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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.
YRF 2024 application opens from 22nd Mar 2024

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.

119

Total Projects

86

Guides

28

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

Ms. Sumani

YRF Admin

Research Scholars
IITM YRF Awardees 2023 - 24

Roll No: BE21B002
Project: Theoretical prediction of pathways for fatty alcohol Synthesis
 Guide: Prof. Smita Srivastava Co-Guide: Prof. Karthik Raman

ADITYA RAY

Roll No: EE21B017
Project: Organic Thin Film Transistor Technology towards Backplane Circuit Design for Flexible AMOLED Display
Guide: Prof. Soumya Dutta Co-Guide: Prof. Sankaran Aniruddhan

ANCHAL DEBNATH

Roll No: BE21B004
Project: Design of efficient algorithms for DNA computing
Guide: Prof. Karthik Raman

ANIRUDH RAO

Roll No: CE21B015
Project: Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 from atmosphere.
Guide: Prof. Jitendra Sangwai

ANSH DWIVEDI

Roll No: BE21B005
Project: Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation and Classification of Vestibular Schwannoma and brain related structures using Deep Learning.
Guide: Prof. Arun Kumar Thittai

ANSHUL BAGARIA

Roll No: ME21B026
Project: Development of a Comprehensive Materil Model for Sturctural Polymers in Adhesive Bonds
Guide: Prof. Tiju Thomas Co-Guide: Prof. Parag Ravindran

ANUSHKA VENKATESH

Roll No: MM21B010
Project: Discovery of high temperature shape memory alloys using machine learning
Guide: Prof. ROHIT BATRA

ARAVINDAN KAMATCHI SUNDARAM

Roll No: CH21B021
Project: CO2 carbon sequestration using algal based systems
Guide: Prof. Jitendra Sangwai

AYAAN ISMAEEL LABBA A.R.

Roll No: EE21B028
Project: AI based wearable sensor for predicting sudden cardiac arrest
Guide: Prof. Qadeer Ahmad Khan

BALABHADRA SAKETH

Roll No: CS21B021
Project: Efficient Solutions to Combinatorial Optimization Problems using Quantum Integer Programming
Guide: Prof. Krishna Jagannathan

CHAHEL SINGH

Roll No: EE21B067
Project: Neural Radiance Fields for Wireless Sensing
Guide: Prof. Ayon Chakraborty

KARTHICK KRISHNA M

Roll No: EP21B021
Project: Quantum imaging with heralded and entangled photon sources - simulations and experiment
Guide: Prof. Sivarama Krishnan Co-Guide: Prof. Vidya Praveen Bhallamudi

KRISHNA BALAJI S

Roll No: ME21B119
Project: Die temperature effect on part formability
Guide: Prof. Hariharan

MUGDHA MEDA

Roll No: BE21B027
Project: Role of chromogranin A in heart failure
Guide: Prof. Nitish R Mahapatra

POOJA SHANKAR

Roll No: BS21B026
Project: CO2 and humidity sensing-Bio mimicking strategies for novel sensor/actuator design
Guide: Prof. Susy Varughese

RAGHAV SAHAI MATHUR

Roll No: CE21B105
Project: Onsite Grey water treatment for water recovery and reuse.
Guide: Prof. Indumathi M. Nambi

RANE ATHARVA GIRISH

Roll No: MM21B054
Project: Developing polymer encapsulants to enhance the stability of organic perovskite solar cells in tropical climates
Guide: Prof. Sreeram K. Kalpathy

REITESH KV RAMAN

Roll No: EE21B132
Project: High Definition Haptic for Virtual Reality
Guide: Prof. Qadeer Ahmad Khan

S N SOORAJ SKANDA

Roll No: ME21B173
Project: Origami-based robotic arm
Guide: Prof. Phanisri Pradeep Pratapa

SAKETH POLAMRAJU

Roll No: CH21B088
Project: Optimization of the lather performance of soap bars with less surfactant levels
Guide: Prof. Basavaraja M. Gurappa

SAKETH S

Roll No: ME21B180
Project: Folding tessellations through origami engineering
Guide: Prof. Phanisri Pradeep Pratapa

SANTHOSH V

Roll No: CS21B076
Project: Mapping Protein Conformational Changes and Protein-Solvent Interactions through Graph Network Analysis
Guide: Prof. Hamsa Priya Mohana Sundaram

SHAUN MATHEW

Roll No: EE21B129
Project: Refining RF Link in Cochlear Implants
Guide: Prof. Aniruddhan S

SIDDHARTH ACHARYA

Roll No: ME21B196
Project: Prediction of stamping deformation behaviour using Machine Learning and correlation with CAE results.
Guide: Prof. Samuel G L Co-Guide: Prof. G Phanikumar

SRIRAM PILLUTLA

Roll No: EE21B145
Project: Suppression of Interference Fading in Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors Using Novel Signal Processing Techniques
Guide: Prof. Balaji Srinivasan Co-Guide: Prof. Sheetal Kalyani

SUMEETH C MUCHANDIMATH

Roll No: ME21B206
Project: Thick origami-based foldable deployable retractable structures
Guide: Prof. Phanisri Pradeep Pratapa

SWATHI SARAVANAN

Roll No: BE21B042
Project: Magneto-responsive delivery of anti-fibrotic drug for spinal cord injury
Guide: Prof. Greeshma Thrivikraman

TWISHA T S

Roll No: MM21B022
Project: Development of ceramic components for luxury watches and jewellery industry
Guide: Prof. Ravi Kumar N V

DAGA MAYUR RAMAKANT