Research Areas

IIIT-Delhi aims to have focused research groups in some areas of IT and some domain areas. The number and nature of research areas will evolve as more faculty and research staff joins. Current areas of research are listed below.

• » Computer Graphics and Geometry
  Focus Areas: Virtual reality (VR), Augmented reality (AR), Volume visualisation, 3D reconstruction
   
• » Image Analysis and Biometrics
  Focus Areas: Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Biometrics
   
• » Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
  Focus Areas: Mobile Computing, Middleware, Pervasive Computing, Communication Networks, Applications in Sustainability and Healthcare, Human Sensing, Transportation, Technologies for Developing Regions
   
• » Software Engineering & Programming Languages
  Focus Areas: Software quality, programmer productivity, software maintenance, mining software process data for knowledge extraction, static and dynamic program analysis and specification mining
   
• » Wireless Systems
  Focus Areas: Wifi Network Optimization, Small Cell Networks, White Spaces, Localization, Vehicular Networks, Software Defined Radio and Cellular Radiation Measurement
   
• » Advanced Electronic Systems
  Focus Areas: Software Defined Radio, Multiband and Broadband RF Circuits, Smart Antenna Systems, Biomedical Electronics and Applications, Wireless Network on Chip, Biomedical System and Sensor Development, Radar Sensor Design and Signal Processing, Ground Water Sensor Design and Signal Processing
   
• » Information Security and Privacy
  Focus Areas: Digital Forensics, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Theory and Practice of Cryptography, Cyber Crime, Privacy, Human Computer Interaction, Network Security, Traffic Analysis, Anonymity, Complex Networks, Privacy and Security in online Social Media (PSOSM), Usable Security
   
• » Information Management and Data Analytics
  Focus Area: Databases, Data Mining, Mobile-P2P data management using economic models, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence, Data Privacy and Access Control
   
• » Theoretical Computer Science
  Focus Areas: Logic, Process Algebra, Reactive Systems, Verification, Cryptology, Cryptography, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Complexity Theory, Quantum Computation, Algorithms
   
• » Computational and Systems Biology
  Focus Areas: Systems biology, Cell division cycle, Circadian rhythms, Computational cognitive neuroscience
   
• » GeoInformatics
  Focus area: Geo-spatial Data Management, Data Warehousing, Database System Implementation
   
• » Signal Processing
  Focus Areas: Compressed Sensing, Low rank matrix recovery, Biomedical Imaging, Information Hiding, Image & Video Forensics, Computer Vision, Image and Scene Understanding, Robust Statistical Methods, Pattern Recognition
   
• » Scalable Systems
  Focus Areas: Computer Architecture, Performance Modeling of Computer Systems, Low Power Design, Energy efficient architectures, exascale computing challenges, performance portability, compilers, programming languages Distributed Systems and Networks, Concurrent and Parallel Computing
   
• » Economics
  Focus Areas: Economics of Information, Consumer Privacy, Asymmetric Information in Credit and Insurance Markets, Credit Scoring




• » Algebra, Number Theory, Combinatorics, Algebraic Coding Theory
  Anuradha Sharma, Samrith Ram, Sneha Chaubey
• » Computational Mathematics, Scientific computing, PDEs, Numerical solutions of ODEs and PDEs, Mathematical Biology
  Ashish Kumar Pandey, Sarthok Sircar, Kaushik Kalyanaraman
• » Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems
  Shilpak Banerjee
• » Mathematical Logic, Foundations of Mathematics
  Sankha S Basu
• » Statistics
  Monika Arora
• » Mobile, Networks, Wireless and Optical Communication, Cognitive Radio, MIMO, RF Energy harvesting
  Anand, Pushpendra, Sanjit, Vinayak, Vivek, Sumit
• » Circuits and Systems, VLSI, FPGA, CGRA
  Sujay, Mohammad, Sumit
• » Signal Processing, Multimedia, Computational Imaging, Image Forensics, Biometrics
  Anubha, Pravesh, Subramanyam, Mayank, Richa, Angshul
• » Embedded Systems, Robotics, Cyber-physical Systems, Distributed Systems
  Amarjeet, Sujit, Sambuddho
• » Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Complex Systems, Recommender Systems
  Mayank, Richa, Angshul
• » Image Processing, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Graphical models, Statistical Methods
  Mayank, Richa, Saket, Ojaswa, Anubha
• » Security, Privacy, Cryptography
  Donghoon, PK, Sambuddho, Subramanyam
• Algorithms, Logic, Verification, Quantum Computing, Compilers, Computational Geometry
  Rajiv, Debajyoti, Ojaswa
• » Computer Architecture, Network on Chip, GPU Computing
  Sujay, Ojaswa
• » Optimization, Complexity Theory, Graphs
  Rajiv, Debajyoti, Pravesh
• » RF Systems, Microwave, Antenna, EMI, Sensor Circuit Design
  Mohammad, Shobha
• Software Engineering, Program Analysis, Runtime Verification, Database
  Pankaj, Rahul, Vikram
• » ICTD, HCI, Education, Healthcare, Energy Monitoring
  Anubha, Pushpendra, Sujay, Vinayak, PK, Amarjeet
• » Systems Biology, Structural Biology, Biophysics
  Sriram

Technologies developed by our research groups are being used in multiple organizations across the country, including an IVR system to help low-literate people from rural background access information about jobs under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)a Time and Presence Based monitoring and controls system for Telecommunication Consultants India Limited (TCIL) and a Face Recognition Tool for DIT, India.