Principal Investigator
Jaichander leads the Water Energetics Group in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Reseach at IISc Bangalore. Prior to joining IISc, Jaichander was a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at IIT Gandhinagar. The group works on applying thermodynamics and transport phenomena to system design and optimal operation of desalination, resource recovery, and cooling processes.
Interests
- Thermodynamics
- Heat and mass transfer
- Optimization
Education
PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Energy Science & Engineering), 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM in Mechanical Engineering, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, 2012
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Experience
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Selected Awards
Young Engineer Award
Fellowship
Carl G. Sontheimer Prize for Creativity and Innovation in Design
Innovation Grant
SRI prize for Best Inter-Disciplinary Project
Team
PhD Students
Mrugesh Joshi
Ph.D. student (IITGn)
Chirag Patel
Ph.D. student (IITGn)
Madhusmita Ray
Ph.D. candidate
Rishabh Srivastava
Ph.D. student (IITGn)
Alumni
Past members and their next stop
Postdocs
- Sarun K Kochunni, Project Manager at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- Arjun Jayakumar, Simulation Software Developer at Simreka
- Ankush Jaiswal, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Arizona State University
- Amitap Khandelwal, Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of Galway
JRF
- Priyanshu Ranjan Gupta, PhD at University of Texas Austin
- Digvijaysinh Barad, PhD at Texas A&M University
M.Tech. Students
- Aqbal Ahmad, PhD at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Anuj Sivan Varier, Mahindra
- Rahul Das, Cellegant Energy Systems
- Rahul Dudyala, NALCO
- Akangsha Deka, GE
- Sunilkumar Turpati, Adani Enterprises Ltd.
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