Annual Report 2009-2010

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Annual Report
2 0 0 9–2 0 10
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati 781039, INDIA
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Annual Report 2009–2010
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is
the sixth member of the IIT family. Indian
Institute of Technology–Assam Society was
formed in February 1989. The foundation
stone of IIT Guwahati was laid in July 1992
in Guwahati. The Institute of Technology
(Amendment) Act 1994, passed by the
Parliament, was notified in the Gazette of
India on May 26, 1994, by which the IIT
Guwahati–Assam Society was made into IIT
Guwahati. By the Gazette of India
notification of the Ministry of Human
Resource Development dated September
1,1994, the Central Government declared
September 1,1994, as the date on which the
Institute of Technology (Amendment) Act
1994 (No. 35 of 1994) came into force and
IIT Guwahati was established. Enrollment of
students started in 1995.
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C O N T E N T S
Annual Report 2009–2010: A Quick Look
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PART I
Organisation
IIT Council
Board of Governors
Finance Committee
Building and Works Committee
Senate
Executive Summary
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PART II
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS
Biotechnology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Design
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Physics
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70
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105
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123
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159
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ACADEMIC CENTRES
Centre for Energy
Centre for the Environment
Centre for Nanotechnology
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206
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CENTRALISED SERVICES AND PROGRAMME
Central Library
Centre for Educational Technology
Central Instruments Facility
Centre for Mass Media Communication
Computer and Commuication Centre
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PART III
APPENDICES
Faculty
Officers (Group A)
Degree Awardees
Progress in Construction Works
Details of Research and Development Projects
Summary of Institute Accounts
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Annual Report 2009–2010: A Quick Look
Department/Centre/Programme
Academic Department
Academic Centre
Service Centre
Programme
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Grants
MHRD
Rs. 103.90 crores
Total
Rs. 103.90 crores
Students Admitted
Students Strength
Preparatory
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Preparatory
37
BTech/BDes
MTech
MSc
MA
MDes
PhD
Total
469
250
92
19
16
212
1095
BTech/BDes
MTech
MSc
MA
MDes
PhD
Total
1592
470
178
19
32
575
2903
Number of Degrees Awarded
11th Convocation (2009)
BTech/BDes
MTech/MDes
MSc
PhD
Total
238
199
59
37
533
Faculty/Staff Strength
Faculty
Scientific Staff
Non-Teaching Staff (Group A)
Non-Teaching Staff (Others)
Total
251
31
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265
573
Research Papers
Journal Papers
Conference Papers
Total
Consultancy Projects
New Projects
Outlay (Rs. in crore)
478
426
904
Sponsored Research Projects
205
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New Projects
Outlay (Rs. in crore)
51
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P ART I
Organisation
IIT Council
Board of Governors
Finance Committee
Senate
Executive Summary
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Organisation
Chairman, Council of IITs
Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Govt. of India
Chairman, Board of Governors
Dr. M. K. Bhan (up to 07.02.2010)
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology
Ministry of Science and Technology
CGO Complex (Block 2, 7th Floor)
Lodi Road, New Delhi 110 003
Dr. R. P. Singh (from 08.02.2010)
Former Chairman and Managing Director
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
A-1, PWO Housing Society
Hriday Deep, Sector 43
Gurgaon, Haryana 122 002
Director
Prof. Gautam Barua
Dean, Administration
Prof. Gautam Barua, Director (up to 31.07.2009) (additional charge)
Prof. S. Dandapat (from 01.08.2009)
Dean, Academic Affairs
Prof. S. Nandi
Dean, Faculty Affairs
Prof. P. K. Bora
Dean, Research and Development
Prof. P. S. Robi
Dean, Students’ Affairs
Prof. A. K. Sarma
Dean, Institute Works
Prof. A. Dutta (from 01.07.2009)
Registrar
Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury
Head, Department of Biotechnology
Prof. A. Goyal
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Head, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. P. Saha
Head, Department of Chemistry
Prof. A. Chattopadhyay
Head, Department of Civil Engineering
Prof. S. K. Deb
Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. G. Sajith (up to 02.08.2009)
Dr. P. Bhaduri (from 03.08.2009)
Head, Department of Design
Prof. A. K. Das
Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Prof. S. Majhi
Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Prof. A. Barua
Head, Department of Mathematics
Prof. R. K. Sinha
Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. D. Chakraborty
Head, Department of Physics
Prof. S. Ravi
Head, Centre for Energy
Prof. P. Mahanta
Head, Centre for the Environment
Prof. C. Mahanta
Head, Centre for Nanotechnology
Dr. S. S. Ghosh
Head, Central Instruments Facility
Dr. A. K. Saikia
Head, Centre for Educational Technology
Prof. S. Talukdar
Head, Centre for Mass Media Communication
Prof. A. K. Das
Head, Computer Centre
Dr. D. Goswami
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IIT Council
Minister in charge of Technical Education in the Central Government (Ex-Officio)
Shri Kapil Sibal
Minister for Human Resource Development
Govt. of India, New Delhi 110 001
Chairman
Chairman of Board of Governors of all IITs (Ex-Officio)
Bombay
Dr. Anil Kakodkar
Chairman, BOG, IIT Bombay
Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Secretary, Dept. of Atomic Energy
Anushakti Bhawan, CSM Marg
Mumbai 400 001
Member
Delhi
Prof. V.S. Ramamurthy
Chairman, BOG, IIT Delhi
Former Secretary, Dept. of Science and Technology
Delhi 110 016
Member
Guwahati
Dr. M.K. Bhan (up to 07.02.2010)
Chairman, BOG, IIT Guwahati
Member
Dr. R. P. Singh (from 08.02.2010)
Member
Kanpur
Prof. M. Anandakrishnan
Member
Chairman, BOG, IIT Kanpur
Chairperson, Madras Institute of Development Studies
79, Second Main Road, Gandhi Nagar
Adyar Chennai 600 020
Kharagpur
Shri B. Muthuraman
Chairman, BOG, IIT Kharagpur
Managing Director, Tata Steel Limited
Jamshedpur 831 001
Member
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Madras
Dr. R. Chidambaram
Chairman, BOG, IIT Madras
Principal Scientific Advisor to the Govt. of India
Vigyan Vavan Annexe
Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi 110 011
Member
Roorkee
Shri Ashok Bhatnagar
Chairman, BOG, IIT Roorkee
Former Chairman, Railway Board &
Principal Secretary to the Govt. of India
117, SFS Apartments, Hauz Khas
Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi-110016
Member
Bombay
Prof. Devang V. Khakhar
Director, IIT Bombay
Mumbai 400 076
Member
Delhi
Prof. Surendra Prasad
Director, IIT Delhi
Hauz Khas
Delhi 110 016
Member
Guwahati
Prof. Gautam Barua
Director, IIT Guwahati
Guwahati 781 039
Member
Kanpur
Prof. S. G. Dhande
Director, IIT Kanpur
Kanpur 208 016
Member
Kharagpur
Prof. Damodar Acharya
Director, IIT Kharagpur
Kharagpur 721 302
Member
Madras
Prof. M. S. Ananth
Director, IIT Madras
Chennai 600 036
Member
Roorkee
Prof. S. C. Saxena
Director, IIT Roorkee
Uttaranchal 247 667
Member
Director of all IITs (Ex-Officio)
Chairman, University Grants Commission (Ex-Officio)
Prof. Sukhdeo Thorat
Chairman, University Grants Commission
Bahadurshah Zafar Marg
New Delhi 110 002
Member
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Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Ex-Officio)
Dr. Samir K. Brahmachari
Director General
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Anusandhan Bhawan, Rafi Marg
New Delhi 110 001
Chairman, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Ex-Officio)
Dr. K. Kasturirangan
Chairman, Council of IISc Bangalore
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560 012
Director, Indian Institute of Science (Ex-Officio)
Prof. P. Balaram
Director, IIsc Bangalore
Bangalore 560 012
Member
Member
Member
Three nominees of the Central Government
To represent the Ministry concerned with Technical Education
Shri R. P. Agrawal
Secretary, Department of Higher Education
Ministry of Human Resource Development
New Delhi 110 001
To represent the Ministry of Finance
Ms. Sushma Nath
Secretary, Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
New Delhi 110 001
Member
Member
To represent any other Ministry
TO BE NOMINATED
Member
Nominee of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Prof. S. S. Mantha
Chairman (Acting)
All India Council for Technical Education
7th Floor, Chanderlok Building
Janpath, New Delhi 110 001
Member
Nominees of the Visitor (minimum 3 and maximum 5)
Prof. C.N.R. Rao
Chairman
Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
Member
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Prof. C. S. Seshadri
Director
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai
Plot H1, SIPKOT IT Park, Padur, Siruseri 603 103
Member
Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Director
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Homi Bhaba Road, Mumbai 400 005
Member
Dr. Kota Harinarayan
Chairman
Research Council of Central Scientific Instrument
Organisation, National Aerospace Laboratories
P.O. No. 1779, Bangalore 560 017
Member
Shri Tarun Das
Chief Mentor, Confederation of Indian Industry,
Plot No. 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Sector 18
Gurgaon 122 015
Member
Three Members of Parliament (two from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha)
Secretary to the Council
TO BE APPOINTED
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Member
TO BE APPOINTED
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Member
Smt. Vasanthi Stanley
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
106, South Avenue
New Delhi 110 001
Member
Shri Ashok Thakur
Additional Secretary
Department of Higher Education
New Delhi 110 001
Secretary
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Board of Governors
Chairman
Dr. M. K. Bhan (up to 07.02.2010)
Dr. R. P. Singh (from 08.02.2010)
Member (Ex-Officio)
Prof. Gautam Barua
Director
IIT Guwahati
Member-Nominees of the IIT Council
Shri Provash Chandra Neogy
EC 126, Sector I
Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 064
Shri K. Shankar Narayanan
H 87, Bag Mugalia Extension
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462 043
Prof. Vinod Kr. Singh
Director, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal
Transit Campus: ITI (Gas Rahat) Building
Govindpura, Bhopal 462 023
Member-Nominee of the Govt. of Assam
Shri H. M. Cairae
Principal Secretary to the Govt. of Assam
Public Enterprise and Higher Education Department
C Block (3rd Floor), Assam Secretariat
Dispur, Guwahati 781 006
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Member-Nominee of the Govt. of Manipur
Shri P. Sharat Chandra
Principal Secretary to the Govt. of Manipur
Department of Higher and Technical Education
Manipur Secretariat, South Block
Imphal, Manipur 795 001
Member-Nominee of the North East Region
Shri P. D. Sawyan
Architect/Industrialist
Hotel Centrepoint
Police Bazar
Shillong 793 003
Member-Nominees of the Senate
Prof. Alika Khare
Professor
Department of Physics
IIT Guwahati
Prof. A. T. Khan (up to 31.12.2009)
Head and Professor
Department of Chemistry
IIT Guwahati
Prof. B. K. Patel (from 16.03.2010)
Head and Professor
Department of Chemistry
IIT Guwahati
Secretary (Ex-Officio)
Registrar
IIT Guwahati
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Finance Committee
Dr. M. K. Bhan (up to 07.02.2010)
Chairman (Ex-Officio)
Dr. R. P. Singh (from 08.02.2010)
A-1, PWO Housing Society, Hriday Deep, Sector 43
Prof. Gautam Barua
Director
IIT Guwahati
Member (Ex-Officio)
Financial Adviser
MHRD, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 001
Member
Joint Secretary
MHRD, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 001
Member
Prof. D. Kakati (up to 25.05.2009)
Former VC, Dibrugarh University
Phulu Kutir, Shantiram Das Road
Rehabari, Guwahati 781 008
Member
Shri D. Saikia, IAS (from 26.05.2009)
Former Commissioner and Secretary
Government of Assam
Saru Mataria, Dispur, Guwahati 781 006
Member
Prof. P. K. Bora
Dean (Faculty Affairs) and Professor
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
IIT Guwahati
Member
Registrar
IIT Guwahati
Secretary
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Prof. Gautam Barua
Director
IIT Guwahati
The Director (Technical)
Technical Section I
Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi 110 001
Member (Ex-Officio)
Dr. N.K. Chaudhury
Former Vice Chancellor
Gauhati University
Niz Path, Rukminigaon
Guwahati 781 022
Member
Shri Debi Charan Bora
Former Commissioner and Secretary
PWD, Assam
Monalisa Path, Hatigarh Chariali
Zoo Narangi Road, Guwahati 781 021
Member
Dean Administration/Deputy Director
IIT Guwahati
Member (Ex-Officio)
Prof. S. K. Deb (up to 30.06.2009)
Convenor, Project Monitoring and Evaluation Committee
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Guwahati
Member (Ex-Officio)
Prof. A. Dutta (from 01.07.2009)
Dean, Institute Works and
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Guwahati
Member (Ex-Officio)
Chief Engineer (Buildings)
PWD, Assam
Chandmari, Guwahati 781 003
Member (Ex-Officio)
The Superintending Engineer
CPWD, Assam
R.G. Baruah Road, Guwahati
Member (Ex-Officio)
Dr. B.N. Raychoudhury
Registrar
IIT Guwahati
Member Secretary (Ex-Officio)
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Senate
Chairman
Prof. Gautam Barua
Director
IIT Guwahati
Member Secretary
Dr. B.N. Raychoudhury
Registrar
IIT Guwahati
Members
Prof. S. Nandi
Dean of Academic Affairs, and
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. S. Dandapat
Dean of Administration, and
Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. P.K. Bora
Dean of Faculty Affairs, and
Prof. A. Dutta
Dean of Institute Works and
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. P. S. Robi
Dean of Research & Development, and
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. A.K. Sarma
Dean of Students’ Affairs, and
Prof. A. Goyal
Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
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Dr.Prabirkumar Saha
Associate Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati
Prof. S. K. Deb
Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Dr. P. Bhaduri
Associate Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. A.K. Das
Professor and Head, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Prof. S. Majhi
Professor and Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. A. Barua
Professor and Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati
Prof. Rajen K. Sinha
Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati
Prof. Debabrata Chakrabarty
Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. S. Ravi
Professor and Head, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati
Prof P. Mahanta
Head, Centre for Energy, and
Dr. C. Mahanta
Head, Centre for Environment, and
Dr. S. S. Ghosh
Head, Centre for Nanotechnology, and
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Dr. K. Pakshirajan
Chairman, Hostel Affairs Board, and
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Prof. P. Goswami
Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
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Prof. R. Swaminathan
Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Prof. A.K. Ghoshal
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Prof. A.T. Khan
Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati
Prof. B.K. Patel
Prof. J.B. Baruah
Prof. T. Punniyamurthy
Prof. S. Talukdar
Prof. D. Chakrabarti
Professor, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Prof. P. G. Yammiyavar
Prof. Ravi Mokashi Punekar
Prof. A. Mahanta
Prof. A.K. Gogoi
Prof. S.K. Bose
Prof. Abu Nasar Saied Ahmed
Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati
Prof. Krishna Barua
Prof. S. Borbora
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Prof. Bhaba K. Sarma
Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati
Prof. D.C. Dalal
Prof. R. Alam
Prof. A.K. Dass
Prof. R. Tiwari
Prof. S. C. Mishra
Prof. S.K. Dwivedy
Prof. S.K. Kakoty
Prof. U.S. Dixit
Prof. A. Khare
Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati
Prof. A. Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati
Members (External)
Dr. Pranab Bharali
Former Director (Operations), Oil India Limited
Prof. Dulal C. Goswami
Former Professor of Gauhati University
Prof. Birendranath Dutta
Former Professor of Gauhati University
Invitees
All Associate Professors and the Deputy Librarian of the Institute
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Executive Summary
INTRODUCTION
IIT Guwahati was established in the year 1994 through
the Institutes of Technology Act, and has successfully
completed a decade and a half of its existence. The
year 2009 has seen its eleventh batch of students
taking their degrees in the month of May. The Institute
takes pride in the achievements of its students and
gladly announces that almost all the passed out
students have been well placed in various government
organisations and multi-national companies in India
and abroad. All the achievements in academic and
research areas have been successful only because of
the relentless efforts of dedicated faculty members
and the commendable cooperation of all other nonteaching employees of the Institute.
Here is a brief report on the activities and achievements
of the Institute during the year 2009-2010.
THE BOARD
Dr. M. K. Bhan completed his three-year term as the
Chairman of the Board of Governors and relinquished
charge in February 2010. The Institute and the Board
wishes to record appreciation of the contributions
of Dr. Bhan during his tenure and is thankful to him
for the leadership he provided to the Institute. The
Institute wishes to mention in particular his contribution
in strengthening and giving proper guidance to its
research programme. The Institute is sure he will
remain a well wisher, and looks forward for his
guidance and help in future too. Dr. R.P. Singh, former
Chairman and Managing Director of Power Grid
Corporation of India, and currently the Vice Chairman
and Managing Director of Jindal Power Limited, is the
new Chairman of the Board. IIT Guwahati is honoured
to move forward under his leadership. The Institute
would like to thank the outgoing Board member, Prof.
A.T. Khan, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati,
for his contributions. Shri N. K. Sinha, Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Human Resource Development joined
the Board in August 2009, and Prof. B.K. Patel,
Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati, has joined
from 1 January 2010.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Institute has 11 academic departments, 3 interdisciplinary academic centres and 4 service centres.
No additions were made this year. These are:
Departments
Biotechnology (BT), Chemical Engineering (CL),
Chemistry (CH), Civil Engineering (CE), Computer
Science and Engineering (CSE), Design (DE),
Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE),
Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Mathematics
(MA), Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Physics
(PH)
Academic Centres
Centre for Energy, Centre for the Environment,
Service Centres
Computer and Communication Centre, Central
Instruments Facility, Centre for Educational
Technology, Centre for Mass Media Communication
The Institute offers academic programmes covering a
wide range of science, engineering, and humanities
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disciplines. One new programme has been started
from this academic session - MA in Development
Studies in the Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences.
The number of students on the rolls in the academic
year 2009-2010 at the undergraduate, postgraduate
and PhD levels was 2903. About 44% are postgraduate students. The detailed break up is given
below:
Course
2008–2009
2009–2010
Preparatory
–
37
BTech/BDes
1362
1592
MTech/MDes
442
502
MSc
146
178
MA
–
19
PhD
407
575
Total
2357
2903
Eleventh Convocation
In the Eleventh Convocation of the Institute held on 29
May 2009, a total number of 533 students received their
BTech, BDes, MSc, MTech, MDes and PhD degrees.
BTech/BDes
Biotechnology
Civil Engineering
Design
Total
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
23
22
28
52
15
49
49
238
MSc
Chemistry
Mathematics and Computing
Physics
Total
MTech/MDes
Civil Engineering
Design
Total
PhD
Biotechnology
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Design
Mathematics
Physics
Total
Grand Total
:
:
:
:
20
17
22
59
:
:
:
:
:
:
22
41
40
13
40
43
199
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
4
5
4
1
3
2
2
5
6
2
3
37
533
A detailed list of degree awardees is given in Appendix III.
Dr. Kirit S.
Parikh; Dr. M. K.
Bhan, Chairman,
BoG; and the
Director of the
Institute with
some of the
degree holders in
the Eleventh
Convocation
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ACADEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT
The Computer and Communication Centre, the
central computing resource pool for the Institute, is
involved in providing computing support to the
Institute and in the development of in-house software
packages. The Institute has 67 Mbps of Internet
bandwidth from four service providers. The National
Knowledge Network (NKN) is getting established in
the country, and an experimental 1 Gbps link has
already been established in the Institute. The
bandwidth is likely to be further increased soon.
Video Conferencing equipment is being installed in
two classrooms, and a pilot project on use of NKN for
remote classrooms, lectures, talks, etc. will start. The
Central Library has a collection of 1,17,351 items.
This includes 2605 subscribed online journals and
magazines. The availability of research papers online
has helped the academic activities a great deal. A
number of new equipments have been added to the
laboratories of all the Departments and Centres.
Some of the major equipment and facilities acquired
by the Institute during the last year are:
 Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Timeof-Flight Mass Spectrometry Unit and accessories –
Rs. 2.47 crores.
 Beckman Analytical Ultra Centrifuge package,
Optical density Measurement system, Transport
accessories and other – Rs. 1.85 crores.
 CO2 Laser Cutting Machine – Rs. 1.75 Crores
 Liquid Helium Plant – Rs. 1.36 crores
 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope – Rs.
1.4 crores
 Surface Plasmon Resonance Biacore Processing unit
and accessories – Rs. 1.30 Crores.
Beckman Analytical Ultra Centrifuge
 Circular Dichroism Spectrolarimeter and accessories
– Rs. 55.00 lakhs
 DNA Microarray Scanner and accessories – Rs. 80
lakhs
 Vector network analyzer – Rs. 48.80 lakhs
 Rotary Virometer and components – Rs. 33.00
lakhs
 Flow Cytometer – Rs. 29 lakhs
 Differential Scanning Calorimeter/ThermoGravimetric Analyzer – Rs. 63 lakhs
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The number of PhD students on campus is increasing
every year. This year has seen a big jump in numbers,
growing from 407 last year to 575. The numbers
graduating has also increased from 37 to 48 this year.
The Institute is aggressively pursuing the increase in
the number of PhD students. The current faculty to
PhD students’ ratio is 2.29. The Institute is aiming to
increase this to 2.5 in the coming year. With the
increase in the faculty strength, the target becomes
750 PhD students by March next year.
The other component of our research programme is
sponsored (or directed) research. There are 151
research staff (including 22 also doing their PhD) in
the 265 ongoing projects in the Institute.
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
26 faculty members are being supported under the
start-up grant scheme introduced last year for newly
joined faculty. Under this, every joining faculty is
eligible for support with a grant of up to Rs. 5 lakhs
against a specific project which the faculty has to
propose and submit.
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In 2009-2010, the Institute obtained sponsored
research and consultancy projects worth Rs. 39 crores
as compared to Rs. 27.75 crores last year. Over 265
ongoing and new projects were in progress during this
year. The R&D projects were mainly sponsored by
government Departments and Ministries with major
support coming from Departments of Science and
Technology (DST), Biotechnology (DBT), Atomic
Energy (DAE), Environment (MoE), Human Resource
Development (MHRD), Information Technology
(DIT), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR), Defence Research Labs (DRL) and BRNS.
A comparison between last year and this year is
shown in Table–1 below:
Particulars
2008-2009
2009-2010
New Sponsored Projects received
65
51
New Consultancies received
200
202
Total sanctioned value of the received Sponsored Projects (Rs. in crores)
25.75
34.00
Total sanctioned value of the received Consultancies (Rs. in crores)
2.00
5.00
Total amount received for all Projects – new and continuing (Rs. in crores)
18.96
17.77
Total amount received for all Consultancies – new and continuing (Rs. in crores)
2.60
4.05
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Total amount spent for all Projects and Consultancies (Rs. in crores)
Table–1
Funding
Agency
Discipline
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in lakhs)
DBT
Biotechnology
170.00
Integrated Land Use Planning & Water Resource
Management
Min. of
Urban Dev.
Civil Engineering
277.26
Design, Development and Verification of Network
Specific Intrusion Detection System using Failure
Detection and Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems
Dept. of IT
Computer Science and
Engineering
111.72
Dept. of S&T
Engineering
86.00
HAWS
Design
31.22
Development of person Authentication System
based on Speaker Verification in Uncontrolled
Environment
Dept. of IT
Electronics and
Communication Engineering
109.00
Design of carbon nanotube field effect transistor
(CNFET) based amplifiers
SRC, USA
Electronics and
19.50
Strengthening the research activities in the area of
Micro-fabrication and Condition Monitoring area
under Fund for Improvement of Science and
Technology Programme
Dept. of S&T
259.50
FIST Programme
Dept. of S&T
Physics
229.00
National Programme on Technology Enhanced
Learning
MHRD
Centre for Educational
Technology
893.00
Development of an Indian Sign Language
Recognition System for Hearing Impaired Students of
India
MHRD
Technology
130.00
Mission Project for Virtual Labs
MHRD
Technology
200.00
Project Title
MTech Programme Support
Intelligent Robot Human Interaction and Embedded
System
Design of Gear Avalanche Survival
Table–2
The Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India has
entrusted IIT Guwahati the responsibility of
coordinating the ‘Programme on strengthening of
biotechnology teaching, training and research in
universities and colleges in North East Region’. Out of
the total sanctioned amount of Rs. 14.87 crores, Rs.
12.00 crores has been received. The projects
sanctioned to the Tripura University, Gauhati
University, Dibrugarh University, Tezpur University,
Assam University, NEHU, Darrang College and
Kaliabor College under the said programme are
progressing successfully.
IIT Guwahati Technology Incubation Centre was
established as a separate Society to allow
entrepreneurial activities to start on campus. Exstudents of IIT Guwahati and the Government
Colleges in Assam are the target entrepreneurs. The
physical infrastructure is almost ready. The challenge
before the Institute is to find entrepreneurs. The
Institute has not been successful so far.
Some of the research projects received during the
year are given in Table–2 on the facing page.
In addition to sponsored Research Projects, IIT
Guwahati undertakes consultancy assignments to solve
real problems. Businesses and Society are able to
utilise the knowledge base of the Institute. The
Institute considers consultancy projects an important
tool to achieve one of its objectives, namely,
contributing to the industrial, economic and social
growth of the country, as well as the North East of
India. Some of the major clients are from State
Government Departments, particularly the
Government of Assam, N.F. Railways, National
Highways Authority of India, Oil and Gas Sector,
Construction and Infrastructure Companies, Power
Sector, Education Institutes, Health and
Pharmaceutical Industries and Financial Institutions.
A total of 202 consultancy projects (including the
testing and recommendation jobs) were carried out in
the year. The total value of the consultancy projects
undertaken during the reporting year is approximately
Rs. 5.00 crores, and during the year Rs. 4.05 crores
was received.
Even though the position in sponsored R&D is
satisfactory, the increases have not been as much as
expected. The Institute urges the faculty to pursue
getting sponsored projects more vigorously.
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FACULTY AND STAFF
The faculty strength at the end of March 2010 was
251. This is an increase of 31 from 220 at the end of
last year. As per the approved ratio of student to
faculty of 1:10, this number should be 290 by the end
of June 2010. The Institute expects to reach at least a
figure of around 260, while striving to achieve the
targeted figure. The non-faculty staff strength was 322
with an increase of 27 from 295 last year.
The salaries of employees have seen a major increase
with the implementation of the 6th pay commission
awards. It is hoped that this increase will bring with it
a greater sense of responsibility towards the Institute
and society.
The Institute is still facing difficulties in the creation of
non-faculty posts. The Government is insisting on a
faculty to staff ratio of 1:1.1. With the student
strength planned to increase to 3400 next year, the
Institute should be able to create about 50 nonfaculty posts. There are issues relating to career
progression avenues for staff, particularly the officers
of the Institute. The IIT Directors have submitted
proposals to the Ministry, but consent from the
Government is awaited. The delay is causing
discontent among staff and there is need to take
action urgently.
PUBLICATIONS
The faculty of the Institute has been actively
publishing research papers in international and
national journals as well as in conference proceedings.
The number of publications during the past one year
are:
Journal Papers: 478
Conference Papers: 426
The average per capita faculty output, as compared to
last year, has increased from 1.80 to 1.90 for journal
papers, and from 1.69 to 1.70 for conference papers.
Thus there is a steady, though small upward trend.
The Institute will analyse the impact these
publications are having next year onwards.
CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA/
COURSES
Various conferences, seminars, workshops and courses
were organised by the Departments and Centres of
the Institute during the year. A few of them are:
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International Conference on Advanced
Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN2009), 9–11 December 2009
National workshop on Information Security
Education and Awareness, 15–19 February
2010
11th Annual Conference of North Eastern
Economic Association, 18–19 December 2009
Cultures of Northeast India: Ethnic and
Archaeological Background, 5–7 November
2009
National Seminar on Active and Passive Noise
Control, 13–14 November 2009
Recent Advances in Correlated Electron
Systems, 18–20 January 2010
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Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired
Research, Winter Science Camp for School
Children, 15-21 December 2009
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
Prof. R. Swaminathan, Department of Biotechnology,
was an Invited Professor at the University of
Strasbourg in the Laboratory of Biophotonics and
Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy in
Strasbourg-Illkirch, France between May 15 and July
15, 2009. Dr. L. Rangan, from the same Department
received the Third World Academy of Sciences
(TWAS) Best Poster Presentation Award during the
TWAS Regional Young Scientist Conference, “Food,
Health and Fuel- Plants for future”. Dr. V. K. Dubey
from the same Department has been selected for
“Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award” for 2009 by
DBT.
Dr. M. K. Purkait, Department of Chemical
Engineering, and Dr. S. Senthilvelan, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, have been selected for
BOYSCAST Fellowship, 2009–2010 by the
Department of Science and Technology, Government
of India. Dr. Purkait has also received the Indian
National Science Academy (INSA) medal for young
scientist 2009.
ICANN-2009
A number of short-term courses were organised.
These are:
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Approaches to the Screening of Bioactive
Molecules from Natural Resources,
Department of Biotechnology
Optimisation Methods for Water Resources
Planning and Management, Department of
Civil Engineering
VLSI Design, Verification and Test,
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering
Mathematical Methods in Electrical
Engineering, Department of Electronics and
Strengthening of Democracy at the Grassroots
in India, Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences
Mathematical Methods, Modelling and
Optimal Control, Department of
Mathematics
Fuel cell and Hydrogen Technology, Centre
for Energy
Dr. D. Manna, Department of Chemistry, has been
selected for DAE Research Award for Young Scientists
by BRNS.
Dr. S. K. Dash, Department of Civil Engineering, has
been awarded Endeavour Research Fellowship of
Government of Australia, for the year 2009, to carry
out research work in Research Centre for
Geomechanics and Railway Engineering at University
of Wollongong, Australia.
Prof. Subhash C. Mishra, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, was Visiting Professor, Department of
Energetics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy from
April - July 2009.
Dr. A. Srinivasan, Department of Physics, was Visiting
Scientist under the Open Research Institute
programme of National Institute for Materials Science,
Tsukuba, Japan, from 5 January 2009 to 2 January
2010.
Dr. Utpal Barua, Department of Design, was awarded
the Gold Medal for the best entry by the International
Jury of Olympic Fine Arts 2008, Beijing for his
painting ‘A butterfly was passing by’.
The Institute congratulates all of them.
ORGANISING OF EXAMINATIONS
The Institute was the organising Institute of JEE–2009.
It was successfully organised. The year before, the
Institute successfully organised the JAM examination
(for MSc admissions). This year GATE–2010 was
successfully organised in which 4.6 lakh candidates sat
for the examination. The Institute has also
successfully conducted all India examinations for
recruitment of officers for Defence Research and
Development Organisation, and for BSNL. The
Institute wishes to thank all those who took part in
these exercises.
CONSTRUCTION AND CAMPUS
DEVELOPMENT
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commenced expansion of the academic complex in
phases. Work on expansion of the Departments of
Physics, Chemistry and Electronics and
Communication Engineering is going on and is
expected to be over by November 2010. Expansion of
the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Design
and the construction of a separate building for the
Central Instruments Facility in the second phase has
started and foundation works are almost completed.
Expansion in the Departments of Computer Science
and Engineering, Mathematics, Humanities & Social
Sciences, and Civil Engineering under the third phase
will start after the monsoons are over.
Construction of residential quarters for the Principal,
Teachers and Staff and an open Auditorium for the
Kendriya Vidyalaya has commenced.
The construction activity in the campus is continuing
to cater to the increase in the number of students.
There are now seven boys’ hostels with a total
capacity of 2700. The construction of the eighth
hostel with a capacity of 500 is going on and about
58% of the work has been completed. 240 rooms are
expected to be ready by June 2010 and the complete
hostel is expected to be ready by March 2011.
Looking at the future requirement of the Institute,
construction of the ninth boys’ hostel with a capacity
of 1000 students was started in August 2009.
Expansion of the girls’ hostel from the present 172
rooms to 420 rooms is going on and 124 of these
rooms were occupied in August 2009. The rest 124
rooms are expected to be ready by August 2010.
Activities related to the beautification and “greening”
of the campus is continuing as should be evident to
visitors and residents. Work is going on for developing
a Children’s Park near D-type quarters. The small lake
created near the library has helped in drainage
besides improving the ambience of the area.
Residences for faculty and non-faculty members are
also under construction. Of the 35 F type Professor’s
quarters under construction, 15 are already occupied.
The remaining 20 will be ready by August 2010. 21 of
the 35 C type quarters are under occupation. 28 B
type quarters, 18 D type quarters, and 24 E type
quarters are in various stages of construction.
Particulars
The construction of the Central Workshop, a PreFabricated Steel Building of 5430 sqm., commenced
in May 2007 and is getting completed. The workshop
equipment are being shifted to the new building.
Construction work for the conference centre
consisting of 4 seminar rooms and a food court is
continuing and is likely to be completed by
September 2010.
In order to meet the additional space required for
increase in the number of students, the Institute has
INSTITUTE EXPENDITURE
The details of expenditure during the year are as
follows. Due to the payment of salary arrears because
of the 6th pay commission awards, the recurring
expenditure is much higher than earlier years.
Similarly, examination related expenditures are high as
IIT Guwahati organised JEE in 2009 and GATE in 2010.
Amount (Rs. in crores)
Recurring
78
Non-recurring (works,
equipment, furniture, books)
76
Sponsored Projects
31
Examination Related (JEE,
GATE, etc.) and other
miscellaneous expenditure
11
Total Expenditure
196
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
Alcheringa 2010
Alcheringa – the annual cultural event of the Institute
was organised from 4–7 February 2010. It was a grand
success this year with many leading artists from the
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country and abroad performing with their bands.
Students from various Institutes from all over the
country participated in this mega cultural event.
Alcheringa has become a platform for catching up
with the activities and career engagements of our
alumni who visit the campus during the event. It also
provides the students of IIT Guwahati an opportunity
to gain experience of event management.
programmes like Career Fair, Exhibition by the Indian
Army, Laser show, Magic show, etc. were organised
this year. Techniche has undoubtedly gained the tag of
one of the most popular rendezvous for exchange of
technical know-how among the student community.
Following are the other regular events organised by
the students during the year:
Manthan
Spirit
–
–
Spardha
Zest
–
–
the intra-IIT cultural festival
the inter-college invitation sports
competition
the annual sports meet
the annual athletics meet
Along with these, there have been regular events and
competitions organised by the various existing clubs
and societies under the Cultural Council like the
Movie Club, the Fine Arts Club, the Literary Club, the
Photography Club, etc.
2nd IIT Guwahati Entrepreneurial Summit (IES)
Alcheringa 2010
Techniche 2009
Techniche – the IIT Guwahati annual national level
technical festival which celebrated a decade of
existence – was organised during 3–6 September
2009 and met with resounding success. There were
participants from a number of colleges from all over
India and various schools of Guwahati. The Guwahati
Green Half Marathon started this year attracted good
number of participants. The preliminary round of
Technothlon (National School Championship) had over
1.2 lakh participants from across the country. Apart
from the regular programmes, some additional
Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke, Astronaut,
delivering a speech at the Techniche 2009
The Entrepreneurial Development Cell (EDC) of IIT
Guwahati successfully organised the 2nd IIT Guwahati
Entrepreneurial Summit (IES) during 6–7 March 2010
in the campus. IES was initiated with a primary
objective of instilling and promoting the spirit of
entrepreneurship amongst the IIT Guwahati
community and the youth of North East India. The
event had participation of leading entrepreneurial
luminaries from across the country. The panel
discussions, the talks, start-up showcasing, networking
sessions and interactive sessions were very
informative and encouraging for the students.
STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS
Muthukumaran V and Shubaash A R G, MTech
students of Biotechnology have won the Best entry
award in IDEAZ 2009 - ‘The Pan-IIT Business Idea
Competition’. Shreya Kothari, BTech student of Civil
Engineering won the 3rd prize in the national level
“Infrastructure Imagination Contest” organised by
Essar Steel as a part of “Infrastructure Excellence
Awards 2010.” At the Guwahati Edition of Tata
Crucible - the Campus Business Quiz organised
nationwide in 20 cities by the Tata Group, the top 3
positions went to IIT Guwahati teams. The IIT
Guwahati team of Kapinjal Sharma and Chaitanya
Joshi came 7th overall in the national finals (from over
3000 teams in India). Mr. Naresh Kasoju, Research
Scholar, Department of Biotechnology was awarded
the “Bajpai - Saha Award” by the Society for
Biomaterials and Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) for
the best student paper presentation at the
“International Conference on Biomaterials, Artificial
Organs and Tissue Engineering”. Mohit Goel,
Department of Biotechnology was selected as a
Khorana Scholar 2010 by the Indo-US Science and
Technology Forum and the Department of
Biotechnology, Government of India. FirstWords:
Deluxe, an iPhone application developed among
others by Abhimanyu Kumar, during his internship at
Learning Touch (Boston, USA),was adjudged the
second Best Application for Toddlers in MacWorld
Expo 2010 held in San Francisco, USA.
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although the effects of the downturn in the global
economy continue to be felt. 79 companies from
various sectors participated in the recruitment. A total
of 601 students (BTech: 303, BDes: 21, MTech: 197,
MDes: 15, MSc: 65) were registered with the Training
and Placement Cell.
263 job offers were made to the BTech/BDes
students and 243 students were finally placed (75%).
The highest package offered to BTech students is Rs.
14.00 lakhs per annum with an average package of
Rs. 6.08 lakhs per annum.
For MTech and MDes, 81 jobs were offered. The
highest package offered to MTech students is Rs.
12.03 lakhs per annum with an average package of
Rs. 5.30 lakhs per annum.
TRAINING AND PLACEMENT
The on campus placement scenario at IIT Guwahati
for the year 2009-2010 has remained satisfactory,
The branch-wise placement details are:
Under Graduate (BTech/BDes)
Post Graduate (MTech/MDes/MSc)
Dept.
No. of
Students
Reg.
Total
No. of
jobs
No. of
Students
Placed
% of
Students
Placed
No. of
Students
Reg.
Total No.
of jobs
No. of
Students
Placed
% of
Students
Placed
CSE
50
56
46
92
35
28
25
71
ECE
48
41
39
81
38
14
14
37
ME
53
46
45
85
44
17
17
39
CE
44
37
36
82
43
17
17
40
CL
35
25
24
69
28
1
1
4
BT
26
8
8
31
9
2
2
22
CST
14
3
3
21
–
–
–
–
EP
15
9
9
60
–
–
–
–
M&C
18
18
15
83
–
–
–
–
DE
21
20
18
86
15
2
2
13
PH (MSc)
–
–
–
–
11
1
1
9
CH (MSc)
–
–
–
–
27
0
0
0
M&C (MSc)
–
–
–
–
27
0
0
0
Citizen Centric Administration – the heart of
Governance
As per the statutes and Acts of the Institute, all
powers have been vested with the Director of the
Institute. But for smooth running of the Institute,
powers have been delegated to different
functionaries/officials and the same have been
approved by the Board of Governors of the Institute at
its meetings from time to time.
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CLOSING REMARKS
IIT Guwahati has a student strength of 3000 and
faculty size of 260. The Institute has set a target to
double the student strength to 6000 in the next 6
years. As the student strength was 1400 in May 2005,
it has more than doubled in the last 5 years. So the
target can be achieved. But there are many
challenges. Besides issues regarding the infrastructure
that has to be set up to meet the expansion,
recruitment of faculty and technical staff are the
biggest challenges. For faculty, the recruitment
process has to be stepped up. In the last few years an
average of about 30 faculties has been added per
year. This has to be stepped up to about 70 per year.
For staff appointments, the process of creation of
posts must be speeded up. The Institute is hopeful
this will happen soon.
The Institute has started reaching out beyond our
country’s borders. But this has been mostly as
reactions to initiatives by institutions from Europe,
Australia and Singapore. A number of MOUs have
been signed and interactions have started with a few.
The time has come for IIT Guwahati to take pro-active
action in such outreach programmes. Exchange
programmes of research students and faculty are
important, as are collaborative R&D projects. The
Institute also has to be more aggressive in getting
visiting faculty from abroad. So far very few foreign
students have been admitted. The Institute’s task is to
significantly increase the presence of foreign students
on campus. The admission processes have to be
modified, the Institute has to actively reach out, and
appropriate infrastructure has to be created. Our
place as a world class institute can be found only if
there is a good international presence on our campus.
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P ART II
A C A D E M I C DE P
ARTMENTS
PA
Biotechnology
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Design
Mathematics
Physics
ACADEMIC CENTRES
Centre for Energy
CENTRALISED SERVICES AND PROGRAMME
Central Library
Centre for Educational Technology
Centre for Mass Media Communication
Computer and Communication Centre
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DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
BTech students enrolled in 2009-2010 : 35
MTech students enrolled in 2009-2010 : 24
PhD students enrolled in 2009-2010
: 26
Gun, Gel Documentation System , Flow Cytometer,
HPLC System, Inverted Fluorescent Microscope, High
Speed Centrifuge, Steady State Fluorimeters, TwoDimensional Electrophoresis System by Isoelectric
Focusing, Ultracentrifuge, etc. The Department has
developed dedicated research facilities in areas such as
bioprocess engineering, mammalian cell culture and
tissue engineering and plant biotechnology. It is on its
way towards developing stem cell culture facility and
parasite culture facility. Further need of the Department
is complemented with many other facilities like,
Confocal Laser Scan Microscope, NMR (400 mHz),
Scanning Electron Microscope, ESR Spectroscopy, TEM,
LC-MS-MS, etc. available in the adjacent Central
Instruments Facility of the Institute and provide access
to the researchers of the Department. The Department
has separate computational lab facilities like Desktop
Computers connected to Servers at the Institute
Computer Centre by LAN. It is also equipped with
dedicated departmental Server for computational biology
work. Being a member institution of GARUDA grid, the
Department have access to this network and used for
large scale computational biology works. Various software
for computational Biology as SYBYL modules (Tripos) –
SYBYL Base, Biopolymer, Dynamic, Amber 8, Delphi,
PGI Workstation are used for molecular modelling and
molecular dynamic simulations.
FACULTY STRENGTH
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Biotechnology at the Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati was established in November
2002. The Department has both undergraduate (BTech)
and postgraduate (MTech and PhD) academic
programmes. It has 22 faculty members from diverse
streams and specialisations. The Department has a total
of 07 staff members: 05 well-trained Junior Technical
Superintendents, 01 Junior Superintendent and 01 Junior
Attendant. The major thrust of the Department includes
Biochemical Engineering , Plant Biotechnology,
Nanobiotechnology, Computational Biology, Proteomics
and Tissue Engineering. The Department is planning to
establish advanced research laboratories in all the thrust
areas. Apart from fundamental research, the goals of
the Department are targeted to meet the demands of
the biotechnology based industries.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Department has BTech, MTech and PhD academic
programmes.
STUDENT INTAKE
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
: 03
: 09
: 10
: 22
MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES
The Department of Biotechnology at IIT Guwahati has
developed sophisticated teaching and research
laboratories to support the running of BTech, MTech
and PhD programmes. The Department is fully equipped
with sophisticated research equipment such as Atomic
Force Microscope, Auto Tensiometer, Biologic
LP System with Fraction Collector, Bioreactors, Biolistic
Over the past years, the Department has been
reorganised for quality research in various areas of
Biotechnology. The remarkable publication records of
the Department speaks both to the international impact
of research and to its growing prominence. The greatest
strength of the departmental research comes from the
interdisciplinary approach to scientific problem. Faculty
members in the Department are actively engaged in
high quality research and development activities in the
area of Biotechnology. Research projects sponsored by
several funding agencies like Department of Science and
Technology (DST), Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD), Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR), Department of Information
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Technology (DIT) and Department of Biotechnology
(DBT) are currently in progress. Recently, DBT has
funded Programme support to the Department.
The quality of research in the Department is evident
from more than fifty publications during the period under
report, mostly in prestigious peer reviewed international
journals. Fifty six (56) PhD students are pursuing research
for their doctoral degree. Research groups are working
in the areas like protein aggregation with emphasis on
structural characteristics of aggregates and detection of
Protein aggregates in solution, Effect of macromolecular
crowding on enzyme kinetics, Structure-function-folding
relationship of proteins, Antileishmanial drug
development, Biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue
engineering, Nano carriers for drug delivery to cancer
cells, Electrospinning of nanofibers for tissue engineering
and siRNA mediated gene silencing of cancer cells,
Development of redox and lipolytic enzymes for regio
and enantio-selective synthesis of pharmaceutical
compounds and development of biosensors and
enzymatic biofuel cell, Genetic engineering of grain
legumes for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, marker
free transgenic, Identification of plus trees and mass
cultivation in biofuel plants, Segregation of abiotic stress
genes in mapping population of rice, Phylogenetic
analysis of emerging infectious viruses, Gene-therapy
approaches for viral and metabolic diseases, Molecular
fingerprinting of industrial food grade microorganisms,
Identification of bioactive compounds from
metagenomic library, Molecular analysis of carbohydrate
enzymes, Biological control of insect pests, Plant tissue
culture and biochemical analysis, Environmental
bioremediation, Biohydrometallurgy, Bioprocess
development (upstream to downstream), Bioreactor
design and control, Metabolic engineering, Bioenergy,
Biomolecule immobilisation, Biosensors, Analytical
Biochemistry and Bioassays.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
a) New Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
—
03 years
A. Goyal
Production of microbial
carbohydrates and carbohydrate
active enzymes for healthcare
DBT
11.74
A. Goyal
Probiotic fermentation as a
platform for production of
neutraceuticals
CSIR
20.10
A. Goyal
Prebiotics and neutraceuticals
production from lactic acid
bacteria
IndoBulgarian Jt.
project DST
16.20
A. Goyal
MTech Programme Support
DBT
170.00
B.G. Jaganathan
03 years
L. Rangan
Cloning of fatty acid saturation
genes and analysis of spatial
and temporal expression from
seeds of candidate plus tree,
Karanj (Pongamia pinnata L.)
DST-SERC
22.16
—
03 years
CSIR
14.50
—
03 years
CSIR
21.50
R.
Conjugating luminescent
Swaminathan quantum dots to proteins:
Consequences on protein
function and development of
sensitive assays
V.K. Dubey
Studies on effect of small
molecule compounds on
folding and amyloid formation
of proteins
—
—
S. Patra
03 years
03 years
03 years
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b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
A.M. Limaye Characterisation of rat prostate
specific PBPC1BS and S100RVP
promoters
Sponsoring
Agency
IITG, Start
up Grant
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
5.00
—
02 years
B. Bose
Combination therapy using
suicide genes and recombinant
antibody
DBT
97.32
S.S. Ghosh
05 years
B. Bose
Inhibitor Based Selection of
Blocking Antibodies against
Heparin-binding EGF-like
Growth Factor: Developing
Potent Molecules for Antibodybased Cancer Therapy
DBT
11.72
S.S. Ghosh
03 years
B. Bose
Development of Therapeutic
Human Antibodies Against
Cripto-1: Targeting Oncogenic
Signaling
DST
10.34
—
03 years
K.
Pakshirajan
Decolorisation of textile dyeing
wastewaters by the white rot
fungi Phanerochaete
chrysosporium in a novel
rotating biological contactor
reactor
CSIR
11.49
—
03 years
K.
Pakshirajan
In situ production of
sophorolipid by the yeast
Candida bombicola for pretreatment of fats and oils
containing dairy wastewaters
DST
16.80
—
03 years
K.
Pakshirajan
Non-conventional two phase
partitioning bioreactor systems
for biodegradation of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbon by
Mycobacterium
frederiksbergense
DBT
11.60
—
02 years
L. Rangan
DNAB (DNA Barcoding) based
biodiversity inventory in
Zingiberaceae of Northeast
India
DIT
71.18
L. Sahoo
05 years
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Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
L. Rangan
Analysis of start codon context
and sequence characteristics
around TIS in plant model
systems
DBT
5.50
K. Pakshirajan
02 years
L. Sahoo
Development and evaluation of
transgenic mungbean over
expressing AtNHX1 and AVP1 for
salt tolerance
DBT
78.75
—
03 years
L. Sahoo
Molecular cloning and functional
characterisation of heavy metal
stress specific phytochelatin
synthase gene from Eichhornia
crassipes
DBT
78.40
—
05 years
L. Sahoo
Genetic engineering of Cowpea
(Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) for
resistance to pod borer and
bruchid
DBT
11.62
L. Rangan
03 years
L. Sahoo*
Cloning of elite germplasm of
Jatropha for large scale
plantation
DARL
9.98
—
03 years
S.K. Panda
(AU, Assam)
Amino acid polymorphism in
conserved Motifs in HMA
proteins and Heavy Metal
Resistance in Plants
DST
4.92
L. Sahoo
05 years
S.K. Panda
(AU, Assam)
Molecular cloning and functional
Analysis of Na+/H+ antiporter
gene in Cowpea (Vigna
unguiculata L. Walp)
DBT
44.88
L. Sahoo
03 years
P. Goswami
Studies and application of redox
enzymes for bioelectronic
devices
DBT
94.96
S. Patra
05 years
P. Goswami
Development of Enzyme
Electrode for the Construction of
Cholesterol Biosensor
CSIR
2.25 Lacs +
fund for one
RA/JRF/SR
U. Bora
03 years
P. Goswami*
Enzymatic Biofuel cell for
Biomedical Application
DBT
35.00
A. Verma, M.
Borthakur(IITG
Hospital),U.
Bora,L. Borbora
02 years
DBT
34.49
V.V. Dasu, M.
Hazarika, TRA, Jorhat
03 years
R. Chaturvedi In vitro production of haploids in
Tea (Camellia spp)
(Within the
programme
support project)
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
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Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
IITG, Start
up Grant
5.00
—
02 years
R. Tamuli
Functional analysis of
translesion DNA polymerase
Pol eta (), Pol iota (), and Pol
kappa () in Neurospora crassa
S. Patra
Protein stability prediction of
lipases – in silico studies
DIT
40.89
—
03 years
V.V. Dasu
Process Development for the
Production of Recombinant
Cutinase
DST
33.48
—
03 years
V.K. Dubey
Studies on Trypanothione
Reductase from Leishmania
Parasites: Structure, Function,
Folding and Potential for
Chemotherapy
DBT
35.76
S. Patra
03 years
V.K. Dubey
Development of novel
therapeutics against
leishmaniasis
DIT
8.66
A. Goyal
02 years
V.K. Dubey
Structural Properties and folding
mechanism of apocytichrome
C552 from Hydrogenobactor
Thermophilus
DST
11.50
—
03 years
V.K. Dubey
Structure, Stability and
Functional Studies of 2, 5Diketo-D-gluconate Reductase
DBT
11.65
—
03 years
U. Bora
Electrospun Nanofibre scaffolds
for hepatic tissue Engineering
DBT
54.50
R.C. Bhende
and P. Goswami
03 years
U. Bora
Nanoparticle mediated targeted
siRNA delivery to cancer cells
DBT
12.75
—
03 years
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
NEDFi
1.15
P. Mahanta
01 year
* with Centre for Energy, IIT Guwahati
c) Completed Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
L. Sahoo
Name of Project
Oil analysis and DNA
fingerprinting of Jatropha and
Patchouli accessions
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Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
03 years
L. Sahoo
Development of
micropropagation technology
for Jatropha: a potential
biofuel plant
NEDFi
2.48
—
L. Sahoo
Genetic engineering of
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.
Walp) for storage pest
resistance
DST
—
—
R. Chaturvedi
In vitro morphogenesis and
biochemical analysis of
Neem (Azadirachta indica A.
Juss)
DST
9.96
—
03 years
R. Swaminathan
Tracking the growth of soluble
protein aggregates in real time
using fluorescence and
subsequent manoeuvres to
inhibit their growth
CSIR
9.80
—
03 years
V.V. Dasu
Production of bacterial Lasparaginase: an approach for
process optimization
DBT
6.00
—
02 years
U. Bora
Synthesis of biodegradable
nanocarriers for targeted drug
delivery
DBT
14.00
—
03 years
03 years
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
International Journal
A. Singh, A. Majumder and A. Goyal
‘Mutagenesis of Leuconostoc dextranicum NRRL B-1146
for higher glucan production’, Internet Journal of
Microbiology, vol. 7 (1), pp 1-7, 2009
A. Majumder and A. Goyal
‘Rheological and gelling properties of a novel glucan from
Leuconostoc dextranicum NRRL B-1146’, Food Research
International, vol. 42, pp 525-528, 2009
A. Majumder, S. Bhandari, R.K. Purama, S. Patel and
Arun Goyal
‘Enhanced production of a novel dextran from
Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-640 by statistical
optimisation’, Annals of Microbiology, vol. 59 (2), pp
309-315, 2009
R.K. Purama and Arun Goyal
‘Optimisation of conditions of Leuconostoc
mesenteroides NRRL B-640 for production of
dextransucrase and its assay ’, Journal of Food
Biochemistry, vol. 33, pp 218-231, 2009
B.M. Borah, A.K. Singh, A. Ramesh and G. Das
‘Lactic acid bacterial extract as a biogenic mineral growth
modifier’, Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 311, pp 26642672, 2009
A.K. Singh and A. Ramesh
‘Evaluation of a facile method of template DNA preparation
for PCR-based detection and typing of lactic acid bacteria’,
Food Microbiology, vol. 26, pp 504-513, 2009
G. Kaur and Padmaja V.
‘Relationships among activities of extracellular enzyme
production and virulence against Helicoverpa armigera
in Beauveria bassiana’, Journal of Basic Microbiology, vol.
49 (3), pp 264-274, 2009
U. Mustafa and G. Kaur
‘Extracellular enzyme production in Metarhizium
anisopliae isolates’, Folia Microbiologica, vol. 54 (6), pp
499-504, 2009
‘Effects of carbon and nitrogen sources and ratio on the
germination, growth and sporulation characteristics of
Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana isolates’,
African Journal of Agricultural Research, vol. 3 (10), pp
922-930, 2009
‘UV-B radiation and temperature stress causes variable
growth response in Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria
bassiana isolates’, Internet Journal of Microbiology, vol.
7 (1), 2009
P. Dhar and G. Kaur
‘Effect of carbon and nitrogen sources on the induction
and repression of chitinase enzyme from Metarhizium
anisoplaie isolates’, Annals of Microbiology, vol. 59 (3),
pp 545-551, 2009
K. Pakshirajan
‘Prediction of coliform bacteria in surface waters using
artificial neural networks’, Journal of Information
Intelligence and Knowledge, vol. 2 (3), pp 191-202, 2010
B. Mahanty, K. Pakshirajan and V.V. Dasu
‘A two liquid phase partitioning bioreactor system for
biodegradation of pyrene: comparative evaluation and
cost benefit analysis’, Journal of Chemical Technology &
Biotechnology, vol. 85 (3), pp 349-355, 2010
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chrysosporium’, International Biodeterioration and
Biodegradation, vol. 64, pp 146-150, 2010
K. Pakshirajan and T. Swaminathan
‘Biosorption of lead by the immobilised fungus
Phanerochaete chrysosporium in a packed bed column’,
International Journal of Environmental Technology and
Management, vol. 12 (2-4), pp 214-228, 2010
P. Saravanan, K. Pakshirajan and P. Saha
‘Hydrodynamics and batch degradation of phenol in an
internal loop airlift reactor’, International Journal of
Environmental Engineering, vol. 2 (1-3), pp 303-315, 2010
A. Daverey and K. Pakshirajan
‘Production, characterisation and properties of
sophorolipids from the yeast Candida bombicola using a
low-cost fermentative medium’, Applied Biochemistry
and Biotechnology, vol. 158, pp 663-674, 2009
‘Degradation of phenol by TiO2-based heterogeneous
photocatalysts in presence of sunlight’, Journal of Hydroenvironment Research, vol. 3 (1), pp 45-50, 2009
A. Daverey, K. Pakshirajan and P. Sangeetha
‘Sophorolipids production by Candida bombicola using
synthetic dairy wastewater’, International Journal of
Environmental Science and Engineering, vol. 1 (4), pp
173 -175, 2009
‘Biosorption of lead, copper and cadmium by
Phanerochaete chrysosporium in ternary metal mixtures:
statistical analysis of individual and interaction effects’,
Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, vol. 158 (2),
pp 457-469, 2009
‘Pyrene encapsulated alginate bead type for sustained
release in biodegradation: preparation and
characteristics’, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, vol. 29,
pp 56-73, 2009
‘Kinetics of growth and enhanced sophorolipids
production by Candida bombicola using a low cost
fermentative medium’, Applied Biochemistry and
‘Treatment of phenolics containing synthetic wastewater
in an internal loop airlift bioreactor (ILALR) using
indigenous mixed strain of Pseudomonas sp. under
continuous mode of operation’, Bioresource Technology,
vol. 100, pp 4111-4116, 2009
S. Singh and K. Pakshirajan
‘Enzyme activities and decolourisation of single and
mixed azo dyes by the white rot fungus Phanerochaete
‘Biosorption of copper and cadmium in packed bed
columns with live immobilised fungal biomass of
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Phanerochaete chrysosporium’, Applied Biochemistry and
‘Production of sophorolipids from the yeast Candida
bombicola using simple and low cost fermentative
media’, Food Research International, vol. 42, pp 499504, 2009
K. Pakshirajan, Eldon R. Rene and T. Swaminathan
‘Decolourization of azo dye containing synthetic
wastewater in a rotating biological contactor reactor: A
factorial design study’, International Journal of Environment
and Pollution, vol. 37 (2-3), pp 266-275, 2009
V. Kesari, A. Das and L. Rangan
‘Physico-chemical characterisation and microbial assay
from seed oil of Pongamia pinnata, potential biofuel crop’,
Biomass and Bioenergy, vol. 33, pp 1724-1728, 2010
A. Das, Tushar, V. Kesari and L. Rangan
‘Aromatic Joha Rice of Assam- A Review’, Agriculture
Reviews, vol. 31 (1), pp 1-10, 2010
V. Kesari, M. Sudarshan, A. Das and L. Rangan
‘PCR amplification of the genomic DNA from the seeds
of Ceylon Ironwood, Jatropha and Pongamia’, Biomass
and Bioenergy, vol. 36, pp 1116-1121, 2009
L. Rangan, A. Rout, M. Sudarshan and G. Gregorio
‘Molecular cloning, expression and mapping of
translational initiation factor eIF1 gene in Oryza sativa’,
Functional Plant Biology, vol. 36 (5), pp 442-452, 2009
A. Singh, S. Hallihosur and L. Rangan
‘Changing landscape in biotechnology patenting’, World
Patent Information, vol. 31, pp 219-225, 2009
L. Rangan and V. Dhawan
‘Plant biotechnology in India-seeds of survival’,
International Journal of Biosciences and Technology, vol.
1, pp 1-16, 2009
J. Purkayastha, T. Sugla, A. Paul, P. Mazumdar, A. Basu,
S.K. Solleti, A. Mohommad, Z. Ahmed and L. Sahoo
‘Efficient in vitro plant regeneration from shoot apices
and gene transfer by particle bombardment in Jatropha
curcas’, Biologia Plantarum, vol. 54, pp 13-20 (DOI:
10.1007/s10535-010-0003-5), 2010
P. Mazumdar, A. Basu, A. Paul, C. Mahanta and L. Sahoo
‘Age and orientation of the cotyledonary leaf explants
determine the efficiency of de novo plant regeneration
and Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated transformation
in Jatropha curcas L.’, South African Journal of Botany,
(DOI:10.1016/j.sajb.2010.01.001), 2010
S.K. Singh, M.K. Rai, A. Pooja and L. Sahoo
‘Alginate-encapsulation of nodal segments for
propagation, short-term conservation and germplasm
exchange and distribution of Eclipta alba (L.)’, Acta
Physiologiae Plantarum, (DOI: 10.1007/s11738-0090444-7), 2010
S.K. Singh, M.K. Rai, A. Pooja and L. Sahoo
‘An improved micropropagation of Spilanthes acmella L.
through transverse thin cell layer culture’, Acta
Physiologiae Plantarum, vol. 31 (4), pp 693-698, 2009
(DOI: 10.1007/s11738-009-0280-9)
A.K. Kumar, P. Vatsyayan and P. Goswami
‘Production of Lipid and Fatty Acids during Growth of
Aspergillus terreus on Hydrocarbon Substrates’, Applied
Biochemistry and Biotechnology, vol. 160, pp 1293-1300,
2010
V. Kesari, K. Anitha and L. Rangan
‘Effect of auxin on adventitious rooting from stem
cuttings of candidate plus tree Pongamia pinnata (L.), a
potential biodiesel plant’, Trees- Structure and Function,
vol. 23, pp 597-604, 2009
M.V.S. Kumar and R. Swaminathan
‘A novel approach to segregate and identify functional
loop regions in protein structures using their Ramachandran
maps’, Proteins, vol. 78 (4), pp 900-916, 2010
L. Rangan
‘Impact of Cartagena protocol in developing countries’,
International Journal of Biosciences, Agriculture and
Technology, vol. 1, pp 1-3, 2009
S. Kumar, V.K. Ravi and R. Swaminathan
‘Suppression of lysozyme aggregation at alkaline pH by
tri-N-acetylchitotriose’, Biochimica Biophysica Acta, vol.
1794 (6), pp 913-920, 2009
L. Rangan and S. Mitra
‘Building public-private partnership in agricultural
biotechnology’, International Journal of Biosciences,
Healthcare Technology and Management, vol. 1 (1), pp
1-4, 2009
P. Srivastava, R. Hazarika, M. Singh and R. Chaturvedi
‘Assessment of age and morphometric parameters of
seeds on azadirachtin production in neem seed kernels
collected from various ecotypes’, Research Journal of
Chemistry and Environment, vol. 14, pp 24-28, 2010
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P. Srivastava, N. Kasoju, U. Bora and R. Chaturvedi
’Dedifferentiation of leaf explants and cytotoxic activity of
an aqueous extract of cell cultures of Lantana camara L.
Plant Cell’, Tissue Organ and Culture, vol. 99, pp 1-7, 2009
D.K. Bora, R.K. Das, N. Kasoju and U. Bora
‘Preparation and characterisation of chitosan membrane
activated by carbonyl diimidazole and its application for
covalent immobilisation of proteins’, Asian Chitin Journal,
vol. 5 (1), pp 87-92, 2009
P. Srivastava, M. Singh, P. Mathur and R. Chaturvedi
‘In vitro organogenesis and plant regeneration from
unpollinated ovary: a novel explant of neem (Azadirachta
indica A. Juss.)’, Biologia Plantarum, vol. 53 (2), pp 360364, 2009
N. Kasoju, S.S. Ali, V.K. Dubey and U. Bora
‘Exploiting the potential of collagen as a natural
biomaterial for drug delivery’, Journal of Proteins and
Proteomics, vol. 1 (1), pp 31-36, 2009
M. Singh and R. Chaturvedi
‘An efficient protocol for cyclic somatic embryogenesis
in neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.)’, International
Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, vol.
1, pp 49-51, 2009
P. Srivastava and R. Chaturvedi
‘Effect of Casein hydrolysate and Major inorganic salts
on clonal propagation from nodal explants of a mature
neem tree (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.)’, Research Journal
of Biotechnology, vol. 4 (4), pp 30-38, 2009
P. Srivastava, M. Singh and R. Chaturvedi
‘Production of azadirachtin in anther cultures of
Azadirachta indica A. Juss. and its bioactivity against
Aspergillus sydowii’, the IUP Journal of Biotechnology,
vol. 3 (3), pp 38-45, 2009 [Publisher: The Icfai University
Press, India]
N. Kasoju, D.K. Bora, R.R. Bhonde and U. Bora
‘Synthesis, characterisation, and application of novel
biodegradable self-assembled 2-(N-phthalimido) ethylpalmitate nanoparticles for cancer therapy’, Journal of
Nanoparticle Research, vol. 12 (3), pp 801-810, 2010
R.K. Das, N. Kasoju and U. Bora
‘Encapsulation of curcumin in alginate-chitosan-pluronic
composite nanoparticles for delivery to cancer cells’,
Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine,
vol. 6 (1), pp 153-60, 2010
N. Kasoju, R.R. Bhonde and U. Bora
‘Fabrication of a novel micro-nano fibrous nonwoven
scaffold with Antheraea assama silk fibroin for use in
tissue engineering’, Materials Letters, vol. 63 (28), pp
2466-2469, 2009
N. Kasoju, R.R. Bhonde and U. Bora
‘Preparation and characterisation of Antheraea assama
silk fibroin based novel non-woven scaffold for tissue
engineering applications’, Journal of Tissue Engineering
and Regenerative Medicine, vol. 3 (7), pp 539-52, 2009
A.K. Shukla, U. Bora and V.K. Dubey
‘Functional Adaptations in Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGFs)
Family’, Journal of Proteins and Proteomics, vol. 1 (1),
pp 11-13, 2009
A. Sahu, P. Goswami and U. Bora
‘Microwave mediated rapid synthesis of chitosan’, Journal
of Material Science: Materials in Medicine, vol. 20, pp
171-175, 2009
K. Sanjay, V.V. Dasu and K. Pakshirajan
‘Localisation and production of L-asparaginase from
Pectobacterium carotovorum MTCC 1428’, Process
Biochemistry, vol. 45 (2), pp 223-229, 2010
K. Sanjay, K. Pakshirajan and V.V. Dasu
‘Development of medium for enhanced production of
glutaminase free L-asparaginase from Pectobacterium
carotovorum MTCC 1428 using response surface
methodology’, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,
vol. 84, pp 477-486, 2009
S. Sen, V.V. Dasu and B. Mandal
‘Effect of Physical Parameters, Carbon and nitrogen
Sources on Alkaline Protease Production from a Newly
Isolated Bacillus pseudofirmus SVB1’, Annals of
R. Agarwal, B. Mahanty and V.V. Dasu
‘Modeling the growth of Cellulomonas cellulans NRRL
B-4567 under substrate inhibition during cellulase
Production’, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Quarterly, vol. 23 (2), pp 213-218, 2009
N. Sarkar, A.N. Singh and V.K. Dubey
‘Effect of curcumin on amyloidogenic property of molten
globule like intermediate state of 2,5-Diketo-DGluconate Reductase A’, Biological Chemistry, vol. 390,
pp 1057-1061, 2009
A.N. Singh, A.K. Shukla, M.V. Jagannadham and V.K.
