Principal Investigator
Prof. Bhaskaran Muralidharan is an Inani Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay in 2001 and his M. S. and Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. From 2008-2012, he was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He joined IIT Bombay in May 2012 as an Assistant Professor, and since May 2021, he has been a full Professor. During his tenure as a faculty member at IIT Bombay, he has received numerous awards, including the APS-IUSSTF professorship award, the Excellence in teaching award from IIT Bombay, the Shastri Indo-Canada fellowship, and the SERB-STAR award from the Government of India. His core research interests include computational quantum transport and its applications to modeling and simulation of “Beyond Moore” devices. His research output spans diverse areas of emerging and exploratory nanoscale devices, ultimately built on top of a broad and fundamental foundation of utilizing quantum transport for novel functionalities.
Ph.D. Students
Shrushti Tapar
Bio: Shrushti graduated from Govt. College of Engineering Amravati, Maharashtra, in 2012 with a B.Tech. (IN), followed by a Master (ECE) from HVPN, Maharashtra. She joined the Ph.D. in 2020 in Solid State Devices in the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay.
Research Area: Modeling and simulation of 2D-materials-based devices
Research Interest: Exploration of valleytronics, straintronics, and magnetotransport in topological materials, graphene, and TMDCs
Swastik Sahoo
Bio: Swastik graduated in 2009 from BPUT Rourkela, Odisha, with a B.Tech. (ECE) followed by a Masters (ECE) from IIT Kharagpur, India. He joined the CNQT Group, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay as a Ph.D. research scholar in 2020.
Research Area: Modeling and Simulation of 2D-Material-based Devices
Research Interest: Exploration of straintronics in 2D Xenes and potential NEMS applications, Spin-based transport in Xenes and TMDCs
Pooja Kawde
Bio: Pooja graduated from YCCE Nagpur, Maharashtra, in 2015 with a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, followed by an M.Tech. in VLSI Design from VNIT Nagpur in 2019. She joined Ph.D. in 2020, in the CRNTs at IIT Bombay.
Research Area: Dark current modeling and simulations for novel T2SL-based infrared photodetectors
Research Interest: Infrared Photodetectors, III-V-based optoelectronic devices
Rohit Kumar
Bio: Rohit obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics from the University of Delhi, India in 2015. Subsequently, he received his Master’s degree in Electronic Science from the Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering & Technology at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. In 2020, he joined the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Bombay as a Doctoral Research Fellow. Prior to starting his Ph.D. at IIT Bombay, he served as a Junior Research Fellow in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Kanpur. He has interned with the VLSI Lab, SSPL-DRDO, New Delhi and NISE, Gurugram, Haryana, during his master summer project.
Research Area: Modeling and atomistic simulations of IR detectors, Semiclassical and non-equilibrium quantum transport in 2D materials and devices
Research Interest: Computational Nanoelectronics, Nanoscale device modeling and atomistic simulations, Novel 2D materials and Quantum devices, Light-matter interaction
Saumya Gupta
Bio: Saumya Gupta is a Senior Research Fellow (SRF-UGC). She completed her Masters degree in Electronics from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, in 2018 and her Bachelors in Science (Electronics) from Allahabad University in 2016. She has also worked at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory during her masters project. She joined IIT Bombay as a Junior Research Fellow in 2020.
Research Area: Neuromorphic Spintronic device modeling and simulation for application in neural networks
Research Interest: Spintronic device application for real-time machine learning tasks
Sundeep Kapila
Bio: Sundeep obtained his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from IIT Bombay in 2001. Sundeep is also a co-founder and CEO of the Swasth Foundation. He joined the Solid State Devices, Department of Electrical Engineering, for his Ph.D. in July 2021.
Research Area: Quantum computing and information processing, Analysis of Qubits
Research Interest: Quantum Technology, Non-Equilibrium Quantum Transport, Bio-sensors
Rahul Awale
Bio: Rahul completed his B.E. degree from Nagpur University in 2013. He pursued two MS from MISIS (Russia) and UPSUD (France) in the field of Nanotechnology. Later, he joined the IITB-Monash Ph.D. program in July 2022.
