Visiting Faculty
The Institute is organized as research groups and education programs, and has not maintained strong department boundaries. However, faculty can be broadly grouped according to their disciplines which are given below. Apart from those listed below, the institute also has a number of Guest, Adjunct and Visiting faculty members in various disciplines. They can be found on this page.
Click below to display faculty members from a specific discipline.
Abhijit Mitra
(DST Inspire Faculty)
PhD (2017), under joint Indo-UK collaboration between IIT Delhi and British Telecom (BT), UK in the area of Elastic Optical Networks.
Elastic Optical Networks, Passive Optical Networks and integrated wireless infrastructure, Quantum Key Distribution
Akshay Kumar
PhD (2014), University of Delhi, Senior Research Fellow Indian Council of Medical Research
Consultant Psychologist BLK Super Speciality Hospital, Franchise owner of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" Asia pacific region
Amrit Srinivasan
PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
The comparative study of knowledge and culture; violence, civil society and the state; sustainability and lifestyle change; women's work, family and the professions; Information Technology and the Indian service economy.
Anoop Ratn
BFA, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidhyapeeth, Varanasi.
Animation Film Making, Gaming, Concept Arts
Anupam Saronwala
MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University
Charter Member of TiE and a member of Indian Angel Network
Ashok K. Mittal
Vice-president, Quality Circle Forum of India
Retired Professor & Dean (R&D, PRG) IIT Kanpur Operations Research/ Management ; Intellectual Property
Bijoy Chand Chatterjee (Presently on Leave)
(DST Inspire Faculty)
PhD (2014), Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Tezpur University
Routing and spectrum allocation in optical networks, QoS-aware schemes, resource allocation in Hadoop, and cross-layer design
Drishti Sharma
MD in Community Medicine from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi.
Interdisciplinary research, with fields of psychology, education, computer science and economics.
G.S. Visweswaran
Retired Professor from IIT-Delhi
CAD of VLSI, Design of Digital, Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits
Hemant Kumar
Founder - Softek Ltd., VP at HCL Tech. BTech(1977), IIT Kanpur
Software Development, Compilers, Databases, Inventory Management and Banking Software [Since June 2011]
Indrani De Parker
PhD (per.), Design Education in 21st Century India, IIT, Mumbai
Indrani De Parker is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. She is a communication designer and design educator.
Manohar Khushalani
Bacherlor in Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani Courses on 3D Modelling and Finite Element analysis from IIT, Delhi
Former Director, Environment and Sociology, at the National Water Academy, Khadakwasla, & Member Secretary, National Environmental Monitoring Committee for River Valley Projects
Naveen Prakash
PhD (1980) IIT Delhi
Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering, Information Systems for the Internet of Things, and Business Rules for Requirements Specification
Pankaj Vajpayee
President Value Research India (P) Ltd. MBA (Finance) - University of Delhi; 1993 B.Tech - IIT Delhi - 1990
Has over 24 years of corporate experience primarily in the field of investment banking and portfolio investment advisory activities.
Raj Ayyar
Full time Assistant Professor, East Florida State University
Adjunct Faculty, West Valley College and Laney College MA (Philosophy), St. Stephen's College, Delhi MA (Philosophy), Southern Illinois University, USA
Samaresh Chatterji
PhD (1979), Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit
Former Dean - Academic Programs, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar Abstract Algebra, Graph Theory [Since Jan 2013]
Shachi Sharma
PhD (2007) in computer science (in the area of broadband networks) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Former research scientist at IBM Research Lab. Her research interests include the performance modeling and simulation of communication networks, context-aware computing, cloud computing, Internet of Things and blockchain.
Sumit Mediratta
PhD, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles
Efficient Computing Systems, Real-time Computer Vision, Biomedical Engineering
Swapna Purandare
(Ramanujan Fellow SERB-DST)
PhD (2014), Biological Sciences (Ecology, Evolution, Behavior), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Evolutionary Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Bioinformatics, NGS, eDNA, Metagenomics