Schedule | Day 2 | EECS RESEARCH STUDENTS SYMPOSIUM - 2023, Division of EECS (Electrical, Electronics and Computer Sciences), Indian Institute of Science, IISc Bangalore

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)

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