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