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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

Nov 18

Lecture on “Semantics Enabled Framework for Mining Large Remote Sensing Data Archives” at Space Applications Centre(SAC), ISRO , Ahmedabad

An Invited Lecture on “Semantics Enabled Framework for Mining Large Remote Sensing Data Archives” by Dr. Surya Durbha, Associate Professor, CSRE, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai was organised by ISG-AC during November 10, 2017 at Space Applications Centre, ISRO and it was well received by ISG members and scientists at SAC. It was attended by around 80 participants.