PMRF at IISc

Prime Minister’s Research Fellowships (PMRF)

PMRF is a prestigious fellowship instituted by the Government of India to encourage high-quality research by talented individuals.  IISc is one of the granting institutes in this programme.

Please visit the PMRF webpage for further details. Eligibility for PMRF nominations is outlined here. Please also read these FAQ.

PMRF scholars at IISc

Name Department Area of Research
Harsh Chhajer Centre for Biosystems science and engineering Theoretical and quantitative virology
LAKSHMINARAYANAN SESHADRI Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Centrifugal compressor, Supercritical CO2
Yogesh Pratap Singh Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Robotics ,Vibration ,Control
Sudhanva Bhat Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Soft Robotics
DIBAKAR DAS Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore  
GOVIND KUMAR MISHRA Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Cryogenic Loop Heat Pipe (CLHP)
Kumar Ankit Interdisciplinary Program – Cyber Physical System, IISc Bangalore  
AMITESH KUMAR CHAUDHARY Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Rheology + Sprays + Heat transfer
Shubham Kumar Jha Interdisciplinary Program – Cyber Physical System, IISc Bangalore Distributed Sampling, Quantisation, and Optimisation
ANUPAM VERMA Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore High Speed Switched Reluctance Machine
Navin Kumar Chandra Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows
Niranjan C S Centre for Neuroscience, IISc Bangalore Movement Neuroscience (Motor Control)
Rohit Chowdhury Computational and Data Science (CDS), IISc Bangalore Opitmal Path-planning for Autonomous Vehicles
Priyanka Agarwal Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Point of care diagnostics
PRERANA KRISHNARAJ Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore Liquefaction response – Reinforced sand
Mohd ilyas Bhat Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore DEM modeling- Cohesive materials
GOGULAPATI SREEDURGA Department of Computer Science & Automation, IISc Bangalore a paper on Participatory Budgeting under review in A* AI conference, a paper on AI in Agriculture being written, two research works under progress.
BHOGAVALLI SATWIKA Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore Applications of Index Modulation in Joint RADAR and Communication systems
Ranashree Ram Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Electromagnetic Launcher
DEEPAK KAUSHIK Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Application of Pulsed Power to Electromagnetic Manufacturing
LALIT MANAM Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Geometry in Computer Vision
SAHIBZADA ROOHAN FAROOQ LALA Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore Microstructural Electrochemical correlation in MetallicCoatings
POULAMI BANERJEE Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore CFRE Laminates interfacial improvement
Faizan Hijazi Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore High Temperature Mechanical Testing
Telpande Swanand Prashant Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore Mechanical behavior of materials
Ram Prakash Singh Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, Multiferroics
Rathod Darshan Dineshkumar Interdisciplinary Program – Energy, IISc Bangalore Combustion and Spray
ASHWIN K Interdisciplinary Program – Energy, IISc Bangalore Power Electronics
Tresa Mary Thomas Interdisciplinary Program – Water Research, IISc Bangalore Monsoon Low Pressure Systems
Adhada Sri Teja Molecular Biophysics, IISc Bangalore NMR spectroscopy of peptides
Chitturi Sidhartha Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Computer Vision: 3D Reconstruction
Aparna P Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore Opto-electronics
HARSH ARORA Interdisciplinary Program – Nano Science & Engineering, IISc Bangalore Open Quantum Systems
     
AMEY NITIN AGHARKAR Interdisciplinary Program – Energy, IISc Bangalore Fluid dynamics – Pathogenesis
ASHA SWEETY THOMAS Solid State and Structural Chemistry, IISc Bangalore Multidimensional Spectroscopy
INDLA RAJITHA SAI PRIYAMVADA Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Power Systems
KEERTHANA T V Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc Bangalore Carbohydrate based cancer vaccine
MOHAMMED TABISH KHAN Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Suspension rheology
SEEMADRI SUBHADARSHINI Molecular Biophysics, IISc Bangalore Computational studies on biomolecular interactions
UJJAWAL SINGHAL Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore Circuit quantum electrodynamics
     
