Research Projects

Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.

The Academy’s intention is to organise research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.

Eight key research themes have been identified:

• Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Clean Energy
• Water
• Nanotechnology
• Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Design

Research Themes	Project Number	Monash University Supervisor	IIT-Bombay Supervisor	Project Title	Project Status
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0498	Sjaanie Koppel	Azizuddin Khan	Impact of personality traits on driving behaviours among various age groups	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0499	Sjaanie Koppel	Azizuddin Khan	Role of working and prospective memory in the performance of young and old drivers	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0503	Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Rowena Robinson	Women, Minorities and Access to the City.	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0504	Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Paulomi Chakraborty	Migration, Minority, Memory.	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0501	Shanthakumar Wilson Rajaratnam Co-supervisors: Sean Drummond and Clare Anderson	Azizuddin Khan	Effect of sleep disruption on cognitive performance and its relevance with biological clock	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0635	Monima Chadha	C. D. Sebastian	Cognition and Mind in Indian and Western Traditions	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0633	Dharma Arunachalam Co- Supervisor: Swati Parashar	Rowena Robinson	Dynamics of Family Change in India	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0500	Shanthakumar Wilson Rajaratnam	Azizuddin Khan	Effect of sleep deprivation on decision making and vigilance among night shift workers	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0762	Dharmalingam Arunachalam	Satish B. Agnihotri	Can unsafe be smart? Smart city governance and women´s safety in Urban India	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0765	Antonio Verdejo-Garcia Monash Co-supervisor: Naomi Kakoschke	Rashmi Gupta	The interactive effect of cognition, emotion, and motivation on behaviour	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0507	Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Ronita Bardhan and Arnab Jana	Women Without Fear: Gender-based Violence, Urban Transport and Public Space in Metropolitan India	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0636	Bebe Loff	Rama Pal	The economics and ethics of hospital care in India	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0637	Bebe Loff	Amrita Banerjee	In search of innovative models of justice to respond to sexual violence	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0730	Srinivas Sridharan	Anush Kapadia	An Ethnography of Cash Consumption in Urban India	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0759	Adrian McNeil	Suddhaseel Sen	Narratives of Music and Modernity in 19th Century Colonial Calcutta	Candidate Required
Design, Humanities and Social Sciences	ID00690	Misha Myers	Nina Sabnani	Digitalore: Sustainable preservation, transmission and transformation of intangible cultural heritage through digital storytelling	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Humanities and Social Sciences	IMURA0780	Gholamreza Haffari	Preethi Jyothi>br> IITB Co-supervisor: Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Malhar Kulkarni	Spoken translation systems for resource scarce languages	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0754	Michael Ure Monash Co-Supervisors: Paul Muldoon, Anne McNevin	Siby K. George	Sustaining Democracies	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences, Design, Management	HSS0763	Robert Thomson	Suryakant Waghmore	Representative democracy in India: The making, breaking and fulfilment of campaign promises	Candidate Allotted Sania Mariam
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0772	Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Ahonaa Roy	Alternative Sexualities, Queer Cultures: Negotiations, Performances, Activisms	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences, Clean Energy	HSS0771	Robert Thomson Co-supervisor:Prof. Michael Mintrom	Anand Rao	India’s Renewable Energy Policy	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences, Clean Energy	HSS0770	Robert Thomson Monash Co-supervisor: Dharmalingam Arunachalam	Priya Jadhav	The value, implementation and uptake of distributed generation solutions in light of poor quality grid supply in low usage rural areas: the impact of technical, political and social factors	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	IMURA0637	Bebe Loff	Satish Agnihotri	In search of innovative models of justice to respond to sexual violence	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0489	Michael Ure Co-Supervisor: Paul Muldoon and Anne McNevin	Siby K. George	Sustaining Democracies	Candidate Allotted Ananya Dasgupta
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0731	Greg Markowsky	Pushpa Trivedi	Demand for Cash: An Econometric Model for India	Candidate Allotted Anirudh Tagat
