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Interactions with Faculty
Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai
24 April, 2021
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”)
#ProfGiri CS, #DeanGiri Student Affairs IIIT Delhi
ACM India Council Member
TEDx & ACM Distinguished Speaker
Roadmap for Initiating Joint
Collaborations

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Getting to know the Audience & Protocol
Students / Faculty / Others
Faculty with Ph.D. / Registered for Ph.D.
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+1 :-) :D :P
Mute!!!

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DISCLAIMER - I
ALL CHARACTERS, REFERENCE, STORIES, EXPERIENCES SHARED IN THIS TALK
ARE NOT FICTITIOUS. IT IS JUST COINCIDENTAL THAT, YOU MAY RELATE TO
SOME OR MANY OF THEM.
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DISCLAIMER - II
Wide audience, different background
Will try to keep it abstract, and hopefully everyone will have something to takeaway
Will also try to be prescriptive wherever possible
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Let's define collaboration
“the action of working with someone to produce something” ~ Dictionary
Key ingredients:
Relationship building - takes time, do not expect immediate gratification
Work / slog more than the collaborator
Set right expectations, be explicit and clear on it
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What you wanted me to cover?
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40 Questions
20 around collaborations and topics around it
20 around paper writing, finding research problems, journals, etc.

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40 Questions
20 around collaborations and topics around it
20 around paper writing, finding research problems, journals, etc.

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With whom a non - PhD faculty can collaborate?
Is there any possibility for the English Faculty to collaborate with other faculty from
abroad and industries?
How do the faculty of English Department partake in Industry Institute Interface?
My question is related to drafting the right project proposal pertaining to Language
and linguistics…. Please suggest right ways to do interdisciplinary projects including
language aspects.
How to get connected with the foreign prof for collaborative research, sending mail
to a concern person not worked out for me. No respnse from them. How to
communicate and get connected?

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How to align with faculty members in IITs, NITs working in the similar research area?
How we can create Industry Collaborated Research and What are all the
Challenges in Industry-Academic Collaborated Research.
How to get Research grants?
How to do collaborative research in the field of Architecture with the higher
learning institutions
Please give some inputs on collaborating our research work with industries in our
field.Please focus on what are the prerequisites from our side before approaching
them

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I am interest to apply for projects related to mathematics applying in day today life.
In what topic / concept / way, i can apply? Give me some ideas sir.
Dear sir, How to identify a person or an organization whose working on electric
vehicle and how to approach them sir
How to initiate collaborative research work with foreign universities ?
Is there any guideline for choosing the right person for research and academic
collaboration?
Is there any formal way to ask for research and academic collaboration? ?
Without pHD or Dr or as a fresh assistant professor, how to reach higher institution
professors for collaboration.

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Is it necessary to hold a PhD degree to initiate a collaborative research?
How to utilize IIT facilities for my research?
In what way we need to prepare our research grant proposals? PhD work proposal
may send for research grant proposal?
How to find Post Doctoral fellowship in aborod ?

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