Research Area: 2D Quantum FET for low-power electronics
Research Interest: Nanoelectronics devices, Device Physics and Simulations
Aparajita Modak
Bio: Aparajita completed her B.Tech. in Radio Physics and Electronics (post-Physics Hons) from the University of Calcutta. She received her M.Tech. from NIT Silchar on Microelectronics and VLSI design. In 2021, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay as a Ph.D. research scholar. Aparajita was awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship in July 2022.
Research Area: Quantum computing and information processing
Research Interest: Quantum Controlled Sensors, Qubit noise modeling, Quantum transport, Spectroscopy
Shivam Maharaj
Bio: Shivam obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from St. Edmund College, Shillong, and his M.Sc. in Physics from NIT Rourkela in 2023. He joined the CNQT Group, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay as a Ph.D. research scholar in 2023.
Research Area: Semi-classical carrier transport in 2D materials, MXenes for wireless communications
Research Interest: Dephasing mechanism in a topological insulator, Non- equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Ph.D. Alumni
- Dr. Anuja Singh, Ph.D. 2025, Currently with GlobalFoundries, Bangalore
- Dr. Anirban Basak, Ph.D. 2024
- Dr. Venkatesh Vadde, Ph.D. 2024, Currently Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Dr. Anup Kumar Mandia, Ph.D. 2022, (Naik and Rastogi Excellence in Ph. D. Thesis Award-2023), Currently with R&D Team, IKST Bengaluru
- Dr. Abhinaba Sinha, Ph.D. 2021, Currently Assistant Professor at Amity University, Gurugram
- Dr. Swarnadip Mukherjee, Ph.D. 2021, Currently with Micron Technologies, Hyderabad
- Dr. Pankaj Priyadarshi, Ph.D. 2020, Currently Post-doctoral Associate, University of Warwick, UK
- Dr. Bitan De, Ph.D. 2019, Currently Post-doctoral Associate, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
- Dr. Debasis Das, Ph.D. 2019, Currently Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani, Goa
- Dr. Abhishek Sharma, (Excellence in Ph.D. Award, 2019), Currently Assistant Professor at IIT Ropar
- Dr. Jyotsna Bahl, Ph.D. 2019
- Dr. Aniket Singha, Ph.D. 2017, Currently Assistant Professor at IIT Kharagpur
Post-Doc Alumni
- Dr. Jagritee Talukdar, Post-Doctoral Associate 2023-2024, Currently Assistant Professor at NIT Meghalaya
- Dr. Kalpana P., Post-Doctoral Associate 2020-2023, Currently at IISER Mohali
- Dr. Varun Sharma, Post-Doctoral Associate 2020-2021, Currently Assistant Professor at MITS Gwalior
- Dr. Alestin Mawrie, Post-Doctoral Associate 2018-2019, Currently Assistant Professor at IIT Indore
Masters/Dual Degree Students
- Shashwat Chakraborty
- Tanveer Molla
- Kartik Chikkangoudar
- Aryan Bhaskar
Undergraduate Students (B. Tech + Other Projects)
- Siddhant Midha [Research Interest: Topological electronics]
- Manas Nagda [Research Interest: Modeling and simulation]
- Arnav Arora (IIT Roorkee) [Research Interest: Steady-state dynamics and non-local correlations in thermoelectric Cooper pair splitters]
- Ayan Das [Research Interest: Modeling and simulation, Quantum transport]
- Deevyanshu Malu [Research Interest: Quantum computing and AI/ML]
- Deeptanshu Malu [Research Interest: Quantum computing and AI/ML]
- Debasish Panda [Research Interest: Transport phenomena in superconductor hybrid structures]
