Research Group

Research has become an increasingly important part of the core business of higher education. GIFT is paying more attention to an organisational solution to serve their research mandate in the best possible and most efficient manner.In this regard, the creation and formalisation of research groups at the institutional level are becoming increasingly important ingredients in the institutional strategies. In GIFT, the concept of the research group is used to mark a formal organisational level as an engine of productivity of research from the departmental level to the institutional objective. The page depicts the significance for academic staff members of research groups established and formalised as part of research strategies and explores the levels of participation and stresses the importance of such group-related activities with regard to the level of participation, perceived impact on research quality and researcher training. GIFT believes that formalised research groups can have a positive effect on the quality of individual research to the group research cutting across the departments.

Department of Agriculture Engineering

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Farm Mechanization	Dr Satyananda Swain	Status of Farm Mechanization, New Machines and Equipment, AI and ML in Agriculture, Supply Chain Management , Automation in Agriculture, Precision Agriculture Employment Scope in Scientific Agriculture
2	Agricultural processing and Food Technology	Prof Samir Ranjan Biswal	Engineering Properties of Agricultural Produce, Status and Prospects of Food Processing Industry, qualities of food products, operations and equipment for processing, preservation, storage, value addition, material handling, packaging, dairy engineering.
3	Soil Water Conservation Engineering	Prof Nalini Sankar Behera	Soilconservation structures, water conservation, irrigation water management, hydrology, watershed management, ground water hydrology, irrigation systems and pumps, and GIS and Remote sensing
4	Farm machinery and power engineering	Prof Banasmita Behera	Farm tools, equipment and machineries, Vibration Studies,
5	Renewable Energy for Agriculture	Dr Satyananda Swain	Different sources of farm power, Solar energy, Biomass and biogas, Bioethanol: organic fuel suitable for farm vehicles and obtained from fermentation of vegetation, Biodiesel organic fuel for farm use obtained from vegetable oils
6	Irrigation and Drainage	Prof Nalini Sanker Behera	Prediction of lean season discharge of water resources for important crops, soil moisture characterization and its impact on productivity of important local crops. natural resources mapping and developing strategy for water resources management

Department of Basic Science and Humanities

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Fluid Dynamics	Dr. Prasanna Kumar Rout	MHD Flow,Porous Media,Micropolar Fluid, Nano Fluid
2	High energy physics phenomenology	Dr. Bidyut Prava Nayak	Neutrino oscillation , Investigations beyond Standard Model , Baryon asymmetry, Dark matter
3	Multi Criteria Decision Making	Dr.Manoranjan Mishra	Application of MCDM methods in Transportation models
4	Fluid Dynamics	Dr. Kharabela Swain	Heat and mass transfer, nanofluid, porous media
5	British Literature	Bikram Keshari Rout	Poetry of Seamus Heaney
6	West Management	Dr.Himanshu bhusan Panigrahi	Algae Culture

Department of Civil Engineering

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Structural Design	Honey Mishra	Design of various components of Residential Building, Industrial, and Testing
2	Construction Materials using Nano technology	Abhijit Mangaraj	Synthesis, testing, study of microstructure
3	Water Resource and Irrigation	Chitrabhanu Sahoo	Ground water Recharge, Irrigation structure
4	Material Science	Ankit Jena	Sustainable Construction, Reuse of Waste Materials
56	Environmental Engineering	Dr. Haripriya MishraDr. Anni Mishra	Solid waste management, Waste water Treatment

Department of Computer Science and Engineering / Master in Computer Application

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Data Science and Computing	Mr. Satyajit Nayak	Artificial Intelligence, Image and Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Brain Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Stochastic Computing, Natural Language Processing, Web Mining and other relevant scope
2	System and Security	Dr Saroj Kumar Rout	Real-time System, Embedded System, Distributed System, Cloud Computing, Cloud Network and Security, Wireless Sensor Networking, Cryptography, Big Data,Bioinformatics, parallel Computing and other relevant scope
3	IOT and Robotics	Dr Sujit Kumar Panda	Internet of Things, RoboHuman Communication, Robo-Robo Communication, System Reliability and Quality, Circuit and Instrumentation, Nano-Technology, andother relevant scope
4	IOT and Robotics	Dr. Sasmita Pani	AL/ML
5	Network Security	Dr.Y Sobhan Babu	System & Security

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Photonic Devices	Dr.P.K.Subudhi	Optoelectronics,Photonic Crystal,Nanophotonics
2	Signal Processing	Dr Ravi Narayan Panda	Channel Equalization,Neural Network,ISI, Analog VLSI,Digital VLSI,MOS
3	Photonics	Saumendra Behera	Nanophotonic devices, Optoelectronics,Photonic Crystal,Nanophotonics
4	Wireless Sensor Network	Subrat Kumar Panda	Wireless Sensor Network using Optimization
5	Wireless Sensor Network	Robin Abraham	Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN)
6	VLSI	Saradiya Kishor Parija	Analog VLSI,Digital VLSI,MOS
7	VLSI	Dr. IV Prakash	AI/ML

Department of Electrical Engineering

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Power & Energy systems group	Sibananda Mishra	Development of fly ash based insulators./ Transients in power system.
2	Power Energy	Dr. Subhandu Sahu	Renewable Energy
3	Power Energy	Dr. Somanath Mishra	Renewable Energy

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Power Electronics & Drives	Dr.Satyajit Mohanty	Smart Grid,Grid Synchronisation, Renewable Energy, Converter Design
2	Power System	Dr.Srikanta Kumar Dash	Application of Metaheuristic Algorithms to DC-DC Converters, Micro Grid, Phase locked loop,Filter Design

Department of Mechanical Engineering

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	Alternative Fuels and IC Engines	Dr. Nabnit Panigrahi	Improving Performance of IC Engines with various fuels, Reducing Emission, Bio Diesel, Bio Fuel, Energy and Energy Analysis, Plastic Fuel, Diesel Engine Performance Evaluation, Using Nano fluid as a Coolant.
2	Gas Turbines and Combined Cycle	Dr Alok Kumar Mohapatra	Performance Evaluation of Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Plant. Energy and Energy analysis, Emission analysis with NOx, CO and CO2 emission. Inlet air cooling as a method of improving performance. Performance evaluation of thermal power plants in different region. Effect of ambient temperature and humidity.
3	Manufacturing and Metallurgical Science	Prof. Arvind Tripathy	Manufacturing Science, Characterisation of Composite materials, Al/Al2O3 ultrafine composites, Powder Metallurgy, Manufacturing Engineering, Fibre Composites
4	Alternative Field & IC Engine	Dr. Amar ku. Das	Improving Proformance of IC Engines with various fuels, Reducing Emission, Bio Diesel, Bio Fuel, Energy and Energy Analysis, Plastic Fuel, Diesel Engine Performane Evaluation, Using Nano fluid as a Coolant.
5	Producing Engineering	Dr. Ch.V.S.P Rao	Unconventional Machining

Department of Master of Business Administration

S.No	Research Group Name	Lead Faculty	Field of Research
1	O Band HRM	Dr. Mousumi Panda	Employee Engagement,Corporate Social Responsibility, Talent Management, Performance Management, Compensation Management.
2	Marketing Management	Dr. Biswaranjan Parida	Consumer Behaviour, Retail Marketing, Service Marketing, Customer Satisfaction, Advertising Management.
3	Finance and Economics	Prof. Sipra Karmakar	Merger and Acquisition, Pricing of shares and debentures, Mutual fund and Insurance, Money and Public finance, International Economics
4	General Management	Dr. Debaraj Mishra	Outsourcing in Healthcare Management.
4	General Management	Dr. Susama Sahu