Ruma Ghosh
Associate Professor
Dr. Ruma Ghosh is a faculty member in Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Karnataka since Dec. 2017.She has completed her Ph.D from Department of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2016. She joined EEE Department, BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus as Assistant Professor immediately after her Ph.D and before joining IIT Dharwad. She works on developing nanomaterial based sensors for healthcare, environmental monitoring, and precision agriculture applications.
Sept. 2024– Sept. 2027
Design and Development of Carbon Nanomaterials modified Chemiresistive Sensors for SF6 and H2S (PI)
Funded by Department of Atomic Energy, India thorugh BRNS
June 2023 – May 2026
Development of fluorescent and resistive sensors for monitoring the crop health via detection of plant emitted Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) (Co-PI)
Funded by ICAR through NASF
Mar. 2023– Dec. 2024
Development of resistive sensors for early detection of crop infestation (PI)
Funded by BITS BioCyTIH through DST NM-ICPS
Feb. 2023 – Feb. 2026
Development of multi-markers-based electronic kit for the rapid and accurate detection of prostate cancer through urine samples (PI)
Funded by SERB through CRG Scheme
Mar. 2019 - Mar. 2022
2Dlayered Materials based Biosensors for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer (PI)
Funded by SERB under ECRA scheme
Nov. 2019 - Mar. 2023
Detection of Explosive Vapors by Reduced Graphene Oxide based Sensors (PI)
Funded by CSIR under Extramural Research grant
Mar. 2019 - Mar. 2021
Development of Smart Sensors Mounted on Under-Canopy Robots for Precision Agriculture (Co-PI)
Funded by MHRD under SPARC Scheme
Feb. 2018 - Feb. 2020
Development of Array of Gas Sensors for Biomedical Applications (PI)
Funded by IIT Dharwad through SGNF
Mar. 2019 - Mar. 2021
Electrochemical sensors for soil health monitoring (PI)
Funded by IIT Dharwad through MDPP Scheme
Dec. 2022 – Dec. 2023
Development of working prototype of electronic sensors for PSA and CA 125 (PI)
Funded by IIT Dharwad through MDPP Scheme
THE RESEARCH TEAM
Ph.D Students
Bolivia Konthoujam Area of research: Protein and RNA based biosensors for early detection of ovarian and prostate cancer.
Spoorti Mushannavar Area of research: Nanomaterial based gas sensors for crop health monitoring
MS/M.Tech Students
Shubhranil Kundu Area of research: 2D nanomaterial/ Transition Metal Di-Chalcogenides (TMD) based H2S gas sensors.
Gheethalochini Parthasarathy Area of research: RNA based portable biosensors for early detection of prostate cancer detection.
Mochi Nagendra Chitrika Area of research: Development of prototype of resistive gas sensors.
Project Staff
Anjali Gupta Area of Research: Resistive sensors for crop health monitoring.
Jyoti S. Shettar Area of Research: Detection of SF6 and H2S gases using nanomaterials based resistive sensors.
Graduated Students
Guruprasad Gorthala Degree: Ph.D
Area of research: Development of Chemiresistive Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring .
Saraswati Kulkarni Degree: Ph.D
Area of research: Detection of Vapor Biomarkers of Lung Cancer using Metal Oxides based Resistive Sensors.Publications
Journals
2025
1. Rashmi Singh, Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Nickel Oxide Nanoflowers based Resistive Sensors for Detecting Methyl Salicylate and Linalool”, Physica Scripta, Just accepted.2. Bolivia Konthoujam, Nikita Bhandari, Shridhar Ghagane, Rajendra B. Nerli, Sudhanshu Shukla, Ruma Ghosh, “Glutaraldehyde Functionalized Reduced Graphene Oxide based Resistive Sensors for Detection of PCA3”, Journal of Material Chemistry B, Just accepted.
2024
1. Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Investigation of Surface Affinity and Desorption Kinetics of Mixture of Volatile Organic Compounds on CuO-Based Resistive Gas Sensors”, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2024, In Press, 10.1109/LSENS.2024.34908372. Gorthala Guruprasad, Ruma Ghosh, “Impact of gas flowrate on performance of chemiresistive NO2 sensors”, Applied Surface Science, 2024, 670, 160597.
3. Gorthala Guruprasad, Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Detection of NO2 and 2-Nitrotoluene by MoS2–ZnO Composite”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024, In press.
4. Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Ultra-sensitive CuAl2O4 Nanoflakes for ppb level detection of Isopropanol”, Ceramics International, 2024, In press.
5. Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Development of 2D CuO based chemiresistive sensors for detecting binary mixture of volatile organic compounds and investigation of the adsorption kinetics via Eley-Rideal mechanism”, Applied Surface Science, 2024, 665, 160328.
6. Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Selective discrimination and accurate quantification of five target vapors among multiple vapors using 2D CuO and Co3O4 sensors”, Physica Scripta, 2024, 99 (9), 095999.
