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Yearbook

8 cohorts and 1,398 members. Find your batch, then find the people you lost touch with.

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  • Batch of 2025

    Mixed cohort

    214

    Cohort highlights

    • First batch to complete the full mentorship onboarding as students
    • Nine members placed into the Deep Tech Fellowship
    • Ran the inaugural student-led science communication festival
    Batch representatives
    • IKIshaan Kapoor
    • TBTanvi Bhatt
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  • Batch of 2024

    Mixed cohort

    198

    Cohort highlights

    • Highest mentorship uptake of any batch to date
    • Founded the Science Writers Collective
    • Twelve members now in doctoral programmes overseas
    Batch representatives
    • RMRiya Malhotra
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  • Batch of 2022

    Mixed cohort

    176

    Cohort highlights

    • Organised the first inter-city alumni meetup
    • Three members founded deep tech startups
    • Contributed the largest share of the 2026 scholarship corpus
    Batch representatives
    • RDRohan Desai
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  • Batch of 2020

    Mixed cohort

    168

    Cohort highlights

    • Graduated into the pandemic; built the first remote mentoring circles
    • Ran a volunteer tutoring programme for 900 school students
    • Twenty-one members now teach at university level
    Batch representatives
    • SRSanjana Rao
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  • Batch of 2018

    Mixed cohort

    154

    Cohort highlights

    • First batch with members on the mentor roster
    • Established the Jaipur and Udaipur regional groups
    • Collectively logged over 400 mentoring hours
    Batch representatives
    • MJMeera Joshi
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  • Batch of 2016

    Mixed cohort

    218

    Cohort highlights

    • Ten-year reunion held in September 2026
    • Longest continuously active batch thread on the platform
    • Funded a named scholarship in memory of Prof. S. Raghavan
    Batch representatives
    • VSVikram Shah
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  • Batch of 2014

    Mixed cohort

    141

    Cohort highlights

    • Six members now lead research groups
    • Started the Deep Tech & Semiconductors group
    • Hosted the first industry mentorship clinic
    Batch representatives
    • NSNikhil Sinha
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  • Batch of 2012

    Mixed cohort

    129

    Cohort highlights

    • Longest-serving cohort on the advisory board
    • Established the conference travel grant programme
    • Members across fourteen countries
    Batch representatives
    • AGAnjali Gupta
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