Compendium of Recent Sponsored Research Projects
Secure and Energy-efficient Mixed-domain Compute in Memory Based AI Accelerator Chip for Edge Applications
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Vinay S Palaparthy
- Date of Commencement – 14.3.2024
- Total sanctioned budget - 96,00,000
- Duration - 5 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of India, Minsitry of E&IT, MeitY
Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yield and Plant Disease for Major Crops In Gujarat using In-house IoT Enabled Sensor System
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Vinay S Palaparthy
- Date of Commencement – 06.3.2024
- Total sanctioned budget - 12,00,000
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of Gujarat, Climate Change Dept.
Highly Sensitive and Selective E-nose to Detect Hazardous Formaldehyde VOC in Human Spaceflight
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Vinay S Palaparthy
- Date of Commencement – 23.2.2024
- Total sanctioned budget - 21,34,000
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of India, DST-SERB
A Novel Orthogonal Measurements (Sensors+Images) for Accurate Plant Disease Predictions using In-house developed TRL-6 IoT Enabled System and Machine Learning
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Vinay S Palaparthy
- Date of Commencement – 08.2.2024
- Total sanctioned budget - 12,41,000
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - TIH-DRISHTI CHANAKYA, Fellowship IIT, Indore
Detection of trace Elements using Micro-sensor array in Human Spaceflight
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Vinay S Palaparthy
- Date of Commencement – 16.2.2023
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 20,04,880
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - ISRO-RAC
Development of Robotic Computing Accelerator
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Tapas Kumar Maiti, Co-PI: Prof. Srimanta Mandal
- Date of Commencement – 30.1.2023
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 14,53,230
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - SERB, DST
Optical Camera Based Smart Navigation System for Assisting Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Anil K Roy, Co-PI: Prof. Bakul Gohel
- Date of Commencement – 20.1.2023
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 52,75,308
- Duration - 3 Years
- Funding Agency - CSR-IKDRC, Govt of Gujarat
KAVACH-Futuristic Flexible electronics based Communication system for Monitoring soldier's condition during warfare
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Rutu Parekh
- Date of Commencement – 31.3.2022
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 16,90,000
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - GUJCOST, GOVT OF GUJARAT
Miniaturization and calibration of an IoT enabled ultra-low power consuming heart monitoring of patient with cardiovascular diseases for resource constrained regions
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Biswajit Mishra
- Date of Commencement – 31.3.2022
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 26,85,000
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - GUJCOST, GOVT OF GUJARAT
Prototyping Dog Jacket for Real Time Rescue Operation inspired by Robotics Technology
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Tapas Kumar Maiti
- Date of Commencement – 31.3.2022
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 19,83,200
- Duration - 3 Years
- Funding Agency - GUJCOST, GOVT OF GUJARAT
Implementation Techniques of Discrete and Continuous Time Quantum Random Walks and their Applications
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Jaideep Mulherkar
- Co-PI - Prof. Gautam Datta
- Date of Commencement – 15.3.2022
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 23,11,595
- Duration - 3 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Discourse Integrated Dravidian Language to Dravidian Language Machine Translation (DL-DiscoMT) under National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Prasenjit Majumder
- Date of Commencement – 02.3.2022
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 42,17,000
- Duration - 3 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
An Empirical Analysis on Deriving Test Cases from Natural Language Text using MBT Approach
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Saurabh Tiwari
- Commencement of Project – 24.2.2022
