Vijit Maithel

'Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge' - Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement.

Graduate Student at UW-Madison studying tropical weather

[V. Ramgopal Rao, Ph.D. @ramgopal_rao]

BITS Pilani does it again. This time with an innovation in the #PhD programmes. The question we asked ourselves is, why should all PhD programmes in the country be to produce university #professors?

So we devised a new PhD Programme. A #PhD Programme for the #startup track, named as PhD-DRIVE (Deep-tech Research, Innovation, Value generation & Entrepreneurship). Our senate approved this in its last meeting.

What do we propose to do under this PhD, startup track.

With Ph.D. #DRIVE , we want Ph.D. scholars to become #entrepreneurs along with becoming an innovator, and not just look for an academic career post their PhDs.

How do we plan to do this?

We will have two tracks of #admissions into the PhD startup track.

(i) One track will be to match students having a flair for entrepreneurship and #technology development and associate them with a faculty member working on a high #TRL (Technology Readiness Level) project having TRL above 3 or 4.

(ii) The second track will be to admit students who have an idea for a #deeptech startup and wish to execute their ideas using the resources and mentorship provided by #BITS #Pilani campuses.

All students will undergo training on new #venture creation, #economics, #business model writing and #team building in addition to their technology research. Idea is to orient these students from the beginning towards a start-up creation.

These students will receive 50% higher #stipend as compared to regular PhD scholarships in the country. They will also receive a generous #contingency grant for prototype building. We expect these students to file enough #patents and protect as much IP as possible. BITS #alumni and #Venturecapitalists will be involved with the students' from the beginning to groom them on the new venture Creation and identification of the problem.

What do we wish to accomplish?

It will be our endeavor to build 100 Deep-Tech / Deep Science Startups, from innovative Ph.Ds. in the fields of #Semiconductors, Human #Diseases, #Environment and #Climate Change, #Biotechnology, #Water Resources, #AI/ML #Food-technology, #quantum physics, #Space, #5G and #telecommunication, #Industry 4.0 and #Additive #Manufacturing, #Agriculture, #antimicrobialresistance, and #pharmaceuticals.

The Programme will be supported by #corporates, #alumni, and #VCs. We already have committed support from our partners Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner, Speciale Invest,
Suresh Kabra, Batch of 82-87 through Dr. Suman Kapur Memorial Charitable Trust and interest from many among our alumni and VC network.

Await a call for admissions under the PhD-DRIVE scheme.

The news as covered by @hChhapiaTOI, @timesofindia is attached.

@bitspilaniindia @BITSPilaniDubai @bitshyd @BITSAA @bitsgoa #BITS #bitspilani #pilani

[Shambhavi @sham_not]

The number one con of living and working alone is you live in your head most of the day
There's no one to snap you back to reality

[Rosa M. Vargas Martes @RosaVargasPR]

I am so excited to share the early access version of my first, first authored paper! It includes work I have done with @afadames and @victor_raul_01 throughout my M.S. and Ph.D. program. I include some of the main findings in the following thread! https://t.co/CwAGHHoIdi (1/7)

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@definearth @rrtwilley @AndreRovai @jcadig1 Congratulations!!

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

On Friday, the sun put on a dazzling show for us. My friend @TheVastReaches and I worked hard over the last 5 days to produce this incredibly detailed 140 megapixel image to illustrate how wonderfully dynamic and beautiful our star can be. Make sure you zoom in!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

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[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

My brain this morning

@OpenAcademics

[ADAM Platform @PlatformAdam]

Multiple #vonKarman vortices spotted southwest of the #CanaryIslands are always amazing. #Spain
Here the incredible clouds swirls captured on March 19th by #Copernicus #Sentinel3. #Canarias #clouds #Weather
@Giulio_Firenze @i_ameztoy

[Daniel Schmidt @ClimateSchmidt]

Around this time in 1961, Edward Lorenz (accidentally) ran a weather model twice with slightly different initial conditions--and found dramatically different results. This dashed hopes for long-range forecasts and kicked off the study of chaos theory.
https://t.co/64dWePEClZ

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@Violeta_Yas It was great connecting with you Violeta. Got to learn a lot from your story

[Rosa M. Vargas Martes @RosaVargasPR]

If you are interested in chatting and exchanging ideas on my latest work with @afadames: examining the role of temperature and water vapor in the thermodynamics of African and east Pacific Easterly Waves, stop by poster 2120. I will present from 2:45-3:15 at #AGU22 @UW_AOS

[Ankur Desai @profdesai]

"Nothing in our science to better understand the Earth system and climate is done by one individual or by any one discipline" - this award is for the whole #Desailab team and kind folks along the way who contributed one way or another, and a host of privileges, many unearned.

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@profdesai Congratulations!

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@akshaya_nikumbh Thanks Akshaya!

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

First publication from my PhD work with @LarissaEBack just got published in @AMS_atmos . Our findings suggest moisture transport could be dominating the evolution of daily rainfall composites in the tropics leading to a cyclic pattern observed everywhere. https://t.co/dxfkPEpfqx

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@theweatherprof Thank you Mayra!

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@KoupaeiSci Thank you Nikaan! Hope the conference is going well

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@bhop_ali Thanks Ali 😁

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@ScienceBails Thanks Bailey!

[Vijit Maithel @VijitMaithel]

@_ZSpace_ Thanks Hannah!