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A Yearlong Programme
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The rigorous YIF curriculum is designed to give Fellows a multidisciplinary foundation, while also allowing them to gain interdisciplinary perspectives that complement their interests and previous educational or professional experiences. Through an array of multidimensional engagements, Fellows build or sharpen abilities that are critical to ultimately solving the world’s most pertinent problems – as academicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, professionals and artists – while belonging to a global community of lifelong learners.

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The YIF Class of 2026 will comprise around 100 bright, curious and outstanding individuals from India and abroad, who will be handpicked through a rigorous and holistic selection process. The interdisciplinary programme will educate and nurture Fellows to solve the most pertinent problems that will ultimately create a better world. Fellows receive a post-graduate diploma in liberal studies from Ashoka University upon graduating and contribute to sustaining a lifelong learning-focused Alumni community. All Fellows in the Class of 2026 will receive partial or full funding.

Admissions for the Class of 2025-26 are open. All Fellows will receive scholarships. 

Our Fellows

To learn more about the diverse trajectories of our Fellows, click here.

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                    [post_content] => Call for Applications: We invite applications from Master's students with a keen interest in immunology to participate in the Global Immunocourse to be hosted at Ashoka University from December 13 to December 23, 2024.

About the Global Immunocourse: The Global Immunocourse is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the foundational knowledge of immunology. It offers a unique opportunity for aspiring immunologists to engage in discussions with leading experts in the field gaining insights into cutting-edge research and developments.

Eligibility Criteria: Students pursuing their Master’s degree with a strong academic background and a special interest in immunology are encouraged to apply. Applicants should possess a genuine passion for unravelling the complexities of the immune system and a commitment to academic excellence.

Application requirements: Interested candidates are required to submit the following documents:
1. Curriculum Vitae (CV): Please provide a detailed CV highlighting your academic achievements, research experience, and any relevant extracurricular activities.
2. Academic Transcript: Include a copy of your official academic transcript from your current Master’s course and Bachelor’s degree (final transcript).
3. Letter of Interest: Compose a letter expressing your enthusiasm for immunology, your motivations for attending the course, and how you believe this experience will contribute to your academic and professional growth. The letter of interest should not exceed 1 page.

How to apply: Participants can apply here by 27th of October, 2024 end of the day. For any further queries write us at globalimmunocourse2024@ashoka.edu.in, please mention subject as "Participant queries for Global Immunocourse 2024."

Support to attend the course: In alignment with the Global Immunocourse mission, there are no fees associated with this course. Travel and accomodation will be covered for selected applicants. We encourage equality of opportunity and diversity.

Instructors: 
  • Carla Rothlin, Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Pharmacology at Yale University
  • Sourav Ghosh, Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology at Yale University
  • Satyajit Rath, Professor Emeritus at IISER Pune
  • Hiyaa Ghosh, Assistant Professor at NCBS
  • Soumen Basak, Professor at NII
  • Rama Akondy, Associate Professor at Department of Biology, Ashoka University
  • Elina Zuniga, Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, UCSD
  • Rafi Ahmed, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University
  • Miriam Merad, Chair of the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy, the Director of the Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and the Director of the Mount Sinai Human Immune Monitoring Center
  • Laura Mackay, FAHMS, Professor, Laboratory Head and Immunology Theme Leader at The Doherty Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne Research Interest: Tissue-resident memory T cell, therapeutics to cancer, lymphoid dynamics, HIV persistence.
  • Imroze Khan, Associate Professor at Department of Biology, Ashoka University
  • Dipendra Nath Basu, Simons-Ashoka Early Career Fellow at TSB, Ashoka University
  Organizers: Carla Rothlin, Yale University; Sourav Ghosh, Yale University; Imroze Khan, Ashoka University; Dipendra Nath Basu, Ashoka University [post_title] => GLOBAL IMMUNOCOURSE 2024 [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => global-immunocourse-2024 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-10-23 14:01:22 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-10-23 08:31:22 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.ashoka.edu.in?post_type=tribe_events&p=65271 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => tribe_events [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 66669 [post_author] => 1 [post_date] => 2024-11-06 05:43:38 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-11-06 05:43:38 [post_content] => The Centre for Data, Learning and Decision Sciences (CDLDS) at Ashoka University is delighted to announce exSPLOre 2025, a five-day workshop from January 14-18, 2025, exploring the evolving and exciting areas of quantitative research underpinning the developments in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The workshop begins with two days of basic tutorials for graduates and advanced undergraduates, offering 3-hour sessions each on the basics of probability, learning, and optimization, led by leading experts. The following three days will comprise a research workshop, with talks by leaders in the field. The program includes a poster session for PhD students. Speakers Include
Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell University) Siddharth Barman (IISc) Achal Bassamboo (Northwestern University) Sanjay Bhatt (Tata Consultancy Services) Vivek Borkar (IIT Bombay) Rama Cont (University of Oxford) Manish Gupta (Google DeepMind) Peter Glynn (Stanford University) Varun Gupta (Northwestern University) Srikanth Iyer (IISc) Garud Iyengar (Columbia University) Jayakrishnan Nair (IIT Bombay) Dheeraj Nagaraj (Google DeepMind) Praneeth Netrapalli (Google DeepMind) Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University) Alexandre Proutiere (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Ankur Puri (McKinsey) Ketan Rajawat (IIT Kanpur) Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay) Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ronnie Sircar (Princeton University) Rohit Vaish (IIT Delhi) Rahul Vaze (TIFR) Vijay Vazirani (University of California, Irvine)
To participate
Graduates, advanced undergraduates, post-docs and faculty interested in related areas are encouraged to apply. Limited accommodation is available for outstation participants. Click here: https://forms.gle/ouLnFej6qMhCSxnY7 Last date for registration: December 01, 2024 Preference will be given to PhD students working in related areas and advanced undergraduate students from Ashoka University who have demonstrated a strong quantitative aptitude, due to our limited accommodation and seating capacity. Venue Taxila Hall, AC-02-LR-007 Ashoka University Organising committee Vivek Borkar (IIT Bombay), Sandeep Juneja (Ashoka University), Praneeth Netrapalli (Google DeepMind), Sumegh P (Ashoka University), KS Mallikarjuna Rao (IIT Bombay)
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Abstract: Electronic voting systems are essential for holding virtual elections, and the need for such systems increases due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing that it mandates. One of the main challenges in e-voting systems is to secure the voting process: namely, to certify that the computed results are consistent with the cast ballots, and that the privacy of the voters is preserved. We propose secure voting protocols for elections that are governed by two central families of voting rules: score-based and order-based rules. Our protocols offer perfect ballot secrecy, in the sense that they issue only the required output, while no other information on the cast ballots is revealed. Such perfect secrecy, which is achieved by employing secure multiparty computation tools, may increase the voters’ confidence and, consequently, encourage them to vote according to their true preferences. The protocols' high level of privacy, and their extremely lightweight nature, make them a most adequate and powerful tool for democracies of any size.

Joint work with Lihi Dery and Avishay Yanai

About the Speaker: Prof. Tamir Tassa is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Open University of Israel. Previously, he served as a lecturer and researcher in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University, and in the Department of Computer Science at Ben Gurion University. During the years 1993-1996 he served as an assistant professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his PhD in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1993. His recent research interests include secure multiparty computation, privacy-preserving data publishing and data mining, and secret sharing.

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