Dream boldly
Start with big questions. Ambition is where research begins.
Dream. Question. Discover.
Why.
APJ-RAISE is a student research community.
Learn research, find peers, do research together and publish your work. Free. Student-led. Any college, any country.
“Dream, dream, dream: dreams transform into thoughts, and thoughts result in action.”
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, 1931–2015
- Started
- 2026
- Fields
- AI, data, computing and mathematics
- Who can join
- Students aged 18+, from any college or country
- Cost
- Free to join. Free to publish.
01How it works
Your journey with us
From your first paper reading to your first published work. No experience needed.
- 01
Join
Apply on this site. It is free and open to students (18+) from any college or country. Once approved, you get your own member ID card.You get: Member ID card
- 02
Learn
Join regular sessions on how research works: reading papers, methods and tools.You get: Free courses with certificates
- 03
Find your group
Meet peers who care about the same problems and form a small team.You get: Events and hackathons
- 04
Do the research
Pick a clear question, run real experiments and write up what you found.You get: Open roles with certificates
- 05
Publish in our community
Your paper, code and data are published on our student community's Open Research page, with your name on it.You get: Open Research
02Learn
Learn research. Free.
We are not a course seller. Everything here is free and there is nothing to buy. Here is the bill.
Your bill
- 162 short videos$0
- Projects checked by a reviewer$0
- Quizzes$0
- Certificate$0
- Certificate verification, for life$0
Total to pay$0
No card. No trial. No upsell.
What you get
See all 9 coursesSample Certificate of Mastery
Certified. Free.
Finish a track, get its certificate. Finish all 9 tracks, get the Certificate of Mastery too. Anyone can scan the QR code to check if a certificate is real, anytime.
Check a certificate03Focus
Where we start
Four fields, each with a real question to begin on. Other fields are welcome too.
04Principles
How we work
Question deeply
Read the paper. Check the assumption. Ask why, then ask again.
Research rigorously
Clear methods, honest baselines, results others can reproduce.
Build responsibly
Make models and tools that are safe, fair and actually useful.
Share openly
Open code, open notes, open data. Knowledge grows when shared.
05Reviews
In their words
A short quote from each member, in their own words.
I used to skip the methodology section whenever I opened an arXiv paper. The Reading and Reviewing Papers course taught me how to actually dissect equations and critique experimental setups without feeling lost.
Ananya Sharma
VIT Vellore, CSE 3rd yr · Reading and Reviewing Papers
01 of 3 members
- Who can join?
- Any student aged 18 or older, from any college or country. No research experience is needed.
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Membership is free and publishing your work is free.
- What do members get?
- A member ID card, access to the members-only WhatsApp group, learning sessions, a team to work with, and a place to publish your work.
- Where is my work published?
- On our Open Research page, with your name on it. It is a student community page, not a peer-reviewed journal. You keep the copyright of your work.
- Which fields do you work in?
- We start with artificial intelligence, data science, computing and mathematics. Students from other fields are welcome too.
- Is APJ-RAISE linked to Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam?
- No. We are an independent student community inspired by his ideas. We are not linked to or endorsed by him, his family or any related institution.
07Founders
Who started it
Dr. Kalam asked students to dream, and then to turn those dreams into work.
We started APJ-RAISE to give students a place to do that: read papers together, run real experiments, and share everything in the open.
Any college. Any country. If you are curious, there is a seat for you here.
