1st Prize
Sylithe
Thakur College of Engineering
AI Carbon Credit Verification — using satellite imagery, LiDAR, and machine learning for forest carbon credit validation.
News & Events
What's Happening
Hackathons, workshops, talks, and milestones from across the Lab.
Flagship Event
RedBrick Hacks III
A national student hackathon — February 6–8, 2026, Ashoka University
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Challenge Tracks
RedBrick Hacks is the Lab's annual student hackathon, bringing together students from across India to build solutions for real-world challenges. The third edition featured four challenge tracks: Quality Education, Climate Action, Sustainable Cities, and Hardware.
After a month-long online submission phase, 60 finalists were invited to Ashoka University for 48 hours of building, mentoring, and pitching. Notable guests included Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti (former Director, IIT Kharagpur) and Kailash Nadh (CTO, Zerodha).
1,300+ total applications across all three editions of RedBrick Hacks.
Winning & Recognized Projects
Runner-up
SheSafe
Women's safety platform providing access to safety resources and sanitation facilities.
2nd Runner-up
SignLearn
Access Builders
Sign language learning tool, built by a first-year Ashoka student who is mute and hearing-impaired.
Outstanding Project
Spare
IIIT-D, DTU, Srishti Manipal
Food rescue marketplace with functional iOS app and merchant dashboard. Team connected with investors post-hackathon.
Outstanding Award
ShistoDx
Field-deployable schistosomiasis detection using ML on planktoscope.
Hardware Recognition
Tap-Box & HarvesSink
Refreshable Braille display device and greywater quality monitoring system. Both teams recognized for outstanding hardware innovation.
Events & Workshops
Mar 21–22, 2026
WiCSCon 3.0: Designing Tomorrow, Today
Ashoka University
India's first student-led conference on inclusivity and diversity in CS. 440 sign-ups, 50+ external participants, speakers from Microsoft AI, Evolve AI, Neysa AI, Space Kidz India, and more. Three competitive tracks: HackHERthon, Mini-MUN, and AI Policy Competition.
Mar 21, 2026
ACM COMPUTE 2026 Regional Workshop
Ashoka University
Discussion forum on CS education themes and two hands-on workshops with 10–12 participants each. Organised by Prof. Aalok Thakkar with Prajish Prasad (FLAME University).
Mar 2026
Two Papers Accepted at ITiCSE
To be presented in Spain, July 2026
Two papers from the AI Pedagogy / BOOP project accepted at ITiCSE. Students Ayush Thonge and Vaani Goenka will present.
Feb 17, 2026
India-AI Impact Summit
Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
SocraticAI — an AI tutoring system for foundational CS education — featured as a case study in MeitY's Compendium on the Real-World Impact of AI in Education.
AI@AshokaFeb 7, 2026
AI & Academic Integrity Workshop
Ashoka University (Online)
34 attendees explored the intersection of AI tools and academic writing integrity.
AI@AshokaFeb 6–8, 2026
RedBrick Hacks III
Ashoka University
430+ applicants from 91+ universities across 23 states. 57 finalists competed across four SDG-aligned challenge tracks over 48 hours.
Dec 24, 2025
JUST-NLP Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
Mumbai, India
Paper presented on "LLM Driven Legal Text Analytics: A Case Study For Food Safety Violation Cases" at the Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice.
CHARTDec 7–9, 2025
ACM COMPUTE 2025
IIT Ropar
Four papers accepted on formal methods tools, scaffolded AI tutoring, and accessibility in computer science education.
AI@AshokaDec 6, 2025
GenAI4Health Workshop at NeurIPS
San Diego, USA
PRISM paper presented — Physician Rules Integrated with Small LLMs for probable diagnoses associated with abdominal pain.
CHARTDec 4–5, 2025
INFUSE Innovation Summit 2025
National Institute of Nutrition, ICMR, Hyderabad
SmartDiet India received the Promising Innovation Award for its unified digital framework for dietary data and precision nutrition.
CHARTNov 19, 2025
AI Integration in Education Panel
O.P. Jindal Global University
Panelist at "AI Integration in Education: Transforming Teaching, Learning and Assessment" during the 3-day Pedagogy and Research Workshop.
AI@AshokaNov 5–9, 2025
EMNLP 2025
Suzhou, China
NLP research paper accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2025, an A*-ranked conference in natural language processing.
CHARTNov 3–5, 2025
Wellcome Trust Workshop on Ethics of Prediction for Health
Wellcome Trust, London
BharatSim team participated in discussions on the ethics of prediction for health as invited participants.
BharatSimOct 31, 2025
Halloween Community Event
Ashoka University
1,000+ participants. Co-organized with the Ashoka University student Cultural Ministry using Makerspace resources.
MakerspaceOct 28, 2025
ACM MMFood'25 at ACM Multimedia
Dublin, Ireland
Three papers presented on food knowledge graphs, cooking procedure ontologies, and indigenous Indian food datasets.
CHARTOct 1, 2025
WHO-SEARO Responsible AI in Healthcare Webinar
Online
BharatSim team participated as panelists on "From Collection to Care: Ensuring Fair and Accountable Health Data Governance."
BharatSimSep 23, 2025
Kailash Nadh — "Tinker, Thinker, Maker, Mover"
Ashoka University
Talk by the CTO of Zerodha on the culture of making and building.
MakerspaceSep 19, 2025
Tote-Bag Design Workshop
Ashoka University
Custom tote-bag design workshop organized by the Makerspace, open to all students.
MakerspaceSep 17, 2025
McGill University Convergent Innovation Webinar
Online (McGill University, Canada)
Invited talk on "AI and Cultural Food, Diet and Recipes: The Case of India" in the Farm, Food and Diet series.
CHARTAug 25–29, 2025
ACM ASIACCS 2025
Hanoi, Vietnam
Paper on "Quantum-safe Signatureless DNSSEC" presented at the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
CybersecurityAug 16–22, 2025
Orientation Week
Ashoka University
Makerspace showcased live 3D printing, rapid builds, and projection mapping for incoming first-year students.
MakerspaceJul 16–18, 2025
RASOI Data Challenge at NCVPRIPG 2025
IIT Jammu / NIT Srinagar
Organized the RASOI data challenge on recognition and segmentation of Indian thali using AI. Datasets curated from Ashoka food images and published on Kaggle.
CHARTJul 5, 2025
Citizen Science Expo — "The Power of People in Science"
IISER Pune
TNBC project's breast cancer awareness poster received active engagement from the general public, organized by Pune Knowledge Cluster.
CHARTJun 22–27, 2025
HCII 2025 (HCI International)
Gothenburg, Sweden
Poster presentation of "Dots: Refreshable Tactile Dot Grid" — an affordable alternative to commercial refreshable displays.
MakerspaceJun 16–19, 2025
EACR 2025 Conference
Lisbon, Portugal
TNBC research presented at the European Association for Cancer Research 2025 conference.
CHARTIn the Media
Coverage of Lab research by national and international outlets.
BharatSim — H5N1 Study
20+ International Outlets
Research on potential H5N1 zoonotic spillover in India covered by BBC, CNBC-TV18, NDTV, Nature India, Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun, Yahoo News, and others.
Cancer (ACSCEND & OncoMark)
Nature Portfolio Publication
OncoMark AI framework for cancer hallmark quantification published in Communications Biology. Covered by India New England News, Medical Buyer, The Tribune, and more.
CS Pedagogy
Government Recognition
SocraticAI featured as a case study in MeitY's Compendium on the Real-World Impact of AI in Education, launched at the India-AI Impact Summit, Bharat Mandapam.