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UPDEED Fellowship
We build the achievements
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Real, verified and finished — a published paper, a registered company, a deployed impact project or a shipped product. Built in 4–9 months with a mentor who has done it themselves.
IIT + Harvard founders100+ mentors20 places per cohort
Mubashir SuhailISEF 2026 Qualifier
Springer Publication10 WeeksPublishedBuilt for students aiming at the world’s leading universities
Aspirational destinations shown for context. Verified student outcomes appear in Results.
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Entrepreneurship
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Social Impact
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Engineering
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Results
Potential becomes
proof
Mubashir S.Physics & MLISEF FINALIST
From zero research experience to ISEF 2026 Qualifier. Built a gravitational-wave ML pipeline with UPDEED mentorship.
A Low-Resource CNN Pipeline for Gravitational-Wave Signal Classification
PhysicsMachine LearningDistributed Systems
Arjun D.NanotechnologySPRINGER NATURE + PATENT
Published in Springer Nature with a patent filed. Carbon-capture research built through UPDEED.
Bimetal-Modified Zeolite Catalysts for Direct Air Carbon Capture
NanotechnologySustainabilityPatents
Nidhi K.AI HealthcareIEEE PUBLISHED
AI-driven healthcare framework published in IEEE. A 90%+ accuracy model developed with UPDEED guidance.
An AI-Driven Point-of-Care Framework for Rural Diagnostics
AI/MLHealthcareNeural Networks
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