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Research Grants

All Engineering Arts and Sciences Management VentureStudio

Project: Investigations of Deep Eutectic Solvents as Catalyst for Cyclo-addition of CO2 to Propylene Oxide: Quantum Calculations and Experimental Verification
Principal Investigator: Dharamashi Rabari
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Patel, Nirma University
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST)
Duration: April, 2023 - April, 2026


Project: Safety Measures of Two-Wheeler Mobility in India (and R10) Integration of Technical Activities, Education and Awareness
Principal Investigator: Maryam Kaveshgar and Mehul Raval
Co-Principal Investigator: Hrishikesh Venkatraman, IIIT Sri City
Funding Agency: IEEE ITS Society
Duration: May, 2023 - December, 2023


Project: Self-aggregation Behavior of Surfactants in Novel Synthesized Deep Eutectic Solvents.
Principal Investigator: Dharamashi Rabari, Ahmedabad University
Co-Principal Investigator: Vinod Aswal, Department of Atomic Energy P.D. Babu, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
Funding Agency: UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
Duration: March 2022


Project: Design and Development of 5G Enabled Intellegent Transportation System in Gujarat
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel, Ahmedabad University
Co-Principal Investigator: Mehul S Raval, Ahmedabad University; Mukesh Zaveri, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Institute of Technology, Surat; S.N. Merchant, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology
Duration: May 2022 - April 2025


Project: Semantic Person Retrieval in Surveillance
Principal Investigator: Mehul Raval, Ahmedabad University
Co-Principal Investigator: Paawan Sharma, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology
Duration: May 2022 - April 2025


Project: Development of a vision-based multi-degree of freedom feeding serial manipulator for the patients suffering from neurological disorders and infectious disease (COVID-19)
Principal Investigator: Reena Trivedi; Nirma University
Co-Principal Investigator: Keyur Joshi
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science & Technology
Duration: April 2021 - March 2023


Project: Synthesis of magnetic coated microcrobubbles for removal of trace pollutants
Principal Investigator: Singdha Kuntia
Co-Principal Investigator: Sameer Dalvi (IIT Gandhinagar)
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
Duration: March 2021 - March 2024


Project: Phase behavior and microstructures in aqueous solution of mixed surfactant systems, Micellar transition foaming and microemulsion
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Co-Principal Investigator: Snigdha Khuntia
Funding Agency: UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
Duration: April 2020 - March 2023


Project: An Iterated Symplectic Map for Understanding Hamiltonian Chaos
Principal Investigator: Mitaxi Mehta    
Funding Agency:Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: July 2019 - July 2022


Project: High throughput synthesis of nanoliposomes in microfluidic reactors for efficient delivery of anticancer drugs.
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Funding Agency: Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) ,Board of research in Nuclear Science BRNS
Duration: August 2019 - July 2022


Project: Simultaneuos removal of NOX and SO2 from the flue gas: A low temperature ozone based process
Principal Investigator: Snigdha Khuntia
Funding Agency:Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: July 2018 - July 2021


Project: Solution Properties of Mixed Surfactant Systems
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Funding Agency: ITC Limited
Duration: July 2017 - July 2020


Project: Non-parametric Smart Sensing Analytics based on Large Spectrum Data and Estimation of Channel Activity Statastics
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel
Funding Agency: Department of Science & Technology (DST) 
Duration: May 2017 - May 2020


Project: Developing Data Content Standards for Data Representation Sharing and Interoperability (Soil, Forest and Surface Geological Map Data)
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Funding Agency: Natural Resource Data Management System(NRDMS), Department of Science & Technology (DST)
Duration: May 2017 - May 2019


Project: Developing Data Analytics Architecture
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Co-Principal Investigator: Mehul Raval
Funding Agency: Natural Resource Data Management System(NRDMS), Department of Science & Technology (DST) 
Duration: May 2017 - May 2019


Project: Cognitive Radio Enabled Vehicular Cyber-Physical System for Urban Area
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel    
Funding Agency: DST-ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) collaborative R&D programme
Duration: February 2018 - March 2021


