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Funded by Horizon Europe, TWINWEST aims to develop a universal, open-source, and cybersecure Digital Twin to provide investors in onshore wind farms with valuable insights into both current performance and future investment potential.

• Duration: September 2024 - September 2027
• Total value: ~ €5.3 million
• Lead PI: RSTER, Belgium
• Co-PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)

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Funded by the British Council, SMART-COAT will focus on the development and evaluation of photocatalytic paint formulations for VOC and PM2.5 degradation, especially under urban environmental conditions in Thailand.

• Duration: January 2026 - December 2027
• Total value: £80k
• Lead PI: Professor Kittichai Chaiseeda from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi
• Co-PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)

Funded by the UKRI (EPSRC), RECLAIM is a Micro Network Plus grant. The network It aims to explore how indoor plants can improve our health and environment. Researchers aim to conduct collaborative, multidisciplinary studies to expand knowledge on the broader health benefits of indoor greening, create practical guidelines and actionable solutions to enhance the design of both working and living spaces, and promote the wider use of green infrastructure. 

• Duration: October 2025 – September 2027
• Total value: £600k
• Lead PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Co-PI: Professor Laurence Jones (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford), Professor Nicola Carslaw (University of York), Professor Katherine Denby (University of York), Dr Zaheer Nasar (Cranfield University), Prof Sukumar Natarajan (University of Bath)

Funded by the UKRI (EPSRC), AI4URBAN-HEALTH is a Micro Network Plus grant. The network It aims to explore using AI to understand the best use of green infrastructures in urban environments. 

• Duration: September 2025 – September 2027
• Total value: £600k
• Lead PI: Professor Chris Pain (Imperial College London)
• Co-PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)

Funded by the UGPN Research Collaboration Fund 2024, GREENICON brings together experts from civil & environmental engineering, computer science, architecture and urbanism, social science, and health science to explore how outdoor greening interventions influence indoor environments. Through experimental monitoring, advanced machine learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to quantify the outdoor–indoor continuum, assess benefits for indoor environmental quality (IEQ), thermal comfort, and health, and deliver scalable, data-driven strategies for resilient and equitable communities. 

Duration: September 2025- September 2026

Total value: $30k 

Lead PIs: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý),  (NC State University), and  (University of Sao Paulo)

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From drug delivery to the lungs to the transmission of disease, climate change to combustion science, new routes to materials to consumer and agricultural products, an understanding of aerosol science is crucial.

• Duration: 2024 - 2032
• Total value: £14.5M
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar
• Lead PI: Professor Jonathan Reid (University of Bristol)

Led by the �ۿ۴�ý’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) in partnership with the Universities of Bath, Sheffield, UWE Bristol, and Imperial College London, GP4Streets (DIY Greening Prescription for Climate Adaptation in Urban Streets) is an innovative research project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change initiative. Backed by £2M in funding over 30 months, the project aims to transform urban climate adaptation strategies through close collaboration with the King's Climate Adaptation Hub, the Met Office, and several .

• Duration: January 2025 - August 2027
• Total value: £2M
• Project Lead: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).
• Co-PI: Dr Tom Roberts (�ۿ۴�ý), Dr Thomas Kjeldsen (University of Bath), Dr Jannis Wenk (University of Bath), Dr Tom Wild (University of Sheffield), Dr Dannielle Sinnett (UWE Bristol), Dr Issy Bray (UWE Bristol), and Professor Christopher Pain (Imperial College London)

Funded by UGPN Research Collaboration Fund 2024, UGPN-NBS unites experts to develop nature-based urban solutions for climate-affected cities. Using advanced monitoring and modelling, citizen science, low-cost sensing, and AI technology, we will evaluate NBS benefits, offer tailored solutions, build partnerships, bridge research-practice gap, and secure future funding through joint research proposals.

• Duration: August 2024 - August 2025
• Total value: $30k
• Lead PI: Professor Prashant Kumar
• Co-PI: Professor Maria de Fatima Andrade (University of Sao Paulo), Dr Rajan Parajuli (North Carolina State University).

