The People
A small team.
An unreasonable output.
Vicharanashala runs programs and products at a scale most labs would need three times the people to manage. That's not an accident — it's a design choice. Everyone here wears many hats and takes ownership of whole problems, not just tasks.
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
— Henry Ford
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor at IIT Ropar (CSE), Ph.D. from IISc. His NPTEL course on Social Networks has reached 9,00,000+ learners — one of the most-enrolled CS courses on the platform. Director of the AI Centre of Excellence at Annam.AI, IIT Ropar, and founding faculty of the IIT Madras Online BS Programme. His research sits at the intersection of social computing, collective intelligence, and crowdsourced knowledge — work that directly informs how Vicharanashala thinks about learning at scale.
The Team
Operations & Support
Where Our People Go
Vicharanashala is a place people move through and carry forward. Alumni of the lab have gone on to research positions, EdTech roles, academic institutions, and policy work. This section will document those journeys.
Alumni stories coming soon.