IITTirupati - PMRF Scholars

Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)

The Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) Scheme has been designed for improving the quality of research in various higher educational institutions in the country. With attractive fellowships, the scheme seeks to attract the best talent into research thereby realizing the vision of development through innovation. The scheme was announced in the Budget 2018-19. The institutes which can offer PMRF include all the IITs, all the IISERs, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and some of the top Central Universities/NITs that offer science and/or technology degrees. The candidates will be selected through a rigorous selection process and their performance will be reviewed suitably through a national convention. Kindly visit https://pmrf.in/ for more details about PMRF.

Code for Broad Areas and Nodal Expert Committee

Discipline(s)	Institute	Code
Civil Engineering, Earth Science, Architecture, Ocean and Naval Engg	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	1
Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Design	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	2
Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	3
Computer Science & Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics	Indian Institute of Science	4
Biomedical Engineering, Biological Sciences, Agricultural Sciences	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	5
Chemical Engineering, Textile Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati	6
Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Mining Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	7
Physics	Jawaharlal Nehru University	8
Chemistry	Banaras Hindu University	9
Interdisciplinary areas in Science and Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	10

PMRF Team

The PMRF scheme at IIT Tirupati is currently managed by Professor Suresh Jain (PMRF coordinator) with the help of a committee.
The Academic Section is responsible for approving the scholarships, and the administration of the scholarship is handled by the Accounts section
Heads of department decide on shortlisting students. The PMRF committee provides overall supervision but the technical matters are handled by the individual department Heads

PMRF Guidelines: View
PMRF Research Grant Guidelines: View

Scholar Details

Tadavarthi Pushparaj Gandhi Civil and Environmental Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: January 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Shihabudheen M. Maliyekkal and Dr. Reetesh Kumar Gangwar Broad Area : Development of a non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma reactor for the treatment of food contaminated with mycotoxins.
A Eashaan Rao Computer Science and Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2021 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda Broad Area : Software Engineering.
Srihari C Mechanical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2021 Ph. D Advisor: Dr D V Kiran , Dr P S Sai Krishna Broad Area : Smart manufacturing platform for hybrid tandem wire arc additive manufacturing process (TWAAM)
Harsha Gopalakrishnan Mathematics & Statistics Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2020 Ph. D Advisor: Dr Srijanani Anurag Prasad Broad Area : Fractals.
Mulla Mahaboob Basha Mechanical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2019 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Mamilla Ravi Sankar Broad Area : Chemical and electrochemical assisted finishing processes. me19d505@iittp.ac.in