Machine Learning for Core Engineering Disciplines

Dr. Ananth Govind Rajan is an Assistant Professor and Infosys Young Investigator in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Dr. Govind Rajan received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2013 and his Masters and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2015 and 2019, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Subsequently, he conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University, before joining IISc in 2020. Dr. Govind Rajan’s research interests lie in the modeling and simulation of nanomaterials, including their synthesis and applications for clean energy and water technologies. His group focuses on combining quantum-mechanical and molecular simulations with machine learning for modeling materials for electrochemical water splitting, catalytic carbon dioxide reduction to chemicals, and membrane separations. He is an Associate of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Indian Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Amar-Dye Chem Award of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has also received other honours such as the 2023 Class of Influential Researchers from American Chemical Society’s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research and the Graduates of the Last Decade Award from IIT Delhi.