Principal Investigator


Dr Abhik Choudhury

Associate Professor
Department of Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

email: abhiknc@iisc.ac.in



Group Members

Dr Tanmay Dutta

Project Scientist, May 2023-present; Senior Project Associate, May 2021-Apr 2023
email: tanmaydutta@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Solidification, Phase transformation, MicroSim

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore

Dr Sanjeev Kumar

Post Doctoral Research Associate, started April 2023
email: sanjeevkumar@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Fluid flow in solidification using Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)

PhD, Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore

Akshay Pratap Singh

PhD, started Aug 2017
email: akshaysingh@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Monotectic solidification

MTech, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT BHU

Swapnil Shadanan Bhure

PhD, started Jan 2020
email: swapnilbhure@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Multi-scale modelling of metal additive manufacturing

ME, Design Engineering, BITS Pilani

Divya Nalajala

PhD, started Aug 2020
email: divyan@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Directional solidification studies on Ni-based superalloy

MTech, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras

Adem Ahmed Aliy

PhD, started Aug 2021
email: ademaliy@iisc.ac.in

Topic:

Chintada Guna Sai

MTech thesis (2022-23)
email: chintadaguna@iisc.ac.in

Topic:

BTech, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NIT Rourkela

Ankit Garhwal

MTech thesis (2022-23)
email: ankitgarhwal@iisc.ac.in

Topic:

BTech, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, VNIT Nagpur

Alumni

PhD

Dr Aramanda Shanmukha Kiran

PhD (2015-2021)
Now, Post-Doctoral Scholar at University of Michigan

Dr Sumeet Khanna

PhD (2016 - 2021)
Now, Tech Lead at Garrett Motion Inc., Bengaluru

Dr Fiyanshu Kaka

PhD (2015 - 2020)
Now, Assistant Professor at a Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune

Dr Bhalchandra Bhadak

PhD (2014 - 2020)
Now, Senior Engineer at Eaton Research Labs, Eaton India Innovation Center, Pune

Dr Arka Lahiri

PhD (2018)
Now, Assistant professor at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Roorkee.

MTech

Ajay Sagar

Project Assistant (July 2021-Dec 2022), MTech Thesis (2020-21)
Currently, working at IOCL

Ravi Kumar Singh

M.Tech (Aug 2018 - July 2019)
Now, Computational Scientist at ExxonMobil, Bengaluru

Somasish Bhowmick

M.Tech (Aug 2018 - July 2019)

Ajaya Pratap Jena

MTech (2015 - 2017)
Now, R&D Engineer II at ANSYS, Pune

BS-MS

Aadhithyan K

MS thesis (2021-22)

Yash

MS thesis (2021-22)

Kartik Umate

BS (2020 - 2021)
Pursuing PhD at Max-Planck-Institut,GMBH

Bikramjit Karmakar

BS-MS Dual Degree (2018 - 2020)
Now, Margaret Ingels Engineering Development Program (MIEDP) Associate at Raytheon Technologies, Bengaluru

PA/RA/Interns

Priyanshu Asthana

Summer Intern (2022)
Currently, pursuing BTech at NIT, Trichy

Harish BM

Summer Intern (2022)
Currently, pursuing BTech at NIT, Trichy

Harpreet Kaur

Summer Intern (2022)
Currently, pursuing BTech at IIT, BHU

Sangeeta Paul

Project Assistant, (July 2021-Jan 2023)

Vinayak Shrote

Summer Intern (2019)
Now, pursuing MS at UCLA, California, USA

Nihal Acharya

Project Assistant (2017-2019)
Now, Associate Consultant Engineer (Research) at Eli Lilly and Company