Sponsored Research

Research Projects

Funded research grants, industry projects, and government-sponsored initiatives led by iVAR Lab.

AI Integration and Upskilling for Kendriya Vidyalaya Teachers: Enhancing Pedagogical Practices through Professional Development

Funding Agency: Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) (Grant no: 11-ACTR0Ltr/32/2025-AC(TRG)/3261-65)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2026-2027

Development and Validation of an Immersive Virtual Reality System Integrating Motor Imagery and Action Observation to Enhance Motor Recovery in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: A Pragmatic Trial

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (Grant no: Dev/IG-03/2025)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2026-2029

Knowledge Research and Innovation for Transformative Impact (KRITI)

Funding Agency: IIT Kharagpur (Grant no: IIK)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2026-2027

SAKHI SHG Digital Assistant

Funding Agency: IIT Kharagpur (Grant no: SHD)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2026-2027

Empowering Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD Children through Virtual Reality

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST) (Grant no: SEED/TIDE/2023/954)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2025-2026

Accent conversion using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN)

Funding Agency: IIT Kharagpur AI4ICPS I HUB Foundation (Grant no: TRP3RD19876434)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Co-Principal Investigator)
Year / Duration: 2024-2026

AnatomiX: Immersive Learning of Human Anatomy through Extended Reality for Medical Students

Funding Agency: IIT Kharagpur AI4ICPS I HUB Foundation (Grant no: TRP2NDED001)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2024-2026

Digital Technology Integration in Teaching and Learning in Indian Higher Education

Funding Agency: National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) (Grant no: 31/2023-2024-PMU)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2024-2025

Augmented Reality Development and Its Application

Funding Agency: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Grant no: TCS/05122022)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2023

Augmented Reality Development and Its Application-2

Funding Agency: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Grant no: TCS/05122022)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2023

Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST) (Grant no: SR/FST/ET-II/2021/834)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Co-Principal Investigator)
Year / Duration: 2023-2028

Intelligent Game Design and Its Application

Funding Agency: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Grant no: TCS/05122022)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2023

Malaviya Mission Capacity Building Teaching Learning Programme On Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education

Funding Agency: University Grants Commission (Grant no: IIT/SRIC/TV/TLC-1/2023-2024/157)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2023-2026

Self- Paced MOOC on Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for foundation stage schoolteachers and students

Funding Agency: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (Grant no: C23-250)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2023

State of the Education Report for lndia 2022: Artificial lntelligence (Al) in Education

Funding Agency: UNESCO, New Delhi (Grant no: 4500460683)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2022

Support towards Design and development of 360 Virtual Reality (VR) Educator (Phase -II)

Funding Agency: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (Grant no: 22-ED1-262)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2021-2022

Support towards Design and development of MOOC/Blended Learning Self-Paced Course on Introduction to Augmented Reality

Funding Agency: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (Grant no: C22-017)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2021-2022

AI-based Spoken Language Learning System

Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) (Grant no: CRG/2020/000644)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Co-Principal Investigator)
Year / Duration: 2020-2023

Design and Development of 360 Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning System

Funding Agency: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (Grant no: C21-080)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2020-2021

Design and development of a learning platform for spherical and cylindrical coordinates

Funding Agency: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech) (Grant no: yuntech/scc/001)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2020-2021

Design and Development of a Learning Platform to Plot the Gradient of a Scalar Field and Divergence or Curl of a Vector Field

Funding Agency: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech) (Grant no: yuntech/scc/002)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2020-2021

Design and development of a low-cost immersive 360 VR learning platform

Funding Agency: The Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE), Nicosia, Cyprus. (Grant no: IIT/SRIC/ET/DCIV/2020-2021/017)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2020-2021

Developing the Course entitled “Computational Thinking.”

Funding Agency: Commonwealth of Learning, Canada (Grant no: C21-120)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2020-2021

Investigating the Differences in Scientific Epistemic Beliefs, Conceptions of Learning Science and Self-Efficacy of Learning Science between Taiwan and India: A Cross-Country Study

Funding Agency: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (Grant no: F. No. 4-51 (787) /2019-DER)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2020-2022

Investigating the influence of collaborative creation in a 3D environment on the development of pragmatic competence in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Funding Agency: Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant no: MOST 109-2511-H-003-026)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Co-Principal Investigator)
Year / Duration: 2020-2021

Analyzing the differences in conceptions and beliefs related to science learning between secondary students from India and Taiwan

Funding Agency: National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (Grant no: T10907000043)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Co-Principal Investigator)
Year / Duration: 2019-2020

Building the collaboration network for the development of science simulations: resource sharing and collaborative research

Funding Agency: Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant no: 107-2511-H-008 -003 -MY3)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Co-Principal Investigator)
Year / Duration: 2019-2021

Development of Framework and Guidelines for Quality E-content Development Phase I

Funding Agency: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (Grant no: 06-01-039)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2019

Development of Framework and Guidelines for Quality E-content Development Phase II

Funding Agency: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (Grant no: 20-ED1-262)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2019-2020

Research and Evaluation of Blended Learning at Uganda Management Institute

Funding Agency: Commonwealth of Learning, Canada (Grant no: C20-160)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2019-2020

Research and Evaluation of Blended Learning at Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Funding Agency: Commonwealth of Learning, Canada (Grant no: C19-160)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2019

The Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality (AR) Application for Middle School Students to Teach Three-Dimensional (3D) Geometry

Funding Agency: ISIRD, SRIC, IIT Kharagpur (Grant no: IIT/SRIC/ET/ATG/2019-20/016)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2019-2022

The Development and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Application to Teach Undergraduate Stereochemistry

Funding Agency: National Project Implementation Unit (Grant no: NPIU CRS 1-5728391481)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat (Co- Principal Investigator)
Year / Duration: 2019-2020

Understanding Mathematical Learning Process in Augmented Reality Environment using Eye-tracking method

Funding Agency: China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant no: 27800-212400201)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Year / Duration: 2017-2018