Vedic Computation Lab
Vedic SciencesLead PI · Computational Sanskrit
Pāṇinian grammar as a typed lambda calculus
4 open positions Updated 6 days ago
Campus · District · Research Commons
Where the frontier lives.
Two thousand four hundred labs. Three thousand two hundred graduate researchers. One hundred forty-two principal investigators. The Research Commons is the district where the day's open problems get cut open — from Vedic computation to quantum foundations, from ancient DNA to mechanistic interpretability. Peer review on a 60-day SLA. Grant office in the same corridor. Twenty-eight active journals. Six open archives. Reproducibility is non-negotiable.
2,400
Active labs
3,200
Graduate researchers
142
Principal investigators
4,200
Papers / year
28
Active journals
6
Open archives
01 · Lab Catalogue
Twenty-four labs, ten fields.
Every lab is open to graduate researchers and visiting scholars. Filter by field, search by keyword, click into a lab page to see the full publication record and open positions.
Quantum Foundations Group
QuantumLead PI · Foundations
Contextuality bounds on non-Markovian processes
3 open positions Updated 2 weeks ago
Ancient DNA Lab
BiologyLead PI · Archaeogenetics
Holocene migration corridors across the Deccan
2 open positions Updated 11 days ago
Mechanistic Interpretability Group
AILead PI · Alignment
Sparse autoencoders for circuit discovery in 70B models
6 open positions Updated 3 days ago
Topological Materials Lab
PhysicsLead PI · Condensed Matter
Edge currents in twisted bilayer graphene at 1.1 deg
2 open positions Updated 1 month ago
Synthetic Biology Foundry
BiologyLead PI · Synthetic Biology
Designed riboswitches for in-vivo logic circuits
5 open positions Updated 4 days ago
Catalysis & Green Chemistry
ChemistryLead PI · Catalysis
Single-atom Ru on N-doped carbon for ammonia synthesis
3 open positions Updated 8 days ago
Analytic Number Theory Seminar
MathematicsLead PI · Number Theory
Bounds on zero-density estimates near the critical line
1 open positions Updated 17 days ago
Distributed Systems Group
CSLead PI · Systems
Crash-tolerant consensus with sub-quadratic message complexity
4 open positions Updated 5 days ago
Atmospheric Modelling Lab
ClimateLead PI · Climate Dynamics
Subseasonal monsoon prediction with mixture-of-experts
3 open positions Updated 9 days ago
Bharatanatyam Cognition Lab
HumanitiesLead PI · Performance Studies
Embodied memory in classical Indian dance corpora
2 open positions Updated 13 days ago
Cold-Atom Quantum Simulator
QuantumLead PI · AMO Physics
Hubbard-model phase diagram in optical lattices at 50nK
3 open positions Updated 2 days ago
Vedic Mathematics Algorithms Lab
Vedic SciencesLead PI · Algorithms
Vedic multiplication as Karatsuba precursor
2 open positions Updated 21 days ago
Glacier Mass Balance Group
ClimateLead PI · Cryosphere
Karakoram anomaly in 40 years of remote-sensing data
1 open positions Updated 1 month ago
Cryo-EM Structural Biology
BiologyLead PI · Structural Bio
Conformational ensemble of a viral RdRp at 2.1 A
4 open positions Updated 6 days ago
Quantum Error Correction Group
QuantumLead PI · QEC
Surface-code thresholds under correlated biased noise
5 open positions Updated 4 days ago
Algebraic Geometry Group
MathematicsLead PI · Algebraic Geometry
Moduli of stable curves with marked tangent vectors
1 open positions Updated 3 weeks ago
Computational Linguistics & Indic NLP
CSLead PI · NLP
Sandhi-aware tokenisation for 22 Indic languages
4 open positions Updated 7 days ago
Soft Matter Physics Lab
PhysicsLead PI · Soft Matter
