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PhD Programmes @ SOE.

School of Engineering,CUSAT is offering PhD programmes in various research areas.of Engineering .

Candidates are advised to contact the Department / visit web sites of Departments for having an understanding of their fields of research. They may contact guides of the Department of their concerned field of study and check the availability of research guides. After getting the consent of a guide the candidates have to obtain the hard copy of the application form (within the prescribed time as per CAT Notification) from the office by making the payment of required fee through See Notification for CAT for fee details. The duly filled in applications should be submitted within the time prescribed in the CAT Notification. Once the applications are submitted, the concerned Department will intimate the candidate the schedule for DAT, Interview etc. in due course.

Eligibility / Minimum required qualification

Candidates seeking registration to the Ph.D programme shall hold a Master’s Degree from a recognized University with 55% marks in the qualifying examination, or a CGPA of 6.0 in the 10 point scale or an equivalent grade in similar scales. A candidate belonging to SC/ST community is eligible for concession upto 10% marks for admission provided that he/she has a pass in the qualifying examination. Candidates seeking registration shall have passed the Departmental Admission Test and ranked as per the norms laid down in the regulation. Candidates who possess national/state research fellowship with valid scores, with committed financial assistance at the time of seeking admission, in any of the national/state level eligibility tests conducted by the agencies or by industries so recognized by the University for the purpose, are exempted from provision (ii) above. Teachers of Universities/Aided Colleges in Kerala/Teachers who are working in Quasi Government/Government Institutions recognized by CUSAT and scientists in National Level Research Laboratories, who have put in five years of continuous service, and foreign nationals who have been sponsored under a scholarship scheme by the Government of India for undergoing Ph.D. programme in India, are exempted from provision (ii) above.

