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
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0429	Colin Caprani Also includes an external supervisor from CSIRO	Siddhartha Ghosh	Management of corroded RC infrastructure using monitored data	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0638(A)	Sunita Chauhan Monash Co-supervisor: Mr. Ravi Ravitharan	Leena Vachhani	Integrated Robotic System for Inspection of Railway Infrastructure	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0053	Abdelmalek Bouazza	B.V.S. Viswanadham	Development and Assessment of Mineral Lining Systems with Enhanced Attenuating Capacity for Waste Containment Facilities	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy	IMURA0073	Ranjith Pathegama	Deepankar Choudhury	To study the effects of mining induced subsidence, changes in deformation of coal and interburden rock strata and water flow	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0075	Abdelmalek Bouazza	B.V.S. Viswanadham	Studies on the performance of Geosynthetic Clay Liners of landfill covers subjected to differential settlements	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0120	Jayantha Kodikara	Pradipta Banerji Sauvik Banerjee	Fuzzy logic-based failure prediction model for water distribution pipes	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Nanotechnology	IMURA0677	Huanting Wang	A.K. Suresh	Heterogeneous catalysis of cyclohexane oxidation	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0215	Alan Aitken	M. Radhakrishna	The structure and evolution of the lithosphere in the northeast Indian Ocean	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0220	Alan Chaffee Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Vinay Juvekar Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Modelling of Oil Adsorption in porous inorganic salt prills	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0227	Alan Chaffee Prabhakar RanganathanAlso includes external supervisor from Orica	Asim Tiwari Also includes external supervisor from Orica	Modelling Investigations of Surface Forces in Water-in-Oil Emulsion Contact with Minerals	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering, Nanotechnology	IMURA0767	Raman Singh	M.J.N.V. Prasad	Wear, corrosion and oxidation behaviour of electrodeposited multi-layered Fe-Ni and compositionally graded Fe-Al coatings	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0288	Jianfeng Xue	Ashish Juneja	Rainfall induced landslides in residual soils	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0112	Ranjith Pathegama Also includes external supervisor from BHPB	Deepankar Choudhury T.N SinghAlso includes external supervisor from BHPB	Investigation of influence of scale effects of strength and failure modes of deep open cut slopes	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy	IMURA0336	Ranjith Pathegama Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	T N Singh Hemant Kumar Singh Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Geological effects on the propagation of ground vibrations produced by blasting	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture ,Infrastructure Engineering and Clean Energy	IMURA0482	Professor Y Ahmet Sekerciogulu, Also includes an external supervisor from CISCO	Professor D Manjunath	Deterministic Wireless Mesh Systems	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0617	Colin Caprani	Jayadipta Ghosh	Machine learning applications for reliability analysis and life-cycle assessment of highway bridges	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0629	Inhi Kim Co-supervisor: Kun An	P.Vegagiri	Evaluating surrogate safety on shared space using simulation.	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy	IMURA0643	Ranjith PG	V. Vishal Co Supervisor: T. N. Singh	Numerical and experimental investigations of complex fracturing in shale	Candidate Allotted
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0652	Jayantha Kodikara Co-supervisor : Ha Bui	V. Vishal Co-supervisor :T. N. Singh	Geomechanical modelling of flow and deformation in coal measure rocks	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0654	Yu Bai	Jayadipta Ghosh	Retrofit assessment for deteriorating highway bridges and impact on seismic fragility	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0651	Bre-Anne Sainsbury Co-supervisor: Mohan Yellishetty	T. N. Singh, V. Vishal	Multi-scale numerical modelling of longwall top coal caving processes	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0659	Neil Cameron	Anil Kumar	Design, Synthesis and Application of Organocatalysts and Hydrogenation Catalysts for Continuous Flow Processes	Candidate Allotted Pallavi Sengupta
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0661	Rico Tabor	Amitabh Bhattacharya	Characterizing Core-Annular Flow of Emulsions	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0664	Ye Lu	Sauvik Banerjee	Performance Evaluation of Corrosion Degraded RCC Structure Using Acoustic Emission and Tomography	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Water	IMURA0681	Edoardo Daly, Mahesh Prakash (CSIRO)	Subhankar Karmakar	Evaluation of adaptation to climate change in coastal cities	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0691	Jayantha Kodikara	Dharamveer Singh	Evaluating effects of milled asphalt pavement (MAP) materials on mechanical performances of asphalt mixes	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0706	Sunita Chauhan Monash Co Supervisor: Ravi Ravitharan	Anirban Guha	Rail-robots for railway tracks routine inspection ­ Novel re-configurable mechanism Design	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0722	Rob Hyndman Dianne Cook	Radhendushka Srivastava	Statistical analysis and visualisation of spatially distributed big time series electricity usage data	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering, Design	ID00712	Indae Hwang	Jayesh S. Pillai IITB Co supervisor: Vikram Vishal	Design and Assessment of Virtual Environments in Technological Applications	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering, Nanotechnology	IMURA0791	Raman Singh Monash Co-supervisor: Parama Chakraborty Banerjee	C. Subramaniam	Graphene Coating for Remarkable Corrosion Resistance: Mechanistic Investigation into Degradation and Durability	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0428	Colin Caprani Also includes an external supervisor from CSIRO	BALAJI Ramakrishnan	Mitigation of wave forces on coastal bridges	Candidate Allotted Abilash Ananthula
