Department of CSIS BITS Pilani Goa Campus

06/02/2026

🏆 Proud Achievement | IndiaSkills 2025 🏆

We are proud to announce that our student Khushraj Rathod has won Gold 🥇 at the Maharashtra State Skills Competition – IndiaSkills 2025 in IT Network Systems Administration.

📍 Held on: 3rd–4th February 2026

🏛 Organized by: Maharashtra State Skill Development Society (MSSDS)

With this remarkable achievement, Khushraj will now move on to the IndiaSkills 2025–26 Regional Competition (West Region). His journey doesn’t stop here — he aspires to qualify for the IndiaSkills Nationals and ultimately represent India at WorldSkills 2026 🌍🇮🇳

Congratulations, Khushraj! Wishing you continued success on your path to global excellence 💪✨

23/11/2025

🎙️ Early Career Researchers Forum | IndoML 2025

We’re excited to announce Sravan Danda from BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India as a speaker at the ECR Forum!

🧠 Talk Title:
“Matching High-Dimensional Geometric Quantiles for Test-Time Adaptation of Transformers and Convolutional Networks Alike”

Sravan’s work tackles one of the toughest challenges in modern ML—robust and efficient test-time adaptation across model families.

Join us at IndoML 2025 and be part of India’s growing ML research community!



Appcair BITS Pilani Department of CSIS BITS Pilani Goa Campus Rajdeep Mukherjee Snehanshu Saha Indoml

12/11/2025

🧩 Call for Participation: IWSLA 2025
📅 December 8–12, 2025
📍 BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus
🔗 https://iwsla25.csisbitsgoa.com

Join the Indian Winter School on Logic and its Applications (IWSLA) 2025, organized under the Association for Logic in India (ALI)!

The school aims to bring together students, researchers, and practitioners from computer science, mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics to explore the many facets and applications of logic.

🎓 Courses & Instructors:
Course on Lean (Theorem Proving) — Dr. T. V. H. Prathamesh (KREA University)
Invited Lecture: Prof. Siddhartha Gadgil (IISc Bangalore)
Course on Forcing (Set Theory) — Dr. Ashutosh Kumar (IIT Kanpur)

💰 Registration Fees:
Students: ₹2500
Faculty: ₹5000
Industry Professionals: ₹10000

🗓️ Deadline: November 21, 2025
🧾 Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Hosted by the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus.

06/09/2025

Birthday celebration of Bharat Deshpande Sougata Sen
P S Raju
Raunak Manekar
Shubhangi Gawali
Sujith Thomas
Manoj Dongare
Rakesh Paul
Basabdatta bhattacharya
Ramprasad Joshi
Siddharth Gupta
Anushka Seth
Sandeep Javalkar
Sucharita Samanta

was done in the CSIS Meeting Room on 6th September 2025

24/07/2025

01/07/2025

📣 We’re thrilled to announce IndoML 2025 – Indian Symposium on Machine Learning, happening December 19–21, 2025, at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus!

Since 2020, IndoML has emerged as a leading platform connecting early-career researchers and students with global experts in AI/ML. Beyond traditional ML, it explores interdisciplinary applications—from environmental sciences to astrophysics.

🧠 Past editions featured speakers from Stanford, Harvard, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and more.
💡 Also back is the IndoML Datathon, challenging students to solve real-world problems with curated datasets.
🤝 Sponsors: Microsoft, Google, NielsenIQ, DeepMind, APPCAIR, Accel, ACM

📍 Learn more and join us: https://indoml.in



Appcair BITS Pilani Department of CSIS BITS Pilani Goa Campus Rajdeep Mukherjee Snehanshu Saha

18/06/2025

🚀 Exciting Research Opportunity!

The Wipro WIN Research Fellowship in collaboration with BITS Pilani is calling for passionate researchers to join a fully funded PhD program focused on Physics-Informed Digital Twins for Urban Water Networks.

🔬 Work at the intersection of AI/ML, physical modeling & smart systems

🤝 Collaborate directly with Wipro R&D Engineers
🌍 Get access to travel grants, contingency funding, and top conference support
📍 Based at BITS Pilani – K K Birla Goa Campus
💰 Fellowship: ₹37,000/month + 27% HRA, with enhancements after 2 years

✅ Ideal for candidates with a background in Computer Science or Electronics and a strong foundation in math, programming (Python), and AI/ML.

This is your chance to conduct industry-relevant, impact-driven research with hands-on experience and mentorship from one of India’s top tech giants.

