EECS RESEARCH STUDENTS SYMPOSIUM - 2025

Day 2 - April 4, 2025. Friday

Overview

Time Event
 
09.30 AM - 11.00 AM Parallel Sessions with Research Talks from Students and Speakers from Industry as well as Academia
Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 Session 9  
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM Coffee Break at ECE Hut
11.30 AM - 01.00 PM Parallel Sessions with Research Talks from Students and Speakers from Industry as well as Academia
Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 Session 9  
01.00 PM - 02.00 PM Lunch at Main Guest House
02.00 PM - 03.00 PM Plenary Talk by Shivkumar Kalyanaraman at Faculty Hall, Main Building
03.00 PM - 04.00 PM Plenary Talk by Kyle Daigle at Faculty Hall, Main Building
04.00 PM - 04.30 PM High Tea at Faculty Hall, Main Building
04.30 PM - 05.30 PM Plenary Talk by Meena Mahajan at Faculty Hall, Main Building
05.30 PM Award Distribution and Vote of Thanks at Faculty Hall, Main Building


Detailed Schedule

Session 6: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Venue: ECE, GJH
Session Chair: Danish Pruthi
Faculty Organiser: Danish Pruthi
Student Volunteers: Pranav, Rithwik Pradeep, Kartik
Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
9.30 AM - 10.00 AM Amit Sharma Microsoft Research Teaching causal reasoning to language models
10.00 AM - 10.15 AM Kinshuk Vasisht PhD, CDS Knowledge Graph Guided Evaluation of Abstention Techniques
10.15 AM - 10.30 AM Yashwanth M PhD, CDS Adaptive Self-Distillation for Minimizing Client Drift in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
10.30 AM - 10.45 AM Atasi Panda PhD, CSA Individual and Group Fairness in Bipartite Matching
10.45 AM - 11.00 AM Tadikonda Shiva Sai PhD, CDS An a-posteriori analysis of co-kurtosis PCA based dimensionality reduction using a neural ODE solver
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM Tea Break
11.30 AM - 11.45 AM Priyabrat Dash PhD, CDS Identification of recirculation zones from experimental images of trapped vortex combustors using deep learning
11.45 AM - 12.00 PM Abhipsa Basu PhD, CDS Mitigating Biases in Blackbox Feature Extractors for Image Classification Tasks
12.00 PM - 12.15 PM Madhusudanarao PhD, ECE Finite time logarithmic regret bounds for the minimum variance control problem with piece-wise stationary ARX model
12.15 PM - 12.30 PM Alokendu Mazumder PhD, CPS DIME: Deterministic Information Maximizing Autoencoder
12.30 PM - 1.00 PM Bhuwan Dhingra Duke University Improving the Runtime-Accuracy Trade-Off during LLM Inference
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM Lunch Break


Session 7: Brain Computation, and Data Science
Venue: ECE 1.08
Session Chairs: Sridharan Devarajan, Vaanathi Sundaresan
Faculty Organiser: Danish Pruthi
Student Volunteers: Batta Siva Sairam, Gune, Diwakar
Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
9.30 AM - 10.00 AM Akash Kulgod Dognosis Detecting cancer from breath by letting dogs teach AI how to smell
10.00 AM - 10.15 AM Vaishanvi Ravi Postdoc, CDS Non-Invasive Prediction of IDH1 Mutation in Glioblastoma: Radiomics-Driven Textural Analysis of Preoperative MRI
10.15 AM - 10.30 AM Anjali P PhD, CDS A Dynamic Data Driven Agent Based Model for Characterizing the Space Utilization of Asian Elephants in Response to Water Availability
10.30 AM - 10.45 AM Sreenivas Bhaskara PhD, DESE Design and Development of Micro-Engineered Electrodes and Electronic Systems for Parkinsonian Rat Models
10.45 AM - 11.00 AM Mainak Biswas PhD, BCD programme Semi-supervised deep transfer for regression without domain alignment
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM Tea Break
11.30 AM - 12.00 PM Neelam Sinha CBR Image complexity-based visual network categorization using fMRI time series
12.00 PM - 12.15 PM Parvesh Barak MTech (Research), CDS Fast Combinatorial Algorithm for Enhancing Read Sequencing Accuracy
12.15 PM - 12.30 PM Daanish Mahajan PhD, IMI Targeted sequencing of Oncogenes from WGS data
12.30 PM - 12.45 PM Aswin Kumar A MTech (Research), CDS
12.45 PM - 1.00 PM Paritosh Tiwari PhD, CPS Enhancing Representations for Cluster Tendency Assessment and Partitioning of Tabular Data
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM Lunch Break


