> 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 Dulal Panda IITB panda@iitb.ac.in • Elucidating the role of microtubule dynamics in cellular processes and microtubule targeted drugs including anti cancer and anti-fungal drugs • Polymerization dynamics of bacterial cell division protein, FtsZ • Characterization of yeast and plant tubulins to understand the molecular specificity of microtubule targeted anti-fungal and anti- parasitic drug • Structure function studies of microtubule associated protein tau • Protein folding Prita Pant IITB pritapant@iitb.ac.in • Thin-film materials • Modeling recoverable strains in films of shape memory, and magnetic shape memory alloys Ajay S Panwar IITB panwar@iitb.ac.in • Multi-scale molecular modeling of hierarchical self-assembly in macromolecular systems • Multi-scale modeling of hierarchically complex materials • High-performance computing for macro-molecular and composite systems • Coarse-grained simulation methods • Macromolecular transport in micro- and nano-scale channels • Non-equilibrium dynamics of complex supra-molecular assemblies Swati Patankar IITB patankar@iitb.ac.in • Transcription regulation in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum • Bioinformatics analysis of P. falciparum genome sequence to uncover candidate noncoding RNAs • Screening natural product libraries for novel anti-malarial agents • Choice of translation initiation sites in P. falciparum Dnyanesh Pawaskar IITB pawaskar@iitb.ac.in • Mechanics of Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) • Vibrational damping and nonlinear dynamics • Mechanical instabilities • Fracture, fatigue, and reliability • Engineering optimization & design Malin Premaratne Monash malin@eng.monash. edu.au • Bioengineering, optical physics, constrained programming, combinatorial optimization, communications network Ranjith Pathegama Gamage Monash (Civil Engineering) ranjith.pathegama. gamage@eng. monash.edu.au • Geosequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in coal, saline aquifers and basalt formations • Activation of faults due to the injection of high fluid pressures • Slope stability of large deep, open cut mines • Stability of wellbore analysis • Underground longwall mining • Enhanced coal bed methane recovery, ECBM A M Pradeep IITB ampradeep@ aero.iitb.ac.in • Aerospace propulsion • Experimental aerodynamics • Flow charactristics and flow control of internal flows • Experimental methods and flow visualization R C Prasad IITB rcp@iitb.ac.in • Fatigue, fracture & failure analysis • Fracture mechanics and failure analysis • Mechanical behaviour of materials • Mechanical characterization laboratory • Engineering polymers and composites • Physical metallurgy • Materials science for corrosion engineers M Radhakrishna IITB mradhakrishna@ iitb.ac.in • Tectonic and rheological history of sedimentary basins through subsidence analysis • Modeling rheological response of the lithosphere based on isostasy • Crustal evolution of the Indian shield through interpretation of gravity and magnetic data • Geodynamics of Andaman-Sumatra Trench-Arc system through geophysical data analysis • Geophysical aspects of ocean ridge processes with special reference to the mid-Indian Ocean ridge system V S Raja IITB vsraja@iitb.ac.in • Passivity • AC impedance spectroscopy • High temperature and high pressure aqueous corrosion • Stress corrosion cracking • Weld-related corrosion • Failure analysis Ganesh Ramakrishnan IITB ganesh@cse.iitb.ac.in • Statistical relational learning • Other topics in machine learning such as graphical models and support vector machines • Information extraction Sita Ramakrishnan Monash (Software Engineering) sita.ramakrishnan@ infotech.monash.edu.au • Validation of distributed software components • Compliance and conformance testing of software components • Validation of software testing tools • Concurrent and distributed systems and software engineering • Component-based architectures • O-O method, process, quality, metrics and testing • Web engineering and technologies K Ramamritham IITB krithi@cse.iitb.ac.in • Timeliness and consistency issues in computer systems • Databases, real-time systems, and distributed applications • Issues in the context of dynamic data in sensor networks • Embedded systems and mobile environments • Information and communication technologies in socio-economic development R Raman IITB raman@iitb.ac.in • Welding metallurgy • Corrosion and surface engineering • Chaos theory and fractals Abhiram Ranade IITB ranade@cse.iitb.ac.in • Algorithms. Combinatorial optimization Prabhakar Ranganathan Monash Prabhakar. Ranganathan@ eng.monash.edu.au • Rheology and continuum mechanics of living materials (e.g. suspensions of motile cells, cytoskeletal networks, biomembranes etc.) • Mechano-transduction in living cells • Reverse-engineering the cell to design biomimetic microreactors Narayan Rangaraj IITB narayan.rangaraj@ iitb.ac.in • Railway operations management • Optimisation • Logistics and supply chain management • O.R. applications in the aviation sector • Pricing and revenue management K V Krishna Rao IITB kvkrao@civil.iitb.ac.in • Travel demand modelling and forecasting • Behavioural travel modelling • Urban land use transport modelling • Public transit network design • Traffic design and analysis • Pavement analysis, design and management • GIS, GPS and microsimulation in urban transportation planning V Ramgopal Rao IITB rrao@ee.iitb.ac.in • Nanoelectronics • Technology aware design challenges with emerging technologies (process-device-circuit interactions with multigate MOSFETs, polymer transistors, molecular electronics etc.) • CMOS reliability • Bio-MEMS Sandip Roy IITB sr@che.iitb.ac.in • Supercritical fluid extraction of a variety of natural products is being studied with the aim of elucidating the role of co-solvents and added surfactants. Also, a theoretical model of supercritical fluid-based cleaning process is being constructed. The model highlights specific contributions of various parameters such as contaminant-particle size, fluid velocity, processing temperatures and pressures etc. • The use of fuzzy logic-based techniques provides an effective approach to many types of problems related to chemical process safety. Studies on two classes of such problems are underway: pre-emptive fault diagnosis and cost-benefit analysis (using fuzzy decision models) of process-safety related investments. • Both experimental measurements and theoretical prediction of adsorbed amounts of polyelectrolytes at air-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces are being carried out. Comparison of such results with adsorbed amounts at solid-liquid interfaces is expected to provide insight on the conformational aspects of the adsorbed polymer at different types of interfaces.