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Project Code	UQ Supervisor	IITD Supervisor	Research Themes	Title	Student Type (i/a)	Keywords	Discipline	Status
UQIDAR 00102	Associate Professor Adrian Athique	Associate Professor Vigneswara Ilavarasan	TT, TS	Platform Economies in India	i/a	digital media, commerce, platform economy, digital transactions	communications and cultural studies, management, commerce, sociology	Student Required
UQIDAR 00103	Professor Mingxing Zhang	Associate Professor Jayant Jain	TT	Control of carbide morphology in high chromium cast irons and high manganese steels	a	white cast iron, wear, carbide, high manganese steels,	materials science and engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00108	Professor Andrew Whittaker	Professor Sudip Kumar Pattanayek	RE, TT, TS	New Approached to Detection of Pollutants through Hierarchically-structured Molecularly Imprinted Polymers	i/a	chemical sensors, molecularly imprinted polymers, detecting pollutants, polymer chemistry	synthetic or physical chemistry, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, analytical chemistry	Student Required
UQIDAR 00109	Professor Tapan Saha	Professor Nilanjan Senroy	RE, TT	Flexibility Assessment and Strengthening of existing conventional power grids for large-scale renewable energy integration – Theoretical/ Modelling based research.	i	renewable energy, grid integration, power system strength, frequency response	electrical engineering, power systems, knowledge in pss/e or pscad, optimisation tools	Student Required
UQIDAR 00113	Sangeeta Prakash	Jatindra Kumar	TT, TS	Designing functionalised sweetmeat through 3D food printing	i	3 dimensional printing, dairy, extrusion, desiccated milk solids	food engineering, chemical engineering, food science & technology, physical chemistry,	Student Required
UQIDAR 00116	Dr David Lange	Professor Vasant Matsagar	RE	Life-Cycle Risk Assessment of RC Structures under Earthquake and Fire	i/a	structural engineering, fire response, earthquake response, risk assessment	civil engineering, structural engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00117	Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić	Professor Amartya Sengupta	FW, TT, TS	Application of Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging in Detection of Diseases of Some Economically Relevant Crops of Australia and Indian Subcontinent	i	terahertz, photonics, imaging, agriculture	photonics, electrical engineering or physics, image processing, botany	Student Required
UQIDAR 00118	Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić	Professor Amartya Sengupta	FW, TT, TS	Quality Assessment of Exportable Commodity Goods of Australia and Indian Subcontinent Using Non-contact, Non-invasive THz Imaging Technique	i	terahertz, bio-physics, imaging, photonics	optics, electrical engineering, physics, biology	Student Required
UQIDAR 00120	Dr Gleb E. Yakubov	Professor Sudip K. Pattanayek	FW, RE	Brush-like polysaccharides with motif-specific interactions: uncovering molecular mechanisms of gelation	i	polysaccharide gels, foods, molecular dynamics, brownian dynamics	molecular simulation, chemical engineering, physical chemistry, physics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00124	Professor George Zhao	Professor Sreedevi Upadhyayula	RE, TT, TS	Rational Design of highly efficient solar light driven photocatalysts for CO2 capture and conversion to fuels	i	photocatalysts, solar, carbon dioxide, fuels	chemical engineering, physical chemistry, material science, nanotechnology	Student Required
UQIDAR 00125	Professor George Zhao	Professor Sreedevi Upadhyayula	RE, TT, TS	Conversion CO2 to gasoline range fuels using metal loaded hierarchical zeolite catalysts	i	gasoline, hierarchical zeolites, carbon dioxide, catalysis	chemical engineering, chemistry, material science, nanotechnology	Student Required
UQIDAR 00126	Professor David Reutens	Assistant Professor Anup Singh	HA, TT	Efficient image acquisition for Low Field MRI	i	mri, magnetic resonance, medical devices, medical imaging	electrical engineering, physics, biomedical engineering, computer science	Student Required
UQIDAR 00128	Professor David Reutens	Assistant Professor Anup Singh	TT	Predictive MRI biomarkers of seizure recurrence and refractory epilepsy in First Seizure patients: A machine learning approach.	a	mri, machine learning, seizure prognosis artificial intelligence	biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, neuroscience	Student Required
