OF the SCHOLARS of Iits, Iisc-B & Iisers

BRIEF RESUMES OF THE SCHOLARS OF IITs, IISc-B & IISERs

MS. AAYUSH UNDERGRADUATE CHEMICAL SCIENCES IISER, MOHALI

Areas of Interest :

 Chemistry; an interdisciplinary approach to solving problems of contemporary interest, liquid crystals as biosensors, evolutionary biology

Special achievements:

 CNR Rao Foundation Prize for academic excellence in the first two semesters of her stay at IISER Mohali  DAAD summer intern in Germany in May-June 2015  Participant in the first world science conference in Israel

Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

 Playing badminton  Reading novels and poems

MR. ANJISHNU BOSE UNDERGRADUATE IISC BANGALORE

Areas of Interest :

 Cosmology and Astrophysics

 NTSE Scholar (2011)  KVPY-SA: 205 (2013)  JEE-Mains: 16 (2015)  JEE-Advanced: 26 (2015)

 Can Code in C language  Play electronic keyboard (Grade 5 distinction certificate from Trinity College of London)

MR. ANKIT SAXENA POSTGRADUATE MECHANICAL & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT IIT ROORKEE

Areas of Interest :

 He has interest in integrating mechanical engineering solutions with human physiology. In this regard his current focuses Areas are in human biomechanics. As a part of his research work, he is studying the human hip Joint, its constructions and stress levels. Mechanical solution for problematic hip joint through use of modern mechanical engineering tools. Other thing which interests him is study of history and cultural diversity of our nation.

 Contested and won the election student affairs council 2015-16 for the post of General Secretary Academic affairs PG, IIT Roorkee  Shortlisted on the basis of merit for an internship program to Japan from January, 22 2013 to February 12, 2013 during his masters’ program in IIITDM Jabalpur

 Travelling and exploring new areas  Reading literature, fiction and biographies

MR. ARVIND SRIVASTAV UNDERGRADUATE ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING IIT KHARAGPUR

Areas of Interest :

 Electronics  Bio-electronics  Working on new ideas

 Winner of Digianatronics  Impulse in IIT Kharagpur  NTSE Scholar Hobbies/Extra-curricular activities:

 Painting  Helping poors

MR. BALLABH INDER KISHORE UNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IIT PATNA

Areas of Interest :

 His interest lies in innovating for the rural India. He was the coordinator of Rural Technology Development Club, IIT Patna for the Academic year (2015-2016) where he mentored the students in their 1st / 2nd year of B.Tech who were working on projects for the rural development  He worked on the fabrication of "Lac Bangle Machine" for automating the process of Lac Bangles production in MSME Muzaffarpur  He utilize his weekends in Teaching and organising events for the students of nearby schools  He always enjoy working with the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan Cell, IIT Patna and NSS, IIT Patna for the betterment of the Govt. schools of Amhara and Dilawarpur  He aspire to be a social entrepreneur by reforming rural education. With the optimum help of technology he plans to reform the current manner in which education is being imparted in the rural-schools  According to him the use of edutainment videos and laboratory activities enhances the learning outcomes of students of govt. schools

 Winner of the "Social Enterprise Pitch Competition 2014-15" organised by "Villgro Foundation"  Secured 1st position in the “State Boxing Championship” organised by U.P. Boxing Association

 Playing football  Participate in dramas/short films in college  Reading spiritual books

MR. BRAHADEESH SANKARNARAYANAN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS IISER BHOPAL

Areas of Interest:

 The primary areas of interest of Mr. Sankarnarayanan are Algebra and Number Theory  He has studied some introductory Class Field Theory and intends to continue this study towards the Langlands Program after graduation  He maintains a keen interest in Physics and has taken many elective courses in it  He frequently enrolls in online courses in diverse fields like Astronomy, Biology, Data Science, Computer Programming and Philosophy

 Nominated by IISER Bhopal to attend the 1st World Science Conference, Israel (WSCI) held from Aug 15 to Aug 20, 2015 at the Hebrew University, to represent India as a member of the Indian delegation.