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy	IMURA0385	Andrew Hoadley	Karen Hapgood	Agent-based modeling of multi-scale systems for sustainability assessment.	Candidate Allotted Neeraj Hanumante
Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy, Water	IMURA0350	Mohan Yellishetty also includes an external supervisor from JSW also	A.K.Dikshit	Building Artificial Soils from Industrial Waste Products for Mine Rehabilitation	Candidate Allotted Shashibhushan Biliangadi
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering, Water, Nanotechnology	IMURA0656	Amin Heidarpour	Manasa Ranjan Behera	Design load estimation due to debris flow during tsunami	Candidate Allotted Aditya Gupta
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0195	Geoff Webb Also includes an external supervisor from Infosys	Ganesh Ramakrishnan Pushpak Bhattacharyya Also includes an external supervisor from Infosys	Learning for ‘Deep’ Semantic Parsing in Natural Languages by Integrating Knowledge-based and Statistical Techniques	Candidate Allotted Ajay Nagesh
Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0221(A)	Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Anuradda Ganesh Sanjay Mahajani Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Techno-economic evaluations of Biomass gasification with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production	Candidate Allotted Pratham Arora
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0038	Raman Singh	V.S Raja	Localized corrosion and stress corrosion cracking of magnesium alloys	Student completed Bharat Padekar
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0078	Mohan Krishnamoorthy	Ashwin Gumaste	Automated Design and Configuration of Optical Networks	Student completed Deval Arun Bhamare
Infrastructure Engineering Nanotechnology	IMURA0307	Raman Singh	A.S. Khanna	Development of Self-Healing coatings	Candidate Allotted Karan Thanawala
Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy	IMURA0074	Ranjith Pathegama Also includes an external supervisor from BHPB	D.N. Singh Also includes an external supervisor from BHPB	Investigation of permeability of fractured,steep and deep rock slopes with high groundwater pressures	Student completed Kunal Kumar Singh
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0088	Bala Srinivasan	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Exploring Relational Learning and its applicability to Sensor Networks	Student completed Naveen Nair
Infrastructure Engineering Water	IMURA0064	Abdelmalek Bouazza	B.V.S. Viswanadham	Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Geosynthetic Clay Liners in Landfill Capping Systems	Candidate Allotted Neeraja V.S.
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0080	Malin Premaratne	V.Ramgopal Rao	Understanding the Critical Role of Quantum Mechanical Effects in Nanoscale Semiconductor Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices	Student completed Akash Nigam
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0045	Raman Singh	S.K Maiti	Improve design data for mitigation of stress corrosion cracking	Student completed Nilesh Raykar
Infrastructure Engineering, Nanotechnology	IMURA0345	Nick Birbillis	V.S.Raja	Corrosion of Magnesium alloys	Candidate Allotted Poorwa Gore
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0214	Fabio Antonio Capitanio	M. Radhakrishna	Structure and Deformation of Lithosphere along the Java-Sumatra- Andaman Subduction Zone in the Eastern Indian Ocean.	Candidate Allotted Raghu Ram Gudipati
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0052	Campbell Charles Wilson Judithe Irene Sheard	Sahana Murthy Sridher Iyer	Intelligent Tutoring Systems	Student completed Ramkumar Rajendran
Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0221(B)	Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Anuradda Ganesh Sanjay Mahajani Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Techno-economic evaluations of coal and Biomass pyrolysis with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production	Candidate Allotted Ishan Sharma
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0648	Wenyi Yan Co-supervisor: Cong Qiu	Aparna Singh	Effect of microstructure on rail/wheel interaction and defects.	Candidate Allotted Soumyajit Mojumder
Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy	IMURA0222	Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Anuradda Ganesh Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Techno-economic evaluations of solar (or other advanced technologies) for splitting water for hydrogen and oxygen feedstock to ammonia and nitric acid production	Candidate Allotted Sonal Thengane
Infrastructure Engineering,Clean Energy,Water	IMURA0348	Mohan Yellishetty	T.N.Singh	Fly ash utilisation in haul road construction in open cast coal mines: A geo environmental and hydrogeological investigation	Candidate Allotted Tushar Gupta
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy	IMURA0098	Ranjith Pathegama	T.N Singh	Numerical Simulation of CO2 sequestration and recovery of CH4 from coal seams	Student completed Vikram Vishal
Advanced Computational Engineering simulation and manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0357	Murray Rudman Also includes an external supervisor from CSIRO	Balaji Ramakrishnan	Wave impact on protective coastal structures	Candidate Allotted Vivek-Francis
