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If you're considering PhD admissions, I highly recommend applying to my master's research lab at IIT Gandhinagar! It's an incredible place to work, led by one of the best professors. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need any assistance. Sharing my professor's post below! #computervision #imageprocessing #aiml #IITGandhinagar

🎩 Hats off to Kunal Mallick (PhD student, Presidency University, Kolkata), who was awarded a SFPE Foundation student research grant for his project, “Pyrogenic Alterations of Soilscapes in Deciduous Forests of Southern West Bengal.” Mallick aims to investigate the effects of forest fires on soil properties in the Rarh region of West Bengal, India. The study will focus on the physicochemical transformations in soils across temporal and fire temperature gradients, evaluating soil properties at different depths post-fire events and during understory regeneration, and comparing surface water repellency between burnt and unburnt forest patches. Learn more about the student research grants and their recipients at https://ow.ly/kiHq50SEB72

Advertisement for PhD position In my research group, there is a possibility to have one or two PhD positions under BITS- RMIT PhD scheme. BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani) and RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) collaborate with RMIT Australia and offer a PhD Program, which is a unique transnational program that allows a student to obtain a joint PhD from two leading universities BITS Pilani and RMIT. (A) Important points: (1) My two projects have been approved: (I) BITSRMIT024B001281: Synthesis of Highly Efficient Nanostructured Photoelectrocatalysts: Water Treatment and Hydrogen Production operating Under a Very Low External Potential Bias and Solar Light Exposure. (II) BITSRMIT024B001280: Development of Highly Efficient Nanostructured Photocatalysts For water Treatment and Hydrogen Production Under Solar Light   (2) In these two projects: BITS Supervisor: Dr NARENDRA NATH GHOSH, FRSC (UK) Professor of Chemistry at BITS Goa and RMIT Supervisor is Dr Baohua Jia, Distinguished Professor   (3) The application portal is: https://lnkd.in/dC6Y2rfe   (4) Applications must be submitted by 17 April for the July 2024 intake.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA have signed a #Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster #collaboration in research and academic #exchanges between the two institutions. This #partnership agreement aims to leverage the strengths of both institutions in Engineering, Science and Technology, promoting #innovative projects and #cross-disciplinary research areas. Through this MoU, faculty and students from both #institutions will have #opportunities to engage in joint research initiatives, share resources, and participate in the #exchange programs, paving the way for advancements in knowledge and technology on a #global scale. #iitkanpur #johnshopkinsuniversity #MoU #collaboration

Some University ranks changed a lot in NIRF 2024. Here's a look at parameter-wise analysis of those universities : - It is clear that it is the research metrics which have helped the universities which have improved the ranks in most cases. Private Universities have done exceedingly well in this parameter - Even reputed institutes like IISERs, NIT Trichy, IIT Ropar cannot keep up with the prolific publishing done by private institutes. - This prolific publishing by private universities is coming at the cost of reputation (DY Patil is an interesting exception). This loss of reputation is perhaps due to various media reports by international press including Science and Nature as well as work by watchdogs like India Research Watch (IRW) who keep calling out the scientific misconduct. - Faculty Quality as measured by number of faculty with PhD has increased a lot among the universities which have significant improvements. Any other insights that one can draw from this graph? University Grants Commission (UGC) MAMIDALA JAGADESH KUMAR MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Dharmendra Pradhan Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

KIIT Ranks 4th in India for Interdisciplinary Science Research https://lnkd.in/gt8Cc_Nn University Secures 92nd Position Globally in THE Rankings 2025 Key Points: • KIIT-DU among top 100 global universities for scientific research • Institution recognized for excellence in interdisciplinary studies • India places 65 universities in prestigious global ranking list JAMSHEDPUR – KIIT-DU achieves remarkable recognition in Times Higher Education rankings for interdisciplinary science. The university secured global recognition. It ranked 92nd worldwide. Moreover, only four Indian institutions reached top 100. Anna University leads at 41st position. Meanwhile, KIIT demonstrated research excellence. It ranked fourth among Indian universities. Furthermore, the achievement reflects sustained efforts. The institution prioritizes interdisciplinary innovation. In addition, Dr. Achyuta Samanta praised this milestone. He acknowledged staff contributions. However, this success stems from collective effort. Quality research drove the achievement. "Research excellence defines our mission," noted a faculty member. The university’s commitment shows results. Innovation remains a key focus. Faculty and students share this achievement. Their dedication earned global recognition. The post KIIT Ranks 4th in India for Interdisciplinary Science Research appeared first on Town Post. https://lnkd.in/gMbnmeXN

The initiative will open a goldmine of knowledge available in top quality scholarly journals to nearly 1.8 crore students, faculty, researchers and scientists of all disciplines, including those in tier 2 and tier 3 cities, thereby encouraging core as well as interdisciplinary research in the country. Aakruti Bagwe Vijay Kalantri #onenationonesubscription #modi #india #bharat #viksitbharat

The nature of issues listed, assuming all being true, surpass imaginations of students and faculties at places like IISc and IITs. If it reads pathetic, it must be unbearable when experienced in real. What kind of researchers such universities would produce? PhD is a sacred path. It's not a degree program (I have written about this earlier). Such universities and faculties must be blocked from offering PhD. In fact I strongly believe that PhD must not be allowed to be offered by every university. #UCG and #MoE must implement strict measures to ensure the quality of research and PhD training is not suffered or compromised. India better produce lesser PhDs, but without a compromise in the quality of training. In any case, a good and bold step taken by this student. Students from other universities, facing similar issues, should also speak up. https://lnkd.in/gv8F5Ast

This is me in front of the Academic Block at IISER Berhampur. Among all other things that a research institute provides, this one does indeed come with nice aesthetics and a beach. However, it is not very ideal to stay in an under construction campus and life is indeed hard here as we are cut off from the main city (which is 20 kilometres away) and there are no local nearby markets to visit, no professors to interact with when you go for an evening walk (they stay in the transit campus which is in the Berhampur city) or for that matter, any PhD students either as their labs as well are in the transit campus. So why am I smiling here in this picture? Is it simply because I thought of making this LinkedIn post? Well, not really. Me and my friend Pratyasha Tripathy attended one of our old professor's (who took our introductory course on quantum mechanics) last lecture that he was giving to the junior batch. It was one of the most fun things I did in a while. This post is not to promote or demote one's ambition to join the IISERs but to simply reflect on the fact that life isn't straightforward anywhere and it sure as heck isn't the same here, infact even worse (I'm not mentioning a lot of detail here haha, officials might read this sometime), but to some extent, I enjoy the empty campus and hate it sometimes and that gives me the motivation to get around this section of life with a nice smile and "do it" attitude. All in all, this is NOT the last post about the state of #student / #research life at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur and more will be there when there's a stable internet connection here (I finally, officially ranted about it) :) . PS: Thanks to Archana Mondal for clicking this picture :-) #iiser #science #research