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.
Six key research themes have been identified:
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
IMURA1084
Project Status
Candidate Allotted - Leena Bhadra
Development of Biobased Active Packaging Cling film for Meat
Research Themes
Health Sciences, Circular Economy, Smart Materials, Sustainable Societies
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Kellie Tuck
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Venkat Gundabala
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
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
IMURA1100
Project Status
Candidate Required-June 2023
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
IMURA1115
Project Status
Candidate Allotted - Lavanya Chaudhary
Structural studies on giant viruses and their infection
Research Themes
Health Sciences, Sustainable Societies
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof.Fasseli Coulibaly
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Kiran Kondabagil
- Prof. Sandip Kaledhonkar
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Dr. Prabhakar Ranganathan
- Dr. Prabhakar Ranganathan
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Dr. Jason Ryan Picardo
Project Number
IMURA1124
Project Status
Candidate AllotteD - Disha Chaudhary
Genetic basis of evolution of co-existence and cooperation
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Mike McDonald
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Supreet Saini
- Prof. K.V Venkatesh
Project Number
IMURA1140
Project Status
Candidate Allotted - Ayushi Chand
Probing microenvironments within bio-molecules using excited-state dynamics
Research Themes
Health Sciences, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Prof. Chris Ritchie
- Prof. San Thang
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Anindya Datta
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Dr. Josie Carberry
- Prof. Winston Chong
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prof. Shiva Gopalakrishnan