Dr. Krupali Donda

Designation: Scientific Officer

Qualifications: Ph.D. (Applied Physics, Specialised in Acoustic Metasurface), Institute Jean Lamour, CNRS, France

Academic Area: Electronics and Communication

Brief Profile:

Dr. Krupali Donda is currently working as a Scientific Officer in the ICT Department at Adani University. She finished her Ph.D. in Applied Physics (Acoustics Metasurface) from the prestigious material science lab Institute Jean Lamour, CNRS, France. As a Doctoral Researcher, she was part of a project between the Air Force Office of the USA and CNRS, France. Her role was to design acoustic metasurface/metamaterial-based absorbers to absorb very low frequencies.
Before moving to France, she was a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Gandhinagar) for over two and half years. She worked in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the DST (Govt. of India) sponsored project: “Towards ultra-thin optical wavefront manipulation devices based on all-dielectric high-efficiency transmissive metasurfaces”.


  • Ph.D.(Applied Physics, Specialised in Acoustic Metasurface), Institute Jean Lamour, CNRS, France .
  • Masters in Engineering (Electronics and Communication)
  • Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics and Communication)

  • Doctoral Researcher (University of Lorraine, CNRS, France)
  • Research Fellow (IIT Gandhinagar)

  • Awarded grant from the Office for Naval Research (ONR) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to present her research work at the 15th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2021) and EUPROMETA School on Emerging concepts and Anomalies in Light Scattering at New York, USA.

  • Metasurface/Metamaterials, Deep Learning for Science and Engineering, Microwaves

  • Metasurface/Metamaterials, Deep Learning for Science and Engineering

Peer Reviewed Journals:

  • 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, “Recon- figurable 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)

Conference Proceedings:

  • 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)
  • Badreddine Assouar, Yifan Zhu, Krupali Donda“Absorbing Acoustic Metasurfaces for Low- Frequency Regime”, 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Texas, USA, (2022)
  • 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)
  • Krupali D. Donda, Ravinder Kumar, Hitesh Pandya, “Design, Development, and Testing of Waveguide Taper for Millimeter Wave Transmission Line”, International Journal on Microwave Applications, Volume-4 (2015)
  • Krupali Donda, Ravinder Kumar, Hitesh Pandya, “Numerical Study of Circular Waveguide Window for Millimeter-wave Transmission line using COMSOL Multiphysics v5.1”, COMSOL International Conference, Pune, (2015)