KCDH Team

Prof. Ambarish Kunwar

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Biophysics, Computational Biology Laboratory.

Prof. Amit Sethi

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee, Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Deep learning, machine learning, image processing, computer vision, medical image analysis.

Prof. Amit Agrawal

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Turbulence, PIV, Heat Transfer, Rarefied Gas Flows, Microfluidics

Dr. Kshitij Jadhav (MD, PhD)

Assistant Professor, Koita Centre for Digital Health

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee

Research Interests: A clinician and neuroscientist by training, Dr.Kshitij is the bridge between clinicians and data scientists and engineers at KCDH with the right skill sets to address healthcare problems.
An MBBS, MD (Pharmacology) from Mumbai's prestigious medical schools (KEM HOSPITAL, and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital), PhD in Neuroscience from University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Postdoc at University of Cambridge, UK in Neuroscience, Dr.Kshitij will contribute to finding data analytics/ML solutions to Indian Healthcare questions.
He will also use novel data analytics/ML tools to understand the role of early life stress towards development of Neuropsychiatric disorders.

Prof. Pramod Wangikar

Institute Chair Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Biology, Biochemical Engineering, Modelling, Process Control.

Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering,

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee, Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Proteomics describes the study and characterization of a complete set of proteins present in a cell, organ, or organism at a given time. My laboratory is using high throughput proteomic techniques such as two-dimensional difference in gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and protein microarray, etc. for biomarker discovery in cancer & tropical diseases of India such as malaria, to study protein-protein interactions and drug target discovery. Information obtained from the research program is also used for in silico studies and computing models to enhance our understanding of a systems approach.

Prof. Sarika Mehra

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Biology, Systems Biology.

Prof. Souvik Banerjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Role at KCDH: Departmental Policy Committee.

Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Health Policy, Health Services Research, Labour Economics, Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes Research.

Prof. Ajit Rajwade

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Image Restoration, Image Compression, Probability Density Estimation, Bayesian Methods, Compressive Sensing and Matrix Completion.

Prof. Ashutosh Kumar

Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Structural Biology, Biophysics,Solid and Liquid-state NMR Spectroscopy, Protein-Protein, Protein-lipid and Protein-drug interactions.

Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Role at KCDH: Post Graduate Committee.

Research Interests: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization, Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization, Algorithms, Software and Applications of Optimization, Timetabling, Operations Research.

Prof. Petety Balaji

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Glycobiology.

Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri

Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Research Interests: My broad areas of interest are biophysics and soft-matter physics. I do theoretical studies to understand various physical and biological phenomena, using a variety of tools from physics including equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, polymer physics, and soft-matter theory. I tackle research problems using a combination of computational (numerical) and analytical methods. My specific areas of interest include (i) Organisation of Chromatin, (ii) Self-assembly of proteins, and (iii) Decision-making in cellular processes.

Prof. Santosh Noronha

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Research Interest: Biochemical Engineering, Bio molecular Engineering, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Green Engineering, Renewable Resources.

Prof. Abir De

Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Learning over graphs, Human centric machine learning.

Prof. Manjesh Hanawal

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Interests: Communication Networks, Machine Learning, Network Economics.

Prof. P. Balamurugan

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining with a particular emphasis on developing simple, yet efficient practical algorithms (mostly from an optimization perspective) for various problems, Probabilistic, statistical and learning-theoretic facets of different problems, Longitudinal data analysis techniques.

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj

Professor Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Interests: Railway Operations Management, Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (including Pricing and Revenue Management), Applications to Health Care, Applications of O.R. in the aviation sector.

Prof. Rajani Joshi

Professor, Department of Mathematics

Research Interests: Extension and Web Implementation of PROPAINOR for ab-initio Prediction and Computational Function Elucidation of 3D Structure of Proteins, Instrumentation assisted Decision Support System deploying Data Mining Techniques for Pulse Examination & Diagnostics (Nadi Pariksha), Software Development for ab-initio Prediction of 3D Structure of Proteins using a Knowledge-based Nonparametric Regression Method, Development of Neural Network Based AI Software for Epitope-Paratope Designing, Neural Network and AI Modelling for Antibody Repertoire Optimization, Nonlinear Stochastic Optimization of Antibody Inventory.

Prof. B. Ravi

Institute Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Metal casting simulation, Medical device innovation, Smart manufacturing.

Prof. Arnab Jana

Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Studies

Research Interests: Infrastructure planning and location-allocation model, Application of ICT in urban and regional planning, Urban policy assessment, Econometric and behavioral modeling.

Prof. Preethi Jyothi

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Computational Speech and Language Technologies (CSALT).

Prof. Debjani Paul

Associate Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Research Interests: Microfluidic devices for healthcare applications, Biological physics.

Prof. Rishabh Iyer

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Data Subset Selection/Coresets for efficient learning, Active Learning for Deep Models, Data Programming and Weak Supervision, Robust Learning, Feature selection, Neural Network Compression and Architecture Search in Resource Constraints, Data Summarization, Data Partitioning.

Prof. Rama Pal

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests: Inclusive Development, Migration, Health and Education, Applied Econometrics.

Prof. Siby George

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interests:

Philosophical corpuses of interest: Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, Charles Taylor, Judith Butler, B. R. Ambedkar, Narayana Guru.

Philosophical themes of interest: self and other; finitude and agency; pain and dying; development and technology; the ethics of teaching; environmental ethics; political morality…

Dr. Puneet Misra

MD, MPH (USA), PGDHHM, FIPHA, FIAPSM - All India Institute of Medical Science

Interest Areas: Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes, Psychological health, Injury Prevention, Lifestyle interventions including Yoga, Adolescent health, Reproductive and Sexual Health, HIV Surveillance, Family Medicine, Health administration

Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri

Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Research Interests: My broad areas of interest are biophysics and soft-matter physics. I do theoretical studies to understand various physical and biological phenomena, using a variety of tools from physics including equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, polymer physics, and soft-matter theory. I tackle research problems using a combination of computational (numerical) and analytical methods. My specific areas of interest include (i) Organisation of Chromatin, (ii) Self-assembly of proteins, and (iii) Decision-making in cellular processes.