Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.
The Academy’s intention is to organize research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.
Seven key research themes have been identified:
The interviews for the December 2025 intake have concluded. Selected candidates will be notified via email in November.
Explore the projects available for the upcoming intake
Research Themes
Sustainable Societies, Design
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Rowan Page
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Purba Joshi
Project Number
IMURA1105
Project Status
Candidate Allotted - Pinaki Das
Low Resource Machine Translation
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Gholamreza Haffari
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Project Number
IMURA1102
Project Status
Design and Development of Novel Control Schemes for Stable Grid-Forming Operation of Type-4 Wind Farms
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Behrooz Bahrani
- Prof. Hassan Haes Alhelou
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Vivek Agarwal
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Nemai Karmakar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Vivek Agarwal
Project Number
IMURA1100
Project Status
Prompt Learning and Data Efficient Machine Learning for Fine-grained and Long-tail Dataset
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Dr. Deval Mehta
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Kshitij Jadhav
- Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Project Number
IMURA1098
Project Status
Candidate Allotted-Rajat Joshi
Causal role of functional brain networks underlying cognitive flexibility
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. James Coxon
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Nivethida T
Project Number
IMURA1097
Project Status
Candidate Allotted - Soham Biswas
Novel drug targets for Tuberculosis with Phage therapy
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Trevor Lithgow
- Prof. Fasseli Coulibaly
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Sandip Kaledhonkar
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. James Saunderson
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Vishnu Narayanan
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Dr. Stuart DC Walsh
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Manish M Pande
- Prof. NN Vishwanathan
Project Number
IMURA1094
Project Status
Candidate Allotted - Ojo Patrick Duke
Accelerating smart building solutions with enhanced data analytics and optimization
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling , Sustainable Societies
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Jenny Zhou
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Anupama Kowli