Abhineet Singh Rajput Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Rheology of Complex Fluid
Abhishek P Computational and Data Science (CDS), IISc Bangalore Probabilistic Ocean Prediction with Data Assimilation
Adarsh Ajith Naik Retrieving data. Wait a few seconds and try to cut or copy again. PEM Fuel Cell Electrocatalyst
Aditya Vikram Singh Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore Information theory, statistics
Ajeet Kumar Yadav Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore Multi-scale modeling for wave propagation
Ajit Kumar Dash Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore Experimental condensed matter physics
Ali Aktara Sultana Parveen Microbiology and Cell Biology (MCBL), IISc Bangalore Plant Developmental Biology
Amit Kumar Interdisciplinary Program – Cyber Physical System, IISc Bangalore Agriculture Robotics
ANAND KUMAR RAI Department of Electronic Systems Engineering(ESE), IISc Bangalore Two dimensional materials
Anita Arora Department of Mathematics, IISc Bangalore Perfect matchings in Graphs
Anshul Shrivastava Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Biomechanics, Tissue Mechanics, Fracture of Soft Materials, Corneal Mechanics
Arijit Jana Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore Printed Micro-supercapacitor
Babhrubahan Bose Department of Mathematics, IISc Bangalore Geometry of Banach Spaces
Biman Jana Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, IISc Bangalore Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Claris Niya Varghese Molecular Biophysics, IISc Bangalore Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy
H A S Shri Kishore Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering (BSSE), IISc Bangalore Phenotypic heterogeneity in metastasis
Harsh Rangwani Computational and Data Science (CDS), IISc Bangalore Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Jugade Sanket Sunil Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc Bangalore Atomic force microscopy
Jusaina Eyyathiyil Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc Bangalore Circularly Polarized Luminescent Materials
Kashif Naukhez Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore Ultra High performance Concrete
Khantesh Agrawal Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc Bangalore PEM Fuel Cell Eletrocatalyst
Manu Ghulyani Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Inverse problems in imaging
Megala A Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE), IISc Bangalore Kinetic theory-based numerical methods
Nabajit Deka Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Desalination, Crystallization
Nareddy Kartheek Kumar Reddy Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Machine Learning, Signal Processing
Neda Shamim Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc Bangalore Low Temperature Physics
Nesta Benno Joseph Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, IISc Bangalore Computational Material Science
Potghan Nilesh Sunil Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Finite element strategy for two-phase flow
Preethi R Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), IISc Banglore Animal personality
Pritha Mondal Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, IISc Bangalore Superconducting nanostructures
Rajkamal Sah Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore Unsteady Aerodynamics of spinning Projectile
Rohit Sachdeva Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore Vibration localization and Metamaterials
Rohit Singh Nitwal Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore Sustainable Transportation Planning & Policy
Rupali Verma Department of Electronic Systems Engineering(ESE), IISc Bangalore Two dimensional materials research
Sajad Ahmad Bhat Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore Crystal plasticity Finite element method.
Sandhya Jaiswal Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc Bangalore Bioinorganic chemistry
Sanjay Shukla Astronomy and Astrophysics Program Theory of Superfluid Turbulence
Saswat Choudhury Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering (BSSE), IISc Bangalore 3D/4D printed polymer composites for resorbable medical device
SAURABH KUMAR SRIVASTAV Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Sayan Ray Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc Bangalore Asymmetric Catalysis
Suman Kumar Mandal Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc Bangalore 2D materials CVD growth
SUREDDY TEJANATH REDDY Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF MATERIALS
SYED JIAUL HOQUE Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Turbomachinery
Uzair Iqbal Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Computational Adhesive Contact Mechanics
Walter Samuel Interdisciplinary Program – Water Research, IISc Bangalore Hydrology; Isotope Geochemistry; Floods
     
ABHISHEK CHAKRABORTY Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), IISc Bangalore Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
ABIJITH J KAMATH Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Signal Processing
ADITYA RAJ Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore High Speed Switched Reluctance Machines
ANN MARIA BINOY Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc Bangalore Water structure at electrode/electrolyte interfaces
AVISHEK GUIN Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc Bangalore Aryne, Donor-acceptor Cyclopropane and related chemistry
BIRESHWAR ROY Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore Nano-materials and Superconductivity
FAIZAN PERVAIZ BHAT Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP), IISc Bangalore Quantum Field Theory
KANISHAK VAIDYA Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore Privacy in Distributed Systems
KORADA VIJAYA SREE Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore Seismic analysis of footing
SAUBHIK SOM Department of Biochemistry, IISc Bangalore Corneal Tranparency and Translation Readthrough
SHREYA KUMBHAKAR Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
SHUBHAM GOSWAMI Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore Groundwater Hydrology
SREEMAYEE ADITYA Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP), IISc Bangalore Theoretical condensed matter physics
SUDEEPTA MUKHERJEE Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore L12-strengthened high-entropy superalloys
     
