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9 November 2020
Asian Smart Cities Research Innovation Network (ASCRIN) Profile
Name: Alivelu Manga Parimi Position: Faculty, Electrical Engineering Department Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/alivelu/Profile Short Bio: Alivelu M Parimi has received the B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2001 and Master in Control System Engineering from Andhra University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical engineering from University Technology Petronas, Malaysia in 2011. In 2012 she joined as an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering in BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus and at present working as Associate Professor. She worked in different topics in the area of Power Systems and Control Systems. Some of her research interests include Renewable Energy Sources, FACTS, Power system stability, Power Quality, Reactive power compensation, Modal analysis, Control Systems applications, Control Systems applications. Research Interest Keywords: Renewable Energy, Power Quality, FACTS devices, Power System stability Summary of Research Interests: Research interests include Renewable Energy Sources, FACTS devices and their applications, Power system stability, Power Quality, Reactive power compensation, Modal analysis, Control Systems applications, Control Systems applications. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: M.T.L. Gayatri, Alivelu. M. Parimi, A.V. Pavan Kumar,, “A review of reactive power compensation techniques in microgrids”, In Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, Volume 81, Part 1, 2018, Pages 1030-1036. SCI indexed, Impact factor : 10.556 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.08.006; Haripriya T and Alivelu M Parimi “Hybrid Controller Topology for Large Solar PV Installations in High Voltage DC grid Connected Applications” Electrical Engineering Springer Journal December 2018, Volume 100, Issue 4, pp 2537–2552; Ramchandra Nittala , Alivelu M.Parimi , K. Uma Rao “Experimental Prototype Model of IDVR for Bidirectional Voltage Compensation”, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 297-304, March 2018; A. V. Pavan Kumar, Alivelu M. Parimi, K. Uma Rao, “Tie-Line Frequency Bias Control of TwoArea PV-Wind hybrid power system for Microgrid application”, UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, ISSN 2286-3540 2017 Vol.80, issue 1, 2018 Related Grants: “Management of Distributed energy resources in smart cities: Challenges and Advanced control strategies” MHRD (SPARC), Rs 4792000, Dr. Hitesh Datt Mathur, Dr. Bijoy Mukherjee, Dr. Alivelu Parimi, Prof. Houria Siguerdidjane, Centralesupelec, France; Research Initiation Grant (RIG)-Rs 2 Lakhs, sponsored by BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Asian Smart Cities Research Innovation Network (ASCRIN) Profile
Name: Amit Dua Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/amitdua/profile Short Bio: Dr Amit Dua has been actively working in the field of security and blockchain technology. He has proposed various architectures and mechanisms for secure real-life solutions including smart grids, electronic-waste, transportation systems, health care, etc. As part of his institute project, he has developed controller and efficient data structures for power saving through Software Defined Networking. He has worked on the project to enhance the mobility and data dissemination in Vehicular ad hoc networks. His works have been published in various IEEE Transactions and other high impact journals. Amit Dua is actively serving as a reviewer of various IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, and Springer journals. He has been awarded International travel grants from SERB and DST. He is the recipient of an excellent presentation award at IEEE ICCC at Chengdu, China in Dec. 2017. Research Interest Keywords: Blockchain; Network security; Machine to machine communications; health care; Ad hoc Networks Summary of Research Interests: Amit Dua is actively working on providing secure solutions for real-life applications. He has a deep interest in blockchain and in developing cryptographically secure solutions. His has been working on improving machine to machine communications. He has been using game theory and deep learning for improving existing solutions as well. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Wellbeing; Security and Safety Related Publications: 1. Arunima Ghosh, Shashank Gupta, Amit Dua, Neeraj Kumar, “Beyond the Decentralized Nature of Blockchain Technology:
A Systematic Survey, Challenges and Opportunities”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2020 2. Anish Jindal, Amit Dua, Neeraj Kumar, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues,“An Efficient Fuzzy Rule-Based Big
Data Analytics Scheme for Providing Healthcare-as-a-Service,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019. 3. Sumedha Sharma, Amit Dua, Mukesh Singh, Neeraj Kumar, Surya Prakash, “Fuzzy rough set based energy management
system for self-sustainable smart city,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 82, Part 3, pp. 3633-3644, 2018. 4. Amit Dua, Neeraj Kumar, Ashok Kumar Das, and Willy Susilo, “Secure Message Communication Protocol among Vehicles
in Smart City,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2017. 5. Amit Dua, Akash Dutta, Nishat Zaman, Neeraj Kumar, “Blockchain-based E-waste Management in 5GSmart Communities”,
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom workshops), July 2020 6. Amit Dua, Rajat Chaudhary, Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Anish Jindal, Neeraj Kumar, and Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues,"LEASE: Lattice
and ECC-based Authentication and Integrity Verification Scheme in E-Healthcare," in IEEE Global Communications Conference 9-13 December 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
7. Anish Jindal, Amit Dua, Neeraj Kumar, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, “An Efficient Fuzzy Rule-Based Big Data Analytics Scheme for Providing Healthcare-as-a-Service”, in IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017, May 21-25, Paris, France
8. Gaurang Bansal, Amit Dua, Gagangeet Singh Aujla, ManinderpalSingh,and Neeraj Kumar, "SmartChain: A Smart and Scalable Blockchain Consortium for Smart Grid Systems," IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops.): SecSDN: Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities, May 2019, Shanghai, China
9. Shubhani Aggarwal, Rajat Chaudhary, Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Anish Jindal, Amit Dua, and Neeraj Kumar, "EnergyChain: Enabling Energy Trading for Smart Homes using Blockchains in Smart Grid Ecosystem," In SmartCitiesSecurity’18: 1st ACM MobiHocWorkshop on Networking and Cybersecurity for Smart Cities, June 25, 2018, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Related Grants: 1. Title: Realization of Power Saving in Network Devices through SDN Funding Agency: BITS Pilani; Role: PI Co-PI: NA
Cost: 1.25 Lakhs; Duration: August 2017 - October 2018; Status: Completed Findings: Developed new algorithms and controller for reducing the power consumption in existing networks through SDN
2. Title: Collaborative Mobility aware Data Dissemination in Vehicular Adhoc Networks.
Funding Agency: TCS Innovation Lab; Role: RA PI: Dr. Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University) Co-PI:Dr.(Prof.) Seema Bawa (Thapar University) Cost: 14.30 Lakhs; Duration: 2012-2016; Status: Completed
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Name: Amit Kumar Gupta Position: Professor, Mechanical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/akgupta/Profile Short Bio: Dr Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – Hyderabad Campus. Before joining BITS, Pilani Hyderabad campus, he worked at GRIET, Hyderabad as an associate Professor and at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technlogy (SIMTech), Singapore as as Research Engineer. He completed his PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and BTech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. After joining BITS, he has worked on various research projects funded by BRNS (DAE), DST, UGC, ARMREB (DRDO), and TIIL, Chennai. For his contribution in teaching and research at BITS, he has been awarded Prof S. Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award from BITSAA International in 2013. He also received Dr Eldin’s Best Paper Award and prize at 33rd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Jezu, Korea in 2004. For his PhD, he received the prestigious Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) Scholarship award for 2002 to 2005. So far he has authored more than 80 international journal papers and 90 international conference papers. Research Interest Keywords: High temperature material testing; Sheet metal forming; Severe plastic deformation; Production scheduling; Multi-objective optimization; Manufacturing simulation modelling; Predictive modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes Summary of Research Interests: High temperature material testing and characterization for aerospace and defense applications particularly for high strength alloys such as austenitic stainless steel, Ti6Al4V, Incone 718 and other titanium and nickel base alloys. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Governance and Planning; Security and Safety Related Publications: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=Cr8bD8EAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F7SEpvKpmxnXfLYla3QgAo0LUQBghUH7vAfxY-xCUpfMrEvyAudZEpyYMr2wmP0RzNjo7X_KfZVKwop2dr3jAAXe3TPkOkOLvxmDPqwnrTUyDOmn9UBBkXY3gYaZwuNxOGfIfQJ Related Grants:
1. Dynamic Strain Ageing Behavior in Austenitic Stainless Steel (304 & 316 Grades), BRNS (DAE), 11.64 Lakhs, 2009-2012.
2. Understanding Material Properties and Possible Forming Behavior (using FEM) of Titanium Grade – 5 Material at Elevated Temperatures, DST, 10.15 lakhs, 2012-2015.
3. Formability Study on Constrained Groove Pressed Extra Deep Drawn (EDD) Steel Sheets, UGC, 30.60 Lakhs, 2014-2016.
4. Understanding Forming Behavior of Ti-6Al-4V Material between 400-850 ℃ in deep drawing set up (as Co-PI), ARDB (DRDO), 9.85 Lakhs, 2017-2018.
5. Enhancement of Mechanical Properties of Ti-6Al-4V using Constrained Groove Pressing and Heat Treatment, ARMREB (DRDO), 48.75 Lakhs, 2016-2020.
6. Study of Lubricant and Application Method for Enhanced Surface Finish and Reduced Draw Load on Cold Drawn Steel Tubes (as Co-PI). TIIL Chennai, 27.44 Lakhs, 2017-2020.
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Name: Amitesh Singh Rajput Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/amiteshsingh/profile Short Bio: Amitesh is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, INDIA. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2020. His Ph.D. thesis title is "Privacy-Preserving Approach for Cloud based Multimedia Computing", and the work was accomplished under the guidance of Dr. Balasubramanian Raman, Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research has been published in several reputed top-tier international conferences, including ICME, IEEE CLOUD, SMC and SAC. He is the recipient of Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Fellowship, provided by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. He has also been awarded with several research grants including MeitY Travel Grant and Microsoft Research Grant. Apart from research, he has qualified the EMC Academic Associate certification in Cloud Infrastructure and Services in 2014. Research Interest Keywords: Privacy-Preservation, Multimedia Computing, Video-Surveillance-as-a-Service, Cryptography, Secure Cloud Computing Summary of Research Interests: In the 21st century, data is the new oil. Every single organization, whether for profit or non-profit, covets the personal and sensitive data. As a result, secure data processing invariably becomes part of the today's world. My immediate research interest is to design secure and adaptable frameworks for a variety of advanced real world requirements related to the smart world. A few examples include secure and smart surveillance system, e-healthcare, road traffic monitoring, etc. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Well being; Security and Safety Related Publications: Amitesh Singh Rajput, Balasubramanian Raman and Javed Imran, Privacy-preserving human action recognition as a remote cloud service using deep CNN, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 152, 2020.; Amitesh Singh Rajput and Balasubramanian Raman, Automatic reference image selection with privacy-preserving color transfer as a service for e?cient night-time haze removal, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 150, pp. 703-718, 2020.; Vishesh Tanwar, Balasubramanian Raman, Amitesh Singh Rajput and Rama Bhargava, CryptoLesion: A Privacy-preserving Model for Lesion Segmentation using Whale Optimization over Cloud, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM), 2020. (Accepted); Amitesh Singh Rajput and Balasubramanian Raman, CryptoCT: Towards privacy preserving color transfer and storage over cloud, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Vol. 77, No. 18, pp. 24223-24245, 2018.; Amitesh Singh Rajput and Balasubramanian Raman, Cloud based image color transfer and storage in encrypted domain, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Vol. 77, No. 16, pp. 21509-21537, 2018.; Javed Imran, Balasubramanian Raman and Amitesh Singh Rajput, Robust, E?cient and Privacy-Preserving Violent Activity Recognition in Videos, 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 2081-2088, March 30 - April 03, 2020, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC.; Vishesh Kumar Tanwar, Amitesh Singh Rajput, Balasubramanian Raman and Rama Bhargava, Privacy-preserving image scaling using 2D bicubic interpolation over the cloud, In IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 2073-2078, October 7-10, 2018, Miyazaki, JAPAN.; Amitesh Singh Rajput and Balasubramanian Raman, Color me, store me, know me not: Supporting image color transfer and storage in encrypted domain over cloud, In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEw), pp. 291-296, July 10-14, 2017, Harbour Grand, HONG KONG.; Amitesh Singh Rajput, Priyanka Singh and Balasubramanian Raman, CryptFine: Towards secure cloud based filtering in encrypted domain, In ISEA IEEE Asia Security and Privacy Conference (ISEASP), pp. 1-8, January 29-February 01, 2017, NIT Surat, Gujarat, INDIA. Related Grants:
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Name: Anasua GuhaRay Position: Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/guharay/Profile Short Bio: Dr. Anasua GuhaRay is presently an Assistant Professor in Geotechnical Engineering Division of Department of Civil Engineering, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus. She is a university gold medalist in B.E. Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has completed her M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Her major areas of research include reliability application in geotechnical engineering, utilisation of waste materials for ground improvement and stabilization of expansive soil with activated binders. She has published a number of papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences (including International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, International Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Geomechanics and Engineering). She has received Early Career Research Grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India and Indo-Austria bilateral research grant (with Prof. Wei Wu from BOKU Austria) from DST, Government of India. She is the recipient of “Outstanding Reviewer Recognition” from International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE in the year 2015, 2017 and 2018. She is a life member of Indian Geotechnical Society and an Associate Member of American Society of Civil Engineers. Research Interest Keywords: Waste Utilisation, Ground Impovement, Construction and Demolition Waste, Fly Ash and Slag, Expansive Soil Summary of Research Interests: Reliability Application in Geotechnical Engineering, Earth Retaining Structures Utilisation of Waste Materials for Ground Improvement, Alkali Activated binder treatment for natural geotextiles, Stabilisation of Expansive Clays, Slope Stabilisation with treated natural geotextiles and grass, Ground Improvement with Biochar Smart City Themes of Interest: Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Mazhar Syed and Anasua GuhaRay (2020), "Stabilization of Expansive Clay by Fiber-reinforced Alkali Activated Binder: An Experimental Investigation and Prediction Modeling", International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, doi: 10.1080/19386362.2020.1775358.; Mazhar Syed, Anasua GuhaRay, Divyam Goel, Kunal Asati, Lin Peng (2020), "Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Black Cotton Soil Reinforced with Coir and Hemp Fibres in Alkali Activated Binder", International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Springer, doi: 10.1007/s40891-020-00200-7.; Mazhar Syed, Anasua GuhaRay, Sagar Agrawal, Arkamitra Kar (2019), "Stabilisation of Expansive Clays by combined effects of geopolymerisation and fiber reinforcement", Journal of the Institution of Engineer (India): Series A, Springer, 101 (1), pg. 163 - 178, doi: 10.1007/s40030-019-00418-3.; Junwei Liu, Vinay Kumar Gadi, Ankit Garg, Suriya Prakash Ganesan, Anasua GuhaRay (2019), "A Novel Approach to Interpret Soil Moisture Content for Economical Monitoring of Urban Landscape", Sustainability, 11, 5609, doi:10.3390/su11205609.; Anasua GuhaRay, Mei Guoxiong , Arijit Sarkar, Sanandam Bordoloi, Ankit Garg, Spandan Pattanayak (2019), "Geotechnical and chemical characterization of expansive clayey soil amended by biochar derived from invasive weed species Prosopis juliflora" Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s41062-019-0231-2; Jayatheja M., A. GuhaRay, A.Kar (2019), "Experimental Analysis of Strength and Deformation Behavior of Soils Reinforced with Building-Derived Materials", Indian Geotechnical Journal, Springer, doi: 10.1007/s40098-019-00367-5.; Suluguru, A.K., Surana, S.R., GuhaRay, A., Kar, A. and Jayatheja, M. (2018), “Experimental Investigations on Building Derived Materials in Chemically Aggressive Environment as a Partial Replacement of Soil in Geotechnical Applications”, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, An International Journal (ISSN: 0960 -3182), Springer, Netherlands, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-018-0662-0, 37(2), 947-963; Shashank Gupta, Anasua GuhaRay, Arkamitra Kar & V. P. Komaravolu (2018) "Performance of alkali-activated binder-treated jute geotextile as reinforcement for subgrade stabilization", International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, DOI: 10.1080/19386362.2018.1464272; Suluguru, A.K., Jayatheja, M. Kar, A., GuhaRay, A., Surana, S.R. and James, N. (2017), “Experimental Studies on the Microstructural, Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Building Derived Materials to Assess their Suitability in Ground Improvement”, Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier, 156, 921-932. Related Grants: Early Career Research Award (DST - SERB) (Duration: 2016-2020)- Project Title: "Performance Evaluation of Backfill Soils partially replaced with Building Derived Materials" Role: PI - Project ID: ECR/2016/000522/ES (Co - PI: Dr. A. Kar, BITS Hyderabad and Dr. N. James, IIT Ropar) (24.43 lakhs); Indo-Austria Scientific and Technological Cooperation between WTZ (Austria) and DST (India) (Duration: 2019-2021) - Project Title: "Implementation of plants and treated natural fibers to enhance the strength properties of soft soil and to decrease the rate of surface erosion (Nat-Treat)", Role: Indian PI, Austrian PI: Dr. Wei Wu (Universität für Bodenkultur BOKU), Indian Co-PI: Dr. A. Kar, Austrian Co-PI: Dr. M. Acharya (BOKU) (6.40 lakhs); dditional Competitive Research Grant for New Faculty - BITS Pilani Hyderabad (Duration: 2016-2018) - Project Title: "Performance of Building Derived Materials on Bearing Capacity of Soft Soil under Static Loading Conditions". (9.2 lakhs); Research Initiation Grant (RIG): BITS- Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Duration: 2015-2017) - Project Title: “Effect of variation of soil parameters on performance of stone column improved ground: a probabilistic risk factor based approach". (2 lakhs) Role: PI
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Name: Ashutosh Bhatia Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/ashutoshbhatia/Profile Short Bio: Ashutosh Bhatia received his B.E. degree in Computer Science from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India, in 2000. From 2001-2005 he worked as a scientist in Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India. He received his M.E. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, in 2007. From 2007-2010, he worked as a research engineer in Samsung India Software Operations (SISO). He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2016. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS, Pilani, India. Research Interest Keywords: Blockchain, Smart City, Vehicular Adhoc Networks, IoT Security, Cryptography, Nework Traffic Analysis, Network Security Summary of Research Interests: Broadly, his research interests include building new designs, protocols, algorithms, and theories that improve the robustness and performance and security of computer systems and networks. Some of the research areas in which he is currently involved in are: Cryptography, Network and IoT Security, Applications of AI and Machine Learning in data-driven security, designing Blockchain-based solutions across multiple verticles such as Healthcare, Smart City, IoT security, and Supply chain. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Health and Well being; Governance and Security; Security and Safety; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Bhatia, Ashutosh; Hansdah, Ramesh C; ",A distributed TDMA slot scheduling algorithm for spatially correlated contention in WSNs,2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops,377-384,2013,IEEE; Bhatia, Ashutosh; Hansdah, RC; "A media access and feedback protocol for reliable multicast over wireless channel,International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking,,,445-449,2013,"Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg"; Bhatia, Ashutosh; Hansdah, RC; ",A media access and feedback protocol for reliable multicast over wireless channel,Wireless networks,20,8,2371-2383,2014,Springer US; Bhatia, Ashutosh; Hansdah, RC; ",DSLR: A Distributed Schedule Length Reduction Algorithm for WSNs,2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,,,365-374,2015,IEEE; Bhatia, Ashutosh; Hansdah, RC; ",TRM-MAC: A TDMA-based reliable multicast MAC protocol for WSNs with flexibility to trade-off between latency and reliability,Computer Networks,104,,79-93,2016,Elsevier; "Bhatia, Ashutosh; Patro, Ranjeet K; ",A Delay and Energy Efficient Poll-Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks,Wireless Personal Communications,99,2,915-939,2018,Springer US; "Swamy, Mallikarjun; Haribabu, K; Bhatia, Ashutosh; ",Achieving waypoint enforcement in multi-VLAN hybrid SDN,2018 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS),519-521,2018,IEEE; Bhatia, Ashutosh; Haribabu, K; Gupta, Kartikeya; Sahu, Aakash; ",Realization of flexible and scalable VANETs through SDN and virtualization,2018 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN),,,280-282,2018,IEEE; Vishvakarma, Deepak Kumar; Bhatia, Ashutosh; Riha, Zdenek; ",Detection of Algorithmically Generated Domain Names in Botnets,International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications,,,1279-1290,2019,"Springer, Cham" Related Grants: Information Gathering from Encrypted Mobile Applications", DRDO, , Rs.9.295 lakhs, AUG 2018 to DEC 2019; 2. As Co-PI: Development of Real Time Multi-objective Route Recommender System Using AI, Map My India Pvt. Ltd., Rs. 7.424 lakhs, Jan-2019 - Jan 2021; A hierarchical SDN based framework for efficient communication in VANET, BITS, Rs. 2 lakhs, June 2016- May 2018
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Name: Bandhan Bandhu Majumdar Position: Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering (Transportation Planning specialization) Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – Hyderabad C Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/bandhanbandhumajumdar/Profile Short Bio: Bandhan Bandhu Majumdar is an assistant professor with specialization on Transportation Engineering in the department of Civil Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India. He has mentored several masters’ students and worked in several research projects related to travel behavioral analysis, road traffic crash data analysis and evaluation. Overall his research interests are: Travel behavior and choice modelling, Non-motorized Transport, Sustainable Transportation, Transportation Safety, Road Traffic Crash Data Analysis and Evaluation, Traffic Engineering, Geometric design, Transportation and health interaction and traffic psychology. He has published several peer-reviewed research papers and recipient as PI/Co-PI of a total of seven institutional, national (DST Start-up Research grant), International (SPARC, GCRF) grants in the area of sustainable, green transportation and road safety. He has ongoing collaborations with Indian institutes such as IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kharagpur and international institutes such as Cardiff University, Newcastle University etc. Research Interest Keywords: Sustainability, Transportation Planning, Travel Behavior Analysis, Smart City, Electric Mobility, Road Safety, Public Transportation, Non-Motorized Transport, Transportation Economics, Transportation and Health Summary of Research Interests: I have worked in several research projects related to travel behavioral analysis, road traffic crash data analysis and evaluation. Overall his research interests are: Travel behavior and choice modelling, Non-motorized Transport, Sustainable Transportation, Transportation Safety, Road Traffic Crash Data Analysis and Evaluation Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Urban Planning Related Publications: Majumdar, B.B., Mitra, S. and Pareekh, P (2015) “Methodological Framework to obtain key factors influencing choice of bicycle as a mode”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2512 pp. 110-121. DOI: 10.3141/2512-13.; Majumdar, B.B., and Mitra, S. (2015) “Analysis of factors influencing bicycling in small sized cities: A case study of Kharagpur, India” Case studies on Transport Policy 3(3). pp. 331-346. DOI:10.1016/j.cstp.2014.09.002.; Majumdar, B.B. and Mitra, S. (2017) “Valuing factors influencing bicycle route choice using Stated Preference survey” Journal of Urban Planning and Development. American Society of Civil Engineering. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000380. (04017001: 1-11).; Majumdar, B.B., and Mitra, S. (2017). Development of Level of Service (LOS) criteria for evaluation of Bicycle Suitability: A case study of Kharagpur, India. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. American Society of Civil Engineering. (accepted, in press) (DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000432); Majumdar, B.B., and Mitra, S. (2018). Analysis of bicycle route-related improvement strategies for two Indian cities using a Stated Preference Survey. Transport Policy 63, pp. 176-188; Majumdar, B.B., and Mitra, S. (2019). A study on route choice preferences for commuter and non-commuter bicyclists: A case study of Kharagpur and Asansol, India. Transportation Volume 46, Issue 5, pp 1839–1865; Majumdar B.B and Mitra S. “On identification and prioritization of motivators and deterrents of bicycling”. Transportation Letters. Pages 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2019.1671042; Majumdar B.B., Dissanayake D, Rajput AS, Saw Y and Sahu P.K. (2020) Prioritizing Metro Service Quality Attributes to Facilitate Transit Agency Interventions Leading to Enhanced Commuter Experience- TOPSIS Ranking and Importance-Satisfaction Analysis methods. Accepted Transportation Research Record (In press); Majumdar B.B. and Sahu P. (2019). Identification and prioritization of operational requirements related to battery-electric-bus (BEB) operation in Indian setting. Paper accepted for presentation in WCTR-Young conference to be held at IIT Bombay Related Grants: Title of Grant: An investigation on factors influencing bicycling and walking in urban Indian context: A case study of Hyderabad, India Funding agency: BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Research Initiation Grant) Amount- INR 2 lakhs Duration: 2018- ongoing; Title of project: Urban road safety management through evaluation of operating speed and geometric consistency Funding agency: BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Additional Competitive Research Grant) Amount- INR 8 Lakhs Duration- 2019 to ongoing; Title of the project: Development of Pedestrian Facility Assessment Tool for Improving Pedestrian’s safety condition in Hyderabad Funding agency: AIA Hyderabad Sanctioned amount- INR 1 lakh Duration-2019- 2020; Title- Development of a comprehensive methodology to improve road traffic safety in Indian urban roadways based on advanced statistical techniques Funding agency: DST-SERB Sanctioned amount: 11.39 Lakhs Duration- 2019-2021; Title- Congestion Pricing: Planning for optimal strategies and commuters behavioral implications under different pricing schemes Funding agency- 30 Lakhs INR Sponsoring agency- SPARC MHRD Duration-2019-2021; Title: Pre-feasibility study of Battery Electric buses in India Funding agency: Global Challenge Research Fund, UK Duration-2019-2021 Funding amount: 13 Lakhs INR; Title: Transport Policy Interventions to curb particulate matter emissions in Chanigarh Funding agency: Global Challenge Research Fund, UK Duration-2019-2021 Funding amount: INR 26 lakhs
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Name: Basavadatta Mitra Position: Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - K K Birla Goa campus Link to online profile: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/bmitra/profile Short Bio:
Dr Basavadatta Mitra has a PhD in English Literature and specialization in Teaching of English as Second/Foreign Language, English for Special Purposes from English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Her current academic interest includes Cross Cultural Understanding, Role of Culture in Teaching-Learning Pedagogy. She has published her work in internationally acclaimed and accredited journals. Cross Cultural Understanding includes both tangible and intangible cultures. With a passion for Literature, Language and History, she looks to collaborate with scientists who would like to explore the possibility of a multi-disciplinary research activity that endeavours to suggest a way forward to a more holistic approach of creating a harmonious co-existence between tangible heritage within a smart city. In the current “NEW NORMAL” norms re-inventing Technology to create a real-time experience of Heritage would be very pertinent.
