Members

• Principal Investigator

N. M. Anoop Krishnan: Anoop completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 2015, after which he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles from 2015 to 2017. Before this, he completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from NIT Calicut in 2009. In October 2017, he joined IIT Delhi in the Department of Civil Engineering and has been heading the M3RG. He also holds a joint position at the Yardi School of Intelligence, IIT Delhi.

Complete CV here.

Professional appointments:

• Associate Professor: Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (04/2022-to-present)

• Associate Professor (Joint appointment): Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (01/2021-to-present)

• Assistant Professor: Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (10/2017-to-04/2022)

• Assistant Professor (Joint appointment): Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (01/2019-to-01/2021)

• Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA (10/2015-to-9/2017)

Awards:

1. Inspire faculty award, DST (2017), 

2. Young faculty incentive fellowship, IIT Delhi (2017),

3. SERB Early Career Researcher Award (2019),

4. Gandhian Young Technology Innovation Award as Mentor (2020),

5. INAE Young Engineer Award (2020), INAE Young Associate (2020),

6. BRNS-DAE Young Scientist Award (2021),

7. NASI-Young Scientist Award, National Academy of Sciences, India (2021),

8. IASc Young Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences, India (2022),

9. W. A. Weyl International Glass Science Award, International Commission on Glass (2022),

10. Google Research Award shared with Prof. Sayan Ranu (2023),

11. Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers (2023),

12. Veena Arora Early Career Researcher Award (2024), IIT Delhi.

Ph.D. Scholars

1. Tanu Pittie: Tanu works on experimental and peridynamics studies on impact damage in brittle materials. She completed her B.Tech and M.Tech in Civil Engineering from NIT Jaipur before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi as a research scholar.

2. Ashish Yadav: Ashish works on the atomistic and mesoscale mechanics of calcium silicate hydrates gel (cement hydrates). He completed his B.Tech and M.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi as a research scholar. 

3. Venkateswarlu Polugari: Venkat works on understanding the structure of clay minerals using experiments and simulations. Jointly supervised with Prof. K. S. Rao.

4. Suresh Bishnoi (PMRF): Suresh works on developing novel graph neural networks with physics-based inductive biases for modeling dynamical systems. He completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering at IIT Delhi before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi, as a research scholar. Jointly supervised with Prof. Sayan Ranu and Prof. Jayadeva.

5. Shweta Rani Keshri: Shweta works on developing novel glass electrolytes using experimental studies. She was working as a research associate at CGCRI, Kolkata, before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi as a research scholar. Jointly supervised with Prof. Nitya Nand Gosvami.

6. Sajid Mannan (PMRF): Sajid works on developing multiscale methods ranging from atomistic to continuum scales employing machine learning and modeling. He completed his undergraduate studies at NIT, Hamirpur, before joining M3RG. Jointly supervised with Prof. Nitya Nand Gosvami.

7. Sheikh Junaid Fayaz: Junaid works on developing AI models to predict clinker quality directly from industrial data. He completed his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from NIT Srinagar before joining M3RG. 

8. Hargun Singh Grover: Hargun is working on using NLP and ML to accelerate the discovery of materials. He completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi before joining M3RG.

9. Dushyant Soni: Dushyant works on developing a music and yoga therapy module for treating post-stroke non-fluent aphasic patients. He is a trained yoga instructor and works on a collaborative project between IIT Delhi and AIIMS. Jointly supervised with Prof. Rahul Garg.

10. Sanchit Bedi (PMRF): Sanchit works on developing physics-informed machine learning models to predict the evolution of air quality in the atmosphere. He completed his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi before joining M3RG. Jointly supervised with Prof. Sri Harsha Kota.

11. Indrajeet Mandal: Indrajeet works on developing novel electrolyte glass compositions employing AI/ML and experiments. He completed his Masters and Bachelors in Physics from Kalyani University and worked in CGCRI before joining M3RG. Jointly supervised with Prof. Nitya Nand Gosvami.

12. Ramachandra N U.: Ramachandra works on understanding the evolution of aesthetics of Indian classical music. He has a bachelor's and master's in Sanskrit and is working as a professor at Jain University, Bangalore. He is currently pursuing his part-time PhD in M3RG.

13. Anjali Bansal: Anjali works on developing AI models for developing sewer networks. She worked in Ramboll and is currently pursuing her part-time PhD in M3RG. Jointly supervised with Prof. Sri Harsha Kota.

