February 16, 2025: Participate in the first technical meeting of the project LODESTAR (Low-cost Disaster & Emergency Services for Communities At Risk), held at IISc Bengaluru from February 14–15, 2025. This project is jointly funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the Government of India, and the Dutch Research Council (NWO Merian Fund).
February 2, 2025: Shared my opinion on the future of jobs in the era of AI at the Assam Tribune newspaper. Here is the elink.
January 21, 2025: Participated in a Panel Discussion on "Technology for Healthcare: Uniting for a Humanitarian Purpose" during the PanIIT World of Technology (PIWOT) Conference 2025.
January 11, 2025: In this article, I discussed how generation gaps in the workspace can be reduced using AI tools and techniques.
January 11, 2025: Delivered a Hands-on Workshop on Building Academic Webpage with GitHub organized by Students' Academic Board (SAB), IIT Guwahati.
2024:
December 21, 2024: Participated as a resource person at the Assam Administrative Staff College, Khanapara, Guwahati for a training session for the Assam Civil Service (ACS) officers on the "Use of AI Tools in Creating Presentations".
November 22, 2024: Delivered a talk on "Generative AI in NLP and Computer Vision" in “Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Program” organized by the School of Energy Science and Engineering in collaboration in collaboration with the Technology Innovation Hub, IIT Guwahati (IITG TI&DF).
November 20, 2024: Delivered an online talk on "Generative AI for Healthcare" to the members of the IEEE CIS Uttar Pradesh Section Chapter (CIS'11).
November 18, 2024: Participated as a Keynote Speaker to deliver a talk on "Deep Learning in Resource-Constrained Devices" in a seminar on Implementing AI Solutions in Agriculture: Navigating Challenges and Harnessing Opportunities for Viksit Bharat@2047 on 18th November 2024 at IIT Guwahati organized by the School of Business, IIT Guwahati.
November 16, 2024: Participated as a Special Guest in a Virtual Studio-Based live special session organized by Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan for Government School children (around 1 Lakh) in Assam.
November 14, 2024: Participated in an interactive session with the inaugural group of school students (mentees) hailing from Dhubri, Karbi Anglong, and Dibrugarh districts and visiting the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati as part of the AROHAN scheme initiated by the Government of Assam.
October 29, 2024: Participated as a resource person at the Assam Administrative Staff College, Khanapara, Guwahati for a training session for the Assam Civil Service (ACS) officers. I had the opportunity to conduct an engaging session on the ‘Use of AI Tools in Creating Presentations’ with a dynamic group of participants.
October 24, 2024: Participated as a Guest Speaker at our World Standards Day (WSD) 2024 celebrations, scheduled for October 24, 2024, at Radisson Blu, Guwahati. This year’s theme, ‘Shared Vision for a Better World: SDG 9 - Achieving Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure through AI,’ highlights the critical role standards play in enhancing quality, safety, and innovation.
October 15, 2024: Participated as a Keynote Speaker in the Yuba Samaroh organized on the occasion of Zila Diwas of Morigaon District on October 15, 2024. It was an interactive program with students above Class 9 to the College level. Around 500 students from different parts of the district attended the program.
October 8, 2024: Participated as a jury member in the State Level Students’ Science Seminar on "Artificial Intelligence: Potentials & Concerns," organized by the National Science Centre, Guwahati (a unit of the National Council of Science Museums) under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in collaboration with the Assam Science Technology and Environment Council, Government of Assam.
October 6, 2024: Delivered a talk on "AI-based Human Pose Estimation and its Applications in Healthcare" as a resource person at AIIMS Guwahati during IAPMR National Mid-term CME 2024.
September 15, 2024: Joined as a Keynote Speaker in the event organized in the celebration of National Engineer's Day by Institution of Engineers (India), Assam State Centre.
August 29, 2024: Joined as a Chief Guest at the valedictory function of the 35th Regional Level National Youth Parliament, 2024, hosted by Kendriya Vidyalaya llT Guwahati.
August 17, 2024: Delivered a Session on Artificial Intelligence for High School Students at Cotton Collegiate Govt. H.S. School at Guwahati.
August 10, 2024: Delivered a talk on Computer Vision and its Applications in a Hands-on workshop on Computer Vision organized in Research and Industrial Conclave 2024 held at IIT Guwahati.
July 30, 2024: Delivered a talk on "AI and Healthcare" at Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Assam as a part of their monthly motivational talk series.
July 27, 2024: Participated as a resource person and delivered a talk on "Transformers and NLP" at the recent workshop titled “Unveiling Assamese: A Journey through Language Processing” at Assam Don Bosco University.
June 15, 2024: The paper "Multimodal Vision-based Hand Rehabilitation and Performance Visualization" accepted at Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP) 2024!
June 6, 2024: Delivered an online Guest Lecture on “Ethics in AI and Data Science” at Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan.
May 10, 2024: Delivered a lecture on "AI and Healthcare" at a one-day National Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence: Education and Healthcare Perspectives" organised by the Department of Computer Science, K.C Das Commerce College, Guwahati.
