11) Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) scheme of Telecom Centre of Excellence India (Duration 2024-2027) – Project Title: "Joint Networking, Sensing, and Compute on Demand over 6G: A Use-case for Ubiquitous Landslide Detection and Prevention (LandSense)", Role: Co-PI, (PI- Dr. Basabdatta Palit, NIT Rourkela, Other Co-PIs: Dr. Sandip Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, dr. Raghuram Ammavajjala, BITS Hyderabad) - (Total Amount: INR 2,55,11,600, Amount sanctioned to BITS – INR 68,43,000) - sanctioned
10) BITS-RMIT Joint PhD Programme (Duration 2024-2028) - Project Title: "
Investigating unsaturated behaviour of carbon sequestrated sustainable binders to stabilize soft clays - A reliability based approach",
Role: Co-PI, (PI- Dr. Raghuram Ammavajjala, Co-PI - Dr. Annan Zhou, STEM, School of Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) -
sanctioned
9) National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) India Limited (Duration 2024-2026) - Project Title: "Sustainable Geomaterials: A Key to Foundation Decarbonization and Ground Improvement", Role: Co-PI, (PI- Dr. Raghuram Ammavajjala) - (Amount: INR 30,35,080) - on-going
8) Cross-Disciplinary Research Framework (CDRF) - BITS Pilani (Duration: 2023-2025) - Project Title: "Performance Evaluation of Problematic Soils Treated with Different Bacterial Strains as a Foundation Material", Role: PI, Co-PI - Dr. Shankar Ganesh and Dr. Jayati Ray Dutta (Dept. of Biological Sciences, BITS Hyderabad) and Dr. Raghuram A.(Dept. of Civil Engg., BITS Hyderabad) - (Amount: Rs. 20 Lakhs) - on-going
7) India-Japan Cooperative Science Programme between JSPS (Japan) and DST (India) (Duration: 2023-2025) - Project Title: "Performance Evaluation of Soft Soil Treated with a Novel Geopolymer of Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation in Waste Material for Sustainable Development", Role: Indian PI, Japanese PI: Dr. Toshiro Hata (Hiroshima University, Japan) - (Amount: INR 7,53,500) - on-going
6) SERB Power Grant (DST-SERB) (Duration: 2021-2024)- Project Title: "Performance Evaluation of Construction and Demolition Waste as Stone Column Material for improving Bearing Capacity of Soft Soil" Role: PI - Project ID: SPG/2021/001552 (Amount: INR 28,92,296) - on-going
5) Asian Smart Cities Research and Innovation Network (ASCRIN) (Duration: 2021-2025) - Project Title: "Feasibility Studies for reusing Construction and Demolition Waste for Smart Cities", Role: Indian PI, Australian PI: Dr. Aboel Naga Hossam (LaTrobe University, Australia), Indian Co-PI: Dr. G.V. Ramana (IIT Delhi) - on-going
4) Indo-Austria Scientific and Technological Cooperation between WTZ (Austria) and DST (India) (Duration: 2019-2021) - Project Title: "Implementation of plants and treated natural fibers to enhance the strength properties of soft soil and to decrease the rate of surface erosion (Nat-Treat)", Role: Indian PI, Austrian PI: Dr. Wei Wu (Universität für Bodenkultur BOKU), Indian Co-PI: Dr. A. Kar, Austrian Co-PI: Dr. M. Acharya (BOKU) (Amount: INR 6.40 lakhs) Project ID: INT/AUSTRIA/BMWF/P-22/2018 - completed
3) Early Career Research Award (DST - SERB) (Duration: 2016-2020)- Project Title: "Performance Evaluation of Backfill Soils partially replaced with Building Derived Materials" Role: PI - Project ID: ECR/2016/000522 (Co - PI: Dr. A. Kar, BITS Hyderabad and Dr. N. James, IIT Ropar) (Amount: INR 24.43 lakhs) - completed
2) Additional Competitive Research Grant for New Faculty (Duration: 2016-2018) - Project Title: "Performance of Building Derived Materials on Bearing Capacity of Soft Soil under Static Loading Conditions". (Amount: INR 9.2 lakhs) Role: PI - completed
1) Research Initiation Grant (RIG): BITS- Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Duration: 2015-2017) - Project Title: “Effect of variation of soil parameters on performance of stone column improved ground: a probabilistic risk factor based approach". (Amount: INR 2 lakhs) Role: PI - completed
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