> The Research Academy > Collaborating Faculty > Student profiles > Industry and government > Prospective research students > Researchers and research institutes > Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture > Infrastructure engineering > Clean energy > Water > Nanotechnology > Biotechnology and stem cell research			Collaborating Faculty Our experts are listed alphabetically by surname: A-B C-F G-J K-N O-R S T-Z NAME LOCATION EMAIL SPECIALTY Subhankar Karmakar IITB skarmakar@iitb.ac.in • Environmental and water resources systems - development of optimization models for surface water quality management, irrigation water management, floodplain planning and management, solid waste management • Uncertainty modeling in environmental systems - probabilistic approach, fuzzy sets theory and interval optimization • Water conveyance systems and hydraulic designs - optimal design of water & waste water conveyance systems and hydraulic structures • Flood risk management - flood vulnerability analysis using GIS, multivariate flood frequency analysis Devang Khakhar IITB khakhar@che.iitb.ac.in • Granular solids • Rodlike polymers • Polyurethane foams A S Khanna IITB khanna@iitb.ac.in • Surface modification using laser irradiation of materials like laser surface alloying and cladding and laser forming and laser ablation of polymers • Atmospheric corrosion and industrial corrosion • High temperature coatings like TBC • Paint coatings formulation and testing • High temperature oxidation, sulphidation and hot corrosion • Corrosion of steels in concrete, rebar coatings • High temperature materials like superalloys, ODS alloy and intermetallics Jayantha Kodikara Monash kodi@ eng.monash.edu.au • Unsaturated flow and material behaviour of reactive soils and pavement materials • Shrinkage, creep and unsaturated flow behaviour of cemented materials • Desiccation cracking of soils and cemented materials • Soil-atmosphere interaction and solute movement • Stabilisation of soils and crushed rocks with cementitious and polymeric additives • Landfill cover and liner design Mohan Krishnamoorthy Monash mohan. krishnamoorthy@ adm.monash.edu.au • Location of spatially interacting facilities • Vehicle despatch problems • Constrained spanning trees • Combinatorial optimisation and discrete optimization • Problems faced by the airline industry • Complex routing and scheduling problems • Staff scheduling and rostering Shonali Krishnaswamy Monash Shonali. Krishnaswamy@ infotech.monash.edu.au • Distributed • Mobile and pervasive computing systems • Mobile and ubiquitous data stream mining • Service oriented computing and mobile software agents • Mobile software agents • Intelligent software systems • Web services • Service oriented computing Bradley Ladewig Monash bradley.ladewig@ eng.monash.edu.au • Ion exchange membranes for fuel cell applications • Polymer and polymer composite membranes for gas separation • Polymer composite membranes for water treatment • Coal seam gas water treatment and beneficial reuse • Water desalination systems and sustainability Dan Li Monash danli@ eng.monash.edu.au • Synthesis, processing and assembly of functional nanomaterials including graphene, carbon nanotubes, conducting polymers, metal and inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles/ nanofibers and biological/biomimic nanostructures • Developing new cost-effective techniques for solution-phase processing of nanomaterials • Novel applications of nanomaterials in energy conversion/storage, chemical and biomedical sensing, drug delivery, nanomedicine, catalysis and membrane separation S Ling Monash Chris.Ling@infotech. monash.edu.au • Petri nets • Object-oriented programming • Software engineering • Formal specification • Real-time systems • Business process modelling • Multiagent systems • Context-Aware Systems • Pervasive and ubiquitous computing • Reliability and performance analysis Doug MacFarlane Monash douglas.macfarlane@ monash.edu • Preparation and characterization of ionic liquids and other types of ionic materials for a range of applications in electrochemistry, green chemistry, solar cells, batteries and biotechnology, including protein stabilization and biopreservation Sanjay Mahajani IITB sanjaym@che.iitb.ac.in • Reaction engineering, catalysis and multifunctional reactors • Energy: coal gasification, biofuels, Fischer- Tropsch synthesis • Reaction engineering applications of computational fluid dynamics S K Maiti IITB skmaiti@me.iitb.ac.in • Linear elastic fracture mechanics • Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics • Interface fracture • Fracture of composites • Finite element methods • Boundary element methods • Crack detection • Micro- and nano-fracture mechanics Samir Maji IITB samirmaji@iitb.ac.in • Protein aggregation and amyloid formation associated with neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Prion diseases) and native biological functions D Manjunath IITB dmanju@ee.iitb.ac.in • Computer and communication network protocols • Systems and algorithms performance modeling • Queueing theory and simulation • Stochastic systems Tom Mathew IITB vmtom@civil.iitb.ac.in • Traffic flow modeling and simulation • Transportation network optimisation, control and management David McCarthy Monash david.mccarthy@ eng.monash.edu.au • Urban stormwater utilisation Nikhil Medhekar Monash nikhil.medhekar@ monash.edu • Interested in understanding the structure, properties and processing of materials at nano- and micro-scale using computer simulations. The computational tools that are employed are essentially multi-disciplinary - ranging from the quantum mechanical electronic structure simulations, to large-scale molecular dynamics, phase-field and finite element simulations. Current research interests are focused on material systems crucial for optoelectronics and energy applications - for example, quantum dots, nanowires, nanotubes, and more recently, graphene and related materials. Sarika Mehra IITB sarika@che.iitb.ac.in • Systems biology and functional genomics • Metabolic engineering • High-throughput data analysis • Modeling of genetic regulatory networks Saurabh Mishra IITB saurabh.mishra@ iitb.ac.in • Computational materials science • Welding • Recrystallization and grain growth • Transport phenomena • Monte Carlo simulation optimisation A S Moharir IITB asm@che.iitb.ac.in • CAD • Modelling • Simulation • Optimization • Numerical techniques • Mass transfer • Adsorption • Reaction design • Air pollution • Petroleum Suparna Mukherji IITB mitras@iitb.ac.in • Biotransformation and toxicity evaluation of complex organic pollutants • Fate and transport of pollutants in aquatic and subsurface systems • Physicochemical and biological treatment processes • Hazardous waste minimization and pollution prevention • Environmental statistics and design of experiments R Murugavel IITB rmv@chem.iitb.ac.in • Synthetic main group chemistry (including structure and bonding aspects) • Metallasilicates, metallaphosphates and inorganic polymers • Organometallic chemistry of early transition metals • Coordination-polymer based supramolecular assemblies • Coordination chemistry of s-block elements K Narasimhan IITB nara@iitb.ac.in • Sheet metal forming • Superplasticity • Modelling and simulation Vishnu Narayan IITB vishnu@iitb.ac.in • Industrial engineering and operations research • Mathematical programming - especially integer programming • Convex optimization • Polyhedral theory Manoj Neergat IITB nmanoj@iitb.ac.in • Fuel cells - direct methanol fuel cells, and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells • Precious metal and non-precious metal catalysts • Microbial fuel cells David Nisbet Monash david.nisbet@ eng.monash.edu.au • Field of neural and bone tissue engineering • Fabrication of synthetic cellular microenvironments that support cellular adhesion and promote stem cell differentiation S Noronha IITB noronha@ che.iitb.ac.in • Biochemical engineering, recombinant biotechnology • Computational biology