Important Guidelines for Ph.D. Application

1. The link to the online application form is available in the Apply Online tab. After filling out the form, please take a print and keep it for your record.
2. The application fee is as follows:
   • GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL Male candidates : Rs.400/-
   • GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL Female candidates : Rs.200/-
   • SC/ST and PwD candidates : Rs.200/-

   The application fee is non-refundable. Please ensure to save the payment reference number.

3. A candidate can apply to more than one department; however, the maximum number of departments to which he/she can apply will be three.
4. Candidates called for the written test/interview must produce a copy of the application submitted online along with originals and photocopies of the relevant certificates.
5. Reservation/concession/relaxations for EWS/OBC-NCL/SC/ST/PwD and Kashmiri- Migrants (KM), including Kashmiri Pandits/Kashmiri Hindu Families: As per the Government of India rules. A copy of a valid OBC-NCL/ST/SC/EWS/PwD certificate must be uploaded during the ONLINE application and must be submitted at the time of admission.
6. A Statement of Purpose (SoP) must be uploaded along with the online application. The guidelines for preparing the SoP are available at this Link.
7. At the time of physical reporting to the Institute, candidates must submit self-attested copies of the relevant certificates as specified in the Documents tab, failing which admission will stand cancelled.
8. Please make all files ready with following format and size before going to file upload:
   • Passport size Photo (jpg, jpeg, png), size <=500 KB
   • Signature (format jpg, jpeg, png) size <= 200 KB
   • 10th Certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB)
   • 12th / Diploma / Equivalent Certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Qualifying UG Degree Certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Consolidated UG mark sheet (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Qualifying PG Degree Certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Consolidated PG mark sheet (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Community Certificate if applicable (pdf) size <= 1024 KB
   • PwD Certificate if applicable (pdf) size <= 1024 KB
   • Applicable National Level Exams/GATE (pdf, jpg, jpeg) each size <= 1024 KB
   • SoP/Research Proposal, (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • First page of publication, if applicable (pdf, jpg, jpeg) each size <= 1024 KB

   Additional documents for external category candidates

   • Proof of Employment such as Identity Card/latest salary statement (pdf) size <= 1024 KB
   • No-Objection Certificate or Undertaking as given, format available at this link, (pdf) size <=1024 KB
9. Please visit the institute’s website regularly for important announcements and results.
10. In case of any queries, please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 0877-2503531 (9.00 AM to 5.30 PM on all working days).

Ph.D admissions are made under two categories:

1. Regular (Full-time scholars): The research scholars selected under regular registration will be eligible for assistantship through various schemes (please see Financial Assistance)
2. External:
   • The applicants must be regular employees and have at least two years of work experience.
   • They must be sponsored by and employed in an industry/organization/national laboratories, having R&D facilities and recognized by DST or by IIT Tirupati.
   • Research scholars admitted under this category will normally carry out part or all of their research in the parent organization under supervision of a faculty from IIT Tirupati and a co-supervisor employed in their parent organization.
   • The following documents are required along with the application
     • Proof of employment (Identity Card or latest salary statement)
     • No-Objection Certificate or Undertaking (format available at this link)
   • The following documents are required at the time of admission
     • Certificate of Support from the Employer: Link
     • Relieving Certificate from the Employer: Link
   • More details on this category of admission, including any questions regarding the recognition of the organization/laboratory might be addressed to the Head of the department of interest or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research Areas

Applicants are required to select the research areas in the online admission portal as per the availability in the respective category/scheme. The available research areas for August 2023 admission notification are tabulated below. For interdisciplinary research, applicants are encouraged to browse research areas offered by various departments. Interested candidates with degree in Electrical / Electronics and Communications / Computer Science and Engineering are encouraged to apply for Robotics and Mechatronics listed under Mechanical Engineering.
SoP is mandatory for all departments except Mathematics & Statistics and Humanities & Social Sciences. Click here to download