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0707a	Samanthi Gunawardana Monash Co Supervisor: Marika Vicziany	D. Parthasarathy	Lives, Livelihoods and Aspirations of the Kolis in Mumbai: Urban Transformation, Space, Habitat, and Coastal Contestations	Candidate Allotted Anusha Gavankar
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0634	Dharma Arunachalam Co- Supervisor: Swati Parashar	Mrinmoyi Kulkarni Rama Pal	Child and reproductive health in India	Candidate Allotted Bhavna Rajagopal
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0506	Mridula Nath Chakraborty Co-supervisors: Swati Parashar	D. Parthasarathy	Class, Gender, and the Transformation of Public and Community Spaces in Indian Urban Metropolises	Candidate Allotted Indu Rai
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0707b	Samanthi Gunawardana	D. Parthasarathy	Livelihoods and Aspirations of the Kolis in Mumbai: Urban Transformation, Space, Habitat, and Coastal Contestations	Candidate Allotted Kailash Tandel
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0705	Alice Gaby	Vaijayanthi Sarma	Documentation of the Endangered Languages of South Asia	Candidate Allotted Mashrur Imtiaz
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0645	Dharma Arunachalam Co- Supervisor: Swati Parashar	D.Parthasarathy	Exploring gender and ethnic dimensions of malnutrition	Candidate Allotted Pragati Dubey
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0505	Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Paulomi Chakraborty	Gender and Public Sphere	Candidate Allotted Sreejata Paul
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0742	Chung-Hsing Yeh	Pankaj Dutta	Sustainability based recycling planning using multi-criteria decision making	Candidate Alloted Pratistha Chandra
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0641	Pushkar Maitra	Sarthak Gaurav Co- Supervisor: Ashish Singh	EVALUATION OF OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS OF NRHM	Candidate Alloted Rohit Shah
Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0794	Amrik Sohal	T T Niranjan	Supply Chain Risk Management In Practice: A Behavioral Study of What Is, And What It Is Thought To Be	Candidate Required
Clean Energy, Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0804	Prof Mita Bhattacharya	Prof Vinish Kathuria	Energy Transition in the Indian Economy	Candidate Required
Humanities and social sciences	HSS0818	Dharma Arunachalam	Satish B Agnihotri	Where does the shoe pinch – mapping the contours of child malnutrition to plan its elimination	Candidate Required
Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0833	Kristian Rotaru	Tarikere T. Niranjan	Psychophysiological Studies to Understand and Correct Cognitive Biases in Operations Management	Candidate Required
Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0834	Kristian Rotaru	Tarikere T. Niranjan	The role of executive functioning skills in decision-making under risk and uncertainty: Testing the influence of time pressure, distraction, and multitasking	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	IMURA0867	Prof.Robert Thomson Co-supervisor:Prof. Wray Buntine	Prof.Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan Co-supervisor: Prof. Preethi Jyothi	Artificial Intelligence for Stronger Indian Democracy: Advances in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Analysing Political Text	Candidate Required
Clean Energy Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0879	Robert Thomson Roger Dargaville	Anand B. Rao Jayendran Venkateswaran	Understanding the electricity access-development linkages of centralised and decentralised supply schemes using system dynamics framework	Candidate Required
Clean Energy Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0880	Srinivas Sridharan Vinod Mishra	Anand B. Rao Satish B. Agnihotri	Analysing the pathways of Indian domestic electricity consumption using bottom-up modelling approach	Candidate Required
Humanities &Social Sciences, Design	ID0897	Prof.Nicole Kalms Prof. Gene Bawden	Prof.Sugandh Malhotra	Preventing Sexual Harassment in Indian Public Transport Spaces through Gender-Sensitive Co-Design with Women and Girls	Candidate Required
Humanities and social sciences	HSS0903	Prof.Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Prof.Amrita Banerjee	Literatures of decoloniality, Philosophies of difference	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0906	Prof. Andrew Hoadley	Prof. Yogendra Shastri	Assessment of circular economy adoption for global sustainability	Candidate Required
Humanities and social sciences	IMURA0919	Prof Dharmalingam Arunachalam	Prof. Amit Arora Prof. Satish Agnihotri	Stubborn and persistent – Child Malnutrition in India	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	HSS0942	Dr.Michael Ure	Siby K. George	Affective Approaches to Justice as a Way of Life	Candidate Required
Water, Humanities & Social Sciences	IMURA0954	Prof.Murali Sastry	Prof. Pankaj Sekhsaria	What does safe, affordable drinking water mean?	Candidate Required
Humanities and Social Sciences	IMURA0982	Prof. Mohan Yellishetty	Prof. Ritayan Mitra	Using DEBE feedback to improve geoscience curriculum, teaching and learning	Candidate Required