Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)
Govt. of India approved a new program titled Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs, internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India's scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.
GIAN External link of GIAN Webpage hosted by IIT Kharagpur
- Revised guidelines for virtual mode of conduct of approved GIAN courses
- Eligibility and Procedure for Joining GIAN Scheme
- VISA Guidelines
- Guidelines for GIAN to MOOC conversion
- Ministry of Education(Shiksha Mantralaya) MOOCs Guidelines
Prof. Ranjana Pathania
Local Coordinator (GIAN)
List of GIAN approved courses:
| S.No. | Course Name | Course Area | Foreign Faculty | Host Faculty | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | An Urban Districts and Area-Based Approach towards Sustainability | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff, Professor, Department of Design and Urban Development, Technische Universität Darmstadt - Architecture, , Germany | Dr. Arindam Biswas, Department of Architecture & Planning | 04-11-2016 to 10-11-2016 |
| 2. | Interior-Architecture, Craft and Design: Focus on Inter-Disciplinarity | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Maarit Salolainen, Interior architecture, Craft and Design: Focus on Inter-Disciplinarity, , Finland | Smriti Saraswat, Department of Architecture & Planning | 03-10-2016 to 12-10-2016 |
| 3. | Remediation & Management of Polluted Groundwater Sites | Earth & Environment Sciences | Abinash Agrawal, , United States of America | Dr. Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Department of Hydrology | 16-05-2016 to 29-05-2016 |
| 4. | Urban Analytics: Evaluating and Measuring Sustainability of Cities | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Prof Subhrajit Guhathakurta, , United States of America | Arindam Biswas, Architecture & Planning | 04-06-2018 to 09-06-2018 |
| 5. | Neuromorphic Computing with Nanoscale Spintronic Devices | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Dr Abhronil Sengupta, , United States of America | Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Electronics and Communication Engineering | 23-07-2020 to 27-07-2020 |
| 6. | Biomedical Image Analysis | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Rangaraj (Raj) Mandayam Rangayyan, University of Calgary, , Canada | Prof. Vinod Kumar, Electrical Engineering | 09-01-2017 to 13-01-2017 |
| 7. | LOW-CARBON BUILT ENVIRONMENTS: DESIGN APPROACH AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Sukumar Natarajan, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, , United Kingdom | E. Rajasekar, Architecture Department | 09-04-2017 to 18-04-2017 |
| 8. | Emerging Hydrometric Techniques for Discharge Estimation and Rating Curve Development | Earth & Environment Sciences | TommasoMoramarco, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection - CNR, , Italy | Dr.MuthiahPerumal, Hydrology | 03-04-2017 to 08-04-2017 |
| 9. | GREEN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE I – SUSTAINABLE URBAN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT | Earth & Environment Sciences | ASHANTHA GOONETILLEKE, Professor, Water/Environmental Engineering, Queensland university of Technology, , Australia | Professor Himanshu Joshi, Hydrology | 18-07-2018 to 27-07-2018 |
| 10. | GREEN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE II– INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT | Earth & Environment Sciences | FABIO MASI, IRIDRA Srl, , Italy | Professor Himanshu Joshi, Hydrology | 29-05-2017 to 09-06-2017 |
| 11. | Recent Advancements in Biophysical Techniques and Virology | Life Sciences & Healthcare | Gabriel C Lander, , United States of America | Shailly Tomar, Department of Biotechnology | 15-04-2018 to 21-04-2018 |
| 12. | Urban Stormwater Management: Science, Policy, and Engineering Training for SMART CITIES | Earth & Environment Sciences | Debabrata Sahoo, Woolpert Inc, , United States of America | Dr. Sumit Sen, Hydrology | 27-02-2017 to 06-03-2017 |
| 13. | Microstructural engineering and properties of advanced ceramics | Chemical, Bio-Chemical | Young-Wook Kim, University of Seoul, , Korea South | Dr. B. Venkata Manoj Kumar, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 15-11-2016 to 21-11-2016 |
