PhD Candidate

Enrolled: September 2020

Thesis Submitted: August 2025, currently under review

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About Me

I am a Doctoral Researcher in Data Science working at the intersection of intervention modeling, policy analytics, and sustainable development. My research focuses on moving beyond descriptive dashboards towards prescriptive, stability-aware policy support systems that aid policymakers translate data into actionable, context-sensitive interventions.

Research Interests

Intervention Science, Prescriptive Analytics, Policy Decision Support Systems, Sustainability & SDGs, Applied AI for Public Systems

Projects

• NITI for States (NFS) under State Support Mission (SSM)
  • https://wsl.iiitb.ac.in/niti-for-states/
• Karnataka Data Lake
  • https://wsl.iiitb.ac.in/policy-support-system/
• Covid-19 Dashboard
• Cogno Web Observatory

Publications

1. Bassin, P., Malavalli, A., Srinivasa, S., & Raj, M. (2025). Towards an Intervention Science for Sustainable Development. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776741
2. Malavalli, A. S., Sama, K., Chhabra, J., Bassin, P., & Srinivasa, S. (2025). Engineering Resilience: An Energy-Based Approach to Sustainable Behavioural Interventions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16836.
3. Kulkarni, A., Bassin, P., & Srinivasa, S. (2025, August). From Dashboards to Do-Boards: A Data-Driven Architecture for Policy Support Systems. In International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (pp. 175-189). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
4. Bassin, P., K, A. G., & Srinivasa, S. (2024, August). Design of a data-driven intervention dashboard for SDG localization. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 8606-8609).
5. Bassin, P., Srinivasa, S., & Raj, M. (2024). Representation and Intervention Constructs for SDG Localisation. Authorea Preprints.
6. Rachuri, S. N., Malavalli, A., Parasa, N. S., Bassin, P., & Srinivasa, S. (2023, August). Modeling the Impact of Policy Interventions for Sustainable Development. In IJCAI (pp. 7167-7170).
7. Kulkarni, A., Bassin, P., Parasa, N. S., Venugopal, V. E., Srinivasa, S., & Ramanathan, C. (2022, December). Ontology augmented data lake system for policy support. In International Conference on Big Data Analytics (pp. 3-16). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
8. Bassin, P. (2022). Network Learning on Open Data to aid Policy Making. In ER Forum/PhD Symposium.
9. Bassin, P., Srinivasa, S., Mandyam, S. (2022). A Data-driven Approach for Supporting Policy Intervention in Sustainable Development.
10. Bassin, P., Parasa, N. S., Srinivasa, S., & Mandyam, S. (2021, December). Big data management for policy support in sustainable development. In International Conference on Big Data Analytics (pp. 3-15). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
11. Deshmukh, J., Subbanarasimha, R. P., Bassin, P., Bitra, V. S., Srinivasa, S., & Sharma, A. (2021, January). An interactive simulator for COVID-19 trend analysis. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (8th ACM IKDD CODS & 26th COMAD) (pp. 385-389).

Research Workshops/Activities

2026

22 Jan 2026 Shri Shoyabahmed Kalal, Director, State Support Mission at NITI Aayog, along with NITI officials visited the LKI centre at IIIT Bangalore to review its progress.

2025

27 November 2025 Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden visited IIITB and gave a talk on “The Limitations of Data, Machine Learning and Us”. He also visited the WSL along with Dr. Shalini Urs and interacted with the research scholars.

24 November 2025 Pooja Bassin presented Samvaad Talk on her research work titled “Representation and Intervention Modeling for Sustainable Development Goals”.

11 Oct 2025. Shri Shoyabahmed Kalal, Director, State Support Mission at NITI Aayog, visited the LKI centre at IIIT Bangalore to review its progress.

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.

8 July 2025. Pooja Bassin presented Open Seminar for her PhD thesis titled “Representation and Intervention Modeling for Sustainable Development Goals”.

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”.

2024

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.

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.

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10 June 2024 Workshop on Web Science for Development (WS4D) was successfully conducted at IIITB. The theme of the workshop was 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.

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.

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.

2023

08-09 Dec 2023 Pooja Bassin presented the paper titled “Representation and Intervention Constructs for SDG Localisation” at the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Environmental, Social and Governance (AIESG) organised by Data Centre & Analytics Lab (DCAL) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB).

19 Sept 2023 Pooja Bassin presented a poster on “Addressing Modelling Challenges for SDG Localisation” at the 11th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development under the theme ‘The Digital Age’ held online Sept 18-20, 20234.

25 Aug 2023. Arpitha Malavalli and Sowmith Nandan presented a poster. They gave a demonstration on our paper titled “Modelling the Impact of Policy Interventions for Sustainable Development” at the IJCAI 2023 conference held in Macao.

