Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory (CAPL)
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Email: ajayvs@iitk.ac.in
“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”
-Claude Bernard
Current Group Members
Principal Investigator
Professor Ajay V. Singh
Education:
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Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park, USA (2015)
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M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (2008)
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B.Tech., U.P. Technical University, Lucknow, India (2006)
Research Group
Current Ph.D. Students
Nivedita Mishra
Sai Rohith Thaviti
Anil S. Karthik
Bhadabhagni Venkata Sandeep
Current M.S. by Research (MS-R) Students
Bhadabhagni Venkata Sandeep
Anil S. Karthik
Current M.Tech. Students
Himanshu Sharma
Priyanka Dhananjay Khandagale
Soham Santosh Ghorpade
Samar Pratap Rai
Sai Rohith Thaviti
Ph.D. Students
Dr. Ranjay Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor
Amity University, Noida, India.
Ashlesh Dahake
FARE Fellow
IIT Kanpur, India.
Alankrit Srivastava
FARE Fellow
IIT Kanpur, India.
MS by Research (MS-R) Students
Abhinandan Singh
Senior Researcher
Saint Gobain, USA.
BT-MT Dual Degree Students
Shrivallabh N. Pol
Ph.D. Student
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, United States
M.Tech. Students
Manjiri Ganesh Relkar
Research Engineer
Belcan India Pvt. Ltd.
Poomurugan C
Senior Researcher
Government Lab
Aswin S H
Ph.D. Student
IIT Kanpur
Naraboina Srinivas
Analyst
HSBC Holdings plc
Ayush Verma
Senior Executive Engineer
Tata Advanced Systems Limited
Saurav Kumar
Scientific Officer
DRDO, India.
Khurshid Ahmad
(Joint Supervision with Dr. Vaibhav Arghode)
Research Engineer
Eaton Corporation plc
D Santosh Kumar
Senior Scientist
DRDL Hyderabad
Akash J. Malaviya
Research Engineer
Rolls Royce plc
Mohamed Hussain S
Senior Analyst
TATA Advanced Systems
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Pushkar Chaudhary
R & D Engineer
Manastu Space
Mukesh Goklani
Eaton Technical Leader
Eaton Corporation plc
Shweta Sanjay Patil
Research Engineer
CNH Industrial
Jenishkumar Pareshbhai Kodinariya
Analyst
HSBC Holdings plc
M.S. Karthikeyan Iyer
Product Engineer
Eaton Corporation plc
Amit Deo Pandey
DMS (Depot Material Superintendent)
Indian Railways
Kiran Ivin
Squadron Leader
Indian Air Force
Shubham Onave
(Joint Supervision with Prof. Ashoke De)
Working in his own startup
Ashlesh Dahake
FARE Fellow
IIT Kanpur, India
B.Tech. Students
Tarundeep Singh Gill
Rishabh Chaturvedi
Aditya Katara
Sirinxa Xavier
Students' Awards, Fellowships, & Recognition
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Dr. Ranjay Kumar Singh, a Ph.D. student of our research group, has won the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award for the year 2026.
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Mr. Alankrit Srivastava, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the International Travel Support Award 2026 from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF).
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Mr. Shrivallabh N. Pol, a BT-MT dual degree student of our research group, has won the General Proficiency Medal for the year 2026.
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Mr. Ashlesh Dahake, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the CSIR Travel Grant Award 2026 from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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Mr. Soham Santosh Ghorpade, a M.Tech. student in our research group, has received the Ansys Fellowship 2025. This prestigious fellowship, instituted through CSR support from Ansys Software, is intended to recognize and support outstanding M.Tech students across select departments at IIT Kanpur.
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Mr. Ashlesh Dahake, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the International Travel Support Award 2024 from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF).
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Mr. Ashlesh Dahake, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the Silver Medal at Shell Innovation Challenge 2024, Shell India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.
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Mr. Alankrit Srivastava, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the Best Paper Award in the 2nd International Conference on Fluid, Thermal, and Energy Systems (ICFTES’24).
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Mr. Ranjay Kumar Singh, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the Best Paper Award in the 2nd International Conference on Fluid, Thermal, and Energy Systems (ICFTES’24).
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Mr. Shrivallabh N. Pol, a BT-MT student in our research group, has won the Academic Excellence Award 2024 for outstanding performance in the BT-MT dual degree program for the year 2024.
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Mr. Ashlesh Dahake, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the TAAI Student Registration Support Award, at AIAA Hypersonics International Conference 2023, IISc Bengaluru.
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Mr. Ranjay Kumar Singh, a Ph.D. student in our research group, has won the TAAI Student Registration Support Award, at AIAA Hypersonics International Conference 2023, IISc Bengaluru.
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Mr. Sai Rohith Thaviti was honored with the Academic Excellence Award for outstanding performance in the Master of Technology (M.Tech.) program in Aerospace Engineering for the year 2023.
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Mr. Venkata Sandeep Bhadabhagi was honored with the Academic Excellence Award for outstanding performance in the Master of Science (by Research) program in Aerospace Engineering for the year 2022.
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Mr. Sai Rohith Thaviti was honored with the Academic Excellence Award for outstanding performance in the Master of Technology (M.Tech.) program in Aerospace Engineering for the year 2022.
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Mr. Alankrit Srivastava, a Ph.D. student in our research group, received the prestigious Prime Ministers' Research Fellowship (PMRF) for a period of four years from MHRD, New Delhi, India.
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Mr. D. Santosh Kumar, a past M.Tech. student, has won the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020) that was held from 19-21 March 2021 in Dubai, UAE.
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Mr. Abhinandan Singh, a past MS by Research (MSR) student, has won the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020) that was held from 19-21 March 2021 in Dubai, UAE.
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Mr. Abhinandan Singh, a past Ph.D. student, received the prestigious Prime Ministers' Research Fellowship (PMRF) for a period of five years from MHRD, New Delhi, India.
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Mr. D. Santosh Kumar, a past M.Tech. student, was honored with the Academic Excellence Award for outstanding performance in the Master of Technology (M.Tech.) program in Aerospace Engineering for the year 2019-2020, IIT Kanpur, India.
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Mr. M. S. Karthikeyan Iyer, a past M.Tech. student, was honored with the Academic Excellence Award for outstanding performance in the Master of Technology (M.Tech.) program in Aerospace Engineering for the year 2019-2020, IIT Kanpur, India.
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Mr. D. Santosh Kumar, a past M.Tech. student, was honored with the Academic Excellence Award for outstanding performance in the Master of Technology (M.Tech.) program in Aerospace Engineering for the year 2018-2019, IIT Kanpur, India.
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Mr. Abhinandan Singh, a past MS by Research (MSR) student, got nominated for the SIIC Student Innovation Award (SSIA) and the Cadence Gold Medal, IIT Kanpur, India.
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Mr. D. Santosh Kumar, a past M.Tech. student got nominated for the SIIC Student Innovation Award (SSIA) and the Cadence Gold Medal, IIT Kanpur, India.