Glimpse of Research Booklet

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Glimpse of Research Booklet (March 2018)

Themes:

Healthcare & Biotechnology
Energy
Environment, Climate & Earth Sciences
Infrastructure, Planning & Transportation
Materials, Manufacturing, Robotics & Industrial Processes
Societal Relevance
Large Scale Computing Big Data & ICT
Natural Sciences Engineering Sciences Humanities & Education
Operations Research & Management

Healthcare & Biotechnology

Title of of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
A mobile microscopy and microfluidic platform for sickle cell disease screening	Debjani Paul	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Biomedical instruments of the Internet-of-Things (IOT) era	Maryam Shojaei Baghini	Electrical Engineering
Hydrogel matrices for stem cell transplantation in brain	Samir K. Maji	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Investigating the mechanism of Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis in test tube	Samir K. Maji	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Identifying the mechanisms of origin and backward propagation of oto-acoustic emissions	Sripriya Ramamoorthy	Mechanical Engineering
Radiant UV sunscreens for young and shiny skin	Ajit R. Kulkarni Mayuri Gandhi	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Sciences
Disease diagnosis: Chemical species detection in body fluids	C. P. Rao	Chemistry
Cancer cell imaging	C. P. Rao	Chemistry
Separation of plasma from blood at the point-of-care	Amit Agrawal	Mechanical Engineering
Focusing of cells in a bio-microdevice	Amit Agrawal	Mechanical Engineering
NMR-based structural biology laboratory	Ashutosh Kumar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Where does protein synthesis begin in P. falciparum Too many choices!	Swati Patankar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Solving the sugar binding puzzle	Prasenjit Bhaumik	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Cell and its surroundings: A tug-of-war that determines cell fate	Abhijit Majumdar	Chemical Engineering
Giant virus biology and evolution	Kiran Kondabagil	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Mechanism of genome segregation and epigenetics	Santanu K. Ghosh	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Engineering immune cells via 3D matrices for cancer immunotherapy	Prakriti Tayalia	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Semi-synthetic hydrogel matrices for studying differences in cell behaviour in 2D and 3D micro-environment	Prakriti Tayalia	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Understanding why vitiligo develops in human skin and finding the effective, affordable and long-lasting treatment	Rahul Purwar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Technology development for gene therapy with CAR-T cells: The most effective cancer treatment	Rahul Purwar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Cancer stem cells: The seeds of cancer and their roles in cancer progression	Rahul Purwar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Biophysics of cancer	Shamik Sen	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Tissue adhesives	Shamik Sen	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Induction of embryonic stem cell differentiation by physical cues	Shamik Sen	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Microtubule targeted anti-tubulin agents for cancer treatment	Ambarish Kunwar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Molecular motor proteins-vehicles of cellular transportation system	Ambarish Kunwar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Crossing barriers: Uncovering the smart tactics to sneak into the host	Anirban Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Developing fungal cells as factories	Narayan S. Punekar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Non-genetic heterogeneity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A rule rather than an exception	P. Jayadeva Bhat	Biosciences and Bioengineering
A versatile and evolving Pseudomonas sp. microbial degradation of carbaryl: Evolution and application	Prashant Phale	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Preferential utilisation of aromatics over glucose by Pseudomonas: An asset to bioremediation	Prashant Phale	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Breathe easy: Biomimetic lung surfactants for critical care respiratory diseases	Rinti Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Cosmetics for health and well being	Rinti Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Injectable smart materials for therapy in osteoarthritis	Rinti Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Urigel platforms for bladder diseases	Rinti Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Stimuli responsive platforms for site specific anticancer therapy	Rinti Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Bladder biophysics: Computational investigation of mechanisms underlying bladder physiology	Rohit Manchanda	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Biodegradable liposome gold nanoparticles as efficient agents for photothermal therapy of cancer	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Smartsense: Platform for 'critical' healthcare in India	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Development of a low-cost water monitoring kit for multiplex heavy metal detection based on aptamer sensors	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Graphene based nanomaterial for biomedical applications	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
PCLGCIR820 composite nanoparticles as theranostic agents for cancer therapy	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Drug delivery device for management of chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
A novel point-of-care detection device using nanotechnology for diagnosing periprosthetic infection following orthopedic surgery	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Development of nanoengineered dual release graft for pain / inflammation management in osteoarthritis	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Low-cost indigenously developed bioresorbable bone screw for bone and soft-tissue fixation applications	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Design and development of point-of-care test kit for early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease	Rohit Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Proteomics for translational research: Focus on brain tumors and infectious diseases	Sanjeeva Srivastava	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Sensors for all	Soumyo Mukherji	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Understanding effect of lifestyle decisions on health and wellness	K. V. Venkatesh	Chemical Engineering
Open bipolar electrolysis for disinfection of water	Vinay A. Juvekar	Chemical Engineering
3D graphene adsorbent for water treatment	Vinay A. Juvekar	Chemical Engineering
Membrane protein purification using engineered micelles	Irishi N. N. Namboothiri	Chemistry
Antiparasitic activity of pyranonaphthoquinones and imidazoles	Irishi N. N. Namboothiri	Chemistry
Anticancer activity of α-functionalisednitroalkenes	Irishi N. N. Namboothiri Dulal Panda	Chemistry Biosciences and Bioengineering
Chemical biology of nucleic acids targeting drugs and damaging agents	Pradeepkumar P. I.	Chemistry
Designing molecular catalysts and potential metallo-pharmaceuticals using well defined transition metal complexes	Prasenjit Ghosh	Chemistry
A systems biology approach to understand the influence of signaling pathways in altering the cell cycle dynamics	Sandip Kar	Chemistry
Understanding the role of fluctuations in mammalian cell cycle regulation	Sandip Kar	Chemistry
Psychophysiology of cognition	Azizuddin Khan	Humanities and Social Sciences
Jellow communicator: A communication aid for children with speech difficulties	Ravi Poovaiah	Industrial Design Centre
Vizzbu: An app for children with cortical visual impairment	Ravi Poovaiah	Industrial Design Centre
Control, locomotion and geometry	Ravi Banavar	Systems and Control Engineering
Low cost vein tracer for blood banks and pathology labs	B. K. Chakravarthy	Industrial Design Centre
Electric field induced bandgap modulation of graphene oxide for development of novel photonic devices	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Low cost polymer based multimodal wideband MEMS photonic sensing platform	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Gas sensor for environmental monitoring system based on ZnO hybrid microcrystal	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Non-contact and in-field soil analysing device based on diffused reflectance spectroscopy technique	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Evanescent field based plasmonic sensing platforms for healthcare applications	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Confy trike: Tricycle for paraplegics	Nishant Sharma	Industrial Design Centre
Organisation of chromatin and the fate of a cell	Ranjith Padinhateeri	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Theoretical modeling of protein self-assembly in biology	Ranjith Padinhateeri	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Image reconstruction and processing: Methods to make images more useful and acquire them faster	Ajit Rajwade	Computer Science and Engineering
Exploring with the eyes of a quadcopter	Sharat Chandran	Computer Science and Engineering
High quality low cost prosthetic limb	B Ravi	Mechanical Engineering
Digital stethoscope for enhanced auscultation	B Ravi	Mechanical Engineering

Energy

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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Next generation sodium ion battery: A power dream, beyond lithium	Sagar Mitra	Energy Science and Engineering
The organic way to energy storage	Sumit Saxena	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Multi-scale computational study of boiling heat transfer	Janani Srree Murallidharan	Mechanical Engineering
Formulation of high new high energy density materials for use in rocket engines and other important applications	Neeraj Kumbhakarna Arindrajit Chowdhury Irishi N. N. Namboothiri	Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Chemistry
Electrochemical energy storage materials for powering electric vehicles	Amartya Mukhopadhyay	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Plasmonics: The way to efficient photodevices via two-photon lithography	Shobha Shukla	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Energy extraction from vortex induced vibration of bi-stable structures	Amitabh Bhattacharya	Mechanical Engineering
Development of constant temperature microdevice	Amit Agrawal	Mechanical Engineering
Electricity from waste heat	Satish Vitta	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Intrinsically conducting polymers for energy storage	Vinay A. Juvekar	Chemical Engineering
Molecular nanomagnets: An alternative to silicon-based technology	R. Murugavel	Chemistry
Wide area measurement applications in power systems	S. A. Soman Anil M. Kulkarni	Electrical Engineering
Hydrogen sorption in metallic materials (Mg, Pd and Pt) for vehicular and sensor applications	Sankara Sarma V. Tatiparti	Energy Science and Engineering
Development of low temperature refrigerators: Production of temperatures below -150°C	Milind D. Atrey	Mechanical Engineering
Thermosyphon system for electronics cooling	Milind D. Atrey	Mechanical Engineering
Enhanced heat transfer using deformable thin plates: Flexible fins	Rajneesh Bhardwaj	Mechanical Engineering
Latent heat thermal energy storage for medium temperature solar thermal power plant	Sandip Kumar Saha	Mechanical Engineering
Gas hydrates: Energy source of the future!	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Permeability of hydrate bearing sediments: A coupled fluid flow mechanism	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Thermal characterisation of soil mass	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Keep it cool	A. S. Khanna	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Cool roof coatings	A. S. Khanna	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Growth of strictly monolayer large continuous MoS₂ films on diverse substrates	Subhabrata Dhar	Physics
Polycarbocyclic cage compounds as high energy density materials	Irishi N. N. Namboothiri Arindrajit Chowdhury Neeraj Kumbhakarna	Chemistry Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering
Managing energy, computationally	Krithi Ramamritham	Centre for Urban Science and Engineering
Interested in conserving your resources! Pinch Analysis may help you	Santanu Bandopadhyay	Energy Science and Engineering
Understanding the effect of external acoustic forcing on impinging jet atomisation used in liquid rocket combustors	Hrishikesh Gadgil	Aerospace Engineering
Low-dimensional materials for energy harvesting	L. S. Panchakarla	Chemistry
Modeling of grain-oriented ferromagnetic materials in transformers	S. V. Kulkarni	Electrical Engineering
Analysis of current interruption process in vacuum circuit breakers	S. V. Kulkarni	Electrical Engineering
Fracture: Mechanical characterisation of Indian reservoir rocks	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
Numerical and experimental study of rocks under very high temperature conditions: Underground coal gasification	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
Numerical simulation of fluid flow through discontinuities	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
Social acceptance of various cookstove technology related programs	Anish Modi	Energy Science and Engineering
New materials with giant thermoelectric efficiency	Aftab Alam	Physics
Discovering new transparent conducting material	Aftab Alam	Physics
Development of indigenous lithium-ion battery prototype with safe and energy dense chemistry from India	Sagar Mitra	Energy Science and Engineering
Fly ash utilisation in haul road construction in open cast coal mines by using polymeric fly ash composite	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
2D carrier confinement in polar semiconductor wedges: A novel route to achieve high mobility devices	Subhabrata Dhar	Physics
A novel SRM drive for ceiling fan application	B. G. Fernandes	Electrical Engineering
A novel ferrite SMDS spoke-type BLDc motor for PV borewell submersible water pumps	B. G. Fernandes	Electrical Engineering
Reconfigurable distribution networks	Kishore Chatterjee B. G. Fernandes	Electrical Engineering
Three phase seven level modular multi-level converter	Anshuman Shukla	Electrical Engineering
Design and development of power packs with supercapacitors and fractional order modeling	Vivek Agarwal	Electrical Engineering
Intelligent micro-grid with appropriate energy storage	Vivek Agarwal	Electrical Engineering

Environment, Climate & Earth Sciences

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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Development of domestic defluoridation unit	Sanjeev Chaudhari	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Development of composting system for household wet waste processing	Anurag Garg	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Treating the water with light and sound	Amritanshu Shriwastav	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Efficient and selective separation of oil from oil spill	Shobha Shukla	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Simulation of permeable reactive barrier for aquifer remediation	A. K. Rastogi	Civil Engineering
Bio-geo interface: A confluence of biotechnology and geotechnical engineering	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Bioreactor landfills: A panacea for management of municipal solid waste	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Industrial by-products in sustainable infrastructure development	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Rheology of soils	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Hydraulic model studies on pump intakes and flow characteristics	Eldho T. I.	Civil Engineering
Web GIS based integrated flood assessment model	Eldho T. I.	Civil Engineering
Understanding land-atmosphere interactions during monsoon to improve weather forecast and seasonal prediction	Subimal Ghosh	Civil Engineering
GrIDSense: Groundwater, Irrigation and Disease Sensing System	Adinarayana J. Durbha S.	Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering
City garden as wastewater treatment plant	Anil Kumar Dikshit	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Decision support tool to decide the way we commute in future	Anil Kumar Dikshit	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Distilleries to source irrigation water for agriculture	Anil Kumar Dikshit	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Food waste a potential fuel for future	Anil Kumar Dikshit	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Synthetic soils built from industrial wastes may soon replace natural soils for vegetation	Anil Kumar Dikshit	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Innovative technologies in water treatment	Sanjeev Chaudhari	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
A reactor for removal of persistent pollutants present in potable water	Sumathi Suresh	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
The excitement of watching paint dry	Mahesh S Tirumkudulu	Chemical Engineering
Detection of mercury/cyanide poisoning	C. P. Rao	Chemistry
Materials for CO₂ capture	R. Murugavel	Chemistry
Fog watch: Using satellite remote sensing to monitor the widespread winter fog over South Asia	Ritesh Gautam	Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering
Cloud darkening: Impact of smoke from fires and pollution on the fate of clouds	Ritesh Gautam	Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering
Optimising on waste sand	G. N. Jadhav	Earth Sciences
Making molehills out of mountains	Malay Mukul	Earth Sciences
Understanding microbe-sediment interaction of the past from present day findings	Santanu Banerjee	Earth Sciences
Why do we not mitigate urban flood risk even though we have a scientific understanding and technological capability to do so?	D. Parthasarathy	Humanities and Social Sciences
Fate of marine oil spills along Mumbai coastline	Balaji Ramakrishnan	Civil Engineering
Comprehensive analysis of siltation dynamics of Thane creek	Balaji Ramakrishnan	Civil Engineering
Nearshore dynamics: A unique five institute joint field measurement exercise along Pondicherry coastline	Balaji Ramakrishnan	Civil Engineering
Tidal energy: Assessment of resources along Indian Gulfs	Balaji Ramakrishnan	Civil Engineering
Regionalised design rainfall estimation: An appraisal of inundation mapping for flood management under data scarce situations	Subhankar Karmakar	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Non-stationarity in Indian summer monsoon	Subhankar Karmakar	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Circular economy and eco-efficiency for urban areas in India	Pradip Kalbar	Centre for Urban Science and Engineering
Biotic response to climate change in deep time	Pratul Kumar Saraswati	Earth Sciences
Biocemented sands	Ashish Juneja	Civil Engineering
Double porous clay fills	Ashish Juneja	Civil Engineering
Calcium carbide residue as soil additive	Ashish Juneja	Civil Engineering
Stability of embankments subjected to large number of cyclic loads	Ashish Juneja	Civil Engineering
Eco-efficiency of Indian industries	Trupti Mishra	SJM School of Management
Assessment of policy instruments for climate change mitigation in Indian electricity sector	Trupti Mishra	SJM School of Management
Green energy in urban transport	Trupti Mishra	SJM School of Management
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)	Haripriya Gundimeda	Humanities and Social Sciences
