Group Members
Group Photo taken on August 2022 (From Left: Soumyadip, Shashank, Jitu, Madhav, Monika, Razia, Nidhi)

Madhav Ranganathan
Associate Professor (Joined July 2007),
Office Address: SL 214 Tel No: 91-512-2596037
Mailing Address: Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016.
India.
Email : madhavr AT iitk DOT ac DOT in

PhD Students

1. Razia (Since 2016)
   Email : razia AT iitk DOT ac DOT in
   Area of Research : KMC simulations of GaN growth on c-plane and m-plane
   
2. Nidhi Gupta (Since 2018)
   Email : nidhig AT iitk DOT ac DOT in
   Area of Research : KMC simulations of intermixing in Si-Ge heteroepitaxy; KMC simulations of Silicene growth on Ag(111)
   
3. Soumyadip Saha (Since 2022)
   Email : soumyadip21 AT iitk DOT ac DOT in
   Area of Research : GaN growth modeling using DFT/KMC calculations
   

Masters Project Students

1. Shashank Shekher (shashanks21 AT iitk DOT ac DOT in)
2. Jitu Mullick (jitum21 AT iitk DOT ac DOT in )

Former PhD Students

1. Monika (2022)
   Thesis Title : Theoretical Modeling of Si-Ge Heteroepitaxy: From Quantum Dots to Quantum Dot Molecules
   Post-doctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania (starting October 2022)
   
2. Gopal Krishna Dixit (2019)
   Thesis Title : Continuum modeling of quantum dot formation in Silicon- Germanium heteroepitaxy
   Post-doctoral researcher at Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Grenoble, France
   
3. Paramita Ghosh (2018)
   Thesis Title : Epitaxial growth of silicon and germanium on 2X1 recon- structed silicon (001) surface: A kinetic Monte Carlo study
   Post-doctoral researcher at IIT Kanpur
   
4. Manjusha Chugh (2017)
   Area of Research : Adsorbate interactions on GaN(0001) surface and their effects on growing surface morphologies: A density functional theory and kinetic Monte Carlo based study
   Currently at Micron India, Hyderabad
   
5. Akhilesh Shende (2017)
   Area of Research : Biophysical and Bioinformatics Studies: (a) Calcium dynamics in neuronal cells, and (b) Clustering of gene expression data
   Currently Assistant Professor at Government College Bhopal
   
6. Pinku Nath (2014)
   Area of Research : Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of Silicon-Germanium thin films using an atomistic model of elasticity
   Currently Assistant Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan
   

Former Group Members

1. Anindya Pakhira Masters Project (2021-22)
2. Arnab Maji Masters Project (2021-22)
3. Dibyendu Mondal Masters Project (2018-19)
4. Subhasri Ghosh Masters Project (2018-19)
5. Sourav Dey Masters Project (2017-18)
6. Arnab Chakraborty Masters Project (2017-18)
7. Lipika Baidya Masters Project (2017-18)
8. Badal Mondal Masters Project (2016-17)
9. Harsh Shah BS Project (2016-17)
10. Shivangi Ranjan BS Project (2016-17)
11. Bijai Singh BS Project (2016-17)
12. Banshi Das Masters Project (2013-14)
13. Shweta Kochata Masters Project (2013-14)
14. Ayush Asthana BS Project student (2013-14)
15. Priyanka Samanta (IIT Guwahati) SURGE Project (2013)
16. Tuhin Samanta Masters Project (2012-13)
17. Surajit Bairy Masters Project (2012-13)
18. Tanay Debnath Masters Project (2012-13)
19. Sandip Ghosh Masters Project (2011-12)
20. Premashis Manna Masters Project (2011-12)
21. Tarun Bansal Masters Project (2011-12)
22. SP Dheeraj Masters Project (2010-11)
23. GS Srujan Masters Project (2010-11)
24. Akhila Anantharaman Project Associate (2009-10)
25. Mansi Mishra Summer Project (2009)
26. Parag Pai Masters Project (2008-09)
27. Gulshan Badlani Masters Project (2008-09)