7. Bolivia Konthoujam, Nikita Bhandari, Miriyala Pranay Kamal, P Nitin Srinivas, Thati Bhanoday, Bondugula Pranav, Purushotham Reddy, Ramalingappa C Antartan, Naveen Kadayinti, Sudhanshu Shukla, Ruma Ghosh, “Reduced Graphene Oxide based Ultrasensitive Resistive Sensor for Detection of CA125”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics:X, 2024, 18, 100530.
8. Gorthala Guruprasad, Ruma Ghosh, “Atomically thin-layered WS2 based resistive sensors for detection of CO and NO2 at room temperature”, IOP Nanotechnology, 2024, 35 (40), 405501.
9. Shivam Kumar, Nikita Bhandari, Sudhanshu Shukla, Ruma Ghosh, “Reduced graphene oxide/gold nanoparticles based ultrasensitive resistive sensor for PCA3”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics:X, 2024, 18, 100481.
10. Shubhranil Kundu, Guruprasad Gorthala, Ruma Ghosh, “Room Temperature Detection of H2S by Two Dimensional WS2 based Chemiresistive Sensors”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2024, 416, 136018.
11. Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Development of 2D CuO based Chemiresistive Sensors for Detecting Binary Mixture of Volatile Organic Compounds and Investigation of the Adsorption Kinetics via Eley-Rideal Mechanism”, Applied Surface Science, 2024, 665, 160328.
12. Shivam Kumar, Nikita Bhandari, Sudhanshu Shukla, Ruma Ghosh, “Reduced Graphene Oxide/Gold Nanoparticles based Ultrasensitive Resistive Sensor for PCA3”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics:X, 2024, 18, 100481.
13. Shubhranil Kundu, Gorthala Guruprasad, Ruma Ghosh, “Room Temperature H2S Sensing by rGO-MoS2 Composite”, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2024, 8 (4), 4500504.
2023
1. Gorthala Guruprasad, Ruma Ghosh, “Mo2C-rGO Composite Based Chemiresistive Sensor For Room Temperature NO2 Detection”, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2023, 7 (12), 1–4.2. Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “CuO–ZnO pn junctions for accurate prediction of multiple volatile organic compounds aided by machine learning algorithms”, Analytica Chimica Acta, 2023, 1253, 341084.
3. Saraswati Kulkarni, Bharath B. N., Ruma Ghosh, “CuO Nanowires-based Resistive Sensor for Accurate Classification of Multiple Vapors”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023, 23 (10), 10293–10300.
4. Guruprasad Gorthala, Ruma Ghosh, “Molybdenum Carbide Nanoflakes Synthesized using a Facile Method for 2-Nitrotoluene Sensing at Room Temperature”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023, 23 (6), 5543–5551.
5. Aswani Raj K, Sowmya Joshi, Ruma Ghosh, Rajeswara Rao M, “Structural tailoring of semiconducting tetrazine polymers based immobilizing matrix for superior electronic biosensing of carcinoembryonic antigen”, Polymer for Advanced Technologies, 2023, 1-10.
2022
1. Saraswati Kulkarni, Srividya Kummara, Guruprasad Gorthala, Ruma Ghosh, “CuO Nanoflake-Based Sensors for Detecting Linalool, Hexanal, and Methyl Salicylate”, ACS Agricultural Science & Technology, 2022, 2, 6, 1285–1291.2. Sowmya Joshi, Shashidhar Kallappa, Pranjal Kumar, Sudhanshu Shukla, Ruma Ghosh, “Simple diagnosis of cancer by detecting CEA and CYFRA 21-1 in saliva using electronic sensors”, Scientific Reports, 2022, 12, 1–13.
3. Aswani Raj K, Gorthala Guruprasad, Ruma Ghosh, Rajeswara Rao M, “Tetrazine-based 1D polymers for the selective chemiresistive sensing of nitrogen dioxide via the interplay between hydrogen bonding and n-heteroatom interactions”, Polymer Journal, 2022, 54, 1191–1201.
4. Gorthala Guruprasad, Ruma Ghosh, “Ultra-Fast NO2 Detection by MoS2 Nanoflakes at Room Temperature”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, 22, 14727–14735.
5. Sowmya Joshi, Aswani Raj K, Rajeswara Rao M, Ruma Ghosh, “An electronic biosensor based on semiconducting tetrazine polymer immobilizing matrix coated on rGO for carcinoembryonic antigen”, Scientific Reports, 2022, 12, 1-14.
6. Sowmya Joshi, Gorthala Guruprasad, Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “Reduced Graphene Oxide based Electronic Sensors for Rapid and Label-Free Detection of CEA and CYFRA 21-1”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, 22, 1138-1145.
2021
1. Saraswati Kulkarni, Ruma Ghosh, “A simple approach for sensing and accurate prediction of multiple organic vapors by sensors based on CuO nanowires”, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, 2021, 335, 129701.
2020
1. Raj Kumar, Ruma Ghosh, “Selective determination of ammonia, ethanol and acetone by reduced graphene oxide based gas sensors at room temperature”, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 2020, 28, 100336.
