Research & Development Cell & Thrust Areas

Research plays a significant role in the process of conceptual thinking, learning and innovation.

Since its inception, the Institutions have been striving to achieve excellence in education and research in consonance with the contemporary and future needs of India through meaningful education, original research and leadership in technological innovation for the industrial growth of the Country. With the path-breaking innovations in both its curriculum & research, the Institution is rapidly gaining a legendary reputation globally.

Research and Innovation Clusters provide technology and innovation support whereas Incubation helps the students to develop practical business models as startups or spin offs to become student entrepreneurs for working towards Government of India policy of “Make in India”.

Taking the culture of research and innovation forward, team of Manav Rachna Innovation and Incubation Centre started working since 2011 to establish innovation labs in the area of Mechanical and Electronics. After preparing policies, strategizing the systematic approach to research innovation, and testing a pilot run of the Centre was officially inaugurated on January 01, 2014.

We live in a knowledge-driven economy, where Research and Development has become the key to sustainable economic growth, creating in the process, a competitive edge.

Across its 20-year journey with many a milestones to its credit, Manav Rachna has taken on the challenge of yielding applicable knowledge and dedicating itself towards several path breaking Research and Development initiatives. More recently, the Institution has created a ‘Research and Innovation’ culture at the Undergraduate level through Innovation & Incubation at MRIIC.

By introducing ‘Research Integrated Programmes’, the Institution launched a first-of-its-kind Business Incubator at Manav Rachna Research, Innovation & Incubation Centre (MRIIC) -a whole new concept aimed to take the Institution to the next level and catapult it to the top leagues of innovation-driven institutions in the country.

The Institution collaborated with Accendere, a Career Launcher Educate group entity to enable even undergraduate students to participate in research and innovation for producing research publications in high impact factor journals listed in Scopus, Web of Science, Science Citations Index (SCI) Expanded, EBSCO and Social Sciences, along with patent filings and start-ups with constant mentoring from the science, engineering and management communicators. All undergraduate students are given access to research enhancer tools viz. Research Index, Deepdyve platform etc.

Students have been involved in scientific research in the recent years in the form of case studies, reviewing current research topics, experiments, real time implications etc. Their domain target ranges from communication to construction, control system to immune system, aeronautics to aerodynamics thereby portraying their extreme skills and interest. This kind of research involvement provides students hands on experience and knowledge in addition to their regular course work.

MREI has joined hands with India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) with the vision of strengthening Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) ecosystem in India. Manav Rachna is now a proud member of IESA and both the organisations are looking forward to work with each other.

Manav Rachna is also one of the Academic Partners for the event Techronics 2017, which was held on 8th December 2017 at India habitat Centre, New Delhi.

The Institutions have thirty academic departments, eight Research & Innovation Clusters (RICs), eight Centres of Excellence (CEs), one Business Incubator (BI) and one dedicated IPR Cell.

K+

research publications in International Journals, National Journals,

papers listed in the Scopus database

patents have been filed /granted to faculty and students

worth sanctions received of grants from EDII

The Institutions have to their credit, over 4000+ research publications in International Journals, National Journals, International Conferences and National Conferences. This includes more than 700 papers listed in the Scopus database, Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and EBSCO database and other high impact quality journals. 386 patents have been filed /granted to faculty and students.

More than 140 books have been authored by faculty members and received sanctions of grants worth over Rs. 6.3 Crores from EDII, Ahmadabad through DST, Govt. of India for setting-up of NewGen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India from Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Faridabad for Biopesticides developmental work.

MREI has submitted research and developmental projects worth Rs 100 Crores to Atal Incubation Centre (AIC), Central Pollution Central Board (CPCB) and Department of Science and Technology (DST). The Institutions have tied up with more than 47 Foreign Universities for research and innovation in addition to Indian collaborations like IOCL, Faridabad, THSTI, Faridabad, CSIR-IIP, Dehradun and NII, New Delhi.

Presently, Eight Research and Innovation Clusters namely Mechanical, Automobile & Aerospace, Electronics & Electrical, Computing, Molecular Biosciences, Health Sciences & Nutrition, Civil & Architecture Design, Material Science and Atmospheric & Environment are actively engaged in research projects by adopting interdisciplinary approach in addition to other activities like Competitions & Projects, Publishing, Sponsored R&D projects, Training in Advanced Areas or future technologies, Product Development, Collaboration & Consultancy & Patents & IPR.