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Over €4.4 million awarded under the Horizon 2020 to HEALTHY SAILING project that aims to contribute to improve quality of passenger shipping services brought to society, facilitating recovery from COVID-19 pandemic, making the passenger shipping sector, safer, more resilient, competitive and efficient by producing evidence for infection control, validated prevention, mitigation, management measures and training to be used for policy making and ship operations, whose implementation will reduce public health incidents on-board large passenger ships.

• Duration: September 2022 - August 2025
• Total value: ~ €4.4 million
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar
• Lead PI: Professor Christos Hadjichristodoulou (University of Thessaly).

Funded by the UKRI (EPSRC, NERC, AHRC), RECLAIM is a Network Plus grant. It aims to create a multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral network to maximise the social, ecological, urban, and economic positive impacts of nature-based solutions (NBS) and green-blue-grey-infrastructure (GBGI), including mitigation of hydro-meteorological hazards, enhancing ecosystem services and how NBS can contribute to ambitious net-zero targets.

• Duration: February 2022 – August 2025
• Total value: £1.2M
• Lead PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Co-PI: Professor Laurence Jones (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
• Co-I's: Dr Thomas Kjeldsen (University of Bath), Dr Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez (University of Warwick), Dr Shelagh Malham (Bangor University).

Funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), GreenCities project aims to address the following question: “Are the cooling benefits provided by urban parks reduced by high humidity in the humid tropics and does this vary with time of day and season?” The project is a new multi-disciplinary international partnership designed to bring together leading scientists from the UK and Brazil.

• Duration: October 2022 - September 2024
• Total value: £125,000
• Lead PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Co-I: Professor Laurence Jones (UKCEH)
• Brazilian Co-PI: Professor Maria de Fatima Andrade.

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Funded by the EPSRC and Department for Education, the  project aims to establish a school-based sensor network which is representative of the nation’s (approximately 23,000) state-funded schools and through the network record measurements of carbon dioxide to evaluate classroom ventilation levels in the context of the pandemic. SAMHE will provide a wide-spread sensor network in schools and complimentary analysis toolkits to enable: enhanced understanding of air quality in schools to deliver a legacy that seeks to evidence national policies that result in improved health and education through changes in air-quality, and better engagement with school children in all aspects of air quality science that might lead to a step-change in future national awareness.

• Duration: September 2022 – August 2024
• Total value: £1.5M
• Co-I and �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Lead PI: Dr Henry Burridge (Imperial College London)
• Co-I's: Professor Paul Linden (University of Cambridge), Dr Sarah West (University of York), Dr Dale Weston (UKHSA).

Funded by the Ove Arup Foundation, eHeat-cool is an e-learning platform where primary and secondary schools can register to raise climate change literacy and awareness in school children through a playful manner. ‘eHeat-Cool Initiative’ combines quizzes that focus on climate change drivers and their impacts with the use of thermal imaging device, in order to teach complex scientific phenomena with relatively easier and engaging way to make the students aware of environmental problems.  

• Duration: July 2022 – July 2024
• Total value: £25,000
• Lead PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

Funded by the EPSRC under the Covid-19 call, CO-TRACE aims to quantify the risk of airborne Covid-19 transmission in schools and evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation measures, by developing techniques to assess the absolute risk of infection in a given indoor space, using field studies in primary and secondary schools, complemented by laboratory experiments and CFD to elucidate the flow patterns responsible for airborne transport.

• Duration: February 2021 – July 2024
• Total value: £988,056
• Co-I and �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Lead PI: Professor Paul Linden (University of Cambridge)
• Co-I's: Professor Chris Pain (Imperial College London), Dr Henry Burridge (Imperial College London).

Funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (Research England), this project aims to transform the HedgeDATE (Hedge Design for Abatement of Traffic Emissions) prototype into a high-quality, accessible and interactive tool, optimised for mobile, tablet, and other formats. The focus of this project is to optimise HedgeDATE for public engagement on air quality and how plants and greenspaces can be managed to reduce pollution exposure. This development milestone will support succeeding progress towards a commercial tool for green infrastructure professionals.

