Director's Advisory Committees 2026-27
1 ANNUAL REPORT COMMITTEE ( annrep-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Sandeep Choubey
C Ramya
Roji Pius
Anup B Dixit
Maruthu Pandiyan, Scientific Officer (Library)
2 ALUMNI COMMITTEE ( alumni-com@imsc )
Chair Person: V. Ravindran
S Sundar
Maruthu Pandiyan, Scientific Officer (Library)
Anthony Vinoth, Scientific Officer (Systems)
3 COMPUTER, MEDIA & WEB COMMITTEE ( ccm@imsc )
Chair Person: Rahul Siddharthan
Padmanath M
Sanoli Gun
Pinaki Chaudhuri
Saket Saurabh
Anthony Vinoth, Scientific Officer (Systems)
Nagamalleswararao, Scientific Officer (Systems)
One Research Scholar representative (Ishitva Gupta)
4 EVENTS/OUTREACH COMMITTEE ( osm-com@imsc )
(Outreach, Social Media, National Science Day, Institute Seminar Day, Open Day, and Science at the Sabha committee)
Chair Person: S Viswanath
Sitabhra Sinha
Padmanath M
Prakash Saivasan
Varuni Prabhakar, Project Scientific Officer
One Research Scholar representative (Vedant Nemma)
5 INTERNAL COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE (GENDER BIAS REDRESSAL) ( icc-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Sanoli Gun
Ajit C Balram
Sushmita Gupta
Vinayalatha S, Registrar
R. Indra, Admn. Officer
One External Member
One Research Scholar representative (Kalyani Murali)
6 GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL COMMITTEE ( grc-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Roji Pius
Rajesh Ravindran
Meena Mahajan
Dishant M. Pancholi
Vani Vemparala
7 GUEST HOUSE/CATERING ADVISORY COMMITTEE ( guesthouse-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Rahul Gupta
Debayan Chakraborty
Gopinath Mishra
Mrs. Vinayalatha S, Registrar
One Research Scholar representative (Sayanjit Banerjee)
8 HBNI COORDINATORS COMMITTEE
Vikram Sharma – Dean. Student Affairs
Shrihari Gopalakrishna – Dean. Physical Sciences
Anirban Mukhopadhyay– Dean. Mathematical Sciences
Sitabhra Sinha– Dean. Life Sciences
9 RESEARCH SCHOLARS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
(Also to serve as the Anti-Ragging Committee & Hostel Faculty Counselor Committee)
Chair Person: S amya Kumar Ray
Mohit Garg
Sayantan Sharma
Vinayalatha S, Registrar
One Research Scholar representative (Ananta Dutta)
10 LIBRARY COMMITTEE ( library-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Sitabhra Sinha
Pralay Chatterjee
Govind Rajanbabu
Shankha Banerjee
C Ramya
Maruthu Pandiyan, Scientific Officer (Library)
One Research Scholar representative (Hitesh Wankhede)
11 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE ( hindi-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Chaired by Director, IMSc
Mohit Garg
Sandeep Choubey
Vinayalatha S, Registrar
One Research Scholar representative (Rahul Nayak)
12 RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT (RTI)
Sanatan Digal - Appellate Authority
Vinayalatha S, Registrar - Public Information Officer
R. Indra - Assistant Public Information Officer
13 COMMITTEE FOR SPACE PLANNING, ALLOCATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE ( space-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Areejit Samal
Dhiraj Kumar Hazra
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Sujay Ashok
Vinayalatha S, Registrar
Sundar M, Scientific Officer (Civil)
Kolanupaka Ramesh, Scientific Officer (Electrical)
14 TENDER COMMITTEE ( tender-com@imsc )
V.S. Nemani
Sanatan Digal
Dishant M. Pancholi
Vinayalatha S, Registrar
15 SPORTS/GYM COMMITTEE ( sports-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Sayantan Sharma
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Rahul Gupta
Govind Rajanbabu
Research Scholar members: Four representatives (Rahul Das, Ishitva Gupta, Pradeep Singh Shekhawat and Suraj Rajendra Kulkarni)
16 GROUP COORDINATORS
(Group Convenors/ Approval Coordinators)
Physics - Vani Vemparala
[HEP - Roji Pius / LEP - Ajit Balram]
Maths - Sanoli Gun
TCS - Saket Saurabh
CB - Areejit Samal
17 PDF/ ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAM COORDINATORS
(One faculty to be nominated by the respective Group Co-ordinator)
HEP – Roji Pius
LEP – Ajit Balram
Math – S. Sundar and Dishant M. Pancholi
TCS – Prakash Saivasan
CB – Areejit Samal
18 ACADEMIC COORDINATORS
Vani Vemparala - Physics
Samya Kumar Ray - Maths
Vikram Sharma - TCS
Areejit Samal - CB
19 MEDICAL COMMITTEE ( medical-com@imsc )
Chair Person: Manjari Bagchi
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Rahul Gupta
Vinayalatha S, Registrar
20 JEST/NBHM/JGEEBILS COORDINATORS
Physics(JEST)- Debayan Chakraborty and Shankha Banerjee
Maths (NBHM) – Samyakumar Ray and Anup Dixit
TCS – Sushmita Gupta & Vikram Sharma
CB – Sandeep Choubey
21 SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAMME
Physics- V.S. Nemani
Maths – Anup Dixit
TCS – Gopinath Mishra and Govind Rajanbabu
CB – Sandeep Choubey