A new campaign traces the research shaping AI security, market policy, environmental governance, and more through the faculty driving it.

Across the next eight weeks, IIM Bangalore is showcasing its research to a wider audience through #FacesOfIIMBResearch, a campaign on the Institute’s official social media handles. We will be spotlighting the Institute’s Young Faculty Research Chairs, a cohort of early-career scholars whose work spans decision sciences, economics, public policy, entrepreneurship, and beyond.

The initiative was launched with a look at the data behind IIMB’s research output, noting 63 papers published in academic journals this year, 30 case studies distributed globally through Harvard Business Publishing, 5 books, and close to 50 researchers hosted from institutions worldwide. Behind each of these figures, the campaign argues, is a researcher asking a question worth answering, and over the coming weeks, readers will meet them one at a time.

Each profile translates a faculty member’s research into a single question or finding that anchors the post, like: Dr. Subhabrata Majumdar, on what makes AI systems trustworthy under adversarial pressure, and Dr. Rusha Das, on why India’s environmental regulations keep changing without ever really changing.

Faculty featured in the series include: Dr. Subhabrata Majumdar, Decision Sciences; Dr. Rusha Das, Public Policy; Dr. Arjun Ramachandra, Decision Sciences; Dr. Anubha Agarwal, Economics; Dr. Sumit Saurav, Finance & Accounting; Dr. Surendra Babu Talluri, Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management; Dr. Neha Bellamkonda, OBHRM; Dr. Kuldeep Singh, Economics; Dr. Mayank Kumar, Information Systems; Dr. Minakshi Punam Mandal, Decision Sciences; Dr. Sachin Sridhar, Marketing; Dr. Abhay Sobhanan, Decision Sciences; Dr. Sayan Sarkar, Entrepreneurship; Dr. Deepti Mishra, Entrepreneurship; and Dr. Raja Reddy Bujunoori, Finance and Accounting.

The ‘Young Faculty Research Chair’ is a special honour at IIM Bangalore, designed to identify, encourage, and support world-class scholarship among early-career academics across disciplines. The Chairs are recognized not only for the rigor of their published research, but for work that increasingly reaches beyond academic journals, shaping policy at institutions like UNICEF and the Chicago Department of Public Health, informing national economic surveys, and applying optimization techniques to real civic infrastructure.

Running each week on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, the campaign is designed with

As part of the 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 powered by 𝐊𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐤 𝐁𝐢𝐳𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬, NSRCEL brought together 60 women entrepreneurs and aspiring founders in Chandigarh for the event, ‘The Entrepreneurial Mindset: From Idea to Execution’, in partnership with Innovation Mission Punjab.

The session explored what it takes to move from an idea to execution, with conversations around building and growing ventures, navigating the early stages of entrepreneurship, and leveraging the right mentorship, networks and ecosystem support.

The panel featured Somveer Anand – CEO & Mission Director, Innovation Mission Punjab; Nitika Mishra Khurana – Investor, Chandigarh Angel’s Network (CAN); Anubhi Khandelwal – Founder, Terafac Technologies, and Kartik Kumar Choudhary – Program Manager, Women Startup Program, NSRCEL.

With more than 50 participants in the room, the conversation saw founders and aspiring entrepreneurs exchanging ideas, learning from the ecosystem, and exploring what it takes to turn a vision into a venture.

NSRCEL and SBI Foundation’s Innovators for Bharat came together to launch Cohort 2 of the Incubating Incubators Initiative (iCube), strengthening incubation capacity in India’s Northeast, hilly regions, and Tier 2/3 cities. The launch took place in Delhi in August.

The new cohort welcomed three new incubation centres, namely, AIC MAGIC Business Incubator SME Accelerator, Incubation Centre IIT Patna (IC IITP) and Tripura Institution For Transformation.

The day featured a keynote from Dr. Anish John Paul M, Program Lead at Atal Innovation Mission Official, a fireside chat on building incubators across India, a mentorship panel, talks by Dr. Rijesh, PhD and Dr. Saishyam Narayanan of IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF), a Cohort 1 incubator, on their journey through the iCube program, a reminder of the real, on-ground impact this initiative is building.

The day closed with MoU exchanges formalizing the next chapter of collaboration with the Cohort 2 partners.

NSRCEL hosted an interaction where 18 founders took the stage, pitching technologies and solutions built to address some of the challenges shaping India’s renewable energy future.

These pitches were heard by Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd, Government of Karnataka, Foundation for Science Innovation and Development, IISc Bangalore, UNSW Sydney, and experts from the energy ecosystem, opening conversations around technology, validation, deployment and what it takes to move promising solutions forward.

This was held as part of the Renewable Energy Incubation Centre – an initiative by NSRCEL, in partnership with KREDL, FSID (IISc), and UNSW Sydney.

For more details about this program, please click here: https://nsrcel.org/renewable-energy-incubation-centre/

Cohort 13 of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women came together for a networking dinner that brought together 60 women entrepreneurs for an evening filled with meaningful conversations – setting the tone for their journey ahead.

Joining the interaction were Sandeep Bhardwaj, Managing Director – Head of Wealth Management, Bengaluru, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management; Ramasubramanian Ramachandran, HR & People Strategy Head; Smita Modi, Vice President – Office of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs, and Rasika Prashant, CEO, NSRCEL. These experts spent the evening in conversation with the newest cohort, alongside mentors and the NSRCEL team.

Tickle Your Art was recognized in the ‘Trading’ category at the Nari Vandan Awards 2026, presented by Smt Smriti Irani in association with NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform, at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

This start-up of NSRCEL from the Women Startup Program, powered by Kotak BizLabs, helps develop artwork created by artists with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities into thoughtfully designed lifestyle products – creating opportunities for artists while bringing their work to wider audiences.

Dreamfly Innovations, led by Kajal Shah from Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, has been recognized as one of the 50 winners of the NASSCOM Deeptech Emerge Award.

This start-up of NSRCEL is dedicated to advance aviation electrification through high-power-density battery solutions for drones, e-aviation and aerospace – with in-house capabilities spanning battery cell design, electronics, software as well as integration.

TERAFAC, a start-up of NSRCEL from Cohort 4 of the 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺, powered by 𝗞𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗸 𝗕𝗶𝘇𝗟𝗮𝗯, has been recognized among the NASSCOM Emerge 50 Winners 2026, announced at the NASSCOM Deeptech Future Forge in Bengaluru.

TERAFAC aims to redefine manufacturing with an AI and vision-enabled intelligence platform for robots and industrial systems, enabling machines to perceive, adapt, integrate and coordinate – starting with welding robots.

The Centre for Software & Information Technology Management (CSITM) hosted a one-day Cybersecurity Awareness Workshop on 28 August 2026.

The workshop was led by Samir Khare, a cybersecurity and IT operations leader who has held leadership roles in the Indian Army, Capgemini, Mphasis and Network Security Solutions (I) Ltd., and Prathima Kasagar, who leads Cybersecurity Transformation at Accenture India and brings over two decades of experience in cybersecurity, IT infrastructure management and large-scale transformation programmes.