Sponsored Projects:
(a). Prof. Balasubramanian Raman as Principal Investigator:
1. ‘Landslide monitoring, forecasting and mitigation system’, ISRO, SAC Ahmedabad, 14.1096 lacs, Ongoing (2022-24)
2. ‘End-to-End Emotional Speech Synthesis Phase 2’, Samsung, 10.62 lacs, Completed (2019-20)
3. ‘End-to-End Emotional Speech Synthesis Phase 1’, Samsung, 24.204 lacs (including Instruments), Completed (2018-19)
4. ‘NVIDIA Hardware Grant’, Titan X {non-Pascal} GPU, NVIDIA Corporation, 1.5 lacs, Completed (2016-17)
5. ‘3D Reconstruction and Software Development for City Model Generation from Satellite Images’, ISRO, SAC Ahmedabad, 7.73 lacs, Completed (2012-15)
6. ‘Digital Watermarking for Rightful Ownership & Copyright Protection’, CSIR, New Delhi, 10.92 lacs, Completed (2011-14)
7. ‘Face Recognition: A Neural Network Approach’, DST, New Delhi, 2.88 lacs, Completed (2007-10)
8. ‘Reconstruction of 3D curves and surfaces from arbitrary Perspective views’, MHRD, IIT Roorkee, Scheme B, 3.14 lacs, Completed (2007-10)
9. ‘Nearest neighbor vector based Palmprint verification’, IIT Roorkee, Scheme A, 1.0 lac, Completed (2006-07)

(b). Prof. Balasubramanian Raman as Co-Principal Investigator:
1. ‘Development of Al powered Multipurpose Intelligent Security and Surveillance System’, DST-TIH, 100 lacs, Ongoing (2021-24)
2. ‘Hardware implementation of Artificial Intelligence based Object and Motion Detection, Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE)’, Dehradun, 9.65 lacs, Ongoing (2021-23)
3. ‘Automated Cognitive Metrics Classification Framework to Improve Human Machine Collaboration’, DRDO, Delhi, 48.83 lacs, Ongoing (2020-23), PI: Dr. Partha Pratim Roy
4. ‘Urban and Regional Inequality Modelling as Story-Telling: Using Simulation Models as Narrative’, SPARC, A Government of India Initiative, 94.46 lacs, Completed (2019-21), PI: Dr. Arindam Biswas and Prof. Tetsuo Kidokoro (Japan)
5. ‘Brain Computer Interface for Neuro and Cognitive Research’, SMILE, IIT Roorkee, 75 lacs, Completed (2018-19), PI: Dr. Partha Pratim Roy
6. ‘Thermal Imager with Calibrator for Bad Weather and Night Vision’, SMILE, IIT Roorkee, 43 lacs, Completed (2017-18), PI: Dr. B. K. Kaushik
7. ‘Multi-oriented Indic text recognition in natural scene and video images’, Science & Engineering Research Board, New Delhi, 17.8871 lacs, Completed (2016-20), PI: Dr. Partha Pratim Roy
8. ‘Development and Real-time Implementation of Filters to Remove Noise and Blur Effect’, Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun, 18.50 lacs, Completed (2016-18), PI: Dr. B. K. Kaushik
9. ‘Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Project phase II’, DeitY, New Delhi, 137.7 lacs, Ongoing (2014-21), PI: Prof. Manoj Misra (Former Head, CSE, IITR)
10. ‘Multimodal Biometric based person Authentication and Identification System’, DST, New Delhi, 23.52667 lacs, Completed (2014-17), Mentor, PI: Dr. Asha Rani (under WOS-A)
11. ‘Reconstruction of 3D objects from Stereo space Imagery for Development of city models’, ISRO, SAC Ahmedabad, 11.5 lacs, Completed (Apr 2007 to August2010), PI: Prof. Rama Bhargava

Consultancy Projects:
(a). Prof. Balasubramanian Raman as Principal Investigator:
1. ‘Development of feature reduction and classification algorithms for Hyperspectral data processing’, Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL), Dehradun, 9.3755 lacs, Completed (Nov 2010 to Mar 2012)

(b). Prof. Balasubramanian Raman as Co-Principal Investigator:
1. ‘Development of Restoration Techniques for Weather Degraded Images’, Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun, 9.70 lacs, Completed (2015-17), PI: Dr. B. K. Kaushik
2. ‘Investigating and Analyzing the Program and Course Structure with respect to its Conformance with the International Standards and Research & Industry needs’, Govt. of Yemen, US $8423.00, Completed (2014-15), PI: Dr. Sandeep Kumar Garg
3. ‘Study of Heat Shimmer Removal Techniques for Long Range Imaging Systems’, Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun, 8.98 lacs, Completed (2013-15), PI: Dr. B. K. Kaushik
4. ‘Anomaly Detection and Sub-pixel Classification Algorithms for Hyperspectral Imaging’, Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL), Dehradun, 19.854 lacs, Completed (Nov 2010 to Mar 2012), Investigator, PI: Prof. Manoj Arora

Title: Modeling and Verification of 3D-Stacked Cache Memory Hierarchy for Heterogeneous System-On-Chip (SoC) Design

Objective of the project:
1. Unique 3D-stacked cache controller design
2. Flexible and efficient simulator implementation for following generation hardware caches that could be used with any compute cores like CPUs, GPUs, Neural cores, SSDs.

