Solar Energy Research Group
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT-Madras
MS Student(s)
PJ Jayanthan (Co-advised with Professor Niket S. Kaisare)
MS- 2021
Thesis: Solar water splitting
Present position: Graduate Student, Helmholtz Zentrum, Berlin
Kiran Prabhu
MS -2020
Thesis: Halide perovskite solar rechargeable batteries
Present position: Navin Fluorines
Shubham Jagdish Raut
MS -2020
Thesis: Perovskite solar cells
Present position: Navin Fluorines
M.Tech Student(s)
Siddarth Hariharan
Dual Degree - 2018
Present Position: Associate, Anheuser Busch InBev
Arun Vasudevan
M.Tech - 2018
Present Position: Design Engineer, SRF Limited
Sumrad Bin Umar
M.Tech. - 2018
Present Position: Management Trainee, Afcons Infrastructure Limited.
Janarthanan B
M.Tech. - 2018
Present Position: Associate Manager, Sterlite Technologies Limited.
Sahare Mayuresh Kamlesh
M.Tech. - 2018
Present Position: Academic Implementation Head, K12 Techno Services Pvt. Ltd.,
Srija Madduri (joint student with Dr. Raghuram Chetty)
M.Tech. - 2018
Present Position: DGFS-PhD, BARC
Subham Kumar
M.Tech. - 2019
Present Position:
Sanket Sundarrao Chaure
M.Tech., Chemical Engineering, 2019.
Present Position:
Manishankar Velpula
M.Tech., Chemical Enginering, 2020
Present position
B.Tech Student(s)
Sanjana Srinivas
B.Tech. 2019
Present Position: PhD student, University of Delaware
Kavin Paul
B.Tech. 2019
Present Position: Graduate student
Arvind Rao
Navalu Rahman
Saurabh Laddha
Interns
Akshay Thyagarajan
SSN College of Engineering
April 2018
Present Position: Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
K Amirtharaj
May - July 2018
Present Position: Student
Akshay Thyagarajan
SSN College of Engineering
April 2018
Present Position: Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Debashish Tripathy
May - July 2017
Present Position: Assistant Manager, Vedanta Limited
Mukund Udari
May-July 2017
Present Position: Graduate Engineer Trainee, Coromandel International Limited
V.P. Sai Surya
KSR College of Engineering
Design of portable water purifier, solar cooker and lighting system for calamity affected zones
V. Vaishnavi
Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Design of portable water purifier, solar cooker and lighting system for calamity affected zones
Pl. Alagammai
Central Electrochemical Research Institute
Synthesis of vacancy ordered halide double perovskites
Project Associate(s)
Dhananjeya Kumar (joint researcher with Prof. Raghunathan Rengasamy)
2017-18
Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Zurich
Sanket Sundarrao Chaure
M.Tech., Chemical Engineering, 2019.
Present Position:
Manishankar Velpula
M.Tech., Chemical Enginering, 2020
Present position