Research Group

Research

Ph.D guidance:

S.No	Student Name	Role	Proposed Topic of Research	Status
1.	Ram Krishn Mishra (2018PHXF0010U)	Co-supervisor	Design and Development of Tourism Expert System Using Machine Learning Techniques	Completed
2.	Ms. Anusree (2018PHXF0904U)	Supervisor	Medical Image Analysis Using Machine Learning	Ongoing
3.	Ms. Syama (2019PHXF0011U)	Supervisor	Omics Data Analysis using Machine Learning algorithms.	Ongoing
4.	Ms. Anjana (2019PHXF0005U)	Co-supervisor	Artificial Intelligence based anomaly precursor detection on multi-variate time-series data	Ongoing

UG Thesis guidance:

Rohith Beriwal (2015A7TS0302U), Analysis of Quantum circuits with faulty gates
Vijaya (2016A7TS0062U), Convolutional autoencoders for segmentation and classification of histopathology images: an experimental study
Aakansha Mathur (2016A7TS0024U), Analyzing YELP reviews of restaurants in the USA
Parth Poply (2016A7TS0249U), Food calorie estimation using deep learning
Hrishikesh Sabins (2017A4TS0023U), Image based material classification
Varun Khanna (2018A7TS0049), Image captioning using EfficientNetV2 Transformers
Radhika Singh (2018A7TS0155U), Sentiment Analysis of Bitcoin tweets during Covid
Lakshmi Thampachen (2018A7TS0004U), Image steganography using deep learning
Bilal Khan (2017A7TS0320U), Deep Learning based medical image Analysis
Nandini Sitlani (2019A7TS0022U), Real time object detection from natural images
Krishen Jagani (2020A7TS0238), Brain tumor segmentation from MRI images using Deep Learning

PG Dissertation guidance:

Abirami Adaikkalavan (2017H1120002U), Securing Stock Exchange Transaction on BlockChain Platform
Gavuji Rohith (2018H1120913U), Analyzing consumer complaints using machine learning and deep learning
Lisha G (2020H1120008U), Robotic Process Automation on Business Processes

Ph. D students

Sreeshna Subhash

Ph. D project goal: To improve the sensitivity of quantum optical interferometer.

Research topics working on: Quantum correlations, Squeezed light, optomechanically induced transparency, optomechanical bistability, and quantum optical interferometry.

Recent work on breaking squeezed light interferometer limits for weak force detection is accepted for publication in Optics Express.
Conference proceedings: Using quantum optical restoring force to overcome standard quantum limit
Presentations
a) Title: “Enhancing the force sensitivity of squeezed light optomechanical interferometer.”

Summer School on Optics and Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Optics and Photonics Centre and Delhi Chapter, National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) June 6-24, 2022, IIT Delhi (online).

b)Title: “Improving the sensitivity of quantum optical interferometry”

One day workshop on Research facility training program Osmania University Department of Astronomy In association with DST SERB Under scientific social responsibility August 2, 2022 (In person)

c)Title: Quantum back action nullifying meter to improve the sensitivity of squeezed light optomechanical interferometer.

Student Conference on Optics and Photonics 2022 (SCOP-2022) Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad September 28-30, 2022 (In person).

Greeshma

Greeshma Gopinath

Ph. D project goal: Optimisation of quantum resources for quantum technologies

Research topics working on: Entanglement, optomechanics, electromagnetically induced transparency, and atom-laser interactions.

Recent work on (not yet published) describes a new method to entangle freely propagating spatially separated laser fields.

Masters students

Anish Mandyam (Project intern)

Project aim: To create quantum correlations in laser fields using four-level tripod atomic system.

Rohan, Nithyasree, Garima

Project: Understanding the basics of light-matter interactions and “hopefully” to simulate Young’s double slit like quantum interference in atom-laser interactions.

