Current Research Projects

Current Research Projects

DCU-India collaborators

Through the Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University is involved in a large array of science, technology, humanities and engineering collaborative projects with Indian insititutions.

Funding for these collaborative research projects has been awarded from a variety of funding bodies including Science Foundation Ireland, the Government of India Department of Science and Technology and Eurpean Union Framework 7 as well as from DCU resources.

Below is a list of a sample of projects currently ongoing (2012/2013):

  • Towards a Laser Plasma Light Source Platform for Next Generation Extreme-UV Lithography (EUVL) at 6.X nm: Theoretical and Experimental Spectroscopic Studies

          Partners: J. Costello (DCU), P.C.Deshmukh (IIT Madras), H. R. Varma (IIT Mandi)

  • Cross-layer Optimization for Mobile Multimedia Networks

          Partners: G.M. Muntean (DCU), H. Venkataraman (DCU), Swades De (IIT Delhi), H.M. Gupta (IIT Delhi)

  • Investigation of interfacial charge transfer aspects of hybrid polymer/ZnO nanorod arrays as an initial step towards judging their potential for nano-light emitting devices

          Partners: E. McGlynn (DCU), R.T. R. Kumar (Bharathiar University)

  • An Inter-Disciplinary Approach Towards Building Ontology For Online Extremism

          Partners: M. Conway (DCU), P. Kumaraguru (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology)

  • Syntax-driven approaches for Statistical Machine Translation into Indian languages

          Partners: J. VanGenabith (DCU), S. Naskar (DCU), R Sangal (International Institute of Information Technology Gachibowli, Hyderabad)

  • Smart Nanomaterials for bioenergy technology

          Partners: S. Krishnamurhty (DCU), J.P. Mosnier (DCU), T.S. Chandra (IIT Madras), E. Marsili (DCU)

  • Development of novel materials, device structures and fabrication methods for thin film solar cells and TCOs including organic photovoltaics

          Partners: S. Krishnamurthy (DCU), G.V. Prakash (IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi)

  • Biomolecular field effect transistor for cardiovascular disease diagnostics.

          Partners: M. Berndt, (DCU), R.P. Gandhiraman (DCU), N. Bhat (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)

  • Nano thin film solar cell for energy harvesting

          Partners: S. Krishnamurhty (DCU), S. Daniels (DCU), R. Rao (IIT Madras), P. McNally (DCU), D. Brabazon (DCU)

  • High power flexible supercapacitors based on Graphene

          Partners: S. Krishnamurhty (DCU), S. Daniels (DCU), S, Ramaprabhu (IIT Madras)

  • Development of Damage Theories for Biological Soft Tissue

          Partners: J. Murphy (DCU), S. M. Srinivasan (IIT Madras)

  • Ultrafast Photonic Processes and Interactions

          Partners: P. Landais (DCU), L. Barry (DCU), J. Costello (DCU), S. Khrishnamurthy (DCU), L. Nikolopoulos (DCU), Prof. Aidhen (IIT Madras), Prof. Bisht (IIT Madras), Prof. Deshmukh (IIT Madras), Prof. Venktesh (IIT Madras), Prof. Vijayan (IIT Madras), Prof. Mehta (IIT Delhi), Prof. Prakash (IITDelhi), Prof. Thyagarajan (IIT Delhi)

  • All optical processing of advanced modulation format signals in fast reconfigurable networks.

          Partners: L. Barry (DCU), D. Venkitesh (IIT Madras)

  • Energy-optimal Mobile multimedia networks

          Partners: H. Venkataraman (DCU), G. Miro-Muntean (DCU), Swades De (IIT Delhi), H.M. Gupta (IIT Delhi), A. Nanavati (IBM India Research Labs)

  • Fabrication and characterisation of capacitor structures on germanium substrates

          Partners: G. Huges (DCU), Navakanta Bhat (IISc Bangalore).

  • Healthcare Suppy Chain Management

          Partners: V. Kumar (DCU), R. Shankar (IIT Delhi)

  • Design, Development & Application of Holistic Multi-Criteria Optimisation Methodologies for Supplier Selection Problem.

          Partners: A. Bhattacharya (DCU), V.Kumar (DCU), M. Brady (DCU), A. Bhattacharyya (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

  • India-Ireland: From Colonialism to Nation Building- DCU JNU Joint Conference

          Partners: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (DCU) and School of Social Sciences (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

  • Transition versus Transformation: Comparing paths to democratic change in the former USSR using case study based evidence from civil society, international aid and domestic politics

          Partners: D. Ó Beacháin (DCU), A. Polese (Tallin University, Estonia), E. Dogan (Marmara Univerisity, Turkey), O. Kharitonova (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), P. Ajay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

  • Transition versus Transformation: Comparing paths to democratic change in the former USSR using case study based evidence from civil society, international aid and domestic politics

          Partners: D. Ó Beacháin (DCU), A. Polese (Tallin University, Estonia), E. Dogan (Marmara Univerisity, Turkey), O. Kharitonova (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), P. Ajay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)