Guruswamy Kumaraswamy 

INAE Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation Fellow (2018-23), and
Professor, Chemical Engineering Department,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Powai Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India

CV (Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rRaAd4YAAAAJ&hl=en)

guruswamy@iitb.ac.in
+91-22-25767239 (Guru's office) and +91-22-25766204 (lab)
https://twitter.com/GuruKumaraswamy

Current Members

Sanjay Kumar Verma   (Postdoc)

Background

B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering), Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad

M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering), IIT (BHU) Varanasi

PhD (Chemical Engineering), IIT Roorkee


Research Area: Particle Technology, Fluidization, Pneumatic conveying system, Segregation, 3D Printing


Hobbies: Playing Badminton

Farzeena C (Project Research Associate)

Background:
BS-MS Dual degree programme in Science from IISER Pune.
PhD from the School of Materials Science and Engineering (SMSE), NIT Calicut.

Research Interests:Optofluidics, Light-actuated particle patterning, Binary colloidal assembly, Thermoplasmonics.

Akanksha Pandey (Postdoc)

Background:

B.Tech. (Plastic Technology), C.I.P.E.T Lucknow

M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering), NIT Jalandhar

PhD (Polymer and Process Engineering), IIT Roorkee

Research Interest: Rheology of complex fluids, Circularity.

Vivek Sharma (PhD Scholar)

Background

B.Tech. (Information Technology) NIT Karnataka, Surathkal.

M.Tech. (Biotechnology), IIT Guwahati. 


Research Area: Polymer Grafted Nanocomposites


Hobbies: Sports and Mythology

Santosh Daware (PhD Scholar, co-advised by Prabhakar Ranganathan, Monash)

Background:

B.E. (Biotechnology) from KIT's College of Engineering, Kolhapur

M.S. (Chemical Engineering) from IIT Madras


Work experience: Scientist and Team Lead at TRDDC, TCS Research, Pune

Research Interest: 2D Materials, E-waste recycling, and Machine Learning

 
Hobbies : Playing Badminton and Chess

Harshit Yadav (PhD Scholar)

Background:

B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering), University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun

M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering), IIT Guwahati

Research area: Block-copolymer and Composites

 
Hobbies : Playing Badminton and Sudoku

Aihika Mandal (PhD Scholar)

Background:  
B.Tech. (chemical engineering ), Jadavpur university
M.Tech. (chemical engineering), Jadavpur University


Research area: Upcycling of thermoplastic and micro plastic formation 


Hobbies : Music and travel


Namrata Pandey (M. Tech. Student)

Background: B-Tech (Chemical Engineering) - Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology


Research areas: Polymers, and Supercritical water treatment


Hobbies: Music, Painting

Shreya Makkar (B. Tech. Project)

BackgroundFourth Year Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay


Research area: Ionic Block copolymers, composites, and Interfacial phenomena


Hobbies : Writing, reading, and crafts


Manas Agrawal (B. Tech. Project)

BackgroundThird Year Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering,  IIT Bombay


Research area: Microplastic Formation and Polymer Adhesion


Hobbies : Table Tennis, RC Aircrafts & Drone Making (Aeromodelling)


Alumni

Alumni from our group are listed with their current affiliation, or where they moved to immediately after leaving the group. 

Akshat Zalte (B. Tech. Project, PhD Student at MIT, USA )

Archita Mullick (M. Tech. Student,  PhD Student, University of Minnesota, USA)

Harish S. (M. Tech. Student,  Innovation Lead, Albatross Energetics, India)

Kushal Shah (M. Tech. Student,  Data Scientist, Perpetual Block, Pune)

Nisarg Kothari (B. Tech. Project, GET at Shell)

Nikhita Joy (Postdoc, Currently Postdoc at University of Pittsburgh)

Vedant Vashishtha (M. Tech. Student, Process Engineer, Bilfinger, Abudhabi, UAE )

Krishnakant Prajapati (M. Tech. Student, Consultant Engineer, Bilfinger, Abudhabi, UAE)

Suranjana Banerjee (Project Assistant, NCL; PhD IIT Bombay)

Uditi Malviya (UG intern)

Ranajit Mondal (Postdoc 2021-22, Assistant Professor at IIT-Hyderabad)

Anish Sukumar (UG intern, PhD student at MIT)

Kriti Chaturvedi (UG intern)

Mohit Gaekwad (UG intern, IIM-Bangalore)

Pragya Parihar (UG intern, IITB-WashU joint Masters program)

Kumar Madhukar (Postdoc, 2021,  Dr. Reddys Lab, Hydrabad)

Aakash Sharma (PhD., AcSIR-NCL, Postdoc at Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Neutron Scattering and Biological Matter, Germany)

Bipul Biswas (PhD. 2020, AcSIR-NCL, Postdoc at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.)

Nirmalya Bachhar (Postdoc, currently Assistant Prof. at IIT Jodhpur)

Aniket Gudadhe (Project Assistant, NCL; Reliance Industries Limited)

Prophesar Kamadi (PhD., Co-advised with Dr. Ashish Orpe, AcSIR-NCL )

Subrajeet Deshmukh (Project assistant at NCL, PhD student in Germany)

Saurabh Usgaonkar (Project assistant at NCL, PhD student at Univ. Minnesota)

Anees Khan (Postdoc at NCL, faculty at Manipal Institute)

Karthika Suresh (PhD 2018, Postdoc at Univ. Minnesota)

Soumyajyoti Chatterjee (PhD 2018, ATGC Hyderabad)

Manoj Kumar Sharma (PhD 2017, Postdoc at NCBS)

Gadha Mathews (MTech 2018)

Paridhi Goel (MTech 2013, PhD from BRNS, BARC)

Sudhakar Srivastava (Project assistant at NCL, Dr Reddys)

Kaivalya Borwankar 

Sushant Kalaskar (Tata Motors)

R. Rajamanickam (PhD from GIST, South Korea; Postdoc at IIT-Madras)

Kamendra Sharma (PhD 2011, Associate Prof. Chemistry at IITB)

K. Sreenivas (Project assistant at NCL, PhD from Toyota Inst of Tech, Anton Paar)

Pooja Kayasth

Jijo Vallooran (Project assistant at NCL, PhD from ETH,Zurich, Assistant Prof. Nirmala College) 

Ashok Dasmahapatra (PhD 2009, Professor Chemical Engg. at IIT-Guwahati)

Nikita Surve

Kiran Pulidindi

Purnatosh Saha

Shweta Sahasrabuddhe

Sai Vaidya (currently with DSM)

Samir Chikkali (currently Scientist at CSIR-NCL, Pune)

Vikrant Agarwal (currently with Dow Chemicals)

Yogesh Deshmukh

Suhas Patil

Mohan Wadekar (currently with KLK Oleo/KLK Kolb)

Sham Ravindranath (Project assistant at NCL, Assoc. Prof. IIT-Roorkee)

Samruddhi Kamble (currently with Ashland)

D. Raghavendra