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:
Click here to see the results of the December 2025 admissions intake.
Project Number
HSS0731
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Demand for Cash: An Econometric Model for India
Research Themes
Sustainable Societies & Management
Monash University Supervisor
- Greg Markowsky
- Mehmet Ozmen
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Pushpa Trivedi
Research Themes
Sustainable Societies & Management
Monash University Supervisor
- Michael Ure
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Paulomi Chakraborty
- Siby K. George
Project Number
IMURA0270
Project Status
Student completed
Balakrishna Ananthoju
Large Area Synthesis of Graphene-Based Optoelectronic Devices
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Nikhil Medhekar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Mohammad Aslam
- Dhirendra Bahadur
Project Number
IMURA0027
Project Status
Student completed
Amrita Poyekar
Dispersion and confinement of multiwall carbon nanotubes in immiscible polymer blends
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- George Simon
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Arup Bhattacharyya
- Ajay S Panwar
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Tim Dwyer
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Venkatesh Rajamanickam
Project Number
IMURA0399
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Nanostructure Stabilization in Energy Materials
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Nikhil Medhekar
- Laure Bourgeois
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sankara Sarma V Tatiparti
Project Number
IMURA0258
Project Status
Student completed
Alaal Naresh
Atomistic Simulations of Graphene–Boron Nitride Hybrid Nanostructures
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Nikhil Medhekar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Alok Shukla
Project Number
IMURA0160
Project Status
Student completed
Swain Akshaya Kumar
Graphene-based ferromagnetic nanomaterials.
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Dan Li
- Chai Siang
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Dhirendra Bahadur
Project Number
IMURA0483
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Monitoring Snow Water Equivalent in the Indian Himalayas
Research Themes
Sustainable Societies & Management
Monash University Supervisor
- Christoph Rüdiger
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Gulab Singh
- Avik Bhattacharya
Project Number
IMURA0199
Project Status
Student completed
Akiti Narendra
Granule Breakage in a Controlled Shear Field - Modelling and Experiments
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Karen Hapgood
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Devang Khakhar