Research

Research

Research at SNU Chennai

Shiv Nadar University Chennai places special emphasis on cutting edge research and encourages its faculty and students to involve in research-oriented activities. It provides state-of-the-art infrastructure and access to existing research. Apart from this, it promotes collaboration with funding agencies and other institutions and industry for research. SIRS is a unique programme that instils a research aptitude and nurtures a research orientation among the undergraduate students even in their first year at the university.

Heuresis The Research Day

This event will be a dedicated platform to recognize and showcase the outstanding research, innovative projects, and academic excellence demonstrated by our university community. Research Day is an opportunity for scholars, researchers, and students from all disciplines to come together to share their work, exchange ideas, and foster a collaborative spirit that fuels innovation and discovery. It is also a time to celebrate the commitment and dedication that drive our community toward academic and scientific advancement.

Speech Lab

Cognition Lab

Fusion Lab

Areas of Research

Biomedical Engineering

  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Biochemistry and Microbiology
  • Biomechanics and Medical Robotics
  • Biomedical Instrumentation and Wearable Health Devices
  • Bio-nanotechnology and Bioinformatics
  • Bio-signal Processing
  • Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCI)
  • Cellular and Molecular Biology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience and Multimodal Brain–Behaviour Analysis
  • Computer Vision and Extended Reality (XR) in healthcare
 

Chemical Engineering

  • Advanced Nanomaterials for Environmental and biological applications
  • Biofuels from biomass
  • Development of Energy Efficient Carbon-rich Solvent Regeneration/ CO2 Stripping
  • Electrocatalytic CO2 Conversion into Clean Fuels and Value-added Products
  • Electrochemical Separation Technologies
  • H2 Research and Catalysis
  • MOF for Environmental Remediation
  • Polymer membranes for Wastewater treatment
  • Post Combustion CO2 Capture Process.
  • Process Intensification (Sono and Microwave) and Process Development.
 

Civil Engineering

  • Bio geotechnical
  • FRP Concrete composites
  • Soil Stabilisation
  • Steel-concrete composites
  • Cold-formed Steel
  • Monitoring and retrofitting of structure
 

Computer Science & Engineering

  • Accelerated Computing for Radio genomics
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Automatic Speech Recognition
  • Autonomous robot navigation & Path Planning
  • Autonomous Vehicles & Robot Navigation
  • Bias & Privacy in the web
  • Bioinformatics
  • Blockchain
  • Clinical database
  • Cloud and Distributed systems
  • Cloud Computing and Edge Computing
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Reinforcement Learning
  • Cognitive Reinforcement Models
  • Compiler design and natural language processing
  • Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Vision
  • Computing for edge AI
  • Control Systems & Optimization
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Cyber security
  • Dark Web Analysis
  • Data analytics
  • Data Science
  • Deep Learning
  • Deep Learning applied to Speech
  • Design and analysis of algorithms
  • Design and development of domain-specific hardware accelerators
  • Digital System Design
  • Digital Twins & Simulation
  • Disorder studies
  • Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures for Cognitive Computing
  • Explainable AI
  • Federated Learning
  • Fibreoptics and Silicon Photonics
  • FPGA Based Embedded System
  • Game Theory & Mechanism Design
  • Generative AI
  • Graph theory and its applications
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Image processing
  • Information Diffusion in the Social Networks
  • Internet of Things
  • Internet of things and Block Chain Technology
  • IoT for Connected Automated vehicles (CAVs) and UAVs
  • IP lookup algorithms and packet classifications
  • Large Language Models
  • Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning for Wireless Networks
  • Machine vision & Sensor Fusion
  • Massively parallel multi-core coarse and fine-grained reconfigurable platforms
  • Medical Image Processing
  • Multimodal Analytical & Radiogenomics
  • Nanoelectronic and Photonics Devices for Quantum Communication
  • Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS)
  • Networks
  • Optimization Methodologies
  • Post Quantum Cryptography, Fault Detection, Side Channel Attack
  • Quantum computing
  • Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGA), Embedded System
  • Scientific Machine Learning
  • Semiconductor devices
  • Sensors for edge AI
  • Social network analysis
  • Soft Computing techniques
  • Software Defined Networking
  • Sound Computing
  • Sound Technology and Computer Vision
  • Speech Signal Processing
  • Speech technology
  • Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Video processing
  • Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
  • Web Science and Data Analytics
  • Wireless Communications and 6G
  • Wireless sensor networks
 

