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Shri Gopal Rajgarhia International Programme (SGRIP) Schemes 4

Programme Highlights 5

SGRIP – Inception of an Era 6

Unit wise distribution of Awards 8

Proposals Submitted 9

2015 - 19: Visit Details 11

2015 - 19: Consolidated Report 22

Table of Content

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SHRI GOPAL RAJGARHIAINTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME SCHEMES

SGR International Student Scholarship

Programme

SGR International FacultyOutreachProgramme

SGR International ResearchScholarSupportProgramme

SGR StudentInternational TravelSupportProgramme

SGR International Workshops/ Meetings

ACADEMICIANS

Ashim Kumar DattaRaji SundararajanJean-Charles MareJens Christian RefsgaardGouri S. BhuyanBijoy Kumar GhoshJerzy Antoni SzpunarLaszlo S. TothDaya ThussuRudolf ScheidlIlaria CatapanoArun K. BanerjeeDragan MaksimovicGregory L. PlettMartin Charles GolumbicRicardo CaponettoSalvatore GrazianiYoginder P. ChughNicholas TampioMurugappa KrishnanShanti BhushanLua Kim BoonAleksandar ProdicAndrea MariniAndreas Schütze

OUTBOUND STUDENTS

Ronak Reshamwala

Pratish Datta

Anirban Sarkar

Dibyendu Dey

Sudeep Kumar Sahoo

INBOUND STUDENTS

Martin Guenning (Belgium)Marcin Bodych (Poland)Sailesh Conjeti (Germany)Raphael Tackx (France)David Pham (USA)Hayden Raps (USA)Jacob Packard (USA)

COUNTRIESUSA

Denmark

United Kingdom

Austria

Italy

Israel

Belgium

Poland

Germany

France

Chaina

Australia

Canada

Ireland, Taiwan

COLLABORATIVEPROGRAMMES

IIT Kharagpur-Curtin

University Joint Workshop

IIT Kharagpur-MIT India

Practicum Program

International Conference on

the Networked Digital Earth

International Workshop on

Technology-Enhanced

Learning

Curtin University – IIT

Kharagpur Joint Symposium

on Dual Doctoral Degree

Programme

ACADEMICIANS

Sudip ShekharBin LiShun-ichiro KaratoNicola Marchetti

ACADEMICIANS AND STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES UNDER COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMES

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Programme Highlights Since Inception

2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

2015-16

Electrical Sciences

Mechanical Sciences

Biological Sciences

Basic Sciences

Humanities & Social

Sciences

2016-17

Agriculture Architecture Chemical EngineeringCivil EngineeringComputer Science Electrical EngineeringElectronics & Electrical Communication Mechanical EngineeringBusiness Management

2016-17

HumanitiesMetallurgical & Materials EngineeringOcean Engineering &Naval ArchitecturePhysicsIP Law

2017-18

Architecture Chemical EngineeringCivil EngineeringComputer ScienceElectrical EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMetallurgical & Materials EngineeringMining EngineeringPhysics

2017-18

Business ManagementHumanitiesIP Law

2018-19

Agriculture Architecture Aerospace Engineering Electrical EngineeringElectronics & Electrical Communication Ocean Engineering &Naval ArchitectureBasic Sciences

Educational Science

Mining Engineering

Disciplines

Programme Highlights Since Inception

No. of Visitors Faculty: 12Research Scholars: 1Students (Inbound): 1Students (Outbound): 2Courses: 3Workshops: 5




It has always been rather easy for IIT Kharagpur. Its distinguished Alumni - towering men and women who dominate their respective fields - have been its flag-bearers all over the world. But a pro-active international outreach effort is also very essential for any academic institution that wishes to grow, to increase its visibility and improve its standing in the world academia.

Not surprisingly, IIT Kharagpur has been hard at work. In 2014, it launched the International Summer and Winter Term to give students a chance to gain exposure to international faculty without going abroad through short-term courses. This project has now mutated into the Union government-run and IIT KGP-managed Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN).

IIT KGP International Relations - Inception of an Era

with Shri Gopal Rajgarhia International Programme

Another significant development took place in 2014. Shri Gopal Rajgarhia (68/BTech/CH/NH), noted Alumni and corporate leader, came forward with a generous grant of Rs 10 crore and a carte blanche for the Institute to spend the amount on anything that it deemed necessary for the welfare of IIT Kharagpur. It did not take long for the Institute to figure out where and how the donation could be channelled.

With the endowment fund created from the donation made by Shri Rajgarhia, the Institute started the Shri Gopal Rajgarhia International Programme (SGRIP). SGRIP has been a spectacular success since its launch. Today, it is an umbrella programme for five schemes, all directed towards attracting international faculty and students to IIT Kharagpur.

● Scheme 1: SGR International Faculty Outreach Programme - distinguished researchers or faculty members of reputed international universities are invited to teach and do collaborative research in IIT Kharagpur.

● Scheme 2: SGR International Research Scholar Support Programme - post-doctoral fellows from international institutes or research laboratories, or engineers and researchers from R&D organizations are invited to deliver lecture or conduct workshops at IIT Kharagpur.

● Scheme 3: The SGR International Student Scholarship and Internship Programme - supports international students who are invited to participate in collaborative projects or do internship at IIT Kharagpur.

● Scheme 4: The SGRIP also funds workshops and meetings with international faculty members or researchers to facilitate collaboration with international partner organizations of the Institute.

● Scheme 5: The SGR Student International Travel Programme - funds the participation of meritorious and deserving students of IIT Kharagpur to participate in international research collaborations. Going forward, a student visiting as a part of the Dual Doctoral Degree Programme with partner institutes will also be supported.

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Functional since 2015, SGRIP has grown exponentially. The number of proposals seeking international collaboration and visits by foreign faculty has seen a sharp spike, so much so that in order to ensure equal benefit for all departments, only two proposals are now accepted per semester for every department. Not only engineering and the basic sciences, the departments of humanities, law and management too have hosted lectures by visiting faculty and sent students abroad for collaborative work.

The most inspiring is the way in which the short-term courses sponsored by SGRIP has laid the foundation for the Institute’s long-term collaboration and association with reputed universities abroad. The international workshops with the faculty of Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel led to the MoU for future collaboration. The joint workshop between IIT Kharagpur and Curtin University, Australia paved the way for the institution of the Dual Doctoral Degree Programme in 2016 by which the two institutions would jointly award PhD degree to the scholar who could spend a part of his research tenure in both the Institutes. Again, the collaboration between the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur, and the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, culminated in the India Practicum Programme at IIT KGP, where professors and students from both the Institutes participated. The partnership is expected to culminate in IIT Kharagpur’s long-standing partnership with one of the most celebrated universities of the world.

The increased exchange promoted by SGRIP has given students exposure to new ideas and research trends in top universities around the world. Since 2015, IIT KGP has seen visits by delegations from some of the top universities of the world, such as Cornell, Purdue, INSA (France), Columbia, Memphis, UFZ (Germany), the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (Copenhagen), University of Saskatchewan (Canada), University of Magdeburg (Germany), Johannes Kepler University (Austria), Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland), University of South Australia, Federal University Lafia (Nigeria), Catania University (Italy) among many others.

Just as fruitful has been SGRIP’s programme of Student International travel support. A month-long visit of a PhD student from IIT KGP’s Department of Physics to the University of Warwick led to the initiation of a research collaboration between the Warwick theory group and the materials modelling group at IIT KGP.

It is because of SGRIP that IIT KGP has also been able to extend a warm humanitarian gesture to a parent who, with SGRIP support, could accompany his visually-challenged son for the latter’s presentation at the International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2016.

It is hoped that in the coming days, SGRIP will help IIT Kharagpur further its collaboration with top notch universities in the world and make the Institute one of the most preferred destinations in the world for pursuing quality research, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Unit Wise Distribution of Awards

Sl. No. Unit Awards

1 Aerospace Engineering 4

2 Agriculture & Food Engineering 3

3 Architecture & Regional Planning 3

4 Centre for Educational Technology 1

5 Chemical Engineering 2

6 Civil Engineering 2

7 Computer Science & Engineering 11

8 Electrical Engineering 13

9 Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering 3

10 Geology & Geophysics 1

11 G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications 1

12 Humanities & Social Sciences 5

13 Mathematics 6

14 Mechanical Engineering 6

15 Metallurgical & Materials Engineering 5

16 Mining Engineering 3

17 Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture 2

18 Physics 4

19 Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law 1

20 RCG School of Infrastructure Design and Management 1

21 School of Medical Science & Technology 1

22 Vinod Gupta School of Management 2

23 Institutional Development 1

Total 818

Proposals Submitted

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LIST OF ATTENDEES UNDER VARIOUS SCHEMES

I. SGR International Faculty Outreach Programme

2015-16

Sl No. Department Coordinating Faculty Visiting Faculty Affiliation

1.Agricultural & Food Engineering

V. K. Tewari Ashim K. Datta Cornell University, New York, USA

2.Electrical Engineering

N. K. Kishore Raji Sundararajan Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

3.Mechanical Engineering

Rathindranath Maiti Jean Charles MareInstitut National des Sciences Appliquees, Toulouse, France

4.Humanities & Social Sciences

Anjali Gera Roy Susham Bedi Columbia University, New York, USA

5. Mathematics S. Bhattacharyya Ashok SinghUniversity of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

6. Mathematics S. Bhattacharyya Haibing ShaoHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

7.Aerospace Engineering

Srinibas Karmakar Sumanta AcharyaUniversity of Memphis, Memphis, USAIllinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

8.Computer Science & Engineering

Animesh Mukherjee Matteo MarsilliAbdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy


Amit Patra Jason LaiVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

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2016-17

Sl No. DepartmentCoordinating

FacultyVisiting Faculty Affiliation

1.Agricultural & Food Engineering

Rajendra SinghJens Christian Refsgaard

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

2. Electrical Engineering Debdoot Sheet Bijoy GhoshTexas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

3.Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Somjeet BiswasJerzy Antoni Szpunar

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada


Somjeet Biswas Laszlo S. TothLabEx DAMAS, University of Lorraine, Metz, France

5.Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture

Trilochan Sahoo,Dr. Joydip Bhattacharjee

Gouri S. Bhuyan

British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission, British Columbia, Canada


Anjali Gera Roy Daya ThussuUniversity of Westminster, London, UK

7. Mathematics Jitendra Kumar Andreas BuckUniversity of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

8.

Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering

Amitabha Bhattacharya

Ilaria CatapanoItalian National Research Council, Rome, Italy

9. Mechanical Engineering Rathindranath Maiti Rudolf ScheidlJohannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

10. Mechanical Engineering Prasanta Kumar Das Arun K. Banerjee Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, USA

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2016-17




Santanu Kapat Dragan MaksimovicUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, USA


Amit Patra Gregory L. PlettUniversity of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA


Rogers Mathew Martin Charles Golumbic University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel


Niloy Ganguly Tyll KruegerWroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

15.Chemical Engineering

Arnab Atta Geoffrey M. EvansUniversity of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia


Rathindranath Maiti Giorgio FiglioliniUniversity of Cassino, Cassino, Italy

17.Vinod Gupta School of Management

Abhijeet Chandra Murugappa KrishnanRutgers University, New Jersey, USA


Anjali Gera Roy Victor S. Dugga Federal University, Lafia, Nigeria

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2017-18

Sl.No. DepartmentCoordinating


1. Chemical Engineering Arnab Atta Geoffrey M. EvansUniversity of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

2.Vinod Gupta School of Management

Abhijeet Chandra Murugappa KrishnanRutgers University, New Jersey, USA

3. Physics Prasanta Kumar Datta Simone PeliUniversita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy


Anjali Gera Roy Amritjit SinghOhio University, Athens, USA

5.

Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law

Indrajit Dube Mia Mahmudur RahimUniversity of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France


Gour Gopal Roy Prakash SrirangamSan Giovanni, ItalyUniversity of Warwick, Coventry, UK

7. Electrical Engineering Karabi Biswas Riccardo CaponettoUniversity of Catania, Catania, Italy

8. Electrical Engineering Karabi Biswas Salvatore GrazianiUniversity of Catania, Catania, Italy

9. Mining Engineering Debasis Deb Yoginder P. ChughSouthern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA


Saswat Das Nicholas TampioFordham University, New York, USA


Rathindranath Maiti Pedro Javier Gamez MonteroBarcelona Tech,Catalonia, Spain


Anandaroop Bhattacharya

Christopher BaileyUniversity of Greenwich, London, UK

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2018-19



1. Electrical Engineering Ashis Maity Aleksandar Prodic University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2.Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture

Vishwanath Nagarajan Shanti BhushanMississippi State University, Starkville, USA

3. Aerospace Engineering Sunil Manohar Dash Lua Kim Boon National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu,Taiwan

4. Physics Samudra Roy Andrea Marini University of L’Aquila Via Vetoio, L’Aquila, Italy

5. Electrical Engineering Karabi Biswas Andreas Schütze Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

6.Agricultural & Food Engineering Somsubhra Chakraborty Bin Li Louisiana State University,

Baton Rouge, USA

7. G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications Suvra Sekhar Das Nicola Marchetti Trinity College Dublin, Dublin,

Ireland

8.Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering

Tarun Kanti Bhattacharya Sudip Shekhar University of British Columbia,

Vancouver, Canada

9. Geology & Geophysics Sujoy K Ghosh Shun-ichiro Karato Yale University, New Haven, USA

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II. SGR International Research Scholar Support Programme

2015-16

Sl No. Department

Coordinating Faculty

Visiting Research Scholar

Affiliation


Niloy Ganguly Arnab SinhaMicrosoft Research, Redmond, USA

2. Mathematics Swanand Khare Aditya TulsyanMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

3.Aerospace Engineering

Sandeep Saha Hunter KingHarvard University, Cambridge, USA

Sl No. UnitCoordinating

FacultyIndustry Collaborator Affiliation

4.Institutional Development

Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay

Bijoy G. Chatterjee

Retired Director, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara and Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur

2016-17


FacultyVisiting Research

ScholarAffiliation


Niloy Ganguly Tomasz OzanskiWroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland


Bivas Mitra Raphael TackxUniversity of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France

2017-18



ScholarAffiliation


Debdoot Sheet Alfredo G. I. ManríquezOtto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

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2018-19



ScholarAffiliation

1. Mathematics G P Raja Sekhar Michael Eden University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

2.Electrical Engineering Karabi Biswas Manuel Bastuck

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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III. SGR International Student Scholarship Programme

2015-16



ScholarAffiliation


Bivas Mitra Martin GuenningUniversity of Namur, Namur, Belgium & University de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium


Animesh Mukherjee Marcin BodychWroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland


Debdoot Sheet Sailesh ConjetiTechnical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

2017-18



ScholarAffiliation


Animesh Mukherjee,Niloy Ganguly

Raphael TackxUniversity of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France

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2018-19



ScholarAffiliation

1. Mining Engineering Abhiram Kumar Verma David Pham Texas A&M University, College

Station, USA

2. Mining Engineering Basanta Kumar Pusty Hayden Raps Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

3. Aerospace Engineering Sandeep Saha Jacob Packard

Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

IV. SGR International Workshops/Meetings

2015-16

Sl.No. Department Coordinating FacultyWorkshop Delegates

Partner Institutes


Rogers MathewEitan Bachmat and team of 8

Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Beersheba, Israel


Partner Institutes

1. Civil Engineering Bhargab Maitra NACurtin University, Perth, Australia

2.Architecture & Regional Planning

Subrata Chattopadhyay A team of 9Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

2017-18


Partner Institutes


Subrata Chattopadhyay A team of 15 (inbound) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

2. Electrical Engineering Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay

A team of 7 University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

3. Civil Engineering Bhargab Maitra A team of 10Curtin University, Perth, Australia & Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK


Subrata ChattopadhyayA team of 8

(outbound)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA


Niloy Ganguly A team of 12

“International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth” participated by academicians from various countries

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2016-17


FacultyWorkshop Delegates

Partner Institutes

1.Centre for Educational Technology

Kaushal K BhagatFang-Ying Yang

Jonathan Michael Spector

National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

University of North Texas, Denton, USA

2.RCG School of Infrastructure Design & Management

Bhargab Mitra & Ankhi Banerjee

A team of 9 people invited

Curtin University, Perth, Australia

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2018-19

V. SGR Student International Travel Support Programme

2015-16

Sl. No. DepartmentCoordinating

FacultyIIT Kharagpur Students Host Institute

1.School of Medical Science & Technology

Suman Chakraborty Ronak ReshamwalaRIKEN, Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan

2. Mathematics Sourav Mukhopadhyay Pratish DattaInstitute of Information Science, Taipei, Taiwan

2016-17

Sl. No. Department Coordinating FacultyIIT Kharagpur

StudentsHost Institute


Gour Gopal RoySoumitra Kumar Dinda

University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

2.

Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering

Amitabha Bhattacharya Soumyakanti Maiti

Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, National Research Council, Italy

3. Physics Shivakiran Bhaktha B.N. Anirban SarkarTel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

4. Physics Arghya Taraphder Dibyendu DeyUniversity of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Sl. No. DepartmentCoordinating

FacultyIIT Kharagpur

StudentsHost Institute


Somjeet Biswas Sudeep Kumar SahooUniversity of Lorraine, Metz, France

2017-18

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Ashim Kumar Datta is a

professor in the Department of

Biological and Environmental

Engineering, Cornell University, NY,

USA.

Awards and Honors:

● Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (2014) Cornell University

● Fellow (2013) Institute of Food Technologists● Merrill Presidential Scholar for Kimberly Lin (2013)

Cornell University● Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Tucker ’50 Excellence in

Teaching Award (2012) College of Engineering, Cornell University

● USDA Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in College and University Awards Programme: Regional Award (2011) USDA

Research Interests:

Heat and mass transfer in food and biological systems, microwave applications, development of models to predict food safety and quality.

ATTENDEES PROFILES

I. SGR International Faculty Outreach Programme

2015-16

Contribution:

● Offered a short-term course on modelling of complex food processes for their understanding and optimization

Takeaways:

● Comprehensive overview of food processing models

● Practical aspects of implementation of models in a food context

● Discussion on poro-mechanics-based modelling framework applied in various food processes

● Multi-physics in the context of transport phenomena, electromagnetic and solid mechanics

Host:V. K. TiwariAgricultural & Food Engineering DepartmentIIT Kharagpur, India

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Raji Sundararajan is a

professor in ECET, Purdue

University.

Research Interests:

Energy technologies and applications, Modelling and simulation of biological systems, Electrical and electronics applications to medicine,Chemotherapy, healthcare, and home health gadgets.

Awards and Honors:

● 2014 Best Paper award-A Novel Wireless Vein Finder- International Conference on Circuits, Control, Communication, and Computing, India

● 2014 Best paper award-Enhancement of Paddy Germination and Growth using High Electric Field-International Conference on Power, Control, and Embedded Systems, India

● 2014 Distinguished Service Award, Electrostatics Society of America (ESA)

● 2010-2011 Study in a Second Discipline, Bindley Biosciences Center, Purdue University

Host: N.K. KishoreDepartment of Electrical Engineering IIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:

● Associated with a regular course

entitled “Industrial Application of

High Voltage Engineering(HV)”

● Offered a module on Medical

Applications of HV engineering

Takeaways:

● Basics of electrostatics and

computations

● Discussion of electrostatics

related issues in various

applications in medical field

● Electric pulses, optimization of

pulse food sterilization and HV

in agriculture

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Jean-Charles Mare is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (INSA), Toulouse, France.

