Humanity fights the Corona Virus!
Most of us had not heard of Covid-19 a quarter back! It has made a brutal entry in our vocabulary this year. As of this evening (29th April 9pm IST), Worldometer records 680, 000 cases worldwide with 33000 deaths! Practically … Continued
Cross-eyed PhD: Tip 7 Analyzing the Data-Inferential Statistics
Automation helps! You possibly saved days of onerous data capture by using my trick with the OMR forms in previous tips! But – no, you are not obsolete! The real PhD work is in the analysis of data. Of … Continued
Solar PV Safety – working on rooftops..
One is surprised at the casual approach to rooftop safety in the Indian PV industry. With the emerging boom in the residential rooftop solar market, there are a number of entrepreneurs leaping into the marketplace. Unfortunately, most of them are … Continued
Lighting a FIRE…
With Dr.Sandeep Verma, Secretary, SERB. On 15th January, JC from Intel invited me to attend a DST/SERB workshop on the FIRE – Fund for Industrial Research Engagement. The pioneering initiative by SERB/DST visualises a shared fund of 50:50 by industry and … Continued
Cross-eyed PhD: Tip 6 Research Methodology
A fun look at the research method by Jorge @ Phd Comics Research Method is a structured investigation of a specific phenomena with the objective of validating a hypothesis relating to it. It starts with a careful observation of the … Continued
Cross-Eyed PhD: X’mas Revelations
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE CROSS-EYED PhD – and a Happy New Year 2020! (For the uninitiated – Santa’s HO – HO -HO has been equated with the null hypothesis traditionally written as H0 in the academic circles – … Continued
Cross-eyed PhD: Tip 5 Scale Creation
The Significance of DATA in research… In your research, you will be presenting empirical evidence substantiating your analysis. To do that, you need to get (valid, reliable) data. Do note that if it cannot be expressed in figures, … Continued
Scaling Solar Skills for the Nation…
With a national objective for the rooftop solar at 40GW and an installation base of 4.4 GW on March 31’19- it is obvious that there will be a serious push by the Government to grow the nascent rooftop solar … Continued
Cross-Eyed PhD: Tip 4- The Research Topic
The challenge of the research topic… Quite a few of us will be buffeted by different interests in our process of defining the research topic. Actually, the trick to getting the right answers is to ask … Continued
India in Bio-Tech – unleashing a tsunami?!
Attended Global Bio 2019 – a BIRAC DST lead initiative to build on the Bio-Tech wave in India. Few learnings from the event: BIRAC leadership is doing a great job promoting the Bio-Tech ecosystem in the country. This event … Continued