MIPP Graduate Research Students

Understanding Interfacial phenomenon and drop coalescence in oil-water systems relevant to enhanced oil recovery and solvent extraction My research project is about understanding the adsorption dynamics of surface active species on the colloidal particles and its influence on altering the hydrodynamic boundary conditions. The first part of my project is to study the adsorption dynamics through transport phenomena of bubbles and …

Controlled Radical Polymerization Using Power Ultrasound Research Summary: Controlled Radical Polymerization (CRP) is a technique used to synthesize polymers with various architectures and narrow polydispersity index (PDI). During my PhD, I will focus on the investigation of the targeted scission of polymer chains formed during CRP using ultrasound to produce polymers with optimized molecular weight and narrow molecular weight distribution. The aim …

Research summary My PhD focuses on human fungal pathogen Talaromyces marneffei and how its different cell wall components plays their role in the pathogenicity. Specifically, we are interested in the cell wall remodelling of this pathogen upon encountering host. We are also interested in looking at the ultimate fate of this pathogen within the host and the counter mechanisms acquired by …

Cyber-foraging with Cloudlets for Low-latency applications over Fiber-Wireless Networks Research summary: With the emergence of Internet of Things, Tactile Internet, and 5G applications, major interest is currently given to the integration of centralized cloud computing and distributed edge computing infrastructures to deliver higher performance and reliability to the mobile users in accessing mobile cloud services.  To fulfill the ravenous demand for computational …

During my PhD research over the last three and half years, I have investigated the impact of crosslinking agents on the existing polymer inclusion membrane. Polymer inclusion membrane is a special type of liquid membrane which do the job of solvent extraction in terms of separating different analytes. It has also other application in the field of chemical sensing, monitoring …

Debajit is a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne. He is being supervised by Prof Aurore Delaigle (Unimelb).  His research topic is titled "Theoretical and Numerical aspects of Functional Data Analysis". Debajit completed his Master of Science (M. Sc.) in Statistics from IIT Kanpur in June 2015. His final year project involved developing the asymptotic …

Dileep is a PhD student in the Fluid Mechanics group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, supervised by Prof Ivan Marusic and Dr Jason Monty. He is studying the near wall turbulence in high Reynolds number. He is primarily interested in fundamental and applied research in fluid mechanics and heat transfer with an aim to improve the efficiency of aero-thermal systems. Dileep received B.Tech (Hons) …

Gokul is a PhD student in the Dynamics and Control Research group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is being supervised by Dr Chris Manzie (University of Melbourne) and Dr Sridharakumar Narasimhan (IIT Madras). His research focus is on developing economics-based robust model predictive controller for diesel engines, with an objective to meet desired performance metrics whilst minimising fuel consumption and confining emissions to …

Himanshu Mishra completed his B. Tech. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology and Management (BBTNITM) Lucknow in 2012 and a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2015. His M. Tech. thesis was focused on study of axial interaction of compressible vortex ring with cylinder. Himanshu is now pursuing full-time PhD at the …

Optimal and Game-theoretic Resource Allocations for Multiuser Wireless Energy-Harvesting and Communications Systems Research summary: The fifth generation of wireless cellular networks will see a paradigm shift towards extreme base station densification with massive amounts of data transmissions, massive number of mobile users, and massive number of transmitter systems. To support this, network resources need to be efficiently allocated to multiple nodes with consideration for energy-efficiency, fairness …

Johnson Jacob completed his B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Kannur in 2007 and masters (MS by Research) in Metallurgy and materials engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) in 2015. Prior to joining the masters’ course, Johnson worked as senior engineer at ISPAT Industries Ltd., an integrated steel plant in India. He also worked as an …

Nandakishor Desai is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne. His work is supervised by Prof Marimtuthu Palaniswami, Dr Jayavardhana Gubbi (Unimelb) and Prof Jayanta Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur). He is working in the area of Medical Image Processing. His research focuses mainly on analysing the progression of Parkinson’s disease based on the Laryngeal …

Nature has graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Biotechnology from P.E.S. Institute of Technology (Bangalore, India) in 2012. With All-India-Rank of 34 in GATE-2013 (Biotechnology), she pursued Master’s degree in Agricultural Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur). Currently, she is a postgraduate researcher in the Algae Processing Group (APG) of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department …

Nitheesh George is a PhD student in the Fluid Mechanics group of the mechanical engineering Department at The University of Melbourne. His research involves Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of brushfires in order to understand and predict fire behaviour. His research work is supervised by Dr Daniel Chung (Unimelb) and Prof M Govardhan (IIT Madras). He completed Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras in …

Research summary: During my PhD I have investigated the behaviour of vehicle platoons and platoon formation strategies. Vehicle platooning refers to a closely coordinated vehicle following mechanism without having any mechanical linkage while maintaining a safe distance. It has been proposed with the primary objectives of cutting down fuel consumption and increasing road capacity and throughput. The research primarily aims to …

Vishnu A V is a PhD student in the Future Grid group of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, supervised by Prof Iven Mareels and Prof Robin Evans. His research work is focused on the Smart grid and Battery management. Vishnu received his M. Tech. (2013) in Machine Drives and Power Electronics (MDPE) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and …

Partha De is PhD Candidate in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. His research involves design of side channel attack resistant cryptographic ASIC systems. His work is supervised by Prof Udaya Parampalli (Unimelb) and Prof Chittaranjan Mandal (IIT Kharagpur). Partha holds Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology (2005). …

Sanjay Kumar Patil is currently pursuing PhD in school of physics, University of Melbourne. His research area includes “clustering likelihood analysis” which will eventually involve analysing data from South Pole Telescope. His research is supervised by Dr Christian Reichardt’s (Unimelb) and Dr Somnth Bharadwaj (IIT Kharagpur). Sanjay worked with Dr Somnth Bharadwaj on “Mass discrepancy in the Galaxy Clusters” and completed …

Shivansh is a PhD candidate at Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources Group in the department of infrastructure engineering, The University of Melbourne. His research involves elucidating the role of temperature in driving biochemical reactions (nitrogenous transformations) within hyporheic zone. Thermal regime of hyporheic zone is dynamic and can alter the reaction rates and final products of reactions affecting the river …

Human interaction with (semi) autonomous vehicles with focus on forklifts autonomous systems Supervisors: The University of Melbourne: Dr Stephan Winter / Dr Allison Kealy IIT Kanpur: Dr Bharat Lohani Surabhi Gupta is a PhD student in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at University of Melbourne. She completed her Masters from IIT Kanpur (2014) under Dr Bharat Lohani where her master thesis work was …

The relationship between climate and mechanisms of Tropical cyclone formation Supervisors: The University of Melbourne: Prof Kevin Walsh Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Prof Prasad Kumar Bhaskaran Pavan Harika is currently pursuing Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. Pavan Harika completed her Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Earth System Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, …

Investigation of air sea gas exchange from laboratory and ship based observations Supervisors: The University of Melbourne: Dr Robyn Schofield, Assoc Professor Jason Monty IIT Kharagpur: A.N.V Satyanarayana Sushma has completed a Bachelor of Tech Aeronautical Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad, 2012 and Master of Tech Earth System Science and Technology IIT Kharagpur, 2014. She has worked as a Senior Research Fellow in IIT …

I joined The University of Melbourne for PhD in August 2015. I am doing my PhD with Prof. Andrew Western (University of Melbourne), Assoc. Prof. Yongping Wei (University of Queensland) and Prof. Madan Kumar Jha (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur). I did my Master’s Degree in Land and Water Resource Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Bachelor’s Degree …

I graduated with B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry degree from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi in 2015. I then pursued M.Sc. (Chemistry) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. I am currently a PhD student in the Goerigk Research Group on Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne. My research is supervised by Dr Lars Goerigk. The aim of …

Research Profile: My PhD research mainly focusses on developing a predictive wetting model for real surfaces which have a very random surface topology. In nature and industries, the way a liquid interacts with a solid surface depends upon the roughness of the solid surface. A drop of liquid may spread on a surface or just simply roll off (like on a Lotus …