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PhD in Economics

The department offers a PhD program in seven academic disciplines (Economics, Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Policy, Psychology, and Sociology). The PhD program consists of both full time and part-time students.

Who can apply?

Eligibility: M.A./M.Sc (2 years)/M.Com/M.B.A/M.Phil or B.Tech/BE/B.Sc Engg. (4 years) or M.Tech/ME/MS Research (2-3 years)/M.D/ D.M./M.S/M.DS

Minimum qualifications: 60% marks or 6.00 CGPA on a 10-point scale and qualified GATE/ CSIR/ UGC-NET or JRF/ICAR/ICMR/ DST - INSPIRE Fellowship (check the prospectus of the current admission cycle for details about the exemptions and clarifications.)

Application process: Eligible candidates can apply for the programme at PG Admission Portal .

PhD under UQ-IITD Academy of Research (UQIDAR)

The University of Queensland (UQ), a top 50 global university, and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), an Institute of Eminence, have joined forces to create a joint PhD program that will allow scholars to deliver global impact.

All successful UQIDAR PhD applicants will be offered a scholarship to enable students to focus on their research.

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PhD-Regular

Candidates can apply in multiple departments subject to fulfilling the minimum eligibility requirement of respective departments., advertisement is as below-.

Project funded PhD:

Additive Manufacturing & Machine Learning based Development of Indigenous Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stack  (1 Position) 

Unconventional architectures for design and development of Modular Libraries(1 Position) 

Bone and Tissue mechanics (1 Position) 

High velocity projectile impact (1 Position) 

Development of Localized Gradient Damage based Extended-FE Model for Fatigue Analysis of Aircraft Components (1 Position) 

Functionally graded materials: Thermoelastic analysis along with design framework using hybrid elements and deep learning (1 Position) 

Machine learning-based model for optimization of PCM-metal foam composite energy storage system (1 Position) 

Product design in agriculture funded by AWADH (1 Position) 

* Candidates are required to submit statement of purpose (SoP) along with this application

1) Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering/Technology or any other Engineering discipline or a Master's degree by Research in Mechanical Engineering/Technology or any other Engineering  discipline. Candidates must have obtained at least 60% marks or 6.5 CGPA out of 10 in their Master's. For admission under project fellowship GATE qualification is required as per funding agency norms. 

2) Master's degree in Sciences with a valid score in GATE/UGC/ CSIR/NET/NBHM or equivalent qualification. Candidates must have obtained at least 65% marks or 7 CGPA out of 10 in their Master's.

3) Exceptional candidates having B.Tech/B.E degree with at least 65% marks or 7 CGPA out of 10 and valid GATE score can apply for PhD programmes. The candidates who are in the final year (seventh semester) of their B.Tech/BE program should apply under Direct PhD program (as per Direct PhD norms).

A candidate with a Bachelor's degree from any IIT and having a CGPA score of 8.00 out of 10 and above are exempted from requirement of GATE to apply.

The relaxation in eligibility and reservation for SC/ST/OBC/PwD will be as per the rules of Govt. of India.

  Candidates with external fellowships like UGC JRF NET/ CSIR/ NBHM/ INSPIRE/ DBT etc. with appropriate background can also apply

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Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Research areas of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering:

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3. Optical & Magnetic Materials     (DFT / Characterization / Devices)                    

4. Process / Extractive Metallurgy  (Modelling of steelmaking process / Recycling of steelmaking slag)

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*Project 2: Simultaneous separation and sensing of hydrogen and carbon monoxide/carbon dioxide using polymer derived ceramics membranes for hydrogen purification (RMP)"        

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Master's degree in relevant Engineering/Technology or a Master's degree by Research in relevant Engineering/Technology. Candidates must have obtained at least 60% marks (or 6.5 Grade Point out of 10) in their Master's.

Candidates with a Bachelor's degree BE/B.Tech. (or MSc) in a relevant discipline with a minimum of 65% marks (or 7.0 Grade Point out of 10) and a valid GATE/UGC/CSIR/NET score.

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IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2024-25 (I Semester) : Dates, Application Form

IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2024-25 (I Semester)  – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will invites applications for admission to PhD programmes commencing commencing in 2024-25 (I Semester).

