Category: presentation

3MT 2022
Jul 24

Our Ph.D. Student receives “IEEE GRSS Excellence in Technical Communication Student Prize Award” at the IGARSS 2022

Our Ph.D. Student – Rajat Shinde received the “IEEE GRSS Excellence in Technical Communication Student Prize Award” – Third Place in the IEEE-GRSS 3MT competition. 3MT competition got recognition due to its unique structure where the participants must present their thesis in under 3 minutes. This competition was organized during the International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2022) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rajat presented a part of his Ph.D. thesis under the title – “Why Scan more!” covering the Neural Sparse Modeling Read more

TechTalkIMPACT
Jul 19

Invited Tech-Talk by Prof. Durbha at NASA IMPACT

Prof. Surya S Durbha, our group leader was invited to present expert insights at the NASA IMPACT Tech Talks. Prof. Durbha delivered the talk on the topic – “Five Geo-Computational Challenges for Rapid Assessment of Post-Disaster Areas Using Earth Observation (EO) Data“. More information on the NASA IMPACT can be found here. The talk covered expert insights on highlighting the five important challenges in rapid post-disaster assessment and possible solutions to address them. The quick estimation of area and amount of Read more

Nov 03

Invited Keynote Speaker: IoT Innovation for Smart India

Dr. Surya S Durbha, our group leader was invited to be a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Smart Innovations in Design, Environment, Management, Planning and Computing. Dr. Durbha delivered the keynote on “IoT Innovation for Smart India”. The conference was organized by MGM’s Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India on 30-31 October 2020. More information on the conference can be found here. The conference sponsored by IEEE, Computer Society of India(CSI) and the Institution of Engineers(India) was Read more

Dec 15

Media Coverage at TechFest 2018 for Pothole Mapper

Ongoing research on mapping and monitoring of potholes presented at the TechFest 2018, IIT Bombay was covered by numerous print and video news media outlets. The primary objective of this research is to develop a Location Based Service(LBS) using Smartphone based Crowd-Sourcing application for: mapping and monitoring of potholes and pothole-free routing. Midday – A popular English newspaper covered the Pothole Mapper application in an article(https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-iit-bs-annual-tech-fest-to-display-human-like-robots-solar-powered-chai-stall-and-more/402059). Below is an excerpt from Lokmat – a local Marathi newspaper covering the exhibit. Read more