The department offers a Visitors Program to academicians and R&D persons in other organizations. Within this program, the duration of visit could be short-term (few weeks) or long-term (couple of years). We look forward to visitors of various types such as PhD students at other universities, post doctoral fellows, researchers from the industry, and senior academicians of high research standing. Various positions are offered to such visitors such as the following:
At present, the following persons are holding the visiting appointments:
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Dr. Janak Patel
D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Professor Emeritus in UIUC,250 Coordinated Science Lab MC 228,1308 W. Main St.Urbana Illinois 61801 Email: jhpatel@illinois.edu Research Interests: VLSI Testing and Testability, VLSI Design Automation |
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Dr. Sachin Sapatnekar
D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Distinguished Mcknight University Professor ,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering ,200 Union Street Se, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455. Email: sachin@ece.umn.edu Research Interests: Developing efficient techniques for computer-aided design of integrated circuits, and are primarily centered around physical design, timing and simulation issues, and optimization algorithms. |
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Prof. Hiroshi Iwai
D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Professor in Frontier Collaborative Research Center and also in Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Email: iwai.h.aa@m.titech.ac.jp Research Interests: Si and III-V high-performance transistors with low power consumption and high efficient GaN power FET. Also, resistive switching memory, carbon device and tunnel-FET based on new material are on-going researches. We cover from theory to technology and modling for research. |
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Prof. P.R. Kumar
D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Professor Emeritus at ECE Illinois 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801-2918 Email: prkumar@illinois.edu Research Interests: Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Convergence of Control, Communication and Computation, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Manufacturing Systems, Machine Learning, Adaptive Systems, Control, Stochastic Systems, Information Theory, Middleware, Protocol design, Implementation, Software architecture, Control Theory, Optimization. |
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Prof. Ravi Mazumdar
D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Professor and University Research Chair,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo,200 University Ave. West Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 , Canada Email: mazum@ece.uwaterloo.ca Research Interests: Applied probability, optimization and stochastic analysis focussing on applications in communication networks, complex stochastic models, and statistical methods for inference from high dimensional data. Specific interests stochastic networks and network science, game theory and applications to networks, causal inference and information theory. |
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Prof. Venkatachalam Anantharam
D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Email: ananth@eecs.berkeley.edu |
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Dr. Sanjoy Mitter
Distinguished Guest Professor, IIT Bombay Professor of Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 32-D562 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Email: mitter@mit.edu Research Interests: Broad areas of Systems, Communication and Control, theory of stochastic and adaptive control; mathematical physics and its relationship to system theory; image analysis and computer vision; and structure, function and organization of complex systems |
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Dr. Vikram Dalal
Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011, USA Email: vdalal@iastate.edu Research Interests: Photovoltaic energy conversion materials and devices and semiconductor processing |
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Prof. Lawrence L. Kazmerski
Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Member Research Staff (Emeritus), National Renewable Energy Laboratory,Golden, CO Research Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO Email: solarpvkaz@gmail.com Research Interests: Development of several types of thin film solar cells, characterization and measurement of solar cells, reliability of photovoltaics and soiling and dust mitigation for photovoltaic modules |
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Prof. Navin Khaneja
Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering Harvard University, 33 Oxford street, MD 335 Cambridge, MA - 02138 Email: navin@seas.harvard.edu Research Interests: Control and applications, NMR spectroscopy, quantum control and information science |
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Dr. Kushal R. Tuckley
Adjunct Professor, IIT Bombay Chairman and Director R&D, AGV Systems Pvt.Ltd. Email: kushal@ee.iitb.ac.in Research Interests: Radars,Microwave systems and wireless Industrial instrumentation |
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Dr. Narendra Karmarkar
Adjunct Professor, IIT Bombay Scientific Consultant worked for HPC, IITM Government of India; Scientific Advisor to Chairman of TATA Group Email: narendrakarmarkar@yahoo.com Research Interests: After working on the Interior Point Method, Karmarkar worked on a new architecture for supercomputing, based on concepts from projective geometry. Currently, he is synthesizing these concepts with some new ideas he calls sculpturing free space (a non-linear analogue of what has has popularly been described as folding the perfect corner). This approach allows him to extend this work to the physical design of machines. |
Dr. Prashant Navalkar
Adjunct Professor, IIT Bombay Deputy General Manager (Electrical) in Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd., Power Anser Lab, EE Dept., IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai Email: navalkar@ee.iitb.ac.in |
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Dr. Dipankar
Adjunct Associate Professor, IIT Bombay TREE Labs Foundation, 627, 6th Floor, Master Mind IV, Royal Palms Estate, Aarey Milk Colony, Goregaon (E), Mumbai – 400065 Email: dipankar@treelabs.org |
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Dr. K.P. Ray
Adjunct Associate Professor, IIT Bombay SAMEER, IIT Powai campus, Powai, Mumbai Email: kpray@ee.iitb.ac.in Research Interests: RF & Microwave Systems |
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Dr. Murali Kota
Adjunct Associate Professor, IIT Bombay Chief Technologist for Nanotechnology at the IBM India Semiconductor Research and Development Center Research Interests: Nano materials and devices for electronics, spin and superconducting based quantum devices, and energy technologies. |
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Dr. Sreenath Ramanath
Adjunct Associate Professor, IIT Bombay Director R&D, Lekha Wireless, Bangalore Research Interests: Modeling and performance analysis of communication networks. |
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Dr. Vinod Prabhakaran
Adjunct Faculty, IIT Bombay School of Technology and Computer Science Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai Email: vinodmp@tifr.res.in Research Interests: Information Theory, Communication, Signal Processing, Cryptography |
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Dr. A.J. Ganesh
Visiting Associate Professor, IIT Bombay Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol Senate House, Tyndall Ave, Bristol, City of Bristol BS8 1TH, United Kingdom Research Interests: Complex Systems, Applied Probability, Bayesian Modelling and Analysis, Optimisation Under Uncertainty, Scaling Limits, Mathematical modelling of communication and computer networks, and in decentralised algorithms for such networks. |
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Dr. Kalarikad Jonah Thomas
Visiting Associate Professor, IIT Bombay Senior Research Associate at London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), London Email: kjt1003@gmail.com, kalarikad@skku.edu Research Interests: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Design and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures, Electron Transport in One-Dimensional Quantum Wires: ballistic constrictions, long wires, series and parallel coupled wires. Effects of electron-electron interaction in quantum wires which may give rise to possible electron liquid and solid phases |
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Georgios D. Demetriades
Visiting Associate Professor, IIT Bombay ABB Corporate Research 940 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA |
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Dr. Krish Sankaran
Visiting Associate Professor, IIT Bombay Founder – Prajnalaya, Zurich Area, Switzerland Research Interests: Engineering: Applied electromagnetics, alternative energy storage and production methods, water desalination, multiphysics computational modelling. Developmental Studies: Energy-water-food nexus, rural and urban infrastructure development, policy simulation and organisational change. |