11th Indo – German Frontiers of Engineering Conference (INDOGFOE 2021) Agenda Book Organized by In association with 24 – 26 February 2021 On Let’s Get Digital IIT Kharagpur 11th Indo – German Frontiers of Engineering Conference Let’s Get Digital, 24 – 26 February 2021 Agenda Book Agenda Book: INDOGFOE 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS Conference Information 1 Organizing Committee 2 Forewords by the conference co-chairs 3 Program Schedule 6 List of Oral Presentations 9 Oral Presentation Abstracts 11 Advanced Communication and 5G Technologies 11 Energy Materials 14 Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics 19 Sustainable Earth 25 List of Poster Presentations 30 Poster Presentation Abstracts 33 Advanced Communication and 5G Technologies 33 Energy Materials 40 Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics 47 Sustainable Earth 53 Bio-sketch of Participants 62 Panel Discussion 93 Bio-sketch of Panellists 94 About Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 98 Details of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Officials 99 About Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India 100 Details about DST Officials 102 About the Host Institute: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 105 CONNECT – AvH Follow-up Program 107 Conference Information The Indo German Frontiers of Engineering (INDOGFOE) is a flagship bilateral event organised jointly by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India (DST‐GoI) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Germany and is running successfully since 2009, alternating between venues in India and Germany. The key objective of the conference is to bring together outstanding, early‐career engineers and scientists working in industry, universities, and other research institutions from both the countries, to exchange their research ideas and expertise, thereby facilitating possible colabration and cooperation and to foster interdisciplinary research and transfer of knowledge that eventually can lead to the larger collaborative networks of young researchers across both countries. The 2020 INDOGFOE was supposed to be held in the East Indian mega‐polis of Kolkata, in June 2020 with IIT Kharagpur being the host Institute. Unfortunately, the meeting had to be deferred due to the prevaling global pandemic and we are delighted that both DST, AvH Foundation and the conferene chairs finally agreed to have an online meeting in February 2021 to maintain the continuity of the series. The conference will be held using the digital platform „Lets go Digital“ arranged by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Germany and will take place in a virtual mode between 24th and 26th February 2021. The official language of the meeting will be English. The conference will have four (4) themes which are: 1) Advanced Communication and 5G Technologies. 2) Energy Materials. 3) Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. 4) Sustainable Earth. Each session is organised by two session chairs, one each from both the countries and will have 4 oral presentations of 10 minutes each (2 Indian and 2 German speaekers), 8 posters (4 each from India and Germany) and about 40 minutes slot for discussion. The conference will also involve a panel discussion on „ Indo‐German Cooperation in Science and Technology: Fostering Knowledge Transfer for Society” on the last day of the meeting. 1 11th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Conference (INDOGFOE) 2021 A joint undertaking by the Department of Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Organizing Committee Conference Co‐Chairs Prof. Rabibrata Mukherjee Prof. Benedikt Schmulling Indian Co-Chair, INDOGFOE 2020 German Co-Chair, INDOGFOE 2020 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Professor & Chair, E‐Mobility Research Group Indian Institute of Technology University of Wuppertal Kharagpur, Rainer‐Gruenter‐Straße 21 Pin 721302, West Bengal, India Raum: FD 02.16 Phone: +91‐3222‐283912 (O) D‐42119 Wuppertal +91‐9831096816 (Cell) Telefon: +49 202 439‐1510 +91‐9475884339 (Cell) Telefax : +49 202 439‐1512 Email: [email protected] e‐mail: schmuelling@uni‐wuppertal.de Session (Themes ) Co‐Chairs (Themes arranged alphabetically) INDIA GERMANY Prof. Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma Dr.‐Ing. Christian Senger Advanced Professor Deputy Director Communication and Dept. of Computer Science & Institute of Telecommunications Engg., IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, University of Stuttgart 5G Technologies India 502285 Pfaffenwaldring 47 Email: [email protected] 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Email: [email protected]‐stuttgart.de Prof. Sebastian C. Peter Prof. Oliver Clemens Associate Professor Technische Universität Darmstadt Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Materials Science Energy Materials Advanced Scientific Research, Alarich‐Weiss‐Straße 2 Jakkur Post, Bengaluru, India‐ 64287 Darmstadt, Germany 560064 E‐Mail: [email protected]‐ Email: [email protected] darmstadt.de Dr. Narayanan C Krishnan Prof. Sebastian Stober Department of Computer Artificial Intelligence Lab Machine Learning Science and Engineering Institute for Intelligent Cooperating and Big Data Indian Institute of Technology Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Analytics Ropar, Rupnagar, India ‐ 140001 Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg Email: [email protected] Universitätsplatz 2 D‐39106 Magdeburg, Germany E‐Mail: [email protected] Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee Dr. Manisha Jain Department of Geology and Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Sustainable Earth Geophysics, Indian Institute of Regional Development Technology (IIT) Kharagpur Weberplatz 1, 01217 Dresden, Germany West Bengal 721302, India Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] [email protected] 2 11th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Conference (INDOGFOE) 2021 A joint undertaking by the Department of Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Foreword by the Conference Co-chairs We are delighted to welcome you all in the 11th edition of the Indo German Frontiers of Engineering (INDOGFOE) meeting, though over a virtual platform! We are delighted to host the meeting between 24th and 26th February 2021, on the platform “Let’s go digital”. The meeting, which is a flagship event of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India (DST, GoI) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Germany is running successfully ever since the first edition took place in the beautiful south Indian mega‐polis Chennai in 2009. As most of you will realize during the next three days that the meeting is unique as it brings together outstanding, early‐career German and Indian engineers and scientists from industry, universities, and other research institutions, to discuss their areas of research and technical expertise, thereby facilitating a conducive atmosphere for cooperation and to foster interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methodology that could eventually lead to the development of collaborative networks of young researchers from both countries. The discussions in the conference will be based on four apparently non‐correlated, but extremely contemporary, socially relevant and scientifically cutting edge domains. For this year’s meeting, the themes are: 1) Advanced Communication and 5G Technologies; 2) Energy Materials; 3) Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics; and 4) Sustainable Earth. Interestingly, though apparently un‐correlated, there is strong the inter linkage between the different themes, which ideally is to encourage researchers from both the countries is collectively addressing challenges from a wider perspective, that involve multi‐disciplinary engagements. We all know that the proliferation and penetration of smart phones and IoT devices is having profound impact on world economy. Advanced wireless communication technologies like 5G will help in supporting billions of wirelessly connected devices and tackling exponentially increasing traffic demands and ever‐increasing Quality of Experience (QoE) and energy efficiency requirements of diverse services and applications being envisaged in the networks of the future. We look forward from learning the basics of how “5G” is going to change our lives and approach towards science & probably society in a wonderful session on “Advanced Communication and 5G Technologies” put together by Prof. Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma of IIT Hyderabad and Dr.‐Ing. Christian Senger of University of Stuttgart. The advancement of civilization is associated with more and more use of technology and automation for betterment of human life. The ever increasing demand for energy storage and energy conversion systems, which stems from the ceaseless demand of energy for everyday functioning, reflects the critical need for advanced energy materials. Research 3 11th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Conference (INDOGFOE) 2021 A joint undertaking by the Department of Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in fundamental discovery in materials science, engineering, and related disciplines leads to the discovery of novel devices like advanced batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cell, thermoelectrics with high energy storage which are used in different applications. The efficient fuel production from the water and pollutant materials like CO2 and biomass also urged the scientific thrust in fundamental research, especially in materials research. We learn about all these novel developments in the session on “Energy Materials” set up by Prof. Sebastian Peter of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru and Prof. Oliver