Annual Report 2014-2015 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati STC on Advanced Techniques in Cellular and Molecular Biology National Conference on Sustainable Development of Environmental Systems (NCOSDOES 2014)

Annual Symposium on Solid Waste Management - RECYCLE 2014 Workshop on GPU Programming and Applications (GPA-2014)

A cultural perfomance at a students’ festival Conference on North East in India’s Look East: Issues and Opportunities

Participants of Ishān Vikās pilot phase Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati, awarding a certifi cate to one of the participants of the Ishān Vikās programme pilot phase

Postgraduate Level Training Programme on Diff erential Equations IEEE Student Branch Workshop on Advanced MATLAB (AdMAT 14) Mathematics Training and Talent Search Programme – 2014 STC on Advanced Techniques in Cellular and Molecular Biology National Conference on Sustainable Development of Environmental Systems (NCOSDOES 2014)

Annual Symposium on Solid Waste Management - RECYCLE 2014 Workshop on GPU Programming and Applications (GPA-2014)

A cultural perfomance at a students’ festival Conference on North East in India’s Look East: Issues and Opportunities

Participants of Ishān Vikās pilot phase Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati, awarding a certifi cate to one of the participants of the Ishān Vikās programme pilot phase

Postgraduate Level Training Programme on Diff erential Equations IEEE Student Branch Workshop on Advanced MATLAB (AdMAT 14) Mathematics Training and Talent Search Programme – 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati 781039, INDIA

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is the sixth member of the IIT family. Indian Institute of Technology–Assam Society was formed in February 1989. The foundation stone of IIT Guwahati was laid in July 1992 in Guwahati. The Institute of Technology (Amendment) Act 1994, passed by the Parliament, was notifi ed in the Gazette of India on May 26, 1994, by which the IIT Guwahati– Assam Society was made into IIT Guwahati. By the Gazette of India notifi cation of the Ministry of Human Resource Development dated September 1,1994, the Central Government declared September 1,1994, as the date on which the Institute of Technology (Amendment) Act 1994 (No. 35 of 1994) came into force and IIT Guwahati was established. Enrollment of students started in 1995. Annual Report 2014–2015: Highlights

Growth

Particulars 2013–2014 2014-2015 Growth in %

Student Strength 4891 5186 6.03

Faculty Strength 342 372 8.77

R&D Funds Received (In crores of `) 33.67 73.95 120

Total Research Publication 1248 1250 0.2

Major R&D Projects Received: National Initiative for setting up of Design Innovation Centre (Department of Design) `100 crores (MHRD) A Pilot Project on Ishan Vikas, `60 crores (MHRD) Establishment of centre of excellence for training and research in frontier areas of science and technology (Department of Chemistry) `40 crores (MHRD) Mathematical model study of the river Brahmaputra with emphasis on climate change (Department of Civil Engineering) `2.8 crores (Govt. of India, Brahmaputra Board) Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (Centre for Educational Technology) `2.5 crores (MHRD)

Major Conference Held: Conference on North East in India’s Look East: Issues and Opportunities, October 2014 International Ergonomics Conference (HWWE 2014), December 2014 National Conference on Recent Advances in Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, December 2014 XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, December 2014 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR-2014), December 2014 3rd NKN Annual Workshop, December 2014 Annual Report 2014–2015: A Quick Look

Department/Centre Academic Department 11 Academic Centre 4 Service Centre 4

Grants (Rs. in crores) MHRD Non-Plan: 153.33 Plan: 143.50 Total Rs. 296.83 crores

Students Admitted Students Strength Preparatory 3 Preparatory 3 BTech/BDes 632 BTech/BDes 2570 MTech/MDes 398 MTech/MDes 760 MSc/MA 163 MSc/MA 309 PhD/DUAL Degree 369 PhD/DUAL Degree 1544 Total 1565 Total 5186

Number of Degrees Awarded 16th Convocation (13 July 2014) BTech/BDes 547 MTech/MDes 441 MSc 117 MA 21 PhD 106 Total 1232

Faculty/Staff Strength Faculty 372 Scientifi c Staff 36 Non-Teaching Staff (Group A) 33 Non-Teaching Staff (Group B & C) 347 Total 788

Research Papers Journal Papers 763 Conference Papers 487 Total 1250 Consultancy Projects Sponsored Research Projects New Projects 119 New Projects 82 Outlay (Rs. in crore) 3.25 Outlay (Rs. in crore) 50.00

CONTENTS

PART I Organisation 11 IIT Council 13 Board of Governors 14 Senate 15 Finance Committee 16 Building and Works Committee 17 Executive Summary 18

PART II ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS Biosciences and Bioengineering 35 Chemical Engineering 81 Chemistry 111 Civil Engineering 136 Computer Science and Engineering 154 Design 169 Electronics and Electrical Engineering 179 Humanities and Social Sciences 203 Mathematics 215 Mechanical Engineering 225 Physics 249

ACADEMIC CENTRES Centre for Energy 276 Centre for the Environment 285 Centre for Nanotechnology 292 CENTRALISED SERVICES Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library 301 Centre for Educational Technology 303 Central Instruments Facility 309 Computer and Communication Centre 311

PART III APPENDICES Faculty 315 Offi cers and Scientifi c Staff (Group A) 323 Degree Awardees 325 Progress in Construction Works 356 Details of Research and Development Projects 358 Summary of Institute Accounts 371

PART I

Organisation IIT Council Board of Governors Senate Finance Committee Building and Works Committee Executive Summary

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Organisation

Chairman, Council of IITs Associate Dean, Institute Works Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Dr. R. K. Bhattacharjya Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Development, Govt. of India Associate Dean, Research and Development Prof. Chitralekha Mahanta (Up to 19.11.2014) Chairman, Board of Governors Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna (From 20.11.2014) Dr. R. P. Singh Former Chairman and Managing Director Associate Dean, Students’ Aff airs Power Grid Corporation of India Limited Prof. L. Rangan (Up to 20.11.2014) Prof. K. Pakshirajan (From 20.11.2014) Director Prof. Gautam Biswas Registrar Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury (Up to 30.11.2014) Deputy Director Mr. U. C. Das (From 01.12.2014) Prof. S. Nandi Head, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering Dean, Academic Aff airs Prof. V. V. Dasu Prof. A. K. Ghosal (Up to 15.12.204) Prof. M. G. P. Prasad (From 16.12.204) Head, Department of Chemical Engineering Prof. V. S. Moholkar Dean, Faculty Aff airs Prof. A. Srinivasan (Up to 31.08.2014) Head, Department of Chemistry Prof. P. Mahanta (From 01.09.2014) Prof. B. K. Patel

Dean, Research and Development Head, Department of Civil Engineering Prof. D. Chakraborty Prof. A. K. Sarma (Up to 19.01.2015) Prof. S. Dutta (From 20.01.2015) Dean, Students’ Aff airs Prof. Chandan Mahanta Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dean, Infrastracture. Planning and Management Prof. S. B. Nair (Up to 31.08.2014) Prof. A. Dutta (Up to 22.07.2014) Prof. D. Goswami (From 01.09.2014) Prof. S. K. Kakoty (From 23.07.2014) Head, Department of Design Dean, Alumni Aff airs and External Relations Prof. D. Chakrabarti Prof. S. C. Mishra Head, Department of Electronics and Electrical Dean, Outreach Education Programme Engineering Prof. A. K. Gogoi Prof. R. Bhattacharjee (Up to 31.10.2014) Prof. Chitralekha Mahanta (From 01.11.2014) Associate Dean, Academic Aff airs Prof. A. Saikia (From 01.04.2014) Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. A. Saikia

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Head, Department of Mathematics Head, Central Instruments Facility Prof. B. K. Sarma Dr. G. Krishnamoorthy

Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering Head, Centre for Educational Technology Prof. P. Mahanta (Up to 02.09.2014) Prof. P. Yammiyavar Prof. A. K. Dass (From 03.09.2014) Head, Computer Centre Head, Department of Physics Prof. D. Goswami (Up to 31.08.2014) Prof. S. Basu Prof. S. V. Rao (From 01.09.2014)

Head, Centre for Energy Head, Centre for Linguistics Science and Technology Prof. A. K. Ghoshal (Up to 01.04.2014) Prof. S. Nandi (From 31.12.2014) Prof. P. Goswami (From 02.04.2014) Head, Centre for Career Development Head, Centre for the Environment Prof. S. Natesan Prof. G. Das Librarian Head, Centre for Nanotechnology Dr. T. Guha Prof. R. P. Paily

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IIT Council

Minister in charge of Technical Education in the Central Government (Ex-Offi cio) Chairman

Chairman of Board of Governors of all Indian Institutes of Technology (Ex-Offi cio) Member

Director of all Indian Institutes of Technology (Ex-Offi cio) Member

Chairman, University Grants Commission (Ex-Offi cio) Member

Director General, Council of Scientifi c and Industrial Research (Ex-Offi cio) Member

Chairman, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Ex-Offi cio) Member

Director, Indian Institute of Science (Ex-Offi cio) Member

Three nominees of the Central Government To represent the Ministry concerned with Technical Education Member To represent the Ministry of Finance Member To represent any other Ministry Member

Nominee of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Member

Nominees of the Visitor (minimum 3 and maximum 5) Member

Three Members of Parliament (two from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha) Member

Secretary to the Council Secretary

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Board of Governors

Chairman Member-Nominee of the Govt. of Assam Dr. R. P. Singh Shri H. K. Sharma, IAS Former Chairman and Managing Director Commissioner and Secretary to the Govt. of Assam Higher Education (Technical) Department Power Grid Corporation of India Limited Dispur, Guwahati 781 006 29, Paschimi Marg, First Floor Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110 057 Member-Nominee from North Eastern Region Mr. Er. Liansanga Member (Ex-Offi cio) Ex Engineer-in-Chief, PWD Prof. Gautam Biswas Shivaji Tillah, Khatla Director Aizawl, Mizoram IIT Guwahati Member-Nominees of the Senate Prof. P. S. Robi (Up to 31.12.2014) Member-Nominees of the IIT Council Professor Prof. Asis Datta Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor of Eminence IIT Guwahati National Institute of Plant Genome Research Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Post Box No. 10531 Prof. R. Alam (From 01.01.2015) New Delhi 110 067 Professor Department of Mathematics Prof. M. K. Chaudhuri IIT Guwahati Vice-Chancellor Tezpur University Prof. A. Chattopadhyay Napaam, Tezpur 784 028 Professor Department of Chemistry Shri N. K. Sinha IIT Guwahati Joint Secretary Bureau of Distance Learning and Scholarships Secretary (Ex-Offi cio) MHRD, Dept. of Higher Education Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 115 Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury (Up to 30.11.2014) Registrar Mr. Pydah Venkatanarayana IIT Guwahati Member, Pydah Educational Academy 3-16B-115, Santhi Nagar, Kakinada - 533 003 Mr. U. C. Das (From 01.12.2014) Registrar Dr. D. B. Goel IIT Guwahati Former Professor, IIT Roorkee 268/5, 16 Civil Lines Roorkee - 247 667

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Senate

Composition of the Senate

1. The Director Chairman (Ex-Offi cio)

2. The Deputy Director Member (Ex-Offi cio)

3. All Professors of the Institute Members (Ex-Offi cio)

4. Three persons, not being employees of the Institute, to be nominated by the Chairman, BOG in consultation with the Director, from among educationists of repute, one each from the fi elds of science, engineering and humanities Board Nominated Members Prof. Kulendu Pathak 108A, B. K. Kakati Road, Ulubari Guwahati 781 007

Dr. Pranab Bharali 1-A, Royal Point, House No. 18 Basisthapur, 1st Bye Lane (Gautam Upapath) Guwahati 781 006

Prof. A. C. Bhagabati National Highway No. 37 (Bypass) Guwahati 781 014

5. Head of the Academic Departments and Academic Centres Members (Ex-Offi cio)

6. Librarian of the Institute Member (Ex-Offi cio)

7. Chairman, Hostel Aff airs Board Member

8. Registrar of the Institute Secretary (Ex-Offi cio)

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Finance Committee

Dr. R. P. Singh Chairman (Ex-Offi cio) Former Chairman and Managing Director Power Grid Corporation of India Limited 29, Paschimi Marg, First Floor Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110 057

Prof. Gautam Biswas Member (Ex-Offi cio) Director IIT Guwahati

Director (IITs) Member Department of Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 115

Director (Finance) Member Integrated Finance Division, Department of Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 115

Prof. Dilip Kr. Barua (From 16.09.2014) Member Former Principal, Cotton College, Guwahati

Prof. P. K. Bora (From 05.09.2014) Member Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering IIT Guwahati

Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury (Up to 30.11.2014) Secretary (Ex-Offi cio) Registrar IIT Guwahati

Mr. U. C. Das (From 01.12.2014) Secretary (Ex-Offi cio) Registrar IIT Guwahati

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Building and Works Committee

Prof. Gautam Biswas Chairman (Ex-offi cio) Director IIT Guwahati

Superintending Engineer (CPWD), Assam Member (Ex-offi cio) Assam Central Circle–II, CPWD Complex, Garchuk, NH Bye Pass 37 Opposite DY 365 Offi ce, Guwahati 781 035

Chief Engineer (Buildings), PWD, Assam Member (Ex-offi cio) PWD, Govt. of Assam Chandmari, Guwahati 781 003

Dr. Hem Chandra Bora (Up to 31.07.2014) Member Former Deputy General Manager, Oil India Ltd.

Shri Debi Charan Bora (Up to 31.07.2014) Member Former Commissioner and Secretary, PWD, Govt. of Assam

Shri Mrinal R. Das (From 1.08.2014) Member Former Secretary, PWD, Govt. of Assam

Shri Pramathesh Choudhury (From 1.08.2014) Member Director Design (Retd.) PWD, Govt. of Assam

Prof. S. Nandi Member (Ex-offi cio) Deputy Director and Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. K. Kakoty (From 23.07.2014) Dean, Infrastructure, Planning and Management and Member (Ex-offi cio) Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. Dutta Special Invitee Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury (Up to 30.11.2014) Member Secretary (Ex-offi cio) Registrar, IIT Guwahati

Mr. U. C. Das (From 01.12.2014) Member Secretary (Ex-offi cio) Registrar, IIT Guwahati

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Executive Summary

THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Prof. R. Alam, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati joined the board in January 2015 a nominee of the Senate. Mr. U. C. Das, Registrar, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, joined the board in December 2014 as Secretary. Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury, Registrar, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, retired on 30 November 2014. I off er our heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Raychoudhury for his dedicated service to the Institute. Prof. P. S. Robi, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has completed his tenure as the nominee of the Senate in December 2014. On behalf of the Board, I welcome the new members to the Board and thank the outgoing members, Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury and Prof. P. S. Robi for their contributions during their tenure.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

The Institute has 11 academic departments, 4 inter- disciplinary academic centres and 3 service centres. No INTRODUCTION additions were made this year. These are: Departments The year 2014 has seen its sixteenth batch of students taking their degrees in the month of July. The Institute Biosciences and Bioengineering (BSBE), Chemical takes pride in the achievements of its students and gladly Engineering (CL), Chemistry (CH), Civil Engineering (CE), announces that almost all the passed out students have Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Design (DE), been well placed in various government organisations Electronics and Electrical Engineering (EEE), Humanities and multi-national companies in India and abroad. All and Social Sciences (HSS), Mathematics (MA), Mechanical the achievements in academic and research areas have Engineering (ME), and Physics (PH) been successful only because of the relentless efforts Academic Centres of dedicated faculty members and the commendable Centre for Energy, Centre for the Environment, Centre for cooperation of all other non-teaching employees of the Nanotechnology, and Centre of Linguistic Science and Institute. Technology Here is a brief report on the activities and achievements of Service Centres the Institute during the year 2014-2015. Computer and Communication Centre, Central Instruments

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Facility, Centre for Educational Technology, and Centre for Course 2013-2014 2014-2015 Career Development Preparatory 4 3 The Institute off ers academic programmes covering a wide BTech and BDes 2505 2570 range of science, engineering, and humanities disciplines MTech and MDes 771 760 as given below: MSc 243 262 Bachelor of Technology (BTech) programmes in Biotechnology (BT), Chemical Engineering (CL), Chemical MA 48 47 Dual Degree Science and Technology (CT), Civil Engineering (CE), 10 13 Computer Science and Engineering (CS), Electronics and (MTech+PhD) Communication Engineering (EC), Electronics and Electrical PhD 1310 1531 Engineering (EE), Engineering Physics (EP), Mathematics and Total 4891 5186 Computing (MC), and Mechanical Engineering (ME), Bachelor of Design (BDes) programme in the Department Sixteenth Convocation of Design, In the Sixteenth Convocation held on 13 July 2014, a total Master of Technology (MTech) programmes in BT, CL, CE, number of 1232 students received their BTech, BDes, MA, CS, EE and ME, MSc, MTech, MDes and PhD degrees as given below: Master of Design (MDes) programme in DE, Programme Nos. Master of Science (MSc) programmes in Chemistry (CH), Mathematics and Computing (MC), and Physics (PH), BTech/BDes Master of Arts (MA) programme in Development Studies Biotechnology 36 (DS) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Chemical Engineering 57 (HS), Chemical Science and Technology 33 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes in all departments Civil Engineering 56 and in the Centres for Energy (EN), the Environment (EV), and Nanotechnology (NT), Computer Science and Engineering 86 A Dual (MTech+PhD) programme in CS. Design 39 Electronics and Communication Engineering 66 The total number of enrolled students in 2014-2015 is 5186. Electronics and Electrical Engineering 37 Of these, 50.39% are post-graduate students. The detailed break up is:

General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh (C), PVSM, AVSM, YSM, (Retd.), Hon’ble Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Aff airs and Overseas Indian Aff airs; Dr. R. P. Singh (L), Chairman, BoG and Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati; Dr. Jyotiprasad Medhi, Professor Emeritus, Gauhati University; and Dr. Dipak C. Jain, Chaired Professor of Marketing at INSEAD along with the gold and silver medal winners at the 16th Convocation

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Programme Nos. Computer Science and Engineering 78 Design 28 Electronics and Electrical Engineering 53 Mechanical Engineering 104 Total 441 PhD Biosciences and Bioengineering 24 Chemistry 16 Chemical Engineering 6 Dr. R. P. Singh with a medal winner Civil Engineering 7

Programme Nos. Engineering Physics 24 Mathematics and Computing 32 Mechanical Engineering 81 Total 547 MSc Chemistry 37 Mathematics and Computing 40 Physics 40 Total 117 MA General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh (C); Dr. R. P. Singh (L) and Prof. Development Studies 21 Gautam Biswas Total 21 MTech/MDes Programme Nos. Biotechnology 29 Computer Science and Engineering 4 Chemical Engineering 56 Design 4 Civil Engineering 93 Electronics and Electrical Engineering 8 Humanities and Social Sciences 10 Mechanical Engineering 7 Mathematics 5 Physics 6 Centre for Energy 5 Centre for the Environment 3 Centre for Nanotechnology 1 Total 106 Grand Total 1232

ISHĀN VIKĀS

The Government of India is keen on developing the General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh, conferring the Doctor of Science education scenario of the North-Eastern part of the country. D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) to Dr. Jyotiprasad Medhi, Professor Emeritus, In one such move to that direction, a special programme Gauhati University was envisaged where students of the North-Eastern states – 20 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 especially schoolchildren – would be exposed to the best of have already hosted participants of the programme. From the engineering institutions in diff erent parts of the country. summer 2015, more IITs, IISERs are hosting participants from IIT Guwahati was given the responsibility to coordinate the the NE region. eff orts in that direction and to submit a report by the middle of August 2014. CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE STATUS TO THE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT Ishān Vikās, an initiative of the MHRD, therefore, was started as a comprehensive plan to bring selected schoolchildren With great pleasure I take this opportunity to inform you that from the North-Eastern states into close contact with the the Ministry of Human Resource Development has accorded IITs and IISERs during their vacation periods. An internship the Centre of Excellence status to Chemistry Department programme for the engineering college students of North- of the Institute. This is under the aegis of Training and Eastern states in various IITs and NITs has also come under Research in Frontier Areas of Science and Technology the umbrella of this programme. One of the focal points of (FAST) of MHRD. A large number of publications in the these visits is to open up the young minds and give them top-tier interdisciplinary journals and high citations made a broad overview of the future paths which they could this achievement possible. Let us join in congratulating all traverse. They should get a wider perspective on how they the faculty members, research scholars, students, project can take a much more proactive role in shaping their own employees, and staff members of the Department. Also future. Schoolchildren from the North-Eastern states will the roles of all the academic leaders (current and earlier be naturally motivated to acquire higher skills if they get Heads) involved in shaping up the Department are deeply a chance to visit the campus of a premier institute, to walk appreciated. inside the hostels, sit in the classes, talk to students and meet MAJOR INITIATIVES IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT research scholars working in the laboratories. Dr. Sachin Kumar and his team in the department of Until now, about 200 schoolchildren and about 150 Biosciences and Bioengineering have sequenced the engineering students studying in various institutions in complete genome sequence of many Indian isolates of the North East have participated in the programme. In the Newcastle disease virus, an important pathogen for the pilot phase of the programme, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, poultry industry in our country. His team also contributed IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras and NIAS signifi cantly in the development of vaccines and diagnostics

Participants of Ishān Vikās pilot phase along with the coordinators

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against Newcastle disease virus and classical swine fever virus, two very important animal pathogens.

Prof. V. K. Dubey and his team in the department of Biosciences and Bioengineering established molecular mechanisms of death that contribute to the anti-leishmanial activity of betulin. His team has also provided fundamental insights into role of spermidine in parasite infection and survival. The spermidine starvation as a result of LdSS inhibition is not related to elevated levels of reactive oxygen species. This suggests the involvement of spermidine in processes other than redox metabolism in Leishmania parasites. Their work provides a novel scaff old, i.e., hypericin, as a potent antileishmanial molecule. This is a new lead X-ray crystallography facility against deadly disease, Leishmaniasis (commonly known as kala-azar in India) laboratories of the Departments and Centres. Some of the X-ray crystallography facility for macromolecules has been major equipment and facilities acquired by the Institute installed in the Central Instruments Facility of the Institute during the year under report are – under the DBT sponsored project ‘Studies on structure of z MALDI-TOF (Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionisation- enzymes and their interaction with nanostructured materials Time of Flight) mass spectrometer – ` 146 lakhs (CIF) for bioelectronics devices and other applications’ headed z 250 KN Servo Hydraulic Universal Testing Machine – ` 158 by Prof. Pranab Goswami, Department of Biosciences and lakhs (CIF) Bioengineering. This cutting edge research facility is also z High Performance Computational Setup – ` 51 lakhs considered as great asset for the researchers of this region (Biosciences and Bioengineering) working in the fi eld of protein sciences. z Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) Lifetime The Centre for Nanotechnology is implementing the DeitY System with Microchannel Plate (MCP) Detection – ` 53 project for establishing a ‘Centre for Excellence in Research lakhs (Chemistry) and Development of Nanoelectronic Theranostic Devices’. z Nano Particle Size, Zeta Potential, Molecular Weight and Theranostics–a combination of diagnostics and therapy, Measurement Facility – ` 24 lakhs (Chemistry) is one of the most pressing technological issues of our z Warm Isostatic Press – ` 46 lakhs (Mechanical Engineering) times. The eff orts are focussed on developing a cutting edge technology for diagnosing of severe diseases. Once The Central Library of the Institute was named after the successful, this can directly aff ect the well-being of large great pioneer of modern Assamese literature Sahityarathi number of people who need medical care. Lakshminath Bezbaroa in December 2014. Being a major central service point, the library provides necessary supports ACADEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT for teaching, learning and research activities of the Institute A number of new equipment have been added to the by creating state-of-the-art facilities and off ering innovative services to the students, faculty and staff members and visiting intelligentsia. The library operations are fully computerised and the entire premise is provided with Wi-Fi facility for connecting to the Internet and accessing Institute’s electronic resources. During the reported period, the total library circulation transactions stand at about 1.5 lakhs. In addition, many users of other academic Institutions have also availed the reference facility. The library has a collection of about 1.55 lakhs printed books and bound volumes of journals, 1.46 lakhs e-books, and 120 print and 12835 online journal along with a substantial number of other documents.

The Computer and Communication Centre has developed a state-of-the-art Data Centre with an area of standard 1100 High Temperature Gel Permeation Chromatography sq. ft. with a total cost of around ` 381 lakhs. This will provide 22 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

year. This year has seen a big jump in numbers, growing from 1310 students last year to 1531 this year. The current faculty to PhD students’ ratio stands at a satisfactory 4.12. The number of graduating PhD students has considerably increased to 124 from 106 in the previous year.

The other component of our research programme is sponsored (or directed) research. There are 407 research projects in progress with a total sanctioned value of about ` 250 crore. In the year under report we received 82 new projects with a sanctioned value of ` 50 crore. The R&D projects are mainly sponsored by Government Ministries and Departments with major support coming from Ministries of Environment (MoE), Human Resource Development (MHRD), Steel, Departments of Science and Technology (DST),

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer Biotechnology (DBT), Atomic Energy (DAE), Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Council of Scientifi c and infrastructure for better management and control of data Industrial Research (CSIR) and Defence Research Labs (DRL). processing and IT equipment of the Institute. We also have a considerable number of industry supported research projects. 270 personnel are engaged in various RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT research projects at the Institute.

The number of PhD students on campus is increasing every Major research projects received during the year 2014-2015:

Amount Funding Project Title Dept. / Centre Sanctioned Agency (` in lakhs) National Initiative for setting up of Design Innovation Design MHRD 1000.00 Centre A Pilot Project on Ishan Vikas IITG MHRD 605.45 Establishment of centre of excellence for training and Chemistry MHRD 400.00 research in frontier areas of science and technology (FAST) Mathematical model study of the river Brahmaputra with Brahmaputra Civil Engineering 282.00 emphasis on climate change Board, GoI Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme Centre for Educational MHRD 250.00 (TEQIP-II) Technology Special manpower development programme for CHIPS to Electronics and Electrical DeitY 236.40 system design (SMDP-C2SD) Engineering Biosciences and DBT Pan IIT Centre for Bioenergy DBT 174.16 Bioengineering Exploring the binding space to develop an optimal Biosciences and transcriptional control system for abiotic stress tolerance DBT 111.42 Bioengineering in crops Investigating the role of protein dynamics on the Biosciences and DBT 98.20 function of a few intrinsically disordered proteins Bioengineering ICT based framework to enhance the teaching and Computer Science and DeitY 94.32 learning experience in a large classroom Engineering Table–1 DBT – Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India DeitY – Department Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India MHRD – Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India

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National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Science (FICS-2014)

In addition to sponsored Research Projects, IIT Guwahati publishing research papers in international and national undertakes consultancy assignments for various State journals as well as in conference proceedings. The number Government Departments, Railways, National Highways of publications during the past one year is: Authority of India, Oil and Gas Sector, Construction and Papers in Journals: 763 Infrastructure Companies, Power Sector, Educational Papers in Conference Proceedings: 487 Institutes, Health and Pharmaceutical Industries and Financial Institutions. Consultancy projects are contributing In the previous year 784 papers in journals and 464 papers to the industrial, economic and social growth of the country in conference proceedings were published by the faculty with special emphasis on this region. of the Institute.

A total of 119 consultancy projects were carried out during CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/COURSES the year. The total value of consultancy projects undertaken during this year is ` 3.25 crores, and ` 3.62 crores was received Various conferences, seminars and workshops were for all consultancies. organised by the Departments and Centres of the Institute during the year. A few of them are – One addition was made to the incubating companies z National Conference on Sustainable Development of functioning under the IIT Guwahati Technology Incubation Environmental Systems, June 2014 Centre (IITG-TIC) with the total number of companies z National Workshop on Molecular Modelling and standing at seven. These incubatees are currently working Simulation of Sustainable Polymers and Nanocomposites in IT, electronics, bio-engineering and innovative design (MSSP-14), August 2014 related projects. z National Workshop on GPU Programming and The Institute has applied for fourteen number of patents Applications (GPA3-2014), September 2014 during the period under report. z Dialogue on Strengthening Community Engagement in FACULTY AND STAFF Higher Education Institutions, September 2014 z Conference on North East in India’s Look East: Issues and The faculty strength at the end of March 2015 was 372. This Opportunities, October 2014 is an increase of 30 from 342 at the end of last year. z International Ergonomics Conference (HWWE 2014), The number of non-teaching staff at the end of the fi nancial December 2014 year 2014-2015 was 416 which is 66 higher than the previous z National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Science year. (FICS-2014), December 2014 z National Conference on Recent Advances in Cancer PUBLICATIONS Biology and Therapeutics, December 2014 The faculty members of the Institute have been actively z XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium,

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December 2014 z 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR-2014), December 2014 z 3rd NKN Annual Workshop, December 2014 z Second Symposium on Advances in Sustainable Polymers (ASP-15), January 2015 z National Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, February 2015 z Workshop on NEMS and Theranostic Devices, March 2015

MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The Institute currently has fifty five active Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with various educational and MoU with GIFU University, Japan research institutes across the world. The MoUs are mainly on academic and research collaborations, and student programme 2014-2015. Apart from that, 16 students of the exchange. Eight international and six national MoUs were Institute were selected for internship to institutes like NUS, signed during the year under report. Some of these institutes Singapore; National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan; are Missouri University of Science and Technology (USA), Paris Tech University, France, etc. Emory University (USA), Hokkaido University (Japan), Yeungnam University (South Korea), Hankuk University ALUMNI ACTIVITIES (South Korea), Mondragon University (Spain), National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and Tongmyong University IIT Guwahati launched the online donation gateway portal (South Korea). for receiving donations concerning various specifi c and non specifi c activities. Mr. Siva Yellamraju, a class of 2002 Currently there are 32 international students enrolled for Computer Science and Engineering alumnus donated Rs. 2 various full time courses at IIT Guwahati. Six out of them lakhs to facilitate a customised electrically operated wheel will receive degrees in this Convocation. Eight students from chair for Mr. Vishal Singh, a fi rst year undergraduate student international institutions/universities of repute visited IIT of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. Mr. Harish Chandra, Guwahati under various academic agreements. Two students a class of 2012 Computer Science and Engineering alumnus and two staff members received fellowship for study trip donated Rs. 1 lakh to start Kalyani Research Award, a new to foreign universities under Erasmus Mundus fellowship perpetual scholarship in the name of his mother to start with

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Debasish Das, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering; Dr. S. Senthimurugan, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering; Dr. Rashmi Dutta Baruah, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering have been awarded. z Dr. B. Anand, Assistant Professor, Biosciences and Bioengineering, was chosen for the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for the year 2014 in the fi eld of biomedical, molecular biology and biotechnology. He was also selected for Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award for the year 2014 by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. z Prof. Vikash Kumar Dubey, Biosciences and Bioengineering, has been selected for Dr. P. N. Raju Oration Award of National Power Systems Conference (NPSC-2014) Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for his work on an infectious disease, Leishmaniasis. He also received Prof. Umakant Sinha Memorial Award of the Indian Rs. 25,000/- per year for the next four years for Computer Science Congress Association. Science and Engineering undergraduate students to publish paper in the fi eld of computer science. z Prof. Latha Rangan, Biosciences and Bioengineering, received Dr. J. N. Baruah Memorial Award 2014 in the area FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS of biological sciences, given by Assam Science Society.

A number of faculty members received awards and brought z Dr. L. M. Pandey, Assistant Professor, Biosciences and accolades for the Institute during the year. Some of them are: Bioengineering, received Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Award 2014 of z IIT Guwahati has bagged four projects out of the 20 Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, projects awarded to PANIIT-ONGC consortium. Oil and in engineering and technology discipline. Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and Pan-IIT z Dr. Utpal Bora, Associate Professor, Biosciences and – a consortium of seven premier Indian Institutes of Bioengineering, has been awarded UXCEL award by Technology which includes IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India in the form Madras, IIT Mumbai, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee of a project entitled ‘Exploration and characterisation of – signed a Memorandum of Collaboration (MoC) to work seri-bioresources of North East India for potential textile towards a joint R&D programme to enhance exploration and non-textile applications’ for three years. and exploitation of hydrocarbons and alternate sources of energy. Projects submitted by Prof. Arun Goyal, z Prof. V. V. Dasu, Biosciences and Bioengineering, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering; Dr. elected as FABP (Fellow, Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy) in recognition of outstanding research contributions to medical biotechnology. z Prof. Pallab Ghosh, Chemical Engineering, was awarded Shri G. M. Abhyankar Memorial Distinguished Fellowship in Chemical Engineering for the year 2014-2015 by Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. z Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay, Chemistry, was re-nominated as an editorial advisory board member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Nanoscale. He was also selected a member of Task Force on Nanobiotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. z Prof. T. Punniyamurthy, Chemistry, won the Chemical Research Society of India Bronze Medal for the year 2015. He was also selected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

3rd National Knowledge Network (NKN) Annual Workshop z Dr. Abhishek Kumar, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering,

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CONSTRUCTION AND CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT

Keeping in conformity with the continuous growth of the students, the existing infrastructure of the Institute is strengthened with new construction and extensions.

Students’ Hostels In the tenth boys’ hostel, Lohit – with capacity of 200 rooms with attached toilet for PhD scholars/foreign students and 804 normal single seater rooms – 359 single seater rooms are already occupied and 373 rooms are expected to be completed and ready for occupation by the beginning of the coming academic session including the kitchen, dining hall and food court.

In order to meet the growing demand of student’s Prof. Vikash Kumar Dubey, Professor, Biosciences and Bioengineering, was accommodation, construction of one more boys’ hostel elected as a Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India with 1152 capacity (Hostel-11) has been taken up. The has received INSPIRE faculty award 2014 of Department construction work has been allotted at a total value of ` of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 9665.00 lakhs in March 2015. Out of 1152 single seater z Dr. S. Sreedeep, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, rooms, 580 rooms are expected to be made ready for has been awarded Shamsher Prakash Research Award occupation by March 2017. The entire hostel will be of IIT Roorkee for his outstanding work in the fi eld of completed by September 2017. geotechnical earthquake engineering. 172 double seater rooms of the second girls’ hostel, z Dr. Amit Sethi, Assistant Professor, Electronics and Dhansiri – with a capacity of 172 double seater, 176 single Electrical Engineering, was awarded IUSSTF fellowship seater rooms – were completed in the last fi nancial year for conducting research on prostate cancer recurrence and occupied. The remaining 176 single seater rooms are prediction with collaborators at University of Illinois at expected to be completed before the new academic session. Chicago (USA). The existing married scholars’ hostel with 108 fl atlets is z Dr. Arupjyoti Saikia, Associate Professor, Humanities and being extended with addition of another 96 units. 50 units Social Sciences, received Srikant Dutta Book award given are expected to be ready for occupation by the end of 2015 by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and the remaining 46 units are expected to complete by for the best book on North East India between 2009-2014 March 2016. for his book A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam. He was also chosen for the Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Extension of Academic Complex Endowment Chair on Assam History in the department The Phase IV extension works of Academic Complex is of Humanities and Social Sciences for the period of 2014- almost completed except some works in the Mechanical 2019. Engineering department. The same would be completed z Dr. Debarshi Das, Associate Professor, Humanities and before the new academic session. The construction work of Social Sciences, received Fulbright Nehru fellowship for the Class Room Complex as well as the Research Building research visit to the Department of Economics, University Complex are also progressing well. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Further expansion works of the academic complex under z Dr. Deepak Sharma, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Phase-V have also been taken up. The works have already Engineering, received NVIDIA innovation award for his been awarded at a value of ` 6994.74 lakhs in March 2015. contribution towards using graphics processing unit in Under this phase, expansion works of the departments of structure optimisation problems. Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, z Dr. M. Ravi Sankar, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Design, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, received Institution of Engineers India (IEI) Physics and Central Instruments Facility are taken up for Young Engineer Award in production engineering for construction having a total area of 13,745 sqm. The work also the year 2014. includes a new building for the centre for Nanotechnology

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and clean room of approx 5800 sqm area. The work is expected to be completed by March 2017.

Residential Quarters The construction of 30 units of E-type residential quarters in 5 blocks (Ph-IV) has been completed with the remaining 3 blocks (18 units) handed over in September 2014. The Institute has taken up construction of G+9 storied F-type residential buildings for which site selection and engagement of architect have already been fi nalised. These 4 clusters of building will have 4 units in each fl oor and altogether 144 units.

New Guest House The work of the new Guest House is under progress. In the fi rst phase, 42 general rooms are expected to be handed Alcheringa over by November 2015 and remaining 112 rooms and 8 VIP suits in the next year. now regarded as a much anticipated students’ cultural event of the North-East where thousands of students across the Apart from the above, a new community hall for social get- country take part in various youth oriented competitions, together and diff erent cultural activities has recently been workshops, seminars and informal events. The performances completed and is being used. Two new dormitory buildings of musicians and performing artistes of repute are the real for hostel catering/canteen staff and security personnel crowd puller. In the past Alcheringa has featured some respectively are under construction. The construction of exhilarating performances from some of the biggest names boundary wall (Phase-IV) is progressing well. At the same in the entertainment industry, namely Sonu Niigaam, Shaan, time augmentation of electrical infrastructure is going on. Strings, KK, Euphoria, Parikrama, the Raghu Dixit Project, INSTITUTE EXPENDITURE Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Mohit Chauhan, Javed Ali, Anoushka Shankar, the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie, Orphaned Land The details of expenditure during the year 2014-2015 are as – Israeli progressive metal band, etc. This year the well known follows (in crores of `): playback singer Lucky Ali, performed before huge crowds. Recurring: 133.03 Techniche-2014 – the annual techno-management festival Non-recurring: 164.76 of the Institute – was held during 4–7 September 2014. Sponsored Research: 46.35 Techniche has been an extra-ordinary platform to showcase Total Expenditure: 344.14 the latest inventions, exhibitions and technological advances from all over the globe and organises a plethora of events In comparison, in 2013-2014, ` 336.17 crores were spent. and competitions all designed to make the participants step outside their comfort zones and challenge the institution STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES of conventional thinking. The 2014 edition of this festival Alcheringa, the annual cultural festival of IIT Guwahati, was saw the congregation of eminent personalities like Dr. held during 29 January – 1 February this year. Alcheringa is Kota Harinarayana, Father of India’s Light Combat Aircraft

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(LCA) Tejas Programme; Dr. Tessy Thomas, Project Director for Agni-IV missile in Defence Research and Development Organisation; Dr. Bikash Sinha, Padma Bhushan, Indian physicist, active in the fi elds of nuclear physics and high energy physics; Dr. Peter Atkins, FRSC, English chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a prolifi c writer of popular chemistry books; and Mr. Christer Fuglesang, Swedish astronaut.

Other regular student events like Manthan, Spirit, Spardha were successfully organised by the students during the year. Moreover, there have been regular events and competitions organised by the various clubs and societies of the Institute.

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS z Mr. Ashutosh Gupta, research student, Biosciences and Bioengineering, received the best paper award at the 29th Carbohydrate Conference, Centre of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Punjab, in December 2014. z Mr. Siddharth Nimkar, research student, Biosciences and Bioengineering, won Best Poster Award in the international conference on Proteomics from Discovery to Function at IIT Bombay.

Techniche

z Mr. Manishekhar Kumar, research student, Biosciences and Bioengineering, was selected for prestigious Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship 2014. Manishekhar will be visiting USA for nine months (starting July 2015) to pursue research work at Biomedical Engineering Department, Tufts University. z Mr. Suradip Das, research student, Biosciences and Bioengineering, was awarded DST International Travel Support for presenting his paper at the 16th International Spinal Research Trust Meeting at London, UK in September 2014. z Mr. Arghya Sett, research student, Biosciences and Bioengineering, was awarded DBT International Travel Support for presenting his poster at the 16th European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) PhD symposium, Heidelberg, Germany in October 2014. z Ms. R. Dutta and Ms. Vartika Srivastava, research students, Biosciences and Bioengineering, won best paper award at Asian Plant Science Conference 2014, Nepal. z Mr. Seim Timung, research student, Chemical Engineering, Alcheringa received best paper award at the International Conference

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on MEMS and Sensors 2014 held at IIT Madras. z Mr. Narsimha Mamidi, research scholar, Chemistry, won Second Prize of Lilly Outstanding Thesis Awards 2014. z Mr. Diptesh Majumdar, MTech student, Computer Science and Engineering, won the DAAD scholarship under the IIT Masters-Sandwich programme for visiting the Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems at the University of Munich from September 2014 to March 2015. z Mr. Rajesh D., research student, Computer Science and Engineering, received the TCS PhD Research Fellowship. z Mr. Shashi Shekhar Jha, research student and TCS fellow, Computer Science and Engineering, received international travel grant from the Department of Himujjal Jibon Sarma Science and Technology, Govt. of India, to present his logo is already in use. paper at the 1st International Conference on Internet of Things in Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014) in Rome, Italy. z Mr. Himujjal Jibon Sarma, MDes student, Design, won the His doctoral work was selected for presentation at the prestigious Business Plan competition of Young Indian’s Doctoral Consortium of the 12th German Conference Guwahati Chapter – Road to Ideas with his proposition on Multiagent System Technologies, Stuttgart, Germany, on innovations in furniture design and manufacturing. September 2014. z Mr. Ankit Dalal, research student, Electronics and z Mr. Sandip Chakraborty, research student, Computer Electrical Engineering, received the DST grant to attend Science and Engineering, received Indian National International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovative Student in Berlin, Germany in September 2014. Projects Award 2014 (Doctoral Level) for his PhD z Mr. S. Arun, research student, Mechanical Engineering, thesis work on ‘Capacity Enhancement, QoS and Rate received Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Adaptation in IEEE 802.11s: A Performance Improvement Award (appreciation under MLM – More from Less Perspective’. for Many) at the Festival of Innovation at Rashtrapati z Ms. Bhawna Agarwal and Ms. Richa Tripathi, BDes Bhawan, New Delhi in March 2015 for his project on students, Design, won the first prize for designing ‘Injection Mouldable Polymeric Composite Based Passive the mobile application NINDIYA at Unexplored 2014 Polycentric Knee joint’. He also won Best Innovation organised by YUJ Design, Pune. Award-2015 by the GHR Labs and Research Centre, Nagpur for the same project. z Ms. Shweta Gupta, MDes student, Design, won the fi rst prize in the competition for designing the logo for the z Ms. Shuchi Singh, research student, Centre for Energy, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, an initiative of Govt. of India. The was selected for International Travel Fellowship grant by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, to attend the international conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Sciences at Singapore in February 2015. z Mr. Ravi K. Biroju, research student, Centre for Nanotechnology, received the Certifi cate of Excellence (1st prize) for paper presentation at Refl ux 2015 – the annual Chemical Engineering Symposium held at IIT Guwahati in March 2015.

TRAINING AND PLACEMENT

The placement scenario at IIT Guwahati for the year 2014- 2015 has been good so far. A total of 109 companies Techniche from various sectors have already participated in campus recruitment. Out of a total of 1087 students (BTech-512, 30 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Techniche Alcheringa

BDes-31, MTech-299, MDes-25, MSc-102, MA-17, PhD-100) placed out of 119 registered candidates. 2 PhD students have registered for placement, 73.66% BTech and BDes students also received job off ers through the campus placement in have been placed. For BTech and BDes, number of job off ers various sectors. made is 400 for 543 students. The highest package off ered to BTech student is 129,500 USD per annum with an average Companies from diff erent sectors have participated in the package of ` 12.80 lakhs per annum. campus recruitment process. The percentage of participation from various sectors are 17% in Core Engineering , 44% in The percentage of placement till now for the MTech and IT, 7% in R&D, 3.5% in Analytics, 5.5% in Consulting, 5.5% in MDes students is reasonable and stands at 35.49%. The Education, 4.5% in E-commerce and 13% in others (Finance, highest package off ered to MTech student is 115,000 USD Telecommunication, Govt., Oil & Gas, Decision Science, per annum with an average package of ` 10.74 lakhs per Diversified Conglomerate, Health care, Management, annum. For MSc and MA programmes, 3 students have been Mining, NGO, etc.).

The branch-wise placement details are:

UG (BTech/BDes) PG (MTech/MDes/MA/MSc) Discipline No. of No. Student % of Student No. of No. Student % of Student Student Reg. Placed Placed Student Reg. Placed Placed CS 73 64 88 36 25 69 EC 76 63 83 44 14 32 EE 42 29 69 –– – ME 76 57 68 78 29 37 CE 62 32 52 74 27 36 CL 49 33 67 38 05 13 BT 38 21 55 29 00 00 MC 39 34 87 –– – CST 30 20 67 –– – EP 27 18 67 –– – DE 31 29 94 25 15 60 PH (MSc) –––290000 CH (MSc) –––370000 MC (MSc) –––3602 03 DS (MA) –––1701 06

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diff erent turns of history. Moreover it was the north bank CLOSING REMARKS of the city that sheltered most of its glory. In contemporary In ancient times, Guwahati, known by the name times this old trend is rejuvenated and the IIT campus in Pragjyotishpur, was the leading political and cultural centre North Guwahati is alive once more with students learning of the North East. It was a celebrated seat of learning in specialised subjects. There is a resurgence of learning today all spheres. It was acclaimed as a distinguished centre of with the infl ow of students and teachers from all over the rich cultural and religious activities with scholars coming country. Today it can be proudly said that IIT Guwahati has from far and near. This land of Kamrupa also carried contributed in its own signifi cant way to the development glorious chronicles of events and classical renaissance at of the North East.

32 PART II

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS Biosciences and Bioengineering Chemical Engineering Chemistry Civil Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Design Electronics and Electrical Engineering Humanities and Social Sciences Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Physics

ACADEMIC CENTRES Centre for Energy Centre for the Environment Centre for Nanotechnology

CENTRALISED SERVICES AND PROGRAMME

Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library Centre for Educational Technology Central Instruments Facility Computer and Communication Centre INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOSCIENCES AND BIOENGINEERING

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 2002 biochemistry, plant biology, biochemical engineering and other experiments. The technical staff s of the department ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: support the smooth conduct of experiments and Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in maintenance of the laboratories. Most of the laboratories o Biotechnology and faculty rooms are equipped with centralized air Master of Technology (MTech) in conditioning facilities. The laboratories are equipped with adequate furniture, chemical, glassware, and water supply o Biotechnology units, maintained by the individual project grants and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) IIT facility. FACULTY STRENGTH: MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: • Professor: 9 Microplate Reader (Absorbance & Fluorescence mode); • Associate Professor: 9 Lyophilizer; Peristaltic pump, etc. • Assistant Professor: 14 MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: LABORATORIES: The major thrust of the department includes biochemical The department spans the N and O blocks of the institute engineering, tissue engineering, plant biotechnology, occupying approximately 3637 squared meters. Around environmental biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, 40% of the total are is dedicated for running the laboratory molecular biology, stem cell biology, gene therapy, courses of the B. Tech. and M. Tech. academic programmes. computational biology, cancer biology, infectious diseases These laboratories include “Plant Biotechnology Laboratory and proteomics. Keeping in mind the demands of the (O-block)”, “Biochemistry and Microbiology Laboratory modern biotechnological research, the plans for establishing (O-block)”, and “Biochemical Engineering Laboratory advanced research facilities are underway. In addition (N-block) that are used for conducting the wet-lab department is also involved in promoting science and courses of the academic curricula. The dry lab courses education in the north east pertaining to the field of are conducted in the “Computational Biology Laboratory biotechnology by organizing workshops, symposium and located in the O-block. In addition, the department houses seminar. a “Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility” funded by the MAJOR INITIATIVES AND BREAKTHROUGH IN RESEARCH Department of Biotechnology, India. The laboratories are AND DEVELOPMENT: well-equipped for smoothly carrying out the experiments of the academic curricula. a) Dr Sachin Kumar lab performed complete genome sequence of many Indian isolates of Newcastle disease virus. Approximately 40% of the total space is dedicated to the Development of diagnostics against infection of Newcastle research laboratories. The research laboratories are used disease and classical swine fever viruses. for carrying out the routine experiments. For specialized experiments, department hosts a “Cell Culture Laboratory”, b) Professor V.K.Dubey lab established molecular mechanisms a “Spectroscopy Laboratory”. Apart from the departmental of death that contribute to the anti-leishmanial activity of instruments housed at different locations within the betulin. Moreover, the spermidine starvation as a result of department, the department has a DBT funded Program LdSS inhibition is not related to elevated levels of reactive Support Instrument Facility (N-block, ground fl oor) include oxygen species. This suggests the involvement of spermidine Research laboratories I, II, and II spanning both the blocks. in processes other than redox metabolism in Leishmania parasites. Our work provides a novel scaff old, i.e., hypericin, The state of the art laboratory facilities are available for as a potent antileishmanial molecule.

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c) X-ray crystallography facility for protein has been installed devices and other applications” sponsored by DBT India in CIF, IIT Guwahati. The equipment was purchased from to Prof. Pranab Goswami, Principal Investigator, Prof. V. K. the project “Studies on structure of enzymes and their Dubey and Prof. P. Mahanta from Mechanical Engineering interaction with nanostructured materials for bioelectronics as co-investigators.

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr.Debasish Das DBT PAN-IIT Center for Bioenergy DBT 92.08 Prof. Arun (No. BT/EB/PAN IIT/2012) Goyal Dr.Debasish Das Improvement of hydrolytic en- DBT 174.00 Dr.Debasish zymes by protein engineering for Das (PI) higher activity and SSF of plant carbohydrates to ethanol (PI) Dr.Debasish Das Development of Clostridium sp. as a DBT 2250.00 Coordinator: Dec. cell factory for butanol production: Prof. P. Wangi- 2014- Metabolic & biochemical engineer- kar (IITB) Dec.2019 ing approach. (Co-PI) Prof. Arun Goyal Development of novel thermophilic Indo-Portugal 8.04 - June 2014 glycoside hydrolases and carbohy- Joint Project, - March drate binding modules and exploit- DST 2017 ing their properties for bioethanol production and for food and indus- trial applications Prof. Arun Goyal Synthesis, structure and application DBT 26.65 - Jul 2014 analyses of glucans from hyper- - March producing LAB strains from North- 2016 east Indian microbial diversity Dr. Vikash Kumar Identifi cation of novel drug targets DBT 73.69 Dr. S. P Kanau- 2014 - Dubey of Leishmania donovani: Studies on jia 2017 CAAX prenyl protease I and II of the pathogen Prof. L Sahoo Exploring the binding space to DBT 111.42 Biplab Bose 3 years develop an optimal transcriptional control system for abiotic stress tolerance in crops Prof. L Sahoo Plant probiotics to improve crop DST-JSPS 11.73 Prof. Hiroyuki 2 years production in low nutrient soil Koyama (Gifu University, Japan) Dr Piruthivi Advanced glycation end products ICMR 19.998 Dr Biman B 2.5Yr Sukumar and macrophage store operated Mandal calcium entry Dr. Biman B Mandal Electrospun Silk Bioglass Scaff old (DST-UKIERI) 39.99 Dr. P. Sukumar 15 for Interfacial Tissue Engineering International (BSBE) Dr. months grant R. Konwarh (BSBE) Dr. Lalit Pandey Thermodynamics of Protein Aggre- DST 35.00 NA 5 gation in Bulk Solution and in the presence of Surfaces

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Nitin Chaudhary Structural organization of hunting- SERB, DST 23.8 None 3 years tin exon 1 fi brils Prof R. Investigating the role of protein DBT 98.20 None Three Swaminathan dynamics on the function of few years intrinsically disordered proteins Dr. Kannan Carbon monoxide conversion using DBT 7.5 Dr. G. April 2014 Pakshirajan native hydrogenogenic microor- Pugazhenthi, – June ganisms for sulphate rich wastewa- Chemical 2015 ter treatment Engineering Department Dr Anil M Limaye A multifaceted research program to DBT 78.85 Dr Deepak 2014- investigate the role of the G-protein Modi (NIRRH) 2017 coupled estrogen receptor (GPR30) and Dr Van- in the normal and neoplastic breast: dana Raphael molecular investigations usin in vi- (NEIGRIHMS) tro, in vivo and clinical approaches Dr. Bithiah Grace Study of Cancer Promoting Role of DBT 25 Dr. Anil M 3 years Jaganathan CD90/THY1 in Leukemia Associated Limaye Stroma Dr. Bithiah Grace BMP signalling in osteolytic bone ICMR 20 Dr. Anil M 2 years Jaganathan metastasis of breast cancer Limaye & Dr. Gayatri Gogoi (AMCH) b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. B. Anand “Molecular Mechanism of Ribo- DBT 58.80 - 18 months some Assembly in Bacteria” under + "Unit of Excellence in RNA Biol- ogy" Dr. B. Anand Molecular Mechanism of Target DBT 122.96 - 3yrs (PI, IITG) Prof. S. Recognition and Cleavage by the Ramaswamy CRISPR-Cas Bacterial Immune (PI, inStem) System Dr. B. Anand Structural and Functional Charac- DBT 59.182 Dr. Nitin 3yrs terization of Adaptation Stage of Chaudhary CRISPR-Cas System in Mycobacte- rium tuberculosis Dr. B. Anand Structural Basis for the Maturation DBT 40.44 - 3yrs of the Prokaryotic siRNA Dr. B. Anand Dynamical Aspects of Era GTPase DAE-BRNS 16.85 - 3yrs - 16S rRNA Interactions and its Im- plication in Ribosome Assembly Dr. Sachin Kumar Improved Infectious Bursal Dis- DBT 47.34 Nitin Chaud- 3 years ease Virus Vaccines Using New- hary castle Disease Virus Vector

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Sachin Kumar Role of N-glycans of Newcastle BRNS 16.80 NIL 3 years disease virus fusion protein in the host immune signaling molecules. Dr. Sachin Kumar Inspire faculty award on New- DST 35.00 NIL 5 years castle disease virus Prof. Vikash Kumar X-ray crystallographic structure DBT 72.69 Dr. S. Patra 2012-2015 Dubey elucidation of key drug target enzymes of Leishmania donovani. Prof. Vikash Kumar Deciphering the molecular mech- DBT 68 None 2010-2015 Dubey anism underlying the activity of antitumor agents as antileishman- ial agents and their potential for therapy. Prof. Vikash Kumar Variation in proteome profi le of DST 23.5 Dr. Anil Verma, 2012-2015 Dubey legume plants in response to Chemical Engg heavy metal toxicity. Dr. Senthilkumar Design and Application of a DBT 78.348 Prof. Guhan 2013-2016 Sivaprakasam Robust Process Analytical Tech- Jayaraman, IIT nology (PAT) Platform for Real- Madras time Monitoring and Control of Hyaluronic Acid Production Dr. Senthilkumar Application of Dielectric Spec- DST 20.57 2013-2016 Sivaprakasam troscopic Measurements for Real-time Monitoring and Control of High Cell Density Cultivation (HCDC) of Pichia pastoris for Pro- duction of Glycosylated Human Interferon Alpha2b Prof. L. Sahoo Development of Transgenic Cow- DBT 83.34 Prof. M. V. 3 years pea for Virus Resistance Using the Rajam (UDSC, Tool of RNA Interference (RNAi) New Delhi) Dr. Piruthivi Role of store operated calcium en- DST SERB 24.9 -- 3Yr Sukumar try in diabetes and hyperlipidemia induced vascular smooth muscle dysfunction Dr. Ranjan Tamuli Studies on the cellular roles of cal- DBT 72.88 (Total), Dr. Utpal Bora 24.03.2011 cium signaling proteins in Neuros- 50.70 (IITG) (IITG) -continu- pora crassa (NE-Twining project) ing Dr. Biplab Bose Integrative investigation on DBT 37.2 Dr. Sudip Sen, 2012-Sep- critical transcriptional modules AIIMS, New tember involved in proliferation of malig- Delhi 2015 nant cells Dr. Shankar Prasad Structural and functional studies DBT 52.90 Dr. Vikash Ku- 3 years Kanaujia of translation initiation factors mar Dubey from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 Dr. Shankar Prasad Understanding the mechanism of DST 47.19 None 4 years Kanaujia substrate delivery through solute- binding proteins related to ABC transporters

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Shankar Prasad Elucidation of the substrate deliv- DST 24.00 None 3 years Kanaujia ery and specifi city mechanism of solute-binding proteins cognate to the ABC transporters Dr. Biman B Mandal Silk2Heal. (DBT- SWE- 74.70 Dr. P. Sukumar 2014-2017 DEN) Interna- tional grant Dr. Biman B Mandal Stem Cell Based Bioengineering of DST NIL 2013-2017 Annulus Fibrosus in an Interverte- bral Disc model using North-East Silk Biomaterials. Dr. Biman B Mandal Development of novel tissue DBT 56.96 Dr. P. Sukumar 2014-2017 engineered silk biomaterial based Dr. N. Chaud- wound dressing patch for diabetic hary foot ulcers. Dr. Biman B Mandal Understanding the role of cellu- DBT 37.06 Dr. S. Siv- 2013-2016 lar cross talks for cartilage tissue aprakasam repair using a 3D co-culture tissue model Dr. Biman B Mandal Bioartifi cial Pancreas to Treat DST 35.00 NIL 2013-2018 Diabetes Dr. Biman B Mandal Stimulation of stem cell diff er- DST 23.00 NIL 2013-2016 entiation on silk fi ber reinforced composite with tunable strength and degradation towards en- hanced osteogenesis. Dr. Biman B Mandal Bioengineered silk vascular grafts DAE - BRNS 17.00 NIL 2012-2015 for blood vessel engineering. Dr. Biman B Mandal Mechanically strong silk com- ICMR 10.00 NIL 2012-2015 posite matrices for bone tissue engineering. Dr. Nitin Chaudhary, Understanding the role of DBT 31.03 for None 3 years IITG, Guwahati; cation-π interaction in the self- IITG, Guwa- Dr. R. Nagaraj, assembly of amyloidogenic and hati; 14.5 CCMB, Hyderabad de novo designed peptides for CCMB, Hyderabad Prof R. Single molecule fl uorescence DBT 60.50 Dr. B. Anand Three years Swaminathan investigations on the mechanism of lysozyme aggregation and RNA helicase activity Prof. S.S. Ghosh Novel nanoscale materials tar- DBT (Imple- 169.00 Prof. A. Chat- 3 years geted towards antimicrobial and mented at topadhyay, Dr. anticancer activities the Centre for Biplab Bose Nanotechnol- ogy)

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. S.S. DBT Programme support for DBT 1133.68 Dr. A. Ramesh, Since 2008 Ghosh (Project Fundamental Molecular Investiga- Dr. S. Patra coordinator) tions in Biotechnology Other PIs: Prof. P. Goswami; Prof. L. Sahoo, Dr. B. Bose Dr. Kannan Strategy Development for the DBT 14.65 - June 2012 Pakshirajan mitigation of heavy metals in sur- – May 2015 face waters around coal mining areas using native cyanobacterial strains Dr. Ajaikumar B. An investigation on the expres- DBT 76.5 Dr. Piruthivi 2014-2017 Kunnumakkara sion of various protein tyrosine Sukumar & Dr. kinases and their phosphorylated Madumita Roy forms in diff erent stages of the (CNCI, Kolkata) development of oral squamous cell carcinoma Dr. Ajaikumar B. An Investigation of the Therapeu- DST 22.55 - 2013-2015 Kunnumakkara tic Potential of Butein Isolated from Toxicodendron vernicifl uum Against Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Dr. Manish Kumar Deciphering the role and archi- DBT 47.95 Dr. Shankar 2013-2016 tecture of CRISPR/Cas defense Prasad Kanau- system in Leptospira interrogans jia Dr. Manish Kumar Purifi cation and characterization IIT,G 5 NIL 2012-15 of putative outer membrane pro- tein of Leptospira interrogans Dr. Manish Kumar Purifi cation and characterization ICMR 10 NIL 2013-16 of recombinant outer membrane proteins of Leptospira interrogans for vaccine and diagnostics Dr. Manish Kumar Modulation of gene expression in SERB, DST 23.5 None 2013-2016 Leptospira interrogans exposed to human catecholamine hormone Prof. Pranab Studies on structure of enzymes DBT India 473.00 V. K. Dubey, P. 3 years Goswami and their interaction with nano- Mahanta structured materials for bioelec- tronics devices and other applica- tions.(Implemented in the Energy Centre) Prof. Pranab Development of Bioelectrodes for MNRE 33.73 P. Mahanta 3 years Goswami Biofuel Cell Applications. (Imple- mented in the Energy Centre) Dr. Vibin Design synthesis and Character- DBT 60.00 Senthilkumar S 3 Years Ramakrishnan ization of self-assembled molecu- lar materials from heterotactic polypeptide constructs. Applica- tion in drug delivery and na- noscale energy storage devices

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Utpal Bora (IITG); Identifi cation and characteriza- DBT 84.8 Dr. RanjanTam- 3 years Dr. Rajlakshmi tion of bioactive molecules from uli (IITG); Dr. (2012- Devi (Coordinator, some indigenous medicinal plants JibonKotoky 2015) IASST); Dr. K. Suresh of NE region of India with special (IASST); Dr. A.K. Babu (IICT) reference to anti-oxidant and Tiwari (IICT) hypolipidemic properties Dr. Utpal Bora (IITG) Development of aptamer based DBT 154.85 Dr. Ranjan- 4 years molecular diagnostics for breast Tamuli (IITG); (2011- cancer Dr. A.C. Kataki 2015) (BBCI); Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Borthakur (BBCI); Dr. Jagannath Dev Sharma (BBCI); Dr. P. Nahar (IGIB) Dr Rakhi Chaturvedi Yield enhancement strategies for DBT 82.52 Dr B.S. Bhau, 2011-2015 production of therapeutic com- NEIST, Jorhat; pounds by cell and tissue cultures Prof. B.K. Patel, of Tinospora cordifolia (willd.) IITG; Prof V.S Miers ex Hook. F. & Thoms. Bisaria, IIT Delhi Dr. Rakhi In vitro production of doubled DBT 64.58 Dr. Vishal 2014 - 2017 Chaturvedi haploids in Tea (Camellia sinensis Trivedi L.) c) Completed Sponsored Projects:

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Arun Goyal Molecular and functional Indo-Finland 77.03 March characterization of dextran Joint Project 2012 - production in Weissella spp. - DBT March Superior dextran producers for 2015 cereal applications Dr.Debasish Das Process optimization for microbial CSIR 14.0 Prof. Arun Jan 2012 - synthesis of Hyaluronic Acid Goyal Jan 2015 from new isolates: Development of structured kinetic model and experimental validation Prof. Vikash Kumar Studies on trypanothione DBT 27.73 None 2011- Dubey synthetase, a key enzyme of 2014 redox metabolism of Leishmania donovani. Prof. Vikash Kumar Studies on Peptide-conjugated DBT 31.83 Dr. S. Patra 2011- Dubey nanoparticles mediated 2014 antileishmanial drug delivery to macrophages.

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Vikash Kumar An integrated computational and ICMR 31.83 Dr. V. Trivedi 2011- Dubey biochemical approach to target 2014 ornithione decarboxylase, a key enzyme involved in synthesis of trypanothione for antileishmanial drug discovery. Prof. Vikash Kumar Betraying the parasite’s redox DBT 82.18 Dr. V. Trivedi, Dubey system: Studies on spermidine BT, Dr. P.K.Iyer, synthase of Leishmania donovani. Chem Prof. L Rangan Molecular and physico-chemical DBT 52,75 Dr A Parida 3 years characterization of selected ginger (MSSRF species from North Eastern Region Chennai), Dr S Mitra (JNU New Delhi) Prof. L Sahoo Development and evaluation DBT 103.03 --- 5 years of transgenic mungbean over expressing AtNHX1 and AVP1 for salt tolerance Prof. L Sahoo Development of pod borer ICAR 58 Prof. S. K. Sen 3 years resistant transgenic pigeonpea (BREF Biotech, and chickpea IIT Kharagpur) Dr. Biplab Bose Inhibitor Based Selection of DBT 11.72 Dr. S. S. Ghosh 2007 - Blocking Antibodies against 2010 Heparin-binding EGF-like Growth Factor: Developing Potent Molecules for Antibody-based Cancer Therapy Dr. Biplab Bose Development of Therapeutic DST 10.34 - 2007- Human Antibodies Against 2010 Cripto-1: Targeting Oncogenic Signaling. (Funded by DST, 2007 - 2010) Dr. Shankar Prasad Structural determinants and IIT Guwahati 5.00 None 2 years Kanaujia protein engineering of metal binding of Phospholipase A2 Dr. Biman B Mandal Silk based biomimetic scaff olds for IITG 5.00 NIL 2011- tissue engineering applications 2013 Prof. R. Protein aggregation: Early DST 53.38 None Three Swaminathan molecular events, mechanisms years and inhibition Prof. Pranab Studies and application of redox DBT 98 Sanjukta Patra 5 years Goswami enzymes for bioelectornics devices Dr Anil M Limaye Characterization of rat ventral IITG 5.00 None 2009- prostate specifi c PBPC1BS and 2011 S100RVP gene promoters

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Dr Anil M Limaye Modulation of estrogen regulated ICMR 10.00 None 2012- gene expression by green tea 2015 polyphenol EGCG in ER positive breast cancer cells: a microarray study Dr Anil M Limaye Real-time quantitative RT-PCR DST 24.00 Dr B. G. 2013- based expression profi ling of Jaganathan 2015 matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors in prostate cancer cell lines Dr Anil M Limaye The SHBG-RSHBG pathway: DST 19.00 None 2010- insights from prostate cancer cell 2013 lines. Dr. Utpal Bora Development of silk protein Ministry of 45.30 Dr. 3 years derived artifi cial nerve growth textiles, Govt. RanjanTamuli (2011- conduits for neural tissue of India 2014) engineering Dr. Utpal Bora Silk based scaff olds for Neural DBT 58.44 Dr. 3 years Tissue Engineering RanjanTamuli (2011- 2014) Dr. RanjanTamuli Studies on the cellular roles of DBT 72.88 Dr. Utpal 3 years calcium signaling proteins in Bora (IITG), (2011- Neurosporacrassa (NE-Twining Dr. Durgadas 2014) project) P. Kasbekar (CCMB), Dr. Ch. Mohan Rao (CCMB) Dr. Latha Rangan DNAB (DNA Barcoding) based DIT, MCIT 71.18 Dr. Utpal Bora 5 years biodiversity inventory in & Dr. L. Sahoo (2008- Zingiberaceae of Northeast India 2013) Dr. Utpal Bora ElectrospunNanofi ber Scaff olds for DBT 52.55 Dr. Pranab 3 years Hepatic Tissue Engineering Goswami (2007- 2010) Dr. Utpal Bora Nanoparticle mediated targeted DST 12.96 - 3 years siRNA delivery to cancer cell lines (2007- 2010) Dr. Pranab Enzymatic Biofuel cell for DBT 35.00 Dr. Utpal Bora 3 years Goswami Biomedical application (2007- 2010) Dr. Pranab Development of Enzyme Electrode CSIR 2.25 Dr. Utpal Bora 3 years Goswami for the Construction of Cholesterol (2007- Biosensor. 2010) Dr. Utpal Bora Synthesis of biodegradable DBT 14.686 Dr. Pranab 3 years nanocarriers for targeted drug Goswami (2006- delivery 2009) Dr. S.K. Khijwania Glucose sensor based on BRNS, DAE 9.35 Dr. Utpal Bora 3 years evanescent wave induced (2005- fl uorescence spectroscopy 2008)

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Bithiah Grace Role of Rho GTPase RhoA on DBT 39.26 Dr. Anil M 3 years Jaganathan interaction between Human Limaye Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Hematopoietic Stem Cells Dr. Bithiah Grace Cytoskeletal organization DST 24.2 - 3 years Jaganathan and migration potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) during diff erent stages of diff erentiation Dr. Bithiah Grace Study of Apoptotic Signalling DBT 91.05 Dr. Rajesh 3 years Jaganathan Pathways in Mesenchymal Singh (Univ. Stem Cells during Normal and Baroda) Diff erentiated State RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Anil Kumar Verma, Pedro The family 6 Carbohydrate Binding Archives of DOI:10.1016/j. 2015 Bule, Teresa Ribeiro, Module (CtCBM6) of glucuronoxy- Biochemistry abb.2015.03.026 Joana L. A. Brás, Joyeeta lanase (CtXynGH30) of Clostridium and Biophysics Mukherjee, Munishwar thermocellum binds decorated and N. Gupta, Carlos M.G.A. undecorated xylans through Cleft Fontes and Arun Goyal A. Shuchi Singh, Mayank Mechanistic insight into ultrasound Ultrasonics DOI: 10.1016/j.ult- 2015 Agarwal, ShyamaliSarma, induced enhancement of simulta- Sonochem- sonch.2015.02.011 Arun Goyal and neous saccharifi cation and fermen- istry Vijayanand S. Moholkar tation of Partheniumhysterophorus for ethanol production RwivooBaruah and Arun Hyper glucansucrase, glucan and Annals of DOI: 10.1007/s13213-015- 2015 Goyal oligosaccharide producing novel Microbiology 1072-7 Weissellacibaria RBA12 isolated from Pummelo (Citrus maxima) Shuchi Singh, Ultrasound enhanced ethanol pro- Bioresource 10.1016/j.bi- 2015 ShyamaliSarma, Mayank duction from Partheniumhystero- Technology ortech.2014.12.038 Agarwal, Arun Goyal and phorus: A mechanistic investigation Vijayanand S. Moholkar Shuchi Singh, Purifi cation and characterization Environmental DOI 10.1002/ep 2015 Pritam K. Dikshit, of acidic cellulase from Bacillus Progress and VijayanandMoholkar and amyloliquefaciens SS35 and its Sustainable Arun Goyal utilization for hydrolyzing Parthe- Energy niumhysterophorus biomass Deeplina Das and Arun Anti-oxidant activity and LWT Food DOI 10.1016/j. 2015 Goyal γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) pro- Science and lwt.2014.11.013 ducing ability of probiotic Lactoba- Technology cillus plantarum DM5 isolated from Marcha of Sikkim

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Nadeem Akhtar, Aanchal, Simplifi cation and optimization of Environmental DOI 10.1002/ep.12004 2015 Dinesh Goyal and Arun media ingredients for enhanced Progress and Goyal production of CMCase by newly Sustainable isolated Bacillus subtilis NA15 Energy Seema Patel, Rishikesh Probiotics in valorization of innate Journal of 14 549-561 2015 Shukla and Arun Goyal immunity across various models Functional Foods Damini Kothari and Arun Gentio-oligosaccharides from Food and 6 604-611 2015 Goyal LeuconostocmesenteroidesNRRL Function B-1426 dextransucrase as prebiotics and as supplement for functional foods with anti-cancer properties. Soumyadeep Role of pectinolytic enzymes identi- Plos One 10 (2) 2015 Chakraborty†, Vania O. fi ed in Clostridium thermocellum- Fernandes†, Fernando cellulosome M.V. Dias, Jose A.M. Prates, Luis M.A. Ferreira, Carlos M.G.A. Fontes, Arun Goyal and Maria S.J. Centeno Arabinda Ghosh, Anil Recovery and purifi cation of oli- Molecular Bio- 57 111-127 2015 Kumar Verma, Jagan gosaccharides from copra meal by technology Mohan Rao T., Rishikesh recombinant endo-β-mannanase Shukla and Arun Goyal and deciphering molecular mecha- nism involved and its role as potent therapeutic agent Immacolata Venditto, Crystallization and preliminary ActaCrystallo- F71 45-48 2015 Arun Goyal, Andrew crystallographic studies of a novel, graphica F Thompson, Luis M. A. non-catalytic carbohydrate-binding Ferreira, Carlos M.G.A. module from Ruminococcusfl avefa- Fontes and Shabir cienscellulosome. Najmudin Seema Patel and Arun Applications of natural polymer International 18 (5) 986-998 2015 Goyal gum Arabic: a review Journal of Food Proper- ties Shuchi Singh, S.T.P. Mechanistic investigation in ultra- Industrial & 53 14241- 2015 Bharadwaja, Pawan sound-assisted (alkaline) delignifi - Engineering 14251 Kumar Yadav, Vijayanand cation of Partheniumhysterophorus Chemistry S. Moholkar and Arun biomass Research Goyal Shuchi Singh, Swati Screening and optimization of pre- Applied En- 129 195-206 2014 Khanna, Vijayanand treatments forPartheniumhystero- ergy S. Moholkar and Arun phorus as feedstock for alcoholic Goyal biofuels Arabinda Ghosh, Anil K. Analysis of structure and ligand Biologia 69 (10) 1271-1282 2014 Verma, Ana Sofi a Luis, binding of family 35 carbohydrate Joana L. A. Bras, Carlos M. binding module (CtCBM35) of G. A. Fontes, Arun Goyal Clostridium thermocellum

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Arabinda Ghosh, Anil K. Structure and functional investiga- Biochemistry 79 672-686 2014 Verma, SaurabhGautam, tion of ligand binding by a family (Moscow) Munishwar N. Gupta and 35 carbohydrate binding module Arun Goyal (CtCBM35) of β-mannanase of family 26 Glycoside Hydrolase from Clostridium thermocellum. Damini Kothari, Seema Therapeutic spectrum of non-di- Journal of 79 1491- 98 2014 Patel and Arun Goyal gestible oligosaccharides: Overview Food Science of current state and prospects. Jagan Mohan Rao T., Characterization and In vitro analy- International 68 686-691 2014 Damini Kothari, Rishikesh sis of dextran fromWeissellacibaria Journal Food Shukla and Arun Goyal JAG8 as food additive Science and Nutrition Jagan Mohan Rao Superior prebiotic and physi- Food and 5 2324-2330 2014 Tingirikari, Damini cochemical properties of novel dex- Function Kothari and Arun Goyal tran from Weissellacibaria JAG8 for potential food applications. Jagan Mohan Rao T. and Dextransucrase from Weissellaci- Current En- 10 (2) 143-149 2014 Arun Goyal bariaJAG8 inhibited by lysine and zyme Inhibi- cysteine specifi c inhibitors tion Arun Goyal, Shadab Crystallization and preliminary ActaCrystallo- F70 616-618 2014 Ahmed, Carlos M.G.A. X-ray crystallographic analysis of graphica F Fontesand Shabir a novel α-L-arabinofuranosidase Najmudin (CtGH43) from Clostridium thermo- cellum ATCC 27405. Ashutosh Gupta, Bioethanol production from hemi- Bioresource 165 205-213 2014 Saprativ P. Das, Arabinda cellulose rich Populusnigra involv- Technology Ghosh, Rajan Choudhary, ing recombinant hemicellulases Debasish Dasand Arun from Clostridium thermocellum. Goyal Swati Khanna, Anil Alcoholic biofuels production Waste and Bio- 5 789-798 2014 Kumar Shukla, Arun from biodiesel derived glycerol by mass Valoriza- Goyal and Vijayanand S. Clostridium pasteurianumwhole tion Moholkar cells immobilized on silica Deeplina Das and Arun Isolation, purifi cation and func- Annals of 64 (4) 1715-1724 2014 Goyal tional characterization of glucansu- Microbiology crase from probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum DM5. Deeplina Das and Arun Characterization of a noncyto- Food and 5 (10) 2453-2462 2014 Goyal toxicbacteriocin from probiotic Function Lactobacillus plantarum DM5 with potential as food preservative. Deeplina Das, A food additive with prebiotic International 69 20-26 2014 RwivooBaruah and Arun properties of a glucan from Lacto- Journal of Bio- Goyal bacillus plantarum DM5 logical Macro molecules

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Deeplina Das and Arun Potential probiotic attributes International 65 335-344 2014 Goyal and antagonistic activity of an Journal Food indegenous isolate Lactobacillus Science and plantarum DM5 from an ethnic Nutrition fermented beverage "Marcha” of North Eastern Himalayas. Saprativ P. Das, Ethanol production from water Environmental 33 (4) 1396-1404 2014 DeepmoniDeka, Rajeev hyacinth (Eichhorniacrassipes) by Progress & Ravindran, Shadab recombinant Clostridium thermo- Sustainable Ahmed, Arabinda cellum hydrolytic enzymes. Energy Ghosh, Debasish Das, Mohammad Jawed, Carlos M.G.A. Fontes and Arun Goyal Rishikesh Shukla and Purifi cation and characterization of Indian Journal 52 1036-1044 2014 Arun Goyal dextransucrase from Pediococcus- of Experimen- pentosaceus CRAG3 isolated from tal Biology fermented cucumber Gogoi P, Ganar K, Kumar Avian paramyxovirus: A brief review Trans bounda- - - 2015 S ry and Emerg- ing Diseases Kumar S Newcastle disease virus outbreaks Vaccine - - 2015 in India: Time to revisit the vaccine type and strategies Kumar R, Barman NN, Molecular characterization of E2 In Vitro Cellu- 2015 Khatoon E, Rajbongshi G, glycoprotein of classical swine fever lar & Develop- Deka N, Morla S, Kumar S virus: adaptation and propagation mental Biol- in porcine kidney cell ogy - Animal Gogoi P, Morla S, Kaore Complete genome sequence of a Genome An- 3 (1) 2015 M, Kurkure N, Kumar S Newcastle disease virus Isolate from nouncements an outbreak in Central India Kumar S DNA vaccine against infectious Veterinary 175 389-390 2015 bursal disease virus: still more to Microbiology explore Kumar CS, Kumar S Species based synonymous codon PLoS ONE 9 (12) e114754 2014 usage in fusion protein gene of Newcastle disease virus Barman NN, Bora DP, Classical Swine fever in wild hog: Transbounda- 2014 Khatoon E, Mandal S, report of its prevalence in North- ry and Emerg- Rakshit A, Rajbongshi G, east India ing Diseases Depner K, Chakraborty A, Kumar S Rani S, Gogoi P, Kumar S Spectrum of Newcastle disease Biologicals 42 351-354 2014 virus stability in gradients of tem- perature and pH Adam V, Crosariol M, AAV9-mediated airway expression Clinical Vac- 21 (11) 1528-1533 2014 Kumar S, Ge M, Czack of antibody protects old and immu- cine Immunol- S, Roy S, Haczku A, nodefi cient mice against infl uenza ogy Tretiakova A, Wilson JM, and Limberis M

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Paldurai A, Xiao S, Kim Naturally occurring six- and twelve- PLoS ONE 9 (8) e103951 2014 SH, Kumar S, Nayak nucleotide inserts do not aff ect B, Samal S, Collins PL, Newcastle disease virus replication Samal SK and pathogenesis Basavarajappa MK, A recombinant Newcastle disease Vaccine 32 (28) 3555-63 2014 Kumar S, Khattar SK, virus (NDV) expressing Infectious Gebreluul GT, Paldurai A, Laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) gD Samal SK surface protein protects against highly virulent ILTV and NDV chal- lenges in chickens Morla S, Tiwari AK, Joshi Complete genome sequence of a Genome An- 2(2) 2014 V, Kumar S Newcastle disease virus isolate from nouncements an outbreak from Northern part of India Ganar K, Das M, Sinha S, Newcastle disease virus: current Virus Res 184C 71-81 2014 Kumar S status and our understanding Shalini Singh, Shyamali Probing molecular mechanism of Antimicrobial 59(1) 15-24 2015 Sarma , Shashank P hypericin induced parasitic death: Agents and Katiyar , Mousumi Das, An insight into role of spermidine Chemotherapy Ruchika Bhardwaj , Durai beyond redox metabolism of Leish- Sundar Vikash Kumar mania. Dubey Mousumi Das, Ritesh Ornithine decarboxylase of Leish- Protein and 22(2) 130-136 2015 Kumar and Vikash Kumar mania donovani: Biochemical Peptide Let- Dubey properties and possible role of ters N-terminal extension. Prakash Saudagar and Carbon Nanotube Based Betulin Parasitology 63 772-776 2014 Vikash Kumar Dubey Formulation shows better effi cacy International against Leishmania parasite . Prakash Saudagar, In vivo assessment of antileishma- Letters in Drug 11 937-939 2014 Shyam Lal Mudavath, nial property of 4-(4,4,8-Trimethyl-7 Design and Pipas Saha, Anil K. Saikia, oxo-3-oxabicyclo[3.3.1]non-2- Discovery Shyam Sundar and yl)-benzoic acid methyl ester, an Vikash Kumar Dubey oxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanones. Saudagar Prakash and Molecular Mechanisms of In vitro American 90 354-360 2014 Vikash Kumar Dubey Betulin Induced Apoptosis of Leish- Journal of mania donovani Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Vidhyadhar N, Sushant Procerain B, a cysteine protease Protein Ex- 103C 16-22. 2014 Singh, Abhay N Singh, from Calotropis Procera, requires pression and Vikash Kumar Dubey N-terminus pro-region for activity: Purifi cation cDNA cloning and expression with pro-sequence. S Ghosh, L Rangan Inhibition kinetics and molecular Medicinal 23 (11) 4836-4852 2014 docking of α-amylase against isolat- Chemistry ed labdane diterpenes from Alpinia Research nigraanalysis and hierarchical clus- tering. Meta Gene (Accepted)

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. S Basak, AM Ramesh, V Molecular phylogeny of Hedychium Meta Gene 2 459-468 2014 Kesari, S Mitra, A Parida, from Northeast India as dissected L Rangan using PCA analysis and hierarchical clustering JN Vaughn, SR Chaluvadi, Whole plastome sequences from PloS ONE 9 (10) 2014 Tushar L Rangan, JL fi ve major zingiberaceae members Bennetzen facilitate marker development and defi ne limits to barcode methodol- ogy. S Ghosh, L Rangan Molecular docking and inhibition Applied DOI: 10.1007/s12010-014- 2014 kinetics of α-glucosidase activity by Biochemistry 1366-4 labdane diterpenes isolated from Biotechnology Tora seeds (Alpinia nigra B.L. Burtt.) Satish C, Srikanth K, Arun Statistical optimization of cassava Biochemical doi:10.1016/j. 2015 EVR and Senthilkumar S fi brous waste hydrolysis by re- Engineering bej.2015.02.006 sponse surface methodology and Journal use of hydrolysate based media for the production of optically pure d-lactic acid Gaurav Jerath, Prakash bPE toolkit: toolkit for computa- Systems and 8 337–341 2014 Kishore Hazam and Vibin tional protein engineering Synthetic Biol- Ramakrishnan. ogy. A. Mehra, Gaurav Jerath, Characterization of ICAM-1 bio- Journal of 57 27–35 2015 Vibin Ramakrishnan, phore to design cytoadherence Molecular Vishal Trivedi. blocking peptides. Graphics & Modelling Samanta, S., Goswami, S., A new fl uorogenic probe for solu- Sensors and 194 120-126 2014 Ramesh, A. and Das, G. tion and intra-cellular sensing of Actuators B trivalent cations in model human cells Kar, C, Samanta, S., A simple and effi cient fl uorophoric New Journal of 38, 6 2660-2669 2014 Mukherjee, S., Datta, B. probe for dual sensing of Fe3+ and Chemistry K., Ramesh, A. and Das, F-: Application to bioimaging in na- G. tive cellular iron pool and live cell. Thiyagarajan, D., A prospective antibacterial for Chemical 50, 56 7434-7436 2014 Goswami, S., Kar, C., Das, drug-resistant pathogens: A dual Communica- G. and Ramesh, A. warhead amphiphile designed to tions track interactions and kill patho- genic bacteria by membrane dam- age and cellular DNA cleavage. Datta, B. K., Thiyagarajan, A novel chemosensor with visible Organic & 12, 27 4975-4982 2014 D., Kar, C., Ramesh, A. light excitability for sensing Zn2+ in Biomolecular and Das, G. physiological medium and in HeLa Chemistry cells. Uday, P. S., Thiyagarajan, Amphiphile-mediated enhanced Journal of Ma- 2, 35 5818-5827 2014 D., Goswami, S., Adhikari, antibiotic effi cacy and develop- terials Chemis- M. D., Das, G. and ment of a payload nanocarrier try B Ramesh, A. for eff ective killing of pathogenic bacteria.

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Goswami, S., Biocompatible nanocarrier fortifi ed ACS Applied 6, 18 16384- 2014 Thiyagarajan, D., Das, G. with a dipyridinium-based am- Materials & 16394 and Ramesh, A. phiphile for eradication of biofi lm. Interfaces Samanta, S., Goswami, S., An aggregation-induced emission Chemical 50, 80 11833- 2014 Hoque, M. N., Ramesh, A. (AIE) active probe renders Al(III) Communica- 11836 and Das, G. sensing and tracking of subsequent tions interaction with DNA. Kar, C., Samanta, S., A single probe to sense Al(III) colori- Dalton Trans- 44, 9 4123-4132 2014 Goswami, S., Ramesh, A. metrically and Cd(II) by turn-on actions and Das, G. fl uorescence in physiological condi- tions and live cells, corroborated by X-ray crystallographic and theoreti- cal studies. Sadhukhan A, Kobayashi VuDREB2A, a novel DREB2-type Planta 240 (3) 645-664 2014 Y, Kobayashi Y, Tokizawa transcription factor in the drought- M, Yamamoto YY, Iuchi tolerant legume cowpea mediates S, Koyama H, Panda SK, DRE-dependent expression of Sahoo L stress-responsive genes and con- fers enhanced drought resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis Mishra S, Behura R, Ectopic overexpression of a mung- Molecular 34 (3) 1345-1359 2014 Awasthi JP, Dey M, Sahoo bean vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter Breeding D, Bhowmik SSD, Panda gene (VrNHX1) leads to increased SK, Sahoo L salinity stress tolerance in transgen- ic Vigna unguiculata L. Walp Mishra S, Alavilli H, Lee Cloning and functional charac- Plos One 9 (10) 41640 2014 B-ha, Panda SK, Sahoo L terization of a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter gene from mungbean (VrNHX1) and its ectopic expression enhanced salt tolerance in Arabi- dopsis thaliana Sadhukhan A, Panda SK, VuDRIP, a putative cowpea RING E3 Plant Physi- 83 51-56 2014 Sahoo L ubiquitin ligase interacts with tran- ology and scription factor VuDREB2A in yeast Biochemistry Mishra S, Alavilli H, Lee Cloning and characterization of a Plant Cell 120 (1) 19-33 2014 B-ha, Panda SK, Sahoo L novel vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter Tissue Organ gene (VuNHX1) from drought hardy Culture legume, cowpea for salt tolerance Mishra S, Panda SK, Transgenic asiatic grain legumes Review in 2 21-36 2014 Sahoo L for salt tolerance and functional Agricultural genomics Science Nath S, Panda P, Mishra Arsenic stress in rice: Redox conse- Plant Physi- 80 203-210 2014 S, Dey M, Choudhury S, quences and regulation by Iron ology and Sahoo L, Panda SK Biochemistry Digar Singh and Production, HPLC analysis and in Biotechnology 30 (5) 1196-2205 2014 Gurvinder Kaur situ apoptotic activities of swain- Progress sonine toward lepidopteran, Sf-21 cell line,

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Digar Singh and The anitleukemic cell cycle regula- Natural Prod- 28 (22) 2044-2047 2014 Gurvinder Kaur tory activities of swainsonine puri- uct Research fi ed from Metarhizium anisopliae fermentation broth. Digar Singh and Swainsonine, a novel fungal me- Bioprocess 37 (8) 1599-1607 2014 Gurvinder Kaur tabolite: optimization of fermen- and Biosys- tative production and bioreactor tems Engi- operations using evolutionary neering programming Yuldasheva NY, Rashid Haploinsuffi ciency of the insulin- Arteriosclero- 34(9) 2051-8 2014 ST, Haywood NJ, like growth factor-1 receptor sis, Thrombo- Cordell P, Mughal R, enhances endothelial repair and sis, and Vascu- Viswambharan H, Imrie favorably modifi es angiogenic lar Biology H, Sukumar P et al. progenitor cell phenotype. Cubbon RM, Yuldasheva Restoring Akt1 activity in out- Stem Cells 32(10) 2714-23 2014 NY, Viswambharan H, growth endothelial cells from Baliga V, Stephen SL, South Asian men rescues vascular Askham J, Sukumar P, reparative potential. et al. Barman, A., and Tamuli. Multiple cellular roles of Neu- Journal of DOI 10.1007/s12275-015- 2015 R. rospora crassa plc-1, splA2, and Microbiology 4465-1 cpe-1 in regulation of cytosolic free calcium, carotenoid accumulation, stress responses, and acquisition of thermotolerance. Loying P, Manhas J, Sen Autoregulation and Heterogeneity PLoS ONE 10(2) 2015 S, Bose B. in Expression of Human Cripto-1 Ghoshal A and Ghosh SS Purifi cation, and Therapeutic Applied Bio- 175, 4 2087 - 2015 Implications of Recombinant sFRP1 chemistry and 2103 Expression Biotechnology Chaubey N and Ghosh SS Overexpression of Granulocyte Applied Bio- 175, 4 1948-1959 2015 Macrophage Colony Stimulating chemistry and Factor in Breast Cancer Cells Leads Biotechnology Towards Drug Sensitization Ghosh R, Goswami U, Synergistic Anticancer Activity of ACS Applied 1, 7 (1) 209-22 2015 Ghosh SS, Paul A and Fluorescent Copper Nanoclusters Materials and Chattopadhyay A and Cisplatin Delivered through a Interfaces Hydrogel Nanocarrier Mallick S, Sanpui Synthesis, characterization and RSC Advances 12268 - 12276 12268- 2015 P, Ghosh SS, enhanced bactericidal action of a 12276 Chattopadhyay A, Paul A chitosan supported core–shell cop- per–silver nanoparticle composite Banerjee S, Sahoo AK, Chemosensitization of IκBα over- RSC Advances 4 39257- 2014 Chattopadhyay A, Ghosh expressing glioblastoma towards 39267 S.S. anti-cancer agents, Chockalingam S and Macrophage Colony Stimulating Tumor Biology 35 (11) 10635-44 2014 Ghosh SS Factor and Cancer Banerjee S, Sahoo AK, Recombinant IκBα-loaded curcu- Nanotechnol- 29; 25 (34) 2014 Chattopadhyay A, Ghosh min nanoparticles for improved ogy S.S cancer therapeutics

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Sailapu S K, Sahoo Hierarchical Logic Structures Based Small 29; 10 (20) 4067-71 2014 AK, Ghosh S.S and on Responsive Fluorescent Gold Chattopadhyay A Nanoclusters, Khandelia R, Jaiswal Polymer coated Gold Nanoparticle- J. Mater. 2 (38) 6472 – 2014 A, Ghosh S.S and Protein Agglomerates as Nanocarri- Chem. B 6477 Chattopadhyay A ers for Hydrophobic Drug Delivery Majumdar S, Sarmah Characterization, mechanism of an- Biochimie 103 50-60 2014 B, Gogoi D, Banerjee ticoagulant action, and assessment S, Ghosh S.S, of therapeutic potential of a fi brino- Chattopadhyay P, AK lytic serine protease (Brevithrom- Mukherjee AK bolase) purifi ed from Brevibacillus brevis strain FF02B, N. Bhardwaj, D. Devi, Tissue-engineered cartilage: the Macromolecu- 15 153-182 2015 Biman B Mandal crossroads of biomaterials, cells and lar Bioscience stimulating factors N. Bhardwaj, W. T. Sow, D. Silk fi broin-keratin based 3D scaf- Integrative 7 53-63 2015 Devi, K. W. Ng, Biman B. folds as a dermal substitute for skin Biology Mandal , Nam-Joon Cho . repair and regeneration S. K. Nandi, B. Kundu, In Vitro and in vivo evaluation of Integrative 7 250-262 2015 A. Mahato, N. L. Thakur, natural marine sponge skeleton as Biology S. Joardar, Biman B. a bone mimicking biomaterial Mandal. N. Dash, A. Malakar, M. Metal ion dependent “ON” in- Sensors and 202 1154-1163 2014 Kumar, Biman B. Mandal tramolecular charge transfer (ICT) Actuators B: and G. Krishnamoorthy. and “OFF” normal switching of the Chemical fl uorescence: Sensing of ZN2+ by ICT emission in living cells S. Yodmuang, S.L. Silk microfi ber-reinforced silk Acta Biomate- 11 27-36 2015 McNamara, A. B. Nover, hydrogel composite for functional rialia Biman B. Mandal, M. cartilage tissue repair Agarwal, T. N. Kelly, P. G. Chao, C. Hung, D. L. Kaplan, G. V. Novakovic. Abshar Hasan and Lalit REVIEW: Polymers, Surface Modi- Polymer-Plas- DOI: 10. 1080/03 602559. 2015 Pandey fi ed Polymers and Self Assembled tics Technol- 2015.1021488 Monolayers as Surface Modifying ogy and Agents for Biomaterials Engineering Aditya Iyer, Anil Chandra Hydrolytic enzymes conjugated to Biochimica 1840 2935– 2014 and R. Swaminathan quantum dots mostly retain whole Biophysica 2943 catalytic activity. Acta: General Subjects A. K. Thokchom, R. Fluid Flow and Particle Dynam- Langmuir 30 12144- 2014 Swaminathan and A. ics Inside an Evaporating Droplet 12153 Singh Containing Live Bacteria Displaying Chemotaxis. S. Goswami, M.B. Syiem Cadmium removal by Anabaena Environmental 20 41-50 2015 and K. Pakshirajan doliolum Ind1 isolated from a coal Engineering mining area in Meghalaya, India: as- Research sociated structural and physiologi- cal alterations

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. A.S. Roy, N.A. Heavy metal removal from multi- Applied Bio- 175 3863-74 2015 Manikandan, J. Hazarika, component system by the cyano- chemistry and K. Pakshirajan and M.B. bacterium Nostoc muscorum: Biotechnology Syiem kinetics and interaction study S. Goswami, O. Zn(II) and Cu(II) removal by Nos- Canadian Jour- 61 209-215 2015 Diengdoh, M.B. Syiem, toc muscorum: a cyanobacterium nal of Microbi- K. Pakshirajan and M.G. isolated from a coal mining pit in ology Kiran Chiehruphi, Meghalaya, India N.A. Manikandan, K. Cu(II) removal by biosorption using International 7(1) 80-92 2014 Pakshirajan and M.B. chemically modifi ed biomass of Journal of Syiem Nostoc muscorum – a cyanobac- ChemTech terium isolated from a coal mining Research site V. Sinha, K. Pakshirajan Chromium (VI) accumulation and Applied Bio- 173 2297– 2014 and R. Chaturvedi tolerance by Tradescantia pallida: chemistry and 2306. Biochemical and antioxidant study Biotechnology N.K. Sahoo, K. Evaluation of 4-bromophenol Biodegrada- 25 705-718 2014 Pakshirajan and P.K. biodegradation in mixed pollutants tion Ghosh system by Arthrobacter chloroph- enolicus A6 in an upflow packed bed reactor K. Pakshirajan, E.R. Rene Biotechnology in environmental BioMed 2014 235472 2014 and A. Ramesh monitoring and pollution abate- Research Inter- ment national Thomas D, Govindhan Cyperus Rotundus L. Prevents Non- Journal of Ba- --- S, Baiju EC, Padmavathi Steroidal Anti-Infl ammatory Drug- sic and Clinical G, Kunnumakkara AB, Induced Gastric Mucosal Damage Physiology Padikkala J. by Inhibiting Oxidative Stress. and Pharma- cology Roy M, Kunnumakkara Repair Activity Impaired by Arsenic: International --- AB, Mukherjee A, Sarkar Recovery by Phytochemicals. Journal of R, Mukherjee S and Current Biswas J Microbiology and Applied Sciences Cherran E, Recent Discoveries And Develop- Medicinal --- Kunnumakkara AB, ments of Androgen Receptor Based Chemistry Kotoky J. Therapy for Prostate Cancer. Communica- tions Khwairakpam AD, ATP Citrate Lyase (ACLY): A Promis- Current Drug 16 (2) 156-63 2015 Shyamananda MS, Sailo ing Target for Cancer Prevention Targets BL, Rathnakaram SR, and Treatment Padmavathi G,Kotoky J, Kunnumakkara AB Monisha J, Padmavathi Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Journal of Cell 1 (2) 106 2014 G, Bordoloi D, Roy NK, Lipocalin (NGAL): A Promising Science and Kunnumakkara AB. Biomarker for Cancer Diagnosis Molecular Biol- and A Potential Target for Cancer ogy Therapeutics

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Somasekhar R. Alcohol oxidase protein mediated Biosensors 69, 15 155–161 2014 Chinnadayyala, Mallesh in-situ synthesized and stabilized and Bioelec- Santhosh, Naveen K. gold nanoparticles for developing tronics Singh, Pranab Goswami amperometric alcohol biosensor Seraj Ahmad and Pranab Application of chitosan beads im- Process Bio- 49, 12 2149– 2014 Goswami mobilized Rhodococcus sp. NCIM chemistry 2157 2891 cholesterol oxidase for choles- tenone production Mallesh Santhosh, Selective and sensitive detection of Biosensors 59 370–376 2014 Somasekhar R. free bilirubin in blood serum using and Bioelec- Chinnadayyala, Ankana human serum albumin stabilized tronics Kakoti, Pranab Goswami gold nanoclusters as fl uorometric and colorimetric probe Mitun Chakraborty, Molecular characterization and ex- PLOS ONE 9, 4 43466 Manish Goel, pression of a novel alcohol oxidase Somasekhar R. from Aspergillus terreus MTCC6324, Chinnadayyala, Ujjwal Ranjan Dahiya, Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh ,and Pranab Goswami Madhuri Das, Lepakshi Biofuel cell for generating power Biosensors 59, 15 184–191 2014 Barbora, Priyanki Das, from methanol substrate using and Bioelec- Pranab Goswami alcohol oxidase bioanode and air- tronics breathed laccase biocathode Somasekhar R. A novel amperometric alcohol Biosensors 55, 15 120–126 2014 Chinnadayyala, biosensor developed in a 3rd and Bioelec- Ankana Kakoti, Mallesh generation bioelectrode platform tronics Santhosh, Pranab using peroxidase coupled ferrocene Goswami activated alcohol oxidase as biorec- ognition system Priyamvada Jain, Babina Potential biomarkers and their BioMed 2014 43831 2014 Chakma (equal 1st applications for rapid and reliable Research Inter- author contribution), detection of malaria. national Sanjukta Patra, and Pranab Goswami A Ghosh, P Goswami, P Eff ect of carbon fi ber length and Journal of 18(12) 3427-3436 2014 Mahanta, A Verma, graphene on Solid State Electrochem- istry Dixcy Jaba Sheeba J. M., Estrogen regulated extracellular Oncology Let- - -- 2015 Mohan, C.M., Marine matrix remodeling genes in MCF-7 ters Hussain, Gauri Deb, breast cancer cells. Neeraj Kumar and Anil M Limaye Mohan C Manjegowda, Epigallocatechin gallate induces Indian Journal 52 (4) 312-6 2014 Gauri Deb and Anil M the steady state mRNA levels of of Experimen- Limaye pS2 and PR genes in MCF-7 breast tal Biology cancer cells.

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Name of Vol. and Issue Name of Author Title of Paper Page No. Year Journal No. Gauri Deb, V S Thakur, Epigenetic induction of tissue Molecular Car- doi: 10.1002/mc.22121 2014 Anil M Limaye and inhibitor of matrix metalloprotein- cinogenesis Sanjay Gupta ase-3 by green tea polyphenols in breast cancer cells. Kumar P, Kumari RR, Current practices and research up- Veterinary 7 (11) 952-959 2014 Kumar M, Kumar S, dates on diabetes mellitus in canine World Chakrabarti A Anil Kumar, Dr.Utpal Bora Molecular docking studies of Interdiscipli- 6 285-291 2014 curcumin natural derivatives with nary Sciences: DNA topoisomerase I and II-DNA Computation- complexes. al Life Sciences Arghya Sett, Suradip Das, Functional Nucleic-Acid-Based Sen- Applied Bio- 174 (3) 1073-1091 2014 Dr.Utpal Bora, sors for Environmental Monitoring. chemistry and Applied Biochemistry and Biotech- Biotechnology nology Sinha V., Pakshirajan K. Chromium(IV) accumulation and Appl Biochem 173 2297-2306 2014 and Chaturvedi Rakhi tolerance by Tradescantiapallida: Biotechnol Biochemical and Antioxidant Study Deshmukh R, Trivedi V Phagocytic uptake of oxidized PLoS One. doi: 10.1371/journal. 2014 heme polymer is highly cytotoxic to pone.0103706 macrophages. Vikram Kumara, High cell density lipid rich cultiva- Bioresource 170 115–124 2014 Muthusivaramapandian tion of a novel microalgal isolate- Technology Muthurajb, Basavaraj Chlorella sorokiniana FC6 IITG in a Palabhanvib, Aloke single-stage fed-batch mode under Kumar Ghoshala, mixotrophic condition Debasish Das Saravanan P, Dubey VK, Emulating structural stability of J Mol Model 20 (11) 2014 Patra S. Pseudomonas mendocina lipase: in silico mutagenesis and molecular dynamics studies Singh N, Patra S Phosphodiesterase 9: insights Life Sci 106 (1-2) 2014 from protein structure and role in therapeutic Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Siddharth Nimkar, Characterizing the role of Cas3 helicase International conference on “Proteomics - Anand B domain in CRISPR-Cas interference from Discovery to Function” at IIT Bom- bay Himanshu Sharma, Structural basis for K+ dependent International conference on “Proteomics - Anand B hydrolysis and domain crosstalk in a from Discovery to Function” at IIT Bom- highly conserved GTPase Era bay Yoganand K.N.R, Molecular characterization of CRISPR International conference on “Proteomics Anand B adaptation in Thermotoga maritima from Discovery to Function” at IIT Bom- MSB8 bay Ankita Punetha, Features of the constituents of the Indo-US conference and workshop on Anand B Cascade-like complex in CRISPR-Cas “Recent Advances in Structural Biology type I-C system & Drug Discovery” at IIT Roorkee

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Ashutosh Gupta, Improved bioethanol production from Frontier Energy Research with Industry March 20- Debasish Das and mixed pretreated leafy biomass of bam- Academia Partnership (FERIAP,2015) 21, 2015 Arun Goyal boo (Bambusadendrocalamus) involv- ing saccharifi cation by recombinant enzymes from Clostridium thermocel- lum Ashutosh Gupta, Bioethanol production from leafy Symposium on Management and Pro- Feb. Debasish Dasand biomass of Saracaindicaby involving re- curement of Integrated Waste Manage- 6-7,2015 Arun Goyal combinant Clostridium thermocellum- ment System cellulase and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Shuchi Singh, Bioethanol production from Partheni- 4th Annual International Conference on Feb Arun Goyal and umhysterophorus (carrot grass): Ultra- Sustainable Energy and Environmental 9-10,2015 Vijayanand S. sound enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis Sciences (SEES-2015) Moholkar and fermentation. Ashutosh Gupta, Lignocellulosic leafy biomass from- 102nd Indian National Science Congress Jan 3-7, Debasish Dasand Saracaindica as a potential feedstock 2015 Arun Goyal for bioethanol productioninvolving recombinant enzymes from Clostridium thermocellum Ashutosh Gupta, Bioethanol productionfrom Copra 29th ACCTI Carbohydrate Conference December Arabinda Ghosh, meal involving recombinant β-(1ĺ4)- (CARBO-XXIX) on ChemBio Innovations 29-31, Debasish Dasand Mannanase from Clostridium thermo- for Bioproducts, 2014, Arun Goyal cellum. Damini Kothari and Isomalto-oligosaccharides from Leu- Recent Advances in Cancer Biology and Dec. Arun Goyal conostocmesenteroides NRRL B-1426 Therapeutics 5,2014 dextransucrase with functional food additive and colon cancer cells inhibit- ing activities. Aruna Rani and Arun Role of glycosaminoglycans in cancer Recent Advances in Cancer Biology and Dec. Goyal biology Therapeutics 5,2014 Arabinda Ghosh and Oligosaccharides as potential candidate Recent Advances in Cancer Biology and Dec. Arun Goyal in colon cancer therapy Therapeutics 5,2014 ManojGadewar, Novel herbal drug delivery system. International Biennial Conference on Nov. 20- Arun Goyal, Uptal New Developments in Drug Delivery 22,2014 Bora from Natural Products and Traditional Medicines VikkyRajulapati, Cloning and expression of novel ther- 55th Annual International Conference Nov. 12- VaniaFernandes, mostable multi-substrate specifi c family of AMI and National Conference on 14, 2014 Arabinda Ghosh, 81 glycoside hydrolase (GH81) from Empowering Mankind with Microbial Carlos M.G.A. Fontes, Clostridium thermocellum ATCC 27405 Technologies (AMI-EMMT-2014), Arun Goyal Shuchi Singh, Ultrasound-enhanced bioethanol pro- Indo-US Conference on Advanced Lig- Nov. 10- Shyamali Sharma, duction from Partheniumhysterophorus nocellulosic Biofuels, 11, 2014 Arun Goyal, (carrot grass) by simultaneous sacchari- Vijayanand S. fi cation and fermentation Moholkar V.S. Moholkar, Arun Ultrasound enhanced glycerol biocon- International Conference on Emerging Nov. 6-9, Goyal and Swati version: mechanistic investigations. Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) 2014 Khanna and XI Biotech Research Society India (BRSI) Convention

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Shuchi Singh, Ultrasound-assisted intensifi cation of International Conference on Emerging Nov. 6-9, Vijayanand S. bioethanol production from Partheni- Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) 2014 Moholkar and Arun umhysterophorus. and XI Biotech Research Society India Goyal (BRSI) Convention Anil Kumar Verma, Structure and functional analyses International Conference on Emerging Nov. 6-9, Arun Goyal, Filipe of recombinant glucuronoxylan- Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) 2014 Freire, Joyeeta xylanohydrolase(CtXynGH30), its trun- and XI Biotech Research Society India Mukherjee, cated derivative Xyn30A and associated (BRSI) Convention Munishwar N. family 6 carbohydrate binding module Gupta, Carlos M.G.A. CtCBM6 from Clostridium thermocel- Fontes and Shabir lum. Najmudin Arun Dhillon and Biochemical characterization of re- International Conference on Emerging Nov. 6-9, Arun Goyal combinant rhamnogalacturonanlyase Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) 2014 (CtRGL), a family 11 Polysaccharide and XI Biotech Research Society India Lyase (PL11) from Clostridium thermo- (BRSI) Convention cellum Damini Kothari and Synthesis, purifi cation and cytotoxicity International Conference on Emerging Nov. 6-9, Arun Goyal of prebiotic gentiobio-oligosaccharide Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) 2014 from Leuconostocmesenteroides NRRL and XI Biotech Research Society India B-1426 dextransucrase (BRSI) Convention Ashutosh Gupta, Improved recombinant enzymatic sac- International Conference on Emerging Nov. 6-9, Rajan Choudhary, charifi cation from sugarcane bagasse Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) 2014 Debasish Das and in the second generation bioethanol and XI Biotech Research Society India Arun Goyal production technology (BRSI) Convention Aruna Rani and Arun Deciphering the mode of action and ki- International Conference on Emerging Nov. 6-9, Goyal netic parameters of chondroitin lyase of Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) 2014 family 8 polysaccharide lyase (PsPL8a) and XI Biotech Research Society India from Pedobacter saltans DSM 12145 (BRSI) Convention Arabinda Ghosh and Synthesis and purifi cation of manno- International Conference on Biotechnol- Oct 28-29, Arun Goyal oligosaccharides from coprameal by ogy and Bioengineering (ICBB-2014) 2014 recombinant endo-β-mannanase and their prebiotic and anticancer proper- ties Kedar Sharma and In silico structure prediction of a family Indo-US Conference and Workshop on Oct 9-11, Arun Goyal 10 glycoside hydrolase from Pedobacter recent Advances in Structural Biology & 2014 saltans DSM12145 Drug Discovery Shuchi Singh, Bioethanol production by pretreatment, International Conference on Energy June 21- Vijayanand S. hydrolysis and fermentation of Parthe- Technology, Power Engineering and 22,2014 Moholkar and Arun niumhysterophorus Environmental Sustainability Goyal Arun Rani and Arun Eff ect of metal ions on activity of re- 10th European Symposium on Bio- Sep 7-10, Goyal combinant Chondroitin lyase (PsPL8a) chemical Engineering Sciences and 6th 2014 from Pedobacter saltans DSM12145 International Conference on Industrial bioprocesses Deeplina Das and Lactobacillus plantarumDM5 ascell fac- 10th European Symposium on Bio- Sep. 7-10, Arun Goyal tory for nutraceuticals production chemical Engineering Sciences and 6th 2014 International Conference on Industrial bioprocesses

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia ImmacolataVenditto, Discovering novel CBMs families in Ru- 5th International Conference on Plant Jul, 27-31, VâniaFernandes, Maja minococcusfl avefacienscellulosome Cell Wall Biology (PCWB2014), 2014 GroRydahl, Arun Goyal, Maria S.J. Centeno, LuísM.A. Ferreira, ShabirNajmudin, William G.T. Willats, Harry J. Gilbert and Carlos M.G.A. Fontes ImmacolataVenditto, Structure and mechanism of the endo- 5th International Conference on Plant Jul, 27-31, Ana Sofi a Luis, β-1,4-gluconase B (CelB) from Bacillus Cell Wall Biology (PCWB2014) 2014 Arun Goyal A, halodurans Luis M.A. Ferreira, ShabirNajmudin, Harry J. Gilbert and Carlos M.G.A. Fontes Shuchi Singh, Bioethanol production by pretreatment, International Conference on Energy Jun. 21-22, Vijayanand S. hydrolysis and fermentation of Parthe- Technology, Power Engineering & Envi- 2014 Moholkar and Arun niumhysterophorus. ronmental Sustainability (ETPEES) Goyal Shuchi Singh, Delignifi cation of Partheniumhys- National Seminar on Emerging Bio- May 9-10, S.T.P. Bharadwaja, terophorus by ultrasound assisted alkali inputs in Biotechnology for a Green 2014 Vijayanand S. treatment for enzymatic hydrolysis Environment. Moholkar and Arun Goyal Ashutosh Gupta, Identifi cation of eff ective pretreatment National Seminar on Emerging Bio- May 9-10, Saprativ P. Das, along with improved saccharifi cation inputs in Biotechnology for a Green 2014 Debasish Das and by mixed recombinant Clostridium Environment Arun Goyal thermocellum hydrolytic enzymes for bioethanol production from water hyacinth. Arabinda Ghosh and Novel thermostable recombinant endo- National Seminar on Metabolomics−A May 23-24, Arun Goyal β-mannanase of Clostridium thermo- New Frontier In Natural Products Re- 2014 cellum for manno-oilgosaccharides search production. ImmacolataVenditto, Structural and functional characteriza- 3rd Meeting of Synchrotron Radiation April 8, VâniaFernandes, Maja tion of novel Carbohydrate Binding Users from Portugal (ENURS, Encontro 2014 GroRydahl, Arun Goyal, Module families in Ruminococcusfl ave- Nacional de Utilizadores de Radiação Maria S.J. Centeno, facienscellulosome. de Portugal) and European Synchrotron Luís M.A. Ferreira, Radiation Facility (ESRF) Harry J. Gilbert, William G.T. Willats, Carlos M.G.A. Fontes and ShabirNajmudin ImmacolataVenditto, Structure and characterization of the 3rd Meeting of Synchrotron Radiation April 8, Helena Santos, Arun family 46 carbohydrate-binding module Users from Portugal (ENURS, Encontro 2014 Goyal, Luís Ferreira, (CBM46) of the endo-β-1,4-glucanase B Nacional de Utilizadores de Radiação Kazuo Sakka, Harry (CelB) from Bacillus halodurans. de Portugal) and European Synchrotron Gilbert, Carlos Radiation Facility (ESRF) M.G.A. Fontes and ShabirNajmudin

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Saprativ P. Das, Lignocellulosicwater hyacinth (Eich- Annual Symposium on Solid Waste April 6, Ashutosh Gupta, horniacrassipes) as waste for bioethanol management (Recyle 2014) 2014 Debasish Dasand production Arun Goyal Ganar K and Kumar Cloning and expression of nucleocapsid The international conference on host- 12-15th S protein gene of Newcastle disease virus pathogen interaction, Hyderabad, India July 2014 Das M and Kumar S Molecular characterization of Newcastle Indian Virological Society-XXIII National 18-20th disease virus isolated from Northeast conference on “Recent trend in Virology Dec, 2014 India Research in Omics Era” Kumar U and Kumar Genotypic and pathotypic characteriza- Indian Virological Society-XXIII National 18-20th S tion of virulent Newcastle disease virus conference on “Recent trend in Virology Dec, 2014 isolated from Eastern part of India Research in Omics Era” Kumar R and Kumar Molecular characterization of classical Indian Virological Society-XXIII National 18-20th S swine fever virus following its adapta- conference on “Recent trend in Virology Dec, 2014 tion in porcine kidney cells Research in Omics Era” R Shelke, R Das, L Evolution and distribution of LTR- Second International Conference on 6-8 Feb Rangan retrotransposons in Pongamia and its Biotechnology and Bioinformatics” 2015 Pune correlation with genome size (ICBB-2015) A Singh, A Khare, A Characterization of bioactive karan- International Conference on "Medicinal 28-31 N Panda, L Rangan jin from seeds of Karanj (Best Poster Plants and Herbal Drugs for Human” Jan 2015 Award) Chennai Chennai D Yadav, L Barbora, T Small Scale Anaerobic Digesters: A case Bioenergy: An Engine for Economic 28 Janu- Rado, R Blanchard, L study in UK and India Growth in the Global South? UK Energy ary 2015, Rangan, P Mahanta. Research Centre and Department of Welcome Energy & Climate Change Trust, Lon- don, UK. D Yadav, A Thermochemical and organic pretreat- International Conference on Emerg- 6-9 Nov Choudhary, D Bora, ment of local lignocellulosic bioresourc- ing Trends in Biotechnology, XI BRSI 2014 L Barbora, L Rangan, es for energy production. Convnetion P Mahanta I Jahan, A Singh, A Isolation and structure elucidation of 4th, International Science Congress, 8- 9 Dec Khare, AK Panda, L karanjin from seeds of Pongamia pin- India 2014, Rangan nata. Udaipur R Das, G Juerges, P Genome size of four biofuel crops 4th International Science Congress, 8- 9 Dec Nick, L Rangan India, 2014, Udaipur S Ghosh, L Rangan Unveiling the eff ect of plant derived 55th Annual American Society of Phar- 2 - 6 Au- labdane diterpenes as promising bacte- macognosy meeting gust, 2014 ricidal and anticancer agents. Oxford, Missis- sippi, USA Satish Cingadi, Statistical optimization of cassava International conference on emerging November Srikanth Katla, fi brous waste hydrolysis by response trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014), 6-9, 2014 Senthilkumar surface methodology and use of hydro- New Delhi, India Sivaprakasam lysate based media for the production of optically pure D-Lactic acid.

