IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2024-25 (Semester-I): Dates, Application Form, Results

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2024-25 (Semester-I) – IIT Gandhinagar invites applications for PhD admission offered in various disciplines for the academic session 2024-25 (Semester-I).

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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.

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2024-25 (Semester-I)

IIT Gandhinagar invites applications from highly motivated students for admission to its PhD programme for the academic year 2024-25 (Semester I) in

• Biological Sciences and Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Cognitive and Brain Sciences
• Computer Science & Engineering, and
• Artificial Intelligence
• Earth Sciences, Earth Systems Science,
• and Archaeological Sciences
• Electrical Engineering
• Humanities & Social Sciences, and
• Society & Culture
• Materials Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics

Focus Areas 2024-25 (Semester-I)

Biological Sciences and Engineering:

1. Epigenomics and Genome regulation (Evolution of gene function, Stress response)
2. DNA Regulatory Mechanisms
3. Quadruplex Nucleic Acids in Disease Regulation, Chemical Biology
4. Neuroscience (Learning, Memory, Neural Control of Movement, Movement Disorders, Rehabilitation)
5. Ultrasound (Imaging, Diagnostics, and Ultrasound-mediated therapy)
6. Biomolecular Crystallography
7. Computational Biology, Systems Biology
8. Plant biology (Development, Reproduction, Cell-cell Signaling, Biotechnology)
9. Drug Delivery Technologies
10. Biomaterials (Hydrogels and Implants)
11. DNA Nanotechnology
12. Stem Cell Differentiation and Tissue Engineering
13. Neurodegenerative Diseases and Therapeutics
14. Cancer Biology and Therapeutics
15. Peptide Engineering

Chemical Engineering:

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

Chemistry:

1. Chemistry Machine learning potentials in material simulations
2. Photocatalysis with gold nanoparticles, sunlight to hydrogen production, Single-particle spectroscopy, plasmonics
3. Molecular simulations of graphene membrane
4. Post-translational modifications influencing disordered protein aggregation
5. Electrochemical Reduction of CO2
6. Molecular electrocatalysis for nitrogen to ammonia interconversion, Development of novel organocatalysts, Application of organocatalysis to the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive molecules
7. Chemical Biology, Cancer therapeutics
8. Drug Discovery, Synthesis of Fluorescent dyes and polymers, and theranostic imaging, adsorptive materials, biomass-inorganic nanocomposites, rare earth element and N harvesting, Small molecule activation with Main group metal complexes, dinitrogen fixation.

Civil Engineering:

1. Dynamic behavior
2. Liquefaction
3. Suction and collapse of unsaturated soils
4. Constitutive modeling
5. Earthquake Engineering
6. Geosynthetics
7. Machine learning architectures for Hydrological Sciences
8. Resilience of Urban water distribution systems
9. Land surface hydrologic modeling, remote sensing applications in hydrology, Climate change impacts on water resources
10. Dam breach and levee breach hydraulics, Integrated urban water management, Blockage/leak detection in pipes
11. Fire engineering, Sustainable building materials, Performance-based earthquake engineering, Tall structures, Probabilistic seismic hazard and ground motion characterization, 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
12. Environmental Engineering
13. Aerosol and Air Quality
14. Indoor Air Quality
15. 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:

1. Learning, Memory
2. Motor Control, Movement Disorders, Rehabilitation, Visuo-motor control and processing
3. Emotion, Attentional selection and control
4. Visual Cognition, Embodied Cognition, Multilingual Cognition
5. Robotics, Human Robot Interaction
6. Decision Making
7. Neural Correlates of Music & Meditation
8. Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease using Machine learning
9. Brain Connectivity
10. Tactile Perception
11. Bilingual Processing
12. Mental Lexicon
13. Multisensory Perception
14. Curiosity

Computer Science and Engineering:

1. Theoretical computer science, Computational complexity, Algebra and computation, Algorithms
2. Machine learning
3. Quantum machine learning, Natural language Processing, Large Language Modelling
4. Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Deep Learning Applications for Vision and Graphics
5. Brain-Computer Interface, Eye-tracking, Medical Imaging, Artificial Intelligence of Things, eHealth
6. Software Engineering using Generative AI, Empirical Software Engineering, Software Testing, Mining Software Repositories
7. System security, Web security, Usable privacy and security, Formal methods and verification

Earth Sciences:

1. Climate Change, Water Resources
2. Solid Earth, Mineralogy and Mineral Physics, High Pressure Metamorphism
3. Geothermal Energy, Carbonate Depositional Systems, Sea level change
4. Geophysics, Geodynamic Modelling, Statistical Seismology, Numerical modeling of landscapes
5. River Science, Earth Surface Processes, tectonic geomorphology
6. Natural Hazards and risk, Remote sensing & GIS
7. Environmental Archaeology, Geoarchaeology
8. Archaeology, Ceramic Petrology, Ancient Technology
9. Micropaleontology and Paleoclimate

Electrical Engineering:

1. Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnology, Advanced Semiconductor Devices, Emerging Memories, High-Frequency Analog Circuit Design, Multi-scale modeling, Analog IC Design, Semiconductor device and process modeling, Power Management IC Design
2. VLSI Design, Computing in Memory for ML, AI Hardware, Computer Architecture
3. Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC) Design, IoT electronic system design
4. Biomedical Engineering, Human Computer Interaction
5. Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing, Computer Graphics, Deep Learning
6. Signal Processing, Soft Computing
7. Control Systems, Estimation Theory
8. Power Systems and Smart Grid
9. Electrical Machines and Power Electronics
10. Smart power electronics for Renewable Energy Integration and Electric Vehicles
11. Photonic Sensors, Fiber-optics, Nanophotonics, Electromagnetic Metamaterials, Computational Electromagnetics
12. Next-generation ultrasound imaging and therapy

Humanities and Social Sciences:

1. Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology
2. Modern Indian History, History of Bengal and Northeast India in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries
3. Indian Writing in English, Representation of Women in Indian English along with Bengali literature, Indian Diasporic Literature in English
4. Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental Archaeology, Archaeometry, Archaeometallurgy, Museum Studies (including new museology), Indigenous Archaeology, Field Archaeology
5. Education, Educational Technology, Teacher Professional Development, Learning Sciences

Mechanical Engineering:

1. Thermofluids: Fluid Mechanics and Heat transfer, Compressible flows, Turbulence, Combustion and propulsion, Fuel cells, Complex Fluids, Porous media, Boiling, Condensation and frosting.
2. Robotics and Dynamics Systems: Control systems, Robotics, Nonlinear dynamics and wave propagation
3. Solid Mechanics: Material Mechanics, Biomechanics, Fracture mechanics, Beams, Composites.

Materials Engineering:

1. 2D Materials and heterostructures, Quantum materials, Spintronics, Desalination and Fuel cell membranes, Nanoscale Transport
2. Non-wetting, Tribology, Ceramics Processing, Corrosion
3. Alloy design, Phase Transformations, Vacuum Technologies
4. Antimicrobial polymers and surfaces
5. Thin Film Fabrication, Optoelectronic Characterization, Thermochromic coating, low emissivity coating
6. Mechanical properties of high entropy alloys at different temperature, cu-Ag sintering
7. High temperature alloys, Physical metallurgy, Deformation mechanism, Al-,Cu-,Fe-based alloys
8. AI and ML applications in Materials Science
9. Biomaterials, Environmental Application of Materials, Nanomaterials, nanomedicine

Mathematics:

1. Partial Differential Equations
2. Probability & Stochastic Processes
3. Matrix Analysis
4. Spectral Graph Theory

Physics:

