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Om P. Damani Professor CSE@IIT Bombay Also associated with Center for Policy Studies and Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA)

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Academic Interests

Resources Developed

• Triennial IFORS Prize for OR in Development of International Federation of Operational Research Societies, 2020
• IIT Bombay's Impactful Research Award, 2019

• Best Poster Award at Agriculture Science Congress 2017

Teaching

Selected Publications

System Dynamics

• How can resource-level thresholds guide sustainable intensification of agriculture at farm level? A system dynamics study of farm-pond based intensification - Pooja Prasad, Om P. Damani and Milind Sohoni. Agricultural Water Management,Vol. 264, April 2022.
• Effectiveness of Testing, Tracing, Social Distancing and Hygiene in Tackling Covid-19 in India: A System Dynamics Model, pre-print, 2020.
• Assessing Self-Sustainability of Rural Water Supply Systems: Free Household Connections vs Free Solar Pumps - Abhishek Kumar Sinha, Om Damani, Shreya Agarwal, Sandeep Chougule and Pradip Kalbar. 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, SD 2020.
• A Stock and Flow Based Framework to Identify Indicators for a Holistic Comparison of Farming Practices - Siva Muthuprakash K. M. and Om P. Damani. Agricultural Research, September 2017, 6:248.

GramDrishti

• FPCD: An Open Aerial VHR Dataset for Farm Pond Change Detection - Chintan Tundia, Rajiv Kumar, Om P. Damani, G. Sivakumar. VISIGRAPP (5: VISAPP), 2023. public dataset.
• The MIS Check-Dam Dataset for Object Detection and Instance Segmentation Tasks - Chintan Tundia, Rajiv Kumar, Om P. Damani, G. Sivakumar. VISIGRAPP (5: VISAPP), 2022. public dataset.
• Aiding Irrigation Census in Developing Countries by Detecting Minor Irrigation Structures from Satellite Imagery - Chintan Tundia, Pooja Tank and Om Damani. 6th Intl. Conf. on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2020.
• Well Detection in Satellite Images using Convolutional Neural Networks - Pratik Wagh, Debanjan Das and Om Damani. 5th Intl. Conf. on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2019.

Water Transmission Networks

• Hydraulic modeling approach for evaluating the performance of flow-starved water transmission networks - Abhishek Kumar Sinha; Anujkumar Ghorpade; Om Damani; Pradip P. Kalbar. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua, (2023) 72 (1): 1-18.

Jaltantra

• Piping Cost Optimisation of Water Distribution Networks - Saumya Goyal, Om Damani, Ashutosh Mahajan. 22nd Conference of the Intl. Federation of the Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2021.
• A Series of ILP Models for the Optimization of Water Distribution Networks - Nikhil Hooda, Ashutosh Mahajan and Om P. Damani. Sadhana 44.12 (2019): 239, Indian Academy of Sciences.
• JalTantra: A System for Design and Optimization of Rural Piped Water Networks - Nikhil Hooda and Om Damani. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (2019).
• Inclusion of Tank Configurations as a Variable in the Cost Optimization of Branched Piped Water Networks - Nikhil Hooda and Om P. Damani. Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 10, 39-44, 2017; Preliminary version in 14th Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI 2016.
• A System for Optimal Design of Pressure Constrained Branched Piped Water Networks - Nikhil Hooda and Om P. Damani. 18th Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis, WDSA 2016.

Farm Assessment Index (FAI)

• Design of Farm Assessment Index (FAI) for a holistic comparison of farming practices: case of organic and conventional farming systems from two Indian states - Siva Muthuprakash K M and Om P. Damani. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2019, Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 329-357 .
• A Stock and Flow Based Framework to Identify Indicators for a Holistic Comparison of Farming Practices - Siva Muthuprakash K. M. and Om P. Damani. Agricultural Research, September 2017, 6:248.
• Challenges in Large Scale Soil Sampling and Testing (based on Field Application of the Farm Assessment Index (FAI)) - Siva Muthuprakash K. M. and Om P. Damani. India’s Soils: Science-PolicyPractice Interfaces for Sustainable Futures (2017).
• Assessment of Farming Practices of Sixty Farmers in Maharashtra Using a Composite Index - Siva Muthuprakash K. M., Om P. Damani, Ashok Bang, Niranjana Maru. XIII Agricultural Science Congress at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru (2017). Best poster award
• Significance of Soil Parameters in Evaluating the Farming Practices: A Systems Approach - Siva Muthuprakash K M and Om Damani. Wageningen Soil Conference (2015).