| 14. | Semiotic Approach to Feminist Studies | Humanities & Liberal Arts | KANIKA BATRA, faculty in the Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA, , United States of America | Prof SMITA JHA, HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES | 08-08-2017 to 12-08-2017 |
| 15. | Recent Advancement on Electric Vehicle | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Prof Sheldon Williamson, , Canada | Dr.Avik Bhattacharya, Electrical Engineering | 09-03-2020 to 13-03-2020 |
| 16. | FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT THROUGH SUBSURFACE | Earth & Environment Sciences | Prof Rao S. Govindaraju, , United States of America | Dr Pramod Kumar Sharma, Civil Engineering | 02-03-2020 to 06-03-2020 |
| 17. | Sensitive High Resolution Ion MicroProbe (SHRIMP) applications of isotope geochemistry in Earth System Science | Earth & Environment Sciences | Ian S. Williams, , Australia | Prof. Sandeep Singh, Earth Sciences | 04-09-2017 to 09-09-2017 |
| 18. | Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations | Mathematical & Computer Sciences | Prof Michael Tretyakov, , United Kingdom | Dr Chaman Kumar, Mathematics | 03-08-2020 to 14-08-2020 |
| 19. | HVDC Transmission and FACTS | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Vijay K. Sood, , Canada | Dr. Manoj Tripathy, Electrical Engineering | 17-12-2018 to 21-12-2018 |
| 20. | Biomedical Signal Acquisition, Processing and Analysis | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Dinesh Kant Kumar, , Australia | P. Sumathi, Electrical Engineering | 19-12-2017 to 23-12-2017 |
| 21. | Robotic Systems Modeling and Control | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Doik Kim, , Korea South | Felix Orlando Maria Joseph, Electrical Engineering | 11-12-2017 to 15-12-2017 |
| 22. | Smart Mobility Design for Urban Health and Well-Being: An interdisciplinary approach to Urban Transformation and Liveable Cities | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | J Alexander Schmidt, , Germany | Dr.Gaurav Raheja, Architecture & Planning | 14-08-2017 to 23-08-2017 |
| 23. | Stability of vortices and non-isothermal parallel flow | Physical Sciences | Yuji Hattori, , Japan | Premananda Bera, Mathematics | 04-12-2017 to 09-12-2017 |
| 24. | Membrane separations for the desalination of water: Materials, processes, applications and transport theory | Chemical, Bio-Chemical | Anthony SZYMCZYK, , France | Dr.P.Mondal, Chemical Engineering | 29-10-2018 to 02-11-2018 |
| 25. | Advancement of Signal Processing in Earth Observation | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Hussein Yahia, the head of INRIA research team GEOSTAT (Geometry and statistics in acquisition data), , France | Dr. Dharmendra Singh, Electronics & Communication Engineering | 05-12-2016 to 09-12-2016 |
| 26. | Integrated modelling of subsurface flow and transport in porous media – Challenges and Opportunities | Earth & Environment Sciences | Mayur Pal, Maersk Oil Research and Technology Centre, , Qatar | Dr. Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Hydrology | 02-01-2017 to 14-01-2017 |
| 27. | Universal Design & Accessibility Planning: an interdisciplinary approach to inclusive environments | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Korydon Smith, , United States of America | Dr.Gaurav Raheja, Architecture & Planning | 22-01-2018 to 28-01-2018 |
| 28. | Jet Flows: Subsonic, Supersonic and Synthetic with Applications | Mechanical Sciences & Infrastructure | Gary W Rankin, , Canada | Dr. Sushanta Dutta, Mechanical & Industrial engineering | 03-12-2018 to 07-12-2018 |
| 29. | HIGH SPEED OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS | Physical Sciences | Geert Morthier, , Belgium | Dr.Rajesh Kumar, Physics | 15-10-2018 to 20-10-2018 |
| 30. | Remote Sensing Science and Sensors for Agricultural Applications | Earth & Environment Sciences | Jasmeet Judge, , United States of America | Dharmendra Singh, Electronics and Communication Engineering | 20-02-2018 to 24-02-2018 |