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IIT Kanpur PhD Programmes

• PhD Aerospace Engineering
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• PhD Materials Science & Engineering
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• PhD Sustainable Energy Engineering
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• PhD Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering
• PhD English (Literature, Linguistics & ELT)
• PhD Fine Arts
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• PhD Sociology

Eligibility Requirements for IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2024-25 (I Semester)

• Eligibility conditions that are given below are the absolute minimum. Departments may add other requirements over and above these.
• The  specified minimum  marks/CPI (Cumulative Performance Index), referred to in subsequent sections, implies a minimum of 55 percent marks /5.5 (on a 10 point scale) as long as it is not less than the minimum pass marks/CPI; otherwise, the  specified minimum  marks/CPI implies the minimum pass marks/CPI.
• Students who are in the final year of their programme (likely to finish the programme by July 26, 2024) may also apply and secure provisional admission for the session commencing in July 2024 (2024-25-I Semester).

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Financial assistantships.

Financial support (in the form of Institute Assistantship) is available to the regular (non-sponsored) students of MS (By Research) and PhD Programmes.

The student is expected to carry out the assigned duties during the programme. The MS (By Research) students are currently entitled to a monthly assistantship of Rs. 12400/- for 8 hours of work per week. For PhD students the corresponding financial support amounts to Rs. 37000/- for the first two years, and thereafter, it is raised to Rs. 42000/- for another three years.

Students may also avail financial assistantship from external funding agencies (such as UGC/CSIR/NBHM/INSPIRE/DBT/ICAR/ICMR/PMRF etc.).

In addition to the above, several attractive fellowships from Industry/DAE are also available.

Selection Process for IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2024-25 (I Semester)

Admission to the Ph.D. programmes will be based on the performances in the written tests and/or interviews of the candidates shortlisted by the department concerned.

Departments will issue the admission letters to the finally selected candidates who will be required to accept the offer of admission by depositing the prescribed fee before the specified date.

If candidate does not accept admission offer by paying the prescribed fee by the specified date, the offer of admission may stand withdrawn, and the admission may be offered to applicants in the waiting list, if any, in the order of merit.

The admission offer may also stand withdrawn if the candidate accepted the offer but fails to register by the date for late registration.

IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2024-25 (I Semester) Important Dates

Application procedure.

• The online applications portal will open in online mode.
• PhD candidates must arrange for two letters of reference. For this purpose, the names of the referees along with their e-mail addresses are to be provided at the online applications portal. The referees will be contacted through an auto generated mail which contains a request to submit their recommendations online.
• Those employed in industry or a college/university/institute may apply for admission as sponsored, external or part-time candidates.
• Separate application form is to be filled for each programme or department.

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Iit kanpur phd admission 2024-25 (i semester) results, shortlisted & selected candidates.

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Applications are invited for admission to PhD programmes commencing from July, 2022 in the following departments/interdisciplinary programmes:

PhD (Sciences and Engineering)

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• Mathematics
• Space Science and Astronomy

PhD (Design)

• Interdisciplinary Programme in Design

PhD (HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES)

• English (Literature, Linguistics & ELT)

IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2022-23 (Sem-I) Results

Shortlisted candidates.

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List of candidates called for Ph.D. Admission Test-2022 (MAY)

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Previous year question papers.

You can download Previous Year Question Papers of IIT Kanpur PhD Physics Admission Test on the given link below.

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IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2021-22 (Sem-II)

Iit kanpur phd admission 2021-22 (sem-ii) results, iit kanpur phd physics admission 2021 (sem-ii) results, selected candidates.

Ph.D. Admission Result (December)-2021-22

List of Candidates shortlisted for Ph.D. (Online Interview) for December 2021

Schedule for Interview

The above shortlisted applicants would have received an email to appear for online interview on December 02, 2021.

IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2021-22 (Sem-I)

Iit kanpur phd admission 2021-22 (sem-i) results.

List of shortlisted candidates declared for some departments. Check the list on the following links.

IIT Kanpur PhD Physics Admission 2021 (Sem-I) Results

List of Selected Candidates

List of Candidates for Ph.D. (Online Test) July-2021

Schedule for Online Interview for Ph.D. admission 2021-22-I

IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2020-21 (Sem-II)

Iit kanpur phd physics admission dec 2020, selected candidates for iit kanpur phd physics admission 2020-21 ii semester.

The following candidates are selected for admission to Ph.D. Programme in the Department of Physics for the session of 2020-21-II Semester. The admission is subject to having passed the M.Sc./relevant degree examination and all other requirements being completed. Names of the selected candidates are given in alphabetical order.

PhD Physics Admission Result Dec 2020

Candidates shortlisted for PhD Physics (Online Interview) Dec 2020

The following applicants would have received an email to appear for online interview on December 2, 2020.