Consultancy

In recent past, MREI has provided consultancy services to numerous organizations and some of the areas of consultancy rendered are GST Regime & implementation, engineering solutions to Orient Electric, design and development of Prototype BMI Machine, Smart Bar Machine – Adelantos Technologies Pvt. Ltd.,

Cultivation of Safed Musli for sustainable land use, Revival of Badkhal Lake, Faridabad, Rainwater Harvesting for managing water logging prone areas in Faridabad, Decision Support System for adoption to climate change for Budia catchment area, State Action Plan on Climate Change of Haryana, Establishment of WASH Innovative Lab under tri-partite agreement amongst MRIIRS erstwhile (MRIU), MCF and National Institute of Urban Affairs, Creation of Green Barrier under the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) metro tracks etc . During last one year, Institutions have received / have been sanctioned grant of Rs 8.5 lakhs.

Thrust Areas

S.No.	Faculty Name	Designation	Specialization
1	CS (Dr. )Monika Goel	Professor and Dean	Income Tax, GST, Micro Finance, Financial Planning, Wealth Management
2	Dr. Jayender Verma	Professor and HoD	Finance and Accounts
3	Dr. Preeti Chhabra	Associate Professor	Economics
4	Dr. Simran Kaur	Associate Professor	Digital Wallets, Stock, Foreign Institutional Investments, International Trade, Marketing Strategies, and Banking
5	Dr. Nidhi Tandon	Associate Professor	Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Branding
6	Mr. Arun Vashista	Associate Professor	Digital Marketing, E-commerce
7	Ms. Arkaja Garg	Associate Professor	Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Ecommerce Services
8	Dr. Anjani Srivastava	Associate Professor	Financial Planning, Taxation, Financial Reporting, Auditing
9	Mr. Amardeep Singh	Associate Professor	Economics, Business Management, and Educational Research
10	CS Jyoti P	Associate Professor	Corporate Laws and Accounting
11	CS Riya Kathuria	Associate Professor
12	Dr. Divya Sanghi	Professor and HOD	Clinical Nutrition
13	Dr Pratibha Singh	Professor	Food and Nutrition
14	Dr.Gurjeet Kaur Chawla	Functional food development	Health Promotion , Community Resource Management and Extension
15	Dr.Kommi Kalpana	Professor	Sports Nutrition
16	Dr. Mahak Sharma	Associate Professor	Clinical Nutrition
17	Dr. Lakhvinder Kaur	Associate Professor	Food Science and Technology
18	Ms.Ankita Sharma	Assistant Professor	clinical nutrition
19	Dr Priya Mishra	Associate Professor	Food Science and Technology
20	Dr Madhvi Awasthi	Associate Professor	Food Science and Nutrition
21	Dr.Gurseen Rakhra	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry
22	Ms.Vandana Garg	Assistant Professor	Food Science and Nutrition
23	Ms.Srishti Negi	Assistant Professor	Food Science and Nutrition
24	Dr. Mehak Katyal	Assistant Professor	Cereal Technology
25	Dr. Sarushi Rastogi	Assistant Professor	Food Nanotechnology, Dairy Technology
26	Dr Payal Rani	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry

S. No.	Name of the Faculty Member	Thrust Areas
1	Prof. (Dr.) Sunita Bansal	Concrete Technology; Structural Analysis & Design; Structural Assessment; Sustainable Built Environment
2	Prof. (Dr.) Sadiqa Abbas	Solid Waste Management, Groundwater, Multi-criteria decision making
3	Prof. (Dr.) Anjali Gupta	Soil Stabilization & Ground Modification, Geoenvironment, Pavement Subgrade and Site Characterization
4	Dr. Sonal Saluja	Waste material management, Traffic management, Intelligent transportation system
5	Dr. Ashish Shukla	Advanced Concrete Technology Geopolymer Concrete Bacterial Concrete Structural health monitoring
6	Dr. Lilesh Gautam	Self-compacting geoplolymer concrete, Transportation Engineering, Road Safety Analysis, Pavement Analysis
7	Mr. Yaman Hooda	Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Vulnerability Analysis, Wind Assessment, Sustainable Concrete
8	Mr. Haobam Derit Singh	Structural Design, Concrete Technology, Vulnerability Assessments.

