26 March 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated as external thesis committee member in the PhD defense of Ms. Paramita Das, PhD scholar at IIT Kharagpur. Thesis defense conducted in online mode.
6 March 2025. Bhoomika A P successfully presented her PhD thesis proposal in the State of the Art talk titled “Event-Based Scene Understanding for Diverse Road Environments ”
27 Feb 2025. WSL hosted a visit by Dame Wendy Hall and Prof. Noshir Contractor from the Web Science Trust who interacted with the research scholars
15 Feb 2025. WSL hosted a delegation from the NITI for States team– an integrated platform NITI Aayog designed to foster learning, sharing, and action towards a “Viksit Bharat”.
13-14 Feb 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated as a jury member at the SmartTech Asia Innovation awards.
8 Feb 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in a meetup organized by the Foundation of Data Privacy Professionals of India (FDPPI) and Trust Law, to discuss the draft regulations of the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.
4 Feb 2025. Prof. Anjan Kr Dasgupta, retired professor from University of Calcutta, presented a talk titled ‘A Chemical Flavour of Networks’ organised by WSL. He later visited the lab and discussed various projects with all the research scholars.
30 Jan 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated as a panelist in a panel discussion entitled “The City as Data” organized at the J N Tata Auditorium, IISc, by the World Design Organization
17 Jan 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in the Experts Dialogues Session – Ecosystem Stewardship of the Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange (SAGE) program of the Echo Network India.
16 Jan 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in the UNESCO Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on Responsible AI, organized by UNESCO and Ikigai Law, at IIIT Bangalore.
13 Jan 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in a Workshop on Data Commons, organized by the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Body on AI, Chaired by Dr. Pramod Varma, at the Takshashila Institution, Church Street, Bangalore, India.
Dr. Sushree S. Behera received her Doctoral degree from the School of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar where she worked in the area of Biometrics and Computer Vision using Deep Learning. Prior to that she completed her MTech from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Before joining IIIT Bangalore, she worked as a Post- Doctoral Research Fellow at Jio Institute, Navi Mumbai, India, from April 2023 to November 2023. Her research interests lie in the fields of Biometrics, Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning.
Education
07/17-09/22: Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India. Thesis title: Deep attention networks for Periocular Recognition in Cross-spectral Environments.
07/15-06/17: M. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Thesis title: Periocular recognition in cross-spectral scenario.
07/10-06/14: B. Tech, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, India. Project title: Planar array antenna optimization using bio-geographic-based optimization.
Teaching Experience
01/24–Present: Digital Image Processing, IIIT Bangalore
Research Experience
04/24 – 11/24: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Jio Institute, Navi Mumbai, India.
Application of Generalized zero-shot learning-based approaches for general image recognition
09/22-03/24: Senior Research Fellow, School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Coordinate determination of fall of shot from aerial images
07/22-09/22: Project Associate, School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Developing attention-assisted deep segmentation models to segment micro-aneurysms from retinal fundus images
Developing robust segmentation models to perform segmentation of point-of-contact from double-identity fingerprint images.
Research Publications
Journals
Sushree S. Behera and Niladri B. Puhan, “Dual-spectrum Network: Exploring Deep Visual Feature to Attribute Mapping for Cross-spectral Periocular Recognition,” Journal ofElectronic Imaging, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 033031–0330331, June 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.32.3.033031
Niladri B. Puhan and Sushree S. Behera, “Holistic Feature Reconstruction-based 3-D Attention Mechanism for Cross-spectral Periocular Recognition,” IEEE Transactions onInformation Forensics and Security, vol. 18, pp. 435–448, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3224854
Sushree S. Behera and Niladri B. Puhan, “High boost 3-D Attention Network for Cross-spectral Periocular Recognition,” IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1–4, Sept. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2022.3204710
Sushree S. Behera, Niladri B. Puhan, and Sapna S. Mishra, “Perturbed Attention-Assisted Siamese Network for Cross-spectral Periocular Recognition,” IEEE Transactions onBiometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 210–221, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TBIOM.2022.3174620
Sushree S. Behera, Sapna S. Mishra, Bappaditya Mandal, and Niladri B. Puhan, “Variance-guided Attention-based Twin Deep Network for Cross-spectral Periocular Recognition,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 104, no. 104016, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2020.104016
Conferences
Sushree S. Behera, Bappaditya Mandal, and Niladri B. Puhan, “Twin deep convolutional neural network-based cross-spectral periocular recognition,” In IEEE National Conferenceon Communication (NCC), pages 1–6, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/NCC48643.2020.9056008
Sushree S. Behera, Bappaditya Mandal, and Niladri B. Puhan, “Cross-spectral periocular recognition: A survey,” in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 545, Springer, Singapore, 2019, pp. 731–741. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-5802-9_64
Sushree S. Behera, Mahesh Gour, Vivek Kanhangad, and Niladri Puhan. “Periocular recognition in cross-spectral scenario,” In IEEE International Joint Conference onBiometrics (IJCB), pp. 681–687, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/BTAS.2017.8272757
Ana. F. Sequeira, Lulu Chen, …, Sushree S. Behera, Mahesh Gour, and Vivek Kanhangad,“Cross-eyed 2017: Cross-spectral iris/periocular recognition competition,” In IEEEInternational Joint Conference.
