Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

U.S. Scholar Application Update

Fulbright U.S. Scholar applications for 2025-26 continue to be reviewed as stated on our timeline pages (US Scholar and IEA). Any updates about applications will be communicated to applicants over email. The competition for the 2026-27 U.S. Scholar Program is open.

Non-U.S. Scholars

Each year roughly 850 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar awards for advanced research and university lecturing in the United States. Individual awards are available to scholars from over 100 countries.

Non-U.S. Scholars

U.S. Institutions

U.S. Higher Education institutions are instrumental to the success of the Fulbright mission. They are key allies in advancing the goal of sharing knowledge across communities, promoting mutual understanding across nations and improving lives around the world.

U.S. Institutions

Name	Home Institution	Host Institutions	Discipline	Program Country	Academic Years	Program
Muthukumar Palanisamy	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Wichita State University	Energy	India	2017-2018	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Manas Kamal Bhuyan	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	Engineering	India	2013-2014	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Mohammad Qureshi	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	University of California, Irvine	Chemistry	India	2016-2017	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	The Scripps Research Institute	Chemistry	India	2012-2013	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Souptick Chanda	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Massachusetts General Hospital	Biomedical Engineering	India	2019-2020	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Deepika Arora	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	National Institute of Standards and Technology , National Institutes of Health	Biology	India	2018-2019	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Arup Chattopadhyay	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	University of New Mexico	Mathematics	India	2016-2017	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Shakuntala Mahanta	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Linguistics	India	2015-2016	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Debasish Borah	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	University of Pittsburgh	Physics	India	2024-2025	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Rabindranath Garai	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Rice University	Energy	India	2023-2024	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Ajit Singh	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	University of Virginia	Mathematics	India	2023-2024	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program

Name

Home Institution

Host Institutions

Discipline

Program Country

Academic Years

Program

Muthukumar Palanisamy

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Wichita State University

Energy

India