Funding 

AS Principal Investigator (PI):  ’Engineering multi-functionality at oxide interface by first-principles calculations and machine learning, Funded by: National Supercomputing Mission R&D HPC applications, DST, Government of India, Stationed amount: Rs. 31,62,800/ for the period of April 2021 - March 2024. (ongoing)

As Principal Investigator (PI): 'Rational design of emergent functional heterostructures of 2D materials and magnetic thin films for spintronic device applications by interfacial control", Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) funded by Government of India. Foreign PI, Prof. Biplab Sanyal, Uppsala University, Sweden,  July 2023 - June 2025, Scantion amount Rs, 38,00,000/ (ongoing)  

As Principal Investigator (PI): ’First-principles Design of Functional Materials by Multimode Coupling’, Core Research Grand by DST-SERB Government of India, CGR/2018/001728 (PAC Physical Sciences), Sanctioned Amount Rs. 36, 59, 832/ for the period May 2019 - April 2022. (completed)

As Principal Investigator (PI): DST Inspire-Fellowship to Ph.D. student Mr Monirul Shaikh for 5 years. (completed) 

As Co-PI in a Quantum Computing project from SRM: 'The Investigation of Anticancer Drugs for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) by QM, QM/MM, and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Guided Virtual Screening', Quantum Computing Cohort-2 Project Sponsored by MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab (QCAL) has been approved (~32000$), PI: Dr Prakash Muthuramalingam (Dept. of Chemistry) and CoPI: Dr. Saurabh Ghosh (Dept. of Physics), April 2023- March 2025 (ongoing)

As Co-PI with PI from experimental expertise: ’Understanding Dzyaloshinksii-Moriya Interaction in Ferromagnetic Thin Film Heterostructures: Experiment and Theory’, Core Research Grand by DST-SERB Government of India, CGR/2018/004175 (PAC Physical Sciences) as a co-PI with Dr. Jaivardhan Sinha (PI), Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM, IST, as PI. Sanctioned Amount Rs. 53, 33, 795/ for the period May 2019 - April 2022. (completed) 

as Co-PI with PI from ORNL USA on Machine Learning (User proposal):  A comprehensive study of functional mode coupling in real materials guided by neural networks and first-principles computations, August 2021 - May 2022, Foreign PI, Dr. Ayana Ghosh, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. (completed)