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Professor In-Charge

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &

Department of Civil Engineering

Email: schaudhary@iiti.ac.in

Phone: 91-731-660-3256

Research Interests:

  • Structural Engineering

  • Sustainable Construction Practices

  • Composite Bridges

  • Novel Bricks and Blocks

  • New List IteMicrostructure and Durability of Concretem

  • Waste management in building construction materials

Agriculture, Forestry and Environment

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &

Department of Chemistry

Email: sarkard@iiti.ac.in

Phone: 91-731-660-3179

Research Interests:

  • Visible Light Deactivation of Microbes

  • Vegetable Storage employing Visible Light Photodynamic Inactivation of Microbes

  • Isolation and application of Bioactive Natural Products

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
Discipline of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: mohana@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3367

Research Interests:

  • Agricultural Economics

  • Resource Economics: Energy, Water and Agroforestry

  • Environmental Economics: Climate Change Adaption and Impact Studies 

  • Urban and Rural Consumption Pattern

  • Farmer Producer Organizations 

Rural Healthcare

Centre for Rural Development and Technology & 

Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering
Email: asonawane@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3357

Research Interests:

  • Role of Mycobacterium tuberculosis glycoproteins and glycolipoproteins in modulation of host immune responses

  • Epigenomics of stem cells during M. tuberculosis infection

  • Host antimicrobial peptides in anti-mycobacterial immunity

  • Drug delivery

  • Development of L-asparaginase based therapy for the treatment of primary and relapse acute lymphatic leukemia

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering
Email: hemcjha@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3263

Research Interests:

  • COVID-19 biology

  • Biological and bioprocess modeling, control and multicriteria optimization

  • Host-pathogen interaction- Epstein-Barr virus and Helicobacter pylori associated co-infection in cancer progression

  • Epigenetic regulation- Pathogens derived pathogenesis in cancer

  • Pathogens burden during viral infection of Gastric Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis

  • Drug discovery in cancer and infectious agents derived diseases

  • Genetic Engineering

Technology Development and Skill Development

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Email: pkankar@iiti.ac.in

Phone: 91-731-660-3427

Research Interests:

  • Fault Diagnosis of Mechanical Components

  • Condition Based Maintenance

  • Machine Learning

  • Signal Processing

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &

Department of Civil Engineering

Email: farooqazam@iiti.ac.in

Phone: 91-731-660-3289

Research Interests:

  • Hydro-Meteorological monitoring

  • Glacier Mass and Dynamic studies

  • Energy Balance of Glacier and Snow Cover

  • Hydrological modelling of Himalayan Watersheds

  • Climate Change impacts on Himalayan Water Resources

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email: pkankar@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3427

Research Interests:

  • Frequency selective surfaces 

  • Microwave absorbers 

  • Conformal geometries 

  • Reflectarray antennas

  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

  • Microwave and millimeter-wave antennas

  • Three-dimensional (3-D) Printing

  • Reconfigurale Intelligent Surface (RIS)

Outreach and Gender Equality

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: ayanm@iiti.ac.in

Phone: 91-731-660-0000

Research Interests:

  • Internet of Things

  • Postcolonial Literature and Theory

  • Globalization Studies

  • World literatures in other languages in translation

  • Institutionalization of Postcolonial Literature

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &

Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering

Email: unmesh.khati@iiti.ac.in

Phone: 91-731-660-3386

Research Interests:

  • Remote sensing technique development

  • Application of remote sensing in Earth Observation

  • Extra-terrestrial and Planetary remote sensing

  • UAV sensor and instrumentation

  • Microwave remote sensing and applications

  • Time-series applications