Department	Division	Areas of Research
Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	Process Control and Optimization, Machine Learning for Nanomaterials, Computer Vision for Food and Colloids, Molecular simulations for energy storage, Materials for electrochemical energy storage (batteries/capacitors), Catalytic conversion of CO2 to fuel , Optimization framework for sustainable biofuel/biohydrogen production, Sustainable supply chain optimization, Environment Friendly Refrigerants, Biomass to Chemicals, Microfluidics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Granular Flow, General Chemical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Structures and Materials	Structures and Materials
	Geotechnical Engineering	Geotechnical Engineering
	Transportation Engineering	Transportation Engineering
	Water Resources Engineering	Water Resources Engineering
	Environmental Engineering	Environmental Engineering
	Geodesy and Remote Sensing	Geodesy and Remote Sensing
Computer Science & Engineering	Computer Science & Engineering	Architecture and Processor Design, AI Accelerator/Hardware, VLSI Testing and Verification, Reinforcement Learning, AI for Software Engineering, Software Engineering for AI, Computing for Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel Computing, Graph Analytics, Algorithms and Data Structures, Algorithms and Computational Complexity, High Performance Computing, Data Science Algorithms and Applications, Computer Networks, Internet of Things, Machine Learning for IoTs, AI for Cybersecuirty
Electrical Engineering	Power and Control	Control and Robotics , Power Electronics , Power Systems and Smartgrid
	Signal Processing & Communications	Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Medical Imaging, Machine learning for wireless communication , Communication and networks
	Electronics	Semiconductor Devices, Digital VLSI Design and Processor Architecture
	RF & Microwave	Applied Electromagnetics, RF Sensors, and Metamaterials.
Mechanical Engineering	Solid Mechanics and Design	Solid Mechanics and Design
	Fluids and Thermal Engineering	Fluids and Thermal Engineering
	Advanced Manufacturing	Advanced Manufacturing
	Robotics and Mechatronics	Robotics and Mechatronics
Chemistry	Organic chemistry	Transition Metal Catalysis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Organometallic Catalysis, Photochemistry, Total synthesis, Carbohydrate chemistry, Oligosaccharide synthesis, synthetic methodologies, Organic Synthesis and Catalysis: C-H Activation, Photochemistry, Bioactive Compounds Synthesis, Enantioselective Synthesis, Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products and Medicinally Important Molecules
	Theoretical and Experimental Physical Chemistry	Theoretical Spectroscopy, Computational Biophysical Chemistry and Theoretical investigation of water desalination, Quantum-Chemical Modelling Studies in Condensed Phase Systems, Theoretical Chemistry, Modelling of Biophysical Stochastic processes, Biophysical Chemistry, Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy
	Inorganic chemistry	Redox Coordination Chemistry, Bioinspired Inorganic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Surface activation, Inter-locked molecules, Energy storage, Material Science, Coordination Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, and Environmental Chemistry
Physics	Theoretical Physics	Astro Particle Physics, Cosmology, High energy phenomenology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Computational soft matter physics, Ion trapping, Quantum information and computation, Quantum many body physics, Relativistic Many body physics, Multiscale-modeling and machine learning in condensed matter and materials physics,  Non-equilibrium statistical physics and Rheological characterization of glassy systems and complex fluids,  Non-equilibrium systems, Plasma modelling,  Relativistic calculations of electron atom processes, Ultrafast physics
	Experimental Physics	Time resolved imaging for plasma characterisation, Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy, Nonthermal plasma development and application in environmental remediation, Plasma-assisted material processing, Heat transport and thermodynamics in quantum systems, Quantum optics*, Precision laser spectroscopy*, Laser cooling*, Ion trapping*, Ultracold atoms ions and molecules*, Cavity QED*, Quantum communication*, Portable atomic clocks and cavity ring down spectroscopy*
Mathematics and Statistics	Mathematics	Partial Differential Equations, Inverse Problems, Numerical Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, GPU Computing, Fractals, Ergodic Theory and Applications, Algebraic Groups
	Statistics	Non-parametric Statistics, Multivariate Statistics, Biostatistics, Geospatial Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning, Reliability and Survival Analysis
Humanities and Social Sciences	Organizational Behavior/HRM	Sustainability and HRM, Decent Work and Employee Well-Being, Positive Organizational Behavior, Academic Leadership, Strategic HRM and Organizational Performance
	Operations Management/Industrial Engineering	Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Production Planning & Control, Reliability Engineering & Maintenance Management, Operations Research, Statistics and Machine Learning
	Economics	Political Economy, Development Economics, Climate Change Economics
	English	English and Comparitive Literary Studies, Indian Literature
	Philosophy	Modern Indian Philosophy, Contempory Indian Thought

*These research areas available ONLY under UGC/CSIR/INSPIRE/NBHM/other JRFs scheme. Candidates must possess a valid fellowship for JRF.

Eligiblity

Financial Assistance

Financial assistance will be provided as per Ministry of Education (MoE) norms. All full time regular scholars admitted to Ph.D. and M.S (Research) programs are eligible for the Half-time Research Assistantship (HTRA) for which:

• They should work for 8 hours per week for the Institute to earn this assistantship. The work would normally involve assistance in teaching/research and will be assigned by the Institute.
• Renewal of assistantship every semester will be contingent on enrolment, satisfactory progress in research work and good performance during the preceding semester in the discharge of responsibility as teaching/ research assistant.
• Assistantship for candidates who have qualified through UGC-JRF, CSIR-JRF, ICMR & AICTE etc. will be as per the norms of the funding agency.

Selection Procedure

The selection committee will call eligible candidates based on the minimum eligibility requirements and additional screening criteria for a written test (if any) and interview.

Original Documents to be submitted for Verification:

At the time of Interview and/or Written Test:

Self-attested copies of the following documents must be submitted at the time of interview and/or written test.

• Copy of application
• Degree certificates / Provisionals / Course completion certificates / Grade Cards / Marksheets of all the degrees obtained.
• Community Certificate in the case of SC/ST/OBC-NCL/EWS candidates issued by the Competent Authority in the prescribed GoI format.
• Authorized Doctor’s Certificate with disability descriptions in the case of Person with Disabled (PwD) candidates.
• Copy of GATE score or CSIR-UGC-JRF/LS/NET/DAE-JEST or any other fellowship award.

Important: Please note that the originals of all the above certificates should be produced at the time of physical verification.

At the time of Admission:

Self-attested copies of the following documents must be submitted at the time of admission / registration

• Offer of admission.
• Birth Certificate / SSC / SSLC certifcate as proof of Name and Date of birth
• Any valid government ID proof such as Aadhaar, PAN, Passport, Driving License, etc.
• Degree certificates / Provisionals / Course completion certificates / Grade Cards / Marksheets of all the degrees obtained.
• Community Certificate in the case of SC/ST/OBC-NCL/EWS candidates issued by the Competent Authority in the prescribed GoI format.
• Degree certificates / Provisionals / Course completion certificates / Grade Cards / Marksheets of all the degrees obtained.
• Candidates admitted under External category must also produce:
  • No Objection Certificate for using Research Facilities on the employer’s premises. (Link)
  • Consent of Co-supervisor from the parent organization in case of external candidates. (Link)
  • Relieving order from the employer in the case of fulltime candidates, if employed. (Link)

Important: Please note that the originals of all the above certificates should be produced at the time of physical verification.

Fees and Deposits

The applicable tuition and other fee/ deposits for Ph.D. scholars is available at the following link.