The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship was established in 2023 to support researchers in conducting data-driven analysis or developing tools that contribute to an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet.
2025 Alumni
The 2025 cohort application process launched in November 2023, and we received 235 applications from 56 countries, from which 21 were selected to provide a detailed project proposal. Due to the high quality of project proposals, we chose the following eight fellows for the 2025 fellowship:
| Name | Project | |
 | Nishant Acharya | Quantifying the Impact of IXP Shutdowns |
 | Antonios Chatzivasiliou | Internet Infrastructure Changes in Times of Crisis |
 | Dipsy Desai | Minimizing Unwanted Incoming Queries to b.root-server (DNS root-server) |
 | Deepak Gouda | Who Owns the Internet? Analyzing Market Concentration in Global IP Address Space |
 | Rashna Kumar | Concentration and Consolidation of the Internet |
 | Riya Ponraj | Network-Physical Layer Mapping for Enhanced Internet Resilience and Security |
 | Karthik Nishanth | QUICensor: A Global Measurement Study of QUIC Blocking |
 | Tanya Shreedhar | Bridging AS Topology and Traffic Affinity for Network Resilience |
 | Florian Steurer | Measuring DNS resilience |
 | Martin Thodi | Quantifying Local Internet Traffic – An Ensemble of Methods |
2024 Alumni
The 2024 cohort application process launched in November 2023, and we received 157 applications from 49 countries, from which 14 were selected to provide a detailed project proposal. Due to the high quality of project proposals, we chose the following four fellows for the 2024 fellowship:
Watch presentations of their project outcomes.
2023 Alumni
| Name | Project | |
 | Sadia Nourin | Measuring Internet Censorship Without Volunteers or Vantage Points |
 | Aravindh Raman | VizSphere: Visualizing global connectivity through the eyes of Internet Observatories |
 | Alagappan Ramanathan | Nautilus: Cross-Layer Cartography of the Undersea Internet Backbone |