Sreeshna:

Sreeshna is excited about her latest work on optomechanics and tried to build an optical interferometer with hanging mirror.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1as8Gi3Bt_a2ELGBGv5BJ0n6fZ5cCJVZ6/view?usp=sharing

PhD Student

Miss. Rinku Rani Das: Thesis submitted (April, 2022) and defended (23^rd January, 2023). (Joint Guide)
Mr Sathish N: Proposal submission done on 15^th November, 2023 (Sole Guide)

Thesis Supervision

PhD (Name, Thesis Title, Status) : 3

Manikandan H., "Investigations on Characterization of Surface Errors in Turning of Thin-Walled Components", Completed, October, 2020.
Pawar Shrikant Shankarrao, "Investigations on Thin-Wall Machining of Curved Geometries", Ongoing.
Amresh Kumar, "Design, Development and Process Parameter Optimization of Cavitation Machining", Ongoing.

Higher Degree (Name, Thesis Title, Status) : 2

Shrikant Pawar, "Analysis of Surface Errors in Thin-Walled Elliptical Geometry using FEM", Completed, May, 2018.
Arpit Rastogi, "A Study on Effect of Temperature on Thin-Walled Workpiece in Milling Process" Completed, June, 2020.

First Degree (Name, Thesis Title, Status) : 3

Bable Ashutosh Madhavrao, "Study of Thermal Aspects in Thin-Wall Machining", Completed, December, 2015.
Aditya Kulkarni, "Estimation of Surface Error in End Milling Process", Completed, May, 2017.
Rohit Sharadwantha, "Error Compensation in Thin-Wall Machining" Completed, December, 2020

Research Interests

Conventional and Unconventional Machining
CAD/CAM/CAE
Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Product Design and Development

Research Guidance

PhD Students

Sr No	Name of the Student	PhD area /Title	Status	Single /Joint supervision
1	Yogesh Jadhav	Development of bio-antioxidant	Registered in August 2023	Single
2	Milind Joshi	Recovery of resources from biomass	Likely to complete in Dec 2025	Single
3	Kavitha Patil	Environmental Engineering	To be submitted by April May 2024	Joint (Co-Supervisor: Prof Thomas Boving, Univ of Rhode Island, USA)
4	Vinoth Kannan	Separation process	To be submitted by April May 2024	Joint (Co-Supervisor: Prof Vivek R)
5	Salve Nupur Vijay	Environmental Engineering (Co-supervisor)	Likely to complete in Dec 2025	Joint (Supervisor: Prof S S Baral)
6	Chandresh Dwivedi	Synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation of carbon-silica dual phase filler as a reinforcing material in tire rubber compounds	Defense is awaited	Joint, Co-supervisor: Dr Sushil Kumar Rajan
7	Vivek Kore	Environmental Engineering	To be submitted by Feb 2024	Single

