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Neelakantan Industrial & Management Engineering Convener, Senate Educational Policy Committee Prof. Anish Upadhyaya Materials Science & Engineering Graduating Students 47th Convocation “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi 2015 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Aerospace Engineering simulations with a dispersion corrected density functional Ezhil Kumar P.K. Prof. D.P. Mishra (Thesis Supervisor) Biswajit Saha Prof. Jitendra K Bera Experimental and Numerical Studies of Twin Cavity 2D (Thesis Supervisor) Trapped Vortex Combustor Metal···Metal and Metal···Ligand Cooperation in Organometallic Catalysis – Designing Diruthenium(I) Catalysts for Organic Transformation Mahesh S Prof. D.P. Mishra (Thesis Supervisor) Experimental and Numerical Studies of Inverse Jet Dipak Kumar Das Prof. Debabrata Goswami Flame (Thesis Supervisor) Exploring the Effect of Molecular Environment on the Photophysical Aspects of Laser Induced Processes Biological Sciences & Bio-engineering K. Vijaya Krishna Prof. S. Verma S. Geetha Priya Prof. Ashok Kumar (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) Self-Assembly and Optical Properties of Biotin and Bilayered Cryogel Matrices for Skin Tissue Peptide Conjugates Engineering Simant Kumar Srivastav Prof. N.S. Gajbhiye Sandeep Gupta Prof. Jonaki Sen Prof. P.K. Bharadwaj (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) Investigation of the Molecular Regulation of Synthesis, Characterization, Magnetic, Dielectric and Morphogenesis of the Dorsal Forebrain Midline and Ferroelectric Properties of Nanocrystalline Bismuth The Hippocampus in Gallus Gallus Ferrite Systems: Bi1-xPrxFeO3 (0≤ x ≤ 0.10) Chemical Engineering Sauvik Samanta Prof. M.K. Ghorai (Thesis Supervisor) Stereoselective Syntheses of Cyclohexenone, Siddhartha Sengupta Prof. G. Deo Tetrahydropyrone and Morpholinone Derivatives (Thesis Supervisor) CO2 reforming of CH4 over unmodified and modified Ni/Al2O3 catalysts Tapas Ghatak Prof. Jitendra K Bera (Thesis Supervisor) C-H Bond Activation and Olefin Oxygenation: Probing Chandan Kumar Das Prof. J.K. Singh Bifunctionality Using 1,8-Naphtyridine Based (Thesis Supervisor) Study of the Effects of Confinement on Melting Lingands Transition of Lennard-Jones and Dipolar Fluids Pardeep Kumar Prof. Debabrata Goswami (Thesis Supervisor) Tapas Palai Prof. P.K. Bhattacharya Thermal Lens Study of Strong Absorbing Samples with Prof. Ashok Kumar Femtosecond Laser Pulse Train (Thesis Supervisors) Kinetics of Enzymatic Conversion of Lactose into Galacto-oligosaccharides Using Industrial Grade β- Rajneesh Kumar Prajapati Prof. Sandeep Verma (Thesis Supervisor) Galactosidase under Free, Immobilized and Structural Complexities and Reactivities in Metal- Bioconjugated States Adenine Systems Chemistry Suman Kumar Barman Prof. R.N. Mukherjee Jyoti Roy Choudhuri Prof. Amalendu Chandra Prof. M.K. Ghorai (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of aqueous Biomimetic Functional Modeling of Metallohydrolases solutions in bulk phase and also at liquid-vapour and and Catechol Oxidase liquid-liquid interfaces Asadulla Mallick Prof. Y.D. Vankar Prof. J.N. Moorthy Anwesa Karmakar Prof. A. Chandra (Thesis Supervisors) (Thesis Supervisor) Synthesis of Biologically Active Nitrogen Heterocyles Hydrogen bonded structure, polarity and dynamics of f r o m C a r b o h y d r a t e s a n d A u ( I I I ) “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” water and aqueous ionic solutions from first principles Halides/Phenylacetylene Catalyzed Glycosylations ― Albert Einstein 47th Convocation, 2015 Doctor of Philosophy 1 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Suresh Dharuman Prof. Y.D. Vankar Venkatesh V Prof. S. Verma Saiful Islam Prof. Phalguni Gupta Materials Science and Engineering (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) Functionalization of Glycals to 2-Substituted Glycals, Material and Biological aspects of metal-purine Highly Undetectable Steganography Techniques J. Bhagyaraj Prof. Gouthama and Synthesis of Analogues of Radicamine B, derivatives Prof. S.K. Bhoumik (Ext. ) NAL Codonopsinine and Codonopsine from D-Mannitol Electrical Engineering (Thesis Supervisors) Musheer Ahmad Prof. P.K. Bharadwaj TEM study of Ni-Ti shape memory alloy wires: Dipankar Sahoo Prof. V. Chandrasekhar (Thesis Supervisor) Prasanna Kumar Misra Prof. S. Qureshi Microstructural evolution during processing and Coordination Polymers of Transition Metal Ions with Prof. S. Verma (Thesis Supervisor) thermomechanical cycling (Thesis Supervisors) Unusual Entanglements: Magnetic, Gas Sorption, Performance Optimization of npn SiGe HBT on thin Polynuclear Transition Metal Phosphonates: Ferroelectric and Proton Conduction Studies film SOI Patan Yousaf Khan Prof. K. Biswas Synthesis, Structure and Characterization (Thesis Supervisor) Civil Engineering Umesh Chandra Samal Prof. K. Vasudevan Phase Transformation Behaviour of Multiphase Naga Pradeep Nidamanuri Prof. Sandeep Verma (Thesis Supervisor) Embedded Alloy Nanoparticles and Multilayered Thin (Thesis Supervisor) Timing Synchronization of Bandwidth Efficient Coded Films Material Aspects of Guanine Coordination Polymers Vaibhav Singhal Prof. D.C. Rai OFDM Systems (Thesis Supervisor) Swati Sharma Prof. Sandeep Sangal Namita Singh Prof. G. Anantharaman Effect of Toothing and Openings on Bi-Directional (Thesis Supervisor) Seismic Behaviour of Confined Masonry Walls Prof. K. Mondal Ch. V.V.S. Bhaskara Reddy Prof. S.C. Srivastava (Thesis Supervisors) Structural Diversity in Coordination Polymers Based Development of High Strength Wear resistant bainitic on 2,5-bis(imidazol-I-yl)thiophene Ligand:Structural Daya Shankar Kaul Prof. S.N. Tripathi Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti (Thesis Supervisors) steels for rail and wheel applications Transformations and Photo-luminescent Properties Prof. Tarun Gupta Early Detection & Control of Voltage Stability and Fast (Thesis Supervisors) Understanding the Formation of Organic Aerosol Assessment of ATC using Synchrophasor Rajeev Yadav Prof. Pratik Sen Measurements (Thesis Supervisor) during Foggy and Nonfoggy episodes in an Urban Domain Specific Interactions, Unfolding and Ultrafast Environment Abhijeet Premkumar Moon Prof. Sandeep Sangal Kanna Bhaskar Prof. S.N. Singh Prof. Kallol Mondal Dynamics of Human and Bovine Serum Albumin: A (Thesis Supervisor) Bulk and Single Molecular Level Study Sambit Prasanajit Naik Prof. Javed N. Malik (Thesis Supervisors) Wind Power Forecasting & Its Applications in Optimal Corrosion behavior of pearlitic/ferritic-pearlitic and Prof. N.R. Patra Bidding and Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch of Wind (Thesis Supervisors) bainitic rail, axle and wheel steels Rashmi Roy Prof. J.N. Moorthy Farms