Institute Start-up Grant as PI = INR 0.78 Cr
Sanctioned Intramural Funding and External Funding as PI = INR 3.72 Cr
Sanctioned External Funding as Co-PI = INR 10.04 Cr
Total = INR 14.54 Cr (Approx. 1.5 Million USD)
Details of individual projects are included below:
Project Name: Navic Anti-Jamming Antenna Design using Metamaterials
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: ISTRAC, ISRO through FSID
Sanctioned Funding: INR 144.00 Lakhs
Duration: 2026-2028
Status: On-going
Project Name: Design and Development of Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) Tunnel Junctions & associated RF circuitry for SIS Receiver Front-ends up to 500GHz & beyond
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Prof. Baladitya Suri, IAP, IISc)
Funding Agency: SAC, Ahmedabad through FSID
Sanctioned Funding: INR 596.00 Lakhs
Duration: 2026-2028
Status: On-going
Project Name: Multi-frequency Space-Time Metasurfaces for Terahertz Communication and Sensing
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Prof. Varun Raghunathan, ECE, IISc)
Funding Agency: ARG from ANRF, Government of India
Sanctioned Funding: INR 408.00 Lakhs
Duration: 2026-2028
Status: On-going
Project Name: Design of Modulated Metasurface Antenna
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), DRDO
Sanctioned Funding: INR 45.09 Lakhs
Duration: 2025-2027
Status: On-going
Project Name: Space MAITRI Partnership with UT Sydney
Role: Principal Investigator (from IISc)
Funding Agency: Space Machines Company (Australia)
Sanctioned Funding: 50000 AUD (Approx. INR 33.5 Lakhs)
Duration: 2025-2027
Status: On-going
Project Name: Design of Metasurfaces based Active Electronically Steered Shared Aperture Transceiver Antennas (MESA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), DRDO
Sanctioned Funding: INR 49.05 Lakhs
Duration: 2024-2026
Status: Completed
Project Name: Metasurface based Beam-steering Antennas and Polarization Converters for mm-wave Satellite Communication
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: SAC Ahmedabad through ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell
Sanctioned Funding: INR 26.04 Lakhs
Duration: 2024-2026
Status: On-going
Project Details: Faculty Grant for Advising M.Tech. ECE Students selected in the "TI Scholar Program"
Role: Principal Investigator and Faculty Advisor
Funding Agency: Texas Instruments
Sanctioned Funding: INR 12.00 Lakhs
Duration: 2024-2026
Status: On-going
Project Name: Antenna Configurations and EM Theory for V2X Systems and Automotive MIMO Radars
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: DoT (Department of Telecommunication), India through SID (Society for Innovation and Development), IISc Bangalore
Sanctioned Funding: INR 30.00 Lakhs
Duration: 2022-2024
Status: Completed
Project Name: Design and Analysis of Modulated Space-Time Metasurfaces to Realize Nonreciprocal Microwave Circuits and Antennas for Future Communication Networks and Energy Harvesting Systems
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: SRG from SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board, currently ANRF), Govt. of India
Sanctioned Funding: INR 26.18 Lakhs
Duration: 2022-2024
Status: Completed
Project Name: Infosys Young Investigator Award
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Infosys Foundation, Bengaluru, India
Sanctioned Funding: INR 6.00 Lakhs (Unrestricted research grant besides top-up salary)
Duration: 2020-2022
Status: Completed
Project Name: Institute Start-up Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sanctioned Funding: INR 78.00 Lakhs
Duration: 2020-2022
Status: Completed