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:
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Project Number
IMURA1083
Project Status
Candidate Allotted-Tanya Bansal
Insights into giant virus biology and host interactions
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Gregory W Moseley
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Kiran Kondabagil
- Prof. Santanu Ghosh
Project Number
HSS1082
Project Status
Candidate Required-June 2023
Effect of sleep deprivation on decision making and vigilance among night shift workers
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Nemai Karmakar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Azizuddin Khan
Project Number
IMURA1081
Project Status
Candidate Allotted-Saikat Dutta
Self-supervised approaches for dense prediction tasks from images under limited supervision
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Biplab Banerjee
Project Number
IMURA1080
Project Status
Candidate Allotted-Nijo Padinjarathala Ignatius
Off-shore Green Energy Platforms: Understanding and Mitigation of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Infrastructure
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Raman Singh
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Siddhartha Duttagupta
- Prof. Arnab Dutta, Prof. Amber Shrivastava
Project Number
IMURA1079
Project Status
Candidate Allotted - Shahla Karimpanakkal
A combined density functional theory and experimental investigation of carbon dioxide conversion to hydrocarbons on Molybdenum carbide-based catalysts
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Akshat Tanksale
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Ojus Mohan
- Prof. Sonali Das
Project Number
IMURA1078
Project Status
Candidate Allotted-Anish Pandit
Dynamically penetrating anchors for deepwater floating structures
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Infrastructure
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Ha Bui
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Santiram Chatterjee
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Dr Elahe Abdi
- Dr Faezeh Marzbanrad
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof Maryam Shojaei Baghini
Project Number
IMURA1076
Project Status
Rheological design of biopolymeric food thickeners to make swallowing easier
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Ravi Jagadeeshan
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. P. Sunthar
Project Number
IMURA1075
Project Status
Candidate Required-June 2023
Advanced CFD of viscoelastic flows
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Dr. Prabhakar Ranganathan
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Shivasubramanian Gopalakrishnan
- Prof. Jason Ryan Picardo
Project Number
IMURA1074
Project Status
Candidate Required-December 2024
Floods in a changing climate: attribution of hazard, vulnerability and impact
Research Themes
Sustainable Societies, Infrastructure
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Julie Arblaster
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Arpita Mondal