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The U.S.-India TRUST Fellowship was launched in Bengaluru on 7 September 2026 by United States Ambassador to India Sergio Gor, to place American researchers in Indian institutions.
TRUST stands for Transforming the Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technology, the bilateral framework announced by the two countries on 13 February 2025, which replaced the earlier iCET.
Up to 20 American postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty will spend 12 months on collaborative research in India.
Host institutions are the Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, IIT Madras and the Manipal Academy of Higher Education; research areas span artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotechnology, energy, defence and space.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend of $1,650, rising to $3,650 for those on the assistant professor-equivalent Visiting Faculty track at IIT Madras; funding comes from Pratiksha Trust and Mazumdar Shaw Philanthropy.
India's leading research university and a host institution for the fellowship; founded in 1909 with support from Jamsetji Tata.
Host institution; it also runs the assistant professor-equivalent Visiting Faculty track carrying the higher stipend.
Deemed-to-be university and the third host institution named for the programme.
The private philanthropic founding sponsors of the fellowship, making it a privately funded instrument of a government-to-government framework.
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Transforming the Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technology, the India-US technology framework announced on 13 February 2025.
Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology, the earlier India-US technology architecture that TRUST replaced.
The set of strategically sensitive fields - AI, semiconductors, quantum, biotechnology, space and defence technology - that governments treat as instruments of national capability.