ONGOING R&D PROJECTS
1.Project Title: Design and Development of Nanoscale Integrated System Along with Conformal Antenna as Capsule Prototype for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
Funding Agency: BDTD Scheme, Ministry of Science and Technology, DST, Govt of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sandeep Kumar along with Professor and Dean B. K. Kanaujia, JNU and AIIMS New Delhi
Duration: 2021-2024
Total Budget: 74 Lakh Rupees (NITK Funding = 33 Lakh Rupees)
2. Name of the Project: Design and Development of Ultra-low power CMOS IC for Wireless Neural Monitoring System
Funding Agency: International Division, DST, Govt of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sandeep Kumar Jointly with Prof. Hanjung Song, Centre of Nano-Manufacturing, Inje University, Busan, South Korea
Year: Dec 2020 to Dec 2023
Joint Funding Amount: 1 Crore 20 Lakh Rupees (India Budget: 40 Lakh and South Korea: 80.20 Lakh)
3. Name of the Project : Engineering novel label free multi-layer plasmonic nano-biosensor for DNA hybridization
Funding Agency : Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mandeep Singh
Duration : 2021 - 2026
Total Budget : 57.49 Lakh Rupees
4. Name of the Project: Development of Highly Conductive Ultrathin VS2 Crystals for High-Performance Flexible Supercapacitors
Funding Agency: SERB - DST, Govt of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sushil Kumar Pandey
Duration: 2020-2022
Total Budget: 27.86 Lakh Rupees
5. Name of the Project : Design and Dvelopmant of GaN HEMT Based LNA for L5 and S-Band IRNSS Recevier
Funding Agency : SERB - DST, Govt of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sandeep Kumar
Duration : 2020 - 2023
Total Budget : 30 Lakh Rupees
6. Name of the project : Development of design essentials for Ga2O3 based FinFET for SOC in automotive applications.
Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Govt. of India.
Principal Investigator : Dr. Nikhil K. S.
Year : 2020-2022.
Funding amount : 25.90 lakhs.
7. Name of the Project : SPARC Project: Exploring Applications of Radiomics in Brain Tumor Assessment and Treatment
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator : Dr. Sumam David jointly with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Co-investigator(s): (Indian Co-PI - Dr Deepu Vijayasenan, Dr Girish Menon (KMC Manipal); International PI – Dr Mandava Pitchaiah, Dr Paul Litvak )
Year : May 2019 to May 2021
Funding Amount : Rs. 38.63 lakhs
8. Name of the Project : IMPRINT-2 project, Title: Development of cost effective Radiofrequency ablation system and magnetic hyperthermia equipment for thermal therapies of cancerous tumours.
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ajay Kumar Yadav
Co-investigator(s): Dr. PU Saxena, KMC Attavar, MAHE, Manipal.; Dr. B. Satish Rao, School of Life Sciences, MAHE, Manipal; Dr. U. Sripathi & Dr. Laxminidhi, Dept of E&C, NITK.
Year: 2019-22
Funding Amount: 48.94 Lakhs
9. Name of the Project : Design and Development of Automated Kidney Cancer Detection System from H&E Stained Kidney Histopathological Images
Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Shyam Lal
Year: 2019-2022
Funding Amount: 27.96 lakhs
10. Name of the Project : Research Grant under Young Faculty Research Fellowship under Visvesvarayya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT
Funding Agency : Digital India Corporation, MCIT, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Shyam Lal
Year: 2019-2021
Funding Amount: 14.80 lakhs
11. Name of the Project : Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Radio over Free Space Optical Communication System for 5G Applications for Smart Cities
Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Prabu K.
Year: 2019-2021
Funding Amount: 28.06 lakhs
12. Name of the Project : Compact multi-band antenna with independently controlled resonant frequency and polarization for mobile wireless applications
Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Krishnamoorthy K
Year: 2017-2020
Funding Amount: 44.22 lakhs
13. Name of the Project : Design and Development of Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna using 2D Metamaterial Structures
Funding Agency : ISRO RESPOND Scheme
Principal Investigator: Dr. Krishnamoorthy K
Year: 2018-2020
Funding Amount: 25.71 lakhs
14. Name of the Project : Development and real-time implementation of fully automated liver cancer detection system from H&E stained liver histo-pathological images
Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Shyam Lal
Year: 2017-2020
Funding Amount: 9.94 lakhs
15. Name of the Project : Development and Performance Evaluation of Efficient tracking Algorithms for phased array radars in the presence of electronic counter measures
Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. P. Srihari
Year: 2016-2019
Funding Amount: 13.10 lakhs
16. Name of the Project : Sigma Delta Space Time Adaptive Processing Techniques for GMTI for ASEA Radar
Funding Agency : LRDE, DRDO
Principal Investigator: Dr. P Srihari
Co-investigator: Dr. Aparna P.
