Principal Investigator:

Kasturi Saha, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.

Project Director and Professor-in-Charge: Qmet Tech Foundation – T-Hub on Quantum Sensing, Imaging and Metrology under the National Quantum Mission.

Core member: Center of Excellence in Quantum Information, Computing Science and Technology, IIT Bombay. (https://www.quicst.org)

Kasturi Saha joined IIT Bombay as an assistant professor in December 2016. She did her PhD in the Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics Group of Prof. Alexander Gaeta in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. Her thesis involved the characterization, time-domain analysis and stabilization of frequency combs generated in silicon nitride microring resonators and ultra-low power nonlinear optics in photonic bandgap fibers. She worked closely with Prof. Michal Lipson’s group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

She did her post-doctoral fellowship in the Quantum Engineering Group of Prof. Paola Cappellaro in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) where she worked primarily on building a quantum spin-based gyroscope using Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond.

She obtained her B.Sc.(Phys. Hons.) from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi from 2003-06 and M.Sc. in Physics from IIT-Delhi in 2008.

Faculty Accolades:

  1. Indian Academy of Sciences (INSA) Associate Fellow
  2. DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship – 2017-2022
  3. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Young Faculty Fellowship – 2017-2020
  4. Venus International Young Researcher Award 2023
  5. SERB-Power Research Grant 2023-2025
  6. IIT Bombay C1973 Research Excellence Award 2025

Team Members:

Senior Project Manager

  • Dr. Joyita Banerjee

Administrative Assistant

  • Ms. Varsha Ingle

Senior Engineers – Team MagPI/QDM

  • Dr. Vinayak Rane
  • Mr. Jay Gharat
  • Mr. Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar
  • Dr D. Shishir
  • Dr. Prashobh Padmanabhan

Post Doctoral Fellow:

  • Dr. Nidhi
  • Dr. Suman Mondal
  • Dr. Somak Basistha

Ph.D. Students:

  • Anuj Bathla (CRNTS, co-supervisor Prof. Pradeep Sarin) – Pre-synopsis done
  • Ayan Majumder (EE7- Solid State Devices) – Pre-synopsis done
  1. Himanshu Kumar (PMRF, EE7- Solid State Devices)
  2. Jyotiprakash Parhi (EE7-Solid State Devices)
  3. Swapnil R. Bait (EE7-Solid State Devices)
  4. Sritama Saha (CRNTS – co-supervisor – Prof Avijit Majumder)
  5. Ritaban Samanta (EE7 – Solid State Devices)
  6. Shraddha Atakar (EE7 – Solid State Devices)
  7. Sanika Joshi (EE6 – co-supervised with Prof Siddharth Tallur)

Project Staff

  • Manali Verma
  • Prajna S. Mahakur
  • Kevin Jose

Undergraduate Interns:

  • Disha Zaveri (BTP II EP, IIT B)
  • Swaprabha Dey (BTP II-EP, IIT B)
  • Sara A. Parag  (SLP, EP, IIT B)
  • Mackwan Brian Shailesh (CS, IITB – collaboration with Prof Ajit Rajwade)
  • Shravan K Suresh (EE, IITB – collaboration with Prof Ajit Rajwade)
  • Aniruddh K V (EE, IITB – collaboration with Prof Siddharth Tallur)

Interested: We are always looking for Ph. D. students, post-docs and interns. (See special call on welcome page)

Ph.D students: visit Admission@EE, CRNTS
Post-docs: Email and apply via Institute Post Doc Fellowship
Interns and project students: Email

Former Members (PhD Students, UG Students, Interns, Collaboration Related, Project Staff, External Thesis):

