IIIT Lucknow PhD Admission 2025 (July)

22 May, 2025

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

PhD

IIIT Lucknow

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Full details for IIIT Lucknow PhD Admission 2025 (July).

Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Lucknow invites applications for PhD admission for the academic session 2025 (July).

PhD Admissions Categories

  • Self Financed- Full Time Research Scholars
    • The applicants shall not receive any financial support from the institute in any form.
  • Working Professional
    • An applicant of this category is sponsored by his/her employer. The sponsoring organization must specifically undertake to relieve the applicant to enable residential requirements of the Ph.D. programme and also provide necessary facilities for carrying out the research (if applicable). Such applicants shall not receive any financial support from the institute in any form.
  • Aspiring Students in Higher Academics Students in (ASHA) 
    • This category is specially designated to the fresh graduates from CFTI’s/IIT’s/NIT’s/IIIT’s. They shall not receive any financial support from the institute in any form.

Research Areas

One can refer to faculty profile for details. However, priority will be given to the following areas –

Engineering (Computer Science/Information Technology)

  • WSN
  • IoT
  • Threat Assessment and Wireless Communication
  • Image Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Image Analysis
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Biometrics
  • AI
  • Deep Learning
  • Cloud Computing
  • Fog/Edge Computing
  • Real-time Data Analytics for Smart Applications
  • Distributed and Federated Learning
  • Industrial Applications
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Analytics
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Smart Grid Technologies
  • Blockchain
  • NLP
  • Speech/Dialogue processing
  • Multimodal sensing Grid and analysis
  • Scholarly data processing
  • Neural machine translation
  • Summarization
  • Information Retrieval
  • Legal Information extraction
  • Scholarly Data Mining
  • Text Summarization

Management

  • Supply chain
  • Analytics
  • Information Systems
  • Operations Research
  • Human resource management
  • Organizational behavior Linguistics
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Business Communication and Education
  • Economics
  • Financial Management
  • Fintech
  • Finance

Mathematics

  • Homogenization Theory
  • Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
  • Optimal Controls

Collaborative Research Areas:

  • AI in Music (in collaboration with Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Lucknow)
  • Cyber Forensics (in collaboration with UP State Institute of Forensic Sciences)
  • Drug Design & Discovery (in collaboration with NIPER, Raebareli)

Note: Research Areas may be added to the pool depending upon the availability of faculty members in different departments of the institute.

Eligibility Criteria

Self Financed Full Time Research Scholars

  • Applicants should have qualified CSIR/ UGC/ DAE/ NBHM/ DST/ DBT/ ICAR/ ICMR/ ICPR or secured funding from such an agency after completing the Master’s degree in relevant discipline with a consistently good academic record (Minimum 60% marks or equivalent throughout in Xth, XIIth, Graduation, Post-graduation. 5% relaxation shall be applicable for SC/ ST/ PH candidates)” in relevant discipline. OR;
  • Applicant should have a Master’s degree in relevant discipline with a consistently good academic record (Minimum 60% marks or equivalent throughout in Xth, XIIth, Graduation, Post-graduation. 5% relaxation shall be applicable for SC/ ST/ PH candidates).

Working Professional

See brochure for eligibility & other requirements.

Aspiring Students in Higher Academics (ASHA)

  • The minimum educational qualification for admission is a B.Tech degree with at least 8.5 CGPA or 80 % (as applicable in the graduating institute) with a consistently good academic record (Minimum 60% marks or equivalent throughout in Xth, XIIth, 5% relaxation shall be applicable for SC/ ST/ PH candidates)” in relevant discipline.
  • Candidates seeking admission, should possess requisite marks/grades in GATE (cutoff to be defined by IIIT L) in Computer Science/EE/EC/Ch.E/ME or related field.

Application Process

  • Candidates have to apply online through the official website https://iiitl.ac.in/
  • The applicant has to carry the print out of all the documents (self-attested scanned copy of the Application form and Supporting Documents) and their originals during the personal interview.
  • The applicant has to send fresh application to apply for multiple disciplines and payment also to be made separately.
  • Read the instructions given in the Ph.D. information brochure carefully before filling up the application form.

Important Dates

  • Application forms are available from: 20 May, 2025
  • The last date to fill the admission form: 15 June, 2025
  • Tentative date to publish the list of shortlisted candidates for Personal Interview: 20 June, 2025
  • Tentative Written and/or Personal Interviews: 16 & 17 July, 2025
  • Tentative Date for Result Declaration: 21 July, 2025
  • Admission Process to take place between: 23 July, 2025 to 25 July, 2025

Application Fee

  • For General Category & OBC: Rs. 1500/- per application form.
  • For SC/ST/PWD: Rs. 1000/- per application form

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