Recently, Dr. Shrey Gupta sat down with his brother-in-law – an engineer preparing for an artificial intelligence job interview – and offered to help him revise. Five minutes in, the engineer stopped him. “I feel like I’m the doctor,” he laughed. “I don’t understand what you’re saying at all.” For Dr. Gupta, a pediatrician and…
For Yasaswi Kapila, the IIT Madras BS Degree in Data Science and Applications wasn’t just an academic credential; it was a career catalyst. What began as a search for a structured programming path during his engineering studies transformed him into a professional Data Scientist. Yasaswi joined the program’s first batch in 2020 while simultaneously pursuing…
Covid brought with it a new, unseen, world, transitioning people from one thing to another. Anupratee Bharadwaj, a BSc holder in Aviation was no exception for her domain had gradually decelerated to a standstill. As someone who loved learning, she kept looking for opportunities to grasp at. Eventually, her family would be the ones to…
Most of us have spent at least a small part of our childhood captivated by a video game. We remember the thrill of clearing a level, discovering a hidden path, or trying again after failing for the tenth time. Bharat Mahindra, however, grew up wondering what it takes to build those worlds. That childhood fascination…
Undiscussed goes the miasma of anxiety and academic pressure befalling those who are capable yet unable to break past the nigh insurmountable walls set by entrance exams. Sujit AL was bogged down by such a miasma, taking a gap year to try and better his chances, and in such a time of uncertainty, the wind…
Every year, students across India are asked to make a choice. Mathematics or Biology. Engineering or Medicine. For most, that decision marks the beginning of two very different careers. BVS Madhavi never believed those worlds had to remain apart. Medicine hadn’t been her first choice. Yet once she found herself there, curiosity kept pulling her…
There exists a proclivity for students who enter college to lose sight of what makes their life colourful and fade into machinic personalities capable of just doing what their job asks of them. Devi Shreya saw that future and wished to refuse it, for losing all that would amount to losing herself. It was here…
Coming from a background unlike that of what one would assume to have an interest in Data Science, Bhabani Shankar Samal simply took a leap of faith hinged on a belief that it would take him to places he did not have faith he could. That belief came from an online platform where he stumbled…
Success usually arrives in milestones: an examination cleared, a rank secured, a degree completed. For Prashasti Sarraf, it appears instead as a habit, repeated so consistently that individual achievements begin to lose their ability to surprise. ICSE AIR 5. ISC AIR 7. St. Stephen’s College. IIT Madras BS Degree. Academic distinctions, TA roles, research initiatives…
The passion for a subject is oftentimes the key to open doors to a broader world, and Sarath Sai knew exactly that. From being unable to take Aerospace Engineering due to eligibility criteria to falling back on a Bachelor’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in his home-state of Andhra Pradesh at JNTU, he…