Dr. Abhilash Ravikumar
Associate Professor
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About
Dr. Abhilash Ravikumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at PES University, Bengaluru. He holds a PhD in Materials Science and Nanotechnology from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and a Master’s degree in Nanotechnology from NIT Surathkal. His research focuses on computational materials science, 2D heterostructures, nanoelectronics, quantum technologies, and quantum transport. This primarily involves the study the electronic, magnetic, morphological, and spectroscopic properties of condensed matter systems with close synergy to experiments. This includes molecular dynamics and ab-initio investigation of 2-D heterostructures, interfacial interactions of crystals, organic molecular adsorbates and other realistic nanostructures and quantum transport calculation using non-equilibrium Greens function approach to design novel electronic devices and examine fundamental quantum technological phenomena.
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, 2017 - 2019
Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore, 2019 - 2021
Assistant Professor (Selection Grade), Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore, 2021 - 2026
Associate Professor, PES University, Bangalore, 2026 - Till date
Amrita Innovation and Research Award, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam – 2022, 2023,2024
Amrita Chancellor’s Fellowship Award, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam - 2024
Start-Up Research Grant Award, Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India 2019
THINFACE - Marie Sklodowska Curie Doctoral Fellowship, European Union 2017
GATE-Physics All India Rank 79, Percentile 98.75
Solid State Physics, Electrical and electronic measurements, Physics of MOS Devices, Applied Electromagnetics, Nanoelectronics
Mr. Shamik Chakraborty Title: Spin-dependent transport in CrI3 based 2-D heterostructures
Mr. Krishnadas Bhagwat Title: AI generative framework for ECG workload automation
Mrs. Sirisha T Title: Objective quantification of aqueous flare using spot fluorometer
My main research focus is the computational study of electronic, magnetic, morphological, and spectroscopic properties of condensed matter systems
Start-up Research Grant – SERB (Completed): Design novel 2-D magnetic storage devices using CrI3 based van der Waals heterostructures.
HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access grant (Completed): Adsorption of Ferromagnetic metal complexes on 2-D magnetic substrates.
VGST-KFIST-L1 (Completed): Implementation of Dynamic light scattering (DLS) technique using Ocular fluorometer: a noninvasive method to quantify intraocular inflammation.
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Volume 2: Hybrid Devices and Applications, Chapter: Graphene properties by functionalization with organic molecules, Guido Fratesi , Abhilash Ravikumar, Gian Paolo Brivio, Publisher: World Scientific
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Electronic band structure and photoemission spectra of graphene on silicon substrate, Brahmanandam Javvaji, Abhilash Ravikumar, B. M. Shenoy, D. Roy Mahapatra, M. R. Rahman, G. M. Hegde, Proceedings Volume 8980, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXII; 89801B (2014)
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Modified structural arrangement of InAs-based quantum dots and nanostructures for high efficiency multi-junction solar cells. M Sreelakshmi, S Chakraborty, A Ravikumar, K Bhowmick. AIP Conference Proceedings 2166 (1), 020010
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An ab initio Method to Predict Phase Transitions in crystalline CO2 D Ramadas, MB Chakravarthy, N Rajeev, A Ravikumar 2020 IEEE International Conference for Innovation in Technology (INOCON), 1-5
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K Dinesh Krishna, Rahul Nair, T.U. Shilpa Sree, S.Chakraborty, A.Ravikumar “Effective Hubbard Parametrization for Optimizing Electronic Bandgap of monolayer CrI3”VLSI SATA , 2022.
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G Sumanth Reddy, A L Sowmya, A Pudhota, S.Chakraborty, A.Ravikumar “Effects of Temperature induced Phase Transition in bulk CdS structures” VLSI SATA Conference 2022.
