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.
Research Topics by Faculty Member
- Mahesh Kumar
- Power distribution network,Power quality monitoring, analysisand interpretation,Power electronics application in power system,Custom power devices, DSTATCOM, DVR, UPQC etc.
- Manivasakan R
- Performance analysis of communication networks in general and optical networks in particular, Enabling technologies which emulate All-Optical Networks
- Mathiazhagan C
- Basic analog and digital circuits, RF and high speed circuits, instrumentation.
- Nagendra Krishnapura
- Analog integrated circuit design, RF integrated circuit design, Analog signal processing, Circuits and systems education
- Pradeep Sarvepalli
- Coding theory, Quantum error-correcting codes, Quantum cryptography, Quantum algorithms
- Radhakrishna Ganti
- Wireless Networks,Communication Systems
- Sarathi R
- Development of cryogenic insulation material,Condition Monitoring of power apparatus using Multi sensor fusion technique,Understanding the influence of space charge on breakdown process in nanocomposites and elastomers adopting PEA technique,Development of nano composite insulating materials for outdoor applications,Fault diagnosis in transformers using Acoustic emission and UHF Sensors,Application of Wavelet Technique to Condition Monitoring of Outdoor insulating structures,Fractal Modeling and Simulation of Treeing in electrical Insulation,Generation of Nano particles by pulsed power technique,Sterilization of liquid foods using pulsed power technique
- Saurabh Saxena
- High speed serial links , low power wireless sensors, high speed clock generation circuits
- Shanti Bhattacharya
- Diffractive Optics,Fibre Interferometry,Optical MEMS
- Soumya Dutta
- Organic/Polymer Solar Cells (Introducing Plasmonics),Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFT) and Basic Circuits, Photophysics of Organic Electronic Devices, Photophysics of Graphene/Organic Semiconductor Heterostructure, OTFT based Chemical Sensors, Printed Electronics/Circuits
- Srikrishna B
- Communication and Information theory, Wireless Networks, Statistical Signal processing
- Srirama Srinivas
- Multi-level Inverters, PWM switching schemes for AC Drives, Power electronic interface - automotive applications - renewable energy systems - grid-integration.
- Swarup KS
- Computer Modeling, Simulation, Analysis of Electrical Power Systems,Numerical Optimization of Power Systems,Digital and Numerical Protection of Power Systems,Substation and Distribution System Automation,Energy management Systems and SCADA
- Uday K Khankhoje
- computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic scattering, microwave remote sensing

