Research Supervision for Ph. D. Thesis

Profiles of former and ongoing doctoral researchers supervised at IIT Kanpur. Hover over a profile on desktop to view research details; on mobile, details are shown directly.

Former

Brijesh Bhatt

  • Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anoop Singh, Prof. Konrad Hagedorn, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • Area of Interest: Technology Adoption in Electricity Distribution
  • Thesis Topic: “Governance structure for enhanced energy efficiency in irrigation electricity distribution system of Andhra Pradesh”

Kewal Singh

Roll No.- 11214061
Email - skewal@iitk.ac.in
  • Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anoop Singh, Prof. Dr. Puneet Prakash
  • Area of Interest: Cost of Capital for Infrastructure Sector
  • Thesis Topic: "Cost of Capital and the Infrastructure Sector: Evidence from listed and unlisted Indian firms" Area - Infrastructure Financing

Dr. Vikas Sangwan

Roll No.- 13214064
Email - vikassan@iitk.ac.in
  • Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anoop Singh, Prof. Dr. Puneet Prakash
  • Area of Interest: Corporate Finance, Dividend Policy
  • Thesis Topic:

Dr. Kamini Singh

Roll No.- 16114261
Email - kamini@iitk.ac.in
  • Area of Interest: Energy Economics/Energy Market
  • Thesis Topic: Residential energy optimization under smart grid environment

Dr. Madhav Sharma

Roll No.- 18114262
Email - madhavsh@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Energy Economics, Energy Policy and Regulation, Energy Access, Mini-Grids, Smart-Grids, Power Markets, and Sustainable Energy Transitions.
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Decision-Support Frameworks for Sustainable Mini-Grid Planning: A Data-Driven Approach to Pathway Selection and Probabilistic Demand Forecasting
  • Current Position: Project Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Energy Regulation (CER), Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur (Past Experience: Advisory Analyst, Aurora Energy Research; Sr. Student Research Associate, CER-IITK)
  • Profile: Madhav Sharma is currently surveying as Project Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Energy Regulation, IIT Kanpur. His research interests include rural energy access, renewable mini-grids, electricity demand estimation, and power market regulation. He completed his Ph.D. in energy economics and policy at IIT Kanpur's Department of Management Sciences in 2026 under the supervision of Prof. Anoop Singh. His thesis, “Decision-Support Frameworks for Sustainable Mini-Grid Planning: A Data-Driven Approach to Pathway Selection and Probabilistic Demand Forecasting”, develops deployable decision support frameworks, including a geo-spatial analysis of over 940 public mini-grids across seven Indian states and a three-stage framework, involving quantile regression, nearest-neighbour matching and Bayesian melding, for estimating suppressed demand among newly electrified and un-electrified households, validated against metered consumption in rural Uttar Pradesh.
  • His current work is policy-facing. He leads workstreams on a Forum of Regulators-commissioned study developing a demand response framework for India's electricity sector, benchmarking European, US and Australian market designs against Indian regulatory practice, and has an active proposal with the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission on the price elasticity of electricity demand.
  • Before his doctorate he spent five years as a Senior Research Associate on the Indo-US UI-ASSIST consortium, a collaboration of more than thirty academic, utility and technology partners, working on PV–storage–biogas hybrid mini-grid pilots. He subsequently worked as an Analyst at Aurora Energy Research, building techno-economic and financial models for renewable and storage investment decisions.
  • His methodological toolkit spans econometric and Bayesian estimation, optimisation and geo-spatial modelling in Python, R, GAMS and QGIS, alongside survey design and field research. He has published in Energy for Sustainable Development, The Electricity Journal, Solar Energy, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and holds a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.Tech in Electrical Energy Systems. He is a student member of the IEEE, IET and IAEE.
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Dr. Gaurav Gupta

Roll No.- 18214261
Email - ggupta@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Energy Economics, Energy Finance, Energy Markets, Energy Policy and Regulation, and Sustainable Energy Transitions.
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Managing Price Risk in Evolving Energy Markets: Market-Based PPAs, Dynamic Take-or-Pay Contracts, and Revenue-Sharing Models
  • Current Position: FARE Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Energy Regulation (CER), Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur
  • Profile: Dr. Gaurav Gupta is a Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the Fellowship for Academic and Research Excellence (FARE) at the Centre for Energy Regulation (CER), Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur. He completed his Ph.D. and M.Tech. in Industrial and Management Engineering from IIT Kanpur and his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Ropar. During his doctoral studies, he was a Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF) and was Recommended with Commendation in two Annual PMRF Review cycles.
  • His doctoral research focused on managing price risk in evolving energy markets through the design of innovative contractual and market mechanisms, including market-based power purchase agreements, dynamic take-or-pay contracts, and revenue-sharing models. His broader research interests lie at the intersection of energy economics, energy finance, energy markets, market design, and energy policy and regulation, with a focus on risk allocation, investment efficiency, and the economic sustainability of evolving energy systems. His research has been published in international journals, including Energy Policy and The Electricity Journal.
  • Dr. Gupta has contributed to research and policy-oriented studies related to energy market, electricity market reforms, market design, and the development of derivative and other financial products for energy markets through CER, IIT Kanpur. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, in 2023, and serves as a reviewer for international journals, including Energy Policy, Energy Conversion and Management, Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, The Electricity Journal, and Applied Economics.
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Ongoing Research Supervision for Ph. D. Thesis

