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.
Kalyani Yeola Ph.D. Topic - Negotiating Nation and Citizenship: An Ethnographic Study of Tibetan Youth-in-Exile in India
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Prof. R P Pradhan, Aprajita Shrivastava Ph.D. Topic - Bayesian analysis of Neutron Star Equation of State.
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Prof. Sarmistha Banik, Yash Pareek Ph.D. Topic - Exploring the consequences of spontaneous symmetry breaking within sigma models, unraveling its implications in theoretical physics
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Prof. Prasant Kumar Samantray , Akshay Kulkarni Ph.D. Topic - Quantum Field Theory in curved spacetime, Blackhole Theory
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Prof. Rahul Nigam, Greeshma Gopinath Ph.D. Topic - Entanglement of multiple qubits through quantum state transfer and controlling quantum decoherence
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Prof. Sankar Davuluri, Suraj Kumar Maurya Ph.D. Topic - Classical and quantum theories of black holes, exploring their interior volume, entropy, and dynamic evolution.
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Prof. Rahul Nigam, Tamali Mukherjee Ph.D. Topic - Generation and dynamical properties of magnetic skyrmions in thin films
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Prof. V Satya Narayana Murthy , Geetika Sahu Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis, characterization and fundamental properties of Quantum dots
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Prof. Souri Banerjee , ViswaKannan R K Ph.D. Topic - Mechanical and rheological response of complex systems: application to fracture and flow
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Prof. Subhadeep Roy, Anagh Venneti Ph.D. Topic - Low Density Constraints on Neutron Star Equation of State
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Prof. Sarmistha Banik, Gourab kumar Das Ph.D. Topic - Fabrication of pervoskite halide materials for photovoltaic applications
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Prof. Kannan Ramaswamy , Dr. Parikshit Sahatiya Nilofar Naaz Ph.D. Topic - Fabrication and investigation of various photovoltaic cells for diverse underwater conditions
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Prof. Kannan Ramaswamy , Prof. Sanket Goel 
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