📅 Apply now and kick-start your PhD journey!

🔗 Email to [email protected] [email protected]



Appcair BITS Pilani BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus Department of CSIS BITS Pilani Goa Campus Bharat Deshpande Snehanshu Saha

13/06/2025

🎉 We are thrilled to share that Prof. Siddharth Gupta, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani – K K Birla Goa Campus, has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Early Career Research Grant (PM ECRG) by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)! 👏

📌 Project Title: Parameterized and Temporal Graph Drawing
📆 Duration: 36 months

This cutting-edge research will tackle the challenges of visualizing complex and evolving networks using advanced algorithmic techniques—unlocking new insights for areas like social networks, biological systems, and cyber-physical infrastructures.

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Siddharth Gupta on this outstanding achievement! 🙌
Appcair BITS Pilani BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus Department of CSIS BITS Pilani Goa Campus Bharat Deshpande Snehanshu Saha

12/06/2025

🎉 We are proud to share that Prof. Harikrishnan N B from the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani – K K Birla Goa Campus, has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Early Career Research Grant (PM ECRG) by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)! 🇮🇳✨

🔬 Project Title: Causal Decision Trees Using Compression Complexity Measures for Healthcare Applications
📅 Duration: 36 months

His groundbreaking work aims to enhance explainability and causality in AI-driven healthcare systems, especially for conditions like liver cirrhosis and breast cancer.

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Harikrishnan on this remarkable achievement! 🙌👏
Snehanshu Saha

07/06/2025

🚀 Exciting Announcement! 🚀

We're thrilled to announce that Prof. Snehanshu Saha will be a speaker at the 2025 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Pharmaceutical Medicine (AIPM-India)! 🧠💊

📅 Date: 10 - 12 September 2025

📍 Location: IIT Madras (IITM)

Join us as top experts come together to explore cutting-edge advancements in AI and pharmaceutical medicine. Prof. Saha's insights will surely be a highlight of this prestigious event! https://ibse.iitm.ac.in/aipm-2025/

🔗 Stay tuned for more updates and get ready for a transformative experience!

Research & Innovation, BITS Pilani

16/05/2025

🎉 Exciting News!
We're proud to share that our student B Sarvesh's off-campus thesis paper has been accepted and published at the NAACL 2025 Student Research Workshop (SRW) — a part of the prestigious North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), an A-tier conference in the field of NLP! 🙌

📄 Title: From Guessing to Asking: An Approach to Resolving Persona Knowledge Gap in LLMs during Multi-Turn Conversations
👥 Authors: Sarvesh Baskar, Tanmay Tulsidas Verlakar, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Manas Gaur
📚 Conference: NAACL 2025 – Student Research Workshop (SRW)
📅 Date: April 29 – May 2
🔗 Read the paper here

🧩 The paper presents CPER (Conversation Preference Elicitation and Recommendation) — a novel approach to help large language models bridge gaps in user persona understanding during multi-turn conversations. Evaluated across real-world datasets like CCPE-M and ESConv, CPER showed significant gains in contextual relevance and coherence — especially in long-form dialogues. 🌟

Kudos to Sarvesh and the co-authors for contributing cutting-edge research to the NLP community! 👏👏

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13/05/2025

🚀 New Consultancy Project Secured!

We are pleased to share that faculty members from APPCAIR, Department of CSIS BITS Pilani Goa Campus, have been awarded a consultancy project by MAMTA–Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi.

🎉 Congratulations to:
🔹 Prof. Snehanshu Saha (PI)
🔹 Prof. Aditya Challa (PI)
🔹 Prof. Sravan Danda (Co-PI)

📌 Project Title:
Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Nutritional Modelling: Data-Driven Approach

🔍 Scope:
This impactful project aims to combat malnutrition in vulnerable populations by leveraging AI and statistical modelling. The team will design tools for data cleaning, outlier detection, hypothesis testing, and actionable insight generation — contributing to informed policy-making in maternal and child health.

🔍 Training for UG students in real world problem solving:

This project offers an opportunity to undergraduate students of BITS GOA in solving a challenging problem in a fixed time frame. We're pleased to announce that, after a careful selection process, we have chosen a few students who will be working with the investigators for the next 6 months.

👏 Please join us in celebrating this achievement and wishing the team continued success! Gratitude to the mamta team, Dr Ruchika Mehra for the opportunity. Many Thanks to Mr. Rajiv Tandon for facilitating this.



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