> The Research Academy > Collaborating Faculty > Student profiles > Industry and government > Prospective research students > Researchers and research institutes > Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture > Infrastructure engineering > Clean energy > Water > Nanotechnology > Biotechnology and stem cell research			Research themes Research projects The IITB-Monash Research Academy has an extensive range of research projects and PhD opportunities available across the six research themes: > Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] > Infrastructure engineering [1] [2] > Clean energy > Water > Nanotechnology [1] [2] > Biotechnology and stem cell research Research Academy THEME/S REF No (Click for details) MU SUPERVISOR IITB SUPERVISOR PROJECT TITLE STATUS Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0091 Kate Smith Sarat Chandran Novel projector camera systems PhD candidate currently on project: Shamsudin Ladha Infrastructure engineering Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0094 A/Prof W K Chiu, Dr D Y Zheng Prof Pradipta Banerji Impact load analysis of heavy haul 3-piece bogie ore cars Candidate required Infrastructure engineering Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0095 A/Prof W K Chiu, Dr D Y Zheng and Dr C Epp Prof Pradipta Banerji Investigation of transient wheel-rail contact conditions resulting in rail squat defects Candidate required Infrastructure engineering Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0096 Prof Raman Singh, Dr John Cookson Prof R C Prasad Influence of environmental factors on growth of rolling contact fatigue damage in rails Candidate required Infrastructure engineering Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0097 Ingrid Zukerman Pushpak Bhattacharya Disambiguation and multilinguality enabled sentiment analysis PhD candidate currently on project: A. Balamaruli Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0098 Dr Ranjith Pathegama Prof T N Singh Numerical simulation of CO2 sequestration and recovery of CH4 from coal seams PhD candidate currently on project: Vishal Vikram Infrastructure engineering Clean energy Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0105 Dr Prabhakar Ranganathan Dr P S Gandhi Monomer layer preparation using substrate motion (vibrations): Simulation and experiments Candidate required Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0106 Dr Chen Chao Dr P S Gandhi Dynamics and control of parallel robotic manipulator with end effector constraints PhD candidate currently on project: Rupesh S Bobade Rupesh Biotechnology and stem cell research Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0107 Huanting Wang A K Suresh Zeolite-polymer nanocomposite membranes for gas separation Candidate required Nanotechnology Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0108 Dr David McCarthy, Prof Ana Deletic Dr Subimal Ghosh Development and testing of stormwater quantity and quality models based on radar rainfall data PhD candidate currently on project: Paul Avijit Water Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0109 Dr David McCarthy, Prof Ana Deletic A/Prof Eldho T Iype Assessing total error in stormwater treatment models Candidate required Water Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0112 Dr Ranjith Pathegama Also includes external supervisor from BHBP A/Prof Deepankar Choudhury, Prof T N Singh Also includes external supervisor from BHBP Investigation of influence of scale effects of strength and failure modes of deep open cut slopes PhD candidate currently on project: Dhananjai Verma Infrastructure engineering Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0118 Prof Mohan Krishnamoorthy Also includes external supervisor from CSIRO Prof Narayan Rangaraj, A/Prof Vishnu Narayan Also includes external supervisor from CSIRO Formulations, models and algorithms for the personnel task scheduling problem and its variants (PTSP) PhD candidate currently on project: Nandakumar Aarthi Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0119 A/Prof Jayantha Kodikara Prof B V S Viswanadham Studies on the response of synthetic fibre reinforced expansive soils Candidate required Infrastructure engineering Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0120 A/Prof Jayantha Kodikara Prof Pradipta Banerji, Prof Sauvik Banerjee Fuzzy logic-based failure prediction model for water distribution pipes Candidate required Infrastructure engineering Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0123 Dr Sita Ramakrishnan, Dr S Ling Prof Ajit Verma, Prof A Srividya Improving testing techniques and reliability study for web based applications PhD candidate currently on project: Garg Deepak Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0124 Dr A Sekercioglu Prof Ajit Verma Reliability modelling of energy efficient wireless sensor networks Candidate required Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0125 Prof Ranjith Pathegama, Dr WenHui Duan Dr Dnyanesh Pawaskar Investigation of fundamental mechanism on rock fracture by nanomechanics based modeling techniques Candidate required Infrastructure engineering Nanotechnology Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0129 Dr Malin Premaratne Prof Vikram Gadre Clever nonuniform sampling methods to speed-up light pulses propagation through nonlinear dispersive media Candidate required Nanotechnology Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0134 A/Prof Hugh Blackburn A/Prof Amit Agrawal Instability and mixing enhancement of pulsed jet flows Candidate required Biotechnology and stem cell research Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0153 Prof Mohan Krishnamoorthy Prof Narayan Rangaraj, A/Prof Vishnu Narayan Generalised crane scheduling problem for container movement in shipyards and docks PhD candidate currently on project: Dayama, Niraj Ramesh Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0150 Dr Madhu Chetty Prof Pramod Wangikar Modeling and inference of gene regulatory network Candidate required Biotechnology and stem cell research Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture IMURA0151 Dr Madhu Chetty Prof Pramod Wangikar Low resolution models for ab initio protein folding prediction Candidate required Biotechnology and stem cell research