Pk_mail - Sat, Jan 20, 2024
TL;DR - Honors / Dual degree. Impactful projects. Amazing people / nerds / geeks / alums. Lab INFO Session. Applications deadline. Application process.
Greetings! Hope you had a good break and are doing well in the semester. I am super excited to see many of you reach out to know about Precog, understand the projects, etc. I am writing this email to let you know about the opportunity to work with us in the coming semesters. It will be great to have some of you work with us in executing these challenging ideas.
We are interested in having you commit multiple semesters working with us for credits / thesis, etc. Our current collaborations are UC Berkeley, UT Austin, Rutgers, U of South Carolina, Indiana U, IIT {Madras, KGP, Bhubaneswar}, and many more, and some new collaborations are being cooked now. Depending on your interest, expertise, and availability, we will be more than happy to have you in the appropriate team.
Our work in the past has been covered in BBC, WashingtonPost, NewYorker, Economic Times, Times of India, and many other international and national media. Students working with us have received multiple best paper awards (including one in 2021) and have won prizes in other reputed competitions.
Some prominent themes that we are currently working on, you will have an opportunity to work with are:
Responsible AI
Applied Machine Learning / NLP
Code-mixed analysis
Social Network analysis
Elections 2024
All our publications are available at https://precog.iiit.ac.in/pages/publications.html
In the past we have also developed tools built the research work, including tools for Government of India which were widely used across the country.
Saftie http://bit.ly/saftie-cam [Multiple TEDx talks given on this work]
WhatsFarzi http://bit.ly/whatsfarzi
Elections http://bit.ly/elections19 [Widely covered on media, including national and international TV]
Some students who worked with us in the past have gone to great places, listing down a few from the past few years; you can look at the entire list at https://precog.iiit.ac.in/pages/people.html Every single student in this list made themselves and us proud.
Shrey Gupta, CMU
Vansh Kandelwal, CMU
Shourya Dewan, CMU
Akshay Goindani, CMU
Pooja Desur, Columbia Univ.
Aravind Narayanan, U of Toronto
Aakash Aanegola, Goldman Sachs
Amul Agrawal, Uber
Pratyush Priyadarshi, Google
Jivitesh Jain, #UG2k18, Palantir
Arnav Kapoor, #UG2k18, CMU
Tanvi Karandikar, #UG2k18, CMU
Shradha Sehgal, #UG2k18, UIUC
Mallika Subramaniam, #UG2k18, Columbia
Omkar Gurjar, #UG2k17, JPMorgan –> UIUC
Kanay Gupta, #UG2k16, Google
Aanshul Sadaria, #UG2k16, Google
Mohit Chandra, #UG2k15, Microsoft –> PhD at GaTech
Devansh Manu, #UG2k15, Amex UK
Soumya Vadlamannati, #UG2k15, CMU Masters –> Bloomberg
Here are some pointers to blogs that student have written about working us, these may inspire you to be part of this amazing set of nerds / geeks.
Pooja Desur A Week in the Life of a Precogger https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/2023/08/14/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-precogger/
Shrey Gupta Precog: A Memoir of Growth and Discovery https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/2023/07/03/precog-a-memoir-of-growth-and-discovery/
Jivitesh Jain Precog: You’ll look back and be proud https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/2022/11/10/youll-look-back-and-be-proud/
Tanvi Karandikar, Why working at Precog is totally different! https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/2022/07/25/why-working-at-precog-is-totally-different/
Shradha Sehgal, Passion, Purpose, Precog https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/2022/09/04/passion-purpose-precog/
Mallika Subramaniam, Learn, Bond, Grow @ Precog! https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/2022/08/07/learn-bond-grow-precog/
Aanshul Sadaria, At the crossroads: (with) Precog https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/2020/07/16/at-the-crossroads-with-precog/
Many more at https://precog.iiit.ac.in/blog/
We would like you to start with us as an Honors / DD student at the end of your fourth semester / beginning Summer. For you to understand more about the projects, work, culture of the group, we have an INFO Session scheduled on 10th Jan 20:45hrs IST. Please let us know if you will join by filing https://forms.office.com/r/2KrjfCkiP5 so we can interact with only interested students. We are very excited about the opportunities available, if you feel the same, please visit https://forms.office.com/r/rFM9vif0kL and submit your application; you can do this after the INFO session also. Applications deadline is 23:59hrs 20th Jan.
Tentative timeline & Process for selection:
10th Jan 20:45hrs: INFO Session
20th Jan 23:59hrs: Application deadline
1st Feb: Share task with selected students
15th Feb: Submission of task
17 - 24 Feb: Interviews
1st March: Announce results
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow & your application soon. Enjoy the rest of the week.