Top Medical AI Startups from India in 2025: Technology and Impact Explained

India’s healthcare sector is rapidly transforming with the integration of artificial intelligence, poised to reach $1.6 billion by 2025 with a CAGR of 40.6% (Source: IndiaAI blog dated December 31, 2024).  In this article, I dive deep into the technology and real-world impact of three pioneering Indian startups in medical AI and digital health — Niramai Health … Read more

My PhD Laptop Setup (2025): Why I Chose Portability Over Power for AI Research

The ergonomic desk setup of an PhD-AI researcher, featuring an ASUS Vivobook 15 laptop on a stand, a OnePlus Pad Go tablet for digital notes, and an ergonomic HP wired mouse.

As an AI researcher with a Ph.D., one of the most common questions I get is, “What’s the best laptop for machine learning research?” People expect me to point to a massive, 3kg gaming laptop with the most powerful GPU money can buy. My answer usually surprises them. This post details my personal, real-world PhD … Read more

How to Get Started with Research in AI for Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide

With the continuous stream of LinkedIn updates and new preprints related to AI in medicine, it is easy and understandable to feel overwhelmed about where to start as a researcher. In this article, I will give suggestions that focus on the “AI for Medicine” research area. This has been my research area during my Ph.D, … Read more

Understanding Brand Personality: How It Shapes Consumer Behavior and Brand Positioning

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In the era of digital marketing, it is becoming increasingly challenging for organizations to position their brand uniquely and differentiate from competitive product lines. In order to achieve that, organizations target a set of humanlike qualities (or a personality) across all their marketing campaigns. This is known as brand personality. In this article, we will … Read more

Bengali Datasets in 2025 for Named Entity Recognition and Sentiment Analysis

(Updated in 2025) A major limitation of current AI research is the overemphasis on English and the under-representation of the Bengali or Bangla language. Despite being the seventh most spoken language worldwide, Bengali remains a low-resource language in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This scarcity of resources poses significant challenges for developing robust … Read more

10 Essential Soft Skills Every Grad Student Must Sharpen for Research Success

In part 3 of the “Research for All” initiative, we will cover how to sharpen your soft skills related to the day-to-day activity as a grad student, research scholar, or even a research aspirant! Why is soft skills so important? Being a grad student isn’t just about mastering your research or technical skills—soft skills matter … Read more

What to do after you join MS Research at IIT Kharagpur

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Here, I plan to write about my MS (Research) journey at IIT Kharagpur, India. In this article, I will provide the complete details of all the administrative procedures and guidelines required throughout the course of pursuing an MS Research degree after you get accepted to the program. Important: I will also provide the CGPA calculation … Read more

How to apply for MS Research at IIT Kharagpur

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Article Summary This is the 2nd post in the blog series “MS Research Experience at CSE@IIT Kharagpur” where we cover how a student can apply (the application process), the eligibility criteria, how to prepare for the interview, and the final decision of actually pursuing it. In my previous article, I covered the Master of Science … Read more

Can we publish a paper without a conference?

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Yes, we can publish a paper without peer review from a conference. I can think of at least two alternatives: (i) non-commercial preprint servers on arXiv, bioarXiv, and (ii) journals or ACM/IEEE Transactions. You can read about the submission guidelines of arXiv here. arXiv is the most popular preprint server used in the machine learning … Read more