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PMRF Success Stories @ IIT Hyderabad
PMRF Success Stories @ IIT Hyderabad
Released by Hon’ble Union Minister of Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
The Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) Cell is extremely pleased to share the news of successfully hosting the PMRF Annual Symposium 2025 on March 16–17, 2025, at the Convention Centre, IIT Hyderabad.
Each year, the PMRF Annual Symposium is organized to provide a platform for PMRF fellows to share their exciting research, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. In addition, stalwarts from academia, R&D laboratories, and industry are invited to inspire and engage with the PMRF scholars.
The PMRF Cell would like to express its sincere gratitude to the Chief Guest, Dr. V. K. Saraswat, Hon’ble Member, NITI Aayog, Government of India, for gracing the occasion. A heartfelt note of thanks is also extended to Prof. B. S. Murty, Director, IIT Hyderabad, and to all the distinguished speakers who generously shared their valuable knowledge and expertise through their plenary lectures.
Inking a MoU between Coal India Limited & IITH, on March 7, 2025 for establishing a Centre of Excellence.
[In picture, Sitting (from Right to left): Prof. B S Murty (Director, IITH), Mr. P. M. Prasad (Chairman, CIL), Mr. G. Kishan Reddy (Hon'ble Union Minister of Coal & Mines, Government of India), Sri N.Balram, IRS (Chairman & Managing Director, Singareni Collieries Company Limited) & Standing (from Right to left): Prof. Saptarshi Majumdar (IITH), Prof. Raja Banerjee (IITH), Mr. Shishir Dutta (CIL), Prof. Chandra Shekhar Sharma (IITH), Mr. Sudip Maiti (CIL), Prof. Kishalay Mitra (IITH), Prof. Sayak Banerjee (IITH), Prof. Narasimha Mangadoddy (IITH), Prof. Debaprasad Shee (IITH), Prof. Ashok Kamaraj (IITH), Prof. Meenakshi (IITH), Prof. Deepu Babu (IITH), Prof. Venkata Rao Kotagiri (IITH)]
We are humbled to submit our research on wind energy generation in the form of a book titled "Optimization, Uncertainty & Machine Learning in Wind Energy Conversion Systems" (https://lnkd.in/g2iTjJjn).
We are humbled to submit our research on wind energy generation in the form of a book titled "Optimization, Uncertainty & Machine Learning in Wind Energy Conversion Systems" (https://lnkd.in/g2iTjJjn).
Kudos to the funding support of Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India through the SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) program.
Kudos to the funding support of Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India through the SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) program.
Our group, GOKUL (Global Optimization and Knowledge Unearthing Lab) at IITH, has been working on the whole gamut of wind data analysis, wind behavior forecasting, wind turbine wake modeling, wind farm design and control, handling uncertainty associated with wind and the role AI/ML to tackle many of the afore-mentioned research topics through various collaborations within country and across the world for the last 10 years.
Our group, GOKUL (Global Optimization and Knowledge Unearthing Lab) at IITH, has been working on the whole gamut of wind data analysis, wind behavior forecasting, wind turbine wake modeling, wind farm design and control, handling uncertainty associated with wind and the role AI/ML to tackle many of the afore-mentioned research topics through various collaborations within country and across the world for the last 10 years.
Grateful to further funding support by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India through NSM (National Supercomputing Mission).
Grateful to further funding support by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India through NSM (National Supercomputing Mission).
Research Excellence Award for Prof. Kishalay Mitra (2022)
Extremely humbled and honored to be bestowed with the IITH Research Excellence Award 2021 - 2022 on the eve of the 14th Foundation day. This is all possible due to the students who thought GOKUL as their second home to give their best in research, collaborators who tolerated our ignorance for so long, good wishes from all our well wishers and blessing of our Gurus and ALMIGHTY.
Had opportunity to accept the award from Chief Guest of Foundation day Mr. Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan & Dr. B V R Mohan Reddy, two Padma awardees and Prof. B S Murty, honorable Director IIT Hyderabad. More details can be found in this link (https://lnkd.in/dgbvfgDX - check around 1:41:25).
Feeling truly honored and humbled to be recognized in the Industrial Engineering & Automation category among the world’s top 2% of scientists (2025), as compiled by Stanford University, USA, and Elsevier.
(https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8)
All thanks to the hard work by GOKULites, support of our collaborators, funding agency and institute, blessings of my Gurus, Parents, rock solid support from family members and friends. Thank you all🙏.
Feeling deeply humbled and honored to be featured (Industrial Engineering & Automation category) in the list compiled by Stanford University, USA & Elsevier placing the top 2% of scientists worldwide (2024).
(https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7)
All thanks to the hard work by GOKULites, support of our collaborators, funding agency and institute, blessings of my Gurus, Parents, rock solid support from family members and friends. Thank you all🙏.
We are humbled and honored to this news (to be names among World's Top 2% Scientists 2023) providing tremendous encouragement to the GOKULites to take our research forward towards newer directions 🙏
(https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6)
We are humbled and honored to this news (to be names among World's Top 2% Scientists 2022) providing tremendous encouragement to the GOKULites to take our research forward towards newer directions 🙏
(https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/5)
We are named among World's Top 2% Scientists (2021), according to the latest profile review conducted by a group from Stanford University released recently at https://lnkd.in/ecV9y9Tv.
We are humbled and honored with this encouraging news.
AI Driven Catalysis
AI Driven Catalysis
Team Catalysis for the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) project titled "A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach Towards Rational Design of Supported Metal Catalysts for the Reductive Depolymerization of Corncob Lignin to Produce Bulk Aromatic Chemicals" (PIs: Prof. Debaprasad Shee, Prof. Shelaka Gupta, Prof. Saptarshi Majumdar, & Prof. Kishalay Mitra) is pleased to share that Ms. SAKSHI MANEKAR, PhD Scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, has received the best oral presentation award in the DST-PURSE supported 24th National Symposium on Catalysis (CATSYMP-24) [“Catalysis for Sustainable Chemicals, Materials & Energy (CSCME-2025)’’] organized by Catalysis Society of India (CSI) at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology during February 24-26, 2025.
Title: Reductive depolymerization of lignin using supported Ni-M (M=Pd, Ru and Rh) catalysts to produce aromatic chemicals
Authors: SAKSHI MANEKAR, Rashi Verma, Kishalay Mitra, Debaprasad Shee
INAE innovative students projects award 2021
INAE innovative students projects award 2021
Thanks so much Indian National Academy of Enrigeering (INAE) for this wonderful encouragement. We are ever grateful.
IIT Hyderabad Researchers Use Machine Learning Algorithms to study Supply Chain Network of Biofuels
A unique feature of this work is that its framework considers revenue generation not only as an outcome of sales of the biofuel but also in terms of carbon credits via greenhouse gas emission savings throughout the project lifecycle
HYDERABAD, 2 July 2020: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Researchers are using computational methods to understand the factors and impediments in incorporating biofuels into the fuel sector in India. This work has been spurred by the increasing need to replace fossil fuels by bio-derived fuels, which, in turn, is driven by the dwindling fossil fuel reserves all over the world, and pollution issues associated with the use of fossil fuels.
The model developed by the IIT Hyderabad team has shown that in the area of bioethanol integration into mainstream fuel use, the production cost is the highest (43 per cent) followed by import (25 per cent), transport (17 per cent), infrastructure (15 per cent) and inventory (0.43 per cent) costs. The model has also shown that feed availability to the tune of at least 40 per cent of the capacity is needed to meet the projected demands.
A unique feature of this work by is that the framework considers revenue generation not only as an outcome of sales of the biofuel but also in terms of carbon credits via greenhouse gas emission savings throughout the project lifecycle.
This research was led by Dr. Kishalay Mitra, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad with his Research Scholar Mr. Kapil Gumte. The results of this work have recently been published in the prestigious Journal of Cleaner Production and also presented at the International Federation of Automatic Control conference held at IIT Madras earlier this year.
Speaking about the importance of this research, Dr. Kishalay Mitra, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, said, “In India, biofuels generated from non-food sources is the most promising source of carbon-neutral renewable energy. These second-generation sources include agricultural waste products such as straw, hay and wood, among others, that do not intrude upon food sources.”
