CREDLab is looking for a postdoc in the area of atomistic mechanics/simulations. Interested candidates may contact Puneet directly.
Puneet Kumar Patra, PhD (Team Leader)
Puneet joined the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, as an Assistant Professor in June 2017. Prior to this, he worked with Prof. Romesh Batra of Virginia Tech as a postdoctoral research scholar. His doctoral advisor was Prof. Baidurya Bhattacharya of Civil Engineering department at IIT Kharagpur. During his Ph.D., he also collaborated with Prof. W. G. Hoover, Prof. J. C. Sprott, and Prof. C. G. Hoover. He graduated with B.Tech. (Honors) in Civil Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2009, and subsequently worked for a couple of years in industry. For contact, see the footer or visit the webpage.
Abdulrehman Asif Bagwan
Aritri Roy
Kona Veera Ganesh -- Ganesh joined the research group in 2018. He successfully defended his PhD thesis in 2022. Ganesh developed a multi-scale model of liquid droplet erosion in materials. During his stay with CREDLab, Ganesh published 5 papers in top tier journals, including CMAME, IJF, etc. Ganesh is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, SRM University.
Bapi Mondal -- Bapi joined the research group in 2018. He successfully defended his thesis in 2023. Presently, Bapi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Goa.
Samik Mukhopadhyay
Deepak Somani -- Deepak worked on the interesting problem of combining principle of least action with least constraint. After publishing a journal paper, Deepak took admission in the Ph.D program of EPFL.
Sankhadeep Bhattacharyya -- Sankhadeep worked in the group since January 2018 (his 1st year). He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2022. He will be joining University of Warwick for his PhD soon.
Avirup Sircar -- Avirup worked in the group since January 2018 (his 1st year). He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2022. He will be joining University of Michigan for his PhD soon.
Visruth C. -- Visruth worked for his M.Tech. project on bamboo reinforced concrete for low-cost housing. He graduated in 2021.
Alwin Anto -- Alwin worked in the CREDLab for 1 year of symplectic integrators. He is now pursuing his dual degree from IIT Kharagpur.
Sourabh Sanjay Gandhi -- Sourabh worked in the CREDLab for his M.Tech. thesis project. He graduated in June 2020 session after having done some great work on consistent evaluation of continuum scale properties of two-dimensional materials.
Mukul Mahavar -- Mukul worked in the CREDLab for his Dual Degree thesis project. He graduated in June 2020 session. His work was related to the development of a machine for performing sieve analysis. The final fabrication of the machine remains to be completed owing to the lockdown instituted in the country.
Promit Chakraborty -- Promit (B.Tech. (Civil) IIT Kanpur) worked in the CREDLab as an intern in December 2018. He was coadvised by Prof. Baidurya Bhattacharya. His topic of research was -- Investigations into the behavior of regular triangular lattice under uniformly increasing strain.
Amit Raj -- Amit (Dual, IIT Kharagpur, 2019) worked in the area of particle based modeling during disaster evacuation.
Bijay Kumar Murmu -- Bijay (M.Tech. (Structures), IIT Kharagpur, 2019) worked in the area of chaotic dynamics prevalent in different engineering structures.
Supriya Karmakar -- Supriya (B.Tech. (Civil) IIEST, Shibpur) worked in CREDLab as an intern in the summer of 2019. She tried to understand nanotribology through Prandtl-Tomlinson model by solving numerically the dynamical equations using Runge-Kutta method.
Ashutosh Agarwal -- Ashutosh (PhD, IIT KGP) worked in CREDLab for a couple of months in 2019 on molecular dynamics simulations.
THE GROUP IN 2019