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.
ANJALI PUNIA Ph.D. Topic - Revisiting Farmers’ Protest of 2020: Unpacking Women’s Participation and their Representation by the Mainstream and Alternative Media
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Dr. Sailaja Nandigama, DEORE RITESH ASHOK Ph.D. Topic - Circularity Assessment of the Indian Automotive Sector
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Rajesh Matai, MOHD SHARIQ Ph.D. Topic - Algebraic graph theory
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Jitender Kumar, SONAKSHI PURI Ph.D. Topic - Biochemical investigation of drug and nutraceutical combinations with carotenoids for ameliorating obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
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P. R. Deepa, SUBHASHREE CHATTERJEE Ph.D. Topic - Exploring the role of KDMs in regulating the survival of tumor cells under drug pressure
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Rajdeep Chowdhury, DHARMESH MISHRA Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis and fabrication of novel electrode materials for lead detection in water
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Dr. Somak Chatterjee, MAHIMA CHOUDHARY Ph.D. Topic - Understanding mitochondrial remodelingassociated with TGF-β induced epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in human brain cancer cells.
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Sudeshna M Chowdhury, SUMITRA Ph.D. Topic - Design of Techniques and Architecture Models for Managing Network Flow and Privacy Issues in IoT Networks.
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Dr. Meetha .V. Shenoy, SHOBHAM Ph.D. Topic - Microbial remediation of heavy metals and dye contaminated wastewater
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SK Verma, Prof. Suresh Gupta