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1:1 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Bring us the goal. We build the specialist plan around it.

A three-to-six month individual research and engineering apprenticeship for students pursuing a specific competition, research question, production system, or product launch.

Request a research consultation ROLLING ADMISSIONS
MATCHED TO SPECIALIST AVAILABILITY
YOUR SPECIALIST BENCH

Your project should be guided by someone exceptional in the field.

Lucid matches you with researchers and builders whose technical experience fits the project—not a generalist assigned to teach every subject.

Parth Kocheta$10,000 Massachusetts Science Fair Grand Prize winner

Parth Kocheta

Founder · AI research mentor

  • AI research at Carnegie Mellon AirLab
  • Two machine-learning internships at Sanofi
  • Founded programs serving 150+ students
Carnegie Mellon UniversitySanofiMSEFUniversity of Maryland
LinkedIn
Kaden CassidyAuthored 600+ RISC-V Vector certification tests

Kaden Cassidy

Physical AI, robotics and computer-systems lead

  • Led autonomous software for a FIRST World Championship Inspire Award-winning team
  • Helped unblock NASA’s Lunar Autonomy Challenge simulation
  • Harvey Mudd · Applied Mathematics and Digital Systems
Harvey Mudd CollegeJohns Hopkins APLNASAFIRSTRISC-V
LinkedIn
Vaibhav MishraRegeneron Science Talent Search Scholar and ISEF Finalist

Vaibhav Mishra

Senior mentor · Medical AI and applied machine learning

  • Published medical-AI research across JACC, AMIA, and ML4H
  • Medical-AI research with Stanford Medicine and Dana-Farber/Harvard Medical School
  • Georgia Tech computer-science graduate
Regeneron STSGeorgia TechStanford MedicineDana-FarberJACCAMIAML4H
Pranay KochetaFirst author of IEEE-published Pulse-Fi

Pranay Kocheta

Mentor · Wireless sensing and physical-world AI

  • 0.08 BPM mean absolute error across 118 participants
  • Co-author of IEEE PerCom 2026 Locaris research
  • Research collaborator with UC Santa Cruz i-NRG Lab
IEEEUC Santa Cruzi-NRG LabMSEFIEEE Spectrum
1:1 RESEARCH OUTCOMES

Serious mentorship should end in work people outside Lucid can recognize.

Students have turned close technical mentorship into research awards, peer-reviewed publication, international presentation, and products released to real users.

Nidhi Sharath with her Best Oral Presentation award
MEDICAL AI · INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATION

Automated brain-tumor segmentation

Nidhi compared U-Net architectures for segmenting brain tumors in MRI scans and carried the work from model experiments through a full research paper.

Nidhi Sharath · Only high-school presenter at TMC AI Summit · IYRC Best Oral PresentationSee more student work
Tanvi Marri discussing her carbon-capture research
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE · FIVE AWARDS

Testing an aluminum method for carbon capture

Tanvi Marri · Five awards · Thermo Fisher JIC entrant

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SafeBite product page and iPhone interface
AI PRODUCT · LIVE ON THE APP STORE

SafeBite: know what you eat

Prathyush Yeturi · Live iOS product · hackathon prize winner

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Satya Kokonda's Catalysis Today publication record
AI FOR MATERIALS · PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION

Machine learning for photocatalyst discovery

Satya Kokonda · Single-author paper · Catalysis Today (Elsevier)

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Official Regeneron ISEF award listing for Shivum Telang
REGENERON ISEF 2026 · FIRST AWARD

A new avenue for treating retinal disease

Shivum Telang · $6,000 first award · Translational Medical Science

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HOW THE MATCH WORKS

Goal first. Scope second. Specialist third.

The Fellowship is for AI Innovators alumni and students who already have meaningful project experience. It begins with a specific target: a technical question, competition, publication path, application, or product the student genuinely wants to pursue.

Lucid first tests whether the goal is technically coherent and realistic for the timeline. Only then do we confirm an available specialist and build the milestone plan. If we do not have the right person, we say so.

WHAT THE FELLOWSHIP INCLUDES

Start with a named target. Build a serious body of work around it.

For AI Innovators alumni and students with meaningful programming or project experience, the Fellowship turns a specific goal into a scoped plan, specialist match, technical milestones, and a finished package.

  1. 01A written scope built around one student target—not a recycled syllabus
  2. 02A specialist matched for the technical field and project direction
  3. 03Weekly 1:1 research or engineering sessions
  4. 04Technical review and written feedback between sessions
  5. 05Preparation for the appropriate external target: competition, publication, showcase, or launch
  6. 06A final package matched to the work: code, results, paper when warranted, project documentation, presentation, and next steps
ROLLING ADMISSIONSStart with a project and mentor strategy call.
ROLLING ADMISSIONS

Start with a project and mentor strategy call.

We will assess the student’s background, the technical target, the timeline, and whether Lucid has the right specialist available.

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