Our Research Projects
Agentic AI & ML Applications in Indian Equity Markets and Corporate Governance
<p>Factor investing has been a prominent investment strategy for fund managers across the globe and has gained popularity in India as well. However, applying global factor construction methodology directly to India can be misleading due to the microstructure of the Indian equity market.</p>
Generative AI using diffusion modelling
<p>The diffusion group at SCDLDS seeks to explore various theoretical questions in the subfield of diffusion, which is the state-of-the-art theory employed in the best generative models around the world such as image/video generators, and recently in LLMs.</p>
AI for weather and climate modelling
<p>This group focuses on improving weather forecasts for India with data-driven methods to help mitigate the impacts of climate change and help various downstream applications like energy, agriculture and disaster management.</p>
Announcements
August 7, 2026
| newsBeyond Stock Picking: A Brief Introduction to Factor Investing in India
By Aman Foujdar, Sandeep Juneja, Atish Kumar, and Nagpurnanand Prabhala Zerodha Aug 06, 2026 (Article link) Investors who pick individual stocks are betting that their research will find something the market has missed. Sometimes it does. But the record of the people best equipped to make that bet is sobering. Fund managers work with better … Read more
July 21, 2026
| newsAgentic AI, alternative data and SIFs take centre stage at Indian Institutional Quant Conference 2026
Read more at: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/agentic-ai-alternative-data-and-sifs-take-centre-stage-at-indian-institutional-quant-conference-2026/articleshow/132474311.cms
July 1, 2026
| newsexSPLOre 26
exSPLOre linkedin post Alternative text: Your browser doesn’t support embedded PDFs. Click here to download the PDF instead. The Safexpress Centre for Data, Learning and Decision Sciences successfully hosted the second annual edition of its flagship event, exSPLOre 26, at Ashoka University on January 13-17, 2026. The workshop brought together 170+ participants from Ashoka University … Read more