12 April 2023 Pooja Bassin successfully presented her PhD thesis proposal in the State of the Art talk titled “Representation and Intervention Modelling for Sustainable Development Goals”.

18 March 2023 Pooja Bassin presented her research on “Intervention Modelling for Sustainable Development” as part of the Research Scholars Colloquium at WS4D 2023.

24 Feb 2023 Pooja Bassin presented the work on Karnataka Data Lake under the “Decisions with Data” theme at RISE 2023.

5 Jan 2023 Pooja Bassin, Niharika Sri Parasa, and Kalpana Subbaramappa visited MS Building to meet government officials including nodal officers to gain feedback for the ongoing Karnataka Data Lake project.

2022

5th November 2022 Srinath Srinivasa, Pooja Bassin, Niharika Sri Parasa, and Apurva Kulkarni visited and presented their work on the Karnataka Data Lake project to CS Shalini Rajneesh at MS Building.

17 October 2022 Pooja Bassin presented a paper titled “Network Learning on Open Data to aid Policy Making” at the 41st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling under the Doctoral Symposium track 17-20th October, Virtual Event.

19 September 2022 Pooja Bassin presented a paper titled “A Data-driven Approach for Supporting Policy Intervention in Sustainable Development” at the 10th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development 2022 (Online) under the theme “Connecting Science and Policy” in “Collaboration Models for the SDGs” track [Proceedings link]

24 August 2022 Pooja Bassin, Apurva Kulkarni, Abraham GK, Sridhar Mandyam visited MS Building to meet government and UNDP officials for Karnataka Data Lake project.

10-11 August 2022 Pooja Bassin, Abraham GK, Sridhar Mandyam visited MS Building to meet government officials for Karnataka Data Lake project.

28 July 2022 Pooja Bassin successfully completed the Comprehensive exam qualifying as a Ph.D. candidate

2021

7 December 2021. Srinath Srinivasa gave a talk titled “Big Data Management for Policy Support in Sustainable Development” at the 9th International Conference on Big Data Analytics in Science and Engineering (BASE 2021), Springer LNCS, Aizu, Japan, December 2021.

21 June 2021. Workshop on Web Science for Digital Capabilities (WSDC 2021) co-located with the 13th ACM Web Science Conference held online with 7 accepted papers and a keynote by Prof. Leslie Carr.

2020

12 – 14 Feb 2020. WSL conducted the Second Workshop on Web Science for Development (WS4D 2020), spanning over 3 days.

2019

18 – 20 Nov 2019. Srinath Srinivasa, Raksha P S,  Pooja Bassin and Jayati Deshmukh presented Cogno Web Observatory at Bangalore Tech Summit, 2019

Sharath Srivatsa is a MS by Research (part-time) student at Web Science Lab. He has Bachelor’s degree in Information Science and Engineering from B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has 12 years of work experience in software development using Web Technologies and from past 3 years he is working in Data Analytics projects with current employer. He has worked on Sentiment Analysis using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Web Crawlers and Big Data. His areas of interest include Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Web Science. For more, please visit his Linkedin Profile.

Course work

• Distributed Computing (CS/DS 702)
  • Project report: Analysis of Distributed Snapshot Algorithms pdf
• Data Analytics (DS 707)
• Network Science for the web (DS 608)
• Foundations for Big Data Algorithms (CS/DS 812)

Publications

1. Sharath Srivatsa, Srinath Srinivasa. Narrative Plot Comparison Based on a Bag-of-actors Document Model in Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (ACM HT’18), Baltimore, USA, ACM Press, July 2018.

Academic Magazine Articles

1. Sharath Srivatsa, Shyam Kumar V N, Srinath Srinivasa. The Story Of Computational Narratology. In Quaterly Publication of  “Advanced Computing and Communications Society” (ACCS), December, 2018.

Jaya is a PhD (part-time) student at Web Science Lab. She holds a M.Tech in Computer & Information Science and B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT), Cochin. She has been working at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Bangalore since 2009. She has worked on the design and development of systems based on Natural Language Text Processing and Knowledge Management technologies. Currently she is working on semantic summarization from user generated text reports. Her research interests include: Natural Language Text Processing with emphasis on Information Extraction and summarization, Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning.

I am pursuing research from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. I am interested in Information Retrieval, Data mining, Modelling real world data.

I have worked in Manipal Institute of Technology as Assistant professor for 2.5 years. I completed my masters from IIIT Bangalore specializing in database and information systems.

I am part of the Web Sciences Lab (WSL) at IIIT Bangalore.