Project: Nanocrystaline Substituted Cobalt Based Metal Oxides for Oxygen Evilution Reaction: A Prerequisite for Photochemical Water Splitting
Principal Investigator: Aditi Singhal
Co-Principal Investigator: Arnab Dutta (IITGandhinagar)
Funding Agency: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) 
Duration: August 2017 - December 2020


Project: Design And Perfomance Analysis of Non-Parametric Detaction Algorithm For Cognitive Radio- MIMO Communication
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology(GUJCOST) 
Duration: July 2016 - July 2018


Project: Quaternion Based Leader-Follower Robust Tracking Control of An Industrial Robot Using An Anthropomorphic Arm
Principal Investigator: Harshal Oza
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: January 2017 - January 2020


Project: Description Based on Person Identification in Unconstrained Surveillance Video
Principal Investigator: Mehul Raval
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Funding Agency: Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS)
Duration: July 2016 - July 2019


Project: Superstable Responsive Aqueous Foam for Syenthetsis of Novel Biomimetic Materials
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: January 2017 - January 2020


Project: Cellular and Molecular Imaging Centre at Ahmedabad University
Principal Investigator: Rama Ratnam
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (FIST)
Duration: December, 2022 - December, 2027


Project: Gendered Citizenship:Understanding Everyday Politics of the Marginalized
Principal Investigator: Mary Ann Chacko
Co-Principal Investigator: Madhumita Biswal, Sambalpur University
Funding Agency: Association of Asian Studies
Duration: January, 2023 - December, 2023


Project: Sustainable Coastal Habitats, Blue Carbon and the Challenges of Net Zero
Principal Investigator: William Austin, School of Geography, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Joe Smith and Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen, Ratna Ghosal, Minal Pathak and Priyadarshi Shukla, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Sapphire Scheme Royal Society of Edinburg, UK
Duration: October 2020 - October 2023


Project: Sponsorship fund for Student Fellowship
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Rufford Foundation, UK
Duration: January 2022 - December 2023


Project: Monitoring Stress Physiology of Mugger Crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris) within a Human-dominated Landscape of Central Gujarat, India
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Island Foundation Trust, USA
Duration: January 2022 - June 2023


Project: Imaging and Flow Cytometry Centre at Ahmedabad University
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar, Ahmedabad University
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (SAHAJ scheme)
Duration: March 2022 - February 2027


Project: Development of a Free-Induction-Decay Atomic Magnetometer for Geomagnetic Applications
Principal Investigator: Raghwinder Singh, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Government of India


Project: Development Imaginaries, Infrastructure and Climate Subjectivities in Asia
Principal Investigator: Suchismita Das, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Hayden Marie Shelby, University of Cincinnati
Funding Agency: Social Science Research Council, USA


Project: The Tradition of Kalachakra Initiation and Meditative Practice by H.H the Dalai Lama: Transformation in ‘self’ among Kalachakra Meditators
Principal Investigator: Shilpa Pandit, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness, The Dalai Lama


Project: Development of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Rich Groundnut Cultivars using CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Principal Investigator: Bhuvan Pathak, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Funding Agency: Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission
Duration: October 2022 - October 2025


Project: Development of a Nano Liposomal Formulation for Targeting Chemo-resistant Oral Cancer Stem Cells
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Dhiraj Bhatia, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Funding Agency: Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission
Duration: October 2022 - October 2025


Project: Study of Earth Surface Processes at three different Critical Zones with Different Climatic and Geologic Settings in Western India
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar, Ahmedabad University; Vikrant Jain, IIT Gandhinagar; Sanjeev Kumar, PRL, Ahmedabad
Co-Principal Investigator: Vimal Mishra, IIT Gandhinagar; Samir Damar, NIO, Goa
Funding Agency: Ministry of Earth Sciences
Duration: September 2021 - September 2023


