Numerical Electromagnetics and Optics (NEMO) Group

Current research group members

Graduate students

• Aggraj Gupta (PhD student, July 2018 – ) machine learning for antenna design and computational electromagnetics

• Aditya Akella (MS student, July 2021 – )

• Anant Goyal (PhD student, July 2021 – )

• Priyanka Kumari (PhD student, July 2022 – )

• Karthik Bilichod (PhD student, July 2023 – )

Group mascot

Tara expert in optimization (such as treat/ball finding greedy algorithms!)

Group alumni (and where they went next)

• Rahul Mondal (Postdoc, Mar 2023 – Feb 2024) electromagnetic metasurfaces for IRS applications.

Graduate students

• Prajosh K P (PhD, Jan 2018 – July 2023, Thesis: “Compressive Sensing-Based Fault Diagnosis and Mutual Coupling Analysis in Phased Array Antennas”, co-guided with Prof. Francesco Ferranti)

• Chandan Bhat (MS+PhD, Jan 2016 – June 2023, Thesis: “Electromagnetic Field Prediction using Surface Integral Method and Inverse Imaging”), Postdoctoral scholar in NEMO (2023-24) and then Postdoctoral scholar at Cambridge University, UK.

• Yaswanth Kalepu (PhD, Jan 2015 – June 2020, Thesis: “Microwave inverse imaging techniques for reconstructing strong scatterers
  and Enhanced structural strain monitoring in optical fibres”), Assistant Professor at IIITDM Kurnool.

• Siddhant Gautam (MS, July 2017 – Sept 2020, Thesis: “Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Sliced Regression Inversion Technique”),
  PhD program at Michigan State Univ. Awarded the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) - India,
  best masters thesis award for his MS thesis, presented by the Kerala Chapter of the Society in 2020.

• Yash Sanghvi (Staff 2019), PhD program at Purdue University.

• Sakees V C (MTP 2018), SFO Technologies Pvt Ltd, Kochi.

• Ayushi Jain (MTP 2018), Eaton, Pune.

• Sayak Bhattacharya (2016), PostDoc at University of Toronto, Faculty at IIIT Delhi.

• Akashdeep Bansal (MTP 2016), PhD candidate at IIT Delhi.

Undergraduate students

• Sreekar Sai Ranganathan (2023), PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Karteek Dhara (DDP 2020), Thesis: “Surface Integral Approaches for prediction of 2D Electromagnetic Fields”,
  PhD program at Caltech.

• Sriram Gopalakrishnan (BTP 2020), PhD program at University of Waterloo.

• Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath (2020), PhD program at Stanford University.

• Niharika Gunturu (2020), PhD program at Stanford University.

• Bhargav Ghanekar (BTP 2018) MS program at Carnegie Mellon University,
  PhD program at Rice University.

• Dipak Narayan (BTP 2018), MS program at The University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

• Shreyas Padhy (2017), MS program at Johns Hopkins University.

• Rahul Trivedi (BTP 2016, Awarded the best BTP, “Bambawale” at IIT Delhi),
  PhD program at Stanford University.

• Ayush Gupta and Aman Gaurav (BTP 2015), Goldman Sachs and Samsung, Bangalore.

Key: BTP = B.Tech Project, MTP = M.Tech Project, DDP = Dual degree project (equivalent to MTP),
DD = Dual degree (a 5 year program for joint B.Tech + M.Tech degrees)