Education
• B.E (Computer science and Engineering), (July 2004 – June 2008), G.R.K.I.S.T Jabalpur, M.P, India.
• M.Tech (Nanotechnology), (Aug 2008 – July 2010), Maulana Azad NIT Bhopal, M.P, India.
• Master’s Degree (MS) in Engineering, (Aug 2010 – Dec 2013), Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Theses Title (Year)
A comparative study of the structural, magnetic and electric properties of Bi1-x LaxFeO3(x=0.0, 0.10, 0.20) thins films via pulsed laser deposition for future memory device applications, (2013).

Education
• B.Tech., Bio-Medical engineering, (2006), Calicut University, Kerala, India.
• M.Tech. in Nanomedical Science, (2009), Amrita Vishvavidhyapeetham, Kerala, India.
• Ph.D. Nanoengineering for Integrated Systems, (2015), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher, BioTechMed-Graz, Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria, (May 2015 – Apr 2017).

Theses Title (Year)
Role of microstructure in the mechanics of soft matter, (2015).

Publications
• Namrata Gundiah, Anju R. Babu, Lisa A. Pruitt “Effects of elastase and collagenase treatments on the nonlinearity and anisotropy of porcine aorta”, Physiol Meas. 2013 Nov 11;34(12):1657-1673.

• Anju R. Babu, Namrata Gundiah, “Role of crosslinking and entanglements in the mechanics of silicone networks”, Experimental Mechanics 2014, in press Selected Conferences & Seminars

Education
• B. Tech., Micro-Electronics, (1990), Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering, Kollam, India.
• M. E., Micro-Electronics, (2003), IISc, Bangalore, India.

Experience
• Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India.
• Associate Professor, Government Engineering College, Palakkad, Kerala, India.

Education
• B.E., Electronics and Communication, (2002), Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India.
• M.Tech., VLSI Design and Embedded Systems, (2006),VTU, Karnataka, India.
• Ph.D., (2015), Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, IISc, India.

Experience
• Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication, SJCE College, Mysuru, India.
• PostDoctoral Fellow, University of Manchester, UK.

Theses Title (Year)
Design and development of MOS based gas sensor for environmental pollution monitoring, (2015).

Research Area
MEMS/NEMS, MEMS and NEMS Sensors, Materials for MEMS/NEMS, Fundamental research in NEMS/MEMS

Current Position
Postdoctoral Reserach Associate at Northwestern University.

Experience
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University, USA, (Jan 2016 – July 2017).
• Research Associate, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Bengaluru Area, India, (Aug 2015 – Dec 2015).

Theses Title (Year)
Stress and Microstructural Evolution During the Growth of Transition Metal Oxide Thin Films by PVD (2015)

Current Position
INSPIRE Faculty at Dept of Physics, IIT-Madras

Experience
• INSPIRE Faculty at Dept of Physics , IIT-Madras from 05-06-2017 – present
• Research Associae at CeNSE, IISc from 31-07-2017 to 04-06-2017

Theses Title (Year)
Optimization of HfO2 Thin films for Gate Dielectric Applications 2-D layered materials (2014)

Research Area
Devices on 2D Materials

Publications
• K. L. Ganapathi, S. Bhattacharjee, S. Mohan and N. Bhat, “High Performance HfO2 Back Gated Multilayer MoS2 transistors,” IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL), vol. 37, 6, 797-800 (2016).

• S. Bhattacharjee, K. L. Ganapathi, H. Chandrasekar, T. Paul, S. Mohan, A. Ghosh, S. Raghavan, N. Bhat, “Nitride Dielectric Environments to Suppress Surface Optical Phonon Dominated Scattering in High‐Performance Multilayer MoS2 FETs”, Adv. Electron. Mater., 1600358, (2016).

• *S. Bhattacharjee, *K. L. Ganapathi, D. N. Nath and N. Bhat, ”Surface States Engineering of metal/MoS2 contacts using Sulfur Treatment for Reduced Contact Resistance and Variability,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED), vol. 63, 6, 2556-2562 (2016).(* Authors equally contributed).

• S. Bhattacharjee, K. L. Ganapathi, D. N. Nath and N. Bhat, “Intrinsic limit for contact resistance in exfoliated multilayer MoS2 FET,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol.37, No.1 (2016). (DOI:10.1109/LED.2015.2501323).

• A. Suresh, K. L. Ganapathi and S. Uthanna, “Electrical, optical, structural and chemical properties of Al2TiO5 films for high- gate dielectric applications,” Accepted with minor revision: Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 57, 137-146 (2016).

• S. Mukhopadhyay, S. Mitra, Y. M Ding, K. L. Ganapathi, D. Misra, N. Bhat, K. Tapily, R. D. Clark, S. Consiglio, C.S. Wajda, G.J Leusink, Effectof Post Plasma Oxidation on Ge Gate Stacks Interface Formation,” ECS Transactions, vol. 72(4), 303-312 (2016).

• H. Chandrasekhar, K. L. Ganapathi, S. Bhattacharjee, N. Bhat and D.N. Nath, “Optical Phonon limited high field transport in layered materials” IEEETransactions on Electron Devices (TED), (2016). (DOI:10.1109/TED.2015.2508036).

• *S. Bhattacharjee, *K. L. Ganapathi, D. N. Nath and N. Bhat, ”Sulfur Treatment for Schottky Barrier Reduction in metal/ MoS2 contacts{ A new proposal for Contact Engineering on TMD’s,” (*Authors equally contributed) http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03795. 

• K. L. Ganapathi, N. Bhat, and S. Mohan, “Influence of O2 flow rate HfO2 gate dielectrics for back gated graphene transistors,” Semicond. Sci.Technol., vol. 29, 055007 (2014). (DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/29/5/055007).

• K. L. Ganapathi, N. Bhat, and S. Mohan, “Optimization of HfO2 films for high transconductance back gated graphene transistors,” Appl. Phys.Lett., vol. 103, 073105 (2013). (DOI: 10.1063/1.4818467).

• M. A. Jithin, K. L. Ganapathi, N. Bhat, S. Mohan, Y. Morozumi, and S.Kaushal, “Pulsed DC Magnetron Sputtered Rutile TiO2 Thin Films for Next Generation DRAM Capacitors,” Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., vol.1561 (DOI: 10.1557/opl.2013.823).

• K. L. Ganapathi, N. Bhat, and S. Mohan, “Optimization of oxygen flow rate for e-beam evaporated HfO2 films,” Proc. Int. Conf. Emerging Electronics (ICEE), DOI: 10.1109/ICEmElec.2012.6636257, pp. 82-85, Dec.2012.

• K. L. Ganapathi, S. Mukhopadhyay, S. Mitra, Y. M Ding, D. Misra, N. Bhat, K. Tapily, R. D. Clark, S. Consiglio, C.S. Wajda, G.J Leusink, “Effect of Slot Plane Anetna Oxidation on Ge Gate Stacks Interface Formation,” To be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability (IEEE TDMR) .

• *S. Bhattacharjee, *K. L. Ganapathi, S. Mohan and N. Bhat, “Functionalization free e-beam based 30 nm HfO2 top gate for high performance MoS2 FETs,” To be submitted (* Authors equally contributed).

• K. L. Ganapathi, N. Bhat, and S. Mohan, “Optimization of TiN films for CMOS gate electrode applications,” To be submitted.

• K. L. Ganapathi, N. Bhat, and S. Mohan, “Reactive Electron Beam Evaporated Hafnium Oxide Films for Gate Dielectric Applications in 2-D materials,” Manuscript in preparation.

Current Position
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo.

Education
• Staff Engineer (R&D Engineering) at SanDisk, Bangalore: Jan, 2017 – Present.
• Senior Device Engineer, SanDisk, Bengaluru, India, Feb 2016- Dec 2016.

Theses Title (Year)
Device Applications of Epitaxial III-Nitride Semiconductors, (2015).

Publications
• Arjun Shetty, Basanta Roul, Shruti Mukundan, Lokesh Mohan, Greeshma Chandan, K. J. Vinoy, and S. B. Krupanidhi, Temperature dependent, electrical characterisation of Pt/HfO2/n-GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) Schottky diodes, AIP Advances 5, 097103 (2015); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4930199 

• Arjun Shetty, Basanta Roul, Shruti Mukundan, Greeshma Chandan, Lokesh Mohan, K J Vinoy and S B Krupanidhi, Pt/n-GaN metal-semiconductor and Pt/HfO2/n-GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor Schottky diodes, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2014.938 

• Mahesh Kumar, Basanta Roul, Arjun Shetty, Mohana K. Rajpalke, Thirumaleshwara N. Bhat, A. T. Kalghatgi, and S. B. Krupanidhi, Temperature dependent transport studies in InN quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy on silicon nitride/Si substrate, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 153114 (2011); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3651762 

• Arjun Shetty, Kamal John Sundar, Basanta Roul, Shruti Mukundan, Greeshma Chandan, Lokesh Mohan, Ambarish Ghosh, K J Vinoy, S B Krupanidhi, Plasmonic enhancement of photocurrent in GaN based UV photodetectors, 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE) , Dec 2014.

• M Kumar, B Roul, A Shetty, MK Rajpalke, TN Bhat, AT Kalghatgi, Temperature dependent transport studies in InN quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy on silicon nitride/Si substrate, Applied Physics Letters 99 (15), 153114, (2011).

• S Mukundan, B Roul, A Shetty, G Chandan, L Mohan, SB Krupanidhi, Enhanced UV detection by non-polar epitaxial GaN films, AIP Advances 5 (12), 127208, (2015).

• A Shetty, B Roul, S Mukundan, L Mohan, G Chandan, KJ Vinoy, Temperature dependent electrical characterisation of Pt/HfO2/n-GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) Schottky diodes, AIP Advances 5 (9), 097103, (2015).

• A Shetty, M Kumar, B Roul, KJ Vinoy, SB Krupanidhi, InN Quantum Dot Based Infra-Red Photodetectors, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 16 (1), 709-714, 2016.

• A Shetty, KJ Vinoy, SB Krupanidhi, A Study on the Suitability of Indium Nitride for Terahertz Plasmonics, Proc. of the 2012 COMSOL Conf, (2012).

• A Shetty, KJ Sundar, B Roul, S Mukundan, G Chandan, L Mohan, Plasmonic enhancement of photocurrent in GaN based UV photodetectors, Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on, (2014).

• A Shetty, B Roul, S Mukundan, G Chandan, L Mohan, KJ Vinoy, Pt/n-GaN metal-semiconductor and Pt/HfO2/n-GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor Schottky diodes, MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive 1736, (2014).

• P Chhabra, A Shetty, Design and Simulation of Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters of Various Shapes Using COMSOL Multiphysics®

• A Shetty, KJ Vinoy, SB Krupanidhi, A Study on the Suitability of Indium Nitride for IR and THz Plasmonics

• A Shetty, KJ Vinoy, SB Krupanidhi, Au Nanoparticle-based Plasmonic Enhancement of Photocurrent in Gallium Nitride Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) Ultraviolet Photodetectors

• P Chhabra, A Shetty, Design and Simulation of Microcantilever Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters of Various Shapes Using COMSOL Multiphysics®

Current Position
Research Asst. Prof., National Taipei University of Technology.

Experience
• Post Doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Post Doctoral fellow, UNIST, South Korea.
• Research Associate, MRC, IISc, Bangalore, India, (Jan 2013 – Dec 2013).

Theses Title (Year)
Nanostructures of Cobalt Oxides via MOCVD and Microwave process, (2015).