Jan-Feb
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Events
The ECE department at IIIT-Delhi is organized AICTE sponsored faculty development program (FDP) on "Artificial Intelligence (AI) on System-on-Chip (SoC)" from Jan. 10-14, 2022. with a total of 14 sessions (1.5 hours each) including demos and hands-on tutorials. Experts: Mr. Danilo Pau and Mr. Hem Dutt Dabral from STMicroelectronics, Mr. Sumit Nagpal from Xilinx; Dr. Manjesh Hanawal, Dr. Dabanjan Bhowmik from IIT Bombay; Dr. Smruti R. Sarangi from IIT Delhi; Dr. Vipin Kizheppatt from BITS Pilani-Goa; and Dr. Saket Anand, Dr. A V Subramanyam, Dr. Sumit Darak, Dr. Sanjit Kaul, Dr. Sneh Saurabh from IIIT Delhi. Brochure attached.
The Institute's Library in collaboration with DILAB IIIT-Delhi conducted a Webinar on "Adobe Premiere Pro".
𝐈𝐈𝐈𝐓-𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐡𝐢’𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐧𝐢 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭
The Institute's Library conducted a webinar on "Mendeley Reference Manager
Republic Day celebration
ECE Department, IIIT-Delhi organized a 2-day Workshop on "Vehicular Communication Technology Evolution towards 6G"
Well-being Cell at IIIT-Delhi organized a webinar by Dr. Raginie Duara (School of Psychology, University of Leeds, England) on the topic “𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐝”: 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧”.
Academic Writing Lab (AWL) at Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, IIIT-Delhi organized a lecture series on 'The concept of agency in the era of Artificial Intelligence' under the AWL -SSH Humanities Initiative.
Webinar organised by iHuB title: TransEvolve: A Tale of Transformer and Multi-particle Dynamical Systems
Talk on IoT & Edge Computing by Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti
Prof. Ranjan Bose (Director, IIIT-Delhi) will be moderating the Breakout Session 2 on the theme ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐞‐𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠’.
The Library conducted a webinar on "IEEE Xplore : Delivering Research Better Than Ever" in collaboration with IEEE
Publications
Paper titled "Low-Complexity Codebook Design for SCMA based Visible Light Communication," by Saumya Chaturvedi, Dil Nashin Anwar, Vivek Ashok Bohara, Anand Srivastava, and Zilong Liu has been accepted in IEEE OJCOMS 2022.
Paper titled ‘Activation function design for deep networks: linearity and effective initialisation’ by M. Murray (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK), V. Abrol (IIIT-Delhi) and J. Tanner (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK) has been published in the journal Elsevier Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis.
Paper titled "Closed-Loop Reference Model based Distributed MRAC using Cooperative Initial Excitation and Distributed Reference Input Estimation" by Raghavv Goel, Tushar Garg and Dr. Sayan Basu Roy has been published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
Paper titled: Image Completion using a Sparse Probabilistic Spin Logic Network authored by Amina Haroon and Dr. Sneh Saurabh is accepted in 35th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID) 2022.
Paper titled: Techno-Socio-Economic Impact of Joint Energy Resource Allocation Scheme in FiWi Network," by Akshita Gupta, Vivek Ashok Bohara, and Anand Srivastava has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2022.
Paper titled: "3-Stage Pipelined Hierarchical SRAMs with Burst Mode Read in 65nm LSTP CMOS " , by Mukesh Kumar Srivastav, Rimjhim Sharma, Roshan Mishra, Anuj Grover (Faculty, IIITD), Kedar Janardan Dhori ( STMicroelectronics, NOIDA ) & Harsh Rawat ( STMicroelectronics, NOIDA ) has been accepted at IEEE ISCAS 2022.
Paper titled 'Benchmarking of Quantization Libraries in Popular Frameworks' authored by Tejas Dubhir (B.Tech Student, IIIT-Delhi), Mayank Mishra (TCS Research, Mumbai) and Rekha Singhal (TCS Research, Mumbai) has been published in the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
Paper titled "TL-HARDI: Transform Learning based Accelerated Reconstruction of HARDI data," by Ashutosh Vaish (PhD scholar, ECE Department, IIIT-Delhi ), Anubha Gupta (Prof, IIIT Delhi), and Ajit Rajwade (Associate Prof, IIT Bombay ) has been accepted in the Computers in Biology and Medicine (CIBM) Journal (2022 IF: 4.589).
Paper titled, “SMIM Framework to Generalize High-Utility Itemset Mining” by IIITD researchers Siddharth Dawar (PhD Alumnus), Vikram Goyal (Faculty) and Debajyoti Bera (Faculty) gets accepted as a regular full paper in the International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA) 2021.
Paper entitled " QoS-Aware Reliable Architecture for Broadband Fiber-Wireless Access Networks" by Priyanka Singh, Akshita Gupta, Vivek Ashok Bohara, and Anand Srivastava has been accepted for publication in IEEE Systems Journal.