Sufia

Roll No.- 19214270
Email - sufia@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Power Sector Policies and Regulations, Energy Economics.
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Efficiency Analysis of Indian Electricity Distribution Utilities and Effectiveness of Indian Electricity Regulatory Commissions
  • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate at Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur
  • Profile: Sufia is currently a Research Scholar at DoMS, IIT Kanpur. She holds an Integrated M.Tech. in Energy Engineering from Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi. Her research focuses on efficiency analysis, benchmarking, energy economics, regulatory governance and regulatory impact analysis
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Shambhavi Mishra

Roll No.- 19214268
Email - sbmishra@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Power Sector Policies and Regulations, Energy Tariffs, Tariff Design, Energy Economics, Renewable Energy Policy, Energy & Environment, Data Envelopment Analysis, Stochastic frontier Analysis
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Regulatory incentives and performance benchmarking
  • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate at Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur
  • Profile: Shambhavi is currently a Research Scholar at DoMS, IIT Kanpur. She has received a Doctoral Mentorship scholarship from ETH Zurich. She holds an Integrated M.Tech. in Energy Engineering from Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi. Her broader research interest focuses on efficiency analysis, incentive based regulatory framework for the generation sector, benchmarking, energy economics, regulatory impact assessment.
  • Prior to her Ph.D., she has also worked with the Centre for Energy Regulation (CER), IIT Kanpur, on “Strengthening Regulatory Research & Network in the Power Sector” as Project Engineer.
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Apurva Verma

Roll No.- 20114263
Email - apurva20@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Energy and Climate Policy Modelling, Sustainable Energy Transitions, Energy Policy and Regulation, Appliance Energy Efficiency, and Cooling Sector Decarbonisation.
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Decarbonisation of India’s Residential Space Cooling Sector: Policy and Regulatory Pathways
  • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Management Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Profile: Apurva Verma is a Ph.D. Research Scholar in the Department of Management Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research focuses on energy and climate policy modelling, with a particular emphasis on the decarbonisation of India’s residential space cooling sector. Her doctoral research examines the impacts of changing climatic and socioeconomic conditions on cooling demand, energy use, cooling access, and emissions, using integrated climate, socioeconomic, and appliance modelling approaches.
  • Her broader research interests include sustainable energy transitions, energy efficiency, appliance policy, and energy policy and regulation. She is currently contributing to a CLASP project on next-generation room air conditioners in India, focusing on policy and regulatory pathways for scaling high-efficiency cooling technologies.
  • Prior to her Ph.D., she worked with the Centre for Energy Regulation (CER), IIT Kanpur, on power-sector regulatory research. She also worked as a Lecturer at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology. At the TERI School of Advanced Studies, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre of Excellence in Thermal Energy Storage, contributing to research on latent heat thermal energy storage. Earlier, she worked with HSMI, HUDCO, on energy conservation guidelines for the residential sector, with a focus on affordable housing.
  • Apurva holds an M.Tech. in Energy and Environmental Management from Kurukshetra University and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from CSJMU Kanpur. She was a Gold Medalist in her M.Tech. programme and qualified UGC-NET-JRF in Environmental Sciences. During her Ph.D. at IIT Kanpur, she was selected for the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF). She was also selected for a scholarship to attend the Summer School on Integrated Assessment Models organised by the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment in Como, Italy. Her research has been presented at international forums including the IAEE International Conference in Istanbul and the Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures at the University of Leeds.
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Shreeyash Nitin Malode

