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Research Objectives


The research policy aims to fulfill the following objectives.

  • • To promote quality research within the institute and in collaboration with the experts of other organizations.
  • • To establish more research centers with specific research objectives.
  • • To correlate the theory courses with research.
  • • To promote quality, ethics in research and patent filing.
  • • To extend the usage of facilities at nominal cost and support the nearby institution student, faculty researchers.

R&D Committee

The committee will carry out review of every department one time in every semester and give guidelines for corrective action and improvement in research activities. The summary of research activities is discussed with the department wise HoDs. Further, this is brought to the notice of all the HODs department wise. The prepared minutes is sent to the management

R&D committee evaluate the following principal components.

  • • Papers publications in indexed journals, conferences
  • • Sponsored project proposal written, submitted and continuing, completed
  • • Collaborative project proposals, going on
  • • Patents filed, granted
  • • Consultancy project proposals, going on

Research Policy

Vignan’s Lara Institute of Technology & Science faculty members inculcate education to the students with a research a touch in various courses as per the requirements. So, the prepared research policy has multiple components described below for enriching scientific advances among students and faculty members.

  • 1.Proem
  • 2.Awareness
  • 3.Objectives
  • 4.Research promotion
  • 5.Administrative procedures for sponsored projects
  • 6.Patents
  • 7.Incentives for academic merit
  • 8.Incentives for publications
  • 9.Incentives for project
  • 10.Research ethics
  • 11.Review of research policy
    • 1.Proem

    The institute has the vision to evolve into a center of excellence in Science & Technology through one of the vital missions, i.e., strive for excellence in teaching-learning. Since the inception of this institution, faculty members have followed quality enhanced teaching practices through research in the respective areas.

    2.Awareness

    The institute encourages seminars, workshops, FDP’s in the thrust areas of research for exploring the student and faculty fraternity of different disciplines, viz. Languages, Physical, Chemical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering. Moreover, the institute conducts research awareness sessions department-wise to know the government funding agencies and thrust research areas.

    3.Objectives

    The research policy aims to ful fill the following objectives.

    • • To promote quality research within the institute and in collaboration with the experts of other organizations.
    • • To establish more research centres with specific research objectives
    • • To correlate the theory courses with research
    • • To promote quality, ethics in research and patent filing
    • • To extend the usage of facilities at nominal cost and support the nearby institution student, faculty researchers
    4.Research promotion

    Research has to carry out scientific activities, either experimental or analytical, in a peaceful environment. The institution has a policy of allocating minimum teaching/ laboratory workload to the faculty members to conduct the research qualitatively. The initiate measures followed for promoting the research are as follows.

    • • At the end of the seventh semester of the B.Tech program, a small number of students form as a batch to do the quality main-project. Then the respective guide faculty will then encourage and support the publication of research results as a conference or journal paper.

    • • In the intra and interdepartmental meetings, the senior and doctoral faculty discuss the scientific advancements in research.

    • • The research committee advises and discusses the identification of thrust areas of research to get funded projects.
    • • Research committee members also extend the support for the application of innovations as a patent.
    5.Administrative procedures for sponsored projects

    • • The interested faculty members write a proposal in their research area as per the funding agency's specific formats.
    • • Later, the departmental committee members review the principal investigator, co-investigators research background, and publications matching the written proposal.
    • • More precisely, the objectives, outcomes, and necessary equipment/software practical possibility in the execution of the project, along with the cost, is checked.
    • • Subsequently, the principal investigator submits the project proposal through the proper channel to the corresponding funding agency.
    • • After sanctioning the project, PI advertises for necessary staffing as per the terms and conditions of the funding agency.
    • • PI also takes a separate bank account with office personnel's support and maintains various registers for equipment, consumables, staff attendance, and other misllaneous activities.
    • • PI has to present the progress of the project to the committee members for review and suggestions.
    • • Before the end of the financial year, PI has to prepare UC and SE's draft for the committee members' verification and approval. After that, the PI sends the approved, audited documents to the funding agency.
    • • PI requests the institute for any miscellaneous expenses which the funding agency does not sanction.

    6.Patents
    • • The institution encourages innovations from the students, faculty members. An applicant(s)/inventor(s) has to write the draft of the invention as per the format of the respective country.
    • • Then the departmental, institutional level committee review and accept as it is or gives suggestions based on the necessity.
    • • After incorporating the suggestions in the application, the applicant(s) has to submit it to the concerned patent authorities.
    • • The institute provides financial assistance for filing the patent to the principal applicant.
    • • After the patent grant, the institute gives an incentive to the principal inventor.
    • • If the patent is commercialized, then the generated revenue is shared by the institution and principal inventor.
    7.Incentives for academic merit

    The research committee strongly advises and requests that the faculty members teach the theory courses rigorously in-depth. It will generate ideas for doing research in the specific area taught. So, as a part of encouragement, the institute provides an incentive of Rs. 5,000 to the faculty members who got the result of 100 % in the theory course.

