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Humbled and honored to be named a finalist (Top 4) for the @ubicomp 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 (𝗚𝗮𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱). Grateful to my advisors, @nipun_batra @mynkgoel for the support. Grateful to Fulbright India (@USIEF) as well 🙏🏻
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Indians diagnosed with either diabetes or hypertension after the age of 40 should routinely be screened for the other condition, according to a new study that found the two diseases increasingly occur together from middle age onwards. theprint.in/health/by-40-ind…
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In January, @jonhoo, @jjgort, and I returned to @MIT_CSAIL to teach Missing Semester, a class on topics missing from most CS programs—tools and techniques that everyone should know, like Bash, Git, CI/CD, and AI tools. Today, we’re releasing the course for free online!
Thank you for your kind words, Prof. @adagu.
1/n. Resuming thread on graduating students.
Meet @rishihere, who just completed his PhD in Computer Science from IIT Gandhinagar. His research focuses on making health sensing ubiquitous low-cost, scalable, and real-world deployable.
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🎓 111 PhD have collected their degrees. C0ngratulations to all PhD holders.
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My students put up a banner on our building announcing my tenure! I don't know if they planned it to be the first thing almost entering CMU sees. 😅
They also put stickies with my random tweets all over the building. I didn't realize I had made so many dad jokes on Twitter.
1 year later, health tech research still feels like home.
We ended week 1 (day 5 last session) with a hands-on tutorial by @Shriman_Ayush and @rishihere on Smartphone-based Health Sensing and Heart Rate Prediction.
The talk highlighted how smartphones can be leveraged as accessible health monitoring tools.
It included a hands-on tutorial demonstrating the building of a heart rate prediction model using smartphone camera data-combining theory with practical insights.
A great example of AI meeting everyday health tech!
#HealthTech #AI #Smartphones #HeartRatePrediction #Innovation
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It was a pleasure representing #JioThings and sharing our work on AI for Sustainability. Great to be back at IIT Gandhinagar for the ACM Summer School — this time as a speaker! Grateful to Prof. @nipun_batra for the opportunity.
In the next session, @rishihere and Niladri from Jio delivered a session on AI for Sustainability focused on connected and intelligent energy products.
They discussed Jio’s vision for a sustainable energy future, highlighting how AI-driven solutions are transforming energy management to promote environmental responsibility and efficiency.
A forward-looking talk on technology powering the future of sustainable energy.
#Sustainability #AIforEnergy #SmartEnergy #Innovation #GreenTech
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📢 PhD Admissions OPEN at Sustainability Lab, IIT Gandhinagar! 📢
Are you passionate about applying #MachineLearning & #Sensing technologies to real-world sustainability challenges? Join our innovative research team at IIT Gandhinagar!
Our cutting-edge research areas:
🔬 Healthcare: Smart masks for lung monitoring, thermal imaging for sleep apnea detection (ApneaEye), and AI for exercise calorie tracking (JoulesEye)
💨 Air Quality: LLM-powered chatbots (VayuBuddy), geospatial data for brick kiln detection, and advanced inference techniques using Gaussian processes
🌱 Energy: Cost-efficient energy breakdown solutions (EdgeNILM), multi-task learning approaches, and matrix factorization methods requiring minimal hardware
Lab Highlights:
✅ State-of-the-art computational resources including 4×NVIDIA A100 GPUs
✅ Award-winning students (Microsoft PhD Fellowship, Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, ACM awards, PMRF)
✅ Publications in top-tier conferences (ACM SenSys, UbiComp)
✅ Collaborative, innovative research environment
Apply now: iitgn.ac.in/admissions/phd
Learn more: sustainability-lab.github.io
PS the lab flyer.
#PhDAdmissions #ComputationalSustainability #IITGN #AI4Good #MachineLearning
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🚀 We’re hiring Research Assistants (JRF/SRF) & Summer Interns at Sustainability Lab!
If you're passionate about AI, sensing & sustainability, check out our openings: sustainability-lab.github.io…
Curious about past experiences? Read what our alumni had to say: sustainability-lab.github.io…
Join us and make an impact! 🌱💡
#AIforSustainability #Internship #ResearchOpportunity #SustainabilityLab
Update: Defended my PhD thesis on 9th Jan! 🎓 Watch the recording: youtube.com/watch?v=mY8-mksl… Grateful for the guidance of @nipun_batra & @mynkgoel. Excited to continue exploring health sensing & ubiquitous computing—open to new collaborations!