| 31. | Reliability based robust optimization: The future of structural design | Mechanical Sciences & Infrastructure | Sondipon Adhikari, , United Kingdom | Rajib Chowdhury, Civil Engineering | 18-12-2017 to 22-12-2017 |
| 32. | Economic growth and Regional development and governance: Sustainable approach to regional development | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Fumihiko Seta, , Japan | Dr.Arindam Biswas, Architecture & Planning | 13-08-2017 to 18-08-2017 |
| 33. | Architectural Theory: Worldviews, Conceptual Histories and Role Models | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Axel Sowa, , Germany | Smriti Saraswat, Architecture and Planning | 20-12-2017 to 24-12-2017 |
| 34. | Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer | Mechanical Sciences & Infrastructure | Stephane Zaleski, , France | Dr.Arup Kumar Das, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee | 23-10-2017 to 03-11-2017 |
| 35. | Nanostructured Materials: Science and Technology | Chemical, Bio-Chemical | Ashutosh Tiwari, , United States of America | Prof. Shishir Sinha, Chemical Engineering | 08-10-2018 to 12-10-2018 |
| 36. | Energy Efficient Hardware Security Using Post-CMOS Nanodevices for Mobile Computing | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Dr Swaroop Ghosh, , United States of America | Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Electronics and Communication Engineering | 06-07-2020 to 10-07-2020 |
| 37. | Road Traffic Safety | Mechanical Sciences & Infrastructure | Peter Tarmo Savolainen, , United States of America | Dr Indrajit Ghosh, Civil Engineering | 30-09-2019 to 04-10-2019 |
| 38. | Jump Processes in Risk Management | Management | Peter Tankov, , France | Dr Chaman Kumar, Department of Mathematics | 17-12-2018 to 21-12-2018 |
| 39. | Introduction to Spintronics | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | SUPRIYO BANDYOPADHYAY, , United States of America | Dr.Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Electronics and Communication Engineering | 18-12-2017 to 22-12-2017 |
| 40. | Signal Processing Techniques for Energy and Spectrum Efficient Wireless Transmitters for 4G/5G Communication | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Fadhel M. Ghannouchi, , Canada | Meenakshi Rawat, Electronics and Communication Engineering | 22-12-2017 to 26-12-2017 |
| 41. | Water Sensitive Urban Design and Integrated urban Water Management | Other Categories / Interdisciplinary Categories | Prof Ashok Sharma, , Australia | Dr Pramod Kumar Sharma, Civil Engineering | 01-06-2020 to 05-06-2020 |
| 42. | Advanced Sliding Mode Control and Estimation for Real Complex Systems of the 21st Century | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Sarah K Spurgeon, , United Kingdom | Dr. Sohom Chakrabarty, Electrical Engineering | 23-10-2017 to 27-10-2017 |
| 43. | Probabilistic analysis of power plants and design of metamaterial-based shields for enhanced performance | Mechanical Sciences & Infrastructure | Oreste S Bursi, , Italy | Dr.Anil Kumar, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | 22-04-2019 to 26-04-2019 |
| 44. | Logic Design under Paradigm of Rebooting Computing | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Himanshu Thapliyal, , United States of America | Dr.Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Electronics and Communication Engineering | 25-12-2017 to 29-12-2017 |
| 45. | Applied Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling with MODFLOW | Earth & Environment Sciences | Thomas Harter, , United States of America | Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Hydrology | 26-07-2018 to 03-08-2018 |
| 46. | Induced Polarization of Rocks: From Petrophysics to Tomography and Their Applications to Reservoirs and Geothermal System | Earth & Environment Sciences | André Revil, , France | Ravi Sharma, Earth Sciences | 05-03-2018 to 09-03-2018 |
| 47. | Sliding Mode Control in Infinite-Dimensional Setting: Theory Extension and Applications | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Yuri Orlov, , Mexico | Dr.Sohom Chakrabarty, Electrical Engineering | 07-11-2018 to 11-11-2018 |
| 48. | Seismic Anisotropy: Estimation, Imaging, & Reservoir Characterization | Earth & Environment Sciences | Jyoti Behera, , United States of America | Ravi Sharma, Earth Sciences | 28-05-2018 to 01-06-2018 |
| 49. | Applicability of Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics in Shale Reservoirs | Earth & Environment Sciences | Manika Prasad, , United States of America | Ravi Sharma, Earth Sciences | 09-07-2018 to 13-07-2018 |
| 50. | RF Power Amplifier Design and Integration for 4G/5G Applications | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Kamal K. Samanta, , United Kingdom | Dr.Karun Rawat, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | 17-12-2017 to 21-12-2017 |
| 51. | Transport of viruses and colloids in variably-saturated soil and groundwater | Earth & Environment Sciences | S.Majid Hassanizadeh, , Netherlands (Holland, Europe) | Dr.Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Hydrology | 12-02-2019 to 20-02-2019 |
| 52. | Desi Homes: Literary and Digital Cultures of the Indian Diaspora in the New Millennium | Humanities & Liberal Arts | Nalini Iyer, , United States of America | Dr.Rahul Krishna Gairola, Humanities and Social Sciences | 31-07-2017 to 04-08-2017 |
| 53. | Electrokinetic in porous media | Mathematical & Computer Sciences | André Revil, , France | Dr.Ameeya kumar Nayak, Mathematics | 27-11-2017 to 08-12-2017 |
| 54. | Risk Communication: Application to Urban Planning for Creating Resilient Cities | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | SUBHOJYOTI SAMADDAR, , Japan | Dr.Uttam Kunar Roy, Architecture and Planning | 19-03-2018 to 23-03-2018 |
| 55. | Analysis and applications of document image processing | Mathematical & Computer Sciences | Josep Llados, , Spain | Partha Pratim Roy, Computer Science & Engineering | 04-12-2017 to 08-12-2017 |
| 56. | Shaping Urban Future for Global Cities in Developing Country | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Zhu Qian, , Canada | Arindam Biswas, Architecture & Planning | 15-11-2017 to 21-11-2017 |
| 57. | Methods and techniques in integrated Structural Biology: Toward structure based drug development | Life Sciences & Healthcare | B V Venkatar PRASAD, , United States of America | PRAVINDRA KUMAR, BIOTECHNOLOGY | 15-01-2018 to 21-01-2018 |
| 58. | CLIMATE RESPONSIVE BUILDING DESIGN: Designing of Climate Resilient High Performance Buildings | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | Prof Anir Upadhyay, , Australia | E.Rajasekar, Architecture and Planning | 04-05-2020 to 08-05-2020 |
| 59. | Advancement of Radar System and Its Potential Applications | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Werner Wiesbeck, Professor, , Germany | Dharmendra Singh, Electronics and Communication Enginering | 20-11-2017 to 24-11-2017 |
| 60. | COMPREHENSIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY: (ECG LEAD SYSTEMS, SIGNAL PROCESSING, INTERPRETATION CLINICAL APPLICATIONS) | Electronics, Electrical, Information & Communication Technology | Peter Macfarlane, Inst of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences Electrocardiology Group Level 1, New Lister Building, Royal Infirmary Glasgow, , United Kingdom | Prof. Vinod Kumar, Electrical Engineering | 23-02-2016 to 27-02-2016 |
| 61. | CRYSTALLOGRAPHY FOR MATERIALS SCIENTISTS | Chemical, Bio-Chemical | K.M.Knowles, , United Kingdom | Professor Anjan Sil, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 05-12-2016 to 10-12-2016 |
| 62. | Population Balance Equations with Applications | Chemical, Bio-Chemical | Jacek Banasiak, Technical University of Lodz and University of Pretoria, , South Africa | Dr.Ankik Kumar Giri, Mathematics | 26-11-2018 to 30-11-2018 |
| 63. | BASINS/HSPF Workshop Training | Earth & Environment Sciences | Anurag Mishra, AQUA TERRA Consultants, , United States of America | Dr.Sumit Sen, Department of Hydrology | 06-06-2016 to 14-06-2016 |
| 64. | Green Building- Philosophy, Design, Implementation and Performance | Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage | PC Thomas, Director, Team Catalyst Pty Ltd, , Australia | Dr.Avlokita Agrawal, Department of Architecture & Planning | 02-01-2017 to 13-01-2017 |
| S.No. | Course Name | Course Area | Foreign Faculty | Host Faculty | Duration |