Sponsored Projects
Project Title
Sponsoring Agency
Status
Generative AI-Driven Navigated Learning for STEAM Education
21 Dec 2024. Apurva Kulkarni presented a paper titled ‘Semantic SDG-Mapper: Browser Extension for Mapping Sustainable Development Goals to Open Webpages, CODS-COMAD Dec ’24, December 18–21, 2024, Jodhpur, India, 10.1145/3703323.3704269.
13 Dec 2024. Srinath Srinivasa delivered an invited talk at Christ University, Bangalore, on Responsible Autonomous AI, addressing the inauguration of their AI Guild.
11 Dec 2024. Bharatiya Bhasha Diwas 2024 was organized at IIIT Bangalore with a focus on Indian language technologies. The event had technical talks by speakers from industry and academia.
8 Dec 2024 Praseeda presented her paper titled “Gaining Insights into Learner’s Proficiency at Scale using the Learning Map” at T4E 2024, held at IIT Gandhinagar
1 Dec 2024 Srinath Srinivasa delivered a keynote address at the Indian Data Protection Symposium (IDPS 2024) on Responsible Autonomous AI. The event was organized by the Forum for Data Protection Professionals of India (FDPPI) at KLE Law College, Ullal, Bangalore, India.
27 Nov 2024. Apurva Kulkarni presented a paper titled “Introspecting Policy Documents through Semantic Lenses of Sustainable Development Goals” at BASE 2024 in online mode.
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.
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.
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.
The Web Science Lab at IIIT-B conducts a biannual research workshop that aids research scholars in sharing and presenting the latest developments in their field. These interactive brainstorming sessions encourage everyone to new ways of thinking and give a fresh perspective on ongoing research problems.
Date: December 15th 2023
Venue: Web Science Lab, A-132
S.No
Time
Speaker
Talk Title
Session Chair
1.
10:00 – 11:00
Brian Gillikin
Keynote Talk: The Design of Data Science Things
Prof. Srinath
2.
11:00 – 11:20
Praseeda
Understanding and Representing Assimilation Patterns
Aparna
3.
11:20 – 11:40
Jayati
The Philosophy of Transcendence
Aparna
Break
4.
12:00 – 12:20
Pooja
Thinking in Systems towards Sustainability
Rohith
5.
12:20 – 12:40
Anurag
EduEmbedd – A Knowledge Graph Embedding for Education
Rohith
6.
12:40 – 1:00
Aparna
Named Entity Recognition in Kannada using Active Learning
Rohith
Lunch Break
7.
2:30 – 2:50
Rohith
Federated Consent Service for Data Trusts
Jayati
8.
2:50 – 3:10
Asilata
A Typology of Consent for Information-Sharing and Management
Jayati
9.
3:10 – 3:30
Bhoomika
Vector-Based Semantic Scenario Search for Vehicular Traffic
Jayati
10.
3:30 – 3:50
Abraham
Karnataka Data Lake (Analytics & Visualization)
Jayati
Break
11.
4:10 – 4:30
Balambiga
Policy-Based Consent Management for Data Trusts (Online)
The primary focus of the Big Data Analytics for Policy Support project is to develop a sophisticated data management system that consolidates diverse documents from various government departments into a unified access point. This centralized hub serves as a valuable resource for policymakers, domain experts, and data analysts, allowing them to easily search and analyze documents through visual dashboards. The front-facing website of this work can be accessed at Karnataka Data Lake: Policy Research using Big Data Analytics.
The other research direction of the project focuses on creating a comprehensive model library, which becomes a crucial asset for policymakers. This library not only aids in making informed decisions based on the current state but also looks ahead to anticipate future scenarios related to policy interventions. The ultimate aim of the Policy Support System (PSS) is to provide policymakers with a powerful tool that addresses current challenges related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while also proactively navigating the evolving landscape of policy dynamics.
The Architecture Diagram of Big Data Analytics for Policy Support
The Web Science Lab at IIIT-B conducts a biannual research workshop that aids research scholars to share and present the latest development in their field of work. These interactive brainstorming sessions encourage everyone to new ways of thinking and put forward a fresh perspective on ongoing research problems.
Due to the present COVID-19 situation, the workshop will be a 2-day event and shall be hosted virtually.
The Web Science Lab at IIIT-B conducts biannual research workshop that aids research scholars to share and present the latest development in their field of work. These interactive brainstorming sessions encourage everyone to new ways of thinking and lays out a fresh perspective on ongoing research problems.
Due to the present COVID-19 situation, the workshop will be a 3-day event and shall be hosted virtually.