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  • Advanced Power Electronics and Intelligent Control
  • AI/ML-Based Modeling, Optimization and Machine Design
  • Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
  • Electric Vehicles, Electric Drives and Powertrains
  • Energy Storage and Intelligent Energy Management
  • Industry 5.0 for Sustainable and Human-Centric Energy Systems
  • Renewable Energy, Smart Grids and Microgrids
 

Electronics and Communication Engineering

  • 5G and 6G
  • Activity recognition
  • AI with sustainable infrastructure
  • AI/ ML in Wireless Intelligent networks
  • Antenna Design
  • Automated systems for Precision Agriculture
  • Deep Learning
  • Embedded and Edge AI
  • Error Control Schemes
  • Hardware security and crypto-processor design
  • Image & Video Processing
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • IoV
  • Lightweight cryptography and secure communication systems
  • Machine Learning & TinyML
  • Non-Terrestrial Networks
  • RF circuits and systems
  • Signal Processing
 

Environmental Science & Engineering

  • Environmental Sustainability Assessment
  • Functional nano-materials for water purification
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Nature based solutions for sustainability
  • Resource Recovery
  • Smart solid waste management
  • Smart water/wastewater monitoring and prediction
  • Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery
  • Sustainability assessment – Life cycle assessment
  • Sustainable building materials
  • Water & wastewater treatment and management
  • Water and Wastewater Engineering
 

Information Technology

  • Artificial Intelligence & Language Technologies
  • Architecture, Edge & Cybersecurity
  • Applied AI & Data Science
  • Computer Vision & Medical Imaging
 

Mechanical Engineering

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Ballistic Impact Dynamics
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Fuzzy logic-based Decision-support systems
  • Metal Additive Manufacturing
  • Metal Fatigue
  • Nanocomposites
  • Nanofluids and heat transfer
  • Welding, Welding Automation and Robotics
 

The key areas of research under the School of Commerce and Management are listed below:

  • Behavioural Finance
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Embedded Banking
  • Environmental Compliances
  • Finance
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Financial Investments and Data Analytics
  • Financial Markets
  • Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
  • Investment Management
  • Management
  • Management (Behavioural studies)
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable and Green Finance

The key areas of research under the School of Science & Humanities are listed below:

Chemistry

  • Energy conversion and storage device
  • Plastic waste into value added Products
  • Polymer chemistry

Economics

  • Development Economics
  • Economics for Regulation
  • Economics of Education
  • Environmental Economics
  • Financial Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Indian Economy
  • International Macroeconomics
  • Labour Economics
  • Open Economy, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy Practice
  • Poverty and Inequality
  • Public Finance and Fiscal Policy
  • Rural Finance
  • Sustainability Studies
  • Urban Economics

Physics

  • Acoustic metamaterials
  • Backlight LEDs
  • Biosensors
  • Crystal Growth and characterisation
  • Defect Engineering
  • Electronic Materials and Sensors
  • Energy Storage Materials and Devices
  • Fiber optics and MEMS
  • Materials Informatics
  • Metamaterials / Sensors
  • Photocatalysis
  • Piezoelectric Materials
  • Quantum Dots
  • Quantum Dots and Functional Materials
  • Scalable Functional materials for photonic and sensing applications
  • Scintillators
  • Si-EO hybrids
  • Silicon Photonics
  • Spectroscopy
  • Spectroscopy of Optoelectronic Materials
  • Supercapacitors
  • Water Splitting
  • Wearable Technologies and Intelligent Embedded Systems

Mathematics

  • Algebraic Geometry
  • Approximation Theory
  • Boundary Layer Theory
  • Chaos Synchronization
  • Coding Theory
  • Commutative Algebra
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Discretization techniques
  • Extensions of fuzzy logic with applications
  • Fuzzy Control Systems
  • Fuzzy graphs and extensions with applications
  • Fuzzy logic and its applications
  • Fuzzy theory and its applications, Reliability
  • Graph Theory
  • Graph Theory and Its Applications
  • Rheology of Non-Newtonian Fluids
  • Sampling Theory
  • Stability Analysis of Dynamical Systems
  • Stability Analysis of Time-Delay System
  • Wavelet Methods

