The school provides specialized equipment, software and infrastructure for cutting edge research. High quality specialised research labs are established at the school in collaboration with industries to encourage specialisation and innovation. In keeping with its ethos, the school facilitates interdisciplinary research. It offers research funding (seed and start-up grants), and national and international travel grants.

In addition, for their work initiated and conducted at the school, faculty have received research and travel grants from reputed external organisations, including the department of Science and Technology (DST), the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), the department of Biotechnology (DBT), DST-UKIERI, GujCOST and the Gujarat Institute of Chemical Technology (GICT).

Some current specialised research actively pursued at SEAS includes the following:

• Applied Chemistry: Colloids, Surface Science
• Blockchain Technology
• Chemical and Materials Engineering: Energy Engineering, Nanotechnology
• Communication and Signal Processing: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Wireless Communications
• Data Science: Cloud Computing, Data Analytics and Machine Learning
• Manufacturing - Industrial Engineering, Smart & Lean Manufacturing, Design
• Mechatronics, Control Systems - Automation and Robotics
• Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Theoretical Computer Science: Algorithms, Combinatorics, Game Theory and Unification Theory
• VLSI Systems: Digital CMOS VLSI Circuits and Sub-systems