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, Evolution of stress response and genome regulation.

Chemical Reaction Engineering, Heterogeneous catalysis, Catalyst synthesis, 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 pharmaceuticals, 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.

Machine learning potentials in material simulations; Photocatalysis with gold nanoparticles, sunlight to hydrogen production, Single-particle spectroscopy, plasmonics; Molecular simulations of graphene membrane; Post-translational modifications influencing disordered protein aggregation; Electrochemical Reduction of CO2; Development of novel organocatalysts, Application of organocatalysis to the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive molecules; Cancer therapeutics; Drug Discovery, Synthesis of Fluorescent dyes and polymers; adsorptive materials, biomass-inorganic nanocomposites, rare earth element harvesting, Small molecule activation with Main group metal complexes

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, Visuo-motor control and processing, Emotion, Attentional selection and control, Visual Cognition, Embodied 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, Bilingual Processing, Mental Lexicon, Multisensory Perception, Curiosity

Graph algorithms, Algebraic circuit complexity, algorithms and complexity, Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing, Computer Graphics, Deep Learning, Large Language Models, Regression Testing, Fuzzing, Automated Program Repair, Software Reverse Engineering, Green Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering. Human-Computer Interaction, Brain-Computer Interface, Eye Tracking, Motor Control and Rehabilitation, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Internet of Things, User Experience and Usability, Formal methods and verification, and Web security.

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. Archaeology, Ceramic Petrology, Ancient Technology, mircopalaeontology and palaeoclimate

1. Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnology, Advanced Semiconductor Devices, Emerging Memories, High-Frequency Analog Circuit Design, Multi-scale modeling
2. VLSI Design, AI Hardware, Computer Architecture
3. Biomedical Engineering, Human Computer Interaction
4. Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing, Computer Graphics, Deep Learning
5. Signal Processing, Soft Computing
6. Control Systems, Estimation Theory
7. Power Systems and Smart Grid
8. Electrical Machines and Power Electronics
9. Smart power electronics for Renewable Energy Integration and Electric Vehicles
10. Photonic Sensors, Fibre-optics, Nanophotonics, Electromagnetic Metamaterials, Computational Electromagnetics

Cognitive Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy, Global Modernist Studies, Modern Indian History, Northeast Indian History and History of Bengal in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Wild Life Conservation in India and Northeast India, Human-animal Relations, Indian Writing in English, Representation of Women in Indian-English along with Bengali Literature, Indian Diasporic Literature in English, Modern Indian History especially of the North Eastern region and of Bengal

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. Porous Ceramics, Non-wetting surfaces, Surface Patterning, Tribology
2. Antibacterial polymers
3. Computational materials/artificial intelligence applications
4. Biomaterials, Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials, Metal organic Frameworks, Materials Design
5. Material Development and Defect Characterization
6. Modeling and simulations of structure-property relations at atomic scales
7. Mechanical property characterization of Multiphase materials

Partial Differential Equations, Probability & Stochastic Processes, Matrix Analysis, Spectral Graph Theory

High Energy Theory, AdS/CFT and Quantum Information, Effective Field theory and Gravitational Wave Physics; Gravitational Wave astronomy space and terrestrial broadband detectors; High Energy Particle Physics: B-physics, Dark Matter, beyond Standard Model phenomenology; Particle Physics Theory: Beyond the Standard Model Physics, Higgs Physics, Phenomenology, Dark Matter/Astroparticle Physics; Experimental soft condensed matter physics, microfluidics; Active Matter Physics (Experimental); Experimental condensed matter physics, 2D materials, Heterostructures, Electronic devices; Nanotechnology, Renewable energy harvesting & storage (Experimental); Nanomagnetism, Spintronics