- Budget - Rs. 20,78,000
- Duration - 3 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of India, SAC-ISRO
Indian Language to Indian Language Translation – National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Prasenjit Majumder
- Commencement of Project – 15.2.2022
- Budget - Rs. 1,48,61,000
- Duration - 3 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Speech Technologies in Indian Languages – National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)`
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Hemant Patil
- Commencement of Project – 18.2.2022
- Budget - Rs. 85,26,000
- Duration - 3 Years
- Funding Agency - Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
IoT Enabled, Self Calibrating and Self-Healing Sensor System for In-situ Agriculture Applications
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Vinay Srinivas Palaparthy
- Commencement of Project – 12.1.2022
- Budget: Rs. 2,81,056
- Duration: 4 Years
- Funding Agency - Technology Innovation Hub (TIH), IIT Bombay
Vulnerability Research on QUIC Implementation
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Anish Mathuria
- Co-PI - Prof. Saurabh Tiwari
- Date of Commencement – 12.1.2022
- Total sanctioned budget - Rs. 22,66,572
- Duration - 1.5 Years
- Funding Agency - DRDO Bengluru
A forensic Tool for Land Revenue Documents Forgery Detection
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Priyanka Singh
- Date of Commencement – 25.3.21
- Total sanctioned budget: 10.45 lakh
- Duration: 2 Years
- Funding Agency: GoG, GUJCOST
Computational Invenstigations of Instability drivern transport in low temperature magnetized plasma discharges using massively parallel 2D-3v PIC-MCC simulations
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Bhaskar Chaudhary
- Date of Commencement – 23.3.21
- Total sanctioned budget - 26.95 lakh
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - GOI, NSM (National Supercomputer Mission)
Development of an integrated surveillance system for suspicious behaviour analysis
- Principal Investigator (PI) from DA-IICT: Prof. Manish Khare
- Principal Investigator (PI) from MNNIT Allahabad: Prof. Dushyant Kumar Singh
- Principal Investigator (PI) from University of Allahabad: Prof. Ashish Khare
- Commencement of Project – 01.10.2021
- Budget: 19.32 Lakh
- Duration: 3 Years
- Funding Agency: DST SERB
Design and Implementation of a visibility Improvement model for Haze removal in images acquired from real time CCTV camera
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Ahlad Kumar
- Co-PI - Prof. Manish Khare
- Commencement of Project – 01.04.2021
- Budget - 19.25 Lakh
- Duration - 2 Years
- Funding Agency - Gujarat Council on Science and Technology
Dynamical Sampling and Representation of Frames via lterated Operator Systems
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof. Nabinkumar Sahu
- Date of Commencement – 31.12.20
- Total sanctioned budget – 16.16 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
- Fudning Agency: GOI, DST,SERB
IoT Enabled, 2-D Nanomaterial Leaf Wetness Microsensor On Flexible Substrate for Integrated Plant Disease Management
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Vinay Shrinivas Palaparthy
- Commencement of Project – 04.1.2020
- Budget – 18.13 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Design of a Novel and Ultra-Low power All Digital Front Acquisition with Configurable Time of Digital converter and Integrated Application Specific Processor for Detection of Mycrocardial Infarctions
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Biswajit Mishra
- Commencement of Project – 27.1.2020
- Budget – 21.74 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Speech to Speech Machine Translation (SSMT) Pilot System
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Prasenjit Majumder
- Commencement of Project – 29.5.20
- Budget – 13.65 lakh
- Duration – 1 Year
IoT Enabled, smart Micro Sensor for Integrated Plant Disease Management
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Vinay Shrinivas Palaparthy
- Commencement of Project – 13.8.2020
- Budget – 36.11 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Development of geo-magnetism based Indo navigation system
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof PS Kalyan Sasidhar
- Commencement of Project – 27.10.2020
- Budget – 27.41 lakh
- Duration – 2 Years
Teachers Association for Research Excellence (TARE)
