Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy

Sponsored Research Projects

  • Associated with a Corporate Social Responsibility Project (2020-2022) titled: “Technology Development for Rural Healthcare” (funded by TATA Hitachi) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Corporate Social Responsibility Project (2020-2022) titled: “Computational Design of Low Cost Medical Devices for Diagnosis of Non Communicable Diseases(funded by ANSYS) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Project (2021-2024) titled: “Urine Sense towards Health Analysis of Kidney” (funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Project (2020-2023) titled “Pathology on a Spinning Disc”, (funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Project (2021-2023) titled “Highly Parallelized Solver for Multiphase Micro-Hydrodynamics” (funded by the National Supercomputing Mission, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Project (2019-2025) titled “Common Research and Technology Development Hub on Affordable Healthcare” (funded by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Project (2020-2023) titled “Emulsion Generation and Manipulation using Electric Fields” (funded by Shell) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Project (2019-2022) titled “Metal Powder Production for Additive Manufacturing” (funded by Indo-German Science and Technology Centre) as principal investigator from the Institute

  • Associated with a Project (2018-2023) titled “National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development” (funded by DST) as principal investigator from the Institute

  • Associated with the Joint Research Project (2018-2022) under India-Netherlands collaboration on biotechnology titled “CRYOPSY: Biopsy tool with in-vivo snap freezing and cooling of surrounding tissue to reduced bleeding and escalate patient recovery and comfort” (funded by DBT) as principal investigator

  • Associated with a Project (2018-2023) titled “Paper-based Microfluidics for on-Chip Detection of haemoglobin” (funded by DST & Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) as principal investigator

  • Completed a Project (2018-2021) titled “Diffusion Limited SRES for High-Efficiency Biomedical Devices” (funded by IIT Kharagpur) as principal investigator

  • Completed a Project titled (2019-2021) titled “Prototype Development and Commercialization of Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices” (funded by Educare International Foundation) as principal investigator

  • Completed the Project (2017-2021) titled “Extreme Point of Care Diagnostics on a CD” (funded by MHRD/ ICMR under the IMPRINT Programme) as principal investigator

  • Completed the Indo-US Virtual Networked Joint Center Project (2018-2021) titled “Nanoscale Transport and Biological Interfaces” (funded by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum) as principal investigator

  • Completed the Project (2017-2021) titled “Development of Smartphone Integrated Generic Microfluidic Devices for Rapid, Portable and Affordable Point-of-Care Diagnostics” (funded by MHRD/ ICMR under the IMPRINT Programme) as principal investigator

  • Completed a Corporate Social Responsibility Project (2020-2021) titled: “Development of Low-cost Disease Diagnostic Devices” (funded by Moonfrog Labs Private Ltd.) as principal investigator

  • Completed the Project (2016-2019) titled “Center of excellence in research and training for developing low-cost medical diagnostic devices” (funded by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK/ Newton Fund) as principal investigator

  • Completed the Project (2018-2019) titled “Microfluidics Diagnostics for Water Quality - Applications in Decentralised Water Treatment” (funded by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK) as principal investigator from IIT Kharagpur

  • Completed the Indo-Taiwan Research Project (2016-2019) “Development of an Optoelectronics Assisted Microfluidic Lab on a Chip for Cell Fusion Towards Cancer Immunotherapy” (funded by Global Innovation and Technology Alliance) as principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2015-2017) “Hydrodynamics and ion transport near and inside non-ideal electric membranes with complex surface morphology and their control” (funded by DST: Indo-Russia) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2014-2017) “Phase-field algorithm with coarse interface using homogenization theory” (funded by DST) as the principal investigator

  • Associated with the Research Project (2014-2025) “Centre of Excellence for Training and Research in Microfluidics” (funded by IIT Kharagpur) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2013-2016) “Modelling Fish Locomotion in Turbulent Vortices” (funded by CSIR) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Indo-Canada Research Project (2013-2016) “Remote sensing network for water quality management, (funded by ISTP, Canada and DBT)” as the principal investigator from IIT Kharagpur

