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Media Mentions

2024

2023

WS4D 2023 Coverage

2022

Video of demo presentation titled “Simulation of traffic scenarios using SUMO” based on Traffic Modeling and Simulation project at SUMO User Conference 2022. [YouTube link]

2021

Prof. Srinath Srinivasa was interviewed for his views on EdTech and have been quoted in this article by the CXO Magazine. (Dec 23rd, 2021) https://www.cxotoday.com/ai/how-edtech-will-shape-the-future-of-learning-in-2022-and-beyond/
 
Collaboration with IISc on IUDX project featured in the Digital First magazine. (Dec 15th, 2021)
 
Prof. Srinath Srinivasa was interviewed by the Center for IT and Public Policy, about his course called “The Web and the Mind” and the increasing relevance of Web Science in today’s times. Podcast of the interview may be found from any of these locations: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor. (31 May 2021). 
 
Prof. Sowmya Narayanan Sadagopan, Director, IIIT Bangalore and Prof. Srinath Srinivasa, Dean (R&D), IIIT Bangalore will be participating in a unique webinar “Future of IT Education” on Mar 03rd 2021 at 4.30 pm, where they will be interviewed by Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of BW Business world media group.
Live interaction can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/rUPAVqpa_AM

WS4D 2021 Coverage

Date Publication Headline / Link
February 22, 2021 Higher Education Digest IIITB hosts Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop for third consecutive year
February 22, 2021 Indian Education Diary IIIT Bangalore hosts Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop for third consecutive year
February 22, 2021 UNI IIIT Bangalore hosts Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop for third consecutive year
February 22, 2021 India News Republic IIIT Bangalore hosts Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop for third consecutive year
February 22, 2021 Fin India IIIT Bangalore hosts Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop for third consecutive year
February 22, 2021 Delhincr news IIIT Bangalore hosts Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop for third consecutive year
February 22, 2021 India state times IIIT Bangalore hosts Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop for third consecutive year

Prakhar‘s Interview with Educlasses. Educlasses.co.in is an Online Platform cum Blog for online study. They have more than 185 interviews with industry experts, researchers, bloggers, educators, etc. The interview focused majorly on Prakhar’s learning and experience in AI/ML domain.

2020

Prakhar’s Intel Blog Links

  1. Data Augmentation in NLP using GPT2
  2. Natural Language Generation Using BERT
  3. Text2Emoji Predictor with Stacked Embeddings using Flair Framework 
  4. Geometric Models for Anomaly Detection in Machine Learning

2018

29 Sept 2018. Article about Web Observatory mentioned published by New Indian Express. [link]

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Interview of Dr Aparna Lalingkar on All India Radio Mumbai

All India Radio Mumbai in collaboration with Marathi Vidnyan Parishad organize a program named “Vidnyananjanhitay”. The focus of this program is to highlight how science is useful to human beings and their day to day life. If people understand the science used in day to day life their living will be more prosperous.

In this program they conduct interviews of women scientists working in the field of science, mathematics and technology. Dr. Aparna Lalingkar was interviewed as a mathematician and educational technologist in this program. It was broadcasted on 14th September 2020.  The interview link is here.

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Awards-Fellowships-Scholarships

07 Jul 2024. Dr. Chaitali Diwan won the Ravi Ravindran medal for her PhD thesis entitled “AI BASED NARRATIVE ARC GENERATION FOR COHERENT AND ENGAGING LEARNING EXPERIENCE” at the 24th Convocation of IIIT Bangalore. 

Chaitali Diwan receiving the Ravi Ravindran award for her PhD thesis, 07 Jul 2024.

07 Jul 2024. Vijay Jaishankar and Siva Jagadesh M won the Student of the Year award and the Best All Rounder Award at the 24th Convocation of IIIT Bangalore.

11 May 2022. Vijay Jaishankar, Vignesh Bondugula, and Siva Jagadesh M won an award for the best presentation based on live audience voting, in the International Conference on Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO). They presented their work on simulating traffic flows in Electronics City Phase 1, along with several intervention measures like placing speed cameras, placing adaptive traffic lights, and estimating congestion at different intersections.

9 Oct 2020. The paper entitled “Social Capital as Engagement and Belief Revision” authored by Gaurav Koley, Jayati Deshmukh and Srinath Srinivasa awarded the best paper award at the 12th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2020). Link to the paper

10 Sep 2020. The paper entitled “Social Capital as Engagement and Belief Revision” authored by Gaurav Koley, Jayati Deshmukh and Srinath Srinivasa was nominated for the best paper award at the 12th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2020). 

7 Aug 2020. Prakhar Mishra awarded certificate of our appreciation during Q2 of 2020 for the work put into projects, workshops, online meetups and more while being Student Ambassador @intelsoftware.

17 June 2020. Raksha P S presented a webinar talk titled “Introduction to Web Science”. Talk was organised by Global Institute of Management Sciences, Bangalore.

28 Nov 2019. Prakhar Mishra is selected as Intel AI Academy Student Ambassador at Intel Corporation, Bengaluru, IN.
The award includes  following: * Student Amabassador gets to use any of their services (devcloud, etc) for the purpose of his/her research free of cost. They will fund the his/her research as well in due course if they see potential in his/her work. s/he will have internship opportunities with Intel AI division. All travel will be reimbursed for any event that s/he will attend hosted by them. * The student ambassador’s responsibilities are writing blogs for them about the research, give seminars and probably host couple of them. * The program has currently around 80-90 people in India across different colleges that are Intel SA.

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