• Duration: December 2021 – July 2024 
• Total value: £40,000
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

Funded by Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning cities from vulnerable spaces to healthy places for people (RECLAIM) under the “Urban Greenspace and People Call”, CoGreen project aims to aim is to construct an aesthetically pleasing nature-based green infrastructure along the road-facing perimeter of the school, together with educational messages to try to instigate behavioural change in the passers-by, and to investigate how it impacts air pollution, noise levels and air temperature in the playground and classrooms, and how the intervention affects biodiversity and anecdotal wellbeing in and around the school

• Duration: January 2023 – March 2024
• Total value: £40,000
• PI: Dr Abhijith Kooloth Valappil (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Co-PI: Kate Collins (Head Teacher, Sandfield Primary School, Guildford)
• CoI & RECLAIM Network Plus Mentor: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)

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Funded by Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning cities from vulnerable spaces to healthy places for people (RECLAIM) under the “Urban Greenspace and People Call”. It aims to build evidence for the direct benefits of green-blue-grey infrastructure (GBGI) for heatwaves and co-benefits for drought and flood risks, noise pollution and associated human health impairments. The project builds on the existing Guildford Living Lab network of heat sensors located at the key strategic locations (pond, park, green woodland and built environment) to evaluate the multi-benefits of GBGI for heat stress reduction, drought and flood risk reduction, and traffic-noise reduction, through environmental parameters monitoring and numerical modelling (WRF, HEC-RAS and the noise modelling).

• Duration: January 2023 – March 2024
• Total value: £40,000
• Lead PI: Dr Sisay Debele (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Co-PI: Jeetendra Sahani (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Co-I's: Mrs Soheilla Khalili (�ۿ۴�ý); Dr David Fletcher (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology); Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý); and Professor Laurence Jones (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology).

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Funded by the Research and Innovation (R&I) under the Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF), CArE-Kitchens project will consolidate the efforts of the GCARE team over the years through the CArE-Cities and CArE-Homes projects that included 12 ODA partners. As a product of such global scientific efforts, a booklet was produced; ‘Mitigating Exposure to Cooking Emissions in Kitchens of Low Middle-Income Homes’: a guide for home occupants, owners, builders and local councils, that provides practical suggestions for frontline users and decision-makers. The guidance will be translated into 19 languages aiming to influence the behaviour and relevant policies in the context of in-kitchen exposure to air pollution fumes during cooking, on a global scale.

• Duration: October 2022 – July 2023
• Total value: £20,000
• Lead PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

Funded by the Institute of Sustainability’s Seed Corn Research Grant, the project extends the work of Guildford Living Lab by finding the optimum solution for ventilation-pollution nexus for improving classroom air quality whilst reducing the energy consumption.

• Duration: May 2022 – July 2022
• Total value: £3,000
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (GCARE, �ۿ۴�ý).

Funded by the EPSRC/�ۿ۴�ý, KTP-IAQ is a project with the 12 official development assistance (ODA) countries. It aims to build a knowledge exchange platform across ODA countries in the area of improving indoor air quality, exploiting knowledge and implementing findings in order to ensure positive impact on the health and wellbeing of the people.

• Duration: September 2021 – March 2022
• Total value: £20,000
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý) with co-investigator partners from 12 ODA countries.

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Funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (Research England), the RealAir project aims to create evidence via local pilot case studies through the principles of ‘working locally to impact globally’. GCARE is collaborating with the ZERO Carbon Guildford to design, set up and operationalise a real-time air quality monitoring system to monitor particulate matter in different size fractions using affordable sensing technology.

• Duration: December 2021 – March 2022
• Total value: £22,500
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

Funded by the RSA under the Climate Change and Risk Education grants, the Heat-Cool project aims to develop children’s awareness by educating them of the adverse impact of local heat sources, climate change and urban heat island impacts on their environment and subsequently health, and the importance of control measures such as GI to cool down their environments.

• Duration: 1 September 2021 to 31 March 2022
• Total value: £10,000
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

EPSRC Funded project with Imperial College London and University of Edinburgh.

• Duration: April 2019 - March 2022
• Total value: £2,793,915
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

Over €12 million awarded under the Horizon 2020 to OPERANDUM project that aims to reduce hydro-meteorological risks in European territories through co-designed, co-developed, deployed, tested and demonstrated innovative green and blue/grey/hybrid nature-based solutions and push business exploitation.

• Duration: 2018 - 2022
• Total value: €646,000
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

is funded by the EPSRC/NPL

• Duration: 2018 - 2022
• PIs: Professor Prashant Kumar, Dr Nick Martin (NPL).

