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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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