MULTIDISCIPLINARY MICRO AND NANO SYSTEMS Lab

"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom " - Richard Phillips Feynman

Gayathri Pillai

Gayathri is a faculty at the Center for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

Her research focuses primarily on the fabrication, design, and characterization of Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems (M/NEMS). Her lab works on Radio Frequency communication, nonlinear device physics, piezoelectric material investigations, and acoustic sensors/actuators. She has been actively working on different domains of MEMS since 2013, with a special focus on piezoelectric MEMS.

Gayathri received her Ph.D. and MS degrees in 2020 and 2015 respectively from the Institute of Nano Engineering and MicroSystems, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and her Bachelor of Technology degree in 2013 from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India.

Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Center for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India: 2021 August - Present

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Nano Engineering and MicroSystems, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan: 2020 February - 2021 April

Ph.D., Institute of Nano Engineering and MicroSystems, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan: 2016 February - 2020 January

MS, Institute of Nano Engineering and MicroSystems, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan: 2013 September - 2015 December

B.Tech., School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India: 2009 September - 2013 May

Updates

Gayathri has been selected as a Tyndall National Institute Visiting Fellow.
Gayathri has been awarded the Infosys Young Investigator Award -2023.
Sandeep and Praveen's work has been selected for oral and poster presentation respectively at the 37th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024) to be held in Austin, Texas, USA on 21-25 January 2024.
Praveen and Sahana's work on Piezoelectric Pressure Sensors has been accepted for presentation at the 2nd International IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (APSCON) to be held in Goa, India on January 22-24, 2024.
Praveen and Sahana's work on "Ultrasensitive Pressure Sensor based on an Integrated Circular Piezoelectric MEMS Resonator and Diaphragm Structure" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Sensors Letters.
Linet has been selected to attend the ASCENT+ Research Accelerator Programme in Fraunhofer IPMS Dresden, Germany.
Jesma and Linet have been selected for the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship.
Sandeep and Javed's work has been selected for oral presentation at the Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and the European Frequency and Time Forum at Toyama, Japan from May 15-18, 2023.

Professional Services

Editorial Board

Review Editor for Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering

Junior Editor Board Member of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Reviewer - Selected Journals

ACS Photonics

Nature Communication

IEEE Sensors Journal

IEEE Sensors Letter

Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Micromachines

Selected Awards and Honors

Tyndall National Institute Visiting Fellow.

Infosys Young Investigator Award -2023.

Emerging Leader - JMM Emerging Leaders 2022 collection