Session 1: Wednesday, 10:30-12
Shared session with ICTD
- 6 Years Later: Examining Long-term Project Outcomes
Authors: Elijah Greisz and Philip Garrison (University of Washington) - The Six Conundrums of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Social Good
Authors: Harshita Diddee, Kalika Bali, and Monojit Choudhury (Microsoft Research Labs); Namrata Mukhija (New York University) - Portrayals of Race and Gender: Sentiment in 100 Years of Children’s Literature
Authors: Anjali Adukia and Callista Christ (University of Chicago); Anjali Das (Columbia University); Ayush Raj (Saint Francis High School)
Session 2: Thursday, 8:30-10
- Reliable Energy Consumption Modeling for an Electric Vehicle Fleet
Authors: Millend Roy, Akshay Nambi, Anupam Sobti, and Tanuja Ganu (Microsoft Research); Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (Microsoft); Shankar Akella, Jaya Subha Devi, and S A Sundaresan (Ashok Leyland) - Complexity of Factor Analysis for Particulate Matter (PM) Data: A Measurement Based Case Study in Delhi-NCR
Authors: Ismi Abidi (IIT Delhi); Sagar Ravi Gaddam (Oplus); Saswat Kumar Pujari (Oracle); Chinmay Shirish Degwekar (Eightfold); Rijurekha Sen (IIT Delhi) - Analysis of Media Bias in Policy Discourse in India
Authors: Anirban Sen (Microsoft Research India); Debanjan Ghatak, Gurjeet Khanuja, Kumari Rekha, Mehak Gupta, Sanket Dhakate, Kartikeya Sharma, and Aaditeshwar Seth (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) - Role of Mass Media in Monitoring and Influencing the Performance of Social Welfare Schemes in India
Authors: Ashima Mittal, Sahil Dahake, Tanmay Patel, Utsav Deep, Diwakar Prajapati, Akshay Gupta, Vivek Singh, Aadish Jain, and Aaditeshwar Seth (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) - Insights Into Incitement: A Computational Perspective on Dangerous Speech on Twitter in India
Authors: Saloni Dash and Rynaa Grover (Microsoft Research India); Gazal Shekhawat (London School of Economics); Sukhnidh Kaur and Dibyendu Mishra (Microsoft Research India); Joyojeet Pal (Univ of Michigan)
Session 3: Thursday, 10:30-12:00
- “We dream of climbing the ladder, for getting there, we have to do our job better”: Designing for Teacher Aspirations in rural Côte d’Ivoire
Authors: Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Eloísa Avila, and Tricia Ngoon (Carnegie Mellon University); Yves Adji (Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny); Sharon Wolf (University of Pennsylvania); Kaja Jasinska (University of Toronto); Timothy Brown (Kigali Collaborative Research Centre); Amy Ogan (Carnegie Mellon University) - Invisible Work in Two Frontline Health Contexts
Authors: Joy Ming (Cornell University); Srujana Kamath (Independent Researcher); Elizabeth Kuo (Cornell Tech); Madeline Sterling (Weill Cornell Medicine); Nicola Dell (Cornell Tech); Aditya Vashistha (Cornell University) - A Descriptive Analysis of Cohesion within Virtual and Physical Small Groups of Mothers in Bandwidth-Constrained Communities, Cape Town
Authors: Sarah Dsane (University of Cape Town/Koforidua Technical University); Melissa Densmore and Yaseen Joolay (University of Cape Town) - Understanding power differentials and cultural differences in co-design with marginalized populations
Authors: Qinzhi Jiang, Mustafa Naseem, Jamie Lai, Kentaro Toyama, and Panos Papalambros (University of Michigan) - Mobilizing Digital Volunteers to Support Underserved Communities in India During COVID-19 Lockdown
Authors: Devansh Mehta and Vishnu Prasad (Voicedeck Technologies); Tarun Chitta and Srinivas Naik (IIIT-Naya Raipur); Amit Prakash (IIIT-Bangalore); Aditya Vashistha (Cornell University)
Session 4: Thursday, 1:30-3:15
- LoRaX: Repurposing LoRa as a Low Data Rate Messaging System to Extend Internet Boundaries
Authors: Morgan Vigil-Hayes and Md Nazmul Hossain (Northern Arizona University); Alexander K Elliott (Georgia Institute of Technology); Elizabeth M. Belding (University of California Santa Barbara); Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Phone Sharing and Cash Transfers in Togo: Quantitative Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
Authors: Emily Aiken, Viraj Thakur, and Joshua Blumenstock (UC Berkeley) - Towards operationalizing the communal production and management of public (open) data: a pedestrian network case study
Authors: Nicholas Bolten and Anat Caspi (University of Washington) - A Large-Scale Examination of Socioeconomic Fairness in Mobile Network Performance
Authors: Souneil Park (Telefonica Research); Pavol Mulinka (CTTC); Diego Perino (Telefonica Research) - Characterizing Internet Access and Quality Inequities in California M-Lab Measurements
Authors: Udit Paul, Jiamo Liu, David Farias-llerenas, Vivek Adarsh, and Arpit Gupta (University of California Santa Barbara); Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara) - “I decided to forget about it!”: Exploring the Role of Intermediaries, Terrorist Assemblage, and Re-skilling in the Adoption of Cashless Transaction Systems in Bangladesh
Authors: Yasaman Rohanifar (Computer Science, University of Toronto); Sharifa Sultana (Information Science, Cornell University); Swapnil Nandy (Cardiff University); Pratyasha Saha (University of Dhaka); Md. Jonayed Hossain Chowdhury (Daffodil International University); Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen (Utah State University); Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (Computer Science, University of Toronto)
