Full Program

 Live Streaming for Virtual Participants

The papers listed under Talks are presented in person, while the 3-minute videos are remote presentations.
DateTimeSchedule
July 8th8:30 AM - 9:00 AMTea/ Coffee (LHC 1st floor lobby area)
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMRegistration (LHC foyer), proceed to C101 for the RICs convening
9 AM – 6 PM Parallel sessions for:
  • Research to Impact Collaboratives (Chaired by Dr Manohar Swaminathan (Microsoft Research India) Convening (9:00-9:30am in C101); RIC meetings (9:30am onward in respective rooms))
  • Doctoral Consortium (Chaired by Dr Azra Ismail (Emory University), Dr Arani Bhattacharya (IIIT Delhi), Dr Rijurekha Sen (IIT Delhi)Convening (2:00pm onward in C101))
July 9th8:30 AMBreakfast (LHC 1st floor lobby area)
9 AM – 9:30 AMRegistration (LHC foyer), proceed to C101 for the plenary
9:30 AM – 9:45 AMOpening Remarks
9:45 AM – 10:45 AMKeynote Session #1: Knowledge Gaps in the Quest for Universal Connectivity by Mike Jensen
10:45 AM – 11:30 AMPaper Session #1: Agriculture (Session Chair Dr Vikram Kamath Cannanure)

Talks
  • Evaluation of computer vision pipeline for farm-level analytics: A case study in Sugarcane - Anupam Sobti (Plaksha University) | Video
  • Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India - Ramneek Kaur (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) | Video
  • The Devil is in the deployment: Lessons learned while deploying an AI and IoT enabled hydroponics grow tent with rural subsistence farmers in South Africa - Sarina Till, Taryn Wilson (Independant Institute of Education (Varsity College), Independant Institute of Education (Varsity College)) | Video
 
11:30 AM – 12:00 PMBreak(LHC 1st floor lobby area)
12:00 PM – 1:15 PMPaper Session #2: Education (Session Chair Dr Bill Thies)

Talks
  • PRET Printer: Development and Evaluation of a Passive Refreshable Tactile Printer - Tigmanshu Bhatnagar (University College London) | Video
  • Comuniqa: Exploring Large Language Models for improving English speaking skills - Shikhar Sharma (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi) | Video
  • Examining Factors Influencing Technology Integration in Indian Classrooms: A Teacher’s Perspective - Tarini Naik (Microsoft Research India) | Video
  • Experiences from Running a Voice-Based Education Platform for Children and Teachers with Visual Impairments - Tarini Naik (Microsoft Research India) | Video
  • Understanding the Longitudinal Impact of a Chatbot to Facilitate a Virtual Community of Practice for Teachers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire - Vikram Kamath Cannanure (Saarland University) | Video
3-minute videos
  • EvolveUI: User Interfaces that Evolve with User Proficiency | Video
  • AAVE Corpus Generation and Low-Resource Dialect Machine Translation | Video
1:15 PM – 2:15 PMLunch(LHC 1st floor lobby area)
2:15 PM – 3:30 PMPanel #1: From Zero to Billions? Insights from Scaling Innovations in the Public Sector (Moderated by Dr Bill Thies)
3:30 PM – 3:50 PMLightning talks by demo presenters (Session Chair Dr Ramneek Kaur)
  • A Low-Cost Demo: A Low-Cost Honeynet Infrastructure For Smishing Data Collection - Bernard Odartei Lamptey (Upanzi Network / CyLab-Africa) | Video
  • Demo: SensiTrain: A Crowd Supported Platform to Understand Context and Improve Sensitivity in Online Communication - Sriram Chellappan (University of South Florida) | Video
  • Developing and Deploying AI and IoT-enabled hydroponic grow tents with subsistence farmers in South Africa - Yusuf Ismail (Independent Institute of Education) | Video
  • Enhancing Wireless Connectivity in Skip Zones via Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface - Khagendra Joshi (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi) | Video
3:50 PM – 5:00 PMLightning talks by practitioners(Chaired by Apurv Mehra (Blendnet AI), Krishnan Narayanan (Itihaasa Research and Digital), and Dr Manohar Swaminathan (Microsoft Research India))
5:00 PM – 6:00 PMPractitioners Connect and Demos
July 10th8:30 AMBreakfast (LHC 1st floor lobby area)
9 AM – 9:30 AMRegistration (LHC foyer), proceed to C101 for the plenary
9:30 AM – 10:30 AMKeynote Session #2: How Technology Can Solve Societal Problems: Experiences from MSSRF by Dr Soumya Swaminathan
10:30 AM – 12:00 PMPaper Session #3: Sustainability (Session Chair Dr Anupam Sobti)