Project: Managing Covid-19 in India’s Cities: reshaping people’s everyday lives in poorer urban neighbourhoods
Principal Investigator: Darshini Mahadevia
Co-Principal Investigator: Glyn Williams; University of Sheffield, Karen Coelho; Madras Institute of Development Studies, Binitha Thampi; Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Funding Agency: The British Academy
Duration: March 2021 - March 2024


Project: Astrophysics and Cosmology in Ghost free Bi-metric Gravity
Principal Investigator: Anjan Anand Sen
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: February 2020 - February 2023


Project: Search for the missing links between observation and theory in beyond concordance ACDM model
Principal Investigator: Anjan Anand Sen
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: February 2021 - February 2024


Project: Development of a pattern recognition tool to identify individual marsh crocodiles
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal
Funding Agency: Wildlife Conservation Society, USA
Duration: October 2020 - October 2021


Project: Governing the pandemic: Relief and Resilience in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Principal Investigator: Maya Ratnam
Funding Agency: Social Science Research Council, USA
Duration: October 2020 - September 2021


Project: Identification and characterization of a novel protein from Leishmania donovani with potential implication in cell death pathways
Principal Investigator: Souvik Sen Gupta
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: May 2020 - May 2023


Project: Unraveling Cellular Re-Programming Underlying the Evolution of Hybrid Vigor in Introgressed Yeast Hybrids (Ramalinga Swamy Fellowships)
Principal Investigator: Krishna Swamy
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology
Duration: April 2020 - March 2025


Project: Shifting Science Identities and Appropriate Femininities at a Pharmacy College in India
Principal Investigator: Leya Mathew
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation, USA
Duration: September 2019-September 2021


Project: Fellowship from DST
Principal Investigator: Aditya Vaishya
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology
Duration: July 2014 - June 2020


Project: Gram-scale Synthesis of Calcium Carbonate Nanoparticles Industrial Applications
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Singh
Funding Agency: Winner Trade Private Limited
Duration: February 202 - August 2020


Project: Machine Learning Based B-cell Epitope Prediction
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde
Funding Agency: Ignite Foundation
Duration: February 2019-August 2021


Project: Japan Language Training
Principal Investigator: Keita Omi
Funding Agency: Japan Foundation
Duration: November 2019 - June 2020


Project: Cosmological Dark matter, Primordial Black Holes, Bose-Einstein Condensates and Charge Asymmetry of the Universe
Principal Investigator: Raghavan Rangarajan
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
Duration: August 2019-August 2022


Project: Opportunities for Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Development
Principal Investigator: Darshini Mahadevia
Co-Principal Investigator: DMinal Pathak
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology
Duration: October 2019- October 2021


Project: Addressing Dissonances Between Education Research And Post Market Reform Society
Principal Investigator: Mary Ann Chacko
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation, USA
Duration: June 2019-May 2022


Project: Ecological Assesment Exotic Salfin Catfish In The Indian Freshwater
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: March 2019 - March 2022


Project: Cuticle Soft Or Hard: How Do Insects Balance Water?
Principal Investigator: Subhash Rajpurohit
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: March 2019 - March 2022


Project: Advanced Nanotracers For Product Life Cycle Assessment And Product Monitoring
Principal Investigator:Ashutosh Kumar
Funding Agency: Impacting Research Innovation and Technology, India
Duration: August 2017 - March 2022


Project: Crosstalk Between TGFbeta Signaling And The Epigenetic States In Driving Tumorigenesis
Principal Investigator: Noopur Thakur
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: October 2018 - October 2021


Project: Identification of Salivary Exosomes derived miRNAs as potential early diagnostic biomarkers in oral cancer patients: a liquid biopsy approach
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde
Funding Agency: Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission
Duration: March 2019 - September 2021


Project: Ramanujan Fellowship
Principal Investigator: Subhash Rajpurohit
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: May 2018 - May 2023


Project: Nanosensors for the Detection of Food Adulterants and Contaminants
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Co-Principal Investigator: Ajay Karakoti
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: August 2017 - December 2020