    8.Incentives for publications
    • • The institute highly encourages the students, faculty to do qualitative research and publish papers in indexed journals, viz. Scopus/SCI/ESCI/SCIE.
    • • Further, beginner researchers are requested to publish an article in a UGC-care-approved journal.
    • • Further collaborative research of the faculty members with the outside organizations, scientific industries is highly encouraged.
    • • When any publications come from the institute/government-funded project, the faculty members are requested to give the proper acknowledgment.
    • • The research committee segregates the published articles in the calendar, academic year, and provides an incentive on the occasion of Engineers Day, i.e., September 15th of every year.

    Table Incentive for journal publication

    Journal indexing Amount (Rs.)
    SCI 10,000
    Scopus/ESCI/UGC-care 5,000
    9.Incentives for project

    The institute gives an incentive to the Principal Investigator of the externally funded project based on sanctioned amount till the completion of the project.

    • • Project worth ≥ 35 lakhs, incentive Rs. 10,000 per month
    • • Project worth < 35 lakhs, incentive Rs. 5,000 per month
    10.Research ethics
    • • To ensure academic and research quality, the institute highly discourages the fabrication of the data, plagiarism due to any reason.
    • • When doing the research, the researcher has to be a responsible citizen of India and follows consciousness to the environment for its sustainability.
    • • Researchers also have to follow the laws of the government from time to time.
    • • The research committee checks the plagiarism of the article using turn-it-on software before submission to the journal. If the similarity index is more than 20 %, the faculty has to modify the paper accordingly.
    • • The software also checks the thesis plagiarism as per the requirements of the Ph.D. enrolled faculty members before the final submission.
    11.Review of research policy

    The research committee reviews the institute policy on research, patent, incentives, plagiarism once in three years and approves the necessary modifications. However, any dynamic changes based on the necessity will be done from time to time.

    Govt. Funded Research Projects

    S.No Name of the Principal Investigator/ Co-investigator Name of the Project Year of Award Fund provided (INR) Status
    1. Dr N. Seshagiri Rao Workshop on Data Science Research 2017 4,00,000 Completed

    Consultancy Projects - Revenue Generated

    Year No. of Projects Amount
    2023 2 5,50,000
    2022 2 5,00,000
    2021 1 1,60,000
    2018 1 3,50,000
    2017 1 4,00,000
    2016 1 2,50,000

    Journal Publications

    Year No. of Publications (SCI/ ESCI/ Scopus/ UGC Approved)
    2025 04
    2024 16
    2023 05
    2022 41
    2021 15
    2020 33
    2019 22
    2018 11
    2017 10
    2016 14

    Books/ Book Chapters/ Conference Publications

    Year No. of Publications (National/ International)
    2024 1
    2021 1
    2020 2
    2018 1
    2017 1
    2016 1

    Collaborative Activities

    Title of the Collaborative Activity Name of the Collaborating Agency with Contact Details Name of the Participant Nature of the Activity (Research Publication/ Industrial Training/ Faculty Development Training
    Leveraging Flask API and Machine Learning to Forecast Multiple Diseases KLU Dr. K Venkateswara Rao Research Publication
    A Novel Fusion Framework Combining Graph Embedding Class Based Convolutional Recurrent Attention Network with Brown Bear Optimization Algorithm for EEG Based Parkinson’s Disease Recognition MLR Institute of Technology Dr. Baranitharan Kannan Research Publication
    Optimising ZnO:Al/ZnO/ZnMgO/CZTS Solar cells with ZnMgO Alloys for Efficient Photovoltaic Conversion: A Machine Learning Approach KLEF Dr. G.Rajesh Chandra Research Publication
    Distributed Ledger Based Educational Degree Authentication and Integrity System Vasi Reddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Namburu Ms. M Asha Priyadarshini Research Publication
    Interpolative Model on Hueristic Projection Transform for Image Compression in Cloud Services ANU Ms. R. Pushpalatha Research Publication
    AI-Driven WSN for Precise Aquatic Pollution Detection Using an Intelligent Monitoring Approach KLEF Dr. G.Rajesh Chandra Research Publication
    A Comprehensive Review of AI Techniques in Serious Games:Decision Making and Machine Learning KITS Mr. B. Murali Krishna Research Publication
    Enhancing Multi label Classification using Adaptive Promptify concepts VFSTR Dr. Usha Rani Uppukonda Research Publication
    Smart farming for agriculture management using IOT VFSTR Dr. K Venkateswara Rao Research Publication
    Leveraging CNN and LSTM for Identifying Citrus Leaf Disorders Vasi Reddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Namburu Dr. K Venkateswara Rao Research Publication
    Leveraging deep belief networks and multi-class support vector machine for nutritional deficiency identification in grape plant leaves Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science (A) Madanapalle Dr. K Venkateswara Rao Research Publication
    A Comprehensive Analysis of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches towards IoT Security Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram Dr. K Venkateswara Rao Research Publication
    Employability Prediction using Facebook Prophet for Computer Science and Engineering Graduates CMR Technical Campus Telangana Ms. Shaik Salma Research Publication
    A Swarm Intelligence-Based Model for Disease Detection in Mango Crops Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science (A)Madanapalle Dr. K Venkateswara Rao Research Publication
    A Study on Defensive Issues and Challenges in Internet of Things QIS Institute of Technology, Ongole Dr. K Venkateswara Rao Research Publication