Host: R. MaitiDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

Awards and Honors:

● Over the last 10 years, Mare has had 19

publications in international scientific

journals and 15 invited international

conferences

● He has participated in 5 European and 5

national research programmes since 2001 in

Actuation and Aerospace

Research Interests:

Modelling and simulation of Fluid and Mechanical

Drive systems

Contribution:

● Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

● Subject handled: Mechanical Drives Takeaways:

● Modelling and designing of mechanical power transmission systems that require combining gears, nut-screws, brakes, clutches, torque limiter etc.

● Design of power transmission architecture and control architecture, virtual prototyping for prediction of performance

● Electromechanical drives and their progressive introduction in aircraft and space launchers in replacement of hydraulically powered designs

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2016-17

Jens Christian Refsgaard is

presently the Head of

Department of Hydrology,

Geological Survey of Denmark

and Greenland, Copenhagen.

Research Interests:

Integrated water resources management,

Hydrological modelling, Climate change impacts

on water resources, Uncertainty assessment.

● Hydrological modelling of river basins

and climate change impact on water

resources

● The major focus of his research is to

identify and quantify the uncertainties

associated with the model predictions and

to find ways to handle these uncertainties

Host:Rajendra SinghAgricultural & Food Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:

● He has around forty years of

teaching and research experience in

the area of hydrological modelling

and water resources management

● Refsgaard has supervised 20 PhD

students and authored more than

100 research papers published in

peer reviewed journals

● Refsgaard has vast experience in

handling international and national

projects. He has also edited five

books

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Contribution:

● He delivered 11 hour lecture series on “Recent Trends and Developments in Ocean Renewable Energy and River Current Energy Conversion Systems” to the senior students of the Department during 31 Oct - 4 Nov, 2016

● Discussed the potential of marine renewable energy in India and the present and future challenges

● Held relevant discussion with the faculty members for possible industry-academic collaboration through faculty, student exchange programme

Takeaways:

Explored future Industry-academic collaboration under Canada-India bilateral Science & Technology Agreement

Principal owner of Gouri Bhuyan Consulting Services, a former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems, currently consults and collaborates on developments and commercialization of Ocean Renewable Technologies.

Research Interests: Development, Demonstration and Commercialisation of Tidal Current and River Current Energy Conversion Technology and enabling relevant collaboration among Canadian Technology developers, Indian academic researchers and technology demonstration.

● He has experience in executive management programme, project management and engineering consulting in the electrical utility and energy sectors within Canada and abroad

● He has collaborated with Industry, Government, First Nations, Academic and various National and International Organizations for implementing innovative methods for managing energy infrastructure assets and for championing development of ocean and marine energy sector

Gouri S. Bhuyan is Supervisor and Lead Integrity Engineer in British Columbia Oil & Gas Commission, Canada, Principal Engineer, Fellow ASME, Fellow CAE.

Host:Trilochan Sahoo, Joydip BhattacharjeeDepartment of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur, India

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Bijoy Kumar Ghosh is a Dick and Martha Brooks Endowed Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.

Research Interests:

Learning Control Problems in Rehabilitation, Modelling and Control Problems with Tumour Growth, Control Problems with Cyber-physical Systems, Quadrotor Control.

Awards and Honors:

● American Automatic Control Council’s Donald Eckman Award in 1988

● United Nations Development Programme’s TOKTEN Consultant in 1993

● Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship Programme for research in Japan in 1997

● Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2000

● Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2014

Host:Debdoot Sheet, Nirmalya Ghosh,Anirban MukherjeeDepartment of Electrical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:

● Offered a micro-credit subject and lecture series on Geometric Methods for Machine Vision

Takeaways:

● Classical introduction to monocular vision using geometry and dynamical systems

● Geometric problems in rotational mechanics and human gaze control

● Neural Signal Processing in Animal Vision

● Machine Cognition and Control using a Sensor Network

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Jerzy Antoni Szpunar is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Canada Research chair (Tier 1) of Advanced Materials for Clean Energy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

Research Interests:

World’s leading expert in the area of texture, structure and properties of polycrystalline materials. His research includes:

● Deformation and recrystallization processes in metals, Super-plasticity and other special properties of nano-crystalline materials

● Improving alloys for nuclear reactor, Hydrogen ingress into nuclear materials

● Structure and properties of thin films, electronic interconnects

● High temperature oxidation and corrosion● Applications of X-ray and neutron

diffraction techniques● Structure of grain boundaries and other

interfaces

Awards and Honors:

● He has enjoyed distinguished academic carrier in various universities in Europe, Asia and Canada

● He has supervised more than 36 PhD students and has more than 500 peer reviewed research publications to his credit

Host:Somjeet BiswasDepartment of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering IIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:

● Offered workshop, short-term course on “Structure and Properties of Polycrystalline Materials” from 5 Oct - 4 Nov, 2016

● Interaction with research scholar and groups from various departments

● Offered a lecture ‘Roles of Texture in Controlling Oxidation, Hydrogen Ingress and Hydride Formation and Transformation in Zr Alloys’ for Indian Institute of Metals, Kharagpur Chapter in IIT Kharagpur

● The core member in the ‘Scientific advisory committee’ of the international conference ‘iCAMMP-IV, 2016 held in Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from 5 - 7 Nov, 2016

Takeaways:

● An overview of the effect of microstructure, texture and grain boundaries, interface on various mechanical, physical and electronic properties

● Engineering of these polycrystalline material features to optimize these properties

● The application of textures, grain boundaries and interfaces in technology and research:

1. Texture and formability of mechanical properties2. Inter-granular fracture of pipeline steels3. Grain oriented transformer steels4. Texture optimization in magnetic recording media

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Research Interests:

His research includes: Mechanics of materials, crystal plasticity, deformation textures, severe plastic deformation and physical metallurgy, His present research interests are “Experiments and mechanical modelling of textures and microstructures of SPD materials, especially on quantitative modelling of grain refinement”.

Awards and Honors:

● Knight of the French Superior Education by Government of France in 2012

● The Grand Prize of Research of the Industrial Society of East-France (2012)

Laszlo S. Toth, Founder

and Director, Laboratory

of Excellence "DAMAS"

(Design of Alloy Metals for

low-mass Structures), also

Founder and former Director of Laboratory of Elaboration of Microstructures and Mechanics of Materials (LEM3), and a highly distinguished professor in Mechanics and Metallurgy at the University of Lorraine, France.

Host:Somjeet BiswasDepartment of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering IIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:

● Offered workshop, short-term course on Crystal Plasticity Modelling from 3 - 21 Oct, 2016

● Interaction with research scholars and groups● Offered a lecture ‘The limits of grain fragmentation

in severe plastic deformation’ for Indian Institute of Metals, Kharagpur Chapter in IIT Kharagpur

● The core members in the ‘Scientific advisory committee’ of the international conference ‘iCAMMP-IV, 2016 held in Dept. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from 5 - 7 Nov, 2016

Takeaways:

● Introduction to geometrical considerations, mechanisms and mathematical formations of plastic deformation of polycrystals

● Crystal plasticity criteria: Schmid, Bishop and Hill, Viscoplastic slip

● Applications to polycrystal deformation (Use of static, Sachs, Taylor, relaxed constraint, self-consistent and finite element models)

● Applications of different models to polycrystalline materials: Prediction of crystallographic texture and stress-strain curves, parameters of anisotropy, work hardening and formability for cubic, hexagonal materials

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Host:Anjali Gera RoyDepartment of Humanities & Social SciencesIIT Kharagpur, India

Daya Thussu is Professor

of International

Communications and the

Founder and Co-Director of

the India Media Centre

at the University of Westminster in London. He

is the Founder and Managing Editor of Global

Media and Communication, a journal published

by Sage.

Research Interests:

● Political economy of international media industries

● BRICS and global media contra-flow

● Creative Industries as Soft Power

● Internationalizing media studies

● Media and mediated culture in India and among South Asian diaspora

Contribution:

● Delivered several lectures to the students of Globalization and Culture (HS30095) and (MHRM) students and an Institute Lecture on India’s Soft Power: Rhetoric and Reality between 22 Aug - 02 Nov, 2016

Takeaways:

● Comprehensive overview of Globalization, Media and Culture

● Professional Exposure to the role of media in a global context through case studies

● Discussion on News and Infotainment in a Global Context, Global Media Cultures, Contra Flows in Global Media, Global Digital Divides and Dividends and Cultures of Globalization

● Delivered expert talk on India’s Soft Power: from Buddha to Bollywood from International Relations framework

● Provided a valuable comparative perspective which could be extremely useful in this age of growing internationalization of media, culture and communication

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Host:Rathindranath MaitiDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India Duration of visit: 10 - 18 Nov, 2016

Rudolf Scheidl is a full

Professor of Mechanical

Engineering and Head of the

Institute of Machine Design and

Hydraulic Drives

Johannes Kepler University,

Linz, Austria. Contribution:

● Delivered a series of lectures on ‘Digital Fluid Power’ as a part of PG Elective course ‘Fluid Drive and Control (ME60409)’ for about 12 hours

● All lectures have been recorded by CET Audio Visual section

● In the end semester examination, a compulsory question was set from Rudolf’s portion and most of the students answered satisfactorily

● A special lecture –IEEE, Local Chapter, in EE Department on 16 Nov, 2016

Takeaways:

● Possibility of joint guidance to PhD level students. A current student may be invited to work on digital fluid power in Rudolf’s Institute for a part of the problem assigned to the student

● Joint collaborative work on Digitally Displacement Pump (DDP) for wind turbine

Research Interests:

General and Digital Fluid Power, Industrial

Automation, Mechatronic, Design of Mechanical

Systems and Components

Awards and Honors:

● International Award- Bramah Medal of the

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

(IMechE) 2010

● Member of several scientific advisory boards

in home country and abroad

● Editorial board member for several

International journals

● Consultant to several Industries in home

county and abroad

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·

Ilaria Catapano Institute

for Electromagnetic Sensing

of the Environment,

National Research Council

of Italy.

