Team | LEMS@IISc

Rajesh Chaunsali
Assistant Professor
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Abhigna Bhatt
National Postdoc Fellow ANRF
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Harshit Kumar Sandhu
Ph.D. student
harshithk at iisc ac in
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Samanvay Anand
Ph.D. student (jointly with Dr. Dabade)
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Garigipati Sai Srikant
Ph.D. student
garigipatis at iisc ac in
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Jayalakshmi K
M.Tech. (Research) student
jayalakshmik at iisc.ac.in
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Yashkumar Patil
M.Tech. student
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Bharath Kumar S
M.Tech. student
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Avinash Umashankar
Project Associate
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Alumni

Our alumni have gone on to pursue exciting opportunities in academia, industry, and research institutions worldwide.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Prabith K (2022 – 2024) → CNRS, France
Anusree Ray (2022 – 2024) → University of Galway, Ireland

Graduate Students

Anshuman (M.Tech., 2023 – 2025) → DRDO
Kapila Ramya Krishna (M.Tech., 2023 – 2025) → Triveni Turbine Limited
Udbhav Vishwakarma (M.Tech. Research, 2021 – 2024) → Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Panchal A. Jayeshbhai (M.Tech., 2022 – 2024) → Ola Electric
Govardhan K (M.Tech., 2022 – 2024) → DRDO

Project Associates

Murthaza Irfan A V (2022 – 2025) → King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Saurav Dutta (2023 – 2024) → Vizuara AI Labs
Ahamed Ali N (2023 – 2024) → Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mohit Dhanda (2022) → University of Waterloo, Canada
Renganath Rengarajan (2022) → Airbus
Johnson Adams PS (2021 – 2022) → Columbia University, USA

Undergraduate Project Students

S Roshan Kumar, Sahana Rao, and Varshini V Y (2025 – 26) — PES University

Visiting Scholars & Interns

2026: Rishiraj Krishan (NERIST), Pranav N M (IIT Madras), Nandini Sanavda (IIT Kharagpur)
2025: Vaishnavi Vijay Devgire (IIEST Shibpur), Adinarayan Agaram (IIT Madras)
2024: Avinash Umashankar (Sastra Deemed University)
2023: Vikramaditya Agrawal (NIT Tiruchirappalli), Vedant Vijaykrishnan (Manipal Institute of Technology), Ankush Yadav (Visiting Scholar, Technion, Israel)

Group Pictures

A glimpse into our lab’s journey—celebrating milestones, achievements, and shared moments.

Group Photo, July 2026

Whole group and interns came together this summer to present their exciting research.

Outreach, May 2026

High-school students, Habeeb, Fidha, and Akansha, showcasing their prototypes as part of the Science Enrichment Program.

Open Day, March 2026

Our lab showcased two exciting aspects of aerospace structures. First, we demonstrated how the art of origami and kirigami can inspire novel deployable structures for space. Second, we showed how to unscrew a nut without touching it, using vibrations! A big thanks to the efforts of Harshit, Avinash, Samanvay, and Srikanth.

Bowling Champions, Feb 2026

CISM-IISc Workshop, July 2025

First-ever collaborative workshop between the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Italy, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, was conducted at Department of Aerospace Engineering. Many thanks to the LEMS members for their volunteering efforts.