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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
No. of Visitors Faculty: 9Research Scholars: 4Students (Inbound): 3Students (Outbound): 2Courses: 3Workshops: 1
No. of Visitors Faculty: 19Research Scholars: 1Students (Inbound): 2Students (Outbound): 5Courses: 13Workshops: 2
No. of Visitors Faculty: 9Research Scholars: 2Students (Inbound): 3Students (Outbound): 0Courses: 9Workshops: 2
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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102015-16 to 2018-19
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
9.Electrical Engineering
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
4.Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
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
6.Humanities & Social Sciences
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
Sl No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Faculty Affiliation
11.Electrical Engineering
Santanu Kapat Dragan MaksimovicUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, USA
12.Electrical Engineering
Amit Patra Gregory L. PlettUniversity of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
13.Computer Science & Engineering
Rogers Mathew Martin Charles Golumbic University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
14.Computer Science & Engineering
Niloy Ganguly Tyll KruegerWroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
15.Chemical Engineering
Arnab Atta Geoffrey M. EvansUniversity of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
16.Mechanical Engineering
Rathindranath Maiti Giorgio FiglioliniUniversity of Cassino, Cassino, Italy
17.Vinod Gupta School of Management
Abhijeet Chandra Murugappa KrishnanRutgers University, New Jersey, USA
18.Humanities & Social Sciences
Anjali Gera Roy Victor S. Dugga Federal University, Lafia, Nigeria
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2017-18
Sl.No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Faculty Affiliation
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
4.Humanities & Social Sciences
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
6.Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
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
10.Humanities & Social Sciences
Saswat Das Nicholas TampioFordham University, New York, USA
11.Mechanical Engineering
Rathindranath Maiti Pedro Javier Gamez MonteroBarcelona Tech,Catalonia, Spain
12.Mechanical Engineering
Anandaroop Bhattacharya
Christopher BaileyUniversity of Greenwich, London, UK
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2018-19
Sl.No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Faculty Affiliation
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
1.Computer Science & Engineering
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
Sl No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Research
ScholarAffiliation
1.Computer Science & Engineering
Niloy Ganguly Tomasz OzanskiWroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
2.Computer Science & Engineering
Bivas Mitra Raphael TackxUniversity of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France
2017-18
Sl No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Research
ScholarAffiliation
1.Electrical Engineering
Debdoot Sheet Alfredo G. I. ManríquezOtto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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2018-19
Sl No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Research
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
Sl.No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Research
ScholarAffiliation
1.Computer Science & Engineering
Bivas Mitra Martin GuenningUniversity of Namur, Namur, Belgium & University de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
2.Computer Science & Engineering
Animesh Mukherjee Marcin BodychWroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
3.Electrical Engineering
Debdoot Sheet Sailesh ConjetiTechnical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
2017-18
Sl.No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Research
ScholarAffiliation
1.Computer Science & Engineering
Animesh Mukherjee,Niloy Ganguly
Raphael TackxUniversity of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France
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2018-19
Sl.No. DepartmentCoordinating
FacultyVisiting Research
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
1.Computer Science & Engineering
Rogers MathewEitan Bachmat and team of 8
Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Sl.No. Department Coordinating FacultyWorkshop Delegates
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
Sl.No. Department Coordinating FacultyWorkshop Delegates
Partner Institutes
1.Architecture & Regional Planning
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
4.Architecture & Regional Planning
Subrata ChattopadhyayA team of 8
(outbound)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
5.Computer Science & Engineering
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
Sl.No. DepartmentCoordinating
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
1.Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
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
1.Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
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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Host:Karabi BiswasDepartment of Electrical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India
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
Host:Karabi BiswasDepartment of Electrical EngineeringIIT Kharagpur, India
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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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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