Division of Interdisciplinary Research: Recent submissions
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New Dimension in Senescence: Unraveling Cellular Senescence in Three-Dimensional Scaffolds
Aging is a ubiquitous process that results in the progressive and irreversible loss of function. It is induced by accumulating damage caused by a variety of stressors, both internal and external. Although the advancement ... -
Liquid jet injection into a supersonic crossflow: Influence of jet orifice shape on penetration and atomization
Liquid jet injection into supersonic crossflow is one of the conceptually simple ways of fuel atomization in SCRAMJET engines. The success of these engines demands the efficient mixing of incoming supersonic air and the ... -
Evaluating routine biochemical parameters for breast cancer detection in Indian women: A machine learning approach
Breast cancer stands as the leading cancer type among Indian women, with a mortality rate that surpasses that of nations such as the USA, Australia, and the UK. The higher mortality rate is largely explained by a lack of ... -
Development of Novel Deep Learning Models with Improved Generalizability for Medical Image Analysis
Medical imaging is a process of visualization of disease/tissue in a non-invasive manner. Several imaging techniques like computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), optical coherence tomography (OCT), and ... -
Engineering Nano-Electronic Devices using 2-D Materials: CMOS Logic to Biosensing
Technology scaling has driven the development of semiconductor technology that forms a ubiquitous part of daily utilities such as smartphones, computers, and wearables. However, efforts to continue scaling have met ... -
Study of Human Safety-centric Strategies for Human-Robot Coexistence
With the increasing integration of robots into various domains and their coexistence with humans, ensuring human safety has become a critical concern. This thesis highlights the challenges associated with human safety in ... -
Advances in Architecturing of Large-Scale Photovoltaics: Packaging and Incidence Angle Agnostic Hierarchical Nanostructures
Encapsulant of Graphene embedded polymer that exhibits low permeability to moisture and oxygen were used as a packaging material for OPVDs. Graphene-Surlyn encapsulated and unencapsulated devices were stored both in ambient ... -
Optical and Electrical Studies of Hybrid Nanomaterial Composites Based on Noble Metal Nanostructures
Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) in noble metal nanoparticles like gold (Au) and silver (Ag) results in enhancements in optical absorption and scattering by the nanoparticles, accompanied by a dramatic ... -
Tailored Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Chemical Vapor Deposition and Next Generation Devices
The introduction of two dimensional (2D) materials in electronic device applications has provided a platform for several new device concepts and architectures. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is the only insulator in the ... -
Design and Analysis of Random Access Protocols for Massive Machine-Type Communications
Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is a 5G and beyond use case, where the network is expected to serve millions of devices per square kilometre. Typical mMTC devices include smart energy meters, pressure sensors, ... -
Deeply Scaled InAlN/GaN-on-Silicon High Electron Mobility Transistors for RF Applications
Wide bandgap gallium nitride (GaN) based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are promising candidates for next-generation radio frequency (RF) power amplifier applications owing to high electron saturation velocity ... -
Experimental and computational approaches to understand collective behaviors of bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen, estimated to account for 15-20% of hospital-acquired infection-related deaths around the globe in a year. This bacterium exhibits two distinct collective ... -
A Study of Factors Influencing Need for, Mode of and Sustainability of New Urban Mobility
Globally, we are observing a paradigm shift in urban mobility enabled by the exponential growth in information and communication technologies (ICTs) leading to profound transformation from traditional mobility to other ... -
Micro-carriers mediated bacteriophage delivery for targeting intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and TB prevention
Tuberculosis (TB) is a debilitating infectious disease that afflicts 10 million people every year. Treatment is particularly challenging due to prolonged treatment duration (4-6 months) consisting of an oral regimen of 4 ... -
On the Optimality of Generative Adversarial Networks — A Variational Perspective
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a popular learning framework to model the underlying distribution of images. GANs comprise a min-max game between the generator and the discriminator. While the generator transforms ... -
Hydrodynamic stability of shear flows : Jet in crossflow, particle laden planar and swirling jets
Jet in crossflow is a flow scenario that involves momentum exchange of a round jet injected into a crossflow. This flow configuration has industrial importance because of its application in gas turbine combustors which ... -
Towards the development of open-chip digital microfluidics platform
Manipulating and utilizing fluid flows at microscale provides several opportunities towards technological advancement in different domains such as (but not limited to) lab-on-chip devices for mimicking biological laboratory ... -
Dynamical systems biology approach to identify mediators of the Epithelial-Hybrid-Mesenchymal spectrum
Cancer metastasis – the spread of cancer cells from one organ to another – remains the major cause of cancer-related deaths. A hallmark of metastasizing cells is their ability to adapt quickly and reversibly to their dynamic ... -
Design Principles of Phenotypic Robustness and Plasticity in Gene Regulatory Networks underlying Cancer Metastasis
Metastasis – the process of cancer cells leaving the primary tumor and colonizing multiple organs – remains a major cause of cancer mortality. However, it is a highly inefficient process with only 0.01% of disseminated ... -
Growth of hole-conducting Cu2O & CuO semiconductors using CVD for next-generation electronic devices: Thin Films Transistors, Memristors, and Gas Sensors
Semiconducting oxides with visible-range transparency and high electrical conductivity have tremendous potential for transparent CMOS devices. Oxide semiconducting materials are a good choice for emerging transparent ...