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His research is in the broad area of acoustics, vibration. His focus is on mathematical
formulation and analytical solution of problems in dynamics and acoustics. He has made
Associate Professor 210, Machine Design significant research contributions on the understanding of the dispersion characteristics
Dr. Abhjit Sarkar Section of structural acoustics waveguides, vortex-induced vibration characteristics, vibration of
rotating structures, etc. He is engaged in industrial consultancy activities for leading
industries and also conducting continuing education program for participants from
industry and academia.

Institute Chair Prof. Krishnan Balasubramanian’s research interests include Ultrasonics and acoustics,
Dr. Krishnan 301, Machine Design
Professor and Dean structural health monitoring, micro and nano imaging, nondestructive evaluation,
Balasubramanian Section
(IC&SR) materials characterization and wave propagation.

Prof. Chandramouli earned his Ph. D. from The Ohio State University, USA, in 1994. After a
stint in the industry with Copeland Corporation (now Emerson Climate Technologies) in
401, Machine Design the US, he returned to IIT Madras as a faculty in 1997.
Dr. Chandramouli, P. Professor
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His primary research interests are in the areas of Non-linear and Multi-body Dynamics,
Noise and Vibration

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Dr. Gnanamoorthy, R. Professor
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Dr. Krishna Kannan received his Ph.D. in 2004 and Masters in 2000 both from Texas A&M
University in Mechanical Engineering. He worked for Thermax after his B.E. (from PSG
College of Technology) for about an year. After his PhD, he continued in the same group
with Prof. K. R. Rajagopal as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined IIT Madras as a faculty in the
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Dr. Krishna Kannan Professor year 2006.
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His current research interests include Mechanics of filled elastomers, Thermodynamical
frameworks for polymer crystallization and reacting systems, Constitutive modelling of
viscoelastic materials, and Constitutive modelling of implicit materials.

Dr. Manoj Pandey received his PhD degree from Department of Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics at Cornell University in 2006 and B.Tech. degree from IIT Madras in 2001 prior
to that. He was a Post Doctoral research associate at the Sonic MEMS lab at Cornell from
2009-2012. He also worked at Finite Element company Abaqus from 2006-2009 and glass
manufacturing company Corning from 2010-2011. He was a visiting faculty at IIT
411, Machine Design Hyderabad from June-October 2012 before joining IIT Madras.
Dr. Manoj Pandey Assistant Professor
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His research interests are in the computational mechanics and nonlinear dynamics based
study of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). This involves multi-physics
simulations of these devices based on reduced order nonlinear model generation. He also
works on FEM based multi-scale problems especially related to homogenization methods
applied to plastically deforming honeycomb structures and masonry.

Dr. Narasimhan Swaminathan received his PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
in 2009. He worked as Post Doctoral Research Research Associate at The Universtiy of
Wisocnsin Madison, USA for three years from 2009 to 2012 before joining IIT Madras.
Dr. Narasimhan
206, Machine Design
Swaminathan Associate Professor His research interest includes multiscale modeling of complex phenomenon in a wide
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range of materials. He works on materials for energy applications such as nuclear
materials, Li-ion batteries and solid oxide fuel cells. He also conducts atomistic
simulations to understand the interface properties between polymers and other
materials.

Dr. Parag Ravindran received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, USA.
409, Machine Design
Dr. Parag Ravindran Associate Professor
Section His research interests are in the area of constitutive modeling of the thermo-mechanical
response of viscoelastic materials.
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Dr. Piyush Shakya received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT
Delhi in 2015. He finished his Dual Degree (B. Tech in Mechanical and M. Tech in Product
Design) from IIT Madras in 2006. He worked as “Member R&D” in TVS motor company,
Hosur from 2006 to 2010. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he was a Research Fellow in the
405, Machine Design School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing at the Cranfield University.
Dr. Piyush Shakya Assistant Professor
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His research interests include condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, and prognosis. He is
interested in developing condition monitoring techniques capable of accounting for
different types of variations present in practical scenarios (dataset to dataset variations,
defect topography variations etc.).

Prior to joining IIT Madras Prabhu Rajagpopal worked as a post-doctoral researcher at

Imperial College London where he developed hybrid modeling techniques for ultrasonic
inspection of welds on a Rolls Royce funded project. While in the UK he served as a co-
consultant to companies including BAE systems, British Energy Ltd and Frazer Nash
Consultancy. He is currently the principal investigator in a BRNS sponsored project on
advanced NDE techniques for the nuclear industry, a four-year European Union FP-7
Associate Professor 410, Machine Design
Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal funded international collaborative project on the health monitoring of wind farms and a
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DST-funded four-year Indo-German consortium project on the inspection of adhesive
bonded joints for the public transport bus industry.

His areas of expertise include guided ultrasonic inspection, modeling of elastic wave
phenomena and analysis of wave scattering.

Dr. Raghu Prakash received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
209, Machine Design
Dr. Raghu V Prakash Professor His research interests include Fatigue of materials, small specimen testing, environmental
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degradation of materials and product development.