Dubey
‘Purification of a novel cysteine protease, procerain B,
from Calotropis procera with distinct characteristics
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compared to procerain’, Process Biochemistry, vol. 45,
pp 399-406, 2010
thermocellum’, Journal of Applied Bioscience and
N. Suthar, A. Goyal and V.K. Dubey
‘Identification of potential drug targets of Leishmania
Infantum by in-silico genome analysis’, Letters in Drug
Design and Discovery, vol. 6 (8), pp 620-622, 2009
D. Deka, S. Ahmed, N. Akhtar, S. Bharali, M. Jawed,
Carlos M.G.A. Fontes, D. Goyal and A. Goyal
‘Determining substrate specificity and biochemical
characterisation of a full length recombinant cellulase
(Lic26A-Cel5-CBM11) of Clostridium thermocellum’,
Journal of Applied Bioscience and Biotechnology, vol. 5
(1), pp 13-18, 2009
A.K. Shukla, B.K. Singh, S. Patra and V.K. Dubey
‘Rational approaches for drug designing against
leishmaniasis’, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology,
vol. 160, pp 2208-2218, 2009
B.K. Singh and V.K. Dubey
‘In silico studies on tryparedoxin peroxidase of Leishmania
infantum: Structural aspects’, Current Pharmaceutical
Biotechnology, vol. 10, pp 626-630, 2009
S.B. Rizvi, A.K. Shukla and V.K. Dubey
‘A Simple method based on multiple alignment and
phylogeny to derive a correlation between the protein fold
and sequence via motif search’, Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Life Sciences, vol. 1, pp 235-243, 2009
V.K. Dubey
‘Structural Genomics on Membrane Proteins’, Applied
Biochemistry and Biotechnology, vol. 157 (1), pp 111, 2009
R. Tomar, V.K. Dubey and M.V. Jagannadham
‘Biophysical characterisation and folding studies of plant
protease, Wrightin: identification folding intermediate
under different conditions’, The Protein Journal, vol. 28,
pp 213-223, 2009
R. Tomar, V.K. Dubey and M.V. Jagannadham
‘Effect of Alkyl Alcohols on partially unfolded state of
Proteinase K: differential stability of -helix and -sheet
rich regions of the enzyme’, Biochimie, vol. 91, pp 951960, 2009
S. Ahmed, T. Saraf and A. Goyal
‘Homology modelling based structure prediction from
protein sequence of family 39 glycoside hydrolase from
Clostridium thermocellum’, Current Trends in
Biotechnology and Pharmacy, vol. 3 (2), pp 210-218, 2009
P. Dhar and G. Kaur
‘Compatibility of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria
bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae with neonicotinoid
insecticide, Acetamiprid’, Journal of Entomological
Research, vol. 33 (3), 195-202, 2009
S. Sen, U. Mustafa and G. Kaur
‘Effect of temperature and UV radiation on the growth
of entomopathogenic fungi’, Journal of Entomological
Research, vol. 33 (4), pp 349-354, 2009
R. Tamuli
‘Genome Defense Mechanisms in Neurospora and
Associated Specialised Proteins’, Journal of Proteins and
Proteomics, vol. 1, pp 15-23, 2010
A.K. Shukla, U. Bora and V.K. Dubey
‘Functional Adaptations in Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGFs)
Family’, Journal of Proteins and Proteomics, vol. vol. 1,
pp 33-35, 2010
Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia
A. Majumder, A. Mangtani, S. Patel, R. Shukla and A.
Goyal
‘Gluco-oligosaccharides production from glucan of
Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-742 by microwave
assisted hydrolysis’, Current Trends in Biotechnology and
Pharmacy, vol. 3 (4), pp 405-411, 2009
S. Ahmed, V. Gupta, Carlos M.G.A. Fontes and A. Goyal
‘Investigating the 3-dimensional structure of family 43
glycoside hydrolase (CtGH43), a cellulase from
Clostrdium thermocellum structure for possible
interactions using molecular docking and other
bioinfomatics tools’, third International Conference on
Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology
(BioMicroWorld 2009), University of Lisbon, Lisbon,
Portugal, 2-4 December 2009
S. Ahmed, T. Saraf and A. Goyal
‘Prediction of catalytic and ligand binding sites and
hydrogen bonding plot from protein sequence of family
39 glycoside hydrolase (CtGH39) from Clostridium
S. Patel and A. Goyal
‘Production, purification and characterisation of
homopolysaccharides produced by two natural isolates
of lactic acid bacteria, SPO and SPA’, International
National Journal
Conference on Emerging Trends Biomedical and
Nanotechnology, Acharya Nagarjuna Univeristy, Guntur,
India, , 19-21 December 2009
N. Akhtar, S. Ajnavi, D. Goyal and A. Goyal
‘Enhanced biodegradation of cellulosic waste by a new
isolate of Bacillus sp. and Trichoderma reesei (MTCC
164)’, International Conference on Emerging Trends in
Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, 2-6 December
2009
S. Patel, D. Kothari, R. Singampalli and A. Goyal
‘UV induced mutagenesis of exopolysaccharide
synthesising natural isolate of lactic acid bacteria SPA for
strain improvement’, International Conference on
Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu
University, 2-6 December 2009
R. Shukla, M. Agrawal and A. Goyal
‘Structural Characterisation of Dextran produced by two
mutants (B-640M1 and B-640M2) of Leuconostoc
mesenteroides NRRL B-640’, International Conference
on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu
D. Deka, A. Sharma, D. Goyal and A. Goyal
‘Partial purification and characterisation of an alkaline
carboxymethyl cellulase from a new isolate of Bacillus
sp.’, International Conference on Emerging Trends in
Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, 2-6 December
2009
S. Patel, S. Shukla and A. Goyal
‘Production, purification and characterisation of
dextransucrases from two natural isolates of lactic acid
bacteria, SPO and SPA’, International Conference on
M. Agrawal and A. Goyal
‘Mutagenesis of Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B640 for enhanced production of dextransucrase and
dextran’, eighth Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting,
Ischia Island, Naples, Italy, pp 40, 10-13 May 2009
‘Characterisation of two new isolates of Leuconostoc
and their dextransucrases and dextrans’, eighth
Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting, Ischia Island,
Naples, Italy, pp 89, 10-13 May 2009
A. Majumder and A. Goyal
‘Glucansucrase and novel glucan from Leuconostoc
dextranicum NRRL B-1146’, eighth Carbohydrate
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Bioengineering Meeting, Ischia Island, Naples, Italy, pp
65, 10-13 May 2009
S. Ahmed, R. Charan and A. Goyal
‘Prediction of 3-D structure, catalytic and ligand binding
sites of family 43 glycoside hydrolase (GH43) from
Clostridium thermocellum’, eighth Carbohydrate
Bioengineering Meeting, Ischia Island, Naples, Italy, 1013 May 2009
M.D. Adhikari, B.R. Panda, A.K. Singh, A. Chattopadhyay
and A. Ramesh
‘Antagonistic activity of a gold nanoparticlepolythiophene composite against pathogenic bacteria’,
International Workshop on Nanotechnology and
Advanced Functional Materials, National Chemical
Laboratory, Pune, 9-11 July 2009 (Abstract no. PS 61)
A. Ramesh
‘Smart nanomaterials in biological applications’,
International Workshop on Nanotechnology and
Advanced Functional Materials, National Chemical
Laboratory, Pune, 9-11 July 2009 (Abstract no. OP 5)
J. Deka, A. Paul, A. Ramesh and A. Chattopadhyay
‘Gold nanoparticles in probing proteins’, International
Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and
Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, 9-11 December 2009
(Abstract no. A-646)
T. Mehta and B. Bose
‘FlowPy: a python tool for extraction of flow cytometry
data’, the Eighth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
(APBC2010), Bangalore, January 2010
S. Batra and B. Bose
‘Effect of Ligand Mediated Cross-Linking on Lateral
Diffusion of Cell Surface Receptors’, International
Conference on Physics Biology Interface (ICPBI 2009),
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, December
2009
P. Dhar and G. Kaur
‘Optimisation of process parameters for the mass production
of Beauveria bassiana conidiospores under solid state
fermentation’, Proceedings of the International Conference
on Food Security and Environmental Sustainability, IIT
Kharagpur, pp 1-10, 17-19 December 2009
P. Dhar and G. Kaur
’Production of cuticle-degrading proteases by Beauveria
bassiana and theier induction in different media’,
International Conference on Emerging Trends in
Biotechnology and eighth Annual Convention of the
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Biotech Research Society of India, Banaras Hindu
University, pp 206, 4-6 December 2009
in Biotechnology, sixth BRSI Annual Convention, VHU,
Varanasi, pp 231-232, 4-6 December 2009
N.K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan and P.K. Ghosh
‘Growth and biodegradation kinetics of p-bromophenol and
p-nitrophenol by Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6’,
Proceedings of International Conference on Environmental
Health and Technology (EH&T10), Kanpur, 15-17 March 2010
A. Das and L. Rangan
‘Effect of plant growth regulators and culture conditions
on shoot multiplication in three medicinally important
Zingiber species of Northeast India’, International
Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, sixth
BRSI Annual Convention, VHU, Varanasi, pp 095-096,
4-6 December 2009
‘Effect of culture conditions and degradation kinetics of
ARthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6 for enhancing the
biodegradation of 4-chlorophenol’, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Emerging Trends in
Biotechnology (ETBT09), Varanasi, 4-6 December 2009
‘Utilisation and pretreatment of dairy industry
wastewater by Candida bombicola for the production of
sophorolipids’, Proceedings of the third International
Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied
Microbiology (BioMicroWorld09), Lisbon Portugal, 2-4
December 2009
‘Two liquid phase partitioning bioreactor system for
biodegradation of pyrene by Mycobacterium
frederiksbergense’, Proceedings of the third International
Congress on Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control, Delft,
The Netherlands, 28-30 September 2009
‘Utilisation of agro-industrial wastes for the production of
sophorolipids by the yeast Candida bombicola’, Proceedings
of First International Conference on Recycling and Reuse of
Materials (ICRM09), Kottayam, 17-19 July 2009
A. Jain, S. Hallihosur and L. Rangan
‘Nanotechnology patenting: An Indian Scenario’,
International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials
and Nanotechnology (ICANN 2009), IIT Guwahati, 911 December 2009
L. Rangan
‘Significance of translation initiation factor (eIF) in stress
response of crop plants’, International Conference on
Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, sixth BRSI Annual
Convention, VHU, Varanasi, pp 279, 4-6 December 2009
V. Kesar and L. Rangan
‘Anatomical and biochemical changes during seed
maturation and germination in biofuel crop, Pongamia
pinnata L.’, International Conference on Emerging Trends
L. Rangan and V. Kesari
‘Pongamia pinnata- Sustainable Source of Feedstock for
Biofuel’, TWAS Regional Young Scientist Conference
Food, Health and Fuel: Plants for the Future, Malaysia,
pp 47, 2-5 November 2009 (Awarded Best Paper Award)
V. Kesari, D. Suman and L. Rangan
‘Physiological and phylogenetic characterisation of
Rhizobium radiobacter sp. nov. isolated from root nodules
of a potential biodiesel crop - Pongamia pinnata’, TWAS
Regional Young Scientist Conference, Food, Health and
Fuel: Plants for the Future, Malaysia, pp 23, 2-5
November 2009
A. Das, V. Kesari and L. Rangan
‘Antimicrobial activity of rhizome extracts of some important
gingers of Northeast India’, TWAS Regional Young Scientist
Conference, Food, Health and Fuel: Plants for the Future,
Malaysia, pp 71, 2-5 November 2009
U. Saxena, M. Das, S. Ahmed and P. Goswami
‘An amperometric cholesterol biosensor based on
multiwalled carbon nanotube-nafion-cholesterol oxidasecholesterol esterase nanobiocomposite’, International
Nanotechnology (ICANN 2009), IIT Guwahati, 9-11
December 2009 (Abstract no. E-134)
S. Bordoloi, M. Das and P. Goswami
‘Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube-Based Cholesterol
Oxidase Bioelectrode For Biosensor And Biofuel Cell
Application’, International Conference on Advanced
Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN 2009), IIT
Guwahati, 9-11 December 2009
P. Vatsyayan, S. Bordoloi, L. Barbora and P. Goswami
‘Direct electrochemistry of large novel catalase from
Aspergillus terreus immobilised on MWCNT-NF/PEI
modified glassy carbon electrode and its fuelcell
application’, International Symposium and Exhibition on
Fuel Cell Technologies (Fucetech 2009), Mumbai, 1113 November 2009 (Abstract no. 79, pp 82)
S. Ahmad and P. Goswami
‘Production and partial characterisation of cholesterol
oxidase from Rhodococcus sp.’, fiftieth Annual
Conference, Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI
2009), NCL, Pune, pp 287, 15-18 December 2009
(Abstract no. MM-053)
R.R. Hazarika and R. Chaturvedi
‘Effect of temperature and light treatments on callus
induction through in vitro gynogenesis in Tea (Camellia
sinensis (L) O Kuntze)’, International Conference on
University, Varanasi, India, pp 102, 4-6 December 2009
‘Screening of in vitro cell lines for enhanced azadirachtin
production’, International Conference on Food Security
and Environmental Sustainability, Agricultural and Food
Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, pp 1, 17-19
December 2009
V.K. Mishra and R. Chaturvedi
‘Factors affecting callus induction and proliferation of
anther cultures of Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze’,
International Conference on Biotechnological Solutions
for Environmental Sustainability, School of Biosciences
and Technology (SBST), VIT University, Vellore, India,
pp 251, 21-23 October 2009
R.R. Hazarika and R. Chaturvedi
‘Effect of TDZ on in vitro organogenesis in cotyledon
cultures of Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
cv. Sugar Baby ’, International Conference on
Biotechnological Solutions for Environmental
Sustainability, School of Biosciences and Technology
(SBST), VIT University, Vellore, India, pp 236, 21-23
October 2009
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P. Saravanan, A. Thorat, D. Chakravorthy and S. Patra
‘IN SILICO Characterisation and Structural Modeling of
Thermoactive and Alkaline Staphylococcus Lipase’, the
Eighth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
(APBC2010), Bangalore, January 2010
P. Saravanan, A. Thorat, D. Chakravorthy and S. Patra
‘Deciphering role of Amino Acids for the stability of
Staphylococcusaureus lipase (SAL3)’, first IFIP International
Conference on Bioinfomatics, Surat, Sardar Vallabhbhai
National Institute Technology, 25-28 March 2010
A.K. Shukla, S.K. Venketesan and V.K. Dubey
‘Possible Molecular Mechanism underlying the Antileishmanial activity of Nyctanthes arbortristis’, fourth
International Conference on Current trends in Drug
Discovery Research (CTDDR-2010), Central Drug
Research Institute, Lucknow, 17-21 February 2010
N. Sarkar and V.K. Dubey
‘Effect of small molecule aggregators on amyloid
formation of proteins’, Symposium on Recent Trends in
Biophysics, Indian Biophysical Society, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi, 13-15 February 2010
‘Studies on Trypanothione Reductase from Leishmania
infantum’, seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of Society of
Biological Chemists, India, National Centre for Cell
Science and University of Pune, 30 October-1
November 2009
‘Structure based virtual screening approach to identify
potential inhibitors of Trypanothione reductase from
Leishmania infantum’, seventy-eighth Annual Meeting
of Society of Biological Chemists, India, National Centre
for Cell Science and University of Pune, 30 October-1
November 2009
R. Chaturvedi and P. Srivastava
‘Enhanced Accumulation and Simultaneous
Determination of Betulinic Acid, Oleanolic Acid and
Ursolic Acid in Cell Cultures of Lantana Camara L. using
RP-HPLC’, In Vitro Biology Meeting, Society for In Vitro
Biology (SIVB), Charleston, South Carolina, USA, vol.
45, pp S68, 6-10 June 2009
A.N. Singh and V.K. Dubey
‘Procerain B a novel cysteine protease from the latex of
medicinal plant Calotropis procera’, seventy-eighth
Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists, India,
National Centre for Cell Science and University of Pune,
30 October-1 November 2009
R. Deka, R. Kumar, R. Mandrawalia and R. Tamuli
‘Genetic analysis of calcium signaling genes in Neurospora
crassa’, International Workshop on Biology of Yeasts and
Filamentous Fungi, Indo-U.S. Science and Technology
Forum, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,
Hyderabad, 11-14 December 2009
‘Identification of amyloidogenic folding intermediate
state of 2,5-Diketo-D-Gluconate Reductase A: Effect of
Curcumin on Amyloid formation’, twenty-first IUBMB
and twelfth FAOBMB International Congress of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2-7 August 2009
and Young Scientist Program, 30 July-2 August 2009 in
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Shanghai, China (The work was selected for IUBMB full
travel fellowship funding as well as Young Scientist
Program Award)
‘Drug designing against leishmaniasis by targeting parasite
specific trypanothione metabolic pathway’, NE Conference
of Medical Microbiologysts-09, Gauhati Medical College
and Hospital, Guwahati, 24-26 April 2009
National
S. Patel, D. Kothari, A. Ghosh and A. Goyal
‘Optimisation of critical medium components using
Response Surface Methodology for enhancing the
dextran production by the mutant of a new isolate of
lactic acid bacteria’, fiftieth Annual Conference of
Association of Microbiologists of India, National Chemical
Laboratory, Pune, 15-18 December 2009
S. Patel, D. Kothari, S. Krishna Bindu, D. Das and A.
Goyal
‘Statistical optimization of medium as a strategy to
enhance the dextransucrase activity of mutant of a new
isolate of lactic acid bacteria’, fiftieth Annual Conference
of Association of Microbiologists of India, National
Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 15-18 December 2009
D. Deka, P. Bhargavi, S. Singh, S.P. Das, A. Sharma, D.
Goyal, M. Jawed and A. Goyal
‘Activity enhancement of an alkaline cellulase from a
new isolate of Bacillus sp. (AS3) by Statistical methods’,
fiftieth Annual Conference of Association of
Microbiologists of India, National Chemical Laboratory,
Pune, 15-18 December 2009
‘Antibiotic sensitivity profile and characterisation of two
new bacterial isolates of Leuconostoc sp.’, Second North
East Conference of Medical Microbiologists (NEMICRON
2009), Down Town Hospital, Guwahati, 25-26 April 2009
M. Agrawal, S. Patel and A. Goyal
‘Characterisation of two high dextran-yielding mutants
of Leuconostoc mesaenteroides NRRL B640’, Second
North East Conference of Medical Microbiologists
(NEMICRON 2009), Down Town Hospital, Guwahati,
25-26 April 2009
D. Chakravorty, P. Saravanan, A. Thorat, A. Sadukhan, S.
Patra
‘Thermostable lipases and their in silico characterisation’,
fiftieth Annual Conference of Association of
Microbiologists of India, National Chemical Laboratory,
Pune, 15-18 December 2009
Book, Chapter, etc.
S. Mitra and L. Rangan
‘Climate Change: Science and Policies’, In: A Christian
Response to Ecological Crisis, ed. by T. Manuel and M.
Koshy eds), CSS Publishers, pp 94-99, 2009
L Rangan, A. Das, S. Aggarwal, V. Kesari and G.C. Sharma
‘DNAB - A molecular systematic approach for species
identification and bioresource protection’, In: Diversity
of Plant- A Molecular Approach, ed. by J.S. Britto, pp
19-35, 2009
P. Srivastava, M. Singh and R. Chaturvedi
‘Biotechnological improvement of neem’, In: Advances
in Plant Biotechnology, ed. by K. Ashwani, I.K.
International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi,
India, 2010
R. Chaturvedi and V.K. Mishra
‘In vitro haploid production – fast forward technique for
improved crop production’, In: Biotechnological Tools
& Techniques for Plant Biodiversity and Conservation
Study, ed. by B.S. Bhau, CRC press, New Delhi, India,
2009
‘De novo shoot and root organogenesis in leaf disc
cultures of Azadirachta indica A. Juss.’, In: Bioresources
of North East India: Industrial Potential and Intellectual
Property Right Issues, ed. by S.K. Borthakur, Bishan Singh
& Mahendrapal Singh, Deharadun, India, 2009
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CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED: INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL
Name of
Faculty
Name of Conference /
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
National
A. Goyal
Fiftieth Annual Conference of National
Association of Microbiologists Chemical
of India
Laboratory, Pune
15-18 December
2009
A. Ramesh
International Workshop on
Nanotechnology and
Advanced Functional
Materials
National
Chemical
Laboratory, Pune
9-11 July 2009
International
A. Ramesh
International Conference on
Advanced Nanomaterials and
Nanotechnology (ICANN
2009)
IIT Guwahati
9-11 December
2009
International
G.K. Saini
Emerging trends in
Biotechnology
BHU, Varanasi
4-6 December
2009
International
K. Pakshirajan
First International Conference Kottayam,
Kerala
on Recycling and Reuse of
Materials (ICRM09)
17-19 July 2009
International
K. Pakshirajan
Third International Congress
on Biotechniques for Air
Pollution Control
Delft, The
Netherlands
28-30 September
2009
International
L. Rangan
Nanotechnology (ICANN
2009)
Guwahati
9-11 December
2009
International
R. Swaminathan
Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting
of the Biophysical Society
San Francisco,
USA
20-24 February
2010
International
R. Swaminathan
Physics Biology Interface
Saha Institute of
Nuclear Physics,
Kolkata
13-16 December
2009
International
R. Tamuli
International Workshop on
Biology of Yeasts and
Filamentous Fungi
CCMB,
Hyderabad
11-14 December
2009
International
S. Patra
The eighth Asia Pacific
Bioinformatics Conference
(APBC2010)
Bangalore, India
18-21 January
2010
International
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INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of
Inst./Org.
Date
Place
L. Rangan
Dynamic landscape in
Biotechnology Patenting
DBT-Elsevier
Workshop on
Information and
Analytical tools
for the Life
Science
Researcher
L. Rangan
Plant Biotechnology and IPR
issues
Micro Small &
Guwahati
Medium
Enterprises, Govt.
of India,
Khanapara
12 March 2010
L. Rangan
Intellectual property rights
and issues related to
microbial biotechnology
Vivekanandha
College of
Engineering for
Women
Elayampalayam
Namakkal,
Tamilnadu
17 July 2009
R. Tamuli
Introduction to Phylogenetic
Reconstruction using
bioinformatics tools
Assam
Agricultural
University,
Guwahati
Jorhat, India
12 March 2010
U. Bora
Nanobioresources:
Conservation, Exploration
and Utilisation
ANRRC, COEX
Centre
Seoul, Korea
22-25 September
2009
U. Bora
Bioresources and North East
India
Chungnam
National
University
Daejong, Korea
25 September
2009
U. Bora
Nanotechnology
Gauhati
University
Guwahati
26 October 2009
U. Bora
Nanobiotechnology and Drug Institute of
Bioresource and
Delivery
Sustainable
Energy
Imphal
8 December 2009
U. Bora
Insights into Curcumin the
Spicy Drug
Guwahati
26-27 March 2010
Gauhati
University
Veterinary
Science College,
AAU, Guwahati
18 March 2010
SHORT-TERM COURSES
Principal Coordinator: L. Sahoo
Name: Application of Molecular Tools for Crop
Improvement
Sponsoring Agency: DBT
Place and Date: IIT Guwahati, 16-21 November 2009
Principal Coordinator: R. Chaturvedi and R. Tamuli
Name: Approaches to the Screening of Bioactive
Molecules from Natural Resources
Sponsoring Agency: AICTE
Place and Date: IIT Guwahati, 13-17 July 2009
Principal Coordinator: V.K. Dubey and U. Bora
Name: Advances in Drug Discovery
Place and Date: IIT Guwahati, 20-24 July 2009
PATENT FILED
M. Agrawal, R. Shukla and A. Goyal
‘The mutant of Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-640
giving higher production of dextran’, Indian Patent Office
(Appl. No. 5/KOL/2010 dated Jan 02, 2010)
V.K. Dubey, S. Patra, A.K. Shukla and S. Kannan
Iridoid glucosides from Nyctanthes arbortristis as new
class of inhibitor of Trypanothion reductase of leishmania
parasite (Appl. No. 306/KOL/2010)
A.N. Singh, A.K. Shukla, M.V. Jagannadham and V.K.
Dubey
A novel cysteine protease, procerain B, from Calotropis
procera (Appl. No. 1346/KOL/2009)
AWARDS AND HONOURS
A. Goyal
Selected for Rashtriya Gaurav Award and Certificate of
Excellence for meritorious services and outstanding
performance by India International Friendship Society
(IIFS), May 2009
K. Pakshirajan
Awarded Top Reviewer of Bioresource Technology (a
reputed International Journal) for the year 2008, by
Elsevier in April 2009
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L. Rangan
a) Awarded DBT Overseas Associateship Award for the
year 2010-2011 in area of Agricultural Sciences
b) Received Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
Best Poster Presentation Award during TWAS Regional
Young Scientist Conference ‘Food, Health and FuelPlants for future’ held at Selangor, Malaysia, 2-5
November 2009
P. Goswami
Felicitated as ‘Resource person’ in the Workshop on
‘Microbial Diversity Database’ held in NEHU during 2930 October 2009 and delivered lecture there as invited
speaker on ‘Fungal Degradation of Hydrocarbons: A
potential Source of Novel Redox Enzymes for biocatalytic
and bioelectronics applications’
V.K. Dubey
a) Selected for ‘Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award’
for 2009 by DBT, Govt. of India [Award includes Gold
medal, Citation, Cash prize Rs. 3.00 Lakhs over three
years period and a major project funding]
b) Invited as Resource Person of Bioinformatics, Assam
University, Silchar, 27-28 January 2010
c) Invited Editor: ‘Journal of Proteins and Proteomics’
(Serial publications)
d) Invited Associate Editor: ‘Global Journal of
Biochemistry’ (Simplex Academic Publisher)
ANY OTHER (SPECIAL MENTION)
A. Goyal
a) Invited as an expert by The Department of
Biotechnology, Government of India for a Brainstorming
meeting at Guwahati to evolve Science Promotion
Schemes for Colleges in North Eastern States of India
(May 2009)
b) Nominated as President, Biotech Research Society
India (BRSI), Guwahati Chapter 2009
Ms. Vigya Kesari
a) PhD student under Dr. L. Rangan awarded DST travel
fellowship to attend TWAS Regional Young Scientist
Conference ‘Food, Health and Fuel: Plants for the Future’
held in Malaysia from 2-5 November 2009
b) Awarded CSIR-SRF by CSIR, Govt. of India for two
years starting from April 2009
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R. Swaminathan
‘Invited Professor’ at the University of Strasbourg in the
Laboratory of Biophotonics and Pharmacology at the
Faculty of Pharmacy in Strasbourg-Illkirch, France
between 15 May – 15 July 2009
Naresh Kasoju
Won the prestigious Bajpai-Saha Award for his work on the
applications of Antheraea assama silk fibroin as a biomaterial
for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine at the
International Conference on Biomaterials, Artificial Organs
& Tissue Engineering organised by Society for Biomaterials
and Artificial Organs (India) and Society for Tissue
Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (India) at Cochin
28 February – 1 March 2010
Shashank Garg
M.T.P. student (Guidance with Dr. U. Bora and Dr. R.
Tamuli) got placement as Lecturer in Lovely Professional
University, Punjab
Sumithra Bapatla
M.T.P. student (Guidance with Dr. U. Bora and Dr. V.K.
Dubey) got placement as Lecturer in Lovely Professional
University, Punjab
A. Sahu
After completing his PhD moved for PDF research to
Instituto Engenharia Biomedica/Biomedical Engineering
Institute (INEB), Porto, Portugal
Nandini Sarkar
a) PhD student under Dr. V.K. Dubey awarded IUBMB full
travel fellowship to attend 21st IUBMB and 12th FAOBMB
International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
held during 2-7 August 2009 in Shanghai, China
b) Received Young Scientist Program Award in 21st
IUBMB and 12th FAOBMB International Congress of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology held during 2-7
August 2009 in Shanghai, China
B. Anand
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, RNA Biology, Molecular
Evolution
U. Bora
PhD (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
Delhi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interests: Biomaterials, Nanotechnology, Drug
Delivery and Tissue Engineering
B. Bose
PhD (AIIMS, New Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Recombinant Antibody, Theoretical
Biology
R. Chaturvedi
PhD (University of Delhi, Delhi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture,
Protoplast Isolation and Regeneration, Isolation,
Purification and Characterisation of Plant Secondary
Metabolites
D. Das
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Metabolic Engineering, Biochemical
Engineering, Modeling of Fermentation Process, Biofuel
FACULTY MEMBERS
V.V. Dasu
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interests: Bioprocess Development (upstream
to downstream), Metabolic Engineering, Bioenergy
Sk. Z. Ahammad
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Ares of Interest: Biological Waste Treatment, Microbial
Fuel Cell, Improvement of Bioreactor Design using
theoretical Ecology, Modeling of Fermentation Process,
Biofuel Production
V.K. Dubey
PhD (Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interests: Antileishmanial Drug Discovery,
Protein folding and Aggregation, Proteases,
Environmental Proteomics
S.S. Ghosh
PhD (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Gene Therapy, Expression Cloning
(Mammalian Systems), Bionanotechnology
P. Goswami
PhD (RRLJ)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Biosensors, Biofuelcell and Biocatalysis
A. Goyal
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor and Head of the Department
Areas of Interest: Molecular Biology, Protein
Engineering, Structural and Functional Proteomics of
Carbohydrate active enzymes and other industrial
microbial enzymes
B.G. Jaganathan
PhD (Frankfurt University, Germany)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Stem cells in Health and Disease and
Genetic Engineering
A.M. Limaye
PhD (IISc Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Hormonal regulation of gene
expression, Reproductive Biology and Molecular
Endocrinology, Endocrine related cancers
K. Pakshirajan
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of interest: Removal and recovery of heavy metals
from wastewaters by biosorption, Biodegradation of
hazardous pollutants, and Biotechnological Products and
Process Engineering
S. Patra
PhD (Central Food Technological Research Institute,
Mysore)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Enzymes - applications in Pharma and
Food Sector
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A. Ramesh
PhD (Central Food Technological Research Institute,
Mysore)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Nanobiotechnology, Molecular
Microbiology
L. Rangan
PhD (M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai,
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Molecular Systematics, Biofuel, IPR
L. Sahoo
PhD (Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Genetic Engineering and Functional
Genomics of plants
G.K. Saini
PhD (Andhra University, Visakhapatnam)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Fungal Biotechnology, Biological
Control, DNA fingerprinting and Transformation studies,
Studies on extracellular enzymes and toxic metabolite
production, Development of a potent biopesticide
R. Swaminathan
PhD (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Spectroscopic and computational
approaches to investigate Intrinsically Disordered Proteins,
Protein Aggregation, their mechanisms and approaches to
inhibit aggregation, Biochemical consequences of
Macromolecular Crowding inside living cells
R. Tamuli
PhD (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,
Hyderabad)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Calcium Signaling, Identification of
novel cancer relevant genes
V. Trivedi
PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interests: Intracellular Signaling in Plasmodium
falciparum
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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Chemical Engineering was started
in 2002 with BTech and PhD programmes. MTech
program with specialisation in Petroleum Refinery
Engineering was started in 2004. The Department is fully
supported by 22 faculty members and 10 staff members.
The Department comprises of about 07 laboratories in
the undergraduate level. In addition, the Department is
equipped with excellent analytical instruments, computer
facilities and research laboratories for the postgraduates
and the research scholars. The Mission of the
Department is to impart Chemical Engineering principles
to the young graduates, to motivate and develop the
students’ intellectual skills and to promote extensive
research in Chemical Engineering which supports the
academic objectives, industrial needs and the socioeconomic development of the country.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Started in 2002, the Department is a major academic
host offering all degree programmes such as BTech,
MTech and PhD in Chemical Engineering . The
Department offers Petroleum Refinery Engineering as a
specialisation in the master degree course. Bachelor
degree in Chemical Engineering follows an eightsemester system. The curriculum is designed to impart
fundamental principles as well as recent advancements
in Chemical Engineering. The syllabi include Humanities,
Computer, Mechanical and Chemical engineering
sciences. The students are encouraged to do a twosemester thesis work (semesters VII and VIII) to get an
insight into the realistic industrial problems and to find a
suitable solution methodology. To enhance their skills,
the undergraduate students are motivated to attend
various workshops and undergo summer training. The
Department offers master degree course with
specialisation in Petroleum Refinery Engineering which
follows a four semester system. In the first two
semesters, the postgraduate students are exposed to
advanced Chemical Engineering as well as Refinery
Engineering Principles. The curriculum involves one year
thesis work (semesters III and IV) which includes
fundamental and applied research related to Chemical
and Petroleum industries. The doctoral programme
requires a minimum necessity of taking four course works
for master (MTech) degree holder and six course works
for bachelor (BTech) degree holder in the first two
semesters. After the completion of course work, the
doctoral students have to appear for the PhD
comprehensive examination. The research scholar is
further allowed to carry out his/her research work after
successful completion of the PhD comprehensive
examination. The maximum duration for the doctoral
programme is about four years.
STUDENT INTAKE
BTech Students enrolled in 2009-2010 : 52
MTech Students enrolled in 2009-2010 : 32
PhD Students enrolled in 2009-2010
: 18
FACULTY STRENGTH
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
: 01
: 06
: 15
: 22
UV Vis Spectrophotometer: Used to determine the
Absorption/Transmission Spectra of the analyte, Different
measurement methods like Scan, Concentration, Wave
program and Time Drive method available, Typical
Application includes Concentration Measurement.
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High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC):
Binary HPLC system for Chromatographic separations.
It is equipped with RI and UV-Vis Detectors.
Autotitrator: Used for Automatic Titration of Redox,
Acid- Base reactions. Also used for Argentometric
titrations
Thermo Gravimetric Analyser: For differential thermo
gravimetric studies, SDTA analyses under defined
atmosphere (inert or reactive). With Temperature
programming upto 40 segment runs, Furnace
temperature upto 1100 degree C and measurement
precision upto 1 micro gram.
Karl Fischer Titrator: Used to determine the Moisture
Content of the sample. Uses pyridine free Karl Fischer
Reagent for titration and Dry Methanol as solvent.
BET Surface Area Analyser: For measuring the Surface
Area and Pore Size Distribution. It is an important
instrument in Particle Characterisation.
Millipore Water Synthesis Unit: Used for synthesis of
de-ionised water applying RO and EDI technology.
Synthesising Grade I water with Resistivity18.2MegaOhms.cm, TOC <10ppb and particle <1
(0.22micorns per ml) Indispensible for various
experimental, reaction and analytical purposes
Gas Chromatograph (GC): For typical gas
chromatography applications with provision for gas as
well as liquid injection of samples. Equipped with three
detectors viz. TCD (Thermal Conductivity Detector),
ECD (Electron Capture Detector) and FID (Flame
Ionisation Detector).
Laser Particle Size Analyser (LPSA): Measures Particle
size distribution of suitably dispersed field of particles in
the range 0.02 to 2000 micron. Provision for both Dry
(using Air as dispersing media) and Wet (using suitable
dispersant) dispersion available.
Rheometer: Used for dedicated study of Rheological
properties of fluids, both Newtonian and Non-Newtonian.
Equipped with several measurement geometries like ConePlate, Cone-Cup, Serrated Cone, etc.
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS): Used
to determine metal Ion concentration using Flame Mode.
Uses Air-Acetylene or Nitrous Oxide- Acetylene Burner.
Equipped with Vapor Generation Accessory and Electro
Thermal Controller for flameless hydride vapor analysis.
Tensiometer: Instrument dedicated to the study of
Surface tension and interfacial tension phenomena.
Measurement option using surfactant addition and
measurement at different temperatures using Julabo
circulator is available.
Rotavapor: Used for Low pressure recovery (though
evaporation) of solvent below boiling point
TOC (Total Organic Carbon): Used for determining
total carbon concentration in a sample.
GCMS (Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer): For
typical gas chromatography applications with provision
for gas as well as liquid injection of samples. Equipped
with three detectors viz. MS.
DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry): The main
application of DSC is in studying phase transitions, such
as melting , glass transitions, or exothermic
decompositions. These transitions involve energy changes
or heat capacity changes that can be detected by DSC
with great sensitivity
Presently, the Department is endowed with young,
vibrant and dynamic faculty well qualified to impart high
quality teaching and research in conventional and frontier
areas of Chemical Engineering and Refinery Engineering.
The major research areas include Catalysis and Reaction
Engineering, Process Systems Engineering, Transfer
Operations, Fluid Dynamics, Refinery Engineering,
Thermodynamics, Environmental Engineering, Fuel Cells,
etc. Also, the faculty of the department are actively
involved in various sponsored and consultancy projects
from the external agencies.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
IIT Guwahati
(Start-up
grant)
5.00
—
02 years
DRDO
9.60
—
—
A combined experimental and
D.
Bandopadhyay theoretical study on the instability
and patterning of thin liquid
crystal films
DST
17.00
—
03 years
D.
Influence of Porous Substrates on
Bandopadhyay the Instabilities and Patterning of
Thin Polymer films
IIT Guwahati
5.00
—
03 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
A.K.D.
Mahapatra
Understanding the crystallisation
of diblock copolymer by
molecular simulation
M.K. Purkait
Treatment of contaminated
drinking water using
electrocoagulation technique
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
IIT
Guwahati
start-up
grant
4.60
—
02 years
Membrane based separation
process for oily wastewater
IIT
Guwahati
4.20
—
02 years
V.V. Goud
Synthesis of biodegradable
lubricant base stock via
epoxidised vegetable oils (non
edible/waste oil)
IIT
Guwahati
5.00
—
03 years
B.P. Mandal
Synthesis gas purification by
CO2 selective polymeric
membrane
DST
28.70
—
03 years
A. Singh
Studies on free surface flow of
concentrated suspensions
DST
20.55
—
03 years 06
months
M.K. Purkait
Synthesis of a candidate
surfactant for the membrane
based separation of heavy
metals
CSIR
11.46
A.K. Ghoshal
03 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
A.K. Golder
Toxic metal hazard from sludge
generated during reduction of
Cr (iv) from waste water by
zero valent iron (Fe0)
C. Das
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Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
R. Uppaluri
Optimisation of mass transfer
enhanced electroless plating
process parameters for dense
metal composite membrane
fabrication
CSIR
13.80
M.K. Purkait
03 years
T.K. Mandal
Hydrodynamics of heavy crude
oil-water two phase flow
IIT
Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
T. Benarjee
Simultaneous desulphurisation
and denitrification of diesel oil
using ionic liquids with
quantum chemical prediction
and validation
DST
17.20
—
03 years
A.K.D.
Mahapatra
Co-developer of the NPTEL
web course entitled ‘Molecular
Simulations in Chemical
Engineering’
MHRD
2.50
T. Banerjee
02 years
P. Saha
Self-optimisation control for
plantwide Chemical Process
CSIR
12.60
—
03 years
P. Ghosh
Nitration of automatic
compounds at high
concentration of sulfuric acid
CSIR
10.00
—
03 years
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
A.K. Das
03 years
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
Principal
Investigator
Principal
Investigator
M.K. Purkait
Name of Project
Development of indigenous
technology for fluoride free
drinking water
Sponsoring
Agency
DRDO
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
9.96
CONSULTANCY
Principal
Investigator
C. Das
Name of Project
Development of membrane
based technology for separation
of coal from organic solvents
A.K. Ghoshal Study on Assessment of
Technologies for CO2 capture
and storage for carbon
sequestration
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Tata Steel
R&D
9.00
M.K. Purkait
01 year
(Completed)
NTPC Ltd.,
New Delhi
13.98
B.P. Mandal, P.
Saha, S. Gumma
and R. Uppaluri
06 months
(Completed)
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Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
M.K. Purkait
Development of membrane
based technology for the
separation of coal from organic
solvent
P. Ghosh
Co- developer of the course
MHRD
entitled ‘Numerical Methods
for Chemical Engineers’ under
the project entitled ‘Developing
suitable pedagogical methods
for various classes, intellectual
calibres and e-learning’
S. Gumma
Design and Development of
Pressure Swing Adsorption
Process for Separation of C5+
Gases and Water Vapor from
OIL’s Gas Lift Pipeline Network
A.K. Ghoshal Study on Assessment of
Technologies for Capture of
CO2 for Carbon Sequestration
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
C. Das
01 year
(Completed)
8.00
T. Banerjee
02 years
(Ongoing)
Oil India
Ltd.,
Duliajan
54.00
P. Saha, A.K.
Ghoshal, B.P.
Mandal and R.
Uppaluri
02 years
(Completed)
NTPC
13.98
P. Saha, S. Gumma, 06 months
B.P. Mandal and R. (approx.)
(Completed)
Uppaluri
Tata Steel, 9.00
Jamshedpur
P. Ghosh
Developing suitable pedagogical MHRD
methods for various classes,
intellectual calibers and elearning: Course: Colloid and
Interface Science
8.00
D. Bandopadhyay
02 years
(Ongoing)
P. Ghosh
NPTEL Course: Interfacial
Engineering
MHRD
7.00
—
02 years
Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, vol.
84, pp 1803-1810, 2009
A.K. Golder, H. Kumar, A.N. Samanta and S. Ray
‘Color Diminution and COD Reduction in Treatment of
Colored Effluent by Electrocoagulation’, International
Journal of Environment Engineering, vol. 2 (1/2/3), pp
228-238, 2010
S.N. Naik, V.V. Goud, P.K. Rout and A.K. Dalai
‘Production of First and Second Generation Biofuels: A
Comprehensive Review’, Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Review, vol. 14, pp 578-597, 2010
A.K. Golder, V.S. Dhaneesh, A.N. Samanta and S. Ray
‘Electrotreatment of industrial copper plating rinse
effluent using mild steel and aluminum electrodes’,
‘Medium Development for Enhanced Production of
Alkaline Protease from a Newly Isolated Bacillus
pseudofirmus SVB1’, Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical
Engineering (DOI:10.1002/apj.417, 2010)
S. Paul, A.K. Ghoshal and B. Mandal
‘Physicochemical Properties of Aqueous Solutions of 2(1-Piperazinyl)-ethylamine’, Journal of Chemical and
Engineering Data, vol. 55, pp 1359-1363, 2010
‘Kinetics of absorption of carbon dioxide into aqueous
solutions of 2-amino-2-hydroxymethyl-1,3-propanediol’,
Separation and Purification Technology, vol. 68, pp 422427, 2009
S. Sen, B. Mandal and V.V. Dasu
‘Effect of physical parameters, carbon and nitrogen
sources on the production of alkaline protease from a
newly isolated Bacillus pseudofirmus SVB1’, Annals of
J. Annadkumar and B. Mandal
‘Removal of Cr(VI) from Aqueous Solution using Bale Fruit
(Aegle armelos correa) Shell as an Adsorbent’, Journal of
Hazardous Materials, vol. 168, pp 633-640, 2009
A. Ahuja and A. Singh
‘Slip velocity of concentrated suspensions in Couette
flow’, Journal of Rheology, vol. 53, pp 1661-1485, 2009
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P. Manish and S.K. Majumder
‘Quality of mixing in downflow Bubble column based
on information entropy theory’, Chemical Engineering
Science, vol. 64 (8), pp 1798-1805, 2009
A.K.D. Mahapatra, H. Nanavati and G. Kumaraswamy
‘Polymer Crystallisation in the Presence of Sticky
Additives’, Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 131, pp
074905, 2009
D. Ghosh, C.R. Medhi and M.K. Purkait
‘Treatment of drinking water containing iron using
Electrocoagulation’, International Journal of Environment
Engineering, vol. 2 (1-3), pp 212-227, 2010
S. Jana, M.K. Purkait and K. Mohanty
‘Preparation and characterisation of low cost ceramic
microfiltration membrane for the removal of chromate
from aqueous solution’, Applied Clay Science, vol. 47,
pp 317-324, 2010
B.K. Nandi, B. Das, R. Uppaluri and M.K. Purkait
‘Ultrafiltration of Mosambi Juice using Low Cost Ceramic
Membrane’, Journal of Food Engineering, vol. 95 (4), pp
597-605, 2009
P. Monash and G. Pugazhenthi
‘Adsorption of crystal violet dye from aqueous solution
using mesoporous materials synthesized at room
temperature’, Adsorption, vol. 15, pp 390-405, 2009
B.K. Nandi, R. Uppaluri and M.K. Purkait
‘Treatment of oily waste water using low cost ceramic
membrane: Flux decline mechanism and economic
feasibility’, Separation Science and Technology, vol. 44
(12), pp 2840-2869, 2009
A. Majhi, P. Monash and G. Pugazhenthi
‘Fabrication and characterisation of -Al 2O 3-Clay
Composite Ultrafiltration Membrane for the Separation
of Electrolytes from its Aqueous Solution’, Journal of
Membrane Science, vol. 340, pp 181-191, 2009
D. Goswami, Rajshekhar, M.K. Purkait, J.K. Basu and S.
De
‘Micellar Enhanced Base Catalysed hydrolysis of ethyl
acetate using TTAB’, International Journal of Chemical
Reactor Engineering, vol. 7 (S2), pp 1-18, 2009
P. Monash and G. Pugazhenthi
‘Removal of crystal Violet Dye from Aqueous Solution
using Calcined and Uncalcined Mixed Clay Adsorbents’,
Separation Science and Technology, vol. 45, pp 94-104,
2010
P. Monash, A. Majhi and G. Pugazhenthi
‘Separation of BSA using -Al 2O 3-Clay Composite
Ultrafiltration Membrane’, Journal of Chemical
Technology and Biotechnology, vol. 85, pp 545-554, 2010
M.K. Purkait, V.D. Kumar and D. Maity
‘Treatment of Leather Plant Effluent using NF Followed
by RO and Permeate Flux Prediction using Artificial
Neural Network’, Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 151,
pp 275–285, 2009
B.K. Nandi, R. Uppaluri and M.K. Purkait
‘Effects of dip coating parameters on the morphology
and transport properties of cellulose acetate ceramic
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composite membranes’, Journal of Membrane Science,
vol. 330, pp 246–258, 2009
S. Dhir, R. Uppaluri and M.K. Purkait
‘Oxidative Desulfurisation: Kinetic Modeling’, Journal
of Hazardous Material, vol. 161, pp 1360-1368, 2009
B. K. Nandi, A. Goswami and M.K. Purkait
‘Removal of cationic dyes from aqueous solution by
kaolin: kinetic and equilibrium studies’, Applied Clay
Science, vol. 42, pp 583-590, 2009
B.K. Nandi, A. Goswami and M.K. Purkait
‘Adsorption characteristics of brilliant green dye on
kaolin’, Journal of Hazardous Material, vol. 161, pp 387395, 2009
M.K. Purkait, S. DasGupta and S. De
‘Determination of thermodynamic parameters for the
cloud point extraction of dyes using TX-100 and TX-114’,
Desalination, vol. 244, pp 130-13, 2009
B. De, T.K. Mandal and G. Das
‘The rivulet flow pattern during oil-water horizontal flow
through a 12 mm pipe’, Experimental Thermal and Fluid
Science, vol. 34 (5), pp 625-632, 2010
Y. K. Summan, T.K. Mandal and G. Das
‘Use of digital signal analysis to identify slug flow in a
narrow vertical pipe’, Chemical Engineering
Communications, vol. 197 (10), pp 1-16, 2010
D. Bandyopadhyay and A. Sharma
‘Self-Organised Microstructures in Thin Bilayers on
Chemically Patterned Substrates’, Journal of Physical
Chemistry C, vol. 114, pp 2237, 2010
D. Bandyopadhyay, A. Sharma and V. Shankar
‘Electric Field and Contact Force Induced Tunable
Patterns in Slipping Soft Elastic Films’, Europhysics Letters,
vol. 89, pp 36002, 2010
D. Bandyopadhyay, A. Sharma, Uwe Thiele and P.D.
Sankar Reddy
‘Electric Field Induced Instabilities and Interfacial
Morphologies of thin Viscous and Elastic Bilayers’,
Langmuir, vol. 25, pp 9108, 2009
R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee
‘Evaluation and comparison of global scalar properties
for the simultaneous interaction of ionic liquids with
thiophene and pyridine’, Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 293,
pp 22-31, 2010
V.K. Verma and T. Banerjee
‘Ionic Liquids as Entrainers for Water-Ethanol, Water-2propanol and Water-THF systems: A Quantum Chemical
Approach’, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jct.2010.03.001, 2010
S. Mohanty, T. Banerjee and K. Mohanty
‘Quantum Chemical Based Screening of Ionic Liquids
for the Extraction of Phenol from Aqueous Solution’,
Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 49, pp
2916-2925, 2010
S. Jana, M.K. Purkait and K. Mohanty
‘Preparation and characterisation of low cost ceramic
microfiltration membrane for the removal of chromate
from aqueous solution’, Applied Clay Science, vol. 47,
pp 317-324, 2010
S. Kondapalli and K. Mohanty
‘Biosorption of hexavalent chromium from aqueous
solutions by Catla catla scales: Equilibrium and kinetics
studies’, Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 155, pp 666673, 2009
C. Borkar, D. Tomar and S. Gumma
‘Adsorption of Dichloromethane on Activated Carbon’,
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, DOI:/10.1021/
je900706h, 2010
U. Hujuri, A.K. Ghoshal and S. Gumma
‘Temperature-dependent pyrolytic product evolution
profile for low-density polyethylene from gas
chromatographic study’, Waste Management, vol. 30 (5),
pp 814-820, 2010
V. Kumar and P. Balasubramanian
‘Kinetic Parameter Estimation in Hydrocracking using
Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimisation’, Fuel, vol. 88 (11),
pp 2171-2180, 2009
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C.P. Krishna and P. Balasubramanian
‘Analytical Solution for Discrete Lumped Kinetic Equations
in Hydrocracking of Heavier Petroleum Fractions’,
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 48
(14), pp 6608-6617, 2009
S. Das, P. Saha and G. Pugazhenthi
‘Modeling and Simulation of Stirred Dead End
Ultrafiltration Process using ASPEN Engineering SuiteR’,
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 48,
pp 4428-4439, 2009
A. Shaik, K. Chakrabarty, P. Saha and A.K. Ghoshal
‘Separation of Hg (II) from its aqueous solution using
bulk liquid membrane’, Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry Research, 2010 (in press)
K. Chakrabarty, K. Vamsee Krishna, P. Saha and A.K.
Ghoshal
‘Extraction and Recovery of Lignosulfonate from its
Aqueous Solution using Bulk Liquid Membrane’, Journal
of Membrane Science, vol. 330, pp 135-144, 2009
K. Chakrabarty, P. Saha and A.K. Ghoshal
‘Separation of mercury from its aqueous solution through
supported liquid membrane using environmentally
benign diluent’, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 350,
pp 395-401, 2010
‘Hydrodynamics and Batch Degradation of Phenol in an
Internal Loop Airlift Reactor’, International Journal of
Environmental Engineering, vol. 2 (1/2/3), pp 303-315, 2010
‘Simultaneous separation of mercury and lignosulfonate
from aqueous solution using supported liquid
membrane’, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 346, pp
37-44, 2010
‘Separation of lignosulfonate from its aqueous solution
using supported liquid membrane’, Journal of Membrane
Science, vol. 340, pp 84-91, 2009
‘Degradation of phenol by TiO2-based heterogeneous
photocatalysts in presence of sunlight’, Journal of Hydroenvironment Research, vol. 3, pp 45-50, 2009
‘Treatment of phenolics containing synthetic wastewater
in an internal loop airlift bioreactor (ILALR) using
indigenous mixed strain of Pseudomonas sp. under
continuous mode of operation’, Bioresource Technology,
vol. 100, pp 4111-4116, 2009
P. K. Bommaganti, M. Vijay Kumar and P. Ghosh
‘Effects of binding of counterions on adsorption and
coalescence’, Chemical Engineering Research and Design,
vol. 87, pp 728-738, 2009
T. Mitra and P. Ghosh
‘Binary coalescence of mercury drops’, International
Review of Chemical Engineering, vol. 1, 135-142, 2009
S. Sarkar, S.K. Ghosh and P. Ghosh
‘Nitration of benzene at high-concentrations of sulfuric acid’,
Asian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 21, pp 4533-4542, 2009
P. Ghosh
‘Coalescence of bubbles in liquid’, Bubble Science
Engineering and Technology, vol. 1, pp 75-87, 2009
R.C. Borah, P. G. Rao and P. Ghosh
‘Devolatilisation of coals of Northeastern India in inert
atmosphere and in under fluidised bed condition’, Fuel
Processing Technology, vol. 91, pp 9-16, 2010
G. Suryanarayana and P. Ghosh
‘Adsorption and coalescence in mixed-surfactant
systems: air-water Interface’, Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry Research, vol. 49, pp 1711-1724, 2010
M. Rahaman, B. Mandal and P. Ghosh
‘Nitration of nitrobenzene at high-concentrations of
sulfuric acid: Mass transfer and kinetic aspects’, AIChE
Journal, vol. 56 (3), pp 737-748, 2010
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A.K. Golder, A.N. Samanta and S. Ray
‘Electrotreatment of Dyeing Effluents with Graphite
Electrodes - Process Performance and Kinetic Study’,
Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON),
Visakhapatnam, India, December 2009
A.K. Golder, A.N. Samanta and S. Ray
‘Electrocoagulation for Treatment of Textile Dyeing
Wastewater’, Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON
2009), Visakhapatnam, India, December 2009
V. Singh, M.K. Purkait and C. Das
‘Ultrafiltration of oily wastewater’, International
Conference of Separation Processes (ICSP-2009), IIT
Bhubaneswar, Varanasi, India, 20-22 October 2009
V. Singh, M.K. Purkait and C. Das
‘Treatment of Industrial Wastewater by Membrane
Separation Technology’, Indian Chemical Engineering
Congress (CHEMCON-2009), Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam, India, 27-30 December 2009
V.V. Goud, S.N. Naik and P.K. Rout
‘Pretreatment an Important Step for Practical Cellulose
Conversion Processes’, National Conference on Renewable
Energy (NaCORE), Jodhpur, 5-7 November 2009
S. Sasmal, K. Mohanty and V.V. Goud
‘Pretreatment of Areca nut husk fiber using Taguchi method
of optimisation’, First International Conference on New
Frontiers in Biofuels, New Delhi, 18-19 January 2010
‘Applications of Alkaline Protease from a Newly Isolated
Bacillus pseudofirmus SVB1 in Abattoir Solid Waste
Solubilisation’, Proceedings of the Indian Chemical
Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2009), Visakhapatnam,
27-30 December 2009
J. Annadkumar and B. Mandal
‘Equilibrium and kinetic modeling of Malachite green
and Cu(II) adsorption by surface enhanced
Aeglemarmelos correa shell’, Proceedings of the Indian
Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2009),
Visakhapatnam, 27-30 December 2009
‘Separation of CO2 by a Novel Blended Amine Solvent
in Flat Sheet Membrane Contactor’, Proceedings of the
Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2009),
Visakhapatnam, 27-30 December 2009
‘Physical Solubility of N2O and CO2 into Aqueous Solution
of (2-(1-Piperazinyl)-ethylamine + N methyldiethanolamine)’, Proceedings of the Indian Chemical
27-30 December 2009
‘Separation of CO2 by novel single and blended aqueous
alkanolamine solvents in flat sheet membrane contactor’,
Proceedings of North American Membrane Society (NAMS
2009) Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 2024 June 2009
S. Mondal and B. Mandal
‘Synthesis and characterisation of poly (vinyl alcohol)
membrane containing N-methyldiethanolamine carrier’,
‘Separation of CO2 by sterically hindered alkanolamine
solvents in hollow fiber membrane contactor’,
Y. Ahmad and A. Singh
‘CFD simulation of two phase flow’, Proceedings of
National Conference and Exhibition on Energy Resources
of north-east India (SECONE 2009), Guwahati, 4-5
February 2010
A. Ashok Kumar and A. Singh
‘Axial segregation of bi-dispersed no-colloidal
suspensions in rotating drums’, Proceedings of fourth
Asian Particle Technology Symposium, New Delhi, 1416 September 2009
A. Majhi, P. Monash and G. Pugazhenthi
‘Development of Low Cost g-Al2O3-Clay Composite
Ultrafiltration Membrane for Separation of Bovine Serum
Albumin (BSA)’, Euromembrane 2009, Montpellier,
France, 6-10 September 2009
K. Kakati, G. Pugazhenthi and P.K. Iyer
‘Mechanical Properties of PP/Ni-Al LDH Nanocomposites
Prepared by Melt Intercalation Technique’, Sixth
International Conference on Precision, Meso, Micro and
Nano Engineering (COPEN 6), Coimbatore, 11-12
December 2009
B.N. Pradip, M. Prakash, K. Kumar and S.K. Majumder
‘A modified reactor for gas-liquid separation process’,
ICSP 2009, IIT Bhubaneswar, pp 473-482, 2009
D. Bandyopadhyay
‘Stability and patterning of thin polymer bilayers’, Golden
Jubilee Symposium on Fabrication at Small Scales and
Indo-US Conference on Fabrionics: Science of Advanced
Fabrication at IIT Kanpur, December 2009
R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee
‘Evaluation for Ionic Liquids for the removal of Aromtic
Nitrogen Species from Diesel Oil using COSMO-RS’,
Sixty-second Annual Session of the Indian Institute of
Chemical
Engineers
(CHEMCON
2010),
Vishakhapatnam, 27-30 December 2009
T. Banerjee
‘Prediction of Hydrogen Gas Solubility in Ionic Liquids
using Quantum Chemical Methods’, International
65
Conference on Advanced Energy Research (ICAER), IIT
Bombay, Mumbai, 9-11 December 2009
S. Murugavelh and K. Mohanty
‘Bioaccumulation of Cr(VI) by growing Phanerochaete
chrysosporium’, Proceedings of National Conference
on Biochemical Engineering: Present Scenario and
Future Prospective, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Guajarat, 1213 March 2010
A. Ghosh A. and P. Saha
‘Self Optimising Control based on Laguerre Models’,
Accepted for oral presentation in the sixty-second Annual
Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress
(CHEMCON 2009), Visakhapatnam, 27-30 December 2009
Book, Chapter, etc.
Books
S. De, C. Das and S. DasGupta
‘Treatment of Tannery Effluent by Membrane Separation
Technology’, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., USA, ISBN:
978-1-60741-836-8
P. Ghosh
‘Colloid and Interface Science’, PHI Learning Private
Limited, 2009 (ISBN: 978-81-203-3857-9, 520 pages
Book Chapters
C. Das and M.K. Purkait
‘Micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration and its Application’, in
Membrane Technologies and Applications, Taylor & Francis
S. De, C. Das and Y.T Hung
‘Membrane Separation for Water and Waste Water
Treatment’, in Handbook of Environmental and Waste
Management, World Scientific Publishing Company Pvt.
Ltd., Singapore, pp 596224
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Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
A.K. Golder
CHEMCON 2010
Vishakhapatnam 27-30 December
2009
C. Das
ICSP-2009
IIT
Bhubaneswar
20-22 October
2009
National
C. Das
Chemcon-09
Andhra
University,
Visakhapatnam
27-30 December
2009
National
V.V. Goud
National Conference on
Renewable Energy
(NaCORE)
Jodhpur
5-7 November
2009
National
B.P. Mandal
North American Membrane
Society (NAMS 2009)
Conference
Charleston,
South Carolina,
USA
20-24 June 2009
International
B.P. Mandal
The Indian Chemical
Engineering Congress
(CHEMCON 2009)
Visakhapatnam
27-30 December
2009
National
A. Singh
Hydrocarbon Industry
Growth: Prospects and
Challenges in North East
Numaligarh
Refinery
8-9 December
2009
National
A. Singh
Industry-Academia Workshop
on Technology Imperatives
for Exploration and
Production of Oil and Gas
Kaziranga,
Assam
17-20 March 2010
National
S.K. Mazumdar
Separation Processes(ICSP2009)
IT BHU,
Benaras
22-24 October
2009
International
A.K.D. Mahapatra School and Conference on
‘Multiscale Modeling and
Simulations of Hard and Soft
Materials’ (MMSM 2009)
Jawaharlal
Nehru Centre
for Advanced
Scientific
Research,
Bangalore
7-20 December
2009
National
A.K.D. Mahapatra Symposium on Rheology of
Complex Fluids (CompFlu
2010)
IIT Madras
8-9 January 2010
National
International
T.K. Mandal
CHEMCON 2009
Visakhapatnam
27-30 Dec. 2009
National
T. Banerjee
Advanced Energy Research
(ICAER)
IIT Bombay
9-11 December
2009
International
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
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International /
National
T. Banerjee
The Indian Chemical
Engineering Congress
(CHEMCON 2009)
Vishakhapatnam 27-30 December
2009
National
K. Mohanty
Renewable Energy (NaCORE)
Jodhpur
5-7 November
2009
National
S.K. Mazumdar
Workshop on Technology
Imperatives for Exploration
and Production of Oil and
Natural Gas
Kaziranga,
Assam
17-20 March
2010
National
K. Mohanty
Workshop on Oil, petroleum
and gas sector projects
Bhubaneswar
8 December
2009
National
C. Das
Workshop on Technology
Imperatives for Exploration
and Production of Oil and
Natural Gas
Kaziranga,
Assam
17-20 March
2010
National
Name of
Faculty
A. Singh
Name of Lecture
Visualisation and
measurement of particle
transport in evaporating
droplets
Name of
Inst./Org.
IIT Madras
D. Bandopadhyay Dynamics of Thin Films: A Yeungnam
Journey from Random to University, South
Ordered Microstructures
Korea
Place
Date
IIT Madras,
Chennai
8 January 2010
Daegu, South
Korea
November 2009
D. Bandopadhyay Stability and patterning of
thin polymer bilayers
IIT Kanpur
Kanpur
December 2009
D. Bandopadhyay A Journey from Random
to Ordered
Microstructures
Jadavpur University
Kolkata
January 2010
T. Banerjee
Molecular Modeling
Mechanisms in Chemical
Engineering
Saudia Arabia Basic Baroda, Gujarat
Industries
Corporation (SABIC)
8 July 2009
K. Mohanty
Global Warming:
Engineering and
Technology Solutions
(Indian Perspective)
Institute of
Engineers (India),
Assam State Centre
15 September 2009
Guwahati
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SHORT-TERM COURSES
FACULTY MEMBERS
Coordinator: A. Singh
Name of Course: Computational fluid dynamics for
Chemical and Petroleum Engineers
Date and Place: 8-12 June 2009, Department of
Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
P. Balasubramanian
PhD (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Reaction Engineering, Nonlinear
Dynamics, Petroleum Processing
PATENT FILED
M.K. Purkait, V. Kumar, L. Dhadge and M.K. Purkait
‘Production of Catechins from Natural Sources using
Membrane based Technology’, Application Number:
240/KOL/2010. Date of filing: 11/03/2010
AWARDS AND HONOURS
M.K. Purkait
a) Received BOYSCAST Fellowship for the year 20092010 from Department of Science and Technology (DST),
Government of India
b) Received Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
medal for Young Scientist, 2009
c) Received IEI Young Engineers Award in the Chemical
Engineering discipline (2009) from Institute of Engineers
(India)
D. Bandopadhyay
Visiting Professor at Yeungnam University, South Korea
P. Ghosh
Member of the editorial board of the journal, Bubble
Science, Engineering and Technology
P. Ghosh
‘Shiksha Rattan Puroskar (2010)’ of India International
Friendship Society, New Delhi
D. Bandyopadhyay
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Colloid and Interfacial Phenomena,
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Micro and Nano Fluidics,
Complex Flow and Fluids, Clean Energy - Fuel and Sola
T. Banerjee
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Phase equilibria of ionic liquids,
Molecular Simulations, Global Optimisation, Statistical
Thermodynamics
C. Das
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Wastewater Treatment,
Bioremediation, Membrane based Separation Process
M. De
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Catalysis and Reaction Engineering,
Adsorption, Hydrocarbon Processing
P. Ghosh
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Interfacial Phenomena, Interfacial
Reactions, Membrane Separation, Randomised
Algorithms
A.K. Golder
Coordinating NPTEL course entitled ‘Chemical
Engineering Design-II (web course)’
A.K. Ghoshal
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Advanced Separation Technology,
Modeling and Simulation, Environmental Pollution
Control, Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics
D. Bandopadhyay
Participated in the ‘National Mission Project on Pedagogic
Development’ and developed a course on ‘Colloid and
Interfacial Science’ along with the Principal Investigator
P. Ghosh, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT
Guwahati.
A.K. Golder
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Electroremediation of water/
wastewater, Physiochemical water/wastewater Treatment
Techniques, Bioremediation, Electrochemical corrosion
V.V. Goud
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Heterogeneous Reactions, Bio-energy
and Green Engineering, Biolubricant, Utilisation of
Lignocellulosic Biomass for Fuel/Chemicals, Supercritical
Fluids
S. Gumma
PhD (Cleveland State University, USA)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Multiphase flow and reactor, CFD in
down-flow bubble column, Mineral Processing, Bioseparation
A.K.D. Mahapatra
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Complex fluids, Phase transition in
polymers (Nucleation, crystallisation, collapse transition,
etc.), Structure-property Relations, Molecular
Simulations, Biological Physics
B.P. Mandal
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Separations with Chemical Reaction,
Molecular based Membrane Separation, Modeling and
Simulation of Separation Processes, Environmental
Pollution Control
T.K. Mandal
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Multiphase flow and Measurement
in multiphase flow, Bio-diesel
S.K. Mazumdar
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Multiphase flow and reactor, CFD in
down-flow bubble column, Mineral Processing, Bioseparation
K. Mohanty
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Industrial Pollution Control,
Environmental Biotechnology, Bioseparation, Membrane
Technology
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V.S. Moholkar
PhD (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Bubble Dynamics, CFD, Sono-process
Engineering, Bio-mass Gasification
G. Pugazhenthi
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Membrane Separation, Polymer
Nanocomposites, Nanomaterials, Catalysis and Refinery
Processes
M.K. Purkait
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Surfactant based Separation
Techniques, Membrane Reactors
P.K. Saha
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor and Head of the Department
Areas of Interest: Process Modeling, Optimisation and
Control, Membrane Based Separation Process
A. Singh
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Computational and experimental fluid
dynamics, Microfluidics/Nanofluidics, Material
processing, Flow through porous media
R.V.S. Uppaluri
PhD (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Computer aided Process Design and
Integration, Composite Materials, Membrane
Technology, Surfactant based enhanced Oil Recovery
and Electroless Plating, Refinery Engineering, Bio-systems
Engineering, Techno-economic Analysis
A. Verma
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Production,
Wastewater Treatment
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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Chemistry, with faculty strength of
25 at various levels, is engaged in pursuing excellence
in higher learning through teaching and research in
modern topics in Chemistry and related interdisciplinary
fields of interest. The faculty members of the
Department are implementing a large number of
research and development sponsored projects. A
sizeable number of students who obtained various
degrees from the Department are pursuing in research
over the globe. The Department has received fund under
FIST-Programme (Level-II) of the Department of Science
and Technology (DST), New Delhi. The students and
faculty members of the Department have received
prestigious national and international fellowships and
awards.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Department of Chemistry has BTech Core (Theory
and Laboratory) and elective courses in Chemistry, BTech
in Chemical Science and Technology, MSc and PhD
programmes.
STUDENT INTAKE
BTech (Chemical Science and Technology) students
enrolled in 2009-2010
: 32
MSc students enrolled in 2009-2010
: 38
: 25
FACULTY STRENGTH
Professors
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors
Total
: 06 (1 on lien)
: 06
: 13
: 25
The Department of Chemistry has sophisticated
instrumentation facility to support research and teaching
at various levels. The following is a list of important
instruments, which are currently available in the
Department:
(i) Fluorescence Spectrophotometer: Varian
(ii) FT-IR- Spectrophotometer: Nicolet
(iii) UV-Visible Spectrophotometer: Hitachi
(iv) Elemental Analyser: Perkin Elmer
(v) Gas Chromatograph: Hewlett-Packard
(vi) High Performance Liquid Chromatogram and Gel
Permeation Chromatogram: Waters
(vii) Electrochemical Analyser: CH Instruments
(viii) Magnetic Susceptibility Balance: Sherwood Scientific
(ix) Fluorescence life-time measurement equipment: IBM
(x) Pressure Reactor: ICT make
(xi) Langmuir –Blodgett Film maker
(xii) Thermogravimetric analyser and differential scanning
calorimeter: Mettler Toledo
(xiii) Fourier Transform Infrared spectrophotometer:
Perkin Elmer
(xiv) Cryocooler: Julabo
(xv) Polarimeter- Perkin Elmer
(xvi) UV-Visible Spectrophotometer: Perkin Elmer
(xvii) Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer: Bruker Nonius
(xviii) GC- MS: Perkin Elmer
(xix) H2, N2, O2 gas generator: Peak Scientific Laboratory
(xx) Glove Box: Mbraun
(xxi) Hydrogenation Apparatus: ICT
(xxii) Cryostat: Oxford
(xxiii) Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectrophotometer: Varian
(xxiv) High Speed Centrifuge: Sigma
The Department is engaged in various research and
Development activities such as:
Catalysis, Supramolecular Chemistry, Nanoscale Science
and Technology, Synthesis, structure and reactivity of
Inorganics, Newer reagents, Protocols and Newer
methodologies, Synthesis of natural products and
Carbohydrate Chemistry, Bio-organic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry and Co-ordination Chemistry &
Organometallics, Polymer synthesis, Organic
Photochemistry, Molecular dynamics, Quantum
Molecular dynamics, Physical Chemistry – Spectroscopic
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and Theoretical investigations on Novel Materials, Peptide
chemistry, Development of new theoretical approaches
to: Laser Assisted Control of Chemical Reactions, and,
Resonances in Electron – Molecule Scattering ,
Biomimetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Computational Biophysics and Chemistry, etc.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
A. Paul
Newer methods of growth,
assembly and patterning of
nanoparticles
DST
22.67
—
03 years
A. Saikia
Streoselective synthesis of
substituted tetrahydropyran and
their nitrogen and sulfur
analoges
CSIR
13.15
—
03 years
D. Manna
Mechanistic Insights into the
Phosphatidyl Inositol (IP)
Binding Properties of Human
Protein Lamellipodin and its
Pleckstrin Homology (PH)
Domain
BRNS (YSR)
17.00
—
03 years
D. Manna
Interaction of Phosphotidyl
Inositol with Phox Homology
(PX) Domain: Elucidation of
Mechanistic Principal and
Strategies for Therapeutic
Intervention
DBT (RGYI)
14.85
S. Paul
The Role of aqueous solution of
trimethyl-amine-N-Oxide on
thepressure induced
hydrophobic interactions and
the pressure induced hydrogen
bond properties and dynamics
DST
18.38
—
03 years
C.V. Sastri
Dioxygen activation and
haloperoxidase activity by
mononuclear non-heme iron (II)
complexes
DST-SERC
39.44
—
03 years
B. Mondal and
S.S. Bag
03 years
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Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
M. Qureshi
Synthesis and characterisation of
highly efficient fluorescent and
phophorescent molecular
materials having hetero atoms
for optoelectronics device
application
DST
33.00
—
03 years
S.S. Bag
Toward the Expansion of the
Genetic Alphabet: Design,
Synthesis and Study of Physical/
Photophysical Properties of
Unnatural Nucleoside Base
Analogues and Incorporation
into Short Oligonucleotide
Sequences
DST
37.62
—
03 years
S.S. Bag
Toward the Expansion of the
Genetic Code: Design,
Synthesis and Study of
Photophysical Properties of
Fluorescent Unnatural Amino
Acids (FUAA) for Site-Specific
Incorporation into Proteins
CSIR
14.31
—
03 years
Development of novel
T.
Punniyamurthy Processes for removing sulfur
from diesel
IOCL
10.32
—
02 years
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
Dept. of
Chemistry
DST – FIST Project under level
–II category
DST
215.00
—
05 years
G. Das
Precursor synthesis of inorganic
mineral through complexes of
mixed donor ligands
DST
23.00
—
03 years
M. Ray
Synthesis, Electrochemistry and
optimisation for metal binding
at the terminal end of the
functionalised oligoaniline
CSIR
8.40
—
03 years
A.N. Panda
Quantum dynamical simulation
of four atomic reactions
DST
19.26
—
03 years
Principal
Investigator
Principal
Investigator
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
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Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
R. Boomi
Shankar
Design and synthesis of
functional framework materials
based on P-N and P-O building
blocks
DST
19.68
—
03 years
B. Mandal
Synthesis and Evaluation of a
Novel class of Multi-TargetDirected-Ligands as Potential
Leads against Amyloid Diseases
DST
19.20
—
03 years
B. Mandal
Beta Breaker Dipeptides:
Development of a Novel
Approach for Amyloid
Disruption
Dept. of
Atomic
Energy,
YRSA
16.50
—
03 years
M. Sarma
Investigation of Strand Breaks in
DNA Induced by Low Energy
Electron Scattering using Time
Dependent Wave Packet
Approach
DST
17.81
—
03 years
M. Sarma
Structure and Photo –
Dynamics of Small Polyatomics
using Parallelised Quantum
Classical Approach
Board of
Research in
Nuclear
Sciences
19.80
S. Adhikari, D.
Mukhopadhyay
and M. K. Mishra
03 years
B.K. Patel
Development of Green
Synthetic Methodologies using
Thiophillic Reagents
CSIR
9.00
—
03 years
Chiral Main Chain Polymer
T.
Punniyamurthy Catalysts for Asymmetric
Catalysis
DST
38.76
—
03 years
T.
New Chiral Dendtric Catalysts
Punniyamurthy for Asymmetric Catalysis
CSIR
13.10
—
03 years
A.K. Gupta
Study of High Hormonic
generation beyond dipole
approximation
DST
18.00
—
03 years
A.K. Saikia
Synthesis of chiral ligands/
catalysis and their applications
in asymmetric synthesis
DST
20.61
—
03 years
V.
Manivannan
Synthesis, Characterisation and
Properties of Transition Metal
Complexes of 2Pyridylterpyridine
CSIR
12.04
—
03 years
CSIR
10.96
—
03 years
Stimuli Responsive Materials
A.
Chattopadhyay with Nanoscale Components
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W.M. Singh and J.B. Baruah
‘Coordination polymers of cadmium with (4carbomethoxy-naphthalen-1-yloxy) acetic acid
derivatives’, Polyhedron, vol. 29, pp 1543-1550, 2010
D. Singh and J.B. Baruah
‘Varieties in symmetry non-equivalent structural
arrangements via solvation in 2-(3-methylene-1,3,7trioxo-6-(2-carboxy-phenyl)-3,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1Hpyrrolo[3,4 f]isoindol-2-yl)benzoic acid’, Journal of
Molecular Structure, vol. 937, pp 75-80, 2009
D. Kalita and J.B. Baruah
‘Visual distinction of dicarboxylic acids and their salts by
1-phenyl-3-(quinolin-5-yl)urea’, Journal of Molecular
Structure, vol. 969, pp 75-82, 2010
R. Sarma and J.B. Baruah
‘Variation in coordination modes of aromatic N-oxide in
lanthanum(III) coordination polymers’, Journal of
Coordination Chemistry, vol. 63, pp 457-463, 2010
B. Das and J.B. Baruah
‘Coordinated cations in dipicolinato complexes of
divalent metal ions’, Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 363,
pp 1479-1487, 2010
R. Sarma and J.B. Baruah
‘Solvent coordination in changing dimensionality of lead
benzoate coordination polymers’, Inorganica Chimica
Acta, 362, pp 4977-4984, 2009
B. Das and J.B. Baruah
‘Cooperativity on selective products in one-pot reactions
of 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid and ethylenediamine
with metal ions’, Inorganic Chemical Communication,
vol. 13, pp 350-352, 2010
D. Singh and J.B. Baruah
‘Different solvates of two isomeric dicarboxylic acids
with pyridine and quinoline’, CrystEngComm., vol. 11,
pp 2688-2694, 2009
D. Singh, S.K. Ghosh and J.B. Baruah
‘Solvent dependent fluorescence emission in heterocyclic
compounds having isoquinoline backbone’, Journal of
Heterocyclic Chemistry, vol. 47, pp 199-205, 2010
D. Suresh Babu, W.M. Singh, D. Kalita and J.B. Baruah
‘Solvatochromicity of 3-hydroxy-4-(1-(2,4dihydroxyphenyl)-2-hydroxy-2,2-diphenyl ethylidene)
cyclohexa-2,5-dienone for screening of solvents’,
Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular
Spectroscopy, vol. 75, pp 486-489, 2010
A. Karmakar, D. Kalita and J.B. Baruah
‘Structural study on few co-crystals and a salt of quinoline
derivatives having amide bond’, Journal of Molecular
Structure, vol. 935, pp 247-527, 2009
R. Sarma, D. Kalita and J.B. Baruah
‘Solvent induced reactivity of 3,5-dimethylpyrazole
towards zinc (II)carboxylates’, Dalton Transactions, pp
7428-7436, 2009
D. Singh, P. Bhattacharyya and J.B. Baruah
‘Structural studies on solvates of cyclic imide tethered
carboxylic acids with pyridine and quinoline’, Crystal
Growth and Design, vol. 10, pp 348-356, 2010
A. Karmakar, R. Sarma, W.M. Singh, A.M. Baruah and
J.B. Baruah
‘Supramolecular Chemistry with carboxylate functionality
Insights into Coordination’, Bioinorganic and Applied
Inorganic Chemistry, Edited by M. Melník, P. Sega, M.