English

  • Asynchronous e-learning, DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion)
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Educational Technology
  • English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
  • English Language Education
  • English Language Teaching (ELT)
  • Figurative Language, Embodied Cognition, Polysemy, Categorization
  • Film Studies
  • Honorification and Politeness-Impoliteness
  • Language and Identity Politics
  • Language and Spatial Cognition
  • Language policy, promotion of linguistic diversity, and preservation of endangered languages
  • Literary Theory
  • Materials, Methods and Assessment in Language Education
  • Medical Humanities
  • Perception, Emotion, and Language
  • Postcolonial and other literatures
  • Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Feminist and Global Environmental Literature
  • Pragmatics
  • Reading literary texts using different criticism techniques
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Teacher Development
  • Teacher education and continuing professional education
  • Technology / Computer Assisted Language Learning (T/CALL)
  • Technology in language education

List of Supervisors/Faculty

Sl NoName of FacultyArea of Expertise
1Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya
Vice Chancellor, SNU Chennai
Fluid-Structure Interactions,
Structural Health Monitoring,
Computational Techniques,
Sustainable Materials.
2Dr. Nagarajan T
Professor, CSE
Speech Signal Processing,
Text-to-Speech Synthesis,
Automatic Speech Recognition.
3Dr. Jiji. C.V
Professor, CSE
Computer Vision,
Image Processing
4Dr. Chandrakala S
Professor, CSE
Deep Learning applied to Speech,
Sound Technology and Computer Vision,
Generative AI.
5Dr. Sakthi Balan M
Professor, CSE
Web Science and Data Analytics,
Information Diffusion in the Social Networks,
Bias & Privacy in the Web
6Dr. Santhi Natarajan
Associate Professor, CSE
Design and development of domain-specific hardware accelerators,
Massively parallel multi-core coarse and fine-grained reconfigurable platforms,
Multimodel Analytical & Radiogenomics
7Dr. Vidhusha S
Associate Professor, CSE
Cognitive Neuroscience,
Disorder Studies,
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
8Dr. Sundharakumar K. B
Associate Professor, CSE
Deep Learning,
Cognitive Reinforcement Learning,
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality.
9Dr. S. Veeramani
Associate Professor, CSE
Computer Networks,
Machine Learning,
Wireless Sensor Networks,
10Dr. Anushiya Rachel G
Assistant Professor, CSE
Speech Technology – Speech signal processing, text-to-speech synthesis,
Automatic speech recognition &
Machine Learning
11Dr. U. Padmavathi
Assistant Professor, CSE
Blockchain,
Cyber Security,
Federated Learning.
12Dr. Surya K
Assistant Professor, CSE
Cloud computing,
Edge computing.
13Dr. Vegesna S M Srinivasavarma
Assistant Professor, CSE
Packet Classification,
Network Intrusion Detection Systems,
Dark Web Analysis.
14Dr. M. Amsaprabhaa
Assistant Professor, CSE
Medical Image Processing,
computer vision,
Deep Learning.
15Dr. VA Kandappan
Assistant Professor, CSE
High-Performance Computing,
Soft Computing techniques,
Scientific Machine Learning.
16Dr. Rourab Paul
Assistant Professor, CSE
FPGA Based Embedded System,
Post Quantum Cryptography,
Blockchain & Internet of Things.
17Dr. Nimisha Ghosh
Assistant Professor, CSE
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics,
Large Language Models,
Deep Learning.
18Dr. Debajyoti Biswas
Assistant Professor, CSE
Semiconductor devices
Machine Learning
Quantum computing
19Dr. KB Badrinarayanan
Assistant Professor, CSE
Machine vision & Sensor Fusion,
Autonomous robot navigation & Path Planning,
Digital Twins & Simulation
20Dr. Rudrashis Majumdar
Assistant Professor, CSE
Autonomous Vehicles & Robot Navigation,
Control Systems & Optimization,
Game Theory & Mechanism Design
21Dr. Poulomi Chakrabarty
Assistant Professor, CSE
Sensors for edge AI,
Computing for edge AI,
Nanoelectronic and Photonics Devices for Quantum Communication
22Dr. Nimisha Gosh
Assistant Professor, CSE
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics,
Large Language Models,
Deep Learning.
23Dr. Rourab Paul
Assistant Professor, CSE
FPGA Based Embedded System,
Post Quantum Cryptography,
Blockchain & Internet of Things.
24Dr.Uthradevi K
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science
Functional nano-materials for water purification,
Solid waste management,
Sustainable building materials.
25Dr. Angel Jessieleeena A
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science
Smart water/wastewater monitoring and prediction
Life cycle assessment
Smart solid waste management
Sl NoName of FacultyArea of Expertise
