Materials Science
Our aim was to develop a simple yet effective solution to help combat the prevailing water crisis. On research, we realized the unused potential in the use of hydrophobic coatings as a solut…
Mathematics
We consider regular n-gons, free to float in 2D space. This allows them a rotational property. Now, we consider the problem of calculating the number of distinct a-colorings of its vertices.…
Animal Sciences
Determination of estrus is very crucial for increasing fertility and milk production of dairy herds. Methods and techniques presently used are cumbersome and painful. A non-invasive phenol-b…
Translational Medical Science
Heart diseases are the number one cause of deaths globally, with three-quarters occurring in developing countries (WHO). In India, heart-related mortality rates in rural areas have surpassed…
Embedded Systems
This project focusses on optimising signal timing plans at signalised intersections which are the major hotspots of congestion in any transportation network. Traditionally, signal controller…
Systems Software
In many problems such as network routing, the length of a path is often less important than the bottleneck (minimum or maximum edge weight) of the path. In this study, I investigate the appl…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
With the exponential growth of data on the internet, it has become nearly impossible to identify whether a given piece of information is legitimate or not. This has led to an immense rise in…
Engineering Mechanics
Steady airflow is essential for sound aerodynamic flight and stability. Separations in airflow around the wing destabilize the flow continuum and result in turbulent flow. Countering turbule…
Translational Medical Science
With just 7% survival rates, Pancreatic Cancer continues to be one of the most lethal cancers in the world. In this cancer, significant upregulation of the polyamine called spermine, in the…
Systems Software
Compression is useful because it reduces resources required to store and transmit data. It is used to represent data in relatively smaller number of bits. Many now-a-days used general purpos…
Translational Medical Science
Anemia is the most common blood disorder in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people. Iron deficiency anemia, in particular, affects more than 1 billion people across the globe with a…
Biochemistry
Depleting fossil fuel reserves, the energy crisis, and alarming global warming concerns have driven global interest towards renewable and environmentally friendly alternatives like biobutano…
Mathematics
Primes are the building blocks of composite numbers. One day I gifted a mathematical property of the birthdate (9) of one my friend as a birthday present, I observed a unique and interesting…
Chemistry
Microplastics are very small particles mostly ranging from 0.1 µm to 0.2µm size and are found frequently in drinking water samples. These are difficult to identify or removed by existing tec…
Physics and Astronomy
Space weather phenomena, especially magnetic storms that originate in the Sun such as flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), have the potential to cripple satellite operations and space-r…
Plant Sciences
Yellow mosaic virus disease causes 50%-94% losses annually in Abelmoschus esculentus crop. It causes stunted growth, shrinkage of leaves, discoloration and yield loss. In India, this is an a…
Animal Sciences
Routine use of antibiotic growth promoters in broiler feed poses health hazards to humans and livestock. Earlier studies with herbs supplemented individually have reported inconsistent resul…
Translational Medical Science
The drawback of chemotherapy for treating cancer is that the cancerous cells acquire drug resistance after constant exposure to the drug, making them impervious to further dose escalation. M…
Plant Sciences
Underuse or Overuse of fertilizers is a common problem in agriculture and the inappropriate use can have several implications on agro-ecosystem and soil health. It is imperative to find out…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Implicit biases (specifically gender-based) are ubiquitous and are known to influence social behavior leading to the question - 'how could these biases be eliminated or, at least, recognized…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Computational modeling offers a powerful method for studying cause-effect relationships in biology. This is immensely valuable for creating synthetic biomimicry structures. Mimosa pudica is…
Embedded Systems
This project uses Machine Learning, NLP and Multilingual named entity transliteration approach to identify devices, help in device diagnostics and create effective communication between the…
Translational Medical Science
Textiles and human evolution are entwined with each other for protection from natural forces and personal hygiene/attraction. Consumers today desire more scientifically advanced clothes that…
Translational Medical Science
Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is recessive autosomal inherited life-threatening hemoglobinopathy. Normally the average life of RBC is 100-120 days in a healthy human whereas, it is as low as 4-5…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Flood forecasting in India is carried out by the determination of the water level at flood forecasting stations. The level forecasts are issued once water levels in a station reach a predefi…
Environmental Engineering
In India, small shops and houses are constructed from cement bricks with metal sheets as roofs due to which temperature is high inside particularly in summer. Biodegradable thermal insulator…
Biomedical Engineering
Fishiotherapy is a “Virtual Reality Interfacing” unit that harnesses and extends XR technologies to provide low cost, personalised and supplemental physiotherapy services to patients sufferi…
Biomedical Engineering
The present invention is a wearable shoe to capture various specific GAIT parameters such as spatial-temporal, clearance and plantar pressure distribution. The invention is integration of pa…
Systems Software
Data security and privacy stand critical in today’s internet infrastructure, yet 2018 - witnessed disastrous data breaches affecting 2B people across the globe. Background audit reveals exis…
Energy: Physical
The ongoing resource shortage has left the world alarmed. Leaving behind polluting and wasteful sources, the turn to non-conventional energy sources has begun. Triboelectricity, the phenomen…