Principal Investigator
Namrata Gundiah
Professor
Ph.D. & MS (Mechanical Engineering), University of California, Berkeley
M.Sc.& B.Sc. (Physics), University of Pune
contact: namrata [at] iisc [dot] ac [dot] in
Honors and Awards
Tipper Silver medal ICF13
DST Ramanujan
Editorial Board Member at Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology September, 2015 onwards
Editorial Board Member at Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology-Cell Adhesion and Migration, 2018 onwards
Students
Neha Paddillaya
PhD research scholar, Biosystems Science and Engineering, jointly with Prof P.Kondaiah, MRDG (2018-present)
M.Tech(Biotechnology), R.V. College of Engineering,Bangalore.
B.E(Biotechnology), R.V. College of Engineering,Bangalore
contact:neha.paddillaya@gmail.com
Research interests
Understanding the effect of flow conditions on vascular endothelial cell phenotypes invitro using molecular biology techniques
Anshul Shrivastava
PhD research scholar, Mechanical Engineering (2018-present)
B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering),JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida (2013-2017)
contact: sanshul [at] iisc.ac.in
Website: https://anshulshrivastava0.wixsite.com/pmrf
Research interests
Failures in soft materials
Ocular mechanics
Supreeth M
PhD research scholar, Mechanical Engineering (2020-present)
M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati.
B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore.
contact: supreethm@iisc.ac.in
Research interests
Bio-mechanics, continuum mechanics, numerical methods, instability phenomenon, Quantum phenomenon, internal medicine.
Santosh Kumar Raut
PhD research scholar, Mechanical Engineering (2020-present)
M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), IIT Roorkee.
B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering ), Aditya Engineering College (JNTUK), AP.
contact: santoshkr@iisc.ac.in
Research interests
Cell Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics.
Sanjay Sain
PhD research scholar, Mechanical Engineering (2022-present)
contact: sanjaysain@iisc.ac.in
Research interests
Effect of blood flow on endothelial cells.
Abubakar Siddiq
PhD research scholar, Biosystems and Sciences and Engineering, jointly with Prof. Deepak Saini, MRDG (2020-present)
B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering ), Sree Vidyanikethan College of Engineering, Tirupati, AP.
contact: siddiqa@iisc.ac.in
Research interests
Investigating the mechanobiological changes in cells under senescence induced aging.
Project Assistants, Interns and Visiting Students
ALUMINI
Post Docs
Dr. K Venkatesan Iyer
Dr. Brijesh Verma
Dr.Nivedita Singh
Dr.Rashmi Shenoy
Dr.Vijay Anand D
Project Assistants, Interns and Visiting Students
Abhijith Hegde
Achu Byju
Aditya Rane
Ahammad Shibil
Ajeeth Swaminathan
Akshay Jain
Anthony Grisey
Ashwin Seetharaman
Chaitanya Gaikwad
Dhulika Ravinuthala
Dr. Nanditha Vinod Souringal ( MBBS intern )
Hemanth Jagannathan
Nandan Merchant
Nandini Ravi
Nikhil Pareekh
Pallavi Ramaswamy
Praduymn Agrawal
Pranav Khandelwal
Prasad Jayaram Shetty
Sameeksha Rao
Shriya Rangaswamy
Vikram Somanna
Vidhi Priya
PhD students
Dr.Aritra Chatterjee (Presently pursuing PostDoc-Purdue University)
Dr.Ankur Kulkarni (Entrepreneur)
Dr. Lakshminath Kundanati (Assistant Professor - IIT Madras)
Dr.Anju R. Babu (Assistant Professor - NIT Rourkela)
Dr. Siddhartha Jaddivada
Masters Students
Imnatoshi
Kalyani Uttamrao Ingale
Suvakash Dey
Vivek Sharma
Poorva Golatkar
M. Nagaraj
Mitesh Rathod
Naveen Kumar
Kiran Bekkari
Ashlin Augusty
Vamsi Krishna
Prasenjit Ghosh
Nimesh Chahare