UQIDAR 00129	Professor David Reutens	Assistant Professor Anup Singh	TT	Developing novel metabolic imaging methods to localise epileptogenic tissue	a	mri, brain, diagnosis, metabolic imaging	biomedical engineering, physics, chemistry, neuroscience	Student Required
UQIDAR 00131	Dr Luke Knibbs	Dr Sagnik Dey	HA, RE	Health benefits of air pollution mitigation: A comparative assessment of policies for high (India) and low (Australia) exposure regions	i	air pollution, epidemiology, health benefits, exposure modeling	atmospheric science, environmental science, public health, biostatistics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00138	Professor Tom Baldock	Professor A D Rao	RE, TT	Development of probabilistic forecasting system for storm surges and associated coastal inundation.	i	storm surges, coastal inundation, tropical cyclones, numerical model	physical oceanography, meteorology, numerical modelling, environmental sciences	Student Required
UQIDAR 00137	Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić	Professor Amartya Sengupta	FW, TT, TS	Identification of Transgenic Plant Species Using Non-invasive THz Spectroscopy for Advancing Natural and Organic Farming Practices	i	terahertz, plant phenotypes, imaging, agriculture	botany, biochemistry, electrical engineering, physics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00139	Professor Chengzhong Michael Yu	Professor Ashok K Ganguli	HA, TT	Synthesis and applications of non-viral gene vectors	i	nanotechnology, gene delivery, functional materials, asymmetry nanoparticle	nanotechnology, biomedical, gene delivery	Student Required
UQIDAR 00140	Associate Professor Zuduo Zheng	Professor K. . Ramachandra Rao	TT, TS	Developing Effective Traffic Congestion Management Strategies for Road Transport Systems with Traditional, Connected and Automated Vehicles	i	driverless vehicles, connected vehicles, traffic congestion,	transport engineering, control engineering, mathematics and statistics, computer science	Student Required
UQIDAR 00141	Associate Professor Zuduo Zheng	Professor K. . Ramachandra Rao	TT, TS	Modelling traffic flow dynamics in heterogeneous vehicle streams with no lane discipline for effective traffic management strategies	i	macroscopic models, heterogeneous traffic, driver behaviour, numerical schemes	transportation engineering, mathematics and statistics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00142	Professor David Reutens	Dr Varsha Singh	HA, RE, TT, TS	Understanding Brain-Behavior link: Using Structural (frontal asymmetry) and Neurochemical (neurotransmitters) Basis of Cognitive and Affective Processing to Improve Prediction of Health-related Outcomes in Epilepsy patients from low socio-economic.	i	frontal lobe functions/ executive functions, epilepsy, cognitive affective processes, endocrine system	neuropsychology (focus: clinical), clinical psychology, neuroscience (focus: cognitive/behavioural), rehabilitation (focus: neuropsychological)	Student Required
UQIDAR 00143	Professor Carlo G. Prato	Assistant Professor Manoj M.	RE, TT, TS	Urban freight demand modelling – preparing for an electric future	i	urban freight demand, demand forecast modelling, electric mobility, future mobility	transport engineering, transport modelling, econometric modelling, demand forecasting	Student Required
UQIDAR 00144	Professor Simon Washington	Professor K. . Ramachandra Rao	TT, TS	Motorized Two-wheeler safety - a comparative risk study of the occupants in Indian and Australian context	i	motorized two -wheelers, connected vehicles, injury risk	transport engineering, control engineering, mathematics and statistics, computer science	Student Required
UQIDAR 00145	Dr. Antonio Andrés Bellofatto	Dr. Sourabh B. Paul	TT, TS	Talent Allocation in the Indian Economy: Measurement and Policy Implications	i	misallocation, labor markets, indian economy, policy design	economics, macroeconomics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00146	Dr Justine Bell-James	Assistant Professor Naveen Thayyil	RE	Developing effective regulatory – environmental protection – frameworks for the efficient protection of wetland ecosystem services	i/a	environmental law and policy, preservation and management of mangroves, law reform, protection of ecosystems	law degree, science (ecology), conservation	Student Required
