Centre for Networked Intelligence

Dear All, Networks Seminar, supported by the Centre for Networked Intelligence, is a technical discussion forum in topics including but not limited to computer networks, machine learning, signal processing, and information theory. The seminar series has a webpage hosted at https://cni.iisc.ac.in/seminars/. You are invited to the following seminar held as part of this series. Title: Creating Datasets for Environmental Sustainability Problem in Developing Countries Speaker: Prof. Rijurekha Sen, Associate Professor, IIT Delhi. Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (IST) Date: 23 March 2026 Venue: Online on Zoom Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83388976389?pwd=XcpO3GhLxsR14a7SVbPx33HQQa1jbt.1 Zoom Meeting ID: 833 8897 6389, Pass Code: NSSIISc YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedPFwPLaic<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedPFwPLaic> Webpage Link: https://cni.iisc.ac.in/seminars/2026-03-23/ <https://cni.iisc.ac.in/seminars/2026-03-23/> Abstract: Data analytics, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence etc. are words dominating our research and industry discourses these days. We believe that if we had enough data, to understand our biggest problems like air pollution or climate change, we would be able to better tackle these menaces. However, creating the necessary environmental datasets in developing countries is hard. Delhi-NCR, for example, covers 55K square KMs, but has only 35 air quality monitoring stations, even with the whole world's attention focussed on this city's pollution problems. Measurement infrastructure in other parts of the country is worse. Budget constraints, lack of domestic instrument production increasing procurement and maintenance costs from foreign countries, lack of broadband network so that deployed sensors can easily send data from the field to remote servers for processing --- all play a role in this data paucity problem. In this talk, I'll discuss my group's work on embedded systems/edge computing/IoT (same thing, different names), to augment this data generation process for sustainability problems in developing countries. I'll use two examples of air pollution monitoring using Delhi public buses and traffic monitoring on Delhi Ring Road intersections. The talk will touch upon the low level sensing and embedded processing pipeline including embedded deep neural networks, software verification and remote attestation methods to ensure device security, privacy issues with the collected data data when different industry partners are involved, and AI/ML on the aggregated datasets for urban policy analysis like odd-even traffic rule. Bio: Rijurekha Sen is an Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi. Before joining IITD, she was Humboldt post-doctoral researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems. She works in the area of cyber-physical systems and uses inter-disciplinary Computer Science methods for applications at the intersection of information technology and society. She completed her PhD at IIT Bombay in 2013, and worked as a research fellow in SMU Livelabs 2013-2014. Her dissertation on automated road traffic monitoring in developing regions was awarded the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2014. More details: http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~rijurekha ALL ARE WELCOME. Thank you, CNI Seminar Series Organizing Committee.

Dear all, As decided during our earlier meeting, I am blocking the calendar for the proposed half-day workshop to discuss possible collaboration topics. Here is the tentative agenda: 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Presentations from Google team (Vasumathy, Hari, Vikas, Atit?) 10:00 am - 11:20 am | Presentations from IISc faculty (Vinod, Yogesh, Parimal, Arpita?) 11:20 am - 11:40 am | Refreshments break 11:40 am onwards | brainstorming on the next steps. With regards, -preetam