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Synthetic Media and Deepfakes - Explained for All

An accessible guide to understanding synthetic media and deepfakes - what they are, how they work, and their …

AI in Indian Parliament - Budget Session 2025

An analysis of AI-related discussions and questions raised during the Budget Session 2025 of the Indian Parliament, …

Rethinking AI Literacy: Lessons from the AI Samarth Conclave

Key takeaways and reflections from the AI Samarth Conclave on building AI literacy across India. Explores approaches to …

Making AI Self-Regulation Work in India

An examination of self-regulatory approaches for AI governance in India, discussing frameworks, challenges, and pathways …

Unlocking AI's Potential in India

Exploring the opportunities and strategies for India to harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence …

AI and the Future of Work in India

An analysis of how artificial intelligence is reshaping employment landscapes in India, examining both challenges and …

Announcements on AI in the 2025-26 Union Budget

A comprehensive overview of AI-related announcements and allocations in India’s Union Budget 2025-26, analyzing …

Indian MPs are also curious about AI

An exploration of the questions Indian Members of Parliament have been raising about artificial intelligence, reflecting …

AI in the Indian Parliament

A detailed analysis of how artificial intelligence has been discussed and debated in the Indian Parliament, tracking …

Reflections on the UK RAI Sandpit

Insights and reflections from participating in the UK Responsible AI Sandpit, exploring collaborative approaches to AI …

Responsible Computing: The Next Frontier

Exploring the emerging paradigm of responsible computing that extends beyond AI to encompass broader considerations of …

Global Governance of AI

An examination of international efforts to govern artificial intelligence, analyzing various frameworks, multilateral …

An Overview of India's AI Policy Developments

A comprehensive overview of India’s evolving AI policy landscape, tracing key developments, government …

Openness of Generative AI systems

An analysis of openness in generative AI systems, examining the spectrum from closed proprietary models to open-source …

Declaration for safe and inclusive AI at UN

An analysis of the United Nations declaration on safe and inclusive AI, exploring its significance for global AI …

Evaluating Deployability of LLMs

A framework for evaluating the deployability of Large Language Models, examining criteria beyond benchmark performance …

Nuances of Fairness in AI Models

A deep dive into the complexities of fairness in AI models, exploring different definitions, trade-offs, and the …

Beyond the AI Advisory

A critical examination of AI advisory mechanisms and their limitations, exploring what comes next in the evolution of AI …

Roundup: March 2024

A curated roundup of significant AI developments, policy updates, and research highlights from March 2024, covering key …

LLM-based systems and Responsible AI

Exploring the intersection of Large Language Model-based systems and responsible AI principles, examining the unique …

Planner+Reinforcement Learning: Best of both worlds

Aditi Jain May 29, 2023

If we have to drive from one place to another, we first think about the major route we will undertake and then while …

Can AI facilitate the digital financial inclusion of migrant workers ?

Aditi Jain May 29, 2023

As COVID-19 started raising its fang in early 2020, a 21-day lockdown was imposed in the nation to restrict the spread …

AI

Probing patterning in microbial consortia with a cellular automaton for spatial organisation

Aditi Jain Feb 13, 2023

Some of us like hills and others are fond of beaches. Microbes are no different! Some love fresh air and so stay …

Microbes Cellular Automaton Spatial Organization

Meet Resmi Suresh

Aditi Jain Nov 7, 2022

I hope you would agree that we cannot do without our mobile for long! This is the reason why we prefer a mobile that …

Meet Prof. Vijay Tiwari

Aditi Jain Nov 7, 2022

No two individuals are alike! So, how can we expect them to respond similarly to drugs or treatment? This thought is …

Meet Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru “PK”

Aditi Jain Nov 7, 2022

If like most people, you also imagine a scientist as a pretty serious, reserved, nerdy and introvert, Prof. Ponnurangam …

