People

Fifty-four researchers, eight countries.

The lab is deliberately international and deliberately cross-disciplinary. Members arrive from computer science, law, media, business, biology and design — and leave with published work.

31
Current researchers
08
Countries represented
23
Alumni
02
Scholars to South Korea

01 — Leadership

Gurpreet Singh
Founder & Research Mentor — KORA

Gurpreet Singh

Founder of the lab and mentor on every project running inside it. His own work spans multimodal content generation, computer vision and cybersecurity, with published surveys of vision–language foundation models and a review tracing the evolution of AI tooling from 1950 to 2025.

He currently supervises both active projects and co-authors with members rather than for them — every paper on the publications page carries a student name beside his.

Advanced Statistics Multimodal Generation Computer Vision Cybersecurity
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02 — Collaboration

Who works with whom.

Four groups are running in the lab right now. Gurpreet sits in every one of them — which is why all four outlines meet where he stands. Hover a group to isolate it.

Group 01 · Image-to-Music Lamia Qamar United Arab Emirates Group 02 · Text-to-Comic Trina Banerjee India Mukhthikka India Group 03 · Multimodal Gene Editing Sudipta Patil Gene editing Group 04 · International Collaboration Ritika Kanojia Media · AI Alimpia Roy International business · ESG GS
4 research groups 6 researchers 4 active projects 1 shared mentor

Earlier co-authorships — with Nishaa Ghosh, Sundareswari Thiyagarajan, Alisha Naaz, Asma Syed, Vantala Akhila, Prof. Saurabh Singh and Prof. Preethi Ananthachari — are listed on the publications page.

03 — Honours

Two researchers on to South Korea.

Both took the route the lab exists to open — funded postgraduate study in Korea, one on a professor-funded scholarship and one on the Global Korea Scholarship, the Korean government's most competitive award for international students.

Sundareswari Thiyagarajan
Professor-funded scholarship

Sundareswari Thiyagarajan

Co-authored the lab's drug–drug interaction extraction paper on machine learning and transformer-based models, published via SSRN and bioRxiv.

Inha University · South Korea
Nahid Rehmani
GKS Scholar

Nahid Rehmani

Part of the Business Growth and Management research team, applying AI-driven analytics to strategy across marketing, media and the entertainment industry.

South Korea

04 — Around the world

Researchers outside India.

Eight members work from outside India. Not all of them are on an active project at this moment — research runs in cycles — but they remain members of the lab and part of how it thinks.

Ecuador United Kingdom Nigeria South Africa United Arab Emirates United States South Korea India
Grace Britney Lozada Salinas
Grace Britney Lozada Salinas
Researcher
Ecuador

Digital society, creative and cultural industries, educational innovation, social innovation, sustainability and human–environment systems.

Project TBA
Sandhya Palaniappan
Sandhya Palaniappan
Researcher
Coventry University, United Kingdom

Agentic AI systems, applied mathematics, probabilistic machine learning, causal inference, evaluation science, and law and criminology as questions of decision integrity.

Project TBA
Joy Racheal Emiaka
Joy Racheal Emiaka
Researcher
Nigeria

Machine learning, artificial neural networks, brain–computer interfaces and neuro-inspired AI.

Neural Segmentation
Aya Khanyile
Aya Khanyile
Researcher
South Africa

AI for computer vision, and the intersection of machine learning with law.

Text-to-Audio
Lamia Qamar
Lamia Qamar
Researcher
United Arab Emirates

Computer vision and machine learning. Presented on CNN architectures for deepfake video detection at ICA2S 2025.

Image-to-Music
Nicholas Valentino Volta
Nicholas Valentino Volta
Researcher
United States

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and law.

Text-to-Audio
Amruta Velamuri
Amruta Velamuri
Researcher
United States

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and biology.

Text-to-Audio
Nahid Rehmani
Nahid Rehmani
Researcher · GKS Scholar
South Korea

Marketing, media and the entertainment industry. Former member of the Business Growth and Management research team.

Between projects

05 — In India

The India cohort.

Three of the four running projects are staffed from here, alongside the mentor and members working from abroad.

Trina Banerjee
Trina Banerjee
Researcher
India

Sustainable AI and privacy. Co-author on the review tracing the evolution of artificial intelligence, 1950–2025.

Text-to-Comic
Alimpia Roy
Alimpia Roy
Researcher
India

International business and ESG.

International Collaboration
Mukhthikka
Mukhthikka
Researcher
India

Artificial intelligence for computer vision.

Text-to-Comic

06 — Recently joined

New to the lab.

Members who arrived in the most recent intake. Each is being matched to a project — which, in a lab that takes people from any discipline, means finding the question their own field is already asking.

Ritika Kanojia
Ritika Kanojia
Researcher

Artificial intelligence, journalism, media culture and psychology, and fashion and textile innovation.

International Collaboration
Sudipta Patil
Sudipta Patil
Researcher

Gene editing.