Research Interest Keywords: Tangible, intangible cultures; Cross cultural Understanding; Interdisciplinary research in Heritage Preservation
Summary of Research Interests: Exploring ways to prevent extinction of cultural artefacts with the help of technology in India. Study mechanisms put in place by countries such as Rome, Cambodia, Greece, France, Italy, Germany and find a mechanism suitable for Indian climate and environment. Preservation of monument with minimum human intervention. Creating a memorable virtual experience of Heritage in times of the NEW NORMAL.
Smart City Themes of Interest: Cultural Heritage Related Publications: Related Grants:
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Name: Benu Madhab Gedam Position: Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/benugedam/Profile Short Bio: Benu Madhab is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Group under Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division (WILPD) of Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. He received his B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) from Sambalpur University Odisha. He received his M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT Kharagpur. He has over 16 years’ of industry experience in R&D, Innovation departments in Automotive, Energy and Steel Industries. His research interests include Internet of Things, Smart Manufacturing, Bio-inspired Mechanisms, Mechatronics, MEMS and Non-traditional Manufacturing processes. Research Interest Keywords: Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Smart Manufacturing, Electric Transport, Renewable Energy, Water Purification Summary of Research Interests: My research interests include Internet of Things, Smart Manufacturing, Bio-inspired Mechanisms, Mechatronics, MEMS and Non-traditional Manufacturing processes. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Health and Well being; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Related Grants:
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Name: Biswanath Dash Position: AssistanT Professor, Humanities and Social Science Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/biswanathd/Profile Short Bio: M. Phil and PhD from Centre for Studies in Science Policy,JNU, New Delhi; Title of Thesis: Public Encounters Complex Science: Analysis of Cyclone Warnings in India Area of specialization: Disaster Studies 15 Years of teaching experience in Government Institute and Universities. Research Interest Keywords: Disaster and Development, Disaster Resillient Cities, Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development Summary of Research Interests: Building cities which are disaster resilient and thus sustainable. Key challenges from this perspective arise in a) conceptualizing resilience for urban growth; b) examining interrelationship among different hazard risk; c) methodologies for disaster risk assessment and d) bringing consensus among stakeholders on disaster risk reduction measures. The interest is to broaden the resilience framework beyond the fixes and bring community involvement as central to growth. Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants: Identifying Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures for mainstreaming within Government Departments, 2019, funded by AP HRDI, Govt. of AP and UNDP; A Study of Early Warning System at District/Local Level, 2019, UNDP and AP HRDI, Govt. of AP ; A Study of Disaster Management Plans in India, 2017-19 funded under RIG, BITS Pilani; Evacuation Policies in India: Cyclone Phailin and Hudhud 2014-15, funded by Jamsetji Tata Trusts; Impact Assessment of Community Based Disaster Risk Management 2013, funded by Cord Aid India; Need Assessment for Uttarakhand Flood affected People, 2013, funded by Tata Relief Committee; Disaster Warning System for Andaman and Nicobar, 2012, funded by Govt. of Andaman and Nicobar
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Name: Bivudutta Mishra Position: Associate Professor, Mathematics Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/bivuduttamishra/Profile Short Bio: Dr Bivudutta Mishra has received his Ph.D. degree from Sambalpur University, Odisha, India. His main area of research is theoretical cosmology, modified/extended theory of gravity gravastar. He has published around 100 research papers in these areas of research in the journals of high repute such as, Physical Review D, European Physical Journal C, International Journal of Modern Physics D, Modern Physics Letter A etc. He is a Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), London, Foreign member of Russian Gravitational Society and Visiting Associate of Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He has guided three students for their Ph.D. degree and presently two Ph.D. students are working with him. He has been the member of scientific advisory committee of national and international academic events. He has successfully completed two sponsored projects: one each from University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi and Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, (SERB-DST), New Delhi. He has also visited several foreign countries that includes Canada, Germany, Republic of China, Italy, Czech Republic, Russia, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, UK and delivered talk, presented his research work in different scientific events. The courses he taught are: Advanced Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics, Graph and Network, Differential Geometry, Optimization. Research Interest Keywords: Cosmological Model, Modified Gravity, Theoretical Dark Energy, Gravastar Summary of Research Interests: My research area involves the (a) late time cosmic acceleration problem with the theoretical dark energy and different modified theories aspects (b) Gravastar under the framework of braneworld gravity. (c) cosmic anisotropy and dynamical behavior of the cosmological models. Smart City Themes of Interest: all theme areas require mathematical modelling so I can collaborate with any theme to develop the mathematical modelling. Related Publications: R. Sengupta, S. Ghosh, S. Ray, B.Mishra, S.K. Tripathy: Gravastar under the framework of Braneworld Gravity, Phys. Rev. D, To appear, 2020; G.K. Goswami, A.K. Yadav, B. Mishra: Probing kinematics and fate of Bianchi type V universe, Modern Physics Letter A, To appear 2020; B.Mishra, Fakhereh MD. Esmaeili, S. Ray: Cosmological model with variable anisotropic parameter in f(R,T) gravity, Indian Journal of Physics, To appear. 2020; S.K. Tripathy, B.Mishra: Phantom Cosmology in an extended theory of gravity, Chinese Journal of Physics, 63, 448, 2020; B. Mishra, G. Ribeiro, P.H.R.S. Moraes: De Sitter and bounce solutions from anisotropy in extended gravity cosmology, Modern Physics Letter A, 34, 1950321, 2019; B. Mishra, Pratik P. Ray, S.K. Tripathy, Kazuharu Bamba: Axially magnetized cosmological model, Modern Physics Letter A, 34, 1950217, 2019; Pratik P Ray, B. Mishra, S.K. Tripathy: Dynamics of anisotropic dark energy universe embedded in one directional magnetized fluid, International Journal of Modern Physics D, 28(7), 1950093, 2019; B. Mishra, Pratik P. Ray, R. Myrzakulov: Bulk Viscous Fluid Embedded hybrid dark energy models, European Physical Journal C, 79:34, 1-8, 2019; Sankarsan Tarai, B.Mishra: Dynamical Aspects of Magnetized Anisotropic Cosmological Model in Extended Gravity, The European Journal of Physics Plus, 133: 435, 2018; B. Mishra, Sankarsan Tarai, S.K. Tripathy: Anisotropic Cosmological Reconstruction in f(R,T) Gravity, Modern Physics Letter A, 33(29), 1850170, 2018; Related Grants: "Bianchi Type Cosmological Models in Modified Theories of Gravitation", SERB, DST, New Delhi. D.O. No.: SR/S4/MS:815/13. 12,70,054 INR. (June 2014- May 2017); "Study on Cosmological Models of the Universe with Wet Dark Fluid in Alternative Theories of Gravitation" , UGC, New Delhi, F.No.: -42-1001/2013(SR). 1,90,000 INR. (March 2014- February 2016);
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Name: Chetana Gavankar Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetana-gavankar-3911b32/ Short Bio: Dr Chetana Gavankar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani. She did her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from joint PhD program of IIT Bombay and Monash University, Australia. She has Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Pune University, India She worked with Zensar Technologies as a Software Engineer. She has more than 19 years of teaching experience preceded by industry experience of around 3 years. Over and above regular teaching she undertook array of heuristic initiatives like guiding industry sponsored and research projects for graduate students, coordinator for various courses and other administrative responsibilities at university level. She worked on different state of art research projects with different industries. She has been awarded the “Best Industry Aligned Research” at the CSI TechNext India 2018 - Awards to Academia. She has also received other awards for her publications and in her academic career. She has published papers at national and international level in peer reviewed conferences and journals. She is also reviewer for various national and international level conferences and journals. She was also involved in global experience sharing and conference presentations at overseas universities (Kobe-Japan, WIT Watersrand-South Africa, University of California Santa Barbara-USA, and Monash University-Australia). Research Interest Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Health Domain, Ontologies, Knowledge Graph Summary of Research Interests: The volume of data on the web is growing unprecedentedly. Accessibility, analysis and mining knowledge from this data has become a very important challenge. Disciplines like Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Semantic Web Ontologies, and Natural language processing have potential to meet the challenges. I have been applying some of the disciplines in biomedical domain in my research. My research can be applied across all the themes in Smart Cities Research and Innovation joint PhD program. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Health and Well being; Urban Planning; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3271553.3271562 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-46523-4_17 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9104081 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2815833.2816958 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6735323 https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-5807.pdf Related Grants: Principal Coordinator, “A UTILITY TOOL FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINES”, PierianDx India Private Limited (https://www.pieriandx.com/), Project Duration (from May/2017 to May/2018). Principal Coordinator, “UI for Managing Entities”, Simply Compete Inc. Project Duration (from May/2016 to May/2017). Research project on “Implementation of Meaning based Grammar“ in the area of Natural Language Processing at CDAC, India
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Name: Chittaranjan Hota Position: Professor, Computer Sc and Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/chittaranjanhota/Profile Short Bio: Dr. Chittaranjan Hota, full Professor at Computer Sc. & Engineering department, completed his Ph.D from BITS, Pilani and has over thirty years of academic, research and administrative experience in Indian and universities abroad. His Ph.D work was on QoS assurances in IP-Virtual Private Networks, a significant part of which was carried out at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia during his visit to Network Research Laboratory at UNSW under Indo-Australian joint research program. Prior to PhD, he had earned B.E in Computer Engineering, and M.E in Computer Sc. and Engineering. He had been in merit through his bachelors & masters degrees. Dr. Hota’s research interests include developing algorithms and models for building systems and applications in areas like Big-data analytics, Internet of Things, and Cyber security in which he has more than 115 publications, in various journals and conferences. He has guided 10 PhD students. He is currently working on developing self-verifying codes for IoT devices under Indo-Dutch joint research programme with funding support from MeitY (GoI) and NWO (NL). In the past, he has executed funded projects with support from DeitY, UGC, and TCS in the areas of Network threat monitoring, and building secure Peer-to-Peer overlays using Artificial Intelligence, and Machine learning techniques. Research Interest Keywords: Big data analytics, Cyber Security, IoT, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Summary of Research Interests: I am interested in applying ML and AI techniques in solving mobility and transportation problems. Also, I am interested in solving Cyber Security challenges. The road networks can be studied along with other attributes like number of vehicles, type of vehicles, speed etc. to derived intelligent insights to build solutions for congestion management using predictive policies. While doing so, we might have to gather data using IoT networks that might need AAA type of security attentions. Smart City Themes of Interest: Mobility and Transport; Governance and Security; Security and Safety Related Publications: An Evolutionary Approach for Congestion Prediction on IoT data streams in Smart City Environment, Sanket Mishra, Ankit S, Raghunathan B, and Chittaranjan Hota, International FLINS Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (FLINS/ISKE), Germany, August 2020; Quality of Service Driven Resource Allocation in Network Slicing, Saibharath S, Sudeepta Mishra, and Chittaranjan Hota, IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2020-Spring), Belgium, May 2020.; A Rest Framework on IoT Streams using Apache Spark for Smart Cities, Sanket Mishra, and Chittaranjan Hota, 16th IEEE Indicon, Focus Session, Rajkot, Gujarat, Dec 2019. IEEE Xplore, Scopus Indexed.; An Ingestion Based Analytics Framework for Complex Event Processing Engine in Internet of Things, Sanket Mishra, Mohit Jain, B Siva Nagasasank, and Chittaranjan Hota (2018) In: Mondal A., Gupta H., Srivastava J., Reddy P., Somayajulu D. (eds) Big Data Analytics. BDA 2018, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11297. Springer. Scopus Indexed.; Protection against code exploitation using ROP and check-summing in IoT environment, Rajesh Kumar Shrivastava, Chittaranjan Hota, and Prashast Srivastava, The 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT), Multimedia University, Malaysia, Scopus Indexed, IEEE Xplore, May 2017, pp. 7-12. Related Grants: (IoT Security) Title: Lightweight Code Self-verification for Internet of Things (IoT) Devices, funded by MeitY-NWO under Indo-Dutch Joint Research programme for ICT, (2015-2020), Project outlay: 380, 000 Euros (INR 2.6 Crores).; (Cyber Security) Title: Automated Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in Peer-to-Peer Networks, funded by DeitY, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, March 2012, (March,2012 - June,2015), Amount: 61,95,000 INR. (Principal Investigator: Chittaranjan Hota).; (Overlay Search) Title: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Overlay Infrastructure for Secure Computing over the Internet, funded by University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India, New Delhi: (2011 - 2014), Amount: 12,50,000 INR. (Principal Investigator: Chittaran
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Name: Dipanjan Chakraborty Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/dipanjan/Profile Short Bio: Dipanjan is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department in the BITS PIlani, Hyderabad Campus. He teaches and conducts research on ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies and Development) and HCI (Human Computer Interaction). He has a PhD from IIT Delhi and has worked as a researcher in a grassroots community media powered social enterprise: Gram Vaani. Dipanjan is interested in designing technologies which ensure a responsible outcome for all stakeholders, technologies and their social implications and in designing technologies which empower the marginalised communities. He has substantial experience in designing, building, deploying, monitoring, testing, and community-training of technologies in rural India designed to overcome the challenges of empowerment, literacy, affordability and connectivity. Research Interest Keywords: ICTD, HCI, social development, urban planning, rural resource planning, social empowerment, digital divide, data sciences, health, behaviour change communication Summary of Research Interests: Dipanjan is interested in designing technologies which ensure a responsible outcome for all stakeholders, technologies and their social implications and in designing technologies which empower the marginalised communities. He has substantial experience in designing, building, deploying, monitoring, testing, and community-training of technologies in rural India designed to overcome the challenges of empowerment, literacy, affordability and connectivity. Smart City Themes of Interest: Economic Development; Mobility and Transport; Health and Well being; Urban Planning; Governance and Security Related Publications: Chakraborty, Dipanjan, Mohd Sultan Ahmad, and Aaditeshwar Seth. "Findings from a civil society mediated and technology assisted grievance redressal model in rural India." In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, pp. 1-12. 2017.; Chakraborty, Dipanjan, and Aaditeshwar Seth. "Building citizen engagement into the implementation of welfare schemes in rural India." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, pp. 1-10. 2015.; Srinivasan, Vivek, Vibhore Vardhan, Snigdha Kar, Siddhartha Asthana, Rajendran Narayanan, Pushpendra Singh, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amarjeet Singh, and Aaditeshwar Seth. "Airavat: An automated system to increase transparency and accountability in social welfare schemes in India." In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes-Volume 2, pp. 151-154. 2013.; Vivek, Srinivasan, Rajendran Narayanan, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, and Vibhore Vardhan. "Are technology-enabled cash transfers really ‘direct’?’." Economic and Political Weekly 53 (2018).; Chakraborty, Dipanjan, Akshay Gupta, and Aaditeshwar Seth. "Experiences from a mobile-based behaviour change campaign on maternal and child nutrition in rural India." In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, pp. 1-11. 2019.; Aaditeshwar Seth, Akshay Gupta, Aparna Moitra, Deepak Kumar, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Lamuel Enoch, Orlanda Ruthven, Paramita Panjal, Rafi A. Sid- diqi, Rohit Singh, Sayonee Chatterjee, Sangeeta Saini, Vijay S. Pratap. “Reflections from Practical Experiences of Managing Participatory Media Platforms for Devel- opment”. Eleventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, (ICTD ’20), 2020. [To Appear] Related Grants: Google Pilot Research Grant, INR 500,000, “Using mobile phones to improve implementation of government schemes” 2 years; Proposal to scale the volunteer-assisted grievance redressal model was accepted for funding by UNDP. 1 year
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Name: Dipendu Bhunia Position: Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/dbhunia/profile Short Bio: Dipendu Bhunia, currently working as an Associate Professor, holds PhD in Earthquake Engineering specializing in the field of structural dynamics. He has already completed three research projects and one is going on at BITS Pilani. He is one of the members from BITS-Pilani in IICRI (Ireland-India Collaborative Research Initiative) concrete research project. As a visiting academic, he visited Trinity College Dublin under ISCA Ireland-India Science foundation programme and University (abroad) - immersion programme, BITS Pilani from May to July 2014. His interdisciplinary background comprises structural materials, concrete technology, energy efficient building, structural health monitoring and rehabilitation, earthquake resistant design of structures. He has supervised jointly 2 Ph.Ds in the area of structural materials, concrete technology and energy efficient building and currently supervising 2 Ph.Ds jointly (one of the Co-Supervisors from The University of Thessaly, Greece). He has authored more than 60 publications in journals and conferences in an international repute. He is currently handling Estate Management Unit as a Faculty-in-Charge in the Pilani Campus. Research Interest Keywords: Urban Planning, Environment Conservation Summary of Research Interests: Performance Based Seismic Design Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures Concrete Technology Energy Efficient Building Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Urban Planning; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: 1. G. Tyagi, A. Singhal, S. Routroy D. Bhunia and M. Lahoti, “A Review on Sustainable Utilization of Industrial Wastes in
Radiation Shielding Concrete”, Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier) (Special Edition), 2020. 2. S. Hussain, D. Bhunia and S.B.Singh, “Strength and Durability Parameters of Carbonated Mineral Admixture Concrete”,
Indian Concrete Journal (ICJ) (Technical Paper), 2019. 3. Singh, M, Srivastava, A, and D. Bhunia, ‘Long term strength and durability parameters of concrete on partially replacing
cement by dried waste marble powder slurry’, Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), Vol. 198, 553-569, 2019. 4. Singh, M, Srivastava, A, and D. Bhunia, ‘Analytical and experimental investigations on using dried waste marble powder in
concrete’, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE), 31(4), 1-13, 2019. 5. S. Hussain, D. Bhunia, S.B.Singh and Mohit Aggrawal, “Mechanical strength and durability of mineral admixture concrete
subjected to accelerated carbonation”, Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance (Taylor & Francis), 3(1), 44-51, 2018.
6. Singh, M, Chaudhary, S., Srivastava, A, Sangwan, K. S. and D. Bhunia, ‘A study on environmental and economic impacts of using waste marble powder in concrete’ Journal of Building Engineering (Elsevier), Vol. 13, 87-95, 2017.
7. S. Hussain, D. Bhunia and S.B.Singh, “Comparative study of accelerated carbonation of plain cement and fly-ash concrete”, Journal of Building Engineering (Elsevier), Vol. 10, 26-31, 2017.