Abhay Jindal Mathematics Operator Theory
Akshay Bhimrao Chate Mechanical Engineering Thermochemical Energy Storage Systems
Aditya Anand Aerospace Engineering Turbulent Boundary Layers
Akshay Sharma Mechanical Engineering Development of Micro thruster
SK HABIBULLAH Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit RNA Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Lipika Baidya Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Molecular Simulation
Arnab Dutta Department of Organic Chemistry Supramolecular Chemistry and Its Application
P S V S Sai Kumar Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Optimal control, Artificial Intelligence
Sourav Bhadra Centre for High Energy Physics Astronomy & astrophysics
Mr. Shikhar Srivastava Centre of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Decadal predictions.
Mr. Rajat Masiwal Centre of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Atmospheric Science
Mr. K U Jayakrishnan Centre of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Climate Change
Atchuta Srinivas Duddu Centre for Biosystem Dynamical Systems Biology
Anwesha Barua Centre for Biosystem Biomechanics of Liver Cirrhosis
Mitali Shah Centre for Biosystem Immunoengineering and Cell Biology
Pratyusha Chanda Centre of Earth Sciences Low Temperature Geochemistry
Mohammed Aamir Sadiq Centre for Ecological Sciences Evolutionary ecology
Tanveen Kaur Randhawa Centre for Ecological Sciences Ecosystem Dynamics, Theoretical Ecology
Sachin K S Centre for Energy Research Oxyfuel Fluidized Bed Combustion
Anchal Singh Thakur Centre for Energy Research Power Quality Improvement
Budhaditya Bhattacharjee Centre for High Energy Physics Holography, Information Paradox
Samudra Sur Centre for High Energy Physics Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Sudipta Nayak Centre for Nanoscience Nanoelectromechanical systems
Disha Chugh Centre for Nanoscience Novel MEMS oscillator topologies
Shubhankar Saha Centre for Neuroscience Vision Neuroscience and Neurophysiology
Kausik Bhattacharya Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing Product Design and Engineering
Sanika Paranjape Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing Metal Matrix Composite
Suchi Priyadarshani Centre for Sustainable Technology Moisture and Wellness in Buildings
Anusree N Centre for Sustainable Technology Rehabilitation of dumpsites
Ayushi Chauhan Chemical Engineering Point of Care diagnosis
Joshi Shreyas Satish Chemical Engineering Multi-scale T cell modeling
Aitichya Chandra Civil Engineering Air Transportation System
Asif Raza Civil Engineering Plasticity and Damage
B.L.V. Prasad Civil Engineering Forest fires, Watershed Resilience
Sudhanshu Rathore Civil Engineering High strain rate response of soil
K. I. Manasa Bhat Civil Engineering Micro-scale characterization of cemented granular materials
Kanneganti Bhargav Kumar Civil Engineering Multi Basin Flooding
Aditya Rastogi Computational and Department Medical Image reconstruction
Aditya A Prasad Computational and Department Modelling of Smart Micro Grid
Naveen P. Computational and Department Medical Imaging (Segmentation/Reconstruction)
Anand Krishna Computer Sciences and Automation Fair division of resources
Meet Gandhi Computer Sciences and Automation Reinforcement Learning
Nagabhushan S N Electrical Communication Engineering Video Signal Processing
Pooja Nayak M Electronic System Engineering Coded Caching, Index Coding
Arvind Rameshwar Electrical Communication Engineering Information Theory
Tushar Gaur Electrical Communication Programmable Integrated Photonic Circuits
Anubhab Chowdhury Electrical Communication Engineering Massive MIMO Communication
Surekha Jonnalagadda Electrical Engineering Lightning protection of aircraft
Tanuka Bhattacharjee Electrical Engineering Dysarthric speech processing
Vihan Shahu Electrical Engineering Active Phase Converters (APC)
Arjun B S Electronic System Engineering Biomedical MEMS, Tumour diagnosis
Utpreksh Patbhaje Electronic System Engineering Thermoelectrics, Low Dimensional Materials
