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
Click here to see the list of projects floated for the upcoming intake.
Research Themes | Project Number | Monash University Supervisor | IIT-Bombay Supervisor | Project Title | Project Status |
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Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Water |
IMURA0108 | Ana Deletic David McCarthy |
Subimal Ghosh | Development and testing of stormwater quantity and quality models based on radar rainfall data |
Candidate Required |
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Water |
IMURA0109 | Ana Deletic David McCarthy |
Eldho T. Iype | Assessing total error in stormwater treatment models. |
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 |
Water | IMURA0152 | Ana Deletic David McCarthy |
Eldho.T Iype | Uncertainties in hydrological data and models for river catchments in monsoon regions. |
Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0154 | Ana Deletic Edoardo Daly |
Subhankar Karmakar | Physico-chemical Process Modeling of Biofiltration Systems | 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 |
Water | IMURA0386 | Gavin Mudd | Sumathi Suresh | Chemical and Biological Remediation Methods for Coal Acidic Mine Drainages (CAMDs) |
Candidate Required |
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Water |
IMURA0261 | Shonali Krishnaswamy Terence Chan |
Ganesh Ramakrishnan | Data Mining to Improve Water Management |
Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, Water | IMURA0349 | Mohan Yellishetty | A.K.Dikshit | Geospatial monitoring of opencast mines waste dumps to predict the soil erosion rates and evaluate the associated environmental effects. |
Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0488 | Steven Siems Co-Supervisor: Michael Manton |
Arpita Mondal Co-Supervisor: Subimal Ghosh |
Hybrid Downscaling of Orographic Precipitation | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0607 | Prof. Ranjith Pathegama Gamage | Prof. Manasa Ranjan Behera | Computational Modelling of Multiphase Flow in Coastal and Deep Sea Reservoirs |
Candidate Required |
Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0642 | Akshat Tanksale Co-supervisor: Xiwang Zhang |
Aswani Yella | Photoelectrochemical water splitting using monolithic photoanode/high photovoltage perovskite solar cell tandem devices |
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 |
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Water | IMURA0725 | Murray Rudman | Shivasubramanian Gopalakrishnan Also includes external supervisors fro Data61 |
Improved techniques for high resolution urban flood modelling | Candidate Required |
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Water | IMURA0726 | Christoph Rudiger Monash Co Supervisor: Ha Bui |
RAAJ.Ramsankaran Also includes external supervisors from Data61 |
Application of model data fusion techniques for natural hazards modelling and analytics in developing countries especially in the Indian Sub-continent. |
Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0777 | Jeff Walker | J. INDU | Towards Assimilation of SMAP and SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature into a land surface model |
Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0775 | Boon Mian Teo | Shobha Shukla IITB Co-supervisor: Sumit Saxena |
Graphene & ultrasound based combinatorial approach for <span style=”color: blue;”>water purification |
Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0769 | Marc Parlange | Basudev Biswal | Understanding water-energy interactions and hydrologic partitioning in natural river basins |
Candidate Allotted
Shefali Verma |
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 |
Water, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0449 | Santosh Panjikar | Ruchi Anand | Structural characterisation of enzymes for biotechnological application in microbial degradation of water pollutants |
Candidate Allotted Sukritee Bhaskar |
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 |
Water | IMURA0483 | Dr. Christoph Rùdiger | Professor Gulab Singh, Co- Supervisor Professor Avik Bhattacharya | Monitoring Snow Water Equivalent in the Indian Himalayas |
