Exchange Diaries  

Contribution:

• Conducted the short term course on the “Experimental Flow Visualisation and Measurement Techniques for both Incompressible and Compressible Flow Regime” from 12 - 15 Mar, 2019. More than 50 participants attended this course including 15 external candidates
• Given a seminar talk titled “Experimental work on insect aerodynamics and flight” on 15 Mar, 2019
• Advised Research Scholar students of Aero and other Departments of IIT Kharagpur on how to perform Particle Image Velocimetry experiments and correct flow visualisation

Awards and Honors:

• Received NUS Singapore PhD Scholarship from 1997 to 2001
• Received MOE Tier-I Research Grant of 0.5 Million SGD
• Received Future Research Technology Research Grant of 7 Million SGD
• Non-resident Tuition Differential Waiver (State of Hawaii), Year - 1995
• Chuan So-Ken Scholarship, Malaysia, Year - 1994
• Overseas Chinese Student Scholarship, Malaysia Year 1993
• He has published more than 50 international journal and conferences papers and received more than 10 million SGD research grants for his research projects

Takeaways:

• From the offered short term course, the participants have learned how to perform flow visualisation experiments in both compressible and incompressible flow regimes
• Discussed with the faculty members in the department for possible research collaboration
• The participants have given excellent feedbacks and are interested to participate if more similar courses are offered

Contribution:

• Delivered series of lectures on Nonlinear nano-photonics during 7-13 February 2019
• Present as an external expert for PhD registration seminar
• Took a special course for PhD student related to the numerical simulation and data storage technique for 2D materials
• Visited 4 different optics labs and interacted with Dr. S.B.N. Bhakta, Dr. S. Dhara, Dr. M.M. Brundavanam, and Dr. S. Roy of Physics department and Dr. S. K. Varshney from Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering department for possible collaborations
• Initiate a collaboration work with Roy of the Physics department

Takeaways:

• Marini will continue the collaborative research work initiated in this visit
• Marini will jointly write RICE project a programme to establish cooperation between EU and non-EU countries

Contribution:

• Dr. Schütze had given six hours lecture on “Introduction to gas sensors and its dynamic operation, Fundamentals of multisensory signal evolution, multivariate data analysis using statistical methods” to the workshop DAIS’19 conducted Electrical Engineering Department during 15 - 21 Feb, 2019
• Meeting with the research students of the Electrical Engineering Department
• Meeting with Dr. Karabi Biswas, Dr. Pranab Kumar Dutta of Electrical Engineering to draft the future collaboration plan
• Visited labs of the Electrical Engineering Department and discuss the possible future collaboration.

Takeaways:

• Dr. Schütze will continue collaborating the activities developed with Saarland University on measurement and sensor technology
• Dr. Schütze will take a further step for processing the Memorandum of understanding between the two institutes

Contribution:

• Five-day lecture series from 12 - 16 Mar, 2019 on machine learning applications in agriculture was attended by many graduate and undergraduate students to gain proper knowledge in advanced statistical learning techniques
• Hands-on training on R
• Dr. Li gave a guest lecture in Digital Soil Mapping (AG60008) course focusing on different advanced interpolation methods
• Initiation of new research collaboration on colour sensor-based soil property modelling

Takeaways:

• Dr. Li’s visit strengthens the existing collaboration and initiated a new area of research focusing on colour sensor-based soil property modelling
• His visit will help in signing an MoU between IIT Kharagpur and Louisiana State University
• His lectures on advanced statistical learning methods helped the students of IIT Kharagpur to analyse their research data from different useful perspectives
• His novel ideas on digital soil mapping will help contemporary DSM research in India

Contribution:

• Delivered Lecture series on Complex System Science for Communication Networks
• Discussed in research areas within applications of Complex System Science with students and faculty who participated in the above course
• Started discussion with PhD student Debjani Goswami on the common research topic and joint guide of Suvra Sekhar Das and Nicola Marchetti

