PhD Joint Degree Programme
(IIT Mandi - PEC Chandigarh)
(IIT Mandi - PEC Chandigarh)
We are pleased to announce the invitation for applications to the Joint Degree Program (JDP) in collaboration between PEC Chandigarh and IIT Mandi. This program presents a unique opportunity for aspiring researchers and scholars to pursue their doctoral studies in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment.
The PhD Joint Degree Program (JDP) combines the academic excellence and research process of PEC Chandigarh and IIT Mandi, two esteemed institutions renowned for their contributions to education and research. This joint initiative aims to provide a platform for students to engage in cutting-edge research projects under the guidance of distinguished faculty members from both institutions. Through this program, students will have access to a diverse range of research facilities, resources, and expertise available at both PEC Chandigarh and IIT Mandi.
We cordially invite talented and motivated individuals to apply for the PhD Joint Degree Program (JDP) between PEC Chandigarh and IIT Mandi. Embark on a transformative journey of academic excellence, research collaboration, and personal growth as you work towards earning a prestigious joint doctoral degree from two distinguished institutions.
Take this opportunity to make significant contributions to your field of study and join the vibrant research community at PEC Chandigarh and IIT Mandi. Unleash your potential and shape the future through the PhD Joint Degree Program (JDP).
| Starting date for filling Online Application | 05th May, 2025 |
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| Last date for filling Online Application | 20th May, 2025(05:00PM) |
Project Details:
| S.No. | Project Title | Home Institution | Name of Guide/ Supervisor form Home Institution | Name of School/Department/Centre (Home Institution) | Host Institution | Name of Guide/ Supervisor form Host Institution | Name of School/Department/Centre (Host Institution) |
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| 1 | Development of Automatic Solar Panel Cleaning Robot for Soiling Mitigation and Reduced Power Derating | IIT Mandi | Prof. Dipankar Deb | Center for AI and Robotics | PEC | Dr. Ajay Kumar | Electrical Engineering Department |
| 2 | 4D printing of polymer composites for biomedical applications | IIT Mandi | Dr. Prateek Saxena | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (SMME) | PEC | Dr. Jasvinder Singh | Production and Industrial Engineering Department |
| 3 | Machine Learning Assisted Phase-Field Modeling of Fracture Behavior of Particulate Composites | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rajkiran | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. JD Sharma | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| 4 | Development of Semiconductor Devices for Flexible Electronics | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rahul Vaish | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Arun Kumar Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering |
| 5 | Advanced thermal management of power electronics | IIT Mandi | Dr. Sarthak Nag | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. JD Sharma | Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering |
| 6 | Fabrication, testing and machine ability of Magnesium based MMC for biomedical applications. | IIT Mandi | Prof. Mohammad Talha, | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Mohinder Pal Garg | Mechanical Engineering |
| 7 | Molecular dynamics based investigation of High Entropy Ceramics | IIT Mandi | Dr. Raj Kiran | SMME | PEC | Dr. Gurpreet Singh | Production and industrial Engineering |
| 8 | Materials for environmental applications | IIT Mandi | Dr Satvasheel Ramesh Powar | Mechanical and Material Engineering | PEC | Dr Sandeep Kumar | Physics department |
| 9 | Effect of various ceramic materials on the operational features of solar thermal collectors | IIT Mandi | Dr Satvasheel Ramesh Powar | School of Mechanical and Materials Egnineering | PEC | Dr. Kaustubh R. Kambale | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| 10 | Droplet impact and spreading dynamic on a heated surfaces under microgravity | IIT Mandi | Dr. Parmod Kumar | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (SMME) | PEC | Dr. Lokesh | Mechanical Engineering Department |
| 11 | Mechanical and Tribological behavior of Aluminum metal matrix composites reinforced with Industrial Waste | IIT Mandi | Dr. Sandeep Sahu | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, IIT Mandi | PEC | Dr. Jimmy Karloopia | Production & Industrial Engineering Department |
| 12 | Development of Multi-Scale Hybrid Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites via Stir Casting and Friction Stir Additive Manufacturing | IIT Mandi | Dr. Prateek Saxena | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, IIT Mandi | PEC | Dr. Jimmy Karloopia | Production & Industrial Engineering Department |