Higher Degree (Master level) Students Guided

Sr No	Name of the Student	Topic	Year of work
1	Yogesh Jadhav	Development of Environmentally process for production of aluminum tri hydroxide	2022-23
2	Raksha	Metal oxide based polymer Nanocomposites material- a novel reinforcing material for various industrial applications	2021-22
3	Anmol Shahi	Study on sustainable approach for recovery and management of resources from waste tyres	2020-21
4	Sree Kavya	Studies on adsorption of Thiamethoxam	2019-20
5	Sanjeev Joglekar	Studies on carrying capacity of Dudhsagar water fall	2018-19
6	Shree Sharan	Photocatalytic degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenol in water using commercial TiO2, Fe/TiO2 and Mn/TiO2	2018-19
7	Ambika Parab	Studies on removal of atrazine herbicide from water using chemical degradation	2017-18
8	Subrejha J	Studies On Adsorption of Cr(Vi) Using Bio-Char Prepared From Coconut Leaves	2017
9	Nandan V Prabhudessai	Modeling studies on discharge of treated wastewater from sewage treatment plant into Inez Greek, Panjim City.	2016
10	Rohan Ramesh Nagvekar	Source Apportionment Study of Mormugao Port Trust area and its Immediate Vicinity	2016
11	Thomas Bento	Water quality assessment in Goa using Geographical Information System(GIS)	2016
12	Shashank Desai	Design of fume hood collection system for induction furnaces	2016
13	Digvijay Dessai	Determination and prediction of state of Environment in Goa.	2016
14	Amit B. Shanbag	LCA studies of Methyl Bromide production and Tyre Industry	2015-16
15	Hariom Upadhyay	Removal of Diclofenac Sodium from Pharmaceutical wastewater using Adsorption process	2014-15
16	Mandha Prasad	Extraction of Nimbin from Neem seeds by using Supercritical CO₂: Theoretical Investigation	2012
17	Anees Y Khan	Studies on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Methodology	2006
18	Karthick S	Modeling, Simulation and Design of Multi Stage Solar Distillation Unit	2004-2005
19	Shraddesh Malviya	Design and development PEM Fuel Cell	2004-2005
20	S. H. Muhammad Haseen Sadique	Studies on adsorption of Arsenic (III) removal from water	2004
21	Khadakkar Kanchanmala	Experimental studies on water quality parameters	2004
22	Kalyan Patil	Studies on removal of ethyl acetate using activated carbon	2004
23	Ms Sonia	Modeling, and Simulation of Anaerobic Digestion System	2003-2004

Research Scholars

Guided three senior research fellows in the research projects as mentioned below.

Sr No	Name of the Student	Research Project Title	Year of work
1	Apeksha Jadhav	A Parametric Study of the Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Performance	2008-2011
2	Atul Salve	Application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to DAP Production	2008-10
3	Rajendra Mohite	Application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to DAP Production	2010-2011

External Reviewer / Examiner for PhD thesis

Appointed as an external examiner for PhD thesis of Laxminarayan Institute of Technology (LIT) Nagpur University, June 2021. Ph.D. Thesis titled, “Intensification of degradation of wastewater by hydrodynamic cavitation reactor with various advance oxidation processes” of Mr Prashant Bhimrao Dhanke
Appointed as an external examiner for PhD thesis of Symbiosis University, March 2020, Ph.D. Thesis titled, “Investigation of Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste using a Combination of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with Special Reference to ‘Nisargruna’ Technology” of Gahana Gopal C.
Appointed as an external examiner for PhD thesis of Nagpur University, April 2018. Ph.D. Thesis titled, “Synthesis of Nanofluids for Heat and Mass Transfer Application” of Mr Gajanan P. Lakhawat.
Appointed as an external examiner for PhD thesis of Symbiosis University, January 2018, Ph.D. Thesis titled, “Development of eco-friendly sorption process for removal and recovery of hexavalent chromium from industrial effluents” of Nilisha Prashant Itankar.
Appointed as an external examiner for PhD thesis of KLE University, Belgavi , August 2017, PhD Thesis titled, “Fermentation of Sugar cane Juice” of Pallavi S Patil.
Appointed as an external examiner for PhD thesis of Amravati University October 2016. Ph.D. Thesis titled, “Studies on synthesis and characterization of furfural from different biomaterials and its products development” of Mr Sanjay Bhagat.
Appointed as an external examiner for PhD thesis of Pune University August 2014 PhD thesis titled, “Studies on Effect of Cavitation on Different Physical and Chemical Processes” of Sachin Shirsath.

Dynamics Lab and People

Equipment List:

1. 8- Channel Vibration Analyzer and amplifier.

2. Controller

3. 2- Channel Vibration Analyzer

4. Several accelerometer, impedance head and microphones

5. Impact hammer

6. Electro-dynamic Shaker, 445 lb

7. Sound level meter with FFT analyser.

8. NI DAC Cards for strain measurement

9. Portable data acquisition system , Sound book (8-CHANNEL)

10. Human Vibration Monitoring system

11. Laser Vibrometer

Software:

ANSYS, MATLAB, COMSOL, EDM, CREO, MAPLE, ME SCOPE.