Roll No.- 20214271
Email - shreeyashn20@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Emissions Trading, Integrated Assessment Modelling, Energy-Climate Policy Modelling, Science-to-Policy, Earth System Governance
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Essays on Emissions Trading System
  • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate - Department of Management Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), Kanpur, India; Chapter Scientist - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva, Switzerland; Contributing Author - International Panel on Earth System Governance (IPESG), Utrecht, Netherlands; Project Co-lead - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), World Climate Research Programme, European Space Agency, Oxfordshire, U.K; Research Fellow - Earth System Governance (ESG) Project, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Profile: Mr. Shreeyash Nitin Malode is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Management Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India. His research, under the supervision of Prof. Anoop Singh at the Centre for Energy Regulation (CER, IITK), focuses on emissions trading, integrated assessment modelling, and energy-climate policy modelling.
  • Mr. Malode is currently active in global climate and sustainability assessments. He serves as a Chapter Scientist for the Seventh Assessment Report (WGIII, Chapter 10: Industry) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In the Governance of Earth System Dynamics domain, he is also a Contributing Author for the International Panel on Earth System Governance (IPESG). He acts as a Research Fellow for the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project. Additionally, he is a Project Co-Lead for the Entry Level Documentation Project at the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). In 2025, he was a Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) Fellow at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, where he received the Prof. Jyoti and Kirit Parikh Fellowship. Additionally, he has utilised the MESSAGEix framework to help develop energy-climate policy models. He also has extensive experience in regulatory policy research, advocacy, science communication and outreach.
  • His long-term academic goal is to create just and sustainable futures through bridging the science-policy gap. As a climate scientist in the Global South, he has published research and review articles in leading international journals, including Energy for Sustainable Development, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, and The Electricity Journal. In his research, he employs the research lens of justice & allocation. In addition to these publications, he has presented his work at international forums, including the World Sufficiency PhD Days and the Annual Meetings of the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium (IAMC). Academically, he followed an interdisciplinary approach. Mr. Malode recently completed his Master of Technology in Industrial and Management Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2026). Prior to this, he studied Regulatory Governance at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (Master of Science, 2020), and Power Engineering at the National Power Training Institute, Nagpur (Bachelor of Engineering, 2017).
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Sonam Dolker

Roll No.- 21129275
Email - sonamd21@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Renewable Policy and Regulations, Energy Economics, Power System Flexibility, RE integration
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Efficiency Analysis of Indian Electricity Distribution Utilities and Effectiveness of Indian Electricity Regulatory Commissions
  • Current Position: Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF), PhD Student, Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  • Profile: Sonam Dolker is a Prime Minister’s Research Fellow and doctoral candidate at the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering at the IIIT Kanpur. Her research focuses on RE policy and regulation, energy economics, energy storage systems, and power system flexibility. She holds a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NIT Uttarakhand.
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Arvind Marandi

Roll No.- 232290607
Email - arvindm21@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Energy Economics, Power Sector Regulation, Electricity Market Design, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy Integration, Power System Flexibility, Climate Change
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Economic Design of India’s Electricity Transition: Markets, Flexibility, and Contracts
  • Current Position: MNRE Fellow, PhD Student, Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  • Profile: Arvind Marandi is a Ministry of New Renewable Energy (MNRE) fellow and PhD researcher at the Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) department of IIT Kanpur. His research interests include energy economics, electricity market design, and power sector regulatory and market mechanisms for integrating RE and enhancing power-system flexibility. He holds a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from BIT Sindri.
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Mrudul Shivhare

Roll No.- 241140606
Email - mrudulshiv24@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Indian Electricity Markets, Demand Response, Tariff Design
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title:
  • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Energy Regulation (CER), Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur
  • Profile: Mrudul Shivhare is a doctoral candidate at DoMS, IIT Kanpur. His research focuses on electricity market design in India and corresponding regulatory and policy frameworks. He has professional experience in handling techno-commercial aspects of thermal power plants and analysis of regulatory landscape of the Indian power sector. He holds eMasters degree in Power Sector Regulations, Economics and Management from IIT Kanpur, a P.G. Diploma in Thermal Power plant Engineering from NPTI and……

Preeti Borkar

Roll No.- 241140610
Email - preetib24@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Comparative Assessment Modelling of Net Zero, Climate Change, Carbon Market Mechanism
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Net-Zero Governance and Implementation
  • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Energy Regulation (CER), Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur
  • Profile: Ms. Preeti Borkar is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Management Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India. She earned her M.Tech. in Power System Engineering from NIT Jamshedpur and her B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from OP Jindal University. Her research, conducted under the academic environment of IIT Kanpur, explores pathways toward net-zero emissions, the economics of climate change policy, and the implementation of carbon pricing mechanisms.
  • She is currently working on a project, “Policy Interventions for Net Zero” funded by the Power Foundation of India, which examines, international, national and subnational policy, governance, implemenatation and MRV frameworks to identify lessons for strengthening India’s Net Zero transition.
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Jyoti Sharma

Email - jyotis21@iitk.ac.in
  • Research Interests: Energy Environment Economics Policy & Regulation, Supply Chain Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment, Techno-Economic Analysis, Sustainable Energy Transition, Climate Change
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Integrating Bioenergy into India's Energy Transition: Environmental and Economic Impacts
  • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Profile: Jyoti is a PhD research scholar in the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research focused on integrating bioenergy into India’s energy transition, with an emphasis on its economics and environmental impacts.
  • Her doctoral research covers cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis to evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of integrating biomass, biofuels, and biohydrogen into India's decarbonization framework. She recently won the best paper presentation award at SASEC 2026 at Kruger National Park, South Africa, for her work.
  • She holds an MTech in Energy Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and a BTech in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Manipal University.
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