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Principal Investigator (PI) - Dr. Punnag Chatterjee
Principal Investigator (PI) - Dr. Punnag Chatterjee
Educational Qualification
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering NC State University Dec 2018
M.S. Mechanical Engineering NC State University Dec 2018
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering NIT Durgapur Sep 2010
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering IIT Dharwad Sep 2023 - current
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering IIT Dharwad Sep 2023 - current
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus May 2022 - Aug 2023
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus May 2022 - Aug 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Sep 2020 - May 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Sep 2020 - May 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar Mechanical Engineering NC State University (NCSU) Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Assistant Manager Suspension group (R&D) Bajaj Auto Limited Aug 2010 - Jul 2013
PhD students
PhD students
Rupa Mada Rukmani
Rupa Mada Rukmani
Efficient biomimetic underwater propulsion using smart structures (2023-current)
me23dp006@iitdh.ac.in
MS/MTech students
MS/MTech students
BS/BTech students
BS/BTech students
Photographs
Photographs
Student Achievements
Student Achievements
🏅 Chaitanya S. Nayak (🎓 B.E., BITS Pilani Hyderabad), who worked in our lab on his thesis and additionally on a project on application of deep learning techniques to image datasets, has been admitted to the Ph.D. program at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech 🐝 🏛️ , with a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) under the supervision of Dr. Cyrus Aidun. 🎉 (2025)
🏅 Vansh Yadav (🎓 B.E., IIT Dharwad), who is working in our lab on Shape Memory Alloys, has received acceptance letters to the MS program at Texas A&M University, Purdue University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Georgia Tech 🏛️ at the Department of Material Science and Engineering. 🎉 (2025)
SDSL Alumni
SDSL Alumni
Modelling, design, testing & analysis of SMA springs for damping applications.
210030048@iitdh.ac.in
Miniature underwater ballast tank mechanism (2022-23) at BITS-Hyderabad
Final year On-campus undergraduate Thesis at IIT Dh (2024-25)
Light weight bridge structures (2024-25)
me23mt002@iitdh.ac.in
Ankit Padhye
Ankit Padhye
Instrumentation of Underwater Tethered Turbine (2022-23) at BITS-Hyderabad
Prasanna Patrekar
Prasanna Patrekar
Prototyping of Underwater Tethered Turbine (2022-23) at BITS-Hyderabad
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