Host:

Amitabha Bhattacharya

Department of Electronics & Electrical

Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India

● Catapano gave lectures on GPR

technology and radar Tomography to

M.Tech as well as to research students of

IIT Kharagpur

● She interacted with research students of

RF and Microwave group during her visit

and discussed various research related

topics with them

● Out of these interactions, two student and

faculty collaborations were planned for

the next summer

● The collaboration would be in the field of

GPR antenna and the other would be on

developing through-wall imaging

algorithm for sensing life behind a wall

Contribution:

● During her visit, Catapano also shared

literature and source codes on relevant

research topics, which are not available in

the open literature

● Plans to sign an MoU with IREA, Napoli

was also discussed

● In short, Catapano’s visit achieved its

academic purpose and paved the way for

further collaboration between IIT

Kharagpur and IREA Napoli

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Host:P. K. DasDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

Arun K. Banerjee, Consulting Scientist in Dynamics of Flexible Multibody Spacecraft at SSL, Palo Alto, USA. Previously he worked as Principal Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center,

Palo Alto, Ford Aerospace, Martin Marietta Corporation and Northrop Corporati on. He was Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 1995-2001. He also taught graduate courses related to multi-body dynamics at Santa Clara University and San Jose State University, USA.

Research interests:

● Dynamics of multi-body systems● Kane’s formulation of dynamics● Computational Dynamics and control of flexible

multi-body systems● Efficient numerical formulations for multi-body

dynamics● Dr. Banerjee was one of the developers of

DYNACON, Lockheed's workhorse tool for flexible multi-body dynamics and control simulation

● He did extensive research on geometric stiffness effects in elasto-dynamics, order-N dynamical formulation, deployment of cables and beams, command shaping for vibration suppression, tracking control of flexible robots and dynamics of flexible rockets

Contribution:

● As part of the SGR International Faculty Outreach Programme, delivered lectures for 3 weeks during July-August 2016 as a part of the regular Postgraduate course “Modeling and Simulation of Dynamical Systems” (ME60419). The course was attended by dual-degree B.Tech students, M.Tech students and Research Scholars

● Discussed rigid body kinematics, Kane's dynamics formulation, Lagrangian approach, linearization, eigenvalue problem with a number of examples

● Modeling and computation related to flexible multi-body systems were discussed

● Conducted a test for the students as a part of Teacher's Assessment for the course

● Delivered a departmental seminar on his research activities

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Host:S. KapatDepartment of Electrical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

Research Interests:

His current research interests include power electronics for renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, high frequency power conversion using wide bandgap semiconductors, digital control of switched-mode power converters, as well as analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power management applications.

Dragan Maksimovic is a

Professor at University of

Colorado at Boulder and Director,

Colorado Power Electronics Center.

Awards and Honors:

● Fellow of IEEE● Transactions Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power

Electronics Society, 2008

● CU Boulder Inventor of the Year Award, 2006

● Bruce Holland Excellence in Teaching Award, ECE Department, CU Boulder, 2004

● Transactions Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Electronics Society, 1997

● NSF CAREER Award, 1997

● NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993

● Best Paper Award, High-Frequency Power Conversion Conference, 1989

● Fulbright Fellowship, 1986

● Caltech Graduate Fellowship, 1986

● Best Electrical Engineering Graduate Award, University of Belgrade, 1984

Contribution:

● Offered a short-term course on Power Electronics and Battery Charging for Electric-Drivetrain Vehicles

Takeaways:

● Comprehensive overview on electric drive vehicles and drivetrain architectures

● Drivetrain DC-DC converter operation and loss modelling

● Dynamic modelling and control of drivetrain DC-DC converters and motor drives

● Advancement in wide bandgap power devices and power converter topologies for xEV applications

● Discussion on active battery management systems and battery chargers

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Gregory L. Plett is a professor

of Electrical and Computer

Engineering at University of

Colorado at Colorado Springs,

USA.

Host:A. PatraDepartment of Electrical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

Research Interests: His current research interests include research in control systems as applied to the management and control of high-capacity battery systems, such as found in hybrid and electric vehicles.

Current research efforts includes:

● Physics-based reduced-order modelling of ideal lithium-ion dynamics

● System identification of physics-based model parameters using only current-voltage input-output data

● Physics-based reduced-order modelling of degradation mechanisms in electrochemical cells

● Estimation of cell internal state and degradation state

● State-of-charge, state-of-health and state-of-life estimation

● Power and energy prediction using model predictive control and other advanced techniques to extend life

● Battery pack fast charging

Contribution:

● Offered a short-term course on Battery Management for Electric-Drivetrain Vehicles

Takeaways:

● Introduction to Terminology; equivalent-circuit battery models

● State estimation technique using nonlinear Kalman filters

● Discussion on state of health estimation of battery pack

● Battery-pack balancing; power-limits estimation

● Physics-based battery models and methods for making battery work better and last longer

Awards and Honors:

● UCCS Campus-Wide “2014 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research” award

● UCCS Campus-Wide “2010 Inductee to Million Dollar Club” award

● College of Engineering and Applied Science “2010 Outstanding Researcher of the Year” award

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Martin Charles Golumbic is Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal “Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence” and is on the editorial boards of several other journals, including “Discrete Applied Mathematics”, “Constraints” and “AI Communications”.He is the author of the book “Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs” and “Fighting Terror Online: The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law”, co-author of “Tolerance Graphs” and edited “Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language and Knowledge-based Systems”, and “Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms: Interdisciplinary Applications”.

Research Interests: His current area of research is in combinatorial mathematics interacting with real world problems in computer science and artificial intelligence

Awards and Honors:● Golumbic has been a Fellow of the Institute of

Combinatorics and its Applications since 1995

● Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence society ECCAI, 2005

Host:Rogers MathewDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:● Golumbic offered a short term

course on “Algorithmic Graph Theory” to the senior undergraduate, masters, and PhD students of the Departments of Computer Science, Electronics and Mathematics during 24 Jan - 15

Feb, 2017

● On Feb 13, 2017, Golumbic delivered an Institute-wide lecture titled “The Elusive Nature of Intersecting Paths on a Grid”

● Golumbic, Rogers Mathew and doctoral students Atrayee Majumder, Tapas Mishra and Davis Issac (PhD student from Max Planck Institute for Informatica, Germany) worked on open problems related to total colorings of structured families of graphs. Our immediate goal is to find a total coloring algorithm for certain types of cographs

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2017-18

Research Interests:

Fractional order systems development and Fractional order control theory and application.

Host:Karabi BiswasDepartment of Electrical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

Takeaways:

● Will continue collaborating on the activities developed in Catania University on fractional order controller with the researchers and students of IIT Kharagpur

● Will take further step for

processing the MoU between the two institutes

Contribution:

● Presentation on “FO-PID controller: stability, regions, design and implementation” to the workshop FOS’18 conducted at the Electrical Engineering Department during 16 - 20 Feb, 2018

● Meeting with the research students of the Electrical Engineering Department

● Meeting with Karabi Biswas and Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay of Electrical Engineering to draft the future collaboration plan

● Definition of the studies on organic polymer based FOE

● Meeting with Susanta Banerjee of the Materials Science Centre and visit to the Materials Science Centre and the different labs under CRF for future collaboration

Riccardo Caponetto is

now working as an

Associate Professor at

University of Catania, Italy.

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Contribution:

● S. Grazianni gave a presentation on “Nano Structured Polymeric Materials as Fractional Order Element” to the workshop FOS’18

conducted at the Electrical Engineering Department during 16 - 20 Feb, 2018

● Meeting with research students of the Electrical Engineering Department

● Meeting with Karabi Biswas and Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay of Electrical Engineering Department to draft the future collaboration plan

● Definition of the studies on organic polymer based FOE

● Meeting with Susanta Banerjee of the Material Science Centre and visit to the Material Science Centre and the different labs under CRF for future collaboration

Salvatore Graziani

Graziani is Associate

Professor at the University

of Catania, Italy.

Research Interests:

Fractional order element development and ionic

polymer development.

Takeaways:

Will continue to collaborate with IIT Kharagpur

on the field of polymeric transducers

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Yoginder P. Chugh is Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor in the Department of Mining and Mineral Resources Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

Research Interests:

Rock mechanics and ground control, dust control in underground coal mines, Mine reclamation and backfilling with fly ash, Mine production engineering.

Host:Debasis DebDepartment of Mining EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

Awards and Honors:

● Excellence in Education Award (2017)

Pittsburgh Mining Institute of America● Fellow (2016) National Academy of

Inventors, USA● The Percy Nicholls Award, 2016

● The Health and Safety Excellence Award, 2015

● The prestigious Old Timers’ Club Faculty Award, 2013

● The Rock Mechanics Award, 2009

● The Howard N. Eavenson Award, 2009

● Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, 2006

● Outstanding Scholar Award, College of Engineering, 2005

Contribution:

● Taught “Ground Control in Mining” course to undergraduate and postgraduate students

● Conducted 5 day short course on “Ground Control for Design, Production, and Safety in Underground Mining”

● Delivered 4 lectures on “Research Methods for Scientists and Engineers”

● Worked with faculty members to enhance their research and scholarly activities

Takeaways:

● Enhanced industry involvement with the unit for future research and information transfer activities

● Encouraged use of ground control in mines to improve productivity and safety in mining operations

● Taught use of ground control software to design partial extraction and longwall mining systems

● Discussed alternate mining designs for enhanced productivity and safety

● Introduced fundamentals of research methods to research scholars and increased appreciation for research

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Host:Saswat DasDepartment of Humanities & Social SciencesIIT Kharagpur, India

Nicholas Tampio is

Associate Professor of

Political Science at Fordham

University, New York, USA.