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IIT Kanpur PhD Admission 2020-21 (Sem-I)

Iit kanpur phd physics admission 2020 1st sem result.

The following candidates are selected for admission to Ph.D. Programme in the department of Physics for the session 2020-21-I Semester. The admission is subject to having passed the qualifying examination and all other requirements being completed. Names of the selected candidates are given in alphabetical order:

ADMISSION LIST PhD Physics

To accept this offer, GEN/OBC-NCL/EWS  category  students  are  required  to  pay  the  fees  Rs. 40,125.00 and SC/ST category students are required to pay the fees Rs. 37,625.00 by logging into the admission portal https://pingala.iitk.ac.in/PGADM-0/login , by July 29, 2020 , failing which this offer of admission will be withdrawn.

The selected candidates will receive the offer letter by e-mail by 22 nd July 2020.

Waiting List (not according to category/merit)

List of Selected and Wait listed Candidates for PhD Physics

In case of vacancies, candidates in the Waiting list will be contacted in the first/second week of August.

Rubrik’s $5.6 Billion IPO Is Latest Win For The ‘IIT Mafia,’ A Group Of Indian Engineers Turned CEOs

A small group of indian immigrants have helped propel each other from technical roles at oracle and google to found and lead a number of silicon valley’s top enterprise software startups, from nutanix to glean and rubrik, which went public on thursday., by alex konrad , forbes staff.

A t Oracle’s former Silicon Valley headquarters in Redwood Shores, a small group of engineers gathered weekly in 2005 for what amounted to a mini-MBA: an exclusive crash course in product quality, customer support, basic sales and marketing. Out of hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants, this small group of a dozen or so employees included a few with a common background: immigrants from India, graduates of one of the country’s prestigious Indian Institute of Technology schools.

They didn’t know many business basics, like how to put together a balance sheet for financial statements. But the group learned fast. And the companies they launched — including cloud companies Nutanix and Rubrik, which is listing its stock on Thursday — now carry combined market values in the tens of billions. “I’ve always jokingly said that one roomful of 12 engineers can beat most classes at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, or Harvard Business School,” said Skyflow CEO Anshu Sharma, who attended alongside Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha and Nutanix’s former CEO Dheeraj Pandey.

Data security provider Rubrik, which priced its IPO on Wednesday night at $32, at a valuation of $5.6 billion, has proven a rare bright spot in a drought of such public exits over the past two years.

“Great companies are not looking for timing, they’re working on their own timing,” Sina told Forbes in an interview on Thursday. “What happens or doesn’t happen today is not of much consequence if you look three years, or five years out at building a generational company, a company with no finish line.”

Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha

For Sinha and cofounders Arvind Jain, Soham Mazumdar and Arvind Nithrakashyap, it’s a major achievement; for investors including Blumberg Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greylock Partners, it’s a welcome liquidity event. But among this small group of highly technical immigrant founders and executives, it’s far from the first major outcome; nor the last. Two of those cofounders are already working on new startups, enterprise search unicorn Glean and stealth data startup WisdomAI.

“When you talk about famous networks of founders like the PayPal Mafia, I would not put ourselves in that category,” said Jain, whose company Glean is now a fixture on the Forbes AI 50 list . “But there’s probably something special about the culture of people we created.”

Initially underestimated as better engineers than businesspeople, the founders of Nutanix, Rubrik and the others now share an entrepreneurial bond. They’ve mostly co-invested in and advised each others’ companies, occasionally teamed up and, in one tense moment, clashed head-to-head. They’re too busy to see each other often, they told Forbes , but barbecues, birthdays and morning commute calls keep them in touch. And now, as some have exited their initial successes, the cycle has repeated, even as a new generation of Indian programmers and founders look to them as examples.

THE IIT STARTUP MAFIA

W hat might look like an oversized herd of unicorns is really the result of a “grueling” self-selection process that began with IIT admissions and continued in Silicon Valley, said Asheem Chandna, a partner at Greylock who led Rubrik’s Series B funding round in 2015. “These are founders who went to MIT, but 1,000x harder,” Chandna said. “Startups are hard, they require you to be obsessive, persistent and take risks. And that’s very much an extension of the immigrant story.”

Sinha’s was particularly arduous. The son of an entrepreneur whose business ventures failed, Sinha and his family moved frequently in their lower-income state of Bihar in India growing up. At one point, they lived in a basement without running water, according to one report . Urged by his father to apply to IIT despite poor grades, Sinha stopped attending class to focus solely on the entrance exam and English, a language needed to study. After more than a year of effort and a failed attempt, he got into IIT Kharagpur, landed a job at IBM in India, and then reached Oracle in the U.S.

Sinha was a greenhorn investor at VC firm Blumberg Capital when he reunited with Pandey, who had left Oracle to work at another data startup, Aster Data Systems, alongside fellow IIT Kanpur grad and Oracle alum Ajeet Singh and Mohit Aron, an IIT Delhi grad and ex-Googler. The three were now working on a new startup, Nutanix; Sinha and Blumberg wrote them one of their first checks in 2010. When months later, Sinha was recruited to a larger firm, Lightspeed Venture Partners, he teamed up with firm cofounder Ravi Mhatre to keep investing in Nutanix. Lightspeed would eventually pour a cumulative $40 million into the company, and quickly promoted Sinha to investment partner.

But by 2012, Singh had departed to launch ThoughtSpot with another former IIT Kanpur classmate, ex-Googler Amit Prakash (Glean CEO Jain, an IIT Delhi grad, discussed joining them but remained for a time at Google instead). The following year, it was Aron’s turn to leave Nutanix, this time to launch data management company Cohesity.

ThoughtSpot cofounder Ajeet Singh and Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha at the Nutanix IPO in 2016.

Fast forward to 2014, and Nutanix was still led by Pandey and still two years from IPO. After its cofounders departed, board director Sinha decided to leave as well to start a new data management company, Rubrik. When Sinha informed Lightspeed cofounder Ravi Mhatre, by then a major investor in both Nutanix and ThoughtSpot, that he planned to leave the firm, Mhatre tried to convince him to stay. “I was surprised and extremely excited, but also frankly bummed out, all in one,” said Mhatre. But Sinha wouldn’t reconsider, to the surprise of some peers. “There’s only so much you can do as an investor. As a founder, you can do more,” Skyflow’s Sharma, who personally invested in Nutanix, remembered Sinha telling him then. “It’s more concentrated, it’s riskier, but you can have outcomes that are 100x bigger.”

Once he was sure that Sinha couldn’t be convinced to reconsider, Mhatre shifted gears to encouraging him to partner with the firm on the new venture. Lightspeed led Rubrik’s Series A in 2015 and eventually bet more than $350 million on the company over the years, per a source with knowledge, giving it a position worth more than $1.2 billion at IPO.

To get Rubrik going, Sinha finally convinced Jain to leave Google as one cofounder; Nithrakashyap, an IIT Madras grad and another Oracle coworker, signed on as CTO, while Mazumdar, from the IIT Kanpur and Google alumni branches of this founder tree, joined as fourth cofounder and chief architect. Initially focused on backing up and protecting server data, Rubrik eventually shifted to tracking that data more efficiently by the time it reached a $3.3 billion valuation in 2019. “We are taking this market [that] has been a bit of a backwater, and we are redesigning and rethinking the whole thing,” Sinha told Forbes at the time .

Rubrik founders Arvind Nithrakashyap, Arvind Jain, Soham Mazumdar and CEO Bipul Sinha.

To industry trackers, it sounded a lot like what Cohesity was doing. Cofounder and CEO Aron hadn’t sought out Lightspeed as an early investor in his new company when he started it in 2013. Sinha, as a director representing the firm on Nutanix’s board, however, would have heard about Aron’s plans as they mapped out his departure, and some close to Cohesity muttered in the years that followed that Rubrik’s business model looked suspiciously similar. In 2019, one report described the situation as “one of the tech industry’s most bitter rivalries.”

Both companies grew over the following years at a healthy clip, appearing on the Forbes Cloud 100 list. They also both shifted focus to data security: In February, Cohesity announced it was acquiring Veritas’ data protection business, resulting in combined annual recurring revenue of $1.3 billion and a market value of $7 billion. Rubrik, meanwhile, launched a cloud security offering in 2022. It reported annual recurring revenue of $784 million as of January 31, 2024, per its IPO filings.

Reflecting on Rubrik’s IPO day, Sinha said that iconic tech companies like Nvidia hadn’t started with one idea and clung to it. As early as 2016 or 2017, Rubrik had built a first version of data security platform, he added. “The market wasn’t there yet,” Sinha told Forbes . “But as the market came our way, we actually aligned ourselves more and more, and continued to build those products and services — and here we are.”

Aron, who changed his job status on LinkedIn this month to “founder emeritus” at Cohesity, wrote Forbes in a statement: “Nutanix was a great breeding ground and learning ground. I have a healthy respect for everyone doing these companies.” He declined further comment.

