- 4:46 PM, Thursday, 31 Jul 2025
IIST encourages faculty to actively carry out projects of ISRO, other government and private organization. Through projects enhance generation of resources, patents and research collaborations across different organizations. IIST has fully equipped with the state of the art laboratories in Engineering, Science and Humanities to actively participate in the cutting edge research. IIST offers project. IIST funded projects are available under the following category namely,
Project proposal forms can be downloaded from the link below
Project Proposal Form
| # | Project Title | Category | Investigators | Co-PI | Status |
| 1 | Investigations on Laser Based -Powder Feed Type-Direct Energy Deposition (LAMDED) for Additive Manufacturing of Components in Space Applications | VSSC | Dr.V.S.Sooraj | Ongoing | |
| 2 | Effect of Hydrogen blending in natural gas | Oil India Limited, Duliajan | Dr.Prathap C | Ongoing | |
| 3 | Development of Mathematical Model for Dynamic Stress and Transmission Error Prediction of High Speed Spur Gear Mesh | DRDO | Dr.Praveen Krishna I R | Ongoing | |
| 4 | Development of fast response TDLAS temperature sensor for high temperature application | SERB-DST | Dr.Rajesh Sadanandan | Dr.Satheesh K | Ongoing |
| 5 | Investigations on Laser Based -Powder Feed TypeDirect Energy Deposition (LAM-DED) for Additive Manufacturing of Components in Space Applications | IIST/ISRO | Dr.V.S.Sooraj | Ongoing | |
| 6 | NH3-H2 Non-premixed Combustion | DST/INT/DAAD | Dr.Rajesh Sadanandan | Dr.Satheesh K | Ongoing |
| 7 | Performance and Instability Analysis of Methane Oxygen Combustion using shear coaxial injector | LPSC Valiamala | Dr.Aravind V | Ongoing | |
| 8 | Implicit large Eddy Simulation of Jets | VSSC | Dr.Manoj T Nair | Ongoing | |
| 9 | Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Direct Contact Condensation of GCO2 / Steam in LN2 | ASRG-ISRO | Dr.Prathap C | Ongoing | |
| 10 | Development of Mathematical Human Thermal Behavior Model for a Reference Indian Subject linked to Human space flight program of HSFC. (Gaganyaan Projects) | HSFC | Dr.Shine S R | Ongoing | |
| 11 | Analysis of Thruster Plume Behaviour in Vacuum using DSMC Method | ASRG | Dr.Shine S R | Ongoing | |
| 12 | Supersonic combustion of isrosene behind two strut configuration | VSSC | Dr.Aravind V | Ongoing | |
| 13 | Cold Flow Characterization of a Dual Throat Nozzle (DTN) based Tri-Propellant Engine Propulsion System. | LPSC Valiamala | Dr.Deepu M | Ongoing | |
| 14 | Three-dimensional DSMC (Direct simulation montecarIo) simuIation for satellite thrusters | LPSC Valiamala | Dr.Shine S R | Ongoing | |
| 15 | Computational and Experimental Investigations on a Combined Nonlinear Vibration Absorber Energy Harvester System | DST | Santhosh B, Amrita Viswapeeth, I R Praveen Krishna (Mentor) | Ongoing | |
| 16 | Development and Realization of a 3-D RANS CFD Code | IIST | Mr. Pankaj Priyadarshi | Completed | |
| 17 | Simulation of nonequilibrium hypersonic flow in a shock tunnel nozzle | IIST/ISRO | Dr.Satheesh K | Dr.Devendra Ghate | Completed |
| 18 | Development of an in-house CFD code for the performance prediction of cryogenic and semicryogenic engines | IIST/ISRO | Dr.Deepu M | Completed | |
| 19 | Molecular Dynamics Studies on Fracture of Bio-Composites | IIST | Dr. Anup S, Dr. Bijudas C.R, Dr. Ramesh Narayanan-VSSC, Shri. Sudarsan Rao-VSSC | Completed | |
| 20 | Hydrodynamic instabilities in solid rocket motors | IIST | Dr.Manu K V | Completed | |
| 21 | Investigation of deployment of antenna for space application | Ms. Roshina Babu, Prof. Kurien Issac | Completed | ||
| 22 | Laser sheet droplet sizing for spray studies | IIST/ISRO | Dr. V. Aravind | Completed | |
| 23 | Machining studies on aluminium alloy with silicon carbide particles reinforced metal composites(MMC) | IIST | Dr.K. Jayakumar | Completed | |
| 24 | Development of desktop type FDM based multi-jet 3D polymer printing system and allied research | IIST/ISRO | Dr. V. S. Sooraj,Dr.Praveen,Mr. Pradeep | Completed | |
| 25 | Investigation of micro-patterning of surface in aerospace applications | IIST | Dr.Sooraj V S | Completed | |
| 26 | Development of experimental rover and investigation of mobility and approaches for local and global motion planning on uneven terrain | IIST/ISRO | Dr. K. Kurien Issac | Completed | |
| 27 | Optimisation of regenerative cooling channels of liquid rockets engines. | IIST/ISRO | Dr.Shine S R | Mr.J C Pisharady | Completed |
| 28 | Investigation of traversability of wheeled rovers on uneven terrain | IIST | Mr. Sam Noble, Prof. Kurien Issac | Completed | |
| 29 | Experimental investigation of laminar burning velocity premixed ISROSENE/ AIR/ OXYGEN mixtures using freely expanding spherical flames | IIST/ISRO | Dr. C. Prathap | Completed | |
| 30 | Non-linear energy harvester | DST-TARE | Dr.Praveen Krishna I R | Completed | |
| 31 | Whirling beam experiments for flapping wing Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) | IIST | Prof. Kurien Issac, Dr. G. Rajesh | Completed | |
