NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROURKELA
No. NITR/AC/Res/2026/M/0916 10th April, 2026
NIT Rourkela PhD Advt Notice [Autumn 2026-27]
Applications are invited online from interested & eligible candidates for admission to Ph.D. Programme of the Institute in Autumn (July) Semester of the Academic Year 2026-27. Admission will be given preferably to the applicants who are eligible for Institute fellowship or have qualified for External fellowship. However, admission may also be considered without fellowship. Students with external fellowship like NET-JRF are especially encouraged to apply.
Sl. Name of the Department Code Indicative Broad Area of Research Available
1 Biotechnology and Medical Engineering BM
Biomechanics And Bio-Transport, Biomaterials And Tissue Engineering, Medical Electronics And Instrumentation, Cell And Molecular Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Agricultural And Environmental Biotechnology, Energy And Environment, Medical Image And Signal Processing,
AI/ML In Biomedical Engineering.
2 Civil Engineering CE
Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Construction Technology & Management.
3 Chemical Engineering CH
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Energy Storage and Conversion Materials, Process Systems Engineering, Environment Engineering and Pollution Control, Computational Modeling and Simulation, Nanomaterials and Advanced Materials, Sustainable and Renewable Energy, Separation and Purification, Fluid Dynamics, Fluidization Engineering, Molecular Simulations, Targeted Drug Delivery Systems, Computation Fluid Dynamics, AI/ML in Chemical Engineering, Immunosensors Engineering, Microfluidics, Semiconductors Devices, Process Simulation and Modeling, Process Optimization/Intensification/ Design & Development, Hydrogen Energy, Carbon Capture & Utilization , Polymer Science & Engineering, Waste to Wealth, Waste water treatment, Life Cycle Assessment,
Sustainable process design, Machine Learning.
4 Ceramic Engineering CR
Advanced Materials For Energy Storage, Nanomaterials For Hydrogen Production And Storage, Advanced Biomimetic Materials For High Strength Applications , Environmental Ceramics, Luminescent Nanomaterials, Advanced Refractories For Green Steel, Structural Ceramics, Electroceramics , Glass, Bio-Glass.
5 Computer Science & Engineering CS
ArtificiaI Intelligence & Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and Computer Network, Optical Network, Blockchain, Software Defined Networks, Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, SDN, Software Engineering, Wireless adhoc networks, Cloud and Fog Computing, Wireless Sensor Network, VANET , Flying Adhoc Network, Computer Vision, AI for Digital Health Care , Signal and Image Processing, Cybernetics and Information Security, Biometric Security, IoT & Cloud Computing, Healthcare System, Resource Optimization, Image Processing and ML, IoT based Healthcare, Intelligent Transportation system, WSN, IoT Authentication, Cloud Security, Cryptography, Low Power VLSI, Computer Architecture, Digital Microfluidics, Theoretical Computer Science, NLP, Quantum Computing, Hardware Security, Deep-Fake, Signal/Audio Processing, Deep Learning, Time-series Forecasting, Soft Computing, Computer Vision for Underwater Images, Biomedical Image Processing,
Data Mining, Graph Clustering, AI.
6 Chemistry CY
Organic Chemistry (Synthesis, Physical-organic, Supramolecular Chemistry, catalysis), Inorganic Chemistry ( Bioinorganic, Organometallic, Solid state), Material Chemistry (Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Energy Materials, Biomaterials), and Physical Chemistry (Biophysical, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Protein Chemistry, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Supramolecular Chemistry).
7 Electronics & Communication Engineering EC
Wireless Communication, RF & Radar Microwave/Antenna, SIP, Optical NW, Sensor System, VLSI, Communication, Radar Signal Processing, Semiconductor Device, Opto Electronics, RFMS Instrumentation, Photonics, Control, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.
8 Electrical Engineering EE
Power Systems, Power Electronics converter, Battery Pack Optimal Charging using Reinforcement Learning, ML based Data-driven Battery Pack fault Diagnosis, Communication and Signal Processing, Data Driven Control Systems, Protection, Control and Cyber Security issues in Microgrid, High Voltage Engineering, Semiconductor devices, Battery, Hydrogen Storage, Supercapacitor, Control & Automation, Microgrid Control and Operation, Active Power Filter, Drives, High Voltage Engineering, Power Electronics and Drives, Consensus Control of Multiagent System, ML based control Applications, Energy Systems, Microgrid, Renewable Energy, EV, power electronics & Drives, Microwave Circuit, Power System Stability, AI applications in power system, Synchrophasor, Technology, Power Quality, Power System Instrumentation, Renewable Energy Integration and Electric Vehicle Charging, Signal/Image Processing, Preferably Biomedical Signal Analysis, 5G, Optical Comm. & Networks, IoT, ORAN, Sliding mode control, Event-triggered control, Reinforcement Learning, Control of Cyber-Physical systems, and network control systems and its applications in biomedical, robotics , microgrid, hydrogen fuel cell, etc. Computer Vision, AI/ML applications in Signal Processing/Communication.
9 Earth and Atmospheric Science ER
Geology, Geophysics Atmospheric Sciences, Physical Oceanography.