1. Particle physics theory: Flavor physics, Dark Matter
2. Theoretical High Energy Physics: Hot and Dense QCD matter
3. High Energy Theory: Effective Field Theory and scattering amplitude and their application to gravitational wave, TQFT and AdS/CFT
4. Nanostructure synthesis and characterization for photonics device applications
5. Nanomagnetism and Spintronics
6. 2D Materials and heterostructures, Quantum materials, Desalination and Fuel cell membranes, Nanoscale Transport
7. Experimental Active Matter Physics
8. Soft Condensed Matter Physics, sedimentation and flow of colloidal suspensions; active matter dynamics

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2024-25 (Semester-I) Special-Drive

IIT Gandhinagar invites applications from highly motivated students from SC/ST/ OBC(NCL)/ PwD categories for admission to its PhD programme for the academic year 2024-25 (Semester I) in following disciplines –

• Biological Sciences and Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Cognitive and Brain Sciences
• Computer Science & Engineering, and
• Artificial Intelligence
• Earth Sciences, Earth Systems Science,
• and Archaeological Sciences
• Electrical Engineering
• Humanities & Social Sciences, and
• Society & Culture
• Materials Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics

Focus Areas 2024-25 (Semester-I) Special-Drive

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, Peptides and their applications, Molecular mechanism of Neurodegeneration, 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

Chemical Engineering

Chemical Reaction Engineering, Multiphase reactions and functional materials (CO2 capture, adsorbents), Surface Engineering and Superhydrophobic surfaces, Pharmaceutical Engineering and Drug Delivery, Waste water 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 drug molecules, 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 Control; Synthetic biology, protein engineering, stimuli-responsive hydrogels, Hybrid nanomaterials and biomolecules for agricultural applications, Safety Engineering, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Catalyst design and synthesis, Spectroscopy of nanomaterials, Aerosols, Air Quality, Air Pollution Control, Green Buildings, wearable sensors for smart electronics, Bio-sensing, Smart farming

Chemistry

• Organometallic Catalysis, C-H Activation, Photo-catalysis, Porphyrins for Anti-cancer Application
• Developing Small Molecules to Study DDR Kinases and Therapeutic Approaches to Eradicate H. pylori Infection
• Computational Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, and Free Energy Calculations of Nanoscale Systems and Biosystems. DNA Sensing Using Nanopores, Computational Drug Discovery of Ayurvedic Phytochemicals
• Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis of Bio-active Natural Products
• Computational Chemistry, Machine Learning Potentials, Small Molecule Organic Semiconductors for OLEDs and Solar Cells Applications
• Synthesis of Conjugated Organic Molecules and Their Bioconjugates for Cellular Imaging, Chemosensing, and Cancer Diagnostics
• Control and Monitoring of Photocatalytic Reactions with Nanoparticles, Single-Particle Optical Spectroscopy, Plasmonic Photocatalysis
• CO2 Conversion Technologies

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, Debris flow modelling, Blockage/leak detection in pipes; Fire engineering, Performance-based earthquake engineering, Tall structures, Structural health assessment and monitoring, High-performance concrete, 3D concrete printing, Resilience of infrastructure, Blast engineering; Environmental Engineering; Aerosol and Air Qaulity; Indoor Air Quality; Pollution Mitigation

Cognitive Science

Learning, Memory, Motor Control, Movement Disorders, Rehabilitation, Emotional Processing, Visual Attention, Visual 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, Educational Technologies, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, Teaching and learning of thinking skills.

Computer Science & Engineering

Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithms and Data Structures, Computational Complexity, Game Theory, Data Mining, Social Networks, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Computer Systems, High-Performance Computing, Natural Language Processing, Computational Sustainability, Internet of Things (IoT), Ubiquitous computing, Computational Algebra, Spectral Graph Theory, Large scale numerical linear algebra, Dynamic graph algorithms, Streaming algorithms, Formal methods and verification, and Web security, NLP for Indic languages, Computer Networks, Cloud and Network Security, Distributed Systems, Software Defined Networks (SDN), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Computational Neuroscience, AI hardware circuits and systems, Computer Architecture, Memory Subsystems.

