SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2026

Indian Institute of Technology dhArwAD invites applications for the prestigious Summer Internship Program 2026.

Eligibility:

The applicant must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or post graduate student pursuing a degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, humanities, or other allied streams from an accredited (officially recognized) Indian institute/university.
The applicant must have a minimum CGPA of 6.5 or 65% in the most recently completed semester (or earlier semester if the results for the current semester are not yet available at the time of application).
The applicant must be available full-time for a minimum of 1 or 2 months during the internship period at IIT dhArwAD campus.

Duration of the Summer Internship:

Maximum duration of this Summer Internship is two (02) months.

[between 11th May 2026 – 10th July 2026]

The minimum recommended internship period is one (01) month.

Submission of Applications

Applications must be submitted through the portal hosted at IIT DHARWAD website.
Submission of application is not allowed after the due date.
Submitting application is free.
Please keep the below documents ready before submitting the application
1. Recent Photograph
2. Latest Resume
3. Latest Marksheet
4. Bonafide Certificate issued by your college/institute with the Principal/Institute’s head seal and signature
Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Timeline

Announcement of inviting applications: 29th March 2026.
Due date for submission of applications: 12th April 2026.
Announcement of the results: 20th April 2026.
Commencement of the internship program: 11th May 2026.

Stipend & Internship Certificate

There is no provision of stipend, travel support or any kind of monitory benefits to any selected intern.
An internship certificate will be provided to interns whose performance is certified by faculty mentor as Excellent/Good/Satisfactory.
Interns with unsatisfactory performance (as determined by their respective faculty mentors) may not be allowed to continue and/or may not be issued an internship certificate.

Accommodation

Free accommodation and food (from the hostel mess) will be provided by IIT DHARWAD for all the selected interns in the institute’s hostels subject to availability.
No additional charges (Water, Electricity) will be imposed on the selected interns.

Selection Procedure

Preliminary screening of applications followed by an interview (online mode) by the faculty mentor of IIT dhArwAD.
Selected candidates shall be informed through emails only.
No separate communication shall be sent to non-selected candidates.
The decision of IIT dhArwAD shall be final in the selection of candidates fulfilling the eligibility criteria. No correspondence shall be entertained in this regard.

Guide to complete the Application Form:

Step I: Complete the Section 1 (Fill all the personal and educational details)

Step II: Complete the Section 2 (Select the department and the faculty mentors of your interest)

Step III: Complete the Section 3 (Upload the requested documents)

Step IV: Complete the Section 4 (Answer the miscellaneous questions)

Click Here to Apply

Last Date to Apply: 12^rd April 2026

Click Here to Download the Bonafide Certificate Format

For any queries, please write us to: cdc.office@iitdh.ac.in

For any queries, please write us to: cdc.office@iitdh.ac.in List of Faculty members interested to mentor Summer Interns 2026 with their respective research areas:

