NITW Visvesvaraya Postdoctoral Fellow Recruitment 2026

NITW Postdoctoral Fellow Recruitment 2026: Overview

National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW) is offering a Postdoctoral Fellowship through the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics and IT: Phase II. The fellowship is based at the institute in Telangana and brings postdoctoral research into its engineering departments. It is a fixed-duration research award for the academic year 2026-27, with a proposal developed around a suitable institute mentor.

Posts and Disciplines

• Computer Science and Engineering: a participating department for research within the scheme’s information technology and IT-enabled services coverage.
• Electronics and Communication Engineering: a participating department within the scheme’s electronics and technology research coverage.
• Electrical Engineering: another participating department from which researchers can seek mentorship for a proposal within the scheme’s scope.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Fellowship tenure: The award runs for one year. Keep this fixed period in mind when planning the scale of your research and the outcomes you propose.
• Research scope: The scheme covers Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) and Information Technology/Information Technology Enabled Services (IT/ITES). Your proposed work should sit within that scope.
• Mentorship: You must identify a guide at NITW. The guide must hold a regular academic or research position at the institute and have an engineering doctorate.
• Current employment: Researchers in temporary academic or research posts can be considered, but must leave those roles if selected. The notice excludes applicants in regular employment.
• Degree awaiting award: Thesis-submitted applicants can be considered. If selected, they receive a lower fellowship until they meet the degree requirement; the notice does not specify that lower amount.
• Institution restriction: The scheme does not accept applicants who completed their PhD at NITW for this fellowship at the same institute.
• Proposal focus: Your proposed research should set out clear objectives, expected outcomes and deliverables. The notice gives preference to work aimed at industry-specific problems and researchers with active industry links.

Application Submission Notes

Send your application to dean_acad@nitw.ac.in. The admissions page provides a downloadable application form and explicitly says that online registration is not needed for this fellowship.

You can contact faculty in the participating engineering departments to request mentorship. The notice points to the institute’s departmental pages for faculty contact details, so use those contacts when identifying a suitable guide for your proposed work.