  • Completed the Research Project (2009-2011) “Droplet based microfluidics for skin cooling in small form factor computing devices”, (funded by Intel Corp) as a principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2007-2010) “Cell Culture inside Microfluidic Channels with Extended Air-water Interface” (funded by DBT) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2007-2010) “A study of microscale transport processes leading to the development of a cooling strategy for electronic components”, (funded by DIT) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the India-UK (UKIERI) Research Project (2008-2010) “Transport Phenomena across Biological Cell Membranes within Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Systems”, (funded by the British Council) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2008-2010) “Rapid DNA Hybridization in Microfluidic Channels”, (funded by DBT) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Indo-US Project (2008-2011) onIndo-US Center for Research Excellence in Fabrionics” (supported by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum) as the Institute coordinator (principal investigator from IIT Kharagpur)

  • Completed the Indo-US Project (2006-2007) onFuturistic Manufacturing” (supported by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum) as the Institute coordinator (principal investigator from IIT Kharagpur)

  • Completed the DST-NSF Project (2006-2008) “Experimental and Theoretical Studies on DNA Hybridization in Microchannels with Electrokinetically driven Flow”, as the principal investigator

  • Completed the DST-JSPS Project (2006-2008) “Development of an advanced Micro-Manufacturing Technology characterized by Micro Surface Quality Control for Bio-MEMS devices”, as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2005-2008) “IRES: U.S.-India Fast DNA Hybridization in Microfluidic Platforms” (funded by the NSF, USA) as a joint principal investigator (along with Prof. Marc Madou, UC Irvine, USA)

  • Completed the Research Project (2005-2007) “Development of A Window Based Interactive Software with User Friendly GUI for Time Dependent Numerical Simulation of Transport Phenomena During Laser Surface Treatment of Materials” (funded by BRNS) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2004-2007) “Modeling and Simulation of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer in Laser Surface Alloying” (funded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Research Project (2005-2008) “Modelling and Simulation of photothermal interaction of laser beam with living biological tissues” (funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) as the principal investigator

  • Completed the Project (2001-2002) on “Mathematical Modelling of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow during Laser Surface Alloying” (funded by DMRL, Hyderabad) as the principal investigator

Consultancy Projects

    • Associated with a Consultancy Project (2021-2024) titled: “Development of Rapid, Low Cost Isothermal Nucleic Acid Testing Devices with Colorimetric Readout” (funded by Aspen Biomedical Private Limited, Rapid Diagnostics Group) as consultant-in-charge

    • Completed Consultancy Project (2013-2014) “Interpolation of Modern CAD Data and Development of a Homogenization Based Model for Vapour Cloud Explosion of Congested Plants” (funded by Shell), as the consultant-in-charge

    • · Completed the Consultancy Project (2010-2011) “Development of Numerical Models for Emulsion and Nanofluid Heat Transfer” (funded by TATA Steel), as the consultant-in-charge

    • · Completed the Consultancy Project (2010) “Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Analysis for Cast Soap Manufacturing Process” (funded by ITC), as the consultant-in-charge

    • · Completed the Consultancy Project (2006-2007) “Characterization of Surface Roughness for Pressure-Driven and/or Electro-osmotic Liquid Flow in Microchannel” (funded by DELPHI), as the consultant-in-charge

    • · Completed the Consultancy cum R&D Project (2006-2009) “Development of a fundamental model for characterizing solidification transport in the mushy region” (funded by General Motors Research and Development Center, USA) as the consultant-in-charge

    • · Completed the Consultancy cum R&D Project (2003-2006) “An Integrated Micro-Macro Solidification Algorithm for Direct Numerical Simulation of Large-Scale Solidification Structures” (funded by General Motors Research and Development Center, USA) as the consultant-in-charge

    • · Completed the Consultancy Project (2002-2003) “Development of a Mathematical Model for describing the flow field in liquids/melts agitated by an impinging gas jet and submerged gas stirring in LD converter” (funded by TATA Steel) as the consultant-in-charge