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.
VISHAKHA Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis of versatile and robust carboxylate-based metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and their applications in catalysis and sensing
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Dr. Madhushree Sarkar, Santosh Kumar Mishra Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis of D-glucose derived glycoconjugates and their applications in molecular recognition and catalysis
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Dr. Ajay Kumar Sah, IMTIYAZ AHMAD SHAH Ph.D. Topic - Orgaocatalytic approach towards the asymmetric /Non-asymmertical synthesis of N-heterocyclic compounds
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Dr. Indresh Kumar, MAMTA Ph.D. Topic - Utilization of propargylic/cyclic-imines for the synthesis of Nitrogen-heterocycles and and their photophysical studies
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Dr. Indresh Kumar, ANNU Ph.D. Topic - Design and synthesis of iridium(III) based AIE active MOFs
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Dr. Inamur Rahaman Laskar, SAURAJIT GHOSH Ph.D. Topic - Design and Synthesis of Stimuli responsive systems for biomedical applications
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Dr. Partha Sarathi Addy , NANDINI ROY Ph.D. Topic - Design, Synthesis and Biological activity of indolyl heterocycles as potent anti-cancer agents
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Dr. Dalip Kumar, PRASHANT CHOUBEY Ph.D. Topic - Indium Based Ternary Metal Chalcogenides Hybrid Nanostructured Photoelectrodes for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Reaction
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Dr. Mrinmoyee Basu, NEHA MEENA Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis and functionalization of imidazoheterocycles via transition metal catalyzed CH activation
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Rajdeep Chowdhury, 
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Dr. Rajeev Sakhuja, 
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