Inverse LabsLead mentor
Kumar Manas Khare
BITS Pilani, Goa Campus
Works at Google
Publish a research paper you can defend.
Inverse Labs pairs you with a mentor who plans the research with you, builds it alongside you, and stays with you until it is published.
Universities abroad weigh research heavily. Two applicants with the same GRE and TOEFL are not the same applicant — research is what tells them apart.
- One mentor, from plan to publication
- Peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed venues
- Published, or your fee back
Your scores are no longer what separates you
Committees abroad read thousands of applications in which the numbers all say roughly the same thing. Research is what breaks the tie.
A research degree selects for research.An MS thesis track or a PhD is a research qualification, and the committee is choosing people who can actually do the work. A publication is direct evidence of that. Everything else on your application is a proxy for it.
It is the only part of your application a stranger checked.You write your statement. You choose your referees. Your transcript comes from an institution the committee may not know well. A paper was judged by reviewers who had never heard of you and had no reason to be kind.
And it gives you something to say
This is the part applicants underrate. A publication is not only a line on a CV — it is material, and it turns up everywhere in the application:
- In your statement of purpose — a specific problem you worked on, instead of a paragraph about being passionate about the field.
- In your interview — a method you chose and defended, a result you had to justify, a limitation you can name before anyone points it out.
- In the email you send a professor— the one where you want their attention, and a paper in their area is a reason to read past the first line.
What we do
Published where it counts
Peer-reviewed IEEE conferences, or a Scopus-indexed journal where that fits the work better — chosen around your field and the schools you are targeting.
A real project, not just a manuscript
The paper documents work that has to exist. You build it, your code and data go public, and you learn the methods well enough to defend them.
An SOP that matches the paper
We help you write the statement of purpose too, so it and the research read as one argument. Most applications carry a paper and a statement that never mention each other.
Everything is yours
The paper, the DOI, the repository, the slides, the reviewer correspondence. There is nothing we keep.
How it works
One mentor, five stages, from the first conversation to the day your paper is published.
Stage 1: Your mentor builds the plan
Scope agreedYou are matched with a mentor in your field. Starting from the topic you want to work on, together you fix the target universities, the timeline, and the venue you are writing for — before a word is written.
Stage 2: You build the project, and learn to defend it
Research + repositoryMost of your time goes here. Templates and field-specific guidance, the method and the experiments, code and data published openly — and you learn it well enough to answer for it.
Stage 3: Editing and submission
SubmittedYour mentor edits with you to the standard the venue expects, then handles formatting, supplementary material, and the submission portal.
Stage 4: Reviewer comments and presentation
RevisedPeer review almost always comes back with revisions. Your mentor works through them with you, helps you write the response, and prepares you to present.
Stage 5: Publication and handover
PublishedPaper, DOI, repository, slides, reviewer correspondence, working files. All of it is yours to keep.
Your mentors
Our mentors are practising engineers from institutes like BITS Pilani and IIT (BHU), publishing research of their own. Whoever you are matched with stays with you for the whole project, and the paper at the end is yours.
Lead mentor
Sudha Bharati
IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Selected publications
- ProcureSense: A Hybrid Machine Learning Model and Public Dataset for Realistic Supply Chain Optimization4th International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence and Computing (ICAAIC), 2025. View on doi.org
- A Novel Dataset and a Hybrid Ensemble Approach for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise-Access-LogsInternational Conference on Data Science, Agents & Artificial Intelligence (ICDSAAI), 2025. View on doi.org
- An innovative device for monitoring and controlling vehicular movement in a Smart citySymposium on Colossal Data Analysis and Networking (CDAN), 2016. View on doi.org
What you walk away with
Not a certificate. A record that a stranger can verify.
The published paper
With your name on it and a DOI that resolves to it.
An indexed listing
In IEEE Xplore or Scopus, findable by anyone who searches your name.
A public repository
Your code and data on GitHub or Kaggle, with commit history that shows the work was yours.
Presentation materials
The slides and the poster, whether or not you present.
The reviewer correspondence
The part nobody shows you, and the part that proves the work went through real peer review.
A project you can be examined on
The only item on this list that actually changes how an interview goes.
Useful for
Anyone who needs verifiable technical work attached to their name.
Students
Applying for an MS or PhD abroad with no research on your profile yet, and competing against people whose scores look just like yours.
Working professionals
Going back to study after a few years in industry, and needing something recent and technical on the application rather than a degree from a while ago.
Entrepreneurs
Building a technical product and wanting published work behind it — for investor conversations, grant applications, and visa routes that ask for evidence of expertise.
Questions people actually ask
Who writes the paper?
You do, with your mentor working alongside you. They give you the structure and the templates, guide the method, and edit your drafts line by line. The research and the writing are yours.
Whose name goes on it?
Yours. You are the author of your paper.
Your mentor supervises the work and teaches you to do it, and supervision, guidance, and editing do not by themselves make someone an author. What has to be yours is the research and the writing — which is why most of stage 2 goes on the project rather than on the manuscript.
Where do you submit?
Peer-reviewed IEEE conferences, or a Scopus-indexed journal where a journal suits the work better. Your mentor picks the venue around your field, your timeline, and the schools you are targeting.
Not every venue under those umbrellas is equal, and an admissions committee in engineering or computer science knows the difference. Choosing well is a real part of what your mentor does in stage 1. We do not submit to pay-to-publish venues — a paper in one is worse than no paper at all.
How long does it take?
Around four months from the first call to publication, in most cases.
Two things move that. Review cycles run on the venue's calendar and are outside anyone's control, and projects that have to be built from scratch take longer than projects extending work you have already started. Your mentor will give you an honest estimate in stage 1 rather than a best case.
What does it cost?
We quote after the first call, because the price depends on what you need: how many papers, the tier of venue you are targeting, your timeline, and how much of the underlying project has to be built from the ground up. The consultation itself is free and you are not required to commit to anything on it.
Start with a conversation
The first call is free and there is nothing to commit to on it. Bring your target universities and whatever you are interested in working on — even if it is vague. By the end you will know what is realistic in the time you have, and whether we are the right people for it.
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