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 |
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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 | IMURA0653 | Julio Soria | Aniruddha Sinha | Stability analysis of impinging jets. | 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 |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture Infrastructure Engineering |
IMURA0799 | Daniel Edgington-Mitchell | Aniruddha Sinha | Modelling noise sources in supersonic jets | Candidate Required |
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 |
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 |