Tatarko, Press of Slovak University of Technology,
Bratislava, pp 6-16, 2009
J.B. Baruah
‘Perspectives of study on low nuclearity carboxylate
complexes‘, Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30,
pp 67-88, 2009
‘Structural study of few p-phenylenediacetate complexes
of Mn2+, Cu2+, Zn2+ and Cd2+’, Inorganica Chimica Acta,
vol. 362, pp 4268-4271, 2009
‘Study on structure of few sulphur containing 1,4naphthoquinone derivatives’, Journal of Molecular
Structure, vol. 931, pp 82-86, 2009
D. Kalita, R. Sarma and J.B. Baruah
‘Catalytic alcoholysis of quinolin-8-yl esters by
manganese complexes’, Inorganic Chemical
Communication, vol. 12, pp 559-571, 2009
B.K. Dey, A. Karmakar and J.B. Baruah
‘Characterisation of magnesium carboxylates and their
catalytic C-C bond formation reactions’, Journal of Molecular
Catalysis, A: Chemical, vol. 303, pp 137-140, 2009
D. Kalita, R. Sarma and J.B. Baruah
‘Formation of Symmetry Non Equivalent Molecules in
Urea and Carbamate Derivatives: Role of Anion’,
CrystEngComm., vol. 11, pp 803-810, 2009
A. Karmakar, J.B. Baruah and R. Boomi Shankar
‘Zinc(II) and cobalt(II) complexes of (3-carboxymethoxynaphthalen-2-yloxy)-acetic acid : a structural study’,
CrystEngComm., vol. 11, pp 832-840, 2009
N. Biyani and S. Paul
‘Hydrophobic Interactions in Water-Trimethylamine-NOxide Solutions: The Effects of Pressure’, Journal of
Physical Chemistry B, vol. 113, pp 9644, 2009
S. Paul
‘Liquid-Vapour Interfaces of Aqueous TrimethylamineN-oxide Solutions: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Study’, Chemical Physics, vol. 7, pp 368, 2010
R. Sahu, S.K. Padhi, H.S. Jena and V. Manivannan
‘Conversion of 2-(Aminomethyl) Substituted Pyridine and
Quinoline to their Dicarbonyldiimides using Copper(II)
Acetate’, Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 363, pp 14481454, 2010
S.K. Padhi, R. Sahu and V. Manivannan
‘Water-Chloride 2D-Network in 4¢-(2-Pyridyl)2,2¢:6¢,2²-Terpyridine Bis-chelates of M(II) {M = Fe,
Ni, Ru}’, Polyhedron, vol. 29, pp 709-714, 2010
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V.K. Fulwa, R. Sahu, H.S. Jena and V. Manivannan
‘Novel Synthesis of 2,4-Bis(2-pyridyl)-5(pyridyl)imidazoles and Formation of N-(3(Pyridyl)imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine)picolinamidines:
Nitrogen–Rich Ligands’, Tetrahedron Letter, vol. 50, pp
6264-6267, 2009
B. Saha, S. Chakrabortya and G. Das
‘A mechanistic insight into enhanced and selective phosphate
adsorption on a coated carboxylated surface’, Journal of
Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 331, pp 21-26, 2009
A. Pramanik and G.Das
‘3D Solid-state Network from Hierarchical
Supramolecular Self-assembly of Transition Metal
Complexes of Pyridine Based Ligand’, Journal of
Chemical Crystallography, vol. 39, pp 416-422, 2009
A. Pramanik and G. Das
‘An Efficient Phosphate Sensor: Tripodal Quinoline Excimer
Transduction’, Tetrahedron, vol. 65, pp 2196-2200, 2009
B.M. Borah, A. Singh, A. Ramesh and G. Das
‘Lactic Acid Bacterial Extract as a Biogenic Mineral
Growth Modifier’, Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 311,
pp 2664-2672, 2009
B. Saha and G.Das
‘Malachite nanoparticle: a new basic hydrophilic surface
for pH controlled adsorption of BSA with a high loading
capacity’, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 113 (35),
pp 15667-15675, 2009
S. Dey and G. Das
‘Conformational Polymorphism of a simple Tripodal
Podand bearing Nitro Functionality’, Crystal Growth and
Design, vol. 10 (2), pp 754-760, 2009
M. Sarma, S. Adhikari, and M.K. Mishra
‘Laser Assisted Control of Selective Bond Dissociation
in HOD – Some Mechanistic Insights’, Molecular Physics,
vol. 107, pp 939-961, 2009
L.H. Choudhury, T. Parvin and A.T. Khan
‘Recent Advances in the Application of
Bromodimethylsulfonium bromide (BDMS) in Organic
Synthesis’, Tetrahedron, vol. 65, pp 9513-9526, 2009
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Md. M. Khan and A.T. Khan
‘A simple and convenient Synthetic Protocol for OIsopropylidenation of Sugars using Bromodimethylsulfonium bromide (BDMS) as a Catalyst’,
Carbohydrate Research, vol. 345, pp 154-159, 2010
U.C. Reddy and A.K. Saikia
‘One-pot, three-component synthesis of 4aryldihydropyran via Prins cyclisation reaction’, Synlett,
pp 1027-1032, 2010
S. Bondalapati, U.C. Reddy, D.S. Kundu and A.K. Saikia
‘Titanium tetrafluoride: an efficient Lewis acid and
fluorinating agent for stereoselective synthesis of 4fluorotetrahydropyran via Prins reaction’, Journal of
Fluorine Chemistry, vol. 131, pp 320-324, 2010
B. Rama Raju, S. Sarkar and A.K. Saikia
‘Cerium(IV) triflate catalysed highly selective oxidation
of sulfides to sulfoxides with aqueous hydrogen
peroxide’, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemistry,
vol. 308, pp 169-173, 2009
R. Murugavel, S. Kuppuswamy, N. Gogoi, R.
Boomishankar and A. Steiner
‘Noncovalent Synthesis of Hierarchical Zinc Phosphates
from a Single Zn4O12P4 Double-Four-Ring Building Block:
Dimensionality Control through the Choice of Auxiliary
Ligands’, Chemistry – a European Journal, vol. 16, pp
994-1009, 2010
R. Murugavel, S. Kuppuswamy, N. Gogoi, A. Steiner, J.
Bacsa, R. Boomishankar and K.G. Suresh
‘Controlling the Structure of Manganese(II) Phosphates
by the Choice and Ratio of Organophosphate and
Auxiliary Ligands’, Chemistry – an Asian Journal, vol. 4,
pp 143-153, 2009
Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical. vol. 304 (12), pp 153-158, 2009
J. Deka, A. Paul and A. Chattopadhyay
‘Sensitive protein assay with distinction of conformations
based on visible absorption changes of citrate-stabilised
gold nanoparticles‘, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol.
113 (17), pp 6936-6947, 2009
V. Talla, R. Sangwan and A. Chattopadhyay
‘A new way of information storage using red, green,
blue and black color imprints’, Microsystem Technologies,
vol. 15, pp 4, 2009
H. Ghosh, R. Yella, A.R. Ali, S.K. Sahoo and B.K. Patel
‘An Efficient Synthesis of Cyanamide from Amine
Promoted by Hypervalent Iodine(III) reagent’,
Tetrahedron Letter, vol. 50, pp 2407-2410, 2009
J. Nath, H. Ghosh, R. Yella and B.K. Patel
‘Molecular Iodine Mediated Preparation of
Isothiocyanate from Dithiocarbamic Acid Salts’, European
Journal of Organic Chemistry, pp 1849-1851, 2009
L. Jamir, A.R. Ali, H. Ghosh, F.A.S. Chipem and B.K. Patel
‘The thiocarbonyl ‘S’ is softer than thiolate ‘S’: A catalystfree one-pot synthesis of isothiocyanates in water’,
Organic Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 8, pp 1674, 2010
A.R. Ali, H. Ghosh and B.K. Patel
‘A Greener synthetic protocol for the preparation of
carbodiimide’, Tetrahedron Letter, vol. 51, pp 1019, 2010
H. Ghosh and B.K. Patel
‘Hypervalent iodine (III)-mediated oxidation of
aldoximes to N-acetoxy or N-hydroxy amides’, Organic
Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 8, pp 384, 2010
A. Murugadoss, M. Kar, R. Pasricha and A.
Chattopadhyay
‘Silver fused conducting fiber formation of Au-Ag coreshell nanoparticles mediated by ascorbic acid’,
Plasmonics, vol. 4 (2), pp 161-170, 2009
H. Ghosh, S. Sarkar, A.R. Ali and B.K. Patel
‘Oxidative desulfurisation of disubstituted thioureas using
Pb(II) salts and investigation of pKa-dependent
regioselective N-acylation’, Journal of Sulfur Chemistry,
vol. 1, 2009
A. Murugadoss, P. Goswami, A. Paul and A.
Chattopadhyay
‘Green chitosan bound silver nanoparticles for selective
C-C bond formation via in situ iodination of phenols’,
S. Murru, P. Mondal, R. Yella and B.K. Patel
‘Copper (I)-catalysed cascade synthesis of 2-substituted
benzothiazoles: A direct access to benzothiazolones’,
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, pp 5407, 2009
S. Murru, H. Ghosh, S.K. Sahoo and B.K. Patel
‘Intra- and Intermolecular C-S Bond Formation using
Single Catalytic System: First Direct Access to
Arylthiobenzothiazoles’, Organic Letter, vol. 11, pp
4254, 2009
C.C. Palsuledesai, S. Murru, S.K. Sahoo and B.K. Patel
‘Acyl-isothiocyanates as Efficient Thiocyanate Transfer
Reagents’, Organic Letter, vol. 11, pp 3382, 2009
P. Bagaria, S. Saha, S. Murru, V. Kavala, B.K. Patel and
R.K. Ray
‘A Comprehensive Decomposition Analysis of
Stabilisation Energy (CDASE) and its Application in
Locating the Rate-determining Step and Multi-step
Reactions’, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 11,
pp 8306, 2009
J. Nath and B.K. Patel, L. Jamir, U.B. Sinha and K.V.V.V.
Satyanarayana
‘A one-pot preparation of cyanamide from
dithiocarbamate using molecular iodine’, Green
Chemistry, vol. 11, pp 1503, 2009
S. Murru and B.K. Patel, J. Le Bras and J. Muzart
‘Copper (i)-catalysed synthesis of substituted 2-mercapto
benzamidazole’, Journal of Organic Chemistrty, vol. 74,
pp 2217, 2009
S. Jammi, S. Krishnamoorthy, P. Saha, D.S. Kundu, S.
Sakthivel, Md. A. Ali, R. Paul and T. Punniyamurthy
‘Reusable Cu2O-Nanoparticles Catalysed Amidation of
Aryl Iodides’, Synlett, pp 3323, 2009
P. Saha, T. Ramana, N. Purkait, Md. A. Ali, R. Paul and T.
Punniyamurthy
‘Ligand-Free Copper-Catalysed Synthesis of Substituted
Benzimidazoles, 2-Aminobenzimidazoles, 2Aminobenzothiazoles, and Benzoxazoles’, Journal of
Organic Chemistry, vol. 74, pp 8719, 2009
T. Ramana, P. Saha, M. Das and T. Punniyamurhty
‘Copper-Catalysed Domino Intra and Intermolecular
C-S Cross-Coupling Reactions: Synthesis of 2(Arylthio)arylcyanamides’, Organic Letter, vol. 12, pp
84, 2010
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Md. A. Ali and T. Punniyamurthy
‘Pd-Catalysed One-Pot Conversion of Aldehydes to
Amides’, Advancad Synthesis and Catalysis, vol. 355,
pp 288, 2010
Md. A. Ali, P. Saha and T. Punniyamurthy
‘Efficient Copper Catalysed N-Arylation of Amides and
Imidazoles with Aryl Iodides’, Synthesis, vol. 908, 2010
F.A.S. Chipem and G. Krishnamoorthy
‘Comparative Theoretical Study of Rotamerism and Excited
State Intramolecular Proton Transfer of 2-(2’Hydroxyphenyl) benzimidazole, 2-(2'-Hydroxyphenyl)
imidazo [4,5-b]pyridine, 2-(2'-Hydroxyphenyl) imidazo [4,5c]pyridine and 8-(2'-Hydroxyphenyl) purine’, Journal of
Physical Chemistry A., vol. 113 (44), pp 12063-12070, 2009
N. Dash, F.A.S. Chipem and G. Krishnamoorthy
‘Encapsulation of 2-(4’-N,N-dimethylamino)
phenylimidazo [4,5-b] pyridine in -cyclodextrin: effect
on H-bond induced intramolecular charge transfer
emission’, Photochemical and Photobiological Science,
vol. 8 (12), pp 1708-1715, 2009
M. Dubey, R.R. Koner and M. Ray
‘Sodium and Potassium ion directed self-assembled
multinuclear assembly of divalent nickel or copper and Lleucine derived ligand’, Inorganic Chemistry, pp 9294, 2009
P.A. Kumar, M. Ray and S. Chakraborty
‘Adsorption behaviour of trivalent chromium on aminebased polymer aniline formaldehyde condensate’,
Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 34, pp 149, 2009
S.S. Bag, R. Kundu, A. Basak and Z. Slanina
‘Suppressed -effect of Silicon in 3-silylated monocyclic
-lactams: The role of antiaromaticity’, Organic Letter,
vol. 11 (24), pp 5722-5725, 2009
S. Bhattacharya and A.N. Panda
‘Time-dependent quantum dynamics of the He+H+He
reaction’, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and
Optical Physics, vol. 42, pp 085201, 2009
M. Sarma, A. Singh, S.G. Gupta, G. Das and B. Mondal
‘Nitric oxide reduction of copper(II) complex with
tetradentate amine ligand followed by ligand
transformation’, Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 363, pp
63-70, 2010
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G. Saikia, R. Singh, P.J. Sarmah, M.W. Akhtar, J. Sinha,
M. Katiyar and P.K. Iyer
‘Synthesis and Characterisation of Soluble Poly (pphenylene) Derivatives for PLED Applications’,
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, vol. 210, pp
2153-2159, 2009
P.K. Reddy, P.J. Goutam, D.K. Singh, A.K. Ghoshal and
P.K. Iyer
‘Poly(3-hexylthiophene) to fullerene. Kinetic modeling
and analysis of thermal degradation pathway’, Polymer
Degradation and Stability, vol. 94, pp 1839-1848, 2009
D.K. Singh, P.K. Iyer and P.K. Giri
‘Optical signature of structural defects in single walled and
multiwalled carbon nanotubes’, Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, vol. 9, pp 5231-5234, 2009
‘Quantitative analysis of diameter dependent properties
of multi-walled carbon nanotubes’, AIP Conference
Proceedings, vol. 1147, pp 450-456, 2009
S. Dey and G. Das
‘Conformation Polymorphism and Anion Binding of
Varying Dimensionality by an Electron Defficient Tripodal
Podand’, Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTICXIII), IISc Bangalore, 7-10 December 2009
B. Ojha and G. Das
‘Role of Hydrophobic and Polar Interactions for BSAamphiphiles conjugates’, International Conference on
Physics Biology Interface, Saha Institute of Nuclear
Physics, Kolkata, 13-16 December 2009
A.K. Gupta, S. Debnath and R. Boomishankar
‘Assembly of organoamino phosphonium cations in
hierarchical supramolecular structures’, Twelfth National
CRSI Symposium in Chemistry, Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 4-7 February 2010
S.C. Sahoo and M. Ray
‘Chiral Recognition of Amino alcohols Inside
Metallocavity’, Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry,
IISc Bangalore, December 2009
M. Dubey and M. Ray
‘Effect of Amino acid, anion and cation on the Trinuclear
cages of amino acid derivative ligands’, Modern Trends
in Inorganic Chemistry, IISc Bangalore, December 2009
A. Vardhman and C.V. Sastri
‘Redox behaviour of non-heme metal complexes:A pulse
Radiolysis study ’, Advanced biological Inorganic
Chemistry-SABIC-2009, TIFR, Mumbai, November 2009
S. Mohanty, S. Ravi, H.S. Jena and V. Manivannan
‘Effect of annealing condition on nanopowder
Sn0.98Co0.02O2 based diluted magnetic semiconductors’,
and Nanotechnology (ICANN 2009), IIT Guwahati, 911 December 2009
H.S. Jena and V. Manivannan
‘Synthesis and Structural Studies on Nickel (II) and Copper
(II) Racemic Complexes’, Modern Trends in Inorganic
Chemistry, MTIC – XIII, IISc Bangalore, December 2009
H.S. Jena and V. Manivannan
‘Nickel(II) Complexes of (((2-Pyridyl)Ethylamine)Methyl)
Phenolate Ion and Co-Ligand Induced Structural
Variations’, International Symposium on Inorganic Ring
Systems, IRIS–12, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, August 2009
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
G. Das
Modern Trends in Inorganic
Chemistry (MTIC-XIII)
G. Das
International Conference on Saha Institute of Nuclear
Physics Biology Interface
Physics, Kolkata
IISc Bangalore
Date
International /
National
7-10 December 2009
National
13-16 December 2009
International
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
R. Boomi Shankar Twelfth International
Symposium on Inorganic Ring
Systems
Date
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International /
National
Goa (organised
by IIT-Bombay)
16-21 August
2009
International
M. Sarma
First Platinum Jubilee Meeting
of the Indian Academy of
Sciences Bangalore
IICT,
Hyderabad
2-4 July 2009
National
M. Sarma
Second Platinum Jubilee
Meeting of the Indian
Academy of Sciences
Bangalore
IISc Bangalore
12-14 November
2009
National
M. Sarma
International Symposium Of
Molecules and Materials
(OMAM) 2009
IISER, Kolkata
28-29 December
2009
International
M. Sarma
Recent Advances in Many
Electron Theories (RAMET)
2010
Shankarpur,
West Bengal
5-7 January 2010
National
M. Sarma
International Conference and
Humboldt Kolleg, University
of Lucknow and Humboldt
Academy Lucknow
Lucknow
24-27 February
2010
International
A.K. Saikia
239th ACS National Meeting,
San Francisco,
Stereoselective one-pot three- CA, US,
component synthesis of
ORGN-16
substituted dihydro- and
tetrahydro-pyrans
21-25 March
2010
International
C.V. Sastri
School cum Symposium on
Advanced Biological Inorganic
Chemistry-SABIC 2009
TIFR Mumbai
—
International
C.V. Sastri
Modern Trends in Inorganic
Chemistry
IISc Bangalore
—
National
Place
Date
Name of
Faculty
B.K. Patel
Name of Lecture
Green Chemistry with
Iodine, Cu and OATB
Name of
Inst./Org.
Department of
Chemistry, Sikkim
Manipal Institute of
Technology
Sikkim, Manipal
23-25 October
2009
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Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of
Inst./Org.
Place
Date
M. Ray
Building metallocages
and cavities for chiral
recognition with amino
acid derived ligands
Dept. of
Darjeeling,West
Chemistry,University Bengal
of North Bengal
22 March 2010
G. Das
Approaches to the
Screening of Bioactive
Molecules from Natural
Resources
IIT Guwahati
Guwahati
13-17 July 2009
G. Das
Peptide Drugs: Synthesis
to Application
IIT Guwahati
Guwahati
20-24 July 2009
M. Sarma
Selective Bond Cleavage
in Unimolecular
Reactions: A Detailed
Investigation
University of
Lucknow
Lucknow and
Humboldt Academy,
Lucknow
24-27 February
2010
A.
Chattopadhyay
Versatility of
Nanoparticle and
Polymer Composites
Isfahan University,
Isfahan, Iran
Indo-Iran Joint
Conference on
Nanoscience,
Isfahan, Iran
5-7 May 2009
A.
Chattopadhyay
Nanoparticle and
Polymer Composites for
Antimicrobial and
Anticancer Applications
Bhaba Atomic
Research Centre,
Mumbai
Symposium on
Frontiers in
Photobiology (FIP2009)
24-26 August 2009
A.
Chattopadhyay
Modern Science and
Technology for Meeting
Energy Demands
North-East Center
for Research and
Development
(NECRD), Guwahati
and IGNOU,
Guwahati
22-24 November
National
2009
Conference on
Indigenous
Technology,
Options & Habitat
Utilisation,Concepts
and Perspectives
of Development
A.
Chattopadhyay
Metal Nanoparticle and
Chemical and Biological
Applications
Twelfth CRSI
National Symposium
in Chemistry and
Fourth CRSI-RSC
Symposium in
Chemistry
Hyderabad
5 February 2010
A.
Chattopadhyay
Metal Nanoparticle Polymer Composites for
Applications
Dept. of Physics,
P.G. College of
Science Saifabad,
OU, Hyderabad
International
Conference on
Recent Trends in
Nano Bio Science
24-26 February
2010
PATENT FILED
B.K. Patel, A.R. Ali and H. Ghosh
An environmentally benign process for the preparation
of carbodiimide (Application No. 998/KOL/2009 of 27
November 2009)
AWARDS AND HONOURS
D. Manna
DAE Research Award for Young Scientists by BRNS
S. Mallick
PhD student from the Department received the best
poster award at the Twelfth CRSI Symposium held at
IICT, Hyderabad, February 2010
A. Murugadoss
PhD student from the Department received the
prestigious JSPS Fellowship (2009)
FACULTY MEMBERS
S.S. Bag
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Bioorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of
Nucleic Acid
J.B. Baruah
Professor
Areas of Interest: Homogeneous Catalysis,
Supramolecular Chemistry, Material Design
A. Chattopadhyay
PhD (Columbia University)
Ares of Interest: Nanoscale Science and Technology
M.K. Chaudhuri (On deputation as Vice Chancellor,
Tezpur University)
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Professor
Ares of Interest: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of
Inorganics, Newer Materials and Methodologies, Newer
Reagents and Protocols
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G. Das
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Supramolecular, Bioorganic Chemistry,
Biomineralisation
A.K. Gupta
PhD (University of California, Los Angeles)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Quantum Molecular Dynamics
P.K. Iyer
PhD (CSMCRI, Bhavnagar)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Polymer Synthesis, Inorganic/
Organometallic Chemistry and Device Fabrication
A.T. Khan
PhD. (Kalyani University, West Bengal)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Synthesis of Natural Products,
Heterocycles and Carbohydrate Chemistry, Newer
Methodologies
G. Krishnamoorty
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Organic Photochemistry and
Spectroscopy
L.M. Kundu
PhD (LMU Munich, Germany)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Nucleic Acid/Peptide Chemistry, DNA/
RNA Damage and Repair, DNA Hybrid Materials
B. Mandal
PhD (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Peptide Chemistry
V. Manivannan
PhD (IACS, Calcutta)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Coordination Chemistry
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D. Manna
PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Lipid-Protein Interaction, Lipid
Synthesis
M. Ray
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Bioinorganic and Coordination
Chemistry
B. Mondal
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Bioinorganic Chemistry
A.K. Saikia
PhD (RRL Jorhat)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: New Synthetic Methodology, Natural
Product Synthesis
A.N. Panda
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Dynamics of Bimolecular Scattering
Processes
B.K. Patel
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Bio-Organic Chemistry and Newer
Methodologies
A. Paul
PhD (Columbia University)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Surface Science, Catalysis, Thin Films
S. Paul
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Computational Biophysics and
Chemistry
T. Punniyamurthy
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Md. Qureshi
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Materials Chemistry
M. Sarma
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Development of new theoretical
approaches to Laser Assisted Control of Chemical
Reactions and Resonances in Electron–Molecule
Scattering
C.V. Sastri
PhD (University of Hyderabad)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Biomimetic Chemistry, Chemical
Biology
R. Boomi Shankar
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Main Group Organometallic Chemistry
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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION
FACULTY STRENGTH
The Department of Civil Engineering, established in the
year 1998, has shown remarkable progress in academic,
research and consultancy works. Faculty members
continued to take the lead in strengthening their
respective specialisations through further development
of the laboratories and research facilities. Several faculty
members published their research work in leading
journals or presented papers in international/national
conferences. The Department has received several
sponsored R&D projects in the last few years, many of
which have been completed while some of them are in
progress.
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Department is currently having BTech, MTech and
PhD Programmes. The MTech programme includes the
following specialisation:
Structural Engineering
Water Resources Engineering and Management
Geotechnical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Transportation Systems Engineering
The 9th (2006 year) batch of 45 BTech students of the
Department is graduating this year. Most of the outgoing
BTech students were selected for recruitment in various
reputed organisation through campus placement. Most
of the graduating students have undergone practical
training during summer in leading technical universities
abroad. The PhD programme includes all areas of
specialisation in Civil Engineering.
STUDENT INTAKE
: 15
: 05
: 07
: 21
: 33
Structural Engineering Lab
Overhead EOT Crane for Structural test hall, Universal
Test frame, several new NDT equipment like Corrosion
analysing, Rebar locator. Permeability tester, Resistivity
meter, extraction tester, Cooling tower for actuator
system, Earthquake simulator, FFT analyser for vibration
testing of structural elements, Resonant frequency
meter, HBM-4 chanel data equsition system, Vicat
apparatus, Digital flame photometer, Ten user Expanded
teaching Edition License of Abaqus V 6.75 software,
Moisture meter, Flow table for mortar, Concrete mixer
with automatic hopper, etc. are in working condition.
Hydraulic Fork Lift, A-Frame Aluminium Ladder (16ft
high), Specific Gravity Test Apparatus for Coarse
Aggregates, Automatic Vicat’s apparatus for SC, Initial
and Final Setting of Cement, Additional 100 LPM in
Powerpack for MTS test system, Primavara Educatinal
License, Auxilliary Table Kit, Reaction Mass Assembly
for Electoseis Long Stroke Shaker Model 113, etc. have
been processed for procuring in the current year.
Environmental Engineering Laboratory
Laser particle size analyser, Atomic Absorption
Spectrophotometer, Ultra-pure water System Abmient,
Ambient air pollutant measurement sampler, the fine
particular sampler, Micro-meteorological monitoring
equipment with required accessories and data logging
system and software (automatic), Trinocular laboratory
microscope complete with essential accessories and
digital camera, etc. are in working condition.
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Ozone analyser, Automative gas analyser, Cascade
Impactor, BOD incubator, Electric muffle furnace, Drying
oven, Air compressor, etc. have been processed for
procuring in the current year.
Radar Gun, Video VBox 10Hz system, PTV vision
software VISSIM, Standard TransCAD software (V-5), etc.
have been processed for procuring in the current year.
Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering
Laboratory
Geotechnical Engineering laboratory
De-airing apparatus for triaxial testing, Multi-channel data
logging, relative density apparatus, Rock testing
equipments, GeoStudio 2007 products are pc software
for analysis of earth structures subjected to earthquake
shaking and design are available.
Miniature Pressure Transducer Tensiometer, Refilling kit
for T-5 tensiometer, Research Centrifuge with rotor, Cross
permeability test apparatus, HygoclipCP302 XXPVC,
Humidity Temp Controller Model – 902 Duel Channel,
Guelph Permeameter kit, Upgrading of Block vibration to
computerised block vibration test equipment, Direct Q3 Ultrapure water purification system have been
processed for procuring in the current year.
Transportation Engineering Laboratory
Bump integrator for pavement management, Brooke Field
Viscometer for testing of bituminous material as well as
marshall Design of flexible pavement facilities, HDM4
for highway development model, MXROADS for highway
geometric design, rolling thin file oven, TRANSYT, ISIS,
HCS software, Plate compactor, CBR field apparatus,
Driver vision screen tester, Universal Penetrometer for
bitumen testing including automatic pnetrometer timer,
Eletric plate compactor for preparation of triaxial sample,
Testing equipment for falling Weight Deflectometer, etc.
are in working condition.
An in-situ hillslope experiment set up (size =250 m2)
with fully automatic subsurface flow measurement
system was designed and fabricated at the field site.
The experimental set-up will quantify both subsurface
and surface flow in a hillslope under high intensity storm
events, 5 and 10 m tilting flume long channel, Rainfall
simulation apparatus for study rainfall for various studies
flow, Auto-weather station, Turbines, Pump ring, etc.
are in working condition.
Hydraulic Tilting Flume 20m x 1.0m x 60cm length,
Construction of Storage tank, Micro ADV 16-MHz SplashProof System have been processed for procuring in the
current year.
Surveying Laboratory
Survey equipment/modern equipment like EDM, Total
station, Electronic Theodolite, GIS for remote-sensing,
Digitiser, GPS etc for various studies topographic,
Volumetric bench with set of weir & Notchs, Impact of
Jet, Free & Force Vertex flow, Losses in Pipe system are
in working condition.
Engineering Geology
Trinocular Stereo zoom Microscope, Petrographic
Microscope with digital image capturing facility, hardness
box kit are available.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned Co-Investigator Duration
(Years)
(Rs. in Lakh)
B. Kumar
Scale of Mixing and Oxygen
Transfer in Surface Aerators
Start-up Grant,
IIT Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
A. Murali
Krishna
Seismic Response of Reinforced
Soil Retaining walls using 3D
Numerical Studies
IIT Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
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Duration
(Years)
A. Murali Krishna
Evaluation of Seismic Earth
Pressures on Retaining
Structures: A
Comprehensive Study
BRNS
(DAE),
Govt. of
India
9.70
—
02 years
S. Dutta
Flood Modeling for Transboundary river under defence
strategic scenarios:
Mathematical modeling
DTRL
(DRDO),
Govt. of
India
17.18
—
02 years
S.K. Deb
Strain distribution in external
beam-column joint subjected
to cyclic loading
The Royal
Society,
U.K.
0.10
A. Dutta
02 years
A. Sachan
Permeability of fly ash under
stress using a combined setup
of oedometer and
permeability devices
Start-up
Grant, IIT
Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
(b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
B. Pradhan
Effect of mix parameters on
strength and durability aspects
of concrete
Start-up
Grant, IIT
Guwahati
4.80
—
02 years
K. Dasgupta
Analytical investigation of
geometric configuration of RC
wall-footing for earthquakeresistant design
Start-up
Grant, IIT
Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
Sreedeep S.
An investigation on the effect
of multiple contaminant
migration in soils
DST, Govt.
of India
10.48
—
03 years
Sreeja P.
Development of a risk based
decision support system for
flood management
DST, Govt.
of India
18.00
—
03 years
P.K. Ghosh
Arsenic removal by
Electrochemical ion exchange
process (EIX)
DST, Govt.
of India
6.69
—
03 years
A.K. Sarma
A Modeling Based Study
towards Mitigating Fluoride
Contamination Hazards in the
Affected Areas of Guwahati City
NRDMS
(DST),
Govt. of
India
13.50
G. Barua and
C. Mahanta
02 years
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Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned Co-Investigator
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
S. Dutta
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of
the Natural Resources in the
Brahmaputra Basin
NRDMS (DST),
Govt. of India
23.00
—
03 years
A.K. Sarma
GIS based Inventory of Rivers
of the Northeastern India
Ministry of
Environment and
Forest, India
21.80
C. Mahanta
03 years
A.K. Sarma
Event based Flood Forecasting
Model for Folld Hazard
Mitigation
AICTE (NCP)
15.00
R.
03 years
Bhattacharjya
and C. Mahanta
S.A. Kartha
Non-ideal flow and transport
in bio-heap-leaching of
precious metals
DST, Govt. of
India
10.08
—
03 years
S. Gokhale
Air quality models evaluations
at traffic intersections in urban
environments for regulatory
compliance
DST, Govt. of
India
12.72
—
03 years
S.K. Deb
Installation of strong motion
array in Guwahati for site
characterisation and
instrumentation of
multistoreyed buildings at
Guwahati
DST, Govt. of
India
94.50
—
03 years
S.K. Deb
Verification test of prototype
base isolated buildings
subjected to dynamic loads
BRNS, DAE,
Govt. of India,
Mumbai
8.63
—
03 years
S. Dutta
Flood modeling in Siang River
DTRL (DRDO)
17.18
—
02 years
S. Dutta
Water, Energy And Sediment
Budgeting (WESB) of
Subtropical Humid Hilly
Watersheds with Altitudinal
Variation
SAC (ISRO)
—
—
02 years
S.A. Kartha
Non-ideal flow and transport
in bio-heap-leaching of
precious metals
DST, Govt. of
India
10.08
—
03 years
A.K. Sarma
Centre of Excellence
Ministry of Urban
Development
300.00
S.A. Kartha
April 2009
onwards
C.
Mallikarjuna
Traffic data collection on midblock sections of urban roads
using Video Image Processing
Technique
Start-up Grant,
IIT Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
Principal
Investigator
Sponsoring
Agency
Name of Project
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
87
Duration
(Years)
C.
Mallikarjuna
Vehicle gap maintaining
behavior under varying traffic
conditions and its effect on
flow-occupancy relationships
DST, Govt. of
India
14.00
—
—
H.B.
Kaushik
Equivalent Diagonal Strut
Properties for Masonry Infills in
RC Frames
DST, Govt. of
India under Fast
Track Scheme
10.80
—
March
2009
onwards
H.B.
Kaushik
Retrofitting of Masonry Infilled
RC Frames
Start-up Grant,
IIT Guwahati
5.00
—
February
2009
S.K. Dash
Geocell-reinforced sand
foundation on soft clay:
Behaviour under cyclic loading
DST, New Delhi
11.64
—
November
2005 - May
2009
S.
Chakraborty
A Study of Removal and
Recovery of Heavy Metals
from Waste Water using
Functionalized Polymer Coated
Silica Gel
CSIR, New
Delhi
9.00
—
03 years
H.B.
Kaushik
Equivalent Diagonal Strut
Properties for Masonry infills in
RC Frames
DST, Govt. of
India
10.80
—
03 years
A.
Kalamdhad
High Rate Composting of
Institutional Organic Wastes
Start-up Grant,
IIT Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
CONSULTANCY
Principal
Investigator
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
S. Dutta
Performance evaluation study
of anti-erosion measure
scheme for avulsion of the
Brahmaputa River at DhollaHatighuli
The
Brahmaputra
Board,
Guwahati
4.40
A. K. Sarma, R. 03 months
Bhattacharya,
S.A. Kartha and
B. Kumar
B. Singh
Preparation and design for
making of BG embankment
for the Deputy Chief
Engineer, NF Railway,
Lumding, Assam
The Deputy
Chief
Engineer,
NF Railway,
Lumding,
Assam
1.50
—
Duration
(Years)
—
88
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Amount
Sponsoring Agency Sanctioned Co-Investigator
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
B. Singh
Construction of New
Brahmaputra Bridge near
Guwahati on NH-31,
Contract Package No. EW-II
(AS-28): Feasibility of REW
Deputy General
Manager,
Gammon India
Limited,
Guwahati
2.00
—
—
A. Murali
Krishna
Conducting Dynamic Soil
tests-Block Vibration Test
ESS Foundation,
(ENGECORC)
2.00
—
01 month
A. Murali
Krishna
Proof check of design of
Reinforced Soil Wall for
ROB–15 under NF Railway
NF Railway, Dy.
Chief Engineer
(CON), Dibrugarh
2.50
—
02 months
A. Murali
Krishna
Material testing for the
ongoing Geo-tube dyke at
Matmara
Chief Engineer,
Water Resources
Dept., Guwahati
2.10
A.K. Sarma
02 months
R.K.
Bhattacharjya
Details hydrological study of NEEPCO
the Dikrong-Panyor river
basin and its impact in the
downstream
10.56
A.K. Sarma
06 months
Sreedeep S.
Foundation settlement
analysis of factory building
at Bonda, Guwahati
M/s D.S. Group,
India
2.49
—
—
Sreedeep S.
Proof check of highway
embankments (high) for
NH-53 bypass, Assam
M/s H.C.C.,
India
1.50
—
—
Sreedeep S.
Evaluation of sands for Rites M/s Rites Ltd,
Ltd., Guwahati
Guwahati
0.77
—
—
Sreedeep S.
Slope failure investigation
during tunneling for H.C.C.
M/s H.C.C.
India
1.50
—
—
T.L. Ryntathiang
Investigation of CSS1h
sample
M/s OM Infracon
Pvt. Ltd., Guwahati
0.25
—
—
T.L. Ryntathiang
Field Evaluation of four
PMGSY road sections of
Assam by Benkelman Beam
and Merlin Roughness Tests
M/s Bitchem
Asphalt
Technologies
ltd., Guwahati
1.00
—
—
T.L. Ryntathiang
Investigation of Bitumen
60/70 grade sample
M/s J.P. & Sons,
Guwahati
0.24
—
—
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
T.L.
Ryntathiang
Review of DBM Mix design
against four laning from Km
126/450 to Km 140/700
and Km 164/080 to Km
165/400 (Maibang to
Nrimbanglo) section of
NH-54 in Assam
M/s Hindustan
0.60
Construction Co.
Ltd., North Cachar
Hills, Assam
—
—
M. Jawed
Investigation of drinking
water quality
M/s Hindustan
0.20
Construction Co.
Ltd., North Cachar
Hills, Assam
A. Borsaikia
—
S.K. Deb
Modification in Design and
drawings along with
Issuance of GFC of 57 nos.
bridges under package no.
AS-10, As-11, AS-12 on
East West Corridor Project
in Assam
National
Highway
Authority of
India, P.I.U.,
Dolaigaon ,
Bongaigaion
45.00
A. Dutta
—
S.K. Deb
Physical and chemical
analysis of steel samples
AEE, CPWD,
Pandu Jetty
Project, Pandu
0.72
A. Borsaikia
—
S.K. Deb
Proof checking of design of
bridge over river Cossye
under South Eastern
Railway
CDC Consulting
Design Engg.
Centre (P) ltd.,
Kolkata
1.00
—
—
S.K. Deb
Mix Design of mass
concrete (A75M15) &
investigation of
construction materials
Patel Engg. Ltd.,
Kameng
Hydroelectric
Projects, AP
0.50
A. Borsaikia
—
S. Talukdar
Assessment of 9 existing
damaged bridges in
package No. AS-08 & AS09 for the section from
Rakhaldubi to Barpeta Road
of NH-31, a part of EastWest corridor under NHDP
Phase -II through Non
Destructive Technique
(NDT)
General Manager 3.72
(T) RO, National
Highways
Authority of
India, Regd.
OfficeHengrabari,
Guwahati-36
A. Borsaikia
—
S. Talukdar
Consultancy service and
NDT at Bank & Post office
Building At NRL
GM
(Commercial),
NRL, Numaligarh
—
—
0.99
89
90
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
Sreedeep S.
Proof checking of Design
of High Embankment
PWD, Guwahati
1.50
—
—
R.K.
Bhattcharjya
Detail hydrological study of
the Dikrong-Panyor river
basin and its impact in the
downstream
NEEPCO,
Shillong
8.29
—
—
C. Mahanta
Investigation Coarse
aggregates & fine
aggregate samples
AEE, CPWD,
Pandu port,
Guwahati
0.62
A. Borsaikia
—
C. Mahanta
Investigation of
Construction materials for
Arunachal Hydroelectric
Projects
Energy
Development
Company Ltd.,
Haryana
3.47
A. Borsaikia
—
C. Mahanta
Geochemical and
environmental
investigation of reservoir
water and petrographic
analysis and related
investigation of slushy
material for Ranganadi
Hydro Electric Project,
Arunachal Pradesh
GM (C),QC &
A, North East
Power
Corporation
Ltd., Tezpur
0.99
A. Borsaikia
—
C. Mahanta
Petrographic and other
chemical analysis of
sediments of Kopili
reservoir water and
petrographic and chemical
analysis of deposited slushy
materials in the Gallery of
Khandong dam and Urong
dam for Hydro Electric
Project, N.C. Hills, Assam
GM (C),QC &
A, North East
Power
Corporation Ltd,
Tezpur
0.67
A. Borsaikia
—
A.K. Sarma
Study on sedimentation
and Erosion of
Brahmaputra river near
Pandu Ghat in connection
with the water supply
project of GMDA
M/s Gammon
India Ltd.
5.51
—
—
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
91
Duration
(Years)
A.K. Sarma
Diagnostics study on
Riverbank erosion of
Rupnarayan river (Uluberia/
Amta area)
M/s Srei
Infrastructure
Finance Ltd.,
Kolkata
2.20
—
—
A.K. Sarma
Preparing the Greater
Mekong Subregion Flood
and Drought Risk
management and mitigation
project
M/s Vision Ri
3.23
Connection
Service Pvt. Ltd.,
New Delhi
—
—
S. Dutta
Probabilistic flood
inundating maps for
Lakhimpur District , Assam
using Hydroinformatics
concepts
CDAC, Pune
6.61
—
—
A Dutta
Examination and scrutiny of
G.S. Road & Z.N. Road
staff quarters in connection
with redesigning of the
structures based on present
I.S. codes for earthquakes
stresses
Reserve Bank of
India, Guwahati
17.50
—
—
A. Dutta
Evaluation of appropriate
seismic coefficient of the
bridge over river Beki, over
Manas and over river Mora
Beki
M/s D2S
Infrastures Pvt.
Ltd., Guwahati
1.65
—
—
A. Dutta
Instrumentation of three
numbers of steel girder
bridges for running of
(CC+6+2) tonne loaded
box wagon trains on NF
Railway
NF Railway,
Chief Bridge
Engineer (CBE),
NF Railway,
Maligaon
159.80
S.K. Deb
—
A. Dutta
Rajib Gandhi Indoor
Stadium at North Guwahati
–Storm damage
Guwahati
Metropolitan
Development
Authority,
Guwahati
0.50
—
—
A. Dutta
Proof checking of design of
bridge over river Barak
Chief Engineer,
PWD, NH
Works, Assam,
Guwahati
20.00
S.K. Deb
—
92
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
A. Dutta
Mix Design M-25 & M -30
including evaluation of
cement, aggregates
properties and water
quality
NTPC Ltd.,
Salakati
1.62
A. Borsaikia
—
A. Dutta
Mix design M-30 including
evaluation of cement ,
aggregate properties and
water quality
NTPC Ltd.,
Salakati
0.97
A. Borsaikia
—
A. Dutta
Proof checking of Structural
Design of Superspeciality
surgical centre
M/s Swagat
Hospitals Pvt.
Ltd., Guwahati
1.10
—
—
A. Dutta
Construction of space
frame canopy at city side
of terminal building at
Bagdogra Airport
Sr. Manager (IC), Airports
Authority of
India, Darjeeling
1.57
A. Borsaikia
—
R. Choudhary
Design of bituminous
mixes (BM & AC)
AE(Civil) AGE B/
R (Project),
Misamari
1.19
—
05 months
R. Choudhary
Proof checking of Drawings
& Design of Flexible
Pavement
D2S
Infrastructures
Pvt. Ltd. Assam
0.27
—
—
H.B. Kaushik
Assessment of Structural
Safety of a War Memorial
Structure at Shillong
Hindustan
Prefab Limited
1.13
—
03 Months
A. Dutta
Proof checking of 57
numbers of minor bridges
under Bongaigaon
PIU of NHAI-31
45.00
—
—
S.K. Dash
Slope stabilization
measures in LumdingSilchar gauge conversion
project in Northeast
Frontier Railway
Northeast
Frontier Railway,
Govt. of India
18.86
In
collaboration
with IISC
Bangalore
—
A. Sachan and K. Rao
‘Permeability of panki fly ash under stress’, International
Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, vol.4 (1), pp 63-70,
2010
B. Pradhan
‘Monitoring techniques and preventive measures for
rebar corrosion in concrete: a review’, International
Journal of 3 R’s, vol. 1 (1) (Jan-Mar), pp 33-41, 2010
B. Kumar
‘Variability of Energy Dissipation and Shear Rate with
Geometry in unbaffled Surface Aerator’, Bulletin of
Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, vol. 4 (2),
pp 55-60, 2009
B. Kumar and A.R.K. Rao
‘Oxygen transfer and Shear rate in surface aerator’,
Environmental Technology, vol. 30 (9), pp 947-951, 2009
A.R.K. Rao and B. Kumar
‘Vortex behavior of surface aeration systems’, Science
Asia, vol. 35 (2), pp 183-188, 2009
‘Transition of Turbulent Pipe Flow’, Journal of Hydraulic
Research, vol. 47 (4), pp 529-533, 2009
‘Incipient Motion Criterion for Plane Bed Channels’,
International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, vol.
36 (1), pp 80-95, 2009
B. Kumar and R. Hiremath
‘What would be the three key preconditions for
jumpstarting or scaling up the transfer of environmentally
sound technologies for climate change to developing
countries?’, Natural Resources Forum, vol. 33, pp 334337, 2009
B. Kumar, R. Hiremath, P. Balachandra and N.H.
Ravindranath
‘Bioenergy and Food Security: Indian Context’, Energy for
Sustainable Development, vol. 13 (3), pp 265-270, 2009
93
B. Kumar, A.K. Patel and A.R.K. Rao
‘Shape Effect on Optimal Geometric Conditions in
Surface Aeration Systems’, Korean Journal of Chemical
Engineering, Springer, vol. 27 (11), pp 159-162, 2010
‘Closure to Discussion of Resistance characteristics of
Surface aerators’, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE,
vol. 136 (3), pp 193, 2010
‘Continuous flow Surface Aeration Systems’, Chemical
Engineering & Technology, vol. 33 (2), pp 305-314, 2010
‘Metamodeling approach to predict friction factor of
alluvial channel’, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture,
vol. 70, pp 144-150, 2010
A.M. Krishna and G.M. Latha
‘Container boundary effects in shaking table tests on
reinforced soil wall models’, International Journal of Physical
Modeling in Geomechanics, vol. 9 (4), pp 1-14, 2009
A.M. Krishna and G.M. Latha
‘Seismic behaviour of rigid-faced reinforced soil retaining
wall models: reinforcement effect’, Geosynthetics
International, vol. 16 (5), pp 364-373, 2009
A.M. Krishna and M.R. Madhav
‘Engineering of Ground for Liquefaction Mitigation using
Granular Columnar Inclusions: Recent Developments’,
American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
vol. 2 (3), pp 526-536, 2009
R.K. Bhattacharjya and G. Satish
‘Optimal Design of a Water Conveying Canal Considering
Seismic Stability of Side Slopes’, Journal of Irrigation and
Drainage, Wiley (online), 2009
R.K. Bhattacharjya and B. Datta
‘ANN-GA Based Multiple Objective Management of
Coastal Aquifers’, Journal of Water Resources Planning
and Management, ASCE, vol. 135 (5), pp 314-322, 2009
R.K. Bhattacharjya, R. Kumar, B. Datta and G. Satish
‘Artificial Neural Network Model for Simulating Saltwater
Intrusion Process in Coastal Aquifers with Noisy Training
94
Data’, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 13 (3), pp
205-215, 2009
R.K. Bhattacharjya
‘Discussion of Evolutionary Algorithms for the
Determination of Critical Depths in Conduits’, Journal
of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE, vol. (3), pp
221-223, 2010
S. Deka, Sreedeep. S. and S.K. Dash
‘Re-evaluation of cone penetration liquid limit based
on free-swell index of soil’, Geotechnical Testing Journal,
ASTM, vol. 32 (6), pp 553-558, 2009 (Available online)
Sreedeep. S. and D.N. Singh
‘A critical review of the methodologies employed for
soil suction measurement’, International Journal of
Geomechanics, ASCE, 2010
C. Malaya and Sreedeep. S
‘A study on the influence of measuring procedures on
suction-water content relationship of a sandy soil’, Journal
of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM, 2010
A. Garg, C. Malaya and Sreedeep. S.
‘A study on the influence of soil-water characteristic curve
on the seepage modeling of unsaturated soil’,
International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering,
Springer, 2010
A. Burman, D. Maity and Sreedeep. S.
‘Iterative analysis of concrete gravity dam-nonlinear
foundation interaction’, International Journal of Engineering
Science and Technology, Multicraft publisher, 2010
L. Boeing Singh and S.N. Kalidindi
‘Desirability Rating Analysis for Debt Financing of PublicPrivate Partnership Road Projects’, Construction
Management and Economics, vol. 27 (9), pp 823-837, 2009
L. Boeing Singh and S.N. Kalidindi
‘Criteria Influencing Debt Financing of Indian PublicPrivate Partnership Road Projects: a Case Study’, Journal
of Financial Management of Property and Construction,
vol. 14 (1), pp 34-60, 2009
P.K. Ghosh
‘Chromium (VI) removal by acid modified waste
activated carbons’, Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol.
171 (1-3), pp 116-122 (Elsevier)
A.K. Sarma
‘GIS and Remote Sensing Application in Water Resources’,
Journal of Applied Hydrology, vol. XXII (1), pp 55-62,
January 2009
A.I. Laskar and S. Talukdar
‘Rheology based approach for workability characterisation
of high-performance concrete’, Canadian Journal of Civil
Engineering, 2009, vol. 36, pp 1239-1244
S. Shougrakpam, R. Sarkar and S. Dutta
‘An experimental investigation to characterise soil
macropores under different land-use practices of
northeast India’, Journal of Earth System Science, Springer,
(re-revised) 2009
T. Karmaker and S. Dutta
‘Generation of Synthetic Seasonal Hydrographs for a
Large River Basin’, Journal of Hydrology, 2009
P.K. Gupta, S. Dutta and S. Panigrahy
‘Mapping of Conjunctive Water use Productivity Pattern
in an Irrigation Command using Temporal IRS WiFS Data’,
Water Resources Management (first online publication
on May 2009)
T. Karmaker and S. Dutta
‘Generation of synthetic seasonal hydrograph for a large
river basin’, Journal of Hydrology, pp 287-296, 2010
S. Deka, Sreedeep S. and S.K. Dash
‘Re-evaluation of Cone Penetration Liquid Limit Based
on Free Swell Property of Soil’, Geotechnical Testing
Journal, ASTM
S.K. Dash
‘Influence of relative density of soil on performance of
geocell reinforced foundations’, Journal of Materials in
Civil Engineering, ASCE, vol. 22 (5), pp 533-538
S.T.G. Raghukanth and S.K. Dash
‘Evaluation of Seismic Soil-Liquefaction at Guwahati
City’, Journal of Environmental Earth Science, DOI:
10.1007/s12665-009-0347-3
S.T.G. Raghukanth and S.K. Dash
‘Deterministic Seismic Scenarios for North East India’,
Journal of Seismology, DOI: 10.1007/s10950-009-9158-y
95
D. Pal and C. Mallikarjuna
‘Cellular Automata Cell Structure for Modeling
Heterogenous Traffic’, Transporti Europei, 2010
M. Praveen Kumar and C. Mallikarjuna
‘Mode Choice Modeling for Intercity Transportation in India:
a case of Guwahati to five Metro Cities’, Transport, 2010
G.M. Latha, S.K. Dash and K. Rajagopal
‘Numerical Simulation of the Behaviour of Geocell
Reinforced Sand in Foundations’, International Journal
of Geomechanics, ASCE, vol. 9 (4), pp 143-152, 2009
H.B. Kaushik, D.C. Rai and S.K. Jain
‘Effectiveness of some strengthening options for
masonry-infilled RC frames with open first storey’,
Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, vol. 135 (8), pp
925-937, August 2009
S. Sireesh, T.G. Sitharam and S.K. Dash
‘Bearing Capacity of Circular Footing on Geocell-Sand
Mattress Overlying Clay Bed with void Geotextiles and
Geomembranes’, Journal of International Geosynthetics
Society, vol. 27 (2), pp 89-98, 2009
H.B. Kaushik and S.K. Jain
‘Earthquake Engineering: Meeting Report’, Current
Science, vol. 97 (1), Indian Academy of Sciences,
Bangalore, pp 13-15, 10 July 2009
A.S. Kalamdhad, M. Ali, Y.K. Singh and A.A. Kazmi
‘Organic matter transformation during rotary drum
composting’, Dynamic Soil & Dynamic Plants, vol. 3
(1), pp 93-98, 2009
A.S. Kalamdhad, M. Ali, Y.K. Singh, M. Khwairakpam
and A.A. Kazmi
‘Rotary drum composting of vegetable waste and tree
leaves’, Bioresource Technology, vol. 100, pp 6442-6450,
2009
C. Mallikarjuna and K. Ramachandra Rao
‘Cellular Automata model for Heterogeneous Traffic’,
Journal of Advanced Transportation, vol. 43 (3), pp 321345, 2009
C. Mallikarjuna, A. Phanindra and K. Ramachandra Rao
‘Traffic Data Collection for Mixed Traffic Conditions using
Video Image Processing’, Journal of Transportation
Engineering, ASCE, vol. 135 (4), pp 174-182, 2009
C. Mallikarjuna and S.T.G. Raghu Kanth
‘Forecasting the Air Traffic of North-East Indian Cities’,
Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis, World Scientific, vol.
2 (1), pp 81-96, 2010
C. Mallikarjuna and K. Ramachandra Rao
‘Heterogeneous Traffic Flow Modeling: A complete
Methodology’, Transportmetrica, 2010
M.Z. Nain and M. Jawed
‘Impact of Sudden Change in Feed Substrate Types on
Steady Response of Suspended Growth Anaerobic
Reactors’, International Journal of Environmental Research,
vol. 4 (2), pp 247-254, 2010
K.U. Ahamad and M. Jawed
‘Kinetics, Equilibrium and Breakthrough Studies for Fe(II)
Removal by Wooden Charcoal: A Low Cost Adsorbent’,
Desalination, vol. 251, pp 137-145, 2010
S.T.G. Raghukanth, K.D. Singh and Kumar Pallav
‘Deterministic seismic scenarios for Imphal city’, Pure and
Applied Geophysics, vol. 166, pp 641-676, April 2009
National Journal
B. Kumar
‘Computer simulated dam break analysis’, Construction
India, vol. 12 (3), pp 54-60, 2010
D. Deka, S. Ahmed, N. Akhtar, M. Jawed, C.M.G.A.
Fontes, D. Goyal and A. Goyal
‘Determining the Substrate Specificity and Functional
Characterization of Full Length Recombinant Cellulase
(Lic26A-Ce15-CBM11) of Clostridium thermocellum’,
Journal of Applied Biosciences & Biotechnology, vol. 5(1),
pp 13-18, 2009
96
D. Deka, S. Ahmed, M. Jawed, C.M.G.A. Fontes, D.
Goyal and A. Goyal
‘Biochemical characterisation of a Recombinant
Derivative (CtLic26A-Cel5) of a Cellulosomal Cellulase
from Clostridium thermocellum’, Current Trends in
H.B. Kaushik and D.A. Sanganee
‘Analytical investigations of confined masonry constructions’,
Proceedings of the third International Earthquake Symposium,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,
Dhaka and Bangladesh Earthquake Society, Bangladesh,
pp 223-230, 5-6 March 2010
A.M. Choudhury, A. Dutta and S.K. Deb
‘Comparative study of full scale beam-column joints
under cyclic loading’, Third International Earthquake
Symposium, Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology, Dhaka and Bangladesh Earthquake Society,
Bangladesh, 5-6 March 2010
A.K. Maurya and S.K. Jha
‘Acceleration Noise Behaviour in Indian Traffic Streams’,
Proceeding of International Conference on Advances in
Materials, Mechanics and Management, College of
Engineering Trivandrum, 14-16 January 2010
P. Agrawal, R. Choudhary and A.K. Maurya
‘Study on Mixes and Techniques used in Pothole Repair’,
Proceeding of National Seminar on Road in High
Precipitation Area, Guwahati, Assam, 19-20 February 2010
B. Pradhan and B. Bhattacharjee
‘Reinforcement corrosion in concrete: effect of chloride
ions’, International Conference on Advances in
Concrete, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
(ACSGE-2009), BITS Pilani, 25-27 October 2009
G. V. Manideepak, A. Bhatla and B. Pradhan
‘Methodologies for Contractor Selection in Construction
Industry’, International Conference on Advances in
Concrete, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
(ACSGE-2009), BITS Pilani, 25-27 October 2009
B. Kumar and R. Hiremath
‘Will Decentralized Energy Planning Help in Climate Change
Mitigation?’, International Conference in Climate Change
(CCDC 2010), Kottayam, Kerala, 19-22 February 2010
B. Kumar
‘Sustainable Bioenergy Options for Rural India’, National
Conference on Renewable Energy for Development of
Underdeveloped Areas with Particular reference to North
East India, Department of Energy, Tezpur University,
Tezpur, 23-25 March 2010
V. Vinot, B.S. Sekhar and B. Singh
‘A field study on use of low cost housing techniques in
construction practice’, International Conference on
Advances in Concrete, Structural and Geotechnical
Engineering (ACSGE 2009), Pilani, Paper no. VVI_S268,
pp 9, 2009
V. Vinot and B. Singh
‘Investigation on behaviour of soils reinforced with
shredded waste tyres’, Indian Geotechnical Conference
(IGC-2009), Guntur, vol. II, pp 344-347, December 2009
A. Kalita and B. Singh
‘Experimental study on strength behaviour of cement
blended soil-fly ash mixtures’, Indian Geotechnical
Conference (IGC-2009), Guntur, vol. II, pp 379-383,
December 2009
B. Chaudhary and A.M. Krishna
‘Seismic earth pressures on reinforced soil retaining
structures’, Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical
Conference (IGC-2009), Guntur, vol. 1, pp 152-156,
18-20 February 2010
A. Bhattacharjee and A.M. Krishna
‘Study of Seismically Induced Permanent Displacement
of Gravity Retaining Wall’, Proceedings of Indian
Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2009), Guntur, vol. 1, pp
627-631, 18-20 February 2010
R.K. Bhattacharjya and A.K. Sarma
‘Comparative Analysis of ANN Based Rainfall Runoff
Model for River Pagladia: Standard Backpropagation and
Generalised Regression Network’, Third International
Perspective on Current & Future State of Water
Resources & the Environment: INDIA 2010, IIT Madras,
5-7 January 2010
C. Malaya and Sreedeep. S.
‘An investigation on the effect of initial density on drying
soil-water characteristic curve of cohesionless soil’,
Student Symposium (SSRCE-09), Chennai, 2009
B. Poly, C.K. Das and Sreedeep, S.
‘A study on the relationship between external and total
specific surface area of soils’, International Conference on
Advances in Concrete, Structural, and Geotechnical
Engineering (ACSGE 2009), BITS Pilani, 25-27 October 2009
A. Garg, C. Malaya and Sreedeep. S.
‘A study on the influence of soil-water characteristic curve
on the seepage modeling of unsaturated soil’,
International Conference on Advances in Concrete,
Structural, and Geotechnical Engineering (ACSGE 2009),
BITS Pilani, 25-27 October 2009
C.K. Das, B. Poly and Sreedeep S.
‘An accelerated column test for studying sorption
properties of soil’, Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC
2009), Guntur, December 2009
‘Evaluation of estimated soil-water characteristic curve
for a poorly graded sandy soil’, Third International
Perspective on Current and Future State of Water
Resources and the Environment, EWRI-ASCE, Chennai,
January 2010
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B. Poly, L. Mamu and Sreedeep. S.
‘Critical appraisal of factors influencing sorption behavior
of soil’, National Conference on Current trends of
Research and Development in Civil and Environmental
Engineering: An Indian Perspective (CRDCE 10), Gujarat,
January 2010
‘Evaluation of SWCC model and estimation procedure
for soil and fly ash’, EWRI Congress 2010, Rhode Island,
USA, 2010
‘A study on the influence of unit weight on tensiometric
measurements’, EWRI Congress 2010, Rhode Island,
USA, 2010
‘Influence of admixture on soil-water characteristic curve
of a sandy soil’, National Conference on Sustainable
Water Resources Management and Impact of Climate
Change, BITS, Hyderabad, 2010
‘An Investigation on the Effect of Initial Water Content
and Dry Density on Drying Soil-Water Characteristic
Curve of a Cohesionless Soil’, Fifth International
Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Barcelona, Spain, 2010
‘A Study on the Effect of Dry Density on Soil-Water
Characteristic Curve of Cohesionless Soil by Spot
Measurement Procedure’, Fifth International Symposium
on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, Seoul,
Korea, 2010
‘A comparative study on the measured and estimated
soil-water characteristic curve of a sandy soil’, Indian
Geotechnical Conference (IGC 2009), Guntur,
December 2009
‘A Study on Wetting Soil-Water characteristic curve of a
Poorly Graded Sandy Soil’, Indian Geotechnical
Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 2010
B. Poly, C.K. Das and Sreedeep. S.
‘Evaluation of retention capacity of a locally available
soil for waste containment applications’, EWRI, ASCE,
Chennai, 2009
S.N. Kalidindi and L. Boeing Singh
‘Financing Road Projects in India using PPP Scheme’,
Proceedings of the 2009 Mid-Continent Transportation
Research Symposium, Ames, Iowa, 20-21 August 2009
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M. Jawed, R. Ahmed and K.U. Ahamad
‘Water Harvesting, Storage and Conservation Practices
in North-Eastern States of India’, Poster Presentation at
International Conference on Water – Harvesting, Storage
and Conservation (WHSC-2009), IIT Kanpur, Kanpur,
India, 23-25 November 2009
M. Jawed and K.U. Ahamad
‘Improvement of Indigenous Household Iron Filter units
of Rural Assam through Column Studies’, CD Proceedings
of the International Conference on Emerging Technologies
in Environmental Science and Engineering, Department
of Civil Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,
India, pp 281-288, 2009
M. Jawed and K.U. Ahamad
‘Potential of Arsenic Adsorption in Indigenous Household
Iron Filter units of Rural and Semi-Urban Assam (India)’,
e-Proceedings of the Student Symposium on Research in
Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, 2009
S.T.G. Raghukanth, J. Dixit and S.K. Dash
‘Estimation of site amplification factors for Guwahati city’,
Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2009), Guntur,
December 2009
M. Hussain and S.K. Dash
‘Influence of lime on compaction behaviour of soils’,
Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2009), Guntur,
December 2009
A.S. Kalamdhad and A.A. Kazmi
‘Composting of MSW amended with cattle manure and
tree leaves in a rotary drum composter’, International
Congress of Chemistry and Environment (ICCE-09),
Bangkok, Thailand, 21-23 January 2010
S. Dutta, H. Medhi, T. Karmaker, T. Singh, U. Dutta and
I. Prabu
‘Probabilistic flood hazard mapping for embankment
breaching’, Proceedings of National Conference HYDRO2009, pp 246-253, 17-18 December 2009
Book, Chapter, etc.
Book Chapters
H. Barik and B. Singh
‘Computer aided analysis of offshore pile foundations’,
In: Modeling and Simulation in Computational
Mechanics: Engineering Applications, ed. by: S.K.
Panigrahi, ISBN No. 978-3-8383-0694-0, Lambert
Academic Publishing Company, Germany, 2009
C. Doley and B. Singh
‘Computer aided analysis of piles-supported raft
foundations’, In: Modeling and Simulation in
Computational Mechanics: Engineering Applications, ed.
by: S.K. Panigrahi, ISBN No. 978-3-8383-0694-0,
Lambert Academic Publishing Company, Germany, 2009
A. Kalamdhad, Y.K. Singh, M. Ali, M. Khwairakpam and
A.A. Kazmi
‘High rate composting of institutional organic wastes’,
In: New Technologies for Rural Development having
Potential of Commercialisation, ed. by: J.P. Shukla, Allied
Publishers, India, pp 169-175, 2009
R. Sarkar and S. Dutta
‘An experimental and modeling investigation of
macropore dominated subsurface stormflow in vegetated
hillslopes of northeast India’, In: New Approaches to
Hydrological Prediction in data-sparse Regions, ed. by:
K.K. Yilmaz, I. Yucel, H.V. Gupta, T. Wagener, D. Yang,
H. Savenije, C. Neale, H. Kunstmann and J. Pomeroy,
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
Publication, vol. 333, pp 145-152, 2009
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Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
National
A.K. Maurya
Indian Roads Congress
Patna
13-17 November 2009
A.K. Maurya
Advances in Materials,
Mechanics and Management
College of
Engineering,
Trivendrum
14-16 January 2010
International
A.K. Maurya
Road in High Precipitation
Area
Guwahati
19-20 February 2010
National
B. Singh
Indian Geotechnical
Conference (IGC-2009)
Guntur
18-20 February 2010
National
A. Murali
Krishna
Indian Geotechnical
Conference (IGC-2009)
Guntur
18-20 February 2010
National
R.K.
Bhattacharjya
Third International
Perspective on Current &
Future State of Water
Resources & the
Environment: India 2010
IIT Madras
5-7 January 2010
International
S.A. Kartha
Third International
Perspective on Environmental
and Water Resources
ASCE, IIT
Madras
January 2010
International
H.B. Kaushik
Third International
Earthquake Symposium,
Bangladesh
Dhaka,
Bangladesh
5-6 March 2010
International
R. Choudhary
Roads in High Precipitation
Areas
Guwahati
19-20 February 2010
C. Mallikarjuna
Indo-US workshop on
Emerging trends in ITS
IIT Madras
11-13 December 2009
International
S.K. Deb
IUSSTF-NSF INDO-US
workshop on Innovative
materials and structural
system for rehabilitation and
sustainable built structure
IIT Bombay
14-15 December 2009
International
S. Duta
Thirty-seventh IAH Congress
Hyderabad
6-12 September 2009
International
S. Chakraborty
Recycling and Reuse of
Materials
Kottayam,
Kerala
17-19 July 2009
International
National
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Name of
Faculty
Workshop
International /
National
Date
Place
S. Dutta
Distributed Hydrological
modeling for Brahmaputra
basin
IIT Kanpur ,
Kanpur
October 16 2009
National
A. Dutta
Third International
Bangladesh
Dhaka,
Bangladesh
5-6 March 2010
International
S.K. Deb
Third International
Bangladesh
Dhaka,
Bangladesh
5-6 March 2010
International
M. Jawed
Bihar State Sanitation
Mahotsav
Bhagalpur,
Bihar
21 February 2010
M. Jawed
Water – Harvesting, Storage
and Conservation (WHSC2009)
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur
23-25 November 2009
International
M. Jawed
Emerging Technologies in
Environmental Science and
Engineering
Dept. of Civil
Engineering,
Aligarh Muslim
University
26-28 October 2010
International
G. Barua
Fifth M.I.T. Conference on
Computational Fluid and
Solid Mechanics
MIT,
Cambridge,
Boston
17-19 June 2009
International
National
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Place
Date
A.K. Maurya
Microscopic Approach for
Modeling Traffic without
Lane Discipline
University Duisburg-Essen,
Duisburg
Germany
29 June
2009
A.K. Maurya
Comprehensive Microscopic
Model for Simulation of Large
Uninterrupted Traffic Streams
Technische Universitat Berlin,
Germany
Germany
3 July 2009
H.B. Kaushik Structural Protection, Repair
and Rehabilitation of
Buildings
Dr. Fixit Institute of Structural
Protection and Rehabilitation in
association with Building
Materials and Technology
Promotion Council (BMTPC)
Don Bosco
Institute,
Kharghuli,
Guwahati
18-19
March 2010
H.B. Kaushik Retrofitting of Vulnerable
Buildings
Assam State Disaster Management
Authority in association with
Geohazards International
Administrative 16-17
Staff College, February
Guwahati
2010
Confederation of Indian
Industry, Guwahati
Guwahati
K. Dasgupta
Construction in High
Seismic Zones :: Open
Ground Storey Buildings
10 March
2010
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Place
101
Date
A. Sachan
An overview on Landfill
design
IIT Guwahati
Guwahati
2 November
2009
A. Sachan
Geotechnical Investigations
for Hydropower Projects
Brahmaputra Board, Guwahati
Guwahati
5 December
2009
VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANISATIONS
Name of Inst./Org.
Purpose
Prof. M.G. Satish
Dalhousie University, Halifex,
Canada
Academic Interaction
April 2009
Mr. Ankit Srivastav
University of California, San
Diego
Academic interaction
December 2009
Richard Scott
Scotland University, Scotland
Academic interaction
6 January 2010
Prof. C.V.R. Murty
Department of Civil Engineering,
IIT Kanpur
Academic
interaction(Why
Bridges will fall down
in India?)
12 February 2010
Dr. Sarada Sarma
Imperial College
Academic Interaction
February 2010
Name
Date
SHORT-TERM COURSES
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Coordinator: R. Bhattacharjya
Name of the Course: Optimisation Methods for Water
Resources Planning and Management
Sponsoring Agency: QIP, IIT Guwahati
Date and Place: 15-19 June 2009, IIT Guwahati
S.K. Dash
Awarded Endeavour Research Fellowship of
Government of Australia, for the year 2009, to carry out
research work in Research Centre for Geomechanics
and Railway Engineering at University of Wollongong,
Australia
SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES
ORGANISED
Coordinator: S. Dutta
Name of the Conference: Preparation of DPR for River
Valley Projects
Sponsoring Agency: The Brahmaputra Board
Date: 1-5 December 2009 (National)
FACULTY MEMBERS
G. Barua
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Flow through Porous Media
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R.K. Bhattacharya
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Water Resources System
Management, Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Neural
Networks
A. Chakraborty
PhD (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Dynamic and Random Vibration,
System Identification and Damage Detection, Wavelet
Analysis
S. Chakraborty
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Water and Wastewater Treatment,
Biodegradation of Industrial Wastewater, Removal of
Heavy Metals from Wastewater
R. Choudhary
PhD (IIT Roorkee)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Pavement Analysis and Design,
Highway Construction and Quality Control, Pavement
Material Characterisation, Pavement Evaluation and
Maintenance, Traffic Engineering
K. Dasgupta
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Earthquake Engineering, Design of
Reinforced Concrete Structures, Retrofitting of Structures
S.K. Dash
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Reinforced Soil Structures, Shallow
and Deep Foundations, Ground Improvement Techniques
S.K. Deb
PhD (IIT Roorkee)
Areas of Interest: Passive and Semi-active Control,
Performance based Seismic Design, System Identification
and Structural Health Monitoring, Seismic damage
Assessment
A. Dutta
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Finite Element Mesh Generation,
Optimisation, Control, Health Monitoring and
Retrofitting of structures
S. Dutta
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Meso-Scale Distributed hydrological
modeling, Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS for Water
resources Management, Computational river hydraulics
and its applications, Watershed and Irrigation
Management
P.K. Ghosh
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Water treatment for Domestic and
Industrial use, Domestic and Industrial Wastewater
Treatment, Sludge treatment by Physicochemical and
Biological Process
S. Gokhale
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Urban Vehicular Pollution, Industrial
Stack Pollution, Indoor Air Pollution, Environmental
Impact Assessment
M. Jawed
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Biological Processes, Anaerobic
Wastewater Treatment, Heavy Metal Removal and
Recovery, Water Treatment and Supply, Domestic and
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
A. Kalamdhad
PhD (IIT Roorkee)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Solid Waste Management, Mechanical
Composting and Vermicomposting, Analysis of Solid
Wastes
S.A. Kartha
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Flow and transport through porous
media, Heap leaching, Hydrology, Numerical modeling
H.B. Kaushik
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Earthquake Resistant Design, Nonlinear
Behaviour of Structures, Retrofitting of Structures, Finite
Element Modeling
B. Kumar
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Small scale studies of mixing tanks,
Experimental Studies of Aeration Systems, Sediment
Transport analysis, Pipeline analysis, CFD simulation,
Surge analysis
C. Mahanta
Professor
Areas of Interest: Water Quality, Sediment Dynamics
in Fluvial Systems, Environmental Impact, Risk
Assessment and Management, Environmental Geoinformatics, Engineering Geology
C. Mallikarjuna
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Traffic flow theory and Modeling,
Traffic Data Collection and Analysis, Travel demand
Modeling
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Sreeja P.
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Urban Hydrology and Hydraulics,
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multi-Objective Water
Resources Systems Analysis, Stochastic Hydrological
Modeling, Coastal Hydrodynamics
B. Pradhan
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Durability studies in concrete,
Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement and Protection
Measures, High performance concrete, Mass transport
in Cementitious Materials, Non-destructive testing of
concrete structures, Construction management
S. Ray
PhD (Princeton, USA)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Biochemical processes in Wastewater
Treatment, Monitoring and Management of Surface
Water Quality, Impact of Climate Change on Water
Resources
T.L. Ryntathiang
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Pavement Materials, Precast Concrete
Block Pavement, Cast In-Situ Concrete Block Pavement
A.K. Maurya
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Driver Behaviour, Traffic flow theory
and modeling, Traffic Engineering
Sreedeep S.
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Behavioral Studies of Unsaturated
Porous Media, Characterisation of Geomaterials,
Contaminant Transport and Retainment in Geomaterials,
Soil stabilisation, Dynamic behavior and Study on
liquefaction potential of soil
A. Murali Krishna
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Soil Investigation, Reinforced Soil
Structures, Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement,
Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
A. Sachan
PhD (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Microfabric Study for Cohesive Soils
using XRD, SEM, AFM, Strain Localization in Soils using
DIA technique, Material Characterisation
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A.K. Sarma
PhD (Gauhati University, Guwahati)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Modeling and simulation in Free Surface
Flow, Heuristic Method in Reservoir Optimisation, GIS
based Watershed Modeling
A.K. Singh
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Information Technology in
Construction Engineering , Object- Oriented
Programming, Constitutive Modeling
B. Singh
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Marine Geotechnology, Modeling of
Onshore and Offshore Foundations, Soil Stabilisation and
Ground Modification, Pavement Subgrade and Site
Characterisation
K.D.K. Singh
PhD (Southampton University)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Structural Analysis and Design, Finite
Element Method, Fracture and Fatigue Mechanics
L.B. Singh
PhD (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Public Private Partnerships, Risk
Management, Construction Management
S. Talukdar
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Structural Dynamics, Bridge
Engineering, Wind induced Vibration and Control, Non
Destructive Techniques
A. Verma (up to 30.06.2009)
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Transportation Planning, Integrated
Public transport Planning, Public Transit Network
Modeling, Travel Demand Modeling and Forecasting,
Application to GIS and GA in Transport Planning
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering
at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati was formed
in 1995. Since its inception, the Department has always
been recognised all over the world for excellence in
research and teaching. The Department provides an
outstanding research environment complemented by
superior teaching for its students to flourish in. In March
2010, the Department has 20 faculty members, 07
supporting staff members, 234 students in the BTech
programme, 82 students in the MTech programme and
33 students in the PhD programme. Till date, degrees
have been awarded to 408 BTech students, 232 MTech
students and 05 PhD students. In the 11th Convocation
of the Institute, 52 students were awarded the BTech
degree, 40 students were awarded the MTech degree
and 03 students were awarded the PhD degree in
Computer Science and Engineering.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Department provides individual workspace with a
high-end PC, accessible round the clock, to each and
every student of the Department. The Department
arranges for summer training of the second and third
year BTech students at industries and educational
institutions all over the country and abroad.
