Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC)
The Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) aims at improving the research ecosystem of India’s Higher Educational Institutions by facilitating academic and research collaborations between Indian Institutions and the best institutions in the world from 28 selected nations to jointly solve problems of national and/or international relevance.
List of Projects under Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC)
| Sl. No. | IIT Roorkee PI | International PI | International Institute | Country | Thrust Areas | Proposal ID | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Prof. Narayana Prasad Padhy | Prof. Anurag K Srivastava | Washington State University | United States of America | Action-Oriented Research | 43 | Development of Renewable energy Integrated Smart grid laboratory (DORIS) |
| 2. | Prof. Kasiviswanathan Kasiapillai Sudalaimuthu | Prof. Adebayo Johanson Adeloye | Heriot-Watt University | United Kingdom | Action-Oriented Research | 1228 | Mitigation of dam induced flood disaster due to hydrological extremes |
| 3. | Prof. Apurbba Kumar Sharma | Prof. Dinesh Kumar Agrawal | Pennsylvania State University | United States of America | Convergence | 40 | A Resource Efficient Method for Producing Orthopedic Bone Plate Using Microwave Energy |
| 4. | Prof. Karun Rawat | Prof. Fadhel Ghannouchi | University of Calgary | Canada | Emergent Areas of Impact | 291 | Radio Frequency Power Amplifier Design & Distortion Mitigation for Energy and Spectrum Efficient 5G Wireless Transmitters |
| 5. | Prof. Sandeep Kumar | Prof. Cagatay Catal | Wageningen University | Netherlands | Emergent Areas of Impact | 58 | Systematic Malware Detection and Analysis of Software-Intensive Systems (MaDeSiS) |
| 6. | Prof. Brajesh Kumar Kaushik | Prof. Kaushik Roy | Purdue University | United States of America | Emergent Areas of Impact | 294 | Spintronics based in-memory computing for neuromorphic applications |
| 7. | Prof. Sanjeev Kumar Manhas | Prof. Merlyne De Souza | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | Emergent Areas of Impact | 436 | Non-filamentary three-Terminal Memristor Architecture for Bio-mimetic and Logic Design |
| 8. | Prof. Partha Pratim Roy | Prof. M.K. (Marieke) van Vugt | University of Groningen | Netherlands | Emergent Areas of Impact | 731 | Tracking Depression and Elucidating its Mechanisms using Cognitive Neuroscience, EEG, and Machine Learning |
| 9. | Prof. Arindam Biswas | Prof. Tetsuo Kidokoro | The University of Tokyo | Japan | Emergent Areas of Impact | 222 | Urban and Regional Inequality Modelling as Story-Telling: Using Simulation Models as Narrative |
| 10. | Prof. Rajdeep Chatterjee | Prof. Masaaki Kimura | Hokkaido University | Japan | Fundamental Research | 309 | Structure and reactions of nuclei away from the valley of stability |
| 11. | Prof. Dhish Kumar Saxena | Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb | Michigan State University | United States of America | Innovation-Driven | 66 | INNOVIZATION: Discovery of Innovative Knowledge through Optimization and Machine Learning |
| 12. | Prof. Sanjay A Chikermane | Prof. Henk Jonkers | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | Innovation-Driven | 1451 | Reinterpretation of traditional technologies to create affordable resilient homes for rural communities |
| 13. | Prof. Saugata Hazra | Prof. Niegel K.H. Slater | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | Innovation-Driven | 325 | Combating Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriacae (CRE): Using combinatorial approach of conventional therapeutics and theranostic nanomedicine |
| 14. | Prof. Pushparaj Mani Pathak | Prof. Leila Notash | Queen's University | Canada | Innovation-Driven | 713 | Design and Development of Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Automated Construction |