List of Research Areas

SI_No Research Area Faculty Department
1 Ground Improvement Dr. Sobha Cyrus Civil Engineering
2 Grouting Dr. Sobha Cyrus, Dr. Glory Joseph, Dr. Job Thomas Civil Engineering
3 Geosynthetics and Geotextiles Dr. Sobha Cyrus, Dr. Deepa G Nair, Dr. Subha V, Dr. Bindu C S, Dr. Beena K s Civil Engineering
4 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Dr. Beena k S Civil Engineering
5 Landslides Stabilization Dr. Sobha Cyrus, Dr. Beena k S Civil Engineering
6 Influence of Organic Matter on Characteristics of Clays Dr. Sobha Cyrus, Dr. Beena k S Civil Engineering
7 Water Resource Engineering Dr. Abdu Rahiman, Dr. Subha V Civil Engineering
8 Biodiversity of water body Dr. Abdu Rahiman, Dr. Subha V Civil Engineering
9 Sustainable Technology for solid waste management Dr. Renu Pawels,Dr. Subha V Civil Engineering
10 Biological nutrient removal for wastewater Dr. Renu Pawels Civil Engineering
11 Membrane bioprocess for wastewater treatment Dr. Renu Pawels Civil Engineering
12 Modeling and Control of Environmental Hazards Dr. Job Thomas, Dr. Deepa Balakrishnan, Dr. Beena K S Civil Engineering
13 Treatment of industrial waste water Dr. Renu Pawels Civil Engineering
14 Environmental Management Dr. Renu Pawels,Dr. Subha V, Job Thomas Civil Engineering
15 Adsorption of heavy metal ions from aqueous solution Dr. Renu Pawels Civil Engineering
16 Sustainable Construction Materials & Sustainable Housing Dr. Subha V, Dr. Deepa G Nair,Dr. Glory Joseph,Dr. Sobha Cyrus Civil Engineering
17 High Performance and Special Concretes Dr. Glory Joseph, Dr. Deepa Balakrishnan, Dr. Ramadass,Dr. Job Thomas Civil Engineering
18 Geopolymer Concrete Dr. Job Thomas, Dr. Subha V, Dr. Deepa Balakrishnan, Dr. Deepa G Nair, Dr. Glory Joseph, Dr. Bindu C S Civil Engineering
19 Deep Beams Dr. Job Thomas, Dr. Deepa Balakrishnan Civil Engineering
20 Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Dr. Job Thomas, Dr. Deepa Balakrishnan, Dr. Glory Joseph Civil Engineering
21 Cryptography Dr. Sheena Mathew, Dr. Pramod Pavithran Computer Science and Engineering
22 Network Security Dr. Sheena Mathew, Dr. Pramod Pavithran Computer Science and Engineering
23 Data Science Dr. Sudheep Elayidom Computer Science and Engineering
24 Machine Learning Dr. Sudheep Elayidom Computer Science and Engineering
25 Deep Learning Dr. Sudheep Elayidom Computer Science and Engineering
26 Natural Language Processing Dr. Lathe R Nair Computer Science and Engineering
27 Fluid Flow Dr. Joshy P J Mechanical Engineering
28 Heat Transfer Dr. Gireeshkumaran Thampi B S Mechanical Engineering
29 Combustion Dr. Gireeshkumaran Thampi B S Mechanical Engineering
30 Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Dr. Saju K K, Dr. Akhil S karun Mechanical Engineering
31 Energy Science and Engineering Dr. James Varghese Mechanical Engineering
32 Design and Analysis of Mechanisms Dr. Biju N Mechanical Engineering
33 Computational Fluid Dynamics Dr. Tide P S, Dr. Harikrishnan S Mechanical Engineering
34 Thermal Engineering Dr. Harikrishnan S Mechanical Engineering
35 Application of AIML in Mechanical Engineering Dr. Harikrishnan S Mechanical Engineering
36 Batteries Thermal Management System Dr. Harikrishnan S, Dr. James Varghese Mechanical Engineering
37 Supply Chain Management, Dr. Franklin R John Mechanical Engineering
38 Operations Management, Operations Research Dr. Franklin R John Mechanical Engineering
39 Nanomaterials Dr. Dhannia T Mechanical Engineering
40 Thin films Dr. Dhannia T Mechanical Engineering
41 Photocatalysis Dr. Dhannia T Mechanical Engineering
42 Power & Energy Systems Dr. Latha P G Electrical and Electronics Engineering
43 Industrial Power Electronics Dr. Latha P G Electrical and Electronics Engineering
44 Electric Vehicles Dr. Latha P G Electrical and Electronics Engineering
45 Power & Energy Systems Dr. Asha Elizebeth Daniel Electrical and Electronics Engineering
46 Industrial Power Electronics Dr. Asha Elizebeth Daniel Electrical and Electronics Engineering
47 Risk assessment and analysis  Fuzzy FTA Dr V R Renjith Safety and Fire Engineering
48 FMEA Dr V R Renjith Safety and Fire Engineering
49 FMECA Dr V R Renjith Safety and Fire Engineering
50 HAZOP Dr V R Renjith Safety and Fire Engineering
51 LOPA Dr V R Renjith Safety and Fire Engineering
52 Fuzzy LOPA Dr V R Renjith Safety and Fire Engineering
53 Affective computing Dr.Daleesha M Viswanathan Information Technology