| 13 | Fabrication and Tribological Performance of Functionally Graded Self-Lubricating Metal Matrix Composites | IIT Mandi | Dr. Sunny Zafar | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, IIT Mandi | PEC | Dr. Jimmy Karloopia | Production & Industrial Engineering Department |
| 14 | Supply Chain Performance aligned with Green Credit System | IIT Mandi | Dr Satvasheel Ramesh Powar | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr Mohit Tyagi | Department of Production and Industrial Engineering |
| 15 | Energy Harvesting, Design of smart Materials Structure, Simulation and Modelling | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rajeev Kumar | School of Mechanical and Material Engineering | PEC | Dr Rahul O Vaishya | Production and Industrial Engineering |
| 16 | Semiconductor Devices for neuromorphic Computing | PEC | Dr. Arun Kumar Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Satinder Kumar Sharma | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 17 | Design, development and implementation of Hybrid AC-DC microgrid using adaptive control techniques. | PEC | Dr. Ajay Kumar | Electrical Engineering Department | IIT Mandi | Dr. Pratim Kundu | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 18 | Memristor for Neuromorphic Computing | PEC | Dr. Arun Kumar Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Satinder Kumar Sharma | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 19 | Planning of Electric grid with High penetration of renewable energy sources | PEC | Dr Manohar Singh | Electrical Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr Pratim Kundu | School of computing science and electrical engineering |
| 20 | Thin flim Transistors based circuits foe sensors interfaces | PEC | Dr. Deepak Kumar Sharma | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Robin Khosla | School of Computing and Electrical Engineering |
| 21 | Tribology and Surface Engineering | PEC | Ravinderjit Singh Walia | Department of Production and Industrial Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rajeev Kumar | Mechanical Engineering |
| 22 | Design and development of yttria based polycrystalline transparent ceramics for laser host applications | PEC | Dr. JD Sharma | Metallurgical & Materials Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rahul Vaish | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering |
| S.No. | Project Title | Home Institution | Name of Guide/ Supervisor form Home Institution | Name of School/Department/Centre (Home Institution) | Host Institution | Name of Guide/ Supervisor form Host Institution | Name of School/Department/Centre (Host Institution) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Investigation of Fabrication, testing and machinability of Magnesium based MMC for bio medical applications. | IIT Mandi | Dr. Mohammad Talha | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr Mohinder Pal Garg | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| 2 | Enhanced Prediction Models for Pavement Distress considering variable Traffic Loading Patterns in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design | IIT Mandi | Dr. Surya Kant Sahdeo | School of Civil & Environmental Engineering | PEC | Dr. Pardeep Kumar Gupta | Department of Civil Engineering |
| 3 | Effects of Pavement Stiffness on Traffic Speed Deflection Measurements | IIT Mandi | Dr. Surya Kant Sahdeo | School of Civil & Environmental Engineering | PEC | Dr. B. Adinarayana | Department of Civil Engineering |
| 4 | Experimental Investigation/ Statistical Analysis of Smart Materials | IIT Mandi | Dr. Vishal Singh Chauhan | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Suman Kant | Department of Production & Industrial Engineering |
| 5 | Exploration of electrical, thermal and magnetic properties of functional high-entropy materials | IIT Mandi | Dr. C.S. Yadav | School of Physical Sciences | PEC | Dr. Gurpreet Singh | Department of Production & Industrial Engineering |
| 6 | Microstructures and Properties of High-Entropy Materials: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiments | IIT Mandi | Dr. Raj Kiran | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Gurpreet Singh | Department of Production & Industrial Engineering |
| 7 | Multi-catalytic and energy storage performance of 2D-materials and their derivatives | IIT Mandi | Dr. Viswanath Balakrishnan | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Gurpreet Singh | Department of Production & Industrial Engineering |
| 8 | Flexible magnetoelectric composites for energy harvesting applications | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rahul Vaish | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Sanjeev Kumar | Department of Physics |
| 9 | PVDF based flexible composites for energy storage applications | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rahul Vaish | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Sanjeev Kumar | Department of Physics |
| 10 | Development of 2D-TMD based devices for nanoelectronics applications | IIT Mandi | Dr. Robin Khosla | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering | PEC | Dr. Shilpi Chaudhary | Department of Physics |