Timeline: May 2022 to April 2024
Funded by: IIT Roorkee
Amount: Rs. 20L

Title: ISEA: Information Security Education and Awareness

Projects:

1. ChaseMe : Heuristic based Scheme for Electric Vehicles Green Mobility Management on Charging Stations in a Smart City Scenario
Funding Agency: IIT-Roorkee (As PI)
Duration: 2021-2023

2. Emergency aware Intelligent Dynamic Traffic Signal System for Smart Cities
Funding Agency: CSIR (As PI)
Duration: 2019-2022

3. Software-defined controlled and dynamic traffic load balanced scheduling framework for IoT enabled Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
Funding Agency: SERB. DST (As PI)
Duration: 2019-2022

4. IoT based automated, Real Time and Effective Traffic Signal Scheduling for Smart City
Funding Agency: ICPS, DST (As PI)
Duration: 2019-2022

5. Intelligent Predictive and Prescriptive Systems for Traffic and Pavement Condition Management in a Smart City
Funding Agency: iHub Divyasamapark, Technology Innovation Hub(TIH) at IIT Roorkee (As Co-PI)
Duration : 20XX-20XX

6. Development of Web and Mobile applications for Roorkee citizens, IIT, Roorkee, India.
Funding Agency: IIT Roorkee (As Co-PI)
Duration : 2022-20XX

Prof. Partha Pratim Roy as Principal Investigator

1. Title: Automated Cognitive Metrics Classification Framework to Improve Human Machine Collaboration
Sponsor: DRDO, India
Duration: 2020-2023
Co-PI: R Balasubramanian
2. Title: Vocabulary acquisition and 3D avatar approach for Japanese Sign Language communication
Sponsor: Kakenhi, Japan
Duration: 2019-2022
Co-PI: M. Iwamura
3. Title: Tracking Depression and Elucidating its Mechanisms using Cognitive Neuroscience, EEG, and ML more...
Sponsor: SPARC, MHRD, India
Duration: 2019-2021
Co-PI: Marieke van Vugt, A. G. Ramakrishnan, S. Telles
4. Title: 160 Channel Acti-Champ EEG system
Sponsor: SRIC-SMILE, IIT Roorkee, India
Duration: 2018
Co-PI: R. Balasubramanian, G. Dixit, B. Kaushik, D. Sharma, G. Pillai
5. Title: Multi-oriented Indic text recognition in natural scene and video images more...
Sponsor: SERB, DST, India
Duration: 2016-2020
Co-PI: R. Balasubramanian
6. Title: Tracking Multiple People in Video Surveillance
Sponsor: SRIC-FIG, IIT Roorkee, India
Duration: 2015-2018
Co-PI: NA

Prof. Partha Partim Roy as Co-Principal Investigator

1. Title: A study on Trust, Social influence, and Emotion In Social Media Context: Using EEG as a brain imaging tool
Sponsor: IMPRESS, India
Duration: 2019-2021
PI: G. Dixit
2. Title: Non-filamentary three-Terminal Memristor Architecture for Biomimetic and Logic Design
Sponsor: SPARC, MHRD, India
Duration: 2019-2021
PI: S. Manhas
3. Title: End-to-End Emotional Speech Synthesis
Sponsor: Samsung, India
Duration: 2018-2019
PI: R. Balasubramanian
4. Title: Thermal Imager for Night Vision
Sponsor: SRIC-SMILE, IIT Roorkee, India
Duration: 2017
PI: B. K. Kaushik
5. Title: Information retrieval from prescription
Sponsor: ISI Kolkata, India
Duration: 2018-2021
PI: T. Pal
6. Title: Multi-lingual Word Spotting
Sponsor: ISI, Kolkata, India
Duration: 2017-2020
PI: U. Pal
7. Title: Layout Analysis of Administrative Documents
Sponsor: ISI, Kolkata, India
Duration: 2015-2018
PI: U. Pal
8. Title: Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA)
Sponsor: Deity, India
Duration: 2014-2019
PI: M. Misra

1. Title: Immunity of Large Networks
Sponsored By DST

2. Title: Modeling of diffusion on large Multiplex Networks “Applications in pandemic control and prediction” (Under Faculty Initiation Grant)

Ongoing Projects

1. Title: Information Extraction in the Biomedical Domain
Funding Agency: Faculty Initiation Grant (FIG), IIT Roorkee
Duration: March 2020 - March 2022