Candidate Allotted Akshay Patil |
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 |
Water | IMURA0101 | Edoardo Daly | Subimal Ghosh | Impacts of Climate Variability and Climate Change on <span style=”color: blue;”>Water Availability for Vegetation at a River Basin Scale. |
Candidate Allotted Murari Kamal |
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. |
Water | IMURA0603 | Jeffrey Walker | J. Adinarayana | A system approach model for Citrus crop growth prediction using ground and remote sensing based information and data assimilation techniques |
Candidate Allotted Rahul Raj |
Water | IMURA0293 | Santosh Panjikar | Ruchi Anand | Structural characterization of a regulatory protein useful in developing Biosensors for water purification system |
Candidate Allotted Shamayeeta Ray |
Water | IMURA0256 | Christian Rau Terence Chan Also includes an external supervisor from TCS |
Subhankar Karmakar Also includes an external supervisor from TCS |
Using GIS and other methods to understand and quantify the vulnerability of a megacity like Mumbai to floods |
Candidate Allotted Sherly M A |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture and Water | IMURA0467 | Jonathan M Keith | Siuli Mukhopadhyay | Designs for spatial and temporo-spatial models | Candidate Allotted Subhadra Dasgupta |
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 |
Water | IMURA0665 | Christoph Rùdiger | Arpita Mondal | Droughts in a changing climate: an integrated multivariate approach | Candidate Alloted Pallavi Goswami |
Water | IMURA0746 | Steven Siems | Arpita Mondal IITB Co-supervisor: Subimal Ghosh |
Extreme rainfall and the role of orography | Candidate Alloted Suma Bhanu Battula |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture and Water. | IMURA0351 | Prof. Jeffrey Walker | Dr. RAAJ. Ramsankaran | Distributed hydrological modelling of murray darling basin through assimilation of remotely sensed datasets. |
Candidate Allotted Antara Dasgupta |
Water | IMURA0351(A) | Jeffrey Walker | RAAJ. Ramsankaran | Modelling Glacier Stored Volume in Eastern Himalayas using Remote sensing Datasets |
Candidate Allotted Sangita |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Clean Energy,Water and Nanotechnology | IMURA0468 | Main Supervisor: Associate Professor Xiwang Zhang ,Co- Supervisor: Dr Gita Pendharkar | Main Supervisor: Siddhartha Prakash Duttagupta, Co- Supervisor: Arindam Sarkar,Sanjay Mahajani | Artifical Leaf for Hydrogen Generation from Waste water | Candidate Allotted Uzma Bano Memon |
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 |
Water | IMURA0814 | Prof Mike Grace | Prof Shobha Shukla | Nanomaterials & ecosystems: Potential effect and involved processes | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0825 | Prof. Marc Parlange | Prof. Basudev Biswal | Effect of global warming on precipitation extremes in India: Adding physics to the analysis | Candidate Allotted
Abdul Mateen Syed |
Water | IMURA0836 | Prof Sina Alaghmand | Prof Pennan Chinnasamy | Groundwater availability assessment for non-monsoon irrigation in arid regions of India | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0837 | Prof Sina Alaghmand | Prof Pennan Chinnasamy | Remote sensing assessment of groundwater depletion in India | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0838 | Dr. Sina Alaghmand | Dr. Pennan Chinnasamy | Climate change impacts on hydrological regimes in rural India | Candidate Required |
Water Nanotechnology |
IMURA0873 | Dr. Tanveer Adyel | Prof.Shobha Shukla Prof. Sumit Saxena |
Microplastics in the aquatic environment: Fate and transport dynamics | Candidate Required |
Water Nanotechnology |
IMURA0874 | Dr. Tanveer Adyel | Prof.Shobha Shukla Prof. Sumit Saxena |
Graphene-based composite sensors for real-time heavy metal monitoring in water environment | Candidate Required |
Water, Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0852 | Prof. Samanthi Gunawardana Co-supervisor: Marika Vicziany |
Prof.NC Narayanan Co-supervisor: Prof. D. Parthasarathy |
INEQUALITY AND THE EMERGING WATER MARKETS OF RURAL MAHARASHTRA | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0894 | Prof. Jeffrey Walker | Prof. RAAJ Ramsankaran | Algorithm for Improving Satellite Rainfall Estimates using Surface Soil Moisture | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0895 | Prof. Andrew Mackintosh Dr. Felicity McCormack |