| 11 | Machine Learning Assisted Phase-Field Modeling of Fracture Behaviour of Particulate Composites | IIT Mandi | Dr Raj Kiran | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. J.D. Sharma | Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering |
| 12 | Semiconductor Devices for Flexible Electronics | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rahul Vaish | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Arun Kumar Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering |
| 13 | Role of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Environmental Performance | IIT Mandi | Dr. Manoj Thakur | School of Mathemathical & Statistical Sciences | PEC | Dr. R.S. Walia | Department of Production & Industrial Engineering |
| 14 | Materials for Environmental Applications | IIT Mandi | Dr. Satvasheel Ramesh Powar | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering | PEC | Dr. Sandeep Kumar | Department of Physics |
| 15 | Ion Detector for Miniature Mass Spectrometry | IIT Mandi | Dr. Robin Khosla | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering | PEC | Dr. Deepak Kumar Sharma | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering |
| 16 | Multihop Question Answering System using LLM and Knowledge Graphs | PEC | Dr. Shilpa | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Dinesh Singh | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 17 | Grid stability & power systems Protection with integration of issues with Renewables and Electric Vehicle Changing Infrastructure | PEC | Dr. Manohar Singh | Department of Electrical Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Pratim Kundu | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 18 | Design of Magnesium based Biodegradable Bone Implants | PEC | Dr. Kamal Kumar | Department of Mechanical Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Sumit Murab | School of Biosciences & Bio Engineering |
| 19 | Enhanced Prediction Models for Pavement Distress considering variable Traffic Loading Patterns in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design | PEC | Dr. Pardeep Kumar Gupta | Department of Civil Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Surya Kant Sahdeo | School of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| 20 | Effective utilization of co-fired fly ash obtained from biomass-coal cofiring as a supplementary cementitious material in construction | PEC | Dr. Arshdeep Singh | Department of Civil Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Surya Kant Sahdeo | School of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| 21 | Lead Free Relaxor Ferroelectric Materials for Energy Storage Applications | PEC | Dr. Sanjeev Kumar | Department of Physics | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rahul Vaish | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering |
| 22 | Waste sourced value added materials for sustainable 3D printing | PEC | Dr. Shilpi Chaudhary | Department of Physics | IIT Mandi | Dr. Garima Agrawal | School of Chemical Sciences |
| 23 | Design and development of lead-free Perovskite materials for solar cell applications | PEC | Dr. Shilpi Chaudhary | Department of Physics | IIT Mandi | Dr. Robin Khosla | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 24 | Development & Synthesis of highly dense Polycrystalline Transparent Ceramics for functional applications | PEC | Dr. J.D. Sharma | Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rahul Vaish | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering |
| 25 | Memristors for Neuromorphic Computing | PEC | Dr. Arun Kumar Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Satinder Kumar Sharma | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 26 | Semiconductor Devices for neuromorphic Computing | PEC | Dr. Arun Kumar Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Satinder Kumar Sharma | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 27 | IoT Enabled MIMO Antenna for 5G and Beyond Networks | PEC | Dr. Simranjit Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. G. Shrikanth Reddy | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 28 | Machine Learning Assisted Resource Allocation of Distribution Raman Amplifier for Long Distance Optical Communication System | PEC | Dr. Simranjit Singh | Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Srikanth Sugavanam | School of Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| 29 | Surface Engineering: Mechanisms, Processes and Characterizations | PEC | Dr. R. S. Walia | Department of Production & Industrial Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Rajeev Kumar | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering |
| 30 | Design and Development of Natural Fibre Reinforced Fully Biodegradable Composites | PEC | Dr. Sarbjit Singh | Department of Mechanical Engineering | IIT Mandi | Dr. Mohammad Talha | School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering |
