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Professor In-Charge

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

Agriculture, Forestry and Environment

Centre for Rural Development and Technology & 

Discipline of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: psharma@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731- 660-3469

Research Interests:

  • Agricultural Economics (Economics of Land, Water and Forests)

  • Development Economics (Rural Poverty and Trade Concerns of Developing Countries

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering
Email: ganti.murthy@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3212

Research Interests:

  • Bioprocess development and scaleup for production of value added bioproducts and biofuels

  • Biological and bioprocess modeling, control and multicriteria optimization

  • Systems analysis using technoeconomic analysis, life cycle assessment and resource assessment

  • Resilience and sustainability at the nexus of nutrient-energy-water-land

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 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

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
Department of Physics
Email: rajeshkumar@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3313

Research Interests:

  • Nanomaterials & nanodevices

  • Electronic and electrochromic devices

  • Device physics, Raman Spectroscopy & Microscopy 

  • Natural Biomaterials

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email: shaibal@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3262

Research Interests:

  •  Low-cost HEMTs/HFETs for DC-to-DC converters

  •  Heterogeneously-integrated RRAMs for image processing and neuromorphic computation

  • Next-generation ultrathin and low-cost photovoltaic

  • Flexible and low-cost bio-chemical sensors for agriculture, water, and air

  • High-performance UV detectors

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email: skvishvakarma@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3275

Research Interests:

  • Energy-Efficient and Reliable SRAM Memory Design

  • Hardware-Efficient Architecture for DNN Accelerators

  • SRAM-based In-Memory Computing Architecture for Edge AI 

  • Reliable, Secure Design for IoT Application

  • Design for Reliability

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

Outreach and Gender Equality

Centre for Rural Development and Technology &
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: nmenon@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3322

Research Interests:

  • Digital Humanities

  • 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 Civil Engineering
Email: neelima.satyam@iiti.ac.in
Phone: 91-731-660-3290

Research Interests:

  • Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

  • Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction Analysis

  • Liquefaction Hazard and Mitigation

  • Epigenetic regulation- Pathogens derived pathogenesis in cancer

  • Environmental Geotechnics

  • Landslide Research

  • Rock Mechanics and Underground Structures