Blog

"Overleaf has made work easier, documents prettier and life simpler." – Aalok Thakkar

Recently we spoke with Aalok Thakkar, a student at Chennai Mathematical Institute pursuing an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a member of Institute of Actuaries of India. His interest lies in economics, mathematics, computer science and history.

Everyone at Overleaf would like to thank you for your support in 2015 and we look forward to more exciting growth and new features in 2016.

We thought it would be fun to share with you some of the stats we've achieved in 2015... so here they are!

"Overleaf represents freedom of creation, sharing, and novelty." – Maria Luiza Linhares Dantas

Maria recently completed her Masters degree in Astrophysics at the University of Sao Paulo, and we're delighted to welcome her as a new Overleaf Advisor!

In this short interview she explains why she applied to be an Advisor and how she's been using Overleaf in her recent work.

Note: As of December 2023, IEEE is no longer providing access to Overleaf premium features for Collabratec users newly linking their accounts to Overleaf. You can still link your IEEE Collabratec account to your Overleaf account, but this won’t grant access to Overleaf’s premium features.

Earlier this year we announced a new collaboration with the IEEE to integrate Overleaf into the IEEE Collabratec™ platform.

Here's our short guide to help you get started, where we cover how to:

• Get set up by linking your Overleaf and Collabratec accounts
• Save existing Overleaf documents into your Collabratec library
• Open your Collabratec LaTeX projects directly in Overleaf for editing online
• Make changes and keep documents and metadata in-sync across both platforms
• Create new research papers using the IEEE LaTeX templates with your metadata pre-filled in on Overleaf

Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Arindam Basu and the Research Committee of the College of Education, Health, and Human Development CoEHHD for organizing an interactive Overleaf overview presentation at the University of Canterbury at Christchurch in New Zealand.

As a champion of collaborative research, Arin’s aim for this workshop was to introduce and encourage the use of Overleaf as a collaborative writing tool among students and academic faculty members. In addition, Arin is creating some basic tutorials that will be available soon in Overleaf’s help section of the website. We value Arin’s continued use, support, and promotion of Overleaf.

As a result, Overleaf is delighted to name Arin Basu as Advisor of the Month for November, 2015. Thank you Arin!