IIT Mandi Brochure
The Only IIT in the Himalayas
Founded in 2009, IIT Mandi is one among the new IITs. IIT Mandi is the only IIT located in the foothills of the Himalayas. In January 2010, Prof. Timothy A. Gonsalves was appointed as the first full-time Director of the Institute. IIT Mandi has established itself in its main campus at Kamand as a world-class technology institution.
Vision
IIT Mandi's vision is to be leader in science and technology education, knowledge creation and innovation, in an India marching towards a just, inclusive and sustainable society.
At IIT Mandi a team of inspired faculty and students are striving to realize these ideals:
- Spearheading cutting edge research and development in solution-oriented technologies needed by people of the region, the country and the world.
- To achieve excellence and high impact locally and globally by strongly supporting inter-disciplinary R&D; the faculty are establishing collaborations with industry and research groups in India and abroad.
- Imparting a project-oriented education to students with a view to innovating sustainable technologies for widespread use.
- By a commitment to work closely with and for industry. This includes an innovative design-oriented curriculum that exposes students to real-world projects throughout, collaborative R&D to solve problems of industry, advanced degrees for working professionals, and continuing education for industry.
The Schools
To encourage synergistic mingling of minds, faculty are organised in broad multi-disciplinary Schools. The offices and labs of the different Schools are co-located, and also sometimes overlapping. While some faculty work in pure research, others work on applied research in collaboration with industry. IIT Mandi has a strategic focus on partnerships with like-minded Institutions and Industries in India and abroad.
The School of Computing and Electrical Engineering is interested in delving into the underlying fundamental principles of information theory, theory of computation, communication theory, quantum mechanics and the laws of electromagnetism. It applies these to pressing needs of society, through initiatives such as ICT for Sustainable Development, and Green and Renewable Energy Technologies.
The School of Engineering covers tangible physical structures and artefacts such as transport vehicles, transport systems, machines, materials, manufacturing, processes, designs, etc.
The School of Basic Sciences includes mathematics, physics, chemistry and life sciences. Faculty are involved in theoretical and experimental research. They work closely with their engineering colleagues on R&D projects.
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences: The emphasis on innovation and relevance to society highlights the importance of this School. Along with the goal to train the Engineering students, the School aims at conducting advanced research on Language, Literature, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Economics,Management, Policy Studies, etc.
Academics
- There are 621 B.Tech., 135 M.Sc, 167 M.Tech, 12 M.A, 16 I-PhD, 48 M.S.(By Research) and 291 PhD students/scholars in the 4 Schools of IIT Mandi.
- 99 faculty members (both experienced and young) bring a potent blend of experience and exuberance.
Research Interests of Faculty
Note: Italics indicates mentor faculty from another IIT| Name | Areas of Interest |
| School of Basic Sciences | |
| Dr. Prosenjit Mondal | olecular Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Dr. Pradyuman K Pathak | Quantum Optics,Quantum Information and Nanophotonics |
| Dr. Pradeep Kumar | Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy |
| Dr. Prasanth P. Jose | Soft condensed matter physics mainly in studies of: bio-molecules, polymers, liquid crystals & granular materials, computational modelling of collective response functions & phase transition in these systems |
| Dr. Suman Kalyan Pal | Photophysical behaviours of organic molecules and inorganic nanomaterials with the aim to develop materials for light emitting diodes, charge formation & recombination mechanisms in organic photovoltaic materials using advanced laser spectroscopy |
| Dr. Bindu Radhamany | Electronic structure & crystal sturctural properties of strongly correlated electron systems using photoemission, diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopic techniques |
| Dr. Hari Varma | Photoionization studies of atoms, to undestand the nature of electron-electron correlation, to study the effect of relativistic effects and the effect of external potential on energy levels and also on other photoionization |
