25+ projects across five pillars — from AI-driven drug discovery and India-scale epidemic modelling to post-quantum cryptography and digital fabrication.
Debayan Gupta & Shubhasis Haldar
OncoMark framework published in Communications Biology (Nature portfolio) — first tool to predict all 10 cancer hallmarks concurrently, with high accuracy across multiple cancer types and independent validation cohorts.
Sourav Chatterjee & Rintu Kutum
Screened millions of molecules using ensemble ML and identified promising compounds as potential dengue NS3 protease inhibitors. A lead compound demonstrated significant viral inhibition in experimental validation with IISER Kolkata.
Imroze Khan
Discovering antimicrobial peptides from archaic hominin genomes — identified ~10,000 AMPs from 11 lineages including Neanderthal and Denisovan. 178 peptides validated via molecular dynamics, 4 synthesized for in-vitro screening against multidrug-resistant pathogens.
Kasturi Mitra
Using AI and cancer cell biology to predict mitochondrial redox function from structural features. Machine learning models demonstrated strong predictive performance across experimental groups, with a meta-learning approach generalizing effectively to unseen data.
Kritika Garg & Balaji Chattopadhyay
ML pipeline for inferring demographic history from genetic data. Validated on real-world Siamese crocodile genetic data, successfully predicting a documented population bottleneck.
Rama Akondy
AI tools for acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis from flow cytometry data. Validated on public datasets with strong classification performance across patient cohorts.
Madhavi Maganti
Screening infant neurodevelopmental risk using AI analysis of gaze patterns at Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi. Hundreds of infants assessed using a structured clinical framework by neonatologists, with ML-based age classification models developed.
Vidya Avasare
AI-accelerated discovery of Covalent Organic Frameworks for carbon dioxide capture. Large-scale computational screening pipeline developed with hundreds of optimized structures and a curated experimental database.
Meghna Agarwala
High-resolution AI models for fire detection using satellite imagery. 35 students trained on GIS, remote sensing, and ML. Presented at NASA-SARI meeting. Wall-to-wall fire product code finalized for Central India.
Meghna Agarwala
AI-powered pollen identification for paleo-ecology. Pollen library calibrated for 12 taxa with 40+ species from Satpura Tiger Reserve. Robotic microscope attachment developed with Digital Makerspace. PI awarded Schmidt AI for Science Fellowship at Oxford.
Bittu Kaveri Rajaraman
Automating biodiversity assessment through acoustic monitoring of ground insect species in Assam. ~120 hours of audio data collected over 55+ recording days in Bihpuria, North Lakhimpur District.
Aalok Thakkar
BOOP (VS Code extension for formal methods) and SocraticAI (guardrailed LLM for scaffolded learning) deployed across 2 semesters at Ashoka. 4 papers at ACM COMPUTE 2025. SocraticAI featured as a case study in MeitY's Compendium on the Real-World Impact of AI in Education.
Neerav Dwivedi, Sampurna Dutta & Archishman Sarker
Assessed AI tools for argumentation in academic writing through a controlled experiment with 26 participants across 5 disciplines. Report launched February 2026 with an AI & Academic Integrity Workshop (34 attendees).
Anirban Sen & Debayan Gupta
Two live systems for media monitoring: a News Adjudication Monitor dashboard and a Chrome browser plugin with bias indicators. Analyses thousands of articles from 20+ sources alongside decades of Press Council data.
Gautam Menon & Debayan Gupta
H5N1 avian influenza modelling paper published in BMC Public Health, covered by BBC, NDTV, CNBC-TV18, Nature India, and 20+ international outlets. Presentations at Wellcome Trust (London), WHO-SEARO, Border Security Force Academy, IIM Kozhikode, and more.
Rintu Kutum
PRISM (Physician Rules Integrated with Small LLMs) for conversational diagnosis of abdominal pain, accepted at NeurIPS 2025 GenAI4Health Workshop. Supports Hindi voice interaction for accessible clinical use.
Lipika Dey & Partha Pratim Das
Multiple peer-reviewed publications. Organized MMFood'25 at ACM Multimedia in Dublin. SmartDiet won the Promising Innovation Award at INFUSE Innovation Summit 2025. Food Composition Table expanded to 10,000+ recipes. Indian Recipe Dialogue System (IRDS) deployed with voice interaction and vernacular language support.
L.S. Shashidhara
Profiled 100+ TNBC patients across 9 actionable molecular markers. Presented at EACR 2025 in Lisbon. Clinical data curated from nearly 5,000 breast cancer cases. Key finding: patients with high tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes showed significantly better survival outcomes.
Mahavir Jhawar
Presented at ACM ASIACCS 2025 (Hanoi). Research spans post-quantum DNS security protocols, lattice-based cryptographic foundations, and network security analysis.
Deepraj Pandey, Sai Khurana & Kanishk Singh
Innovation hub reaching ~1,450 students and 2,000+ school students. Major equipment includes laser cutters, CNC routers, industrial 3D printers, and drones. Hosted RedBrick Hacks III (430+ applicants from 91 universities).
Debayan Gupta & Shubhasis Haldar
Built a complete single-molecule force spectroscopy instrument — described as "unique in India." Published in Communications Biology (Nature), Protein Science, and Biochemistry. Awarded Cell Press Technology of the Month.
Pramoda Kumar
Table-top fluid experiments studying glacier flow dynamics. Controlled experiments confirmed self-similar flow profiles. Analysis of fingering instability developed. 3rd place at Meera Memorial Competition.
Pramoda Kumar
Quantum optics and statistical physics experimental setups designed and built for the Physics department curriculum, enabling hands-on learning with advanced instrumentation.
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