The Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) Scheme has been designed for improving the quality of research in various higher educational institutions in the country. With attractive fellowships, the scheme seeks to attract the best talent into research thereby realizing the vision of development through innovation. The scheme was announced in the Budget 2018-19. The institutes which can offer PMRF include all the IITs, all the IISERs, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and some of the top Central Universities/NITs that offer science and/or technology degrees. The candidates will be selected through a rigorous selection process and their performance will be reviewed suitably through a national convention. Kindly visit https://pmrf.in/ for more details about PMRF.

Code for Broad Areas and Nodal Expert Committee

PMRF Team

• The PMRF scheme at IIT Tirupati is currently managed by Professor Suresh Jain (PMRF coordinator) with the help of a committee.
• The Academic Section is responsible for approving the scholarships, and the administration of the scholarship is handled by the Accounts section
• Heads of department decide on shortlisting students. The PMRF committee provides overall supervision but the technical matters are handled by the individual department Heads

PMRF Guidelines: View
PMRF Research Grant Guidelines: View

Scholar Details

Vaishali Saraswat Chemical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2023 Ph. D Advisor: Prof. KSMS Raghavarao Ph. D Co-Advisor: Dr. Trivikram Nallamilli Broad Area : Downstream Processing of Bioactive Compounds with Health Benefits from Macroalgae. ch23d006@iittp.ac.in
R Urmila Raghava Panikkar Civil and Environmental Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2023 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Roshan Srivastav Broad Area : Water Resources Management ce23d004@iittp.ac.in
Amey Abhay Dukle Mechanical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Mamilla Ravi Sankar Broad Area : Additive Manufacturing of Biomaterials me22d503@iittp.ac.in
Vikrant Yadav Physics Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Arijit Sharma Broad Area : Experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics ph22d506@iittp.ac.in
Vinith J Chemical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Uday Kumar. S Broad Area : Nanobiotechnology ch22d502@iittp.ac.in
Pankaj Adhikary Chemistry Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Rajib Biswas Broad Area : Theoretical and Computational Chemistry cy22d506@iittp.ac.in
R S Haripriya Electrical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: Jan 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Jaynarayan T Tudu Ph. D Co-Advisor: Dr. Vikramkumar Pudi Broad Area : VLSI Test and Verification ee22d004@iittp.ac.in
Spoorthy B M Civil and Environmental Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. B. Krishna Prapoorna Ph. D Co-Advisor: Dr. P. Venkataraman Broad Area : Composite Wastes in Pavement Applications
Tadavarthi Pushparaj Gandhi Civil and Environmental Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: January 2022 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Shihabudheen M. Maliyekkal and Dr. Reetesh Kumar Gangwar Broad Area : Development of a non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma reactor for the treatment of food contaminated with mycotoxins.
Annette Mariya Tedy Chemistry Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2021 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Arun K Manna Broad Area : Modelling organic luminescent molecules and materials
Vivek Gupta Chemical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2021 Ph. D Advisor: Prof. KSMS Raghavarao, Co-guide- Dr. Trivikram Nallamilli Broad Area : Design of bioreactor for the cultivation of Amaranthus hairy roots and downstream processing of betalains
Prabhleen Kukreja Computer Science Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2021 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. V. Mahendran Broad Area : ML for IoT
A Eashaan Rao Computer Science and Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2021 Ph. D Advisor: Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda Broad Area : Software Engineering.
Srihari C Mechanical Engineering Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2021 Ph. D Advisor: Dr D V Kiran , Dr P S Sai Krishna Broad Area : Smart manufacturing platform for hybrid tandem wire arc additive manufacturing process (TWAAM)
Harsha Gopalakrishnan Mathematics & Statistics Year of joining Ph.D programme: 2020 Ph. D Advisor: Dr Srijanani Anurag Prasad Broad Area : Fractals.