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0091	Kate Smith-Miles	Sarat Chandran	Novel projector camera systems	Student completed Shamsuddin Ladha
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0721	Chris Davies	Nagamani Jaya Balila Indradev Samajdar	Micro-mechanisms of plasticity and fracture in alloys produced by additive manufacturing	Candidate Alloted Ketan Khamgaonkar
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0383	Ye Lu	Sauvik Banerjee	Integrity Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves	Candidate Allotted Rajeshwara Chary Sriramadasu
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0213	Wenyi Yan	Ramesh Singh Suhas Joshi	Laser Cladding Technology to Repair Structures	Candidate Allotted Santanu Paul
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0638	Sunita Chauhan Co-supervisor: Ravi Ravitharan	Leena Vachhani Co-supervisor: Arpita Sinha	Coordinated inspection of railway tracks using multiple robots	Candidate Allotted Somnath Buriuly
Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy	IMURA0751	Ariel Liebman Monash Co-supervisor: Roger Dargaville	Rangan Banerjee	Modelling Energy Transitions in India and Australia	Candidate Alloted SUBHADIP BHATTACHARYA
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0332	Wenyi Yan	Ramesh Singh Abhishek Gupta	Modeling of Tool-Tissue Interaction for Surgical Simulators with Haptic Feedback	Candidate Allotted Abhishek Mujherjee
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Nanotechnology	IMURA0125	Ranjith Pathegama WenHui Duan	T.N. Singh	Investigation of fundamental mechanism on rock fracture by Nanomechanics based modeling techniques.	Candidate Alloted Bankim Chandra Mahanta
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0170	Jayantha Kodikara	T.N Singh	Modelling of fracture formation in sedimentary rocks due to fluid pressure	Candidate Alloted Debajan Guha
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0273	Raman Singh	S.K Maiti	Simulation and Experimental Validation of Corrosion Fatigue	Candidate Alloted Dhiraj Kumar
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Water	IMURA0060	Ranjith Pathegama Gamage	Jeffrey Walker	Numerical investigation of the integrity of the caprock behaviour of saline aquifers: CO2 sequestration	Candidate Alloted Dinesh Panneerselvam
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0072	Ranjith Pathegama Co-Supervisor: Jian Zhao	Deepankar Choudhury	Tunneling in soft soil under both static and seismic events	Candidate Alloted Milind Patil
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0119	Jayantha Kodikara	B.V.S. Viswanadham	Studies on the response of synthetic fibre reinforced expansive soils	Candidate Alloted Uma Chaduvula
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0805	Prof Sebastian Thomas	Prof. Indradev Samajdar, IITB Co-supervisor: Prof. Ajay Panwar	Designing hydrogen-resistant alloys: Mechanistic evaluation of hydrogen-induced corrosion and cracking in martensitic and precipitation hardened stainless steels	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0813	Dr. Ye Lu	Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh	Optimal damage detection in structures through uncertainty quantification	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0848	Hai Vu	Gopal R. Patil	ultiple link disruptions in road networks considering network dynamics	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0861	Dr. Nan Zheng	Prof. Avijit Maji	Effect of human factor and dynamics of connected and autonomous vehicles on highway infrastructure elements	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0871	Prof. Sunita Chauhan A/Prof. Mohan Yellishetty	Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini	Agriculture Robots: Automated control and assessment strategy using distributed heterogeneous multi-agent system	Candidate Required
Design Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0872	Prof. Sunita Chauhan	Prof. Anirban Guha Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini	AgriBot: Agriculture Inspection Robot –design and control	Candidate Allotted Varun Batra
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0786	Prof.Prof. Ralph Abrahams Mr. Darrien Welsby Dr Cong Qiu Mr Peter Mutton Mr. Ravi Ravitharan	Prof.Aparna Singh	The Investigation of Damage evolution under rail/wheel contact	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy	IMURA0920	Prof. Mohan Yellishetty	Prof. Anil Kumar Dikshit	Designing and Developing Mobile Equipment, Tools & Implements for Managing Urban Solid Wastes	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0926	Dr Colin Caprani	Dr. Jayadipta Ghosh Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh	Machine Learning for Improved Value of Information of Structural Health Monitoring	Candidate Allotted Zaid Yaqoob Mir Rangrez
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0927	Dr Colin Caprani	Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh Dr. Jayadipta Ghosh	Coupled Corrosion-Fatigue of Steel Bridges: A Value-of-Information Approach Utilizing SHM data	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA0928	Prof.Jayantha Kodikara	Prof. B V S Viswanadham	Studies on Cracking Behaviour of Cement Stabilized Material in Flexible Pavements	Candidate Required
Infrastructure engineering, Water	IMURA0934	Prof.Julie Arblaster Prof.Ben Henley	Prof.Arpita Mondal	Water availability and climate change: attribution and impacts	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering, Water, Nanotechnology	IMURA0964	Prof. Bayden Wood	Shobha Shukla	Interfacing microfluidics, plasmonic surfaces and portable spectroscopic devices for the detection of E. coli in water supplies	Candidate Required
Infrastructure Engineering	IMURA1004	Dr. Ye Lu	Prof. Arghadeep Laskar	Development of Integrated Smart Sensing System for Structural Health Monitoring	Candidate Required