PHD PROGRAMMES

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

Chemical Reaction Engineering, 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 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, atmospheric transport and transformation of pollutants, Synthetic biology, protein engineering, stimuli-responsive hydrogels, Hybrid nanomaterials, and biomolecules for agricultural applications.

1. Organometallic catalysis, C-H Activation, Photo-catalysis, Porphyrins for anti-cancer application 2. Cancer therapeutics: studying mechanisms of DDR kinases and IMPDHs using small molecules 3. DNA-Graphene interactions, Glycan interactions, Force Field Development 4. Development of novel organocatalysts, Application of organocatalysis to the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive molecules.5. Machine learning potentials for atomistic simulations of materials, High Throughput Computational Screening of Organic Semiconductors 6. Phytochemical profiling of Indian Medicinal Plants. 7. photocatalysis, spectroscopy, single-particle spectroscopy, gold nanoparticles, solar to chemical fuel, plasmonics. 8. CO2 electroreduction, CO2 conversion to fuel, catalysis for Hydrogen generation.9. Small molecule and nanoplatforms for organelle targeting in cancer. 10.Photo-electrochemical conversion of biomass

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,

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.

Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithms and Data Structures, Computational Complexity, Game Theory, Data Mining.Social Networks, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Computational Neuroscience, Natural Language Processing, Computational Sustainability. Computer Systems, High-Performance Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Ubiquitous computing, Computational Algebra, Spectral Graph Theory, 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) AI hardware circuits and systems, computer architecture, memory subsystems, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Assistive Technology, Software Testing, Maintenance, and Evolution

Educational technology
- Innovative teaching-learning techniques using educational technology
- Teaching and learning of creativity in education
- Faculty development at scale Design
- Visual design for eLearning

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.

1. Nanoelectronics, Semiconductor Devices, Nanotechnology, Computational Electronics
2. VLSI Design, AI Hardware, Memories, Computer Architecture, Radiation hardened circuits
3. Biomedical Engineering, Physiological Signal Processing, Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy
4. Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
5. Signal Processing, Soft Computing
6. Power Systems and Smart Grid; Renewable energy optimization, Smart power electronics, Green energy storage, Transportation electrification, Net zero transition
7. Fiber Optics, Photonic Sensors, Nanophotonics, Electromagnetic Metamaterials, Computational Electromagnetics
8. Deep Learning, Internet of Things IoT, High Performance Computing
9. Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Control Systems
10. Atomically-thin 2D materials for FETs and Memristors, Material, Device and Circuit Modeling, Quantum Computing Devices

Sociology, Indigenous Studies Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition.
archaeozoology and environmental archaeology Psychoanalysis, Global Modernist Studies

1. Solid Mechanics, Material Mechanics, Biomechamics, Fracture mechanics
2. Control systems, Robotics
3. Fluid Mechanics and Heat transfer,
4.Compressible flows-scramjet engines
5. Combustion and Propulsion
6. Decaying turbulence
7. Nonlinear dynamics and wave propagation

1. Ceramics processing, powders synthesis and processing, porous membranes, biomimicry, soft lithography, wetting, tribology
2. Modeling of friction stir welding and additive manufacturing
3. CALPHAD simulation and alloy development
4. Antibacterial polymers
5. Computational materials/artificial intelligence applications
6. Biomaterials, Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials, Metal organic Frameworks, Materials Design
7. Transmission Electron Microscopy based technique for materials characterisation
8. Modeling and simulations of structure-property relations at atomic scales
9. Thin coating fabrication for optoelectronic applications, Low emissivity coating, Thermochromic coatings,
10. Mechanical property characterization of Multiphase materials

1. Algebraic Geometry
2. Partial Differential Equations
3. Probability Theory and Stochastic Process
4. Algebra
5. Analytic Number Theory
6. Matrix theory
7. Linear Algebra

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