Research & Innovation at CITK
Advancing foundational inquiry, pioneering regional technological empowerment, and translating laboratory breakthroughs into socio-economic impact across North East India and beyond.
Extramural Grants
DST, DBT, MeitY, SERB & BTC
Indexed Publications
Nature, IEEE, Springer, Elsevier
Patents & Copyrights
German & Indian Patent Grants
Active Projects
Consultancy & Sponsored Labs
Global Research Laurels & Recognition
CITK faculty members contribute to high-impact international consortiums, global citation indexes, and cross-border patent protection.
World Top 2% Scientists
Recognized by Stanford University and Elsevier worldwide citation databases for career-long scholarly citations in material science and food nanotechnology.
German Federal Utility Patent
Granted by the Federal Republic of Germany (DPMA) for breakthrough functional nanomaterials and sustainable biopolymer formulations.
Scientific Reports Editorial Board
Faculty appointed to Editorial Board positions for Scientific Reports and Nature Portfolio publications, guiding global peer-review standards.
Interdisciplinary Research Centers
Cross-departmental thematic centers tackling national and regional challenges.
Food Processing & Agro-Tech (FET)
High-pressure extraction, indigenous fermented foods biotechnology, smart bio-nanocomposite packaging, and post-harvest technology for Northeast crops.
Drone Tech & Precision Robotics
Autonomous aerial surveillance for disaster telemetry, agrarian pesticide dispersion, flood basin contouring, and LiDAR geological scanning.
Cyber Security & SCADA Defense
MeitY-funded threat intelligence, blockchain provenance tracking, industrial IoT attack mitigation, and critical infrastructure cyber resilience.
Sustainable Energy & Water Systems
Decentralized rural microgrids, solar thermal conversion, water filtration with activated charcoal, and rainwater harvesting hydrology.
Bodo NLP & Linguistic Computation
Automated neural machine translation, speech-to-text models, and digital lexical corpus development for the indigenous Bodo language.
Advanced Functional Nanomaterials
Synthesis of 2D nanostructures, polymer nanocomposites for biomedical sensing, and semiconductor photodetector prototyping.
Ongoing Funded Projects
Research grants and corporate industrial consultancy undertaken by CITK investigators.
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CITK IPR & Technology Transfer Cell
Empowering faculty, research fellows, and student innovators to safeguard inventions and commercialize patent assets. The cell provides institutional seed grants, patent filing support with the Indian Patent Office (IPO) and international jurisdictions (DPMA / USPTO), and facilitates spin-off licensing.
Indian Patents
German/Intl Patents
Copyrights Filed
Tech Transfers
DST STI-Hub for Bodoland
Funded by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, this specialized hub bridges high-end laboratory science with grassroots rural livelihoods in Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa, and Udalguri districts.
Research & Development Team
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Srivastava
Dean, Research & Development
Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics
dean.rd@cit.ac.in
Dr. Santosh Kumar
Assistant Dean, Research & Development
Assistant Professor, Dept. of FET