Sponsored Research Projects/Grants


  1. October 2014 to October 2018, Principal Investigator for project from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), with title Control in Sensor Networks using Reinforcement Learning. Ongoing

  2. January 2013 to January 2016, Principal Investigator for project from Xerox Corporation, USA, with title A Complex Systems Approach for Predictable Job Completion in Business Process Crowdsourcing. Ongoing

  3. August 2013 to August 2014, Co-Principal Investigator (with Prof.T.G.Sitharam, Prof.Bharadwaj Amrutur and Mr.Lokesh Hebbani) for project from Robert Bosch Centre, IISc, Bangalore with title Smart Transportation and Mobility Solutions. Ongoing.

  4. October 2012 to October 2015, Principal Investigator for project from Department of Science and Technology, with title Efficient Algorithms for Optimization and Control of Stochastic Systems. Ongoing

  5. October 2010 to September 2011, Principal Investigator for a consultancy project titled Probabilistic Models and Reinforcement Learning, for EMC, Bangalore. Completed.

  6. April 2009 to March 2012, Co-Principal Investigator (with Prof.Anurag Kumar and Prof.K.V.S.Hari, ECE Department, IISc) for a project titled Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring and Inference, for an IISc-CDAC Proposal under DIT ASTeC Scheme. Completed.

  7. July 2007 to June 2010, Principal Investigator for project from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, with title Algorithms for Performance Optimization in Wireless Networks. Completed.

  8. December 2007 to December 2008, Principal Investigator for project from Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Bangalore with title Study of Research Issues related to pattern analysis and recognition PR.II. Completed.

  9. June 2006 to May 2007, Principal Investigator for project from Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Bangalore with title Study of Research Issues related to pattern analysis and recognition. Completed.

  10. April 2005 to March 2006, Principal Investigator for project from Texas Instruments (India) for a project titled Performance, Figure of Merit Investigations for UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA and 3GPP-WLAN Mobile Handsets - MAC and Higher Layers. Completed.

  11. June 2004 to May 2007, Principal Investigator for project from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, with title Control of Communication Networks. Completed.