BRIEF RESUMES OF THE SCHOLARS OF IITs, IISc-B & IISERs

MS. AAYUSH UNDERGRADUATE

CHEMICAL SCIENCESIISER, MOHALI

Areas of Interest :

Chemistry; an interdisciplinary approach to solving problems of contemporary interest, liquid crystals as biosensors, evolutionary biology

Special achievements:

CNR Rao Foundation Prize for academic excellence in the first two semesters of her stay at IISER Mohali

DAAD summer intern in Germany in May-June 2015 Participant in the first world science conference in Israel

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Playing badminton Reading novels and poems

MR. ANJISHNU BOSE

UNDERGRADUATEIISC BANGALORE

Areas of Interest :

Cosmology and Astrophysics

Special achievements:

NTSE Scholar (2011) KVPY-SA: 205 (2013) JEE-Mains: 16 (2015) JEE-Advanced: 26 (2015)

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Can Code in C language Play electronic keyboard (Grade 5 distinction certificate from Trinity

College of London)

MR. ANKIT SAXENA

POSTGRADUATEMECHANICAL & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

IIT ROORKEE

Areas of Interest :

He has interest in integrating mechanical engineering solutions with human physiology. In this regard his current focuses Areas are in human biomechanics. As a part of his research work, he is studying the human hip Joint, its constructions and stress levels. Mechanical solution for problematic hip joint through use of modern mechanical engineering tools. Other thing which interests him is study of history and cultural diversity of our nation.

Special achievements:

Contested and won the election student affairs council 2015-16 for the post of General Secretary Academic affairs PG, IIT Roorkee

Shortlisted on the basis of merit for an internship program to Japan from January, 22 2013 to February 12, 2013 during his masters’ program in IIITDM Jabalpur

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Travelling and exploring new areas Reading literature, fiction and biographies

MR. ARVIND SRIVASTAV

UNDERGRADUATEELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

IIT KHARAGPUR

Areas of Interest :

Electronics Bio-electronics Working on new ideas

Special achievements:

Winner of Digianatronics Impulse in IIT Kharagpur NTSE ScholarHobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Painting Helping poors

MR. BALLABH INDER KISHORE

UNDERGRADUATEMECHANICAL ENGINEERING

IIT PATNA

Areas of Interest :

His interest lies in innovating for the rural India. He was the coordinator of Rural Technology Development Club, IIT Patna for the Academic year (2015-2016) where he mentored the students in their 1st / 2nd year of B.Tech who were working on projects for the rural development

He worked on the fabrication of "Lac Bangle Machine" for automating the process of Lac Bangles production in MSME Muzaffarpur

He utilize his weekends in Teaching and organising events for the students of nearby schools

He always enjoy working with the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan Cell, IIT Patna and NSS, IIT Patna for the betterment of the Govt. schools of Amhara and Dilawarpur

He aspire to be a social entrepreneur by reforming rural education. With the optimum help of technology he plans to reform the current manner in which education is being imparted in the rural-schools

According to him the use of edutainment videos and laboratory activities enhances the learning outcomes of students of govt. schools

Special achievements:

Winner of the "Social Enterprise Pitch Competition 2014-15" organised by "Villgro Foundation"

Secured 1st position in the “State Boxing Championship” organised by U.P. Boxing Association

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Playing football Participate in dramas/short films in college Reading spiritual books

MR. BRAHADEESH SANKARNARAYANANUNDERGRADUATE

MATHEMATICSIISER BHOPAL

Areas of Interest:

The primary areas of interest of Mr. Sankarnarayanan are Algebra and Number Theory

He has studied some introductory Class Field Theory and intends to continue this study towards the Langlands Program after graduation

He maintains a keen interest in Physics and has taken many elective courses in it

He frequently enrolls in online courses in diverse fields like Astronomy, Biology, Data Science, Computer Programming and Philosophy

Special achievements:

Nominated by IISER Bhopal to attend the 1st World Science Conference, Israel (WSCI) held from Aug 15 to Aug 20, 2015 at the Hebrew University, to represent India as a member of the Indian delegation.

