EECS RESEARCH STUDENTS SYMPOSIUM - 2021

Day 2 - May 8, 2021. Saturday

Time

Speaker

Title

Session 6 | 09.00 - 10.00 | Plenary Talk Watch Recording
Chair: Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research India

09.00 - 10.00

Jitendra Malik

UC-Berkeley & Facebook AI Research

Perceiving and Acting in a 3D World

10.00 - 10.15

Break

Session 7 | 10.15 - 13.15 | Cluster Talks
10.15 - 13.15
Session-7A Cluster: Visual Analytics
Session Chairs:
Soma Biswas (EE), IISc
R. Venkatesh Babu (CDS), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Time Speaker Title Recording
10:15 - 10:25 Naveen P,
CDS		 Anamorphic Depth Embedding-Based Lightweight CNN for
Segmentation of Anomalies in COVID-19 Chest CT Images		 Link
10:25 - 10:35 Arindam Dutta,
CDS		 Towards Deep Robust Deconvolution for Low-Dose
Perfusion Computed Tomography		 Link
10:35 - 10:45 Dhruv Jawali,
EE/IMI		 Wavelet Design in a learning framework Link
10:45 - 10:55 Jogendra Nath Kundu,
CDS		 Appearance Consensus Driven Self-Supervised Human
Mesh Recovery		 Link
10:55 - 11:05 Praveen Kumar Pokala,
EE		 Nonconvex Analysis-Sparse Model — Moreau Envelope Regularization
and Projected Proximal Gradient Descent Optimization		 Link
11:05 - 11:15 Q&A Students 1-5
11:15 - 11:25 Titir Dutta,
EE		 Sketch-based Image Retrieval Link
11:25 - 11:35 Utkarsh Gupta,
CDS		 Siamese-SR: A Siamese Super-Resolution Model for Improved
Petrophysical Parameter Estimation in Digital Rock		 Link
11:35 - 11:45 Vijayalakshmi K,
ECE		 Revealing Disocclusions in Temporal View Synthesis Link
11:45 - 11:55 Vinayak Killedar,
EE		 Sparsity Driven Latent Space Sampling for Generative Prior
based Compressive Sensing		 Link
11:55 - 12:05 Jitendra Kumar Dhiman,
EE		 There is More to a Spectrogram Than Meets the Eye! Link
12:05 - 12:15 Q&A Students 6-10
12:15 - 12:45 Mohan Kankanhalli,
NUS Singapore		 Privacy-aware Analytics for Human Attributes from Images Link
12:45 - 13:15 Jayavardhana Gubbi,
TCS Research		 Machine Vision in Industrial Automation
Session-7B Cluster: Nanodevices, VLSI Circuits and Microsystems (part 2/2)
Session Chairs:
Varun Raghunathan (ECE), IISc
Chetan Singh Thakur (ESE), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Time Speaker Title Recording
10:15 - 10:45 Siddharth Tallur,
IIT Bombay		 Microsystems for structural health monitoring Link
10:45 - 10:55 Sayak Dutta Gupta,
ESE		 Novel p-type AlTiO Gate Oxide e-mode Operation in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs:
600V Technology with Record High Performance		 Link
10:55 - 11:05 Ankit Soni,
ESE		 GaN Heterostructure Based Schottky Barrier Diodes for Power
and THz Applications		 Link
11:05 - 11:15 Rajarshi Roy Chaudhuri,
ESE		 Unique Reliability Phenomena in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Link
11:15 - 11:25 Jayanta Deka,
ECE		 Nonlinear light generation in guided mode resonant metasurfaces Link
11:25 - 11:35 Sruti Menon,
ECE		 Medium refractive index contrast sub-wavelength dielectric
structures for nonlinear optics and sensing application		 Link
11:35 - 11:45 Alekya B,
ESE		 Sensor Integrated Intubation Catheter for Characterizing Airflow
Patterns in Tracheal Stenosis		 Link
11:45 - 11:55 Anil Vishnu G K,
ESE		 A portable MEMS-based platform for the electro-thermal
phenotyping of breast biopsy tissues		 Link
11:55 - 12:05 Sitaramgupta V S N V,
ESE		 Design and Development of a Micro-Force Sensor
for Ablation Catheters		 Link
12:05 - 12:15 Uttam Pal,
ESE		 Multimodal Opto-Thermo-Acoustic (OTA) Technique to Differentiate
Cancer from Adjacent Normal Breast Biopsy Tissues		 Link
12:15 - 12:25 Vaidya Girish Bhagwan,
ESE		 Towards unique device identification using Physically
Unclonable Functions		 Link
12:25 - 12:40 Q&A Students
1-11
12:40 - 13:10 Aravind Vijayaraghavan
Manchester University, UK		 Graphene-polymer heterostructure membrane for MEMS devices Link
Session-7C Cluster: SPCOM (Signal Processing & Communications)
Session Chairs:
Neelesh Mehta (ECE), IISc
Srikrishna Bhashyam, IIT Madras View Details & Recorded Links
Time Speaker Title Recording
10:15 - 10:26 Deepchand Meshineni,
EE		 Vital signs Monitoring using FMCW radar Link
10:26 - 10:37 Bala Venkta Ramulu Gorantla,
ECE		 Resource allocation with limited feedback overhead for
underlay D2D networks		 Link
10:37 - 10:48 Shubham Sharma,
ECE		 Design of k-space trajectories for reducing scan time in MRI system Link
10:48 - 10:59 Vinay Kumar B R,
ECE		 Probabilistic Forwarding with Coding for Network-wide Broadcast Link
10:59 - 11:10 Deekshith,
ECE		 Second-order Rate Bounds for a Block Fading Channel
Powered by an Energy Harvesting Transmitter		 Link
11:10 - 11:40 Ajit Rajwade,
IIT Bombay		 Pooled testing for COVID19 samples
11:40 - 11:51 Govindu Saikesava,
ECE		 MCS selection algorithms for URLLC IN 5G Link
11:51 - 12:02 Vinayak Ramkumar,
ECE		 Streaming Codes for Reliable, Low-Latency Communication Link
12:02 - 12:13 Rama Kiran,
ECE		 Design of Reduced Feedback Scheme, User Scheduling,
and MAC protocols for Full-Duplex Communication Systems		 Link
12:13 - 12:24 Ram Kumar,
ECE		 Scheduling and Power Control for Wireless Multicast Systems
via Deep Reinforcement Learning		 Link
12:25 - 13:00 Adrian Sharples,
British Telecom		 Beyond the 5G Launch: The Future of Personal Communications Link
13:00 - 13:11 Srikanth Raj Chetupalli,
EE		 Automatic speech recognition for speech conversations Link
Session-7D Cluster: Computer Systems
Session Chairs:
K. V. Raghavan (CSA), IISc
Matthew Jacob Thazhuthaveetil (CSA), IISc
Karthik Ramachandra, MSRI
Jayant Haritsa (CDS/CSA), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Time Speaker Title Recording
10:15 - 11:15 Suparna Bhattacharyya,
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise		 The Silent Learner and the Oblivious Teacher
- Meaning Aware Storage for AI		 Link
11:15 - 12:15 C. Pandu Rangan,
IIT Madras		 Impossible Trinities and Blockchain Trilemma Link
12:15 - 12:27 Aakash Khochare,
CDS		 Algorithms for Co-scheduling of Edge Analytics
and Routes for UAV Fleet Missions		 Link
12:27 - 12:39 Devyani Gupta,
ESE		 Optimal Link Capacity Selection and Edge Server Placement
using Column Generation		 Link
12:39 - 12:51 Geetam Chawla,
CSA		 Automatically finding bugs in web applications Link
12:51 - 13:03 Ramakant Joshi,
ESE		 Hardware Accelerator for Particle Transport Simulation Link

13.15 – 14.00

Lunch Break

Session 8 | 14.00 - 17.00 | Cluster Talks
14.00 - 17.00
Session-8A Cluster: Cyber-Physical Systems
Session Chairs:
Vaibhav Katewa (ECE/RBCCPS), IISc
Shishir N. Y. Kolathaya (CSA/RBCCPS), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Session-8B Cluster: Power Engineering
Session Chairs:
Kaushik Basu (EE), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Time Speaker Title Recording
14:00 - 14:30 Vivek Agarwal,
IIT Bombay		 Realizing Multilevel Inverter Properties by Cascading
Switched Capacitor Networks with Two Level Inverters
14:30 - 14:55 Ranganathan Gurunathan,
Bloom Energy		 Fuel Cell and its applications in Power
14:55 - 15:20 Shailesh Ghotgalkar,
Texas Instruments		 Digital power control in emerging industrial and
automotive applications
15:20 - 15:40 Utsab Kundu,
EE		 An Overview of Power Management in Server Application
15:40 - 15:50 Rupam Pal,
EE		 Influence of soil’s electrical parameters on lightning
stroke-current evolution		 Link
15:50 - 16:00 Shamibrota Kishore Roy,
EE		 Characterization and Modelling of Switching Dynamics
of SiC MOSFET		 Link
16:00 - 16:10 Tanmay Mishra,
EE		 Generalized Source emulation approach on micro-alternator Link
16:10 - 16:20 Q&A Students 1-3
16:20 - 16:30 Kamisetti N V Prasad,
EE		 Design Of Active Magnetic Bearing Link
16:30 - 16:40 Kiran Kumar Challa,
EE		 An Algorithm for Fitting Passive Equivalent Circuits for Lumped
Parameter Frequency Dependent Transmission Line models		 Link
16:40 - 16:50 Meenu Jayamohan,
EE		 Impact Of Inverter Based Generation On Transmission Protection Link
16:50 - 17:00 Nakul Narayanan K,
ESE		 Switched Capacitor Converters for High Power Applications Link
17:00 - 17:10 Q&A Students 4-7
Session-8C Cluster: Brain, Computation, and Data
Session Chairs:
P.S. Sastry (EE), IISc
Sreedharan Devarajan (CNS), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Time Speaker Title Recording
14:00 - 14:30 Suvarna Alladi,
NIMHANS		 Brain connectivity in health and disease: Joining the dots
towards a multidisciplinary approach
14:30 - 15:00 Gurpreet Singh Kalsi,
Intel Labs India		 Look-Up Table based Energy Efficient Processing in
Cache Support for Neural Network Acceleration		 Link
15:00 - 15:30 P.S. Sastry,
EE, IISc		 Open Discussion Link
15:30 - 15:40 Aditya Rastogi,
CDS		 Model based deep learning architecture for generalized
p-norm regularization
15:40- 15:50 Georgin Jacob,
ECE		 Do deep networks see the way we do?
15:50 - 16:00 Jaswanth Reddy Katthi,
EE		 Deep Learning Methods For Audio EEG Analysis
16:00 - 16:10 Jerrin Thomas Panachakel,
EE		 Decoding Imagined Speech from EEG using Transfer Learning
16:10 - 16:20 Rathin Joshi,
ESE		 Neonatal Hearing Screening Headband extracting
Brainstem and Cortical Response
16:20 - 16:30 Ritika Jain,
EE		 Reliable sleep stage classification method using
multiple EEG features and RUSBoost technique
16:30 - 16:40 Q&A Students 1-6
16:40 - 17:10 Neeraj Sharma
EE		 Language familiarity impacts talker perception Link
Session-8D Cluster: Computational Sciences
Session Chairs:
Sashikumaar Ganesan (CDS), IISc
Koteswara Rao Sunkara, ITC Ltd< View Details & Recording Links

17.00 – 17.30

Break

Session 9 | 17.30 - 19.00 | Thanks Giving Watch Recording

17.30 – 19.00

Coordinators:
Y. Narahari &
Dipanjan Gope

Prof. K. Gopinath, CSA, IISc &

Prof. P.V. Kumar , ECE, IISc &

Prof. Y.N. Srikant, CSA, IISc

19.00 – 19.10

Best Paper in Session Awards &

Vote of Thanks