| 32 | Experimental and Numerical study of stationary flat flames | IIST/ISRO | Dr. C. Prathap | Completed | |
| 33 | Strut injection for scramjet combustion | IIST/ISRO | Dr.Aravind V | Completed | |
| 34 | Multi-objective, Multi-disciplinary design optimization of a semi-ballistic Re-entry vehicle using high fidelity heat flux Estimation | IIST | Mr. Pankaj Priyadarshi | Completed | |
| 35 | Studies on Crack propagation in composites by Micro Raman spectroscopy | IIST/ISRO | Dr. S. Anup | Completed | |
| 36 | Effect of variation in Biogas fuel composition on the flame stability and pollutant emissions under practically relevant conditions | SERB-DST | Dr.Rajesh Sadanandan | Completed | |
| 37 | To study the effect of real gas on the aerodynamic coefficient and heat transfer coefficients of re-entry module configurations | IIST | Mr. Pankaj Priyadarshi | Completed | |
| 38 | Performance characterization and development of numerical model for Cavitating Venturi | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Pradeep Kumar P | Completed | |
| 39 | Design of interplanetary trajectories for specified planetary arrival condition | IIST | Dr. R. V. Ramanan | Completed | |
| 40 | Numerical simulation of turbulent reacting flows in semi cryogenic and tri- propellant engines. | IIST | Dr. M. Deepu, Dr. A. Salih | Completed | |
| 41 | Structural Reliability of thin Cylindrical and Spherical shells used for Aerospace Structures | IIST/ISRO | Dr.Arun C. O | Completed | |
| 42 | Studies on secondary injection to an expanding supersonic cross flow | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Rajesh Sadanandan | Completed | |
| 43 | Modelling and Development of N2O4(Oxidant used in rocket engines)Scrubber system | IIST/ISRO | Dr.A Salih,Dr.K Prabhakaran, Kuruvila Joseph | Completed | |
| 44 | Assessment of machining characteristics of ablative materials | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Chakravarthy, Dr. V. S. Sooraj, Mr. Mohankumar (VSSC) | Completed | |
| 45 | Latent and Sensible heat thermal storage system for medium and high temperature CSP applications | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. Manu K V | Completed | |
| 46 | Mixing Enhancement in Supersonic Combustors Using Pylon-Cavity Flame Holder | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. Rajesh Sadanandan | Completed | |
| 47 | Investigation of wavy micro channel flow with nano fluids | IIST/ISRO | Dr.Shine S R,Dr. V S Sooraj ,Dr.Rajesh S,Mr.Deepak Kumar Agarwal | Completed | |
| 48 | High- Speed unsteady flow past spiked blunt bodies | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. Manoj T. Nair | Completed | |
| 49 | Influence of Compressibility and Stream wise Pressure gradient on Film cooling performance | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Shine S R,Mr. J C Pisharady | Completed | |
| 50 | Design of autonomously walking humanoid robot | IIST | Prof. Kurien Issac, Mr. Sam K. Zachariah | Completed | |
| 51 | Rocket Injector spray studies | IIST | Dr. V. Aravind | Completed |
| # | Project Title | Category | Investigators | Co-PI | Status |
| 1 | Secure Control Algorithms Design for Distributed Formation and Containment Control Problems Subjected to Cyber Attacks | DST-SERB/ANRF | Dr.Sourav Bhowmick | Ongoing | |
| 2 | Mathematical Modelling and Locomotion Control of Quadruped and Biped Robots | R&DE(E), DRDO | Dr. Sam K. Zachariah | Dr. Raju K George | Ongoing |
| 3 | Investigating the Nanomaterial Based Exosome Sensor for Cancer Prognostic: An Approach towards Liquid Biopsy for Cancer | Department of Biotechnology | Dr. Palash Kumar Basu | Dr. Suparna Sengupta, RGCB | Ongoing |
| 4 | LOC approaches for Separation and analysis of Exosome Derived Biomarkers for Cancer Prognostics | DST | Dr. Palash Kumar Basu | Principal Investigator and Directrice de Recherche CNRS.LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France), Dr. Wilfrid Boireau, ( CO-Principal Investigator and Directeur de Recherche CNRS, FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France) | Ongoing |
| 5 | Development and Analysis of Image Fusion Techniques for Satellite Images | IIST | Dr. Deepak Mishra | Dr. Sarvesh Kumar | Ongoing |
| 6 | Reflective Intelligent Surface (RIS) Aided Joint Localization and Communication System:TTDF/6G/86 | TTDF-TCOE, DoT | Dr.Vani Devi. M | Dr.Basudev Ghosh, Dr.Chinmoy saha, Dr.B S Manoj, Dr.Deepak Mishra and Dr.Chris Prema S | Ongoing |
| 7 | MEITY Chips to Startups (C2S) program: Provided with EDA tools license. | MEITY | Dr. Immanuel Raja | Dr. Sheeba Rani J , Dr. Chinmoy Saha | Ongoing |
| 8 | Design and Development of NavIC receiver | MoES | Dr. Priyadarshnam, Dr. Sheeba Rani J, Dr. Lakshminarayanan | Ongoing | |
| 9 | Development of Low-cost, Low Power, High-Performance Sensor Array on Flexible Substrate with Integrated Optical Source to Measure the Emission of Green House Gases: Applications towards Agriculture and Aquaculture including Harsh Environment. | Department of Biotechnology | Dr. Palash Kumar Basu | Dr.Priyadarshanam | Ongoing |
