Group Members

Ph.D Students

Sajan Kumar Wahi

[January 2017 - present]

Email: amz168466@am.iitd.ac.in

Topic: Asymptotic modeling of magnetostrictive material based structures with application to energy harvesting (Ph.D. synopsis report submitted).



Awantika Mishra

[July 2019 - present]

Email: amz198093@am.iitd.ac.in

Topic: Non-linear magnetoelastic interactions in magnetorheological elastomeric membranes.



Vikram Parmar

[July 2021 - present]

Email: amz218316@am.iitd.ac.in

Topic: Computational analysis of instabilities in soft electro-magneto-elastic membranes.



Devansh Gupta

[July 2021 - present]

Email: amz218296@am.iitd.ac.in

Topic: Design and modeling of novel artifical muscle actuators using soft active materials.


Aquib Ahmad Siddiqui

[January 2022 - present]

Email: amz218550@am.iitd.ac.in

Topic: Design of novel functional material based actuators and sensors for soft robotic applications.

M. Tech Students
  1. Akanta Mondal (July 2021- Present): Modeling and analysis of ionic polymer metal composite based soft actuators.
  2. Shubham Bhardwaj (July 2021- Present): Neural network constitutive model for magnetostrictive materials.
  3. Anoop Pathak (July 2021- Present): Nonlinear buckling analysis composite magneto-elastic structures.

Project Associates
  1. Jai Prakash Nain (July 2021 - December 2021): Design and development of an external wearable exo-suit for upper limb power augmentation.
  2. Mandvi Singh (August 2018 - October 2019): Modeling and analysis of BiTe based nanostructured materials.

Past Ph.D Students


Yadwinder Singh Joshan

[July 2017 - January 2023]

Email: amz178125@am.iitd.ac.in

Topic: Higher order efficient plate theories for electroelastic materials and their application to actuator and sensor devices.

Past M. Tech/MSR Students:
  1. Rishabh Gairola (Graduated 2021): Design of a hybrid electromagnetic energy harvesting device.
  2. Akshay Manthekar (Graduated 2021): Design of piezoelectric sensor for measuring torsional shear.
  3. Jai Prakash Nain (Graduated 2021): Modeling based design improvement of McKibben type actuator.
  4. Parth Joshi (Graduated 2021): Modeling and analtsis of smart material based artificial muscle actuator.
  5. Aravind R (Graduated 2021): Design and development of an external wearable exo-suit for upper limb power augmentation.
  6. Sahil Chawla (Graduated 2020): Modeling and computational design of magnetorheological elastomer based actuator devices.
  7. Shashank Kumar Srivastav (Graduated 2020): Computational study of wrinkling instability in thin elastic plates undergoing large deformation.
  8. Numan Ali (Graduated 2019): Modeling and analysis of magnetorheological elastomeric plates under finite deformation.
  9. Srijan Singhal (Graduated 2019): Design of smart material based vibration energy harvesting devices.
  10. Ashish Singh (Graduated 2019): Design and modeling of shape memory alloy based porous structures.
  11. Manik Kumar (Graduated 2018): Design of magnetostrictive material based unimorph actuator.
  12. Shivmohan Chauhan (Graduated 2018): Shape memory alloy constitutive modeling.
  13. Archise Srivastava (Graduated 2018): Vibration based energy harvesting using magnetic materials.