Research and Development Cell
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Research and Development Cell
Objectives
The Research & Development (R & D) cell at Alard University Pune aim to create a dynamic and supportive platform that stimulates and guides for research excellence; promotes inventions, innovations, and discoveries; and encourage technology-driven entrepreneurship that can contribute to National and Social growth.
The objectives are:
- Cultivating and Promoting Research Excellence: Striving for excellence in research and cultivating it by providing resources, knowledge, infrastructure, and collaborative support to researchers, professors and students of the university, enabling them to pursue cutting-edge R & D work.
- Promoting Interdisciplinary / Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers, startups, and industry partners to tackle complex challenges and global issues.
- Creating Collaborative Opportunities: Fostering collaboration between researchers/professors and industry for forward innovation and wealth creation.
- Facilitating Technology Transfer: Facilitating the transfer of technology and know-how from R & D outcomes to industries and startups for commercialization and thereby social benefit.Â
- Fostering Innovation, invention and discovery culture: Encouraging a culture of innovation, invention, and discovery within the organization.
- Supporting Startup Ecosystem: Nourishing the growth and development of startups by guiding and providing access to research expertise, mentors, venture capitalist, seed funding, and available facilities
- Enhancing Industry Partnerships: Strengthening partnerships with Indian and Multinational industries to identify research needs, explore collaborative projects/product development, and facilitate technology transfer and commercialization.
- Promoting Intellectual Property Rights and Management: Developing strategies for intellectual property management, including patenting, copyrighting, licensing, and protection of research outcomes and startup innovations.
- Encouraging Entrepreneurship and traditional family businesses: Encouraging new age entrepreneurship as well as taking forward the traditional family businesses by students and faculty members of our university by providing incubation support, entrepreneurship training, and networking opportunities.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitoring the progress and impact of R & D activities at AUP, evaluating outcomes against predefined metrics, and taking necessary actions to achieve objectives.
- Award and honors to the best researchers of AUP: To identify and recommend the names of the faculty members and students for best researcher/professor/teacher award to AUP every year.
Area of activities of R & D Cell
R & D cell at Alard University Pune is responsible for the following activities:
- To stimulate/encourage R & D in various schools of the university
- To guide and help faculty members of the university in their R & D work, drafting and publishing research papers / sponsored project proposals
- To educate faculty members of the university for IPR
- To guide and help faculty members of the university in drafting and filing of patents and copyrights
- To identify thematic areas / important research topics as per the need of the society and nation
- To start and establish thematic research centers / laboratories in the university
- To guide and help in arranging thematic conferences at various schools of the university
- To arrange and conduct faculty development programs (FDPs) for educating faculty members of the university in current science and technologies
- To collaborate with National and International institutes / universities for R & D cooperation
- To conduct and overall management of the Ph. D. course in various subjects at the university
- To represent Alard University Pune for its in-house R & D work at National and International level
Members of the R & D Cell
R and D cell is headed and directed by Prof. Dr. Prakash R. Somani who is a well-known Scientist and Professor in the area of Applied Physics and Nanotechnology. He is enlisted among Top 2 % Scientist in the World in the area of Applied Physics as per Stanford University USA and Elsevier evaluation from 2020 to 2025.
Structure of the R & D Cell is as below:
| Sr. No. | Name of the Person | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prof. Dr. Prakash R. Somani | Director (R & D Cell) | p.somani@alarduniversity.edu.in |
| 2 | Shri. Abhijit S. Tapkire | Co-coordinator | a.tapkire@alarduniversity.edu.in |
| 3 | Dr. Shilpa Shinde | R & D Coordinator – School of Engineering and Technology, AUP | sv.shinde@alarduniversity.edu.in |
| 4 | Dr. Madhuri Shelar-Chondhe | R & D Coordinator – School of Pharmacy, AUP | M.Chondhe@alarduniversity.edu.in |
| 5 | Dr. Arun Kumar Sharma | R & D Coordinator – School of Business Management, AUP | arun.sharma@alarduniversity.edu.in |
| 6 | Dr. Disha Senjaliya | R & D Coordinator – Health and Biosciences | D.senjaliya@alarduniversity.edu.in |
| 7 | Dr. Akhilesh Pandey | R & D Coordinator – School of Law | Dean.law@alarduniversity.edu.in |
All the R & D Coordinators from different schools of the university directly report to and work under the guidance of the Director of the R & D Cell. Mr. Abhijit help in coordinating and conducting the day-to-day activities of the cell. Mr. Abhijit Tapkiare is also perusing Ph. D. in education sector.
Research and Development (R & D) policy:
- To achieve excellence by way of performing frontier R & D work in the areas identified by the cell
- To do relevant research considering the need of the Indian and Global Society
R & D Collaborations of AUP:
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Innovation Cell:
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Start-ups at AUP:
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Conferences/ workshops Conducted at AUP
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R & D achievements:
Following details and their links will be updated soon.
- Research papers published in International Research Journals
- Research papers published in National Research Journals
- Research papers presented in International Conferences
- Research papers presented in National Conferences
- Patents Filed / Granted
- Books chapters contributed
- Books authored / edited
- Award / Honors / Distinctions gained by our faculty members
Ph. D. Course at Alard University Pune:
Following details and their links will be updated soon.
- List of Ph. D. students admitted for 2024-25
- List of Ph. D. students admitted for 2025-26
- List of recognized Ph. D. guides of the AUP
For any specific query, please get in contact with Shri. Abhijit. If the query is not resolved, then only get in contact with the Director of the R & D cell.
PROGRAMS OFFERED
| Ph. D. Programs | |
|---|---|
| Engineering | |
| 1 | Ph. D in Computer Science & Engineering |
| 2 | Ph. D in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning |
| 3 | Ph. D in Electronics & Communication Engineering |
| 4 | Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering |
| 5 | Ph. D in Civil Engineering |
| 6 | Ph. D in Electrical Engineering |
| Management | |
| 7 | Ph. D in Computer Application / Computer Science |
| 8 | Ph. D in Business Management / Business Administration |
| Pharmacy | |
| 9 | Ph. D in Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics) |
| 10 | Ph. D in Pharmacy (Chemistry) |
| Health & Biosciences | |
| 11 | Ph. D in Hospital Administration |
| 12 | Ph. D in Public Health |
| 13 | Ph. D in Microbiology |
| Law | |
| 14 | Ph. D in Law |
Note : –
- Minimum duration prescribed by UGC is 3 Years*
- The annual fee for Full-Time PhD: ₹1,00,000.
- The annual fee for Part-Time PhD: ₹1,20,000.
Announcements:
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