SN Bose Program - WINStep Forward

Varad Puntambekar

Varad is a final year medical student interested in developing technologies with public health applications. He is also interested in other aspects of public health such as health policy and the use of AI in public health. He wishes to work in the public health sector in India in the future. He was selected to

The Covid-19 Research: How India Responds?

Since the advent of first reported case of the Covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 viral infection in India, the scientific response against this worldwide pandemic has been quite significant. The need of time has resulted into an immense scientific polarization towards the Covid-19 specific research. Now India ranks second with 5.73 million total numbers of cases amongst

Navigating a Summer Internship

Diya Binoy Joseph, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center Congratulations! If you are reading this, you are most likely about to embark on a summer research internship or are interested in applying for one. In the former case, your hard work on applications has paid off and you are preparing for an exciting

Field Trips in the Time of COVID-19

It is quite an understatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 disrupted our lives. As a field-based researcher, I had to cancel all my fieldwork activities and instead embrace the lifestyle that I clearly wanted to avoid when I started on my career track: sit at a desk and stare at a screen.

Dev Yashpal Sheth

I am a CSE Undergraduate at IIT Madras and primarily interested in the fields of Theoretical Machine Learning, Deep Learning Theory, Reinforcement Learning and Explainable AI. I also love to explore the systems perspective of ML/DL applications and their large-scale deployment.

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Vallari Shende

I am a fourth year student pursuing a dual degree in M.Sc. Biological Sciences and B.E. Computer Science at BITS Pilani, Goa. So far, I have worked on projects in the field of Cancer Biology and Molecular Biology of the Cell. I am currently interested in the field of Neuroscience and Bioinformatics, or an interdisciplinary

Meera Joy

2020 SN Bose Scholar My name is Meera Joy, currently a 4th year Integrated BS-MS student at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati (IISER-T), majoring in Chemistry. I would like to work in the interface of chemistry and biology. I am interested in applying chemical synthesis in the field of Biology/Medicine to synthesize

Nivin Krishnan

2020 SN Bose Scholar Enthusiastic about clean energy, science policy and quizzing. Aspires to serve the nation.

Prakhar Gupta

2020 SN Bose Scholar Prakhar is an Integrated MSc. in Chemistry (5 years) student at the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar. He has previous research experience in photochemistry, metal-organic frameworks, and supramolecular chemistry. He is currently doing his master’s project in porphyrin chemistry with a focus on modulating non-Hückel aromaticity under Prof.