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Meet The Team

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Scientific Contributions

Publications (33) (Published and Communicated): Research papers published in reputed refereed journals (Nature-3, Nature Materials, Advanced Materials-4, Nano Letters-2, Nature Communications-3, Science Advances-2, Applied Physics Letters-2, etc.) 

Patents (Granted and Filed) – 40+: 36+ US Patents and 4 Indian Patent 

Number of citations: 1800+; h-index - 17

Memberships

Indian Institute of Metal (Lifetime), IEEE, IEEE magnetics society, Materials Research Society (MRS), American Ceramic Society (ACS), St John’s College, University of Cambridge (Lifetime), Indian Physics Association (Lifetime), Cambridge Philosophical Society (1012-2015) and Institute of Physics (2012- 2016).

Awards

Dr. Bhagwati Prasad

(Principal Investigator)

Assistant Professor (CV), 

Department of Materials Engineering

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Ph.D. (Materials Science)
University of Cambridge, UK

Tel- 080 2293 2679

Email- bpjoshi@iisc.ac.in

2011-2014

Nehru Trust for Cambridge University Fellowship: Funding for graduate studies  St John’s College, Cambridge University: Bursary for graduate studies

2007-2008

Academic Excellence Award: M.Tech. programme at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

2006-2008

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Fellowship: Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) [Physics]; All India Rank-61  National Eligibility Test (NET) - Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)

Editorial Services

  • Principal Editor - MRS Advances  Member of Editorial Board - Nature Scientific Reports, 

  • Guest Editor-APL Materials (Topic:Materials Challenges for Nonvolatile Memory), 

  • Guest Editor-Electronics (Topic: Recent Advanced Applications of Magnetic materials and Quantum Material)

Education

2011-2015

Ph.D. (Materials Science and Metallurgy): University of Cambridge, UK,

2006-2008

M.Tech. (Materials Science): Departmental Rank-1 (1st in Class), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

2002-2004

M.Sc. (Physics): Gold Medalist (1st in University) H. N. B. Garhwal University, India

Work Experience

2021 -Present

Assistant Professor; Materials Engineering department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, KA, India

2018 – 2021

Principal Research Scientist: Non-volatile Memory Research Group, Western Digital (erstwhile IBM Research), San Jose, CA, USA

2016 – 2018

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher; University of California Berkeley, USA Research area: Magnetoelectric spin-orbit logic and memory devices

2015 – 2016

Scientist; Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany 

2008- 2011

Scientist (Sr. Manager); R&D Division, Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, India 

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Dr. Vinod Kumar

vinodkiitb@gmail.com

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Education:

M.Sc (Physics): Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Ph.D. (Physics): Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Research interest: Spintronics, 2D magnetism

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Dr. Akash Surampalli

akashsurampa@iisc.ac.in

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Education:

M.Sc (Physics): Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

Ph.D. (Physics): UGC-DAE CSR, Indore

Research interest: Thin film functional materials

PhD Students

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Education:

B.Sc (Physics): Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Uttrakhand

M.Sc (Physics): Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Uttrakhand

Research interests: Magnetoelectrics, ferroelectrics 

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Suryakanta Mondal

suryakantam@iisc.ac.in

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Education:

B.Sc (Physics): Midnapore College (Autonomous), Midnapore

M.Sc (Physics): Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Research interest: Spin-orbit torque based non-volatile memory devices

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Astha Khandelwal

asthak@iisc.ac.in

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Education:

B.Sc (Physics): Banasthali University, Rajasthan

M.Sc (Physics): Banasthali University, Rajasthan

Research interest: Investigation of 2D materials for non-volatile memory applications

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Kaushal Tiwari

kaushalt@iisc.ac.in

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Education:

B.Sc (Physics): Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur

M.Sc (Physics): University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Research interest: Unconventional ferroelectric based memory devices

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Uma Ganguly

umag@iisc.ac.in

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Education:

B.Sc (Physics): Calcutta University

M.Sc (Physics): Calcutta University

Research interest: 

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Education:

B.Sc (Physics): Kurukshetra University

M.Sc (Physics): Kurukshetra University

M.Tech (Functional Materials and Devices): Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur

Research interest: 

MTech Students

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Education:

B.Tech (Metallurgical Engineering): BIT Sindri, Dhanbad

Research interest: Nanocomposites based Magnetoelectric

BS (Research) Student

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Yash Vardhan Bhobia

yashvardhan@iisc.ac.in

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Education:

Bachelor of Science (Research): Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Research Interest:

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Education:

Bachelor of Science (Research): Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Research Interest:

Project Intern

Secretarial Assistant

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Tannmoy

tannmoy2017@gmail.com

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Education:

B.Tech (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering): NIT Rourkela (Expected 2024)

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Priyadarshini R

rpriyadarshi@iisc.ac.in

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Education:

B.Com (Accounting): Bangalore University

M.Com (Accounting and taxation): Bangalore University

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