Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Advertisement for Admission to Ph.D. Program for Autumn Semester of AY 2015-16

IITI/Acad/PhD Admissions/2015/Autumn January 12, 2015

IIT Indore invites applications from highly motivated and research-oriented students for admission for its

PhD Program

in the discipline of Electrical Engineering

for the Autumn Semester of AY 2015-16

as per the below-mentioned categories of admission and time schedule. Candidates are strongly advised to visit the profiles of the faculty members at http://www.iiti.ac.in/People/faculty.html

before applying for the PhD Program.

Categories of Admission:

Admission to Full-Time PhD program are offered under the following categories 

FA

: Fellowship Awardees from the agencies such as CSIR, UGC, etc. or the JRF/SRF project staff working in a Sponsored Research Project under a faculty of IIT Indore being PI of the project. The Scholarship will as per the rules/guidelines of the concerned Funding Agency.  

TA: SW:

Teaching Assistantship with scholarship as per MHRD guidelines. Sponsored from the reputed Industrial or Research organization WITHOUT any scholarship from the Institute.

Time Schedule of PhD admission for Autumn Semester of AY 2015-16 Last date of Online Application through http://academic.iiti.ac.in:8080/nregistration.jsp Last date for receiving the

hardcopy of online

as well as

offline application

along with the required documents Date of Registration for the Selected Candidates Commencement of Classes of the Spring Semester of AY 2014-15

07 February 2015 ( Saturday) 14 February 2015 (Saturday)

(A) Discipline of Electrical Engineering



Electrical Engineering

Qualifying Degree and Exam

1. Minimum first class* Master degree in the relevant discipline of the Engineering/Technology,

OR

2. Minimum first class* Bachelor degree in the relevant engineering/ technology discipline from a reputed Institute with a

valid GATE score

,

OR

3. BTech degree from an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) with a minimum CPI of 7.0

OR

4. Minimum first Class* Master degree in the relevant discipline of Science with

valid GATE

qualification

OR UGC/CSIR-JRF

qualification

OR

equivalent fellowship

Areas of specialization Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. written test and interview would be conducted

on 21 February, 2015 (Saturday)

at PACL campus, IIT Indore

.

Candidates fulfilling the eligibility criterion mentioned in the advertisement should appear for the written test and interview. Interview may be scheduled for next day

22 February, 2015 (Sunday)

also. No separate email will be sent by the Electrical Engineering discipline to the candidates. Dr. Amod Umarikar ( (

For more details; visit faculty profiles at http://ee.iiti.ac.in/faculty_and_staff.html

umarikar

@iiti.ac.in

) Dr. Shaibal Mukherjee [email protected]

) DC-DC converters are inherent part of most of the renewable energy electrical systems. It is used as an interface between solar PV panel, fuel cell, w ind turbine etc and load or further power processing system. Dr. Amod Umarikar’s group is currently working on High Step Up DC DC converters which can be used as an ‘efficient’ interface between renewable power source and load as shown in figure. Our group has developed some DC-DC converter topologies which gives excellent high step up gains. We are looking for bright and motivated students to pursue the research in the area of step-up DC-DC converters for applications in Renewable Energy. Hybrid Nanodevice Research Group (HNRG) led by Dr. Shaibal Mukherjee in Electrical Engineering explores new physics of micro- and nano-structured materials, and to apply this knowledge to realizing advanced tools and devices for chemical, biological, optical, electronic, and energy applications. HNRG has been actively involved in the cutting-edge research activities in the fields of Nano-photonics, Nano-bio Hybrid Electronics, Photovoltaics, Plasmonic-based Biosensors, Non Volatile Memory Devices, and Transistors. For more relevant information, one should visit the following website: http://www.iiti.ac.in/people/~shaibal/index.htm

. Currently, HNRG group has 5 ongoing research projects from DST, CSIR, and DAE-BRNS and a cumulative research funding of more than Rs. 1.30 Crores. Students and researchers in HNRG have published 15 papers in peer-reviewed and high impact factor journals and 16 conference papers of high international repute till date since the establishment of HNRG research laboratories and infrastructures in the middle of 2012. HNRG is a multidisciplinary research group and its research and development activities involve various aspects of chemistry, physics, biological sciences, materials sciences, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Currently, HNRG seeks intelligent and motivated candidates capable of working on challenging research problems primarily in the area of Plasmonic based Biosensors, Non Volatile Memory Devices, Nano-bio Hybrid Electronics, and Heterojunction Transistors. Bright and inspired candidates, having a background in Physics/ Chemistry/ Materials Science/ Electronics/ Electrical Sciences/ Electrical Engineering/ Instrumentation/ equivalent are ideally suitable for and thus strongly encouraged to apply to Hybrid Nanodevice Research Group led by Dr. Shaibal Mukherjee. Candidates with strong analytical, quantitative, and Computer Programming skills are desired. Dr. Vipul Singh ( [email protected]