1Dr. Pushpa Trivedi
Professor, Economics
Open-economy Macroeconomics,
Indian Economy,
Environmental Economics.
2Dr. Chaitanya Talreja
Assistant Professor, Economics
Development Economics,
Urban Economics,
Economics for Regulation.
3Dr. Pleasa Serin Abraham
Assistant Professor, Economics
Environmental Economics,
Sustainability Studies
Development Economics.
4Dr. Prita Nair
Professor, Physics
Fiberoptics,
Silicon Photonics,
Metamaterials / Sensors,
Si-EO hybrids, Biosensors.
5Dr. N.P. Rajesh
Professor, Physics
Materials Informatics
Crystal Growth and characterisation
Scalable Functional materials for photonic and sensing applications
6Dr. Sudipta Som
Assistant Professor, Physics
Spectroscopy of Optoelectronic Materials
Quantum Dots and Functional Materials
Energy Storage Materials and Devices
7Dr. P. Venugopal
Professor, Mathematics
Graph Theory and applications
8Dr. R. Sujatha
Professor, Mathematics
Fuzzy theory and its applications, Reliability.
9Dr. V. Vembarasan
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Stability Analysis of Time-Delay System,
Chaos Synchronization,
Control Systems.
10Dr. K. Deepa
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics
Computational Fluid Dynamics,
Rhealogy of Non-Newtonian Fluids,
Boundary Layer Theory.
11Dr Arusha C
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry,
Commutative Algebra,
Coding Theory.
12Dr. Cherry Matthew Phillipose
Associate Professor, English
English Language Education,
Teacher Development,
Educational Technology.
13Dr. Tanima Bagchi
Assistant Professor, English
Cognitive Linguistics,
Sociolinguistics,
Pragmatics.
14Dr. Nibeditha Bandyopadhyay
Assistant Professor, English
Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Feminist and Global Environmental Literature
Film Studies
Medical Humanities
Sl NoName of FacultyArea of Expertise
1Dr. Arindam Banerjee
Associate Professor, Commerce
Corporate Finance,
Behavioral Finance,
Financial Investments and Data Analytics
2Dr. M.S. Devi
Associate Professor, Commerce
Mergers & Acquisitions,
Sustainable Finance,
Corporate Finance.
3Prof. Rajesh Kumar
Commerce
Management,
Finance,
Sustainability .
4Prof. Vijayabanu C
Commerce
Management (Behavioural studies),
Consumer behaviour,
Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour.
The faculty at SNU Chennai were able to garner project funding worth over Two Crore Rupees in its initial year of inception. The details of the projects are listed below
  • Under the National Language Translation Mission, a project titled “Speech Technologies in Indian Languages” has received administrative approval from the “Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology” with total project outlay of INR 50 Crores, for which IIT Madras is the consortium leader. In this, Dr T Nagarajan, SNU Chennai (as a consortium member) will be implementing a module with the title “Prosody Modelling”, for which the funding allotted is INR 1 Crore.
  • Dr. T. Nagarajan received a project worth INR 50 Lakhs for his research on “Stand alone Domain Specific Speech to Speech Translator for English and Indian Languages”
  • DST-SERB sanctioned a research project titled ‘Fabrication of periodically poled structures using pure and rare earth doped KTP and RTP single crystals by flux grown method for nonlinear optical applications’ worth Rs. 36 Lakhs for three years. Dr. N.P Rajesh is the principal investigator
  • A DIR, BRNS project titled ‘Development of real-time fibre coupled luminescent dosimetry system for radiation detection applications’ for Rs 20,47,650 /- has been sanctioned in June 2022 with Dr N.P Rajesh, Dept of Physics, SNU Chennai as PI and Dr Prita Nair as the Co-PI
The SNU Chennai faculty have got recognition for their academic leadership and rigour from various bodies and organisations. Some such notable external recognitions are listed below:
  • Vice Chancellor of SNU Chennai. Prof SK Bhattacharyya has been recently elected as the Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) 2021. The National Academy of Sciences, India was founded in 1930, with the objectives to provide a national forum for the publication of research work carried out by Indian scientists and to provide opportunities for exchange of views among them. The Academy now has 1820 Members and 1856 Fellows from all parts of the country; including 17 Honorary Fellows and 106 Foreign Fellows from various disciplines of Science and Technology. The Academy is also recognized as the Professional Body of the DST and SIRO of the DSIR, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