Takeaways:

• Progress in MoU between TCD and IIT Kharagpur
• Discussed Future Indian Funding proposal on common research
• Discussed future research visits in TCD and IIT Kharagpur
• Plan in place for future funding application
• Discussed participation in IEEE ICC 2020 in Dublin and joint paper submission

Contribution:

• Dr. Manuel Bastuck conducted computer exercises on “DEV3E Toolbox and also conducted computer exercises on “multivariate data analysis using statistical methods” to the workshop DAIS’19 conducted Electrical Engineering Department during 15 - 21 Feb, 2019
• During his stay till 2 Mar, he has given extensive training to the research scholar of Karabi Biswas so that they can use the DEV3E toolbox for their research work
• Meeting with the research students of the Electrical Engineering Department
• Visited Campus and different Labs and centre

Takeaways:

• Dr. Bastuck will continue collaborating the activities

Contribution:

• The team proposed a new formula capable of incorporating new topology features, such as several types of nodes and links and different null models (intra-layer and cross-layer)
• They also developed a synthetic network generator useful to test the modularity
• They also experimented their new metric on real-world datasets, such as Yelp and Meet up, and showed that they obtained consistent results

Takeaways:

• The work is currently awaiting acceptance at DSAA’2017

Contribution:

• Keynote speech at the International Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Learning discussed to conduct a cross-country study for scientific reasoning

Takeaways:

• MoU discussion between IIT Kharagpur and the National Taiwan Normal University
• An outreach programme to teach short 1 credit courses on Quantitative and Qualitative research with an NTNU professor teamed with a local IIT professor to be funded by GIAN/CEP

Contribution:

• Keynote speech at the International Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Learning discussed to develop a new and improved version of DEEP software in collaboration with the Centre for Educational Technology

Takeaways:

• MoU discussion between IIT KGP and the University of North Texas
• An outreach programme to teach short 1 credit courses on Instructional Systems Design and Assessment and Evaluation with a UNT professor teamed with a local IIT professor to be funded by GIAN/CEP

Contribution:

• Simulating the subdiffusion equation using MATLAB to examine the spatial and time effects of changing the fractal order within the subdiffusion equation. Applying the results to natural processes such as tumour growth and diffusion through porous materials.

Takeaways:

• Subdiffusion accelerates with fractal order as time increases beyond 0.5 seconds
• Chebychev polynomials produce far greater accuracy than many other spectral methods when approximating solutions
• The potential applications of being able to control the diffusion rate for substances offer an immense amount of potential applications to natural processes

Contribution:

• Developed a MATLAB code that would be able to read the given excel data of any of the 37 particular wells and would delineate when the rock formation would change and would be able to take the average of all the various Geomechanical properties such as specific gravity and density at each different formation. With the SURPAC programme we used the data that we collected from the 37 wellbores to predict what the Geomechanical properties would be in any location within the Formation the 37 wellbores are located within. The ANSYS computer programme is then used to create a 3D Model of the wells to conduct a structural simulation with various inputs such as horizontal force or vertical force.

Takeaways:

• Developed greater MATLAB Skills
• Learned how to operate the computer programme called SURPAC
• Learned how to operate the computer programme called ANSYS

Contribution:

• Developed a MATLAB code that would be able to read the given excel data of any of the 37 particular wells and would delineate when the rock formation would change and would be able to take the average of all the various Geomechanical properties such as specific gravity and density at each different formation. With the SURPAC programme, we used the data that we collected from the 37 wellbores to predict what the Geomechanical properties would be in any location within the Formation the 37 wellbores are located within. The ANSYS computer programme is then used to create a 3D Model of the wells to conduct a structural simulation with various inputs such as horizontal force or vertical force.

Takeaways:

• Developed greater MATLAB Skills
• Learned how to operate the computer programme called SURPAC
• Learned how to operate the computer programme called ANSYS