Active nematics on curved substrates: defect dynamics
2 open positions Updated 12 days ago
Electrochemical Energy Storage
ChemistryLead PI · Electrochemistry
Sodium-ion cathodes with O3 layered oxides
3 open positions Updated 10 days ago
AI Safety Evaluations Group
AILead PI · Evals
Adversarial sandbagging detection via gradient signatures
4 open positions Updated 1 day ago
Ayurveda Pharmacognosy Lab
Vedic SciencesLead PI · Pharmacognosy
Active phytochemicals in Withania somnifera at varietal scale
3 open positions Updated 14 days ago
Robotics Manipulation Lab
CSLead PI · Robotics
Diffusion policies for contact-rich assembly
5 open positions Updated 5 days ago
Philosophy of Mind Reading Group
HumanitiesLead PI · Philosophy
Higher-order theories of consciousness: a critical survey
2 open positions Updated 19 days ago
High-Energy Astrophysics Group
PhysicsLead PI · Astrophysics
Multi-messenger constraints on neutron star equations of state
2 open positions Updated 9 days ago
Programming Languages Lab
CSLead PI · PL Theory
Refinement types for dependent linear sessions
2 open positions Updated 15 days ago
02 · Graduate Researchers
The collab portal.
Three thousand two hundred researchers across cohorts. The portal is where active calls go up, current cohort messages run, and applications come in.
Active calls this week
- AIMechanistic Interpretability — 6 positionsSparse autoencoders, attention circuits, evals
- BiologySynthetic Biology Foundry — 5 positionsRiboswitch design, in-vivo logic, mass spec
- QuantumQuantum Error Correction — 5 positionsSurface codes, biased-noise threshold theorems
- CSRobotics Manipulation Lab — 5 positionsDiffusion policies, contact-rich tasks, sim2real
Express interest
Cohort intake · rolling · 14-day response SLA
03 · Journals & Archives
Twenty-eight journals. Six archives.
Six are flagship publications run by our editorial board. The remaining twenty-two are partner-of-record journals in adjacent fields. Every paper accepted requires a data + code release before publication.
Indic Sciences Review
Quarterly
Open peer review · 90-day decision SLA
Vedic mathematics, computational Sanskrit, traditional medicine, archaeoastronomy
AI Safety Quarterly
Quarterly
Triple-blind · 60-day decision SLA
Alignment, interpretability, evaluations, governance, red-teaming
Frontier Quantum
Bi-monthly
Single-blind · 75-day decision SLA
Foundations, error correction, hardware, algorithms, simulation
Journal of Reproducible Biology
Monthly
Open data mandate · 45-day decision SLA
Wet-lab biology with code + data + reagent registration before submission
Climate Systems Letters
Bi-weekly
Rapid-track · 21-day decision SLA
Earth-system modelling, attribution, climate services, adaptation
Mathematical Foundations
Quarterly
Open peer review · 120-day decision SLA
Pure mathematics, logic, foundations, history of mathematics
Open archives
Preprints, code, data, dissertations, pre-registrations, and replication reports — every artefact gets a persistent DOI.
48,200
Preprint Archive
All fields
11,400
Code Vault
Reproducible computational artefacts
6,800
Data Commons
Datasets with persistent DOIs
14,300
Thesis Repository
Graduate dissertations · open access
3,100
Pre-registration Registry
Study designs locked before data collection
910
Replication Reports
Independent verification studies
04 · Grant Office
Eight active calls.
The grant office is co-located with the Research Commons admin block. PIs walk in, applications get reviewed by a standing panel, decisions ship in 30 days for seed grants and 90 days for multi-year awards.
Frontier Compute Allocation
AI · Quantum simulation
Up to 50,000 H100-hours
Deadline
2026-07-15
Indic Heritage Sciences Grant
Vedic sciences · Manuscripts
INR 25,00,000 per project
Deadline
2026-06-30
Early-Career Investigator Award
Any field · Within 6 years of PhD
INR 80,00,000 over 3 years
Deadline
2026-08-01
Climate Resilience Challenge
Climate · Earth systems
INR 1,20,00,000 consortium grant
Deadline
2026-09-10
Open-Source Tools for Science
Scientific software
INR 18,00,000 + 12-month residency
Deadline
2026-07-01
High-Risk High-Reward Pilot
Any field · 12-month exploratory
INR 12,00,000 seed
Deadline
2026-06-20
Reproducibility Replication Grant
Any field · Verify a published result
INR 8,00,000 per study
Deadline
Rolling
Field Work & Expedition Fund
Biology · Climate · Archaeology
INR 6,00,000 per expedition
Deadline
2026-07-25
Office hours
Tuesdays 14:00-17:00 · Thursdays 10:00-12:00 · Walk-ins welcome · Or book a slot online.
05 · Seminars
This week on the schedule.
Nine talks across five days. Public — sign in at the door. Streamed to the Common Room and recorded for the archive. Click any talk to RSVP and add to your calendar.
Mon
16:00
Mechanistic interpretability of attention heads
Visiting Fellow · Tier-1 university (North America)
84 RSVP'd
Tue
11:00
Hubbard model phase diagram from cold-atom data
Lead PI · AMO Physics
52 RSVP'd
17:30
Bharatanatyam as embodied epistemology
Lead PI · Performance Studies
38 RSVP'd
Wed
14:00
Sandhi-aware tokenisation across Indic languages
Lead PI · NLP
71 RSVP'd
16:30
Surface-code thresholds with biased noise
Visiting Fellow · Tier-1 university (Europe)
64 RSVP'd
Thu
11:30
Subseasonal monsoon prediction
Lead PI · Climate Dynamics
47 RSVP'd
15:00
Pāṇinian grammar formalisation
Lead PI · Computational Sanskrit
56 RSVP'd
Fri
14:00
Diffusion policies for contact-rich assembly
Lead PI · Robotics
62 RSVP'd
17:00
Open peer review: a year of data
Editorial board · Indic Sciences Review
41 RSVP'd
06 · Reproducibility
Code and data, with every paper.
A paper is not done when the text is done. A paper is done when an independent reader can reproduce the result on their own hardware. The Research Commons enforces this with four standing policies.
01
Code Vault submission
Every accepted paper deposits the full code (training scripts, evaluation harness, plotting) to the Code Vault with a persistent DOI. Reviewers verify it builds on a fresh container before acceptance.
02
Data Commons release
Datasets used (or generated) are released to the Data Commons under a documented licence with a datasheet (provenance, demographics, known limitations). Sensitive data gets a controlled-access tier with IRB review.
03
Pre-registration option
For confirmatory studies, authors may pre-register the analysis plan with the Pre-registration Registry before data collection. Pre-registered papers carry a badge and get expedited review.
04
Replication reports welcome
Independent replications are accepted as first-class submissions. A small grant funds the replication itself. Both successful and failed replications are published — null results are not buried.
07 · Ethics
Four standing committees.
No research project starts without the relevant committee's review. Every committee includes external members (community representatives, ethicists, domain experts from outside the institute) so the review is not a rubber stamp.
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
12 membersHuman subjects research, behavioural studies, surveys, interviews. Convened review for greater-than-minimal risk, expedited review for low-risk protocols.
Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC)
9 membersVertebrate animal research protocols, housing standards, surgical procedures, welfare audits. Mandatory training prerequisite for all PIs.
Data Ethics Committee
11 membersAI training data provenance, dataset bias audits, sensitive-attribute handling, model release decisions, dual-use risk assessment, deployment guardrails.
Indigenous Knowledge Committee
14 membersResearch involving traditional knowledge systems, community consent, benefit-sharing agreements, repatriation, sacred sites, language documentation ethics.
Submit a protocol
Any project involving humans, animals, sensitive data, or traditional knowledge must be approved before work begins.