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Playing Chess Table-tennis Carnatic vocal music Patanjali Yoga Member of Maths and Biology Clubs

MR. EARNEST PAUL IJJINAPOSTGRADUATE

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGIIT HYDERABAD

Areas of Interest:

Deep Learning Computer Vision

Special achievements:

Inter-Departmental (Computers & Mechanical) M.Tech. Thesis at IIT Kharagpur

Under-Graduate Project sponsored under Red Hat Scholarships 2004-2005

GATE Percentile of 99.63 in GATE 2004 Computer Science

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Electronic do-it-yourself Projects Reading Japanese Manga

MR. GOURAV MODANWALPOSTGRADUATE

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERINGIIT BHU

Areas of Interest:

Human computer interaction Computer Vision Signal, Image and Video Processing Algorithm and Architecture

Special achievements:

Winner of “Institute Innovation Award 2016” Winner of “Navkriti medal 2015” for his innovative work by R & D, IIT

(BHU), Varanasi Winner of 1st prize in National level Robotic Competition in RGPV, Bhopal

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Reading Cooking Welfare of Technical Education

MS. GUNJAN GUPTAUNDERGRADUATE

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGYIIT DELHI

Areas of Interest:

Pursue debating and have also represented IIT at many college forums. Extremely passionate about reading and learning Social Innovations

because believes that Science is not always about learning the hi-tech stuff but also about solving the grassroot problems with simple solutions. She believes that a lot of knowledge and smart yet simple ideas are dispersed at the grassroot levels and there is a need to learn from them and solve the problems.

Special achievements:

Awarded Cargill Global Scholarship which is given to only 10 undergraduate engineering students from India

Recipient of the Summer Undergraduate Research Award by the institute Featured on the list of merit scholarship based on highest CGPA for four

consecutive years

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Like debating and public speaking Playing badminton Travelling

MR. KARTIKEYA UMESH UPASANIUNDERGRADUATE

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGIIT INDORE

Areas of Interest:

Artificial Intelligence Evolutionary Algorithms Distributed Systems Internet of Things

Special achievements:

President, Student Gymkhana, IIT Indore 2014-15

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Part of Table Tennis and Football teams of IIT Indore and high school Winner and organizer of Inter University Debate & Model United Nations

competitions Ardent trekker Follower of national & international politics

MR. MANJOT SINGHUNDERGRADUATE

CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGIIT GANDHINAGAR

Areas of Interest:

Water purification techniques Industrial process safety Modelling and optimisation of energy consumption Entrepreneurship Engineering economics Use of technology for social upliftment

Special achievements:

Winner of community based water purification challenge- Underwriters Laboratories

Awarded Dean's List for academic performance- IIT Gandhinagar Stood second in Regional Maths Olympiad (RMO) conducted by HBCSE

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Basketball Web development Reading books on Applied Psychology

MR. SOURODIP SENGUPTAPOSTGRADUATE

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESIISER KOLKATA

Areas of Interest:

Neurobiology Cognitive Science and Immunology

Special achievements:

Presently pursuing Integrated Ph.D Course at IISER Kolkata and had secured First Class First in M.Sc First Year. Had participated in Vijoyshi Camp, National Science Camp organized by KVPY, IISc., IISER Kolkata and INSPIRE for two consecutive years (2014 & 2015). During graduation, he presented poster on "Chromium Degrading Bacteria Isolated from Industrial Belts" in the 100 Indian Science Congress on January 2013 In the same year, he was also associated in a project work with the TATA Company, which was focused on isolation and cultivation of ALGAE for use in carbon sequestration He represented his college at Acharya Satyendra Bose Science & Technology Fair emphasising on the impact of global warming and the role of the Society in environmental conservation and was awarded the second prize

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Reading novels Writing Listening to music and theatre

MS. NUPUR RATHOREPOSTGRADUATE

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGIIT JODHPUR

Areas of Interest:

DC Microgrid

Special achievements:

Member of the organizing team for Short-term course and International Workshop organized by ICASET, IIT Jodhpur, 2013

Part of the organizing team for National Conference on Solar Thermal Energy Technologies, 2016

Advisor of institute’s planning and management committee of student’s body 2011-12(PROM)

Sponsorship head and member of the organizing committee of national level techno cultural fest EUREKA 2009 of M.B.M Engineering College

Participated in INTER-IIT Sports Meet as a part of the institute’s Basketball team

Active participant in various social initiatives and member of PARIVARTAN institute's social initiative group

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Reading and Sports

MS. NIKITA TRIVEDIPOSTGRADUATE

SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL SCIENCESIIT BHUBANESHWAR

Areas of Interest:

Digital Signal Processing Communications Systems

Special achievements:

Received Gold Medal from City Mayor (Ravindra Patni) for remarkable performance in academics in B.Tech

Attended the workshop on “MATLAB Programming” organized by Orane Infosystems

Successfully completed training program on “Embedded Systems and its Applications” organised by BRICS

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Organised and participated in Technocultural Fest Secured various positions in (Group Song, Recitation etc.) organised at

school level

MR. NIRMAL PUNJABIPOSTGRADUATE

BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERINGIIT BOMBAY

Areas of Interest:

Point of Care Diagnostics Development of low cost devices combining nanotechnology and optical

fiber based sensing for plasmonic immunoassays for use in biomedical and environmental application

Design, prototyping and validation of sensors with different geometries, surface chemistry and nanostructures

Breath analysis for disease diagnostics

Special achievements:

Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Optics+Optoelectronics 2015 Prague SPIE Travel Award 2014 OSA Travel Award for IONS-KOALA

2014 in Australia DBT-CTEP Grant for ICST 2013 in New Zealand ARCI-DST Fellowship 2012 for Visiting Research Scholar, University of

Waterloo, Canada

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Active member of IEEE, OSA & SPIE Reading books on yoga & philosophy Playing Judo

MR. PANKAJ ARORA

POSTGRADUATEELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

IIT MADRAS

Areas of Interest: Nano photonics and Microelectronics: The topic of his Ph.D. work pertains to the demonstration of a colorimetric label-free refractive index and thickness sensor using hybrid mode plasmon imaging on engineered nanostructures. The proposed imaging sensing technique with engineered plasmonic nanostructures is found to be a promising tool to distinguish refractive index and thickness induced surface modifications for both thin and thick analytes. The purpose of the work is to establish the foundation of stain-free, on-chip, color-contrast imaging sensor, where the optical image read-out of the sensor could be visually interpreted for surface modifications.

Special achievements:

Won Institute Research Scholar Award in IIT Madras in 2016 Two Best Student Paper awards in National and International Conferences Got 2nd position in the circuit designing contest- Circuitrix and 1st position in

the microprocessor coding contest- MNEMONICS in Technoesis'08, NIT Silchar (Assam)

Active member of organizing committee of many Institutional's events, IEEE and OSA student chapter at IIT Madras

Involved in UG and PG teaching as a TA

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Travelling to new places Trekking Trips

MS. S. LALITHA VAISHNAVIPOSTGRADUATE

SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRYIISER THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

Areas of Interest:

Chemistry, photo chemistry, spectroscopy, bio-inorganic chemistry

Special achievements:

Cleared CSIR-JRF December 2016 with all in rank of 25 in chemical science

Selected for an internship at Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany via "DAAD-WISE 2016"

Selected for an internship at University Of Chicago, USA via "SN Bose Scholars Program 2016"

Was In Top 1% At The Class XII Board Examination Conducted By BSE, Andhra Pradesh

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Reading Writing Painting

MR. SAURABH BHARDWAJPOSTGRADUATE

MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGIIT GUWAHATI

Areas of Interest:

Fluids and Thermal Engineering Multi-phase Flows Lattice Boltzmann Automata Convective Heat Transfer

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

Reading newspaper Learning about new technologies Dancing Watching science-fiction movies Playing Cricket