News
2026
May NILMBench2026 nominated for the Best Paper Award at BuildSys 2026!
May ThermEval accepted at KDD 2026! Benchmarking vision-language models on thermal imagery with Ayush Shrivastava, Kirtan Gangani, Laksh Jain, and Mayank Goel (CMU).
May NILMBench2026 accepted at BuildSys 2026! A reproducible benchmark for energy disaggregation, led entirely by 2nd-year undergraduates Aayush Kuloor, Anurag Singh, and Harsh Dhru.
Feb Dr. Zeel B Patel successfully defends his PhD thesis. Second PhD graduate from the lab. Congratulations!
Jan Balbir Prasad, Saaransh Shandilya and Parv Thecker awarded IndiaAI MTech Fellowships!
2025
Dec Received ANRF ARG (Anusandhan National Research Foundation - Accelerate Research Grant)!
Nov Paper accepted at AAAI 2025
Oct Paper accepted at CODS-COMAD 2025
Sep Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025
Aug Kirtan Gangani and Deena Lad join Sustainability Lab as Research Assistants. Welcome!
Jun Prof. Nipun Batra receives Test of Time Award for NILMTK! Recognition for significant long-term impact on energy disaggregation research.
Jun Dr. Rishiraj Adhikary receives Commendation for Outstanding Research (PhD) at IIT Gandhinagar Convocation 2025!
Jun Prof. Nipun Batra wins the SIGEnergy Rising Star Award 2025!
Jun Organizing ACM India Summer School 2025 on AI for Social Good at IIT Gandhinagar (June 2-13, 2025)
Jan Prof. Nipun Batra receives Excellence in Teaching Award based on outstanding teaching contributions and active learning strategies!
Jan Shataxi Dubey wins Third Prize in Simply Speaking 4.0 Competition organized by Leadership Development Initiative, IITGN!
Jan Shrimay Shah and Dhruv Gupta win Third Prize in Undergraduate Research Showcase for Brick Kilns Detection project!
Jan Tanu and Meenakshi join Sustainability Lab as Junior Research Fellows. Welcome!
Jan Dr. Rishiraj Adhikary successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
2024
Nov Prof. Nipun Batra promoted to Associate Professor at IIT Gandhinagar!
Aug Devodita wins the Bhalodia-Khetan Summer Research Excellence Award for ML sustainability project!
Jul Talk on โSmart Health Sensing for Sustainable Futureโ at PDEU
Jul Doctoral Consortium keynote โWithin and Beyond: Lessons in Computational Sustainabilityโ at ACM Compassโ24
Jun Zeel wins the prestigious Microsoft Research India PhD Award!
Jun Ayush and Suraj successfully defend their Masters thesis!
Apr Rishiraj selected for the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum!
Jan โJoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imageryโ accepted at IMWUT 2024
Jan Shataxi, Prince and Poornima join the lab. Welcome!
2023
Dec โAirDelhi: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal PM Datasetโ poster at NeurIPS 2023
Oct โScalable Identification of Brick Kilns with Active Learningโ at NeurIPS 2023 workshop
Sep โFine-Grained Spatio-Temporal PM Dataset From Delhiโ at NeurIPS 2023 Datasets Track
Sep โConformal Prediction: A Visual Introductionโ at VisXAI 23
Jun Khush and Rishabh join the lab. Welcome!
Jun Ankita successfully defends her Masters thesis!
Jan Ayush and Suraj join the lab. Welcome!
2022
Nov โI do not knowโ: Quantifying Uncertainty in NN for NILM at BuildSys 2022
Oct โUncertainty Disentanglement with Non-stationary Heteroscedastic GPsโ at NeurIPS 2022
Oct โChallenges in Gaussian Processes for NILMโ at NeurIPS 2022
Oct โSpiroMask: Measuring Lung Function Using Consumer-Grade Masksโ at ACM HEALTH
Sep โContinuous Respiration Rate Detection While Walkingโ at UbiComp 2022
Aug Zeel presented โAccurate and Scalable Non-Stationary GPsโ at ASIC, Bangalore
May Zeel selected as Google Summer of Code contributor at TensorFlow with Dr. Kevin P. Murphy!
Apr โSamachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in Indiaโ at ACM COMPASS 22
Jan โVastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Textโ at CODS-COMAD 2022
Jan Ankita joins the lab. Welcome!
2021
Dec โAccurate and Scalable Non-Stationary GPsโ at AAAI 2022
Nov Received $5000 cloud credit grant from Google Research
Nov Rishiraj wins Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship!
Oct Rishiraj wins Prime Minister Research Fellowship!
Sep Neural network approaches to NILMTK-contrib at BuildSys 2021
Aug Teaching Ubiquitous Computing course
Feb Publication chair for CODS-COMAD 2022
2020
Dec Air quality perceptions from social media accepted at ACM CSCW
Nov CISCO grant on edge non-intrusive load monitoring
Oct SERB grant on AI and sensor networks for air quality
Sep Google grant on COVID and air quality linkages
May Bayesian Optimization article published on Distill
Feb Faculty development program on data science (TEQIP)
Feb ACM India event with Yann LeCun and Shwetak Patel
Jan Four posters presented at CODS COMAD 2020
2019
Nov ML talk at INS Valsura for Indian Navy, Army and Air Force officers
Nov Energy disaggregation talk at ACM BuildSys 2019, NYC
Nov Air quality talk at Google, Bangalore
Apr Computational Sustainability talk at Nirma University
Mar Computational Sustainability talk at ROCS 2019
Jan Paper accepted at WWW
Jan Teaching Machine Learning course
2018
Nov Haroon presented paper at BuildSys 18
Nov Microsoft AI for Earth grant ($15000 Azure credits)
Aug Research methods for CS bootcamp at IITGN
Jul Titan XP GPU grant from NVidia
Jul Joined CSE at IITGN as Assistant Professor