From a small beginning in 2002 with 2 faculty members and 8 students the department has progressed considerably over the years. It now has 9 full-time faculty members and several associated faculty and experts from the other departments of IIT and also from other research and medical institutes.
It has now around 50 research scholars (seventy percent of them are funded from research funds) and 30 post graduate students working in 9 well equipped laboratories. The research output in terms of sponsored projects and publications in international journals have increased almost exponentially and are now comparable to any good department in the country.
Given the opportunity to unleash our potential and utilized the best of the facilities available, the following projects are carried out: