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Engineering professors in India need to write fewer papers and start more companies.
Manu Awasthi
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- Just thought of doing a random comparison, of a top rated Chinese University (Tsinghua) and top rated Indian University (IISc). I am not picking on any institution, but trying to make a comparison. Generally, the top performing institutions are the best funded ones. At least
- Having been bitten by stray dogs twice in the last 5 years, I, for one, am very happy with the SC judgement.
- Approved by the Deputy Commissioner of UI/UX, Government of India
- Do you want your PhD students to be better writers? Great! Don't write their papers for them.
- If you are a senior PhD student and are depending on your advisor (all the time) to tell you what to do next, you are doing it wrong. It's always better to go to them with a list of options and then use them as sounding board to weigh the pros and cons of each.
- TIL, thanks to @ManjulBhargava, that what we know as Fibonacci numbers are now called Virahanka-Fibonacci numbers, to acknowledge their real origins, which happened way before Fibonacci.
- "Zuckerberg is a college dropout. Look how successful he has been." is the reason why you should study statistics.
- The Research and Development Office, @AshokaUniv maintains a public database of grants & fellowships that India based researchers can apply for. Please share widely. cc: @MenonBioPhysics, @AnuragAgrawalMD, @kvijayraghavan
- Researchers in India: We need the government to make it easier to do research. Government of India: hold my beerCustom Duty for Lab Chemicals raised to 150% from 10%. A chemical that was costing 54,000/- is now 1,29,000/-. How to run experimental chemistry Labs? @PrinSciAdvGoI @serbonline @IndiaDST
- In academia, you can do good administration, or you can do good research. But never simultaneously.
- As a grad student, I used to wonder : how busy can people be that they reply to an email after 2 weeks? Now I know.