The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity (TEEB) services in the forest ecosystems of Western Ghats: A case study	Haripriya Gundimeda	Humanities and Social Sciences
Natural capital accounting in Himachal Pradesh: Feasibility and planning study	Haripriya Gundimeda	Humanities and Social Sciences
Natural capital accounting in Himachal Pradesh: Lessons learnt from Mandi district	Haripriya Gundimeda	Humanities and Social Sciences
Climate finance at the sub-national level: The case of Odisha	Haripriya Gundimeda	Humanities and Social Sciences
Fiscal instruments for low carbon transport in Chennai	Haripriya Gundimeda	Humanities and Social Sciences
Payment for ecosystem services for Lake Sevan, Armenia	Haripriya Gundimeda	Humanities and Social Sciences
Developing fungal cells as factories	Narayan S. Punekar	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Multiscale characterization of hydro-climatic time series for improved prediction of hydrological variables	Manne Janga Reddy	Civil Engineering
Predictive modeling and risk assessment of hydrological extremes	Manne Janga Reddy	Civil Engineering
Integrated modelling for flood risk mapping and developing early warning system	Manne Janga Reddy	Civil Engineering
Bio-inspired search algorithms for design and operation of water supply/distribution systems	Manne Janga Reddy	Civil Engineering
LSS model for designing of landfill	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Geocell mattress: Encased fly ash column composite systems in soft clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
End bearing encased stone columns and finite element modeling of floating encased stone columns in soft clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Closure of near surface disposal facility for low level radioactive waste	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering

Infrastructure, Planning & Transportation

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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Urban transportation modeling system for sustainable city	K. V. Krishna Rao	Civil Engineering
Damage accumulation in aging highway bridges considering multiple earthquake events	Jayadipta Ghosh	Civil Engineering
Lifetime seismic vulnerability assessment of highway bridges considering climate change	Jayadipta Ghosh	Civil Engineering
Multi-hazard vulnerability assessment of highway bridges	Jayadipta Ghosh	Civil Engineering
Seismic simulation of shear critical reinforced concrete structures	Arghadeep Laskar	Civil Engineering
Corrosion mitigation in prestressed concrete structures through use of FRP strands	Arghadeep Laskar	Civil Engineering
Use of periodic foundations for seismic isolation of structural systems	Arghadeep Laskar	Civil Engineering
Safety of critical infrastructure against blast loading	Manish Kumar	Civil Engineering
Reducing seismic risk to nuclear structures using passive control devices	Manish Kumar	Civil Engineering
Feasibility of bagasse ash as backfill material	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) for new pavement construction	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Nano materials for pavement applications	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Geotextile reinforced steel slag highway embankment using PLAXIS 3D	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Stability of fly ash slopes using waste plastic bottles as a cellular reinforcement	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) based geomaterial	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Numerical analysis of expanded polystyrene geofoam fill railway embankment on soft ground	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Proposed tests for geofoam	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Multi-tiered fly ash wall reinforced with waste plastic bottle geocell	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Numerical analyses on cellular mattress–reinforced fly ash beds overlying soft clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam embankments on soft soils	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Application of expanded polystyrene beads	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Geocell mattress: Encased fly ash column composite systems in soft clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
End bearing encased stone columns and finite element modeling of floating encased stone columns in soft clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Design of 300 m high artificial mountain using geosynthetics	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Numerical analysis on designed mixes using GGBS and sodium bentonite as a highway construction material	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Numerical evaluation of expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam creep	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Improving performance of buried pipelines using geosynthetics	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering

Materials, Manufacturing, Robotics & Industrial Processes

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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Flexible electronics: Electronics that can bend, flex, stretch or fold	Dipti Gupta	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Sustainable composites for electronics	Satish Vitta	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Stanene: A story beyond graphene	Sumit Saxena	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Development of indigenous lithium-ion battery prototype with safe and energy dense chemistry from India	Sagar Mitra	Energy Science and Engineering
Making lithium-ion batteries to work at sub-zero temperatures	Sagar Mitra	Energy Science and Engineering
Ancient art to advanced nanomaterial – onion-like carbons	Smrutiranjan Parida	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Proactive management of assets against corrosion failure	V. S. Raja	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Large scale graphene production and its use to develop high performance anti-corrosion coatings	A. S. Khanna	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Flow and mixing of powders	Devang V. Khakhar	Chemical Engineering
Continuous flow technology	Anil Kumar	Chemistry
Magnetic materials for multifunctional applications: Magnetic refrigeration to spintronics	K. G. Suresh	Physics
Fly ash utilisation in haul road construction in open cast coal mines by using polymeric fly ash composite	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
Development of engineering ceramics for variety of advanced structural applications via microstructural engineering using innovative processing routes	Amartya Mukhopadhyay	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
RoVeR: Remotely operated vehicle for Army	Anirban Guha	Mechanical Engineering
Engineering surfaces for self cleaning and reducing drag	Rajneesh Bhardwaj Atul Sharma	Mechanical Engineering
Tuning colloidal deposits by evaporating sessile droplets	Rajneesh Bhardwaj	Mechanical Engineering
Towards sustainable manufacturing at the microscale: Addressing some scientific and technological issues	Ramesh Singh	Mechanical Engineering
Emission reduction technologies in diesel engines	Sreedhara Sheshadri	Mechanical Engineering
Numerical modeling of lifted flame	Sreedhara Sheshadri	Mechanical Engineering
Self cleaning coating	A. S. Khanna	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
2D carrier confinement in polar semiconductor wedges: A novel route to achieve high mobility devices	Subhabrata Dhar	Physics
Gunshot localisation using acoustics	Aniruddha Sinha	Aerospace Engineering
Impact of manufacturing defects and operation induced defects on wind turbine blade quality and reliability	Chandra Sekher Yerramalli	Aerospace Engineering
Development of particle image velocimetry instrument for fluid velocity measurement	Amit Agrawal	Mechanical Engineering
Flameless combustion: An emissions reduction technique in gas turbine combustors	Sudarshan Kumar	Aerospace Engineering
Development of small scale stand alone thermoelectric power generation systems using microcombustors	Sudarshan Kumar	Aerospace Engineering
Experimental facility for measurement of laminar burning velocities of multicomponent gaseous fuel mixtures at high temperatures	Sudarshan Kumar	Aerospace Engineering
Flame dynamics in micro/meso scale channels	Sudarshan Kumar	Aerospace Engineering
High fidelity burning velocity data for liquid biofuels for cleaner combustion	Sudarshan Kumar	Aerospace Engineering
TMT central diaphragm manufacturing process technology development	Asim Tewari	Mechanical Engineering
Software technology for machining process simulation and optimisation	Asim Tewari	Mechanical Engineering
Composite mounting tray	Asim Tewari	Mechanical Engineering
webCNC: Internet based CNC machining	S. S. Pande	Mechanical Engineering
Solidification: An intrinsic physical phenomena in ice-creams, metals and igneous rocks	Shyamprasad Karagadde	Mechanical Engineering
Oxy-fuel combustion of pulverised coal in a swirl burner	Sreedhara Sheshadri	Mechanical Engineering
DNS of growth of a flame kernal in a turbulent premixed medium	Sreedhara Sheshadri	Mechanical Engineering
Full anechoic chamber	S. D. Sharma	Aerospace Engineering
Low noise wind tunnel	S. D. Sharma	Aerospace Engineering
Low profile, conformal, dual polarised, dual transmit/receive, ultra wide band antenna for decoy missile applications	Jayanta Mukherjee	Electrical Engineering
Mode converter for directed energy systems	Jayanta Mukherjee	Electrical Engineering
Control, locomotion and geometry	Ravi Banavar	Systems and Control Engineering
Un-manned airborne systems (UAS) for remote sensing and photogrammetry	D. Ramakrishnan	Earth Sciences
Design of gearless spherical robot	Leena Vachhani	Systems and Control Engineering
Orca: IIT Bombay’s 5th edition Racing car	Amber Shrivastava	Mechanical Engineering
Radiant UV sunscreens for young and shiny skin	Ajit R. Kulkarni Mayuri Gandhi	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Sciences
Growth of strictly monolayer large continuous MoS₂ films on diverse substrates	Subhabrata Dhar	Physics
Industrial by-products in sustainable infrastructure development	D. N. Singh	Civil Engineering
Macro and micro scale study of artificially structured soil: A slope stabilisation perspective	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
Integrated computational materials engineering	A. Alankar	Mechanical Engineering
Carbon nanotube-noble metal nanohybrid catalysed organic transformations	Irishi N. N. Namboothiri	Chemistry
Combustion and emission characteristics in gas turbine engines	Sreedhara Sheshadri	Mechanical Engineering
Microstructural engineering of metallic materials towards achieving exceptional mechanical performance	MJNV Prasad	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Micromechanics of the Materials group	Nagamani Jaya Balila	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Supercritical CO2 Textile Dyeing Technology (SCFTD)	Sandip Roy	Chemical Engineering
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) based geomaterial	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Application of expanded polystyrene beads	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Miniature California bearing ratio (CBR) apparatus	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Bearing capacity of reinforced soil using nonconventional materials	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Natural prefabricated vertical drains in marine clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
Geocell mattress: Encased fly ash column composite systems in soft clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering
End bearing encased stone columns and finite element modeling of floating encased stone columns in soft clay	J N Mandal	Civil Engineering

Societal Relevance
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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Broadband connectivity to rural and under-served regions using TV white space band	Abhay Karandikar	Electrical Engineering
Large scale deployment planning for fibre and wireless: BharatNet planning and validation	Abhay Karandikar	Electrical Engineering
Emergency communication system	Abhay Karandikar	Electrical Engineering
Audio signal processing for music analyses	Preeti Rao	Electrical Engineering
Community skilling and capacity building livelihoods model for tribal community in Mumbai	R. Sandesh	Industrial Design Centre
An affordable in-house developed system for precise irrigation	Maryam Shojaei Baghini	Electrical Engineering
Access to healthcare: Healthcare infrastructure planning for disadvantaged groups	Arnab Jana	Centre for Urban Science and Engineering
Data-driven design heuristics for sustainable low income settlements	Ronita Bardhan	Centre for Urban Science and Engineering
Blast loading on human eye: Injury mechanism and risks quantification	Rajneesh Bhardwaj	Mechanical Engineering
Handheld explosive detectors	Anil Kumar Chemistry	Chemistry
Low cost vein tracer for blood banks and pathology labs	B. K. Chakravarthy	Industrial Design Centre
Electric field induced bandgap modulation of graphene oxide for development of novel photonic devices	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Low cost polymer based multimodal wideband MEMS photonic sensing platform	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Gas sensor for environmental monitoring system based on ZnO hybrid microcrystal	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Non-contact and in-field soil analysing device based on diffused reflectance spectroscopy technique	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Evanescent field based plasmonic sensing platforms for healthcare applications	Tapanendu Kundu	Physics
Macro and micro scale study of artificially structured soil: A slope stabilisation perspective	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
Collapsible helmet design for Indian two-wheeler users	B. K. Chakravarthy	Industrial Design Centre
Lighting for heritage monuments	B. K. Chakravarthy	Industrial Design Centre
Lightweight palkhi designed for use at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine	B. K. Chakravarthy	Industrial Design Centre
Window mounted solar oven	B. K. Chakravarthy	Industrial Design Centre
Brick-making to get more efficient and ergonomic	G. G. Ray	Industrial Design Centre
Byclip: Bicycle parking rack	Nishant Sharma	Industrial Design Centre
Confy trike: Tricycle for paraplegics	Nishant Sharma	Industrial Design Centre
Flood rescue vehicle	Nishant Sharma	Industrial Design Centre
Bringing Bhil art to light	Nina Sabnani	Industrial Design Centre
The Shobhika font	K. Ramasubramanian Girish Dalvi	Humanities and Social Sciences Industrial Design Centre
Breathe easy: Biomimetic lung surfactants for critical care respiratory diseases	Rinti Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Cosmetics for health and well being	Rinti Banerjee	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Jellow communicator: A communication aid for children with speech difficulties	Ravi Poovaiah	Industrial Design Centre
Vizzbu: An app for children with cortical visual impairment	Ravi Poovaiah	Industrial Design Centre
Numerical simulation of fluid flow through discontinuities	T. N. Singh	Earth Sciences
Social acceptance of various cookstove technology related programs	Anish Modi	Energy Science and Engineering
Development of composting system for household wet waste processing	Anurag Garg	Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
Efficient and selective separation of oil from oil spill	Shobha Shukla	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
RoVeR: Remotely operated vehicle for Army	Anirban Guha	Mechanical Engineering
Exploring with the eyes of a quadcopter	Sharat Chandran	Computer Science and Engineering
Carbon nanotube-noble metal nanohybrid catalysed organic transformations	Irishi N. N. Namboothiri	Chemistry
Garden waste and agro residue gasification for thermal applications	Sanjay Mahajani	Chemical Engineering
Tackling child malnutrition: An innovative methodology for training health workers using ICT	Satish B. Agnihotri	Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas
Analysing inequality in domestic electricity consumption in India	Satish B. Agnihotri	Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas
Manual pumps with Drip kit: Hi-Tech at the doorstep of marginal farmers	Satish B. Agnihotri	Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas

Large Scale Computing Big Data & ICT

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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Organisation of chromatin and the fate of a cell	Ranjith Padinhateeri	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Theoretical modeling of protein self-assembly in biology	Ranjith Padinhateeri	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Mechanics of living systems	Mandar Inamdar	Civil Engineering
Computational schemes for rational solvent design	Jhumpa Adhikari	Chemical Engineering
Molecular simulation study of phase equilibria of molecular fluids	Jhumpa Adhikari	Chemical Engineering
Image reconstruction and processing: Methods to make images more useful and acquire them faster	Ajit Rajwade	Computer Science and Engineering
Exploring with the eyes of a quadcopter	Sharat Chandran	Computer Science and Engineering
Hunting down elusive computer bugs: Formal methods to the rescue	Supratik Chakraborty	Computer Science and Engineering
Behind the cloud-technology to power today's infrastructure clouds	Umesh Bellur Purushottam Kulkarni	Computer Science and Engineering
Signal processing in earth system sciences: New perspectives	E. Chandrasekhar	Earth Sciences
Computer simulation of shock waves at micro-scales	Bhalchandra Puranik Upendra Bhandarkar	Mechanical Engineering
Computer simulation of shocks during re-entry flows in rarefied regions	Bhalchandra Puranik Upendra Bhandarkar	Mechanical Engineering
Advanced numerical methods for modeling complex physics on supercomputers	Shivasubramanian Gopalakrishnan	Mechanical Engineering
A general-purpose high-performance framework for smoothed particle hydrodynamics	Prabhu Ramachandran	Aerospace Engineering
Making the most out of satellite images using data assimilation approach	Indu J	Civil Engineering
SafeStreet: Road anomaly detection and early warning using mobile crowdsensing	Bhaskaran Raman	Computer Science and Engineering
SAFE: Smart Authenticated Fast Exams	Kameswari Chebrolu Bhaskaran Raman	Compute Science and Engineering
Weakly supervised 3D shape analysis	Siddhartha Chaudhuri	Computer Science and Engineering
Physically based animation and rendering	Parag Chaudhuri	Computer Science and Engineering
Reinforcement learning	Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan	Computer Science and Engineering
Issues in analysis of images from space borne platforms	Krishna Mohan Buddhiraju	Center of Studies in Resources Engineering
Hindi Shabdamitra: A digital aid for language teaching and learning	Malhar A. Kulkarni	Humanities and Social Sciences
Integrated computational materials engineering	A. Alankar	Mechanical Engineering
Multiscale modeling of metal deformation under extreme conditions	A. Alankar	Mechanical Engineering
Three dimensional study of mechanisms of compressive deformation and failure in porous bulk metallic glasses	Parag Tandaiya	Mechanical Engineering
Phase field modeling of microstructural evolution	Gururajan Mogadalai	Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Detecting and curating errors in Sanskrit OCR documents	K. Ramasubramanian Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Humanities and Social Sciences
Automatingreading comprehension by generatingquestionand answerpair	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Computer Science and Engineering
An adaptive framework for end-to-end corrections in Indic-OCR	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Computer Science and Engineering
Video analytics for security	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Computer Science and Engineering
Video analytics for compliance and quality monitoring in MoRD skill development centres	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Computer Science and Engineering
Assessment of farmer producer organisations using Rubric methodology	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Computer Science and Engineering
Search across knowledge sources: Components of building semantic search systems	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Computer Science and Engineering
IndoWordNet	Pushpak Bhattacharyya	Computer Science and Engineering
Machine translation	Pushpak Bhattacharyya	Computer Science and Engineering
Cognitive NLP	Pushpak Bhattacharyya	Computer Science and Engineering
Information extraction and retrieval	Pushpak Bhattacharyya	Computer Science and Engineering
Word sense disambiguation	Pushpak Bhattacharyya	Computer Science and Engineering
Development and evolution of Sanskrit Wordnet	Malhar A. Kulkarni	Humanities and Social Sciences
Towards a critical edition of the Kasikavrtti	Malhar A. Kulkarni	Humanities and Social Sciences
Enhanced heat transfer using deformable thin plates: Flexible fins	Rajneesh Bhardwaj	Mechanical Engineering
Broadband connectivity to rural and under-served regions using TV white space band	Abhay Karandikar	Electrical Engineering
Large scale deployment planning for fibre and wireless: BharatNet planning and validation	Abhay Karandikar	Electrical Engineering
Emergency communication system	Abhay Karandikar	Electrical Engineering
The Shobhika font	K. Ramasubramanian Girish Dalvi	Humanities and Social Sciences Industrial Design Centre
Advanced numerical methods for modeling complex physics on supercomputers	Shivasubramanian Gopalakrishnan	Mechanical Engineering
A public domain general purpose circuit simulator	Mahesh B. Patil	Electrical Engineering
Tackling child malnutrition: An innovative methodology for training health workers using ICT	Satish B. Agnihotri	Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas
Swarachakra: Keyboard for typing in Indic scripts on Android	Anirudha Joshi	Industrial Design Centre