| Dr. Manoj Thakur | Operations research, Optimization, Soft computing, Machine learning, Computational Finance, Mathematical modelling of Eng. Problems |
| Dr. Nitu Kumari | Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, mathematical modelling of population dynamics, Spatiotemporal dynamics of extended systems, Epidemiology, Patterns and Waves in Ecology, Ordinary and Partial differential equations |
| Dr. Syed Abbas | Almost Periodic Solutions, Monotone Operator Theory, Functional Differential Equations, Stochastic Modeling, Method of Time Discretization & Applications |
| Dr. Sarita Azad | Statistical Time Series Analysis |
| Dr. Pradeep Parameswaran | Development of Organic/Inorganic hybrid materials towards Catalytic and material application |
| Dr. P. C. Ravikumar | Total Synthesis of Natural products, New Synthetic Methodology development, Design and Synthesis of new assymetric ligands |
| Dr. Chayan K. Nandi | Characterization of DNA based metal nanoparticles for biomolecular sensors and Real time protien folding dynamics using smFRET |
| Dr. Rajendra K. Ray | Computational Fluid Dynamics,Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations,Two-phase Modeling and Sediment Transport, Stochastic Differential Algebraic Equations. |
| Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Pathak | Quantum Optics, Quantum information, Nanophotonics and Mesoscopic physics |
| Dr. A. Chakraborty | Theoretical dynamics of highly excited molecules |
| Dr. Prem Felix Siril | Polymer and noble metal nanostructures, Nanocrystallisation of simple organic compounds, High energetic materials, Heterogeneous catalysis, Thermal analysis and gas absorption calorimetry. |
| Dr. Subrata Gosh | Organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, medicinal chemistry, applied chemistry, New synthetic methodology |
| Dr. Aditi Halder | Nanomaterials for the application of renewable energy |
| Dr. Ajay Soni | Nanomaterials and Experimental Condense Matter Physics |
| Dr. Amit Jaiswal | Nanobiotechnology |
| Dr. Amit Prasad | Immunology/Microbiology |
| Dr. Arghya Taraphder | Condensed Matter Physics |
| Dr. Arti Kashyap | Magnetism and magnetic materials |
| Dr. C. S. Yadav | Low Temperature Physics |
| Dr. Chayan K. Nandi | Physical Chemistry |
| Dr. Kalpesh Haria | Operator Theory |
| Dr. Kaustav Mukherjee | Experimental Condensed Matter Physics |
| Dr. Muslim Malik | Differential Equations |
| Dr. Qaiser Jahan | Harmonic and wavelength analysis |
| Dr. Rajanish Giri | Biophysics and protein folding, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, T Cell Engineering, Protein Engineering |
| Dr. Shyam Kumar Masakapalli | Metabolic Systems Biology |
| Dr. Tulika Srivastava | Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Metagenomics, |
| Dr. Venkata Krishnan | Materials Chemistry, X-ray Science |
School of Engineering | |
| Dr. Vishal Singh Chauhan | Design Engg.,Electromagnetic Radiation during Deformation of metals and alloys, Solid Mechanics, FEM |
| Dr. Rajeev Kumar | Solid Mechanics, Vibration, Smart material/Structure Finite Element Method, Modeling & Control, Optimization (Genetic Algorithms) |
| Dr. Atul Dhar | Alternative Fuels, IC Engines |
| Dr. Arpan Gupta | Acoustics, Vibration, Bio-mechanics |
| Dr. Ajit P. Annachhatre | Environmental Engineering |
| Dr. P. Anil Kishan | Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| Dr. Deepak Swami | Groundwater and Water Resources |
| Dr. Dericks P Shukla | Remote Sensing, GIS, |
| Dr. Rahul Vaish | Glasses & Glass-ceramics |
| Dr. Gaurav Bhutani | Fluid and thermal sciences |
| Dr. Sudhir Kumar Pandey | Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences. |
| Dr. Himanshu Pathak | Computational Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Functionally Graded Materials |
| Dr. Jaspreert Kaur Randhawa | Drug Delivery System |
| Dr. Kasiviswanathan K S | Water Resources Engineering |
| Dr. Maheshreddy Gade | Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology |
| Dr. Mousumi Mukherjee | Geotechnical Engineering |
| Dr. Parmod Kumar | Thermal Engineering |
| Dr. Pradeep Kumar | Fluid & Thermal Science |
| Dr. Parmod Kumar | Thermal Engineering |
| Dr. Rajesh Ghosh | Solid Mechanics, Biomechanics |
| Dr. Rajneesh Sharma | Structures, Mechanics and Design |
| Dr. Rik Rani Koner | Hybrid Materials |
| Dr. Sandip Saha | Earthquake Engineering |
| Prof. Satish Chandra Jain | Vibration, Noise,Tribology and Computer Aided Design |
