


25 Sep 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in the NITI Regional Summit, organized by the State Support Mission (SSM) of NITI Aayog, at Pune
22-26 Sep 2025. Srinath Srinivasa and Janvi Chhabra (WSL alumnus), visited GSFC University in Vadodara, Gujarat, as part of their “Expert in Residence” program, and delivered a series of lectures and hands-on sessions on Network Science Fundamentals. This LinkedIn post by GSFC University has more details: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gsfcuniversity_networkscience-graphtheory-ai-activity-7379021496570142720-uJir
15 September 2025 Dr. Jayati Deshmukh participated in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2025 in Heidelberg, Germany. The HLF is a networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the disciplines: recipients of the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
4 September 2025 Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli presented the paper, “Engineering Resilience: An Energy-Based Approach to Sustainable Behavioural Interventions” at the 22nd European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2025) in online mode.
25-27 August 2025 Dr. Apurva Kulkarni presented the paper, “From Dashboards to Do-Boards: A Data-driven Architecture for Policy Support Systems” at the The 14th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS) in Bangkok, Thailand. Proceedings for EGOVIS 2025.
7 August 2025. Dr. Rahisha presented two research papers, “Predicting Urban Growth using a Spatio-Temporal Matrix Model: Insights From Bangalore City, India” and “Analysis of Regional Air Quality Data using Extreme Value Theory and Deep Learning Models”, at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2025 Conference in Brisbane, Australia.
25 July 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated as a external member of the Board of Studies (Bos) of the RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, in online mode.
24 July 2025. Balambiga Ayappane and Asilata Karandikar presented their work “Towards Meaningful Consent in Digital Public Infrastructures” at the workshop on Unpacking the sociotechnical imaginaries of Digital Public Infrastructures (DPI) conducted by IIIT-Bangalore and University of Amsterdam.
17 July 2025. Srinath Srinivasa moderated an online panel discussion entitled, “The Future Faculty: Upskilling Educators for an AI-Driven World” organized by the Confederation of Indian Private Universities (CIPU) as part of their 5-part webinar series on AI in Higher Education.
14 July 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in the Bastille Day (French National Day) celebrations conducted by the French Consulate, at Bangalore, India.
8 July 2025. Pooja Bassin presented Open Seminar for her PhD thesis titled “Representation and Intervention Modeling for Sustainable Development Goals”.
30 June – 4 July 2025. Prof. Sakthi Balan from Shiv Nadar University, Chennai, visited WSL as part of a research collaboration.
30 June 2025. Srinath Srinivasa delivered a talk on “Responsible Autonomous AI” as part of the Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Generative and Agentic AI” at the MIT-WPU University, Pune, in online mode.
27 June 2025. Srinath Srinivasa delivered a keynote address entitled “AI driven Narrative Spaces for Knowledge Management” at the Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing and Communication, PES University, Bangalore.
24 June 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in the Microsoft Academic Summit conducted at Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India.
13 June 2025. Srinath Srinivasa delivered the Informatics Endowment Lecture entitled, “AI and Storytelling”, at the University of Mysore. This annual lecture series started in 2001, features distinguished researchers speaking on various aspects of Library and Information Management. This lecture was also covered in the local newspapers.
9 June 2025. Rohith Vaidyanathan successfully defended his MS thesis entitled, “Scalable Consent Management Mechanisms for Data Exchange in Digital Public Infrastructures”
16 May 2025 WSL members participated in one day semester-end WSL Research Workshop.
10 May 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated in the Forttuna Global Excellence Awards Summit in Mumbai, and received the Global Excellence Award for innovations in Higher Education.
6 May 2025. Praseeda presented her Open Seminar for her PhD thesis titled “Understanding and Representing Diverse Assimilation Patterns of Learning”.
2-4 May 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated as an invited speaker and panelist at the Vision Workshop for MIT-WPU Goa Campus, organised by MIT World Peace University, Pune.
30 April – 1 May 2025. WSL members organised and participated in the Sustainable Sandalwood Conference at Infosys, Mysore.
8, 22, 25 April 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated as a selection committee member for the Use Case Challenge of NITI Aayog’s State Support Mission.