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof V Sunitha
- Commencement of Project – 27.2.2019
- Budget – 18.30 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Respond Project – Design and Simulation of Beamforming Algorithms and Baseband Technologies for SATCOM
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Yash Vasavada
- Commencement of Project – 16.1.2019
- Budget – 23.32 lakh
- Duration – 2 Years
A Device for Bed Load Measurement
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Biswajit Mishra
- Commencement of Project – 26.2.2019
- Budget – 76.69 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Multiscale and Simulation of complex Plasma Dynamics during High Millimer Wave Breakdown
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Bhaskar Chaudhury
- Commencement of Project – 26.3.2019
- Budget – 21.60 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Design and Field Training Testing of an Energy Autonomous Internet of Things Enabled Cattle Estrus Detection Device Targeted for Resource Constrained Regions
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI - Prof Biswajit Mishra / Prof PS Kalyan Sashidhar
- Commencement of Project – 30.3.2019
- Budget – 38.29 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Design and simulation of Physical Layer and Medium Access Control (IMAC) Layer Functionalities of Future Mobile Satellite Systems
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI - Prof Rajib Lochan Das / Prof Yash Vasavada
- Commencement of Project – 31.5.2019
- Budget – 27.46 lakh
- Duration – 2 Years
Archival Vector DNA Data Storage (INDO-GERMAN Proj)
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Manish K Gupta
- Commencement of Project – 25.9.2019
- Budget – 12.78 lakh
- Duration – 2 Years
Respond Project – Satellite Network Simulator (SNS) with ULPC and ACM features
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Bhaskar Chaudhary
- Commencement of Project – 3.12.2019
- Budget – 14.18 lakh
- Duration – 2 Years
Adaptive Beam Forming for Mitigation of Interference and Jamming at the Ground Terminal of Global Navigational Satellite Systems (GNSS)
- Principal Investigator (PI) - Prof Sanjeev Gupta
- Commencement of Project – 23.12.2019
- Budget – 15.98 lakh
- Duration – 2 Years
SAR Polarimetric Image classification using Wishart Mixture model and Convolution Neural Networks
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI - Prof Suman Mitra / Prof Srimantha Mandal
- Commencement of Project – 31.12.2019
- Budget – 25.33 lakh
- Duration – 3 Years
Using Mobile Sensing Mechanism to Assess Smartphone Addiction and its Negative Impact on Students
- Sponsoring Agency: Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
- Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-PI: Prof. Alka Parikh / Prof. Kalyan Sasidhar
- Commencement of project: 27/03/2018
- Budget: 16 lakhs
- Duration: 2 years
Modeling and Simulation of a Non-invasive Approach for the Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Assessment inside Human Subject exposed to CPS Wireless Infrastructure
- Sponsoring Agency: Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems Research (ICPSR), DST, Govt. of India
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Rajendra Mitharwal / Prof. Bhaskar Chaudhary
- Commencement of the Project: 4/1/2018
- Budget: Rs. 35.0 lakhs
- Duration: 3 years
UCMA: A Toolset to Automatically Analyze Functional Requirements Specified in the Use Cases
- Sponsoring Agency: SERB/DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Saurabh Tiwari
- Commencement of the Project: 1/10/2017
- Duration: 2 years
Development of Microwave Absorbers in 1 to 8 GHz Range
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DoS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof Deepak Ghodgaonkar and Prof. Sanjeev Gupta
- Commencement of the Project: 1/10/2017
- Duration: 3 years
Desertification and Land Degradation Monitoring, Vulnerability Assessment and Combating Plan
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DoS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof Ranendu Ghosh
- Commencement of the Project: 7/3/2017
- Duration: 4 years
A platform for Crosslingual and Multlingual Event Montoring in Indian Languages (IMPRINT)
- Sponsoring Agency: IIT Kharagpur
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof Prasenjit Majumder
- Commencement of the Project: 9/14/2017
- Duration: 3 years
Enhanced Burst Demodulator Design and Simulation
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DoS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof Yash Vasavada
- Commencement of the Project: 10/16/2017
- Duration: 1 year
Detection of Heavy Metal Pollution in Vegetation and Characterization of Soil Clay Minerals using AVIRIS-NG Data
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DoS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Ranendu Ghosh and Prof. P.S. Kalyan Sasidhar
- Commencement of the Project: 12/1/2016
- Duration: 2 Years
Development of Ultra Low Power And Low Voltage Time to Digital Converter(TDC) for Space Applications
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DoS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Biswajit Mishra
- Commencement of the Project: 11/1/2016
- Duration: 2 Years
Kinetic Modeling of Large size Negative Ion Sources for Fusion Application using Emerging Parallel Processing Computer Architectures
- Sponsoring Agency: BRNS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Bhaskar Chaudhury and Prof. Mukesh Tiwari
- Commencement of the Project: 1/1/2016
- Duration: 3 Years
Study of Privacy, Accountability and Ownership in IoT
- Sponsoring Agency: IFCPAR
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Manik Lal Das and Prof. Anish Mathuria
- Commencement of the Project: 4/20/2016
- Duration: 3 Years
Knowledge Compilation in Modal and Multimodal Logic
- Sponsoring Agency: NBHM
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof Deepak Ghodgaonkar and Prof. Sanjeev Gupta
- Commencement of the Project: 2/2/2015
- Duration: 2 Years
Techno Feasibility Study on Automation of Hydroponics and Green House Cultivation
- Sponsoring Agency: GHM
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Ranendu Ghosh and Prof. Rahul Dubey
- Commencement of the Project: 2/2/2015
- Duration: 6 Months
Processor RTL Customization and Development of Low Power Design Flow Methodology
- Sponsoring Agency: GUJCOST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Amit Bhatt and Prof. Mazad Zaveri
- Commencement of the Project: 9/23/2015
- Duration: 2 Years
Enabling Technologies for Remote Health Monitoring
- Sponsoring Agency: GUJCOST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Biswajit Mishra and Prof. Manik Lal Das
- Commencement of the Project: 9/23/2015
- Duration: 2 years
Speech based Access of Agriculture Commodity Prices and Weather Information in 12 Indian Languages/ Dialects (ASR) Consortium-Phase-II
- Sponsoring Agency: DeitY
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Hemant Patil and Prof. M.V. Joshi
- Commencement of the Project: 8/7/2014
- Duration: 2 Years
Center Early Adopter – NSF/ TCPP CDER
- Sponsoring Agency: NSF (USA)
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Bhaskar Chaudhury and Prof. Mukesh Tiwari
- Commencement of the Project:8/25/2014
- Duration: Multi-Year
Ultra Wide Band Dielectric Resonator Antenna
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DoS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof Deepak Ghodgaonkar and Prof. Sanjeev Gupta
- Commencement of the Project: 10/31/2014
- Duration: 2 Years +
Developing of Infant Cry Analyzer using Source and System Features
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Hemant Patil
- Commencement of the Project: 1/16/2013
- Duration: 3 years
Development of Text to Speech System in Indian Languages (Phase-II)
- Sponsoring Agency: DIT
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Hemant Patil and Prof. M.V. Joshi
- Commencement of the Project: 2/16/2012
- Duration: 3 years
Design, development and hardware implementation of BPSK, QPSK and other modulation schemes as part of Software Defined Radio (SDR)/ Cognitive Radio (CR) for use in SATCOM Terminals
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DoS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Vijay Kumar Chakka and Prof. Rahul Dubey
- Commencement of the Project: 2/17/2012
- Duration: 2 Years
Evaluation of Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Land Surface Evapo-transpiration and Monsoon Rainfall Coupling over Indian Region for Climate Change Studies
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Dr. Indrani Choudhury Singh
- Commencement of the Project: 4/4/2012
- Duration: 3 years
Techniques for Robust Face Recognition with Pose Variation
- Sponsoring Agency: BRNS/DAE