W hen the ‘IIT Mafia,’ as peers have called them, were still early in their careers in the mid-2000s, there weren’t many Indian CEO success stories in Silicon Valley yet. Sun Microsystems and IIT graduate Vinod Khosla was already a billionaire, leaving established VC firm Kleiner Perkins to launch his own firm, Khosla Ventures, in 2004. Palo Alto Networks was getting started with an IIT cofounder overseeing engineering, Rajiv Batra. At Google, a young product manager named Sundar Pichai was just getting started. And at Oracle, IIT dropout Thomas Kurian was overseeing ever-larger divisions of the database giant. (Now the CEO of Google Cloud, Kurian reports to Pichai, Google’s overall CEO.)

But Indian immigrants were mostly expected to defer to others to launch new startups. “When I was thinking of starting my first company, investors would say, ‘you should look for somebody who’s more American looking, whatever that was supposed to suggest,” said Sharma, now on his third startup, Skyflow, which recently raised $30 million. “Everyone thought, these guys can be successful developers. Then maybe they could be managers, then maybe do product design. It’s been this evolution to get closer to the consumer,” Pandey agreed.

“One of my lifetime goals is that I want 10 people to leave my companies and start unicorns.” Ajeet Singh, ThoughtSpot cofounder

To change that paradigm, the founders embraced mentors from outside their Indian roots, noted Singh, who turned to former Snowflake and Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman as a crucial early adviser in building ThoughtSpot. Then there was the unnamed mid-level executive at Oracle — none of the founders could remember her name — who took a chance on the raw engineers with her business class.

Now, many of the founders are naturalized U.S. citizens, but you’ll still hear Hindi in the hallways at Rubrik, one said. And over dog walks and car ride commutes, they’re consciously investing in advising the next generation of founders, to keep the flywheel going. (Although it must be noted that among these interconnected companies, the founders are all men.)

“One of my lifetime goals is that I want 10 people to leave my companies and start unicorns,” said Singh at ThoughtSpot. “Whenever someone wants to leave to start a company, I never try to retain them. I feel like it’s almost a religion.”

In 2020, after twelve years in charge, Pandey left Nutanix. His next move: launching a new AI-based product development startup, DevRev, after being inspired by a chat with Khosla, the first institutional VC to back OpenAI. Recently, Pandey raised $100 million for DevRev at an undisclosed valuation in one of tech’s largest-ever seed rounds.

Even as a new wave of Indian founders look up to Pandey, he finds irony in the fact that he’s now turning to more recent successes, like Rubrik and Glean, for his own inspiration. “It’s very humbling that people look to us as role models, and I feel a burden to make time for them, and give back,” he said. “Meanwhile, these founders are now my investors, and I’m the one hoping to learn from them.”

Already, new startups are shooting off from Glean, the enterprise search company led by Rubrik cofounder Jain. He credits Glean, and Rubrik before it, for setting a “really transparent culture” that included early employees in board meetings and encouraged engineers to meet with their sales and marketing peers, as well as engage directly with customers.

Another Rubrik cofounder, Mazumdar, recently departed to start a new company, WisdomAI, whose website promises to use AI to make data insights more accessible throughout an organization. The company is believed to have raised funding but not announced it yet, a source with knowledge said; Mazumdar didn’t respond to a comment request.

Speaking from Rubrik’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange, Sinha said that talent leaving to start a business was always part of his pitch to bring on the smartest people — that they’d learn how to start a business at Rubrik: “My philosophy has always been to let 1,000 flowers bloom.”

And for all their success, Sinha argued that the experience of the IIT alumni in Silicon Valley need not be unique. With the right combination of experiences — technical background, immigrant drive and strong education — such success could come from anywhere. “I’m very lucky to be an American, and I’m very lucky to have the opportunities that I got,” he said. “We want this opportunity for everybody.”

This story has been updated to include comment from Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha.

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The written test/Interview for the PhD admission in Mathematics and Statistics for the academic session 2024-25 -I for shortlisted candidates will be conducted from May 16- May 18, 2024.

Past question papers for qualifying written test for Mathematics candidates

Winter 2019

• December Admission
• Summer May Admission

2020 Summer -2022-Winter (Online Interview)

• Winter December Admission
• Summer July Admission

Past question papers for qualifying written test for Statistics candidates

For any query related to Ph.D. admissions contact

DEPARTMENT OF Mathematics & Statistics

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Kanpur, UP 208016 | Phone: 0512-259-xxxx | Fax: 0512-259-xxxx

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