The VEMA Virtual Experiential Museum on Ajanta was the project of Prof. Sumant Rao. Digital technologies like VR,AR, touchscreen displays, 3D scanning, photogrammetry, multiproject audiovisuals, holography, smart devices, and HMDs offer phenomenal tools, creating the possibility of experiencing any heritage monument offsite. VEMA explores this potential with the Ajanta Caves. Using a tablet, in the Virtual Tourist Zone, one can fly like a bird around a 3D site and explore the caves. In the Art zone, you can learn about Ajanta art by watching the digitally restored Simhala Avadana on the large video wall, iconic images and material culture on the touch-interactive small video walls, and paintings come to life in the AR painting gallery. In the Architecture zone, head-mounted displays transport you to the caves and a holographic display showcases stupas, shrines, pillars etc. The explore zone has large kiosks with which you can explore the site, the caves, and the narrative paintings of Ajanta to a greater depth. The Climate Change Project was another important project of Prof. Sumant Rao. An interactive presentation on global warming for children, with a focus on the Indian context. An interactive presentation on climate change, where the presenter tells of his journey around India to understand the perplexing changes happening there. He is joined by a snow leopard cub from the Himalayas, a coastal village girl from Orissa, an orphan boy from Andhra Pradesh, a sea horse from Lakshadweep and a dog from Mumbai, and they figure out the reasons behind the melting glaciers, rising sea level, roughts, flooding, bleaching of corals and rise of certain diseases—increasing green house gases that each of them experienced. During the telling of the story, the presenter interacts with both his animated friends in the story as well as the young audience, creating a unique and interesting learning experience.

Interactive Data Visualization and Analysis of Election Results was the project of Prof. Venkatesh Rajamanickam. Starting from 2016 to 2019, the project explored the presentation and analysis of election results through a series of interactive data visualizations. The objective was not only to explain phenomena through visual representation of information, but also to discover new insights and new meanings through visual exploration of information. Affordances of the medium, devices of delivery, data iteracy of audiences, use of regional languages, etc., were taken up for inquiry. Some of the visualisations were widely disseminated through popular publications and written up as academic papers.