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At the 11th HLF in September, 30 pre-selected young researchers showcased their work! We filmed their presentations and are excited to share the Poster Flash with you. Check it out on our YouTube channel and get inspired by their amazing research! #HLF24
youtu.be/1-aTRGvJzPQ?si=5Nx2…
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Just shared my journey in a TEDx Conversation at IIT Gandhinagar! @iitgn @cse_iitgn
Highlights:
1️⃣ Embracing India’s unique research strengths 🌍
2️⃣ Tech in real life: from air quality prediction to early health diagnostics 🌡️
3️⃣ Lessons from sports & teaching: resilience and lifelong learning 📚
Grateful to be part of this journey with inspiring students & colleagues. Let's keep innovating for a sustainable future! 💡 #TEDx #AIForGood #MachineLearning #Sustainability #India #ResearchJourney
🎥 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=-pyj8cTd…
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I am excited to announce the third edition of Think Stats, to be published by O'Reilly Media in 2025.
As always, I'm posting the free version as a work in progress. You can read it at
allendowney.com/blog/2024/10…
Thrilled to be heading to Heidelberg, Germany for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum! Honored to be among 200 young researchers invited, and 1 of 30 presenting a poster. Huge thanks to my incredible advisors, Prof @nipun_batra and Prof. @mynkgoel! #HLF24
Congratulations to the 200 exceptional young researchers who have been selected to attend the 11th HLF! #HLF24
Sarah, Martina, Yasmin, Anna and the whole HLFF team look forward to seeing you all in Heidelberg this September for a week full of networking, exchange and inspiration!
Grateful to be part of a lab where research thrives alongside personal growth. Exciting opportunities ahead for prospective PhDs.
🚀 Join our PhD program at the Sustainability Lab, IIT Gandhinagar! 🌱🔬
Dive into cutting-edge research in sensing and machine learning to tackle critical challenges in healthcare and sustainability.
Explore our work, alumni, culture, and resources: sustainability-lab.github.io
Be a part of the future! 🌍✨ #PhD #Sustainability #MachineLearning #Healthcare #Research
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A first classical example is tracking moving objects (think walking down the street with G. maps). Here, the grey line is our actual position, the dots are the (noisy) measurements and the coloured lines are our estimate position. Outliers can biased our estimated position.
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@lingoiitgn is actively looking for student volunteers who can help in creating datasets for the following languages:
Assamese
Bodo
Dogri
Kashmiri
Konkani
Maithili
Meitei
Nepali
Odia
Santali
Form to submit your interest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Deadline: Today at midnight.
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Most wearables aren't great at estimating calories burned.
Adding a thermal camera that monitors breathing rate & body temperature could change that...
Mean absolute percent error rates from this study:
🔹 Smartwatches using only heart rate: ~38%
🔹 Thermal camera: ~6%
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Our new work on using thermal imaging for respiration and calorie expenditure sensing. Your smartwatch might be lying to you about how many calories you burn while working out. @SCSatCMU @S3DatCMU @cmuhcii
JoulesEye utilizes a thermal camera to measure the number of calories a person has burned, blowing away the accuracy of existing wearables. hackster.io/news/your-wearab…
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Happy to share our paper led by @rishihere (from @cse_iitgn @iitgn), in collaboration with @mynkgoel while Rishiraj was a Fullbright visiting fellow at CMU with Mayank Goel was published recently at #imwut (and will be presented later at @ubicomp)
Paper title: JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising
Key ideas:
- smart watches and other wearable accurate for heart rate, but inaccurate for calorie consumption
- our proposed thermal camera based system estimates respiration, and VO2 and thus accurate energy expenditure
- calorie estimation comparable to gold standard and much more accurate than commercial wearable
- study on 54 participants
PDF: nipunbatra.github.io/papers/…
YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=5J9KqrDn…
Media coverage by @IndianExpress: indianexpress.com/article/ci…