Principal Investigator


Dr Abhik Choudhury

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

email: abhiknc@iisc.ac.in



Group Members

Dr Siddhartha Jaddivada

Research Associate I, started May 2024
email: jaddivadas@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Numerical study on Bridgman setup

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore

Swapnil Bhure

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

Topic: Multi-scale modelling and experimental study of metal additive manufacturing

ME, Design Engineering, BITS Pilani

Divya Nalajala

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

Topic: Directional solidification and additive manufacturing of Ni-based superalloy

MTech, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras

Manoja Namadi

PhD, started Jan 2021
email: namadimanoja@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Directional solidification of monotectic alloy systems

MTech, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay

Anshika Kushwaha

Project Associate, started July 2023
email: anshikak@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Developing post processing tools in MicroSim software package

Dhanyashree MD

PhD, started Aug 2023
email: dhanyashreem@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Additive manufacturing of Ti alloys

MTech, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Jodhpur

Rupesh Jangam

PhD, started August 2023
email: rupeshjangam@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Modelling studies on Rapid Solidification

BTech, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad

Padmanathan M

Ext-PhD, started Aug 2023
email: padmanathanm@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Directional solidification

Chirantandip Mahanta

PhD, started August 2024
email: chirantandi5@iisc.ac.in

Topic: ICME, Phase Field Modelling

IDDD Computational Engineering, B. Tech Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras

Ashitha Pattabi

PhD, started Aug 2024
email: ashithap@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Diffusion, coarsening behaviour and creep in Ni base superalloys

M.S.(Res), IIT Delhi

Satvik R Kashyap

Phd, started Aug 2024
email: satvikk@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Multiscale modelling of battery materials

B.Tech Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NIT Surathkal

Sanjana Ishwarabhotla

Masters thesis, started Aug 2024
email: sanjanai@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Phase field modelling on electrochemical reactions

B.Tech Metallurgical Engineerig, JNTU Hyderabad

Subhodeep Jana

Senior Project Associate, started May 2024
email: subhodeepj@iisc.ac.in

Topic: Directional solidification

Alumni

PostDoc

Dr Tanmay Dutta

Project Scientist (May 2023-April 2024); Senior Project Associate (May 2021-Apr 2023)
Now, Project Lead at Honeywell, India

Dr Sanjeev Kumar

Post Doctoral Research Associate (April 2023-Jan 2024)
Now, Post Doctoral Researcher at University of Utah, USA

Dr Subham Mridha

Post Doctoral Research Associate (April 2023-Dec 2024)
Now, Lead Engineer at Collins Aerospace

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

Srilekha H

MTech thesis (2023-24)
Now, Research Engineer, Saint Gobain Research India

Chintada Guna Sai

MTech thesis (2022-23)
Now, PhD Scholar at CeNSE, IISc Bangalore

Ankit Garhwal

MTech thesis (2022-23)
Engineer at Applied Materials

Ajay Sagar

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

Ravi Kumar Singh

MTech thesis (Aug 2018 - July 2019)
Now, Computational Scientist at ExxonMobil, Bengaluru

Somasish Bhowmick

MTech (Aug 2018 - July 2019)

Ajaya Pratap Jena

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

BS-MS

Jitendriya Praharaj

BS-MS thesis (2022-24)
Now, Associate software Engineer at Permiso security

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