8. Singh, M, Srivastava, A, and D. Bhunia, ‘An investigation on effect of partial replacement of cement by waste marble slurry’ Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), Vol. 134, 471-488, 2017.
9. Singh, M, Srivastava, A, Bhunia, D., ‘Evaluation of marble slurry incorporated concrete using Nondestructive test methods.’ Materials today proceedings (Elsevier Journal) 2017 (Scopus Indexed)
10. Singh, M, Srivastava, A, and D. Bhunia, (2016) ‘Potential applications of marble dust in industrial use by characterization techniques – A review’, International Journal of Advanced Structures and Geo technical engineering, 5(3), pp: 99 - 106.
Related Grants: 1. Ongoing project entitled "Waste Management of Generated Sludge from Indian Steel and Steel Related Plants: A
Sustainable Business Model" under Ministry of Steel, Government of India, as Co-Principal Investigator, Prof. Srikanta Routroy as Principal Investigator and Prof. Anupam Singhal as Co-Principal Investigator, Rs. 38,04,600/-, 2018 - 2021.
2. Completed the project entitled "Investigation into the Behavior of Coupling Beam" under the category of Research Initiation Grant of Rupees 2 Lakhs received from BITS, Pilani as a Principal Investigator and Prof. S.B.Singh (Co-principal Investigator) on 15.12.2013.
3. Completed the project entitled "Investigation of the Effect of Carbonation on the Properties of Concrete" received from from DST, New Delhi Rupees 34 Lakhs for 3 years as a Principal Investigator and Prof. S.B.Singh (Co-principal Investigator) on 29.02.2016.
4. Completed project entitled "Effect of Partial replacement of cement with marble slurry on concrete", DST-SERB, 2014-2018, 28.38 lakhs, PI: Dr. Anshuman, Co-PI: Dr. Dipendu Bhunia
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Name: Gujji Murali Mohan Reddy Position: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani -
Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/gmmreddy/Profile Short Bio: G M M Reddy is an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India since March 2018. Prior to joining it, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the department of applied mathematics and statistics, Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (ICMC), University of São Paulo (USP), Sao Carlos, Brazil from Oct 2014 to Sep 2018 and National Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Brazil from Oct 2018 to Feb 2019. Reddy received his Master's degree in Mathematics and Computing in 2008 and Ph.d. in Mathematics (Numerical Analysis) in 2014 from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He has been awarded several research grants around 7 million INR (including FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) research grant, Brazil, and SRG (Start-up research grant) funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, India). His current research interest includes adaptive finite element methods, inverse problems, efficient numerical solutions based on the method of Fundamental Solutions, Uncertainty Quantification; Perspective 3-point Problem. He has published several research articles some of which are published in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Mathematics of Computation, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Journal of Scientific Computing, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, and Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering. Research Interest Keywords: adaptive finite element methods, inverse problems, efficient numerical solutions based on the method of Fundamental Solutions, Uncertainty Quantification; Perspective 3-point Problem, Industrial Mathematics Summary of Research Interests: 1. Efficient numerical solutions of partial differential equations based on finite element a posteriori error estimators. 2. Efficient numerical solutions of the problems related to Industrial applications like the Inverse Stefan problems (continuous casting of steel), and boundary identification problems (blast furnace). 3. Multisolution phenomena of Perspective 3-point Problem. 4. Uncertainty Quantification for partial differential equations based on finite element methods. Smart City Themes of Interest: Energy waste and water; Mobility and transport Related Publications: G. M. M. Reddy, M. Vynnycky and J.A. Cuminato, An efficient adaptive boundary algorithm to reconstruct Neumann boundary data in the MFS for the inverse Stefan problem, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, pp.21–40, 349(2019), Elsevier. G. M. M. Reddy, M. Vynnycky and J.A. Cuminato, On efficient reconstruction of boundary data with optimal placement of the source points in the MFS: application to inverse Stefan problems, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, pp. 1249–1279, 26(2018), Taylor & Francis. G. M. M. Reddy, R. K. Sinha and J.A. Cuminato, A posteriori error analysis of Crank-Nicolson finite element method for parabolic integro-differential equations, Journal of Scientific Computing, pp. 414–441, 79(2019), Springer. J. S. Gupta, R. K. Sinha, G. M. M. Reddy and J. Jain, A posteriori error analysis of the Crank-Nicolson finite element method for linear parabolic interface problems: A reconstruction approach, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, pp.173–190, 340(2018), Elsevier J. S. Gupta, R. K. Sinha, G. M. M. Reddy and J. Jain, New Clement type interpolation inequalities and a posteriori error estimates for linear parabolic interface problems, Numer. Methods Partial Differential Equations, pp. 570–598, 33(2017), Wiley. 1. G. M. M. Reddy and R. K. Sinha, On the Crank-Nicolson anisotropic a posteriori error analysis for parabolic integro-differential equations, Math. Comp., pp. 2365–2390, 85(2016), American Mathematical Society. G. M. M. Reddy and R. K. Sinha, The backward Euler anisotropic a posteriori error analysis for parabolic integro-differential equations, Numer. Methods Partial Differential Equations, pp. 1309–1330, 32(2016), Wiley. J. S. Gupta, R. K. Sinha, G. M. M. Reddy and J. Jain, A posteriori error analysis of two-step backward differentiation formula finite element approximation for parabolic interface problems, Journal of Scientific Computing, pp. 406–429, 69(2016), Springer. G. M. M. Reddy and R. K. Sinha, Ritz-Volterra reconstructions and a posteriori error analysis of finite element method for parabolic integro-differential equations, IMA J. Numer. Anal., pp. 341–371, 35(2015), Oxford Journals. Related Grants: 1. Efficient Numerical Solution of the Inverse Stefan Problems using the Method of Fundamental Solutions, postdoctoral research grant sponsored by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil, Budget: R$ 297186, 2016-2019. 2. Adaptive and efficient method of fundamental solutions for the numerical reconstruction of boundary data in two-phase inverse Stefan problems, start-up research sponsored by funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, India, budget: INR 1045000, 2020-2022. 3. Efficient reconstruction of boundary data using the method of fundamental solutions for the two-phase inverse Stefan problem, Additional Competitive Research Grant (ACRG) funded by BITS-Pilani, India, budget: INR 700000, 2019-2021.
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Name: Hari Babu Kotakula Position: Assistant Professor, CSIS Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and
Science (BITS), Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/khari/profile Short Bio: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/khari/profile Research Interest Keywords: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/tlc/img/Haribabu1.jpg, K Haribabu is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India. He has completed MSc.(Tech) in 2003, Masters of Engineering degree in Software Systems in 2005 and PhD, Network Monitoring, Analysis, and Automation, Peer-to-peer communication, Big Data Analytics Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: A strong network infrastructure is of utmost importance to make any smart city aspect viable. When we use central model approach we lack quick reaction, and when we decentralized model, we lack decisions with global clarity. With advent of programmable platforms such as P4, it is possible to combine best of both. To make any governance system effective, there should be limited local autonomy, steady feedback to higher levels and feedforward from higher to lower levels.; Infrastructure and Technology,Mobility and Transport; Sandhya Rathee, Rahul Sharma, Piyush Kumar Jain, K Haribabu, Ashutosh Bhatia, Sundar Balasubramaniam. OpenSnap: Collection of Globally Consistent Statistics in Software Defined Networks. Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS), 2019 11th International Conference on. IEEE, 2019; Rathee S., Dinesh Ram Kumar T., Haribabu K., Bhatia A. (2020) A Framework to Achieve Full Waypoint Enforcement in Hybrid SDN Networks. In: Barolli L., Takizawa M., Xhafa F., Enokido T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 926. Springer, Cham; Sandhya Rathee, Mallikarjun Swamy, K. Haribabu, and Ashutosh Bhatia. 2018. Achieving waypoint enforcement in multi-VLAN hybrid SDN. In Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS), 2018 10th International Conference on, 519–521.; Sandhya, Yash Sinha, K. Haribabu, A survey: Hybrid SDN, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 100, 2017, Pages 35-55, ISSN 1084-8045, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2017.10.003.; Shikhar Vashisht, Yash Sinha, K Haribabu, Addressing Challenges in Browser Based P2P Content Sharing Framework Using WebRTC, in Proc. 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2016), Switzerland, Mar 2016. IEEE Computer Society 2016; Anshuman Mishra, Deven Bansod, K Haribabu, A Framework for OpenFlow-like Policy-based Routing in Hybrid Software De?ned Networks, in Proceedings of 11th International Network Conference (INC 2016), Frankfurt, Germany, 19-21 July 2016. pp. 97-102; Debanshu Sinha, Haribabu K, Sundar Balasubramaniam, Real-Time Monitoring of Network Latency in Software Defined Networks, IEEE ANTS 2015, Kolkata, India. Dec 2015. pp 57-59. IEEE Communications Society Related Grants: K Haribabu, and Chittaranjan Hota, Analysis of Floating Index Caching Technique for P2P Overlay Index Propagation, 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2015), Jan 2015, Goa.; K. Haribabu, Dayakar Reddy, Chittaranjan Hota, Antti Yla-Jaaski, and Sasu Tarkoma, Adaptive Lookup for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Overlays, in Proc. of Third International Conference on Communication Systems & Middleware (IAMCOM/COMSWARE 2008), Bangalore, 5-10 January 2008, pp. 776-782; "Investigations into Issues in Deploying Software Defined Networks on Traditional Network Infrastructure" funded by BITS Additional Competitive New Faculty Grant. Funding 8.2 lacs. Duration 2 years.
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Name: Himanshu Aggarwal Position: Assistant Professor, Chemistry Email: [email protected]
Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – Hyderabad Campus
Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/himanshua/Profile Short Bio: Dr Himanshu Aggarwal is an Assistant professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India. He received his PhD degree in Supramolecular Chemistry from Stellenbosch University, South Africa where he worked under the supervision of Professor Len Barbour. During his PhD, he worked on the structure-property relationships of flexible metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with special emphasis on gas sorption, in-situ gas modeling, thermal expansion, and phase transformations. He published these studies in prestigious journals such as the JACS, Chem. Sci., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, and Chem. Commun. During this time he also wrote a project for working at the synchrotron facility in Grenoble, France, where he worked for 3 months under the prestigious Marie Curie Exchange Program. After that, he moved to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, where he worked in the group of Professor Mohamed Eddaoudi as a postdoctoral fellow and published several papers in high impact journals such as the Journal of American Chemical Society and Chem. He worked in the areas of energy and environment where he focussed on designing new materials for CO2 capture, methane storage, water capture, and separation of hydrocarbons. Currently, he is interested in designing smart hybrid materials for water capture from air, control of indoor humidity, and sensors for respiratory diagnostics. Research Interest Keywords: Carbon capture, Water capture, Methane storage, Methane hydrates, Respiratory sensors, Sensing of explosives, Hydrocarbon separation, Humidity control Summary of Research Interests: His research interests include designing robust porous materials for indoor humidity control, breath sensing, carbon capture and sensing of harmful gases. Besides that, he is also interested in designing photochromic and electrochromic materials for smart devices and electrocatalysis such as hydrogen evolution reaction. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Wellbeing; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications:
1. Revisiting Water Sorption Isotherm of Cr-soc-MOF-1 Using Electrical Measurements, S. Nandi, H. Aggarwal, M. Wahiduzzaman, Y. Belmabkhout, G. Maurin, M. Eddaoudi, S. Devautour-Vinot, Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 13251.
2. Direct Evidence for Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Switching of Degree of Interpenetration in a Metal−Organic Framework, H. Aggarwal, P. M. Bhatt, C. X. Bezuidenhout, and L. J. Barbour, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 3776-3779.
3. Isolation of a Structural Intermediate During Switching of Degree of Interpenetration in a Metal-Organic Framework, H. Aggarwal, R. K. Das, P. M. Bhatt, and L. J. Barbour, Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 4986-4992.
4. Giant Hysteretic Sorption of CO2: In Situ Crystallographic Visualization of Guest Binding within a Breathing Framework at 298 K, P. Lama, H. Aggarwal, C. X. Bezuidenhout, L. J. Barbour, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 13271-13275.
5. Reticular Chemistry in Action: A Hydrolytically Stable MOF Capturing Twice Its Weight in Adsorbed Water, Sk Md T. Abtab, D. Alezi, P. M. Bhatt, A. Shkurenko, Y. Belmabkhout, H. Aggarwal, L. J. Weselinski, N. Alsadun, U. Samin, M. N. Hedhili, and M. Eddaoudi, Chem 2018, 4, 94-105.
6. Constructing Highly Hydrophobic POPs via MBB Strategy for Methane Storage and Organic Vapor Capture, J. Jia, Z. Chen, H. Jiang, Y. Belmabkhout, G. Mouchaham, H. Aggarwal, K. Adil, E. AbouHamad, J. Czabanjozwiak, M. R. Tchalala, and M. Eddaoudi, Chem 2019, 5, 180-191.
7. A Tailor-Made Interpenetrated MOF with Exceptional Carbon-Capture Performance from Flue Gas, W. Liang, P. M Bhatt, A. Shkurenko, K. Adil, G. Mouchaham, H. Aggarwal, A. Mallick, A. Jamal, Y. Belmabkhout, M. Eddaoudi, Chem 2019, 5, 950-963.
8. Achieving Superprotonic Conduction with a 2D Fluorinated Metal–Organic Framework, P. GM Mileo, K. Adil, L. Davis, A.Cadiau, Y. Belmabkhout, H. Aggarwal, G. Maurin, M. Eddaoudi, S. D.-Vinot, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13156-13160.
9. A five-fold interpenetrated metal–organic framework showing a large variation in thermal expansion behaviour owing to dramatic structural transformation upon dehydration–rehydration, H. Aggarwal, R. K. Das, E. R. Engel and L. J. Barbour, Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 861-864.
10. Quest for an optimal methane hydrates formation in the pores of hydrolytically stable MOFs, C. C.-Collados, G. Mouchaham, L. L Daemen, Y. Cheng, A. J R.-Cuesta, H. Aggarwal, A. Missyul, M. Eddaoudi, Y. Belmabkhout, J. S.-Albero, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, just accepted.
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Related Grants: 1. Start Up Research Grant (DST-SERB), Title of the Project: Synthesis of highly stable Zr-based mixed-linker metal-
organic frameworks (MOFs) for humidity control and gas separation, Duration: 2 years, Grant Amount: Rs 21,98,183. 2. Additional Competitive Research Grant (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad), Title of the Project: Design of highly stable
fluorescent metal-organic frameworks for iodine capture, Duration: 2 years, Grant Amount: Rs 10,00,000. 3. Research Initiation Grant (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad), Title of the Project: Synthesis of highly stable Zr based mixed-
linker metal organic frameworks (MOFs) with fcu and hex topology for gas separation and sensing, Duration: 2 years, Grant Amount: Rs 2,00,000.
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Name: Hitesh Datt Mathur Position: Associate Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Pilani/mathurhd/profile Short Bio: Hitesh Datt Mathur received B.E. degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, in 1998; M.E. degree from Malaviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur, India, in 2000; and the Ph. D. degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India in 2007 and He was Post-Doctoral Fellow in Supelec, Paris, France in 2013. He was also invited as visiting scientist to Centralesupelec, France in May- June of 2015 and May- June of 2019. Currently, He is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is having teaching and research experience of more than 20 years. Dr. Mathur is Associate Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation as well as in editorial board and reviewer of various journals mainly in field of electrical power system, renewable energy. He is a Senior member IEEE, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Chartered Engineer and life member of Indian Society of Technical Education. He has published more than 65 papers in national/international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include power system control of isolated and interconnected power systems, power system optimization, automatic generation control and artificial intelligence techniques applications in power systems and distributed generation (DG) with grid interconnection issues. He is handling research projects of various government and non-government organizations such as Dept. of Research Interest Keywords: Smart Grid, Micro Grid, Frequency regulation, Intelligent controllers, Machine learning, Forecasting of RES, Energy Management, IoT, Vehicle to Grid, Electric Mobility Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Mobility and Transport; Urban Planning; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Dhananjay Kumar, Pavitra Sharma, H.D. Mathur, Surekha Bhanot, and Ramesh C. Bansal, "Modified Deloading Strategy of Wind Turbine Generator for Primary Frequency Regulation in Micro-Grid" Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy 5, 11, 2020; Dhananjay Kumar, H.D. Mathur, Surekha Bhanot, and Ramesh C. Bansal, "Modeling and Frequency Control of Community Micro-Grids under Stochastic Solar and Wind Sources" Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2020; Ashish Patel, Sisir K. Yadav, H.D.Mathur, Surekha Bhanot, and R.C. Bansal "Optimum sizing of PV based UPQC-DG with improved power angle control", Electric Power Systems Research, 2020; Ashish Patel, H.D.Mathur and Surekha Bhanot, "Enhancing VA Sharing between Shunt and Series APFs of UPQC with a Modified SRF-PAC Method", IET Power Electronics, 2019; Dhananjay Kumar, Hitesh Dutt Mathur, Surekha Bhanot, and Ramesh C. Bansal, "Frequency regulation in islanded microgrid considering stochastic model of wind and PV" International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 2019; Ashish Patel, H.D.Mathur and Surekha Bhanot, " A New SRF based Power Angle Control Method for UPQCDG to Integrate Solar PV into Grid", International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Volume 29, Issue1, 2019, pp. 1-16; Y.K. Bhateshvar & H.D. Mathur, "Frequency regulation with vehicle to grid (V2G) option in multi-generation power network" ”, Energetika, Vol. 62, No. 1-2, pp. 68-77, 2016.; Tanuj Sen and H.D. Mathur, "A New Approach to Solve Economic Dispatch Problem using a Hybrid ACO-ABC-HS Optimization Algorithm" International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Volume 78, June 2016, Pages 735-744.; Y. K. Bhateshvar and H. D. Mathur, “Power Frequency Oscillation Suppression Using Two-Stage Optimized Fuzzy Logic Controller for Multigeneration System,” Advances in Fuzzy Systems, vol. 2016, Article ID 8308109, 13 pages, 2016. Related Grants: Project Title Development of Improved Design and Control Techniques for Unified Power Quality Conditioner with Distributed Generation (UPQC-DG) Role - Principal Investigator Funding Agency - Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore under Ministry of Power, Govt. of India. Amount Rs. 21,09,000/- Status On-Going (2019-2021); Project Title IoT Based Energy Management System of a Microgrid with Vehicle to Grid (V2G) Feature Role - Principal Investigator Funding Agency - Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi Amount Rs. 16,83,100/- Status On-Going (2019-2022); Project Title Management of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Cities: Challenges and Advanced Control Strategies Role - Principal Investigator Funding Agency - Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Govt. of India, New Delhi-Under SPARC; Project Title Inter-area oscillation Control using Embedded Energy Storage in Interconnected Power System with Distributed Generation Role - Principal Investigator Funding Agency - Seed Grant Scheme, BITS, Pilani Amount Rs. 11,50,000/- Status Completed (2011)
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Name: Krishnendra Shekhawat Position: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Email: [email protected]
Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - Pilani Campus
Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/kshekhawat/profile Short Bio: Myself Krishnendra Shekhawat is an Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani. Prior to this joining, I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the guidance of Prof. José Pinto Duarte (Penn State USA). I completed my PhD in Mathematics from University of Geneva in the guidance of Prof. Daniel Coray. During my PhD, for 3 years, I worked on an architectural research project "Formalization and meaning of the architectural project" supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this project, I worked as an mathematician where I studied logical interactions between several elementary kinds of geometric spaces in the plane and demonstrated that the topological study of these building blocks is an interesting (and new) research topic. The software I produced during this project also revealed that the intended application to architecture was extremely satisfactory for architects and students of architecture. This software generates the best connected floor plans for various shapes, and computes the corresponding graph and a number of associated covariants, for a given set of data. From last few years, I am working on developing mathematical tools for the automated generation of architectural floor plans. In particular, we have developed linear time algorithms for generating rectangular and orthogonal floor plans which are based on graph theoretical and optimization techniques. Research Interest Keywords: Urban Planning, Architectural Design, CAAD, Algorithms Summary of Research Interests: From last few years, I am working on developing mathematical tools for the automated generation of architectural floor plans. In particular, we have developed linear time algorithms for generating rectangular and orthogonal floor plans which are based on graph theoretical and optimization techniques. As a future work, we are working on the development of a generic computer-based system that can be used to design the complex structures like hospitals, universities, etc. Smart City Themes of Interest: Urban Planning Related Publications: Upasani, N., Shekhawat, K., Sachdeva, G. (2020) Automated generation of dimensioned rectangular floorplans, Automation in Construction, Vol. 113, Article 103149; Shekhawat, K., (2018). Enumerating generic rectangular floor plans, Automation in Construction 92: 151-165; Shekhawat, K., Duarte, J.P. (2018). Introduction to generic rectangular floor plans, AIEDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing 32(3): 331-350; Shekhawat, K. (2017). Mathematical propositions associated with the connectivity of architectural designs. Ain Shams Engineering Journal 8(4): 653-661; Shekhawat K. (2017). A computer-generated plus-shaped arrangement and its architectural applications. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering 4(4): 318-329; Shekhawat, K. (2015). Computer-aided architectural designs and associated covariants. Journal of Building Engineering 3: 127-134; Shekhawat, K. (2015). Automated space allocation using mathematical techniques. Ain Shams Engineering Journal 6: 795–802; Shekhawat K., Pinki, Duarte J.P. (2019) A Graph Theoretical Approach for Creating Building Floor Plans. In: Lee JH. (eds) Computer-Aided Architectural Design. "Hello, Culture". CAAD Futures 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1028. Springer; Shekhawat, K. (2014). Algorithm for Constructing an Optimally Connected Rectangular Floor Plan. Frontiers of Architectural Research 3: 324-330 Related Grants: SERB-DST Early Career Research Award Title of Project: Mathematics-aided Architectural Design Layouts Role: Principal Investigator Duration: July 2017-2020 Amount: Rs. 15,44,000/-
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Name: Kuldip Singh Sangwan Position: Professor, Mechanical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/kss/profile Short Bio: Professor Sangwan is currently Shri B. K. Birla and Shrimati Sarala Birla Chair Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering. He has more than 25 years research experience in various areas related to resource efficiency and sustainable consumption in manufacturing sector like lean and green manufacturing; sustainable supply chain, sustainable machining, cyber physical production systems, etc. He has an active collaboration with TU Braunschweig, Germany since last 10 years. He has established Joint Indo-German Experience Lab and Sustainable Manufacturing & Life Cycle Engineering Lab at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. We have developed facilities to work remotely with the German University Lab. and vice-versa. Together with German collaborator, Prof Sangwan has received more than 0.8 million Euro funding from DAAD, German industry and other organizations. His current research interest areas are Industry 4.0, sustainable supply chain design and development using cyber physical systems; sustainable manufacturing and life cycle assessment. Currently, Prof. Sangwan is working on a UNEP multi-nation project on sustainable production and consumption for developing sustainable lifestyles in cities. Research Interest Keywords: Sustainable supply chain, Sustainable lifestyles, Sustainable manufacturing and life cycle assessment, Cyber physical systems, Urban factories Summary of Research Interests: Design of smart and sustainable supply chains for lower carbon foot prints through cyber physical systems; Life cycle assessment of various life styles; Life cycle assessment of city supply chains; Sustainability assessment framework for smart cities Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Urban Planning; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: • Environmental impact assessment of fly ash and silica fume based geopolymer concrete, Journal of Cleaner Production,
254, 2020, 120147, ISSN 0959-6526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120147 • Integrating virtual and physical production processes in learning factories, Procedia Manufacturing 2020, 45, 121-127.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2020.04.082 • Multiple case study analysis and development of an interpretive structural model for greening of supply chains in Indian
ceramic enterprises, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 2020. 30(6), 1279-1296. DOI 10.1108/MEQ-11-2018-0196
• An improved micro analysis-based energy consumption and carbon emissions modeling approach for a milling center, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-019-03807-x
• Benchmarking environmental performance of electric insulator supply chain in India using life cycle assessment, Int J Life Cycle Assess.2019. 24 (3), 518-529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-018-1455-7
• A sustainability assessment framework for cement industry–a case study, Benchmarking: An International Journal 26 (2), 470-497. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-01-2018-0021
• Implementation of a cyber-physical cooling storage station in a learning factory, Procedia Manufacturing 31, 142-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2019.03.022
• Development of a sustainability assessment index for machine tools, Procedia CIRP 80, 156-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2019.01.018
Related Grants: • Joint Indo-German Academy towards Sustainability in Engineering, Education and Entrepreneurship, German Academic
Exchange Programme, January 2020 - December 2023, 200000 €. • Envisioning Future Low-Carbon Lifestyles and Transitioning Instruments Project Phase II, United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP), Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, Swechha (NGO) Delhi, BITS Pilani, September 2019-September 2020, 25000 USD (Indian partners)
• Indo-German Challenge for Sustainable Production, Club MINTernational, Germany, January – December 2019. 58,000 € • Joint Indo-German Experience Lab at BITS Pilani, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Programme) and FESTO, January
2016 - December 2019, 346954 € • 3-Cycle studies in India, AKB Stiftung, Germany, 2005-2006, 5000 € • Development of drivers, barriers and key performance indicators for implementation of green manufacturing in Indian
Micro, Small and Medium Ceramic Enterprises, UGC Major Research Project, (PI)2013, INR 9.91 lakhs
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• Development and validation of sustainability measurement framework for manufacturing industries (Co-PI), UGC Major Research Project, 2013, INR 3.22 lakhs
• Automotive Life Cycle Engineering, DAAD and Volkswagen, Jan 2013 – December 2016, 94 423 €. • Lean and Green Manufacturing, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Programme), 2010-2011, 54030 €
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Name: Lavanya Suresh Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/lavanyasuresh/Profile Short Bio: Dr Lavanya Suresh is an Assistant Professor at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus. Her areas of research interest are political ecology, decentralisation and public administration. Her work has been published in journals of repute like the Economic & Political Weekly, South Asia Research among others. Her most recent publication is a book titled “Decentralised Democracy: Gandhi’s Vision and Indian Reality” co-authored with Prof. M.V. Nadkarni and N. Sivanna published by Routledge in 2018. She has a PhD in Political Science from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC). Prior to working at BITS, she was an Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad. She was also awarded the visiting research scholar fellowship under the Graduate Development Program of the Watson Institute of International Studies’ at Brown University, USA in 2012. Research Interest Keywords: Political ecology, Community Participation, Decentralisation, Water and Sanitation, E-governance, Sustainability, Gender Summary of Research Interests: I am interested in all issues around environmental law and governance from a political economy and ecology perspective Smart City Themes of Interest: Governance and Security,Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Book Published • Nadkarni, M. V., Sivanna, N., & Suresh, Lavanya., (2018). Decentralised Democracy: Gandhi’s Vision and Indian Reality.