Session 8: Theoretical Computer Science
Venue: ECE 1.07
Session Chairs: Sunil Chandran, Chandan Saha
Faculty Organisers: Chaya Ganesh, Arindam Khan
Student Volunteers: Vijayant Yadav, Shreeya, Kaushik Kumar
Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
9.30 AM - 10.00 AM Sujoy Bhore IITB Geometry in Optimization: To Choose or Not to Choose
10.00 AM - 10.15 AM Debajyoti Kar PhD, CSA Improved Approximation Algorithms for Three-Dimensional Bin Packing
10.15 AM - 10.30 AM Venkata Naga Sreenivasulu Karnati PhD, CSA Improved Approximation Algorithms for Three-dimensional Knapsack
10.30 AM - 10.45 AM Mohit Garg Postdoc, CSA Why Auctioneers Should Randomize Item Order for Submodular Bidders
10.45 AM - 11.00 AM Akash Pareek Postdoc, CSA The Group Access Bounds for Binary Search Trees.
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM Tea Break
11.30 AM - 12.00 PM Pranabendu Misra CMI Meta-theorems for Parameterized Streaming Algorithms
12.00 PM - 12.15 PM Agrim Dewan CSA NP-Hardness of Testing Equivalence to Sparse Polynomials and to Constant-Support Polynomials
12.15 PM - 12.30 PM Aditi Sethia Postdoc, CSA Fair Division of Indivisible Items with Adjusted Supply
12.30 PM - 12.45 PM Abhi Kumar Sharma DESE Fault-tolerant quantum computing
12.45 PM - 1.00 PM Nirjhar Das MTech (Research), CSA Generalized Linear Bandits with Limited Adaptivity
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM Lunch Break


Session 9: Power Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems
Venue: ECE, MP 30
Session Chairs: Gurunath Gurrala, Tapas Roy
Faculty Organiser: Tapas Roy
Student Volunteers: Anjali, Shivam, Vamsi, Kanchana
Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
9.30 AM - 10.00 AM Kamalesh Hatua IIT Madras Thyristor based PWM CSI fed induction motor drive
10.00 AM - 10.15 AM Himanshu Bhusan Sandhibigraha PhD, EE A 10 kW Reconfigurable Multi-port AC-DC PFC Converter for Battery Charging Application
10.15 AM - 10.30 AM Aabid Ahmad Dar PhD, EE Reconfigurable Step-Up/Down Series-Pass Partial Power Processing Converter for Battery Charging
10.30 AM - 10.45 AM Vibuti Sahu PhD, EE Parallel Node-Breaker based Simulation Tool for Dynamic Simulation of Cascading Failure Outages in Power Systems
10.45 AM - 11.00 AM Durvesh Kalke PhD, EE Emulation of Ternary Pumped Storage Hydro Plants on a Laboratory Micro-Alternator
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM Tea Break
11.30 AM - 12.00 PM Subhra Sankha Ghosh Delta Electronics Bridging Sustainability and Stability: The Role of Inverters in Grid Interactive Microgrids
12.00 PM - 12.15 PM Deepak Kaushik Postdoc, EE Solid State Marx Generators and Development of Resonant Converters for Rapid Capacitor Charging in Repetitive Pulsed Power Applications
12.15 PM - 12.30 PM Ananta Kant Rai PhD, ECE Data-Driven Minimum-Gain Pole Placement
12.30 PM - 01.00 PM Aryan Kaushik Manchester Metropolitan University Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond
1.15 PM - 2.00 PM Lunch Break


Session 10: Cyber-Physical Systems
Venue: IDR Seminar Hall (G22)
Session Chairs: Tarun Rambha, Vijay Kovvali
Faculty Organiser: Ravi Prakash
Student Volunteers: Tirthajit Baruah, Rankit Kachroo, Saumya
Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
9.30 AM - 10.00 AM Rohan Paul IITD Towards Human-guided Robot Task Execution
10.00 AM - 10.15 AM Rajpal Singh PhD, ME Data Driven Adaptive Koopman Modelling for Control of Nonlinear Systems
10.15 AM - 10.30 AM Shashank S PhD, CPS A Cyber-Physical Modeling and Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Smart Grids
10.30 AM - 10.45 AM Ahan Basu PhD, CPS Formally verified Neural network controller synthesis ensuring incremental input-to-state stability for unknown systems
10.45 AM - 11.00 AM Sangeerth P PhD, CPS A Formal Quantification of Sim2Real Gap via Neural Simulation Gap Function
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM Tea Break
11.30 AM - 12.00 PM Vijay Kovvali IISc Stuck in Traffic – Understanding Congestion and Safety
12.00 PM - 12.15 PM Anusree Rajan Postdoc, CPS Event-Triggered Parameterized Control for Networked Control Systems
12.15 PM - 12.30 PM Prashil Wankhede PhD, EE Opinion dynamics for agents with resource limitations
12.30 PM - 12.45 PM Harini V PhD, CPS Event-Triggered Polynomial Control for Trajectory Tracking by Unicycle Robots
12.45 PM - 1.00 PM Nishchal Hoysal PhD, CPS Reinforcement learning aided decision making for multi-agent coordination problems in dynamic environments
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM Lunch Break


Plenary Talks
Venue: Faculty Hall, Main Building
Session Chair: All Faculty Organisers
Student Volunteers: Shraddha Chavan, Kartikey Singh, Chetan Sharma
Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
02.00 PM - 03.00 PM Shivakumar Kalyanaraman ANRF ANRF Overview and Principles
03.00 PM - 04.00 PM Kyle Daigle GitHub A new era of AI powered development in India
04.00 PM - 04.30 PM High Tea
04.30 PM - 05.30 PM Meena Mahajan IMSc The Complexity of Formal Proofs
5.30 PM Vote of Thanks