Research is an integral and important part of any higher education system. BITS Pilani actively promotes research among its staff and students. Besides basic research, which is the backbone of any applied research, the Institute also gives adequate importance and support to applied research.
Research at BITS relies on the motivated intellectual manpower pool available among its staff and students. Students undertake research projects as a component of their education program itself. Teachers conduct research as an integral part of their responsibilities since this enables them to assimilate and disseminate knowledge as well as generate new knowledge. Besides this, BITS has devised innovative schemes to enable professionals at large to conduct research at their place of work and simultaneously work for the PhD degree of the Institute.
At BITS Pilani, the faculty are encouraged to publish their findings in reputed journals and present papers at conferences. Support is given to participate in national and international conferences and thereby network with experts from India and abroad. Recently, the Institute has taken steps to provide support to faculty to file for patents if the research is likely to fructify in commercially viable products or processes. During the last 5 years, BITS has seen healthy growth in the amount of funding received from different agencies. While most of these are from the government sector, the Institute through its existing collaboration with industries is trying to involve the corporate sector in funding research projects.
At BITS, we position research as an integral part of the curriculum & actively promote it among our students as well as our faculty. Besides basic research, we also give adequate importance & provide support to applied research.
ARSHAD ALI Ph.D. Topic - Investigations into carbo-catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste
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Prof. Iyman Abrar, VELAGALA SAI KRISHNAREDDY Ph.D. Topic - Low Concentration CO2 Capture:Process and Engineering studies
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Prof. I Sreedhar, PADMASRI K Ph.D. Topic - Metal Organic Framework (MOFs) based composites for Energy storage devices
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Prof. D Purnima, UTTARA SHELATKAR Ph.D. Topic - Design of catalyst and reactors for green hydrogen production via photo and photoelectrocatalysis
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Prof. Satyapaul Singh Amarthaluri, SATHISH KUMAR G Ph.D. Topic - Computer-aided Design of Peptides with Targeted Therapeutic Properties
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Prof. Arnab Dutta, ATMAJA TUKARAM SHINDE Ph.D. Topic - Core-Shell Catalysts for CO2 Methanation: Synthesis, characterization and Mechanistic Studies
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Prof. Satyapaul Singh Amarthaluri, MAMILLA SHREE VEENA Ph.D. Topic - Preparation and Characterization of Hydrocarbon Fuel for Supersonic/Hypersonic Applications
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Prof. Srikanta Dinda , SOHINI DAS Ph.D. Topic - Neural stimulating probe for perkinsons disease
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Prof. Ramendra Kishor Pal, HRITHIKA G Ph.D. Topic - Waste to Wealth: Sustainable Processes for Recovering LNG Cold Energy
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Prof. Arnab Dutta, Y LAVANYA Ph.D. Topic - CO2 HYDROGENATION TO METHANOL, DME
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Prof. Satyapaul Singh Amarthaluri, SRI HIMAJA PAMU Ph.D. Topic - Hydrogen Evolution by Water Splitting and its Integration with Biogas Upgradation and Reforming
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Prof. Satyapaul Singh Amarthaluri, CHITTURI HULDAH SUHARIKA Ph.D. Topic - Mechanistic insights of CO2 methanation using core-shell catalysts
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Prof. Satyapaul Singh Amarthaluri, 
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DAC Members - Prof. Afkham Mir Prof. Satyapaul A. Singh 
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DAC Members - Prof.Vikranth Kumar.S , Prof.Srinivas A 
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Prof. Satyapaul Singh Amarthaluri,
DAC Members - Prof. Nandini Bhandaru, Prof. Sujith. R 
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DAC Members - "Prof. Afkham Mir Prof. Ramendra Pal" 
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Prof. Debirupa Mitra,
DAC Members - Prof. Ramendra pal, Prof. Balaji Krishnamurthy 
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Prof. I Sreedhar,
DAC Members - Prof. Srinivas A, Prof. Aswin Vinod 
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DAC Members - Prof. Balaji Krishnamurthy; Prof. Iyman Abrar 
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DAC Members - Prof. Nandini bhandari, Prof. Sajeli Begum 
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DAC Members - Prof. Nandini Bhandaru; Prof. Balaji Krishnamurthy 
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DAC Members - "Prof. Nandini bhandaru Prof. Balaji Gopalan" 
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DAC Members - Prof. D. Purnima, Prof. Chanchal Chakraborty 
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Prof. I Sreedhar,
DAC Members - Prof. Vikranth Kumar Surasani, Prof. D. Purnima