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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
Dipankar Saha IITB dsaha@iitb.ac.in Microelectronics
New device physics
Semiconductor spintronics
Spin injection, transport and detection in III-V systems
Device reliability
Indra
Samajdar
IITB indra@iitb.ac.in Microstructural engineering
Thermomechanical processing
N L Sarda IITB nls@cse.iitb.ac.in Database management systems: temporal databases; object-oriented databases; database applications
Information systems
Software engineering
Ahmet Sekercioglu Monash
(Systems
Engineering)
ahmet.sekercioglu@
eng.monash.edu.au
Digital communications and computer networks
eComputational intelligenc
Computer systems and architecture
Cordelia Selomulya Monash cordelia.selomulya@
monash.edu
Functional (nano) materials, characterisation
and functionalisation of smart materials for applications in medical diagnostics and therapeutics, food, national security, and the environment. Low-temperature synthesis of bioactive composites for the manufacturing of
high-value products, e.g. controlled-release particles for pharmaceutical and functional
food application
Wei Shen Monash wei.shen@monash.edu Paper and thread microfluidic diagnostics for chemical and biological analysis; functional
printing for tissue engineering and bioactive
paper; surface engineering for wetting, adhesion and pharmaceutical applications; printing science, ink transfer fundamentals and ink paper interactions; and paper sizing and superhydrophobic paper
George Simon Monash
(Materials
Engineering)
george.simon@eng.
monash.edu.au
Polymer nanocomposites
Dendritic materials
Polymer blends
Thermosets and their toughening
Relationships between polymer mobility, free volume and mechanical properties
Liquid crystalline polymers
Electrospinning of nanofibers
D N Singh IITB dns@civil.iitb.ac.in Solid waste disposal
Centrifuge modeling of geoenvironmental
problems
Nuclear waste disposal
Soil resistivity studies
Integrated studies on radionuclide migration at shallow land disposal facility
Accelerated physical modeling of contaminant
Raman Singh Monash
(Mechanical
Engineering)
raman.singh@eng.
monash.edu.au
Metallurgical engineering
Ramesh Singh IITB ramesh@me.iitb.ac.in Micromachining and microfabrication
T N Singh IITB tnsingh@iitb.ac.in Slope stability
Rock – blasting
Rock behaviour
Applied geology
Waste dump and rock environment
Ground control
Kate Smith-Miles Monash Kate.smith-miles@
sci.monash.edu.au
Combinatorial optimisation, meta-heuristics, operations research
Neural networks, intelligent systems, data mining, machine learning, meta-learning
Applications of intelligent techniques and optimisation methods to engineering, healthcare, bioinformatics, business, law, etc
Russell Smyth Monash russell.smyth@buseco.
monash.edu.au
Mobile phone use among internal migrants in China
Milind Sohoni IITB sohoni@cse.iitb.ac.in Research interests include mathematical programming, revenue management, network design and scheduling, supply chain management, and the practice of OR
C S Solanki IITB chetanss@me.iitb.ac.in Thin-film solar cells
Porous silicon
PV solar concentrator
Organic solar cells
Julio Soria Monash
(Mechanical
Engineering)
julio.soria@eng.
monash.edu.au
Flow stability and control
Transition and turbulence research
Thermo-fluid and scalar transport
Optical and holographic experimental methods
Full direct simulation of turbulent flows
Leone Spiccia Monash Leone.Spiccia@
monash.edu
Biological and medicinal chemistry:
metalloenzyme mimics; de novo peptides incorporating macrocyclic ligands; peptide nucleic acid – metal complex hybrids; new agents for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV; biosensors and biological imaging agents; bioconjugates for application in neuroscience; new tools for
studying pathogens
Coordination chemistry: hexacyanometallates
as templates for magnetic materials; polynuclear metal complexes with novel physicochemical properties
Application of immobilised metal complexes in protein purification
Hydrolytic polymerization of inert metal ions;
metal ion speciation and complexation in
aqueous solution (ambient to hydrothermal conditions)
Benign gold processing
Dye sensitised solar cells; bio-inspired water oxidation catalysts for photoelectrochemical cells; electrochromic devices
Novel coatings for high performance ink receptor layers; freeze thaw indicators
Sol-gel processing of ceramic oxides
Tam Sridhar Dean, Monash Faculty of Engineering tam.sridhar@eng.
monash.edu.au
Gas liquid reactions
Polymer rheology
Bala Srinivasan Monash (IT) bala.srinivasan@
infotech.monash.edu.au
Software security
A Srividya IITB asvidya@civil.iitb.ac.in Composite system reliability assessment using fuzzy linear programming
P Sunthar IITB p.sunthar@che.iitb.ac.in Rapid flows of granular materials
Dynamics of dilute polymer solutions
Biomolecules in microfluidic devices
Flow of liquid crystals
A K Suresh IITB aksuresh@che.iitb.ac.in Biochemical engineering
Multiphase reactions
Shashikanth Suryanarayana IITB shashisn@me.iitb.ac.in Automotive controls
Control of large wind turbines
Kiyonori Suzuki Monash kiyonori.suzuki@eng.
monash.edu.au
Materials engineering