The research strength of the department is mainly focused on five broad research themes supported by the senior academic staff. The areas of postgraduate level research that is currently taking place are given in the following table
- Climate Change
- Climate modeling
- Extreme weather events
- Molecular Dynamics
- Modeling natural systems
- Image processing
- Machine vision
- Autonomous robot navigation
- Spin glasses and disordered systems
- Atomistic modeling and simulations (Generalized-ensemble Monte Carlo, Molecular dynamics, Spin dynamics)
- Adiabatic quantum computation
- Physics-inspired solvers for discrete optimization
- Application of technology
- Reconfigurable Computing
- Embedded Systems
- Passive LIDAR
- Optical Instrumentation
- Flexible Electronics
- Lightning Generated Electric Fields
- Acoustics (Thunder Signatures)
- Lightning protection
- Dynamic stability
- FISH Imaging
- Multispectral Imaging
- Optical Spectroscopy
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Passive LIDAR