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हर्ष सोनी (Harsh Soni)

Assistant Professor

School of Physical Sciences,
IIT Mandi
Specialization: Soft and active matter

Research Interests

  • Biophysics
  • Vibrated active granular systems
  • Microswimmers

Experiences


Assitant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India (Dec 31, 2021-present)


Post-doctoral Research Associate
Indian Institute of Science, India (Jan 01, 2019-Aug 31, 2021)

Supervisor: Sriram Ramaswamy


Post-doctoral Research Associate
Brown University, USA (Apr 20, 2015-Dec 31, 2018)

Supervisors: Thomas R Powers and Robert Pelcovits


Principal Investigator
Funding Agency- DTS
2019-2023
Research Grant: 35 Lakhs

Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Control of a High-Frequency DC-DC Converter for Internet of Things Applications


Reviewer
Administrative Experience

  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits Systems II: Express Briefs
  • IEEE TechSym 2016


Senior Software Development Engineer
Sankhyasutra Labs, India
(Sep 01, 2021- Dec 30, 2021)


PUBLICATIONS AND PREPRINTS

  1. Taylor's swimming sheet in a smectic-A liquid crystal, Harsh Soni, Phys. Rev. E 107, 055104(2023)
  2. Taylor's chiral microswimmer, Harsh Soni, Physical Review Fluids 8, 044201(2023)
  3. Properties of the dissipation functions for passive and active systems, Harsh Soni, Phys. Rev. E 107, 014111(2023)
  4. Active nonreciprocal attraction between motile particles in an elastic medium, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Raushan Kant, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, Phys. Rev. E 105, 064602(2022)
  5. Phases and excitations of active rod-bead mixtures: simulations and experiments, Harsh Soni, Nitin Kumar, Jyothishraj Nambisan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, A. K. Sood and Sriram Ramaswamy, Soft Matter, 16, 7210-7221(2020).
  6. Stability of interfaces in active fluids, Harsh Soni, Wan Luo, Robert A. Pelcovits, and Thomas R. Powers, Soft Matter, 15, 6318-6330(2019).
  7. Trapping and sorting active particles: Motility-induced condensation and smectic defects, Nitin Kumar, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, Phys. Rev. E 99, 032605(2019).
  8. Enhanced microorganism swimming in active matter, Harsh Soni, Robert A. Pelcovits, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 178002(2018).
  9. Wrinkling of a thin film on a nematic liquid crystal elastomer, Harsh Soni, Robert A. Pelcovits, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Rev. E 94, 012701(2016).
  10. Anisotropic isometric fluctuation relations in experiment and theory on a self-propelled rod, Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, Phys. Rev. E 91, 030102(R)(2015).
  11. Flocking at a distance in active granular matter, Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, Nature Communications 5, 4688(2014).
  12. Optical tweezer for probing erythrocyte membrane deformability, M. Khan, H. Soni, and A.K. Sood, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 233703(2009).

Group Members


  1. Abhishek Sharma (PMRF, Aug 2022-present)
  2. Bharti (Aug 2022-present)
  3. Umashankar Pardhi (Aug 2023-present, with Moupriya Das)
  4. Vipul Rai (Sep 2023-present, with Moupriya Das)



  1. Tanushree Verma (Aug 2023-present)
  2. Hemant Malav (Aug 2023-present)




Past Members




  1. Arnab Prakash Dey (2022-23)
  2. Subham Ghosh (2022-23) (with Yogeshwar Prasad)
  3. Umashankar Pardhi (2023)



  1. Shehzade Manzoor Khan, summer intern from NISER Bhubaneswar (June-July, 2022)
  2. Chayan Kumar Mandal (PH517), IIT Mandi (Dec, 2022)



  1. Chayan Kumar Mandal, PH526, IIT Mandi (2023)


Projects & Technologies Developed

Period Sponsoring Organization Title Amount Role PI/Co.PI
2019-2023 DTS Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Control of a High-Frequency DC-DC Converter for Internet of Things Applications ₹ 35 Lacs PI

Current Courses

  1. EE671/EE671A - Neural Networks - Neurons, Multilayered networks, radial basis function networks, recurrent networks, self-organizing networks, Hopfield networks, Adaptive critic networks, System Identification, Applications of Neural Nets.
  2. EE653/EE653A - Digital Control - Discrete time signals and systems, Z transform, pulse transfer functions. Compensator design by root locus, error coefficients and frequency response. State space models of discrete time systems, controllability, observability, stability, state estimation, Kalman filtering. Linear regulation. Parameter estimation.

Courses Developed

  1. Control of Cyber Physical Systems - IIT Kanpur
  2. Mobile Robotics - University of Ulster
  3. Inteligent System and Control - IIT Kanpur
  4. Cooperative Robotics - University of Ulster
  5. Intelligent Systems and Control - NPTEL