17 Nov 2024 Pooja Bassin attended the ‘Navigating India’s Climate Future: Launch of a Climate Data Set for India‘ event at the Bangalore International Centre organized by Azim Premji University. Prof. Rajeevan Madhavan Nair former secretary, MoES India and Prof. VK Dadhwal, former director Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO were part of a panel discussion involving topics on climate change, environment, policy & regulation, and sustainability.
10 Oct 2024 Srinath Srinivasa participated as a panelist in a webinar entitled “‘Reducing Mobile Money Fraud in Africa” organized by Rural Inclusion— a UK based social enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty in rural communities across the world.
23-27 Sep 2024 Srinath Srinivasa visited GSFC University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India, as part of their “Expert in Residence” program. This involved conducting a series of research and academic talks, including hands-on sessions, which were carried out by former WSL member Ms. Niharikasri Parasa.
19-20 Sep 2024 WSL members including Srinath Srinivasa, Dev Shinde, Rishita Patel, and Keertana K, participated in the “Data for Public Good” Summit at IISc, Bangalore.
26-27 Aug 2024 Apurva Kulkarni presented the research paper “SDG Aligned Data Warehouse Implementation over Open Government Data” at the DEXA, Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS) held at Naples, Italy.
27 Aug 2024 Srinath Srinivasa participated as event chair, and 8 other students participated in the Annual Informatics Distinguished Lecture, organized by Informatics Ltd., at Bangalore, India.
26 Aug 2024 Sushree Behera delivered a talk at the Faculty Development Program (FDP) organized by the CBCMT department at VIT Vellore on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. The session was an overview of how AI is revolutionizing the medical field—from enhancing diagnostic accuracy and optimizing treatment plans to personalizing patient care and accelerating drug discovery. She also talked about EHRC and its interdisciplinary research in the domain of Healthcare.
19 Aug 2024 Srinath Srinivasa participated in the meeting of the Smart City Sub-committee of the Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA), at their Electronics City headquarters.
3-9 Aug 2024 Pooja Bassin presented the paper ‘Design of a Data-driven Intervention Dashboard for SDG Localization‘ at the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’24) held at Jeju Island, South Korea.
29 July 2024 Bhoomika A P successfully completed her comprehensive exam as part of her PhD journey.
27 July 2024 Srinath Srinivasa delivered an invited talk entitled “Intervention Modeling for Improving SDG Indicators” as part of a 3-day workshop on Research Methodology and Data Analysis, organized by Presidency University, Yelahanka, Bangalore.
19-20 July 2024 Aparna M and Srinath Srinivasa participated in the Global Summit of the Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange (SAGE) program at Atria University, Bengaluru, India.
7 July 2024 Jayati Deshmukh graduates with a PhD degree, Balambiga Ayappane and Aparna Madva graduate with MS (by Research) degree, and Chaitali Diwan wins the Ravi Ravindran Gold Medal for her PhD thesis, at the 24th Convocation of IIIT Bangalore.
21 June 2024 Srinath Srinivasa delivered the keynote address entitled “AI and the Game of Science” at the National conference on the topic ‘Academic Publishing, Libraries, and Artificial Intelligence (MILAN-APLAI 2024), organized by Mysore University Information and Library Science Alumni Network (MILAN), in association with the Department Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, at Manasagangotri, Mysuru.
14 June 2024 Aparna M. successfully defended her MS thesis entitled “Knowledge Management for Rural Communities using Low Resource, Colloquial Kannada”.
21 May 2024 Asilata Karandikar presented a paper titled ‘What Makes Consent Meaningful?’ in the PhD Symposium of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference 2024, at Stuttgart, Germany.
21 May 2024 Balambiga Ayappane successfully defended her MS thesis entitled “Policy-Based Consent Service for Open-ended Dissemination of Data in Digital Public Infrastructures”.
16 May 2024 Apurva Kulkarni, Pooja Bassin, and Abraham G K participated in a meeting at the Vidhana Soudha (seat of the state cabinet) in Bengaluru, organized by the Directorate on Economics and Statistics (DES) and presented their work on Karnataka Data Lake pilot site.
16 May 2024 Srinath Srinivasa participated as a committee member in the ELCITA Smart City committee meeting.
14 May 2024 Semester-end WSL workshop was conducted successfully.
13 May 2024 Jayati Deshmukh successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Computational Transcendence: A Model for Emergent Responsible Agency in Multi-Agent Systems”.
25 April 2024 Srinath Srinivasa participated as a panelist in the panel discussion event titled “Let’s Talk Bhasha” organized by the Bharatiya Bhasha NLP club, IIITB. The event was focused on the topic of Indian Language Technologies. The discussion covered topics like the uniqueness of Indic languages in terms of structure and grammar, state-of-the-art technologies focusing on Indic languages, leveraging AI to document Indian knowledge systems, and a possible plan of action for the BBNLP club
23 & 29 Mar 2024 Posters related to Consent Management, Gramma-Kannada, Scenario Search for Vehicular Traffic, and Web Science for Development were presented at the RISE Open House and Research Colloquium
11-16 Mar 2024 Srinath Srinivasa visited several areas in rural Malawi in southern Africa, as part of a project in collaboration with Rural Inclusion UK and Airtel Africa. The visit involved interaction with several Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) that work with rural communities in the area of financial inclusion.
1 Mar 2024 Srinath Srinivasa delivered an invited talk entitled “Navigated Learning: AI-Based Routing Support for Online Learning”, at the Christ University Symposium on Exploring the Role of AI in Higher Education and Learning.
14 Feb 2024 The vision group meeting of the mobility group of the BeST – Bengaluru Science & Technology Cluster on megaregional mobility around Bengaluru was jointly conducted by Web Science Lab and BeST Cluster at IIIT-Bangalore.
7 Feb 2024 Srinath Srinivasa participated as an external member of the Faculty Selection Committee at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
23 Jan 2024 Srinath Srinivasa joins the Echo Network as a supervisor in their digitization initiative. The Echo Network is a social innovation partnership initiated in 2019 by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India along with multiple stakeholders.
18 Jan 2024 Srinath Srinivasa participated as a committee member in the ELCITA Smart City committee meeting.
07 Jan 2024 Bhoomika participated in ACM India PhD Clinic at the 7th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data held at IIIT Bangalore.
07 Jan 2024 Balambiga presented the paper titled “Consent Service Architecture for Policy-Based Consent Management in Data Trusts” at the 7th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data held at IIIT Bangalore.
04 Jan 2024 Sharath and Aparna presented a poster on “Knowledge Management Framework Over Low Resource Indian Colloquial Language Audio Contents” at the 7th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data held at IIIT Bangalore.