The Computer Science and Engineering Association
(CSEA), a student group in the Department, has
conducted a series of lectures and organised workshops
on different topics during this period. Some students of
the Department took part in the ACM-ICPC contest. A
Linux User Group is active and is conducting several
workshops and seminars to promote Linux throughout
the Institute. A Solaris User Group is also working in the
same direction.
During the summer of 2009, the Department provided
summer training to 27 students from different institutions
around the country.
Keeping in view the current industry trends, a large
number of specially designed courses were offered by
the Department during this period. Students were offered
courses in Wireless Networks, Internet Protocols, Speech
Processing , Computational Number Theory and
Cryptography, Computer and Network Security,
Optimisation, Intelligent Systems and Interfaces,
Distributed Systems, Parallel Algorithms, Information and
Randomness, Computational Geometry, VLSI Design,
Advanced Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems,
Formal Verification, Mobile Robotics, Enterprise Systems,
Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia Systems,
in addition to a set of courses in core areas. Innovative
approaches to teaching traditional courses such as
Operating Systems and Databases were also adopted.
For instance, the students were taught how to study
and modify an Operating System using the PintOS
instructional software, the use of Network Simulators in
the Networks course and the use of QualNet simulators
for networking projects. They were also trained
extensively in using Oracle RDBMS. The students used
the RATIONAL suite in the Software Engineering course.
STUDENT INTAKE
: 09
FACULTY STRENGTH
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
: 02
: 08
: 10
: 20
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The Department has separate laboratories for each
semester and provides one computer (business class
machines with quad-core and minimum 4GB RAM) to
each enrolled student. These laboratories provide stateof-the-art computing facility for the students of the
Department. All the laboratories are connected to the
Gigabit Network of the Department which in turn is
connected to the Institute Gigabit Network on optical
fibre. The laboratories are supported by many dual
processor servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
including a High Availability (HA) File Server Cluster
implementation with central LDAP authentication,
running on IBM eServer Intel Xeon/AMD Opteron based
processors and Terabyte capacity central storage. A HP
Storage Works MSL5000 Series tape library is available
for the departmental backup requirements. There is a
local repository mirror server (maintained by the students
of the Department) for Ubuntu and Fedora Linux to
provide the most recent updates to users of the
Department.
Nearly every contemporary software and developing
platform is made available to the students, so that they
can be at par with the fast paced world of Information
Technology.
Various Microsoft products and the Rational Rose
software development suite are used to familiarise the
students with different software development models.
Many software packages and environments are available
on the servers including MATLAB with libraries, Oracle
RDBMS, Nachos OS package, NS2, GlomoSim, PHIGS
graphics library, Java compiler and applet viewer, C++
compilers and Lisp interpreters. Development
environments like MS Visual Studio 2008, MS Visual
Studio NET, Visual Prolog, MS Office 2003 developer,
etc. are actively used for development purposes in the
Department. Other software like Network Query
Language - Workstation (NQL), Qualnet with libraries,
CADP are also available. The Department is a partner
in the Oracle Academic Initiative and the MSDN
Academic Alliance.
The Department hardware laboratory is equipped with
educational tools to promote better understanding of
computer hardware and peripherals among the students.
8085/86 Microprocessor Trainer kits and 8033
Microcontroller kits are used to provide hands on
experience to students about basic hardware. These are
supported by Colour Logic Analyser and Pattern
Generator, Function/Arbitrary wave generator, digital
oscilloscopes, Wireless Transmitter/Receiver pairs, Data
acquisition/Switch units, TDM pulse code modulator/
transmitter and demodulator/receiver and other similar
essentials. Universal Robotics Trainer kits and Lego robots
are actively used by students interested in robotics.
Students working on various projects have developed
microcontroller controlled arms and robots. The
Department also has a campus wide WLAN Test bed, a
CROSSBOW Wireless Sensor Network Test bed and
Tablet PCs for E-Classroom.
The Department has an exclusive library cum reading
room equipped with more than 4000 books/CDs and
journals published by IEEE, ACM, etc. Each student
registered with the Department is provided with a
cubicle and computer, and 24×7×365 access to all
facilities of the Department.
The major research areas of the Department are
Computer Networks, Computer and Network Security,
Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Speech
Processing , Computational Geometry, Artificial
Intelligence, Mobile Robotics, Algorithms, Natural
Language Processing, Software Engineering, Formal
Verification, Embedded Systems, Electronic CAD, Pattern
Recognition, Optimisation, Multimedia Networking and
Security, Information Hiding, Machine Learning ,
Computational Geometry, Information Retrieval, Data
Mining, and Multicore Parallel Programming and HumanComputer Interaction. The faculty members of the
Department are actively involved in sponsored research
and consultancy in these areas.
The Department functions as a nodal centre for the
ERNET, a Resource Centre for Indian Language
Technology Solutions (RCILTS) and a Resource Centre
for the Information Security Education and Awareness
Programme.
The Department collaborates with the following entities
in Industry/Academia: National Institute of Information
and Communications Technology of Japan, Microsoft
University Relations, IBM, Oracle Academic Initiative,
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Technical
University of Ilmenau Germany, Red Hat, ISI Kolkata,
IIT Kanpur, CDAC Kolkata and HP.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal
Investigator
P. Bhaduri
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Intelligent Robot Human Interaction
and Embedded Systems
DST, India
50.00
J.K. Deka,
S.B. Nair and
P.K. Das
Duration
(Years)
05 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
S. Nandi
Information Security
Education and Awareness
(ISEA) Project
MCIT, New
Delhi
38.00
G. Sajith
05 years
S. Nandi
A Test bed for Mobile elearning Systems
Hewlett
Packard (HP),
Asia Pacific &
Japan
42.00 (one
time in
April 2007)
D. Goswami,
J.K. Deka
and S.V. Rao
03 years
D. Goswami
Fault Tolerance with
Check Point and Recovery
Protocols in Cluster based
Distributed Systems
DST, Govt. of
India
10.00
S. Nandi
03 years
G. Barua
Resource Centre for
Indian Language
Technology Solution (2nd
Phase) (Assamese and
Bodo)
MCIT, New
Delhi
26.00
D. Goswami,
S. Mahanta
and B. Som
03 years
H.K. Kapoor
Formal Approach to
design of latencyinsensitive system
DST, Govt. of
India
5.00
—
02 years
S. Nandi
Design, Development and
Verification of Network
Specific IDS using FDD of
DES
MCIT, New
Delhi
70.00
S. Biswas
and A. Sur
02 years
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Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring Agency
Head of the
Department
Philips MTech and
PhD Fellowships
Philips Research, Philips
Electronics India, Bangalore
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
20.00
(one time)
—
Duration
(Years)
03 years
CONSULTANCY
Principal
Investigator
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
G. Barua
ERP Implementation—
Orissa Power Transmission
Corp Ltd, Bhubaneswar
Orissa Power
Transmission Corp
Ltd, Bhubaneswar
8.42
S. Nandi
Ongoing
G. Barua
IT Consultant General
Insurance Corporation,
Mumbai
General Insurance
Corporation,
Mumbai
2.50
—
Ongoing
G. Barua
ERP Implementation:
North Eastern Electric
Power Coorporation,
Shillong
North Eastern
Electric Power
Coorporation,
Shillong
10.00
S. Biswas
Development of
Framework for Logging
and Analysis of Network
Traffic to secure IT
infrastructure
Projects of MCIT at
Manipur University,
Gauhati University,
Assam University
15.00
S. Bhattacharya and A. Basu
‘Design of an Iconic Communication Aid for the
Individuals with Speech and Motor Impairments in India’,
Assistive Technology (AT), Taylor and Francis, vol. 21 (4),
pp 173-187, 2009
S. Bhattacharya and A. Basu
‘Design of a Word to Sentence Generator for
Augmentative Communication’, International Journal of
Computers and Applications (IJCA), ACTA Press, vol. 32
(1), pp 73-83, 2010
Co-Investigator
—
S. Nandi and
A. Sur
Ongoing
New
T. Venkatesh, A. Jayaraj and C. Siva Ram Murthy
‘Analysis of Burst Segmentation in Optical Burst Switching
Networks Considering Path Correlation’, IEEE Journal of
Lightwave Technology, vol. 27 (24), pp 5563-5570, 2009
P. Mitra and S. Swain
‘Zero knowledge interactive proof for Elliptic Curve
Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP)’, International
Journal of Advanced Computing (IJAC), vol. 1, 2010
P. Mitra and C.S. Chowdary
‘Novel Method for Improving the Exact Matching of the
Molecular Graphs’, International Journal of Recent Trends
in Engineering, 2009
S. Tripathy and S. Nandi
‘Cellular Automata-based Authentication for Low-cost
RFID Systems’, International Journal of Communication
Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), vol. 3 (3),
pp 199-216, 2009
N. Sarma and S. Nandi
‘Route Stability based QoS Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks’, Special Issue of the Wireless Personal
Communications, April 2009 (online version)
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Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction
(IHCI-2010), Allahabad, Springer, pp 109-114, 5-17
January 2010
S.B. Nair, W. Godfrey and Kim Dong Hwa
‘Towards a Dynamic Emotional Model’, Proceedings of
the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics,
Seoul, S. Korea, pp 1932-1936, 5-8 July 2009 (DOI:
10.1109/ISIE.2009.5217935)
S. Tripathy and S. Nandi
‘LCASE: Lightweight Cellular Automata-based Symmetrickey Encryption’, International Journal of Network Security,
vol. 8 (3), pp 243-252, 2009
S.B. Nair
‘Emotional Robot Development: Emotion Agents’,
Proceedings of the International Conference on
Innovation Clusters, Daedeok, S. Korea, pp 478-486,
12-13 May 2009
A. Mukhopadhyay, Eugene Greene and S.V. Rao
‘On Intersecting a Set of Isothetic Line Segments with a
Convex Polygon of Minimum Area’, International Journal
of Computational Geometry Applications, vol. 19 (6),
pp 557-577, 2009
B. Kartik, T.K. Glisa, J. Jeena, S. Ranbir and A.M. Hema
‘Internet Activity Analysis through Proxy Log’, Proceedings
of Sixteenth National Conference on Communications
(NCC 2010), Madras, 29-31 January 2010
National Journal
S. Biswas
‘Use of on-line Testing for Design of Reliable VLSI
Circuits: A Case study of DCDC Buck Converters’,
Electrical India Magazine, vol. 49 (7), pp 94-101, July
2009 (Invited Paper)
P. Bhaduri and I. Stierand
‘A Proposal for Real-time Interfaces in SPEEDS’,
Thirteenth Design Automation and Test in Europe
Conference (DATE 2010), Dresden, Germany, 8-12
March 2010
D.B. Chokshi and P. Bhaduri
‘Performance Analysis of FlexRay-based systems using
Real-Time Calculus, Revisited’, Twenty-fifth ACM
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010), Sierre,
Switzerland, 22-26 March 2010
S. Bhattacharya
‘A Bengali Virtual Keyboard Design for Small Display
Devices’, Proceedings of the Second International
L.K. Pagaria, T. Venkatesh and C.S. Ram Murthy
‘An Efficient Real-time Service Discipline for the Control
Plane to enhance the Performance of Optical Burst
Switching Networks’,’ International Workshop on Optical
Burst Switching collocated with IEEE BROADNETS,
Madrid, Spain, 14-16 September 2009
P.K. Das, P. Seth and A. Raj
‘Comparative Study of Neural Networks and Statistical
Methods for Stock Market Prediction’, accepted for
oral presentation in Oxford Business & Economics
Conference (OBEC-2009), Oxford, England, 24-26
June 2009
A.S. Sairam and G. Barua
‘Distributed Route Control Schemes to Load Balance
Incoming Traffic in Multihomed Stub Networks’,
Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on
Communications (NCC-2010), Chennai, January 2010
A. Sur, P. Goel and J. Mukhopadhyay
‘Spatial Desynchronisation: A Possible Way to Resist
Calibration Attack’, International Conference on
Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES
2009), Wuhan, China, pp 15-19, 18-20 November 2009
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A. Sur, P. Goel and J. Mukherjee
‘A New Statistical Restoration Method for Spatial Domain
Images’, Third International Conference on Pattern
Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI’09), Delhi,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin/
Heidelberg , vol. 5909/2009, pp 297-302, 16-20
December 2010
A. Sur, S. Srikar, R. Pal, P. Mitra and J. Mukhopadhyay
‘A New Image Watermarking Scheme using Saliency
Based Visual Attention Model’, IEEE INDICON 2009,
pp 1-4, 18-20 December 2009
A. Sur and J. Mukhopadhyay
‘An Adaptive Steganographic Scheme with JPEG
Compressed Digital Images’, Proceedings of the
NCVPRIPG-2010, Jaipur, India, 15-17 January 2010
H. Neminath, S. Biswas and S. Nandi
‘Fuzzy mega cluster based anomaly network intrusion
detection’, IEEE Network and Service Security 2009,
France, pp 1-5, 2009 (IEEE Press)
Chiranjeevi Yarra, S. Biswas and S. Mukhopadhyay
‘Synthesis of analog inputs for testing of Digital Modules
in Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits’, VDAT 2009, pp 1-8
T. Kochar, S. Nandi and S. Biswas
‘A Single chip implementation of AES cipher and
Whirlpool hash function’, IEEE INDICON 2009, pp-1-6
(IEEE Press)
N. Hubballi, S. Biswas and S. Nandi
‘Layered higher order n-grams for hardening payload
based anomaly intrusion detection’, Fifth International
Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and
Security, pp 1-6, February 2010 (IEEE Press)
R. Bhattacharya, S. Biswas and S. Mukhopadhyay
‘FPGA based Chip Emulation System for Test
Development of Analog and Mixed Signal Circuits’, FPGA
2010, Monterey, California, pp 284, 2010 (ACM press)
G. Khataniar and D. Goswami
‘HUP: An Unstructured Hierarchical P2P Protocol’,
Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on
Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICWS 2010),
Hong Kong, 17-19 March 2010
G. Khataniar and D. Goswami
‘Handling Churn Rate through a Structured Hierarchical
Peer-to-Peer Overlay System’, Proceedings of National
Conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and
Information Technology, Nasik, India, 29-30 January 2010
K. Narendra, S.V. Rao, P. Mitra and P. Viswanath
‘Speeding up of Polynomial Time Isomorphic Matching
of Molecular Graphs’, International Conference on Data
Management (ICDM 2010), Gazhiabad, India, 2010
D. Kotwal, M. Barooah and S. Nandi
‘Seamless Handoff between IEEE 802.11 and GPRS
Networks’, Sixth International Conference on Distributed
Computing and Internet Technology, February 2010
(LNCS)
A. Bhattacharjee and S. Nandi
‘Self-similar Traffic and Buffer Overflow: A Bounded
Buffer Allocation Approach’, IEEE INDICON December
2009 (IEEE Press)
B.K. Patra and S. Nandi
‘Fast Single-link Clustering Method Based on Tolerance
Rough Set Model’, Twelfth International Conference on
Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular
Computing, December 2009 (LNCS)
A. Sarma, R. Gupta and S. Nandi
‘A Zone Based Interleaved Scanning Technique for Fast
Handoff in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks’, Tenth
International Symposium on Pervasive Systems,
Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN 2009), December
2009 (IEEE Press)
A. Bhattacharjee and S. Nandi
‘Fairness and coexistence issues in PSRG scheduling’,
Twelfth International Conference on Information
Technology, December 2009
A.B. Paul and S. Nandi
‘Impacts of Refresh Interval Parameters on M-OLSR
Performance for Wireless Mesh Networks’, IEEE
TENCON, November 2009 (IEEE Press)
B.K. Patra, S. Nandi and P. Viswanath
‘Data Summarization based Fast Hierarchical Clustering
Method for Large Dataset’, International Conference on
Information Management and Engineering, April 2009
(IEEE Press)
R. Roshan and S.V. Rao
‘Energy Efficient Location Service Based on kth Order
Independent Set’, Fifth International Conference on
Wireless Communication & Sensor Networks, pp 7883, 15-19 December 2009
Book, Chapter, etc.
N. Chaturbhuj and S.B. Nair
‘A Co-operative Intelligent Assisting Agent Architecture
for Web Searching and Desktop Management’, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg,
111
ISSN 0302-9743 (Print), pp 1611-3349 (Online), vol.
4078/2009, Multi-Agent Systems for Society (Book), pp
22-32 (DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03339-1_3)
C.T. Singh and S.B. Nair
‘Modeling a Multi-Agent Mobile Robotic test bed using
a Biologically Inspired Artificial Immune System’, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg,
ISSN 0302-9743 (Print), pp 1611-3349 (Online), vol.
4078/2009, Multi-Agent Systems for Society (Book), pp
270-283 (DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03339-1_22)
T. Venkatesh and C.S.R. Murthy
‘An Analytical Approach to Optical Burst Switched
Networks’, Springer, USA, 2010
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
S. Bhattacharya
Second International
Conference on Intelligent
Human Computer
Interaction (IHCI-2010)
IIIT Allahabad
15-17 January
2010
International
S.B. Nair
IEEE International Symposium
on Industrial Electronics (ISIE2009)
Seoul, South
Korea
5-8 July 2009
International
S.B. Nair
Innovation Clusters (ICIC2009)
Daedeok, South 12-13 May 2009
Korea
S.B. Nair
National Seminar on
Emerging trends in
Information Technology
AGNITION2010
Pune, India
18-19 January
2010
A. Sur
Third International
Conference on Pattern
Recognition and Machine
Intelligence (PReMI ‘09)
New Delhi,
India
16-20 December
2009
International
S. Biswas
IEEE INDICON
Ahmedabad,
India
18-20 December
2009
National
P. Mitra
NDT-2009
Ostrava, Czech
Republic
July 2009
International
National
International
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Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Place
Date
P. Bhaduri
Modeling Fixed Priority NonPreemptive Scheduling with
Real-Time Calculus
OFFIS, University of Oldenburg
Oldenburg,
Germany
3 June
2009
P. Bhaduri
Real-time Interface Algebra
OFFIS, University of Oldenburg
Oldenburg,
Germany
5 June
2009
S.B. Nair
Emotional Robot
Development & Emotion
Agents
Innovation Clusters, ICIC-2009
Daedeok,
South Korea
12-13 May
2009
S.B. Nair
AI & Robotics
National Seminar on Emerging
trends in Information
Technology, AGNITION2010
Pune, India
18-19
January
2010
V.V. Saradhi
Prof. M.N. Seetharamanath
Lecture Series
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam
26 March
2010
P. Mitra
Basic Computational
Geometry Algorithms
Tezpur University
Tezpur,
Assam
February
2010
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Purpose
Date
Manish Gupta
Associate Director, IBM
Research
Collaboration between IIT
Guwahati and IBM in the
area of High Performance
Computing & Enterprise
Computing
7 August 2009
Valsa Williams
Head (North & East), Corporate
Affairs, Intel Higher Education
Guwahati and Intel
16 December 2009
Amitabha Das
Principal Research Scientist,
Convergence Lab., InfosysTech. Guwahati and
Ltd.
Convergence Lab, Infosys
Tech. Ltd.
SHORT-TERM COURSES
Coordinator: J.K. Deka and S. Biswas
Name of Course: VLSI Design, Verification and Test
Sponsoring Agency: Centre for Educational Technology
(CET), IIT Guwahati
18 January 2010
ORGANISED
Coordinator: S. Nandi
Name of Seminar: Information Security Education and
Awareness
Sponsoring Agency: DIT, Govt. of India, New Delhi
Date and Place: 15-19 February 2010, IIT Guwahati
(National)
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INVITED LECTURES
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Name of Lecture
Date
Amitabha Mukerjee
Professor, Dept. of
Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Building a baby: Discovering
concepts and lexical items from
perception
2 December
2009
Raviraj Doshi
Senior Consultant, MIEL ESecurity Pvt. Ltd.
Penetration testing,
demonstrations of information
gathering, scanning and
exploitation techniques using
open source software
15 February 2010
Sahir Hidayatullah
Senior Security Researcher,
MIEL E-Security Pvt. Ltd.
Practical Web Application Security
Threats
16 February 2010
Md. Sohail Ahmad
Manager, R&D AirTight
Networks
Wifi Security
17 February 2010
Andrew Horton
Founder of Morningstar
Security, New Zealand
Introduction to Web Hacking,
detection & prevention of top ten
most common web vulnerabilities
as specified by OWASP (Open
Web Application Security Project)
18 February 2010
S. Biswas
Special Mention by IEEE India Council and IEEE Gujarat
Section for contributions in reviewing research papers for
INDICON (INDICON is organised by IEEE India Council
in the field of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical
Engineering & Electronics and Communication Engineering,
in general. 2009 was the fifth year.)
S. Nandi
Has been elevated as Senior Member ACM,
November 2009
FACULTY MEMBERS
G. Barua
PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Professor and Director
Areas of Interest: Distributed Systems, Networks,
Operating Systems, Database Management Systems
P. Bhaduri
PhD (Washington State University, Pullman)
Associate Professor and Head of the Department (from
3 August 2009)
Areas of Interest: Formal Modeling, Synthesis and
Verification of Embedded Systems
S. Bhattacharya
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Human Computer Interaction, User
Modeling, Model Based Evaluation of Interactive
Systems, Rehabilitation Engineering
S. Biswas
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Networking, Fault Tolerance, VLSI
Testing, Embedded Systems
P.K. Das
PhD (Delhi University)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Speech Recognition, Pattern
Recognition, Man-Machine Interaction Systems
J.K. Deka
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Formal Verification, VLSI System
Design
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D. Goswami
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Software Engineering, Distributed
Systems
S.V. Rao
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Computational Geometry, Pattern
Recognition, Image Processing
R. Inkulu (from 22 January 2010)
Assistant Professor
PhD (IIT Chicago)
Areas of Interest: Algorithms, Computational Geometry
A. Sahu (from 30 December 2009)
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Advanced Computer Architecture,
Multicore Parallel Programming and Compiling ,
Embedded Systems, VLSI and FPGA Design
H.K. Kapoor
PhD (London South Bank University, UK)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Formal Verification of Circuits
S. Karmakar (from 23 December 2009)
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Distributed Algorithms, Fault-tolerance,
Distributed Algorithms for ad hoc and Sensor Networks
D. Medhi (from December 2009)
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: Network Survivability-Architecture and
Design, IP Network Availability/Reliability/ Survivability,
Dynamic QoS Routing, Hidden Metric Routing protocol:
authentication, key management, IP Telephony, Next
Generation Internet Architecture, Broadband Wireless
Access, Network Design, Optimisation and Performance,
Network Management, Medical Informatics
P. Mitra
PhD (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Computational Geometry, Parallel
Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms, Optimisation
S.B. Nair (on long Leave up to July 2009)
PhD (Amravati University)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Natural Language Processing, Artificial
Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, Robotics
S. Nandi
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs
Areas of Interest: Networks (QoS, Wireless networks),
Computer and Network Security
G. Sajith (on long Leave from 11 January 2010)
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor and Head of the Department (up to
2 August 2009)
Areas of Interest: Parallel and Distributed Computing
V.V. Saradhi (from 5 October 2009)
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Kernel Methods,
Data Mining and their Applications
S.R. Singh (from 24 December 2009)
PhD (IIT Chennai)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Web Search Engine, Machine Learning,
Information Retrieval, Data Mining especially in the area
of Web Search Engine
A. Sur (from 5 June 2009)
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Information Hiding: Steganography
and Steganalysis, Multimedia Security: Image and Video
Watermarking, Network Security: Intrusion Detection
System and Network Steganography
T. Venkatesh (from 3 August 2009)
PhD (IIT Chennai)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: WDM Optical Networks, IP over
WDM Networks, Broadband Access Networks,
Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks,
Network Tomography
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DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN
INTRODUCTION
FACULTY STRENGTH
Academic Programmes in Design offered by Department
of Design, IIT Guwahati, include 04 year Bachelor in
Design leading to BDes degree, 02 year Master in Design
leading to MDes degree and Doctoral studies in Design
leading to PhD degree.
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
: 04
: 01
: 06
: 11
These Design programmes engage in inter-disciplinary
and intra-disciplinary studies that integrate creative
pursuits engaging design and technology as applicable
to the following thrust areas viz.
Industrial Design aspects in New Product Development
Usability Engineering and Interaction Design including
HCI
Ergonomic Research and Design
Communication Design and New Media
Considering the new opportunities in the domain of
information technology that increasingly require
designers, the Department has enhanced its design
research and development activities in the area of
product design and communication design that embrace:
Experiential Design, Usability Engineering , User
Experience Design, Human Computer Interfaces,
Lifestyle and accessories, E-learning, Games, Design for
the elderly, Publication Design.
Equipments:
Eye Movement Recorder
Remote Testing System
Digital White Board
Games Simulator
Digital Photography Equipment
Videography Equipment
Machinery for Product Design and development
EOS Rapid Prototyping Machine
Audio Visual Equipment for presentation
Facilities:
CAID Lab (Product Audit lab)
Product Modeling and Simulation Lab
Rapid Prototyping Lab
Workshop (wood, plastic, bamboo, metal)
Graphic / print and Multimedia Studio
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Ergonomics (Human factors Lab)
The Department has BDes, MDes and PhD programmes.
ErgoMaster 3.5, ManneQuinPRO, Ergonomics Modeling
Software
STUDENT INTAKE
Usability Engineering and HCI Lab
BDes students enrolled in 2009-2010
MDes students enrolled in 2009-2010
: 35
: 18
: 09
Digital Photography and Video Studio
Macintosh Computer Studio
Virtual Reality lab
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
a) New Sponsored Projects:
Principal
Investigator
D. Chakrabarti
Name of Project
Virtual Ergonomics lab
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Sponsoring
Agency
MHRD
17.00
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
S. Nandi
03 years
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects:
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Sponsoring
Agency
R.M. Punekar
Design of Gear for
Avalanche Survival
Army
Technical
Board, Indian
Army
32.00
A.K. Das
03 years
D. Chakrabarti
Ergonomics for beginners:
Industrial design
perspective (Video
Course)
NTPEL II
8.00
—
02 years
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
c) Completed Sponsored Projects:
Principal
Investigator
U.K Saha, R.M.
Punekar, P.
Mahanta and
A.K. Das
Name of Project
KVIC-IITG Technical
Back up Unit, IIT
Guwahati
Sponsoring
Agency
KVIC
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
50.00
—
04 years
CONSULTANCY
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
A.K. Das
DPR Preparation for
Central Silver Plant for
KVIC
KVIC
3.60
—
06 months
A.K. Das
DPR Preparation for Khadi
Haat
KVIC
4.82
—
06 months
A.K. Das
Training for SFRUTI Cane & KVIC
Bamboo Cluster -10
Clusters
22.92
A. Shende
10 workshops
of 10 days
duration each
Torkil Clemmensen, Morten Hertzum, Kasper Hornbaek,
Qingzin Shi and P. Yammiyavar
‘Cultural Cognition in Usability Evaluation’, Interacting
with Computers, vol. 21 (3), pp 212-220, July 2009
Imprint: ELSEVIER. ISSN: 0953-5438
R.M. Punekar
‘A Bridge too far – Participatory Approach to Developing
Sustainable Products and Services for Rural Schools in
Assam’, Proceeding of the International Indo-Us workshop
on Designing Sustainable Products Services and Systems,
IISc Bangalore (in press)
V. Tripathi, D. Bansal and R.M. Punekar
‘Early stage Analysis of the effects of shared computing
(CSCL) on computer literacy in Emerging economies’,
Proceedings of the International Conference on HCI, IDC,
IIT Bombay, March 2010
R. Singh, Runalisa and P. Yammiyavar
‘A study of cultural influence on the usage of mobile
phone features for different age groups of Indian
Women’, Paper ID Number 1998, HCII 2009, San
Diageo, USA
Y. Jiang, X. Sun, H. Li, P. Yammiyavar, J. Kumar, M.
Hertzum, K. Hornbæk, Q. Shi and T. Clemmensen
‘A Cross-Cultural Study of How Usability Professionals
Experience the Usability of Everyday Systems’, in Sun,
Xianghong and GE, Yan (eds.), IEA2009, Proceedings of
the Seventeenth World Congress on Ergonomics, Beijing,
CN, 9-14 August 2009, vol. 1, paper ID: 1OP1040,
IEA International Ergonomics Association, Beijing, CN
P. Yammiyavar and P. Kate
‘Developing Mobile phone based GUIs : A methodology
case study on conceptualising a GUI for users in the
construction industry’, Proceedings of HWDI – Human
Work Interaction Design – TC 13.6 of IFIP - Usability in
Social, Cultural and Organisational, Pune, India, 7-8
October 2009
I. Vasal, D. Gangopadhyay and P. Yammiyavar
‘A comparative study of keypad based and handwriting
based solutions for Hindi text entry’, Proceedings of
HWDI – Human Work Interaction Design – TC 13.6 of
IFIP - Usability in Social, Cultural and Organisational,
Pune, India, 7-8 October 2009
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M. Jaafarnia and P. Yammiyavar
‘Graphic interface for interactions involving affect : a
case of a consumer choosing colour for a product’,
Proceedings of HWDI – Human Work Interaction Design
– TC 13.6 of IFIP - Usability in Social , Cultural and
Organisational Contexts, Pune, India, 7-8 October 2009
P. Jain and P. Yammiyavar
‘Usability issues in developing an intra office
communication system’, Proceedings of HWDI – Human
Work Interaction Design – TC 13.6 of IFIP - Usability in
Social , Cultural and Organisational Contexts, Pune, India,
7-8 October 2009
P. Yammiyavar
‘HCI and Usability Research in Indian Educational
Institutions’, Proceedings of HWDI – Human Work
Interaction Design – TC 13.6 of IFIP - Usability in Social
, Cultural and Organisational Contexts, Pune, India, 7-8
October 2009
M. Dhariwal and P. Yammiyavar
‘Developing Mathematical Concepts for E- learning by
Engaging Multiple Intelligences: a proposal for a new
framework–CRIB’, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Designing for Children with focus on play
and learn, IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 3-5 February 2010
M. Jaafarnia and P. Yammiyavar
‘Toy Designs: Whose Choice Matters - Children’s or
Parents’, Proceedings of the International Conference on
Designing for Children with focus on play and learn, IDC,
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 3-5 February 2010
P. Yammiyavar
‘Innovation Management: Teaching the art of innovation
& its management to creative designers’, Proceedings of
the Indo-US Workshop on Product Design – Impact from
Research to Education to Practice, PSG IAS Coimbatore,
15-17 March 2010 (Invited Paper)
G. Iyer, P.D. Mathur and P. Yammiyavar
‘From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and beyond: Reviewing
usability heuristic criteria taking music sites as case
studies’, Proceedings of the Interaction Design for
International Development 2010 Conference, (India HCI
2010 IDID), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 20-24 March 2010
P. Yammiyavar and R. Deo
‘An Engaging Multimedia Tool for Teachers: An Engaging
Multimedia Blogging Tool for Teachers’, Proceedings of
the Interaction Design for International Development
2010 Conference, (India HCI 2010 IDID), IIT Bombay,
Mumbai, 20-24 March 2010
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K. Mayank , Suyog Deshpande, Ityam Vasal and P.
Yammiyavar
‘A Tangible Product to Enhance Real Time User
Experience of Enjoying Music’, Proceedings of the
Conference USID 2009, Design for All: Usability,
Accessibility and Creativity, Hyderabad, India, September
2009 (Paper No S-00050, USID2009)
A. Shende
‘Bamboo Design Dialogue’, Eighth World Bamboo
Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 19-24 September 2009
A. Shende
‘Design Communication and Strategy on Rattan’, Design
and Diversification, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, February
2010
M. Majhi and S. Lingos
‘IIT Guwahati Animation case study’, International Design
Conference on Sustainability, IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai,
3-7 November 2009
S. Iqbal
‘Prospects of Adaptive Reuse Interventions in Almora’,
Revitalising Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places
for New Uses: Ed. by: Yildiz H.T., Guney Y.I., Istanbul,
Turkey, 12-16 October 2009
and Working Environment), Indian Society of Ergonomics
Conference, Calcutta University, Kolkata, 17-19
December 2009
T. Ravi and D. Chakrabarti
‘Fashion apparel perception: Design Ergonomics
relevance’, Proceeding of the International Ergonomics
Conference (Humanising Work and Working
Environment), Indian Society of Ergonomics Conference,
Calcutta University, Kolkata, 17-19 December 2009
D. Chakrabarti
‘Age-related Impairments and Issues in Design
Ergonomics: IIT Guwahati Experiences’, Proceedings of
the Ninety Seventh Indian Science Congress, Section
Medical Sciences and Physiology, Thiruvananthapuram ,
3-7 January 2010
D. Chakrabarti
‘Inclusive Design: Ergonomics Perspective creating agefriendly environments’, Invited lecture as a member of
DST Project Advisory Committee of the Technical
Innovations for Elderly, Proceedings of the Indo-French
Workshop on Information and Communication Technology
for Health and Autonomy in Ageing Population, Indian
Institute of Technology Jodhpur in association with French
Society of Technologies for Autonomy and GerontoTechnologies and Indian Academy of Geriatrics, Jodhpur,
17-19 March 2010
D. Chakrabarti
‘Ergonomics input for Design Ideation and Functionality:
IIT Guwahati Experiences’, Proceedings of the seventeenth
World Congress on Ergonomics, Beijing, China, 9-14
August 2009 (Paper No. 2PD0054)
Book, Chapter, etc.
D. Chakrabarti
‘Design ergonomics reference to pleasure and
trustworthiness’, Proceedings of the International
Ergonomics Conference (Humanising Work and Working
Environment), Indian Society of Ergonomics Conference,
Calcutta University, Kolkata, 17-19 December 2009
‘Human Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social
Cultural and Organisational Contexts’, Editors: D. Katre,
R. Orngreen, P. Yammiyavar and T. Clemmensen, IFIP
Advances in Information and Communication
Technologies Series, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2010
(ISBN 978-3-642-11761-9)
N. Bhattacharyya and D. Chakrabarti
‘Design development scope on women occupational
aspect: Specific reference to local agro based food
processing industries in NE India’, Proceeding of the
International Ergonomics Conference (Humanising Work
and Working Environment), Indian Society of Ergonomics
Conference, Calcutta University, Kolkata, 17-19
December 2009
Book Chapters
P. Kumar and D. Chakrabarti
‘User Centered design input in Mechanical Engineering
and Design: Ergonomics relevance’, Proceeding of the
International Ergonomics Conference (Humanising Work
P. Yammiyavar
‘Status of HCI and usability Research in Indian
Educational Institutions’, In: Human Work Interaction
Design: Usability in Social, Cultural & Organisational
Book
I. Vasal, K. Mayank, S. Deshpande and P. Yammiyavar
‘User Aspiration Modeling to Predict Features for the
Design of a New Group Interactive Device for the Young
in India’, In: Research into Design: Supporting multiple
facets of Product Development, Research Publishing,
Singapore and Chennai, pp 371-378, 2009
Contexts, ed. by: Dinesh Katre et al, pp 21, IFIPSpringer, Berlin, 2010 (ISBN -10-3-642-11761-9) (ISBN
-13-978-3-642-11761-9)
D. Gangopadhyay, I. Vasal and P. Yammiyavar
‘Design of a Template for Handwriting Based Hindi text
Entry in Handheld Devices’, In: Human Work Interaction
Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and Organisational
Contexts, ed. by: Dinesh Katre et al, pp 21, IFIPSpringer, Berlin, 2010 (ISBN -10-3-642-11761-9) (ISBN
-13-978-3-642-11761-9)
P. Yammiyavar and P. Kate
‘Developing a Mobile Phone based GUI for Users in
Construction Industry: A case Study’, In: Human Work
Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and
Organisational Contexts, ed. by: Dinesh Katre et al, pp
21, IFIP- Springer, Berlin, 2010 (ISBN -10-3-642-117619) (ISBN -13-978-3-642-11761-9)
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P. Yammiyavar and P. Jain
‘Usability Considerations in Developing a Graphic
Interface for Intra Office Communications’, In: Human
Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and
Organisational Contexts, ed. by: Dinesh Katre et al, pp
21, IFIP-Springer, Berlin, 2010 (ISBN -10-3-642-117619) (ISBN -13-978-3-642-11761-9)
T. Clemmensen, P. Yammiyavar, R. Orngreen and D.
Katre
‘Usability in a Cultural Context: A report on the scope,
process and Research Results of CULTUSAB – the
Cultural usability Project’, In: Human Work Interaction
Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and Organisational
Contexts, ed. by: Dinesh Katre et al, pp 21, IFIP-Springer,
Berlin, 2010 (ISBN-10-3-642-11761-9) (ISBN-13-978-3642-11761-9)
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
A.K. Das
International Design
Conference on Sustainability
IDC, IIT
Bombay
3-7 November
2009
International
R.M. Punekar
Indo-Us workshop on
Designing Sustainable
Products Services and
systems
IISc Bangalore
18-20 August
2009
International
P. Yammiyavar
HWDI – Human Work
Interaction Design – TC 13.6
of IFIP
Pune
7-8 October
2009
International
P. Yammiyavar
INDO – US Joint Workshop:
Product Design – Impact
from Research to Education
to Practice
Coimbatore
15-17 March
2010
International
P. Yammiyavar
India HCI 2010 -IDIDInteraction Design for
International Development
Conference, IIT Bombay
Mumbai
20-24 March
2010
International
S. Iqbal
Revitalising Built
Environments: Requalifying
old Places For New Uses,
Ed. Yildiz H.T., Guney Y.I.
Istanbul,
Turkey
12-16 October
2009
International
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Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
M. Majhi
IDC, IIT Bombay
3-7 November
2009
International
A. Shende
VIII World Bamboo Congress
Bangkok, Thailand
19-24 September
2009
International
A. Shende
Design and Diversification
Itanagar, Arunachal
Pradesh
February 2010
D. Chakrabarti
Triennial Ergonomics World
Congress on, International
ergonomics Association
Beijing, China
August 2009
International
D. Chakrabarti
International Ergonomics
Conference (Humanising
Work and Working
Environment), Indian Society
of Ergonomics Conference
Calcutta University
December 2009
International
D. Chakrabarti
97th Indian Science Congress
Thiruvananthapuram January 2010
D. Chakrabarti
Indo-French Workshop on
Information and
Communication Technology
for Health and Autonomy in
Ageing Population
Jodhpur
March 2010
National
National
International
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Place
Date
A.K. Das
Invited as the Speaker at
IDC, IIT Bombay
IIT Bombay
3-7 November
2009
R.M. Punekar
Invited as resource person to
the International workshop
on LeNS - The Learning
Network on Sustainability
IIT Delhi
IIT Delhi
13-18 July 2009
P. Yammiyavar
Innovation Management:
Teaching the art of
innovation & its management
to creative designers
Indo-US Science
Technology Forum and
PSG Advanced Institute
of Advanced Studies
Coimbatore
15 March 2010
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Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Purpose
Date
Prof. Iko Avital and
Ms. Noni Avital
Department of Design, Holon
School of Art and Design, Tel
Aviv, Israel
To conduct workshop on
design and Branding
April 2009
Prof. Uday
Athavankar
Industrial Design Centre, IIT
Bombay
Workshop on Product
Semantics
April 2009
Dr. Muriel Didier
(Head, Usability
Research Group,
Institute of
Ergonomics, Technical
University of
Darmstadt Germany)
Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe
Usability Institut für
ArbeitswissenschaftTechnische
Universität Darmstadt
Petersenstr. 30 64287
Darmstadt
Usability in the
international culture
context
24 January 2010
Dr. D. Katre (Head,
Human Computer
Interaction Group)
Centre for Advanced
Computing, Pune
Current Research in
Usability: Developing
interactive software for
rural Indian user
25 February 2010
Mr. Goutam Das
Kala Bhawan, Viswa Bharati
University
To conduct workshop on
ceramic
17-22 August 2009
ORGANISED
Date and Time: 7-8 October 2009, Pune, India
(International)
Coordinator: P. Yammiyavar
Name of the Conference/Seminar: HWDI: Human
Work Interaction Design: TC 13.6 group of IFIP:
International Federation of Information Processing:
Usability in Social, Cultural & Organisational Contexts
Sponsoring Agency: Funded and Coorganised with
CDAC, Arahus University, Denmark, Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark & IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: P. Yammiyavar
Name of the Conference/Seminar: India HCI India 2009,
Interaction Design for International Development 2010
Sponsoring Agency: International Federation of
Information Processing, Corporate Sector and IIT
Bombay
Date and Time: 20-24 March 2010, IIT Bombay, India
(International)
INVITED LECTURES
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Date
Mr. Kshitiz Anand
Freelance Communication
Designer, Bangalore
Workshop on Design for
social communication
September 2009
Mr. Susrala Nagesh
Usability Designer,Pune
Usability engineering and
Design
22 March 2010
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AWARDS AND HONOURS
Shantanu S. Joshi and Ketan M. Chaturmutha
Final Year MDes Students of the Department won Third
Prize at the SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile
Manufacturers) Automotive Design Challenge (ADC ’09)
P. Yammiyavar
Was invited to Chair two International Conferences
organised by the International Federation of Information
Processing - IFIP-TC 13.6 group. These Conferences
were organised in India collectively by IIT Guwahati,
IIT Bombay, C-DAC, Copenhagen Business School and
Aarhus University Denmark.
A.K. Das
Dipbahan Tricycle Rickshaw designed by him has been
adopted by Government of Assam under Chief Minister’s
Assam Bikash Yojna for amount worth Rs. 8.00 Crore
FACULTY MEMBERS
U. Barua
PhD (IIT Guwahati)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Basic Design, Design Drawing and
Visualisation, Visual Design: Principles and Application,
Indian Symbology and Communication
D. Chakrabarti
PhD (Calcutta University)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Ergonomics Research, Human
Compatibility Factor, Design Ergonomics, Product:
Environment Interface Design, Occupational Health,
Participatory Ergonomics and Training
A.K. Das
PhD (IIT Guwahati)
Areas of Interest: Industrial Design, Rapid Prototyping
and Tooling, Space Design, Facility Design, Environmental
Graphics, Design for Disabled
S. Iqbal
MArch (IIT Roorkee)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Adaptive Reuse, Solar Passive
Architecture
S. Karmakar
PhD (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Virtual Simulation (CAD and Digital
Human Modeling), Physical Ergonomics (Product and
Workstation design), Cognitive Ergonomics (Information
processing), Design and Work Environment, Design and
Occupational Health and Safety, Military Ergonomics
M. Madhukaillya
P.G. in Communication Design (National Institute of
Design, Ahmedabad)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Short Film, New Media Theory,
Documentary film, Video art, Participatory video
M. Majhi
MDes (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Animation, Special Effects, Cartooning,
Animation Movie History, Creation of Traditional
Animation
R.M. Punekar
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Product Design and Development,
Designing Sustainable Products Services and Systems,
Design Education and E-learning, Basic Design, Studies
in Design and Material Culture
N. Sharma (up to 19 June 2009)
MDes (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Transportation Design, Automotive
Styling, Context Sensitive Design, Form Studies
A. Shende
BE, MDes (Domus)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Product Design, Furniture Design,
Lighting Design
P.G. Yammiyavar
Professor
Areas of Interest: Design Research, ICT and Human
Computer Interaction, Design Semantics, Design
Management, Health Psychology, Built Environment
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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS
AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION
FACULTY STRENGTH
The primary objective of the Department of Electronics
and Communication Engineering at IIT Guwahati is to
impart education and training at the undergraduate,
postgraduate and research levels on Electronics and
Communication Engineering, and Electronics and
Electrical Engineering with special emphasis on design
aspects of electronic systems. The emphasis on the
design aspects implies that, while the basic theoretical
and analytical skills of the students are adequately
developed, the programmes are oriented in such a way
that students acquire an overall design perspective and
aptitude. All the academicians in the Department are
dedicated to finding solutions to the challenges of
research and development in the field of engineering
besides the basic aim of preparing the students to
become the next generation of leaders in their chosen
area of study.
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering offers the following programmes:
BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering
BTech in Electronics and Electrical Engineering
MTech in
a) Digital Signal Processing
b) VLSI
PhD in various subject areas related to the field of
Electronics and Communication Engineering, and
Electronics and Electrical Engineering
STUDENT INTAKE
BTech (ECE) students enrolled in 2009-2010
BTech (EEE) students enrolled in 2009-2010
MTech students enrolled in 2009-2010
Total
: 53
: 30
: 43
: 20
: 146
: 06
: 09
: 10
: 25
Various laboratories in the Department are Electronic
Circuits laboratory, Control and Instrumentation
laboratory, Microprocessor and Embedded Systems
laboratory, High Frequency laboratory, DSP and
Communication laboratory, VLSI laboratory, Image and
Signal Processing laboratory, Medical Electronics and
Speech Processing laboratory, System Simulation
laboratory and Electrical Machine laboratory.
The laboratories are equipped with the state-of-the-art
hardware from CISCO, BIOPAC, HP, IBM, Lenovo, HCL,
Agilent, Tektronix, Fluke, Teac Corporation, Orion,
Scientech, Aplab, DS Systems, etc. and software from
Zuken, Genesys, Mentor graphics, Microsim,
Mathworks, Hyperception, Xilinx, Altera, Zeland SW
Inc., Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, ATEN and De
Lorenzo, etc.
The newly acquired hardware consists of Surveillance
Camera (DCS 6815 and DCS 2120), Digital Camera
(DSC W210/S), Handy Cam (HDD DCR SR47E/S), DLink Switch, Vector Network Analyzer (12 GHz), RF
Spectrum Analyser (6 GHz), Vector Signal Generator (6
GHz), Ball-Beam Apparatus with Digital Interface System,
Multi- channel Biomedical Signal Acquisition System
(BIOPAC MP 150WSW Ethernet), DC Motor Speed
Control Trainer (DYNA-DCMC), PLC Based Conveyor
Control Trainer, PLC Based Level Control Trainer, PLC
Based Temperature Control Trainer, Synthesised RF
Generators, Multiplex Shelving System, Long Span
Shelving System, Kent 4 Stage Filtration System, Digital
Storage Oscilloscopes (150-500 MHz), Mixed signal
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Oscilloscopes (100 MHz), Logic Analyzers (16 & 34+
channels), Arbitrary Waveform generators (80 MHz),
Pulse generators (150 MHz), Bench-Top DMM (6.5
Digit), Timer/Counters (10 Digits, 5 GHz),
Programmable Power Supplies, LCR Meters, Digital
Modulation Signal Generators, PCM Data Recorder, LCDKVM Switch with integrated Keyboard, USB to CAT5RJ45 Dongles, FPAA Development Board, Arm Evaluation
Board, USB-JTAG Adapter, Chemical Free PCB
Prototyping machine(LPKF Protomat C60), GW-INSTEK
Function Generator, Canon Digital Multi Function Copier
Machine (iR3245), etc.
The Department has also obtained a few numbers of
FPGA development kits from Xilinx and Altera Inc. Some
of the available software are Matlab 7.3, HP EEsof, IE3D
Electromagnetic Simulation Software from Zeland
Software Inc., Analog Device’s Crosscore Visual DSP++,
Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio, MicroSim
Design Lab, Hypersignal Graphical DSP development
software, Elanix SystemView, Agilent VEE Pro, Tektronix’s
Wavstar, Cadstar for PCB Design etc. The recently
procured high-end software tools and packages for VLSI
design and synthesis include Cadence Bundle, Synopsys
Tools Bundle, Magma Standard University, CoWare Tools,
Mentor Tools Bundle, Xilinx ISE Foundation Software and
XUP Spartan - 3E Starter Kits, Altera Quartus design
environment along with Nios-II and other IP packages.
The objective of the research in UWB Radio Technology
and its application is to develop expertise in the core
technologies involved in the design and development
of UWB radio based systems. The proposed facility
would emerge as a testbed for R&D activities and
technology development using UWB radio. Expected
outcome in physical terms are prototype development
and technology demonstration, testbed for further R&D
in UWB radio and manpower having expertise in UWB.
The Department has setup a VLSI laboratory under the
project entitled ‘Special Manpower Development
Programme in VLSI Design and related software (SMDPII)’ sponsored by MIT, Govt. of India.
The Department has set up a sophisticated Advanced
Digital Signal Processing laboratory with the state-of-the-
art equipment from Analog Devices and Texas
Instruments, and Real Time DSP Software from
Hyperception Inc. The Department has also received a
donation from Analog Devices Inc. consisting of hardware
kits and Visual DSP software.
The RF/Microwave laboratory is well equipped with
sufficient number of Microwave Benches, Antennas,
Vector Network Analyser (6 GHz), RF Power meter, 10
MHz to 18 GHz Power Sensor, 100 KHz to 3 GHz RF
Amplifier, etc.
A Chemical-free PCB Prototyping System LPKF
PROTOMAT C-60 from M/s. LPKF Laser & Electronics
AG Germany has been set up for in-house development
of printed circuit boards for circuits and working modules.
A Control Laboratory based around MagLev system,
Inverted Pendulum system, Super Small Programmable
Logic Controller, Thyristorised DC drive Controller, DC
Drive and Variacs is also operational.
The System Simulation Laboratory is a fully computerised
laboratory equipped with highly configured PCs and
various computational and simulation software like
Matlab 7.3, Borland C++, FPGA Advantage from Mentor
Graphics, Xilinx’s ISE foundation, Zeland’s IE3D EM
simulation SW, Altera’s Quartus webpack, Electronics
Workbench, MicroSim Design Lab (EDA software),
Cadstar PCB Design, Elanix’s Systemview, HP-Eesof,
Hypersignal and Operating System such as HP Unix,
Sun Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft windows
2003 and windows 2000/XP.
Electro Medical and Speech Technology Laboratory has
undertaken projects sponsored by UKIERI and DST in
the areas of Speech Synthesis and Speaker Recognition
apart from research in Cardio Vascular Signal Processing,
Medical Image Processing, EMG Signal Processing, Multichannel ECG Signal Processing, Low cost electro-medical
system and Biometrics.
Active research in development of electrical drive for
hybrid and electric vehicle applications and development
of smart grid facilities to address the growing power
demand in India in near future is being pursued.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Analysis and Development of
matched feed for offset
parabolic antenna system
ISRO,
Bangalore
11.38
R. Sinha
Characterisation and
Compensation of Acoustic
and Linguistic Mismatch for
Robust Automatic
Recognition of Children’s
Speech
R. Paily P.
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
R. Bhattacharjee
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
—
01 year
DST, Govt. of 18.00
India
S.R.M.
Prasanna
02 years
Design of Carbon Nanotube
Field Effect Transistor (CNFET)
Based Amplifiers
Semiconductor 19.00
Research
Corp.,
Durham, USA
—
02 years
S.R.M. Prasanna
Development of Person
Authentication system based
on Speaker Verification in
Uncontrolled Environment
DIT, Govt. of
India
109.00
R. Sinha, S.
Nandi and S.
Dandapat
02 years
M.K. Bhuyan
Development of Indian Sign
Language Education &
Recognition System
ICT, MHRD,
Govt. of
India
130.00
P.K. Bora
02 years
I. Kar
Optimal Controllers for
Nonlinear Systems using
Neuro-Fuzzy Approach and
Application to Under-actuated
Systems
IIT Guwahati
Start up grant
5.00
—
02 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
A.K. Mishra
Algorithm development for
the analysis of multi-polar
satellite data
ISRO
12.55
—
03 years
A. Mahanta
Ultra-wideband (UWB) radar
for oil-tank imaging
Honeywell
Lab.,
Bangalore
228.00
P.K. Bora, R.
Bhattacharjee, P.R.
Sahu, A.K. Mishra
and A. Rajesh
01 year
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Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
C. Mahanta
Gesture based interface for
control Application
DST, Govt.
of India
13.10
P.K. Bora
03 years
A. Mitra
Efficient Download
Transmission, Error correction
and encryption techniques for
IRNSS Data
DoS, Govt.
of India
7.56
P.R. Sahu and
A. Rejesh
03 years
A.K. Mishra
Study of diversity in imaging
parameters of synthetic
aperture radarimaging system
DST, Govt.
of India
12.00
—
03 years
S.R.M. Prasanna
Study of Source Features for
Speech Synthesis and Speaker
Recognition
University
of
Edinburgh
40.00
S. Dandapat
03 years
S. Majhi
Study to Identify and Develop
Sensor and triggering
mechanism for shutting down
of electronic systems in heavy
lighting situation
ATB
30.00
A.K. Gogoi,
H.B. Nemade
and A. Mitra
02 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
S. Dandapat
Improved Patient Monitoring
through Modern Signal
Processing Techniques
MHRD (Thrust
Areas)
8.00
P.K. Bora
01 year
I. Chakrabarti
Development of VLSI
Architectures for Digital Signal
Processing Algorithms
MHRD (TAP)
8.00
A. Mahanta
01 year
P.K. Bora
New Techniques for Image
Compression & Motion
Compensation
MHRD (R&D)
7.00
A. Mahanta
01 year
J.S. Sahambi
Digital signal processing
applications in bio-medical
engineering
MHRD (TAP)
6.00
S. Dandapat
01 year
A.K. Gogoi
Wavelength Division
Multiplexed (WDM) Fibre
Optic Link
MHRD (R&D)
7.00
—
01 year
S. Majhi and C.
Mahanta
Real Time Control of Stiff
Systems
MHRD (R&D)
6.00
A. Mahanta
01 year
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
127
Duration
(Years)
S. Dandapat
an Electronic Patient Record
(EPR) System
MHRD (R&D)
5.00
—
01 year
S.R.M.
Prasanna (R.
Sinha)
Keyword Spotting in
Continuous Speech - Indo
Swiss Joint Project
DST, Govt. of
India
5.16
B. Yegnanarayana, Swiss
Prof. Hynek
Hermansky
01 year
K.R. Singh
Metamaterials engineered
microwave devices: Size
miniaturiation and
performance enhancement
of microwave devices using
metamaterials based subwavelength resonators and
components
DST, Govt. of
India
8.52
—
01 year
S. Dandapat
Special Manpower
Development Programme in
VLSI Design & related
software (SMDP - II)
MCIT
5.90
R. Paily P.
01 year
CONSULTANCY
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
A.K. Mishra
Ultrawideband (UWB)
radar for oil-tank imaging
Honeywell Lab.,
Bangalore
5.00
—
01 year
H.B. Neamde
Langmuir Probe biasing
unit and Probe I-V data
acquisition
Centre of
Plasma Physics,
Sonapur, Assam
2.34
—
02 years
H. Katiyar and R. Bhattacharjee
‘Performance of Two-Hop Regenerative Relay Network
under Correlated Nakagami-m Fading at Multi-antenna
Relay’, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 13 (10), pp
820-822, November 2009
‘Outage Performance of Two-hop Multi-antenna
Cooperative relaying in Rayleigh Fading Channel’, IET
Electronics Letters, vol. 45 (17), pp 881-883, August 2009
I. Kar and L. Behera
‘Visual Motor Control of a 7 DOF Robot Manipulator
using a Fuzzy SOM Network’, Intelligent Service Robotics,
vol. 3 (1), pp 49-60, 2010
128
N.R. Krishnan, R.P. Paily and H.B. Nemade
‘Mass Loading Effect of High Aspect Ratio Structures
Grown over SAW Resonators’, Sensor Letters, vol. 8, pp
1-5, 2010
P. Ramu, J.R. Panda and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘Printed UWB Circular and Modified Circular Disc
Monopole Antennas’, International Journal of Recent
Trends in Engineering, vol. 1 (3), pp 12-15, May 2009
A. Ali and S. Majhi
‘PID Controller Tuning for Integrating Processes’, ISA
Transactions, vol. 49 (1), pp 70-78, January 2010
J.R. Panda and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘Printed Notched Antenna with Triangular Tapered Feed
Lines for Tri-Band Operation’, International Journal of
Recent Trends in Engineering, vol. 1 (3), pp 277-279,
May 2009
P.K. Padhy and S. Majhi
‘Improved automatic tuning of PID controller for stable
processes’, ISA Transactions, vol. 48 (4), pp 423-427,
October 2009
S.R.M. Prasanna, B.V. Sandeep Reddy and P.
Krishnamoorthy
‘Vowel onset point detection using source, modulation
and vocal tract information’, IEEE Transactions on Audio,
Speech and Language Processing, vol. 17 (4), pp 556565, May 2009
R.S. Kshetrimayum and S.S. Karthikeyan
‘A parametric study on the stopband characteristics of
CSRRs’, International Journal of Recent Trends in
Engineering, vol. 1 (3), pp 274-276, May 2009
P. Anka Rao, S.S. Karthikeyan and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘Design of UWB Bandpass Filter using Ground Plane
Aperture’, International Journal of Recent Trends in
H.S. Jayanna and S.R.M. Prasanna
‘Multiple frame size and rate analysis for speaker
recognition under limited data condition’, IET Signal
Processing, vol. 3 (3), pp 189-204, May 2009
‘Parametric Study of Printed Rectangular Monopole
Antennas’, International Journal of Recent Trends in
M.B. Manapati and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘SAR reduction in human head from mobile phone
radiation using single negative metamaterials’, Journal
of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 23 (10),
pp 1385-1395, 2009
S.S. Karthikeyan and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘Harmonic suppression of parallel coupled microstrip line
bandpass filter using CSRR’, Progress In Electromagnetics
Research Letters, vol. 7, pp 193-201, 2009
‘Compact Wideband Bandpass Filter using Open Slot
Split Ring Resonator and CMRC’, Progress In
Electromagnetics Research Letters, vol. 10, pp 39-48,
2009
Md. Zia-Ur-Rahman, R. Shaik and D.V. Rama Koti Reddy
‘Noise Cancellation in ECG Signals using Computationally
Simplified Adaptive Filtering Techniques: Application to
Biotelemetry’, Signal Processing: an International Journal,
CSC Press, Malaysia, vol. 3 (5), pp 1-12, October 2009
R.S. Kshetrimayum, S.S. Karthikeyan and D. Dey
‘Band Gap Determination of Triangular Lattice EBGs
in the Ground Plane’, AEU International Journal of
Electronics and Communication, vol. 63 (8), pp 699702, August 2009
Md. Zia-Ur-Rahman, R. Shaik and D.V. Rama Koti Reddy
‘Filtering Electrocardiographic Signals using Normalised
Adaptive Filtering Technique’, International Journal of
Emerging Technologies & Applications in Engineering
Technology and Science, vol. 3 (1), pp 545-549, January
2010
R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘Printed Double-T Monopole Antennas for Triband
Applications’, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters,
vol. 51 (7), pp 1640-1642, July 2009
A.K. Mishra
‘Separability indices and their use in radar signal based
target recognition’, Electronic Express (ELEX), vol. 6 (14),
pp 1000-1005, July 2009 (ISI indexed)
K. Sikka, N. Sinha, P. Singh and A.K. Mishra
‘A Fully Automated Algorithm under modified FCM
Framework for Improved Brain MR Image Segmentation’,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 27 (7), pp 994-1004,
September 2009 (ISI indexed)
R. Subadar and P.R. Sahu
‘Performance of Dual MRC Receiver in Correlated Hoyt
Fading Channels’, IEEE Communication Letter, vol. 13
(6), pp 405-407, Jun 2009
T.S.B. Reddy, R. Subadar and P.R. Sahu
‘Outage Probability of SC Receiver over Exponentially
Correlated K Fading Channels’, IEEE Communication
Letter, vol. 14 (2), pp 118-120, February 2010
G. Haobijam and R. Paily P.
‘Design of Multilevel Pyramidically Wound Symmetric
Inductor for CMOS RFICs’, Analog Integrated Circuits
and Signal Processing, vol. 63 (1), pp 9, Springer, 2010
N. Agrawal and R. Paily P.
‘A threshold inverter quantisation based folding and
interpolation ADC in 0.18 ìm CMOS’, Analog Integrated
Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 63 (2), pp 273,
Springer, 2010
National Journal
129
D. Pati and S.R.M. Prasanna
‘Speaker recognition from excitation source
perspective’, IETE Technical Review, vol. 27 (2), pp
138-157, March 2010
‘An experimental comparison of modeling techniques
for speaker recognition under limited data condition’,
SADHANA, vol. 34 (5), pp 717-728, October 2009
P. Krishnamoorthy and S.R.M. Prasanna
‘Speaker recognition under noisy, reverberant or multispeaker environments’, SADHANA, vol. 34 (5), pp 729754, October 2009
‘Power Allocation Strategies for Non-Regenerative
Relay Network in Nakagami-m Fading Channel’, IETE
Journal of Research, vol. 55 (5), pp 205-211,
September-October 2009
B.S. Paul, A. Hasan, H. Madheshiya and R. Bhattacharjee
‘Time and Angle of Arrival Statistics of Mobile-to-Mobile
Communication Channel Employing Circular Scattering
Model’, IETE Journal of Research, vol. 55 (6), pp 275281, 2009
R. Mukund and A.K. Mishra
‘A Fast and Modular Analog Rank Order Filter using
CMOS Technology’, IETE Journal of Research, vol. 55
(5), pp 201-204, 2009 (ISI indexed)
‘Outage Performance of Dual-hop Opportunistic
Relaying compared to a Single-hop SIMO under Rayleigh
Fading’, Proceeding of NCC 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai,
29-31 January 2010
U. Mehta and S. Majhi
‘Estimation of Process Model Parameters Based on Half
Limit Cycle Data’, Journal of Systems Science and
Engineering, September 2009
A. Mittal, N. Agarwal and R. Bhattacharjee
‘Angle and Time of Arrival Statistics for Indoor UWB
Communication’, Proceeding of NCC 2010, IIT Madras,
Chennai, 29-31 January 2010
P. Krishnamoorthy and S.R.M. Prasanna
‘Temporal and spectral processing methods for processing
of degraded speech - A review’, IETE Technical Review,
vol. 26 (2), pp 137-148, March-April 2009
‘Average Error Rate of Multi-antenna Decode and
Forward Cooperative Relay Network’, Proceeding of IEEE
INDICON 2009, DAIICT Ahmedabad, India, 18-20
December 2009
‘Analysis, feature extraction, modeling and testing
techniques for speaker recognition’, IETE Technical
Review, vol. 26 (3), pp 181-190, May-June 2009
‘Performance of Two-hop Decode-Forward Multi-antenna
Cooperative relaying in Nakagami-n Fading Channel’,
130
Proceedings of IEEE INDICON 2009, DAIICT Ahmedabad,
India, 18-20 December 2009
‘BER Performance of Regenerative Multi-antenna
Cooperative Relay network in Rayleigh Fading Channel’,
Proceedings of UK-India International Workshop on
Cognitive Wireless Systems (UKIWCWS) 2009, IIT Delhi,
India, 11-12 December 2009
R. Gangula and R. Bhattacharjee
‘On the Performance of Cooperative DS CDMA System
using Distributed Space Time Spreading’, Proceedings
of UK-India International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless
Systems (UKIWCWS) 2009, IIT Delhi, India, 11-12
December 2009
‘Performance of Regenerative Relay Network Operating
in uplink of Multi-Antenna Base Station under Rayleigh
Fading Channel’, Proceedings of IEEE TENCON 2009,
Singapore, 23-26 November 2009
N. Agarwal and R. Bhattacharjee
‘Internal Successive Reflection Model for Indoor UWB
Communication’, Proceedings of IEEE TENCON 2009,
Singapore, 23-26 November 2009
B. Sarkar, R. Panigrahi and A.K. Mishra
‘Sidelobe Suppression in Wigner Distribution using Nonlinear Apodisation’, IEEE INDICON Conference,
Ahmedabad, December 2009
O.P. Patri and A.K. Mishra
‘Pre-processing in AI based Prediction of QSARs’,
International Conference on IT (ICIT), Bhubaneswar,
December 2009
A.K. Mishra
‘Investigation of 1D and 2D PCA for SAR ATR’, IEEE
AEMC Conference, Kolkata, December 2009
A. Nayyar, V. Singh and A.K. Mishra
‘UWB imaging algorithms’, International Radar
Symposium India (IRSI), Bangalore, December 2009
R. Panigrahi and A.K. Mishra
‘Spaceborne SAR image enhancement using nonlinear
apodisation’, International Radar Symposium India (IRSI),
Bangalore, December 2009
A. Jagan, C. Sasivarnan and M.K. Bhuyan
‘Background Modeling and Moving Object Classification
for Gait Recognition’, Proceedings of the fourth
International Conference on Computer Applications in
Electrical Engineering-Recent Advances, IIT Roorkee,
India, 19-21 February 2010
C. Sasivarnan, A. Jagan and M.K. Bhuyan
‘Mixture of Gaussian Model for Pedestrian Tracking’,
Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on
Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering-Recent
Advances, IIT Roorkee, India, 19-21 February 2010
R. Subadar, H. Dadheech and P.R. Sahu
‘Performance analysis of dual MRC receiver in correlated
Hoyt fading channels with non-identical fading
parameters’, IEEE Indicon Conference, pp 1-4, 2009
‘Capacity analysis of dual –SC and –MRC systems over
correlated Nakagami-m fading channels with nonidentical and arbitrary fading parameters’, National
Conference of Communications 2010 (NCC 2010), IIT
Madras, Chennai, January 2010
‘Performance of L-MRC receiver over independent Hoyt
fading channels’, National Conference of
Communications 2010 (NCC 2010), IIT Madras,
Chennai, January 2010
A.K. Mishra
‘Effect of Frequency Diversity on SAR ATR’, IEEE AEMC
Conference, Kolkata, December 2009
A. Baid, P. Kotkar and P.R. Sahu
‘Performance of a L-branch predetection EGC receiver
over independent Hoyt fading channels for M-ary
coherent and noncoherent modulations using PDF-based
approach’, National Conference of Communications
2010 (NCC 2010), IIT Madras, Chennai, January 2010
V.K. Ithapu and A.K. Mishra
‘Hybrid diversity strategy using MIMO radar for target
tracking’, IEEE AEMC Conference, Kolkata, December 2009
T.S.B. Reddy, R. Suabdar and P.R. Sahu
‘Outage probability of selection combiner over
exponentially correlated Weibul-gamma fading channels
for arbitrary number of branches’, National Conference
of Communications 2010 (NCC 2010), IIT Madras,
Chennai, January 2010
R. Sinha and S. Ghai
‘On the use of Pitch Normalization for Improving
Children’s Speech Recognition’, Proceedings of ICSA
Interspeech, Brighton, UK, pp 568-571, September 2009
S. Ghai and R. Sinha
‘Exploring the Role of Spectral Smoothing in context of
Children’s Speech Recognition’, Proceedings of ICSA
Interspeech, Brighton, UK, pp 1607-1610, September 2009
M. Kothamasu and R. Paily P.
‘Power Feeding and Digital Block design of Multistandard Passive RFID Tag’, First Asian Himalayas
International Conference on Internet AH-ICI2009
Kathmundu, Nepal, 3-5 November 2009
S. Rao Rupiti, D. Hazarika, N. Suda and R. Paily P.
‘A Low Power Inductive-Coupled Transceiver for InterChip Communication’, First Asian Himalayas
International Conference on Internet AH-ICI2009,
Kathmundu, Nepal, 3-5 November 2009
A.K. Namdeo, N. Ramakrishnan, H.B. Nemade and R.
Paily P.
‘FEM Study on Contactless Excitation of Acoustic Waves
in SAW Devices’, COMSOL Conference, Bangalore,
India, 13-14 November 2009
B. Shankkar, T. Kumar and R. Paily P.
‘Low Power Biometric Capacitive CMOS Fingerprint
Sensor System’, Seventeenth International Conference
on Advanced Computing and Communications
Conference (ADCOM) in Bangalore ADCOM 2009,
Bangalore, 14-18 December 2009
A. Nag and R. Paily P.
‘Low Power Squaring and Square root Circuits using
Subthreshold MOS Transistors’, International Conference
on Emerging Trends in Electronic and Photonic Devices
and Systems (ELECTRO-2009), Institute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 22-24
December 2009
B. Jyrwa and R. Paily P.
‘An Area-Throughput Efficient FPGA implementation of
Block Cipher AES algorithm’, Advances in Computing,
131
Control and Telecommunication Technologies (ACT
2009), Trivandrum, Kerala, 28-29 December 2009
D. Balemarthy and R. Paily P.
‘Process Variations and Noise Analysis on a Miller
Capacitance Tuned 1.8/2.4-GHz Dual-band Low Noise
Amplifier’, Advances in Computing, Control and
Telecommunication Technologies ACT 2009,
Trivandrum, Kerala, 28-29 December 2009
‘Autotuning of PI Controller for an unstable FOPDT
Process, CERA09, IIT Roorkee, 19-21 February 2010
D. Padhan and S. Majhi
‘Modified Smith Predictor and Controller for Stable and
unstable Processes’, CERA09, IIT Roorkee, 19-21
February 2010
‘Identification of a Class of Nonminimum Phase
Processes using Relay Feedback’, International
Conference on Advanced Control Systems and NSC,
DEI, India, November 2009
L.N. Sharma, S. Dandapat and A. Mahanta
‘Kurtosis based Multichannel ECG Signal Denoising and
Diagnostic Distortion Measures’, Proceedings of IEEE
TENCON 2009, Singapore, 23-26 November 2009
B. Yegnanarayana and S.R.M. Prasanna
‘Analysis of Instantaneous F0 from Two Speakers Mixed
Signal using Zero Frequency Filtering’, Proceedings of
ICASSP, Dallas, USA, March 2010
D. Pati and S.R.M. Prasanna
‘Speaker recognition from sub-band energies of linear
prediction residual’, Proceedings of National Conference
on Communications (NCC 2010), Chennai, INDIA,
January 2010
M.S. Reddy and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘Impact of Multiple UWB Devices on IEEE 802.11a WLAN
Systems’, Proceedings of National Conference on
Communications (NCC 2010), Chennai, India, January 2010
‘A Compact CPW-Fed Monopole Antenna With E-Shaped
Slot For 5 GHz/6 GHz Band-Notched Ultra-wideband
132
Applications’, Proceedings of IEEE Indicon, Ahmedabad,
India, pp 277-280, December 2009
‘A Compact CPW-Fed Ultra-wideband Antenna With
5 GHz/6 GHz Band-Notch Function’, Proceedings of
IEEE Indicon, Ahmedabad, India, pp 281-284,
December 2009
S.S. Karthikeyan, M. Mahendra Babu and R.S.
