INVITED Talks

"Worship Facilities in India: A Large Unexplored Goldmine for Decarbonization" , presented hybrid at SIGEnegy SoDec23 held in conjunction with 14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), held in Florida in June 2023 [Video]

“The way forward for building energy benchmarking in India”, presented hybrid at the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, held in Boston in Nov 2022 [PPT]

“Responsible Design 'BEYOND' Technology and Business....People and Environment”, at Pune Design Festival (PDF2022) held in Pune in Mar 2022 (Online-mode) [PPT] KEYNOTE TALK

“Towards Modeling Cyber-Physical Hazards in Buildings: Interdisciplinary Approach”, at International Conference on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS2020) held in Chennai in Dec 2020 (Online-mode) [PPT][Certificate]

“A Taxonomy for Cross-domain Fire Hazards in Building Design,” at 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL2020PSAM15) held in Venice in Nov 2020 (Online mode) [PPT][Video][Certificate]

“Demystifying cyber-physical risks in smart building”, at the 5th SRA Nordic Conference on Risk Management for Innovation held in Copenhagen in Nov 2019. [PPT]

“Systematic Approach to Cyber-Physical Hazard Analysis in Smart Buildings”, at the 5th SRA Nordic Conference on Risk Management for Innovation held in Copenhagen in Nov 2019. [PPT]

“A cyber-physical middleware platform for buildings in smart cities”, at the 35th CIB W78 2018 Conference: IT in Design, Construction, and Management held in Chicago in Oct 2018. [PPT]

“SMELs: A Data-driven Middleware for Smart Miscellaneous Electrical Load Management in Buildings," at the 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech) held in Athens in Aug 2018. [PPT]

“Classifying office plug load appliance evens in the context of NILM using time-series data mining," at the 12th REHVA World Congress and CLIMA2016, held in Aalborg in May 2016. [PPT]

"OPLD: Towards improved non-intrusive office plug load disaggregation," at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Technologies (ICBEST), held in Singapore in Aug-Sep 2015. [PPT]

"Post-occupancy lighting analysis for a commercial office building in India," at the 3rd National Conference on Refrigeration and Air conditioning (NCRAC 2013), held in Chennai in Dec 2013. [PPT]

“Technology Design and Management for Future Urban Environment: Research challenges and opportunities” in The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) webinar held in India in Aug 2020.[PPT]

“Buildings in future smart cities – Research challenges and opportunities” in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India in Nov 2018.[PPT]

“Development of framework based algorithms for non-intrusive disaggregation of plug loads for offices” in the Department of Building, National University of Singapore in Singapore in May 2017.[PPT]

“Non-intrusive load monitoring in office buildings” presented at Delft Centre for Systems and Control, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, May 2016.[PPT]

“An Outlook on Miscellaneous Electrical Loads and Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring in Offices” in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands in May 2016.[PPT]

“An Outlook: Miscellaneous Electrical Loads and Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring in Offices”, in the Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore in Singapore in March 2016.[PPT]

“3D image perception using air-borne LADAR in surveillance system” at 23rd APOGEE 2005 in BITS Pilani in India