Current Projects:

1. Feature Engineering for Condition Monitoring of Machines Using Vibration Signature Analysis using Machine Learning

2. Acoustics Analysis of Classical Indian Musical Instruments Sarsavati Veena, Tabla

3. Design and development of Staircase Climbing Wheelchair

4. Design and development of page turning machine.

Current Ph D. Students:

1. Ramesh Bhat

2. Avdhut Jakhi

Current Undergraduate Students:

1. Saransh Paliwal

2. Dhiyam Garg

3. Chinmay Sogani

4. Aditya Bandopadhya

Collaborators:

1. Dr. Narayan Manjrekar,

2. Prof. Radhika Vathsan

3. Prof. Ramprasad Joshi

Undergraduate Research Training:

The First Degree students have done extensive work in the lab and have achieved remarkable results. A few accomplishments are 9 International Journal papers, 14 International Conference papers and 4 Patents.

Laboratory Address:

Machine Dynamics Lab , E220, BITS PILANI K K Birla Goa Campus,

Zuarinagar, Goa 403 726

Phone No - 0832 2580287

Research guidance

Ph.D. student (part-time): Tarun Jain (Status: Ongoing)
Ph.D. student (full-time): Rahul Sharma (Status: Completed), Akhil Misra (Status: Ongoing)

Post-graduate students (2022-23): Rohith Goyal, Rohit T Ravikumar, Arnav S Pawar, Piyush Jain

- Undergraduate students: Vinay Pai, Rushabha Balaji, and Vinay K (Status: completed);
- Several of my undergraduate and postgraduate students are majorly working on various academic projects related to the following diverse fields:

i). Advanced communication technologies, ii). IoT-enabled health, iii). Applied AI/DL/ML, iv). Signal processing, v). 5G/B5G/6G Wireless networks. vi). Quantum computation and communication vii). Sports engineering

Former Students (Undergraduate):

Student Name	Project/Thesis topic
Apoorva	Hybrid FSO/RF satellite link design
Nishant Gupta	Energy efficient satellite link design and analysis
Vidit Jha	Energy efficient, power-adaptive, cooperative relay communication system
Gokul Srinivasan	Cooperative green communications
Ardra Ayyapath	Secure Index coding (off-campus @ IISc)
Deepak Vasudevan	Cooperative wireless system with SWIPT
Sumukh Nitundil	Hybrid FSO/RF satellite link design
Manas Gupta	Telemetry subsystems of nanosatellites (Thesis)
Nithin Rahav	Cooperative VLC with adaptive power sharing (Project) Hybrid FSO/RF system design and implementation on FPGS (Thesis)
Umang Garg	Cooperative VLC with adaptive power sharing
Ujjwal Panda	Slow pulsars search using fast folding algorithms (off-campus thesis)
Vaibhav Miglani	Game theory application to cooperative and cognitive IoT lattice
Saylee Kanadje	Game theory application to cooperative and cognitive IoT lattice
Kaivalya Dabhadkar	Millimeter wave communication systems over fading channels
Adeesh Bhargava	Millimeter wave communication systems over fading channels
Aparna Murali	Energy harvesting cooperative relay-aided wireless system
Anubhav Sachan	Spectrally efficient, adaptive underlay cognitive radio system
Rakshith S	Spectrally efficient, adaptive underlay cognitive radio system
Rutwik Jain	Cooperative satellite systems
Shubham Sharma	OFDM systems performance investigation with pilots-based channel estimation (Thesis)
Bindu Priya K	Hybrid, energy harvesting cooperative wireless system (project) Random access in energy harvesting cellular IoT (Thesis)
Praphul Samavedam	Hybrid, energy harvesting cooperative wireless system
Akhil Jaini	RF interference mitigation in radio astronomy (Project)
Sai Gowtam Chandrahasa	RF interference mitigation in radio astronomy
Aakriti Agarawal	Acoustic noise cancellation using ANN and Adaptive filters
Rohit Kumar A	Acoustic noise cancellation using ANN and Adaptive filters (project) Applied machine learning for biomedical imaging (Thesis)
Sarthak Jain	Optimizing modulation order for distortion minimization in green networks
Sayan Rudra Pal	Optimizing modulation order for distortion minimization in green networks
Siddharth Iyer	Interactive coding (off-campus thesis)
Jagadeesh K	Energy harvesting relay outage in cooperative systems
Santosh A	Energy harvesting relay outage in cooperative systems
Shikhar Buddi	PHY layer security in IoT (Thesis)
Srabasti Nandi	Energy harvesting system design for mobile health applications (Thesis)
Satwik Prabhu	Sleep period optimization for green mobile radio terminals (Project) Rate distortion for autoregressive sources (off-campus thesis)
Naman Gupta	Sleep period optimization for green mobile radio terminals (Project) Game theory for wireless networks and IoT (campus thesis)
Garv Sharma	Optical and RF satellite link budget and performance
Prachi Sharma	Optical and RF satellite link budget and performance
Aditya S Diwakar	VSAT delay analysis and simulation
Govind Mantri	Energy harvesting Internet-of-Things (IoT)
Sarthak Garg	Green UWB radar design
Sanjana Patil	Green UWB radar design
Harsh Misra	Energy harvesting Internet-of-Things (IoT)
Aishwarya N	Cooperative and cognitive satellite systems
Naga Chaitanya K	Underwater UWB communications
Rohit Sai J	Software defined GPS
Bhuwan Mohan	Software defined GPS

