How to Secure Conference Travel Funding as an Indian MS/PhD Student in 2025

Step-by-step guide to navigating eligibility, top travel grant programs, and application tips to present your research at international conferences with financial support. If you are reading this article, it may be that you have got a paper accepted to a conference after dealing with several conference deadlines. Congratulations on this great achievement. I am sure … Read more

From Replication to Publication: Is Implementing a Published Paper Sufficient for a New Article?

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In the scientific community, particularly in fields like computer science and machine learning, a common and valuable exercise for students and researchers is to implement a published paper. This process deepens understanding and verifies the original work’s claims. However, a crucial question often arises: Is the successful implementation of an existing algorithm or model, by … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Machine Learning & AI Datasets for 2025

Back when I first wrote this post in 2022, the AI landscape was a different place. Finding a good dataset felt like a treasure hunt, piecing together links from university pages, old GitHub repos, and forum posts. I started this list to keep track of the gems I stumbled upon during literature reviews or through … 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

My Experience at Smart India Hackathon 2017: Lessons That Still Apply Today

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What it’s really like to compete in SIH — the application process, the onsite round, what we built, and what I wish I’d known going in. Updated 2025 — originally published May 2019 The first edition of Smart India Hackathon in 2017 was chaotic, exhausting, and one of the most formative experiences of my early … 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

AI and ML Datasets to Start With — Part 2: Social Networks, Industry Collections, and Medical Data

Beyond the UCI Repository — the best datasets for graph analysis, clinical NLP, and medical imaging, from open access to application-required tiers. Updated 2025 — originally published January 2019 Part 2 of the dataset series covers social network analysis datasets, open-source collections from Google and Microsoft, and an expanded section on medical AI datasets — … 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