Tampio works on the history

of political thought, contemporary political theory, and education policy. He is the author of ‘Kantian Courage: Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory’ (2012), ‘Deleuze’s Political Vision’ (2015), and ‘Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy’ (2018).

Research Interests: Immanuel Kant, Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey, democratic political theory, Islamic political thought, education policy.

At IIT Kharagpur in 2018, Tampio delivered lectures relevant to Saswat Das’s course and on Globalectics

● Jan 11 on democracy and national education standards

● Jan 12 on globalectics, democracy and philosophy

● Jan 15 on John Dewey’s vision of democracy

● Jan 16 on B.R. Ambedkar’s thinking about democracy and religion

● Jan 17 on Hu Shih’s thinking about democracy and religion

● Jan 18 on John Dewey’s thinking about democracy and religion

Contribution:

Tampio engaged in a dialogue with visiting professors:

● Jan 16 - 17 with Ajay Gudavarthy on democracy and populism

● Jan 16 - 17 with B. S. Chimni on democracy and international law

● Jan 18 with Chandrakala Padia on women and democracy

● Jan 15-18 with Anindya Sekhar Purakaystha on many topics, including Indian politics

Takeaways:

● Tampio has invited Saswat Das to submit an article on Sri Aurobindo to the journal ‘Politics and Religion’ (Cambridge University Press), where he is an editor.

● Tampio has invited Saswat Das to speak on Indian political thought at the global justice seminar at Fordham University.

● Tampio continues to be in regular touch with many of those he met at IIT Kharagpur

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Host:Saswat DasDepartment of Humanities & Social SciencesIIT Kharagpur, India

Murugappa Krishnan currently teaches at Camden Business School, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and is as Professor of Accounting and Finance at William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA.

He holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a PhD from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has earlier taught at Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Minnesota, and Yeshiva University.

Research Interests:

Accounting and Information Economics, Asset Pricing with Private Information, Indian Financial Markets.

● Krishnan has worked extensively on the role of information in asset pricing and microstructure of financial markets

● His research work has appeared in top-tier journals, including Econometrica, RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Letters, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, International Journal of Forecasting and International Journal of Production Economics

● His recent work emphasizes the significance of private information in asset pricing and market behaviour

● He has also contributed to financial economics literature on institutional herding in stock markets

Contribution:

● As part of the SGR International Faculty Outreach Programme, Dr. Krishnan delivered a lecture series of 20 hours duration on “Asset Pricing in Financial Markets: Role of Private Information” during 22 June - 6 July, 2017

● Conducted two short workshops with research scholars on empirical asset pricing framework with data from the Indian financial market

● Held discussions with the faculty members of VGSoM and interested students for possible collaborative research work

Takeaways:

● Delivered the proposed lecture series and held workshops

● Motivated research students to explore asset pricing in emerging markets as a discipline of empirical research

● Motivated a few UG students to work on mini projects involving application of asset pricing theories on Indian stock market data

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Aleksandar Prodic is a professor in

the Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering at University of

Toronto, Canada.

Host:Ashis MaityDepartment of Electrical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

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Research Interests:

Advanced control methods for power electronics, converter topologies, mixed-signal IC design for power electronics, low-power high-frequency switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) and power management systems.

Awards and Honors:

● 2014 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award

● 2013 University of Toronto Inventor of the Year Award● Excellence in Teaching Awards, ECE Department,

University of Toronto 2005, 2007, 2013, 2016.

● 2012 University of Toronto Inventor of the Year Award● IEEE Control and Modeling of Power Electronics Best

Paper Award 2012

● 2009 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award

● IEEE Power Electronics Transactions Best Paper Award 2007

● Gordon R. Slemon Award, ECE University of Toronto, for teaching Design Oriented courses, 2007

Contribution

● Offered a micro-credit course on

Mixed-Signal Controlled Switched

Mode Power Supplies

Takeaways:

● Introduction to low-power high

frequency SMPS and their

applications

● Controller Design for Low Power HF

SMPS

● Mixed-signal controllers with

advanced features

● High-Power Density Mixed-Signal

Controlled Dc-DC Converters

● High-Power Density Mixed-Signal

Controlled Rectifiers with Power

Factor Correction

2018-19

Shanti Bhushan is a Assistant

Professor in the Department of

Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi

State University, USA.

Host:Vishwanath NagarajanDepartment of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur, India

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Awards and Honors:

● NVIDIA Corporation awarded Tesla K20 under NVIDIA Hardware Donation Programme, Fall 2013.

● Selected for Argonne Training Programme on Extreme Scale Computing (ATPESC), Argonne National Lab, July 28 - Aug 9, 2013

● Best paper award (2nd Prize) Region II AIAA Student Conference, 2013

● Poster “Development of a Graphical User Interface for Wall-Bounded and Free-Shear Turbulent Flows” Awarded 1st Prize LSU Undergraduate Research Conference, Oct 2012

● Poster “Large Eddy Simulation of Channel and Jet Flows,” Awarded 3rd Prize at American Society of Engineering Education Conference, April 2012

● 1st Prize MSU Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, July 2012

● Honda Barrier Fellowship and Barrier Graduate Engineering Scholarship, 2001-2003 at Mississippi State University

● MHRD scholarship for graduate studies, 1998 -

2000 at IIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:

● A short-term course (for outside participants) and a micro credit course (for IIT Kharagpur students) was organized

● 10 industry professionals, 2 students (UG) from outside IIT Kharagpur and 14 (UG/PG and PhD) students from IIT Kharagpur participated in the course

● Besides Prof Shanti Bhushan, 2 faculty from IIT Kharagpur and 1 faculty from KIIT University Bhubaneswar took lectures as part of the course

Takeaways:

● Techniques for using massively parallel computers in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for marine applications was introduced

● Hands-on lab sessions using OPENFOAM CFD software were conducted

● Current-state-of art in CFD numerical methods and modeling and open research questions were discussed

● Different Grid Types (Structured Unstructured, Hexahedral or prisms) and Grid Motions (Mesh Deformation, Sliding mesh, and Overset mesh) were discussed and described in detail

● Future mode of collaboration were discussed

Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Transition and Turbulence modeling, Immersed Boundary and Overset Grid Methods, Numerical/ Modeling Uncertainty Quantification, High Performance Computing.

Applications: Aerospace, Ship Hydrodynamics, Atmospheric flows, Biofluids.

Lua Kim Boon is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NCTU, Taiwan. He obtained his BS degree from the National Taiwan University in 1994 and PhD degree in experimental fluid mechanics from NUS in 2001.

Host:Sunil Manohar DashDepartment of Aerospace EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

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Contribution:

● Conducted the short term course on the “Experimental Flow Visualisation and Measurement Techniques for both Incompressible and Compressible Flow Regime” from 12 - 15 Mar, 2019. More than 50 participants attended this course including 15 external candidates.

● Given a seminar talk titled “Experimental work on insect aerodynamics and flight” on 15 Mar, 2019.

● Advised Research Scholar students of Aero and other Departments of IIT Kharagpur on how to perform Particle Image Velocimetry experiments and correct flow visualisation.

Takeaways:

● From the offered short term course, the participants have learned how to perform flow visualisation experiments in both compressible and incompressible flow regimes

● Discussed with the faculty members in the department for possible research collaboration

● The participants have given excellent feedbacks and are interested to participate if more similar courses are offered

Research Interests:

● Unsteady Flapping Aerodynamics● Flow Visualisation● High Angle of attack Aerodynamics● Particle Image Velocimetry● Hot Wire Anemometry● Vortex Dynamics● Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Awards and Honors:

● Received NUS Singapore PhD Scholarship from 1997 to 2001

● Received MOE Tier-I Research Grant of 0.5 Million SGD

● Received Future Research Technology Research Grant of 7 Million SGD

● Non-resident Tuition Differential Waiver (State of Hawaii), Year-1995

● Chuan So-Ken Scholarship, Malaysia, Year-1994

● Overseas Chinese Student Scholarship, Malaysia Year 1993

● He has published more than 50 international journal and conferences papers and received more than 10 million SGD research grants for his research projects

Host:Samudra RoyDepartment of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, India

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Research Interests:

● Nonlinear nano-photonics

● Nonlinear plasmonics

● Optical solitons

● Ultrafast optics in 2D materials

● Graphene plasmonics

● Waveguide arrays

● Photonic Crystal Fibers

Awards and Honors:

● ICFOnest Fellowship 2014

● Marie Curie Fellowship 2017

● Rita Levi Montalcini Award for young

researcher 2017

Contribution:

● Delivered series of lectures on Nonlinear nano-photonics during 7-13 Feb, 2019

● Present as an external expert for PhD registration seminar

● Take special course for PhD student related to the numerical simulation and data storage technique for 2D materials

● Meeting with the research students working in the field of optics

● Visited 4 different optics labs and interacted with S.B.N. Bhakta, S. Dhara, M.M. Brundavanam, and S. Roy of Physics department and S. K. Varshney from Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering department for possible collaborations

● Initiate a collaboration work with Roy of Physics department

Takeaways:

● Will continue the collaborative research work initiated in this visit

● Will jointly write RICE project a programme to establish cooperation between EU and non-EU countries

Andrea Marini is a Assistant professor in Theoretical Physics of Matter in Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences at University of L’Aquila Via Vetoio, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy.

Host:Karabi BiswasDepartment of Electrical Engineering IIT Kharagpur, India

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Research Interests:

Professor Andreas Schütze and his team of

experts in measurement and sensor technology

at Saarland University have released a free data

processing tool called DAV3E-is a MATLAB

toolbox that allows rapid evaluation of signals,

pattern recognition and data visualization when

processing huge datasets.

Takeaways:

● Will continue collaborating the activities developed with Saarland University on measurement and sensor technology

● Will take further step for processing the Memorandum of understanding between the two institutes

Contribution:

● Schütze had given six hours lecture on “Introduction to gas sensors and its dynamic operation, Fundamentals of multisensory signal evolution, multivariate data analysis using statistical methods” to the workshop DAIS’19 conducted Electrical Engineering Department during 15 - 21 Feb, 2019

● Meeting with the research students of the Electrical Engineering Department

● Meeting with Karabi Biswas, Pranab Kumar Dutta of Electrical Engineering to draft the future collaboration plan

● Visited labs of Electrical Engineering Department and discuss about the possible future collaboration.

Andreas Schütze is

working as Chair Professor

in the Laboratory of

Measurement (LMT) at

Saarland University,

Germany.

Host:Somsubhra ChakrabortyAgricultural & Food Engineering DepartmentIIT Kharagpur, India

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Research Interests:

● Data Mining

● Statistical Learning

● Hyperspectral soil sensors

● PXRF based modelling

Awards and Honors:

● Ransom Marian Whitney Research

Award, Statistics, The Ohio State

University, 2006

● Winner of Student Paper Competition in

ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical

Science (SBSS), 2005

Contribution:

● Five day lecture series from 12 - 16 Mar, 2019 on machine learning applications in agriculture was attended by many graduate and undergraduate students to gain proper knowledge in advanced statistical learning techniques

● Hands-on training on R● Li gave guest lecture in Digital Soil Mapping

(AG60008) course focusing on different advanced interpolation methods

● During his visit, he guided several M.Tech and PhD students of the department in analysing their research data

● Initiation of new research collaboration on color sensor based soil property modelling

Takeaways:

● Li’s visit strengthens the existing collaboration and initiated new area of research focusing on color sensor based soil property modelling

● His visit will help in signing an MoU between IIT Kharagpur and Louisiana State University

● His lectures on advanced statistical learning methods helped the students of IIT Kharagpur to analyse their research data from different useful perspectives

● His novel ideas on digital soil mapping will help contemporary DSM research in India

Bin Li is a Associate Professor

At Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

USA.

Host:Suvra Sekhar DasG. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications IIT Kharagpur, India

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He performs his research under the Trinity

Information and Complexity Labs (TRICKLE) and

the Irish Research Centre for Future Networks

and Communications (CONNECT).

Research Interests:

● Complex System Science● Radio Resource Management● Self-Organizing Networks● Signal Processing

Awards and Honors:

● EUR 1,280,000 of Raised Funding● Senior Member, IEEE● 4 Best paper award● Associated Editor of one Eurasip and one● IEEE journal● 140 Publications

Contribution:

● Delivered Lecture series on Complex System Science for Communication Networks

● Discussed on research areas within applications of Complex System Science with students and faculty who participated in the above course

● Started discussion with PhD student Debjani Goswami on common research topic and joint guide of Suvra Sekhar Das and Nicola Marchetti

Takeaways:

● Progress in MoU between TCD and IIT Kharagpur● Discussed Future Indian Funding proposal on

common research● Discussed future research visits in

TCD and IIT Kharagpur● Discussed participation in IEEE ICC 2020 in

Dublin and joint paper submission● Plan in place for future funding application

Nicola Marchetti is

currently Assistant Professor

in Wireless Communications

at Trinity College Dublin,

Ireland.

II. SGR International Research Scholar Support Programme

2015 - 16

Host:Niloy GangulyDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:

Conducted a Workshop on language R Takeaways:

● Data preparation and normalization in R

● Data structures and K-means in R

● Analyzing abalone and Seattle weather data in R

Arnab Sinha currently works at

Internet Services Research Center

within Microsoft Research. Prior to

that he worked as a developer in Cloud

OS Infrastructure team in the

Windows Server and System Center at

Microsoft.

Research Interests: Monitoring and trace-based

predictive analysis

● Sinha obtained his PhD from the Department of

Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in

September 2012. He graduated from Indian

Institute of Technology Kharagpur at the top of

his class with Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech),

majoring in Computer Science and Engineering in

2007

● In his dissertation, along with his thesis advisor

Sharad Malik, Sinha looked into the problem of

detecting errors in multi-threaded software

through runtime and predictive analyses

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2016-17

Soumitra Kumar Dinda currently works on Weld defects characterization by sub-micron X-ray radiography and X-ray computed tomography (XCT) technique of Electron beam welded dissimilar steel to Fe-Al alloy joints.

Research Interests:

Weld parameters optimization for different Al alloy to steel Electron beam welded Joints

● Dinda is pursuing his PhD at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He did his M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur in 2013 and completed his B.Tech from Jadavpur University in 2010 majoring in MME

● In his dissertation, along with his PhD guide

Gour Gopal Roy and Prakash Srirangam, Dinda has looked into the defects problem for quality welds by parameters optimization

Host:Prakash SrirangamUniversity of Warwick, UK

Contribution:

● He was offered 14 weeks’ internship with the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, UK as a part of his PhD work

Takeaways:

● Completed his experimental work on radiography and XCT experiments

● Analysed all data with both of his supervisors

● Modelling of porosity formation already started from these experimental results

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Michael Eden is a

postdoctoral researcher at

the Center for Industrial

Mathematics at the

University of Bremen,

Germany. He visited IIT

Kharagpur in March 2019.

Research Interests:

Mathematical modelling of multiscale

problems with a particular focus on

● Fluid mechanics (e.g., reactive fluid

flow in poroelastic media)

● Material sciences (e.g., phase

transformations in steel)

● Analysis (in particular, existence,

uniqueness, regularity of solutions) of

partial differential equations

● Mathematical Homogenization

Host:G. P. Raja SekharDepartment of MathematicsIIT Kharagpur, India

Contribution:● Offered a short-term course on “Multiscale

Modelling” tailored to advanced students

with mathematical background

(mathematics, physics, engineering)

● Delivered the guest lecture “Modelling

Fluid Flow in Double-Poroelasticity Media”

at the Frontiers of Fluid Mechanics 2019

symposium

● Research talk at Department of

Mathematics on the topic “Analysis and

Homogenization of Fluid Flow Models for

Double-Poroelasticity Media”

Takeaways:● Comprehensive introduction to different

methods for multiscale modeling

● Discussion on modeling and analysis of

thermo-hydrondynamic problems for

tumor tissue

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2018-19

Manuel Bastuck is a

doctoral candidate at

Saarland University in

cooperation with

Linköping University,

Sweden

Research Interests:

Manuel Bastuck is currently working on

Gas sensor characterization

predominantly of gas-sensitive field-effect

transistors Dynamic operation of gas

sensors and Multi-sensor signal

processing, in particular regression

method.

Takeaways:

● Will continue collaborating the activities


Contribution:

● Manuel Bastuck conducted computer exercises

on “DEV3E Toolbox and also conducted

computer exercises on “multivariate data

analysis using statistical methods” to the

workshop DAIS’19 conducted Electrical

Engineering Department during 15 - 21 Feb,

2019

● During his stay till 2 Mar he has given extensive

training to the research scholar of Karabi

biswas so that they can use the DEV3E toolbox

for their research work

● Meeting with the research students of the

Electrical Engineering Department.

● Visit to Nehru Museum, campus and different

Labs and center

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III. SGR International Student Scholarship Programme

2017-18

Host:

Bivas Mitra, Niloy Ganguly, Animesh Mukherjee

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

IIT Kharagpur, India

Raphael Tackx During his visit to IIT Kharagpur

from 02 Mar - 15 April, 2017 he worked with Bivas Mitra, Niloy Ganguly, Animesh Mukherjee

Contribution:

● The team proposed a new formula capable of incorporating new topology features, such as several types of nodes and links and different null models (intra-layer and cross-layer)

● They also developed a synthetic network generator useful to test the modularity

● Thanks to several input parameters, synthetic networks allowed them to vary topologies in order to evaluate their work

● They also experimented their new metric on real-world datasets, such as Yelp and Meet up, and showed that they obtained consistent results

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and Soumajit Pramanik on studies for the development of community detection methods in the field of multilayer networks.

● Together, they established a model to partition networks into several layers

● To do so, they relied on a well-known quality function called modularity created few years ago

● Modularity was designed to measure the strength of the division of a single layer network into modules

● Their main goal was to adapt the latter for networks consisting of several layers

Takeaways:

● The work is currently awaiting acceptance at DSAA’2017

2018-19

Host:Abhiram Kumar VermaDepartment of Mining, IIT Kharagpur, India

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Research Interests:

● Conducting research on how to increase Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) by use of various unconventional means

● Development of Automation in the Oil and Gas Industry

● Rock Mechanics

David Pham conducted various laboratory test to determine properties for the 37 given rock samples. Porosity and specific gravity of the rock samples were determined by conducting a pycnometer test. A Uniaxial Compressive Strength Test was conducted for all 37 rock samples. And a Triaxial Test was also conducted on all 37 rock samples. Sonic log data for all 37 wellbores have been given to us by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), with the sonic log data we were able to determine data for Young’s Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio, etc. After all the needed data was collected for each 37 wellbores various computer programmes were used for simulation.

