao
The Modern Design of Dams V M Ghatge
The Growth of the Aeronautical Industry In India 118
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G S Kasbekar
The development of Chemical Plants and Chemical Plant Fabrication in India
A P Kanvinde
The Role of the Architectural Profession in a Socialistic Pattern of Society
M M Suri
Scientific Education and Unemployment in India A Ramachandran
Solar Energy – Challenges and Perspectives in India B D Tilak
Challenging Opportunities for Rural Development through Science
and Innovative Technology
A S Ganguly
A Retrospective on Industrial Research M M Sharma
Microphases for Process Intensification A P Mitra
Environmental Hazards – A Scientific Appraisal S K Joshi
My Incursions into Condensed Matter Physics Y K Alagh
The future of Science and Technology in India
V K Aatre
Electronic Warfare – A Perspective D Subbarao
Economic Crisis and Crisis in Economics: Some Reflections
VITHAL N CHANDAVARKAR
A D Shroff
Finance for our Industries H V R lyengar
The Impact of Government on Business Management P L Tandon
The New Managerial Society B R Shenoy
National Savings and Industrial Finance – The Indian Experience Bharatram
The Role of Science and Technology in Economic Development
S Varadarajan
Scientists in the Management of Business D S Kothari
Science and Self – Knowledge P R Brahmananda
Productivity in the Indian Economy Manmohan Singh
Planning and Markets – Some Lessons of Recent Experience
Hiten Bhaya
Energy Prospects – A Challenge to Indian Science and Technology P K lyengar
Nuclear Power-Science and Technology in it – In Retrospect
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Viren J Shah
The Management of Transition Bimal Jalan
Science, Technology and Development Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Critical Challenges for Economic Development C Rangarajan
The Indian Economy: Challenges Ahead Kapil Sibal
Empowerment Through Education GOLDEN JUBILEE
Vikram A Sarabhai
The Sun and Interplanetary Space K Venkataraman
New Dyes for Old and New Fibres S Swayambu
Modern Trends in Electric Drive Systems for Industry G P Kane
1974 – A Year of Crisis or Opportunity? S Krishnaswamy
Energy Prospects for India in the International Environment
A Sreenivasan
Some Growing Points in Food Research S Ramamritham
The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Need for Technology Improvement
L S Srinath
Intellectual Honesty and the Spirit of inquiry T R Satish Chandran
The Indian Economy-Some Disturbing Trends R Chidambaram
Fascination at High Pressures P Rama Rao
The Development and Application of Low Alloy Ultra High Strength Steels
N Seshagiri
Virtual Reality – an Emerging High-tech Discipline for
Enhanced Perception in Scientific and Engineering Research
E S Raja Gopal
Metrology: New Vistas Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Some Perspectives for Biotechnology K Kasturirangan
A Broadband Space Observatory – A Unique Tool to Explore the Cosmos
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Lecture on the release of the Centenary Postage Stamp
Shivshankar Menon
Science and Security 1993
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Lectures 121
C V RAMAN
S Ramaseshan
C V Raman Sukhdev
Research and Development in the Chemical Industry C N R Rao
Man, Minerals and Microscopes R Narasimha
Order and Chaos in Fluid Flows S Chandrasekhar
Optical Phenomena in Liquid Crystals Govind Swarup
Radio Astronomy and the Structure of the Universe M S Valiathan
Cardiac Surgery – An Offspring of Experiment V J Modi
Satellites, Space Shuttles and Space Stations: Evolution and Challenges Ramanath Cowsik
My Meanderings in Search of Neutrino Mass Narendra Kumar
Quantum Zono Effect: Slowing Down of Reactions By Fast Perturbations
D Balasubramanian
Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Understand and
Treat Some Diseases of the Eye
Michael E Fisher
Molecular Motors – Observation and Theory Michael Pepper
Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures MORRIS TRAVERS
G Mehta
Art and Logic in Organic Synthesis R A Mashelkar
Fascination of Non – Newtonian Fluids P T Manoharan
Molecular Ferromagnets: A New Challenge for Inorganic Chemists
Mihir Chowdhury
Magnetic Field and Chemical Dynamics J F Nixon
Phosphorus: The Carbon Copy Alan G Mac Diarmid
Electronic Polymers and Nano-Science Ryoji Noyori
Asymmetric Hydrogenation As Ideal Green Chemistry Akihisa Inoue
The Development and Application of Bulk Metallic Glasses
Richard J Saykally
Water Music: The Latest Word on the Most Important Substance in the Universe
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S RAMASESHAN
C N R Rao
The Chemical Design of Materials – A Journey through Half a Century
Srikumar Banerjee
How the Design of an Advanced Nuclear Reactor Evolves 2005
M J THIRUMALACHAR & M J NARASIMHAN ENDOWMENT LECTURES
Richard J Roberts
Why I Love Bacteria
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan
How Antibiotics illuminate Ribosome Function & vice versa
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Centenary Lectures
C N R Rao
Tall Oaks from Little Acorns: Birth and Growth of Solid
State and Materials Chemistry
Andrew Viterbi
The Foundations of the Digital Wireless World M S Swaminathan
Scientific Management of the Impact of Climate Change
on Agriculture Michael D Fayer
Watching Ultrafast Molecular Motions in Liquids,
Molecules and Proteins
A R Ravishankara
Ozone layer depletion and the world’s response: A model
for global environmental problems?
