2025 goals/plans
We finally have the sanction letter for a 2 year grant that will support 2 PhD students. It will also help us get some very minor equipment to implement a very applied project in collaboration with a startup and 3 other universities. It is a good start but we still need to fund some of our exciting basic science work. On that note, I recently heard a rumor that a cogsci-specific grant (the only one of its kind in India as far as I know) received 12000 applications this year. I sure hope that's just a rumor that isn't true because that was one of the few grants that people in my field could count on. I've had other grants rejected for very strange reasons that suggested that they were not sending them to appropriate reviewers who understood cogsci but this one always gets sent to experts in the field within the country. This time, I suspect that people from other departments applied given that the lines between cogsci and AI have blurred some more in the recent past and eve...