| 10 | Interference analysis and co-existence studies between GSO and NGSO satellite system | Dr. M. Vani Devi | Dr. S. Chris Prema, Dr. Lakshminarayanan R | Ongoing | |
| 11 | Development and prototyping wideband spectrum sensing and sharing systems for efficient spectrum utilization: Project Code:TTDF/6G/161 | TTDF-TCOE, DoT | Dr.Chris Prema. S | Dr.Vani Devi. M, Dr.Chinmoy saha, Dr.B S Manoj, Dr.Vineeth B S | Ongoing |
| 12 | A Multi-Layer Approach for Secure UAV Networks | C3iHUB IITK | Dr. Ragesh GK (IIIT Kottayam) | Dr. BS Manoj | Ongoing |
| 13 | ADCS test setup for spacecraft docking system using quadcopters | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Harsha Simha M. S, Dr. Priyadarshnam | Dr. Pankaj Priyadarshi, VSSC | Ongoing |
| 14 | Control Design Strategy for Systems with structured uncertainty | IIST | Dr Rajesh Joseph Abraham | Mr. Anish Antony, VSSC | Ongoing |
| 15 | 5G Use Cases Laboratory | DoT and DoS | Dr. BS Manoj | Ongoing | |
| 16 | Architectures and Protocols for Integrated 6G-Satellite Networks | DST-SERB | Dr. BS Manoj | Ongoing | |
| 17 | Development of Control Design strategy for Coupled MIMO systems for ORV | IIST | Dr Rajesh Joseph Abraham | Mr. Kapil Kumar Sharma, VSSC | Ongoing |
| 18 | Research and Development of an Integrated Enterprise Network Security System | IIST/ISRO | Dr. B. S. Manoj | B. Thanudas, VSSC, Trivandrum | Ongoing |
| 19 | Design and Technology Development for Polymer MEMS Integrated FET Single Axis Accelerometer Platforms | Kerala State Young Scientist Award Grant- KSCSTE, Govt. of Kerala | Dr. Seena V | Ongoing | |
| 20 | High Performance SAR ADC with autocalibration and correction for sensor closed loop applications | IISU | Dr. Immanuel Raja | Mrs. Rekha & Mr. Raghunath, IISU | Ongoing |
| 21 | Triband (S/X/Ka) Monopulse Auto Tracking Feed for LEO satellites | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Basudeb Ghosh and Dr. Chinmoy Saha | T Naga Sekhar , G Baig and Sandip Sankar Roy | Ongoing |
| 22 | Fabrication of Polymer MEMS Broad Band Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester (PVEH) Using Lead-Free Materials for Low-Frequency Applications | INUP I2I, MeitY Hackathon, | Dr. Seena V | Ongoing | |
| 23 | Wireless ReLoD - Wireless Reliable, Low Latency Networks for IIoT and FieldBus replacement | SERB-DST | Dr. Vineeth B S | Ongoing | |
| 24 | Design of a Transmitter with Integrated Power Amplifier (PA) for Millimeter-wave 5G Bands in 65nm CMOS | SERB-DST | Dr.Immanuel Raja | Ongoing | |
| 25 | Decoder for CCSDS Recommended Turbo Codes | IIST/ISRO | Dr. R Lakshmi Narayanan | Sri Thirupathirajan Sankaralingam | Ongoing |
| 26 | Polymer MEMS Ring-Flexure-Membrane movable gate FET array: A Multi-Gas Sensor Platform | MeitY-IIT Bombay INUP i2i | Dr. Seena V | Ongoing | |
| 27 | Applications of Fractional Order Calculus to Biomedical Signal Processing (SERB-DST) | DST | Dr.N.Selvaganesan | Dr.S.Chris Prema | Ongoing |
| 28 | Design of On-Chip Passives for Millimeter-wave (Ka-band) Circuits | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. Immanuel Raja | Ongoing | |
| 29 | SERB Extra Mural Research Funding | SERB-DST | Dr. Seena V | Ongoing | |
| 30 | Fabrication of CMOS-MEMS Accelerometer with FET Based Transduction Technique | MeitY-IIT Bombay INUP i2i | Dr. Seena V | Ongoing | |
| 31 | Instrumentation and Signal Processing for Remote Monitoring of Bio-Parameters Based on Magneto-Plethysmographs | Dr. Anoop C S | Dr. Vineeth B S | Ongoing | |
| 32 | Indigenous human health care development in Space | IIST/ISRO | Dr. N Selvaganesan | Dr.Vanidevi and Dr.Deepak TG | Ongoing |
| 33 | Development of MEMS Accelerometer with Ultra-Sensitive Transductions for Space Applications | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Seena V | Ongoing | |
| 34 | Secure Control Algorithms Design for Distributed Formation and Containment Control Problems Subjected to Cyber Attacks | SERB Startup Research Grant | Dr. Sourav Bhowmick | Ongoing | |
| 35 | Design and Development of Ferrite Dielectric Based Microstrip Isolator for X-band Application | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Chinmoy Saha | Ongoing | |
| 36 | Pervasive computing for disaster response | IIST | Dr. BS Manoj | Ongoing | |
| 37 | Design and Analysis of passive and active optical waveguides for optical interconnects | IIST | Dr. Sooraj R | Ongoing | |
| 38 | Design of Autonomous walking Humanoid Robot | IIST | Sam Zachariah | Ongoing | |
| 39 | A novel Integrated Battery Charger for two and three wheeler EVs | KSCSTE | Dr. R Sudharshan Kaarthik | Ongoing | |
| 40 | Powertrain for All-Electric HANSA-NG Technology Demonstration - Aeronautics Research and Development Board (AR&DB) | DRDO | Dr. R Sudharshan Kaarthik | Dr. Anindya Dasgupta,Dr. Biju Prasad B (VSSC) | Ongoing |
| 41 | Design of Multi-channel temperature monitoring ASIC - | VSSC | Dr. Deepu Roy | Dr. Immanuel Raja | Ongoing |
| 42 | IIST Small Satellite (Ahan) | IIST | Dr. Priydarshan, Dr. Harsha Simha M. S | All PIs of satellite team | Ongoing |
