Department of Chemical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Indore


Working Committee

Dr Eswara Prasad Korimilli
Associate Professor
Email : eswar@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. 3280/5102))
POD1D 607
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Research Interests:
  • Mechanical behavior of Materials,
  • High strain rate deformation of materials,
  • Micromechanical testing
Dr. Shanmugam Dhinakaran
Professor, Head-ME
Email : sdhina@iiti.ac.in | ssdhinakar@gmail.com
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 731-6603240 )
Room No. 621 B; Silicon Building
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Research Interests:
  1. Non-Newtonian fluid Mechanics
  2. Biofluid Mechanics & Dynamics
  3. Heat transfer in porous media
  4. Bluff body flows
  5. Nanofluids
Dr. Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
Professor
Email : akk@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91-7316603250)
POD 1D-610
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Research Interests:
  • NANOMATERIALS & THIN FILMS: Metal oxides, Metals, Chalcogenides, Graphene & Maxenes
  • MATERIALS PROPERTIES: Defects, Surface modification, & Opto-electronic Properties
  • ELECTROCHEMISTRY: Green Hydrogen, Water Splitting, HER and OER, Electrodeposition, Electrocatalysis, Sensors, Corrosion
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICES: Resistive Memories (ReRAM), Photodetectors, Solar Cell, Power Semiconductor Devices
Dr. Tushar Kanti Mukherjee
Professor
Email : tusharm[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 0731 660 3352)
1D-408, POD Building
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Research Interests:
  • Nanoparticle-Based Bio-imaging Assemblies
  • Fluorescence Imaging
  • Quantum Dots and Plasmonic Nanoparticles
  • Protein-Protein and Protein-NP Interaction
  • Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Sensing
Dr. G. S. Murthy
Professor
Email : ganti.murthy@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91-731-660 (Ext. 3212))
Room No. 704, Silicon, IIT Indore, Khandwa Road, Simrol, Indore (M.P)- 453552
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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
Dr. Devendra Deshmukh
Professor
Email : dldeshmukh[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 731-6603231)
Room No. 618 B; Silicon Building
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Research Interests:

  • Internal Combustion Engines

  • Spray Diagnostics

  • Modeling I.C. Engine Processes

Dr. Vijai Laxmi
Assistant Professor
Email : vijai.laxmi [at] iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91-731-660-3174 )
Room No. 205-A, HUB Building
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Research Interests:
  • Microfluidics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Development of lab-on-a-chip/organ-on-a-chip models for healthcare purposes
Dr. Harekrishna Yadav
Assistant Professor
Email : krishnpme [at] iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 731-6603209)
Room No. 713, Silicon Building
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Research Interests:
  • Experimental Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Fluid Structure Interaction, Shear Flow, Flow and Turbulence Measurement using Optical Techniques, Heat Transfer Enhancement, Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Dr. Santosh Kumar Sahu
Professor
Email : sksahu@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 731-6603238)
Academic Pod, CSE-2 (101)
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Research Interests:
  • Thermal-hydraulics of nuclear reactors
  • Nanofluids
  • Gas flow through micro channels
  • Impinging jets
  • Heat exchangers
  • Pool boiling heat transfer
Dr. Neelesh Kumar Jain
Professor (HAG)
Email : nkjain[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 731-6603327)
Room No. 612; Silicon Building
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Research Interests:
  • Additive Manufacturing of High Melting Point Materials,
  • Surface Modification and Joining of Thin Sheets by µ-PTA Process
  • High Quality Gear Finishing by Advanced ECH, PECH, AFF
  • Sustainable and Green Manufacturing of Gears
  • Near Net-shape Manufacturing of Meso-sized Gears
  • Advanced and Hybrid Machining Processes,
  • Micromachining and Nano-finishing Processes
  • Process Selection, Modeling and Optimization of the Manufacturing Processes
Dr. Vinod Kumar
Associate Professor
Email : vkt@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. + 91-73243063251)
Room No. 1D- 412
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Research Interests:
  • Heat Treatment
  • Physical Metallurgy of multicomponent alloys
  • Powder Metallurgy
  • Nanomaterials
  • Metal recovery from Waste
Dr. Mrigendra Dubey
Associate Professor
Email : mdubey@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. ext. 3258)
Room No. 1D- 412
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Research Interests:
  • Development of multifunctional Soft Materials
  • Conductive and Fluorescent Metallogels.
  • Supramolecular gels as battery Electrolyte
  • Superabsorbent supramolecular Materials
  • Development of Fluorescent Carbon dots.
  • Superhydrophobic materials.
  • Corrosion Engineering
Dr. Sunil Kumar
Associate Professor
Email : sunil@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91-73243063281)
Room No. 1D- 416
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Research Interests:
  • Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems
  • Na-ion Batteries
  • All-Solid-State Rechargeable Batteries
  • Electroceramics
Dr. Rupesh S. Devan
Professor
Email : rupes@iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91-7316603244)
Room No. 1D-414
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Research Interests:
  • Photo-active materials for H2 and water treatment/remediation (OER,HER,Desalination, etc.)
  • Nano-hetero-architectures
  • Energy storage Materials
  • Photo-active materials for H2 and water treatment
Dr. Biswarup Pathak
Professor
Email : biswarup[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 0731 660 3348)
1A-724, POD Building
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Research Interests:
  • DFT
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Nanocluster
  • Nanomaterials
Dr. Satya S. Bulusu
Professor
Email : sbulusu[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 0731 660 3354)
1D-601, POD Building
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Research Interests:
  • Developing machine learning methods(Artificial neural networks) for chemical problems.
  • Modelling of atomic enviroments
  • Developing sampling algorithms
  • Using hardware technologies to parallelize our programs that will help to extend the above methods to experimentally relevant sizes.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh
Professor
Email : sksingh[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone : +91-731-2438 700 (Ext. +91 0731 660 3350)
1D-506, POD Building
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Research Interests:
  • Catalysts for Biomass transformation

(ACS Sustainable Chem., ChemCatChem, Inorg. Chem. Front., Green Chem.)

  • Catalysts for H2 generation/hydrogenation reactions

(Inorg. Chem., Catal. Sci. Technol., ChemCatChem.,
ACS Sustainable Chem., Eur. J. Inorg.Chem.)

  • Materials for H2/CO2 storage

(Sci. Rep., Energy Fuels, J. CO2 Util., Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.,
J. Mater. Chem. A, Catal. Sci. Technol.)

  • C-H activation reactions

(Inorg. Chem., Chem. Asian J., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.)

  • C-C/C-N coupling and other organic transformations

(Asian J. Org. Chem., Inorg. Chem., Catal. Sci. Technol.,
Inorg. Chem. Front., ChemCatChem)

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