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Dr Suhail Ahmad co-authors a paper published in Current Alzheimer Research (Bentham Sciences)

A research paper co-authored by Dr Suhail Ahmad, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Psychology, SIAS has recently been published in Current Alzheimer Research (Bentham Sciences), with an impact factor of 1.9 and major indexing in Scopus, SCIE, and PubMed. The paper is titled Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s: Machine Learning Analysis Leveraging Structural MRI.

Brief: This longitudinal study investigated whether structural MRI–based surface-based morphometry (SBM) of subcortical brain regions can support early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. Using ADNI data, morphological changes (cortical thickness, sulcal depth, and gyrification index) were tracked over 6 months to 3 years in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who later progressed to Alzheimer’s, compared with healthy controls. Significant progressive atrophy—especially in cortical thickness—was identified. Machine learning models trained on these features showed improving performance over time, achieving the highest accuracy near the point of diagnosis. The findings suggest that SBM-derived subcortical atrophy patterns, particularly cortical thickness, serve as sensitive biomarkers and, when combined with machine learning, provide a scalable framework for early Alzheimer’s prediction.

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Dr Vivek Tewary and Sayantan Datta conduct a workshop at GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam

Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP led a two-day workshop on ‘Strategies of Reading & Writing for Effective Teaching of STEMM Disciplines’ at GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam.

In this interactive two-day workshop conducted through 27 and 28 February 2026, they discussed how STEMM faculty and research scholars can train themselves and their students to be more effective readers and writers in their disciplines. The workshop focussed on equipping attendees with the pedagogical skills required to enhance their students’ disciplinary engagement—by learning strategic classroom techniques for reading and writing as they play out in science disciplines. Sessions included Teaching Students to Read Scientific Texts/Papers, Reading Equations & Figures in Scientific Texts/Papers, Writing About Scientific Concepts, Using Worksheets as a Pedagogical Tool, Using Analogies & Definitions, and Integrating Reading-Writing in STEMM Curricula. The workshop was well-appreciated and attended by about 25 faculty and research scholars from mechanical engineering; electrical, electronic, and communication engineering; computer science engineering; life science; mathematics; and management sciences.

Dr Proma Raychaudhury signs a contract with Oxford University Press (USA) for her upcoming monograph

Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS has signed a contract with Oxford University Press (USA) for her monograph, Institutional Belonging: Women and Party Politics in West Bengal, India (OUP Series: Studies in Feminist Institutionalism).
The book will offer a feminist institutionalist study of political party cultures in India to delineate the institutional belonging and political self-makings of women party members. It will illustrate the play of gendered formal rules and informal practices that condition and constrain women’s representation, participation, and subjective experiences of belonging in political party cultures.

Dr Henry Vumjou’s research paper published in the book East Meets West: Justice, Law, and Politics

Dr Henry Vumjou, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Philosohy, SIAS, authored a paper titled Where Kant’s Hospitality Meets ‘Zo Hospitality’? published by Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart in the book East Meets West: Justice, Law, and Politics. The volume is part of the Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beihefte series, edited by Makoto Usami and Hidehiko Adachi.

Dr Anannya Dasgupta conducts a grant writing workshop at GITAM University, Bengaluru

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, conducted a grant writing workshop for the Social Sciences and Humanities at GITAM University, Bengaluru on 27 February 2026. This workshop is being hosted by the Centre for Asian Studies for its faculty members.

Dr Chirag Dhara delivers a talk at XIth Biennial Climate Conference at the TISS Mumbai

​Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered an invited talk titled ‘Physical limits to the circular economy’ at the XIth Biennial Climate Conference at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai on 20 February 2026. The conference is titled, ‘Climate action, sustainability, and equity in a VUCA World: Development Pathways for India and the Developing World’.

Dr Avinash Ediga authors a book chapter in ‘Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts’

A chapter authored by Dr Avinash Ediga,Teaching Fellow, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS titled, Becoming ‘Serious Men’:Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town, has been published in an edited volume titled Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts.

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Krea-CWP faculty facilitate sessions at the Alliance Literary Festival

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP facilitated multiple sessions at the Alliance Literary Festival, organised by Alliance University, Bengaluru, on 19 and 20 February 2026.

Sayantan Datta moderated a conversation with Kalki Subramaniam, transgender-rights activist, writer, and member of the National Council for Transgender Persons, and also conducted a Science Writing workshop on 19 February 2026 introducing participants to communicating scientific findings to non-specialist audiences.

Dr Anannya led a workshop titled ‘The Long and Short of it: Writing Haiku’ on 20 February 2026 introducing participants to the rules of Haiku writing and how it invites play in its imagistic word formations.