| 43 | UAV-enabled ultra-reliable low-latency communication for energy efficiency and latency reduction in 6G networks | DST SPARC | Dr. BS Manoj ,Dr. Oluwakayodi Onireti (Jameswatt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK) International PI | Dr. Ragesh GK, Dr. Ebin Deni Raj (IIIT Kottayam) Dr Sumitra S (IIST),Dr. Yusuf Sambo, Dr. Muhammad Imran (Jameswatt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK) International C | Ongoing |
| 44 | Wireless Networked System Research and performance evaluation for Crew Modules for Indian Human Space Missions | DoS | Dr. BS Manoj | Dr Vineeth BS, Dr Chinmoy Saha, Dr Basudeb Ghosh, Dr Vani Devi, Dr Chris Prema | Ongoing |
| 45 | Subsystems for InspireSat1 | IIST | Dr. Priydarshan | Dr. Harsha Simha M. S, Dr. Sudarshan K, Dr. Raveendranath P | Ongoing |
| 46 | Mars Orbiter Mission-2 payload proposal titled Advanced Retarding Potential Analyzer for Martian Ionospheric Studies (ARIS) | IIST/ISRO | Dr. KM Ambili (ESS) | Dr. R. Sudharshan Kaarthik, Dr. Anoop CS, Dr. Rajeecan PP | Ongoing |
| 47 | Glide Symmetric Metasurface based Luneburg lens design – High Gain and Beam Steering Approach | DST, INSA | Dr.Basudev Majumder | Ongoing | |
| 48 | Integrated Diagnostics Module for TDS-01, A scientific payload for hall effect thruster diagnostics | DoS | Dr. Umesh Kadhane | Dr. R Sudharshan Kaarthik,Dr. Immanuel Raja | Ongoing |
| 49 | Development of Real-Time Gas Sensor Array to Monitor Critical Gases in Crew Module for Human Space Mission. | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Palash Kumar Basu | Mr.Sreejith,HSFC | Ongoing |
| 50 | Optimal Scheduling and Routing of Packets over Delay Tolerant Hierarchical Interplanetary networks | IIST | Dr. B. S. Manoj | Dr. Vineeth B. S | Ongoing |
| 51 | Drone GPS Spoofing Systems | Kerala Police | Dr.Vani Devi M | Ongoing | |
| 52 | Giant-Magneto-Resistance Based Eddy Current Probes and Linearized Digitizing Electronic Systems for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Metallic Specimens | KSCSTE YSA | Dr. Anoop C. S. | Ongoing | |
| 53 | Indigenous design and development of reaction wheel actuator systems for small satellites | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Priyadarshnam | Dr. Harsha Simha M. S | Ongoing |
| 54 | Investigation, Design, and Implementation of Multifunctional 5G Antenna Systems for Cognitive Radio and mm-Wave Applications | DST | Dr. Chinmoy Saha | Ongoing | |
| 55 | A Study on the Effects of ionospheric variabilities on the usability of NavIC/GAGAN Using observations and models | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Priyadarshnam | Dr. Ambili K. M, VSSC, Dr. Rajat Acharaya, SAC, Ahmedabad | Completed |
| 56 | Object Based High Resolution Image Analysis for the Land Slide and Land Use Land Cover Classification’ | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Deepak Mishra, Dr. Tapas Martha | Dr. RamaRao | Completed |
| 57 | Developing of Virtual reality model for disaster simulation | IIST | Dr. Deepak Mishra | Completed | |
| 58 | Design and Development of Brushless DC Motor | IIST/ISRO | Dr. N.Selvaganeshan | Shri M N Namboothiripad and Pradeep Kumar, VSSC,Trivandrum | Completed |
| 59 | Flash ADC Design- IIST-SCL collaboration Project | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Sheebarani | Dr. H.S.Jatana | Completed |
| 60 | Development of a low complexity modulated wideband converter for sub-Nyquist wideband spectrum sensing | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. S. Chris Prema | Completed | |
| 61 | ASIC Design-SAR ADC | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Sheebarani | Dr. H.S.Jatana, Mr.Mohammed Aseem | Completed |
| 62 | Design and Development of High Performance Hydrogen Sensor for IPRC, Mahendragiri | IIST/ISRO | Dr. PK Basu | Shri Basu Alaguvelu IPRC, Mahendragiri | Completed |
| 63 | RapidMAC: Development of a rapid prototyping software for multiple access protocols | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. Vineeth B S | Completed | |
| 64 | Design, Modelling and Implementation of deep neural networks for automatic landslide detection and susceptibility mapping | Dr. Deepak Mishra | Completed | ||
| 65 | Fabrication and Characterization of Graphene Based RF Transistor | IIST/ISRO | Dr. PK Basu | Shri Apurba Bhattacharya, SAC, Ahmedabad | Completed |
| 66 | Design and Implementation of a Compact Wideband Microstrip Patch Antenna. | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Chinmoy Saha | Mr. KK Mukundan | Completed |
| 67 | Study of Switching Topologies and Control Schemes for isolated DC-DC Power Converters | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Anindya Dasgupta | Smt. Sajitha G, VSSC,Trivandrum | Completed |
| 68 | IIST Mesh Net: A Programmable Hybrid Wireless Mesh Network Testbed | IIST | Dr. BS Manoj | Completed | |
| 69 | Development of Control design strategy for coupled MIMO systems for ORV | ASRG | Dr Rajesh Joseph Abraham | Completed | |
| 70 | Decoupled Control Scheme for Dual Permanent Magnet Machine Actuators | IIST | Dr. R. Sudharshan Karthik | Completed | |
