PHD AI Admission Brochure July 2024

PhD Admission Brochure
Session: July, 2024
Department of Artificial Intelligence

IIT Hyderabad
Kandi, Sangareddy
Telangana: 502285
Overview:
The Department of AI at IIT Hyderabad helps in creating a complete ecosystem for AI Academics
and Research at IIT Hyderabad. The department offers B.Tech, M.Tech. and PhD programs (full
time and part time). The emergence of the department is the consequence of the heavy demand
from the industry on artificial intelligence and data analytics, and the need to tackle the many
fundamental and foundational research problems arising in a rapidly evolving field. The depart-
ment’s mission is to
1. Train students to have a sound understanding of the fundamentals of the theory and
practise of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
2. Enable students to become leaders in the industry and academia nationally and interna-
tionally.
3. Meet the pressing demands of the nation in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Ma-
chine Learning.
The Department of Artificial Intelligence has a sizable number of highly dedicated and dynamic
faculty members, with a wide variety of expertise. Faculty publishes regularly in top AI confer-
ences and journals such as NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, JMLR, TIP, TACL
etc. Currently there are 29 faculty members affiliated with the AI department. Candidates can
discover the profiles and teaching/research areas of different faculty members by visiting
https://ai.iith.ac.in/faculty.html.
The PhD students will be provided with excellent laboratory facilities that they can access at any
time. The laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities including software and hard-
ware (including high-end DGX servers and other GPU servers).
The Department of AI seeks talented and dedicated PhD students to develop highly skilled human
resources who can contribute to modern and cutting edge research in AI.
Eligibility Criteria for Application to the PhD program:

The Eligibility criteria for regular PhD program is MTech/ME/MS in CS/ECE/EE or related areas
in Artificial Intelligence. The applicant must have already earned the Master's degree, or should
at least be in the final year of the respective program. In the latter case, it would be assumed that
the candidate will be able to complete the degree by the time of admission into the PhD program.
Candidates with MSc/MCA/equivalent PG degree with an EMDS at IIT-H may apply for Regular
PhD program.
The Department of AI considers Direct-Phd admission, where the eligibility criteria is
BTech/BE/MCA in CS/EC/EE/AI/DS ( Note that AI refers to the Artificial Intelligence branch, and
DS refers to the Data Science branch.), and have a valid GATE score in CS/EC/EE/DA. Candidate
with BE/B-Tech in CS/EC/EE/AI/DS or MCA/MSc(Maths)/MStats (Maths) from any Centrally
Funded Technological Institutes (CFTI), with CGPA 9 or above can apply without a valid GATE
score (For candidates from IITs/NITs/IIITs this is relaxed to CGPA 8 or above).
Department also admit students to part time PhD program. Part time PhD program have the
same eligibility criteria listed above and in addition the candidate must be employed with a rel-
evant employer at the time of application and admission.
Selection Process:
For admission to the program, there will be a preliminary shortlisting depending upon the aca-
demic background. Candidates who satisfy the shortlisting criteria need to appear for a written
test and/or an interview. The shortlisting criteria could be higher than the eligibility criteria. In
addition, the department also reserves the right to set any cut off criteria for shortlisting the
candidates and not to select anybody if no appropriate candidates are found.
Application Process:
IIT Hyderabad has a centralized online application portal for the PhD admission. Candidates are
requested to visit https://www.iith.ac.in/phdadmissions/ for the application format and the sub-
mission link. Candidates applying for any of the PhD program are requested to submit their ap-
plication through the portal.
For other related information, such as last date of application, shortlist announcement, written
test and interview dates, please visit https://ai.iith.ac.in/phd-admissions.html
For any query, kindly write to ai_grad_admissions@iith.ac.in

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Session: July, 2024

Department of Artificial Intelligence

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For any query, kindly write to ai_grad_admissions@iith.ac.in

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