Patra Research Group

April 2024

Dr. Patra receives Early Career Institute Reseach and Development Award (IRDA), 2024.

October 2023

Kumar Ayush receives Institue Research Award, 2023-24. Many Congratulations Ayush!!

Jan 2022

ACS Polymers Au has recognized Dr. Patra as a "2021 Rising Star of Polymers". We are grateful to ACS Polymers Au for recognizing our research initiative at IIT Madras.

Data-Driven Methods for Accelerating Polymer Design

A review by Tarak Patra @tarak_patra @iitmadras

⭐A 2021 ACS Polymers Au Rising Star⭐

Open access 👉 https://t.co/WMrjKuvgCF pic.twitter.com/Gpf0Ncq0q0

— ACS Macro Journals (@MacroJrnls_ACS) January 4, 2022

Oct 2021

Ms. Vasantha Lakshmi Punna joins the group for M.Tech thesis. Welcome Vasantha!

Mr. Kaushik Chakraborty joins the group for M.Tech thesis. Welcome Kaushik!

Mr. Marripelli Maniteja joins the group for M.Tech thesis. Welcome Maniteja!

Sep 2021

We are excited to welcome seven graduate students in our LAB. Welcome Sharanya, Himanshu, Ayush, Ram, Yoghesh, Javed and Ashok!

Dr. Upasana Mahanta joins us as a senior project scientist. Welcome Dr. Mahanta!

Aug 2021

Mr. Vibhu Vardhan Singh joins us as a project associates. Welocme Vibhu.

May 2021

Mr. Sriram Raghunathan and Mr. Raj Jain join us for their master thesis. Welcome Sriram and Raj !!

Mr. Mohnish Goyal from BITS Pilani and Mr. Gokulakannan Sakthivel from NIT Rourkela have joined us as undergraduate interns. Welcome Mohnish and Gokul !!

Mr. Praneeth Srivanth Ramesh from Sea6 Energy Pvt. Ltd. joins us as a visitor. Welcom Praneeth! Hope you will have a productive research stay with us.

Mr. Abhishek Seth join the group as a master student! Welcome Abhishek!

April 2021

Mr. Rajahmundry Ganesh Kumar joins the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome Ganesh!

Mr. Ashok Yacham joins us as a project scientist. He will start his PhD from Aug, 2021. Welcome Ashok!

March 2021

Dr. Patra gave an invited lecture on "Molecular design of polymeric ionic liquid for energy storage materials" in Internatinal workshop on Green ans Sustainable Energy Storage/Converstion at CRSU, Jind.

Dr. Patra gave a talk on "Deep Learning of Polymer Phases and Phase transtion" at American Physical Society (APS)'s March Meeting.

Dr. Patra received National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)'s reseach grant under R&D projects leading to Exascale computing. This funding will be utilized for Molecular Design of Polymeric Ionic Liquids for Energy Storage Materials. We gratefully acknowledge NSM for the funding.

Dr. Patra gave an invited seminar on integration of molecular simulation and AI for accelerating materials design in a training program at CSIR-NIIST.

Februrary 2021

Akhil got a job offer from Navin Fluroine!
Ashwin got an offer to join PhD program of UIUC!
Debjyoti got an offer to join PhD program of PennState!
Many congratulations to Akhil, Ashiwn and Debjyoti and all the best for your future endeavour.

January 2021

Dr. Ranjit Nanda (PH), Dr. Tarak Patra (CH), Dr. Shantanu Mukherjee (PH) and Dr. Satyesh Jadav (MME) received Institute of Eminence (IoE) funding for establishing the Center for Atomistic Modeling and Materials Design (CAMMD).

Dr. Patra and 12 other facuty from the Deparment of Chemical Engineering received IoE funding for establishing a new center on Cabon Caputre, Utilization and Storage (CCUS). Prof. Preeti Aghalayam will lead this center.

December 2020

Dr. Patra received IIT Madras exploratory research grant! We gratefully acknowledge ICSR, IITM for the funding. This fund will be utilized to establish deep learning framework for predicting phase transitions.

The group received one million hours of computing time of Carbon Super Compuer. We gratefully acknowledge Cener for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory for providing us access to the Carbon.

Dr. Patra gave an invited talk on the application of machine learning in characteriztion polymer phase transtion at Soft Matter Young Investigators Meet (SMYIM 2020)

Mr. Debjyoti Bhattacharya presented his work at ComFlu2020 and 4th International Conference on Soft Matter (ICSM)

October 2020

Dr. Patra received SERB start-up research grant! We gratefully acknowledge SERB, DST, Gov. India for the funding. This fund will be utilized to investigate grafted nanoparticle membranes.

August 2020

Mr.Sameer Nandkishore Soni is selected for IITM Young Research Fellow! Many Congratulations Sameer and Welcome to the group!

July 2020

Akhil Narasimha joins the group. Welcome Akhil!

July 2020

Mr. Attili Vinayak Ram has joined the group as a senior project engineer. Welcome Vinayak!

May 2020

The group receives one million hours of computing time on Theta of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. We gratefully acknowledge Argonne National Laboratory for providing us access to its leadership class computing facility.

April 2020

Mr. Ashwin Bale from BITS Hyderabad joins the group as a visiting undergraduate researcher. Welcome Ashwin!

March 2020

Mr. Ashish Kumar Sahu and Mr. Debjyoti Bhattacharya join the group. Welcome to Ashish and Debjyoti !!

February 2020

Dr. Patra gave an invited talk on "Correlation between glass formation and ion conductivity in Polymeric Ionic liquids" in a symposium on "Molecular Simulations of Complex Fluids and Interfaces" at IIT Kanpur.

Mr. Akiti Gunavardhan joins our group. Welcome Akiti!

January 2020

Mr. Sachin Gautham joins our group as a PhD candidate. Welcome Sachin!

November 2019

Dr. Patra joined as an assistant professor of chemical engineering at IIT Madras. His research group is located at New Academic Complex (NAC 447), and Mechanical Science Building (MSB 130 & 133).