| Dr. Satvasheel Powar | Solar Energy |
| Dr. Kaustav Sarkar | Structural Engineering |
| Dr. Subhamoy Sen | Structura Engineering |
| Dr. Sumit Sinha Ray | Filtration and Separation, Energy Storage Materials, Nonwoven Methodologies |
| Dr. Sunny Zafar | Manufacturing Engineering |
| Dr. Mohammad Talha | Computational Solid Mechanics, High Technology Materials and Structures |
| Dr. Kala Venkata Uday | Geotechnical Engineering |
| Dr. Viswanath Balakrishnan | Nanomaterials |
School of Computing and Electrical Engineering | |
| Dr. Ankush Bag | Semiconductor Devices, Epitaxy and Compound Semiconductors |
| Dr. Aditya Nigam | Biometrics, Computer Vision, Image Processing |
| Dr. A. K. Sao | Multi-modal biometrics, Image processing, Video programming, Pattern recognition |
| Dr. Arnav Bhavsar | Image analysis, Computer vision |
| Dr. Arti Kashyap | Magnetism and magnetic materials |
| Dr. Astrid Kiehn | Distributed Algorithms, Verification, Theoretical Computer Science |
| Prof. B. D. Chaudhary | Software Technology |
| Dr. Bhakti Madhav Joshi | AC drives and control |
| Dr. Bharat Singh Rajpurohit | Power Electronics Application to Power Systems |
| Dileep A. D | Pattern Recognition, Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis, Machine Learning, Speech Technology, Computer Vision |
| Dr. Gopi Shrikanth Reddy | Antennas and Wave Propagation, RF and Microwave Passive component Design |
| Dr. Hitesh Shrimali | Analog and Mixed signal VLSI design, analog-to-digital converters and design of radiation hard circuits (space application) |
| Dr. Kunal Ghosh | Solar Photovoltaics |
| Dr. Narsa Reddy Tummuru | Hybrid Energy Storage Applications in Future Microgrids, Efficient Power Electronic Interfaces in Renewable Energy Applications and Smartgrid Communication Networks |
| Dr. Padmanabhan Rajan | Speech processing, speaker recognition |
| Dr. Rahul Shrestha | VLSI Design and Circuits & Systems for Signal Processing and Wireless Communication. |
| Dr. Rajan Kapur | Renewable Energy, Industrial Electronics, Head Mounted Displays |
| Dr. Renu M. Rameshan | Image Processing |
| Dr. Samar Agnihotri | Information Theory, Wireless Communications |
| Dr. Satinder Sharma | Nanoelectronics,Sensors,Photovoltaic & self assembly |
| Dr. Satyajit Thakor | Communication Theory, Information Theory, Network Coding |
| Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury | Biomedical Embedded Systems, Non invasive diagnostic systems, Near Infrared Spectroscopy, VLSI Architectures |
| Dr. Siddhartha Sarma | Resource allocation in Wireless Networks, Wireless Energy Harvesting and Crowd sensing |
| Dr. Srikant Srinivasan | Big-Data acquisition and analysis, Nanoelectronics, Spintronics |
| Dr. Sriram Kailasam | Distributed Systems (Cloud Computing) |
| Dr. Timothy A. Gonsalves | Computer networks and distributed software systems |
| Dr. Tushar Jain | Control theory, fault tolerant control, industrial process control |
| Dr. Varun Dutt | Artificial Intelligence, Judgment and Decision Making, Environmental Decision Making |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| Aruna Bommareddi | Comparative Literature, Indian Literatures in English |
| Dr. Manu V. Devadevan | Literary practices in South Asia, Political and economic processes in premodern South Asia & South Asian Epigraphy |
| Dr. Rajeshwari Dutt | Latin America, Social and Cultural History, Indigenous studies |
| Dr. Varun Dutt | Artificial Intelligence, Judgment and Decision Making, Environmental Decision Making |
| Dr. Devika Sethi | Modern Indian History, Colonialism and Decolonization, Free Speech and Censorship |
| Dr. Puran Singh | Corporate Finance, Microfinance |
| Dr. Suman | Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Imperialism and Romance Literature |
| Dr. Ramna | Development Economics |
| Dr. Shyamasree Dasgupta | Energy and Environmental Economics, Economics of Climate Change, Applied Econometrics |
| Dr. Surya Prakash Upadhyay | Sociology of Religion, Urban Sociology, Post-Reform India |
Publications and Projects
Transit Campus
The transit campus of IIT Mandi is situated at Mandav Complex above Mandi bus stand in Mandi town.
Permanent Campus
The Institute completely shifted its B. Tech. students from its Mandi transit campus to its permanent campus at Kamand on 23rd April 2015.
| Prof. Timothy A. Gonsalves Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Kamand Campus, VPO Kamand, Mandi - 175005 Himachal Pradesh, India | director@iitmandi.ac.inPhone : 01905-267001 www.iitmandi.ac.in |