UQIDAR 00148	Dr Arindam Dey	Professor Subodh Kumar	HA, TS	Develop un-encumbered VR-based virtual surgery simulation	i	extended reality, tissue simulation, haptic interface, surgery modelling	computer science, computer graphics, biomedical engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00149	Dr Arindam Dey	Professor Subodh Kumar	HA, TS	Design and evaluation of virtual interface for surgery	i	extended reality, interface design, training assistance, ergonomics and experience evaluation	computer science, psychology, human factors	Student Required
UQIDAR 00150	Dr Arindam Dey	Professor Subodh Kumar	TS	Creating Awareness of Sexual Violence using Immersive Virtual Environments	i	extended reality, sexual violence, social awareness, education	computer science, psychology, sociology	Student Required
UQIDAR 00152	Professor Tapan Saha	Professor Sukumar Mishra	RE, TT	IoT based EV infrastructure: Data Driven Approach for analysis and optimization of Distribution system Operation (DSO) under uncertainties	i	distribution system, electric vehicle, uncertainties	electrical engineering, power systems, knowledge in control system, optimisation knowledge	Student Required
UQIDAR 00153	Dr Rahul Sharma	Dr Subashish Datta	RE, TT	Analysis and Design of robust control system for grid connected inverters in weak grids involving multi-inverter interactions	i	robust control, grid connected inverters, lcl filters, distributed control	electrical engineering, mathematical control theory, power electronics, power engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00154	Dr Rahul Sharma	Dr Deepak Patil	RE, TT	Multi-agent based fault detection and location in solar farms with array level monitoring	i	fault detection, solar farm, multi-agent systems	electrical engineering, control systems, power engineering, power electronics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00155	Associate Professor Begoña Domínguez	Associate Professor Debasis Mondal	TT, TS	Technology Regulation in the Macroeconomy: Robots and Artificial Intelligence	i	technology regulation, macroeconomy, taxation, robots and ai	economics, macroeconomics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00156	Dr Sisira Edirippulige	Professor Vigneswara Llavarasan	TT,TS	Exploring the potential of Health Tech Start-ups in India: A Critical Success Factors Framework	i	health, information and communication technology, business, start-ups	health, information technology, business, information systems	Student Required
UQIDAR 00158	Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze	Assistant Professor Divya Dwiwedi	TS	Ontologies of Force: Violence, Non-Violence and Resistance (Studies of Indian and Australian historical contexts through philosophy, film, literature.)	i	philosophy, literature, politics, violence	continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, post-colonialism, political philosophy	Student Required
UQIDAR 00159	Professor George Zhao	Prof. K.K. Pant	TT	Non-oxidative catalytic conversion of methane into aromatics over metal impregnated hierarchical zeolite	i	heterogeneous catalysis, methane dehydroaromatization, hierarchical zeolite, intracrystalline mesopores	catalysis, chemical engineering, reaction engineering, zeolite synthesis	Student Required
UQIDAR 00160	Dr Pratheep Kumar Annamalai	Prof. K.K. Pant	RE, TT	Unlocking the potential of lignocellulose plant waste for value added polymer industries, through an integrated biorfinery approach	i	bio-refinery, advanced manufacturing, nanotechnology, insulation foam and coating materials	chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science/engineering, polymer science/engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00161	Honorary Professor Raja Jurdak	Professor Swades De	RE, TT	Learning-based optimization strategies for sustainable IoT communications	i	edge computing, sustainable iot communications, learning techniques, sparse signal processing	electrical communication engineering, computer engineering/technology, applied mathematics, signal processing	Student Required