Ummar Ramzan Sheikh Inorganic and Physical Chemistry MAGNESIUM ION BATTERIES
Rinshad V A Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly
Debsena Chakraborty Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Supramolecular Chemistry
Umar Rashid Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Molecular Electronics and Spintronics
Reshma Ramakrishnan Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Enzymatic Disruption of Biofilm
Chamarthi Sarat Chandra Interdisciplinary Math Groundwater Hydrology and Climate
Parvathy J Interdisciplinary Math Computational Biology
Krishnakumaran R Interdisciplinary Math Computational Neuroscience: modelling visual-cortex
Sumanjay Dutta Management Studies Graphical Models in Finance
Deepa Mishra Material Research Centre Design of Dental Implants
Sulob Roy Chowdhury Material Research Centre Biomaterials and tissue engineering research
Alisha Kamra Material Research Centre Biological sensing and Catalysis
Anjan Maity Material Research Centre Drug Screening and Protein Protected Nanocluster Synthesis
Ria Sen Gupta Material Engineering Bio-inspired water remediating membranes
Bhure Swapnil Shadanan Materials Engineering Metal additive manufacturing
Gugulothu Sriram Bharath Materials Engineering 3D bioprinted breast cancer tumor models
Aakanksha Jain Mathematics Several Complex Variables
Joita Chakraborty Mechanical Engineering Computational Fluid Dynamics
Manoj N. Dixit Mechanical Engineering Vortex rings
Chetan Bheema Venkata Teki Mechanical Engineering Evaporation of droplets and Liquid Bridges under different conditions
S Rahul Kashyap Mechanical Engineering Combustion in domestic burners
Vikas Yadav Microbiology and Cell Biology Pathology of tuberculosis
Shachee Swaraj Microbiology and Cell Biology Antiviral Innate Immune response
Nidhi Mittal Molecular and Biophysics Unit Protein stability and Design
Kavyashree Nadig M. Molecular Biophysics Unit Type III Toxin-antitoxin system
Simran Srivastava Molecular Reproduction ,Development of Genetics Post-transcriptional gene regulation
Sakshi Gupta Molecular Reproduction ,Development of Genetics Cancer Biology
Shraddha Sansidha Mohanty Molecular Reproduction,Development of Genetics Breast Cancer Metastasis
Aditya Chakrabarty Organic Chemistry Asymmetric Catalysis
Badrodin Ayyub Shaikh Organic Chemistry Total Synthesis of Daphenylline and Rubrifloridlactone
Komal Jaiswal Organic Chemistry Nano-materials and Photo-catalysis
Pankaj Kumar Chaturvedi Organic Chemistry SUPRAMOLECULAR AND PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Sayan Shee Organic Chemistry NHC Organocatalysis
Alankar Dutta Physics Computational Astrophysics
Sadhitro De Physics Statistical properties of turbulence
Ayan bannerjee Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Non-Hermitian Topological phases
Anumita bose Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Topological phases of matter
Rohit kumar rohj Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Ferroelectrics, Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics
Satya prakash yadav Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Redox Flow Battery
     
Nikhil Verma Mechanical Engineering Combustion and Propotion
Arif Kamal ESE Design and development of a bimodal intraoperative probe for the breast cancer diagnosis”.
Eshwar SR CSA Reinforcement Learning
Pritam Rudra Chemical Engineering Antimicrobiology Resistance
Shahanatif Materials Research Centre ‘Perovskite frameworks for metal-ion and metal-air batteries’
Hemanth Kumar Materials Engineering Magnesium Alloys, Phase Transformation, Electron Microscopy, and Atom Probe Tomography.
Priyanshi Bhasin Physics Non-Hermitian Quantum Physics
Shivangi Inorganic & Physical Chemistry Bio-Organic Chemistry
Subhajit Ghosh Inorganic & Physical Chemistry Boron based Material Chemistry
Suryadeep Nath Aerospace Engineering Control and Decision making.
Anju Sebastian CeNSE Microelectro-Mechanical system.
Rishi Raj Materials Engineering Polymer Science and Engineering