54 Pattern Recognition Dr.Daleesha M Viswanathan Information Technology
55 Network on Chip (NoC) Dr.Daleesha M Viswanathan Information Technology
56 Quantum Computing Dr.Daleesha M Viswanathan Information Technology
57 Software Engineering Dr. Shelbi Joseph Information Technology
58 Software Reliability Dr. Shelbi Joseph Information Technology
59 Artificial Intellgence Dr. Shelbi Joseph Information Technology
60 Internet of Things (IoT) Dr. Shelbi Joseph Information Technology
61 Computing Education Dr. Renumol V G Information Technology
62 Engineering Education Dr. Renumol V G Information Technology
63 Software Engineering Dr. Renumol V G Information Technology
64 Data Mining Dr. Renumol V G Information Technology
65 Biometric Applications and Big Data., Biometric Security Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
66 Affective computing, Approximate Computing Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
67 Machine Learning Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
68 pattern recognition Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
69 Computer Vision Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
70 Energy Efficient Optimal Communication Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
71 Image Annotation Retrieval System Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
72 Semantic Web And Ontology Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
73 Quantum Computing Dr. Binsu C Kovoor Information Technology
74 Knowledge based systems Dr. Santhosh Kumar M B Information Technology
75 Blockchain Dr. Santhosh Kumar M B Information Technology
76 Digital twining in Agriculture Dr. Santhosh Kumar M B Information Technology
77 Internet of Things (IoT) Dr. Santhosh Kumar M B Information Technology
78 Quantum Computing Dr. Santhosh Kumar M B Information Technology
79 Space Technology Dr. Santhosh Kumar M B Information Technology
80 Data Security using Cryptography Dr. Varghese Paul (Retd.) Information Technology
81 Data Mining Dr. Varghese Paul (Retd.) Information Technology
82 Data Compression Dr. Varghese Paul (Retd.) Information Technology
83 Image Processing Dr. Varghese Paul (Retd.) Information Technology
84 Artificial Intelligence Dr. Philip Samuel Information Technology
85 Big Data Computing Dr. Philip Samuel Information Technology
86 Automated software Engineering and UML Dr. Philip Samuel Information Technology
87 Reconfigurable Multi Standard Sigma-Delta ADCs for next Generation of Wireless Transceivers Dr. Babita Roslind Jose Electronic and Communication Engineering
88 Reconfigurable dual input variable output switched capacitor converter for low power applications Dr. Babita Roslind Jose Electronic and Communication Engineering
89 Hardware accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks Dr. Babita Roslind Jose Electronic and Communication Engineering
90 Abnormal activity detection in Image/Video Surveillance Dr. Babita Roslind Jose Electronic and Communication Engineering
91 Reconfigurable Memristive Radio Frequency Devices Dr. Babita Roslind Jose Electronic and Communication Engineering
92 Transfer learning / Domain Adaptation techniques for Image/Time series classification Dr. Babita Roslind Jose Electronic and Communication Engineering
93 Domain Adaptation approaches in Medical Imaging applications Dr. Babita Roslind Jose Electronic and Communication Engineering
94 Gain enhancement superstrate Dr. Anju Pradeep Electronic and Communication Engineering
95 Phased array Dr. Anju Pradeep Electronic and Communication Engineering
96 Metamaterial Absorber Dr. Anju Pradeep Electronic and Communication Engineering
97 Metamaterial isolator Dr. Anju Pradeep Electronic and Communication Engineering
98 RCS reduction for patch antennas Dr. Anju Pradeep Electronic and Communication Engineering
99 Semiconductor devices Dr. Anju Pradeep Electronic and Communication Engineering
100 Improvement of power fficiency and signal detectability in ST Radar. Dr. Anju Pradeep Electronic and Communication Engineering
101 Digitalisation of Palm leaf Manuscripts Dr. Deepa Sankar Electronic and Communication Engineering
102 Target Detection from Hyperspectral Images Dr. Deepa Sankar Electronic and Communication Engineering
103 Digital Image Forensics Dr. Deepa Sankar Electronic and Communication Engineering
104 Detection and Identification of Abnormalities from Chest X rays Dr. Deepa Sankar Electronic and Communication Engineering