Prof. RAAJ Ramsankaran | Influence of large-scale atmosphere and ocean variability on past and future East Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0898 | Prof.Jeffrey Walker | Prof.RAAJ Ramsankaran | Crop Yield Forecasting using Earth Observation (EO) Satellite datasets | Candidate Required |
Water,Nanotechnology | IMURA0900 | Dr.Tanveer Adyel | Prof.Shobha Shukla Prof. Sumit Saxena |
Graphene-based composite for remediation of emerging contaminants/pollutants from water and wastewater | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0911 | Prof.Bayden Wood Prof.Don McNaughton |
Prof. Shobha Shukla Prof Sumit Saxena |
SERS detection of pathogens in water | Candidate Allotted Sarthak Saxena |
Water | IMURA0916 | Dr. Robin Armit | Dr. Prabhakar Naraga | Crustal evolution of the Archean basement and associated Proterozoic supracrustal rocks in the Aravalli Craton (NW India): Insights from the Bhilwara-Nadhwara transect. | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0923 | Dr. Guido Tack External CSIRO supervisor: Dr. Sreekanth Janardhanan |
Prof.J.Indu | Optimization of groundwater planning and management under predictive uncertainties using computationally efficient dataassimilation | Candidate Allotted Shubhada Sali |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0930 | Prof.Ian Cartwright | Prof.Pennan Chinnasamy | Groundwater depletion scenario for India – use of isotopes and modeling | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0931 | Prof. Christoph Rudiger Co-supervisor: Prof.Geoff Webb |
Prof.Pennan Chinnasamy | Big Data analysis for rural resource management and development | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0932 | Prof.Tim Peterson | Prof.Pennan Chinnasamy | Climate change impacts on hydrological regimes in rural India | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0933 | Prof.Marc Parlange | Prof.Pennan Chinnasamy | Evaporation and Precipitation changes from cultivated rural regions of India | 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 |
Water | IMURA0937 | Prof.Jeff Walker | Prof.Karthikeyan Lanka | Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Vegetation | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0938 | Prof.Marc Parlange | Prof.Pennan Chinnasamy | Groundwater management and gender inequalities in India | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA0949 | Prof.Tim J Peterson | Prof.Arpita Mondal | Rainfall-runoff relationships and catchment resilience in India | 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 Allotted Twinkle Soni |
Water | IMURA0975 | Prof. Jeffery Walker | Prof. Eswar Rajasekaran | Estimation and partitioning of evapotranspiration using soil moisture and vegetation parameters retrieved from passive microwave remote sensing | Candidate Allotted Sanjay N C |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Water | IMURA0980 | Prof. Andrew Mackintosh | Prof. RAAJ Ramsankaran | Reconstruction of past glacier change in Ladakh Himalayas and future projections based on climate change scenario | Candidate Required |
Water and Humanities, Social Sciences and Management | IMURA1011 | Prof. Shirin Malekpour | Prof. Riddhi Singh | Regionalizing Sustainable Development Goals related to water, food, and energy | Candidate Required |
Water | IMURA1014 | Prof. Edoardo Daly | Prof. Eswar Rajasekaran Co-supervisor: Prof. Basudev Biswal |
Modelling the water use efficiency of orange orchards | Candidate Required |
Water, Humanities, Social Sciences & Management | IMURA1029 | Prof. Rob Raven Co-supervisor: Prof.Ruth Lane, Prof. Jane Holden |
Prof. NC Narayanan Co-supervisor: Prof. Pradip Kalbar |
The Governance of Place-based Transitions to Circular Economies in the Global South: Comparing Waterbody Rejuvenation Interventions to Circular Economy in Indonesia and India | Candidate Required |
Water, Humanities, Social Sciences & Management | IMURA0954 | Prof. Murali Sastry | Prof. Pankaj Sekhsaria | What does safe, affordable drinking water mean? | Candidate Allotted: Gaurav Kapse |