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
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 Required
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 Required
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
Water, Humanities & Social Sciences	IMURA0954	Prof. Murali Sastry	Prof. Pankaj Sekhsaria	What does safe, affordable drinking water mean?	Candidate Required