105 Compressive Sensing Dr. Deepa Sankar Electronic and Communication Engineering
106 Restoration of Impaired speech Dr. Deepa Sankar Electronic and Communication Engineering
107 EMI/EMC Dr. Abdulla P Electronic and Communication Engineering
108 Planar filters Dr. Abdulla P Electronic and Communication Engineering
109 Aperture coupled DRAs Dr. Abdulla P Electronic and Communication Engineering
110 Image enhancement Dr. Abdulla P Electronic and Communication Engineering
111 DRA -Waveguide fed / slot coupled Dr. Abdulla P Electronic and Communication Engineering
112 RF ID Dr. Abdulla P Electronic and Communication Engineering
113 UWB antennas Dr. Abdulla P Electronic and Communication Engineering
114 Digital Beamforming Dr. Mridula S Electronic and Communication Engineering
115 Flexible Substrates (material consultation- PSRT) Dr. Mridula S Electronic and Communication Engineering
116 Microwave Material characterisation Dr. Mridula S Electronic and Communication Engineering
117 Microwave Imaging (soil– CE department) Dr. Mridula S Electronic and Communication Engineering
118 Reconfigurable Circuits Dr. Mridula S Electronic and Communication Engineering
119 Metamaterials in Microwave Dr. Mridula S Electronic and Communication Engineering
120 RFID/ Sensors Dr. Mridula S Electronic and Communication Engineering
121 Delta Sigma Modulator for Wide Band Applications Dr. Shahana T K Electronic and Communication Engineering
122 MIMO Wireless Communication Dr. Shahana T K Electronic and Communication Engineering
123 Hardware Efficient Secure Embedded Communication Systems Dr. Shahana T K Electronic and Communication Engineering
124 VLSI Signal Processing Systems Dr. Shahana T K Electronic and Communication Engineering
125 Flexible thin film transistors Dr. Shahana T K Electronic and Communication Engineering
126 VLSI Signal Processing Architectures Dr. Shahana T K Electronic and Communication Engineering
127 Bufferless network routers Dr. Rekha k James Electronic and Communication Engineering
128 Multicore architecture Dr. Rekha k James Electronic and Communication Engineering
129 Network on Chip Dr. Rekha k James Electronic and Communication Engineering
130 TFET Dr. Rekha k James Electronic and Communication Engineering
131 VLSI design for high- speed computing Dr. Rekha k James Electronic and Communication Engineering
132 Approximate computing Dr. Rekha k James Electronic and Communication Engineering
133 Printed microwave components for wide band applications Dr. Binu Paul Electronic and Communication Engineering
134 Word Sense Disambiguation in malayalam Dr. Binu Paul Electronic and Communication Engineering
135 Algorithms for SAR Image classification Dr. Binu Paul Electronic and Communication Engineering
136 Metamaterial based antennas Dr. Binu Paul Electronic and Communication Engineering
137 Radar signal processing Dr. Binu Paul Electronic and Communication Engineering
138 Flexible Electronics Dr. Binu Paul Electronic and Communication Engineering
139 Ultra-wide band Antennas Dr. P. Mythili Electronic and Communication Engineering
140 Microwave Imaging of breast tumor Dr. P. Mythili Electronic and Communication Engineering
141 Transformation techniques for Image Processing Dr. P. Mythili Electronic and Communication Engineering
142 Finger print image compression and identification Dr. P. Mythili Electronic and Communication Engineering
143 Speech signal processing Dr. P. Mythili Electronic and Communication Engineering
144 Fiber optic sensors Dr. Jibukumar Electronic and Communication Engineering
145 Machine Learning Dr. Jibukumar Electronic and Communication Engineering
146 Vehicular Networking Dr. Jibukumar Electronic and Communication Engineering
147 Cooperative Communication Dr. Jibukumar Electronic and Communication Engineering
148 Multimedia Communication Dr. Jibukumar Electronic and Communication Engineering
149 MRT Dr. Gopikakumari (Retd.) Electronic and Communication Engineering
150 Transform based signal analysis Dr. Gopikakumari (Retd.) Electronic and Communication Engineering
151 Speech Processing Dr. Gopikakumari (Retd.) Electronic and Communication Engineering
152 Speech Production Analysis and Synthesis Dr. Gopikakumari (Retd.) Electronic and Communication Engineering
153 Image processing for Secure communication and Medical images Dr. Gopikakumari (Retd.) Electronic and Communication Engineering

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