  • Dr Prita Nair has been nominated as Governing Council Member of the Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS) for a period of 3 years. ISSS is a Professional Society that helps to keep pace with the advances being made and gives impetus to the emerging Smart technology in India. The basic aim of this Society is to foster dedicated research among Indian scientists in this vital, state-of-the-art/cutting edge technology. This Society has access to infrastructure and scientific support of all DRDO, CSIR, DAE, DOS Laboratories, and Academic Institutions in various cities of the country.
School of Engineering
  • Anupam Das, Damodar Maity, Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya, Deep liquid tanks in seismic response control of asymmetric high-rise buildings (2022)
  • TA Mariya Celin, P Vijayalakshmi, T Nagarajan, Data Augmentation Techniques for Transfer Learning-Based Continuous Dysarthric Speech Recognition, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (2022)
  • M Nanmalar, P Vijayalakshmi, T Nagarajan, Literary and Colloquial Tamil Dialect Identification, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (2022)
  • K Mrinalini, P Vijayalakshmi, T Nagarajan, Feature-weighted AdaBoost classifier for punctuation prediction in Tamil and Hindi NLP systems, EXPERT SYSTEMS (2022)
  • Anushiya Rachel Gladston, S Sreenidhi, P Vijayalakshmi, T Nagarajan, Incorporation of Happiness in Neutral Speech by Modifying Time-Domain Parameters of Emotive-Keywords, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (2022)
  • K Mrinalini, P Vijayalakshmi, T Nagarajan, SBSim: A Sentence-BERT Similarity-Based Evaluation Metric for Indian Language Neural Machine Translation Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2022)
  • Vijayalakshmi Parthasarathy, Nagarajan Thangavelu, Jayapriya Ramesh, Brathindara Suresh, Krithika Kandasamy, Narenraju Nagarajan, Johanan Joysingh Sathyasingh, Aiswarya Vijayakumar, Mrinalini Kannan, Development of a low-resource wearable continuous gesture-to-speech conversion system, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology (2022)
  • M Dhanalakshmi, T Nagarajan, P Vijayalakshmi, Significant sensors and parameters in assessment of dysarthric speech, Sensor Review (2022)
  • ohanan Joysingh S, Vijayalakshmi Parthasarathy, Nagarajan Thangavelu, Chirp Group Delay based Onset Detection in Instruments with Fast Attack, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (2022)
  • K.B. Sundharakumar, Natarajan Bhalaji, K., Rema & R., Srinivasan. (2021). IMPACT OF SINGING BOWL PLAYING ON THE BRAIN USING EEG. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Rachel, G.A., Vijayalakshmi, P. & Nagarajan, T. Analysis of algorithms to estimate glottal closure instants from speech signals. International Journal of Speech Technology (Sept 2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-020-09752-5
  • A. Ravishankar, S. Natarajan and A. Bharathi Malakreddy, “Pruned Genetic-NAS on GPU Accelerator Platforms with Chaos-on-Edge Hyperparameters,” 2021 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2021, pp. 958-963, doi: 10.1109/ICMLA52953.2021.00158.
  • A. Santhosh, T. Saranya, S. Sundar and S. Natarajan, “Deep Learning Techniques for Brain Tumor Diagnosis: A Review,” 2021 Fourth International Conference on Microelectronics, Signals & Systems (ICMSS), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICMSS53060.2021.9673638
  • R. G. Moses, S. Natarajan and M. A. Bharathi, “DIIT: A General Model for Time Series Projections, Proven on NIFTY Index Funds,” 2021 Fourth International Conference on Microelectronics, Signals & Systems (ICMSS), 2021, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/ICMSS53060.2021.9673597
  • Ravishankar, A., Natarajan, S., Bharathi Malakreddy, A. (2022). SparseMAX: Accelerating Quantum Neural Networks on GPU Clusters Using Sparse-Matrix Kernels. In: Orailoglu, A., Jung, M., Reichenbach, M. (eds) Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04580-6_28
  • Centre for NanoScience & Engineering, IISc Bangalore
  • InFab Technologies , Bangalore
  • Speech Lab, IIT Madras
  • Speech Lab, IIT Kharagpur
  • Centre for Speech and Language Technology (SPEECH)
  • Centre for High Performance Accelerated Computing
  • Centre for Radiation Environmental Science and Technology (CREST)
Stimuli for Technological Innovation & Research for Students (STIRS)
  • Special scholarship scheme through which Shiv Nadar University Chennai funds student projects from the first-year of study.
  • Students can apply for internal-funded projects by submitting a proposal and taking a faculty member as supervisor.
  • Short-listed projects will be funded up to Rs. 30,000/- to carry out their ideas.
  • Come up with an idea, experiment with it, make it a product, and patent

 

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