Meet Malvika Sudhakar

Aditi Jain Oct 12, 2022

Over the years, doctors and researchers have realised that the “one size fits all” approach is not the right way to …

Meet Dr Gokul S. Krishnan

Aditi Jain Oct 12, 2022

Technology is now impacting every sphere of our lives but you would agree that one of its most powerful impacts is in …

Computational Social Sciences

Aug 23, 2022

-- Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru -- Sciences and Social sciences are often considered apart but Prof. Ponnurangam …

Natural language processing social network analysis legal AI

An Early Warning System for Earthquake

Kanchan Aggarwal, Siddhartha Mukhopadhya et al. Aug 23, 2022

On 26th January 2001, when the whole country was celebrating our 52nd Republic day, a piece of devastating news shook …

Earthquake Early warning system Prediction

Towards Personalized Cancer treatment

Malvika Sudhakar, Raghunathan Rengaswamy et al. Jul 18, 2022

As per the National Cancer Registry Programme Report 2022, over 13 lakhs people in India suffer from cancer each year …

Cancer Gene expression Oncogenes

Deciphering Disease Mechanisms through Functional Genomics

Jul 12, 2022

-- Dr. Vijay Tiwari -- The Brain- a three-pound of flesh that resides in the skull- is undoubtedly the most complex …

Genomics Human brain Epigenetic

A strategy to make networks more resilient to attacks

Sai Saranga Das, Karthik Raman Jun 16, 2022

We live in a highly connected world! World Wide Web, social networks, brain networks, Railway networks, Power …

Targeted attacks Spare capacity Real-world networks

VEST: Vulnerability Exploitation Scoring & Timing

Jun 6, 2022

--Dr. V.S. Subrahmanian-- Digitization has indeed made the world more connected! However, this connection comes …

Cyberattacks Early Warning System Ransomware

Meet Dr Harshad Khadilkar

Aditi Jain Jun 6, 2022

As children, we all loved the sight of a flying airplane in the sky. Harshad was no different in this case except that …

Improving Sample Efficiency in Evolutionary RL using Off-policy Ranking

Jun 6, 2022

--Dr. Gugan Thoppe-- Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning technique where the agent learns from the …

Reinforcement Learning Augmented Random Search Optimization

Scaling graph representation learning algorithms in an implementation agnostic fashion

Apr 18, 2022

--Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy-- A graph, which consists of nodes and edges, is a pictorial representation of the …

Graph Mining Machine Learning Graph Representation Learning

Generating tailored multimodal fragments from documents and Videos

Apr 18, 2022

--Dr. Balaji Vasan Srinivasan-- In today’s digital world, social media and websites have become an important tool for …

Multimodal Content Artificial Intelligence Textual Modality

DailyDialog++ and DEB: A new dataset and new metric to make the evaluation of chatbots and dialogue systems better

Ananya B. Sai, Akash Kumar Mohankumar et al. Apr 18, 2022

How are you feeling today? Good, Great, fine, bad, worst, bored? Either way, you are feeling, you will agree that there …

Artificial Intelligence Dialogue Systems Natural Language Processing

Controllability of Functional Brain Networks

Apr 11, 2022

--Prof. Ramkrishna Pasumarthy-- The brain has undeniably been the most enigmatic organ of the human body. To further …

Network Science Cognitive Control Brain Modelling

It takes two to tango — making bio-production more economical

Lavanya Raajaraam, Karthik Raman Mar 28, 2022

As the world decides to tread on a sustainable path, a more eco-friendly alternative for each and every industrial …

Bioproduction Metabolic modelling Genome-scale models

CAMP: The perfect bacterial matchmaker

Maziya Ibrahim, Karthik Raman Mar 28, 2022

Lovers, enemies, friends aren’t the relationships confined to human or animal societies. Tiny beings like bacteria also …

Genome-scale metabolic models Constraint-based modelling Metabolic engineering

Accurate and Interpretable AI models: Towards Deployable AI

Abhishek Ghose, Balaraman Ravindran Mar 28, 2022

A self-driving car bumps into a lamppost. A doctor prescribes the wrong treatment to a patient based on an AI-based …

Machine Learning Model Agnostic Technique Interpretable models

A new model that solves the charging woes of Electric vehicles

Surendra Reddy Kancharla, Gitakrishnan Ramadurai Mar 17, 2022

As nations race to meet their sustainable goals, the need to shift from fuel-based vehicles to electric vehicles has …

Electric Vehicles Mixed-Integer Linear Programming model Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search

Meet Richa Verma

Aditi Jain Mar 9, 2022

Offline reinforcement learning, a new method of reinforcement learning (RL) is about to make strides in AI technology. …

Meet Dr Shreya Goyal

Aditi Jain Mar 7, 2022

India is a land of many tongues. This linguistic diversity available in the country has attracted linguistic …

Meet Anusha Kumar

Aditi Jain Mar 7, 2022

Although science and management are two distinct fields of study, scientific discoveries and inventions have affected …

Learning systems biology, the computational way

Karthik Raman Feb 25, 2022

The 90s was an interesting time for biology research as researchers shifted from reductionist to a systems approach for …

Biological systems Computational tools

Meet Prof. Usha Mohan

Aditi Jain Dec 14, 2021

While sports and academics may seem poles apart to many but Prof. Usha Mohan, who is a Professor at the eminent IIT …

Interpretable AI

Oct 28, 2021

--Prof. Cynthia Rudin-- For quite a long time, researchers and the public were thrilled by the wonders of machine …

Interpretable models Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning for Robot Locomotion: Grounded Learning and Adaptive Parameter Learning

Sep 30, 2021

--Dr.Peter Stone-- Robot locomotion continues to remain a challenging problem in spite of the advances in the field. To …

Robot Locomotion Machine Learning network analytics

SUTRA: Predicting COVID-19 peaks

Aditi Jain Sep 20, 2021

--Prof. M. Vidyasagar, FRS-- COVID-19 pandemic is testing times for entire humanity and hopes are on science to provide …

COVID-19 Modelling

Mind the messenger: Analyzing the SARS-CoV-2 transcriptome

Shayantan Banerjee Sep 18, 2021

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), a severe respiratory disease caused by infection with the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, has …

SARS-CoV-2 transcriptome virus

CombSGPO: A new algorithm to protect wildlife

Aravind Venugopal, Elizabeth Bondi et al. Sep 17, 2021

Poaching and illegal smuggling of wildlife have remained a cause of concern for wildlife authorities. As per the World …

Reinforcement Learning Green Security Games Multi-agent

Meet Dr. Arun Rajkumar

Aditi Jain Sep 16, 2021

Biasness and discrimination are known to be human attributes but time and again AI has been in news for its biased …

Meet Ananya B. Sai

Aditi Jain Sep 15, 2021

We are surrounded by smart machines! The machines that speak our language, perform mundane tasks for us and solve our …

Are DNA variants bugs or features?

Aditi Jain Sep 15, 2021

--Dr. Yana Bromberg-- With high throughput sequencing technologies available, we can sequence a large number of genomes …

DNA IBSE

Cybercrimes and crime against women increased while other crimes declined during the COVID-19 lockdown

Aditi Jain Sep 13, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a grinding halt. Nations shut down the non-essential services to cut down the …

COVID-19 Crime

A new framework to lend loans in a smarter way

Aditi Jain Sep 13, 2021

Undoubtedly, loans are one of the major sources of income for banks and other related financial institutions. A loan …

Financial Analytics Loan repayment

The Heads Hypothesis: A Unifying Statistical Approach Towards Understanding Multi-Headed Attention in BERT

Madhura Pande Sep 3, 2021

BERT has been a top contender in the space of NLP models. With its sucess, a parallel stream of research, named …

Explainable AI BERT NLP

AI Powered Automatic Medical Coding of Electronic Health Records

Aditi Jain Aug 12, 2021

--Sudarsun Santhiappan Jeshuren Chelladurai-- Medical coding (codifying the medical records) has essentially remained a …

AI MEDICAL

Data Commons (The open knowledge Repository)

Aditi Jain Jul 21, 2021

--Dr. Ramanathan Guha-- A famous mathematician and a data scientist enthusiast, Clive Humby, once said that “Data is …

Knowledge Graphs Data Aggregation

Meet Dr. Karthik Raman

Jul 20, 2021

Fiction as it may seem, a day is just around the corner when we will fix our bodies using the tiny microbes that we may …

Coffee shop banter: Symbolic or Deep Learning? Promising directions of AI

Ashutosh Dilipbhai Kakadiya Jun 22, 2021

Sparks flew when friends, Prof. Sriraam Natarajan, UT Dallas and Prof. Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt decided to get …

Deep Learning Symbolic Learning

Meet Dr. Lelitha Devi

Apr 10, 2021

Toxic air and congestion on the road are the grim realities of the metropolitan cities of India. Prof. Lelitha Devi, …

Meet Preksha Nema

Mar 14, 2021

Curiosity, questioning and understanding sentiments have long been considered human attributes. Preksha Nema, a young …

Levelling up NLP for Indian Languages

Divyanshu Kakwani, Anoop Kunchukuttan et al. Feb 10, 2021

We are working towards building a better ecosystem for Indian languages while also keeping up with the recent …

Neural Network NLP Deep learning

Developing India-specific pregnancy dating model from Garbhini cohort

Ashley Xavier, Himanshu Sinha et al. Feb 9, 2021

The duration of gestation of pregnancy is the period between the date of conception and date of delivery, which is …

Healthcare Preterm birth Biomedical

Meet Dr. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai

Jan 28, 2021

Why is everyone heading in the same direction? Is there an accident ahead? When will I reach home? Why can’t cars fly? …

Fireside chat: with RBCDSAI Distinguished Fellow Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Pavan Ravishankar Jan 21, 2021

Ethics in AI is one of the most discussed topics in recent times. Read about the fireside chat with Prof. Srinivasan …

Ethics AI

How COVID-19 impacts population movement: A data-driven analysis to study population behavior during a pandemic

V Senthamizhan, Jahnvi Patel et al. Jan 20, 2021

Scientific evidence available on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the global outbreak of …

COVID-19 Data analysis Population behaviour

Data Science and IoT for addressing ambient air sanctity

Sathish Swaminathan, Raghunathan Rengaswamy Jan 20, 2021

Ambient air quality is a dynamic parameter that shows a high degree of spatiotemporal variation. It is known to impact …

Air quality Internet of Things Hyperlocal

Predicting Essential Genes through Network Approach: Deciphering basis of Life

V Senthamizhan, B Ravindran et al. Jan 13, 2021

A classic challenge in biology is to study the function of proteins. Of various functions, essential functions are very …

Essential genes database network analytics

Ablation-CAM: Making AI trustworthy

Saurabh Desai, Harish G. Ramaswamy Jan 13, 2021

As machine learning is set to change every aspect of our life, a key dilemma plagues the minds of researchers and its …

neural network black box deep learning

Deep learning in biomedical image analysis

Mahendra Khened, Avinash G Kori et al. Nov 17, 2020

Medical imaging, specifically radiologic imaging is the most commonly used diagnostic tool for disease diagnosis and …

Medical Imaging Radiologic Imaging Cardiac Disease Classification

Finding Influencers in Social Networks: Reinforcement Learning Shows the Way

B Ravindran, Harshavardhan P V et al. Sep 5, 2020

Social Network Analysis has given us many tools to effectively manage information dissemination in a social group, study …

AI Reinforcement Learning Social Network

How Europe’s AI convention balances innovation and human rights

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Synthetic Media and Deepfakes - Explained for All

AI in Indian Parliament - Budget Session 2025

Rethinking AI Literacy: Lessons from the AI Samarth Conclave

Making AI Self-Regulation Work in India

Unlocking AI's Potential in India

AI and the Future of Work in India

Announcements on AI in the 2025-26 Union Budget

Indian MPs are also curious about AI

AI in the Indian Parliament

Reflections on the UK RAI Sandpit

Responsible Computing: The Next Frontier

Global Governance of AI

An Overview of India's AI Policy Developments

Openness of Generative AI systems

Declaration for safe and inclusive AI at UN

Evaluating Deployability of LLMs

Nuances of Fairness in AI Models

Beyond the AI Advisory

Roundup: March 2024

LLM-based systems and Responsible AI

Planner+Reinforcement Learning: Best of both worlds

Can AI facilitate the digital financial inclusion of migrant workers ?

Probing patterning in microbial consortia with a cellular automaton for spatial organisation

Meet Resmi Suresh

Meet Prof. Vijay Tiwari

Meet Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru “PK”

Meet Malvika Sudhakar

Meet Dr Gokul S. Krishnan

Computational Social Sciences

An Early Warning System for Earthquake

Towards Personalized Cancer treatment

Deciphering Disease Mechanisms through Functional Genomics

A strategy to make networks more resilient to attacks

VEST: Vulnerability Exploitation Scoring & Timing

Meet Dr Harshad Khadilkar

Improving Sample Efficiency in Evolutionary RL using Off-policy Ranking

Scaling graph representation learning algorithms in an implementation agnostic fashion

Generating tailored multimodal fragments from documents and Videos

DailyDialog++ and DEB: A new dataset and new metric to make the evaluation of chatbots and dialogue systems better

Controllability of Functional Brain Networks

It takes two to tango — making bio-production more economical

CAMP: The perfect bacterial matchmaker

Accurate and Interpretable AI models: Towards Deployable AI

A new model that solves the charging woes of Electric vehicles

Meet Richa Verma

Meet Dr Shreya Goyal

Meet Anusha Kumar

Learning systems biology, the computational way

Meet Prof. Usha Mohan

Interpretable AI

Machine Learning for Robot Locomotion: Grounded Learning and Adaptive Parameter Learning

SUTRA: Predicting COVID-19 peaks

Mind the messenger: Analyzing the SARS-CoV-2 transcriptome

CombSGPO: A new algorithm to protect wildlife

Meet Dr. Arun Rajkumar

Meet Ananya B. Sai

Are DNA variants bugs or features?

Cybercrimes and crime against women increased while other crimes declined during the COVID-19 lockdown

A new framework to lend loans in a smarter way

The Heads Hypothesis: A Unifying Statistical Approach Towards Understanding Multi-Headed Attention in BERT

AI Powered Automatic Medical Coding of Electronic Health Records

Data Commons (The open knowledge Repository)

Meet Dr. Karthik Raman

Coffee shop banter: Symbolic or Deep Learning? Promising directions of AI

Meet Dr. Lelitha Devi

Meet Preksha Nema

Levelling up NLP for Indian Languages

Developing India-specific pregnancy dating model from Garbhini cohort

Meet Dr. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai

Fireside chat: with RBCDSAI Distinguished Fellow Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy

How COVID-19 impacts population movement: A data-driven analysis to study population behavior during a pandemic

Data Science and IoT for addressing ambient air sanctity

Predicting Essential Genes through Network Approach: Deciphering basis of Life

Ablation-CAM: Making AI trustworthy

Deep learning in biomedical image analysis

Finding Influencers in Social Networks: Reinforcement Learning Shows the Way

How Europe’s AI convention balances innovation and human rights

How COVID-19 impacts population movement: A data-driven analysis to study population behavior during a pandemic