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+Nipun Batra is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at IIT Gandhinagar. He previously completed his postdoc from University of Virginia. He completed his PhD. from IIIT Delhi where he was a TCS PhD fellow. His group broadly works on machine learning/AI/sensors/IoT for computational sustainability problems like smart buildings and air quality.
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+His work has been awarded several awards, including, the best PhD presentation at ACM Sensys, best demo at ACM Buildsys, and a best video nominee at ACM KDD. 
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+He is working with his team towards a Jupyter book on [code first understanding machine learning](https://code-first-ml.github.io).
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+title: Publications
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+
+## 2022
+
+#### "I do not know": Quantifying Uncertainty in Neural Network Based Approaches for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
+
+Vibhuti Bansal, Rohit Khoiwal, Hetvi Shastri, Haikoo Khandor, Nipun Batra. In ACM Buildsys 2022 [[PDF](../papers/2022/buildsys22-nilm.pdf)][[Github](https://github.com/VibhutiBansal-11/NILM_Uncertainty)]
+
+Karm Patel, Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra, Sarath Guttikunda. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS '22)
+\[[PDF](../papers/2022/compass22-samachaar.pdf)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/karm-patel/Samachar-News-media-on-air-pollution)\]
+
+#### Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India
+
+Karm Patel, Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra, Sarath Guttikunda. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS '22)
+\[[PDF](../papers/2022/compass22-samachaar.pdf)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/karm-patel/Samachar-News-media-on-air-pollution)\]
+
+#### Accurate and Scalable Gaussian Processes for Fine-grained Air Quality Inference
+
+Zeel B Patel, Palak Purohit, Harsh Patel, Shivam Sahni, and Nipun Batra. In: AAAI 2022, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22).\[[PDF](../papers/2022/aaai_22_air.pdf)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/patel-zeel/AAAI22)\]
+
+#### Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text using a Robust Generative Adversarial Network
+
+Shastri, Hetvi; Lodhavia, Dhruvi; Purohit, Palak; Kaoshik, Ronak; Batra, Nipun. In CODS COMAD 2022.
+
+## 2021
+
+#### Vartalaap: what drives #airquality discussions: politics, pollution or pseudo-science?
+
+Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B. Patel, Tanmay Srivastava, Nipun Batra, Mayank Singh, Udit Bhatia, and Sarath Guttikunda.  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, no. CSCW1 (2021)[[PDF](../papers/2021/vartalaap.pdf)]
+
+#### Neural network approaches and dataset parser for NILM toolkit
+
+Shastri, Hetvi; Batra, Nipun. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys)[[PDF]](../papers/2021/buildsys.pdf)
+
+#### Exploring Hidden Markov Models
+Kukunuri Rithwik, Rishiraj Adhikary, Mahika Om Jaguste, Nipun Batra and Ashish Tendulkar
+The 4th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI’21) [[Link](https://nipunbatra.github.io/hmm/)]
+
+
+## 2020
+
+#### Active Learning: A Visual Tour
+Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra. In VisXAI workshop at IEEE VIS. [[Link](https://patel-zeel.github.io/active-learning-visualization/)]
+
+#### EdgeNILM: towards NILM on edge devices
+
+Kukunuri, Rithwik, Anup Aglawe, Jainish Chauhan, Kratika Bhagtani, Rohan Patil, Sumit Walia, and Nipun Batra. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, pp. 90-99. 2020.[[PDF](../papers/2020/edge_nilm.pdf)]
+
+#### Exploring Bayesian Optimization. 
+
+Apoorv Agnihotri, Nipun Batra In: Distill Journal 2020 [[link](https://distill.pub/2020/bayesian-optimization/)]
+
+#### PlantDoc: A Dataset for Visual Plant Disease Detection. 
+
+Davinder Singh, Naman Jain, Pranjali Jain, Pratik Kayal, Sudhakar Kumawat, Nipun Batra In: ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2020)[[PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.10317.pdf)]
+
+
+## 2019
+
+#### Active Collaborative Sensing for Energy Breakdown
+
+Yiling Jia, Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse.  
