OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (OUR) CONFERENCE

APRIL 21st and 22nd 2018

Venue: Room D217

APRIL 21st 2018

DAY 1: 9:00 AM- 6:30 PM
INAUGURATION: 9:00-9:15 AM

SESSION 1: 9:15- 11:00

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

1. Physio-chemical Changes in Food waste through Torrefaction in a Fixed- Bed Reactor, by

Avika Saberwal (Adv- Dr. Sanjeev Yadav).

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

2. Enhancing Security in an IOT environment through SDN, by Abhishek Agarwal (Adv- Dr.
Shashi Prabh).

3. A technique to collect and label accelerometer data to detect potholes, by Gautam

Padiyar (Adv- Dr. Shashi Prabh).

4. Improving BLEU evaluation metric for English to Hindi Machine Translations by

Introducing synonym and semantic correction, by Mrudula Y (Adv- Dr. Pooja Malik).

5. Smart Edge Devices to Reduce Latency in 5G Environment, by Ridhima Bector (Adv- Dr.
Anuradha Ravi)

6. Tracing Jammed Area Boundary in Wireless Ad-Hoc Network, by Rishabh Rustogi (Adv-
Dr. Samant Saurabh).
CENTER FOR INFORMATICS and COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

7. Audio Classification using Deep Learning School of Engineering, by Anirudh Thatipelli

(Adv- Dr. V K Jayaraman additional supervisor -Rajeev Kumar Singh)

BREAK 11:00- 11:15

SESSION 2: 11:15- 1:00 PM

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

1. Communications aspect of diffusion property of Solute and solvents, by Naga Prasanth

(Adv- Dr. Vijaya Kumar and Dr. Gouriprasanna Roy).

2. Feasibility Study (and implementation) of a new kind of Resonant Converter based SMPS
circuit design, by Pratyush Lohumi (Adv- Dr. Dinkar Prasad).

3. Molecular Signalling: A Practical Realization of a Communication System, by Pruthvi

Sumanth (Adv- Dr. Vijaya Kumar and Dr. Gouriprasanna Roy).

4. Internet of Things using LPWAN, by Shreya Tyagi (Adv- Dr. Prem Chand Jain).

5. Improving the Efficiency of a Wireless Power Transfer System using Resonators in

Mobile Applications, by Urvi Ahluwalia (Adv- Dr. Phaneendra Babu and Dr. Naveen
Babu).

6. Design and Development of a Wireless Power Transfer system for Deep Brain
Stimulator, by Yuvraj Prabhakar (Adv- Dr. Phaneendra Babu and Dr. Atul Veer Singh)

CIVIL ENGINEERING

1. Informal Transportation in India, by Naman Yati (Adv- Dr Girish Agrawal)

1:00-1:45- LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 3: 1:45-3:45

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

1. Strain Energy Density of Non-Linear Hyperelastic Strip, by Ashwin Kumar (Adv- Dr.
Ramesh Gupta).
 2. Feasibility study for generating micro/Nano textured surfaces using soft lithography and
external stimulations, by Ketan Singh (Adv- Dr. Harpreet Singh Grewal).

3. Development of High Strength, High Conductivity Material through Novel Processing

Route, by Pankaj Gaur (Adv- Dr. Harpreet Arora).

4. Synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots and their luminescence analysis by Rishabh Verma
(Adv- Dr. Dipak Maity).

5. Library Management Robot by, Yatin Malhotra (Adv- Mr Nishant Mishra).

SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES

MATHEMATICS

6. Number of non-primes in the set of units modulon, by Abhijit A J (Adv- Dr. A.

Satyanarayana Reddy).

7. 3D Computer Tomography Image Reconstruction using the Concept of Light Field, by

E M V Naga Karthik (Adv- Dr. Santosh Singh).

8. A study of totally nonnegative matrices and their properties, by Nishanth TA (Adv- Dr.
A. Satyanarayana Reddy).

BREAK 3:45- 4:00

SESSION 4- 4:00- 6:45PM

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF ART, DESIGN AND PERFORMING ARTS

1. Performing Identity in the University Space: An Arts-based Research Project, by Nimisha

Upadhyay (Adv- Dr. Aadya Kaktikar).

DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN
2. Colour Palette: The Understanding of Multicultural Ethos of Indian Society Through use
of Colours, by Bhavya Gupta (Adv- Dr. Amit Ray).
 3. Design Intervention for Improving the Futsal Game of Visually Impaired by Sandip
Prakash (Adv- Dr. Vikash Kumar)

4. Assistive Chair Design for Knee Arthritis Patients, by Siddharth Jhawar (Adv- Dr. Prakash
Kumar).

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GOVERNANCE STUDIES

5. Richard Rorty and his Pragmatism, by Manjeeth S P (Adv- Dr. Shekhar Singh).

ENGLISH
6. Amish’s Sita: Redefining the Goddess, by Chhandasi Ganguly (Adv- Dr. Gatha Sharma).

HISTORY
7. Binge Watching and How it Impacts the Temporality of the Social: An Ethnographic
Account of a Student’s Hostel Life in a University, by Harsha Vytla (Adv- Dr. Shrimoy
Chaudhury).

8. The Esotric Bauls of Bengal, by Ujan Banerjee (Adv- Dr. Ajay Dandekar).

SOCIOLOGY
9. Political Rhetoric in India: Case study of Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, by Neeraj Shetye
(Adv- Dr. Deepak Mehta).

10. Exploring the work of grief in the virtual, by Rakshitha Shiva (Adv- Dr. Pradeep
Jaganathan).

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
CIVIL ENGINEERING

11. The Informal sector: India’s Energy Saviour?, by Avanth Gunturu (Adv- Dr Girish
Agrawal)
 OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (OUR) CONFERENCE
APRIL 21st - 22nd, 2018
Venue: Room D217

APRIL 22nd 2018

Day 2: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
SESSION 1- 9:00- 11:15 AM

SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES

CHEMISTRY
1. Identifying a novel small molecule based on natural product hybrids as anti-breast
cancer agent, by Akanksha Awasthi (Adv- Dr. Subhabrata Sen).

2. Synthesis, characterization and exploration of electrochemical capacity of reduced

graphene oxide - sulfur nanoparticles composite for Li-S battery application, by K.
Sanjana (Adv- Dr. Bimlesh Lochab).

3. Stereoseletive Facile Synthesis of Carbohydrate Fused Naphthoquinones,

by Shivam Barthwal (Adv- Dr. Ram Sagar Misra).

4. Synthesis of Privileged N-Glycoconjugates of Coumarins and Quinolones, by Sneha V

(Adv- Dr. Ram Sagar Misra).

5. Fluorinated carbon-based nanoparticles coatings as anti-biofouling surfaces, by Vedha

Kallur (Adv- Dr Bimlesh Lochab).

6. Copper toxicity: design and synthesis of a high-affinity copper chelators and release of
copper from hepatocytes, by Vibha P Sarathy (Adv- Dr Gouriprasanna Roy).

PHYSICS
 7. Study of thermoluminescence property of alumina thin film grown on silicon, by
Abhishek Dubey (Adv- Dr. Aloke Kanjilal).

8. Investigating the Interaction of Potential Drug Molecules with Model Bio-membrane, by

Aishwarya Sathya (Adv- Dr. Sajal K. Ghosh, Collaborator: Dr. Bani Kanta Sarma).

9. Electric Double Layer Supercapacitor using Activated Carbon synthesized from solid city
wastes, by Antariksh Parichha (Adv- Dr. Sankar Dhar).

BREAK: 11:15- 11:30

SESSION 2- 11:30-1:30 PM

PHYSICS

1. Photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye using air annealed ZnO nanoparticles,
by Drishika Narayan (Adv- Dr. Susanta Sinha Roy).

2. Photocatalytic Activity of granular TiO2: Effect of annealing temperature by

Himashikhar Mazumdar (Adv- Dr. Aloke Kanjilal).

3. Gas and Humidity Sensing Behaviour of Nano-Structured Semiconductors by Mayank

Garg (Adv- Dr. Aloke Kanjilal).

4. Relating the physical properties of ionic liquids with their chemical structures, by
Shuverthi Sarkar (Adv- Dr. Sajal K. Ghosh).

5. Synthesis of Tantalum-doped Titanium Oxide Nanofluids as Highly Efficient Coolants, by

Shyam Sunder (Adv- Dr. Sankar Dhar).

6. Exploration of quantum chaotic systems using random matrix theory, By Suvendu

Kumar Barik (Adv- Dr. Santosh Kumar).

7. Investigation of Optical Waveguide Structures for Usage in Semi-Transparent Organic

Photovoltaic Cells (OPVs), by Vinay Shaknar (Adv- Dr. Samarendra Pratap Singh).

8. Free Probability approach for eigenvalue densities of large random matrices:

Applications to Disordered systems and Communication theory, by Yogeesh Reddy
Yerrababu (Adv- Dr. Santosh Kumar).
 LUNCH BREAK 1:30-2:15PM

SESSION 3- 2:15- 4:15 PM

LIFE SCIENCES
1. To study novel dsRNA viral sequences in protozoan species and their respective hosts to
characterize their role & pathogenicity, by Aditya Badola (Adv- Dr. Swati Garg)

2. Delineating the Role of Ire1, an ER-Unfolded Protein Response Sensor in Mitochondrial

Misfolding Stress, by Anindita Puri (Adv- Dr. Koyeli Mapa)

3. Understanding dynamics of CD44 and CD24 as cancer stem cell marker in combination
therapy approach for Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Targeting two signaling axis, by
Aparajita Kumar (Adv- Dr. Seema Sehrawat)

4. Functional characterization of H-NS, a nucleoid associated protein from S. aureus, by

Chaitra Shree U S (Adv- Dr. Richa Priyadarshini)

5. Signaling pathway analysis of T-cells in Immunotherapy based Triple Negative Breast

Cancer therapy, by Geethika Sai Majji (Adv- Dr. Seema Sehrawat)

6. Investigating the role of TIP60-PXR complex in gluconeogenesis, by Kushagri Arora (Adv-

Dr. Ashish Gupta)

7. Role of DNA secondary structure in gene regulation in plants, by Nandita Singhal (Adv-
Dr. Rohini Garg)

8. Cytokine Profiler Proteome Array based Immunotherapeutic approach for breast cancer
treatment, by RachitaTaneja (Adv- Dr. Seema Sehrawat)

BREAK - 4:15- 4:30 PM

Session 4- 4:30 - 6:30 PM

LIFE SCIENCES

1. Over expressing anti-apoptotic protein survivinin all three subtypes of breast cancer
cells and testing whether it confers therapeutic resistance by Rishita Ayachi (Adv- Dr.
Anindita Chakrabarty)
 2. Functional Characterization of AmpG permease in Caulobacter crescentus, by Sangeeta
Sai Balasubramaniam (Adv- Dr. Richa Priyadarshini)

3. Integration of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) gene expression profiles Meta-

Analysis to elucidate the relationship with cancer and PAH, by Surabhi Oberoi (Adv- Dr.
Ashutosh Singh)

4. Studying the structure and formation of G-quadruplexes in DNA and investigating their
role as ligands in TLR9, by Tanya Mathur (Adv- Dr. Rohini Garg)

5. Domain mapping of p53 and TIP60 for their interaction analysis, by Thilaga
Thirugnanam (Adv- Dr. Ashish Gupta)

6. Dissecting mechanism of TIP60-AR for prostate cancer inhibition, by Vasundhara Rao

(Adv- Dr. Ashish Gupta)

7. Developing resistance model for identification of the predictive biomarker sof GDC-0032
(Taselisib) response in HER2 oncogene-amplified and H1047R Phosphatidylinositol 3-
kinase catalytic subunit (PIK3CA) mutant breast cancer cells, by Yakshkumar Badhiwala
(Adv- Dr. Anindita Chakrabarty)

8. Repurposing the hepatoprotective drugs to study the inhibition of HEV replication using
the BacMam system, by Utkarsh Patel (Adv. Dr Deepak Sehgal)

9. Understanding the significance of non-conservation of a highly conserved cysteine residue of

ATPase domain of Hsp70s in mitochondrial Hsp70, Ssc1, By Srihari Negi (Adv. Koyeli Mapa)

CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

10. Remediation of Lead and Cadmium in Plants Grown in Hydroponics with Yamuna river
water using remediants and adsorbents, by Shanjana Ashok Kumar (Adv- Dr. Jyoti
Kumar Sharma).

CONCLUDING REMARKS