- Arnav Jain [Research Interest: Topological phases of matter, Strongly correlated systems, Spin-orbit torque: Materials, mechanisms and applications]
UG/Dual Degree Alumni
- Sanket J Hanamashetti (Research Project on TMDFETs for neuromorphic computing-2023) – Now at Texas Instruments
- Mahadevan Subramanian (Research Projects -Now pursuing PhD in University of Chicago)
- Roshni Singh (Dual Degree Project 2023- Now pursuing PhD in UC Berkeley)- Institute Silver Medal
- Koustav Jana (Dual Degree Project 2022 – Now pursuing PhD in Stanford University) – Institute Gold Medal and Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Amal Mathew (B. Tech Project 2022 -Now pursuing PhD in Stanford University)
- Atri Dutta (Dual Degree Project 2021- Now Pursuing PhD in Weizmann Institute) – Outstanding Project Award
- Adarsh Kumar (Dual Degree Project – 2021)
- Anantha Hegde (Dual Degree Project – 2021)
- Arush Gupta (Dual Degree Project -2021)
- Sai Kiran (M.Tech Project -2021) – Now at Xilinx
- Naveen Thottapalli (M. Tech Project -2021)
- Chaitrali Duse (B. Tech Project 2021 – Now Pursuing PhD in Stanford University)
- Praveen Sriram (Dual Degree Project 2019- Now Pursuing PhD in Stanford University)- Outstanding Project Award
- Pratik Brahma (Dual Degree Project 2019 – Now pursuing PhD in UC Berkeley)
- Abhishek Konale (Dual Degree Project 2019 – Now in Qualcomm, Bangalore)
- Sattwik Deb Mishra (B. Tech Project 2018- Now pursuing PhD in Stanford University) – Outstanding Student Award
- Sandesh Kalantre (UG Project 2018 – Now pursuing PhD in University of Maryland)
- Vivek Arte (Dual Degree Project 2018 – Now pursuing PhD in University of California San Diego)
- Aritra Lahiri (Dual Degree Project 2018– Now pursing PhD in the University of Minnesota)
- Pulkit Tandon (B. Tech Project 2016 – Now pursuing Phd in Stanford Unviersity) – Outstanding Dissertation Award
- V Srikrishna (B. Tech Project 2016 – Now pursuing Phd in UC Berkeley)
- Aravindh Kumar (B. Tech Project 2016- Now pursuing Phd in Stanford University)
- Urvesh Patil (Dual Degree 2016- Now pursuing Phd in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) – Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Siddharth Buddhiraju (Dual Degree Project 2015-Now pursuing Phd in Stanford University)-Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Sanchar Sharma (Dual Degree Project 2015-Now pursuing Phd at Delft, Netherlands) – Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Niladri Chatterji (Dual Degree Project 2015- Now pursuing Phd in UC Berkeley)
- Puneet Arora (Dual Degree Project 2015)
- Anjaly T R (M. Tech Project 2015-now at Global Foundries, Singapore)
- Ashutosh Patil (Supervised Research Exposition 2014)
- Ashwini Kumar (B. Tech Project 2014)
- Vinit Kumar Singh (B. Tech Project 2014)
- Supath Das (Project Staff Jan-Oct 2014)
- Akshay Agarwal (Dual Degree thesis 2014- Now pursuing Phd at MIT)
- Harpreet Arora (Dual Degree thesis 2014- Now pursuing Phd at Caltech)
- Kingshuk Mallick (M. Tech Project – Now pursuing Phd at IISc Bangalore)
- Sabareesh Nikhil (B. Tech SRE (independent study) – Now pursuing M. S. at UCLA)
- Abhinav Kumar (B. Tech SRE (independent study) – Now pursuing M. S. at UCLA)
- Meghana Katta (B. Tech Project 2013 – Now with Qatar Airways)
- Sajid Ali (intern- summer 2013)
- Priyanka deSouza (Dual degree project 2013- Now at Oxford University)
- Rubasri Kalidas (Intern from IITB internship programme 2013- Now pursuing M. S. at Virginia Tech)
