Projects

Funded Projects (Ongoing)

1. Title of project: Analyze the Convergence Bounds of Federated Learning with Closer- to-Practice Constraints

   • Funding agency: SERB (MATRICS)

   • Duration: 2024-2027 (Three years)

   • Amount:  6,60,000 INR

   • Role: PI

2. Title of project: Designing a Cybersecured LoRaWAN Framework-Enhancing Jamming Mitigation and Device Authentication

   • Funding agency: C3iHub Foundation

   • Duration: 2024-2026 (Two years)

   • Amount:  17,47,840 INR

   • Role: PI

3. Title of project: A Pilot Project on LoRaWAN-enabled Smart Building at IT (BHU) Varanasi

   • Funding agency: IDAPT Hub Foundation

   • Duration: 2023-2024 (One year)

   • Amount:  10,00,000 INR

   • Role: PI

4. Title of project: Exploring the Applicability of Quantum Machine Learning in Smart Cities

   • Funding agency: MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab

   • Duration: 2023-2025

Amount: USD 19,500 Credit

4. • Role: PI

5. Title of project: Development of Integrated Low-Cost Identification and Alert System for Overloading, Over Speeding, and Lane Discipline Violation of Vehicles operating on Expressways

   • Funding agency: IDAPT Hub Foundation

   • Duration: 2023-2025 (Two years) 

   • Amount: 17,88,000 INR

   • Role: Co-PI

6. Title of project: Design and development of Cybersecurity Smart Power interface for Energy Local area network (E-LAN)

   • Funding agency: C3iHub Foundation

   • Duration: 2021-2024 (Three years) 

   • Amount: 22,00,000 INR

   • Role: Co-PI

7. Title of project: Smart DC charging with integrated digital platform for CPOs and Power distribution companies

   • Funding agency: NaMPET-III-MEiTY

   • Duration: 2022-2024 (Two years) 

   • Amount: 31,52,000 INR

   • Role: Co-PI

Funded Projects (Completed)

8. Title of project: Development of an Energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Network for Precision Agriculture

   • Funding agency: SERB (ECR)

   • Duration: 2017-2021 (Three years)

   • Amount: 34,47,130 INR

   • Role: PI

   • Expected outcomes: A system for precision agriculture, 1 Arduino-based sensor device, Publications, Open access datasets (http://ieee-dataport.org/3852) 

9. Title of project: Water-to-Cloud, Agency: Tata Centre for Development at UChicago

   • Funding agency: Tata Centre for Development at UChicago

   • Duration: 2018-2019 (One year) 

   • Amount: 10,00,000 INR

   • Role: Co-PI

   • Expected outcomes: Open-dataset, Publications, LoRaWAN-based data communication system   

10. Title of project: LoRa-enabled Indoor-Outdoor Long-Range Message Sharing System

    • Funding agency: DAPT Hub Foundation

    • Duration: 2023 (Six months)

    • Amount: 2,50,000 INR

    • Role: PI

    • Expected outcomes: Open-dataset, Publications, LoRaWAN device for message sharing

11. Title of project: Designing of a Real-time Crowd Monitoring System using Sensing techniques

    • Funding agency: IIT (BHU) Varanasi

    • Duration: 2018-2021 (Three years)

    • Amount: 15,00,000 INR

    • Role: PI

12. Title of project: Energy-efficient Protocols for Sensing Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

    • Funding agency: IIT (BHU) Varanasi

    • Duration: 2016-2019 (Three years)

    • Amount: 10,00,000 INR

    • Role: PI

Other external funding

13. Title of project: Improving Age of Information with Interference Problem in Long- Range Wide Area Network

    • Funding agency: SERB (ITS)

    • Duration: 2022-2023 (One year)

    • Amount: 3,51,000 INR

    • Role: Participant and present paper in IEEE WoWMoM, UK (14 June, 2022 to 17 June, 2022).

14. Title of project: Smart Sensing and IoT

    • Funding agency: SERB (VRITIKA) 

    • Duration: Jan-Feb 2023

    • Amount: 1,50,000 INR

    • Role: Coordinator

15. Title of project: Fractional-Order Calculus-Based Parameters Estimation for Improving the Effectiveness of Wireless Networks

    • Funding agency: SERB (NPDF) 

    • Duration: Jan 2022-Feb 2023

    • Amount: 11,48,078 INR

    • Role: Mender of the Postdoc fellow

16. Title of project: Secured Smart Metering System using LoRa Network

    • Funding agency: SERB (VRITIKA) 

    • Duration: July-August 2022

    • Amount: 1,50,000 INR

    • Role: Coordinator

17. Title of project: Machine Learning Applications to Internet of Things

    • Funding agency: Global Initiative of Academic Network (GIAN) Programme

    • Duration: July-2017

    • Amount: 5,00,000 INR

    • Role: Course Co-ordinator (Foreign faculty Prof. Biplab Sikdar, NUS)