2019 and earlier
1. Ruma Ghosh, Julian Gardner, Prasanta Kumar Guha, “Air Pollution Monitoring Using Near Room Temperature Resistive Gas Sensors: A Review”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2019, 66 (8), 3254–3264.2. Ruma Ghosh, Sumita Santra, Samit Kumar Ray, Prasanta Kumar Guha, “Pt-Functionalized Reduced Graphene Oxide for Excellent Hydrogen Sensing at Room Temperature”, Applied Physics Letters, 2015, 107, 153102.
3. Ruma Ghosh, Manojit Pusty, Prasanta Kumar Guha, “Reduced Graphene Oxide based Piezoelectric Nanogenerator with Water Excitation”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2016, 15, 268–273.
4. Ruma Ghosh, Arpan Kumar Nayak, Sumita Santra, Debabrata Pradhan, Prasanta Kumar Guha, “Enhanced Ammonia Sensing at Room Temperature with Reduced Graphene Oxide/Tin Oxide Hybrid Films”, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 50165–50173.
5. Arpan Kumar Nayak, Ruma Ghosh, Sumita Santra, Prasanta Kumar Guha, Debabrata Pradhan, “Hierarchical Nanostructured WO3–SnO2 for Selective Sensing of Volatile Organic Compounds”, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 12460–12473.
6. Sourav Ghosh, Ruma Ghosh, Prasanta Kumar Guha, Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya, “Humidity Sensor Based on High Proton Conductivity of Graphene Oxide”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2015, 14, 931–937.
7. Anupam Midya, Ruma Ghosh, Sumita Santra, Prasanta Kumar Guha, Samit Kumar Ray, “Reduced Graphene Oxide-Rose Bengal Hybrid Film for Improved Ammonia Detection with Low Humidity Interference at Room Temperature”, Material Research Express, 2016, 3, 025101.
8. Ruma Ghosh, Arvinder Singh, Sumita Santra, Samit Kumar Ray, Amreesh Chandra, Prasanta Kumar Guha, “Highly Sensitive Large-Area Multi-Layered Graphene-Based Flexible Ammonia Sensor”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2014, 205, 67–73.
9. Ruma Ghosh, Anupam Midya, Sumita Santra, Samit Kumar Ray, Prasanta Kumar Guha, “Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide for Ammonia Detection at Room Temperature”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2013, 5, 7599–7603.
10. Andrea De Luca, Sumita Santra, Ruma Ghosh, Zeeshan Ali, Julian Gardner, Prasanta Kumar Guha, Florin Udrea, “Temperature-Modulated Graphene Oxide Resistive Humidity Sensor for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring”, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 4565–4572.
11. Debasree Burman, Ruma Ghosh, Sumita Santra, Prasanta Kumar Guha, “Highly Proton Conducting MoS2/Graphene oxide Nano-composite based Chemoresistive Humidity Sensor”, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 57424–57433.
12. Debasree Burman, Ruma Ghosh, Sumita Santra, Prasanta Kumar Guha, Samit Kumar Ray, “Role of vacancy sites and UV-ozone treatment on few layered MoS2 nanoflakes for toxic gas detection”, Nanotechnology, 2017, 28, 435502.
Conferences
1. Saraswati Kulkarni, Manjunath Shetty, Dinesh Rangappa, Ruma Ghosh, “Methanol Sensing by TiO2 nanowires at room temperature”, Materials For Environment, Sustainable Society And Global Empowerment – 2019, 2019. (Received the best poster award).
2. Malak Shah, Ruma Ghosh, "Classification and Prediction of Human Cognitive Skills using EEG Signals", 4th International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII-2018), 2018.
3. Ruma Ghosh, Anupam Midya, Sumita Santra, Samit Kumar Ray, Prasanta Kumar Guha, "Humidity Sensing by Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide", International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD), 2014, 699–701.
4. Debasree Burman, Ruma Ghosh, Sumita Santra, Samit Kumar Ray, Prasanta Kumar Guha, "MoS2 based Humidity Sensing" (ICMAT-IUMRS, 2015, Singapore).
5. Ruma Ghosh, Sumita Santra, M. K. Deshmukh, Prasanta Kumar Guha, "Highly Efficient H2 Sensors using Reduced Graphene Oxide–Pt Nanocomposites at Room Temperature", 1st International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICNAN, India), 2016.
NEWS AND RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
GROUP'S ACHIEVEMENTS
- Saraswati successfully defended her Ph.D Thesis on 20th Nov. 2024
- Guruprasad successfully defended his Ph.D Thesis on 9th July, 2024
Announcements
Opportunities
We are looking forward to get a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow whose doctoral thesis included one or more of the following:
-Development of electrochemical sensors for gases or biomolecules
-Synthesis of thin films using chemical vapor deposition technique
-First principle studies of gas adsorption on materials
-Development of supercapacitors