  1. Dr. Subrat Pradhan (PhD 2025, now at Global Foundries)
  2. Yash Upadhyay (Project staff – moving to UK)
  3. Anshika Jain (Summer 2025 – EE IITB)
  4. Shritama Bhattacharya (Summer 2025 – IACS Kolkata)
  5. Aman Tallur (Summer 2025 – IISER Trivandrum)
  6. Debjani Paul – (Summer 2025 – NISER Bhubaneswar) 
  7. Saptarishi Das –(Summer 2025 –  IISER Pune)
  8. Kamal Kishor Singh (From Mumbai University)
  9. Dr. Dasika Shishir (Former PhD, EE7- Solid State Devices – Joining Qmet Tech Foundation)
  10. Dr. Sonia Sarkar (Former PhD, CRNTS, co-supervisor Prof. Pradeep Sarin, now at IIT KGP as IPDF)
  11. Tarun Kumar (IIT Delhi)
  12. Aryan Palimkar (IIT Madras)
  13. Akshat Barnwal (IIT Gandhinagar)
  14. Bhavana Parankusam (Physics – IIT Bombay, Now Masters @ Imperial College London)
  15. Namita Agrawal (Physics – IIT Bombay, BTP-II, Now Joint Master @ TUM – LMU )
  16. Neeraj Prabhu (EE- IIT Bombay, UG Chanakya Fellow, BTP-II, Now at University of UTAH)
  17. Siddhant Midha (EE-IIT Bombay, UG Chanakya Fellow, BTP-II – Now at Princeton)
  18. Advait Risbud (MEMS – IIT Bombay, UG Chanakya Fellow, BTP-II)
  19. Dr. Madhur Parashar (Former PhD student, now in UC Berkeley with Prof. Ashok Ajoy)
  20. Abhishek Kejriwal (UG/PG Chanakya Fellow, Dual Degree Thesis, Engineering Physics) personal page
  21. Sammanay Bhuyan (BS-MS, IISER Mohali – Summer Intern – 2023)
  22. Samiran Chakraborty (BS-MS, IISER Kolkata – Summer Intern – 2023)
  23. Shrijani Manna (B.Tech Thesis, EE, Manipal University)
  24. Dr. Fabitha K. (IIT Bombay Postdoctoral Fellow)
  25. Dr. Rizwana Khanum (IIT Bombay Postdoctoral Fellow)
  26. Shrijani Manna (DST-Quest Summer Intern 2022, EE, Manipal University)
  27. Namita Agarwal (DST-Quest Summer Intern 2022, B.Tech, Engineering Physics)
  28. Arya Patil (SURP- IIT Bombay)
  29. Neeraj Prabhu (SURP- IIT Bombay)
  30. Utkarsh Jindal (SURP- IIT Bombay)
  31. Kaustav Prasad (SURP- IIT Bombay)
  32. Aryan Lall (D. D., Electrical Engineering, moved to Qualcomm)
  33. Anaida Ali (B.Tech., Engineering Physics)
  34. Alok M. Ghokhale (moved to Ferdinand Braun Institut, Berlin)
  35. Dr. Bikash Dev Choudhury (moved to IIT B Nanofabrication process team)
  36. Binkesh Pandey (M.Tech: EE7 – Solid State Devices)
  37. Chaitanya Somayajula (B.Tech., Engineering Physics)
  38. Shreyas Changothia (B.Tech., Engineering Physics)
  39. Pranoy Das (IISER Kolkata)
  40. Prerna Baranwal (BITS Pilani, BTech Thesis)
  41. Vineet Punyamoorty (D. D., Electrical Engineering, Dual Degree Thesis 2020)
  42. Alok Milind Gokhale (BITS Goa)(Spring 2020, MS – Thesis)
  43. Parth K. Jatakia (D. D., Engineering Physics) (Collaboration with Prof. Sai Vinjanampathy)
  44. Sanjeev Kumar (IIT Ropar, KVPY Fellow Summer 2019)
  45. Vineet Moghe (D. D., Electrical Engineering)
  46. Nived K. (B.Tech., Engineering Physics)(Collaboration with Prof. Udayan Ganguly)
  47. Virul Katiya (D. D., Electrical Engineering)
  48. Ayan Majumdar (IISER Mohali, Inspire student fellowship)
  49. Abhishek Purohit (IISER Mohali, KVPY Fellow)
  50. Shivansh Joshi (IISER Kolkata, KVPY Fellow)
  51. Aditya Malusare (B.Tech., Engineering Physics) (was working in collaboration with Prof. Sumiran Pujari, Prof. Shamashis Sengupta, and Prof. R. Vijayraghavan) – (Now: Graduate student in Purdue University, USA)
  52. Amritesh Sharma (D. D., Electrical Engineering)(was working in collaboration with Prof. Udayan Ganguly)
  53. Ashlesha Patil (Former D.D., EE – MicroElectronics, IITB)(Now: Graduate student at University of Arizona, USA)
  54. Vishvendra Poonia (Ph.D. student, EE – MicroElectronics)(Now: Assistant professor, IIT Roorkee)
  55. Rakshit Jain (B.Tech., Engineering Physics)(Now: Graduate student at Cornell University, USA)
  56. Villy Gohil (B.Tech, Electrical Engineering)