UQIDAR 00162	Dr Cristian Maluk	Prof. Dipti Ranjan Sahoo	RE, TT	Novel hybrid testing for studying seismic and fire behaviour of beam-column joints in reinforced concrete structures	i	structural engineering, reinforced concrete, seismic design, fire safe design	civil engineering, structural engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00163	Professor Glen Corder	Prof. K.K. Pant	TT	Recovery of Metals from Electronic Waste and Scale-up of the Developed Process	i	electronic waste, leaching, metal recovery, economic analysis	metallurgy, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrochemistry	Student Required
UQIDAR 00147	Dr Gianluca Demartini	Associate Professor Srikanta Bedathur	TT	Knowledge Graph Enrichment for Health Search	i	data science, knowledge graphs, health search, data quality	computer science, data science, machine learning	Student Required
UQIDAR 00121	Professor Linda Lua	Anurag Rathore	HA	Transitioning to integrated continuous downstream bioprocess for vaccine manufacturing	i	bioprocess, therapeutic agents, vaccine, industry focused projects	chemical engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00164	Professor Suresh Bhatia	Professor Shantanu Roy	TT	Understanding the mechanism of particle fragmentation, attrition, and agglomeration during coal and/or biomass gasification	i	gasification, mathematical modeling in chemical engineering, fluidized bed, coal	chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, cfd, physics	Student Required
UQIDAR 00112	Sangeeta Prakash	Jatindra Kumar Sahu	HA, TT, TS	Controlling the crystallisation in clarified butter (ghee) and its functionalisation for health benefits	a	crystallisation, food material science, dairy technology, clarified butter	food engineering, chemical engineering, food science & technology, physical chemistry	Student Required
UQIDAR 00157	Professor Markus Barth	Professor Anup Singh	HA, TT	Advancing Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Machine Learning	a	mr, medical imaging, cardiac magnetic resonance, image analysis	biomedical engineering, computer science, physics and related, electrical engineering	Student Required
UQIDAR 00101	A/Professor Yongping Wei	Professor Dhanya C. T.	RE, TT	Impact of Changing Flood Characteristics on River Morphology	i/a	river morphology, sediment transport, extreme events, climate change	geomorphology, water resources engineering, agricultural engineering, hydrometeorology	Position Filled - Sudeep Banad
UQIDAR 00104	Professor Darren Martin	Professor Mangala Joshi	TT	Polymer Nanocomposites for Advanced Gas Barrier Applications	i/a	nanotechnology, nanocomposite, gas barrier, advanced manufacturing	materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, composites	Position Filled - Siddhant Varshney
UQIDAR 00111	Dr Matthew Bambling	Professor Purnima Singh	TT, TS	Student Classroom Behavioural Issues in India and a Digital health Behaviour Management Intervention for Teachers	i	adolescent, behaviour, classroom, teachers	psychology, education, social sciences, youth	Position Filled - Madhumita Ramakrishna
UQIDAR 00115	Professor Robert Henry	Professor K.K. Pant	TT	Catalytic Conversion of Sugarcane Bagasse into Aromatics and High-Value Platform Chemicals	i	catalysis, lignin conversion, biotechnology, biofuel	catalysis, biomass conversion, lignin conversion	Position Filled - Vallari Chourasia
UQIDAR 00119	Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić	Prof Amartya Sengupta	FW, TT, TS	Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging in Quantitative Assessment of Plant Hydration Towards Implementing Optimized Irrigation Management in Australia and India	i	terahertz, interferometry, spectroscopy, photonics	optics, electrical engineering, physics, biology	Position Filled - Mayuri Kashyap
UQIDAR 00127	Professor David Reutens	Rahul Garg	HA, TT	Information flow in the normal and epileptic brain	i	mri, eeg-fmri, epilepsy, connectivity	biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, neuroscience	Position Filled - Vikramsingh Roday
UQIDAR 00132	Dr Vigya Sharma	Dr. (Ms) Upasna Sharma	RE, TT, TS	Examining the social acceptance of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects in India	i	renewable energy expansion, , acquisition and conflict, social impacts, energy access	human geography, development studies, engineering, policy studies	Position Filled - Simran Agarwal
UQIDAR 00133	Professor Matt Trau	Dr. Sandeep K. Jha	HA, TT	Microfluidic devices for biomedical application	i	micro-total-analysis, biosensors, lab-on-a-chip, point-of-care devices	biotechnology, analytical chemistry/biochemistry, microfabrication, nanotechnology	Position Filled - Alok Kumar Ray