Faculty members at IIT Madras carry out research in their areas of interests, often in collaboration with research scholars, doctoral scholars and other researchers. The Institute has ongoing research collaborations with several universities, governments and industries. The research expertise available at the Institute is organized below by department.
Please use this slide deck to get an idea of the research areas studied by our faculty members.
Major Areas of Research
Research Topics by Faculty Member
- Abhijit Choudhury
- Modeling of couple processes in subsurface hydrologic system for geothermics, oil & gas recovery, CO2 sequestration, Geomechanics and hydro-fracking, Flow and thermal instability, Stochastic modeling and parameter estimation, RO based desalination, Tsunami and structure interaction, Water waves
- Anuradha Banerjee
- Elasticity Plasticity,Fracture Mechanics,Fatigue,Composites
- Arockia rajan
- Smart composites, Ferroelectrics, Electro-active polymers, Material modeling, Experimental characterization
- Arul Prakash K
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer,Large Eddy Simulation and Related Techniques,Cooling Technologies,Thermal Hydraulics,
- Arun Kumar Thittai
- Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography, Image analysis, Image Processing, Ultrasound Therapeutics
- Lakshmana Rao C
- Buckling Control using Smart Materials,Ballistic Impact,Numerical modeling of brittle fracture
- Manivannan M
- Haptics,Medical Simulation,Virtual Reality,Computational Physiology.
- Pijush Ghosh
- Nanocomposites, Polymer Thin Film, Cement Hydration, Molecular Dynamics, Nanoindentation
- Prasad Patnaik
- Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Raghavendra Sai VV
- Sensors for Clinical Diagnostics, Environmental and Food Monitoring, Explosives and Toxin Detection, Fiber Optics & microfabricated waveguides, Nanoparticles & Materials
- Ramasubba Reddy M
- Biomedical Instrumentation,Biomedical Signal and Image Processing,Physiological Modelling,Rehabilitation Engineering
- Ramesh K
- Digital Photoelasticity,Fracture Mechanics,Computer Application in Experimental Mechanics
- Rinku Mukherjee
- Post-stall flow prediction, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Applied Aerodynamics, Flow modeling, Boundary Layer Stability Studies
- Sarith P Sathian
- Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Nanofluidics, Nanoscale heat transfer
- Satyanarayanan Seshadri
- Air Quality and Aerosol Research, Emission measurement and control methods, Sustainable thermal heating in Industrial applications, Pressure and energy recovery from steam, waste heat sources
- Saumendra Kumar Bajpai
- Biophysical aspect of human diseases, Tumor microenvironment, Micro-Nano devices for biomedical applications, Tissue remodeling
- Sayan Gupta
- Random vibrations,Nonlinear dynamics,Stochastic modeling,Risk assessment and structural reliability, Health Monitoring, Energy harvesting from wind, complex systems, network dynamics
- Shaikh Faruque Ali
- Vibration control, control of nonlinear systems, feedback linearization, energy harvesting, structural dynamics.
- Sivakumar MS
- smart materials,Constitutive modeling
- Sujatha N
- Bio-optics,Speckle metrology,Biomedical imaging