IIIT-Delhi joins hand with QUT Australia for joint PhD prog

The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology has joined hands with Australia's Queensland University of Technology to offer joint PhD programme.
The collaborative PhD programme, a part of the institute's efforts to promote cooperative educational exchanges, would allow students to pursue their doctoral research in Cryptography, Control Theory and Robotics and Linked Data Analysis from both IIIT-D and QUT.
"Under the programme, the two institutions would jointly develop a system of academic exchanges that would allow a doctoral student to perform coordinated research studies at both institutions," Professor Pankaj Jalote, Director of IIIT-Delhi, said here today.
A PhD student in the programme would spend the first year at IIIT Delhi and then continue their work at QUT for one-and- a-half-years. The student would then return to IIIT to complete their PhD.

For this year, the joint PhD programme would commence in August under which two seats would be available in Control Theory and Robotics, Cryptography, and Linked Data Analysis.
"The PhD student will be jointly guided by supervisors from both institutions with the aim of obtaining PhD by satisfying the requirements and quality standards for the degree of each institution. Successful candidates will be eligible for a joint PhD award that names both institutions," Jalote said.
The joint PhD student would be supported financially by a scholarship, stipend or grant from the institutions, or from a third party.
The stipend would be commensurate with the standards followed in each institution. Travel costs incurred by the student would also be covered, he said.