Program Derivation

• Assumption Propagation Through Annotated Programs - Dipak L. Chaudhari and Om P. Damani. Formal Aspects of Computing, May 2017, 29(3), (doi:10.1007/s00165-016-0395-x).
• Building an IDE for the Calculational Derivation of Imperative Programs - Dipak L. Chaudhari and Om P. Damani. 2nd Workshop on Formal-IDE, Formal Methods 2015.
• Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Techniques in Program Derivation - Dipak L. Chaudhari and Om P. Damani. 25th Intl. Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2015.
• Introducing Formal Methods via Program Derivation - Dipak L. Chaudhari and Om P. Damani. 20th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2015.
• Automated Theorem Prover Assisted Program Calculations - Dipak L. Chaudhari and Om P. Damani. The 11th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2014.
• Generating Hierarchical State Based Representation From Event-B Models - Dipak L. Chaudhari and Om P. Damani. B 2011. (Presentation)

NLP

• A Domain-Restricted, Rule Based, English-Hindi Machine Translation System Based on Dependency Parsing - Pratik Desai, Amit Sangodkar, Om P. Damani. 11th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, ICON 2014.
• Appropriately Incorporating Statistical Significance in PMI - Om P. Damani and Shweta Ghonge. Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2013.
• Improving Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) by Incorporating Significant Co-occurrence - Om P. Damani. 17th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2013.
• Noun Group and Verb Group Identification for Hindi - Smriti Singh, Om P. Damani, Vaijayanthi M. Sarma. 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2012. pdf, ppt presentations.
• Wikipedia is a practical alternative to the Web for measuring Co-occurrence based Word Association - Om P. Damani, Pankhil Chedda, and Dipak Chaudhari. 4th Conference on Language and Technology, CLT 2012.
• Re-ordering Source Sentences for SMT - Amit Sangodkar and Om P. Damani. The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
• Lexical Co-occurrence, Statistical Significance, and Word Association - Dipak L. Chaudhari, Om P. Damani, and Srivatsan Laxman. Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011.
  • resources used in the paper.
• Transliteration for Resource Scarce Languages - Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Om P. Damani, Avijit Satoskar. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Vol. 9, No. 4, Article 14, Dec 2010.
  • Data-set used in the paper.
  • Parts of this paper appeared as Character Sequence Modeling for Transliteration in 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, ICON 2009.
• English to UNL (Interlingua) Enconversion - Manoj Jain and Om P. Damani. Poster paper at 2nd Conference on Language and Technology, CLT 2009.
• Experiences with English-Hindi, English-Tamil and English-Kannada Transliteration Tasks at NEWS 2009, Manoj K. Chinnakotla and Om P. Damani, ACL-IJCNLP Named Entities Workshop, NEWS 2009.
• Character Sequence Modeling for Transliteration - Manoj Chinnakotla and Om P. Damani. 7th Intl. Conf. on Natural Language Processing, ICON 2009.
• A System for Compound Noun Multiword Expression Extraction for Hindi - Anoop Kunchukuttan and Om P. Damani. 6th Intl. Conf. on Natural Language Processing, ICON 2008.
• Statistical Machine Translation with Rule Based Re-ordering of Source Sentences - Amit Sangodkar, Vasudevan N., Om P. Damani. In Proceedings of the NLP Tools Contest, 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2008).
• Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation - Manoj Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Damani, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007.
  • This work secured the first place for any Indian Language to English CLIR and fifth place for any language to English CLIR at CLEF 2007.
• Hindi Generation from Interlingua (UNL) - Smriti Singh, Mrugank Dalal, Vishal Vachhani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Om P. Damani. Machine Translation Summit XI, 2007.
  • Presentations: pdf, ppt

