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ALUMNI STUDENTS (UNDERGRADUATE)
Aditya Goyal
Aditya graduated from IIT Ropar in 2016 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His areas of interest include solar energy, thermal engineering, computer science. For his B.Tech project he worked on utilizing solar energy for evaporation of water, under the co-supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi & Prof. Sarit K. Das. After graduating he has been working as business & data analyst in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Aditya Khokhar
Aditya completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Ropar in 2013 post which he went for his MBA at IIM Indore. During his years at Ropar Aditya had keen interest in the area of renewable sources of energy and technological innovations which can meet the growing needs of modern world. On the same lines as part of his final year project Aditya explored the usage of solar energy for purifying water under the co-supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi and Dr. Harpreet Singh.
He is currently working with Cognizant as part of Digital Technology Team as a Business Development Analyst which includes designing new digital solutions for enterprises primarily across North America. Aditya has keen interest in historical and cultural studies primarily in the fields of cinematic arts and literature. He regularly posts about these varied topics on his blog (The Lost Tavern).
Ahsaas Sharma
Ahsaas graduated from IIT Ropar in 2020 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He did his final year BTP project under supervision of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi on optimization of fractal channel Heat sinks. He did his summer internship from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), where he analyzed the performance of tin slag when recycled with reinforced polymer concrete carbon fiber composites. He is also the founder and ex-president of DebSoc, the debating society of IIT Ropar and has served as the mentor to Finance and Consultancy club. He has represented IIT Ropar at Inter IIT Tech Meet and Inter IIT Cultural Meet for 3 years. Afterwards he pursued MBA from IIM Ahmedabad having secured 99.93 percentile in CAT 2019.
Akshat Pandey
Akshat graduated from IIT Ropar in 2015 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests during his undergraduate days included renewable energy sciences and fluid mechanics. He worked on thermo-fluid analysis of hydrodynamic couplings for his B.Tech project under the supervision of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi. He is currently working at Flipkart where he is the Chief of Staff of the head of the Marketplace and Retail business, working horizontally across business operations, product management and strategy.
Akshay Rathore
Akshay graduated from IIT Ropar in 2019 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His final year B.Tech project was on the topic "Water purification through Membrane Distillation using Solar Thermal Energy" under the guidance of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi. He did his summer internship in KU Leuven, Belgium. He has also published a journal papers in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications. He has served as the Treasurer of Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME) at IIT Ropar and as the Representative of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Club at IIT Ropar. He has represented IIT Ropar at the Inter IIT Tech Meet in 2017. After graduating, Akshay worked in Larsen & Toubro for a few years, before joining the MBA program at IIM Bangalore in 2022.
Dr. Ashwanth Kumar Reddy Salibindla
Ashwanth graduated from IIT Ropar in 2013 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He was chosen as research intern to spend 1 month at University of Aston, UK and worked on a project 'Solar mechanical salt water desalination' under the co-supervision of Dr. Philip Davies and Dr. Himanshu Tyagi. His B.Tech Project work under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi has resulted in a journal publication namely "Enhancing the efficiency of absorption refrigeration cycle by seeding nanoparticles directly in the working fluid". After graduation, he worked for 1 year at Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Ashwanth got his Masters from Penn State University and then finished his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, Fluid Transport Lab under the supervision of Dr. Rui Ni with a dissertation topic "Interfacial momentum and mass transfer in two-phase flows". He is currently working as Etch Process Engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
Devesh Singh
Devesh received B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Ropar in 2020. His research interest lies in the field of Heat and Mass Transfer and Sustainable energy solutions. He completed his B.Tech project under the supervision of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi on the topic 'Optimization of fractal channel heat sinks'. Previosuly, he has been awarded UNSW: IIT-Ropar Fellowship for Energy + Water Nexus program (and visited UNSW, Sydney, Australia as part of this program in July 2019). He has been a part of the core organizing team of IIT Ropar’s Tech Fest, 2019, and Cultural fest, 2018. After graduating he is working as Project Engineer at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.
Gaurav Gupta
Gaurav graduated from IIT Ropar in 2016 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His home town is Allahabad, where he did his initial schooling in Kendriya Vidyalaya. His areas of interest include solar & renewable energy, thermal engineering, nuclear physics, management studies. He has been involved in several extra-curricular activities and is the student head of IIT Ropar Alumni Association, as well as class representative of his batch (2012ME). For his B.Tech project he worked on utilizing solar energy for evaporation of water, under the co-supervision of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi & Prof. Sarit K. Das.
Harshjyot Singh
Harshjyot graduated from IIT Ropar in 2015 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests lie in the field of CFD and applied fluid mechanics. He worked on CFD analysis of hydrodynamic couplings as his final year B.Tech project under the guidance of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi. He is also avidly involved in extra-curricular activities and represented IIT Ropar at Inter IIT Sports Meet 2013 as a part of the basket-ball team. He is working as Engineering Officer in Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL).
