Principal Investigator
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Prof. Saurabh Chandorkar

Prof. Saurabh Chandorkar

Principal Investigator

Education:

  • PhD Mechanical Engineering with minor in Electrical Engineering, 2009, Stanford University, USA
  • MS Mechanical Engineering, 2005, Stanford University, USA
  • B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, 2003, IIT Bombay

Experience:

  • Associate Professor, IISc Bangalore, April 2025 - Present
  • Assistant Professor, IISc Bangalore, December 2017 - April 2025
  • Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University, March 2017-December 2017
  • Research Consultant, IIT Bombay, July 2016 – March 2017
  • Advanced Equipment Engineer, Intel October 2010- July 2016
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, April 2009- September 2010

Research Interests:

  • Physics through MEMS/NEMS
  • Energy loss mechanisms in MEMS/NEMS resonators
  • Nonlinearities and phase noise vis-a-vis different material systems (such as piezoelectrics, superconductors etc) and applied external fields such as fluid flow fields, temperature gradients, magnetic field etc.
  • Parametric excitation
  • Phononic Crystals
  • Phase Transition Oscillators for Neuromorphic applications
  • Oscillator circuit topologies
  • Quantum phenomena
    • MEMS/NEMS wafer-scale packaging
    • Sensor systems
  • Arrays of Resonant Accelerometers
  • Arrays of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUTs)

    • Ph.D. Students

    Disha Chugh

    Education:

  • BE in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (2017)

    • Experience:

  • Former intern at SASE DRDO, Chandigarh, worked with a team of Hazard Mitigation and Engineering Division, in design and development of Radio Frequency Fuse for artificial avalanche triggering,(Jan 2016-June 2016)

    • Accolades:

  • PMRF awardee

    • Research Work:

  • Custom circuit design for MEMS

    • Anju Sebastian

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, Kerala (2016).
  • M.Tech in VLSI and Microsystems, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvanthapuram (2019)

    • Experience:

  • Senior Test Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore.

    • Accolades:

  • PMRF awardee

    • Research Work:

  • Bio-inspired MEMS-based Cochlear Implant.

    • Shreeraj Joshi

    Education:

  • B.Tech. in Metallurgy and Materials Science at the College of Engineering, Pune (2017)
  • M.Tech. in Nanoscience Engineering from CeNSE, IISc (2020)

    • Accolades:

    • PMRF awardee
    • Best poster award at CeNSE symposium

    Research Work:

    • Superconducting MEMS systems to study manybody interactions
    • Fabrication of inertial sensors that rely on the phenomenon of superconductivity.

    Garvit Gupta

    Education:

  • MS(Research) in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (2022)

    • Research Work:

  • Anchor loss in MEMS resonators, non-linear dynamics, fabrication and characterization of Episeal MEMS resonators

    • Arup Basak

    Education:

  • B.Sc in Physics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2021)
  • M.Sc in Physics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2023)

    • Research Work:

  • Fabrication of devices to study metal-insulator transition in VO2

    • Prem Prakash Manglam

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from MIT muzaffarpur (2020)
  • M.Tech in Microelectronics, IIT BHU (2024)

    • Research Work:

  • Phase noise in Oscillators

    • Surojit Biswas

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (2017)
  • ME in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2021)

    • Experience:

  • FEA Engineering at TCS, Kolkata (2017-2024)

    • Research Work:

  • Fabrication of a Suspended Microchannel Resonator

    • Vishal Gautam

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, MMMUT Gorakhpur U.P. (2021)
  • M.Tech in Materials Engineering, NIT Surathkal, Karnataka (2024)

    • Research Work:

  • Quantum Memory via Phononic Crystals

    • Keerthy Unnikrishnan

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Biotechnology, Calicut University(2010)
  • M.Tech in Nanotechnology, Sastra University(2013)
  • M.S. in Materials Science, Wayne State University, US (2019)

    • Experience:

  • Principal CFM Defect Engineer at Global Foundries (2021-Prsent)

    • Research Work:

  • Virtual metrology in semiconductor manufacturing processing industry

    • M.Tech Students

    Rishant Kumar

    Education:

  • B.Tech Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science with Minor in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay (2021)

    • Research Work:

  • Activity of biological neural network using piezoelectric MEMS cantilever

    • Project Staff

    Naveen D Souza N

    Naveen D Souza N

    Education:

  • B.Sc Mangalore University 2019
  • M.Sc Mangalore University 2022

    • Experience:

  • Working at NNFC, CeNSE (since 2023)

    • Research Work:

  • Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUTs)

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    PhD Scholars

    Samridh Sharma

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Mechanical engineering from Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College (2017)
  • PhD and M.Tech(Res.) from CeNSE, IISc (2024)

    • Current Role:

  • Sr. Process Integration Engineer, Micron Technologies, Taiwan

    • Research Work:

  • Modelling viscous dissipation in Microchannel Resonator
  • Fabrication of a flow-rate MEMS sensor

    • Vishnu Kumar

    Education:

  • Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from New government polytechnic, Patna(2013)
  • B.Tech in MEchanical Engineering from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab(2017)
  • M.Tech from CeNSE, IISc (2019)
  • PhD from CeNSE, IISc (2024)

    • Current Role:

  • Reseach Fellow/Postdoc, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

    • Research Work:

  • Phononic Crystals
    • Samridh Sharma

    Upanya Khandelwal

    Education:

  • B.Sc in Physics from University of Delhi (2016)
  • M.Sc in Physics from University of Delhi (2018)

    • Current Role:

  • Analog Design, Staff Engineer, Synopsys, Bangalore

    • Research Work:

  • Coupled electro-opto-mechanical oscillations in Neuristors.

    • MTech Students

    Arun Singh Baghel

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. IIT BBS (2018)
  • M.Tech from CeNSE, IISc (2021)

    • Current Role:

  • IC Design Engineer, Analog Devices

    • Research Work:

  • Micro-fabrication tool development

    • Pavitra Jain

    Education:

  • Btech in Mechanical Engineering. NIT Kurukshetra (2021)
  • M.Tech from CeNSE, IISc (2024)

    • Current Role:

  • Doctoral Student at Purdue University, USA

    • Research Work:

  • Designing high bandwidth accelerometer
  • Study of clamping loss and nonlinearity in MEMS resonators
  • Applying machine learning to optimise topology of piezoelectric MEMS resonators

    • Anik Mandal

    Education:

  • B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University (2021)
  • M.Tech from CeNSE, IISc (2024)

    • Current Role:

  • EUV Process Engineer, Micron Technology, Taiwan

    • Research Work:

  • Acousting Beam Steering using Phased Array

    • Katakam Devaharsha Siva Sai

    Education:

  • B.Sc in Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (2020)
  • M.Sc in Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (2022)
  • M.Tech from CeNSE, IISc (2024)

    • Current Role:

  • Process Integration and Yield Engineering, Global Foundaries

    • Research Work:

  • Root cause analysis methodology in high-volume semiconductor manufacturing using statistical approach

    • Kappa Venkata Abhinay Ganesh Raju

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, K.S.R.M. College of Engineering, (2018)
  • M.Tech from CeNSE, IISc (2024)

    • Current Role:

  • Sr. Mechanical Engineer,LAM Research

    • Research Work:

  • Tracking electro-mechanical response from correlated VO2 Microwires
    • Ravinder Kumar Jassal

    Ravinder Kumar Jassal

    Education:

  • B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (2019)
  • M.Tech(Res.) from CeNSE, IISc (2021)

    • Current Role:

  • Hardware Engineer 2, Juniper Networks

    • Research Work:

  • Design of low phase noise MEMS Oscillators

    • Project Staff

    Vaibhav Sharma

    Vaibhav Sharma

    Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Hyderabad Campus

    • Current Role:

  • Doctoral Student at University of California, Los Angeles

    • Research Work:

  • Modelling and optimization of Microsystems

    • Bhargavi B A

    Education:

  • BE in Telecommunication Engineering from Vemana Institute of Technology, Bangalore
  • M.TECH in VLSI and Embedded System from Dayanand Sagar college of engineering, Bangalore

    • Current Role:

  • Process Engineer at AGNIT Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd.

    • Research Work:

  • Epi si technology for MEMS Packaging.

    • Harish Kumar Maurya

    Education:

  • Integrated BS-MS, Physics, IISc, Bangalore (2024)

    • Current Role:

  • Ph.D. Scholar at University of Groningen

    • Research Work:

  • Neuromorphic computing aspects in Vanadium Dioxide