QUEST Lab — IISc
Team
The people who've actually done this work — and how to become one of them.
Research Students
Current
Ph.D.
Mothish GVS Ph.D.
VLMs for Reasoning
Rishi J Ph.D.
Physics-Guided Neural Operators for Geoscientific Applications
Azhar Ph.D.
Turbulent simulations with PINNs
Nicy Scaria Ph.D.
AI-enabled Personalized Adaptive Learning Systems
M.Tech (Res)
Ayush Sarangi M.Tech (Res)
Akshaj Srivastava M.Tech (Res)
Vatsal Khapre M.Tech (Res)
Deep Neural Models for Precipitation Nowcasting
Apoorva Dinesh Singh M.Tech (Res)
Explainable AI for Forecasting Indian Summer Monsoon Rain and Extremes
Graduated
Ph.D.
Sumanth Boya Ph.D.
Physics Informed Neural Operators for Out of Distribution Generalization
P. Anjali Ph.D.
Ecological Digital Twins: Applications in Human-Wildlife Conflict
Akanksha Rajak Ph.D.
Indian Summer Monsoon Onset Prediction
P. Abhishek Ph.D.
Salinity Variability in the Andaman Sea: Current Status and Impact of Climate Change
Rohit Chowdhury Ph.D.
Fast and Scalable Algorithms for Intelligent Routing of Autonomous Marine Vehicles
M.Tech (Research)
Ruksana Salim M.Tech (Research)
Srikanth Avasarala M.Tech (Research)
Polynomial Chaos-Gaussian Mixture Model Filtering: Theory, Schemes and Applications
Devyani Lambhate M.Tech (Research)
Deep Learning for Satellite Oceanography
Course-work M.Tech Project Students
Current
Nayan Singh M.Tech
World Models
Devendra Umbrajkar M.Tech
Digital Twins
Graduated
Diksha Seth M.Tech
Sachin Kumawat M.Tech
Pradhumn Sharma M.Tech
Manu Bhatt M.Tech
Ajinkya Khanzode M.Tech
Sivasangaran V M.Tech
Abhishek Tyagi M.Tech
Balivada Ramkiran M.Tech
Chennam Revanth M.Tech
Raghav Sharma M.Tech
IISc B.Tech Students
B.Tech (Math and Computing) students doing a project in the lab.
Omar Muhammad B.Tech
Causal discovery for time-series forecasting (Mask2Cause)
Pasupuleti Dhruv Shivkant B.Tech
Causal discovery for time-series forecasting (Mask2Cause)
Aditya Gupta B.Tech
Armaan Khetarpaul B.Tech
External Thesis Students
Students from other institutions who did thesis or project work in the lab.
Navneet Manoj External
AI and Heat Transfer for Energy Applications
Janhavi Prabu External
Low Rank Approximation of Dynamical Systems
Ayush Kumar External
PINN for Data Assimilation
Join the Lab
Current openings
- Master’s and Ph.D. positions — stochastic PDEs, uncertainty quantification, Bayesian/deep learning, fluid dynamics, autonomous vehicle path planning
- Digital Twins positions (Mechanical Engineering) — requires a Deep Learning + Heat Transfer background
- Summer interns — selective, through Indian Academy of Sciences programs, existing collaborations, or exceptional demonstrated coding skills
- JRF/SRF/Post-doctoral positions — Digital Twins
Emailing about an internship — what actually works
- Skip the generic “Dear Sir, I am interested in your lab” opener — mention a specific paper, project, or research pillar that actually drew you in.
- Lead with a ~100-word problem statement: one hard technical problem you’ve solved, in your own words — not a resume bullet restated.
- Attach academic performance records from Class 10 onward, not just the latest degree — trends matter as much as the final GPA.
- Send proof of work, not just a CV: a GitHub repo, a report, a notebook, a deployed demo — something that can actually be looked at.
- State your availability and duration up front — specific dates, hours per week, and any academic-credit requirements.
- One email is enough — no need to CC the whole lab or follow up within 48 hours.
Send your email to deepakns@iisc.ac.in.