Pioneering Artificial Intelligence at Ashoka University
Where rigorous science meets real-world deployment. 25+ active research programmes across AI, public health, cybersecurity, and digital fabrication.
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Agent-based simulation of a potential H5N1 avian influenza spillover into human populations, modelling interventions including bird-culling, quarantines, and vaccination across realistic contact networks.
A neural multi-task learning framework that predicts ten cancer hallmarks simultaneously from gene expression data. Trained on 941 tumors across 14 tissue types and validated on five independent datasets.
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Promising Innovation Award at NIN/ICMR's INFUSE Innovation Summit 2025. An AI-powered nutritional guidance platform built on the Food Knowledge Graph for India.
Dr Meghna Agarwala selected for a 3-year fellowship at Oxford, using AI to analyse fossil pollen, charcoal, and paleo-proxies to reveal how climate, fire, and human activity have shaped South Asia's ecosystems.
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An interactive analytics platform for Press Council of India complaints spanning 1990 to 2023. The first national-level tool for data visualization and network analysis of Indian press adjudication records.
A generative-AI tutoring system for introductory computer science that functions as a scaffolded learning partner, not an answer generator. Featured as a case study in the India AI Impact Summit 2026 Compendium on the Real-World Impact of AI in Education.
Defining the frontier of academic excellence through a multi-disciplinary approach to computational intelligence and societal impact.
Advancing artificial intelligence research across education, health, environment, humanities, and fundamental sciences.
India-scale agent-based simulation framework for epidemiological modelling and public health policy planning.
Centre for Health Analytics Research and Trends — clinical AI, food computing, and cancer diagnostics.
Post-quantum cryptography research to develop encryption systems resilient against quantum computing threats.
Digital fabrication, maker education, and hands-on innovation powering interdisciplinary research and student projects.