Free research training for AI in Medicine
The revision process nobody teaches you — how to write rebuttals, handle harsh feedback, and strategically improve your paper. Based on 7 weeks of research paper writing classes I taught at IIT Kharagpur. You submit your paper. You wait weeks, sometimes months. Then the reviews arrive. Your heart sinks. Reviewer 2 calls your experimental design … Read more
The essential textbooks for ML, deep learning, NLP, and medical AI — with honest notes on who each book is for and where to find free legal copies. Photo credit: danielfoster437 Library Books via photopin (license) Updated 2025 — originally published December 2018 A curated reading list of the essential textbooks for ML, NLP, deep … Read more
How Perplexity’s agentic platform turns browsing into a seamless, conversational experience If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed juggling dozens of browser tabs or wished your browser could do more than just display web pages, then Comet might just be the game-changer you’ve been waiting for. Launched recently by Perplexity AI, Comet is not your typical web browser. It’s … Read more
I’ve spent over six years in AI research, but what’s happening in India’s medical tech scene right now is something else. Here’s a closer look at the pioneers in a market that is set to explode. I’ve spent the better part of a decade neck-deep in AI research, from NLP to clinical data, across labs … Read more
The most common piece of hardware advice for AI researchers is wrong. Here’s why you don’t need a powerful GPU laptop, what you actually need, and the exact setup I’ve refined over 6+ years of research across IIT Kharagpur, Germany, and the US. The question I get asked most on LinkedIn: “What laptop should I … Read more
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
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
The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2020), which combined the 7th ACM IKDD CoDS and the 25th COMAD conferences, was held from January 5 to 7, 2020 at the prestigious Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. This event brought together leading researchers, practitioners, and students from … Read more