Kshetrimayum
‘Reduction of specific absorption rate in human tissues
using split ring resonators’, Proceedings of IEEE Applied
Electromagnetics Conference, Kolkata, India,
December 2009
‘Slot split ring resonators and its applications in
performance enhancement of microwave filter’,
Proceedings of IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference,
Kolkata, India, December 2009
‘A printed C-shaped dual-band monopole antenna for
RFID applications’, Proceedings of IEEE Applied
Electromagnetics Conference, Kolkatta, India,
December 2009
‘A compact printed U-shaped dual-band monopole
antenna for wireless and RFID applications’, Proceedings
of IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference, Kolkata,
India, December 2009
‘A printed inverted double L-shaped dual-band monopole
antenna for RFID applications’, Proceedings of IEEE
Applied Electromagnetics Conference, Kolkata, India,
December 2009
‘Performance Enhancement of Microstrip Bandpass Filter
using CSSRR’, Proceedings of International Conference
on Advances in Computing, Control and
Telecommunication Technologies, Trivandrum, India,
December 2009
R. Panda and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘A compact printed hexagonal monopole antenna using
CSRR for 5.2 GHz/5.8 GHz band-notched UWB
applications’, Proceedings of IEEE National Conference on
Advanced Communication Technologies and Applications,
Udaipur, India, pp 1-4, 13-14 May 2009
R. Panda and R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘A compact printed E-shaped monopole antenna for dualband WLAN applications’, Proceedings of IEEE National
Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies
and Applications, Udaipur, India, pp 5-8, 13-14 May 2009
A. Neogi and A. Mitra
‘Bayesian Estimation of STO and CFO for a
Convolutionally Coded OFDM System’, Proceedings of
IETE National Conference on Materials, Devices and
Circuits in Communication Technology (MDCCT),
Burdwan University, 27-28 March 2010
S. Hazra and A. Mitra
‘A Correlation Based Code Tracking Method for
SinBOC(5,2) Signals in GNSS Receivers’, Proceedings
of IETE National Conference on Materials, Devices and
Circuits in Communication Technology (MDCCT),
Burdwan University, 27-28 March 2010
R. Mitra and A. Mitra
‘An Adaptive Modified CMA Based Blind Row Vector
Equaliser’, Proceedings of IETE National Conference on
Materials, Devices and Circuits in Communication
Technology (MDCCT), Burdwan University, 27-28
March 2010
K.K. Sarma and A. Mitra
‘Estimation of Multipath Fading Channel of MIMOOFDM System using ANN’, Proceedings of Current Trends
in Computer Systems (CTCS’09), Assam University,
Silchar, 22-24 February 2010
P. Bhasker and A. Mitra
‘Symbol Synchronization with Schmidl Algorithm for
SISO-OFDM with Various Fading Channels’, Proceedings
of Current Trends in Computer Systems (CTCS’09), Assam
University, Silchar, 22-24 February 2010
R. Mitra and A. Mitra
‘The Square Contour Algorithm with Fourier
Coefficients’, Proceedings of Current Trends in Computer
Systems (CTCS’09), Assam University, Silchar, 22-24
February 2010
A. Neogi and A. Mitra
‘Blind Estimation of Time and Frequency Synchronisation
Offset for a Convolutionally Coded OFDM System’,
Proceedings of National Conference on Electrical Power
Engineering, Electronics and Computers (NCEPEEC), PCMT
Kolkata, pp 114-118, 12-13 February 2010
K.K. Sarma and A. Mitra
‘Rician Multipath Fading Channel Estimation using ANN
of a MIMO-OFDM System’, Proceedings of National
Conference on Electrical Power Engineering, Electronics
and Computers (NCEPEEC), PCMT Kolkata, pp 110-113,
12-13 February 2010
S. Hazra and A. Mitra
‘An Improved Correlation Based Synchronisation Scheme
for BOC Signals in GNSS Receivers’, Proceedings of
National Conference on Electrical Power Engineering,
Electronics and Computers (NCEPEEC), PCMT Kolkata,
pp 105-109, 12-13 February 2010
K. Tadakamalla and A. Mitra
‘Low complexity MIMO Channel Equalisation using
Gradient Lattice Filters’, Proceedings of IEEE Indicon 2009,
DA-IICT, Gujarat, 18-20 December 2009
Md. Zia-ur-Rahman, S. Rafiahamed, D.V. Ramakoti Reddy
and I. Khan
‘Signed LMS based Adaptive Filtering to ECG Analysis:
Noise Cancellation and Arrhythmia Detection’,
Proceedings of second International Conference on
Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronics Engineering
(CIM 2009), Malacca, Malaysia, pp 702-705, June 2009
‘’Cancellation of Artifacts in ECG Signals using Sign based
Normalized Adaptive Filtering Technique’, Proceedings
of the IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and
Applications (ISIEA 2009), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp
442-445, October 2009
‘Denoising ECG Signal using Normalized LMS Algorithm’,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal &
Image Processing (ICSIP 2009), Mysore, India, 12-14
August 2009
‘An Efficient noise Cancellation technique to remove
noise from the ECG Signal using Normalised Signed
133
Regressor LMS algorithm’, Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine (BIBM 2009), Washington D.C., USA, pp
257-260, November 2009
‘Noise Cancellation in ECG Signals using Normalized
Sign-Sign LMS Algorithm’, Proceedings of the ninth IEEE
International Symposium on Signal Processing and
Information Technology (ISSPIT 2009), Ajman, UAE,
December 2009
‘Adaptive Noise Removal in the ECG using Block LMS
Algorithm’, Proceedings of the second IEEE International
Conference on Adaptive Science Technology (ICAST
2009), Accra, Ghana, 14-16 December 2009
‘Denoising ECG Signal using Transform Domain
Adaptive Filtering Technique’, Proceedings of IEEE
INDICON (INDICON 2009), Ahmedabad, India, 1820 December 2009
and I. Khan
‘Noise Cancellation in ECG Signals using Least Mean
Fourth based Adaptive Filtering Technique’, Proceedings
of the International Conference on Aerospace Electronics,
Communications and Instrumentation (ASECI 2010),
Vijayawada, India, 6-7 January 2010
Book, Chapter, etc.
Text Book
L. Behera and I. Kar
‘Intelligent Control Systems: Principles and Applications’,
Oxford University Press, November, 2009
S. Majhi
‘Advanced Control Theory: A Relay Feedback Approach’,
Cengage Learning Asia, May 2009
R.S. Kshetrimayum
‘Printed Periodic Waveguide Structures’, VDM Verlag,
Germany, 12 July 2009
134
R.S. Kshetrimayum and D. Dey
‘EBG Assisted Micromachined Patch Antenna’, VDM
Verlag, Germany, 17 July 2009
S.R. Ahamed and M. Chakraborty
‘Low Complexity Adaptive Equalisation’, VDM Verlag Dr.
Muller, Germany, 2009
Book Chapter
Md. Zia-Ur-Rahman and S.R. Ahamed
‘Cancellation of Artifacts in ECG Signals using Block
Adaptive Filtering Techniques’, Springer, 2010
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
I. Kar
Indo-US Workshop on
System of Systems
Engineering
IIT Kanpur
October 2009
R. Paily P.
Advances in Computing,
Control, and
Telecommunication
Technologies ACT 2009
Trivandrum,
Kerala
28-29 December 2009
R. Paily P.
First Asian Himalayas
Internet AH-ICI2009
Kathmundu,
Nepal
3-5 November 2009
International
S.R.M. Prasanna
INTERSPEECH 2010
Brighton, UK
6-10 September 2009
International
S.R.M. Prasanna
Workshop on Image &
Speech Processing (WISP)
2009
IIIT Hyderabad 19 December 2009
National
S.R.M. Prasanna
Winter school on Speech &
Audio Processing (WiSSAP)
2010
IIT Bombay
12-15 January 2010
National
R. Bhattacharjee
IEEE TENCON
Singapore
23-26 November 2009
International
R. Bhattacharjee
UK-India International
Workshop on Cognitive
Wireless Systems
(UKIWCWS 2009)
New Delhi
11-12 December 2009
National
R. Bhattacharjee
Workshop on Distributed
Infrastructure for Security
Monitoring and Intelligence
Extraction
IISc Bangalore
9-13 January 2010
National
R. Bhattacharjee
Communications (NCC
2010)
IIT Madras
29-31 January 2010
National
International
National
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
International /
National
Date
Place
135
R.S.
Kshetrimayum
Sixth IEEE and IFIP
Wireless and Optical
communications Networks
(WOCN), Cairo, Egypt
(Technical Programme Cochair)
Egypt
April 2009
International
R.S.
Kshetrimayum
First Asian Himalayas
Internet AH-ICI, Kathmundu,
Nepal (Technical Programme
Co-chair)
Kathmundu
November 2009
International
R.S.
Kshetrimayum
First International
Conference on Networks &
Communications (NetCoM),
Chennai, India (Streering
Committee)
Chennai
December 2009
International
R.S.
Kshetrimayum
Third International
Conference on Application of
Information and
Communication Technologies
(AICT), Baku (Technical
Programme Co-chair)
Baku,
Azerbaizan
October 2009
International
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Place
Date
R. Paily P.
RF MEMS
ISSS-NPMASS
Workshop on
Microsystems
Technology: North
Eastern Hill University
and North Eastern
Space Application
Centre
Shillong
25-27 March
2010
R. Paily P.
OPAMP Circuit Design &
CMOS Chip FabricationLogic
gates Design using CMOS
transistors
1st Refresher Course in
Electronics &
Instrumentation
(ID)Dept. of Electronics
& Communication
Technology, Gauhati
University
Guwahati
10 February
2010
136
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Place
Date
R. Paily P.
Fabrication and
Characterisation of carbon
nanotubefield effect
Transistors (CNFETs)
IEEE AP/ED Bombay
Chapter
IIT Bombay,
Department of
EE
8-10
October
2009
A. Mitra
Wireless World: the
Upcoming Trends
Platinum Jubilee
Meeting, Indian
Academy of Sciences
Hyderabad
July 2009
A. Mitra
Health Effects of Mobile
Communication
Institute Extension
Lecture Series, NEHU
Shillong
May 2009
A. Mitra
Fundamentals of Mobile
Communication
Invited lecture as IAS
Associate, Dept. of
Electronic Sciences,
Gauhati University
Guwahati
April 2009
R. Bhattacharjee
Key note lecture on IETE
Foundation Day
IETE Guwahati
IETE Guwahati
2 November
2009
R. Bhattacharjee
Recent Developments in
Electronics Applications
Lady Keane College,
Shillong
Shillong
7 December
2009
M.K. Bhuyan
Introduction to Digital Signal
Processing
Academic Staff College,
Gauhati University
Guwahati
12 February
2010
M.K. Bhuyan
Introduction to Image/Video
Processing
Gauhati University
Guwahati
12 February
2010
M.K. Bhuyan
Digital Signal Processing
Department of
Electronics and
Communication
Technology, Gauhati
University
Guwahati
13 February
2010
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Purpose of Visit/
Name of Lecture
Date
Prof. B. Bandyopadhyay
IIT Bombay
Output feedback based
Robust Control Algorithm
10 July 2009
Prof. B. Yegnanarayana
IIIT Hyderabad
Zero frequency Filtering
of Speech Signals
24 October 2009
Prof. David Koilpillai
IIT Madras
Cognitive Radio
9 January 2010
Prof. Jagdish Kumar
IIT Delhi
Nano Wires Transistors
9 January 2010
137
INVITED LECTURES
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./Org.
Place
Date
P. Kumar
Special Electric Machines for
BHEL, National
Hybrid Vehicles: Their Design Conference in Special
Issues
Electric Machines and
Systems
Hyderabad
16-17 February
2010
P. Kumar
Grid to Vehicle Concept in
Indian Context,
Opportunities in Power
Sector
Guwahati
30 October 2009
North East Power News
SHORT-TERM COURSES
FACULTY MEMBERS
Coordinator: P.K. Bora and A. Rajesh
Name of Course: Mathematical Methods in Electrical
Engineering
S.R. Ahamed
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Adaptive Signal Processing, Mobile
Communications, VLSI Signal Processing
PATENT FILED
N. Ramakrishnan, H.B. Nemade and R. Paily P.
‘High aspect ratio resonant structures in surface acoustic
wave devices’, Indian Patent App. No. 822/KOL/2009,
3 June 2009
S. Majhi
‘Relay and Adaptive Filter Based On-Line Tuning of PIPD
Controller’, Patent Office Journal of India, Issue No. 9/2009
AWARDS AND HONOURS
R. Bhattacharjee
TPC member in ICLAN 2009 (Paris, France) and NCC
2010 (IIT Madras) as well as Session Chair: NCC 2010
ANY OTHERS (SPECIAL MENTION)
M.K. Bhuyan
Biography is included in the Who’s Who in America (2009)
R.S. Kshetrimayum
a) Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Advances in
Communication Engineering (IJACE), Serials Publications,
India, 2009
b) Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Ultra
Wideband Communications and Systems (IJUWBCS),
Inderscience, UK, 2009
R. Bhattacharjee
PhD (Jadavpur University, India)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Electromagnetics, Antennas and
Microwaves
C.N. Bhende (up to 28 January 2010)
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Power Quality, FACTs, Application of
Soft Computing Techniques to Power System
M.K. Bhuyan
PhD (IIT Guwahati)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Image and Video Processing ,
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Human
Computer Interactions (HCI)
P.K. Bora
Professor
Areas of Interest: Image Processing and Computer Vision
S.K Bose
PhD (Stony Brook, USA)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of
Communication Networks
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S. Chouhan
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Wireless Sensor Networks, Coding
Theory, Wireless Communications
S. Dandapat
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Biomedical Signal Processing, Speech
Processing and Medical Image Processing
A.K. Gogoi
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Electromagnetics, Microwave
Engineering, RF System Design
I. Kar
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Control Systems, Neural Networks
and Fuzzy Logic
K. Karthik
PhD (University of Toronto)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Exploring new problems in the field
of Multimedia Security and using Signal Processing
models to characterise its solutions
P. Kumar
PhD (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Algorithm development for Multiobjective Optimisation and multicriteria decision making
in engineering systems, Simulation and Analysis of Hybrid
and Electric Vehicles
A. Mahanta
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Digital Signal Processing
A. Mitra
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Adaptive Signal Processing, Statistical
Signal Processing, Finite-precision Signal Processing,
Wireless Communication, Pattern Recognition
H.B. Nemade
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Industrial/Ultrasonic Instrumentation,
Non-destructive Testing
R. Paily P.
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: MOSFET Devices and VLSI Technology
S.R.M. Prasanna
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Speech, Audio, Image and Biomedical
Signal Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and
Pattern Recognition
A. Rajesh
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Coding and Modulation Techniques
J.S. Sahambi
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Digital Signal Processing, Wavelets,
Microprocessors
P.R. Sahu
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Mobile Communications: Diversity
Combining Techniques over Fading Channels
C. Mahanta
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Control Systems, Stochastic Systems
K.R. Singh
PhD (NTU Singapore)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Electromagnetic Band Gap, Filters,
Metamaterials, Computational Electromagnetics and
Periodic Structures
S. Majhi
DPhil (University of Sussex, UK)
Areas of Interest: Relay Control Systems, Control
Algorithms and Identification
R. Sinha
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Speech and Audio Processing, Speech
Recognition, Signal Processing
A.K. Mishra
PhD (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Radar Signal Processing and VLSI
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DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at
IIT Guwahati has a unique niche in the academic
programme of the Institute. It currently comprises of
six disciplines, namely, Economics, English, Philosophy,
Psychology, Sociology and History, Archeology, Political
Science and Linguistics. The courses offered at the BTech
level are designed with a view to providing academic
inputs that complement the technology programmes of
the Institute. All the six disciplines endeavour to highlight
the fact that science and technology must eventually
address the needs of human beings. However, apart
from imparting knowledge in some of the contemporary
areas, the courses also encourage students to deliberate
on issues relating to ethical and social roles of technology.
A growing understanding of the importance of
interdisciplinary today is one of the Department’s major
strengths. Some of the current academic concerns in
the six disciplines focus on this aspect of knowledge.
The Department also has a vibrant MA programme in
Development Studies and Doctoral Programme in which
scholars are encouraged to excel in high quality research
through rigorous coursework that hone their theoretical,
critical and empirical tools. The wide range of areas of
interests of the faculty members ensures a broad vision
and openness in the department’s academic
programmes.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
MA Programme
Two years (4 semesters) programme in the Department
of Humanities and Social Sciences: MA Programme in
Development Studies is a multi-disciplinary programme
and was initiated in the year 2009. The programme is
designed to provide an understanding of various
perspectives of development issues, through rigorous
course works and guided research. The perspectives are
drawn from different disciplines of the humanities and
social sciences.
PhD Programme
The Department is running PhD Programme in
Economics, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology,
History and Archaeology, Linguistics and Political Science.
STUDENT INTAKE
PhD students admitted in 2009-2010
MA students admitted in 2009-2010
: 11
: 18
FACULTY STRENGTH
There are nineteen (19) faculty members in the
Department as on 31 March 2010: five (05) in
Economics, three (03) in English, two (02) each in
Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Linguistics, and one
(01) each in History, Archaeology and Political Science.
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Visiting Professor
Total Faculty
: 03
: 05
: 10
: 01
: 19
The Department will be using the facilities of the Institute
Computer and Communication Centre for its Language
Laboratory. Software for facilitating the language skills
of the students in the areas of Phonetics and Language
learning has already been procured. Computers were
also procured for the language laboratory. The Psychology
Laboratory has procured hardware and software that are
being utilised mostly by the Research Scholars.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
S. Mallick
Science, Technology and
Society (NPTEL – II)
MHRD
—
A. Barua
03 years
N. Tripathi
QIP Project for preparing
slides for ‘Introduction to
Psychology’ course
AICTE
0.15
—
01 year
L. Das
QIP CD Cell Project on
Cultural Theory and Practice
AICTE
0.15
—
01 year
L. Das
Cultural Studies – Video
(NPTEL – II)
MHRD
7.00
—
03 years
L. Das
Cultural Studies – Web
(NPTEL – II)
MHRD
7.00
—
03 years
L. Das
English Language and
Literature – Web(NPTEL – II)
MHRD
7.00
K. Barua
03 years
S. Mallick
Indian Society: Issues and
Problems – Web(NPTEL – II)
MHRD
7.00
L. Das
03 years
D. Das
Game Theory and Economics
MHRD
7.00
—
03 years
S. Mallick
Introduction to Sociology
(NPTEL – II)
MHRD
7.00
—
03 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Duration
CoSanctioned
(Years)
(Rs. in Lakh) Investigator
A. Saikia
The Life and Times of Historian
Surya Kumar Bhuyan: A Study
into the Professionalisation of
Modern Historical Research in
the 20th Century Assam
MHRD
1.00
—
02 years
A.N.S. Ahmed
Madrassas in Assam
Ministry of Minority
Affairs, Govt. of
India
8.00
—
02 years
S. Sharma
Source book of the Archaeology
of the Himalayan Region:
Arunachal Pradesh
Centre of
Archaeological
Studies and Training
Eastern India
2.40
—
01 year
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
S. Sharma
Megaliths in Changing times:
A study in Cherrapunjee,
Meghalaya
ICHR
0.50
—
02 years
S. Mahanta
Word and sentence level
prosody in Assamese and
Bodo
IIT Guwahati
start-up grant
4.38
—
02 years
G. Barua
Resource Centre for Indian
Language Technology Solution
(2nd Phase) (Assamese and
Bodo)
Ministry of
Information
Technology
26.65
D. Goswami,
S. Mahanta
and B. Som
03 years
B. Som
The Cognitive Schemas and
Motion Verbs: A Comparative
Study of Two North Eastern
Languages of India
IIT Guwahati
start-up grant
1.80
—
02 years
A. Barua
Developing a Measure for
Inequitable Household Access
to Water in Urban India
ICSSR
3.07
R. Bedamatta
01 year
A. Barua
Water, Climate Change and
Rural Livelihoods: Assessing
Socioeconomic Vulnerability
and Potential Adaptive
Strategies in Sikkim, India
Swedish
Research
Grant
3.00
R. Bedamatta
and S. Ray
02 years
P.K. Das
Livelihood Study in the KBK
Region of Orissa –
Identification of the Gap and
Providing a Statistical Database
for the Development Planners
of the State
ICSSR
5.48
R. Bedamatta
01 year
and 03
months
A. Saikia
‘The Kaziranga National Park: Dynamics of Social and
Political History’, Conservation and Society, vol. 7 (2),
pp 113-130, 2009
D. Das
‘An explanation of share tenancy in terms of
Unemployment, Social Norms and Power’, The Journal
of International Trade and Economic Development, vol.
18 (4), pp 527-540, 2009
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S. Mahanta
‘Morpheme-specific Exceptional Processes and Emergent
unmarkedness in Vowel Harmony’, Annual Review of
South Asian Languages and Linguistics, TILSM, vol. 222,
pp 65-100, 2009
S. Mallick
‘The Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Changing
Structure of Scientific Research in India: Lessons from
the Developing World’, Perspectives on Global
Development and Technology, vol. 8 (4), pp 628-654,
2009
142
S. Mallick and E. Haribabu
‘The Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Emerging
Institutional Framework of Scientific Research: Response
of the Plant Molecular Biologists in India’, Asian Journal
of Social Science, vol. 38 (1), pp 79-106, 2010
National Journal
A. Barua
‘Ethics of War and Weapons of Mass Destruction’,
Knowledge, Freedom and Reason, pp 93-94, 2010
A. Barua
‘What is Phenomenology’, Dimensions of Philosophy
Tradition and Modernity, pp 198-211, 2010
A. Barua
‘Understanding Business Ethics’, DARSHIKA, pp 130141, 2010
S. Tripathi and N. Tripathi
‘Influence Strategies and Organisational Success:
Moderating Effect of Organisational Culture’, Indian Journal
of Industrial Relations, vol. 45 (2), pp 213-228, 2009
S. Sharma
‘Images of Women’, the ZEE TV Style in Prologue, vol. II
and III (1-2), 2008/2009
D. Das and D. Basu
‘Political Economy of Contemporary India: Some
Comments’, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 44 (22),
pp 157-159, 2009
S. Mallick
‘The Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in
India’, Social Scientist, vol. 37 (3-4), pp 52-63, 2009
K. Barua
‘Robert Ross’s Australia: departure, passage and arrival’,
Culture and Identity: Re-Imagining Australia and India,
Volume on IASA-IV Biennial International Conference,
Indian Association for the Study of Australia, 2010
K. Barua
‘Ecological Interdependence: Cultural Ecology in the
Vedic and Doaist traditions’, Ecological Criticism:
Applications and Possibilities Murali Sivaramakrishnan
(Ed.) Authors Press, New Delhi, 2010
R.M. Punekar
‘The Indian Novel in English Today’, in: Littera de Nov’,
Proceedings of the International Conference on English
Language and Literature Today, Vidya Bharati College,
Amravati, 2009
Book, Chapter, etc.
A. Barua
‘Tumi noi hoi bo’boré para’, a Collection of Assamese
Poems, 2010
A.N.S. Ahmed, E. Devi, M. Ali and R. Bhuyan
‘Mandate for Change: Dynamics of Electoral Politics in
Manipur’, New Delhi: Akansha, 2009
S. Borbora
‘Entrepreneurship Education and SMEs’, In: Small and
Medium Enterprises Transitional Economies: Challenges and
Opportunities, ed. by: Dr. Aneet and Dr. Monika Aggarwal,
Deep and Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2009
S. Borbora
‘Watershed Development: Participatory Management
and Rural Livelihood Issues in India’, In: Dynamics of
Watershed Development and Livelihood in India, ed.
by: S.S.P. Sharma and U.H. Kumar, Serial Publications,
New Delhi, 2010
S. Borbora
‘Economic Growth and Human Development: Chain
Relationship’, In: Growth and Human Development in
North-East India, ed. by: P. Nayak, Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 2010
N. Tripathi
‘Person-Environment Relationship: Some Insights’, In:
Environmental issues: Behavioural insights, ed. by: P.
Rishi, Jaipur: Rawat Publications, pp 102-112, 2009
A. Saikia
‘From Jungle to Forests: Early Scientific Conservation in
Assam 1870-1900’, In: History of Science in Preindependent India, ed. by: Uma Dasgupta, Delhi:
Pearson, pp 255-288, 2010
S. Sharma
‘Kamrup Anusandhan Samity and the History of
Archaeological Research in Assam in Archaeology of India:
Ideas, Individuals and Institutions’, ed. by: G. Sengupta
and K. Gangopadhyay, published by Munshiram
Manoharlal and Centre for Archaeological Research And
Training Eastern India, Kolkata 2009
D. Das
‘Globalisation of Capital: Some Questions’, Sanhati
Selections, 2010, Kolkata, 2010
D. Das and D. Basu
‘Accumulation by Dispossession under the Aegis of a
‘Communist Party’: David Harvey on West Bengal’,
Sanhati Selections, 2010, Kolkata, 2010
A. Barua and A. Jaitly
‘South Asia: Managing the quality of a Limited Resource’,
In: A Planet for Life: Sustainable Development in Action,
ed. by: P. Jacquet, R.K. Pachauri and L. Tubiana, AFD,
IDDRI, TERI Press, 2010
Review Essays/Book Reviews
R.M. Punekar
Reviews of ‘Gandhi: Going to Wipe Their Tears’ by Pyarelal
Nayar, Navjivan Trust, 2002, rept. Mapinlit, 2008, ‘The
Men Who Killed Gandhi’ by Manohar Malgonkar, Roli Books,
rept. 2008, and ‘Goodbye to Gandhi: Travels in the New
India’ by Bernard Imhasly, Penguin Books India, 2007, in
The Book Review, vol. 33 (10), pp 20-21, 2009
A. Saikia
Review of ‘Assam and India: Fragmented Memories, Cultural
Identity and the Tai-Ahom Struggle’ by Yasmin Saikia,
Contributions to Indian Sociology, (n.s.) vol. 43 (2), 2009
143
S. Mallick
Review of ‘The Future Control of Food: A Guide to
International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual
Property, Biodiversity and Food Security’ edited by Geoff
Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte, Agriculture and Human
Values, vol. 26 (3), pp 245-246, 2009
S. Mallick
Review of ‘Innovation Diffusion in the New Economy:
The Tacit Component’ by Barbara Jones and Bob Miller,
Political Studies Review, vol. 7 (3), pp 407-408, 2009
S. Mallick
Review of ‘Power, Knowledge and the Academy: The
Institutional is Political’ edited by Val Gillies and Helen
Lucey, International Journal of Social Research
Methodology, vol. 12 (4), pp 377-378, 2009
S. Mallick
Review of ‘Science, War and Imperialism: India in the
Second World War’ by Jagdish N. Sinha, Comparative
Sociology, vol. 8 (4), pp 635-637, 2009
S. Mallick
Review of ‘Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy
in Europe and the United States’ by Sheila Jasanoff, Asian
Journal of Social Science, vol. 37 (6), pp 966-967, 2009
S. Mallick
Review of ‘The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from
Practice and Research’ edited by Jorge I. Dominguez
and Anthony Jones, Political Studies Review, vol. 7 (2),
pp 245, 2009
S. Mallick
Review of ‘Science, Culture and Modern State Formation’
by Patrick Carroll, The Irish Journal of Sociology, vol. 17
(2), 2009
S. Mallick
Comparative Review of William Connolly’s ‘Democracy,
Pluralism and Political Theory’ edited by Samuel A.
Chambers and Terrell Carver, and ‘Rewriting Democracy:
Cultural Politics in Postmodernity’ edited by Elizabeth Deeds
Ermarth, Millennium, vol. 38 (1), pp 176-180, 2009
S. Mallick
Comparative Review of ‘Classical Sociological Theory’
edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody,
Steven Pfaff and Indermohan Virk, and ‘Contemporary
Sociological Theory’ edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph
Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff and Indermohan
Virk, Discourse and Society, vol. 21 (1), pp 83-86, 2010
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
A. Barua
Religion and Secularism and
the Contemporary Debate
Gauhati University,
Guwahati
20 September
2009
A. Barua
VISVADRISTI , International
Conference of Sanskrit
Studies
Rajasthan
University, Jaipur
18-20 July 2009
International /
National
National
International
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Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
K. Barua
Fifth International
Conference of the Indian
Association for the Study of
Australia on Australia and
India: Negotiating Change
Goa
18-21 January
2010
International
K. Barua
Rethinking Humanities in
the Age of the Visual
Centre for
Performance
Research and
Cultural
Studies, Kerala
27-28 June 2009
International
S. Borbora
Consultative meeting of
North East Center for
Research and Development
(NECRD) Guwahati of
IGNOU
IGNOU,New
Delhi
27 May 2009
S. Borbora
Exploring ASEAN Market for
India’s North East Products
Mizoram
University
28-29 May 2009
International
S. Borbora
National Consultation on
Exploring and Identifying
Research Areas on Labour
and Employment in NorthEastern Region
Agartala
19-20 November
2009
National
S. Borbora
Economy of North East India
Guwahati
11 January 2010
International
S. Borbora
Globalisation and Socioeconomic Concerns
T.H.B. College,
Jamugurihat,
Sonitpur, Assam
18 September
2009
National
S. Borbora
Eleventh Annual Conference
of North Eastern Economic
Association
IIT Guwahati
18-19 December
2009
National
M.K. Dutta
Association
IIT Guwahati
18-19 December
2009
National
M.K. Dutta
Studying the Linkages
between Ecosystem Services
and Poverty: Building
Networks in South Asia
North Eastern
Hill University,
Shillong
8-9 September
2009
International
A. Saikia
Silver Jubilee Celebration of
Centre for Ecology, IISc
Bangalore
IISc Bangalore
October 2009
International
National
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
145
International /
National
A. Saikia
Terrestrial Environments and
their Histories in Modern
India
Yale University
May 2009
International
A. Saikia
Livelihoods and the
Environment: Debating inter
disciplinary perspective
JNU, Delhi
October 2009
International
A Saikia
Democracy, Identity and
Group Rights
Women’s
College,
Shillong
March 2010
National
A. Saikia
Recent Trends in Indian
Economic History
University of
Calcutta
February 2010
National
A. Saikia
Neo-Vaishnavite Movement
in Assam- Phases and
Transformations
Dibrugarh
University
March 2010
National
A. Saikia
Study of History in
The Twenty First Century:
Perspective and Prospects
Khagarijan
College,
Nagaon
November 2009
National
N. Kumar and
N. Tripathi
Eighth Biennial Conference
of the Asian Association of
Social Psychology
IIT Delhi
11-14 December
2009
International
A.N.S. Ahmed
Association
IIT Guwahati
18-19 December
2009
National
A.N.S. Ahmed
Intercultural Dialogue
between Northeast India and
Southeast Asia
New Delhi
17-20 March
2010
R.M. Punekar
Indian English Poetry: the
Last Twenty Five Years
NEHU, Shillong
29-31 October
2009
National
R.M. Punekar
Conflict, Belonging and
Multiculturalism
S.V. College,
University of
Delhi
5-7 November
2009
National
R.M. Punekar
Devotion and Dissent
Jawaharlal
Nehru
University,
New Delhi
11-13 March
2010
International
R.M. Punekar
Approaches to Marginality
Jawaharlal
Nehru
University,
New Delhi
22-24 March
2010
International
International
146
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
S. Sharma
Indigenous Technology,
Livelihood Options and
Habitat Utilisation
NECRD,
IGNOU,
Guwahati
23 November
2009
National
S. Sharma
Cultures of Northeast India:
Ethnic and Archaeological
Background
Indian
Museum,
Kolkata
5-7 November
2009
National
S. Sharma
Nineteenth Indo Pacific Pre
History Association Congress
Hanoi
29 November – 5
December 2009
International
S. Sharma
Inter Cultural Dialogue
Between North East India &
South East Asia
Jawaharlal
Nehru
University,
New Delhi
17-20 March
2010
International
S. Mahanta
Twenty-fifth Colloquium on
Generative Grammar
Universitat
Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona,Spain
17-19 March
2010
International
S. Mahanta
Cultures of the North East
India: Ethnic and
Archaeological Background
Indian
Museum,
Kolkata
5-7 November
2009
National
S. Ray
Agency, Autonomy and
Power: A Dialogue on
Women and Body
WSDU, Delhi
23-25 February
2010
National
R. Bedamatta
Urban Rainwater Harvesting
CSE, New
Delhi
30 March – 3
April 2010
National
S. Mallick
XXXV All India Sociological
Conference
University of
Kashmir,
Srinagar
10-12 October
2009
National
S. Mallick
Association
IIT Guwahati
18-19 December
2009
National
Name of
Faculty
A. Barua
Name of Lecture
Religious pluralism and
Interfaith Dialogue in pre
colonial Assam: Ramayana
from Assam to Indonesia
(Key note lecture)
Name of Inst./
Org.
Indira Gandhi National
centre for the Arts
(IGNCA)
Place
New Delhi
Date
17 March
2010
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./
Org.
Place
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Date
A. Barua
Revisiting Heidegger’s
Comportment toward EastWest Dialogue
Indian Institute of
Advanced Study
Shimla
November
2009
A. Barua
Learner and Learning
process: Understanding
Adolescent Motivation,
Interest and Learning Style
Gauhati University
Guwahati
11 June 2009
S. Borbora
Globalisation and SocioEconomic Concerns
T.H.B. College,
Jamugurihat
Jamugurihat,
Sonitpur, Assam
9 September
2009
S. Borbora
IPR, Patents and Patenting
procedure
Gauhati University
Guwahati
17 October
2009
S. Borbora
NREGA as a Social Security
Measure
North-East Research
Centre, V.V. Giri
National Labour
Institute, Noida
Agartala
19 November
2009
K. Barua
Technology as a Tool for
Persuasion
Gauhati University
Guwahati
11 June 2009
R.M. Punekar
English Language and
Literature
Vidya Bharati College
Amravati
12-13
November 2009
M.K. Dutta
Research Design: Theoretical
and Conceptual Framework
IGNOU, NECRD,
Guwahati
Guwahati
25-27 August
2009
M.K. Dutta
Globalisation and Women
T.H.B. College,
Jamugurihat
Jamugurihat,
Sonitpur, Assam
18 September
2009
M.K. Dutta
Productivity for Inclusive
Growth
Assam Productivity
Council (Golden Jubilee
Celebration)
Guwahati
10 February
2010
M.K. Dutta
Food Security and Agriculture
in Assam
J. Thankima College,
Aizawl
Aizawl
3 March 2010
A. Saikia
Peasants in Assam: Historical
Transition
A. Pujari Memorial
Trust, Jorhat Theatre Hall
Jorhat, Assam
November
2009
A. Saikia
Historical Thinking and
Historical Ideas of Maniram
Dewan
Maniram Dewan
Memorial Trust
Guwahati
February
2010
A.N.S. Ahmed
Democracy and Civil Society
Department of Political
Science, Gauhati
University
Guwahati
12 February
2010
S. Sharma
Sustainable Development
and Environment
Dimoria College,
Khetri, Kamrup
Khetri,
Kamrup, Assam
28 March
2010
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Name of
Faculty
Name of Inst./
Org.
Name of Lecture
Place
Date
S. Mahanta
Artificial language learning of
opaque segments in vowel
harmony
Department of
Linguistics, University
of Potsdam
Potsdam,
Germany
24 March
2010
S. Mahanta
Negation and Focus in
Assamese
Department of
Linguistics, University
of Potsdam
Potsdam,
Germany
24 March
2010
S. Mahanta
Devoicing of sonorants and
Tonogenesis in TibetoBurman
Centre for
Archaeological Studies
and Training Institute
Kolkata
6 November
2009
S. Mallick
Science, Technology and
Society
Gauhati University
Guwahati
10 June 2009
INVITED LECTURES
Name
K. Hubacek
Name of Inst./Org.
University of Leeds
Name of Lecture
Visiting Professor
Date
22-26 March 2010
Also involved in the
ICSSR project
SHORT-TERM COURSES
Coordinator: S. Mallick
Name of the Course: Strengthening of Democracy at
the Grassroots in India
Sponsoring Agency: IIT Guwahati
Date and Place: 13-14 March 2010, IIT Guwahati
ORGANISED
Coordinator: S. Borbora and M.K. Dutta
Name of the Conference/Seminar: Eleventh
Conference on North Eastern Economic Association
Sponsoring Agency: ICSSR, NEC, SBI and others
Date and Place: 18-19 December 2009, IIT Guwahati
(National)
Coordinator: S. Sharma
Name of the Conference/Seminar: Cultures of North
East India: Ethnic and Archeological Background
Sponsoring Agency: The Centre of Archaeological Studies
and Training, Eastern India
Date and Place: 5-7 November 2009
(National)
D. Das
Visited Department of Economics and Related Studies,
University of York, UK, for the period June-July 2009
on research invitation from Dr. Anindya Bhattacharya
and N. Tripathi
FACULTY MEMBERS
A.N.S. Ahmed
Visiting Professor
Areas of Interest: International Relations, Area Studies,
Problems of Governance, Islamic Society and
Culture, Politics and Militancy
A. Barua
PhD (University of Leeds)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Environmental Economics,
Development Economics, Climate Change Issues
A. Barua
PhD (North Eastern Hill University, Shillong)
Areas of Interest: Phenomenology and Cognitive
Science, Phenomenology and Religion, Ethical Issues
related to Science and Technology
K. Barua
Professor
Areas of Interest: Commonwealth Literature, Cultural
Studies, Comparative Studies and Translations
A. Basu (up to 31 December 2009)
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Senior Lecturer
Areas of Interest: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive
Neuroscience, Laterality, Emotional Intelligence
R. Bedamatta
PhD (University of Calcutta, through Indian Statistical
Institute Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Development Economics, Informal
Sector, Issues in Food Security and Social Security,
Economics of Education
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L. Das
PhD (Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Cognitive studies, Literary Theory,
Gender Studies, Consciousness Studies, Posthumanism
and Technology
M.K. Dutta
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Agricultural Economics, Environmental
Economics
N. Kashyap
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Sleep and Human Memory System,
Episodic and Emotional Memory, EEG, ERP and
Polysomnography
S. Mahanta
PhD (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Phonological theory with special
interest in Optimality Theory, Vowel Harmony,
Experimental approaches to Phonology and its acquisition
S. Mallick
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Sociology of Science, Historical
Sociology
S. Borbora
Professor
Areas of Interest: Development Economics, Industrial
Economics, Labour Economics
R.M. Punekar
PhD (Gujarat University)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Culture and Translation Studies,
Modern British Literature, Indian Writing in English
D. Das
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Development Economics,
Macroeconomics, Applied Game Theory
S. Ray
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Sociology of Gender, Sociology of
Law, Sociology of Communication
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Deepthi S. (up to 31 July 2009)
PhD (University of Mysore)
Senior Lecturer
Areas of Interest: Social Stratification Studies, Cyber
Psychology, ICT and Development
A. Saikia
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Social and Environmental History of
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Assam
S. Sharma
PhD (Deccan College PG and Research Institute, Pune)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Archaeology of Northeast India,
Colonial history of Assam, Cultural Policy
B. Som
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Cognitive Linguistics, Endangered and
lesser known languages, Language Typology,
Sociolinguistics
N. Tripathi
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Organisational Behaviour, Human
Resource Management, Social/Environmental Psychology,
I-O Psychology
P. Venkataraman
PhD (Pondicherry University)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Technology, Applied
Philosophy, Peace Studies, Critical Thinking, Applied
Ethics, Philosophy of Education
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Mathematics in Indian Institute of
Technology Guwahati continued to offer both
undergraduate and postgraduate level mathematics
courses to BTech, MSc and PhD students during the
year. The Department continued to organise seminars
under the IIT Guwahati Mathematics Seminar Series in
which several distinguished mathematicians from India
and abroad delivered talks. The aforesaid year marked
the commencement of activities of two student
organisations namely, MATRIX and the SIAM student
chapter of IIT Guwahati.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Preparatory Programme
The Department of Mathematics has continued to offer
courses in both the semesters of 2009-2010 for the
preparatory programme.
BTech Programme
The Department of Mathematics offered MathematicsI (MA-101) and Mathematics-III (MA- 201) core courses
in the odd semester and Mathematics-II (MA-102) in
the even semester to BTech students. The Department
has also offered 4th semester science elective course to
BTech students. The courses MA 102, MA 201, CS 302,
MA 225 and MA 227 were also offered to BTech students
during the summer 2009. The Department has also
offered four courses to BTech (CSE) students.
BTech (Mathematics and Computing) Programme
The BTech programme in Mathematics and Computing
was started in July 2006. There are 20 students in fourth
year (2006 batch), 26 students in third year (2007 batch)
and 25 students in second year (2008 batch). In addition
to these, 32 students were admitted in 2009. The first
batch of BTech students will be graduating this year.
MSc (Mathematics and Computing) Programme
The MSc programme in Mathematics and Computing
was started in July 2000. There are 27 students in the
2008 batch and 27 students were admitted in 2009.
PhD Programme
The Department has 31 PhD students, out of which 14
were admitted during the year 2009-2010.
STUDENT INTAKE
BTech students admitted in 2009-2010 : 32
MSc students admitted in 2009-2010
: 27
PhD students admitted in 2009-2010 : 14
FACULTY STRENGTH
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
: 04
: 06
: 14
: 24
The Department has a very good computer laboratory
for the BTech, MSc and PhD students. Besides, IIT
Guwahati houses a Regional Mathematics Library funded
by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM).
In addition, the Department has its own library.
Apart from regular research activities like guiding students,
the faculty members of the Department attended
conferences and undertook collaborative research works
with researchers from some premier institutions in the
country and abroad.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
G. Barua (Dept.
of Civil
Engineering, IIT
Guwahati)
Analytical and Inverse
Modelling for Estimating
Aquifer Parameters of a
Confined Aquifer
DST, Govt.
of India
5.92
S.N. Bora
03 years
Natesan S.
Layer Resolving Numerical
Schemes for Singular
Perturbation Problems
DST, Govt.
of India
4.20
—
03 years
S. Pati
Laplacian Eigenvalues of
Graphs
DST, Govt.
of India
2.97 (Share
of IITG)
A.K. Lal, IIT
Kanpur
02 years
J.C. Kalita
Simulation of incompressible
viscous flows by the
biharmonic approach
DST, Govt.
of India
8.87
—
03 years
P.S. Mandal
Designing a robust protocol
IIT
for secured topology discovery Guwahati
in wireless sensor networks
5.00
—
02 years
Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 62, pp 683708, 2010
A. Saikia and R. Barman
‘On Isasawa -invariants and -transforms’, Journal of
Ramanujan Mathematical Society, vol. 24 (2), pp 109209, 2009
B.K. Sarma and M. Nath
‘Minimal Configuration unicyclic graphs’, Linear
Multilinear Algebra, vol. 57(1), pp 19-27, 2009
J.C. Kalita and M.M. Gupta
‘A Streamfunction-Velocity approach for 2D transient
incompressible viscous flows’, International Journal for
Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 62, pp 237-266, 2010
M.P. Rajan
‘On Laverentives regularisation for solving Fredholm
integral equations of first kind’, International Journal of
Functional Analysis, Operator Theory and Applications,
vol. 2, pp 177-187, 2009
J.C. Kalita, and R.K. Ray
‘A transformation-free HOC scheme for the
incompressible viscous flows past an impulsively started
circular cylinder’, Journal of Computational Physics, vol.
228 (14), pp 5207-5236, 2009
M. Tripathy and R. K. Sinha
‘Superconvergence of $H^1$-Galerkin Mixed Finite
Element Methods for Parabolic Problems’, Applicable
Analysis, vol. 88, pp 1213-1231, 2009
R.K. Ray and J.C. Kalita
‘A transformation-free HOC scheme for incompressible
viscous flows on nonuniform polar grids’, International
R.K. Sinha, R.E. Ewing and R.D. Lazarov
‘Mixed Finite Element Approximations of Parabolic
Integro-Differential Equations with Nonsmooth Initial
Data, SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, vol. 47 (5),
pp 3269-3292, 2009
R.K. Sinha and B. Deka
‘Finite element methods for semilinear elliptic and
parabolic interface problems’, Applied Numerical
Mathematics, vol. 59, pp 1870-1883, 2009
S. Mohapatra and S.N. Bora
‘Propagation of oblique waves over small bottom
undulation in an ice-covered two-layer fluid’, Geophysical
and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, vol. 103 (5), pp 347374, 2009
153
Equation on an Adaptively Generated Grid’, Numerical
Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, vol. 3
(1), pp 1-22, 2010
R.B. Bapat, A.K. Lal, and S. Pati
‘The distance matrix of a bidirected tree’, Electronic
Journal of Linear Algebra, vol. 18, pp 233-245, 2009
C. Goswami and N. Selvaraju
‘The discrete-time MAP/PH/1 queue with multiple
working vacations’, Applied Mathematical Modeling, vol.
34 (4), pp 931-946, 2010
‘Scattering of internal waves in a two-layer fluid flowing
through a channel with small undulations’, Ocean
Dynamics, vol. 59 (4), pp 615-625, 2009
S. Bora
‘Structured eigenvalue condition number and backward
error of a class of polynomial eigenvalue problems’, SIAM
Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 31 (3),
900-017, 2009
‘Radiation of water waves by a submerged sphere in an
ice-covered two-layer fluid of finite depth’, Journal of
Advanced Research in Applied Mathematics, vol. 2 (1),
pp 446-63, 2010
S.P. Chakrabarty and F.B. Hanson
‘Distributed parameters deterministic model for
treatment of brain tumors using Galerkin finite element
method’, Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 219, pp 129141, 2009
K. Mukherjee and S. Natesan
‘Parameter-Uniform Hybrid Numerical Scheme for TimeDependent Convection-Dominated Initial-BoundaryValue Problems’, Computing, vol. 84 (2-3), pp 209-230,
2009
S.P. Chakrabarty
‘Optimal efficacy of ribavirin in the treatment of
hepatitis’, Optimal Control Applications and Methods,
vol. 30, pp 594-600, 2009
R. Deb and S. Natesan
‘Higher-Order Time Accurate Numerical Methods for
Singularly Perturbed Parabolic Partial Differential
Equations’, International Journal of Computer
Mathematics, vol. 86 (7), pp 1204-1214, 2009
C. Clavero, R.K. Bawa and S. Natesan
‘A Robust Second-Order Numerical Method for Global
Solution and Global Normalised Flux of Singularly
Perturbed Self-adjoint Boundary-Value Problems’,
International Journal of Computer Mathematics, vol. 86,
pp 1731-1745, 2009
J. Mohapatra and S. Natesan
‘Uniform Convergence Analysis of Finite Difference
Scheme for Singularly Perturbed Delay Differential
S.P. Chakrabarty and S. Banerjee
‘A control theory approach to cancer remission aided by
an optimal therapy’, Journal of Biological System, vol.
18 (1), pp 75-91, 2010
R. Balaji
‘Characterisation of Q-Property for Multiplicative
transformations in Semidefinite Linear Complementarity
Problems’, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 432,
pp 2754-2763, 2010
A. Saikia
‘On units generated by Euler systems’, Proceedings of
the International Conference on Number Theory and
Applications, pp 157-174, 2009
154
D.C. Dalal
‘Mathematical modeling of solute transport in rivers’,
Proceedings of Recent Trends in Mathematical Modeling
and Simulation, Department of Mathematics, Institute
of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1820 March 2010
K.V. Krishna
‘On Directing Sequences of Reset Automata’, the
International Conference on Recent Advances in
Mathematical Sciences and Applications (RAMSA ’09),
Visakhapatnam, 19-22 December 2009 (invited talk)
M.P. Rajan and N. Rana
‘Portfolio Analysis in Indian Stock market based on
Markowitz model approach’, ITBI – 09, Institute of
Management Technology Nagpur, pp 394-402, 6-8
November 2009
M.P. Rajan
‘Volatility Modeling and Estimation in Stock Market’, the
International Conference on Recent Advances in
Mathematical Sciences and Applications (RAMSA ’09),
Visakhapatnam, 19-22 December 2009 (invited talk)
M.P. Rajan
‘Parameter Identification Problems in PDEs’, IndoGerman Conference on PDEs, Scientific Computing,
Optimisation and Applications, 7-9 October 2009
I.V.A. Raju and N. Selvaraju
‘Growth optimal portfolio for the unobservable Markovmodulated markets’, Proceedings of International
Conference on Operations Research Applications in
Engineering and Management, ICOREM 2009,
Tiruchirappalli, 27-29 May 2009
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
B.K. Sarma
Graph Theory and Application
IMA,
Bhubaneswar
17-23 December
2009
National
D.C. Dalal
Recent Trends in
Mathematical Modeling and
Simulation
Banaras
University
Varanasi
18-20 March
2010
National
D.C. Dalal
Recent Advances in
Mathematics and Applications
University of
Burdwan,
Burdwan
13-15 January
2010
International
K.V. Krishna
RAMSA ‘09
Visakhapatnam
19-22 December
2009
International
R.K. Sinha
Indo-German Conference on
PDEs, Scientific Computing
and Optimisation in
Applications
IIT Kanpur
07-09 October
2009
International
R.K. Sinha
ISTAM (An International
Meet)
NSIT, Delhi
18-21 December
2009
International
R.K. Sinha
75th Annual Conference of
the IMS
Kalasalingam
University
27-30 December
2009
National
R. Balaji
Indian Mathematical SocietyAnnual Conference
Srivilliputhur,Tamil
Nadu
27-29 December
2009
National
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
155
International /
National
M.P. Rajan
Indo-German Conference
on PDE, Scientific
Computing, Optimisation
and Applications
IIT Kanpur
7-9 October
2009
International
M.P. Rajan
RAMSA ‘09
Visakhapatnam
19-22
December 2009
International
S. Pati
Graph Theory and
Application
IMA,
Bhubaneswar
17-23
December 2009
National
S. Pati
Polya Theory
NEHU, Shillong
18-10 March
2010
National
S.P.
Chakrabarty
New Approaches of Basic
Sciences Towards the
Development of
Engineering and Technology
(NABSET)
Assam Don
Bosco
University
12 March 2010
National
V.V. Wagh
Commutative Algebra and
Algebraic Geometry – IX
IIT Madras
June 2009
National
V.V. Wagh
National Symposium in
Mathematics
IIT
Gandhinagar
February 2010
National
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./
Org.
Place
Date
B.K. Sarma
Matrix Completion Problems
IMA
Bhubaneswar
17-23 December
2009
D.C. Dalal
Recent Trends in
Mathematical Modeling and
simulation
Banaras University
Varanasi
18-20 March
2010
D.C. Dalal
Recent Advances in
Mathematics and Applications
University of
Burdwan
West Bengal
13-15 January
2010
P.S. Mandal
Distributed Algorithms for
Graph Problems
NERIST & ISI
Arunachal
Pradesh
22-25 February
2010
R.K. Sinha
Unfitted FEM for Interface
Problems
IIT Kanpur
Kanpur
8 October 2009
R.K. Sinha
FEM for parabolic interface
problem
NSIT, Delhi
Delhi
18 December
2009
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Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./
Org.
Place
Date
R.K. Sinha
Finite Element Computations
and Applications
Kalasalingam
University
Tamil Nadu
28 December
2009
S. Pati
Spectral Graph Theory
IMA
Bhubaneswar
17-23 December
2009
S. Pati
Algebra, Algebraic Topology
and related topics
NEHU
Shillong
18-10 March
2010
S.P. Chakrabarty
Financial Portfolio
Assam Don Bosco
Optimisation for Discrete and University
Continuous Time Models
Guwahati
12 March 2010
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Purpose
Date
Prof. Sebastien Tixeuil
Univ. Pierre & Mario
Curie, Paris, France
Collaborative Research and Seminar
21 April 2009
Dr. Sylvie Delaet
Univ. of Paris-Sud XI,
France
Collaborative Research and Seminar
21 April 2009
Prof. Rolf Jeltsch
ETH Zurich, President,
ICIAM, Switzerland
Delivered lecture
28 November
2009
Prof. T. Subba Rao
University of
Manchester, UK
Lectures on: (i) Stochastic Models for
Processes Defined on Eucledian Space
(R*d) and (ii) On Spheres (S*2)
28 January
2010
INVITED LECTURES
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Name of Lecture
Date
Prof. Anant R. Shastri
IIT Mumbai
Proof of Fundamental Algebra
through Linear Algebra
25 March 2010
Prof. V. Sree Hari Rao
JNTU
Modeling of Neuronal Activations
- Dead Zones - A new paradigm
11 March 2010
Prof. N.V. Subrahmanyam Andhra University
Boolean Convexity
20, 27 August 2009
Prof. B.V. Rao
Chennai
Mathematical Institute
An Invitation to probability
11 September 2009
Dr. Anil K. Ghosh
ISI, Kolkata
Generalizations of Medians in
Quantiles in Higher Dimensions
17 September 2009
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Name of Lecture
Date
Prof. T. Parthasarathy
Chennai
Mathematical
Institute
i) Samuelson Maps and
Univalence ii) History of Game
Theory
7-8 October 2009
Prof. Girija Jayaraman
IIT Delhi
Numerical Simulation of Shallow
Water Model for River Flow
Inundation.
6 November 2009
Prof. B.S. Dandapat
SMIT, Sikkim
Development of Thin Film
Through Spin-Coating Process
20 November 2009
SHORT-TERM COURSES
Coordinator: S.N. Bora and S.P. Chakrabarty
Name of Course: Mathematical Methods, Modeling and
Optimal Control
Sponsoring Agency: Centre for Educational Technology
(CET), IIT Guwahati
J.C. Kalita
Academic visit to Department of Mathematics at the
George Washington University, Washington DC, USA,
May-June 2009
FACULTY MEMBERS
R. Alam
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Numerical Functional Analysis,
Numerical Linear Algebra
R. Balaji
PhD (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Linear Algebra and Optimisation
S. Bandopadhyay
PhD (ISI Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Operations Research
B. Bhattacharjya
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Graph Theory
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S. Bora
PhD (IIT Guwahati)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Perturbation Theory, Numerical Linear
Algebra
S.N. Bora
PhD (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Water Wave Dynamics, Ocean
Engineering, Flow through Porous Media
A.K. Chakrabarty
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Functional Analysis
S.P. Chakrabarty
PhD (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Mathematical Biology, Optimal Control
Theory, Mathematical Finance
D.C. Dalal
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Fluid Dynamics
J.C. Kalita
PhD (IIT Guwahati)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Computational Fluid Dynamics,
Numerical Methods for PDEs
K.V. Krishna
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: General Algebra, Theoretical
Computer Science
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K. Kapoor
PhD (London South Bank University, UK)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Programming Languages, Concurrency,
Software Testing
B.K. Sarma
Professor
Areas of Interest: Spectral Graph Theory, Combinatorial
Matrix Theory
P.S. Mandal
PhD (Jadavpur University)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Wireless Sensor Networks, Distributed
Computing
N. Selvaraju
PhD (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Stochastic Modeling, Queuing Theory,
Stochastic Finance
S. Pati
PhD (ISI Delhi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Spectral Graph Theory
M. Prabhakar (up to 22 July 2009)
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Senior Lecturer
Areas of Interest: Knot Theory
M.G.P. Prasad
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Complex Dynamics and Fractals
M.P. Rajan
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Inverse and Ill-posed Problems
(Numerical Functional Analysis), Financial Engineering,
Parameter Identification Problems in PDEs
A. Saikia
PhD (University of Cambridge, UK)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Algebraic Number Theory
R.K. Sinha
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Areas of Interest: Numerical Analysis
P.A.S. Sree Krishna
PhD (University of Buffalo, the State University of New
York, USA)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Lowdimensional Topology
K.V. Srikanth
PhD (University of Buffalo, the State University of New
York, USA)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Low Dimensional Topology
N. Srinivasan
PhD (Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirappalli)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Differential Equations,
Homogenisation, Numerical Analysis
V.V. Wagh
PhD (University of Pune)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Algebraic Geometry
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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Mechanical Engineering, being one
of the largest and oldest Departments of the Institute,
caters to its students with class tutorial and state-of-theart laboratories. Major activities of the Department
involve teaching, laboratory development, research and
providing technical consultancy to industries. The
Department mainly aims at giving students a cutting edge
over education, developing their problem-solving skills,
challenging them with unrestricted problems while
designing their projects, providing them ample
opportunity for team work which nourishes their coordination skills from an early stage of their career and
providing them an instrumental research facility round
the clock in a day which help them grow keen interest
in active research. Curriculum is continuously upgraded
and modernised by the introduction of new courses.
The Department continues setting up of new laboratories
and procuring new equipments by assessing the course
based necessity. Procurement of books, back volumes
and journals continued for the growth of Central Library.
For the benefit of students and the Institute as well, the
Department actively participates in the operation of
cementing the Institute – industry interface and in line
with this it provides technical consultancy to various
industries and arranges summer training for BTech
students. The Department also disseminates technical
know-how to the adjoining locality through various
consultancy works. The faculty members of the
Department are actively engaged with subsidiary centres
in the Institute viz. Centre for Energy, Centre for
Educational Technology, Centre for the Environment and
Centre for Nanotechnology. They are instrumental in
extending their dedicated support to the welfare of these
centres and quite often take up consultancy projects
which are directly or indirectly associated with rural as
well as urban development of the state. Many such
projects have been accomplished successfully, many are
ongoing and many are in the offing. The Department
aptly makes use of the technical facility of the Workshop
in teaching and in setting up of in-house experimental
set-ups. Apart from carrying out practical classes as per
academic curriculum, the Workshop caters needs of
different departments of the Institute in terms of
executing works of their BTech, MTech and PhD students
as well as other related research/consultancy works. The
Department also welcomes students from other
departments of the Institute as a gesture of support to
their time-to-time academic and research needs.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The department of Mechanical Engineering currently
offers BTech, MTech and PhD programmes. The BTech
programme offers a comprehensive fundamental
education in Mechanical Engineering, emphasising basic
sciences and mathematics, followed by Engineering
Sciences and Engineering Design. The Department offers
MTech programme in three specialisations, i.e. Machine
Design, Fluid and Thermal Engineering, and Computer
Assisted Manufacturing. These programmes consist of
course works in the areas of specialisation followed by
a one year dedicated thesis work.
STUDENT INTAKE
BTech students admitted in 2009-2010 : 53
MTech students admitted in 2009-2010 : 47
PhD students admitted in 2009-2010 : 13
FACULTY STRENGTH
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Visiting Professor
Total
: 11
: 06
: 12
: 01
: 30
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The Department has an excellent computational facility
sustained by its CAD lab which caters to the academic
requirement of students round the clock. Besides, the
Department runs various laboratories which are wellstocked with state-of-the-art technical equipments and
apparatus. They are namely:
Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory
Strength of Materials Laboratory
Materials Science Laboratory
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Torque sensor with encoder, make: Futek, TRS705,
5.00 Lakhs
PC based data acquisition system, make: HBM, Spider
8 & Cataman Express, 2.87 Lakhs
Trinocular Stereozoom Microscope, make: Madras
Metallurgical, METZ-219 & DIGIEYE 330, 1.80 Lakhs
Tube Furnace, make: Bysakh and Co, OKAY 70T7,
4.99 Lakhs
CO2 Laser Manufacturing Unit with CNC Table, make:
LVD Orion 3015 series, 180.00 Lakhs (approx.)
Thermal Science Laboratory
Turbo-machinery Laboratory
IC Engine Laboratory
Vibrations and Acoustics Laboratory
Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory
Instrumentation Laboratory
Theory of Machines Laboratory
Tribology Laboratory
CAD/CAM Laboratory
Metrology Laboratory
Major equipment included:
Powder clutch dynamometer, make: Dynaspede ,
WPD-500-0, 5.17 Lakhs
Faculty members of the Department are actively engaged
in research and development works. The number of
publications in reputed journals is increasing year by year.
A number of sponsored research and consultancy projects
are being investigated in the Department. The major
research areas are Fluid Mechanics, Thermal Science,
Design, Manufacturing and Material Science. The faculty
members are exploring new areas like micromanufacturing, magnetic bearings, smart structures and
nano-fluid mechanics. Development works are also
undertaken in the following areas:
Processing of self lubricating cutting tool material
Development and Injection Molding Die for Asymmetric
Gear
Development of Power Absorption Gear Test Rig
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
K.S.R. Krishna
Murthy
An investigation of strain gage
method for accurate
measurement of the stress
intensity factors
Naval
Research
Board
19.16
D.
Chakraborty
02 years
R.G. Narayanan
Forming behavior of Friction Stir
welded blanks made of
dissimilar materials
ARDB,
India
39.78
Satish Vasu
Kailas, IISc
Bangalore
03 years
Head of the
Department (Exofficio)
To strengthen the research
activities in the area of microfabrication and condition
monitoring area
DST under
FIST
scheme
259.50
—
05 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
161
Duration
(Years)
R. Tiwari
Virtualisation Mechanical
Vibration Lab
MHRD
103.00
S.K.
Dwivedy
10
months
S. Kanagaraj
Preparation and
characterisation of
nanofluids to reduce the
emission level in a diesel
engine
DST, Govt.
of India
18.30
—
03 years
U.S. Dixit
To establish an Institute of
Excellence (IOE) for
Advanced Studies, Training
and Research in Mechanical
Engineering
AICTE,
New
Delhi
25.00
A.K. Dass
01 year
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
D. Bandopadhya
an Active Compliant
Mechanism for
Micromanipulation
IIT
Guwahati
5.00
—
02 years
D. Bandopadhya
Fabrication of Cost-effective
IPMC actuator as artificial
muscle materials for
biomedical prosthetic
application
DST,
Govt. of
India
23.00
(approx.)
—
03 years
D. Chakraborty
Optimum Design and Active
Vibration Control of Smart
FRP Structures on Parallel
Platform
DST,
Govt. of
India
16.65
CDAC,
Pune
02 years
P. Mahanta
Modeling and computation
of three dimensional
turbulent convective heat
transfer for design of energy
efficient pin heat exchanger
DST
(SERC
division),
Govt. of
India
12.00
A. Dewan
Ongoing
P. Mahanta
Investigation on start-up
transient behavior in natural
circulation boiling water
reactor
AERB
9.92
M. Pandey
Ongoing
162
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
P. Muthukumar
Development of a metal
hydride based thermal energy
storage systems
DST, Govt.
of India
10.02
—
03 years
P. Muthukumar
Numerical and Experimental
Analysis for the Development
of a Metal Hydride Based
Hydrogen Energy Storage
Device
Ministry of
New and
Renewable
Energy, GoI
33.45
S.C. Mishra
02 years
R.G. Narayanan
Forming behavior of Friction
Stir Welded blanks
DST, Govt.
of India
16.80
—
03 years
R.G. Narayanan
Evaluating the tensile
properties of Zircaloy 4
material
AERB, India 9.50
U.S. Dixit
03 years
S.C. Mishra
Development of an efficient
Parallel code for large-scale
Radiation modeling (PARAD)
DST and
7.00 (from
Republic of Indian side)
Italy
(Sponsored
under IndoItalian
Executive
Programme
of S&T
Cooperation
2008-2010)
P.
Muthukumar
and P.
Mahanta
02 years
S.C. Mishra
Development of model to
calculate radiative heat
transfer in fuel channel of
PHWRs
AERB, India 4.70
P. Mahanta
Ongoing
S. Senthilvelan
ARDB
Design, development and
performance evaluation of self
lubricated cutting tools for
high speed machining
14.00
P.S. Robi
03 years
S. Senthilvelan
Design, development and
performance evaluation of
asymmetric composite gears
DST, Govt.
of India
19.80
—
03 years
S. Kanagaraj
Studies on heat transfer
characteristics of nanofluids
under horizontal, vertical and
inclined flow conditions
Fundacao
para a
Ciencia e a
Tecnologia
(FCT),
Portugal
70.00
03 years
Prof. Monica
and 05
Oliveira and
months
Prof. Jose
Simoes,
University of
Aveiro, Portugal
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
S.K. Kakoty
Rural Technology Action
Group North-East (RuTAGNE)
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Sponsoring
Agency
Office of the
Principal Scientific
Adviser to GoI
25.80
Co-Investigator
—
163
Duration
(Years)
Running
for last 4
years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
S.C. Mishra
Porous Radiant Burners for
LPG Cooking Stove
Petroleum
Conservation
Research
Association,
New Delhi
9.94
P.
Muthukumar
02 years
S.C. Mishra
Kerosene stove with porous
burner
Petroleum
Conservation
Research
Association,
New Delhi
9.94
P.
Muthukumar
02 years
R. Tiwari
Development of a New
Technique for Experimental
Identification of Beam Crack
Parameters
ARDB
(Structures
Panel)
13.00
—
04 years
and 03
months
CONSULTANCY
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
CoInvestigator
Duration
(Years)
P. Muthukumar Technology Survey on Thermo
Acoustic, Magnetic, Absorption
and Sterling Refrigeration
Technologies
Robert Bosch
Engg. and
Business Solutions
Ltd., Bangalore
4.08
—
03 months
R. Tiwari
Investigation of the Vibration
Resonance Problems in
Conveyor Belt Galleries
Lafarge Umiam
Mining Private
Ltd., Meghalaya
2.00
—
02 months
S.K. Kakoty
Noise Pollution Problem of NAT110 MA Rig of M/s Oil India
Limited
Oil India Ltd.
1.62
—
01 year
U.S. Dixit
Time and Motion Study for
unloading of FCI rakes at
Changsari railway station
M/S Sakia Trade
& Transport Co.
Guwahati
0.60
—
02 months
P.S. Robi
Pressure Tube Creep Correlation
Development
BARC, Mumbai
60.41
—
03 years
05 months
164
R. Tarapada and D. Chakraborty
‘Genetic Algorithm Based Optimal Control of Smart
Composite Shell Structures under Mechanical Loading and
Thermal Gradient’, Smart Matter Structure, vol. 18, 2009
‘Effect of engine parameters and type of gaseous fuel
on the performance of dual-fuel gas diesel engines – A
critical review’, Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Reviews, vol. 13, pp 1151-1184, 2009
N. Sahoo and K.P.J. Reddy
‘Force measurement techniques for hypersonic flows in
shock tunnel’, International Journal of Hypersonics, vol.
1 (1), pp 31-57, 2010
D. Bandopadhya and J. Njuguna
‘Modeling and Analysis of an IPMC Rocker Based 4-bar
for Variable Path Generation using Euler-Bernoulli
Approach’, IMechE Part C: Journal of Mechanical
Engineering Science, vol. 223 (10), 2009
B. Kawale, R. Peetala, N. Sahoo and V. Kulkarni
‘Numerical methods to determine convecting heating
rates on aerodynamic surfaces’, International Journal of
Hypersonics, vol. 1 (1), pp 1-12, 2010
D. Bandopadhya
‘Derivation of Transfer Function of an IPMC Actuator
Based on Pseudo-Rigid Body Model’, International Journal
of Reinforced Plastics and composites, DOI: 10.1177/
0734242X08097778
A. Dewan, P. Patro, I. Khan and P. Mahanta
‘Effect of Fin Spacing and Material on Performance of
Circular Pin Fin Heat Sink’, Proceedings of Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Part. A, Journal of Power and
Energy, vol. 224, pp 35-46, 2010
K. Patra, S. Garg, V. Khetrapal, S. Pal and D. Chakraborty
‘Genetically evolved radial basis function network based
prediction of drill flank wear’, Engineering Applications
of Artificial Intelligence (DOI: 10.1016/
j.engappi.2010.02.012)
I. Khan, M. Baruah, A. Dewan and P. Mahanta
‘Computational Investigation of Energy Efficient Pin Fin Cross
Section for a Compact Heat Exchanger’, International Energy
Journal, vol. 10 (4), pp 233-246, 2009
H. Sarangi, K.S.R.K. Murthy and D. Chakraborty
‘Radial locations of strain gages for accurate
measurement of mode I stress intensity factor’, Materials
and Design, vol. 31, pp 2840-2850, 2010
R. Tarapada and D. Chakraborty
‘Genetic Algorithm based Optimal Design for Vibration
Control of Composite Shell Structures using Piezoelectric
Sensors and Actuators’, International Journal of Mechanics
of Materials and Design, vol. 5 (1), pp 45-60, 2009
H. Sarangi, K.S.R.K. Murthy and D. Chakraborty
‘Radial Locations of strain gages for accurate
measurement of mode I stress intensity factor’, Materials
and Design, vol. 31, pp 2840-2850, 2010
P.V. Jogdand and K.S.R.K Murthy
‘A finite element based interior collocation method for
the computation of stress intensity factors and T-stresses’,
Engineering, Fracture Mechanics (DOI:10.1016/
j.engfracmech.2010.03.002)
B.B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U.K. Saha
P. Muthukumar, A. Satheesh, M. Linder, R. Mertz and
M. Groll
‘Studies on Hydriding Kinetics of Some La-Based Metal
Hydride Alloys’, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy,
vol. 34, pp 7253-7262, 2009
A. Satheesh and P. Muthukumar
‘Simulation of Double–Stage Double–Effect Metal
Hydride Heat Pump’, International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy, vol. 35, pp 1474-1484, 2010
P. Muthukumar and S.V. Ramana
‘Heat and Mass Transfer Studies in Metal Hydride Reactor
during Desorption of Hydrogen’, International Journal of
Hydrogen Energy, vol. 35, pp 10811-10818, 2010
P. Muthukumar and M. Groll
‘Metal hydride based heating and cooling systems: A
review’, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol.
35, pp 3817-3831, 2010
B.S. Naik, P.J. Ramulu and R.G. Narayanan
‘Application of few necking criteria in predicting the
forming limit of un-welded and tailor welded blanks’,
Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, vol. 45
(2), pp 79-96, 2010
K. Veerababu, R.G. Narayanan and G. Saravanakumar
‘An expert system based on artificial neural network for
predicting the tensile behavior of tailor welded blanks’,
Expert System with Applications, vol. 36, pp 1068310695, 2009
K.S. Kumar, R. Tiwari and P.V.V.N. Prasad
‘An Optimum Design of Crowned Cylindrical Roller
Bearings using Genetic Algorithms: Transactions of
ASME’, Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 131 (5), pp
051011-051025, 2009
J.S. Rao and R. Tiwari
‘Mechatronics, Design Optimisation of Double-Acting
Hybrid Magnetic Thrust Bearings with Control Integration
using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms’, Journal
Impact Factor, vol. 19 (6), pp 945-964 (DOI: 10.1016/
j.mechatronics.2009.06.011)
165
M. Sharma, S.C. Mishra and P. Acharjee
‘Improvement of thermal efficiency of a conventional
pressure stove using porous radiant inserts’, International
Journal of Energy Research, vol. 10 (4), pp 247-254,
December 2009
M. Ajith, R. Das, R. Uppaluri and S.C. Mishra
‘Optimization of heat fluxes on the heater and the
design surfaces of a radiating-conducting medium’,
Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, vol. 56 (10), pp 846860, October 2009
S.C. Mishra and T.B. Pavan Kumar
‘Analysis of a hyperbolic heat conduction-radiation
problem with temperature dependent thermal
conductivity’, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 131,
pp 111302: 1-7, November 2009
S.C. Mishra, B. Mondal, T. Kush and B.S.R. Krishna
‘Solving transient heat conduction problems on uniform
and non-uniform lattices using the lattice Boltzmann
method’, International Communications in Heat and Mass
Transfer, vol. 36, pp 322-238, April 2009
M. Karthikeyan and R. Tiwari
‘Mechanism and Machine Theory, Detection,
localisation, and sizing of a structural flaw in a beam
based on forced response measurements – An
experimental investigation’, Mechanism and Machine
Theory, vol. 45 (4), pp 584-600, 2010 (Available online:
DOI:10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2009.11.003)
R. Das, S.C. Mishra and R. Uppaluri
‘Retrieval of thermal properties in a transient conduction
radiation problem with variable thermal conductivity’,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 52,
pp 2749-2758, May 2009
P. Asinari, S.C. Mishra and R. Borchiellini
‘A lattice Boltzmann formulation to the analysis of
radiative heat transfer problems in a participating
medium’, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, vol. 57 (2),
pp 126-146, March 2010
R. Muthukumaran and S.C. Mishra
‘Analysis of the transport of a train of short-pulse radiation
of Gaussian temporal profile through a 2-D participating
medium’, Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 30 (14), pp 11971207, December 2009
A. Sakurai, S.C. Mishra and S. Maryuama
‘Radiation element method coupled with the lattice
Boltzmann method applied to the analysis of a transient
conduction and radiation heat transfer problem with heat
generation in a participating medium’, Numerical Heat
Transfer, Part A, vol. 57, pp 346-368, March 2010
B. Mondal and S.C. Mishra
‘Numerical analysis of solidification of a 3-D
semitransparent medium in presence of volumetric
radiation’, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol.
48, pp 1116-1128, June 2009
R. Das, S.C. Mishra and R. Uppaluri
‘Inverse analysis applied to retrieval of parameters and
reconstruction of temperature field in a transient
conduction-radiation heat transfer problem involving
mixed boundary conditions’, International
Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 37 (1),
pp 52-57, January 2010
S.D. Kore, P.P. Date and S.V. Kulkarni
‘Numerical modeling of electromagnetic welding’,
International Journal for Applied Electromagnetics and
Mechanics, vol. 32 (1), pp 1-19, 2010
S.D. Kore, P.P. Date, S.V. Kulkarni, S. Kumar, D. Rani,
M.R. Kulkarni, S.V. Desai, R.K. Rajawat, K.V. Nagesh,
and D.P. Chakravarty
166
‘Electromagnetic Impact Welding of Cu to Cu sheets’,
International Journal of Material Forming, (Published
online) 11 October 2009 (DOI:10.1007/s12289-0090661-z.)
