Charu Monga

Charu Monga is an Associate Professor at the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has a Ph.D. in Design from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati where she has investigated design details in vernacular heritage structures towards cultural construction. Her Bachelors and Masters is from Delhi University also Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She has also been a founding faculty member at IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi campus in the administration role as Associate Dean. Her research interests include visual communication, animation, filmmaking, digital media, CGI and game design. Her current research focuses upon investigating a variety of virtualization techniques to promote cultural construction towards heritage preservation, innovation, empowering educational areas and science communication.

Previously, she was a faculty member at the Department of Design in Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Where she had led ARLab, which worked towards embracing digital media technologies in animation and films. With nine years of industrial experience, she is a recipient of prestigious Film Heritage Foundation fellowship in association with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation & Cineteca di Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata, Microsoft Research grant for developing interventions in digital creative technologies. She is also associated with MOE, MOD, DST, MHA, MEA. She has been a visiting faculty at University of Oulu, Finland and served as a jury member in International Conference globally.

She was a visiting faculty at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Delhi University, NIFT Kangra and worked as a game designer, animator, graphic designer and illustrator for various organizations. She has been associated with World Health Partners, Group Delphoenix, IDC, IIT Bombay, Foundation 9 Entertainment and Digikriti Entertainment for multiple design research projects. Her work has been sponsored by Red Cross Society, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNDP to exhibit in galleries such as Romain Rolland, Habitat Center and Lalit Kala Academy to name a few. She is actively involved with the issues related to design pedagogy, social innovation, cross-cultural research on communication, creativity methods and published in reputed journals and conferences.

Admin Roles

Associate Dean Students Affairs + 2024 + IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi

Academic Background

PhD

Work Experience

Associate Professor + 2026 Onwards + IIT Delhi

Associate Dean Students Affairs + 2024 + IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi

Assistant Professor + 2020-2026 + IIT Delhi

Assistant Professor + 2014-2020 + IIT Guwahati

Primary Academic Interests

Communication Design, Design Thinking & Innovation, Craft & Culture, Other

Other Academic Interests

New Media Technology

Thematic Focus

Culture, Education and Inclusion, Policy and Implementation, Emerging Technologies

List of courses taught

DDL 212: Advanced Visualization Techniques

DDP 216: Art & Craft Practicum

DDL 764: Visual and Interactive Narrative

DDL 224: Storytelling and Film Making

DDL 715: Animation Design

DDL 224: Storytelling and Film Making

DDR 716: Social Immersion

DDD 892: Industry Research Design Project

DDP 731: Communication & Presentation Skills

DDR 812: Media Studies

DDD 892: Industry Research Design Project

DDL 111: Visualization Techniques

DDL 810: Special Topics in Design (Game Design)

List of Research Projects

List of 3-5 major Publications/ Patents

Labs developed/ associated with

MediaTechLab + https://mediatechlabiitd.com/