Adarsh Ganesan completed his Ph.D. degree in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS Pilani, Dubai campus.

About Me

My research journey started during my undergraduate days at BITS under the guidance of Prof. Sundaram Swaminathan. I worked on Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)-based biomedical devices for disease diagnostics and therapeutics. I secured the prestigious Mitacs Globalink summer internship award to conduct my research on a malignant hyperthermia detection device with Prof. Luis Ricardez-Sandoval at the University of Waterloo, Canada. During my final year, I carried out my off-campus thesis at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology under the mentorship of Prof. Utkan Demirci. At Harvard, I worked on the directed self-assembly of biological cells using Faraday waves for tissue engineering applications. After graduating from BITS in 2014, I joined the University of Cambridge, UK for pursuing my PhD in the Department of Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Ashwin Seshia. My early exposure to both MEMS and Faraday waves led to my discovery of a new physical phenomenon named "phononic frequency combs" and have been working on this topic ever since. After graduating from Cambridge in 2018, I conducted my postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg, USA from 2018 to 2021 and then served as an assistant professor at Ahmedabad University, India from 2021 to 2024. I joined the Dubai Campus of BITS Pilani in July 2024. I am planning to establish my research group at BITS to realise the applications of phononic frequency combs in sensing, energy harvesting, communications and quantum information science.

About Phononic Frequency Combs

Phononic frequency combs are the mechanical analogues of celebrated optical frequency combs (2005 Nobel Prize in Physics). I discovered this phenomenon as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK. These combs constitute an array of equidistant frequencies that are phase-coherent with each other. Using these frequency combs, one can build high-precision sensors, vibrational energy harvesters, spread-spectrum communication devices and cluster-state quantum computers.

You may have a look at an article by the American Physical Society (APS) about my discovery of phononic frequency combs: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/4

Research Opportunities for UG/PG/PhD Students

If you are interested in developing either physical/chemical/biological sensors, energy harvesters, communication devices or quantum computing units, you are welcome to apply to my research group.