SEE IIT Kanpur

Faculty

Research Interests: Energy-efficient Buildings, Impact of Climate Change on Heating and Cooling of Buildings, Indoor Air Quality, Airborne Infection Transmission, and Air Pollution

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Aakash Chand Rai

Associate Professor
Email: aakashrai@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2305

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

Research Interests: Perovskite and Organic Solar Cell Materials and Device Development

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Head of the Department

Ashish Garg

Professor
Email: ashishg@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2200

Research Interests: Energy Harvesting, Wind & Hydro Energy, Modelling

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Ashoke De

Professor
Email: ashoke@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-7561
Joint with Aerospace Engg.

Research Interests: Wind Energy

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Debopam Das

Professor
Email: das@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-6163
Joint with Aerospace Engg.

Research Interests: Energy Policy and Climate Changes

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Deepika Swami

Assistant Professor
Email: dswami@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2270

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

Research Interests: Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Computation and Experiment, Turbulent Flow Simulation and Modelling, Solar Thermal Sub-system Design, Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydaraulics

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Laltu Chandra

Professor
Email: lchandra@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2284

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

Research Interests: Energy Policy, Role of Bio-fuel & Bio-mass in India's energy transition, Energy Transition Modelling, Net Zero Campuses, Net Zero waste technology & behavioural aspects, ESG

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Rajeev Jindal

Professor of Practice
Email: rajeevj@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2323

Research Interests: Carbon Capture, CO2 Utilisation, Energy Materials

Sayan Kar

Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Climate Issues, Climate Modelling, Environment, Air Pollution

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Sachchida Nand Tripathi

Professor
Email: snt@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-259-7845
Joint with Civil Engg.

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, Policies and Regulations for Mining and Metal Sector.

Sheo Shankar Rai

Professor of Practice
Email: sheo@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-2141

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

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

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

Research Interests: Solar Thermal Energy

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Vaibhav Arghode

Associate Professor
Email: varghode@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0512-679-6294
Joint with Aerospace Engg.

Research Interests: E-waste Material Recovery/Recycling Beyond Li-ion Battery Materials Development Bulk X-ray Characterization (EXAFS, XRF and XRD)

Vivek Verma

Assistant Professor
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