People

Group Leader


Ashish Garg Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering
IIT Kanpur, UP - 208016
Lab: WL-104,105,SCDT
Phone: 91-512-259 7904 (office)
Email: ashishg@iitk.ac.in
Curriculum Vitae

Senior Researchers


Dr. Brajesh Kumar Senior Project Scientist
Dr. Prasenjit Kar IPDF
Dr. Swetha T NPDF
Dr. Nandni Sharma Project Scientist

Mr. Chandrachur Chatterjee Project Associate
Dr. Rahul Ranjan Project Scientist

Technical Staff


Mr. K. S. Tripathi Overall Lab Technical In-charge
Mr. Ajay Chauhan AFM In-charge

About to Submit soon


Kishore Kumar Sahoo (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. Rajeev Gupta
BiFeO3-PbTiO3 Thin Film Multiferroics
Bushara Fatma (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. Vivek Verma
PVDF based composites for Energy Harvesting Applications

Continuing Students


Shashikant Gupta (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. Rajeev Gupta
Topic: Polymer Ferroelectrics and Piezoelectrics for Energy Harvesting
Sudhir Ranjan (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. Raju Kr. Gupta
Topic: Perovskite Solar Cells
Ajay Singh (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. Raju Kr. Gupta
Topic: Perovskite Solar Cells
Rishow Kumar (PhD) Topic:Energy Harvesting
Saurabh Srivastava (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. Sarang Ingole
Topic: Perovskite and Tandem Solar Cells
Sony Priyadarshini (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. S. Sangal and Prof. Sudhanshu Singh
Topic: Special Steels and Surface Development
Yugesh Kumar (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Perovskite and Organic Solar Cells
Shalini Kushwaha (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Perovskite and Tandem Solar Cells
Sawan Kumar Dubey (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Perovskite and Tandem Solar Cells
Shambhavi Rai (PhD student at Gorakhpur University) (Jointly with Dr. D.K. Dwivedi)
Topic: Perovskite Solar Cells
Kunwar Pratap Singh Yadav (PhD) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Perovskite and Tandem Solar Cells
Ponturu Rakesh (M.Tech.) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Perovskite Solar Cells
Suddha Sawatta Roy (M.Tech) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Perovskite Solar Photovoltaics
Deepak Singh (M.Tech.) Topic: Triboelectric Energy Harvesting
Himashankar (M.Tech.) Co-advisor: Prof. Kallol Mondal
Topic: Recycling
Pratik Vaidya (M.Tech.) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Solar Photovoltaics
G. Gayatri (M.Tech.) Co-advisor: Prof. K.S. Nalwa
Topic: Perovskite Solar Cells

Former Post-docs/RAs


Dr. Deepam Maurya 2007-09 Current Position: Research Faculty, Virginia Tech.
Dr. K. Dharmalingam 2010-11 Current Position: not known
Dr. Poorva Singh 2011-12 Current Position: Faculty, VNIT Nagpur
Dr. Shailendra Rajput 2013-14 Current Position: Post-doc, China
Dr. Suman Banerjee 2013-14 Current Position: Currently at JNCASR, Bangalore
Dr. Aatish Daryapurkar 2014-15 Current Position: Faculty at IIIT Nagpur
Dr. Neha Chaturvedi 2016-17 Current Position: Post-doc at KAUST, UAE
Dr. Sanjay Swami 2016-17 Currently at: NPL, Delhi
Dr. Belal Usmani 2017-18 Currently at: Government College, Azamgarh
Dr. G. Sathiyan 2017-2019 Currently at: PDF in China
Dr. Ritamay Bhumia 2017-2020 Current Position: DS Kothari fellow, IISc
Dr. Amitesh Kumar 2019-2020 Current Position: Amitesh Kumar

Former PhD students


Dr. Amritendu Roy 2011 Current Position: Faculty of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar
Dr. Somdutta Mukherjee 2012 Current Position: Inspire Faculty at IMMT Bhubaneswar
Mr. Tapendu Mandal 2013 Current Position: Faculty, BESU, Shibpur
Dr. Shailendra Kumar Gupta 2016 Current Position: NPDF, IIT Delhi
Dr. Arjun Singh 2016 Current Position: Post-Doc, South Korea
Dr. Rajesh Katoch 2016 Current Position: Post-Doc, INRS Canada
Dr. Deepa Singh 2016 Current Position: Post-Doc, Canada
Dr. Rajesh Katoch 2016 Current Position: Post-Doc, INRS Canada
Dr. Vijay Singh 2018 Current Position: NPDF, IITKGP
Dr. Ashish Kumar Mall 2018 Current Position: NPDF, JNU
Dr. Sowjanya Pali 2018 Current Position: Faculty at VIT
Dr. Rahul Ranjan 2019 Current Position: Post-doc at IIT Kanpur

Former Masters Students


Prakhar Bhandari 2020
Rishabh Srivastava 2018
Monali Monalisa 2019
Shivangi Srivastava 2018
Santanu Maity 2018
Rohit Phanse 2018
Avinash Chauhan 2017
Sanjay Chaudhary 2016
Jayant Devangan (IIT Delhi) 2016
Ujjval Bansal 2016
Jyoti Yadav (EE) 2015
Baloji Adothu 2015
Sumitabh Singh (EE) 2013
Chinmoy Chattopadhyaya 2010
Shashaank Gupta 2009
Amar Srivastava 2009
Ankur Solanki 2009
Vijayraj Singh 2008
Sambit Pattnaik 2008
Amit Mukhopadhyaya (MSc, Phy) 2008
KVSSC Rao 2007
Soumya Kar 2007
Thota Harikishan 2007
Prem Prakash 2007
Tapendu Mandal 2006
Rajan Kumar Singh 2006
Krishna Dutta 2005