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Generation of synthetic aqueous flare data using deep learning models, Sirisha Tadepalli, Surekha Paneerselvam, Abhilash Ravikumar, 2024 First International Conference on Innovations in Communications, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICICEC)
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Defects and CDW Pinning in Zr0. 95Hf0. 05Te₃ Ghilles Ainouche, Resmi Sudheer, Susree S Mohapatra, Muhammad Suhayb, Cedomir Petrovic, Abhilash Ravikumar, Michael C Boyer, APS Global Physics Summit 2025
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Correlation of Defects and the Charge Density Wave State in Hf-Doped ZrTe₃ R Sudheer, G Ainouche, S Mohapatra, C Petrovic, A Ravikumar, M Boyer Bulletin of the American Physical Society
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Exploring Spatial Variations in the Charge Density Wave State in 1T-TiSe₂ Using STM and DFT S Mohapatra, G Ainouche, R Sudheer, A Ravikumar, MC Boyer, APS Global Physics Summit 2026
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Ravikumar, A., Kladnik, G., Müller, M., Cossaro, A., Bavdek, G., Patera, L.L., Sánchez-Portal, D., Venkataraman, L., Morgante, A., Brivio, G.P., Cvetko, D., Fratesi, G. Tuning ultrafast electron injection dynamics at organi-graphene/metal interfaces (2018) Nanoscale, 10 (17), pp. 8014-8022. IF: 6.970
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Unveiling the mass-loading effect on the electrochemical performance of Mn3O4 thin film electrodes: a combined computational and experimental study, A Pramitha, SS Hegde, BR Bhat, C Yadav, S Chakraborty, A Ravikumar, Physica Scripta 99 (10), 105922
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Interplay of Defects and the Charge Density Wave State in Hf-Doped ZrTe G Ainouche, R Sudheer, S Mohapatra, B Yu, MS Malik, Y Liu, C Petrovic, A.Ravikumar ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.17867
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Femtomagnetism in graphene induced by core level excitation of organic adsorbates, Ravikumar, A., Baby, A., Lin, H., Brivio, G.P., Fratesi, G. (2016) Nature Scientific Reports, 6,p. 24603, 2016. IF: 5
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Stable configurations of graphene on silicon, Javvaji, B., Shenoy, B.M., Mahapatra, D.R., Ravikumar, A., Hegde, G.M., Rizwan, M.R. (2017) Applied Surface Science, 414, pp. 25-33. IF: 5.155
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Ravikumar, A., Brivio, G.P., Fratesi, G. Core level spectra of organic molecules adsorbed on graphene (2018) Materials, 11 (4) IF: 3.532
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Effect of Se on α-Bi2O3 microspheres as a negative electrode in an asymmetric aqueous supercapacitor C Nivetha, S Harikrishnan, M Mohanraj, GN Kumaraswamy, A Ravikumar, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 59 (4), 045502, 2026 IF-3.2, Q1
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Baby, A., Lin, H., Ravikumar, A., Bittencourt, C., Wegner, H.A., Floreano, L., Goldoni, A., Fratesi, G. Lattice Mismatch Drives Spatial Modulation of Corannulene Tilt on Ag(111) (2018) Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122 (19), pp. 10365-10376. IF: 4.484
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Fratesi, G., Achilli, S., Manini, N., Onida, G., Baby, A., Ravikumar, A., Ugolotti, A., Brivio, G.P., Milani, A., Casari, C.S. Fingerprints of sp1 Hybridized C in the near-edge X-ray absorption spectra of surface grown materials (2018) Materials, 11 (12) IF: 3.532
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Inter and intra-observer variabilities in the measurement of aqueous flare with a custom-made ocular spot fluorometer, Tadepalli, Sirisha, Ravikumar, A et al., Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 62.8 (2021): 1426-1426. IF: 3.81
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Chakraborty, S., Ravikumar, A. Substrate induced electronic phase transitions of CrI3 based van der Waals heterostructures. Nature Sci Rep 11, 198 (2021). IF: 5
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K Bhagwat, M Supriya, A Ravikumar, Map composition framework for synthetic P morphology, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 79, 104063 (2022) IF: 5.076
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S Tadepalli, A Ravikumar, et. al., Reliability of Aqueous Flare Measurements During Uveitis by a Spot Fluorometer, Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics 38 (1), 66-73 (2022) IF: 2.85
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S Chakraborty, A Ravikumar, Effect of Magnetic Tuning and Induced Charge Transfer Isotropy in a CrI3-Based 2D Trilayer Heterostructure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126 (14), 6394-6404 (2022) IF: 4.484
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Flexible and cost effective CNT coated cotton fabric for CO gas sensing application AK DS, SS Chauhan, K Krishnamoorthy, KD Bharathi, A Ravikumar, e. al. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 362, 114640 IF 4.6, Q1
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S Tadepalli, R Kiruba, S Paneerselvam, A Ravikumar, RR Sudhir, Blink-induced artifacts in aqueous flare measurements by EOG-based spot fluorometer and their reduction using unsu-pervised clustering, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 96, 106486. IF 5.1. Q1
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S Chakraborty, G Fratesi, A Ravikumar, Defect controlled spin state transitions in FePc ad-sorbed CrI3 Surfaces and Interfaces, 104452. IF 6.2, Q1
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Krishnadas Bhagwat, Supriya M., Sreeja Kochuvila, Abhilash Ravikumar, A synthetic cardiac episode generator for explainable, pathology-based action potential using heuristic polynomial signatures, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 87, Part B, 2024, 105552. IF 5.1, Q1
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Synthetic Generation as Denoiser for P Mitrale Contour Extraction from a Noisy Electrocardiogram Dataset, K Bhagwat, M Supriya, S Kochuvila, A Ravikumar, Engineered Science 38, 1903, Q1
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Spent Graphene Oxide With Hydrogel Polymer Electrolyte for Zn‐Ion Batteries: Insights From Computational and Experimental Correlation of Zn‐Ion Storage, S Suresh, CSL Mounika, A Ravikumar, D Santhanagopalan, SK Batabyal, Advanced Sustainable Systems 10 (7), e70574
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Machine learning-enhanced exploration of 2D MXene van der Waals heterostructures for energy storage, AS Shruthi, A Ravikumar, Discover Electrochemistry 3 (1), 1, 2026


Education
PhD in Materials Science and Nanotechnology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, 2017
Masters in Nanotechnology, National Institute of Technology-Surathkal, India, 2014
Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering – Bangalore, 2011