 Playing Chess  Table-tennis  Carnatic vocal music  Patanjali Yoga  Member of Maths and Biology Clubs

MR. EARNEST PAUL IJJINA POSTGRADUATE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IIT HYDERABAD

Areas of Interest:

 Deep Learning  Computer Vision

 Inter-Departmental (Computers & Mechanical) M.Tech. Thesis at IIT Kharagpur  Under-Graduate Project sponsored under Red Hat Scholarships 2004- 2005  GATE Percentile of 99.63 in GATE 2004 Computer Science

 Electronic do-it-yourself Projects  Reading Japanese Manga MR. GOURAV MODANWAL POSTGRADUATE ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING IIT BHU

Areas of Interest:

 Human computer interaction  Computer Vision  Signal, Image and Video Processing Algorithm and Architecture

 Winner of “Institute Innovation Award 2016”  Winner of “Navkriti medal 2015” for his innovative work by R & D, IIT (BHU), Varanasi  Winner of 1st prize in National level Robotic Competition in RGPV, Bhopal

 Reading  Cooking  Welfare of Technical Education MS. GUNJAN GUPTA UNDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IIT DELHI

Areas of Interest:

 Pursue debating and have also represented IIT at many college forums.  Extremely passionate about reading and learning Social Innovations because believes that Science is not always about learning the hi-tech stuff but also about solving the grassroot problems with simple solutions. She believes that a lot of knowledge and smart yet simple ideas are dispersed at the grassroot levels and there is a need to learn from them and solve the problems.

 Awarded Cargill Global Scholarship which is given to only 10 undergraduate engineering students from India  Recipient of the Summer Undergraduate Research Award by the institute  Featured on the list of merit scholarship based on highest CGPA for four consecutive years

 Like debating and public speaking  Playing badminton  Travelling MR. KARTIKEYA UMESH UPASANI UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IIT INDORE

Areas of Interest:

 Artificial Intelligence  Evolutionary Algorithms  Distributed Systems  Internet of Things

 President, Student Gymkhana, IIT Indore 2014-15

 Part of Table Tennis and Football teams of IIT Indore and high school  Winner and organizer of Inter University Debate & Model United Nations competitions  Ardent trekker  Follower of national & international politics MR. MANJOT SINGH UNDERGRADUATE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING IIT GANDHINAGAR

Areas of Interest:

 Water purification techniques  Industrial process safety  Modelling and optimisation of energy consumption  Entrepreneurship  Engineering economics  Use of technology for social upliftment

 Winner of community based water purification challenge- Underwriters Laboratories  Awarded Dean's List for academic performance- IIT Gandhinagar  Stood second in Regional Maths Olympiad (RMO) conducted by HBCSE

 Basketball  Web development  Reading books on Applied Psychology

MR. SOURODIP SENGUPTA POSTGRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES IISER KOLKATA

Areas of Interest:

 Neurobiology  Cognitive Science and Immunology

 Presently pursuing Integrated Ph.D Course at IISER Kolkata and had secured First Class First in M.Sc First Year. Had participated in Vijoyshi Camp, National Science Camp organized by KVPY, IISc., IISER Kolkata and INSPIRE for two consecutive years (2014 & 2015). During graduation, he presented poster on "Chromium Degrading Bacteria Isolated from Industrial Belts" in the 100 Indian Science Congress on January 2013  In the same year, he was also associated in a project work with the TATA Company, which was focused on isolation and cultivation of ALGAE for use in carbon sequestration  He represented his college at Acharya Satyendra Bose Science & Technology Fair emphasising on the impact of global warming and the role of the Society in environmental conservation and was awarded the second prize

 Reading novels  Writing  Listening to music and theatre

MS. NUPUR RATHORE POSTGRADUATE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IIT JODHPUR

Areas of Interest:

 DC Microgrid

 Member of the organizing team for Short-term course and International Workshop organized by ICASET, IIT Jodhpur, 2013  Part of the organizing team for National Conference on Solar Thermal Energy Technologies, 2016  Advisor of institute’s planning and management committee of student’s body 2011-12(PROM)  Sponsorship head and member of the organizing committee of national level techno cultural fest EUREKA 2009 of M.B.M Engineering College  Participated in INTER-IIT Sports Meet as a part of the institute’s Basketball team  Active participant in various social initiatives and member of PARIVARTAN institute's social initiative group

 Reading and Sports MS. NIKITA TRIVEDI POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL SCIENCES IIT BHUBANESHWAR

Areas of Interest:

 Digital Signal Processing  Communications Systems

 Received Gold Medal from City Mayor (Ravindra Patni) for remarkable performance in academics in B.Tech  Attended the workshop on “MATLAB Programming” organized by Orane Infosystems  Successfully completed training program on “Embedded Systems and its Applications” organised by BRICS

 Organised and participated in Technocultural Fest  Secured various positions in (Group Song, Recitation etc.) organised at school level

MR. NIRMAL PUNJABI POSTGRADUATE BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING IIT BOMBAY

Areas of Interest:

 Point of Care Diagnostics  Development of low cost devices combining nanotechnology and optical fiber based sensing for plasmonic immunoassays for use in biomedical and environmental application  Design, prototyping and validation of sensors with different geometries, surface chemistry and nanostructures  Breath analysis for disease diagnostics

 Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Optics+Optoelectronics 2015  Prague SPIE Travel Award 2014 OSA Travel Award for IONS-KOALA 2014 in Australia DBT-CTEP Grant for ICST 2013 in New Zealand  ARCI-DST Fellowship 2012 for Visiting Research Scholar, University of Waterloo, Canada

 Active member of IEEE, OSA & SPIE  Reading books on yoga & philosophy  Playing Judo

MR. PANKAJ ARORA POSTGRADUATE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IIT MADRAS

Areas of Interest:

 Nano photonics and Microelectronics: The topic of his Ph.D. work pertains to the demonstration of a colorimetric label-free refractive index and thickness sensor using hybrid mode plasmon imaging on engineered nanostructures. The proposed imaging sensing technique with engineered plasmonic nanostructures is found to be a promising tool to distinguish refractive index and thickness induced surface modifications for both thin and thick analytes. The purpose of the work is to establish the foundation of stain- free, on-chip, color-contrast imaging sensor, where the optical image read- out of the sensor could be visually interpreted for surface modifications.

 Won Institute Research Scholar Award in IIT Madras in 2016  Two Best Student Paper awards in National and International Conferences  Got 2nd position in the circuit designing contest- Circuitrix and 1st position in the microprocessor coding contest- MNEMONICS in Technoesis'08, NIT Silchar (Assam)  Active member of organizing committee of many Institutional's events, IEEE and OSA student chapter at IIT Madras  Involved in UG and PG teaching as a TA

 Travelling to new places  Trekking Trips MS. S. LALITHA VAISHNAVI POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY IISER THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

Areas of Interest:

 Chemistry, photo chemistry, spectroscopy, bio-inorganic chemistry

 Cleared CSIR-JRF December 2016 with all in rank of 25 in chemical science  Selected for an internship at Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany via "DAAD-WISE 2016"  Selected for an internship at University Of Chicago, USA via "SN Bose Scholars Program 2016"  Was In Top 1% At The Class XII Board Examination Conducted By BSE, Andhra Pradesh

 Reading  Writing  Painting MR. SAURABH BHARDWAJ POSTGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IIT GUWAHATI

Areas of Interest:

 Fluids and Thermal Engineering  Multi-phase Flows  Lattice Boltzmann Automata  Convective Heat Transfer

 Reading newspaper  Learning about new technologies  Dancing  Watching science-fiction movies  Playing Cricket