Dr. Krupali Donda
Designation: Assistant Professor
Biography:
Dr. Krupali Donda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology at Adani University, India. She earned her Ph.D. in Acoustic Metasurfaces from the world-renowned materials science laboratory under CNRS, France — Institute Jean Lamour, where she worked on a U.S. Air Force and CNRS collaborative project focused on ultra-thin acoustic absorbers for very low-frequency sound. Earlier, she served as a Research Fellow at IIT Gandhinagar for over 2.5 years, contributing to a DST-funded project on high-efficiency transmissive optical metasurfaces. Her research interests include acoustic metamaterials, machine learning, wavefront manipulation, and emerging metasurface technologies.
- Ph.D. (Acoustic Metasurface), Institute Jean Lamour, CNRS, France
- M.E. (Electronics and Communication), Gujarat Technological University
- B.E. (Electronics and Communication), Gujarat Technological University
- Assistant Professor (ICT department, Adani University, Feb 2025-contd.), Scientific Officer, (ICT department, Adani University, June 2023-January 2025),
- Doctoral Researcher (University of Lorraine, November 2018-January 2022)
- Junior Research Fellow (IIT Gandhinagar, June 2016-October 2018)
- Metamaterials
- Machine Learning
- Electronics
- Krupali Donda, Pankit Brahmkhatri, Biswjeet Dey, Yifan Zhu, Viacheslav Slesarenko, “Machine Learning Models for Inverse Design of Phononic Metamaterials”, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 35, p. 101218 (2025)
- Krupali Donda, Yifan Zhu, Sheng Wan, Badreddine Assouar, “Deep Learning Approach for Acoustic Absorbing Metasurface: Design with High Degrees of Freedom”, Extreme Mechanics Letters, vol. 56, p. 101879 (2022)
- Krupali Donda, Yifan Zhu, Shi-Wang Fan, Liyun Cao, Yong Li, Badreddine Assouar, “Ultrathin acoustic absorbing metasurface based on deep learning approach”, Smart materials and structures, Vol.30, no.8, p.30 085003 (2021)
- Krupali Donda, Yifan Zhu, Shi-Wang Fan, Liyun Cao, Yong Li, Badreddine Assouar, “Extreme low-frequency ultrathin acoustic absorbing metasurface”, Applied Physics Letters, Vol.115, no 17, p. 173506 (2019)
- Yifan Zhu, Aurelien Merkel, Krupali Donda, Shiwang Fan, Liyun Cao, and Badreddine Assouar, “Nonlocal acoustic metasurface for ultra-broadband sound absorption”, Phys. Rev. B, Vol.103, no 6, p. 064102 (2021)
- Yifan Zhu, Shi-wang Fan, Liyun Cao, Krupali Donda, Shiwang Fan, Liyun Cao, and Badreddine Assouar, “Acoustic Meta-Equalizer”, Phys. Rev. A, Vol.14, no 1, p. 014038 (2020)
- Yifan Zhu, Krupali Donda, Shiwang Fan, Liyun Cao, Badreddine Assouar, “Broadband ultra-thin acoustic metasurface absorber with coiled structure”, Applied Physics Express, Vol. 12, no 11, p. 114002 (2019)
- Yifan Zhu, Fan Fei, Shiwang Fan, Liyun Cao, Krupali Donda, Badreddine Assouar, “Reconfigurable Origami-Inspired Metamaterials for Controllable Sound Manipulation”, Physical Review Applied, Vol. 12, no 3, p. 034029 (2019)
- Shi-Wang Fan, Sheng-Dong Zhao, Liyun Cao, Yifan Zhu, A-Li Chen, Yan-Feng Wang, Krupali Donda, Yue-Sheng Wang, Badreddine Assouar, “Reconfigurable curved metasurface for acoustic cloaking and illusion”, Physical Review B, vol. 101, no 2, p. 024104 (2020)
- Krupali Donda, Ravi S. Hegde, “Optimal Design of Beam-Deflectors Using Extended Unit-Cell Metagratings”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 77, 83-92. (2019)
- Krupali D. Donda, Ravi S. Hegde, “Rapid Design of Wide-Area Heterogeneous Electromagnetic Metasurfaces beyond the Unit-Cell Approximation”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol.60, 1-10 (2017)
- Krupali Donda, Ravi Hegde, “Bilayered nanoantenna design improves the performance of silicon metasurfaces in the visible-wavelength region”, J. Nanophoton, 11(4), 046002 (2017)
- Krupali Donda, “Temperature Tunability of Acoustic Metasurface Absorber for Low-Frequency”, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization, IISc Bangalore (2024)
- Nimit Patel, Raj Patel, Karnika Sojitra, Pratham Gandhi, Bishwjit Dey, Krupali Donda “A novel hybrid Walrus-JAYA algorithm for weighted economic emission dispatch on dynamic system”, International Conference on Sustainable Power and Energy Research, NIT Warangal, India (2024)
- Krupali Donda, Yifan Zhu, Aurelien Merkel, Sheng Wan, Badreddine Assouar, “Deep learning for accelerated modeling of ultrathin metasurface absorber”, 15th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena-Metamaterials, New York, USA (2021)
- Krupali D. Donda, Ravi Hegde, “Evolutionary Algorithms for Designing Metalenses”, 3rd IEEE International conference of Microwaves and Photonics, IIT-Dhanbad, India, (2017)
- Krupali D. Donda, Ravi S. Hegde, “Improved Transmission Efficiency in Silicon-based Visible Wavelength Metasurface using Stepped Nanocone Elements”, International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics-2016, IIT-Kanpur, (2016)
- Vishal Vashistha, Krupali Donda, Kaustubh Panse, Ravi S. Hegde, “Design and Fabrication of CMOS Compatible Ultrathin Optical Component using Silicon Nanoantenna”, National Symposium on Nano Science and Technology, IISc Banglore (2016)
- Pate, N., Patel, R., Sojitra, K., Gandhi, P., Dey, B., & Donda, K. (2024, February). A Novel Hybrid Walrus-JAYA Algorithm for Weighted Economic Emission Dispatch on Dynamic System. In International Conference on Sustainable Power and Energy Research (pp. 351-367). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
- Awarded Visiting Scientist Fellowship (2025) by the Indian National Science Academy.
- Awarded 2025 Women in Acoustics Emerging Investigator Travel Grant by Acoustic Society of America.
- Supported participation the 15th international congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2021, USA) and EUPROMETA School on Emerging Concepts in Light Scattering Awarded Student Grant by Dept. of Science and Technology (DST)
- Received student grant for the years 2016 and 2017 to attend and present at International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP).
