Sponsored Research Projects

AI-on-Edge: AI-based Edge Analytics Framework for Real-time Disaster Management
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), 2021–2025
Role: Principal Investigator
Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), 2022–2027
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
POC: Improving Financial Condition of Farmers Through Real-Time Precision Agriculture: Plant Disease Detection
IIT Bhilai Innovation and Technology Foundation, 2024-2025
Role: Principal Investigator
Development of In situ Engineered Additive Manufacturing Technique for Fabricating Inconel 718 Parts
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), 2025-2027
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Development of a Data-Driven Fruit Ripening Detector based on Bio-Impedence of Senescent Fruits: Mangoes and Papayas
Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), 2024-2027
Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Projects

Advanced Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs and Text Corpora
Postdoctoral Research, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany (2019–2020).
Problem Statement: The goal was to answer complex multi-entity questions by dynamically joining evidence from unstructured text and curated knowledge graphs, overcoming incompleteness and staleness in existing KGs.
Analyzing the Structure and Dynamics of Multilayer Networks
Ph.D. Thesis, IIT Kharagpur (2013–2018).
Problem Statement: This research addressed community detection, information diffusion, node dynamics, and recommender systems in multilayer networks, bridging structural and functional network analysis.