Dr. Raju Sethuraman received his PhD from IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, India in 1990. He
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Professor worked as Assistant Professor at IIT-Kanpur from 1990 to 1996 before joining IIT-
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Madras. His research interest includes Computational Solid Mechanics.

Dr. P.Ramkumar joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical

Engineering in IIT Madras in 2012. Prior to coming to IIT Madras, he was an Associate
Professor at SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. Dr. Ramkumar received his B.E in
Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University and his
Assistant Professor
Dr. Ramkumar, P. 408, Machine Design M.Tech (Industrial Tribology) from IIT Madras. Later, he pursued Ph.D. from University of
Section Southampton, UK and did his post doctoral fellowship in University of Leicester, UK.

His research interests are in the field of tribology, including developing new materials and
coatings for engine tribology, nano-lubrication, gearbox design, Electrostatic condition
monitoring and developing new materials for brake application.

Dr. Ratna Kumar Annabattula received his PhD from University of Groningen, The
Netherlands in 2011. He received his B.E. (Andhra University) and M.E. (Indian Institute
of Science) in 2002 and 2004, respectively, both in Mechanical Engineering. He was as a
postdoctoral researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany for about two and
Dr. Ratna Kumar
208, Machine Design half years before joining IIT Madras in December 2012. He was with G.E. India Technology
Annabattula Associate Professor
Section Centre, Bangalore, India for 10 months as a Design Engineer during 2004-2005.

His current research interests include mechanics of stimuli-responsive thin films,

mechanics of granular materials for energy applications such as nuclear fusion, lithium-
ion batteries and solar thermal energy and multiscale materials modeling.

Dr. A. Seshadri Sekhar received his PhD from IIT Madras, India in 1993. He has joined IIT
Kharagpur in 1993 as a lecturer and got promoted as Professor in 2003. He has published
over 150 papers in international journals and conferences. He is the co-author of the book
Dr. Seshadri Sekhar, –Dynamic Analysis of Rotating Systems and Applications (Multi Science Publishing Ltd.,
205, Machine Design
A. Professor UK).
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His areas of research include rotor dynamics, tribology, condition monitoring and
vibrations. He had earlier worked as an Engineer, for about 4 years in NTPC and BemL,
before settling in teaching profession.
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Dr. Shankar Krishnapillai is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute

of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). He obtained his bachelors degree (BTech) in
Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum (Kerala University) in
1988. He holds a Doctorate (DPhil) from the University of Oxford, UK in 1996 in the area
Dr. Shankar 212, Machine Design of structural dynamics. Thereafter he has worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center, USA
Professor
Krishnapillai Section and held a teaching position at the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of
Singapore.

His current research interests include Structural Vibrations, Machine Design,

Optimization Methods, System Identification, and Socially Relevant Technology.

Dr Sourav Rakshit received his PhD and ME from IISc Bangalore in 2012 and 2006
respectively. He is a BE in mechanical engineering from Jadavpur University. He was a
postdoctoral researcher at University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2012 to 2014,
204, Machine Design and before joining IIT Madras he was institute postdoc at IIT Kanpur (May-July 2014). He
Dr. Sourav Rakshit Assistant Professor
Section worked as a scientist in the reactor engineering division in BARC from 2000-2004.

Sourav’s research interests are in multibody dynamics, robotics, biomechanics,

optimization, and computation methods in general.

Dr. Sujatha graduated with her B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT-Madras in
1992, her MSME from the University of Toledo, USA in 1994, and after a long stint in the
prosthetics industry, her PhD from the Ohio State University in 2007. She joined the
faculty at IIT-Madras in 2008.

Dr. Sujatha’s work is in the areas of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Biomechanics and
Dr. Sujatha 404, Machine Design
Professor Mechanisms. Her Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2) group focuses
Srinivasan Section
on the development of assistive devices and aids for rehabilitation that are
biomechanically and economically suited to Indian lifestyles and conditions. Dr. Sujatha’s
students have won awards at prestigious national competitions for their projects in
assistive devices and her group has also applied for several Indian patents for assistive
device designs. She is a co-inventor on several US and international patents for prosthetic
designs from her prior work.

Dr. C. Sujatha received her PhD from IIT Madras. She has been a faculty at IIT Madras
since 1984. She has guided 10 PhD, 21 M.S. (Research) students till date.
Dr. Sujatha, C. 407, Machine Design
Professor
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Her research interests include vehicular vibrations, condition monitoring, signal analysis
for mechanical systems.

Born in Madras in 1978, Dr. Sundararajan Natarajan (Sundar) joined the Machine Design
Section, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras on 10th Sep 2014, as an
Assistant Professor. Before this Sundar was a post-doctoral research fellow in the School
of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia. Sundar graduated in Computational Mechanics with a PhD from Cardiff
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Associate Professor University, UK, under the guidance of Professor Stéphane PA Bordas and Dr Pierre
Natarajan Section
Kerfriden.

Sundar is an active member of legato team. Sundar’s research interests includes

development and application of advanced discretization techniques for moving boundary
problems within a multi physics/multiscale framework.