| 71 | Autonomous Landing System with Ground Penetrating Radar | IIST | Dr. S Chris Prema | Dr. Thomas Kurian | Completed |
| 72 | Real time algorithms for track estimation for Multiobject Tracking Radar | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Vineeth B S | Dr. Sai Gorthi | Completed |
| 73 | Design and Implementation of Helmet Antennas | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. Basudeb Ghosh | Completed | |
| 74 | Modelling and controller design for micro actuators | IIST/ISRO | Dr. N.Selvaganesan | Mr.D.Venkittaraman / Mr.Raji George / Mr.Rajesh Ravi (LPSC) | Completed |
| 75 | Indo-US collaborative Research on Pervasive Computing for Disaster Response | IIST | Dr. B. S. Manoj | Completed | |
| 76 | MICRONet – Mobile Infrastructure for Coastal Region Offshore Communications & Networks | IIST/ISRO | Dr. B. S. Manoj | Closed | |
| 77 | Development of Tactile Sensor for Under Actuated Robotic Hand | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Priyadarshnam and Dr. Harsha Simha | Biju Prasad, VSSC | Closed |
| 78 | Mirror Satellite for AAReST | IIST | Dr. Priydadarshnam, Dr. Harsha Simha M. S | All PIs of satellite team | Closed |
| # | Project Title | Category | Investigators | Co-PI | Status |
| 1 | Nano structured high performance anode materials for high power, higher safety and fast charging Liion battery | IIST/ISRO | Dr J Mary Gladis | Jalaja K, S.V.S Narayana Murty, Bibin John, Mercy T D | Ongoing |
| 2 | Improved Silicon-graphene based composite as anode materials for lithium battery cells and exploring the possibility of other battery technologies | IIST/ISRO | Dr K Y Sandhya | S A Ilangovan & S Sujatha | Ongoing |
| 3 | Graphene nano platelets incorporated zinc rich epoxy coating for corrosion protection of steel hardware | IIST/ISRO | Dr J Mary Gladis & Dr Kuruvilla Joseph | Anoop S, Venugopal A, Jalaja K, Narayana Murty S V S | Ongoing |
| 4 | Spaceflight Induced changes in Kidney Stone formation in Drosophila Melanogaster Experimentation. Biology payload for GAGANYAN | IIST/ISRO | Dr K G Sreejalekshmi | Ravikumar Hosamani (UAS, Dharwad) Focal Point: Xavier Raja, HSFC | Ongoing |
| 5 | CO2 capture and Sabatier based reduction system | IIST/ISRO | Dr K G Sreejalekshmi | Ravishankar | Ongoing |
| 6 | Design and fabrication of hardware for carrying fruit flies in Gaganyaan-1 | Dr K G Sreejalekshmi | Ongoing | ||
| 7 | Polymer-Nano composites for Electronic and Photonic Application | IIST | Dr. Honey John | Dr. Pramod Gopinath | Completed |
| 8 | Development of magneto responsive elastomers for advanced engineering application | Dr Kuruvilla Joseph | Completed | ||
| 9 | Silicone Graphene based composite as anode materials for lithium battery cells | IIST/ISRO | Dr K Y Sandhya | Dr S A Ilangovan & S Sujatha | Completed |
| 10 | Development of high performance impermeable membranes from halobutyl rubber nanocomposites for critical space applications | IIST/ISRO | Prof. Kuruvilla Joseph | Completed | |
| 11 | Ceramic forms by emulsion casting | IIST/ISRO | Dr K Prabhakaran | Dr P V Prabhakaran & Dr R Sreeja | Completed |
| 12 | Development and feasibility study of polymeric Scaffolds for Tissue Culture under Microgravity | IIST | Dr. Nirmala Rachel James | Dr. AnilKumar P.R (SCTIMST) | Completed |
| 13 | N-containing heterocycles as aurora kinase inhibitors – computational design and synthesis | Dr K G Sreejalekshmi | Completed | ||
| 14 | Functionalised N-Contraing Heterocycles as aurora kinase inhibitors-Computational design & library synthesis. | IIST | Dr. K. G .Sreejalekshmi | Completed | |
| 15 | Ion/Molecular mediated supramolecular polymers in organic/aqueous medium | DST | Dr Kuruvilla Joseph | Dr Roymon Joseph | Completed |
| 16 | Superionic conductor as electrolytes for all solid state lithium sulfur batteries | IIST | Dr. J. Mary Gladis | Dr. Manuel Stephan (CSIR-CECRI) | Completed |
| 17 | Bio-waste Derived Nitrogen-Rich Hierarchically Porous Carbon Aerogels: Attractive Material for CO₂ Adsorption and Super capacitor Electrodes | DST | Dr K Prabhakaran | Dr Linsha Vazhayal | Completed |
| 18 | Plasma Functionalized CNT-Polymer Nancomposites for satellite structural Applicational | IIST/ISRO | Dr. N. Gomathi | Dr. Prof. Kuruvilla Joseph Dr. C Gouri (VSSC) | Completed |
| 19 | Development of Polymer composites having EMI shielding property | DRDO | Dr Honey John | Dr K T Mathew, Dr Anandan C K | Completed |
| 20 | N-doped misoporous corbon-sulphur composites based cathode materials for advanced lithium sulfur batteries | IIST/ISRO | Dr. J. Mary Gladis | Dr. C Gouri (VSSC) Dr. S A Ilangovan (VSSC) Smt. S Sujatha (VSSC) | Completed |
| 21 | Nanostructured and surface polymerised magnetorheological fluids for strategic application | Dr J Mary Gladis | Dr Nirmala R James | Completed | |
| 22 | Development of Novel N2O4 scrubber system | IIST/ISRO | Dr Kuruvilla Joseph | Completed | |
| 23 | Study of silicon nanoparticle-polymer core-shell structure as anode material for lithium batteries | IIST/ISRO | Dr. K. Y. Sandhya & Dr. Nirmala Rachel James | Dr. S A Ilangovan (VSSC) Smt. S Sujatha (VSSC) | Completed |