George Guy Dodson
The Origins of structural analysis and its scope in
modern biological research
Ronald Breslow
Work on organised molecular systems leads to a proposal
for the origin of prebiotic homochirality
Jean-Marie Lehn
Perspectives in Chemistry: From molecular to
supramolecular chemistry towards adaptive chemistry
George Philander
The hoax at the equator that elucidates the ethical
dilemmas of global warming
Peter Wolynes
Landscapes of matter
Shaul Mukemal
Multidimensional spectroscopy of biomolecules: From
nmr to x-rays
Dennis P Sullivan
Effective models and algebraic topology
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan
From Baroda to Cambridge: a life in science
Joseph Zyss
Molecular photonics − From concepts to applications in IT and life sciences
Francis Collins
Human Genome & Beyond
John Michael Wallace
Climate-Related Extreme Events: Teachable Moments
F. Fleming Crim
Controlling Reactions in Gases & Liquids
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Kurt Wuthrich
Exploring the Protein Universe with Physics
& Physical Chemistry Techniques
Special Lectures/Institute Lectures
Jayant V Narlikar
A Critique of Big Bang Cosmology Gulzar
Saahitya ke Jharokhe se Vigyan ki Rangoli Klaus Mullen
Molecular Electronics Sandip Pakvasa
Neutrinos: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow M G K Menon
Homi Bhabha’s life and work M S Valiathan
Vagbhata – physician, poet and preceptor extraordinary
T V Ramakrishnan
Superconductivity: Yesterday, today & tomorrow Peter J Gregson
The technical challenges facing air transport in the 21st century
Charles M Vest
Engineering education in the 21st century
Eric A Cornell
How symmetric is the electron? Looking for out-ofRoundness of 10–15 femtometers.
Uriel Frisch
Turbulence: scaling and beyond.
Can field theory and statistical physics help?
Richard G M Morris
The making, keeping and loosing memories
Bruce Alberts
Science and the World’s Future
Harald zur Hausen
Infectious causes of Human Cancers
Shinya Yamanaka
Induction of Pluripotency by Defined Factors
Peter C. Doherty
Science Protects Humanity: Adventures in Infection & Immunity
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12th Mar. 2012
THE CELL PRESS – TNQ INDIA – IISc DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP SERIES
David Baltimore
MicroRNAs in Inflammation and Cancer
16th Jan. 2008
Elizabeth Blackburn
Control of Telomerase
10th Feb. 2009
Shinya Yamanaka
New era of Medicine with iPS Cells
30th Jan. 2012
Awards for Faculty
Jaya-Jayant Award for Teaching Excellence in Science/Engineering
Year 1989 1992 1995 1998 2004 2007 2010 Science Prof. V G Tikekar Prof. R Vittal Rao Prof. C Ramakrishnan Prof. S V Subramanyam Prof. H L Bhat Prof. Diptiman Sen Dr. Mahesh Kumari Dept. Engineering MA Prof. N S Lakshmana Rao MA Prof. B S Sonde MB Prof. D P Sen Gupta PH Prof. N J Rao
PH Prof. V Ramanarayanan HE Prof. Priti Shankar MA Dr. M K Gunasekaran Dept.