Natural Sciences Engineering Sciences Humanities & Education

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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Chemistry of phosphorus compounds: Options are endless	M. S. Balakrishna	Chemistry
Protein based novel multi-functional biomaterials	Kamendra Sharma	Chemistry
Carbon nanotube-noble metal nanohybrid catalysed organic transformations	Irishi N. N. Namboothiri	Chemistry
Dynamics in crowded and active medium	Rajarshi Chakrabarti	Chemistry
Printable and flexible transparent conducting electrodes and display devices	Anil Kumar	Chemistry
Studying chemical reactions using transition state modeling	R. Sunoj	Chemistry
Single-crystalline gold substrates for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy	Parinda Vasa B. P. Singh	Physics
Experimenting with complex fluid flows: Resolving a range of scales	Sridhar Balasubramanian	Mechanical Engineering
Low temperature transport in superconducting semiconductors and other mesoscopic structures	Kantimay Das Gupta	Physics
Optical X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy for compositional analysis	D. Ramakrishnan	Earth Sciences
Addressing anomaly and missing link in Hawking's theory on black hole thermodynamics	Shripad P. Mahulikar	Aerospace Engineering
Multi-scale simulation studies on spin transfer torque magnetic tunnel junctions	Bhaskaran Muralidharan Ashwin Tulapurkar	Electrical Engineering
Maths meets physics	P. Ramadevi	Physics
Algebraic solver of PDEs	Debasattam Pal	Electrical Engineering
Narratives English literature	Sudha Shastri	Humanities and Social Sciences
Empathy and moral cognition: A Buddhist philosophical perspective	C. D. Sebastian	Humanities and Social Sciences
Technology Enhanced Learning of Thinking Skills (TELoTS)	Sahana Murthy	Educational Technology
A public domain general purpose circuit simulator	Mahesh B. Patil	Electrical Engineering
Biophysics of cancer	Shamik Sen	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Chemical biology of nucleic acids targeting drugs and damaging agents	Pradeepkumar P. I.	Chemistry
Induction of embryonic stem cell differentiation by physical cues	Shamik Sen	Biosciences and Bioengineering
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Operations Research & Management

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Title of write-up	Faculty (Prof.)	Department
Supply chain analysis: Combining theory with practice	Jayendran Venkateswaran	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Hybrid simulation methodologies for analysing complex systems	Jayendran Venkateswaran	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Algorithms and software for hard optimisation problems	Ashutosh Mahajan	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Performance limits of delay constrained communication systems	Ankur Kulkarni	Systems and Control Engineering
Regulating algorithmic high frequency trading and collocation in the Indian securities market: A quantitative approach	Ankur Kulkarni	Systems and Control Engineering
Multi-stage and multi-objective process optimisation	Indrajit Mukherjee	SJM School of Management
Game theoretic mechanism design for group decision making	Conan Mukherjee	Humanities and Social Sciences
What heights on ladder of international competitiveness can your firm plan to climb	Kirankumar S. Momaya	SJM School of Management