C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan
‘Effect of Reinforced Fiber Length on the Joint
Performance of Thermoplastic Leaf Spring’, Materials and
Design, March 2010 (Available online)
‘Abrasive Behavior of Discontinuous Fiber Reinforced
Polypropylene Material, Industrial Lubrication and
Tribology’, Industrial Lubircation and Tribology, Accepted
for Publication, 2009
‘Effect of Reinforced Fiber length on Hysteretic Heating
of Discontinuous Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene’,
International Journal of Polymeric Materials, vol. 58 (7),
pp 347-354, 2009
S. Senthilvelan and R. Gnanamoorthy
‘Efficiency of Injection Molded Polymer Composite Spur
Gears, Journal of Engineering Tribology’, Proceedings of
the Institute of Mechanical Engineering Part J, vol. 226
(6), pp 925-928, 2009
‘Development and Preliminary Performance Evaluation
of Discontinuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Leaf
Spring’, Journal of Materials: Design and Applications,
Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering Part
L, vol. 223 (3), pp 131-142, 2009
S. Kanagaraj, M.T. Mathew, A. Fonseca, L.A. Rocha,
M.S.A. Oliveira and J.A.O. Simoes
‘Tribological characterization of carbon nanotubes/
ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene composites: the
effects of sliding distance’, International Journal of Surface
Science and Engineering, vol. 4, pp 305-321, 2010
J. Reis, S. Kanagaraj, A. Fonseca, M.T. Mathew, F.C.
Silva, J. Potes, M.S.A. Oliveira and J.A.O. Simoes
‘In vitro studies on multiwalled carbon nanotubes/
ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene nano
composites’, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological
Research, vol. 43, pp 476-482, 2010
A. Fonseca, N. Inacio, S. Kanagaraj, M.S.A. Oliveira and
J.A.O. Simoes
‘The use of Taguchi technique to optimise the
compression moulding cycle to process acetabular cup
components’, Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, 2010
J. Ponmozhi, F.A.M.M. Goncalves, A.G.M. Ferreira,
I.M.A. Fonseca, S. Kanagaraj, N. Martins and M.S.A.
Oliveira
‘Thermodynamic and transport properties of CNT- water
based nanofluids’, Journal of Nano Research, vol. 11, pp
101-106, 2010
S.K. Dwivedy, N. Mahendra, K.C. Sahu
‘Parametric instability of a soft and magneto rheological
elastomer cored sandwich beam’, Journal of Sound and
Vibration, vol. 325 (4-5), pp 686-704, 2009
S.K. Dwivedy, M. Srinivasulu, K. Satish Narayan and A.
Koushik
‘Dynamic analysis of composite flexible robotic
manipulator with harmonic drives using finite element
method’, Advances in Vibration Engineering, vol. 8 (4),
pp 313-320, 2009
B. Pratiher and S.K. Dwivedy
‘Nonlinear dynamics of a soft magneto-elastic Cartesian
manipulator’, International Journal of Nonlinear
Mechanics, vol. 44 (7), pp 757-768, 2009
‘Nonlinear Response of a Flexible Cartesian Manipulator
Subjected to a Pulsating Axial Force’, Nonlinear
Dynamics, vol. 57 (1-2), pp 177-195, 2009
‘Nonlinear Vibration of a Magneto-Elastic Cantilever
Beam with Tip Mass’, ASME, Journal of Vibration and
Acoustics, vol. 131, pp 021011-1-9, April 2009
P.K. Panigrahy, U.K. Saha and D. Maity
‘Experimental Studies on Sloshing Behaviour Due to
Horizontal Movement of Liquids in Baffled Tanks’, Ocean
Engineering, vol. 36, pp. 213-222, 2009
M. Eswaran, U.K. Saha and D. Maity
‘Effect of Baffles on Partially Filled Cubic Tank: Numerical
Simulation and Experimental Validation’, Computers &
Structures, vol. 87, pp 198-205, 2009
M.K. Sinha, S. Deb, R. Das and U.S. Dixit
‘Theoretical and experimental investigations on multihole extrusion process’, Materials & Design, vol. 30, pp
2386-2392, 2009
M. Chandrasekaran, M. Muralidhar, C. Murali Krishna
and U.S. Dixit
‘Application of soft computing techniques in machining
performance prediction and optimisation: a literature
review’, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing
Technology, vol. 46 (5-8), pp 445-464
D.K. Sarma and U.S. Dixit
‘Environment-friendly strategies for efficient utilisation
of cutting tools in finish turning, Transaction of ASME’,
Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, vol.
131 (6), pp 064506-064511, 2010
B. Kawale, R. Peetala, N. Sahoo and V. Kulkarni
‘Numerical methods to determine convective heating
rates on aerodynamic surfaces’, International Journal of
Hypersonics, vol. 1 (1), pp 1-12, 2010
167
of ICCMME 2009, Australian Institute of High Energetic
Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-20 December 2009
D.K. Biswal, S.K. Dwivedy and D. Bandopadhya
‘Non-linear Response of Ionic Polymer-metal
Composite (IPMC) Actuator using Perturbation
Technique’, Proceedings of the International Conference
on Challenges and Applications of Mathematics in
Science and Technology (CAMIST), Rourkela, Orissa,
11-13 January 2010
‘Effect of Hysteresis on Bending Response of an Ionic
Polymer-metal Composite Actuator’, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and
Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, India, 2009
D. Chakraborty and T. Roy
‘Vibration Control of Smart Composite Shell Structures
using Genetic algorithm’, Proceedings of Seventh ICME,
BUET, Dhaka, 26-28 December 2009
V. Kulkarni and K.P.J. Reddy
‘Counterflow drag reduction studies for a blunt cone in
high enthalpy flow’, International Journal of Hypersonics,
vol. 1 (1), pp 69-76, 2010
A. Satheesh, P. Muthukumar, A. Dewan and M. Groll
‘Performance Investigation of a Double Stage Double
Effect Metal Hydride Heating and Cooling System’,
World Hydrogen Energy Convection, New Delhi, 26-28
August 2009
D. Arumuga Perumal, V. Krishna, G. Sarvesh and A.K.
Dass
‘Numerical Simulation of Gaseous Microflows by Lattice
Boltzmann Method’, International Journal of Recent Trends
in Engineering, vol. 1 (5), pp 15-20, 2009
A. Satheesh and P. Muthukumar
‘Operation and Performance Investigation of a DoubleStage Double-effect Metal Hydride Heat Pump’, Third
International Symposium on Hydrogen in Matter (ISOHIM
2009), IIT Madras, India, 13-16 December 2009
D. Santhosh Kumar, A.K. Dass and A. Dewan
‘Analysis of non-Darcy models for mixed convection in
a cavity using multigrid approach’, Numerical Heat Transfer
Part A, vol. 56 (8), pp 685-708, 2009
V.K. Pantangi, S.C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar and Franz
Durst
‘Experimental Investigations of New Combinational
Burner for Domestic Cooking Application’, International
Conference on Advances in Energy Research 2009, IIT
D. Santhosh Kumar, A.K. Dass and A. Dewan
‘Multigrid Accelerated Computation of 2D TimeDependent Incompressible Viscous Flows’, Engineering
Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, vol. 4
(1), pp 71-90, 2010
A. Satheesh, P. Muthukumar and A. Dewan
‘Performance Analysis of Metal Hydride based Cooling
Systems’, Twentieth National and Ninth International
ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference,
Mumbai, 4-6 January 2010
‘Effects of Dehydration on the Vibration characteristics
of Ionic Polymer-metal Composite Actuator’, Proceedings
V.K. Pantangi, S.C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar and R. Reddy
‘Experimental Study on Performance Improvement of a
Domestic LPG Cooking Stove using Porous Inert Media’,
168
Twentieth National and Ninth International ISHMTASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Mumbai,
4-6 January 2010
A.T. Dhumal, R.G. Narayanan and G. Saravanakumar
‘Estimation of tailor-Welded blank parameters for
acceptable tensile behavior using ANN’, Third
International Conference on Pattern Recognition and
Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2009), IIT Delhi, pp 140145, 16-20 December 2009 (Springer-Verlag Berlin
Heidelberg 2009)
K.S. Krishna, R.G. Narayanan, G. Saravanakumar
‘Simulation based expert system to predict the forming
limit of tailor welded blanks’, Third International
Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation
(ICCMS – 09), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, pp 227-228, 1-5
December 2009
P.J. Ramulu and R.G. Narayanan
‘Representing weld zone during friction stir welded blanks
formability prediction’, Third International Congress on
Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS – 09),
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, pp 231-232, 1-5 December 2009
P.J. Ramulu and R.G. Narayanan
‘Forming limit prediction of friction stir welded blanks’,
Third International Congress on Computational
mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS – 09), IIT Bombay,
Mumbai, pp 233-234, 1-5 December 2009
R.G. Narayanan, K.V. Babu and K.S. Krishna
‘Simulation assisted expert system for TWB forming’,
National Conference on Sheet metal forming (SMF
2009), Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, pp 117127, 19-20 November 2009
R Tiwari, N. Tanwar and S. Mishra
‘Application of support vector Machine Techniques for
Health Monitoring of Gears’, National Conference on
Condition Monitoring (NCCM-2009), Visakhapatnam, 45 December 2009
M. Ajith, R. Das, R. Uppaluri and S.C. Mishra
‘Estimation of boundary conditions in a conduction-radiation
problem’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer
Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 4-6 January 2010
R. Muthukumaran, S.C. Mishra and S. Maruyama
‘Analysis of signals originating from a planar participating
medium subjected to short-pulse laser sources at both the
boundaries’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer
‘The effects of size of the inhomogeneity on signal
resolution during optical diagnostics of a 2-D turbid
medium’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer
‘Collapsed dimension method applied to the analysis of
transport of short-pulse radiation through a participating
medium’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer
P. Asinari, S.C. Mishra and R. Borchiellini
‘A lattice Boltzmann formulation to the radiative heat
transfer analysis in a participating medium’, Ninth
ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT
Bombay, Mumbai, 4-6 January 2010
B. Mondal, S.C. Mishra and X. Li
‘Analysis of natural convection in the presence of
volumetric radiation in a square cavity with non-uniform
lattices using the lattice Boltzmann method’, Ninth
B. Mondal, X. Li and S.C. Mishra
‘Numerical analysis of water droplet deformation in the
flow channel of PEM fuel cells’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat
and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai,
4-6 January 2010
Sakurai, S.C. Mishra and S. Maruyama
‘Analysis of transient conduction and radiation heat
transfer with heat generation using the lattice Boltzmann
method and the radiation element method’, Ninth
V.K. Pantangi, S.C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar and R. Reddy
‘Experimental study on performance improvement of a
domestic LPG cooking stove using porous inert media’,
Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference,
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 4-6 January 2010
V.K. Pantangi and S.C. Mishra
‘Thermal analysis of low wattage porous inert media radiant
burners’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer
M. Sharma, M. Nishioka, S.C. Mishra and P. Mahanta
‘A modeling study of lean premixed CH4/N2/O2/Ar/CO2
mixtures: dependence of laminar flame speed on
pressure and preheating temperature’, Ninth ISHMTASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Bombay,
Mumbai, 4-6 January 2010
R.P. Chopade, S.C. Mishra and P. Mahanta
‘An inverse analysis for estimation of boundary conditions
in a 2-D combined mode transient conduction-radiation
problem’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer
R.P. Chopade, S.C. Mishra and P. Mahanta
‘Simultaneous estimation of parameters in a conductionradiation problem – performance evaluation of three
radiative transfer methods’, Ninth ISHMT-ASME Heat
and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai,
4-6 January 2010
R. P. Chopade, S. C. Mishra and P. Mahanta and R.
Muthukumaran
‘Estimation of medium properties in transport of a shortpulse laser through a participating medium’, Ninth
‘Use of ceramic heat shield ring with embedded porous
zirconia: an approach to enhance thermal efficiency of
conventional pressure stove’, International Conference
and Exhibition on Advances in Energy Research, IIT
V.K. Pantangi, F. Durst, S.C. Mishra and P. Muthukumar
‘Experimental investigations of new combinational burner
for domestic cooking application’, International
Conference and Exhibition on Advances in Energy
Research, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 9-11 December 2009
H. Takeda, J. Okajima, S. Aiba A. Komiya, S.C. Mishra
and S. Maruyama
‘Precise and rapid cooling of skin tissue for cryosurgery
utilising Peltier effect in extremely low temperature’,
Seventh World Conference on Experimental Heat
Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT7), Krakow, Poland, 28 June-3 July 2009
S.D. Kore
‘Electromagnetic forming and welding of metals: A brief
Review’, Sheet Metal Forming 09, Bombay, pp 107115, 2009
169
P. Kumar, R. Kumar and S. Senthilvelan
‘Injection Molded Asymmetric Spur Gear- Development
and Preliminary Performance Evaluation’, Seventh Global
Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, IIT Madras,
pp 143-146, 2-4 December 2009
‘Effect of Material Stiffness over Joint Performance of
Thermoplastic Composite Leaf Spring’, Eighth ISAMPE
National Conference on Composites (INCCOM), VSSC,
Thiruvananthapuram, pp 25-33, 4-5 December 2009
N. Vikram, M. Kumar, S. Senthilvelan and P.S. Robi
‘Characterisation of Self Lubricating Cutting Tool Material
for Automotive Application’, Tribo India Conference,
Tribology of Automotive Industries, IIT Delhi, pp 3-7,
11-12 December 2009
‘Computer Aided Design of Composite Leaf Spring’,
National Conference on Industrial Problems in Machines
and Mechanisms (IPRoMM), IIT Madras, Chennai, pp
149-156, 10-11 July 2009
S. Kanagaraj
‘Studies on the effect of fibres on transverse thermal
expansion of unidirectional fibre reinforced plastics’,
Proceedings of Ninth ISHMT-ASME and 20th National HMT
Conference, pp 445-449, 2010
S. Mathur, A. Bharadwaj and S. Kanagaraj
‘Nanofuel: Next generation green fuel for IC Engines’,
Proceedings of Ninth ISHMT-ASME and Twentieth National
HMT Conference, pp 495-499, 2010
N. Singh, G. Chand and S. Kanagaraj
‘Investigation of thermal conductivity and viscosity of
carbon nanotubes-Ethylene glycol nanofluids’,
Proceedings of Ninth ISHMT-ASME and Twentieth National
HMT Conference, pp 500-505, 2010
B. Sandeep Reddy and S.K. Dwivedy
‘Dynamics and Control of a Pneumatically Actuated
Robotic Manipulator’, Proceeding of the Fourteenth
National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms
(NaCoMM-09), NIT, Durgapur, India, 17-18 December
2009 (Paper id RBR17)
S. Ganguly, A. Garg, A. Pasricha and S.K. Dwivedy
‘Design and fabrication of a novel three wheel robot
with a SLE based lifting mechanism and line tracking
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capability’, Proceeding of the fourteenth National
Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (NaCoMM09), NIT, Durgapur, India, 17-18 December 2009 (Paper
id ASMS29)
M. Goomer, P. Singh, S.K. Dwivedy
‘Design and Control of Biped Robot’, Proceeding of the
fourteenth National Conference on Machines and
Mechanisms (NaCoMM-09), NIT, Durgapur, India, 1718 December 2009 (Paper id ASMPS30).
‘Effect of Dehydration on the Vibration characteristics
of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuator’, Proceeding
of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Chemical,
Mechanical and Materials Engineering (ICCMME 2009),
Australia, pp 245-250, 7-20 December 2009
‘Effects of Hysteresis on Bending Response of Ionic
Polymer-Metal Composite Actuator’, International
Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, 9-11 December 2009
(Poster Presentation)
‘Non-linear Response of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite
(IPMC) Actuator using Perturbation Technique’,
Proceeding of the International Conference on Challenges
and Application of Mathematics in Science and Technology,
NIT Rourkela, India, pp 266-274, 11-13 January 2010
S.K. Kakoty
‘Combating sound pollution at drilling rig in Oil India
Limited’, Proceedings of All India Seminar on Active and
Passive Noise Control, IEI, Guwahati, 13-14 November 2009
‘Assessment of a Syngas Diesel Dual-Fuelled Compression
Ignition Engine’, ASME Fourth International Conference
on Energy Sustainability, 17-22 May 2010
‘Effect of H2:CO Ratio in Syngas for a Dual Fuel Engine
Operation’, ASME-ATI-UIT Conference on Thermal and
Environmental Issues in Energy Systems, Sorrento, Italy,
16-19 May 2010
B.B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo, U.K. Saha and P. Prusty
‘Analysis of Throttle opening Variation Impact on a
Diesel Engine Performance using Second–Law of
Thermodynamics’, ASME Internal Combustion Engine
Division Spring Technical Conference, Wisconsin, USA,
3-6 May 2009
M. Eswaran and U.K. Saha
‘Low Steeping Waves Simulation in a Vertical Excited
Container using s Transformation’, ASME Twenty-eighth
International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic
Engineering, Hawaii, USA, 31 May-5 June 2009
M. Eswaran and U.K. Saha
‘Numerical Simulation of Low Steeping Waves in a
Horizontally Excited Container using Sigma
Transformation’, Proceedings of the Third International
Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation,
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 1-5 December 2009
M. Chandraseakran, M. Muralidhar and U.S. Dixit
‘Optimisation of Engineering problems by Fuzzy set
theory: An Application to Multipass Turning
process’, International Multi Conference on Intelligent
Systems and Nanotechnology, Institute of Science and
Technology Kalwad (ISTK), Yamuna Nagar, Haryana,
26-28 February 2010
D.A. Perumal, Gundavarapu V.S. Kumar and A.K. Dass
‘Application of Lattice Boltzmann method to Microcavities’, International Conference on Advanced
Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN-2009), IIT
Guwahati, India, 9-11 December 2009
D.A. Perumal and A.K. Dass
‘Multiplicity of Steady Solutions in Two-Dimensional LidDriven Cavity Flows by the Lattice Boltzmann Method’,
Sixth International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods
in Engineering and Science (ICMMES-09), Guangzhou,
China, 13-17 July 2009
Book, Chapter, etc.
Books
U.S. Dixit
‘Finite Element Methods for Engineers’, Cengage
Learning Asia Pvt. Ltd., Singapore, 2009
Book Chapters
S. Kanagaraj, M.S.A. Oliveira and J.A.O. Simoes
‘Tribology of Biocomposites’, Biomedical Composites,
ed. by: Luigo Ambrosio, CRC Press, USA, pp 441464, 2010
S. Kanagaraj
‘Polyethylene-Nanotube Nanocomposites’, Polymer
Nanotube Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Properties and
Applications, ed. by: Vikas Mittal, Wiley-Scrivener
Publishing Inc., USA, pp 113-140, 2010
S. Kanagaraj
‘Carbon nanotubes/Polymer Composites for Biomedical
Applications’, Carbon Based Nanomaterials, ed. by: Nasar
Ali, Andreas Oechsner and Waqar Ahmed, Trans Tech
Publications, Switzerland, pp 255-283, 2010
R.G. Narayanan
‘Expert System Applications in Sheet Metal Forming’,
Expert Systems, ed. by: Petrica Vizureanu, ISBN: 978953-307-032-2, INTECH
S.D. Kore, J. Imbert, M. Worswick and Y. Zhou
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‘Electromagnetic Pulse Welding of Aluminium to
Magnesium Sheets’, Welding and joining of magnesium
alloys, ed. by: Woodhead Publishing (submitted first
draft)
U.S. Dixit
‘Application of neural networks and fuzzy sets to
machining and metal forming’, Artificial Intelligence in
Manufacturing Research, ed. by: J. Paulo Davim, Nova
Science Publishers, Chapter 1, USA, 2009
D. Arumuga Perumal and A.K. Dass
‘Simulation of Incompressible thermal flows by LBM,
Modeling and Simulation in Computational Mechanics:
Engineering Applications’, Chapter 4, pp 64-73,
Lambert Academic Publishers, Germany, 2009 (ISBN
978-3-8383-0694-0)
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
D. Chakraborty
Scientific and Engineering
Applications of High
Performance Computing System
ICAD,
Moscow
24-27
November 2009
International
D. Chakraborty
Seventh International
Conference on Mechanical
Engineering
BUET, Dhaka
26-28
December 2009
International
P. Muthukumar
World Hydrogen Energy
Convection
New Delhi
26-28 August
2009
International
P. Muthukumar
Third International Symposium
on Hydrogen in Matter
(ISOHIM 2009)
IIT Madras,
Chennai
13-16
December 2009
International
P. Muthukumar
Twentieth National and Ninth
International ISHMTASME Heat and Mass Transfer
Conference
Mumbai,
India
4-6 January
2010
International
R.G. Narayanan
National Conference on Sheet
Metal Forming (SMF 2009)
Bombay
Exhibition
Centre,
Mumbai
19-20
November 2009
National
R. Tiwari
National Conference on Condition
Monitoring (NCCM-2009)
Visakhapatnam
4-5 December
2009
National
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Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
S.D. Kore
National Conference on Sheet
Metal Forming (SMF 2009)
Bombay
Exhibition
Centre,
Mumbai
19-20 November
2009
National
S. Senthilvelan
Industrial Problems in Machines
and Mechanisms (IPRoMM)
IIT Madras,
Chennai
10-11 July 2009
National
S. Kanangaraj
Ninth International ISHMT-ASME
and Twentieth National Heat and
Mass Transfer Conference
Mumbai
4-6 January 2010
International
S. Kanangaraj
Nanotechnology
IIT Guwahati
9-11 December
2009
International
S.K. Kakoty
All India Seminar on Active and
Passive Noise Control
IEI, Guwahati
13-14 November
2009
National
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./
Org.
Place
Date
P. Muthukumar
Hydrogen Fuel and its
applications
Coimbatore Institute of
Technology
Coimbatore
5 September
2009
P. Muthukumar
Potential applications of
metal hydride based heat
pump and heat transformer
in thermal power plant
National Thermal
Power Corporation,
Govt. of India
Noida
27 November
2009
P. Muthukumar
Review on Metal hydride
based heating and cooling
systems
IIT Madras, Chennai
Chennai
13-16
December
2009
P. Muthukumar
Applications of Hydrogen
Energy
Muthaiyammal
Engineering College
Namakkal, Tamil 24 December
2009
Nadu
R.G. Narayanan
Simulation assisted expert
system for TWB forming
SMFRA, India
Bombay Exhibition 19-20
Centre, Mumbai November 2009
R. Tiwari
Application of Support Vector
Machine Techniques for
Heath Monitoring of Gears
Naval Science and
Technological
Laboratory, Vizag
Visakhapatnam
4-5 December
2009
S.C. Mishra
Characterisation of a
medium using a short-pulse
laser
MNNIT Allahabad
Allahabad
31 August
2009
Name of
Faculty
Name of Inst./
Org.
Name of Lecture
Place
173
Date
S.C. Mishra
Solving Heat Transfer
Problems Involving Thermal
Radiation – the Lattice
Boltzmann Method Approach
Politecnico di Torino,
Italy
Torino, Italy
22 July 2009
S.C. Mishra
Lattice Boltzmann Method
Applied to the Solution of
Energy Equations of Heat
Transfer Problems Involving
Thermal Radiation
Engineering Faculty,
University of Rome,
Tor Vergata, Rome,
Italy
Rome, Italy
30 June
2009
S.C. Mishra
A 4-day, 12-hour lecture
series on Numerical
Modeling of Heat Transfer
Problems Involving Thermal
Radiation
Politecnico di Torino,
Italy
Torino, Italy
26 May – 4
June 2009
U.S. Dixit
Lectures on FEM, neural
network and laser
applications in manufacturing
NERIST
Itanagar
12-14
December
2009
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Purpose
Date
Remarks
Prof. M. Groll
Aspen Tech, UK
Visiting Professor
8 March – 3
April 2010
—
Dr. V. Wadekar
IIT Madras
Delivering Lecture
15-19 March
2010
—
Prof. M. Maiya
IKE, University of
Stuttgart, Germany
Delivering Lecture
25-30 March
2010
—
Dr. Sumitesh
Das
Tata steel,
Jamshedpur, India
AICTE-INAE Visiting
Professorship
2009-2011
Involved in lectures and
student projects
Prof. Amitabha
Ghosh
IIT Kanpur
To deliver lecture and
interact with Department
11-12 March
2010
Interaction with faculty
members and research
scholars was held
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INVITED LECTURES
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Name of Lecture
Date
Prof. M. Groll
IKE, University of
Stuttgart
Delivered 14 lectures on various
aspects of Energy
8 January – 31 March
2010
Prof. Amitabh Ghosh
BESU
Recent trends in Mechanical
Engineering Research
March 2010
Dr. J. Srinivas
National University
Daegu, South Korea
Machine Tool Dynamics and
Vibrations
22 January 2010
Prof. N. Siva Prasad
IIT Madras, Chennai
Reverse Engineering
16 March 2010
Prof. B.N. Suresh
Director, IIST
Trivandrum
Space Transportation in India,
Present Scenario and Future
Directions
4 December 2009
Mr. Nishant Sarawgi
R.V. College of
Engineering, Bangalore
Project Garuda-R.V.C.E. Super
mileage
25 January 2010
Mr. Michael Donat
Physik Instrument,
Germany
Positioning for extreme precision
– Challenges solutions
4 March 2010
SHORT-TERM COURSES
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Coordinator: U.S. Dixit and A.K. Dass
Name of Course: Mechanical Engineering Education
Date: 7-11 December 2009
D. Bandopadhya
a) Invited to be the member of the advisory board: Vel.
Tech. Dr. R.R. & Dr. S.R. Technical University, Chennai
600062, Tamilnadu, India
ORGANISED
Coordinator: S.K. Kakoty
Name of Seminar: All India Seminar on Active and
Passive Noise Control
Sponsoring Agency: Institutes of Engineers (India)
Date: 13-14 November 2009 (National)
b) Member of the International Biographical Centre
(IBC), Cambridge, England
c) Nominated and Selected for the Award ‘Shiksha Rattan
Puraskar 2010’ by India International Friendship Society
(IIFS), New Delhi
S.C. Mishra
a) One of the four vice presidents of the Indian Society
for Heat and Mass Transfer, January 2010
PATENT FILED
b) Visiting Professor, Department of Energetics,
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, April - July 2009
S.C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar and V.K. Pantangi
Porous Radiant Burner for Domestic LPG Cooking Stove
(Applied)
S. Senthilvelan
a) BOYSCAST Fellowship, 2009-10 by Department of
Science and Technology, Govt. of India
b) IEI Young Engineers Award 2009 in Mechanical
Engineering Discipline by The Institution of Engineers,
India
U.K. Saha
Chairman, DRDO Scientist Entry Test - 2009
K.S.R. Krishna Murthy
Vice Chairman, DRDO Scientist Entry Test - 2009
D. Bandopadhya
a) Editorial board member: International Journal of
Engineering and Mechanics
b) Reviewer: Book, Journal of Smart Materials, Journal
of Sound and Vibration, Journal of Intelligent Material
Systems and Structures
FACULTY MEMBERS
D. Bandopadhya
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Active Materials, Artificial Muscle
Materials, Smart Structures, Robotics and Mechanisms
A. Banerjee
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Compliant Mechanism, Shape Memory
Alloy, Bio-mimetic Devices
D. Chakraborty
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Areas of Interest: FRP, Composites, FEM, Fracture
Mechanics and Design
A. Dalal
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Computational Fluid Mechanics and
Heat Transfer, Finite Volume Methods and Unstructured
Grid Techniques, Natural and Mixed Convection Flows,
Heat Pipes
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A.K. Dass
Professor
Areas of Interest: Computational Fluid Dynamics and
Turbomachines
A.K. De
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Numerical Methods in Fluid Flow and
Heat Transfer, Convection, Turbulence
A. Dewan (up to 19 May 2009)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and
Thermodynamics
U.S. Dixit
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Design and Manufacturing: FEM,
Neural Network and Fuzzy Set Application, Mechatronics
S.K. Dwivedy
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Non-linear Dynamics, Design and
Robotics, Vibrations
Manfred Groll
Visiting Professor (Professor Emeritus, University of
Stuttgart, Germany)
Areas of Interest: Engineering Thermophysics/Thermal
Engineering, Energy Technology and Nuclear Reactor
Safety
S.N. Joshi
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: CAD/CAM/CIM, Unconventional
Machining Processes, Application of Soft Computing
Techniques in Manufacturing, Miniaturisation of
Machining Processes
176
S.K. Kakoty
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Tribology, Duct Acoustics, Mechanical
System Design, Nonconventional Energy
S. Kanagaraj
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Biomaterials, Nanocomposites and
their characterisation, Nanofluids, Thermophysical
properties of materials at cryogenic temperatures,
Cryogenics
S.D. Kore
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Experimental and numerical study of
electromagnetic pulse processing, Solid state welding,
Joining of similar, dissimilar and lightweight metals like
Al, Steel, Al-Li, and Mg
K.S.R. Krishna Murthy
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Finite Element Methods, Error
Estimation and Fracture Mechanics
V.N. Kulkarni
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: High enthalpy flows, Scramjet Engine,
Experimental, Aerodynamics, Measurement Science,
CFD simulations
P. Mahanta
PhD (IIT Guwahati)
Professor and Head, Center for Energy
Areas of Interest: Thermal Radiation with Participating
Media, Fluidisation, Energy Conservation and Renewable
Energy
S.C. Mishra
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Analysis of Heat Transfer Problems
involving Thermal Radiation
P. Muthukumar
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Coupled heat and mass transfer
analysis, Metal hydride based thermal machines,
Conventional and Non-conventional refrigeration
systems
R.G. Narayanan
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Metal Forming – Sheet forming and
Cold forging, Computer applications in Metal Forming
S. Pal
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Welding Process Monitoring and
Control, Tool Condition Monitoring, Non-Conventional
Machining Process, Application of Artificial Neural
Network, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy logic in
Manufacturing
S. Panda
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Composite materials, Nonlinear
vibrations, Smart materials and structures, FEM,
Functionally Graded materials and structures,
Micromechanics
M. Pandey (up to 10 August 2009)
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Dynamics and Control of Fluid-Thermal
Systems, Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics
M. Ramji (up to 30 November 2009)
PhD (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest:
P.S. Robi
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Professor and Dean, Research & Development
Areas of Interest: Coating, Fracture Mechanics, Materials
Processing, Metal Matrix Composite, Metal Casting, P/
M Processing
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U.K. Saha
PhD (IIT Bambay)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Propulsion, Turbomachinery, Wind
Energy Conversion, Internal Combustion Engines
A.D. Sahasrabudhe (On deputation as Director, College
of Engineering, Pune)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Vibration and Noise, Condition
Monitoring, CAD/CAM
N. Sahoo
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Fluid and Thermal Engineering,
Aerodynamics, Gas Dynamics, Instrumentation,
Measurements and Experiments in Fluid
S. Senthilvelan
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Composites, Fatigue, Wear and Failure
Analysis
C. Somayaji
PhD (Mississippi State University)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Renewable Energy, Non-Conventional
Energy Sources, Engine After treatment Systems, Design
of Heat Transfer Equipments, Chemical Reaction
Engineering, Fuel Cell Modeling
R. Tiwari
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Random Vibrations, Rotor Dynamics,
Mechanical System Identification and Rolling Element
Bearing Design and Analysis
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
INTRODUCTION
Established in 1995, the Department of Physics at IIT
Guwahati continues to impart quality education to BTech,
MSc and PhD students of the Department, allied
Departments and first year BTech/BDes students of the
Institute. In order to achieve the goal of quality teaching,
the teaching and research laboratories are being
continuously upgraded with state-of-the-art equipment
and other infrastructure facilities. In research and
development, the Department continues to excel with
increase in contribution towards international research
publications, sponsored research activities, participating
and conducting national/international workshops,
conferences, short-term courses, etc. The Department
is working towards the goal of achieving recognition as
one of the centers of excellence in learning with cuttingedge research and development activities in frontline
areas of Physics and allied inter-disciplinary subject areas.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
BTech programme
The Department offers core, science elective and open
elective courses in Physics for the BTech programme of
the Institute. The theory courses PH101 and PH102,
and a laboratory course PH110 are offered as core Physics
courses to 1st year BTech students. The core courses
are designed to offer an overall knowledge of Physics
and to train the students in experimental techniques
with modern equipment. The syllabi for courses PH101
and PH102 have been revised in the reported academic
year. Science electives are offered in the 4th semester
BTech programme and give a somewhat deeper insight
of specialised area. The Department offers open elective
courses for 8th semester BTech programme to provide
exposure to the advances in science and technology. In
this year a new open elective course namely PH446:
Fundamental of Astrophysics is offered. Since the year
2006, a four year BTech Engineering Physics Programme
is being offered to train bright students as engineer along
with essential knowledge on Physics and Applied
Physics. The Department has upgraded the various under
graduate and post graduate laboratories to meet the
demand of increase in number of student in-take and
by introducing new experiments. A new elective course
for BTech-EP curriculum PH459: Nonlinear Fiber Optics
and Applications is introduced. All the passing out
students of first batch of BTech-EP have got either
industrial placement or admission in to prestigious
universities in US/Europe for higher studies.
MSc programme
The two-year MSc programme in Physics was started in
July 2000 with an intake limit of ten students and is
now expanded to a maximum intake of thirty (30)
students through JAM. This programme is designed with
equal emphasis on both classroom lectures and
laboratory training with modern infrastructure. A record
number of fifteen out of twenty passing out MSc students
have qualified GATE/NET/JEST examinations. The
Department has introduced two new elective courses
PH528: Spintronics-Physics and Technology and PH537:
Imaging and Fourier Optics.
PhD programme
The Department has been offering PhD programme in
Physics since August 1996 both in experimental as well
as theoretical Physics. Students in this programme are
trained through rigorous course work covering basic as
well as advanced level courses before starting their
research work. The Department has recently modified
the course structure for the PhD students in order to
strengthen their basic concept. An elective course on
Experimental Techniques and Scientific Presentation has
been added. The Department could attract as many as
twenty-nine (29) new PhD students in the reporting year,
thereby increasing the strength of PhD students for about
100%.
STUDENT INTAKE
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CCD camera (Basler A 630f)
DPSS laser (532 nm)
BTech (Engineering Physics) students
admitted in 2009-2010
: 31
MSc students admitted in 2009-2010
: 27
PhD students admitted in 2009-2010
: 29
Microchip programming lab (PicDem2 Plus+ICD2
+Pic18f2550 boards)
FACULTY STRENGTH
Professor
: 03
Associate Professor
: 10
Assistant Professor
: 11
Total
: 24
Q Switched high power Nd: YAG Laser (400mJ, 8ns,)
from DST project (Project no. PHY/P/AK/DST/06) costing
Rs. 20.00Lakhs
Liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM LC-R 720)
An MOU was signed in November, 2009 with Fermi
National Accelerator laboratory (FNAL), USA to
collaborate on Neutrino Physics, related experiments
and detector development for present and future
experiments in High Energy Physics.
• Development of experimental set-up for laser
induced breakdown spectroscopy for identification
of safe and hazardous plastics.
• Experimental set-up for Multiphoton induced
absorption for harmonic generation and frequency
up-conversion in PLD thin films.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
Head of
Department
(coordinator)
DST-FIST Project
(Infrastructure project to the
Department)
DST, Govt.
of India
229.00
Department
Project
05 years
A. Perumal
Development of
Nanocomposite permanent
magnet based on (FePt/Fe)
multilayer thin films
DRDO,
Govt. of
India
35.13
—
03 years
S.B. Santra
Study of Self-organising
dynamics on complex and
evolving networks
DST, Govt.
of India
18.80
—
03 years
Archana
Kushwaha
(Women
Scientist)
To study the safe and
hazardous plastics by LIBS
technique to generate a
database/library for easy
classification
DST
(WOS-A),
Govt. of
India
11.16
(Mentor: A.
Khare)
03 years
S. Basu
Inhomogeneous
superconductivity in Pauli
limited superconductors
DST, Govt.
of India
10.23
—
03 years
180
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
P.K. Giri
Ion Beam Engineering of
Carbon Nanotubes for
Improved Structural and
Optical Functionalities
UGC-DAE,
CSR
Beam time
with TA-DA
support
—
03 years
S. Ravi
Neutron Powder Diffraction
UGC-DAE,
Studies in Charge Ordered
CSR
and Double Exchange
Ferromagnetic Samples of NdMn-O
0.35 + TA/
DA
—
01 year
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
A. Khare
Fabrication of thin films and
oddered arrays of AlxIn1-xN
composites for
optoelectronics application via
Pulsed Laser Ablation
techniques
DRDO,
Govt. of
India
34.00
P. Agarwal
03 years
A. Khare
Studies on ion dynamics in
Laser Produced Plasma and its
Effect on PLD Thin Films
using conventional and novel
diagnostics
DST, Govt.
of India
39.37
D. Raju,
Institute for
Plasma
Research
Gandhinagar
03 years
A. Khare
Fabrication and sub micron
tailoring of materials for
Photonics applications with
Ultrafast lasers (A multi
institutional Project)
Office of
the
Principal
Scientific
Advisor to
the GoI
50.00 (IITG)
(Total:
370.00)
Faculty
members and
scientists
from TIFR,
IITB, IITD,
RRCAT and
Manipal
University
03 years
A. Khare
Pulsed Laser Deposition of
Thin Films and
Characterisation for
Application for various
Diagnostics for Fusion Plasma
National
22.18
Fusion
programme,
IPR
Gandhinagar
—
03 years
A. Khare
Development of Lecture
notes for Optoelectronics
AICTE
—
04 years
0.25
181
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
A.K. Sarma
Few-cycle optical solitons in
the context of soliton selfswitching
DST, Govt.
of India
3.60
—
03 years
P. Agarwal
Preparation and Study of
Hydrogenated
Microcrystalline Silicon Thin
Films by Hotwire Chemical
Vapor Deposition method for
Solar Cell Applications
DST, Govt.
of India
55.00
—
03 years
A. Srinivasan
Investigations on magnetic
properties of selected novel
magnetic materials
DST, Govt.
of India
144.07
S. Ravi, A.
Perumal and
P.K. Iyer
03 years
A. Srinivasan
Neutron diffraction studies of
structural and magnetic
phases in Co-Ni-Ga alloys
UGC-DAE,
CSR
0.70 + TA/
DA
S. Sarma
02 years
S.B. Santra
Theoretical Physics seminar
Circuit (North East)
DST,
through
S.N.B.N.C.B.S.
Kolkata
0.50
—
Long-term
S. Ghosh
First-principles based selfconsistent theory for multisite correlations in random
alloys
DST, Govt.
of India
28.16
Prof. A.
Mookerjee,
S.N.B.N.C.B.S.
Kolkata
03 years
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
Principal
Investigator
Duration
(Years)
C) Completed Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
P.K. Giri
Studies of irradiation induced
defects and impurities in
ZnO thin films
UGC,
DAE,
Kolkata
8.00
—
06 years
P.K. Giri
Growth and studies of
embedded Ge and Gex Si1-x
nanocrystals for the
development of Si-based
light sources
BRNS,
DAE
19.50
—
05 years
P.K. Giri
Development of lecture
notes for the course on
Physics of Semiconductors
QIP, AICTE
0.20
—
03 years
182
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
Study of Crystal Structure and
Magnetic Properties in
(La0.85Ag0.15)-Mn-O and
La(Mn1-x CuxO3 by Neutron
Diffraction
UGC, DAE,
Facilities for
Collaborative
Scientific
Research
1.05
—
02 years
Principal
Investigator
S. Ravi
G. Shukla, P. Mishra and A. Khare
‘Effect of annealing and O2 pressure on structural and
optical properties of pulsed laser deposited TiO2 thin
films’, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 489, pp.
246-251, 2010
A. Nath and A. Khare
‘Spectroscopic investigations on Laser Induced
breakdown in Water’, Journal of Physics: Conference
Series, vol. 208, pp 012090, 2010
A.T.T. Mostako, C.V.S. Rao and A. Khare
‘Pulsed Laser Deposition of thin films of
molybdenum’, Journal of Physics: Conference Series,
vol. 208, pp 012114, 2010
G. Shukla and A. Khare
‘Effect of Mg doping and substrate temperature on
properties of pulsed laser deposited epitaxial Zn1-x
MgxO thin films’, Applied Physics, Part A, vol. 96, pp
713-719, 2009
‘Effect of substrate annealing on the quality of pulsed
laser deposited Zn1-x MgxO thin films’, Applied Surf
Science, vol. 255, pp 7017-7020, 2009
‘Optical emission spectroscopic studies on Laser ablated
TiO2 plasma’, Applied Surf Science, vol. 255, pp 87308737, 2009
‘Spectroscopic studies of laser ablated ZnO plasma
and correlation with pulsed laser deposited ZnO thin
film properties’, Laser and Particle Beam, vol. 28, pp
149-155, 2010
X.N. Zhang, E. Barrena, D.K. Goswami, D.G.de Oteyza,
C. Weis and H. Dosch
‘Evidence for a Layer-Dependent Ehrlich-Schwoebel
Barrier in Organic Thin Film Growth’, Physics Review
Letter, vol. 103, pp 136101-4, 2009
A.K. Sarma, M. Saha and A. Biswas
‘Effect of two-photon absorption on soliton propagation
and soliton-soliton interaction in a silicon
waveguide’, Optical Engineering, vol. 49 (3), pp 035001,
2010 (SPIE)
A.K. Sarma
‘Self-switching of solitons in an AlGaAs nanowire
coupler’, Applied Optics, vol. 48 (27), pp 5067, 2009
(Optical Society of America)
M. Saha, A.K. Sarma and A. Biswas
‘Dark Optical solitons in power law media with timedependent coefficients’, Physics Letters A., vol. 373,
pp 4438, 2009
Engin Topkara, Daniela Milovic, A.K. Sarma, Fayequa
Majid and A. Biswas
‘A Study of optical solitons with Kerr and power law
nonlinearities by He’s variational principle’, Journal of
the European Optical Society, vol. 4, pp 09050, 2009
A.K. Sarma
‘A comparative study of soliton switching in a two and
three core coupler with TOD and IMD’, Optik –
International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol.
120, pp 390, 2009 (Elsevier)
D. Pamu, K. Sudheendran, M. Ghanashyam Krishna and
K.C. James Raju
‘Dielectric properties of ambient temperature grown
nanocrystalline ZrTiO4 thin films using DC magnetron
sputtering’, Materials Science and Engineering B, 2009,
DOI:10.1016/j.mseb.2009.12.028
183
D. Pamu, P. Dharama Raju and A.K. Bhatnagar
‘Structural and Optical Properties of Ba (Zn1/3Ta2/3)
O3 Thin Films Deposited by Pulsed Laser Deposition’,
Solid State Communications, vol. 149, pp 1932, 2009
D. Mishra, A. Perumal and A. Srinivasan
‘High temperature coercive field behavior of Fe-Zr
powder’, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, pp 07A30607A308, 2009
B. Bhuyan with BaBar Collaboration
‘Observation of inclusive $D^{*\pm}$ production in
the decay of $\Upsilon(1S)$’, Physical Review D., vol.
81, pp 011102, 2010
R.K. Singh, G.P. Kothiyal and A. Srinivasan
‘In vitro evaluation of bioactivity of CaO-SiO2-P2O5Na2O-Fe2O3 glasses’, Applied Surface Science, vol. 255,
pp 6827-6831, 2009
‘A Search for Invisible Decays of the Upsilon(1S)’, Physics
Review Letter, vol. 103, pp 251801, 2009
‘Measurement of D0-D0bar Mixing using the Ratio of
Lifetimes for the Decays D0->K-pi+ and K+K-‘, Physics
Review D., vol. 80, pp 071103, 2009
‘Model-independent search for the decay B -> l nu
gamma’, Physics Review D, vol. 80, pp 111105, 2009
‘Search for a low-mass Higgs boson in Y(3S)—>gamma
A^0, A^0—>tau^+tau^- at BABAR’, Physics Review
Letter, vol. 103, pp 181801, 2009
‘Search for Dimuon Decays of a Light Scalar Boson in
Radiative Transitions Upsilon -> gamma A0’, Physics
Review Letter, vol. 103, pp 081803, 2009
G.S. Paul and P. Agarwal
‘Persistent Photocurrent and decay studies in cdS
nanorods thin films’, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 106,
pp 103705, 2009
B.R. Boruah
‘Lateral resolution enhancement in Confocal microscopy
by vectorial aperture engineering’, Applied Optics, vol.
49, pp 701-707, 2010
B.R. Boruah
‘Zonal wavefront sensing using an array of gratings’,
Optics Letters, vol. 35, pp 202-204, 2010
B.R. Boruah and M.A.A. Neil
‘Focal field computation of an arbitrarily polarised beam
using fast Fourier transforms’, Optics Communications,
vol. 282 (24), pp 4660-4667, 2009
M.P.C. Kalita, A. Perumal and A. Srinivasan
‘Evolution of atomic order and soft magnetism in
mechanically alloyed nanocrystalline Fe-Si powders
subjected to heat treatment’, Journal of Physics D:
Applied Physics, vol. 42, pp 105001-105005, 2009
R.K. Singh and A. Srinivasan
‘EPR and magnetic properties of MgO-CaO-SiO2-P2O5CaF2-Fe2O3 glass-ceramics’, Journal of Magnetism and
Magnetic Materials, vol. 321, pp 2749-2752, 2009
D. Mishra, A. Perumal, P. Saravanan, D.A. Babu, and A.
Srinivasan
‘Effect of Co or Mn addition on the soft magnetic
properties of amorphous Fe89-xZr11Bx (x = 5, 10) alloy
ribbons’, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
vol. 321, pp 4097-4102, 2009
R.K. Singh, A. Srinivasan and G.P. Kothiyal
‘Evaluation of CaO-SiO2-P2O5-Na2O-Fe2O3 bioglassceramics for hyperthermia application’, Journal of
Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, vol. 20, pp S147S151, 2009
‘Bioactivity of MgO-CaO-SiO2-P2O5-Fe2O3
ferrimagnetic glass-ceramics’, Ceramic International, vol.
36, pp 283-290, 2010
‘Bioactivity of SiO2-CaO-P2O5-Na2O glasses containing
zinc-iron oxide’, Applied Surface Science, vol. 256, pp
1725-1730, 2010
S.K. Khijwania, F. Carter, J. Foley, and J.P. Singh
‘Effect of Launching Condition on Modal Power
Characteristics of Multimode Step-index Optical Fiber:
A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation’, Fiber &
Integrated Optics, vol. 29, pp 62, 2010
184
S.K. Khijwania, V.M Nair and S.N. Sarkar
‘Propagation Characteristics of Single Mode Graded-index
Elliptical Core Linear and Nonlinear Fiber using Super
Gaussian Approximation’, Applied Optics, vol. 48, pp
G156, 2009
S.K. Khijwania, K.L. Srinivasan, Thomas Philip and J.P.
Singh
‘Humidity Estimation using Neural Network and Optical
Fiber Sensor’, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters,
vol. 51, pp 641-645, 2009
P.K. Giri, S. Dhara and R. Chakraborty
‘Effect of ZnO seed layer on the catalytic growth of
vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays’, Materials
Chemistry and Physics, March 2010, DOI:10.1016/
j.matchemphys.2010.02.027
P. K. Giri, S. Kumari and D.K. Goswami
‘Low energy oxygen implantation induced improved
crystallinity and optical properties of surface modified
ZnO single crystals’, Applied Surface Science, vol. 256,
pp 384, 2009
P.K. Giri
‘Strain analysis in freestanding Germanium
nanoparticles’, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol.
42, pp 245402, 2009
P.K. Giri, S. Bhattacharyya, R. Kesavamoorthy, B.K.
Panigrahi and K.G.M. Nair
‘Intense Ultraviolet-Blue Photoluminescence from SiO2
embedded Ge Nanocrystals Prepared by Different
Techniques’, Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, vol. 9, pp 5389, 2009
‘Optical Signature of Structural Defects in Single Walled
and Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes’, Journal of
Nanoscience Nanotechnology, vol. 9, pp 5396, 2009
S. Kumari, D.K. Snigh and P.K. Giri
‘Strain Anisotropy in Freestanding Germanium
Nanoparticles Synthesised by Ball Milling’, Journal of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 9, pp 5231, 2009
D. Ryu, S. Das and H. Kang
‘Intergalactic Magnetic Field and Arrival Direction of UltraHigh-Energy Protons’, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 710,
pp 1422, 2010
S. Das, S. Chakrabarti and S. Mondal
‘Studies of dissipative standing shock waves around black
holes’, MNRAS, vol. 401, pp 2053, 2010
T.N. Dey and G.S. Agarwal
‘Sub-diffraction propagation of images using saturated
absorption of optical transition’, Optics Letters, vol. 34,
pp 3199, 2009
P. Dey, S. Basu and R. Kishore
‘Some clues in the investigation of the FFLO phase in
superconductors’, Journal of Physical Condensed Matter,
vol. 21, pp 355062, 2009
P. Dey and S. Basu
‘Disordered superconductors: A simple model
manifesting pseudogap and BCS-BEC crossover’,
International Journal of Modern Physics, vol. 23, pp 4245,
2009
A. Medhi, S. Basu and C.Y. Kadolkar
‘Phase diagram for a t-J bilayer: role of interlayer
couplings’, European Physical Journal B, vol. 72, pp 583,
2009
A. Medhi and S. Basu
‘Importance of interlayer pair tunneling: A variational
perspective’, Physics C, 2010 (DOI:10.1016/
j.phys.2009.12.022)
B. Dutta and S. Ghosh
‘Phonon spectra of PdxFe1-x: alloys with transferable
force constants’, Journal of Physical Condensed Matter,
vol. 21, pp 395401, 2009
S. Ghosh
‘Calculation of phonon spectra and elastic constants of
FePd intermetallics: performance of LDA and GGA’,
Intermetallics, vol. 17, pp 708, 2009
S. Mohanty and S. Ravi
‘Ferromagnetism and bound magnetic polaron behavior
in bulk Sn1-x-CoxO2’, Solid State Communications, vol.
150, pp 739- 742, 2010
M.L. Dinesha, H.S. Jayanna, S. Mohanty and S. Ravi
‘Structural, electrical and magnetic properties of Co and
Fe co-doped ZnO nanoparticles prepared by solution
combustion method’, Journal of Alloys and Compounds,
vol. 490, pp 618-623, 2010
S.K. Srivastava and S. Ravi
‘Magnetic properties of transition metal substituted (La-0.
Ag0.15)Mn1-yMyO3 compounds (M= Co, Cr & Al)’,
85
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 321,
pp 4072-4080, 2009
B. Samantaray and S. Ravi
‘Magnetic properties of Nd1-x KxMnO3 Compounds’,
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 321,
pp 3671-3676, 2009
S.K. Srivastava and S. Ravi
‘Role of Co substitution on the Crystal Structure and
Electrical Resistivity of (La0.85Ag0.15)MnO3 Compounds’,
Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, vol.
22, pp 651-658, 2009
National Journal
A. Perumal
‘L10 ordered FePt thin films for perpendicular magnetic
recording media’, Magnetic Society of India Bulletin, vol.
32, pp 17-23
185
Science and Technology (Plasma 2009), NIT Hamirpur,
Himachal Pradesh, and PSSI, India, December 2009
S. Kumari and A. Khare
‘Photoluminescence studies of pulsed laser deposited
thin films of Ruby’, Twenty-fourth National Symposium
on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma 2009) NIT
Hamirpur, December 2009
‘Effect of Pre-heating on Hydrothermal Growth and
Optical Properties of ZnO Nanorods’, ICONSAT 2010,
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, February 2010
D.K. Goswami and A. Pal
‘Growth of Ag on Si(111_(7x7) Surfaces: Scaling Study’,
Proceedings of the fifty-fourth DAE Solid State Physics
Symposium, vol. 54, pp 575-578, 2009
A.K. Sarma
‘Femto-second soliton switching in AlGaAs nanowire
coupler’, International Conference on Optics and
Photonics, Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
(CSIR), Chandigarh, 30 October-1 November 2009
A.T.T. Mostako, H. Rahangdale and A. Khare
‘Effect of pressure on PLD thin films of Tungsten’,
Conference paper of RACMP 2009, NIT Hamirpur,
Himachal Pradesh, May, 2009 (Best poster
presentation award)
S. Kumari, A.T.T. Mostako and A. Khare
‘Thin film of Ruby by Pulsed laser Deposition Technique’,
Conference paper of RACMP 2009, NIT Hamirpur,
Himachal Pradesh, May, 2009
‘Effect of dynamics of ZnO plasma on the pulsed laser
deposited ZnO thin films’, Plasma 09, NIT Hamirpur,
Himachal Pradesh, December 2009
A. Nath, S.S. Laha and A. Khare
‘Synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles via laser ablation at
Titanium-water interface’, ICE 2009, University of Delhi,
December 2009
A.T.T. Mostako, C.V.S. Rao and A. Khare
‘Pulsed Laser Deposition of mirror like Tungsten Thin
Films’, Twenty-fourth National Symposium on Plasma
M. Saha, A.K. Sarma and A. Biswas
‘Role of two-photon absorption on solitary wave
propagation in a silicon waveguide’, International
Conference on Optics and Photonics, Central Scientific
Instruments Organisation (CSIR), 30 October-1
November, 2009
D. Pamu, G. Lakshminarayana Rao and K.C. James Raju
‘Effect of pentavalent oxides (Ta2O5, Nb2O5 or V2O5) on
microstructure and microwave dielectric properties of
(Zr0.8Sn0.2)TiO4 ceramics’, International Conference on
Electro Ceramics, Delhi University, Delhi, 13-17
December 2009 (Paper # LC 113)
D. Pamu, K. Sudheendran, M. Ghanashyam Krishna and
K.C. James Raju
‘Preparation and characterisation of ZST films for CMOS
applications’, International Conference on Electro
Ceramics, Delhi University, Delhi, 13-17 December
2009 (Paper # LC 114)
D. Pamu, G. Lakshminarayana Rao and K.C. James Raju
‘Effect of CeO2 and Nd2O3 on the microstructure and
microwave dielectric properties of (Zr 0.8,Sn0.2)TiO 4
ceramics’, International Conference on Electro Ceramics,
186
Delhi University, Delhi, 13-17 December 2009 (Paper
# LC 115)
‘Structural, optical and thermal studies of CdS nanorods
synthesised by solvothermal process’, International
Conference on Nano Science & Technology (ICONSAT),
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Abstract No. EN 33, pp 197, 1720 February 2010
P. Gogoi, H.S. Jha and P. Agarwal
‘Amorphous to Nanocrystalline transition of hydrogenated
silicon films: Effect of silane flow rate’, International
Symposium on Photovolatic Science and Technology, IIT
Kanpur, 13 January 2010
‘Amorphous to nanocrystalline transition in HWCVD
silicon: Effect of filament temperature and gas flow rate’,
Proceedings of the fifty-fourth DAE Solid State Physics
Symposium (2009), Vadodara, India, pp 567, 14-18
December 2009
J. Anto Pradeep, M. Pandey, S.M. Sharma and P. Agarwal
‘Effect of anodization current density and wafer resistivity
on the Raman scattering in porous silicon’, Proceedings
of the fifty-fourth DAE Solid State Physics Symposium
(2009), Vadodara, India, pp 723, 14-18 December 2009
P.A. Kumar, P. Gogoi, H.S. Jha, D.M. Phase, S. Kumar
and P. Agarwal
‘Photoelectron spectroscopy studies on Si:H films
prepared by HWCVD’, Proceedings of the fifty-fourth DAE
Solid State Physics Symposium (2009), Vadodara, India,
pp 639, 14-18 December 2009
Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline
Semiconductors, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 23-28
August 2009
‘Structural and thermal studies on PbS nanocubes’,
Twenty-third International Conference on Amorphous
and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, Utrecht, The
Netherlands, 23-28 August 2009
‘Evolution of nanostructure with reaction time for ZnS
synthesised by solvothermal process’, Twenty-third
International Conference on Amorphous and
Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, Utrecht, The
‘High band gap nanocrystalline silicon deposited by
HWCVD’, Twenty-third International Conference on
Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors,
Utrecht, The Netherlands, 23-28 August 2009
P. Gogoi, H.S. Jha, P. Agarwal, D.M. Phase and S. Kumar
‘Microstructure investigation of Si:H films by
Photoelectron Spectroscopy’, Twenty-third International
Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline
Semiconductors, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 23-28
August 2009
B.R. Boruah
‘Confocal microscope with enhanced lateral resolution
using engineered illumination pupil’, Proceedings of SPIE,
vol. 7570, pp 75700N, 2010
‘Electrical Transport and transient photocurrent studies
on CdS nanorods thin films’, International Conference
on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, IIT
B.R. Boruah
‘Zonal wavefront sensing using a liquid crystal spatial
light modulator’, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 7619, pp
76190G, 2010
J. Anto Pradeep and P. Agarwal
‘Variation of photoluminescence peak center with the
excitation energy in Porous silicon’, International
conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and
Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, India, 9-11 December 2009
A. Srinivasan, A. Rajanikanth, S.V. Karthik, B. Varaprasad,
Y.K. Takahashi and K. Hono
‘Spin polarization of two-phase L21 Heusler alloy
Co2MnSi0.5Sn0.5’, Autumn Meeting of JIM 2009,
Kyoto, 15-17 September 2009
J. Anto Pradeep and P. Agarwal
‘Structural Investigation of Porous Silicon by Raman
Scattering Spectroscopy’, Twenty-third International
‘Enhanced Soft magnetic properties in Mn substituted
amorphous Fe-Mn-Zr-B powders prepared by ball milling’,
187
National Conference on Recent Advances in Correlated
Electron Systems, IIT Guwahati, 18-20 January 2010
and Photonics (ICOP 09), Chandigarh, India, 30 October1 November 2009
A. Srinivasan and R.K. Singh
‘Development of magnetic bioglass-ceramics for
hyperthermia application’, National Conference on
Magnetic Materials and their Applications, Thiagarajar
College of Engineering, Madurai, 20-21 January 2010
R. Aneesh and S.K. Khijwania
‘An Optical Fiber Humidity Sensor with Linear response
throughout its Dynamic Range’, International
Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP 09),
Chandigarh, India, 30 October-1 November 2009
‘Coercivity and magnetic relaxation behaviors of
interacting Fe-Mn-Zr-B Nanoparticles’, International
Conference on Nano Science and Technology, IIT
Bombay, 17-20 February 2010
‘Spectroscopic studies of structural defects and Raman
vibrational modes of low energy ion-irradiated carbon
nanotubes’, Proceedings of the International Conference
on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS2010), BHU, India, 21-24 February 2010
S. Sarma and A. Srinivasan
‘Novel stress-strain behavior in Co-Ni-Ga alloys’, National
Conference on New Approaches of Basic Sciences
towards the Development of Engineering and
Technology, Don Bosco College of Engineering and
Technology, Guwahati, 12-13 March 2010
R. Das, A. Perumal and A. Srinivasan
‘Room temperature magnetocaloric effect in Co
substituted Ni-Mn-Sn alloy’, National Conference on
New Approaches of Basic Sciences towards the
Development of Engineering and Technology, Don Bosco
College of Engineering and Technology, Guwahati, 1213 March 2010
A. Srinivasan
‘Development of bioactive glasses containing iron oxide’,
National Seminar on Advanced Applications of Glasses,
VNIT, Nagpur, 22-23 March 2010
S.K. Khijwania and R. Aneesh
‘Design and Development of Simple Fiber Bragg Grating
Based Titl Sensor’, Twelfth International Symposium on
Microwave and Optical Technology (ISMOT 2009),
Delhi, India, 16-19 December 2009
R. Aneesh and S.K. Khijwania
‘Zinc Oxide Nano-particle Based Optical Fiber Humidity
Sensor’, International Conference on Advanced
Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN 2009), IIT
S.K. Khijwania
‘Development of Optical Fiber Sensor for Structural
Health Monitoring’, International Conference on Optics
S. Dahara and P.K. Giri
‘Effect of ZnO nanopowder source and growth
temperature on the shape evolution of one-dimensional
ZnO nanostructures’, International Conference on
Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT-2010),
Mumbai, India, 17-20 February 2010
‘Defect evolution and structural improvement in low
energy ion irradiated carbon nanotubes: Microscopic and
spectroscopic studies’, Proceedings of International
Nanotechnology, Guwahati, India, 9-11 December 2009
S. Dhara and P.K. Giri
‘Temperature dependence of shape evolution in onedimensional ZnO nanostructure grown from ZnO
nanopowder source: vapour-liquid-solid vs. vapour-solid
growth mechanisms’, Proceedings of the International
R. Chakraborty, S. Dhara and P.K. Giri
‘Effect of Rapid Thermal Annealing on Microstructure
and Optical Properties of ZnO Nanorods’, Proceedings
of the International Conference on Advanced
Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, India,
9-11 December 2009
S. Dhara and P.K. Giri
‘Effect of growth temperature on the catalyst free growth
of long Silicon nanowires using radio frequency
magnetron sputtering’, Proceedings of the International
188
Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, India, 9-11 December
2009
Symposium, University of Baroda, pp 259, 14-18
December 2009
‘Improved chemical synthesis of graphene using a safer
solvothermal route’, Proceedings of the International
‘Structural and Magnetic Properties of Alkali Doped NdMn-O Series’, Physics and Technology of Novel Materials,
Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, 25-27 February 2010
(Invited talk and chaired a session)
B. Pal and P.K. Giri
‘Room temperature ferromagnetism in Co doped ZnO
nanoparticles: Milling time dependence and annealing
effect’, Proceedings of the International Conference on
Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, IIT
‘Colossal Magneto-Resistivity and Charge ordering in
Alkali Doped Nd-Mn-O Series’, National Seminar on
Condensed Matter Physics (NSCMP 2010), Tripura
University, Agartala, 16 February 2010 (Invited talk and
chaired a session)
P.K. Giri and S. Kumari
‘Nanocrystal and interface defects related
photoluminescence from Germanium-rich SiO2 thin
films’, Proceedings of the seventh International
Nanotechnology Symposium - New Ideas for Industry,
Dresden, Germany, 26-27 May 2009
B. Samantaray, S.K. Srivastava, S. Mohanty, S. Ravi, I.
Dhiman and A. Das
‘Neutron Powder Diffraction Study and magnetic
properties in LaMn1-x-CuxO3 (x=0.05 - 0.15)’, Eleventh
Joint MMM – Intermag Conference, Washington DC,
USA, 18-22 January 2010
P.K. Giri, P. Palni and D.K. Singh
‘Effect of ZnO Seed Layer on the Catalytic Growth of ZnO
Multipods and Aligned ZnO Nanorods’, Proceedings of the
seventh International Nanotechnology Symposium - New
Ideas for Industry, Dresden, Germany, 26-27 May 2009
‘Magnetic Properties of nanocrystalline and charge
ordered (Nd,Na)-Mn-O Compounds’, Recent Advances
in Correlated Electron System (RACES-2010),
Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, 18-20 January
2010
B.K. Panigrahi, P.S. Raman, K. Saravanan, K.G.M. Nair
and P.K. Giri
‘Ion beam synthesis and optical properties of embedded
semiconducting nanoclusters: Ge, SiC, InN, In2O3 and
ZnO’, Proceedings of the Indo-French Conference on
NanoStructuring by Ion Beams, Bhubaneswar, India, 2009
S. Mohanty, P. Nath and S. Ravi
‘Effect of metal doping on the formation of bound
magnetic polaron in Transition metal-doped SnO2’,
Recent Advances in Correlated Electron System (RACES2010), Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, 18-20
January 2010
S.B. Santra
‘Microscopic properties to determine the universality
class of stochastic sandpile models’, Proceedings of the
Condensed Matter Days, University of Jadavpur, pp 23,
26-28 August 2009
S. Mohanty, P. Nath and S. Ravi
‘Effect of Sb doping in (Sn0.95Fe0.05)O2 based diluted
magnetic semiconductors’, Fifty-fourth DAE Solid State
Physics Symposium vol. 54, pp 1055-1056, 2009
J.A. Ahmed and S.B. Santra
‘Microscopic avalanche properties of sandpile models’,
Proceedings of the Discussion meeting on Statistical and
Condensed Matter Physics, IIT Guwahati, 31 October-1
November 2009
S. Mohanty, S. Ravi, H.S. Jena and V. Manivannan
‘Structural and Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline
Sn0.98Co0.02O2 under different annealing conditions’,
and Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, 9-11 December 2009
J.A. Ahmed and S.B. Santra
‘Roughness and contour loop analysis of toppling surfaces
of a rotational sandpile model’, Proceedings of the S.S.P.
‘Room temperature Ferromagnetism in Ni-doped SnO2
based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor’, Discussion
189
meeting on Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter
Physics, IIT Guwahati, 31 October-1 November 2009
(Best poster presentation award)
National Conference on Advanced Materials, PSN
College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, 25-27 August 2009
(Invited talk and chaired a session)
B. Samantaray, S. Ravi and A. Perumal
‘Critical Behavior Studies in Nd-Mn-O based double
exchange ferromagnetic compounds’, Discussion
Physics, IIT Guwahati, 31 October-1 November 2009
‘Magnetic Properties of Co-doped SnO2 Diluted Magnetic
Semiconductors’, Sixth National Conference on Physics
Academy of North East (PANE), Tripura University,
Agartala, 2-4 April 2009
B. Samantaray, S. Mohanty, S. Ravi, I. Dhiman and A. Das
‘Neutron Powder Diffraction Studies in LaMn1-xCuxO3
(x=0.15 and 0.20)’, Conference on Neutron Scattering
and Mesoscopic Systems, Goa, India, 12-14 October 2009
M.L. Dinesha, H.S. Jayanna, S. Mohanty and S. Ravi
‘Structural and Magnetic properties of Co and Fe codoped ZnO Nanoparticles’, International Symposium for
Nano Materials (ISNM-09), Kanya Maha Vidyalaya,
Jalandhar, October 2009
‘Magnetic Properties of Nd1-xKxMnO3 Compounds’,
‘Ferromagnetism and colossal magneto-resistivity in
Nd0.7K0.3MnO3’, Sixth National Conference on Physics
Academy of North East (PANE), Tripura University,
Agartala, 2-4 April 2009
Book, Chapter, etc.
B.R. Boruah
‘Programmable diffractive optics: its applications in
Confocal microscopy ’, VDM Verlag , ISBN-10:
3639177665, ISBN-13: 978-3639177664, 2009
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
A. Khare
DST-NIAS Workshop on
Gender Issues in Indian
Science on Transcending
Barriers to Performance: The
Indian woman in Science
National
Institute of
Advanced
Studies,
Bangalore
22-26 March
2010
National
D.K. Goswami
Theme Meeting on Quantum
Structures
BARC, Mumbai
2-3 November
2009
National
A.K. Sarma
Optics and Photonics
Chandigarh
30 October – 1
November 2009
International
D. Pamu
Electro Ceramics
Delhi
University,
Delhi
13-17 December
2009
International
B. Bhuyan
Workshop on Indian
participation in FAIR: Science
& Technology organised by
ECIL and DST
Hyderabad
18-19 April 2009
National
190
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
National
B. Bhuyan
Workshop on India’s
Contribution to PANDA, GSI
experiment: organised by IIT
Bombay and DST
IIT Mumbai
31 August – 1
September 2009
P. Agarwal
DST, New Delhi-EPSRC, UK
Joint workshop on Solar
Energy Research
IIT Delhi
24 April 2009
International
P. Agarwal
Twenty-third International
Conference on Amorphous
and Nanocrystalline
Semiconductors
Utrecht
University, the
Netherlands
23-28 August
2009
International
P. Agarwal
PAN IIT meeting on Solar
Energy Initiative
IIT Kharagpur
16 November
2009
National
P. Agarwal
International Symposium on
Photovoltaic Science and
Technology
IIT Kanpur
12-13 January
2010
International
P. Agarwal
Indo-Australian Workshop on
Photovoltaic Technologies
and Solar Thermal Energies
Amity
University,
Noida
9-10 February
2010
International
B.R. Boruah
SPIE Photonics West 2010
Sanfrancisco,
USA
23-28 January
2010
International
A. Srinivasan
Magnetic Materials and their
Applications
Madurai
20-21 January
2010
National
A. Srinivasan
National Seminar on
Advanced Applications of
Glasses
Nagpur
22-23 March
2010
National
S.K. Khijwania
Indo UK (UKIERI) Workshop on Jaipur
Miscrostructure Optical Fiber
27-28 March
2010
International
S.K. Khijwania
Optics and Photonics (ICOP
2009)
Chandigarh
30 October – 1
November 2009
International
S.K. Khijwania
IEEE Photonics Society
(formerly LEOS) Workshop on
Photonics to Nanophotonics
Kolkata
12-13 June 2009
National
P.K. Giri
Nanotechnology
IIT Guwahati
9-11 December
2009
International
P.K. Giri
Dresden,
Seventh International
Nanotechnology Symposium - Germany
New Ideas for Industry
26-27 May 2009
International
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
P.K.
Padmanabhan
Indo-French meeting on
Diffusion in Nanoporous and
Dense Media
Bangalore
2-5 April 2009
P.K.
Padmanabhan
Discussion meeting on
Statistical and Condensed
Matter Physics
IIT Guwahati
31 October – 1
November 2009
National
P.K.
Padmanabhan
National Conference on solid Dr. Hari Singh, Gour
University, Madhya
State Ionics
Pradesh
7-9 December
2009
National
P.K.
Padmanabhan
Physical Techniques for the
Investigation of Fast Ion
Conducting Materials
M.S. University,
Baroda, Gujarat
20-22 March
2010
National
S.B. Santra
Condensed Matter Days
University of
Jadavpur, Kolkata
26-28 August
2009
National
S.B. Santra
Discussion meeting on
Statistical and Condensed
Matter Physics
IIT Guwahati
31 October – 1
November 2009
National
S. Ravi
Physics and Technology of
Novel Materials
Sambalpur
University
25-27 February
2010
National
S. Ravi
National Seminar on
Condensed Matter PhysicsNSCMP 2010
Tripura University,
Agartala
16 February
2010
National
S. Ravi
Recent Advances in
Correlated Electron System,
RACES-2010
Dept. of Physics, IIT
Guwahati
18-20 January
2010
National
S. Ravi
International Conference on IIT Guwahati
Nanotechnology
9-11 December
2009
S. Ravi
Advanced Materials
PSN College of
Engineering, Tirunelveli
25-27 August
2009
National
S. Ravi
Sixth National conference on
Physics Academy of North
East (PANE)
Tripura University
Agartala
2-4 April 2009
National
A. Perumal
Magnetic Materials and their
Applications
Madurai
20-21 January
2010
National
A. Perumal
International Conference on IIT Guwahati
Nanotechnology
9-11 December
2009
191
International
International
International
192
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./
Org.
Place
Date
K. Goswami
Effect of quantum
capacitance on single
electron tunneling
phenomena
BARC, Mumbai
BARC,
Mumbai
2 November
2009
P. Agarwal
Amorphous Silicon Thin Films
Solar cells (Tutorial)
IIT Kanpur at
International
Symposium on
Photovoltaic Science
and Technology
Kanpur
12 January
2010
P. Agarwal
Amorphous to
Nanocrystalline Transition of
hydrogenated silicon films:
Effect of silane flow rate
IIT Kanpur at
International
Symposium on
Photovoltaic Science
and Technology
Kanpur
13 January
2010
P. Agarwal
Thin Silicon Films for solar
cells
DST New Delhi and
Amity University,
Noida, Indo-Australian
Workshop on
Photovoltaic
Technologies and Solar
Thermal Energies
Noida
10 February
2010
A. Srinivasan
Development of magnetic
bioglass-ceramics for
hyperthermia application
Magnetics Society India
Madurai
21 January
2010
A. Srinivasan
Development of bioactive
glasses containing iron oxide
VNIT Nagpur
Nagpur
23 March
2010
S.K. Khijwania
Recent research activity in
Fiber Optics
Indo UK (UKIERI)
Workshop on
Miscrostructure Optical
Fiber, MNIT Jaipur
Jaipur
27-28 March
2010
S.K. Khijwania
Development of Optical
Fiber Sensor for Structural
Health Monitoring
International
Conference on Optics
and Photonics,
Chandigarh
Chandigarh
30 October –
1November
2009
S.K. Khijwania
Fiber Optic Sensors:
Technology and Applications
IEEE Photonics Society
(formerly LEOS)
Workshop on Photonics
to Nanophotonics,
University of Kolkata
Kolkata
12-13 June
2009
Name of
Faculty
Name of Inst./
Org.