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Naresh Mohan, Optimized production of ultra-low mo- International conference on emerging November Rengesh lecular weight hyaluronic acid produc- trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014), 6-9, 2014 Balakrishnan, tion by S.thermophilus employing dairy New Delhi, India Senthilkumar industrial waste supplement Sivaprakasam Arun E.V.R, Kinetic modelling of D-lactic acid pro- 2nd Symposium in Advances in Sustain- January 21 Katla Srikanth, duction from cassava fi brous waste by able Polymers, IIT Guwahati – 22, 2015 Adityabarna Pal, homo-fermentative lactic acid bacteria Senthilkumar Sivaprakasam Subbi Rami Reddy Statistical optimization of D-lactic acid Bioprocessing India 2014 December Tadi, Srikanth Katla, production in palmyra jaggery based 17 – 20, Anil M Limaye, fermentation media 2014 Senthilkumar Sivaprakasam. Kumar S, Alam S, Induced overexpression of Arabidopsis Vth Scientifi c Workshop entitled 18th-20th Sahoo DP, Mishra S, NHX1 improves salinity stress tolerance “Biotechnology Research in North East Septem- Dey M, Panda SK,, in mungbean India: Present & Future” organized by ber 2014 Sahoo L the DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat Saha B, Awasthi JP, Constitutive overexpression of Arabi- Vth Scientifi c Workshop entitled 18th-20th Dey M, Mishra S, dopsis LEA protein, AtLEA4-1 confers “Biotechnology Research in North East Septem- Panda SK, Sahoo L drought tolerance in transgenic mus- India: Present & Future” organized by ber 2014 tard the DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat Barik CR, Goud VV, Qualitative phytochemical investigation New Frontier in Chemical Engineering & 27th-30th Sahoo L and characterization of Seabuckthorn Science, Chemcon-2014, Punjab Univer- December (Hippophae salicifolia D. Don) plant sity, Chandigarh 2014 leaves from Northeastern India Barik CR, Deshavath Morphometric, Pharmacognostical and Asian Plant Science Conference, Bhaira- 1st-3rd NN, Goud VV, Sahoo Physicochemical Characterization of Sea hawa, Nepal November L Buckthorn (HippophaesalicifoliaD.Don): 2014 The Himalayan Wonder Plant Barik CR, Sahoo L, Identifi cation of Some Potential Energy Frontier Energy Research with Indus- 20th-21st Goud VV Plants from North East India for Biomass try Academia Partnership Workshop, March Energy Production: an Agro-taxonomic FERIAP-2015, Centre for Energy, IIT 2015 Approach Guwahati, Guwahati Maravi DK, Goud VV, Enhanced triacylglycerol (TAG) accu- National Conference on "Biotechnology 21st-22nd Sahoo L mulation synthesis in Jatropha curcas and Human Welfare: New Vistas" orga- March leaves upon following constitutive over- nized by Department of Biotechnology, 2015 expression of an Arabidopsis diacylglyc- VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur erol acyl transferase 1 (AtDGAT1) P Sukumar Formulating Proposal by Young Re- Symposia on Research Methodology 20&21 Mar searchers: Research Question & Objec- and Biomaterials for Human applica- 2015 tives tions for Clinical Translational Research, NEIGRIHMS, Shillong P Sukumar Step by Step: Components of a Re- Symposia on Research Methodology 20&21 Mar search Proposal and Biomaterials for Human applica- 2015 tions for Clinical Translational Research, NEIGRIHMS, Shillong

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia P Sukumar Translational Research in Diabetes & Symposia on Research Methodology 20&21 Mar Cardiovascular Diseases and Biomaterials for Human applica- 2015 tions for Clinical Translational Research, NEIGRIHMS, Shillong P Sukumar Diabetes & Vascular Diseases Journey International Conference on Multidisci- 16-18 Oct into the riddle of antioxidants by target- plinary Research-2014, Indonesia 2014 ing NADPH oxidase Barman, A., Gohain, Functional analysis of calcium signaling Research Conclave, IIT Guwahati, India. March 23, D. and Tamuli, R. genes and a novel approach to study 2015. direct protein-protein interaction in Neurospora crassa. Laxmi V., Kumar A., Studies on essential calcium signaling Research Conclave, IIT Guwahati, India. March 23, Tamuli R. genes calmodulin and calcineurin in 2015. Neurospora crassa. Barman, A., Gohain, Cellular functions of calcium signaling Molecular intricacies of Plant-patho- February D., Laxmi, V., Deka, machinery in the model fi lamentous genic micro-organisms (MIPPM-2015), 21-22, R., Kumar, R. and fungus Neurospora crassa. Tezpur University, Tezpur, India. 2015. Tamuli, R. Laxmi V., Tamuli R. Expression studies of important calcium National Symposium on Biophysics and February signaling genes in Neurospora crassa Golden Jubilee Meeting of Indian Bio- 14-17, physical Society (IBS-2015), Jamia Millia 2015 Islamia, New Delhi 10025, India. Barman, A., Gohain, Reactive oxygen species and cell signal- International conference on disease December D. and Tamuli, R. ing in Neurospora crassa. biology and therapeutics (ICDBT‐2014), 3-5, 2015 Institute of Advanced study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, India. Gohain, D., Barman, Calcineurin and its role in drug resis- Internatial Conference on Disease Biolo- December A. and Tamuli, R. tance in pathogenic fungi. gy and Therapeutics-2014 (ICDBT‐2014), 3-5, 2015 Institute of Advanced study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, India Laxmi V., Tamuli R. Studies of calcium signaling pathway Internatial Conference on Disease Biolo- December mediated by calmodulin and related gy and Therapeutics-2014 (ICDBT‐2014), 3-5, 2015 proteins in Neurospora crassa. Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Techology, Guwahati, India. Tamuli R. Borkovich, Studies on essential calcium-signaling Riverside Postdoctoral Association Septem- K. genes using a conditional promoter- Symposium (RPA-2014), University of ber 23-24, based system. California Riverside, USA 2014. Archita Ghoshal and Functional Implications of Recombinant Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 8-10, 2014 Siddhartha Sankar sFRP1, 5th International Conference on November Ghosh Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2014): Proliferation, Diff erentiation and Apop- tosis Sharmila Narayanan Functional characterization of bacteri- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 8-10, 2014 and Siddhartha ally expressed recombinant phytaspase, November Sankar Ghosh 5th International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2014): Prolifera- tion, Diff erentiation and Apoptosis

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Md. Asif Raza and Application of redesigned E.coli cyto- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 8-10, 2014 and Siddhartha sine deaminase in the perspective of November Sankar Ghosh cancer therapeutics, 5th International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2014): Proliferation, Diff erentia- tion and Apoptosis Archita Ghoshal and Functional Implications of Recombinant Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 8-10, 2014 Siddhartha Sankar sFRP1, 5th International Conference on November Ghosh Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2014): Proliferation, Diff erentiation and Apop- tosis Abshar Hasan and Polymers, surface modifi ed polymers International Conference on Disease December Lalit Pandey and surfaces with Self Assembled Biology and Therapeutics-2014 (ICD- 3-5, 2014 Monolayers as surface modifying BT2014), Guwahati, India, agents for Biomaterials M.G. Kiran, K. Heavy metal removal by sulfate reduc- 4th International Conference on Hy- 29th Oc- Pakshirajan and G. tion using anaerobic sludge biomass drology and Watershed Management tober-1st Das from a wastewater treatment plant (ICHWAM 2014) with a focal theme on November Ecosystem Resilience-Rural and Urban 2014 Water Requirements Shalini Singh, Is Spermidine Synthase only a redox 83rd Annual Meeting of Society of Bio- 17-21 Mousumi Das, enzyme in Leishmania donovani? logical Chemists (SBCI) December Ruchika Bhardwaj 2014 and Vikash Kumar Dubey Sushant Singh, Anil Oxidative Stress Environment Superox- IIT Guwahati June 20- Verma and Vikash ide Dismutase; A Novel Antioxidative 21, 2014 Kumar Dubey Protein Alleviating The Oxidative Stress Environment. Sustainable Development of Environmental Systems Ambuj Srivastava, Interfacial analysis of oligomeric pro- INDO-US CONFERENCE and WORKSHOP October Shankar Prasad teins in improving molecular docking on “Recent advances on structural Biolo- 9-11, 2014 Kanaujia algorithms. gy & Drug Discovery (RASBDD-IIT-2014) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Mallesh Santhosh, Human serum albumin stabilized gold 24thAnniversary World Congress on Bio- 27-30 May Somasekhar R. nanoclusters as a novel fl uorescent and sensors (Biosensors 2014) organized by 2014. Chinnadayyala, colorimetric probe for the detection of Elsevier in association with Biosensors & Ankana Kakoti, bilirubin-IX. Bioelectronics, at Melbourne, Victoria, Pranab Goswami* Australia Madhuri Das and Enzyme cascade based bioanode for Frontier Energy Research with Industry 20-21st Pranab Goswami complete utilization of methanol sub- Academia partnership March strate to generate power in biofuelcell. 2015. Sharbani Kaushik Studies on cyanocabteria for its poten- Frontier Energy Research with Industry 20-21st and Pranab tial biofuelcell applications Academia partnership March Goswami 2015. Priyanki Das, Power generation from alcohol biofuel- Frontier Energy Research with Industry 20-21st Madhuri Das, cell utilizing alcohol oxidase and laccase Academia partnership March Lepakshi Barbora, as biocatalysts 2015. and Pranab Goswami

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Gauri Deb, Shalinee Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-2 34th Annual Convention of Indian Asso- Feb 19-21, Jha, Sahil Batra, (MMP-2) by the green tea polyphenol ciation for Cancer Research on “Cancer 2015 Shankar Prasad Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG): research: from bench to bedside”, held Kanaujia and Anil M mechanistic insights from biochemical in Jaipur Limaye and in silico studies. Bajpai R. and Production of doubled haploid em- Asian Plant Science Conference (APSC), November Chaturvedi Rakhi bryos following colchicine treatment of Bhairawa , Nepal. 1-3, 2014 microspore derived embryos of Camel- lia assamica subsp. Assamica((Masters) Srivastava V, Jannat Establishment of in vitro culture and Asian Plant Science Conference (APSC), November W, Chaturvedi Rakhi micropropagation protocol to raise Bhairawa , Nepal 1-3, 2014 high yielding true-to-type plantations of Tinospora cordifolia (willd.) Miers ex Hook. F. & Thoms Dutta R, Srivastava V, Extraction and Identifi cation of Biologi- Asian Plant Science Conference (APSC), November Chaturvedi Rakhi cally Active Compounds from In vivo Bhairawa , Nepal 1-3, 2014 and In vitro Cultured Tinospora cordifo- lia (willd.) Miers ex Hook .F. Thomas Dr. Damaris Extra Ocular Muscles and Stem Cells AAPOS Annual Meeting at New Orleans, Mar 25-29, Magdalene, D. USA 2015 Bithiah Grace Jaganathan Vinoh Swu, Suraj Breast cancer cell migration 5th Annual International Conference on Mar 13-15, Patil, Bithiah Grace Advances in Biotechnology, IIT Kanpur 2015 Jaganathan Darilang Mawrie, Characterisation of stem cells isolated 5th International Conference on Stem Nov 8-10 Atul Kumar, Damaris from extra ocular muscle tissue Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2013): Prolifera- 2014 Magdalene, Bithiah tion, Diff erentaition and Apoptosis, New Grace Jaganathan Delhi Chinnapaka The Eff ect of Extracellular Matrix on 5th International Conference on Stem Nov 8-10 Somaiah, Atul Mesenchymal. Stem Cells Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2013): Prolifera- 2014 Kumar, Jina tion, Diff erentaition and Apoptosis, New Bhattacharyya, Delhi Bithiah Grace Jaganathan Book

Name of Total Year of Name of Book Publisher ISBN Author/s Page No. Publication Ajaikumar B. Anticancer Properties of World Scientifi c Publi- 404 978-981- 4508- Dec 2014 Kunnumakkara Fruits and Vegetables: A cations , Hackensack, 88-9 Scientifi c Review NJ 07601,USA Book Chapter

Vol / Page Name of Author/s Name of Paper Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year Issue No. Maravi DK, Jatropha (Jatro- Agrobacterium Protocols Humana Vol. 2 25-36 978-1- 2015 Mazumdar P, Alam pha curcas L.). (Kan Wang, Editor), Meth- Press 4939- S, Goud VV and ods in Molecular Biology, 1695-5 Sahoo L Springer Protocols

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Vol / Page Name of Author/s Name of Paper Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year Issue No. Behura R,Kumar S, Cowpea (Vigna Agrobacterium Protocols Humana Vol. 2 255- 978-1- 2015 Saha B, Panda MK, unguiculata L. (Kan Wang, Editor), Meth- Press 264 4939- Dey M, Mishra S, Walp) ods in Molecular Biology, 1658-0 Alam S, Sahoo DP, Springer Protocols Sugla T, Panda SK and Sahoo L Salma Jasmine and Non-mulberry Silk biomaterials in tissue Woodhead 01 --- 978-0- 2014 Biman B. Mandal. silk biomateri- engineering and regenera- Publish- 85709- Edited by Prof. S. C. als for tissue tive medicine ing group, 699-9 Kundu engineering. India CS Krishna Murthy Synthetic and Recent trends in biomaterials Pan 01 --- 978-9- 2015 and Biman B. Natural fi bers research Stanford 81461- Mandal. Edited by based bioma- Publishing, 398-9 G.P. Kothiyal and A. terials Singapore Srinivasan Guruvayoorappan Cancer Pre- Anticancer Properties of World 1 1-52 978-981- 2014 C, Sakthivel KM, ventive and Fruits and Vegetables: A Scientifi c 4508- Padmavathi Therapeutic Scientifi c Review Publica- 88-9 G, Bakliwal V, Roles of Fruits tions, Hack- Monisha J and and Vegetables: ensack, NJ Kunnumakkara AB An Overview 07601,USA Jagadeeshan S, Anticancer Anticancer Properties of World 1 131- 978-981- 2014 Kunnumakkara Activities of Fruits and Vegetables: A Scientifi c 159 4508- AB,Nair AS Fruits and Veg- Scientifi c Review Publica- 88-9 etables Against tions, Hack- Gynecological ensack, NJ Cancers 07601,USA Mathew AJ, Cancer Chemo- Anticancer Properties of World 1 161- 978-981- 2014 Padmavathi G, preventive and Fruits and Vegetables: A Scientifi c 183 4508- Kunnumakkara AB, Therapeutic Scientifi c Review Publica- 88-9 Atulya M Properties of tions, Hack- Fruits and Veg- ensack, NJ etables Against 07601,USA Head and Neck Malignancies Sakthivel KM, Cancer Preven- Anticancer Properties of World 1 221- 978-981- 2014 Kunnumakkara AB, tive and Thera- Fruits and Vegetables: A Scientifi c 250 4508- Guruvayoorappan C peutic Proper- Scientifi c Review Publica- 88-9 ties of Fruits tions, Hack- and Vegetables ensack, NJ Against Lung 07601,USA Cancer Pandey MK, Prostate Can- Anticancer Properties of World 1 251- 978-981- 2014 Kunnumakkara AB, cer: How Help- Fruits and Vegetables: A Scientifi c 275 4508- Amin SG ful are Natural Scientifi c Review Publica- 88-9 Agents for tions, Hack- Prevention? ensack, NJ 07601,USA

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Vol / Page Name of Author/s Name of Paper Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year Issue No. Monisha J , Cancer Pre- Anticancer Properties of World 1 337- 978-981- 2014 Padmavathi G, ventive and Fruits and Vegetables: A Scientifi c 366 4508- Bakliwal V, Katre Therapeutic Scientifi c Review Publica- 88-9 N, Padikkala J, Properties of tions, Hack- Kunnumakkara AB Fruits and Veg- ensack, NJ etables Against 07601,USA Commonly Oc- curring Cancers in Humans Suradip Das, Applications Silk biomaterials for tissue Woodhead 41– ISBN-13: 2014 Dr. Utpal Bora & B.B. of silk bioma- engineering and regenera- Publishing 77 978 0 Borthakur terials in tissue tive medicine ed. Kundu, S.C. Limited 85709 engineering Woodhead 699 9 and regenera- tive medicine Singh M. and An appraisal on Plant Reproductive Biology I.K. Inter- 299- 978-93- 2015 Chaturvedi Rakhi in vitro conser- and Conservation national 319 82332- vation and bio- Publishers, 90-9 technological New Delhi Interventions in Spilanthes acmella Murr Srivastava P., Singh Herbal Animal Biotechnology: Elsevier, Inc. 563- 978012 2014 M. and Chaturvedi medicine and Models in Discovery and Waltham, 575, 4160026 Rakhi biotechnology Translation MA , USA for benefi t of human health Mishra V.K. and An overview Tree Biotechnology CRC press, 151- 978-1- 2014 Chaturvedi Rakhi on haploid New Delhi 186 4665- production in 9714-3 trees CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

International/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date National Prof. Arun Goyal. Synthesis and purifi cation of manno- BITS Pilani, Dubai Oct 28-29, International oligosaccharides from coprameal by Campus, Dubai, UAE 2014 recombinant endo-β-mannanase and their prebiotic and anticancer proper- ties. Prof. Arun Goyal Lactobacillus plantarum DM5 as cell Lille, France. September International factory for nutraceuticals production 7-10, 2014 Prof. Arun Goyal Structure and functional analyses of Jawaharlal Ne- Nov 6-9, 2014 National recombinant glucuronoxylan-xylanohy- hru University, New drolase (CtXynGH30), its truncated de- Delhi, India. rivative Xyn30A and associated family 6 carbohydrate binding module CtCBM6 from Clostridium thermocellum Dr. Kannan Hostel Management in Centrally IIT Madras, Chennai April 9-10, National Pakshirajan Funded Technical Institutions 2014 L Rangan Recent Advances in BioSciences and Coimbatore, TN 25-26 Feb National Technology 2015

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International/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date National L Rangan Indo_UK Seminar Series on Biomass Jadavpur, Kolkata 11-14 Feb National waste utilization 2015 L Rangan 15 Indo-US Flow Cytometry Workshop Lucknow, UP 29-31 Oct National 2014 L Rangan TCS Annual Symposium AIIMS, New Delhi 25-27 Oct National 2014 Dr.Senthilkumar Bioprocessing India 2014 ICT, Mumbai National Sivaprakasam Ranjan Tamuli Molecular intricacies of Plant-patho- Tezpur University, February 21- International genic micro-organisms (MIPPM-2015). India. 22, 2015. Dr. Biman B. Mandal Advances in Polymer Science & Tech- Guwahati, India March 13, National nology (APST-2015) National confer- 2015 ence. Dr. Biman B. Mandal International Silk Conference. Fudan and Soochow October 8-12, International University, Shanghai, 2014 China Dr. Lalit Pandey Recent Advances in Cancer Biology and IIT Guwahati December 5, National Therapeutics 2014 R. Swaminathan Indo-US International Conference/ IIT Roorkee 9-11 Oct 2014 International Workshop on “Recent Advances in Structural Biology & Drug Discovery” R. Swaminathan International Conference on Math- IIT Kanpur 28 Feb-3 Mar, International ematical and Computational Biology 2015 (ICMCB) R. Swaminathan National Symposium on Biophysics and Jamia Millia Islamia, 14-17 Feb National Golden Jubilee meeting of the Indian New Delhi 2015 Biophysical Society R. Swaminathan National Workshop on Fluorescence Indian Institute for 15-19 Dec National and Raman techniques Science Education 2014 and Research, Pune R. Swaminathan Gordon Research Conference: Intrinsi- Stonehill College, 6-11 July 2014 International cally Disordered Proteins Boston, USA Ajaikumar B. 34th Convention of Indian Association Jaipur 2015 National Kunnumakkara for Cancer Research, February 19-21, Jaipur Ajaikumar B. Educational empowerment held at Kerala 2015 National Kunnumakkara SN Higher Secondary School, Nattika, Thrissur, Kerala Ajaikumar B. National Conference on "Advance in Mizoram 2014 National Kunnumakkara Cancer Genomics" Mizoram University Professor Pranab 24thAnniversary World Congress on Melbourne, Victoria, 27-30 May International Goswami Biosensors (Biosensors 2014) organized Australia 2014 by Elsevier in association with Biosen- sors & Bioelectronics INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Dr. B. Anand “Functional Insights into the National Symposium on Jamia Millia 16 Feb, 2015 Mechanism of Prokaryotic Spe- Biophysics & Golden Jubilee Islamia, New cifi c RNA Guided Gene Targeting meeting of Indian Biophysical Delhi CRISPR-Cas system” Society

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Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Dr. B. Anand “Insights into the mechanism Indo-US conference and work- IIT, Roorkee 11 Oct, 2014 of CRISPR RNA maturation in shop on “Recent Advances CRISPR-Cas type I-C system” in Structural Biology & Drug Discovery” Prof. Arun Goyal Structure and functional analyses International Conference on Jawaharlal Nov 6-9, of recombinant glucuronoxylan- Emerging Trends in Biotech- Nehru Uni- 2014 xylanohydrolase (CtXynGH30), its nology (ICETB-2014) and XI versity, New truncated derivative Xyn30A and Biotech Research Society India Delhi, India. associated family 6 carbohydrate (BRSI) Convention. binding module CtCBM6 from Clostridium thermocellum Prof. Arun Goyal Synthesis and purifi cation of International Conference on BITS Pilani, Oct 28-29, manno-oligosaccharides from Biotechnology and Bioengi- Dubai Cam- 2014 coprameal by recombinant endo- neering (ICBB-2014) pus, Dubai, β-mannanase and their prebiotic UAE and anticancer properties. Prof. Arun Goyal Lactobacillus plantarum DM5 10th European Symposium Lille, France. September as cell factory for nutraceuticals on Biochemical Engineering 7-10, 2014 production Sciences and 6th International Conference on Industrial bio- processes Dr. Kannan Heavy metal removal by bioac- Bhabha Atomic Research Mumbai February Pakshirajan cumulation and biosorptionusing Centre 3-5, 2015 using Nostoc muscorum, a cya- nobacterium isolated from a coal mining area in Meghalaya, India Dr. Kannan Biorefi nery: future green Industry GMR Institute of Technology Rajam, Sri- December Pakshirajan kakulam 12-13, 2014 Dr. Kannan Principles and applications of Centre for the Environment, IIT Guwahati June 20-21, Pakshirajan bioremoval of metals and metal- Guwahati 2014 lolids Prof Vikash Kumar Modern approaches against Indian Science congress local Imphal, Mani- 21 and 22nd Dubey Leishmania parasite. chapter pur University January. Prof Vikash Kumar Vikash Kumar Dubey, Redox me- 8th Annual Convention of the School of Bio- 18-20 Dubey tabolism of Leishmania: A prom- Association of Biotechnology technology, December, ising target for drug discovery and Pharmacy (ABAP) Devi Ahilya 2014 University, Indore, India Prof Vikash Kumar Admiring spermidine for its as- 7th National Symposium Cum Algappa 24th -27th Dubey sorted functions: An integrated workshop on “ Recent Trend in University, Feb 2015 computational and Biochemical Structure Bioinformatics and Karaikudi - studies. Structure based drug design- 630 003, ing Tamilnadu, India Prof Vikash Kumar Recent advancement in Leishma- QIP- Short Term Course on Indian Feb Dubey nia research "Advances in Biomedical Engi- Institute of 25-March 1, neering 2015" Technology 2015 Guwahati

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Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Prof Vikash Kumar Recent development on Leishma- DSIR workshop Indian Dubey nia research: A promising drug Institute of candidates in pipeline. Technology Guwahati Prof L Rangan Morphological, biochemical and Hindustan College of Arts and Coimbatore 26 Feb 2015 genomic studies in Karanaj Sciecnes Prof L Rangan Energy recovery from waste Jadavpur University Jadavpur 12 Feb 2015 legume Prof L Rangan Application of Flow Cytometry in MNIT Allahabad 28 Oct 2014 Plant Science Prof L Rangan IPR and Biotechnology IITG Guwahati 12 Dec 2014 Prof L Rangan Sophisticated Instruments in IITG Guwahati 25 Nov 2014 Plant Science Research Dr. Senthilkumar Real-time monitoring and control Dept. of Instrumentation En- Chennai 13th March Sivaprakasam of bioprocess systems: Challeng- gineering, Madras Institute of 2015 es & Opportunities Technology Dr. Senthilkumar BioProcess Analytical Technology Faculty Quality Improvement Coimbatore June 28, Sivaprakasam Programme organized by 2014 AICTE, PSG College of Technol- ogy Dr. Senthilkumar Industrial waste valorization Centre for Sustainable Poly- Guwahati January 21 – Sivaprakasam of potential raw feedstock for mers, IIT Guwahati 22, 2015 biopolymer production – Designed biomass approach Dr. Senthilkumar Real-time monitoring and control Dept. of Instrumentation En- Chennai 13th March Sivaprakasam of bioprocess systems: Challeng- gineering, Madras Institute of 2015 es & Opportunities Technology Dr. Aiyagari 1. Chemistry-Biology Interface: Central Food Technological Mysore 4-5 Septem- Ramesh Nanomaterials, Synthetic Amphi- Research Institute (CFTRI) ber, 2014 philes and Small Molecules for Sensing and Antibacterial Ap- plications, 2. Fluorescence-based Tools in Antimicrobial Assay and Sensing Applications Dr. Aiyagari Nanomaterials and Synthetic Am- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati 4 December, Ramesh phiphiles as Potent Antibacterials Guwahati 2014 Prof L Sahoo Bioresources and Agriculture in Gifu University Gifu (Japan) 12 June India 2014 Prof L Sahoo Agriculture and Bioresources of Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 June India 2014 Prof L Sahoo Culture and Heritage of India Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 June 2014 Prof L Sahoo Technology and International Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 June Cooperation in India 2014 Prof L Sahoo International Cooperation in KAZUSA DNA Research Insti- Tokyo (Japan) 9 July 2014 Plant Functional Genomics tute Research

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Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Prof L Sahoo Updates on crop transformation Eternal University Himachal 12 July 2014 in National Symposium on Ad- Pradesh vances in Biotechnology for Crop Improvement (in absentia) Prof L Sahoo Genetically Modifi ed Crops in Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 July 2014 Agriculture Prof L Sahoo Generation of Biotic and Abi- Hokkaido University Sappore 25 July 2014 otic stress tolerant Asiatic grain (Japan) legumes Prof L Sahoo Exploring Japan-India Coop- CHUBU Research Foundation Gifu (Japan) 28 July 2014 eration for Food and Nutritional Ventures Prof L Sahoo Academic-Industry cooperation KAO Corporation Tokyo (Japan) 31 July 2014 for International joint education in Food and Nutrition Prof L Sahoo Food & Nutritional Ventures in United Graduate School of Gifu (Japan) 5 August Northeast India: Japan-India Agricultural Science (Gifu 2014 Cooperation in UGSAS-GU 12 -Shizouka University) Round Table and Symposium 2014 Prof L Sahoo Japan-India cooperation for bio- Frontier Research Center (Bio- Aichi (Japan) 6 August fuel research technology) of TOYOTA Central 2014 R&D Labs Prof L Sahoo Genetic improvement of orphan Assam Agricultural University Jorhat 18 Sep 2014 grain legumes for abiotic stress tolerance in Vth workshop under the DBT-AAU Center "Biotechnol- ogy Research in Northeast India: Present & Future Prof L Sahoo Crop Improvement Program at IIT Indian Institute of Soil Science Bhopal 3 November Guwahati 2014 Prof L Sahoo Agriculture and Plant Biotechnol- Tezpur University Tezpur 24 Novem- ogy in India ber 2014 Prof L Sahoo Bioinspired Innovations at Gauhati University Guwahati 14 February Symposium organized by Insti- 2015 tutional Biotech Hub at Depart- ment of Biotechnology, Gauhati University Prof L Sahoo How to write a good research Regional Research Institute for Guwahati 23 March paper in Continued Medical Homeopathy 2015 Education Program Workshop by Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India Prof L Sahoo Bioresources and Agriculture in Gifu University Gifu (Japan) 12 June India 2014 Prof L Sahoo Agriculture and Bioresources of Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 June India 2014 Prof L Sahoo Culture and Heritage of India Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 June 2014 Prof L Sahoo Technology and International Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 June Cooperation in India 2014

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Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Prof L Sahoo International Cooperation in KAZUSA DNA Research Insti- Tokyo (Japan) 9 July 2014 Plant Functional Genomics tute Research Prof L Sahoo Updates on crop transformation Eternal University Himachal 12 July 2014 in National Symposium on Ad- Pradesh vances in Biotechnology for Crop Improvement (in absentia) Dr Piruthivi Insulin resistance induced en- King George's Medical Univer- Lucknow 26th Nov Sukumar dothelial dysfunction: targeting sity 2014 NADPH oxidase Dr Piruthivi Diabetes & Cardio-vascular Dr.B. Lal Institute of Biotech- Jaipur 25th Sep Sukumar Diseases nology 2014 Dr Piruthivi Diabetes induced Cardio-Vascular St. Anthony’s College Shillong 23rd Aug Sukumar Diseases 2014 Dr Piruthivi Diabetes & Vascular Diseases Department of Biotechnology Shillong 22nd Aug Sukumar & Bioinformatics, NEHU 2014 Dr Bose B Emergence of Cellular Heteroge- 34th Annual Convention of Jaipur February neity in Expression of an Oncofe- Indian Association for Cancer 2015 tal Protein Research (IACR2015) Dr Bose B Cellular Heterogeneity in Expres- 83rd Annual Meeting of Bhubaneswar December sion of an Oncofetal Protein Society Of Biological Chemists 2014 (India), Dr Bose B All Cells are Equal, But Some are National Seminar on Recent Tezpur Uni- November More Equal Than Others” Advances in Biotechnological versity 2014 Research in North East India: Challenges and Prospects, Dr Bose B Emergence of Cellular Heteroge- 34th Annual Convention of Jaipur February neity in Expression of an Oncofe- Indian Association for Cancer 2015 tal Protein Research (IACR2015) Dr Shankar Prasad Molecular modeling in drug Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati November 7, Kanaujia design Guwahati 2014 Prof. S. S. Ghosh Nanoscale Materials in Cancer Indo-Swiss one day workshop IIT Guwahati 30th August Theranostics on August 30th Organized by 2014 the Centre for Nanotechnol- ogy, IITG Prof. S. S. Ghosh Nanoclusters as Logic Gate and National Seminar on Recent Tezpur Uni- 28th No- Cancer Theranostics Advances in Biotechnological versity vember Research in North East India: 2014 Challenges and Prospects Organized by Department of Molecular Biology and Bio- technology, Tezpur University Prof. S. S. Ghosh FICS-2014 Session Chair Organized by the IIT Guwahati 5th Decem- Department of Chemistry, IITG ber 2014 Prof. S. S. Ghosh Nanotechnology in Cancer Ther- New Advances and Horizons in IIT Guwahati 20th Decem- anostics and Protein Therapeutics Nanoscience And Nanotech- ber 2014 nology (NanoSci-2014), IASST, Guwahati

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Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Prof. S. S. Ghosh Nanotheranostics for integration National Conference on Defence 12th January of imaging and targeted drug Chemistry of Chalcogens and Institute of 2015 delivery Related Topics (NC3-2015), Advanced Organized by Dept. of Applied Technology Chemistry, DIAT, Pune (Deemed Uni- versity) Pune Prof. S. S. Ghosh A new paradigm for targeted T TE-QIP Short term course IIT Guwahati 6th February suicide gene therapy on “Theoretical and practical 2015 aspects of cancer research” by the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering Prof. S. S. Ghosh Polymer-Based Nanotheranostics: Short term course on “Advanc- IIT Guwahati 26th Febru- A single platform for bio-imaging es in Biomdeical Research” by ary 2015 and targeted delivery the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering Dr. Biman B. Silk Based Tissue Engineering KTH, School of Biotechnology, Stockholm, October 27, Mandal AlbaNova University Centre. Sweden 2014 Dr. Biman B. Stem cell based Bioengineering UGC-NRCM Workshop on IISC, Banga- May 23-25, Mandal of Tissues Biomaterials, Department of lore 2014 Materials Engineering. Dr. Biman B. Silk Based Tissue Engineering Advances in Biomedical Engi- IIT Guwahati February 26, Mandal neering, QIP programme. 2015 Dr. Biman B. Silk Biomedicals Micro-Manufacturing for IIT Guwahati February 23, Mandal Biomedical Applications, QIP 2015 programme. Dr. Biman B. Silk Biomaterials for Human Tis- IIT Guwahati – Kyoto Institute IIT Guwahati January 20, Mandal sue Engineering of Technology Japan, Joint 2015 Symposium on Biobased Materials. Dr. Biman B. Silk Biomaterials for Human Tis- Smart Materials and Their Ap- IIT Guwahati December Mandal sue Engineering plications in Nanotechnology, 23, 2014 QIP programme. Dr. Biman B. Tissue Engineered Implants for Sophisticated Instruments IIT Guwahati November Mandal Human Applications in Interdisciplinary Research, 25, 2014 TEQIP programme. Prof. R. Can macromolecular crowd- Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru 25th March, Swaminathan ing regulate enzyme substrate 2015 specifi city? Prof. R. Protein Aggregation and Disease: National Institute of Phar- Guwahati 25th No- Swaminathan Structure, Function and Dynam- maceutical Education and vember ics of Hen Lysozyme Aggregates Research 2014 Professor Pranab Biosensor and enzymatic biofu- Department of Biotechnology, Institutional 14th Febru- Goswami elcell: Emerging topics in health- Gauhati University, Biotech Hub, ary 2015 care and biomedical engineering, Gauhati Uni- versity Professor Pranab key note lecture on Enzymatic IITG-Kyoto Institute of Technol- IIT Guwahati 20January, Biofuel Cell for Micro Scale Elec- ogy (KIT) Joint Symposium on 2015 tronic Devices Biobased Materials,

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Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Professor Pranab Biosensors for clinical applica- Symposium on Recent Ad- Tezpur Uni- November tions vances in Biotechnological versity 27-29, 2014 Research in North East India: Challenges and Prospects or- ganized by Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Professor Pranab Biotechnology: Recent advances Delivered invited lecture at University of on on 23rd and Future Prospects University of Science and Tech- Science and August 2014 nology, Meghalaya Technology, in Meghalaya Dr Anil M Limaye Direct inhibition of matrix metal- Recent Advances in Cancer Guwahati 5th Dec, loproteinase-2 (MMP-2) by the Biology and Therapeutics-2014 2014 green tea polyphenol Epigallo- catechin-3-gallate (EGCG): mech- anistic insights from biochemical and in-silico studies Dr Anil M Limaye Matrix metalloproteinases and QIP Guwahati 4th Feb, tumor progression 2015 Prof. Rakhi General applications of Plant tis- Amity University Lucknow March 3, Chaturvedi sue culture 2015 Dr. Bithiah Grace Stem Cells in Biomedical Engi- QIP- Short Term Course on Indian Feb Jaganathan neering "Advances in Biomedical Engi- Institute of 25-March 1, neering 2015" Technology 2015 Guwahati VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name Name of Lecture Name of Institute / Organization Place Date Dr. Junpei Boron Transport in plants Laboratory of molecular biology, Sapporo, 05/11/14 Takano Research Faculty of Agriculture, Japan Graduate School of agriculture, Hokkaido University Dr. Manab Some latest news on bacteria and Department of Applied Sciences, Guwahati 11/11/14 Deka. viruses Gauhati University Prof. M. R. N. Twists and Turns of Protein Struc- Molecular biophysics unit, IISC, Bangalore 14/11/14 Murthy tures Bangalore Mr. Pedro Bule Cellulosomes as a source of novel Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Portugal 25/11/14 carbohydrate active molecules University of Lisbon, Portugal Mr. Amitava Demystifying Patenting in India: Indian Patent Counsel and Consul- USA 12/12/14 Chakraborty Portfolio and Strategies (AC) tant for Applied Research Works Inc., USA Dr. Sudhakaran Complex Regulation of Cellular Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston, 08/01/15 Prabhakaran Proteome Department of Systems Biology, MA, USA Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Prof. Amitabha (I) Interaction of Membrane Choles- Center for Cellular and Molecular Hyder- 16/01/15 Chattopadhyay terol with G-Protein- Coupled recep- Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India abad, tors: Novel Insights In Health and Dis- India ease; (II) Organization and Dynamics of Membranes and Proteins using the Wavelength-Selective Fluores- cence Approach

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Name Name of Lecture Name of Institute / Organization Place Date Prof. Bharat B Targeting Infl ammatory Pathways for Cytokine Research Laboratory, De- Houston, 05/12/2014 Aggarwal the Prevention of Chronic Diseases partment of Experimental Thera- Texas, “Naturally” by Nutraceuticals Derived peutics, The University of Texas USA from Spices and from Traditional M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Indian and Chinese Medicine Houston, Texas, USA Prof. Farid One Molecule and several Therapeu- Head of Pharmacognosy Depart- Egypt 05/12/2014 Badria tic Targets ment and Drug Discovery Unit, Mansoura University, Egypt Prof. Anupam Precocious anaphase and the expres- Department of Biotechnology & Shillong, 05/12/2014 Chatterjee sion of Securin and p53 genes as Bioinformatics, North Eastern Hill Megha- candidate biomarkers for the early University laya detection in areca-nut induced carci- nogenesis Dr. B.G. Unni Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Dis- Biotechnology Division, CSIR- Jorhat, 05/12/2014 ease- a probable risk factor for lung North East Institute of Science & Assam cancer Technology, Jorhat, Assam Dr. Ruby John Curcumin: A potential candidate to Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnol- Kerala 05/12/2014 Anto be evaluated as a chemosensitizer in ogy, Kerala the cervical cancer and breast cancer chemotherapy Dr. Pranjal Molecular Biology of cancer Gallblad- Consultant GI & HPB Surgery, Guwahati 05/12/2014 Deka der GNRC Hospital, Guwahati Dr. Asha S. Nair Development of novel sensitizers Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnol- Kerala 05/12/2014 based on NIR dyes ogy, Kerala Dr. Raghunath A new function of CpG methylation Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 05/12/2014 Chatterjee Dr. Yogeshwer Cancer: Causes and Prevention Proteomics Laboratory, Indian Lucknow 04/02/2015 Shukla Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow Dr. Munindra HPV and Cancer Head and neck cancer, NECHRI Guwahati 05/02/2015 Baruah Mr. Sumantho (I) Basics of Flow cytometry; (II) Clini- BD Biosciences Kolkata 05/02/2015 Basu cal applications of FACS and Data analysis Dr. Madhumita Arsenic and Cancer Chittaranjan National Cancer Insti- Kolkata 06/02/2015 Roy- Senior tute, Kolkatta Scientist Dr. Alok C. Human Papillomavirus and Cervi- Institute of Cytology & Preventive Noida 06/02/2015 Bharti cal Cancer: Molecular Biology at the Oncology, ICMR, Noida fulcrum of Disease Diagnostics and Emerging Therapeutics Dr. Rupinder PCR and its applications in Cancer Bio-Rad Laboratories New Delhi 06/02/2015 Singh research Dr. Rajesh Western Blot and its applications in Bio-Rad Laboratories Kolkata 06/02/2015 Saha, Cancer research Mr. Hrudaya S. (I) Working principle of Spectropho- ThermoScientifi c Kolkata 07/02/2015 Chaporkar tometer, (II) Introduction to the latest technologies of cancer research

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Name Name of Lecture Name of Institute / Organization Place Date Prof. Anupam Techniques and approaches used in Department of Biotechnology & Shillong, 08/02/2015 Chatterjee raw betel-nut induced carcinogen- Bioinformatics, North Eastern Hill Megha- esis University laya Dr. Pawan DBT Programmes in North Eastern Healthcare, NER-BPMC (DBT), New New Delhi 08/02/2015 Sharma Region (DBT-in-NER) Delhi Dr. Jibon Drug, its Development from Natural Biological & Chemical Sciences, Di- Guwahati 08/02/2015 Kotoky Sources : An Overview vision of Life Sciences & Chairman CIF, Institute of Advanced Study in Science & Technology (IASST), Guwahati Prof. Punit Kaur Structural Insights into the mecha- Department of Biophysics, AIIMS, New Delhi 20/02/2015 nism of action of proteins secreted New Delhi during late lactation Prof. P. Balaram Mass spectrometry and Next Genera- Indian Institute of Science Banga- Bangalore Depart- tion Sequencing in the Analysis of lore mental Natural Peptide Libraries: The Case of Colloquium Cone Snail Venom October 28, 2014 Prof. P. Balaram Chemistry at the Fringes of Biology: Indian Institute of Science Banga- Bangalore Biotalk, Protein Sequences and Function lore October 28, 2014 Dr. Ch. Mohan "Chemistry, Biology and Medicine: A CCMB Hyder- 15/09/14 Rao Continuum" abad SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED:

Name of Faculty Name of Sem./ International/ No. of par- (Convener/ Co-ordinator, Funded By Date Wor./Con. National ticipants etc.) Dr. Kannan Pakshirajan DSIR Workshop on Department of 3rd March National 30 Industrial Research Scientifi c and 2015 in Development of Industrial Research, Biopharmaceuticals Government of India As a Co-coordinator; Two days workshop TEQIP, MHRD Guwahati National 34 Coordinator: Dr Nitin on “PEPTIDE DRUGS: 7-8th Nov Chaudhary and Dr Vibin MODELING TO 2014. Ramakrishnan PRACTICE” L Rangan Flow Data Analysis Registration 24-25 Jan National 50 Workshop Amount and 2015 BioRad Rajeev Kumar and L Basics and Clinical DBT- NE 10-11 Nov National 39 Rangan and of Flow Cytometry 2014 Course Dr Piruthivi Sukumar QIP on Advances in CET IITG/AICTE 25th Feb to National 20 Biomedical Engi- 1st Mar 2015 neering Biplab Bose, Convenor Short-term Training DBT June 2014 National 40 Course on "Ad- vanced Techniques in Cell and Molecular Biology"

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Name of Faculty Name of Sem./ International/ No. of par- (Convener/ Co-ordinator, Funded By Date Wor./Con. National ticipants etc.) Dr. Biman B. Mandal Advances in Bio- AICTE Feb 25th till National 20 medical Engineering March 01, 2015 Dr. Nitin Chaudhary; TE-QIP workshop on CET, IIT Guwahati Nov 07 – National 33 Dr. Vibin Ramakrishnan; Peptide Drugs: Mod- Nov 08, 2014 Dr. Sachin Kumar eling to Practice Prof. Venkata Dasu National Conference Department of 5th Decem- National 300 Veeranki (Organizing on “Recent Advances Biosciences and ber, 2014 Chairman), Dr. Ajaikumar in Cancer Biology Bioengineering, B. Kunnumakkara and Therapeutics – Indian Institute of (Organizing Secretary), 2014 (RACBT- 2014)” Technology Guwa- Prof. Rajaram hati, Guwahati Swaminathan (Chairman- Scientifi c Committee) Dr. Ajaikumar B. Short term Course Department of 4th – 8th National 33 Kunnumakkara (Co- on “Theoretical and Biosciences and February, ordianator), Dr. Sachin Practical Aspects of Bioengineering, 2015 Kumar ( Co- Coordinator) Cancer Research” Indian Institute of Technology Guwa- hati, Guwahati Professor Pranab Frontier Energy Re- DST, DBT, CSIR, 20-21st Open 84 partici- Goswami search with Industry Reliance Industries March 2015 pants and Academia partner- Ltd., Carl Zeiss 09 experts ship India, Neofam Instrument, Bani Mandir. Dr. Utpal Bora, International Confer- DST 3rd-5th International Secretary Organizing ence on Disease December, Committee, [organized Biology and Thera- 2014 in collaboration with peutics Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, (IASST)] PATENTS

Date Applied/ Name of Faculty and co researcher Name Application No. Granted Dr. Vibin Ramakrishnan, Ms. Sajitha S., Crystalline Di-Histidine Nano- March 09, 2015; 243/KOL/2015 Dr. Nitin Chaudhary, Mr. Gaurav Pandey structures Applied Dr. Vibin Ramakrishnan, Mr.Prakash Kishore Antimicrobial Peptides March 26, 2015; 333/KOL/2015 Hazam, Dr. Nitin Chaudhary, Dr. Vishal Applied Trivedi, Mr.Gaurav Jerath Dr. Nitin Chaudhary, Ms.Karabi Saikia, Antimicrobial Short Peptides March 30, 2015; 353/KOL/2015 Ms. Durga Sravani Yalavarthi, Dr. Vibin Applied Ramakrishnan Pranab Goswami, Ankana Kakoti, Mohd. Paper based microfl uidic analyti- 30.12.2014 1365/KOL/2014. Farhan Siddiqui cal device with prefabricated customized test zone Pranab Goswami, Ankana Kakoti, Mohd. Leak proof paper based ana- 03.11.2014 1126/KOL/2014. Farhan Siddiqui lytical microfl uidic device and process for its preparation.

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AWARDS AND HONOURS p) Professor V.V Dasu elected as FABP (Fellow, Association of a) Dr. B. Anand was chosen for NASI-Young Scientist Biotechnology and Pharmacy ) in recognition of outstanding Platinum Jubilee Award for the Year 2014 . research contributions to Medical Biotechnology (2014). b) Professor V. K. Dubey received Prof. Umakant Sinha STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS Memorial Award of the Indian Science Congress Association. 1. Mr. Siddharth Nimkar, a PhD student under the tutelage c) Professor V. K. Dubey received Dr. P.N. Raju Oration of Dr. B. Anand won “Best Poster Award” in the international Award” of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) conference on “Proteomics from Discovery to Function” at d) Professor V. K. Dubey elected as FBRS (Fellow, Biotech IIT Bombay Research Society) of India in recognition of outstanding research contributions to Medical Biotechnology (2014). 2. Ashutosh Gupta, PhD student under Prof. Arun Goyal and Dr. D. Das received 2nd best poster award for his work on e) Professor V. K. Dubey elected as FABP (Fellow, “Improved bioethanol production from mixed pretreated Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy ) in recognition leafy biomass of bamboo (Bambusadendrocalamus) of outstanding research contributions to Medical Biotechnology (2014). involving saccharifi cation by recombinant enzymes from Clostridium thermocellum at Frontier Energy Research with f) Professor L Rangan received Dr JN Baruah Memorial Industry Academia Partnership (FERIAP, 2015), a workshop Award in area of Biological Sciences, Assam Science Society, 2014 organized during March 20-21, 2015 at Center for Energy, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India. g) Dr. L.Pandey received Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Award 2014 by 3. Ashutosh Gupta, PhD student under Prof. Arun Goyal and Department of Science & Technology in Engineering and Dr D. Das received best poster award and cash prize Rs 5000/- Technology Discipline. for his work on “Bioethanol productionfrom Copra meal h) Professor Pranab Goswami has been selected as editor of involving recombinant β-(14)-Mannanase from Clostridium Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (BAB) (Elsevier, thermocellum presented at29th ACCTI Carbohydrate ISSN: 1878-8181), Offi cial journal of the International Society Conference (CARBO-XXIX) on ChemBio Innovations for of Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (ISBAB) Bioproducts, December 29-31, 2014, Center of Innovative since January 2015. [ http://www.journals.elsevier. and Applied Bioprocessing (A National Institute under DBT, com/biocatalysis-and-agricultural-biotechnology/editorial- Govt. of India, Mohali, Punjab, India. board/] 4. RwivooBaruah, a PhD student under Prof. Arun Goyal i) Professor Pranab Goswami is the member of the successfully completed joint international collaborative selection committee (12.12.2014) for the post of Technical research project with University of Helsinki, Finland under Superintendent, IIT Guwahati. Center for International Mobility (CIMO) fellowship for j) Professor Pranab Goswami is the member of the doctoral programme during Sept. 28, 2014 to March 28, 2015 selection committee (18.11.2014) for the post of Institute 5. Ms Anuma Singh, doctoral student under supervision Post Doctoral Fellow. of Dr L Rangan received Best Poster Award in the Session k) Professor Pranab Goswami is the expert member of the “Validation of Traditional Knowledge on Herbal Medicines” selection committee (28.10.2014) for the selection of faculty for her poster titled “Characterization of bioactive karanjin members in the Department of Food Processing Technology from seeds of Karanj” during International Conference on in Central Institute of Technology (CIT), Kokrajhar. “Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs for Human” Chennai, l) Professor Pranab Goswami is the member of internal from Jan 29-31, 2015 screening committee meeting (23.06.2014) for scrutinizing 6. Mr.Satish Cingadi, M.Tech student of our department who applications of the Academic Staff for upgradation under had pursued his M.Tech project thesis at our lab was awarded MFCS at IASST, Guwahati. ‘Best Poster Presentation’ in ‘International Conference on m) Professor Pranab Goswami is the member of the Emerging Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014)’ organized expert committee constituted for 3 years (2014-2016) by by The Biotech Research Society India at School of Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India for evaluating Environmental Sciences, JNU, New Delhi on Nov 6-9, 2014. projects between India and another country in the area of Mr.Satish secured this award for his thesis work entitled Biotechnology. “Statistical optimization of cassava fi brous waste hydrolysis n) Professor Pranab Goswami is the member of the by response surface methodology and use of hydrolysate selection committee (14.02.2014) for the post of Assistant based media for the production of optically pure D-lactic Librarian, IIT Guwahati. acid o) Dr. Utpal Bora has been awarded UXCEL award by DBT, 7. Mr. Bedabrata Saha was awarded fi rst prize in poster Govt. of India in the form of a project entitled “Exploration presentation on the title “Constitutive overexpression and characterization of seri- bioresources of North East India of Arabidopsis LEA protein, AtLEA4-1 confers drought for potential textile and non-textile applications” for 3years tolerance in transgenic mustard” in Vth workshop under (2014-2017). the DBT-AAU Center “Biotechnology Research in Northeast

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India: Present & Future held at Assam Agricultural University, 3-6th September, 2014 at London, UK. Jorhat during 18-21 September 2014 17. Mr. Arghya Sett, Ph.D student under supervision of 8. Best Poster award to Ananya Barman for the poster titled Dr. Utpal Bora, Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering “Reactive oxygen species and cell signaling in Neurospora was awarded International Travel Support by Department crassa”, presented at the International Conference on of Biotechnology (DBT) for presenting a poster entitled Disease Biology and Therapeutics (ICDBT‐2014), Institute “Aptamers in breast cancer diagnostics” at the 16th EMBL of Advanced study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, PhD symposium held in EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany during India, 3-5 December 2014. 23-25th October, 2014. 9. Mr. Manishekhar Kumar (PhD student, 2012 batch) 18. Best paper award under supervision of Prof. Rakhi selected for prestigious Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Chaturvedi to “Extraction and Identifi cation of Biologically Fellowship 2014. Manishekhar will be visiting USA for 09 Active Compounds from In vivo and In vitro Cultured months (starting July 2015) to pursue research work at Tinospora cordifolia (willd.) Miers ex Hook .F. Thoms.” at Asian Biomedical Engineering Department, Tufts University to Plant Science Conference, Nepal 2014 work with Prof. David L. Kaplan on “Bioartifi cial Pancreas”. SPECIAL MENTION 10.Best Poster Award to Mr. Jadi Praveen Kumar and Mr. a) Aadi Moolam Ramesh Completed his PhD in the year Manishehar Kumar in in Advances in Polymer Science 2014 under supervision of Prof. L. Rangan & Technology (APST-2015) National conference, IASST, Guwahati, India, March 13, 2015. b) Supriyo Basak Completed his PhD in the year 2014 under supervision of Prof. L. Rangan 11. Best Poster Award to Mr. Manishehar Kumar in Advances in Polymer Science & Technology (APST-2015) National c) Tushar Completed his PhD in the year 2014 under conference, IASST, Guwahati, India, March 13, 2015. supervision of Prof. L. Rangan 12. Debika Datta, Best Poster Prize for the poster titled d) Gauri Deb completed her PhD in the year 2014 and will “Investigations into the role of amphiphilicity in Aβ16- be awarded her degree in 2015 under supervision of Dr Anil 22 self-assembly” presented at 6th Annual Meeting of Limaye Proteomics Society India PS(I) and International Conference e) Dr. Utpal Bora Founded Mugagen Laboratories Pvt held at IIT Bombay during 7-9 December, 2014 Ltd, the fi rst biotech start-up company of North-East India 13.Mr. Y. Disco Singh, research scholar of Centre for Energy presently incubated at IITG-Technology Incubation Centre, and Neitho-o, M.Tech student of Department of Bioscience IIT Guwahati. and Bioengineering working with Dr Utpal Bora won the best f) Dr. Utpal Bora was awarded the highly competetive poster award on “Indigenous plants used by local populace Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) project entitled in North-East India as house-hold remedies” at International “Exploring Muga silk fi bre as a promising suture material” conference on Disease Biology & Therapeutics (ICDBT 2014) from BIRAC, DBT, Govt. of India (mentor institute IKP, organized by IASST, Guwahati from 3-5 December 2014. Hyderabad) on July, 2014 for Rs. 49.92 Lakhs 14.. Mrs. Shahla Kianamiry, Iranian visiting PhD Student g) Dr. Utpal Bora was awarded a project entitled “Implantable from Department of Nanobiotechnology, Tarbiat Modares Scaffolds for Obstetric Fistula” under Social Innovation University (TMU) working with Dr. Utpal Bora, Department Programme for Products Aff ordable & Relevant to Societal of Bioscience and Bioengineering won best poster award Health (SPARSH) scheme of BIRAC, DBT, Govt of India on “Optimizing of activation curcumin for conjugation with amounting to Rs 48 Lakhs on Decemeber, 2014 nanocariers as an anticancer nanomedicine” at International h) Himangshu Sonowal completed his PhD in the year 2015 conference on Disease Biology & Therapeutics (ICDBT 2014) under supervision of Dr. Bithiah Grace Jaganathan organized by IASST, Guwahati from 3-5 December 2014.) i) Prof Arun Goyal was invited as Visiting Professor 15. Manoj Gadewar, research scholar of the Department • Dec 2014 - Dec 2014 Visiting Professor, Department of of Bioscience and Bioengineering working with Dr. Utpal Food and Environmental Science, University of Helsinki, Bora won second best poster award on “Novel herbal drug Finland. delivery system” at 4th Biennial International Conference on New Developments in Drug Discovery from Natural • Jun 2014 - Jul 2014 Visiting Professor, Department of Products and Traditional Medicines held at National Institute Animal Production, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMV), of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), Lisbon, Portugal. Punjab, India. • Jun 2014 - Jun 2014 Visiting Professor, Department 16. Mr. Suradip Das, research scholar of Department of of Food and Environmental Science, University of Helsinki, Bioscience and Bioengineering working with Dr Utpal Bora Finland was awarded DST International Travel Support for presenting j) Prof Arun Goyal was Invited as one of the Panel of a paper entitled “Nanotechnology in Neuroscience” at the judges for Best Poster Awards at International Conference 16th International Spinal Research Trust Meeting during on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB-2014) and XI

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Biotech Research Society India (BRSI) Convention, November Macromoleculaes. 6-9, 2014, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India • 2014 Invited Reviewer, Plos One k) Prof Arun Goyal was Invited as the Judge for Best oral • 2014 Invited Reviewer, Biotechnology Progress presentation at International Conference on Biotechnology • 2014 Invited Reviewer, Journal of Food Science and and Bioengineering (ICBB-2014), Oct 28-29, 2014, BITS Pilani, Technology. Dubai Campus, Dubai, UAE. Prof Arun Goyal was invited as Member, Reviewing l) Prof Arun Goyal Committee, Technology Incubation Center (TIC), IIT • 2015 Invited Reviewer, Environemtal Progress and Guwahati (June 2012) Sustainable Energy. FACULTY MEMBERS • 2015 Invited Reviewer, International Journal of Biological

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1. B. Anand IIT Kanpur Assistant Structural Biology, Bioinformatics & Computational Professor Biology, RNA Biology, Molecular Evolution 2. U. Bora Institute of Associate Biomaterials, Nanotechnology, Drug Delivery and Genomics and Professor Tissue Engineering Integrative Biology, Delhi 3. B. Bose AIIMS, New Delhi Associate Cell Signaling, Computational Biology, Recombinant Professor Proteins 4. R. Chaturvedi University of Delhi, Professor Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture, Protoplast Isolation Delhi and Regeneration, Isolation, Purifi cation and Characterization of Plant Secondary Metabolites 5. N. Chaudhary Centre for Cellular Assistant Peptide self-assembly and amyloid aggregates, and Molecular Professor Peptide-membrane interactions, Curvature inducing Biology, Hyderabad proteins 6. D. Das IIT Bombay Associate Metabolic engineering, Biochemical engineering, Professor Modelling of fermentation process, Biofuel 7. V. V. Dasu IIT Madras Professor Bioprocess Development (upstream to downstream), (Head of the Metabolic Engineering, Bioenergy Department) 8. V. K. Dubey Benaras Hindu Professor Protein Biochemistry; Parasite Biochemistry University, Varanasi 9. S. S. Ghosh Indian Institute of Professor Gene Therapy, Expression Cloning (Mammalian Chemical Biology, Systems), Nanobiotechnology Kolkata 10. P. Goswami NEIST, CSIR, Jorhat Professor Biocatalysis, Biosensor, Enzymatic Biofuel cell, and Biotransformation 11. A. Goyal IIT Kanpur Professor Molecular Biology, Protein Engineering, Structural and Functional Proteomics of Carbohydrate active enzymes and other industrial microbial enzymes 12. B. G. Frankfurt University, Assistant Stem Cells, Cancer and cell therapy Jaganathan Germany Professor 13. S. P. Kanaujia Indian Institute of Assistant Structural and Computational Biology Science Bangalore Professor 14. M. Kumar University of Assistant Molecular interaction of host-pathogen-vector of Maryland, College Professor infectious diseases, Vector borne diseases of Zoonotic Park, USA importance

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 15. S. Kumar University of Assistant Identifi cation of molecular determinants of avian Maryland Professor paramyxovirus virulence, Reverse genetics study of avian paramyxoviruses: Newcastle disease virus as a model, Vaccine development against avian paramyxoviruses using reverse genetics system, Viral vector study-Avian paramyxoviruses and adenoviruses 16. A. B. University of Calicut Assistant Role of infl ammatory pathways in cancer Kunnumakkara Professor development, Identifi cation of novel biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and prognosis, Cancer drug discovery, Development of transgenic and gene knockout mouse models for biomedical research 17. A. M. Limaye IISc Bangalore Assistant Molecular endocrinology, Cancer biology, Gene Professor expression and regulation in Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic systems 18. S. K. Maiti IIT Bombay Assistant Biochemical Engg, Biofuel, Bioprocess modeling Professor 19. B. B. Mandal IIT Kharagpur Assistant Cell based tissue engineering, Biomaterials, Stem cells, Professor Drug delivery systems 20. K. Pakshirajan IIT Madras Associate (a) Environmental Biotechnology: biological removal Professor of organic and inorganic pollutants from water and wastewaters (b) Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering: production, characterization and properties, process design, kinetics and optimization (c) Biohydrometallurgy and (d) Biofuels 21. L. Pandey IIT Delhi Assistant Surface and interfacial science, Protein’s adsorption Professor and aggregation, Environmental Biotechnology 22. S. Patra Central Food Associate Enzymes - applications in pharma and food industry Technological Professor Research Institute, Mysore 23. V. IIT Bombay Assistant Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Ramakrishnan Professor Bio-Organic Chemistry, Bionanotechnology 24. A. Ramesh Central Food Associate Nanobiotechnology, Biological Activity of Synthetic Technological Professor Amphiphiles and Metal Complex, Probiotics and Research Institute, Antimicrobial Peptides Mysore 25. L. Rangan M.S. Swaminathan Professor Molecular systematics, Biofuel, IPR Research Foundation, Chennai, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines 26. L. Sahoo Maharshi Dayanand Professor Genetic engineering and functional genomics of University, Rohtak plants 27. G. K. Saini Andhra University, Associate Fungal Biotechnology, Biological Control, DNA Visakhapatnam Professor fi ngerprinting and Transformation studies, Studies on extracellular enzymes and toxic metabolite production, Development of a potent biopesticide

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 28. S. Central Leather Assistant Bioprocess Analytical Technology (BioPAT), Sivaprakasam Research Institute, Professor Biocalorimetry, Bioprocess Monitoring and Control Chennai Environmental Bioprocess Sytems 29. P. Sukumar University of Leeds, Assistant Smooth muscle and endothelial cell function, UK Professor Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes, Obesity 30. R. Tata Institute of Professor Protein Structure, Function and Dynamics; Swaminathan Fundamental Fluorescence Spectroscopy Research, Mumbai 31. R. Tamuli Centre for Cellular Associate Calcium signaling, DNA repair and Molecular Professor Biology, Hyderabad 32. V. Trivedi Jawaharlal Nehru Associate Intracellular Signaling in Plasmodium falciparum University, New Professor Delhi

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YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 2002 reactor, Cascade CSTR, Isothermal batch reactor, Combined fl ow reactor, RTD of packed bed reactor, Spinning basket ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: reactor, Bubble cap Distillation. Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in o Mass Transfer Lab: Double glass wall distillation apparatus, o Chemical Engineering Bubble cap distillation set up, Packed bed distillation set up, Master of Technology (MTech) in Mass transfer with and without chemical reaction, Liquid o Petroleum Science and Technology (PST) - liquid extraction in packed bed, Solid - liquid extraction in packed bed, Absorption in packed bed, Vapour in air o Material Science and Technology (MST) diff usion, Rotary drier, Forced Draft tray drier, Water cooling Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) tower. Batch crystallization. FACULTY STRENGTH: o Process control Lab: Two Tank Non-Interacting System, • Professor: 7 Two Tank Interacting System, Control Valve Characteristics, • Associate Professor: 15 Temperature Control Trainer, Pressure Control Triner, Flow Control Trainer, Level Vontrol Trainer, Cascade Control Trainer, • Assistant Professor: 13 First-Order and Second-Order System, Multi Process Trainer, • Adjunct Faculty : 1 Multi Variable Control Trainer, PLC Trainer. NO. OF LABORATORIES WITH BRIEF INTRODUCTION: o Thermodynamics Lab: Vapour - liquid equilibrium UG Labs: 7 Nos. apparatus, Liquid - liquid equilibria, Equillibrium Flash Distillation Apparatus, Separating & Throttling Calorimeter. o Fluid Mechanics Lab: Flow through Fluidized Bed, Centrifugal Pump Test Rig, Flow through Helical Coil, Nozzle PG Labs: 1 No. Meter Test Rig, Packed Bed, Pitot Tube, Rotameter Test o Petroleum Lab: Acidity and Alkalimetry, Aniline point, Rig, Drag Co-efficient Apparatus, Reynolds’s Apparatus, Burning test lamp, Cloud & Pour Point, Flash & Fire Point, Notch Tank Apparatus, Impact of Jet on Vane Apparatus, Melting point apparatus, Red wood Viscometer, Reid Reciprocating Pump Test Rig, Bernoulli Apparatus, Flow vapour pressure, Smoke point, U -Tube Viscometer, ASTM Meter Demonstration Rig, Energy Losses In Pipes, Energy Distillation, Kinematic Viscometer bath, Drop point grease Losses In Bends. apparatus, Burning quality of kerosene, Contamination o Mechanical Operation Lab: Ball mill, Froth fl oatation cell, detector, Tar viscometer, Softening point apparatus, Carbon Hammer mill, Jaw crusher, Roll crusher, Plate and frame residue apparatus, Bomb calorimeter, Vapour – Liquid fi ltration, Rotary drum Vacuum fi lter, Vibrating screen, Sieve Equilibrium, Steam Distillation, Digital Penetrometer. shaker, Cyclone separator, Cyclone Scrubber, Elutriator, Other Labs: 2 Nos. Sedimentation, Leaf Filter. o Analytical Lab: Atomic absorption spectrophotometer, o Heat Transfer Lab: Extended Surface heat exchanger, Autotitrator, BET surface area analyzer, Buchi rheometer, Tubular heat exchanger, Jacketed vessel heat exchanger, Chemisorb surface area analyzer, Differential scanning Plate heat exchanger, Shell and tube heat exchanger, calorimeter, Digital polarimeter, Ellipsometer, Fourier Emissivity measurement apparatus, Composite wall, Transform Infrared spectrophotometer, Gas chromatography Conductivity of metal rod, Calandria evaporator, Vertical with TCD, FID, ECD detector, Gas chromatography with TCD, & horizontal condenser, Unsteady state heat transfer, Heat FID, PPFD detector, Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy, transfer in forced convection, Multi eff ect evaporator. High performance liquid chromatography, Interfacial o Chemical Reaction Engineering: Packed bed reactor, Trickle rheometer, Karl Fisher titrator, Laser particle size analyser, bed reactor, RTD studies in CSTR, RTD studies in plug fl ow Microscope, Millipore water purifi cation, Refractometer, 81 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

Rheometer, Spinning drop tensiometer, Tensiometer, o Rheology of complex fl uids Thermogravimetric analyzer, Total organic content analyzer, o Transport through meso-porous materials UV-Visible spectrophotometer, X Ray diffraction, Zeta potential. z Reaction Engineering o CoE-SusPol: Centre of Excellance for Sustainable Polymers o Catalysis electrolysis and Heterogeneous reactions (CoE-SusPol) is funded by Department of Chemicals and o Electrochemical corrosion Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. The o Electroless plating objective of CoE-SusPol is to develop cost eff ective and o Hydrocarbon processing scalable technologies for the production of biodegradable polymer based end products using both petrochemical o Interfacial reactions and renewable bio- feedstock and stablish state of the art o Kinetic analysis facilities in biodegradable polymers area. Both experimental o Micro- and nano-fl uidic reactors and computational laboratory has been setup under this o Non-equilibrium reactive systems project facility and signifi cant high end equipments have been purchased in the department. o Pyrolysis of waste plastics o Separations with chemical reaction MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: o Sono-process engineering o Emissivity measurement o Column Floatation setup z Chemical Engineering Science o Thermo gravimetric Analyser o Biological physics o 2 stroke single cylinder Petrol engine o Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) o Heat transfer with forced convection o Colloids and interfacial science o Batch Crystalliser o Dewetting and phase separation o TGA-Hyf-FTIR o Phase equilibria and thermodynamics o Modulated DSC o Phase equilibria of ionic liquids o High Pressure Microwave Reactor for Polymerization o Phase transition in polymers (nucleation, crystallization, collapse transition) o Mini Extruder and injection molding Machine o Structure property relations o Polarizing Optical Microscope and Micro tensile stage o Super-hydrophobic and self cleaning surfaces o Water Vapor Transmission Tester o Optical Polarimeter z Environmental Pollution Control o Computerized Melt Flow Index Instrument o Air pollution o Heat Defl ection/Vicat Softning Temperature tester o Biological wastewater treatment (biosorption, o Instrument for Contact Angle bioaccumulation, biodegradation, bioreduction, biotransformation) o Probe Sonicator o Electro remediation of water/wastewater o Polymer Film Extrusion line o Membrane bioreactors o Material Studio Software o Physiochemical water/ wastewater treatment techniques o Tear Tester o Screening of novel microbial strains for treatment of o Polyfl ow organic/inorganic wastewater MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: o Sonolysis and Sono-hybrid Advanced Oxidation techniques zFluids o Design and development of micro-pumps and actuators o Treatment of industrial effl uent o Surfactant Enhanced oil recovery o Polution trading o Experimental and computational fl uid dynamics z Process Systems Engineering o Experimental and computational multiphase fl ows o Al based Optimization Techniques o Field driven fl uid fl ows o Computational transport processes o Mechanics, patterns, and stability of fl uids o Deterministic, evolutionary and global optimization o Micro- and nano-fl uidic devices o Material processing o Minerals processing o MEMS & NEMS o Multi scale bubble dynamics and applications o Molecular simulation 82 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 o Optimization and control o Polymer and Nano-material Migration Studies o Planning and scheduling o Polymer Recycling and Reuses o Process control o Biodegradable Polymers o Process design & techno-economics o Polymer based Technology Development, licensing, o Process intensifi cations Training and Entrepreneurship o Process modeling o Biodegradable polymers and biobased nanocomposites o Randomized algorithms z Energy Engineering o Self-assembly and self-organization o Artifi cial photosynthesis o Soft lithography o Biofuels: biodiesel, bioethanol, biobutanol, bio hydrogen o Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics and Bio oil o Biomass gasifi cation and pyrolysis z Materials Engineering o Carbon dioxide capture and conversion to Fuel o Bio-lubricant o Clean coal technology o Complex organic solids o Combustion and gasifi cation reaction kinetics o Functional multiscale structures & composites o Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis o Graphene synthesis and application o Fuel cells o Ionic liquids o Hydrogen production and storage o Liquid crystalline materials o Utilisation of lignocellulosic biomass for fuel/chemicals o Low cost ceramic membranes o Solar cells o Micro- and nano-sensors o Nuclear reactor o Non-Newtonian Fluids o Membrane reformer for hydrogen production o Palladium membranes o Reactive systems and gels z Separation and Mixing Processes o Responsive materials for environmental, biological and o Adsorption chemical separation o Bio-separation o Self-healing surfaces o Membrane Separation Processes o C-C Composites and C-Polymer Composites o Micro-mixers & separators z Polymer Science and Engineering o Post CMP cleaning o Polymers Synthesis and Characterization o Separation using Supercritical Fluids o Polymer Reaction Engineering o Surfactant mediated separation processes o Polymer Processing MAJOR INITIATIVES AND BREAKTHROUGH IN RESEARCH o Polymer Rheology AND DEVELOPMENT: o Polymer Solutions and Thermodynamics o Development of Multimodal Functional superbot published in the Elsevier Journal CARBON o Polymer Simulation and Computing o Implementation of the DeitY project at IIT Guwahati o Polymer based Nano and biocomposites for establishing a ‘Centre for Excellence in Research and o Polymer Degradation Development of Nanoelectronic Theranostic Devices’

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. V. Prabu Studies on Coal bed Methane integrated Un- SERB-DST 25.4 --- 2014 - 17 derground Coal Gasifi cation in Indian Coals in the Context of Greenhouse gas emission control

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water DST 26.172 Prof. A.K. 2014- Prabirkumar using Liquid Membrane based Separation Ghoshal 2017 Saha Technique Dr. R. Experimental characterization of carbon SERB-DST 22.70 --- 2014 - 17 Prasanna steel corrosion in oil and gas industries by Venkatesh electrochemical impedance spectroscopy Dr. R. Experimental investigations on thermosy- IITG 5 - 2 years Anandalakshmi phon fl ow and heat transfer achieved by supercritical fl uid Prof. Development of low cost chitosan based CSIR 17 Dr. Animes K. 2015 - Ramagopal crosslinked resins for the recovery and re- Golder (CL), 2018 Uppaluri moval of Palladium from synthetic and spent Prof. P. K. electroless plating solutions. (Registered at Ghosh (CE) Centre for Environment, IITG) b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Ashok Kumar Studies on Confi nement-Induced Polymer CSIR 12.0 NA 2014 - Dasmahapatra Crystallization by Molecular Simulation 2017 Prof. Bishnupada CO2-Capture by CO2-Selective Thin- DST 74 None January Mandal fi lm Composite Polymeric Membrane 2013 to Containing Amine Carrier January 2016 Prof. Bishnupada Natural Gas Purifi cation by CO2-Selective CSIR 23 None August Mandal Silica Membrane 2013 to August 2016 Dr. Dipankar Centre for Excellence in Research DeitY 5175 5 years Bandyopadhyay and Development of Nanoelectronic Theranostic Devices Dr. Dipankar Design and Development of Intelligent DST Nano 43 3 years Bandyopadhyay Catalytic Nanobots Mission Dr. Dipankar A computational study on the phase CSIR 16.5 2012- Bandyopadhyay separation induced pattern formation 2015 employing ultrathin fi lms Dr. Dipankar External Field Driven Flow Induced micro/ DST-SERC 45 2011- Bandyopadhyay nano scale Patterning, Mixing, Heat 2014 and Mass transfer in micro/nano Fluidic Devices Prof. Pallab Stabilization of soft colloidal dispersions CSIR 11.0 Nil 2012 – Ghosh by mixed-surfactants: experimental and 2015 theoretical studies Dr. Pankaj Tiwari Identifi cation of Competent Alkali- DST 23.4 Prof. 2013- Surfactant-Polymer Formulations for Ramgopal 2016 Enhanced Oil Recovery of Assam Crude Oil Uppaluri (Co-PI, Joint project between IIT Guwahati and Dibrugarh University)

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Pankaj Tiwari Study of Interaction between Pneumatic BRNS 6.48 Dr. Rajesh 2013- Spray Nozzle and Bubbling gas Fluidized Uppadhyay 2016 Bed using Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT) and γ-ray Densitometry Dr. Subrata Process intensifi cation of fl otation by ionic CSIR 11.0 Prof. Pallab 2012 – Kumar microbubbles Ghosh 2015 Majumder Dr. Tamal Dispersion and Dissolution of Coal in CSIR 20.0 Dr. Three Banerjee Ionic Liquids: Theoretical Predictions and Kaustubha years Experimental Validation Mohanty Dr. Tamal Quantum Chemical Understanding of BRNS 20.0 Prof. Pallab Three Banerjee Solvent Extraction Mechanism of Metal Ghosh years Ions in Novel Ionic Liquid Medium Dr. Tamal Ionic Liquid assisted Thermal SERB 38.0 Dr. G. Three Banerjee Dehydrogentation of Ammonia Borane Pugazenthi years Dr. R. Prasanna Electrochemical Investigation of carbon IIT 5.0 --- 2013 - 15 Venkatesh steel corrosion in oil and gas industries Guwahati Prof. R. Uppaluri Low cost ceramic membranes for juice DBT 18.87 None 2011- clarifi cation 2014 Dr. Mahuya De Development of supported noble DST 39.6 Prof. 2014 – metal catalysts using surfactant Ramagopal 2017 assisted electroless plating process for Uppaluri dehydrogenation of light alkanes Prof. R. Uppaluri Virtual Mass Transfer Lab MHRD 15 Dr. A. Verma 2008 - 2014 Tapas K Mandal Dynamic behavior and mixing DST 17 None 2012- characteristics of two immiscible liquids in 2015 a horizontal micro device Dr. Vimal Katiyar Centre of Excellance for Sustainable Poly- Dept. of 600 Dr. Amit 2014- mers (CoE-SUSPOL) Chemicals Kumar, Dr. 2017 and Petro- P. Kotecha, chemicals, Dr. V. V. GoI Goud, Dr. G. Pugazhen- thi, Prof. A. K. Ghoshal Dr. Vimal Katiyar SustainNanoPACK DBT 134 Dr. Biman 2013- Mandal, Dr. 2016 Debasis Das Dr. Vimal Katiyar BioThermosets DST 22 -- 2012- 2015 c) Completed Sponsored Projects:

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Ashok Kumar Investigation of Diblock Copolymer SERB-DST 30.02 NA 2011 - Dasmahapatra Crystallization by Molecular Simulation 2014

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Dipankar A combined experimental and DST-Fast 9.6 2010- Bandyopadhyay theoretical study on the instability and Track 2013 patterning of thin liquid crystal fi lms Dr. S. K. Majumder Process intensifi cation in drag CSIR 10.42 Dr. T. K. 2011- reduction in high viscous multi-phase Mandal 2014 fl ow through pipeline Prof. R. Uppaluri Preparation and characterization of CSIR 12.96 None 2011- low cost silver-ceramic composite 2014 membranes for bacteriostatic and drinking water treatment applications Prof. R. Uppaluri Fabrication of low cost dense Palladium DST 19.42 Dr. A. Verma 2011- composite membranes for hydrogen 2014 energy applications Dr. Dipankar External Field Driven Flow Induced DST 45 Tapas K 2011- Bandyopadhyay Micro/Nano Scale Patterning, Mixing, Mandal 2014 Heat And Mass Transfer In Micro/Nano Fluidic Devices Dr. Vimal Katiyar GreenPACK Ministry 30 Dr. Amit 2012- of Food Kumar 2014 Processing Industries, GoI Consultancy:

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Development of modifi ed amine NTPC Limited, 175 Prof. P. Saha, 2014- Bishnupada absorption based process to separate New Delhi Prof. A. K. 2016 Mandal CO2 from fl ue gas Ghoshal, Dr. Sasidhar Gumma Dr. Sasidhar Commissioning, Operation and Data Oil India 65 Prof. P. Saha, 2013- Gumma Analysis of a Pilot Plant for Separation Limited, Prof. B. Mandal, 2016 of C5+Gases and Water Vapor from Duliajan Prof. A. K. Gas Lift Pipeline Network (or similar Ghoshal streams) Dr. G. Preparation and characterization of Unilever 40.45 Dr. S. 3 years Pugazhenthi ceramic membrane for domestic water Industries Pvt. Senthilmurugan purifi cation system Ltd., Bangalore Prof. Pallab Developing suitable pedagogical MHRD 8.0 Dr. Tamal 2013 – Ghosh methods for various classes, Banerjee 2016 intellectual calibers and e-learning: Course name: Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Pallab Developing suitable pedagogical MHRD 8.0 Dr. Dipankar 2013 – Ghosh methods for various classes, Banerjee 2016 intellectual calibers and e-learning: Course name: Colloid and Interface Science Prof. Pallab Developing suitable pedagogical MHRD 8.0 Dr. Sasidhar 2015 – Ghosh methods for various classes, Gumma 2016 intellectual calibers and e-learning: Course name: Chemical Reaction Engineering – II Dr. Chandan Study of the reduction in acidity of NEEPCO 28.52 Dr. S. Pal 18 Das the Kopili reservoir either by diversion months of responsible stream or by taking up some chemical treatment to prevent damages of metal parts of Kopili HE Plant at Umrongso RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. A.K. Behera, Ch V. Fabrication and characterization of ag- Desalin. Water 2015 Rao, R.K. Das, A.S. Giri doped titania: Impact of dye-sensitization, Treat. and A.K. Golder phenol decomposition kinetics and biode- gradability index A. Das, A.K. Golder Enhanced extraction of Rebaudioside-A: Ind. Crops and 2015 and C. Das Experimental, response surface optimiza- Prod. tion and prediction using artifi cial neural network A.S. Giri and A.K. Decomposition of drug mixture in Fenton Chemosphere 127 254-261 2015 Golder and photo-Fenton processes: Comparison to singly treatment, evolution of inorganic ions and toxicity assay A. Das, A.K. Golder Separation of Rebaudioside-A from stevia Sep. Purif. Tech- 144 42217 2015 and C. Das extract: Membrane selection, assessment nol. of permeate quality and fouling behavior in laminar fl ow regime P.R. Rao, N. Ngullie, Arsenic removal from contaminated water Internat. J. Envi- 6 (5) 357-362 2015 A.K. Golder and P.K. by various physicochemical processes ron. Sci. Develop. Ghosh A.S. Giri and A.K. Chloramphenicol degradation in Fenton Ind. Eng. Chem. 53 (42) 16196- 2014 Golder and photo-Fenton: Formation of Fe2+- Res. 16203 Chloramphenicol chelate and reaction pathways M.K. Gagrai, C. Das Biological reduction and removal of Cr(VI) Internat. J. 17 (6) 508-520 2014 and A.K. Golder with microbial consortia collected from Environ. Technol. local water treatment plant Manage.

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. Ch V. Rao, K. Bhakal Biomediated synthesis of ZnO nanopar- Internat. J. Cur. 1 (4) 26-30 2014 and A.K. Golder ticles (ZnONPs) for photocatalytic applica- Eng. Sci. Res. tion R.K. Das, A.S. Giri, and Role of supporting electrolytes for hy- Internat. J. Cur. 31-34 2014 A.K. Golder drogen peroxide generation on graphite Eng. Sci. Res. cathode A.S. Giri and A.K. Kinetics and mechanisms of ciprofl oxacin Recent Res. Sci. 6 (1) 78-82 2014 Golder cleavage in light assisted Fenton reaction Technol. Ashok Kumar Collapse Transition of Branched Polymers Macromolecular - - 2015 Dasmahapatra, G in Dilute Solutions: Telechelic Star vs. H- Symposia Diwakar Reddy and Polymer Venkata Mahanth Sanka Chitrita Kundu Crystallization of Double Crystalline Di- Macromolecular - - 2015 and Ashok Kumar block Copolymer by Dynamic Monte Carlo Symposia Dasmahapatra Simulation Chitrita Kundu Eff ect of Block Asymmetry on the Crys- Journal of Chemi- 141 (4) 044902- 2015 and Ashok Kumar tallization of Double Crystalline Diblock cal Physics 1 – Dasmahapatra Copolymers 044902- 12 Ashish Kumar Fluid fl ow and particle dynamics inside Langmuir 30 2014 Thokchom, R an evaporating droplet containing live Swaminathan and bacteria displaying chemotaxis Anugrah Singh M Mallikarjuna Reddy Flow of concentrated suspension through AIChE Journal 60 2014 and Anugrah Singh oblique bifurcating channels Barma, S. and Synthesis and characterization of ordered Microporous 210 43739 2015 Mandal, B. mesoporous silica membrane: Role of po- and Mesoporous rous support and gas permeation study. Materials Mondal, A. and Novel CO2-Selective Cross-Linked Poly (vi- Industrial & Engi- 53 (51) 19736- 2014 Mandal, B. nyl alcohol) / Polyvinylpyrrolidone Blend neering Chemis- 19746 Membrane Containing Amine Carrier for try Research CO2–N2 Separation: Synthesis, Character- ization, and Gas Permeation Study. Mishra, P., Uppara, Adsorption and Separation of Carbon Industrial & Engi- 53 (51) 19747- 2014 H.P., Mandal, B. and Dioxide Using MIL-53 (Al) Metal-Organic neering Chemis- 19753 Gumma, S. Framework. try Research Barma, S. and Eff ects of sintering temperature and initial Ceramics Interna- 40 (7) 11299- 2014 Mandal, B. compaction load on alpha-alumina mem- tional 11309 brane support quality Sujoy Bose and Sawdust: From Wood Waste to Pore-for- Ceramics Interna- 41 4070- 2015 Chandan Das mer in the Fabrication of Ceramic Mem- tional 4079 brane Sujoy Bose and Role of binder and preparation pressure Industrial & Engi- 53 12319 – 2014 Chandan Das in tubular ceramic membrane process- neering Chemis- 12329 ing: Design and optimization study using try Research response surface methodology (RSM

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. Vijay Singh and Comparison of spiral wound UF mem- Desalination 337 43–51 2014 Chandan Das brane performance between turbulent and laminar fl ow regimes Abhinav Sharma, Alternating Current Induced Digitization RSC Advances DOI: 10. 2015 Vineet Kumar, Joydip of Two-Phase Flow Patterns inside Micro- 1039/ Chaudhuri, Seim channels, C5RA Timung, Tapas Kumar 02451J Mandal, Dipankar Bandyopadhay Sunny Kumar, Graphene based multifunctional super- Carbon 89 31 2015 Amit Kumar Singh, bots Ashok Kumar Dasmahapatra, Tapas Kumar Mandal and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay B. Ravi, Rabibrata Solvent Vapor Mediated Spontaneous Soft Matter 11 139 2015 Mukherjee, Dipankar Healing of Self-Organized Defects of Liq- Bandyopadhyay uid Crystal Films Seim Timung, Vijeet Capillary Force Mediated Flow-Patterns Canadian Jour- - - 2015 Tiwari, Amit Kumar and Non-monotonic Pressure Drop Char- nal of Chemical Singh, Tapas Kumar acteristics of Oil-Water Microfl ows Engineering Mandal, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay A. Ananth Dynamics of a Liquid Droplet on a Granu- Ind. Eng. Chem. 54 1131 2015 Praveen Kumar, lar Bed of Micro-Structured Particles: From Res. Venkatanarayana Lens Formation to Marble Eff ect Prasad Sandireddy, Tamal Banerjee, and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Kartick Mondal Electro-Capillary Instabilities of Thin Leaky Physics of Fluids 26 12206 2014 and Dipankar Elastic-Viscous Bilayers Bandyopadhyay Mohar Dey Dipankar Charge Leakage Mediated Pattern Min- Ind. Eng. Chem. 53 18840 2014 Bandyopadhyay iaturization in the Electric Field Induced Res. Ashutosh Sharma, Instabilities of an Elastic Membrane Shizhi Qian, and Sang Woo Joo Abhinav Sharma, Localized electric fi eld induced transition Electrophoresis 35 2930 2014 Vijeet Tiwary, and miniaturization of two-phase fl ow Vineet Kumar, Tapas patterns inside microchannels Kumar Mandal, and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Samarshi Infl uence of Organically Modifi ed Ni-Al Powder Technol- 256 196-203 2014 Chakraborty, Manish Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) Load- ogy Kumar, Kelothu ing on the Rheological Properties of poly Suresh and G. (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/LDH Blend Pugazhenthi Solution

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. Vijay Kumar, Manish Eff ect of Nanoclay Content on Structural, International 5 27-43 2014 Kumar and G. Thermal Properties and Thermal Deg- Journal of Nano Pugazhenthi radation Kinetics of PMMA/Organoclay & Biomaterials Nanocomposites D. Vasanth, Fabrication of circular shaped ceramic International 5 75-88 2014 Kanchapogu Suresh membrane using mixed clays by uniaxial Journal of Nano and G. Pugazhenthi compaction method for the treatment of & Biomaterials oily wastewater Manish Kumar, Vijay Fabrication of Poly (methyl methacrylate) Composite Inter- 21 819-832 2014 Kumar, Pradeep (PMMA) Nanocomposites with Modifi ed faces Upadhyaya and G. Nanoclay by Melt Intercalation Pugazhenthi Ashim Kumar Synthesis and characterization of MCM- Journal of Mem- 475 521-532 2015 Basumatary, R. Vinoth 41-ceramic composite membrane for the brane Science Kumar, Aloke Kumar separation of chromic acid from aqueous Ghoshal and G. solution Pugazhenthi R. Vinoth Kumar, Performance Assessment of Analcime-C RSC Advances 5 6246- 2015 Ashim Kumar Zeolite-Ceramic Composite Membrane by 6254 Basumatary, Aloke Separation of Cr(VI) from Aqueous Solu- Kumar Ghoshal and tion G. Pugazhenthi S. R. Pilli, T. Banerjee, HOMO-LUMO Energy Interactions be- Journal of Mo- 207 112-124 2015 K. Mohanty tween Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals lecular Liquids and Ionic Liquids using Density Functional Theory: Evaluation and Comparison K. P. Shadangi, K. Co-pyrolysis of Karanja and Niger seeds Fuel 153 492-498 2015 Mohanty with waste polystyrene to produce liquid fuel K. P. Shadangi, K. Eff ect of Co-pyrolysis of Mahua Seed and Journal of Re- 6 053142- 2014 Mohanty Waste Polystyrene on Quality of Liquid newable and Sus- 1-13 Fuel tainable Energy M. Koul, K. P. Thermo-chemical conversion of Kusum Journal of Analyt- 110 291-296 2014 Shadangi, K. seed: A possible route to produce alter- ical and Applied Mohanty nate fuel and chemicals Pyrolysis S. R. Pilli, T. Banerjee, Liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) data Fluid Phase Equi- 381 12-19 2014 K. Mohanty for ternary mixtures of [C4DMIM]- libria [PF6]+[PCP]+[water] and [C4DMIM][PF6]+ [PA]+[water] at T = 298.15 K and p = 1 atm S. Bhoi, T. Banerjee, K. Molecular dynamic simulation of sponta- Fuel 136 326-333 2014 Mohanty neous combustion and pyrolysis of brown coal using ReaxFF S. R. Pilli, T. Banerjee, 1-Butyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium hexa- Chemical Engi- 257 56-65 2014 K. Mohanty fl uorophosphate as a Green Solvent for neering Journal the Extraction of Endosulfan from Aque- ous Solution Using Supported Liquid Membrane S. Basu, A. Sarma CO2 biofi xation and carbonic anhydrase Bioresource Tech- 164 323-330 2014 Roy, K. Mohanty, A. K. activity in Scenedesmus obliquus SA1 nology Ghoshal cultivated in large scale open system

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. S. Bhoi, D. Dey, T. Solid-Liquid Equilibria Predictions for the Fuel Processing 126 112-121 2014 Banerjee, K. Mohanty Dissolution of Brown Coal in Ionic Liquids Technology using a Continuum Solvation Model S. R. Pilli, T. Banerjee, Performance of diff erent ionic liquids to Desalination and 204 1-11 2014 K. Mohanty remove phenol from aqueous solutions Water Treatment using supported liquid membrane K. P. Shadangi, K. Production and characterization of pyro- Fuel 126 109-115 2014 Mohanty lytic oil by catalytic pyrolysis of Niger seed S. Murugavelh, K. Mechanism of Cr(VI) bioaccumulation by Environmental 13 281-287 2014 Mohanty Phanerochaete Chrysosporium Engineering and Management Journal S. R. Pilli, K. Mohanty, Extraction of phthalic acid from aqueous International 17 42-51 2014 T. Banerjee solution by using ionic liquids: A quantum Journal of Ther- chemical approach modynamics K. P. Shadangi, K. Kinetic study and thermal analysis of the Renewable 63 337-344 2014 Mohanty pyrolysis of non-edible oilseed powders Energy by thermogravimetric and diff erential scanning calorimetric analysis K. P. Shadangi, K. Comparison of yield and fuel properties of Fuel 117 372-380 2014 Mohanty thermal and catalytic Mahua seed pyro- lytic oil K. P. Shadangi, K. Thermal and catalytic pyrolysis of Karanja Fuel 115 434-442 2014 Mohanty seed to produce liquid fuel Ruhit J. Konwar and Synthesis of high surface area silica gel Journal of Analyt- 107 224– 2014 Mahuya De templated carbon for hydrogen storage ical and Applied 232 application Pyrolysis N.Vinothkumar and Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen Materials for 3 1-25 2014 Mahuya De production from water–methanol mixture Renewable and using cerium and nonmetals (B/C/N/S) co- sustainable doped titanium dioxide Energy N.Vinothkumar and Hydrogen production from water-meth- International 39 11494- 2014 Mahuya De anol solution over visible light active Journal of Hydro- 11500 indium-titanium oxide photocatalysts gen Energy modifi ed with copper oxide Ruhit J Konwar, Development of templated carbon by car- International 39 223-233 Mahuya De bonisation of sucrose-zeolite composite Journal of Energy for hydrogen storage Research Chirag K.Patel, Paran Comparative parametric study on devel- Ceramics Interna- 41 3578– 2015 J. Sarma and Mahuya opment of porous structure of aluminium tional 3588 De oxide in presence of anionic and cationic surfactants R. Bhandari, V. Volli, Preparation and Characterization of Fly J. Env. Chem. Eng DOI: 10. 1016/ j.jec 2015 M. K. Purkait ash Based Mesoporous Catalyst for Trans- e.2015 .04. 008 esterifi cation of Soybean Oil M K Sinha, Preparation of novel thermo responsive RSC Advances 5 22609- 2015 M.K.Purkait PSF membrane, with cross linked PVCL-co- 22619 PSF copolymer for protein separation and easy cleaning

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. N. Sharma, Preparation of hydrophilic polysulfone J Appl. Poly. Sci DOI: 10.1002 /APP. 2015 M.K.Purkait membrane using polyacrylic acid with 41964 polyvinyl pyrrolidone A. Asfaram, M. Rapid removal of Auramine-O and Methy- J. Taiwan Inst. doi.org/ 10.1016 2015 Ghaedi, S. Hajati, lene blue by ZnS:Cu nanoparticles loaded Chem. Eng /j.jtice. 2015. 02.026 M. Rezaeinejad, on activated carbon : A response surface A. Goudarzi, M. K. methodology approach Purkait M K Sinha, M.K. Preparation of fouling resistant PSF fl at Desalination 355 155-168 2015 Purkait sheet UF membrane using amphiphilic polyurethane macromolecules A. Dey, M.K.Purkait Eff ect of fatty acid chain length and con- J of Industrial DOI.org/ 10.1016 2015 centration on the structural properties of and Engineering /j.jiec. 2014. 09.027 the coated CoFe2O4 nanoparticles Chemistry M. Ghaedi, N. Zeinali Artifi cial neural network (ANN) method for Journal of Disper- DOI: 10.1080/ 0 1932 2015 , M Maghsoudi, M.K. modeling of Sunset yellow dye adsorption sion Science and 691. 2014. 964359 Purkait using nickel sulfi de nanoparticle loaded Technology on activated carbon: Kinetic and isotherm study A. Goswami, M.K. Preparation and characterization of nano- Res. J Sci. Technol 2 65-83 2015 Purkait porous schwertmannite for defl uoridation of water M. Ghaedi, H. Application of central composite design Spectrochi- 135 479-490 2015 Mazaheri, S. for simultaneous removal of methylene mica Acta Part Khodadoust, S. blue and Pb2+ ions by walnut wood acti- A: Molecular and Hajati, M. K. Purkait vated carbon Biomolecular Spectroscopy. A. Dey, R Singh and Cobalt Ferrite nanoparticles aggregated Journal of Water 3 42248 2014 M.K.Purkait Schwertmannite: A novel adsorbent for Process Engineer- the effi cient removal of arsenic ing M K Sinha, Preparation and Characterization of Desalination 348 16 - 25 2014 M.K.Purkait Stimuli-Responsive Hydrophilic Polysul- fone Membrane Modifi ed with Poly (N- vinylcaprolactam-co-acrylic acid). A. Goswami, M.K. Removal of fl uoride from drinking water Journal of Water 1 91 - 100 2014 Purkait using Nanomagnetite aggregated schw- Process Engineer- ertmannite. ing M. K Sinha, Preparation and characterization of novel J. Membr. Sci. 464 20 - 32 2014 M.K.Purkait pegylated hydrophilic pH responsive poly- sulfone ultrafi ltration membrane A. Shamsizadeh, M. Tin oxide nanoparticle loaded on activat- . Journal of Mo- 195 212-218 2014 Ghaedi, A. Ansari, S. ed carbon as new adsorbent for effi cient lecular Liquids Azizian, M K Purkait removal of malachite green-oxalate: Non- linear Kinetics and isotherm study N. Kishore and R.R. Slip in fl ows of power-law liquids past Acta Mech. DOI: 10.1007 / 2015 Ramteke smooth spherical particles s00707 -015- 1328-0 K.D. Rao, M. Buoyancy driven bubble rise and defor- Colloid. Surf. A 467 66-77 2015 Vasukiran, A.R.K. mation in milli/micro channels fi lled with Gollakota and N. shear-thinning nanofl uids. Kishore

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. V.S. Nalajala and N. Eff ects of contamination and power-law Chem. Eng. 37 1757- 2014 Kishore fl uid viscosity on heat transfer phenom- Technol. 1764 ena of spherical bubbles V.S. Nalajala and N. Drag of contaminated bubbles in power- Colloid Surf. A: 443 240-248 2014 Kishore law fl uids Physicochemi- cal Engineering Aspects Misra S., R. Reddy Separation of medicinal catechins from International - - 2015 and P. Saha tea leaves (Camellia Sinensis) extract using Journal of Hollow Fiber Supported Liquid Membrane Automation and (HF-SLM) module Computing Manna M.S., P. Saha Iron complexation of pharmaceutical cat- RSC Advances 4 (50) 26247- 2014 and A.K. Ghoshal echins through selective separation 26250 Bhatluri K.K., Manna Supported liquid membrane based simul- Journal of Mem- 459 256-263 2014 M.S., P. Saha and A.K. taneous separation of cadmium and lead brane Science Ghoshal from wastewater Manna M.S., P. Saha Separation of medicinal catechins from Journal of 471 219-226 2015 and A.K. Ghoshal tea leaves (Camellia Sinensis) extract using Membrane Sci- Hollow Fiber Supported Liquid Membrane ence,471, pp. (HF-SLM) module 219-226. Rajasekhar Multi-level production planning in a Expert Systems 42 (1) 628-641 2014 Kadambur, Prakash petrochemical industry using elitist Teach- with Applications Kotecha ing–Learning-Based-Optimization Mood Mohan, Solubility of glucose, xylose, fructose and Fluid Phase Equi- 33 395 2015 Vaibhav.V.Goud, galactose in ionic liquids: Experimental libria Tamal Banerjee and Theoretical studies using a continuum solvation model Mood Mohan, Thermodynamic Insights in the Separa- Journal of Solu- doi: 10.1007 /s10953 2015 V.V.Goud, Tamal tion of Cellulose/Hemicellulose compo- tion Chemistry -015- 0295-3 Banerjee nents from Lignocellulosic Biomass Using Ionic Liquids A. Ananth Dynamics of a Liquid Droplet on a Granu- Industrial & Engi- 54 1131 2015 Praveen Kumar, lar Bed of Microstructured Particles: From neering Chemis- Venkatanarayana Lens Formation to Marble Eff ect try Research Prasad Sandireddy, Tamal Banerjee, and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Ankit Vishnoi, Tamal Theoretical prediction of distribution Separation and 133 138 2014 Banerjee, P. Ghosh, coeffi cients of Sr2+ in nuclear waste/ionic Purifi cation Tech- Sk. Musharaf Ali, K.T. liquid phases using COSMO-RS model nology Shenoy S. R. Pilli, Tamal 1-Butyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium hexa- Chemical Engi- 257 56 2014 Banerjee, Kaustubha fl uorophosphate as a green solvent for the neering Journal Mohanty extraction of endosulfan from aqueous so- lution using supported liquid membrane Sanjukta, Kaustubha Molecular dynamic simulation of sponta- Fuel 136 326 2014 Mohanty, Tamal neous combustion and pyrolysis of brown Banerjee., coal using ReaxFF

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. S. Khuntia, S. K. Oxidation of As(III) to As(V) using Ozone Chemosphere 97 120– 2014 Majumdar and P. Microbubbles 124 Ghosh K. Sainath, and P. Electrical properties of silicone oil–water Chemical Engi- 201 1645– 2014 Ghosh interface in the presence of ionic surfac- neering Commu- 1663 tants and salt: importance in the stability nications of oil-in-water emulsions A. Vishnoi, T. Theoretical prediction of distribution Separation and 133 138– 2014 Banerjee, P. Ghosh, coeffi cients of Sr+2 in nuclear waste/ionic Purifi cation Tech- 148 Sk. Musharaf Ali and liquid phases using COSMO-RS model nology K. T. Shenoy S. Khuntia, S. K. A pilot plant study of the degradation of Environmental 36 336– 2014 Majumdar and P. Brilliant Green dye using ozone microbub- Technology 347 Ghosh bles: mechanism and kinetics of reaction S. Khuntia, S. K. Adsorption of As(V) on zirconium-based Desalination and DOI: 10.1080 / 1944 2014 Majumdar and P. adsorbents Water Treatment 3994. 2014. 978 Ghosh M. R. Behera, S. R. Foaming in micellar solutions: eff ects of Industrial and En- 53 18497– 2014 Varade, P. Ghosh, P. surfactant, salt, and oil concentrations gineering Chem- 18507 Paul and A. S. Negi istry Research Reshad, A.S Tiwari,P. Extraction of oil from rubber seeds for Fuel 150 636-644 2015 Goud, V.V biodiesel application: Optimization of parameters Dhar, P. Vangala, S.P.K Thermal Degradation Kinetics of Poly Journal of Ther- 5 (2) 134-141 2014 Tiwari, P. Kumar, A. (3-hydroxybutyrate)/Cellulose Nanocrys- modynamics & Katiyar, V. tals based Nanobiocomposite Catalysis Ajit. Kumar Giri Pressure Drop and its Reduction of Gas- Chemical Engi- 92 (1) 34–42. 2014 and Subrata Kumar Non-Newtonian Liquid Flow in Downfl ow neering Research Majumder Trickle Bed Reactor (DTBR), and Design Snigdha Khuntia, Oxidation of As (III) to As(V) using Ozone Chemosphere 97 120– 2014 Subrata Kumar Microbubbles 124 Majumder and Pallab Ghosh Shubham Jai, Priyam Investigation of liquid–solids fl uidized bed Journal of Radio 302 (3) 1309 2014 Saraswat, Varsha of diff erent particle size through radioac- analytical and Jain,Harish J. Pant, tive particle tracking techniques Nuclear Chem- Rajesh K. Upadhyay istry Rajeev Parmar and Hydrodynamics of micro bubble suspen- Industrial En- 53 (9) 3689– 2014 Subrata Kumar sion fl ow in pipes gineering and 3701 Majumder Chemistry Re- search P. Deka, K. R. Naidu, Flow pattern shifting and drag reduction International 2 (2) 245-252 2014 T. K. Mandal and in oil-water fl ow in pipe Journal of Subrata Kumar Research in Majumder Engineering & Technology

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. Anil Kumar Frictional pressure drop in vertical helical Journal of Engi- 9 (4) 97-101. 2014 Thandalam A. Tapas coil reactor (HCR) based on fl ow regime neering and Ap- Kumar Mandal and plied Sciences Subrata Kumar Majumder Snigdha Khuntia, A Pilot Plant Study of the Degradation of Environmental 36 (3) 336-347 2014 Subrata Kumar Brilliant Green Dye using Ozone Micro- Technology Majumder and Pallab bubbles: Mechanism and Kinetics of Ghosh Reaction Subrata Kumar Adsorption of As (V) on zirconium based Desalination and - 1-13 2014 Majumder and Pallab adsorbents Water Treatment Ghosh V. Prabu Integration of In-Situ CO2-Oxy Coal gasifi - Applied Energy 140 41275 2015 cation with Advanced Power Generating Systems performing in a Chemical Loop- ing approach of Clean Combustion V. Prabu, K. Geeta CO2 enhanced In-Situ Oxy-Coal Gasifi ca- Energy doi: 10.1016 2015 tion based Carbon-Neutral Conventional /j.energy. 2015. Power Generating Systems 03.029 Kaniganti C. M. , Microfi ltration of synthetic bacteria solu- Separation Sci- 50 (1) 121-135 2015 Sriharsha E., Thorat P. tion using low cost ceramic membranes ence and Tech- and Uppaluri R. nology Amrita A., Pujari Rate enhanced electroless fabrication of Surface Engineer- 31 (3) 221-225 2015 M., Uppaluri R., and nickel-ceramic composite membranes ing Verma A Pujari M., Amrita Eff ect of Pd concentration on electroless Surface Engineer- 31 (3) 209-213 2015 A., Uppaluri R., and dense Pd-PSS membrane fabrication, ing Verma A. Surface Engineering Amrita A., Pujari Effi cacy of Palladium solution concentra- Materials and - - 2014 M., Uppaluri R., and tion on electroless fabrication of dense Manufacturing Verma A. metal ceramic composite membranes Processes coupled with surfactant and sonication Amrita A., Pujari A novel method of reducing agent con- Applied Surface 320 52-59 2014 M., Uppaluri R., and tacting pattern for the fabrication of metal Science Verma A. ceramic composite membranes using surfafctant induced electroless plating Pujari M., Amrita Combinatorial electroless plating char- Materials and - - 2014 A., Uppaluri R., and ecteristics for dense Pd-PSS composite Manufacturing Verma A. membrane fabrication, Materials and Processes Manufacturing Processes Pujari M., Amrita Effi cacy of novel electroless plating pro- Materials and - - 2014 A., Uppaluri R., and cesses for dense Pd/Cr2O3/PSS membrane Manufacturing Verma A. fabrication Processes Pujari M., Agarwal Role of electroless nickel diff usion barrier Applied Surface 305 658-664 2014 A., Uppaluri R., and on the combinatorial plating characteris- Science Verma A. tics of dense Pd/Ni/PSS composite mem- branes

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Vol. and Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year Issue No. No. Aeshala L. M., Verma Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to Physical Chem- 16 17588- 2014 A., and Uppaluri R. fuels: Tuning of reaction zone using suit- istry Chemical 17594 able functional group in solid polymer Physics electrolyte Rashmi R. Devi, Fabrication of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Compost Science - - 2015 Prodyut Dhar, Ajay Agricultural Compost and Utilization Kalamdadh and Vimal Katiyar Surendra Singh Gaur, Prospects of poly (vinyl alcohol)/Chito- Journal of Re- 6 53135 2015 Prodyut Dhar, Amit san/poly (styrene sulfonic acid) and mont- newable and Sus- Kumar and Vimal morillonite Cloisite30B clay composite tainable Energy Katiyar membrane for direct methanol fuel cells Ravi Babu Valapa, Fabrication and characterization of su- Journal of Ap- 132-3 41320 2015 G. Pugazhenthi and crose palmitate reinforced poly(lactic acid) plied Polymer Vimal Katiyar, bionanocomposite fi lms Science Ravi Babu Valapa, Eff ect of graphene content on the proper- RSC Advances 36 28410- 2015 G. Pugazhenthi and ties of poly(lactic acid) nanocomposites 28423 Vimal Katiyar Prodyut Dhar, Sai Thermal Degradation Kinetics of Poly Journal of Ther- 5-2 42186 2015 Phani Kumar Vangala, (3-hydroxybutyrate)/Cellulose Nanocrys- modynamics & Pankaj Tiwari, Amit tals based Nanobiocomposite Catalysis Kumar and Vimal Katiyar Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Vol/ Issue/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Page R.K. Das, V. Rani and Two electron transfer hydro- International Conference on January 23- -- A.K. Golder gen peroxide generation using Water (ICW-2015), Centre for 26, 2015 high purity (99.95%) isomolded Environment Education and graphite cathode Technology (CEET), Kottayam, India. Ch V. Rao and A.K. Synthesis, characterization International Conference on January 23- -- Golder and photocatalytic behavior of Water (ICW-2015), Centre for 26, 2015 silver-doped ZnO using chayote Environment Education and extract, From pollution to purifi - Technology (CEET), Kottayam, cation India. V.V. Kulkarni, A.K. Removal of Pb(II) by weak and CHEMCON-2014, Chandigarh December 27- -- Golder and P.K. strong acidic cation-exchange Regional Centre of IIChE, 30, 2014 Ghosh resins: kinetic and thermody- Chandigarhi, India. namic studies Ch V. Rao, K. Bhakal Biomediated synthesis of ZnO International Conference on November 30, -- and A.K. Golder nanoparticles (ZnONPs) for pho- Civil and Chemical Engineer- 2014 tocatalytic application ing (ICCCE-2014), Warangal, India. R.K. Das, A.S. Giri, Role of supporting electrolytes International Conference on November 30, -- and A.K. Golder for hydrogen peroxide genera- Civil and Chemical Engineer- 2014 tion on graphite cathode ing (ICCCE-2014), Warangal, India.

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Vol/ Issue/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Page S. Khuntia and A.K. Hexavalent chromium reduction 2nd International Conference August 27-29, -- Golder by immobilized green microal- on Algal Biorefi nery (ICAB- 2014 gae in continuous treatment 2014), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. M.K. Gagrai, A.K. Kinetic model of Spirulina 2nd International Conference August 27-29, -- Golder and C. Das Platensis growth in precipitated on Algal Biorefi nery (ICAB- 2014 chrome tanning effl uent 2014), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. P.R. Rao, N. Ngullie, Arsenic removal from contami- International Conference on August 22-23, -- A.K. Golder and P.K. nated water by various physico- Substantial Environmental 2014 Ghosh chemical processes, Technologies (ICSET-2014), Science and Engineering Insti- tute, Dubai, UAE. Mallikarjuna Reddy Numerical simulation of non- Proceedings of International 12-14 Decem- -- and Anugrah Singh Newtonian suspension fl ow Conference on Fluid Mechan- ber 2014 through asymmetric T-junction ics and Fluid Power, FMFP- bifurcating channel 2014, Kanpur Manjunath Reddy N., Petroleum reservoir simulation of Proceedings of International 12-14 Decem- -- Pankaj Tiwari and two-phase fl ow Conference on Fluid Mechan- ber 2014 Anugrah Singh ics and Fluid Power, FMFP- 2014, Kanpur Mridusmita Barooah, CO2 Separation by Facilitated Indian Chemical Engineering 27-30 Decem- -- Babul Prasad, Transport Polymer Membrane Congress (CHEMCON 2014) ber, 2014 Arijit Mondal and Containing Monoethanolamine Bishnupada Mandal Carrier Bisweswar Das, Rates of Absorption of Carbon Indian Chemical Engineering 27-30 Decem- -- Binay Deogam and Dioxide into Aqueous Solutions Congress (CHEMCON 2014) ber, 2014 Bishnupada Mandal of Bis (3-Aminopropyl) amine Sanjib Barma, Gas Permeation Properties Of Indian Chemical Engineering 27-30 Decem- -- Bishnupada Mandal Mcm-48 Membrane: Synthesis Congress (CHEMCON 2014) ber, 2014 And Characterization Bisweswar Das, Carbon Dioxide Absorption into 64th Canadian Chemical En- 19-22, 2014 -- Binay Deogam and Novel Amine Solvent gineering Conference (CSChE Bishnupada Mandal 2014) Sanjib Barma and Synthesis of ordered mesoporous 64th Canadian Chemical En- 19-22, 2014 -- Bishnupada Mandal silica membrane on α-alumina gineering Conference (CSChE support 2014) Mridusmita Barooah, CO2-Selective Polymer Mem- 64th Canadian Chemical En- 19-22, 2014 -- Babul Prasad, brane Containing Amine Carrier gineering Conference (CSChE Arijit Mondal and for CO2 Capture 2014) Bishnupada Mandal M.K. Gagrai, A.K. Kinetic model of Spirulina 2nd International Confer- 27 – 29th Au- -- Golder and C. Das Platensis growth in precipitated ence on Algal Biorefi nery: gust 2014. chrome tanning effl uent (PCTE) A potential source of food, feed, biochemicals, biofuels and biofertlizers (ICAB 2014), Lyngby, Denmark Chandan Das Applications of Membrane National Conference on December 16- -- Technology for the Treatment of Recent Advances in Biodeg- 17, 2014 Organic Pollutants radation of Human Wastes, SaniCon 2014 for Ecofriendly, Appropriate & Aff ordable Sani- tation Solution, DRL Tezpur,

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Vol/ Issue/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Page Saptal Rarotra, Tapas Electrolytic Production of Hydro- Select Biosciences, CSIR-IICT, 2014 -- Kumar Mandal gen Energy by Water-Splitting in Hyderabad, Flow Chemistry and Dipankar Polymer based Micro reactors. India Bandyopadhyay (BEST POSTER AWARD) Sunny Kumar, Marangoni Eff ect Induced Drop- CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India 2014 -- Mitradip let Motion for Energy Harvesting, Bhattacharjee, , Emerging Materials: Character- Seim Timung, Amit ization & Application Kumar Singh, Tapas Kumar Mandal, Ashok Kumar Dasmahapatra and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Amit Kumar Singh, Vinegar Driven Micromotors for CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India 2014 -- Seim Timung, Nanoparticle Synthesis, , Emerg- Divesh Ranjan, ing Materials: Characterization & Saptak Rarotra, Application Tapas Kumar Mandal and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Seim Timung, Field Induced Flow Behaviors of International Conference on 2014 -- Abhinav Sharma, Oil-water Flow inside Microfl uidic MEMS and Sensors, IIT Madras, Tapas Kumar Mandal Channels(BEST PAPER AWARD) Chennai, India and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Saptak Rarotra, Field induced Conversion of IIT Madras, Chennai, India 20414 -- Tapas Kumar Mandal CO2 and Sea Water into Organic and Dipankar Products inside a Micro-fl uidic Bandyopadhyay Reactor, , International Confer- ence on MEMS and Sensors Joydip Chaudhuri, Computational Study of Transi- COMSOL Conference, Banga- 2014 -- Seim Timung, Tapas tion of Oil-water Flow Morphol- lore, India Kumar Mandal ogy due to Sudden Contraction and Dipankar in Microfl uidic Channel Bandyopadhyay Mitradip Simulation of a Voltage Con- COMSOL Conference, Banga- 2014 -- Bhattacharjee, trolled Resistor Mimicking the lore, India Nilanjan Mandal, Geometry of a MOSFET Device Harshal B. Nemade having Graphite Channel and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Kartick Mondal, Infl uence of Charge Leakage and International Conference on 2014 -- Sunita Sen, Prashant Slippage on the Electric Field Nano Science and Technology, Kumar, and Dipankar Induced Patterns in Thin Bilayers INST, Mohali, India Bandyopadhyay

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Vol/ Issue/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Page Mitradip Controlled Drug Release: At- ILS, Ahmedabad, India, 2014 -- Bhattacharjee, tachment of Drugs on Magnetic Nilanjan Mandal, Nanoparticles, , International Satarupa Dutta, Conference on Translational Saptak Rarotra, Nanomedicine Harshal B. Nemade, Arun Chattopadhyay and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Satarupa Paper Based Optical Alpha-amy- International Conference on 2014 -- Dutta, Nilanjan lase Sensor Translational Nanomedicine, Mandal, Mitradip ILS, Ahmedabad, India Bhattacharjee, Harshal B. Nemade, Arun Chattopadhyay and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Kanchapogu Suresh Utilization of Fly ash in Fabrica- Annual Symposium on Solid 06 April 2014 4 and G. Pugazhenthi, tion of Ceramic Membrane Waste Management (RECYCLE 2014) Ashim Kumar Performance Assessment of International Conference on 27-29 Sep- 119 Basumatary, A. K. MCM-48 Ceramic Composite Green Technology for Environ- tember 2014 Ghoshal and G. Membrane by Separation of mental Pollution Prevention Pugazhenthi AlCl3 from Aqueous Solution and Control (ICGTEPC 2014) R. Vinoth Kumar, A. Fabrication of Zirconia Com- International Conference on 27-29 Sep- 118 K. Ghoshal and G. posite Membrane by in-situ Green Technology for Environ- tember 2014 Pugazhenthi Hydrothermal Technique and Its mental Pollution Prevention Application in Methyl Orange and Control (ICGTEPC 2014) Separation Kelothu Suresh, Eff ect of Concentration and Tem- International Conference on 11-13 Octo- 117 Rijumoni Boro, R. perature on Rheological Behav- Polymer Processing and Char- ber 2014 Vinoth Kumar and G. iour of Polystyrene Solution acterization (ICPPC 2014) Pugazhenthi Tekula Srinu, Treatment of Oily Wastewa- International Conference on 16-18 Octo- 235-239 Kanchapogu Suresh, ter using TiO2 Microfi ltration Advances in Chemical Engi- ber 2014 A.K. Ghoshal and G. Membrane Prepared on Ceramic neering & Technology (ICACE Pugazhenthi Support ’14) Ashim Kumar Development and Performance International Conference on 16-18 Octo- 251-255 Basumatary, Partha Evaluation of MCM-41-Ceramic Advances in Chemical Engi- ber 2014 Pratim Adhikari, A. Composite Membrane by Sepa- neering & Technology (ICACE K. Ghoshal and G. ration of AlCl3 from Aqueous ’14) Pugazhenthi Solution Manish Kumar, Role of Various Compatibilizers International Conference on 16-20 Novem- S. Arun, Pradeep on the Properties of PMMA/Clay Advances In Materials and ber 2014 Upadhyaya and G. Nanocomposite Processing Technology (AMPT- Pugazhenthi 2014) Ashim Kumar Synthesis of FAU-type Inorganic National Seminar on Recent 19-21 Novem- 40 Basumatary, Partha Ultrafi ltration Membrane trends in Fundamental and ber 2014 Pratim Adhikari, R. Applied Chemical Sciences Vinoth Kumar, A. (RTFACS-2014) K. Ghoshal and G. Pugazhenthi

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Vol/ Issue/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Page Kanchapogu Suresh Development and Characteriza- National Seminar on Recent 19-21 Novem- 67 and G. Pugazhenthi tion of Thermally Stable Novel Trends in Fundamental and ber 2014 Ceramic Membrane from Inor- Applied Chemical Sciences ganic Clay Materials for Treat- (RTFACS-2014) ment of Synthetic Oil-water Emulsions Kelothu Suresh, Study on the Eff ect of Organi- National Seminar on Recent 19-21 Novem- 68 R. Vinoth Kumar, cally Modifi ed Montmorillonite Trends in Fundamental and ber 2014 M. Jeyapriya, R. (OMMT) Content on Rheological Applied Chemical Sciences Anbarasanand G. Properties of Polystyrene Nano- (RTFACS-2014) Pugazhenthi composites Ashim Kumar Preparation and Evaluation of Frontiers in Chemical Sciences 4-6 December 56 Basumatary, A. K. MCM-48 Ceramic Composite (FICS 2014) 2014 Ghoshal and G. Membrane by Separation of Pugazhenthi FeCl3 from Aqueous Solution Rahul R Ramteke Slip fl ow of a shear-thinning Proceedings of 5th Interna- December A-152 and N. Kishore power-law fl uid past an assem- tional and 41st National Con- (2014) blage of spherical particles ference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power FMFP-2014 Kanpur, India K.M. Krishna, H. Mixed convection heat transfer Proceedings of 5th Interna- December K1-120 Gidituri, N. Kishore from confi ned square cylinder to tional and 41st National Con- (2014) and M. Vasukiran non-Newtonian nanofl uids ference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power FMFP-2014 Kanpur V.S. Nalajala, N. Eff ect of contamination on rise Proceedings of 5th Interna- December F146 Kishore and H. velocity of bubble swarms in tional and 41st National Con- (2014) Biswanath power-law fl uids ference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power FMFP-2014 Kanpur, India A. Mishra and N. Comparison between water Proceedings of 67th Annual December -- Kishore fl ooding and polymer fl ooding in Session of IIChE, CHEMCON- (2014) line drive: numerical simulation 2014Panjab University, Chan- case study digarh, India P. Ghosh and N. A numerical study on bubble Proceedings of 67th Annual December -- Kishore dynamics in turbulent blood fl ow Session of IIChE, CHEMCON- (2014) 2014Panjab University, Chan- digarh, India P Saha Computer Aided Design of 6th IEEE Conference on Tech- Dec 18-21, -- Distillation Column suitable for nology for Education at Amrita 2014 Classroom Teaching University, Kerala Sandeep Chauhan, Performance comparison of International Conference December -- Siva Durgaprasad, evolutionary algorithm for multi on Operational Research in 1-3, 2014 Prakash Kotecha levelproduction planning conjunction with 47th Annual convention of Operational Re- search Society of India (ORSI) B. K. Goshika and S. Gas-liquid-liquid fl ow hold up in International conference March 20-21, -- K. Majumder an ejector induced down fl ow Energy and Environmental 2015 bubble column Engineering (INCEEE) Rajeev Parmar and S. Aluminium oxide recovery by us- International conference March 20-21, -- K. Majumder ing microbubble fl otation Energy and Environmental 2015 Engineering (INCEEE)

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Vol/ Issue/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Page Rajeev Parmar and S. Recovery of fi ne particle by using NECMICO-2014 30-31st Octo- -- K. Majumder ionic microbubble fl otation ber, 2014 Chandrasekhar B., Optimization of multi-stage fl ash International Conference on 20-21 March -- Uppaluri R. and Amit desalination networks using dif- New Frontiers in Chemical, 2015 Kumar ferential evolution algorithm Energy and Environmental Engineering Bhaskar Das, Tapas Performance evaluation of 64th Canadian Chemical Engi- 19-22 Octo- -- K Mandal Sanjukta phenol degradation by Chlorella neering Conference, Ontario, ber, 2014 Patra pyrenoidosa in nutrient suffi cient Canada media and refi nery wastewater through kinetic modelling Akhilesh Kumar Pal Fabrication and Characterization ASP-15 January 21- -- and Vimal Katiyar of Chitosan Dispersed PLA Films 22, 2015 for HighGas Barrier Properties Ananya Das, Extraction, Characterization and ASP-15 January 21- -- Akhilesh Kumar Pal Multistage Deacetylation Kinetics 22, 2015 and Vimal Katiyar of Chitosanfrom Muga Silkworms (Antheraea Assamensis) Arvind Gupta, Vimal Synthesis and Characterization of ASP-15 January 21- -- Katiyar Stereocomplex PLA and Cellulo- 22, 2015 seBiocomposite Debashis Tarafder, Fabrication of Cellulose Nano- ASP-15 January 21- -- Vimal Katiyar crystals from Diff erent Cellulose 22, 2015 Polymorphs Neelima Tripathi and Novel Bio-based Copolymer for ASP-15 January 21- -- Vimal Katiyar Structural Adhesive and Packag- 22, 2015 ingApplications Prodyut Dhar, Poly (3-Hydroxybutyrate)/ Cellu- ASP-15 January 21- -- Umesh Bhardwaj, lose Nanocrystals Based Nano- 22, 2015 Amit Kumar and biocomposite forFood Packaging Vimal Katiyar Applications Shasanka Sekhar A Review on Biodegradable Poly- ASP-15 January 21- -- Borkotoky, Prakash meric Foams 22, 2015 Kotecha and Vimal Katiyar V. Ravi Babua, Studies on the Properties of ASP-15 January 21- -- G.Pugazhenthi and Sucrose Palmitate Reinforced 22, 2015 Vimal Katiyar Poly(lactic acid)Nanocomposite Films Gourhari Review on PLA Based Nanocom- ASP-15 January 21- -- Chakrabortya, G. posites for Versatile Application 22, 2015 Pugazhenthi and Vimal Katiyar Book, Book Chapter, etc.

Volume and Total Name of Author/s Name of Book Publisher Issue No. (If Page ISBN Year any) No. Ghoshal A.K. and Liquid - Membrane Filters; Prog- Elsevier - 51 978-0-12- 2015 P. Saha ress in Filtration and Separation, 384746-1 ed. Steve Tarleton, IChemE

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Volume and Total Name of Author/s Name of Book Publisher Issue No. (If Page ISBN Year any) No. S. R. Varade and Ion-Specifi c Eff ect in Stability of Lambert Nil 76 978-3-659- 2014 P. Ghosh Foams and Emulsions Academic 57985-1 Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany Rajeev Parmar and Flow behavior of microbubble- Apple Aca- Chapter 13 9781 7718 2014 Subrata Kumar liquid mixture in pipes demic Press, 80770 Majumder Taylor & Fran- cis Group USA Prodyut Dhar, Cellulose Nanocrystals: A Poten- Food Additives American 9780 8412 2014 Umesh Bhardwaj, tial Nano-fi ller for Food Packag- and Packaging Chemical 3024 Amit Kumar and ing Applications Society Sym- Vimal Katiyar posium Series (Vol. 1162) Umesh Bhardwaj, Polyhyroxyalkanoates (PHA)- Food Additives American 9780 8412 2014 Prodyut Dhar, Amit Cellulose based Nanobiocom- and Packaging Chemical 3024 Kumar and Vimal posites for Food Packaging Society Sym- Katiyar Applications posium Series (Vol. 1162) CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

International/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date National Ashok Kumar 2nd Soft Matter – Young Investigators’ Pondicherry December 18 – National Dasmahapatra Meet (SM-YIM) – 2014 20, 2014 Ashok Kumar Eighth Symposium on Complex Fluids, Bangaluru December 22 – National Dasmahapatra CompFlu - 2014 24, 2014 Ashok Kumar IUPAC MACRO-2014 Thailand July 06 – 11, International Dasmahapatra 2014 Anugrah Singh FMFP 2014 Kanpur, India 12-14 International December 2014 Anugrah Singh COMPFLU 2014 Bangalore , India 22-24 National December 2014 Dr. Bishnupada Urja Sangam - 2015 Vigyan Bhavan, 27 March 2015 National Mandal New Delhi Dr. Bishnupada Indian Chemical Engineering Congress Chandigarh 27-30 National Mandal (CHEMCON 2014) December, 2014 Dr. Bishnupada Canadian Chemical Engineering Niagara Falls, 19-22 October, International Mandal Congress 2014 Canada 2014 Dr. Bishnupada International Conference on Chemical PDPU, 22-23 August, International Mandal Industries (ICCI-2014) Gandhinagar 2014 Dr. G. Pugazhenthi International Conference on Advances Dubai 16-20 International In Materials and Processing Technology November (AMPT-2014) 2014

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International/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date National Pankaj Tiwari International symposium on CAtalysis in Lyon France 7th- International MUltiphase Reactors (CAMURE) 10thDecember 2014 Rajesh Kumar ISCRE23 &APSCRE 7 Bangkok, 7-10 International Upadhyay Thailand September 2014 Rajesh Kumar CAMURE-9 & ISMR-8 Lyon, France 7-10 December International Upadhyay 2014 Subrata Kumar NECMICO-14 at CSIR-NEIST, 30-31st National Majumder Jorhat Jorhat October, 2014 Dr. Vimal Katiyar ICEMA 2014 IIT Roorkee April 5- 6, 2014 Invited Talk/ International Dr. Vimal Katiyar 13th International Symposium on Guelph,Ontario, May 19-24, Invited Talk/ Bioplastics, Biocomposites & Biorefi ning Canada 2014 International (ISBBB) Dr. Vimal Katiyar International symposium on fi ber science Tokyo, Japan Sep 28 – Oct 1, Keynote Talk/ and technology 2014 (ISF) 2014 International Dr. Vimal Katiyar Kyoto International Symposium on Neo Kyoto, Japan October 2-3, Invited Talk/ Fiber Technology 2014 International Dr. Vimal Katiyar Indo German workshop on supra Delhi University March 30, 2015 Invited Talk/ Molecular Chemistry International INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Dr. Bishnupada CO2-selective dense polymer membranes and PDPU Gandhinagar 22 Mandal Metal Organic Frameworks for post-combustion August, CO2-capture: Challenges and Prospects 2014 Dr Chandan Das Invited talk at National Seminar cum workshop Tezpur University, Assam 28. 3. on “Innovative Prospects in Food Processing: Assam 2015 Integration of Engineering and Biological Sci- ences” at Department of Food Engineering and Technology Dr Chandan Das Invited talk at TEQIP STC on “Tannery Wastewa- Department of Assam 03. 03. ter Treatment by Biological Methods” Chemical Engineer- 2015 ing, IIT Guwahati Dr Chandan Das Invited talk at TEQIP STC on “Applications of Defence Research Assam 17. 12. Membrane Technology for the Treatment of Lab, DRDO, Tezpur 2014 Organic Pollutants Dr Chandan Das Invited talk on “Introduction to Membrane Sepa- Centre for the Envi- Assam 09. 12. ration Technology” ronment, IIT Guwa- 2014 hati, India Dr Chandan Das Invited lecture on “Water and wastewater treat- The Centre for the Assam 20. 06. ment using electrospun PVA nanofi ber mem- Environment, IIT 2014 branes” Guwahati, India Dr Chandan Das Invited lecture on “Low cost ceramic mem- The Energy and New Delhi 16. 04. branes: A new approach towards membrane Resources Institute 2014 technology” (TERI), New Delhi

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Dr. Dipankar Self-propelling Microbots Decorated with Cata- KTH Stockholm Sweden Bandyopadhyay lytic and Magnetic Nanoparticles Dr. Dipankar “Self-Motile Systems” International Conference Haldia Institute of Kolkata Bandyopadhyay on NanoTechnology Technology Dr. Dipankar Applications of Microfl uidics: Sensors, Reactors, IIT Guwahati Guwahati Bandyopadhyay Pumps, & Mixers, State of the Art in Microfl uid- ics, Dr. Pankaj Tiwari Thermal Degradation Kinetic Studies of Biopoly- IITG-KIT joint sympo- Guwahati, 19 Jan mers and Composites sium IIT Guwahati India 2015 Dr. K. Mohanty Lignocellulosic Bioethanol & Biobutanol: Poten- Indian Institute of Hyderabad 19 June tial, Pretreatment Strategies and Future Pros- Chemical Technol- 2014 pects ogy (IICT) Dr. K. Mohanty Bio-Oil from Thermo-Catalytic Conversion of Venice Symposium Venice, Italy 17 No- Non-Edible Seeds 2014 vember 2014 Dr. K. Mohanty Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents for the Treat- SANICON 2014, Tezpur 17 De- ment of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds using Defence Research cember Liquid Membranes Laboratory 2014 Rajesh Kumar Multiphase Flow Reactors Insights through IIT BHU, Varanasi Varanasi 23-24 Upadhyay Experiments and CFD simulations March 2015 Dr. R. Heatline Analysis for Natural Convection within Indo-German Fron- Agra 19-22 Anandalakshmi Porous Rhombic Enclosures for Various Thermal tiers of Engineering, February Aspect Ratios 2015 [INDOGFOE 2015 2015] Dr. R. State of Art on Concentrated Solar Thermal Frontier Energy Re- IIT Guwahati 20-21 Anandalakshmi Power Plants (CSP) search with Industry March Academia Partner- 2015 ship, 2015 [FERIAP 2015] Dr. Vimal Katiyar Sustainable Polymers: Concept, Research, Status, IIT Guwahati Guwahati 4-8 Aug Policies and Regulations (In MSSP-14) 2014 Dr. Vimal Katiyar Lecture in TEQIP short term course on trans- IIT Guwahati Guwahati 15-20 port processes and optimization techniques in Dec 2014 polymers Dr. Vimal Katiyar Lecture on ‘Sustainable Polymer based nanoma- IIT Guwahati Guwahati 23-27 terials’ Dec 2014 Dr. Vimal Katiyar Lecture on ‘Biopolymer based Nanomaterials’ in IIT Guwahati Guwahati 23-27 QIP short term course onMicromanufacturing Feb 2015 for Biomedical Applications Dr. Vimal Katiyar Lecture on ‘Development And Processing of IIT Guwahati Guwahati 25 Feb Biomedical Related Polymers’in QIP short term – 1 Mar course on Advances in biomedical engineering 2015 VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Prof. Yoshiharu Kimura KIT Japan IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20-22, 2015 Materials and ASP-15

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Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Dr. Kazunari Masutani KIT Japan IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20-22, 2015 Materials and ASP-15 Prof. Shinichi Sakurai KIT Japan IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20-22, 2015 Materials and ASP-15 Prof. Hidekazu Yasunaga KIT Japan IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20-22, 2015 Materials and ASP-15 Dr. Tomonari Tanaka KIT Japan IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20-22, 2015 Materials and ASP-15 Prof. Kensuke Naka KIT Japan IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20-22, 2015 Materials and ASP-15 Prof. Shigeru Okamoto Nagoya Institute of Tech- IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20-22, 2015 nology, Nagoya, Japan Materials and ASP-15 Dr. Kazuaki Sogo Mutual Corporation, IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20, 2015 Japan Materials Prof. Gaurav Manik IIT Roorkee IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20, 2015 Materials Prof. S. N. Naik IIT Delhi IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Jan 20, 2015 Materials Prof. Sadhan C. Jana University of Akron, USA ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Olli Ikkala Aalto University, Finland ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Suprakas Sinha Ray CSIR, South Africa ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Mikael Skrifvars University of Borås, Swe- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 den Prof. Namita Roy University of South Aus- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Choudhury tralia, Australia Prof. Jayachandran N UBC, Canada ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Kizhakkedathu Prof. Eamor M. Woo NCKU, Taiwan ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Sreekala Bajwa North Dakota State Uni- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 versity, USA Prof. Jean-Michel Guenet ICS, France ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Ullrich Scherf University of Wuppertal, ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Germany Dr. Manohar V. Badiger NCL Pune ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Dr. A. Bhattacharya CSMCRI, India ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Dr. Susheela B. Idage NCL Pune ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Md. Abul Kalam Azad SUST, Bangladesh ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Vincent Gomes The University of Sydney, ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Australia Dr. Bhaskar B. Idage NCL Pune ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Dr. Joby Kochumalayil Jose KTH Royal Inst. of Tech- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 nology, Sweden Prof. Biswajit Ray Banaras Hindu University ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Ramaswamy University of Massachu- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Nagarajan setts, USA

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Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Prof. Naba K. Dutta University of South Aus- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 tralia Prof. Richard G. Weiss Georgetown University, ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Washington, USA Prof. Ishrat Khan Clark Atlanta University, ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 USA Prof. Dilpreet Bajwa North Dakota State Uni- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 versity, USA Prof. Satish A. Patil Indian Institute of Sci- ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 ence, Bangalore Prof. Niranjan Karak Tezpur University, India ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof KC Gupta IIT Roorkee, India ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Mr. Frédéric Bossan R&D, Xenocs, Sassenage, ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 France Prof. Richard Hoogenboom Ghent University, Belgium ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Prof. Nabanita Saha Tomas Bata University in ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Zlin, Czech Republic Prof. Sunil K. Sharma University of Delhi, India ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Dr. Gauri Shankar DRDO, New Delhi ASP-15 Jan 21-22, 2015 Mukherjee SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED:

Name of Faculty Funded International/ No. of (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Date By National participants ordinator, etc.) Dr. Bishnupada Membrane Technology & TEQIP 09-10 National 30 Mandal Application December 2014 Dr. Bishnupada Transport Processes and TEQIP 15-20 National 30 Mandal Optimization Techniques in December Polymers 2014 Prof. B. Mandal and Membrane Technology & MHRD December National 35 Dr. C. Das (Joint Application, Centre for the 09-10, 2014, coordinators) Environment, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India Chairman: Arun A National workshop on NEMS DeitY 16-03-3015 to National 85 Chattopadhyay, and Theranostic Devices 17-03-2015 Convener: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Dr. B. P. Mandal, Dr. V. Transport Processes and KIC-CET, December National 28 Katiyar, Dr. A. kumar, Optimization Techniques in IITG 15-20, 2014 Dr. P. Kotecha, Dr. R. Polymers Anandalakshmi & Dr. R. Gupta K. Mohanty Emerging Micropollutants in KIC-TEQIP 2-5 March, National 40 the Environment: Occurrence, (MHRD) 2015 Transportation, Monitoring and Treatment

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Name of Faculty Funded International/ No. of (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Date By National participants ordinator, etc.) K. Mohanty Refl ux 2015 - 27-29 March, National 250 2015 Rajesh Kumar QIP Course on Insights of MHRD 16-20 National 26 Upadhyay Multiphase Flow Reactors December through Experimental and CFD 2014 Techniques Prof. R. Uppaluri (Co- Technical Writing KIC-TEQIP, 7-8 Dec 2015 National 80 ordinator) CET Dr. Vimal Katiyar MSSP-14 Dept. of Aug. 4-8, National 35 Chemicals 2014 and Petro- chemicals Dr. Vimal Katiyar First In-house Symposium on Dept. of Nov. 20, 2014 National 40 Technical Progress of Centre Chemicals of Excellence for Sustainable and Petro- Polymer (CoE-SusPol) chemicals Dr. Vimal Katiyar IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Dept. of Jan. 20, 2015 International 70 Biobased Materials Chemicals and Petro- chemicals Dr. Vimal Katiyar ASP-15 Dept. of Jan. 21-22, International >100 Chemicals 2015 and Pet- rochemi- cals, DBT (SERB), DST PATENTS:

Name of Faculty and Date Applied/ Name Application No. co researcher Granted Agarwal A., Pujari M., Composition and Method for Dense Palladium Indian Patent fi led (05- 612/KOL/2014 Uppaluri R. and Verma A. Ceramic Composite Membrane Fabrication 06-2014)

AWARDS AND HONOURS: applications” published by Scientifi c & Academic Publishing 1. Dr. Animes K Golder, recently joined as the Editors of Int. Co., CA, 91731, USA. J. Chem. Clean. Sep. Technol. and Int. J Chem. Eng. Proc. (Int. 5. Dr S.K. Mazumdar became Life Member of Indian Institute Journals Pub) of Chemical Engineers (Membership No. LM 32569) 2. Dr. Dipanker Bandopadhay awardedErasmus-Mundus 6. Dr S.K. Mazumdar became Life Member of Indian Institute Visiting Faculty under the COSSE Program, KTH Stockholm, of Mineral Engineers (Membership No. LM 754) Sweden, September 2014. 7. Dr S.K. Mazumdar becameMember of Asia-Pacific 3. Prof Pallab Ghosh awareded “Shri G. M. Abhyankar Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society Memorial Distinguished Fellowship in Chemical Engineering” (Membership No. 101119) for the year 2014-2015 by Institute of Chemical Technology, 8. Dr S.K. Mazumdar becameSenior Member of International Matunga, Mumbai , 400019, India. Association of Engineers, Japan (IAE) (Membership No. 4. Dr S.K. Mazumdar appointed as Editor, Journal of Chemical 153874) Engineering Research Studies, VRJ publishersGuest Editor, 9. Dr. Vimal Katiyar, Associate Professor, Department of American Journal of Fluid Dynamics , Special Issue on Chemical Engineering, has been appointed for Part Time “Experimental and modelling of bubbly fl ow for industrial Teaching Assignment at Graduate School of Science and

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Technology at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan for the paper entitled “Degradation of dipyrone in water for 2014-2015. by heterogeneous photo catalytic reaction: Degradation 10. Dr. Vimal Katiyar is acting as Guest Editor mechanism and reaction pathways”, in Refl ux-2.0-Annual for Special Issue ‘Natural Fibre Composites and Chemical Engineering Symposium, Department of Chemical Biocomposites:Characterization, Modification and Engineering, 29-30th March, 2014, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India Environmental Ageing Eff ects’ in International Journal of o Field Induced Flow Behaviors of Oil-water Flow inside Polymer Science Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA. Microfl uidic Channels, Seim Timung, Abhinav Sharma, Tapas Kumar Mandal and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, International STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS Conference on MEMS and Sensors, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, o Ardhendu S. Giri received the best presentation award 2014. (BEST PAPER AWARD)

FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1. R. Anandalakshmi IIT Madras Assistant Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Process Professor Modeling and Simulation, Solar Thermal Energy Conversion, Energy Effi cient Design of Thermal Systems 2. Dipankar IIT Kanpur Associate Colloid and Interfacial Phenomena, Computational Bandyopadhyay Professor Fluid Dynamics, Micro and Nano Fluidics, Complex Flow and Fluids, Clean Energy – Fuel and Solar cells 3. Tamal Banerjee IIT Kanpur Associate Phase equilibria of ionic liquids, Molecular simulations, Professor Global optimisation, Statistical thermodynamics 4. Jaideep Chatterjee Illinois Adjunct Faculty Water Purifi cation, Oil-water interfaces, and Surfactant Institute Of Enhanced Oil Recovery Technology Chicago 5. Chandan Das IIT Kharagpur Associate Wastewater Treatment, Bioremediation, Membrane Professor based Separation Process 6. Ashok Kumar IIT Bombay Assistant Complex fl uids, Phase transition in polymers Dasmahapatra Professor (Nucleation, crystallization, collapse transition, etc.), Structure-property relations, Molecular simulations, Biological physics 7. Mahuya De IIT Kanpur Associate Catalysis and reaction engineering, adsorption, Professor hydrocarbon processing 8. Pallab Ghosh IIT Bombay Professor Interfacial phenomena, Interfacial reactions, Membrane separation, Randomised algorithms 9. Aloke Kumar Ghoshal IIT Kharagpur Professor Advanced Separation Technology, Modeling & Simulation, Environmental Pollution Control, Pyrolysis of waste plastics 10. Partho Sarathi Gooh Lehigh Assistant Stochastic dynamics, Colloid and Interface science, Pattader University Professor Tribology, Soft matter 11. Animes Kr. Golder IIT Kharagpur Associate Electroremediation of water/wastewater, Professor Physiochemical water/wastewater treatment techniques, Bioremediation, Electrochemical corrosion 12. Vaibhav V. Goud IIT Kharagpur Associate Heterogeneous Reactions, Bio-energy and Green Professor Engineering, Biolubricant, Utilisation of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Fuel/Chemicals, Supercritical Fluids 13. Sasidhar Gumma Cleveland Associate Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics, Adsorption, State Professor Molecular simulation, Gas storage University, USA

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 14. Raghvendra Gupta Assistant Multiphase fl ow, Microfl uidics and micro process Professor engineering, Computational and experimental fl uid dynamics 15. Anki Reddy Katha IISc Assistant Computational study of polymer-composites, Bangalore Professor Membranes, Poly electrolytes, Granular fl ows 16. Vimal Katiyar IIT Bombay Associate Synthetic and Natural Polymers, Polymer Processing, Professor Biothermoset, Nanobiocomposite, Organic Solar Cells, Biodegradable Polymers 17. Nanda Kishore IIT Kanpur Associate CFD, Bubbles, Drops and Particles Dynamics, Non- Professor Newtonian Fluids 18. Prakash Kotecha IIT Bombay Assistant Optimization, Process Control, Artifi cial Intelligence, Professor Planning and Scheduling 19. Amit Kumar University Assistant Gas Transport in Nanoporous Materials, Molecular of Delaware, Professor Simulation, Statistical Mechanics USA 20. Bishnnupada Mandal IIT Kharagpur Professor Separations with chemical reaction, Molecular based membrane separation, Modeling and simulation of separation processes, Environmental pollution control 21. Tapas K Mandal IIT Kharagpur Associate Multiphase fl ow & Measurement in multiphase fl ow, Professor Bio-diesel 22. Subrata Kumar IIT Kharagpur Associate Multiphase fl ow and reactor development, Mazumdar Professor Computational fl uid dynamics in multiphase fl ow, Mineral processing, Process intensifi cations and Micro- nanobubble science and technology 23. Kaustubha Mohanty IIT Kharagpur Associate Bioseparation, Biofuels, Biological wastewater Professor treatment, Membrane technology, Ionic liquids 24. Vijay S. Moholkar University Professor Bubble dynamics, CFD, Sono-process engineering, Bio- (Head of the of Twente, mass gasifi cation Department) Netherlands 25. Nageswara Rao Peela IIT Kanpur Assistant Heterogeneous Catalysis and reaction engineering, Professor Biomass conversion to value added chemicals, Bio-oil up-gradation to transportation fuels, Carbon dioxide activation to valuable chemicals, Metal encapsulated zeolites 26. Vairakannu Prabu IIT Madras Assistant Clean Coal Technology, Combustion and Gasifi cation, Professor Reaction kinetics 27. G. Pugazhenthi IIT Kanpur Associate Membrane Separation, Polymer Nanocomposites, Professor Nanomaterials, Catalysis & Refi nery Processes 28. Mihir Kumar Purkait IIT Kharagpur Associate Advance Separation Processes, Membrane technology. Professor Preparation/fabrication of ceramic/polymeric membranes and their application in RO, NF, UF and MF. Treatment of Industrial Effl uent, Surfactant mediated separation processes, Responsive materials for environmental, biological and chemical separation 29. Prabirkumar Saha IIT Madras Professor Process Modeling, Optimisation and control, Membrane Based separation Process

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 30. S. Senthilmurugan IIT Delhi Assistant Modeling and Optimization of Novel Processes, Process (Joined on 29 Professor Design and Operation of Membrane Separation October 2013) Processes, Waste and waste water treatment (WWWT) for Process Industries, Novel Desalination Technologies, Smart Water Grid, Waste to Energy 31. Anugrah Singh IISc Professor Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Bangalore Microfl uidics/Nanofl uidics, Material Processing, Flow through Porous Media 32. Pankaj Tiwari University Assistant Conventional and unconventional energies, Reservoir of Utah, Salt Professor Engineering, Complex organic solids, Biomass Lake City, UT, conversion, Pyrolysis process, Kinetic analysis USA 33. Rajesh Kr. Upadhyay IIT Delhi Assistant Multiphase Flow Reactor, Multiphase Flow Professor Measurements, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Residence Time Distribution, Novel Reactors 34. Ramgopal V. S. UMIST, Professor Major: Electroless Plating, Evolutionary Engineering Uppaluri Manchester, Optimization, Low Cost Ceramic Membranes, UK Microfi ltration; Minor: Bio-systems Engineering, Polymer-natural fi ber composites, Process Design & Techno-economics, Refi nery Engineering, Reservoir Engineering; Extracurricular: Synthesis of Science and Spirituality 35. R. Prasanna IIT Madras Assistant Electrochemistry, Chemical Mechanical Polishing Venkatesh (Joined 25 Professor (CMP), Post CMP cleaning, Refi nery Processes April 2013) 36. Anil Verma IIT Delhi Associate Fuel Cell, Hydrogen Production and Storage, Graphene, Professor Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion to Fuel

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1995 50 m2 average) ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in (i) Semi preparative HPLC system (Make: Thermo, Model: o Chemical Science and Technology Ultimate 3000)(Order placed) (ii) TCS PC Lifetime system with MCP detection (Make: Hariba Master of Science (MSc) in Jobin, Model: Ultrafast-01-DD)(Order placed) o Chemistry MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) The Department is engaged in various research and FACULTY STRENGTH: Development activities such as: • Professor: 14 Catalysis, Supramolecular Chemistry, Nanoscale Science and • Associate Professor: 16 Technology, Synthesis, structure and reactivity of Inorganics, • Assistant Professor: 5 Newer reagents, Protocols and Newer methodologies, Synthesis of natural products and Carbohydrate Chemistry, NUMBER OF NEW FACULTY JOINED: Bio-organic Chemistry, Bio-inorganic Chemistry and • Assistant Professor: 2 Co-ordination Chemistry & Organometallics, Chiral recognition using metal complex based host, Metal LABORATORIES: removal from wastewater using polymer based chelators, Laboratories for BTech and MSc programme: Polymer synthesis, Organic Photochemistry, Molecular Chemistry Laboratory (B. Tech, 1st sem) / Chemical dynamics, Quantum Molecular dynamics, Physical Technology Lab – I, B. Tech (CST) (Number: 1) (Area: 200 m2) Chemistry – Spectroscopic and Theoretical investigations on Novel Materials, peptide chemistry, Development of Chemical Technology Lab – II, B. Tech (CST) (Number: 1) new theoretical approaches to: Laser Assisted Control of (Area: 140 m2) Chemical Technology Lab – III, B. Tech (CST) Chemical Reactions, and, Resonances in Electron – Molecule / Physical Chemistry Lab (M. Sc) (Number: 2) (Area: 300 m2) Scattering, Biomimetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Inorganic Chemistry Lab (M. Sc) / Organic Chemistry Lab (M. Computational Biophysics and Chemistry, Oxidation Sc) (Number: 1) (Area: 180 m2) Catalysis, Molecular Magnetism, Synthesis of Single-Molecule Research Laboratories: Magnets (SMMs), MRI Contrast agents, Water Oxidation CHL –101, CHL – 102, CHL –103, CHL – 104, CHL –105, CHL Chemistry, Experimental & Theoretical Physical Chemistry, –106, CHL – 201, CHL-202, CHL-203, CHL-204, CHL – 205, CHL Self-organization and Nonlinear dynamics, Liquid crystals, – 206, CHL-3201, CHL-3202, CHL-3203, CHL-3204, CHL-3207, Functional Materials, Molecular Electronics, Self Assembly, CHL-3209, CHEL-006, CHEL-003, CHEL-004, CHEL –101, CHEL Supramolecular dynamic aggregates, peptides, lipids, Time –102, CHEL –103, CHEL – 104, CHEL – 105, CHEL – 106, CHEL Resolved Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy, SHG, –107, CHEL –108, CHEL – 109 (Number: 30) (Floor space: 80 MUPPETS, Synthetic organic chemistry, Natural product m2 average) synthesis with the emphasis of new synthetic methodology; Analytical equipment Lab I – IV (Number: 04) (Floor space: development of new reactions, asymmetric organocatalysis 300 m2 average) and transition metal catalysis with new catalyst design; mechanistic study, solar fuel from water, Gas/Vapor/ Computer Lab I and II (Number: 02) (Floor space: 80 m2 Liquid Adsorption and Catalytic Applications of Metal- average) Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Peptidomimetics: Synthesis, Ultrapure (Milliipore) water Lab (Number: 01) (Floor space: Conformation and Biological activity etc.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Shyam P. Development of superhydrophobic DST-SERB 23.25 None 2014-2017 Biswas metal-organic frameworks bearing water repellent functional groups for oil spill clean-up and volatile organic compounds removal Dr. Chandan Transition metal-radical complexes as CSIR 15.42 None 2015-2018 Mukherjee oxidation catalysts Dr. Kingsuk Gold(I)-Mediated Self-Assembly for Me- DST-SERB 25.00 None 2014-2017 Mahata dicinal Applications b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dept. of DST–FIST Project under level–II category DST 215.00 - 5 years Chemistry Dept. of FAST-For centre of Excellence for training MHRD 400.00 - 5 years Chemistry and Research in frontier areas of Science and Technology Prof. A. Interacting Molecules and Nanoscale CSIR 16.00 - 3 years Chattopadhyay Materials Prof. B. K. Patel Development of Antimalarial and Ani- CSIR 8.00 - 3 years Tuberculosis Drugs Prof. B. K. Patel Newer Approaches to Heterocycles: Mech- CSIR 15.00 - 3 years anistic Investigations and Applications Prof. B. K. Patel Beyond Traditional coupling leading to the DST 48.00 - 3 years synthesis of novel heterocyclic scaff olds Prof. T. Study of C-H Activation for the Synthesis of DST 48.00 - 3 years Punniyamurthy Benzofuzed Azoles Prof. T. Chiral Macromolecules for Chiral Recogni- CSIR 21.00 - 3 years Punniyamurthy tion and Asymmetric Catalysis Prof. A. K. Saikia New approaches towards the synthesis CSIR 18.00 - 3 years of nitrogen and oxygen heterocycles and their applications in natural product synthesis Prof. V. Synthesis, Characterization of New Nitrog- DST 35.90 - 3 Years Manivannan enous Prof. G. Das Supramolecular self-assembly and anion CSIR 9.15 - 3 Years coordination chemistry of multidentate ligand. Dr. S. S. Bag Genotyping Single Nucleoside Polymor- DBT 82.12 - 3 years phisms (SNPs) with Fluorescently Modifi ed Nucleoside /Oligonucleotide Probes

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. B. Mandal Arresting pre fi briller aggregates of Al- DBT 56.00 Dr. A. C. 3 years zheimer’s amyloid by synthetic antibodies Mondal, R. P. M. Col- lege, Uttar- para, Hooghly (W.B.) Dr. M. Sarma Eff ect of Electron Donating and Electron DST 29.46 - 3 years Withdrawing Substituents on Single Strand Breaks in Selected DNA Fragment Induced by Low Energy Electron Dr. Debasis Design, Synthesis and Biological Activities CSIR 22.42 - 3 years Manna of Protein Kinase C Activators. Dr. D. Das Understanding the Interaction between BRNS 21.26 - 3 years Cucurbituril and Amphiphilic Molecules in Aqueous Medium to Prepare Novel Self- assembled Systems Dr. G.Das Supramolecular self-assembly and anion CSIR 9.15 - 3 Years coordination chemistry of multidentate ligand. Dr. G. Developing Simple Sensors for Chemical DST 45.00 - 3 Years Krishnamoorty Applications Dr. M. Qureshi Synthesis and Characterization of Effi cient CSIR 13.00 - 2 years Molecular Materials for Organic Light Emit- ting Diodes Dr. Sumana Self-organization and Filament Dynamics DST-SERB 33.10 - 3 Years Dutta in Reaction-diff usion Systems Dr. L. M. Kundu Synthesis of Modifi ed Nucleobases and DST 22.80 - 3 Years Modifi ed Nucleic Acids for Biomolecular Applications Dr. L. M. Kundu Synthesis of Nucleobases with Modifi ed CSIR 12.5 - 3 Years Base-Pairing Properties and Synthesis of Non-Natural Oligonucleotides to Develop FRET Based Probes for the Detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and DNA Lesions Dr. Chandan K Total Synthetic Studies on Potential An- BRNS 14.15 - 3 years Jana ticancer Natural Products Isolated From Azadirachta indica (Neem) Dr. Chandan K Total Syntheses of Three Potential Antican- BRNS 24.20 - 3 years Jana cer Natural Products and Their Unnatural Derivatives Dr. A. S. Luminescent DLCs for the application in BRNS-DAE 25.00 - 2 years Achalkumar OLEDs Dr. A. S. Design and synthesis of PDLCs for the Ap- DSTSERB 50.00 - 3 years Achalkumar plication in Organic Electronics Dr. K.A.Sahu Characterization of Aspartyl-tRNA Syn- DBT - 3 years thetase from Entamoeba Histolytica by Spectroscopic Methods

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Subhas N-Vinyl and N-Alkynyl Pyridinium and – DST-SERB 26.95 - 3 years Chandra Pan Ammonium Tetrafl uroborate Salts: New Electrophillic Reagents in Asymmetric Organocatalysis Dr. Subhas Asymmetric Organocatalytic Tandem Cy- DAE-BNRS 16.90 - 4 years Chandra Pan clization and Cycloaddition Reactions with 1-Acetylcyclohexene Dr. Subhas New Aminocatalytic Asymmetric Transfor- DST-MPI 40.50 Lakhs - 3 years Chandra Pan mations + 60,000 Euros Dr. Sandip Paul Eff ect of osmolytes urea and trimethyl- DST 20.70 - 3 years amine-N-oxide on hydrophobicity and protein folding/unfolding under confi ne- ment Dr. Sandip Paul The mechanism of bioprotective eff ect BRNS 24.245 Dr. Debasis 3 years of trehalose through hydrophobic and Manna hydrogen bonding interactions on peptide and polypeptide: A molecular dynamics simulation study Dr. Sandip Paul Counteraction of OsmolyteTrimethylamine- CSIR 10.62 - 3 years N-Oxide on Pressure Induced and Urea Induced Denaturation of Proteins BPTI and Rnase A: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study Dr. Chandan Development of Water Oxidation Cata- DST 24.20 none 3 years Mukherjee lysts, Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Contrast Agents, Employing a Common Backbone Dr. Chandan Synthesis of Sensitizers for Dye Sensitized BRNS 23.51 none 3 years Mukherjee Solar Cell Dr. Chandan Radical-Containing Transition Metal-Com- IIT Guwa- 5.00 none 3 years Mukherjee plex Catalyzed Aerial Oxidation of Alcohols hati to Aldehydes Dr. Kingsuk Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts for Artifi cial IIT Guwa- 5.00 none 3 years Mahata Photosynthesis hati c) Completed Sponsored Projects:

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Sandip The Role of Aqueous Solutions of DST 21.382 Dr. S. S. Bag 3 years Paul Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO) on the & Dr. L. M. Pressure Induced Hydrophobic Interactions Kundu and the Pressure Induced Hydrogen Bond Properties and Dynamics Dr. A. S. Photo-responsive functional surfaces for RSC-DST None 3 years Anchalkumar bio-nano applications

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Debasis Mechanistic Insights into the Phosphatidyl BRNS 17.00 Prof. B. 3 years Manna Inositol (IP) Binding Properties of Human Mandal Protein Lamellipodin and its Pleckstrin Homology (PH) Domain

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. A. Tarai, J. B.Baruah Study on fl uoride detection and assembling CrystEngComm 17 (11) 2301- 2015 of hydroxyaromatic aldoximes caused by 2309 tetrabutylammonium fl uoride P. Khakhlary, C. Structural and magnetic properties of oxy- Dalton Transac- 44 (7) 2964 2015 Anson, A. Mondal, A. quinolinate clusters of cobalt (II) and manga- tions -2969 Powell, J. B. Baruah nese (II) and serendipitous intake of carbon- ate during synthesis J. Nath, A. Kirillov, J. B. Synthesis, structure and topological studies Crystal Growth 15 (2) 737-751 2015 Baruah of solvates and salts of a chiral zwitteronic and Des. host N-(2-imidazol-5-yl-1-carboxyethyl)-1,8- naphthalimide Khakhlary, P., Baruah, Polymorphs and salts of 4-nitro-N-(quinolin- Journal of Mo- 1078 188-196 2014 J.B. 8-yl)benzamide lecular Struc- ture P. Khakhlary, J.B. Studies on cluster, salt and molecular com- Journal of 127 215-223 2015 Baruah, plex of zinc-quinolinate Chemical Sci- ences P. Khakhlary, J. B. Anion-л interactions in layered structures of Journal of 127 95-102 2015 Baruah salts of 5-(hydroxyimino)quinolin-8-one and Chemical Sci- related salts ences P. Khakhlary, J. B. Selective interactions of 5-(hydroxyimino) RSC Advances 4 64643- 2014 Baruah quinolin-8-one with tetrabutylammonium 64648 fl uoride and zinc(II) ions J. Nath, A. Kirillov, J. B. Unusual solvent-mediated hydrolysis of RSC Advances 4 47876- 2014 Baruah dicarboxylate monoester ligands in copper(II) 47886 complexes toward simultaneous crystalliza- tion of new dicarboxylate derivatives J. Nath, A. Mondal, A. Structures, magnetic properties and photo- Crystal Growth 14 (9) 4735- 2014 Powell, J. B. Baruah luminescence of dicarboxylate coordination and Des. 4748 polymers of Mn, Co, Ni, Cu having N-(4- pyridylmethyl)-1,8-naphthalimide N. Phukan, J. B. 3-Hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxylic acid Journal of Mo- 1076 614-619 2014 Baruah supported grid-like structure of cadmium lecular Struc- chloride coordination polymer with1,3-bis(4- ture pyridyl)propane. B. R. Jali and J. B. Fluorescence properties, aluminium ion selec- Dyes and Pig- 110 56-66 2014 Baruah tive emission changes and self-assemblies of ments positional isomers of 4-(hydroxyphenylthio) naphthalene-1,2-diones.

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. B. Nath and J. B. Cadmium(II)dicarboxylate complexes of Polyhedron 79 291-299 2014 Baruah, 2,2’-[2-fl uoro-phenylmethyl-idenebis(3,5- methyl-2-phenyleneoxy)]diacetic acid formed in diff erent solvents J. K. Nath and J. B. Twisted conformations in complexes of N-(3- Inorg. Chem. 1 342-351 2014 Baruah, imidazol-1-yl-propyl)-1,8-naphthalimide and Frontiers fl uorescence properties. N. Phukan and J. B. Polymorphs of 1-(5-methylthiazol-2-yl)- Crystal Growth 14 (5) 2640- 2014 Baruah, 3-phenylthiourea and various anion assisted and Des. 2653 assemblies of two positional isomers Nath, J. K., Kirillov, A. Unusual solvent-mediated hydrolysis of RSC Advances 4 (88) 47876- 2014 M., Baruah, J. B. dicarboxylate monoester ligands in copper(ii) 47886 complexes toward simultaneous crystalliza- tion of new dicarboxylate derivatives Nath, J. K., Baruah, Solvatoemissive dual fl uorescence of N- Journal of Fluo- 24 (3) 649-655 2014 J. B. (pyridylmethyl)-3-nitro-1,8- naphthalimides rescence Jali, B. R., Baruah, J. B. Fluorescence properties, aluminium ion selec- Dyes and Pig- 110 56-66 2014 tive emission changes and self-assemblies of ments positional isomers of 4-(hydroxyphenylthio) naphthalene-1,2- diones Sabyasachi Pramanik, Synchronous Tricolor Emission-Based White The Journal of 6 (7) 1270- 2015 Satyapriya Bhandari, Light from Quantum Dot Complex Physical Chem- 1274 Shilaj Roy and Arun istry Letters Chattopadhyay Rama Ghosh, Upashi Synergistic Anticancer Activity of Fluorescent ACS Applied 7 (1) 209-222 2015 Goswami, Siddhartha Copper Nanoclusters and Cisplatin Delivered Materials and Sankar Ghosh, through a Hydrogel Nanocarrier. Interfaces Anumita Paul and Arun Chattopadhyay. Satyapriya Bhandari, Double Channel Emission from a Redox Ac- Langmuir 31 (1) 551-561 2015 Shilaj Roy, Sabyasachi tive Single Component Quantum Dot Com- Pramanik and Arun plex. Chattopadhyay. Md Palashuddin Luminescent Carbon Dots for Logic Opera- ChemPhy- 16 (4) 723-727 2015 Sk, Sunil Kumar tions in Two Phases sChem Sailapu and Arun Chattopadhyay Satyapriya Bhandari, Surface Complexation Reaction forPhase Langmuir 30 (35) 10760- 2014 Shilaj Roy, Sabyasachi Transfer of Hydrophobic Quantum Dot from 10765 Pramanik and Arun Nonpolar to Polar Medium. Chattopadhyay. Subhamoy Banerjee, Chemosensitization of IκBα overexpressing RSC Advances 4 (74) 39257- 2014 Amaresh Kumar glioblastoma towards anti-cancer agents. 39267 Sahoo, Arun Chattopadhyay and Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh.

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Subhamoy Banerjee, Recombinant IκBα-loaded curcumin nanopar- Nanotechnol- 25 (34) 345102 2014 Amaresh Kumar ticles for improved cancer therapeutics. ogy Sahoo, Arun Chattopadhyay and Siddhartha sankar Ghosh. Nidhi Chaubey, Silver nanoparticle loaded PLGA composite Biomaterials 2 1080- 2014 Amaresh Kumar nanoparticles for improving therapeutic ef- Science 1089 Sahoo, Arun fi cacy of recombinant IFNγ by targeting the Chattopadhyay and cell surface. Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh Md Palashuddin Induction coil heater prepared highly fl uores- RSC Adv. 4 (60) 31994- 2014 Sk and Arun cent carbon dots as invisible ink and explo- 31999 Chattopadhyay. sive sensor Satyapriya Bhandari, Enhanced photoluminescence and thermal RSC Adv. 4 (46) 24217- 2014 Shilaj Roy and Arun stability of zinc quinolate following complex- 24221 Chattopadhyay. ation on the surface of quantum dots. Sunil Kumar Sailapu, Hierarchical Logic Structures Based on Re- Small 10 (20) 4067- 2014 Amaresh Kumar sponsive Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters. 4071 Sahoo, Shiddhartha Sankar Ghosh, and Arun Chattopadhyay.. Rama Ghosh, Blue-emitting copper nanoclusters synthe- ACS Applied 6 (6) 3822- 2014 Amaresh Kumar sized in the presence of lysozyme as candi- Materials and 3828 Sahoo, Shiddhartha dates for cell labeling. Interfaces Sankar Ghosh, Anumita Paul and Arun Chattopadhyay. Shilpa Sharma, S Silver nanoparticles impregnated alginate- Advanced 3 (1) 106-114 2014 Chockalingam, chitosan-blended nanocarrier induces apop- Healthcare Pallab Sanpui, Arun tosis in human glioblastoma cells. Materials Chattopadhyay and Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh. Khandelia, R., Jaiswal, Polymer coated gold nanoparticle-protein ag- Journal of Ma- 20 (38) 6472- 2014 A., Ghosh, S.S., glomerates as nanocarriers for hydrophobic terials Chemis- 6477 Chattopadhyay, A. drug delivery try B Behera, A.; Ali, W.; Benzyl bromides as aroyl surrogates in sub- RSC Adv. 5 33334 2015 Guin, S.; Khatun, N.; strate directed Pd catalysed o-aroylation Mohanta, P. R.; Patel, B. K. Majji, G.; Generation of bis-acyl ketals from esters and J. Org. Chem 80 3440 2015 Rajamanickam, S.; benzyl amines under oxidative conditions Khatun, N.; Santra, S. K.; Patel, B. K. Ali, W., Rout, S.K., Copper-catalyzed cross dehydrogenative cou- Advanced 357 515-522 2015 Guin, S., Modi, A., pling of N,N-disubstituted formamides and Synthesis and Banerjee, A., Patel, phenols: A direct access to carbamates Catalysis B.K.

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Santra, S. K.; Palladium catalyzed ortho-halogenation of RSC Adv. 5 11960 2015 Banerjee, A.; Khatun, 2-arylbenzothiazole and 2,3-diarylquinoxaline N.; Samanta, A.; Patel, B. K. Khatun, N.; Santra, S. Nano CuO Catalyzed Cross Dehydrogenative Eur. J. Org. 6 1309- 2015 K.; Banerjee, A.; Patel, Coupling (CDC) of Aldehydes to Anhydrides Chem. 1313 B. K. Khatun, N.; Banerjee, Pd(II)-catalysed o-aroylation of directing RSC Adv. 4 (97) 54532- 2014 A.; Santra, S. K.; arenes using terminal aryl alkenes and 54538 Behera, A.; Patel, B. K. alkynes Banerjee, A.; Santra, Copper(I) Promoted Cycloalkylation-Perox- Org. Biomol. 13 (5) 1307- 2015 S. K.; Mishra, A.; idation of Unactivated Alkenes via sp3 C-H Chem. 1312 Khatun, N.; Patel, B. K. Functionalisation: Santra, S. K. Banerjee, Ceric Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) Promoted Eur. J. Org. 2 350-356 2015 A.; Khatun, N.; Patel, Pd(II)-Catalyzed Substrate Directed o-Benzox- Chem. B. K., . ylation and Decarboxylative o-Aroylation Majji, G.; Guin, S.; Cyclic ethers to esters and monoesters to bis- Chem Com- 50 (81) 12193 2014 Rout, S. K.; Behera, A.; esters with unconventional coupling partners mun. Patel, B. K. via sp3 C-H activation under metal free condi- tions. Gogoi, A.; Modi, A.; A metal free domino synthesis of 3-aroylin- Chem Com- 50 (72) 10445- 2014 Guin, S.; Rout, S. K.; doles via two sp3 C-H activation. mun. 10447 Das, D.; Patel, B. K., Ali, W.; Guin, S.; Rout, Thioesterifi cation of alkylbenzenes with thiols Adv. Synth. 356 3099- 2014 S. K.; Gogoi, A.; Patel, via copper-catalyzed cross dehydrogenative Catal 4084 B. K. coupling without directing group. Sahoo, S. K.; Jena, H. Formation of imidazolidinebenzothiazole- Synthesis 46 (14) 1886- 2014 S.; Majji, G.; Patel, B. K. Cu(II) complexes via a copper mediated room 1900 temperature C-H activation of imidazolidine- carbo-thiamides. Guin, S.; Rout, S. K.; A palladium II-catalysed synthesis of alpha- Adv. Synth. 356 2559- 2014 Gogoi, A.; Ali, W.; ketoamides via Chemoselective Aroyl Addi- Catal. 2565 Patel, B. K. tion to cyanamides. Rout, S. K.; Guin, S.; Copper-catalyzed esterifi cation of alkylben- Org. Lett. 16 (11) 3086- 2014 Ali, W.; Gogoi, A.; zenes with cyclic ethers and cycloalkanes via 3089 Patel, B. K. C(sp3)-H activation following cross-dehydro- genative coupling. Gogoi, A., Guin, S., A Cu-catalysed synthesis of substituted RSC Advances 4 (104) 59902 2014 Rout, S.K., Majji, G., 3-methyleneisoindolin-1-one Patel, B.K. Behera, A., Rout, S.K., Benzylamine as an arylcarboxy surrogate: A RSC Advances 4 (98) 55115 2014 Guin, S., Patel, B.K. copper catalysed o-benzoxylation of 2-phe- nylpyridines using benzyl amines Islam, K., Das, D.K., Hydrated ferric sulfate catalyzed synthesis of Tetrahedron 55 (41) 5613- 2014 Khan, A.T. 5,6-unsubstituted 1,4-dihydropyridines using Letters 5617 three-component reaction

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Ghosh, A., Khan, A.T. Synthesis of dihydrochromeno[4,3-b] Tetrahedron 55 (12) 2006- 2014 pyrazolo[4,3-e]rganiza-6(7H)-ones involving Letters 2009 one-pot three-component tandem Knoeve- nagel-Michael reaction catalyzed by n-tetra- butylammonium tribromide (TBATB) Das, D.K., Sarkar, S., A mild and effi cient method for large scale Tetrahedron 35 4869- 2014 Khan, M., Belal, M., synthesis of 3-aminocoumarins and its further Letters 4874 Khan, A.T. application for the preparation of 4-bromo- 3-aminocoumarins Sarkar, S., Das, D.K., Synthesis of fully-substituted pyridines and RSC Advances 4 (96) 53572- 2014 Khan, A.T. dihydropyridines in a highly chemoselective 53760 manner utilizing a multicomponent reaction (MCR) strategy D. Mahesh, P. Copper(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective Amination J. Org. Chem. 80 (3) 1644- 2015 Sadhu and T. of N-Aryl Imines Using TMSN3 and TBHP: A 1650 Punniyamurthy, Route to Substituted Benzimidazoles G. Bharathiraja, Expedient Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Pyr- Org. Biomol. 13 (9) 2786- 2015 M.Sengoden M. roles via Copper-Catalyzed Cascade Inter-/ Chem. 2792 Kannan, and T. Intramolecular Cyclization of 1,3-Enynes Carry Punniyamurthy a Nitro Group with Amines M. Sengoden, Effi cient Pyrrolidine Catalyzed Cycloaddition RSC Adv. 4 (97) 54149- 2014 M. Vijay, E. of Aziridines with Isothiocyanates, Isoseleno- 54157 Balakumar, and T. cyanates and Carbon Disulfi de “On Water” Punniyamurthy, P. Sadhu, S. Room Temperature Cu(II)-Catalyzed Chemo- J. Org. Chem. 79 (18) 8541- 2014 K. Alla, and T. and Regioselective Ortho-Nitration of Arenes 8549 Punniyamurthy, via C-H Functionalization M. Kannan and T. Eff ect of Ligand N,N-Substituents on the Tetrahedron: 25 (19) 1331- 2014 Punniyamurthy Reactivity of Chiral Copper(II) Salalen, Salan, Asymmetry 1339 and Salalan Complexes Toward Asymmetric Nitroaldol Reactions S. K. Alla, P. Organocatalytic Syntheses of Benzoxazoles J. Org. Chem. 79 (16) 7502- 2014 Sadhu, and T. and Benzothiazoles Using Aryl Iodide and 7511 Punniyamurthy, Oxone via C-H Functionalization and C-O/S Bonds Formation. D. Sar, R. Paul, M. Synthesis of Substituted Pyrazoles from Asian J. Org. 3 (5) 638-643 2014 Sengoden, and T. Vinylhydrozones via Bromoamination and Chem. Punniyamurthy Hydroamination with 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpi- peridine-1-oxyl and N- Bromosuccinimide C. M. Rajesh & Characterization of a meso-chiral isomer of a Dalton Transac- 43 (34) 12952- 2014 Manabendra Ray hexanuclear Cu(II) cage from racemization of tion 12960 L-alanine Schiff base Chandani Rani Das, Chiral recognition and partial resolution of Crystal Growth 14 (8) 3958- 2014 Subash K. Sahoo, and 1-Phenylethylamine through non-covalent & Design, 3966 Manabendra Ray interactions using binuclear Ni(II) complex as host Borah, M., Gogoi, P., Diastereoselective synthesis of substituted Journal of 80 (5) 2641- 2014 Indukuri, K., Saikia, tetrahydrothiophenes and –thiopyrans via Organic Chem- 2648 A.K. thia-prins cyclization reaction istry

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Anil K. Saikia; Regioselective One-pot, Three-component RSC Adv. 4 (98) 55296- 2014 Ramanjaneyulu Synthesis of Substituted 2H-Indazoles from 55299 Unava; Kiran Nitroarylaldehyde, Alkyne and Amine Cata- Indukuri; Sujit Sarkar lyzed by CuBr/Zn(Otf)2 System Prakash Saudagar; In Vivo Assessment of Antileishmanial Prop- Letters in Drug 11(7) 937-939 2014 Shyam Lal Mudavath; erty of 4-(4,4,8-Trimethyl-7- oxo-3-oxabicyc- Design & Dis- Pipas Saha; Anil lo[3.3.1]non-2-yl)-benzoic Acid Methyl Ester, covery K. Saikia; Shyam an Oxabicyclo[ 3.3.1]nonanones Sundar; Vikash Kumar Dubey Paramartha Gogoi; Diastereoselective Synthesis of Substituted J. Org. Chem. 79 (18) 8592- 2014 Vijay Kumar Das; Anil Tetrahydrofurans via Prins Cyclization of Enol 8598 K. Saikia Ethers. Anil K. Saikia; Kiran Stereoselective synthesis of O-tosyl azabi- Org. Biomol. 12 (36) 7026- 2014 Indukuri; Jagadish cyclic derivatives via aza Prins reaction of Chem 7035 Das endocyclic N-acyliminium ions: application to the total synthesis of (+/-)-epi-indolizidine 167B and 209D | Priya Ghosh; Pipas Lewis Acid Mediated Intramolecular C-C bond J. Org. Chem. 79 (9) 4119- 2014 Saha; Somasekhar formation of Alkyne-Epoxide Leading to Six 4124 Bondalapati; Kiran Membered Nitrogen and Oxygen Hetero- Indukuri; Anil K. cycles Saikia C. Kar. S. Samanta, S. A Single Probe to Sense Al(III) Colori- Dalton Trans. 44 4123- 2015 Goswami, A. Ramesh metrically and Cd(II) by Turn-On Fluores- 4132 and Gopal Das cence in Physiological Conditions and Live Cells:Corroborated by X-ray crystallographic and Theoretical studies B. Saha, J. Saikia and Correlating enzyme density, conformation Analyst 140 532-542 2015 Gopal Das and activity on nanoparticle surfaces in highly functional bio-nanocomposites Gogoi and Gopal Das NIR Sensing of Zn(II) and Subsequent Dihy- RSC Adv. 4 55689- 2014 drogen Phosphate Detection by a Benzothia- 55695 zole Functionalized Ninhydrin Based Receptor S. Goswami, D. A Biocompatible Nanocarrier Fortifi ed with a ACS Appl. Ma- 6 16384- 2014 Thiyagarajan, Gopal Dipyridinium-based Amphiphile for Eradica- ter. Inter. 16394 Das and A. Ramesh tion of Biofi lm R. Chutia and Gopal Hydrogen and Halogen bonding in a concert Dalton Trans. 43 15628- 2014 Das act of anion recognition: F- induced atmo- 15637 spheric CO2 uptake by an iodophenyl func- tionalized simple urea receptor S. Samanta, S. An Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) Ac- Chem. Com- 50 11833- 2014 Goswami, Md. N. tive Probe Renders Al(III) Sensing and Track- mun. 11836 Hoque, A. Ramesh ing of Subsequent Interaction with DNA and Gopal Das B. Dattta, C. Kar and A novel C3v-symmetric completely water Sensor. Actua- 204 474-479 2014 Gopal Das soluble turn-on chemo sensor for Cd2+ and tors, B.Chem the resultant complex for iodide anion in aqueous medium

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. S. P. Uday, D. Amphiphile-mediated Enhanced Antibi- J. Mater. Chem 2 5818- 2014 Thiyagarajan, S. otic Effi cacy and Development of a Payload B 5827 Goswami, M. D. Nanocarrier for Eff ective Killing of Pathogenic Adhikari, Gopal Das Bacteria and A. Ramesh Gogoi, S. Samanta, A Benzothiazole Containing CHEF based Sensor. Actua- 202 788-794 2014 Gopal Das Fluorescence Turn-On Sensor for Zn2+ and tors, B.Chem Cd2+ and Subsequent Sensing of H2PO4- and P4O74- in Physiological pH D. Thiyagarajan, S. Prospective antibacterial for drug-resistant Chem. Com- 50 7434- 2014 Goswami, C. Kar, pathogens: A dual warhead amphiphile mun. 7436 Gopal Das, A. Ramesh designed to track interactions and kill patho- genic bacteria by membrane damage and cellular DNA cleavage B. K. Datta, D. A novel chemosensor with visible light Org. Biomol. 12 4975- 2014 Thiyagarajan, S. excitability for sensing Zn(II) in physiological Chem. 4982 Samanta, A. Ramesh, medium and in HeLa cells Gopal Das J. Saikia, Gopal Das,J. Framboidal vaterite for selective adsorption Chem. Engg. 2 1165- 2014 Env. of anionic dyes 1173 Md. N. Hoque, Gopal Cationic Tripodal Receptor Assisted Forma- Cryst. Growth 14 2962- 2014 Das tion of Anion and Anion-Water Clusters: Struc- Des. 2971 tural Interpretation of Dihydrogen Phosphate Cluster and Sulfate-Water Tetramer [(SO4)2- (H2O)2]4- Basu, R. Chutia and Dual modes of binding on hexafl uorosilicate CrystEng- 16 4886- 2014 Gopal Das anion by a C3v symmetric fl exible tripodal Comm. 4891 amide ligand in solid state C. Kar, S. Samantaa, A simple and effi cient Fluorophoric probe for New J. Chem 38 2660- 2014 S. Mukherjeeb, B. dual sensing of Fe3+ and F-: Application to 2669 K. Datta, Aiyagari bioimaging in native cellular iron pool and Ramesh and Gopal live cell Das Basu, Gopal Das A C3v Symmetric Tripodal Urea Receptor for J. Org. Chem. 79 2647- 2014 Anions and Ion-pairs: Formation of Dimeric 2656 Capsular Assemblies of the Receptor during Anion and Ion-pair Coordination Md. N. Hoque, Gopal Hydrated anion glued capsular and non-cap- CrystEng- 16 4447- 2014 Das sular assembly of a tripodal host: solid state Comm. 4458 recognition of bromide-water [Br5-(H2O)6]5- and iodide-water[I2-(H2O)4]2- clusters in cationic tripodal receptor Hoque, M.N., Basu, A., Structural insight into the anion-water cluster: Supramolecular 26 392-402 2014 Das, G. Stabilised by alcohol and carboxylic acid con- Chemistry taining tripodal ligand Hoque, M.N., Basu, A., Fluorescence turn on sensor for sulfate ion Journal of Fluo- 24 (2) 411-416 2014 Das, G. in aqueous medium using tripodal-Cu2+ rescence ensemble

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Hussain, S., Malik, A. Highly Precise Detection, Discrimination, and ACS Appl. Ma- 7 3189- 2015 H., Iyer, P. K. , Removal of Anionic Surfactants over the Full ter. Interfaces 3198 pH Range via Cationic Conjugated Polymer: An Effi cient Strategy to Facilitate Illicit-Drug Analysis. Goutam, P. J.; Iyer, Selective detection of resorcinol using Sensors and 211 263-267 2015 P. K . abis(benzothiazol-2-yl)pyridine based ditopic Actuators B receptor. Subbarao, N.V.V.; Enhanced environmental stability induced ACS Appl. Ma- 7 1915- 2015 Gedda, M.; Iyer, P. by eff ective polarization of a polar dielectric ter. Interfaces 1924 K.;Goswami, D. K. layer in a trilayer dielectric system of organic fi eld-eff ect transistors: A quantitative study. Muthuraj, B.; Aggregation Deaggregation Infl uenced RSC Advances 5 2015 Chowdhury, S. R.; Ultrasensitive detection of Cu2+ and ATP by Mukherjee, S.; Patra, Histidine Functionalized Water-Soluble Fluo- C.; Iyer, P. K. rescent Perylene Diimide under Physiological Conditions and in Living Cells. Muthuraj, B.; Layek, Multiple Function Fluorescein Probe Performs ACS Chemical 6 2015 S.; Trivedi, V.; Iyer, P. K. Metal Chelation, Disaggregation and Modula- Neuroscience tion of Aggregated Aβ and Aβ-Cu Complex. Dey, A.; Kalita, A.; Iyer, High performance n-channel organic thin fi lm ACS Appl. Ma- 6 12295- 2014 P. K . transistor based on naphthalene diimide. ter. Interfaces 12301 Vasimalla, S.; Improved Performance of Solution-Processed Chem. Mater. 26 4030- 2014 Senanayak, n-Type Organic Field-Eff ect Transistors by 4037 S.;Sharma, M.; Regulating the Intermolecular Interactions Narayan, K. S.; Iyer, and Crystalline Domains on Macroscopic P. K . Scale. Chetia, B.; Iyer, P. K. Selective fl uoride anion sensing by simple Sensors and 201 191-195 2014 benzimidazolyl based ligand. Actuators B Muthuraj, B.; Highly Selective Probe Detects Cu2+ and ACS Appl. Ma- 6 6562- 2014 Deshmukh, R.; Endogenous NO Gas in Living Cell. ter. Interfaces 6569. Trivedi, V.;Iyer, P. K. Ratha, R.; Goutam, P. Photo Stability Enhancement of Poly(3- Org. Elect. 15 1650- 2014 J.; Iyer, P. K. hexylthiophene)-PCBM Nanocomposites By 1656 Addition of Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes Under Ambient Conditions. Dwivedi, A. K.; Iyer, Therapeutic Strategies to Prevent Alzheimer Macromolecu- 14 508-514 2014 P. K . Disease Pathogenesis Using Fluorescent Con- lar Bioscience jugated Polyelectrolyte. Subbarao, N.V.V., Eff ect of thickness of bilayer dielectric on Physica Sta- 211(10) 2403- 2014 Gedda, M., Vasimalla, 1,7-dibromo-N,N′-dioctadecyl-3,4,9,10- tus Solidi (A) 2411 S., Iyer, P.K., Goswami, perylenetetracarboxylic diimide based Applications D.K. organic fi eld-eff ect transistors and Materials Science Raju, T.B., Highly effi cient and facile alkylation of 4H- RSC Advances 4 (71) 37738- 2014 Gopikrishna, P., Iyer, cyclopenta-[2,1-b:3,4- b′]dithiophene in 37745 P. K . water

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Chipem, F.A.S., Intramolecular proton transfer in 2-(2′- Photochemistry 91(2) 298-305 2015 Malakar, A., hydroxyphenyl)oxazolo[4,5-b]pyridine: Evi- and Photobiol- Krishnamoorthy, G. dence for tautomer in the ground state ogy Dash, N., Malakar, A., Metal ion dependent “oN” intramolecular Sensors and 202 1154- 2014 Kumar, M., Mandal, charge transfer (ICT) and “oFF” normal switch- Actuators, B: 1163 B.B., Krishnamoorthy, ing of the fl uorescence: Sensing of Zn 2+ by Chemical G. ICT emission in living cells Dedicated to Prof. S.K. Dogra on his 72nd birthday. Shankar, B., Sahu, Luminescent dirhenium(I)-double-heter- Inorganic 53 (2) 922-930 2014 S., Deibel, N., ostranded helicate and mesocate Chemistry Schweinfurth, D., Sarkar, B., Elumalai, P., Gupta, D., Hussain, F., Krishnamoorthy, G., Sathiyendiran, M. Chipem, F.A.S., Excited state proton transfer of 2-(2′- Photochemical 13 (9) 1297- 2014 Behera, S.K., hydroxyphenyl)benzimidazole and its nitro- and Photobio- 1304 Krishnamoorthy, G. gen substituted analogues in bovine serum logical Sciences albumin Chipem, F.A.S., Ratiometric fl uorescence sensing ability of Sensors and 191 727-733 2014 Behera, S.K., 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl) benzimidazole and Actuators, B: Krishnamoorthy, G. its nitrogen substituted analogues towards Chemical metal ions Kalita, A., Kumar, V., Nitric oxide reactivity of copper(II) complexes Inorganica 430 55-60 2015 Mondal, B. of bidentate amine ligands Chimica Acta Kalita, A., Ghosh, S., Nitric oxide reactivity of a manganese(II) com- Inorganica 429 183-188 2015 Mondal, B. plex leading to nitrosation of the ligand Chimica Acta Rout, K.C., Mondal, B. Aromatic C-nitrosation by a copper(ii)-nitrosyl Dalton Transac- 44 (4) 1829- 2015 complex tions 1835 Hazra, S., Mondal, B., Pd-catalyzed dehydrogenative C-H activa- RSC Advances 5 (29) 22480- 2015 De, R.N., Roy, B. tion of iminyl hydrogen with the indole C3-H 22489 and C2-H bond: An elegant synthesis of indeno[1,2-b]indoles and indolo[1,2-a]indoles Kalita, A., Kumar, V., C-Nitrosation of a β-diketiminate ligand in RSC Advances 5 (1) 543-549 2015 Mondal, B. copper(ii) complex Mondal, B., Hazra, S., PhI(Oac)2and BF3-Oet2mediated heterocy- Tetrahedron 55 (41) 5625- 2014 Naktode, K., Panda, clization: Metal-free synthesis of pyrimidine- Letters 5628 T.K., Roy, B. annulated oxazolines Mondal, B., Hazra, S., Pd(II)-catalyzed regioselective direct arylation Tetrahedron 55 (5) 1077- 2014 Roy, B. of uracil via oxidative Heck reaction using Letters 1081 arylboronic acids Mondal, B., Sen, A dysprosium-based metal-organic frame- Journal of 126 (4) 1115- 2014 B., Zangrando, E., work: Synthesis, characterization, crystal Chemical Sci- 1124 Chattopadhyay, P. structure and interaction with calf thymus- ences DNA and bovine serum albumin Hazra, S., Mondal, B., Copper- and palladium-cocatalyzed intra- European Jour- 13 2806- 2014 Rahaman, H., Roy, B. molecular C-H functionalization/C-N bond nal of Organic 2812 formation: A route to the synthesis of indolo- Chemistry isoquinoline derivatives

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Barpuzary, D., Banik, Mimicking the heteroleptic dyes for an ef- Journal of 119 (8) 3892- 2015 A., Panda, A.N., fi cient 1D-ZnO based dye-sensitized solar cell Physical Chem- 3902 Qureshi, M. using the homoleptic ruthenium(II) dipyrido- istry C phenazine complex as a photosensitizer Debasish Koner, Wave packet and statistical quantum calcula- J. Chem. Phys. 141 114302 2014 Lizandra Barrios, tions for the He + NeH+ HeH+ + Ne reaction Tomás González- on the ground electronic state Lezana, and Aditya N. Panda Harikrishna Sahu and Computational investigation of charge injec- Phys. Chem. 16 (18) 8563- 2014 Aditya N. Panda tion and transport properties of a series of Chem. Phys. 8574 thiophene<96>pyrrole based oligo-azome- thines Shubhadip Das and ‘’Exploring Molecular Insights of Aggregation J. Phys. Chem. B 119 (7) 3142- 2015 Sandip Paul of Hydrotrope Sodium Cumene Sulfonate 3154 in Aqueous Solution: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study” Subrata Paul and ‘’Molecular Insights into the Role of Aqueous J. Phys. Chem. B 119 (4) 1598- 2015 Sandip Paul Trehalose Solution on Temperature Induced 1610 Protein Denaturation’’ Subrata Paul and ‘’Eff ects of the temperature and trehalose RSC Advances 4 (65) 34267- 2014 Sandip Paul concentration on the hydrophobic interac- 34280 tions of a small nonpolar neopentane solute: a molecular dynamics simulation study” Dipankar Barpuzary, Mimicking Heteroleptic dyes using homolep- J. Phys. Chem. 119 (8) 3892- 2015 Avishek Banik, Aditya tic ruthenium dyes in dye sensitized solar cells C. 3902 Panda, Mohammad Qureshi Qureshi, M., Chetia, Enhanced photovoltaic performance of Journal of Ma- 3 (8) 4291- 2015 T.R., Ansari, M.S., Soni, meso-porous SnO2 based solar cells utilizing terials Chemis- 4300 S.S. 2D MgO nanosheets sensitized by a metal- try A free carbazole derivative Dipankar Barpuzary, Highly Effi cient One-Dimensional ZnO ACS Appl. Ma- 6 (15) 12629 2014 Anindya Sundar Nanowire Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell ter. Interfaces Patra, Jayraj V. using a Metal-Free, D-π-A Type, Carbazole De- Vaghasiya, Bharat G. rivative with more than 5% Power Conversion Solanki, Saurabh S. Soni, Mohammad Qureshi Anindya Sundar Strontium doped LaMnO3 for rganizat and ro- Materials Let- 131 125-127 2014 Patra, Natarajan bust photocatalytic water oxidation coupled ters Vinod Kumar, with rganiza oxide Dipankar Barpuzary, Mahuya De, Mohammad Qureshi Tridip Ranjan Chetia, Enhanced photovoltaic performance utilizing Phys.Chem. 16 (20) 9625- 2014 Dipankar Barpuzary, eff ective charge transfers and light scattering Chem. Phys., 9633 Mohammad Qureshi eff ects by the combination of mesoporous, hollow 3D-ZnO along with 1D-ZnO in CdS quantum dot sensitized solar cells

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Bag, Triazolo-β-Aza-ε-Amino Acid and Its Aromatic Chemical Com- 51 5242 2015 SubhenduSekhar; Analogue as Novel Scaff olds for β-turn Pepti- munication Jana, Subhasish; domimetics Yashmeen, Afsana; De, Suranjan Bag,Subhendu Wavelength Shifting Oligonucleotide Probe Bioorganic 24 (19) 4678- 2014 Sekhar Pradhan, for the Detection of Adenosine of a Target & Medicinal 4681 Manoj K.; Das, Suman DNA with Enhanced Fluorescence Signal Chemistry Let- K.; Jana, Subhashis; ters Bag, Raghunath Bag,Subhendu Dual Door Entry to Exciplex Emission in A Chemical Com- 50 (7) 829-832 2014 Sekhar;Talukdar, Chimeric DNA Duplex Containing Non-nucle- munications Sangita; Kundu, oside-Nucleoside Pair Rajen; Saito, Isao; Jana, Subhashis Bag, Subhendu TriazolylDonor/AcceptoChromophore Deco- Chemical Com- 50 (4) 433-435 2014 Sekhar; Jana, rated Unnatural Amino Acids and Peptides: munications Subhashis; Yashmeen FRET Event in β-Turn Conformation Afsana; Senthilkumar, K; Bag, Raghunath Bag, Subhendu Design and Synthesis of Triazolyl-Donor/ Current Proto- 58 2014 Sekhar; Talukdar, Acceptor Unnatural Nucleosides and Oligo- cols in Nucleic Sangita; Das, Suman nucleotide Probes Containing Triazolyl-Phen- Acids Chem- Kalyan anthrene Nucleoside istry Kirtikumar B. Dynamic combinatorial enrichment of poly- Chemistry – 21 (15) 5898- 2015 Jadhav, Roman conformational D-/L-peptide dimers A European 5908 J. Lichtenecker, Journal Anke Bullach, Bhubaneswar Mandal and Hans- Dieter Arndt Ashim Paul, Inhibition of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β Peptide Chemical Com- 51 (12) 2245 – 2015 Krishna Chaitanya Aggregation and its Disruption by a Confor- munications 2248 Nadimpally, mationally Restricted α/β Hybrid Peptide Tanmay Mondal, Kishore Thalluri, and Bhubaneswar Mandal Kishore Thalluri, Microwave Assisted Chemoselective Organo- RSC Advances 4(88) 47841 – 2014 Ashim Paul, Srinivasa catalytic Peptide Alcohol Synthesis from 47847 Rao Manne, C-terminal Amide Dharm Dev, and Bhubaneswar Mandal Dharm Dev, Nani Ethyl 2-cyano-2-(2-nitrobenzenesulfony- The Journal of 79 (12) 5420– 2014 Babu Palakurthy, loxyimino)acetate (o-NosylOXY): A Recyclable Organic Chem- 5431 Kishore Thalluri, Coupling Reagent for Racemization free istry Jyoti Chandra, and Synthesis of Peptide, Amide, Hydroxamate Bhubaneswar Mandal and Ester

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Kishore Thalluri, Ethyl 2-cyano-2-(4-nitrophenylsulfonyloxyimi- The Journal of 79 (9) 3765– 2014 Srinivasa Rao Manne, no)acetate (4-NBsOXY) Mediated Lossen Organic Chem- 3775 Dharm Dev and Rearragement: Single Pot Racemization free istry Bhubaneswar Mandal Synthesis of Hydroxamic Acids and Ureas from Carboxylic Acids Krishna Chaitanya Reversal of aggregation using β breaker ACS Chemical 5 (5) 400–408 2014 Nadimpally, dipeptide containing peptides: Application to Neuroscience Ashim Paul and Aβ(1-40) self assembly and its inhibition Bhubaneswar Mandal Barman, P.; Infl uence of Ligand Architecture on Oxidation Angew Chem. 54 (7) 2095- 2015 Vardhaman, A. K.; Reactions by High-Valent Non-heme Manga- Int. Ed 2099 Martin, B.; Wörner, S. nese-Oxo Complexes Using Water as a Source J.; Sastri, C. V.; Comba, of Oxygen. P Faponle, A.; Quesne, Diff erences and Comparisons of the Proper- Chem. Eur. J. 21(3) 1221- 2015 M.; Sastri, C. V.; Banse, ties and Reactivities of Iron(III)-Hydroperoxo 1236 F.; de Visser, S. P Complexes with Saturated Coordination Sphere. Kumar, S.; Faponle, Long-range electron transfer triggers mecha- J. Am. Chem. 136 (49) 17102- 2014 A. S.; Barman, P.; nistic diff erences between iron(IV)-oxo and Soc. 17115 Vardhaman, A. K.; iron(IV)-imido oxidants Sastri, C. V.; Kumar, D.; de Visser, S. P. R. Bhaskaran and M. Low energy electron induced cytosine base Journal of 141(10) 104309 2014 Sarma release in 2/-deoxycytidine-3/-monophos- Chemical Phys- phate via glycosidic bond cleavage:A time- ics. dependent wavepacket study Mamidi, N.+; Panda, Synthesis and Protein Kinase C (PKC)-C1 Do- Molecular Bio- 10 (11) 3002- 2014 S.+; Borah, R.; Manna, main Binding Properties of Diacyltetrol Based systems 3013 D., Anionic Lipids Talukdar, D.+; Panda, Membrane Interaction and Protein Kinase Journal of 118(27) 7541- 2014 S.+; Borah, R.+; C-C1 Domain Binding Properties of 4-hy- Physical Chem- 7553 Manna, D. droxy-3-(hydroxymethyl) Phenyl ester Ana- istry B logues Borah, R.; Talukdar, Bilayer Interaction and Protein Kinase C-C1 RSC Advances 4(49) 25520- 2014 D.; Gorai, S.; Bain, D.; Domain binding studies of Kojic Acid Esters. 25531 Manna, D. Mamidi, N.+; Gorai, Physicochemical Characterization of Diacyl- RSC Advances 4(42) 21971- 2014 S.+; Ravi, B.; Manna, D tetrol-Based Lipids consisting of both Diacylg- 21978 lycerol and Phospholipid headgroups. Paul, S.; Panda, S.; Mild method for the synthesis of 1H-indazoles Tetrahedron 55(15) 2480- 2014 Manna D through oxime-phosphonium ion intermedi- Letters 2483 ate. Richa Rakshit, Inter-ligand azo (N=N) unit formation and Dalton Tran. 44(8) 3724- 2015 Samir Ghorai, Amrit stabilization of a Co(II)-diradical complex via 3727 Sarmah, Archana metal-to-ligand dπ-pπ back donation: syn- Tiwari, Ram Kinkar thesis, characterization, and theoretical study Roy and Chandan Mukherjee..

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Surya Singh, Bedika Salen Ligand Complexes as Electrocatalysts RSC. Adv 5(5) 3581- 2015 Phukan, Chandan for Direct Electrochemical Reduction of 3589 Mukherjee and Anil Gaseous Carbon Dioxide to Value Added Verma Products Samir Ghorai, and Cu(II)-Mediated Transformation of a Triden- Chem. Asian J. 9(12) 3518- 2014 Chandan Mukherjee tate Non-Innocent Ligand to a Tetradentate 3524 Salen-Type Innocent Ligand Samir Ghorai, and Synthesis and Characterization of A Tetraradi- RSC Adv. 4(47) 24698- 2014 Chandan Mukherjee. cal-Containing Octanuclear Vanadium Cluster 24703 Formed via Ligand C-N bond Breaking and C-O bond Making Richa Rakshit, Samir Eff ect of Ligand Substituent Coordination on Inorg. Chem. 53(7) 3333- 2014 Ghorai, Soumava the Geometry and the Electronic Structure of 3337 Biswas, and Chandan Cu(II)-Diradical Complexes Mukherjee Samir Ghorai, and Eff ect of ligand substituent on the reactivity Dalton. Trans. 43 394-397 2014 Chandan Mukherjee of Ni(II) complexes towards oxygen Chandan Mukherjee, Switching from Antiferromagnetic to Ferro- Dalton. Trans. 43 9690- 2014 Veronika Hoeke, magnetic Coupling in Heptanuclear [Mt6Mc] 9703 Anja Stammler, n+ Complexes by Going from an Achiral to a Hartmut Bogge, Chiral Triplesalen Ligand Jurgen Schnack, and Thorsten Glaser Radhakrishnan, K., Direct synthesis of 5- and 6-substituted RSC Advances 4(29) 15087- 2014 Sharma, N., Kundu, 2-aminopyrimidines as potential non-natural 15090 L.M. nucleobase analogues Buddhadeb Mondal, Primary amino caid catalyzed asymmetric Organic & 12 9789 2014 Subhas Chandra Pan intramolecular Mannich Reaction for the Syn- Biomolecular thesis of 2-Aryl-2,3-Dihdro-4-Quinolines Chemistry Keshab Mondal, Copper(I) Catalyzed (Z)-(β-Tosyloxy) Alkenyl European Jour- 10 2129 2015 Subhas Chandra Pan Iodide Synthesis from (E)-[β-(Tosyloxy)- nal of Organic Alkenyl](Aryl) Iodonium Tosylates: Diversity Chemistry Oriented Synthesis of Trisubstituted Alkenes N. P. Das, D. Mahanta Unpinning of scroll waves under the inuence Phys. Rev. E 90 22916 2014 and S. Dutta of a thermal gradient Suraj Kumar Pathak, Columnar self-assembly of star shaped lumi- J.Matter. 2015 Ravindra Kumar nescent oxadiazole and thiadiazole deriva- Chem.C Gupta, Subrata tives. Nath, Doddamane S., Shankar Rao, S.Krishna Prasad, Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar A.S.Achalkumar, Nonsymetric dimers comprising chalcone New J.Chem 38 4235- 2014 U.S.Hiremath, and cholesterol entities: An investigation on 4248 D.S.Shankar Rao, C.V. structure property correlation. Yelamaggad

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. P.Prompinit, Reversible metallization of soft UV-patterned J.Matter. 2 5916- 2014 A.S.Achalkumar, A.S. substrates. Chem.C 5923 Walton, R.J. Bushby, C. Walti, S.D. Evans Sujit Mahato, Md Divergent Reaction: Metal & Oxidant Free RSC Adv 4 46214- 2014 Ashraful Haque, Direct C-H Aryloxylation and Hydride Free 46217 Soumita Dwari, and Formal Reductive N- benzylation of N-hetero- Chandan K. Jana cycles Sujit Mahato, Surajit Diastereoselective α-C-H Functionalization of Chem. Com- 50 332 – 334 2014 Haldar and Chandan Aliphatic N-heterocycles: An Effi cient Route to mun. K. Jana Ring Fused Oxazine. Surajit Haldar, Sujit Metal and Oxidant Free Direct sp3 C-H Aryla- Asian J. Org. 3 44 – 47 2014 Mahato and Chandan tion of Pyrrolidine Chem. K. Jana Suraj Kumar Pathak, Columnar Self-assembly of Star-shaped J. Mater. 3 2940- 2015 Ravindra Kumar Luminescent Oxadiazole and Thiadiazole Chem.C 2952 Gupta, SubrataNath, derivatives Doddamane S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad, A. S. Achalkumar Sachalkumar ,U. Nonsymmetric dimer comprising chalcone New J. Chem. 38(9) 4235- 2014 S. Hiremath, D. S. and cholesterol entities: An investigation on 4248 Shankar Rao, C. V. structure-property correlation Yelamaggad A. S.Achalkumar, A. S. Reversible metallization of soft UV Patterned J. Mater. 2 5916- 2014 Walton, R. J. Bushby, substrates P. Prompinit Chem.C. 5923 C. Wälti, S. D. Evan Julfi kar Hassan Dual Self-sorting by Cucurbit[8]uril to Trans- Langmuir 30 11528- 2014 Mondal, Titli Ghosh, form a Mixed Micelle to Vesicle 11534 Sahnawaz Ahmed, Debapratim Das Julfi kar Hassan Physicochemical Analysis of Mixed Micelles of Langmuir 30 8290- 2014 Mondal, Sahnawaz a Viologen Surfactant: Extended to Water-in- 8299 Ahmed, Debapratim oil (w/o) Microemulsion, and Cucurbit[8]uril Das Assisted Vesicle Formation. Barman, N.; Sahu, K., , Anomalous Modulation of Photoinduced Phys. Chem. 16 27096- 2014 Electron Transfer of Coumarin 102 in Aniline- Chem. Phys. 27103 Dimethylaniline Mixture: Dominant Role of Hydrogen Bonding. Barman, N.; Sahu, K. Reduced Fluorescence Quenching of Cou- RSC Advances 4 58299- 2014 marin 102 at Higher Phenol Mole Fractions 58306 in Cyclohexane-Phenol and Anisole-Phenol Solvent Mixtures: Role of Competitive Hydro- gen Bonding. Singha, D.; Barman, Selective Probing of Reverse Micelle Interfa- J. Phys. Chem. C 118 10366- 2014 N.; Phukon, A.; Sahu, cial Layer Upon Silver Nanoparticle Formation 10374 K. Using Dynamic Stokes Shift Measurements.

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Vol. and Name of Jour- Name of Author Title of Paper Issue Page No. Year nal No. Buragohain, S. Improved Synthesis of Zirconium(IV) Muco- Eur. J. Inorg. 2015 Biswas, nate Metal-Organic Framework: Characteriza- Chem. tion, Stability and Gas Sorption Properties C. De Smedt, P. Comparison of diff erent solid adsorbents for Adsorption 21(3) 243-254 2015 Spanoghe, S. Biswas, the removal of mobile pesticides from aque- K. Leus, P. Van Der ous solutions Voort,. S. Biswas, Y.-Y. Liu, M. Two 3D Coordination Frameworks Based on Eur. J. Inorg. 31 5362– 2014 Tonigold, M. Weil, D. Benzobisimidazole Linkers Generated under Chem. 5369 Volkmer Similar Conditions: Synthesis, Structures and Thermal Properties M. Vandichel, S. Catalytic Performance of Vanadium MIL-47 ChemPlusChem 79 1183- 2014 Biswas, K. Leus, and Linker-Substituted Variants in the Oxida- 1197 J. Paier, J. Sauer, tion of Cyclohexene: A Combined Theoretical T. Verstraelen, P. and Experimental Approach Van Der Voort, M. Waroquier, V. Van Speybroeck P. Van Der Voort, Vanadium metal-organic frameworks: struc- New J. Chem. 38(5) 1853- 2014 K. Leus, Y.-Y. Liu, M. tures and applications 1867 Vandichel, V. Van Speybroeck, M. Waroquier, S. Biswas

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Page Name of Author/s Title of Paper Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year No. Kishore Thalluri, The Coupling Applications in Pharma Spectrum 348- 978-93- 2014 Dharm Dev, Nani Babu Reagents the Industry (Proceedings of Publica- 351 82829- Palakurthy, Srinivasa Rao World in Need International Conference tions, Hyder- 90-4 Manne, Jyoti Chandra and Indeed on New Dimensions in abad-500038, Bhubaneswar Mandal Chemistry & Chemical A. P. India. Technologies) B. K. Shandilya, M. Sarma, Selective Advances in Laser Phys- Cambridge 54-69 2015 S. Adhikari, and M. K. Photodissocia- ics and Technology University Press Mishra tion of Bonds in 18O16O16O Molecule M. Kannan, M. Sengoden Transition-Metal- Arene Chemistry: Reac- Wiley, Germany Ch.20 2015 and T. Punniyamurthy Mediated Car- tion Mechanisms and bon-Heteroatom Methods for Aromatic Cross-Coupling Compounds - An Overview

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Page Name of Author/s Title of Paper Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year No. Anamika Dey, Ashish Organic Semi- Thin Film Structures in Springer 97-128 2015, Singh, Dipjyoti Das, conductors: A Energy Applications Parameswar Krishnan Iyer New Future of Nanodevices and Applications CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of International/ Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty National B. K. Patel National Symposium on “Nanomaterials & Banaras Hindu 21-22, March National Systnable Synthetic Strategies Department of University 2015. Chemistry CSIR-IICT & Supported by IFCPAR (CEFIPRA) CSIR-IICT 9-11 Novem- Indo-French ber 2014. Recent Trends in Chemical Science (RET- Sambalpur Uni- 14-15 Novem- National ICS-2014) versity ber, 2014 T Punniyamur- FICS 2014 Indian Institute December National thy of Technology 4-6, 2014. Guwahati B Mandal International conference on new dimensions Hyderabad 23th-25th International in chemistry and chemical technologies ap- June 2014 plications in pharma industry Dr. M. Sarma Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS) 2014 NCL Pune 18-21 Decem- National [Invited Talk] ber 2014 Achalkumar National Conference on Recent Trends in Mysore Sep 26-27th, National A.S. Bioorganic Chemistry and its Applications to 2014 Society- Indo-UK seminar funded jointly by RSC and UK Feb 16-18th, International DST 2015 TE-QIP short term course on Sophisticated IIT Guwahati Nov 24-27th, National Instruments in Interdisciplinary Research 2014 AICTE-QIP short term course on ‘Advances in IIT Guwahati Feb 25th – National Biomedical Engineering March 1st, 2015 AICTE-QIP short term course on ‘Micro manu- facturing for Biomedical Applications IIT Guwahati Feb 23rd – Feb National 27th, 2015 Subhas Chan- 16th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry NCL Pune 06/02/15- National dra Pan 08/02/15 Sandip Paul Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS-2014) NCL, Pune 18-21 Dec., National 2014 K.A.Sahu International conference on Advances in (IACS), Kolkata. December 12- International Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Dynamics (ASUD) 14, 2014

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Name of Fac- Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date ulty T. Punniyamur- New Strategies for Carbon-Carbon National Symposium, Fron- West Bengal February, 18, thy and Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds tiers in Chemistry, North 2015 Formation and Their Application for Bengal University Medicinally Signifi cant Heterocyclic Compounds Multicomponent Tandem Carbon- Chemical Research Society of Pune February, Carbon/Heteroatom Bonds Forma- India, National Symposium, 5-8, 2015. tion and Their Application for the National Chemical Labora- Synthesis of Medicinally Signifi cant tory Heterocyclic Compounds New Strategies for the Synthesis of TIFAC-NIIST Thiruvanan- October 10, Medicinally Signifi cant Heterocyclic thapuram 2014 Compounds T. Punniyamur- Design and Development of Novels Central Drug Research Lucknow March 28, thy Molecules of Biological Importance Institute 2014 B Mandal Novel Strategies for Peptide IISc, Bangalore. Bangalore. 14th-18th Based Drug Design against December Alzheimer’sDisease 13th Eurasia 2014 Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC2S-13) Pro-drug concept for anti-alzheimer’s IIT Guwahati Guwahati 4th-6th drug design, Frontier in Chemical Sci- December, ences (FICS-2014) 2014 Subhas Organocatalytic Asymmetric Cycliza- Division of International IIT Madras 12/03/15- Chandra Pan tion Reactions Relations, Max-Planck- Ge- 13/03/15 sellschaft Sandip Paul Molecular Insights into the Role D. M. Science Collge, Mani- Imphal 14th March, of Aqueous Trehalose Solution on pur, Imphal 2015 Temperature Induced Protein Dena- turation Molecular Insights into the Role NCL, Pune Pune 19th Dec., of Aqueous Trehalose Solution on 2014 Temperature Induced Protein Dena- turation K.A.Sahu Probing Excited-state H-Bonding Frontiers in Chemical Sci- IIT Guwahati. December through Fluorescence Modulation ences, (FICS) 4-6, 2014 Fluorescence Modulation by Excited- Sustainable Chemistry: Fron- Shillong 27th Febru- State Hydrogen Bonding in Solution tiers and Challenges at NEHU ary 2014. and Characterization of a Reverse Mi- cellar Template upon Silver Nanopar- ticle Formation at the national conference on, ,

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Name of Fac- Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date ulty Saikia, A. K. Novel Synthetic Approaches Towards 8th CRSI National Sympo- Jorhat 12th July, Natural Product Synthesis sium in Chemistry NEIST- 2014 Jorhat Novel Synthetic Approaches Towards REACH-2015:An international Shillong 3-5 March, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulfur Hetero- conference on Recent Ad- 2015 cyclic Compounds vances in Chemistry NEHU- Shillong VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Prof. Vaidhyanathan University of Miami, USA Science and Scientist or “what I 30.3. 15 Ramamurthy should have learned Prof. Hiroyuki Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Talk 2.3. 15 Nakamura Prof. Yukihiro Shi- Chief Senior Researcher, Nanosystem Theoretical aspects of conjugated 12-15th moi Research Institute (NRI), National Institute polymers and their application to January of Advanced Industrial Science and Technol- various optoelectronic devices 2015 ogy (AIST), Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Ume- zono, Tsukuba, Japan Dr. Sandip Bharatee IIIM, Jammu Talk 6.1. 15 Mr. Prasun Dutta RSC, OSDP ambassador Talk 6.1. 15 Prof. Sabyasaachi IIT Kanpur and IIEST Shibpur Nanochemistry of carbon: do we eat 7.11.14 Sarkar grapheme? Its use in bio-imazing and as Trojan horse in drug delivery. Prof. Muhammad Shahjalal University Talk 29.10.14 Younus Prof. Makato Kiso Kyoto University, GIFT University Synthetic gangliosides and glycan 22.9.14 probes for cell- material integration Prof. Ram S. Mohan Illinois Weslcyan University, USA Environmental friendly organic 20.8.14 synthesis using bismuth and iron compounds Prof. Henry F. MIT, Cambridge, USA Talk 5.3.15 Schaefer Prof. Miguel Angel University of Alicante, Spain Talk 1.3.15 Yus-Astiz Dr. Yukihiro Shimoni AIST, Japan Talk 13.1.15 Seminars/Workshops/Conferences/Short-Term Courses Organised Name of Faculty (Conve- Internation- No. of par- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date ner/ Co-ordinator, etc.) al/ National ticipants Dr. Sandip Paul Frontiers in Chemical Sciences DST, DBT 4-6 Dec., National ~180 (FICS-2014) 2014 Dr. Shyam P. Biswas & Short-Term Course: “Solar Energy MHRD 20-21 Febru- National 7 Dr. Kingsuk Mahata Harvesting” ary, 2015 Prof. Parameswar K. Iyer at 1st Indo-Sweden Workshop on IIT Guwa- 30 August International 30 the Center for Nanotech- “Advanced Materials for Health- hati 2014 nology, IIT Guwahati care and Energy”

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PATENTS:

Name of Faculty and co researcher Name Date Granted Application No. Bhubaneswar Mandal and Mr. Ashim Paul Beta Sheet Breaker Peptides 26 September Application No. 997/ 2014 KOL/2014 AWARDS AND HONOURS: (a). Establish a Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecules and Materials funded by MHRD. (b). Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay i) Re-nominated as an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Nanoscale. ii) Member, Task Force on Nanobiotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. iii) Member, Swarnajayanti Fellowship Selection Committee (Chemical Sciences), Department of Science and Technology. iv) Member, Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Chemistry, Sec A, for the term 2015-17. (c). Prof. T. Punniyamurthy, i) 2015 CRSI Bronze Medal ii) Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)(2015). (d). Prof. P. K. Iyer, i) Awarded “Head of Max Planck India Partner Group” in India by Max Planck Society, Germany and DST, India (2012-2017) ii) Appointed Member of DST, SERB Fast Track Committee (Chemical Science) from 2012-2015 (Three years) (e) Prof. A. T. Khan for taking the charge of Aliah University as the Vice Chancellor STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS a) Dr. Chirantan Kar received the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship for overseas researchers for the year 2015 b) Dr. Himanshu Jena, received the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship for overseas researchers for the year 2015 c) Dr. Harisadhan Ghosh, received the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship for overseas researchers for the year 2014 d) Dr. Ramesh Yella, received the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship for overseas researchers for the year 2014 e) Dr. Narsimha Mamidi has been selected for 2nd Prize of “2014 Lilly Outstanding Thesis Awards”. f) Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Nadimpally, has been awarded the CSIR-Nehru Postdoctoral fellowship. g) Dr. Krishna Chaitanya has been selected for “Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards, 2014”. Congratulations h) Mr. Ganesh Majji, a research scholar of our Department won stage 2 First prize on “In celebration of Earth day, Elsevier Reaxys Challenges you to a Green Chemistry Online Quiz” FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 01 Achalkumar, A. S. CSMR, Assistant Liquid crystals, Functional Materials, Molecular Bangalore Professor Electronics, Self Assembly, Green Chemistry 02 Bag, Subhendu IIT Kharagpur Associate Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemistry of Unnatural Sekhar Professor Nucleic Acid and Peptides 03 Baruah, Jubaraj B. IISc Bangalore Professor Homogeneous Catalysis, Supramolecular chemistry and material design 04 Biswas, Shyam Ulm University, Assistant Gas/Vapor/Liquid Adsorption and Catalytic Prosad Germany Professor Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) 05 Chattopadhyay, Columbia Professor Nanoscale Science and Technology Arun University 06 Chatterjee, Sunanda IISc Bangalore Assistant Peptidomimetics: Synthesis, Conformation and Professor Biological activity

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 07 Das, Gopal IIT Kanpur Professor Supramolecular, Bioorganic chemistry and Biomineralization 08 Das, Debapratim IACS, Kolkata Assistant Supramolecular dynamic aggregates, peptides, lipids Professor 09 Dutta, Sumana IACS, Kolkata Assistant Experimental & Theoretical Physical Chemistry / Self- Professor organization and Nonlinear dynamics 10 Gupta, Ashish K. Univ. of Associate Quantum Molecular Dynamics California, Los Professor Angeles 11 Iyer, Parasmeswar K. CSMCRI, Professor Polymer synthesis, Organic / Organometallic Bhavnagar Chemistry & Device fabrication, Sensors 12 Jana, Chandan K. WWU Asst. Professor Total Synthesis/ Natural Product Based Drug Muenster, Discovery/ Synthetic Methodology/ Development of Germany New Reaction 13 Khan, Abu Taleb Kalyani Professor Synthesis of Natural Products, Heterocycles and University, W.B. Carbohydrate Chemistry, Newer Methodologies 14 Krishnamoorty, G. IIT Kanpur Associate Organic Photochemistry & Spectroscopy Professor 15 Kundu, Lal Mohan LMU Munich, Assistant Nucleic Acid / Peptide Chemistry, DNA / RNA Damage Germany Professor and Repair, DNA Hybrid Materials 16 Mahata, Kingsuk University Assistant Solar Fuel from Water, Supramolecular Catalysis, of Siegen, Professor Theranostic Nano-Medicine Germany 17 Manivannan, V. IACS, Calcutta Professor Coordination Chemistry 18 Mandal, EPFL, Asst. Professor Peptide Chemistry and Amyloid Research Bhubaneswar Lausanne, Switzerland 19 Manna, Debasis University Asst. Professor Lipid-Protein Interaction, Lipid Synthesis of Illinois at Chicago 20 Mondal, Biplab IIT Bombay Associate Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry Professor 21 Mukherjee, Chandan Max-Planck Asst. Professor Oxidation Catalysis / Molecular Magnetism / Synthesis Institute of of Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs) / MRI Contrast Bioinorganic agents / Water Oxidation Chemistry Chemistry, Muelheim, Germany 22 Pan, Subhas Max-Planck- Asst. Professor Synthetic organic chemistry: Natural product Chandra Institut fuer synthesis with the emphasis of new synthetic Kohlenfor- methodology; development of new reactions, schung, asymmetric organocatalysis and transition metal Muelheim catalysis with new catalyst design; mechanistic study an der Ruhr, Germany 23 Panda, Aditya N. IIT Kanpur Associate Dynamics of bimolecular scattering processes Professor

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 24 Patel, Bhisma K. IIT Kanpur Professor Bio-Organic Chemistry and Newer Methodologies (Head of the Department) 25 Paul, Anumita Columbia Uni- Associate Surface Science, Catalysis, Thin Films versity Professor 26 Paul, Sandip IIT Kanpur Associate Computational Biophysics and Chemistry Professor 27 Punniyamurthy, T. IIT Kanpur Professor Synthetic Organic Chemistry 28 Qureshi, Mohd IIT Kanpur Associate Materials Chemistry Professor 29 Ray, Manabendra IIT Kanpur Professor Bioinorganic and Coordination chemistry 30 Raidongia, Jawaharlal Asst. Professor Physical Chemistry Kalyan (Joined on Nehru centre 27.3.2015) for advance Scientifi c research 31 Sahu, Kalyanasis IACS, Kolkata Asst. Professor Time Resolved Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy, SHG, MUPPETS 32 Saikia, Anil Kr. RRL Jorhat Professor New Synthetic Methodology & Natural Product Synthesis 33 Sastri, Chivukula V. University of Asst. Professor Biomimetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Hyderabad 34 Sarma, Manabendra IIT Bombay Asst. Professor Development of new theoretical approaches to Laser Assisted Control of Chemical Reactions, and Resonances in Electron – Molecule Scattering Reactions 35 Srimani, Dipankar IACS, Jadavpur Asst. Professor Organic, Organonometallic Chemistry (Joined on 30.3.2015)

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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1998 Spectrophotometer, Ultra-pure water System Abmient, Ambient air pollutant measurement sampler, The fine ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: particular sampler, Micro-meteorological monitoring Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in equipment with required accessories and data logging o Civil Engineering system and software ( automatic), Trinocular laboratory microscope complete with essential accessories and digital Master of Technology (MTech) in camera etc. are in working condition. (a) Structural Engineering, Ozone analyzer, Automative gas analyzer, Cascade Impactor, (b) Water Resources Engineering and Management, BOD incubator, Electric muffl e furnace, Drying oven, Air (c) Geotechnical Engineering, compressor etc. have processed for procuring in the current (d) Environmental Engineering, year. (e) Transportation Systems Engineering and Geotechnical Enginering Laboratory: (f) Infrastructure Engineering and Management De-airing apparatus for triaxial testing, Multi-channel Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) data logging , relative density apparatus, Rock testing equipments, GeoStudio 2007 products are pc software for FACULTY STRENGTH: analysis of earth structures subjected to earthquake shaking • Professor: 12 and design are available. • Associate Professor: 17 Miniature Pressure Transducer Tensiometer, Refi lling kit • Assistant Professor: 14 for T-5 tensiometer, Research Centrifuge with rotor, Cross permeability test apparatus, HygoclipCP302 XXPVC, NUMBER OF NEW FACULTY JOINED: Humidity Temp Controller Model – 902 Duel Channel, • Assistant Professor: 5 Guelph Permeameter kit, Upgrading of Block vibration to LABORATORIES: computerized block vibration test equipment, Direct Q-3 Ultrapure water purification system have processed for Structural Engineering Laboratory: procuring in the current year. Overhead EOT Crane for Structural test hall, Universal Test Transportation Engineering Laboratory: frame, Several new NDT equipment like Corrosion analyzing, Rebar locator. Permeability tester, Resistivity meter, Bump integrator for pavement management, Brooke Field extraction tester, Dynamic Actuator system, Earthquake Viscometer for testing of bituminous material as well as simulator, Pseudo Dynamic Test Facility, FFT analyzer for marshall Design of fl exible pavement facilities, HDM4 for vibration testing of structural elements, Resonant frequency highway development model, MXROADS for highway meter, HBM-48chanel data acquisition system, Hydraulic geometric design, rolling thin file oven, TRANSYT, ISIS, Fork Lift, A-Frame Aluminium Ladder (16ft high), Automatic HCS software, plate compactor, CBR fi eld apparatus, Driver Vicat’s apparatus for SC, Initial and Final Setting of Cement, vision screen tester, Universal Penetrometer for bitumen 300 LPM in Powerpack for MTS test system, Reaction Mass testing including automatic pnetrometer timer, Eletric Assembly for Electoseis Long Stroke Shaker Model 113 etc. plate compactor for preparation of triaxial sample, Testing equipment for falling Weight Deflectometer etc. are in Abaqus V 6.8 software, ANSYS – v13, SAP 2000 – v14 , MIDAS working condition. , Primavara etc. Radar Gun, Video VBox 10Hz system, PTV vision software Environmental Engineering Laboratory: VISSIM, Standard TransCAD software (V-5) etc. has been Laser particle size analyzer, Atomic Absorption processed for procuring in the current year. 136 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering Laboratory: with digital image capturing facility, hardness box kit are An in-situ hillslope experiment set up (size =250 m2) with available. fully automatic subsurface fl ow measurement system was MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: designed and fabricated at the fi eld site. The experimental set-up will quantify both subsurface and surface fl ow in Environmental Engineering Lab a hillslope under high intensity storm events. 5 and 10 m 01 Digital Conductivity meter tilting fl ume long channel, rainfall simulation apparatus for 02 Digital Colony Counter study rainfall for various studies fl ow, Auto-weather station, 03 Digital Nephelo Turbidity meter Turbines, Pump ring etc. are in working condition. 04 Hot Plate Hydraulic Tilting Flume 20m x 1.0 m x 60. Cm length, Construction of Storage tank, Micro ADV 16-MHz Splash- 05 Split Type Room Air Conditioner Proof System has been processed for procuring in the 06 Digital Spectrophotometer current year. 07 Refrigerator Surveying Laboratory: 08 Gas Chromatograph Survey equipment / modern equipment like EDM, Total 09 Water Purifi cation System station, Electronic Theodolite, GIS for remote-sensing, 10 High Volume Sampler Digitizer, GPS etc for various studies topographic, Volumetric 11 Respirable Dust Sampler with Gaseous Sampling bench with set of weir &Notchs, Impact of Jet, Free & Force Attachment Vertex fl ow, Losses in Pipe system are in working condition. 12 CO, CO2 Air Quality meter Engineering Geology: 13 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer Trinocular Stereo zoom Microscope, Petrographic Microscope

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Abhishek Propagation Path Characterization and DST 35.00 none 5 years Kumar determination of in-situ slips along diff erence active faults in the Shillong Plateau Dr. Ajay Biodegradation of pulp and paper DST, SERB 32.93 none 3 years Kalamdhad mill waste using diff erent composting and Dr. Meena techniques Khwairakpam, NIT Meghalaya Dr. H. B. Evaluation of a Strengthening Scheme DST 25.20 Dr. K. Das- 3 years Kaushik for Unreinforced Masonry Building us- gupta ing Steel Bands Dr. S. Das Seismic Design Criteria for RC Struc- DST 23.14 Dr. H. B. 3 years tures Considering Mainshock-After- Kaushik shock Sequence for Northeastern India Dr. Anjan Dutta Studies on infl uence of HyFRC in DST Rs.8.27 lakhs ------enhancing seismic performance of reinforced concrete bridge pier Dr. Anjan Dutta Experimental investigation on the use M/S D2S Rs.5.66 lakhs ------of HyFRC in enhancing seismic perfor- Infrastruc- mance of reinforced concrete bridge tures Pvt. Ltd., pier Guwahati-1

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. R. Development of low cost chitosan CSIR 15.8 Dr. P. K. 36 months Uppaluri based cross linked resins for the re- Ghosh, Dr. A. covery and removal of palladium from Golder synthetic and spent electroless plating solutions Dr. Rajib Kumar Numerical modeling based study for NRDMS (DST) 14,25,200 Prof. Arup 2 years Bhattacharjya assessing quality of groundwater of Sarma Bharalu River basin of Guwahati city b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Dura- Principal Sponsoring Co-Investiga- Name of Project Sanctioned tion Investigator Agency tor (Rs. in Lakh) (years) Dr. Ajay Potential of aerobic digestion (compost- Ministry of 21 None 3 years Kalamdhad ing) and anaerobic digestion of kitchen Drinking waste Water and Sanitation, GoI Dr. Ajay Composting of water hyacinth using diff er- DST, SERC 18.5 none 3 years Kalamdhad ent composting technologies Dr. Ajay Bio-processing of Phumdi weeds of Loktak CSIR 16.7 Mr. W. Roshan 3 years Kalamdhad Lake Manipur through composting Singh, Environ- mental Engi- neer, Manipur Pollution Control Board, Imphal Dr. H. B. Evaluation and Enhancement of Seismic DST 38.72 Dr. S. Das 3 years Kaushik Capacity of Assam-type Housing Dr. Rajan Study on Lowering of Mixing and Compac- DST 59.03 Dr. Akhilesh 3 years Choudhary tion Temperatures of Bituminous Mixes Kumar Maurya through Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) Addi- tives Dr. Akhilesh Development of Indo-Highway Capacity CSIR - CRRI 100 Dr. Rajan 5 years Kumar Maurya Manual (HCM) Choudhary Hemant B. Evaluation of astrengthening scheme for DST 26.30 Kaustubh Das- 3 years Kaushik unreinforced masonry buildings using gupta steel bands Dr. P. K. Ghosh Micro-aerobic process of sulfate reduction CSIR 19.7 --- 3 years to elemental sulfur. Dr. P. K. Ghosh Development of Bioreactor System for MDWS, 14.0 --- 3 years simultaneous removal of multi-pollutants India such as iron, nitrate, arsenic and fl uoride from groundwater Dr. Bimlesh Resistance Predictors for vegetated chan- Ministry of 9.46 --- 2 years Kumar nel with suction Earth Sci- ences, GOI

138 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 c) Completed Sponsored Projects:

Amount Principal Sponsoring Name of Project Sanctioned Co- Investigator Duration Investigator Agency (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. A. Murali Seismic Requalifi cation of UKIERI 32 Dr. Subhamoy 3 years Krishna Geotechnical Structures Bhattacharya, University of Bristol, UK Dr. Ajay High Rate Composting of IIT Guwahati 5 None 2 years Kalamdhad Institutional Organic Waste (Start-up grant) CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Consultancy for Geotechnical assessment, Design & taking up Dr. S. Dr. A. Murali remedial measures in connection with Sreedeep & 10 NFR, Agartala 15 Krishna construction of Railway embankment in Dr. Arindam Months Udaipur Station Yard in Agartala-Udaipur- Dey Sabroom Cross hole seismic test in two sets of bore Dr. A. Murali hole up to a depth of 25 meters to fi nd NEEPCO, Dr. 7.86 3 Months Krishna out Dynamic Properties of soil at Tuirial Mizoram ArindamDey Power House, Mizoram Bhartia Infra Dr. A. Murali Characterization of Multifi lament Woven Projects ltd., 1.96 none 1 Month Krishna Geo-textile Guwahati. Evaluation of Construction materials Dr. A. Murali PWD, Dr. T. for Construction, Rectifi cation and 3.06 2 Month Krishna Guwahati Lyngdoh Strengthening of internal roads of IITG IIT Guwahati Dr. Ajay High Rate Composting of Institutional (Start-up 5 None 2 years Kalamdhad Organic Waste grant) M/s Modern Inspection of quality of fabrication & Dr. H. B. Prefab Dr. A. erection of structure (hanger) at Air Force 2.0 6 months Kaushik Systems Pvt. Borsaikia Station, Borjhar Ltd. National Dr. H. B. Review of Seismic Hazard Input for Safety Hydroelectric 1.85 Dr. S. Das 6 months Kaushik Evaluation of Lower Subansiri Dam Power Corporation The Indian Kaustubh Proof checking of structural design of Hotels 7.50 Arindam Dey 1 year Dasgupta TajVivanta Hotel, Guwahati Company Limited

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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion Sah, P. K. and Estimation of Rock Mass Param- Int. Journal of In- 3-4 117-124 2014 Krishna, A. M. eters using Intact Rock Parameters novative Research in Science, Engg. and Technology Krishna, A. M., Seismic Requalifi cation of Geotech- Indian Geotechnical 44-2 113-118 2014 Bhattacharya, S., nical Structures Journal and Choudhury, D Krishna, A. M., Ground Engineering with Granu- Indian Geotechnical 44-2 205-217 2014 Madhav, M. R., and lar Inclusions for Loose Saturated Journal Kumar, K Sands subjected to Seismic Load- ings Varma, V.S., Eff ects of bulking agent in com- Sustainable Environ- 24(4) 245-256 2014 Chatuphale, M. posting of vegetable waste and mental Research Kalamdhad, A.S. leachate control using rotary drum composter Singh, J., Uptake of heavy metals by natural International Journal 5(1) 42005 2014 Kalamdhad, A.S., zeolite during agitated pile com- of Environmental 2014 posting of water hyacinth Sciences Singh, W.R., Pankaj, Evaluation of bioavailability and Chemical Speciation 26(3) 158-166 2014 S.K., Singh, J., leachability of heavy metals dur- and Bioavailability Kalamdhad, A.S. ing vermicomposting of phumdi biomass of Loktak Lake using Eiseniafetida Dhamodharan K., Pre-treatment and anaerobic diges- Journal of Environ- 2 1821- 2014 Kalamdhad, A.S. tion of food waste for high rate mental Chemical 1830 methane production - A Review Engineering Sarika, D., Singh, J., Study of physico-chemical and International Jour- 3 63 2014 Prasad, R., Vishan, biochemical parameters during nal of Recycling of I., Varma, V.S., rotary drum composting of water Organic Waste in Kalamdhad, A.S., hyacinth Agriculture 2014. Vishan, I., Kanekar, Microbial population, stability and Biologia 69(10) 1303- 2014 H., Kalamdhad, A.S. maturity analysis of rotary drum 1313 composting of water hyacinth Varma, V.S., Bio-conversion of organic waste International Journal 17(6) 483-507 2014 Kalamdhad, A.S. using composting technologies – a of Environmental review Technology and Management Devi, R.R., Dhar, Fabrication of cellulose nanocrys- Compost Science 23(2) 104-116 2015 P., Kalamdhad, A., tals from agricultural compost and Utilization Katiyar, V. Sonowal, P., Vermicomposting of dewatered International Journal 15(1) 24-38 2015 Khwairakpam, M., sludge from pulp and paper mill of Environment and Kalamdhad, A.S. Waste Management

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Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion Varma, V.S., K. Ramu, Eff ects of waste lime sludge on International Journal 9(1) 395-404 2015 Kalamdhad, A.S. nitrogen dynamics and stability of of Environmental mixed organic waste using rotary Research drum composter Sonowal, P., Vermicomposting of solid pulp and International Journal 5(3) 502-514 2015 Khwairakpam, M., paper mill sludge (SPPMS) using of Environmental Kalamdhad, A.S. EudrilusEugeniaeearthworm. Sciences Dhamodharan Eff ects of diff erent livestock dung Bioresource Technol- 180 237-241 2015 K., Kumar, K., as inoculum in food waste anaero- ogy Kalamdhad, A.S. bic digestion and its kinetics. Pradhan, B. Corrosion behavior of steel rein- Construction and Vol. 72 398-410 2014 forcement in concrete exposed to Building Materials composite chloride-sulfate environ- ment. Choudhary, R. and Warm Mix Asphalt: Paves Way for Recent Research in 6(1) 227-230 2014 Julaganti, A. Energy Saving Science and Technol- ogy Kheni, D., Scott, R.H., Ductility enhancement in beam- ACI Structural Jour- 112(2) 167-178 2015 Deb, S.K. and Dutta, column connections under cyclic nal A. load using HYFRC Das, A. Dutta, A. and Performance of fi ber-reinforced Journal of Structural 22 (2) 197-22 2015 Deb, S.K. elastomeric base isolators under Control and Health cyclic excitation Monitoring Barman, P. and Infl uence of tyrebuffi ngs on shear Journal of Environ- 9-2 402-410 2014 Singh, B. strength of soil-fl y ash mixes mental Research & Development Das, T. and Singh, B. Deformation and strength charac- Journal of Environ- 8-4 987-995 2015 teristics of jute geotextile rein- mental Research & forced soils Development Mali, S. and Singh, B. Infl uence of geocell and fi bre rein- Journal of Civil Engi- 8-4 228-233 2015 forcement on strength behaviour neering & Environ- of a sandy soil mental Technology Patel, S.K. and Unconfi ned compressive strength Journal of Civil Engi- 2-3 93-98 2014 Singh, B. behaviour of fi bre-reinforced later- neering & Environ- itic soil mental Technology B. P. Sahariah and S. Comparative study on response of Environmental Engi- 20(1) 65-72 2015 Chakraborty thiocyanate shock load on con- neering Research tinuous and fed batch anaerobic – anoxic –aerobic sequential moving bed reactors Animesh Das, Anjan Performance of fi ber-reinforced Structural Control 22 197–220 2015 Dutta and S.K. Deb elastomeric base isolators under and health monitor- cyclic excitation ing DhavalKheni, Ductility enhancement in beam- ACI Structural Jour- 1123(2) 167-178 2015 Richard H. Scott, column connections under cyclic nal S.K. Deb and Anjan load using HyFRC Dutta

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Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion Nirmalendu Multi-modal vibration control of Journal of Vibration DOI: 10.1177/ 2015 Debnath, S. K. Deb truss bridges with tuned mass and Control 1077546315571 172 and Anjan Dutta dampers under general loading Sahoo, S. N. and Determination of urbanization Urban Design and 167 - 2015 Sreeja, P. based on imperviousness Planning ICE Publish- (DP2) ing, Thomas Telford Sahoo, S. N. and A methodology for determining Urban WaterJournal, 11(1) 42-54 2015 Sreeja, P. (2014) runoff based on imperviousness in Taylor and Francis an un-gauged peri-urban catch- ment RangaRaoPandu, Arsenic Removal from Contaminat- International Journal 6(5) 357-362 2015 Ngullie N., Golder, A. ed Water by Various Physicochemi- of Environmental Sci- K. and Ghosh P. K. cal Processes. ence & Development. Sahoo, N.K., Treatment of refi nery wastewater Desalination and 2014 Ghosh, P. K. and using arthrobacterchloropheno- Water Treatment Pakshirajan, K.. licus A6 in an upfl ow packed bed reactor Sahoo, N.K., Evaluation of 4-bromophenol Biodegradation. 25(5) 705-18 2014 Pakshirajan, biodegradation in mixed pollutants K.andGhosh, P. K. system by Arthrobacterchlorophe- nolicus A6 in an upflow packed bed reactor. Brahmacharimayum, Sulfate Bioreduction and elemental Journal of Environ- 2(3) 1287- 2014 B. and Ghosh, P. K. sulfur formation in a packed bed ment and Chemical 1293 reactor. Engineering.. Dharnaik, A. S. and Hexavalent Chromium [Cr(VI)] Environmental Tech- 35(18) 2272- 2014 Ghosh, P. K. removal by Electrochemical Ion- nology. 2279 exchange Process.. Sahoo, N. K., Biodegradation of 4-Bromophenol Biodegradation. 25(2) 265-276 2014 Pakshirajan, K. and by Arthrobacterchlorophenolicus Ghosh, P. K. A6 in batch shake fl asks and in a continuously operated packed bed reactor BanasriSarma, Optimal Ecological Management Journal of Hydrologic - - 2015 Arup Kumar Sarma, Practices for Controlling Sediment Engineering, ASCE ChandanMahanta Yield and Peak Discharge from Hilly and Vijay P. Singh, Urban Areas KalitaHridayMoni, Evaluation of Optimal River Train- Water Resources 28 2077- 2014 Sarma Arup Kumar, ing Work using GA Based Linked Management 2092 and Bhattacharjya Simulation Optimization Approach Rajib Kumar, ThiyamTamphasana Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Journal of Engineer- 24, 2 152-168 2015 Devi and Bimlesh Flow in Stirred Tank with Curved ing Thermophysics, Kumar Blade Impeller Springer ThiyamTamphasana Design of Gas-liquid Stirred tank Journal of Engineer- 88, 1 76-87 2015 Devi and Bimlesh with Curved Blade Impeller ing Physics and Ther- Kumar mophysics, Springer

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Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion ThiyamTamphasana Scale up Criteria for Dual Stirred The Korean Journal 31, 8 1339- 2014 Devi and Bimlesh Gas-liquid Unbaffl ed Stirred tank of Chemical Engi- 1348 Kumar with Concave Blade Impeller neering, Springer ThiyamTamphasana Eff ect of Superfi cial gas velocity on Thermophysics and 21, 3 309-326 2014 Devi and Bimlesh Process Dynamics in Bioreactors Aeromechanics, Kumar Springer Vishal Deshpande Does Downward Seepage Initiate National Acad- - - 2015 and Bimlesh Kumar Lateral Channel Shift? emy Science Letters Springe Vishal Deshpande Advent of Sheet fl ow in Suction Environmental Fluid - - 2015 and Bimlesh Kumar aff ected alluvial Channels Mechanics Anurag Sharma, Turbulent Parameters and Cor- ISH Journal of Hy- - - 2015 Mahesh Patel and responding Sediment Transport in draulic Engineering Bimlesh Kumar Curved Cross-Section Channel VarhsaShivpure, Analysing Turbulence Characteris- ISH Journal of Hy- - - 2015 ThokchomBebina tics of Flow over Submerged Flex- draulic Engineering Devi and Bimlesh ible Vegetated Channel Kumar Bimlesh Kumar Flow Prediction in Vegetative Chan- Journal of Hydroin- 16, 4 839-849 2014 nel using Hybrid ANN approach, formatics Bimlesh Kumar, Regression Model for Sediment Computers and Elec- 103, 1 82-90 2014 Anjaneya, Vishal Transport Problems using Multi- tronics in Agriculture Deshpande and Gene symbolic genetic Program- GopuSreenivasulu ming Borah Development of Unknown Pollu- Journal of Hazardous, - - 2014 Triptimoni, and tion Source Identifi cation Models Toxic, and Radioac- BhattacharjyaRajib Using GMS ANN Based Simulation- tive Waste, ASCE Kumar Optimization Methodology KalitaHridayMoni, Evaluation of Optimal River Train- Water Resources 28(8) 2077- 2014 Sarma Arup ing Work using GA Based Linked Management 2098 Kumar, and Simulation Optimization Approach BhattacharjyaRajib Kumar, BhattacharjyaRajib AHybrid-Optimization Approach Journal of Hazardous, 19(2) 0401 2015 Kumar, Ambuj for Estimating Parameters of Virus Toxic, and Radioac- 4025 -1-8 Srivastava, and Transport Process in Aquifer tive Waste, ASCE Satish Mysore, G. Sahoo, S. N. and Determination of urbanization Urban Design and 167 49-57 2014 Sreeja, P. based on imperviousness Planning, ICE Pub- (DP2) lishing, Thomas Telford Sahoo, S. N. and A methodology for determining Urban WaterJournal, 11(1) 42-54. 2014 Sreeja, P. runoff based on imperviousness in Taylor and Francis, an un-gauged peri-urban catch- ment Dubey, A. K., Gupta, Evaluation of satellite-altimetry- International Journal 35(23) 7815– 2014 P., Dutta, S., & derived river stage variation for the of Remote Sensing 7827 Kumar, B. braided Brahmaputra River

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Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion Dubey, A. K., Gupta, Water Level Retrieval using SARAL/ Marine Geodesy - - 2015 P., Dutta, S., & Singh, AltiKa Observations in the Braided R. P. Brahmaputra River, Eastern India Karmaker, T., & Stochastic erosion of composite Hydrological Pro- 1339 1324– 2014 Dutta, S. banks in alluvial river bends cesses, 1339 Sarkar, R., & Dutta, S Parametric study of a physically- Hydrological Sci- 60(3) 448–467 2015 based, plot-scale hillslope hy- ences Journal drological model through virtual experiments Sarkar, R., Dutta, S., An insight into the runoff genera- Field evidences from 128 31–43 2015 &Dubey, A. K. tion processes in wet sub-tropics a vegetated hillslope plot. Catena Proceedings of Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Name of Conference/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Workshop/ Seminar/ Date Issue Symposia Krishna, A. M., Numerical Modelling of Geosys- Indian Geotechnical Confer- 18-20 De- 2625- Bhattacherjee, A. and tems: Reinforced Soil Retaining ence 2014 cember 2014 2636 Reddy, S.B. Structures Kumar, D.P., Reddy, S.B. Evaluation of Optimum Mix of Indian Geotechnical Confer- 18-20 De- 723-728 and Krishna, A. M. Sand-Tire Chip Mixtures For Geo- ence 2014 cember 2014 technical Applications Reddy, S.B., Kumar, D.P. Behavior of Cantilever Retaining Golden Jubilee Conference 30-31 Octo- Paper and Krishna, A. M. Wall Models with Sand-Tire Chip of the IGS Bangalore Chapter, ber 2014 No: GD4, Mixtures Geo-Innovations 8p. Sah, P. K., George, M.K. Comparison of Tunnel Wall Dis- North-East Students Geo- 18 Oct 2014 none and Krishna, A.M. placement using Analytical and Congress on Advances in Numerical Method: A Case Study Geotechnical Engineering (NESGC 2014) Chatterjee, D. and Seismic Slope Stability Analysis 6th IGS on Disaster Mitiga- January 21- 505-508. Krishna, A.M. for Layered Confi gurations tion in Special Geoenviron- 23, 2015 mental Conditions Chaudhary, B., Earth pressures on reinforced soil IACMAG 2014 22-25 Sep- 1877- Hazarika, H. and retaining wall under dynamic tember, 2014 1883 Krishna, A. M. loading Reddy, S.B., Kumar, D.P. Evaluation of sand - tire chip International Conference on 17-18 Octo- pp. 417- and Krishna, A. M. mixture properties for sustainable Sustainable Civil Infrastruc- ber 2014 426. geotechnical applications ture Dammala, P. K., Sodom, Experimental investigation of ASCE IFCEE 2015 17-21 March pp. 1420- B. R. and Adapa, M. K. applicability of sand tire chip mix- 2015 1429. tures as retaining wall backfi ll Abhishek Kumar, Estimation of surface PGA and Geo-Innovations, IISC Banga- 30-31, Octo- Olympa Baro, Narayan, determination of target value for lore, Karnataka ber, 2014 L. M. no liquefaction at Guwahati city

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Name of Conference/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Workshop/ Seminar/ Date Issue Symposia Abhishek Kumar, Site specifi c response based on 15th Symposium on Earth- 11-13 De- A003 Kumaran M and global data, liquefaction potential quake Engineering, , IIT cember 2014 Vetriselvan, A. V. assessment and determination of Roorkee, Uttarakhand target values for ground improve- ment for shallow regions in India Abhishek Kumar, Global data based site response Indian Geotechnical Confer- 18-20 T02P17 Kumaran M and analysis and output fi ltering for ence, JNTU Kakinada, AP December, Vetriselvan, A. V. liquefaction assessment of shal- 2014 low regions in India Kalamdhad, A.S. Decentralized composting of 6th Indo-German Frontiers 22-25 May, None organic waste of Engineering Symposium 2014 Organized by Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Germany and DST India, Pots- dam, Germany Varma, V.S., Pankaj, S.K., Evaluation of bioavalability of National Conference on 20-21 June, None Singh, W.R., Singh, J., heavy metals and nutrients dur- Sustainable Development 2014 Kalamdhad, A.S. ing agitated pile composting of of Environmental System, green phumdi Centre for the Environment, IIT Guwahati Kanekar, H., Vishan, I., Microbial succession, stability and National Conference on 20-21 June, None Kalamdhad, A.S. maturity analysis of rotary drum Sustainable Development 2014 composting of water hyacinth of Environmental System, Centre for the Environment, IIT Guwahati Vishan, I., Senthilkumar, Isolation and biosorption of metal International Conference 15-17 Dec., None S., Kalamdhad, A.S. during rotary drum composting on Environment and Energy 2014 of water hyacinth Jawaharlal Nehru Technologi- cal University Hyderabad Dhamodharan K., Anaerobic digestion of institu- International Conference 15-17 Dec., None Kalamdhad, A.S. tional food waste with poultry on Environment and Energy 2014 dung and rhinoceros dung as Jawaharlal Nehru Technologi- inoculums cal University Hyderabad Varma, V.S., Ramu, K., Changes in physico-chemical International Conference 15-17 Dec., None Kalamdhad, A.S. parameters during pile compost- on Environment and Energy 2014 ing of vegetable waste operated Jawaharlal Nehru Technologi- at agitated, passive and forced cal University Hyderabad aerated condition Dhamodharan K., Methane production from diges- 2nd Bioprocessing INDIA 17-20 Dec., None Kalamdhad, A.S. tion of food waste using goat and Conference, Institute of 2014 piggery dung as inoculums Chemical Technology Mum- bai Pradhan, B. Corrosion behavior of reinforced Structural Engineering Con- December concrete exposed to sodium vention 2014 (SEC 2014), IIT 22 – 24, 2014 chloride solution and composite Delhi sodium chloride-sodium sulfate solution Shaheen, F., and Electrochemical behaviour of Structural Engineering Con- December Pradhan, B. steel in contaminated concrete vention 2014 (SEC 2014), IIT 22 – 24, 2014 powder solution extracts Delhi

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Name of Conference/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Workshop/ Seminar/ Date Issue Symposia Basha, S.H., and Non-linear Behavior of Weak Proceedings of Structural 22-24 De- none Kaushik, H.B. Brick-Strong Mortar Masonry in Engineering Convention (SEC cember 2014 Compression 2014) Deori, S., Choudhary, Evaluation of Flexible Pavement The 14th Annual Interna- 11-12 Febru- 14 R., Tiwari, D., and Performance using Laser Based tional Conference on Asphalt, ary 2015 Gangopadhyay, S. Multifunction, Automated Road Pavement Engineering and Survey System Infrastructure Choudhary, R., Eff ect of Compaction Tempera- The 14th Annual Interna- 17-18 Octo- 657-666 Julaganti, A., and ture on Mechanical Properties of tional Conference on Asphalt, ber 2014 Banerji, A.K. Modifi ed Binder Mixes Pavement Engineering and Infrastructure Choudhary, R., Mix Design of Recycled Mixes The 14th Annual Interna- 17-18 Octo- 862-869 Kaulgud, H.S., Using Warm Mix Asphalt Additive tional Conference on Asphalt, ber 2014 andJulaganti, A. Sasobit® Pavement Engineering and Infrastructure Julaganti, A. Evaluation of Volumetric Proper- International Conference on 17-18 Octo- 694-702 &Choudhary R ties of Bituminous Mixes with Sustainable Civil Infrastruc- ber 2014 Evotherm ture organized by IIT Hyder- abad and ASCE India Section Deori, S., Tiwari, HDM-4 Pavement Deterioration International Conference on 17-18 Octo- Page D., Choudhary, Modeling for Ahmedabad Vado- Sustainable Civil Infrastruc- ber 2014 862-869 R.,&Gangopadhyay, S. dara Expressway ture organized by IIT Hyder- abad and ASCE India Section Singh, P. and Determination of Mixing and International Conference on 17-18 Octo- 694-702 Choudhary, R. Compaction Temperatures of As- Sustainable Civil Infrastruc- ber 2014 phalt Concrete Mixes by Density ture organized by IIT Hyder- Analysis abad and ASCE India Section Patel, S. K. and Singh, B. Strength and stiff ness develop- Seventh International Dec. 2014 Paper no. ment of fi bre-reinforced lateratic Congress of Environmental T-230, 10 soil Research, ICER-14 pp. Das, T. and Singh, B. Experimental study on infl uence Seventh International Dec. 2014 Paper no. of waste tyrefi bres on strength Congress of Environmental T-309, 11 of compacted clayey soil-fl y ash Research, ICER-14 pp. mixes Patel, S. K. and Singh, B. Models for predicting shear 3rd International Conference April 2014 Vol. 1, pp. strength of fi ber-reinforced soils on Sustainable Innovative 335-342 Techniques in Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engi- neering, SITACEE-2014 Patel, S. K. and Singh, B. Improvement in strength charac- 5th Young Indian Geotechni- March 2015 Vol. 1, pp. teristics of fi bre reinforced sandy cal Engineers Conference, 190-193 soil 5IYGEC Patel, S. K. and Singh, B. Modifi cation of strength behav- Indian Geotechnical Confer- Dec. 2014 Vol. 1, pp. iour of sandy soil with synthetic ence, IGC-2014 683-690 fi bre Deb, T. K. and Singh, B. Lateral load carrying capacity of North East Students Geo- Oct. 2014 Paper no. monopod bucket foundation in Congress on Advances in 6, 6 pp. sand Geotechnical Engineering, NES GEO-CONGRESS 2014

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Name of Conference/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Workshop/ Seminar/ Date Issue Symposia Patel, S. K. and Singh, B. Infl uence of glass fi bre inclusion North East Students Geo- Oct. 2014 Paper no. on strength characteristics of a Congress on Advances in 1, 6 pp. sandy soil Geotechnical Engineering, NES GEO-CONGRESS 2014 N. Sharma and K. Review of Seismic Soil-Structure UKIERI Workshop on Seismic 07-09 Janu- None Dasgupta Interaction with Pile Foundation Requalifi cation of Pile Sup- ary 2015 ported Structures (SRPSS) S. K. Sahu, N. Sharma Infl uence of Modeling of RC Struc- 10th US National Conference 24-28 July Paper ID and K. 37Dasgupta tural Walls on Dynamic Analysis of on Earthquake Engineering, 2014 1312 Wall-Frame Buildings USA P. Sharma and K. Modal Pushover Analysis of RC 10th US National Conference 24-28 July Paper ID Dasgupta Frame Building with Staircase and on Earthquake Engineering, 2014 1017 Elevator Core USA Ghosh, B. and Sreeja, P. Comparative study of double HYDRO-2014, ISH, NIT Bho- Dec 18-20 - ring and tension infi ltrometers to pal, India measure infi ltration properties and hydraulic conductivity Kulkarni, V. V., Golder, Removal Of Pb(II) by Weak And Chemcon 2014 ES/0050 A. K. and Ghosh, P. K. Strong Acidic Cation-Exchange Resins: Kinetic And Thermody- namic Studies Brahmacharimayum, B. Sulfate Reduction in a Fixed Film International Conference September APCBEE; and Ghosh, P. K. Anaerobic Reactor under Shock on Chemical, Biological and 15-16, 2014 Proce- Loading Conditions Environmental Engineering. dia, PII: Paris, France S2212- 6708(14). 2014 Rao, P. R., Ngullie . Arsenic Removal from con- International Conference in August 22- - N., Golder, A. K. and taminated water BY ion exchange, Substantial Environmental 22, 2014 Ghosh, P. K electro membrane and electro- technology 2014 (ICSET chemical ion exchange processes 2014). Dubai, UAE Mishra, Anil Kumar and A Study on the Eff ect of Salt on 7th International Congress on 10-14 1531- Dutta, Jagori the Behaviour of Compacted Environmental Geotechnics November, 1538 Bentonite 2014 Mishra, Anil Kumar and Infl uence of heavy metals on the Indian Geotechnical Confer- 18-20 1531- Dutta, Jagori geotechnical behaviour of com- ence, Kakinada December, 1538 pacted bentonite 2014 Srikanth, V and Mishra, Infl uence of heavy metals on the International Conference on 17-18 Octo- 1531- Anil Kumar geotechnical behaviour of com- Sustainable Civil Infrastruc- ber, 2014 1538 pacted bentonite ture, Hyderabad, India Krishanu Mukherjee, Performance enhancement of Indian Geotechnical Confer- 18-20 1531- Anil Kumar Mishra sand-bentonite mixture due to ence, Kakinada, India December, 1538 addition of fi ber and geo-synthet- 2014 ic clay liner Barman Swapnali, and Sensitivity of snow covered area THA 2015: International Con- January 28- -- Bhattacharjya, Rajib of Brahmaputra river basin to ference on Climate Change 30, 2015 Kumar, temperature and Water & Environment Management in Monsoon Asia

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Name of Conference/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Workshop/ Seminar/ Date Issue Symposia Borah Triptimoni, and Identifi cation of Unknown Pol- HYDRO-2014, ISH, NIT Bhopal Dec 18-20, -- BhattacharjyaRajib lution Sources in Groundwater 2014 Kumar Aquifer using ANN-GA based Simulation-Optimization Model Ghosh, B. and Sreeja, P. Comparative study of double HYDRO-2014, ISH, NIT Bhopal Dec 18-20 -- ring and tension infi ltrometers to 2014 measure infi ltration properties and hydraulic conductivity Book Chapters

Name of Pub- Vol, Page Chapter Book ISBN Year Author/s lisher Iss No. Basha, S.H., and Non-linear Behavior of Weak Advances in Struc- Spring- 3 - 978-81- 2015 Kaushik, H.B. Brick-Strong Mortar Masonry tural Engineering: er 322-2187-6 in Compression Materials Ghosh, A., Pak- Bioremediation of perchlo- Biological Reme- Spring- - 163- 978-3-319- 2014 shirajan, K. and rate contaminated environ- diation of Explosive er 178 01082-3 Ghosh, P. K. ment Residues CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

International/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date National Dr. A. Murali 5th Indian Young Geotechnical Vadodara 14-15 March 2015 National Krishna Engineers Conference Dr. A. Murali 6th International Geotechnical IIT Madras January 21-23, International Krishna Symposium on Disaster Mitiga- 2015 tion in Special Geoenvironmental Conditions Dr. A. Murali Indian Geotechnical Conference Kakinada 18-20 December National Krishna 2014 2014 Dr. A. Murali Geo-Innovations IISc Bangalore 30-31 October National Krishna 2014 Dr. Rajan Professor Training Course National Centre for 16-20 June 2014 International Choudhary Asphalt Technology (NCAT), Auburn Univer- sity, Alabama, USA Dr. Rajan The 14th Annual International Liverpool Centre for 11-12 February International Choudhary Conference on Asphalt, Pave- Materials Technol- 2015 ment Engineering and Infrastruc- ogy Liverpool, United ture Kingdom Prof. S.K. Deb 5th Asia Conference on Earth- Taipei, Taiwan Oct 16-18, 2014 International quake Engineering Kaustubh UKIERI Workshop Seismic IIT Guwahati 7-9 January 2015 National Dasgupta Requalifi cation of Pile Supported Structures (SRPSS) Dr. Anil Kumar 7th International Congress on Melbourne, Australia 10-14 November, International Mishra Environmental Geotechnics 2014

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International/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date National Prof. Rajib Kumar THA 2015: International Confer- Bangkok, Thailand January 28-30, International Bhattacharjya ence on Climate Change and 2015 Water &Environment Manage- ment in Monsoon Asia Moharana S. and "Hyperspectral remote sensing of Hyderabad, India 9-12 December International Dutta S. paddy crop using in-situ mea- 2014 surement and clustering tech- nique", The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISPRS Technical Com- mission VIII Symposium Rupasree Panda, "GLOF study in Tawang river Hyderabad 9-12 December International Suman Kumar basin, Arunachal Pradesh, India", 2014 Padhee, and Operational Remote Sensing Ap- Subashisa Dutta plications - Opportunities, Prog- ress & Challenges, ISPRS Techni- cal Commission VIII Symposium INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Dr. A. Murali Seismic Concerns in Geotech- Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat 11 February, Krishna nical Engineering and Solu- Jorhat. 2015 tions Dr. A. Murali Seismic Design Consider- Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat 11 February, Krishna ations for Pile Foundations Jorhat. 2015 Dr. Ajay High rate Composting of Indian institute of Technology Centre for the 20-21 June, Kalamdhad Organic Fraction of Municipal Guwahati, Guwahati, India Environment 2014 Solid Waste Dr. Ajay Solid Waste Management & Royal School of Engineering and Department of 1 November, Kalamdhad Disposal Strategies Technology Guwahati Civil Engineering 2014 Dr. Ajay Solid Waste Management – IIT Guwahati Department of 9-13 March, Kalamdhad An Integrated Approach Civil Engineering 2015 Dr. Ajay Energy from Waste IIT Guwahati, India Department of 23-27 March Kalamdhad Chemical Engi- 2015 neering Dr. Rajan Use of Industrial Wastes as Liverpool Centre for Materials Liverpool, UK 12 February Choudhary Fillers Technology 2015 Prof. S.K. Deb Passive and Active Control of IIT Delhi New Delhi Dec. 12 2014 Structural Systems Prof. S.K. Deb Historical Development and NCREE Taipei, Taiwan Oct 13, 2014 Current Status of Earthquake Engineering in India Prof Arup Water Engineering and Man- AIT’s School of Engineering and Thailand 2015 Kumar Sarma agement (WEM) fi eld of study Technology (SET)

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VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name of Inst./ Purpose/ Name of Name Date Remarks Univ./Org. Lecture Prof. Partha IIT Kanpur Optimization in Traffi c 23 February Invited lecture in QIP Course “ITTE- Chakroborty Engineering 2015 2015” organized by Department of Prof. K. V. IIT Bombay Sustainable Urban Trans- 23 February Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati Krishna Rao portation Planning 2015 Dr. S. CRRI-CSIR new Road Safety Audit 24 February Velmurugan Delhi 2015 Dr. Devesh CRRI-CSIR new Pavement Management 26 February Tiwari Delhi and Evaluation 2015 SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED

Name of Faculty International/ No. of Par- (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date National ticipants ordinator, etc.) Dr. A. Murali UKIERI Workshop on Seismic UKIERI 7-9 January International 110 Krishna Requalifi cation of Pile supported Project 2015 structures Dr. Ajay Kalamdhad Solid Waste Management- Chal- TEQIP II, 12-14 January National 50 lenges and Opportunities MHRD 2015 Dr. Ajay Kalamdhad Symposium on Management TEQIP II, 06-07 Feb. 2015 National 70 and Procurement of Integrated MHRD Waste Management System Dr. BuluPradhan Short term refresher training WSSO, 11–13 February National 17 and Dr. Arun Ch. program on ‘Concrete Technol- PHED, As- 2015 Borsaikia ogy’ sam Dr. Rajan QIP Short Term Course Innova- AICTE 23-27 February National 23 Choudhary and tive technologies in Transporta- 2015 Dr. Akhilesh Kumar tion Engineering from 5 Maurya Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Review Workshop on Indian CSIR-CRRI February 20-22, National 65 Maurya and Dr. Highway Capacity Manual (RI- New Delhi 2015 Rajan Choudhary CHAM-2015) Dr. Anil Kumar North East Students Geocon- Indian 18 October National 130 Mishra gress on Advances in Geotechni- Geotechni- 2014 cal Engineering- 2014 cal Society, IITG, AEC Dr. Anil Kumar QIP Short term course on Chal- AICTE 9-13 March National 17 Mishra lenges and Recent Advances 2015 in Geotechnical Engineering Research and Practices

AWARDS AND HONOURS STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS Dr. Abhishek Kumar won the INSPIRE FACULTY AWARD Mr. V. Sudharsan Varma, research scholar, won best poster 2014 given by Department of Science and Technology, award for paper “Varma, V.S., Pankaj, S.K., Singh, W.R., Singh, Government of India. J., Kalamdhad, A.S., 2014. Evaluation of bioavalability of heavy metals and nutrients during agitated pile composting Dr. A. Murali Krishna was elected as Executive Committee of green phumdi. Proc. National Conference on Sustainable Member, Indian Geotechnical Society, New Delhi for the Development of Environmental System (NCOSDOES-2014), term 2015-2016. 20-21 June, Centre for the Environment, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati.

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Protik Biswas (MTech student) is carrying out some part of Sreya Dhar (Ph.D. student) is carrying out some part of her his MTech. project work on Seismic Soil Structure Interaction Ph.D. thesis work on Seismic Soil Structure Interaction for Modelling for Bridges at Technical University, Dresden, Integral Bridges at Politecnico Di Milano, Dresden, Germany, Germany, under DAAD Sandwich programme. under Erasmus Mundus programme.

FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1 Barua, Gautam IIT Kharagpur Professor Flow through porous media 2 Bharat, T. IISc Bangalore Assistant Behavior of unsaturated soils during infi ltration & drainage, Venkata Professor Settlement behavior of ultra-soft soils and mine tailings, Contaminant transport through landfi ll liners, Mineralogical aspects of clays, Inverse analysis of geotechnical &geoenvi- ronmental engineering problems 3 Bhattacharjya, IIT Kanpur Professor Water Resources System Management, Genetic Algorithms, Rajib Kumar Artifi cial Neural Networks 4 Chakraborty, Trinity College, Associate Dynamic and Random Vibration, System identifi cation and Arunasis Dublin, Ireland Professor damage detection, Wavelet analysis 5 Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Professor Water and Wastewater Treatment, Biodegradation of Indus- Saswati trial Wastewater, Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater 6 Choudhury, IIT Roorkee Associate Pavement Analysis and Design, Highway Construction and Rajan Professor Quality Control, Pavement Material Characterization, Pave- ment Evaluation and Maintenance, Traffi c Engineering 7 Das, Sandip IIT Kanpur Assistant Earthquake Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Random Vibra- Professor tion 8 Dasgupta, IIT Kanpur Assistant Earthquake Engineering, Design of Reinforced Concrete Kaustubh Professor Structures, Retrofi tting of Structures 9 Deb, SajalKanti IIT Roorkee Professor Passive and semi-active control, Performance based seismic design, System identifi cation & structural health monitoring, Seismic damage assessment 10 Dey, Arindam IIT Kanpur Assistant Geosynthetic Reinforced Foundation Beds, Geotechnical Professor Lumped Parameter and Continuum Mechanics Modelling, Parameter Estimation of Geotechnical Models, Optimization, GA, ANN and Soft Computing in Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Modifi cation and Improvement Practices, Soil- Structure-Foundation Interaction, Reinforced Soil Structures, Landslides and Slope Stability Analysis, Seismic and Ambient Health Monitoring of Geotechnical Structures, Reliability and Uncertainty Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering, Forensic Investigation in Geotechnical Engineering, Subsurface Profi l- ing and Soil Investigation, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 11 Dutta, Anjan IIT Delhi Professor Finite Element Mesh Generation, Optimization, Control, Health Monitoring and Retrofi tting of structures 12 Dutta, IIT Kanpur Professor Meso-Scale Distributed hydrological modelling, Satellite Subashisa Remote Sensing and GIS for Water resources Management, (Head of the Computational river hydraulics and its applications, Water- Department) shed and Irrigation Management

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 13 Gandhi, Indu IIT Madras Assistant Light weight concrete (Foam concrete), Durability related Siva Ranjani Professor studies on concrete, Shrinkage behaviour and thermal per- (Joined on formance of concrete, Sustainable materials in construction, 07.05.2014) Lean concepts of construction, Construction management 14 Garg Ankit Hong Kong Assistant Bio-Geotechnology, Soil-Root-Water Interaction (Joined on University of Professor 27.04.2015) Science and Technology 15 Ghosh,Pranab IIT Kharagpur Associate Water treatment for domestic and industrial use, Domestic Kumar Professor and Industrial wastewater treatment, Sludge treatment by physicochemical and biological process 16 Gokhale, Sharad IIT Delhi Professor Air Pollution and Environmental Noise B. 17 Goyal, Manish IIT Roorkee Assistant Stochastic Hydrology and Distributed Hydrological Model- Kumar Professor ing, Hydro-climatology and Statistical Downscaling, Irrigation Management and Crop Modelling Applications, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning Models and Data Min- ing 18 Hazra, University Assistant Deterministic and Stochastic Structural Dynamics, System Budhaditya of Waterloo, Professor Identifi cation, Blind source separation, Time-frequency analy- (Joined on Canada sis, Vibration based condition monitoring 28.11.2014) 19 Jawed, IIT Kanpur Professor Biological Processes, Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment, Heavy Mohammad Metal Removal and Recovery, Water Treatment and Supply, Domestic & Industrial Wastewater Treatment 20 Kalamdhad, IIT Roorkee Associate Solid waste management, Mechanical composting and ver- Ajay Professor micomposting, Analysis of solid wastes 21 Kartha, Suresh IIT Kanpur Associate Flow and transport through porous media, Heap leaching, A. Professor Hydrology, Numerical modelling 22 Kaushik, IIT Kanpur Associate Earthquake Resistant Design, Nonlinear Behaviour of Struc- Hemant B. Professor tures, Retrofi tting of Structures, Finite Element Modeling 23 Kota, Sri Harsha Texas A&M Assistant Formation, transformation and chemical mechanisms of air (Joined on University, Col- Professor pollutants near roadways, Development of air quality models, 20.08.2014) lege Station, Estimation of emission factors, Source apportionment of air USA pollutants, Regional air quality 24 Kumar, Indian Institute Assistant Seismic hazards of Urban Centers, Ground Motion Simula- Abhishek of Science, Professor tions, Liquefaction, Seismic hazard for Nuclear Power Plants, (Joined on Bangalore Site response studies for deep basins, Multichannel Analysis 12.05.2014) of Surface Waves (MASW) and Ground Penetration Radar (GPR), Subsoil Investigations and Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Dynamics, Dynamic testing’s on Piles, Ground Improve- ment, Reinforced earth structures, Deep Excavations 25 Kumar, Bimlesh IISc Bangalore Associate Small scale studies of mixing tanks, Experimental Studies Professor of Aeration Systems, Sediment Transport analysis, Pipeline analysis, CFD simulation, Surge analysis 26 Mahanta, Jawaharlal Ne- Professor Water Quality, Sediment Dynamics in Fluvial Systems, En- Chandan hru University, vironmental Impact, Risk Assessment and Management, New Delhi Environmental Geo-informatics, Engineering Geology

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 27 Mallikarjuna, IIT Delhi Associate Traffi c fl ow theory and Modeling, Traffi c data collection and Chunchu Professor analysis, Travel demand modeling 28 Maurya, IIT Kanpur Associate Driver behavior, Traffi c fl ow theory and modeling, Traffi c Akhilesh Kumar Professor engineering 29 Mishra, Anil Kyushu Univer- Assistant Chemical compatibility studies of soil-bentonite mixtures, Kumar sity, Fukuoka, Professor Waste (municipal, industrial and hazardous) management Japan and disposal, Unsaturated soil mechanics 30 MuraliKrishna, IISc Bangalore Associate Soil Investigation, Reinforced Soil Structures, Geosynthetics Adapa Professor and Ground Improvement, Earthquake Geotechnical Engi- neering 31 Pradhan, Bulu IIT Delhi Associate Durability studies in concrete, Corrosion of steel reinforce- Professor ment and protection measures, High performance concrete, Mass transport in cementitious materials, Non-destructive testing of concrete structures, Construction management 32 Ryntathiang, IIT Kharagpur Associate Pavement Materials, Precast Concrete Block Pavement, Cast Teiborlang L. Professor In-Situ Concrete Block Pavement 33 Sarma, Arup Gauhati Professor Modelling & simulation in Free Surface Flow, Heuristic Meth- Kumar University, od in Reservoir Optimization, GIS based Watershed Modelling Guwahati 34 Sharma, Texas A&M Assistant Impact and Blast Resistant Design, Reliability Analysis and Hrishikesh University, USA Professor Performance Based Engineering, Design and Optimization of Protection Measures 35 Shelke, Amit The Univer- Assistant Ultrasonic wave propagation, Acoustic-Impact detection, Balasaheb sity of Arizona, Professor Non-destructive testing USA 36 Siddagangaiah, IIT Madras Assistant Analysis and Design of Pavement Structures , Pavement Anjan Kumar Professor Material Characterization, Pavement Construction and Recy- (Joined on cling, Pavement Management Systems, Pavement Evaluation 09.02.2015) using NDT, Forensic Investigations of Pavement Failures 37 Singh, Arvind K. IISc Bangalore Professor Information Technology in Construction Engineering, Object- Oriented Programming, Constitutive modeling 38 Singh, IIT Delhi Professor Marine Geotechnology, Modelling of Onshore & Off shore Baleshwar Foundations, Soil Stabilization & Ground Modifi cation, Pave- ment Subgrade & Site Characterization 39 Singh, Southampton Associate Structural Analysis and Design, Finite Element Method, Frac- Konjengbam University Professor ture and Fatigue Mechanics Darunkumar 40 Singh, Laishram IIT Madras Associate Public Private Partnerships, Risk Management, Construction Boeing Professor Management 41 Sreedeep, S. IIT Bombay Associate Behavioral studies on unsaturated porous media, Character- Professor ization of geo-materials (soils and rocks), Thermal character- istics of geo-materials, Contaminant transport and retention studies, Waste containment studies, Landslides 42 Sreeja, Pekkat IIT Bombay Associate Urban Flood Modeling, Modelling and Control of Open Professor Channel Flows, Infi ltration and artifi cial recharge, Stochastic Hydrology, River Mechanics 43 Talukdar, Sudip IIT Kanpur Professor Structural Dynamics, Bridge Engineering, Wind induced vibration & control, Non destructive techniques

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1995 of sensors. A CSL Workstation for Speech allows for studies in speech synthesis and processing for robots. The lab has ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: developed Typhon - a mobile agent platform based on LPA Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Prolog’s Chimera Agent System which can be used to realize o Computer Science and Engineering Networked Robotics and an Intelligent Internet of Things. The platform supports programming and development of Master of Technology (MTech) in mobile agents that can migrate, clone and even evolve in Computer Science and Engineering real or overlay networks. It can also support specifi c robotic Dual Degree (MTech + PhD) in hardware-in-the-loop and is available for download from Computer Science and Engineering the Lab.’s website (www.iitg.ernet.in/cse/robotics). Two Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) patents have been fi led based on the work done at this lab in June 2012. FACULTY STRENGTH: iii) Aakash Lab. (Project): This lab is part of a bigger project • Professor: 7 and is dedicated to the development of useful mobile • Associate Professor: 5 device applications and content for use with Aakash tablets. • Assistant Professor: 15 Teachers can blend pedagogy with technology, e-contents, • Honorary Professor: 3 etc. using application developed for such tablets. Sample • Visiting Professor: 1 projects, help, etc. are currently available for download at the link http://www.iitg.ernet.in/cseweb/aakashlab/ NUMBER OF NEW FACULTY JOINED: iv) Library: The Department has an exclusive library cum • Assistant Professors: 1 reading room equipped with more than 4000 books/CDs • Visiting Professor: 1 and journals published by IEEE, ACM, etc. LABORATORIES: v) USP of the Department i) Hardware Lab.: The Department hardware laboratory the Department encourages open interactions with all is equipped with educational tools to promote better faculty members and non-teaching staff ; understanding of computer hardware and peripherals individual workspaces allotted to each student: Each among the students. 8085/86 Microprocessor Trainer kits student registered with the Department is provided with and 8031 Microcontroller kits are used to provide hands a cubicle and computer; and on experience to students about basic hardware. New PIC 24×7×365 access to all facilities and lab. in the Department. based microcontrollers and FPGA boards have also been acquired. These are supported by Colour Logic Analyzer vi) User Centric Computing and Networking Lab.: Spurred and Pattern Generator, Function/Arbitrary wave generator, by the staggering amount of multimedia content on the digital oscilloscopes, Wireless Transmitter/Receiver pairs, web, cheaper consumer electronic devices, better access Data acquisition/ Switch units, TDM pulse code modulator/ network connectivity and virtually limitless storage facility, transmitter and demodulator/receiver and other similar there is remarkable increase in the use of portable devices for essentials. content delivery. These devices range from smart watches to complex table-top interactive displays. There has also been ii) Robotics Lab.: The Department boasts of a separate lab a paradigm shift in how, where and when the users access for Bio-inspired Robotics which is funded by the DST FIST and consume the content. This poses several challenges scheme. The lab is equipped with Lego NXT Mindstorms and in the design of computing and networking platforms to NI robots and sensor nodes, GPS, cameras and a wide range 154 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 improve the experience of the users. includes: Algorithms; Computational Geometry; Systems Biology (Bio-computing);Bio-inspired Robotics and Often overlooked, is the fact that the devices are used by related algorithms; Intelligent Mobile Agent Based Cyber- people with diverse background in terms of age, education, physical Systems; Human-Computer Interactions; Speech culture, gender and so on. Consequently, it is very important Processing; Natural Language Processing; Multimedia: to design applications for computing devices that caters to Image and Video Processing; Machine Learning; Information heterogeneous user groups. The user-centric computing Retrieval; Data Mining; Web Mining; Formal Verifi cation; paradigm (otherwise known as the human-computer Embedded Systems; CAD for VLSI; Multi-processor Computer interaction) therefore is indispensable in the design of such Architecture; Real-time Systems and Scheduling; Computer devices and applications. On one hand an increase in the Security; Networks; Operating Systems; Distributed Systems. number of users accessing content on mobile devices poses The faculty members of the Department are also involved in new challenges to the designers of web applications. On the sponsored research and consultancy in several areas. other hand, mobility and unstable end-to-end bandwidth in wireless networks poses serious challenges to ensure good The Department functions as a nodal centre for the ERNET, a quality of content delivery. Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions (RCILTS) and a Resource Centre for the Information Security Our group envisions the pursuit of these challenges in Education & Awareness Programme. content delivery, and the development of technologies to ensure good quality of experience to the content consumers The Department collaborates with the following entities on heterogeneous devices and networks. We aim to address in Industry/Academia: Microsoft University Relations, Intel the challenges that arise in the development of user-centric India, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Technical University networked applications, both from theoretical as well as of Ilmenau Germany, ISI Kolkata, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, practical perspectives. CDAC Kolkata, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany and Institute for Real- This lab is equipped with Tobii eye tracker (model: X2- Time Computer Systems, Technical University of Munich, 60) and associated software for usability studies, Mobile Germany. Devices (Android, iOS, Windows), Laptops, Tablets, Smart Phones, SDK Tools for Android, iOS, Windows Application MAJOR INITIATIVES AND BREAKTHROUGH IN RESEARCH Development, Desktop PCs, High performance computing AND DEVELOPMENT: servers, Wireless and Wired Gigabit Routers, Reconfi gurable User Centric Computing and Networking Lab (PIs: Dr routers (built using 1Gbps Digilent NetFPGA Cards). Samit Bhattacharya and Dr T Venkatesh) is started in the MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: department. Aim of this lab is to address challenges that arise in the development of user-centric applications, both The major areas in which research is being conducted at theoretical as well as practical levels. RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Gautam Barua Netapp Faculty Fellowship Netapp India Pvt 12.50 - 1.5 Ltd, Berngaluru T Venkatesh ICT based framework to enhance DIT, MCIT, GoI 95.00 Samit Bhat- 2 teaching and learning experience in tacharya large classroom Santosh Virtual Lab. Integration MHRD 280.00 Ratnajit 3 Biswas Bhattacha- rjee b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co-Investiga- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency tor (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Prof Pradeep Standardisation of Virtual Keyboards DIT, MCIT, GoI 20.00 Samit Bhat- Till June Yammiyavar in Indic Languages tacharya 2015 (DoD)

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co-Investiga- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency tor (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Santosh Biswas On line Testing of Complex VLSI DIT 124.00 Prof. S Nandi, Feb 2013- Circuits using Failure Detection and Dr. J K Deka Jan 2016 Diagnosis Theory of Discrete Event Systems. Santosh Biswas, Remote Triggered Digital System MHRD 49.00 2011- Dr. J K Deka, Dr. Laboratory under Remote Triggered 2015 A Sur Lab. Dr P K Das Development of Pronunciation Lexi- DIT 37.66 --- 4 Years 6 con based on Experimental Study of months Phonetics and Phonemics of Indian Languages Dr. Hemangee K. Reducing Cache access time in Tild DIETY 79.00 Dr. Gaurav 3 Years Kapoor Chip Multiprocessors Trivedi (EEE) Prof. Pinaki Mitra PEDAGOGY(Computer Graphics & IIT/KGP 5.00 Prof. Samit 3 Years Multimedia) Bhattacharya SRM Prasanna (PI) Text to Speech Synthesis for Assa- Deity 109.00 Sanasam Ran- 3 Years mese and Manipuri Languages bir Singh Sanasam Ranbir Setting up Aakash Application Devel- MHRD 55.00 2 Years Singh & T opment Lab Venkatesh Dr. Arijit Sur Design, Development of a Water- DIT 102.051 Feb 2013 marking System for Scalable Video – Jan Authentication 2016 Dr. Arijit Sur Shot Based Video Watermarking For DST 6.40 2013 – Very Low Bit Rate Video 2015 Prithwijit Guha Multi-Modal Broadcast Analytics - DeitY 139 Sanasam March Structured Evidence Visualization for Ranbir Singh, 2013 – Events of Security Concern S Nandi, S. R. March Mahadeva 2016 Prasanna Shakuntala Digital preservation and analysis and DeitY 239 S. R. Mahade- February Mahanta technology development of lan- va Prasanna, S 2013 – guage of the North East Nandi, Pri- January ankoo Sarma 2016 S. R. Mahadeva Speech based multi-level person DeitY 170 S Nandi, R April Prasanna authentication system Sinha 2012 – July 2015 c) Completed Sponsored Projects:

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Samit Modelling visibility of web page objects DST 3.35 NA 2 years Bhattacharya Prof. S Nandi Design, Development and Verifi cation DIT New 111.78 Dr. Santosh 4 years of Network Specifi c Intrusion Detection Delhi Biswas System using Failure Detection and Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Pinaki NPTEL(Computational Number Theory & IIT Chennai 3.00 Mitra Cryptography) CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

Amount Principal Co- Name of Project Sponsoring Agency Sanctioned Duration Investigator Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Gautam Barua IT Consultant GIC of India Ltd, 5.50 per year - Yearly Mumbai renewal Gautam Barua IT Consultant IFFCO-Tokio General 10.00 - 2 years Insurance Ltd., Gurgaon Gautam Barua IT Consultant Commissioner As per work - Yearly of Taxes, Govt of volume renewal Assam, Guwahati Gautam Barua IT Consultant NEEPCO Ltd, 5.00 per year - Yearly Shillong renewal Santosh Development of Framework for MCIT at Manipur 15.00 2009- Biswas, Prof. Logging and Analysis of Network University, CS 2014 S Nandi, Dr. A Traffi c to secure IT infrastructure dept. at Guwahati Sur University, IT dept. at Assam University Dr P K Das Real-time Monitoring and UNICEF India 25.26 Prof S B Nair 12 Supportive Supervision of VHND months and RI using Mobile Technology Dr P K Das Enhancing Quality of Care and UNICEF India 20.14 -- 12 Treatment of Children Living months with HIV through Off -the-grid Telemedicine in North-East India Dr. V. Vijaya Interaction with Inside View InsideView, 1.50 None 6 months Saradhi Hyderabad Dr. V. Vijaya Interaction with InsideView InsideView, 1.50 None 6 months Saradhi Hyderabad (renewal every 6 months) Arnab Sarkar Development of Curriculum MHRD, Govt. of India 5.00 Dr. Arijit 1.5 Years Document for the course "Data Mondal and Structures and Algorithms". Prof. P.P. (Under: Developing suitable Chakrabarti pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in e-Learning, National Mission Project on Education through ICT)

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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion Lipika Deka and Consistent Online Backup in IEEE Transactions on 26-11 2676- 2014 Gautam Barua Transactional File Systems Knowledge and Data 2688 Engineering Lipika Deka and Implementation and Evaluation Computer Society of 2-3 - 2014 Gautam Barua of Consistent Online Backup in India Journal of Com- Transactional File Systems puting Ananya Jana and Design and Validation of an At- Advances in Human - - 2015 Samit Bhattacharya tention Model of Web Page Users Computer Interaction M. Agarwal, D. Machine Learning Approach International Journal of - - 2014 Pasumarthi, S. for Detection of Flooding DoS Machine Learning and Biswas and S. attacks in 802.11 Networks and Cybernetics, Springer Nandi Attacker Localization M. Agarwal, S. Advanced Stealth Man in The IEEE Communication - - 2015 Biswas and S. Middle Attack in WPA2 Encrypted Letters, Nandi Wi-Fi Networks P. Biswal and S. A Polynomial Algorithm for Diag- Systems Science and 3-1 307-319 2015 Biswas nosability of Fair Discrete Event Control Engineering, Systems, Taylor and Francis Ramesh Concurrent deterministic 1-2 skip IJPEDS 30-2 135 – 2015 Singh, Sandip list in distributed message pass- 174 Chakraborty, ing systems. Sushanta Karmakar Subhrangsu Distributed deterministic 1-2 skip Peer-to-Peer Network- 8-1 63 – 86 2015 Mandal, Sandip list for peer-to-peer system ing and Applications Chakraborty, Sushanta Karmakar Sushanta An Improved Algorithm for Dis- Comput. J. 57-7 980 – 2014 Karmakar, A. tributed Trigger Counting in Ring 986 Chandrakanth Reddy Pinaki Mitra Characterizing the Existence of Research & Reviews: 1-3 39-41 2014 P4 Discrete Mathematical Structures S Chakraborty, S MAC Layer Channel Access and IEEE Transactions on 14-3 565 – 2015 Sarma and S Nandi Forwarding in a Directional Multi- Mobile Computing 578 Interface Mesh Network B K Patra, and S. Eff ective data summarization for Knowledge and Infor- 42-1 1 – 20 2015 Nandi hierarchical clustering in large mation Systems datasets S Chakraborty, S Dynamic Tree Switching for Journal of Network and 23-1 1 – 40 2015 Chakraborty, S Distributed Message-Passing Ap- Systems Management Karmakar and S plications Nandi

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Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion A Sarma, S Context Aware Handover Man- IEEE Transactions on 11-4 530 – 2014 Chakraborty, S agement: Sustaining QoS and Network and Service 543 Nandi QoE in a Public IEEE 802.11e Management Hotspot S Chakraborty, Reliability in delay sensitive sen- International Journal 21-4 262 – 2014 S Chakraborty, sor networks with arbitrary node of Wireless Information 279 S Nandi and S failures: Deployment and topol- Networks Karmakar ogy management S Chakraborty and Selective greedy routing: Explor- ACM/Springer Journal of 20-7 1995 – 2014 S Nandi ing the path diversity in back- Wireless Networks 2017 bone mesh networks S Chakraborty, ADCROSS: Adaptive Data Col- IEEE Transactions on 15-5 2049 – 2014 S Chakraborty, lection from Road Surveilling Intelligent Transporta- 2062 S Nandi and S Sensors tion Systems Karmakar S Chakraborty and Evaluating Transport Protocol Performance Evaluation 79 198 – 2014 S Nandi Performance over a Wireless 215 Mesh Backbone A Sarma, S Context Aware Inter-BSS Handoff Wireless Personal Com- 77-4 2587 – 2014 Chakraborty, in IEEE 802.11 Networks: Effi cient munications 2614 S Nandi and A Resource Utilization and Perfor- Choubey mance Improvement A Yadav, M Vertical Handover over Interme- Wireless Personal Com- 77-1 507 – 2014 Barooah, S diate Switching Framework: As- munications, Springer 527 Chakraborty and S suring Service Quality for Mobile Nandi Users P Swain, S Nandi, Probabilistic Model Checking The International 7-5 465 – 2014 and P Bhaduri of IEEE 802.11 IBSS Power Save Journal of Wireless and 474 Mode Mobile Computing A Yadav, M Evaluation of End-to-End TCP The International Jour- 12-3 327 – 2014 Barooah, S Performance for Vertical Hando- nal of Communication 351 Chakraborty, S ver using Intermediate Switching Networks and Distrib- Nandi and S Ahuja Network uted Systems S De, S Nandi and Tuple Space Enhancements for The International Jour- 12-3 299 – 2014 D Goswami Mobile Middleware nal of Communication 326 Networks and Distrib- uted Systems Shashi Shekhar Stigmergy based Synchroniza- Cybernetics & Systems: 45-5 373 – 2014 Jha, W. W. Godfrey tion of a Sequence of Tasks in a An International Journal 406 and Shivashankar Network of Asynchronous Nodes B. Nair W. W. Godfrey, On Stigmergically Controlling a Transactions on Com- XIV 2014 Shashi Shekhar Jha Population of Heterogeneous putational Collective and Shivashankar Mobile Agents Using Cloning Intelligence B. Nair Resource V. Vijaya Saradhi, Incremental Maximum Margin Pattern Analysis and Ap- - - 2015 Charly P Abraham Clustering plications

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Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion Sangeet Saha, Scheduling Dynamic Hard Real- IEEE Embedded Systems 7-1 23-26 2015 Arnab Sarkar, Time Task Sets on Fully and Par- Letters Amlan Chakrabarti. tially Reconfi gurable Platforms Arijit Sur, Sista Detection of motion vector Multimedia Tools and - 2014 Venkat Madhav based video steganography Applications, Springer Krishna, Nilkanta Sahu, Shuvendu Rana Swathi Karri, Arijit Steganographic algorithm based Multimedia Tools and - 2014 Sur on randomization of DCT kernel Applications, Springer Shuvendu Rana, Robust watermarking for resolu- Multimedia Tools and - 2014 Nilkanta Sahu, tion and quality scalable video Applications, Springer Arijit Sur sequence Sibaji Gaj, Ashis Object Based Watermarking for Multimedia Tools and - 2015 Singh Patel, A. Sur H.264/AVC Video Resistant to RST Applications, Springer Attacks Hari Prabhat Critical Sensor Density for Partial IEEE Transactions on 13-5 2014 Gupta, S.V.Rao, and Coverage under Border Eff ects in Wireless Communica- T.Venkatesh Wireless Sensor Networks tion CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA (PUBLISHED AND ATTENDED)

Name of Conference/ Workshop/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/ Symposia Issue Gargi Priyadarshini, Inferring Disease Correlation National Conference on Medical Infor- 30-31 Octo- - Ashish Anand from Healthcare Data matics, AIIMS, New Delhi. ber, 2014 Madhusudhan Paul, Detection of Highly Overlap- Fifth International Conference on 10-12-Nov- - Ashish Anand ping Communities in Com- Computational Systems-Biology and 2014 plex Networks Bioinformatics, Singapore Rohit Tripathi and Dynamic Internet Pricing and APNOMS 2014, The 16th Asia-Pacifi c September - Gautam Barua Bandwidth Guarantees with Network Operations and Management 17-19, 2014 Nash Equilibrium Symposium, National Chiao Tung Uni- versity, Taiwan Rohit Tripathi and Pricing with Bandwidth The 16th International Conference on January 3-5 - Gautam Barua Guarantees for Clients with Distributed Computing and Network- 2015 multi-ISP Connections ing (ICDCN 20150), Goa Ingo Stierand, Virtual Integration of Real- Formal Modeling and Analysis of September 206-221 Philipp Reinkemeier Time Systems Based on Timed Systems, FORMATS 2014 and Purandar Resource Segregation Ab- Bhaduri straction Pradeep Biswal and Diagnosability in Stochastic IEEE Mediterranean Conference on June 2014 434 - Santosh Biswas Petri Net based DES Models Control and Automation 439 Kamaljeet Chauhan, A Priori Overload Handling in IEEE INDICON December 1-6 Piyoosh P and Arnab ERfair Scheduled Embedded 2014 Sarkar and Santosh Systems: Hybrid Automata Biswas Approach

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Name of Conference/ Workshop/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/ Symposia Issue Biswajit Bhowmik A Scalable Test Strategy for IEEE ANTS December 1-6 and J. K Deka and Detection of Faulty Inter- 2014 Santosh Biswas switch Links in 2-D Mesh Networks-on-Chips Pulkit Verma, Improving Services using International Conference on Contem- 27-29 107- Mayank Gupta, Mobile Agents-based IoT in a porary Computing and Informatics November 111 Tuhin Bhattacharya, Smart City (IC3I 2014) IEEE Conference Publica- 2014 Pradip K. Das tions, Mysore Shantanu Sharma, Reduced Feature Sets for 8th International Conference on 20-22 116-119 Pradip K. Das Vowel Recognition Electrical and Computer Engineering December (ICECE 2014) IEEE Conference Publica- 2014 tions, Dhaka, Bangladesh Pinki Roy, Pradip K. Comparison of SVMs and NNs 5th International Conference on Elec- 28-29 Au- - Das, Sandeep Kumar approach for Automatic Iden- tronics Engineering & Computer Sci- gust 2014 Gupta tifi cation of Indian Languages ence (IEMCOM 2014), Elsevier Science & Technology, Science City, Kolkata Girish G. N., Eff ect of Modifi ed Convolu- Eighth International Conference July 25-27, 390-397 Shrinivasa Naika C.L., tion on Local Descriptor on Image and Signal Processing 2014 Pradip K. Das based Face Recognition (ICISP-2014), Elsevier Science & Tech- nolog, Bangalore M Pant, B Dey and S Multihop Balanced Energy Applications and Innovations in Mo- February - Nandi Clustering for Wireless Sensor bile Computing (AIMoC 2015) 12-15, 2015 Network S Chakraborty and S Controlling Unfairness due 16th International Conference on Dis- January - Nandi to Physical Layer Capture tributed Computing and Networking 2015 and Channel Bonding in 802.11n+s Wireless Mesh Networks S Dutt, A Chauhan, R A High-performance Energy- 28th International Conference on VLSI Januaray, - Bhadoriya, S Nandi effi cient Hybrid Redundant Design and 14th International Confer- 2015 and G Trivedi MAC for Error-resilient Appli- ence on Embedded Systems cations S Chakraborty and S QoS Associated Path Selec- Eighth IEEE International Conference December - Nandi tion in Wireless Mesh Net- on Advanced Networks and Telecom- 2014 works munications Systems (ANTS) 2014 T Sinam, I T Singh, P Early Detection of VoIP Net- Eighth IEEE International Conference December - Lamabam, N N Devi work Flows based on Sub- on Advanced Networks and Telecom- 2014 and S Nandi Flow Statistical Characteristics munications Systems (ANTS) 2014 of Flows using Machine Learn- ing Techniques Bidyut Kr. Patra, Exploiting Bhattacharyya Discovery Science 2014 October - Raimo Launonen, similarity measure to dimin- 2014 Ville Ollikainen and ish user cold-start problem in Sukumar Nandi sparse data S Chakraborty and S Evaluating Transport Proto- 32st International Symposium on (IFIP Per- - Nandi col Performance over High Computer Performance, Modeling, formance Throughput Wireless Mesh Measurement and Evaluation 2014 2014), Backbone: Do Existing Proto- October cols Scale Well? 2014

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Name of Conference/ Workshop/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/ Symposia Issue Diganta Baishya, Improving Windows Tasks IEEE 4th International Conference on July 7-9, 470- Pradip K. Das Recognizer for Assamese us- Audio, Language and Image Process- 2014. 475. ing Bigram Analysis ing (ICALIP-2014), IEEE Conference Publications, Shanghai, China. Diganta Baishya, Eff ect of End Sections in International Conference on Ad- May 24-25, 21-25 Pradip K. Das Speech Recognition vances In Engineering and Technology 2014 (ICAET-2014), Roorkee, India. S. Das and H. K. Exploration of Migration and 28th International Conference on VLSI 2015 - Kapoor Replacement Policies for Dy- Design (VLSID) namic NUCA over Tiled CMPs M. LakshmiPrasad, S. An Approach for Multicast 13th International Conference on 2014 - Das and H. K. Kapoor Routing in Networks-on-Chip Information Technology (ICIT) V. Naik, S. Das and H. RT-DVS for Power Optimiza- 13th International Conference on 2014 - K. Kapoor tion in Multiprocessor Real- Information Technology (ICIT) time Systems A. Kumar and H. K. Modelling and Analysis of 18th International Symposium on VLSI 2014 - Kapoor Wireless Communication over Design and Test (VDAT) Networks-on-Chip N. K. Meena, H. A New Recursive Partitioning 18th International Symposium on VLSI 2014 - K. Kapoor and S. Multicast Routing Algorithm Design and Test (VDAT) Chakraborty for 3D Network-on-Chip S. Chakraborty, S. Performance constrained 17th Workshop on Advances on Paral- 2015 - Das and H. K. Kapoor static energy reduction using lel and Distributed Processing Sympo- way-sharing target-banks sium (APDCM 2015) associated with IPDPS H. K. Kapoor, S. Das Static energy reduction by 30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Ap- 2015 - and S. Chakraborty performance linked cache plied Computing (SAC) capacity management in Tiled CMPs S. Das and H. K. Dynamic Associativity Man- 30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Ap- 2015 - Kapoor agement using Utility Based plied Computing (SAC) Way-Sharing Manoj Bode, Shashi A Mobile Agent based Au- In Proceedings of the First Internation- 2014 - S. Jha, Shivashankar tonomous Partial Green Cor- al Conference on IoT in Urban Space, B. Nair ridor Discovery and Mainte- URB-IOT'2014, Rome, Italy. nance for Emergency Services amidst Urban Traffi c Tonmoy R. Saha, On Grounding Symbols for Fourth International Conference on Dec 19-21, - Shivashankar B. Nair Robots Emerging Applications of Information 2014 Technology Shashi Shekhar Jha Orchestrating the Sequential 12th German Conference on Multia- 2014 8732 and Shivashankar Execution of Tasks by a Het- gent System Technologies, Stuttgart, Nair erogeneous set of Asynchro- Germany, Multiagent System Tech- nous Mobile Agents nologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Kumar, N.; Sahu, A. DDGSim: GPU based simula- India Conference (INDICON), Annual December - tor for large multicore with IEEE 2014 buff erless NoC

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Name of Conference/ Workshop/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/ Symposia Issue Bhoopendra Kumar, Online Scheduling of Applica- The 15th IEEE International Conference 2014 - Aryabartta Sahu tions on 3D Stacked Large on Parallel and Distributed Comput- Chip Multiprocessor ing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) Amrutlal, D.S.K.; Scheduling of multi-phase ap- India Conference (INDICON), Annual December, - Sahu, A. plications on to mesh multi- IEEE 2014 core architecture Sahil Kumar, Nitesh Comparison of Binding Ap- The 15th IEEE International Conference 9 – 11, - Singal, Aryabartta proaches of Scheduled Multi- on Parallel and Distributed Comput- December, Sahu phase Application onto Linear ing, Applications and Technologies 2014 Multicore Architecture (PDCAT) Aryabartta Sahu Creating heterogeneity at In Proceedings of the 29th Annual 2014 - and Saparapu run time by dynamic cache ACM Symposium on Applied Comput- Ramakrishna and bandwidth partitioning ing schemes Saurav Kumar, Benchmarking and Analysis The 15th IEEE International Conference 9-11 - Aryabartta Sahu of Variations of Work Stealing on Parallel and Distributed Comput- December, Scheduler on Clusterd System ing, Applications and Technologies 2014 (PDCAT) Awnish Kumar, V. Role of Correspondence IBM I-CARE, Bengalore 9-11 Octo- - Vijaya Saradhi, T. Analysis in Network Traffi c ber, 2014 Venkatesh Flow Analysis Swarnendu Ray, A Pseudo-Deadline Based 18th International Symposium on VLSI July, 2014 1-2 Arnab Sarkar O(1) proportional share Design and Test (VDAT) scheduler for embedded systems. Akash Anil, Niladri Modeling evolution of a 37th international ACM SIGIR confer- July 06 - 11, 1051- Sett, and Sanasam social network using temporal ence on Research & development in 2014 1054 Ranbir Singh. graph kernels information retrieval Priyatham SIFT Based Robust Image IEEE International Conference on Im- October - Bollimpalli, Nilkanta Watermarking Resistant To age Processing (ICIP) 2014 27th to Sahu and A. Sur Resolution Scaling 30th 2014 Shuvendu Rana, Blind 3D Video Watermarking Eighth Indian Conference on Vision, December - Arijit Sur Based on 3D-HEVC Encoder Graphics and Image Processing (ICV- 14th to Using Depth GIP 2014) 17th 2014 Parikshit Juluri, T. Look-ahead Rate Adapatation 11th International Conference on March 25- - Venkatesh, and Algorithm for DASH under Design of Reliable Communication 27 2015 Deep Medhi, Varying Network Conditions Networks (DRCN), Kansas City, USA Hari Prabhat Analysis of Stochastic k- IEEE Wireless Communications and April 6-9 - Gupta, S.V.Rao, and Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networking Conference (WCNC), Istan- 2014 T.Venkatesh Networks with Boundary bul, Turkey Deployment A R Ashok Kumar, Greening 4-4, 1-4 Data Center IEEE 6th International Conference on 15-18 Dec. 869-874 S. V. Rao, Diganta Network: A Greedy Approach Cloud Computing Technology and Sci- 2014 Goswami for Finding an Energy Effi cient ence (CloudCom), 2014 doi: 10.1109/ Sub-network CloudCom.2014.139

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Name of Conference/ Workshop/ Vol., Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/ Symposia Issue Sandip Chakraborty, Hierarchical topology adapta- SAC 405 – 407 2014 Suchetana tion for distributed converge- Chakraborty, cast applications. Sushanta Karmakar, Hridoy Sankar Dutta Book Chapter

Name of Vol., Page Title of Paper Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year Author/s Issue No. S Chakraborty, Sensory Data Gathering for Modelling and Springer In- 4 89– 978-3- 2015 S Chakraborty, Road-Traffi c Monitoring: Processing for ternational 112 319- S Nandi and S Energy Effi ciency, Reliabil- Next Generation Publishing 09177-8 Karmakar ity and Fault-tolerance Big Data Tech- nologies CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED: INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL

International/ Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date National Ashish Anand National Conference on Medical AIIMS, New Delhi 30-31 Oct, National Informatics 2014 Ashish Anand 5th Int Conf on Computational Sys- NTU, Singapore 12-12 Nov, International tems Biology and Bioinformatics 2014 Sanasam Ranbir SIngh 37th international ACM SIGIR Gold Coast , QLD, July 06 - 11, International conference on Research & develop- Australia 2014 ment in information retrieval Sanasam Ranbir Singh Workshop on Text-to-Speech Syn- Gandhinagar, 16-18 June, National thesis Gujarat 2014 Dr. Arijit Sur IEEE International Conference on Paris, France October 27- International Image Processing (ICIP) 2014 30, 2014 Dr. Arijit Sur Eighth Indian Conference on Vision, Bangalore December International Graphics and Image Processing 14-17, 2014 (ICVGIP 2014) Dr. Arijit Sur (Tutorial International Conference on Ad- Greater Noida, September International Presentation along with vances in Computing, Communica- India 24-27, 2014 Dr. Deepayan Bhowmik, tions and Informatics (ICACCI) 2014 Heriot-Watt University, held in Greater Noida, India during Edinburgh, UK) INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Ashish Anand Lecture Series on Mathematical Tezpur University Tezpur 18-19 Oct, and Computational Biology 2014 Arnab Sarkar Routing Algorithms in VLSI Physi- IIT Patna Patna Oct, 2014 cal Design Automation Arnab Sarkar Introduction to Real-Time Embed- TEQIP STC on “RT Embedded Sys- Guwahati Nov, 2014 ded Systems Design tems”, IIT Guwahati

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Arnab Sarkar Real-Time Scheduling in Distrib- QIP STC on "Recent Trends in Net- Guwahati Feb, 2015 uted Environments works and Distributed Computing”, IIT Guwahati Arnab Sarkar CAD for Digital VLSI Design Auto- QIP STC on "Recent Trends in Guwahati Mar, 2015 mation Electronics and Computation”, IIT Guwahati Arnab Sarkar VLSI Design Automation: From DEITY(MHRD) Workshop on “Elec- Guwahati Mar, 2015 Concept to Chip tronics System Design and Manu- facturing”, IIT Guwahati Sanasam Tutorial on Android Application Dept. of CS, Manipur University Imphal 15th &16th Ranbir SIngh Development Dec, 2014 Sanasam Introduction to Android Operat- Dept. of CS, Guwahati University Guwahati, 14th & 15th Ranbir Singh ing System Assam Mar, 2015 Sanasam Application of Information Tech- North Eastern Police Academy Shillong, 28th June, Ranbir SIngh nology in Investigation Meghalaya 2014 VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Prof. Atal Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Title: Digital Fountain (Departmental Research 6/1/2015 Talk) Prof. Paramartha Dutta, Visvabharati University San- Title: Temporal Characterization of Mobile 6/1/2015 tiniketan Adhoc Network Environment (Departmental Research Talk) Dr. N. Vijayaditya, Controller of Certifying Authority - Motivational talk for the 1st Year UG students to 31/10/2014 Information Technology, Ministry of Communications pursue higher studies and research in the area and Information Technology, Government of India of computer science and engineering Prof. Arun Kumar Majumder, Professor, Computer Sci- Motivational talk for the 1st Year UG students to 31/10/2014 ence & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur West Bengal pursue higher studies and research in the area of computer science and engineering Dr. Sandip Rakshit, Dean, School of Computing Sci- Handwritten Text Analytics (HTA)-For Health 20/01/2015 ences, KAZIRANGA University, Jorhat, Assam Care Domain SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED

Name of Faculty Funded International/ No. of Par- (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Date By National ticipants ordinator, etc.) Ashish Anand, KIC-TEQIP workshop on Information KIC- 25th March, National - Arnab Sarkar and Communication Technology in TEQIP 2015 Healthcare: Challenges and Promises Santosh Biswas and Computational Methods for Smart AICTE 9th – 13th National 25 Arnab Sarkar Grids QIP March 2015 Santosh Biswas and Real Time Embedded Systems: Design, TEQIP 27th – 29th National 25 Arnab Sarkar Verifi cation and Test Nov. 2014 Arnab Sarkar QIP STC on "Computational Methods MHRD- 9th – 13th National 24 for Smart Grids" GOI Mar, 2014 Arnab Sarkar TEQIP Workshop on Information and MHRD- 25th March, National 30 Communication Technology in Health- GOI 2015 care: Challenges and Promises

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PATENT

Name of Faculty and co Date Applied/ Name Application No. Remarks researcher Granted Abhay Kumar Paliwal, Vedula Predictive Intelligent March 24, U.S. Patent Applica- Filed Along with In- Vijaya Saradhi, Jason Muldoon Softbots on the Cloud 2015 tion No. 14/667, 592 side View Labs Team

AWARDS AND HONOURS Varying Network Conditions” i) Hemangee K. Kapoor is Elevated to Senior member of iv) Tushar Semwal, Dual Degree Scholar, invited to present the ACM his work at the ACM Symposium cum Workshop on IT innovation for Smart City, Allahabad, India (http://smartcity. ii) Hemangee K. Kapoor is Elected as council member of iiita.ac.in/). The organizers viz. IIITA, provided him the the ACM-India necessary travel grant. iii) T. Venkatesh is appointed as Associate Editor, Springer v) Shashi Shekhar Jha, PhD Scholar & TCS Fellow, receives Journal of Network Systems and Management from January International Travel grant from the Department of Science 2015 for a period of 3 years. and Technology, Govt. Of India, to present a paper at the iv) Keynote Speaker: Shivashankar B. Nair Title: Mobile Agent 1st International Conference on Internet of Things (IoT) in based Systems, Conference: International Conference on Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014) at Rome, Italy. Information Science, ICIS 2014, Date & Venue: July 4-5th, vi) Shashi S. Jha, Research Scholar & TCS Fellow, presented his 2014, Kochi, Proceedings Published by CSI. doctoral work entitled - “On Realizing an intelligent Internet v) Keynote Speaker: Shivashankar B. Nair Title: Emulating of Things using Intelligent Agents” which was selected Bio-Inspired Mechanisms using Mobile Agents Conference: for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, & Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, 23-25th September2014,pp.23-29, (ICAEES-2014) Date & Venue: 22-23rd April 2014, Kumaracoil, (Availableonline:http://www.in.tuclausthal.de/fi leadmin/ Kanyakumari, India,Proceedings Published by Springer. homes/techreports/ifi 1404lehnhoff .pdf#page=25). STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS vii) Dr Sandip Chakraborty received Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovative Student Projects i) Diptesh Majumdar (MTech 2013-2015) won the DAAD Award - 2014 (Doctoral Level) for his Ph D thesis work on scholarship under the IIT Masters-Sandwich programme for “Capacity Enhancement, QoS and Rate Adaptation in IEEE visiting the Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems at the 802.11s: A Performance Improvement Perspective” under University of Muncih from September 2014 to March 2015. Prof. Sukumar Nandi’s Supervision. ii) Ph.D. Student Mr. Rajesh. D (126201002) Received the viii) S Chakraborty and S Nandi received Best Paper TCS PhD Research Fellowship in Nov, 2014. Award for their work titled “Controlling Unfairness due to iii) Parikshit Juluri, with the guidance of Dr. T Venkatesh’s Physical Layer Capture and Channel Bonding in 802.11n+s won Best Poster Award at DRCN 2015 for the paper titled Wireless Mesh Networks in the 16th International Conference “Look-ahead Rate Adapatation Algorithm for DASH under on Distributed Computing and Networking, Jaunary, 2015.

FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1 Ashish Anand Nanyang Technological Assistant Machine Learning and applications in Compu- University, Singapore Professor tational Biology, Systems Biology, Evolutionary Algorithms 2 Amit Awekar North Carolina State Uni- Assistant Data Mining versity, Rayleigh Professor 3 Gautam Barua University of California, Professor Distributed Systems, Networks, Operating Sys- Santa Barbara tems, Database Management Systems 4 Rashmi Dutta Lancaster University, Assistant (Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, Baruah (Joined United Kingdom Professor Computational Intelligence, (Online) Machine on 16-06-2014) Learning, Learning from Data Streams

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 5 Purandar Washington State Univer- Professor Formal Modeling, Synthesis and Verifi cation of Bhaduri sity, Pullman Embedded Systems 6 Samit IIT Kharagpur Assistant Human Computer Interaction, User Modeling, Bhattacharya Professor Model Based Evaluation of Interactive Systems, Rehabilitation Engineering 7 Santosh Biswas IIT Kharagpur Associate Networking, Fault Tolerance, VLSI Testing, Em- Professor bedded Systems 8 P. K. Das Delhi University Associate Speech Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Man- Professor Machine Interaction Systems 9 J. K. Deka IIT Kharagpur Associate Formal Verifi cation, VLSI System Design Professor 10 D. Goswami IIT Kharagpur Professor Software Engineering, Distributed Systems (Head of the Department) 11 R. Inkulu IIT-Chicago Assistant Algorithms, Computational Geometry Professor 12 Benny George TIFR Mumbai Assistant Word Combinatorics, Algorithms and Combina- Professor torics 13 Hemangee London South Bank Univer- Associate Formal Verifi cation of Circuits Kalpesh Kapoor sity, UK Professor 14 Sushanta IIT Kharagpur Assistant Distributed algorithms, fault-tolerance, distrib- Karmakar Professor uted algorithms for ad hoc and sensor networks 15 Deepanjan Kesh IIT Kanpur Assistant Computational Commutative Algebra, Data Professor Streaming 16 Pinaki Mitra Simon Fraser University, Associate Computational Geometry, Parallel Algorithms, Canada Professor Randomized Algorithms, Optimization 17 Shivashankar B. Amravati University Professor Bio-Inspired Robotics, Intelligent Mobile Agents Nair and Systems and Internet of Thing 18 Sukumar Nandi IIT Kharagpur Professor Networks (QoS, Wireless networks), Computer and Network Security 19 S. V. Rao IIT Kanpur Professor Computational Geometry, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing 20 Aryabartta Sahu IIT Delhi Assistant Advanced Computer Architecture, Multicore Professor Parallel Programming and Compiling, Embed- ded Systems, VLSI and FPGA Design 21 G. Sajith IIT Kanpur Professor Parallel and Distributed Computing 22 V. Vijaya Saradhi IIT Kanpur Assistant Machine Learning, Kernel Methods and their Professor applications 23 Arnab Sarkar IIT Kharagpur Assistant Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Computer Professor Architecture, Algorithms 24 Saswata TIFR Mumbai Assistant Data Structures and Algorithms, Combinatorial Shannigrahi Professor Geometry, Analysis of Social networks 25 Sanasam Ranbir IIT Madras Assistant Web Search, Machine Learning, Information Singh Professor Retrieval, Data Mining especially in the area of Web Search Engine

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 26 Arijit Sur IIT Kharagpur Assistant Information Hiding: Steganography and Stega- Professor nalysis. Multimedia Security: Image and Video Watermarking. Network Security: Intrusion Detection System and Network Steganography 27 T. Venkatesh IIT Madras Assistant WDM Optical Networks, IP over WDM Networks, Professor Broadband Access Networks, Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks, Network Tomography Honorary Faculty 1 Deep Medhi University of Missouri at Professor Next Generation Internet Architecture, Network Kansas City Design, Optimization and Performance, Net- work Management 2 Ashish University of Windsor Professor Computational Geometry, Approximation Algo- Mukhopadhyay rithms, Bio-geometry 3 Sugata Sanyal Tata Consultancy Services Professor Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Secure Mobile Com- Ltd. puting, Steganography and Steganalysis Visiting Faculty 1 Vishv Mohan Professor Modeling and Performance measurements, Ro- Malhotra bust Environmental Sensor Networks, Operat- ing Systems.

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DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1998 ergonomics evaluation and cognitive workload study. Four (04) faculty members (Prof. D. Chakrabarti, Dr. S. karmakar, ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: Dr. S. Pal and Dr. U.R. Salve) and 10 PhD students are currently Bachelor of Design (BDes) in Design associated with this laboratory. Facilities available in the Master of Design (MDes) in Design laboratory include (a) Anthropometric measurement kit, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (b) Equipment/ tools for biomechanical analysis, (c) Kit for environmental variable measurement, (d) Tools/equipment FACULTY STRENGTH: for cognitive workload analysis, (e) Digital human modeling • Professor: 5 software for virtual ergonomics evaluation, (f) Eye-tracker for • Assistant Professor: 19 visual attention analysis, and (g) Equipment for physiological • Visiting Professor: 2 variable analysis (ECG, EMG, EEG etc.). NEW FACULTY JOINED: Usibility Engineering& Human Computer Interaction Lab(UE- • Assistant Professor: 10 HCI Lab) • Visiting Professor: 2 Embadded Lab LABORATORIES: New Media lab & Video Lab Ergonomics Laboratory: Ergonomics laboratory at MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: Department of Design, IIT Guwahati was set-up in 1999 Wireless EMG System (Make:Delsys, USA; Model: DSY-DS- under leadership Prof. Debkumar Chakrabarti. This is a well- TOI-4), 8 Nos. Sony High-End Digital Cameras for the equipped laboratory with various basic and applied research Media Lab facilities for both physical and cognitive ergonomics. Apart from equipment for traditional ergonomics evaluation, MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: modern sophisticated equipment are available for virtual Cognitive ergonomics aspect of product design evaluation

RESEARCH PROJECTS: a) New Sponsored Projects Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Pratul Ch. Design Intervention in Street Food Design Innovation 20 - 2 years Kalita Vending in Assam with special emphasis Centre, IIT Guwa- to packaging, display, cart design and hati space design for improvement of liveli- hood and hygiene Sharmistha Toolkit for primary school teachers to IIT Guwahati Start- 5 NA 2 years Banerjee deliver Education for Sustainability with up Research Grant an activity based teaching approach Avinash Design, Production and Branding of Directorate of Com- 49 Prof. Ravi- 1 1/2 Shende Bamboo craft in Meghalay merce and Industries, Mokashi year Govt. of Meghalaya Punekar

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Keyur Research on Dhobi and Dhobighats P&G (Brussels) $6960 Pankaj Upad- 8 Sorathia hyay months b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal In- Sponsoring Co-Investi- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned vestigator Agency gator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Sougata Kar- MHRD makar Pratul Ch. Kalita Development of an online design ideation AICTE 4 - 1 year tool. It is an online integrated approach to application of various design methods viz. Quality Function Deployment, Kano Model, Marketing-Research-Finding Sensitive Visualisation and Stuart Pugh’s method of Idea Screening. The online tool attempts to bring designers, technologists, design managers and users in a common platform for design ideation Keyur Sorathia 3D gesture control research collaboration Nokia 8.37 Sonali Chau- 1 year Research han Centre Keyur Sorathia Design and development of gestural user Microsoft 4 1 year interfaces for development region Research Connector c) Completed Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Co- Investi- Name of Project Sponsoring Agency Sanctioned Duration Investigator gator (Rs. in Lakh) Sougata Visual and Tactile Information DBT 40.83 - 3 years Karmakar Processing in Product Selec- tion Process Pradeep Standarsiation of Virtual DIT 10. 92 Dr Samit 1 year Yammiayavar Keyboard in Indic Languages - Bhattacharya Assamese (CSE) Keyur Research on Accessibility for Samsung Research Insti- 2.3 Prasad Bokil 3 months Sorathia smartphones tute Bangalore CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Sougata Short term training program on TATA Elxsi Ltd., 1.07 - - Karmakar Automotive Ergonomics and Design Trivandrum Impact Evaluation Study on Irrigation Amarendra Dr. Pratul Ch. and Roads & Bridges Projects NABARD 29.55 6 months Kumar Das Kalita supported under RIDF in Assam

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Redesigning the Bed‐Planter agro‐machine according to the International principles of the Human Centered Sharmistha Development Design (HCD) approach in the Cereal 12,500 USD - 4 months Banerjee Enterprise Systems Initiative for South Asia – Bangladesh Mechanization and Irrigation (CSISA‐ MI) in Bangladesh Pankaj Guwahati D. Udaya Design of Fruit and Vegetable Cart for Upadhyay, Municipal 2.25 3 months Kumar Guwahati Municipal Corporation Supradip Corporation Das Samsung Keyur Collaborative research of accessibility Research Institute 19.60 1 year Sorathia on smartphones Bangalore Invent with Nokia Keyur Generation of invention reports on (Nokia Global 15.64 1 year Sorathia future of mobile communication Patent Division) RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol. and Year of Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Publica- No. No. tion Patel, T., Sanjog, J. Isometric hand grip strength of agricul- Agricultural. Engi- 17(1) 130-140 2015 and Karmakar S. tural workers from northeast region of neering Internation- India al: CIGR Journal Patel, T., Sanjog, Isometric muscular strength data of Agricultural. Engi- 16(2) 70-79 2014 J., Kumar, P., and Indian agricultural workers for equip- neering Internation- Karmakar, S. ment design: Critical analysis al: CIGR Journal Chowdhury, Usability is more valuable predictor International 44(5) 697-705 2014 A., Karmakar, than product personality for product Journal of Industrial S., Reddy, S.M. choice in human-product physical Ergonomics and Ghosh, S. interaction and Debkumar Chakrabarti Patel, T. and Book review: Introduction to Ergonom- International 44(6) 892-893 2014 Karmakar, S. ics, Third Edition Journal of Industrial Ergonomics Patel, T. and Book review: Automotive Ergonomics: Journal of Transport 41 346–347 2014 Karmakar, S. Driver-Vehicle Interaction Geography Dr. Pratul Ch. Diff erentiate with Attractive Features: International 8 (3-4) 2015 Kalita,Prof. A structured approach for design Journal of Design Amarendra Kumar ideation Management and Das Professional Prac- tice. Charu Monga De Chakra: Method of Multidiscipline Design for all insti- 9-8 18 2014 Design Education tute of India

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Vol. and Year of Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Publica- No. No. tion Debayan Dhar A Cross-Cultural Study of Navigational Procedia Computer 45 862-871 2015 ; Pradeep Mechanisms in Computer based As- Science Elsevier Yammiyavar sessment Environment ISSN 1877-0509 Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia and Page No. Chowdhury, Cognitive Theories of Product International Conference on 7-9 Jan Volume 1, A., Reddy, S.M., Emotion and Their Applications in Research into Design (ICoRD 2015 329-340 Chakrabarti, D. and Emotional Product Design. 2015), Indian Institute of Sci- Karmakar, S. ence (IISc.) Bangalore Reddy, S.M., Role of Colour and Form in Prod- International Conference on 7-9th Volume 2, Chowdhury, A., uct Choice and Variation of Prefer- Research into Design (ICoRD January 631-640 Chakrabarti, D. and ences Across Product Categories: 2015), Indian Institute of Sci- 2015 Karmakar, S A Review. ence (IISc.) Bangalore Kumar, S., Sanjog, Virtual Human Modeling and International Ergonomics 3rd - 5th 252 – 260 J., Patel, T., and Simulation in Textile Industry Conference, HWWE-2014, IIT Decem- Karmakar, S Guwahati ber 2014 Kumar, P. N., Prevalence of awkward working International Ergonomics 3rd - 5th 671 – 673 Sanjog, J., posture and consequent discom- Conference, HWWE-2014, IIT Decem- Karmakar, S forts in body parts among workers Guwahati ber 2014 of cashew nut processing factories in coastal regions of eastern India Kumar, S., Patel, T., Scenario of handloom industry: International Ergonomics 3rd - 5th 234-238 and Karmakar, S Indian perspective Conference, HWWE-2014, IIT Decem- Guwahati ber 2014 Sanjog, J., Patel, T., Reduction of hand grip strength as International Ergonomics 3rd - 5th 655 – 659 and Karmakar, S. an indicator towards discomfort of Conference, HWWE-2014, IIT Decem- upper body extremities Guwahati ber 2014 Patel, T., Sanjog, J., Assessment of Reliability and International Ergonomics 3rd - 5th 769 - 775 Sahoo, A., Das, B., Technical Error of Measurement Conference, HWWE-2014, IIT Decem- Karmakar, S. Associated with Anthropometric Guwahati ber 2014 Data Collection Nilakshi Yein,Swati Analysis of Indoor Design and Proceeding International 3-5 Dec Article No.56, Pal related diff erent risk factors for Ergonomics Conference HWWE 2014 Page no. 276. elderly:A review 2014 Sharmistha Giving voice to the farmers, ICCIG3 2015, 3rd International January Banerjee machine operators, local service conference on Creativity and 2015 providers and small scale manu- Innovations at (for/ from/ with) facturers in designing scale-appro- Grassroots, Ahmedabad, India priate agro-machinery for Rural Bangladesh - A Case Study Utkarsh Mishra, Education for Sustainability – Cul- SusCon 2015, 4th Annual March Soumya Tiwari, tural Diversity International Conference on 2015 Neha, Sharmistha Sustainability, IIM Shilong Banerjee Abhishek Eff ects of Visuals,Menu depth,and IndiaHCI 14 : Proceedings of the Dec- Srivastava,Anirudha menu positions on IVR usage by India HCI 2014 conference on 2014 Joshi non tech savvy users. Human computer Interection.

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia and Page No. Avinash Shende, Enhancing creativity among stu- ICORD 15, Bangalore Januaray Prof. A.K.Das dents with heterogeneous back- 2015 ground by introducing toll “IDEA WHEEL” Kumar, V, What Sustainability Design Means Design for Sustainable Wellbe- 2014 Volume 1 (pp. Yammiyavar, P, for Novice creative designers: An ing and Empowerment Df- 333-353) exploration of their perception WnE2014, Bangalore and mental models in the Indian context. Salve, S., and A study on effi ciency of input HWWE'14, International Ergo- Decem- - Yammiyavar, P. devices on native language during nomics Conference - User Cen- ber 3-5; numerical data entry tered Design and Occupational 2014 Wellbeing , Guwahati S. Salve, S. Shukla Aff ect Component and Errors Dur- ICoRD'15 Research into Design Jan 2015 Volume 1 (pp. and P. Yammiyavar ing Numerical Data Entry-A Study Across Boundaries, Bangalore 573-583) Salve, S., & Trade-off between time and error NCMOC 2015: National Confer- 4th - 6th - Yammiyavar, P during numerical data entry by ence On Modeling Optimiza- March rural / semi-urban Indian users tion & Control, Pune 2015. Yammiyavar, P., Design of Tangible Interactive Design for Sustainable Wellbe- 2014 Volume 1 (pp. Srivastava, A., and Learning Aids for Pre-primary ing and Empowerment 2014, 391-404) Shashidhara, S School Teaching Environment: A DfWnE2014, IISc Bangalore sustainable approach. Srivastava, A., and Tangibles as a learning medium HWWE'14, International Ergo- Dec Yammiyavar, from children: A Cognitive Ergo- nomics Conference - User Cen- 2014 nomics Approach tered Design and Occupational Wellbeing, Guwahati Srivastava, A., & Eff ectiveness of Tangible and ICoRD’15–Research into Design Jan 2015 Volume 2 (pp. Yammiyavar, P. Tablet Devices as Learning Medi- across Boundaries, Bangalore 353-363) ums for Primary School Children in India Amrit, M., Bansal, Studies in Application of Aug- ICoRD’15–Research into Design Jan 2015 Volume 2 (pp. H., & Yammiyavar, mented Reality in E-Learning Across Boundaries, Bangalore 375-384) P. Courses Bansal, H., A Study on Entrances and Foyers in ICoRD’15–Research into Design Jan 2015 Volume 1 (pp. Yammiyavar, P., & Shopping Malls and Their Role in Across Boundaries, Bangalore 457-468) Anita, P. Y. Infl uencing Perceptions. Jain, M, A learning tool ‘Help Pinky’ for Design for Sustainable Wellbe- 2014 Volume 1 (pp. Yammiyavar, P, empowering adolescent girls in ing and Empowerment 2014, 333-353) rural Assam DfWnE2014, IISc Bangalore Ojha, S.P, Improving Sustainability by Cap- Design for Sustainable Wellbe- 2014 Volume 1 (pp. Yammiyavar, P, turing Tacit knowledge of Artisans ing and Empowerment 2014, 355-362) as Digital Information for Design DfWnE2014, IISc Bangalore Process Pradeep Graphical User Interface Percep- HWWE'14, International Ergo- Dec - Yammiyavar, tions and their role in Infl uenc- nomics Conference - User Cen- 2014 Venkateshwarlu ing Sustainable Usage :A Study tered Design and Occupational Varala of Semantics of Communication Wellbeing, Guwahati and Interaction Of Smart meter Usability

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia and Page No. Khilare, Development of Graphic user HWWE'14, International Ergo- Dec - K.,Yammiyavar, P., interface keyboard for Indian lan- nomics Conference - User Cen- 2014 and Bhattacharya, guage - Assamese tered Design and Occupational S. Wellbeing, Guwahati Harshit Agrawal, FabCode: Visual Programming International Conference on June - Rishika Jain, Environment for Digital Fabrication Constructionism and Creativty; 17–20, Prabhat Kumar, IDC’14, Aarhus, Denmark 2014, Pradeep Yammiyavar Maulishree Virtual Reality Based learning aid 16th International Conference June - Pandey1, Vikas to understand projection and on Human Computer Interac- 2014 Luthra1, Pradeep section of solids in architectural tion -HCI, Greece Yammiyawar1, and graphics Anita P.Y. Shanu Shukla, Does Emotion Modulation Infl u- HWWE 2014 - Ergonomics Con- Decem- - Shrikant Salve ence Speed-Accuracy Trade-off - in ference - User Centered Design ber 3-5 Sanjram Premjit Numerical Data Entry Tasks? and Occupational Wellbeing 2014 K., Pradeep Yammiyavar Vikash Kumar Indian Cultural Practices as a Mani- National Seminar on Environ- 2014 - and Pradeep festation of Environmental World- mental Stress and Remedies , Yammiayavr view - An exploration as a Tool for Gwailor Environmental Stress Mitigation Maulishree Role of immersive virtual reality in International Conference on Januray - Pandey1, Vikas fostering creativity among archi- Design Creativity (3rd ICDC) 12-14th Luthra1 and tecture students Bangalore 2015 Pradeep G. Yammiyavar; Anita .P.Y. Sumita Sharma, Body-touching: An Embodied Academic Mindtrek Conference 12-14 Saurabh Interaction Technique for Health 2014 Dec Shrivastava, Keyur Information Systems in Develop- 2014 Sorathia, Markku ing Regions Turunen Priyamvada Tiwari, Visualising and systematizing a 7th International Symposium 5-8 129-138 Keyur Sorathia per-poor ICT intervention for Rural on Visual Information Commu- August and Semi-urban Mothers in India nication and Interaction 2014 Manoj Majhi, Interactive multimedia commu- Humanizing Work and Work Decem- Abstract, P 8 Debkumar nication and its eff ectiveness in Environment Indian Society of ber 3-5, Chakrabarti application in every sphere of our Ergonomics, International Ergo- 2014 lives a case study in digitised cel nomics Conference December animation 3-5, 2014, IIT Guwahati Manoj Majhi, A paradigm-shift to wards user- ICoRD'15 Conference IISC 7-9 Jan p 663 Debkumar centred empirical methodology in Bangalore 2015 Chakrabarti interactive multimedia communi- cation Book Name of Author/s Name of Book Publisher Page No. ISBN Year Eds: Chakrabarti, D., ‘User Centered Design and Occu- TATA Mc- 797 978-93- 2014 Karmakar, S., Pal, S. pational Wellbeing’-Proceedings of GrawHill 392-1970- and Chatterjee, A. International Ergonomics Confer- Education Pvt. 3 ence, HWWE-2014 Ltd. 174 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Book Chapter

Name of Pub- Vol. and Page Name of Paper Name of Book ISBN Year Author/s lisher Issue No. No. Himanshu A study on Entrances Research into Design Springer - ISBN 2015 Bansal, Pradeep & foyers in shop- Across Boundaries Vol- India; 978-81- Yammiyavarb ping malls and their ume 1; Editor Amaresh New 322- Anita P.Y: role in infl uencing Chakrabarti Delhi 2232-3 perceptions Aditi Padhi, Mubiks: Tangible Universal Access in Springer 8513 346-356 978-3- 2014 Apurva Gupta, music player for Human-Computer Interna- 319- Keyur Sorathia, visual challenged Interaction. Design and tional 07436-8 Surbhit Varma, Development Methods Publish- Bhaskar Sharma for Universal Access ing Surbhit Varma, Extraction of Ges- ICoRD’15 – Research Springer 35 421-431 978-81- 2015 Keyur Sorathia, tures for Presen- into Design Across India 322- Abdul Sameer tation: A Human Boundaries 2228-6 Ashraf Centered Approach CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Author ternational Jagadish Indinox WSSAF Conference Mahatma Mandir, 25th to 29th International Kumar.V 2015, World Stainless Steel Art Gandhinagar, Gujrat January2015 Festival(WSSAF) Jagadish Working with time-Art,Design and Department of Design, 10th to 15th National Kumar.V Nature IITG September 2014 Dr. Pratul Ch. Role of logistics and Supply Chain North- eastern Hill 23rd May 2014 National Kalita Management in Development of University, Tura Campus, North-East India; Name of the paper Meghalaya presented ‘Application of Cloud Com- puting, MS Excel and Google Docs for Eff ective Supply Chain Management in MSMEs’ Sharmistha ICCIG3 2015, 3rd International confer- IIM Ahmedabad 19-22 January International Banerjee ence on Creativity and Innovations at 2015 (for/ from/ with) Grassroots, Ahmed- abad, India Abhishek IndiaHCI 14 conference IDDC,IIT Delhi Dec, 8-10,2014 International shrivastava Charu Monga MIT Skolkovo InternationalRobotics Moscow 20.03.15 International conference Charu Monga Russian startup tour St Petersburg 26.03.15 International Charu Monga Film heritage Foundation Mumbai 20.02.15 National Charu Monga Dead Sea conference Israel 09.07.14 International Charu Monga HWWE conference IITG 03.12.14 National Utpal Barua Exhibition at Jahangir Art gallery Mumbai 05.02.2014 to National 11.02.2014 Utpal Barua A Group International Exhibition at Penza ,Russia 07.02.2014 to International Gallery ,art penza 07,03,2014

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Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Author ternational Utpal Barua Haiyan fundraising exhibition Makati City,Philippines 2014 International Utpal Barua Art residency Symposium Romania 24.07.2014 to International 03.08.2014 Utpal Barua International Water Color Symposium Skopje,Macedonia 01.09.2014 to International 08.09.2014 Utpal Barua Conference and Symposium Khon Kean 10.10.2014 to International University,Thailand 21.10.2014 Utpal Barua Malacca International Contemporary Malaysia 26.11.2014 to International Art Exhibition 01.12,2014 Utpal Barua Art Penza,for yhe festival of Contempo- Russia 29.08.2014 to International rary art chernozem 21.09.2014 INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Pratul Ch. Visual communication and consumer Assam Institute of Management Guwahati 20.12.2014 Kalita behavior in retail business Pratul Ch. Teaching methodology to trigger creativ- Indian Institute of Entrepre- Guwahati 13.03.2015 Kalita ity and innovation neurship Charu Monga Tradional Craft as an Engineering Design Shamoon College of Engineer- Israel 12.07.2014 Challenge ing SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED:

Name of Faculty (Convener/ Name of Sem./Wor./ Internation- No. of par- Funded By Date Co-ordinator, etc.) Con. al/ National ticipants Conference Chair: Prof. International ergo- Govt. and Pri- 1-5 Dec International 300 Debkumar Chakrabarti, nomics Conference vate sponsors 2014 Conference Secretary: Dr. HWWE 2014 Sougata Karmakar, Treasurer: Dr. Swati Pal Coordinator: Dr. Swati Pal Expert Meeting and Knowledge 04.12.2014 National 9 Panel discussion on incubation Cell formulation of cur- (KIC), centre riculum for Ergonom- for Educational ics and occupational Technology Health (CET), IIT Guwa- hati Coordinator: Charu Monga; QIP on Design: Educa- AICTE funded 02.02 National 25 Co-ordinator: Jagadish Kumar tion, Research 7 in- short term 2015 to novation course 05.02.2015 Coordinator: Dr. Debkumar HWWE CONFERENCE DoD 03.12.2014 National DoD Stu- Chakrabarti, Dr. Sougata dents Karmakar; Co-ordinator: Nanki Nath & Charu Monga Coordinator: Prof. Debkumar Lecture cum demo DoD 08.10.2014 National 45 Chakrabarti, Prof. A. K. Das; workshop on Classical Co-orinator: Charu Monga & Performing arts, by Ms Nanki Nath Bhaswati Sarma & Mr. Devanand Pathak

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STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS Utkarsh Mishra,Soumya Tiwari and Nehas paper on Education for sustainability-Cultural Diversity in SusCon 2015,4th Annual Intarnational conference on sustainability,IIM Shillong won the 3rd best paper presentation prize.The paper was Written in partial fulfi llment for the course DD 601 Usability Engineering. Bhawna Agarwal and Richa Tripati won the fi rst prize(INR 50,000)for their NINDIYA in Unexplored 2014 organized by YUJ Design,Pune.They also got an opportunity to present the project in UXIndia 2014 held in Bangalore.NINDIYA is a mobile application which helps people get aware if their sleep circle, sleep pattern and also educates them on various foods which help in inducing sleep awake,thus reducing the overall stress and increasing productivity.The project was done under the course DD 301 Introduction to Interaction Design. FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 01 Sharmistha Banarjee - Assistant Professor Design for sustainability, Bio-inspired de- sign, Medical product Design 02 Utpal Barua IIT Guwahati Professor Graphic Design, Design drawing and Visualisation,Visual design Principles and applications, Indian Symbology 03 Prasad Bokil IIT Bombay Assistant Professor Visual Language ,Design Semiotics, Graphic Design, Type Design, Design Research, De- sign ontology 04 Debkumar Chakrabarti Calcutta Univer- Professor Ergonomics Research, Human Compatibility (Head of the sity Factor, Design ergonomics, product Environ- Department) ment Interface Design, Occupational Health 05 Amarendre Kumar Das IIT Guwahati Professor Industrial Design, Rapid Prototyping and tooling, space Design, Environment Graph- ics, Design for Disabled 06 Supradip Das (Joined - Assistant Professor Origami Inspired Product Development, Toy on 01.01.2015) for tomorrow, Paper Craft, Transformable furniture, Structural packaging design. 07 D. Udaya Kumar IIT Bombay Assistant Professor Topography, Type Design, Information Graphics, Motion Graphics, design Research, Exhibition Design, architecture 08 Sheetal M. Gokhale - Assistant Professor Film & Video story, telling &visual scripting, (Joined on 21.07.2014) Animation, Graphic Design 09 Shareka Iqbal - Assistant Professor Adaptive Reuse ,Solar Passive Architecture 10 Pratul Kalita (Joined on IIT Guwahati Assistant Professor Design Management, Design Method, De- 12.12.2014) sign for Development 11 Sougata Karmakar Bharathiar Uni- Assistant Professor Ergonomics, Human Factor, Design and versity, Coim- work Environment, Design and Occupa- batore tional health 12 Jagadish Kumar (Joined - Assistant Professor Visual arts-Painting & sculpture, Print mak- on 01.08.2014) ing Lithography, Woodcut, New media art, Video art sound art, Folk art tribal art studios. 13 Mriganka Madhukailya - Assistant Professor Short Film, New Media theory, Video Art, Documentary Film, Participatory Theory 14 Manoj Majhi - Assistant Professor Animation, Special Eff ects, Cartooning 15 Charu Monga (Joined - Assistant professor Visual communication, Design Research, on 08.05.2014) Visual Ethnography, Film Making, Animation, Game design, Edutainment.

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 16 Nanki Nath (Joined on - Assistant Professor Graphic Design, Typography, Content devel- 16.06.2014) opment, Photography 17 Swati Pal (Joined on Gujrat University Assistant Professor Ergo-design & Innovation, Physical Ergo- 02.06.2014) nomics, Cognitive Ergonomics, Design and Biomechanics, Occupational Health 18 Ravi Mokashi Punekar IIT Bombay Professor Industrial Design, Space Design, Facility Design, Environmental Graphics, Design for disabled 19 Swaroop Roy (Joined - Assistant Professor Automobile Design & Styling, Automobile on 09.02.2015) Sketching and Rendering, Advance Auto- motive Forms, Concept Design (Character, vehicles , environment. Etc.), Illustrations 20 Urmi Ravindra Salve University of Assistant Professor Human factor engineering, occupational (Joined on 14.01.2015) Calcutta Ergonomics, Research Methodology 21 Avinash Shinde - Assistant Professor Product Design, Furniture Design, Lighting design 22 Abhishek Srivastava - Assistant professor Interaction Design, Design for Development, (Joined on 12.11.2014) New Media, graphic Design & cartooning. 23 Abhishek Singh (Joined -- Assistant Professor Automotive design, Product Design, Graphic on 27.05.2014) Design, Design Researce. 24 Keyur Sorathia - Assistant Professor Interaction Design, Gesture controlled User Interfaces, Design for development 25 Pankaj Upadhaya - Assistant Professor Product design, Industrial Design, Design (Joined on 26.06.2014) for Manufacture, Consumer product Design, Industrial Equipment design. 26 Pradeep Yammiyavar IISc Bangalore Professor HCI-UE-Interaction Design, Product Design, Design Management, Experimental Design, Design research, Interdisciplinary Design Pedagogy.

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1995 11 Communication Lab-2 (R&D) 12 Control & Instrumentation Lab-1 (R&D) ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: 13 Communication Lab-3 (R&D) Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in 14 Image & Signal Processing Lab (R&D) o Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) 15 VLSI-R&D Lab o Electronics and Electrical Engineering (EEE) 16 VLSI-ADSP & Communication Lab (R&D) Master of Technology (MTech) in 17 Signal Informatics Lab (R&D) o Signal Processing 18 Electro-Medical & Speech Lab (R&D) o VLSI 19 Image Processing and Computer Vision Lab (R&D) o Power and Control 20 HPC and FPGA Design Lab (R&D) o Communication Engineering MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 1 Workstation (Make: Dell, Model: R7610)-Two socket – single FACULTY STRENGTH: XEON E5 2650 2.6GHz, 8.0GT/s 8 Core CPU, 32GB ECC RAM 1866MHz upgradeable to 512GB, 1 GB NVIDIA Quadro • Professor: 10 K600,600GB SATA HDD, Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit, Windows 7 • Associate Professor: 8 Ultimate 64 Bit, Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit, Windows • Assistant Professor: 18 Server 2008 R2 • Visiting Professor: 2 2 PC (Make: ACER, Model: VERITON M200-61) Intel i5-4570 [email protected], Intel H81 Chipwet, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, LABORATORIES: 500GB SATA HDD, 7200 22x Internal DVD Writer, Integrated The Department of EEE has 20 laboratories which are HD audio, 21.5” ACER LCD Monitor, USB Mouse, Keyboard equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and software. MS Windows 7 These laboratories are used for both instructional purposes 3 Synopsis EDA Tool, P. Code: 4458-0, Synopsys AsiaPac and carrying out R&D activities in the various areas of Advance TCAD (3D) University Bundle – 3 Licenses Software interest. The list of laboratories presently functioning in the 4 Fiber Optics Communication Kit, Make: SALICON, Model: Department is as follows: ST8502 1 Power System Lab (Instructional) 5 L2+Switch with Ipv6, Make: Ruijie (DLink), Model : RG- 2 Electrical Machine Lab (Instructional) S2952G-E, 48 port 10/100/1000 BASE-T+ 4GE SFP non- 3 Electronic Circuit Lab (Instructional) combo ports, switching capacity: 256Gbps, forwarding rate: 4 Control & Instrumentation Lab-2 (Instructional) 87Mbps; Patch Panel, Make: TYCO, Model: 1375015-2, etc. 5 System Simulation Lab (Instructional) 6 a)High Voltage Test & Measuring Equipment – AC/DC/ Impulse Test Set (100kV, 140kV DC/140kV, 980 Joules 6 Embedded System Lab (Instructional) Impulse) (type-ADI140-S); b)Measuring Sphere Gap (Vertical) 7 High Frequency Lab (Instructional) 7 a)Dual Trace Oscilloscope, Make: Aplab, Model: 3706C; b) 8 Power & Control Lab (R&D) Function Generator, Make: Aplab, Model: MSG3M; c)Triple 9 Communication and Networking Lab (R&D) Output DC Power Supply, Make: Sairush, Model:MOPS04; 10 Multimedia Analytics Lab (R&D) d)3.1/2 Digit Digital Multimeter, Make: Aplab, Model: 1003

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8 Arbitrary Function Generator, Make: NVIS, Model: NVIS Relay Based Identifi cation and Auto tuning, Control Systems, 9 Variable Output Linear DC Power Supply, Control Theory Applications. Make:Aplab,Model:L12825 MAJOR INITIATIVES AND BREAKTHROUGH IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: The department has finalized its proposal to start a Image Processing, Computer Vision, Speech Processing, new M.Tech specialization in RF and Photonics and this Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Multimedia programme is going to start from July 2015 session. This new Signal Processing; Microwave, Antenna Design, Wireless initiative in RF and Photonics will off er academic training Communication, Error Control Coding; Analog and Digital and research expertise in RF and Photonics Engineering Design, MEMS, VLSI CAD, Photonics, Semiconductor Devices; ranging from microwave passive and active devices to Electrical Converters, Electric Drives, Smart Grids, Wind optoelectronic integrated devices. The emphasis is to further Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Photovoltaic, Power Electronics research activities in the important area of RF, microwave, and Power Systems; Control Systems, Stochastic Systems, optoelectronic and optical communication. RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Suresh Person identifi cation using online DeITY 72.00 S R M Prasanna 3 years Sundaram handwriting Rohit Sinha Speech-based access of agricul- DeITY 69.00 S.R.M. Prasanna 2 years tural commodity prices and weather information in 11 Indian languages/ dialects (Consortium project)

b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Sonali Chouhan Advanced Embedded Systems Labo- Intel India 5.12 Hemangee 4 years ratory Pvt Ltd Kapoor Indrani Kar Navigation and Path Planning of Mo- DST 13.44 3 years bile Robots and Extension to Multi- Agent Systems Prithwijit Guha Multi-modal Broadcast Analytics: DEiTY 139.51 S.R. Singh (CSE), 3 years Structured Evidence Visualization for S.R.M. Prasanna Events of Security Concern (EEE) and S. Nandi (CSE) Praveen Kumar Dual Mechanical Port Based Electric DST 54.99 S. Majhi 2 years Vehicle Power train P. K. Bora Development of Robust Document DIT 28.75 M. K. Bhuyan, S. 5 years Image understanding System for Das Document in Indian Scripts (OCR)- Phase-II M. K. Bhuyan Development of an Indian Sign MHRD 132.00 P. K. Bora 7 years Language Education & Recognition System for Hearing Impaired students of India C. Mahanta Robust Control of a Robotic Manipu- SERB, DST 15.00 - 3 years lator using Sliding Mode Controller

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) S. R. M. Prasanna Development of speech based multi- DEiTY 162.00 S. Nandi (CSE), 3 years level person authentication system R. Sinha and S. Dandapat S. R. M. Prasanna Development of text to speech DEiTY 109.00 R. Singh (CSE) 2 years systems in Assamese and Manipuri Languages S. R. M. Prasanna Development of prosodically guided DEiTY 40.00 S. Dandapat 2 years phonetic engine in Assamese R. P. Paily Design and Implementation of a DIT 70.26 H. B. Nemade 3 years Blind Assistance System using FPGAs and Josephine and Sensors S. R. Sinha Virtual Laboratory on Signals and MHRD, 30.00 S. R. M. Prasanna 3 years Systems under NME- ICT c) Completed Sponsored Projects:

Spon- Amount Principal Co-Investi- Name of Project soring Sanctioned Duration Investigator gator Agency (Rs. in Lakh) S. Dandapat Special Manpower Development Programme DeitY 62.69 Roy Paily 8 years in VLSI Design and Related Software (SMDP-II) Roy Paily Design, fabrication and testing of low power DST 08.35 - 30 analog front-end chip for Heart rate detection Months Rohit Sinha Virtual Laboratory on Signals and Systems MHRD, 30.00 S.R.M. 3 years under Prasanna NME-ICT

CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

Amount Principal Co- Name of Project Sponsoring Agency Sanctioned Duration Investigator Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Praveen Kumar Consultancy project Toshiba Mitsubishi- 11.00 Sisir Kr. 2 years on Losses in Induction Electric Industrial Systems Nayak Machines (Phase 2) Corporation, Japan Kannan Karthik Privacy preserving face Bharat Electronics Ltd, 07.50 - 2 years retrieval Bangalore, CRL Labs Ratnajit To meet the telecomm need Tashniwal Enterprises 09.00 T. Jacob, B. 1.5 years Bhattacharjee of rural India with special Controls Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata K. Rai thrust for unconnected areas of NE region

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol. , Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Madhulika Das and Optimal Second Order Sliding Mode ISA Transactions 53-6 1807- 2014 Chitralekha Mahanta Control for Linear Uncertain Systems (Elsevier) 1815

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Vol. , Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Madhulika Das and Optimal Second Order Sliding Mode ISA Transactions 53-4 1191- 2014 Chitralekha Mahanta Control for Nonlinear Systems (Elsevier) 1198 Sanjoy Mondal and Adaptive Second order Terminal Journal of the 351-4 2356 - 2014 Chitralekha Mahanta Sliding Mode Controller for Robotic Franklin Institute 2377 Manipulators (Elsevier) B. Kumbhani and R. S. Error Performance of Two-hop De- Electronics Letters 51-6 530-532 2015 Kshetrimayum code andForward Relaying Systems with Source andRelay Transmit Antenna Selection M.Kulkarni, Performance Analysis Comparison of IET Communica- 8-10 1850- 2014 L.Choudhary, TAS/MRC and OSTBC in Equicorrelat- tions 1858 B.Kumbhani and R. ed Rayleigh Fading MIMO Channels S.Kshetrimayum M. Manohar, R. S. A Compact Printed Triangular Mono- Microwave and 56-5 1155-59 2014 Kshetrimayum and A. pole Antenna for Ultra-wideband Optical Technology K. Gogoi Application Letters (MOTL) Sam Darshi and R. BER Analysis of Asynchronised Wire- Wireless Personal DOI 2015 Bhattacharjee less Network in Presence of Non- Communications 10.1007/ Identically Distributed Interferers s11277- 015- 2366-6 Bajarangbali and Identifi cation of Integrating and Journal of Control 13-1 29-36 2015 Majhi S. Critically Damped Systems with Time Theory and Tech- Delay nology Bajarangbali and Identifi cation of Underdamped Pro- Journal of Systems 2-1 541-548 2014 Majhi S. cess Dynamics Science and Control Engineering, (open access) Padhy P.K. and Majhi Adaptive Integral Filter for the Identi- Int. J. Systems, 6-2 136-152 2014 S. fi cation of Two-Input Two-Output Control and Com- Processes munications Bajarangbali, Majhi S. Identifi cation of FOPDT and SOPDT ISA Transactions 53-4 1223- 2014 and Pandey S. Process Dynamics using Closed Loop 1231 Test Parmar K.P.S., Majhi S. LFC of an Interconnected Power International 57 277-286 2014 and Kothari DP System with Multi-source Power Journal of Electrical Generation in Deregulated Power Power and Energy Environment Systems (IJEPES) Nagesh Ch and Roy Design of an Osmotic Pressure Sen- Journal of Microme- 25-4 45019 2015 Paily sor for Sensing Osmotically Active chanics and Micro- Substance engineering, IOP Publishing Nagesh Ch and Roy Fabrication and Testing of an Os- Micromachines 5 3 722-737 2014 Pail y motic Pressure Sensor for Glucose Sensing Application Suda, Naveen, P. V. A 0.5-V low power analog front-end Analog Integrated - 1-14 2014 Nishanth, Debajit for heart-rate detector Circuits and Signal Basak, Durshee Processing (Spring- Sharma and Roy Paily er)

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Vol. , Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Rahul Shrestha and Comparative Study of Simplifi ed Journal of Sig- - - 2014 Roy Paily MAP Algorithms and an Implemen- nal Processing tation of Non-Parallel-Radix-2 Turbo Systems(Springer) Decoder Wei, Y., Shen, G., Bose, Span-restorable elastic optical IEEE Transactions on 63-2 401-411 2014 S.K. networks under diff erent spectrum Reliability (2014) conversion capabilities Shen, G., Lui, Y., Bose, Follow the Sun, follow the Wind' Journal of Light- 32-11 2094- 2014 S.K. lightpath virtual topology reconfi gu- wave Technology 2105 ration in IP over WDM network Yongcheng Li, Hua Adaptive FEC-Based Lightpath Rout- Optical Switching 14-3 241-249 2014 Dai, Gangxiang Shen, ing and Wavelength Assignment in and Networking Sanjay K. Bose WDM Optical Networks Gangxiang Shen, Yue Optimal design for Shared Backup Journal of Optical 6 649-659 2014 Wei, Sanjay K. Bose Path Protected Elastic Optical Net- Communications works under Single Link Failure and Networking Sonu K. Mishra, Message Forwarding in a Sparsely Wireless Commu- DOI: 10.1109/ 2014 SoumyaIndela, Connected Wireless Network using nications Letters LWC.2014. Sanjay K. Bose, Wen- Rateless Codes (Early Access) 2385855 De Zhong Dalal,A., Ansari, A novel steady-state model of a IEEE Transactions on 50-12 - 2014 M.N., Kumar, P. hybrid dual rotor motor compris- Magnetics ing electrical equivalent circuit and performance equations Agarwal A, Kumar M, Smart public transit system using an IEEE Transactions on 15-4 1622- 2014 Prajapati D.K, Singh energy storage system and its coor- Intelligent Transpor- 1632 M, Kumar P dination with a distribution grid tation Systems Thirugnanam K, Ezhil Mathematical modeling of li-ion IEEE Transactions on 29-2 332-343 2014 Reena Joy, T.P., Singh, battery using genetic algorithm ap- Energy Conversion M., Kumar, P. proach for V2G applications Santosh Kumar Electrocardiogram signal denoising IET Signal Process- 9-1 88-96 2015 Yadav, Rohit Sinha, using non-local wavelet transform ing Prabin Kumar Bora domain fi ltering Shivanshu Sliding window Dixon’s tests for IET Communica- 8-7 1065- 2014 Shrivastava, Alentattil malicious users’ suppression in a co- tions 1071 Rajesh, Prabin Kumar operative spectrum sensing system Bora T. Malathi and M.K. Estimation of disparity map of stereo IET Computer Vision - - 2015 Bhuyan image pairs using spatial domain local Gabor wavelet M.K. Bhuyan, Karl Hand Pose Recognition from Mon- Journal of Visual - 39-55 2015 F. Mac Dorman, ocular Images by Geometrical and Languages and Mithun Kumar Kar, Texture Analysis Computing Debanga Raj Neog, Brian C.Lovell and PrathikGadde So Hayakawa, Shinji Object Tracking Method Using Software Engi- - 205- 218 2015 Fukui, Yuji Iwahori, PTAMM and Estimated Foreground neering Research, M.K. Bhuyan, and Regions Management and Robert J. Woodham Applications, Stud- ies in Computation- al Intelligence 183 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

Vol. , Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. M.K. Bhuyan,D. Ajay Continuous Hand Gesture Recogni- Journal on Multi- 8(4) 333-343 2014 Kumar,Karl F. Mac tion by using a Novel Set of Features modal User Inter- Dorman, and Yuji faces Iwahori M.K. Bhuyan, V. Hand Gesture Recognition and Ani- International 5 (4) 607-623 2014 Venkata Ramaraju mation for Local Hand Motions Journal of Machine and Yuji Iwahori, Learning and Cyber- netics Shuya Ishida, Shinji Shadow Detection by Three Shadow Procedia Computer 35 1219- 2014 Fukui, Yuji Iwahori, M. Models with Features Robust to Il- Science 1228 K. Bhuyan and Robert lumination Changes J. Woodham Hiroaki Hagi, Yuji Defect Classifi cation of Electronic Procedia Computer 35 1210- 2014 Iwahori, Shinji Fukui, Circuit Board using SVM based on Science 1218 Yoshinori Adachi and Random Sampling M. K. Bhuyan Takuya Nakagawa, Reduction of Defect Misclassifi cation International 2-1 25-36 2014 Yuji Iwahori, M. K. of Electronic Board Using Multiple Journal of Software Bhuyan SVM Classifi ers Innovation L.N. Sharma, R.K. Multiscale energy and eigenspace IEEE Transactions on - 99 2015 Tripathy, and S. approach to detection and localiza- Biomedical Engi- Dandapat tion of myocardial infarction neering R. K. Tripathy, L. A new way of quantifying diagnostic IET Healthcare Tech- 1-4 98-103 2014 N. Sharma and S. information from multilead elec- nology Letters Dandapat trocardiogram for cardiac disease classifi cation" Letters, vol. 1 (4), pp 98-103, 2014. M. Sabarimalai Wavelet based electrocardiogram Biomedical Signal 14 73-107 2014 Manikandan and S. signal compression methods and Processing and Dandapat their performances: A prospective Control review A. G. Ramakrishnan, Voice source characterization using Journal of Acous- - - 2015 Abhiram Dikshit and pitch synchronous discrete cosine tical Society of S. R. M. Prasanna transform for speaker identifi cation America D. Pati and S. R. M. Processing of linear prediction Int Journal of - - 2015 Prasanna residual in spectral and cepstraldo- Speech Technology mains for speaker information KT Deepak and SRM Epoch Extraction Using Zero Band Circuits, Systems, - - 2014 Prasanna Filtering from Speech Signal and Signal Process- ing Biswajit D. Sarma, Analysis of Vocal Tract Constrictions Signal Processing 21-12 1481- 2014 S.R.M. Prasanna using Zero Frequency Filtering Letters, IEEE 1485 S Shahnawazuddin, Low complexity on-Line adaptation J Signal Process Syst - - 2014 K. T. Deepak, B. D. techniques in context of Assamese Sarma, A. Deka, spoken query system S.R.M. Prasanna and Rohit Sinha G. Sai Krishna Investigation of properties of surface Ultrasonics 59 40–44 2015 Santosh and Harshal acoustic waves generated by peri- B. Nemade odically patterned ZnO on silicon substrate

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Vol. , Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Haris B C and R. Sinha Low-complexity Speaker Verifi cation Speech Communi- - 67-2 2014 with Decimated Supervector Repre- cation sentations S. K. Yadav, R. Sinha ECG Signal Denoising using Nonlocal IET Signal Process- - - 2014 and P. K. Bora Wavelet Transform Domain Filtering ing

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Basudeba Behera Optimizing preload and coef- 5th International and 26th All 689 1–4 Dec. 12- and Harshal B. fi cient of friction for surface India Manufacturing Technol- 14 2014 Nemade acoustic wave linear motor ogy, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR 2014) Ananya Patra, An approach to improved International Conference on - 1-6 July 2014 Sonali Chouhan energy effi cient hybrid Signal Processing and Commu- clustering in wireless sensor nications (SPCOM) networks, Sikandar Kumar, Spectrum sensing in MIMO International Symposium on - 664-669 August Sonali Chouhan cognitive radio with tempo- Wireless Communications Sys- 2014 rally and spatially correlated tems (ISWCS) signal Madhulika Das Optimal Second Order Sliding Indian Control Conference 2015, - - Jan. 05- and Chitralekha Mode Controller for Linear IIT Madras 07 2015 Mahanta Systems with Mismatched Uncertainty Vinay Kumar Multiple Models and Second Ninth International conference - - Dec. 15- Pandey, Level Adaptation for a Class on Industrial and Information 17 2014 Indrani Kar and of Nonlinear Systems with Systems (ICIIS 2014), Gwalior Chitralekha Nonlinear Parametrization Mahanta Arghya Backstepping Enhanced INDICON 2014, Pune - - Dec. 11- Chakravarty Adaptive Second Order Slid- 13 2014 and Chitralekha ing Mode Controller to com- Mahanta pensate Actuator Failures Tousif Khan N Adaptive Backstepping Con- INDICON 2014, Pune - - Dec. 11- and Chitralekha trol for DC-DC Buck Convert- 13 2014 Mahanta ers using Chebyshev Neural Network Tousif Khan N Adaptive Chebyshev Neural Third National Symposium on - - Nov. 24- and Chitralekha Network Based Speed Control Advances in Control & Instru- 26 2014 Mahanta of Buck Converter Fed DC mentation (SACI-2014), Mumbai Motor Tousif Khan N Adaptive Control of DCM 38th National Systems Confer- - - Nov.05- and Chitralekha Buck Converter via Integrated ence (NSC), Hyderabad 07 2014 Mahanta Chebyshev Neural Network based Backstepping and Slid- ing Mode Control

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Nabanita Backstepping Sliding Mode 13th International Workshop on - - June 29- Adhikary and Controller for a Co-ordinated Variable Structure Systems (VSS July 02, Chitralekha Links (COOL) Robot Arm 2014), Nantes, France 2014 Mahanta Kumar Abhishek, Non-Invasive Measurement of IEEE International Conference - - Feb.19- Amodh Kant Heart Rate and Hemoglobin on Signal Processing, Informat- 21 2015 Saxena, Ramesh Concentration Level Through ics, Communication and Energy Kumar Sonkar Fingertip Systems 2015, (IEEE SPICES 2015) Mohd Mansoor Design and Proposal of Dual International Conference in IOP-15 P400-94, Feb. 20- Khan, Ramesh Line-of-Defense Perimeter Optics and Photonics-2015, 22 2015 Kumar Sonkar Watchdog incorporating op- University of Calcutta, Kolkata timally designed FBG based Accelerometers and Strain Sensors using Single Optical Fiber Deepak Joshi, A method of analog circuit IEEE International Conference - - 2015 Satyabrata optimization using adjoint MAREW 2015 Dash, Ratnajit sensitivity analysis Bhattacharjee, Gaurav Trivedi Satyabrata Dash, Power Grid Analysis on Paral- IEEE International Conference - - 2015 Vivek Bangera, lel Computing Platforms MAREW 2015 Vinay B. Y. Kumar, Sachin B. Patkar and Gaurav Trivedi Sunil Dutt, Variability-aware Paramet- IEEE VLSI-DAT, 2015 - - 2015 Anshu Chauhan, ric Yield Enhancement via Sukumar Nandi Post-silicon Tuning ofHybrid and Gaurav Redundant MAC Units Trivedi Karnika Biswas On Oscillations in Target 9th Int. Conference on Indus- - - Decem- and Indrani Kar Tracking by Artifi cial Potential trial and Information Systems, ber 2014 Field Method Gwalior Yanumula Consensus in Multi-Agent INDICON - - Decem- Venkata Karteek, Systems with Switching To- ber 2014 Indrani Kar and pologies using Position Based Somanath Majhi Back-Stepping M. Manohar, U. A novel super wideband International Conference on - - July 2014 K. Nemani, R. S. notched printed trapezoidal Signal Processing and Commu- Kshetrimayum monopole antenna with trian- nications (SPCOM), Bangalore and A. K. Gogoi gular tapered feedline Apporv Vyas, Commercial Block Detection The Ninth Indian Conference on - - Dec. 14- Vineet Bhargav, in Broadcast News Videos Computer Vision, Graphics and 17 2014 Raghvendra Image Processing (ICVGIP 2014) Kannao, Prithwijit Guha

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Kasi V., Kannan Node Identifi cation for Plac- IEEE PES General Meeting, - - July 27- T., Kumar P. and ing EVs and PAs in a Distribu- Washington 31 2014 Majhi S. tion Network Joseph, F.; Francis, An effi cient hardware archi- 18th International Symposium - - July 16 K.; Hore, A.; Roy, tecture for stereo disparity on VLSI Design and Test Sympo- -18 2014 S.; Josephine, S. estimation sium, 2014, Coimbatore and Paily, R.P. Namami A Highly Sensitive Lithium Ni- International Conference on - - Aug. 04- Goswami, Ujjwol obate Based Microcantilever Emerging Trends in Electrical 06 2014 Barman, Roy for Biosensing Applications Engineering, ICETREE, Kollam, Paily, Biplab Bose Kerala and Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh Ratul Kumar Impact of Fringing Fields in International Conference on - - Dec. 4-6 Baruah and Roy a p-Channel Junctionless Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 Paily Transistor Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Brajesh Rawat Performance Comparison Conference on Transport - - Dec.11- and Roy Paily between Graphene based Properties in Low Dimensional 13 2014 Conventional MOSFET and Systems: Experiment and Simu- TFET for Analog Circuits lation (TransLES-2014), IASST, Guwahati Rahul Shrestha Hardware Implementation IEEE 5th International Sympo- - - Dec. 15- and Roy Paily and Testing of Log-MAPP sium on Electronics System 17 2014 Decoder Based on Novel Design (ISED), Mangalore un-Grouped Sliding-Window Technique Yongcheng Adaptive FEC Selection for Optical Fiber Communication Article 2014 Li, Hua Dai, Lightpaths in Elastic Optical Conference, OFC 2014; San Fran- number Gangxiang Shen, Networks cisco, CA 6887109 Sanjay K. Bose Xaiowei Zhao, Optimal Time-Dependent Optical Fiber Communication - - 2014 Gangxiang Shen, Spectrum Sharing between Conference, OFC 2014; San Fran- Sanjay K. Bose Neighboring Channels in cisco, CA Elastic Optical Networks Indela Soumya, Network routing over erasure TENCON 2014 - 2014 IEEE Re- doi: 1-6 Oct.22- Mishra Sonu K, channels using systematic gion 10 Conference 10.1109 25 2014 Bose Sanjay K, rateless codes /TEN- Zhong, Wen-De CON. 2014. 7022276 Soumya Indela, Network Routing for Stream- NCC-2015, IIT Bombay - - Feb 2015 Sonu. K. Mishra, ing Applications Using Sys- Sanjay K. Bose, tematic Rateless Codes Wen-De Zhong Santosh Kumar Image Denoising Using SPCOM, IISc Bangalore - - June Yadav, Rohit Ridgelet Transform in a Col- 2014 Sinha, Prabin laborative Filtering Frame- Kumar Bora work

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Gaurav Jyoti An Algorithm for Blind Sym- SPCOM, IISc Bangalore - - June Phukan, Prabin bol Rate Estimation Using 2014 Kumar Bora Second Order Cyclostationar- ity Babita Jajodia, PPM Demodulation Schemes Proc. 2015 IEEEInternational - - February Rafi Ahamed for IEEE 802.15.6 IR-UWB Conference on Signal Process- 2015 Shaik and Anil WBAN Receivers ing, Informatics, Communica- Mahanta tion Energy Systems (SPIC- ES-2015), NIT Calicut, India Bhoopal Rao G, Design of Cryptographically Proc. 2015 IEEE International - - January Rafi Ahamed Secure AES S-Box Using Cel- Conference on Electrical, Elec- 2015 Shaik lular Automata tronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization (EESCS 2015), Vishakapatnam Surya Prakash M A Distributed Arithmetic Proc. 2015 IEEE International - - January and Rafi Ahamed based Approach for the Conference on Signal Process- 2015 Shaik Implementation of the Sign- ing and Communication Engi- LMS Adaptive Filter neering Systems (SPACES 2015), Vijayawada, India. Ajay Kumar M, Separation of Artifacts from Proc. 2015 IEEE International - - January Rafi Ahamed Electroencephalogram Signal Conference on Signal Process- 2015 Shaik using Sequential Singular ing and Communication Engi- Spectrum Analysis neering Systems (SPACES 2015), Vijayawada, India. Babita Jajodia, A Six-Segment SRRC Pulse Proc. 9th International Confer- - - Septem- Anil Mahanta Generator for IEEE 802.15.6 ence on Body Area Network ber 2014 and Rafi Ahamed WBAN Standard (BODYNETS`14), London, Great Shaik Britain. M.K. Bhuyan and Performance Evaluation of Proceedings of the Second 79-92 2015 T. Malathi Local Gabor Wavelet-based International Conference on Disparity Map Computation Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering and their Appli- cations (EECEA2015), Manila, Philippines Wataru Moving Object Extraction in Joint Conference of the Interna- 75 1-4 2015 Higashiyama, Consideration of Small Move- tional Workshop on Advanced Shinji Fukui, Yuji ment of Background Image Technology (IWAIT) and Iwahori, M. K. the International Forum on Bhuyan, Robert J. Medical Imaging in Asia (IFMIA), Woodham Taiwan Yuki Hanai, Yuji Shape from Endoscope Image Joint Conference of the Interna- 76 1-4 2015 Iwahori, M. K. with Optimization and Two tional Workshop on Advanced Bhuyan, Robert J. Point Light Sources Image Technology (IWAIT) and Woodham, Kunio the International Forum on Kasugai Medical Imaging in Asia (IFMIA), Taiwan

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Yuji Iwahori, Seiya Improvement of Recover- 4th International Conference - 62-70 2015 Tsuda, Robert J. ing Shape from Endoscope on Pattern Recognition Appli- Woodham, M. Images Using RBF Neural cations and Methods (ICPRAM K. Bhuyan and Network 2015), Lisbon, Portugal. Kunio Kasuga Himanshu Automatic Polyp Detection 3rd International Conference - 495-501 2014 Agrahari, Yuji using DSC Edge Detector and on Pattern Recognition Appli- Iwahori, M. K. HOG Features cations and Methods (ICPRAM Bhuyan, Somnath 2014), France. Ghorai, Himanshu Kohli, Robert J. Woodham and Kunio Kasugai Yuji Iwahori, Kenji Neural Network Based Image 22nd IEEE international Confer- - 2131- 2014 Funahashi, Robert Modifi cation for Shape from ence on Pattern Recognition 2136 J. Woodham, and Observed SEM Images (ICPR 2014), Stockholm, Sweden M.K. Bhuyan Suman Deb, S. A Novel Breathiness Feature NCC, IIT Bombay - - February Dandapat for Analysis and Classifi cation 2015 of Speech Under Stress Anurag Singh, Compressed Sensing Frame- NCC, IIT Bombay - - February J.J. Nallikuzhy, S. work of Data Reduction at 2015 Dandapat Multiscale Level for Eigens- pace Multichannel ECG Signals BhanuPriya, S. Linear Transformation on NCC, IIT Bombay - - February Dandapat Speech Subspace for Analysis 2015 of Speech Under Stress Condi- tion J. J. Nallikuzhy, S. Enhancement of the Spatial NCC, IIT Bombay - - February Dandapat Resolution of ECG Using 2015 Multi-scale Linear Regression. Anurag Singh, S. Distributed Compressive INDICON, 2014 Annual IEEE. - - Decem- Dandapat Sensing for Multichannel ECG IEEE, 2014 ber 2014 Signals over Learned Diction- aries S. Dandapat, L. Quantifi cation of Diagnostic National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- N. Sharma, R. K. Information from Electrocar- in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 Tripathy diogram Signal: A Review ing (WACC) Bhanu Priya, S. Stressed Speech Recognition National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- Dandapat Using Similarity Measurement in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 on Inner Product Space ing (WACC) Anurag Singh, S. Two Dimensional Processing National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- Dandapat of Multichannel ECG Signals in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 for effi cient exploitation of ing (WACC) inter and intra-channel cor- relation

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Sibasankar Padhy, SVD Analysis on Reduced National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- S. Dandapat 3-Lead ECG Data in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 ing (WACC) J. J. Nallikuzhy, S. DCT Based Linear Regression National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- Dandapat Approach for 12-Lead ECG in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 Synthesis ing (WACC) R. K. Tripathy, S. Quantifying Clinical Informa- National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- Dandapat tion in MECG using Sample in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 and Channel Convolution ing (WACC) Matrices Nagarjuna Nallam On the use of Frequency PAWR – 2015, San Diego, USA - - January and Shouri Transformations in the Design 2015 Chatterjee of Broad-band and Multi- band Power amplifi ers Joy, E.R. Impact of circuit parameters IEEE International Conference - - Decem- ,Kushwaha B.K., in contactless power transfer on Power Electronics, Drives and ber 2014 Rituraj G., Kumar system Energy Systems (PEDES) P. Sameer, N. ; Design and optimization of IEEE International Conference - - Decem- Prashanth, S.A. ; dual rotor motor for electric on Power Electronics, Drives and ber 2014 Dalai, A. ; Kumar, vehicle application Energy Systems (PEDES) P. Ansari, M.N. ; A generalized method for de- IEEE International Conference - - Decem- Dalai, A. ; Kumar, veloping steady state models on Power Electronics, Drives and ber 2014 P. for diff erent electric motors Energy Systems (PEDES) Prabhakar, K.K. Drive system for electric IEEE International Conference - - Decem- ; Singh, A.K. ; vehicle power train applica- on Power Electronics, Drives and ber 2014 Reddy, C.U. ; tion using DC to AC matrix Energy Systems (PEDES) Kumar, P. converter Singh, A.K. ; Improved dynamic model of IEEE International Conference - - Decem- Dalai, A. ; Roy, R. ; induction motor including the on Power Electronics, Drives and ber 2014 Kumar, P. eff ects of saturation Energy Systems (PEDES) Singh, A.K. ; Dalai, Analysis of induction motor IEEE International Conference - - Decem- A. ; Kumar, P. for electric vehicle application on Power Electronics, Drives and ber 2014 based on drive cycle analysis Energy Systems (PEDES) Kumar, A. , Bam, A hybrid micro grid for re- 3rd Renewable Power Genera- - - Septem- G. , Sah, B. , mote village in Himalayas tion Conference, RPG Naples, ber 2014 Kumar, P. Italy Kumar, P. ; Dalal, Identifi cation of three phase International Conference on - - July 2014 A. ; Singh, A.K. induction machines equiva- Electrical Machines (ICEM), lent circuits parameters Berlin using multi-objective genetic algorithms Dalal, A. ; Kumar, Analytical model of a perma- International Conference on - - July 2014 P. nent magnet brushless DC Electrical Machines (ICEM), motor with non-linear ferro- Berlin magnetic material

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Rituraj, G. ; Joy, Analysis and comparison of IEEE Region 10 Conference, - - October E.R. ; Kushwaha, series-series and series-par- TENCON2014 2014 B.K. ; Kumar, P. allel topology of contactless power transfer systems Mousmita Sarma, Speaker chabge detection us- Proc. 21St National Conference - - February Sree Nilendra ing Excitation source and Vo- on Communications 2015, IIT 2015 Gadre, Biswajit cal tract system information Bombay Dev Sarma and S. R. M. Prasanna Rohan Kumar Das, Diff erent Aspects of Source Proc. 21St National Conference - - February DebadattaPati Information for Limited Data on Communications 2015, IIT 2015 and S R M Speaker Verifi cation,” in, IIT Bombay Prasanna Bombay, Feb. 2015. Banriskhem K. Speech vs Music Discrimina- Proc. 21St National Conference - - February Khonglah, Rajib tion using Empirical Mode on Communications 2015, IIT 2015 Sharma and S. R. Decomposition Bombay M. Prasanna R. Sharma and S. Characterizing glottal activity Proc. 21St National Conference - - February R. M. Prasanna from speech using empirical on Communications 2015, IIT 2015 mode decomposition Bombay Himakshi Comparison of Assamese Proc. 21St National Conference - - February Choudhury, Character Recognizer using on Communications 2015, IIT 2015 Subhasis Mandal, Stroke Level and Character Bombay Sanjeevan Level Engines Devnath, S. R. M. Prasanna and S. Sundaram Subhasis Mandal, Curvature Point based HMM Proc. 21St National Conference - - February S. R.M. Prasanna State Prediction for Online on Communications 2015, IIT 2015 and Suresh Handwritten Assamese Bombay Sundaram Strokes Recognition Sarfaraz Jelil, Exploring Speaker Modeling International Conference on - - April Rohan Kumar Das, Techniques for Short Pass- Computing and Communica- 2015 Khwairakpam Phrase Based Person Authen- tion Systems (I3CS’15), NEHU Amitab, Fidalizia tication System Shillong Pyrtuh, L. Joyprakash Singh, S. R.M. Prasanna N. Adiga and S. Epochs Based Compression Proc. 20th National Conference - - February R.M. Prasanna of LP Residual for Source on Communications 2014, IIT 2014 Modeling in Text-to-Speech Kanpur Synthesis Subhadeep Dey, Speech Biometric Based At- Proc. 20th National Conference - - February Sujit Barman, tendance System on Communications 2014, IIT 2014 Ramesh K. Bhukya Kanpur Rohan Kumar Das, Haris B C, S. R. M. Prasanna and R. Sinha

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Thotappa, D.; S. Reference and automatic Signal Processing and Commu- - 1-5 July 22- R.M. Prasanna marking of glottal opening nications (SPCOM), 2014 Inter- 25 2014 instants using EGG signal national Conference, Bangalore Biswajit Dev Improved Vowel Onset and Signal Processing and Commu- - 1-6 July 22- Sarma, Supreeth Off set Points Detection Using nications (SPCOM), 2014 Inter- 25 2014 Prajwal S. and S. Bessel Features national Conference, Bangalore R.M. Prasanna Ramesh K, S. R. Signifi cance of Glottal Activity Signal Processing and Commu- - 1-5 July 22- M. Prasanna and Detection and Glottal Sig- nications (SPCOM), 2014 Inter- 25 2014 Rohan Kumar Das natures for Text-Dependent national Conference, Bangalore Speaker Verifi cation N. Adiga, Signifi cance of Epoch Identi- Pro. International Conference - 1-5 July 22- D.Govind and S. R. fi cation Accuracy for Prosody on Signal Processing and Com- 25 2014 M. Prasanna Modifi cation munications (SPCOM), 2014, Bangalore Biswajit Dev Detection of Vowel Onset INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore - - Septem- Sarma and S. R.M. Points in Voiced Aspirated ber 2014 Prasanna Sounds of Indian Languages Rohan Kumar Das, Combining Source and Sys- INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore - - Septem- Abhiram B , S R M tem Information for Limited ber 2014 Prasanna and A G Data Speaker Verifi cation Ramakrishnan Biswajit Semiautomatic segmentation National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- Dev Sarma, and marking of pitch contours in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 Meghamallika for prosodic analysis ing 2014, Guwahati Sarma and S. R. M Prasanna Biswajit Dev Semi-automatic Syllable National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- Sarma, Mousmita Labelling for Assamese lan- in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 Sarma and S. R. M. guage using HMM and Vowel ing 2014, Guwahati Prasanna onset-off set points Rohan Kumar Speaker Verifi cation for Vari- National Workshop on Advances - - Septem- Das and S R M able Duration Segments and in Communication and Comput- ber 2014 Prasanna the Eff ect of Session Vari- ing 2014, Guwahati ability K. T. Deepak, K. Extraction of Glottal Closure INDICON-2014, Pune - - Decem- Ramesh and S. R. and Opening Instants using ber 2014 M. Prasanna Zero Frequency Filtering N. Adiga and S. R. A Hybrid Text-to-Speech Syn- INDICON-2014, Pune - - Decem- M. Prasanna thesis using Vowel and Non ber 2014 Vowel like regions Banriskhem Exploration of Deep neural INDICON-2014, Pune - - Decem- Khonglah, networks for vowel like region ber 2014 Biswajit Dev detection Sarma and S. R.M. Prasanna Bidisha Sharma Faster Prosody Modifi cation INDICON-2014, Pune - - Decem- and S. R. M. using Time Scaling of Epochs ber 2014 Prasanna

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Vol. and Name of Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Page Title of Paper Issue Year Author/s Sym. No. No. Sunil Y. and Rohit Exploration of MFCC Based Proceedings of International on - - July 2014 Sinha ABWE for Robust Children’s Signal Processing and Commu- Speech Recognition Under nications (SPCOM), Bangalore Mismatched Condition

Book, Chapter, etc.

Volume Page Name of Author/s Name of Book/ Book Chapter Publisher and Is- Year No. sue No. Tousif Khan Nizami Hybrid Backstepping Control for DC–DC Buck Con- Springer 327 129-141 2015 and Chitralekha verters / Systems Thinking Approach for Social Prob- India Mahanta lems, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Vinay Kumar Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Mul- Springer 327 239-252 2015 Pandey, Indrani Kar tiple Models with Second-Level Adaptation / Systems India and Chitralekha Thinking Approach for Social Problems, Lecture Notes Mahanta in Electrical Engineering Sanjoy Mondal and Chattering-Free Adaptive Second-Order Terminal Slid- Springer 327 253-266 2015 Chitralekha Mah- ing-Mode Controller for Uncertain System / Systems India anta Thinking Approach for Social Problems, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty ternational Praveen Ku- 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting Washington July 27-31 2014 International mar D.C, USA Chitralekha 13th International Workshop on Variable Struc- Nantes, France June 29-July 02 International Mahanta ture Systems(VSS 2014) 2014 S.R. Ahmed 9th International Conference on Body Area Net- London, Great Sep. 29 -Oct. 01 International work (BODYNETS`14) Britan 2014 Prithwijit The Ninth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Bangalore Dec. 14-17 National Guha Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2014) 2014 S.R. Ahmed IEEE International Conference on Signal Process- Vijayawada, Jan. 02-03 2015 International ing and Communication Engineering Systems India (SPACES 15), Jan. 2015. Nagarjuna Radio Wireless Week San Diego, USA Jan. 25-28 2015 International Nallam M.K. Bhuyan Second International Conference on Electrical, Manila, Philip- Feb. 11-14 International Electronics, Computer Engineering and their Ap- pines 2015 plications (EECEA2015). Kalpana National Conference on Communications Mumbai Feb. 27-Mar.01 National Dhaka 2015 Tony Jacob National Conference on Communications Mumbai Feb. 27-Mar.01 National 2015

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INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty M.K. Bhuyan Vision-based Hand Gesture School of Informatics and Computing, Indianapolis, April 29 2014 Recognition for HCI University of Purdue, USA USA Tony Jacob Introduction to probabilistic Summer Workshop on Complex Net- Jabalpur May 19-23 modeling of networks works, IIITDM Jabalpur 2014 Kalpana MIMO and Cooperative Com- STC on Advances in Signal Processing Jaipur May 23 2014 Dhaka munication Systems and Communication, MNIT Jaipur Tony Jacob Digital Signal Processing in The Second National Conference on GEC Aug. 30 2014 Computational Photography Emerging Trends in Engineering, NET Kozhikode 2014 Ratnajit Recent Trends in Wireless National Workshop on Advances in Guwahati Sept. 26 2014 Bhattacharjee and Mobile Communication Communication and Computing (http://wacc.aec.ac.in/pro- (WACC), 2014, Assam Engineering Col- gramSchedule.shtml) lege Ratnajit Computational Electromag- Workshop on Computational Aspects Tezpur Nov. 01 2014 Bhattacharjee netics (http://www.tezu. of Research in Physics (Oct 31- Nov 1, ernet.in/dphy/workshop- 2014), Tezpur University on-computational-aspects- of-research-in-physics-oct- 31-nov-1-2014/) Sonali Computation-Communi- Marmara University Istanbul, Nov. 03 2014 Chouhan cation Energy Trade-off in Turkey Wireless Sensor Networks: Isit Really Important? Tony Jacob Signal Processing in Compu- TEQIP Lecture, College of Engineering, Kozhikode Nov. 05 2014 tational Photography Vadakara Ratnajit An Overview of Virtual Labs The third NKN Annual Workshop, 15-17 Guwahati Dec. 16 2014 Bhattacharjee (under NMEICT) (http://www. Dec 2014 nkn.in/nkn-workshop2014/ speakers.html) Ratnajit Ethical issues in Research Faculty Development Program on Cur- Tezpur Dec. 27 2014 Bhattacharjee (http://www.titagartala.nic. rent Approaches in Teaching and Re- in/SDPonRFandWirelessCom- search in Science and Technology, 15th munication.pdf) Dec -27th Dec, 2014, Tezpur University S.R. Ahmed Delivered a plenary talk on IEEE International Conference on Signal Vijayawada Jan. 02 2015 “Wireless Body Area Net- Processing and Communication Engi- works” neering Systems Kalpana Cooperative Communication TEQIP STC on Recent Advances in Com- Guwahati Jan. 13 2015 Dhaka munication and Signal Processing, IIT Guwahati Tony Jacob Sparse Representations and TEQIP Workshop on Recent Advances Guwahati Jan. 15 2015 Compressive Sensing in Communication and Signal Process- ing, IIT Guwahati Tony Jacob Sparse Representations and TEQIP Workshop on Mathematics for Guwahati Feb. 17 2015 Compressive Sensing Engineering Education, IIT Guwahati Ramesh Photonics: Integrated Circuits QIP- RFP 2015, IIT Guwahati Guwahati Feb. 27 2015 Kumar Sonkar and Applications Ramesh Non-Invasive Methods for QIP -BIOMED15, IIT Guwahati Guwahati Feb. 28 2015 Kumar Sonkar Biological Measurements

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Ratnajit (a) Handset Antennas for Two day staff development program Agartala Mar. 13-14 Bhattacharjee Wireless Communication; (b) on Recent trends in RF and Wireless 2015 Wireless and Mobile Com- communication, Tripura Institute of munication: Recent Trends Technology (http://www.titagartala.nic. in/SDPonRFandWirelessCom- munication.pdf)

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Dr. Om D. Deshmukh, Sr. Xerox Research Centre, Bangalore Discussion about Project 21.04.2014 to Research Scientist 25.04.2014 Prof. A.K. Sinha IIT Kanpur In connection with NPSC-2014 07.06.14 to Prof. S.P. Singh IIT BHU 09.06.14 Mr. Tomas Shejbal, Mr. University of Pardubice, Czech Re- In connection with Workshop and 04.09.2014 to Michal Mandlik public Collaborative work 22.09.2014 Prof. S.C. Sahasrabudhe DhirubhaiAmbani Institute of Infor- To deliver motivational lecture to 11.09.2014 to mation &Communication Technology, the students and faculty members 13.09.2014 Gujarat 382007 Prof. H.P. Khincha IISc Bangalore 11.09.2014 to 13.09.2014 Dr. Z.V. Lakaparampil C-DAC, Trivandrum Discussion of Possible Collabora- 26.09.2014 to tion between IITG and NaMPET 27.09.2015 Prof. H.P. Khincha IISc Bangalore In connection with NPSC-2014 16.12.2014 to Prof. D.Thukaram IISc Bangalore 22.12.2014 Prof. G. S.Raju Former Director, IT BHU Prof. Bhim Singh IIT Delhi Prof. S C Srivastava Deputy Director, IIT Kanpur Dr. R. P. Singh Chairman, IIT Guwahati Former Chair- man & Managing Director, PGCIL Neerja Mathur Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Power, New Delhi Ramesh Rayudu School of Engineering and Computer In connection with NPSC-2014 and 16.12.2014 to Science, New Zealand Discussion on Project 22.12.2014 Dr. A.L. Das SAMEER Discussion regarding SAMEER 01.01.2015 to Centre at IITG 03.01.2015 Dr. Digbijoy Nath IISc Bangalore In connection with Academic Af- 22.01.2015 to fi liation Program at CeNSE, IISc for 25.01.2015 students and faculty of IIT Guwa- hati Mr. A. Pradeep R&D Laboratories, BHEL Hyderabad Discussion about Project 10.02.2015 to 11.02.2015 Prof. Utpal Das IIT Kanpur In connection with QIP STC RFP-2015 24.02.2015 to 27.02.2015 Prof. Animesh Biswas IIT Kanpur In connection with QIP STC RFP-2015 22.02.2015 to 25.02.2015

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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED

Name of Fac- Sl. ulty (Convener/ International/ No. of par- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date No. Co-ordinator, National ticipants etc.) 1 Ramesh Kumar IEEE Workshop on Ad- IEEE Student August 30- National 116 Sonkar vanced MATLAB Applica- Branch, IIT Guwa- 31, 2014 tions-AdMAT 14 hati 2 Gaurav Trivedi National Level Workshop NVIDIA, DELL, HP, September National 130 on GPU Programming EMC2, Mellanox 12-14, 2014 and Applications (GPA3- Technologies, AN- 2014) SYS and Math- Works 3 Ramesh Kumar NI Workshop on Graphical National Instru- September National 30 Sonkar System Design Approach ments 27-28, 2014 for Research in Power Sys- tems, Power Electronics and Signal Processing 4 Praveen Tripathy National Power Systems CPRI, APDCL, December National 250 Conference PRDC, NEEPCO, 18-20, 2014 POSOCO, CSIR, SERB, DST 5 R. Bhattacharjee TEQIP STC on Recent Ad- TEQUIP, CET, IITGu- January 12- National 30 and R. Sinha vances in Communication wahati 16, 2015 and Signal Processing 6 Indrani Kar, IEEE ARM Workshop on IEEE Student January 19- National 30 Gaurav Trivedi Embedded Systems using Branch, IIT Gu- 20, 2015 ARM Processors wahati and ARM Holdings PLC, NITS MIRZA 7 Ramesh Kumar QIP STC on RF and Pho- AICTE February 23- National 30 Sonkar and K. R. tonics: Fundamentals & 27, 2015 Singh Advances 8 GauravTrivedi Recent Trends in Electron- TEQIP (CET), IITGu- March 09- National 30 (EEE) and ics and Computation wahati 11,2015 Hemangee K. Kapoor (CSE) 9 SrinivasanKrish- Electronic System Design DEiTY March National 30 naswamy and Manufacturing 16,2015 10 IndraniKar 2nd IEEE Workshop on IEEE Student April 11-12, National 200 Advanced MATLAB Appli- Branch, IIT Guwa- 2015 cations (ADMAT 2015) hati

PATENTS

Sl. Name of Faculty and Co- Date Applied/ Name Application No. Remarks No. Researcher Granted 1 Nemade Harshal Bhalchan- Dual drive surface acous- Aug. 26, 2014 Indian Patent Published, await- draand Behera Basudeba tic wave motor and the App. No. 878/ ing examination package KOL/2014

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Sl. Name of Faculty and Co- Date Applied/ Name Application No. Remarks No. Researcher Granted 2 Nemade Harshal Bhalchan- Dual drive surface acous- Sep. 24, 2014 Indian Patent Published, await- draand Behera Basudeba tic wave linear motor and App. No. 978/ ing examination the package KOL/2014 3 Gaurav Trivedi, Kalpesh A Nonlinear Analytical Mar.27, 2015 Indian Patent Patent (Pending) Kapoor and Sameer Pawa- Method and System for App. No. 347/ nekar Hypergraph Partitioning KOL/2015 AWARDS AND HONOURS attracting the highest number of viewership and rated Chitralekha Mahanta amongst the top FIVE NPTEL courses from IITGuwahati as 1. Elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the Institute per Google and Youtube Analytics data. of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in September 4. Member, Board of Postgraduate Studies (Electronics & 2014. Communication Engg), Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, 2. Received a certifi cate of appreciation from NPTEL for Feb 2015-cont. the VIDEO course titled “BASIC ELECTRONICS” attracting 5. Member, Board of Undergraduate Studies (Electrical the highest number of viewership and rated amongst the Engg.), North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and top FIVE NPTEL courses from IITGuwahati as per Google and Technology, Itanagar, January 2015-cont. Youtube Analytics data. 6. Member, Board of Undergraduate Studies (Electronics & Communication Engg.), North East Hill University Shillong, R. S. Kshetrimayum Meghalaya, India, Aug 2014-cont. 1. Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India, 2014. A.Sethi 2. Fellow of Antenna Test & Measurement Society (ATMS), 1. Awarded IUSSTF Fellowship for conducting research on India, 2014. prostate cancer recurrence prediction with collaborators in 3. Fellow of Optical Society of India (OSI), 2014. University of Illinois at Chicago (USA).

R. Bhattacharjee STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS: 1. Served as Chairman, Eighteenth National Power 1. Mr. Ankit Dalal got the DST grant to attend 2014 System Conference (NPSC 2014).(http://www.iitg.ernet.in/ International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), in npsc2014/committee.html) Berlin, Germany from 02.09.2014 to 07.09.2014. 2. Served as Area Chair, Electronics and Communication 2. Abhishek Vahadane interned at Technische Universitat Engineering, WACC 2014, AEC Guwahati.(http://wacc.aec. Munchen (Germany) with Prof. Nasser Navab under Heritage ac.in/technicalcommittee.shtml) scholarship to work on histologic images. 3. Served as an Expert Member for the academic audit, NIT 3. Neeraj Kumar interned with Prof. Jerome Idier in Centre Silchar, 23‐25 January 2015. National de la RechercheScientifi que, France under Heritage Ramesh Kumar Sonkar scholarship on non-negative matrix factorization. 1. Fellow of Optical Society of India (OSI), 2014. 4. Harsh Vardhan Pokalla and his team reached the fi nals of Texas Instruments Product Design Challenge in 2014 and S. Majhi won the award for best video presentation for their medicine 1. Elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the Institute reminder system. This is a relatively unique experience of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in July 2014. among B Tech students of IITGuwahati. 2. Fellow of the Institution of Electronics &Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) in Sept.2014 SPECIAL MENTION 3. Received a certifi cate of appreciation from NPTEL for 1. Mr.Neeraj Kumar interned with collaborator Prof. Rohit the VIDEO course titled “ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS” Bhargava at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on modelling disease progression in organs.

FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1 Ravindranath IIT Kanpur Assistant Power Electronics, Distributed Generation, and Power Adda (Joined on 17 Professor Quality April 2014) 2 S.R. Ahmed IIT Kharagpur Associate Adaptive Signal Processing, Mobile Communications, VLSI Professor Signal Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 3 R. Bhattacharjee Jadavpur Professor Electromagnetics, Microstrip Antennas, Microwave University Engineering, Wireless Communication 4 M.K. Bhuyan IIT Guwahati Associate Image and Video Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Professor Recognition and Human Computer Interactions (HCI) 5 P.K. Bora IISc Bangalore Professor Image Processing and Computer Vision 6 S.K. Bose Stony Brook, Professor Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Communication USA Networks 7 A. Chatterjee University of Visiting Devices California Assistant Professor 8 S. Chouhan IIT Delhi Assistant Wireless Sensor Networks, Coding Theory, Wireless Professor Communications 9 S. Dandapat IIT Kanpur Professor Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Biomedical Signal & Image Processing, Biomedical Instrumentation 10 S. Das IISc Bangalore Assistant Information theory, Error correcting codes Professor 11 K. Dhaka IIT Delhi Assistant Cooperative Communication, Multi-hope relaying Professor systems, Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR Physical and MAC layer 12 A.K. Gogoi IIT Kanpur Professor Electro Magnetics, Microwave Engineering, RF circuits, System Design 13 P. Guha IIT Kanpur Assistant Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics Professor 14 T. Jacob IIT Kanpur Assistant Statistical Signal Processing and Information Theory Professor 15 I. Kar IIT Kanpur Assistant Control Theory and Applications, Soft Computing Professor Applications, Neural Network Based Adaptive Control, Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in Nonlinear Control, Kinematic and Dynamic Control of Robot Manipulators 16 K. Karthik University of Associate Privacy Preserving Authentication and Multimedia Toronto Professor Searches, Fine Grained Access Control, Image and Audio Comparisons in lower-dimensional Spaces, Blind Image Forensics and Image Phylogeny 17 S. Krishnaswamy IIT Bombay Assistant Control Systems, Cryptography Professor 18 P. Kumar Delft University Associate Optimisation of electrical motors and drives, Algorithm of Technology, Professor development for Multi-objective optimisation and The multicriteria decision making in engineering systems, Netherlands Simulation and design of electrical motors and actuators using Finite Element Methods (FEM), Analytical modeling of electrical motors for rapid simulation, Simulation and Analysis of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles 19 C. Mahanta IIT Delhi Professor Control System Theory and Applications, Control of (Head of the Nonlinear Uncertain Systems, Artifi cial Intelligence based Department) Control, Identifi cation and Control of Nonlinear Systems

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 20 S. Majhi University Professor Relay Based Identifi cation and Auto tuning, Control of Sussex, Systems, Control Theory Applications Brighton, UK 21 Nagarjuna IIT Delhi Assistant Analog and RF integrated circuits Nallam (Joined on Professor 23 April 2014) 22 Shabari Nath University of Assistant Power Electronics, Application of Power Electronics to (Joined on 19 June Minnesota Professor Power Systems 2014) 23 S.K. Nayak IISc Bangalore Assistant Power fl ow analysis in AC and DC traction power system, Professor Electromagnetics, Lightning interaction with an electrical and mechanical system, High Voltage Engineering 24 H.B. Nemade IIT Bombay Professor Electronic Instrumentation, Systems Design, Ultrasonic Instrumentation, Non-destructive testing, Electronic product design, EMI/EMC issues, Acoustic sensors, Under- water acoustics, Surface acoustic wave devices, MEMS 25 R.P. Paily IIT Madras Professor VLSI and MEMS 26 D. Pal (Released on IIT Bombay Assistant Algebraic analysis, multidimensional systems, 30 May 2014) Professor computational commutative algebra, optimal control, dissipative systems 27 S.R.M. Prasanna IIT Madras Professor Speech and Signal Processing 28 B.K. Rai IIT Bombay Assistant Communication Systems, Coding Theory Professor 29 A. Rajesh IIT Kanpur Associate Coding and Modulation Techniques Professor 30 J. S. Sahambi IIT Delhi Associate Digital Signal Processing, Wavelets, Microprocessors (On lien) Professor 31 A. Sethi Illinois, UIUC Assistant Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Professor Image Processing, Visual Perception 32 H. S. Shekhawat University of Assistant System Theory, Applied Mathematics & Signal Processing (Joined on 31 Twente, The Professor December 2014) Netherlands 33 G.B. Shrestha Virginia Visiting Power Markets and Economics, Renewable Energy Polytechnic Professor Sources – Photovoltaic systems, Wind Generation Systems, Institute & State Generation and Transmission Planning Power System University, USA Analysis, Operation and Planning, Optimization and Uncertainty Techniques 34 K.R. Singh NTU Singapore Associate Electromagnetic Band Gap, Filters, Metamaterials, Professor Computational Electromagnetics and Periodic Structures 35 R. Sinha IIT Kanpur Associate Speech and Audio Processing, Speech Recognition, Signal Professor Processing 36 R.K. Sonkar IIT Kanpur Assistant Optoelectronics Device Characterization and fabrication, Professor Microelectronics and III-V Compound Semiconductors, Photonics Integrated Circuits, Integrated Optics Fiber Optics Communicatio 37 S. Sundaram IISc Bangalore Assistant Pattern Recognition, Image / Video Processing and Professor Computer Vision

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 38 P. Tripathy IIT Kanpur Assistant Power system dynamics and stability studies, Wide Area Professor Monitoring and Control of Power System, Optimal power dispatch and state estimation, Security analysis and control, Energy management system and distribution automation 39 G. Trivedi IIT Bombay Assistant Circuit Simulation (Analog & Digital) and VLSI CAD, High Professor Performance Computing, Computational Biology and Solar Photovoltaics

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DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1998 MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: The department uses the facilities of the Institute Computer ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: Center for its Language Laboratory. Computers were Master of Arts (MA) in Development Studies procured for two newly constructed labs. High confi guration Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) desktop PCs,67 Nos. have been purchased for laboratories. FACULTY STRENGTH: For smooth workfl ow new offi ce equipment and public • Professor: 4 announcement system were procured.. • Associate Professor: 11 MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: • Assistant Professor: 10 The faculties in the HSS department carry out research • Visiting Professor: 1 in several fields of humanities and social sciences. LABORATORIES: This includes English and Indian literature, Linguistics, Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, Political Science, a) Phonetics and Phonology Lab: Research on language Archeology, Sociology and History. Faculty and doctoral and speech is an exciting area encompassing research in students pursuing research within these disciplines have the fi elds of language technologies and human-computer been engaged in teaching and research. Major areas of interfaces in a way which can be employed to various ends research include Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, ranging from language learning of intelligent systems to Phenomenology and Religion, Ethical Issues related to Science the learning capabilities of humans. To fulfi ll these ends this and Technology, Philosophy of Technology, Intellectual modern academic research lab which is focused on the way history of India – late 19th and 20thcenturies, Focus on speech is produced and comprehended was started. The lab Ramakrishna, Aurobindo, Tagore and Gandhi;Applied will be involved with experimental investigations of speech Philosophy, Peace Studies, Critical Thinking, Applied Ethics, processes and their acquisition. Topics include: articulatory Philosophy of Education,Common Wealth Literature, movements, measurements of pressures and airfl ows in Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Ecocritism,Literary and speech production, computer-aided waveform analysis and Cultural Theory, Subaltern and Bhakti literature, Phonetics, spectral analysis of speech, perception and discrimination Phonology, Acoustic Phonetics, Tibeto-Burman tones, of speechlike sounds, speech prosody, models for speech Psychoacoustics, Cognitive linguistics, Endangered and lesser recognition, speech disorders, and language acquisition. This known languages, Language typology, Sociolinguistics, laboratory will also play an important role in recording and Phonological theory with special interest in Optimality archiving the languages of the North-East. Apart from that, Theory, vowel harmony, Experimental approaches to the facilities in this laboratory will also promote advanced Phonology and its acquisition,North-Eastern Archeology research on languages of the region. and Heritage Management, Development Economics, b) Language-Cognition lab: Work on language-cognition Industrial Economics, Labour Economics, Microeconomics, interface in various areas of sensory perception, with focus Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, on North East Indian languages. Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Applied Game Theory, c) The Sleep & Cognition Lab at present is involved in Issues in Food Security and Social Security, Economics of investigating the role of sleep on route learning in Humans. Education, economic understanding of climate risk and The present project is funded by the department of science resilience, Urban Living and Sustainable cities, Development and technology, GOI.This lab has 40 channel Nihon- Economics, Informal Sector, Public Economics, Dynamic Khodenpolysomnography system, 2 High Speed Computing Economic Theory, Organizational Behaviour, Human system, Iomed Phosphor high precision low voltage direct Resource Management, Social/Environmental Psychology, current stimulator & E-prime 2.0 for designing experiment. I-O Psychology, Sleep and Information Processing, Health

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and Clinical Psychology, Perception, Sociology of Science, policies, social movements, ethnic violence and confl ict Historical Sociology, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of prevention, Christianity, conversion, ethnic violence, kinship Law, Sociology of Communication, Socio- Identity issues and family, urban issues, Socio-economic history, Social & of ethnic minorities, local governance, development Environmental History of Assam. RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) AvishekParui Memory, Consciousness and the Storytell- IIT Guwahati 3.70 - 2 years ing Self: Studies in Literature, Cognitive Start Up Grant Psychology and Philosophy of Mind N. Kipgen Ecotourism and Sustainable Livelihoods: ICSSR 5.00 – 18 A Prospective Look in the Rural Areas of months Manipur N. Kipgen Change and Continuity of Traditional Gov- IITG Start-Up 5.00 – 2 years ernance: A Study of Kuki Chieftainship in Grant Manipur RohiniMo- Anthology of abhangas from the Varkari ICHR 1.80 - 2 years kashi-Punek- bhakti ar SambitMal- Handloom as a Sustainable Socio-techno- ICSSR 10.00 – 2 years lick logical System: A Study of Textile Industry in North East India Sawmya Ray Combatting Traffi cking of Women in Assam: National Com- 3.00 - 1 year Study of Anti-traffi cking Policies and Strate- mission for gies Women (NCW) Sukanya Pottery Making and its Prospects for Rural ICSSR 7.00 - 2 years Sharma Employment: Kumar and Hira Communities of Assam b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Bidisha Som A typological map of the language- DST 13.55 - 3 years cognition interface in the domain of conceptual metaphor Pahi Saikia Decentralization and Social Citizen- ICSSR 0.90 NA 2 years ship: Assam as a Case Study Priyankoo Acoustic and Tonal Features based DIT 73.68 Prof. P. K. Das 3 years Sarmah Analysis of Mizo Priyankoo A Broad Sociolinguistic Study of As- ICSSR 15.0 - 2 years Sarmah samese Vowels Ravi Mokashi- Creating Digital Learning Environ- MHRD 750.00 Prof. Rohini 7 years Punekar ment for Design in India” Mokashi-Punekar Shakuntala Digital Language Preservation, DIT 203.96 Prof. S. R. M. Pras- 3 years Mahanta analysis and technology develop- sanna ment

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Sukanya Virtual Anthropology Laboratory MHRD 65.00 Prof. S. Nandi, Prof. Continu- Sharma S. R. M. Prassanna ing since 2010 c) Completed Sponsored Projects:

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Investiga- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency tor (Rs. in Lakh) Bidisha Som An ethnolinguistic account of sen- ICSSR-NWO 4.21 Prof. Asifa Ma- 1 years sory perception among the Bodos jid, Radboud in North East India. University, The Netherlands Sawmya Ray Seduction, Sale and Slavery: Traf- ICSSR 5.00 - 3 years fi cking of Women and Children in North East India Shakuntala A Sociolinguistic and phonological ICSSR 6.38 - 2 years Mahanta study of variation in Deori Sukanya Source Book of the Archaeology of Centre for Archaeo- 2.25 - 1 year Sharma Arunachal Pradesh logical Studies and Training Eastern India, Kolkata Sukanya Megaliths in Changing Times: A ICHR 0.50 - 2 years Sharma Study in Cherrapunjee

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National) Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Archana Barua Towards a Philosophy of Sustainabil- International journal of 3-2 136 – 2015 ity: The Gandhian Way Sociology and Anthro- 143 pology Archana Barua Language and Life worlds: Wittgen- International journal of 4-1 21-28 2015 stenian and Heideggerian Perspec- Global Education tives Tejasha Kalita and The Issue of Abortion and Mother- Fe- Journal of Asian and 24-5 141-146 2014 Archana Barua tus Relations:A study from Buddhist International Bioethics perspectives Minakshi Das and Phenomenology, Psychotherapy and Journal of Phenom- 14-2 01- 11 2014 Archana Barua the Quest for Inter-subjectivity enology Indo-Pacifi c Archana Barua Environmental Philosophy in its dia- International Journal of 10 (3) 167-171 2014 logue with Gandhian philosophy Multidisciplinary Educa- tional Research(IJMER) Archana Barua An attempt at introducing Maha- A Tribute To Sankarade- Ejournal: http:// 2014 purush Sankaradeva and the bhakti va www.Atributeto- renaissance in Assam in light of the sankaradeva.Org/ phenomenology of religious experi- articles.htm ence

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Avishek Parui No Off ence Taken Economic & Political XLIX, 43 117-118 2014 Weekly - 44 Debarshi Das Changing Distribution of Land and Review of Radical Politi- DOI: 10.1177/ Assets in Indian Agriculture cal Economics 04866134 1454277 Dutta, Parag and Fiscal and Debt Sustainability in a Romanian Journal of 5-1 01 - 19 2014 Dutta, M. K. Federal Structure: The Case of Assam Fiscal Policy in North East India Deka R.L., Mahanta Spatio-temporal Variability of Rainfall Theoretical and Applied - - 2015 C, Nath K.K., Dutta, Regime in the Brahmaputra Valley of Climatology M. K North East India Ashima Majumdar, Productive effi ciency of the urban in- International Journal 7-2 125-140 2014 Saundarjya formal manufacturing sector in Assam of Economic Policy in Borbora Emerging Economics Gopal Kumar Loan Recovery Performance of Credit International Journal of 3-9 675-678 2014 Sarma, Saundarjya Offi cers in Microfi nance Institutions: A Science and Research Borbora Case of Assam (IJSR) Ashima Majumdar Production Linkages between the For- Review of Integrative 4 (1) 75-94 2015 and Saundarjya mal and the Urban Informal Manufac- Business & Economics Borbora turing Sectors: A Case Study in Assam Research S. Borbora Disparity in Financial Penetration: A International Journal of 4-I - 2014 State Level Analysis in India Business, Management and Social Sciences Rohini Mokashi- The Cosmopolitan Teacher: U R Anan- Muse India: a literary 58 - 2014 Punekar thamurthy ejournal Rohini Mokashi- Review: Two Stalwarts The Book Review 1 07 - 08 2015 Punekar Sawmya Ray Delivering Justice or Reaffi rming Pa- Droit et Cultures, 67 81-124 2014 triarchy? : Gender, Law and Domestic France, Special issue on Violence Cultures Meet the Law: The Case of India Sukanya Sharma Understanding Patterns: Festivals of Quest VIII, 1 38-54 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Sambit Mallick The orbit of commodifi ed techno- International Journal of 8-4 346-362 2014 science: innovations in agricultural Innovation and Sustain- technology in India able Development Dewartha Morang A Study of Philosophical refl ection on Journal of Social Sci- 1 17 – 24 2014 and V.Prabhu environmental value ences and Humanities

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Name of Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue, Page Title of Paper Date Author/s shop/Seminar/Symposia No. Ashima Production Linkages between SIBR-RDINRRU 2014 Conference Sep- Volume 3 (2014), Majumdar and S. the Formal and the Urban Infor- on Interdisciplinary Business& tember Issue 3 Borbora mal Manufacturing Sectors: A Economics Research 27-28, Case study in Assam 2014 S Borbora Poverty Reduction Strategies Poverty Reduction Strategies for March March 2014, pp. and Development, in Poverty, Small Tea growers’ 22, 2012, 17-22 Livelihood Rights and the Small Tea Growers in the Northeast

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Name of Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue, Page Title of Paper Date Author/s shop/Seminar/Symposia No. S. Mahanta and Lexical tone in Sylheti Tonal Aspects of Language con- May - Amalesh Gope ference, Nijmegen 2013

Book Total Year of Name of Title of Book Publisher Page ISBN Publica- Author/s No. tion Sukanya Source book of Archaeology of the Centre for Archaeological 125 978-81- 2014 Sharma Himalayan Region: Arunachal Pradesh Studies and Training Eastern 930422-0-5 India, Kolkata

Book Chapter Vol., Name of Page Title of Chapter Title of Book Publisher Issue ISBN Year Author/s No. No. Avishek Dreamed Cinema, Dreamscapes in Italian Fairleigh 1-18 978-1- 21 Parui Cinematic Dreams: Cinema Dickinson 61147- January Dreamscape, Neurosis University 781-8 2015 and Desire in Federico Press Fellini’s 8½ Bidisha Teaching a second In Awadesh K. Mishra Lakshi Forth- 978-81- Som & R. K. language or Foreign and Kandarpa Das (Eds) Publishers, coming 906622- Mishra language in the North Issues in teaching- Delhi 5-3 East : Psycholinguistic learning second and and Cognitive Issues foreign languages (with special reference to North East India) M. Kumari Bacillus thuringien- Technology and In- Springer, 161- 9788132 January and S. sis cotton in India: novation for Social New Delhi, 174 220701 2015 Mallick debates surrounding Change, edited by S. Heidelberg, agricultural biotech- Majumdar, S. Guha and New York, nology N. Marakkath Dordrecht, London PahiSaikia The Political Economy Ethnic Subnationalist Routledge NA 41-61 978- March and Changing Orga- Insurgencies in South 1-138- 12, 2015 nizationalDynamics of AsiaIdentities, Interests 83992-2 the ULFA Insurgency in and Challenges to State Assam Authority Rohini Dissenting Voices: Con- Devotion and Dissent Cambridge 145- 978-93- 2014 Mokashi- tinuities in the Varkari in Indian History ed. University 168 82993- Punekar Tradition VijayaRamaswamy Press 19-3 Shakuntala Learning opaque Where the principles UiL-OTS 135 – 978-94- July, Mahanta segments in Vowel fail. A festschrift for Publica- 146 6093- 2014 harmony, WimZonneveld tions: 999-0 Utrecht A. Saikia Making Room Inside Shifting Ground: OUP, New 9780198 2014 Forests: Grazing and People, Animals, and Delhi 098959 Agrarian Confl icts in Mobility in India’s Envi- Colonial Assam. ronmental History; Eds. Mahesh Rangarajan& K Sivaramakrishnan

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CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty ternational A Barua The Neo-Vedantism of Radhakrishnan: An Department of Philoso- 12, 13 and National Appraisal phy, Gauhati University 14 March, 2015 A Parui Romanticism, Empire and Indo-British Cultural Department of English 27-28 Octo- National Relations University of Hyderabad ber 2014 A Parui Indian Association for Commonwealth Litera- BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa 12-14 Feb- National ture & Language Studies Annual Conference Campus ruary 2015 on Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile A Saikia AAS-in-Asia Conference 2014 NUS, Singapore July, 2014 International A Saikia Rethinking the Nehru Legacy: The Long Twen- NMML, Delhi 17-18 International tieth Century November, 2014 A Saikia Reimagining India’s North East: Narratives, Jamia Milia Islamia 4-6 Febru- International Networks and Negotiations ary, 2015 B Som International workshop on The Attentive CNCS Hyderabad uni- 03.11.2014 International Listener in the Visual World versity -05.11.2014 B Som Second International convention on ethics in Jawaharlal Nehru Uni- 02.09.2014 International research on human participants versity -04.09.2014 B Sengupta International Conference On Public Finance, Kolkata 10-11 Dec International Public Economics and Public Policy 2014 B Sengupta Papers in Public Economics and Policy, NIPFP Delhi 12-13 March National 2015 M. K. Dutta Annual Conference of Western Economic As- Colorado, Denver June 27-July International sociation International, USA 01, 2014 M. K. Dutta 51st Annual Conference of the Indian Econo- Punjabi University, December National metrics Society (TIES) Patiala 12-14, 2014 M. K. Dutta 16th Annual Conference of North Eastern Tripura University, January 7-8, National Economic Association (NEEA) Agartala 2015 M. K. Dutta Workshop on Research project Writing S. B. Deorah College, May 9-10, National Guwahati 2014 M. K. Dutta Capacity Building Training Workshop on Hu- Dept. of HSS, IIT Guwa- May 29-31, National man Development by UNDP hati 2014 M. K. Dutta Consultative Workshop on Assam Human OKDISCD, Guwahati November National Development Report 4, 2014 M. K. Dutta Silver Jubilee Seminar on Environment and OKDISCD, Guwahati January 21- International Development 22, 2015 M. K. Dutta SAP Seminar on Identity, Governance and Gauhati University March 27- National Development Issues of North East 28, 2015 S. Borbora Workshop on Research Project Writing Guwahati May 9-10, National 2014 S. Borbora Workshop on ‘Capacity Building Training work- Guwahati 29-31 May, National shop on “Understanding Human Develop- 2014 ment: Concepts and Measurements & Procure- ment of Services”

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Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty ternational S. Borbora SIBR-RDINRRU 2014 Conference on Interdisci- Hongkong September International plinary Business& Economics Research 27th– 28th, 2014 S. Borbora Workshop on HDR, Assam Guwahati 4th Novem- National ber, 2014 S. Borbora Workshop on Sub-Regional Cooperation : Guwahati 27th National India, Bangladesh and Myanmar November, 2014 S. Borbora International Conference on Commerce, Law Bangkok 10-11 International and Social Sciences December, 2014 S. Borbora 16th Annual conference of NEEA Agartala 8-9 January, National 2015 S. Borbora Seminar on ‘Environment Development Trad- Guwahati 21-22 Janu- National eoff ’ ary, 2015 S. Borbora ‘Identity, Governance and Development Issues Guwahati 27-28 National in N.E. India’ UGC-SAP Seminar March, 2015 N. Kipgen Anthropology of Religion and Minorities CCSU, Guwahati 11-12 National September 2014 N. Kipgen Debating Environmental History and Issues: Assam University, Diphu 24-25 National Reading from Regional Discourses Campus November 2014 N. Kipgen Environment and Development Trade off Omeo Kumar Das Insti- 22-23 Janu- National tute of Social Change ary 2015 and Development, Guwahati P Saikia Paper presented at the Association for Asian Chicago,USA 26 – 29 International Studies Annual Conference March 2015 P Saikia Findings presented at “Symposium on “Main- Delhi 9th April International streaming university-community research 2015 partnerships” R M. Towards Ecocultural Ethics: recent trends and BITS, Goa Campus 9-11 Octo- International Punekar and future directions ber 2014 A. Prasad R M. Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile BITS, Goa Campus 12-14 Feb- International Punekar and ruary 2015 K. Bora S. Mahanta Tonal Approaches to Language Nijmegen, The Nether- 13 – 16 May International lands 2014 S. Ray International Sociological Association Annual Yokohama, Japan 13–19 July International Conference 2014 S. Ray National Seminar on Prospects of And Chal- National Law University 2–3 May National lenges in Bridging the Gender Gap And Judicial Academy, 2014 Guwahati

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Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty ternational S. Ray Workshop on “Understanding Human Devel- IITG, Guwahati 28–31 May National opment: Concepts and measurements”, De- 2014 partment of Humanities and Social Sciences, IITG, Government of India and UNDP. S. Sharma Archaeology and Language Pune 6th-9th Oc- International tober 2014 S. Mallick XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology Yokohama, Japan 13-19 July International 2014 S. Mallick Debating Environmental History and Issues: Assam University, Diphu 24-25 National Reading from Regional Discourses Campus November 2014 S. Mallick Ideology and Social Sciences Omeo Kumar Das Insti- 27-28 National tute of Social Change November and Development, 2014 Guwahati S. Mallick Agriculture and Rural Development Issues in Indian Statistical Insti- 12-13 March National Eastern India tute Giridih 2015 V. Prabhu International conference on Everyday life in University of Madras, 17-18 International contemporary India Chennai December 2014 V. Prabhu 5thAsian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Osaka, Japan. 25 – 29 International and D. Philosophy March 2015 Morang

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty A. Barua Introducing Mother Goddess Dept. of History, Assam Uni- Silchar November Kāmākhyā versity, 12, 2014 A. Barua Quest for a place of one’s own: Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati 28th Novem- Locating Ethics in the age of Glo- ber,2015 balization A. Barua Psychoanalysis and phenomenol- IIT Mumbay Mumbai December, ogy : A Heideggerian approach 2014, Dept. of HSS. A. Barua Invited Resource person on the Gauhati University Guwahati Dec. 8 to 28, on the broad theme “Philosophy 2014 of Values”, in the Refresher course in Philosophy A. Barua Resource person in the Orientaion Gauhati University Guwahati on 04-02- Course in Humanities and Social 2015 Sciences A. Parui “And suddenly the memory Department of English, Eng- English and For- 29 October revealed itself”: Consciousness, lish and Foreign Language eign Language 2014 Epiphany, and Remembrance in University, Hyderabad University (EFLU) Literature and Cognitive Neurosci- Hyderabad ence A. Parui Travel Literature in English: New Department of English Sam- Sambalpur Uni- 11-12 De- Perspectives (Two Lectures) balpur University versity cember 2014

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty A. Saikia Key Note Address: Nature and Department of English and Tezpur University 28 February, Labour: Another View of the 19th Foreign Language 2015. century Modernisation Project in Assam A. Saikia Key Note Address: An Environ- Department of History Assam Uni- 24th -25th mental History of the Brahmapu- versity, Diphu November tra and Surrounding Landscapes: Campus 2014. A Longer View A. Saikia In Defense of Flood: Rethinking MAKAIS and JMI Makais, Kolkata 28 October, Water 2014 B. Som Vocabulary of sensory perception Centre for language studies. The Netherlands June 10, in Bodo Radboud University 2014 D. Das Why are some states more suc- Department of Economics, Amherst, USA 17th July, cessful in delivering food through University of Massachusetts, 2014 the public distribution system in Amherst, USA rural India? J. Thomas Local Agency and Missionary Nehru Memorial Museum and New Delhi 10 March Work: Situating George Matthan Library 2015 and his Engagement with Moder- nity in 19th Century Travancore M. K. Dutta Formulation of Research Project S. B. Deorah College Guwahati May 9, 2014 M. K. Dutta Data Collection Techniques and Academic Staff College, Guwahati June 11, Sampling Methods Gauhati University 2014 M. K. Dutta Union Budget and the North East Barbhag College Kalag, Nalbari September 20, 2014 M. K. Dutta Project Formulation, Funding and Academic Staff College, Guwahati March 16, Documentation Gauhati University 2015 R. M. Punekar Key Note Address: “Gender in Cul- ICSSR sponsored National Nowgong Col- 20-21 Janu- tural and National Contexts” Seminar, Nowgaon College lege ary, 2015 Department of HSS, R. M. Punekar Key Note Address: “ Directions for IIT Kharagpur IIT Kharagpur November 7, Research in the Humanties” 2014 P. Saikia Northeast India: Historical & Con- Emory University Georgia, Atlanta, March 30, temporary debates on Locating US 2015 ‘Northeast’ P. Sarmah Analyzing Vowels: An Acoustic English and Foreign Languag- National Work- August 7 -8, Phonetic Approach es University, Shillong shop on Data 2014 Analysis: Tools and Methods S. Mallick Building Scientifi c Institutions in The University of Burdwan Burdwan, West 14 January India, 1857-1947 Bengal 2015 S. Mallick Debates on Science and National- The University of Burdwan Burdwan, West 16 January ism in India, 1920-47 Bengal 2015 V. Prabhu Ethics and Animal Welfare World Philosophy Day, Cotton Guwahati November 16 College State University 2014

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VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS/INVITED LECTURES:

Purpose/ Name of Lec- Date Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. ture Prof. BasudevChatterji University of Delhi Visiting Professor January 2014-January 2015 Prof. Rakesh Gupta Jawaharlal Nehru University Visiting Professor September-November 2014 Dr. K.V. Srikanth IIT Guwahati Dept. Lecture Series 14.08.2014 Prof. A. Chattopadhyay IIT Guwahati Dept. Lecture Series 04.09.2014 Prof. Raman Sukumar IISc., Bangalore Dept. Colloquium Series 05.11.2014 Prof. Amit Bhaduri JNU, New Delhi Dept. Colloquium Series 07.11.2014 Prof. Girish S. Setlur IIT Guwahati Dept. Lecture Series 27.10.2014 Prof. V. Ganeshan IIT Madras Dept. Lecture Series 30.10.2014 Dr. Kurush Dalal Univ. of Mumbai Dept. Lecture Series 28.01.2015 Prof. BhalchandraNe- Padma Shri – 2011, Maharashtra Dept. Lecture Series 02.02.2015 made foundation

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED

Name of Faculty International/ No. of par- (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date National ticipants ordinator, etc.) A. Paruiwith S. Developing and Teaching Knowledge Incu- 8-9 January National 30 Sharma Literary Theory Courses in the bation Cell (KIC) IIT 2015 21st Century Academia Guwahati A. Saikia Cultural Ecology of the Brah- IIAS, Shimla 7-8 March, National 50 maputra 2015 A Saikia Annual Winter School on TISS Guwahati & 15-19 International 35 Research Methodology Stanford University December, 2014 P. Saikia Dialogue on Strengthening IIT Guwahati 17-18 Sep- National 35 Community Engagement in tember 2014 Higher Education Institutions P. Saikia Conference on North East in ICSSR 28-30 Octo- National India’s Look East: Issues and ber 2014 Opportunities S. Sharma, Co- Human Values and Ethics Centre for Educa- Jan 21st- National 30 ordinator tional Technology 23rd January (CET), IITG S. Mallick Intellectual Property Rights AICTE (under QIP, 11-12 De- National 32 and Innovation IITG) cember 2014 V. Prabhu with TEQIP Short Term course on IIT Guwahati 21 – 23 Janu- National 30 S. Sharma (Dept. Human Values and Ethics ary 2015 Coordinator)

AWARDS AND HONOURS c) A Saikia: Nominated to the Scientifi c Steering Committee a) A. Saikia: ‘SrikantDutta Book’ Award given by the Nehru of Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE), Memorial Museum and Library New Delhi for the best book Uppsala University, Sweden. on North East India between 2009-2014for A Century of d) D. Das: Received Fulbright Nehru fellowship to go on Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam. research visit to the Department of Economics, University of b) A. Saikia: Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Endowment Chair on Massachusetts, Amherst, USA from January 2015 to August Assam History in the department of HSS for the period of 2015 2014-2019. e) S. Borbora: Elected President, North Eastern Economic

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Association. practical challenges, encountered in research and fi eldwork. f) R. M. Punekar: Elected Regional Representative of North SPECIAL MENTION East Zone, 2015-17, Core Committee, Indian Association of 1. S. Mallick Commonwealth Literature and Languages. Chair, Technical Session on ‘History, Development and g) S. Mallick: Registration Grant from International Environmental Politics’, National Seminar on Debating Sociological Association and Partial Travel Grant from Indian Environmental History and Issues: Reading from Regional Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi to attend XVIII Discourses, Department of History, Assam University, Diphu ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 13-19 Campus, 24 November 2014. July 2014. 2. S. Mallick h) S. Mallick:Visiting Fellow, Department of History, The External Member, Performance Appraisal Committee, Omeo University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, 12-16 January Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, 2015. Guwahati, 30 December 2014. 3. S. Mallick STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS: Chair, Session on ‘Ecology, Sustainable Growth and Natural a) HSS Graduate Research Meet 2014 during 31.10.201- Resource Management’, National Conference on Agriculture 01.11.2014: This event brought together academicians and and Rural Development: Issues in Eastern India, Indian scholars to exchange and share their search experiences on Statistical Institute Giridih, 13 March 2015. diff erent aspects of humanities and social sciences. The meet 4. V.Prabhu, Convener, World Philosophy Day organized in off ered multidisciplinary platform for young researchers the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian to discuss the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, Institute of Technology Guwahati, December 1, 2014

FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1. Barua Anamika University of Associate Professor Socio-economic understanding of climate risk and Leeds resilience, urban living and sustainable cities 2. Barua Archana North Eastern Professor Phenomenology, Existentialism, Feminist Hill University Epistemology, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Religion , Indian Philosophy, Gandhian Philosophy 3. Barua Krishna Gauhati Professor Commonwealth Literature, Aesthetics,Cultural University Studies, Ecocritism and Translation 4. Borbora Gauhati Professor Development Economics, Industrial Economics, Saundarjya University Labour Economics 5. Bedamatta University of Assistant Professor Development Economics, Informal Sector, Issues Rajshree Calcutta in Food Security and Social Security, Economics of Education 6. Chatterji Cambridge Visiting Professor Economic history, Intellectual history of India – late Basudev University 19th and 20thcenturies, Focus on Ramakrishna, Aurobindo, Tagore and Gandhi. 7. Das Debarshi Jawaharlal Associate Professor Development Economics, Macroeconomics, Applied Nehru Game Theory University 8. Das Liza Dibrugarh Associate Professor Literary and Cultural Theory University 9. Dutta Mrinal Gauhati Associate Professor Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Kanti University Development Economics 10. Hussain Dilwar IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Health and Clinical psychology 11. John Thomas JNU New Assistant Professor Religion and Formation of Cultural and Political (Joined on 20 May Delhi Identities; Religion and Politics in North-East India; 2014) Social and Intellectual History of 19th Century Travancore; History of Missionary Encounter in South Asia

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 12. Kashyap IIT Bombay Assistant Professor Sleep and Information Processing Naveen 13. Mahanta Utrecht Associate Professor Phonological theory with special interest in Shakuntala University, The Optimality Theory, vowel harmony, Experimental Netherlands approaches to Phonology and its acquisition. 14. Mallick Sambit University of Associate Professor Sociology of Science, Historical Sociology Hyderabad 15. Mokashi- Gujarat Professor Research Interests: Culture and Translation Studies, Punekar Rohini University Modern British Literature, Indian Writing in English 16. N. Kipgen IIT Delhi Assistant Professor Environmental Sociology, Cultural Politics, Traditional (Joined on 15 May Governance, Oral History 2014) 17. Parui Avishek Durham Assistant Professor Critical Theory; Masculinity Studies; Literature, (Joined on 8 July University, UK Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy of Mind 2014) 18. Ray Sawmya University of Assistant Professor Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Law, Sociology of Hyderabad Communication 19. Saikia Arupjyoti University of Associate Professor Social & Environmental History of 19th and 20th (Head of the Delhi century Assam. Department) 20. Saikia Pahi McGill Assistant Professor Identity issues of ethnic minorities, local governance, University, development policies, social movements, ethnic Canada violence and confl ict prevention. 21. Sarmah University Assistant Professor Phonetics, Phonology, Acoustic Phonetics, Tibeto- Priyankoo of Florida, Burman tones, psychoacoustics, perception Gainesville 22. Sharma Deccan Associate Professor Archaeology of Northeast India, Colonial history of Sukanya College PG Assam, Cultural Policy and Research Institute 23. Sengupta McGill Assistant Professor Public Economics, Dynamic Economic Theory Bodhisattva University 24. Som Bidisha Jawaharlal Associate Professor Cognitive linguistics, Endangered and lesser known Nehru languages, Language typology, sociolinguistics. University 25. Tripathi IIT Kanpur Associate Professor Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Nachiketa Management, Social/Environmental Psychology, I-O Psychology. 26. Venkataraman Pondicherry Associate Professor Philosophy of Technology, Applied Philosophy, Peace Prabhu University Studies, Critical Thinking, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Education.

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1995 LABORATORIES: The Department has three very good advanced computer ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: laboratories with a number of high-end severs, workstations Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in and storage area network in addition to regular facilities like o Mathematics and Computing PCs with wired and wireless net connectivity. Each laboratory Master of Science (MSc) in also has LCD projectors and remote operated screens. o Mathematics and Computing MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Digital Lectrn System with portable PA system, Tecplot (Software), etc. FACULTY STRENGTH: MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: • Professor: 10 Analysis, Algebra and Number Theory, Theoretical Computer • Associate Professor: 6 Science, Combinatorics, Numerical Analysis, Fluid Dynamics, • Assistant Professor: 16 Statistics & Probability, Financial Mathematics.

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) Completed Sponsored Projects Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Dura- Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator tion (Rs. in Lakh) Bhupen Deka A Posteriori L (L2) Error Bounds for Finite IIT Guwahati 4.80 - 2 years Element Methods to the Wave Equation (Start-up with Discontinuous Coeffi cient Grant)

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Name of Vol. and Is- Year of Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Author sue No. Publication Santu Das Wave damping by a vertical porous Geophysical and 108(2) 147-167 2014 and Swaroop structure placed near and away from Astrophysical Fluid Nandan Bora a rigid vertical wall Dynamics. Santu Das Refl ection of oblique ocean water Ocean Engineering 82 135-143 2014 and Swaroop waves by a vertical rectangular po- Nandan Bora rous structure placed on an elevated horizontal bottom D. Chakraborty Another Look at Real Quadratic Acta Arithmetica 163 (4) 371-378 2014 and Anupam Fields of Relative Class Number 1 DOI:10.4064/aa163- Saikia 4-5

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Name of Vol. and Is- Year of Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Author sue No. Publication Shreemayee Structured eigenvalue backward SIAM Journal on 5 (2) 453-475 2014 Bora, Michael errors of matrix pencils and poly- Matrix Analysis and Karow, nomials with Hermitian and related Applications Christian Mehl structures and Punit Sharma D. Kalita and S. A reciprocal eigenvalue property for Linear Algebra Ap- 449 417-434 2014 Pati unicyclic weighted directed graphs plications with weights from {\pm 1,\pm i} B. Deb, and Motion Planning in Cartesian Prod- Discussiones Math- 34(2) 207-221 2014 K.Kapoor uct Graph. ematicae Graph Theory. Pratyoosh Fourier restriction theorem and J. Funct. Anal 266(9) 5584- 2014 Kumar characterization of weak L^2 -eigen- 5597 functions of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator Neelam Linear sloshing in a vertical circular Journal of Ad- 6 29-45 2014 Choudhary cylinder with curved bottom in the vanced Research in and Swaroop presence of a rigid baffl e Applied Mathemat- Nandan Bora ics R. B. Bapat, A. A formula for all minors of the adja- Special Matrices 2 89-98 2014 K. Lal and S. cency matrix and an application Pati, R. K. Srivastava Real analytic expansion of spectral Israel J. Math. 200(1) 171-192 2014 projection and extension of Hecke- Bochner identity Jiten C Kalita Eff ect of boundary location on the International Jour- 5(3) 252-279 2014 steady fl ow past an impulsively nal of Computing started circular cylinder Science and Math- ematics. S. Gowrisankar Robust Numerical Scheme for Singu- Computer Physics 185 2008- 2014 and S. larly Perturbed Convection-Diff usion Communications 2019 Natesan. Parabolic Initial-Boundary-Value Problems on Equidistributed Grids Santu Das Refl ection of oblique ocean water Applied Ocean 47 373-385 2014 and Swaroop waves by a vertical porous structure Research. Nandan Bora placed on a multi-step impermeable bottom Partha Sarathi A Statistical Approach towards International 25(5) 563-584 2014 Mandal, and Secure Location Verifi cation in Noisy Journal of Founda- Wireless Channels tions of Computer Science (World Scientifi c). Barun Gorain Approximation Algorithms for Sweep Journal of Parallel 74(8) 2699- 2014 and Partha Coverage in Wireless Sensor Net- and Distributed 2707 Sarathi Mandal works Computing (Else- vier). M. Hassan Surge motion coeffi cients for a fi nite International Jour- DOI: 10.1155 /S0161171 2014 and Swaroop circular hollow cylinder radiating in nal of Fluid Mechan- 203209285 Nandan Bora water of infi nite depth ics Research

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Name of Vol. and Is- Year of Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Author sue No. Publication Jiten C Kalita A super-compact higher order Computational and 33(3) 717-738 2014 scheme for the unsteady 3D incom- Applied Mathemat- pressible viscous fl ows ics Jitender The Large Rank of a Finite Semigroup Semigroup Forum. 89(2) 403-408 2014 Kumar and K. using Prime Subsets V. Krishna Santu Das Damping of oblique ocean waves by Journal of Marine 13 362-376 2014 and Swaroop a vertical porous structure placed on Science and Appli- Nandan Bora. a multi-step bottom cation. Kaushik Uniform convergence analysis of hy- Numerical Methods 30(6) 1931- 2014 Mukherjee and brid numerical scheme for singularly for Partial Diff eren- 1960 S. Natesan perturbed problems of mixed type tial Equations. S. Gowrisankar Robust Numerical Scheme for Sin- Electronic Transac- 41 376-395 2014 and S. gularly Perturbed Delay Parabolic tions on Numerical Natesan Initial-Boundary-Value Problems on Analysis Equidistributed Grids Shyamashree The Hilbert-Kunz function for Bino- Algebra doi: 10.1155/ 2014/ 2014 Upadhyay mial Hypersurfaces 525467 Mohammad Hydrodynamic coeffi cients in surge Journal of Marine 19 450-461 2014 Hassan and for a radiating hollow cylinder placed Science and Tech- Swaroop above a coaxial cylinder at fi nite nology. Nandan Bora ocean depth P. Das, and Optimal error estimate using mesh Applied Mathemat- 249 265-277 2014 equidistribution technique for singu- ics and Computa- larly perturbed system of reaction- tion diff usion boundary-value problems Jitender Affi ne Near-Semirings over Brandt Communications in 42(12) 5152- 2014 Kumar and K. Semigroups. Algebra 5149 V. Krishna Kuppum V. On an extension of the Stone-Weier- Mathematical Com- 19(2) 391-396 2014 Srikanth and strass theorem munications Raj Bhawan Yadav M Tripathy and Convergence of H1-Galerkin mixed Numerical Analysis 7(3) 227-240 2014 R.K Sinha fi nite element method for parabolic and Applications problems with reduced regularity on Initial data R. K. Srivastava Non-harmonic cones are sets of Trans. Amer. Math. DOI: arXiv:1306.5658 2014 injectivity for the twisted spherical Soc means on C^n S. Saha and Elastic bottom eff ect on trapped International - - 2015 Swaroop waves in a two-layer fl uid Journal of Applied Nandan Bora Mechanics (World Scientifi c) G. Murli Ritz-Volterra reconstructions and a IMA J. Numer. Anal 35(1) 341–371 2015 Mohan Reddy posteriori error analysis of fi nite ele- and R. K. Sinha ment method for parabolic integro- diff erential equations

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Name of Vol. and Is- Year of Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Author sue No. Publication Kaushik Analysis of Multiple-bound Signals Wireless Personal DOI: 10.1007/s11277- 2015 Mondal, Partha towards Localization: A Theoretical Communications 015-2379-1 Sarathi Mandal Approach and Bhabani P. Sinha Dishari On Group Algebras with Unit Groups Publicationes Math- 86(1-2) 39-48 2015 Chaudhuri and of Derived Length at most Four ematicae Debrecen Anupam Saikia P. Das and S. Adaptive Mesh Generation for International Jour- 93(3) 562-578 2015 Natesan Singularly Perturbed Fourth-Order nal of Computer Ordinary Diff erential Equations Mathematics. Gautam K. Approximation Algorithms for maxi- Inf. Process. Lett. 115 (3) 439-446 2015 Das, Minati mum independent set of a unit disk De, Sudeshna graph Kolay, Subhas C. Nandy, and Susmita Sur- Kolay Barun Gorain Approximation Algorithm for Sweep Information Pro- - - 2015 and Partha Coverage on Graph cessing Letters Sarathi Mandal Rajendra K Ray Higher-order-compact simulation of Computational and DOI: 10.1007/s40314- 2015 and Jiten C unsteady fl ow past a rotating cylin- Applied Mathemat- 014-0191-2 Kalita der at moderate Reynolds numbers ics S. Das and K. Approximate Parameterized String AKCE International - -2015 Kapoor Matching under Weighted Hamming Journal of Graphs Distance. and Combinatorics B. Deb and K. On Complete S-Reachable Graphs Journal of Discrete - - 2015 Kapoor Mathematical Sci- ences and Cryptog- raphy

Conference Proceedings Name of Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Title of Paper Date Author/s shop/ Seminar/Symposia and Page No. S. Das, and K. Fine Tuning Decomposition Theo- Annual Conference on Theory April, 2014 8402: 312-322 Kapoor. rem for Maximum Weight Bipartite and Applications of Models of Matching. Computation (TAMC). Springer. Jiten C Kalita, GPU accelerated fl ow computation International Conference on September, 1648 : 47004 and Parikshit by the streamfunction-velocity (Psi;- Numerical Analysis and Applied 2014. (1-4) Upadhyaya, v)formulation, AIP. Mathematics 2014, Greece, AIP Murli M Gupta. Conf. Proc. Barun Gorain, Sweep Coverage with Mobile and Lecture Notes in Computer October, 346-348 and Partha Static Sensors. in Proc. of 16th Inter- Science (LNCS-8756) (Springer- 2014 Sarathi Mandal national Symposium on Stabiliza- Verlag). tion, Safety, and Security of Distrib- uted Systems (SSS 2014)

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Name of Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Title of Paper Date Author/s shop/ Seminar/Symposia and Page No. Jiten C Kalita, A Fourth Order Compact ADI Proceedings of the Sixth Inter- 29-31 46 and Bidyut B method for the transient three-di- national Conference on Theo- December, Gogoi. mensional diff usion equation with a retical, Applied, Computational 2014 source term. and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM 2014). Kaushik Poster: Path Planning Algorithm for 7th international conference 6-10 Janu- Mondal and Mobile Anchor on COMmunication System & ary, 2015 Partha Sarathi NETworks (COMSNET 2015) Mandal S. Pawanekar, A Nonlinear Analytical Optimization 28th International Conference January, 423-428 K. Kapoor, and Method for Standard Cell Place- on VLSI Design. IEEE. 2015 G. Trivedi. ment of VLSI Circuits. Barun Gorain, Energy Effi cient Sweep Coverage in Proc. of International Con- 8-10 Febru- 275-285 and Partha with Mobile and Static Sensors ference on Algorithms and ary, 2015 Sarathi Mandal Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM 2015) (Springer- Verlag) Kaushik Path Planning Algorithm for Mobile in Proc. of 11th International 5-8 Febru- 193-198 Mondal, Arin- Anchor in Connected Sensor Net- Conference on Distributed ary, 2015 dam Karma- works Computing and Internet Tech- kar and Partha nologies (ICDCIT'15) (Springer- Sarathi Mandal Verlag) A. C. Nayak, On the Language of Primitive Par- 9th International Conference March, 8977:436-445. and K. Kapoor tial Words. on Language and Automata 2015 Theory and Applications (LATA). Springer.

Book Total Year of Volume and Name of Author/s Title of Book Publisher Page ISBN Publica- Issue No. No. tion S. Kirkland, K.M. Linear Algebra with Applica- Manipal NIL 361 978-93- December, Prasad, S. Pati, and S. tions, a volume in honor of University 82460- 2014 Puntanen (eds.) Prof. Ravindra B. Bapat Press 20-6

Book Chapter Name of Volume and Issue Page Title of Chapter Title of Book Publisher ISBN Year Author/s No. (If any) No. Anupam Explicit Reciprocity The Bloch-Kato Con- Cambridge London Mathemati- 65- 9781- 2015 Saikia Law of Bloch-Kato jecture for the Rie- University cal Society Lecture 96 1074 and Exponential Maps mann Zeta Function Press Note Series vol. 418 9296-7

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty ternational Bhaba K. 38th Australasian Conference on Combinato- Victoria University 1-5 December, International Sarma rial Mathematics and Combinatorial Comput- of Wellington, New 2014 ing Zealand Swaroop N. 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Madrid, Spain 7-11 July, 2014 International Bora Diff erential Equations and Applications

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Name of National/In- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty ternational Swaroop N. 10th East Asia SIAM Conference (EASIAM) Mahidol University, 23-25 June, International Bora Thailand 2014 S. Natesan Boundary and Interior Layers – Computational Prague, Czech 15-19 Septem- International and Asymptotic Methods (BAIL 2014) Republic ber, 2014 S. Natesan 10th East Asia SIAM Conference (EASIAM) Mahidol University, 23-25 June, International Thailand 2014 Jiten C. Kalita SIAM Annual Meeting Chicago, USA 7-11 July, 2014 International Siddhartha P. SIAM Annual Meeting Chicago, USA 7-11 July, 2014 International Chakrabarty Shreemayee Householder Symposium XIX Spa, Belgium 8-13 June, 2014 International Bora K.V. Krishna International Conference on Algebra and Ap- Andhra University, 29 April-01 International plications (ICAA-2014) Visakhapatnam May, 2014 Partha S. 16th International Symposium on Stabili- Germany 28 September International Mandal zation, Safety, and Security of Distributed – 1 October, Systems (SSS 2014) 2014 Vinay Wagh GAP Days 2014 RWTH, Germany 25-29 August, International 2014 M. Guru Prem International Conference on Applications of Amrita School of 10-11 January, International Prasad Fractals and Wavelets (ICAFW)-2015 Engineering, Coim- 2015 batore, Arabin K. Dey International Workshop on Reliability and Cochin University 5-7 January, National Time Series Methodology relevant to Business of Science & Tech- 2015 and Industry nology, Cochin

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Siddhartha P. Investment strategy: The case Andhra University, Visakhapatnam Andhra 13 April, Chakrabarty of a two asset portfolio Pradesh 2014 Anjan K. On Convergence of Functions, Postgraduate Level Training Pro- IIT Guwahati 2-21 June, Chakrabarty Arzela-Ascoli theorem gramme on Diff erential Equations 2014 Bhaba K. Foundation of Mathematics Mathematics Training and Talent IIT Guwahati June 23-July Sarma Search Programme (MTTS) 19, 2014 Bikash Linear Algebra Mathematics Training and Talent IIT Guwahati June 23-July Bhattacharjya Search Programme (MTTS) 19, 2014 Rafi kul Alam State-space linearization 10th International Workshop on University of 2-5 June, method for solution of rational Accurate Solutions of Eigenvalue Zagreb, Croa- 2014 eigenvalue problem Problems (IWASEP-10) tia K.V. Srikanth Real Analysis Mathematics Training and Talent IIT Guwahati June 23-July Search Programme (MTTS) 19, 2014 Siddhartha P. Portfolio optimization and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Bangalore 7-25 July, Chakrabarty capital asset pricing 2014 Jiten C. Kalita GPU accelerated Computation National Workshop on GPU Comput- IIT Guwahati 12-14 Sep- of Navier-Stokes equations ing organized by EEE Department tember, 2014 Anupam A Brief Introduction to Work of Tezpur University Tezpur September, Saikia Manjul Bhargava 2014

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Siddhartha P. Dynamics of hepatitis C: opti- Tezpur University Tezpur 18-19 Octo- Chakrabarty mal therapeutic effi cacy and ber, 2014 sampling based analysis Bhaba K. The completion problems for International Conference on Linear Manipal 18-20 Sarma some classes of Q-matrices Algebra and its Applications University, December, Karnataka 2014 S. Pati On the inverse of graphs and International Conference on Linear Manipal 18-20 the reciprocal eigenvalue Algebra and its Applications University, December, properties Karnataka 2014 Anupam On the Structure of Selmer Beijing International Centre for Beijing December, Saikia Groups of CM Elliptic Curves Mathematical Research, Peking 2014 University Rafi kul Alam Algorithms for Singular Value National Workshop on Numerical BITS-Pilani, January 30 – Decompositions Linear Algebra and Its Applications Hyderabad February 01, Campus 2015 Shreemayee QR algorithm BIT, Pilani Hyderabad 31 January, Bora 2015 Bhaba K. Fundamentals of Combinator- KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- Sarma ics ary, 2015 Swaroop N. Solution of least-squares prob- KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- Bora lem ary, 2015 Swaroop N. Integral transform methods in KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- Bora solving engineering problems ary, 2015 Swaroop N. Fourier Series Refresher Course in Mathematics Gauhati Uni- 18th Febru- Bora versity ary, 2015 Swaroop N. Fourier Series to Fourier inte- Refresher Course in Mathematics Gauhati Uni- 18th Febru- Bora gral versity ary, 2015 Swaroop N. Diff erential equations: Under- Mathematics Teaching : Pedagogy IIT Guwahati 20-22 Febru- Bora standing their signifi cance and Practice ary, 2015 Swaroop N. Boundary value problems: how Refresher Course in Mathematics Gauhati Uni- 23rd Febru- Bora to set them up versity ary, 2015 Rafi kul Alam Spectral perturbation theory Refresher Course in Mathematics Gauhati Uni- 18th Febru- for matrices versity ary, 2015 Rajen K. Sinha Introduction to the theory of KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- weak solution ary, 2015 Anupam Number Theory and Applica- KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- Saikia tions ary, 2015 Shyamashree A criterion for Richardson National Conference on Commula- IIT Guwahati 5-9 February, Upadhyay varieties admitting semistable tive Algebra and Algebraic Geometry 2015 points Durga C. Numerical Analysis KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 20-22 Febru- Dalal ary, 2015 S. Pati Linear Algebra KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 20-22 Febru- ary, 2015 M.G.P. Prasad Fractals and Application KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- ary, 2015 Sriparna Introduction to optimization KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- Bandopadhyay ary, 2015

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Anjan K. Fascinating Calculus KIC-TEQIP IIT Guwahati 16-20 Febru- Chakrabarty ary, 2015 Partha S. Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Quality Improvement Programme IIT Guwahati 10-14 Febru- Mandal & Senser Networks ary, 2015 Gautam K. Facility location problems in Quality Improvement Programme IIT Guwahati 10-14 Febru- Das WSNs ary, 2015 Jiten C. Kalita # Scientifi c Computing : What Visva Bharati West Bengal 21 March, and Why ?, # Physics and Nu- 2015 merics : Some relevant issues in Scientifi c Computing Rafi kul Alam Structured spectral perturba- International Conference on Fron- Gauhati Uni- 26-28 March, tion theory for Hamiltonian tiers in Mathematics (ICFM2015) versity 2015 matrices S. Pati The reciprocal eigenvalue prop- International Conference on Fron- Gauhati Uni- 26-28 March, erties of graphs tiers in Mathematics (ICFM2015) versity 2015

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES: Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Prof. Ananthnarayan IIT Bombay Tales of a Local Algebraist 1st April, 2014 Hariharan Prof. John C. Meakin University of Nebraska- Inverse monoids and immersions of 2-com- 21st April, Lincoln plexes 2014 Prof. C.S. Rajan TIFR Mimbai Local Global Principle - An Introduction 17th May, 2014 Prof. Phoolan Prasad Indian Institute of Science, Question of Equivalence of Huygens' and Fer- 2nd June, 2014 Bangalore mat's Methods of Wavefront Construction Prof. V. Muruganan- NISER, Bhubaneswar Harish-Chandra - Part of his mathematical 27th June, dam Profi le 2014 Dr. Dambaru D. University of Texas - Pan Applications of Cubic B-splines 1st July, 2014 Bhatta American, Edinburg, Texas, USA Professor Aldric L. University College London Best Uniform Approximation to Continuous 25th Septem- Brown Functions from Finite Dimensional Spaces of ber, 2014 Continuous Functions - from 1855 to 2013. Dr. Shanta Laishram ISI, Delhi Powers in products of terms of Recurrence 30th Septem- Sequences ber, 2014 Prof. Kripasindhu Jadavpur University, West Modelling of Renewable Resources Harvesting: 16-18 Decem- Chaudhuri Bengal Some Aspects; # Development of Stability Con- ber, 2014 cepts in Ecology through Diff erential Equations; # The Optimal Joint Harvest of a Prawn Fishery and a Poultry of Birds in a Linked Bioeconomic System Dr. Devraj Basu University of Strathclyde Mean Variance Analysis with Conditioning 16th January, Business School, Glasgow, Information 2015 United Kingdom Dr. Buddhadeb Sau Jadavpur University, West Semidefi nite Programming and its application 13th February, Bengal to localization of WSN 2015 Prof. Martin Kreuzer University of Passau, Border Bases and Their Applications 13th February, Germany 2015

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Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Prof. Shobha Madan IIT Kanpur The Kakeya maximal function and Spherical 19th February, Summation 2015

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED Name of Faculty No. of Sl. Funded Internation- (Convener/Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Date partici- No. By al/National ordinator, etc.) pants 1 Prof. Bhaba K. Mathematics Teaching: Pedagogy IIT Guwa- 20-22 Febru- National 15 Sarma, Dr. Bhupen and Practice hati ary, 2015 Deka and Prof. Durga C. Dalal 2 Dr. K.V. Krishna Mathematics Training and Talent NBHM 23 June – 19 National 37 Search (M.T.T.S.) Programme July, 2014 3 Prof. R. K. Sinha and Postgraduate Level Training Pro- DST 2-21 June, National 47 Dr. Bhupen Deka gramme on Diff erential Equations 2014 4 Prof. M.Guru Prem Mathematics for Engineering IIT Guwa- 16-20 Febru- National 30 Prasad and Prof. Education hati ary, 2015 Durga C. Dalal 5 Dr. Partha Sarathi Recent Trends in Networks and IIT Guwa- 10-14 Febru- National 20 Mandal Distributed Computing hati ary, 2015 6 Dr. Vinay Wagh National Conference on Com- IIT Guwa- 05-09 Febru- National 40 mulative Algebra and Algebraic hati ary, 2015 Geometry

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS: 15 M.Sc. Students qualifi ed GATE2015 in Mathematics. 4 M.Sc and 2 PhD students qualifi ed in CSIR-JRF 2015 in Mathematical Sciences. A number of B.Tech students participated in internship progarmmes in reputed organizations within and outside India.

SPECIAL MENTION # Prof. Rafi kul Alam visited Institute for Mathematics, TU Berlin, Germany, from 06-06-2014 to 31-07-2014 for collaborative research work with Prof. Volker Mehrmann. # Prof. Swaroop Nandan Bora visited KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm as part of a 3-member delegation from IIT Guwahati from September 1-13, 2014. # Prof. Swaroop Nandan Bora delivered an invited lecture ‘Damping of water waves by vertical porous structures’, in Department of Mathematics (Numerical Analysis), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, September 8, 2014. # Dr. Shyamashree Upadhayay visited TIFR, Mumbai from 01-07-2014 to 14-07-2014 for research work. # Dr. P.A.S. Sree Krishna visited Universidad Central Del Ecuador, Ecuador from 23-09-2014 to 10-10-2014 for research work. FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1 R. Alam IIT Bombay Professor Linear and Numerical Linear Algebra 2 S. Bandopadhyay ISI Delhi Assistant Professor Operations Research 3 B. Bhattacharjya IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Graph Theory 4 S. Bora IIT Guwahati Associate Professor Perturbation Theory, Numerical Linear Algebra 5 S. N. Bora (Head of Dalhousie Professor Water Wave Dynamics, Ocean Engineering, Flow the Department) University, through Porous Media Canada

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 6 S. P. Chakrabarty University Associate Professor Mathematical Biology, Optimal Control Theory, of Illinois, Mathematical Finance Chicago, USA 7 A. K. Chakrabarty IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Functional Analysis 8 D. C. Dalal IIT Kharagpur Professor Fluid Dynamics 9 G. K. Das ISI Kolkata Assistant Professor Computational Geometry, Approximation Algorithms, Wireless Networks 10 B. Deka IIT Guwahati Assistant Professor Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Methods, Interface Problems, Numerical Solutions to Integro Diff erential Equations 11 A. K. Dey IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Distributions models and its applications, Survival Analysis 12 S. Dutta IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Quantum Computing, Complexity Theory 13 J. C. Kalita IIT Guwahati Professor Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical methods for PDEs 14 S. Kamal TIFR, Mumbai Assistant Professor Probability, Random graphs 15 K. Kapoor London South Associate Professor Programming Languages, Concurrency, Software Bank University, Testing UK 16 P. A. S. Sree Krishna SUNY, Buff alo Assistant Professor Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Low-dimensional topology 17 K. V. Krishna IIT Delhi Associate Professor General Algebra, Theoretical Computer Science 18 P. Kumar IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Harmonic Analysis 19 P. S. Mandal Jadavpur Associate Professor Wireless Sensor Networks, Distributed Computing University 20 S. Natesan Bharathidasan Professor Diff erential Equations, Homogenization, Numerical University, Analysis Thiruchirappalli 21 S. Pati ISI Delhi Professor Spectral Graph Theory 22 M. G. P. Prasad IIT Kanpur Professor Complex Dynamics and Fractals 23 H. Ramesh IIT Madras Assistant Professor Formal Languages and Automata Theory, Membrane Computing 24 A. Saikia University of Professor Algebraic Number Theory Cambridge, U.K. 25 B. K. Sarma Delhi University Professor Spectral Graph Theory, Combinatorial Matrix Theory 26 N. Selvaraju IIT Madras Associate Professor Stochastic Modelling, Queueing Theory, Stochastic Modelling, Operations Research 27 R. K. Sinha IIT Bombay Professor Numerical Analysis 28 K. V. Srikanth SUNY, Buff alo Assistant Professor Low Dimensional Topology 29 R. Srivastava IIT Kanpur Assistant Professor Harmonic Analysis 30 J. Swain IIT Madras Assistant Professor Harmonic Analysis 31 S. Upadhyay CMI, Chennai Assistant Professor Algebraic Combinatorics 32 V. V. Wagh University of Assistant Professor Algebraic Geometry Pune

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1995 tube, rotometer etc., where students can visualize the basic theory of working of the fl ow meter. ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: • Thermal Science Laboratory: This lab consists of heat Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in exchangers, equipments for conducting experiments o Mechanical Engineering on conduction, convection and radiation, refrigeration systems etc. All these equipments facilitate learning Master of Technology (MTech) in of basic Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering at o Machine Design undergraduate level. o Fluid & Thermal Engineering • Turbo-machinery Laboratory: This lab has diff erent table- o Computer Assisted Manufacturing and top model of pumps and turbines where students can study o Computational Mechanics the performance characteristics of those machines. Students can strengthen their basic understandings of working and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) applications of these machines. FACULTY STRENGTH: • IC Engine Laboratory: This lab is for both undergraduates and graduate students. Some of the experiments which are • Professor: 15 performed by under-graduate students are performance • Associate Professor: 13 studies of both C.I. and S.I. engines, etc. Moreover studeis • Assistant Professor: 16 on the glorifi c values, exhaust gas characteristics, extensive • Visiting Professor: 1 studies of bio-diesel with both engines are done by post- graduate students in their respective project works • Visiting Associate Professor: 1 • Vibrations and Acoustics Laboratory: This lab demonstrates NUMBER OF FACULTY JOINED: basic vibrational instruments to students at undergraduate • Assistant Professor: 16 level. Also provides facilities for measurement of frequency signals, rpm etc, and facilities for data-acquisition which are • Visiting Professor: 1 very much benefi cial for research activities in the domain of • Visiting Associate Professor: 1 vibrational analysis. LABORATORIES: • Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory: The Mechatronics • Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory: Equipped with and Robotics lab is equipped with various facilities to educate advanced equipments for manufacturing including micro- the students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. fabrication facility using CO2 Laser cutting technology. Most of the robotics activities are facilitated to students by • Strength of Materials Laboratory: Basically dedicated for this lab. doing all kinds of testing including tensile testing, fatigue • Instrumentation Laboratory: This lab performs calibration testing, compressive testing, torsion testing, hardness of pressure transducer/ gauge and other mechatronics testing, impact testing etc. apparatus, provides strain-gauge measurement facilities etc. • Materials Science Laboratory: Dedicated for carrying out • Theory of Machines Laboratory: This lab consists of all metallographic studies using highly precise microscope, XRD basic equipments for understanding mechanisms, apparatus etc. etc. at undergraduate level such as gyroscope, governor, • Fluid Mechanics Laboratory: This lab has basic fluid jib-crane, screw jack, worm-wheel apparatus etc. mechanics set-up. The lab is equipped with diff erent fl ow • Tribology Laboratory: Provides facilities for carrying out measuring set-ups such as venturimeter, orifi ce-plate, pitot wear test of specimens of diff erent materials under the 225 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

condition of with lubrication/without lubrication. b) 3 axis CNC MACHINING CENTER with 10000 rpm capacity • CAD/CAM Laboratory: Specialized in extending computer- (price 19 lacs) assisted software tools needed for design and analysis such MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: as ABAQUS, ANSYS, Master CAM, Pro/E, ADAMS etc. a) Laser bending; single point diamond turning; thin wall • Metrology Laboratory: Provides facilities for carrying out machining dimensional measurements up to high degree of accuracy. b) The research and development activities presently MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: comprising on: Robotics, Mechanisms, Design and a) Shock tube facility through AR&DB sponsored project Development of various mechanical parts, Biomimetics and Flexible system.

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. P Design and development of IIT Guwahati 12 Dr. Chandra Mohan 2 Muthukumar dehumidifi cation system Somayaji Dr.S.Kanagaraj Fabrication and characterization SERB, DST 47.30 lakh Prof.Bikramjit Basu, 3 years of the next generation material IISc Bangalore and from for articulating surface in total Dr.D.C.Sundaresh, M March joint replacements using medi- S Ramaiah Medical 2015 cal grade UHMWPE reinforced College & Hospitals, with nanocrystalline hydroxyap- Bangalore atite and single walled carbon nanotubes Dr.S.Kanagaraj Development of a single station SERB, DST 43.40 lakh Dr. S. Senthilvelan, 3 years hip joint wear simulator for Dept. of Mechanical from July simulated in vivo characteriza- Engineering, IITG 2014 tion of acetabulum cups Dr. Pankaj Development of Plasma Arc NRB 43.9 Dr. S. D. Kore 2015- Biswas Assisted Friction Stir Welding 2018 Process for Low Carbon Steels Dr. U.S. Dixit Modeling of Advanced Materials DST 20.936 (IIT 3 years for Simulation of Transformative G budget) Manufacturing Processes Total budget: 217.50 (with IITD, IISC) Dr. U.S. Dixit Estimation of temperature dis- DRDL, Hy- 9.7 Dr. Pankaj Biswas 18 tribution in laser welding derabad months

b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. D. N. Basu Analysis of supercritical natural circu- SERB, DST 9.46 - 3 years lation loops with water and carbon dioxide as working medium Dr. D. N. Basu Development and experimental char- IIT Guwa- 5.00 - 2 years acterization of a supercritical natural hati (Start-up circulation loop considering steady- grant) state and stability aspects

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Poonam Development of three-dimensional IIT Guwa- 5.00 No 2 year Kumari solutions for piezoelectric plates sub- hati (Start-up jected to arbitrary boundary conditions grant) Dr. Satyajit Active control of harmonically excited SERB, DST 10.32 NA 3 years Panda nonlinear vibrations of functionally graded cylindrical shells using PFRC constrained layer damping treatment Dr. P Development of Thermal Energy Stor- DST 128.00 Nil 4 years Muthukumar age Systems for Solar Thermal Power Plant Dr. S. Kanaga- Development of Copper (Cu) – Carbon Steel Devel- 336.00 Prof. S. Ra- 3 years raj Nanomaterial (CN) based nanocompos- opment Fund, maprabhu, ite formulations for heat recovery in dif- Ministry of Physics, IIT Ma- ferent processes in a steel plant Steel, India, dras, Dr. Prathab and M/s Tata Baskar and Dr. Steel, Jam- Sumitesh Das, shedpur Chief, R&D divi- sion, Tata Steel Dr. S. Developing light weight, durable and DBT 56.87 Dr. Bhaskar 3 years Kanagaraj user friendly artifi cial limbs through Borgohain and Nanotechnology-based modifi cation of Mr. Balaphrang conventional materials and optimizing Marbaning from mechanical component design for en- NEIGRIHMS, hancing their functional performance Shillong Dr. U. S. Dixit Estimation of temperature distribution DRDO 9.7 Dr. Pankaj 2 years in laser welding Biswas Dr. Niranjan Shock Tube Development and Verifi ca- AR&DB 16.04 Dr. Vinayak 2 years Sahoo tion of Capabilities of Existing Correla- Kulkarni tion for Stagnation Point Heat Transfer Rate Dr. Vinayak Development of a conjugate heat AR&DB 11.63 Dr. Niranjan 2 years Kulkarni transfer solver for hypersonic applica- Sahoo & Dr. Ga- tions nesh Natarajan Dr. Sukhomay Development of monitoring system for SERB 9.24 Nil 3 years Pal friction stir welding Dr. S. N. Joshi Improving productivity and product DST 37.9 - 3 years quality in machining of thin-walled components Dr. A. Dalal Development of a General Purpose BRNS, DAE 300.88 Dr. G. Natara- 5 years CFD Solver over a Hybrid Unstructured jan and Dr. N. Grid Kishore (CL) Dr. A. Dalal Numerical Modeling of All-Vanadium SERB, DST 16.08 NIL 3 years Redox Flow Battery

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c) Completed Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Duration Investigator Agency (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Pankaj Numerical and Experimental Study on IIT Guwahati 5.0 N/A 2 years Biswas Residual Stress and Distortion Control of Welded Structures Dr. Pankaj Preparation of Lab Manual for strength IIT Guwahati 0.15 Dr. KSRK Murty 1 year Biswas of material Lab of Mechanical Engineer- ing Department Dr. Niranjan Design, Development and Performance Department 14.40 - 2 years Sahoo Evaluation of Stress Wave Force Bal- of Science ances for Aerospace Applications and Technol- ogy (DST)

CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency Investigator (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. N. R. Dr. Pankaj 2012- Mandal, IIT Structural Analysis of Ships (SRAS) GRSE Kolkata 8.824 Biswas 2013 Kharagpur Setting of Confi dential Papers for BCPL (Brahmaputra Prof. U.K. Dr. Pankaj 2013- Engineering Non-Executives of a Govt. Cracker and 0.25 Saha Biswas 2013 of India Enterprise Polymer Limited) Dr. Pankaj Prof. P. Failure Analysis of Damaged Burner New India 2015- 0.39 Biswas & Dr. Mahanta Pipe Assurance Co. Ltd. 2015 S. Pal Design and development of custom Dr. Dr. K Kalita, made remotely operable Shot blasting Sukhomay NEEPCO 30.175 Prof. SK system with robotic arms for use in Pal Kakoty steeply inclined long penstocks Feasibility study for implementing HTS Dr. S Pal, generator in a hydro-electric power Dr. K Kalita NEEPCO 30 Prof. SK 2 years plant for generation modernization to Kakoty increase effi ciency Study of the reduction in acidity of the Kopili reservoir either by diversion Dr. Chandan of responsible stream or by taking up 18 NEEPCO 28.52 Dr. S Pal Das some chemical treatment to prevent Months damages of metal parts of Kopili HE Plant at Umrongso Dr. S Pal, Prof. S K Testing consultancy Assam Carbon Ltd., 0.37 Dr. S 1 Month Kakoty Senthilvelan Dr. S. N. Mechanization of FCI Godown Food Corporation 14.36 Dr. S. D. Kore 3 years Joshi Operations of India (FCI)

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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. MKS Sarkar, AK A State-of-the-art Review of Recent Ad- Annals of Nuclear 73 250-263 2014 Tilak& DN Basu vances in Supercritical Natural Circula- Energy tion Loops for Nuclear Applications DN Basu, S A Review of Modern Advances in Nuclear Engineer- 280 326-348 2014 Bhattacharyya & Analyses and Applications of Single- ing and Design PK Das phase Natural Circulation Loop AK Tilak& DN Basu Computational Investigation of the Nuclear Engineer- 284 251-263 2015 Dynamic Response of a Supercritical ing and Design Natural Circulation Loop to Aperiodic and Periodic Excitations VK Mishra, SC Combined Mode Conduction and Radi- Numerical Heat 67 (10) 1119- 2015 Mishra & DN Basu ation Heat Transfer in a Porous Medium Transfer Part A 1135 and Estimation of Optical Properties of the Porous Matrix DN Basu & A Conceptual Design and Performance ASME Journal of 137 (3) 031020 2015 Ganguly Analysis of a Solar Thermal-Photovol- Solar Energy Engi- (1-9) taic-Powered Absorption Refrigeration neering System P. Kumari, S. Coupled three-dimensional piezoelas- International Jour- - - 2015 Behera, S. Kapuria ticity solution for edge eff ectsin Levy- nal of Solids and type rectangular piezolaminated plates Structures using mixed fi eld extended Kantorov- ich method Panda S, Reddy Design and fi nite element analysis of Archive of Applied DOI: 2015 NH, Kumar ASP a short piezoelectric fi ber-reinforced Mechanics 10.1007/ composite actuator s00419- 015- 0982-y Kumar AMS, Panda Design and analysis of a smart graded Composite Struc- 124 176–195 2015 S, Chakraborty D. fi ber-reinforced composite laminated tures plate Panda SP, Panda S. Micromechanical fi nite element International 11-1 41-57 2015 analysis of eff ective properties of a Journal of Mechan- unidirectional short piezoelectric fi ber ics and Materials in reinforced composite Design Kumar AMS, Panda Piezo-viscoelastically damped nonlin- Journal of Vibration DOI: 10.1177/ 2014 S, Chakraborty D. ear frequency response of functionally and Control 10775463145 graded plates with a heated plate- 32672 surface Kumar AMS, Panda Harmonically excited nonlinear vibra- Journal of Intel- DOI: 10.1177/ 2014 S, Chakraborty D tion of heated functionally graded ligent Material Sys- 1045389X1453600 plates integrated with piezoelectric tems and Structures 5 composite actuator Kadam PA, Panda Nonlinear analysis of an imperfect radi- International 10-3 281-304 2014 S. ally graded annular plate with a heated Journal of Mechan- edge ics and Materials in Design

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Sachin Singh , M. State of art on micro-abrasive fl ow Journal of Manufac- 5-3/4 167-177 2014 Ravi Sankar, U. S. Finishing (µ-AFF) process turing Technology Dixit Research R. R. Behera, E. Experimental Investigations of CO2 Journal of Manufac- 5-3/4 179-194 2014 Anisha, M. Ravi Laser Micro Channel Engraving on turing Technology Sankar, U. S. Dixit Hardened AISI 1040 Alloy Steel Research Lototskyy MV, Niche applications of metal hydrides J. Alloys and Com- doi:10.1016/j.jall- 2015 Sekhar BS, and related thermal management pounds com.2014.12.271 Muthukumar P, issues Pollet BG, Linkov V Sekhar BS, Development of Double-Stage Metal ASCE's Journal of 10.1061/ 2015 Muthukumar P Hydride based Hydrogen Compressor Energy Engineering, (ASCE)EY.1943- for Heat Transformer Application 7897.0000246 SatyaSekhar B, Thermal modelling of a double-stage Numerical Heat 67 883–901 2015 Muthukumar P metal hydride based heat transformer Transfer Hakeem Niyas, Performance Investigation of High- Clean Technologies 17 501–513 2015 Likhendra Prasad, Temperature Sensible Heat Thermal and Environmental Muthukumar P Energy Storage System during Charg- Policy ing and Discharging Processes SatyaSekhar B, Performance Investigation of a Single- Int. J Green Energy, DOI:10.1080/15435 2014 Muthukumar P stage Metal Hydride Heat Transformer 075.2014.892879 Anbarasu S, Thermal modeling of LmNi4.91Sn0.15 Int. J. Hydrogen 39:00:00 15549 2014 Muthukumar P, based Solid State Hydrogen Storage Energy -15562. Mishra SC Device with Embedded Cooling Tubes Anbarasu S, Tests on LmNi4.91Sn0.15 based Solid Int. J. Hydrogen 39(10): 4966– 2014 Muthukumar P, State Hydrogen Storage Device with Energy 4972 Mishra SC Embedded Cooling Tubes – Part B: Desorption Process Anbarasu S, Tests on LmNi4.91Sn0.15 based Solid Int. J. Hydrogen 39(7) 3342- 2014 Muthukumar P, State Hydrogen Storage Device with Energy 3351 Mishra SC Embedded Cooling Tubes – Part A: Absorption Process, Sachin S. Gautam A composite time integration scheme International 11 (5) 1350104 2014 and Roger A. Sauer for dynamic adhesion and its applica- Journal of Compu- -1 - tion to gecko spatula peeling tational Methods in 1350104 Engineering -28 Sachin S. Gautam A fi nite element study on eff ect of fric- World Journal of 11(6) 529-542 2014 and R. K. Saxena tional heating in the Taylor rod impact Engineering problem PS Rama Infl uence of multi walled carbon Wear - - 2015 Sreekanth, S nanotubes reinforcement and gamma Kanagaraj irradiation on the wear behaviour of UHMWPE PS Rama Infl uence of MWCNTs and gamma ir- Bulletin of Material 37(2) 347-356 2014 Sreekanth, S radiation on thermal characteristics of Science Kanagaraj medical grade UHMWPE N. Shanmugapriya, Characterization and optimization of Journal of Nanopar- DOI: 10.1007/ 2014 Chandramohan Ce0.6Zr0.4-xMnxO2 (x≤0.4) ticle Research s11051-014-2661-2 Somayaji, S. Kanagaraj

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. N. Shanmugapriya, Optimization of Ce0.6Zr0.4-xAl1.3xO2 Journal of Nanopar- 16(2), - 2014 C. Somayaji, S. solid solution based on oxygen storage ticle Research Kanagaraj. capacity S. Arun, P S Rama Mechanical characterization of PMMA/ Materials Technol- 29(B1) - 2014 Sreekanth, S. SWNTs bone cement using Nanoin- ogy: Advanced Kanagaraj denter Biomaterials P S Rama Studies on structural defects on 60Co Procedia Materials 6 1967- 2014 Sreekanth, K irradiated multi walled carbon nano- Science 1975 Acharyya, I tubes Talukdar, S Kanagaraj P Manivel, S Rheological behavior and electrical, Journal of Applied 131 40642 2014 Kanagaraj, A thermal properties of polypyrrole/gra- Polymer Science Balamurugan, phene oxide nanocomposites N Ponpandian, D Mangalaraj, C Viswanathan P Manivel, S Rheological behavior and electrical Colloids and Surfac- 441 614-622 2014 Kanagaraj, A properties of polypyrrole/ thermally re- es A: Physicochemi- Balamurugan, duced graphene oxide nanocomposite cal and Engineering N Ponpandian, Aspects D Mangalaraj, C Viswanathan Kumar D. A., Numerical and experimental study on International Jour- 10-1 64-86 2015 Kadian Arun Kumar infl uence of tool plunging force and nal of Manufactur- and Biswas Pankaj shoulder size on thermal history of ing Research (IJMR- Friction Stir Welding Inderscience) Mandal N. R, Sharat Distortion Measurement of Ship Blocks Journal of Ship Pro- 29 1-8 2014 Kumar and Biswas using Photogrammetry duction and Design Pankaj Deepati Anil Experimental Investigation of Mechani- International 2 242-246 2014 Kumar, Tikader cal Properties on Friction Stir Welding Journal of Current Sujoy and Biswas of Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys Engineering and Pankaj Technology Narang H. K., Optimization and prediction of angular Journal of Materials 23(5) 1750– 2014 Mahapatra M. M., P. distortion and weldment characteris- Engineering and 1758 K. Jha and Biswas tics of TIG square butt joints Performance Pankaj B. K. Debnath, U. A comprehensive review on the ap- Renewable and 42 196-211 2015 K. Sahoo and N. plication of emulsions as an alternative Sustainable Energy Sahoo fuel for diesel engines Reviews A. Hens , G. Biswas Evaporation of water droplets on Pt- The Journal of 143 1-11 2015 and S. De surface in presence of external electric Chemical Physics fi eld - A molecular dynamics study P. Randive, A. Wettability eff ects on contact line dy- Physical Review E 91 1-16 2015 Dalal, K.C. Sahu, namics of droplet motion in an inclined G. Biswas, P. channel Mukherjee S. Biswas, P. Analysis of Mixed Convective Heat Numerical Heat 68 75-98 2015 Sharma, B. Mondal Transfer in a Ribbed Channel using The Transfer Part A and G. Biswas Lattice Boltzmann Method 231 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. B. Ray, G. Biswas Regimes during liquid drop impact on Journal of Fluid 768 492-523 2015 and A. Sharma a liquid pool Mechanics D. Chatterjee and Dynamic behavior of fl ow around rows Journal of Wind 136 1-11 2015 G. Biswas of square cylinders kept in staggered Engineering and arrangement Industrial Aerody- namics P. Saha, G. Biswas Comparison of winglet-type vortex International 74 292-305 2014 and S. Sarkar generators periodically deployed in a Journal of Heat and plate-fi n heat exchanger – A synergy Mass Transfer based analysis R. K. Arun, K. Controlled splitting and focusing of a Lab on a Chip 14 3800- 2014 Chaudhury, M. stream of nanoparticles in a converg- 3008 Ghosh, G. Biswas, ing-diverging microchannel N. Chanda and S. Chakraborty A. Hens, G. Biswas Analysis of interfacial instability and Physics of Fluids 26 1-14 2014 and S. De multimode bubble formation in satu- rated pool boiling using Coupled Level Set and Volume- of- Fluid approach A. Hens, R. Agarwal Nanoscale study of boiling and evapo- International 71 303-312 2014 and G. Biswas ration in a liquid Ar fi lm on a Pt heater Journal of Heat and using molecular dynamics simulation Mass Transfer S. Sarkar, S. Buoyancy driven convection of nano- International 71 328-340 2014 Ganguly and G. fl uids in an infi nitely long channel Journal of Heat and Biswas under the eff ect of a magnetic fi eld Mass Transfer G. Natarajan, N. Optimal fore-body shape for minimum Journal of the Insti- 96 (1) - 2015 Sahoo, V. Kulkarni drag in supersonic fl ow tution of Engineers (India): Series C B. K. Debnath, B. J. Infl uence of emulsifi ed palm biodiesel ASCE Journal of En- 140 - 2014 Bora, N. Sahoo and as pilot fuel diesel engine ergy Engineering U.K. Saha B. K. Debnath U. K. A theoretical route towards the esti- ASCE Journal of En- 140 - 2014 Saha and N. Sahoo mation of second law potential of an ergy Engineering emulsifi ed palm biodiesel run diesel engine R. K. Peetala, D. Conjugate heat transfer analysis for a Heat Transfer – DOI: 10.1002/ 2014 Das, V. Kulkarni and fi nite thickness cylinder in a hypersonic Asian Research htj.21158 N. Sahoo fl ow B. K. Debnath, U. K. An experimental way of assessing the ASME Journal of 136 - 2014 Saha and N. Sahoo application potential of emulsifi ed Engineering for Gas palm biodiesel towards alternative Turbines and Power diesel Biswajit Parida, Design and Development of Fixture Journal of Mechani- 29-2 739-749 2015 Shiv Dayal and Force Measuring System for Fric- cal Science and Vishwakarma and tion Stir Welding Process Using Strain Technology Sukhomay Pal Gauges Biswajit Parida and A fuzzy assisted grey Taguchi approach Science and Tech- 20-1 35-41 2015 Sukhomay Pal for the optimization of multiple weld nology of Welding quality properties in friction stir weld- and Joining ing process

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Prakash Kumar Multi-Response Optimization of Pro- Journal of Magne- 3-1 36-46 2015 Sahu and cess Parameters in Friction Stir Welded sium and Alloys Sukhomay Pal AM20 Magnesium Alloy by Taguchi Grey Relational Analysis D. Kumar Eff ect of preheating in hybrid friction Journal of Materials 23-10 3794- 2014 Yaduwanshi, S. Bag stir welding of aluminum alloy Engineering and 3803 and Sukhomay Pal Performance S. Singh, N. Numerical simulation of welding in- I Mech. E, Part C: 228-16 2960- 2014 Yadaiah, S. Bag and duced residual stress in fusion welding Journal of Mechani- 2972 Sukhomay Pal process using adaptive volumetric heat cal Engineering source Science M. Online optimization of fi nish turning International Jour- 75-5 783-791 2014 Chandrasekaran, process: strategy and experimental nal of Advanced M. Muralidhar and validation Manufacturing U.S. Dixit S. Mahto and U.S. Parametric study of double link fl exible Universal Journal of 2-7 211-219 2014 Dixit manipulator Mechanical Engi- neering S. Mahto and U.S. Shape optimization of revolute-jointed Journal of Institu- 95-4 335-346 2014 Dixit rigid-fl exible manipulator tion of Engineers (India), Series C N. J. Baishya, D. Optimization of pressure vessel under Journal of Institu- 95-4 389-400 2014 Sharma and U.S. thermo-elastic condition tion of Engineers Dixit (India), Series C BarkacharyBorad Integrated fi nite element method International Jour- - - 2015 M. and Joshi S. N. (FEM) and response surface methodol- nal of Machining ogy (RSM) based modeling and simula- and Machinability tion of single point diamond turning of Materials (SPDT) of silicon Bora BJ, and Saha Improving the performance of a biogas ASME Journal of 137 - 2015 UK powered dual fuel diesel engine using Engineering for Gas emulsifi ed rice bran biodiesel as pilot Turbines and Power fuel through adjustment of compres- sion ratio and injection timing Roy S, and Saha UK Wind tunnel experiments of a newly Applied Energy 137 117 – 2015 developed two-bladed Savonius-style 125 wind turbine Bora BJ, Saha UK, Eff ect of compression ratio on perfor- Energy Conversion 87 1000– 2014 Chatterjee S, and mance, combustion and emission char- and Management 1009 Veer V acteristics of a dual fuel diesel engine run on raw biogas Roy S, and Saha UK An adapted blockage factor correlation Energy Conversion 86 418 - 2014 approach in wind tunnel experiments and Management 427 of a Savonius-style wind turbine, Deepak Sharma, Generation of Compliant Mechanisms Journal of The Insti- 95 (4) 295-307 2014 Kalyanmoy Deb using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm tution of Engineers (India): Series C

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Bhardwaj, S., and Eff ect of Undulations on the Natural Numerical Heat 67(9) 972-991 2015 Dalal, A., Convection Heat Transfer and Entropy Transfer: Part A Generation Inside Porous Right-angled Triangular Enclosure Randive, P., Dalal, Mesoscopic Simulation of Blob Reso- Microfl uidics and 18(2) 215-232 2015 A., and Mukherjee, nance in a Model Porous Pathway Nanofl uidics P. P. Bhardwaj, S., and Infl uence of Wavy Wall and Non-uni- Energy 79 467-481 2015 Dalal, A., and Pati, form Heating on Natural Convection S. Heat Transfer and Entropy Generation Inside Porous Complex Enclosure Dulhani, J. P., and Flow Past an Equilateral Triangular Bluff Numerical Heat 67 476-495 2015 Dalal, A. Obstacle: Computational Study of the Transfer: Part A Eff ect of Thermal Buoyancy on Flow Physics and Heat Transfer Randive, P., and Infl uence of Viscosity Ratio and Wetta- Computers and 102 15-31 2014 Dalal, A. bility on Droplet Displacement Behav- Fluids ior: A Mesoscale Analysis Dulhani, J. P., Eff ect of Angle of Incidence on Mixed International 74 319-332 2014 Sarkar, S., and Convective Wake Dynamics and Heat Journal of Heat and Dalal, A. Transfer Past a Square Cylinder in Cross Mass Transfer Flow at Re=100 Randive, P., Dalal, Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Two- International 74 460-472 2014 A., and Mukherjee, phase Behavior Under Acoustic Excita- Journal of Heat and P. P. tion: Capillarity-wettability Interaction Mass Transfer Randive, P., Dalal, Probing the Infl uence of Superhydro- Microfl uidics and 17 657-674 2014 A., and Mukherjee, phobicity and Mixed Wettability on Nanofl uidics P. P. Droplet Displacement Behavior Sarkar, S., Ganguly, Analysis of Entropy Generation dur- ASME Journal of 136(6) 062501 2014 S., and Dalal, A. ing Mixed Convective Heat Transfer Heat Transfer (1-10) of Nanofl uids past a Rotating Circular Cylinder Dillip Kumar Development of an active catheter Journal of Mecha- 1-1 1-10 2014 Biswal, Dibakar mechanism using IPMC for invivo tronics and Auto- Bandopadhya , and inspection mation Santosha Kumar Dwivedy Dillip Kumar Theoretical and Experimental Inves- Journal of Mecha- 1-1 11-26 2014 Biswal, Dibakar tigation of Non-linear Vibration Re- tronics and Auto- Bandopadhya , and sponse of an IPMC Actuator Subjected mation Santosha Kumar to Alternating Electric Potential Dwivedy Chakraborty A new single strain gage technique for Engineering Frac- 124–125 142–154 2014 Debaleena, the accurate determination of mode ture Mechanics Murthy K S R K and I stress intensity factor in orthotropic Chakraborty D composite materials

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol, Issue, Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. VK Mishra, SC Combined Mode Conduction and 11th International Conference October - Mishra & DN Basu Radiation Heat Transfer in a 2-D on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, 08-10, Porous Medium and Simultaneous Japan 2014 Estimation of its Optical Properties DN Sarkar & DN Thermodynamic Analysis of the Ef- 2nd International Conference on January 136-143 Basu fect of Generator Temperature on Advances in Mechanical Engi- 02-04, the Performance of a Single-eff ect neering and its Interdisciplinary 2015 Absorption Refrigeration Cycle Areas (ICAMEI 2015), Kolaghat, India P. Kumari, S. Behera, Accurate estimation of inter- Proceedings of ACMFMS 2014, 10-13 Oct. 449-452 S. Kapuria laminar stresses for the adhesively Japan 2014 bonded piezolaminated plates S. Behera, P. Kumari Assessment of IZIGT for boundary 5th International Congress on CSIR- 616-625 layer eff ects in levy-type smart Computational Mechanics and Chennai piezolaminated plate Simulation (ICCMS) 10-13 Dec. 2014 P. Kumar, S. K. Nonlinear Dynamic analysis of 6th International Conference IIT Kharag- ---- Dwivedy, P. Kumari piezoelectric based energy har- on Theoretical, Applied, Com- pur 29-31 vester putational and Experimental Dec. 2014 Mechanics (ICTACEM) P. Kumar, S. K. Dynamic analysis of piezoelectric 12th International Conference IIT Guwa- Abstract Dwivedy, P. Kumari based energy harvester under on Vibration Problems (ICOVP) hati 14-17 Submitted periodic excitation Dec, 2015 Kishor Kumar Ga- Experimental Comparative Study Proceedings of the International 8-9 Aug., pp. 866- jrani, Sumit Shekhar, of Conventional, Micro-textured Colloquium on Materials Manu- 2014 869 M. Ravi Sankar and Coated Micro-textured Cut- facturing and Metrology ting Tools in Machining RokkhamPavan Ku- Experimental comparative study of 5th International and 26th 12-14 pp. 51(1-6) mar Reddy, Kishor conventional and micro-textured National All India Manufacturing Dec., 2014 Kumar Gajrani, M. tools during machining of AISI Technology Design and Re- Ravi Sankar 1040 alloy steel search (AIMTDR-2014) M. Ravi Sankar, Experimental investigations on 5th International and 26th 12-14 pp. 619(1- Tarun Kumar, Kishor CO2 laser micro texturing on near- National All India Manufacturing Dec., 2014 6) Kr. Gajrani, J. Swami- titanium alloy (IMI 834) Technology Design and Re- nathan, U. S. Dixit search (AIMTDR-2014) Arbind Prasad, Experimental Investigations of Ni/ 5th International and 26th 12-14 55(1-6) Dheeraj Gupta, M. La2O3 Composite Micro-Cladding National All India Manufacturing Dec,2014 Ravi Sankar, A.N. on AISI 1040 Steel through Micro- Technology Design and Re- Reddy wave Irradiation search (AIMTDR-2014) Y.chittara, A.yadav, Eff ect of calcination temperature International Conference (PFAM- 5-7 Vol-1, 65- M. Ravi Sankar, on quality of HAp fabricated from 2014) Dec,2014 77 Arbind Prasad, fi shscale biowastes B.N.Mondal, N.Mondal U. Batra Arbind Prasad, B. Micro-scratch based tribological International Conference (IC- 14-15 Devender, M. Ravi characterization of Hydroxyapatite MPC-2015) March, Sankar, P.S. Robi (HAp) Fabricated Through Fish 2015 Scales

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol, Issue, Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. Sachin Singh, M. Modeling of Finishing Forces and 5thInternational & 26thAll India December pp. 49(1-6) Ravi Sankar, V. K. Surface Roughness in Abrasive Manufacturing Technology, 12th–14th, Jain, J. Ramkumar Flow Finishing (AFF) Process using Design and Research Conference 2014 Rheological Properties (AIMTDR 2014), IIT Guwahati Sachin Singh, M. Design and Performance Evalu- 4th International Conference on March Ravi Sankar ation of Abrasive Flow Finishing Materials Processing and Charac- 14th -15th Process during Finishing of Stain- terization (ICMPC 2015), GRIET, , 2015 less Steel Tubes Hyderabad RasmiRanjan Behe- Experimental Study on Micro- 5thInternational & 26thAll India December pp. 380(1- ra, M.Ravi Sankar, In- machining of 304 Stainless Steel Manufacturing Technology, 12th–14th, 6) drajeet Kumar, A. K. Under Water Using Pulsed Nd:YAG Design and Research Conference 2014 Sharma, AlikaKhare, Laser Beam (AIMTDR 2014), IIT Guwahati J.Swaminathan Rasmi Ranjan Be- State of the art on Under Liquid 4th International Conference on March hera, M. Ravi Sankar Laser Beam Machining Materials Processing and Charac- 14th -15th terization (ICMPC 2015), GRIET, , 2015 Hyderabad Hakeem Niyas, Tan- Performance Investigation of International Conference on 18-20th vir E Alam, Muthu- Packed Bed Latent Heat Thermal Polygeneration (ICP 2015), Chen- Feb. 2015 kumar P, JaspreetD- Energy Storage Systems nai, hau, Goswami DY Rao CHC, Muthuku- Performance Comparison of Sen- International Conference on 18-20th mar P, Somayaji CM sible Heat Storage Beds for Solar Polygeneration (ICP 2015), Chen- Feb. 2015 Thermal Power Plant Applications nai, Muthukumar P, Sel- Performance Tests on Compressor- International Conference on 18-20th van VP, Manojkumar Driven Metal Hydride Based Cool- Polygeneration (ICP 2015), Chen- Feb. 2015 SP, Imran M ing System nai, Hakeem Thermal characterization of phase 23rd International Conference 5-7th Niyas,Shukla change materials used for thermal on Processing and Fabrication of December AK,MuthukumarP energy storage in solar thermal Advanced Materials, , IIT Roorkee 2014 power plants S. K. Singh, S. S. Gau- Eff ect of Diff erent Surface Coatings 5th International and 26th Na- December tam and U. S. Dixit on Laser Forming of Mild Steel tional All India Manufacturing, 12th-14th, Sheets Technology, Design and Re- 2014 search Conference, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India. Arpan Kumar A comparative study on weld qual- 5th International and 26th All December Mondal, Biswas Pan- ity between square and v-groove India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, kaj & Swarup Bag submerged arc welded butt joint Design and Research Conference 2014 AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati Arpan Kumar Prediction of weld induced angu- 5th International and 26th All December Mondal, Biswas Pan- lar distortion of single sided and India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, kaj, Swarup Bag & double sided fi llet joint by SAW Design and Research Conference 2014 Manas M Mohapatra process AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati Sujoy Tikader, A Study on Tooling and Its Eff ect 5th International and 26th All December Biswas Pankaj & Asit on Heat Generation and Mechani- India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, Puri cal Properties of Welded Joints in Design and Research Conference 2014 Friction Stir Welding AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol, Issue, Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. Rakesh Bhadra, Eff ect of process parameters on 5th International and 26th All December Biswas Pankaj and thermal history of laser welding of India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, M. Ravi Sankar AISI-304 stainless steel Design and Research Conference 2014 AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati Rakesh Bhadra, A Literature Review On Co2 Laser 5th International and 26th All December Biswas Pankaj and Welding India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, M. Ravi Sankar Design and Research Conference 2014 AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati Arun Kadian & Prediction of Thermal History of 5th International and 26th All December Biswas Pankaj Friction Stir Welding by Consider- India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, ing Combined Stick & Slip Condi- Design and Research Conference 2014 tion of AA1100 AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati Arun Kadian & Eff ect of tool geometry and pro- 5th International and 26th All December Biswas Pankaj cess parameters on the material India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, fl ow of friction stir welding Design and Research Conference 2014 AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati Biplab Das & Biswas Development of a Mathemati- 5th International and 26th All December Pankaj cal Formulation for generating India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, of compound curved surfaces by Design and Research Conference 2014 laser line heating AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati Chandan Kumar, A 3-D fi nite element analysis of 5th International and 26th All December Manas Das & Biswas transient temperature profi le of India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, Pankaj laser welded Titanium (Ti-6Al-4V) Design and Research Conference 2014 alloy AIMTDR, IIT Guwahati S. Agarwal, S. Parvat, Numerical analysis of a coaxial Proceedings of 5th International December and N. Sahoo surface junction thermocouple and 41st National Conference on 12-14, for transient measurement in the Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 exhaust of an internal combustion (FMFP), IIT Kanpur engine S. Brahmachary, G. A hybrid aerodynamic shape Proceedings of 5th International December Natarajan and N. optimization approach for axisym- and 41st National Conference on 12-14, Sahoo metric body in hypersonic fl ow Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 (FMFP), IIT Kanpur S. Sarma and N. Computational study of a thin fi lm Proceedings of 5th International December Sahoo heat transfer gauges for transient and 41st National Conference on 12-14, measurements Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 (FMFP), IIT Kanpur S. Sarma, S. Agarwal Numerical and experimental study Proceedings of 6th International December and N. Sahoo for measurement of exhaust gas Conference on Theoretical, 29-31, temperature and heat fl ux using Applied, Computational and 2014 thermal sensors in an internal Experimental Mechanics (ICTA- combustion engine CEM), IIT Kharagpur, S. Brahmachary, G. Multi-fi delity shape optimization Proceedings of 6th International December Natarajan and N. framework for hypersonic fl ows Conference on Theoretical, 29-31, Sahoo Applied, Computational and 2014 Experimental Mechanics (ICTA- CEM), IIT Kharagpur, H. Mishra, S. Bharati, Chemical kinetics for combustion Frontier Energy Research with 20-21st G. Natarajan, N. of biofuels – A numerical study Industry Academic Partnership, March Sahoo ,FERIAP 2015, IIT Guwahati, 2015 Guwahati

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol, Issue, Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. Prakash Kumar Sahu Optimization of process param- IIW International welding con- 9-11 April, pp. 718- and Sukhomay Pal eters on infl uencing mechanical gress (IC 2014) 2014 723 properties of friction stir welded AM20 Magnesium Alloy Biswajit Parida and Statistical analysis on tensile prop- IIW International welding con- 9-11 April, Sukhomay Pal erty of friction stir welded alumi- gress (IC 2014) 2014 mium alloy D. Yaduwanshi, S. Dissimilar hybrid friction stir weld- IIW International welding con- 9-11 April, Bag and Sukhomay ing of pure copper and AA1100 gress (IC 2014) 2014 Pal Biswajit Parida and Eff ect of Process Parameters on AIMTDR 2014 12-14 Sukhomay Pal Tensile Properties of Friction Stir Dec., 2014 Welded Joints Bipul Das, Sukho- Monitoring of friction stir welding AIMTDR 2014 12-14 may Pal, Swarup Bag process through signals acquired December, during the welding 2014 D. Yaduwanshi, S. Eff ect of Preheating on Mechanical AIMTDR 2014 12-14 Pal and S. Bag Properties of Hybrid Friction Stir December, Welded Dissimilar Joint 2014 Prakash Kumar Eff ect of shoulder diameter and AIMTDR 2014 12-14 Sahu, Sukhomay Pal plunging depth on mechanical December, properties and thermal history of 2014 friction stir welded magnesium alloy U.S. Dixit and S.M. Developments in autofrettage Aspects of Mechanical Engineer- December Kamal process, Keynote paper ing for Industry, NERIST, Nirjuli, 6-8, 2014 India Rosang Pongen, U.S. Preliminary experimental studies Aspects of Mechanical Engineer- December Dixit and D. Sharma on laser tube bending process ing for Industry, NERIST, Nirjuli, 6-8, 2014 India V. Yadav, A.K. Singh An effi cient inverse method for de- 5th International and 26th All December and U.S. Dixit termining the material parameters India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, and coeffi cient of friction in warm Design and Research Confer- 2014 rolling process ence, IIT Guwahati, India S. M. Kamal and U.S. Feasibility study of thermal auto- 5th International and 26th All December Dixit frettage process India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, Design and Research Confer- 2014 ence, IIT Guwahati, India A. Eideh, U. S. Dixit A Simple Analytical Model of Laser 5th International and 26th All December and R. Echempati Bending Process India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, Design and Research Confer- 2014 ence, IIT Guwahati, India Besufekad N. Fetne Finite element simulations of laser 5th International and 26th All December and U. S. Dixit bending of small sized sheets India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, Design and Research Confer- 2014 ence, IIT Guwahati, India Gutu J. Woldetinsay, Surface Alloying of Aluminum with 5th International and 26th All December Mamilla Ravi Sankar Copper using CO2 Laser India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, and U. S. Dixit Design and Research Confer- 2014 ence, IIT Guwahati, India

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol, Issue, Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. Kant Ravi and Joshi Experimental studies on laser 3rd International Conference on January S. N. bending of magnesium M1A alloys Laser and Plasma Applications in 15th-17th, sheets Materials Science 2015 Bolar Gururaj, Joshi 3D fi nite element modeling of 5th International and 26th All December pp. 135 (1) S. N. thin-wall machining of aluminum India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, - 135 (6) 7075-T6 alloy Design and Research Conference 2014 AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati Bhuyan Parag M., Experimental investigation on la- 5th International and 26th All December pp. 708(1) Kant Ravi, Joshi S.N. ser bending of metal sheets using India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, - 708(6) parabolic irradiations Design and Research Conference 2014 AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati Singh SS, Shantaku- Fabrication of Micro-Channels on 5th International and 26th All December pp. 878(1) marKh., Khare A and Mild Steel Using Laser Induced India Manufacturing Technology, 12-14, - 878(5) Joshi S.N. Micro-Machining Design and Research Conference 2014 AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati, Bolar Gururaj, Joshi Three dimensional fi nite ele- Processing and fabrication of Dec 05-07, S. N. ment modeling and simulation of advanced materials PFAM XXIII, 2014 curvilinear thin-wall machining of IIT Roorkee aluminum 7075-T6 alloy Banerjee A, Roy S, Unsteady fl ow analysis around an ASME Gas Turbine India Confer- December Paper No. Mukherjee P, and elliptic-bladed savonius-style wind ence, New Delhi 15-17, GTINDIA Saha UK turbine 2014 2014 -8141 Roy S, Mukherjee P, Aerodynamic performance evalua- ASME Gas Turbine India Confer- December Paper and Saha UK tion of a novel savonius-style wind ence, New Delhi 15-17, No. GTIN turbine under an oriented jet 2014 DIA 2014- 8152 Bora BJ, Saha UK, Eff ect of load level on the perfor- 5th International (& 41st Nation- December -- Chatterjee S, and mance and emission characteris- al) Conference on Fluid Mechan- 12-14, Veer V tics of a biogas run dual fuel diesel ics and Fluid Power, IIT Kanpur. 2014 engine Zayoud A, Sarbassov Infl uence of aeration on the hydro- 5th International (& 41st Nation- December -- Y, Mahanta P, Saha dynamic behaviour of pressurized al) Conference on Fluid Mechan- 12-14, UK, Gu S circulating fl uidized bed ics and Fluid Power, IIT Kanpur. 2014 Bora BJ, and Saha On the attainment of optimum ASME 12th Biennial Conference June Paper UK injection timing for pilot fuel in on Engineering Systems Design 25–27, No. ESDA a dual fuel diesel engine run on and Analysis, Copenhagen, 2014 2014- biogas Denmark 20162 Verma VS, Bora BJ, Experimental investigation of a ASME 12th Biennial Conference June Paper Sarkar A, and Saha dual fuel diesel engine run on on Engineering Systems Design 25–27, No. ESDA UK scrubbed biogas using the meth- and Analysis, Copenhagen, 2014 2014- od of adsorption Denmark. 20164 Roy S, and Saha UK Performance of a Savonius-style ASME Turbo Expo 2014, Dussel- June 16 – Paper No. vertical axis wind turbine under a dorf, Germany 20, 2014 GT 2014 - concentrated and oriented jet 26518 Pandey, P., Dalal A., Bubble Formation in Film Boiling IUTAM Symposium on Multi- December and Biswas G. including Electrohydrodynamic phase Flows with Phase Change: 8-11, 2014 Forces Challenges and Opportunities

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol, Issue, Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. Bajpai, A., Manik, Computation of Variable Density 5th International and 41st December J., Parmananda, M., Flows on Hybrid Unstructured National Conference on Fluid 12-14, Dalal A., and Natara- Grids Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 jan G. Das, D., and Dalal, A. Numerical Simulation of Solidifi - 5th International and 41st December cation and Melting Problems on National Conference on Fluid 12-14, Unstructured Grid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 Dusad, S., Manik, J., Evaluating Turbulence Model on 5th International and 41st December and Dalal, A. Hybrid Unstructured Meshes for National Conference on Fluid 12-14, Wall Bounded Flows Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 Kotoky, S., Dalal, A., Eulerian-Eulerian Modeling of Dis- 5th International and 41st December and Natarajan, G. persed Laminar Gas-particle Flows National Conference on Fluid 12-14, over an Unstructured Grid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 Manik, J., Dalal, A., A Hybrid Grid Based Algebraic Vol- 5th International and 41st December and Natarajan, G. ume of Fluid Method for Interfacial National Conference on Fluid 12-14, Flows Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 Randive, P., Bhard- Lattice Boltzmann Modelling of 5th International and 41st December waj, S., and Dalal, A. Capillarity-Induced Resonance of National Conference on Fluid 12-14, Blob Inside a Circular Tube Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 Sathisha, H. M., and 3D Unsteady Numerical Simula- 5th International and 41st December Dalal, A. tion of All-Vanadium Redox Flow National Conference on Fluid 12-14, Battery Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 Sunil, G. N., Dalal, A., Computation of Flow Coupled 5th International and 41st December and Natarajan, G. with the Electric Field on Unstruc- National Conference on Fluid 12-14, tured Grid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2014 Chakraborty, D and Optimal locations of collocated/ 10th International Conference 9-11th Rathore, P non-collocated sensors/actuators on Vibration Engineering and Septem- in smart composite shell structures Technology of Machinery (VE- ber 2014 TOMAC X), University of Man- chester, UK Book

Page Name of Author/s Title of Book Publisher ISBN Year No. U. S. Dixit, R. G. Proceedings of 5th International and 26th All 978-8-19274- 2014 Narayanan, M. Ravi India Manufacturing Technology, Design and 612-8 Sankar Research Conference (AIMTDR-2014) P. M. Dixit and U. Plasticity: Fundamentals and Applications CRC Press, 583 978-1-4665- 2015 S. Dixit Boca Raton 0618-3 M. Hazarika and U. Setup Planning for Machining Springer, New 137 978- 2015 S. Dixit York 3319133195

Book Chapter Name of Title of Chapter Title of Book Publisher Page No. ISBN Year Author/s Rakesh Bhadra, A literature review on CO2 Laser Based Manu- Springer 381-398 978-81- 2015 Pankaj Biswas, M. laser welding facturing 322-2351- Ravi Sankar 1

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Name of Title of Chapter Title of Book Publisher Page No. ISBN Year Author/s Woldetinsay Jiru, Surface alloying of alumi- Laser Based Manu- Springer 107-116 978-81- 2015 M. Ravi Sankar, U. num with copper using CO2 facturing 322-2351- S. Dixit laser 1 Sachin S. Gautam Continuum Damage Me- Plasticity: Fun- CRC Press, 461-514 978146 2014 chanics and Ductile Fracture damentals and Boca Raton 6506183 Applications By U. S. Dixit and P. M. Dixit S Arun and S. Polymer-Nanotube nano- Polymer Nanotube Scrivener 187-210 978-1-118- 2014 Kanagaraj composites for trans-femo- Nanocomposites Publishing 94592-6 ral socket Inc, Wiley, USA B. Bhaskar, S. Biomaterials in Total Hip Trends in Bioma- Pan Stan- 978981 2015 Arun, P. S. Rama Joint Replacements: The terials ford, Singa- 4613989 Sreekanth, S. evolution of basic concepts, pore Kanagaraj trends and current limita- tions: A review R.M. Guedes, Ultra high molecular weight Polyethylene John Wiley 978-1-118- 2015 S.Kanagaraj, polyethylene and its re- based blends, and Scriv- 83128-1 P.S.R. Sreekanth, inforcement with carbon composites and ener pub- Monica Oliveira, nanotubes in medical nanocomposites lishing M. Fonseca devices Kumar Mondal Prediction of Weld Induced Advances in Mate- Springer - - 2015 Arpan, Biswas Angular Distortion of Single rial Forming and Pankaj, Bag Swa- Sided and Double Sided Fil- Joining, rup and Mahapa- let Joint by SAW Process tra M. M. Das Biplab and Mathematical formulation Laser Based Manu- Springer - - 2015 Biswas Pankaj for the Development of facturing Compound Curve Surface by Laser Line Heating Kumar Chandan, A 3-D fi nite element analysis Laser Based Manu- Springer - - 2015 Das Manas and of transient temperature facturing Biswas Pankaj profi le of laser welded Ti- 6AL-4V alloy CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

National/In- Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date ternational Dr. Poonam 4th Asian Conference on Mechanics of Func- Nara, Japan 10-13 Oct 2014 International Kumari tional Materials and Structures (ACMFMS) Dr. P. Muthukumar 2nd World Congress on Petrochemistry and Las Vegas October 27-29, International Chemical Engineering 2014 2014 Dr. P. Muthukumar International Conference on Polygeneration Chennai 18-20 Feb 2015 International (ICP 2015), Chennai Dr. Sachin S. 5th International and 26th National All India IIT Guwahati, 12.12.2014- International Gautam Manufacturing, Technology, Design and Guwahati, As- 14.12.2014 and National Research Conference sam, India

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National/In- Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date ternational Dr. S. Kanagaraj Indo-Australian Conference on Biomaterials, Chennai 5-7 Feb 2015 International Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery System & Regenerative Medicine (BiTERM 2015) Dr. S. Kanagaraj International Conference on Advancements Bangalore 20-22 Feb 2015 International in Polymeric Materials (APM 2015) Dr. S. Kanagaraj IITG-KIT Joint Symposium on Biobased Guwahati 20 Jan 2015 International Materials Dr. Pankaj Biswas 5th International and 26th All India Manu- IIT Guwahati December 12- International facturing Technology, Design and Research 14, 2014 Conference AIMTDR 2014 Dr. U.S. Dixit Aspects of Mechanical Engineering for NERIST, Nirjuli, December 6-8, National Industry, NERIST, Nirjuli, India India 2014 Dr. U.S. Dixit 5th International and 26th All India Manu- IIT Guwahati, December 12- International/ facturing Technology, Design and Research India 14, 2014 National Conference, IIT Guwahati, India Dr. S. N. Joshi 3rd International Conference on Laser and Lake Land Coun- January 15th- International Plasma Applications in Materials Science try Club, Kolkata 17th, 2015 Dr. S. N. Joshi 5th International and 26th All India Manu- IIT Guwahati December 12- International facturing Technology, Design and Research 14, 2014 Conference AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati Dr. Deepak 5th International and 26th All India Manu- Guwahati 12-14 Decem- International Sharma facturing Technology, Design and Research ber 2014 and National Conference AIMTDR 2014 Dr. A. Dalal 5th International and 41st National Confer- IIT Kanpur December 12- International ence on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power 14, 2014 Dr. Debabarata VETOMAC X University of 9-11 Septem- International Chakraborty Manchester, UK ber, 2014

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Dr. P. Muthu- Research Activities on Hydrogen and Ther- Clean Energy Re- Florida, USA 11th June, kumar mal Energy Storage Systems and Porous search Centre, 2014 Medium Combustion at IIT Guwahati University of South Florida, USA Dr. M. Ravi Applications of Polymer Rheological - Chennai August 01, Sankar Abrasive Medium in Finishing of Human 2014. Implants Dr. M. Ravi Nano Finishing of Human Implants IIT Guwahati Guwahati Dec 15-16, Sankar 2014 Dr. M. Ravi Micro-manufacturing IIT Guwahati Guwahati Feb 23-27, Sankar 2015. Dr. Pankaj Overview of Welding Processes NIT Agartala NIT Agartala, 30/01/2014 Biswas India Dr. Pankaj Welding Joint Design NIT Agartala NIT Agartala, 30/01/2014 Biswas India Dr. Pankaj Resent research in welding technology NIT Agartala NIT Agartala, 31/01/2014 Biswas India

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Dr. Pankaj Defect and testing of welded sample NIT Agartala NIT Agartala, 31/01/2014 Biswas India Dr. Pankaj Distortion & residual stress control in Weld- IIT Guwahati Guwahati, India 23/12/2014 Biswas ing Dr. Pankaj Physics of welding IIT Guwahati Guwahati, India 30/12/2014 Biswas Dr. Pankaj Principles of welding processes IIT Guwahati Guwahati, India 30/12/2014 Biswas Dr. Pankaj Testing and defects assessment in fusion IIT Guwahati Guwahati, India 31/12/2014 Biswas welding Dr. S. N. Joshi Bending of diffi cult-to-form materials using APM 2015 orga- IISc Bangalore February Lasers nized by Advanced 20-21, 2015 Research School for Technology and Product Simulation (ARSTPS), R&D wing of CIPET Dr. A. Dalal Simulation of Droplet Motion on Mixed Department of Hyderabad 04.03.15 Wettability Surface Chemical Engineer- ing, IIT Hyderabad

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Remarks Prof. Suman Professor, Department of Mechanical Health-care Engineering for September Chakraborty Engineering IIT Kharagpur Medical Diagnostics 23, 2014 Prof. Uma Professor and Head, Dept. of Materials & Unleashing Potentials of Na- July 25, Batra Metallurgical Engg., PEC Univ. of Technol- noscale Bioceramics 2014 ogy, Chandigarh Prof. N. R. IIT Kharagpur Thermo-mechanical tensioning 19/03/2015 Invited Manal in welding structure Lectures Prof. IIT Bombay Welding & Sheet Metal Form- 16/03/2015 Invited Prashant P. ing Lectures Date Mr. Muneesh IWS / Ador Fontech Ltd. Thermal Coating 19/03/2015 Invited Narain Lectures

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED

Name of Faculty Sl. International/ No. of par- (Convener/ Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date No. National ticipants Co-ordinator, etc.) 1 Dr. K. Kalita, Dr. A. Brainstorming Workshop on CET, IIT October 08, International 50 Dalal, Dr. S. Kanagaraj Development of Processes Guwahati 2014 & Dr. D. N. Basu & Devices for Bio-medical Applications 2 Dr. D. N. Basu & Dr. A. Workshop on State of the TEQIP, CET, January 09, National 41 Dalal Art in Microfl uidics IIT Guwahati 2015

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Name of Faculty Sl. International/ No. of par- (Convener/ Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date No. National ticipants Co-ordinator, etc.) 3 Dr. M. Ravi Sankar, Dr. TEQIP sponsored short MHRD, CET- 15-16 Dec., National 42 K. S. R. K. Murthy term course on Advanced IITG 2014 Machining and Finishing processes 4 Dr. M. Ravi Sankar QIP sponsored short term AICTE, 23-27 Feb., National 30 course on Micro manu- MHRD 2015 facturing for biomedical applications 5 Dr. Pankaj Biswas & Modern Scenario on Wild- CET, IIT 16th to 20th National 56 Dr. S. D. Kore ling Technology (Short-Term Guwahati March 2015 Courses) 6 Dr. Manas Das and Micromanufacturing QIP December National 30 Dr. Sukhomay Pal 22-26, 2014 7 Dr. U. S. Dixit (Orga- 5th International and 26th DST, AERB, December International/ 400 nizing Secy.), Dr. R. All India Manufacturing ONGC, AM- 12-14, 2014 National Ganesh Narayanan Technology, Design and ETEK etc. and Dr. M. Ravi San- Research Conference, IIT kar (Jt. Organizing Guwahati, India Secy.) 8 Dr. S. N. Joshi Recent Developments in Zwick Roell 23rd Janu- National 45 Materials Testing Testing Ma- ary 2015 chines Pvt. Ltd. 9 Dr. S. N. Joshi Quality Improvement AICTE March 23- National 37 Program Short Term Course 27, 2015 on “Micro-manufacturing Technologies” 10 Dr. Deepak Sharma QIP Short-term course on CET, IIT 28th National 29 Genetic Algorithms for Engi- Guwahati December neering Optimization 2014 – 1st January 2015 11 Dr. D. N. Basu and Dr. A state of the art in Micro- TEQIP 09.01.15 National 40 A. Dalal fl uidics 12 Dr. K. Kalita and Dr. A. Development of processes TEQIP 08.10.14 National 40 Dalal and devices for bio-medical applications 13 Dr. A. Narayana Theory and Applications of QIP 23rd -27th National 40 Reddy and Dr. K. S. R. Finite Element Analysis March, 2015 Krishna Murthy 14 Prof. P. Muthukumar Advancement in Renew- QIP 2nd March National 40 and Dr. Chandramo- able Energy and Utilization – 6th March han Somayaji Technologies 2015 15 Prof . P. Muthukumar Recent Trends in Renewable TEQIP January 23- National 40 and Dr. Chandramo- Energy Utilization Systems 24, 2015 han Somayaji

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PATENTS

Date Sl. Name of Faculty and Name Applied/ Application No. Remarks No. co researcher Granted 1 Mishra SC, Muthuku- Porous Radiant Burner for Domestic - Patent Number: Patent has mar P, Pantangi VK LPG Cooking Device with Improved 73/KOL/2013 and been pub- Thermal Effi ciency and Reduced Emis- Reference Number: lished sions of CO and NOx E-2/548/2013-KOL 2 Subhash C. Mishra, Self-Aspirated LPG Domestic Cooking - Accepted for pub- - Muthukumar P and Stove with a Two-Layer Porous Radiant lishing Niraj Kumar Mishra Burner 3 Subhash C. Mishra, P. Medium-Scale Self-Aspirated Improved Submitted to Muthukumar P, Niraj Air Entrainment LPG Cooking Stove TIFAC, New Delhi, Kumar Mishra and with a Two-Layer Porous Radiant Burner November 2014 SnehasishPanigrahi 4 S. Arun and S. Kanaga- Injection mouldable polymeric com- Applied 2761/DEL/2014 raj posite based passive polycentric knee joint 5 S. Arun, Mrutyunjay A walking simulator to test walking Applied 630/DEL/2015 Maharana, S. Kanaga- condition of prosthetic knee joint be- raj fore fi tting to the patient 6 Swapnita Kakati, S. Nanofuel composition and perfor- Applied 43/KOL/2015 Kanagaraj mance enhancement of conventional domestic kerosene stoves using the same

AWARDS AND HONOURS 1. Dr. M. Ravi Sankar: Institution of Engineers India (IEI) Young Engineer Award in Production Engineering, 2014 2. Dr.P.Muthukumar: President (Elect), Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE), Guwahati sub-chapter from March 2015 onwards 3. Dr.P.Muthukumar: Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship (BASE Fellowship), Indo - U.S. Science and Technology Forum, Visited Clean Energy Research Centre, University of South Florida, USA from June – November 2014. 4. Dr. D. Sharma: Received NVIDIA Innovation Award 2014 in 21st IEEE International Conference of High Performance Computing, December 17-20, 2014, Goa, India, for uniquely using graphics card in structure topology optimization problem. STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS 1. Mr. S. Arun received fi rst prize in Best Innovation Award-2015 for the project of “Injection mouldable polymeric composite based passive polycentric knee joint” by the GHR Labs & Research Center, Nagpur with cash prize of Rs.1 lakh. 2. Mr. S. Arun received an appreciation under MLM (More from Less for Many) category from Dr.R.A.Mashelkar, Chairperson, National Innovation Foundation - India (NIF) during the Festival of Innovation at Rashtrapati Bhawan New Delhi on March 8, 2015 for his work on “Injection Mouldable Polymeric Composite Based Passive Polycentric Knee joint.”

SPECIAL MENTION a). student participation in conferences R.Vignesh Babu, International conference & Exhibition PM 15 on Powder metallurgy and particulate materials, Mumbai, 19-21 Jan’2015. Devarshi Kashyap, Indo-Australian Conference on Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery System & Regenerative Medicine (BiTERM 2015), Chennai, 5-7 Feb’2015 b). Mr. Pranjol Paul, Technical Offi cer, was lected as an Associate Member of Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Assam State Centre.

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FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1 Bag, Swarup IIT Bombay Assistant Fusion welding processes, Finite element method, Laser Professor microjoining, Heat transfer and fl uid fl ow in fusion welding, Residual stress and distortion, Recrystallization in hot metal forming process, Optimization in manufacturing process 2 Bandopadhya, IIT Kanpur Associate Active materials, Artifi cial muscle materials, Smart Dibakar Professor structures, Robotics and mechanism, Composites, MEMS, Bio inspired design 3 Banerjee, Atanu IIT Kanpur Assistant Complaint Mechanism, Shape memory alloy, Bio- Professor memetic devices 4 Basu, Dipankar IIT Kharagpur Assistant Nuclear Thermalhydraulics, Supercritical Natural Narayan Professor Circulation Loops, Domestic Air-conditioning, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer 5 Biswas, Pankaj IIT Kharagpur Associate Manufacturing and Design: Computational weld Professor mechanics, Solid state welding, Soft computing modeling of welding processes, FEM, Line heating 6 Biswas, Gautam IIT Kharagpur Professor and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Convective Heat Director of Transfer, Turbulence, Boiling Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer the Institute Augmentation, Turbomachinery 7 Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur Professor FRP, Composites, FEM, Fracture Mechanics and Design Debabrata 8 Dalal, Amaresh IIT Kanpur Associate Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Professor Finite Volume Methods and Unstructured Grid Techniques, Natural and Mixed Convection Flows 9 Das, Manas IIT Kanpur Assistant Advanced Finishing and Nano-fi nishing Processes, Professor Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF) Process, Advanced / Non-traditional Machining Processes, Machining of Advanced Engineering Materials, Micromanufacturing 10 Dass, Anoop K. IISc Bangalore Professor Computational Fluid Dynamics and Turbomachines (Head of the Department) 11 De, Arnab Kumar IIT Kanpur Assistant Numerical Methods in Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer, Professor Convection, Turbulence 12 Dixit, Uday S. IIT Kanpur Professor Design and Manufacturing : FEM, Neural Network and Fuzzy Set Application; Mechatronics 13 Dwivedy, IIT Kharagpur Professor Non-linear Dynamics, Design and Robotics, vibrations Santosha K. 14 Gadgil, Hrishikesh IISc Bangalore Assistant Liquid atomization and fuel sprays, combustion, P. Professor propulsion 15 Gautam, Sachin S. IIT Kanpur Assistant Design and Manufacturing : Nonlinear Finite Element Professor Analysis, Computational Contact Impact Analysis, Adhesion, Rough Surfaces, Time Integration Schemes, Mixed Time Integration Schemes, Plasticity, Ductile Fracture, Continuum Damage Mechanics

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 16 Joshi, Shrikrishna IIT Bombay Assistant Micro fabrication: Laser micro forming, Micro N. Professor machining: Micro electric discharge machining (EDM), Web based manufacturing, Process modeling and optimization of advanced manufacturing processes, Application of soft computing techniques in manufacturing 17 Kakoty, Sashindra IIT Kharagpur Professor Tribology, Duct Acoustics, Mechanical System Design, K. Rural Technology 18 Kalita, Karuna University of Associate Rotordynamics, Coupled Dynamics of Electro- Nottingham Professor Mechanical Systems, Vibration 19 Kanagaraj, S. IIT Kharagpur Associate Biomaterials, Carbon nanotubes based Professor nanocomposites, Nanofl uids, Materials characterization 20 Kore, Sachin D. IIT Bombay Associate Experimental and numerical study of electromagnetic Professor pulse processing, Solid state welding, Joining of similar, dissimilar and lightweight metals like Al, Steel, Al-Li, and Mg 21 Kulkarni, Vinayak IISc Bangalore Associate High enthalpy fl ows, scramjet engine, experimental, Professor aerodynamics, measurement science, CFD simulations 22 Kumari, Poonam IIT Delhi Assistant Theory of plates and shells, Computational mechanics, Professor Smart structures 23 Kumar, Bhaskar - Assistant Hydrodynamic Stability, Bluff Body Flows, (Joined on 10.03.2015) Professor Computational Fluid Dynamics 24 Madhusudhana, IISc Bangalore Assistant Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Cooling Gavara Professor of Electronics, Multi-phase fl ows, Cooling at Micro/Mini scales, Turbulent Fluid Flow and Heat transfer 25 Mahanta, IIT Guwahati Professor Thermal Radiation with Participating Media, Pinakeswar Fluidization, Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy 26 Mishra, Subhash IIT Kanpur Professor Analysis of Heat Transfer Problems involving Thermal C. Radiation 27 Murthy, K. S. R. IIT Kharagpur Associate Finite Element Methods, Error Estimation and Fracture Krishna Professor Mechanics 28 Muthukumar, P. IIT Madras Professor Coupled heat and mass transfer analysis; Metal hydride based thermal machines, Conventional and Non- conventional refrigeration systems 29 Narayanan, IIT Bombay Associate Metal Forming: Sheet forming & Cold forging, Ganesh R. Professor Computer applications in Metal Forming 30 Natarajan, Ganesh IISc Bangalore Assistant Computational Fluid dynamics, Grid Adaptation, Error Professor Estimation, Immersed Boundary methods, Parallel computing, Biofl uid dynamics 31 Pal, Sukhomay IIT Kharagpur Associate Welding Process Monitoring and Control, Tool Professor Condition Monitoring, Non-Conventional Machining Process Application of Artifi cial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy logic in manufacturing 32 Panda, Satyajit IIT Kharagpur Associate Composite materials, Nonlinear vibrations, Smart Professor materials and structures, FEM, Functionally Graded materials and structures, Micromechanics.

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 33 Pandey, IIT Kanpur Professor Two-phase fl ow instabilities, Nuclear reactor thermal Manmohan hydraulics, Heat transfer in microchannels, Heat transfer in fl uidized beds 34 R, Sangamesh IISc Bangalore Assistant Kinematics and Dynamics of rigid multi-body systems, Deepak Professor Compliant Mechanisms, Topology Optimization, Static Balancing 35 Reddy, Narayana IISc Bangalore Assistant Inverse Problems, Biomechanics, Compliant Professor Mechanisms, Topology Optimization, Nonlinear FEM, MEMS and Design of Materials 36 Robi, P. S. IIT Bombay Professor Coating, Fracture Mechanics, Materials Processing, Metal Matrix composite, Metal Casting, P/M Processing 37 Saha, Ujjwal K. IIT Bombay Professor Propulsion, Turbomachinery, Wind Energy Conversion, Internal Combustion Engines 38 Sahasrabudhe, IISc Bangalore Professor Vibration and Noise, Condition Monitoring, CAD/CAM Anil D. (On deputation) 39 Sahoo, Niranjan IISc Bangalore Professor Fluid and Thermal Engineering, Aerodynamics, Gas Dynamics, Instrumentation, Measurements and Experiments in Fluid 40 Sankar, Ravi M. IIT Kanpur Assistant Machining & Advanced Machining Processes, MEMS & Professor NEMS, Sustainable Machining, Micromanufacturing, Composite Materials, Online monitoring of Manufacturing Processes, Tribology, Precision Engineering 41 Senthilvelan, S. IIT Madras Associate Composites, Fatigue, Wear and Failure Analysis Professor 42 Sharma, Deepak IIT Kanpur Assistant Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation, Professor Engineering Design and Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Multi-objective Optimization 43 Somayaji, Mississippi State Associate Renewable Energy, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Chandramohan University Professor Engine After treatment Systems, Design of Heat Transfer Equipments, Chemical Reaction Engineering 44 Saxena, Anupam University of Visiting Compliant Mechanisms, Topology Design, CAD, (Joined on 05.12.14) Pennysylvania, Associate Robotics, MEMs, Optimization, Large Deformation Philadelphia, PA, Professor Systems USA 45 Tiwari, Rajiv IIT Kanpur Professor Rotor Dynamics, Vibrations, Identifi cation in Mechanical Systems, Rolling Element Bearing Design and Analysis, Application of Active Magnetic Bearings in Rotors, Vibrations based Condition Monitoring of Industrial Rotating Machines 46 Unal , Aynur - Visiting Smart Systems and Services (Joined on 23.03.15) Professor

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT: 1995 vi) Computational lab vii) Furnace lab ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: viii) Material Science lab Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in ix) Solid State lab, Spectroscopy lab o Engineering Physics x) Semiconductor labs (02 Nos.) Master of Science (MSc) in xi) Holography and Optical imaging lab o Physics xii) Thin fi lm lab Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) xiii) Low temperature lab FACULTY STRENGTH: xiv) Electro-ceramics lab • Professor: 10 xv) High Energy Physics lab • Associate Professor: 12 xvi) Terahertz Photonics and Plasmonics lab • Assistant Professor: 12 MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: • Visiting Professor: 1 The major research focus of the department is evenly poised NUMBER OF NEW FACULTY JOINED: between diff erent branches of theoretical and experimental Assistant Professor: 2 Physics. The thrust areas are: (i) Optics (Theory & Experiments) LABORATORIES: (ii) Condensed Matter Physics (Theory and Experiments) The Department of Physics at IIT Guwahati has 23 (iii) High Energy Physics (Theory and Experiment) laboratories, with the following break up for teaching and (iv) Theoretical Physics research labs. (v) Laser and Photonics (a) Teaching Labs : (5 teaching laboratories) (vi) Amorphous and nanocrystalline semiconductor i) B. Tech 1st year lab-01 thin fi lms for solar cells and other devices. Thin fi lm and ii) M. Sc lab-01 Hetero-junction solar cells. iii) Numerical lab-01 (vii) Terahertz plasmonics and metamaterials. iv) Electronics lab-01 (viii) Astrophysics v) Advanced Physics lab-01 MAJOR INITIATIVES AND BREAKTHROUGH IN RESEARCH (b) Research labs: (18 research labs) AND DEVELOPMENT: i) Fiber optics lab A number of sponsored projects received funding from ii) Non linear optics lab different agencies and quite a number of them were iii) Laser and Photonics lab completed successfully, also a signifi cant number of research iv) XRD labs (02 Nos.) papers got published in diff erent reputed journals. v) Magnetism lab

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Gagan Kumar Plasmonic metamaterials based tera- SERB 26.65 3 years hertz guided wave devices

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b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsor- Co-Investi- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator ing Agency gator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Saurabh Phases of the interacting Bose Gas – simu- CSIR 14.20 None 2012- Basu lating quantum phenomena at large length 2015 scales Dr. Bosanta R. Design and implementation of a high DietY 67.21 Prof. A. Khare 2011-15 Boruah speed wavefront sensor of light beams Dr. Bosanta R. Design and implementation of confocal DST, SERB 89.66 Dr. U. Bora 2012-15 Boruah microscopes with spatiallight modulator based beam scanning and programmable beam manipulation mechanism Dr. Bipul Bhuyan Collaboration by Indian Physicists on Neu- DST 131.48 None 2012- trino Projects at Fermi Lab (USA) 2015 Dr. Tarak Nath Diff raction-less multidimensional light DST-SERB 18.82 3 years Dey propagation in coherently controlled media Dr. Subhradip Theory of phonon excitations in substitu- Swedish 51.44 Biplab San- 2012-14 Ghosh tionally disordered alloys Research yal, Uppsala Council, University, Sweden Sweden Prof. P. K. Giri Development of Semiconductor Nanowire CSIR 24.00 Prof. P. Gos- 2013- Based Advanced Bio-Sensors for Biomedi- wami 2016 cal Applications Dr. P. K. Factors Infl uencing Fast Ion Conduction In DST/SERB 30.25 none 3 years Padmanabhan Solids: Atomistic Modeling And Computer Simulation Studies On NASICON-type Solids Dr. D. Pamu Deposition and characterization of Ba5N- DST-Fast 15.00 - 3 Years b4O15-BaWO4 fi lms for complementary Track metal oxide semiconductor applications (Young Scientist in Physical Sciences) Dr. D. Pamu Dielectric and thermal characterization of BRFST 41.58 Dr. S. Thota 3 Years Mg(Zr0.05Ti0.95)O3 ceramics for micro- wave window applications Prof. A. Perumal Magnetic and magnetoresistance proper- DST 39.46 - 2014- ties of multilayer structured CoFeB alloy 2016 fi lms for spintronic applications Prof. S. Ravi Neutron Diff raction studies in Transition UGC- 03.00 - 2 years element doped LaCrO3 DAE-CSR, Mumbai Prof. S. Ravi Fe Doped In2O3 Thin Films: Growth Op- CSIR 14.36 - 3 years timization and Investigation of Electrical Transport, Magnetic and Optical Properties for Spintronics Applications Dr. Amarendra Parity-time symmetry in Nonlinear Optics DST-SERB 14.77 - 2014- K. Sarma 2017

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Amount Principal Sponsor- Co-Investi- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator ing Agency gator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Amarendra Optical force in a two and three level CSIR 11.72 2013- K. Sarma atomic system superimposed to an intense 2016 ultrashort pulsed laser fi eld beyond the rotating wave approximation Prof. A. Development of Ni-Mn based alloys ex- CSIR 18.6 None 2012-15 Srinivasan hibiting high magneto-caloric eff ect near room temperature Prof. A. Development of Heusler alloys based thin DRDO 34.92 None 2012-15 Srinivasan fi lms for magneto-caloric and spintronic application Dr. P. K. Iyer Design, Development and fabrication of DST 523 Prof. A. Srini- 2010-15 OLED organic solar cells & organic TFTs vasan, Dr. D. based on molecular polymeric & compos- Goswami, Dr. ite materials Md. Qureshi c) Completed Sponsored Projects: Spon- Amount Principal Co- Investi- Dura- Name of Project soring Sanctioned Investigator gator tion Agency (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Pratima Development of facilities for fabrication of amor- DST 50.00 - 21/2 Agarwal phous silicon-crystalline silicon Heterojunction years Solar cells Prof. Pratima Development of amorphous silicon based solar DRDO 34.00 - 4 years Agarwal cells on plastic and other fl exible substrate Dr. Bipul Search for new physics beyond Standard Model DST 38.00 - 3 years Bhuyan using data from Belle experiment and detector R & D for the superKEKB experiment Dr. D. Pamu Preparation and characterization of Mg2TiO4 DRDO 17.50 Prof. A. 3 years ceramics by mechanical alloying Perumal Dr. D. Pamu Fabrication of K0.5Na0.5NbO3 Ferroelectric Thin DAE - 18.00 - 3 years Film Capacitors by RF Magnetron Sputtering BRNS Prof. A. Pe- Development of Nano Composite Permanent DRDO 35.13 - 3 years rumal Magnets based on (FePt/Fe)n Multilayer Thin Films Prof. S. Ravi Critical Behavior Studies in SnO2 based Diluted DST 38.00 - 3 years Magnetic Semiconductors Dr. Ashwini K. Studies on laser-induced breakdown in liquid DST 31.80 Prof. Alika 3 years Sharma and solid-liquid interface Khare Prof. A. Srini- Development of polymer/bioactive glass nano- BRNS 24.48 - 3 years vasan composites

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National) Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. M. Singh, A. Yadav, Annealing induced electrical conduction Applied Surface 326 236-242 2015 S. Kumar and and band gap variation in thermally re- Science Pratima Agarwal duced grapheme oxide fi lms with diff erent sp2/sp3 fraction

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. Himanhsu S. Growth of wide-band gap nano-crystalline Journal of Elec- 44 922-928 2015 Jha, Asha Yadav, silicon carbide fi lms by HWCVD: Infl uence tronic Materials Mukesh Singh, of fi lament temperature on structural and Shailendra Kumar optoelectronic properties and Pratima Agarwal Himanhsu S. Jha Eff ects of substrate temperature on struc- Journal of materi- 26 2844-2850 2015 and Pratima tural and electrical properties of cubic als Science: Materi- Agarwal silicon carbide fi lms deposited by hot wire als in Electronics chemical vapor deposition technique Himanhsu S. High crystalline silicon carbide thin fi lms Journal of materi- 26 1381-1388 2015 Jha and Pratima grown at low substrate temperature by als Science: Materi- Agarwal HWCVD technique als in Electronics Mukesh Singh, Growth of large sp2 domain size single and Materials Letters 126 249-252 2014 Himanhsu S. multi-layer grapheme fi lms at low substrate Jha and Pratima temperature using hot fi lament chemical Agarwal vapor deposition Apurba Barman Phase Diagram of multi-component boson- Journal of Physics 48 55301 2015 and Saurabh Basu ic mixtures: emergence of mixed superfl uid B: Atomic, Mo- and insulating phases lecular and Optical Physics Apurba Barman Phase diagram of Correlated Bosons Journal of Physical 3 16007 2014 and Saurabh Basu Society of Japan (Conf. Series) Md. Gaff ar and B. R. Poynting vector profi le of a tightly focused JOSA A 32 (4) 660-668 2015 Boruah radially polarized beam in the presence of primary aberrations Md. Gaff ar and B. R. Generation of a boat-shaped beam due Journal of Optics 16 (10) 105709 2014 Boruah to a tightly focused comatically aberrated (IOP) azimuthally polarized beam Biswajit Pathak and Improved wavefront reconstruction algo- Journal of Optics 16(5) 55403 2014 B. R. Boruah rithm for Shack--Hartmann type wavefront (IOP) sensors D. Dutta, B. Bhuyan Search for B0sĺγγand a measurement of Phys. Rev. D 91, - 2015 et. al. (Belle the branching fraction for B0sĺγ 011101 Collaboration) B. Bhuyan et. al. Search for a light Higgs resonance in radia- Phys. Rev. D 91, - 2015 (BaBar tive decays of the Y(1S) with a charm tag. 071102 Collaboration)

B. Bhuyan et. al. Observation of the decayB0ĺη`K*(892)0 Phys. Rev. D 90, - 2014 (BaBar 072009 Collaboration) B. Bhuyan et. al. Observation of D0−D¯0Mixing ine+e−Colli- Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 11 - 2014 (BaBar sions Collaboration) B. Bhuyan et. al. Search forB0ĺpΛπ−γat Belle Phys. Rev. D 89, - 2014 (BaBar 05110 Collaboration)

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. Sayan Chakrabarti, I-Q relation for rapidly rotating neutron Physical Review 112 201102 2014 Térence Delsate, stars Letters Norman Gürlebeck and Jan Steinhoff Santabrata Periodic mass loss from viscous accretion Monthly Notices of 442 251-258 2014 Das, Indranil fl ows around black holes the Royal Astro- Chattopadhyay, nomical Society Anuj Nandi and D. Molteni Santabrata On the possibilities of mass loss from an Bulletin of the As- 42 1 2014 Das, Indranil advective accretion disc around stationary tronomical Society Chattopadhyay, black holes of India Anuj Nandi and Biplob Sarkar Onkar N. Verma Steering, Splitting and Cloning of Optical Physical Rev A 91(1) 13820 2015 and Tarak N. Dey Beam in a Coherently Driven Raman Gain System Souvik Paul, Emergence of spin spiral magnetic order in Journal of Physics 26-19 196004 2014 Subhradip Ghosh Mn based Inverse Heusler alloys Condensed Matter and Biplab Sanyal Souvik Paul, Anti site disorder and improved function- Journal of Applied 116-13 133903 2014 Ashis Kundu, alities in Mn2NiX(X=Al,Ga,In,Sn) inverse Physics BiplabSanyal and Heusler alloys Subhradip Ghosh Souvik Paul, First-principles study of the lattice instabili- Journal of Physics 27-3 35401 2015 Biplab Sanyal and ties in Mn2NiX(X=Al,Ga,In,Sn) magnetic Condensed Matter Subhradip Ghosh shape memory alloys Bappaditya Pal, Room Temperature Ferromagnetism with J. Alloys. Comp. 615 378 2014 Soumen Dhara, High Magnetic Moment and Optical Prop- P. K. Giri and D. erties of Co Doped ZnO Nanorods Synthe- Sarkar sized by a Solvothermal Route Ravi K. Biroju and P. Defect Enhanced Effi cient Physical Func- J. Phys. Chem. C 118 13833 2014 K. Giri tionalization of Graphene with Gold Atoms Probed by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Sumen Dhara, Strain Dependence of the Nonlinear Optical Optics Lett. 13 3833 2014 Kenji Imakita, P. K. Properties of Strained Si Nanoparticles Giri and Minoru Fujii Batakrushna Oxygen Vacancy Mediated Enhanced Ferro- J. Phys. D: Appl. 47 235304 2014 Santara, P. K. Giri, magnetism in Undoped and Fe Doped TiO2 Phys. Soumen Dhara, Nanoribbons Kenji Imakita and Minoru Fujii Sk. Md. Obaidulla, Low bias stress and reduced operating Appl. Phys. Lett. 104 213302 2014 Dipak K Goswami voltage in SnCl2Pc based n-type organic and P. K. Giri fi eld-eff ect transistors Batakrushna Microscopic Origin of Lattice Contraction J. Phys. D: Appl. 47 215302 2014 Santara, P. K. Giri, and Expansion in Undoped Rutile TiO2 Phys. Kenji Imakita and Nanostructures Minoru Fujii

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. Ravi K. Biroju, P. Graphene Assisted Controlled Growth of ACS Appl. Mater. 6 377 2014 K. Giri, Soumen Highly Aligned ZnO Nanorods and Nanorib- Interf. Dhara, Kenji bons: Growth Mechanism and Photolumi- Imakita and nescence Properties Minoru Fujii Ravi K. Biroju and P. Controlled Fabrication of Graphene--ZnO J. Nanosci. Lett. 4 34 2014 K. Giri Nanorod, Nanowire and Nanoribbon Hybrid Nanostructures Ramesh Ghosh, Origin of Visible and Near Infrared Photo- Nanotechnology 25 45703 2014 P. K. Giri, Kenji luminescence from Chemically Etched Si Imakita and Nanowires Decorated with Arbitrary Shaped Minoru Fujii Si Nanocrystals Ravi K. Biroju, Catalyst Free Growth of ZnO Nanowires Nanotechnology 26 145601 2015 Nikhil Tilak, Gone on Graphene and Graphene Oxide and Its Rajender, S. Dhara Enhanced Photoluminescence and Photo- and P. K. Giri response Ramesh Ghosh, Photoluminescence Signature of Resonant J. Alloys. Comp. 538 419 2015 P. K. Giri, Kenji Energy Transfer in ZnO Coated Si Nanocrys- Imakita and tals Decorated On Vertical Si Nanowires Minoru Fujii A. T. T. Mostakoa, Eff ect of deuterium ion beam irradiation NucInst and Meth- 342 150-157 2015 Alika Khare, C. V. onto the mirror-like pulsed laser deposited ods in Phys Res B S. Rao, Sudhirsinh thin fi lms of rhodium Valab, R. J. Makwanab and T. K. Basub SatchiKumari and Studies on slowing down of light to few m/s Horizon- A journal 3 89-90 2014 Alika Khare in photorefractive BaTio3 at room tempera- of Physics ture for tunable optical delay Archana Laser Induced breakdown of PMMA in air J Physical Science 4 (7) 426-429 2014 Kushwaha, and Application Indrajeet Kumar and Alika Khare Archana Eff ect of pump intensity on two photon Asian J of Physics 23 (4) 567-572 2014 Kushwaha, Satchi induced UV Photoluminescence in PLD thin Kumari and Alika fi lm of ZnO Khare Satchi Kumari and Studies on nonlinear response of epitaxial IEEE J of Quantum 50 (8) 645-650 2014 Alika Khare Ruby thin fi lm Electron Satchi Kumari and Langmuir probe studies of laser ablated Laser and Particle 32 (3) 359-367 2014 Alika Khare Ruby plasma and correlation with pulsed beam laser deposited Ruby thin fi lm properties Indrajeet Kumar Raman Spectra of PLD deposited DLC thin AIP Conf Proceed- 1591 1018-1020 2014 and Alika Khare fi lms on Si substrate ings A. T. T. Mostako and Large area deposition of Rh Single and Review of Scien- 85 (4) 046101-3 2014 Alika Khare Rh/W/Cu multilayer thin fi lms on stainless tifi c Instruments steel substrate by pulsed laser deposition technique Partha P. Dey and Fabrication of luminescent a-Si:SiO2 struc- Applied Surface 307 77-85 2014 Alika Khare tures by direct irradiation of high power Science laser on Silicon surface

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. Indrajeet Kumar Multi- and few-layer graphene on insulat- Applied surface 317 1004-1009 2014 and Alika Khare ing substrate via Pulsed laser deposition science technique P. Munendhar, R. Development of an All-optical, Temperature Applied Optics 52 5493 2014 Aneesh and Sunil Insensitive Non-pendulum type Tilt Sensor Khijwania Employing Fiber Bragg Gratings Gagan Kumar Controlling terahertz surface plasmon prop- Journal of Spec- Ar- - 2015 erties on a periodically structured silicon troscopy ticle ID: surface 543985 Shanshan Li, Plasmonic terahertz waveguide based on IEEE Transactions 4 254 2014 Mohammad M. anisotropically etched silicon substrate on Terahertz Sci- Jadidi, Thomas ence Technology E. Murphy, and Gagan Kumar J. R. Knab, X.-C. Lu, Ultrafast carrier dynamics and optical prop- Optical Material 4 300 2014 Felipe A. Vallejo, erties of nanoporous silicon at broadband Express Gagan Kumar, terahertz frequencies Thomas E. Murphy, and L. Michael Hayden Debaprasad Maity Modifi ed natural infl ation: A small single Phys. Rev. D 91 23504 2015 and Pankaj Saha fi eld model with a large tensor to scalar ratio Andrea Alberti, Precision Determination of the Cabibbo- Phys. Rev. Lett. 114(6) 61802 2015 Paolo Gambino, Kobayashi-Maskawa Element Vcb Kristopher J. Healey and Soumitra Nandi K. Sau and P. Ion Transport in Na2M2TeO6: Insights from Journal of Physical 119 1651-1658 2015 Padma Kumar Molecular Dynamics Simulation Chemistry C T. Santhosh Kumar Eff ect of V2O5 on Microwave Dielectric Material Science 194 86-93 2015 and D. Pamu Properties of Non -Stoichimetric MgTiO3 and Engineering B Ceramics R. K. Bhuyan, T. Low Temperature and Broadband Dielectric Materials Express 4 349-358 2014 Santhosh Kumar, Properties of V2O5 doped Mg2TiO4 Ceram- D. Pamu, J. M. ics Renehan and M. V. Jacob R. K. Bhuyan,T. Cryogenic microwave dielectric properties Advances in Mate- 3 105-116 2014 Santhosh Kumar, of Mg2TiO4 ceramics added with CeO2 rials Research D. Pamu, J. M. nanoparticles Renehan, amd M. V. Jacob Pallabi Gogoi, T. Structural, Optical, Dielectric and Electrical Journal of Alloys 619 527-537 2015 Santhosh Kumar,P. Studies on RF Sputtered Nanocrystalline Zr and Compounds Sharma and D. Doped MgTiO3 thin fi lms Pamu Mahesh Peddigari, Optical and Microwave Dielectric Properties Journal of the 98 (5) 1444-1452 2015 Bashaiah Sindam, of Phase Pure (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 Thin Films American Ceramic K.C. James Raju Deposited by RF Magnetron Sputtering Society and Pamu Dobbidi

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. P. Mahesh and D. Eff ect of deposition temperature on struc- Thin Solid Films 562 471-477 2014 Pamu tural, mechanical, optical and dielectric properties of radio frequency sputtered nanocrystalline (Kx Na1−x )NbO3 thin fi lms C. Anil Kumar and Dielectric, optical and electric studies Applied Surface 340 56-63 2015 D. Pamu on nanocrystalline Ba5Nb4O15 thin fi lms Science deposited by RF magnetron sputtering D. Pamu, T. Optical, Dielectric and X-ray Photoelectron Proceedings of the 84 (3) 457 2014 Santhosh Kumar,B. Spectroscopy Studies on Nanocrystalline National Academy Shreedhar and Anil Ba(Zn1/3Ta2/3)O3 Thin Films Deposited by of Sciences, India K. Bhatnagar Pulsed Laser Deposition, Section A: Physical Sciences Rahul Das, S. Variations in structural and magnetic phase Physics Express 4 7 2014 Sarma, B. Deka, transitions of Ni-Mn-In-Si alloy with change A. Perumal and A. in Ni/Mn ratio Srinivasan P. Saravanana, Study on the depth profi le analysis of Fe/ Physica B 448 1 2014 Jen-Hwa Hsu, Co intermixing in [SmCo5/Fe]11 magnetic A. Perumal, multilayers AnabilGayen, G.L.N. Reddy, Sanjiv Kumar and S.V. Kamat Thatikonda Eff ect of Cobalt Doping on the Structural, Journal of the 97 1054 2014 Santhosh Kumar, Microstructure and Microwave Dielectric American Ceramic Pallabi Gogoi, Properties of MgTiO3 Ceramics Prepared by Society Alagarsamy Semi Alkoxide Precursor Method Perumal, Pramod Sharma and Dobbidi Pamu Shyni P. C and A. Thermomagnetic properties of nanocrystal- Physica B 448 60 2014 Perumal line Fe-Si alloys with high Si content Bhagaban Kisan Room temperature ferromagnetism in fi nite Physica B 448 115 2014 and A. Perumal sized ZnO nanoparticles A. Gayen, B. Biswas, Magnetic Properties of FePt based Nano- Physics Procedia 54 23 2014 A.K. Singh, P. composite Thin Films Grown on Low Cost Saravanan and A. Substrates Perumal Santhosh Kumar Magnetic properties of Co doped MgTiO3 Physica B 448 330 2014 Thatikonda, ceramics PallabiGogoi, BhagbanKisan, Alagarsamy Perumal and Pamu Dobbidi R. Das, Perumal Critical behavior and magnetic entropy Europhysics Letter 108 66004 2014 Alagarsamy and A. change at magnetic phase transitions in Srinivasan Ni50Mn35In14Si01 ferromagnetic shape memory alloy Rahul Das, A. Estimation of entropy change at the fi rst or- Physica B 448 327 2014 Perumal and A. der martensitic transition in Ni-Mn-X based Srinivasan ferromagnetic shape memory alloys

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. Bhagaban Kisan, P. Eff ect of annealing on the magnetic proper- Journal of Magne- 384 296 2015 Saravanan, Samar ties of ball milled NiO powders tism and Magnetic Layek, H. C. Verma, Materials David Hesp, Vinod Dhanak, Satheesh Krishnamurthy and A. Perumal D. Mishra, A. Magnetic properties of mechanically al- ScienceJet 4 110 2015 Srinivasan and A. loyed amorphous Fe-(Mn)-Zr-B powders Perumal P. C. Shyni Structural and magnetic properties of Al ScienceJet 4 146 2015 and Perumal and Cr substituted nanocrystalline Fe80Si- Alagarsamy 15Co5 alloy powders Bhagaban Kisan, P. Structural, vibrational, optical and magnetic ScienceJet 4 160 2015 Ravikumar, A. Das, properties of NiO nanoparticles A. Srinivasan and A. Perumal S. Moretti, S. Munir, 125 GeV Higgs Boson signal within the com- Phys. Rev. D 89, 17 2014 and P.Poulose plex NMSSM 015022 B. Ananthanarayan, Top Yukawa coupling measure- Phys. Rev. D 90, 16 Sumit K. Garg, C.S. ment with indefi nite CP Higgs in 014016 Kim, Jayita Lahiri e+e−→tt¯Φ and P. Poulose Satendra Kumar, Study of Higgs-gauge boson Accepted for pub- - - 2015 P. Poulose and anomalous couplings through lication in Phys. Shibananda Sahoo e−e+→W−W+H at ILC Rev. D Tribedi Bora and Sign reversal of magnetization and tunable Journal of Magne- 386 85-91 2015 S. Ravi exchange bias fi eld in NdCr1-xFexO3 (x = tism and Magnetic 0.05 – 0.2) Materials Junmoni Barman, Study of exchange bias and training eff ect Journal of Magne- 385 93-98 2015 Tribedi Bora and in NiCr2O4 tism and Magnetic S. Ravi Materials T. R. Gopalarao, S. Eff ect of post annealing process on Journal of Super- 28 1571-1576 2015 Ravi and D. Pamu electrical and magnetic properties of conductivity and Nd0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin fi lms Novel magnetism Junmoni Barman Study of exchange bias behavior in Ni(Cr1- Solid State Com- 201 59-63 2015 and S. Ravi xFex)2O4 munications Tribedi Bora and Sign reversal of magnetization and fer- Journal of Super- 28 869-872 2015 S. Ravi romagnetism in NdCr1-xMn¬xO3 (x = 0 conductivity and – 0.50) Novel magnetism Tribedi Bora and Bipolar switching of magnetization and Journal of Applied 116 063901 (6) 2014 S. Ravi tunable exchange bias in NdCr1-xMnxO3 (x Physics = 0.0 – 0.30) R. Padam, S. Ravi, Exchange bias in non-collinear spin-spiral Journal of Magne- 371 144-148 2014 S. Ramakrishnan, system Co(Cr1-xCox)2O4 (x = 0.0 – 0.1) tism and Magnetic A. K. Grover and Materials D. Pal Bipul Deka, S. Ravi, Ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in Fe Physica B: Con- 448 204-206 2014 A. Perumal and D. doped BaTiO3 densed Matter Pamu

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. R. Padam, S.Ravi Entanglement of lock-in transition and Physica B: Con- 448 191-193 2014 and D.Pal exchange bias in Co(Cr0.9Co0.1)2O4 densed Matter T. R. Gopalarao, Structural, optical and magnetic properties Physics Procedia 54 70- 74 2014 Tribedi Bora, S. Ravi of Nd0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin fi lms and D. Pamu Tribedi Bora and Eff ect of Ce doping on the magnetic prop- Physica B: Con- 448 233-236 2014 S. Ravi erties of LaCrO3 dense Matter Himangsu Crossover from rotational to stochastic Phys Rev E 90 62136 2014 Bhaumik, J. A. sandpile universality in the random rota- Ahmed and S. B. tional sandpile model santra Amarendra K. Modulation instability in nonlinear complex Journal of Optical 31 1861 2014 Sarma parity-time (PT) symmetric periodic struc- Society of America tures B (JOSA-B) Amarendra K. Continuous and discrete Schrödinger Physical Review E 89, - 2014 Sarma, M-A. Miri, systems with parity-time-symmetric nonlin- 052918 Z. H. Musslimani, earities and D. N. Christodoulides Subhadeep Optical trap potential control in N-type Journal of Optical 32 270 2015 Chakraborty and four level atoms by femtosecond Gaussian Society of America Amarendra K. pulses B Sarma Kanchan K. De, Few-cycle optical solitary waves in cascad- Communications 20 629 2015 Amit Goyal, C. ed-quadratic-cubic-quintic nonlinear media in Nonlinear Sci- N. Kumar and ence and Numeri- Amarendra K. cal Simulation Sarma Poulami Ghosh Eff ect of substrate temperature on the Applied Physics A 116 (4) 1877 2014 and A. K. Sharma growth of pulsed-laser deposited ZnO nanostructures Poulami Ghosh Growth and optical characterization of Applied Physics A 115 (1) 235 2014 and A. K. Sharma diamond-shaped zinc oxide nanostructures by pulsed laser deposition Poulami Ghosh Growth and characterization of ZnO Advanced Science, 6 (4) 393 2014 and A. K. Sharma nanorods, nanowires and nanobelts on ZnO Engineering & seed layer by pulsed layer deposition Medicine Biswajit Karmakar Nonzero $θ_{13}$ and leptogenesis in Phys. Rev. D 91, - 2015 and Arunansu Sil a type-I seesaw model with $A_4$ sym- 013004 metry A. El-Zant, Warm dark matter in a $B-L$ inverse see- Phys. Rev. D 91, - 2015 Shaaban Khalil and saw scenario 035030 Arunansu Sil Arnab Kumar Ferromagnetic behaviour in electrospun Physica B 448 112 2014 Das and ZnO nanofi bers Ananthakrishanan Srinivasan Nisha Shankhwar, Understanding the magnetic behaviour of Physica B 448 132 2014 G.P. Kothiyal and A. heat treated CaO-P2O5-Na2O-Fe2O3-SiO2 Srinivasan bioactive glass using electron paramagnetic resonance studies

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. Bhargab Deka, Magnetic properties of Co2Fe(Ga1-xSix) Physica B 448 173 2014 Dibyashree alloys Chakraborti and Ananthakrishnan Srinivasan N. Aomoa, T. Plasma assisted synthesis of carbon encap- Carbon 84 24 2015 Sarmah, A. Sharma, sulated magneticnanoparticles with con- U. Deshpande, trolled sizes correlated to smooth variation V. Sathe, A. of magnetic properties Baneerjee, T. Shripathi, V. R. Reddy, N. P. Lalla, A. Gupta, R. Gupta, D. N. Srivastava,R. K. Bordoloi, S. Sarma, A. Srinivasan and M. Kakati D. C. Joshi, S. Thota, The dielectric behavior of Zn1-xNixO/NiO Journal of Physics 47 435305 2014 S. Nayak. D. D. two-phase composites D: Applied Physics Harish, P. Mahesh, A. Kumar, D. Pamu and Md. Qureshi S. Thota, K. Patyal, The ac-magnetic susceptibility and dielec- Journal of Applied 116 103906 2014 S. Nayak, Ch. tric response of complex spin-ordering Physics Simon, J. Kumar process in Mn3O4 and W. Prellier M. Peddigari, S. Dielectric and ac-conductivity studies of AIP Advances 4 (8) 87113 2014 Thota, D. Pamu Dy2O3 doped KNaNbO3 ceramics A. Kumar, S. Thota, Ion induced secondary electron emission, Thin Solid Films 556 260 2014 D. Deva and J. Optical and hydration resistance behavior Kumar of MgO, Mg-Mo-O and Mg-Ce-O thin fi lms T. S. Kumar, P. Structural and Dielectric studies of Co AIP Advances 4 67142 2014 Gogoi, S. Thota, D. doped MgTiO3 thin-fi lms fabricated by RF Pamu, magnetron sputtering S. Thota, V. Narang, On the nature of magnetic state in the Journal of Physics.: 27 166001 2015 S. Nayak, S. spinel Co2SnO4 Condensed Matter Sambasivam, B. C. Choi, T.Sarkar, M. S. Andersson, R. Mathieu and M. S. Seehra Vipin Kumar, Band structure eff ects on the nonlinear The European 87 1 2014 Enamullah, optical response of bilayer graphene Physical Journal B Upendra Kumar, Girish S. Setlur Enamullah,Vipin Quantum Rabi oscillations in graphene JOSA B 31 484 2014 Kumar, Upendra Kumar, Girish S. Setlur

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Vol., Is- Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Page No. Year sue No. Vipin Kumar, Coherent non-linear optical response in Physica B: Con- 436 140 2014 Enamullah, SU (2) symmetry broken single and bilayer densed Matter Upendra Kumar, graphene Girish S. Setlur Upendra Kumar, Band-anisotropy induced Bloch–Siegert JOSA B 31 3042 2014 Vipin Kumar, shift in graphene Enamullah, Girish S. Setlur Enamullah,Vipin Strain Eff ect on the Nonlinear Electromag- Advanced Science 20 1459 2014 Kumar, Upendra netic Response of 2D Carbon Based Material Letters Kumar, Girish S. Setlur Vipin Kumar, Coherent nonlinear electromagnetic Pramana – Journal 83 597 2014 Enamullah, response in twisted bilayer and few-layer of Physics Upendra Kumar, graphene Girish S. Setlur Enamullah,Vipin A theoretical study of pump-probe experi- Pramana – Journal 82 1085 2014 Kumar, Upendra ment in single-layer, bilayer and multi-layer of Physics Kumar, Girish S. graphene Setlur Subhaditya Non-universal SUGRA at LHC: Prospects and Phys. Rev. D 89 015004 2014 Bhattacharya, Discovery Potential Shreyashi Chakdar, Kirtiman Ghosh, S.Nandi Subhaditya Supersymmetric left right model with radia- Eur.Phys.J C 74 2902 2014 Bhattacharya, tive neutrino mass and multipartite dark Ernest Ma, Daniel matter Wegman Subhaditya Pionic Dark matter JHEP 1402 115 2014 Bhattacharya, Blazenka Melic, Jose Wudka

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Vol., Is- Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date sue, Page Sym. No. Ramakrishna Madaka, Elecctrical and structural proper- The Annual Chemical Engi- 27-29th 56 Asha Yadav, Venkanna ties of a-Si:H on fl exible substrates neering Symposium, Refl ux Mar, Kanneboina and Pratima 2015, IIT Guwahati, Guwa- 2015 Agarwal hati, India Mukesh Singh, Shailendra Compositional and structural 59th DAE, Solid State Phys- 16-20 42 Kumar and Pratima changes in reduce graphene ics Symposium, VIT Univer- Dec, Agarwal oxide fi lms using XPS and UV-PES sity, Vellore, India 2014 (Invited Paper)

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Vol., Is- Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date sue, Page Sym. No. Asha Yadav, Mukesh Singh a-Si:H/nc-Si:H thin fi lm super lat- International Conference on 15-16 114 and Pratima Agarwal tice by Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Recent Advances in Nano- Dec, Deposition science and Nanotecnology, 2014 Mukesh Singh, Asha Yadav Transition from 3D to 2D Mott vari- ICRANN 2014, JNU, New 28 and Pratima Agarwal able range hopping conduction in Delhi, India reduced graphene oxide thin fi lms Ramakrishna Madaka, Comparision of electrical conduc- Transport properties in 11-13 102 Asha Yadav, Venkanna tivity of a-Si:H fi lms deposited on low dimensional Systems: Dec, Kanneboina and Pratima fl exible polyimide and corning Experiment and Simulation, 2014 Agarwal glass substrate TransLES 2014, IASST, Guwa- Asha Yadav, Mukesh Singh Infl uence of hydrogen dilution on hati, India 53 and Pratima Agarwal structural, electrical and optical properties of silicon thin fi lms by HWCVD technique Asha Yadav, Mukesh Singh Laser induced crystallinity in amor- Emerging Materials: Charac- 4-6 Dec, 77 and Pratima Agarwal phous silicon thin fi lm terization and Application, 2014 Mukesh Singh, Suman Ammonia and nitrogen dioxide EMCA 2014, NIT Durgapur & 122 Sarkar and Pratima gas sensor using reduced graph- CGCRI Kolkata, India Agarwal eme oxide Md. Gaff ar and B. R. Boruah Aberration resilience of azimuth- Proc. SPIE 9272 6 No- 92721H ally polarized beam with a helical vember, phase mask 2014 Biswajit Pathak and B. R. Analysis of error propagation in an 92721Y Boruah improved zonal phase-gradient model Md. Gaff ar and B. R. Boruah Eff ect of higher order aberrations 5 No- 92720J on a radially polarized beam vember, 2014 Biswajit Pathak and B. R. Zonal wavefront estimation using AIP Conf. Proc. 1620 15 1620, 86 Boruah an array of hexagonal grating pat- October, terns 2014 S. Bhattacharya Prospects of using temperature ac- 7th Indo-German Frontiers 19-22 Vol 1, 64 celerated schemes for simulations of Engineering Symposium Feb, of solvated biomolecular systems 2015 2015 P. K. Giri, Gone Rajender and Tunable Photoluminescence from International Conference on 2-4 Feb, - Ravi K. Biroju Functionalized Graphene Quan- Nanoscience and Nanotech- 2015 tum Dots and Graphene- ZnO nology Nanowires Hybrid Ramesh Ghosh and P. K. Giri Eff ect of Rapid Thermal Annealing The fi rst International 4-6 Dec, and Laser Heating on the Photolu- Conference on Emerging 2014 minescence Properties of Si Nano- Materials: Characterization crystal Decorated on Si Nanowires & Application (EMCA-2014)

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Vol., Is- Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date sue, Page Sym. No. K. Md. Obaidullah and P. K. Growth dynamics of SnCl2Pc thin- The fi rst International 4-6 Dec, Giri fi lms deposited on a organic CuPc Conference on Emerging 2014 layer Materials: Characterization Ravi K. Biroju and P. K. Giri Graphene enhanced uv photode- & Application (EMCA-2014) tector based on graphene–ZnO nanowires hybrid: fabrication, photoresponse and photolumines- cence studies P. K. Giri and Ravi K. Biroju Site Selective Physical Functional- ization of Single Layer Graphene and Its Application in the Growth of 1-D Semiconductor Nanostruc- tures on Graphene Gone Rajender, Ravi K. Eff ect of reduction and oxidation Biroju and P. K. Giri treatment on the photolumi- nescence of edge functionalized graphene quantum dots Gone Rajender, Ravi K. Strong visible luminescence from National Conference on 11-13 Biroju and P. K. Giri edge functionalized 0-dimenstion- Transport properties in Decem- al graphene quantum dots low dimensional systems: ber, Experiment and Simulation 2014 (TransLES-2014) Gone Rajender, Control of defects and defect International Conference on 26-28 Batakrushna Santara and P. mediated room temperature fer- Nanoscience and Engineer- June, K. Giri romagnetism in undoped TiO2 ing Applications (ICON- 2014 nanoparticles grown by a ball mill- SEA-14) ing method Gone Rajender, Ravi K. One step solvothermal synthesis of National Conference on 28-29 Biroju and P. K. Giri graphene quantum dots: structural Nanotechnology and April, and optical studies Renewable Energy (NC- 2014 NRE-2014) Gyan Prakash Bharti and Single photon assisted random 4th International con- 11-14 150 Alika Khare lasing action in ZnO thin fi lms ference on Current De- Mar, deposited via Pulsed Laser Deposi- velopments in Atomic, 2015 tion Technique Molecular, Optical & Nano Rahul Kesarwani and Alika Eff ect of annealing on SPR and Physics with Applications Page no. Khare NLO properties of Semitransparent (CDAMOP-2015), University 200 Cu thin fi lms deposited onto glass of Delhi substrate via PLD technique Eshita Mal and Alika Khare Measurement of Electron density Page no. and temperature in laser induced 89 stainless steel plasma Anuma Singh, Latha Characterization of bioactive International Conference of 28-30 77 Rangan, Alika Khare, Aditya karanjin from seeds of Karanj Medicinal plants and herbal Jan 2015 Narayan Panda drugs for Human welfare (ICMP-2015), IIT Channai

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Vol., Is- Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date sue, Page Sym. No. Gyan Prakash Bharti and Band gap tunning in Pulsed Laser 12th International con- 13-16 34 Alika Khare Deposited Zn1-xAlxO(0≤x≤0.10) ference on fi ber optics Dec thin fi lms and photonics (PHOTON- 2014 ICS-2014), IIT Kharagpur, India Sanasam Sunderlal Singh, Fabrication of Micro-channels on 5th International and 26th 12-14 878(1) - Kh. Shantakumar, Alika Mild Steel using Laser induced All India Manufacturing Dec 878(5) Khare and S. N. Joshi Micro-machining Technology, Design and Re- 2014 search Conference AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati, Decem- ber 12-14, 2014 Prahlad K. Baruah, Kh. Eff ect of laser energy on nanopar- National Symposium on 8-11 Dec 166 Shantakumar Singh, A. K. ticles produced by laser ablation of Plasma Science & Technol- 2014 Sharma and Alika Khare copper in distilled water ogy and the International Conference on Plasma & Nanotechnology (PLASMA 2014), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala Gyan Prakash Bharti and Third order optical nonlinearity in National Laser Symposium 3-6 Dec 87 Alika Khare Zn1-xAlxO (0≤x≤0.10) thin fi lms (NLS-23), Sri Venkateshwara 2014 deposited via Pulsed Laser Deposi- University, Tirupati tion Technique Indrajeet Kumar, Gyan Laser power induced disorder in 140 Prakash Bharti and Alika PLD deposited DLC fi lm during Ra- Khare man measurement Kh. Shantakumar Singh, Eff ect of uniform magnetic fi eld on 147 Prahlad. K. Baruah, Eshita laser ablation Mal, Alika Khare and A. K. Sharma Partha P. Dey and Alika Structural and optical properties of 113 Khare Silicon Carbide thin fi lms fabri- cated via PLD Satchi Kumari and Alika Comparative study of Optical delay 88 Khare of light in Barium titanate crystal and thin fi lm’ Prahlad K. Baruah, N. S. Dynamics of laser induced break- 3rd PSSI-PLASMA Scholars 3-5 July 11 Mallick, I. Kumar, A. K. down at solid-liquid interface by Colloquium (PSC-2014) 2014 Sharma and Alika Khare imaging technique &National workshop on Eshita Mal and Alika Khare Laser Induced Breakdown Spec- Exploring Plasma Technol- 34 troscopy of stainless steel sample ogy on Material Processing, VIT Channai Partha P. Dey and Alika Nd-YAG ns-pulsed laser induced National Conference on 28-29 281-287 Khare Structural and compositional Nanotechnology and April modifi cation of Silicon surface: Renewable Energy (NC- 2014 Formation of Photoluminescent NRE-14), New Delhi, India a-Si:SiO2 nanostructures P. Munendhar and Sunil Fiber Bragg Grating Based Hu- SPIE OPTICS & PHOTONICS, 17 – 21 - Khijwania midity Sensor With Wide Linear San Diego, USA August Dynamic Range 2014

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Vol., Is- Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date sue, Page Sym. No. Sunil Khijwania (invited) Optical fi ber sensing techniques: SPIE 2015 - Emerging applications in envi- ronmental and structural health monitoring Gagan Kumar Engineering terahertz propaga- 12th International Confer- 13-16 - tion properties using plasmonic ence on Fiber Optics and Dec., metamaterials on silicon Photonics 2014 2014 K. Sau and P. Padma Kumar Molecular dynamics investigation 58th DAE solid state phys- 24/ 4/ AIP Conf. of Na+ in Na2Ni2TeO6Na2M2TeO6 ics symposium 2013; date: 2014 Proc.; 17-21 Dec 2013. Patiala, 1591, Punjab, India 1361 (2014). P. Mahesh and D. Pamu Raman and Dielectric Studies on International Conference 10th to 73, Lead free (K0.5Na0.5) NbO3 Piezo- on Materials Science and 14th 012141, electric Ceramics Technology (ICMST 2012) June, 02/2015 2012 C. Anil Kumar and D. Pamu Dielectric and electrical properties 9th Asian Meeting on fer- 26th- - of BaWO4fi lm capacitors deposited roelectricity Asian Meeting 30th by RF magnetron sputtering on Electroceramics (AMF- Oct, AMEC-2014) 2014 A. Perumal, A. K. Singh, S. Thickness and Spacer layer driven International Conference on 14. 09. 1, 23 Mallik and S. Bedanta, magnetic domains and magnetic Magnetic Materials and Ap- 2014 – properties in amorphous FeTaC plication (IC-MagMA-2014) 16. 09. thin fi lms 2014 B. Sethi, A. Perumal, A. Magnetic phase transitin in Iron 1, 171 Srinivasan and S. B . Santra rich Fe-Zr-B-Co alloy ribbons B. Kisan and A. Perumal Room temperature ferromagne- 1, 192 tism in NiO nanoparticles prepared by sol-gel method A. Gayen and A. Perumal Thickness dependent magnetic International Conference on 1, 224 properties of amorphous CoFeB Magnetic Materials and Ap- thin fi lms plication (IC-MagMA-2014) B. Deka, S. Ravi and A. Eff ect of Sm doping on the struc- 1, 293 Perumal tural and magnetic properties of BiFeO3 A. Perumal, A. K. Sinigh, A. Nature of interlayer coupling and Indo-Japan workshop on 10.01. 1, IO-23 Gayen and C. Das magnetization reversal process in Magnetism at Nanoscale 2015 – amorphous nanocrystalline multi- 12.01. layer FeTaC thin fi lms 2015 A. Perumal, A. K. Singh, P.C. Role of nanostructure on the mate- National Conference on 27.02. 1, 18 Shyni, B. Kisan, A. Gayen rials’ properties and applications New Approaches of Basic 2015 – and C. Das Sciences Towards the devel- 28.02. opment of engineering and 2015 technology – 2015

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Vol., Is- Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date sue, Page Sym. No. Himangsu Bhaumik and S. Directed Sandpile on Scale-free 2nd Indian Statistical Phys- 13.02. - B. Santra Network ics Community Meeting at 2015- the International Centre 15.02. for Theoretical Sciences, 2015 Bappaditya Roy and S. B. Random cluster growth with sup- Bangalore, India - Santra pression: No evidence of Explosive percolation Sourav Chattopadhyay, Dynamic Phase Transition In Di- 59th DAE SSPS 2014, VIT 16-20 - Gopal Gorai and S. B. Santra luted Ising Model University, Vellore, Tam- Dec ilnadu 2014 Samit Kumar Gupta and Periodic optical rogue waves in AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1620, Amarendra K. Sarma parity-time (PT) symmetric Bragg- p. 452 grating structure (2014) Subhadeep Chakraborty Coherent population transfer and Vol. 1620, and Amarendra K. Sarma optical dipole force by chirped p. 549 Gaussian femtosecond pulses in (2014) four level 87-Rb Kh. Shantakumar Singh and A 2D fi nite element model to simu- 2nd National Symposium 26-28 53 A. K. Sharma late temperature fi eld and ablation On Nonlinear And Complex Mar depth during laser ablation Phenomena 2015, Insti- 2015 tute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati Kh. Shantakumar Singh and Eff ect of uniform magnetic fi eld on 4th International Confer- 11-14 160 A. K. Sharma nanostructuring by laser ablation ence on Current Develop- Mar of copper at atmospheric pressure ments in Atomic, Molecular 2015 & Optical Physics with Applications (CDAMOP), University of Delhi Rasmi Ranjan Behera, Experimental Study on Micro- 5th International and 26th 12-14 380 Mamilla Ravi Sankar, machining of 304 Stainless Steel All India Manufacturing Dec Indrajeet Kumar, A. K. Under Water Using Pulsed Nd:YAG Technology, Design and Re- 2014 Sharma, Alika Khare and J. Laser Beam search Conference (AIMTDR Swaminathan 2014), IIT Guwahati Kh. Shantakumar Singh and Eff ect of uniform transverse mag- 29th National Symposium 8-11 Dec 299 A. K. Sharma netic fi eld on the lifetime of laser- on Plasma Science & Tech- 2014 produced copper plasma nology and the Internation- al Conference on Plasma & Nanotechnology (PLASMA 2014), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala Kh. Shantakumar Singh, Spectroscopic study of laser-pro- Proc. National Laser Sym- 3-6 Dec 146 Alika Khare and A. K. duced copper plasma in uniform posium, Sri Venkateswara 2014 Sharma magnetic fi eld University, Tirupati Nisha Shankhwar and A. Sol-gel derived magnetic bioglass Proc. Intl. Conf. Asian 28 Oct. - Srinivasan and bioglass ceramic for hyper- Union of Magn. Soc. - 2 Nov. thermic application (IcAUMS-2014) 2014

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Vol., Is- Name of Conf./Wor./Sem./ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date sue, Page Sym. No. Arnab Kumar Das and A. Solvothermal synthesis of CaFe2O4 Proc. Intl. Conf. Emerging 04-06 Srinivasan nanoparticles Mater: Charac. Appl. (EMCA- De- 2014) cember 2014, Kolkata Nisha Shankhwar, R. K. Preparation and characterization - Singh and A. Srinivasan of silicate bioglass-ceramics con- taining zinc-ferrite R. Modak, B. Deka, M. Signifi cant room temperature - Manivel Raja and A. magneto-caloric eff ect in Ni-Mn-Sn Srinivasan thin fi lms A. Srinivasan Heusler alloys as spintronic ma- 9th Natl. Conf. Phys. Acad. 17-19 - terials – Progress and challenges North East Dec (Invited Talk) 2014 R. Modak, B. Deka, A. K. Structural and magnetic properties Proc. 59th DAE Solid State 16-20 - Singh, A. Gayen, A. Perumal, of Ni-Mn-Sn thin fi lms Physics Symp. Dec M. Manivel Raja and A. 2014 Srinivasan A. Srinivasan Development of nanocomposites 2nd Intl. Conf. Nanotech 19-22 - for biomedical application (ICNT 2015) Feb. 2015 S. Nayak, D. C. Joshi and S. Micro-Raman and Electron Spin 2nd International Confer- Haldia - Thota Resonance studies of Co3-xTixO4 ence on Nanotechnology (W.B.) ICNT-2015 & Indo-USA joint symposium S. Thota, S. Nayak, A. On the growth mechanism and 2nd International Confer- - Mallick, D. C. Joshi, S. Electron Spin Resonance studies of ence on Nanotechnology Sambasivam and Md. cubic- phase ZrO2 nanostructures ICNT-2015 & Indo-USA joint Qureshi stabilized with Cu2+ symposium D. C. Joshi, D.D. Harish, D. Growth mechanism and Electron- 2nd IEEE International Con- 3- 6 Dec - Roy, S. Nayak, Md. Qureshi, Spin-Resonance studies of Zn1- ference on Emergin Electon- 2014 R.L.N. Sai Prasad, T. Shiyani, xNixO/NiO two-phase nanocom- ics ICEE-2014 D. Pamu and S. Thota posite (will appear in IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings) S. Thota. K. Pisane, S. K. On the cubic phase stability and Bulletin of American Denver, - Singh, and M. S. Seehra magnetic properties of Cu-doped Physical Society, APS 3-7th Colo- ZrO2 March, 2014 meeting rado (USA). S. K. Singh, M. S. Seehra and Eff ect of Cu doping on the mag- - S. Thota netism of MnCo2-xCuxO4 cubic spinels Book

Volume, Page Name of Author/s Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year Issue No. A. Perumal Selected papers from International Physica B 448 1–356 - 2014 Alagarsamy, S. Conference on Magnetic Materials and (Elsevier) Pandian and A. Applications (MagMA-2013) Srinivasan

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Volume, Page Name of Author/s Name of Book Publisher ISBN Year Issue No. A. Perumal International Conference on Magnetic Physics 54 1–184 - 2014 Alagarsamy, S. Materials and Applications, MagMA-2013 Procedia Pandian and A. (Elsevier) Srinivasan Girish S. Setlur Dynamics of Classical and Quantum CRC Press - 388 978146 2013 Fields: An Introduction 6556287 Girish S. Setlur (Co- Principles & Practice of Physics, Global Pearson - 2050 9781292 2015 contributor with Edition 078878 Eric Mazur, Harvard University)

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

National/In- Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date ternational Prof. Pratima DAE Solid State Physics Symposium VIT Vellore 16-20th Dec, National Agarwal 2014 Dr. B. R. Boruah Photonics Asia Beijing, China October, 2014 International Dr. Bipul Bhuyan Belle & Belle 2 Analysis Workshop IIT Madras 08-18th March, International 2015 Dr. Bipul Bhuyan 6th Asian Forum for Accelerators and National Synchro- 26-28th January, International Detectors (AFAD 2015) tron Radiation 2015 Center, Taiwan Dr. Bipul Bhuyan DAE-DST Vision Meeting BARC, India 24-25th August, National 2015 Dr. Santabrata Das Hard X-ray Astronomy: Astrosat and International Cen- 24-26th Sep- International beyond ter, Goa tember, 2014 Dr. S. Bhattacharya 7th Indo-German Frontiers of Engi- Agra 19-22nd Feb, International neering Symposium 2015 2015 Dr. Tarak Nath Dey ICTS School & Discussion Meeting on Kolkata 08th-22nd De- International Frontiers in Light-Matter Interactions cember, 2014 Dr. Subhradip TRANSLES 2014 IASST Guwahati December, 2014 International Ghosh Dr. Subhradip DST-SERB School on Density Function- MS University December, 2014 National Ghosh al Theory & beyond Baroda, Baroda Dr. Subhradip CTCMP 2015 NISER, Bhu- February, 2015 International Ghosh baneswar Dr. Subhradip KKR HOC workshop 2014 LMU, Munich, October, 2014 International Ghosh Germany Prof. P. K. Giri 3rd International Conference on Chennai 4-6th Feb, 2015 International Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (ICONN2015) Prof. P. K. Giri International Conference on Emerging Kolkata 4-6th Dec, 2014 International Materials: Characterization & Applica- tion (EMCA-2014) Prof. Alika Khare National Laser Symposium (NLS-23) Sri Venkateshwara 03-06th Dec, National University Tirupati 2015 Prof. Sunil International Conference in Optics and Kolkata 20-22nd Febru- International Khijwania Photonics (ICOP – 15) ary, 2015

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National/In- Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date ternational Prof. Sunil UKIERI workshop on Photonics for University of Cal- 27th March, International Khijwania Imaging and Sensing cutta 2015 Dr. P. Poulose Workshop on LHC and Darkmatter, IACS, Kolkata 24-28th Feb, International 2015 2015 Dr. P. K. National Conference on Materials for VIT University, 19-21st March, National Padmanabhan Energy Conservation and Storage. Chennai 2015 Dr. P. K. Materials Research Society of Indone- Bali, Indonesia 26-28th Sept, International Padmanabhan sia (MRS-Id Meeting). 2014 Dr. P. K. National Workshop on Molecular Mod- Chem. Engg., IIT 4-8th Aug, 2014 National Padmanabhan elling and Simulation of Sustainable Guwahati Polymers Dr. D. Pamu International Conference on Nano JNTU Hyderabad, 26-28th June, International Science & Engineering Applications Andhra Predesh 2014 (ICONSEA-2014) Dr. D. Pamu 9th Asian Meeting on ferroelectric- Shanghai, China 26-30th Oct, International ity Asian Meeting on Electroceramics 2014 (AMF-AMEC-2014) Prof. A. Perumal International Conference on Magnetic Pondicherry 14-16th Sept, International Materials and Application (IC-Mag- 2014 MA-2014) Prof. A. Perumal Indo-Japan workshop on Magnetism at Bhubaneswar 10-12th Jan, International Nanoscale 2015 Prof. A. Perumal National Conference on New Ap- Guwahati 27-28th Feb, National proaches of Basic Sciences Towards 2015 the development of engineering and technology – 2015 Prof. S. Ravi 4th International Conference on Super- Antalya, Turkey 27th April-2nd International conductivity and Magnetism May, 2014 Prof. A. Srinivasan 9th Natl. Conf. Phys. Acad. North East NERIST, Nirjuli 17-19th Decem- National ber 2014 Prof. A. Srinivasan Intl. Conf. Asian Union of Magn. Soc. Haikou 28th Oct.-2nd International (IcAUMS-2014) Nov, 2014 Prof. A. Srinivasan 32nd Intl. Conf. Nanotech (ICNT 2015) Haldia Inst. Tech, 19-22nd Feb, International Haldia 2015

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Prof. Pratima Research activities on Thin fi lm semicon- Gifu University, Japan Gifu University 3rd Dec, Agarwal ductors and solar cells at IIT Guwahati 2014 Prof. Pratima Recent Trends in Renewable Energy Center for Energy, IIT IIT Guwahati 23rd Jan, Agarwal Systems (TEQIP-STC on Recent Trends in Guwahati 2015 Renewable Systems) Prof. Pratima Solar Cells : Fundamentals (QIP Short Term Department of Chemical IIT Guwahati 26th Mar, Agarwal Course on Recent Advances in Energy Engineering, IIT Guwa- 2015 Research ) hati

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Prof. Pratima Solar cell technologies: Materials & Designs Department of Chemical IIT Guwahati 26th Mar Agarwal (QIP Short Term Course on Recent Advanc- Engineering, IIT Guwa- 2015 es in Energy Research) hati Prof. Saurabh Disordered Transport in nanostructures IASST Guwahati 12th Dec, Basu 2014 Prof. Saurabh Magnetism and Magnetic Materials: Funda- College Teacher's con- Bamunimaidan, 10th Basu mentals and applications ference organized by Guwahati March, NITTTR, Kolkata 2015 Dr. B. R. Dynamic control of the amplitude and Invited Talk under DBT Mangaldai Col- March, Boruah phase of laser beam in the laboratory Star College Scheme lege 2015 organized by Mangaldai College Dr. B. R. Fourier Transform in optics Workshop on Com- Tezpur University Novem- Boruah putational Aspects of ber, 2014 Research in Physics, organized by Depart- ment of Physics, Tezpur University Dr. Bipul CP-Odd Light Higgs Searched at B-factories IIT Madras Chennai, India 12th Bhuyan March 2015 Dr. Bipul Distributed Computing and Network National Synchrotron Hsinchu, Taiwan 26 Janu- Bhuyan Bandwidth for HEP experiments: Indian Radiation Center, Taiwan ary, 2015 Perspective Dr. Bipul Search for the decay BsĺȘȘ at Y(5S) reso- XXI DAE-BRNS High En- IIT Guwahati 08-12th Bhuyan nance ergy Physics Symposium Decem- Dr. Bipul Cosmic Muons Induced Electromagnetic ber, 2014 Bhuyan Shower in Nova Detector Dr. Bipul Exclusive b-> s gamma decays 4thsymposium on King’s College, 02-06th Bhuyan prospects in the physics London Decem- of discrete symmetries ber, 2014 (DISCRETE 2014) Dr. Bipul B-Physics at Belle and Belle 2 experiments BIT, Mesra Ranchi, India 1st May, Bhuyan at KEK, Japan 2014 Dr. Sayan Black hole bombs and super radiance Workshop on : "Cosmol- Kolkata, India 28th-30th Chakrabarti ogy at the interface", at January, Saha Institute of Nuclear 2015 Physics Dr. Santabrata Stars and stellar evolution Cotton College State Guwahati 16-21st Das University July, 2014 Dr. Santabrata Accretion on to black holes Gauhati University 22nd Das August, 2014 Dr. Santabrata Two temperature shocked accretion fl ow International center, Goa Goa Septem- Das around black holes ber 24th , 2014 Dr. Santabrata Astrophysical Flow around Compact Ob- IASST Guwahati 1st Nov, Das jects 2014

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Dr. Tarak Nath Coherent Population Trapping, Electromag- ICTS School & Discussion Kolkata 08th- Dey netically Induced Transparency and Electro- Meeting on Frontiers 22nd De- magnetically Induced Absorption in Light-Matter Interac- cember tions, Indian Association 2014 for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata Dr. Tarak Nath Steering, Splitting and Cloning of Optical National Institute of Bhubaneswar 2nd Dey Beam in a Coherently Driven Raman Gain Science and Education March, System Research Bhubaneswar, 2015 Odisha Dr. Subhradip Density Functional Theory-II MS University, Baroda Baroda 6th Dec, Ghosh 2014 Dr. Subhradip First-principles based computation of pho- IASST, Guwahati Guwahati 10th Dec, Ghosh non spectra in disordered alloys 2014 Dr. Subhradip Phonon spectra of chemically and magneti- NISER, Bbhubaneswar Bhubaneswar 20th Ghosh cally disordered alloys by Green’s function February, method 2015 Prof. Pravat K. Site Selective Physical Functionalization of Materials Research Indira Gan- 5th Feb, Giri Graphene and Its Application in the Fabri- Society of India (MRSI), dhi Center for 2015 cation of Graphene-ZnO Nanowire Based Kalpakkam chapter Atomic Research Effi cient Photodetectors (IGCAR), Kalpak- kam, India Prof. Pravat K. Raman Spectroscopy & Raman Imaging TEQIP Course on Sophis- IIT Guwahati 10th Nov, Giri ticated Instruments in 2014 Interdisciplinary Re- search Prof. Pravat K. Raman Spectroscopy & Raman Imaging for TEQIP Micromanufac- 26th Feb, Giri Biomedical Research turing for Biomedical 2014 Applications Prof. Alika Non Linear Optics 2nd National Sympo- IASST, Guwahati 26-28th Khare sium on Nonlinear & Mar, 2015. Complex Phenomena (NSNCP-2015) Prof. Alika Optical properties of material & the Ad- Short Term TrainingPro- Guwahati Exten- 09-13th Khare vancement of Optical Technology gramme on “Physics of sion centre of Mar, 2015. Material” NITTTR, Kolkata Prof. Alika Laser Spectroscopy: A versatile tool for New Approaches of Ba- Assam Don 27-28th Khare identifi cation of atomic and molecular sic Sciences towards the Bosco University, Feb., 2015 system development of Engi- Guwahati, neering and Technology – 2015 (NABSET-2015) Prof. Alika Pulsed Laser Deposition: A versatile Tech- 29th National confer- M G University 8-11th Khare nique for Fabrication of Thin Films for Dif- ence on Plasma Science Kottayam Dec., ferent Applications & Technology Plas- 2015. ma(2014) Prof. Alika Thin fi lms via PLD technique for Photonics Recent trends in Optics IIT Patna 7-8th Khare applications and Quantum Optics ( Nov., IOQO-2014) 2014

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Prof. Alika Introduction to Laser QIP, STC on Microma- Department 23rd Khare chining Manufacturing of Mechanical March, Technology Engineering, IIT 2015 Guwahati Prof. Sunil Optical fi ber sensing techniques: Emerging International Confer- Kolkata 20-22nd Khijwania applications in environmental and struc- ence in Optics and February, tural health monitoring Photonics (ICOP- 15) 2015 Prof. Sunil Development of Optical Fiber Sensor for UKIERI workshop on University of 27th Khijwania Structural Health Monitoring Photonics for Imaging Calcutta March, and Sensing 2015 Prof. Sunil Fiber Optics to sensing: Review of Techno- QIP Short Course on RF IIT Guwahati 24th Khijwania logical Progress towards Emerging Applica- and Photonics February, tions 2015 Prof. Sunil Fiber Optics: Growth, Impact and Revolu- UKIERI workshop on University of 26th Khijwania tion Photonics for Imaging Calcutta March, and Sensing 2015 Dr. Gagan Terahertz plasmonic metamaterials IIT Kanpur Kanpur 10th April, Kumar 2015 Dr. Gagan Terahertz Science and Applications Kurukshetra University, Department of 10th Feb., Kumar Kurukshetra Physics 2015 Dr. D. Pamu Advanced Technology Oriented Materials Department of Physics, Rajahmundry, 8-9th De- (ATOM-2014) Government College Andhra Pradesh cember 2014 Prof. S. Ravi Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline International conference Hyderabad 26-28th Perovskite Manganites and Diluted Mag- on Nano Science and En- June, netic Semiconductors gineering Applications’ 2014 organized by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. Dr. Parity-time symmetry in nonlinear optics Institute of Advanced Guwahati 26th Amarendra settings [National Symposium on Nonlinear Study in Science and March, Kumar Sarma & Complex phenomena] Technology,Guwahati-35 2015 Dr. Matrix methods in Physics (Four lectures) Academic Staff college, 23rd Amarendra [Refresher course for college and University Gauhati University February, Kumar Sarma teachers] 2015 Dr. Ashwini Advances in Lasers (QIP STC on RF & Pho- Department of Electron- IIT Guwahati 26th Feb, Kumar tonics: Fundamentals and Advances) ics & Electrical Engineer- 2015 Sharma ing, IIT Guwahati Dr. Ashwini Lasers in Biomedical Applications (QIP STC Department of Me- 25th Feb, Kumar on Micromanufacturing for Biomedical Ap- chanical Engineering, IIT 2015 Sharma plications) Guwahati Dr. Ashwini Pulsed laser ablation – a versatile technique Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati 26th Dec, Kumar for thin fi lm deposition (QIP STC on Smart IIT Guwahati 2014 Sharma Materials and Their Applications in Nano- technology (SMATAN-2014) Dr. Ashwini Basics of Laser (QIP short term course on Department of Me- IIT Guwahati 24th Dec. Kumar Micromanufacturing) chanical Engineering, IIT 2014 Sharma Guwahati

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Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Dr. Ashwini Basic laser theory & applications in manu- Department of Me- IIT Guwahati 16th Dec, Kumar facturing (TE-QIP short term course on chanical Engineering, IIT 2014 Sharma Advanced Machining & Finishing Processes) Guwahati Dr. Subhash Physics of Electronic Devices: Concepts and MHRD-National Institute NITTR - Kolkata 09th Thota Applications of Technical Teachers Extension center March, Training and Research at Guwahati 2015 Dr. Subhash Spincaloritronics for on-chip cooling ap- Department of Mechani- Vignan Univer- 28th Jan, Thota plications cal Engineering sity, Guntur 2015 Dr. Subhash Dielectric Elastomers: Soft Active Material QIP Short term Course Depart of Phys- 26th Dec, Thota For Soft Machines. Smart Materials and ics-IIT Guwahati, 2014 Their Applications, India SMATAN-2014 Dr. Subhash Importance of Wide-bandgap Semiconduc- Department of Electrical LAQSHYA Insti- 27th Jan, Thota tor Nanostructures for Emerging Electronic Engineering, LAQSHYA tute of Technol- 2015 Devices Institute of Technology ogy & Sciences, & Sciences Khammam Dr. Subhash The Impact of Nanotechnology on Modern Department of Electrical Sree Kavita Engi- 27th Jan, Thota day Electronic Devices and Electronics Engi- neering College, 2015 neering Karepalli

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Remarks Prof. K. Srid- TIFR, Mumbari Exploring the Warped Bulk with Kaluza- 9th TPSC har Klein gluons Feb,2015 invited lecture Prof. Anand Michigan Technological University, Optical Absorption in Nanostructures 26th Feb, Invited Kulkarni USA for Photovoltaic Applications 2015 Lecture Dr. Samir IIST, Trivandrum Radiative Properties of Accertion Disc 20th May - Mandal around black holes 2014 Dr. Subhadip Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire de Vector-like Quarks in the Warped-space 2nd May, - Mitra Physique Théorique d'Orsay, France Models 2014 Dr. Sugata S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic First-principles calculations of electron- 15th Oct. - Mukherjee Sciences, Kolkata ic properties of Graphene and related 2014 two-dimensional Nanomaterials Dr. S. B. Roy Head, Materials & Advanced Ac- Glass, Spin-glass and Magnetic-glass 21st Oct, - celerator Sciences Division Raja 2014 Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology Indore Prof. L. N. Calcutta University Super-resolution over a restricted fi eld 25th Nov, - Hazra of view 2014

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED

Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date Interna- No. of Sl. (Convener/ Co- tional/ partici- No. ordinator, etc.) National pants 1. Dr. Bipul Bhuyan XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Phys- DAE-BRNS 08-12th National 320 ics Symposium December, 2015

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2. Prof. A. Perumal and QIP-STC Course on Smart Ma- Centre for 23.12.2014 – National 32 Dr. D. Pamu terials and Their Applications in Educational 27.12.2014 Nanotechnology (SMATAN-2014) Technology 3. Dr. Arunansu Sil (Jt. XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Phys- DAE-BRNS 08-12th National 320 Convener) ics Symposium December, 2015

PATENTS Date Ap- Sl. Name of Faculty and co Applica- Name plied/ No. researcher tion No. Granted 1. B. R. Boruah and Biswajit A Method and Device for Zonal Wavefront Sensing by Dec 26, 2014 3935/ Pathak Beam Splitting DEL/2014 d 2. B. R. Boruah and Biswajit A Method and Device for Zonal Wavefront Sensing Dec 18, 2014 3752/ Pathak Via Sequential Spatially Shifted Grating Array Patterns DEL/2014

AWARDS AND HONOURS Prof. P. K. Giri got selected for Nanoscience Research Leader Award 2015, Cognizure Corporation. Prof. P. K. Giri is a Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Nanomaterials, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA. Prof. P. K. Giri is a Senior Editor, Journal of Nanoscience Letters, Cognizure - Publishing Division, USA. Prof. P. K. Giri is a Regional Editor, American Journal of Nanotechnology, Science Publication, Australia. STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS Mr. Samit Kumar Gupta, working under the supervision of Dr. Amarendra Kumar Sarma got the Best OSA (Optical Society of America) Poster Prize Award in International Conference on Optics and Photonics held at University of Calcutta during February 20-22, 2015. The prize included a cash prize of Rs. 30,000/ also. Dr. T. Santhosh Kumar got best poster presentation certifi cate in International Conference on Nano Science & Engineering Applications (ICONSEA-2014).

SPECIAL MENTION Prof. Saurabh Basu completed NPTEL course on Mathematical Physics. Dr. Bipul Bhuyan, Associate professor in the department visited Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA during June 2 - July 14, 2014 to work on the Nova and the LBNE experiments. Dr. Gagan Kumar, Assistant Professor in the department got selected for the prestigious award of Ramanujan Fellowship. Dr. Subhaditya Bhattacharya received DST, INSPIRE research grant, for amount 35 lakhs, and of duration 2014-2019

FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 1. Pratima Agarwal IIT Kanpur Professor Thin fi lms and heterojunction solar cells, nanocrystalline semiconductors, nanomaterials, optoelectronic properties. 2. Saurabh Basu IIT Kanpur Professor Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); High T C (Head of the superconductors, Optical lattices, Transport in Magnetic Department) semiconductors. 3. Bosanta R Imperial Associate Lasers and Optics (Experiment & Theory); Programmable Boruah College Professor Diff ractive Optics, Confocal Microscopy, Phase Stepping London Interferometry, Vectorial Diff raction Theory. 4. Bipul Bhuyan Delhi Associate High Energy Physics (Experiment); CP violation, Rare K and B University Professor meson decays, ILC R & D. 5. Swati MPIP, Mainz, Assistant Soft Condensed Matter Theory and Simulation, Bhattacharya Germany Professor Computational Biophysics, Bio-Nano Interface

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 6. Subhaditya HRI, Assistant High Energy Physics (Theory), Phenomenology of Standard Bhattacharya Allahabad Professor Model and Beyond, Supersymmetry, Dark Matter, LHC. 7. Sayan SINP, Kolkata Assistant : High Energy Physics (Theory), General relativity, Black hole Chakrabarti Professor perturbations, Gravitational waves, Cosmology. 8. Santabrata Das SNBNCBS, Assistant Astrophysics (Theory); Astrophysical fl ows around compact Kolkata Professor objects, Ultra high energy cosmic rays. 9. Tarak Nath Dey PRL, Associate Quantum Optics (Theory); Coherent control of pulse Ahmedabad Professor propagation, Nonlinear optics, Optical solitons, Negative index media, Bose-Einstein condensates. 10. Subhradip SNBNCBS, Associate Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); Electronic Structure Ghosh Kolkata Professor theory, Ordering and Phase stability of disordered alloys, Vibrational properties of metallic aloys. 11. Pravat Kumar IIT Kanpur Professor Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Semiconductor Giri nanostructures, Ion-solid interactions, Optoelectronic materials & devices, Nanotechnology. 12. Charudatt Y IIT Bombay Associate Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); Magnetism, Defects in Kadolkar Professor Ionic Materials, Group Theoretical approaches to Molecular Problems. 13. Alika Khare IIT Kanpur Professor Laser and Photonics ( Experiment and Theory) 14. Sunil K. IIT Delhi Professor Fiber Optics (Experiment & Theory); Fiber & Integrated Optics, Khijwania Photonic Crystal Fiber and Applications, Surface Plasmon Resonance based Sensors, Fiber Bragg Gratings and based Devices, Fiber Optic Sensor, Bio/Nano-Photonics. 15. Gagan Kumar IIT, Delhi Assistant Terahertz Plasmonics and metamaterials, Guided Wave Professor Devices, Ultrafast Spectroscopy. 16. Debaprasad IACS, Kolkata Assistant High Energy (Theory); Cosmology, Ads/CMT. Maity Professor 17. Uday Narayan Jadavpur Assistant Graphene, carbon nanotube, Inorganic nanostructures, Maiti (Joined on 16 University, Professor Energy storage and conversion, Nanomaterials based December 2014) Kolkata electronic devices. 18. Bibhas Ranjan SNBNCBS, Assistant High Energy Physics (Theory); General theory of relativity, Majhi (Joined on 11 Kolkata Professor Field theory on curved spacetimes, Black holes, Cosmology, December 2014) Thermodynamical aspects of gravity, Fluid-gravity correspondence. 19. Malay Kumar IIT Kanpur Associate Theoretical Physics; Statistical Physics, Condensed Matter Nandy Professor Physics, Turbulence Field Theory, Plasma Physics, Quantum Computation. 20. Soumitra Nandi Univ. of Assistant High Energy Physics (Theory); Quark and Lepton Flavour Calcutta Professor Physics, Flavour Symmetries, CP violation, precision calculations in the SM, Special interest in QCD, Heavy Quark Eff ective Theory and Soft Collinear Eff ective Theory. 21. Padma Kumar IISc, Associate Condensed matter (Theory); Atomistic Modeling and Padmanabhan Bangalore Professor Simulation of Condensed States of Matter. 22. Dilip Pal TIFR, Mumbai Associate Low Temperature Physics and Material Science (Experimental); Professor Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Vortex states in superconductors, Superconductivity and Magnetism. 23. D. Pamu Univ. of Associate Condensed Matter Physics; High-k and low loss materials, Hyderabad Professor FerroelectricsCeramics, Oxide thin fi lms Nanomaterials.

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Sl. Name PhD Designation Areas of Interest No. 24. Perumal IIT Kharagpur Professor Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Magnetism, Alagarsamy Nanostructured Materials, Nanocrystalline Materials, Magnetic Thin Films, Metallic Glasses. 25. Poulose Poulose PRL, Associate Theoretical Physics; High energy physics phenomenology, CP Ahmedabad Professor violation, Mass Generation mechanism, Low energy Gravity. 26. Udit Raha University Assistant Quantum Chromodynamics and Nuclear Eff ective Field of Bonn, Professor Theories. Germany 27. Seenipandian Univ. of Professor Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Magnetism, Ravi Hyderabad Superconductivity, Low temperature Physics. 28. Sitangshu Bikas Bose Professor Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); Condensed Matter Santra Institute, Physics, Statistical Physics. Kolkata 29. Amarendra IIT Delhi Associate Photonics (Theory) and Theoretical Physics; Solitons, Kumar Sarma Professor Metamaterials and Plasmonics, Ultrafast optics, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Nonlinear Optics. 30. Ashwini Kumar IIT Kanpur Associate Laser ablation, characterization, deposition and applications Sharma Professor of nanostructures 31. Girish Sampath Univ. of Professor Theoretical Physics; Optoelectronic properties of graphene, Setlur Illinois Nonchiral bosonization of fermions in one and higher dimensions. 32. Arunansu Sil Univ. of Assistant High Energy Physics & Cosmology (Theory); Phenomenology Calcutta Professor of Physics beyond the Standard Model, Supersymmetry and its breaking, Neutrino Physics, Matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe, Infl ation. 33. Ananthakrishnan IISc, Professor Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Glasses and Srinivasan Bangalore Disordered Materials, Thin Films, Metallic Alloys, Nanophase materials, Shape Memory Alloys. 34. Subhash Thota IIT Kanpur Assistant Material Science and Engineering; Magnetic Professor Nanostructures,Oxide Heterostructures, superlattices, Magnetocaloric eff ects Semimagnetic semiconductors Bandgap Engineering.

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CENTRE FOR ENERGY

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRE: 2004 [vi] Biofuel Laboratory: Facility for production and analysis of biofuels, Fischer tropsch process. ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: [vii] Analytical Laboratory: Houses facility for analysis Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) of gas, oil, volatile materials, gravimetric analysis, thermo gravimetric analysis of samples, microbial incubation, NO. OF LABORATORIES WITH BRIEF INTRODUCTION: sterilization. There are eight (8) laboratories in the Centre. The facilities [viii] Biogas Development and Training Centre (BDTC):The available in each laboratory is briefl y provided below- biogas development and training centre (BDTC), funded by [i] Energy Efficiency Laboratory: Fuel testing facility Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), New Delhi (calorifi c value, viscosity, fl ash point, fi re point, cloud & has been functioning from the Centre for Energy at the pour point, cetane index), proximate analysis facility, technology complex for promotion of biogas technology anemometer, pump testing setup, biomass gasifi cation unit, in the NE states since 2006. fl ue gas analayzer, GC for biogas analysis, natural convection [ix] Internal Combustion Engine Laboratory: Facility grain drier, fuel cell demonstration unit, fi bre analysis system of recent developments to petrol and diesel engines and etc. A portion of the energy effi ciency laboratory is based testing of various alternative fuels, located at Technology in the technology complex (TC) to house the noisy, rugged Complex. and robust facilities like biomass gasifi er units, IC engine set up, pump testing set-up etc. MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: [ii] Bio-energy Laboratory: Micro propagation facility i) X-ray crystallography facility (RIGAKU) for macromolecule for energy and bio-fuel crops, autoradiogram development and state-of art facility for protein bioelectronic science have facility, genetic engineering facility, biotransformation and been developed through a project sponsored by DBT India cloning and installed the equipment at Central Instrument Facility [iii] Solar Energy Laboratory: Demonstration unit for centre, IIT Guwahati for use by other researchers/scientist effi cient use of solar energy, characterization and study of the from IIT Guwahati and NE India. photovoltaic module, energy spectrum measuring facility, spectral response/ photoconductivity/ quantum effi ciency ii) Refrigerated Orbital Incubator Shaker with illuminator and and other transport measurements in the presence of light Refrigerated Orbital Incubator Shaker without illuminator of photovoltaic modules, materials and devices. A facility iii) Advance Research Metallurgical and Biological for preparation of thin fi lms by physical vapor deposition Fluorescence Microscope with Scientifi c Digital Camera method and development of heterojunction and thin fi lm solar cells based on amorphous and microcrystalline silicon MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: is also available. The faculty members, associated with the centre, are [iv] Fuel Cells Laboratory: Fabrication and characterization carrying out research based projects, funded by various of bioelectrodes for biofuelcell and biosensors applications, government departments like Department of Science and etc. Facility for development and characterization of Technology (DST), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy composite proton exchange membranes for fuel cell (MNRE), Defense Research &Development Organization applications. (DRDO), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Assam Science [v] X-ray Crystallography Laboratory: Sample preparation and Technology Environment Council (ASTEC), Council for studies on structure of enzymes and their interaction with of Scientifi c and Industrial Research (CSIR) etc as well as nanostructured materials for bioelectronics devices such as foreign funding agencies namely, ADnENERGY. In the last biofuel cell & other applications. seven years the centre has received 31 (thirty one) research 276 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 projects and as many as 17 (seventeen) consultancies in swing adsorption technique, Biofuel (biodiesel, biobutanol, the areas of biomass gasifi cation, biogas technology, wind bioethanol and biohydrogen), Utilization of bio-waste for energy, solar energy, biological fuel cells, engine testing with generating power in diesel engine, Tissue culture technology alternate fuels, biodiesel, energy effi cient machines, multi- for bioenergy crops, Energy storage, Latent heat storage, fuel variable compression engine, CO2 capture,lubricant Improvement of IC engines, Clean coal technology, Waste formulation, bioelectronics devices etc. MNRE has identifi ed heat recovery, Improved cooking stove, Solar Energy, the centre as the hub for promotion of biogas development Catalysis, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, Hydrodynamics and training in the NE states of India and has been and heat transfer characteristics with biomass blends in funding yearly since 2006.The major areas of research pressurized CFB, Chemical and biological fuel cell, Fluid and development of the centreare Biogas technology and Thermal Engineering, Drying Technology and solar (production, storage, value addition, lignocellulose energy, Smart grid, Urban traffi c pollution, amorphous and waste utilization), Fluidized bed gasifi cation (pressurized nonocrystalline semiconductor thin fi lms for solar cells and gasifi cation), Wind Energy, Carbon capture by using pressure other devices. Thin fi lm and Hetero-junction solar cells etc.

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Co- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Investigator Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. V. V. Goud Phototrophic biofi lm based waste water DBT 30.00 - 1 year recycling for sustainable water usage in rubber latex coagulation b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Spon- Amount Principal Co-Investi- Duration Name of Project soring Sanctioned Investigator gator (years) Agency (Rs. in Lakh) Pranab Studies on structure of enzymes and their DBT 473.00 V. K. Dubey, 3 years Goswami interaction with nanostructured materials for P. Mahanta bioelectronics devices and other applications. Pranab Development of Bioelectrodes for Biofuel Cell MNRE 33.73 P. Mahanta 3 years Goswami Applications. Prof. P. Biogas Development and Training Centre MNRE 26.00 Prof. P. Mah- Con- Mahanta anta tinuing project Dr V.V.Goud A novel energy effi cient Hydrodyanamiccavi- CSIR 19.80 Prof. L. Sahoo Con- tational technique for bio-diesel. tinuing project Prof. P. Sub Project Title – ‘Small-scale Anaerobic DST 82.684 Prof. P.S. 3 years Mahanta Digestion’ under the “Rural Hybrid Energy- Robi, Prof. Enterprise Systems (RHEES)”, Indo – UK Collab- A.K. Das, Dr. orative Research Initiative on ‘Bridging the K. Kalita, Dr. Urban and Rural Divide’ L. Barbora Dr. V.V. Goud Investigating the eff ect of co-digestion and DBT 8.36 - 3 Years advanced sludge pre-treatment methods on the anaerobic conversion potential of the organic wastes Dr. Mahuya Development of supported noble metal DST 39.4 Dr. Ramago- 3 years De catalysts using surfactant assisted electroless pal Uppal- plating process for the dehydrogenation of uri, Dr. M. light alkanes Qureshi

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Spon- Amount Principal Co-Investi- Duration Name of Project soring Sanctioned Investigator gator (years) Agency (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. V. V. Goud A novel synthetic approach for chemical National 68.16 - 3 years modifi cation of vegetable oils for lubricant oilseed and formulation vegetable oils Devel- opment Board Dr. V. N. Design, development and performance as- DST 18.05 - 3years Kulkarni sessment of multi- fuel variable compression engine Dr. A. Verma Development of polymer electrolyte mem- CSIR 13.00 Prof. P. 3 years brane fuel cell using indigenously prepared Goswami low cost composite bipolar plate and Prof P. Mahanta Dr. V.S. Design and optimization of 1, 3- Propanediol CSIR 15.00 - 3 years Moholkar and n-butanol from biodiesel derived crude glycerol using immobilized Clostridial strains Prof. U.K. Saha Utilization of Bio-waste for Generating Power DRL 9.91 Dr. N. Sahoo 3 years in Diesel Engines (DRDO), Tezpur Dr. V.S. Design, development and commercialization MNRE 53.00 Prof. P. Ma- 3 years Moholkar of a circulating fl uidized bed biomass gasifi er hanta, Mr. P. Kalita Prof. P. Optoelectronic and Transport studies on Thin CSIR 30.00 - 2 years Agarwal silicon fi lms (nc-Si and nc-Si/a-Si: Hsuperlat- tice) and solar cells Prof. Laser based calibration methodology for ther- DRDO 12.40 Dr. Vinayak 2 years NiranjanSahoo mal sensors in combustion measurements Kulkarni

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National) Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion Singh S, Khanna S, Screening & optimization of pretreat- Applied Energy 195-206 129 2014 Moholkar V S, Goyal A ments for Partheniumhysterophorus as feedstock for alcoholic biofuels S. Singh, S.T.P. Mechanistic Investigation in Ultra- Industrial & Engi- 53 (37) 14241- 2014 Bharadwaja, P.K. Yadav, sound-Assisted (Alkaline) Delignifi ca- neering Chemistry 14252 V.S. Moholkar, and tion of Partheniumhysterophorus Research A.Goyal Biomass S. Singh, P.K. Dikshit, Purifi cation and characterization of Environmental DOI: 10.1002/ 2014 V.S. Moholkar, and acidic cellulase from Bacillus amy- Progress ep.12046 A.Goyal loliquefaciens SS35 for hydrolyzing Partheniumhysterophorus biomass S. Singh, S. Sarma, M. Ultrasound enhanced ethanol pro- Bioresource Tech- http:// dx.doi.org/ 2014 Agrawal, A. Goyal, and duction from Partheniumhysteropho- nology 10.1016/j.biortech. V.S.Moholkar rus: A mechanistic investigation 2014.12.038

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Vol. and Year of Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Issue Page No. Publica- No. tion S.T.P. Bharadwaja, Design and optimization of a Journal of the http:// dx.doi.org 2015 S. Singh,and V.S. sono-hybrid process for bioethanol Taiwan Institute of /10.1016/ j.jtice. Moholkar production from Parthenium hys- Chemical Engi- 2015. 01.022 terophorus neers M. Singh, A. Yadav, S. Annealing induced electrical conduc- Applied Surface 326 236-242 2014 Kumar, and P. Agarwal tion and band gap variation in ther- Science mally reduced graphene oxide fi lms with diff erent sp2/sp3 fraction H.S. Jha, A. Yadav, M. Growth of wide band gap nanocrys- Journal of Elec- 44 922-928 2015 Singh, S. Kumar, and P. talline Silicon Carbide fi lms by HW- tronic Materials Agarwal CVD: infl uence of fi lament tempera- ture on structural and opto-electronic properties Madhuri Das, Lepakshi Biofuel cell for generating power Biosensors and 59, 15 184–191 2014 Barbora, Priyanki Das, from methanol substrate using Bioelectronics Pranab Goswami alcohol oxidase bioanode and air- breathed laccasebiocathode A Ghosh, P Goswami, P Eff ect of carbon fi ber length and gra- Journal of Solid 18(12) 3427- 2014 Mahanta, A Verma, phene oncarbon-polymer composite State Electrochem- 3436 bipolar plate for PEMFC istry Singh S., Agrawal M., Mechanistic insight into ultrasound Ultrasonics Sono- http:// dx.doi.org/ 2015 Sarma S., Goyal A. and induced enhancement of simultane- chemistry 10.1016 /j.ultsonch. Moholkar V. S. ous saccharifi cation and fermenta- 2015.02.011 tion of Partheniumhysterophorus for ethanol production A. J. Chaudhari, N. Simulation models for spark ignition Energy Procedia 54 330-341 2014 Sahoo, V. Kulkarni engine: A comparative performance study Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia & Page A. Yadav, M. Singh, and P. a-Si:H/nc-Si:H thin fi lm super lat- ICRANN 2014, Jawaharlal 15-16 114 Agarwal tice by Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Nehru University Dec Deposition 2014 A. Yadav, M. Singh, and Infl uence of hydrogen dilution TransLES 2014, IASST Guwa- 11-13 53 P.Agarwal on structural, electrical and hati Dec optical properties of silicon thin 2014 fi lms by HWCVD technique A. Yadav, M. Singh, and P. Laser induced crystallinity in EMCA 2014, NIT Durgapur & 4-6 Dec 77 Agarwal amorphous silicon thin fi lm CGCRI Kolkata 2014 P. Eliaers, J.R. Pati, S. Dutta, Modeling and simulation of bio- Chemical Engineering Science 2014 DOI: J. De Wilde mass drying in vortex chambers 123 10.1016/ j.ces. 2014. 11.043 Madhuri Das and Enzyme cascade based bio- Frontier Energy Research with 20-21st 35 PranabGoswami anode for complete utilization of Industry Academia partner- March methanol substrate to generate ship 2015. power in biofuelcell.

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia & Page SharbaniKaushik and Studies on cyanocabteria for its Frontier Energy Research with 20-21st 38 PranabGoswami potential biofuelcell applications Industry Academia partner- March ship 2015. Priyanki Das, Madhuri Power generation from alcohol Frontier Energy Research with 20-21st 39 Das, LepakshiBarbora, and biofuelcell utilizing alcohol oxi- Industry Academia partner- March PranabGoswami dase and laccase as biocatalysts ship 2015. DiptiYadav, Deep Bora, Thermochemical and Organic International Conference on 6-9th E 62 AbhinavChoudhury, Pretreatment of Local Linocel- Emerging Trends in Biotech- Nov LepakshiBarbora, lulosicBioresources for Energy nology (ICETB 2014), JNU 2014 LathaRangan, and P Production Mahanta DiptiYadav, Small scale Anaerobic Digestors: Bioenergy: An Engine for Eco- 28 Jan 114 LepakshiBarbora, A case study in UK and India nomic Growth in the Global 2015 TanjaRado, Richard South at Welcome Trust, Blanchard, LathaRangan London and P Mahanta Barik CR, Sahoo L, Goud VV Identifi cation of Some Poten- Frontier Energy Research with 20th- - tial Energy Plants from North Industry Academia Partner- 21st East India for Biomass Energy ship Workshop, FERIAP-2015, March Production: an Agro-taxonomic Centre for Energy, IIT Guwa- 2015 Approach hati Maravi DK, Goud VV, Sahoo Enhanced triacylglycerol (TAG) National Conference on "Bio- 21st- - L accumulation synthesis in Jatro- technology and Human Wel- 22nd phacurcas leaves upon following fare: New Vistas" organized by March constitutive overexpression of Department of Biotechnology, 2015 an Arabidopsis diacylglycerol VBS Purvanchal University, acyl transferase 1 (AtDGAT1) Jaunpur Ramakrishna Comparision of electrical con- Transport properties in low 11-13 102 Madaka, AshaYadav, ductivity of a-Si:H fi lms depos- dimensional System: Experi- Dec VenkannaKanneboina, ited on fl exible polyimide and ment and Simulation, Trans- 2014 PratimaAgarwal corning glass substrate LES 2014, IASST, Guwahati Mukesh Singh, AshaYadav, Transition from 3D to 2D Mott International Conference on 15-16 28 PratimaAgarwal variable range hopping conduc- Recent Advances on Nanosci- Dec tion in reduced graphene oxide ence and Nanotecnology, 2014 thin fi lms ICRANN 2014, JNU AshaYadav, Optical properties of silicon thin Frontier Energy Research with 20-21 47 PratimaAgarwal fi lms for solar cell application: Industry Academic Partner- March Infl uence of hydrogen dilution. ship, FERIAP 2015, IIT Guwa- 2015 hati Ramakrishna Electrical and structural proper- The Annual Chemical Engi- 27-29th 56 Madaka, AshaYadav, ties of a-Si:H on fl exible sub- neering Symposium, Refl ux Mar VenkannaKanneboina, strates 2015, IIT Guwahati 2015 PratimaAgarwal Singh S., Goyal A. and Bioethanol production from 4th Annual International Con- 9-10 21 Moholkar V.S. Partheniumhysterophorus (car- ference on Sustainable Energy Febru- rot grass): Ultrasound enhanced and Environmental Sciences ary 2015 enzymatic hydrolysis and fer- (SEES 2015), Singapore. mentation. Singh S., Sarma S., Goyal A. Ultrasound-enhanced Bioetha- Indo-US Conference on 10-11 79 and Moholkar V.S. nol production from Partheni- Advanced Lignocellulosic Novem- umhysterophorus (carrot grass) Biofuels (Indo-US CALB-2014), ber, by simultaneous saccharifi cation CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad 2014 and fermentation

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Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date shop/Seminar/Symposia & Page Borah A., Goyal A. and Establishing invasive weeds as Indo-US Conference on 10-11 74 Moholkar V. S. a new feedstock for biorefi nery: Advanced Lignocellulosic Novem- From pain to gain Biofuels (Indo-US CALB- ber, 2014), CSIR-Indian Institute of 2014 Chemical Technology, Hyder- abad, India. Singh S., Moholkar V.S. and Ultrasound-assisted intensifi ca- International Conference on 6-9 No- E51-E52 Goyal A. tion of bioethanol production Emerging Trends in Biotech- vember, from Partheniumhysterophorus. nology and 11th Convention 2014 of the Biotech Research So- ciety, India (BRSI). Jawaharlal Nehru University Singh S., Bharadwaja S.T.P., Ultrasound assisted delignifi ca- National Seminar on Emerg- 9-10 64 Moholkar V.S. and Goyal A. tion of acid pretreated Partheni- ing Bio-inputs in Biotechnol- May, umhysterophorus for enzymatic ogy for a Green Environment, 2014 hydrolysis. Department of Bioengineer- ing and Technology, Gauhati University Institute of Science and Technology, Gauhati University Singh S., MoholkarV.S. and Bioethanol production by International Conference on 21-22 Interna- Goyal A. pretreatment, hydrolysis and Energy Technology, Power June, tional fermentation ofPartheniumhys- Engineering and Environmen- 2014 Journal of terophorus. tal Sustainability. Jawaharlal Applied Nehru University Research, 9(9), 1149 A. J. Chaudhari, V. Kulkarni Performance assessment of Proceedings of 6th Interna- 29-31 A. J. and N. Sahoo octane fuels on a variable tional Conference on Theoreti- De- Chaudhari, compression ratio spark ignition cal, Applied, Computational cember V. Kulkarni engine and Experimental Mechanics 2014 and N. (ICTACEM), IIT Kharagpur Sahoo A. J. Chaudhari, V. Kulkarni Combined eff ect of variable Frontier Energy Research with 20-21st A. J. and N. Sahoo compression ratio and exhaust Industry Academic Partner- March Chaudhari, gas recirculation with biogas ship, FERIAP 2015, IIT Guwa- 2015 V. Kulkarni fuel in spark ignition engine hati and N. Sahoo H. Mishra, S. Bharati, G. Chemical kinetics for combus- Frontier Energy Research with 20-21st H. Mishra, Natarajan, N. Sahoo tion of biofuels – A numerical Industry Academic Partner- March S. Bharati, study ship, FERIAP 2015, IIT Guwa- 2015 G. Nata- hati rajan, N. Sahoo Book Chapter

Name of Vol, Is- Page Title of Chapter Title of Book Publisher ISBN Year Author/s sue No. No. H.A. Biomass gasifi cation in- In: Recent Ad- Elsevier BV, 383-435 978-0- 2015 Choudhury, S. tegrated Fischer-Tropsch vances in Thermo- Amsterdam 444- Chakma, V.S. synthesis: Perspectives, chemical Conver- 63289-0 Moholkar opportunities and chal- sion of Biomass lenges.

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Name of Vol, Is- Page Title of Chapter Title of Book Publisher ISBN Year Author/s sue No. No. V.S. Moholkar, Physical and chemical Production of Springer Sci- 4 35-86 2015 H.A. mechanisms of ultra- Biofuels and ence + Busi- Choudhury, sound in biofuel synthe- Chemical with Ul- ness Media, S. Singh, S. sis. trasound, Biofuels Dordrecht Khanna, A. and Biorefi neries Ranjan, S. series Chakma,J. Bhasarkar D.K. Maravi, P. Jatropha (Jatrophacur- Agrobacterium Springer 1224 25-36 978-1- 2015 Mazumdar, S. cas L.) Protocols (Kan Protocols, 4939- Alam, Vaibhav Wang, Editor) Humana 1695-5 V. Goud, and L. vol.2, Methods in Press Sahoo Molecular Biology

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of Title of Lecture/Paper Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Faculty Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Pranab Biosensor and enzymatic biofuel Department of Biotechnology, Institutional 14th Goswami cell: Emerging topics in healthcare Gauhati University, Biotech Hub, February and biomedical engineering, Gauhati Uni- 2015 versity Pranab key note lecture on Enzymatic Bio- IITG-Kyoto Institute of Technology IIT Guwahati 20Janu- Goswami fuel Cell for Micro Scale Electronic (KIT) Joint Symposium on Biobased ary, 2015 Devices Materials, Pranab Biotechnology: Recent advances Delivered invited lecture at University University of on on Goswami and Future Prospects of Science and Technology, Megha- Science and 23rd laya Technology, August Meghalaya 2014 in L Sahoo Technology and International Co- Gifu Norin Senior High School Gifu (Japan) 17 June operation in India 2014 L Sahoo Japan-India cooperation for biofuel Frontier Research Center (Biotechnol- Aichi (Japan) 6 August research ogy) of TOYOTA Central R&D Labs 2014 Pratima Research activities on Thin fi lm Gifu University, Japan Gifu University Dec 03, Agarwal semiconductors and solar cells at 2014 IIT Guwahati

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Prof. S. Nonomura, Prof. M. GIFU University Japan Collaboration in terms of faculty-student 21/04/2014 Koketsu and Prof. U.Yoshihiko exchange and joint research projects Dr. Ranjit S Patil Department of Mechani- Talk on ‘Characteristics of Flow in Fluidized 26/06/2014 cal Engineering – Goa Bed and Microtubes’ campus, BITS Pilani

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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED Name of Faculty Funded By Date Interna- No. of Name of Sem./ (Convener/ Co- tional/ partici- Wor./Con. ordinator,etc.) National pants Prof. PranabGo- Frontier Energy Department of Science & Tech- 20th -21st Interna- 84 Partici- swami Research Industry nology, Department of Bio- March tional pants and Academia Partner- technology, Reliance Industries 2015 09 Experts ship (FERIAP 2015) Limited, Council of Scientifi c & Industrial Research, BaniMandir, Carl-Zeiss Dr. P Muthukumar Recent Trends in TE-QIP 23-24th National 35 Renewable Energy Jan 2015 Utilization Systems

Workshop (Frontier Energy Research Industry Academia Partnership) organized by Centre for Energy during 20-21 March 2015. A large number of participants from various part of India has joined the workshop and presented their work. Nine eminent speakers namely Prof. S P Sukhatme, Prof. L M Das, Prof. K K Pant, Dr. PranabBharali, Prof. Michele Clarke, Dr. SantanuDasgupta, Mr. GiridharPatowari and Dr. R Anandalakshmi including our honourable Director Prof. GautamBiswas delivered highly illuminating lectures in the workshop. Among the participant which presented the posters following the Best Poster Award were instituted & presented in the valedictory function: Best Poster:“Design And Experiment Of A Solar Power Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Uav) For Various Purposes”Presented By Suvanjan Bhattacharyya, Shramona Chakraborty, Ahiry Ghosal And Suman Chandra. 2nd Best Poster:“Improved Bioethanol Production From Mixed Pretreated Leafy Biomass Of Bamboo (Bambusa Dendrocalamus) Involving Saccharifi cation By Recombinant Enzymes From Clostridium Thermocellum” Presented By Ashutosh Gupta 3rd Best Poster:“Wind Energy: A Tesla Turbine For Power Generation In A Moving Train” Presented By Suvanjan Bhattacharyya, Anindya Guin And Ayan Halder

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS i) The paper entitled “Mechanistic and kinetic investigations in ultrasound assisted acid catalyzed biodiesel synthesis” published in Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier, Impact Factor = 4) authored by Miss PriyankaParkar (MTech 2011 batch, Chemical EnggDept) and Dr. HanifChoudhury (PhD 2014, Center for Energy) has received the Top Cited Paper award for the years 2011-12. ii) Miss ShyamaliSarma (Research Scholar, Center for Energy) received the Best Poster Award (3rd Prize) in Indo-US Conference on Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuels held in IICT, Hyderabad in November 2014 for her poster on Ultrasound Enhanced Bioethanol Synthesis by Simultaneous Saccharifi cation and Fermentation. iii) Ms. Shuchi Singh (Research Scholar, Center for Energy) was selected for International Travel Fellowship grant by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, to attend International conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Sciences (SEES-2015) during February 9-10, 2015 at Singapore.

FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE

Sl. Name Designation and Department No. 1. Agarwal, P. Professor, Department of Physics 2. Das, A. K. Professor, Department of Design 3. Das, D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology 4. De, M. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 5. Dubey, V. K. Professor, Department of Biotechnology 6. Goswami, P. (Head, Centre Professor, Department of Biotechnology for Energy) 7. Goud, V. V. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 8. Kalita, K. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Sl. Name Designation and Department No. 9. Kulkarni, V. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 10. Mahanta, P. Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering 11. Mohanty, K. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 12. Moholkar, V. S. Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering 13. Robi, P. S. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 14. Qureshi, M. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry 15. Saha, U. K. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 16. Sahoo, L. Professor, Department of Biotechnology 17. Sahoo, N. Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 18. Uppaluri, R. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 19. Verma, A. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

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CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRE: 2004 MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: • Water and Wastewater Treatment ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: • Solid Waste Management and Recycling Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) • Environmental Bioremediation/ Environmental LABORATORIES: Biotechnology • Research Laboratory – I • Biosorption& Bioremediation of heavy metals • Research Laboratory – II • Biofi ltration for treating waste gases and green solvents • Analytical Laboratory • Removal of Toxic and Recalcitrant Compounds • Computational Laboratory • Biodegradation/Bio-detoxifi cation of Toxic Wastes • Mammalian Cell Culture Laboratory • Environmental Genomics and Proteomics • Green Chemistry MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: • Greenhouse gas Capture and Storage. • Oil bath with magnetic stirrer • Biofuels • Miclins Peristaltic pump • Air pollution- Dispersion, Control & Modeling • Refrigerated shaking incubator • Waste Immobilization • pH meter • Soil-water-contaminant Interaction • FTIR Spectrometer • Contaminant Transport and Retention in Porous Media • 15 ton Hydraulic press for making pellet in FTIR • Environmental History • High temperature tubular furnace • Environmental Economics • Sartorius Analytical Balance • Green Design • Recirculating Chiller • Global Warming and Climate Modeling • Scigenics Incubator Shaker

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. Utpal Bora, Aptamer probes for detection of DBT 80. 35 Dr. Sneh Narwal 3 years Dr. Sewa Ram, celiac disease epitopes of gluten (DWR, Karnal), Dr. (DWR, Karnal) in commercial varieties of Indian Ranjan Tamuli (IITG) wheat, rye and barley Dr. Utpal Bora Exploration and Characterization DBT 154.25 - 3 years of Seri-Bioresources of Northeast India for Potential Textile and Non Textile Applications

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Amount Principal Sponsoring Duration Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator Investigator Agency (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. Ramagopal Development of low cost chito- CSIR 19.00 Dr. Animes K Golder 3 years Uppaluri san based crosslinked resins for (Co-PI), Prof. P K the recovery and removal of pal- Ghosh (Co-PI) ladium from synthetic and spent electroless plating solutions

b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Principal Inves- Sponsoring Co-Investi- Duration Name of Project Sanctioned tigator Agency gator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. RanjanTamuli Molecular investigation of epigenetic DBT 55.00 Dr. Utpal 3 years modifi cations caused by environmental Bora pollution using Neurospora crassa as a model system Dr. Utpal Bora, Establishment of Institutional Biotech DBT 26.00 - 5 years Dr. RanjanTamuli, Hubs by DBT under special programme Prof. Chandan for N.E states of India Mahanta Prof. A.K Ghoshal Assessment of microbial communities DBT 21.8 - 3 years and their biodegradation potentials in petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated environments in Assam Dr. V. K. Dubey Variations in proteome profi le of legume DST 23.28 Dr. Anil 3 years plants in response to heavy metal toxicity Verma

c) Completed Sponsored Projects Amount Principal Sponsoring Co-Inves- Name of Project Sanctioned Duration Investigator Agency tigator (Rs. in Lakh) Dr. M.K. Purkait Treatment of contaminated drinking water us- DRL, Tezpur 9.72 - 3 years ing electrocoagulation technique (DRDO) Prof. A. K Petroleum Wastewater treatment in packed CSIR 16.00 - 3 years Ghoshal Bed reactor using suitable Microorganism(s) Prof. Gopal Das Synthesis, Characterization of Metal Oxides and CSIR 16.88 - 3 years Their Application to Wastewater Treatment

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National) Name of Jour- Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Year nal sue No. No. Bhaskar Das, Tapas K A comprehensive study on Chlorella Applied Bio- - - 2014 Mandal, Sanjukta Patra Pyrenoidosa for phenol degradation chemistry and and its potential applicability as bio- Biotechnology, diesel feedstock and animal feed Springer Isha Vishan, Hiranmayee Microbial population, stability and Biologia 69/10 1303- 2014 Kanekar, Ajay S. maturity analysis of rotary drum com- 1313 Kalamdhad posting of water hyacinth.

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Name of Jour- Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Year nal sue No. No. Samarpita Basu, Abhijit CO2 biofi xation and carbonic an- Bioresource 164 323- 2014 Sarma Roy, Kaustubha hydrase activity in Scenedesmus Technology 330 Mohanty, Aloke K. obliquus SA1 cultivated in large scale Ghoshal open system Surya Singh, Bedika Salen ligand complexes as electro- RSC Advances 5 3581- 2015 Phukan, Chandan catalysts for direct electrochemical 3589 Mukherjee, Anil Verma reduction of gaseous carbon dioxide to value added products Surya Singh, Chandan Development of catalytic activity Clean Technolo- 17 533- 2015 Mukherjee, Anil Verma protocol for electrochemical reduc- gies and Envi- 540 tion of carbon dioxide to value added ronmental Policy products

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Name of Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue, Title of Paper Date Author/s shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. Bhaskar Das, Characterization of phenol degra- Proceeding of National Con- June 20-21, Pg-30 Tapas K Mandal, dation by a novel diatom species ference on sustainable de- 2014 Sanjukta Patra BD1IITG isolated from petroleum velopment of environmental refi nery wastewater. systems Bhaskar Das, Biodegradation of phenol by micro- Proceeding of National Con- June 20-21, Pg-75 Gowtham algae. ference on sustainable de- 2014. Selvaraj, Tapas K velopment of environmental Mandal, Sanjukta systems, IIT Guwahati. Patra Bhaskar Das, Isolation and growth kinetics of a 64th Canadian Chemical Engi- October 19- BD1IITG. Tapas K Mandal, phenol degrading novel diatom neering Conference. Ontario, 22, 2014. Sanjukta Patra species. Canada Bhaskar Das, Performance evaluation of phenol 64th Canadian Chemical Engi- October 19- Tapas K Mandal, degradation by Chlorella pyre- neering Conference. Ontario, 22, 2014 Sanjukta Patra noidosa in nutrient suffi cient media Canada. and refi nery wastewater through kinetic modeling. Bhaskar Das, Mechanism of phenol degradation Asian Plant Science Confer- 1-3rd Sanjukta Patra in Chlorella Pyrenoidosa. ence, Lumbini, Nepal. November 2014 Gowtham Recent advances in algal biodiesel Asian Plant Science Confer- 1-3rd Selvaraj, Bhaskar production. ence., Lumbini, Nepal November Das, Sanjukta 2014 Patra M Gopi kiran, Heavy metal removal by sulfate International Conference on 29th Oc- Volume 1, Kannan reduction using anaerobic sludge Hydrology and Watershed tober -2nd 379-386 Pakshirajan and biomass from a wastewater treat- Management-2014 November, Gopal Das ment plant 2014 M Gopi kiran, “Heavy metal Removal by sulfate National conference on 20th -21st, Kannan reduction using anaerobic rotating sustainable Development of June 2014 Pakshirajan and biological contactor reactor environmental systems NCOS- Gopal Das DOES2014

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Name of Name of Conference/Work- Vol., Issue, Title of Paper Date Author/s shop/Seminar/Symposia Page No. M Gopi Kiran Workshop Emerging micro pollutants in 2nd – 5th the Environment: occurrence, March transportation, monitoring and treatment Ponnala Vimal Artifi cial Neural Network Modelling International Conference on 03-05 Dec., Only Mosahari of Blood Flow through Stenosis: A Disease Biology and Therapeu- 2014 abstract Review tics 2014 published in the Ab- stract Book.

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of Faculty/ International/ Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Student National Deepmoni Deka International conference on disease biology IASST, Ghy 3-5 Dec, 2014 International and Therapeutics Deepmoni Deka National conference on recent advances in IIT Ghy 5th Dec, 2014 National cancer biology and therapeutics Deepmoni Deka International conference on Energy and JNTU, Hyder- 15-17 dec, International Environment abad 2014 Bhaskar Das Workshop on Environment and Develop- IIT Guwahati. January 3-4, National ment: New Frontiers of Research in North East 2014. India Ponnala Vimal Conference on Exploitation of Seribiodiver- IIT Guwahati 29.11.14 To International Mosahari sity for Novel Product Development 30.11.14 Ponnala Vimal Biotech Hub Symposium 2014 IIT Guwahati 02.12.14 International Mosahari Ponnala Vimal International Conference on Disease Biology IASST, Guwa- 03.12.14 To International Mosahari and Therapeutics hati 05.12.14 Ponnala Vimal Symposium on IPR in Innovation and Entre- IIT Guwahati 16.03.15 National Mosahari preneurship

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANIZATIONS / INVITED LECTURES:

Name of Inst./Univ./ Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Name Org. Dr. P.J. Raju Andhra Pradesh State Transgenic Silkworm 11th March Sericulture Research 2015 and Development Insti- tute (APSSRDI) Dr. N. S. IASST, Boragaon, Gu- Eff ects of Nanoparticles on swelling properties of polymer 13th February Sharma wahati gels and polymer based sensor for the detection of nitro- 2015 aromatic pollutants. Dr. S. Deka IASST, Boragaon, Gu- Impact of oil pollution on rice fi eld soil of upper Assam and 13th February wahati its control 2015 Dr. R.K. ASTEC, Guwahati IPR- Environmental Health 13th February Barman 2015 Dr. U. ASTEC, Guwahati GIS in Environmental Health 13th February Sarmah 2015

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Name of Inst./Univ./ Purpose/ Name of Lecture Date Name Org. Dr. S. Don Bosco University, Diagnosing Environmental Health; Nanotechnology for Envi- 12th February Baruah Guwahati ronmental Remediation 2015 Dr. D. ICAR, Shillong Metagenomics Survey for Community Ecology and Eco- 11th February Thakuria system processes: Restoration Ecology perspectives; Plant 2015 microbe interactions for habitat adaptive fi tness against environmental stresses Dr. P. Gauhati University, Eff ect of Fluoride and some Heavy Metals; Metal toxicity with 10th February Sharma Guwahati special reference to Arsenic 2015 Dr. K.K AAU, Khanapara, Gu- Impact of Environmental Degradation on large wild mam- 9th February Sharma wahati mals with special reference to the Elephants and its mitiga- 2015 tion Dr. P. Kalita Tezpur University, Power Industry and health Hazards; Issues related to Energy, 9th February, Tezpur Sustainability and the Environment 2015 Padmashree CFTRI, Mysore Innovating the Innovation for Value addition to Agri-resourc- 2nd Decem- V. Prakash es from Farm to Folk in the Food Chain through Strategic ber 2014 Entrepreneurship” Prof. Bharat M. D. Anderson Cancer Targeting Infl ammatory Pathways for Chronic Diseases by 2nd Decem- B. Aggarwal Centre, U.S.A. Nutraceuticals ber 2014 Prof. Kapil M. D. Anderson Cancer Clinical Implications of Retinoid-Induced CD38 Antigen in 2nd Decem- Mehta Centre, U.S.A. Myeloid Leukemias ber 2014 Dr. Pradip IGIB, New Delhi Is BSA necessary for blocking in ELISA Technique 2nd Decem- Nahar ber 2014 Mr. Dulal 47, Ashram Road, Near Muga The Golden Silk 30th Novem- Chowdhury South Sarania L.P. ber 2014 School, Guwahati Dr. Bhuban CMER & TI, Lahdoigarh Exploration of wild silk varieties in Nagaland, North East India 30th Novem- Ch. Chutia ber 2014 Dr. Ajoy Arya Vidyapeeth Col- Host specifi city of muga silkworm and conservation of their 30th Novem- Kumar Das lege, Guwahati host plants ber 2014 Dr. Ruli Arya Vidyapeeth Col- Sericulture-Overview 30th Novem- Borthakur lege, Guwahati ber 2014 Dr. Dulur Bodoland University, The prospects of a cross-breed between Samia ricini and 30th Novem- Brahma Kokrajhar Samia canningi ber 2014 Dr. Uma Cotton College State Chironomous Spp. (Chironomidae : Diptera) as Bio-indicator 30th Novem- Dutta University, Guwahati of Environmental Stress ber 2014 Prof. Isao National Institute of Production of human enzyme in transgenic silkworm 29th Novem- Kobayashi Agro-biological Sci- ber 2014 ences, Japan Dr. Keiro National Institute of Production and preservation of transgenic silkworm 29th Novem- Uchino Agro-biological Sci- ber 2014 ences, Japan Dr. Bulbuli Gauhati University, An avenue for reducing constraints in sericulture with special 29th Novem- Khanikor Guwahati reference to uzi fl y, Exorista sorbillans ber 2014 Dr. Mainak IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Power from silk coccon 29th Novem- Das ber 2014

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Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./ Internation- No. of par- (Convener/ Co- Funded By Date Con. al/National ticipants ordinator,etc.) Prof. Gopal Das & Dr. CPCB Training Pro- CPCB 16-18th National 25 L. M. Kundu gramme on Clean Jan 2015 Technologies and Waste Minimization for Prevention of Industrial Pollution Dr. Utpal Bora (Co- Next Generation Biotech Hub, Center 14-17th National 45 ordinator) Sequencing and Data for the Environment May 2014 Analysis (sponsored by DBT) Dr. Utpal Bora (Co- Exploitation of Seri Unit of Excellence on 29-30th International 69 ordinator) biodiversity for Novel Seribiotechnology, November, Product Development Centre for the Environ- 2014 ment (sponsored by DBT) Dr. Utpal Bora (Co- Biotech Hub Symposium Biotech Hub, Center 2nd Dec International 200 ordinator) for the Environment 2014 (Sponsored by DBT) Dr. Utpal Bora (Organ- International Conference DST 3rd-5th International ised in collaboration on Disease Biology and December, with IASST, Guwahati) Therapeutics 2014 Dr. Utpal Bora & Prof. Quality Improvement Centre for Educational 9th to 13th National 35 Chandan Mahanta Programme- Short Term Technology, Center February (Co-ordinators) Course (QIP-STC) on “Ad- for the Environment 2015 vances in Environmental (Sponsored by AICTE) Health” Dr. Ajay Kalamdhad Short term course on Knowledge Incubation 12th National 30 (Co-ordinator) Solid Waste Manage- Cell, Centre for Educa- January to ment Challenges and tional Technology 14th Janu- Opportunities ary2015 Prof. Bishnupada Short term course on Knowledge Incubation December National Mandal, Dr. Chandan Membrane Technology Cell, Centre for Educa- 09-10, Das (Co-ordinator) & Application tional Technology 2014 Prof. Gopal Das National conf on sustain- June, 20- National Around 120 (Chairman), Deepmo- able development of 21, 2014 ni Deka (Convener) environmental systems

AWARDS AND HONOURS: Dr. Utpal Bora has been awarded UXCEL award by DBT, Govt. of India in the form of a project entitled “Exploration and characterization of seri- bioresources of North East India for potential textile and non-textile applications” for 3years (2014- 2017).

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS • Surya Singh: Joint 1st Prize, for presenting a paper entitled “Study on Electrocatalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2 to value added products” on the occasion of “Research Scholars Day - 2015” organized by Centre for the Environment, IIT Guwahati, Assam on Jan. 19, 2015. • Bhaskar Das: Joint 1st Prize on research scholar day 2015 IIT Guwahati. • Isha Vishan: 2nd prize on research scholar day 2015 IIT Guwahati. • D. Narendra Naik: 3rd prize on research scholar day 2015 IIT Guwahati paper entitled “Production, purifi cation and characterization of Epothilone B from isolated Soragium cellulosum strains”.

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• Isha Vishan: Best paper presentation in National symposium on management and procurement of solid waste 2015, IIT Guwahati.

FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE

Sl. Name Designation and Department No. 1. Bag, S. S. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry 2. Barua, A. Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences 3. Bora, U. Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology 4. Chakraborty, S. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 5. Das, C. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 6. Das, G. (Head, Centre for Professor, Department of Chemistry the Environment) 7. Dasu, V. V. Professor, Department of Biotechnology 8. Dubey, V. K. Professor, Department of Biotechnology 9. Dutta, M.K. Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences 10. Ghosh, P. K. Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 11. Ghosal, A. K. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 12. Gokhale, S. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 13. Golder, A. K. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 14. Goud, V. V. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 15. Goyal, A. Professor, Department of Biotechnology 16. Jawed, M. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 17. Senthilkumar, S. Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering 18. Kundu, L. M. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry 19. Kalamdhad, A. Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 20. Mahanta, C. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 21. Mandal, B. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 22. Mandal, T. K. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 23. Mohanty, K. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 24. Mukherjee, C. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry 25. Pakshirajan, K. Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology 26. Patel, B. K. Professor, Department of Chemistry 27. Purkait, M.K. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 28. Patra, S. Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology 29. Ray, M. Professor, Department of Chemistry 30. Sarma, A. K. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 31. Sastri, C. V. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry 32. Tamuli, R. Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology

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CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRE: 2004 A research Grant of Rs. 51.75 Crore sanctioned from DeitY for establishing a ‘Centre for Excellence in Research and ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: Development of Nanoelectronic Theranostic Devices’is Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) implemented at the Centre. Nano -Electronics by VLSI group focuses on development SAW sensors, ECG amplifi er and LABORATORIES: blind assisted walker. Nanoscale science and technology The centre has eleven laboratories as detailed below. Out of group has recently developed a new model for observation these two have been set up in the CIF. of autonomous motion of particles in aqueous medium (On XRD Lab; TEM Lab; OLED Lab; Nanobiotech Lab; Cell chemical locomotives). culture Lab; Synthesis Lab; Nano Fabrication Lab; MEMS Gene Therapy group is mainly focused in developing & NEMS Lab; SPM Lab; Thin Film and Micro Fluidics Lab ‘Gene Therapy Vectors’. They have established molecular MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: mechanism of cell death via apoptotic signaling in suicide Equipment: 1) Filter Wheel Glued, 2) Tank Filter, 3) Materials gene therapy. Nanobiotechnology group is pursuing Studio Software, 4) Integral Board (B20) for Bruker D8 interdisciplinary collaborative research at the Centre for Advance XRD, 5) Magnetic stirrer cum hot plate Digital, 6) UV Nanotechnology on “nanoparticles and nanocomposites”. transilluminator, 7) Rocking platform, 8) Water Bath, 9) Water They are developing new nanoclusters for the potential Bath Shaker, 10) Benchtop Incubator cum Orbital Shaker, 11) applications as sensors, antimicrobial and anticancer agents. Micropipette, 12) Incubator, 13) Desktop PC, 14) Photocopier Nanophysics group is working on the various aspects on the machine, 15) Spectroline E-Series Hand-Held UV Lamp, 16) defects of carbon nanotube and their possible application Gel Electrophoresis, 17) Spin Coater, 18) NISA- Microsystems as sensor. A combined group of faculty members from software bersion 17.0, 19) Muffl e furnace Chemistry and Physics have developed prototype organic Facilities: 1) 12V, 17 AH UPS Batteries, 2) 12V, 26 AH Battery light emitting diode (OLED) and nanotube based transistors. (Quanta), 3) Cartridge, 4) Argon gas, 5) Upgradation of Xe In addition Centre is also involved in fostering growth Lamp Source, 6) Nitrogen gas 99.999% purity, 7) Cu grids, of science and education in the north east in the fi eld of 8) Spare parts of FACS, Spectrophotometer, 9) Cell Culture nanotechnology by conference, workshops, symposium Dish, 10) Tissue Culture Plate sterile, 11) Petridish with triple and seminars. vent radiation sterile, 12) Safe skin purple nitrile gloves, 13) MAJOR INITIATIVES AND BREAKTHROUGH IN RESEARCH Petridish with triple vent radiation sterile, 14) Accupipet AND DEVELOPMENT: -variable volume pipette, 15) PROGARD 2 Pretreatment. (a) Development of Multimodal Functional superbot MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: published in the Elsevier Journal CARBON The centre is pursuing research in the multi-disciplinary area (b) Implementation of the DeitYproject at IIT Guwahati of Nanotechnology required to meet the future challenges, for establishing a ‘Centre for Excellence in Research and to augment academic partnerships with industry in the area Development of NanoelectronicTheranostic Devices’ of Nanotechnology.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS a) Ongoing Sponsored Projects Amount Dura- Principal Sponsoring Name of Project Sanctioned Co-Investigator tion Investigator Agency (Rs. in Lakh) (years) Dipankar Design and Development of Intelligent DST Nano- 43.00 - 3 years Bandopadhyay Catalytic Nanobots Mission Arun Centre for Excellence in Research and DeitY 5775.00 R. P. Paily, D. Ban- 5 years Chattopadhyay Development of Nanoelectronic Ther- dyopadhyay and anostic Devices others Dipankar A computational study on the phase CSIR 16.50 - 3 years Bandopadhyay separation induced pattern formation employing ultrathin fi lms Dipankar External Field Driven Flow Induced mi- DST-SERC 45.00 - 3 years Bandopadhyay cro/nano scale Patterning, Mixing, Heat and Mass transfer in micro/nano Fluidic Devices b) Completed Sponsored Projects

Spon- Amount Principal Co-Investiga- Name of Project soring Sanctioned Duration Investigator tor Agency (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. S. S. Novel nanoscale materials targeted towards DBT 169.00 Prof. A. Chat- 3 years Ghosh antimicrobial and anticancer activities. topadhyay & Dr. Biplab Bose Dipankar A combined experimental and theoretical DST-Fast 9.60 3 years Bandopadhyay study on the instability and patterning of Track thin liquid crystal fi lms

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Journals (International / National)

Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. NageshCh and Roy Paily Design of an Osmotic Pressure Journal of Micro- 25 and 4 45019 2015 Sensor for Sensing Osmotically mechanics and Active Substance Microengineering NageshCh and Roy Paily Fabrication and Testing of an Os- Micromachines 5 and 3 722- 2014 motic Pressure Sensor for Glucose 737 Sensing Application Sabyasachi Pramanik, Satyapriya Synchronous Tricolor Emission- The Journal of 6 and 7 1270- 2015 Bhandari, Shilaj Roy and Arun Based White Light from Quantum Physical Chemistry 1274 Chattopadhyay Dot Complex Letters Rama Ghosh, Upashi Goswami, Synergistic Anticancer Activity of ACS Applied Mate- 7 and 1 209– 2014 Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh, Fluorescent Copper Nanoclusters rials and Interfaces 222 Anumita Paul and Arun and Cisplatin Delivered through a Chattopadhyay Hydrogel Nanocarrier Satyapriya Bhandari, Shilaj Roy, Double Channel Emission from a Langmuir 31 and 1 551– 2014 Sabyasachi Pramanik and Arun Redox Active Single Component 561 Chattopadhyay Quantum Dot Complex

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. Md Palashuddin Sk, Sunil Luminescent Carbon Dots for Chem Phys Chem 16 and 4 723– 2015 Kumar Sailapu and Arun Logic Operations in Two Phases 727 Chattopadhyay Satyapriya Bhandari, Shilaj Roy, Surface Complexation Reaction Langmuir 30 and 10760- 2014 Sabyasachi Pramanik and Arun for Phase Transfer of Hydrophobic 35 10765 Chattopadhyay Quantum Dot from Nonpolar to Polar Medium Subhamoy Banerjee, Chemosensitization of IκBα over- RSC Advances 4 and 74 39257- 2014 Amaresh Kumar Sahoo, Arun expressing glioblastoma towards 39267 Chattopadhyay and Siddhartha anti-cancer agents Sankar Ghosh Subhamoy Banerjee, Recombinant IκBα loaded cur- Nanotechnology 25 and 345102 2014 Amaresh Kumar Sahoo, Arun cumin nanoparticles for improved [IOP] 34 Chattopadhyay and Siddhartha cancer therapeutics sankar Ghosh Nidhi Chaubey, Amaresh Kumar Silver nanoparticle loaded PLGA Biomaterials Sci- 2 and 8 1080- 2014 Sahoo, Arun Chattopadhyay and composite nanoparticles for ence 1089 Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh improving therapeutic effi cacy of recombinant IFNγ by targeting the cell surface Rumi Khandelia, Amit Jaiswal, Polymer coated Gold Nanopar- Journal of Materi- 2 and 38 6472- 2014 Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh and ticle-Protein Agglomerates as als Chemistry B 6477 Arun Chattopadhyay Nanocarriers for Hydrophobic Drug Delivery Md Palashuddin Sk and Arun Induction coil heater prepared RSC Advances 4 and 60 31994- 2014 Chattopadhyay highly fl uorescent carbon dots as 31999 invisible ink and explosive sensor Satyapriya Bhandari, Shilaj Roy Enhanced photoluminescence RSC Advances 4 and 46 24217- 2014 and Arun Chattopadhyay and thermal stability of zinc 24221 quinolate following complexation on the surface of quantum dots Sunil Kumar Sailapu, Amaresh Hierarchical Logic Structures Small 10 and 4067– 2014 Kumar Sahoo, Siddhartha Sankar Based on Responsive Fluorescent 20 4071 Ghosh and Arun Chattopadhyay Gold Nanoclusters Abhinav Sharma, Vineet Kumar, Alternating Current Induced RSC Advances DOI: 2015 Joydip Chaudhuri, Seim Timung, Digitization of Two-Phase Flow 10.1039 Tapas Kumar Mandal, Dipankar Patterns inside Microchannels /C5RA Bandyopadhay 02451J Sunny Kumar, Amit Kumar Singh, Graphene based multifunctional Carbon 89,31 2015 Ashok Kumar Dasmahapatra, superbots Tapas Kumar Mandal and DipankarBandyopadhyay B. Ravi, Rabibrata Mukherjee, Solvent Vapor Mediated Sponta- Soft Matter 11, 139 2015 DipankarBandyopadhyay neous Healing of Self-Organized Defects of Liquid Crystal Films SeimTimung, VijeetTiwari, Capillary Force Mediated Flow- Canadian Journal - - 2015 Amit Kumar Singh, Patterns and Non-monotonic of Chemical Engi- Tapas Kumar Mandal, Pressure Drop Characteristics of neering DipankarBandyopadhyay Oil-Water Microfl ows

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. A. Ananth Praveen Kumar, Dynamics of a Liquid Droplet on a Ind. Eng. Chem. 54, 1131 - 2015 Venkatanarayana Prasad Granular Bed of Micro-Structured Res. Sandireddy, Tamal Banerjee and Particles: From Lens Formation to Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Marble Eff ect Kartick Mondal and Dipankar Electro-Capillary Instabilities of Physics of Fluids 26, - 2014 Bandyopadhyay Thin Leaky Elastic-Viscous Bilayers 12206 Mohar Dey, Dipankar Charge Leakage Mediated Pattern Ind. Eng. Chem. 53, - 2014 Bandyopadhyay, Ashutosh Miniaturization in the Electric Res. 18840 Sharma, Shizhi Qian and Sang Field Induced Instabilities of an Woo Joo Elastic Membrane Abhinav Sharma, Vijeet Localized electric fi eld induced Electrophoresis 35, 2930 - 2014 Tiwary, Vineet Kumar, Tapas transition and miniaturization of Kumar Mandal, and Dipankar two-phase fl ow patterns inside Bandyopadhyay microchannels A.Ghoshal and S.S.Ghosh Purifi cation, and Therapeutic Im- Applied Biochem- 175, 4 2087- 2015 plications of Recombinant sFRP1 istry and Biotech- 2103 Expression nology N.Chaubey and S.S.Ghosh Overexpression of Granulocyte Applied Biochem- 175, 4 1948- 2015 Macrophage Colony Stimulat- istry and Biotech- 1959 ing Factor in Breast Cancer Cells nology Leads Towards Drug Sensitization R.Ghosh, U.Goswami, S.S.Ghosh, Synergistic Anticancer Activity of ACS Applied Mate- 1, 7 (1) 209-22 2015 A.Paul and A.Chattopadhyay Fluorescent Copper Nanoclusters rials and Interfaces and Cisplatin Delivered through a Hydrogel Nanocarrier S.Mallick, P.Sanpui, S.S.Ghosh, Synthesis, characterization and RSC Advances 12268- 12268- 2015 A.Chattopadhyay, A.Paul enhanced bactericidal action of 12276 12276 a chitosan supported core–shell copper–silver nanoparticle com- posite S.Banerjee, A.K.Sahoo, Chemosensitization of IκBα over- RSC Advances 4 39257- 2014 A.Chattopadhyay, S.S.Ghosh expressing glioblastoma towards 39267 anti-cancer agents, S.Chockalingam and S.S.Ghosh Macrophage Colony Stimulating Tumor Biology 35 (11) 10635- 2014 Factor and Cancer 44 S.Banerjee, A.K.Sahoo, Recombinant IκBα-loaded cur- Nanotechnology 29; 25 - 2014 A.Chattopadhyay, S.S.Ghosh cumin nanoparticles for improved (34) cancer therapeutics S.K.Sailapu, A.K.Sahoo, S.S.Ghosh Hierarchical Logic Structures Small 29; 10 4067- 2014 and A.Chattopadhyay Based on Responsive Fluorescent (20) 71 Gold Nanoclusters R.Khandelia, A.Jaiswal, S.S.Ghosh Polymer coated Gold Nanopar- J. Mater. Chem. B 2 (38) 6472 – 2014 and A.Chattopadhyay ticle-Protein Agglomerates as 6477 Nanocarriers for Hydrophobic Drug Delivery

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Vol., Is- Page Name of Author Title of Paper Name of Journal Year sue No. No. S.Majumdar, Sarmah B, Gogoi Characterization, mechanism of Biochimie 103 50-60 2014 D, Banerjee S, Ghosh S.S, anticoagulant action, and assess- Chattopadhyay P, AK Mukherjee ment of therapeutic potential AK of a fi brinolytic serine protease (Brevithrombolase) purifi ed from Brevibacillus brevis strain FF02B Ravi K. Biroju and P.K.Giri Defect Enhanced Effi cient Physi- J. Phys. Chem. C 118 (25) 13833- 2014 cal Functionalization of Graphene 13843 with Gold Nanoparticles Probed by Resonance Raman Spectros- copy Ravi K. Biroju, Nikhil Tilak, Catalyst free growth of ZnO Nanotechnology 26 (14) 145601 2015 Rajender Gone, Dhara. S and P. nanowires on graphene and K. Giri graphene oxide and its enhanced photoluminescence and photo- response N.V.V.Subbarao, M.Gedda, Enhanced environmental stability ACS Appl. Mater. 7 1915- 2015 P.K.Iyer, D. K.Goswami induced by eff ective polariza- Interfaces 1924 tion of a polar dielectric layer in a trilayer dielectric system of organic fi eld-eff ect transistors: A quantitative study. M.Gedda, N.V.V.Subbarao, Eff ect of thickness of bi-layer Physica Status DOI 2014 S.Vasimalla, P.K.Iyer, dielectric on 1,7-Dibromo- Solidi A: Applica- 10.1002 D.K.Goswami N,Nƍ-Dioctadecyl-3,4,9,10- tions and Materials /pssa. perylenetetracarboxylic diimide Science 2014 based organic fi eld-eff ect transis- 31304 tors A.Dey, A.Kalita, P.K.Iyer High performance n-channel ACS Appl. Mater. 6 12295- 2014 organic thin fi lm transistor based Interfaces 12301 on naphthalene diimide

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia

Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Archita Ghoshal and Siddhartha Functional Implications of Re- 5th International Conference on 2014 Sankar Ghosh combinant sFRP1 Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2014): Sharmila Narayanan and Functional characterization of Proliferation, Diff erentiation and Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh bacterially expressed recombi- Apoptosis Jawaharlal Nehru Univer- nant phytaspase sity Md. Asif Raza and and Application of redesigned E.coli Siddhartha SankarGhosh cytosine deaminase in the per- spective of cancer therapeutics Saptal Rarotra, Tapas Kumar Electrolytic Production of Hydro- Flow Chemistry India ,Select Biosci- 2014 Mandal and Dipankar gen Energy by Water-Splitting in ences, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad Bandyopadhyay Polymer based Micro reactors

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Sunny Kumar, Marangoni Eff ect Induced Drop- Emerging Materials: Characteriza- 2014 MitradipBhattacharjee, let Motion for Energy Harvesting tion & Application CSIR-CGCRI, SeimTimung, Amit Kumar Singh, Kolkata Tapas Kumar Mandal, Ashok Kumar Dasmahapatra and DipankarBandyopadhyay Amit Kumar Singh, SeimTimung, Vinegar Driven Micromotors for Emerging Materials: Characteriza- 2014 Divesh Ranjan, SaptakRarotra, Nanoparticle Synthesis tion & Application CSIR-CGCRI, Tapas Kumar Mandal and Kolkata DipankarBandyopadhyay Seim Timung, Abhinav Sharma, Field Induced Flow Behaviors of International Conference on MEMS 2014 Tapas Kumar Mandal and Oil-water Flow inside Microfl uidic and Sensors, IIT Madras, Chennai Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Channels SaptakRarotra, Tapas Kumar Field induced Conversion of CO2 International Conference on MEMS 2014 Mandal and Dipankar and Sea Water into Organic Prod- and Sensors, IIT Madras, Chennai Bandyopadhyay ucts inside a Micro-fl uidic Reactor Joydip Chaudhuri, Seim Timung, Computational Study of Transi- COMSOL Conference Bangalore 2014 Tapas Kumar Mandal and tion of Oil-water Flow Morphol- Dipankar Bandyopadhyay ogy due to Sudden Contraction in Microfl uidic Channel Mitradip Bhattacharjee, Simulation of a Voltage Con- COMSOL Conference Bangalore 2014 NilanjanMandal, Harshal trolled Resistor Mimicking the B. Nemade and Dipankar Geometry of a MOSFET Device Bandyopadhyay having Graphite Channel, Kartick Mondal, Sunita Sen, Infl uence of Charge Leakage and International Conference on Nano 2014 Prashant Kumar, and Dipankar Slippage on the Electric Field Science and Technology, INST, Bandyopadhyay Induced Patterns in Thin Bilayers, Mohali Mitradip Bhattacharjee, Controlled Drug Release: At- International Conference on Trans- 2014 Nilanjan Mandal, Satarupa tachment of Drugs on Magnetic lational Nanomedicine ILS, Ahmed- Dutta, SaptakRarotra, Harshal B. Nanoparticles, abad Nemade, Arun Chattopadhyay and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Satarupa Dutta, NilanjanMandal, Paper Based Optical Alpha-amy- International Conference on Trans- 2014 MitradipBhattacharjee, lase Sensor, lational Nanomedicine ILS, Ahmed- Harshal B. Nemade, Arun abad Chattopadhyay and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Namami Goswami, Ujjwol A Highly Sensitive Lithium Nio- International Conference on Emerg- 4-6 Barman, Roy Paily, Biplab Bose bate Based Microcantilever for ing Trends in Electrical Engineering August, and Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh Biosensing Applications ICETREE, Kollam, Kerala 2014 Ratul Kumar Baruah and Roy Impact of Fringing Fields in a p- International Conference on Emerg- 4-6 De- Paily Channel Junctionless Transistor ing Electronics (ICEE) Indian Institute cember, of Science Bangalore 2014 Brajesh Rawat and Roy Paily PerformanceComparison be- Conference on Transport- 11-13, tween Graphene based Con- Properties in Low Dimen- Decem- ventional MOSFET and TFET for sional Systems: Experiment and ber 2014 Analog Circuits Simulation(TransLES-2014) IASST, Guwahati

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Name of Conference/Workshop/ Name of Author/s Title of Paper Date Seminar/Symposia Ravi K. Biroju and P. K. Giri Graphene Based 2D-0D Transition Refl ux-2015, The annual Chemical March Metal Hybrids and Fabrication of Engineering Symposium, Organized 27-29, 2D-1D Semiconducting Nanowire by Department of Chemical Engi- 2015. Heterostructures with Improved neering, IIT Guwahati Optoelectronic Properties: A New Class of 2D-1D Hybrid Photode- tectors Ravi K. Biroju and P. K. Giri Graphene enhanced UV photo- First International Conference on De- detector based on graphene-ZnO Emerging Materials: Characteriza- cember nanowires hybrid: fabrication, tion and Application (EMCA-2014), 4-6th, photoresponse and photolumi- Kolkata 2014 nescence studies Ravi K. Biroju and P. K. Giri Fabrication of graphene/ZnO and International Conference on Na- March graphene/CoPc semiconducting noscience and Technology (ICON- 23-25, nanowire hybrid structures and SAT-2014), Institute of Nanoscience 2014 their optoelectronic properties and Technology (INST), Punjab University, Mohali P. K. Giri and Ravi K. Biroju Site Selective Physical Functional- First International Conference on Dec 4-6, ization of Single Layer Graphene Emerging Materials: Characteriza- 2014 and Its Application in the Growth tion & Application (EMCA-2014), of 1-D Semiconductor Nanostruc- CGCRI, Kolkata tures on Graphene Rajender, Ravi K. Biroju and P. Eff ect of reduction and oxidation First International Conference on Decem- K. Giri treatment on the photolumi- Emerging Materials: Characteriza- ber 4-6, nescence of edge functionalized tion and Application (EMCA-2014), 2014 graphene quantum dots Kolkata Rajender, Ravi K. Biroju and P. Strong visible luminescence from National Conference on Transport Decem- K. Giri edge functionalized 0-dimen- properties in low dimensional ber 11- stional graphene quantum dots systems: Experiment and Simulation 13, 2014 (TransLES-2014), Guwahati Rajender, Ravi K. Biroju and P. One step solvothermal synthesis National Conference on Nanotech- April 28- K. Giri of graphene quantum dots: struc- nology and Renewable Energy 29, 2014 tural and optical studies (NCNRE-2014), New Delhi

Book Chapter Organic Semiconductors: A New Future of Nanodevices and Applications in “Thin Film Structures in Energy Applications” Springer publications by Anamika Dey, Ashish Singh, Dipjyoti Das, Parameswar Krishnan Iyer, 2015, pp 97-128.

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

Name of Faculty/ Internation- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Student al/ National Prof. Arun 5th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials BARC, Mum- 09-13 Decem- International Chattopadhyay Chemistry bai, India ber 2014 Prof. Arun Advances in Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Dynam- IACS, Kolkata, 12-14 Decem- International Chattopadhyay ics India ber 2014 Prof. Arun 1st International Conference on Emerging Delhi Univer- 26-27 May International Chattopadhyay Trends of Nanotechnology in Drug Discovery sity 2014 Prof. Arun India – Tunisia Join Workshop On Nanomaterials Hotel Africa, 28-30 October International Chattopadhyay & Nanotechnology Tunis, Tunisia 2014

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Name of Faculty/ Internation- Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date Student al/ National Prof. Arun India-Finland workshop on Applications of IIT Delhi 21 October International Chattopadhyay nanostructures in photovoltaics 2014 Prof. Arun International symposium on Micro- And Nano- Hannover, 2-4 July 2014 International Chattopadhyay machines 2014 Germany Dr. Dipankar Self-Motile Systems - International Conference Haldia 2015 International Bandyopadhyay on NanoTechnology Institute of Technology Dr. Dipankar Applications of Microfl uidics: Sensors, Reactors, IIT Guwahati 2014 International Bandyopadhyay Pumps, & Mixers - State of the Art in Microfl uid- ics Dr. Dipankar Self-propelling Microbots Decorated with Cata- KTH Stock- 2014 International Bandyopadhyay lytic and Magnetic Nanoparticles holm, Swe- den Prof. P. K. Giri First International Conference on Emerging Kolkata December 4-6, International Materials: Characterization and Application 2014 (EMCA-2014) Prof. P. K. Giri 3rd International Conference on Nanosceince Chennai February 4-6, International and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2015) 2015

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD:

Name of Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date Faculty Prof. S.S. Nanoscale Materials in Indo-Swiss one day workshop on August 30 IIT Guwahati 30th Ghosh Cancer Theranostics 2014 Organized by the Centre for Nanotech- August nology, IITG 2014 Prof. S.S. Nanoclusters as Logic National Seminar on Recent Advances in Tezpur Uni- 28th Ghosh Gate and Cancer Ther- Biotechnological Research in North East India: versity No- anostics Challenges and Prospects, Organized by vember Department of Molecular Biology and Biotech- 2014 nology, Tezpur University Prof. S. S. FICS-2014 Session Chair, Organized by the Department of IIT Guwahati 5th De- Ghosh Chemistry, IITG cember 2014 Prof. S. S. Nanotechnology in Cancer New Advances and Horizons in Nanoscience IIT Guwahati 20th Ghosh Theranostics and Protein And Nanotechnology, (NanoSci-2014), IASST, De- Therapeutics Guwahati cember 2014 Prof. S. S. Nanotheranostics for in- National Conference on Chemistry of Chalco- Defence 12th Ghosh tegration of imaging and gens and Related Topics (NC3-2015) Organized Institute of January targeted drug delivery by Dept. of Applied Chemistry, DIAT, Pune Advanced 2015 Technology, Pune Prof. S.S. A new paradigm for TTE-QIP Short term course on “Theoretical and IIT Guwahati 6th Feb- Ghosh targeted suicide gene practical aspects of cancer research” by the De- ruary therapy partment of Biosciences and Bioengineering 2015 Prof. S. S. Polymer-Based Nanother- Short term course on “Advances in Biomedical IIT Guwahati 26th Ghosh anostics: A single plat- Research” by the Department of Biosciences Febru- form for bio-imaging and and Bioengineering ary 2015 targeted delivery

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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED

Name of Faculty (Convener/ Funded International/ No. of par- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Date Co-ordinator, etc.) By National ticipants Chairman: Prof. Arun A National workshop on DeitY 16-17 March National 85 Chattopadhyay; Convener: NEMS and Theranostic 2015 Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Devices Convener: Prof. Parameswar 1st Indo-Sweden Workshop Centre for 30 August International 40 K. Iyer on “Advanced Materials for Nanotech- 2014 Healthcare and Energy” nology

AWARDS AND HONOURS: Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay • Re-nominated as an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Nanoscale. • Member, Task Force on Nanobiotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. • Member, Swarnajayanti Fellowship Selection Committee (Chemical Sciences), Department of Science and Technology. • Member, Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Chemistry, Sec A, for the term 2015-17. Prof. Parameswar K. Iyer • Invited to serve as Editorial Board Member for Scientifi c Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature for a period of two years. Dr. Dipankar Bandopadhyay • Erasmus-Mundus Visiting Faculty under the COSSE Program, KTH Stockholm, Sweden, September 2014.

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS: • Shyam Trivedi received the best Poster Award for the paper entitled “ZnO nanorod based 36°-YX LiTaO3 Love wave resonator for DNA detection” in the International Conference on MEMS and Sensors (ICMEMSS 2014), December 18-20, organized by the Centre for NEMS and Nanophotonics at IIT Madras. • Ravi K. Biroju received the best Poster Award in International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT-2014), Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (INST), Punjab University, Mohali, March 23-25, 2014. • Ravi K. Biroju received the Certifi cate of Excellence (1st prize) for the Paper Presentations (MST), Refl ux2015, The annual Chemical Engineering Symposium, Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, India, March 27- 29, 2015.

FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE

Sl. No. Name Designation and Department 1 Bandyopadhyay, D. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 2 Bose, B. Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology 3 Chattopadhyay, A. Professor, Department of Chemistry 4 Ghosh, S. S. Professor, Department of Biotechnology 5 Giri, P. K. Professor, Department of Physics 6 Goswami, D. K. Associate Professor, Department of Physics 7 Iyer, P. K. Professor, Department of Chemistry 8 Mandal, T. K. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 9 Nemade, H. B. Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering 10 Paily, R. P. (Head, Centre Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering for Nanotechnology) 11 Paul, A. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry 12 Sahoo, L. Professor, Department of Biotechnology

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LAKSHMINATH BEZBAROA CENTRAL LIBRARY

The Central Library of the Institute was named after 1. Collection Development: legendary literary doyen Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa a) The library has a fast growing collection of books, journals, on 5th December, 2014. The Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central magazines both in print and digital format. A large number Library is housed on a four stored building having a fl oor area of books, database, international and national journals on of about 7500 sq. meter. This user-focused and excellence- various subjects have been added during the Financial Year driven facility has up-to-date, multi-faceted printed, 2014 -15. The total collection strength of the Library now electronic and multi-media collection. The library provides stands as follows: a window to the world of latest information in all branches Collection Details of academic pursuit. Being a major central service point, it Size provides necessary supports for teaching, learning, research activities of the Institute by creating state-of-the-art facilities Printed Books and bound volume journals 154564 and off ering innovative services to the students, faculty E- books 145770 and staff members and visiting intelligentsia. The library Back fi le electronic journals 2042 operations are fully computerized and the entire premise Theses, standards, Reports etc. 2675 is provided with wi-fi facility for connecting to the internet and accessing Institute’s electronic resources. Non-Book material (CD, DVD, etc.) 4952 Print & Online Journal Subscription 2291 During the reported period, the total library circulation (F.Y.2014-15) transactions stand about 1.5 lacks. In addition, 228 users of Current electronic journals (including 12835 other academic Institutions have also availed the reference journals subscribed and access provided facility of the Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library. To by Consortia) provide the reading facility to the Institute’s academic community, Library remains open from 8.00 am to 12.00 b) The growth of the collections during last fi ve years stands midnight throughout the year. as follows:

Sl. F.Y. Collection No. 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 (i) Printed Books and Bound Volume Journals 124358 134687 140434 148181 154564 (ii) Theses collection 965 1048 1119 1169 1343 (iii) Printed Journals 441 578 591 151 120 (iv) Online Journals 9795 9795 12630 12656 12835 c) As most of the research activities are heavily dependent on the journal publications, Library has emphasized on regular

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subscription of the current journals. Further, for better 3. Services and Facilities: accessibility of the contents, eff orts have been made to a) To provide suffi cient reading facility, the Central Library increase the online journals over the printed journals. has added 49 seating capacity during the reporting period. Presently the Library is subscribing 2291 titles across all With this the total seating capacity now stands 250. academic areas of which 2216 are online journals. In addition b) To extend better searching of huge electronic resources to that Institute is having access to 10619 online journals of the Library a world renowned Discovery Service has been through ‘INDEST-AICTE Consortium’ and ‘DeLCON: DBT- incorporated. Electronic Library Consortium’. c) A new user-friendly webpage has been designed for easy d) Apart from the above, Library has procured some of the access to electronic resources accessible to the Institute. world’s most renowned abstract database like SciFinder, MathSciNet, Scopus, Web of Science, INSPEC, etc. and some d) Barcode based automated circulation system continues national level database i.e. CMIE Prowees, EPWRF Time Series, to provide hassle free transactions for the users’ community. IEC during the reporting period. The system is being revamped with better barcode technology for faster transactions. e) During the reporting period the Library has added about 1.38 lakhs of ebooks across all disciplines of academic e) For safe keeping of personal belongings of the library interests. users, key based Locker Units has been made available throughout the library operation hours. f) To make awareness about the regional culture and to generate interest about the vernacular literature, Library has 4. Infrastructural development : also developed a reasonably good collection on Assamese a) For enabling better delivery of circulation facility, the language and on literary works of Sahityarthi Lakshminath library management software has been upgraded to web- Bezbaroa. based version. This helped to provide better browsing of 2. Budget: the library collection, instant email and SMS generation for The books and research journal budget of the Lakshminath individual library transactions. Bezbaroa Central Library has also increased over the last 5 b) RFID based circulation and security system is being fi nancial years, details of which as follows: implemented for helping the users to do self check-in / Books Journals check-out of library books in near future. Year (Rs. in Lakhs) (Rs. in Lakhs) c) A shade on the Podium Walk Way area, outside 1st Floor of the Library building, has been erected for leisure reading. 2010-11 275.00 265.49 d) Online catalogue kiosks have been installed for the users 2011-12 275.00 301.90 to browse the library collection. 2012-13 125.00 350.00 e) Separate computer terminals have been provided for the 2013-14 150.00 573.00 visitors to access internet and library facilities. 2014 -15 200.00 690.00 LIBRARIAN Dr. Tamal Kumar Guha

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CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRE: 2004 Conducts Research on creation of next generation 3D Virtual reality educational content using a Virtual Reality System ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES OFFERED: with Headgear mount. Masters and PhD (All Engi- QIP • E-Learning Class Room : 1 neering Departments) Provides all facilitates to conduct ON Line lectures and Short Term courses for Curriculum Develop- connects across the Nation. Provides facilities for IITG Faculty 2 Teachers of Technical Insti- ment Cell to conduct Lectures in other IITs, & institutions from IITG tutes under QIP campus. Has a seating capacity of 50 students. Students of 1. Short term courses; Train- Knowledge Incuba- IITG can display Webcasts and lectures held elsewhere in ing Programs under TEQIP tion Cell (KIC): Qual- other institutions. Due to space constraints Digital Recording Studio and Webcast Studios are co located in E-Learning 3 ity Circles-TEQIP class Room. 2. Canadian and Indian Stu- • NKN-Video Conferencing Room: dent Exchange Programme Provides Conferencing Facilities for 25 participants through Summer & Winter Acad- GIAN NKN dedicated line using which IITG Faculty conduct classes 4 emy off ering International for other IITs /Institutions from within IITG. This space also Courses with credits doubles up for use as Regular Conference & meeting room LABORATORIES: for CET. • Web Laboratory: • VR Labs: Physically located in 6 departments at IITG in which ON Line & Remote Triggered Labs are operated. Uploads &maintains NPTEL Content on Servers for National & International web cast via NPTEL HQ at IITM. MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: • Video Studio Wireless Pen Tablet Captures using HD cameras educational content of lectures, Interactive Teach Bar shows, demonstrations, etc given by Authors of NPTEL Document Camera Courses. Interactive Projector • Sound & Broadcast Studio NI ELVIS II + Circuit Design Bundle Edits sound in educational content created at IITG Emona ETT-211 FOTEX Fiber Optic Communication Trainer • Instruction Design Lab: 1 x High Torque Encoder DC Servo Motor 900rpm + 2x High Works on Instructional Design using Educational Psychology Torque Encoder DC Servo Motor 300rpm and Pedagogy to enhance educational content created at IITG for NPTEL, MOOCs and other NMEICT projects at CET. 3 x High Torque Encoder DC Servo Motor 900rpm • Graphic Design Studio: Gives graphic design inputs to DELL PRECISION T7610 Workstation educational content that is created and uploaded. NI PXIe-8135 core i7-3610QE 2.3 GHz Controller • Server Room & Digital Archives : NI PXIe-6563, X Series multifunction DAQ(32 AI, 48 DIO, 4AO), Provides a mirror Server , backup storage and preserves 2MS/s single channel sampling rate original Video & sound tapes on which educational content NI PXI-6723 32-channel analog output board is recorded. NI Standard service program for systems with traceable • 3D Virtual Content Creation Lab : calibration

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HP Laptop Pavillion Notebook MAJOR INITIATIVES AND BREAKTHROUGH IN RESEARCH PXIe-1082, 8-slot 3U PXI express chassis AND DEVELOPMENT: SCB-68A Noise rejecting, Shielded I/O Connector block Courses Developed and Labs De- Name SHC68-68-EPM shielded cable, 68-D-Type to 68 VHDCI Hosted Online veloped off set, 2 m NPTEL 20 (16 Web courses & 4 Video 02 MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Courses) (Total 80 Courses are online till now) Educational Content Creation, Pedagogy & Instructional Design Research, Multidisciplinary Teaching Applications Virtual Lab 13 Experiments (Total 165 05 using Online Educational Technology , Training & Continuing Project Experiments are completed till Education. now) D. Source Course 24; 14 Case studies; 15 Design Resources

RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects

Amount Sponsoring Co- Duration Principal Investigator Name of Project Sanctioned Agency Investigator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) Prof. PradeepYammiyavar Student Mobility for Canadian MHRD - - - Students for Research at IITs Prof. PradeepYammiyavar Global Initiative on Academic MHRD - - - Network (GIAN) b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Amount Sponsoring Co-Investi- Duration Principal Investigator Name of Project Sanctioned Agency gator (years) (Rs. in Lakh) PradeepYammiyavar NPTEL-II NMEICT 325.84 - 3 years Dr. Jatindra Kumar Deka Pedagogy Research Project, Main MHRD, GOI 91.94 - 3 years Phase Prof. PradeepYammiyavar Knowledge Incubation Cell MHRD- 250 Dr. Praveen 3 years. TEQIP-II Kumar PradeepYammiyavar QIP -Curriculum Development AICTE - Annual Cell Prof. Ravi Mokashi D-Source -E-Kapla NMEICT 157 3 years Punekar Prof. Ratnajit Virtual Lab NMEICT 319 - 3 years Bhattacharjee RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia Name of Conference/ Name of Name of Paper Workshop/Seminar/Sym- Date Vol., Issue and Page No. Author/s posia Salve, S., and A study on effi ciency of HWWE'14, International Decem- McGraw McGrawHill Edu- Yammiyavar, P. input devices on native Ergonomics Conference - ber 3-5; cation (India) Pvt. Ltd. New language during numerical User Centered Design and 2014 Delhi. ISBN (13): 978-93- data entry Occupational Wellbeing , 392-1970-3 Guwahati

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Name of Conference/ Name of Name of Paper Workshop/Seminar/Sym- Date Vol., Issue and Page No. Author/s posia Yammiyavar, P., Design of Tangible Interac- Design for Sustainable 2014 Volume 1 (pp. 391-404). Srivastava, A., tive Learning Aids for Pre- Wellbeing and Empower- ISBN (IISc Press): 978-81- and Shashidhara, primary School Teaching ment 2014, DfWnE2014, 925707-1-6, ISBN (TU S Environment: A sustainable IISc Bangalore Delft): 978-9496186-345-4 approach. Khilare, Development of Graphic HWWE'14, International Dec Proceedings of Interna- K.,Yammiyavar, P., user interface Keyboard for Ergonomics Conference - 2014 tional Ergonomics Confer- and Bhattacha- Indian Language Assamese User Centered Design and ence HWWE 2014; McGraw rya, S. Occupational Wellbeing, Hill Education, ISBN (13): Guwahati 978-93-392-1970-3, ISBN (10): 93-392-1970- Maulishree Virtual Reality Based learn- 16th International Confer- June Proceedings. Springer Pandey1, Vikas ing aid to understand pro- ence on Human Computer 2014 International Luthra1, Pradeep jection and section of solids Interaction -HCI, Greece Yammiyawar1, in architectural graphics and Anita P.Y. Maulishree Pan- Role of immersive virtual International Conference Januray Proceedings, ISBN 978-1- dey1, Vikas Luth- reality in fostering creativ- on Design Creativity (3rd 12-14th 904670-60-5 ra1 and Pradeep ity among architecture ICDC)Bangalore 2015 G. Yammiyavar; students Anita .P.Y.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES /SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANISED Name of Faculty Interna- No. of Sl. (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date tional/ partici- No. ordinator) National pants Under TEQIP 1. Dr. KarunaKalita & Brainstorming Workshop on MHRD 8-Oct-14 National 50 Dr. AmareshDalal Development of Processes and Devices for Bio-medical Applica- tions 2. Dr. Praveen Workshop on Internal Quality As- MHRD 21-Oct-14 National 15 Kumar & Dr. surance Mechanism PradeepYammiyavar 3. Dr. NitinChaudhary Peptide drugs: From Modeling to MHRD Nov 07-08, National 34 & Dr. Vibin Practice 2014 Ramakrishnan 4 Dr. G. Sophisticated Instruments in MHRD Nov 10-13, National 17 Krishnamoorthy Interdisciplinary Research 2014 5 Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay Creative Learning Methods in MHRD Nov 11-15, National 24 & Dr. Ravi Mokashi Technical Education Design 2014 Punekar 6 Dr. ArnabSarkar & Real-time Embedded System: MHRD Nov 27-29, National 26 Dr. Santosh Biswas Design, Verifi cation and Test 2014 7 Dr. Swati Pal Expert meeting and panel discus- MHRD Dec 04, National 10 sion on Formulation of Curricu- 2014 lum for Ergonomics and Occupa- tional Health

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Name of Faculty Interna- No. of Sl. (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date tional/ partici- No. ordinator) National pants 8 Dr. Ramgopal Technical Writing Workshop MHRD Dec 06-07, National 52 Uppaluri 2014 9 Dr. Bishnupada Membrane Technology & Applica- MHRD Dec 09-10, National 33 Mandal & tion 2014 Dr. Chandan Das 10 Dr. Bishnupada Transport Processes and Optimi- MHRD Dec 15-16, National 28 Mandal, Dr. Vimal zation Techniques in Polymers 2014 Katiyar, (Module I), 11 Dr. Amit Kumar, Transport Processes and Op- MHRD Dec 17-18, National Dr. Prakash Kotecha timization Techniques in 2014 Polymers(Module II), 12 Dr. Anandalakshmi Transport Processes and Op- MHRD Dec 19-20, National & Dr. Raghvendra timization Techniques in 2014 Gupta Polymers(ModuleIII) 13 Dr. M. Ravi Sankar Advanced Machining and Finish- MHRD Dec 15-16, National ing Processes 2014 14 Dr. Manish Kumar Water Resources Management MHRD Dec 22-26, National 33 Goyel, Dr. A.K. Sarma and climate Change Impacts As- 2014 sessment 15 Dr. Swarup Bag Advances in Welding and Joining MHRD Dec 29-31, National 27 Technologies Mech. Engg. 2014 16 Dr. Avishek Parui Developing and Teaching Liter- MHRD Jan 08-09, National 30 ary Theory Courses in the 21st 2015 Century Academia 17 Dr. A. Dalal, Dr. D.N. State of the art in Microfl uidics MHRD Jan 09, National 41 Basu 2015 18 Dr. Ajay Kalamdhad Solid Waste Management-chal- MHRD Jan 12-14, National 52 lenges and opportunities Environ- 2015 ment 19 Dr. Ratnajit Recent Advances in Communica- MHRD Jan 12-16, National 19 Bhattacharjee tion and Signal Processing 2015 20 Dr. V. Prabhu Workshop on Human Values and MHRD Jan 21-23, National 26 Ethics 2015 21 Dr. Chandramohan Recent Trends in Renewable En- MHRD Jan 23-24, National 21 Somayaji, Dr. P. ergy Utilization System 2015 Muthukumar 22 Dr. AB Theoretical and Practicle Aspects MHRD Feb 4-8, National 33 Kunnumakkara of Cancer biology 2015 23 Dr. L. Boeing Singh, Symposium on Management and MHRD Feb 06-07, National 49 Dr. Ajay Kalamdhad Procurement of Integrated Waste 2015 Management System 24 Dr. M. G. P. Prasad Mathematics for Engineering MHRD Feb 16-20, National 25 Education 2015 25 Dr. B. K Sarma, Mathematics Teaching: Pedagogy MHRD Feb 20-22, National 16 Dr. Bhupen Deka and Practice 2015 26 Dr. K. Mahata, Dr. S.P. Solar Energy Harvesting MHRD Feb 20-21, National 7 Biswas 2015

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Name of Faculty Interna- No. of Sl. (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date tional/ partici- No. ordinator) National pants 27 Dr. K. Mohanty, Dr. Emerging Micro pollutants in MHRD Mar 23-27, National 35 Tamal Banerjee the Environment: Occurrence, 2015 Transportation, Monitoring and Treatment 28 Dr. Gaurav Trivedi, Recent Trends in Electronics and MHRD March National 37 Dr. Hemangee computation 9-11, 2015 Kapoor 29 Dr. Ashish Anand, Information & Communication MHRD Mar 25, National Dr. Arnab Sarkar Technology in Healthcare- Chal- 2015 lenges & promises 30 Prof. P. Yammiyavar, IPR in Innovation and Entrepre- MHRD March 16, National 65 Dr. Utpal Bora neurship 2015 Total 805 STC under QIP 31 Dr. Benny George Teaching Data Structures and MHRD 1.12.14 to 14 K, Dr. Saswata Algorithms 5.12.14 Shannigrahi 32 Dr. SambitMallick Intellectual Property Rights and MHRD 11.12.14 to 32 Innovation 12.12.14 33 Dr. Rajesh Kumar Multiphase Flow Reactors Insights MHRD 16.12.14 to 25 Upadhyay, through Experimental and CFD 20.12.14 Dr. Raghvendra Techniques Gupta 34 Dr. Biman B. Mandal, Workshop on Advance in Biomed- MHRD 25.02.15 to 20 Dr. Piruthivi Sukumar ical Engineering 01.03.15 35 Dr. Manas Das, Dr. Micro-manufacturing MHRD 22.12.14 to 30 Sukhomoy Pal 26.12.14 36 Dr. A. Perumal, Dr. D. Smart materials and their applica- MHRD 23.12.14 to 35 Pamu tion in nanotechnology 27.12.14 37 Dr. Deepak Sharma Genetic Algorithms for Engineer- MHRD 28.12.14 to 35 ing Optimization 01.01.15 38 Dr. Hrishikesh Impact and Blast Resistant Design MHRD January 22 Sharma of Structures 2015 39 Asst. Prof. DESIGN: Education, Research & MHRD 2.02.15 to 25 CharuMonga Innovation (DERI) 6.02.15 40 Dr. Utpal Bora, Prof. Advances in Environment Health MHRD 09.02.15 to 35 Chandan Mahanta 13.02.15 41 Dr. Partha Sarathi Recent Trends in Networks and MHRD 10.02.15 to 20 Mandal Distributed Computin 14.02.15 42 Dr. S.N Joshi, Prof. U.S Micro-manufacturing Technology MHRD 23.03.15 to 37 Dixit 27.03.15 43 Dr. Mamilla Ravi Micro-manufacturing for Biomed- MHRD 23.02.15 to 25 Sankar ical Applications 27.02.15 44 Prof. Ranjan Innovative Technologies in Trans- MHRD 23.02.15 to 23 Choudhary, Prof. portation Engineering 27.02.15 Akhilesh Kumar Maurya

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Name of Faculty Interna- No. of Sl. (Convener/ Co- Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date tional/ partici- No. ordinator) National pants 45 Dr. Ramesh Kumar RF and Photonics: Fundamentals MHRD 23.02.15 to 27 Sonkar, &Advances 27.02.15 Dr. Kshetrimayum Rakhesh Singh 46 Dr. V V Goud, Recent Advances in Energy Re- MHRD 23.03.15 to 25 Dr. PankajTiwari search 27.03.15 47 Dr. Chandramohan Advancement in Renewable En- MHRD 02.03.15 to 30 Somayaji, Dr. P. ergy and Utilisation Technology 06.03.15 Muthukumar 48 Dr. Arnab Sarkar, Computational Methods for MHRD 9.03.15 to 32 Dr. Santosh Biswas Smart Grids 13.03.15 49 Dr. Anil Kumar Recent Advances and Challenges MHRD 9.03.15 to 17 Mishra, Dr. T V Bhat in Geotechnical Engineering 13.03.15 Research and Practices 50 Dr. Pankaj Biswas, Modern Scenario in Welding MHRD 16.03.15 to 42 Dr. Sachin D. Kore Technology 20.03.15 51 Dr. Sushanta Algorithm and Game Theory MHRD 10.03.15 to 24 Karmakar 14.03.15 52 Dr. A. Narayana Theory and Applications of Finite MHRD 23.03.15 to 31 Reddy, Dr. K.S.R.K Element Analysis 27.03.15 Murthy Total 606 Workshop under Virtual Lab 53 Dr. Ratnajit Virtual Lab Outreach Workshop at MHRD 18th 150 Bhattacharjee, Don-bosco University, Guwahati March Dr. Santosh Biswas 2015 54 Dr. Ratnajit Virtual Lab Outreach Workshop, MHRD 19th 90 Bhattacharjee, IIIT Guwahati March Dr. Santosh Biswas 2015 55 Dr. Sukanya Sarma Virtual Lab Outreach Workshop, MHRD 28th 40 Madhya Kamrup College, Barpeta March 2015 Total 280 ALL TOTAL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS 1691 TOTAL NO OF STC, WORKSHOPS,EVENTS COMPLETED 55

FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE

Sl. Name Designation and Department No. 1 Bhattacharjee, R. Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering 2 Deka, J. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering 3 Kumar, P. Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering 4 Punekar, R. M. Professor, Department of Design 5 Yammiyavar, P. (Head, Centre for Professor, Department of Design Educational Technology)

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CENTRAL INSTRUMENTS FACILITY

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRE: 2004 • High pressure gas sorption analyzer, Make: Quantachrome Instruments, Model: Autosorb, IQ MP EXISTING FACILITIES (MAJOR EQUIPMENT): • Impedance and Material Analyzer (IMA), Make: • 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Quantachrome Instruments, Model: Autosorb, IQ MP Spectrometer, Make: Varian, Model: Mercury plus • 600 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) • Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectrometer, Make: JEOL, Spectrometer, Make: Bruker, Model: Ascend 600 Model: JES-FA200 • Micro Particle Image Velocimetry, Make: DANTEC, Model: • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Make: LEO, Model: 9080M0571 1430vp • Isothermal Titration Calorimeter, Make: Wipro GE, Model: • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM), Make: Zeiss, itc200 Model: LSM 510Meta • High Temperature Gel Permeation Chromatography, • Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM), Make: Agilent, Model: G 7820A Make: Zeiss, Model: Sigma • Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Scanning Tunneling MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES ACQUIRED: Microscope (STM), Make: Agilent, Model 5500 series • Universal Tasting Machine (UTM) • Laser Micro Raman System, Make: Horiba Jobin Vyon, • MALDI Toff -Toff Mass spectrophotometer Model LabRam HR • High Temperature Differential Scanning Calorimetry SPECIAL MENTION: (DSC)/Thermo Gravimetric (TG) System, Make: Netzsch • External Sample Collection: An amount equals to Rs. Model: STA449F3A00 1,83,031.00 approximately has been collected as charges of • Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Make: JEOL, external samples analysis for the period from 1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014. Model: JEM 2100 • Short Term course: For the fi rst time a short term course on • Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), Make: Lakeshore, “Sophisticated Instruments in Interdisciplinary Research” was Model:7410 series organized by the center from 24th to 27nd November 2014. • Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (LCMS/MS), Make: Waters, Model: Q-Tof Premier Signifi cant Person Visited • Picosecond Time-resolved cum Steady State Prof. V. Ramamurthy, Senior Editor Laungmuir, University of Luminescence Spectrometer, Make: Eddinburg Miami, USA on 31st March 2015 Instruments, Model: FSP920 Institute benefi tted from the facilities of CIF • Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS), Make: 1. Gauhati University, Guwahati Quantum Design, Model: PPMS-9 2. Tezpur University, Tezpur • Nanoindentor Make: CETR, Model: UNMT-1 3. Manipur University, Manipur • Spectroscopic Ellipsometer Make: SEMILAB, Model: 4. Girizananda Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, GES5E guwahati • Single Crystal X-ray Diff ractometer, Make: Agilent Model: 5. National Institute of technology (NIT) Tiruchiraapalli Single source supernova E (Mo source). 6. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi • Surface Area and pore size analyzer Make: Quantachrome 7. North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong Instruments, Model: Isorb HP1 8. Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati 309 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

9. Veterinary College, Khanapara 17. Central Institute of Technology (CIT), Kokrajhar 10. Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology 18. Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable development, (IASST), Guwahati Manipur 11. Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh 19. North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and 12. Shri Shankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati Technology (NERIST), Itanagar 13. National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar 20. LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur 14. Regional Dental College & Hospital, Guwahati FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE 15. C. Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering and Krishnamoorthy, G., Associate Professor, Department of Technology, Melvisharam Chemistry (Head, Central Instruments Facility) 16. Regional Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Agartala

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COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE

INTRODUCTION equipments like Precision Air Conditioning, VESDA, Fire Detection and prevention mechanism in the 3rd fl oor of The Computer and Communication Centre of IIT Guwahati the building to cater the recent needs for the institute. The is the central computing resource pool of the institute. The Centre will move all its servers to the Data Center as soon Centre is responsible for: as it is ready. A new set of 80KVA x 3 nos. UPS has also been • Providing Email service and Internet connectivity to the installed for uninterrupted power supply to Data Center. institute • Catering to the general purpose as well as high Computer Network Enhancement computational need of the users The centre is responsible for providing the network • Maintenance of the campus network connectivity to upcoming hostels/building as well as to • Hosting and maintenance of Institute’s web pages reinforce the existing network infrastructure. To cater the • Providing EPABX services need a number of network equipment were purchased. • Providing Offi ce Automation services They include Wall-mount racks, LIUs and other Fibre passive The Centre has been involved in development of several in- components like patch cord, pig-tail etc. The center has also house software packages. It is also providing assistance to extended the network and voice facility to some new offi ces other academic institute of north-east region of India. The and infrastructures, like Civil department extension block, centre also conducts summer training to facilitate external New Boys and girls hostel, new academic extension blocks students. of various departments. Apart from these, for the upcoming IITG Data Centre, we The computer lab of the centre presently has more than 280 have procured managed network switches and its various computers with confi gurations like 4 GB RAM, tri/core-i3 associated passive components. processors etc. The lab remains open for 16 hours in a day which is accessible to all authorized users of the Institute. Also, the existing Bharti Airtel 45 Mbps internet link has been Computer practical for the common courses are held in the successfully upgraded to 60 Mbps. Centre. The computer lab facilities of the Centre are also Servers and PCs extended to the students of other institutes. The resources On the Server front, the Computer Centre has two Clusters – of the Centre are constantly upgraded to meet the ever one high availability Cluster meant for regular programming evolving standards of information technology. and the other is meant for High Performance Computing The Centre provides and maintains the PCs of the faculty (HPC), which is integrated with the Nation-wide Garuda Grid. and staff members of the Institute. In addition to providing Apart from these, a mix of high-end Servers from IBM, Dell, direct support to the members of the Institute, the Computer SUN, and HP caters to the need for Authentication, E-mail, and Communication Centre also frequently hosts write-ups Proxy, Automation and Web services. (HOW-TOs, FAQs etc.) in its Intranet website. The Centre also This year a total of 15 new high end servers has been maintains an online E-Notice board for posting and viewing procured to upgrade the Proxy servers, Mail Exchanger etc. notices electronically campus-wide, a web-based Complain and a blade chassis with fi ve blade servers to be used in Management Information System etc. Automation project specifi cally. MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES We have also replaced the paper based Email and Proxy request process to an on-line request process. We had also The major equipment purchased in 2014-2015: increased the storage capacity of our mail backup server Data Centre with an addition of 2TB. Moreover, we had upgraded the A 1100 sq ft Data Center has been build up with all latest mail fi lters with new hardware and updated software under

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the hardware refresh policy of Barracuda. ONGOING SPONSORED PROGRAMMES Renewal/Procurement of MoU/ Licenses/Softwares National Knowledge Network (NKN) Project This year the Centre had signed a MoU with CDAC, Pune, for Our Institute is an active partner of the National Knowledge setting up an establishment of State-of-the-Art CDAC – IIT Network (NKN). This year our Bandwidth from NKN has been Guwahati Supercomputing Facility. upgraded to 2Gbps connectivity for video conferences, Also, the Centre had renewed the Microsoft Campus License, virtual classrooms and high-speed internet services. the Matlab software with 165 licenses and Plagiarism This year NKN had organised its prestigious 3rd NKN Annual detection Software TURNITIN with 1000 student user Workshop at IIT Guwahati where delegates from all over licenses. India and abroad had participated. Expansion of existing EPABX system ERNET Point of Presence With the expansion of the campus, the Centre has IIT Guwahati, a PoP (Point-of-Presence) for ERNET India in increased the capability of the existing EPABX system and the whole of North-Eastern India is entrusted with the task also extended its telephone network to new offi ces and of networking the academic institutions of the region and expansion wings of the institute. provide technical assistance where required. Currently the It has been observed that due to carbon decomposition and following, seven educational and research institutes have subsequent damaging of Krons in the outdoor telephone taken Internet connectivity from the ERNET PoP. cables, we have been facing a lot of problems in EPABX based IIT Guwahati , (1:1) 8 Mbps leased line solutions. So, this year we have taken up a major work for Tezpur University, Assam, (1:1) 2 Mbps leased line the renovation of the whole IITG campus telephone outdoor Assam Agricultural University,Guwahati. (1:1) 2 Mbps terminations. leased line National Research Centre on Pigs, (1:1) 1 Mbps leased line Offi ce Automation Services Centre of Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, (1:1) The Computer and Communication Centre has been involved 2Mbps leased line in development of several in-house software packages for Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, (1:1) 2 Mbps providing services to institute’s various offi ce automation leased line work. These include online (Dual-Degree+MA+MTech- North Lakhimpur College, Assam, (1:1) 2 Mbps leased line MDes/MS+MTCS+PhD) application as well as data process, The ERNET node is upgraded with high end Juniper routers, Training and Placement, Student Course Registration, switches and fi rewalls. Now, the PoP backbone is upgraded Alumni Registration, Student Aff airs, Faculty Online Leave, to 1 Gbps connectivity to NKN Guwahati, NKN Delhi, and Staff Administration, Faculty Administration, Student Course NKN Mumbai. Feedback, e-Payment application, ID Card online application, IITG Payroll online. CONSULTANCY AND OTHER COMMUNITY SERVICES This year, we have released IITG Payroll online and new The Centre has been involved in setting up of campus online application for PhD-JRF and MTech-TCS. We have network and providing consultancy services to nearby also integrated Donation module to the existing e-Pyament educational institutes and state government. application, Staff +Faculty+Alumni ID Card module to the existing ID Card online application and backlog course WORKSHOP ORGANISED registration module to the existing Student Course The 3rd NKN Annual Workshop was jointly organized with Registration. We are planning to implement Application National Informatics Centre (NIC) during15-17 December Software for diff erent purposes for Academic, Student aff airs, 2014. Medical section and Accounts along with the inclusion of hostel dues payment through e-Payment, automation of FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE electricity bill and PDA . Rao, S. V., Professor, Computer Science and Engineering (Head of the Computer and Communication Centre)

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APPENDICES

Faculty Offi cers and Scientifi c Staff (Group A) Degree Awardees Progress in Construction Works Details of Research and Development Projects Summary of Institute Accounts INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

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Appendix–I FACULTY

Name Designation Department Baskaran, A. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Bora, U. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Bose, B. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Chaturvedi, R. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Chaudhary, N. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Das, D. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Dasu, V. V. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Dubey, V. K. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Ghosh, S. S. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Goswami, P. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Goyal, A. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Jaganathan, B. G. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Kanaujia, S. P. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Kumar, M. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Kumar, S. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Kunnumakkara, A. B. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Limaye, A. M. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Maiti, S. K. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Mandal, B. B. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Pakshirajan, K. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Pandey, L. M. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Patra, S. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Ramakrishnan, V. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Ramesh, A. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Rangan, L. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Sahoo, L. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Saini, G. K. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Sivaprakasam, S. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Sukumar, P. Assistant Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Swaminathan, R. Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Tamuli, R. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Trivedi, V. Associate Professor Biosciences and Bioengineering Anandalakshmi, R. (From 02.06.2014) Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Bandyopadhyay, D. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Banerjee, T. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Das, C. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering De, M. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Ghosh, P. Professor Chemical Engineering Ghoshal, A. K. Professor Chemical Engineering Golder, A. K. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering

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Name Designation Department Goud, V. V. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Gumma, S. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Gupta, R. (From 14.07.2014) Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Katha, A. R. (From 15.09.2014) Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Katiyar, V. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Kishore, N. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Kotecha, P. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Kumar, A. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Mahapatra, A. D. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Majumder, S. K. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Mandal, B. Professor Chemical Engineering Mandal, T. K. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Mohanty, K. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Moholkar, V. S. Professor Chemical Engineering Pattader, P. S. G. (From 12.09.2014) Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Peela, N. R. (From 21.07.2014) Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Pugazhenthi, G. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Purkait, M. K. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Rajaraman, P. V. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Saha, P. K. Professor Chemical Engineering Senthilmurugan, S. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Singh, A. Professor Chemical Engineering Subbiah, S. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Tiwari, P. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Upadhyay, R. K. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Uppaluri, R. G. V. S. Professor Chemical Engineering Vairakannu, P. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Verma, A. Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Bag, S. S. Associate Professor Chemistry Baruah, J. B. Professor Chemistry Biswas, S. P. Assistant Professor Chemistry Chatterjee, S. Assistant Professor Chemistry Chattopadhyay, A. Professor Chemistry Das, D. Assistant Professor Chemistry Das, G. Professor Chemistry Dutta, S. Assistant Professor Chemistry Gupta, A. K. Associate Professor Chemistry Iyer, P. K. Professor Chemistry Jana, C. K. Assistant Professor Chemistry Khan, A. T. Professor Chemistry Krishnamoorthy, G. Associate Professor Chemistry Kundu, L. M. Assistant Professor Chemistry Mahata, K. Assistant Professor Chemistry Mandal, B. Associate Professor Chemistry Manivannan, V. Professor Chemistry Manna, D. Assistant Professor Chemistry Mondal, B. Associate Professor Chemistry Mukherjee, C. Assistant Professor Chemistry Pan, S. C. Assistant Professor Chemistry Panda, A. N. Associate Professor Chemistry Patel, B. K. Professor Chemistry Paul, A. Associate Professor Chemistry Paul, S. Associate Professor Chemistry Punniyamurthy, T. Professor Chemistry Qureshi, M. Associate Professor Chemistry

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Name Designation Department Raidongia, K. (From 27.03.2015) Assistant Professor Chemistry Ray, M. Professor Chemistry Sahu, K. Assistant Professor Chemistry Saikia, A. K. Professor Chemistry Sarma, M. Assistant Professor Chemistry Sastri, C. V. Assistant Professor Chemistry Srimani, D. (From 30.03.2015) Assistant Professor Chemistry Sudhakar, A. A. Assistant Professor Chemistry Barua, G. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Bharat, T. V. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Bhattacharjya, R. K. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Chakraborty, A. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Chakraborty, S. Professor Civil Engineering Choudhury, R. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Das, S. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Dasgupta, K. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Deb, S. K. Professor Civil Engineering Dey, A. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Dutta, A. Professor Civil Engineering Dutta, S. Professor Civil Engineering Ghosh, P. K. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Gokhale, S. B. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Goyal, M. K. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Hazra, B. (From 28.11.2014) Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Jawed, M. Professor Civil Engineering Kalamdhad, A. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Kartha, S. A. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Kaushik, H. B. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Kota, S. H. (From 20.08.2014) Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Kumar, A. (From 12.05.2014) Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Kumar, B. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Mahanta, C. Professor Civil Engineering Mallikarjuna, C. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Maurya, A. K. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Mishra, A. K. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Murali Krishna, A. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Pekkat, S. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Pradhan, B. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Ranjani, G. I. S. (From 07.05.2014) Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Ryntathiang, T. L. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Sarma, A. K. Professor Civil Engineering Sekharan, S. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Sharma, H. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Shelke, A. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Siddagangaiah, A. K. (From 09.02.2015) Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Singh, A. K. Professor Civil Engineering Singh, B. Professor Civil Engineering Singh, K. D. Associate Professor Civil Engineering Singh, L. B. Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Talukdar, S. Professor Civil Engineering Anand, A. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Awekar, A. C. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Barua, G. Professor Computer Science and Engineering Bhaduri, P. Professor Computer Science and Engineering Bhattacharya, S. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering

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Name Designation Department Biswas, S. Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Das, P. K. Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Deka, J. K. Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Dutta Baruah, R. (From 16.06.2014) Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Goswami, D. Professor Computer Science and Engineering Inkulu, R. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Kapoor, H. K. Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Karmakar, S. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Kenkireth, B. G. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Kesh, D. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Malhotra, V. M. (From 01.08.2014) Visiting Professor Computer Science and Engineering Mitra, P. Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Nair, S. B. Professor Computer Science and Engineering Nandi, S. Professor Computer Science and Engineering Rao, S. V. Professor Computer Science and Engineering Sahu, A. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Sajith, G. Professor Computer Science and Engineering Saradhi, V. V. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Sarkar, A. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Shannigrahi, S. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Singh, S. R. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Sur, A. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Venkatesh, T. Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Banerjee, S. Assistant Professor Design Barua, U. Associate Professor Design Bokil, P. Assistant Professor Design Chakrabarti, D. Professor Design Das, A. K. Professor Design Das, S. (From 01.01.2015) Assistant Professor Design Dharmalingam, U. K. Assistant Professor Design Gokhale, S. M. (From 21.07.2014) Assistant Professor Design Iqbal, S. Assistant Professor Design Kalita, P. C. (From 12.12.2014) Visiting Assistant Professor Design Karmakara, S. Assistant Professor Design Kumar, J. (From 01.08.2014) Assistant Professor Design Madhukaillya, M. Assistant Professor Design Majhi, M. Assistant Professor Design Monga, C. (From 08.05.2014) Assistant Professor Design Nath, N. (From 16.06.2014) Assistant Professor Design Pal, S. (From 02.06.2014) Assistant Professor Design Punekar, R. M. Professor Design Roy, S. (From 09.02.2015) Assistant Professor Design Salve, U. R. (From 14.01.2015) Assistant Professor Design Shende, A. Assistant Professor Design Sorathia, K. B. Assistant Professor Design Shrivastava, A. (From 12.11.2014) Assistant Professor Design Singh, A. (From 27.05.2014) Visiting Assistant Professor Design Upadhyay, P. (From 26.06.2014) Assistant Professor Design Yammiyavar, P. G. Professor Design Adda, R. (From 17.04.2014) Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Ahamed, S. R. Associate Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Bhattacharjee, R. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Bhuyan, M. K. Associate Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Bora, P. K. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Bose, S. K. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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Name Designation Department Chatterjee, A. Visiting Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Chouhan, S. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Dandapat, S. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Das, S. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Dhaka, K. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Gogoi, A. K. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Guha, P. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Jacob, T. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Kar, I. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Karthik, K. Associate Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Krishnaswamy, S. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Kumar, P. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Mahanta, C. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Majhi, S. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Nallam, N. (From 23.04.2014) Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Nath, S. (From 19.06.2014) Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Nayak, S. K. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Nemade, H. B. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Pal, D. (Released on 30.05.2014) Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Palathinkal, R. P. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Prasanna, S. R. M. Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Rai, B. K. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Rajesh, A. Associate Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sahu, P. R. Associate Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sethi, A. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Shekhawat, H. S. (From 31.12.2014) Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Shrestha, G. B. Visiting Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Singh, K. R. Associate Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sinha, R. Associate Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sonkar, R. K. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sundaram, S. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Tripathy, P. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Trivedi, G. Assistant Professor Electronics and Electrical Engineering Barua, A. Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Barua, A. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Barua, K. Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Bedamatta, R. Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Borbora, S. Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Chaterjee, B. Visiting Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Das, D. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Das, L. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Dutta, M. K. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Gupta, R. K. (01.09.2014 – 26.11.2014) Vist. Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Hussain, D. Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Kashyap, N. Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Kipgen, N. (From 15.05.2014) Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Mahanta, S. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Mallick, S. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Parui, A. (From 08.07.2014) Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Punekar, R. M. Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Ray, S. Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Robinson, R. (Up to 31.07.2014) Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Saikia, A. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Saikia, P. Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Sarmah, P. Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences

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Name Designation Department Sengupta, B. Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Sharma, S. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Som, B. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Thomas, J. (From 20.05.2014) Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Tripathi, N. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Venkataraman, P. Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Alam, R. Professor Mathematics Bandyopadhyay, S. Assistant Professor Mathematics Bhattacharjya, B. Assistant Professor Mathematics Bora, S. Associate Professor Mathematics Bora, S. N. Professor Mathematics Chakrabarty, A. K. Assistant Professor Mathematics Chakrabarty, S. P. Assistant Professor Mathematics Dalal, D. C. Professor Mathematics Das, G. K. Assistant Professor Mathematics Deka, B. Assistant Professor Mathematics Dey, A. K. Assistant Professor Mathematics Dutta, S. Assistant Professor Mathematics Kalita, J. C. Professor Mathematics Kamal, S. Assistant Professor Mathematics Kapoor, K. Associate Professor Mathematics Krishna, K. V. Associate Professor Mathematics Kumar, P. Assistant Professor Mathematics Mandal, P. S. Assistant Professor Mathematics Mitra, D. Assistant Professor Mathematics Palaparthi, A. S. S. K. Assistant Professor Mathematics Pati, S. Associate Professor Mathematics Prasad, M. G. P. Professor Mathematics Ramesh, H. Assistant Professor Mathematics Saikia, A. Associate Professor Mathematics Sarma, B. K. Professor Mathematics Selvaraju, N. Associate Professor Mathematics Sinha, R. K. Professor Mathematics Srikanth, K. V. Assistant Professor Mathematics Srinivasan, N. Professor Mathematics Srivastava, R. K. Assistant Professor Mathematics Swain, J. Assistant Professor Mathematics Upadhyay, S. Assistant Professor Mathematics Wagh, V. V. Assistant Professor Mathematics Bag, S. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Bandopadhya, D. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Banerjee, A. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Basu, D. N. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Biswas, G. Professor and Director Mechanical Engineering Biswas, P. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Chakraborty, D. Professor Mechanical Engineering Dalal, A. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Das, M. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Dass, A. K. Professor Mechanical Engineering De, A. K. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Deepak, S. R. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Dixit, U. S. Professor Mechanical Engineering Dwivedy, S. K. Professor Mechanical Engineering Gadgil, H. P. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Gautam, S. S. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering

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Name Designation Department Gavara, M. R. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Joshi, S. N. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Kakoty, S. K. Professor Mechanical Engineering Kalita, K. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Kanagaraj, S. Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Kore, S. D. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Krishna Murthy, K. S. R. Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Kulkarni, V. N. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Kumar, B. (From 10.03.2015) Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Kumari, P. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Mahanta, P. Professor Mechanical Engineering Mamilla, R. S. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Mishra, S. C. Professor Mechanical Engineering Muthukumar, P. Professor Mechanical Engineering Narayanan, R. G. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Natarajan, G. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Pal, S. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Panda, S. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Pandey, M. Professor Mechanical Engineering Reddy, A. N. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Robi, P. S. Professor Mechanical Engineering Saha, U. K. Professor Mechanical Engineering Sahasrabudhe, A. D. Professor Mechanical Engineering Sahoo, N. Professor Mechanical Engineering Saxena, A. (From 05.12.2014) Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Senthilvelan, S. Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Sharma, D. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Somayaji, C. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Tiwari, R. Professor Mechanical Engineering Űnal, A. (From 23.03.2015) Visiting Professor Mechanical Engineering Agarwal, P. Professor Physics Alagarsamy, P. Professor Physics Basu, S. Professor Physics Bhattacharya, S. Assistant Professor Physics Bhattacharya, S. Assistant Professor Physics Bhuyan, B. Associate Professor Physics Boruah, B. R. Associate Professor Physics Chakrabarti, S. K. Assistant Professor Physics Das, S. Assistant Professor Physics Dey, T. N. Assistant Professor Physics Ghosh, S. Associate Professor Physics Giri, P. K. Professor Physics Kadolkar, C. Y. Associate Professor Physics Khare, A. Professor Physics Khijwania, S. K. Associate Professor Physics Kumar, G. Assistant Professor Physics Lahiri, J. (Up to 25.04.2014) Assistant Professor Physics Maiti, U. N. (From 16.12.2014) Assistant Professor Physics Maity, D. Assistant Professor Physics Majhi, B. R. (From 11.12.2014) Assistant Professor Physics Nandi, S. Assistant Professor Physics Nandy, M. K. Associate Professor Physics Padmanabhan, P. K. Associate Professor Physics Pal, D. Associate Professor Physics Pamu, D. Associate Professor Physics

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Name Designation Department Poulose, P. Associate Professor Physics Raha, U. Assistant Professor Physics Ravi, S. Professor Physics Santra, S. B. Professor Physics Sarma, A. K. Associate Professor Physics Setlur, G. S. Professor Physics Sharma, A. K. Associate Professor Physics Sil, A. Assistant Professor Physics Srinivasan, A. Professor Physics Thota, S. Assistant Professor Physics Tripathi, S. M. (Up to 04.08.2014) Assistant Professor Physics

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Appendix–II

OFFICERS AND SCIENTIFIC STAFF (GROUP A)

Offi cers (Group A) Name Designation Dept./Section Raychoudhury, B. N. (up to 30.11.2014) Registrar Das, U. C. Deputy Registrar (up to 30.11.2014) F&A Registrar (from 01.12.2014) Barua, S. K. Deputy Registrar (up to 31.12.2014) Academic Aff airs Academic Registrar (from 01.01.2015) Bhuyan, K. Deputy Registrar Establishment and Quality Improvement Programme Boro, D. Deputy Registrar Alumni Aff airs and External Relations Goswami, D. J. (on deputation) Deputy Registrar Administration Mishra, A. (up to04.04.2014) Deputy Registrar Finance and Accounts Sharma, D. Deputy Registrar Administration Borgohain, P. Assistant Registrar Faculty Aff airs Choudhury, S. (on lien) Assistant Registrar Establishment Das, G. Assistant Registrar Engineering Section Deka, S. (on lien) Assistant Registrar Administration Haokip, T. T. Assistant Registrar S&P Kakati, M. Assistant Registrar Students’ Aff airs Konwar, L. K. Assistant Registrar Public Relations Mandal, S. Assistant Registrar R&D Phukan, A. Assistant Registrar Director’s Offi ce Salhotra, N. D. Assistant Registrar Legal Cell Goswami, A. Superintending Engineer (Elect.) Engineering Section Singh, T. J. Superintending Engineer (Civil) Engineering Section Bhagawati, D. Exe. Engineer (Elect.) Engineering Section Roy, N. Exe. Engineer (Civil) Engineering Section Dutta, D. Asst. Exe. Eng. (Civil) Engineering Section Gogoi, A. K. Asst. Exe. Eng. (Civil) Engineering Section Sarma, N. K. Asst. Exe. Eng. (Civil) Engineering Section Senapati, S. Asst. Exe. Eng. (Civil) Engineering Section Guha, T. K. Librarian LNB Central Library Saibaba, B. Deputy Librarian LNB Central Library Deka, S. Assistant Librarian LNB Central Library

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Name Designation Dept./Section Rajbangshi, R. K. Assistant Librarian LNB Central Library Borthakur, M. Chief Medical Offi cer (NFSG) Medical Barua, L. Chief Medical Offi cer (NFSG) Medical Baruah, A. K. Chief Medical Offi cer (NFSG) Medical Gogoi, L. C. (up to 20.06.2014) Sr. Security Offi cer Security

Scientifi c Staff (Group A) Name Designation Department/Centre Biswanath, H. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Chemical Engineering Kalita, R. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Chemical Engineering Das, B. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Chemistry Baruah, A. M. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Chemistry Borsaikia, A. C. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Civil Engineering Saikia, J. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Civil Engineering Kalita, K. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Civil Engineering Kalita, S. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Civil Engineering Borah, B. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Computer Science and Engineering Kachari, N. A. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Computer Science and Engineering Das, M. P. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Electronics and Electrical Engineering Das, S. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Electronics and Electrical Engineering S., Josephine Technical Offi cer Gr. I Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sharma, L. N. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Electronics and Electrical Engineering Paul, P. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Mechanical Engineering Saikia, R. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Mechanical Engineering Sarma, D. K. (on lien) Workshop Supdt. Mechanical Engineering Sarma, S. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Physics Borgohain, C. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Central Instruments Facility Senapati, K. K. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Central Instruments Facility Gogoi, D. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Central Instruments Facility Barbora, L. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Centre for Energy Baruah, D. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Centre for Energy Deka, D. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Centre for the Environment Kumari, N. K. P. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Centre for the Environment Borah, M. M. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Computer and Communication Centre Das, S. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Computer and Communication Centre Dutta, P. K. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Computer and Communication Centre Ghosh, J. K. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Computer and Communication Centre Inam, I. Scientifi c Offi cer Gr. II Computer and Communication Centre Islam, J. Scientifi c Offi cer Gr. II Computer and Communication Centre Pathak, D. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Computer and Communication Centre Saikia, G. K. Scientifi c Offi cer Gr. II Computer and Communication Centre Sairam, A. S. (on lien) Technical Offi cer Gr. I Computer and Communication Centre Acharyya, K. Technical Offi cer Gr. I Nanotechnology Das, P. Technical Offi cer Gr. II Nanotechnology

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DEGREE AWARDEES

In the 16th Convocation held on 13 July 2014, a total Degree Programme number of 1232 students received their BTech, BDes, MA, Awarded MSc, MTech, MDes and PhD degrees as given below: Computer Science and Engineering 78 Design 28 Degree Programme Awarded Electronics and Electrical Engineering 53 Mechanical Engineering 104 BTech/BDes Total 441 Biotechnology 36 Chemical Engineering 57 PhD Chemical Science and Technology 33 Biotechnology 24 Civil Engineering 56 Chemistry 16 Computer Science and Engineering 86 Chemical Engineering 6 Design 39 Civil Engineering 7 Electronics and Communication Computer Science and Engineering 4 66 Engineering Design 4 Electronics and Electrical Engineering 37 Electronics and Electrical Engineering 8 Engineering Physics 24 Humanities and Social Sciences 10 Mathematics and Computing 32 Mechanical Engineering 7 Mechanical Engineering 81 Mathematics 5 Total 547 Physics 6 MSc Centre for Energy 5 Chemistry 37 Centre for the Environment 3 Mathematics and Computing 40 Centre for Nanotechnology 1 Physics 40 Total 106 Total 117 Grand Total 1232

MA Doctor of Science D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) Development Studies 21 Total 21 Dr. Jyotiprasad Medhi Professor Emeritus, Gauhati University MTech/MDes Dr. Dipak C. Jain Biotechnology 29 Chaired Professor of Marketing at INSEAD - the international Chemical Engineering 56 business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Civil Engineering 93 Abu Dhabi

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MSc (Mathematics and Computing) Gold and Silver Medalists Silver Medal President of India Gold Medal Prakash Gupta Aritra Sasmal MA (Development Studies) BTech (Mechanical Engineering) Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal Silver Medal Atishay Jain Priyatham Bollimpalli BTech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) BTech (Computer Science and Engineering) List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for Silver Medal the award of BTech degree in Computer Science and Sonu Kumar Mishra Engineering BTech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for Silver Medal the award of B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Komaragiri Satyavati Engineering BTech (Civil Engineering) Roll No Name Silver Medal 10010101 ABHISHANK SAHU Mohit Singh 10010102 ABHISHEK JOSHI BTech (Biotechnology) 10010103 ABHISHEK NAGAR Silver Medal 10010104 ACHAL SHAH Aakanksha 10010105 ADITYA KANETKAR BTech (Chemical Engineering) 10010107 ADUTIPAL SINGH JASSAL 10010108 ALLURI NITISH Silver Medal 10010109 AMERINENI ROHITH Mayank Thakur 10010110 AMOGH TOLAY BTech (Electronics and Electrical Engineering) 10010111 ANIL KAG 10010112 ARKO SABUI Silver Medal 10010113 ARPIT AGARWAL Prannay Balla 10010114 AVINASH UTTAV BTech (Engineering Physics) 10010115 CHARU JAIN 10010117 CHUKKA ADITYA HARISH Silver Medal 10010118 DEEPANSHU GOYAL Nadimpalli Dinesh Varma 10010119 EDARA NIPUN CHOWDARY BTech (Chemical Science and Technology) 10010120 GAURAV VERMA 10010121 GHEWARI RISHIKESH SANJAY Silver Medal 10010122 HARSH GUPTA Rajat Kateja 10010124 JITENDRA SINGH SOLANKI BTech (Mathematics and Computing) 10010125 JUVVIGUNTA NARASIMHA TEJA 10010126 K A V SAI KALYAN Silver Medal 10010127 KALE KARTIK VINAYAK Mannu Amrit 10010129 KASARAPU KIRANMAYI BDes (Design) 10010130 KETHAVATH GOPAL 10010131 AASTHA VERMA Silver Medal 10010132 KOMAL AGARWAL Dipanweeta Bhattacharyya 10010133 MEGHA GANDHI MSc (Physics) 10010134 MOHIT 10010135 MUDIT GUPTA Silver Medal 10010136 NANDURI RAJASRI Aniket Mishra 10010137 NEHA GOYAL MSc (Chemistry) 10010139 NITESH SINGHAL 10010140 PALLAV MAJUMDAR Silver Medal 10010142 PAWAN KUMAR Gopal Dutta 10010143 PRADEEP BANSAL

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10010144 PRAFUL JOHARI 10010202 ADARSH SAURAV 10010145 PRAJAPATI S. ANANDBHAI 10010203 AGAM KUMAR GARG 10010148 PRIYATHAM BOLLIMPALLI 10010204 AKRITI GUPTA 10010149 PYDI PEDDIGARI VENKAT SAI 10010206 AKUMALLA MOUNIKA 10010150 PYDI PRASANNA SAI KAMANURU 10010207 AMBIKA ASHIRVAD MOHANTY 10010151 R ANURADHA RAJU 10010208 ANUBHAV RAI 10010152 RANUVA SAI TEJA 10010210 AROOSH DAYAL 10010153 REVANTH BHATTARAM 10010211 ARPAN THACKER 10010154 ROHIT SINGLA 10010212 ASHISH KUMAR VERMA 10010157 SANEPALLE VISWANATH REDDY 10010213 BALVEER MEENA 10010159 SAURAV KUMAR PATEL 10010215 BUKKE VENUGOPAL NAIK 10010160 SEJAL SHARMA 10010216 CHADARAM ROHIT 10010162 SHER SINGH MEENA 10010217 DHARAVATH ASHOK NAIK 10010163 SHIVANGI SRIVASTAVA 10010219 GONTLA VENKATA SRI CHARAN 10010164 SHRINIVAS ACHARYA 10010220 GUBBALA A R V SURYA TEJA 10010166 SUDHANSHU MITTAL 10010221 JATIN MEHTA 10010167 SUNKU VINESH REDDY 10010222 JYOTIKRISHNA DASS 10010168 TALASILA SAI DEEPAK 10010223 K SRI SATYA SUDHANVA 10010170 VIRESH GEHLAWAT 10010226 KINSHUK DHIR 10010172 VIVEK SINGH 10010228 KURISETI M. PRASANTHKUMAR 10010173 RANTI DEV SHARMA 10010229 LAKKAM DHEERAJ KUMAR 10010174 GUNAMGARI SHARATH REDDY 10010230 M ANISHA 10010175 SAHIL KUMAR 10010231 MEDISETTY SUNDEEP 10010176 ANUJ GUPTA 10010232 MOUNICA LAKSHMI SAI BATTULA 10010177 MEHTA HARSH HEMANTKUMAR 10010233 MRIDUL KRISHNA 10010178 KASHISH BABBAR 10010234 NIKUNJ DAGA 10010179 PRATIK HORA 10010235 NUVVULA D. CHANDRA KAUSHIK 10010180 PASUMARTHI VENKATASAI DILEEP 10010237 PALLEKONDA SAI KRISHNA 09010115 DEEPAK SINGH NEGI 10010238 PANKAJ KUMAR DESWAL 09010116 GAURAV RATHI 10010239 PARTH PATIL 09010117 GUNJAN KUMAR 10010240 PASUNOORI MANAV 09010120 K TEJA 10010241 PATLEY GOUTHAM 09010121 KARTIKEY GUPTA 10010243 PEDDI SHIVA CHAITHANYA 09010127 NAGENDRA RAM 10010245 PRAVEEN PATIDAR 09010129 NARESH MEHRA 10010247 RAHUL JAIN 09010136 RAHUL BHATNAGAR 10010248 RAHUL NALLAMOTHU 09010142 RISHI RAJ BORAH 10010249 RAJENDER SINGH CHARAN 09010143 ROHIT RAJ 10010253 SAMALA SRAVAN KUMAR 09010145 SAURABH SAXENA 10010256 SHALVI RAJ 09010149 SHYAM SUNDER SINGH 10010258 SUBRATA SARKAR 09010152 SUHAIL SHERIF 10010259 SWATI VYAS 09010155 SUNIL RATNU 10010260 UTTAM NANDI 09010156 TEJINDER SINGH 10010261 VIGNESH B 09010159 VULLI KRISHNA CHAITANYA 10010262 VINEET BHARGAVA 09010164 BHARAT KHATRI 10010263 VINEETH T 08010106 ANUBHAV JEPH 10010265 VINOD KUMAR KALA 08010129 KURAKULA VENKATA NARENDRA 10010267 YAJJALA MANOJ KUMAR 08010130 LAVUDYA SRIDHAR NAIK 10010268 SONU KUMAR MISHRA 06010133 NAPOLEAN DANG 10010269 OM PRAKASH BEDANT 10010270 DHRUV RATRA List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10010271 ATISHAY JAIN award of B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication 10010272 ROMIL SANDAL Engineering 10010273 SAKSHAM SHARMA 10010274 INDELA SOUMYA Roll No Name 10010275 SHUBHAM MITTAL 10010201 ABHIRAJ KUMAR 10010276 SACHIN KUMAWAT

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09010212 DEEPCHAND PRAJAPATI 10010348 PRATEEK GUPTA 09010226 KUMAR SAURAV 10010350 PRAVESH PAINKRA 09010242 RAHUL RAJ 10010351 RAHATGAONKAR ABHIRAM MUKUND 09010252 VIVEK KUMAR 10010352 RAHUL VINOD UPPUTURI 09010253 YELUVAKA DILEEP KUMAR 10010353 RAJAT GUPTA 08010214 ESAMPALLY ABHINAV 10010354 RAMNIWAS 08010228 MARLAPATI CHAITANYA 10010355 RAVI KUMAR 08010245 SUGALI SURESH NAIK 10010357 RISHI RAWAT 07010248 VIVEK KUMAR 10010359 SAI VATSALYA MOKKA 10010360 SANDEEP ANAND SAXENA List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10010361 SANDEEP VUDUKULA award of B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering 10010362 SATISH KUMAR SAGAR 10010363 SHIVAM PORWAL Roll No Name 10010364 SHREEYASH UDAY LALIT 10010301 AAKASH JAISWAL 10010365 SHRIKANT PANDEY 10010303 ADITYA VIKRAM GUGLANI 10010366 SREE PRASANNA RAJAGOPAL 10010304 AJAY CHANDRASHEKAR 10010367 SUMAN DAS 10010305 ANGSHUMAN KASHYAP 10010369 SURAJ JAIN 10010306 ANKUR KUMAR SINGH 10010370 TARUN JAIN 10010307 ARIJIT KUMAR RAY 10010371 TUSAR RANJAN DEORI 10010308 ARITRA SASMAL 10010372 TUSHAR THULKAR 10010309 ARUN NAGER 10010373 VAIBHAV JAIN 10010310 ASHUTOSH PANDEY 10010374 VEDULA SHAILESH 10010311 AVINASH YADAV 10010375 VIKAS JAISWAL 10010312 B CHAITANYARAJ KIRAN 10010376 VISHNU GANESH 10010313 BABLOO KUMAR 10010377 VOORA SAI GOUTHAM 10010314 BHASKAR BHATTACHARYYA 10010378 YUGAL CHITTARA 10010315 BHUKYA P K A SINGH NAIK 10010379 SIDDHARTH JAIN 10010316 BISWAJIT BHARAT 10010380 JAYDEV KALIVARAPU 10010318 BUDDE SANTHOSH CHANDRA 10010381 KATRE SUDHINDRA JITENDRA 10010319 DEEPENDRA JEWARIA 10010382 PRATYUKSH BANSAL 10010320 DEVARSHI KUMAR RAI 09010307 APOORVA AGARWAL 10010321 DIVYANSH GUPTA 09010309 ASHUTOSH NEGI 10010322 DUKHISHYAM SOREN 09010311 BENDURTHI JASWANTH KUMAR 10010323 GAURVENDRA SINGH YADAV 09010321 HEMANT VERMA 10010324 GAUTAM PURI 09010325 KODAMATTI DINESH REDDY 10010325 JAI SINGH JUDGE 09010329 MAARLAPUDI NIKHIL CHANDRAPAL 10010326 JITENDER 09010345 RAJESH KUMAR MOSALPURIA 10010328 JOSS DAIMARI 08010327 MALLABOINA ANIL KUMAR 10010329 JYOTISHMAN SARMA 10010330 K KISHORE REDDY List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10010331 KAPIL KRISHNAPADA GAIN award of B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering 10010332 KARIDI SIDDHARTHA 10010333 KAUSHAL SETH Roll No Name 10010334 KESHAV KUMAR MEENA 10010402 ACHAL GOYAL 10010335 LANJEWAR AMOL VASANT 10010404 ALPANA KUMARI 10010336 LAVURI RAKESH 10010405 ANAND YADAV 10010337 LERREL JOSEPH PINTO 10010406 ANISH PRASAD 10010338 M SRAVAN KUMAR 10010407 ANKIT KUMAR 10010339 MANISH KUMAR AGARWAL 10010410 ANSHUL GOYAL 10010340 MATURU SIVATEJA 10010411 ARI SIVA PRASAD 10010341 MD IDUL AHMED 10010412 ARKAPRABHA GHOSH 10010343 NARENDRA VUTLA 10010413 ARPIT MAHESHWARI 10010344 NAVDEEP SHARMA 10010414 BODDA SARAN SRIKANTH 10010345 NITIN KUMAR CHANDRAKAR 10010415 BUDHA RAM 10010346 P NIKHIL REDDY 10010416 CHILKEPALLI ANKITH

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10010417 DALVI GUNJAN DILIP 10010613 GIRISH SINGHAL 10010418 DARA VARAPRASAD 10010614 HARI SINGH MEENA 10010419 DIVYAKANT 10010616 K DHEERASAMEER 10010420 DIVYAM BENIWAL 10010617 KUSHAL RATHORE 10010421 E PRANEET REDDY 10010618 M VENKATA SEETHA RAMA SASTRY 10010424 JEETENDRA KUMAR MEENA 10010620 MANISH GOEL 10010425 K AKSHAY REDDY 10010621 MEHUL GARG 10010426 KANWARPAL SINGH 10010622 MOGALI SANJAY RAJ 10010428 KATTIKA LALITH KUMAR 10010623 MOHIT SINGH 10010432 KUMAR UJJWAL 10010625 NAMAN KATRE 10010433 MAHAJAN VINEET VASUDEO 10010626 NARAYAN LAL SALVI 10010435 MANISH KUMAR MEENA 10010629 PINNAMANENI JAI VARDHAN RAO 10010436 MONISH GARG 10010630 PRABAL PEGU 10010439 NEERAJ BALOT 10010633 RAUNAK 10010440 NEERAJ MALPANI 10010634 RAVI RAJ 10010442 PANKAJ KUMAR 10010638 SAMEER JAYANTH DIXIT 10010444 PAWAN KUMAR PAUL 10010639 SANJANA GUPTA 10010445 PRAGYA VAISHNAV 10010640 SAURABH GULATI 10010446 PRATIK RAJ 10010641 SHASHANK SRIVASTAVA 10010447 RAGHAV GROVER 10010642 SHUBHAM GARG 10010448 RAHUL KUMAR MEENA 10010645 TAPISH NANDWANA 10010449 RAKESH KUMAR MEENA 10010648 VATSHANK CHATURVEDI 10010450 ROHIT DIDEL 10010649 VISWESWARA S. MANTRIPRAGADA 10010452 SAHIL MEDAWALA 10010650 VIVEK AMARNANI 10010454 SHAIK KHWAJA RAHIL AHMED 10010651 VIVEK SINGHAL 10010455 SHASHANK BURMAN 09010610 G RAJESH 10010456 SHIPHA 09010624 PEDDIBOYINA DINESHNADH 10010457 SHRUTI SONI 09010637 UJJWAL NANDAN 10010458 SHSHANK MITTAL 07010608 BIDYUT BIKAS BRAMHA 10010460 SOUJANYA MANDADI 10010461 SUMIT KUMAR List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10010462 SUMIT RATHORE award of B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering 10010464 URWASHI KUMARI 10010465 VEMULA YASHWANTH Roll No Name 10010466 VIKAS BHARTI 10010701 AAKANKSHA 10010467 VIMAL KUMAR 10010702 ABHISHEK ANAND 10010468 VISHWAJIT ANAND 10010703 ABHISHEK GUPTA 10010469 KOMARAGIRI SATYAVATI 10010705 AKASH KUMAR VIKAL 09010420 GUDIGOPURAM YESHWANTH REDDY 10010706 AKASH TRIPATHI 09010423 H RATHOLU 10010707 AKHILESH PREMKUMAR 09010439 PAVULURI YESWANTH KUMAR 10010708 AKSHAY VERMA 09010442 RAJAT AWASTHI 10010709 AMIT CHAUDHARY 08010420 JEETESH GAURAV 10010710 AMIT KALER 08010434 PANIGRAHI SAINATH 10010711 AMIT KUMAR 10010712 ANSHUL AGARWAL List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10010713 AVISEK MISRA award of B.Tech. degree in Biotechnology 10010714 B ASHWIK REDDY 10010716 BIDYUT BIKASH CHANGMAI Roll No Name 10010717 BIPIN KUMAR 10010601 ABHISHEK MEHRA 10010719 DEEPAK KUMAR KEWAT 10010602 ASHISH KAWDIA 10010720 DEVARAKONDA KARTHIK 10010605 BORA SAURABH SATISH 10010722 DHIREN BARO 10010609 DEEPAK JAIN 10010723 DIPAK KUMAR BHARTI 10010610 DHARMASOTH VENKATESH 10010724 HIMANSHU BHATIA 10010611 DHRISHNI CHAKRABORTI 10010726 ISHAAN TRIPATHI 10010612 GANAR KETAN ASHOK 10010727 JAYANT ASHOK DHOTE

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10010728 JAYANT BORANA 10010825 MAYANK THAKUR 10010730 K ANKITH KUMAR 10010826 P S SENTHIL 10010731 KODURU MOHAN KRISHNA 10010827 P T V B NARASIMHA KUMAR 10010732 KOTAPROLU NAGA TEJA RAM 10010829 PRASHANT KUMAR SINGH 10010733 KSHETRIMAYUM PUNICHA CHANU 10010830 RAJENDER LAVUDIYA 10010734 KSHITIJ SWAROOP 10010831 RAJIB DAS 10010735 MAHESH DANGI 10010832 S NANDA KISHORE 10010736 MANDADI NARENDRA 10010835 SANJEET KUMAR SAHU 10010738 NEHA BHATTACHARYA 10010836 SAURAV KUMAR 10010739 NIKUNJ AGARWALLA 10010837 SHARIQ HAROON 10010740 NITISH KUMAR 10010838 SHREYANSH JAIN 10010741 P YASHASWINI 10010841 SURENDRA SWAMI 10010742 PESALA SAI RAHUL REDDY 10010844 PULKIT JAIN 10010744 PRERONA DAS 10010845 KUMAR BISWARANJAN 10010745 PRITOM SHARMA 10010846 MACRINA LOBO 10010746 RIJUMONI BORO 10010847 DEVANSHU CHAUDHARY 10010747 ROHITASH MEENA 09010804 AMIT YADAV 10010750 SANDEEP KUMAR BAHESHWAR 09010810 DHYANENDRA SINGH 10010751 SARTHAK DUBE 09010812 JASPREET SINGH 10010752 SATTALURI LAXMI PAVANI 09010815 KUMAR GAURAV 10010753 SAURABH JALAN 09010821 SAMALA BHARGAV 10010754 SHRISHTI SUYOG 09010827 TARUN KATHURIA 10010756 SRIDHAR AKSHAY 10010757 TAUSEEF SHAHIDI List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10010760 VINEET KUMAR award of B.Tech. degree in Engineering Physics 10010762 VISHAL SHARMA 10010763 VISHESH DHARIWAL Roll No Name 09010710 ANKIT CHOUKSEY 10012101 AKASH YADAV 09010713 ARPIT AGARWAL 10012102 ANAND RAJ 09010722 GUDAPATI SAI SATEESH 10012103 ANJANI KUMAR MAURYA 09010726 KONDAPALLI PRUTHVI 10012104 ANKESH KUMAR 09010746 TUHIN KANTI MONDAL 10012107 ASHISH KUMAR 09010747 UNGRATWAR RAJESH VITTHALRAO 10012109 BAGADI DEVI PRASAD 09010750 VISHNU CHAUHAN 10012110 PRANNAY BALLA 08010742 VISHAK BHARADWAJ P 10012111 BANANI BISWAS 10012112 CHETAN DESHMUKH List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for 10012113 CHIRAG the award of B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical 10012114 DAYAPULE DURGA HARISH Engineering 10012115 DEEPJYOTI DEB 10012116 E S RAJDEEP SAGAR Roll No Name 10012117 HAMENT CHOUDHARY 10010801 ABHAY GUPTA 10012119 LALIT MOHAN PRADHAN 10010802 AISHVARYA AGRAWAL 10012121 KANCHAN KESHAORAO MOPARI 10010803 APOORV VYAS 10012124 RAHUL S NARYANI 10010804 APURVA GUPTA 10012127 RITESH MOHAN KRISHNA 10010806 ASHISH RANJAN 10012129 SUDEEP SHUKLA 10010808 BIPUL VAIBHAV 10012130 T NEHA 10010809 DHARMENDRA KUMAR PRAJAPATI 10012131 TEJUS B G 10010813 G. VAMSI MANOHAR REDDY 10012133 TILAK NIKHIL MOHAN 10010817 HRISHIKESH KUMAR 10012134 VAIBHAV DWIVEDI 10010818 KARTIK DWIVEDI 09012120 PANDHARPURKAR ANURAG 10010820 KULDEEP NAGAR 10010821 KUMAR GAURAV List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for 10010822 KUMAR SAMBHAV the award of B.Tech. degree in Chemical Science and 10010823 MAHESH KUMAR Technology 10010824 MAYANK PRATAP SINGH

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Roll No Name 10012328 RAJESH YARLAGADDA 10012201 AAYUSHI BAJPAYEE 10012329 RAJU RAM 10012202 ADITYA PUROHIT 10012331 SHAGUN RAWAT 10012203 AJAY SINGH MEENA 10012332 SIZIL KRISHNA GOOJAR 10012204 ASHISH KUMAR 10012333 TANAY LUTHRA 10012205 BABLI KUMARI 10012335 VIBHASH KUMAR 10012206 BIDHAN CHANDRA SARKAR 10012336 VIPIN KUMAR SINGHAL 10012207 BODDU SATWICK 10012338 RAJAT KATEJA 10012208 CHILLALE TEJAS PURANDAR 10012339 ABHINANDAN 10012209 CHINTALA SATYANARAYANA MURTHY 10012340 SACHIN GUPTA 10012210 DARNESH NARLA 10012341 NIMISH SRIVASTAVA 10012211 DHARWADKAR INDRANEEL AVINASH 10012342 REVANT KUMAR 10012212 DIVYA DINESH NANDWANA 10012343 KHUSHI SUNIL GUPTA 10012213 HARSH KHETAN 09012312 KUMAR BRAJESH 10012214 KARAN HANDA 09012317 MOIRANGTHEM CHINGKHEINGANBI 10012216 KUMAR MANGALAM 10012217 KUSH KUMAR List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10012220 MURAKONDA RATNAKAR award of B.Des. degree in Design 10012221 NADIMPALLI DINESH VARMA 10012224 PAMU RAVI KUMAR Roll No Name 10012225 RAHUL KUMAR 10020501 ABDUL SAMEER ASHRAF 10012227 RAVI KUMAR 10020502 ABHINAV KRISHNA AADIRAJU 10012228 RAVI PRAKASH SINGH 10020503 ABHISHEK SINGH 10012229 RISHESH AMERIYA 10020504 ADITI PADHI 10012230 SATISH KUMAR 10020506 ANKIT PARIKH 10012232 SHUBHAM NASHINE 10020507 ANUPARTHY CHAYAPATHI 10012233 SIDHARTH THAKUR 10020508 ANVAY MESHRAM 10012234 SUMINAKSHI DAS 10020509 APURVA GUPTA 10012236 U. ADITYA PUSHYAMITRA SARMA 10020510 ARKA BANI MAINI 10012237 YEDLA SRUTHI 10020511 ASHOK B THARIYAN 09012204 CHITYALA SUDHEER KUMAR 10020512 BHASKER SHARMA 09012208 GUTA ANIRUDH KUMAR 10020514 DUSHYANT PALRIWAL 09012228 SRIKANT JAYARAMAN 10020515 HARSHIT AGRAWAL 08012222 R VAMSHI KRISHNA 10020516 HIMANSHU BANSAL 10020517 JARUPALA SRIDHAR List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 10020518 JATIN PHERWANI award of B.Tech. degree in Mathematics and Computing 10020520 K THIRUPATHI 10020523 MANNU AMRIT Roll No Name 10020524 MAULISHREE ARVIND PANDEY 10012304 AKANKSHA GUPTA 10020525 MEHUL AGRAWAL 10012306 ALOK MALAKAR 10020526 MINAL JAIN 10012307 AMAN GUPTA 10020527 MOHIT YADAV 10012308 AMAN KESARWANI 10020528 NEHA KUMAR 10012310 ANURAG PRATIK 10020529 NENAWATH RAMESH 10012311 ARGHYA SARKAR 10020532 PRABHAT KUMAR 10012312 ARJUN SHARMA 10020534 RISHIKA JAIN 10012313 BIKASH KUMAR SHAW 10020535 SACHIN KODATI 10012315 CHIRAG MAHESHWARI 10020536 SARAYU AGARWAL 10012316 DEBASISH PATTANAYAK 10020537 SATYAN CHAWLA 10012319 JAYANT GUPTA 10020538 SHUBHAM JAIN 10012322 LAVLEEN 10020539 SURBHIT VARMA 10012323 MUKUND SHIVAJI RAUT 10020540 T. S K SATYA DHARMA PHALGUN 10012324 PARIKSHIT UPADHYAYA 10020541 TIGMANSHU BHATNAGAR 10012325 PRAKASH KUMAR 10020542 TUSHAR CHHABRA 10012326 RAHUL AGRAWAL 10020543 VARUN NAGPAL 10012327 RAHUL SINGH SAINI 10020544 VIKAS LUTHRA

