Doctor of Philosophy Programme

PhD Advertisement for Spring Semester 2023 (CDS)

Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS)

Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) at IISER Kolkata invites applications for regular Ph.D. programme in the Spring semester, 2023 in the disciplines of Information Retrieval, Text processing, Knowledge Graphs and Knowledge Bases, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.


Minimum Eligibility criteria:

Bright and motivated candidates with a Master's degree with minimum 55% marks or CGPA/CPI of 6.5 on a 10-point scale in any field of Computer Science. Besides satisfying minimal eligibility criteria, the candidates are expected have CSIR/UGC-NET JRF, INSPIRE fellowship or other equivalent fellowships.


* Candidates with INSPIRE fellowship should have provisional certificate at the time of application.


** Please note that fulfilling the minimum essential criteria does not ensure that a candidate will be called for the interview. Additional short listing criteria might be set by the department based on academic records, experience and research interest of the candidates.

Candidates are expected to have CSIR/UGC-NET JRF, INSPIRE fellowship or other equivalent fellowships.


*** Reservations for SC/ST/OBC/Divyang candidates candidates are applicable as per Government of India rules.


The departmental faculty profiles can be found at the URL:Click Here


Important Dates:
Selection Interview window: 1-7 December 2022
Publication of PhD interview results: 14th December 2022