(A) MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY (MTECH) STUDENTS SUPERVISED/GRADUATED AT IITGN
1. Sayan Kar (Chemical Engineering) ,August 2013MTech Thesis: Computational Assessment of Pollution Dispersion in Urban CentresFrom July 2013- Pursued Joint-IITB-Melbourne PhD in Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay, India
2. Rachit Prasad (Mechanical Engineering), July 2014MTech Thesis: Computational Modeling of Wing-In-Ground Effect AerodynamicsFrom August 2014-Pursued and Completed PhD in Aerospace Engineering at VPI&SU, Blacksburg, VA, USA
3. Vinay Dwivedi (Mechanical Engineering), July 2014MTech Thesis:Computational Aerodynamics and Flight Dynamics of Perching Maneuver of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(Industry Partner: SPICES)December 2012: Winter Internship at CD-Adapco/Siemens Bangalore, India, May 2014: Job Placement at Bombardier Transportation Pte Ltd, Vadodara, GJ, ndia
4. Himanshu Sharma (Mechanical Engineering), July 2014MTech Thesis: Computational Modeling of Condensed Phase Aerosol-Based Fire Extinguisher (Industry Partner: UL Chicago, USA)May-July 2014: Summer Intern at Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore, SingaporeSep 2014 – Jul 2015: JRF at HPCLab, IIT Gandhinagar and at TIFR-CAM, Bangalore. Aug 2015-PhD Candidate at Iowa State University, USA. Jan 2019: Completed PhD at Iowa State University and started PostDoc at Argonne National Lab, Chicago USA.
5. Neelesh Bhandari (Mechanical Engineering), July 2014MTech Thesis: Modelling Performance of Positive Displacement Pumps Using CFD (Industry Partner: Xylem)May 2014: Job Placement at Bombardier Transportation Pte Ltd, Vadodara, GJ, India
6. Kartik C. Panchal (External MTech Amity University, Noida, UP, India, Intern), June 2014MTech Thesis: Application of CFD in the Analysis of Road Vehicles Jan-June 2014: Intern from Amity University doing his MTech Thesis at IIT Gandhinagar. External CandidateJune 2014: Project Engineer at IIT Gandhinagar. 7. Jay Sudani (Mechanical Engineering), July 2015MTech Thesis: High Fidelity Computational Performance Assessment of a Vertical Axis Wind TurbineMay 2015: 1st Job Placement as Faculty Member at Parul Institute of Technology, Vadodara, GJ, India
8. Abheeti Goyal (Mechanical Engineering), August 2016MTech Thesis: Computational Aeromechanics of Annular Wing Unmanned Aerial VehicleSelected for the 2016-17 Shell India PhD Scholarship in Computational Science Research at top universities in The Netherlands followed by a career at the Shell Computational Centre of Excellence in Bangalore, India. Sept 2016 onwards- PhD Candidate at Eindhoven University, The Netherlands. 9. Ayush Jain (Mechanical Engineering) August 2016MTech Thesis: Computational Assessment of Multiphase flows in Chokes and Axial flow Valves August 2016: Placement as Engineer with Mahindra and Mahindra Research Centre at Chennai, TN, India
10. Sumit Singh (Mechanical Engineering) August 2016MTech Thesis: Computational Modelling of the Aeromechanics and Flight Control of a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial VehicleMay-July 2015: Summer Internship 2015: A*Star Institute of High Performance ComputingPlacement at Faurecia India, Pune, MH, India and currently as Computational Engineer with LAM Research, Bengaluru, KN, India.
11. Sagar Gurnani (Mechanical Engineering) August 2016MTech Thesis: Computational Aeromechanics of Low Aspect Ratio Aerodynamic ConfigurationsJuly 2016: Placement as faculty member at Silver Oak Engineering College, Ahmedabad, India 12. Chirag Sawadiawala (Mechanical Engineering) August 2016MTech Thesis: High Fidelity Computational Assessment of Unsynchronized and Synchronized Vertical Axis Wind TurbinesAugust 2016: Placement as Engineer with CD-Adapco Pune, India
13. Akshay Kanoria (Mechanical Engineering), August 2016MTech Thesis: Lattice Boltzmann Method for Applied Aerodynamics ProblemsDefended MTech Thesis successfully on 27 Nov 2015. April 2016: Flight Physics Engineer with Airbus India Group, Bangalore, India (c) RESEARCH STAFF AND GRADUATE INTERNS SUPERVISED AT IITGN
1. Tapan Shah (BTech Aero from Manipal Institute of Technology, KN, India ) Project Associate assigned to work on Computational Design of Wind Energy Systems, July 2012-Sept 2013MEng in Aeronautics at Cranfield University, UK 2013-2014; Later Support Engineer with CD-Adapco Pune
2. Divakar Roy (MS Georgia Tech USA ) Junior Research Fellow assigned to work on GPU Computing for Large Scale Scientific Computing/Model Order Reduction Methods for High Fidelity Computational Design, May 2013-May 2014
3. Akshay Kanoria,(BTech Aero from SVIT Vadodara, GJ, India 2010, MSc Aero from Cranfield Univerity, UK, 2011) Jan 2012 – Nov 2015: Research Engineer/Junior Research Fellow assigned to work on LBM and SU2 for Applied Aerodynamics; GPU Computing in Applied Aerodynamics; Aeroelasticity work; Moving meshes in Open Source CFD codesJunior Research Fellow ship sponsored by Dept of Information Technology, GOI;May-July 2014: Summer Intern at A*Star-Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore. Worked on Interfacing Overlapping Meshes on SU2 for GPU Implementation. April 2015: Snr Research Fellow sponsored by GTRE. From April 2016, Flight Physics Engineer with Airbus India Group, Bangalore.
