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Dr. Shrutidhara Sarma

Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Dr. Shrutidhara Sarma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. She was a post-doctoral fellow in Kunsan National University, South Korea and an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GreeceDr. Sarma earned her Ph.D from IIT Guwahati and was a Gold medalist during B. Tech from Tezpur University. At IIT Jodhpur, FERN lab is dedicated to the development of highly reliable and mechanically robust physical sensors with applications in wearable health monitoring devices, assistive, and aerospace technologies. She is a member of NASI, an INAE Young Associate, and recipient of the ISEES Young Scientist Award, Smt. Sheela Baya National Award, WISER Fellowship from the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre, SIRE fellowship, among other recognitions. The FERN lab has on-going collaborations with TU Braunschweig of Germany, Technion of Israel, NAL Bangalore, IIT Delhi etc.

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

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  1. Dr. Parul has successfully defended her Ph.D thesis. Many Congratulations to her.

  2. Congratulations to Gitansh for successfully presenting his work at Iinventiv 2026, held in IIT- ISM Dhanbad.

  3. Congratulations to Parul for successfully presenting her work at LOPEC 2026, held in Munich Germany.

  4. Dr. Saket has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis. Many Congratulations to him.

  5. Gitansh visited and worked at IMT, TU Braunschweig, Germany under the WISER project "TESSLA".

  6. Congratulations to Gitansh for leading the paper "Assistive Living and Wireless Emergency Alert System for Mobility impaired Users" that  has been awarded the Best Paper at IEEE FLEPS conference to be held in Singapore 2025.

  7. Many congratulations to Divyanshu for getting placed at RRL and to Praneeth for getting placed at HPCL.

  8. Heartiest Congratulations to Saket for winning the prestigious Commonwealth Split-Site Scholarship for the year 2023-24, funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC), UK! This scholarship will provide him with a unique opportunity to further his studies in the field of Smart Bandages at the University of Surrey

  9. Heartiest Congratulations to Kunj for winning the prestigious Mitacs Globalink Research Internship at University of Alberta, Canada . He worked on soft actuators for robotics and is planning a publication with the group. 

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

PhDs

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GITANSH VERMA

Email: p23me0007@iitj.ac.in   

Area: Strain sensing patch for respiration monitoring, Evaluation electronics, NeoPatch

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MANAN PATHAK

Email: p24me0201@iitj.ac.in 

Area: Tensile and 3 point bending tests, aircraft composite characterization, SHM

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EBISA K MELKA

Email: p24me0012@iitj.ac.in  

Area: Self-powered sensors, OPV, DTW, Scalograms

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SUMIT VERMA

Email: p24me0008@iitj.ac.in  

Area: Screen printing, impact analysis, 3D printing

Executive M.Techs

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MANAN PATHAK

Email: p24me0201@iitj.ac.in 

Area: Tensile and 3 point bending tests, aircraft composite characterization, SHM

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SHYAM K CATARI

Email: m25ai2075@iitj.ac.in 

Area: Fall detection in elderly

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MANAN PATHAK

Email: p24me0201@iitj.ac.in 

Area: Tensile and 3 point bending tests, aircraft composite characterization, SHM

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

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SHREYAS R. DHORE

Email: b23me1063@iitj.ac.in 

Area: Cow belt for heat stress monitoring in tropical areas

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MALAV PAREKH

Email: b23me1029@iitj.ac.in​

Area: Cow belt for heat stress monitoring in tropical areas

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SHEETAL CHAUHAN

Email: b23me1062@iitj.ac.in

Area: Flexible thermoelectric generator

PhDs

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FERN LAB ALUMNI

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SAKET PHADKULE 

Area: Temperature sensors, Nanocomposites, Skin-based wearable devices, Statistical analysis

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PARUL THAPA  

Area: Pressure sensors, Hierarchical microstructures, LASiS, Sloshing monitoring, ML based fill level classification

M. Techs

  1. Kishan Kumar (2025-26)

  2. Tushar T Sarmah (2023-24): Placed at Infosys

  3. Taniya Ashok Garud (2021-22): Placed at Reliance

  4. Ritu Srivastava (2021-22): Placed at GE

  5. Shivam K Singh (2020-21)  : Placed at ISRO, SAC, Ahmedabad

  6. Abhay Pratap Singh (2019-20): Placed at IITB

  7. Shivam Thakur (2018-19): Placed at S & B Engg. & Constructors Management

Interns

B. Techs

  1. Divyanshu Raj (2025): Placed at RRL 

  2. Chiluvuri Praneeth (2025): Placed at HPCL

  3. Kunj Golwala (2024): MS at Uni of Maryland
  4. ​Akarshit (2023):  Placed at Zomato

  5. Raveen (2020): Placed at BARC

  6. Suresh (2020): Placed at BARC

  7. Chaitanya Gaur (2025): Design Credits

  8. ​​Khushal M. Damor (2025): Design Credits

  9. Piyush Jhamnani (2025): Design Credits

  • Tushar

  • Raushan Yadav

  • Banshi Dhar Bhobaria (2026)

  • Hansraj Gupta (2025)

  • Yogeshwar Yadav (2023)

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