S. Vishnu Sharma
IIT Hyderabad has announced offering research fellowships for PhD in Heritage Science and Technology. Institution has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sri Visweswara Yoga Research Institute (SVYRI) to offer this fellowship.
It is interesting to note that IIT Hyderabad is one of those educational institutions that has made a mark on higher education arena. It offers lot of courses at graduate and postgraduate level. The institution provides doctorate programmes also. Students who have the required educational qualifications can apply to study the courses at IIT Hyderabad.
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) which is popular as IIT Hyderabad is a premier institute of science and technology established in 2008. IIT Hyderabad has been consistently ranked in the top 10 institutes in India for Engineering according to NIRF making it one of the most coveted schools for science and technology in the country.
Who can apply for this PhD at IIT Hyderabad
Individuals who have completed their master’s in engineering – ME or MTech or master’s in science – MSc in the required discipline or discipline allied to the subject can apply. Applicants must also have a valid GATE score. Candidates who have not yet finished their qualifying examinations can also be considered with marks upto 7th semester or 3rd year (whichever relevant).
Application process and time
Students can submit application at any time during the year for this programme at IIT Hyderabad. Applications will be processed two times in a year. Submission of applications can be done after the notification is released at the appropriate time during the year.
Official website of IIT Hyderabad has to be visited after release of notification, required link is to be clicked and registration has to be done and an account comprising username and password has to be created. Post creation of account, candidates can login and submit applications.
Students can submit applications offline if the scope is made available. Applications can be acquired from the institution in person. Completed forms can be submitted at the organisation in person or they can be sent through post or courier.
Area of research
The research can be taken up in any area of science and technology that is applicable to aspects connected to the heritage of this country like yoga, ayurveda, dance, architecture, sculpture. Fellowship of Rs 75,000 (per month) will be provided, it will also cover expenses incurred on travelling to a destination abroad for presenting the results achieved in the respective area of research.
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The PhD program in Heritage Science and Technology at IIT Hyderabad envisages development of researchers that can apply methods from science and technology in aforementioned domains and undertake challenges for the benefit of the society. The program is
designed to train candidates by a broad spectrum of course work in HST followed by research activity in diverse heritage domains. The areas where one can conduct research are mentioned below:
- Instrumentation and Analytics for Yoga
- Acoustics of instruments & Computational Music
- Indian language technologies – OCR for epigraphy/manuscriptology, Indian language Text-2-speech, Automatic Speech recognition, Natural language processing
- Heritage structures and conservation
- ML and data science for Heritage databases & Indian knowledge systems
- 5D immersive Human-Computer-Interfaces for heritage and tourism technologies