Dibakar Ghosal                                                                 
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For prospective candidates

I am looking for hard working, self-motivated and responsible people in PostDoc, PhD, Research Associate and Project assistant positions.

Interested students are informed to please contact Dr. Dibakar Ghosal (dghosal@iitk.ac.in) with your curriculum vitae, expressing your strength and research interests.

Current BS-MS students:


Mr. S Amandeep (BS-MS since 2021)
Education BS-MS in Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur
BS-MS Thesis Scalable Optimization and Parallel Execution of FWI on CPUs and GPUs
Contact samandeep21@iitk.ac.in
+91 7075563909


Mr. Anwesh Saha (BS-MS since 2021)
Education BS-MS Dual Degree in Earth Sciences at IIT Kanpur
MS Thesis
Developing ShaVi, an open-source forward modeling and inversion package for elastic waves using a high-order finite-difference scheme with CPML boundaries. I will subsequently work on integrating deep learning approaches with physics-guided autoencoders to reconstruct Vp and Vs models from multicomponent seismic data to replace the computationally expensive forward model.
Contact anweshsaha21@iitk.ac.in



Current M.Tech students
:

Mr. Sanjay Singh Shekhawat (MTech since 2024)
Education
B.Tech 22’ in Applied Petroleum Engineering, UPES Dehradun
MTech Thesis
Seismic attribute analysis using ML
Contact
sssanjay24@iitk.ac.in
+91-9079999146





Current PhD students:



Ms. Himani  (PhD since 2025)
Education Integrated M.Tech, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad (2025)
PhD Thesis Investigating offshore Andaman
Contact himani25@iitk.ac.in
+ 91 9306870882


Mr. Prakhar Sah (PhD since 2025)
Education M.Sc. Geology (2023) , D.S.B. Campus Kumaun University Nainital
PhD Thesis
Investigating Kumaon-Garhwal Himalaya using geophysical data
Contact sahprakhar@gmail.com
+91 7579209548



Mr. Prabhakar Kumar (PhD since 2022)
Education M.Tech Geophysical Technology, IIT Kanpur, 2021.
PhD Thesis Applications of FWI on active and passive seismic datasets
Contact prabhakarkumar168@gmail.com
+91 8650699286

Mr. Sarthak Papney (PhD since 2023)
Education M.Sc. (Tech.) Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University (2023)
PhD Thesis
Investigating Central Himalayan morphotectonics geophysically
Contact sarthakp23@iitk.ac.in
+91 8869898417



Current Postdocs/Project Scientists:

Dr. Aakash Anand (IPDF since 2024)
Education
Ph.D., Geophysics (Computational Seismology), Department of Earth Sciences, IISER Kolkata
IPDF project:

PhD Thesis
Investigating Delhi-Haridwar and 85 degree ridges

Crust and Upper Mantle Structure in Northeast India
Contact
aakashanand.iiserk@gmail.com
+91 7838070989




Former PhD(completed)/Postdocs(PDF)/Senior Research Scientists (SRS):

5. Dr. Harshad Srivastav
2018-2025 (PhD)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Exploring offshore Andaman volcanics and adjoining basins using geophysical datasets
(secured job in Ministry of Jal Sakti)
4. Dr. Vikas
2019-2025 (PhD)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Innovative approaches in Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) for minimizing computational cost and mitigating cycle skipping (secured job in Reliance Ltd)
3. Dr. Shashank Verma
2017-2023 (PhD)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Investigating morphotectonics of Kumaon Himalaya using integrated active and passive seismology
(secured job at GSI)
2. Dr. Pabitra Singha
2020-2021 (SRS)
IIT Kanpur
Project: OBS seismology in exploring Alcock Rise
(presently at Schlumberger)
1. Dr. Pankaj Kumar
2020-2021 (SRS)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Gravity-Magnetic and seismological study over St-Paul-Amsterdam Island
(secured scientist position at NGRI)

Former students (BS-MS/MTech/RA/Incomplete (Inc) PhD):

22. Mr. Vatsalya Roy
2021-2025 (BS-MS)
Project: Shear Wave velocity distribution of Dhala crater using h/v ratio
21. Mr. Bharat Sharma
2023-2025 (MTech)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Seismic fault detection using multi-attribute feature enhancement and machine learning: A PCA based workflow
20. Mr. Gaurav Jaiswal
2022-2025 (MTech)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Seismic Facies Classification using Mask R-CNN and YOLOv8

19. Mr. Anubhav Mukherjee
2021-2023 (MTech)
IIT Kanpur

Project: Evolution of a growth fault system in the Krishna-Godavari basin from fault contour mapping studies using 3D seismic dataset (Secured PhD at IITKGP and job at CGWB)
18. Mr. Jaisheel Sharma
2020-2022 (Inc PhD)
IIT Kanpur

Project: FWI of KG data  (Placed at ONGC)
17. Mr. Uppendra Gupta
2021-2022 (Inc PhD)
IIT Kanpur
Project: FAVO analysis of KG data using ML (Placed at ONGC)
16. Mr. Aditya Sen
2020-2022 (Inc PhD)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Proroelastic FWI analysis (secured PMRF)
Mr. Kethavath 15. Bhopya Naik 2021-2022 (BS-MS)
IIT Kanpur

Project: Modeling and inversion of the microtremor H/V spectral ratio (secured job in a company)
14. Mr. Deepak Vatsa
2018-2021 (RA)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Algorithm development of 2D/3D travel time tomography (Startup company)
13. Mr. Pratyush Anand
2019-2021 (RA)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Joint inversion of P-to-S Receiver function and Rayleigh wave group velocity
dispersion curve for obtaining lithospheric structure beneath Indian ocean. (At ISM Dhanbad)
12. Mr. Prabhakar Kumar
2019-2021 (MTech)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Deciphering Shear wave velocity profiles from Wide-Angle MASW using Swarm Intelligence-based optimization strategies (Joined PhD at IIT Kanpur)
11. Mr. Niraj Kumar
2020-2021 (BS-MS)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Machine learning and its application in seismic interpretation and GUI for seismic modeling (Opened startup)
10. Mr. Sudhanshu Pandey
2020-2021 (BS-MS)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Two-dimensional seismic modeling using Finite Element Method (FEM) (in corporate job)
9. Mr. Animesh Pant 2020 (RA)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Frontier Seismic Spectral Decomposition Methods for CLSSA, SFMPD (in corporate job)
8. Ms. Anshita Nayak 2018-2019  (Inc PhD)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Imaging of Sumatran frontal thrust
7. Mr. Animesh Pant
2018-2019  (M.Tech)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Frontier Seismic Spectral Decomposition Methods & New Insights into Offshore Nova Scotia using CLSSA and Weighted Spectral Blending (in corporate job)
6. Mr. Vaibhav Jain 2018-2019 (M.Tech)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Super Virtual Interferometry (SVI): a seismic data processing technique for enhancement of far offset refracted phases (placed at Emerson, ONGC)
5. Mr. Aakash Gupta
2017-2019 (RA)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Modeling of high frequency data using ambient noise tomography
(Currently placed at University of Alaska as a PhD scholar)
4. Mr. Saptaparnee
Chaudhury
2017-2019 (RA)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Algorithm development of ray tracing from MCS datasets.
3. Mr. Shankho Niyogi 2017-2018 (RA)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Algorithm development of half downward continuation for MCS data.
(Currently placed at University of California Riverside as a PhD Scholar)
2. Mr. Akash Trivedi 2016-2018 (M.Tech)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Identification of Gas hydrate reservoirs at offshore N-W Sumatra using high resolution marine seismic datasets. (Currently placed at IISER Pune as a PhD Scholar)
1. Mr. Gardar Gislason 2014-2016 (M.Sc.)
Uppsala University
Project:  Effect of Petrophysical Parameters on Seismic Waveform Signatures – Review of Theory with Case Study from Frigg Delta Oil Field, Norway. (placed at Geological Society of Finland )

Former students (UGP/Summer internships):

8. Mr. Sankarshan Mandal
2023 (Summer Intern)
IISERK
Project: Development of a GUI package for 2D seismic data acquisition
7. Mr. Sankarshan Mandal
2023 (Summer intern)
IISER Kolkata
Project: Algorithm development for Seismic data aacquisition geometry setup
6. Mr. Vatsalya Roy
2021-2022 (UGP-II)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Stress inversion from earthquake data
5. Mr. Sudhanshu  Pandey
2018-2020(UGP-II-IV)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Finite element algorithm development for forward modeling in poroelastic medium
4. Mr. Chanchal Prasad
2018-2020(UGP-II-IV)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Imaging across offshore north Sumatra
Project: Seimsic rock physics
3. Mr. Sonu
2018-2019 (UGP)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Development of a GUI for Vs prediction
2. Mr. Pushpendu Pal
2018-2019 (UGP)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Development of a GUI for petrophysical analysis
1. Mr. Arpit Bansal
2019 (SURGE intern)
IIT Kanpur
Project: Estimation of reservoir properties using Beysian inversion

National Collaborators
:
  • Prof. Rajiv Sinha, IIT Kanpur 
  • Prof. Indra Sen, IIT Kanpur
  • Prof. Subhajit Roy, IIT Kanpur
  • Prof. Pritam Chakraborty, IIT Kanpur
  • Prof. Pawan Dewangan, NIO Goa
  • Prof. Sudipta Sarkar, IISER Pune
International Collaborators:
  • Prof. Subbarao Yelisetti, University Texas A & M Kingsville, USA
  • Prof. Priyank Jaiswal, University of Oklahoma, USA
  • Prof. Satish Singh, IPG Paris, France
  • Prof. Christopher Juhlin, Uppsala University, Sweden