| 24 | Pre Vulcanization of Natural Rubber latex at Room Temperature and Industrial Production of Low Cost Gloves and Balloons | UGC | Dr Honey John | Dr Shainy Palaty | Completed |
| 25 | Intrinsically conducting Polyimide composites with CNT/graphene without compromising optical properties | IIST/ISRO | Dr Kuruvilla Joseph | Completed | |
| 26 | Flexible wiping substrate for SERS detection of explosives | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Jobin Cyriac | Dr. Benny K George(VSSC) Bhuvaneswari S (VSSC) | Completed |
| 27 | Study of Silicon -Polymer Nanofibers as Anode Material for Lithium Batteries | IIST/ISRO | Dr K Y Sandhya | Dr Nirmala R James | Completed |
| 28 | Silicon –Graphene based composite as anode materials for lithium battery cells | IIST/ISRO | Dr. K Y Sandhya | Dr. S A Ilangovan (VSSC) Smt. S Sujatha (VSSC) | Completed |
| 29 | Superionic conductor as electrolytes for all solidstate- lithium sulfur batteries | IIST/ISRO | Dr J Mary Gladis | Dr. Manual Staphen | Completed |
| 30 | Development and Evaluation of Alumina Foams by Emulsion Casting | IIST/ISRO | Dr. K. Prabhakaran | Dr. R Sreeja (VSSC) Dr.Deepa Devapal (VSSC), Dr. P V Prabhakaran (PCM,VSSC) | Completed |
| 31 | N-doped mesoporous carbon-sulphur composite based cathode materials for advanced lithium-sulfur batteries | IIST/ISRO | Dr J Mary Gladis | Dr S A Ilangovan & S Sujatha | Completed |
| 32 | Development of carbon foam –CMC sandwich composites | IIST/ISRO | Dr.K Prabhakaran | Dr. P V Prabhakaran (VSSC) Dr. R Sreeja (VSSC) | Completed |
| 33 | Plasma Functionalized CNT-polymer nanocomposites for Satellite | IIST/ISRO | Dr N Gomathi | Dr Kuruvilla Joseph & Dr C Gouri | Completed |
| 34 | Intrinsically conducting polymide composites with CNT or Graphene having electrostatic charge mitigating charactering for space applications | IIST/ISRO | Prof. Kuruvilla Joseph | Dr. Muraleekrishnan (VSSC) Dr. R S Rajeev (VSSC) | Completed |
| 35 | Development of PZT Ceramic Foams | DRDO | Dr K Prabhakaran | Completed | |
| 36 | Plasma Modification of CNT and Polymer Nanocomposites there of for Space Application. | IIST | Dr. N Gomathi | Prof. Kuruvilla Joseph Dr. C P Regunadhan Nair(VSSC) | Completed |
| 37 | Modelling and Development of N2O4(Oxidant used in rocket engines)Scrubber system | IIST/ISRO | Dr K Prabhakaran | Dr Kuruvilla Joseph | Completed |
| 38 | Development of carbon foams for High Temperature Thermal Protection Application | IIST | Dr. K. Prabhakaran | Dr. K Y Sandhya | Completed |
| # | Project Title | Category | Investigators | Co-PI | Status |
| 1 | Understanding the influence of young massive stars on the surrounding interstellar medium | DST | Dr. Sarita Vig | Ongoing | |
| 2 | Improving the Prediction of Thunderstorms using Dual – Resolution Hybrid Ensemble – Variational Data Assimilation System in WRF model | Govindan Kutty M | Ongoing | ||
| 3 | Implementation of Ensemble Forecast Sensitivity Approach to Estimate the Impact of Observations in IMD GFS forecast | National | Govindan Kutty M | Ongoing | |
| 4 | Ecophysiological functioning of Indian mangroves under climate change conditions: Current performance and future predictions | National | Anirban Guha | Gnanappazham | Ongoing |
| 5 | HSI Sensor: Hyperspectral imaging system development for precision remote sensing applications | National | Rama Rao Nidamanuri | Dinesh Naik, Usha Rani Nelakuditi | Ongoing |
| 6 | Citygml based 3D models for smart cities in india using lidar point cloud | DST | Dr A M Ramiya | Dr Rama Rao Nidamanuri | Ongoing |
| 7 | Establishment: Regional Center for Geodesy at IIST (part of the National Center for Geodesy t IIT Kanpur) | National | Rama Rao Nidamanuri | Ongoing | |
| 8 | Structural and functional characterization of cropping systems using hyperspectral and 3D laser scanning data and bigdata analytics | Department of Biotechnology | Prof. Rama Rao | Ongoing | |
| 9 | DeepCloud: Deep learning based system for time series cloud detection using multi-sensor satellite Imagery | National | Rama Rao Nidamanuri | Sai Kalpana | Ongoing |
| 10 | Understanding the Physical Conditions of Baryons Outside of Galaxies in the Low Redshift Universe | DST | Anand Narayanan | Ongoing | |
| 11 | Structural and functional characterization of cropping systems using hyperspectral and 3D laser scanning data and big daIta analytics | National | Rama Rao Nidamanuri | Ongoing | |
| 12 | Cloud physical properties under clean and polluted conditions for climate studies | National | P R Sinha | S. V. S. Sai Krishna and Shivali Verma | Ongoing |
| 13 | Max Planck Partner Group for Galactic Star Formation | Max Planck Society | Dr. Jagadheep D. | Ongoing | |
| 14 | Probing the Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium | DST | Dr. Vikram Khaire | Ongoing | |
| 15 | Physics of radio bright Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows | DST | Dr Resmi L | Dr Kuntal Misra (ARIES, Nainital) | Ongoing |