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Suman Mitra and Prof. Mehul Raval
- Commencement of the Project: 7/25/2012
- Duration: 3 years
Indian Digital Heritage (IDH-Hampi) Phase-II (Digital Capture of Culture & Heritage)
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Manjunath Joshi and Prof. Hemant Patil
- Commencement of the Project: 2/15/2011
- Duration: 3 years
Value Addition in Grassroots Technologies
- Sponsoring Agency: National Innovation Foundation
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Anil Roy and Prof. Rahul Dubey
- Commencement of the Project: 4/6/2011
- Duration: 1 Year +
Development of Cross Lingual Information (CLIA) System (Phase-II)
- Sponsoring Agency: DIT
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Prasenjit Majumder and Prof. Suman Mitra
- Commencement of the Project: 5/10/2011
- Duration: 3 years
Distortion and accuracy improvement in sample-and-hold circuits for analog-digital converters
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Subhajit Sen, Prof. Chetan Parikh and Prof. Dipankar Nagchoudhuri
- Commencement of the Project: 7/7/2011
- Duration: 2 Years
Service–oriented Architecture for spatial Data Integration and Spatial reasoning
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Minal Bhise and Prof. Sanjay Chaudhary
- Commencement of the Project: 10/17/2011
- Duration: 3 years
Development of Prosodically Guided Phonetic Engine for searching speech database in Indian-Languages
- Sponsoring Agency: DIT
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Hemant Patil and Prof. M.V. Joshi
- Commencement of the Project: 12/23/2011
- Duration: 3 years
Semantic web based persar, SPARQL query builder and information extraction from social networks
- Sponsoring Agency: eZDI
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Sanjay Chaudhary
- Commencement of the Project: 12/29/2011
- Duration: 1 Year
Wireless Telemedicine using Body Area Sensor Networks and Heterogeneous Access Networks
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Laxminarayana Pillutla
- Commencement of the Project: 2/18/2010
- Duration: 1 Year
Security and Privacy Infrastructure for Internet of Things Scenarios and Aplications
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Manik Lal Das and Prof. Anish Mathuria
- Commencement of the Project: 4/20/2010
- Duration: 3 Years
Securing Biometric Data using Data Hiding Techniques
- Sponsoring Agency: BRNS/DAE
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Suman Mitra and Prof. Mehul Raval
- Commencement of the Project: 11/8/2010
- Duration: 3 Year
Analysis of Radiation from Multidevice High Gain Amplifier and Interaction of Active MMIC with Package/Housing – Theory, analysis and Measurements
- Sponsoring Agency: ISRO/DOS
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Sanjeev Gupta and Prof. Deepak Ghodgaonkar
- Commencement of the Project: 1/15/2009
- Duration: 2 Years
Prototype Earth Model for Wireless Sensor Nodes for Detection of Water on Moon and Water Sensing Systems based on Tunded Diode Laser for Planetary Mission
- Sponsoring Agency: PRL/DAE
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Prabhat Ranjan
- Commencement of the Project: 2/19/2009
- Duration: 2 Years
Security Proofs and Multidisciplinary Evaluation for Dynamic Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Anish Mathuria and Prof. Manik Lal Das
- Commencement of the Project: 3/3/2009
- Duration: 3 Years
Robust Ultra Low Power Double Gate MOSFET Design of Analog, Digital and SRAM Memory Circuits
- Sponsoring Agency: DST
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Chetan Parikh and Prof. Dipankar NagchoudhuriCommencement of the
- Project: 7/9/2009
- Duration: 3 Years
Finger/Wrist Mounted Universal Remote Control for CP Patient
- Sponsoring Agency: National Trust
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Prabhat Ranjan
- Commencement of the Project: 8/10/2009
- Duration: 1 Year + 1
Sensor Network Test-Bed for Tokamak Environment
- Sponsoring Agency: DAE
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Prabhat Ranjan
- Commencement of the Project: 8/22/2009
- Duration: 2 Years
Expansion of Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE) in the areas of Electronics and ICT
- Sponsoring Agency: DIT
- Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co-PI: Prof. Manish Gupta
- Commencement of the Project: 10/9/2009
- Duration: 3 Years