Ongoing and Completed Research (Sponsored/Consultancy) Projects (PI/Co-PI/Investigator)
- Wafer-scale emitter and detector arrays for multi-wavelength room temperature photonic quantum technologies, NQM-DST [2024-2030]
- Advancing technology CAD simulations on superlattice structures for MWIR and SWIR photodetectors, SAC-ISRO [2023-2025]
- Topological quantum spintronics, i-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, Chanakya Fellowship, [2022-2026]
- Development of a time dependent nanoscale device simulation platform, SERB-India MATRICS Grant [2022-2025]
- 2D-straintronics for NEMS and energy harvesting applications, SERB-India Core Research Grant [2022-2025]
- Augmentation modules for the AMMCR, IKST [2021-2022]
- Computational simulation platform for anti-ferromagnetic spintronics, SERB-India STAR award [2020-2023]
- Topotronic device design for ultra-low power logic and quantum computing, MHRD STARS scheme [2020-2023]
- Transport module for CINEMAS software, IKST [2020-2021]
- Comprehensive simulation engine for type-II superlattice infrared photodetectors, SAC-ISRO [2019-2022]
- Development of a semi-classical transport module, IKST [2018-2019]
- Integrated device simulation platform for magnetic random access memories, SERB-India [2018-2021]
- Quantum transport based modeling of type-II photodetectors, DRDO [2017-2018]
- Module development for linear response transport in bulk semiconductors, IKST [2017-2018]
- A self-consistent predictive quantum transport simulation for quantum dot IR photodetectors, SAC-ISRO [2015-2017]
- Multiphysics based electro-thermal modeling of thermoelectric systems, Center for automotive engineering research, IIT Madras research park [2014-2017]
- Investigation of spin torque-based strategies for nanomagnetic logic, DST-India [2013-2016]
- Unified nanoelectronics simulation platform, IIT Bombay SEED Grant [2012-2015]
Professional Activities, Awards and Honours
- Organizer of Symposium on Magnetism and Spintronics (SMS-2024) conference.
- Co-chaired an invited Symposium on Spin-valley qubits in 2D material systems-an emerging qubit platform, at the APS March Meeting-2024.
- Technical Program Committee, Device Research Conference, 2023-2025.
- InstituteQ Visiting Professor, School of Physics, Aalto University, Finland, June-2023.
- Dhananjay Joshi-Endowment Award for Fundamental Research, IIT Bombay, 2023.
- Keynote lecturer of the INAE-NAEK workshop on Materials for sustainable development, 2022.
- Session chair at various conferences including MMM-INETRMAG 2019, MMM 2022.
- Science and Engineering Research Board-Science and Technology Award for Research (STAR) Award, 2020.
- Shastri Indo-Canada Institute Mobility Program Award, 2019.
- Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay, 2019.
- Gordon Godfrey Visitor, School of Physics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Summer-2019.
- Sir M. Visveswaraya Young Faculty Research Award, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, 2018.
- Visiting Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany, Summer-2018.
- Referee for various international grants including Swiss National Science Foundation Grants.
- Visiting Professor, Institute of Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada, Summer-2016.
- Organizer-School on Nanoscale Electronic Transport and Magnetism-from fundamentals to applications, HCRI, Allahabad, India, Feb-2016.
- WPI-AIMR Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Japan, Summer-2015.
- Indo-US- APS-IUSSTF Professorship award in Physics, 2014.
- Associate Warden, Hostel-9, IIT Bombay [2013-2019].
- DST-JSPS (Department of Science and Technology-Japan Society for Promotion of Science) exploratory exchange fellowship, 2013 to facilitate bi-lateral exchange visit.
Academic Positions Held
- Editorial Board Member, Materials for Quantum Technology, IoP Publishing Group, Jan-2022 onwards
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, July 2021 onwards
- Editorial Board Member, PLoS, from March-2018
- Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, July-2016 onwards
- Member of American Physical Society (APS)
- Member of IEEE
Referee/Reviewer of the following Journals
- Physical Review Letter
- Journal of American Chemical Society
- Physical Review E
- Physical Review Applied
- Physical Review B
- Pramana
- Europhysics B
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- AIP Advances
- Elsevier Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
- IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices
Courses Offered
- EE – 207: Electronic Devices & Circuits
- EE – 227: Microelectronics
- EE – 301: Electromagnetic Waves
- EE – 723: Physics of Nanoscale Devices-I
- EE – 724: Nanoelectronics
- EE – 727: Physics of Nanoscale Devices-II
- EE – 751: Nanomagnetism and Spintronics
- EE – 755: Quantum Transport in Nanoscale Devices
- EE – 787: Topological Electronics
CNQT Collaborators
- Prof. Supriyo Datta, Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
- Prof. Milena Grifoni, Chair in Theoretical Physics (C4), Universität Regensburg, Germany
- Dr. Sanjay Krishna, The George R. Smith Chair in Engineering, College of Engineering & Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA
- Prof. Avik W Ghosh, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia, USA
- Dr. Kerem Y Çamsarı, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Prof. Subhendra D. Mahanti, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, USA
- Prof. Roberto Myers, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA
- Prof. Bent Weber, Nanyang Associate Professor (NRF), School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- Prof. Michael Fuhrer, Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow in the School of Physics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Prof. Saroj P. Dash, Professor, Quantum Device Physics Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Prof. Jonathan Baugh, Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Prof. Pertti Hakonen, Finnish Professor of Low-Temperature Physics & Director of the Low-Temperature Laboratory at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
- Prof. Yoshiro Hirayama, Professor, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Prof. Bipin Rajendran, Professor of Intelligent Computing Systems in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London
- Dr. Seung-Cheol Lee, Director at IKST & Principal Research Scientist, Electronic Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea
- Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Senior Professor & Vice-Chancellor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus, India
- Dr. Satadeep Bhattacharjee, Head-R&D, Indo Korea Science and Technology Center, India
- Dr. Ashwin A. Tulapurkar, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India
- Dr. Sai Vinjanampathy, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, India
- Dr. Abhishek Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar, India
- Dr. Debasis Das, Assistant Professor, BITS-Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India
- Dr. Aniket Singha, Assistant Professor, Department of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur, India
- Dr. Alestin Mawrie, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Indore, India
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