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Srikanth Rangarajan

Assistant Professor

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
EB S10

Background

Srikanth Rangarajan joined the School of System Science and Industrial Engineering in fall 2024. He received his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2017. He obtained his bachelor of engineering in 2011 from Anna University Chennai. His research interests include energy storage management systems, electronics packaging, digital twinning for electronics and batteries, thermal energy storage, thermal management of electronics and data center cooling. Srikanth is also the author of the book 鈥淧hase Change Material Heat Sinks: A multi-objective Perspective.鈥

Prior to joining the SSIE School, Srikanth worked as an associate research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at 爱豆传媒 with Distinguished Professor Bahgat Sammakia.

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Education

  • BE Mechanical Engineering 鈥 Anna University (Chennai), 2011
  • MS Thermal Engineering 鈥 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2017
  • PhD Heat transfer - Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2017

Research Interests

  • Digital twinning and optimization of battery systems
  • Thermal energy storage - design and optimization
  • Thermal management, optimization and sustainability of electronic systems
  • Advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration of electronic systems
  • Data center cooling

Teaching Interests

  • Rangarajan has taught the following courses at 爱豆传媒:

    • Introduction to basics of optimization
    • Modelling and optimization of cold plates with multi-chip modules
    • Fundamentals of phase change material based heat sink
    • Artificial Neural Network - fundamentals and application
    • Cooling of portable electronics using PCMs embedded on to the chip
    Teaching interests also include:
    • Heat and mass transfer
    • Thermodynamics

Awards

  • Awarded the patent for invention 鈥淩otatable heat sink鈥 by Government of India
  • Awarded the Institute Post-Doctoral fellowship for submission of MS+PhD thesis within 60 months, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2017
  • Awarded the Research associate position at Divecha Centre for climate change by the Indian Institute of Science 2017
  • Awarded the Half-Time Research Assistantship (HTRA) by the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as a scholarship to pursue doctoral thesis in Mechanical Engineering, 2013
  • Awarded the Half-Time Research Assistantship (HTRA) by the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as a scholarship to pursue Masters in Mechanical Engineering, 2012

More Info

Srikanth鈥檚 recent research interest is on modeling the spread of contagious viruses like COVID-19, employing the evolutionary principle. Srikanth was the first to come up with a novel method to track virus spread using a genetic algorithm. The research article is under review at Journal of Healthcare Informatics. The preprint of this research is available at

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