MAJOR R&D PROJECTS

     On going:

• Building capacity in teaching and collaborative research in sensor systems for public utilities – with special emphasis on water and electricity distribution system : Jointly with Univ. of Bermingham UK, IBM India, RBEI India, ThoughtFocus India, Srinivasa Institute of Technology, Mangalore and A J Hospital, Mangalore : Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2018, Funded by Royal Academy of Engineering (Budget: Rs. 75.00 Lakhs)

• Compact multi-band antenna with independently controlled resonant frequency and polarization for mobile wireless applications – SERB, Department of Science and Technology(DST) under fast track young scientist research scheme Govt. of India (Rs. 34.14 Lakhs)

• Development and Performance Evaluation of Efficient Tracking Algorithms for Phased Array Radars in the Presence of Electronic Counter Measures - SERB, ,Department of Science and Technology(DST) under fast track young scientist research scheme ,  2016-2019, ( Budget: Rs.13.10 Lakhs)

• Development and real-time implementation of fully automated liver cancer detection system from H&E stained liver histo-pathological images - SERB, Department of Science and Technology (DST) under Early Career Research Award (Fast track young scientist research scheme), Govt. of India (Rs. 14.43 Lakhs)

• Design and deployment of an automatic audio-visual warning system for unmanned Railway level Crossings – TEQIP Phase II (Rs. 4.0 Lakhs)

• Building capacity in teaching and collaborative research in sensor systems for public utilities – TEQIP Phase  II (Rs. 2.5 Lakhs)

• Uncoordinated secure and energy aware access in distributed wireless networks by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology – jointly with IITB, TIFRB and NIT Durgapur, 2013-16 (Rs. 22 Lakhs) [ITRA]

• Automatic Multilingual Speaker Profiling & Forensics- SERB, Govt. of India, 2017-2019 (Rs. 49.94 Lakhs).

• Design and Development of Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna using 2D Metamaterial Structures- ISRO RESPOND Scheme, 2018-2020, (Rs. 25.71 Lakhs).

• Design and Development of Automated Kidney Cancer Detection System from H&E Stained Kidney Histopathological Images- SERB - DST, Govt of India, 2019-2022.

• Research Grant under Young Faculty Research Fellowship under Visvesvarayya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT, Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Communications & Information  Technology and Govt. of India. 2019-2021.

Completed:

• RF MEMS switches for Wideband Reconfigurable RF Microsystems, 2010-2014 (Rs. 175 Lakhs) [DeitY]
• Secure Turbulence Resistant Free Space Optical (FSO) links for Broadband Wireless Access Networks, 2010-2014 (Rs. 130 Lakhs) [DeitY]
• RF MEMS switch for Ka-band mm-wave circuits, 2009-2013 (Rs. 67 Lakhs), jointly with Physics Dept. [ADA]
• Energy Harvesting Seat, 2014-16, [Aerospace Network Research Consortium, Boeing]
• Low complexity decoders for Turbo Codes, 2003-2006 (Rs. 6.0 Lakhs) [MHRD]
• Interferometric Fiber Optic Sensors, 1993-99  (Rs. 5.0 Lakhs) [MHRD]
• Feasibility studies on the measurement of density in fluid mud areas using acoustic techniques, 1990-93  (Rs. 8.75 Lakhs) [DoE]

MAJOR  DEVELOPMENTAL  PROJECTS

    On going:

• DST-FIST Project - Advanced Research Lab in RF Communications and Networks - 2016-2020 (Rs. 125 Lakhs)
• SMDP-C2S in VLSI Design: Phase III, 2015-2020 (Rs. 100 Lakhs) [DeitY]
  • Cluster Level R&D Project : "ASIC Components for sensor interfacing for the Next Generation LCA"  coordinated by IISc, Bangalore and in collaboration with PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, NIT Warangal, IIT Hyderabad, NIT Rourkela 
  • Hardware Accelerator for Deep Neural Networks
  • Development and  implementation of Photoplethysmography (PPG) and Electro Cardiogram (ECG) acquisition and processing system on a chip.
• Intel Embedded Systems Initiative 2013-  (Rs 6.00 Lakhs) [Intel, India]
• Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP - Phase III), 2017-2020

    Completed:      

• Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP - Phase II), 2011-2016
• MEMS Design Centre, 2009-2014 (Rs. 7.52 Lakhs), jointly with Physics Dept., [ADA]
• Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP - Phase I), 2003-2009 [WB]
• SMDP in VLSI Design: Phase - II, 2007-13 (Rs. 80 Lakhs) [MCIT]
• SMDP in VLSI Design: Phase - I, 2001-06 (Rs. 45 Lakhs) [MCIT]
• MODROB for Communication Lab, 2005-07 (Rs. 8 Lakhs) [MHRD]
• MODROB for Embedded System Design Lab, 2003-05 (Rs. 10 Lakhs) [MHRD]
• Electronics Education Network Project (EENP), 2001-06 (Rs. 80 Lakhs) [SDC]
• Project IMPACT – Sustainability Support Scheme, 1998-2003 (Rs. 30 Lakhs), [WB and DoE]
• Project IMPACT, 1993-98 (Rs. 100 Lakhs) [WB and DoE]
• UK- India RECs Project, 1993-98 (Rs 600 Lakhs)[ODA]