Name of Lecture
Place
193
Date
P.K. Giri
Strain Analysis and
Photoluminescence Studies
on Germanium Nanocrystals
Grown by Various Methods
Chemnitz University of
Technology, Germany
Chemnitz,
Germany
29 May 2009
S.B. Santra
Microscopic Properties to
determine the Universality
class of stochastic sandpile
models
University of Jadavpur
Kolkata
26-28 August
2009
S.B. Santra
Determination of
Universality class of a
rotational sandpile model
Bose Institute
Kolkata
18 May 2009
S.B. Santra
Determination of
Universality class of
stochastic sandpile models
Department of Physics,
University of Padova
Italy
2 July 2009
S. Ravi
Structural and Magnetic
Properties of Alkali Doped
Nd-Mn-O Series
Physics and Technology
of Novel Materials
held at Sambalpur
University
Sambalpur
26 Febuary
2010
S. Ravi
Colossal Magneto-Resistivity
and Charge ordering in Alkali
Doped Nd-Mn-O Series
National Seminar on
Condensed Matter
Physics-NSCMP 2010
held at Tripura
University
Agartala
16 February
2010
S. Ravi
Magnetic Properties of Nd1K MnO3 Compounds
x x
National Conference
on Advanced Materials,
PSN College of
Engineering
Tirunelveli
25 August
2009
A. Perumal
Ultra-high density magnetic
recording media: Future
Hard Disk Drive
Magnetic Society of
India
Madurai
21 January
2010
ORGANISED
Coordinator: S.B. Santra, S. Basu and S. Ghosh
Name of Seminar/Conference/Workshop: Discussion
Meeting on Statistical and Condensed Matter Physics
Sponsoring Agency: TIFR, SINP, DST, BNRS, IMSC
Date and Place: 31 October – 1 November 2009, IIT
Guwahati (National)
Coordinator: S.B. Santra and S.K. Khijwania
Name of Seminar/Conference/Workshop: Innovation
in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research, Winter Science
Camp for School Children
Sponsoring Agency: DST
(National)
Coordinator: S. Ravi, S. Ghosh and D. Pal
Name of Seminar/Conference/Workshop: Recent
Advances in Correlated Electron Systems
Sponsoring Agency: TIFR, DST, CSIR
Date and Place: 18-20 January 2010, IIT Guwahati (National)
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INVITED LECTURES
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Name of Lecture
Date
Prof.
Dhananjai
Pandey
School of Materials Science
and Technology, Institute of
Technology, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi
Multiferroic Transitions and
Magnetoelectric Coupling in
BiFeO3
28 April 2009
Prof. Ajay
Gupta
Center-Director, Indore
Center, UGC-DAE Consortium
for Scientific Research
X-ray based characterization of
thin films and multilayers
15 May 2009
Dr. Binoy K.
Patra
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics, IIT
Roorkee
J/psi suppression in Ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus
collisions
10 June 2009
Dr. Vasudeva
Siruguri
Scientist, UGC-DAE-CSR,
Mumbai
Neutron Diffraction Techniques
19 September 2009
Prof. Simon
George
California State University,
Long Beach, CA 90840, USA
Educational Applications of
Lasers and Holography
6 October 2009
Dr. Biswapriya
Deb
Research Scientist
(Industry),Institute for the
Advanced Materials and
Renewable Energy,University
of Louisville, Louisville, KY40292, USA
Chemical Vapor Deposition of
Nanomaterials: Synthesis,
Engineering and Applications
23 October 2009
Prof. Kazuhiro
Hono
Fellow of NIMS,Managing
Director, Magnetic Materials
Center, and Professor of
Graduate School of Pure and
Applied Sciences, University
of Tsukuba, Japan
Search of half-metallic Heusler
alloys and their applications to
magnetoresistive devices
13 November 2009
Dr. A.
Dassannacharya
Retired Director, Solid state
and Spectroscopy group and
Multidisciplinary Technology
Group, BARC Retired
Director, IUC_DAEF, Indore
Growth of Neutron Scattering
Studies in India
25 November 2009
Prof. Lionel
Montagne
University of Lille, France
Solid-State NMR as a
Characterisation Tool for
Advanced Glass Applications
15 February 2010
Utpal Roy
Post Doctoral Fellow,
University of Camerino, Italy
Nonlinear Excitations, Quantum
Optics & Quantum Information
18 December 2009
Prof. S. Dutta
Gupta
School of Physics, University
of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Absorption and dispersion in
metamaterials: device potentials
12 March 2010
Prof.
Bimalendu
Deb
Department of Materials
Science, Indian Association for
the Cultivation of Science,
Jadavpur, Kolkata
Ultracold Molecules: Controlling
Atom-Molecule Conversion with
Magnetic and Optical Fields
24 March 2010
AWARDS AND HONOURS
A. Srinivasan
a) Visiting Scientist under the Open Research Institute
Programme of National Institute for Materials Science,
Tsukuba, Japan, from 5 January 2009 - 2 January 2010
b) Executive Committee Member of Magnetics Society
of India
B. Bhuyan
Visited Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), New
York, USA to discuss possible India’s participation in the
neutrino physics experiments in USA during 23
November – 31 December 2009
S.B. Santra
Visited International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Trieste, Italy, during 21 June – 12 July 2009
T.N. Dey
Visited Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics,
Heidelberg, Germany, during 1 June – 31 July 2009
A. Perumal
Visited as Guest Researcher to International Center for
Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute
for Materials Science, Tsukuba, JAPAN, during May –
July 2009
P.K. Giri and D.K. Goswami
Served as Convener of International Conference on
Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology organised
by Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, during 911 December 2009
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Sunita Mohanty
‘Room temperature Ferromagnetism in Ni-doped SnO2
based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor’, Discussion
Physics, 31 October – 1 November 2009, IIT Guwahati
Nine (09) out of fifteen (15) students of BTech-EP have
got placement in various industries and another three
(03) students either cleared GRE/TOEFL/GATE
examinations or got admission for higher studies in
abroad.
Twelve (12) students of MSc-Physics out of twenty (20)
passing out students cleared GATE-2010 exam, eight
(08) students cleared CSIR/UGC examination and eleven
(11) students qualified in JEST examination. Some of
them got selected for admission in US/Europe
Universities.
FACULTY MEMBERS
P. Agarwal
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics (Expt.):
Photovoltaic Materials and Devices
S. Basu
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory):
Superconductivity
Best poster presentation awards
B.R. Boruah
PhD (Imperial College, London)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Lasers and Optics (Experiment and
Theory): Programmemable Diffractive Optics, Confocal
Microscopy, Phase Stepping Interferometry, Vectorial
Diffraction Theory
A.T.T. Mostaka
‘Effect of pressure on PLD thin films of Tungsten’,
National Conference on Recent Advances in Condensed
Matter Physics held at NIT Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh,
May 2009
B. Bhuyan
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: High Energy Physics (Experiment):
CP violation, Rare K and B meson decays, ILC R&D
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
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S. Das
PhD (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Astrophysics (Theory): Astrophysical
Flows around Compact Objects, Ultra High Energy,
Cosmic Rays
T.N. Dey
PhD (PRL, Ahmedabad)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Quantum Optics (Theory): Coherent
control of pulse Propagation, Nonlinear Optics, Optical
solitons, Negative Index Media, Bose-Einstein
Condensates
S. Ghosh
PhD (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
Associate Professor
Electronic Structure Theory
P.K. Giri
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Nanomaterials and Optoelectronics
D.K. Goswami
PhD (I.O.P. Bhubaneswar)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Condensed Matter (Experiment):
Organic Thin Films, Heterostructures and
Nanostructures, Surfaces and Interfaces
C.Y. Kadolkar
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor
Defects in Ionic Materials
A. Khare
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Lasers and Photonics (Expt.): Laser
Physics and Spectroscopy
S.K. Khijwania
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Fiber Optics (Theory & Experimental):
Fiber Optics, Fiber Bragg Gratings, Optical Fiber sensors
INDIANNandy
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI
M.K.
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Theoretical Physics: Nonlinear
Dynamics
P.K. Padmanabhan
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Condensed Matter (Theory): Atomistic
Modeling and Simulation of Condensed States of Matter
D. Pal
PhD (TIFR, Mumbai)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Low Temperature Physics and Material
Science (Experimental): Strongly Correlated Electron
Systems, Vortex states in Superconductors,
Superconductivity and Magnetism
D. Pamu
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Oxide Thin Films and High-k and
Low Loss Materials (Experimental)
K.L. Panigrahi (up to 6 May 2009)
PhD (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Theoretical Physics: String Theory and
D-branes
A. Perumal
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Associate Professor
Nanomagnetic Materials
P. Poulose
PhD (Physics Research Lab, Ahmedabad)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Theoretical Physics: High Energy
Physics Phenomenology
S. Ravi
Superconductivity and Magnetism
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S.B. Santra
PhD (Bose Institute, Kolkata)
Associate Professor
Statistical Physics
A.K. Sarma
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Photonics (Theory) and Theoretical
Physics: Solitons, Nonlinear Fiber Optics,
Nonlinear Optics, Bose-Einstein Condensate
A.K. Sharma
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Lasers and Optics (Experimental): Laser
produced Plasmas, Laser Ablation Deposition of Thin
Films, Laser-based Sensors
G.S. Setlur
PhD (University of Illinois)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Theoretical Physics: Higher
dimensional Bosonisation
A. Srinivasan
Professor
Materials Science
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CENTRE FOR ENERGY
INTRODUCTION
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Centre for Energy, established in May 2004, has
completed 5 (five) years of its existence successfully.
The space and infrastructure provided for the Centre (JBlock, Academic Complex) have been utilised for
establishment of various laboratories, which are Bioenergy Laboratory, Fuel Cell Laboratory, Energy Efficiency
Laboratory, Analytical Laboratory, Biofuel and Solar
Energy Laboratory along with the office and conference
room. Sitting arrangement for faculty, staff and students
have also been established. Academic and research
activities of the Centre is progressing significantly in
various fields with each passing year, with the
involvement of more new faculty members from various
departments. The research activities related to
alternative fuels, combustion and energy efficiency of
systems has got a rapid momentum during the past 5
years. Constraints of space, environmental compatibility
(particularly noise and air pollution) compelled the Centre
to move its energy efficiency laboratory temporarily to
the Technology Complex (TC) during 2007. Further,
some of the installations like biogas digesters,
vermicompost units are also established at the backyard
of the Technology Complex. Research related to such
units is in good progress.
At present, the Centre offers only PhD programme,
which was started in the year 2005. Starting of MS
(Master of Science) curriculum is in progress.
STUDENT INTAKE
There are twenty (20) PhD students on rolls. The
enrollment of PhD student is increasing gradually. The
average intake capacity per semester is three (3).
FACULTY STRENGTH
Faculty members of various disciplines are participating
in the academic and research activities of the Centre.
Further, they are contributing to the growth of various
laboratories. A steering committee comprising of senior
faculty members helps in tactical and strategic decision
making to the Head of the Centre. Recently a new
steering committee was formed with the following
members:
Dr. U.K. Saha, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. P. Goswami, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. H.B. Nemade, Department of Electronics and
Dr. V.S. Moholkar, Department of Chemical Engineering
As the space/laboratory in the Technology Complex is
temporary, a proposal for permanent location (utilisation
of old IITG market complex) for extension of the Centre
has already been submitted to accommodate the heavy
equipment, machinery and experimental setups related
to research projects.
Since its inception, Centre for Energy has recruited 21
(twenty one) PhD students. One (1) student has
submitted his PhD thesis and six (6) PhD students are
expected to submit their thesis during 2010-2011. It is
worth mentioning that one of the PhD students got
selected in campus placement.
Dr. P. Agarwal, Department of Physics
The following faculty members are actively associated
with the Centre:
Prof. P. Mahanta, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. U.K. Saha, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. P. Goswami, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. H.B. Nemade, Department of Electronics and
Dr. V.S. Moholkar, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. P. Agarwal, Department of Physics
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Dr. N. Sahu, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Solar Energy Laboratory
Prof. S.C. Mishra, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Demonstration unit for efficient use of solar energy,
characterisation and study of the photovoltaic module,
energy spectrum measuring facility, spectral response/
photoconductivity/quantum efficiency and other
transport measurements in the presence of light of
photovoltaic modules, materials and devices. A facility
for preparation of thin films by physical vapor deposition
method is also available.
Dr. L. Sahoo, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. A. Verma, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. P. Muthukumar, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
Dr. M. Pandey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. U. Bora, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. C. Somayaji, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. K. Mohanty, Department of Chemical Engineering
Fuel Cell Laboratory
Dr. V.V. Goud, Department of Chemical Engineering
Fabrication and characterisation of biosensors,
electrochemical analysis of electrodes, electrolytes, etc.
Prof. A. Goyal, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. S. Gumma, Department of Chemical Engineering
Biofuel Laboratory
Facility for production and analysis of biofuels.
Major equipments purchased in the Financial Year 20092010:
Analytical laboratory
BOD incubator
Thermal Evaporation Unit
Nikon triangular research microscope with digital camera
attachment
Gas Chromatograph
In-house fabrication of CFB gasifier, capacity 5 kW
Fischer-Tropsch reactor setup for gas to liquid conversion
In-house fabrication of natural draught grain drying system
In-house test facility for study and performance
evaluation of IC engine with mixed fuels
The following facilities are available in the Center for
Energy:
Energy Efficiency laboratory
Transtarification setup for Bio-diesel preparation,
proximate analysis facility and viscosity of different fluids
can be measured. Flash point, cloud and pour point for
high speed diesel as well as biodiesel measuring facilities
are available. Air velocity measuring facility available,
pump testing setup, biomass gasification unit, IC Engine
testing set up, wind energy measurement unit, fuel cell
testing set up, producer gas generation and gas to liquid
conversion.
Bio-energy Laboratory
Micro propagation facility for energy and bio-fuel crops,
autoradiogram development facility, genetic engineering
facility, biotransformation and cloning.
Gas chromatography facility for analysis of gas, lipids,
biofuels, by-product of direct alcohol fuel cells, fuel
permeability measurement, etc.
LIBRARY BOOKS PURCHASE
Books worth Rs. 1,60,000.00 were purchased during
the year 2009 -2010.
The faculty members, associated with the Centre, are
carrying out research based projects, funded by various
government departments like Department of Science
and Technology (DST), Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy (MNRE), Defense Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO), Department of Biotechnology
(DBT), etc. In the last five years the Centre has received
12 (twelve) research projects and as many as 12 (twelve)
consultancies in the area of wind energy, solar energy,
biological fuel cell, engine technology, biogas, biodiesel,
energy efficient machines, etc. with a total value of
Rs.204.20 lakhs, out of which Rs.88.00 lakhs is utilised
for purchase of equipment alone. The details of the
research projects and consultancies are presented in the
following subsections. MNRE has identified the Centre
as the hub for promotion of biogas development and
training in the North Eastern states and has been funding
yearly since 2006.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
a) Ongoing Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
P. Mahanta
Process development for
fluoride removal from
drinking water utilising
solar energy
ASTEC, Assam
2.48
L. Barbora and
P. Kalita
02 years
V.S. Moholkar
Synthesis of green
transportation fuels
(Biomass gasification
integrated Fischer
Tropsch)
Ministry of New
and Renewable
Energy, New
Delhi
25.00
P. Mahanta
02 years
P. Mahanta
and V.S.
Moholkar
Design, Development
and commercialisation of
a Circulating Fluidised
Bed Biomass gasifier
Ministry of New
and Renewable
Energy, New
Delhi
53.00
P. Kalita
03 years
P. Mahanta
Biogas Development and
Training Centre
Ministry of Non
Conventional
Energy Sources
26.00
P. Mahanta
Continuing
project
b) Completed Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
—
01 year
P. Mahanta
Development of a multifuel cooking stove
Petroleum
Conservation and
Research
Association
2.30
S. Kakati
Development of a multifuel cooking stove
Department of
Science and
Technology
12.00
L. Sahoo
Micro Propagation
Technology for
Commercial Scale
Plantation of Jatropha: A
Potential Biofuel Plant
North Eastern
Development
Finance
Corporation
Limited (NEDFi),
Guwahati
2.35
V. S.
Moholkar
Design and Optimisation
of a Circulating Fluidised
Bed (CFB) Biomass
Gasifier
Department of
Biotechnology
14.13
L. Sahoo
Cloning of Elite
Germplasam of Jatropha
for Large Scale Plantation
DRDO
10.00
P. Mahanta
and S.K.
Kakoty
—
P. Mahanta
03 years
02 years
02 years
—
02 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
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Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
S.C. Mishra
Design and Development
of Kerosene Stove with
Porous Burner Cooking
Stoves
Petroleum
Conservation and
Research
Association
9.94
—
02 years
S.C. Mishra
Design and Development
of Porous Radiant Burners
for Domestic LPG Cooking
Stoves
Petroleum
Conservation and
Research
Association
9.94
—
02 years
P. Goswami
Design and development
of biofuel cell for
biomedical applications
Department of
Biotechnology
35.00
A. Verma, U. Bora,
M. Barthakur and
L. Barbora
03 years
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
—
06
months
CONSULTANCY
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
P. Mahanta
Testing of Solar Home
Lighting System supplied
by various company
under Remote Village
Electrification programme
Social Forestry,
Govt. of Assam
0.28
P. Mahanta
Analysis and Fault
Diagnosis of 5 hp Indra
Marshall Compression
Ignition Engine/Pump sets
Directorate of
Agriculture, Govt.
of Assam
3.11
P. Mahanta
Design of biogas based
power plant and
preparation of DPR for
West Garo Hills,
Meghalaya
Meghalaya NonConventional and
Rural Energy
Development
Agency
1.20
B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta, V. Anand and S. Moholkar
‘Biomass gasification for decentralised power generation:
the Indian perspective’, Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Reviews, vol. 14 (1), pp 73-92, 2010
B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta, V. Anand and S. Moholkar
‘Thermodynamic optimisation of biomass gasification for
decentralised power generation and Fischere Tropsch
synthesis’, Journal of Energy, DOI: 10.1016/
j.energy.2010.03.003, 2010
P. Mahanta, P.S.
Robi, S.K.
Dwivedy and P.
Kalita
—
01 year
03
months
‘Persistent photocurrent and decay studies in CdS
nanorods thin films’, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 106
(10), pp 103705–103705-5, 2009
and Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated transformation
in Jatropha curcas L.’, South African Journal of Botany,
DOI:10.1016/j.sajb.2010.01.001, 2010
‘Thermal Efficiency Study of Conventional Pressure
Stoves Equipped with Porous Radiant Inserts’,
International Energy Journal, vol. 10, pp 247-254, 2009
202
L. Barbora, R. Singh, N. Shroti and A. Verma
‘Synthesis and Characterisation of Neodymium Oxide
Modified Nafion Membrane for Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells’,
Journal of Material Chemistry and Chemical Physics, vol.
122, pp 211-216, 2010
A. Ranjan, C. Patil and V.S. Moholkar
‘Mechanistic Assessment of Microalgal Lipid Extraction’,
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 49
(6), pp 2979-2985, 2010
B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V.S. Moholkar
‘First Principles Design of a Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB)
Biomass Gasifier’, National Workshop on New Technologies
for Rural Development having Potential for
Commercialisation (NTRDPC-2009), Bhopal, 29 May 2009
‘Electrical transport and transient photocurrent studies
on CdS nanorods thin films’, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and
Nanotechnology (ICANN-2009), IIT Guwahati, India, 911 December 2009 (Accepted, Ref. No. A-652)
‘Structural and thermal studies on PbS nanocubes’,
Twenty-third International Conference on Amorphous
and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, Utrecht, the
‘Evolution of nanostructure with reaction time for ZnS
synthesised by solvothermal process’, Twenty-third
International Conference on Amorphous and
Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, Utrecht, The
‘Structural, optical and thermal studies of CdS nanorods
synthesised by solvothermal process’, International
Conference on Nanoscience and Technology
(ICONSAT), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, pp 197, 17-20
February 2010 (Abstract No. EN 33)
A. Ranjan and V.S. Moholkar
‘Biobutanol production: mProcess design and
comparative evaluation of alternate substrate’,
Chemcon, Vishakhapatatnam, pp 06, 2009
S. Khanna and V.S. Moholkar
’A conceptual integrated wholecell biocatalytic process
for biodiesel production and upgradation of glycerol to
valye added Products’, Chemcon, Vishakhapattanam,
pp 247, 2009
H.A. Choudhary and V.S. Moholkar
‘Kinetic models for Fischer tropsch Synthesis’, Chemcon,
Vishakhapatnam, pp 384, 2009
A. Basu, P. Mazumdar and L. Sahoo
‘Genetic diversity among Jatropha Curcas accessions as
revealed by rapd markers’, National Symposium on Plant
Cell Tissue and Organ Culture: the Present Scenario,
Kolkata, 3-5 March 2010
and Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated transformation
in Jatropha curcas L.’, National Symposium on Plant Cell
Tissue and Organ Culture: the Present Scenario, Kolkata,
3-5 March 2010
S. Bordoloi, M. Das and P. Goswami
‘Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube based Cholesterol
Oxidase Bioelectrode for Biosensor and Biofuel Cell
Application’, Proceedings of International Conference on
Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN)2009, IIT Guwahati, 9-11 December 2009
R.S. Patil, M. Pandey and P. Mahanta
‘Study on Wall to Bed Heat Transfer Characteristics in
the Upper Splash Region of Cold Circulating Fluidised
Bed Risers’, Proceedings of Ninth International ISHMTASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (ISHMTASME ), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 4-6 January 2010
R.S. Patil, M. Pandey and P. Mahanta
‘Study on the Heat Transfer Characteristics in the Lower
Splash Region of Circulating Fluidised Bed Riser’,
Proceedings of Seventh World Conference on Experimental
Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
(ExHFT-7), Krakow, Poland, 28 June-3 July 2009
M. Sharma, M. Nishioka, S.C. Mishra and P. Mahanta
‘A Modeling Study of a Premixed CH4/Air Mixtures:
Dependence of Laminar Flame speed on Pressure and
Preheating Temperature’, ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass
Transfer Conference, Mumbai, January 2010
M. Sharma, S.C Mishra and P. Acharjee
‘Use of Ceramic Heat Shield Ring with Embedded
Porous Zirconia: an Approach to Enhance Thermal
Efficiency of Conventional Pressure Stove’, ICAER,
Mumbai, December 2009
L. Barbora, R. Singh, N. Shroti and A. Verma
‘Neodymium Triflate Modified Nafion Composite
Membrane for Reduced Alcohol Permeability in Direct
Alcohol Fuel Cell’, Fuel Cell Technologies: FUCETECH
2009, Mumbai, 11-13 November 2009
U. Saxena, M. Das, S. Ahmed and P. Goswami
‘An amperometric cholesterol biosensor based on
multiwalled carbon nanotube-nafion-cholesterol oxidasecholesterol esterase nanobiocomposite’, International
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Nanotechnology (ICANN-2009), IIT Guwahati, 9-11
December 2009 (Abstract no.E-134)
P. Vatsyayan, S. Bordoloi, L. Barbora and P. Goswami
‘Direct electrochemistry of large novel catalase from
Aspergillus terreus immobilised on MWCNT-NF/PEI
modified glassy carbon electrode and its fuelcell
application’, International Symposium and Exhibition on
Fuel Cell Technologies (Fucetech 2009), Mumbai, pp
82, 11-13 November 2009 (Abstract no: 79)
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
B. Buragohain
Renewable energy for
development of underdeveloped regions with
particular reference to
North-East India
Tezpur
University
23-25 March
2010
National
B.B. Sahu
ASME Internal Combustion
Engine Division Spring
technical Conference
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin,
USA
3-6 May, 2009
International
P. Agarwal
Conference in Amorphous
and Nanocrystalline
Semiconductors (ICANS23)
Utrecht, The
Netherlands
23-28 May 2009
International
G.S. Paul
Conference in Amorphous
and Nanocrystalline
Semiconductors (ICANS23)
Utrecht, The
Netherlands
23-28 May 2009
International
P. Mazumdar
and A. Basu
Sequence Analysis and its
use in Biological Research
Assam
Agricultural
University,
Jorhat
11-13 March
2010
National
P. Agarwal
Indo-Australian Solar Energy
Workshop (Invited Scientist)
Delhi, Noida
9-10 February
2010
National
C. Somayaji and
N. Sahoo
Indo-Australian Solar Energy
Workshop (Participating
Scientist)
Delhi, Noida
9-10 February
2010
National
P. Mahanta
UK-India Sustainable Energy
Technologies Network
Trent Bridge,
Nottingham, UK
9-10 September
2009
International
V.S. Moholkar
CIMFR Industry Gettogether Workshop
Dhanbad
8 May 2009
National
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Name of
Faculty
P. Mahanta
Name of Inst./
Org.
Name of Lecture
UK-India Sustainable Energy
Technologies Network
Place
University of
Nottingham, Trent
Bridge, UK
UK
Date
9-10
September
2009
Name
Name of Inst./Org.
Purpose
Dr. Mike
Clifford
University of
Nottingham, UK
Mr. Subroto
Chatterjee
Director,
Collaboration
ADnEnergy, London
Dr. C.R.
Seetharam
Director, DCS
Trading and
Services Pvt. Ltd.,
Hyderabad
Date
Collaboration
01 December
2009
Remarks
Probable collaboration
in the field of
Appropriate Technology
23 March 2010 Probable collaboration
in the field of Wind
Energy
Scope for solar home and
street lighting installation
at IIT Guwahati campus
November
2009
Based on his visit a
proposal has been
submitted to Grow
Willington, New
Zealand for rural
electrification of an
Indian Village
INVITED LECTURES
Name
Dr. Mike Clifford
Name of Inst./Org.
University of
Nottingham, UK
Name of Lecture
Appropriate Technology – the
poetry and Sciences
SHORT-TERM COURSES
Name of Course: Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology
Date and Place: 14-18 September 2009, IIT
Guwahati
ORGANISED
Coordinator: P. Mahanta
Name of Seminar/Conference: Hands on Training on
Ferro-Cement biogas digester
Sponsoring Agency: MNRE, New Delhi
Date and Place: 5-9 October 2009, IIT Guwahati
(National)
Date
01 December 2009
Coordinator: P. Mahanta
Name of Seminar/Conference: Training on biogas
technology for Officers of Dept. of Forests, Govt. of
Assam
Sponsoring Agency: MNRE, New Delhi
Date and Place: 21-22 August 2009, IIT Guwahati
(National)
(Altogether 35 (Thirty-five) nos. of biogas users training
programme have been organised in various states of NE
India.)
AWARDS AND HONOURS
B.B. Sahu
A PhD student from the Centre was awarded
International Travel Grant from Department of Science
& Technology (DST) and Centre for Cooperation in
Science & Technology among Developing Societies
(CCSTDS) for attending ASME Internal Combustion
Engine Division Spring technical Conference held during
3-6 May 2009 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Prof. A. Goyal
Biotechnology
G.S. Paul
A PhD student from the Centre was awarded
International Travel Grant from Department of Science
& Technology (DST) for attending Twenty-third
International Conference in Amorphous and
Nanocrystalline Semiconductors (ICANS23) held during
23-28 May 2009 at Utrecht, The Netherlands. He was
also awarded Senior Research Fellowship (01 April 200931 March 2010) by Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), New Delhi. Moreover, he was also
selected for Post Doctoral Fellow at Korea University,
South Korea.
Prof. P. Mahanta (Head of the Centre)
P. Kalita
Scientific Officer of the Centre was selected for attending
Second UK-India Young Scientists Networking
Conference on Low Carbon Technologies and Energy
Research, 2-3 December 2009 held at Kolkata organised
by British Council. He was also selected for the award
of India Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at University
of Nottingham, United Kingdom, for a period of 03
months (11 April – 10 July 2010).
A. Ranjan
Selected for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
(MNRE) Fellowship 2009-2010 (JRF), for research in
Renewable Energy
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Dr. S. Gumma
Prof. S.C. Mishra
Dr. K. Mohanty
Dr. V.S. Moholkar
Dr. P. Muthukumar
Dr. U.K. Saha
Dr. L. Sahoo
Biotechnology
Dr. N. Sahoo
Dr. A. Verma
The Centre for Energy provides services to the NGOs,
entrepreneurs as well as to the students of various
engineering and polytechnique colleges in terms of
lectures, training, etc.
FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
CENTRE
Dr. P. Agarwal
Physics
Prof. P. Goswami
Biotechnology
Dr. V.V. Goud
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CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT
INTRODUCTION
Since the Earth Summit in June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, a global consensus has been reached in addressing
the pressing environmental problems facing us and
preparing the world for the challenges awaiting ahead.
Great emphasis has been placed on the need for all
sections of society to participate in working towards
sustainable development - development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own needs.
Therefore, every action at local level is equally vital for
the continued economical and social development of
the world without detriment to the environment and
natural resources. The Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati visualised an active role in dealing with new
directions and concerns emerging towards mitigatory
efforts of environmental problems of the day. In order
to give a concrete shape to this visualisation, IIT
Guwahati established this full-fledged Centre for the
Environment in May 2004.
The main objectives of the Centre for the Environment
are to promote interdisciplinary research and
development, to impart postgraduate education, to
create public awareness, to provide consultancy in
challenging area and to train manpower for mitigating
emerging environmental problems, besides any outreach
programmes that fall within the ambit of its domain of
activities.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Centre has started the interdisciplinary research
programme from the academic year 2005-2006 leading
to PhD degree with admission of 4 PhD students (2
full-time and 2 part-time). 20 faculty members across
various departments of the Institute are involved in
providing guidance. The broad areas identified for
conducting interdisciplinary research are:
Air pollution-Dispersion, Control and Modeling; Water
and Wastewater Treatment; Solid Waste Management
and Recycling; Waste Immobilisation; Soil-watercontaminant Interaction; Environmental Bioremediation/
Environmental Biotechnology; Biosorption and
Bioremediation of heavy metals; Biofiltration for treating
Waste Gases and Green Solvents; Removal of Toxic and
Recalcitrant Compounds; Biodegradation/Biodetoxification of Toxic Wastes; Environmental Genomics
and Proteomics; Contaminant Transport and Retention
in Porous Media; Green Chemistry; Optimisation;
Environmental History; Environmental Economics; Green
Design; Electrochemical Remediation for Water and
Wastewater Treatment, Global Warming and Climate
Modeling; GHG Capture and Storage.
The Centre has also initiated a proposal to start MS (by
research)–an interdisciplinary post-graduate programme
in the broader area of the Environment.
STUDENT INTAKE
Four new PhD students were admitted during the
reporting period.
FACULTY STRENGTH
The following faculty members are currently associated
with the Centre through PhD guidance and/or
implementing sponsored projects:
Dr. S. Chakraborty, Department of Civil Engineering
Prof. D.C. Dalal, Department of Mathematics
Dr. G. Das, Department of Chemistry
Dr. V.V. Dasu, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. M.K. Dutta, Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences
Dr. P.K. Ghosh, Department of Civil Engineering
Prof. A.K. Ghoshal, Department of Chemical Engineering
Prof. A. Goyal, Department of Biotechnology
Prof. S.K. Kakoty, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. C. Mahanta (Head of the Centre), Department of
Civil Engineering
Dr. B.P. Mandal, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. K. Pakshirajan, Department of Biotechnology
Prof. B.K. Patel, Department of Chemistry
Dr. M.K. Purkait, Department of Chemical Engineering
Prof. A.K. Sarma, Department of Civil Engineering
Prof. P.G. Yammiyavar, Department of Design
Dr. U. Bora, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. S. Patra, Department of Biotechnology
Prof. M. Jawed, Department of Civil Engineering
Dr. V. Dubey, Department of Biotechnology
Prof. Chandan Mahanta, Department of Civil
Engineering, has taken over the charge as the Head of
the Centre from Dr. Manabendra Ray in September
2008. In order to carry out the activities of the Centre –
such as planning and setting up of laboratories,
preparation of indents for procurement of equipments,
development of curriculum for postgraduate programme
of studies to be offered by the Centre etc. A committee
comprising the following faculty members drawn from
different departments continues to function.
Chairman
Head of the Centre
Members
Dr. K. Pakshirajan, Department of Biotechnology
Dr. P. Ghosh, Department of Chemical Engineering
Prof. B.K. Patel, Department of Chemistry
Prof. P.G. Yammiyavar, Department of Design
Dr. M.K. Dutta, Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences
Prof. D.C. Dalal, Department of Mathematics
Prof. S.K. Kakoty, Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Centre has procured and installed the following
major equipment/facilities during the reporting period:
1. Colour Laserjet Printer with Digital Copier, HP
207
2. BOD Incubator (Low Temp), Super Deluxe Digital
Model
3. Orion 3-Star Benchtop Conductivity Meter Kit, 2 Sets
4. IKAMAG RCT Basic Safety Control, 2 Sets
5. Orbital Shaking Incubator with Refrigeration
6. COD Reactor, Model: DRB200
7. Operon Microprocessor Controlled -86 °C Vertical
Ultra Low Deep Freezer
8. Cryostat (Low Temperature Bath) Make: Lauda Alpha
9. Double Door Frost Free Refrigerator, 3 Nos.
10. Portable Autoclave, Make: Equitron, Medica, 2 Nos.
11. Digital PH/mV Meter, Make: Thermo Fisher, 2 Nos.
12. Multi-parameter Water Quality Monitoring system,
Make: YSI
The Centre received two CSIR funded projects as
detailed below for implementation during the year 20082010 and 2009-2011:
Title: Synthesis, Characterisation of Metal Oxides and
their Application to Wastewater Treatment
Principal Investigator: Dr. G. Das
Sponsoring Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India
Total Grant: Rs. 16.89 lakh
Title: Petroleum Wastewater treatment in packed Bed
reactor using suitable Microorganism(s)
Principal Investigator: Dr. G. Das
Sponsoring Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India
Total Grant: Rs. 16.00 lakh
RESEARCH PROJECTS
a) New Sponsored Project
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
(Rs. in Lakh)
Duration
(Years)
A.K. Ghoshal
Petroleum wastewater
treatment in packed Bed
reactor using Suitable
Microorganism(s)
CSIR, New Delhi
16.00
—
03 years
C. Mahanta
Safe water source delineation
through a GIS-MIS integrated
information system and allied
activities
UNICEF
18.26
—
01 year
C. Mahanta
Ecorestoration and
conservation plan for Bharalu
and Kolong Rivers of Assam
State Pollution
Control Board,
Assam
37.20
—
01 year
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b) Ongoing Sponsored Project
Principal
Investigator
G. Das
Name of Project
Synthesis,
Characterisation of Metal
Oxides and Their
Application to
Wastewater Treatment
Sponsoring
Agency
CSIR, New Delhi
International Journals
J. Nath, H. Ghosh, R. Yella and B.K. Patel
‘Molecular Iodine Mediated Preparation of Isothiocyanates
from Dithiocarbamic Acid Salts’, European Journal of
Organic Chemistry, vol. 12, pp 1849-1851, 2009
K. Dutta, S. Sen and V.V. Dasu
‘Production, characterisation and applications of microbial
cutinases’, Process Biochem., vol. 27-134, 2009
B. Saha, S. Chakraborty and G. Das
‘A mechanistic insight into enhanced and selective
phosphate adsorption on a coated arboxylated surface’,
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 331 (1), pp
21-26, 2009
S. Pandian, S. Gokhale and A.K. Ghoshal
‘Evaluating effects of traffic and vehicle characteristics
on vehicular emissions near traffic intersections’,
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and
Environment, vol. 14 (3), pp 180-196, 2009
D. Deka, S. Ahmed, N. Akhtar, M. Jawed, Carlos M.G.A.
Fontes, D. Goyal and A. Goyal
‘Determining the substrate specificity and functional
characterisation of full length recombinant cellulase
(Lic26A-Cel5-CBM11) of Clostridium thermocellum’,
Journal of Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology, vol. 5
(1), 2009
S. Ahmed, D. Deka, M. Jawed, D. Goyal, C.M.G.A Fontes
and A. Goyal
‘Biochemical characterisation of a recombinant
deriavative (Ct lic 26A-Cel5) of a cellulosomal cellulose
from Clostridium thermocellum’, Current trends in
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
16.89
Duration
(Years)
Co-Investigator
–
03 years
B. Saha and G. Das
‘Malachite Nanoparticle: A New Basic Hydrophilic
Surface for pH-Controlled Adsorption of Bovine Serum
Albumin with a High Loading Capacity’, Journal of
Physical Chemistry, vol. 113 (35), pp 15667-15675, 2009
A. Banerjee and A.K. Ghoshal
‘Isolation and characterisation of hyper phenol tolerant
Bacillus sp. from oil refinery and exploration sites’,
Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 176, pp 85-91, 2010
A. Banerjee and A.K. Ghoshal
‘Phenol degradation by Bacillus cereus: pathway and
kinetic modeling’, Bioresource Technology, DOI:10.1016/
j.biortech.2010.02.018
‘Medium Development for Enhanced Production of
Alkaline Protease from a Newly Isolated Bacillus
pseudofirmus SVB1’, Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical
Engineering, DOI:10.1002/apj.417.2010
S. Sen, B. Mandal and V.V. Dasu
‘Effect of physical parameters, carbon and nitrogen
sources on the production of alkaline protease from a
newly isolated Bacillus pseudofirmus SVB1’, Annals of
J. Anandkumar and B. Mandal
‘Removal of Cr(VI) from Aqueous Solution using Bale
Fruit (Aegle armelos correa) Shell as an Adsorbent’,
Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 168, pp 633-640,
2009
J, Anandkumar and B. Mandal
‘Equilibrium and kinetic modeling of Malachite green
and Cu (II) adsorption by surface enhanced Aegle
marmelos correa shell’, Proceedings of the Indian Chemical
Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2009), Andra
University, Visakhapatnam, 27-30 December 2009
‘Effect of culture conditions and degradation kinetics of
Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6 enhancing the
biodegradation of 4-chlorophenol’, Proceedings of
International Conference on Emerging Trend in
Biotechnology, IT BHU, India, 2009
Growth and biodegradation kinetics of p-bromophenol
and p-nitrophenol by Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6’,
Proceedings of International Conference Environmental
Health and Toxicity, IIT Kanpur, India, 2010
‘Evaluation of actinomycetes and bacteria isolated from
soil samples in biodegradation of chlorophenols’,
Proceedings of the forty-eighth Annual Conference of AMI,
IIT Madras, Chennai, 18-21 December 2010
D. Deka, A. Sharma, D. Goyal and A. Goyal
‘Partial purification and characterization of an alkaline
carboxymethylcellulase from a new isolate of Bacillus
sp.’, Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging
Trends in Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, 2-6 December 2009
‘Applications of Alkaline Protease from a Newly Isolated
Bacillus pseudofirmus SVB1 in Abattoir Solid Waste
Solubilization’, Proceedings of the Indian Chemical
27-30 December 2009
R.L. Deka, C. Mahanta and K.K. Nath
‘Trends and fluctuations of temperature regime of North
East India’, Proceedings of International Workshop on
Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture, Space
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Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, pp 376-380,
17-18 December 2009
C. Mahanta, N. Pathak, R. Choudhury, P. Borah and W.
Alam
‘Qualifying the Spread of Arsenic Contamination in
Groundwater of the Brahmaputra Floodplains, Assam,
India: A threat to Public Health of the Region’, World
Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009,
Great River Proceedings of World Environment and Water
Resources Congress 2009, Kansas City, Missouri, USA,
vol. 342, pp 180, 17-21 May 2009
R. Choudhury, C. Mahanta, A. Dutta, S. Basu, P. Borah,
L. Saikia, W. Alam and R. Dutta
‘Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in the Brahmaputra
Floodplain, Assam, India: A comprehensive Field
Investigation’, Proceedings of ‘EMRI-IITM, India 2010’
(EMRI’s Third Developing Nations Conference: India 2010
– an International Perspective on Current and Future State
of Water Resources and the Environment), IIT Madras,
L. Saikia, C. Mahanta and R.L. Deka
‘Climate change in the Brahmaputra basin of the
Northeast India and Need of Policy Interventions and
Institutional Mechanism’, Proceedings of ‘EMRI-IITM, India
2010’ (EMRI’s Third Developing Nations Conference: India
2010 – an International Perspective on Current and Future
State of Water Resources and the Environment), IIT
Madras, Chennai, 5-7 January 2010
C. Mahanta, L. Saikia, R. Choudhury, R. Goswami, A.
Nath, D. Borah and A. Phukan
‘Water Resources in the Brahmaputra basin: Need for
Renewed Policy Initiative for Effective Development and
Management’, Proceedings of ‘EMRI-IITM 2010’ (EMRI’s
third Developing Nations Conference: India 2010 – an
International Perspective on Current and Future State of
Water Resources and the Environment), IIT Madras,
INVITED LECTURES
Name
Dr. Deva Borah
Name of Inst./Org.
Woolpert, Inc. Virginia,
USA
Name of Lecture
Evaluation of sediment transport models for
application to Brahmputra Watershed
Date
31 Dec.
2009
Nitin D. Rai,
Ashoka Trust for Research in Constructing landscapes and ecological practice in 6 March
Senior Researcher Ecology and the Environment Bilgiri Rangaswamy Temple wildlife sanctuary
2010
Dr. Corenelius
Sandhu, Senior
Research Associate
University of Applied
Sciences, Dresden,
Germany
Potential of riverbank filtration wells in India –
Case studies from Haridwar, Patna and Srinagar
(Uttarakhand)
20 March
2010
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The Centre organised weekly seminars which were
delivered by the research students from different
departments and by invited visitors.
Prof. P.G. Yammiyavar
Design
Dr. U. Bora
Biotechnology
CENTRE
Dr. S. Patra
Biotechnology
Dr. S. Chakraborty
Civil Engineering
Prof. M. Jawed
Civil Engineering
Prof. D.C. Dalal
Mathematics
Dr. V.K. Dubey
Biotechnology
Dr. G. Das
Chemistry
Dr. V.V. Dasu
Biotechnology
Dr. M.K. Dutta
Dr. P.K. Ghosh
Civil Engineering
Prof. A.K. Ghoshal
Prof. A. Goyal
Biotechnology
Prof. S.K. Kakoty
Prof. C. Mahanta (Head of the Centre)
Civil Engineering
Dr. B.P. Mandal
Dr. K. Pakshirajan
Biotechnology
Prof. B.K. Patel
Chemistry
Dr. M.K. Purkait
Prof. A.K. Sarma
Civil Engineering
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CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
Commercialisation of Nanotechnology
The year 2009-2010 has been quite an eventful for the
Centre for Nanotechnology. Beside infrastructure
development and research activities, the first
and Nanotechnology (ICANN-2009) was organised at
the Centre. The conference started on 9 December
2009 and concluded successfully on 11 December 2009.
ICANN-2009 has been a major international conference
being held in the North-Eastern region of India, in the
area of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The main
focus of the conference was on advanced nanomaterials
for nanoengineering and recent advances in
nanotechnology, covering fields from theory and
experiment to applications of nanostructured materials
in technology. The conference was successful in offering
an excellent and open forum for exchange of ideas and
for deliberations among academia and industries, on the
latest of research accomplishments and also to cultivate
academic partnerships among the professionals. The
conference was represented by 410 participants. In
addition, 04 plenary talks were delivered by leading
experts in the field and a total of 368 papers (through
invited talks and poster presentations) by the delegates
from 14 countries and 08 areas were presented in 21
sessions. The four plenary talks include lectures on the
following topics:
The various sponsoring agencies of government and non
government organisations helped ICANN-2009 a major
success.
The Rise of Carbon: Graphene and Nanotubes
Micro/Nano-Technology in Diagnosis and Detection of
Pathogens and Toxins
Chemo and Phototactic Nano/microbots
Towards Atomically Precise Silicon Devices in all Three
Dimensions
As a whole the conference includes talks on the frontier
areas of Nano Science and Technology that include:
Nanostructured and nanoscale functional materials
Nanophotonics
Nanobiotechnology
Nanocomposites
Nano Electronics and Sensors
Nanomagnetism
Computational Nanotechnology
The basic laboratory facilities required for different areas
of nanotechnology have been set up and are now fully
functional. The installations of all the basic equipments
are completed. Last year, a Double Beam UV-Vis
Spectrophotometer of Perkin Elmer, Model Lambda 25
was successfully installed in the Center. Canon Digital
Photocopier Machine, Model: iR-2022N Automatic
Duplex unit and Reverse Automatic Document feeder,
Temperature controlled Ultrasonic Bath and Temperature
controlled Water Bath were also installed in the Centre
before 31 March 2010.
The purchases of following equipment are in progress:
Electromagnet with Power Supply and Digital Gauss
meter.
CO2 Incubator: It is required to grow mammalian cells.
The above equipment has been sanctioned under DBT
project scheme.
Refrigerated High Speed Centrifuge: It is required for
centrifugation of biomolecules.
Substrate Heater (600°C) for E-beam deposition system:
This is for upgrading the existing e-beam system with a
substrate heater assembly consisting of heater and
substrate holder, PID temperature control (±1°C), digital
display and set panel. It should be capable of reaching a
substrate temperature of >600°C
Gaussian Software for windows PC
Samsung Microwave Oven
Sophisticated instruments like, Fluorescence Activated
Cell Sorter (FACS) and Real Time PCR installed in the
Centre to develop specialised nanobiotechnology
laboratory facility and sophisticated instrument for
magnetic property measurement consisting of
superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)
installed at the Central Instrument Facility (CIF) are
working smoothly. All the research and project works
are going in full swing with the help of interdisciplinary
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research collaborations with other departments. The
existing facilities available at the Centre are not only
being utilised by the members of the Centre but also
shared by other members in various Departments,
Centres and academic institutions of the Northeast India.
Manpower development has been another area of
progress, which was achieved by hiring junior and senior
research fellow under the project category. The PhD
programme in Nanotechnology is continuing with total
student strength of 7. The Centre has also made
progress in terms of collaborations with other
Departments. Collaboration with the Departments of
Biotechnology, Chemistry, Electronics and
Communication Engineering (ECE), and Physics are being
carried out at the Centre. The Centre also offered two
more new courses in the academic year 2009-2010 at
the postgraduate level related to Nanoscale Science and
Technology. Students from the Centre and academic
departments have registered for the courses.
FACULTY STRENGTH
The students’ forum ‘Corral’ of the Centre has been
organising ‘Chalk the Talk’ (a seminar series) every week.
Several speakers from different disciplines related to
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have delivered talks.
It gives a base particularly to the students to hone their
communication and presentation skills.
Scanning Probe Microscope (Project)
High Quality Water Purifier
X-ray diffraction (XRD) Measurement System
COMSOL Multi-Physics Software
Precision Balance
Particle Size distribution Analyser
UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
Planetary Ball mill
Ultrasonic Cleaning Bath
Digital Camera
LCD Projector
Deep Freezer
Hot air Oven
Hot plate with Magnetic Stirrer
De-ioniser
Vacuum Coating Unit (both Thermal Evaporation and
Electron Beam Deposition)
High Temperature Furnace
Turbo Molecular Pump
RF Power Supply and Matching Network
Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
50 MHz Digital-Analog Oscilloscopes
20 MHz Functional Generator
Triple Output DC power Supply
Lock-in Amplifier
Electromagnet
Trinocular microscope
Autoclave
Electrophoresis System
UV-Transilluminator
Horizontal Laminar Hood
Refrigerated Centrifuge
Micro-Centrifuge
pH-Meter
Faculty members, staff and students associated with the
Centre delivered lectures at several conferences and
symposia. A few BTech students have carried out their
BTP work at the Centre for Nanotechnology. Overall,
during the previous year, the Centre has witnessed
significant growth in various aspects of academic and
research activities.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
In the academic year 2009-2010, the centre has offered
the following courses:
Course Name: Recent Advances in Nanotechnology
Instructor: Prof. A. Chattopadhyay and Dr. S.S. Ghosh
Course Name: Frontiers in Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology
Instructor: Prof. A. Chattopadhyay and Dr. S.S. Ghosh
Seminar courses are interactive and each and every
student has to submit a written report on recent advances
of nanotechnology in his/her own words. The students
are also examined thoroughly during routine seminar
presentations.
STUDENT INTAKE
No. of PhD students admitted during 2009-2010
Ongoing PhD students
: 01
: 07
At present, there is no provision in the Centre for
recruiting any faculty. Therefore, there is no core faculty
recruited at the Centre. However, four faculty
members from different departments namely
Chemistry, Physics, Biotechnology and Electronics and
Communication Engineering are associated since the
day of inception of the Centre for Nanotechnology. In
addition, there are additional five faculty members who
are actively collaborating with the Centre. Further, there
are four faculty members who are also participating
either in writing grant (at the institutional level for large
grant) or pursuing research work in collaboration with
the Centre.
Equipment: The following equipment have been
purchased and installed in the Centre:
Micropipette
Incubator
Incubator Shaker
Rotavapor
Vacuum Pumps
A common laboratory has established with
Computers, Laser Printers and Scanner
Rapid thermal processing unit
Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system
for nanomaterials growth
Fluorescence Activated Cell sorter (Project)
Realtime PCR machine (Project)
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Research on nanobiotechnology to develop nanoscale
materials for therapeutic implications is being pusuaded
at the Centre. Also, a new project ‘Novel Nanoscale
Materials: Generation, Characterisation, and Device
Applications’ is being implemented with funds from DST
under NSTI (Nano Science and Technology Initiative)
programme. The Centre, represented by the advisory
committee and other associated faculty members, is
fostering research growth in the areas of submicron Scale Lithography, Hydrogel Systems, Carbon Nanotubes,
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) based devices, Magnetic
Systems and Nanobiotechnology.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
a) Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Status
DBT
102.62
A. Chattopadhyay,
A. Ramesh and B.
Bose
03 years
A. Chattopadhyay Novel Nanoscale Materials:
Generation, Characterisation,
and Device Applications
DST
—
A number of
faculty members
from departments
05 years
A. Chattopadhyay Newer Chemical and Physical
Methods of Engineering
Devices with Nanoscale
Functional Components
DST
92.00
—
05 years
S.S. Ghosh
Nanoscale materials with
therapeutic implications
Sponsoring
Agency
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Co-Investigator
Status
Engineering Nanoscale
Materials and their
Applications in
nanotechnology
DST
2.02
—
05 years
Development of Stimuli
Sensitive Nanogels/
Nanoparticles for Controlled
Release System
DST
10.00
—
03 years
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
A.
Chattopadhyay
(Coordinator)
A. Khan
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A. Mathew and M.K. Nandy
‘Revisiting the problem of a single electron cylindrical
quantum dot in constant magnetic field’, Physica E, vol.
42 (5), pp 1383-1386, 2010
‘Quantitative analysis of diameter dependent properties
of multi-walled carbon nanotubes’, AIP Conference
Proceedings, vol. 1147, pp 450-456, 2009
‘Optical Signature of Structural Defects in Single Walled
and Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes’, Journal of
S. Kumari, D.K. Singh and P.K. Giri
‘Strain Anisotropy in Freestanding Germanium
Nanoparticles Synthesised by Ball Milling’, Journal of
P.K. Reddy, P.J. Goutam, D.K. Singh, A.K. Ghoshal and
P.K. Iyer
‘Poly(3-hexylthiphene) to fullerenes Kinetic modeling
and analysis of thermal degradation pathway’, Polymer
Degradation and Stability, vol. 94, pp 1839, 2009
P. Gopinath, S.K. Gogoi, P. Sanpui, A. Paul, A.
Chattopadhyay and S.S. Ghosh
‘Signaling gene cascade in silver nanoparticle induced
apoptosis’, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, vol.
77 (2), pp 240-245, 2010
N. Ramakrishnan, R.P. Palathinkal and H.B. Nemade
‘Mass loading effects of high aspect ratio structures grown
over SAW resonators’, Journal of Sensor Letters, vol. 8
(2), pp 1-5, 2010 (doi:10.1166/sl.20210.1258)
M. Banerjee, S. Mallick, A. Paul, A. Chattopadhyay and
S.S. Ghosh
‘Heightened reactive oxygen species generation in the
antimicrobial activity of a three component iodinated
chitosan-silver nanoparticle composite’, Langmuir, vol.
26 (8), pp 5901-5908, 2010
A. Murugadoss, M. Kar, R. Pasricha and A.
Chattopadhyay
‘Silver fused conducting fiber formation of Au-Ag coreshell nanoparticles mediated by ascorbic acid’,
Plasmonics, vol. 4 (2), pp 161-170, 2009
A. Murugadoss, P. Goswami, A. Paul and A.
Chattopadhyay
‘Green chitosan bound silver nanoparticles for selective
C-C bond formation via in situ iodination of phenols’,
Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 304 (12), pp 153-158, 2009
J. Deka, A. Paul and A. Chattopadhyay
‘Sensitive protein assay with distinction of conformations
based on visible absorption changes of citrate-stabilised
gold nanoparticles’, Journal of Physical Chemistry C., vol.
113 (17), pp 6936-6947, 2009
T. Vamsi, R. Sangwan and A. Chattopadhyay
‘A new way of information storage using red, green,
blue and black color imprints’, Microsystems
Technologies, vol. 15, pp 4, 2009
A. Mathew and M.K. Nandy
‘Single particle states of a cylindrical quantum dot with
finite wall height under transverse magnetic field’,
and Nanotechnology (ICANN-2009), Guwahati, 9-11
December 2009
P.J. Goutam, P.K. Reddy, D.K. Singh, A.K. Ghoshal and
P.K. Iyer
‘Poly(3-hexylthiophene) degrades to fullerene: A Study
to ascertain thermal degradation pathway’, Proceedings
of the International Conference on Nanoscience and
Technology (ICONSAT-2010), IIT Bombay, 17-20
February 2010
‘Defect Evolution and Structural Improvement in Low
energy ion irradiated Carbon Nanotubes: Microscopic
and Spectroscopic Studies’, International Conference on
Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN2009), IIT Guwahati, 9-11 December 2009
‘Improved chemical synthesis of Graphene using a
solvothermal route’, International Conference on
Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN2009), IIT Guwahati, 9-11 December 2009
P.K. Giri, P. Palni and D.K. Singh
‘Effect of ZnO Seed Layer on the Catalytic Growth of
ZnO Multipods and Aligned ZnO Nanorods’, Seventh
International Nanotechnology Symposium–New Ideas
for Industry, Dresden, Germany, 26-27 May 2009
P. Sansui, A. Chattopadhyay and S.S. Ghosh
‘Chitosan-Mn 2+ -doped ZnS quantum dot
nanocomposites for carrying Suicide Genes’, International
December 2009
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December 2009
A.K. Namdeo, N. Ramakrishnan, H.B. Nemade and R.P.
Paily
‘FEM study of contactless excitation of acoustic waves
in SAW devices’, COMSOL Multiphysics User
Conference, Bangalore, November 2009
N. Ramakrishnan, T. Vamsi, A. Khan, H.B. Nemade and
R.P. Paily
‘Humidity sensor using pNIPAAm nanoparticles as
sensing medium in SAW devices’, International
Name of
Faculty
Workshop
Place
Date
International /
National
S.S. Ghosh
ICANN-2009
IIT Guwahati
9-11 December 2009
International
A. Chattopadhyay
ICANN-2009
IIT Guwahati
9-11 December 2009
International
P.K. Giri
ICANN-2009
IIT Guwahati
9-11 December 2009
International
Name of
Faculty
Name of Lecture
Name of Inst./
Org.
Place
Guwahati
Date
S.S. Ghosh
Silver nanoparticles as
antimicrobial and
anticancer agents
IIT Guwahati
9 December
2009
A.
Chattopadhyay
Versatility of Nanoparticle
and Polymer Composites
Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
Iran
5-7 May
2009
A.
Chattopadhyay
Nanoparticle and Polymer
Composites for
Antimicrobial and
Anticancer Applications
Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, Mumbai
Mumbai
24-26 August
2009
A.
Chattopadhyay
Modern Science and
Technology for Meeting
Energy Demands
North-East Center for
Research and
Development (NECRD),
Guwahati and IGNOU,
Guwahati
Guwahati
22-24
November
2009
A.
Chattopadhyay
Metal Nanoparticle and
Applications
Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology
Hyderabad
Hyderabad
5 February
2010
A.
Chattopadhyay
Metal Nanoparticle Polymer Composites for
Applications
Dept. of Physics, P.G.
College of Science,
Saifabad, Osmania
University, Hyderabad
Hyderabad
24-26
February
2010
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ORGANISED
Convenor: Dr. P.K. Giri
Chairman: Prof. A. Chattopadhyay
Name of Conference: International Conference on
Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN2009)
Sponsored Agency: Various Agencies
(International)
PATENT FILED
N. Ramakrishnan, H.B. Nemade and R. Paily P.
‘High aspect ratio resonant structures in surface acoustic
wave devices’, Indian Patent Filed (Application No: 822/
KOL/2009)
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Krishna Kanti Dey
Selected (this year) and attended for the next year (Nobel
Laureate Meet)
CENTRE
Chemistry
Dr. S.S. Ghosh (Head of the Centre)
Biotechnology
Dr. P.K. Giri
Physics
Dr. H.B. Nemade
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CENTRAL LIBRARY
INTRODUCTION
The Central Library, one of the important central facilities
of IIT Guwahati, continued to grow in terms of its
resources, facilities and services to meet the
requirements of the Institute’s wide ranging academic
and research programmes.
Following resources have been added to the Central
Library during the reporting period:
RESOURCES
11755 selected volumes of books and back-volumes in
various fields of science, engineering, technology, social
sciences and other related areas were acquired during
the Financial Year 2009-10 at the cost of Rs.275 lakh.
generation, reservations and other query responses
became easy and prompt.
b) The library continued to facilitate its users with online
access to various electronic resources and the Current
Periodicals wherever on-line versions were available to
the library along with the print subscriptions.
c) For better and comfortable reading facility 138
cushioned reading chairs have been procured and placed
for the users of the Library. Total 67 units of book and
back volume stacks have been installed for better
collection management and services.
Total 401 journals, which include 70 Indian journals,
were subscribed during the Financial Year 2009-2010.
The total strength of Institute subscribed online content
collection strength has reached to 2605. The total
expenditure for current journals for this financial year
was Rs. 250 lakh.
All the documents added to the library were technically
processed and the data were added and updated in the
computerised databases to facilitate their optimum use.
Total 201 theses were added in to the collection and
number of non-books collection has reached to 4767
items during this Financial Year.
2045 sets of loose issues of periodicals were processed
for binding.
The total collection strength of the Library by the end of
this Financial Year stands as 1, 17,351.
SERVICES
a) Automated Circulation System continued to provide
a much needed relief to both users and the staff,
particularly to cope-up with the heavy rush at the
circulation counter. Reminders, recalls, statistical data
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CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) is a central
facility of the Institute to assist Teaching-Learning Process.
The Centre is primarily concentrating on development
of infrastructure for Technology Enhanced Learning. At
present, the operational objective is to setup studio/
laboratories for video and web courses.
The Centre has state-of-the-art video recording and
analysis equipments and macro-media software. The
centre has also Video Conferencing System.
CET has been involved in one of the National level major
projects along with other IITs and IISc under MHRD,
Govt. of India, namely, National Programme on
Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). CET has
successfully completed the Phase-I of NPTEL project.
Under this project a total of 16 Web Courses and 5
Video Courses were developed. The video courses in
the programme comprises of approximately 40 one-hour
lectures for each course and the web supplements
contain sufficient materials that a teacher can cover in
approximately 40 lecture-hours. The contents are based
on the model curriculum suggested by All India Council
for Technical Education (AICTE) and the syllabi of major
affiliating Universities such as Anna University (Tamil
Nadu), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
(Andhra Pradesh) and Visvesvaraya Technological
University (Karnataka). Phase-II of the project has
commenced in the year 2009. In Phase-II, IIT Guwahati
will be developing 28 numbers of video courses and 66
numbers of web courses.
The Video courses are uploaded in the youtube (http://
www.youtube.com/iit) and are also submitted for
transmitting through GYANDARSHAN-III called Eklavya
channel. The web courses and video courses are
developed in order to provide students extra learning
material over the net.
CET has started working on other new projects on Virtual
Lab, National Mission for Education through ICT,
Development of an Indian Sign Language Recognition
System for Hearing Impaired students of India under
the National Mission for Education through ICT,
Developing suitable Pedagogical Methods for Various
classes, Intellectual Calibers & e-learning.
From the year 2005 the Quality Improvement
Programme (QIP) is being coordinated by the Centre
for Educational Technology.
Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) of the Ministry
of Human Resource Development, Department of
Education, Government of India, under the sponsorship
of All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi
has been in operation at the IIT Guwahati since 20032004. Quality Improvement Programme is being
implemented with the objective of upgrading the
expertise, qualification and capabilities of the faculty
members of degree level technical institutions. The
major activities under the QIP include:
Masters and Doctoral Programme
Short Term Programme
Curriculum Development
1 No. of Video Conferencing system with 2 Nos. of
Plasma Display, 5 Nos. of Mac Pro, 3 Nos. of Power
Mac G5, 2 Nos. of Sony DSR 390 DV CAM Camera, 2
Nos. of LCD Projector, 2 Nos. of DV CAM Recorder, 2
Nos. of DV CAM Player, 2 Nos. of Sony Audio Mixer
SRP –V110, 1 No. of Sony Editing Control Unit, 2 Nos.
of Sony Switcher DFS 700A, 2 Nos. of Sony DME
Switcher DFS 700AP, 2 Nos. of Camera Control Unit, 3
Nos. of Philips colour television, 2 Nos. of Tablet PC, 1
No. of Notebook PC, 3 Nos. of Tower Model Acer Server
(Altos G710), 1 Interactive Electronic Whiteboard, 1
PLASMA TV, 1 No. of NI PXI-8108 Core2 Duo 2.56
GHz Controller, 1 No. of Rotational Vibrometer, NI ELVIS
II, NI PXI-2529 High Density (8 by 16) Matrix, ABBE
Refractometer under Virtual Laboratory, Workstation
(High-end systems for image/video processing) under
Development of an Indian Sign Language Recognition
System for Hearing Impaired students of India under
the National Mission for Education through ICT.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
a) Ongoing Sponsored Projects
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
Principal
Investigator
Name of Project
S. Talukdar
(Head, CET)
NPTEL II & NPTEL III
MHRD
893.00
—
05 years
R.
Bhattacharjee
(Dept. of
ECE)
Virtual Lab
MHRD
75.00 (initial
grant)
—
02 years
M.K. Bhuyan
(Dept. of
ECE)
Development of an
Indian Sign Language
Recognition System for
Hearing Impaired
students of India under
the National Mission for
Education through ICT
MHRD
130.00 (For
Pilot Phase)
P.K. Bora
(Dept. of ECE)
03 years
J.K. Deka
(Dept. of
CSE)
Developing suitable
Pedagogical Methods for
Various classes,
Intellectual Calibers and
e-learning
MHRD
6.00
—
09
months
Sponsoring
Agency
Co-Investigator
Duration
(Years)
b) Completed Sponsored Projects
Principal
Investigator
A. Dewan
(ME), S.
Nandi (CSE),
and R. Tiwari
(ME)
Sponsoring
Agency
Name of Project
NPTEL I
MHRD
Amount
Sanctioned
(Rs. in Lakh)
138.00
Co-Investigator
A. Singh
(Dept. of CE)
Duration
(Years)
03 years
INVITED LECTURES
Name
Prof. M. Ananth
Name of Inst./Org.
IIT Madras
Name of Lecture
On Phase-II of NPTEL
Date
22 November 2009
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SHORT-TERM COURSES
Nine numbers of Short Term Courses were held under
QIP in the year 2009-2010.
Coordinator: V.K. Dubey and U. Bora
Name of Course: Advances in Drug Discovery
Date and Place: 20-24 July 2009, Department of
Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: R. Chaturvedi and R. Tamuli
Name of Course: Approaches to the Screening of
Bioactive Molecules from Natural Resources
Date and Place: 13-17 July 2009, Department of
Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: A. Singh
Name of Course: Computational Fluid Dynamics for
Chemical and Petroleum Engineers
Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: R.K. Bhattacharjya and A.K. Sarma
Name of Course: Optimisation Methods for Water
Resources Planning and Management
Date and Place: 15-19 June 2009, Department of Civil
Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: Sreedeep S.
Name of Course: Role of Environmental Geotechnology
in Waste Management
Date and Place: 2-6 November 2009, Department of
Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: J.K. Deka and S. Biswas
Name of Course: VLSI Design, Verification and Test
Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: A. Rajesh and P.K. Bora
Name of Course: Mathematical Methods in Electrical
Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT
Guwahati
Coordinator: A. Verma
Name of Course: Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology
Date and Place: 14-18 September 2009, Centre for
Energy, IIT Guwahati
Coordinator: S.N. Bora and S.P. Chakrabarty
Name of Course: Mathematical Methods, Modeling and
Optical Control
Mathematics, IIT Guwahati
ORGANISED
Coordinator: S. Talukdar
Name of Workshop: National Workshop on Use and
Development of Web and Video Courses for Enriching
Engineering Education
Sponsoring Agency: MHRD
Date and Place: 23-24 August 2009, IIT Guwahati
(National)
FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE
Prof. S. Talukdar (Head of the Centre, and Coordinator,
QIP)
Civil Engineering
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CENTRAL INSTRUMENTS FACILITY
INTRODUCTION
The Central Instruments Facility (CIF) was set up at IIT
Guwahati in the month of May 2004. The concept of
CIF evolved around the need for locating expensive
equipment required by the faculty of multiple
departments / centres for carrying out their research in
a central place. The needs of the other researchers
working under various Universities, Research Institutes,
and Industries situated in the northeastern region of India
were also considered while formulating the CIF. The
CIF accommodates sophisticated analytical instruments,
which cater to the cutting-edge research in many areas
of modern science and technology.
These equipments are of inter/multidisciplinary utility
and thus offer scope for their optimum utilisation. At
this budding stage the CIF houses equipment like Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer (400 MHz),
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Confocal Laser Scan
Microscope (CLSM), Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)
Spectrometer, Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM),
Liquid Chromotography Mass Spectrometer (LC MS/MS),
Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM). Phase-wise
induction of more number of highly sophisticated
equipment to meet the demand on advanced R&D work
at IIT Guwahati is under active consideration.
Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS),
Quantum Design MPMSXL
Pico-Second Time-resolved cum Steady State
Luminescence Spectrometer, Edinburgh Instruments FSP
920.
The following equipments have been purchased in the
reporting period:
Atomic Force Microscope, Agilent 5500.
Laser Micro Raman System, Horiba Jobin Vyon ( LabRam
HR )
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM),
Carl Zeiss Sigma.
High Temperature DSC-TGA, Netzsch STA449F3A00
Liquid Helium Plant, Quantum Design LHEP 18.
An amount equals to Rs. 1,25,000/- (Rupees one lac
twenty five thousand only) approximately has been
collected as charges of external samples for the period
from 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010.
CENTRE
Dr. A.K. Saikia (Head of the Centre)
Chemistry
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer,
Varian 400MHz FTNMR
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Leo 1430 vp
Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectrometer, JEOL JESFA200
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM), Zeiss LSM
510 Meta
200 KV Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), JEOL
JEM 2100
Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), Lakeshore 7410
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (LC/MS MS),
Water Q-Tof Premier & Aquity UPLC
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CENTRE FOR MASS MEDIA COMMUNICATION
INTRODUCTION
Mass media usually are thought of as sources of news
and entertainment. They also carry messages of
persuasion. Important, though often overlooked, is how
mass messages bind people into communities, even into
nations. United Nations study based on the data on the
number of television and radio sets around the globe
and these data segregated into western democracies
and developing countries shows a direct correlations
between media use, education and prosperity.
Heidelberg offset printing machine, Model: Speed
Master SM-74 bi-colour, maximum print size 530x740
mm
Heidelberg polar cutting machine, Model: 92 E
Heidelberg scanner, Model: Nexscan F 4100
Heidelberg imagesetter, Model: Primesetter 74
IBM server XSeries 225
Power operated Stitching Machine
Power operated title creasing cum Micro Perforation
Machine
Paper Folding Machine F4PS
Paper Jogging Machine
Centre for Mass Media Communication (CMMC) of the
Institute was started in May 2004 with an objective to
achieve some of the above mentioned outcomes.
Presently the Centre has state-of-the-art pre-press, offset
press and post-press facilities. In addition to training
students of the Department of Design regarding various
aspects of print media design, it caters to various inhouse design and printing requirements of IIT Guwahati.
Vision for the Centre is to have an integrated facility
including other elements of mass media like electronic
and photographic media.
FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE
Prof. A.K. Das (Head of the Centre)
Design
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COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
The Computer and Communication Centre of IIT
Guwahati is the central computing resource pool of the
Institute. The Computer and Communication Centre is
responsible for:
Providing Email service and Internet connectivity to the
Institute
Catering to the general purpose as well as high
computational need of the users
Maintenance of the campus network
Hosting and maintenance of Institute’s web pages
Providing EPABX services
The Computer and Communication Centre has been
involved in development of several in-house software
packages. It is also providing assistance to other academic
institutes of north-east region of India. The Centre also
conducts summer training to facilitate external students.
The computer lab of the Centre remains open for 18
hours in a day which is accessible to all authorised users
of the Institute. Computer practical for the common
courses are held in the Centre. The computer lab facilities
of the Centre are also extended to the students of other
institutes. The resources of the Centre are constantly
upgraded to meet the ever evolving standards of
information technology.
The Computer and Communication Centre provides and
maintains the PCs of the faculty and staff members of
the Institute. In addition to providing direct support to
the members of the Institute, the Centre also frequently
hosts write-ups (HOW-TOs, FAQs, etc.) in its Intranet
website. It also maintains an online E-Notice board for
posting and viewing notices electronically campus-wide,
a web-based Complain Management Information
System, etc.
The major equipment purchased in the last financial year
are:
Upgradation of Internet Bandwidth
The Computer and Communication Centre have
commissioned a new 10 Mbps internet leased line from
Airtel to cater the ever increasing demand for internet
bandwidth. The Centre has started providing the internet
connectivity through the National Knowledge Network
(NKN) 1 Gbps link along with the existing 67 Mbps
internet leased line bandwidth.
Computer Network Enhancement
The Centre is responsible for providing the network
connectivity to upcoming hostels/building as well as to
reinforce the existing network infrastructure. To cater
the need a number of network equipment were
purchased. They include managed network switches,
ADSL equipment, wireless access points, etc. The Centre
has acquired a CISCO 3945 router with four numbers
of WAN interfaces. To make the campus network
secured, the Centre has purchased LANenforcer security
appliance from Nevis Networks.
Servers and PCs
On the Server front, the Computer Centre has two
Clusters – one high availability Cluster meant for regular
programming and the other is meant for High
Performance Computing (HPC), which is integrated with
the Nation-wide Garuda Grid. Apart from these, a mix
of high-end Servers from IBM, Dell & Sun caters to the
need for Authentication, E-mail, Proxy and Web Servers.
This year, the ageing Mail Exchangers, Proxy Servers and
Web Servers (Wipro Server) have been shifted to new
high-end Sun hardware. New orders for high-end HP
hardware have also been placed, which includes 16
numbers of Servers, Centralised Storage and Backup
solutions. These shall be used for high availability Mail
solution.
The Computer Centre has purchased around 275 new
computers for using in the laboratory and in various
places of the Institute. Moreover, 97 new laptops have
been purchased for distribution among the Faculties.
For the first time, Computer Centre has procured 60
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numbers of Thin Clients from HP, which is being used
in the CC Lab. Apart from these, the Lab has more than
130 computers with configurations like 2/4 GB RAM,
dual/tri core processors, etc.
Besides, the Computer and Communication Centre also
provides floor space to house the Servers of other
Departments. Currently, Departments of Design,
Biotechnology, Humanities and Social Sciences,
Chemistry and Civil Engineering are utilising this facility.
We are also providing space and technical support for
setting up of a Language Lab in the Centre for the
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Renewal of MoU/Licenses
The Centre has renewed the Microsoft Volume License
for all languages Licenses/SA pack, McAfee antivirus
License, MoU between IITG and CDAC for Garuda Grid
Computing facility.
Expansion of existing EPABX system
With the expansion of the campus, the Computer Centre
has increased the capability of the existing EPABX system
to around 100 new users.
ONGOING SPONSORED PROGRAMMES
National Knowledge Network (NKN) Project
Our Institute is an active partner of the National
Knowledge Network (NKN). Presently, we have been
connected with 1 Gbps connectivity for video
conferences and virtual classrooms.
ERNET Point of Presence
IIT Guwahati, a Level-3 PoP (Point-of-Presence) for
ERNET India in the whole of North-Eastern India is
entrusted with the task of networking the academic
institutions of the region and provide technical assistance
where required. Currently, seventeen educational and
research institutes have taken internet connectivity from
the ERNET PoP. During this session a new user Uttarbanga
Krishi Vishwa Vidyalay has taken connectivity of 2 Mbps
(1:1) leased line.
The ERNET node is connected from VECC Kolkata using
a 2 Mbps MPLS backbone. The PoP has taken Internet
Leased Line of 20 Mbps from Bharti and 10 Mbps from
M/s Tata Communications to cater the need of its users.
Currently one JRF and one SRF have been exclusively
assigned to look after the affairs of IITG ERNET PoP.
