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Funded Research Projects

IISc period: September 2021 – May 2026  ·  Career total: ~₹9.23 Crore

Intramural
₹85 L
IoE Start-up + Infosys
Govt. / Extramural
₹251.75 L
MeitY · DRDO · ICMR · CBR
Industry (SID/CSSP)
₹106.65 L
TCS · IBM · Google · AMD · more
Consulting (CSIC)
₹51.66 L
Tvarit · Oplus · AIDash · Policybazaar

IISc Period Total (Released Basis)

September 2021 – May 2026 · All amounts are released/received funds
₹4.95 Crore
₹495.12 Lakhs released · ICMR total project value ₹6 Crore

Intramural Grants (IISc)

Total: ₹85 Lakhs
IoE Start-Up Grant, IISc
PI Duration: 2 years Infrastructure + research setup for RepLab
₹80 LakhsSep 2021
Infosys Foundation Young Investigator Award — Research Grant
Awardee ₹2.5 Lakhs/year × 2 years
₹5 LakhsApr 2023

Government / Extramural Projects

Total released: ₹251.75 Lakhs · ICMR project ₹6 Crore total
AI & 3D Model-Assisted Neurosurgical Planning, Assistance, and Skills Evaluation Systems
PI at IISc ICMR Intermediate Grant 3 years · Co-PIs: Prof. Anirban Chakraborty, Prof. Soma Biswas (IISc) · PI at AIIMS: Dr. Ashish Suri
Total project value across IISc and AIIMS Delhi: ₹6 Crore. Year 1 release: ₹1.28 Crore.
₹1.28 Cr (Year 1)Jan 2026
Visiting Faculty Contingency Grant, Centre for Brain Research (CBR), IISc
Awardee Up to 3 years renewable · AI for brain health and ageing
₹10 L/yearMar 2026
Sanskrit-based NLP for Indic Language Computing
PI MeitY 3 years
₹55 LakhsApr 2022
Automatic Speech Recognition for Mandarin and Hindi
PI DRDO 18 months
₹49 LakhsJul 2022
Explainable DL for Automated Grading of Duodenal Biopsies in Celiac Disease
PI at IISc ICMR Ad-hoc · Multi-institute with IIT Delhi (Co-PI: Prof. Mausam) 2 years + 6-month extension
₹9.75 LakhsApr 2023

Industry Projects (SID / CSSP)

Total: ₹106.65 Lakhs
Google–IISc Centre of Excellence: Multi-modal Analysis of Image-Text-Audio Vaani Data
Co-PI With Prof. Soma Biswas, IISc 2 years + Compute credits
₹21.85 LakhsJan 2024
TCS Research: Continual Learning for Vision Models
PI TCS Research 1 year → TMLR 2025 publication
₹18.5 LakhsApr 2022
TCS Research: Multi-Modal Object Editing
PI TCS Research 1 year → ACM MM 2024 publication
₹18.5 LakhsApr 2023
IBM Research India: ML for Industrial Time-Series
PI IBM Research India 1 year Collaboration during visiting researcher stint, Summer 2024
₹14.3 LakhsApr 2023
Infosys Visiting Chair Research Grant
PI Infosys 1 year
₹12 LakhsApr 2023
Flipkart: Test-Time Adaptation for Virtual Try-On (ViTON)
PI Flipkart AI Labs 1 year
₹12 LakhsApr 2023
AMD Global: High-Performance Compute Grant
PI AMD Global 1 year Research on efficient AI on AMD GPU hardware
₹9.5 LakhsJan 2026
Research impact: Industry collaborations with TCS, IBM, Flipkart, Google, and AMD have generated publications at ICML, ACL, ACM MM, and TMLR, and contributed to patents — all engagements structured to produce publishable scientific contributions alongside practical deliverables.

Consulting Projects (CSIC)

Total: ₹51.66 Lakhs
Tvarit GmbH
Class-Imbalance for LPDC Manufacturing · 2022
₹4.88 L
Oplus
Model Compression for Generative Models · 2023
₹17.5 L
AIDash
Self-Supervised Learning for Satellite Imagery · 2023
₹11.78 L
Policybazaar
Speech Analytics and Label Reduction · 2024
₹17.5 L

Prior to IISc — IITD Period (2017–2021)

IITD Period Funding — ₹427.62 Lakhs (~₹4.28 Crore)

BEST-MD: ML for Autism (DBT-BIRAC BIG) — PI — ₹48L  ·  Neurocomputing & Cognitive Intelligence (MeitY) — Co-PI — ₹2.30 Cr  ·  IITD Startup Grant (GPU) — ₹18L  ·  Qualcomm Research Grant — ₹10L  ·  Samsung (2 grants) — ₹26L  ·  Google APAC — ₹9.5L  ·  SigTuple (2 grants) — ₹24.78L  ·  Queensland University — ₹5.13L  ·  Niramai — ₹5L  ·  IITD–AIIMS (3 grants) — ₹30L  ·  IITD Multi-Dept. — ₹10L  ·  Tvarit GmbH — ₹11.21L

Career Total (IISc + IITD)

Combined funding across both faculty appointments
~₹9.23 Crore
IISc: ₹4.95 Cr (released) + IITD: ₹4.28 Cr