28-29 March 2025. Srinath Srinivasa participated as a jury member for Innovative Startups at the Shodh Shikar Summit at Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU), Bhopal, India.
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.
23 March 2025. IIITB nominated as Lead Knowledge Institution (LKI) by NITI Aayog as part of their State Support Mission, to promote evidence-based policy interventions using data science.
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
29 Jan 2025. Srinath Srinivasa delivered a webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Responsible Autonomy, that was jointly organized by CSI Chennai, IEEE Madras, and ACM Chennai.
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.
Project Title | Sponsoring Agency | Status |
Generative AI-Driven Navigated Learning for STEAM Education | Gooru India Foundation for Learning Innovation | Ongoing 2024-2027 |
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.
16 Dec 2024 WSL research workshop was held along with a fireside chat titled “Navigating Careers in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Experts in the field of AI including Sridhar Mandyam K, Abhijith Neerkaje, Ramya, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum and Srinath Srinivasa participated in the fireside chat and discussed the progress of AI and how it has redefined learning and career paths.
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.
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.
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) | Bhoomika |
12. | 4:30 – 4:50 | Apurva | Administrative Data Twin | Bhoomika |
13. | 4:50 – 5:10 | Sharath | – | Bhoomika |
14. | 5:10 – 5:30 | Prof. Srinath | Closing Remarks |
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
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Karnataka Data Lake: Policy Research using Big Data Analytics
Title: Diffusion and Perturbation Modeling for Policy Interventions
Date: June 11, 2022
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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.
Date: 16th Dec’2021 – 17th Dec’2021
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: MS Teams Link
Day 1 – Dec 16th, 2021 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Prakhar | A Semi-automatic Approach for Generating Academic Trailers for Learning Pathways and Resources |
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Chaitali | AI-based Narrative Arc Generation for Engaging Learning Experience |
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Shyam | Competency Maps – Measurement Space & Polyline Algebra |
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Anurag | EduEmbed – A Knowledge Graph Embedding for Education |
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Niharika | |
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Praseeda | A Semantic Two Dimensional Space to Navigate the Learner |
Day 2 – Dec 17th, 2021 | ||
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Jayati | Computational Transcendence in a Network |
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Pooja | Network Learning in Open Data to aid Policy Making |
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Sharath | |
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Aparna | Named Entity Recognition in Dravidian Languages |
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Balambiga | Consent Management for Non-Personal Data |
4:30 – 5:00 p.m | Prof. Srinath | Closing Remarks |
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.
Date: 16th Dec’2020 – 18th Dec’2020
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: MS Teams Meeting Link
Date | Speaker | Time | Title |
Day 1 | |||
16.12.2020 | Jaya | 03:00 – 03:30 p.m. | Automatic Abstract Generation from Titles |
16.12.2020 | Praseeda | 03:30 – 04:00 p.m. | Modeling learners proficiency in a competency through Evidences |
16.12.2020 | Chaitali | 04:00 – 04:30 p.m. | AI-based Narrative Arc Generation for Engaging Learning Experience |
16.12.2020 | Aparna | 04:30 – 05:00 p.m. | |
Day 2 | |||
17.12.2020 | Shyam | 02:00 – 02:30 p.m. | Creating Navigable Competency Maps |
17.12.2020 | Sharath | 02:30 – 03:00 p.m. | |
17.12.2020 | Jayati | 03:00 – 03:30 p.m. | Modeling Two-level Computational Transcendence |
17.12.2020 | Naman | 03:30 – 04:00 p.m. | Automatic Extraction of Data from Table Images |
Day 3 | |||
18.12.2020 | Pooja | 02:00 – 02:30 p.m. | Network Learning on Open Data to aid Policy Making |
18.12.2020 | Niharika | 02:30 – 03:00 p.m. | Renarration of Learning Content |
18.12.2020 | Prakhar | 03:00 – 03:30 p.m. | Automatic Trailer Generation of Narratives |
18.12.2020 | Anurag | 03:30 – 04:00 p.m. | Knowledge Graph Embedding for Academic Domain |
18.12.2020 | Prof. Srinath | 04:00 – 04:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |