26 Dec 2023 Srinath Srinivasa, Aparna M, and Dr.Brian Gillikin attended AnthillHacks 23-24 organized by Janastu, and presented a demo of the Graama-Kannada web app for audio search and the work on oral knowledge management for rural communities speaking colloquial Kannada.
15 Dec 2023 Semester-end WSL workshop was conducted at the Web Science Lab. Various DAC members attended the workshop and provided valuable feedback to the research scholars.
14 Dec 2023 Srinath Srinivasa participated in the Smart City Executive Council meeting of the Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA), Electronics City, Bangalore.
12 Dec 2023 Srinath Srinivasa presented a talk on “Karnataka Data Lake: Big Data Analytics for Policy Support” at the IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS) at IIIT Bangalore.
11 Dec 2023 Brian Gillikin, a Fulbright scholar, visited the Web Science Lab and discussed the Karnataka Data Lake project with the KDL team.
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 (IIM-B)
07 Dec 2023. Bhoomika A P presented a paper titled “Vector-based Semantic Scenario Search for Vehicular Traffic” at BASE 2023 in online mode.
06 Dec 2023. Aparna M presented a paper titled “AI-based Assistance for Management of Oral Community Knowledge in Low-Resource and Colloquial Kannada Language” at BASE 2023 in online mode.
14 Nov 2023. Air Vice Marshall KN Santosh, VSM Commandant SDI and Team visited the Web Science Lab. Prof. Srinath provided a briefing about the ongoing work on the Data Lake project.
10 Nov 2023. Jayati Deshmukh presented Open Seminar for her PhD thesis titled “Computational Transcendence: A Model for Emergent Responsible Agency in Multi-Agent Systems”.
8 Nov 2023 Dr Mukund Raj from UNDP and members from the Planning Department, GoK visited the Web Science Lab
22 Oct 2023. Apurva Kulkarni presented a research paper titled “Cognitive Retrieve: Empowering Document Retrieval with Semantics and Domain-Specific Knowledge Graph” at the International Workshop on Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Using Large Language Models (EKG-LLM), co-located with CIKM .23, at Birmingham, UK.
22 Oct 2023. Srinath Srinivasa and Apurva Kulkarni participated in the International Workshop on Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Using Large Language Models (EKG-LLM), co-located with CIKM .23, at Birmingham, UK.
6 Oct 2023. Srinath Srinivasa delivered an invited talk entitled “Models for Digital Empowerment”, at the Prayoga Institute for Educational Research at Kanakapura Road, Bangalore.
3 Oct 2023. Jayati Deshmukh presented the Computational Transcendence model for emergent responsible autonomy in multi-agent systems at the Model-to-Model-Modelling (MMM) club.
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.
1 Aug 2023. Ms. Apurva Kulkarni joined WSL as a Senior Research Associate for the Karnataka Data Lake Project.
17 July 2023. Srinath Srinivasa participated as an external thesis examiner for Mr. Narendra Babu Unnam, a PhD scholar at IIIT Hyderabad.
13 July 2023. Karthik Sama and Janvi Chhabra presented our paper titled When Extrinsic Payoffs Meet Intrinsic Expectations at the PAAMS’23 conference in online mode. [link]
13 July 2023. Nikitha Adivi presented our paper titled Resolving the Dilemma of Responsibility in Multi-agent Flow Networks at the PAAMS’23 conference online. [link]
7 to 8 July 2023. Jayati Deshmukh attended ACM India Grad Cohort 2023 at IISc Bangalore.
5 to 7 July 2023. Digital Futures: Infrastructure for Equity, Inclusivity, Sustainability symposium hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering at IIIT-Bangalore. Srinath Srinivasa was the event chair of the symposium.
28 June 2023. Srinath Srinivasa participated as an external thesis examiner for Ms Subhashree, IIITB Alumnus and PhD scholar at IIT Madras, Guindy, Chennai.
5 June 2023. Jayati Deshmukh presented the work titled Computational Transcendence for Emergent Responsible Autonomy at The Alan Turing Institute at the Trustworthy Digital Identity Workshop hosted by Prof. Carsten Maple.
1 June 2023. Jayati Deshmukh presented a poster titled Modeling Application Scenarios for Responsible Autonomy using Computational Transcendence at the AAMAS’23 conference. [link]
31 May 2023. Jayati Deshmukh visited Prof. Muttukrishnan Rajarajan at the City, University of London.
30 May 2023. Jayati Deshmukh presented the work titled Emergent Responsible Autonomy in Multi-Agent Systems to Prof. Virginia Dignum who was her mentor at the AAMAS’23 Doctoral Consortium.
29 May 2023. Jayati Deshmukh presented a short paper and poster at the AAMAS’23 Doctoral Consortium titled Emergent Responsible Autonomy in Multi-Agent Systems. [link]
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
9 Mar 2023. Srinath Srinivasa participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on Collaborative Upskilling by Industry and Academia, at the CII Karnataka Skills Conclave, organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in Bangalore, India.
25 Feb 2023. Posters related to Responsible Autonomy, Karnataka Data Lake and Navigated Learning were presented at RISE 2023.
24 Feb 2023 Pooja Bassin presented the work on Karnataka Data Lake under the “Decisions with Data” theme at RISE 2023
31 Jan 2023. Srinath Srinivasa presented our research on Computational Transcendence, at a inter-institutional workshop at Ericsson Research, Bangalore, India.
6-7th Jan 2023. Karthik Sama and Jayati Deshmukh attended a Workshop on Trustworthy AI at Microsoft Research, Bengaluru. They also presented a poster titled “Computational Transcendence: Responsible Autonomy” during the poster session at the event.
