
Flexible Sensors from Nanocomposites



Flexible Sensing Systems for Health, Fluids and Intelligent Structures
We develop flexible and printed sensor systems that combine materials, mechanics, instrumentation and data-driven analysis for real-world applications.


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 Greece. Dr. 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.


Email: shrutidhara@iitj.ac.in
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

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Dr. Parul has successfully defended her Ph.D thesis. Many Congratulations to her.
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Congratulations to Gitansh for successfully presenting his work at Iinventiv 2026, held in IIT- ISM Dhanbad.
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Congratulations to Parul for successfully presenting her work at LOPEC 2026, held in Munich Germany.
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Dr. Saket has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis. Many Congratulations to him.
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Gitansh visited and worked at IMT, TU Braunschweig, Germany under the WISER project "TESSLA".
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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.
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Many congratulations to Divyanshu for getting placed at RRL and to Praneeth for getting placed at HPCL.
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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.
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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.



GRADUATE STUDENTS
PhDs


GITANSH VERMA
Email: p23me0007@iitj.ac.in
Area: Strain sensing patch for respiration monitoring, Evaluation electronics, NeoPatch


MANAN PATHAK
Email: p24me0201@iitj.ac.in
Area: Tensile and 3 point bending tests, aircraft composite characterization, SHM




Executive M.Techs

MANAN PATHAK
Email: p24me0201@iitj.ac.in
Area: Tensile and 3 point bending tests, aircraft composite characterization, SHM


MANAN PATHAK
Email: p24me0201@iitj.ac.in
Area: Tensile and 3 point bending tests, aircraft composite characterization, SHM

SILAMBARASAN SETHURAMAN
Email:m25ai2138@iitj.ac.in
Area: Anthropometry-Driven Personalized Yoga Pose Correction
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

SHREYAS R. DHORE
Email: b23me1063@iitj.ac.in
Area: Cow belt for heat stress monitoring in tropical areas



MALAV PAREKH
Email: b23me1029@iitj.ac.in​
Area: Cow belt for heat stress monitoring in tropical areas


PhDs
FERN LAB ALUMNI


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
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Kishan Kumar (2025-26)
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Tushar T Sarmah (2023-24): Placed at Infosys
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Taniya Ashok Garud (2021-22): Placed at Reliance
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Ritu Srivastava (2021-22): Placed at GE
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Shivam K Singh (2020-21) : Placed at ISRO, SAC, Ahmedabad
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Abhay Pratap Singh (2019-20): Placed at IITB
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Shivam Thakur (2018-19): Placed at S & B Engg. & Constructors Management
Interns
B. Techs
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Divyanshu Raj (2025): Placed at RRL
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Chiluvuri Praneeth (2025): Placed at HPCL
- Kunj Golwala (2024): MS at Uni of Maryland
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​Akarshit (2023): Placed at Zomato
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Raveen (2020): Placed at BARC
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Suresh (2020): Placed at BARC
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Chaitanya Gaur (2025): Design Credits
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​​Khushal M. Damor (2025): Design Credits
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Piyush Jhamnani (2025): Design Credits
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Tushar
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Raushan Yadav
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Banshi Dhar Bhobaria (2026)
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Hansraj Gupta (2025)
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Yogeshwar Yadav (2023)


