EECS RESEARCH STUDENTS SYMPOSIUM - 2023

Day 2 - April 4, 2023. Tuesday

Time

Speaker

Title

Session 3| 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM | Plenary Talk (Faculty Hall) and Research Cluster talks(ECE building)

Session Chair: Bhavana Kanukurthi
Faculty Organizer: Kiran Kumari
Student Organizer: Subhadeep, Sourav Mazumdar, Abhay

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Nivruti Rai

Country Head, Intel India


Perspectives on building a successful Systems Foundry

10:00 - 10:20 AM

Coffee break at Faculty Hall (IISc Main Building) and Proceed to ECE Department for Research Cluster talks

TCS Research Talk (ECE 1.07)

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Prasant Misra

Senior Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services Research


Agent-based L2O Approach to Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Vehicle-to-Grid Supply

Session 3A | 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM | Theoretical Computer Science (ECE 1.07)
Session Chair: Sunil Chandran, Satish Govindarajan
Cluster Coordinator: Arindam Khan
Student Organizer: Meenaly, Jayant
Faculty Organizer: Gugan Thoppe

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Neeldhara Misra

CSE, IIT Gandhinagar


A Cheat-Sheet for Hard Problems

11:30 – 12:00 PM

Chandrasekaran Pandu Rangan

Satish Dhawan Visiting Chair Prof. at IISc


Genesis, growth and Future of Blockchains via trilemmas

12:00 - 12:15 PM

Coffee break

12:15 – 12:28 PM

Tania Sidana

PostDoc ECE, IISc


Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error-Correcting Codes over Local Frobenius Rings

12:28 – 12:41 PM

Dalu Jacob

PostDoc CSA, IISc


On the anti-Ramsey numbers of star graphs

12:41 – 12:54 PM

Dhanyamol Antony

PostDoc CSA, IISc


On Subgraph Complementation to H-free graphs

12:54 – 1:07 PM

Aditya Subramanian

PhD CSA, IISc


Online and Dynamic Algorithms for Geometric Set Cover and Hitting Set

1:07 – 1:20 PM

Anand Krishna

PhD CSA, IISc


Achieving Envy-Freeness with Limited Subsidies under Dichotomous Valuations

Session 3B | 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Cyber-Physical Systems (ECE MP-30)
Session Chair: Pushpak Jagtap, Shishir N Y
Cluster Coordinator: Pushpak Jagtap, Pavan Tallapragada
Student Organizer: Suraj, Harsh
Faculty Organizer: Kiran Kumari

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Manjesh Hanawal

IEOR, IIT Bombay


Learning Optimal Exit in Early-Exit Neural Networks

11:00 – 11:12 AM

Anusree Rajan

PhD EE, IISc


Event-Triggered Parameterized Control for stabilization of Linear Systems

11:12 – 11:24 AM

Rohit Chowdhury

PhD CDS, IISc


Intelligent Onboard Routing in Stochastic Dynamic

11:24 – 11:36 AM

Vishal Kushwaha

PhD CPS, IISc


A Generalized Collaboration Model for Rideshare and Transit Service Providers to Facilitate First- and Last-Mile Services

11:36 – 11:48 AM

Abishek Chandrasekhar

PhD CPS, IISc


Neuro-adaptive learning for Artificial Pancreas Systems

11:48 – 12:00 AM

Pankaj Mishra

PostDoc CPS, IISc


Approximation-free control of unknown nonlinear systems with prescribed performance and input constraints

12:00 - 12:15 PM

Coffee break

12:15 – 12:35 PM

Naveen Arulselva

ATI Motors


Designing Autonomous mobile robots ground-up

12:35 – 12:47 PM

P S V S Sai Kumar

PhD CPS, IISc


Autonomous Soft Landing of UAVs using Minimum Jerk based Guidance Strategy

12:47 – 12:59 PM

Ananta Kant Rai

PhD ECE, IISc


Design of Resilient Linear Dynamical Systems

12:59 – 13:11 PM

Amit Kumar

PhD CPS, IISc


Barrier Coverage using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

13:11 – 13:23 PM

Kumar Ankit

PhD CPS, IISc


Multi-agent Collaborative Framework for Automated Agriculture

Session 3C | 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Security and Privacy (ECE Golden Jubilee Hall)
Session Chair: Navin Kashyap, Chaya Ganesh
Cluster Coordinator: Vaibhav Katewa, Bhavana Kanukurthi, Navin Kashyap
Student Organizer: Moumita, Abhishek
Faculty Organizer: Utsav Banerjee

10:30 – 10:50 AM

Kapaleeswaran Viswanathan

Siemens, India


Towards trustworthy sensors, devices and systems

10:50 – 11:02 AM

Puspabeethi Samanta

M.Tech(Res) ECE, IISc


A DNA-based Secure Communication Scheme

11:02 – 11:14 AM

Debottam Mukherjee

PostDoc CPS, IISc


Detection of local false data injection attacks in renewable integrated modern smart grids

11:14 – 11:26 AM

Varkey M John

M.Tech(Res) ECE, IISc


Opacity and its Trade-offs with Security in Linear Dynamical Systems

11:26 – 11:56 AM

Satya Lokam

Microsoft Research, India


Lower Bounds for Reconstruction Attacks on Differentially Private Learning

12:00 - 12:15 PM

Coffee break

12:15 – 12:35 PM

Jaideep Reddy

Trilegal, India


Crypto-assets: Law and policy issues

12:35 – 12:47 PM

Shravani Patil

PhD CSA, IISc


Asymptotically Free Broadcast in Constant Expected Time via Packed VSS

12:47 – 12:59 PM

Varsha Bhat Kukkal

PostDoc CSA, IISc


Find Thy Neighbourhood: Privacy-Preserving Local Clustering

12:59 – 1:11 PM

Nishat Koti

PhD CSA, IISc


Ruffle: Rapid 3-party shuffle protocols

1:11 – 1:23 PM

Protik Paul

PhD CSA, IISc


Attaining GOD Beyond Honest Majority with Friends and Foes

Session 3D | 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning(ECE 1.08)
Session Chair: Pankaj Dayama, Geetha Manjunath
Cluster Coordinator: Yadati Narahari
Student Organizer: Rankit, Rohit Prasad
Faculty Organizer: Punit Rathore

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Suparna Bhattacharya

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, India


Towards a Data Centric Foundation for AI: Teaching AI to Solve its own Data Problem

11:00 – 11:20 AM

Sunayana Sitaram

Microsoft Research


Large Language Models – Strengths and Opportunities

11:20 – 11:32 AM

Dibyajyoti Nayak

M.Tech(Res) CDS, IISc


A co-kurtosis based dimensionality reduction with neural network based reconstruction of chemical kinetics in reacting flows

11:32 – 11:44 AM

Mayank Ratan Bhardwaj

PhD CSA, IISc


Algorithmic Agriculture based on Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence Techniques

11:44 – 11:56 AM

Rahul NR

M.Tech(Res) ECE, IISc


Sequential Transfer in Reinforcement learning through Upper Confidence Reinforcement Learning with Known Dynamics

12:00 - 12:15 PM

Coffee break

12:15 – 12:35 PM

Ramasuri Narayanam

Adobe Research


Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) - Capabilities and Challenges

12:35 – 12:47 PM

Sravanthi Gurugubelli

PhD ECE, IISc


Simplicial Neural Networks: A tool for Higher-order Graph Representation Learning

12:47 – 12:59 PM

Thivin Anandh

PhD CDS, IISc


A Deep learning framework coupled with reduced order modelling for real time monitoring of fluid flows

12:59 – 1:11 PM

Satyapreet Singh Yadav

PhD DESE, IISc


TinyRadar for fitness: A radar-based contactless activity tracker for edge computing

1:11 – 1:23 PM

Abhipsa Basu

PhD CDS, IISc


A Margin Loss Approach For Visual Question Answering with Language Biases

Session 3E | 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Visual Analytics (ECE MP 20)
Session Chair: Chandra Sekar Seelamantula, Rajiv Soundararajan
Cluster Coordinator: Venkatesh Babu, Anirban Chakraborty
Student Organizer: Subhadeep, Sourav Mazumdar
Faculty Organizer: Vaanathi Sundaresan

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Subrahmanyam Murala

EE, IIT Ropar


Burst Restoration and Enhancement using Transformers

11:00 – 11:20 AM

Pradeep Shenoy

Google, India


Robust learning in computer vision–by design, and by optimization

11:20 – 11:40 AM

Debdoot Mukherjee

Meesho


Democratizing E-Commerce with AI @ Meesho

11:40 – 11:57 AM

Alokendu Mazumdar

PhD CPS, IISc


Self-Supervised Approach for Cluster Assessment of High-Dimensional Data

12:00 - 12:15 PM

Coffee break

12:15 – 12:32 PM

Mohit Sharma

PhD CSA, IISc


Topological Structures for Bivariate Data Visualization

12:32 – 12:49 PM

Aditay Tripathi

PhD CDS, IISc


Multi-modal Query-guided object localization in natural images

12:49 – 1:06 PM

Harsh Rangwani

PhD CDS, IISc


Cost-Sensitive Self-Training for Optimizing Non-Decomposable Metrics

1:06 – 1:23 PM

Rishubh Parihar

PhD CDS, IISc


Attribute Editing by StyleGAN Latent Space Exploration

12:00 – 1:30 PM


TCS Research Cafe (ECE 1.09)

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Lunch Break at Main Guest House for all the registered candidates
Directions to IISc Main Guest House

Session 4| 2:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Research Cluster Talks (ECE building)

Session 4A | 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Brain, Computation and Data Sciences (ECE Golden Jubilee Hall)
Session Chair: Ashwini Dani, Deepak Khatri
Cluster Coordinator: Prasanta Kumar Ghosh
Student Organizer: Aniket, Naman
Faculty Organizer: Utsav Banerjee

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Upinder S. Bhalla

NCBS, TIFR, Bangalore


Hardware, software and wetware: How is the brain so computationally efficient?

3:00 – 3:20 PM

Deepak Khatri

Upside Down Labs, Bangalore


Building next generation HCI and BCI with open-source technologies

3:20 – 3:50 PM

Thomas Gregor Issac

CBR, IISc Bangalore


Longitudinal Studies at Centre for Brain Research (CBR) for Study of the Aging Brain

3:50 – 4:02 PM

Shubham Goswami

PhD CDS, IISc


Low-storage explicit Runge-Kutta schemes for scalable asynchrony-tolerant schemes based PDE solvers

4:02 – 4:14 PM

Ghanshyam Chandra

PhD CDS, IISc


Sequence to graph alignment using gap-sensitive co-linear chaining

4:14 – 4:26 PM

P. Naveen

PhD CDS, IISc


TTC-QSM : Model Based Test Time Correction for Improved Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping

4:26 – 4:38 PM

Raji Susan Mathew

PostDoc CDS, IISc


Model-Resolution based Deconvolution for Improved Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping

4:38 – 4:50 PM

Pradeep Kumar G

PhD EE, IISc


Changes in higher-order interaction measures synergy and redundancy during non-ordinary states of consciousness

4:50 – 5:02 PM

Arjun B S

PhD DESE, IISc


Towards an Indigenous Smart Intraoperative Probe for Brain Tumour Delineation

5:02 – 5:14 PM

Prince Philip

PhD DESE, IISc


Tau-cell-based Analog Silicon Retina with Spatio-Temporal Filtering and Contrast Gain Control

5:14 – 5:26 PM

Shankhadeep Mukherjee

PhD CNS, IISc


Synthesizing optimal visual stimuli with deep generative networks

5:26 – 5:38 PM

Sreekanth Maddaka

PostDoc CeNSE, IISc


Persistent photoconductivity-based optoelectronic synaptic transistors for neuromorphic computing

5:40 - 6:10 PM

High Tea Break

ARTPARK Talk (ECE MP-20)

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Syed Adil Hassan

Head of the startup @ARTPARK Accelerator Program


Startup@ARTPARK: Translate Laboratory Ideas into Impactful Products

Session 4B | 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Microelectronics, RF, and Photonics (ECE MP-20)
Cluster Coordinator: Srinivas Talabattula, Arup Polley
Student Organizer: Yashash, Krishna
Faculty Organizer: Debdeep Sarkar

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Rajappa Pappannareddy

Founding CEO of PR Lightcom


Design Tools for OFC Systems and Network Planning

3:30 – 3:50 PM

V Mahadevan

PESIT, Ex-ISRO


Satellite Communication and Antenna

3:50 – 4:05 PM

Jogesh Chandra Dash

PostDoc ECE, IISc


Full-Duplex Antenna Design for V2X-ITS Application: An Approach Towards Future 6G Communication

4:05 – 4:20 PM

Pushkar Dasika

PhD ECE, IISc


Low dimensional field-effect- transtors

4:20 – 4:35 PM

Lal Krishna

PhD ECE, IISc


Resonant metasurfaces for photonic applications in the mid-infrared wavelength regime

4:35 – 4:50 PM

Asish Prosad

PhD ECE, IISc


Single and Two-photon Absorption Induced all-Optical Control of Gallium Selenide Integrated Silicon Nitride Photonic Devices

4:50 – 5:05 PM

Sathisha Ramachandrapura

PhD ECE, IISc


Data rate enhancement schemes and hybrid networks- Experimental works on Optical wireless communication

5:05 – 5:20 PM

Pratik Kumar

PhD CeNSE, IISc


Analog Compute Ecosystem for Machine Learning at the Edge

5:20 – 5:35 PM

Pradeep Kumar Gautam

PhD DESE, IISc


Scalable Control Electronics for Quantum Computer

5:40 - 6:10 PM

High Tea Break

Session 4C | 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Power Engineering (ECE 1.08)
Session Chair: Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer, Samir Hazra
Cluster Coordinator: Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer, Samir Hazra
Student Organizer: Sagnik, Abhishek
Faculty Organizer: Kiran Kumari

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Anil Kulkarni

EE, IIT Bombay


Correlation of Diverse Measurement Records for Disturbance Diagnosis in Power Systems

3:00 – 3:20 PM

Shashidhar Mathapati

Delta India Electronics, Bengaluru


Creativity and Innovation in the context of Engineering

3:20 – 3:34 PM

Thirumalasetty Mouli

PhD EE, IISc


PWM-Based Optimal Predictive Direct Torque Control of Switched Reluctance Machine

3:34 – 3:48 PM

Anupam Verma

PhD EE, IISc


Modified Single-Pulse-Operated Switched Reluctance Generator: Modeling, Analysis, and Experimental Verification

3:48 – 4:02 PM

Sugoto Maulik

PhD EE, IISc


Dual Mode Operation of Grid-Tied Inverters

4:02 – 4:16 PM

Himanshu Bhusan Sandhibigraha

PhD EE, IISc


A Multi-port Isolated Active Clamp Boost PFC-Converter-based Charger for Electric Vehicles

4:16 – 4:30 PM

Vishwabandhu Uttam

M.Tech(Res) EE, IISc


A Unified Modeling Approach for Design and Performance Improvement of Triple Active Bridge Converter

4:30 – 4:44 PM

Manish Mandal

PhD EE, IISc


Investigation and comparison of switching transient modeling of SiC MOSFET in Kelvin-source packages with common-source package

4:44 – 4:58 PM

Ranashree Ram

PhD EE, IISc


Developmental Studies on a Multistage Induction Coilgun-Based Electromagnetic Launcher

4:58 – 5:12 PM

Deepak Kaushik

PhD EE, IISc


Development of Pulsed Power Systems and Tooling Coils for Electromagnetic Manufacturing Applications

5:12 – 5:26 PM

Francis C Joseph

PhD EE, IISc


Parareal-in-Time Implementation for Power System Dynamic Simulations

5:40 - 6:10 PM

High Tea Break

Session 4D | 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Computer Systems, Networking and IoT (ECE MP-30)
Session Chair: T V Prabhakar, Sumit Kumar Mandal
Cluster Coordinator: Sathish Vadhiyar, T V Prabhakar
Student Organizer: Sai Teja, Sudarshan
Faculty Organizer: Vaanathi Sundaresan

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Samar Agnihotri

IIT Mandi


Capacity characterization of wireless relay networks

3:00 – 3:20 PM

Praveen Jayachandran

IBM India


The Journey to Multi-cloud Networking

3:20 – 3:34 PM

Shrutkirthi Shashikant Godkhindi

PostDoc DESE, IISc


UUTS: Towards a unified reliable IoT Network

3:34– 3:48 PM

Krishna Chaythanya KV

PhD ECE, IISc


Sequential Detection Techniques for Early Detection of Rolling Element Bearing Faults

3:48 – 4:02 PM

Anu Krishna Vasanthakumari

PhD DESE, IISc


Caching Dynamic Contents via Mortal Restless Bandits

4:02 – 4:16 PM

Ashwin Prasad

PhD CSA, IISc


TREEBEARD: An Optimizing Compiler for Decision Tree Based ML Inference

4:16 – 4:30 PM

Archita Ghosh

Student, IISc


Understanding Resiliency of Cloud Storage Services

4:30 – 4:44 PM

Shweta Pandey

PhD CSA, IISc


GPM: Leveraging Persistent Memory from a GPU

4:44 – 4:58 PM

Alvin George

PhD CPS, IISc


Verifying Temporal Properties of Control Systems using Abstraction Refinement

4:58 – 5:12 PM

Ajay Kumar Sandula

PhD CPS, IISc


A multi-armed bandit approach for demand aware multi-robot task scheduling

5:12 – 5:26 PM

Mukund Mitra

PhD CPS, IISc


Investigating Sampling-based Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation and 3D Target Prediction in Extended Reality

5:40 - 6:10 PM

High Tea Break

Best Presentation Award Ceremony | 6:10 PM - 6:30 PM | Venue: Golden Jubilee Hall (ECE)