Research Programmes

The EECS division offers world-class research opportunities leading to the award of the MTech (Research) and PhD (Doctoral) degrees. Research students get a chance to discover, innovate, and conduct fundamental/applied work, working with world-class faculty within a wide range of theoretical and experimental areas that span the electrical, electronics, and computer sciences. There are plenty of opportunities for students to do interdisciplinary work cutting across the EECS division, for example, within cyber-physical systems, quantum computing and communication, and brain-inspired computing.

Research within the IISc EECS division falls within the following broad technical areas.

Artificial Intellligence
Brain, Computation, and Data Science
Computer Vision
Computer Systems
Control and Optimisation
Electromagnetics
High Voltage Engineering
Image Processing
Machine Learning
Micro/Nanoelectronics
Mm-Wave and THz RF Systems
Next Generation Communications and Networking
Photonics and Quantum Electronics
Power Electronics
Power Systems
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Semiconductor Technologies
Signal Processing
Theoretical Computer Science

Admission to our research programmes are highly competitive with cut-offs based on GATE scores, GRE scores (in case of foreign nationals), and prior academic records. Each department within EECS has a listing of the research areas conducted by a faculty member within that department. For more details, prospective candidates are advised to browse the thematic research cluster webpages, individual web pages (BCD, CSA, ECE, EE, ESE, KIAC), associated research labs, and individual faculty web pages, to learn about exciting work happening within EECS, aligned to their research interests.

All our students are offered fellowships through the Government of India. There are also prestigious fellowships, such as the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), along with other attractive industry-sponsored fellowships.

Upon graduation, our PhD students are highly sought after by industrial R&D organisations within India and abroad. Some of our doctoral students also start their academic careers with prestigious universities within India and abroad, typically after an academic post-doctoral experience or an industrial research work experience. There are also possibilities for entrepreneurships, supported by the IISc eco-system for startups.