2. Title: Machine Learning for PV Power Forcasting
Funding Agency: Technology Innovation Hub, IIT Roorkee
Duration: December 2021 - December 2024

Prof. Sateesh Kumar Peddoju as Co-Investigator

1. Title: Impact Analysis of Cyber Attacks on Microgrid SCADA (IACA-µG SCADA)
Funding Agency: CPRI
Duration: 2022-2023
Amount: approx INR 32 Lakhs
2. Title: Mitigation of cyber attacks in power system using non-linear control system design
Funding Agency: C3iHub
Duration: 2022-2025
Amount: approx INR 25 Lakhs
3. Title: Evaluation of Design of Low-Cost Ground Instrumentation with Real-Time Monitoring for the Development of Landslide Early Warning System
Funding Agency: NMHS, Ministry of EFCC
Duration: 2018-2021
Amount: INR 213 Lakhs
4. Title: Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA)
Funding Agency: DiETY, Ministry of Information Technology, India
Duration: 2015-2020
Amount: Rs. 137 Lakh

Prof. Sateesh Kumar Peddoju as Principal Investigator

1. Title: Dynamic Detection of Android Malware using Context-based Profiling and Machine Learning
Funding Agency: Samsung R & D Division, Noida, India
Duration: 2019-2020
Amount: INR 31.42 Lakhs
2. Title: Delivering Secured and Energy Efficient Multimedia streaming services anywhere and anytime for Mobile Broadband Users
Funding Agency: Railtel Telcom, India
Duration: 2014-2016
Amount: Rs. 33.72 Lakhs
3. Title: Energy Efficient Multimedia Cloud Services for Mobile Devices
Funding Agency: IBM, USA
Duration: 2013-2016
Amount: USD 15000
Project Description: The main objective of the project proposal was to designing a model for providing multimedia services from Cloud to a mobile device in an energy efficient way.
It involves the activities including
(i) designing a model for Energy efficient media streaming from Cloud by utilizing the access technology efficiently.
(ii) Devising an Energy efficient rendering algorithm for mobile devices.
(iii) Providing Context aware multimedia services for mobile devices from Cloud.

Recent projects

Prof. Sudip Roy as Principal Investigator

1. “Design automation for state-of-the-art microfluidic lab-on-a-chips (DALoC)" under the scheme of Project-based Personnel Exchange Programme (PPP) sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for collaboration with Dr.-Ing. Bing Li, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. Total Grant: ~1200K INR ≈ 16K US$ (Sep 2018 - Sep 2020).

2. “Design Methodology for Programmable Microfluidic Devices by Integrating Architectural and Logic Synthesis Techniques" under the scheme of India-Japan Cooperative Science Programme (IJCSP) sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology. Government of India and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan for collaboration with Prof. Shigeru Yamashita, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Total Grant: ~758K INR ≈ 10.2K US$ (Sep 2017 - Sep 2019).

3. “Automated Sample Preparation, Real-life Bioprotocol Implementation and Synthetic Biology using Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chips (LoCs)" under the scheme of Early Career Research Award (ECRA) sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology. Government of India. Total Grant: ~3200K INR ≈ 43K US$ (Jul 2017 - Jul 2020).

4. “FPGA-Prototyping of Microcontrollers for Microfluidic Biochips by Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) Tools and Techniques" under the scheme of Faculty Initiation Grant (FIG) sponsored by SRIC, IIT Roorkee, India. Total Grant: ~1000K INR ≈ 13.5K US$ (Oct 2015 - Dec 2017).



Prof. Sudip Roy as a Co-Principal Investigator

1. “Optimal Route Alignment in Sikim Area" under the scheme of Centre for Acquisition for Research Services (CARS) sponsored by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Government of India in collaboration with Prof. Pitambar Pati (PI), Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee and Prof. R. N. G. Ransinchung (Co-PI), Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee. Total Grant: ~4700K INR ≈ 63K US$ (Jun 2021 - Dec 2023).

2. “A Software-Programmable Microfluidic Device for Automated 3D Cancer Drug Screening" sponsored by 2020 SATU Joint Research Scheme (JRS) for international collaboration with Prof. Ting-Yuan Tu of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Prof. Thamil Selvee Ramasamy of University of Malaya, Malaysia and Prof. Sukanta Bhattacharjee of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. Total Grant: ~355K INR ≈ 4.78K US$ (May - Dec 2020).

3. “Computer-Aided Design for Implementation of Biochemical Protocols Using Cyber-Physical Microfluidic Lab-On-a-Chips" sponsored by 2020 SATU Joint Research Scheme (JRS) for international collaboration with Prof. Sying-Jyan Wang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Total Grant: ~200K INR ≈ 2.7K US$ (May - Dec 2020).