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Research Projects

Funded research initiatives, consultancy projects, and grants

Flagship Project: AgriHub

AgriHub: Innovation Hub for Agriculture

A transformative consortium project leveraging AI, ML, IoT, and big data analytics to create a national innovation ecosystem for agriculture. Supports 21 ongoing research projects and 1 startup, delivering prototypes, invention disclosures, patent filings, and research publications.

Rs. 15 Cr
Total Funding
AgencyMeitY, Govt. of India
PIProf. Aruna Tiwari
Co-PIProf. Pavan Kankar
DurationOct 2024 – Oct 2029 (5 yr)

Ongoing Projects

Sponsored Research Projects ONGOING
No.Title & DetailsFundingDurationStatus
1
Consortium Project on AgriHub: Innovation Hub for Agriculture
MeitY, Union Govt. of India
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Co-PI: Prof. Pavan Kankar
Start: 28 Oct 2024  |  End: Oct 2029
Rs. 15 Cr 5 yr Ongoing
2
Autonomous Precision Agriculture: Data-Driven Pest Detection, Disease Identification and Prediction, and Growth Analysis Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
AgriHub COE, IIT Indore
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Co-PI: Prof. Pavan Kankar
Start: 20 Mar 2025  |  End: 19 Mar 2028
Rs. 20.01 L 3 yr Ongoing
3
Deep Learning based Image Plant Phenotyping for Agricultural Crops
AgriHub COE, IIT Indore
PI: Dr. Vikas Chauhan, NIT Jalandhar  |  Co-PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari
Start: 20 Mar 2025  |  End: 19 Mar 2026
Rs. 6.17 L 1 yr Ongoing
4
Genomic Visualization and Assembly Tool for Soybean and Other Oil Seed Crops
AgriHub COE, IIT Indore
PI: Dr. Milind Ratnaparkhe, ICAR-NSRI Indore  |  Co-PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari
Start: 20 Mar 2025  |  End: 19 Mar 2026
Rs. 6.73 L 1 yr Ongoing
5
AI-ML Techniques for Groundwater Management and Data Analysis
AgriHub COE, IIT Indore
PI: Dr. Suraj Bhat, MITE Mangalore  |  Co-PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari
Start: 20 Mar 2025  |  End: 19 Mar 2026
Rs. 6.73 L 1 yr Ongoing

Completed Projects

Sponsored Research Projects COMPLETED
No.Title & DetailsFundingDurationYear
1
Development of Mobile App for Farmers to help them in Agricultural Activities: Krishi Sewa
Centre for Rural Development and Technology (CRDT), IIT Indore
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Collaborator: Dr. Shashi Rawat, CIAE Bhopal
Start: Dec 2022  |  End: Dec 2023
Rs. 2 Lakhs 1 yr 2023
2
A Novel Scalable High-Performance Machine Learning Algorithms for NGS Analysis of Genomics Data at Exascale Level
National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), HPC Applications Development — funded by DST in collaboration with MeitY
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Collaborators: Dr. Milind Ratnaparkhe (Senior Scientist, Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research); Dr. Neha Bharill (Assistant Professor, Mahindra University); Dr. Om Prakash Patel (Assistant Professor, Mahindra University)
Start: Mar 2021  |  End: Mar 2023
Rs. 25 Lakhs (first year) 2 yr 2023
3
A Novel Integrated Scalable System for Protein Sequence and SNP Data Analysis using Clustering and Classification
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Delhi, Government of India
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Collaborators: Dr. Milind Ratnaparkhe (Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research); Dr. Neha Bharill (Assistant Professor, Mahindra University)
Start: Dec 2020  |  End: Dec 2023
Rs. 25 Lakhs 3 yr 2023
4
Mobility Project – Indo-Norwegian Collaboration in Intelligent Offshore Mechatronics Systems (INMOST)
Norwegian Research Council (RCN) under the INTPART Scheme
IIT Indore Lead: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Key Collaborators: Prof. Jing Zhou & Prof. Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi (University of Agder, Norway); Prof. Houxiang Zhang (NTNU, Norway); Dr. Jan Einar Gravdal (NORSE, Norway); Dr. Saidi Reddy Parne (NIT Goa); Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma, Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori, Dr. Abhinoy Kumar Singh (IIT Indore); Dr. Rama Krishna Sai Gorthi (IIT Tirupati); Dr. Shaikshavali Chitraganti (IIT Palakkad)
Start: 2020  |  End: 2023
56,20,000 NOK total (42,000 NOK for IIT Indore) 3 yr 2023
5
Resource Constrained Artificial Intelligence: Design of Novel Algorithms for Action Recognition using Generative Adversarial Networks
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Union Government of India
Lead PI: CSIR-CEERI Pilani  |  Co-PIs: Prof. Aruna Tiwari (IIT Indore), IIT Jodhpur, IIIT Allahabad
Start: Mar 2020  |  End: Mar 2023
Rs. 2.44 Crore (Two Crore Forty Four Lakh INR) 3 yr 2023
6
Development of an Efficient Scalable Clustering Algorithms for Big Data and Investigation of Integrated System for Protein Sequence Classification
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Delhi, Government of India
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Collaborator: Dr. Milind Ratnaparkhe (Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research)
Start: 10 Oct 2017  |  End: Oct 2020
Rs. 30 Lakhs 3 yr 2020
7
(1) Extreme Learning Machine & Its Hardware Realization; (2) Quantum based Learning Algorithm & Its Hardware Realization for Signature Verification
Jointly sponsored by CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI) Pilani & IIT Indore
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Collaborators: Dr. Santanu Chaudhary (Director, CSIR-CEERI Pilani); Dr. Sanjay Singh (Scientist, CSIR-CEERI Pilani)
Start: Mar 2017  |  End: Mar 2018
Rs. 6 Lakhs 1 yr 2018
8
Agri-Genomics Data Management Platform
Drishti CPS Foundation, IIT Indore
PI: Prof. Aruna Tiwari  |  Co-PI: Dr. Milind Ratnaparkhe, ICAR-IISR; Mr. Arun Sharma, CEO, Devaditya Technocrates Pvt. Ltd.
Start: Nov 2023  |  End: Mar 2026
Rs. 10 L 2.5 yr March 2026
Grants Received COMPLETED
No.Title & DetailsFundingYear
1
Advanced Neural Network Learning Theory
GIAN Short Term Course Scheme, Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Govt. of India
Approved: 30 December 2015  |  Course conducted: 6 July – 15 July 2016
Funding includes the sponsored visit of Prof. Suresh Sundaram from NTU Singapore to IIT Indore.
Rs. 8 Lakhs INR + USD 12,000 2016
2
International Symposium on Computational Mathematics, Optimization, and Computational Intelligence (CMOCI 2017) — First NTU-India Connect Program of the country
Grants received from the following sponsoring agencies:
(i) Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi — Rs. 2 Lakhs INR
(ii) National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), DAE, Mumbai — Rs. 30,000 INR
(iii) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi — Rs. 1 Lakh INR
(iv) Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi — Rs. 1.5 Lakhs INR
(v) State Bank of India (SBI), Simrol Branch, Indore — Rs. 1 Lakh INR
Event held during 17–19 July 2017, IIT Indore.
Rs. 5.8 Lakhs INR (combined) 2017

Projects completed with the support of B.Tech Project (BTP) students.

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