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Program Chair
Job Description
Manoj Goel, BE Mech 1981
manoj.goel@iitrhf.org
co-Chair
Anuj Varshneya, BE Civil 1982
anuj.varshneya@iitrhf.org
Facilitate research internships in academia to broaden student's research goals. IITR students can apply directly to faculty at the email address on their website.
Benefits for students: Conduct research with leading faculty in reputed universities, interact with PhD and post-doctoral research students, and explore graduate and doctoral programs
Benefits for faculty: Find bright students with a passion for research, screen potential doctoral candidates, and know that your guidance made a difference in someone’s life
Typical cost: An internship may cover travel, boarding, lodging, and administrative expense
Funding resource: Faculty grants, department/ university grants, IITR grants, student's personal funds
(Remainder of the needs can be supported by IITRHF under Pledge a Dream program. If a student finds an opportunity on their own and seeks support, then apply to "Pledge a Dream program")
Students' feedback for our efforts
Faculty
Areas of Interest
URL
Prof. Brij Agrawal
Dept. of Mech. & Aerospace, Naval PG School, Monterey, CA, USA
- ME Mech. '66, IITR
- PhD Mech., Syracuse Univ., USA
Spacecraft design, acquisition, tracking and pointing, jitter control, and adaptive optics control for imaging spacecraft, laser communications, and high energy laser beam control
Prof. Vipin Kumar
Dept. of CS, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- BE E&C '77, IITR
- PhD CS, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Data mining and parallel computing, Bioinformatics
Invites at least 3rd year undergrad or masters CS with 8.5+ GPA for summer / semester research visit
Prof. Ajay Agrawal
Dept. of Mech., Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
- BE Mech '80, IITR
- PhD Mech, Univ. of Miami, USA
Combustion and fluid flow in microgravity/ in gas turbine systems. Applied computational fluid dynamics. Design of thermal fluid systems
Prof. Rajiv Kishore
Chair, MET Department (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology), Lee School of Business, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
- BE Industrial '81, IITR
- PhD CIS, Georgia State Univ., USA
Invites PhD students in Management Studies for summer visit to collaborate with MET faculty on research projects with the goal of publishing in high quality business journals and conferences.
Prof. Subhash Suri
Dept. of CS, U of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- BE E&C '81, IITR
- PhD CS, John Hopkins Univ., USA
Algorithms and Data Structures, Computational Geometry, Data Science, Optimization
Prof. Pankaj Agarwal
Dept. of CS, Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA
- BE E&C '82, IITR
- PhD CS, New York Univ., USA
Geometric computing, approximation algorithms, GIS, databases and data mining
Prof. Venkat Lakshmi
Engineering Systems & Environment, Univ of Virginia, Charlottseville, VA
- BE Civil '87, IITR
- PhD Civil & Environmental, Princeton Univ., USA
Catchment hydrology, satellite data validation and assimilation, field experiments, land-atmosphere interactions, satellite data downscaling, vadose zone and water resources
Prof. S. K. Gupta
Dept. of Aerospace & Mech., Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- BE Mech. '88, IITR
- PhD Mech., Univ. of Maryland, USA
Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing Automation, and Robotics
https://sites.usc.edu/skgupta
Prof. Ananth Grama
Dept. of CS, Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN, USA
- BE CS '89, IITR
- PhD CS, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Parallel and distributed computing architectures, algorithms & applications.
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/ayg
Prof. Alisa Piekny
Dept. of Biology, Co-Director, Centre for Microscopy, Concordia Univ., Montreal, Canada
- PhD Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Gain a stronger understanding of how the cytoskeleton is regulated during dynamic events such as cytokinesis and cell shape change (morphogenesis)
List of Awardees
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Name
Activity
Host Faculty
M.Sc. , Applied Maths
Class of 2020
Research Fellow - Summer 2018
Worked on Novel classification algorithms to determine storms from satellite images, expected to be incorporated in an ISRO satellite in 2018.
Prof. Ananth Grama
Purdue University, USA
B.Tech, Biotech Eng, Class of 2020
Research Fellow - Summer 2019
Worked on: Algorithm for biological sequence compression that makes use of both statistical properties and repetition within sequences.
Prof. Alisa Piekny
Concordia University, Canada
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