Talks
  • Simulation-based Analysis of Car-sharing Electrification in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - Martin Sachenbacher (University of Luebeck) | Video
  • Designing A Sustainable Marine Debris Clean-up Framework without Human Labels - Tahiya Chowdhury (Colby College) | Video
  • Towards Improved Sustainability in The Textile Lifecycle with Deep Learning - Atul Dubey (AIClub Research Institute) | Video
  • Carbon Rebellion: Empowerment using Data-Driven Narratives - Ambika Shahu (TU Wien) | Video
  • Initial Experiments with a Scalable Machine Learning Based Approach for Downscaling the MOD16A2 Evapotranspiration Product - Siddharth S (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) | Video
  • Analyzing the Energy Usage of a Community and the Benefits of Energy Storage - Srinivasan Iyengar (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | Video
3-minute videos
  • Sustainable innovation: A framework for sustainable community innovation center | Video
  • Understanding Driving Stress in Urban Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study, Wearable Development and Experiment | Video
12:00 PM – 12:30 PMBreak(LHC 1st floor lobby area)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PMPaper Session #4: Finance and Labor (Session Chair Dr Nicki Dell)

Talks
  • Unveiling Two-Fold Gamification: Exploring the Agency Of DeliveryWorkers in Urban India - Tanmay Goyal (IIIT Hyderabad) | Video
  • Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Factors Influencing Women's Adoption of Mobile Financial Services (MFS) in Rural Areas of Bangladesh - Bishal Deb Roy (BRAC University Dhaka) | Video
  • Speaking in Terms of Money: Financial Knowledge Acquisition via Speech Data Generation - Nidhi Kulkarni, Advait Bhat (Karya, Microsoft Research India) | Video
  • Assessing the Feasibility and Ethics of Economic Status Prediction using Deep Learning on Household Images - Aatif Nisar Dar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) | Video
3-minute videos
  • Is more better? Testing feature extraction for poverty estimates from telecom data in Cote d'Ivoire - Sveta Milusheva (World Bank) | Video
 
1:30 PM – 2:30 PMLunch(LHC 1st floor lobby area)
2:30 PM – 3:45 PMPanel #2: Exploring Challenges and Future Trajectory of AI Governance (Moderated by Dr. Praveen Priyadarshi)
3:45 PM – 4:15 PMLightning talks by poster presenters(Chaired by Dr Anmol Srivastava (IIIT Delhi))
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM Poster Session and Refreshments (LHC 1st floor lobby area)
July 11th8:30 AMBreakfast (LHC 1st floor lobby area)
9 AM – 9:30 AMRegistration (LHC foyer), proceed to C101 for the plenary
9:30 AM – 10:45 AMPaper Session #5: Environment and Sensing I (Session Chair Dr Waylon Brunette)

Talks
  • Towards Deep Learning for Predicting Microbial Fuel Cell Energy Output - Adam Hess-Dunlop (UC Santa Cruz) | Video
  • RELand: Risk Estimation of Landmines via Interpretable Invariant Risk Minimization - Mateo Dulce Rubio (UNMAS) | Video
  • Exploring Indoor Air Quality Dynamics in Developing Nations: A Perspective from India - Prasenjit Karmakar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) | Video
  • FrugalLight : Symmetry-Aware Cyclic Heterogeneous Intersection Control using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Model Compression, Distillation and Domain Knowledge - Sachin Chauhan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) | Video
  • WebLight: DRL based Intersection Control in Developing Countries without Reliable Cameras - Sachin Chauhan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) | Video
3-minute videos
  • CR-Cross: Cross Domain Coral Recognitions with Reject Options For Coral Conservation | Video
10:45 AM – 11:15 AMBreak(LHC 1st floor lobby area)
11:15 AM – 12:30 PMPaper Session #6: Health and Wellbeing (Session Chair Dr Azra Ismail)

