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Other Faculty

Visiting Faculty

VF

Visiting Faculty positions offered to faculty members, Scientists and Engineers in other Academic Institutions for short durations like one or two months to a maximum of one year and the term may be extendable.  The appointment of Visiting Faculty is of temporary nature. 

SPARC

 The Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) program aims at improving the research ecosystem of India’s higher educational institutions by facilitating academic and research collaborations between Indian Institutions and Foreign Institutions, through Joint Research Projects involving mobility of students and faculty members.   Through the intense collaboration expected from this program, we look forward to establishing new frontiers in technology research.

URL: https://sparc.iitkgp.ac.in/scheme_details.php

As of now, 66 faculties are appointed under SPARC program at various departments of IIT Madras as detailed.

VAJRA Visiting Faculty

The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body of the Department of Science and Technology, GoI implemented the VAJRA (Visiting Advanced Joint Research) Faculty Scheme.  The VAJRA Faculty Scheme is a dedicated program exclusively for overseas scientists and academicians with emphasis on Non-resident Indians (NRI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) / Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) to work as adjunct / visiting faculty along with Indian collaborator for a specific period of time in Indian Public funded academic and research institutions.