Paper titled "Heart rate variability as a marker of cardiovascular dysautonomia in post-COVID-19 syndrome using artificial intelligence," by Bhushan Shah, Shekhar Kunal, Ankit Bansal, Jayant Jain, Shubhankar Poundrik, Manu Kumar Shetty, Vishal Batra, Vivek Chaturvedi, Jamal Yusuf, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay Tyagi, Girish, Anubha Gupta, and Mohit Dayal Gupta, has been accepted in the Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal (IPEJ), pp. 01-19, January 2022,
Paper titled: "5G-and-Beyond Communications for Smart Cities: Networks, Systems and Applications", by Minghua Xia, Edmund Lai, Jie Hu, Xuan Liu, Nikolaos Thomos, Zilong Liu, Tao Han, Vivek A Bohara, ADUWATI SALI, published in Frontiers in Communications and Networks, section Wireless Communications.
Paper titled Design Of High Density Memory Cell Library For Low Voltage Operation In 65nm LSTP Technology by Akshat Saxena, Swapnil Bansal, Divisha Sharma, Payal Kumari, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Priya Kapil, Belal Iqbal, Dr. Anuj Grover has been published in IEEE 18th India Council International Conference (INDICON), 2021.
Paper “Design Futuring for Love, Friendship, and Kinships: Five Perspectives on Intimacy”. Co-authored by Grace Eden (IIITD, HCD, Living Lab) and colleagues from Finland, Germany, India, The US and Great Britain, accepted to alt.chi @ CHI'22 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
Work titled, "Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS" by Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Denae Ford, Ayushi Rastogi, Rahul Purandare, Nachiappan Nagappan, and David Lo has been accepted for presentation at the Journal First track of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022).
Work titled, “CICLOP: A Robust and Accurate Computational Framework for Protein Inner Cavity Detection”, by Parth Garg, Sukriti Sacher, Mrinal, Atul, Prutyay Gautam, Arjun Ray has been published in the Bioinformatics journal of the Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press).
Paper titled: Smart Camera for Enforcing Social Distancing by Ayush Gupta, Daksh Thapar and Dr. Sujay Deb is published in IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES) (Formerly iNiS) 2021.
A new paper titled “Effects of Interacting with Facial Expressions and Controllers in Different Virtual Environments on Presence, Usability, Affect, and Neurophysiological Signals” by Arindam Dey, Amit Barde, Bowen Yuan, Ekansh Sareen, Chelsea Dobbins, Aaron Goh, Gaurav Gupta, Anubha Gupta, and Mark Billinghurst was accepted in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Achievements
IIIT-Delhi has been ranked 201–250 in the 2022 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings.
IIIT-Delhi has set up a new Centre of Excellence in Human-Centered Computing which will focus on teaching relevant courses and facilitate research collaborations, capacity building, and exchange of researchers and experts between the European Union (EU) and India.
We are elated to share that the Infosys Center for Artificial Intelligence, IIIT-Delhi and Artificial Intelligence Institute - Univ of South Carolina (AIISC) have signed an MoU to promote a close association between the Institutes through academic cooperation and research collaboration.
Laboratory for Computational Social Systems, IIIT-Delhi (LCS2) signs an MoU with Meesho to improve seller and entrepreneur experience through advanced deep learning techniques.
Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) receives the CXO Health Excellence Award second time in a row for his achievements in healthcare IT management and innovations.
Dr. Sanat K Biswas (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) has been invited to share his research activities on Space Situational Awareness and define the current challenges in a panel discussion "SSA and STM: Defining the Challenges" at ISU 2022 Adelaide Conference on Space Junk
Tweek Labs, a startup by #IIITDAlumni gets investment at Shark Tank India from Sharks Peyush Bansal, Anupam Mittal and Ashneer Grover to make their motion analyses sportswear more popular in the sports industry.
Our alumna, Sidrah Maryam (M.Tech Computational Biology, Class of 2021) has been offered a PhD position in the Faculty of Medicine department at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Our PhD alumni, Ms. Himani Joshi (under the supervision of Dr. Sumit J Darak) has been awarded the COMSNETS best Ph.D. thesis award for her thesis titled “Intelligent and Reconfigurable Ultra-Wideband Spectrum Characterization at Sub-Nyquist Rate”.
Dr. Aasim Khan (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) was recently invited to deliver a talk at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur under their 'Digital Humanities IDRP Methods and Methodologies in DH' series
Dr. Aasim Khan (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) recently delivered a public lecture for the participants in an online certification course ‘Academic Writing, Research Methodology, and New Frontiers of Research for Humanities and Social Sciences’ organized by Student Learning Centre, IQAC in collaboration with the Department of English, Hansraj College.
Mr. Abhinay Saxena (Senior Manager IT, IIIT-Delhi) has once again been awarded the Channel-Recommended Top CIO of India Award 2022 at Digital Edge Enterprise Channels Summit & Awards 2022. He has received this award earlier in the year 2016
Giving Back
Prof. Pankaj Jalote (Founding Director & Distinguished Professor, IIIT-Delhi) distributed laptops to four selected students (1st year B.Tech) under the Prof. Pankaj Jalote’s “Laptop Scheme” for the first year UG students.
The Office of Student Affairs at IIIT-Delhi successfully conducted the collection drive for GOONJ which was organized from 25th December 2021 to 2nd January 2022.