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How to balance teaching assistantship responsibilities with thesis research?

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National Institute of Technology Karnataka · Posted
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I want to start using federated learning for my research on privacy-preserving healthcare analytics. The datasets involve patient records from three hospitals and we cannot share data across sites.

What I am looking for:

  • Python frameworks that are actively maintained and used in research
  • Any frameworks with good support for heterogeneous data distributions (non-IID)
  • Something that has a reasonably gentle learning curve for a researcher (not a systems engineer)

I have looked at PySyft and Flower. Any experience with either, or other alternatives I should consider?

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Anita Rao · Accepted answer

The ethics review situation in Indian universities is actually more complex than most people realize.

There is no uniform national framework equivalent to the US Common Rule. Each institution has its own Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) or Institutional Review Board (IRB).

For anonymous survey research with no identifiable data and no vulnerable populations: most Indian IECs would classify this as exempt, but 'exempt' still needs a formal determination from the IEC.it is not self-certifying.

My practical advice: go to your institution's research ethics office now, describe what you did, and request an exempt determination in writing. Better to have documentation than to discover the issue during thesis review.

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Manish Tiwari Starting 10 pts · Accepted answer

This is really helpful context. One more question: for the ethics committee approval, does the institution where the data is collected or the institution where the analysis is performed need to be the primary ethics approver?

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Farhan Mirza · Accepted answer

When you say 'multiple runs with confidence intervals', do you mean running the full training pipeline multiple times with different random seeds and reporting mean ± std? Or something more statistically rigorous?

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Kiran Yadav Growing 130 pts · Accepted answer

+1 to everything said above. My experience was identical.

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Lakshmi Devi Growing 75 pts · Accepted answer

Really appreciate you taking the time to write this out in detail. This is going straight into my research notes.

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Hemant Patwa · Accepted answer

The Fulbright SoP is very different from a typical PhD SoP. It needs to focus on cultural exchange and diplomacy, not just research.

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Harini Balakrishnan Active 215 pts · Accepted answer

Strongly agree with the point about choosing venues carefully. One paper in NeurIPS > five papers in obscure workshops.

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Preethi Anand Distinguished 690 pts · Accepted answer

CSIR-UGC NET preparation: past papers are the most important resource. Everything else is secondary.