Maritime Experiments to Maritime Experience (ME2ME) is a collaborative initiative at the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, synergizing the strengths of three IoE centers of excellence: CMAS (Centre for Marine Autonomous Systems), CFLOR (Center for Large Scale Ocean Research), and SMATE (Centre for SMART Maritime Technology). This project aims to translate knowledge gained from maritime experiments into real-world applications, addressing major challenges in the Blue Economy sector. With a focus on autonomy, digitalization, and ocean analytics, the centre will develop advanced maritime infrastructure, including autonomous vessels, smart port-side infrastructure, and large-scale testing facilities. Through international collaboration and cutting-edge research, ME2ME seeks to elevate IIT Madras' global ranking and establish itself as a leader in Ocean Engineering.

Overcoming the challenges of growing demand, mixed-signal ICs for computing, SERDES, and wireless communication have made rapid progress with every generation. We present our work and future directions on ADCs, in-memory computing, SERDES, and RF circuit components.

The Center's objective is to carry out cutting-edge research (both theoretical and experimental) in secure quantum communication, quantum sensing and metrology, quantum information and computing. More specifically, the primary areas of focus are quantum entanglement, quantum error correction, quantum machine learning, quantum sensing and metrology, quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution (based on various protocols) and metro area quantum access network.

Critical transitions, where the system switches abruptly between different states, are observed in many complex systems including climate systems, turbulent thermo-fluid systems, power grids, infectious disease systems and financial markets. They often have undesirable or even catastrophic consequences such as extreme weather, failure of space missions, blackouts, collapse of ecosystems and financial market crash. In the proposed center, we focus on studying critical transitions and extreme events in flow and energy systems in nature and engineering. We will study transitions in thermo-fluid machinery and extreme events occurring in climate systems.

Molecular materials, where the fundamental building blocks are molecules, rather than atoms. We are working on two exciting new and important families of molecular materials, namely, (i) atomically precise metallic clusters and (ii) gas hydrate cages. Important strides have been made in studying atomically precise metal clusters containing tens to hundreds of atoms. Huge clusters are expected to have very different properties (eg. fluorescence, catalysis, etc), compared to molecules and bulk materials. With respect to gas hydrates, molecular cages containing CO2, CH4, etc are being studied by our group. Such studies are important in both fundamental and applications

While significant recent progress has been achieved in the field of observational physical oceanography, laboratory studies, and numerical ocean & atmospheric modelling, it is now recognized that a synergistic, multidisciplinary approach is essential for deeper understanding and improved prediction of climate impacts. In this centre, we propose to combine: (i) Novel fine-scale field measurements, (ii) Fine-scale experimental studies of upper ocean physical processes in the lab, in conjunction with numerical/theoretical modelling, and (iii) large-scale coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling, to improve our understanding of air-sea-land interactions in the north Indian Ocean region, especially the under-observed and poorly-understood coastal regions.

This center carries out electronic structure calculations in the many-body framework to (i) explore and investigate quantum phases of matter and (ii) to build structure-property relationship. Our research is aimed towards materials design for fundamental studies and applications.

The construction industry’s contribution to economic and social growth for India is well known. However, this industry generates significant waste, creating sustainability challenges; additionally, there is a significant waste of resources and time in construction projects. The TLC2 project aims to develop innovative low-carbon, lean construction technologies for minimizing waste throughout the construction value-chain and lead solution implementation across organizational and policy levels.

An overview of the activities of the the center which focuses on the investigation of fundamental and applied research in the area of soft and biological matter will be presented. In particular, ongoing work on pattern formation, soft robotics and mechanics of biological systems along with our initiatives on developing efficient drug delivery systems, low cost diagnostic tools will be discussed. In addition, applications of soft matter principles in areas pertaining to agriculture and food will be highlighted.