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Impact
Our Impact
From peer-reviewed publications and deployed systems to student careers and public health — measuring the reach of our research.
By the Numbers
Deployed Systems
Research that has moved from the lab to real-world deployment.
BharatSim
BharatSim for National AIDS Control Organisation
Agent-based modelling platform deployed for epidemic simulation and policy planning at national scale.
CHART
PRISM
Physician Rules Integrated with Small LLMs — diagnostic support system for abdominal pain, integrating clinical rules with language models.
AI@Ashoka
Pressanalytics.in
Computational analysis platform for studying Indian media coverage patterns, framing, and representation.
AI@Ashoka
BOOP & SocraticAI
Formal methods tool and scaffolded LLM tutor deployed in introductory CS course at Ashoka University.
CHART
Indian Recipe Dialogue System
Conversational system for Indian food and nutrition queries with voice interaction and vernacular language support.
Makerspace
Covalent Magnetic Tweezers
Custom-built single-molecule force spectroscopy instrument — the only one of its kind in India.
Recognition
Awards & Recognition
CHART
INFUSE Promising Innovation Award
SmartDiet project recognized for promising innovation in food and nutrition technology at NIN/ICMR Hyderabad.
Read coverage →AI@Ashoka
Schmidt AI for Science Fellowship
Meghna Agarwala awarded the Schmidt AI for Science Fellowship at the University of Oxford for AI-driven pollen detection and biodiversity monitoring.
View profile →AI@Ashoka
India-AI Impact Summit Compendium
SocraticAI — an AI tutoring system for foundational CS education — selected as a case study in MeitY's Compendium on the Real-World Impact of AI in Education.
Read the compendium →AI@Ashoka
1st Place — NeurIPS 2023
Ragul N won 1st place in Track 2 (Differential Privacy) of the NeurIPS 2023 Privacy Preserving Federated Learning Document VQA competition.
Read the paper →CHART
AMR-Vivli Challenge Innovation Award
Shraddha Karve recognized for a novel approach to antibiogram analysis at the Vivli AMR Surveillance Open Data Re-Use Challenge 2023.
View winners →Makerspace
Cell Press Technology of the Month
The Covalent Magnetic Tweezers instrument — custom-built, unique in India — featured as Technology of the Month by Cell Press in Trends in Biochemical Sciences.
Read the feature →Cybersecurity
Best Paper Award — SPACE 2023
Post-Quantum Cryptography research recognized with the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptographic Engineering.
Read the paper →Makerspace
Meera Memorial — 3rd Place
Three undergraduate interns from the Table Top Experiments project won 3rd Place at the Meera Memorial Paper Reading Competition, St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
Student Trajectories
From the lab to the world stage.
Swapnanil Mukherjee
Published at EMNLP 2025 Findings — a top-tier A* conference — as a 4th-year undergraduate. Presented the paper in Suzhou, China.
Multi-Modal Food Computing
Simar Randhawa
Awarded the ANU Future Research Talent Award at Australian National University after undergraduate research training in glacier dynamics.
Table Top Experiments
Vaani Goenka
"BOOP: Write Right Code" — led development of a formal methods tool for CS education and authored the paper presented at ACM COMPUTE 2025.
CS Pedagogy
Drishana Kundu
Selected for GIST South Korea PhD program, University of Toronto, and Indian Academy of Sciences — chose GIST after lab training in experimental physics.
Table Top Experiments
Gautam Ahuja
From capstone thesis to NeurIPS 2025 — presented PRISM diagnostic AI system as a poster at the GenAI4Health Workshop in San Diego.
Folk Computing
Shreyansh Priyadarshi
Capstone thesis on single-molecule instrumentation led to a full-time role and first-authorship in Communications Biology (Nature portfolio).
Covalent Magnetic Tweezers
Vaanee Tripathi
"Accessibility Beyond Accommodations" — led research on redesigning CS courses for students with visual impairments. Published at ACM COMPUTE 2025.
CS Pedagogy
Arup Mondal
CS PhD researcher who co-authored three papers in a single year — NeuroCrypt (AAAI 2022), BEAS, and SCOTCH (both AAAI PPAI-22 Workshop) — advancing privacy-preserving AI and federated learning.
Cybersecurity
Chanda Grover
Co-authored "ContextCLIP: Contextual Alignment of Image-Text pairs on CLIP visual representations" — published at ACM ICVGIP 2022.
AI@Ashoka
Pranit Sinha
Research assistant on AI-powered biomarker discovery — went on to pursue an MS at McGill University, Canada.
Biomarker Discovery
Aarush Kumbhakern
Summer intern who continued into a semester-long research role — co-authored a short paper at ACM MMFood'25 Workshop on cooking procedure ontologies.
Multi-Modal Food Computing
Simar, Drishana & Bhavana
Three undergraduate interns won 3rd Place at the Meera Memorial Paper Reading Competition at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
Table Top Experiments
Ayush Thonge
Co-authored the SocraticAI case study in MeitY's India-AI Impact Summit Compendium — a government publication on AI in education.
CS Pedagogy
Hrsh Venket
Trained in satellite-based fire detection using GIS and ML — went on to present findings at a NASA-SARI meeting.
Fire Mapping
Gautam Ahuja
PRISM — Physician Rules Integrated with Small LLMs — co-authored at NeurIPS 2025 GenAI4Health Workshop after completing his CS capstone thesis.
Folk Computing
Swapnanil Mukherjee
Presented research on natural language knowledge integration for visual language models at EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China.
Multi-Modal Food Computing
Vaani Goenka
"Treating the Test-Case Myopia" — a framework for correctness-first CS education — accepted at ITiCSE 2026, to be presented in Spain.
CS Pedagogy
Ayush Thonge
"A Good Rubber Duck Does Not Quack" — designing Socratic scaffolding in AI tutors — accepted at ITiCSE 2026, to be presented in Spain.
CS Pedagogy
15+ Countries
Global Research Footprint
Research partners, conference presentations, student placements, and industry collaborations across 15+ countries.
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