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2025

Space to Policy: Scalable Brick Kiln Detection and Automatic Compliance Monitoring with Geospatial Data
Zeel B Patel, Rishabh Mondal, Shataxi Dubey, Suraj Jaiswal, Sarath Guttikunda, Nipun Batra
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS) 2025
arXiv BibTeX YouTube Google AQ Summit 2024 IITD Talk HuggingFace
2024



VayuBuddy: an LLM-Powered Chatbot to Democratize Air Quality Insights
Zeel B Patel, Yash Bachwana, Nitish Sharma, Sarath Guttikunda, Nipun Batra
arXiv 2024
arXiv BibTeX Google AQ Summit 2024 HuggingFace News: Divya Bhaskar News: Indian Express News: Ahmedabad Mirror News: Chitralekha

JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising
Rishiraj Adhikary, Maite Sadeh, Nipun Batra, Mayank Goel
ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2024; and ACM Ubicomp 2024
PDF BibTeX Github Poster YouTube News coverage Medium Article CMU News Hackster
2023

AIRDELHI: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Particulate Matter Dataset From Delhi For ML based Modeling
Sachin Chauhan, Zeel B Patel, Sayan Ranu, Rijurekha Sen, and Nipun Batra.
Datasets and Benchmarks Track, NeurIPS 2023, the Thirty-seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

SpiroMask: measuring Lung function using consumer-grade masks
Rishiraj Adhikary, Dhruvi Lodhavia, Chris Francis, Rohit Patil, Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Nipun Batra, Joseph Breda, Jacob Peplinski, Shwetak Patel
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare 2023
PDF BibTeX Github Slides (PDF) News coverage EdgeImpulse Article
2022

“I do not know”: Quantifying Uncertainty in Neural Network Based Approaches for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
Vibhuti Bansal, Rohit Khoiwal, Hetvi Shastri, Haikoo Khandor, Nipun Batra
The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022)

Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India
Karm Patel, Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra, Sarath Guttikunda
ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS ’22)

Accurate and Scalable Gaussian Processes for Fine-grained Air Quality Inference
Zeel B Patel, Palak Purohit, Harsh Patel, Shivam Sahni, and Nipun Batra
Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)

Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text using a Robust Generative Adversarial Network
Shastri, Hetvi; Lodhavia, Dhruvi; Purohit, Palak; Kaoshik, Ronak; Batra, Nipun
CODS-COMAD ’22 : 5th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD)
2021

Vartalaap: what drives #airquality discussions: politics, pollution or pseudo-science?
Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B. Patel, Tanmay Srivastava, Nipun Batra, Mayank Singh, Udit Bhatia, and Sarath Guttikunda
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, no. CSCW1 (2021)

Neural Network Approaches and Dataset Parser for NILM Toolkit
Hetvi Shastri, Nipun Batra
8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys)
2020


EdgeNILM: towards NILM on edge devices
Kukunuri, Rithwik, Anup Aglawe, Jainish Chauhan, Kratika Bhagtani, Rohan Patil, Sumit Walia, and Nipun Batra
Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, pp. 90-99. 2020.
2019

Active Collaborative Sensing for Energy Breakdown
Yiling Jia, Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse
The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’2019)

Demo Abstract: A demonstration of reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation using NILMTK
Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, Rajat Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo Meira, Oliver Parson
The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)

Towards reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation
Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, Rajat Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo Meira, Oliver Parson
The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)
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2015

If You Measure It, Can You Improve It? Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation
Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse
2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2015)

Non Intrusive Load Monitoring: Systems, Metrics and Use Cases
Nipun Batra
Doctoral Colloqium of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2015)
[Best presentation award]

Dataport and NILMTK: A Building Data Set Designed for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
Oliver Parson, Grant Fisher, April Hersey, Nipun Batra, Jack Kelly, Amarjeet Singh, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers.
1st International Symposium on Signal Processing Applications in Smart Buildings at 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Orlando, FL, USA, 14-16 December, 2015.
2014

NILMTK v0. 2: A Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit for Large Scale Data Sets
Jack Kelly, Nipun Batra, Oliver Parson, Haimonti Dutta, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava.
First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)
[Best demo award]


NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
Nipun Batra, Jack Kelly, Oliver Parson, Haimonti Dutta, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava
5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Cambridge, UK. 2014

A comparison of non-intrusive load monitoring methods for commercial and residential buildings
Nipun Batra, Oliver Parson, Mario Berges, Amarjeet Singh, Alex Rogers
Tech. report

Data Driven Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Haimonti Dutta, Venkatesh Sarangan, Mani Srivastava
PhD. qualifiers report, IIIT Delhi
2013 and before

It’s Different: Insights into home energy consumption in India
Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava
5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (Buildsys 2013)

INDiC: Improved Non-Intrusive load monitoring using load Division and Calibration
Nipun Batra, Haimonti Dutta, Amarjeet Singh
The 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’13)


SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management
Pandarasamy Arjunan, Nipun Batra, Haksoo Choi, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Mani Srivastava
BuildSys ’12: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings