PhD admissions to the Department of Artificial Intelligence are conducted twice a year, May and December. Interested and eligible applicants may apply through the IITKGP admissions portal, during which they must upload their academic details, including marksheets and certificates of qualifying exams like GATE/NET.

Applications will be shortlisted by the department based on suitable criteria, followed by scrutiny by the Academic Section. Applicants who receive the call letter for the interview will be required to be present with their academic documents and call letter copy at the specified venue in IIT Kharagpur on the date of the selection process. Applicants will first take a written test based on Mathematics, Programming and Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Those who are selected based on their written test performance and their academic background score, will be invited to an interview by departmental faculty members. The final selection will be on the basis of background academic score (20%), written test performance (50%) and interview (30%). The results will be communicated to the selected candidates by the Academic Section in due course of time.

Working Professional candidates may apply for PhD program only after submitting

1. no-objection certificate from their current employers in specified format,
2. Research proposal approved by at least one faculty member of AI Department.

The approving faculty member should advise the candidate if they are selected.

Syllabus for the entrance exam