4. Mohammed Gowahar (BTech (Aero), Noorul Islam University, Kanya Kumari, TN, India, 2013)Project Associate assigned to work on LBM and Particle Methods and Computational Aerodynamics, Sep 2013-Dec 2014From June 2015, CFD Engineer with TEFUGEN Technologies Pvt Ltd, Thiruchinapally, TN, India
5. Parikh Sahaj Anand (BTech and MTech (ME) IIT Madras 2013Project Engineer assigned to work on Flute Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics, Oct 2013- Jan 2014With Schlumberger, India since March 2014.
6. Darwin Rajpal (MEng from TU Delft (Netherlands) )Project Engineer assigned to work on Computational Design Optimization of Aero-Structure Problems, 01 April 2014- 30 June 2014July 2015: Pursued PhD in Aerospace Engg at TU Delft, Netherlands
7. Kartik C. Panchal, (MTech from Amity University, Noida, India)Project Engineer assigned to work on Modelling of Ring Wing Aerodynamics and Energy Harvesting Systems June 2014- Jan 2015 Entrepreuner Starup AutoForest, Vatva, GJ, India
8. Himanshu Sharma (MTech(ME), IIT Gandhinagar, 2014Junior Research Fellow assigned to work on LES Simulations of Blended Wing Body SPICES Model; Rainfall Effects on Aircraft AerodynamicsSep 2014 – Jul 2015: JRF at HPCLab, IIT Gandhinagar and at TIFR-CAM, Bangalore. Aug 2015-PhD Candidate at Iowa State University, USA. Jan 2019: Completed PhD at Iowa State University and started PostDoc at Argonne National Lab, Chicago USA.
9.Jai GaneshShort Term Junior Research Fellow assigned to work on High Speed Aeroelasticity Problems 01 Oct 2014- Dec 2014 10. Daivik Rajan Mehta, MTech (ME) IIT MadrasHigh Fidelity Modelling for Design Optimization of Heat Pipes19 Jan 2015-30 April 2015Joint Canadian-IOCL Doctoral Program at Simon Fraser University Canada and IOCL India (d) BTECH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AND DESIGN PROJECTS SUPERVISED AT IITGN
[Legend: BTP: BTech Project; ALP: Additional Learning Project; EWYL: Earn While You Work Project] 1. Swetava Ganguli, 2011-2012BTP Project: Assessment of the Aeroacoutics of Shock-Vortex Interaction Using Lattice Boltzmann Method, July 2012Top Graduating BTech of the pioneer 2008 IITGN Cohort; Winner of the 2012 President's Gold Medal at the 1st IITGN Convocation 2012. Since Sept 2012 enrolled in the Graduate Program of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, USA
2. Tanmay Balwa, 2011-2012EWYL Project: Development of Virtualization Platforms for Enhancing Computing Infrastructure at IITGN, July 2012Winner of the Award for Integrity and Exemplary Human Qualities at 1st IITGN Convocation 2012., Worked at Citrix Systems at San Jose, California, USA 3. Keshav G, 2011-2012 ALP Project : Design and Manufacture of a Low Cost Automated Incense Stick Coating Mechanism , July 2012Winner of the Outstanding Innovation Award at the 1st IITGN Convocation 2012.; Winner of the 2012 Gandhian Innovation Award for the Agarbathi Maker; Currently at IITGN incubating, patenting and field testing the device in rural areas and urban slums in Ahmedabad with support from IITGN Incubation Fund. 4. Yash Shah, 2012-2013ALP Project: Design and Development of a Low Cost Dishwasher supported by iCreate Innovation Award, July 2013First Job as Business Analyst with KPMG Mumbai Office from June 2013.
5. Gourav Dubey, Abhijhit Rajiv and Kaustubh Tripude ALP Project: Design of a Life Support System for a Motorbike supported by iCreate Innovation Award, July 2013Gaurav Dubey: Execuctive at Honda Cars India; Abhijit Rajiv: PhD Student at University of Washington, Seattle, USA since Aug 2013.
6. Sunil Nair, 2012-2013 EWYL Project :Testing of Parallel Computing Codes on the GPU Cluster at IITGN, August 2014 First Job as Customer Analyst at Cognizant Technologies, Chennai Office from August 2014.
7. Ravi Kumar, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, EWYL Project: Networking and Testing of CUDA Codes on the GPU Cluster at IITGN, August 2016 From June 2014- July 2015- Attached to CISCO USA.
8. Prateek Nyati and Nakul Nuwal , 2012-2013 ALP Project :Modeling of Transport of Moisture Content in the Vicinity of New IIT Gandhinagar Campus Buildings, August 2014December 2012: Winter Internship at CD-Adapco, Bangalore, India Nakul Nuwal: MS student at Aerospace Dept, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA since August 2014
9. Akanksha Jagwani, 2013-2014 BTP Project: Computational Assessment for Design Improvements to Small Wind Energy Systems for Marine Applications (Industry: Xylem), August 2014Started as Engineer with Altair-India, Bangalore, India; Currently CEO of Startup Venture SixSense in Singapore.
10. Hariom Bhargav, 2013-2014BTP Project: Computational Assessment of the Performance of Flexible Impeller Pump(Industry: Xylem), August 2014First Job as Engineer with Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals (GSFC), Vadodara, GJ, India. From 2015: MTech (ME) Student at IIT Bombay
11. Ritu Gavasane, 2013-2014BTP Project High Fidelity CFD Analysis of High Altitude Airships (HAARI Project), August 2014Joined MBA Program at IIM Calcutta, Kolkata, India from August 2014
12. Raj M. Shah, 2013-2014Nvidia-Sponsored Teaching Assistant for ES611: Algorithms on Advanced Computer Architectures, August 2015May-July 2013: Summer Intern at Supercomputing Education and Research Centre (SERC), IISc- Bangalore, India. Implemented Adaptive Mesh Refinement on GPUs;Dec 2013-Apr 2014: Nvidia TA at IITGN for ES611: Algorithms on Advanced Architectures CourseMay-July 2014 : DAAD-WISE Intern at TU-Munich, Germany, Implemented Circuit Simulations on FPGAs and GPUs. Graduated with SM from Stanfored University and currently employed at Microsoft, USA.
13. Aashrith S. K, 2013-2014 ALP Project: Open Source CFD Projects in Aerodynamics, August 2015May-July 2014: Summer Intern at California Institute of Technology, USA; 2015: PhD Student at University of Wisconsin, USA
14. Soham Harshe, 2013-2014 ALP/BTP Project: Open Source CFD Projects in Aerodynamics; Modeling Rainfall Effects on UAV Aerodynamics, August 2015May-July 2014: Summer Intern at Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore; From July 2015: MTech (ME) Student at IIT Bombay
15. Milan Singh, 2013-2014 ALP/BTP Project: Open Source CFD Projects in Aerodynamics;Modeling Rainfall Effects on UAV Aerodynamics, August,2015May-July 2014: Summer Intern at Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore
16. Sachchit Vekaria, 2013-2014 ALP/BTP Project: Open Source CFD Projects in Aerodynamics;Modeling Rainfall Effects on UAV Aerodynamics, August 2015May-July 2014: Summer Intern at Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore; From July 2015: MTech (AE) Student at IIT Bombay; Currently Engineer at General Aeronautics, Bangalore, India. 17. Hemang Desai, IIT Indore BTech ME student on External Attachment at IIT Gandinagar, 2014 BTP Project: Modeling Gust Response of Maneuvering UAVs, August 2015May-Nov 2014: External Student from IIT Indore on BTech Project Work for 7 months at IIT Gandhinagar.
18.Jalaj Maheshwari, BITS Pilani Goa BTech ME StudentBTP Project: Modeling of Energy Harvesting from Aeroelastic Instabilities, August 2015Jan-June 2015: External Candidate from BITS Pilani Goa Campus doing BTech Project at IITGN; From Fall 2015 Graduate Student at University of Pennsylvania, USA.
19. Rocky Dhongre ,2015ALP Project: Aero-Mechanics of High Altitude Airships, August 2016 20. Rajat Shiv Chand, 2015 ALP Project: Assessment of Effect of Shrouds on Low Cost Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT)Aerodynamics; August 2016