Principal investigator

Siddharth Tallur
Principal Investigator

Dr. Siddharth Tallur is an Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay and Co-founder and Director at Nirixense Technologies. He has previously served as faculty-in-charge of Wadhwani Electronics Lab (WEL) at IIT Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he worked at Analog Devices Inc. Wilmington MA, USA on MEMS sensor product and applications development. His current research interests include high resolution and low cost sensors, and high speed instrumentation and embedded sensor systems, most notably for structural health monitoring and biosensing.

  • 2004-08: B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
  • 2008-09: Business Analyst, A. T. Kearney India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
  • 2009-13: MS-Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
  • 2013-16: MEMS sensor product and applications engineer, Analog Devices Inc., Wilmington MA, USA
  • 2016-21: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
  • 2019-25: Faculty-in-charge, Wadhwani Electronics Lab (WEL)
  • 2021-present: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
  • 2024-present: Co-Founder and Director, Nirixense Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Ph.D. students

Shruti Ahuja
Ph.D. student (CRNTS, co-supervised with Prof. Kiran Kondabagil, BSBE)

B.E. Biotechnology, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, 2014
M.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University, 2017
Interests: Biosensors

Susmita Rath
Ph.D. student (co-supervised with Prof. Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam, BSBE)

B.Tech. Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, 2015
M.Tech. Sensor Technology, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, 2019
Interests: Biosensors and MEMS, biomedical engineering, motor neuroscience

Sheetal Patil
Ph.D. student

B.Tech. Electronics and Telecommunications, Fr. R. C. Institute of Technology, Vashi, 2018
Interests: FPGA based embedded systems, structural health monitoring

Sanika Joshi
Ph.D. student (Co-supervised with Prof. Kasturi Saha, EE)

B.Tech. Instrumentation Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2021
Interests: Quantum sensors and electronic systems

Sheeza Malik
Ph.D. student

B.Tech. Electronics and Communication, University of Kashmir, 2021
M.Tech. Microelectronics, NIT Srinagar, 2024
Interests: Microfabricated biosensors

Apurva Gosavi
Ph.D. student (CRNTS, co-supervised with Prof. Kiran Kondabagil, BSBE)

Integrated M.Tech. Bioengineering, MIT-ADT University, Pune, 2024
Interests: Biosensors

Undergraduate students

Vedika Rathi
Dual degree student (B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems)

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Chaotic oscillator circuits and applications
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Annirudh K P
Dual degree student (B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems)

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Digital and RF system design for quantum sensor magnetometer
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Jahnvee Tailor
Dual degree student (B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems)

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Robotics
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Yash Paritkar
Dual degree student (B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems)

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Deep-space navigation using pulsars for space X-ray telescope (co-supervised with Prof. Varun Bhalerao, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay) 
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Sai Mayura R K
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Novel low-power wireless SHM systems
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Nimay Shah
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Novel low-power wireless SHM systems
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Kushal Jain
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Novel low-power wireless SHM systems
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Lakshmeesh K P
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Voice-controlled interface on RPi Pico W using Zephyr RTOS and TensorFlow (TFLM)
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Suchet Gopal
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Navigation using quantum sensor magnetometer
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Ashwajit Singh
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Navigation using quantum sensor magnetometer
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Preetish Sathawane
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Modular electronics design for cubesat (co-supervised with Prof. Varun Bhalerao, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay) 
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Manisha Sahu
B.Tech. student

B.Tech. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2026)
Project: Edge signal processing for EEG based motor imagery
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Swarup Patil
Dual degree student (B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems)

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2027)
Project: Digital and RF system design for quantum sensor gyroscope
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Tanish Raghute
Dual degree student (B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems)

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2027)
Project: Digital and RF system design for quantum sensor gyroscope
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Sathvik Reddy
Dual degree student (B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems)

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Electronic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (expected 2027)
Project: Digital and RF system design for quantum sensor gyroscope
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Co-supervised/External students

  • Rizwan Ul Haq Madni (Ph.D. student; Primary supervisor: Prof. Avijit Maji, CE IIT Bombay)

Alumni

Ph.D. students

Post-doctoral fellows

M.Tech. students

B.Tech./Dual Degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) students

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