Contribution:

Developed a matlab code that would be able to read the given excel data of any of the 37 particular wells and would delineate when the rock formation would change and would be able to take the average of all the various Geomechanical properties such as specific gravity and density at each different formation. With the SURPAC programme we used the data that we collected from the 37 wellbores to predict what the Geomechanical properties would be in any location within the Formation the 37 wellbores are located within. The ANSYS computer programme is then used to create a 3D Model of the wells to conduct a structural simulation with various inputs such as horizontal force or vertical force.

Takeaways:

● Developed greater Matlab Skills

● Learned how to operate the computer

programme called SURPAC

● Learned how to operate the computer

programme called ANSYS

David Pham currently works on Development of 3D Geomechanical Model for stability analysis of production borewell, sponsored by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

Host:Basanta Kumar PustyDepartment of Mining EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

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Research Interests:

How flow rates can be affected by different conditions

Hayden Raps currently works on calculating the

permeability and porosity of shale samples using

several different lab techniques. These methods

include helium porosimetry, crushed sample

porosimetry, and helium or methane pulse

techniques. Data is acquired and interpreted through

DAQ software, LABview, MATLAB, and excel.

Contribution:

Professor Prusty provided access to his lab, guidance

for the projects, and connected me to work with two of

his research scholars.

Takeaways:

● Adhesive is not the best method to hold cores

in place during tests

● Methods for determining porosity are not

exceedingly accurate at finding permeability

and vice versa

● The shale sample used has a permeability and

porosity that varies greatly across 15 meters

Hayden Raps

Texas A&M University, USA.

Host:Sandeep SahaDepartment of Aerospace EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India

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Research Interests:

● Computer Simulation

● Aircraft Design and Controls

● Aircraft Materials Testing

Jacob Packard worked on solving the Subdiffusion equation for different fractional orders to examine the effects on diffusion processes in time and space. Many natural diffusion processes in the world occur not as a pure diffusion process with an integer order, but rather of a fractal order as a subdiffusive or superdiffusive process. We worked primarily on attempting to find a way to control the fractal order of the diffusion process to produce a diffusion rate that would be more beneficial in a select few natural processes, whether it be slowing down or speeding up the given process.

Contribution:

Simulating the subdiffusion equation using MATLAB to

examine the spatial and time effects of changing the

fractal order within the subdiffusion equation. Applying

the results to natural processes such as tumor growth

and diffusion through porous materials.

Takeaways:

● Subdiffusion accelerates with fractal oder as

time increases beyond 0.5 seconds

● Chebychev polynomials produce far greater

accuracy than many other spectral methods

when approximating solutions

● The potential applications of being able to

control the diffusion rate for substances offer

an immense amount of potential applications

to natural processes

Jacob Packard currently is

a 4th year senior in Aerospace

Engineering at the

University of Texas A&M in

the USA.

Host: Rogers Mathew, Department of Computer Science & EngineeringJoint workshop for future collaborations with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelObjective: To commence and activate the MoU with Ben-Gurion University, signed on 14 Oct, 2015

IV. SGR International Workshops/ Meetings

2015-16

Eitan Bachmat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.Research Interests: Systems design and analysis, biomedical informatics, operations research and applied mathematics. Bachmat has contributed on many aspects in storage system designs and is currently working on analysis of express lines in supermarkets and airplane boarding policies. He is working on optics in space-time geometry and partially ordered sets, trying to build (mathematically) thin focal lenses. Dr. Bachmat is currently heading the teaching committee of the Department of Computer Science.

Mira Balaban is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.Research Interests:Conceptual data modelling, object-oriented system analysis and design, software engineering, knowledge representation, theory of database and knowledge base systems, programming languages and computer music.

Ohad Ben-Shahar is Professor, Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He obtained his MPhil and PhD in Computer Science and Computational Vision from Yale University, CT, USA. He has founded and continues to direct the ‘Interdisciplinary Computational Vision Laboratory’ in his department.Research Interests: Theoretical computational vision, human perception and visual psychophysics, visual computational neuroscience, animal vision, biologically inspired robot vision and applied computer vision for robotics.

Ronen I. Brafman is Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His current focus includes automated planning and decision-making, decision automation, distributed and multi-agent planning, process automation, and task monitoring. His consulting work includes business process automation and integration, real-time event monitoring and analysis, algorithms for autonomous exploration for NASA's rovers, missing scheduling, and real-time decision making.Research Interests: Classical and decision-theoretic planning and decision-making, preference modeling and preference elicitation, preference-based optimization, agent models and multi-agent and distributed planning.

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http://www.bgu.ac.il/

Shlomi Dolev is Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He is best known for his contribution to self-stabilization. He has published a book called “Self Stabilization” in 2000.Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, distributed computing and communication networks, Fault tolerance with emphasis on self-stabilization, Communication networks including Traditional networks, High-Speed, Mobile, Ad-Hoc and Sensor networks, Swarms, Game Theory, Cryptography and Security, Error and Erasure Tolerating Codes, Complex Networks, Optical super-computing, holographic super-computing, brain coding and functionality.

Michael Codish is Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, IsraelResearch Interests: Development and application of formal techniques to aid in the compilation and implementation of sequential and concurrent logic programming languages as well as to analyse, optimise and reason about such programmes; these techniques are formal and include primarily partial evaluation (programme specialization) and abstract interpretation (semantic-based programme analysis).

Roman Manevich is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He obtained his PhD in 2009 from Tel Aviv University, Computer Science with a thesis titled “Partially Disjunctive Shape Analysis”.Research Interests: Synthesizing programmes and data structures, Software verification by Abstract interpretation, Shape Analysis.

Ofer Neiman is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He obtained his PhD from The Hebrew university, Jerusalem in 2010. The title of his thesis is “A Novel Approach to Embedding of Metric Spaces”.Research Interests: Theoretical computer science (combinatorics), discrete geometry, metric spaces, and their application to computer science and algorithms.

Gera Weiss is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in

2006 from the Weizmann Institute of Science. His thesis was titled “State Nullification by Output Feedback”.Research Interests: Theories and tools for high-level modeling, design and analysis of embedded software, Behavioral and Scenario based approaches to software engineering, Hybrid Systems (discrete + continuous), Formal Methods and Control Theory.

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IIT Kharagpur-Curtin University Joint Workshop:Dual Doctoral Degree Programme (DDDP)May 13, 2016

Background: IIT Kharagpur has signed an MoU with Curtin University, Australia for Dual Doctoral Degree Programme (DDDP). A doctoral student of IIT Kharagpur can apply for the DDDP only when a supervisor from IIT Kharagpur and a co-supervisor from Curtin University are ready to work with the student. If admitted to DDDP, the student will be required to stay for one year at Curtin University. Their international travel will be supported by IIT Kharagpur and local expenses during the stay in Australia will be supported by Curtin University. The doctoral students from Curtin University will also be eligible for the same programme on a reciprocal basis. For the award of DDD, a student has to satisfy the academic requirements of both IIT Kharagpur and Curtin University. As interaction and cooperation among the faculty of the two Institutes is extremely important for the success of the DDDP, a joint workshop was organized in IIT Kharagpur on May 13, 2016 to offer a platform for interaction and exchange. Three broad areas were identified for the purpose of the Joint Workshop and DDDP as the starting point, namely: (i) Future of Cities, Smart Cities, Sustainability(ii) Engineering Asset Management(iii) Mining, Earth and Energy

The Institute identified three area coordinators to facilitate the coordination:

● Anindya Sarkar: Mining, Earth and Energy● Joy Sen: Engineering Asset Management● Bhargab Maitra: Sustainability, Future of Cities, Smart Cities

The joint workshop provided a platform for interaction and exchange among the faculty of IIT Kharagpur and Curtin University to pave the way to identify more specific work areas, topics and faculty from both sides who were interested to work jointly on those areas/ topics. Another extremely important component of the workshop was interaction with the potential students who have joined PhD in the recent time (within one year) to make them aware of the DDDP and interaction with faculty members of Curtin University.

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IIT Kharagpur-MIT India Practicum Programme: 19th -20th January, 2017

Background: The School of Architecture and Planning, MIT and Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur has come together to collaborate for the India Practicum Programme. The broad objective of the programme is to critically study urbanisation in the current developing world, where the concept is no longer limited to the precincts of what are administratively defined as "cities". The process of this India Practicum was intimated by the visit of Biswapriya Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the Special Programme in Urban and Regional Studies, to India in January 2015 followed by a visit to MIT by Subrata Chattopadhyay and then taken forward through a presentation at MIT by Chattopadhyay, Head, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, and Banerji of the same department in October 2016. This academic collaboration will not only satisfy our students’ needs and increase their competencies but will also have the following additional benefits:

● Improve reputation and visibility of the Institute and faculty within the international academic community

● Increase the proportion of inbound and outbound students through short term and medium term exchange programmes

● Explore more possibilities of collaborative publications and patents Such initiatives are aligned to the current vision of the Institute and Global University Ranking Indicators and will surely place IIT Kharagpur at a higher rank.

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2017-18

International Conference on the Networked Digital

Earth (ICNDE)

The aim of the International Conference on the Networked

Digital Earth (ICNDE) was to bring together researchers

and practitioners working

at the intersection of two broad thematic areas:

Host:Niloy GangulyDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India Name of Workshop:International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth (ICNDE)

● Researchers from around the globe

gave exciting talks at the conference

bringing out various challenges related

to Digital Earth research and

proposing elegant solutions based on

mathematical techniques developed in

network science

● Digital Earth: Digital Earth, as defined by the former

US Vice President, Al Gore, is a “virtual

representation of the Earth that is georeferenced and

connected to the world’s digital knowledge archives”

● Network Science: The United States National

Research Council defines network science as “the

study of network representations of physical,

biological and social phenomena leading to

predictive models of these phenomena”

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Host:Kaushal Kumar BhagatCentre for Educational TechnologyIIT Kharagpur, India

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Her current research is centered on issues related to how learners construct scientific concepts, and how they reason when encountering uncertain science information. Prof. Yang’s research work is well recognized and has been continuously publishing papers in major journals in science education and educational research. Yang is coordinating an eye-tracking lab in GISE and her group has been using various types of eye trackers to explore the processes of science learning and scientific reasoning.

Research Interests:

● Scientific reasoning● Science-text reading● Multimedia learning● Epistemological development in science

Awards and Honors:

● Ta-You Wu Memorial Award● MOST Outstanding Research Award

Contribution:

● Keynote speech at the International Workshop

on Technology-Enhanced Learning

● Discussed to conduct a cross-country study for

scientific reasoning

Takeaways:

● MoU discussion between IIT Kharagpur and

the National Taiwan Normal University

● An outreach programme to teach short 1 credit

courses on Quantitative and Qualitative

research with a NTNU professor teamed with a

local IIT professor to be funded by GIAN/CEP

Fang-Ying Yang is currently the director of Graduate Institute of Science Education (GISE), and an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University.

2018-19

Host:Kaushal Kumar BhagatCentre for Educational TechnologyIIT Kharagpur, India

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the IEEE Learning Technology Technical Committee and is Past-President of the Association for Educational and Communications Technology (AECT).

Research Interests: ● Instructional design● System dynamics based learning environments● Assessing learning in complex domains● Online learning

Awards and Honors:● UNT Leadership Fellow● Academic Icon, University of Malaya● AECT Annual Achievement Award● Fellow, Learning Development Institute● Fulbright Research Fellow, University of Bergen,

Norway● Air Force Association Scientist of the Year

He is the editor (now in his 12th year) of the Development Section of Educational Technology Research & Development. He co-edited the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology and is lead editor of the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology. He has more than 125 journal articles, book chapters and books to his credit.

Contribution:

● Keynote speech at the International

Workshop on Technology-Enhanced

Learning

● Discussed to develop a new and

improved version of DEEP software

in collaboration with the Centre for

Educational Technology

Takeaways:

● MoU discussion between IIT KGP

and the University of North Texas

● An outreach programme to teach

short 1 credit courses on

Instructional Systems Design and

Assessment and Evaluation with a

UNT professor teamed with a local

IIT professor to be funded by

GIAN/CEP

Jonathan Michael Spector is currently working as full professor in the department of Learning technologies at the University of North Texas. He served as Executive Vice President on the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (IBSTPI), on the Executive Committee of

Abhijit Mukherjee – Dean International, South Asia, Curtin International

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Sambit Datta - Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Computing & Mathematical Sciences

(EECMS), Faculty of Science & Engineering

Vidy Potdar – Senior Research Fellow, School of Management, Faculty of Business & Law

Hussein Znad - Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Research, Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy & Chemical Engineering (WASM- MECE), Faculty of Science & Engineering

Navdeep Dhami - Lecturer, School of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science &

Engineering

Hari Vuthaluru - Associate Professor, Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals,Energy &

Chemical Engineering

Tushar Sen - Associate Professor, Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy &

Chemical Engineering

Host: Bhargab Maitra & Ankhi Banerjee, RCG School of Infrastructure Design & Management, IIT Kharagpur

Curtin University – IIT Kharagpur Joint Symposium on 6 Dec, 2018

Objective: To identify more specific work areas/topics and faculty from both sides who will be interested to work jointly on the Dual Doctoral Degree Programme (DDDP)

Highlight: SGRIP funded the travel for the father of this visually impaired student, who accompanied

him to the conference

V. SGR Student International Travel Support Programme

2015-16

Ronak Reshamwala

Ronak is currently working as a Medical Officer

at B.C.Roy Technology Hospital, Indian

Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Pratish Datta is currently pursuing PhD in

Mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology

Kharagpur

● He was selected for the International Project Associate

(IPA) programme at RIKEN, Brain Science Institute (BSI)

Japan with which the Institute has an existing MoU

● He conducted his major project for his final year of MMST

at Brain Science Institute (BSI) Japan

Host Institute:

IPA at Laboratory of Genetic

Control of Neuronal

Architecture, Brain Science

Institute, RIKEN, Japan

(8 months)

● His research area is cryptology and network security● Datta is a visually impaired but brilliant student who

topped his class● It was therefore in the highest moral interest of the

Institute as well as the programme to help Datta achieve his desire to present a paper in the 9th International Conference on Provable Security held in Kanazawa, Japan

Host Institute: Conference publication:Presented a paper entitled “Functional Encryption for Inner Product with Functional Privacy” at

the 19th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC 2016) held in Taipei, Taiwan

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2016-17

Anirban Sarkar currently

works on Photonics. His main

focus is fabrication of active

disordered optical materials,

photonics crystals and study of

their optical properties

Host Institute: Winter School 2017 - UK-Israel Shaoul Fund and Xin Center IAS International Workshop on Emerging Applications of Optical Nanostructures 19-23 Feb, 2017

Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Research Interests: His current research interests include the study of lasing modes of an on-average-periodic random structures, optofluidics and three dimensional photonic crystals (Opals).

● Sarkar is pursuing his PhD at the Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur

● He completed his B.Sc. from the University of Calcutta in 2010 and his M.Sc. from IIT Kharagpur in 2012

● In his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Shivakiran Bhaktha B.N., he extensively studied the random lasing properties of an opto-fluidic device which include angular emission property of the emission from the opto-fluidic random laser, spatial distribution of random lasing modes, and the temporal dynamics of the laser emission from the device

● He also investigated the emission properties of a solid state active polymer waveguide and engineered the photonic stop band based micro-cavities

Contribution:

● Presented the research work on opto-fluidic random laser in the winter school

● Visited Bar Ilan University and gave a seminar in the Physics department

Takeaways:

● Presented his recent studies in the area of opto-fluidic random laser in the workshop and received some invaluable feedback from the audience, which would be beneficial for his research and improving his academic skills in future

● Half day guided tour to the old city of Jaffa organised by the winter school committee provided him the opportunity to learn about the history and culture of Israel

● Discussed his research results with the Mesoscopic Optics group at Bar Ilan University for possible collaborative work with the group in near future

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Host Institute: Julie B. StauntonDepartment of Physics, University of Warwick

He has visited the University of Warwick for a month under the SGR Student International Travel Support Programme to initiate a research collaboration between Warwick theory group and the materials modelling group at IIT Kharagpur.

Dibyendu Dey is a PhD student of the

Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur,

and studies correlated oxides by using

first-principles density functional theory

(DFT) calculations.

Research Interests:

Theoretical Study of Spin and Orbital Ordering in Correlated Oxides

Dey is now a senior research fellow (SRF) of the Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur working under the supervision of Arghya Taraphder for his PhD.

Contribution:● The ground state properties of the correlated oxides

have been studied over the last decades by using first-principles DFT approach

● The finite temperature response within the ab-initio approach for insulating oxides has not been studied yet

● The formalism can be fascinating to look into the magnetic ordering in presence of various external parameters such as temperature, magnetic field and the spin-orbit effects

● There are few oxides which have great potential for the industries

● Magnetite (Fe3O

4) is one such oxide owing to its

spintronics device applications in recent times● In collaboration with the theory group at the

University of Warwick, Dey and his group will set up the formalism for the finite temperature magnetism in correlated oxides to study those systems

Takeaways:

● A long term collaboration has been set up between the materials modelling group in the Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur and the theory group in material simulation at the University of Warwick

● During his visit he learnt their theoretical and computational tools for bcc-Fe (iron) and started a study of some transition metal oxides (MnO, Fe

3O

4)

● Within this research collaboration they intend to publish couple of papers on these materials in near future

● Working in the leading theory group of finite temperature magnetism was a great learning experience

● He participated in the group meetings and delivered a talk on his PhD work

● The discussion with the professors and students helped him understand a few aspects of his research problems

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2017-18

Sudeep Kumar Sahoo is a PhD scholar working on Deformation behavior and texture evolution in Magnesium alloys under the supervision of Somjeet Biswas in the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.

He went to the LabEx DAMAS, University of Lorraine to work under the world renowned Professor in Mechanics and Metallurgy, Laszlo Toth (Founder and Director, LabEx DAMAS, Founder and previous Director, LEM3, University of Lorraine, Metz, France).

Takeaways:

● These simulation codes are going to be a part in his PhD thesis

● At least four international publications could be expected from this visit

● Sahoo got the opportunity to meet and interact with world renowned professors, scientists in the field of microstructure and crystallographic texture

Host Institute: LabEx DAMAS, University of Lorraine, Metz, France

Contribution:

● He was treated as a PhD research fellow in France and was provided equivalent research stipendium of a regular PhD scholar in France

● Gained deep understanding of the fundamentals of ‘Crystal plasticity model’

● He studied Toth’s newly developed ‘Grain refinement model’ and used these in the experiments he conducted at IIT Kharagpur

● He carried out the simulation work on volume transfer scheme of crystal plasticity modelling during twinning based deformation behavior of Mg alloys

● He carried out the simulation work on Visco-plastic Self Consistent code for deformation behavior of metals and alloys

● He was trained to use ATOM and JTEX, a powerful tool for texture analysis. These tools are being recently developed by a Team of people from the University of Lorraine, Metz, France such as Benoit Beasuir, Jean Jacques Fudenberger as well as Laszlo Toth

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