IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2023-24 (Semester-II): Dates, Application Form, Results

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2023-24 (Semester-II) – IIT Gandhinagar invites applications for PhD admission offered in various disciplines for the academic session 2023-24 (Semester-II).

Check full information on IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2023-24 (Semester-II) like eligibility, dates, selection process below here.

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Programs

• Biological Sciences and Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Earth Sciences
• Cognitive Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics
• Materials Engineering
• Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Philosophy
  • Literature
  • Linguistics
  • Archaeology
  • Political Science
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Sociology
  • Development Studies
  • Economics

Admission Categories

Regular(RR): Fulltime residential research candidate.

Continuing Doctoral Programme (CDP): This if for the candidates working in industry or as a faculty in any educational institution. In this category the candidate is given advance admission with 90 days of residency requirement in 1st year and on successful completion of 1st year, the admission is confirmed with the expected minimum 2 years of full time residential requirement on campus for completing course work and a major part of thesis work. After 2-years, the candidate may be permitted to go back to parent organization subject to significant progress in thesis work. Subsequently, the candidate is expected to complete at least 2 weeks of residency at the Institute for each semester all through the PhD programme. A certificate in support of the candidature must support the application. Click here for more details about the programme.

Focus Areas 2023-24 Sem-II

Biological Sciences and Engineering

Epigenetics, DNA Regulatory Mechanisms, Quadruplex Nucleic Acids in Disease Regulation, Neuroscience, Learning, Memory, Neural Control of Movement, Movement Disorders, Rehabilitation, Biomedical engineering and Instrumentation, Ultrasound Imaging, diagnostics, hydrogels, stem cells, tissue engineering, Chemical Biology, Biomolecular Crystallography, 3D-Bioprinting, Computational structural biology, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Networks, Plant biology (development, reproduction, cell-cell signaling, biotechnology), Drug delivery technologies, Implants, Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, DNA Nanotechnology, Stem cells differentiation and tissue engineering, Evolution of stress response and genome regulation.

Chemical Engineering

Chemical Reaction Engineering, Heterogeneous catalysis, Catalyst synthesis, Multiphase reactions and functional materials (CO2 capture, adsorbents), Surface Engineering and Superhydrophobic surfaces, Pharmaceutical Engineering and Drug Delivery, Wastewater treatment, Drinking water, Particulate matter and aerosols, Nanotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Polymer Processing, Polymer Gels, Polymer Blends, Shape memory polymers, Smart Polymeric Materials, Polymer Ionic Liquids, Process Engineering, Control, and Optimization, Cyber-Physical Systems for Industrial Manufacturing and Buildings, Machine Learning and Data Science, , Colloids and Interfaces, Rheology, Powder Technology, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Molecular simulations, Protein aggregation and protein folding, Biomolecular Simulations, Supercapacitors and other energy storage devices, Polymer nanocomposites, Biomaterials, Bio-printing, 3D printing, Crystallization of pharmaceuticals, nano-drug suspensions, microbubbles for biomedical applications such as drug delivery and ultrasonic imaging, polymorphic behavior of pharmaceuticals, liquid marbles, molecular dynamic simulations for aqueous solutions of drug molecules, Flow and transport in porous media, Hydrodynamic instability, Wetting behavior, Biological motors, Ion exchange resins, Building Energy Management, Indoor air quality, atmospheric transport and transformation of pollutants, Synthetic biology, protein engineering, stimuli-responsive hydrogels, Hybrid nanomaterials, and biomolecules for agricultural applications.

Chemistry

Machine learning potentials in material simulations; Photocatalysis with gold nanoparticles, sunlight to hydrogen production, Single-particle spectroscopy, plasmonics; Molecular simulations of graphene membrane; Post-translational modifications influencing disordered protein aggregation; Electrochemical Reduction of CO2; Development of novel organocatalysts, Application of organocatalysis to the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive molecules; Cancer therapeutics; Drug Discovery, Synthesis of Fluorescent dyes and polymers; adsorptive materials, biomass-inorganic nanocomposites, rare earth element harvesting, Small molecule activation with Main group metal complexes.

Civil Engineering

Dynamic behavior; Liquefaction; Suction and collapse of unsaturated soils; Constitutive modeling; Earthquake Engineering; Geosynthetics; Machine learning architectures for Hydrological Sciences; Resilience of Urban water distribution systems; Land surface hydrologic modeling, remote sensing applications in hydrology, Climate change impacts on water resources; Dam breach and levee breach hydraulics, Integrated urban water management, Blockage/leak detection in pipes; Fire engineering, Sustainable building materials, Performance-based earthquake engineering, Tall structures, Probabilistic seismic hazard and ground motion characterisation, Seismic isolation of nuclear structures, Structural health assessment and monitoring, High-performance concrete, 3D concrete printing, Resilience of infrastructure, Computational solid mechanics, topology optimization, multiscale material modeling, Blast engineering; Environmental Engineering; Aerosol and Air Qaulity; Indoor Air Quality; Pollution Mitigation, Climate Change Risk Assessment on Water Infrastructure, Modeling of floods and droughts, Transportation Engineering, Mechanistic modeling of flexible and rigid pavements, pavement-environment interaction, urban sustainability, AI/ML applications in pavement engineering.

Cognitive Science

Learning, Memory, Motor Control, Movement Disorders, Rehabilitation, Visuo-motor control and processing, Emotion, Attentional selection and control, Visual Cognition, Embodied Cognition, Multlingual Cognition, Robotics, Human Robot Interaction, Decision Making, Neural Correlates of Music & Meditation, Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease using Machine learning, Brain Connectivity, Tactile Perception, Bilingual Processing, Mental Lexicon, Multisensory Perception, Curiosity.

Computer Science & Engineering

Graph algorithms, Algebraic circuit complexity, algorithms and complexity, Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing, Computer Graphics, Deep Learning, Large Language Models, Regression Testing, Fuzzing, Automated Program Repair, Software Reverse Engineering, Green Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering. Human-Computer Interaction, Brain-Computer Interface, Eye Tracking, Motor Control and Rehabilitation, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Internet of Things, User Experience and Usability, Formal methods and verification, and Web security.

Earth Sciences

Climate Change, Solid Earth Geophysics, Geothermal Energy, Geodynamic Modelling, Mineralogy and Mineral Physics, Statistical Seismology, River Science, Earth Surface Processes, Carbonate Depositional Systems, Natural Hazards and risk, Water Resources, Remote sensing & GIS, Numerical modeling of landscapes, High Pressure Metamorphism, Environmental Archaeology, Geoarchaeology. Archaeology, Ceramic Petrology, Ancient Technology, mircopalaeontology and palaeoclimate.

Electrical Engineering

• Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnology, Advanced Semiconductor Devices, Emerging Memories, High Frequency Analog Circuit Design, Multi-scale modeling
• VLSI Design, AI Hardware, Computer Architecture
• Biomedical Engineering, Human Computer Interaction
• Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing, Computer Graphics, Deep Learning
• Signal Processing, Soft Computing
• Control Systems, Estimation Theory
• Power Systems and Smart Grid
• Electrical Machines and Power Electronics
• Smart power electronics for Renewable Energy Integration and Electric Vehicles
• Photonic Sensors, Fibre-optics, Nanophotonics, Electromagnetic Metamaterials, Computational Electromagnetics

Humanities & Social Sciences

Cognitive Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy, Global Modernist Studies, Modern Indian History, Northeast Indian History and History of Bengal in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Wild Life Conservation in India and Northeast India, Human-animal Relations, Indian Writing in English, Representation of Women in Indian-English along with Bengali Literature, Indian Diasporic Literature in English, Modern Indian History especially of the North Eastern region and of Bengal.

