Fellowship

6-Month Fellowship – December 2024 to May 2025 

We’re launching our first-ever invite-only fellowship for the top 10-20 winners of our pan-India competition. Competition winners and standout candidates will be invited to participate in a 6-month, part-time fellowship, where they will be matched with expert mentors in their area of interest (some of our experts are listed here) and receive support from the organising team. The fellowship is designed to allow participants to explore impactful work while maintaining their current commitments. Stipends will be provided for financial support.

Fellows can choose one of three tracks based on their strengths and interests:

  1. Research: Investigate important, unanswered questions. We’ll help you identify the right problem statement. The deliverable will be a research report, with an option to present findings for extra credit.
  2. Creation: Develop a tangible, useful product or tool. We’ll support you in defining what this should be. The deliverable can range from a product prototype to a functional tool.
  3. Communication: Simplify and explain a complex topic for a broader audience. We’ll guide you in selecting the right subject. Deliverables can include long-form articles, shorter pieces, graphics, videos, presentations, or any other medium that suits your style.

Each fellow’s problem statement and deliverable will be co-created with their mentor to ensure it aligns with both global needs and the fellow’s interests. 

After the fellowship, if the projects show potential and the fellows are keen, there may be opportunities for further funding to develop their ideas into long-term ventures. Our team will also assist interested fellows in securing full-time opportunities.

Fellow Highlights

Megha is building towards a pilot for food-acid labelling and campaign for building awareness to inform people of the health risks associated with acidic foods which have become a large portion of urban diet, and making low-acid foods more accessible. She is a professional lawyer from Harvard Law School now based in New York.

Animesh, an IIT Delhi graduate, is tackling essential medicine stock-outs in rural and peri-urban India. As Associate Product Manager at Tata 1mg, he works to strengthen the healthcare supply chain and has engaged stakeholders across the supply chain. He also co-led IIT Delhi’s student-alumni body.

Shantanu is exploring mechanistic interpretability with Cross Layer Transcoders and transitioning full-time into technical AI safety. He brings 4 years of experience in semiconductors and deep learning from Applied Materials and has completed BlueDot Impact’s AI Alignment course.