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Neelakantan Prof. Rahul Varman Convener, Senate Educational Policy Committee Industrial & Management Engineering Prof. Anish Upadhyaya Materials Science & Engineering Graduating Students 48th Convocation “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed” 2015 ― Swami Vivekananda DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Aerospace Engineering Shiv Singh Prof. Nishith Verma (Thesis Supervisor) Development of metal nanoparticles-dispersed carbon Padwal Manisha Balwantrao Prof. D.P. Mishra micro-nanofibers for biochemical and energy (Thesis Supervisor) applications Studies on Atomization and Combustion of Gelled and Ungelled Jet A1 Propellants Anurag Kumar Tiwari Prof. R.P. Chhabra (Thesis Supervisor) Biological Sciences & Bio-engineering Momentum and Heat Transfer from a Semi-Circular Cylinder in Non-Newtonian Fluids Ravi Kant Pandey Prof. Pradip Sinha (Thesis Supervisor) Chemistry Regulation of Lymph Gland Homeostasis by Scrib and LGL Tumor Suppressors in Drosophila Ajitesh Kumar Prof. D. Goswami (Thesis Supervisor) Binapani Mahaling Prof. D.S. Katti Probing Molecular Dynamics in Condensed Phase by (Thesis Supervisor) Spectrally Resolved Photon Echo Spectroscopy Design and Development of a Non-Invasive Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery System for the Retina Ravi Tripathi Prof. Nisanth N. Nair (Thesis Supervisor) Sneh Harsh Prof. Pradip Sinha Molecular Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance by (Thesis Supervisor) Class–C and New Delhi Metallo β-Lactamases : A Cancer Progression and Systemic Innate Immunity in QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Study Drosophila Ritesh Janardhan Dhanorkar Prof. M.L.N. Rao A Ravi Kant Prof. D.S. Katti (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) New cross-coupling methods using triarylbismuths for Biomechanics of the distal stomach and duodenum: An the synthesis of diarylmthanes, aryl pyridines, aryl insight into mechanisms of duodenogastric reflux and quinolines, 2,3-diaryl-1-indenones, ortho-olefinated duodenal mixing and orhto-arylated biaryls Ankur Awadhiya Prof. Vivek Verma SK Asif Ikbal Prof. S.P. Rath (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) Studies in Agarose-based bioplastic material Supermolecular Chirogenesis in the Zn(II)/Mg(II) Bisporphyrin Based System upon Interactions with Chemical Engineering Bidentate Guest Ligands Arun Kumar Gupta Prof. Goutam Deo Shubhra Bikash Maity Prof. P.K. Bharadwaj (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) Biodiesel Production from Plant Oils Using Some Solid Transition and Heavy Metal Ion Induced Fluorescence catalysts Signaling in Acyclic Receptors and Live Cell Imaging Studies Neelamegam R Prof. V. Shankar (Thesis Supervisor) Amit Chakraborty Prof. V. Chandrasekhar Experimental studies of instabilities in flow past Prof. Sandeep Verma deformable solid surfaces (Thesis Supervisors) Compartmental Ligands supported on Ferrocene and Arun Prakash Upadhaya Prof. Sri Sivakumar Aminobenzohydrazide: Assembly of 3d/4f complexes (Thesis Supervisor) and a selective metal Ion sensor Fabrication of Functional Nanostructure via Click Chemistry for Photoelectrochemical Applications Amit Rajput Prof. R.N. Mukharjee Prof. M.K. Ghorai Kunal Mondal Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Thesis Supervisos) (Thesis Supervisor) Metal-Coordinated Ligand Redical Species Fabrication of Porous Carbon and Carbon/Metal- Oxide Nanostructures for Catalysis, Biosensing and Atanu Santra Prof. P.K. Bharadwaj Supercapacitor Applications (Thesis Supervisor) Coordination Polymers with Functionalized pores: Gas “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” Storage and Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Transformations ― Mahatma Gandhi 48th Convocation, 2015 Doctor of Philosophy 1 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Jhasaketan Sahu Prof. P.K. Bharadwaj Md. Ayaz Prof. Rajesh Srivastava Mahesh Kumar Prof. S.C. Srivastava Amithy Jasrotia Prof. A.K. Sharma (Thesis Supervisor) Prof. Ashu Jain Prof. S.N. Singh (Thesis Supervisor) Coordination Polymers with Different Multidentate (Thesis Supervisors) (Thesis Supervisors) Factors Facilitating and Inhibiting Educational Ligands: Structural Diversity, Luminescence, Gas Identification of Groundwater Pollution Source and Development of Control Schemes for Power Achievements in a Disadvantaged Community : A Sorption and Magnetic Studies Aquifer Parameters Using Breakthrough Data Management and Operation of DC Microgrids study of the Mahashas of Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir State in India Shradhey Gupta Prof. Pratik Sen Koushik Roy Prof. Samit Ray Chaudhuri Paramarshi Banerjee Prof. S.C. Srivastava (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisor) Bidisha Banerjee Prof. Shikha Dixit Spectroscopic Investigation of Alcohol-Chlorinated Vibration-based Structural Damage Localization and Improved Estimation of Dynamic Phasors, and their (Thesis Supervisor) Methane Synergistic Binary Solvent Mixtures and its Characterization Using Output-Only Measurements Applications in Distance Protection & Stability Experiences of Family Members of Persons Suffering Application Assessment from Mental Illness: A Narrative Inquiry Computer Science & Engineering Surendra H M Prof. M.K. Ghorai Seema Awasthi Prof. Animesh Biswas Naveen Bali Prof. P.M. Prasad (Thesis Supervisor) Prof. F.A. Khan Vibha Bhupendrabhai Patel Prof. Harish Karnick, Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar (Thesis Supervisors) Economics of Global Warming: A Case Study of Iron Prof. Amey Karkare (Thesis Supervisors) Formal Synthesis of (±)-Varitriol and Total Syntheses of Studies of Multiple Band-Limited Filters and its and Steel Industry in India (±)-Cis and (±)-trans-Neocnidilides, and Syntheses of Prof. Vivek Sarkar (Ext.) Realization using Metamaterial and Dielectric Spiro Dihydrofurans and Tetrahydrofurans from Prof. Sanjeev Aggarwal (Late) Resonators (Thesis Supervisors) Norbornyl α-Diketones Jolokia C++ : An Annotation based Compiler Industrial Management and Engineering Framework for GPGPU Vipul Arora Prof. Laxmidhar Behera Rohan DilipraoErande Prof. Dattatraya H. Dethe (Thesis Supervisor) Saba Azeem Prof. R.R.K. 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