Associate Professor @chemengiisc @iiscbangalore | Catalysis, nanotech, & materials | ECB @NanoLetters | Previously @Princeton @MIT @IITDelhi |
Bengaluru, India
Joined June 2010
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Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
The online application portal for Mid-Year Admissions 2026–27 is now open. Interested applicants may submit their applications from 06.10.2026 to 26.10.2026.
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
IISc researchers have now developed a data-driven computational framework that maps nearly 10,000 chemical reactions involved in converting CO₂ into fuels and chemicals on a copper catalyst.
🔗: iisc.ac.in/events/using-mach…
#IIScresearch
Elated that our recent work has been published in @NatureComms!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
@iiscbangalore @chemengiisc
Hydrogenation is a key process to convert carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, into valuable chemicals. It can help close the carbon cycle and potentially ameliorate global warming. However, understanding the mechanisms underlying this complex reaction is challenging because it involves thousands of elementary steps occurring simultaneously on catalyst surfaces.
I express our thanks to collaborators Santhosh Kotni and G Valavarasu from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (@HPCL), Amol Amrute from @ASTARsg - Agency for Science, Technology and Research at Singapore, and Ambedkar Dukkipati from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
It is fulfilling that Anand is now a budding Assistant Professor at the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (@MNNITALLD), Allahabad, while Swastik, Srinibas, and Rahul are successful PhD students at the
University of Rochester (@UofR), IISc, and @Cornell University, respectively.
It was a particularly rewarding collaboration with experimentalists Dr. Santhosh and Dr. Valavarasu at HPCL, and Dr. Amol Amrute at A*STAR.
Our heartfelt thanks to @HPCL for funding this fundamental research project at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc (@chemengiisc), and we look forward to more such industry-academia partnerships.
Will be happy to hear any feedback!
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
Join us at ML4Science 2026, the 4th Conference on Machine Learning for Science at IIT Hyderabad, 23–25 Nov 2026.
Jointly organized by @IITHyderabad, @iiit_hyderabad, and @TIFRH_buzz, this event aims to discuss emerging applications of ML in science.
sites.google.com/view/ml4sci…
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
📢 Prof. R. Kumar Innovative Modelling Award Lecture 2026
🗓 Tue, 22 Sept | 2:15–5:00 PM
📍 Faculty Hall, IISc
🎙 Prof. Suman Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur
🎙 Prof. Jason Picardo, IIT Bombay
Also on Teams — QR code on the poster.
#IISc #ChemicalEngineering
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
Professors Duvvuri Subrahmanyam (@mangaloreman) & Pratikash Panda at IISc Bengaluru are doing some seriously cutting-edge work in high-speed flight.
It is exciting science, with a forward-looking vision for building India’s aerospace capabilities. And that’s about as much as I’m willing to reveal!
But something else about them deserves to be shouted from the rooftops.
After stints at institutions such as Caltech, Princeton, Purdue, and Sandia Labs, they chose to come home and build here.
That tells us something about the calibre of researchers India is now attracting back and about the world-class deep-tech ecosystem taking shape on our own soil.
One of the most encouraging signs for India’s future is seeing exceptional researchers choose India not out of obligation, but out of ambition.
The future isn’t on its way.
It’s already being built.
Quietly, boldly, and right here at home.
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
It was wonderful to meet you, @anandmahindra! Pratikash and I greatly enjoyed the detailed discussion that we had with you -- many thanks for being generous with your time.
Your support and words of encouragement carry a deep meaning for us and our research team. 🙏🏽
Professors Duvvuri Subrahmanyam (@mangaloreman) & Pratikash Panda at IISc Bengaluru are doing some seriously cutting-edge work in high-speed flight.
It is exciting science, with a forward-looking vision for building India’s aerospace capabilities. And that’s about as much as I’m willing to reveal!
But something else about them deserves to be shouted from the rooftops.
After stints at institutions such as Caltech, Princeton, Purdue, and Sandia Labs, they chose to come home and build here.
That tells us something about the calibre of researchers India is now attracting back and about the world-class deep-tech ecosystem taking shape on our own soil.
One of the most encouraging signs for India’s future is seeing exceptional researchers choose India not out of obligation, but out of ambition.
The future isn’t on its way.
It’s already being built.
Quietly, boldly, and right here at home.
Happy to share our recent work, which has been featured in the “2026 Rising Stars in Materials Science” special issue of ACS Materials Au!
doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterials…
We report design rules for desalination membranes based on nanoporous 2D materials. We show that low edge charges sieve ions, but positive edge charges exclude boron, a difficult-to-remove contaminant. These design principles will enable the development of efficient, next-generation seawater desalination membranes for producing drinking water.
The work was led by PhD student Pradeep Dhondi, and involved former postdoc Sagar Ghorai @sagar10649.
Many thanks to @ANRFIndia and @Infy_Foundation for funding the work, and to @cdacindia Pune for providing access to the Param Siddhi-AI supercomputer.
@iiscbangalore @chemengiisc @ACSPublications
Happy to share that my @nptel_official course "Machine Learning for Core Engineering Disciplines" is being re-run this year.
The last date for registration is 27th July. More details can be found at onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/e-…
@iiscbangalore @chemengiisc
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
Introducing MLIP Studio, a platform for running, testing & comparing 60+ universal MLIPs interactively in a browser.
Goal: make MLIP comparison & benchmarking easier.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2607.07606
App: mlipstudio.iisc.ac.in
Grateful to @ananthgr for support and guidance.
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
Call for applications📢
The Ministry of Education has launched the Prime Minister Research Chair Scheme to attract Indian-origin researchers from across the world & strengthen India's innovation ecosystem.
PMRC portal: pmrc.education.gov.in/
Application deadline: 15 July 2026
Ananth Govind Rajan retweeted
Inspired by a childhood fascination for how things work, IISc faculty member @ananthgr develops nanomaterials for clean energy & water purification and uses AI to design filtration membranes.
Read more about his work featured in Nature Index:
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
