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.
VANDANA VIDYADHARI Ph.D. Topic - Investigations on electromechanical response of the brain
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Dr. Venkatesh Kadbur Prabhakar Rao, MANIKANTAN R NAIR Ph.D. Topic - Accelerated materials discovery
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Dr. Tribeni Roy, KHALID HUSSAIN ANSARI Ph.D. Topic - Design of downstream supply chain for selected agriculture produces and its value-added products to enhance farm income
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Dr. Srikanta Routroy, RISHI PARVANDA Ph.D. Topic - Development of a Rapid Tooling (RT) technique for manufacturing Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) electrodes using low melting point alloy.
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Dr. Prateek Kala, PhD, DESHMANKAR ATHARV PRAMOD Ph.D. Topic - Machine learning enabled additive manufacturing
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Amit Rajnarayan Singh, DHRUV DESHWAL Ph.D. Topic - "Development of Polymer Composites with reinforcement of Carbon-Based Materials and Evaluation of Properties for Engineering Applications.”
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Dr. Sachin U Belgamwar, RIYA SHARMA Ph.D. Topic - Development of hybrid fibre-reinforced polymer composite for industry application based on impact assessment”
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Dr. Sharad Shrivastava, KUNDRAPU AYYAPPA SWAMY Ph.D. Topic - Development and optimization of passive devices based battery thermal management system using numerical and experimental analyses
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Dr. Saket Verma, RAMESH KUMAR Ph.D. Topic - Exploring Thermal-Hydraulic Performance of Pillow-Plate Heat Exchangers for HVAC Implementations: A Combined Numerical and Experimental Study
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Dr. Aneesh A. M, SOWRABH KUGUNAVAR Ph.D. Topic - Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Accuracy Improvement Techniques for Non-Contact Measuring Instruments
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Kuldip Singh Sangwan, MUKESH BUDANIYA Ph.D. Topic - Assessment of Indoor Plants for Improving Indoor Environment Quality
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Aakash Chand Rai, PRONAMIKA BORTHAKUR Ph.D. Topic - Towards Energy Efficient Machining Systems
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Prof. Tufan Chandra Bera, 
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Dr. Krishna Muniyoor, 
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Dr. Rajesh Kumar, 
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Anirudh Singh Rana, 
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Dr. M.S. Dasgupta, 
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