S Ganga Prasath

Assistant Professor at IIT Madras

I am currently a faculty member in the Department of Applied Mechanics & Biomedical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. My research interests lie at the interface of robotics, behaviour and soft-mechanics. You can check out the INTERFACE lab page for more details.

I am also the faculty advisor of the Applied Mechanics Scholars Association and help the enthusiastic scholars community run the seminar series 42 Explained! and ChalkTalk. I am deeply interested in climate change outreach and the faculty liaison for the initiative Project Climate, run with an amazing and proactive student group Vivarta.

Outside work, I have a set of trinkets that keep me busy. You can access their progress over at the projects page. Write to me if you are interested in collaborating or would like to know more about any of these topics.

News

Applications open for Geometry, Mechanics and the Physics of Growth, winter school at ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru, partially supported by IIT Madras. School date: 3-14 Nov 2025, Application deadline: 30 Jun 2025.

Of Materials and Mindsets, article about our course AM5009: Life of ubiquitous materials, gets featured in The Fifth Estate, IIT Madras' student magazine. Click here for the showcase of 2024 projects from the course.

Watch the lecture recordings of the Ethology, from individual to collective workshop on YouTube.

Project Climate's monthly newsletters, called Climate logs, are now available on substack. You can read them here.

"Making sense of climate models", a primer on how and why climate models work appears on The India Forum.

Madurai Typeface, a Tamil typeface by Agam Type Foundry is available for free download on Github.