S No	Faculty Name	Designation	Thrust Areas
1	Dr. Naresh Grover	PVC MRIIRS & Professor	Micrprocessor, Digital Signal Processing
2	Dr. Geeta Nijhawan	Asssociate Dean SET & Professor	Digital Signal Processing, Speaker Recognition & Speech Processing, Wireless Networks
3	Dr. Abhiruchi Passi	HOD & Professor	Microwave
4	Dr. Y.K Awsathi	Professor	Computational Electromagnetics, Antennas, Microwave Engineering, etc.
5	Dr. Umesh Dutta	Director MRIIC & Professor	VLSI
6	Dr. Vimlesh Singh	Associate Professor	Microwave Active & Passive circuits, Biomedical Application
7	Dr. Pratima Mehta	Associate Professor	Wireless Communication, Networking,Digital Electronics, VLSI
8	Dr. Jyoti Verma	Associate Professor	Wireless Communication, Networking,Digital Electronics
9	Dr. Amana Yadav	Associate Professor	VLSI
10	Dr. Anand Kumar Singh	Assistant Professor	Semiconductor Devices/VLSI Circuits and Systems
11	Dr. Namita Kahtpal	Assistant Professor	Optical Communication
12	Mr. Mandeep Singh	Technical Staff	Embedded System & IOT
13	Mr. Arun Kumar Goyal	Technical Staff	Analog & Digital Hardware Design

Sr. No.	Name of the Faculty	Thrust Area
1.	Ms. Ritika Singh	Hotel Front Office Public Relations Guest Psychology Leadership Women Leadership Marketing Management Academic Excellence Soft Skills Management Hospitality Education Hospitality Administration
2.	Ms. Prachi Mor	Food and Beverage Services Artificial Intelligence in Hospitality Human Resources Hospitality Training Hospitality Events Managing F&B Company Hospitality Entrepreneurship
3.	Ms. Nikita Tomar	Hotel Housekeeping Human Resources Hospitality Administration Guest Loyalty and Satisfaction Hotel Hygiene and Sanitation Academic Excellence Hospitality Research Hospitality Education Sustainable Tourism
4.	Mr. Kunal Singh	Continental Cuisine Lebanese Cuisine Fruit and vegetable pairing Hospitality Administration
5.	Mr. Madhav Sharma	Hotel Front Office Hospitality Marketing Industrial Connects Hospitality Research Soft Skills Management Hospitality Grooming and Psychology
6.	Mr. William Lee	Oriental Cuisine Hospitality Mentorship Menu Designing International Hospitality Culinary Expertise Hospitality Connects
7.	Mr. Durgesh Nandan	Bakery Expertise Menu Designing Hospitality Connects Patisserie Expertise
8.	Mr. Rahul Chandra	Food and Beverage Services Hospitality Marketing Hospitality Outreach Hospitality Connect

