Associated Faculty

Prof. Abir De

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Learning over graphs, Human centric machine learning.

Prof. Aditi Chaubal

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests: Nonlinear time series analysis, Macroeconomics, Monetary economics.

Prof. Ajit Rajwade

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Image Restoration, Image Compression, Probability Density Estimation, Bayesian Methods, Compressive Sensing and Matrix Completion.

Prof. Ambarish Kunwar

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Biophysics, Computational Biology Laboratory

Prof. Ankur A. Kulkarni

Associate Professor, Department of Systems and Control Engineering

Research Interests: Game theory, Information theory, Stochastic control and Operations research

Prof. Amit Agrawal

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Turbulence, PIV, Heat Transfer, Rarefied Gas Flows, Microfluidics

Prof. Amit Sethi

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee, Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Deep learning, machine learning, image processing, computer vision, medical image analysis.

Prof. Arnab Jana

Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Studies

Research Interests: Infrastructure planning and location-allocation model, Application of ICT in urban and regional planning, Urban policy assessment, Econometric and behavioral modeling.

Prof. Arnab Dutta

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Research Interests: Bio-inorganic chemistry, Enzyme-inspired catalyst design, Alternative energy research.

Prof. Ashish Pandey

Associate Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management

Research Interests: Mindfulness and yoga and its relevance in the field of management, Spirituality at workplace and Business and society interface and best practices in management and OD.

Prof. Ashutosh Kumar

Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Structural Biology, Biophysics,Solid and Liquid-state NMR Spectroscopy, Protein-Protein, Protein-lipid and Protein-drug interactions.

Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization, Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization, Algorithms, Software and Applications of Optimization, Timetabling, Operations Research.

Prof. B. Ravi

Institute Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Metal casting simulation, Medical device innovation, Smart manufacturing.

Prof. Biplab Banerjee

Associate Professor, Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision.

Prof. Darshan S. Shah

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Biomechanics, Orthopaedics, Musculoskeletal system, In-vitro testing.

Prof. Debasish Chatterjee

Professor, Department of Systems and Control Engineering

Research Interests: Constrained & sparse control, Learning theory & probability, Optimization based control differential geometry, Topology.

Prof. Debjani Paul

Associate Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Microfluidic devices for healthcare applications, Biological physics.

Prof. Dipti Gupta

Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests: Flexible and stretchable electronics, Organic electronic devices for energy and biomedical applications, Printed electronic and energy storage devices.

Prof. Mahendra Shahare

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sociology of Science, History of Science and Technology, S&T Policy Studies.

Prof. Manjesh Hanawal

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Interests: Communication Networks, Machine Learning, Network Economics.

Prof. Manoj Gopalakrishnan

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests: Algorithms in nature, Information processing in networks, Reaction networks, Neural networks, Evolution, Game theory, Deep learning, Information geometry, Thermodynamics of information, Quantum Information.

Prof. Mithun Mitra

Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Research Interests: Spatial organisation of the 3D genome

Prof. Mrinmoyi Kulkarni

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests: Health, Gender, Development

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj

Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Interests: Railway Operations Management, Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (including Pricing and Revenue Management), Applications to Health Care, Applications of O.R. in the aviation sector.

Dr. Neeta Kanekar

Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Research Interests:
Motor Control, Organization and execution of human movement and postural control in health and disease
Movement Neuroscience, Motor Learning, Neural Plasticity, Rehabilitation Science
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Neuromodulation
Development of Rehabilitation Interventions

Prof. P. Balamurugan

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining with a particular emphasis on developing simple, yet efficient practical algorithms (mostly from an optimization perspective) for various problems, Probabilistic, statistical and learning-theoretic facets of different problems, Longitudinal data analysis techniques.

Prof. Prakriti Tayalia

Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences & Engineering

Prof. Pramod Wangikar

Institute Chair Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Biology, Biochemical Engineering, Modelling, Process Control.

Prof. Petety Balaji

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Glycobiology.

Prof. Preethi Jyothi

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Computational Speech and Language Technologies (CSALT).

Prof. Puja Padhi

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Science

Research Interests: Macro Economics, Monetary and Financial Economics, Financial Econometrics, and Financing Sustainable Development.