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09020521 RITHVIK RAMADAS 122122004 ANIKET MISHRA 08020513 MITTA RAVI SHANKAR 122122005 ANKIT KAUSHIK 08020523 VEMU NAVEEN NISCHAL 122122006 ANKUSH BANERJEE 122122008 ANWESHA MUKHERJEE List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 122122009 ARPAN MUKHERJEE award of M.Sc. degree in Physics 122122010 AYAN PAL 122122011 CHUMKI DALAL Roll No Name 122122012 DEBAPRATIM DAS 122121001 AAKANSHA 122122013 DEEPAK KUMAR PAL 122121002 ABUBAKKAR SIDDIK 122122014 DIPANKAR BAIN 122121004 ANIRBAN BHOWMICK 122122015 INESSA BANERJEE 122121005 ARGHYA MUKHERJEE 122122016 JAGADISH DAS 122121006 ASADULLAH SK 122122017 JAYANTA MONDAL 122121007 BAISHALI DUTTA 122122018 KRISHANU SAMANTA 122121008 BANIBRATA CHAKRABORTY 122122019 KRISHNADIPTI SINGHA 122121009 BIKASH MANDAL 122122020 KRISHNANGSU PRADHAN 122121010 BIPASHA PAUL 122122021 MOSTAKIM SK 122121011 BISWAJIT MANDAL 122122022 NILOTPAL SINGHA 122121012 DEBASMITA MAITI 122122023 PRIYANKA SAMANTA 122121013 DEBDATTA PANIGRAHI 122122024 RAJAT SUBHRA GIRI 122121014 DINESH YADAV 122122025 RIA MUKHERJEE 122121015 DIPANGKAR BORAH 122122027 SANJAY DUTTA 122121017 DIPANWEETA BHATTACHARYYA 122122028 SANTANU KAYAL 122121019 GOPAL GORAI 122122030 SHUBHADEEP CHAKRABORTY 122121020 GOUTAM KUMAR SAHOO 122122032 SOURAV MONDAL 122121021 INDU KALPA DIHINGIA 122122033 SOURENJIT NASKAR 122121022 JAYANTA KUILA 122122034 SRESTHA BASU 122121023 JAYJIT KUMAR DEY 122122035 SUDESHNA CHATTERJEE 122121024 KAJAL MAJI 122122039 SUMITAVA MALLIK 122121026 MANGESH BHATTARAI 122122040 SURAJIT BARMAN 122121027 MITHUN ROY 122122041 TANAY DEB BARMAN 122121028 MOUMITA DAKUA 122122042 TURJYA RAY 122121029 MRIGANKA SINGH 122122043 UTSAB MANNA 122121030 NAWAZ SARIF MALLICK 122122044 VIVEK SHARMA 122121031 NIVEDITA GHOSH 122121032 PREETHA SAHA List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 122121033 PREETI KUMARI award of M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computing 122121034 PURUSOTTAM GHOSH 122121035 RAJARSHI SINHA ROY Roll No Name 122121038 SANDIP DAS 122123001 ABHILASH SAHU 122121041 SOUMADRI SAMANTA 122123002 AMIT KUMAR 122121043 SUSHANTA LENKA 122123005 ANIRBAN DAWN 122121044 TAMAL GUHA 122123006 ARKABRATA GHOSH 122121045 TARAK NATH MAITY 122123008 AVIJIT HALDER 11212108 BHUWAN CHAND 122123010 BHAGGYADHAR PAHAR 11212115 DEEPAK CHAUDHARY 122123012 BISWAJIT MANDAL 11212116 DEEPAN BEJA 122123013 DEBASHIS BHOWMIK 11212141 SUMIT PRATAP SINGH 122123014 DEEPANSHU KARNWAL 122123015 DHEERENDRA SINGH List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the 122123016 GOPAL DUTTA award of M.Sc. degree in Chemistry 122123017 GOPIKA SHARMA 122123018 HARIOM VERMA Roll No Name 122123019 KANCHAN MANDAL 122122001 ABIR GOSWAMI 122123023 MUDIT KUMAR 122122002 ACHINTA SANNIGRAHI 122123024 NAMRATA SHUKLA 122122003 ANANTA KALITA 122123029 RAJESH KUMAR MISHRA

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122123031 RASHMI NIDHI TOPPO 122241001 ABHAY PRATAP SINGH 122123033 SAMIR KAR 122241004 BHRIGU RANJAN BORTHAKUR 122123034 SANDIPAN DUTTA 122241005 DEEKSHA ARORA 122123035 SANGITA JHA 122241006 DEEPA GUPTA 122123037 SHIBAPADA MAHATO 122241010 HIMANGSHU DAS 122123040 SOUGATA MARIK 122241011 JIMALI BORO 122123041 SUCHISMITA PATRA 122241012 JIMMY SEBASTIAN DAIMARY 122123042 SUDIPTA GAYEN 122241013 KAUSHAL KISHOR KAUSHAL 122123043 SUMAN SARKAR 122241014 KHURSHID ALAM AHMED 122123044 SUNANDA DAS 122241017 MINAKSHEE DAS 122123046 SURABHI VISHWAKARMA 122241018 NAZIBUL ISLAM 122123047 SURJEET 122241020 PARISHMITA SAIKIA 122123048 TIASHA SAHA ROY 122241021 PRAKASH GUPTA 122123049 TUHINA MUKHERJEE 122241023 RAHUL SHUKLA 122123050 VIKAS KUMAR 122241024 RAMA DEVI 122123051 VEEKESH KUMAR 122241025 RISHI KISHORE 11212303 ABHISHEK RAJAN 122241026 RITU RAJ DEORI 11212312 GAJENDRA KUMAR NAGAR 122241027 SUPRIYA TIWARY 11212326 NIRMOY KUMAR DAS 122241028 VELUR VEDVIKASH REDDY 11212329 PRATAP BHANU SHARMA 122241029 VINEET KESHAW 11212332 PRIYANKA MANDAL 11224135 RINKU DAS 11212336 SANTU MANDAL 11212342 TANMAY KAYAL

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of M.A. degree in Development Studies

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List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering Roll No Name Project Title 10410134 Manojit Ghose Hybrid Subset Based Cache Replacement Policy to Reduce Number of Misses in LLC 11410103 Hindol Adhya Comparison of Community Finding Algorithms 11410104 Arnab Ray A Study on Structural Properties of Stock Market Graph 11410105 Abhirup Seal Implicit Feedback Based Query Expansion 11410106 Shachee Mishra Barrier Coverage in Camera Sensor Networks 11410107 Prateek Halwe Controlled Cache Partitioning of Multicore LLC 11410108 Saswata Dutta Polygonal Domain Shortest Path Problem on GPU 11410109 Patel Rushiraj Parsotambhai Test Case Generation Using Model Checking 11410110 Kunal Emulating an Idiotypic Network for Networked Robots 11410111 Anupama Nandi Implementation and Performance Evaluation of External Minimum Spanning Tree 11410112 Jithin Mathews Construction of non-2-colorable Uniform Hypergraphs 11410113 Argha Sen A Discrete Event System Approach To Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Multi- processor Systems 11410114 Rama Krishna Rayudu STXXL IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TWO ALGORITHMS FOR HESSENBERG DECOMPOSITION 11410115 Dipak Kumar Mangal Study of Spectral Based Link Prediction

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11410116 Debarghya Banerjee Game Theoretic Analysis of Cascading Eff ects in Stock Markets 11410117 Prabal Kumar Ghosh Discrete Event System Approach to Evil Twin Attack Detection 11410118 Dhanya R Mathews Congestion Management in LANs using Redundant Links 11410119 Rahul Kumar Kundra Analyzing Real-Time Systems using BIP 11410120 Basma Alam Dynamic Replication in a Hadoop Cluster based on Access Pattern 11410121 Harshit Awasthi Routing in Cluster Mesh With Hierarchy of NOC 11410122 Krishna Mohan Agrawal Popularity based Cache Partitioning Scheme and Caching Algorithm for IPTV Networks 11410123 T Harsha Sai Network traffi c Analysis using principal component graphs 11410125 Dehedkar Sayali Sureshrao Making Reduce Task Locality Aware in Hadoop Map Reduce 11410129 Shuvendu Rana Robust Scalable Watermarking on H.264/SVC Video Sequences 11410130 Geetesh Rahule Packet Based Approach For Time Sensitive Applications in 4-4,1-4 Archi- tecture 11410131 Desai Sureshkumar Amrutlal Scheduling And Binding of Multiphase Applications Onto Large Multi- core System 11410132 Soumyajit Das Support for Transactions in the EXT3 File System 11410133 Sachin Kumar System and Methods for Converting English Text into SQL 11410134 Marpina Bhargava Job Scheduling in Multiprocessor System With Prereservation 11410135 Ashish Kumar System and Methods For Converting Speech into SQL 11410136 Saurabh Kumar Singh On Realizing Emotional Memories 11410139 Ashish Singh Patel Object Based Watermarking for H.264/AVC Video Resistant to RST At- tacks 11410143 Sourav Mandal Automated Updates in SOA Systems 11410144 Gargi Priyadarshini Inferring Clinical Rules from Electronic Health Records 11410145 Debjani Saha Static Scheduling of Control Tasks using Model Checking 11410148 Khade Ganesh Dnyanoba Web Object Attention Model for Both Image and Text Object 11410149 Ramesh Singh Concurrency Control in Deterministic 1-2Skip List in Distributed Envi- ronment 11410151 Prashant Kumar Gurga Streaming Algorithm for Interval Graph 11410152 Sanjib Das An Intrution Detection System for DNS Cache Poisoning Attack 11410153 C. Vanlalchhanhima Scalable Secure Multicast Key Distribution Using Node Balancing 11410155 Leuva Pratikkumar Khush- Hybrid System Approach to Online Fault Detection in Power Converter albhai Circuit ( Case Study : DC DC Boost Converter) 11410156 Sudhakar Kumar Web Object Attention Model for Text Based Webpage 124101003 Kaushik Baruah A Transactional ext3 File System 124101005 Kunj Kothari Anytime Algorithms for Mutual Exclusion Rule Mining 124101006 Sachin Shah Computational Modeling for Detecting Emotion through Indirect Cues for Touch Screen Devices 124101009 Karanam L. S. Sai Kumar Conference Recommendation System for Authors 124101011 Pratik Agrawal Simulation of MIPS Architecture based Large Multicore System on GPU 124101014 S Santhosh Low Overhead QoS Aware Downlink Scheduling for Multimedia Serv- ices in LTE Systems 124101015 Saimanoj Kumar Y Document Reduction: Indexing with Representative Terms 124101020 Umang Sharma Learning-based approach to infer social ties in Twitter

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124101021 Piyoosh P Discrete Event Systems (DES) Approach to Fault Tolerance in Real Time System on Homogenous and Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Platform 124101022 Shantanu Sharma Issues in Feature Reduction for Speech Recognition 124101023 Ashish Jain STXXL Implementation of Algorithms for the Generalized Eigenvalue Problem 124101024 Manohar Singh Gour Identifi cation of Entities: Case Study on Recipe & NER using Cross-Lin- gual Information 124101026 Kamaljeet Chauhan Real Time Scheduling strategies with incomplete information using Discrete Event System(DES) 124101027 Gaurav Ajmera Land Price Prediction 124101030 Abhishek Suman Inferring social ties from common activities in Twitters 124101031 Avinash Kumar Implementation of QR Decomposition Algorithm using STXXL 124101035 Harshad Baban Raut Study of the characteristics of diff erent types of facebook users by exploiting user’s timeline activities 124101037 Prajapati Jaykumar Shailesh- Secondary Market Analysis bhai 124101039 Shailesh Prajapati FP-tree based mutual exclusion rule mining algorithms 124101040 Vanapalli Kartheek Searching Mechanisms for Dynamic NUCA in Chip Multiprocessors 124101041 Dinesh R Data Eviction and Data Target Policy for Dynamic NUCA in Chip Multi- processors 124101042 Prayag Surendran An Open source toolkit for developing mining algorithms with Wikipe- dia 124101043 Koushik Konar Online Testing of Digital Circuit case Study at Comparator 124101046 Arghya Kusum Majumder Online testing of digital VLSI circuits 124101049 Barun Halder Dynamic 2-Level Recommendation Based Trust Model for Cloud System 124101050 Chetti Prasad Evaluation of Community Detection Algorithms: An alternative Ap- proach 124101051 T. Thangkhanlun A GENERIC EXTENSION TO OVERLAPPING COOMUNITY DETECTIONS ALGORITHMS AND COMPARISION BETWEEN THEM 124101052 Vinod Kumar Meena An Optimal Algorithm for On-line Testing of Digital Micro-Fluidic Bio- chips 124101053 Karsing Panging Comparison of Link Prediction Algorithms on Co-authorship Networks 124101055 Diganta Baishya Improving Speech Recognition using Bigram Analysis for Assamese Language 124101056 Zinabu Haile Abirha FPGA Implementation of Parallel Pattern Matching to Accelerate NIDS 124101057 Tonmoy Saha Roy On Grounding Symbols for Robots 124101059 Tambe Vishal Baban Analysis of ARLBP on various Machine Learning Algorithms 124101060 Tarun Kumar Agrawal Scheduling Parallel Multiphase Applications onto Multiprocessor

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Information Security Roll No Name Project Title 10410149 Manab Mohan Borah Attack Analysis on AODV with SHORT in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks 10410152 Bhriguraj Borah Security in Windows System Call and SSDT

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List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Specialization in Signal Processing Roll No Name Project Title 11410211 Shah Jaimeen Hiteshbhai Temporally Scalable Compression of Animation Geometry 11410213 V.Satya Aditya Murakonda CROSS SPEED GAIT RECOGNITION USING SHAPE AND STRIDE 11410214 Rahul S Single Image Super Resolution using Dictionary Learning Methods in the Wavelet Domain 11410216 Sandeep Reddy C Development of Bilingual Speech Synthesis System 11410223 Suman Deb Speaker Verifi cation using Speaker Specifi c Behavioral Features 11410224 Veeramallu S Manikanta FACE RETRIEVAL BASED ON EIGEN-CORRESPONDENCES 11410225 Vinal Patel HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION IN VIDEO SEQUENCES 11410227 Kartheek Ganta CONTINUOUS HAND GESTURE RECOGNITION BY USING A NOVEL SET OF FEATURES 11410229 Uday Bhaskar Rao Yedla Audio Declipping and Artifi cial Bandwidth Extension using Sparse Representations 11410230 Kausik Das FACE RECOGNITION USING GLOBAL AND LOCAL FEATURES 11410234 Rathlavath Krishnanaik Assamese Handwritten Strokes Recognition using Hidden Markov Models 11410262 Amit Dhar ESTIMATION OF LIGHT SOURCE DIRECTION FOR BLIND FORENSICS OF IMAGES USING VANISHING POINTS 11410263 Sanjay Viswanath Performance Evaluation of Video Descriptors 11410265 Abdulkareem V. AUDIO FINGER PRINTING FOR MULTI-LINGUAL RETRIEVAL OF INDIAN FILM SONGS 11410266 Santhosh Kumar Podugu Probabilistic Latent Component Analysis based Artifi cial Bandwidth Extension for Speech Signals 11410267 Niladri Das Capacity of Sum-Networks 124102012 Sharath Jotawar Improving Sparse Representation using NN-LASSO for Robust Auto- matic Speech Recognition 124102014 Kiran Francis Methods for Image and Video Forensics 124102016 Deepak Synthesis of 12-Lead ECG from Reduced Lead Subset: Patient-Specifi c Approach 124102024 Nerella V V Manikanta Addressing the Robustness of Point Process Model based Keyword Spotting 124102025 Shashikant Stressed Speech Classifi cation 124102029 Harshit B TRANSPARENT FACE HASHING BASED ON GLOBAL INTENSITY SUBSTI- TUTION 124102064 Manoj Rupchand Sarve Fundus Image Analysis for Qualifi cation of Retinal Abnormalities

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Specialization in VLSI Roll No Name Project Title 11410201 Sushant Pandey Simulation of Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Energy Harvesters 11410202 Anas M M Simulation on Energy Band Gap Opening of Graphene Nanoribbons 11410203 R. Kameswaranagamahesh Design of Ultra-Wide Band Physical Layer(PHY) Transceiver for IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN Baseband 11410205 Akash G A Transceiver Baseband Design for Ultra-Wide Band Physical Layer of IEEE 802.15.6 Standard in Bluespec

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11410207 Burra Shravan Kumar VLSI IMPLEMENTATION OF SIGN-LMS BASED ADAPTIVE FILTER USING SPT ALGORITHM 11410208 Nandlal Yadav Study of Scaling Eff ects in Analog Circuits 11410243 Niraj Kumar VLSI IMPLEMENTATION OF LINEAR MMSE DETECTOR FOR MIMO-OFDM COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Specialization in Communication Engineering Roll No Name Project Title 11410226 Alok Singh Chauhan Analysis of QAM System under Diff erent Fading Channels with Channel Impairments 11410237 P. Babu Sukumar Chowdary Improved detection and Cooperative sensing in a congnitive Radio Network Scenario 11410240 Kalpant Pathak Analysis of Switched Diversity Receivers over k-μ and n-μ Fading Chan- nels 11410242 Jeevan Kuriakose Improved Modulation Classifi cation using the spectral Correlation func- tion 11410246 P Anoop Design of Dual Mode Feed Horns for Off set Refl ector Antennas 11410247 Arijit Roy MIMO and Multiuser UWB Communication Systems using Orthogonal Frequency Coded SAW Correlators 11410248 Pawan Kumar ABER Performance of MRC Receiver in k-μ fading with Channel Estima- tion Error 11410251 Sandip Kumar Gupta Heuristic Approaches for Multicasting using Anypath Routing in Wire- less Mesh Network 11410256 Kumbhar Sushant Anil Performance Analysis of MIMO Detection Techniques 124102032 Jomet Thomas Sequential Algorithms with Stochastic Energy Constraints 124102037 Priyank Bharadwaj FULL WAVE ANALYSIS OF PRINTED ANTENNA USING SPATIAL DOMAIN METHOD OF MOMENTS 124102040 Ashok Kumar Full wave Analysis of Printed Antennas and Circuits using Spectral Do- main Method of Moments 124102044 Vishnu R C Topics in Polar Codes 124102045 Vimal K M Performance Analysis of Space Time Block Coded Spatial Modulation in Correlated Fading Channels 124102053 L N Baya Reddy Performance Analysis of Cooperative Communication Over Generalized Fading Channels 124102054 Sunju John Prevention of Collusion Attack in Collaborative Spectrum Sensing – A Game Theoretic Approach 124102061 Hagenimana Venuste On the capacity of Multiple-Unicast Networks

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Specialization in Applied Control Roll No Name Project Title 11410259 Nidhin A.K. Adaptive Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Buck Converters 124102051 Kurian C Kurian “Thin” characteristic sets for 2D discrete scalar autonomous systems 124102056 Patel Shrenik Babulal ROBUST FINITE TIME CONTROLLER FOR ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS 124102059 Kuruganti Chatan Kumar Optimal Control of Multi-Agent Systems

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124102063 Narahari Santosh Kumar Dissipativity Analysis of SISO Systems using Nyquist-Plot Compatible (NPC) Supply rates 124102068 Surjagade Piyush Vinayakrao FAULT TOLERENT CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Machine Design Roll No Name Project Title 11410302 Naveen Kumar Singh Online Monitoring of Cutting Forces in a Turning Operation using Bridge Currents of an Induction with Motor Winding Bridge Confi gured 11410303 Mirzaul Karim Hussain Determination of Mode I Stress Intensity Factors using Goal Oriented Adaptive Finite Element Procedures 11410304 Kopal Agarwal DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL EIASTOMER BASED SANDWICH BEAM USING TIMOSHENKO BEAM THEORY 11410305 Veluguri Sandeep Kumar Thermal Based Performance Analysis 11410307 Gohil Sanjaysinh Popatji DETERMINATION OF STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS USING EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 11410309 Avinash Vishwas Chougale Estimation of Active Magnetic Bering Dynamic Parameters in Fully Levitated Rotors 11410310 Sai Prasad Panda Micromechanical analysis of unidirectional short piezoelectric fi ber reinforced composite material 11410311 Kanhaiya Kumar Optimum Positioning of SMA Wire Actuator for discrete Actuation 11410312 Nanivadekar Vivek Kishor Study of Electromechanical Analysis of a Cage Induction Machine with Bridge Confi gured Winding Considering Material Nonlinearity 11410313 Shedage Anup Ramchandra Theoretical experimental and analysis of SMA wire behavior for arbi- trary stress and temperature variation 11410314 Kishor Kumar Gajrani Thermo-mechanical Analysis of Plate bending by laser line heating 11410316 Ankit Dave Parametric Study of a stress wave force balance for Short Duration Measurements 11410317 Prabhakaran N Design and Development of a Walking Apparatus 11410318 Sandeep Kumar Eff ective elastic properties of graded unidirectional continuous fi ber reinforced composite 11410319 Swetha Gottumukkala Residual Stress and Fatigue Life Prediction of Welded Structure 11410322 Waghole Vikas Karbhari Optimum Design and Analysis of Spherical and Needle Roller Bearings 11410323 Prafulla Verma Fabrication and Characterization of Functionality Graded Materials 11410324 Ashutosh Kumar Optimization of Groove Size and Grove Locations for two Groove Jane- nal Bearings 11410325 Nayan Jyoti Baishya Modeling and Optimization of Pressure Vessel under Thermo-Elastic Condition 11410327 Susanta Behera Preparation and characterization of copper-carbon nanotube nano- composite via powder metallurgy technique 11410328 Sarpe Nitin Shreedharrao Performance Evaluation of CNT Based Polymer Asymmetric Spur Gears 11410329 Kunwar Singh EFFECT OF LIME COATING ON LASER BENDING PROCESS 11410331 Padawale Niranjan Damod- Nonlinear free and forced vibration of radially graded annular plate har with a hearted-plate-edge 11410387 Mafi dur Rahman Design and Development of a bridge confi gured winding based induc- tion machine

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11410388 Bijay Kumar Roy PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES FOR STENTS 124103011 Kumbhar Sachin Sitaram Active vibration control in Electrical machine using built-in actuators 124103013 Ravi Shankar Shukla Hysteresis and Damage Tolerance of CNT/PP Composites 124103018 Vaibhav Jaiswal Multi-Tool Turning: Process Parameters, Specimen Accuracy and Tool Wear Issues 124103020 Rakesh Singh Kushwaha Characterization of System Dynamics for a Blunt Cone Geometric Con- fi guration using Linear System Theory 124103021 Surendra Singh Topology Optimization of Structural Stiff ness and Structural Frequency 124103029 Gade Narendra Rangnath Evaluation and Analysis of Fatigue Loading on Polyester Resin based Glass Fiber Composite Material 124103083 Narode Deepak Govind Coupled rotor dynamic and electromagnetic dynamic model for fl ex- ible rotor electrical machines. 124103100 Sanjoy Naskar Design and Development of Micro-Fluidic Valve for Small Scale Applica- tions

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Fluids and Thermal Engineering Roll No Name Project Title 11410333 Patel Priteshkumar Hiralal Performance analysis of Compressor Driven Metal Hydride Colling System 11410335 Hemanshul Garg Least Squares based meshless framework for incompressible fl uid fl ows 11410336 Mangukiya Bharatkumar Numerical Analysis of Flow Instabilities in Supercritical Fluid Systems Jagdishbhai 11410337 Vinod Pandey Conjugate heat transfer analysis for composite confi gurations in hyper- sonic fl ow 11410340 Subhransu Sekhar Mallick Prediction of hydrodynamics and heat transfer along the riser of a Circulating Fluidized Bed 11410343 Mukul Parmananda Development of Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes Solver on Hybrid Unstructured Grid 11410347 U S Tejaswini CFD INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER CHRACTERISTICS AND SCAL- ING OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUID SYSTEMS 11410348 Debabrat Samantaray Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Compressible Flow – A Shock Tube Problem 11410349 Ashish Kumar NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF CRYOGENIC ABLATION OF TUMOR IN A TISSUE 11410351 Kaushik Roy COMPRATAIVE STUDY OF CENTRAL AND UPWIND SCHEMES WITH RE- SPECT TO HIGH SPEED FLOWS 11410353 Kharche Swapnil Prabhakar Experimental Study on Medium Scale LPG Cooking Stove with a Porous Radiannt Burner 11410354 Wadekar Shrikant Sadashiv NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT TRANSFER IN 1-D AND 2-D POROUS RADIANT BURNER 11410355 M. Kishore Kumar Computation of fl ows involving Shock-boundary layer interaction 11410358 Gulshan Dewangan CFD investigations for non-equilibrium hypersonic fl ow 11410359 Randhir Kumar Hexagonal boron-nitrate based nanofl uid as a transformer coolant 11410360 Mohd Shariq Khan A sharp interface immersed boundary method for incompressible fl ows 11410361 Basanta Kumar Rana Flow and heat transfer from the Annular Fin Heat Exchanger using Win- glet Type Vortex Generators

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11410362 Ajay Kumar Modeling and Optimization of Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell Reformer 11410363 Tarun Kumar Shakya Experimental Investigations of CO2 LASER Micro Drilling on High Tem- perature Materials 11410364 Baisalini Sethi Investigations on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Minichannel Arrays 11410365 Subash Babu Matta Experimental Studies on CO2 Laser Beam Micro Drilling of AISI 1040 Steel and Titanium Alloy 11410367 Ajit Singh Modeling of Combined cycle power plant 11410369 Anisha Ekka Experimental Study of CO2 Laser Micromachining of AISI 1040 Alloy Steel 11410370 Manash Jyoti Borah Numerical and Experimental Study on CO2 Laser Welding Process Pa- rameters on Temperature Distribution 11410371 Shyam Singh Kanwar Numerical Study of the Eff ect of Counter Flow Injection on Drag Reduc- tion in Hypersonic Speeds 11410375 Saurabh Bhardwaj Numerical Simulation of Natural Convection Flow in a Porous triangular Enclosure 11410380 S.Muthukrishnan Study of conjugate heat transfer in open cavities with discrete surface- mounted discrete heaters 11410383 Sawan Kumar Sethy Experimental Investigation of Emulsifi ed Fuel in a Variable Compression Ratio Diesel Engine 11410386 Santosh Kumar Hotta Drying of Ginger in a Natural Convection Dryer using Waste Heat 11410391 Mahendra Kumar Gupta Numerical simulation of miscibility and surface tension for incompress- ible fl ows with unstructured meshes 124103028 Atul Keshao Khobragade INVESTIGATION OF LATENT HEAT STORAGE SYSTEM USING PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS 124103037 Dusad Sagar Gopal Implementation of Turbulence Models on Unstructured Grid 124103039 Siddharth Kar Calibration Methodology of Thin Film Gauges during Short Duration Transient Temperature Measurements 124103040 Harvendra Pratap Singh Compressible Viscous Flow Simulation Using Immersed Boundary Technique 124103041 Debraj Das Numerical Simulation of Solidifi cation and Melting Problems on Un- saturated Grid 124103042 Siddesh Desai Computational Investigation of Non-equilibrium Chemistry Eff ects in Hypersonic Flows 124103043 Ankit Bajpai Computation of Variable Density Flows on Hybrid Unstructured Grid 124103044 Rajendra Singh Experimental and Numerical Studies of Zero Head Water Turbine 124103048 Snehasish Panigrahy NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT TRANSFER IN A LPG FUELLED POROUS RADIANT BURNER 124103050 Abhilash Kumar Tilak Nonlinear Stability Analysis and Dynamic Performance Evaluation of a Rectangular Supercritical Natural Circulation Loop 124103053 Naveen Kumar Pushpak Experimental Studies on Pressure Swirl Atomization 124103055 Rahul Kumar Chaurasia ANALYSIS OF DUAL-PHASE LAG CONDUCTION AND RADIATION HEAT TRANSFER IN A 1-D GEOMETRY USING THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD AND THE DISCRETE TRANSFER METHOD 124103057 Sanjay Singh Yadav Thermo-chemical investigation of biomass gasifi cation process in a downdraft gasifi er

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124103058 Gumeet Kumar Sahu Model Development and Analysis of Hydrogen Production Using Bio- mass 124103059 Siddhant Parvat Experimental Investigation and Numerical Simulation for a Coaxial Sur- face Junction Thermocouple during Short Duration Measurement 124103060 Anand Kumar Sahu Experimental Studies on Variable Compression Ratio (VCR) Spark Igni- tion (SI) Engine 124103062 Vishnu Kumar Investigation on drying with rotary fl uidized bed in static geometry 124103064 Pradip Kumar Heat and mass transfer study in a natural convection dryer 124103067 Yogesh Kumar Ratre Investigation of The Eff ect of Channel Inclination on Adiabatic Flow Pat- tern Maps for Small Diameter Channel: An Experimental Study 124103068 Bukke Kiran Naik PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF WATER COOLED AND AIR COOLED CONDENSER BASED A/C PLANTS IN A HUMID SUBTROPICAL REGION 124103071 Abhisek Banerjee Computational and Experimental Investigations of Elliptical-bladed Savonius Rotor 124103072 Saurabh Sharma RADIATION EFFICIENCY AND EMISSION MEASUREMENTS IN A 2-LAYER POROUS RADIANT BURNER 124103087 Nanal Narendra Shriram USE OF IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD FOR COMPUTING HYPER- SONIC FLOWS 124103099 Seet Mei Seer Computation of Flows involving shock-boundary layer interaction

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Computer Assisted Manufacturing Roll No Name Project Title 11410373 Ashish Verma Prototype Development of Nature Inspired All Terrain Robot 11410374 Desai Rahul Satish Finite element based thermo-mechanical molding of micro laser-spot welding process 11410379 Ghatule Pravin Achut FEM studies on Eff ect of Process Parameters on Electromagnetic Form- ing of Axissymmetric Components 11410381 Boddepalli Durga Rao Formability and Springback of Friction stir welded sheets made of dis- similar Aluminium alloys 11410389 Debarupam Gogoi Compliant Analysis of Constant Force Mechanism and a Bistable Switch using Shooting Method 11410390 Leena Harshal Nemade Numerical and Experimental Study of Friction Stir Welding for Similar and Dissimilar Metals 11410394 Sajan Kapil Dynamic Analysis of Chatter in Cold Rolling Mills 11410398 Prashant Kumar Sahu Finite element modeling of ultra-shot pulse laser welding using non- Fourier heat conduction 114103100 J. Rajesh Design and development of custom made remotely operable Shot blasting system with robotic arms for use in steeply inclined long pen- stocks 114103101 Dhrubajyoti Doley Infl uence of Wire reinforcement on the Forming Behaviour of adhesive bonded steel sheets 124103075 Chaturvedi Himanshu Ajay Numerical and experimental study of friction stir welding of dissimilar metals 124103078 Avinash Kumar Yadav SPRINGBACK OF ADHESIVE BONDED SHEETS OF SIMILAR AND DISSIMI- LAR STEEL 124103085 Valvi Sharad Rajaram CAFÉ MODELING TO PREDICT THE FORMING DURING FRICTION STIR WELDING OF ALUMINIUM GRADES

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124103096 Korade Laxmikant Somnath Computational Investigation of the Eff ect of Infi ltration Heat Recovery through a Building Envelope on Indoor Airfl ow Pattern 124103098 Aghyad Eideh Determination of parameters during laser bending by inverse analysis 124103104 Kasif Ansari EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETER ON MICRO PLASMA ARC WELDING OF SS & TI SHEETS 124103111 Medipati Chandra Sekhar STUDY OF COMPRESSOR DRIVEN METAL HYDRIDE BASED COOLING SYSTEM

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering with Spe- cialization in Structural Engineering Roll No Name Project Title 11410401 Kapinjal Kishore Sharma BENING TORSION COUPLED VIBRATION OF NON-UNIFORM THIN WALLED SECTION BEMAS INCLUDING WARPING 11410402 Chandra Prakash Seismic analysis of RC Skew slab bridges with Base Isolation 11410403 Vishal Chauhan Behaviour of Integral Abutment Bridge with Geofoam layer in backfi ll soil 11410405 Arijit Acharjya Investigation of Seismic Behaviour of RC Wall-Frame Building with Stair- case and Elevator Core by Static Analysis 11410406 Benazir Fatima Ahmed Investigation of Seismic Behaviour of RC Flat Plate Building with Stair- case by Static Analysis 11410407 Parul Kumari Seismic analysis of Integral Abutment Bridge 11410408 Samim Mustafa BAYESIAN PROBABILISTIC APPROACH FOR MODEL UPDATING AND DAMAGE DETECTION 11410409 Biswajit Chand EFFECTS OF RC BRACINGS ON EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF RC FRAMES 11410410 Nithin V L INVESTIGATION VARIATIONS OF NON-LINEAR RESPONSE QUANTITIES AND DAMAGE PATTERN FOR RC FRAMES USING SPECTRUM COMPAT- IBLE ACCELEROGRAMS 11410411 D. Dastagiri SEISMIC EVALUATION AND STRENGTHENING OF WOODEN HOUSES 11410413 Kumar Abhishek Chloride induced rebar corrosion in concrete under accelerated condic- tion 11410414 Kintada Maharshi Finite Element implementation of fi bre composite layered shell 11410415 Swarup Mahato Fragility Analysis and Performance Design based of RC Frame 11410416 Tuhin Patari Analysis of Solid and voided skew bridge decks: Modeling issues 11410418 Raj Kishore Eff ect of curing type, aggregate size and condition on properties of concrete 11410419 Jackie Brahma SHAPE EFFECT ON THE BUCKLINS BEHAVIOUR OF THIN-WALLED LDSS STUB AND SLENDER COLUMNS 11410490 Kambam Kiran Singh BUCKLING OF CRACKED LDSS HOLLOW CIRCULAR COLUMNS UNDER PURE AXIAL COMPRESSION 124104002 Ankinapalli Chenchu Ma- Fatigue Life Estimation of Steel truss from girder bridges hendra Reddy 124104007 Shubhanshu Tiwari Nonlinear System Identifi cation of RC Buildings 124104010 Mane Rohan Dadasaheb Eff ect of Multi-cell Cross Section on Lean Duplex Stainless Steel Hollow Columns 124104012 Deeptimayee Balabantaray Component mode synthesis for fi nite element model updating using Bayesian statistical framework 124104013 Botsa Srinivasa Rao Investigation of Seismic Behaviour of RC Frame Building with Staircase and Elevator Core by Dynamic Analysis

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124104020 Bayyavarapu Ravi Static, Buckling and Free Vibration Anaysis of Steel arch bridge of diff er- ent geometrical profi les

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering with Spe- cialization in Water Resources Engineering and Management Roll No Name Project Title 11410453 Abhijit Rout Spatial Hydrological Modeling Using GIS Tool for an Ungauged Catch- ment 11410454 Bhagwan Das Evaluation Infi ltration Characteristics of Locally Available Soils 11410459 Harish Kumar Patel Stability of Lane’s Shape with Seepage 11410462 Mukesh Kumar Patidar An iterative method for estimating travel times of water particles in a subsurface fl ow system 11410463 Satish Patel Resistance relationship with Seepage in Alluvial Channel 11410464 Laveti N. V. Satish Environmental fl ow computation in the Ganga River basin using SWAT modeling and time series analysis 11410465 Rajesh Athanere GROUND WATER MODELING OF BIHAR SUB REGION OF GANGA BASN 11410467 Jayshree Hazarika FUZZY CLUSTERING TO IDENTIFY HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS FOR WATER RESOURCES PLANNING CONSIDERING CLIMATE CHANGE 124104058 Rohan Kar MORPHOLOGICAL ISSUES IN HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING OF BRAM- HAPUTRA RIVER 124104059 Subhrangshu Purkayastha A General Analytical Model for the One-Dimensional Steady State Ad- vection- Diff usion Equation 124104067 Chavan Rutuja Manohar Development of Incipient motion criteria for Alluvial Channel 124104071 Supradeep Singh A Study on Scouring around Bridge Piers 124104107 Arnab Nandi SEDIMENT BUDEGET, LOCAL TRANSPORT CAPACITY ESTIMATES AND ID SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODELING IN A LARGE ALLUVIAL RIVER

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering with Spe- cialization in Geotechnical Engineering Roll No Name Project Title 11410421 Parambeer Singh Rawat Soil mauling and Nailed Slopes Modeling and Parametric Behavioral Study 11410422 C. M. Jibeesh COMPACTION AND HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF BEN- TONITE FLY ASH MIXES 11410423 Giridhar Rajesh Bande Embankments Resting on PVD Incorporated Soft Soil: Modeling Issues, Analysis and Interpretation 11410424 Atik Uddin Ahmed SHEAR STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF SOIL-FLY ASH MIXES BLENDED WITH TYRE BUFFINGS AND CEMENT 11410425 Digvijay Kumar Singh LOAD-DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF MONOPILE AND PILE GROUP FOUNDATIONS FOR WIND TURBINES 11410426 Sudheerkumar Yamsani SLOPE STABILITY AND EROSION CONTROL OF MULTILAYER COVER SYS- TEM FOR NEAR SURFACE WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY 11410427 Abhijit Rout Hydraulic Performance of Multi-Layered Cover System for Shallow Waste Disposal 11410428 Avinesh Kumar A Study on the swelling, hydraulic and compressibility behaviour of various sand-bentonite mixtures 11410430 Patil Milind Satish Piled raft Foundations: PLAXIS FE Modeling and Parametric Study

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11410431 Mali Shivanand Mahadeo INFLUENCE OF FIBER AND GEOCELL ON STRENGTH BEHAVIOR OF FINE- GRAINED AND GRANULAR SOILS 11410432 Romio Chingtham Infl uence of salt contamination on the behaviour of compacted ben- tonite 11410433 Ashutosh Sachan ANALYSIS OF BEARING BEHAVIOUR OF PILED RAFTS WITH VARYING PILE PARAMETERS 11410436 Bimalendu Mandal Eff ect of Compaction Condition on the Hydraulic and Compressibility Behaviours of Various Fly ash-Bentonite mixtures 11410437 Rayapudi Ramesh Babu STUDIES ON USE OF SHREDDED TIRES IN FOUNDATION APPLICATIONS 11410438 Yagom Gapak Performance Evaluation of Geosynthetics used in Landfi ll Cover System 11410491 Arup Deka A Study on Static and Dynamic behavior of model Retaining wall 11410494 Bino Albert MODEL STUDIES ON STONE COLUMN REINFORCED FOUNDATIONS 124104025 Kadam Anil Ravaji Factors Aff ecting Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation on Rocky Slope 124104026 Abhijit Anand Bearing Capacity of Strip Footing on Slopes Finite Element Modeling and Parametric study 124104027 Buragadda Venkatesh Infl uence of Size of exchangeable ions on the geotechnical behavior of clays 124104030 Naveen Kumar Behavior of Rigid and Sheet Pile Walls: Limit Equilibrium and Finite Ele- ment Analysis 124104037 Lokesh Choudhary Geotextile Reinforced Unpaved Roads Resting on C-Φ Subgrade: Ana- lytical and Finite Element based Design 124104038 Abhra Sarkar A Numerical Study on the Eff ect of Soil Layering and Vertical Load on laterally loaded Pile 124104098 Krishanu Mukherjee PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF SAND-BENTONITE MIXTURE DUE TO ADDITION OF FIBER AND GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINER

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering with Spe- cialization in Environmental Engineering Roll No Name Project Title 11410476 Dina Zaman Adsorption Kinetics and Equilibria for Mono- and binary Metal Ion Sys- tems of Cr(III) and Pb(II) 11410477 Chatuphale Mayur Nandku- Rotary Drum Composting of vegetable Waste mar 11410478 D. Sarika Evaluation of Biochemical and Humic Substances during Drum Com- posting of Water Hyacinth 11410479 Nilesh Jain SIMULATION AND FIELD INVESTIGATION OF WIND FLOW AND CARBON MONOXIDE DISPERSION IN AN URBAN STREET CANYON 11410480 Nitin Pandey Eco restoration and Conservation Strategy and Technology for an Urban River 11410482 Abhay Anand M. V. SIMULATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE DISPERSION IN A BASEMENT PARKING LOT 11410484 Rahul Priyadarshi Ecological Engineering and Management Practices for Conservation of Urban Rivers 11410487 Subrat Kumar Mallick REMOVAL OF ANIONIC AZO DYE ACID ORANGE 8 FROM WASTE WATER USING SHORT CHAIN POLYANILINE SYNTHESIZED ON JUTE FIBER 11410489 Rajesh Meena FLUORIDE REMOVAL BY ADSORPTION AND ION EXCHANGE PROCESS

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114104106 Gouri B. S Assessment of Water Quality Parameters of a Rainfed Lake of IIT Guwa- hati Campus for Growth and Sustenance of Fishes 114104110 Mahasweta Laskar A Study on Kinetics of Sulfate Bioreduction and Sulfi de Oxidation by Mixed Microbial Consortia

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering with Spe- cialization in Transportation Systems Engineering Roll No Name Project Title 11410429 Mote Amit Arun Induction loop based traffi c detectors for heterogeneous traffi c 11410439 Balanagu B Naga Kishore Safety Indicators for Heterogeneous Non Lane Based Traffi c 11410440 Gurpreet Singh An experimental Study on Strength Behaviour of Soil Blended with RBI-81 11410443 Budde Tharun Analysis of lateral gap maintaining behavior of vehicles moving in het- erogeneous traffi c stream 11410445 Budhkar Anuj Kishor Development of Bidirectional Traffi c Flow Model for Indian Scenario 11410450 Haradhan Sarkar Behaviour of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement Laid Over Confi ned Single Size Aggregate Grouted with Stone Dust 11410466 Printal Chandra Halder Experimental and Numerical Study of Stone Dust Cushioned Single Ag- gregate Confi ned in Plastic Cells as a Subbase Material 11410492 Rupjyoti Bordoloi Analysis and Modeling of land use eff ect on travel behavior 124104043 Pankil Khandelwal Study of Inter vehicular Gaps in Heterogeneous Traffi c Stream 124104044 Amin Harsh Jigishbhai Study of Uncontrolled Intersection with Mixed Traffi c and weak Lane Discipline 124104045 Pratap Kumar Pradhan Heterogeneous traffi c fl ow modeling using cell transmission model 124104048 Ujjwal Sugandhi Analysis and Modeling of Lateral position adjustments of Motorized two-wheelers in the heterogeneous traffi c stream 124104052 Devesh Kumar Patel Vehicle Classifi cation using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference Systems(ANFIS) 124104053 Alavalapadu Gangadhar Evaluation of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement Laid Over Confi ned Crushed Jhama Bricks Grouted With River Sand 124104055 Dhanyasi Vinay Kumar Review and Parametric Study of Flexible Pavement design 124104079 Arvind Kumar Study of Gap Acceptance Behavior at Unsignalized Intersection with Mixed Trafi ic 124104100 Turyazoora Geralds A laboratory Study on Single Size Over burnt Brick Aggregate With Sand Grouting Confi ned in Plastic Cells as base/Suubase Material 124104105 Siddharth Vishwakarma Identifi cation of important model parameters and development of GUI for heterogeneous traffi c simulation 124104106 Sandeep Signifi cance of residential sorting eff ect in work trip mode choice deci- sions

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering with Spe- cialization in Infrastructure Engineering and Management Roll No Name Project Title 11410468 Dolla Tharun A Study of Assessment of Public Private Partnership Project in terms of Sustainability 11410469 Shinde Harshavardhan Corrosion behavior of steel bar in concrete power solution extracts Narayan conyaminated with chloride and sulfate salts

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114104103 Arya Anuj Jee Eff ect of Mix Parameters heating temperature and sulfate ion concen- tration on chloride ingress in Concrete

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Biotechnology Roll No Name Project Title 11410605 Patel Ashish Ashokbhai Setting up total internal refl ection fl uorescene microscopy and employ- ing it for single molecule studies of hen eggwhite lysozyme aggrega- tion 11410619 A Allen Samuel Identifi cation and Characterization of Riboswitches from Mycobacte- rium tuberculosis 124106002 Yachna Garg Development of T7 RNA polymerase based vector system for expres- sion in Bacillus subtilis 124106003 Ashutosh Gupta Bioethanol production from hemicelluloses rich Populus nigra involv- ing recombinant hemicellulases from Clostridium thermocellum 124106004 Vidushi Kapoor Studies on Zinc-complexing Ligand as an Anti-biofi lm Agent 124106005 Surojeet Das Injectable silk fi broin hydrogels for tissue engineering and drug deliv- ery 124106006 Sanjay Kumar Dairy wastewater as a cheap substrate for biodiesel production by us- ing Rhodococcus opacus 124106007 Shilpa Kumari Exploring signifi cance of mycolytransferases in tuberculosis therapeu- tics 124106008 Abhinav Singh Isolation, identifi cation and bio-active potential of endophytic fungi from selected plants 124106009 Shalinee Jha In silico studies of matrix mettaloproteinase-2 inhibition using EGCG and like molecules 124106010 Sugandha Sinha Eff ect of Newcastle disease virus fusion protein cleavage site mutation in the immune signaling molecules 124106011 Prateek Shrivastav Purifi cation and characterization of novel putative outer membrane protein of Leptospira interrogans 124106012 Shashank Mishra Cloning and Expression of GDF3 in Mesenchymal Stem Cells 124106015 Ashish Kumar Singh Studies on glutamine synthetase of Leishmania donovani 124106016 Sween Gilotra Electrospun sericin/PVA mat as a prospective wound dressing material 124106017 Paras Gupta Investigating the contextual architecture around TIS in plants and a comparative analysis thereof between monocots and dicots 124106018 Ankur Kumar Studies on CAAX prenyl protease I of Leishmania donovani 124106019 Danish Warsi STUDIES ON THE PREPARATION OF GOLD NANOCLUSTERS IN THE PRO- TEIN MATRIX 124106020 Vishakha Characterization of a Ca2+ and/or CaM binding protein from Neurospo- ra crassa 124106021 Ajit Kumar Akela An investigation on the therapeutic potential of Coronarin D isolated from Hedychium coronarium against breast cancer and leukemia cells 124106023 Ranjana Kumari Silk based high density animal cell culture system 124106024 Sushant Kumar Studying Pathogenic Endothelial Cell – RBC Interaction in context to the Cerebral Malaria Patho-physiology 124106025 N Vignesh Batch Cultivation of Streptococcus sp. in a Cassava Starch Hydrolysate Medium for Production of Hyaluronic Acid 124106026 Dixcy Jaba Sheeba J.M. Regulation of genes involved in extracellular matrix remodeling by estrogen: Insights from in vitro and in silico studies

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124106027 Atul Pradhan Elicitor induced metabolite production in cell lines of tea (Camellia as- samica ssp. Iasiocalyx) established from ovary explants and the relative cell biomass growth in shake fl ask and modifi ed stirred tank bioreactor 124106028 C Satish Optimization of Hydrolysis of Cassava Starch Waste for Production of D-Lactic Acid Employing Lactobacillus sp. 124106029 Prem Prakash Das Design, synthesis and characterization of aggregating peptides for therapeutic investigations. 124106030 Bholanath Mallick Investigating Hen Lysozyme Aggregation using Single Molecule Fluo- rescene 124106033 Priya Devi Recombinant Antibody for Diagnosis of Hepatitis B

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering with Specialization in Petroleum Science and Technology Roll No Name Project Title 11410703 M Mallikarjuna Reddy FLOW OF CONCENTRATED SUSPENSIONS IN ASYMMETRIC BIFURCA- TION CHANNELS 11410704 Shamik Misra Model Predictive Control using Kautz Filter 11410705 Suman Mahato Pure component and Phase Equilibria Prediction of Ionic Liquid systems using Perturbation based Association Theory 11410706 Tellagorla Ramesh Off set Elimination in State Space based Model Predictive Controller 11410707 Chayan Sarkar Modeling and Simulation of Continuous Bioreactor for Wastewater Traetment 11410708 Phanikumar Pentyala Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(lactic-acid)-co-Poly(furfuryl alcohol) Copolymers and Thermoset 11410710 Samarshi Chakraborty Synthesis. Characterization, Thermal Degradation Kinetics and Rheo- logical Study of Polymer/Layered Double Hydroxide Nanocomposite 11410711 Partha Pratim Goswami SONOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF METAL FER- RITE NANOPARTICLES 11410712 Rajasekhar Reddy Chinta Momentum and Heat Transfer Phenomena of Confi ned Spherical and Non-Spherical Particles in Power-law Liquids 11410713 Goshika Bharathkumar HYDRODYNAMICS OF VISCOUS OIL-WATER FLOW THROUGH INCLINED PIPELINE 11410714 K Rambhoopal Naidu DRAG REDUCTION OF OIL-WATER TWO-PHASE FLOW THROUGH PIPE- LINE 11410716 Priyesh J.P. Synthesis, Characterization and Defl uoridation Performance of AI2O3 Nanoassembly 11410717 Manik Dutta Net adsorption Framework for Calculation of Adsorption Enthalpy 11410718 Manohar C.V. Improving Seperation Effi ciency in Aromatic Extraction Processes using Ionic Liquid with Co-solvents 11410720 Gautam Ganeshan Thermo-chemical Conversion of Mango Seed towards Value-added Product 11410721 Thorat Prashant Bhausaheb Development and Application of Low cost Ceramic Membranes for Juice clarifi cation 11410723 Harendra Rathore FOULING AND CLEANING CHARACTERISTICS OF SPIRAL WOUND MEM- BRANE MODULES 11410724 Medikonda Prudhviraj Sulfur Removal from Liquid Fuels by Adsorption on MOFs: Preliminary Studies on the Role of Saturated Metal Sites

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11410726 Proloy Das INFLUENCE OF HYDROXYLATION AND ALKOXYLATION ON THE PROPER- TIES OF METHYL ESTERS 11410727 Vinoth Kumar R Fabrication and Characterization of Analcime-C Zeolite Composite membrane for the Removal of Chromium (VI) from Aqueous Solution 11410730 Ankur Patowary Momin Cr (VI) Reduction by Photo-Generated Fe(II) and Eff ect of TiO2 11410733 Gulshan Kumar PROCESS INTENSIFICATION OF OIL BENIFICIATION BY AERATION 11410757 Rahul Saha Ultrasound-assisted transesterifi cation of non-edible oil for biodiesel production 124107001 Nallapusala Manjunath PETROLEUM RESERVOIR SIMULATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW Reddy 124107003 Katila Dilleswara Rao Buoyancy Driven Bubble Rise and Deformation in Milli/Micro Channels Filled with Shear-Thinning Nanofl uids 124107005 S T P Bharadwaja Mechanistics Investigation in Ultrasound Assisted Delignifi cation and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Parthenium Hysterophorous for Bioethanol Production 124107009 Vivek Chaudhary Synthesis and Characterization of Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/ Co-Al layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) Nanocomposites 124107012 Delli Ganesh Venkateshan STOKESIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF SUSPENSION FLOW IN CON- FINED GEOMETRIES 124107014 Rapally Rajamahender Evaluation of Solid polymer electrolyte for direct electrochemical re- duction of carbon dioxide 124107015 Arkadeepa Bayal Bacterial degradation of Benzene, Toluene, Xylene and Ethyl Benzene from Petroleum wastewater 124107017 Debanjan Dey Thermodynamic Insights for the Dissolution and Dispersion of Coal in Green Solvents 124107018 Gidituri Harinadha Mixed Convection Heat Transfer from an Isothermal Cylinder to Non- Newtonian Nanofl uids in a Vertical Channel 124107019 Ravi Kumar CO2 capture by 2-(1-Piperazinyl)-Ethylamine Activated 2-Amino-2- Methyl -1-Propanol 124107020 Manjakuppam Malika “Synthesis and Application of Mono- and Bi-Metal Doped TiO2: Dye Decomposition, Reaction Mechanisms and Biodegradability” 124107024 Amit Mandal Synthesis and Application of PVA/Amine Membrane for Flue Gas CO2 Capture 124107025 Amit Kumar Behera Studies on Dye-sensitization of Ag-doped Titania for phenol Decompo- sition 124107028 Mood Mohan Extraction of Total Reducing Sugars from Lignocellulosic Biomass Under Subcritical Water Treatment and Their Solubility Study Using Quantum Chemical Approach

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering with Specialization in Materials Science and Technology Roll No Name Project Title 11410737 Prankur Dixit Nano Particle Dispersion and Aggregation in Polymer Nano Composites 11410739 Surendra Singh Gaur Fabrication and Characterization of Polymer Electrolyte Composite Membrane for Fuel Cell Applications 11410741 Meneka Banik Electrical and Rheological Properties of Fluid-Fluid Interfaces 11410744 Kuntal Maiti TREATMENT OF PVA-RICH EFFULENT BY SPINNING BASKET MEMBRANE MODULE

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11410745 Paran Jyoti Sarma Study of non-ionic surfactant modifi ed alumina supported nickel and zinc oxides for desulfurization of fuels 11410746 Umesh Bhardwaj Utilization of Lignocellulosic Biomass for the Fabrication of Cellulose Nanocrystals and its Applications 11410748 Vikram Singh P Development and Characterization of MCM-48 Composite Membrane 11410749 Ch Venkatanarasimha Rao Degradation Brilliant Green Dye in Fenton Oxidation: Decomposition Mechanism and Infl uence of Fe (II)/ Fe (III) 11410750 Ajay Kumar Studies on pyrolysis behavior of diff erent biomass derived material 11410752 Aravindu S. Carbon monoxide methanation study over surfactant modifi ed Ni/Al2 O3 -ZrO2 11410753 Anirban Dey Synthesis and characterization of surface modifi ed cobalt ferrite nano- particles and their application in arsenic removal 124107033 Shaik Md Ehtesham Hussain Development and performance evaluation of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell stack 124107034 Mithelesh Koul THERMO-CHEMICAL CONVERSION OF KUSUM AND CASTOR SEEDS TO LIQUID FUEL 124107035 Ankit Vishnoi THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENTS OF Sr2+, Cs+ IN NUCLEAR WASTES 124107038 Anup Ashok Fabrication and Characterization of Nano Electrode Materials for Poly- mer Solar Cells 124107039 Abhijna Das Defect Induced Nano-patterning of Thin Polymer Films 124107059 Vangala Sai Phani Kumar Thermal Degradation Kinetic Studies of Biopolymers and composite 124107060 Tekula Srinu Fabrication and Performance Evaluation f TiO2 and y-Al2O3 Composite Membranes by Separation of Oil-Water Emulsions 124107064 Aman Kumar Stability study of Supported Liquid Membrane

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the M.Des. degree in Design Roll No Name Project Title 124205001 Thomas Grey Manih ‘Colours of the Hynniewtrep’; Documenting the danceform and cos- tumes of Silk Mynsiem & Shad Rah Kynthei of Meghalaya 124205002 Harshvardhan Upadhyay Indian Identity Program 124205003 Kumar Sourabh “Aurupadrupam Tasya Phalam”- Exploration of creation of form from formless 124205004 Anusmita Das Modular Structure- exploration through Emergence 124205005 Sarrika Life around Food: Reviving the Social Life of Food 124205006 Saubhagya Ranjan Bhuyan Contemporary task lamp design 124205008 Moupiya Ukil “Krishti – A tangible interface to facilitate playful learning environment for conventional museums” 124205009 Sanket Saurav “Chitrapatalaya – A tribute to Indian cinema” (Enhancing user experi- ence in Museum) 124205010 Manmohan Vashisht Animation On Social Issue 124205011 Brijesh Kumar Eff ectiveness of multiple medium of communication in guiding on user to be able to avoid harmful habits 124205012 Ujjwal Roy Weaver’s Dream of a Golden Thread-( An exploration of Kantha motifs) 124205013 Himujjal Sarma Recomposing Reality – Extending Use of camera applications on mo- biles 124205014 Sadabahar Verma Sculpt Art- A collaboration between sculpture and architecture

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124205015 Swakul Kedar Sunil Design of “Tejaswi”, a new Devanagari font 124205016 Umme Hani Space for enhancing learning through fun and activity 124205017 Ranjan Kumar Bordoloi Furniture design depicting Indian Culture & Identity 124205018 Swaraj T G Light Weight Convertible (3 Wheel / 2 wheel + Mat-track) MTV 124205019 Satpute Pranav Ashok Design of Sweeping device 124205020 Akhil Raveendran Inland Waterway Mobility 124205021 John Elias Kumar Designing An Exploration of the medium of communication to express on eff ective message 124205022 Deenaz Fuljhalay Urban Furniture for Guwahati City 124205023 Hemant Kumar Singh Signage System for Central Library, IIT Guwahati 124205024 Dinesh Pal Gautam Devanagri Typeface for Screen 124205025 Abhijit Padun Designing for Children – An approach for an edutainment product 124205026 Suman Meena “Knowledge Repository” in the fi eld of Usability engineering 124205027 Oyun-Erdene Togtokh STOP MOTION ANIMATION Bringing back vanishing cultural heritage, traditional musical instrument 124205028 Uyanga Baasankhuu Designing a Kitchen for Urban Community in Mongolia 124205029 Deepak Kumar Mobile Application Design for IIT Guwahati

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engi- neering Roll No Name Thesis Title 07610107 Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya Design and Development of Intrusion Detection System: A Discrete Event System Approach 08610103 Pravati Swain Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF Power Save Mode in IBSS 11610105 Sandip Chakraborty Capacity Enhancement, QoS and Rate Adaptation in IEEE 802.11s: A Performance Improvement Perspective 11610108 Suchetana Chakraborty Tree Based Data Gathering from Sensors: Topology Management Sus- taining QoS

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering Roll No Name Thesis Title 06610210 S. Padam Priyal HAND POSTURE RECOGNITION USING DISCRETE ORTHOGONAL MO- MENTS 07610212 Krishna Pal Singh Parmar STATE SPACE BASED LOAD FREQUENCY CONTROL OF MULTI-AREA POWER SYSTEMS 07610213 Govind D EPOCH BASED DYNAMIC PROSODY MODIFICATION FOR NEUTRAL TO EXPRESSIVE SPEECH CONVERSION 08610202 Sanjoy Mondal ADAPTIVE SECOND ORDER SLIDING MODE CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS 09610204 Samar Shailendra MULTIPATH TRANSPORT AND FLOW DIVISION FOR MULTIHOMED HOSTS 09610205 Sayantan Hazra CHANNEL MODELING FOR LAND MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 09610214 Gayadhar Pradhan SPEAKER VERIFICATION UNDER DEGRADED CONDITIONS USING VOWEL-LIKE AND NONVOWEL-LIKE REGIONS

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09610215 Kannan T. Fuzzy Based Smart Charging Station for Electric Vehicle Application to Mitigate Peak Power Demand

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering Roll No Name Thesis Title 07610307 Biswajit Nayak DYNAMIC STABILITY OF MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL ELASTOMER BASED SANDWICH BEAMS 07610308 M. Chandrasekaran CLOUD COMPUTING BASED MACHINING OPTIMIZATION 08610305 Mohit Lal IDENTIFICATION OF MULTIPLE FAULT PARAMETERS IN ROTOR-BEARING- COUPLING SYSTEMS BASED ON FORCED RESPONSE MEASUREMENTS 08610309 Rakesh Kumar DESIGN, FABRICATION AND NOVEL CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES FOR HEAT TRANSFER GAUGES DURING SHORT-DURATION TRANSIENT MEAS- UREMENT 09610305 Biplab Kumar Debnath EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ROUTES TOWARDS ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL OF EMULSIFIED PALM BIODIESEL AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO DIESEL FUEL 09610313 P.S. Rama Sreekanth Feasibility Studies on Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene/Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes Composites for Total Joint Replacements 10610308 Bhogilla Satya Sekhar Studies on Metal Hydride Based Heat Transformer

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering Roll No Name Thesis Title 02610402 Dipika Devi OBJECT-ORIENTED NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FRAME- WORK FOR IMPLEMENTING MODIFIED CAM CLAY MODEL 06610402 Diganta Barman Geospatial approaches of deriving hydro-morphological information for fl ood hazard management 08610402 Poly Buragohain A study on multiple contaminant-soil interaction and its eff ect on con- taminant fate prediction 08610405 Sanat Nalini Sahoo Determination of Imperviousness and its Impact on Risk Based Urban Flood Modeling 08610410 P. S. Bokare MODELLING OF ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION BEHAVIOUR OF VEHICLES 09610401 Nirmalendu Debnath OPERATIONAL MODAL ANALYSIS OF AN EXISTING LARGE TRUSS BRIDGE AND PASSIVE VIBRATION CONTROL USING UPDATED MODEL 10610405 Jiwan Singh CHEMICAL SPECIATION AND BIOAVAILABILITY OF HEAVY METALS DUR- ING WATER HYACINTH COMPOSTING

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Design Roll No Name Thesis Title 07610501 Jabeen Rahman Ghosh An Analysis of Textile designs of the Tai-Phake and Tai-Khamiyang com- Dastidar munities 09610507 Debayan Dhar User Interface Design Features and their eff ects on Computer Based Educational Assessment: A Cross Cultural Study 09610508 Shatarupa Thakurta Roy AESTHETIC CONTINUUM OF CONTEMPORARY FOLK PAINTINGS OF INDIA CASE STUDY OF FIVE TRADITIONAL PRACTICES 10610502 Deshpande Yogesh Dat- Adaptivity and Interface Design: A Human-Computer Interaction Study tatray in E-Learning Applications

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List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology Roll No Name Thesis Title 06610602 Kausik Sen TEXTILE DYEING WASTEWATER TREATMENT POTENTIAL OF PHANERO- CHAETE CHRYSOSPORIUM: EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATION 07610612 Vijay Kumar Mishra ESTABLISHMENT OF IN VITRO HAPLOIDS OF TEA ( CAMELLIA SPP) AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SECONDARY METABO- LITES 08610601 V. Kohila Genetic Engineering of Suicide Genes to Improve Therapeutic Effi cacies 08610602 P. Jayasekhar Babu GREEN SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND FUNCTIONALIZATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES USING SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS OF NORTH EAST INDIA 08610605 Rishikesh Shukla Dextransucrase and dextran with anticancer properties from probiotic Pediococcus pentosaceus CRAG3 isolated from fermented cucumber 08610606 Manab Deb Adhikari Nanomaterials in Bacterial Estimation and Development of Antimicro- bial Agents 08610608 Chockalingam S. Role of Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor in Drug Resistance 08610609 Ganesh Thapa Cloning and Functional Characterization of Putative Heavy Metal Stress responsive (Echmr) gene from Eichhornia crassipes (Solm L.) 08610614 Subhamoy Banerjee Nanocarrier Encapsulated Recombinant IкBα as Potential Therapeutic Agent 08610617 Nidhi Chaubey Molecular Cloning, Expression, Purifi cation and Functional Implications of Recombinant Cytokines 08610618 Shraddha Shukla Production, structure analysis and sourdough applications of dextran and gluco-oligosaccharides from hyper-dextran producing Weissella confusa Cab3 isolated from sauerkraut 09610602 Supriyo Basak MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF ZINGIBEROIDEAE 09610604 Saprativ Puspalal Das Lignocellulosic ethanol production from wild grass and water hyacinth involving recombinant Clostridium thermocellum cellulase and hemi- cellulase 09610606 Digar Singh STUDIES ON PRODUCTION, ANALYSIS AND CYTOTOXICITY OF IN- DOLIZIDINE ALKALOID, SWAINSONINE, FROM AN INSECT PATHOGENIC FUNGUS METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE 09610609 Rekha Deka STUDIES ON CELLULAR ROLES OF CALCIUM SIGNALING GENES IN NEU- ROSPORA CRASSA 09610610 Aadi Moolam Ramesh Cyto-genetic studies in elite genotype of Pongamia pinnata (L.), a ver- satile legume 09610612 Deeplina Das Bacteriocin, antioxidant and novel glucan production from probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum DM5 isolated from Marcha of Sikkim 09610618 Ravi Kumar GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CALCIUM SIGNALING GENES IN NEUROSPORA CRASSA 09610619 Prakash Saudagar Insights into redox metabolism of Leishmania parasite: Studies on key enzymes for novel drug candidates 09610624 Rohitas Deshmukh INVESTIGATION OF MACROPHAGE MEDIATED HOMEOSTASIS DURING MALARIA 09610625 P. Saravanan BIOINFORMATICS APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND AND EXPLOIT THE POTENTIAL OF LIPASES 09610627 T. Jagan Mohan Rao Characterization of dextransucrase and dextran from Weissella cibaria JAG8 and in vitro analysis of dextran as prebiotic

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10610615 Sudipta Ghosh Isolation, Structural Elucidation and Biological Evaluation of Labdane Diterpenes from Seeds of Alpinia nigra (Gaertn.) B.L. Burtt 10610618 Krishnamoorthy Hegde NOVEL CUTINASES FROM THERMOBIFIDA FUSCA: PRODUCTION, CHAR- ACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering Roll No Name Thesis Title 08610709 Mahesh Kumar Gagrai Spirulina Platensis for Decontamination of Chromium Laden Aqueous Effl uent 09610701 Soumya Sasmal Simultaneous Production of Ethanol and Hydrogen from Agricultural Waste and Forest Residues Available in North-East India 09610703 Kartick Mondal Self-organized Interfacial Instabilities of Thin Fims: Infl uence of Charge Leakage, Dielectric Anisotropy, and Confi nement 09610710 Aparajita Goswami Treatment Of Fluoride Containing Water Using Adsorption And Precipi- tation Followed By Microfi ltration 09610712 A. Ananth Praveen Kumar STABILITY OF LIQUID FILMS AND DROPLETS ON POROUS-GRANULAR BEDS 09610716 Vijay Singh Membrane Based Separation of Oily Wastewater, Coal-solvent Mixture and Fruit Juice

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Physics Roll No Name Thesis Title 08612102 Rahul Das STUDY OF PHASE TRANSITIONS AND MAGNETO-CALORIC EFFECT IN Ni- Mn-X (X = Ga, Sn, In) FERROMAGNETIC SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS 08612105 Abu Talat Tahir Mostako Studies on pulsed laser deposited Mo, W and Rh thin fi lms for First Mir- ror application 08612110 Satchi Kumari Studies on Pulsed Laser Deposited Ruby and Barium Titanate Thin Films for Tunable Optical Delay and Temperature Sensing Applications 08612111 Manirupa Saha Study of Modulation Instability and Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Optical Systems 08612112 Supriya Roy Computer Simulation Studies of Structure and Ion Transport in NASI- CON Fast Ion Solids 09612114 Parvendra Kumar Coherent control and manipulation of atoms using femtosecond pulses

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry Roll No Name Thesis Title 05612205 Soumya Chatterjee Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of Some Push-Pull Aro- matic Olefi ns and Photochemistry of a Few Ortho-Substituted Stilbenes 07612203 Sadhucharan Mallick Metal Nanoparticle and Polymer Composites for Antimicrobial Applica- tions 07612213 Md. Serajul Haque Faizi Investigation on Metal and Halogen Dependent Cyclization of Schiff base or Reduced Schiff base Precursor into Fluorescent Pyrido[1,2-a] quinoxalin-11-ylium Derivatives 07612221 Subhojit Das Inorganic – Organic Hybrid Nanocrystalline Materials in Zero to Three Dimensions 08612202 Rajesh Paul Copper(I) Catalyzed Synthesis of Phenols and Benzo[d]isothiazol-3-ones and their Application for the Synthesis of Alkyl Aryl Ethers and Benzo[d] isothiazol-3-one-1-oxides

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08612203 Anasuya Mishra Photophysics of a Few Bichromophoric Organic Molecules in Homoge- neous and Microheterogeneous Environments 08612205 Deb Kumar Das Access to Tetrahydro(pyrimidines/quinolines) and Fused Coumarin Con- taining Nitrogen Heterocycles Using Multicomponent Reactions 08612209 N. K. Chaitanya Concept of β-Breaker Dipeptides and its Application in Alzheimer’s Amyloid Disruption 08612210 Raihana Begum Engineering Optical Properties of Doped Quantum Dots by Chemical Reactions 08612216 Arghya Basu Solid and Solution State Recognition of Anions and Ion-Pairs by Acyclic Receptors 08612217 Nani Babu Palakurthy Direct Synthesis of Activated Sulfonate Esters and Their Application in Organic Transformations Directed to the Synthesis of Anti-Diabetes type II Peptide-Conjugates 08612218 Pankaj Kumar Nitric oxide reactivity of copper(II) complexes with N-donor ligands: Development of NO sensors 08612219 Babulal Das Supramolecular aspects of metal (M) dipicolinate anionic frameworks[M = Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II)] 09612202 Apurba Kalita Formation and reactivity of copper(II)-nitrosyl complexes 09612213 Rapolu Kiran Kumar Studies Toward the Synthesis of Benzfuzed Azoles 09612226 Rahul Sarma Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study for Investigating the Role of Trimethylamine-N-Oxide in Stabilizing Protein Conformation

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics Roll No Name Thesis Title 07612305 Manideepa Saha On Nonnegative Matrices and Generalized M – matrices 08612303 G. Murali Mohan Reddy A POSTERIORI ERROR ANALYSIS OF FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR PARABOLIC INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 08612305 Pratibhamoy Das ROBUST NUMERICAL SCHEMES FOR SINGULARLY PERTURBED BOUND- ARY-VALUE PROBLEMS ON ADAPTIVE MESHES 09612316 Gowrisankar S UNIFORMLY CONVERGENT NUMERICAL SCHEMES FOR SINGULARLY PERTURBED PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS ON ADAP- TIVE GRID 09612318 Biswajit Deb On Motion Planning in Graphs

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Humanities and Social Sci- ences Roll No Name Thesis Title 05614104 Monalisha Saikia Reconstruction of Culture and Immigrant Identity in Selected Novels of Bharati Mukherjee 06614101 Gopal Kumar Sarma Microfi nance Repayment Performance and Related Issues in Microfi - nance Institutions Model: An Empirical Examination in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam, India 06614103 Kalpana Bora Metropolis Bombay: Spatial Representations in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English 07614101 Tejasha Kalita INTERPRETATION OF THE PROBLEM OF ABORTION: THE ISSUE OF FOETUS-KILLING IN THE LIGHT OF TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICS

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07614103 Sarika Kaushal Assessment of Post-implementation Success and Key Future Challenges of Banking Information Systems: The Role of Technological, Organiza- tional, and Human Factors 08614103 Tanuja Kalita A Critical Evaluation of Peter Singer’s Ethics 08614104 Kawal Deep Kour History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959 08614105 Rashmirekha Sarma Culture Change, Globalization and Disappearance: A Study in Arunach- al Pradesh 08614107 Jnana Ranjan Prusty CONFLICTING TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY: A STUDY OF SELECTED HANDLOOM AND POWERLOOM INDUSTRIES IN ODISHA 10614102 Vanlaltanpuia OVERCOMING METAPHYSICS: A HEIDEGGERIAN APPROACH TO THE TRUTH OF BEING

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Energy Roll No Name Thesis Title 06615104 Lepakshi Barbora Synthesis and Characterization of Nafi on Composite Membrane for Reduced Methanol Crossover in DMFC 07615101 Adreeja Basu Morphometric, Molecular and Biochemical characterization of Jatropha germplasm of Nort-East India 07615103 Purabi Mazumdar Germplasm Evaluation, Environmental Impact Assessment and Genetic Improvement Studies in Jatropha curcas 08615106 Hanif Ahmed Choudhury Synthesis of Green Transportation Fuel: Investigations in Sonochemical Route to Biodiesel Production 09615101 Pankaj Kalita INVESTIGATION OF HYDRODYNAMICS AND HEAT TRANSFER CHARAC- TERISTICS WITH BIOMASS BLENDS IN A PRESSURIZED CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in The Environment Roll No Name Thesis Title 06615203 Atreyi Ghosh STUDIES ON MICROBIAL REDUCTION OF PERCHLORATE IN BATCH AND CONTINIOUS SYSTEMS 08615206 Rajib Lochan Deka CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE BRAHMAPUTRA VALLEY AND IMPACT ON RICE AND TEA PRODUCTIVITY 09615202 Sushant Singh Studies on Superoxide Dismutase: An antioxidative protein from Cicer arietinum seedlings

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the Ph.D. degree in Nanotechnology Roll No Name Thesis Title 10615303 Amit Jaiswal Fluorescent Nanomaterials for Biological Applications

355 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI nishing work is in nishing work Appendix–IV nishing works are in progress and in progress are nishing works Remarks Painting work and fi work Painting nishing works, plumbing works are in are plumbing works nishing works, R.C.C. for all structural works is completed all structural is completed R.C.C. for works The The fi nishing works are in progress. in progress. are nishing works 359 out of 528 rooms have been occupied since last since been occupied have 359 out of 528 rooms Fabrication works for roof truss of open canteen works works truss of open canteen roof for works Fabrication 90% structural work completed. 50% Brickwork and 90% structural completed. work 172 double seater rooms and dining hall kitchen rooms 172 double seater 50% foundation completed. 50% foundation All RCC, brickwork, plastering works completed. completed. brickwork, works plastering All RCC, progress. progress. within June 2015. block shall be completed The (2) (1) Flooring and other fi (1) Flooring expected to be completed by June 2015. by expected be completed to September 2017. by will be completed hostel entire The and the other fi Dormitory Building: Block A: in July 2014. occupation for handed over Block B: shall be completed and whole works dining hall is in progress above within July 2015. Block C: Married Scholar Building: Block A & B: for occupation for ready are academic session. Another 145 rooms this academic session. Dining and Kitchen area: within June 2015. will be completed work The progress. Block C: within July 2015. will be completed 228 rooms completed. plastering Block D: in lakhs) Financial Financial ` ( 31.03.2015 Total Progress upto Progress Total Physical During 2014-2015 Physical Progress Physical Upto 31.03.14 in ` ( 9665.03 – 5% 5% 641.28 2017. March by occupation for shall be made available 580 rooms 4240.17 60% 30% 90%2532.53 3180.23 12% 38% 50% 1249.97 8228.00 40% 30% 70% 4533.50 completed. All piling works works works lakhs) Cost of Cost PROGRESS IN CONSTRUCTION WORKS CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS

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oor area) oor area) oor oor area) oor 6712 atlet covering Boys’ Hostel No. 11 Hostel No. Boys’ (1152 capacity with 34785 sqm fl Girls’ Hostel No. 2 Hostel No. Girls’ (500 capacity with13790 sqm fl Married Scholars’ Hostel and Dormitory Building (96 fl sqm fl Boys’ Hostel No. 10 Hostel No. Boys’ (956 capacity with 31050 sqm fl 4. 2. 3. 1. Sl. No.

356 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 nishing works works nishing oor is in progress. It is oor is in progress. Brick work oor completed. oor is completed and AAC and AAC oor is completed Remarks oors were completed. The fi The completed. oors were (i) Structural work upto 4th fl (i) Structural upto work (i) The expansion in the DepartmentThe of Chemistry (i) and of 42 rooms are under progress now. under progress are of 42 rooms and plastering work in progress. It will be is expected that the work in progress. work and plastering 2016. within March completed Phase-IV Department of Electronics and Electrical has been Engineering of the Department work The of Mechanical Engineering completed. within July 2015. is expected be completed to Class Room 2016. within March will be completed expected that the work block masonry work at ground and 1st fl block masonry at ground work masonry works for three fl masonry three for works in lakhs) Financial Financial ` ( 31.03.2015 Total Progress upto Progress Total Physical During 2014-2015 Physical Progress Physical Upto 31.03.14

in 273.46 80% 20% 100% 183.45 is completed. Work 808.03 –381.47 – – – 100% 100% – 2015 and started in March 379.50 was allotted mobilization. Work will be started Commissioning soon has been completed. Work 918.88 95% 5% 100% 851.60 occupation. for and handed over completed is already Work ` ( 1476.90 10% 50% 60% 775.00 3m height wall 50% completed. completed. Foundation 5675.46 25% 10% 35% 1608.45 fl 3rd structural upto The framing work 6094.68 40% 25% 65% 3410.21 6944.71 – – – – 2015 and started in March has been allotted mobilization. Work 4059.00 30% 15% 45% 1459.54 80% of Structural and work 90% completed. work Foundation works works lakhs) Cost of Cost

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each) oor area oor area) area) oor Community Hall near Community Quarters D-Type (875 sqm fl Dormitory Buildings 325 sqm covering (2 Nos. fl Boundary(Phase- Wall IV) Centre Data er and Communication er and Communication Centre plex Phase-IV & Classroom Department of Chemis- EEE & ME class room try, (9875 sqm fl Extension Complex of Academic Phase-V Department of Design, Chemical CSE, Physics, HSS, Mathematics, Engg, CET and CIF (19045 sqm fl Residential QuartersResidential 30 units of E-type in 5 blocks (4548 sqm) Guest House 2 (15090 sqm fl 8. 9. 5. 6. 7. c) a) b) Building Com- Research Sl. 10. 11. No.

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DETAILS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

NEW RESEARCH PROJECTS Research projects received during the year 2014-2015 are given below:

Amount Principal Funding Department/ Project Title Sanctioned Investigator Agency Centre (Rs.) Aptamer probes for detection of celiac disease Dr. Utpal Bora DBT Centre for the epitopes of gluten in commercial varities of Environment 80,354.00 Indian Wheat ,rye and barley Biodegradation of pulp and paper mill waste Dr. Ajay SERB Civil Engineering using diff erent composting techniques Kalamdhad 130,000.00 Tradeoff s in Reachability and Shortest path Dr. R. Inkulu DAE Computer Science Algorithms and Engineering 249,000.00 Anthology of abhangas from the Varkari bhakti Prof. R.M. ICHR Humanities and tradition of Maharashtra in English translation Punekar Social Sciences 252,000.00 Procurement Management of PPP Regional Dr. L. Boeing PMI Civil Engineering Municipal Solid Waste Management Facility at Singh 256,500.00 Taloja Maharashtra Study on combating traffi cking of women in Dr. Sawmya NCW Humanities and Assam: Study of anti-traffi cking policies and Ray Social Sciences 330,300.00 strategies Memory, consciousness and the storytelling Dr. Avishek IITG Humanities and self: an interdisciplinary research in literature, Parui Social Sciences 370,000.00 cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind Research on Dhobi and Dhobi ghats Dr. K. Sorathia Procter & Design Gamble, 431,520.00 Belgium Evaluation of the impact crteated by various Dr. sharmistha SG-IITG Design methodologies and programs employed by Banerjee 500,000.00 schools to impart Educational for Sustainable Design (ESD) in the Indian context and Design of a framework for a high impact ESD strategy (method/curriculum/guideline) Optimum power electronic converter for Dr. Shabari IITG Electronics effi cient integration of variable DC and variable Nath and Electrical 500,000.00 AC power sources Engineering

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Amount Principal Funding Department/ Project Title Sanctioned Investigator Agency Centre (Rs.) Computational investigation of novel materials Dr. Anki Reddy IITG Chemical for sea-water desalination Katha Engineering 500,000.00 Characterization and modelling of a Schottky Dr. Nagarjuna IITG Electronics diode in a standard CMOS process Nallam and Electrical 500,000.00 Engineering George Matthan and the construction of Dr. John IITG Humanities and modern self in 19th century Travancore Thomas Social Sciences 500,000.00 Modulation strategies for gate control signal Dr. IITG Electronics generation of switched boost inverter Ravindranath and Electrical 500,000.00 Adda Engineering Comparison of the conformational preferences Dr. Sunanda IITG Chemistry of backbone constrained gamma amino acid Chatterjee 500,000.00 residue gabapentin and unconstrained gamma 4 ® amino acids Reduction in drying shrinkage of mix formed Dr. G. Indu Siva IITG Civil Engineering foam concrete using shrinkage reducing Ranjani 500,000.00 admixtures Inertial focusing of particle and droplets in Dr. Raghvendra IITG Chemical microchennels Gupta Engineering 500,000.00 Wetting transition of dynamic liquid droplets Dr. Partho IITG Chemical on structured surface Sarathi Engineering 500,000.00 Goohpattader Multiple object Tracking, Learning and Dr. P. Guha SG-IITG Electronics Detection with Dynamic RGB (D) Imaging and Electrical 500,000.00 Sensors Engineering Evaluation of spine based font design approach Dr. Prasad Bokil SG-IITG Design with Bezier technology and its application for 500,000.00 the development of design methodology for Indic type design Ecotourism and sustainable livelihoods: A Dr. Ngamjahao ICSSR Humanities and prospective look in the Rural areas of Manipur Kipgen Social Sciences 500,000.00 Surrendered Dr. Gagan IITG Physics Kumar 500,000.00 A posteriori L (L) error bounds for fi nite Dr. Bhupen IITG Mathematics element methods to the wave equation with Deka 500,000.00 discontinuous coeffi cient Change and continuity of traditional Dr. Ngamjahao IITG Humanities and governance: A study of Kuki chieftainship in Kipgen Social Sciences 500,000.00 Manipur Kinetic of initial cell adhesion on surface with Dr. Lalit M IITG Biosciences and mono and mixed self assembled monolayer Pandey Bioengineering 500,000.00 (SAMs) A system for litter monitoring and control using Dr. Rashmi IITG Computer Science non-intrusive sensors and off -the-shelf robotic Dutta Baruah and Engineering 500,000.00 platforms

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Amount Principal Funding Department/ Project Title Sanctioned Investigator Agency Centre (Rs.) Experimental investigation on the use of HYFRC Prof. Anjan M/s D2S Civil Engineering in enhancing seismic performance of reinforced Dutta Infrastruc- 566,400.00 concrete bridge pier tures Pvt. Ltd., Ghy Development of novel thermophilic glycoside Dr. A. Goyal DST Biosciences and hydrolases and carbohydrate binding modules Bioengineering 804,000.00 and exploiting their properties bioethanol production and for food and industrial applications Studies on infl uence of HyFRC in enhancing of Prof. Anjan SERB Civil Engineering reinforced concrete bridge pier Dutta 827,000.00 Numerical modelling based study for assessing Dr. Rajib Kumar DST Civil Engineering quality of groundwater of Bharalu River Basin of Bhattacharjya 850,000.00 Guwahati NBHM Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Dr. Anuradha DAE Mathematics Department of Mathematics Jha 852,000.00 Phototrophic biofi lm based waste water Dr. V. V. Goud DBT Centre for Energy recycling for sustainable water usage in rubber 890,000.00 latex coagulation Chemistry based tuning of optical properties of Dr.A. DST Chemistry quantum dots Chattopadhya 920,000.00 Resistance characteristics of alluvial channel Dr. Bimlesh Ministry of Civil Engineering with mobile bed vegetation Kumar Earth Sci- 921,360.00 ences Estimation of temperature distribution in laser Dr. U.S. Dixit DRDL Mechanical welding Engineering 970,000.00 Handloom as a sustainable Socio-technological Dr. Sambit ICSSR Humanities and System: A study of Textile Industry in Northeast Mallick Social Sciences 1,000,000.00 India Advanced glycation end products and Dr. Piruthivi ICMR Biosciences and macrophage store operated calcium entry Sukumar Bioengineering 1,099,962.00 Development of optimal bioprocess strategy for Dr. S. CSIR Biosciences and production of D-Lactic acid (DLA) from cassava Sivaprakasam Bioengineering 1,100,000.00 waste by amylolytic acid bacteria (Lab) NetApp Faculty Fellowship Dr. Gautam Advance Computer Science Barua Technol- and Engineering 1,250,000.00 ogy Group, Karnataka Transition metal-radical complexes as oxidation Dr. Chandan CSIR Chemistry catalysts Mukherjee 1,542,000.00 Exploration of in situ generated bromonium/ Prof. A.T. Khan CSIR Chemistry iodinium ion involving peroxovanadium 1,792,000.00 complexes in carbohydrate Chemistry Development of low cost chitosan based Dr. Ramagopal CSIR Centre for the crosslinked resins for the recovery and Uppaluri Environment 1,792,000.00 removal of palladium from synthetic and spent electroless plating solutions

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Amount Principal Funding Department/ Project Title Sanctioned Investigator Agency Centre (Rs.) Asymmetric total syntheses of potential Dr. C.K. Jana CSIR Chemistry anticancer natural products, phomoarcherin A 1,847,000.00 and B and their synthetic analogs Physical and Mathematical modeling study Dr. S. Dutta IWAI Civil Engineering for stabilization of volatile zones in NW2 (River 1,916,000.00 Brahmaputra) Modelling of advanced materials for simulation Dr. U.S. Dixit DST Mechanical of transformative manufacturing processes Engineering 2,093,600.00 Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of Dr. S. Arora DST Chemistry novel metal oxides/chalcogenides/polymer 2,160,000.00 based ternary hetero structures for their photocatalytic properties Experimental characterization of carbon Dr. R. Prasanna SERB Chemical steel corrosion in oil and gas industries by Venkatesh Engineering 2,270,000.00 electrochemical impedance spectroscopy Characterization of Aspartyl-tRNA Synthese Dr. Kalyanasis DBT Chemistry from Entaamoeba Histolytica by spectroscopic Sahu 2,275,000.00 methods Seismic design criteria for RC structures Dr. S. Das DST Civil Engineering considering Mainshock sequence for 2,314,614.00 Northeastern India Development of Superthydrophobic metal- Dr. S. P. Biswas SERB Chemistry organic frameworks bearing water repellant 2,325,000.00 functional groups foe oil spill cleanup and volatile organic compounds removal Structural organization of huntingtin exon 1 Dr. Nitin SERB Biosciences and fi brils Choudhary Bioengineering 2,380,000.00 Molecular modeling and screening of Dr. V. Trivedi NTRF Biosciences and Phytochemical reservoir from Tea (Camellia Bioengineering 2,453,640.00 sinensis, L) as a lead immune-stimulatory agent Gold (I)- mediated self-assembly for medical Dr. K. Mahanta SERB Chemistry applications 2,500,000.00 Development and Marketing of crafts of Dr. Avinash Directorate Design Meghalaya Shende of Com- 2,500,000.00 merce and Industries, Meghalaya Evaluation of a strengthening scheme for Dr. H. B. SERB Civil Engineering unreinforced masonry building using steel Kaushik 2,520,000.00 bands Studies on coal bed methane integrated Dr. V. Prabu SERB Chemical underground coal gasifi cation in Indian coals in Engineering 2,540,000.00 the context of green gas emission control removal of arsenic from drinking water using Dr. P. Saha DST Chemical liquid membrane based separation technique Engineering 2,617,200.00 An integrated approach for snowmelt Dr. Manish K. SERB Civil Engineering hydrological modeling at downstream of Goyal 2,651,000.00 Sikkim Glaciers

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Amount Principal Funding Department/ Project Title Sanctioned Investigator Agency Centre (Rs.) Fabrication and characterization of the next Dr. S. Kanagaraj SERB Mechanical generation materials for articulating surface in Engineering 2,659,000.00 total joint replacements using medical grade UHMWPE reinforced with nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite and single walled carbon nanotubes Innovation in Sciences Pursuit for Inspired Dr.Manish DST Civil Engineering Research Kumar Goyal 3,500,000.00 Unraveling the underlying mechanisms in few Dr. Aditya SERB Chemistry atom- diatom collision systems Narayan 3,510,000.00 Development of bioprocess for the production Dr. V.V. Dasu DBT Biosciences and of recombinant human interferon gamma Bioengineering 3,828,400.00 (IFNG) A multifaceted research program to investigate Dr. Anil BCIL Biosciences and the role of the G-protein coupled estrogen Mukund Bioengineering 3,995,000.00 receptor (GPR30) in the normal and neoplastic Limaye breast: molecular investigations using invitro, invivo and clinical approaches Transient analysis of ditch drainage networks Dr. Gautam SERB Civil Engineering subjected to variable ponding distributions at Barua 4,031,400.00 the surface of the soil Development of a single station Hip Joint wear Dr.S. Kanagaraj SERB Mechanical simulator for simulated in vivo characterization Engineering 4,340,000.00 of acetabulum Beyond traditional couplings leading to the Dr. B. K. Patel SERB Chemistry synthesis of novel heterocyclic scaff olds 4,590,000.00 Synthesis and study of metallopolymers Dr. P.K. Iyer SERB Chemistry tailored for specifi c applications 4,690,000.00 Identifi cation of novel drug targets of Dr. V.K. Dubey BCIL Biosciences and Leishmania donovani: studies on CAAX prenyl Bioengineering 5,070,000.00 protease I and II of the pathogen Speech based access of agricultural commodity Dr. Rohit Sinha DIT Electronics prices and weather information in 11 Indian and Electrical 6,900,000.00 languages/Dialects (Automatic speech Engineering recognition) Development of person identifi cation system Dr. Suresh DIT Electronics using online handwriting Sundaram and Electrical 7,200,000.00 Engineering Developing Suitable Pedagogical Methods Dr. J. K. deka MHRD Centre for for various classes, intellectual calibers and Educational 9,194,000.00 e-learning Technology ICT -based framework to enhance the teaching Dr. T. Venkatesh DEITY Computer Science and learning experience in a large classroom and Engineering 9,432,000.00 Investigating the role of protein dynamics on Dr. R. DBT Biosciences and the function of a few intrinsically disordered Swaminathan Bioengineering 9,820,000.00 proteins

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Amount Principal Funding Department/ Project Title Sanctioned Investigator Agency Centre (Rs.) Exploring the binding space to develop an Dr. Lingaraj DBT Biosciences and optimal transcriptional control system for Sahoo Bioengineering 11,142,000.00 abiotic stress tolerance in crops DBT Pan IIT Center for Bioenergy Dr. Debasish DBT Biosciences and Das Bioengineering 17,416,000.00 Special manpower development programme Prof. R.P. Paily DeitY Electronics for CHIPS to system design (SMDP-C2SD) and Electrical 23,640,000.00 Engineering Technical Education Quality Improvement HoC, CET MHRD Centre for Programme (TEQIP-II) Educational 25,000,000.00 Technology Mathematical model study of river Brahmaputra Dr. A. K. Sarma Brahampu- Civil Engineering with emphasis on climate change tra Board, 28,200,000.00 GoI Establishment of centre of excellence for HoD Chemistry MHRD Chemistry training and research in frontier areas of science 40,000,000.00 and technology (FAST) A Pilot project on Ishan Vikas Prof. Gautam MHRD IITG Biswas, 60,545,000.00 Director IITG National Initiative for setting up of Design HoD, Design MHRD Design Innovation Centre 100,000,000.00

CONSULTANCY PROJECTS The following consultancy projects were received during the year 2014-2015:

Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Vetting Structural Drawings for Aanganbari Dr. A. Civil Engineering M/S Frontier Sales Corporation, Centre Chakraborty Guwahati Quality Test on RCC Structure of Under Dr. A. Civil Engineering M/S ZORAM Industries Develop- Construction Jawahar Navodaya Vidyala at Chakraborty ment Corporation New Secretari- Mizoram at Complex, Aizwal, Mizoram NDT of Transmission Line Tower Foundation Dr. A. Civil Engineering Power Grid Corporation of Lim- Chakraborty ited Laplang Shillong Vetting of Structural Drawing and Founda- Dr. A. Civil Engineering Assam State Co-operative tion Plan of Pre-Engineered Building for Chakraborty Housing Federation Ltd Beltola - Assam Police Barack (G+1) with Kitchen Baistha Road, Guwahati Test on Physical properties of SAIL GI Strip Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Mr. S. Sengupta, Director, Expan- sive SAS Fabrication & Training, Guwahati Proof checking of structural design and Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering M/s D2S Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd., drawing of superstructure of a bridge in A. T. Road, Guwahati west Champaran district Test on Physical properties of SAIJI TMT Bar Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Under Secretary, PWD Dept, Dis- pur, Guwahati

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Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Test of physical parameters of HSFG Nut Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering M/s JSMV Engineering & Con- & Bolts for construction of RCC Arch. Br. struction Co. MRD Road, Bamuni- No.4/2 over river Bhogdoi on A. T. Road to maidan, Guwahati facilitate trade and commerce (L=60M) Test on Physical properties of SAIJI TMT Bar Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering M/s Shree Sayenji Rolling Mills, Sarab Bhati, Guwahati Proof checking of design and drawings of Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering M/s D2S Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd., works A. T. Road, Guwahati Proof checking of design and drawings of Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd.P-11 foundation and substructure of 20nos of Darga Road,Park Circus, Kolkata bridges for N. E Railway in Mizoram Investigation of Fine aggregates & coarse Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering LPG Botling Plant, North Guwa- aggregates hati, Guwahati Testing Consultancy Registration Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering M/s. Silk Country Products Pvt. Ltd, Guwahari NDT in North East Mega Food Park Ltd Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Mega Food Park Limited , Hotel Brahamputra Ashok M. G. Road, Guwahati Proof consultancy of Bridge No. 5/1 con- Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Mr. Rudra Kumar pathak, Govt. necting Goalpara & Numberpara village Regd. Contractor, P.W.D Road & from Tulungia at NH-31 via Barghola, Kir- Building, Abhayapuri S. S. Road, tonpara & Chakla in Bongaigaon district Assam Revised design of titled well of Bridge Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering M/s KMC Construction Ltd., Kam- no.184/1-A2 rup Metro, Assam. Proof checking of Design & drawings of Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Mr. Sanjay Ray, GPT Infraprojects viaduct-Package EWE-2RI (Duttabad) ltd., P-11, Darga Road, Park Circus, Kolkata Testing of Metal Beam crash barrier for work Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Mr. Sunil Mukherjee, RE, AS-19, of Widening and strengthening of existing RITES Ltd., NH-37 from two lanes from KM 230.500 to KM 205.000 of Dharamtul to Jagiroad in Assam on East West Corridor Phase- II pro- gramme of NHDP (Package No. EW-AS-19) Review of Vetting of Mogra ROB Railway Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Mr. Partha Sarathi Sengupta, span of West Bengal Highway Development Project Director, WBHDCL Corporation Testing of Wire Strand, Anchorage, Distribu- Dr. A. Dutta Civil Engineering Mr. B. K. Mahapatra, RE/AS-6, Stup tion Plate and Sheathing duct for Pre stress Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Nalbari, Concrete Assam Operation and maintenance services of Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering M/S D. P. Traders sewage system in IIT Guwahati had Drinking water testing & suitability Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering M/S BSCPL Infrastructure Ltd., had Meghalaya Operation and maintenance services of Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering HoD, CE Deptt, IIT Guwahati sewage in IIT Guwahati had Evaluation of water sample for construction Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering Mr. R. B. Singh, Senior Manager purpose had (FQA), NTPC, Ltd Bongaigoan

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Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Evaluation of water sample for construction Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering Mr. R. V. Raman Kumar, purpose had AGM(FQA), NTPC ltd., Bon- gaigaon Thermal Power Project, Salakathi (P), Kokrajhar (BTAD), Assam Operation and maintenance services of Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering M/s D P Traders sewage system in IIT Guwahati had Technical consultancy towards the develop- Dr. A. K. Maurya Civil Engineering M/s ITS Planters and Engineers ment of a traffi c sensor Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad Pile Foundation and Basement Works for Dr. A. K. Mishra Civil Engineering M/s . NRL , G. S. Road Christian the Proposed Permanent Corporate Offi ce basti , Guwahati Building of NRL at Guwahati Sub Soil Investigation report for construc- Dr. A. K. Mishra Civil Engineering Executive Engineer, PWD, Jorhat tion of NH-52 (B) N. H. Division, Jorhat Implementation of Integrated Land use Dr. A. Kr. Sarma Civil Engineering M/S Guwahati Metropolitan Dev. Planning & Water Resources Management Authority Bhangagarh, Guwahati through Ecological Management practices in pilot watershed Cross hole seismic test in two sets of bore Dr. A. M. Krishna Civil Engineering M/S NEPCO, Mizoram. hole up to a depth of 25 meters to fi nd out Dynamic Properties of soil at Tuirial Power House, Mizoram Characterization of Multifi lament Woven Dr. A. M. Krishna Civil Engineering M/s N. F. Railway Agartala Geo textile Evaluation of Construction materials for Dr. A. M. Krishna Civil Engineering Mr. Anil Das, Mirza, Kamrup construction, rectifi cation and strengthen- ing of internal roads of IITG Widening and strengthening of existing Dr. A. Dey Civil Engineering M/S Gayatri- ECI (JV), B-1, T. R. National Highway from 2lane to 4 lane from S. Towers, 6-3-1090, Rajbhavan Km 93 to Km 60.0 of Bijni to Assam West Road, Somajiguda, Hyderabad Bengal border in Assam of NH31C Distress & destabilization of the Guard wall Dr. A. Dey Civil Engineering Deputy General Manager (Civil), of transmission tower (Tower No. 26 of the AEGCL, Bijulee Bhawan, Paltan 220KV 4CKT Sarusajai Jawahar Nagar line) Bazar, Guwahati at Sarusajai, Guwahati Widening and strengthening of existing Dr. A. Dey Civil Engineering The Louise Berger Group. Inc, National Highway from two lanes to four Bongaigoan, Assam lanes from km 60.00 to km.93.00 of Bijini to Assam/West Bengal Section NH-31C on East Corridor under phase-II programme of NHDP Concrete Mix Design M-25 with OPC 43 Dr. B. Pradhan Civil Engineering M/s Hindustan Steelworks Con- for Development/ Construction of new struction Ltd., Guwahati Campus/Educational Institute for TISS at Guwahati Test on Physical properties of TATA TISCON Dr. B. Pradhan Civil Engineering M/s Numaligarh Refi nery Ltd., G. SD TMT Bar S. Road, Guwahati

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Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Design Mix for payment quality concrete Dr. B. Pradhan Civil Engineering M/s NSC Project Pvt. Ltd (PQC-45kg/cm2) and investigation of materials: CA(AF) CHAB/07 of 2012-13, work service for provn of overlay and extension of ORA at AFS Chabua Investigation of Boulder Sample Dr. C. Mahanta Civil Engineering Mr. S. K. Das(Res. Er) URS Scott Wilson India Pvt. Ltd Nagoan Investigation of Boulder Sample Dr. C. Mahanta Civil Engineering Mr. Kishor Kr. Nath, Guwahati. Feasibility study on construction if an ad- Dr. H. B. Kaushik Civil Engineering M/S NRL Ltd, Guwahati ditional fl oor in the administrative building of NRL Test on Physical & Mechanical properties of Dr. H. B. Kaushik Civil Engineering Mr. Kamlesh Kumar, Sr. Manager TATA Tiscon Fe 600 Sales, Honoram Boro Path, 4th Floor Subham Velocity, Tata Steel, Guwahati Test on Physical & Chemical properties of Dr. H. B. Kaushik Civil Engineering M/S HSCL, Kolkata Star Cement OPC 43 Concrete Mix Design M-25 with OPC OPC Dr. H. B. Kaushik Civil Engineering M/S HSCL, Kolkata 43 grade for pile which is of 15 meter depth for Development/ Construction of NEW Campus/Educational Institute for TISS at Guwahati Investigation of Cement (Brand: Max) to Dr. H. B. Kaushik Civil Engineering Mr. Kulajit Talukdar, Senior be used in Pile foundation and Basement manager (project), Numaligarh works for the Proposed Permanent Corpo- Refi nery ltd., 122A, Christianbasti, rate Offi ce building of NRL at Guwahati G. S. road, Guwahati Investigation of Fine aggregates & Coarse Dr. H. B. Kaushik Civil Engineering Mr. Kulajit Talukdar, Senior aggregates (20mm & 10mm) to be used in manager (project), Numaligarh Pile Foundation and Basement works for Refi nery ltd.,122A,Christianbasti, the Proposed Permanent Corporate Offi ce G. S. road, Guwahati building of NRL at Guwahati Mix Design of Concrete M-25 and Investiga- Dr. H B Kaushik Civil Engineering Hill Cement Company, Guwahati tion of material Concrete mix design of M-20 Grade of OPC- Dr. H. B. Kaushik Civil Engineering Hill Cement Company, Guwahati 43 Grade Construction of Administrative Block, Aca- Dr. H. Sharma Civil Engineering Deputy General Manager, RITES demic Building, Library Hall etc. of National Limited, Sohra (Cherrapunji), Institute of Technology, Meghalaya at Sohra Meghalaya (Cherrapunji), Meghalaya- Package - I Strengthening of existing 45m self Support Dr. H. Sharma Civil Engineering Prasar Bharati, Offi ce of Addl. Di- TV Tower at LPT Ukhrul (Manipur) rector General (E)(NEZ), All India Radio & Doordarshan, Doord- arshan complex, R. G. B. Road, Guwahati Proof checking consultancy for Ship Repair Dr. H. Sharma Civil Engineering M/s. HOWE Engineering Projects Facility (Slipway) at Pandu, Guwahati, NW-2 (India) Pvt. Ltd., Howe India House, 81, Nehru Place, New Delhi

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Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Vertically and twist angle test report of 50M Dr. H. Sharma Civil Engineering Prasar Bharati Tower at various 1 KW FM Concrete mix Design M-25 with OPC 43 Dr. H. Sharma Civil Engineering M/S Hindustan Steelworks Con- grade for construction of residential and struction Ltd., Guwahati Non- Residential Buildings for 31st Bat- talion- ITBP at Yupia, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh Mix design of concrete M-30 and investiga- Dr. K. Dasgupta Civil Engineering Coastal Project ltd. tion of materials Mix design of concrete M-25 & M-30 for Dr. K. Dasgupta Civil Engineering B. K. Geetha, Resident Chief Con- work of construction of Academic Building struction Manager, NIT Nagaland & Library Block of National Institute of Tech- Phase II Expansion, M/s. FEDO, nology, Nagaland & Investigation of cement Udyogmandal, Kochi Test on Physical & Chemical properties of Dr. K. Dasgupta Civil Engineering M/s Bhutan Rolling Mills Limited, TMT Bar (Perfect TMX TMT) Bhutan Test on Physical & Mechanical properties Dr. K. Dasgupta Civil Engineering M/S Akshay Trading, Nagaon, of Strip & Zinc coating for the construction Assam of Head Master Room & Additional Class Room Test on Physical properties of Shree Ultra Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering M/S Star Cement, Mayur Garden, Red Oxide PPC had G. S. Road, Guwahati Test on Physical properties of Interlocking Dr. A. Kalamd- Civil Engineering M/S Devi Concrete Products Paver Block had Industry, Guwahati Mix design of concrete M-25 & M-30 for Dr. K. Dasgupta Civil Engineering M/s. Prasad & Co., Hyderabad work of construction of Academic Building & Library Block of National Institute of Tech- nology, Nagaland & Investigation of cement Design Mix for M25 Grade of Concrete for Dr. K. Dasgupta Civil Engineering M/s. Tribeni Construction Ltd., GS RCC works at NRL Site road, Ulubari, Guwahati Concrete Mix Design M-25 with PPc and Dr. K. D. Singh Civil Engineering Mr. Pradeep Chadha , AE (Civ), M-25 for piling AGE B/R Guwahati Mix design of concrete M-25, M-320& M-35 Dr. K. D. Singh Civil Engineering M/s. Tribeni Constriction Ltd, G. S/ for work of IWT Ro-Ro Terminal at Dhubari, Road Uiubari, Guwahati Assam an Investigation of Cement Test on physical & chemical properties of Dr. K. D. Singh Civil Engineering M/S Hindustan Steelworks Con- TMT Bar struction, Kolkata Cost of infrastructure service provision in Dr. L. Boeing Civil Engineering Shri E. Y. Chen, Joint director the state of Meghalaya Singh Institutional Finance & Ex-offi cio, Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of Meghalaya, Finance (Economic Aff airs) Department Evaluation of RS and SS Samples Dr. Mallikarjuna Civil Engineering M/s. G. R. Infraprojects Limited, C Plot No:-80, Brahmaputra Indus- trial Park, Amingoan, Guwahati Collection and Characterization samples as Dr. M. Jawed Civil Engineering M/S Chief Engineer, WAPCOS, per applicable standards for examination Gurgaon of waste water characteristics for Missamari Military Station

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Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Evaluation of Earth Fill Material Dr. R. Choud- Civil Engineering M/s Jorhat Shillong Expressway hary Ltd. Beltola Survey, Guwahati Design of Wet Mix Macadam Dr. R. Choud- Civil Engineering Mr. Bulbul Khan AE Civil, AGE hary (B/R)(P) AF, Pin-900 135 ,C/o 99APO Safety Audit for Grade Separator at Bara- Dr. R. Choud- Civil Engineering M/S Jorabat Shillong Expressway pani hary Ltd., Ajanta Path, Guwahati Investigation of Physical & Chemicals test of Dr. S. Das Civil Engineering M/S URS Scott Wilson India Pvt. Satyam Steel of grade Fe-500 for the work Ltd, North Lakhimpur. of improvement and upgradation of SH-22 (Gogamukh- Ghilamara) Mix design of concrete M-30 and Investiga- Dr. S. Das Civil Engineering M/s. Bhartia-SMSIL (JV) tion of materials Construction of Residence, Hostels & Aca- Dr. S. K. Deb Civil Engineering Sr. Manager (Civil), HSCC (India) demic building and External Services Ltd. Tezpur Testing of Powdered coating of Aluminium Dr. S. K. Deb Civil Engineering Sr. Manager (Civil), HSCC (India) Sections for the work of construction of Ltd. Tezpur residences, Hostels & Academic buildings and External services Test on Physical properties of Ambuja Ce- Dr. S. K. Deb Civil Engineering M/s Brahmaputra Infrastructure ment PPC for construction of G+5 storied Ltd., G. S. Road, Guwahati Guest House No.2 Investigation of Soil for Construction of G+5 Dr. Sreedeep, S Civil Engineering M/S Brahmaputra Infrastructure storied Guest House No.2 Ltd. Conducting fi eld density for the construc- Dr. Sreedeep, S. Civil Engineering M/S Brahmaputra Infrastructure tion of G+5 Guest House No.2 at Guwahati Ltd. Campus Evaluation of Geo-synthetic MacDrain as Dr. S. Sreedeep Civil Engineering M/s Maccaferri Environmental drainage S. Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai Test on Physical properties of Dalmia ce- Dr. S. Talukder Civil Engineering M/S Om Sai Industries, Guwahati ment (OPC-53) Assessment of DAV School Building at Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s DAV School, Guwahati Guwahati Testing of tensile strength of GI wire Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s Brahmaputra Infrasture Ltd., G. S. Road, Guwahati Proof checking of Foundation and column Dr. S. Talukder Civil Engineering M/s Ramendra Kuthi, Agartala for the work: Construction of railway at Belonia Physical and Chemical analysis of Jindal Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s. JSPL ,Guwahati Panther TMT Bar Physical and Chemical analysis of Jindal Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s JSPL, Guwahati Panther TMT Bar Proff Checking of Residential and Non Resi- Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s Hindustan Steel Works Con- dential Buildings for 4th Battalion & SHQ at struction Ltd, Guwahati Rangamati Tezpur, Assam Proff checking of Residential and Non- Resi- Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s Hindustan Steel Works Con- dential Buildings for 31st Battalion ITBP at struction Ltd, Guwahati Yupia Itanagar

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Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Test on Physical Properties of Concrete Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s EE (Civil), OC Contract, 89 Block: CA No:-CE(P) SEWAK-13 of 2013-14 Road Constr Coy (GREF), Pin- Code-930089 Inspection of over Bridge at Motphran, Lew- Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering Mr. L. Passah, Chief Engineer (NH) duh Shillong ,PWD (Roads), Shillong, Megha- laya Inspection of existing GNRC Hospital Build- Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s GNRC Medical North Guwa- ing at Dispur for Structural Stability hati, Sila Grant, Guwahati Inspection of Over bridge at Motphran, Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s Chief Engineer, (NHO, PWD Lewduh Shillong (Roads) Meghalaya, Shillong Design Mix forDry Lean Cement concrete Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering Mr. Bulbul Khan, AE (DLC) and Investigation of materials CA (Civil),AGE (B/R) (P) AF,C/o-99 (AF) SZ/CHAB/05 of 2014-15:Demolition of APO,Pin-900135 certain building and concreting of ORP at AFS Chabua Design Mix for Pavement Quality Concrete Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering Mr. Bulbul Khan, AE (PQC-45kg/cm2) and Investigation of (Civil),AGE (B/R) (P) AF,C/o-99 materials: CA (AF) SZ/CHAB/05 of 2014-15: APO,Pin-900135 Demolition of certain building and concret- ing of ORP at AFS Chabua Construction of Offi cer's Rest House at Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/S Sanwar Mal Khetawat, Tarun Tezpur and other ancillary works in con- Ram Phukan Road, Haibargaon, nection with Rangiya - Murongselek Gauge Nagaon Conversion Project Package EW-II (AS): Widening and strength- Dr. S. Talukder Civil Engineering M/S KMC Construction Ltd. ening of existing National Highway from 2 lane to 4 lane Bijni to Nalbari Section on East-West corridor under Phase II pro- gramme on NHDP in the state of Assam Test on Physical Properties of AAC Cube Dr. S. Talukdar Civil Engineering M/s. KD Infra, Changsari, Vill- Sila, Assam Investigation of kerosene sample for its Dr. T. Banerjee Chemical Engi- M/S Jyothy Laboratories Ltd, Thermodynamic Properties neering Pondicherry Pavement Design with Plastic Cell Filled Dr. T. L. Ryn- Civil Engineering M/S Megha Engineering & Concrete Block pavement tathiang Infrastructures ltd., S-2 Techno- crat Industrial Estate, Balanagar, Hyderabad Evaluation of Polymer Modifi ed Bitumen Dr. T. L. Ryn- Civil Engineering M/S Louis Berger Group Inc. USA PMB-70 tathiang Evaluation of Bitumen Emulsion Dr. T. L. Ryn- Civil Engineering M/S PWD (NH works) Assam, tathiang Chandmari, Guwahati Test on physical properties of Topcem PPC Dr. B. Pradhan Civil Engineering M/s Garrison Engineer, Tezpur against CA No.CESZ/TEZ/37 of 13-14; Con- struction of Security wall at Tezpur Test on Physical properties of TATA TISCON Dr. B. Pradhan Civil Engineering Mr. Kulajit Talukdar, Senior Man- SD TMT Bar ager (Project), Numaligarh Refi n- ery Ltd., 122A, Christianbasti, G. S. Road, Guwahati

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Principal Project Title Department Clients Investigator Development of modifi ed amine adsorp- Dr. B. Mandal Chemical Engi- NTPC Energy Technology Re- tion based process to separate Co2 from neering search Alliance Plot No:-E-3 fl ue gas Echotech-II Udhyog Vihar Greater Noida G B Nagar (UP) 201306 Study of the reduction in acidity of the Dr. C. Das Chemical Engi- M/s. Neepco Ltd Brook Land responsible stream either by diversion from neering Compound Lower New Colony, the main river feeding the Kopoli Reservoir Shillong or by taking up some chemical treatment to prevent damages of metal parts of Kopili HE at Umrongso Analysis (Characterization) of Liquid Dr. P. Tiwari Chemical Engi- M/s Simplex Infrastructures Ltd, samples(s). neering Kolkata Physical techniques for enhancing life of Dr. S. Murugan Chemical Engi- M/S Unilever R&D Bangalore 64, reverse Osmosis Membrane elements neering Main Road, Whiteefi eld, Banga- lore Physical cleaning techniques for enhancing Dr. S. Murugan Chemical Engi- M/s HUL, Bangalore life of UF spiral and hollow fi bre membrane neering module Foam Control Dr. P. Ghosh Chemical Engi- M/S Unilever R&D Bangalore 64, neering Main Road, Whiteefi eld, Banga- lore Formulation and Implementation of Or- Prof. G. Barua Computer Sci- General Insurance Corp. of India, ganisation wide architecture for General ence and Engi- “SURAKSHA”, 170 J. TATA Road, Insurance Corporation neering Churchgate, Mumbai Real-time monitoring and supportive of Dr. P. K. Das Computer Sci- M/S United Nation Children's VHND and RI using mobile technology ence and Engi- Fund, Guwahati neering Enhancing Quality of Care and treatment of Dr. P. K. Das Computer Sci- M/s UNICIF, Guwahati Children Living with HIV through Off -the- ence and Engi- grid Telemedicine in North East India neering Research in Smartphone Accessibility Dr. K. Sorathia Design M/S Samsung Research India Domain Bangalore, 2870, Orion Building, Bagmane Constellation Business Park, Outer Ring Road, Dod- danekundi Circle, Bangalore Collaborative project between IITG & TECPL Dr. R. Bhattach- Electronics and M/S Toshniwal Enterprises, arjee Electrical Engi- Kolkata neering Consultancy project for NERIM institute of Dr. N. Tripathi Humanities and NERIM Institute of Research and Research and Development (NIRD) Social Sciences Development, Guwahati Testing of Material - Co-effi cient of thermal Dr. S. Kakoty Civil Engineering M/S. Assam Carbon Ltd. Guwahati expansion Coeffi cient of friction etc Setting of Confi dential Papers for Engi- Dr. S. K. Mechanical Engi- BCPL neering Non-executives of a Govt. of India Dwivedy neering Enterprise Settling of confi dential papers for engi- Dr. S. K. Mechanical Engi- Mr. P. K. Mati, GM (HR) BCPL neering Non- executives of a Govt. of India Dwivedy neering Enterprise

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Appendix–VI

SUMMARY OF INSTITUTE ACCOUNTS

Balance Sheet as on 31 March 2015

Current Year Previous Year Liabilities (Amount in Rs.) (Amount in Rs.) Capital Fund and Liabilities Capital Fund 10,554,680,937 9,439,552,683 Earmarked/Endowment Funds 1,979,307,912 1,466,241,535 Current Liabilities and Provisions 1,289,174,247 1,051,949,581 Total: 13,823,163,096 11,957,743,799

Assets Fixed Assets Tangible Assets 7,982,444,229 7,884,892,724 Intangible Assets - - Capital Works-In-Progress 2,273,949,429 1,384,050,702 Investments - from Earmarked/Endowment Funds 747,105,643 715,659,793 Long Term Short Term Investments - Others 479,043,436 321,700,000 Current Assets 1,972,157,641 1,370,637,411 Loans, Advances and Deposits 368,462,718 280,803,169 Total: 13,823,163,096 11,957,743,799

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Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended on 31 March 2015

Current Year Previous Year Income (Amount in Rs.) (Amount in Rs.)

Academic Receipts 208,962,662 177,787,131 Grants/Subsidies 1,533,300,000 1,401,551,893 Income from Investments - 77,994,513 (Income on Investment from earmarked/endowment, Funds transferred to Fund) Interest Earned 24,021,080 254,821 Other Income 33,757,424 27,568,331 Prior Period Income 1,143,741 - Total (A): 1,801,184,907 1,685,156,690

Expenditure

Staff Payments and Benefi ts 982,038,345 737,011,624 Academic Expenses 472,823,480 415,456,971 Administrative and General Expenses 267,661,132 206,941,317 Transportation Expenses 21,295,527 16,552,351 Repairs and Maintenance 82,356,172 50,421,852 Finance Cost 25,410 17,960 Depreciation 303,307,681 272,457,444 Other Expenses 8,989,314 5,783,098 Prior Period Expenses 10,896,233 11,424,317 Total (B): 2,149,393,294 1,716,066,934

Balance being Surplus/(Defi cit) for the year (A-B) (348,208,387) (108,904,758)

372 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 a) On Earmarked/Endowment fundsa) On Earmarked/Endowment 111,613,369.80 in Progress Work fellowship/scholarship against sponsored IV Payments 17,979,986.50 and Capital Assets on Fixed VII Expenditure Assets a) Fixed in ProgressWork b) Capital 889,898,727.00 1,290,757,912.06 400,859,185.06 Receipt and Payment Account for the Period Ended on 31 March 2015 Ended on 31 March the Period for Account and Payment Receipt i) In Current Accountsi) In Current Accountsii) Savings Plan Grant - CapitalNon - Plan Grant Revenue 525,324,433.34 Plan Grant - Recurring 685,672,149.40 1,211,132,082.74 ExpensesTransportation d) 1,201,000,000.00 1,435,000,000.00 332,300,000.00 Expenses c) Administrative 21,295,527.00 267,661,132.00 g) Other expenses Funds against Earmarked/Endowments II Payments 81,844,281.46 9,014,724.00 1,846,085,613.00 a) Cash Balancesa) Cash b) Bank Balances of India Govt. a) From Government State b) From 135,500.00 Other Sourcesc) From Fees1. Entrance Subscriptions2. Annual Fees/ a) Establishment Expenses 28,336,640.68 2,996,636,640.68 172,909,801.87 982,038,345.00 208,962,661.87 Project/Schemes against Sponsored III Payments Expenses b) Academic 36,052,860.00 f) Expenses Period Prior 464,736,966.05 472,823,480.00 10,896,233.00 a) Earmarked /Endowment Fundsa) Earmarked /Endowment b) Other Investment 52,176,878.98 23,052,124.00 Schedule BankWith Deposit Term VI 75,229,002.98 RECEIPTSI OPENING BALANCES AMOUNT (Rs.) (Rs.) TOTAL PAYMENTS I EXPENSES AMOUNT (Rs.) (Rs.) TOTAL II GRANTS RECEIVEDII GRANTS ReceiptsIII Academic Fund against Earmarked/Endowment IV Receipts 141,494,846.91 e) Repairs & maintenance 82,356,172.00 V Receipts against Sponsored Projects/Schemes against Sponsored V Receipts and Scholarship Fellowship against sponsored VI Receipts from VII Income on Investment 25,209,078.50 & Deposits V Investments 858,746,805.91 - Others) (Investment Funds b) Out of own 1,046,343,436.00 C/F 5,517,411,119.59 C/F 4,859,361,564.87

373 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI (Rs.) TOTAL (Rs.) AMOUNT PAYMENTS (Rs.) TOTAL

1,340,690,148.26 in Hand a) Cash b) Bank Balances Accounts In Current In Accounts Savings 1,074,933,990.25 161,000.00 265,595,158.01 (Rs.) AMOUNT RECEIPTS a) Bank Deposits & advancesb) Loans Bank Accountc) Savings a) Other income period Incomeb) Prior 968,956.00 968,956.00 1,143,741.00 33,757,423.75 34,901,164.75 IX Refunds Grants XI Other Payments B/F 5,517,411,119.59 B/F 4,859,361,564.87 B/F B/F 5,517,411,119.59 receivedVIII Interest encashedIX Investment Deposit with Schedule Banks encashedTerm X XI Other Income XI Deposits and Advances 969,167,519.67 including Statutory VIII Other payments Payments 739,519,911.05 1,126,247,597.47 XII Deposits and Advances 8,065,819,221.65 IncludingXIII Misc. Receipts Statutory Receipts OtherXIV Any Receipts 8,065,819,221.65 566,625,883.86 XII Closing Balances 976,744,577.78

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