10 Food Process Engineering FP
Post-Harvest Operations, Food Quality And Safety, Computer-Aided And IoT-Based Food Processing, AII And ML In Food Processing, Non-Thermal Processing, Food Equipment And Process Design, Food Packaging & Storage Engineering, Health And Functional Food , Microwave Processing & Food Sterilisation, Extrusion Processing, Dairy Engineering And Technology, Product Development And Ingredients Innovation, Agricultural And Food Waste Valorisation.
11 Humanities & Social Sciences HS
English (NET/JRF), Economics (NET/JRF), Population Studies (JRF only), Sociology (NET/JRF), Psychology ( NET/JRF), Anthropology (NET/JRF).
12 Industrial Design ID
Mechanism Design, Deployable Structures, Spaceborne Systems Design, Computer Aided Design, Numerical Simulation and Experimental Analysis, Human Computer Interaction, Applications of AI in Human Centred Design, Human Factors in Emerging Technologies, Technology for Healthy Aging, Digital Human Modeling & Ergonomic Design, Innovative/Wearable Product Design, Geometric Modeling, MSDs, Biomechanical, Industrial Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
13 Life Science LS
Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Epigenetics, Microbiology, Bacterial Biofilm, Antimicrobial Resistance, Microbial Extracellular Polysaccharides, Bioremediation, Marine Biotechnology, Waste Water Treatment, Immunology, Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Nanobiotechnology, Bioinformatics, RNAi Biology, Biophysics, Plant Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Computational Biology, Computational Science & AI-ML, Infection Immunology, Patho-Immunology.
14 Mathematics MA
Convex and Variational Analysis, Combinations, Algebra, Computational Finance, Functional Analysis, Probability and Statistics, Fluid Dynamics , Numerical Analysis, Fractal geometry, Cryptography.
15 Mechanical Engineering ME
Machine Design/Biomedical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Fluid Mechanics , Manufacturing.
16 Metallurgical & Materials Engineering MM
Mechanical Behaviour, Biomaterials, Surface Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, Titanium Alloys, Physical Metallurgy, Nanomaterials, High Entropy Alloys, Aluminium Matrix Composites, Bulk Metallic Glass Composites, Structure-Property Correlation, Nanocomposites, Powder Metallurgy, Recycling Of Metals & Alloys, Mechanical Metallurgy, Materials For High Temperature Applications, Archaeometallurgy And Conservation Of Materials Heritage In India, Self-Healable Aerospace Alloys, Microstructural Stability In Nanocrystalline Alloys, Geological Materials, Nanoscale Plasticity And Damage, Microstructural Characterization, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Smart Materials, Aerospace Materials, Surface Modification, 3D Prinitng, & 4D Printing, Surface Engineering, Mechanical Properties Evaluation Of 3D Printed Metallic Materials, Process Metallurgy, Surface Heat Treatment Of Steel, Advanced Alloy Design And Development, ICME, Ferrous Metallurgy, Advanced Alloy Design And Development, Squeeze Casting And Solidification Techniques, Microstructural And Texture Characterization, Mechanical Properties And Tribological Studies, And Computational Material Science Using ANSYS And AI/ML Driven Modelling, Process Metallurgy, Extractive Metallurgy, Welding Metallurgy, AI-ML, Computational Materials .
17 Mining Engineering MN
Geomechanics, Environment, IoT Applications, Remote Sensing, Excavation, Mine Safety Engineering.
Vernacular Architecture, Climate responsive building design, Urban heat Island, Urban Climate, Sustainable development, Urban morphology, Green Infrastructure,
18 Planning & Architecture PA
Environmental Planning, Landscape Design, Landscape Planning, Construction Management, Urban Planning, Urban Design, Housing, Neighbourhood Planning, Community Planning, Age Friendly neighbourhoods /cities, Urban amenities, Leisure amenities, Urban Governance, Transportation Planning, Infrastructure Planning, Land use planning, Global cities, City-network, Contemporary Urbanization, Network analysis, Vulnerability assessment, Environmental Psychology, Blue-green Infrastructure, Creative cities, Cultural and creative Industrial clusters, Cultural Planning, Conservation area planning, Architectural design history.
19 Physics & Astronomy PH
Neutron Stars, Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves, Quantum Information, Stellar Astrophysics, Asteroseismology, Particle/Astroparticle Physics, High Energy And String Theory, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Semicondutor Science And Technology, Thin Film And Nanotechnology, Computational Soft Matter Physics, Astrophysics And Cosmology, Black-Holes.
External Fellowship:- All the Research areas of Dept of Physics and Astronomy
20 School of Management SM
Human Resource Management (Non NET, NET/JRF), Finance Non NET, NET/JRF), Marketing (Non –NET, NET/JRF), Production (Non NET, NET/JRF), General Management (Non-NET, NET/JRF).
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
1 Last date of submission of Online form submission 11th May, 2026 (Monday)
2 Publication of result of scrutiny in the website 22nd May, 2026 (Friday)
3 Test and/ Interview (Venue – NIT, Rourkela) (OFFLINE) 4th June, 2026 (Thursday)
4 Publication of result of Interview in the website 12th June, 2026 (Friday)
5 Admission 30th June, 2026 (Tuesday)
6 Semester Registration /Starting of Class / Research work 20th July, 2026 (Monday)
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