For Prospective Students:

We are always looking for bright, motivated, and hardworking individuals with a research aptitude towards signal processing/applied mathematics and medical imaging to be part of our research group.

IISc admissions website has up to date information regarding the eligibility and dates of admission.

If you wish to join Medical Imaging Group (MIG) at SERC in M.Sc.(Engg.)/Ph.D. programs, you will have to get admitted to IISc first!. If you hold a M.E./M.Tech degree (you are directly eligible for IISc research interview, you do not require a GATE score) or hold a B.Tech./M.Sc. with a valid GATE score/CSIR-UGC-NET qualifications, please give any one (preferably SE)/all of the following departments in your departmental preference in IISc application.

Update (December 2009): GATE /CSIR-UGC-NET is no longer required for admission into direct Ph.D. program in Engineering discplines (including SERC). The screening (to be called for IISc research interview) will be based on the academic perfromance, including your qualifying degree.

Dept. & Code
Stream to be specifed during interview
Eligibility
Degrees offered
by the dept.
Supercomputer Education & Research Centre (SE)
Computational science
(specify MIG as your first preference)
ME / M Tech or equivalent degree in any discipline of Engineering or
BE / B Tech or equivalent degree in any discipline of Engineering or
M Sc or equivalent degree in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Electronics, Instrumentation or Computer Sciences or  Master’s in Computer Application. (In all cases a background in programming is required).
M.Sc.(Engg.)/Ph.D.
Mathematical Sciences (MS)
under INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS
Look for projects  which are related to Diffuse optical tomography/medical imaging with Phaneendra Yalavarthy as the proposer of the project.
M Sc or equivalent degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Bioinformatics or
ME/M Tech or equivalent degree in Engineering discipline or
BE/B Tech or equivalent degree in Engineering discipline.
Ph.D.

SERC Research Admissions Brochure

Note: The only way to be a research student, (either M.Sc. (Engg.) or Ph.D.) in MIG, is to apply for IISc admissions. We do not have any provision to admit students through any other means, other than the centralized procedure adopted by IISc, which is advertised twice a year (typically in Febraury 2nd week and  September third week). Check the IISc admissions website for up to date information.

If you have questions in specific to joining MIG, please send an e-mail to Phani (e-mail: phani#serc.iisc.ernet.in; replace # with @).