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I just finished my PhD defense last week (Computer Science, IIT Madras) and wanted to share some honest reflections while everything is still fresh. What went w...
The honest answer to 'is a PhD worth it in India in 2025' I will answer this question honestly because I see a lot of either uncritical enthusiasm or doom-and-g...
I have been on both sides.as a reviewer for IEEE and ACM journals, and as an author who has received peer review. The experience has made me wonder whether the...
I have been on both sides.as a reviewer for IEEE and ACM journals, and as an author who has received peer review. The experience has made me wonder whether the...
I recently had a difficult conversation with my PhD guide that I think many students can relate to. The short version: my guide and I fundamentally disagreed ab...
My Setup I run a machine learning lab with 8 PhD students. Over the past 18 months, I have noticed a significant shift in how my students (and I) work, largely...
Background I have been an Assistant Professor for three years now. Looking back, the most valuable thing in my career so far has been the research network I bui...
Context I am preparing to submit my first research paper to a Q1 journal (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks). This will be my first submission and I am unsur...
Context I am preparing to submit my first research paper to a Q1 journal (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks). This will be my first submission and I am unsur...
Background I am a first-year PhD student in Chemical Engineering. My guide has asked me to apply for PMRF in the upcoming cycle. I need to write the research pr...
The honest answer to 'is a PhD worth it in India in 2025' I will answer this question honestly because I see a lot of either uncritical enthusiasm or doom-and-g...
Background I am a second-year PhD student working on multilingual NLP at NITK. My research involves building named entity recognition systems for code-mixed Tel...