Assistant Professor

B.E.: Delhi College of Engineering, 2011
Ph.D.: IIIT Delhi, 2017

Email: nipun.batra@iitgn.ac.in

Research Interests: Machine learning, air quality, energy

Prof Batra’s research work can be summarised as scalable sensing using machine learning. He has worked on various sustainability themes such as energy and air pollution. The main goal is to sense critically important information using the least number of sensors.

https://nipunbatra.github.io/group/

Social media handles 

Twitter: @nipun_batra 
LinkedIn: nipunbatra0

Publications

Journal papers:

Adhikary, Rishiraj; Patel, Zeel B.; Srivastava, Tanmay; Batra, Nipun; Singh, Mayank; Bhatia, Udit and Guttikunda, Sarath, “Vartalaap: what drives #airquality discussions: politics, pollution or pseudo-science?”, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, DOI: 10.1145/3449170, vol. 5, Apr. 2021.

Papers presented at conference:

Shastri, Hetvi and Batra, Nipun, “Neural network approaches and dataset parser for NILM toolkit”, BuildSys’21: Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, Coimbra, PT, Nov. 17-18, 2021.

Kukunuri, Rithwik; Aglawe, Anup; Chauhan, Jainish; Bhagtani, Kratika; Patil, Rohan; Walia, Sumit and Batra, Nipun, “EdgeNILM: towards NILM on edge devices”, Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, pp. 90-99, 2020.

Adhikary, Rishiraj and Batra, Nipun, “Computational tools for understanding air pollution”, in the UbiComp-ISWC ’20: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, New York, US, Sep. 12-17, 2020.

Adhikary, Rishiraj and Batra, Nipun, “Do we breathe the same air?”, in the UbiComp-ISWC ’20: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, New York, US, Sep. 12-17, 2020.

Adhikary, Rishiraj; Srivastava, Tanmay; Khanna, Prerna; Senapati, Aabhas Asit and Batra, Nipun, “Naqaab: towards health sensing and persuasion via masks”, in the UbiComp-ISWC ’20: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, New York, US, Sep. 12-17, 2020.

Batra, N., Kukunuri, R., Pandey, A., Malakar, R., Kumar, R., Krystalakos, O., Zhong, M., Meira, P., Parson, O., “Towards reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation”, in the ACM BuildSys 2019 Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities and Transportation, Columbia University, New York, US, pp. 193-202, https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360844, Nov. 13-14, 2019.

Jia, Y., Batra, N., Wang, H., “Active collaborative sensing for energy breakdown”, in the Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management – CIKM ‘19, Beijing, CN, pp. 1943-1952, https://doi.org/10.1145/3357384.3357929, Nov. 03-07, 2019.

Jia, Y., Batra, N., Wang, H., Whitehouse, K., “A tree-structured neural network model for household energy breakdown”, in the World Wide Web Conference (WWW conference), San Francisco, US, pp. 2872-2878, https://doi.org/10.1145/3308558.3313405, May 13-17, 2019.

Projects

AI and sensor networks for air-quality monitoring; Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Impact of air pollution on Covid-related secondary exacerbations; Google

Edge non-intrusive load monitoring; CISCO

Developing techniques for scalable energy disaggregation; Jio Platforms Ltd

Scalable sensing and analytics for sustainability; IIT Gandhinagar