Akshay Naik received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2006. He then worked at Caltech first as Postdoctoral Associate from 2006 to 2008 and then as Research Engineer from 2008 to 2011. In Dec 2011, he joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where he is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering. His research interests are physics and the application of Nano-mechanical systems.
Sai Saraswathi
Saraswathi has a bachelors degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from GPREC JNTU Ananthapur and a masters joined Centre for Nano Science and Engineering as a Ph.D student in 2017. She joined Centre for Nano Science and Engineering as a Ph.D student in 2017. For her PhD, she worked with 2D materials on flexible substrates. She completed her PhD in 2023.
Sanket Jugade
Sanket completed his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal in 2018. He joined the group as an intern during his final year and later as a Project Assistant after completion of his degree. He is a Prime Minister Research Fellow and is currently working on indentation experiments on suspended 2D materials using Atomic Force Microscopy.
Hemant Kumar Verma
Hemant completed his 4 year BS in Physics from NIT Agartala in 2018 and recently joined CeNSE for PhD program. He is working on NEMS based gas sensing.
Sudipta Nayak
Sudipta Nayak completed his BSc and MSc(Research) from Indian Institute of Science, specialising in Physics. He has worked as intern in several places like ICTS, Bangalore and ANU, Australia. He joined the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering as a PhD student in 2020 and has been awarded Prime Minister Research Fellowship.His current interest lies in exploring non-linear dynamics and other phenomena that occur in nanoscale systems.
Pratip Ghosh
Pratip completed B.Sc. in Physics Honours from Maulana Azad College, University of Calcutta and completed his M.Sc. in Physics from University of Calcutta ( Rajabazar Science College). He joined the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering as a Ph.D. student in August,2020. His current research interests are Opto-NEMS.
Manavendra Pratap Singh
Manavendra completed his BSc from University of Allahabad in 2017 and MSc in Physics at Department of Physics, IIT Patna in 2019. He was a summer intern at Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar in 2018 and worked as a project associate at Department of Physics, IIT Madras in 2019-20. He joined the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering as a PhD student in January, 2021.
Deya Ganguly
Deya Ganguly completed her BSc. in Physics in 2019 and MSc. in Physics in 2021 from University of Calcutta. She has been an Undergraduate Research Associate in Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics from 2017-2019. She has joined Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE), IISc in August, 2021.
Vignesh R
Vignesh R completed his B.Tech in Nano Science and Technology from K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tamil Nadu 2018. Shortly after, He joined Xcellogen Biotech India Pvt Ltd as a Research Assistant in December 2018. He pursued further education, and He completed his M.Tech. Nano Science and Technology degree from Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, in 2021. Continuing his professional growth, Vignesh joined the Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bengaluru, as a Project Trainee in 2021 and later as a Project Fellow Ⅰ in 2022. Vignesh joined the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering as a Project Associate Ⅰ in April 2023.
Purna Pal
Purna is a joint PhD student with Prosenjit Sen and her interests are development of CSAC
Koushik Das
Koushik completed his B.Sc. in Physics from University of Burdwan in the year 2019 and M.Sc. in Physics from IIT Bombay in the year 2021 . He joined Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering as a PhD student in August 2023
Rishab Navaneet
Rishab completed his BSMS Dual Degree in Physics from National Institute of Technology Agartala in 2023. He joined Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering as a PhD student in August 2023