santanu-p/academic-research-assistant

Edit, proofread, translate, paraphrase, and shorten academic text while retaining technical meaning, evidence, citations, and author intent.

Critically review and revise research artifacts through bounded, evidence-linked challenge, repair, and rechecking without treating iteration counts as success.

Create and repair source-traceable citations and reference lists, including BibTeX, biblatex, Biber, natbib, and manuscript citation-backend consistency.

Convert academic documents among LaTeX, word-processing, Markdown, HTML, and PDF workflows while tracking semantic, structural, and visual fidelity.

Produce editable academic documents and checked deliverables through explicit source, build, rendering, inspection, and packaging steps.

Extract auditable study-level or claim-level evidence into a defined schema while preserving source locations, missing values, versions, and dependent reports.

Assess journal fit and prepare a verified submission package against current venue requirements, with truthful declarations, complete files, and unresolved items clearly identified.

Synthesize a bounded body of literature into a source-traceable narrative organized by questions, mechanisms, methods, findings, and unresolved disagreements.

Build and execute a documented scholarly search using concept blocks, suitable discovery sources, citation chaining, and transparent coverage limits.

Draft and restructure research manuscripts, abstracts, proposals, and grant narratives from traceable evidence while preserving contribution and uncertainty.

Build and analyze mathematical models with explicit assumptions, dimensions, boundary conditions, identifiability, and limits of interpretation.

Express mathematical arguments in consistent, readable LaTeX while preserving definitions, domains, dimensions, quantifiers, and the distinction between proof and illustration.

Assess whether quantitative study results can be pooled and conduct a reproducible synthesis with compatible estimands, dependency handling, uncertainty, and sensitivity analysis.

Design an empirical, qualitative, theoretical, or computational study whose evidence and analysis can answer a specified research question.

Read and explain a research paper with a traceable account of its question, methods, results, assumptions, and limitations, including equations and figures when relevant.

Create research talks, slide decks, Beamer sources, and academic posters with audience-appropriate claims, readable visuals, and rehearsal-based timing.

Prepare truthful academic CVs, applications, cover letters, statements, correspondence, and proposal documents tailored to a specific audience and requirements.

Analyze interviews, observations, documents, and other qualitative materials with a coherent methodological stance, contextual interpretation, reflexivity, and traceable evidence.

Appraise a study or research manuscript by matching claims to design, evidence, analysis, reporting, and inference, with actionable and proportionate judgments.

Coordinate academic research tasks, select specialist methods and explain the available local tools and their limits.

Translate research into an audience-appropriate talk, summary, explanation, or public narrative while preserving the evidence, uncertainty, ownership, and practical limits.

Review research provenance, attribution, authorship, consent, disclosure, and recordkeeping, and prepare transparent corrections or escalation questions from documented evidence.

Coordinate research from a defined question to reproducible analyses and communication using explicit stage inputs, decisions, handoffs, and completion evidence.

Convert a research objective into a dependency-aware plan with concrete outputs, decision milestones, resource constraints, risks, and honest completion criteria.

Develop a research or funding proposal with a verified problem statement, coherent aims, feasible methods, risks, milestones, and evidence-bounded significance.

Turn a research interest or unresolved finding into a bounded, answerable question with explicit concepts, scope, alternatives, and feasibility criteria.

Design and perform proportionate validation of scientific claims, analyses, models, and computational results with traceable evidence and explicit limits.

Convert editorial and reviewer comments into an evidence-based revision plan and point-by-point response linked to actual manuscript changes and verified analyses.

Examine scientific arguments, hypotheses, mechanisms, and alternative explanations across empirical, qualitative, theoretical, and computational research.

Create and inspect scientific figures and tables with explicit data provenance, uncertainty meaning, physical dimensions, and reproducible local exports.

Verify a scholarly source's identity, version, provenance, publication status, and support for a specific claim without confusing metadata checks with quality appraisal.

Plan and execute reproducible quantitative analysis with a defined estimand, design-aware models, diagnostics, uncertainty, and restrained interpretation.

Plan and conduct protocol-driven evidence reviews with explicit eligibility, reproducible searching, study linkage, screening records, appraisal, and transparent synthesis.

Design lessons, lecture notes, problem sets, examinations, and worked solutions with aligned learning goals, defensible difficulty, and checked mathematical or scientific content.

Diagnose and repair LaTeX build failures and consequential warnings while preserving document meaning, project structure, and reproducible build instructions.

Construct and integrate research figures and tables in LaTeX with faithful data, interpretable labels, accessible encodings, and checked placement.

Improve LaTeX page structure, typography, spacing, and navigation through measured layout decisions and inspection of freshly built pages.

Plan, organize, draft, and prepare theses and dissertations with explicit contribution boundaries, institutional checks, reproducible sources, and evidence-based viva preparation.