Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), situated at Thiruvananthapuram is a Deemed to be University under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956. IIST functions as an autonomous body under the Department of Space, Government of India. The idea of such an institute was mooted keeping in mind the need for high quality manpower for the Indian Space Research Organization, one of world’s leading scientific organizations engaged in space research and space applications. The institute is the first of its kind in the country, to offer high quality education at the undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels on areas with special focus to space sciences, space technology and space applications. IIST was formally inaugurated on 14 September 2007 by Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, the then Chairman, ISRO and was temporarily housed in the premises of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, very close from where ISRO built and launched its first rocket. Both the founding fathers of the institute, Dr G Madhavan Nair and Dr B.N. Suresh, the latter being the first Director of IIST, played a very important role in the formation of the institute, facilitating its establishment and contributing to its vision. Dr B.N. Suresh piloted the institute from the conception of the idea to its realization in a permanent campus near Thiruvananthapuram in 2010.
The institute had the enviable reputation among all educational institutions since it had Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the renowned technocrat and former President of India as its very first Chancellor. Prof U.R.Rao, the eminent space scientist and one of the former Chairman, ISRO guided the institute as its second Chancellor with distinction for two years from 2015 to 2017. Dr B.N. Suresh, the founder Director of IIST has assumed charge as the institute’s third Chancellor since November 2017.
# | Title | Researcher | Guide(s) |
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1 | Weak Stability Boundary Transfers to Moon and Mars | Pooja Dutt | Dr. Raju K. George |
2 | Discontinuous Finite Volume Methods for Optimal Control Problems | Ruchi Sandilya | Dr. Sarvesh Kumar |
3 | Geometric Structures on a Statistical Manifold and Geometry of Estimation | Harsha K V | Dr. Subrahamanian Moosath K S |
4 | Lower Dimensional Approximation of Thin Elastic and Piezoelectric shells | J Raja | Dr. N Sabu |
5 | Formulation of Multiple Kernel Learning Using Composite Architectures | Shiju S S | Dr. Sumitra S |
6 | Studies on Controllability of Dynamical Systems with Impulses and Time Delay Controls | Vijayakumar S Muni | Dr. Raju K George |
7 | Virtual Element Method for Time Dependent Problems on Polygonal Meshes | Dibyendu Adak | Dr. Natarajan E |
8 | A Qualitative Study of Controllability of a Certain Class of Fuzzy Systems and Nonlinear Matrix Lyapunov Systems | Bhaskar Dubey | Dr. Raju K George |
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