CONSULTANCY AND OTHER COMMUNITY
SERVICES
The Centre has been involved in setting up of campus
network and providing consultancy services to nearby
educational institutes. The Centre completed a
consultancy for inspection of materials meant for
computerisation of Assam Govt. Land Record Project,
executed by AMTRON.
WORKSHOP ATTENDED
Mr. J. K. Ghosh, Scientific Officer, G-II, had attended a
meeting cum workshop regarding Virtual Classroom setup
at different IITs which was held in New Delhi NIC
headquarters.
CENTRE
Dr. D. Goswami (Head of the Centre)
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APPENDICES
Faculty
Officers and Scientific Staff (Group A)
Degree Awardees
Progress in Construction Works
Details of Research and Development Projects
Summary of Institute Accounts
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Appendix–I
FACULTY
Name
Designation
Department
Ahammad, Z.
Baskaran, A.
Bora, U.
Bose, B.
Chaturvedi, R.
Das, D.
Dasu, V. V.
Dubey, V. K.
Ghosh, S. S.
Goswami, P.
Goyal, A.
Jaganathan, B. G.
Limaye, A. M.
Pakshirajan, K.
Patra, S.
Ramesh, A.
Rangan, L.
Sahu, L.
Saini, G. K.
Swaminathan, R.
Tamuli, R.
Trivedi, V.
Balasubramanian, P.
Bandyopadhyay, D.
Banerjee, T.
Das, C.
De, M.
Ghosh, P.
Ghoshal, A. K.
Golder, A. K.
Goud, V. V.
Gumma, S.
Mahapatra, A. D.
Majumder, S. K.
Mandal, B.
Mandal, T. K.
Mohanty, K.
Moholkar, V. S.
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
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Name
Designation
Department
Pugazhenthi, G.
Purkait, M. K.
Saha, P. K.
Singh, A.
Uppaluri, R. G. V. S.
Verma, A.
Bag, S. S.
Baruah, J. B.
Chattopadhyay, A;
Chaudhuri, M. K.
Das, G.
Gupta, A. K.
Iyer, P. K.
Khan, A. T.
Krishnamoorthy, G.
Kundu, L. M.
Mandal, B.
Manivannan, V.
Manna, D.
Mondal, B.
Panda, A. N.
Patel, B. K.
Paul, A.
Paul, S.
Punniyamurthy, T.
Qureshi, M.
Ramamoorthy, B. S.
Ray, M.
Saikia, A. K.
Sarma, M.
Sastri, C. V.
Sharma, P.
Balunanini, U.
Barua, G.
Bhattacharjya, R. K.
Chakraborty, A.
Chakraborty, S.
Choudhury, R.
Dasgupta, K.
Dash, S. K.
Deb, S. K.
Dutta, A.
Dutta, S.
Ghosh, P. K.
Gokhale, S. B.
Jawed, M.
Kalamdhad, A.
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry (up to 01.10.09)
Civil Engineering (up to 06.11.09)
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
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Name
Designation
Department
Kartha, S. A.
Kaushik, H. B.
Kumar, B.
Mahanta, C.
Mallikarjuna, C.
Maurya, A. K.
Murali Krishna, A.
Pekkat, S.
Pradhan, B.
Ray, S.
Ryntathiang, T. L.
Sachan, A.
Sarma, A. K.
Sekharan, S.
Singh, A. K.
Singh, B.
Singh, K. D.
Singh, L. B.
Talukdar, S.
Verma, A.
Barua, G.
Bhaduri, P.
Bhattacharya, S.
Biswas, S.
Das, P. K.
Deka, J. K.
Goswami, D.
Inkulu, R.
Iyengar, V. S.
Kapoor, H. K.
Karmakar, S.
Mitra, P.
Nair, S. B.
Nandi, S.
Rao, S. V.
Sahu, A.
Sajith, G.
Saradhi, V. V.
Singh, S. R.
Sur, A.
Venkatesh, T.
Barua, U.
Chakrabarti, D.
Das, A. K.
Iqbal, S.
Karmakar, S.
Madhukaillya, M.
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor & Director
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Visiting Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering (up to 30.06.09)
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering (up to 30.11.09)
Design
Design
Design
Design
Design
Design
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Name
Designation
Department
Majhi, M.
Punekar, R. M.
Rao, K. P.
Sharma, N.
Shende, A.
Yammiyavar, P. G.
Ahamed, S. R.
Bhattacharjee, R.
Bhende, C. N.
Bhuyan, M. K.
Bora, P. K.
Bose, S. K.
Chouhan, S.
Dandapat, S.
Gogoi, A. K.
Kar, I.
Karthik, K.
Kumar, P.
Mahanta, A.
Mahanta, C.
Majhi, S.
Mishra, A. K.
Mitra, A.
Nemade, H. B.
Palathinkal, R. P.
Prasanna, S. R. M.
Rajesh, A.
Sahambi, J. S.
Sahu, P. R.
Singh, K. R.
Sinha, R.
Ahmed, A. N. S.
Barua, A.
Barua, A.
Barua, K.
Basu, A.
Bedamatta, R.
Borbora, S.
Das, D.
Das, L.
Dutta, M. K.
Kashyap, N.
Mahanta, S.
Mallick, S.
Punekar, R. M.
Ray, S.
Saikia, A.
Asst. Professor
Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Visiting Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Sr. Lecturer
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Design
Design
Design (upto 16.04.09)
Design (upto 19.06.09)
Design
Design
Electronics & Communication Engineering
Electronics & Communication Engineering (up to 28.01.10)
Humanities and Social Sciences (up to 31.12.09)
Name
Designation
Department
Shankar, D.
Sharma, S.
Som, B.
Tripathi, N.
Venkataraman, P.
Alam, R.
Balaji, R.
Bandyopadhyay, S.
Bhattacharjya, B.
Bora, S.
Bora, S. N.
Chakrabarty, A. K.
Chakrabarty, S. P.
Dalal, D. C.
Kalita, J. C.
Kapoor, K.
Krishna, K. V.
Mandal, P. S.
Palaparthi, A. S. S. K.
Pati, S.
Prabhakar, M.
Prasad, M. G. P.
Rajan, M. P.
Saikia, A.
Sarma, B. K.
Selvaraju, N.
Sinha, R. K.
Srikanth, K. V.
Srinivasan, N.
Wagh, V. V.
Bandopadhya, D.
Banerjee, A.
Chakraborty, D.
Dalal, A.
Dass, A. K.
De, A. K.
Dewan, A.
Dixit, U. S.
Dwivedy, S. K.
Groll, M.
Joshi, S. N.
Kakoty, S. K.
Kanagaraj, S.
Kore, S. D.
Krishna Murthy, K. S. R.
Kulkarni, V. N.
Mahanta, P.
Sr. Lecturer
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Sr. Lecturer
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Professor
Visiting Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences (up to 31.07.09)
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics (up to 22.07.09)
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering (up to 19.05.09)
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Name
Designation
Department
Mishra, S. C.
Muthukumar, P.
Narayanan, R. G.
Panda, S.
Pandey, M.
Ramji, M.
Robi, P. S.
Saha, U. K.
Sahasrabudhe, A. D.
Sahoo, N.
Senthilvelan, S.
Somayaji, C.
Tiwari, R.
Agarwal, P.
Alagarsamy, P.
Basu, S.
Bhuyan, B.
Boruah, B. R.
Das, S.
Dey, T. N.
Ghosh, S.
Giri, P. K.
Goswami, D. K.
Kadolkar, C. Y.
Khare,A.
Khijwania, S. K.
Nandy, M. K.
Padmanabhan, P. K.
Pal, D.
Pamu, D.
Panigrahi, K. L.
Poulose, P.
Ravi, S.
Santra, S. B.
Sarma, A. K.
Setlur, G. S.
Sharma, A. K.
Srinivasan, A.
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Assoc. Professor
Asst. Professor
Professor
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics (upto 06.05.09)
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics
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Appendix–II
OFFICERS AND SCIENTIFIC STAFF (GROUP A)
Officers (Group A)
Name
Designation
Dept./Section
Raychoudhury, B. N.
Barua, S. K.
Das, U. C.
Goswami, D. J.
Bhuyan, K.
Borgohain, P.
Boro, D.
Choudhury, S.
Das, G.
Deka, S.
Haokip, T. T.
Hazarika, P.
Konwar, L. K.
Shyam Kumar, L.
Baishya, P.
Goswami, A.
Singh, T. J.
Bhagawati, D.
Roy, N.
Saibaba, B.
Guha, T. K.
Rajbangshi, R. Kr.
Borthakur, M.
Barua, L.
Baruah, A. Kr.
Gogoi, L. C.
Registrar
Deputy Registrar
Deputy Registrar
Deputy Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar
Exe. Engineer (Civil)
Exe. Engineer (Elect.)
Exe. Engineer (Civil)
Asst. Exe. Eng. (Elect.)
Asst. Exe. Eng. (Civil)
Deputy Librarian
Assistant Librarian
Assistant Librarian
Sr. Medical Officer
Medical Officer
Medical Officer
Sr. Security Officer
Registrar’s Office
Academic
Administration (on deputation)
Administration
External Relations
Faculty Affairs
Students Affairs
JEE
Engineering Section
Research and Development
Stores and Purchase
Finance and Accounts
Public Relations
Establishment
Engineering Section
Engineering Section
Engineering Section
Engineering Section
Engineering Section
Central Library
Central Library
Central Library
Medical
Medical
Medical
Security
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Scientific Staff (Group A)
Name
Designation
Department/Centre
Kalita, R.
Das, B.
Borsaikia, A. C.
Kumar, P.
Saikia, J.
Borah, B.
Kachari, N. A.
Das, M. P.
Das, S.
S., Josephine
Sharma, L. N.
Paul, P.
Saikia, R.
Sarma, D. K.
Sarma, S.
Borgohain, C.
Senapati, K. K.
Barbora, L.
Kalita, P.
Deka, D.
Nath, J.
Borah, M. M.
Chakrabartty, R.
Das, S.
Dutta, P. K.
Ghosh, J. K.
Inam, I.
Islam, J.
Saikia, G. K.
Acharyya, K.
Das, P.
Scientific Officer Gr. II
Scientific Officer Gr. I
Asst. Workshop Supdt.
Chemical Engg.
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Physics
Centre for Energy
Centre for Energy
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
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Appendix–III
DEGREE AWARDEES
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the
award of BTech degree in Computer Science and
Engineering in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May
2009
Roll No
03010114
04010106
04010117
04010127
04010131
04010141
04010146
05010101
05010102
05010103
05010104
05010105
05010106
05010107
05010108
05010109
05010110
05010111
05010112
05010113
05010114
05010116
05010117
05010118
05010119
05010120
05010121
05010122
05010123
05010125
05010126
05010128
05010130
05010131
Name
Madhur Agarwal
V. Ajay Kumar
Krishna Jayadev K
Naresh Tirgar
Pradeep Bokharwal
Sumit Malik
Voleti Vamsee
Abhishek Roy
Alekhya Telekicherla
Aniket Manglam
Ashish Kumar Kakran
Ashish Kumar Thakur
Atif Jamil
Chinmay Vinod Deshmukh
D. Parasara Sridhar
Dipankar Das
Goverdhan Singh
Indrajeet Singh
Jitendra Taid
Kamal Baid
Kishlay
Komawar Nikhil Shrikant
Krishna Brahmam Vempati
Kuntimaddi Srinidhi
Monabili Basumatary
Manish Gupta
N. Vivek
Nischal Verma
Nishant Tandon
Pranjul Yadav
Prashant Chourasia
Priyadarshi Sharma
Rajesh A
Rakesh Roshan
Roll No
05010132
05010133
05010134
05010136
05010138
05010139
05010140
05010141
05010143
05010144
05010145
05010147
05010148
05010149
05010150
05010151
05010152
05010153
Name
Ravish Kumar Kumawat
Rishabh Gupta
Rohan Agarwal
Shantanu Mahajan
Shikhar Sachan
Shrey Gupta
Sravan Kumar R
Srikanth Yanamandra
Tati Raghuveer
Utkarsh Sharma
Anil Kumar Vishwanadhula
Varun Chawla
Ashish Patro
Gaurav Chadha
Kuldeep Singh Bora
Naveen Cherukuri
Prodduturu Mounica
Sameer Agarwal
award of BTech degree in Electronics and Communication
Engineering in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May
2009
Roll No
03010213
04010203
05010201
05010202
05010204
05010205
05010206
05010209
05010210
05010211
05010212
05010213
05010214
05010215
Name
Danda Karthik Reddy
Abhishek K B
A. Kiran
A. Rachana Reddy
Amit Kumar
Amit Pal
Aravapalli Sai Murali Krishna
B. Shankkar
Brijesh Singh
Deepanshu Vasal
Deepjyoti Deka
G. Naresh
Gaurav Sharda
Gopal Jatiya
236
Roll No
05010216
05010217
05010218
05010220
05010221
05010222
05010223
05010224
05010225
05010226
05010227
05010228
05010230
05010231
05010233
05010234
05010236
05010237
05010238
05010239
05010240
05010241
05010243
05010244
05010245
05010246
05010247
05010248
05010249
05010250
05010251
05010252
05010253
05010254
05010255
Name
Harsh Vardhan Singh
Himanshu Deepak
Himanshu Verma
K. Srinivas Reddy
M Raghu Ram Reddy
Mohit Khurana
Neelesh Srivastava
Nimish Kulshrestha
Niraj Kumar Murarka
Nuthalapati Priyanka
P. Aditya Srinivasa Rao
Pikkili Hemanth
Puneet Lakhanpal
Rahul Sangwan
Sharad Sonker
Shaurya Agrawal
Siddhartha Gunda
Suram Praveen Reddy
Sourabh Sriom
Sri Harsha Kodali
Suhas Mishra
Talla Vamsi
Upma Singh
Vaishnavi M
Vikram Jit Singh
Vinay Kumar Deekonda
Akshay Agarwal
Aman Mathur
Anuj Nayyar
Juhi Sinha
M. Vijay Kumar
Rishab Parashar
Rohit Bahl
Rohit Pande
Tarun Kumar
award of BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering in
the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No.
04010334
04010344
04010347
04010349
04010351
04010356
05010301
Name
Pankaj Sharma
Saurabh Garg
Sourabh Boruah
Sumanth Dontharaju
Varun Choudhary
Anjan Jyoti Hira
Amit Kumar Bhardwaj
Roll No
Name
05010302
05010304
05010305
05010306
05010307
05010308
05010309
05010310
05010312
05010314
05010315
05010316
05010317
05010318
05010319
05010320
05010321
05010323
05010324
05010325
05010326
05010327
05010328
05010329
05010331
05010333
05010334
05010336
05010338
05010339
05010343
05010344
05010345
05010346
05010347
05010348
05010350
05010351
05010352
05010353
05010354
05010355
Ankit Upadhyay
Anurag
Ashish Kumar Khetan
Atanu Bhuyan
Atul Kumar Soti
Ayush Arora
Ballari Sagarkumar Satyanarayan
Balwinder Singh
Chinmaya Mittal
Gaurav Chand
Harsh Mehta
Hemanth Boyapati
Hmantha Wangshul
Kalla Siddharth
Kedar Vijay Bodas
Kumar Sampurnanand
Lokesh Saini
Manik Goomer
Mohit Tyagi
N. Rajeshkumar
Narendra Singh
Naveen Tanwar
Nishant Prakhar
Nishant Ranjan
Pranay K. Desai
Prathyusha M
Purushotam Kumar
Rahul Anurag
Ratnesh Kumar
Ravi Kishore
Sandip Kumar Sarma
Sanjeev Kumar
Saurabh Mathur
Siddhant Bijayaprasad Mishra
Sivaraju Sarat Chandra
Subodh Kumar Nirala
Uday Prakash Sahu
Vaibhav Kumar
Vedang Singh
Gaurav Chauhan
Rishubh Dev
V. Rohit
award of BTech degree in Civil Engineering in the
Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
05010401
05010402
05010403
05010404
05010405
05010406
05010407
05010408
05010409
05010410
05010413
05010414
05010416
05010419
05010420
05010421
05010422
05010423
05010424
05010425
05010427
05010428
05010429
05010430
05010431
05010432
05010433
03010418
Name
Aishvarya Agarwal
Akshay Kumar
Anjaneya Vikram Singh
Archana Arbind
Bharadwaj D. Ryaka
Chandan Kumar
Chandan Kumar
Chandra Bhushan Singh
Devendra Upadhyay
Dhaval Anil Sanganee
Mukala Praveen Kumar
Navdeep Jakhar
Rajnish Kumar
S. Rohit Kumar
Sandeep Injarapu
Shailesh Chauhan
Shashank Reddy K.
Shekhar Singh
Siddharth Krishna Kumar
V Mani Deepak Ganapathi
V. Santhosh
Vardhman Chand Rai
Varun Marwaha
Venkata Ashwin Chander M
Vipin Gupta
Y.S. Arun Kumar
Yoganand Mandali
Prashant Babu D.C.
award of BTech degree in Biotechnology in the Eleventh
Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
05010601
05010602
05010603
05010604
05010605
05010606
05010607
05010608
05010609
05010611
05010612
Aditya Upadhyay
Akshay Mishra
Aniruddh Jain
Ch V S Ravi Shankar
Chandra Shekhar Singh
Chavan Yadav
G. Adithya Sagar
Gajula Abhilash
Garima Vijay
K. Venu
Mayur Agrawal
Roll No
Name
05010613
05010615
05010616
05010617
05010618
05010621
05010622
05010623
05010625
05010626
04010613
03010622
Mohammad Thauseef
Naren Barigela
P Ramesh Nadh
Rahul Charan
Rahul Vig
Shashank Jaiswal
Shivendra Bhushan Pandey
Syed Baquer Rizvi
Uday Kumar
V Raj Kiran Kollimarla
Jaideepak Paravatina
Vikram Yadav
237
award of BTech degree in Chemical Engineering in the
Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
05010701
05010703
05010705
05010706
05010707
05010708
05010709
05010711
05010712
05010713
05010717
05010719
05010720
05010721
05010722
05010723
05010724
05010725
05010728
05010729
05010730
05010732
Name
Ajith Moparthi
Ashish Kumar
B. Naga Pradeep Kumar
Bikrom
Buddhendra Shiv Shukla
Dheeraj Singh Tomar
Himanshu Bhutani
Kunal Prakash Mishra
Kushal Kumar Sinha
Maninderjit Singh
Pratik Dangra
Rajesh Sharma
Rohit Joshi
Rohit Mittal
Rohit Raj
Shilpi Gupta
Sidhartha Mohanty
Takkallapalli Rohit Rao
Vamshikrishna Yamsani
Vijay Kumar Verma
Vijaya Shankar D
Yatin Paliwal
award of BDes degree in Design in the Eleventh
Roll No
05020501
05020503
Name
Abhinav Gupta
Aniruddha Kumar Jha
238
Roll No
05020504
05020506
05020507
05020508
05020510
05020512
05020514
05020515
05020517
05020518
05020519
05020520
05020522
Name
Ayyagari Pradeep Kumar
Kamaljeet Anand
Lakakula Jayanth Nag
M. Jaya Chandra
P. Padmini
Prerna Ramesh
Richa Singh
Runalisa
Saurabh Vyas
Shanuj Sharma
Subhrajit Das
Suchit Dubey
Vineet Chaudhary
award of MSc degree in Physics in the Eleventh
Roll No
07212101
07212102
07212103
07212105
07212107
07212108
07212112
07212113
07212114
07212115
07212116
07212117
07212118
07212119
07212120
07212122
07212123
07212124
07212126
07212127
06212115
05212111
Name
Anshul Valecha
Apurba Barman
Arnab Chaudhuri
Avirup Das
Bhargab Deka
Debarati Roy
Madhumita Choudhuri
Rahangdale Hitesh Vijaykumar
Ruma Das
Sabyasachi Nag
Sandeep Bhowmik
Sanjeev Kumar Lala
Shashi Prabhakar
Shubhankar Das
Srirupa Chakraborty
Suvra Santa Laha
Taraknath Mandal
Tribedi Bora
Vikas Tripathi
Rajguru
Panithi Sireesa
Lingamallu Anantha Rajesh
award of MSc degree in Chemistry in the Eleventh
Roll No
07212201
Name
Arijit Mukherjee
07212202
07212203
07212206
07212207
07212209
07212211
07212212
07212213
07212214
07212215
07212216
07212217
07212218
07212219
07212220
07212221
07212223
07212225
06212226
Arunangshu Debnath
Chandani Rani Das
Dipankar Sahoo
Dhiman Das
Dipti Sankar Kundu
Satyanarayana Maddukuri
M. K. Venkatesh
Madhubrata Ghosh
Mamta Suri
Nibadita Purkait
Palsuledesai Charuta Chandrakant
Partha Pratim Das
Pravat Mondal
Sankarganesh K
Santu Mandal
Soma Dey
Sourav Das
Suman Debnath
Suresh Babu D
award of MSc degree in Mathematics and Computing in
the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
07212301
07212302
07212306
07212307
07212310
07212312
07212314
07212315
07212316
07212318
07212319
07212320
07212321
07212322
07212325
07212326
07212327
Name
A. Satyanarayana Krishna Prasad
Ajay Pandey
Anil Kumar Kambhampati
Anupam De
Bidyut Bikash Gogoi
Dinesh Chandra Pant
Gowrisankar S
Gurleen Kaur
Himadri Nayak
Mayank Mehrotra
Monalisa Mondal
Bhanuprasad Reddi
Sansare Prakash Uttam
Santu Das
Suman Bhowmick
Sutanu Roy
Yadavendra Singh Yadav
239
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering
in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
05410109
06410101
06410102
06410103
06410104
06410105
06410106
06410107
06410108
06410110
06410111
06410112
06410113
06410117
06410120
06410122
06410124
06410126
06410127
06410129
06410131
06410133
06410134
06410137
06410138
06410140
06410141
06410142
06410143
07410108
07410109
Name
Kakarla Vedadri
Abhishek Kumar
Ajay Chetry
Project Title
Scheduling Problems for FlexRay Communication Systems
Timed Automata Based Verfication of an Automative Application
Improving Maui: A Job scheduler for high performance computing
clusters
Anshul Zunke
Routing in Wireless Sensor Network Having High Sensing Range
Bezawada Suman Reddy
Some Results on Shortest Path Algorithms
Bhanoji Kandalam
Collision Avoidance in Wireless Sensor Networks
Budharapu Sukumar
Localization of Sensor Nodes using Wireless Mobile Robots
Chandra Sekhara Rao Routh
Specification and Verification of Network Time Protocol
Chokshi Devesh Bharatkumar
Performance Analysis of Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems
G. Eashwar Prasad
An External Memory Algorithm for Euler Tour
Harendra Singh Solanki
Enabiling Mobile Devices for the Visually Challenged
Kamble Nilesh Vishwas
Performance enhancement in checkpoiting and rollback-recovery
using Mobile Agents
Kulkarni Amit Chandrashekhar A non-blocking checkpointing implementation for MPICH2
Mallikarjuna Rao Ch
Specification and Verification of Key Exchange Protocols
Prem Kumar Salagala
Graph Similarities Identification
Ranjay Kumar Singh
Real-Time Moving Object Detection for Video Surveillance
Rupesh Kumar
Directional Greedy Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Santosh Ajmeera
Analysis of AUTOSAR System Models
Santosh Kumar Swain
Elliptic Curve, Supersingularity and Zero Knowledge Proof
Siddharth Kumar Rai
Resource Discovery in Grid
Sunil Kumar Chowdhary
Formal Modelling of Impact of HIV on T-Cell
Venkata Praveen Borra
Answering Comparision Questions on the Web
Venkatesh Iyer
Network Management in Fixed Wireless Mesh Networks for Rural
Areas
Lakshmi .K
Mining and Indexing of Molecular Database based on UCK of
Indexed Subgraphs
Neha Agrawal
Resource Selection in Mobile GRID
Amrita Bose Paul
M-OLSR for Wireless Mesh Networks
Sounak Paul
A Dynamic Balanced Energy Sleep Scheduling Scheme in
heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
Rameshwar Nath Tripathi
K-Carvage Node Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Network
Biswa Mohan Acharya
Efficient Coordination and Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor and
Actor Networks
C. Surendranath Chowdary
Efficient Isomorphic Matching Algorithm for Molecular Graphs
Suman Das
Proxy Signature Scheme Based on Morphism of Polynomials
240
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering
with Specialisation in Information Security in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
06410109
06410114
06410115
06410116
06410128
06410130
06410136
Name
G S Satyaprakash
Lalit Gera
Lokesh Gidra
M. Thirumala Srikanth
Sawant Kiran Prakash
Srinivasarao Koritala
Deepika Gupta
07410103
07410110
Kapil Kumar Chittora
Priyeshkumar T.S.
Project Title
Spam Mail Management
A Generator for Memorable Random Passwords
CAPTRACE: A Capability Tracer for Linux Applications
Performance Study of RSA-OAEP and Its Relatives
Formal Verification of Internet Exchange Protocol using Casper/FDR
Mitigation of Distributed Attack Traffic
Detection of Compromised Nodes and Recovery in Wireless Sensor
Network
Hybrid Network Intrusion Detection System
Hash Based Single Password Authentication Protocol
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of MTech degree in Electronics and Communication
Engineering with Specialisation in Signal Processing in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
06410201
06410202
Name
A.R. Vamsidhar
Adavally Anil Kumar
06410205
06410207
B. Sandeep Kumar
Bandi V Sandeep Reddy
06410208
06410209
Batchu Kiran Babu
Boidi Purushotham
06410210
06410211
Brijesh Kumar Gupta
China Saida Reddy. CH.
06410212
Chintakayala Vijay Kumar
06410213
06410214
06410215
06410217
06410219
06410220
D.Jovin Vasanth Kumar
Jeevan Kumar R
Jumi Hazarika Kakoty
Kolusu Pawan Tej
Krishna Chaitanya Makkena
M. Shradhanand
06410221
M. Madhu Krishna
06410222
M. Srinivasulu
06410224
Madaka Purna Chandra Rao
06410226
06410229
Muppala Raja Harsha
P. Srinivas
Project Title
Animation Compression using the linear discriminant Analysis
Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems in the presence pf Phase
Noise and Carrier Frequency Offset
A Study of Robustness of Speaker Nomalization Approaches
Keyword Spotting in Continous Speech using VOP, VQ and HMM
based techniques
A Class of Low Complexity OFDM Receivers for MIMO Systems
Improvement Methods for on-line secondary path modeling in active
noise control systems
Spectrum Hole Detection in Cognitive Radio
Modified Smith Predictor Based AQM Scheme for Network
Congestion Control
Variable Frame Size and Rate Analysis for Extracting Speaker Specific
Information
Analysis of Channel Estimation Error and its applications
Maneuvering Target Tracking
Class specific Algorithms for SAR Automatic Target Recognition
Boundary Based SAR-ATR Algorithms
Speech Enhancement in Non-Stationary Noise Environment
Performance Analysis of Maximal Ratio Combining Receiver over
Nakagami-m Fading Channels
Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Computer
Interaction
Fast Converging Blind Adaptive Algorithms for Multiuser Detection in
DS-CDMA Systems
A Class of Constant Norm Blind Adaptive Equalization Algorithms for
CDMA Systems
Antenna Design for MIMO Systems
Auto-Tuning of Filed Programmable Analog Array Based Industrial
Controller
Roll No
06410232
06410233
06410234
06410235
06410236
06410237
Name
Ravi Kumar Vadapalli
Sandeep Gholap
Satya Kumar Vankayala
Saurabh Kumar Rusia
Sunil Kumar Mahesh
V. Varun
06410240
06410241
06410243
06410247
07410203
07410206
07410215
Y. V. Sravan Kumar Reddy
Yash Chaturvedi
Malaya Kumar Nath
Prangya Paramita Pradhan
Ajay Kumar Gupta
Dharmendra Kumar Yadav
Anshuman Parua
07410226
Manapati Mahendra Babu
07410241
Gayadhar Pradhan
241
Project Title
3D DWT based Perceptual Video Hashing
New Methods of Digital Image Forensics
Zero Crossing Demodulator for FSK and ICM based System
Performance Analysis of Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems
Unsegmented Audio Stream Segmentation and Clustering
Performance Analysis of Maximal Ratio Combiner in Weibull and
Hoyt Fading Channels
LOW if Zero-Crossing Demodulation
Multiple Target Tracking
Independent Component Analysis of Functional MRI Data By Combi ICA
Automatic Recognition of Printed Bilingual Oriya and Roman Scripts
Automatic Detection of Bright Lesions in Color Fundus Images
Multichannel ECG Data Compression
Design and Implementation of a Speech-Based Real-time Medical
Transcription System
SAR Reduction in Human Head from Mobile Radiation using SNG
Metamaterials
Speaker Recognition using Vowel and Non-Vowel like regions
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of MTech degree in Mechanical Engineering with
Specialisation in VLSI in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
06410204
06410206
06410218
06410225
06410228
Arun Kumar Jatti
Balemarthy Chaitanya Deepak
Kothamasu Mani Kumar
Mridupawan Sonowal
Niket Agrawal
FPGA Implementation of a Viterbi Decoder
Design of Multi-band CMOS Low Noise Ampliers
RFID Systems Design for Currency Notes and Bio-medical Applications
Design of a High-Speed and Area Efficient Reed-Solomon Decoder
Design of Low Power and Low Error Rate Flash ADC
Specialisation in Machine Design in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
06410301
06410303
06410305
06410306
06410313
A. Ravi Kumar
Ambati Apparao
Amit Kumar Rawal
Anil Kumar
Dipendra Nath Mishra
06410315
G.R. Santosh Kumar
06410316
06410317
06410318
Harjeet Kumar Banjare
Kake Siva Sankar Reddy
Kamble Ajinath Hanmant
06410319
Kaushik B
Instability in Retro-bearing Systems
A Methodology for Layered Manufacturing of Porous Objects
Damage Tolerance Analysis of Composite Materials
Finite Elements for Analysis of Smart FGM Structures
Application of a Micromechanical Piezoelectric Material Model in a
hybrid Solid Shell Element
Estimation if Mean Traverse Speed in the Laser Forming by using FEM
with online learning
Stability Study of Rotors Supported By Porous Oil Journel Bearing
Wear Analysis of Artificial Hip Joint using Finite Element Method
Application of strain gradient plasticity theory in bulk micromanufacturing processes
Determination of Strain Gage Locations for Accurate Measurement
of the Opening mode Stress Intensity factors
242
Roll No
06410321
Name
Kinthada Veera Babu
06410323
06410324
Kovalam Sunil Kumar
Lakavath Praveen Kumar
06410328
06410333
06410334
06410335
06410346
Manoj Kumar Sinha
Neela Praveen Kumar
P. Manikandan
P. Venkateswarachoudari
Srinivas Madduri
06410347
Srinivasulu M.
06410348
06410353
Sunil Balwant Deshpande
W. Ravi Kumar
Project Title
Prediction of Tensile and Deep Drawing Behaviour of Tailor Welded
Blanks By Artificial Neural Networks
Optimum Design and Analysis of Rolling Element Bearings
Pressing and Structure-Mechanical Property Correlation of Micro
Alleged Al-Cu Alloys
Modelling and Experimental Investigation of Multi-hole Extrusion Process
Finite Element Analysis of Mixed Mode Fatigue Crack Growth Problems
Shell Finite Element for Analysis of Smart FRP Composite Structures
Multi Objective Optimal Synthesis of Mechasims for Precise Path Generation
Parametric Instability Regions of Soft and MRE Cored Sandwich Beam
with Non-conductive Skins
Vibration and Control Analysis of Flexible Composite Robotic
Manipulator using Finite Element Method
Vibration Characteristics of Thermoplastic Composites
Application of Action Magnetic Bearing in Rotor Dynamics
Specialisation in Fluid and Thermal Sciences in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
06410308
06410309
Bala Krishna Chimmineni
D.S. Vamsi Kiran
06410310
Deepak Kumar Verma
06410314
06410322
06410326
G. Krishnaiah
Kishore Kumar Boni
Leeju C.J.
06410329
Meeravali Shaik
06410331
06410332
Mulpuri Ashok Kumar
N. Chakradhar
06410337
06410338
Pankaj Kalita
Patil Tushar Ashok
06410339
06410341
Pavithran Yanamadala
Praveen Kumar G
06410342
Ramtekkar Rohit Balaji
06410343
06410344
06410349
Sandeep S
Santosh Basa
T.B. Pavan Kumar
06410350
Thammaneni Sreedhar Reddy
06410352
Venkatarama Prasad N
Numerical Study of Instabilities in Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipes
Simulation of Heat Transfer Enhancement and Hydrodynamics in
Circular Tube Heat Exchanger With Tube Inserts
CFD Investigation of Wire-wrapped 7-pin Fuel Assembly Cooled
with Supercritical Water
Numerical Computation of One-Dimensional Unsteady Two-phase Flow
Numerical Analysis of Sloshing of Liquids in Tanks
Development of a Test Setup for Measuring PCT characteristics of
Hydrogen Absorption Alloys
Parallelization of the Lattice Boltzmann Method and the Finite
Volume Method for the solution of Combined ConductionRadiation Problems
Study of Instabilities in Supercritical Water Cooled Reactor
Development of a 2D Cartesian Grid Generator for Irregular
Geometries and Finite Volume Computation of High Speed Flows
Characterization of Low Density Biomass for Cyclone Gasification
Cell Vertex and Cell Centred Finite Volume Computation of
Compressible Flows
Heat and Moisture Characteristics of a Fluidized Bed Dryer
Lattice Boltzmann Method Applied to Heat Transfer Problems on
Unstructured Lattices
Performance of NACA and Joukowski Bladed Axial Flow Fans with
Variable Inlet Guide Vanes
Modelling and simulation of Industrial Heat Exchanger with Chevron Plates
Development of a 2D Cell-Vertex Finite Vilume Compressible Flow Solver
Analysis of Non-Fourier Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer
using the Lattice Boltzman Method and the Finite Volume Method
Study of Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer in Metal Hydride Based
Hydrogen Storage Device
Lattice Boltmann and Finite Volume Computations of Compressible Flows
Roll No
06410354
Name
Venkata Naga Lakshmi Durga
07410330
Imtiyaz Khan
07410332
Praghanmor Rahul Runjaji
243
Project Title
Thermodynamics Analysis of a Cascade Sorption Heat Pump System
for Continuous Cold Generation
Computational Investigation of Energy Efficient Pin Fin Cross
Section for a Compact Heat Exchanger
Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Cold Circulating
Fluidized Bed Risers
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of MTech degree in Civil Engineering with Specialisation
in Structural Engineering in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
06410401
06410402
Avijit Das
Avijit Majumder
06410403
06410404
06410405
06410406
06410407
06410408
06410409
06410410
06410411
06410412
Bhaskar Singh Bondili
Chandrakant Pushkar
K. Sreekantha Reddy
Kalyan Moy Chanda
M. Longshithung Patton
M. Venkataprasad
Palukuri Damaraka
Perka Ashok
Puranik Vivek S.
Rahul Sinha
06410413
06410414
06410415
06410416
06410417
Rama Rao Para
Rohit Devu
Sainath Babu Dukka
V. Manohar
V. Ravi Kesava Reddy
06410418
06410419
Vallabhareddy N. Rao
Vecha Nagapraveen
Seismic modelling of skewed bridges with side restrainers
Studies of soft storied R.C. building models and evaluating the
influence of different structural forms by pushover analysis
Study of failure of concrete
Finite element solution of plate with crack by cosserat point element
Evaluation of size effect in beam-column joint with and wthout FRP
Estimation of Fault Density for India
Finite element modeling of concrete block pavement
Analysis of integral abutment bridges
Seismic vulnerability analysis of Saraighat Bridge
Displacement-based seismic design of asymmetric multistory RC building
Seisimic Vulnerability assessment of Narnarayana setu bridge
Application of magneto-rheological fluid damper in controlling
seismic response of building
Retrofitting of beam-column joint using FRP
Estimation of seismic hazard parameters for India
Seismic vulnerability analysis of Itanagar bridge
Stochastic planar cosserat point
Finite element implementation of explicit-implicit time integration
methods in non-linear dynamic analysis
Seismic vulnerability assessment of skew bridges using fragility curves
The concept of stochastic cosserat point
in Water Resources: Utilisation and Environmental Management in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
06410420
Naga Babu Immadi
06410421
Abhijit Das
06410422
Bhaskar Jyoti Deka
06410425
Godugula Praveen
06410426
06410427
Hema Kumar Kanipakam
Kashyape Parag Arun
Treatment of synthetic wastewater containing phenol, thiocyanate
and nitrate-nitrogen in anoxic fixed film reactor
Evaluation of Ground Water Quality in Patharighat Region of Darrang
District, Assam
Treatment of synthetic wastewater containing phenol and ammonianitrogen in a three-stage attached growth system
Estimation of on-road emission factors of PM10 and PM2.5 at urban
roundabout traffic intersection using semi-empirical modeling approach
Removal of Cr-VI from wastewater by modified waste activated carbon
Potable water from water treatment plant outsourced for design,
construction, commissioning and routine operation and maintenance
– a case study
244
Roll No
06410428
06410429
06410432
06410445
06410446
Name
Mahesh Kumar Meshram
Murali Krishna Nandigam
Yarava Venkatasubbaiah
Sangeeta Shougrakpam
Nani Riniyo
Project Title
Simulation of dam break hydraulics in natural flood plain topography
Artificial neural network based flood forecasting model for Pagladia river
Impact of bed forms on water level in alluvial channel
Characterisation of macropores in Jhum cultivated hill slopes
Groundwater quality assessment of the IIT Guwahati campus
in Water Resources Engineering and Management in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
07410435
Dontula Sri Prapoorna
07410454
Vankayalapati V. Subbarao
Cumulative Impacts Study of the Lower Subansiri Hydropower Dam
in Northeast India
HEC-HMS Simulation of a Medium Sized Un-gauged Watershed
South of Guwahati City
in Geotechnical Engineering in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
06410436 Lalit Borana
06410437 J. Vikram Kumar
06410439 M. Jeevan Reddy
06410440 Ravi K
06410441 Rimil Besra
06410442 Sanjoy Bhowmik
Project Title
Performance evaluation of volumetric water content sensors for
cohesionless soils
A study on the estimation of cation exchange capacity of soils
Experimental investigation of an amended local soil
Effectiveness of reinforcement in unpaved road sub-base under
cyclic loading
Numerical analysis of seismic behavior of single pile in clay
3-D modelling of soil-pipe interaction in clay under dynamic lateral loads
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of the MTech degree in Civil Engineering with
Specialization in Environmental Engineering in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
07410442
Siddalingesh G. Kambi
07410457
07410458
Patil Ravindra Jaysing
Nagabhushan Biliangadi
Indoor and Outdoor Relationships for Carbon Monoxide
Concentration in Residential and Public Buildings Located near
Urban Traffic Intersection
Uncertainty Analysis in Line Source Dispersion Modeling
Development of an Indoor-Outdoor Relationship for PM2.5
Concentration in Residential and Public Buildings
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of MTech degree in Chemical Engineering with
Specialisation in Petroleum Refinery Engineering in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29 May 2009
Roll No
Name
Project Title
06410701
Abhijit Majhi
06410704
06410706
Amit Ahuja
Balakrushna Sahu
Fabrication and Characterization of Al2O3 Coated Clay Composite
Membrane
Measurements of Wall Slip Effects in Concentrated Suspensions
Influence of Organically Modified Layered Double Hydroxides
(OLDHs) on the Properties of Polystyrene(PS)/OLDH
Nanocomposites
Roll No
06410707
06410708
Name
C. Jayageeth
Jaijus P. J.
06410711
Murali Krishna Beera
06410712
P. Venkata Suman
06410713
Praveen Kumar Bommaganti
06410714
06410715
06410716
06410717
06410718
Praveen Kumar T.
R. Subba Reddy
Rajakumar More
Ramesh Guptha Kotha
Ramesh Kuppa
06410719
06410720
06410723
06410726
06410727
Reddy Bhaskara Rao
Sabuj Das
Simadri Acharya
Vamsee Krishna K
Venkata Rao Midathana
06410728
Vijaya Kumar Bulasara
06410729
06410730
07410708
Sucheta Sarkar
Chaitanya Bikkina
Sumedha Sharma
245
Project Title
Stokesiain Dynamics Simulation of Short Fibre Suspensions
Numerical Simulation and Experimental Studies of Microfluidic Flow
in Evaporating Droplets
Synthesis and Chracterisation of Sulfonated Poly (ether ether ketone)
Composite Membrane for DMFC
Efficient Recovery Technique of Unreacted Feed Stock from
Pharmaceutical Industrial Effluent
Effects of Binding Counterious on Adsorption and Cralescence in
Gas-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Systems
Cloud Point Extraction of Aromatic Pollutants
Control of a Reactive Distillation Process using Aspen® Engineering Suite
Optimisation of Crude Distillation System using Aspen Plus
Study on bipolar plate for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell
Physical Features of Ultrasound Enhanced Heterogenous
Permanganate Oxidations
Physical Facets of Sonochemical Synthesis of Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles
Developing of Membrane Separation Module in Aspen Engineering Suite
Development of composite nafion membrane for direct alcohol fuel cell
Separation of Ions from Wastewater using Liquid Membrane
Mechanistic Studies in Ultrasound Assisted Adsorption for Removal
of Aromatic Pollutants
Revamp and retrofit Study of Heat Exchanger Networks Associated
to Crude Distllation Unit
Nitration of Benzene at High-concentrations of Sulphuric Acid
Adsorption of Various Gases in Cr-BDC Metal Organic Framework (MIL-101)
Co-Pyrolysis studies of waste LDPE with coal
List of students who have fulfilled the requirements for the award of the MDes degree in Design in the Eleventh
Roll No
Name
07420502 Balkrushna Rajaram Dhondge
07420504 Rahul S.
07420506 Swaroop Roy
07420507 Kothagattu Vishwanath
07420508 Neha Verma
07420510 Debayan Dhar
07420512 Kate Prasanna Gautam
07420513 Suresh Kumar Barla
07420514 Moniraj Saikia
07420515 Vikash Kumar
Project Title
Vehicle Graphics in the context of Cultural, Spiritual, locality and
various aspects of user
Electronic Vehicle for Campus Commuting
Prakriti- A Family Car with Natural Ambience and Mutual Interaction
Identity and Graphic Design Proposal for Commonwealth Games
2010, New Delhi
An Indian Culture Sensitive Tangible Social Networking System
An Online Aptitude Testing System for Admitting Students in Design
Programmes
A Mobile Based Cooperative Employment Information System for
Construction site Labors
‘Assam Cultural Village’–Design of an Interactive Experiential
Tourism Complex
A Multimedia Repository for Design Projects-A Knowledge
Management Approach
Design of an Amphibian Bus-Vehicle for Guwahati City Public
Transportation Year 2025
246
Roll No
Name
Project Title
07420516 Vikram Singh
07420517 Prajapati Shyambihari
07420518 Prakash Kumar
A Multipurpose Vehicle for Indian Farmers
Design of Multipurpose Electric Vehicle, A Contextual Transport
Module Approach
A Graphical User Interface based Remote Public Bus Transport
Management System for Guwahati
List of students who fulfilled the requirements for the award of PhD degree in the Eleventh Convocation, dated 29
May 2009
Name
Department
Thesis Title
P. Gopinath
Biotechnology
Satish Kumar
Biotechnology
Siva Kumar Solleti
Biotechnology
Adepu Kiran Kumar
Biotechnology
P. Saravanan
Subham Paul
T. Sivasankar
Bandana Chakrabarty
Biplab Sarkar
Chemistry
Biswa Ranjan Panda
Chemistry
Ballav Moni Borah
Chemistry
Sumanta Kumar Padhi
Chemistry
Laxmidhar Rout
Chemistry
Prodrug Gene Therapy Vectors In Combination
Therapies
Exploring the structure and dynamics of proteins in
non-native states using fluorescence spectroscopy
Genetic Engineering Of Cowpea For Storage Pest
Resistance
Characteristics and Application Potential of an
Alcohol Oxidase from the Hydrocarbon-Degrading
Fungus Aspergillus Terreus
Biodegradation Of Phenolic Compounds Using An
Indigenous Mixed Microbial Culture
Absorption Of CO2 By Single And Blended Amine
Solvents In Various Gas-Liquid Contactors
Physical Features of Sonochemical Degradation of
Recalcitrant Organic Pollutants
Synthesis of Polysulfone Membrane and Its
Application to Separation of Oil from Oil-in-Water
Emulsion
Extended Born-Oppenheimer equation and the
effect of external field on the nonadiabatic
coupling elements
Gold Nanoparticle Based Composites As Sensors
And Actuators
Biomineralisation and Biomimetic Materials
Chemistry: Exploring the Influence of Crystal
Growth Modifier
An Investigation on Metal Assisted Transformations
in Schiff Bases Containing Pyridyl Groups and
Transition Metal Chemistry of 4’-(2-Pyridyl)2,2’:6’,2"-Terpyridine
Study of C-N, C-S, C-O Cross-Coupling Reactions
and Chiral Copper(II) Complex for Asymmetric
Catalysis
Load Balancing in Multihomed Stub Networks
Quality of Service Issues in Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks
Fast and Efficient Non-parametric Classification
and Clustering Methods for Large Data Sets
Ashok Singh Sairam
Nityananda Sarma
V. Suresh Babu
247
Name
Department
Thesis Title
Aminul Islam Laskar
Civil Engineering
Ravi Mokashi Punekar
Design
Abhijit Das
Design
Study of Rheological Behaviour Of HighPerformance Concrete
A Study of User Preference for the Visual Domain
of Product Form
Study on work posture and muscle load of cane
and brass-metal artisans of Assam, intending to
reduce occupational stress with relevant design
solutions: An Ergonomics intervention
Feature Analysis And Compensation For
Speaker Recognition Under Stressed
Condition
Combined Temporal And Spectral
Processing Methods For Speech
Enhancement
Influence Strategies And Gender Differences
Impact of Strategic Human Resource Management
on the Performance of Firms: A Study of Service
Sector Firms in India
Interlingual Code-Switching as a Sociolinguistic
Phenomenon amongst the Misings of the
Brahmaputra Valley : A Study
Sartre And Sankhya – Yoga : A Comparative Study
The Problem of the Embodied Person
Pseudospectra Of Matrix Pencils And Their
Applications In Perturbation Analysis Of
Eigenvalues And Eigendecompositions
Backward Perturbation and Sensitivity Analysis of
Structured Polynomial Eigenvalue Problem
Studies On Flow Instabilities And Nonlinear
Oscillations In Natural Circulation Boiling Systems
Application Of The Lattice Boltzmann Method In
Solving Energy Equations Of Heat Transfer
Problems Involving Thermal Radiation
Vibration Analysis, Control and Optimal Placement
of MFC Actuators and Sensors on Rotating ThinWalled Composite Cantilever Beams
Nonlinear Dynamics of Flexible Cartesian
Manipulators
Study Of Turbulent Flow And Conjugate Heat
Transfer Of Plane Wall And Offset Jets
Soft Computing Assisted Modelling Of Symmetric
And Asymmetric Cold Flat Rolling Processes
Preparation and Characterization of Co-Ni-Ga
Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys
Structure and Magnetic Properties of Mechanically
Alloyed Nanocrystalline Fe-Si (-M) [M=Al, B, Cr]
Powders
Electrical Resistivity and Magnetic Properties in (La,
Ag)-Mn-O, (Nd, Ag)-Mn-O and (Y, Ce)-Mn-O
Based Manganites
G. Senthil Raja
Electronics and Communication
Engineering
P. Krishnamoorthy
Electronics and Communication
Engineering
Sudipa Nag
Ajit Kumar Nigam
Rajeev Kumar Doley
Namita Kalita
Akoijam Thoibisana
Sk. Safique Ahmad
Mathematics
Bibhas Adhikari
Mathematics
Gonella V. Durga Prasad
Bittagopal Mondal
Vadiraja D N
Barun Pratiher
Elaprolu Vishnuvardhana Rao Mechanical Engineering
Gudur Prashant Pralhad
Sidananda Sarma
Physics
Manos Pratim Chakrapani Kalita
Physics
Sandeep Kumar Srivastava
Physics
FOR THE PERIOD APRIL 2009 – MARCH 2010
Sl. No.
Works
Cost of
works
(Rs. in lakh)
Physical progress
Upto
31.03.2009
During
2009-2010
Total progress upto
31 March 2010
Physical
Financial
(Rs. in lakh)
Remarks
1.
Boys’ Hostel no.8(504
capacity with 15161Sqm floor
area)
2608.98
35%
23%
58%
1531.78
Work is in progress. Status of works:
1. Pile works complete. 2. Slab of all
floors including roof slab of 14 blocks
out of 20 blocks completed. 3.
Intermediate slab of 14 blocks is
under progress. 4. Brickwork in 14
blocks is under progress. 5. Conduit
laying in slab / wall cutting and
switch box fitting works is in
progress. 6.240 rooms are expected
to be ready by June 2010.
2.
Boys’ Hostel No. 9 (1000
capacity with 31050 Sqm floor
area)
5968.32
—
15%
15%
976.52
Work is in progress. Status of
works: 1.Pile completes 33066 Rm
out of 60802 Rm.
3.
Extension of Girls’ Hostel
(1817 Sqm)
1152.63
40%
40%
80%
639.97
Southern Block complete except
vertical extension. Northern Block:
1. Foundation 100% complete. 2.
Casting of beam, slab & column
95% complete. 3. Brickwork work
90% complete. 4. Plastering of wall
80% complete. 5. Tile works 60%
complete. 6. Piling for extension for
Dining hall 50% complete.
PROGRESS IN CONSTRUCTION WORKS
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Sl. No.
Works
Cost of
works
(Rs. in lakh)
Physical progress
Upto
31.03.2009
During
2009-2010
Total progress upto
31 March 2010
Physical
Financial
(Rs. in lakh)
Remarks
376.56
100%
—
100%
376.00
(b)
(c)
Central Workshop (5430Sqm)
Package –I (Pre fabricated
steel building)
Package –II (Civil works)
Electrical works
130.27
92.55
80%
20%
20%
50%
100%
70%
130.00
53.18
5.
Conference Centre (2500 sqm)
621.94
25%
45%
70%
302.95
works: 1. Structural work
complete. 2. Brick work complete.
3. Plastering work 80% complete.
4. Roof truss work 100% complete.
5. Roof sheeting 85% complete. 6.
Acoustic work 30% complete. 7.
Electrical Works 30% complete. 8.
AC works (duct) 55% complete.
6.
Extension of Academic
Complex (Phase-I)
(a)
Group-A (Physics 1700 Sqm)
380.24
15%
55%
70%
192.70
works: 1. Structural work
complete. 2. Brickwork complete.
3. Plastering work complete. 4.
Plumbing work started. 5. Grill and
door frame started.
(b)
Group-B (Chemistry 960 Sqm)
340.85
10%
20%
30%
112.20
works: 1. Piling works complete. 2.
Pile caps 40% complete.
4.
(a)
Final bill under preparation
Expected to be completed by June
2010.
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Upto
31.03.2009
During
2009-2010
Total progress upto
31 March 2010
Physical
Financial
(Rs. in lakh)
Remarks
(c)
Group-C (ECE 1700 Sqm)
408.88
15%
30%
45%
125.00
1.
Piling works complete. 2.
Pile caps 80% complete. 3.
Eastern side hall First Floor and
laboratory block under progress.
(d)
Department of Design,
Department of Chemical
Engineering and Central
Instruments Facility
1531.63
—
30%
30%
177.10
1. Foundation works in CIF 90%
complete. First Floor works under
progress. 2. Chemical Engineering
Piling works complete, Pile caps 80%
complete. 3. Design Department
piling 90% complete.
7.
Extension of Kendriya
Vidyalaya Phase-II
789.74
—
—
—
—
Work has been awarded on March
2010 and preliminary works started.
8.
Residential Quarters
(a)
35 units of F type residential
quarter in 7 blocks(6694 Sqm)
812.31
45%
25%
70%
648.79
All slab including roof in 30 units
complete. 3. Brickwork including
plastering in 30 units complete. 4.
Flooring complete in 4 blocks
complete. 5. Sanitary work 60%
complete. 6. Electrical work 40%
complete. 7. Site grading 100%
complete. 8. Conduit laying in slab /
wall cutting and switch box fitting
works in 5 blocks is complete
Works
Physical progress
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Cost of
works
(Rs. in lakh)
Sl. No.
Works
Cost of
works
(Rs. in lakh)
Physical progress
Upto
31.03.2009
During
2009-2010
Total progress upto
31 March 2010
Physical
Financial
(Rs. in lakh)
Remarks
24 units of E- type in 4 blocks
(3638 Sqm)
626.58
—
40%
40%
115.00
1. Structural work of 2 blocks
completed. 2. Brickwork of 2 blocks
80% complete. 3. Plastering work in
progress. 4. Site development for
balance 2 blocks finalized and
excavation of foundation of 1 Block
is complete.
(c)
18 units of D-type in 3 blocks
(2806 Sqm)
368.58
—
40%
40%
75.43
1. Foundation work 80% complete.
2. Structural work 60% complete. 3.
Brickwork 50% complete. 4.
Electrical work 20 % complete.
(d)
35 units of C-type in 5 blocks
(3908 Sqm)
502.42
50%
40%
90%
417.93
Structural work 100% complete. 3.
Site development 95% complete. 4.
Brickwork including plastering work
100% complete. 5. Sanitary work
80% complete. 7. Electrical work
80% complete 8. Flooring work 90%
complete.
251
(b)
Upto
31.03.2009
During
2009-2010
Total progress upto
31 March 2010
Physical
Remarks
Financial
(Rs. in lakh)
(e)
28 units of B-type in 2 blocks
(2403 Sqm)
347.51
25%
40%
65%
192.00
works: 1st Block:
1. Plastering work 60% complete.
2. Flooring work 25% complete. 3.
Grills and railing 80% complete.
2nd Block:
1. Brickwork 50% complete. 2.
Structural work 50% complete. 3.
Site development 50% complete.
9.
Earthwork filling in proposed
SAC building and Future
Boys’ Hostel Area
394.83
—
10%
10%
30.18
Work awarded on February 2010
and work started from March
2010.
10
Construction of Security
Road along the Boundary
wall of the Campus
139.49
—
5%
5%
—
Work awarded on March 2010 and
mobilized plant and machineries.
11.
Strengthening and repairing
of Internal Roads at IITG
Campus
137.72
—
60%
60%
68.52
1.
2.
3.
4.
WBM work complete.
BM & SDBC 60% complete.
Drain work complete.
Other works are in progress.
Works
Physical progress
252
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Cost of
works
(Rs. in lakh)
253
Appendix–V
DETAILS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS
COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
The following projects were completed during the year 2009-2010:
Investigation on Instabilities and Nanolinear Dynamics of Advanced Heavy Water Reactor
Principal Investigator : Dr. M. Pandey
Sponsoring Agency : AERB
Development of Soft Magnetic Fe-Mn-Zr-B Nanocrystalline Alloys for High Frequency Applications
Principal Investigator : Dr. A. Perumal
Sponsoring Agency : BRNS
Dissolution of Waste Disposal Glasses in Aqueous Solutions
Principal Investigator : Dr. S. B. Santra
Preparation and Charecterisation of Bioactive Glass-Ceramic
Principal Investigator : Prof. A. Srinavasan
Effect of NaCI on expression of translation initiation factor (Eifi) gene in leaf and roots of rice varieties and
mapping of the gene segregating population
Principal Investigator : Dr. Latha Rangan
Sponsoring Agency : CSIR
New Electro luminescent Polymers for Optoelectronic Device Application
Principal Investigator : Dr.P. K. Iyer
Polymer Anchored Chiral Catalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis
Principal Investigator : Dr. T. Punniyamurthy
Tracking the growth of soluble protein aggregates in real time using flourescence and subsequent manoeuvres to
inhibit their growth
Principal Investigator : Dr. R. Swaminathan
254
Stereo Electronic Effects on the Photoisimerisation by Hula-Twist
Principal Investigator : Dr. G. Krishnamoorty
A study of Removal and Recovery of Heavy Metals from Waste Water using Functionalised Polymer Coated
Silica Gel
Principal Investigator : Dr. Saswati Chakraborty
Cloning of the Elite Germplasm of Jatropha for Large Scale Plantation
Principal Investigator : Dr. L. Sahoo
Sponsoring Agency : DRL
Development of Light Weight Iron Removal Unit Based on the Principle Developed by Defence Research
Laboratory, Tezpur
Principal Investigator : Dr. M. K. Purkait
Sponsoring Agency : DRL, Tezpur
Development of Indigenous Technology for Fluoride Free Drinking Water
Principal Investigator : Dr. M.K. Purkait
Improvement of Existing Iron Removal Unit Development by DRL, Tezpur
Principal Investigator : Dr. M.K. Purkait
In vitro morphogenesis and biochemical analysis of neem (Azadirachata Indica A. JUSS)
Principal Investigator : Dr. Rakhi Chaturvedi
Sponsoring Agency : DST
Optimisation Studies in Ultrasound- Based ADVANCED Oxidation Technology (Sonolysis) for Wastewater
Treatment
Principal Investigator : Dr. V. S. Moholkar
Synthesis of Novel Conducting Polymers for application in Organic Light Emitting Diodes
Principal Investigator : Dr.P. K. Iyer
Geocell-Reinforced Sand Foundation on Soft Clay, Behaviour under Cyclic Loading
Principal Investigator : Dr. S.K. Dass
Keyword Spotting in Continuous Speech - Indo Swiss Joint Project
Principal Investigator : Dr. S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna
255
Engineering Nanoscale Materials and their Applications in Nanotechnology
Principal Investigator : Prof. A. Chattopadhyay
Development of Nanocrystalline (Co,Fe)=Mn-Zr-B Alloys with enhanced Soft magnetic Properties
Principal Investigator : Dr. A. Perumal
Further Exploration of 1, 2-Dipyridinium Ditribromide Ethane (DPTBE) in Organic Syntheses
Principal Investigator : Dr. B. K. Patel
Analytical and Inverse Modeling for estimating aquifer parameters of a confined aquifer
Principal Investigator : Dr.Gautam Barua
A sequential biological treatment to handle complex wastewater containing phenol, thicyanate and ammonia
nitrogen
Principal Investigator : Dr. Saswati Chakraborty
Sponsoring Agency : MoEF
Micropropagation Technology for Commercial Scale Plantation of Jatorpha: A potential Biofuel Plant
Principal Investigator : Dr. L. Sahoo
Sponsoring Agency : NEDFI
NEW RESEARCH PROJECTS
The research projects received during the year 2009-2010 are given below:
Department
Biotechnology
Project Title
Funding Agency
Principal Investigator
Prebiotics and neutraceuticals production
from Lactic acid bacteria
DST
Dr. A. Goyal
M.Tech. Programme for Biotechnology
DBT
HoD
Cloning of fatty acid saturation genes and
analysis of spatial and temporal expression
from seeds of candidates plus tree, Karanj
(Pongamia pinnata L)
DST
Dr. L. Rangan
Conjugating Luminescent Quantum Dots to
Proteins: Consequences on Protein Function
and Development of Sensitive Assays
CSIR
Dr. R. Swaminathan
Studies on effect of small molecule
compounds on folding and amyloid formation
of proteins
CSIR
Dr. V. K. Dubey
Molecular modeling design and synthesis of
macrophage phagosome - Iysosome fusion
activators in development of anti-malarials
BRNS
Dr. V. Trivedi
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Department
Chemistry
Project Title
Funding Agency
Stereoselective Synthesis of Substituted
Tetrahydropyrans and their Nitrogen and Sulphur
Analogues
CSIR
Dr. A. K. Saikia
Newer methods of growth, assembly and
patterning of nanoparticles
DST
Dr. A. Paul
Dioxygen activation and haloperoxidase activity
by mononuclear non-heme iron (II) complexes
DST
Dr. C. V. Sastri
Interaction of Phosphotidyl inositol with Phox
Homology (PX) Domain: Elucidation of
Mechanistic Principal and Strategies for
Therapeutic Intervention
DBT
Dr. D. Manna
Mechanistic insights into the phosphatidyl inositol
(IP) binding properties of Caenorhabitis Elegans
protein Mig 10 A and its Pleckstrin Homology
(PH) Domain
BRNS
Dr. D. Manna
Development of laboratories by HR Mass
Spectrometer, Low temperature facility for
existing Single crystal X-ray Diffractometer,
Circular Dichroism Spectrophotometer (CD), and
high-end computational cluster under Fund for
Improvement of Science and Technology
Programme
DST
HoD
Synthesis and Characterization of highly efficient
fluorescent and phosphorescent molecular
materials having hetero atoms for optoelectronics
devices applications
DST
Dr. M. Qureshi
Development of Metallo–supermolecular
Polymers
DST
Dr. P. K. Iyer
The role of aqueous solutions of trimethylamine
-N-oxide (TMAO) on the pressure induced
hydrophobic interactions and the pressure
induced hydrogen bond properties and dynamics
DST
Dr. S. Paul
Towards the expansion of the genetic alphabet:
Design, synthesis and study of physical/
photophysical properties of unnatural nucleoside
base analogues and incorporation into short
oligononucleotide sequences
DST
Dr. S. S. Bag
Towards the Expansion of the Genetic Code:
Design, Synthesis and Study of Photophysical
Properties of Fluoroscent Unnatural Amino Acids
(FUAA) and their Diversified Applications
CSIR
Dr. S. S. Bag
Development
of
Novel
Oxidative
Desulphurisation Process for Removing Sulfur
from Diesel
IOCL
Dr. T. Punniyamurthy
Department
Civil
Engineering
Computer
Science and
Engineering
Design
Project Title
Funding Agency Principal Investigator
Integrated Land Use Planning & Water Resource
Management
MUD
Dr. A. K. Sarma
Evaluation of Seismic Earth Pressures on Retaining
Structures: A Comprehensive study
BRNS
Dr. A. M. Krishna
Numerical Modeling of Plain Strain Plasticity
Induced Crack Closure Effects for Bi-Material
Interfacial crack
BRNS
Dr. K. D. Singh
Vehicle gap maintaining behaviour under varying
traffic conditions and its effect on flow-occupancy
relationship
DST
Dr. Mallikarjuna C
Flood Modeling for Trans - boundary river under
Defence Strategic Scenarios: Mathematical modelling
DTRL
Dr. S. Dutta
Seismic Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beam
Column Connections (Royal Society International
Project 2008/R4)
TRS
Dr. S. K. Deb
Virtual Class Room
NIC
Dr. D. Goswami
Intelligent Robot Human Interaction and Embedded
System
DST
HoD
Design, Development and Verification of Network
Specific Intrusion Detection System using Failure
Detection and Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems
DIT
Dr. S. Nandi
Design of Gear Avalanche Survival
Design of carbon nanotube field effect transistor
(CNFET) based amplifiers
257
HAWS
Dr. R. M. Punekar
SRC, USA
Dr. R. P. Paily
Establishment of new National MEMS Design Centres
Electronics and
Communication Characterisation and Compensation of Acoustic and
Linguistic Mismatch for Robust Automatic
Engineering
Recognition of Children’s Speech
ADA
Dr. R. P. Paily
DST
Dr. R. Sinha
Development of person Authentication System based
on Speaker Verification in Uncontrolled Environment
DIT
Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna
Developing a Measure for Inequitable Household
Access to Water in Urban India
ICSSR
Dr. A. Barua
Setting up of a Technology Incubation Centre in
Guwahati Biotech Park
DBT
DoRND
Humanities
and Social
Sciences
Technology Incubation Centre
IDF/IITG
DoRD
Megaliths in Changing Times: A Study in Cherrapunji
ICHR
Dr. S. Sharma
Source Book on Archaeology of Himalayan Region:
Arunachal Pradesh
CAST
Dr. S. Sharma
258
Department
Mechanical
Engineering
Physics
Centre for
Energy
Centre for
Educational
Technology
Centre for the
Environment
Project Title
Funding Agency
Strengthening the research activities in the
area of Micro-fabrication and Condition
Monitoring area under Fund for
Improvement of Science and Technology
Programme
DST
Investigations on Start up Transients in
Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactor
AERB, Mumbai
Dr. M. Pandey
Design development and performance
evaluation of stress wave force balances for
aerospace applications
DST
Dr. N. Sahoo
Preparation and characterisation of
nanofluid to reduce the emission level in a
diesel engine
DST
Dr. S. Kanagaraj
Development of Nano Composite
Permanent Magnet Based on (FePt/Fe)n
Multilayer Thin Films
DRDO
Dr. A. Perumal
HoD
FIST Programme
DST
HOD
Study of self organisation dynamics on
complex and evolving network
DST
Dr. S. B. Santra
To study the safe and hazardous plastics by
LIBS technique to generate a database/
library for easy classification
DST
Ms. A. Kushwaha
(Independent
Researcher)
Process Development for Fluoride removal
from Drinking water utilizing Solar Energy
ASTEC
Dr. P. Mahanta
Developing Suitable Pedagogical Methods
for various classes, intellectual calibers and
e-learning
MHRD
Dr. J. K. Deka
Development of an Indian Sign Language
Recognition System for Hearing Impaired
Students of India
MHRD
Dr. M. K. Bhuyan
Mission Project for Virtual Labs
MHRD
Dr. R. Bhattacharjee
National Programme on Technology
Enhanced Learning
MHRD
Dr. S. Talukdar
Petroleum Wastewater Treatment in a
Packed Bed Reactor Using Suitable
Microorganism
CSIR
Dr. A. K. Ghosal
Treatment of contaminated drinking water
using electro coagulation technique
DRL
Dr. M. K. Purkait
259
Appendix–VI
SUMMARY OF INSTITUTE ACCOUNTS
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2010
Liabilities
Capital Fund and Liabilities
Current Year
Previous Year
Amount in Rs.
Amount in Rs.
Capital Fund
7,050,810,639.00
6,766,739,459.00
Earmarked/Endowment Funds
1,252,857,055.00
770,753,744.00
—
—
487,223,346.00
221,459,792.00
8,790,891,040.00
7,758,952,995.00
6,858,165,517.00
6,079,195,315.00
375,630,871.00
311,870,714.00
8,979,138.00
77,500,000.00
1,548,115,514.00
1,290,386,966.00
—
—
8,790,891,040.00
7,758,952,995.00
Unsecured Loans and Borrowings
Current Liabilities and Provisions
Total :
Assets
Fixed Assets
Investments–from Earmarked/Endowment Funds
Investments–Others
Current Assets, Loans and Advances etc.
Miscellaneous Expenditure
Total :
260
Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended on 31 March 2010
Income
Current Year
Previous Year
647,046,022.00
413,825,000.00
70,300,775.00
53,818,200.00
—
—
Interest Earned
20,738,200.00
2,430,704.00
Other Income
40,117,310.00
24,537,624.00
778,202,307.00
494,611,528.00
Establishment Expenses
476,640,923.00
253,172,304.00
Other Administrative Expenses etc.
356,263,930.00
260,244,746.00
Total (B) :
832,904,853.00
513,417,050.00
Balance being excess of Expenditure over income (A-B)
(54,702,546.00)
(18,805,522.00)
Grants/Subsidies
Fees/Subscriptions
Income from Investments
Amount in Rs.
Amount in Rs.
(Income on Investment from earmarked/endowment,
Funds transferred to Fund)
Total (A) :
Expenditure
Balance being Surplus/(Deficit) for the year
Prior Period Adjustments
(19,619,320.00)
Balance being Surplus/(Deficit) carried to Capital Fund
(38,424,842.00)
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENT ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED ON 31 MARCH 2010
RECEIPTS
I. Opening Balance :
Cash in hand
Cash at Banks - i) In Current Accounts
ii) In Deposit Accounts
AMOUNT
(Rs.)
TOTAL
(Rs.)
PAYMENTS
AMOUNT
(Rs.)
I. Expenses :
a) Establishment Expenditure
b) Administrative Expenses
125,500.53
321,364,803.47
342,319,436.49
TOTAL
(Rs.)
420,415,374.00
356,263,930.00
663,809,740.49
II. Grants Received:
a) From Govt. of India
b) From Govt. of India
c) From Other Sources
647,046,022.00
391,978,978.00
1,659,415.00
1,040,684,415.00
III. Income on Investment :
IV. Interest Received :
a) On Bank deposits
b) Fixed Deposit
c) Loans & Advances
II. Payments made against funds/
various projects:
a) R&D Expenses
159,070,505.50
b) CSIR/QIP/UGC/NBHM/AICTE Expenses
11,508,181.00
c) JEE/GATE/JAM
100,026,788.00
d) Gold Medal/Women Association & others
1,479,490.00
272,084,964.50
III. Investments and Deposits made
IV. Expenditure on Fixed Assets/others
IIT (General)
Equipment (R&D)
Equipment (JEE/JAM)
2,063,281.00
15,174,593.00
1,977,323.00
717,900,126.00
145,319,318.00
5,330,913.00
868,550,357.00
19,215,197.00
Others Receipts against:
a) R&D Fund
b) CPF
c) GPF
d) CPS
e) CSIR/QIP/UGC/NBHM/AICTE
f) JEE/GATE/ JAM
g) Gold Medal/Women Association
602,070,320.93
7,168,017.00
14,199,103.00
34,877,385.00
12,244,079.00
208,901,984.31
1,492,322.00
132,643,965.00
VI. Financial Charges (Interest):
VII. Other Payments:
a) Loans & Advances paid
b) Deposit of Deductions from Salary :
Against CPF Subscription
Against GPF Subscription
Against the CPS
Against GSLI, GIS & LIC & SSP
Other Deductions
880,953,211.24
2,737,306,528.73
c) Caution Money
C/F
795,037,594.00
2,762,536.00
12,095,492.00
15,596,777.00
3,325,722.00
1,404,594.00
35,185,121.00
3,137,800.00
2,750,675,140.50
261
VI. Amount Borrowed
C/F
V. Payments of Loans:
70,300,775.00
40,117,310.00
22,225,880.00
V. Other Income :
Fees & Subscription
Other Receipts
Interest on Corpus Fund
262
RECEIPTS
B/F
VII. Any Other Receipts (give details):
a) Recovery of Loans and
Adv/Current Assets:
b) Deduction from Salary :
Against CPF Subscription
Against GPF Subscription
Against CPS
Against GSLI, GIS ,LIC & SSP
Against Other Deductions
AMOUNT
(Rs.)
TOTAL
(Rs.)
2,737,306,528.73
465,893,340.45
PAYMENTS
B/F
TOTAL
(Rs.)
2,750,675,140.50
d) Deposit of deductions of Govt. Dues :
Income tax
Professional Tax
AGST
VAT
Forest Royalty
Cess
VAT,AGST,FR, etc.–R&D
2,762,536.00
12,095,710.00
15,650,905.00
3,198,986.00
1,404,594.00
AMOUNT
(Rs.)
92,869,453.00
1,392,208.00
1,070,955.00
33,730,005.00
5,772,711.00
46,448,044.00
181,283,376.00
35,112,731.00
c) Caution Money Received
d) Deduction of Govt. Dues :
Income Tax
Professional Tax
A.G.S.T.
VAT
Forest Royalty
Cess
VAT,AGST,FR etc.–R&D
2,908,990.00
82,779,064.00
1,392,208.00
25,703,659.00
9,425,141.00
91,689.00
51,899,900.00
e) Payments of Outstanding Liabilities & Others:
Misc. Receipts/Payments
Alumni Fund
Other Liabilities
EMD
Security Deposit–others
Investment (STDR)
171,291,661.00
Loans & Adv & Others GPF/CPF/CPS
LTDR(CPF & GPF & CPS)
6,616,310.00
544,500.00
66,702,926.00
20,236,472.00
26,850,471.00
344,515,276.00
510,582.00
45,781,442.00
511,757,979.00
e) Other Receipts:
Other Liabilities
Alumni Fund
Misc. Receipts/Payments
Investment (STDR)
EMD
Security Deposit–others
Loans & Adv & Others GPF/CPF/CPS
LTDR (CPF & GPF & CPS)
TOTAL:
VIII. Closing Balance :
Cash in hand
Cash at Banks–i) In Current Accounts
265,702,235.00
545,250.00
6,036,556.00
395,057,423.00
18,996,950.00
45,500,608.00
943,529.00
ii) In Savings Accounts
132,500.53
140,284,830.35
0.00
561,161,975.80
701,579,306.68
732,782,551.00
4,145,295,802.18
TOTAL:
4,145,295,802.18
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENT ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED ON 31 MARCH 2010

Annual Report 2009-2010

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