New York: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781315105345 Add to Citavi project by DOI Papers Published • Suresh, Lavanya., (2017, February). Decentralised and Effective Forest Resource Governance in India. South Asia
Research, 37(1), 78-92. doi: 10.1177/0262728016675531 • Suresh, Lavanya., (2015, January-March). Situating social science in the philosophical debate on research methodology
with a focus on Public Administration. Indian Journal Of Public Administration, LXI(1), 169-176. doi.org/10.1177/0019556120150112
• Suresh, Lavanya., (2014). The Political Economy of Decentralisation and Forest Resource Management (FRM): A Study of the Effectiveness of Decentralised FRM Institutions. Man & Development, XXXVI (3), 1-22
• Suresh, Lavanya., (2014). Governing the Resource: A Study of the Institutions of Decentralized Forest Resource Management. Studies in Indian Politics, 2(1), 21-41. doi: 10.1177/2321023014526024
• Suresh, Lavanya., (2013). A Fixed Tenure System: Long Journey of Bureaucratic Reforms. Economic & Political Weekly. Vol.48 (48): 16-18
• Suresh, Lavanya. (2017). Book Review of ‘The great derangement: climate change and the unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh’. Environmental Politics, 26(6),1158-1160. (Taylor & Francis). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1365808
• Suresh, Lavanya., (2014). Books at a Glance. (Review of the book Environment and Tribes in India: Resource Conflicts and Adaptations. Vineetha Menon (ed)). Journal of Social and Economic Development,16(1), 386-387.
Chapter in book • Suresh. L (2019). 'The Broad-Basing process in India and Women' in M.V. Nadkarni (ed.) Socio- Economic Change and the
Broad-Basing Process in India. New York: Routledge. • https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429316418 • Suresh, Lavanya., (2016). 'Understanding Nestedness in Democratic Decentralisation through the Lens of Forest Resource
Governance in Tamil Nadu' in E. Venkatesu (Ed.), Democratic Decentralization in India Experiences, Issues and Challenges (pp. 174-187). New York: Routledge.
Related Grants: • Title- Resistance to the Western Ghats Conservation and Undercurrents: A study of the people’s protest and the role of
the local bodies in Iduuki, Kerela; Funding agency - Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala; Grant amount: Rs. 3,15,000:; Role: Principal Investigator (Completed)
• Title- Alternative ways of understanding ecological conservation practices to enable justice for all; Funding agency - NALSAR, Hyderabad; Grant amount- Rs. Rs. 2,95,000; Role: Principal investigator; (Completed.)
• Title- Political Ecology; Funding agency - BITS- Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA); Amount - Rs. 3.60 Lakhs per year for 5 years. Role: PI; (Ongoing)
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Name: Manab Chakravarty Position: Teaching and Research, Chemistry Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/manabchakravarty/Profile Short Bio: After passing out M.Sc chemistry, I have worked on organophosphonate chemistry (linked between organic and Inorganic chemistry) in my Ph.D. (School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, 2007) and Post-Doctoral research (from University of New Mexico, USA, 2010). I joined at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad in 2010. Along with the teaching of various chemistry subjects, I utilize the knowledge of organophosphates and generate many new fluorescent molecules that strongly emit in the aggregate/solid-state. Now I completely deal with the development of new small organic molecules as solid-state emitters that can have numerous applications in the field of organic functional materials. I believe such small molecules can exhibit potential sensing capabilities of acid vapors, VOCs, explosives, toxic chemicals, and biogenic amines. In fact, the detection of VOCs in the environment would be beneficial to deal with the alarming situation. Thus, our development will show the path to detect the above-mentioned chemicals by a simple, inexpensive, and efficient method. Further, the molecules can be used as fluorescent inks and that can be easily applied for anti-counterfeiting applications as the ink color is only visible under UV-torch and that can also be changed with different stimuli such as pressure, solvent vapors, etc. Such stimuli should not be disclosed to fight against counterfeiters. Thus all these processes become very simple and easily accessible. Research Interest Keywords: Synthesis of solid-state emitters, Fluorescence based sensing, Biogenic amine and thiol sensing, sensing of explosives, Organophosphonates/phosphates, volatile organic compound sensing, anti-counterfeiting applications Summary of Research Interests: Synthesis of new extensive pi -conjugates using organophosphates in a metal-free simple route, Applications of Π-conjugates as aggregation-enhanced emission active materials for OLED and photovoltaic applications, Synthesis of small molecules with mechano-fluorochrmic properties, Sensing metal ions, explosives, and biogenic amines. Synthesis of new phosphono sulphonamides as flame retardant materials Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Well being; Governance and Security; Security and Safety; Food Security and Agriculture Related Publications: Analyst, 2020, 145, 1687 - 1694; Dyes and Pigments,2020, 10.1016/j.dyepig.2020.108543; New J. Chem., 2020,44, 6173-6181; ACS Omega 2019, 4, 16963-16971; J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 3735; ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 5052; Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017, 243, 226.; J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 24, 13359–13367; J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 2380. Related Grants: Finding Aggregation-Induced Emission Active Materials: Design, Synthesis and Photophysical Studies of Sterically Hindered Triarylethenes and Tetraarylethenes, DST, 38.38, 3 years (2013-16); Investigations on naphthalene and anthracene based phosphonates/ phosphates: important sources for alkene based new AIEgens and polyarylalkanes, CSIR, 17 lakhs, 2017-20; In search of unsymmetrically substituted anthracenyl π-conjugates as tunable mechanofluorochromic small molecules 28.3 lakhs, SERB, 2019-2021
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Name: Manik Gupta Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Infomation Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/manik/Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/manikgupta79/ Short Bio: Dr. Manik Gupta is working as an Assistant Professor in CSIS at BITS Pilani Hyderabad since July 2019. Prior to that, she was working as a lecturer in the Computer Science and Informatics division at London Southbank University (LSBU), London, UK. She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)/Internet of Things (IoT) and also has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College London (UCL) and London Southbank University. She has extensive experience in IoT sensor deployments and real-world data collection studies during EPSRC funded research projects on urban air pollution monitoring and wheelchair accessibility. Her last engagement as a postdoc has been on an Innovate UK research project dealing with the application of topological data analysis and machine learning techniques to building energy management data. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on EU H2020 and Innovate UK funded research projects during her lecturership period at LSBU. Her current research interests include Data Science for IoT with focus upon real world data collection and data quality issues, knowledge discovery from large sensor datasets, IoT data processing using time series data mining and distributed analytics, applications in environmental monitoring and well being. Research Interest Keywords: Data Collection Studies, Air and Noise Pollution, Mental health, Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Data science, Edge AI, Machine Learning Summary of Research Interests:
1. Real world data collection and analysis for environmental monitoring, smart buildings and health 2. Internet of Things (IoT) analytics using multimodal data 3. Machine learning techniques for sense-making from sensor data streams
Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Well being; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications:
1. M. Gupta, "Poster Abstract: Topological Analysis for Knowledge Discovery from Building Sensor Data," 2020 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI)
2. M. Dey, M. Gupta et al. “A PID Inspired Feature Extraction Method for HVAC Terminal Units” in IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2017
3. M. Dey, M. Gupta et al. “Unsupervised Learning Techniques for HVAC Terminal Unit Behaviour Analysis” in IEEE Smart City Innovations (SCI), 2017
4. M. Gupta et al. “A comparison between smartphone sensors and bespoke sensor devices for wheelchair accessibility studies” in IEEE Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2015.
5. L.V. Shum, M. Gupta et al. “Bi-scale temporal sampling strategy for traffic-induced pollution data with Wireless Sensor Networks” in IEEE 39th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2014.
6. L.V. Shum, M. Gupta et al. “Bias Adjustment of Spatially-distributed Wireless Pollution Sensors for Environmental studies in India” in IEEE 10th international conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2013.
7. M. Gupta, L.V. Shum, E. Bodanese, and S. Hailes, "Design and Evaluation of an Adaptive Sampling strategy for a wireless air pollution sensor network," in IEEE 36th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2011.
Related Grants: 1. Principal Investigator on BITS Research Initiation grant titled “Data enabled IoT system for Noise monitoring, analysis
and mitigation (DIN)” worth INR 2,00,000 (2020-2022) 2. Principal Investigator on H2020 proposal tilted “SocialTruth-Open Distributed Digital Content Verification for Hyper-
connected Sociality” involving 9 European partners worth £200,000 (2018-2021) 3. Co-Investigator on an Innovate UK funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership titled “Smart Ear protectioN in noiSy
Environments” worth £100,000 (2018-2020) 4. Co-Investigator on an Innovate UK Open Programme Project titled “Intelligent ear protection to address occupational
hearing loss for use in heavy industry” worth £100,000 (2018-2019)
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Name: Manjanna B Position: Assistant Professor, CSIS Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/manjanna/Profile Short Bio: I am currently working as an assistant professor in the department of computer science and information systems, I did my PhD in algorithms from the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, working under the guidance of Dr. Gautam K. Das. My PhD work is at the edge of completion. My particular research interest is computational geometry and its applications to the real world. My research, briefly, targets designing approximation algorithms for facility location problem and its variants, covering and packing problems, etc., that are hard to tackle. Some of the problems that I am currently working are covering and packing problems involving points and disks. These problems are well studied and have numerous applications in city planning, clustering, network construction, etc. Research Interest Keywords: Computational Geometry, Facility location, approximation algorithms, wireless networks, covering and packing Summary of Research Interests: My research interests are broadly in the area of geometric algorithms. The research experience that I have gained in this area has been through my doctoral thesis work. Specifically, I am interested to solve various geometric covering and packing problems about points, disks, squares, triangles, polygons etc. I am investigating these problems by developing exact, approximate, parameterized and heuristic algorithms. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Urban Planning; Food Security and Agriculture Related Publications: Related Grants:
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Name: Naga Mohan Kommu Position: Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/nagamohan/Profile Short Bio: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/nagamohan/Profile Research Interest Keywords: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/nagamohan/Profile, Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics, Postdoctoral research in epigenetics, mammalian and human genetics. Since the past few years, our lab is focused on three main areas using molecular genetic and epigenetic approaches in understanding neuropsych, Schiaophrenia, Stem cell models, CNVs and SNPs, Epigenetics, DNA methyltransferases, Histone deacetylases, Point of Care Devices, Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Wellbeing Related Publications: 1. We are interested in understanding the effects of dysregulated epigenetic machinery in neurological disorders such as schizophrenia. At present we are focusing stem cell models overexpressing on DNA methyltransferases and HDACs for studying the neurodevelopmental abnormalities. 2. We are employing case-control studies to identify schizophrenia-associated CNVs and SNPs among Indian population. Since not much information is available, we are at present using PsychArrays to obtain information; Infrastructure and Technology,Health and Well being; Reproducible differentiation and characterization of neurons from mouse embryonic stem cells. In Press; Analysis of transcript levels of a few schizophrenia candidate genes in neurons from a transgenic mouse embryonic stem cell model overexpressing DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1). Gene, In Press; Addepalli A, Kalyani S, Singh M, Bandyopadhyay D, Naga Mohan K. CalPen (Calculator of Penetrance), a web-based tool to estimate penetrance in complex genetic disorders. PLoS One. 2020;15(1):e0228156. Published 2020 Jan 29. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228156; Saxena S, Kkani P, Ramasubramanian C, et al. Analysis of 15q11.2 CNVs in an Indian population with schizophrenia. Ann Hum Genet. 2019;83(3):187-191. doi:10.1111/ahg.12300; Mohan KN. Stem Cell Models to Investigate the Role of DNA Methylation Machinery in Development of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Stem Cells Int. 2016;2016:4379425. doi:10.1155/2016/4379425; Saxena S, Gowdhaman K, Kkani P, et al. Improved Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (i-MLPA) for rapid copy number variant (CNV) detection. Clin Chim Acta. 2015;450:19-24. doi:10.1016/j.cca.2015.07.028; Chaste P, Sanders SJ, Mohan KN, et al. Modest impact on risk for autism spectrum disorder of rare copy number variants at 15q11.2, specifically breakpoints 1 to 2. Autism Res. 2014;7(3):355-362. doi:10.1002/aur.1378 Related Grants: D'Aiuto L, Di Maio R, Mohan KN, et al. Mouse ES cells overexpressing DNMT1 produce abnormal neurons with upregulated NMDA/NR1 subunit. Differentiation. 2011;82(1):9-17. doi:10.1016/j.diff.2011.03.003; ; A pilot study for evaluation of 15 Copy Number Variants (CNVs) among schizophrenia patients from India. Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Approved, To begin soon Requested amount: 33.92 lakhs; Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia. (2020 – 2023) Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology – Cognitive Science Research Initiative Amount: 60.42 lakhs; Transgenic Embryonic stem cell models for studying the role of elevated levels of DNMT1, and DNMT3A in neuropsychiatric disorders. (2014 – 2018) Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Amount: 24.10 lakhs; Characterization of a mouse embryonic stem cell model to study the effects of increased levels of DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) on abnormal neurogenesis. (2014 – 2018) Funding Agency: Scientific and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Amount: 40.38 lakh; Clinical Evaluation of a cost-effective and rapid MDR-TB diagnostic kit and development of a point of care device for large-scale screening. Funding Agency: Department of Health Research (DHR) Approved, To begin soon. Requested amount: 97.59 lakhs (BITS S; Mechanistic basis of abnormal neurogenesis due to HSAN1E-associated DNMT1 mutation and pharmacological intervention for phenotypic correction. (2017 – 2020) Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Amount: 68.45 lakhs; Automated detection of abnormal copy number variants in human diseases. (2015 – 2017) Funding Agency: Biotech Ignition Grant (BIG) – CCAMP Amount: 49.90 lakhs; Development of a cost-effective membrane and DNA chip-based detection of mutations with multiple drug-resistance tuberculosis. (2012 – 2015) Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology – Technology Development and Transfer (TDT) Amount: 69.16 lak
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Name: Namita Khanna Position: Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Dubai Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/dubai/namitakhanna/Profile Short Bio: Dr Namita Khanna is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Dubai Campus. She holds a PhD in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Her main areas of research are production of biofuels, biochemicals and biodrugs from engineered organisms. Lately she has developed a keen interest in developing microbially mediated biocement. She has over ten years of experience in applied microbiological research including over four years of post-doctoral research experience in Uppsala University, Sweden. She has published 23 papers in various peer-reviewed journals and books and has co-authored one book. She also serves as the editorial board member of two international journals. Research Interest Keywords: Biocement, biohydrogen, waste water to energy, algal fuels, biofuels Summary of Research Interests: Interested in developing microbially mediated, carbon neutral processes for manufacturing construction material such as biocement, biopaints, bioplastic and biofuels Smart City Themes of Interest: Urban Planning; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications:
1. Bhopal S, Dilip DM, Khanna N. Carbon neutral: bioinspired construction material. In preparation 2. Junaid, S., Khanna, N., Lindbald, P., Ahmed, M., (2019) Multifacet Biofuel Production by Microalgal isolates from
Pakistan. Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining, DOI: 10.1002/bbb. 3. Wegelius, A*., Khanna, N*., Emsieu, C., Barone, G.D., Pinto., F., Tamagnini, P., Lindblad, P., Berggren, G (2018)
Generation of a functional, semisynthetic [FeFe]-hydrogenase in a photosynthetic microorganism. Energy and Environmental Science, 11, 3163-3167.
4. Khanna, N., Mészáros, L.S, Emsieu, C., Lindblad, P., Berggren, G (2017) In vivo activation of an apo-metalloenzyme using synthetic complexes. Energy and Environmental Science, 10, 1563-1567. (
5. Raleiras, P., *Khanna, N.*, Miranda, H., Mészáros, L.S., Krassen, H., Ho, F., Battchikova, N., Aro, E.M., Magnuson, A., Lindblad, P., Styring, S. (2015) Enhanced hydrogen production by engineering HupSL of Nostoc Punctiforme. Energy and Environmental Science.9, pp. 581-594
6. Khanna, N; Lindblad, P. (2015). Cyanobacterial hydrogenases and hydrogen metabolism revisited: Recent progress and future prospects. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 16(5), pp. 10537-10561.
7. Khanna, N; Ghosh, A.K., Huntemann, M., Deshpande, S; Han, J, Chen, A., et al., (2013) Complete genome sequence of Enterobacter sp. IIT-BT 08: A potential microbial strain for high rate hydrogen production. Standards in Genomic Sciences, 9(2), pp.359-369.
8. Khetkorn, W; Khanna, N; Incharoensakdi, A; Lindblad, P. (2013) Metabolic and genetic engineering for enhanced hydrogen production. Biofuels, 4(5), pp. 535-561.
9. Khanna, N; Kumar, K; Todi, S; Das, D. (2012) Characteristics of cured and wild strains of Enterobacter cloacae IIT-BT 08 for the improvement of biohydrogen production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37(16), pp. 11666-11676.
10. Khanna, N; Dasgupta, CN; Mishra, P; Das, D. (2011) Homologous over expression of [FeFe] hydrogenase in Enterobacter cloacae IIT-BT 08 to enhance hydrogen gas production from cheese whey. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 36 (24), pp. 15573-15582.
