Research is an integral and important part of any higher education system. BITS Pilani actively promotes research among its staff and students. Besides basic research, which is the backbone of any applied research, the Institute also gives adequate importance and support to applied research.
Research at BITS relies on the motivated intellectual manpower pool available among its staff and students. Students undertake research projects as a component of their education program itself. Teachers conduct research as an integral part of their responsibilities since this enables them to assimilate and disseminate knowledge as well as generate new knowledge. Besides this, BITS has devised innovative schemes to enable professionals at large to conduct research at their place of work and simultaneously work for the PhD degree of the Institute.
At BITS Pilani, the faculty are encouraged to publish their findings in reputed journals and present papers at conferences. Support is given to participate in national and international conferences and thereby network with experts from India and abroad. Recently, the Institute has taken steps to provide support to faculty to file for patents if the research is likely to fructify in commercially viable products or processes. During the last 5 years, BITS has seen healthy growth in the amount of funding received from different agencies. While most of these are from the government sector, the Institute through its existing collaboration with industries is trying to involve the corporate sector in funding research projects.
At BITS, we position research as an integral part of the curriculum & actively promote it among our students as well as our faculty. Besides basic research, we also give adequate importance & provide support to applied research.
SYED ANWAR ALI SYED MAKSUD ALI SIRDESHMUKH Ph.D. Topic - Civil Engineering
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Manoj Kumar, VIKAS ASHOK GROVER Ph.D. Topic - Behavioural Analysis of Cement Plant Rotary Kiln Using Modelling & Simulation Techniques
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Sharad Shrivastava, SURI BABU KUCHIMANCHI Ph.D. Topic - Management (HR & OB)
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Jayashree Mahesh, SONAL RAMESH Ph.D. Topic - Role of Longevity Capital in attaining Major Sustainable Development Goals
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Arun Kumar Giri, AMIT PANDIA Ph.D. Topic - New Biometric Traits for Human Recognition
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Kamlesh Tiwari, AMOL VINOD SHINDIKAR Ph.D. Topic - Investigations on Emerging Multidrug-Resistance Mechanisms in Nosocomial Gram-Negative-Bacterial Isolates from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar hospitals
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahesh 




Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh, 
Co. Supervisor -
Arun Kumar Jalan, 
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Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Geetilaxmi Mohapatra, 

Co. Supervisor -
Ashutosh Bhatia, 
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Hariharan Periasamy