Assistant Professor
Discipline of Mechanical Engineering
Email: jp.kalkunte@iitgn.ac.in
Phone: 079-23952530
Office: Academic Block 5/360
Lab: Academic Block 6/205
Address: IIT Gandhinagar, Palaj,
Gandhinagar-382355, Gujarat, India
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man - Swami Vivekananda
Welcome to my homepage. I am currently a Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
My current research interests include Linear and Nonlinear Structural Dynamics and Vibrations (Air Inflated Structures, Dynamics of Rotating Beams, Fluid Slosh Dynamics and its interaction with Structures), Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Lattices (Ordered Granular Media, Microfluidic Droplet Lattices, Locally Resonant Unit-cells), Bifurcations Theory, Asymptotic Methods, Experimental Structural Dynamics.
I have been teaching few of the above research topics as graduate and senior under-graduate courses here at IIT Gandhinagar and previously at IISc Bangalore and IIT Kharagpur.
Education background
| Si. No | Degree | University/institute | Specialization | Year of graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bachelor of Engineering | Visveswaraiah Technological University/Bangalore Institute of Technology | Mechanical Engineering | 2004 |
| 2 | Master of Technology | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | Mechanical Systems Dynamics and Control | 2009 |
| 3 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics | 2013 |
Work experience
| Si. No | Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scientist/Engineer 'SC' | Indian Space Research Organization Satellite Center | Jan 2005 | July 2007 |
| 2 | Teaching/Research Assistant | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | July 2007 | June 2009 |
| 3 | Graduate Research Assistant | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | July 2009 | Jan 2013 |
| 4 | Visiting Assistant Professor | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | July 2013 | Oct 2013 |
| 5 | DST-INSPIRE Faculty | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore | Oct 2013 | Mar 2017 |
| 6 | Assistant Professor | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar | Mar 2017 | till date |
Research projects
| Si. No | Title | Funding agency | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theoretical and Experimental Study of Wave Propagation in Granular Metamaterials | Science and Engineering Research Board-Core Research Grant | Jan 2019 | Jan 2022 |
| 2 | Nonlinear Dynamics and Acoustics of Ordered Granular Media | DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award | October 2013 | April 2019 |
| 3 | Analytical and Computational Study of Nonlinear Acoustic Metamaterials | SPARC, Ministry of HRD | March 2019 | March 2021 |
| 4 | Nonlinear Dynamics and Acoustics of Metamaterial Structures | DST-Russian Foundation for Basic Research | February 2020 | February 2022 |
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