Multimodal Gene Editing
Anjali
Anjali
Researcher

Research interests to be announced.

Project TBA
Rupinder Kaur
Rupinder Kaur
Researcher

Marketing and social media, with an industry focus on entertainment and beauty.

Project TBA
Purnima Rajak
Purnima Rajak
Researcher

AI-driven business and marketing.

Project TBA
Fathima Hisana
Fathima Hisana
Researcher

Artificial intelligence in accounting, financial technology and business analytics.

Project TBA
Vanshika Tambe
Vanshika Tambe
Researcher

AI in healthcare and drug discovery — particularly the use of artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical research, drug development and improving healthcare outcomes.

Project TBA
Muskan Kumari
Muskan Kumari
Researcher

Business, strategic management, supply chain and logistics, and digital transformation.

Project TBA
Sneha
Sneha
Researcher

International business, global trade, cross-cultural management, international marketing and global business strategy, alongside sustainable development, emerging markets, the digital economy, innovation and global studies.

Project TBA
Anvi Panjwani
Anvi Panjwani
Researcher

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science and statistical analysis.

Project TBA
Madiha
Madiha
Researcher

Speech and language processing, media and entertainment, media psychology and culture.

Project TBA
Jyoti
Jyoti
Researcher

Research interests to be announced.

Project TBA
Jiya Vishal Kumar
Jiya Vishal Kumar
Researcher

Artificial intelligence, creative technologies, human–computer interaction, digital media, user experience and interdisciplinary research.

Project TBA
Muskan Pal
Muskan Pal
Researcher

AI applications in financial markets, algorithmic trading, digital banking and FinTech — how artificial intelligence can improve financial decision-making and support innovation in the financial sector.

Project TBA
Chaitri Gautam
Chaitri Gautam
Researcher

Psychology, specifically industrial and organisational psychology.

Project TBA
Prachi
Prachi
Researcher

Two areas: international trade and economics law, approached from the India–Korea relationship; and Korean culture studies, particularly the folklore of Queen Heo Hwang Ok and King Kim Suro and how the monk Ilyeon gathered and recorded it.

Project TBA
Sri Devi
Sri Devi
Researcher

AI in logistics, supply chain management and port operations, and AI in the RA lifestyle.

Project TBA
Niharika
Niharika
Researcher

Supply chain management, logistics and operations management, procurement and inventory management, artificial intelligence in business operations, and international trade.

Project TBA
Khushi
Khushi
Researcher

International business and global market expansion, international trade and economic cooperation, cross-cultural business communication, and digital marketing and consumer behaviour.

Project TBA

07 — Alumni

Twenty-three researchers who passed through.

Sundareswari Thiyagarajan
Sundareswari Thiyagarajan
Alumni · 2025 · Inha University

Inha University, South Korea. AI and electronic engineering.

Alisha Naaz
Alisha Naaz
Researcher · Sept 2025

Intercultural communication, digital media, advertising and PR.

Asma
Asma
Researcher · Sept 2025

Media and communication.

Vantala Akhila
Vantala Akhila
Researcher · Sept 2025

Computer science and artificial intelligence.

Sakshi
Sakshi
Researcher · Sept 2025

Finance.

LakshyaKumar
LakshyaKumar
Researcher · July 2025

Cross-modality, cybersecurity and AI.

Aastha Gautam
Aastha Gautam
Team Leader · June 2025

Technology and digital media.

JG
Jiya Gupta
Team Leader · June 2025

Business and science.

AS
Ayushi Srivastava
Researcher · June 2025

Media studies and communication.

PW
Pallavi Wagh
Researcher · June 2025

Applied sciences and sociology.

PK
Prachi Kumari
Researcher · June 2025

Business and sociology.

Mahak
Mahak
Former Researcher
Daxta Pandey
Daxta Pandey
Former Researcher

UI/UX design and digital marketing.

Megha
Megha
Former Researcher

UI/UX design and digital marketing.

Rupam
Rupam
Former Researcher

Cultural heritage.

Piyush
Piyush
Former Researcher

Animation for computer vision, modelling.

Sabiya
Sabiya
Former Researcher
Purva Mundada
Purva Mundada
Former Researcher

Human resource management and AI in HRM.

Sonakshi Shrivastava
Sonakshi Shrivastava
Former Researcher

Language, AI and education technology.

Renuka
Renuka
Researcher · 2023–2024

AI and electronic engineering.

Simran Singh
Simran Singh
Alumni · 2024

Business Growth and Management research team.

Pushpa Kumari
Pushpa Kumari
Alumni · 2024

Business Growth and Management research team.

VV
Vedha Varshini
Alumni · 2024

Business Growth and Management research team.

Join them

The next name on this page.

Members here have come from eight countries and a dozen disciplines. Two have gone on to funded postgraduate study in South Korea. If you want your name beside a paper, this is where that starts.