    Awards / Recognitions Received for Research

    S.No. Type of Award/ Recognition Name of the Awardee Awarding Agency Year
    1. Best Poster at Research Conclave-2025 Ms. Asha Priyadarshini.M JNTU, Kakinada 2025
    2. Reviewer, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management Ms. Asha Priyadarshini.M Springer Nature 2024
    3. Supervisor Mr. Amit Ghosh Tech Forum Research Foundation 2024
    4. Resource Person Dr K. Venkateswara Rao Narayana Engineering college (NECG) 2021
    5. Resource Person Dr K. Venkateswara Rao Trinity College of Engineering & Research, Pune 2020

    Patents Filed/ Published/ Granted

    S.No. Name of the Patent Name of the Inventors Patent Application Number Patent Country Status(Filed/ Published/ Granted)
    1. A System for combining archived data with Live audio and video data using Machine Learning techniques and method Dr. K. Venkateswara Rao 202341069368 India Published
    2. Identifying missing Persons using Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence Dr. K. Venkateswara Rao 202441096657 India Published
    3. Calibrating PIPELINE: An essential way to deal with Multiclass Message order Dr. Usha Rani Uppukonda 202441096726 India Published
    4. A Novel IoT Based Approach to Dynamic Network Resource Allocation and Management Mrs. R. Pushpa Latha 1216595 Canada Published
    5. A Comprehensive Review of Machine Learning Algorithms for Medical Image Mining Mr. T V Vamsi Krishna 202441098960 India Published
    6. A Data mining approach to Monitoring Online Terrorism Dissemination Ms. M. Asha Priyadarshini 202441096643 India Published
    7. Wearable Cardiac ECG Signal Recording Device Dr. K.L.V.G.K. Muthy 425230-001 India Published
    8. A Novel Method of Classification of an Ultrasound Images for Gall Bladder Disease using Multi-SVM Classifier Ms. P.Padmini Rani 202441013205 India Published
    9. Enhanced Lightweight Secure architecture for WSN using Cryptography and ANT Colony Optimization Dr. A. Senthil Kumar 202441096658 India Published
    10. SVM based Automatic Epileptic Seizure Detection using EEG Signals Mrs. J.Vidya 202441098073 India Published
    11. A System and Method for Real time Image classification using Deep Learning Algorithms Mr. Amit Ghosh 202441054952 India Published
    12. A Visionary approach to Anemia Detection: Integrating eye condition data and Machine Learning Ms. M. Asha Priyadarshini 202441096645 India Published
    13. Advanced IOT Solutions System for Efficient Network Resource Distribution and Optimization Mr. K. Pradeep India Published
    14. On-Screen activity tracking using Federated Learning Ms. P. Padmini Rani 202441096660 India Published
    15. Advanced Artificial Intelligence techniques for Data Analytics Dr. G. Rajesh Chandra 202441098958 India Published
    16. Respiratory Infection discovery utilizing Lung Sound with CNN Mrs. Sk. Nageena Jani 202441096656 India Published
    17. Facial Emotion Recognition based Feedback System Mr. M. Naga Raju 202441096721 India Published
    18. Improving Multi name text grouping utilizing Versatile promptly Ideas Dr. Usha Rani Uppukonda 202441096255 India Published
    19. Intelligent Scene Reconstruction using Deep Neural Networks for Virtual Reality Applications Mr. Amit Ghosh 1233840 Canada Published