Project: Design and development of multiplex assay integrated nanodevice for rapid ‘on field’ identification of body fluids
Principal Investigator: Ritesh Shukla
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: July 2017 - March 2021


Project: DNA Biochip for on-site water pathogen detection including viability and antibiotic resistance testing
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Co-Principal Investigator: Rishi Shanker
Funding Agency: Indo-German Science & Technology Cooperation (IGSTC)
Duration: July 2016 - July 2019


Project: Analysis, Design and Development of ICT based model for Clean India Mission
Principal Investigator: Aditya Patel
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology(GUJCOST)
Duration: June 2016 - June 2018


Project: Systematic Design of Redox Potential Tunable Nanoparticles to Minic the Function of Biological Enzymes for Mitigating the Diseases caused by Reactive Oxygen Species
Principal Investigator: Ajay Karakoti
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Singh
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: July 2016 - June 2020


Project: Establishment of a facility for environmental risk assessment of chemicals and nano materials
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Funding Agency: Gujarat Institute of Chemical Technology
Duration: April 2015 - June 2023


Project: Vitamin D and retinoic acid in the regulation of ILS-9
Principal Investigator: Ritobrata Goswamy
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: March 2016 - March 2019


Project: Multi Target Antioxidant Nanoconstruct For Prostate Cancer Treatment
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Singh
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: May 2015 - May 2018


Project: NanoToF: Toxicological evaluation and risk assessment on Nanomaterials in Food.
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Co-Principal Investigator: Ramanathan Karuppahamy, Vellore Institute of Technology
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Duration: July 2015 - July 2019


Project: Development of multi-biomarker Integrated Nano device for early detection of cardiovascular disease, 2015-18
Principal Investigator: Alok Pandya
Funding Agency: DST - Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, New Delhi
Duration: June 2015 - June 2018


Project: Establishment of Basic Lab for Research in Novel Engineered Materials
Principal Investigator: Ajay Karakoti
Funding Agency: Gujarat Institute of Chemical Technology
Duration: April 2012 - March 2015


Project: Establishing Center for Nanotechnology Research & Applications (CENTRA)
Principal Investigator: Balaji Prakash
Funding Agency: Gujarat Institute of Chemical Technology
Duration: April 2012 - December 2021



Project: Feasibility assessment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in Gujarat
Principal Investigator: Minal Pathak
Funding Agency: Climate Change Department, Government of Gujarat
Duration: February, 2022 - February, 2023


Project: The Living Heritage of Vadnagar: Documentation and Comparative Analysis
Principal Investigator: Aditya Prakash Kanth
Co-Principal Investigator: Neel Kamal Chapagain and Ioannis Poulios
Funding Agency: Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Gujarat
Duration: December, 2022 - October, 2023


Project: Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: An experimental analysis of the role of group identity in leadership effectiveness
Principal Investigator: Daniel Houser, George Mason University
Co-Principal Investigator: Moumita Roy
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, USA
Duration: August 2021 -  August 2022


Project: Heritage Grant
Principal Investigator: Sara Ahmed
Funding Agency: British Council
Duration: October 2020- March 2021


Project: Covering Financial Support of received from the Meteorological Organization
Principal Investigator: Priyadarshi Shukla
Co-Principal Investigator: Minal Pathak
Funding Agency: Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine
Duration: January 2018- December 2020


Project: Technical Support Unit of working group III of the intergovernmental panel on climate change - (IPCC college London)
Principal Investigator: Minal Pathak
Funding Agency: Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine (IPCC London)
Duration: January 2018 - December 2022


Project: Student Startup Innovation Policy (GOG SSIP)
Principal Investigator: Srisunder Subramaniam
Funding Agency: Government of Gujarat
Year: 2016-17


Project: Investigations of Deep Eutectic Solvents as Catalyst for Cyclo-addition of CO2 to Propylene Oxide: Quantum Calculations and Experimental Verification
Principal Investigator: Dharamashi Rabari
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Patel, Nirma University
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST)
Duration: April, 2023 - April, 2026


Project: Safety Measures of Two-Wheeler Mobility in India (and R10) Integration of Technical Activities, Education and Awareness
Principal Investigator: Maryam Kaveshgar and Mehul Raval
Co-Principal Investigator: Hrishikesh Venkatraman, IIIT Sri City
Funding Agency: IEEE ITS Society
Duration: May, 2023 - December, 2023


Project: Self-aggregation Behavior of Surfactants in Novel Synthesized Deep Eutectic Solvents.
Principal Investigator: Dharamashi Rabari, Ahmedabad University
Co-Principal Investigator: Vinod Aswal, Department of Atomic Energy P.D. Babu, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
Funding Agency: UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
Duration: March 2022


Project: Design and Development of 5G Enabled Intellegent Transportation System in Gujarat
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel, Ahmedabad University
Co-Principal Investigator: Mehul S Raval, Ahmedabad University; Mukesh Zaveri, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Institute of Technology, Surat; S.N. Merchant, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology
Duration: May 2022 - April 2025


Project: Semantic Person Retrieval in Surveillance
Principal Investigator: Mehul Raval, Ahmedabad University
Co-Principal Investigator: Paawan Sharma, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology
Duration: May 2022 - April 2025


Project: Development of a vision-based multi-degree of freedom feeding serial manipulator for the patients suffering from neurological disorders and infectious disease (COVID-19)
Principal Investigator: Reena Trivedi; Nirma University
Co-Principal Investigator: Keyur Joshi
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science & Technology
Duration: April 2021 - March 2023


Project: Synthesis of magnetic coated microcrobubbles for removal of trace pollutants
Principal Investigator: Singdha Kuntia
Co-Principal Investigator: Sameer Dalvi (IIT Gandhinagar)
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
Duration: March 2021 - March 2024


Project: Phase behavior and microstructures in aqueous solution of mixed surfactant systems, Micellar transition foaming and microemulsion
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Co-Principal Investigator: Snigdha Khuntia
Funding Agency: UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
Duration: April 2020 - March 2023


Project: An Iterated Symplectic Map for Understanding Hamiltonian Chaos
Principal Investigator: Mitaxi Mehta    
Funding Agency:Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: July 2019 - July 2022


Project: High throughput synthesis of nanoliposomes in microfluidic reactors for efficient delivery of anticancer drugs.
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Funding Agency: Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) ,Board of research in Nuclear Science BRNS
Duration: August 2019 - July 2022


Project: Simultaneuos removal of NOX and SO2 from the flue gas: A low temperature ozone based process
Principal Investigator: Snigdha Khuntia
Funding Agency:Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: July 2018 - July 2021


Project: Solution Properties of Mixed Surfactant Systems
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Funding Agency: ITC Limited
Duration: July 2017 - July 2020


Project: Non-parametric Smart Sensing Analytics based on Large Spectrum Data and Estimation of Channel Activity Statastics
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel
Funding Agency: Department of Science & Technology (DST) 
Duration: May 2017 - May 2020


Project: Developing Data Content Standards for Data Representation Sharing and Interoperability (Soil, Forest and Surface Geological Map Data)
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Funding Agency: Natural Resource Data Management System(NRDMS), Department of Science & Technology (DST)
Duration: May 2017 - May 2019


Project: Developing Data Analytics Architecture
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Co-Principal Investigator: Mehul Raval
Funding Agency: Natural Resource Data Management System(NRDMS), Department of Science & Technology (DST) 
Duration: May 2017 - May 2019


Project: Cognitive Radio Enabled Vehicular Cyber-Physical System for Urban Area
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel    
Funding Agency: DST-ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) collaborative R&D programme
Duration: February 2018 - March 2021


