SUSTAINABILITY LAB PUBLICATIONS IIT Gandhinagar Generated: 2025-07-03 10:56:17 Total Publications: 41 ================================================================================ 2025 ---- 1. Space to Policy: Scalable Brick Kiln Detection and Automatic Compliance Monitoring with Geospatial Data Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Mondal, Rishabh and Dubey, Shataxi and Jaiswal, Suraj and Guttikunda, Sarath and Batra, Nipun Venue: ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04065 2024 ---- 2. VayuBuddy: an LLM-Powered Chatbot to Democratize Air Quality Insights Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Bachwana, Yash and Sharma, Nitish and Guttikunda, Sarath and Batra, Nipun URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12760 3. SpiroActive: Active Learning for Efficient Data Acquisition for Spirometry Authors: Jain, Ankita Kumari and Sharma, Nitish and Kanda, Madhav and Batra, Nipun Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22950 URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22950 4. JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising Authors: Adhikary, Rishiraj and Sadeh, Maite and Batra, Nipun and Goel, Mayank Venue: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies DOI: 10.1145/3654888 5. Benchmarking Active Learning for NILM Authors: Patel, Dhruv and Jain, Ankita Kumari and Khandor, Haikoo and Choudhary, Xhitij and Batra, Nipun Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15805 URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15805 2023 ---- 6. SpiroMask: measuring Lung function using consumer-grade masks Authors: Adhikary, Rishiraj and Lodhavia, Dhruvi and Francis, Chris and Patil, Rohit and Srivastava, Tanmay and Khanna, Prerna and Batra, Nipun and Breda, Joseph and Peplinski, Jacob and Patel, Shwetak Venue: ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare DOI: 10.1145/3570167 7. AIRDELHI: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Particulate Matter Dataset From Delhi For ML based Modeling Authors: Chauhan, Sachin and Patel, Zeel B and Ranu, Sayan and Sen, Rijurekha and Batra, Nipun Venue: Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track URL: https://openreview.net/forum?id=dElWgZcqxm 2022 ---- 8. Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text using a Robust Generative Adversarial Network Authors: Shastri, Hetvi and Lodhavia, Dhruvi and Purohit, Palak and Kaoshik, Ronak and Batra, Nipun Venue: CODS-COMAD '22 : 5th Joint International Conference on Data Science \& Management of Data (9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD) 9. Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India Authors: Patel, Karm and Adhikary, Rishiraj and Patel, Zeel B and Batra, Nipun and Guttikunda, Sarath Venue: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS '22) 10. Accurate and Scalable Gaussian Processes for Fine-grained Air Quality Inference Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Purohit, Palak and Patel, Harsh and Sahni, Shivam and Batra, Nipun Venue: Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22) 11. "I do not know": Quantifying Uncertainty in Neural Network Based Approaches for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Authors: Bansal, Vibhuti and Khoiwal, Rohit and Shastri, Hetvi and Khandor, Haikoo and Batra, Nipun Venue: The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022) 2021 ---- 12. Vartalaap: what drives \#airquality discussions: politics, pollution or pseudo-science? Authors: Adhikary, Rishiraj and Patel, Zeel B and Srivastava, Tanmay and Batra, Nipun and Singh, Mayank and Bhatia, Udit and Guttikunda, Sarath Venue: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 13. Neural Network Approaches and Dataset Parser for NILM Toolkit Authors: Shastri, Hetvi and Batra, Nipun Venue: 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys) 14. Exploring Hidden Markov Models: An interactive illustration Authors: Kukunuri, Rithwik and Adhikary, Rishiraj and Jaguste, Mahika Om and Batra, Nipun and Tendulkar, Ashish Venue: 4th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI'21) 2020 ---- 15. PlantDoc: A Dataset for Visual Plant Disease Detection Authors: Singh, Davinder and Jain, Naman and Jain, Pranjali and Kayal, Pratik and Kumawat, Sudhakar and Batra, Nipun Venue: ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science \& Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2020) 16. Exploring Bayesian Optimization Authors: Agnihotri, Apoorv and Batra, Nipun Venue: Distill Journal URL: https://distill.pub/2020/bayesian-optimization/ 17. EdgeNILM: towards NILM on edge devices Authors: Kukunuri, Rithwik and Aglawe, Anup and Chauhan, Jainish and Bhagtani, Kratika and Patil, Rohan and Walia, Sumit and Batra, Nipun Venue: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation 18. Active Learning: A Visual Tour Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Batra, Nipun Venue: 3rd Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI'20) 2019 ---- 19. Towards reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation Authors: Batra, Nipun and Kukunuri, Rithwik and Pandey, Ayush and Malakar, Raktim and Kumar, Rajat and Krystalakos, Odysseas and Zhong, Mingjun and Meira, Paulo and Parson, Oliver Venue: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys '19) 20. Demo Abstract: A demonstration of reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation using NILMTK Authors: Batra, Nipun and Kukunuri, Rithwik and Pandey, Ayush and Malakar, Raktim and Kumar, Rajat and Krystalakos, Odysseas and Zhong, Mingjun and Meira, Paulo and Parson, Oliver Venue: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys '19) 21. Active Collaborative Sensing for Energy Breakdown Authors: Jia, Yiling and Batra, Nipun and Wang, Hongning and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2019) 22. A Tree-Structured Neural Network Model for Household Energy Breakdown Authors: Jia, Yiling and Batra, Nipun and Wang, Hongning and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW '19) 2018 ---- 23. Transferring Decomposed Tensors for Scalable Energy Breakdown across Regions Authors: Batra, Nipun and Jia, Yiling and Wang, Hongning and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: AAAI 2018, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18) 24. Rimor: Towards Identifying Anomalous Appliances in Buildings Authors: Rashid, Haroon and Batra, Nipun and Singh, Pushpendra Venue: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (Buildsys 18) DOI: 10.1145/3276774.3276797 2017 ---- 25. Systems and Analytical Techniques Towards Practical Energy Breakdown for Homes Authors: Batra, Nipun Venue: University of Virginia 26. Matrix Factorisation for Scalable Energy Breakdown Authors: Batra, Nipun and Wang, Hongning and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: AAAI 2017, Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17) 2016 ---- 27. Gemello: Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: KDD 2016, 22nd ACM SIGKDD conference on knowledge discovery and data mining DOI: 10.1145/2939672.2939735 28. Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation Through Actionable Feedback Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring 29. Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring 2015 ---- 30. Non Intrusive Load Monitoring: Systems, Metrics and Use Cases Authors: Batra, Nipun Venue: Doctoral Colloqium of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2015) 31. If You Measure It, Can You Improve It? Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin Venue: 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2015) 32. Dataport and NILMTK: A Building Data Set Designed for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Authors: Parson, Oliver and Fisher, Grant and Hersey, April and Batra, Nipun and Kelly, Jack and Singh, Amarjeet and Knottenbelt, William and Rogers, Alex Venue: 1st International Symposium on Signal Processing Applications in Smart Buildings at 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing 2014 ---- 33. NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Authors: Batra, Nipun and Kelly, Jack and Parson, Oliver and Dutta, Haimonti and Knottenbelt, William and Rogers, Alex and Singh, Amarjeet and Srivastava, Mani Venue: 5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy) 34. NILMTK v0. 2: A Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit for Large Scale Data Sets Authors: Kelly, Jack and Batra, Nipun and Parson, Oliver and Dutta, Haimonti and Knottenbelt, William and Rogers, Alex and Singh, Amarjeet and Srivastava, Mani Venue: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014) 35. Data Driven Energy Efficiency in Buildings Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Singh, Pushpendra and Dutta, Haimonti and Sarangan, Venkatesh and Srivastava, Mani 36. Bits and Watts: Improving energy disaggregation performance using power line communication modems Authors: Batra, Nipun and Gulati, Manoj and Jain, Puneet and Whitehouse, Kamin and Singh, Amarjeet Venue: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014) 37. A comparison of non-intrusive load monitoring methods for commercial and residential buildings Authors: Batra, Nipun and Parson, Oliver and Berges, Mario and Singh, Amarjeet and Rogers, Alex 2013 ---- 38. It's Different: Insights into home energy consumption in India Authors: Batra, Nipun and Gulati, Manoj and Singh, Amarjeet and Srivastava, Mani Venue: 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (Buildsys 2013) 39. INDiC: Improved Non-Intrusive load monitoring using load Division and Calibration Authors: Batra, Nipun and Dutta, Haimonti and Singh, Amarjeet Venue: The 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'13) 40. Experiences with Occupancy Based Building Management Systems Authors: Batra, Nipun and Arjunan, Pandarasamy and Singh, Amarjeet and Singh, Pushpendra Venue: 2013 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP '13) 2012 ---- 41. SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management Authors: Arjunan, Pandarasamy and Batra, Nipun and Choi, Haksoo and Singh, Amarjeet and Singh, Pushpendra and Srivastava, Mani Venue: BuildSys '12: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings DOI: 10.1145/2422531.2422547