Year: 2018-2019
Funding Amount: 9.63 lakhs
17. Name of the Project : Automatic Multilingual Speaker Profiling & Forensics
Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Deepu Vijayasenan
Year: 2017-2019
Funding Amount: 49.94 lakhs
ONGOING MAJOR DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS
1. Name of the Project : FIST Project:Advanced Research Lab in RF Communications and Networks
Funding Agency : DST, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Muralidhar Kulkarni
Co-investigator(s): Dr. U. Shripathi Acharya
Year: 2016-2020
Funding Amount: 116.00 lakhs
2. Name of the Project : Special Manpower Development Project on VLSI (SMDP-VLSI) phase-III – Chips-to-Systems
a. 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
b. Hardware Accelerator for Deep Neural Networks
c. Development and implementation of Photoplethysmography (PPG) and Electro Cardiogram (ECG) acquisition and processing system on a chip.
Funding Agency : (DIT) MCIT, Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ramesh Kini M.
Co-investigator(s): Dr. Laxminidhi T.
Year: December 2014 - December 2019
Funding Amount: 1.60 crores
3. Name of the Project : Intel Embedded Initiative
Funding Agency : Intel Corporation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sumam David S.
Co-investigator(s): Dr. Ramesh Kini M.
Year: 2011-continuing
Funding Amount: 5.30 lakhs
4. Technical Education Quality Improvement Program(TEQIP - Phase III), 2017-2020
COMPLETED PROJECTS
- 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)
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
1. Automatic Bias Estimation Technique for 2D/3D Surveillance radar using Networked Radar Data - BEL, Bangalore, 2019-2020.
2. CARS Project: Study of Advanced Radar Signal Processing and Tracking approaches to Detect Low RCS Targets in Heavy Sea Clutter, RCI DRDO, 2019-2020.
3. Study of Various Bias Estimation Techniques for Multi-sensor Multi-target Tracking– DRDO, 2016-2017.
4. Designing a System to measure moisture content of Cashew seeds both raw and processed- Kalbavi Cashews, Mangalore, 2015-2017.
5. Design and Commissioning of Simulators for the Indian Railway Signaling System (for both Single Line and Double Line Operation)
Sponsoring Agency: Konkan Railway Institute of Staff Training (KRIST) Duration: 2007-09
Task Undertaken: Design and Fabrication of simulators to train railway personnel on the Indian Railway Signaling system. This work involved the design of a simulator (in Java) that could the actions of the signaling system prevalent on the Indian railways and design of a panels (with a microcontroller interface) that is a replica of the signaling panel in the Station master’s office. These panels (separate for single line and double line operations) were interfaced to a computer running the simulator. This allows the trainee to be trained on the system to handle all kinds of tasks usually encountered while regulating railway traffic. It is use in the Konkan Railway Institute of Staff Training since 2009. This system was built with the help of enthusiastic and concrete contributions of our undergraduate students (ECE, EE) from the 2005-09 batch. We heartily thank them for this wonderful work which has possibly contributed to safer travel on the Indian Railway network because of better training offered to their Signaling and Operating staff.
6. Technical Consultancy during procurement of Currency Note sorting machines to Public Sector Banks (2009).
Sponsoring Agencies: Corporation Bank, Syndicate Bank, Vijaya Bank
Task Undertaken: In this consultancy work we have served as an advisor and technical expert to leading public sector banks during the procurement of machines for currency note processing and fake note detection. In the course of this work, we have assisted the banks in the drafting of tender documents, examination of the received bids and also developed testing procedures to test the speed, repeatability and fake note detection capabilities of these machines. We assist the banks in ensuring that the currency note sorting machines being procured by them for use in their currency chests/ branches meet the requirements set forth for these machines by the Reserve bank of India (RBI) and are capable of working consistently and reliably.