Mohit Saini
Mohit graduated from IIT Ropar in 2018 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His research area is inclined towards clean and sustainable sources of energy for meeting today's energy requirements. He worked on utilizing solar energy by converting it into electrical energy using thermo-electric generators for his B.Tech project under the guidance of Dr. H. Tyagi. He was a member of SME (Society of Mechanical Engineering) at IIT Ropar and has worked as the representative of SME for the year 2014-15. He has also represented IIT Ropar at Inter IIT Sports Meet 2014. He is presently working as a senior software developer.
Nikhil Jalan
Nikhil obtained B.Tech degree in 2020 from IIT Ropar, in the field of Mechanical Engineering. His research interest lie in the field of heat and mass transfer and designing. He pursued his BTP under the supervision of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi, studying the thermal efficiency of heat exchangers upon fouling. He did his summer internship from Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Noida on the designing and FEA analysis of metal expansion bellows. He was the vice captain and transmission head of BAJA SAE team of IIT Ropar. He did the research internship at IIT Ropar itself on the friction stir welding, and also published a research paper on “Micro friction stir welding of AA 6061-T6 thin sheets using in-house developed fixture". Afterwards, he joined IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Ltd. as a Graduate Engineer Trainee. His key role include designing of the production plants.
Nikhil K. Gautam
Nikhil was awarded B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT Ropar in 2020. His research interest lies in the field of Heat and Mass Transfer and Sustainable energy solutions. He completed his final year BTP project under the supervision of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi on the analysis of thermal efficiency of Heat Exchanger upon fouling. He did his summer internship from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, where he focused on the simulation of two-phase flow for generating of micro-bubbles for carrying gases. After working at ISGEC Heavy Engineering Ltd. as Senior Design Engineer for designing of efficient Heat exchangers, he is currently working as an analysts at EXL.
Nitin Singhal
Nitin graduated from IIT Ropar in 2012 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. In his final year project he worked to simulate and optimize a solar based cooling system under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi. The unique aspect of this system was that it utilized direct absorption of solar energy using nanofluids. After his 2nd year of studies Nitin was chosen as research intern and spent about a month at University of Aston, UK working in collaboration with Dr. Geoffrey Tansley and studied the biofluid mechanics aspects during the design and manufacture processes of medical devices. He was also a part of the first contingent that represented IIT Ropar at 44th Inter IIT Sports Meet at IIT Madras held in 2008. Nitin is presently working as product manager at Walmart Labs.
Paras Garg
Paras graduated from IIT Ropar in 2017 with a B.Tech (Hons.) degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests lie in the field of heat and mass transfer analysis and experimentation. He worked on heat confinement using gold nanoparticles for cancer treatment for his B.Tech project under the co-guidance of Dr. H. Tyagi & Prof. Sarit K. Das. He is also avidly involved in extra-curricular and social entrepreneurial activities. He represented IIT Ropar at Inter IIT Sports Meet 2014 and Inter IIT Tech meet 2015. After graduating from IIT Ropar he worked at Tata Motors as project manager. Subsequently he is pursuing MBA from IIM Ahemdabad.
Rahul Gulati
Rahul graduated from IIT Ropar in 2013 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He was chosen to attend a joint workshop on Sustainable Energy at University of New South Wales, Sydney during April 2012 and work on a project 'Domestic Solar Heating and Cooling System'. He has also been chosen to work as a Research intern during summer 2012 at University of Aston, UK. His B.Tech Project work under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi has resulted in a journal publication namely "Enhancing the efficiency of absorption refrigeration cycle by seeding nanoparticles directly in the working fluid".
After graduating Rahul worked at Oil and Natural Gas Limited (ONGC), India as Executive Engineer until Aug 2018. His Masters work is on "Toupin’s gradient elasticity theory at finite strains modelled using triangulation based Isogeometric Analysis (tIGA)" and is currently pursuing PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and working on "Multiphysics modeling of mechano-chemo-electrical phenomena on surface manifolds and biomembranes" in Computational Physics Group under the supervision of Dr. Shiva Rudraraju as part of his thesis project.
Rahul Yadav
Rahul graduated from IIT Ropar in 2019 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He did his final year BTP project under the supervision of Dr. Himanshu Tyagi on Membrane distillation technique using solar energy. He has already published a journal paper in Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). He has represented IIT Ropar at Inter IIT Tech meet 2017 held in IIT Madras. He has also served as Astronomy Club Representative at IIT Ropar.
Dr. Sankarshan Verma
Sankarshan graduated from IIT Ropar in 2017. He did his summer internship at IIT Bombay and a full semester internship at General Electric (Global Research), Bangalore. He completed his B.Tech project on the topic “Heat confinement using gold nanoparticles for cancer treatment” under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi and Prof. Sarit K. Das. After graduation, he worked at Engineering Research Centre in Tata Motors, Pune for a short duration after which he went on to pursue a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University London, UK. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Harjit Singh in June 2022 and is now working at Whirlpool Corporation as a Subject Matter Expert for Insulation.