Department	Name of the Faculty	Areas of Interest
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	Aniket Vasantrao Kataware	Pavement Materials, Bitumen, Bituminous Mixes, AI ML in Pavement Materials
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Pratyasa Bhui	Smart Grid, Power Systems, Renewable Energy, Green Hydrogen
Chemical Engineering	Dr.C.Ravikumar	Hydrogen production, Sensors,Nanotechnology, Catalysis, Modeling and Simulation
Chemistry	Sudhir Kumar Sahoo	Computational chemistry, Molecular dynamics simulations, Free energy calculations, Force field development
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Hiranya Deka	1. Aerodynamic optimization of air cooler fan blades forbetter efficiency. 2. Aero-acoustic simulation of AC exhaust fan blades for noise reduction.
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Naveen Kadayinti	Analog and Mixed signal IC design
BSBE	Swananda Marathe	1. Role of astrocytic bdnf in antidepressant action 2. Regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics by antidepressants
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Nagaveni S	RTL Designing, FPGA prototyping, Physical Designing, Analog circuit design
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	ANIMESH KUMAR SAHOO	Renewables, Power Electronics and Power Systems
Chemistry	Kundan K Singh Sagar	Bioinorganic/Metal Nanocluster/Catalysis
Physics	R Prabhu	Quantum Information Theory, Many-body Physics, Quantum Optics, Relativistic Quantum Information
Physics	Dhriti Sundar Ghosh	Photovoltaics; Thin-films; Device Physics
Mathematics	Shraddha Srivastava	Representation theory, Algebraic Combinatorics, Lie algebras
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Punnag Chatterjee	Loitering munitions survey, Shape memory polymer development for smart valves, Exoskeleton conceptualization, Dynamic Modeling of Drones
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Rakesh Lingam	Metallography, AR/VR in manufacturing, Incremental sheet forming, Tool path generation software
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Shashaank Aswatha Mattur	Computer Vision, Image Processing, Remote Sensing
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Satish Naik	Power Electronics
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Samarth Raut	GUI creation for biomedical applications AR VR Soft robotics Indian Knowledge System
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	Hemanth Kumar CH	Structural Design of RCC Structures, Structural Fire Engineering, Design of PEB Building Structures
Physics	Kavita Devi	Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, Lasers, Photonics
Chemistry	Nilkamal Mahanta	Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, mechanistic Enzymology
Mathematics	Shreedevi K. Masuti	Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Rajshekhar V Bhat	Wireless Communications, Deep Learning for Wireless Communications, Verilog Coding for Wireless Communication Algorithm Implementation
Mathematics	Shreedevi K. Masuti	Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Ameer Mulla	Control Systems, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Cryptography
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Anbukkarasi	Materials Characterization
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Satyapriya Gupta	Machine Learning in Materials Design, Crystal plasticity modeling of metals, Finite element modeling of Fiber Reinforced Composites, Experimental Alloy design and development
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Somashekara M A	Additive manufacturing, 3D/4D Printing
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Ruma Ghosh	Development of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring Development of interfacing circuit for three resistive sensors
Computer Science and Engineering	Koteswararao (Kote) Kondepu	Open Radio Access Network
Humanities, Economics, Arts and Rural Technologies (HEART)	Gopal Sharan Parashari	Applied game theory, Climate change, Sustainability, Energy economics
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	Ramesh Nayaka	1. 3D Concrete Printing Technology 2. Al & ML in Structural Engg. 3. Sustainability Assessment in Structural Engg.
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Abhijit Kshirsagar	Power Electronics (DC-DC and DC-AC converters for Renewable Energy, EV applications, Motor Drives), Embedded Control (for Power Applications: Development with TI-DSP C2000, PSoC6 etc)
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	Amarnath Hegde	Geotechnical Engineering, Sustainability
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Amar Gaonkar	Computational Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Impact Mechanics, Thin Film Dynamics
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	B N Bharath	LLMs, prompt engineering, building AI agents, learning, and unlearning in LLMs.
Mathematics	Veekesh Kumar	Number Theory: Transcendental Number Theory, Diophantine Approximation
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Prof Ramjee Repaka	Battery Thermal Management; Bioheat Transfer
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	Giridhar Rajesh Bande	Geotechnical Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering	Konjengbam Anand	Machine Translation, RAG based LLM chatbot,Virtual & Augmented Reality Digital Twins, Affect-Cognition interaction, and Design Innovation, Branding-identity design
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Saroj Mondal	VLSI Circuits and Systems, RF Microelectronics (RFIC), Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC).
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Rahul Pandya	Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Communication, AI for Weather Predication, AI for Image Processing
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Sai Ram Boggavarapu	Electromagnetic field simulations and Design of magnetic components
Chemical Engineering	Ravi Chandra Dutta	1) Development of MOF materials for Gas Separation 2) Development of NASICON Based Cathode Materials 3) Machine Learning (ML) for the development of Clean Energy Technologies
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Sushanta K. Sethi	1. Multi-scale modelling and simulation of hydrogen embrittlement 2. Computational Materials Science
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE)	Dr. Samba Raju	Sound source separation and enhancement, RTL designing of Softmax function for AI
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	Keerthi M. C.	Experimental aerodynamics, Compressible flows, Compressor aerodynamics
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering	VYOM SHARMA	Modified topics are: Design and developments are lightweight metallic composite metal foams structure for ballistic shields
Chemistry	Mahesh Gudem	Computational photochemistry, polaritonic chemistry, quantum dynamics, non-adibatic dynamics
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)	Siba Narayan Swain	Cyber security + NLP + Deep Learning
Bioscience and Bioengineering (BSBE)	Bal Krishna Chaube	Blood Brain Barrier Remodeling, Endothelial Metabolism, Cancer Metabolism
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)	Dileep A D	Speech Biometrics and Forensics, Spoken Language Recognition, ML for Biomedical Applications,
Chemical Engineering	Prof. Ashok Kumar Ummireddi	1. Electrochemical CO2 reduction, 2. Electrochemical partial oxidation of methane to methanol
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE)	Dhiraj Patil	Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Sustainable Development, Solar energy
Chemistry	Dr. Supriya Rej	Organic synthesis, Organometallics, Catalysis & Synthetic methodology
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering-EECE	Amarkumar Kushwaha	Motors for Electric Vehicles, Instrumentation for Electric Machines, Electric Drives, Power Electronics
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)	Nikhil Hegde	Parallel Computing, Compilers, Eigensolvers
Chemical Engineering	SONTTI SOMASEKHARA GOUD	Microfluidic droplet-based extraction, Droplet-based mixing, Metal recovery from industrial waste, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Chemistry	Anmol Kumar	Machine learning model development for Covalently binding Ligands, Role of Electric field in ligand binding, Method development for quantum chemical treatment of biomolecules.
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE)	Omkar Baswaraj Bembalge	AI in Manufacturing, Arduino / Raspberry Pi-based control systems, motion control, and electronics integration for the printer in Additive Manufacturing.
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)	Vijeth J Kotagi	Machine Learning in Wireless Networks, Internet of Things, Resource management in 5G/6G networks
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)	Achyut Mani Tripathi	AI ML for Networks
Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering-EECE	Naveen M B	6G Wireless Communication, Signal Processing for Communication, Near Field Communication
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE)	Surya Prakash	Analysis of downwash created by drone/UAV propellers Experimental testing of Agricultural Drones Analyses of compact compressor performance Development of patternators using Ultrasonic sensors
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	K V Jayakumar	Environmental Flow and Integrated Water Resources Management
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE)	Meenatchidevi Murugesan	Combustion, Aerospace propulsion, Thermoacousstics
Chemical Engineering	JVJ Krishna	Sustainable waste valorization; Hydrometallurgy; Electrochemical separations; Sustainable process design for resource recovery and ZLD