S No	Faculty Name	Designation	Thrust Areas
1	Dr. Brijesh Kumar	Professor	Simulation and Modelling, Web Technologies
2	Dr. Rashima Mahajan	Professor	Signal Processing, Machine Learning, IoT
3	Dr. Kamlesh Sharma	Professor	Natural Laungauge Processing, Data Mining, Machine Learning
4	Dr. Tapas Kumar	Professor	Digital Image processing, Atificial Intelligence & Machine Leaning
5	Dr. Charu Virmani	Professor	Machine Learning, Blockchain, Data Science
6	Dr. Suresh Kumar	Professor	Artificial Intelligence
7	Dr. Supriya Panda	Professor	Soft Computing, Optimization &Algorithms
8	Dr. Deepa Bura	Professor	Data Mining,Software Engineering, Data Science
9	Dr. Meeta Singh	Professor	Data Mining, Data Science, Cloud Computing
10	Dr. Poonam Tanwar	Professor	Machine Learning, Medical Imaging , Data Science , Natural Language Processing, Medical Imaging, Computational Intelligence, Knowledge Representation & Retreival
11	Dr. Poonam Nandal	Professor	Machine Learning, Data Science, Information Retrieval
12	Dr. Indu Kashyap	Professor	Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Networks
13	Dr. Mamta Dahiya	Professor	Data Science, ML, GeoAI
14	Dr. Mahboob Alam	Associate professor	Data analytics, Machine learning, Big Data, Cloud computing
15	Dr. Nitasha Soni	Associate professor	.Artificial Intelligence, Cloud computing
16	Dr.Savita	Associate Professor	IOT,wirless communication,microprocessor
17	Dr. Krishan Kumar	Associate Professor	Data Mining, Data Science, Cloud Computing
18	Dr. Tanvi Gupta	Associate Professor	cloud computing, Load Balancing
19	Dr. Gini	Associate Professor	Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
20	Dr. Ravinder Kumar	Associate Professor	Python Programming
21	Dr. Srishty Jindal	Assisstant Professor	artificial intelligence, Database management system
22	Dr. Ramesh Chandra Sahoo	Associate Professor	Data structure algorithms, aiml
23	Dr. Prashant Dixit	Associate Professor	AI, Network,
24	Dr. Rosy Madaan	Associate Professor	Data mining, Data structures
25	Dr. Kritika Soni	Associate Professor	Cloud security ,network security, Big data
26	Dr. Rachna Behl	Associate Professor	Machine Learning, Data Science, Big Data
27	Dr. Shobha Tyagi	Associate Professor	COA, COMPILER DESIGN, DIGITAL ELECTRONICS, MICROPROCESSORS
28	Dr Pronika	Assistant Professor	Network Security Management, Computer NEtwork, Database Management
29	Dr. Neha Garg	Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, Data Science, Sentiment Analysis
30	Ms.Swati Hans	Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, Algorithms Design & Analysis
31	Dr. Shefali Singhal	Assistant Professor	Machine learning, Predictive modeling, Analysis & Design of Algorithms, 3D Animation, Android, Operating Systems, Networking,
32	Dr.Shweta Sharma	Assistant Professor	Computer Vision,Machine Learning,Image Processing,Deep Learning
33	Dr Priyanka Rastogi	Assistant Professor	Deep Learning, Big Data
34	Ms. Shobha Tyagi	Assistant Professor	Security, Image Processing, Computer Graphics
35	Ms. Shivani Pahuja	Assistant Professor	Information Security, AIML
36	Mr.Sideshvari Dutt Mishra	Assistant Professor	ML, DL, AI and Image Processing
37	Ms. Tanu Dua	Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, Soft Computing, Neural Network
38	Ms. Anisha	Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, IoT
39	Ms. Neha Batra	Assistant Professor	Green Computing, Machine Learning
40	Mr.Arko Baghchi	Assistant Professor	CYber Security, Cloud Computing, AI/ML
41	Mr. Kaushal Kumar	Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, Project Management
42	Ms.Meghna Luthra	Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, Data Science & Big Data Anayltics
43	Dr. Monika	Assistant Professor	Image Processing, Digital Communication
44	Ms. Ranjeeta Mittal	Assistant Professor	Artificial Intelligence, Compiler Design

Faculty Name	Designation	Thrust Areas
Dr. Sarita Sachdeva	ED & Dean Research	Environmental Biotechnology
Dr. Prabir Paul	Professor	Molecular aspects of interaction between plants and human enteric pathogens and Role of ergosterol in functioning of choloroplast and mitochondria of plants
Dr. Manu Solanki	Professor	Agriculture Microbiology and Environment Microbiology
Dr. Sabiha Imran	Professor	Medical Biotechnology & Food Biotechnology
Dr. Abhilasha Shourie	Professor	Abiotic Stress Physiologi in Plants
Dr. Nidhi Didwania	Professor	Crop Protection, Alternatives to Agrochemicals(Biopesticides), Organic cultivation Practices
Dr. Kanchan Bhardwaj	Professor	Viral genes and genomes
Dr. Shobha Shrivastava	Associate Professor	Industrial Microbiology
Dr. Rashmi Rameshwari	Associate Professor	Bioinformatics algorithm and tool design for genomics and proteomics study, Systems biology applications in disease prediction
Dr. Kapila Kumar	Associate Professor	Host Pathogen Interactions, Genomic landmarks and Biomarkers, Biosensors
Dr Krishna Priya Ganti	Associate Professor	Atopic disease biology, Adjuvant biology
Dr. Vineeta Sharma	Associate Professor	Toxico-Epigenetics, DOHaD, Non-communicable Disease
Dr. Jayant Maini	Assistant Professor	Nutritional Epigenetics, Incomplete Penetrance and Variable Expressivity, Cellular Memory Modules.
Dr. Preeti Nandal	Assistant Professor	Bioprocessing, Fermentation, Enzyme Technology, Biosensors
Dr. Vineet Kumar Goswami	Assistant Professor	Fermentation, protein chemistry, enzyme technology, bioprocess engineering
Dr. Vandana Nandal	Assistant Professor	biofertilizer,PGPRs
Dr. Somya Asthana	Assistant Professor	Phytonutrients, Food and Drug Interactions
Dr. Charu Rajpal	Assistant Professor	Environmental sciences, Food sciences.
Dr. Prachie Sharma	Assistant Professor	Molecular Virology, Bioinformatics, Agriculture sciences
Dr. Sheeba Farooqui Rizwan	Assistant Professor	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
Dr. Himanshu Joshi	Assistant Professor	Environmental Biotechnology