Dr. Puneet Misra

MD, MPH (USA), PGDHHM, FIPHA, FIAPSM - All India Institute of Medical Science

Interest Areas: Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes, Psychological health, Injury Prevention, Lifestyle interventions including Yoga, Adolescent health, Reproductive and Sexual Health, HIV Surveillance, Family Medicine, Health administration

Prof. Rajani Joshi

Professor, Department of Mathematics

Research Interests: Extension and Web Implementation of PROPAINOR for ab-initio Prediction and Computational Function Elucidation of 3D Structure of Proteins, Instrumentation assisted Decision Support System deploying Data Mining Techniques for Pulse Examination & Diagnostics (Nadi Pariksha), Software Development for ab-initio Prediction of 3D Structure of Proteins using a Knowledge-based Nonparametric Regression Method, Development of Neural Network Based AI Software for Epitope-Paratope Designing, Neural Network and AI Modelling for Antibody Repertoire Optimization, Nonlinear Stochastic Optimization of Antibody Inventory.

Prof. Rama Pal

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests: Inclusive Development, Migration, Health and Education, Applied Econometrics.

Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri

Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Research Interests: My broad areas of interest are biophysics and soft-matter physics. I do theoretical studies to understand various physical and biological phenomena, using a variety of tools from physics including equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, polymer physics, and soft-matter theory. I tackle research problems using a combination of computational (numerical) and analytical methods. My specific areas of interest include (i) Organisation of Chromatin, (ii) Self-assembly of proteins, and (iii) Decision-making in cellular processes.

Prof. Rashmi Gupta

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests: Cognition emotion attention, ADHD depression.

Prof. Rohit Srivastava

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Medical Diagnostic Devices, Nanoengineered Materials, BioMEMS, Photothermal Cancer Therapy.

Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering,

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee, Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Proteomics describes the study and characterization of a complete set of proteins present in a cell, organ, or organism at a given time. My laboratory is using high throughput proteomic techniques such as two-dimensional difference in gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and protein microarray, etc. for biomarker discovery in cancer & tropical diseases of India such as malaria, to study protein-protein interactions and drug target discovery. Information obtained from the research program is also used for in silico studies and computing models to enhance our understanding of a systems approach.

Prof. Santanu Kumar Ghosh

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Understanding mechanism of faithful chromosome segregation during meiotic cell division.
Functional studies of different regulatory factors involved in vegetative cell division.
Exploring 2 micron plasmid biology to study fundamental biological processes like chromatin organization and post translational protein modifications.
Epigenetic and genetic factors that influence Candida life cycle.

Prof. Santosh Noronha

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Research Interest: Biochemical Engineering, Bio molecular Engineering, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Green Engineering, Renewable Resources.

Prof. Sarika Mehra

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Biology, Systems Biology.

Prof. Siby George

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests:

Philosophical corpuses of interest: Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, Charles Taylor, Judith Butler, B. R. Ambedkar, Narayana Guru.

Philosophical themes of interest: self and other; finitude and agency; pain and dying; development and technology; the ethics of teaching; environmental ethics; political morality…

Prof. Siddhartha P. Duttagupta

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests: Tera Hertz Spectroscopy, Wireless RF Power Transfer (highly directive reflect-array antenna), Silicon Photo Multiplier (avalanche photo-diode array based single photon detector), Photo Electro Chemical Power Converter (ultra-low light intensity operation), High Performance Computing (real-time, non-uniform, photo-intensity mapping), Mobile Green Hybrid Power Platforms (air-borne, off-shore, sub-surface monitoring)

Prof. Siuli Mukhopadhyay

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee, Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Health data analytics, disease modelling, design of experiments, linear and generalized linear models, missing data analysis, predictive maintenance, machine learning.

Prof. Souvik Banerjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Health Policy, Health Services Research, Labour Economics, Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes Research.

Prof. Suyash Awate

Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Image Analysis, Medical Image Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Statistical Modelling and Inference.

Dr. Swati Patankar

Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Regulation of gene expression in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum: transcription initiation, translation initiation, splicing
Bioinformatics analysis of P. falciparum genome sequence to study regulation of gene expression and acquisition of genetic diversity
P. falciparum tubulin as a target for anti-malarial compounds
Anti-oxidant networks in P. falciparum.

Prof. Ms. Usha Ananthakumar

Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management

Research Interests: Applied Statistics, Classification under Imbalance, Statistical Learning, Data Mining.

Prof. Vivek Kant

Assistant Professor, IDC School of Design

Research Interests: Systems Design, Human Factors (Cognitive Systems Engineering/ Cognitive Ergonomics), Interaction Design and Cognition (Embodied, Embedded, Extended and Enactive), Sociotechnical Systems, Safety-Critical Systems, Risk and Resilience, Operator Experience (OX), Interaction Design in Complex Systems, History and Philosophy of Design and Engineering.