Former Students (Post-graduate/M.E):

Student Name	Research topic
Avik Mukhopadhyay	Quantum satellite and terrestrial communications
Gaurav Punjabi	Backscatter communications
Manoj Joshi	Backscatter communications
Tuuba Shabnam M	Millimeter wave cooperative communication
Kartik Shrivastava	Millimeter wave (mmWave) cooperative communication
K. Swaminathan	Hybrid FSO/mmWave/RF communications
Ashish Saini	Hybrid FSO/mmWave/RF communications
Dhruv Saith	Underlay cooperative cognitive radio with SWIPT
Mohit Bohra	Underlay cooperative cognitive with SWIPT
Swapnil Nema	Cooperative visible light communication (VLC system
Satyam Sharma	Cooperative visible light communication system
Dileep Dattaraj Raut M	Millimeter wave communication system
Nitesh Chandra	Millimeter wave communication system
Aniruddha Paturkar	Underlay/interweave cognitive radio
Vibhuti Goel	Underlay/interweave cognitive radio
Shilpi Varshney	Millimeter wave cellular network: random access
Shreya Tyagi	Millimeter wave cellular network: random access
Rahul Shrotey	Full duplex cooperative relay system
Gaurav Sharma	Full duplex cooperative relay system
Shivam Goel	Energy harvesting D2D communication
Prakash Dwivedi	Energy harvesting D2D communication
Ramesh G Venkata	Cooperative UWB communication
Ayushi Jain	Cooperative UWB communication
Adesh Gupta	Device-to-device (D2D) communication
Jeevan Kumar	Device-to-device (D2D) communication
Rahul Gupta	Cooperative and underlay cognitive D2D communication
Pratik Devikar	Cooperative and underlay cognitive D2D communication

Best Paper Awards:

Thanks & Congratulations to: Kaivalya Dabhankar & Adeesh Bhargava

Ph.D. Students & Research Collaborators

Completed

PhD Student: Chandhini Muthukumar 2020PHXF0001U

Natural Sunlight-Driven Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants

Status: Defended Thesis on 11th August 2023

Completed

1. Supervisor: Electrochemical behavior, cytotoxicity and mechanical properties of the novel Magnesium based multicomponent alloys

PhD Student: Priya Sudha K – 2019PHXF0010U (registered Dec 2019)

In Collaboration with National University of Singapore

Status: Defended Thesis on 5th October 2023

Theses Supervision Experience:

Category	Completed	Ongoing
Doctor of Philosophy	6	9
Post Graduate Thesis	9
Under Graduate Thesis	12

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Thesis Supervision

Completed: (6)

PHD6: “Hybrid Ultrasonic Assisted Bottom Pour Stir Casting Process to Improve Quality of Al-TiB2 MMC" – Ph.D. Thesis (2022) by Amar S D at BITS- Pilani, Hyderabad.

PHD5: “Development and Investigation on Surface Integrity of Turned Novel AM Series Alloy using High Performance Tools" – Ph.D. Thesis (2021) by Sunil Dutta at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad.

PHD4: “Development of Multi Component Nano Composite Coated Cutting Tools" – Ph.D. Thesis (2021) by Pavandatta M Jadhav at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad.

PHD3: “Machinability Studies of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy using Novel Minimal Solid Lubricant Mixture Application Method" – Ph.D. Thesis (2018) by Rakesh Kumar G at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad.

PHD2: “Atomized liquid nitrogen spray assisted machining of Al-TiCp Metal matrix composite with different tool geometry” – Ph.D. Thesis (2018) by Sravan Kumar J at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad.

PHD1: “Studies on development of micro-solid lubricant coating on cutting tools” – Ph.D. Thesis (2015) by Uma Maheshwar Reddy at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad

Ongoing: (9)

PHD1: “Synthesis and characterization of aluminum syntactic foam materials” by S.S.M Kartheek at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2019 -).

PHD2: “Development and Tribological analysis of β-Titanium alloys for improved biological response” by Chennakesava Sai Pitchi at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2019 -).

PHD3: “Studies on the high-velocity impact response on Honeycomb structures” by Ahsan Ul Haq at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2020 -).

PHD4: “Analysis of Triply Periodic Minimal surface (TPMS) structures for Biomedical applications” by Gunashekar G at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2021 -).

PHD5: “Tribological optimization of laser cladded brake pad disc system for automobile application” by M Abhinav at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2021 -).

PHD6.: “Wire arc additive manufacturing of Titanium alloy components by modified GTAW process” by K SaiKiran at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2022 -).

PHD7: “Development of an integrated framework for enabling manufacturing industry to adopt industry 5.0 with lean concepts” by Col. R Srikanth Bhargava at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2022 -).

PHD8: “Modelling and experimental analysis of TIG based wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) process for fabrication of complex geometry” by Alok Kumar at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad(2022-).

PHD9:“Tribo-Mechanical characterization of ceramic reinforced Aluminum metal matrix composites for automotive applications” by B G Suresh at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad (2023 -).

Current Group Members

Undergraduate student Opportunities

Our group is looking for motivated undergraduate students for pursuing research projects in the cross disciplinary areas of Quantum Physics, Quantum Simulations and Quantum Computing for Device applications. Students with coding experience are preferred.

PhD Graduate student Opportunities

I am actively looking for motivated and committed students with keen interest in studying Quantum phenomenon in Real Materials & their Applications. Apart from sound academic background and knowledge of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics, experience with computing/ coding languages such as Python, R and Julia are a plus. Please do not hesitate to contact me with your cv for additional information. Students with their own Fellowship such as CSIR and UGC are highly encouraged to apply!

Chinmay Bidarkar

Degree : Integrated B.E. Computer Science & M.Sc. Physics

Favourite coding language : C++
Favourite mythical character : Arjun

Gaddam Shraddha Reddy

Degree: B.E Computer science and MS Physics

Favourite coding language: Python
Favourite mythical character: Loki

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Aditya Abhiram Sreeramakavacham

Degree: B.E Computer Science and MS Physics

Favourite coding language: C++
Favourite mythical character: Eren Yeager

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Sai Karthik C.

Degree: B.E. Computer science & MS. Physics

Favourite coding language: C++
Favourite mythical character: Thor