Thrust Areas

The thrust areas for research in the University for the current session are as given below:

Biochemistry

• Protein-Lipid and Protein-Protein Interactions, Macromolecular Crowding
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy, ERP Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Microscopy (FCS, TIRF, CONFOCAL),
• Phytochemistry of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
• Plant – microbe Interaction
• Sustainable Environment Management
• Gut microbiome
• Plant Bioactives and toxicogenomics

Biotechnology

• Cancer Biology, Tumor, Immunology
• Molecular and Cell Biology, Bio-film Biology
• Drug Discovery, Ethnomedicine, Antibiotics resistance
• Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Remediation
• Ecology, Biodiversity, Entomology, Plant-insect interaction
• Microbial Biotechnology, Virology
• Metabolomics and fermentation technology for aromatic plants
• Medicinal Plants and Bioinformatics
• Nano-biotechnology

Botany

• Plant Microbiology
• Plant Ecology & Biodiversity Conservation
• Plant Systematics
• Plant Biochemistry
• Plant Physiology
• Plant Molecular Biology
• Biowaste Valorization towards value added products and circular
• Economy
• Bioenergy and Biorefinery

Chemistry

• Biophysical Chemistry of Proteins
• Heterocyclic and sustainable Chemistry
• Weak interactions, Catalyst design
• Catalysis, Adsorption and Environmental Chemistry
• Organic synthesis, Catalysis, C-H activation
• Nano-materials, Biosensor
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• Nanomaterials, Sensors and Bioinorganic Chemistry
• Adsorption and catalysis, waste management and water purification, upgradation of ores and minerals.
• Study of non-covalent interactions, Understanding the mechanism of water splitting, and Designing novel materials for water splitting

Civil Engineering

• Transportation Engineering and Water Resources
• Geo-informatics
• Seismic Safety and Vulnerability of Structures
• Fluid and Soil Structure Interaction
• Geotechnical and Structural Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Remote Sensing
• Environmental Engineering

Commerce

• Finance and Accounting
• Banking and Finance
• Entrepreneurship
• Investment and Portfolio Management
• Finance and Management

Comparative Religion

• Themes, Symbols, Myths and Rituals among the World’s Religions
• Beliefs and Practices Regarding the Sacred, the Numinous, the Spiritual, the Divine

Computer Science and Engineering

• Real Time Database Systems
• Digital Image/Signal Processing
• Human-Computer Interaction, Bio-Medical Image Processing
• Computer Network and Network Security
• Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning, Decision Theory
• Applied Cryptography, Soft Computing
• Network on Chip, Network Security
• Incremental Learning, Open set recognition problem, Deep Learning
• Data Mining, Machine Learning, Bio-Informatics
• Net Security
• Cyber Security
• ML/DL, NLP
• WSN, IoT or any relevant areas
• Computer Vision

Computer Applications

• Bio-inspired computation
• Computer Vision
• Graph Theory
• Network security
• IoT related research in Agriculture
• Theoretical Computation
• Medical Image Processing, Web service,
• Edge Computing,
• Service Oriented Computing,
• Software As A Service (SaaS)
• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• Soft Computing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cyber Security
• Speech Processing
• Image Processing
• Distributed Computing
• Fog Computing
• Edge Computing

Economics

• Developmental Economics
• International Trade and Investment
• Macro-econometric Modelling
• Monetary, Fiscal and External Policies
• Agricultural Economics
• Economy of Regulation
• Environmental Economics
• Impact Evaluation
• Institutional Economics
• Natural Resources and Agricultural Economics
• Political Economy
• Public Policy
• Health Economics
• Social Safety Nets, Infrastructure

Education

• Educational Leadership and Management
• Classroom Management, Teacher Supervision
• Curriculum Development
• Educational and Developmental Psychology
• Sociology of Education
• Adolescent Development
• Comparative Education
• Education for the gifted and Creative
• Educational Administration and Management
• Educational Philosophy
• Life Skills education
• Teacher Education
• Population Education
• Environmental Education
• Behavioural Technology
• Inclusive Education
• Value Education
• Science Education
• Language Education

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Optoelectronics
• Renewable Energy
• Disaster Forecasting
• Generation Prediction
• Solar Photovoltaic Systems
• Grid Integration of Renewable Energy
• Microwave Sensors
• Remote Sensing
• Machine Learning
• Renewable Energy
• Power Systems
• Signal Processing
• Condition Monitoring
• Photonics
• Thin Film Technology
• Optical Sensors

Electronics and Communication Engineering

• Nano-structured Sensors, Bio-sensors
• Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
• Biomedical Instrumentation
• Optoelectronics
• Embedded Systems
• Speech Processing
• Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Terahertz Technology
• Nano Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• IoT and Embedded System

English

• Linguistics
• Indian English literature
• American Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Gender Studies
• Phenomenology
• Socio Linguistics
• Language Shift and Maintenance
• Gender Difference in Speech
• Popular Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Race and Body Politics
• North-East Indian Literature
• Language and Literature from North East India
• Diaspora Studies

Mechanical Engineering

• Hydrodynamics and related areas
• Product Design
• Industrial Design
• Bio Printing and 3D Printing
• Design Management
• Design Thinking
• UX / UI
• System design for Sustainability
• Design and Design Management
• Industrial Design
• Bio-Mechanical Engineering
• Rapid Prototyping
• Thermal Engineering
• Renewable Energy
• Interdisciplinary research

Management

• Entrepreneurship, Marketing Management
• Human Resource Management, Corporate Governance
• Tourism, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Digital Marketing, Behavioural Sciences, Investment Behaviour, Marketing & Consumer Buying Behaviour, Workplace Motivation
• General Management
• HRM and Tourism Management
• Insurance Management

Mass Communication

• Society, Development and Communication, Tribal and Folk Media, Media, Religion and Culture, Media Ethics
• Global Media Issues, Media Management, Public Relations, Corporate Strategies, Advertisement, Internet and the Social Media
• Convergent Media, ICT in Higher Education and Knowledge Society
• Journalism, Gender studies
• Traditional media, Digital media, New media
• Mobile communication

Mathematics

• Machine Learning
• Fuzzy Mathematics
• Graph Theory
• Number Theory
• Differential Equations
• Fluid Mechanics
• Optimization Techniques
• Pure and Applied Mathematics

Microbiology

• Microbial Biotechnology, Ecology, Biodiversity
• Antibiotics, Biofilm Biology
• Environmental Remediation, Environmental Microbiology
• Infectious Disease, Vector Biology and Host Parasite Interactions
• Arboviral disease and phage therapy

North East India Studies

• Culture, Religious Beliefs and Post-Modern Society in North-East India
• Ethnicity, Ideology and Identity Formation in North-East India
• A Philosophy of Culture for North-East India
• Society in NE India
• People and culture of NE India
• Development process
• Food and health security issues of People of NE India
• Issues relating to disabilityand human rights issues

Philosophy

• Classical and Tribal Interpretation of Life and Being
• The Sacred and the Profane
• Contemporary Debates in Moral Philosophy
• Philosophical Moorings of a Society - Land, Forest and Faith
• Intercultural Philosophy, Dialogue of Cultures and Eco Sophy (Eco-philosophy)

Pharmacy

• Pharmaceutical Science

Physics

• Condensed Matter Physics
• Electronics
• NanoPhysics
• Plasma Physics
• Astrophysics
• Particle Physics
• High Energy Physics
• Nuclear Physics

Psychology

• Culture, Heredity, Environment and Developmental Psychology; Psycho-spiritual Integration
• Psychology of Meaning and Psychology of Leadership
• Psychological Assessment and Counselling
• Trauma and Transformation
• Socio-Cultural Determinants and Behavioral Psychology
• Positive Psychology
• Learning Disability and Educational Psychology
• Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychological Research

Public Administration

• Urban, Rural and E-Governance
• Development Administration
• Public Policy
• Comparative Public Administrative issues
• Personnel policy
• Administrative structures and organizations
• Geo-politics and Administration
• Environmental Governance, ICT and Governance
• Issues of women, Ethnicity
• Culture and globalized transition

Social Work

• Community Mobilization
• Disease Control
• Governance in Sixth Schedule
• Health Management
• Health Seeking Behavior
• Inclusive Development
• Infrastructure and Development Relations in North East India
• Maternal and Child Health
• Medical and Psychiatry
• Preventive and Social Medicine
• Rights-based Approaches
• Social Work and its Psychosocial Correlates
• Sustainable Community Development
• Women Empowerment
• Child Centered Social Work Practice
• Human Resource Management( Social Work Perspective)
• Child rights, NGOs, Human rights

Zoology

• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Animal Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Animal Ecology and Wildlife Biology
• Fish and Fisheries
• Aquatic fauna
• Entomology
• Medicinal plants
• Reproductive biology
• Medical biotechnology
• Herpetofauna

Important Dates:

Last date for application online : 31 January 2025
Entrance Test and Interview (tentative) : 17 - 22 February 2025
Commencement of Coursework (tentative) : 21 April 2025

Exact dates for Entrance Test and Interviews and commencement of Coursework will be announced on our website.