Vivek Sabanwar

Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in Educational Technology                                                                                                                                                                                                    2020 - 2023

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering                                                                                                                                                       2013 - 2017

Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (affiliated to University of Mumbai), India

Research Experience

Project Research Engineer (at Affectbots, a TIH-IoT IITB funded project)                                                                                                                                                        October, 2023 - present

IDP in Educational Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Journals

[1] (In drafting stage) Using reflective prompts to investigate interplay of experience of uncertainties, actions and productive uncertainty management of novices in engineering design.

Peer-reviewed Conferences

[9] Sabanwar, Vivek, Prasad Trimukhe, Aditya Gudla, Isha Kamone and Kavi Arya. "Improving learning experience to teach FPGA design at scale". In Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference (COMPUTE '23), pp. 31-36. [link to publication]

[8] Sabanwar, Vivek, Chandan Dasgupta and Kavi Arya. "Reflective prompts for productive uncertainty management: Enabling shift in positional framing". [To appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technology 4 Education (T4E 2023).]

[7] Biswas, Rathin, Vivek Sabanwar and Kavi Arya. "The nexus between work and stress: Challenges with IoE based hands-on engineering education among young academics during lockdown due to pandemic". In 2023 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), pp. 364-366. IEEE, 2023. [link to publication]

[6] Sabanwar, Vivek, Chandan Dasgupta and Kavi Arya. "Fostering productive uncertainty management in engineering problem-solving through reflective prompts". In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2023, pp. 1912-1913. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2023. [link to publication]

[5] Sabanwar, Vivek, Prasad Trimukhe, Aditya Gudla, Isha Kamone and Kavi Arya. "The learning must go on: Experience of keeping participants engaged in online robotics competition during COVID-19 lockdown". In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2022, pp. 448-455. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2022. [link to publication]

[4] Kodumuru, Saketh, Brendan Lucas, Vivek Sabanwar, Sachin Patil, Deepa Avudiappan, Parth Parikh, and Kavi Arya. "Towards developing a learning analytics dashboard for a massive online robotics competition." In 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), pp. 1020-1025. IEEE, 2022. [link to publication]

[3] Sabanwar, Vivek, Avijit Pandey, Rathin Biswas, and Kavi Arya. "Easy or Difficult! MOOC difficulty and retention." In 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), pp. 961-968. IEEE, 2022. [link to publication]

[2] (Best paper award nomination) Nishane, Indrayani, Vivek Sabanwar, T. G. Lakshmi, Daevesh Singh, and Ramkumar Rajendran. "Learning about learners: Understanding learner behaviours in software conceptual design TELE." In 2021 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), pp. 297-301. IEEE, 2021. [link to publication]

[1] Sabanwar, Vivek, and Kavi Arya. "Motivation as Basis for Building Infrastructure for Hardware MOOCs." In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019. [link to publication]

Academic service (Peer Reviewer/ PC Member)

ISLS (2022, 2023,2024), ITiCSE (2022, 2023,2024), ICCE (2023), SIGCSE TS (2022), IEEE FIE (2020), IEEE T4E (2023), COMPUTE (2023), AERA (2024)

Professional milestones

• Co-mentored over 4300 students in embedded systems, robotics and engineering design thinking through e-Yantra robotics competition.

• Conducted 18 workshops (180+ colleges, 650+ teachers) across India on introduction to robotics as a part of the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative; including 2 workshops conducted for corporate clients.

• Mentored over 15 interns.

• Received IITB conference travel grant of INR 140,000 to present paper at IEEE TALE 2019 in Indonesia.

Invited talks/sessions