Sponsored Projects
Sponsored Research Projects: 18 (Ongoing Projects: 06 and Completed: 12)
Ongoing: (06)
Implantable Pacemaker Chip (iPACE-CHIP)
Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), Govt. of India under Special Manpower Development Program for Chip to Startup (SMDP-C2S)
Role: Chief Investigator (CI), Co-CI: Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori
Objectives: The project aims to design and fabricate the next generation chip (iPACE-CHIP) for the implantable pacemaker to be used in the commercial product with enhanced features. The proposed chip would have pacing, sensing, EGM, Battery Measurement, telemetry and controller blocks. The proposed blocks would be designed with reduced power, area and improved reliability.
Duration: 5 Years (June 2023 - May 2028)
Amount: INR 96 lakhs
Other participating institutes: IIT Jammu, ABV-IIITM Gwalior, IET-DAVV Indore and SGSITS Indore
Secure Key Generation through Physical Unclonable Function(PUF)
Funding Agency: CHANAKYA Fellowships of IITI DRISHTI CPS Foundation under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical System (NM-ICPS) of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Role: PI: Prof. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
Objectives: The project aims to design a Secure Circuit using a Physical Unclonable function.
Duration: 1 Years (August 2023 - July 2024)
Amount: INR 7.5 lakhs
Computing-in-Memory based DNN Accelerator for Edge Al Applications
Funding Agency: CHANAKYA Fellowships of IITI DRISHTI CPS Foundation under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical System (NM-ICPS) of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Role: PI: Prof. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
Objectives: T0 design an accelerator chip using in-memory computing
Duration: 1 Years (June 2023-May 2024)
Amount: INR 7.5 lakhs
Design and Fabrication of Energy Efficient In-Memory Computing Design Framework for Analog Neural Processor with Improved Linearity for Neuromorphic Computing Applications
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
Role: PI from IIT Indore, Co-PI: Dr. Ajay Kumar Kushwah (IIT Indore)
Duration: 3 Years (2021 – 2024)
Amount: INR 1,17,84,720
Lead Partner in South Korea: Dr. Sung Hun Jin from INU, South Korea
Associate Participants from India:
Dr. Sachin Kumar Srivastava, IIT Roorkee
Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, IIT Varanasi
Dr. Peeyush Soni, IIT Kharagpur
Dr. Jai Gopal Pandey, CEERI Pilani
Dr. Bhupendra Singh Reniwal, IIITDM Kancheepuram
Dr. Ambika Prasad Shah, IIT Jammu
Dr. Jayaraj U Kidav, NIELIT Calicut
Dr. Vaibhav Neema, IET-DAVV Indore
Dr. Hemen K. Kalita, Guwahati University
Prof. Vimal Bhatia, IIT Indore
Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori, IIT Indore
Dr. M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, IIT Bhubaneshwar
Prof. G. S. Murthy, IIT Indore
Dr. Manish Kumar Goyal, IIT Indore
Prof. S. Prakash, IET-DAVV Indore
Associate Participants from South Korea:
Dr. Sung Hun Jin, Incheon National University, South Korea
Funding Agency: Norwegian Research Council (RCN) under INTPART Scheme
Role: PI from IIT Indore
Name of the project: Indo-Norwegian collaboration in Intelligent Offshore Mechatronics Systems (INMOST)
Duration: 3 Years (2020 – 2023)
Amount: 56,20,000 NOK (INR 4,86,26,175) (42, 000 NOK for IIT Indore)
Lead Partner in Norway: Prof. Jing Zhou and Prof. Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, University of Agder (UiA), Norway
Participants from India:
Dr. Saidi Reddy Parne, NIT Goa
Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma, Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori, Dr. Aruna Tiwari and Dr. Abhinoy Singh from IIT Indore
Dr. Rama Krishna Sai Gorthi, IIT Tirupati
Dr. Shaikshavali Chitraganti, IIT Palakkad
Participants from Norway:
Prof. Houxiang Zhang, NTNU, Norway
Dr. Jan Einar Gravdal, NORSE, Norway
Completed: (12)
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
Scheme: Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF), SERB, Govt. of India
PI: Narendra Dhakad, PhD Scholar, IIT Indore
Supervisor from India: Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma, IIT Indore
Supervisor from USA: Prof. Kaushik Roy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA.
Duration: 12 Months (January 2022 - January 2023)
Amount: 24,000 USD (INR 22,39,252)
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
Scheme: Teacher Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE), SERB, Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Vaibhav Neema, Assistant Professor, IET-DAVV, Indore
Role: Mentor of the project
Duration: 3 Years (November 2018- October 2021)
Amount: INR 10,05,000
Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), Govt. of India.
Role: Chief Investigator (CI), Co-CI: Dr. Shaibal Mukharjee
Objectives: Capacity Building/Manpower Generation (B.Tech./M.Tech./ Ph.D.) in-country in the area of "Chip to System Design (C2SD)".
Duration: 6 Years (April 2015 - November 2021)
Amount: INR 92 lakhs: INR 50 Lakhs + Hardware & Software INR 42 Lakhs.
Activities and Contributions:
(1) Design and Test of an ASIC for "Low Power SRAM for DSP" used in a joint chip to system design project lead by IIT Bombay entitled "Versatile Philological Health Monitoring System".
Project Partners from other institutes: IIT Gandhinagar, SVNIT Surat, MANIT Bhopal and SGSITS Indore
(2) Design and Test of an ASIC for "10b/8b Decoder and Encoder" used in a joint chip to system design project lead by IIT Bombay entitled "SerDes System"
Project Partners from other institutes: IIT Gandhinagar, SVNIT Surat, MANIT Bhopal and SGSITS Indore
(3) An independent "ASIC Design for IoT wireless sensor node".
Funding Agency: Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India.
Role: PI from IIT Indore
Scheme: Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMIT)
Name of Component: Centre of Excellence in Curriculum and Pedagogy
Duration: 4 Years, 7 Months (August 2016 - March 2021)
Amount: INR 754 Lakhs (IIT Indore: INR 146 Lakhs)
Participating Institutes and their Chief Investigators (CIs) & Co-CIs:
IIT Patna: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Parida, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Ranjan Kumar Behera, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Kanpur: Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, CI & Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Nishchal K. Verma, Co-CI & Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Gaurav Pandey, Co-CI & Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,
IIT Kharagpur: Dr. Pawan Goyal, CI & Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Bivas Mitra, Co-CI & Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Indore: Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma, CI & Associate Professor, Discipline of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Santhakumar Mohan, Co-CI & Associate Professor, Discipline of Mechanical Engineering
Funding Agency: Scientist Pool Scheme of CSIR, HRDG, Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Ankur Beohar
Role: Mentor
Duration: 2 Years (November 2018- October 2020)
Amount: INR 16.60 Lakhs
Funding Agency: HiPEAC Collaboration Grant, European FP7 ICT Cooperation program
Role: PhD Students Advisor
Objective of the project: Capacity Building ( Ph.D.) in the area of "Chip to System Design (C2SD)" in AI application.
Project Partners from other institutes:
1. Prof. Koen De Bosschere (HiPEAC Coordinator), Computing Systems, Ghent University, Belgium.
2. Prof. Akash Kumar (Host Advisor), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Duration: 3 Months (November 2019 - January 2020)
Amount: 5000 Euro (INR 4,39,649)
Funding Agency: ASA Program of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
PI and Lead Partner from Germany: Prof. Akash Kumar, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
PI from India: Dr. Kapil Ahuja, IIT Indore
Co-PI from India: Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma, IIT Indore
Objective of the project: ASA-coopération universities Global engagement for learning and capacity-building programme in the field of development policy.
Project partner from other institutes: Prof. Akash Kumar (Host Advisor), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Duration: 6 Months (April 2019 - September 2019)
Amount: 10000 Euro (INR 8,78,530)
Funding Agency: Academy of Finland, Finland under the Center of Mobility (CIMO) Scheme.
Role: Co-coordinator in India
Duration: 2 Years (September 2016 - August 2018)
Amount: Euro 50,000 (INR 43,93,749)
Co-ordinator of the Project in Finland: Prof. Kari Halonen, Professor, Aalto University, Department of Micro- and Nano Sciences, School of Electrical
Engineering, Espoo, Finland.
Participants from other institutes in India:
Dr. Sudeb Dasgupta, IIT Roorkee
Dr. Sachin Chaudhary, IIIT Hyderabad
Funding Agency: IIT Indore and CEERI Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Investigators from IIT Indore: Dr. S. K. Vishvakarma (Principal Investigator), Dr. Ajay K. Kushwaha (Co-PI), Dr. Hem Chandra Jha (Co-PI)
Investigator from CEERI, Pilani: Dr. Jai Gopal Pandey, Principal Investigator & Senior Scientist, IC Design Group.
Duration: 1 Year (April 2017 - March 2018)
Amount: INR 6 Lakhs
Funding Agency: SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
PI: Dr. N. K. Yadav, Post Doc under this project with me at IIT Indore.
Role: Mentor of the project
Duration: 2 Years (November 2016- October 2018)
Amount: INR 19,20,000
Funding Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India
Role: Principle Investigator
Duration: 3.5 Years (1st October 2014 - 31st March 2018)
Amount: INR 35.13 Lakhs
Funding Agency: Young Scientist, Fast Track Project, Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
Role: Principle Investigator
Duration: 3 Years (May 2012 - April 2015)
Amount: INR 19 Lakhs