Shalabh Singh
Shalabh completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering in 2017. His areas of interest include multiphase flows, heat exchanger analysis, CFD, and engineering optimization. With keen interest in astronomy, he represented IIT Ropar at the Inter IIT Tech Meet in 2015. His interest in AI, led him towards working on his own startup Aspiro where he is trying to help sales guys do better conversations with their customers. Previously he worked with Samsung, where he was developing ML solutions for Samsung's voice assistant Bixby.
Siddharth Saroha
Siddharth graduated from IIT Ropar in 2014 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He worked in the area of application of nanofluids in Solar PV/T (photovoltaic/thermal) hybrid collectors. His B.Tech Project work under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi has resulted in a journal publication namely "Theoretical Analysis and Testing of Nanofluids-Based Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) Hybrid Collector". He is currently working in the Solar Thermal Division of National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurugram. His research interests include solar cooling, solar drying, solar space heating, solar PV/T hybrid collectors, desalination, and thermal energy storage.
Somyanshu Arora
Somyanshu graduated from IIT Ropar in 2014 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He was an awardee of Director Gold Medal and Institute Silver Medalist. As a student at IIT Ropar, he was awarded the DAAD WISE Scholarship-2013 to work at University of Kiel, Germany under the aegis of Dr. Jeffrey McCord. In February 2012 he was chosen for the Summer Research Fellowship Programme-2012 by Indian Academy of Sciences and worked under the supervision of Dr. Indradev Samajdar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in May-July 2012 for the same.
During his graduation, Somyanshu augmented his research interests in nano and microscale properties of materials, engine dynamics and thermal, radiative and transport properties of nanomaterials by working performing a 'Numerical Study of Particulate Suspensions' under the co-supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi and Dr. V. Mehandia during his final year project. The project was a Finalist at the Jed-i Project Challenge 2014.
After graduating from IIT Ropar, Somyanshu joined the Steel Authority of India Limited as a Management Trainee (Technical). After working their for about a year, Somyanshu joined Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Delhi for obtaining a degree in Business Management. Somyanshu has interests in Financial Markets and would like to research the use of Molecular Fluid Dynamics in studying Financial Markets.
G. Suchender Reddi
Suchender graduated from IIT Ropar in 2017 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His areas of interest include heat transfer and CFD. For his B.Tech. project, he worked on micro & nanoscale heat transfer applications under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi.
Tarun Mittal
Tarun graduated from IIT Ropar in 2014 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He worked in the area of application of nanofluids in Solar PV/T (photovoltaic/thermal) hybrid collectors. An environmentalist at heart, his research interests include harnessing solar energy in the most efficient way for a sustainable future. His B.Tech Project work under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi has resulted in a journal publication namely "Theoretical Analysis and Testing of Nanofluids-Based Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) Hybrid Collector". After graduating from IIT Ropar, Tarun joined the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). Currently he is working as Junior Manager in Center for Engineering and Technology (CET, Ranchi) which is the in-house consultant of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
Vikas Jawaria
Vikas graduated from IIT Ropar in 2013 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He worked under the co-supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi and Dr. Harpreet Singh on his final year project to explore the use of renewable energy resources for water purification in rural areas. His research interests lie in fabrication and designing of highly efficient systems based on renewable energy resources. He is working as scientist at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Vivek Dharnia
Vivek graduated from IIT Ropar in 2013 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He worked under the co-supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi and Dr. Harpreet Singh on his final year project to explore the use of renewable energy resources for water purification in rural areas. Vivek did his summer internship at the Non-Ferrous Technology Development Centre, Hyderabad where he was an active member of projects related to sustainable energy development for cooling applications. Besides academics, Vivek is actively involved in various extra-curricular activities. He was a former captain of the basketball team of IIT Ropar and has led the team to Inter IIT Sports Meets at IIT Kharagpur (Dec 2011). Vivek worked as Assistant Commandant in Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) for 4 years and commanded Republic Day Parade at Rajpath in 2020. Subsequently, he joined the MBA program at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode in 2021 where he received the prestigious Aditya Birla Scholarship for two consecutive years and secured a job with Tata Administrative Services (TAS).
Vivek Kumar
Vivek graduated from IIT Ropar in 2014 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are in the field of heat and mass transfer and fluid mechanics. During his final year project he worked under the co-supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi and Dr. V. Mehandia.
Dr. Vivek Vishwakarma
Vivek graduated from IIT Ropar in 2012 with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. In his final year project he worked to simulate and optimize a solar based cooling system under the supervision of Dr. H. Tyagi. The unique aspect of this system was that it utilized direct absorption of solar energy using nanofluids. Vivek was selected for the joint UNSW-IIT Ropar Sustainable Energy workshop and attended the workshop in UNSW Sydney, Australia, during April 2012. Vivek obtained a PhD degree from Dr. Ankur Jain's research group at University of Texas at Arlington in 2017. Subsequently, he has been working as Technology Development Engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
