Group Members
Past Group Members
Ph.D.
Utsav Mishra, Roll no. 16223262, January 2017 to March 2024
[M.Sc. (Tech.) in Applied Geophysics, IIT-ISM Dhanbad, India]
Thesis Title: A coupled approach for groundwater contamination study and delineation of artificial recharge sites based on electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and conventional methods (Defended on 15th March 2024)
Supervisor(s): A. Mandal
Current Position: Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO), EHM Consultancy Pvt Ltd; Email: utsav.ism2011@gmail.com
Aurobindo Kumar Basantaray, Roll no. 15223261, December 2015 to May2023
[M.Sc. in Geophysics, Berhampur University, Odisha, India]
Thesis Title: Integrated geophysical studies to elucidate subsurface configuration of a non-volcanic geothermal system along Mahanadi rift basin,India (Defended on 17th May 2023)
Supervisor(s): A. Mandal
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, iCRAG – SFI research centre in applied geosciences, School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland (from October 2023); Email: aurobasantaray@gmail.com / aurobindo.basantaray@ucd.ie
Franck Eitel Kemgang Ghomsi, Reg. no. 07W346, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon; March 2016 to April2021
Thesis Title: Reappraisal of the crustal configuration of African hotspots from global gravity models constrained by seismic studies (Defended on 30th April 2021)
Supervisor(s): A. Mandal (as external co-supervisor)
Current Position: Associate Researcher, National Institute of Cartography, Cameroon; Email: franckeitel@gmail.com
M.Tech.
Harshajit Borah (2019-21); M.Tech. Thesis; Current Position: Spatial Analyst at Verisk analytics; Email: harshajitborah@gmail.com
Anjali Dixit (2018-2020), Continuing PhD at IITK
Neeraj Nainwal (2018-2020); M.Tech. Thesis; Current Position: PhD student at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; Email: neerajnainwal199@gmail.com
Siddartha Sanjay Deosthale (2017-2019); M.Tech. Thesis; Current Position: Officer- Geologist at ACB Mining Private Limited; Email: siddharthad804@gmail.com
Richa Srivastava (2016-2018); M.Tech. Thesis; Current Position: Assistant Professor in Galgotia College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India
Eshaan Srivastava (2015-2017); M.Tech. Thesis; Current Position: PhD student at IIT Kanpur; Email: eshaan@iitk.ac.in
Shankho Niyogi (2015-2017); M.Tech. Thesis; Current Position: PhD student at University of California, Reverside, USA; Email: shankhoniyogi@gmail.com
M.S. Students
Mr. Arprit Bansal (Roll No. 17817148); 2021-22; Project: Preprocessing, and optimized inversion of 2D electrical resistivity tomography datasets using the machine learning approach
Mr. Priyam Omer (Roll no.16817519); 2020-21; Project: Modeling of 2D electrical resistivity tomography datasets using finite difference and machine learning approach
Project Staffs/Students (not completed degree)
Vishnu Kant Sharma (Project JRF, 08-11-2021 to 11-05-2022; & PhD student at IITK, July2022 to May2023 ); Current Position: Joining as Geophysicist at ONGC; Email: vishnukantsharma223@gmail.com
Shivani Gupta (PhD student at IITK, Jan2021 to May2023); Current Position: Joining as Geophysicist at ONGC/GSI; Email: shivanigupta654321@gmail.com
Rajneesh Kumar Gangwar (PhD student at IITK, Aug2020 to May2023); Current Position: Joining as Geophysicist at GSI; Email: rajneesh.gangwar0124@gmail.com
Rohit Kumar Maurya (Junior Technician); [M.Sc.(Tech.) in Geophysics, BHU, India]; Current Position: Geophysicist at ONGC; Email: rohitkumarmaurya13@gmail.com
Athul C. (Project Associate, 2016-2020); Email: athul.c.tv@gmail.com
Akhil Mishra (Senior Project Associate, 2019); Current Position: Scientist, NGRI, Hyderabad; Email: akhilmishra7@gmail.com
Sujit Chel (Project Associate 2018-2019); Email: sujitphysics@gmail.com
Saurabh Sharma (Project Associate 2017-18 ); Current Position: PhD student at IIT Roorkee; Email: geosaurabh1993@gmail.com
Interns
Mr. Dhruba Jyoti Bhandari (MSc-Tech, Applied Geophysics, Dibrugarh university, Assam), INSA - NASI summer research fellowship 2024 , July-August 2024.
Mr. Partha Pratim Jana (MSc-Tech, Dept. of Applied Geophysics, IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad), Summer internship, May-July 2024.
Mr. Subhajit Sanyal (BTech, CSE, GNIT-Sodepur, India), Online internship, April-December 2021.
Ms. Anu Thomas (MSc in Marine Geophysics, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi, India), Summer Research Fellowship Programme of INSA , Summer 2019
Mr. Amrit Kumar Arya (3rd year, BS-MS Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur, India), SURGE programme of IIT Kanpur, Summer 2019