) Dr. Vipul Singh works in broadly in the area of semiconductor devices. Presently his main focus is on the charge carrier transport in organic thin films and devices. He is also interested in studying Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs), Organic Solar Cells (OSCs), Organic Photodiodes (OPDs) and Organic Field Effect Transistors. At the Molecular and Nanoelectronics Research Group (MNRG) we are also currently actively involved in research and development of inorganic-organic hybrid materials and devices, which tend to exploit the unique properties of both the worlds. At present our focus is to investigate in detail ZnO: P3HT based bi layered hybrid devices. Dr. Singh’s group has been also active in the research and development of biosensors; we have demonstrated high sensitivity glucose biosensor. In the area of sensor our main aim is towards development of unique functional devices exploiting unique material properties again ranging from organic to inorganic, to realize highly sensitive and selective bio/chemical sensors. Interested/prospective Ph.D. candidates are encouraged to visit the following link for more details regarding my group’s activities;

http://vipulsingh.synthasite.com

For any further queries please feel free to contact me at

[email protected]

Dr. S. K. Vishvakarma ( [email protected]

) https://sites.google.com/site/svishvakarma/home Dr. Vimal Bhatia (

vbhatia

@iiti.ac.in

) Dr. Ram Bilas Pachori (

[email protected]

n ) Dr. Vimal has mix of academic and industrial experience both in India and the UK. He completed Ph.D. from Institute for Digital Communications at The University of Edinburgh (UoE), and currently leads Signals and Software Group (SaSg) @ IIT Indore. The SaSg research group is actively involved in R&D on a) Channel estimation and equalization, b) Performance analysis of communication links, c) Algorithm and solution development, d) OFDM, CDMA, SISO, MIMO, WLAN, Co operative and Relay Networks, Cognitive Radio for 4/5G networks, e) RADAR signal processing, and f) Bio-inspired signal processing and learning algorithms. For further details, please visit http://iiti.ac.in/people/~vbhatia Dr. Ram Bilas Pachori works on the development of new methodologies for analysis and classification of bio-signals like electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), phonocardiograph (PCG), centre of pressure (COP). He also works on time-frequency decomposition based methodologies for speech signal analysis. He is also interested in the applications of signal processing. Recently, his group has developed new methodologies for analysis and classification of EEG signals for diagnosis of epilepsy, detection of sleep stages, identification of human emotions. His group has also developed new methodologies based on the low-frequency region for robust speech signal analysis. New methodologies for detection of heart valve disorders, septal defects, and segmentation and classification of heart sound signals have been developed by his group. Please visit his homepage for more detail: http://people.iiti.ac.in/~pachori/

Dr. Trapti Jain (

[email protected]

n ) Our research group has been working towards analyzing the impact of technological advancements on the operation of power systems and determining the measures needed to mitigate any possible negative impact. Stable operation of microgrids, use of synchrophasor technology for security assessment of power system, optimal operation of electric vehicles and power quality monitoring are the few thrust areas of our research. Dr. Prabhat K. Upadhyay (

[email protected]

n ) Dr Prabhat K. Upadhyay is leading a Wireless Communications (WiCom) Research Group at IIT Indore. The WiCom research group is intended to conduct fundamental and applied research to cater to the emerging needs of the next generation wireless communication systems. Our primary goal is to develop and analyze theories and algorithms for harnessing diversity with spectral efficiency for wireless networks. The research leverages tools from statistics, random processes, convex optimization, and signal processing. The broad research areas of the WiCom group are cooperative communications, relaying and diversity techniques, MIMO systems, and cognitive radio. For more details, please visit the following websites: Homepage: http://iiti.ac.in/people/~pkupadhyay/ URL: http://pkupadhyay.webs.com/ Research Group: http://wicom.webs.com/

Application Fee:

applicant.

₹

100/- to be paid through a Demand Draft (DD) drawn in favour of

"Registrar, IIT Indore"

and payable at

Indore

.

Application Procedure:

 Candidates must apply ONLINE through our website (

http://academic.iiti.ac.in:8080/nregistration.jsp

). This will generate a unique application number for each  After Submitting the application online, the same is to be downloaded and the

relevant Certificates, (for SW candidates- NOC, Experience Certificate, last 3 months salary slip and Employer's PAN card)

DPGC Convener at the below-mentioned Address for the Correspondence.

signed hard-copy along with Demand Draft, recent photograph, Self- attested

must be sent to the concerned  

The candidate MUST write his/her name, name of the discipline and the Application Number on the reverse side of the Demand Draft.

The

envelope of the application

must CLEARLY mention

"APPLICATION for ADMISSION in PhD Program in for

Autumn Semester of AY 2015-16

"

 In case a candidate wishes to apply in more than one discipline then

separate application must be filled for each discipline.

NOTE:- "Selected candidates may be considered for admission under the PhD scheme of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) (now named as “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics and IT”) ". Name of the Discipline Name of the DPGC Convener Address for Correspondence Electrical Engineering Dr. Shaibal Mukherjee

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