Summary: This article gathers the most common questions students, particularly from South Asia, ask about pursuing a PhD in AI and NLP. It explains how to assess academic readiness, choose suitable supervisors and universities, identify meaningful research gaps, and explore impactful directions, including ethical AI and Islamic knowledge technologies.
Nov 22, 2025
Recently, I came across a thought-provoking piece by Prof. Rajgopal: The PhD is the New MBA. He highlighted that some of the core skills developed during a PhD are exactly the ones we need when engaging with today’s large language model (LLM) technologies:
Aug 29, 2025