RISC 2017, the Research and Innovation Symposium in Computing organized by the Computer Science and Engineering department, IIT Bombay, was held on Saturday, April 1, 2017 in the Kanwal Rekhi (KReSIT) building and New CSE building. The symposium comprised of multiple events (click on an event tab for details):



  • In-house participants/attendees:

    Time: 09:00 - 09:15

    Venue: SIB 301 Lecture Hall (2nd/3rd floor, KReSIT)


  • Industry attendees:

    Time: 12:15 - 12:30

    Venue: F C Kohli Auditorium (1st floor, KReSIT)

    • Address by Prof. Uday Khedker

    • Organizations:
      • Syntel India Ltd. Mumbai
      • ITAakash Strategic Software Pvt. Ltd.
      • Accenture Labs
      • Tarah.AI
      • TCS
      • TCS Research
      • ENIXTA
      • Instart Logic
      • Independent Consultant
      • Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
      • Imagination Technologies
      • Microsoft
      • Microsoft Research India
      • NetApp
      • ACN
      • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
      • Persistent Systems Ltd.
      • Flipkart
      • Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
      • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
      • @WalmartLabs, India
      • Cuddle.ai, Fractal Analytics
      • Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd
      • KPIT Technologies Ltd.
      • IDeaS Revenue Solutions
      • Continuum Managed Services Pvt Ltd
      • IBM Research
      • Continuum
      • Barclays Technology Centre India
      Number of attendees from these organizations ~ 49.


Time: 09:15 - 10:30

Venue: SIB 301 Lecture Hall (2nd/3rd floor, KReSIT)

Session Coordinators: Prof. Mythili Vutukuru

Judges: Prof. Suyash, Prof. R. K. Joshi, Prof. Om Damani

The abstract booklet is here. The content described here is work in progress, and the slides/videos will be put up soon.


Speaker Time Title
Muhammad Inamullah 09:15 Large Audience Environments: Mitigating Medium Contention in WiFi
Sparsa Roychowdhury 09:21 Verification of timed critical system
Vihari Piratla 09:27 Venter: A Complaint Management System
Komal Pathade 09:33 Techniques for Precise and Scalable Data Flow Analysis
Praneeth A S 09:39 Quadcopter based Unknown Planar Structure Exploration
Prashanth 09:45 Multilevel Differentiated Hypervisor Caching for Derivative Clouds
Vishwajeet Kumar 09:51 Question Generation Using Knowledge base and Text
Avinash Kumar Chaurasia 09:57 MPTCP on smartphones
Rahul Mitra 10:03 Multi-resolution bank convolutional neural network for learning the keypoint descriptors
Nehul Jain 10:09 Distributed Safety Games: The Two Process Case
Deepak Garg 10:15 Analysis of reconstruction errors for compressed sensing
Saurabh Shigwan 10:21 Hierarchical Generative Modeling and Monte-Carlo EM in Riemannian Shape Space for Hypothesis Testing

Time: 10:50 - 12:15

Venue: SIB 301 Lecture Hall (2nd/3rd floor, KReSIT)

Session Coordinator: Prof. Mythili Vutukuru,

Judges: Prof. Bhaskaran Raman, Prof. Preethi Jyothi, Prof. Supratik

The abstract booklet is here. The content described here is work in progress, and the slides/videos will be put up soon.


Speaker Time Title
Vrunda DAve 10:50 Logics and Models for Real Time Systems
Anoop Kunchukuttan 11:05 Effective Learning of Pre-ordering Rules for Machine Translation
Sandip Ghosal 11:10 XData - Data Generation for Testing SQL Queries
Rinku Shah 11:15 Pattern Mining for Machine Translation
Nikhil Hooda 11:20 Mitigating BootStorms in Virtualized Datacenters
Arghya Roy Chaudhuri 11:25 Computational Sarcasm
Anshu Yadav 11:30 Optimization of Database Application Programs by Rewriting to SQL
Pritam Gharat 11:35 Optimizing Remote Calls in Parallel Data Management Systems
Divyesh Unadkat 11:40 Power Considerations in Virtualized Environments
Rohit Saluja 11:45 Flow and Context Sensitive Points-to Analysis using Higher Order Reachability
Durgesh Samant 11:50 Design and Implementation of an Espionage Network for Cache-based Side Channel Attacks on AES
Ashokkumar C 11:55 Mosaicing Scenes with a Quadcopter
Anshuj Garg 12:00 Complimentary Usage of GPUs in Virtualized Systems
Chandra Prakash 12:05 Graceful Degradation of QoS in Smart Grid


Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Venue: SIB 301 Lecture Hall (2nd/3rd floor, KReSIT)

Session Coordinator: Prof. Mythili Vutukuru

Judges: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Prof. Purushottam Kulkarni, Dr. Mayur Datar (Flipkart, IITB Alumunus), Mr. R. D. Naik (TRDDC)



The abstract booklet is here. The content described here is work in progress, and the slides/videos will be put up soon.

