News
2025
Nov Paper accepted at AAAI 2025
Oct Paper accepted at CODS-COMAD 2025
Sep Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025
Jan Prof. Nipun Batra receives Test of Time Award for NILMTK! Recognition for significant long-term impact on energy disaggregation research.
Jan 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!
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 “Smart Health Sensing for Sustainable Future” at PDEU
Jul Doctoral Consortium keynote “Within and Beyond: Lessons in Computational Sustainability” at ACM Compass’24
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 “JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery” accepted at IMWUT 2024
Jan Shataxi, Prince and Poornima join the lab. Welcome!
2023
Dec “AirDelhi: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal PM Dataset” poster at NeurIPS 2023
Oct “Scalable Identification of Brick Kilns with Active Learning” at NeurIPS 2023 workshop
Sep “Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal PM Dataset From Delhi” at NeurIPS 2023 Datasets Track
Sep “Conformal Prediction: A Visual Introduction” 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 “I do not know”: Quantifying Uncertainty in NN for NILM at BuildSys 2022
Oct “Uncertainty Disentanglement with Non-stationary Heteroscedastic GPs” at NeurIPS 2022
Oct “Challenges in Gaussian Processes for NILM” at NeurIPS 2022
Oct “SpiroMask: Measuring Lung Function Using Consumer-Grade Masks” at ACM HEALTH
Sep “Continuous Respiration Rate Detection While Walking” at UbiComp 2022
Aug Zeel presented “Accurate and Scalable Non-Stationary GPs” at ASIC, Bangalore
May Zeel selected as Google Summer of Code contributor at TensorFlow with Dr. Kevin P. Murphy!
Apr “Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India” at ACM COMPASS 22
Jan “Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text” at CODS-COMAD 2022
Jan Ankita joins the lab. Welcome!
2021
Dec “Accurate and Scalable Non-Stationary GPs” 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