Invitation to Doctoral Proposal Seminars, Department of EEE
Invitation to Doctoral Proposal Seminars, Department of EEE
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE)
Notice
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE)
Notice
No: DRC/EEE/Ph.D./Proposal/2025-26 (ST)/01
The Doctoral proposal submission seminars of the following Ph.D. research scholars will be held as per the schedule given below.
Venue: EEE Seminar Room, Room No. 2142
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/hum-tbsf-xgy
Note: Online mode will be available for DAC members and Co-supervisors who are not available on campus.
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1. Mr. Vedant Vyas (ID No.: 2024PHXF0041)
Date & Time: July 6, 2026, 10:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “Digital-Twin Technology Based Control and Condition Monitoring of Power Electronic Converters”
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Aditya Gautam, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Ashish Patel, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Amit Kumar Jain, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani.
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2. Mr. Antony David (ID No.: 2024PHXF0439P)
Date & Time: July 6, 2026, 11:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “Phase and Bandgap Engineering of III-Oxides in Quest of Interfacial 2DEG for Implementation in High Electron Mobility Transistors”
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Rahul Kumar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Prof. Ankush Bag, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engg. IIT Kharagpur.
DAC Members:
Prof. Navneet Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Pankaj Arora, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
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3. Mr. Vikas Ranjan (ID No.: 2024PHIP2000P)
Date & Time: July 7, 2026, 10:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “Bridging Code and Operations: A Semantic Code Knowledge Graph for Cross-Service Code Generation and Code-Level Remediation”.
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Vinay Chamola, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Karunesh K. Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Dhruv Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani.
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4. Mr. Vikrant Singh (ID No.: 2025PHXF0025P)
Date & Time: July 7, 2026, 11:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “ Development of Renewable Energy Integrated Charging Grid with Vehicle to Grid facility: A Need of Smart Cities ”
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Hari Om Bansal, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Prof. Amit Dua, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Ashish Patel, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Puneet Mishra, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
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5. Mr. Himanshu Shekhar (ID No.: 2025PHXF0084P)
Date & Time: July 8, 2026, 10:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “ Auditable Medical Report Generation: Unifying EHR-Aware Retrieval, Multimodal Imaging, and Sentence-Level Region Grounding ”
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Vinay Chamola, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Prof. Wei Xiang, Cisco Research Chair of AI and IoT; Director & Chief Scientist, Australian Centre for AI in Medical Innovation (ACAMI), Australia.
DAC Members:
Prof. Karunesh K. Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Dhruv Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani.
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6. Mr. Manish Prasad (ID No.: 2024PHRP0903P)
Date & Time: July 8, 2026, 11:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “ Trustworthy LLM-Assisted Cybersecurity for Smart-City IoT”.
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Vinay Chamola, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Karunesh K. Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Dhruv Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani.
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7. Mr. Praveen K (ID No.: 2025PHRP0804P)
Date & Time: July 9, 2026, 10:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “Design and Development of High-Performance Solar-Blind Deep-UV Photodetectors Based on III-Oxide/III-Nitride Heterostructures”.
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Rahul Kumar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Dr. Shruti Nirantar, Lecturer, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, RMIT University, Australia.
DAC Members:
Prof. Pankaj Arora, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Surojit Pande, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, BITS Pilani.
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8. Ms. Laveena Dadhich (ID No.: 2024PHXF0446P)
Date & Time: July 9, 2026, 11:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “Modeling, Analysis and Applications of Multifunctional Metasurfaces Operating in C,X, Ku and K Band”
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Dinesh Rano, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Sainath Bitragunta, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Praveen Kumar A.V, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
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9. Mr. Virender Singh (ID No.: 2024PHXF0442P)
Date & Time: July 10, 2026, 11:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “ Bridging the efficiency gap of Perovskite solar cells through compositional, photonic, and machine learning strategies”
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Pankaj Arora, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Dr. Pankaj B Agarwal, Scientist ‘F’, Semiconductor Process Technology Group, CSIR-CEERI Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Sujan Yenuganti, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Nitika Grover, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, BITS Pilani.
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10. Mr. Manvendra Singh Yadav (ID No.: 2025PHXF0419P)
Date & Time: July 11, 2026, 10:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “A Unified Framework for Autonomous Drone Fleet Operations: Platform-Agnostic Charging, AI -Driven Charge Scheduling, and Intrusion-Resilient Communication emphasising the end-to-end pipeline from hardware to security
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Shubha Sharma, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Prof. Vinay Chamola, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani
DAC Members:
Prof. Saurabh Gandhi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. G. Sai Sesha Chalapathi, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani
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11. Mr. Amit (ID No.: 2025PHXF0022P)
Date & Time: July 13, 2026, 10:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “ Design and Development of a Flexible Photodetector for Biomedical Sensing and Medical Diagnostic Applications”
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Navneet Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Rahul Kumar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Sujan Yenuganti, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
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12. Mr. Deepak Pareek (ID No.: 2024PHXF0048P)
Date & Time: July 13, 2026, 11:00 AM
Title of the proposed research: “ III-Oxide for Next-Generation (Opto)Electronics: Growth Optimization and Contact Engineering ”.
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Rahul Kumar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Dr. Jitendra Singh, Senior Principal Scientist, SSMG Group, CSIR CEERI, Pilani
DAC Members:
Prof. Navneet Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Arnab Hazra, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
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13. Mr. Atul Kumar Dwivedi (ID No.: 2025PHXF0512P)
Date & Time: July 13, 2026, 12:00 PM
Title of the proposed research: “ Design and Development of Precision Voltage and Temperature Sensors in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies”.
Proposed Supervisor: Prof. Rahul Kumar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Proposed Co-Supervisor: Prof. Navneet Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
DAC Members:
Prof. Prashant Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
Prof. Govind Prasad, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani.
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Interested people are welcome to attend the seminar.
Prof. Puneet Mishra Prof. Navneet Gupta
Convener, DRC HOD, EEE