News
2025
🏆 Prof. Nipun Batra receives Test of Time Award for NILMTK! Recognition for significant long-term impact on energy disaggregation research. View all awards →
🏆 Dr. Rishiraj Adhikary (PhD Alumnus) receives Commendation for Outstanding Research (PhD) at IIT Gandhinagar Convocation 2025! View all awards →
🏆 Prof. Nipun Batra wins the SIGEnergy Rising Star Award 2025! View all awards →
🏆 Shrimay Shah and Dhruv Gupta win Third Prize in Undergraduate Research Showcase for Brick Kilns Detection project! View all awards →
Tanu and Meenakshi join Sustainability Lab as Junior Research Fellows. Welcome!
Dr. Rishiraj Adhikary successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
2024
🏆 Devodita wins the Bhalodia-Khetan Summer Research Excellence Award for ML sustainability project! View all awards →
Prof. Nipun Batra delivered a talk on “Smart Health Sensing for Sustainable Future” at Pandit Deendayal Energy University
Prof. Nipun Batra delivered the Doctoral Consortium keynote talk titled “Within and Beyond: Lessons in Computational Sustainability” at ACM Compass’24
🏆 Zeel wins the prestigious Microsoft Research India PhD Award! View all awards →
Ayush and Suraj successfully defend their Masters thesis!
🌟 Rishiraj selected for the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum! View all awards →
Our paper titled “JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising” got accepted in IMWUT 2024
Shataxi, Prince and Poornima join Sustainability lab. Welcome!
2023
Poster titled “AirDelhi: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Particulate Matter Dataset From Delhi For ML based Modeling” got accepted in NeurIPS 2023
Our workshop paper titled “Towards Scalable Identification of Brick Kilns from Satellite Imagery with Active Learning” got accepted in NeurIPS 2023
Our Paper titled “Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Particulate Matter Dataset From Delhi For ML based Modeling” got accepted in NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks Track
A visual explainable “Conformal Prediction: A Visual Introduction” got accepted at VisXAI 23 workshop
Khush and Rishabh join Sustainability lab. Welcome!
Ankita successfully defends her Masters thesis!
Ayush and Suraj join Sustainability lab. Welcome!
2022
Our paper “I do not know”: Quantifying Uncertainty in Neural Network Based Approaches for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring got accepted in BuildSys 2022
Our workshop paper “Uncertainty Disentanglement with Non-stationary Heteroscedastic Gaussian Processes for Active Learning” got accepted in NeurIPS 2022
Our workshop paper “Challenges in Gaussian Processes for Non Intrusive Load Monitoring” got accepted in NeurIPS 2022
Our paper “SpiroMask: Measuring Lung Function Using Consumer-Grade Masks” got accepted in ACM HEALTH
Our poster “Towards Continuous Respiration Rate Detection While Walking” got accepted in Ubicomp/ISWC (Adjunct) 2022
Zeel Presented our AAAI22 work “Accurate and Scalable Non-Stationary GPs” at Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC), Bangalore, India.
🌟 Zeel selected as Google Summer of Code contributor at TensorFlow with Dr. Kevin P. Murphy! View all awards →
Our work “Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India” is accepted in ACM COMPASS 22
Our paper “Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text using a Robust Generative Adversarial Network” got accepted in CODS-COMAD 2022
Ankita joins Sustainability lab. Welcome!
2021
Our paper on “Accurate and Scalable Non-Stationary GPs” gets accepted to AAAI 2022
Received a 5000 USD cloud credit grant from Google Research
🏆 Rishiraj wins the prestigious USIEF Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship! View all awards →
🏆 Rishiraj wins the prestigious Prime Minister Research Fellowship! View all awards →
Notes paper on adding neural network approaches to NILMTK-contrib accepted at BuildSys 2021
Interactive Illustration on Exploring Hidden Markov Models accepted to IEEE VisxAI 2021 workshop [Link to visualization]
Teaching a course on Ubiquitous computing this semester [Link to Course]
Completed the ML course this semester with feedback 3.83/4 :)
Serving as the publication chair for CODS-COMAD 2022
Completed the Introduction to Programming course this semester with feedback 3.73/4 :)
2020
Our paper on understanding air quality perceptions from social media accepted at ACM CSCW
Got a grant from CISCO on edge non-intrusive load monitoring
Interactive Illustration on Active Learning accepted to IEEE VisxAI 2020 workshop
[Link to visualization]
Got a grant from SERB on AI and sensor networks for air quality
Got a grant from Google on COVID and air quality linkages
Our Distill article on Bayesian Optimization got accepted [Link to visualization]
Organised a faculty development program on data science and analytics under the aegis of TEQIP (Pic with the group)
CSE@IITGN organised ACM India annual event.
(Pic with Yann LeCun (Turing award), Shwetak Patel (ACM Compute Prize))
Members of our lab attended and presented four posters at CODS COMAD 2020
2019
Spoke at INS Valsura on Machine Learning. Honoured to speak in front of officers from Indian Navy, Army and Air Force
Gave a talk about our energy dis-aggregation work at ACM BuildSys 2019 in NYC!
Gave a talk about our air quality work at Google, Bangalore
Giving a talk on Computational Sustainability at Nirma University.
Giving a talk on Computational Sustainability at ROCS 2019.
Paper accepted in WWW! Details soon on Publications page.
Teaching machine learning this semester. Class URL
2018
Haroon presented our paper in BuildSys 18!
Awarded an Microsoft AI for Earth grant worth $15000 in Azure credits
Took a research methods for CS bootcamp at IITGN. Slides, Youtube
Received a Titan XP GPU from NVidia via their grant program. Thanks, NVidia!
Teaching operating systems in the current semester at IITGN
Joined CSE at IITGN as an Assistant Professor