
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
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Principal Investigator (FERN Lab, IITJ)

PI: Dr. Shrutidhara Sarma
Education
2017-2018: Post Doctoral Fellow at Kunsan National University, South Korea
2015-2016: Erasmus Mundus Fellow at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, EU
2012 - 2017: PhD Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
2008-2012: B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Tezpur University, India
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Student Achievements
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Gitansh Verma has visited and worked at TU Braunschweig, Germany under the WISER project "TESSLA".
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Congratulations to Gitansh Verma 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 Raj for getting placed at RRL and to Praneeth for getting placed at HPCL.
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Heartiest Congratulations to Saket Phadkule 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 Golwala 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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Current Students
PhDs

SAKET PHADKULE (2020 Aug-)
Email: phadkule.1@iitj.ac.in
Area: Flexible temperature sensors, nanocomposites, electrospun nanofibers, statistical analysis

EBISA K MELKA (2024 Aug-)
Email: p24me0012@iitj.ac.in
Area: Self-powered sensors, OPV, DTW, Scalograms
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PARUL THAPA (2021 Aug-)
Email: thapa.2@iitj.ac.in
Area: Hierarchical microstructure based pressure sensors, Laser ablation synthesis in solution

SUMIT VERMA (2024 Aug-)
Email: p24me0008@iitj.ac.in
Area: Screen printing, impact analysis, 3D printing

GITANSH VERMA(2023 Aug-)
Email: p23me0007@iitj.ac.in
Area: Strain sensing patch for respiration monitoring, Evaluation electronics, NeoPatch

MANAN PATHAK (2025 Jan-)
Email: p24me0201@iitj.ac.in
Area: Tensile and 3 point bending tests, aircraft composite characterization, SHM
Design Credits
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Divyanshu Raj (2025)
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Chiluvuri Praneeth (2025)
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​​Chaitanya Gaur (2025)
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​​Khushal Manojkumar Damor (2025)
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Piyush Jhamnani (2025)
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Kunj Golwala (2024)
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​Akarshit Verma (2024)
Summer Interns
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Hansraj Gupta (2025)
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Yogeshwar Yadav (2023)
Graduated Students
M. Techs
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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
B. Techs

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Divyanshu Raj (2025): Placed at RRL
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Chiluvuri Praneeth (2025): Placed at HPCL
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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