Speaker Time Title
Rahul Mitra* 14:00 Multi-resolution bank convolutional neural network for learning the keypoint descriptors
Sparsa Roychaudhury* 14:10 Verification of timed critical system
Prashanth* 14:20 Multilevel Differentiated Hypervisor Caching for Derivative Clouds
Mohd. Inamullah* 14:30 Large Audience Environments: Mitigating Medium Contention in WiFi
Vishwajeet Kumar* 14:40 Question Generation Using Knowledge base and Text
Vrunda Dave 14:50 Transductions and its applications
Anoop Kunchukuttan 15:00 Investigations into subword units for statistical machine translation between related languages
Arghya Roy Chaudhuri 15:10 Identifying a "good arm" in a Large Multi-Armed Bandit
Divyesh Unadkat 15:20 Verifying Array Manipulating Programs by Tiling
Pritam Gharat 15:30 Generalized Points-to Graphs: A New Abstraction of Memory in Presence of Pointers

* Early RS finalist

Time: 12:30 - 14:00, including lunch

Venue:Lobby (1st floor, New CSE Building)

Judges: Prof. Parag Chaudhuri, Prof. Nutan Limaye, Mr. Hemant Pande (KPIT), Mr. Muralidhar Rao (Oracle)

The abstract booklet is here. The content described here is work in progress, and the slides/videos will be put up soon.

Joe Cheri Ross Shyamli Rao Sandeep Mathias Deepak Garg
Presenter Title
Saurabh Shigwan Hierarchical Generative Modeling and Monte-Carlo EMin Riemannian Shape Space for Hypothesis Testing
Rudra Murthy Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Divyesh Unadkat Verifying Array Manipulating Programs by Tiling
Kevin Patel Towards Lower Bounds on Number of Dimensions for Word Embeddings
Girishkumar Ponkiya Noun Compound Interpretation
K. Venkatesh Emani Cost Based Rewriting of Database Applications
Vrunda Dave Transductions and its applications in the area of formal verification.
Anoop Kunchukuttan anoopk: Multilingual Neural Transliteration
Bikash Chandra Partial Marking for Automated Grading of SQL Queries
Anshuman Dhuliya Synergistic Program Analyses (SPA)
Rohit Saluja Framework to correct mistakes in Sanskrit OCR
Kratika Gupta Dictionary Learning With Robust Sparsity Fitting for MRI Reconsutruction
Joe Cheri Ross Towards Harnessing Memory Networks for Coreference Resolution
Shyamli Rao Improving IO latency of Containers by Adaptive Provisioning of Non volatile memory
Sandeep Mathias ​Thank Goodness! A Measure for Sentence Fluency
Deepak Garg Analysis of Reconstruction errors for Compressed Sensing under Poisson noise

Time: 17:00 - 18:30

Venue: F C Kohli Auditorium (1st floor, KReSIT)

Industry participants:
  • Syntel India Ltd. Mumbai
  • ITAakash Strategic Software Pvt. Ltd.
  • Accenture Labs
  • Tarah.AI
  • TCS
  • TCS Research
  • ENIXTA
  • Instart Logic
  • Independent Consultant
  • Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Imagination Technologies
  • Microsoft
  • Microsoft Research India
  • NetApp
  • ACN
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  • Persistent Systems Ltd.
  • Flipkart
  • Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
  • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
  • @WalmartLabs, India
  • Cuddle.ai, Fractal Analytics
  • Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd
  • KPIT Technologies Ltd.
  • IDeaS Revenue Solutions
  • Continuum Managed Services Pvt Ltd
  • IBM Research
  • Continuum
  • Barclays Technology Centre India



Time: 18:30 - 19:00, followed by dinner

Venue: F. C. Kohli Auditorium and Atrium (1st floor, KReSIT)

Prof. Uday Khedker, Head of CSE department felicitated the winners of the Sprint Thesis Talks and Technical Poster session.

Speaker/Presenter Category Award
Rahul Mitra Sprint Thesis Talk (Early RS) Best Talk
Sparsa Roychaudhury Sprint Thesis Talk (Early RS) Honorable Mention
Prashanth Sprint Thesis Talk (Early RS) Honorable Mention
Anoop Kunchukuttan Sprint Thesis Talk (Senior RS) Best Talk
Arghya Roy Chaudhuri Sprint Thesis Talk (Senior RS) Honorable Mention
Divyesh Unadkat Sprint Thesis Talk (Senior RS) Honorable Mention
Krattika Gupta Technical Poster Best Poster
Rohit Saluja Technical Poster Honorable Mention


Congratulations to All!