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Aakash Chand Rai
Research Interests

Energy-efficient and net-zero energy buildings, Smart energy metering and behavioural interventions, Climate change impacts on building energy demand, and Indoor air quality.

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Aakash Chand Rai
Associate Professor
Email: aakashrai@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2305
Amarendra Edpuganti
Research Interests

Power electronics applications in renewable energy, electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles.

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Amarendra Edpuganti
Assistant Professor
Email: amarendrae@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2368
Ashish Garg
Research Interests

Solar photovoltaic materials and devices: organic, perovskites, and tandem; energy harvesting from ambient sources; recycling of electronic materials, devices and plastics; decarbonization of key industrial sectors.

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Head of the Department
Ashish Garg
Professor
Email: ashishg@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2200
Debopam Das
Research Interests

Wind energy, Computational Fluid Dynamics, UAVs.

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Debopam Das
Professor
Email: das@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-6163 Joint with Aerospace Engg.
Deepika Swami
Research Interests

Energy Policy and Climate Changes.

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Deepika Swami
Assistant Professor
Email: dswami@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2270
Lalit M. Pant
Research Interests

Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, Numerical Modelling, Porous Media Transport.

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Lalit M. Pant
Assistant Professor
Email: lalit@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2261
Laltu Chandra
Research Interests

Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Computation and Experiment, Turbulent Flow Simulation and Modelling, Solar Thermal Sub-system Design, Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics.

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Laltu Chandra
Professor
Email: lchandra@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2284
Prabodh Bajpai
Research Interests

Hybrid AC-DC Microgrids, Smart Grid and Renewable Integration, Solar Photovoltaics, Electricity Markets, Power System Analysis & Control.

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Prabodh Bajpai
Professor
Email: pbajpai@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2327
Sayan Kar
Research Interests

Carbon Capture, CO2 Utilisation, Energy Materials.

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Sayan Kar
Assistant Professor
Email: sayank@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-259-2605
Sachchida Nand Tripathi
Research Interests

Climate Issues, Climate Modelling, Environment, Air Pollution.

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Sachchida Nand Tripathi
Professor (On leave)
Email: snt@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-259-7845 Joint with Civil Engg.
Sheo Shankar Rai
Research Interests

Sustainable Development of Natural Resource Sector, Automation and Digital Transformation of Natural Resource Sector for Improving Productivity and Sustainability, Critical Minerals for Sustainable Energy Application, Environment and Social Impact Assessment, Deep Sea Mining for Critical Mineral Resources, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), Policies and Regulations for Mining and Metal Sector.

Sheo Shankar Rai
Professor of Practice
Email: sheo@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2141
Soumyabrata Roy
Research Interests

Materials for Energy Transition, Carbon (CO2) Capture and Utilization (CCU), Green Hydrogen & Sustainable Fuels, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Reaction Engineering and Operando Investigations, Energy Devices.

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Soumyabrata Roy
Assistant Professor
Email: soumyar@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2329
Srinivas Karthik Yadavalli
Research Interests

Halide Perovskites, Solar Cells (Single-junction and Tandem), Multi-junction Photoelectrodes for Green Hydrogen, Recycling of Photovoltaic Materials.

Srinivas Karthik Yadavalli
Assistant Professor
Email: srinivask@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2345
Sudarshan Narayanan
Research Interests

Solid state batteries (solid electrolytes, anode materials), thin films for energy conversion (transparent conductors, low-emissivity coatings), advanced characterization.

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Sudarshan Narayanan
Assistant Professor
Email: sudarshan@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2356
Vaibhav Arghode
Research Interests

Solar Thermochemical Systems, Biomass Gasification, Green Hydrogen Production, Data Center Thermal Management, Heat Driven Cooling.

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Vaibhav Arghode
Professor
Email: varghode@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-6294 Joint with Aerospace Engg.
Vivek Verma
Research Interests

Critical minerals for clean energy, Recycling of electronic/battery waste, Bulk X-ray Characterization (XRF, XAS and XRD).

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Vivek Verma
Assistant Professor
Email: vermav@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-259-2603