Funded by the EPSRC under the Covid-19 call, COVAIR wish to develop diagnostic tools and predictive sensing to detect SARS-CoV2 in crowded urban environments in order to address whether the airborne amounts are high enough to cause a respiratory infection and whether pollution particles can carry live virus that is directly inhaled into the lungs. We will determine whether SARS-CoV2 can be detected as an active virus in the air of hospitals with Covid-19 patients, and if so, use a similar technique to measure the virus in crowded spaces such as in underground train platforms, central station concourse, shopping malls and busy roadside.

• Duration: January 2021 – December 2021
• Total value: £582,000
• Co-I and �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Lead PI: Professor Fan Chung (Imperial College London, ICL)
• Co-I's: Professor Chris Pain (ICL), Professor Alex Porter (ICL), Professor Ian Adcock (ICL), Dr Pankaj K Bhavsar (ICL)
• Project manager: Claire Dilliway (ICL).

Funded by the GSST Charity, our GCARE team is working with Global Action Plan and the engineering company, Arup, to improve the air quality for children and teachers at five London schools in the Lambeth area. The project will build an understanding of the unique factors affecting air pollution in and around the Lambeth schools and will design and implement tailored solutions to meet those challenges.

• Duration: October 2020 - October 2021
• Total value: £103,000
• PIs: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý), Global Action Plan, Arup.

Funded through Coll21 with an industrial partner, this project assessed the technical feasibility of integrating an air pollution sensor in the available space within the autonomous electric vehicle charging product. The GCARE team selected a suitable sensor, proposed the preliminary design sketch and sensor support, and integrated it into the available concept with the help of the MOLE design team after considering all the constraints.

• Duration: June to July 2021
• Total value: £17,000
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

Funded by the UGPN Research Collaboration Fund (2020, the aims of this project include developing a new framework for street-scale greening that is generic, inclusive of pollution-cooling trade-offs, evidence-based, and practicable.

• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Co-PI: Professor Pascal Perez (UOW)
• Co-I's: Professor Lidia Morawska (�ۿ۴�ý), Professor Clare Murphy (Paton-Walsh) (UOW), Dr Hugh Forehead (UOW), Professor Kris French (UOW).

Funded by Research England under the GCRF.

• Duration: February 2021 - July 2021
• Total value: £139,000
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar, �ۿ۴�ý.

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 awarded through the �ۿ۴�ý's University Research Scholarship (URS) scheme.

• Duration: 2018 - 2021
• Student: Yendle Barwise
• Supervisor: Professor Prashant Kumar.

, with industrial collaborator: BRIZI Ltd

• Duration: 2017 - 2021
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

UK-India NERC funded project with:

• IIT Delhi (Professor Mukesh Khare)
• NPL India (Dr Chhemendra Sharma)
• University of Birmingham (Professor William Bloss, Professor Roy Harrison, Dr Zongbo Shi)
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar
• Duration: 2016 - 2020.

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Funded by Research England under the GCRF.

• Duration: 2019 - 2020
• Total value: £135,000
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar, �ۿ۴�ý.

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Funded by UK Research and Innovation under the Innovate UK to develop and test the prototype affordable kit for sensing real-time air quality exposure using low-cost sensors, mobile based app and cloud application.

• Duration: January 2020 - December 2020
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý), Robert Alfonsi (AAP).

GlobalHOM is currently developing a disruptive innovation aiming to provide affordable, environmentally sustainable, flexible, modular housing with a built-in ‘Smart Home’ technological platform and associated hardware at the core of their design. It is worth noting that the approach GlobalHOM has taken to conceptualise and develop their offering is based on an end-user-centric approach, more akin to consumer product design than a construction industry approach whereby innovations typically focus on cost/time saving benefits for the construction industry stakeholders rather than the end-user.

• Duration: February 2019 - January 2020
• Funded by UK Research and Innovation under the Innovate UK
• At �ۿ۴�ý: £98,966
• �ۿ۴�ý Co-PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

is funded by the FAPESP/�ۿ۴�ý.

• Duration: 2018 - 2020
• PI's: Professor Prashant Kumar, Pedro Jose Perez-Martinez, Professor Maria de Fátima Andrade, Professor Regina Maura de Miranda.

Nearly €6 million awarded under the Horizon 2020 to iSCAPE project that aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

• Duration: 2016 - 2019
• Value at �ۿ۴�ý: €649,000
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

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The HedgeDATE project is funded by the �ۿ۴�ý’s Urban Living Award.

• Duration: January 2019 - July 2019
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý.

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Funded by under the Innovate UK

• Duration: 2018 -2019
• PI's: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý), Robert Alfonsi (AAP).

The aim of the GREENMASS is to establish a cross-disciplinary university-wide alliance to understand linkages between ‘green infrastructure’ and ‘health mapping’ in urban areas.

• Funded by the �ۿ۴�ý’s Urban Living Award
• Project PI: Professor Prashant Kumar
• Co-PI: Prof Simon de Lusignan
• Co-I's: Prof Angela Druckman, Prof Derk-Jan Dijk, Dr Birgitta Gatersleben, Dr Anne C Skeldon, Dr Sarah Allison
• ECRs: Arvind Tiwari, KV Abhijith, Ashish Sharma, Dr Sarkawat Hama, Dr Uy Hoang.

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This project seeks to investigate the causal mechanisms underlying disparity and social injustice in job accessibility and air quality in metropolitan areas, and the potential of transit-oriented development to promote social justice.

• Duration: 2016 - 2019
• UK PI: Dr Alex Hagen-Zanker; UK
• Co-I: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

• EPSRC funded
• Duration: 2017 - 2019
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Dr Devendra Saroj.

• Duration: 2017 - 2019
• FAPESP SPRINT funded
• Project PIs: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý) and Professor Maria de Fatima Andrade (Sao Paulo).

The project aims to develop emission models for fugitive particulate matter for the Middle East region.

• Duration: 2015 - 2018
• UK PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Project PI: Dr Konstantinos E. Kakosimos (Texas A&M University, Qatar).

The aims of this project are to develop a nesting methodology for integration of local urban scale pollution data into global/regional scale models.

• Duration: 2016 - 2017
• UK PI (coordinator): Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý)
• Project PI's: Professor Clare Murphy (University of Wollongong), Professor Yang Zhang (NCSU) and Professor Maria de Fatima Andrade (Sao Paulo).

• ESRC funded
• Duration: 2016 - 2017
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Dr Devendra Saroj.

Through HEFCE under the Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF).

• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar
• Collaborators: Dr Ahmed El-Gendy and Rana Alaa Abbas (GCARE PhD researcher).

Through Commonwealth Academic Fellowship to host Professor (and Head of Department) Suresh Jain from TERI University (India) at �ۿ۴�ý.

• Duration: 2016 - 2017
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

• Duration: 2015 - 2017
• UGPN Funded with NCSU
• �ۿ۴�ý Co-I: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

Development and demonstration based on selected UK and US cities.

• Duration: 2014 - 2016
• UGPN Funded with NCSU
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

A demonstration study for the megacity, São Paulo.

• Duration: 2014 - 2016
• UGPN funded with University of Sao Paulo
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

• Duration: 2013 – 2016
• Commonwealth Commission funded
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

• Duration: 2015 - 2016
• UGPN Funded with NCSU (USA) and Sao Paulo University (Brazil)
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

• Duration: 2012 - 2015
• Kuwait Government and KISR PhD fellowship
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

10 Santander staff and mobility awards: Two with Tufts University; one with MIT, USA; three with Peking University; one with Tsinghua University; three with University of Sao Paulo.

• Duration: 2012 – 2015
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý.

• Duration: 2010 - 2014
• EPSRC DTA Grant
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

• Duration: 2011 - 2014
• UK-China EPSRC Grant: EP/I010912/1
• �ۿ۴�ý PI: Professor Prashant Kumar.

UKIERI project from British Council with IIT Delhi, India.

• Duration: 2011 - 2013
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

British Council, India; with IIT Roorkee and Delhi, India; Indian partner lead bid.

• Duration 2012 - 2013
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).

• Duration: 2010 - 2011
• EPSRC EP/HO26290/1
• PI: Professor Prashant Kumar (�ۿ۴�ý).