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IIT MADRAS
YOUNG RESEARCH FELLOW PROGRAM

FOR HIGHLY MOTIVATED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO EMBRACE THE ONGOING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITY AT IIT MADRAS.

Essence of सिद्धिर्भवति कर्मजा

    Depths of a topic can't be unveiled until you dive deep into it with research.

By the Alumni Class of 1979

    IITM YRF Program by 79ers, empowers the IITM with a Research bastion. Thus, creating a culture of research and deep learning at IITM.

Career and Life Skills Coaching

    When you are a teenager in IIT, career options confuse you. Get answers from your CLIC Coach - who has gone through the same questions before you and discovered the answers through life experiences.

The Program

IITM Young Research Fellow Program to indulge in Research

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Services

CLIC Coaching

Career and Life coaching initiative is sponsored by Alunmi class of 79ers for YRF students. CLIC Coaching aims to create a positive impact in the lives of students under the guidance of Mentor coach.

Weekly Session

YRF Mentors conduct research readiness sessions to enhance students research skills and encourage high-end publication and International conference presentation.

Continuous Guidance

YRF Mentors provides a continuous guidance for the YRF Students and ideas for developing their research skills and projects in the period of fellowship.

161

Total Projects

105

Guides

25

Fellows Current Year

2

Industries

Committee Members
YRF Chief Mentors

Prof. Aniruddhan Sankaran

Dept. of Electrical Engineering


Prof. Preeti Aghalayam

Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Prof. Sachin S Gunthe

Dept. of Civil Engineering

Prof. Anand K. Kanjarla

Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Prof. M Hamsa Priya

Dept. of Biotechnology

Ms. Sumani

YRF Admin

Research Scholars
IITM YRF Awardees 2025 - 26

Roll No: EE23B034
Project: Adaptive Neural Architecture Co-Evolution with Hardware Configurations: A System for Joint Optimization of Model Architecture and Accelerator Design
Guide: Prof. Nitin Chandrachoodan

KEERTHI VASUKHI KAMARAJU

Roll No: EE23B061
Project: Knowledge Distillation of Large Vision Foundation Models (LVMs) for Anomaly Detection
Guide: Prof. Kaushik Mitra

RAHUL VIMALKANTH

Roll No: EP23B001
Project: Room-Temperature Bose-Einstein and Condensation and Laser-like Emission in 2D-Perovskites
Guide: Prof. Sivarama Krishnan

ADRIJA CHATTOPADHYAY

Roll No: AE23B033
Project: Lift prediction of high-lift airfoil using Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes CFD.
Guide: Prof. Santanu Ghosh

ADINARAYAN AGARAM

Roll No: ME23B018
Project: Data Driven Solid Mechanics
Guide: Prof. Ilaksh Adlakha

ARNAV GAUTAM

Roll No: ME23B178
Project: Development of a robotic system for bending 0.2 mm core optical fiber into a U-shape
Guide: Prof. Raghavendra Sai V V

LAVANYA RAJAGOPALAN IYER

Roll No: BE23B012
Project: Ecological Niches: Fundamental or Realized Niche?
Guide: Prof. Meiyappan Lakshmanan

ROHAN KRISHNAN

Roll No: EP23B038
Project: Theoretical analysis of correlated noise mechanisms for streaming differential privacy
Guide: Prof. Venkata Krishna Koundinya Pillutla

PRANAV S RAMANUJAM

Roll No: ED23B006
Project: Learning-based approach for midcurve / midsurface generation
Guide: Prof. Ramanathan M

ANSHUMAN MISHRA

Roll No: EP23B040
Project: Hyperparameter optimization for deep neural networks and random forests
Guide: Prof. Rakhi Singh

SHAYAN SAREEN

Roll No: CS23B096
Project: Developing Efficient Algorithms for Aggregating Rankings and Finding the Top-k Objects
Guide: Prof. Rakhi Singh Co-Guide: Prof. Prakash Singh Badal

ATHARVA MOGHE

Roll No: ME23B190
Project: Predicting DNA looping probability through mathematical modelling and machine learning
Guide: Prof. Raushan Singh

RANGU ANIRUDH

Roll No: EP23B015
Project: Attosecond Pulses and the physics of matter at the angstrom scale
Guide: Prof. Sivarama Krishnan

MOHAMMED THANOOF VADAKKAN SHIJU

Roll No: EP23B015
Project: Attosecond Pulses and the physics of matter at the angstrom scale
Guide: Prof. Sivarama Krishnan

MOHAMMED THANOOF VADAKKAN SHIJU

Roll No: CE23B064
Project: Automatic Detection and Visualization of Construction Progress Using Augmented Reality and Edge AI.
Guide: Prof. Aritra Pal

DIVYAANSH JHA

Roll No: MD23B004
Project: 4D Printing of Programmable Structures with Triboelectric Sensing Capabilities
Guide: Prof. Amit Nain

ANAMIKA ANAND

Roll No: AE23B037
Project: Development of a Tunable Electronic Duffing Oscillator for Investigations of its Nonlinear Dynamics
Guide: Prof. Nidish Narayana Balaji

HARSH VARDHAN JENA

Roll No: BS23B008
Project: Collective behaviour of intelligent agents.
Guide: Prof. Danny Raj M

SIDHARTH BALAJI SRIDHARAN

Roll No: CE23B067
Project: Seismic Risk Estimation of Buildings with Incomplete Information
Guide: Prof. Prakash Singh Badal

HAROON HAJI

Roll No: CS23B004
Project: Blocky Rank of Matrices and Applications to Communication Complexity and Algorithms
Guide: Prof. Jayalal Sarma M N

ADVIK KABRA

Roll No: AE23B064
Project: Investigations on interaction between shock and shear layer between two supersonic streams
Guide: Prof. Sriram Rengarajan

GURASEES SINGH DHANOA

Roll No: AE23B023
Project: Design and development of an electric propulsion system for small satellites: Electrospray/FEEP Technology
Guide: Prof. Pravendra Kumar

OMKAR VIJAY RAICHURKAR

Roll No: ED23B054
Project: Deep learning approach for denoising of a point cloud
Guide: Prof. Ramanathan M

PRANAV RAGHURAM

Roll No: EP23B050
Project: Full event interpretation for inclusive measurement of beauty mesons
Guide: Prof. Jim Libby

LAYA LAKSHMINARAYANAN

Roll No: ED23B002
Project:
Guide:

ADHARSH SB