Talks
  • Quantifying the role of maternal recall in estimates of routine immunisation rates in India: a large-scale sub-national Bayesian modelling study - Ritika Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) | Video
  • Design Opportunities to Facilitate Tangible Play and Promote Healthy Nutrition in Low-resource Healthcare Settings in Peru - Deysi Ortega (Cardiff University) | Video
  • Interpretable Checklist for Delirium Detection - Ramya Srinivasan (Fujitsu Research of America) | Video
  • Zero-configuration Alarms: Towards Reducing Distracting Smartphone Interactions while Driving - Sugandh Pargal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) | Video
  • Unveiling Social Anxiety: Analyzing Acoustic and Linguistic Traits in Impromptu Speech within a Controlled Study - Nilesh Kumar Sahu (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal) | Video
3-minute videos
  • AI-Driven Healthcare Delivery in Pakistan: A Framework for Systemic Improvement | Video
  • “We are blessed to live in the countryside”: Unpacking Rural and Small-Town Older Adults’ Resilient Nature in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Novia Nurain (Indiana University) | Video
  • A Proposed Systematic Framework and Guideline of Birth Declaration in Rural Last-Mile Bangladesh: Aimed at Reducing Child Marriage - Shabab Intishar Rahman (BRAC University Dhaka) | Video
12:30 PM – 1:30 PMLunch(LHC 1st floor lobby area)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PMPaper Session #7: Digital and Social Media (Session Chair Dr Venkata Ratnadeep Suri)

Talks
  • BlendNet: An Assisted Digital Distribution Platform for Underserved Populations - Kashish Mittal (Microsoft Research India) | Video
  • Navigating Truth in the Sea of Content: Exploring Influential Factors Shaping User Perceptions of Trustworthiness in YouTube Content - Aditto Baidya Alok (BRAC University Dhaka) | Video
  • Nobody Can See Us: An Overview of Online Dating Site Experiences - Monisha Dey (Design Inclusion and Access Lab - North South University) | Video
  • On the Influence and Political Leaning of Overlap between Propaganda Communities - Anirban Sen (Ashoka University) | Video
3-minute videos
  • Net Loss: An econometric method to measure the impact of Internet shutdowns - Anirudh Tagat (The Internet Society) | Video
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Break (LHC 1st floor lobby area)
3:00 PM – 4:00 PMPaper Session #8: Environment and Sensing II (Session Chair Dr Anil Madhavapeddy)

Talks
  • BLIPS: Bluetooth locator for an Indoor Positioning System in Realtime - Siddharth Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi) | Video
  • Mapping Thermal Footprints: Occupancy Estimation and Localization in Diverse Indoor Settings with Thermal Arrays - Soumya Ranjan Sahoo (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal) | Video
  • Towards Safer Roads: Deep Learning for Rash Driving Detection using Smartphone Sensors Data - Durgesh Mishra (DRDO Young Scientist Laboratory) | Video
  • What’s Up On The Roof: Tracking Cool Roofs in India with Satellite Imaging - Varchita Lalwani (Plaksha University) | Video
  • Wearable Technology Insights: Unveiling Physiological Responses During Three Different Socially Anxious Activities - Nilesh Kumar Sahu (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal) | Video
  • "The Devil You Know": Barriers and Opportunities for Co-Designing Microclimate Sensors, A Case Study of Manoomin - Eric Greenlee, Blaine Rothrock (Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University) | Video
3-minute videos
  • Fluxbot: The Next Generation - Design and Validation of a Wireless, Open-Source Mechatronic CO2 Flux Sensing Chamber | Video
4:30 PM – 5:00 PMBreak(LHC 1st floor lobby area)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PMClosing Remarks and Town Hall(Chaired by Dr Nicola Dell (Cornell Tech))