Biofuel technologies are evolving in India. The design and implementation of technological, regulatory and policy approaches and pricing strategy of biofuels depend on a deep understanding of the supply chain network. Models such as those developed at IIT Hyderabad allow the society to understand the effects of uncertainty in the network parameters on the demand-supply dynamics and can help policymakers devise and revise strategies to meet the future demands of biofuels.
India’s Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme, launched in 2013, has been growing over the years. It is now mandatory in India to blend fuel grade bioethanol with petrol (gasoline) to reduce the burden of crude oil import. The current target is to blend bioethanol to levels close to 20 per cent with gasoline. In a move towards green energy, the government also hopes to replace 20 per cent of fossil-fuel derived diesel by biodiesel.
Dr. Mitra and his team analysed the bio-supply chain network through computational studies.
Elaborating on this research, Mr. Kapil Gumte, Research Scholar, IIT Hyderabad said, “We use machine-learning techniques to understand the supply chain network. Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence in which, the computer learns patterns from available data and updates automatically to produce an understanding of the system and predictions of the future.”
While the agrarian society of India provides ample opportunity to produce second-generation sources, meeting the 20 per cent biofuel blend requirement necessitates the development of a systematic and comprehensive bio-supply chain network that overcomes current technical, market and regulatory hurdles.
The team has considered multiple technologies available for bioenergy generation across several zones in the country and performed a thorough feasibility study using data of suppliers, transport, storage and production, among others, published by the Indian Government.
“The techno-economic-environmental analysis on country-wide multi-layered supply chain network has helped us capture the uncertainty in forecasting demands and other supply chain parameters and their effects on the operational and design decisions in the long run,” added Dr. Kishalay Mitra.
Few Links:
TWITTER LINK: https://twitter.com/IITHyderabad/status/1278965973630869504?s=08
TWEET LINK: https://twitter.com/PIBMumbai/status/1279028162593042432?s=20
TWEET LINK: https://twitter.com/PIBShillong/status/1279001875182874625?s=20
TWEET LINK: https://twitter.com/PIB_India/status/1278991427356090368?s=20
TWEET LINK: https://twitter.com/PIB_Guwahati/status/1278994150294077440?s=20
TWEET LINK: https://twitter.com/PIBImphal/status/1278986008583794688?s=20
TWEET LINK: https://twitter.com/PIBAgartala/status/1278976217677361152?s=20
TWEET LINK: https://twitter.com/ROBChandigarh/status/1279008848653606912?s=20
ARTICLE LINKS:
https://news.careers360.com/iit-hyderabad-researches-on-making-biofuels-part-of-mainstream-fuel
http://www.samacharnama.com/iit-hyderabad-using-machine-learning-for-biofuel-studies/
Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit
Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit, a wonderful initiative by Government of India, is a collaborative effort by S&T and Academic Organizations of India to enable deliberations on thought process, practices and R&D culture with a problem solving approach for well-defined objectives. The summit aimed to bring out the comprehensive roadmap to leverage the expertise and knowledge of global Indian researcher for solving emerging challenges. The goal was to create an ecosystem of Knowledge and Innovation in the country through global outreach. GOKUL (Global Optimization & Knowledge Unearthing Laboratory) extends heartfelt thanks to VAIBHAV Summit organizers for giving us an opportunity to present and discuss our work on AI based technology handshaking while solving the complicated climate change issues with international experts.
SPARC online workshop on Multi-objective Optimization under Uncertainty
SPARC online workshop on Multi-objective Optimization under Uncertainty
Thanks so much Ministry of Education, Government of India for giving us this opportunity to join hands with University of Exeter, UK. Special thanks to Prof(s). Deb, Richard, Jonathan, Niranjan and Dr. Eric. A fantastic support and display through presentations by our own GOKULites.
GOKUL's endeavor on energy research covered by KirIITH in the research diary
GOKUL's endeavor on energy research covered by KirIITH in the research diary
IITH 11th Convocation Ceremony: Chemical Engineering graduating batch across all programs (B Tech / M Tech / PhD)
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