| 16 | Development of a Stand-Alone Atmospheric Correction Module for Hyperspectral Data | DST | Dr Rama Rao Nidamanuri | Completed | |
| 17 | Max Planck Partner Group for Galactic Star Formation | Max Planck Society | D. Jagadheep | Completed | |
| 18 | Integrating air and space borne spectroscopy and laser scanning to assess structural and functional characteristics of crops and field margin vegetation | Department of Biotechnology | Dr Rama Rao Nidamanuri & Dr Sunil Nautiyal (ISEC) | Dr. A M Ramiya | Completed |
| 19 | Spectral Biochemical Analysis of Forest Species using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing – A Case Study from Eastern Ghats Forest Ecosystems | DST | Dr Rama Rao Nidamanuri, Dr. Ramachandra Prasad, IIIT-Hyderabad | Completed | |
| 20 | Above ground volume/biomass estimation and validation using airborne S- and L-band NISAR data and radiative transfer modeling | SAC Ahmedabad | Dr Rama Rao Nidamanuri, Dr Smitha Ashok (All Saints College) | Completed | |
| 21 | Multi-wavelength study of massive star forming regions | IIST | Dr.Anandmayee Tej | Completed | |
| 22 | Improving the snow forecast of SASE using four dimensional variational data assimilation system | DRDO | Dr Govindan Kutty M | Dr Sudhanshu Sekar | Completed |
| 23 | Star formation in yough Galactic clusters associated with massive stars | IIST | Dr.Sarita Vig | Dr.Anandmayee Tej | Completed |
| 24 | A comprehensive study on crustal dichotomy and extensional tectonics in and around Valles Marineris, Mars | ISRO-MOM-1 AO | Dr. Rajesh V.J | Completed | |
| 25 | Evaluation of the potential of hyperspectral remote sensing for species level classification and biophysical characterization of mangroves of Bhitarkanika National Park, Orissa | IIST | Dr. Gnanappazham L | Completed | |
| 26 | Spectral characterization and morphology of olivine-pyroxene-spinel bearing lithologies on Moon: implications for lunar endogenic processes | ISRO-Chandrayaan-1 AO | Dr. Rajesh V.J | Completed | |
| 27 | Deep crustal processes during the evolution of archaean Nilgiri block, southern India | MoES | Dr.Sajeev Krishnan (CEaS, IISc Bangalore) | Dr. Rajesh V J | Completed |
| 28 | Improving the operational weather forecast of NARL using hybrid ensemble variational data assimilation method for WRF model. | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Govindankutty M | Dr. Amit P Kesarkar (NARL, Gadanki) | Completed |
| 29 | Continental construction of the Altaids (Central Asian orogenic belt) compared to actualistic examples from the Western Pacific. | IGCP | Dr. Rajesh V.J (Participating Member) | Completed | |
| 30 | Monitoring the health of mangroves of Maharashtra state using near real time satellite remote sensing data | Dr. Gnanappazham L & Dr. Dadhwal V K | Completed | ||
| 31 | Impact of assimilating SAPHIR and GPS-ROS data From MEGHA TROPIQUES in high resolution mesoscale model fro prediction of servere weather over | IIST | Dr.A Chandrasekar | Completed | |
| 32 | Study of Moon and Mars analogues: Investigations on orthopyroxene-olivine-spinel (OOS) group of minerals and cumulate rocks in India based on remote sensing, mineralogical and geochemical methods. | ISRO-Mars Science & Application Program | Dr. Rajesh V.J , Dr. S.Bhattacharaya (SAC, Ahmedabad) | Completed | |
| 33 | Radio continuum mapping of ionized emission associated with infrared (IR) bubbles. | IIST | Dr.Anandmayee Tej | Dr.Sarita Vig | Completed |
| 34 | Paleo-geographic reconstruction: Development of a new GIS based methodology | IISc-ISRO STC | Dr. Sajeev Krishnan(CEaS, IISc Bangalore) | Dr. Rajesh V.J. | Completed |
| 35 | Geological and spectral studies of terrestrial analogue rocks: Implications for Mars exploration. | IIST | Dr.Rajesh V J, Dr. Gnanappazham | Completed | |
| 36 | Arc accretion in the past and present and its bearing on metallogeny | DST | Dr. Sajeev Krishnan(CEaS, IISc Bangalore) Dr. Tsuyoshi Toyoshima (PI), Niigata University, Japan | Dr. Rajesh V.J. | Completed |
| 37 | Paleogeographic reconstruction: Development of a new GIS based methodology | IISc-ISRO STC | Dr.Sajeev Krishnan (CEaS, IISc Bangalore) | Dr. Rajesh v J | Completed |
| 38 | Estimation of tropical forest biophysical parameters using UV and NIR | JAXA/ NIES/ MoE (Japan) | Dr. Rama Rao Nidamanuri | Dr. A. M. Ramiya | Completed |
| 39 | Potential impact of land use chage on the regional climate of India subcontinent. | IIST/ISRO | Dr.Govindankutty M | Dr. A Chandrasekar Dr. PVN Rao (NRSC, Hyderabad) | Closed |
| 40 | Aerosol - cloud intraction under varying meteorological conditions. | IIST | Dr. M V Ramana | Closed |
| # | Project Title | Category | Investigators | Co-PI | Status |
| 1 | Indian Space Program and its Impacts on Industrial sector | Dr Lekshmi V. Nair and Dr C S Shaijumon | Ongoing | ||
| 2 | Now and Then: Women of Muziris | Dr Babitha Justin | Ongoing | ||
| 3 | Cultural Mapping of Tribal Cuisines for Food Security and Food Sufficiency | IIST | Dr Gigy J. Alex | Ongoing | |
| 4 | Lifeline for Remote India: A study on Tele Medicine Units in India | ICSSR | Dr C S Shaijumon and Dr Lekshmi V. Nair | Ongoing | |