Distributed Systems

• Interference-constrained coverage algorithms in the protocol and SINR models - Prateek Kapadia, Om P. Damani, Animesh Kumar. Wireless Networks, November 2014. Preliminary version in 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWIM 2006.
• Relative Encryption Overhead in 802.11g Network, Anuj Tripathi and Om P. Damani. Intl. Symposium on Telecommunications, 2008.
• Design and Implementation of a Server Cluster Backend for Thin Client Computing - Ashish Khurange and Om P. Damani. International Conference on Bridging the Digital Divide - 4th Asian Applied Computing Conference, AACC 2007.
• Smart Middleware and Light Ends (SMILE) for Simplifying Data Integration - Rob Strom, and Om P. Damani. IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI'06), 2006.
• Distributed Recovery with K-Optimistic Logging - Om P. Damani, Yi-Min Wang, and Vijay K. Garg. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 63(12), 1193-1218, 2003. Preliminary version in 17th IEEE Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 1997.
• Optimistic Recovery in Multi-threaded Distributed Systems - Om P. Damani, Ashis Tarafdar, and Vijay K. Garg, 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 234-243, 1999.
• Fault-Tolerant Distributed Simulation - Om P. Damani and Vijay K. Garg. 12th ACM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'98), 38-45, 1998.
• Optimistic Distributed Simulation Based on Transitive Dependency Tracking - Om P. Damani, Yi-Min Wang, and Vijay K. Garg. 11th ACM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'97), 90-97, 1997.
• ONE-IP: Techniques for Hosting a Service on a Cluster of Machines - Om P. Damani, Pi-Yu Emerald Chung, Yennun Huang, Chandra Kintala, and Yi-Min Wang. Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 29, 1019-1027, 1997. Preliminary version in 6th Intl. World Wide Web Conference, WWW 1997.
• Web Server Clustering with Single-IP Image: Design and Implementation - Yi-Min Wang, Om. P. Damani, Pi-Yu E. Chung, Y. Huang, C. Kintala. Int. Symp. on Multimedia Information Processing, 1997.
• Reliability and Availability Issues In Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) - Yi-Min Wang, Om P. Damani, and Woe J. Lee. 4th Intl. Workshop on Community Networking, 59-63, 1997.
• How to Recover Asynchronously and Efficiently when Optimism Fails - Om P. Damani and Vijay K. Garg. 16th IEEE Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'96), 108-115, 1996.

Selected Technical Reports

• Redesigning Khardi Rural Piped Water Network Scheme for Sustainability - Varsha Choudhary, Om P. Damani, Rajaram Desai, Aditya Joshi, Monika Kanwat, Manju Kaushal, Swati Kharole , Yogesh Pawde, Prerana Rathore, and Milind Sohoni. IITB CSE Technical Report No. TR-CSE-2013-56, 2013.
• Design and Optimization of Piped Water Network for Tanker Fed Villages in Mokhada Taluka - Nikhil Hooda, Rajaram Desai, and Om P. Damani. IITB CSE Technical Report No. TR-CSE-2013-55, 2013.

PhD Students

MTech Students

External Interaction

• Providing consultancy services to various government, semi-government, and private organizations.
• Received the IIT Bombay Industrial Impact Award 2010, along with Prof. Umesh Bellur and Prof. D. B. Phatak, for the consultancy work of Designing a New Mission-Critical Depository System for National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL), Mumbai.

Lifelong Education

• 2004+ Faculty Member, IIT Bombay.
• 2003-04 Research Staff Member, IBM T J Watson Research Lab, NY, USA.
• 1999-03 Research Scientist, Akamai Technologies Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.
• 1994-99 Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Dissertation: Optimistic Protocols for Fault-tolerance in Distributed Systems, Advisor: Prof. Vijay K. Garg.
• 1990-1994 B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
• 1988-1990 Uchcha Madhyamik (Higher Secondary), St. Lawrence High School, Ballygunge, Kolkata.
• 1977-1988 Madhyamik (Secondary), Tantia High School, Burra Bazar, Kolkata.
• 1973-1977 Learning to cry, eat, speak, walk,..live.

Past Teaching