Related Grants:
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Name: Naveen Kumar Shrivastava
Position: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - Dubai Campus
Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/dubai/naveen/Profile Short Bio: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/dubai/naveen/Profile Research Interest Keywords: Energy, Fuel Cell, Renewable Energy, Exergy, Energy from Waste Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fuce.201900149; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/er.4933; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11581-018-2797-7; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032115013040; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11581-015-1589-6; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378775315005054; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001346861402088X#; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15435075.2014.916220; https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EY.1943-7897.0000112 Related Grants: 1. Design and Development of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with Effective Species Management Technique. Funding Agency: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) through Research Initiation Grant. AED 20,000. Ongoing (July 2018-June 2020)
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Name: Navneet Goel Position: Professor Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/goel/profile Short Bio: Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee, India in 1995. Currently, Professor in the CS Dept. in BITS-Pilani. Joined BITS-Pilani in 1995. 25 years of post Ph.D. teaching and research experience. PG Diploma in Health Systems Management from School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA (1999). Received IBM Scalable Data Analytics Innovation Faculty Award in 2010 under the Smarter Planet Initiative. The award is in the area of Scalable Data Analytics for the research concept titled "Developing a Smart Crop Management System using Data Analytics" Research Interest Keywords: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, IoT Data Analytics, Crop Management, Bioacoustics, Data Mining, Time Series Analysis, High-Performance Computing, Image & Video Analytics Summary of Research Interests: Interested in Machine Learning/AI/Data Mining research & applications. High-performance computing solutions for ML/AI/DM. Recent interest in IoT and time-series data analytics. Crop-yield prediction using Image Analytics. Federated Learning - privacy preserving ML. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Health and Well being; Urban Planning; Governance and Security; Security and Safety; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Related Grants: Developing a Smart Crop Management System using Data Analytics IBM Award Money: USD $15000 2010-2011; A New Distributed Computing Framework for Data Mining Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY), Govt. of India INR 1.20 crores ( INR 12 Million) 2012-2016; Improving data driven decision making in small-mid scale dairy cooperatives Submitted this project proposal under ASCRIN to AISRF in Oct. 2019. Proposed project Funding: INR 2.20 Crores (INR 22 Million) + AUD $ 956,209
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Name: N V Muralidhar Rao (N V M Rao)
Position: Professor and Chief CPU, Economics and Finance
Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - Pilani Campus
Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Pilani/nvmrao/profile Short Bio: N. V. M. Rao is currently working as Professor, Department of Economics & Finance at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, where he has taught since 1994. He joined BITS Pilani after completing his Ph.D. in Econometrics on the topic “Econometric Analysis of Size Distributions of Consumption”. He is a passionate, optimistic and dedicated person who takes up responsibilities with utmost enthusiasm and sees to it that he completes the tasks and assignments sincerely. He has twenty-five years of wide-ranging undergraduate as well as graduate teaching experience in Economics, Finance and Management Courses. At present he is Professor and Chief of Centralised Purchases Unit at BITS, Pilani. He also worked as Dean, Educational Hardware Division, Dean, Student Welfare Division, Chief of Community Welfare unit and Head of the Department at the university. He initiated many academic, student development programs and scholarships for the students. He is part of infrastructure development and procurement activities of the institute and having significant experience in academic, scholarly and institutional administration. He was selected for Academic Leadership Development Programme and did course work at OXFORD University, UK, Appointed as ‘Country Expert’ by World Intellectual Property Organization, Japan and represented India on Multi-Country WIPO-UNU joint Major Research Project on “Impact of Intellectual Property System on Economic Growth". Research Interest Keywords: Applied Econometrics; Empirical Development; Public Economics; Financial Economics; Economics and Financial Modelling; Governance and Policy Evaluation; Health Systems and Strategy; Data Analytics; Public Infrastructure Management and Technology; Resource Management Summary of Research Interests: His research interests lie in the area of Empirical Development, Public Economics, Financial Economics and Applied Econometrics. His research work explores in different areas: Software metrics and Quality Management, e-business Models; Environmental Management Systems; Mergers and Acquisitions; Hospital and Health Systems Management; Organizational Transformation; Infrastructure Management; Resource Mobilization for Indian Universities; Risk Management; Skill Development, Socio economic inequalities Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Economic Development; Mobility and Transport; Health and Well being; Governance and Security Related Publications: Please see the website Related Grants: Joint Projects only
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Name: Paresh Saxena Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/psaxena/Profile Short Bio: Dr. Paresh Saxena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. He received his PhD from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) and then worked as a Senior Researcher in AnsuR in Oslo (Norway) for 3.5 years before joining BITS-Pilani. His primary research focus is on the non-terrestrial communications and networking with satellite, UAVs and HAPS. Dr. Saxena is currently leading a Govt. of India funded project MUT-DROCO, a TCS funded project NANCY and two industrial consultancy projects. Previously, he has been involved as a work package leader in two European Space Agency (ESA) funded projects: SatNetCode and HENCSAT, along with a work package member in European H2020 funded project Geo-Vision. He was a member of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action IC1104 from 2013-2016 and worked on the project from Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex System (MITACS), Canada in 2008. He had been a visiting researcher in Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver (Canada) under the guidance of Prof. Abraham Punnen in 2008 and a visiting researcher in Telecom, ParisTech, Paris (France) under the guidance of Prof. J. C. Belfiore in 2010. During his PhD, he was awarded the UAB Doctoral Fellowship Grant (P.I.F) for four years in Barcelona, Spain and prior to his graduation, he was awarded with a National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) scholarship, India with 11th position in India. Research Interest Keywords: Network Coding, Urban Planning, Situational Awareness, Disaster response, Machine Learning application to non-terrestrial networks, Drone communications and networking, Multipath Networking, , , Summary of Research Interests: Dr. Saxena's primary research focus is on the non-terrestrial communications and networking with satellite, UAVs and HAPS. He was also involved with projects with network coding and multipath networking for reliable and robust delivery of image/video data where terrestrial networks are unavailable or hardly available. He has been also focusing on the application of reinforcement learning with network coding for the reliable delivery of data over the wireless networks. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: P. Saxena, T. Dreibholz, H. Skinnemoen, O. Alay, M. A. Vazquez-Castro, S. Ferlin and G. Acar, “Resilient Hybrid SatCom and Terrestrial Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, in Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks (WISARN), Toronto, Canada, 2020.; P. Saxena and M. A. Vazquez-Castro, “DARE: DoF-Aided Random Encoding for network coding over lossy line networks”, IEEE communication letters, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 1374-1377, August 2015.; P. Saxena and M. A. Vazquez-Castro, “Link layer random network coding for DVB-S2X/RCS'”, IEEE communication letters, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1161-1164, July 2015.; M. A. Vázquez-Castro, P. Saxena, T. Do-Duy, F. Vamstad and H. Skinnemoen, “SatNetCode: Functional Design and Experimental Validation of Network Coding over Satellite”, in international symposium on networks, computers and communications (ISNCC), June 2018.; P. Saxena and M. A. Vázquez-Castro, “Network coding advantage over MDS codes for multimedia transmission via erasure satellite channels”, in proceedings of the 5th International conference on personal satellite services (PSATS 2013), Toulouse (France), June 2013.; M. A. Vázquez-Castro and P. Saxena, “Network coding over satellite: from theory to design and performance’, in proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Systems, Bradford (Britain), July 2015.; M. A. Pimentel-Nino, P. Saxena and M. A. Vazquez-Castro, “Reliable adaptive video streaming driven by perceptual semantics for situational awareness”, The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2015, Article ID 394956, 16 pages, doi:10.1155/2015/394956, May 2015.; M. A. Pimentel-Niño, P. Saxena and M. A. Vázquez-Castro, “QoE driven adaptive video with Overlapping Network Coding for Best Effort Erasure Satellite Links”, in proceedings of the 31st AIAA international communications satellite systems conference, Florence (Italy), October 2013.; P. Saxena and M. A. Vázquez-Castro, “Interference-free regions with Han-Kobayashi Scheme for M-QAM and Scalar channels”, in proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2012), Barcelona (Spain), October 2012. Related Grants: MUT-DROCO: Multipath networking test-bed for Drone Communications, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, 2020, 2 years, INR 2200000.; NANCY: Neural Adaptive Network Coding methodology for video distribution through wireless networks, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India, 2019, 4 years, INR 1800000.; HENCSAT: Highly Efficient Network Coding for Satellite Applications, European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands, 2016, 2 years, Euros 500000.; SatNetCode: Satellite Network-Coding for High Performance, Semantic-Aware Mission Critical Visual Communications, European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands, 2015, 2 years, Euros 350000.; Network Coding for Multipath Transport, Industrial Consultancy Project, AnsuR Tech., Oslo, Norway, 2019, 1 year, Euros 4500.; Network Coding with Deterministic Coefficients for Unreliable Networks, Industrial Consultancy Project, AnsuR Tech., Oslo, Norway, 2018, 1 year, Euros 4200.
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Name: Parikshit Sahatiya Position: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/parikshitsahatiya/Profile https://sites.google.com/hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in/parikshitsahatiya/ Short Bio: Dr. Parikshit Sahatiya obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in April 2018. His PhD work was on fabrication of flexible nanoelectronic devices for wearable electronics applications. Dr. Sahatiya's Masters is in Nanotechnology from SRM Univeristy and was a gold medalist. Post PhD, he worked as a Research Scientist at Redpine Signals where he was responsible for the fabrication of flexible memristors. In Dec 2019, Dr. Sahatiya joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of EEE, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Dr. Sahatiya's research is very interdisciplinary which includes the fabrication flexible nanoelectronic devices for diverse and real time applications (for details refer to the research interest). During the course of his PhD, Dr. Sahatiya has won several awards such as INUP Best Project Award (2017), Nominated for Best Thesis award by INAE, Govt of India, International Travel Grant to attend IEEE-NANO 2017 etc. Apart from that, Dr. Sahatiya has serving as a reviewer for many journals (IOP, Wiley, IEEE, Elsevier, RSC, ACS etc.) and has been awarded Best reviewer award couple of times. He also was a Lead Guest Editor for Advances in Polymer Technology (Wiley - Hindawi). Dr. Sahatiya has authored more than 30 peer reviewed Journals with the Cumulative Impact Factor of more than 150 and has presented his works in several International forums. Dr. Sahatiya has also written two book Chapters. Research Interest Keywords: Flexible Electronics, Photodetector, Multifunctional Sensors, Machine Learning, Energy Harvesting, 2D nanomaterials, Papertronics, Personal healthcare monitoring, Smart Electronics, Memristor Summary of Research Interests: Dr. Sahatiya's research is very interdisciplinary which includes the fabrication flexible nanoelectronic devices for diverse and real time applications which includes broadband photodetection, multifunctional sensors (physical and chemical stimuli) and the stimulus identification using machine learning, flexible memristors, water destructible electronics having real time applications in visible light communication, E-skin, personal healthcare monitoring etc. For details please visit my website Smart City Themes of Interest: Mobility and Transport; Security and Safety; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Selamneni, V., B.S Amogh., & Sahatiya, P*. Highly Air Stabilized Black Phosphorous on disposable paper substrate as a tunnelling effect based highly sensitive piezoresistive strain sensor. Medical Devices and Sensors, 2020 (Accepted Manuscript); Selamneni, V., Nerurkar, N., & Sahatiya, P*. Large area deposition of MoSe2 on paper as a flexible Near Infrared photodetector. IEEE Sensors Letters, 2020 (Accepted Manuscript); Chandrasekhar Reddy K, Sahatiya, P, Santos-Saucedaa, O. Cortazara, R. Ramírez Bon. One Step Fabrication of 1D p-NiO nanowire/Si heterojunction: Development of Self powered Ultraviolet Photodetector, Applied Surface Science, 2020 (Accepted Manuscript); Selamneni., V, Sahatiya, P*. Bolometric effect enhanced Ultrafast Graphene based Do-it-yourself (DIY) wearable respiration sensor for personal healthcare monitoring, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 (Accepted Manuscript); Sahatiya, P., Jones, S. S., Mattela, V., & Badhulika, S. Direct growth of Black phosphorous (p type) on flexible substrate with dual role of 2D ZnO (n type) as effective passivation and enabling highly stable broadband photodetection. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2019 (Accepted Manuscript); Sahatiya, P., P. Thanga Gomathi & Badhulika S. Large-area, broadband photodetector based on ZnS-MoS2 hybrid on paper substrate. Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 27, 31. 1703611. Impact factor: 15.625; Sahatiya, P., Anand Kadu, Harshit Gupta, P Thanga Gomathi & Badhulika S, Flexible, disposable, cellulose paper based MoS2-Cu2S hybrid for wireless environmental monitoring and multifunctional sensing of chemical stimuli. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(10), 9048-9059; Sahatiya, P., Jones, S. S., Gomathi, P. T., & Badhulika, S. Flexible substrate based 2D ZnO (n)/graphene (p) rectifying junction as enhanced broadband photodetector using strain modulation. 2D Materials, 2017, 4(2), 025053; Sahatiya, P., & Badhulika S. Fabrication of solution processed, highly flexible few layer MoS2 (n) – CuO (p) piezotronic diode on paper substrate for active analog frequency modulator and enhanced broadband photodetector. Journal of Material Chemistry C, 2017, 5(44), 11436-11447 Related Grants: RESEARCH INITIATION GRANT (RIG), BITS PILANI. Rs. 2 lakhs Title: Cleanroom free, solution processed fabrication of flexible nanoelectronic devices for sensing applications. Duration: Jan' 19 to Jan' 21.; ADDITIONAL COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANT, BITS PILANI Rs. 10 Lakhs Title: Direct growth of 2D materials by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) on flexible substrates and its application in wearable electronics Duration: Sept' 19 to Sept' 21; REDPINE SIGNALS INC (INDUSTRY SPONSORED) - Rs. 8.14 Lakhs Title: 2D Nanomaterials based Flexible Resistive Memory (Memristors) Duration: July'20 to July'22
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Name: Piyush Chandra Verma Position: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and
Science (BITS), Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piyush-chandra-verma-34635a35/ Short Bio: Academic Qualifications: Ph.D.: Materials Science & Engineering - University of Trento - Italy (2013-2016) M.Tech: Metallurgical Engineering - Jadavpur University, Kolkata - India (2008-2010) B.Tech: Mechanical Engineering - Bundelkhand University, Jhansi - India (2004-2008) Professional Experiences: 1.Assistant Professor (2019-till date) Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad - India. 2.Assistant Professor (2018-2019) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Veltech Dr. RR & Dr. SR R&D institute of Science & Technology, Chennai- India. 3.National Young Scientist Fellow (Post Doc.) (2017-2018) Advanced Materials & Processes Division, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur - India. 4.Assistant Professor (2016) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara - India. 5.Visiting Researcher (2015) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas - USA. 6.Assistant Professor (2010-2012) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara - India. Research Interest Keywords: Friction and Wear, Surface Engineering, Brake Pad Wear, Materials Science & Engineering Summary of Research Interests: Surface Modification of Brake Disc Friction & Wear of brake pad-disc Materials Characterization Tribology of Composite Materials Surface Engineering Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Security and Safety Related Publications: Braking pad-disc system: wear mechanisms and formation of wear fragments PC Verma, L Menapace, A Bonfanti, R Ciudin, S Gialanella, G Straffelini Wear 322, 251-258; Role of the friction layer in the high-temperature pin-on-disc study of a brake material PC Verma, R Ciudin, A Bonfanti, P Aswath, G Straffelini, S Gialanella Wear 346, 56-65; Wear behavior of a low metallic friction material dry sliding against a cast iron disc: role of the heat-treatment of the disc G Straffelini, PC Verma, I Metinoz, R Ciudin, G Perricone, S Gialanella Wear 348, 10-16; Wear debris from brake system materials: A multi-analytical characterization approach PC Verma, M Alemani, S Gialanella, L Lutterotti, U Olofsson, G Straffelini Tribology International 94, 249-259; Wear and contact temperature evolution in pin-on-disc tribotesting of low-metallic friction material sliding against pearlitic cast iron G Straffelini, S Verlinski, PC Verma, G Valota, S Gialanella Tribology Letters 62 (3), 36; Wear debris materials from brake systems: environmental and health issues GS R Ciudin, PC Verma, S Gialanella WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 191 Related Grants: Development of environmental friendly cast iron disc for automotive brake pad-disc system: Surface modification treatment of cast iron disc Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB)-(DST), Government of India Rs. 12,08,826/- (PI) 2017-2019; Friction and Wear Investigation of Ceramic Coated Commercial Rotor BITS Pilani - Research Initiation Grant (RIG) Rs. 2,00,000/- (PI) 2019-2021
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Name: Ponnalagu R N Position: Assistant Professor, EEE Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/ponnalagurn/Profile Short Bio: I have received my B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India, in 2000, M.E. degree in Electronics and Control from Sathyabama University, Chennai, India, in 2005 and Ph. D. from IIT Madras, Chennai in the year 2012. Presently I am working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India and my past experience in teaching and research includes 18 years of service in the department of EEE, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai. My research interests include Sensors, Signal conditioning circuits, Measurements, Instrumentation, Signal processing, Biomedical instrumentation, Control systems, Development of drones and IoT. I have published 6 journal papers which includes IEEE sensors, IEEE Transactions on instrumentation and measurement and Elsevier journals. I have presented 7 papers in the IEEE sponsored International Conferences and also published a book chapter. I am working on a DST sponsored project " Fully Integrated Smartphone and IoT enabled Microfluidic Sensor for Real-time Quantification of Soil Macro nutrients, Conductivity and pH values as a Co-PI. Also I am working on a institute sponsored project titled" Design and development of instrumentation system to measure dynamic signals.I am reviewer in journals like IEEESensors, IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on instrumentation and measurement Research Interest Keywords: Health care, Signal conditioning circuits, Instrumentation systems, Interfacing, ioT Summary of Research Interests: My research interests include Sensors, Signal conditioning circuits, Measurements, Instrumentation, Signal processing, Biomedical instrumentation, Control systems, Development of drones and IoT. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Well being; Security and Safety; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: 1. P. R. Nagarajan, B. George and V. J. Kumar, “An improved direct digital converter for bridge connected resistive sensors,” IEEE Sensors J. vol.16, no. 10, May 2016, pp. 3679-3687.; 2. P. R. Nagarajan, B. George and V. J. Kumar, “A Linearizing Digitizer for Wheatstone Bridge Based Signal Conditioning of Resistive Sensors,” IEEE Sensors J. vol.17, no. 6, March 2017, pp. 1696-1705.; 3. P. R. Nagarajan, B. George and V. J. Kumar, “Improved Single Element Resistive Sensor to Microcontroller Interface,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 66, no. 10, Oct 2017, pp. 2736 -2744.; 4. S. K. Ghosh, R. K. Tripathy, R. N. Ponnalagu and R. B. Pachori, "Automated Detection of Heart Valve Disorders From the PCG Signal Using Time-Frequency Magnitude and Phase Features," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 3, no. 12, pp. 1-4, Dec. 2019, Art no. 7002604, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2019.2949170.; 5. S. K. Ghosh, R. N. Ponnalagu, R. K. Tripathy,and U. Rajendra Acharya,"Automated detection of heart valve diseases using chirplet transform and multiclass composite classifier with PCG signals",Volume 118, March 2020, 103632; 6.S. K. Ghosh, R. K. Tripathy, R. N. Ponnalagu,"Heart Sound Data Acquisition and Preprocessing Techniques: A Review" ",https://www.igi-global.com/book/advancement-artificial-intelligence-healthcare-engineering/235693 Related Grants: Role: Co-PI Project Title:Fully Integrated Smartphone and IoT enabled Microfluidic Sensor for Real-time Quantification of Soil Macronutrients, Conductivity and pH values Sponsorig agency: Technology Development Program AgroTech scheme of Department of Science and Technology, India Amount : Rs 1774408/- Duration : One year + One year; Role : PI Project title: Design and development of instrumentation system to measure dynamic signals Sponsoring Agency: BITS Duration : 2 years Amount: 2,00000/-
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Name: Poonam Goyal Position: Associate Professor, Computer Science Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/poonam/Profile Short Bio: Prof. Poonam Goyal is currently Head & Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science & Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. She heads the Web Intelligence and Social Computing Laboratory (WiSOC Lab) of the department. She is also a core member of Advanced Data Analytics and Parallel Technologies Laboratory (ADAPT Lab). Prof. Poonam received her ME degree in Software Systems in BITS Pilani and Ph.D. (Numerical Analysis) from IIT Roorkee. She specializes in the areas of Big Data Analytics, High Performance Computing, Multimedia Retrieval, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. Her research has contributed in various social and scientific domains like social media analytics, multi-modal knowledge graphs, bio-informatics, etc. She has published several research articles in various top tier conferences and journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Social Computing, Journal of Data Science and Applications, IEEE Cluster, IEEE Big Data, IEEE HiPC, IEEE/ACM DSAA, ACM ICMR, etc. She has also filed a few patents related to knowledge graphs. She is also a part of program/review committee of various conferences and journals, and served as PI/Co-PI for a few sponsored research projects. She is a co-recipient of 2010 IBM Research Innovation Award under the Smarter Planet Initiative in the area of Scalable Data Analyics. Research Interest Keywords: Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Image and Text Analytics, Crop Management Summary of Research Interests: Data Analytics Anytime Mining for Data Streams Parallelization strategies for ML/DM Algorithms Data distribution and data indexing structures Automatic Parallelization of Clustering Algorithms NLP & Vision mage Retrieval for Complex Queries Image Tagging Knowledge Graph Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Health and Well being; Security and Safety; Food Security and Agriculture Related Publications: C Chaudhary, Poonam Goyal, D N Prasad, Y P Phoebe Chen, "Enhancing the quality of Image Tagging using a Visio-Textual Knowledge Base", In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 2020, 22(4) pp 897-911. DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2019.2937181; C Chaudhary, Poonam Goyal, N Goyal, Y P Phoebe Chen, "Image Retrieval for Complex Queries Using Knowledge Embedding", ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications & Applications (TOMM) 2020, 16(1) 1-23; Poonam Goyal, P Kaushik, P Gupta, D Vashisth, Shavak Agarwal and Navneet Goyal, " Multilevel Event Detection, Storyline Generation and Summarization for Tweet Streams", IEEE Transactions Computational Social Systems (TCSS) 2020, Vol. 7(1), pp 8-23. DoI: 10.1109/TCSS.2019.2954116; Saiyedul Islam, Navneet Goyal, Sundar Balasubramaniam, Poonam Goyal, Achal Agarwal, Kirti Singh Rathore, and Nischay Singh, "Rapid Prototyping of Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Algorithms for Distributed Systems", 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2019), USA; A Sarma A S, Poonam Goyal, S Kumari, A Wani, J S Challa, S Islam, Navneet Goyal, "MuDBSCAN: An Exact Scalable DBSCAN Algorithm for Big Data Exploiting Spatial Locality", In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (IEEE Cluster 2019), USA; Chandramani Chaudhary, Poonam Goyal, Siddhant Tuli, Shuchita Banthia, Navneet Goyal, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, "A Novel Multimodal Clustering Framework for Images with Diverse Associated Text", In Multimedia Tools & Applications, vol. 78, no. 13, Springer, 2019. DoI: 10.1007/s11042-018-7131-x; Poonam Goyal, Jagat Sesh Challa, Shivin Srivastava, and Navneet Goyal, "AnyFI: An Anytime Frequent Itemset Mining Algorithm for Data Streams", In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017), December 11-14, Boston, USA, pp. 942-947.; Chandramani Chaudhary, Poonam Goyal, and Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, "Exploiting Visual and Textual Neighborhood Information to Improve Image-Tag Relevance", In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2017 (IEEE Big Data 2017), Boston, USA, pp. 266-275.; Jagat Sesh Challa, Poonam Goyal, Ajinkya Kokandakar, Dhananjay Mantri, Pranet Verma, Sundar Balasubramaniam and Navneet Goyal, "Anytime Clustering of Data Streams while handling Noise and Concept Drift", In Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence Related Grants: DIT Research Project - INR 12M (Completed) "A New Distributed Computing Framework for Data Mining"; IBM Scalable Data Analytics Innovation Faculty Award 2010 USD 15000
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Name: Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo Position: Associate Professor, Faculty, Mathematics Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/pradyumnkumarsahoo/Profile Short Bio: Prof. Sahoo has done M. Sc., M. Phil. and Ph. D. in Mathematics from Sambalpur University, India. Presently, he is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India. He is a Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) London and also a Foreign member of Russian Gravitational Society. His research areas include relativity, cosmology, gravitation, dark energy, modified theories of gravity, wormholes and their sources and field theory. He has guided three Ph. D. scholars and currently two scholars are working for doctorate program under his guidance. His publication exceeds more than 100 research articles in peer reviewed journals including Physical Review D, European Physical Journal C, International Journal of Modern Physics D, European Physical Journal Plus, Modern Physics Letters A, Fortschritte der Physik etc. He visited Canada, German, Belgium, Spain, South Korea, Japan, London, Switzerland and Poland to deliver invited talks. He has taught various subjects like Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, Complex Variable, Differential Equations, Optimization, Cosmology, Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory in the postgraduate program of Mathematics at BITS. Research Interest Keywords: Cosmology theory, Dark energy, Modified Gravity, Black holes, wormholes Summary of Research Interests: Research interests include: (i) dark energy problems as per the present accelerated expansion of the universe, (ii) Modified theories of gravity (iii) study of wormhole geometries in modified gravity (iv) study of energy momentum complex of black hole metrics. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology Related Publications: • I. Radinschi, P. K. Sahoo, Th. Grammenos, S. Chattopadhyay, M. M. Cazacu Localization of Energy and Momentum in
an Asymptotically Reissner-Nordström Non-singular Black Hole Space-time Geometry, Universe, 6(5) (2020) 69; • Sanjay Mandal, Snehasish Bhattacharjee, P.K. Sahoo, Accelerating universe in hybrid and logarithmic teleparallel
gravity, Physics of the Dark Universe 28, (2020), 100551; • Snehasish Bhattacharjee, P.K. Sahoo, Comprehensive analysis of a non-singular bounce in f(R,T) gravitation, Physics of
the Dark Universe 28, (2020), 100537; • Snehasish Bhattacharjee, P.K. Sahoo, Baryogenesis in f(Q,T) Gravity, European Physical Journal C 80(3), (2020) 289; • P.H.R.S. Moraes, P.K. Sahoo, “Wormholes in exponential f(R,T) gravity”, European Physical Journal C 79(8), (2019)
677; • P.K. Sahoo, P.H.R.S. Moraes, Parbati Sahoo, Binaya K. Bishi: “f(R,T) = f(R) + λT gravity models as alternatives to cosmic
acceleration”, European Physical Journal C, 78(9) (2018) 736; • P.H.R.S. Moraes, P.K. Sahoo: “Non-exotic matter wormholes in a trace of the energy-momentum tensor squared
gravity”, Physical Review D, 97(2) (2018) 024007; • P.H.R.S. Moraes, P.K. Sahoo: “Modelling wormholes in f(R,T) gravity”, Physical Review D, 96(4) (2017) 044038; • P.H.R.S. Moraes, P.K. Sahoo: “The simplest non-minimal matter-geometry coupling in the f(R,T) cosmology”,
European Physical Journal C 77(7), (2017) 480 Related Grants:
1. “Cosmic acceleration with observational constraints of the universe in modified gravity”, funded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), 03(1454)/19/EMR-II Dt.02/08/2019, Govt. of India, New Delhi (2019-2022), 20,40,528 INR;
2. “Study of cosmological models in bimetric theory of gravitation”, funded by University Grants Commission (UGC)
F.41-1385/2012 (SR), Govt. of India, New Delhi: (2012-2014), 1,80,000 INR
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Name: Prasanta Sahu Position: Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/prasantasahu/Profile Short Bio: With a PhD from IIT Bombay and Masters from IIT Kanpur, I have been working on freight travel demand modelling, last mile delivery, facility planning, green mobility planning, quality of life, transport pricing and emissions, etc. I have an excellent track record of working with colleagues at U of Regina, U of Manitoba, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cardiff-, New Castle- and TU Delft University. Authored and or co-authored more than 35 refereed journal publications in the last 5 years. At BITS Pilani, I lead an associate research center (ARC) of Center of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (CoE-SUFS), RPI, USA. Also, working on multiple research projects sponsored by Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), UK, UKERI, and SPARC, MHRD, Govt. of India, PWD, Govt. of Telangana. He has track record of supervising three (one is graduated) and co-supervising one PhD scholars, fifteen M.Tech. and six B.Tech. projects. My publications have appeared in Journal of Transport Geography; Transport Policy; Transportation; Transportation Research Record; Transportation Planning and Technology; ASCE Journal of Cold Regions Engineering; Research in Transportation Business & Management; Transportation Letters; Public Transport: Planning and Operation, etc. Recent work received Best Paper Award from AT015: Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA. Also serves as the Guest Editor – Research in Transportation Economics Research Interest Keywords: Urban Planning, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Humanitarian Logistics, Last Mile Delivery, Freight Transportation, Transit, Transport and Health, Green Mobility, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Summary of Research Interests: My research advocates for integration, synthesis of knowledge that exist in several disciplines to produce solutions in the area freight modelling, last mile delivery, green mobility planning, quality of life, transport pricing and emissions, rural facility planning, etc. Current research focus is energy efficient last mile delivery solutions for de-carbonizing cities to make the really smarter. I am also keen on working in the area of supply chain management during disasters. Smart City Themes of Interest: Mobility and Transport; Health and Well being; Urban Planning; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Sahu, P., Chandra, A., Pani, A., Majumdar, B., “Designing Freight Traffic Analysis Zones for Metropolitan Areas: Identification of Optimal Scale for Macro-Level Freight Travel Analysis”, Transportation Planning and Technology, 2020 (In Press); Pani, A., Bhat, F., and Sahu, P. (2020), “Effects of Business Age and Size on Freight Demand: A Decomposition Analysis of Indian Establishments” Transportation Research Record. DOI: 10.1177/0361198120902432 (AT015 Best Paper Award – TRB 2020); Pani, A., Sahu, P and., Majumdar, B. (2020), “Expenditure-based Segmentation of Freight Travel Markets: Identifying the Determinants of Freight Transport Expenditure for Developing Marketing Strategies”, Research in Transportation Business & Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2020.100437; Pani, A., Sahu, P., Chandra, A., and Sarkar, A. (2019), “Assessing the Extent of Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Modelling Freight (Trip) Generation: Relationship between Zone Design and Model Estimation Results” Journal of Transport Geography, Vol. 80. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102524; Sahu, P., and Pani, A. (2019) “Freight Generation and Geographical Effects: Modelling Freight Needs of Establishments in Developing Economies and Analyzing their Geographical Disparities” Transportation. DOI: 10.1007/s11116-019-09995-5; Mishra, S., Sahu, P., Sarkar, A., Mehran, B. and Sharma, S. (2019) "Geo-Spatial Site Suitability Analysis for Development of Health Care Units in Rural India: Effects on Habitation Accessibility, Facility Utilization and Zonal Equity in Facility Distribution" Journal of Transport Geography, Vol. 78, pp. 135-149. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.05.017; Pani, A., and Sahu, P. (2019) “Comparative Assessment of Industrial Classification Systems for Modelling Freight Production and Freight Trip Production” Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2673 (3), pp. 210-224, 2019. DOI: 10.1177/0361198119834300; Pani, A., Sahu, P. (2019), “Planning, Designing and Conducting Establishment-based Freight Surveys: A Synthesis of the Literature, Case-Study Examples and Recommendations for Best Practices in Future Surveys”, Transport Policy, Vol.78, pp.58-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.04.006; Pani, A., Sahu, P., Patil, G., and Sarkar, A. (2018), “Modeling Urban Freight Production and Attraction: A Case Study of Seven Cities in Kerala, India”, Transport Policy, Vol. 69, pp. 49-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.05.013 Related Grants: Transport policy interventions to curb particulate matter emissions in Chandigarh – £27,402, Global Challenges Research Fund, UK– GCRF-HEFCW- SMALL PROJECTS 50: 2020; Congestion Pricing: Planning for optimal strategies and commuters behavioral implications under different pricing schemes – 29.39493 Lakhs, 2019-2021 - Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC): A Government of India Initiative, MHRD, Government of India. Additional Grant: 11.51 Lakhs – United Kingdom India Research Initiative (UKIERI). Total – 40.90493 Lakhs ($55000); Examination of binder loss in bituminous mixture for In-Service pavements – 9.90 Lakhs ($13500), 2019-2021 - Government of Telangana State, Roads and Building Department.; Prevention of Hazardous Field-Firing of Bagasse and Its Sustainable Utilization as a Raw Material in an Innovative Industrial Process – 28.79650 Lakhs ($38500), 2019-2021; Development of Pedestrian Facility Assessment Tool for Improving Pedestrian Safety Condition in Hyderabad – 1.00 Lakhs ($1350), 2019-2020 – Awareness in Action, Hyderabad.; Adoption of Battery-Electric Buses (BEB) in India – £13,970, Global Challenges Research Fund, UK – GCRF-HEFCW – SMALL PROJECTS 50: 2018 - 2019.; Developing Suitable Pedagogical Methods for Various Classes, Intellectual Calibers and Research in e–Learning – 7.00 Lakhs ($9500), 2016 – MHRD – Government of India.; Development of Freight
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Generation Model in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Jaipur Metropolitan Region, Research Initiation Grant – 2.00 Lakhs ($3000), 2015 – 2017, BITS Pilani; Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Study Visit Grant (SVG) – 30000 SEK ($3000), 2020. To visit – CoE-SUFS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA - VREF, Gothenburg, Sweden; Conference Grant (travel, registration, accommodation, subsistence, etc.) – 3.00 Lakhs ($4000), 2018. To visit – VREF Advanced Studies Institutes on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (VASI-SUFS). To visit - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
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Name: Rajesh Kumar Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/rajeshk/profile Short Bio: I obtained my PhD under the guidance of Prof. dr. Marielle Stoelinga and Prof. dr. Arend Rensink at University of Twente, Netherlands. The title of my dissertation was “Truth or Dare: Quantitative security risk analysis via attack trees”. My PhD dissertation is available here. My PhD viva voice examination can be viewed at vimeo from here. Prior, to it I obtained my master in communication networks from Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa, Italy and Bachelor in electrical engineering from College of technology and engineering, Udaipur. I have more than 5 years of experience working in diverse settings, ranging from Fortune 500 companies (Schneider electric as engineer-product application, Telecom Italia- Intern, Tata motors- Intern), government companies (New India assurance company limited - Administrative officer) to educational institutions (Sir Padampat Singhania University founded by J.K group). Prior to joining BITS, i was a software engineer in industrial cybersecurity divison at Croon wolter and Dros, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. I am a recipient of multiple scholarships (worth more than 2 crores) including prestigious Erasmus Mundus doctorate fellowship and Erasmus Mundus Master fellowship. Additionally, my master was funded by Indo-Italian chamber of commerce (https://postgradinitaly.esteri.it/postgradinitaly/en/). In past i have also received travel grants from DAAD, European space agency, NATO (Germany) and FBK, Trento. My PhD was funded by European Union FP7 Trespas Research Interest Keywords: Information Security, Artificial Intelligence, Reliability Engineering, Complex modeling and simulation, Model checking, Formal methods Summary of Research Interests: Modern-day infrastructures are complex systems with several inter-dependencies between the components, human-in-loop, etc. Moreover, these infrastructures are increasingly being connected with public networks. As a result, a failure in one component may result in a sequence of failure of other components. This may result in cascading damages, stall the entire system leading to its unavailability and even lead to the loss of lives. The aim of my research is to build trustworthy systems – sy Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Governance and Security; Health and Wellbeing, Security and Safety Related Publications: 1. Rajesh Kumar: "Secsafe: A model based safety and security risk framework for interconnected architectures", J. Staggs
and S. Shenoi (Eds.), Springer, Cham, Critical Infrastructure Protection IV, 2020 2. Rajesh Kumar, Arend Rensink and Mariëlle Stoelinga. "LOCKS: a property specification language for security goals," 33rd
Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2018, Pau, France, April 9–13, 2018, doi: 10.1145/3167132.3167336, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5191-1, Pages 1907-1915
3. Rajesh Kumar, Mariëlle Stoelinga. "Quantitative Security and Safety Analysis with Attack-Fault Trees ," 18th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering, HASE 2017, Singapore, January 12-14, 2017, DOI: 10.1109/HASE.2017.12, Print ISSN: 1530-2059
4. Rajesh Kumar and Enno Ruijters and Mariëlle Stoelinga. " Quantitative Attack Tree Analysis via Priced Timed Automata", Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems - 13th International Conference, FORMATS 2015, Madrid, Spain, September 2-4, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22975-1_11, ISBN 978-3-319-22974-4
Related Grants: Project Name: MOR: An integrated model-based safety and security framework for complex interconnected system Funding agency: BITS RIG grant (2 lakhs) Time-line: 2019-2021 Objective of the project: The goal of MOR project is to use formal verification, in particular (statistical) model-checking techniques, to construct trustworthy systems by design, i.e. systems which are safe, secure and resilient. Role: Principal Investigator
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Name: Rajib Ranjan Maiti Position: Assistant Professor, CSIS Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/rajibrm/Profile Short Bio: Dr. Rajib Ranjan Maiti has obtained PhD in Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, under the joined supervision of Prof. Niloy Ganguly and Prof. Arobinda Gupta in April, 2014. His PhD thesis title is " Performance analysis and improvements of information dissemination protocols in DTNs". He has completed two post doctoral research tenures, one at CNR, Italy for a year and another for 2.5 years at iTrust, SUTD Singapore. His current research area is in securing cyber infrastructure in traditional networks and in IoT networks. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of CSIS at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus, India. Research Interest Keywords: Cyber Security, Building secure wireless and wired networks in modern organizations, Applying machine learning in cyber security, human movement and transportation Summary of Research Interests: My current research interest is in the area of developing secure cyber infrastructure and tools for network forensics. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Governance and Security; Security and Safety; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: R. R. Maiti, G. Costantino, F. Martinelli, P.Santi, LoSeRO: A Locality Sensitive Routing Protocol in Opportunistic Networks with Contact Profiles, in IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, 2019; Gianpiero Costantino, Rajib Ranjan Maiti, Fabio Martinelli, Paolo Santi, “Private mobility-cast for opportunistic networks”, Computer Networks 120: 28-42 (2017) Related Grants:
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Name: Rajneesh Choubisa Position: Assistant Professor (Psychology), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: Official Staff Webpage: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Pilani/rajneeshchoubisa/Profile LinkedIn Page: https://in.linkedin.com/in/rajneesh-choubisa-15b46214 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7945-3229 Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Positive Psychology (Applied), Health & Well Being Research, Well-Being Interventions (PPIs), mHealth & eHealth, Organizational Psychology, HRD (OB/HR) Summary of Research Interests: I am positive psychologist having interest in applied positive psychology (happiness interventions), organizational psychology (including OB/HR), mental health and well-being. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Well being Related Publications: Choubisa, R., & Singh, K. (2018). Development and Validation of a Web-Delivered Student Well-Being Enhancing Intervention in a Developing Milieu: A Limited Randomized Controlled Trial. Cogent-Psychology, 5 (1), 1-28. DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2018.1488512; Krafft, A.M., & Choubisa, R. (2018). Hope in the Indian Psychology Context: Philosophical Foundations and Empirical Findings. In Krafft, A., Walker, A., and Perrig-Chiello, P. (Eds.). Hope for a Good Life: Results from a Hope-Barometer International Research Program (pp-131-163). Social Indicators Research Series 72. Springer Nature Publishing [ISSN: 978-3-319-78469-4; ISSN: 1387-6570]. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78470-0_7; Chatterjee, I., Ruparel, N., Dubey, S., & Choubisa, R. (2018). Towards Bridging and Fostering Connections between Ideologies of Prominent Spiritual Awakening Institutions and Positive Psychological Practices. Summerhill: IIAS Review, 24(2), 44-49. (ISSN: 0972-1452).; Cejková, E., Slezácková. Choubisa, R., & Vijayalakshmi, V. (2018). Life Values and Subjective Well-being among Indian University Students: Scrutinizing the Omnipresent North-South Divide. Journal of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 44 (2), 238-248.; Singh, K., & Choubisa, R. (2009). Effectiveness of Self Focused Intervention for Enhancing Student’s Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 35 (Special Issue), 23-32. [ISSN: 0019-4247]; Choubisa, R. (2013). Happiness vis-a-vis Development: Retrospection, Reflections & Ramifications. Journal of Development Management, 1 (4), 383-389. [Print ISSN: 2321-0761; Online ISSN: 2347-6303].; Ruparel, N., & Choubisa, R. (2020). Knowledge Hiding among Organizations: A Retrospective Narrative Review and the Way Forward. Dynamic Relationships Management Journal, 9(1),5-22. Doi: 10.17708/DRMJ.2020.v09n01a01. (SCOPUS & DOAJ Indexed). Related Grants: Principal Investigator (September 2018 - September 2020)- "Development & Validation of a Prototype of a Web/Mobile App Based Positive Psychological Intervention for Adolescents" [ICMR, New Delhi] (Project Cost: INR 17,01,650/-); Co-Principal Investigator (September 2018 - September 2020)- "Efficacy & Effectiveness of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities for Health Awareness and Promotion Among Women in Rajasthan: Towards a HOPE Approach" [Sanction No.16/2016/ICMR-ICSSR-SBR] (Project Cost: INR 25,11,490/-)
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Name: Ruchi Jain Dey Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Science Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/ruchijaindey/Profile Short Bio: (a) Dr. Ruchi has more than 15 years of research experience in the area of infectious diseases particularly tuberculosis and has expertise in the area of vaccine design and development, animal models of TB infection and host-pathogen signalling and metabolic engineering. (b) Dr. Ruchi is trained in national (Delhi University and JALMA institute of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases) and international laboratories (Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine at Centre of Tuberculosis and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ) in the area of TB research (c) She is well-trained in Mycobacteriology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering, Animal models of TB, Immunology (d) Her current research interests are host-pathogen interaction, vaccine development and TB drug targeting. (e) She is also working towards a rapid diagnosis platform for bacterial infections. Research Interest Keywords: Tuberculosis, Vaccine, Drug targeting, Animal models, Metabolic engineering, Infection associated infertility, Rapid diagnosis platforms, Mucosal Immunity Summary of Research Interests: My research interests are to develop intervention strategies against Tuberculosis, be it vaccine, drug or host-directed therapeutics. Understanding the complex interaction between host and the pathogen via small metabolites is another area of my research interest. I am also working towards developing rapid diagnostic platforms. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Well being Related Publications: Dey RJ*, Dey B, Singh AK, Praharaj M, Bishai W. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Overexpressing an Endogenous Stimulator of Interferon Genes Agonist Provides Enhanced Protection Against Pulmonary Tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 16;221(7):1048-1056. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz116. PubMed PMID: 30901058; Dey RJ*, Dey B, Zheng Y, Cheung LS, Zhou J, Sayre D, Kumar P, Guo H, Lamichhane G, Sintim HO, Bishai WR. Inhibition of innate immune cytosolic surveillance by an M. tuberculosis phosphodiesterase. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Feb;13(2):210-217. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2254. Epub 2016 Dec 12. PubMed PMID: 28106876; Dey B, Dey RJ*, Cheung LS, Pokkali S, Guo H, Lee JH, Bishai WR. A bacterial cyclic dinucleotide activates the cytosolic surveillance pathway and mediates innate resistance to tuberculosis. Nat Med. 2015 Apr;21(4):401-6. doi: 10.1038/nm.3813. Epub 2015 Mar 2. PubMed PMID: 25730264; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4390473.; Chauhan P, Jain R*, Dey B, Tyagi AK. Adjunctive immunotherapy with α-crystallin based DNA vaccination reduces Tuberculosis chemotherapy period in chronically infected mice. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1821. doi: 10.1038/srep01821. PubMed PMID: 23660989; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3650662.; Jain R*, Dey B, Tyagi AK. Development of the first oligonucleotide microarray for global gene expression profiling in guinea pigs: defining the transcription signature of infectious diseases. BMC Genomics. 2012 Oct 2;13:520. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-520. PubMed PMID: 23031549; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3475082.; Dey B, Jain R*, Gupta UD, Katoch VM, Ramanathan VD, Tyagi AK. A booster vaccine expressing a latency-associated antigen augments BCG induced immunity and confers enhanced protection against tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23360. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023360. Epub 2011 Aug 17. PubMed PMID: 21858087; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3157374. Related Grants: Harnessing mucosal immunity towards improved resistance against tuberculosis. Ramalingaswami Fellowship, DBT, Govt. of India, INR 32,50,000 Duration: 01/06/2018 to 31/05/2023; Development of rapid point-of-care diagnostic kit for infections associated with combat war wounds and sepsis in armed forces; LSRB, DRDO, INR 39,82,000, 2020-2023; Development of an endogenous STING agonist adjuvanted Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine to enhance efficacy against tuberculosis, DBT Indo-USA, INR 95,45,440, 2020 - 2023; Profiling of microbial ecology and local metabolites in infected chronic wounds-leprosy model, ICMR, INR 5892000, 2020-2023
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Name: Sai Sesha Chalapathi Gattupalli
Position: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - Pilani Campus
Link to online profile: https://bits-pilani.ac.in/Pilani/gssc/Profile Short Bio: Dr Chalapathi, obtained his B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with distinction from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani in 2009. He obtained M.E. in Embedded Systems and Ph.D. from BITS Pilani in 2011 and 2019 respectively. He carried out his postdoctoral research from The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been a visiting researcher at National University of Singapore and Johannes Kepler University, Austria during his doctoral studies. He has published in reputed journals like IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, IEEE Sensors Journal and Future Generation Computing Systems. He is serving as a reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Access. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. His research interests include Internet of thIngs specifically Edge/Fog Computing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Research Interest Keywords: Urban Planning, Mobile Health Technologies, Infrastructure and technology Summary of Research Interests: Dr Chalapathi's primary research interest is Internet of Things specifically Edge/ Fog computing. He has previous experience on Wireless Sensor Networks. Through ASCRIN, he aims to use Fog Computing for various applications in smart cities like Mobility and transport which pave way for intelligent traffic management, etc. and also for health care. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology, Mobility and Transport, Health and Wellbeing, Urban Planning Related Publications: 1. G.S.S. Chalapathi, Vinay Chamola, Chen-Khong Tham, S. Gurunarayanan and Nirwan Ansari “An Optimal Delay Aware Task
Assignment Scheme for Wireless SDN Networked Edge Cloudlets” Future Generation Computing Systems, Elsevier, vol. 102, pp. 862-875, Jan 2020.
2. G SS Chalapathi, Vinay Chamola, S Gurunarayanan and Biplab Sikdar, “E-SATS: An Efficient and Simple Time Synchronization Protocol for Cluster-based Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19, no. 21, pp. 10144-10156, 1 Nov.1, 2019.
3. GSS Chalapathi, Bernhard Etzlinger, S Gurunarayanan and Andreas Springer, “Integrated Cooperative Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 701-704, June 2019.
4. GSS Chalapathi, R. Manekar, V. Chamola, K.R. Anupama and S Gurunarayanan, "Hardware Validated Efficient and Simple Time Synchronization Protocol for clustered WSN," IEEE TENCON 2016, Singapore, Nov. 22-25, 2016.
Related Grants: Name of the project: Design and implementation of algorithms for drone-based surveillance application Funding Agency: BITS-Pilani (Research Initiation Grant) Duration: 2020-2021
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Name: Sandip S. Deshmukh Position: Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/deshmukh/Profile Short Bio: Dr. Sandip Deshmukh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – Hyderabad Campus. Before joining BITS, Pilani Hyderabad campus, Sandip was working at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK as a Research Fellow working on EPSRC funded ‘Regional Visions of Integrated Sustainable Infrastructure Optimised for NeighbourhoodS’ (ReVISIONS) and ‘Ashford’s Integrated Alternatives’ (AIA) projects. After joining BITS, Sandip has worked on research projects funded by UGC and BITS. Presently, he is involved in research consultancy services for CAS, DRDO, Hyderabad on Design and Development of an Automated Flow Calibration System for Fuel and Oxidizer Injectors of Reaction Control System. Five PhD and many Under Graduate students are doing project/thesis with him in the topics, such as Renewable Energy, Energy Systems Modelling, System Engineering for Accurate Performance Prediction, Optimization of Energy Systems, Multi-Objective Optimization and so on. By and large, Sandip is very much interested in modelling and understanding the complex systems/assemblies and to research on larger penetration of renewable energy in developing countries. He has published his work in various journals of repute, conference proceedings and book chapters related to systems engineering and energy systems modelling. Research Interest Keywords: Energy Supply Systems, Renewable Energy, Energy Planning, Systems Engineering, Resource Optimization Summary of Research Interests: My main research interest relates to regional energy planning with a focus on decentralized energy supply options and energy resource allocation for socio-economic and techno-economic development. He has expertise in identifying and characterizing options for energy supply for the different development types and their integration with other service sectors such as water, waste, and transport. Smart City Themes of Interest: Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Vikrant Katekar, & Sandip S. Deshmukh. (2020). ‘A review of the use of phase change materials on performance of solar stills’. Journal of Energy Storage. Article in Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2020.101398; Vikrant Katekar, & Sandip S. Deshmukh. (2020). ‘A review on research trends in solar still designs for domestic and industrial applications’. Journal of Cleaner Production. Article in Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120544; Khalid Anwar & Sandip Deshmukh. (2019). ‘Evaluation and Mapping of Wind Energy Potential over Southern Part of India using ANN and GIS Approach’. 2018 International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Green Energy for Sustainable Development (ICUE). IEEE Xplore Digital Library. DOI: 10.23919/ICUE-GESD.2018.8635777; Sandip Deshmukh, Onkareshwar Mishra, Vatsal Agrawal & Khalid Anwar. (2019). ‘Hybrid-CSP in India: Technological and Economic Aspects’. International Journal of Renewable Energy Research. 9(1), 137-146.; Khalid Anwar & Sandip Deshmukh. (2018). 'Assessment and mapping of solar energy potential using artificial neural network and GIS technology in the southern part of India'. International Journal of Renewable Energy Research. 8(2), 974-985.; Ashish Saxena, Sandip Deshmukh, Somanath Nirali, & Saurabh Wani. (2018) ‘Laboratory based Experimental Investigation of Photovoltaic (PV) Thermo-control with Water and its Proposed Real-time Implementation’, Elsevier’s Renewable Energy Journal, 115, 128-138.; Jinturkar A.M. & Deshmukh S.S. (2011). A fuzzy mixed integer goal programming approach for cooking and heating energy planning in rural India. Elsevier’s Expert Systems with Applications - An International Journal, 38, 11377–11381.; Deshmukh S.S. & Deshmukh M.K. (2009). A New Approach to Micro-level Energy Planning – A Case of Northern Parts of Rajasthan, India. Elsevier’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 13, 634–642.; Deshmukh M.K. & Deshmukh S.S. (2008). Modeling of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems. Elsevier’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 12(1), 235-249. Related Grants: 2019 to 2020. As PI: DRDO funded research project on 'Design and Development of an Automated Flow Calibration System for Fuel and Oxidizer Injectors of Reaction Control System'. (Grant Amount: 10.0 Lakhs); 2015 to 2017. As PI: BITS Pilani funded research project on 'Development of an integrated approach for modelling and management of micro grid operations'. (Grant Amount: 9.0 Lakhs); 2014 to 2016. As PI: UGC funded research project on 'Design and development of an interactive decision support system for regional energy management'. (Grant Amount: 6.0 Lakhs); 2014 to 2017. As Co-PI: Centre for Research Excellence in Waste, Water & Energy, BITS Pilani funded research project on 'Anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and organic fraction of municipal solid waste for the production of biogas and concomitant use of; 2013 to 2015. As PI: BITS Pilani funded research project on 'Design and Development of an Urban Energy-Water Optioneering Tool (UEWOT)' (Grant Amount: 2.0 Lakhs); 2008 to 2012. Team Member of a EPSRC funded ‘Regional Visions of Integrated Sustainable Infrastructure Optimised for Neighbourhoods’ (ReVISIONS) project headed by University of Cambridge, UK; 2009 to 2011. Team Member of a EPSRC funded ‘Ashford’s Integrated Alternatives’ (AIA) project headed by University of Exeter, UK from 2009 to 2011
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Name: Santanu Koley Position: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/santanukoley/Profile Short Bio: 1. PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (2016). PhD thesis: "Integral Equations and Allied Methods for Wave Interaction with Porous and Flexible Structures". 2. Research Associate at IIT Kharagpur - 2015 to 2016 3. SERB - National Postdoc Fellow at IIT Ropar - 2016 to 2017 4. Assistant Professor at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar - 2017 to 2018 5. INSPIRE Faculty at IISER Bhopal - 2018 6. Assistant Professor at BITS - Pilani, Hyderabad Campus - 2018 to till date I worked in the area of mathematical modeling, numerical solution technique (Boundary Element Method), and ocean & coastal engineering. I also worked in the area of mathematical modeling of wave energy converter devices in real sea conditions. Research Interest Keywords: Ocean Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Wave Energy Converter Devices Summary of Research Interests: 1. Water waves interaction with breakwaters 2. Mathematical modeling of wave energy converter devices. 3. Boundary Element Method My particular focus is on developing and generalizing mathematical tools for dealing with hydrodynamics problems arising in Ocean and Coastal Engineering. These include (i) modeling the hydrodynamics of breakwaters of different shapes and structural configurations, (ii) modeling the hydrodynamics of various wave energy converter devices. Smart City Themes of Interest: Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Mathematical modeling of oscillating water column wave energy converter devices over the undulated sea bed, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 117, 26-40, 2020; Bragg scattering of long waves by an array of trenches, Ocean Engineering, 198 (2020), 107004.; Wave transmission through multilayered porous breakwater under regular and irregular incident waves, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 108, 393-401, 2019; An integro-differential equation approach to study the scattering of water waves by a floating flexible porous plate, Journal of Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 112 (5), 345-356, 2018; Scattering of surface gravity waves over a pair of trenches, Applied Mathematical Modeling, 62, 303-320, 2018; Wave interaction with a submerged semicircular porous breakwater placed on a porous seabed, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 80, 18–37.; Interaction of gravity waves with bottom-standing submerged structures having perforated outer-layer placed on a sloping bed, Applied Ocean Research, 52, 245–260.; Wave transmission by partial porous structures in two-layer fluid, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 58, 58–78; Scattering of oblique waves by permeable vertical flexible membrane wave barriers, Applied Ocean Research, 62, 156–168 Related Grants: Mathematical Modeling of Wave Energy Converter Devices in Real Sea Conditions, Sponsored by DST, Govt. of India. Budget: INR 35 lakhs. 2019 -2024; Hypersingular Integral Equation Techniques for Wave-structure Interaction Problem, Sponsored by BITS Hyderabad. Budget: INR 2 lakhs. 2019-2021; Modeling the Hydrodynamics of porous breakwaters in ports and harbors under irregular and multi-directional incident waves, Sponsored by BITS Hyderabad. Budget: INR 7 lakhs. 2019-2021; Development of a general solution procedure based on coupled eigenfunction expansion - boundary element method to study the wave interaction with flexible porous/poro-elastic/viscoelastic breakwater systems in water of poro-elastic/viscoelastic undulated; Making Transcripts and Lecture Notes for the Marine Hydrodynamics NPTEL course, Sponsored by IIT Madras. Budget: INR 60000. 2018-2019
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Name: Shamsher Bahadur Singh Position: Professor, Civil Engineering Department Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/sbsingh/profile Short Bio: Dr. S.B. Singh is Chartered Engineer (INDIA), fellow of Institution of Engineers, and Professor of Civil Engineering Department at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. His current areas of research are development of design guidelines for Functionally Graded Composite materials and Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) reinforced prestressed concrete structures in particular and composite materials & structures in general including nonlinear finite element modeling. He has 32 years of teaching and research experience. He has been awarded Professional Engineering (P.E.) license from the State of Michigan, USA and Post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan, USA during 1999-2004. He has authored more than 175 research papers, two text books (one is published in USA and India while other is published as online resource material sponsored by MHRD, Government of India), and one edited book proceedings, 13 research reports and 9 book chapters. Prof. Singh has also filed three Indian patents. Furthermore, Prof. Singh has had an opportunity to teach in some of the best universities in India and USA such as at MNNIT Allahabad, NIT Warangal, BITS Pilani, and Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA. He has also organized International Conferences such as the First and Second International Conferences (i.e., ACSGE-09, ACSGE-2018) and UKIERI Seminars, and Network Concrete Seminars. Research Interest Keywords: Structural Health Assessment and Rehabilitation, Fire Resistant of FRP Structures, Advanced Composite Material, Composite Strucures, FRP Material, Natural Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials, Sustainable Composite Materails, Engineered Cementitious Composites, Low Cost Housing, High Performance Concrete Composites Summary of Research Interests: Currently I have been working on advanced composite materials such as functionally graded hybrid FRP composites for structural applications with respect to development of Fire Resistant natural fiber reinforced composistes, structural health assessment and rehabilitation using FRP materials, high performance engineered cementitious composite materials for retrofitting of defiecint structures, and development of deisgn guidelines along with nonlinear finite element modelling. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: 10.1007/s12205-020-1346-x; ID: 1692165 DOI:10.1080/24705314.2019.1692165); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.101002; DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2019.05951; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2018.10.020; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2018.10.024; DOI:10.1080/15376494.2018.1432792; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2017.12.002; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.07.089 Related Grants: Study of Postbuckling Response, Failure and Strength of Functionally Graded Composite Plates with and without Cutouts, Sponsored by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi dated 24/7/2019 (Ref. no. 22(0781)/19/EMR-II, 18.5 Lakhs (INR); Structural Health Assessment and Rehabilitation Framework based on Cyber Physical System, sponsored by DST New Delhi, Ref. DST/ICPS/Cluster (Cyber Physic, al Systems/2018 (G), dated 13/3/2018, 70 Lakhs (INR), 3 years; Study of Structural Response and Strengths of Thin-Walled FRP Composite Girders,” sponsored by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Extra Mural Research Division), CSIR Complex, Pusa, New Delhi, 2014-2017 (Ref. No. 22(0631)/13/EMR-II.; Development and Usage of Innovative Ductile Composite Materials for Repair and Retrofitting of Concrete and Masonry Structures,” sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, 2013-2016 (Ref. No.SR/S3/MERC/0051/2012), Rs. 25.93 Lakhs; Development and Usage of Innovative Ductile Composite Materials for Repair and Retrofitting of Masonry Structures,” sponsored by Aditya Birla Group (ABG), 2011-2014., 10 Lakhs (INR) ; £337003/- UKIERI Collaborative Research Award (UK and India) (Fraction of Amount to be received from UK Lead Researcher relevant to Indian Partners.), 2008-2011. Project Title: Sustainable High Performance Concrete Infrastructures Indian Research Team; Response and Micromechanics Based Design of Engineered Cementitious Composite Structures,” DST, New Delhi, 2007-2010 (Ref. No. SR/S3/MERC/25/2007), Rs. 17.70 Lakhs (INR); Flexural Strengthening of Concrete Structures using Near Surface Mounted (NSM) Fiber Reinforcements, Sponsored by UGC, New Delhi, under Category of Major Research Project, 2008-2011 (Ref. F.34-389/2008 (SR), 9.3 Lkahs (INR); Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Selected Heritage Structures in the State of Himachal Pradesh adopting output only Vibration Testing and Fragility Curves”, (MoES/P.O.(Seismo)/1(296)/2016), Rs. 34.51 Lakhs (INR); Project Title: Investigation of the Effect of Carbonation on the Properties of Concrete, 2012-15 (Ref. SR/S3/MERC/0064/2011). Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, Rs. 34 Lakhs (INR)
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Name: Srikanth Mutnuri Position: Professor, Applied Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences
Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - K K Birla Goa campus
Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/srikanth/profile Short Bio: The focus of my laboratory is on Sustainable Development Goals with major emphasis on Clean water Sanitation, Zero hunger, Affordable & Clean Energy, Climate Action and Responsible consumption and production. Through our research projects we demonstrated single household vertical wetlands based domestic wastewater treatment, single household empowered septic tank for domestic wastewater treatment, 100 people equivalent empowered septic tank for domestic wastewater treatment. The advantage of these treatment systems are their cost effectiveness / affordability. Our other projects focuses on anaerobic digestion of different wastes like we had put a horizontal plug flow reactor which could handle 1 ton of food waste per day. It is operational since 2010 and the output biogas is either burnt or supplied to cafeteria. We also are partners in demonstrating an anaerobic digester (currently under construction) for 10 tons of food waste and 20 tons of septage in Nashik. We also provided consultancy for building an anaerobic digestor in Madgaon Municipal market which handles 700kgs of vegetable waste and 300kgs of fish waste.Recently we established another anaerobic digestor which can handle 5 tons of organic fraction of MSW and 1 ton of septage solids for Mormugao Municipal corporation. Energy should not be the focus at the expense of soil fertility. Our project focuses on Terra preta sanitation (a type of compost), Phosphate rich organic manure and Struvite for soil fertility. Research Interest Keywords: Wastewater treratment, anaerobic digestion, municipal solid waste, septage treatment, faecal sludge management Summary of Research Interests: My interest lies in anaerobic digestion, wastewater treatment, electrochemical disinfection Smart City Themes of Interest: Cultural Heritage; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Priya Sharma, Srikanth Mutnuri Nutrient Recovery and Microbial Diversity in human urine fed microbial fuel cell. Water Science and Technology 79 (4): 718-730 (2019); Priya Sharma, Devendra Kumar and Srikanth Mutnuri. UPLC-MS/MS method validation of Ciprofloxacin in human urine: Application to biodegradability study in Microbial Fuel Cell. Biomedical chromatography (2018).; Guruprasad Talekar, Priya Sharma, Anant Yadav, Peter Clauwaert, Korneel Rabaey and Srikanth Mutnuri (2018) Sanitation of blackwater via sequential wetland and electrochemical treatment – Nature Partner Journal Clean water. 1, Article number: 14.; Anant Yadav, Florent Chazarenc, Srikanth Mutnuri (2018). Development of the "French system" Vertical flow Constructed Wetland to treat raw domestic wastewater in India, Ecological Engineering, Volume 113, 1 April 2018, Pages 88-93; Starlaine Mascarenhas, Srikanth Mutnuri, Anasuya Ganguly (2017) Deleterious role of trace elements – Silica and Lead in the development of chronic kidney disease. Chemosphere. Volume 177, June 2017, Pages 239–249; Rajesh Pasumarthi and Srikanth Mutnuri (2016). Horizontal gene transfer versus biostimulation: a strategy for bioremediation in Velsao sea water, Goa. Marine Pollution Bulletin. Vol113, Pages 271-276; Anant Yadav, Piyush Choudhary, Neelam Atri, Sebastian Teir, Srikanth Mutnuri (2016) Pilot project at Hazira, India, for capture of carbon dioxide and its biofixation using microalgae Environmental Science and Pollution Research pp 1-8.; Meghanath Prabhu and Srikanth Mutnuri (2016). Anaerobic Co-digestion of Sewage Sludge and Food Waste. Waste management and research. 1-9. DOI: 10.1177/0734242X16628976; Biodegradation of Aliphatic hydrocarbons in the presence of Hydroxy Cucurbit[6]uril Rajesh Pasumarthi, Vikas Kumar, Sivaraman Chandrasekharan, Mainak Banerjee, Anasuya Ganguly, Srikanth Mutnuri. Marine Pollution Bulletin 88 (1), 148-154, (2014). Related Grants: “‘Empowered septic tank as a decentralized wastewater treatment system’ - Second Phase in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium, DBT BIRAC and Bill & Melinda Gates foundation INR 15 million 2 years, 2020 -2022; “‘Empowered septic tank as a decentralized wastewater treatment system’ - First Phase in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium, DBT BIRAC and Bill & Melinda Gates foundation INR 6.7 million 2 years, 2015 -2017; Global Sanitation Graduate School IHE Delft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2020 -2025 5 years INR 31.8 Million; Bioremediation and Digital Documentation Towards the Conservation of Cultural Heritage 2019 -2021 Department of Science and Technology INR 3.28 Million; Demonstration of River Sal cleaning by Vertical wetlands and river bed filtration - 2017 -2019, 2 years Department of Biotechnology INR 6.8 Million; On site electrochemical wastewater treatment and recycling technology Collaborative project with Caltech USA 2018, Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, INR 2.7 Million; Pilot study, testing the use and production of Terra Preta and other soil improving products like Struvite / PROM German Technical Cooperation, 2016 -2017 INR 5.5 Million; Bioremediation of red mud using acidogenic fermentation and by Biopiling - Aditya Birla Science and Technology corporation 2018 -2020, INR 71.50 Million;
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Analytics Sensor Test-Kit for Advanced Process Control Collaboration with Cranfield University , UK, Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates foundation 2016 -2018, INR 8.5 Million; Hybrid Electrochemical-MFC Waste Processing: Functional blocks for low energy disinfection and denitrification of human waste streams. Collaboration with RTI International USA funded by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, 2017 -2018, INR 2.7 million
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Name: Srinivasa Prakash Regalla Position: Professor, Mechanical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: www.bits-pilani.ac.in/~regalla Short Bio: Prof. Srinivasa Prakash Regalla obtained his PhD from IIT Delhi in 1998, M. Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1992 and B.Tech. from Kakatiya University, Warangal in 1990, all in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as a post-doctoral guest researcher at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA in 1998. Presently, he is a professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering and the coordinator for the product design and realization laboratory at the BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. Previously, he was the Head of the department of mechanical engineering, associate dean of work-integrated learning programmes, assistant dean of research & consultancy, and team leader of the industry engagement imperative of mission-2015 at BITS Pilani. He authored 4 patents, 50 peer-reviewed international journal publications, 32 international conference proceedings publications and 2 books. He completed 3 funded research projects, including as the PI of a project on low-cost and affordable additive manufacturing (AM) made below-knee prosthesis funded by DBT/BIRAC/BIG. He is currently a co-PI in an industrial R&D project. He taught a large variety of UG and PG courses at BITS Pilani several new electives, and has lead the design of several new UG and PG programmes. He is a member of ASME, ISPO, SAE-India, TSI and IEI. He is the Founder-director of pspr-3d-tech (pspr3d.com), a technology innovation company, dedicated to innovation of low-cost medical devices and technologies. Research Interest Keywords: Additive manufacturing, Smart manufacturing, Machine vision and machine learning, Sustainable product design, Medical devices design, analysis, Electric vehicle analysis and design Summary of Research Interests: My primary interest is in doing research and providing solutions and education in integrated digital manufacturing and artificial intelligence for smart cities. This concept is also called as the smart manufacturing in the newly recognized paradigm of industry 4.0. A smart city must minimize the product material waste, maximize the reuse and recycling, and do sustainable disposal. Artificial intelligence based design and manufacturing of products is key to achieving these objectives. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Health and Well being; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Mohanty, S., Regalla, S.P. & Daseswara Rao, Y.V. Robot-assisted incremental sheet metal forming under the different forming condition. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. 41, 74 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-019-1581-6; Swagatika Mohanty, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla, Y. V. D. Rao, Investigation of influence of part inclination and rotation on surface quality in Robot Assisted Incremental sheet metal forming (RAISF), CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 22, 37-48, Aug 2018; N. Nasir Hussain, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla & Venkata Daseswara Rao Yendluri, Numerical investigation into the effect of various trigger configurations on crashworthiness of GFRP crash boxes made of different types of cross sections, International Journal of Crashworthiness, Vol. 22, 565-581, Feb 2017; V Vijayaraghavan, A Garg, CH Wong, K Tai, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla, MC Tsai, Density characteristics of laser-sintered three-dimensional printing parts investigated by using an integrated finite element analysis–based evolutionary algorithm approach, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 230, 100-110, 2016; G. Pavan Kumar, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla, Part Strength Evolution with Bonding between Filaments in Fused Deposition Modeling, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 9(3), 141-149, 2014; G. Pavan Kumar and Srinivasa Prakash Regalla, Multi-objective optimization of strength and volumetric shrinkage of FDM parts, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, , 9(2), 127-138, 2014; Sivakumar Ramalingam, Hanumath VV Prasad, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla, “Integrated Prognostics Observer for Condition Monitoring of an Automated Manual Transmission Dry Clutch System”, International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management: Vol 8 (2) 028, pages: 9, 2017; Sivakumar Ramalingam, Srinivasa Prakash Regalla, "Integrated Prognostics Module for Real-time Condition Monitoring of an Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) Gearbox and Clutch Systems", International Journal of COMADEM, Vol 21, No 4 (2018); Srinivasa Prakash Regalla, Sagar S. Karwa, Sreeram Rajesh, P. V. Shyam, Prakash N. Shrivastava,"Strength and fracture behaviour of polymer matrix composite layered structures made by additive manufacturing", Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.12.347 Related Grants: Rapid Incremental Forming of Extra Deep Drawing (EDD) Steel Sheet Metal Parts with Asymmetric Geometry- INR10 lakhs, DST, INDIA; Develop and Test Certain 3D Printing Technologies To Produce Innovative Limbs At Affordable Costs for the Disabled in India, INR 47.65 lakhs; BIRAC, DBT, INDIA.
