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Research Grants

Research Grant Cohort 2026–27

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COHORT 2026–27

The CISOC Research Grant Cohort 2026–27

CISOC is pleased to announce the Research Grant Cohort 2026–27. The selected projects reflect the breadth of inquiry at the intersection of information, emerging technologies, institutions and society, with an emphasis on meaningful research outputs, tools and interventions.

Faculty research stream

Faculty stream

Storytelling and Machine Learning: Cultural Dissemination, Preservation, and the East African Context

Research team

Hope K. McCoy, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, IIT Madras Zanzibar; Innocent Nyalala, Assistant Professor of Data Science and AI, IIT Madras Zanzibar

Faculty stream

Who Decides, Who Pays? Delegated Decision-Making, System Affordances, and a Voice Agent for Older Adults in India

Research team

Imon Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Information Systems Area, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras; Arun Kumar Gopalaswamy, Finance Area, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras

Faculty stream

Inclusive NGO Intake and e-Registry with a Pilot Goal Bank

Research team

Arshinder Kaur and Nargis Pervin, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras

Student research stream

Student stream

SAAKSHI: A Voice-First, Multilingual Assistant that Helps Cybercrime Victims File Complete Complaints

Research team

Tarun Dev Mishra, PhD Research Scholar, Information Systems, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras.

Academic guidance: Saji K. Mathew

Student stream

Who Needs to Know, and How Soon? A Consent-First Home Care Companion for Intelligent Elder-Care Information Routing

Research team

Abhijeet Kumar, BTech, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, IIT Madras.

Student stream

Astitva: An Audit Toolkit for Ontological Commitments in LLMs Deployed for Hindi-Speaking Citizens

Research team

Akash Singh, Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; Ashwini, MTech, Industrial Mathematics and Scientific Computing, IIT Madras.

Student stream

Kalakriti: An Information Platform to Bridge Market and Knowledge-Transfer Gaps for India’s Traditional Artisans

Research team

Mohith Sai Sattenapalli, Department of Chemical Engineering; Pothanaku Avinash Babu, Department of Engineering Physics, IIT Madras.

Student stream

Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Auditing AI Reasoning

Research team

Suryansh Raj, second-year MSc student, Department of Physics, IIT Madras.

Student stream

Iyal: Foundational AI Model for Handwritten Strokes

Research team

Arvin Gopal Subramaniam, PhD Scholar, Department of Physics, IIT Madras.