Session 5: Thursday, 3:45-5:30
- Telechain: Bridging Telecom Policy and Blockchain Practice
Authors: Sudheesh Singanamalla (Microsoft Research India / University of Washington); Apurv Mehra and Nishanth Chandran (Microsoft Research India); Himanshi Lohchab and Seshanuradha Chava (Tanla Platforms Limited); Asit Kadayan and Sunil Bajpai (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Government of India); Kurtis Heimerl and Richard Anderson (University of Washington); Satya Lokam (Microsoft Research India) - Targeted Policy Recommendations using Outcome-aware Clustering
Authors: Ananth Balashankar (New York University); Samuel Fraiberger (World Bank); Eric Deregt (New York University); Marelize Gorgens (World Bank); Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (New York University) - An Unsupervised Density Based Clustering Algorithm to Detect Election Anomalies : Evidence from Georgia’s Largest County
Authors: Khurram Yamin, Matthew Oswald, Nima Jadali, Yao Xie, Ellen Zegura, and Dima Nazzal (Georgia Institute of Technology) - PeakTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Peak Forecasting in Energy Systems
Authors: Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj (University of Massachusetts Amherst); John Wamburu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); David Irwin and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Accelerated Design and Deployment of Low-Carbon Concrete for Data Centers
Authors: Xiou Ge (University of Southern California); Richard T. Goodwin (IBM Research); Haizi Yu (University of Chicago); Pablo Romero and Omar Abdelrahman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Amruta Sudhalkar and Julius Kusuma (Meta); Ryan Cialdella (Ozinga Ready Mix); Nishant Garg and Lav R. Varshney (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - Towards Continuous Streamflow Monitoring with Time-Lapse Cameras and Deep Learning
Authors: Amrita Gupta and Tony Chang (Conservation Science Partners); Jeffrey D. Walker (Walker Environmental Research, LLC); Benjamin Letcher (U.S. Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center)
Session 6: Friday, 8:30-10
- Use of Metric Learning for the Recognition of Handwritten Digits, and its Application to Increase the Outreach of Voice-based Communication Platforms
Authors: Devesh Pant (IIT Delhi); Dibyendu Talukder, Deepak Kumar, and Rachit Pandey (Gram Vaani); Aaditeshwar Seth and Chetan Arora (IIT Delhi) - Detecting Hotspots of Human-Wildlife Conflicts in India using News Articles and Aerial Images
Authors: Gokhan Egri, Xinran Han, and Zilin Ma (Harvard University); Priyanka Surapaneni and Sunandan Chakraborty (Indiana University) - Social Agriculture: Examining the Affordances of social media for agricultural practices
Authors: Emrys Schoemaker (Caribou Digital, UK; Cornell Tech, USA); Reem Talhouk (Northumbria University, UK); Catherine Kamanu (Kilimo Source, Kenya); Eoghan McDonaugh, Chris McDonaugh, and Eliza Casey (Habitus Insight, UK); Adam Wills (Learn.Ink, UK); Finn Richardson (Kilimo Source, Kenya); Jonathan Donner (Caribou Digital, UK) - Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India
Authors: Karm Patel (VGEC Chandkheda); Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B Patel, and Nipun Batra (IIT Gandhinagar); Sarath Guttikunda (UrbanEmissions) - Exploring Community Needs for Disaster Shelters Using Cultural Probes
Authors: Aarjav Chauhan (University of Toronto); Jasmine Yiyuan Qin (re+collective inc); Jonathan Sury (Columbia University); Robert Soden (University of Toronto)
Session 7: Friday, 10:30-12:00
- Landscape Optimization for Prescribed Burns in Wildfire Mitigation Planning
Authors: Weizhe Chen, Eshwar Prasad Sivaramakrishnan, and Bistra Dilkina (University of Southern California) - Making AI Explainable in the Global South: A Systematic Review
Authors: Chinasa T. Okolo (Cornell University); Nicola Dell (Cornell Tech); Aditya Vashistha (Cornell University) - Devotees on an Astroturf: Media, Politics, and Outrage in the Suicide of a Popular FilmStar
Authors: Syeda Zainab Akbar (University of Washington); Ankur Sharma (Microsoft Vancouver); Dibyendu Mishra, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, and Himani Negi (Microsoft Research); Sachita Nishal (Northwestern University); Anmol Panda and Joyojeet Pal (University of Michigan) - Revealing Influences of Socioeconomic Factors over Disease Outbreaks
Authors: S Mahmudul Hasan (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology); Alabi Mehzabin Anisha (University of Central Florida); Rudaiba Adnin, Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Ishika Tarin, Sadia Afroz, and A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) - Sophistication with Limitation: Understanding Smartphone Usage by Emergent Users in India
Authors: Meghna Gupta (Microsoft Research, India); Devansh Mehta (Voicedeck Technologies); Anandita Punj (Navana Tech); Indrani Medhi Thies (Microsoft Research)
Session 8: Friday, 1:30-2:10
- DynCNN: Application Dynamism and Ambient Temperature Aware Neural Network Scheduler in Edge Devices for Traffic Control
Authors: Omais Shafi and Sachin Kumar Chauhan (IIT Delhi); Gayathri Ananthanarayanan (IIT Dharwad); Rijurekha Sen (IIT Delhi) - Algorithmic Waste Reduction
Authors: Julius Ceasar Aguma (University of California, Irvine.); Michael Demirev (University of Calfornia, Irvine)