- IRCC impactful research award 2023 for ‘The Udaan Project ecosystem for Data-Efficient and Scalable End to end Document Machine Translation'
- Included in the AIM 100: Top 100 Most Influential Global Leaders in the AI domain in 2024
- National Award for eGovernance (Gold Award) in 2022 under the Category 'Outstanding research on Citizen Centric Services by Academic/Research Institution' for Video Analytics for Security and Compliance Applications
- Institute Chair Professorship 2021-2024
- Dr. P.K. Patwardhan Technology Development Award 2020 for Video Analytics for Security and Compliance Applications
- IRCC impactful research award 2017 for ‘Development of an adaptive framework for end-to-end corrections in Indic OCR
- J.R. Isaac Chair 2014-2016
- IBM Faculty Award 2011
- Amazon Research Award on Fairness for AI, July 2022 (Main PI: Preethi Jyothi)
- Computerworld Horizon Awards 2006 Honoree
- Department Award for Excellence in Teaching 2023
Research Experience
- Bank of Baroda Chair Professor in Digital Entrepreneurship (starting 28th May, 2024 for a period of 3 years)
- Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
- Professor-in-Charge, Koita Centre for Digital Health
- Co-PI for the National Disease Modelling Consortium (NDMC)
- Formerly Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Lab
Background
Research interests include digital health, video analytics, and data-efficient machine learning. Specializes in Computer Science and Engineering.
Miscellany
BharatGen project: World's first government-funded Multimodal Large Language Model project focused on creating efficient and inclusive AI in Indian languages.
Udaan project: An Indian Language End-to-End Translation Ecosystem for Breaking the Language Barrier in Education.
DECILE project: Data efficient Machine Learning, aiming to reduce training time and cost while maintaining accuracy.