Group Members
Group
Principal Investigator
Hemant Kumar
Hemant Kumar, assistant professor of physics, focuses on computational materials physics, nanomaterials, biomolecules, and materials for energy storage. He came to IIT Bhubaneswar in 2019 after completing his postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania.
He received his MSc at JNU in 2008 and a PhD at IISc in 2014.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vishnu Sudarsanan
Senior Project Associate
(March 2024 - current)
Energy Storage: Solid-state Batteries
Graduate Students
Sweta Das
PhD Scholar (August 2019-current)
2D materials, vdW Heterostructures
Pratik Mishra
PhD Scholar (January 2020-current)
2D Materials
Saheb Bera
PhD Scholar (July 2020-current)
2D Materials, Functional Material Design
Swayamshree Senapati
PhD Scholar (July 2020-current)
Genome Organization
Sidhant Barik
PhD Scholar (July 2022-current)
Energy Storage
Soumyashree Das Adhikari
PhD Scholar (July 2023-current)
Energy Storage
Project Students
Rupali Paul
Project Associate (October 2023-current)
Biophysics
Deepanshu Kaushik (MSc 2023-current)
Functional Material Design
Project Intern
Animesh Baral
Machine Learning
Itipragnya Pati
Atomistic Simulation
Group Alumni
Ram Sewak
Project Scientist I
(June 2022-Dec 2023)
Solid-State Battery, Machine-learning based material design
Chayan Roy
(MSc 2023)
Machine-learning for molecular simulations
Rishabh Jain
(BTech 2023)
Machine-Learning assisted solid-electrolyte material design
Jainam Raval
(BTech 2023)
Big data analysis to uncover the genome folding inside cell nucleus
Doni Bhasvana
(BTech 2023)
Machine-Learning assisted solid-electrolyte material design
Santanu Mohapatra
PhD Scholar
(Jan 2021-Dec 2021)
Self Assembly
Sourav Sasmal
(MSc 2022)
Currently PhD Scholar at IISc Bangalore
Swarendu Maity
(MSc 2021)
Currently PhD Scholar at JNCASR Bangalore
Vikasmita Samanta
(MSc 2021)
Currently PhD Scholar at IIT Madras
Subhrajit Sahoo
(MSc 2021)
Piyush P. Raut
(BTech 2021)
M. Eswar Sai Prasad
(BTech 2021)
PAVAN GUGULOTH (BTech 2021)
Souvick Chakraborty (MSc 2020)
Currently PhD Scholar at IISER Kolkata