April 6, 2024: Presented a talk titled “Exploring Generative AI with GAN and Diffusion Models” as a resource person at the symposium on “Generative AI for Electronics and Communication Engineering,” which was organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University.
March 25, 2024: Three papers got accepted at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024), Singapore!
March 8, 2024: Delivered a talk on "Generative AI and its Application" in a Five-Day Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science: The Future of Technology organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, at Tezpur University.
Feb 16, 2024: Our work "Graph Neural Network Assisted Gauss Quadrature for Isogeometric Analysis" accepted for oral presentation at the MadeAI Conference 2024 to be held in Porto, Portugal.
Feb 6-10, 2024: Participated as a resource person at the Workshop on Research Design held at Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, from 06 – 10 February 2024.
Jan 15, 2024: The NWO’s Merian Fund India has approved €1.75 million (4 Cr. for IITG) in funding for the research project (my role as Co-PI), "Lodestar" (Low-cost Disaster & Emergency Services for Communities at Risk).
Jan 12, 2024: A paper got accepted at Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (Impact Factor: 9.2)!
2023:
December 22, 2023: Delivered a lecture on 'Image Processing and CNN' at the 'Professional Development Workshop' organized by MFSDS&AI,IIT Guwahati for the Royal University of Bhutan delegates.
December 1, 2023: In this article on Indian Express I shared why IIT aspirants should look beyond placement packages.
November 24, 2023: Delivered an invited talk at International Conference on Next-Gen Preparedness for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability, Nov 22-24, 2023, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, on "Efficient Inferencing in Resource Constrained Devices" focused on agricultural applications.
November 9, 2023: Conducted an 3 hour hands-on session for the students of Royal Global University, Assam, on the topic of Image Processing using Python.
September 8, 2023: Participated in an interactive session with the inaugural group of school students (mentees) hailing from Nagaon and Hojai districts and visiting Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati as part of the AROHAN scheme initiated by the Government of Assam.
September 2, 2023: Delivered an expert talk at a Skill Development Inaugural program organized by iHUB DivyaSampark, Technology Innovation Hub (A joint initiative of DST Govt. of India and IIT Roorkee) and District Administration Purnia, focused on "Emerging Technology (Cyber Physical System)" at the Art Gallery Auditorium in Purnea, Bihar.
August 26, 2023: Delivered a talk on the topic "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" as a Resource Person in the Regional Workshop organized by CPMS College of Nursing on the theme "Imbibe Artificial Intelligence to Empower Nursing Profession for Future Challenges".
July 31, 2023: A conference paper "Application of artificial neural network in impact and crashworthiness: a review" got accepted at the 2nd International Conference on Modern Research in Aerospace Engineering.
July 24, 2023: A Journal Paper got accepted at Expert Systems with Applications (Impact Factor: 8.5 (2023))!
July 6, 2023: Delivered a talk at York University, Canada on the topic "Generative AI and Biomedical Imaging".
June 26, 2023: Featured in Forbes India and shared my comments on Artificial Intelligence And Its Impact On Education.
June 24, 2023: Joined as a member of Super 20: An initiative by Kamrup District Administration and IIT Guwahati to train 20 students from Govt. Schools of the Kamrup district.
June 2, 2023: Appointed as the Programme Coordinator of the NSS (National Service Scheme) Cell, IIT Guwahati.
May 21, 2023: A paper got accepted at IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Impact Factor: 5.6 (2023))!
May 15, 2023: Featured in News18 and shared my comments on Artificial Intelligence And Its Impact On Jobs.
May 11, 2023: Awarded Young Scientist Award 2023 by Assam Science Technology and Environment Council under Science, Technology and Climate Change Department, Government of Assam
April 16, 2023: Featured in LiveMint and shared our ongoing work in Generative AI.
April 14, 2023: Featured in EdexLive where I shared my views on ChatGPT.
April 12, 2023: Featured in Business Standard and shared my views on the impact of ChatGPT on Job Market.
April 4, 2023: Delivered a talk as a Chief Guest for the inauguration ceremony of a New Building of Little Flowers' School, Nalbari that took place at J.B. Complex, College Road, Nalbari at 11 AM on 4th April 2023.
March 6, 2023: Delivered an expert lecture on "Introduction to Generative Models" at G.H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra. Visited GHRCE satellite ground station.
March 4, 2023: Conducted a session on "Image Processing and AI" as a part of a Refresher Course on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics, being organized by the HRDC, Gauhati University.
March 2, 2023: Delivered a talk on "CNN: Basics and Applications" as a part of a Short Term Course (STC) on "Foundations of Machine Learning and Deep Learning and applications" held at the department of ECE, Gauhati University.
February 26, 2023: A paper got accepted at IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence!
February 24, 2023: Delivered a talk on "Generative Adversarial Networks and Applications" on February 24, 2023 as a part of the Faculty Development Programme on “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things towards Engineering Applications” from 20 -25 February under the AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) scheme organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Arunachal Pradesh, India.
February 21, 2023: Featured in Education Times and shared my views on ChatGPT.
January 25, 2023: Delivered a talk on "Retinal Vessel Segmentation using Generative Adversarial Networks" in the DS&AI Reading Group of MFSDS&AI, IITG.
January 11, 2023: Deivered a talk on "Introduction to Extended Reality (XR) Applications" during campus immersion of IIT Guwahati professional program on AI and DL.
January 6, 2023: Participated as a panelist on the India Today show Newstrack with Rahul Kanwal, where we had a discussion about ChatGPT.
2022:
December 28, 2022: Featured in NDTV article and shared my views on Generative AI.
December 20, 2022: Delivered a talk on "Efficient Inference on FPGAs using Low-Precision AI Models" on December 20th, 2022 (Tuesday) in the School of Engineering, Tezpur University as a part of a workshop titled “Two Days Workshop on Embedded Machine Learning on System-on-Chip (SoC)” in association with IIT Guwahati, IIT Mandi and CoreEL Technologies, Bangalore on 20th and 21st of Dec, 2022.
September 28, 2022: Delivered a talk on "Fundamentals and applications of Generative Adversarial Network" in the Skill Development Inaugural cum Faculty Development Program (FDP) in "Emerging Technology (Cyber Physical System)" organized by iHUB DivyaSampark at IIT Roorkee in association with the Department of Science and Technology(DST) Bihar for the faculties of Computer Science and Information Technology of Government Engineering Colleges from 27th to 28th September 2022 at Patna, Bihar.
September 24, 2022: Featured in ComputerWeekly and shared my view on the future of AI in India.
September 21, 2022: Appointed as an Associate Faculty in the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati.
September 14, 2022: The journal paper "A conceptual framework for the development of Chatbots addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy" accepted.
September 14, 2022: Delivered two lectures on "Convolutional Neural Networks - Introduction" and "Popular CNN Architectures and Applications" at High End Workshop on Fundamentals of Deep Learning jointly organized by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Research for Resurgence Foundation, Nagpur.
September 13, 2022: Addressed New Batch of UG Students (through IIT JEE Advanced, 2022) for the Open House 2022 as an alumni of IITG (B.Tech. 2011, ECE).
September 8, 2022: SERB Startup Research Grant approved on "Development of an Artificial Intelligence(AI) Model to Measure and Analyse the Tissue Movements in the Eye Region for Healthcare Applications".
September 6, 2022: Delivered the Orientation Talk to National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers at IITG.
August 23, 2022: The journal paper "Retinal Vessel Segmentation using Multi-scale Residual Convolutional Neural Network (MSR-Net) Combined with Generative Adversarial Networks" accepted at the journal - Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (Springer).
August 6, 2022: Delivered a talk as a guest speaker at the orientation event of SAIL (Student Alumni Interaction Linkage Cell), IIT Guwahati
July 22, 2022: Joined as a panelist on the theme discussion, ‘Career in Computer Science- AI, Data Science, Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking’ organized by Advancing North East (www.advancingnortheast.in) - a digital initiative of the North Eastern Council (NEC), Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region(M-DoNER) and North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi).
June 7, 2022: Joined as a panelist in News18 for a panel discussion on the results of Assam's High School Leaving Certificate Examination.
June 2-6, 2022: Delivered 3 lectures and 3 lab sessions in a short-term training course titled "Introduction to Virtual Reality" as a part of a grant project being implemented by the DPA Division of the Ministry of External Affairs and CDAC.
April 2, 2022: Delivered a talk focusing on "Application of Big Data and Data Analytics in the power utilities for overcoming industry challenges through the insights-based informed decision making and enhancing consumer experience" as a Guest of Honour at Computer Science Engineers' Association of Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (CSEAA)'s 3rd Annual General Meet.
February 21, 2022: Delivered a talk on "Wearables and IoT" at Winter FDP on IoT & Applications (Smart Systems) held at IIT Guwahati.
February 19, 2022: Delivered a keynote speech as a Guest Speaker on "Augmented Reality and AI: Hype vs. Reality" at GDSC MPSTME AI Summit.
January, 2022: One paper accepted at WiSPNET 2022.
January 16, 2022: Joined as a panelist in News18 for a panel discussion on lower success rate of students from North East India in getting into IITs and IIMs.
January 9, 2022: Joined as a panelist in News18 for a panel discussion on the future of Assamese language in higher education.
January 3-8, 2022: Delivered 2 lectures and 1 hands-on Matlab coding session in the lecture series on Machine Learning Application in Signal Processing and Communication Engineering under Winter Joint Faculty Development Programmes 2021-2022.
November 29, 2021: Delivered a talk as a Guest Speaker on "Cyber Crime and Artificial Intelligence" on the occasion of IW Awareness Week at Air Force Station Digaru.
October 8, 2021: Delivered a talk on "Technical Talk on Applications of AI in Defense Technology and Object Tracking" on the occasion of IEEE Day
at ITR Chandipur, DRDO in Collaboration of IEEE Communications and Computer Joint Societies Chapter.
September 22, 2021: Joined as a Panelist in panel discussion focusing on "Career Opportunities in Robotics, Automation, and Related Areas" in
2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA)" organized by IIT Goa.