| 5 | Estimation of Space Economy of India- A collaborative study by Department of Humanities in association Centre for Development Studies (CDS, Thiruvananthapuram) and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS, Bangalore) | Dr. CS Shaijumon | Ongoing | ||
| 6 | Feedback Study on RCI Edusat Network of North, South and West Region | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Lekshmi V Nair, Dr. Shaijumon CS | DECU-ISRO | Completed |
| 7 | Perspective study of Telemedicine Mobile Van Utilisation | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Lekshmi V Nair, Dr. Shaijumon CS | DECU-ISRO | Completed |
| 8 | Study of select issues of New Product Development in R&D context in space technologies | IIST | Dr. Ravi V | Completed | |
| 9 | Hauni: Developing Communicative English Software for IIST student | IIST | Dr. Babitha Justin | Completed | |
| 10 | Local links and Impacts: The Role of ISRO Village Resource Centers in Regional Development | IIST | Dr. Shaijumon CS | Completed | |
| 11 | A Study on Creative Writers and Artists in Dept of Space | IIST-Fasttrack | Dr. Gigy J. Alex | Completed | |
| 12 | Violence Against Women In Kerala | Police Dept & Indian Social Institute, New Delhi | Dr. Lekshmi V Nair | Completed | |
| 13 | Women in New Profession- A Study of Women in the Tourism Industry in Kerala | ICSSR | Dr. Lekshmi V Nair | Completed | |
| 14 | Longevity - A study of Women Living Beyond 90yrs | UGC | Dr. Lekshmi V Nair | Completed | |
| 15 | Long Term Living in Institutions: A Study Of Elderly In Selected Old Age Homes Of Kerala | UGC | Dr. Lekshmi V Nair | Completed | |
| 16 | Space Technology and its Penetration into the Socio Economic Space of the Households of India | IIST/ISRO | Dr. Lekshmi V Nair, Dr. Shaijumon CS | Completed | |
| 17 | Assessment of Contribution of IIST Alumni in ISRO Progammes | IIST/ISRO | Dr. V Ravi and Dr. Gigy J Alex | Closed |
| # | Project Title | Category | Investigators | Co-PI | Status |
| 1 | Discontinuous virtual element approximation for non-stationary fluid flow problems | DST | Dr. Sarvesh Kumar | Ongoing | |
| 2 | Numerical Approximation of Optimal Control Problems Using Virtual Element Methods | DST | Dr. Sarvesh Kumar | Ongoing | |
| 3 | Variational multiscale stabilization for the incompressible Navier-Strokes equation | SERB-DST | Dr. Natarajan E | Ongoing | |
| 4 | Mathematical modelling and locomotion control design for quadruped and biped Robots | DRDO | Dr. Raju K George | Ongoing | |
| 5 | Tracking & Nowcasting of severe convective storms using deep learning/machine learning | IIST | Dr. Sumitra S | Ongoing | |
| 6 | Studies on affine spaces and related objects through algebraic group actions and locally nilpotent derivations | SERB-DST | Dr. Prosenjit Das | Ongoing | |
| 7 | UAV- enabled ultra reliable low latency communication for energy efficiency and latency reduction in 6G network | DST SPARC | Dr. Sumitra S | Ongoing | |
| 8 | Determination of geodetic parameter based on SLR observations | Ongoing |
| # | Project Title | Category | Investigators | Co-PI | Status |
| 1 | Comprehensive stationary plasma thruster diagnostics instrumentation | IIST/ISRO | Umesh Kadhane | Ongoing | |
| 2 | Controlled synthesis of coherence polarization of light and its application in optical imaging | IIST | Rakesh Kumar Singh | Ongoing | |
| 3 | Mathematical modeling of stationary plasma thruster | IIST/ISRO | Sudheesh chethil | Ongoing | |
| 4 | Suraface Engineeering techniques for improving the life and performance of ball bearings in ISRO spacecraft mechanisms | IIST/ISRO | Jinesh K.B | Rejith S(IISU) | Ongoing |
| 5 | Development of surface discharge spark plugs | IIST/ISRO | Jinesh K.B | Assiz M.P (LPSC) | Ongoing |
| 6 | Development of Laser ignition systems | IIST/ISRO | Jinesh K.B | Prathap C (IIST), Assiz M.P (IISU) | Ongoing |
| 7 | To investigate the growth and local electronic properties of two dimensional stanene on transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) and on topological insulator surfaces by LEED,STM and STS | UGC-DAE-CSR-Indore | Kuntala Bhattacharjee | Sudipta Roy Barman | Ongoing |
| 8 | Investigating the nano material based exosome sensor for cancer | Department of Biotechnology | Palash Kumar Basu, Kuntala Bhattacharjee,Suparna Sengupta | Ongoing | |
| 9 | Study of dynamics using Solid State NMR | SERB-DST | Jayanthi S | NCL Pune | Ongoing |
| 10 | Study of spectral anomalies in optical fields with uncorrelated and correlated spectra and applications | DST | Dinesh N. Naik | Ongoing | |
| 11 | Optical interferometry based sensor for structural displacement/deformation measurement of materials | IIST-Fasttrack | Dinesh N Naik | Ongoing | |
| 12 | Investigation of excited state dynamics of isolated molecular ions | IIST | Umesh Kadhane | Completed | |
| 13 | Polymer nanocomposites for electronic and photonic applications | IIST | Pramod Gopinath | Honey John | Completed |
| 14 | Electronic manipulation of surface plasmon polaritons in graphene | IIST-Fasttrack | Jinesh K.B | Completed |