Project: Nanocrystaline Substituted Cobalt Based Metal Oxides for Oxygen Evilution Reaction: A Prerequisite for Photochemical Water Splitting
Principal Investigator: Aditi Singhal
Co-Principal Investigator: Arnab Dutta (IITGandhinagar)
Funding Agency: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) 
Duration: August 2017 - December 2020


Project: Design And Perfomance Analysis of Non-Parametric Detaction Algorithm For Cognitive Radio- MIMO Communication
Principal Investigator: Dhaval Patel
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology(GUJCOST) 
Duration: July 2016 - July 2018


Project: Quaternion Based Leader-Follower Robust Tracking Control of An Industrial Robot Using An Anthropomorphic Arm
Principal Investigator: Harshal Oza
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: January 2017 - January 2020


Project: Description Based on Person Identification in Unconstrained Surveillance Video
Principal Investigator: Mehul Raval
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Chaudhary
Funding Agency: Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS)
Duration: July 2016 - July 2019


Project: Superstable Responsive Aqueous Foam for Syenthetsis of Novel Biomimetic Materials
Principal Investigator: Dharmesh Varade
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: January 2017 - January 2020


Project: Cellular and Molecular Imaging Centre at Ahmedabad University
Principal Investigator: Rama Ratnam
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (FIST)
Duration: December, 2022 - December, 2027


Project: Gendered Citizenship:Understanding Everyday Politics of the Marginalized
Principal Investigator: Mary Ann Chacko
Co-Principal Investigator: Madhumita Biswal, Sambalpur University
Funding Agency: Association of Asian Studies
Duration: January, 2023 - December, 2023


Project: Sustainable Coastal Habitats, Blue Carbon and the Challenges of Net Zero
Principal Investigator: William Austin, School of Geography, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Joe Smith and Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen, Ratna Ghosal, Minal Pathak and Priyadarshi Shukla, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Sapphire Scheme Royal Society of Edinburg, UK
Duration: October 2020 - October 2023


Project: Sponsorship fund for Student Fellowship
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Rufford Foundation, UK
Duration: January 2022 - December 2023


Project: Monitoring Stress Physiology of Mugger Crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris) within a Human-dominated Landscape of Central Gujarat, India
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Island Foundation Trust, USA
Duration: January 2022 - June 2023


Project: Imaging and Flow Cytometry Centre at Ahmedabad University
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar, Ahmedabad University
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (SAHAJ scheme)
Duration: March 2022 - February 2027


Project: Development of a Free-Induction-Decay Atomic Magnetometer for Geomagnetic Applications
Principal Investigator: Raghwinder Singh, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Government of India


Project: Development Imaginaries, Infrastructure and Climate Subjectivities in Asia
Principal Investigator: Suchismita Das, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Hayden Marie Shelby, University of Cincinnati
Funding Agency: Social Science Research Council, USA


Project: The Tradition of Kalachakra Initiation and Meditative Practice by H.H the Dalai Lama: Transformation in ‘self’ among Kalachakra Meditators
Principal Investigator: Shilpa Pandit, Ahmedabad University.
Funding Agency: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness, The Dalai Lama


Project: Development of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Rich Groundnut Cultivars using CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Principal Investigator: Bhuvan Pathak, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Funding Agency: Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission
Duration: October 2022 - October 2025


Project: Development of a Nano Liposomal Formulation for Targeting Chemo-resistant Oral Cancer Stem Cells
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde, Ahmedabad University.
Co-Principal Investigator: Dhiraj Bhatia, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Funding Agency: Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission
Duration: October 2022 - October 2025


Project: Study of Earth Surface Processes at three different Critical Zones with Different Climatic and Geologic Settings in Western India
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar, Ahmedabad University; Vikrant Jain, IIT Gandhinagar; Sanjeev Kumar, PRL, Ahmedabad
Co-Principal Investigator: Vimal Mishra, IIT Gandhinagar; Samir Damar, NIO, Goa
Funding Agency: Ministry of Earth Sciences
Duration: September 2021 - September 2023


Project: Managing Covid-19 in India’s Cities: reshaping people’s everyday lives in poorer urban neighbourhoods
Principal Investigator: Darshini Mahadevia
Co-Principal Investigator: Glyn Williams; University of Sheffield, Karen Coelho; Madras Institute of Development Studies, Binitha Thampi; Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Funding Agency: The British Academy
Duration: March 2021 - March 2024


Project: Astrophysics and Cosmology in Ghost free Bi-metric Gravity
Principal Investigator: Anjan Anand Sen
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: February 2020 - February 2023


Project: Search for the missing links between observation and theory in beyond concordance ACDM model
Principal Investigator: Anjan Anand Sen
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: February 2021 - February 2024


Project: Development of a pattern recognition tool to identify individual marsh crocodiles
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal
Funding Agency: Wildlife Conservation Society, USA
Duration: October 2020 - October 2021


Project: Governing the pandemic: Relief and Resilience in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Principal Investigator: Maya Ratnam
Funding Agency: Social Science Research Council, USA
Duration: October 2020 - September 2021


Project: Identification and characterization of a novel protein from Leishmania donovani with potential implication in cell death pathways
Principal Investigator: Souvik Sen Gupta
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: May 2020 - May 2023


Project: Unraveling Cellular Re-Programming Underlying the Evolution of Hybrid Vigor in Introgressed Yeast Hybrids (Ramalinga Swamy Fellowships)
Principal Investigator: Krishna Swamy
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology
Duration: April 2020 - March 2025


Project: Shifting Science Identities and Appropriate Femininities at a Pharmacy College in India
Principal Investigator: Leya Mathew
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation, USA
Duration: September 2019-September 2021


Project: Fellowship from DST
Principal Investigator: Aditya Vaishya
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology
Duration: July 2014 - June 2020


Project: Gram-scale Synthesis of Calcium Carbonate Nanoparticles Industrial Applications
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Singh
Funding Agency: Winner Trade Private Limited
Duration: February 202 - August 2020


Project: Machine Learning Based B-cell Epitope Prediction
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde
Funding Agency: Ignite Foundation
Duration: February 2019-August 2021


Project: Japan Language Training
Principal Investigator: Keita Omi
Funding Agency: Japan Foundation
Duration: November 2019 - June 2020


Project: Cosmological Dark matter, Primordial Black Holes, Bose-Einstein Condensates and Charge Asymmetry of the Universe
Principal Investigator: Raghavan Rangarajan
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
Duration: August 2019-August 2022


Project: Opportunities for Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Development
Principal Investigator: Darshini Mahadevia
Co-Principal Investigator: DMinal Pathak
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology
Duration: October 2019- October 2021


Project: Addressing Dissonances Between Education Research And Post Market Reform Society
Principal Investigator: Mary Ann Chacko
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation, USA
Duration: June 2019-May 2022


Project: Ecological Assesment Exotic Salfin Catfish In The Indian Freshwater
Principal Investigator: Ratna Ghosal
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: March 2019 - March 2022


Project: Cuticle Soft Or Hard: How Do Insects Balance Water?
Principal Investigator: Subhash Rajpurohit
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: March 2019 - March 2022


Project: Advanced Nanotracers For Product Life Cycle Assessment And Product Monitoring
Principal Investigator:Ashutosh Kumar
Funding Agency: Impacting Research Innovation and Technology, India
Duration: August 2017 - March 2022


Project: Crosstalk Between TGFbeta Signaling And The Epigenetic States In Driving Tumorigenesis
Principal Investigator: Noopur Thakur
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: October 2018 - October 2021


Project: Identification of Salivary Exosomes derived miRNAs as potential early diagnostic biomarkers in oral cancer patients: a liquid biopsy approach
Principal Investigator: Vivek Tanavde
Funding Agency: Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission
Duration: March 2019 - September 2021


Project: Ramanujan Fellowship
Principal Investigator: Subhash Rajpurohit
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: May 2018 - May 2023


Project: Nanosensors for the Detection of Food Adulterants and Contaminants
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Co-Principal Investigator: Ajay Karakoti
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: August 2017 - December 2020


Project: Design and development of multiplex assay integrated nanodevice for rapid ‘on field’ identification of body fluids
Principal Investigator: Ritesh Shukla
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board
Duration: July 2017 - March 2021


Project: DNA Biochip for on-site water pathogen detection including viability and antibiotic resistance testing
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Co-Principal Investigator: Rishi Shanker
Funding Agency: Indo-German Science & Technology Cooperation (IGSTC)
Duration: July 2016 - July 2019


Project: Analysis, Design and Development of ICT based model for Clean India Mission
Principal Investigator: Aditya Patel
Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology(GUJCOST)
Duration: June 2016 - June 2018


Project: Systematic Design of Redox Potential Tunable Nanoparticles to Minic the Function of Biological Enzymes for Mitigating the Diseases caused by Reactive Oxygen Species
Principal Investigator: Ajay Karakoti
Co-Principal Investigator: Sanjay Singh
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: July 2016 - June 2020


Project: Establishment of a facility for environmental risk assessment of chemicals and nano materials
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Funding Agency: Gujarat Institute of Chemical Technology
Duration: April 2015 - June 2023


Project: Vitamin D and retinoic acid in the regulation of ILS-9
Principal Investigator: Ritobrata Goswamy
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: March 2016 - March 2019


Project: Multi Target Antioxidant Nanoconstruct For Prostate Cancer Treatment
Principal Investigator: Sanjay Singh
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
Duration: May 2015 - May 2018


Project: NanoToF: Toxicological evaluation and risk assessment on Nanomaterials in Food.
Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Kumar
Co-Principal Investigator: Ramanathan Karuppahamy, Vellore Institute of Technology
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Duration: July 2015 - July 2019


Project: Development of multi-biomarker Integrated Nano device for early detection of cardiovascular disease, 2015-18
Principal Investigator: Alok Pandya
Funding Agency: DST - Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, New Delhi
Duration: June 2015 - June 2018


Project: Establishment of Basic Lab for Research in Novel Engineered Materials
Principal Investigator: Ajay Karakoti
Funding Agency: Gujarat Institute of Chemical Technology
Duration: April 2012 - March 2015


Project: Establishing Center for Nanotechnology Research & Applications (CENTRA)
Principal Investigator: Balaji Prakash
Funding Agency: Gujarat Institute of Chemical Technology
Duration: April 2012 - December 2021



Project: Feasibility assessment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in Gujarat
Principal Investigator: Minal Pathak
Funding Agency: Climate Change Department, Government of Gujarat
Duration: February, 2022 - February, 2023


Project: The Living Heritage of Vadnagar: Documentation and Comparative Analysis
Principal Investigator: Aditya Prakash Kanth
Co-Principal Investigator: Neel Kamal Chapagain and Ioannis Poulios
Funding Agency: Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Gujarat
Duration: December, 2022 - October, 2023


Project: Student Programme
Principal Investigator: Professor Neel Kamal Champagain
Funding Agency: Erasumus -European
Year: 2019-2020
 

Project: Covereing Financial Support of Received from the Meteorological Organisation
Principal Investigator: Professor Priyadarshi Shukla and CO PI Minal Pathak
Funding Agency: Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine
Year: 2018-19


Project: Technical Support Unit of Working Group III of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Principal Investigator: Minal Pathak
Funding Agency: Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine (IPCC London)
Year: 2017-18


Project: Setting Up National Level Course on Heritage Management at Ahmedabad for the Purpose of Sensitizing Participants on The Need For Management in The Arts, Heritage and Cultural Sectors
Principal Investigator: Centre for Heritage Management
Funding Agency: Centre for Cultural Resource & Training
Year: 2015-16


Project: Student Startup Innovation Policy (GOG SSIP)
Principal Investigator: Srisunder Subramaniam
Funding Agency: Government of Gujarat
Year: 2016-17


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