Mechanical Engineering

• Solid Mechanics, Material Mechanics, Biomechanics, Fracture mechanics
• Control systems, Robotics
• Fluid Mechanics and Heat transfer
• Compressible flows-scramjet engines
• Combustion and Propulsion
• Decaying turbulence
• Nonlinear dynamics and wave propagation

Materials Engineering

• Porous Ceramics, Non-wetting surfaces, Surface Patterning, Tribology
• Antibacterial polymers
• Computational materials/artificial intelligence applications
• Biomaterials, Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials, Metal organic Frameworks, Materials Design
• Material Development and Defect Characterization
• Modeling and simulations of structure-property relations at atomic scales
• Mechanical property characterization of Multiphase materials

Mathematics

Partial Differential Equations, Probability & Stochastic Processes, Matrix Analysis, Spectral Graph Theory.

Physics

High Energy Theory, AdS/CFT and Quantum Information, Effective Field theory and Gravitational Wave Physics; Gravitational Wave astronomy space and terrestrial broadband detectors; High Energy Particle Physics: B-physics, Dark Matter, beyond Standard Model phenomenology; Particle Physics Theory: Beyond the Standard Model Physics, Higgs Physics, Phenomenology, Dark Matter/Astroparticle Physics; Experimental soft condensed matter physics, microfluidics; Active Matter Physics (Experimental); Experimental condensed matter physics, 2D materials, Heterostructures, Electronic devices; Nanotechnology, Renewable energy harvesting & storage (Experimental); Nanomagnetism, Spintronics.

Financial Support

Students who will be joining as regulars (RR) Ph.D. program will be considered for Institute Fellowship based on the following norms:

• Candidates with qualifications in any of the points (a-f) mentioned below are eligible for a monthly fellowship of Rs. 31,000/-
  • a). Post Graduate Degree in Basic Science with NET/GATE Qualification or Graduate Degree in Professional Courses (B.Tech/B.E.) with NET/GATE Qualification or Postgraduate Degree in Professional Courses (M.Tech/M.E. etc)
  • b). BTech degree from a CFTI (Centrally Funded Technical Institute) with CPI at least 8.0 (on a scale of 10).
  • c). MSc/MA from IITs with CPI at least 8.0 (on a scale of 10)
  • d). BS from IISc with CPI at least 6.4 (on a scale of 8)
  • e). BS-MS from IISERs with CPI at least 8.0 (on a scale of 10)
  • f). BS from IISERs with CPI at least 8.0 (on a scale of 10)
• After successful completion of two years in a regular PhD programme, a PhD candidate may be eligible for a monthly fellowship of Rs. 35,000/-.

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2023-24 (Semester-II) Eligibility Criteria

At least 55% marks or 5.5 CPI marks in M.A./ M.Sc./ B.Tech./ M.Tech./ BS (IISc, IISER)/ BS-MS (IISER) or equivalent degree in appropriate branches.

Above mentioned eligibility criteria is minimum at Institute level.

The disciplines may use higher cut off levels for short listing besides giving due consideration to the way questions are answered in the application form.

Candidates belonging to SC/ST/PD categories would be eligible for relaxations, as per norms, in the selection criteria.

For discipline wise minimum eligibility criteria –  click here

Admission Procedure

Admission is generally offered on the basis of an interview, which is supplemented by a written test if necessary.

The Institute will invite a limited number of candidates for a written test and/or interview based on the academic records, statement of purpose, etc.

The final selection will be mainly based on academic credentials, written test and/or interview.

In addition to the announced admission cycles with prescribed deadline of application, the Institute also considers applications any time of the year in case of exceptional candidates. Based on the qualifications of the candidates and the need of the discipline concerned, applications received are processed through duly constituted selection committees at regular intervals.

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2023-24 (Semester-II) Important Dates

The exact date/time for the written examinations and/or interview will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates by respective disciplines.

Application Process

• Applications have to be submitted online.
• If you are applying for more than one discipline you have to submit a separate application for each discipline.
• You will receive an application number and a link to download the application form after successful submission of the application form.
• You have to furnish hard copy of the application form and self attested copies of all the required documents at the time of interview.

Application Fees

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2023-24 (Semester-II) Results

Shortlisted Candidates

List of Candidates Provisionally Shortlisted for written test and/or Interview of PhD Regular and PhD CDP Programme AY: 2023-24 (Semester II). Click here to View result.

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