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Alumni Award for Excellence in Research in Science/Engineering
Year Science Dept. Engineering 1991 Prof. P Balaram MB Prof. R Kumar 1992 Prof. G Padmanaban BC Prof. M A L Thathachar
1993 Prof. S K Rangarajan IP Prof. A Sridharan
1994 Prof. V Krishnan IP Prof. S Ranganathan 1995 Prof. K P Gopinathan MC Prof. H S Mukuda 1996 Prof. M Vijayan MB Prof. N Viswanadham 1997 Prof. T V Ramakrishnan PH Prof. Y V R K Prasad 1998 Prof. G S R Subba Rao OC Prof. V V S Sarma 1999 Prof. A Surolia MB Prof. Y V Venkatesh 2000 Prof. Anil Kumar PH Prof. K A Natarajan Prof. K J Rao SS
2001 Prof. S S Krishnamurthy IP Prof. S M Deshpande Prof. N Balakrishnan 2002 Prof. Biman Bagchi SS Prof. K Chattopadhyay 2003 Prof. A K Sood PH Prof. L M Patnaik 2004 Prof. S Chandrasekaran OC Prof. V H Arakeri 2005 Prof. D D Sarma SS Prof. J Srinivasan Prof. S K Biswas 2006 Prof. H R Krishnamurthy PH Prof. Vikram Jayaram 2007 Prof. K Muniyappa BC Prof. M Narasimha Murthy 2008 Prof. S V Bhat PH Prof. Anurag Kumar Prof. S Ramasesha SS
2009 Prof. T N Guru Row SS Prof. Y Narahari Prof. V Nagaraja MC Prof. Atul H Chokshi 2010 Prof. M S Hegde SS Prof. K P J Reddy Prof. H S Savithri BC
2011 Prof. A K Shukla SS
Prof. C E Veni Madhavan 2012
Prof. Manju Bansal
MB
Prof. B N Raghunandan
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Dept.
CH
EC
CE
MT
AE
CS
MT
CS
EE
MT
AE
AE
MT
CS
ME
AS
ME
MT
CS
EC
CS
MT
AE
CS
AE
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Prof. Rustom Choksi Award for Excellence in Research in Science/Engineering
Year Faculty Name
1993 Engineering Prof. V Rajaraman 1994 Science Prof. N Mukunda 1995 Engineering Prof. M L Munjal 1996 Science Prof. Madhav Gadgil 1997 Engineering Prof. K T Jacob 1998 Science Prof. H Sharat Chandra 1999 Engineering Prof. K R Padiyar 2000 Science Prof. J Gopalakrishnan 2001 Engineering Prof. B Dattaguru 2002 Science Prof. M R N Murthy 2003 Engineering Prof. R Narasimhan 2004 Science Prof. Chandan Dasgupta Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
2005 Engineering Prof. V T Ranganathan 2006 Science Prof. S B Krupanidhi Prof. Rohini M Godbole 2007 Engineering Prof. M K Surappa 2008 Science Prof. Rahul Pandit Prof. Saraswathi Vishveswara 2009 Engineering Prof. B Sundararajan 2010 Science Prof. M S Shaila 2011
Engineering
Prof. P R Mahapatra
Prof. V Kumaran
Dept.
SE
TS
ME
ES
MT
MC
EE
SS
AE
MB
ME
PH
ES
EE
MR
HE
MT
PH
MB
EC
MC
AE
CH
Amulya and Vimala Reddy Lecture Award in the Field of Sustainable Development
Year 1998 1998 2000 2002 2006 2008 2010 Faculty Name
Science Prof. G Lakshmi Sita Engineering Prof. D K Subramanian Engineering Prof. K S Jagadish Engineering Prof. H S Mukunda Engineering Prof. Udipi Srinivasa Engineering Prof. S Soundranayagam Engineering Prof. S S Lokras Engineering Prof. B V Venkatarama Reddy Dept.
MC
CS
CE
AE
ME
ME
CH
CE
Medals for Meritorious
Students
For the Best Course Students [ME/MTech/MDes/M.Mgt] For ME Students
Sl. No. Name of the Medal Frequency 1. Mrs. Sabita Chaudhuri
Memorial Medal
2. Dr. D Narayanamurti Medal 3. Prof. N R Kuloor Memorial
Medal
4. The P S Narayana Medal 5. The Computer Society of India
Medal (Bangalore Chapter)
6. The KK Malik Medal 7. SV Sastry Memorial Medal 8. The Alumni Medal 9. Prof ISN Murty Medal 10. The NR Khambhati Memorial
Medal (For System Science
& Automation)
11. The NR Khambhati Memorial
Medal
12. Prof. SVC Aiya Medal Alternate year (alternate to
Dr. D Narayanamurti medal)
Alternate year (alternate to
Mrs. Sabita Chaudhuri medal)
Yearly Dept.
AE
–
CH
Alternate year (alternate to
MSc (Engg))
Yearly CE
CS
Yearly Yearly Yearly Yearly Yearly MT
ME
EC/ED
EE/EC
EE
Yearly EE
Yearly EC
Yearly
Yearly
Yearly
SE
ED
IN
Alternate year (alternate to
PhD/MSc (Engg))
PD
Yearly MG
Alternate year (alternate to
Prof. A K Rao medal)
Alternate years (alternate to
Prof. Chintakindi V Joga Rao
Medal)
AE
For MTech Students
13. 14. 15. Motorola Medal The DESE Design Medal H R Babu Seetharam Medal For MDes Students
16. MAA Communications Medal For Master of Management (M. Mgt) Students
17.
Prof B G Raghavendra
Memorial Medal
For Research Students (PhD)
18. Prof Chintakindi V Joga Rao
Medal
19. Prof. A K Rao Medal 127
AE
128 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29 30. 31. 32. 33 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Medals for Meritorious Students
Prof. B K Subba Rao Medal Prof. K P Abraham Medal The Alumni Medal The Seshagiri Kaikini Medal Prof. D J Badkas Medal Prof. N S Govinda Rao Medal Prof. Giri Memorial Medal Mrs. C V Hanumantha Rao
Medal
The Shamrao Kaikini Medal The M Sreenivasaya Medal Prof. B H Iyer Medal Dr. J C Ghosh Medal
(Physical Chemistry)
Prof. S Soundararajan Medal
(Inorganic Chemistry)
The Guha Research Medal
The Toulouse Medal The Martin Forster Medal Prof. Anil Kumar Memorial
Medal [Experimental Physics]
Kumari L A Meera Memorial
Medal [Theoritical Physics]
The Indian Economic
Association Medal
Sir Vithal N Chandavarkar
Memorial Medal
Yearly Yearly Yearly Yearly Yearly Yearly Yearly
Yearly
ME
MT
CS
EC
EE
CE
BC
MD
Yearly
Yearly
Yearly
Yearly
ES
MC
MB
IP
Yearly
IP
Yearly Yearly
Yearly Yearly OC
SS
MA
PH
Yearly
PH/HE
Yearly
MG
Yearly SE
Yearly CH
Yearly
Yearly
Yearly
AS
MR
IN
Yearly Yearly Alternate year (alternate
to MDes)
ST
ED
For Research Students (PhD/MSc(Engg.))
40. Prof. N R Kuloor Memorial
Medal
41. The Roddam Family Medal 42. The Sudborough Medal 43. Dr. Srinivasa Rao
Krishnamurthy Medal
44. Amulya and Vimala Reddy Medal 45. Tag Corporation Medal 46. MAA Communications Medal
PD
For MSc (Engg.) Students
47. NASA’s Medal 48. Mrs Sabita Chaudhuri
Memorial Medal
49. ME Department Alumni
Medal
50. Dr. Karra Narasimhamurthy
Memorial Medal
51. Dr. M N S Swamy Medal Alternate year (alternate to
Mr Sabita Chaudhuri medal) AE
Alternate year (alternate to
NASA’s medal)
AE
Yearly ME
Yearly MT
Yearly
CS
Medals for Meritorious Students 129
52. 53. 54. 55. 56. Prof. F M Mowdawalla Medal The Hay Medal
Prof. K N Krishnaswamy
Medal
Prof. P S Narayana Medal Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal
Yearly
Yearly
Yearly EC
EE
MG
Alternate year (alternate to ME )
Yearly CE
SE
For Integrated PhD Students (MS Level)
57. 58. 59. 60. Dr. R K Maller Memorial Medal
Dr. A Nagaraja Rao Medal Prof. P L Bhatnagar Medal
Kumari L A Meera Memorial
Medal
Yearly
Yearly
Yearly
Yearly
Biological Sciences
Chemical Sciences
Mathematical Sciences
Physical Sciences
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