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Name: Suchismita Satpathy Position: Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/suchismitasatpathy/Profile Short Bio: Suchismita Satpathy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Science, at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus since April 2017. She has been a visiting faculty at the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at TISS Hyderabad RM campus during June 2016- April 2017. She was associated with the UGC e-pg pathshala Philosophy project, Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad. Her interest lies in various aspects of urban sociology. She supervises students working on urban issues and teaches Urban Policy and Governance, Dynamics of Social Change, Introduction to Globalization, Public Policy, Introduction to Anthropology , Development Theory, Understanding Indian Society etc. Research Interest Keywords: urban planning, Urban governance, Political economy of urban space, urban segregation, urban water issues, street vending, right to city, urban architecture, Smart city, Summary of Research Interests: Briefly interested in research relating to the following topic -the political economy of urban space, urban governance, urban planning, and policies, Smart city- Right to city and citizenship, Urban water issues, Gender issues in India, street vendors in Indian cities, urban segregation, urban architectural space, urban land use and related issues. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Mobility and Transport; Urban Planning; Governance and Security; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Mapping Caste-based Segregation Using Multiple Indexes: A Study of Pune City, India. Nagarlok, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Vol. XLX, Part 1, January-March 2018, Page 1-24, ISSN-0027-7584; Report on Segregation in Indian cities entitled, "Segregation in Indian Cities: What does the large data sets tell us about caste, residence, and access to amenities?" May 2017, TISS Hyderabad.; The Street Vendors’ Right to City: a Study of Vending Zone Initiative in Bhubaneswar, January 2017, Urban India. vol: 36, Issue I, PP- 50-62. ISSN 0970-9045; ‘Informal growth in Bhubaneswar and the need for inclusion of ‘the excluded’’, Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. Vol. III, Issue 1, January 2015. PP- 134-139, ISSN: 2348-7186. Related Grants: Structured Dialogues for Sustainable Urban Water Management Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST) India Total Sanctioned amount: INR 57,26,400/; Title of the Project: Measuring Segregation in Hyderabad: Introspecting Multiple Indexes and Multiple Pattern Funding- BITS Pilani Hyderabad, Amount: INR 2 lakhs Duration: 2 years
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Name: Suman Kapur Position: Senior Professor Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/sumankapur/profile Short Bio: Dr Suman is a Senior Professor and Dean at BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus. Dr Suman has received more than 23 awards and has been honoured by Government of India as a Women Achiever in the field of Science and Technology. She holds several patents, has published and/or edited several books, has published >200 peer-reviewed scientific articles, has delivered > 220 invited/keynote lectures and has organized numerous scientific meetings, workshops and dedicated trainings. She has published several books and is an author of >dozen book chapters. Professor Kapur is also an entrepreneur and has a start-up which strives to provide Affordable “Healthcare for All”. This Start-up, xBITS Pvt Ltd, is recipient of Best Tech Start up Award by TDB, GOI and Aegis Graham Bell Award. She is the recipient of several awards including the Marico Foundation bestowed “Innovate for India Award”, “Innovation Ninja award” by Ricoh Education Foundation and Photon Research award for her work in antimicrobials. She is an expert member on several panels related to stem cells therapeutics, functional foods, etc. (FSSAI), standards for food requirements during disaster management (NDMA) and jury for several award committees for awards in Science e.g. BM Birla, Ranbaxy Research & King Faisal science awards. She has received ~Rs 10 Crore for >25 research grants funded by GOI & Indian industries. Research Interest Keywords: Non-communicable disease; Nutraceuticals Genetic and Metabolic markers; Anti-microbial resistance; Antibiotic resistant Bacteria (ARBs); Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs); Irrational use of antibiotics Summary of Research Interests: Her research interests are Genetic markers for vulnerability to chronic human diseases, screening strategies for low-cost settings, medical devices for field deployment in low resource settings and disease prevention through natural products. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Wellbeing Related Publications: 1. Pavan Kumar Mujawdiya, Suman Kapur Pravesh Sharma, Shashwat Sharad, Reversal of Increase in Intestinal Permeability
by Mangifera Indica Seed Kernel Extract in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice, Pharmaceuticals (under review) 2. Frank Omoregie and Suman Kapur, Therapeutic effects of Aqueous and Ethanolic Extract of Phyllanthus amarus on 1, 2
Dimethylhydrazine Induced Colon Carcinogenesis in Balb/C Mice, International Journal of Biochemistry Research & Review (accepted)
3. Pavan Mujawdiya and Suman Kapur Phytochemicals as antibiotic alternatives to promote health: Role of gut microbiota, Current Drug Discovery Technologies 2019, 16:1 doi:10.2174/1570163816666191107124214
4. Suman Kapur, Pavan Kumar Mujawdiya, Anuradha Pal and Kanemoto Ngomoyogoli Judith Emery, Role of dietary alkaloids: Determining the endogenous Opioid-Opioidergic Tone, 2018, Published in Festschrift to commemorate Prof. G. P. Talwar’s 90th birthday.
5. Uma Shukla Dubey, Manohar Lal, Anyaa Mittal, Suman Kapur, Therapeutic potential of Camel Milk, Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture, 2016; 28(3):164-176
6. Pavan Kumar Mujawdiya and Suman Kapur Mangiferin: A potential natural molecule for management of metabolic syndrome, (Special Issue: Drugs from Nature), International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2015, Vol 7 (1): 9-13
7. Shivani Gupta, DV Padmavathi, Apoorva Verma and Suman Kapur, Garlic: An effective functional food to combat the growing antimicrobial resistance, JTAS, 2015, Vol. 38 (2) 271 – 278 covered in Asia Research News, "Combating anti-microbial-resistant urinary tract infections".
8. Priyanka Sharma, Bharati MR, Dave, M, Suman Kapur, Narayan KP, Comparative Analysis of Apoptotic Activity From Extracts of Highly Saponin Producing Indian Medicinal Plants, Journal of Pharmacy Research, 2014 8 (12): 1779-84
9. Kankanampati Krishnaveni, Rosaline Mishra, K Pushkala, D Velayudam, Suman Kapur, Ethanolic extract of Mangifera indica seed kernel ameliorates visceral fat via improvement in lipid metabolism in high fat diet induced obese mice, J. Pharm. Res, 2012, 5(10): 4974-78.
10. Shaifali Gurjar, Anuradha Pal and Suman Kapur, Triphala and Its Constituents Ameliorate Visceral Adiposity in High Fat Diet –Induced Obese Mice, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 2012, 18(6): 38-45
Related Grants: 2020 Suman Kapur; A formulation to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus, Rs 3,000,000
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2020 Suman Kapur; Testing for Covid-19 using an available portable platform, Rs 3,150,000 2018-2020 Suman Kapur; Assessment of Type 2 diabetes, Rs 500,000 2016-2020 Suman Kapur; Single Chain antibodies, Rs 670,000 2019 Suman Kapur; Quick hygiene survey of river musi, Rs 950,000 2015-2016 Suman Kapur, Bioremediation for waste water treatment for Zero Water Discharge, Rs 2,170,000 2015-2016 Suman Kapur, Project cooperation between School of Innovation, design and engineering, Mälardalens högskola and Birla Institute of Technology and Science- Pilani, 80,000 Swedish Kroners 2013-2015 Suman Kapur Development of indigenous POC device micro-channel/fluidic device for estimation of lipid profile in human plasma/serum, Rs 4,9000,000 2011-2014 Suman Kapur Developing low cost POC device for detection of blood glucose levels, Rs 2,600,000
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Name: Suvadip Batabyal Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/sbatabyal/Profile Short Bio: Institute Website: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/sbatabyal/Profile Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/suvadipb1534/ Research Interest Keywords: Suvadip Batabyal is working as an Assistant Professor in the department of of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India. He obtained his PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in the year 2016. He has received, Mobility and Transport, Smart City, Mobile health technologies, Connected vehicles, Disaster management Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: IHS Markit predicts that around 70 million connected vehicles will be on road by 2023, which will provide a whole new direction to the automobile industry. Connected vehicles have numerous applications some of which includes commute safety, emergency services, traffic and congestion management, disaster management, etc. One of the open areas in the research of connected vehicles is reliable communication under infrastructureless environment, typically in the wake of a disaster.; Mobility and Transport,Health and Well being; S. Batabyal, P. Bhaumik, S. Chattopadhyay and S. Misra, "Steady-State Analysis of Buffer Occupancy for Different Forwarding Strategies in Mobile Opportunistic Network," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, , vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 6951-6963, July 2019.; G. Goudar and S. Batabyal, "Point of Congestion in Large Buffer Mobile Opportunistic Networks," in IEEE Communications Letters, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2020.2986230.; Mandal, K.; Sen, A.; Chakraborty, A.; Roy, S.; Batabyal, S.; Bandyopadhyay, S.,“Road traffic congestion monitoring and measurement using active RFID and GSM technology,” in 14th Intl. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC’11), 2011, vol., no., pp.1375-1379, 5-7 Oct. 2011.; Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Munmun Das, Suvadip Batabyal, Sankhadeep Pal, “Real Time Traffic Congestion Detection and Management using Active RFID and GSM Technology,” in proc. of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems Telecommunication(ITST’10). Related Grants:
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Name: Tanmay Chatterjee Position: Assistant Professor, Chemistry Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/tanmaychatterjee/Profile Short Bio: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/tanmaychatterjee/Profile Research Interest Keywords: Development of sustainable synthetic methodologies; Synthesis of new classes of drug-molecules; Visible-light photocatalysis Summary of Research Interests: Development of sustainable synthetic strategies for the synthesis of new classes of drug molecules and other useful organic molecules. Smart City Themes of Interest: Health and Wellbeing Related Publications:
1. Base-Promoted Synthesis of 2-Aryl Quinazolines from 2-Aminobenzylamines in Water; Tanmay Chatterjee, Dong In Kim, Eun Jin Cho*; J. Org. Chem., 2018, 83, 7423 - 7430.
2. Visible-Light-Induced Synthesis of Carbazoles by in situ Formation of Photosensitizing Intermediate; Tanmay Chatterjee, Geum-bee Roh, Mahbubul A. Shoaib, Chang-Heon Suhl, Jun Soo Kim,* Cheon-Gyu Cho* and Eun Jin Cho*; Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 1906 − 1909.
3. Extended Study of Visible Light-Induced Photocatalytic [4 + 2] Benzannulation: Synthesis of Polycyclic (Hetero)Aromatics; Tanmay Chatterjee, Da Seul Lee and Eun Jin Cho*; J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 4369 − 4378.
4. Controlled Fluoroalkylation Reactions by Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis; Tanmay Chatterjee,† Naeem Iqbal,† Youngmin You and Eun Jin Cho*; Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49, 2284 − 2294.
5. Visible-light-induced regioselective synthesis of polyheteroaromatic compounds; Tanmay Chatterjee, Myung Gil Choi, Jun Kim, Suk-Kyu Chang and Eun Jin Cho*; Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 4203 − 4206.
6. Synthesis of Substituted Oxazoles by Visible-Light Photocatalysis; Tanmay Chatterjee, Ji Young Cho and Eun Jin Cho*; J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 6995 − 7000.
7. Synthesis of Carbazoles by a Merged Visible Light Photoredox and Palladium-Catalyzed Process; Sungkyu Choi,† Tanmay Chatterjee,† Won Joon Choi, Youngmin You and Eun Jin Cho*; ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 4796 − 4802.
8. Solvent selective phenyl selenylation and phenyl tellurylation of aryl boronic acids catalyzed by Cu(II) grafted functionalized polystyrene; Susmita Roy, Tanmay Chatterjee* and Sk Manirul Islam*; Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 779 − 783.
9. Mechanistic insights into n-BuLi mediated phospha-Brook rearrangement Ranga Santosh, Manab Chakravarty, Tanmay Chattarjee*, Subhas Ghosal*; New J. Chem. 2019, 43, 9886-9890.
10. First Application of Heterogeneous Cobalt Catalysis in Csp2–N Cross-Coupling of Activated Chloroarenes under Ligand-Free Conditions; Nirmalya Mukherjee, Tanmay Chatterjee* and Brindaban C. Ranu*; Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 4018 − 4023.
Related Grants:
1. Research Initiation Grant (RIG) : 2 lakh, sponsored by BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus. Project Title : Development of New Synthetic Methodologies for Fluoroalkylation Reactions by Visible-light Photoctalysis: Access to New Classes of Potent Molecules (P.I.). Tenure : 2018 - 2020.
2. Additional Competitive Research Grant (ACRG) : 8 lakh, sponsored by BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus. Project Title :Synthesis of Highly Functionalized and Medicinally Potential Bioactive Heterocycles through Trifluoromethylative Cyclization Strategy (P.I.). Tenure : 2019 - 2021.
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Name: Vidyapu Sandeep Position: Assistant Professor, CSIS Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/vidyapu/Profile Short Bio: Vidyapu Sandeep joined the Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus as an Assistant Professor, in January 2020. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with research interests including Human-Computer Interaction and Applied Machine Learning. Research Interest Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Eye-tracking, Visual Attention, Computational Modeling Summary of Research Interests: Currently, I am proposing and empirically validating the computational models to predict the users' visual attention on webpages. Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology; Urban Planning Related Publications: A. Kumar, S. Vidyapu, V. V. Saradhi and V. Tamarapalli, "A Multi-view Subspace Learning Approach to Internet Traffic Matrix Estimation," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.2983329.; Sai Anirudh Kondaveeti, Sandeep Vidyapu, and Samit Bhattacharya. 2016. Improved Gaze Likelihood based Web Browsing. In Proceedings of the 8th Indian Conference on Human Computer Interaction (IHCI ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 84–89. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3014362.3014371; Sandeep Vidyapu, V Vijaya Saradhi, and Samit Bhattacharya. 2018. Fixation-indices based correlation between text and image visual features of webpages. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 53, 1–5. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3204493.3204566; S. Vidyapu, V. S. Vedula and S. Bhattacharya, "Attention Prediction on Webpage Images using Multilabel Classification," 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Bari, Italy, 2019, pp. 1975-1980, doi: 10.1109/SMC.2019.8913888.; Sandeep Vidyapu, Vijaya Saradhi Vedula, and Samit Bhattacharya. 2019. Quantitative visual attention prediction on webpage images using multiclass SVM. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 90, 1–9. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3317960.3321614 Related Grants:
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Name: Zakaria Siddiqui Position: Assistant Professor, Economics Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/siddiqui/Profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Nutrition; Public Health; Energy Poverty; Data Analysis; Digital divide; Positive Peace; Institutions and Development; Poverty Measurement Summary of Research Interests: I am interested in applied social science research using empirical methods (both qualitative and qualitative) focusing on deprivation in social, political and economic dimensions. I am particularly interested in exploring the importance of context (social facts beyond the control of individuals) in determining the development outcomes. The context may manifest in different forms for different outcomes of interest -- it may vary from historical institutions or norms to simply urban sprawl. Smart City Themes of Interest: Economic Development; Health and Well being; Security and Safety; Food Security and Agriculture; Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: 1. Siddiqui, M. Z. and Donato, R., (2020) “The dramatic rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India: obesity
transition and the looming health care crisis” World Development. 134:(SJR Quartile Q1: H-Index 164) 2. Siddiqui M. Z., Donato, R. and Jumrani, J. (2017) “Looking Past the Indian Calorie Debate: What is Happening to Nutrition
Transition in India” Journal of Development Studies. 55(11): 2240-2259 (SJR Quartile Q1: H-index 66) 3. Ahmad, Irfan and Siddiqui M. Z. (2017) “Democracy in Jail: Over representation minorities in Indian Prisons” Economic
and Political Weekly, 52(44): 98-106 (SJR Quartile Q2: H-index 26) 4. Siddiqui, M. Z., Lahiri-Dutt, K., Lockie, S., and Pritchard, B., (2017) “Reconsidering Women’s Work in Rural India: An
Analysis of NSS Data, 2004-05 and 2011-12”, Economic and Political Weekly, 52(1), 45-52 (SJR Quartile Q2: H-index 26) 5. Siddiqui, M. Z. and Donato, R., (2016) “Under-nutrition among adults in India: the significance of individual-level and
contextual factors impacting on the likelihood of underweight across sub-populations”, Public Health Nutrition, 20 (1), 130-141, (SJR Quartile: Q1, H-index 101)
6. Ghosh, S. and Sidddiqui M.Z., (2016) “Role of community and context in contraceptive behaviour in rural West Bengal, India: A multilevel multinomial approach”, Journal of Biosocial Science, 49(1), 48-68, (SJR Quartile: Q1, H-index 101)
7. Siddiqui M. Z. and Donato, R. (2015) “Overweight and obesity in India: policy issues from an exploratory multi-level analysis”, Health Policy and Planning, 31(5),582-591, (SJR Quartile: Q1, H-index 66)
8. Siddiqui, M. Z. and Lahiri-Dutt, K., (2015) “Livelihoods of Marginal Mining and Quarrying Households in India: Querying the NSS Data”, Economic and Political Weekly, 50(26-27):27-32 (SJR Quartile Q2: H-index 26)
9. Siddiqui, M.Z., and Tejada, G., (2014) “Development and Highly Skilled Migrants: Perspectives from Indian Diaspora and Returnees” International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 5(2), [Online] http://poldev.revues.org/1720 (Not listed in SJR: A journal of the Graduate Institute, Geneva)
10. Siddiqui, M.Z., de Maere dAertrycke, Gauthier and Smeers, Yves, (2012) “Demand Response in Indian Electricity Market”, Energy Policy, 50(1),207–216. (SJR Quartile: Q1, H-index 123)
Related Grants: 1. ‘A search for appropriate calorie intake norm for Indian states’ funded by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and the System of Promoting Appropriate National Dynamism for Agriculture and Nutrition (SPANDAN) India (Value: close to AUD14000)
2. ‘Role of Environmental Entro Dysfunction(EED) in explaining heightened calorie intake of some population cohorts in India: Data analysis’ funded by UniSA Business School, University of South Australia (Value AUD 5000)
3. ‘Inequality in Access to Modern Energy Services Energy: Indian Case’ funded Indian Council for Social Science Research (2012-13) (Value AUD 12000)
4. ‘Mainstream Migration, Scientific Diasporas and Development – Impact of Return Skilled Migration on Development in India’ funded by Swiss Network for International Studies (2010-2013) Link: https://snis.ch/project/mainstream-migration-scientific-diaspora-development/ (Value close to AUD 400,000)
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Name: Akash Chaurasiya Position: Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/akashchaurasiya/Profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Banasri Roy Position: Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Pilani Campus Link to online profile: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/broy/profile. Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Infrastructure and Technology,Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Debashree Bandyopadhyay
Position: Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - Hyderabad Campus
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Name: Jaideep Chatterjee Position: Professor, Chemical Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/jaideepc/Profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
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Name: Morapakala Srinivas Position: Associate Professor, Mechanical engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Murari Raja Raja Varma
Position: Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - Hyderabad Campus
Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/murarivarma/Profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Urban Planning,Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Ramachandran Subramanian Position: Associate Professor, Biotechnology Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Dubai Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/dubai/sramachandran/profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Crop Management, Food Production, Environmental Conservation, Forage Production, Agroforestry Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Economic Development,Health and Well being,Urban Planning,Governance and Security,Security and Safety,Cultural Heritage,Food Security and Agriculture,Energy, Waste and Water Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Sayan Kanungo Position: Assistant Professor (Grade-I), Electrical and Electronics Engineering Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/sayankanungo/Profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
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Name: Shazi Shah Jabeen Position: Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Dubai Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/dubai/shazi/profilewww.linkedin.com/in/shazi-shah-jabeen-550bba16 Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Shreya Biswas Position: Assistant Professor, Economics and Finance Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani - Hyderabad Campus Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/shreya/Profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Solano Jose Savio Da Silva
Position: Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – K K Birla Goa Campus
Link to online profile: https://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/solano/profile Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
Name: Sudha Radhika Position: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department Email: [email protected] Name of Institution: Link to online profile: Google Scholar Citation for publications: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=42ZAdYUAAAAJ&hl=en Faculty Profile Faculty List: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/EEE/Faculty Faculty Profile: Sudha Radhika: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyde Short Bio: Research Interest Keywords: Summary of Research Interests: Smart City Themes of Interest: Related Publications: Related Grants:
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