Earth Sciences, Earth System Science, Archaeological 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.

Electrical Engineering

• Nanoelectronics, Semiconductor Devices, Nanotechnology, Computational Electronics
• VLSI Design, AI Hardware, Memories, Computer Architecture, Radiation hardened circuits
• Biomedical Engineering, Physiological Signal Processing, Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy
• Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
• Signal Processing, Soft Computing
• Power Systems and Smart Grid; Renewable energy optimization, Smart power electronics, Green energy storage, Transportation electrification, Net zero transition
• Fiber Optics, Photonic Sensors, Nanophotonics, Electromagnetic Metamaterials, Computational Electromagnetics
• Deep Learning, Internet of Things IoT, High Performance Computing
• Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Control Systems

Humanities & Social Sciences, Society & Culture

Development Economics. Language acquisition, Semantics, Syntax Indian Writing in English, Women’s writing, Indian Feminist Literature, Harappan Archaeology; Ancient Technology & Provenance Studies; Ancient Indian Art, Architecture, Epigraphy, Numismatics; Heritage Management and Conservation Environmental Archaeology, Archaeozoology and taphonomy, Experimental Archaeology, Sociolinguistics, writing and literacy, endangered languages, multimodality, Modern and Contemporary Indian History, Ethnic movements and Politics of Identity, Comparative Literature, Digital Cultures, Classics from Gujarat and Odisha, Urban Development, Development Studies, Sustainable Development, Social transformation, Systems of Power and Knowledge, Social structures

Mechanical Engineering

• Solid Mechanics, Material Mechanics, Biomechamics, Fracture mechanics
• Control systems, Robotics
• Fluid Mechanics and Heat transfer
• Combustion and Propulsion
• Nonlinear dynamics and wave propagation

Materials Engineering

• Ceramics processing, powders synthesis and processing, porous membranes, biomimicry, soft lithography, wetting, tribology
• Mechanistic and microstructural modeling of additive manufacturing
• CALPHAD simulation and alloy development
• Antibacterial surfaces and Biomimetic materials
• Computational materials/artificial intelligence applications
• Functional Biomaterials, Nanotoxciology, Environmental applications of nanomaterials, Metal organic frameworks
• Transmission Electron Microscopy based technique for materials characterisation
• Modeling and simulations of structure-property relations at atomic scales
• Optoelectronic materials, Thin Films, Thermochromic coatings, Transparent conductor

Mathematics

• Algebraic Geometry
• Partial Differential Equations
• Probability Theory and Stochastic Process
• Algebra
• Analytic Number Theory
• Matrix theory
• Linear Algebra

Physics

• Theoretical High Energy Physics-hot QCD and strong interaction physics
• High Energy Physics Phenomenology: flavor physics, dark matter
• Black Hole Physics, Gravitational Waves, Modified Gravity Theories
• Effective Field theory approach in Gravitational Wave Physics, Conformal Field & Quantum Information in Holography
• Renewal Energy, Nanotechnology, Surfaces and Interfaces
• Experimental soft condensed matter physics: Microfluidics, Soft and active matter physics

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. 37,000/-
  • 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. 42,000/-.

IIT Gandhinagar PhD Admission 2024-25 (Semester-I) 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.

The mode (offline/online) and dates for the written test (if any) and interview will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates by their respective departments.

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 2024-25 (Semester-I) Important Dates

Regular Ph.D. Admission Drive (Semester-I, AY 2024-25)

Special Ph.D. Admission Drive (Semester-I, AY 2024-25)

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 2024-25 (Semester-I) Results

Shortlisted Candidates

List of Candidates Provisionally Shortlisted for written test and/or Interview of PhD Regular and PhD Special Drive Programme AY: 2024-25 (Semester I)

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