14. Kausik Hira: Kausik works on information extraction in the materials domain from text and tables. Jointly supervised with Prof. Mausam.

MS(R)

1. Akash Kumar Singh: Akash works on the application of graph coarsening with physics-informed machine learning for oil field modeling. He completed a B.Tech. in Data Science at IISER Pune. Jointly supervised with Prof. Sayan Ranu.

Alumni

PhD

1. Ravinder (PMRF) (2023): Ravinder worked on machine learning to model the mechanics of glasses and other materials. He completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Roorkee. He worked in the industry for a year, after which he joined M3RG, IIT Delhi, as a research scholar. Following his PhD, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at IIT Indore.

Awards: Registration grant for ICG-GOMD (2019), SERB Travel grant (2019), Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) (2020), Gandhian Young Technology Innovation Award (2020).

2. Rajesh Kumar (2023): Rajesh worked on developing interatomic potentials and the simulation of silicate glasses. He completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Hamirpur and M.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He worked in the industry and in academia for a few years before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi, as a research scholar. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at M3RG.

3. Kasimuthumaniyan (2023): Kasi worked on nanoscale experiments in glasses. He was a research scholar under the joint supervision of Prof. Nitya Nand Gosvami and Prof. Krishnan. He works as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Calgary, Canada.

4. Sourav Sahoo (PMRF) (2024): Sourav worked on understanding the scratch damage in glasses using experiments and simulations. He completed his B.Tech in Materials Science and Engineering from NIT Rourkela before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi as a research scholar. Jointly supervised with Prof. Nitya Nand Gosvami. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark.

5. Mohd Zaki (PMRF) (2025): Zaki worked on natural language processing, information extraction, and machine learning to predict and design glassy and cementitious materials. He completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from MNIT Allahabad before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi as a research scholar. Jointly supervised with Prof. Sayan Ranu and Prof. Jayadeva. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University, USA.

MS(R)

1. Meer Mehran Rashid (2023): Mehran worked on the application of neural operators for predicting stress and strain evolution in digital composites. He obtained his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from NIT Srinagar and is currently doing his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Postdocs

1. Vineeth Venugopal (2021): Vineeth worked as a research scientist focusing on NLP for materials before moving to MIT, USA as a postdoctoral researcher.

2. Sudheer Ganishetti (2021-22): Sudheer worked as a research scientist focussing on atomistic modeling of glasses before moving to Aalborg University as a postdoctoral researcher.

3. Amreen Jan (2021-2024): Amreen worked as SERB NPDF, focusing on atomistic modeling of glasses and dissolution.

Research Associates

4. Abhishek Kumar (2019-20): Abhishek worked as a research associate on the fracture behavior of disordered materials. He completed his B.Sc. in chemistry before joining M3RG, IIT Delhi, as a research assistant.

Undergraduates/Masters students

1. Prashanth Rathode (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

2. Pratik Bhaskar (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

3. Prateet Garg (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

4. Yashasvi Maurya (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

5. Sourabh Singh (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

6. Suresh Bishnoi (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

7. Ashish Gupta (B.Tech, CE, 2021)

8. Jyamiti Maheswari (B.Tech, CE, 2021)

9. Hargun Singh (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

10. Virok Sharma (B.Tech, CE, 2020)

11. David Vallejo Fort (Exchange student from INSA, Lyon)

12. Romit Kaware (UG, CE, 2023)

13. Utkarsh Tiwari (UG, CE, 2023)

14. Sarthak Srivastava (UG, CE, 2023)

15. Tanishq Gupta (M.Tech. dual degree, Maths & Computing, 2022)

16. Mayank (M.Tech., CE, 2022)

17. Vaibhav Bihani (M.Tech. dual degree, CE, 2023)

18. Saket Sharma (M.Tech., Structures, 2023)

19. Dhruvil Bhavish Sheth (M.Tech., AI, 2024)

20. Vaibhav Mishra (B.Tech., CSE, 2024)

21. Somaditya Singh (B.Tech., CSE, 2024)

22. Aditya (B.Tech., CE, 2025)

23. Pranav Khetarpal (B.Tech., CE, 2025)

24. Dhruv Ahlawat (B.Tech., CSE, 2025)