+In: The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2019)\[[PDF](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00525)\]
+
+#### Demo Abstract: A demonstration of reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation using NILMTK
+
+Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, Rajat Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo Meira, Oliver Parson.  
+In: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)\[[PDF](../papers/2019/batra_buildsys19demo.pdf)\]
+
+#### Towards reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation
+
+Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, Rajat Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo Meira, Oliver Parson.  
+In: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)\[[PDF](../papers/2019/batra_buildsys_19.pdf)\]
+
+#### A Tree-Structured Neural Network Model for Household Energy Breakdown
+
+Yiling Jia, Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse  
+In: Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’19)\[[PDF](../papers/2019/jia_www19.pdf)\]
+
+
+## 2018
+
+#### Rimor: Towards Identifying Anomalous Appliances in Buildings
+
+Haroon Rashid, Nipun Batra, Pushpendra Singh  
+In: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (Buildsys 18).\[[PDF](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3276797)\]
+
+#### Transferring Decomposed Tensors for Scalable Energy Breakdown across Regions
+
+Nipun Batra, Yiling Jia, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse  
+In: AAAI 2018, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18).\[[PDF](../papers/2018/batra_aaai_2018.pdf)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/nipunbatra/transferable-energy-breakdown)\]
+
+## 2017
+
+#### Systems and Analytical Techniques Towards Practical Energy Breakdown for Homes
+
+Nipun Batra  
+In: Ph.D. Thesis.\[[PDF](../papers/2017/batra_thesis.pdf)\]
+
+#### Matrix Factorisation for Scalable Energy Breakdown
+
+Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.  
+In: AAAI 2017, Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17).\[[PDF](../papers/2017/batra_aaai2017.pdf)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/nipunbatra/mf-energybreakdown)\]\[[Poster](../slides/2017/aaai_poster_2017.pdf)\]
+
+## 2016
+
+#### Gemello: Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill
+
+Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.  
+In: KDD 2016, 22nd ACM SIGKDD conference on knowledge discovery and data mining.\[[PDF](https://dl.acm.org/authorize?N39733)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/nipunbatra/Gemello)\]\[[Poster](../slides/2017/kdd_poster_final.pdf)\]\[[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgqd9OhvDA)\]
+
+#### Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation Through Actionable Feedback
+
+Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.  
+In: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring.\[[PDF](http://nilmworkshop.org/2016/proceedings/Paper_ID08.pdf)\]\[[Slides](http://nilmworkshop.org/2016/slides/NipunBatra1.pdf)\]\[[Talk](https://youtu.be/B8UueBmU3Cs)\]
+
+#### Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill
+
+Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.  
+In: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring.\[[PDF](http://nilmworkshop.org/2016/proceedings/Paper_ID07.pdf)\]\[[Slides](http://nilmworkshop.org/2016/slides/NipunBatra2.pdf)\]\[[Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUauYdlbH74)\]
+
+## 2015
+
+#### If You Measure It, Can You Improve It? Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation.
+
+Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.  
+In: 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2015)\[[PDF](../papers/2015/batra_buildsys_15.pdf)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/nipunbatra/nilm-actionable)\]\[[Slides (.key)](../slides/2015/batra_buildsys_2015_slides final.key)\]\[[Slides (.pdf)](../slides/2015/batra_buildsys_2015_slides final.pdf)\]
+
+#### Non Intrusive Load Monitoring: Systems, Metrics and Use Cases.
+
+Nipun Batra  
+In: Doctoral Colloqium of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2015)\[[PDF](../papers/2015/batra_sensys_dc_15.pdf)\]\[[Slides (.key)](../slides/2015/sensys_dc_trimmed.key)\]\[[Slides (.pdf)](../slides/2015/sensys_dc_trimmed.pdf)\]\[**Best presentation award**\]
+
+#### Dataport and NILMTK: A Building Data Set Designed for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
+
+Oliver Parson, Grant Fisher, April Hersey, Nipun Batra, Jack Kelly, Amarjeet Singh, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers.  
+In: 1st International Symposium on Signal Processing Applications in Smart Buildings at 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Orlando, FL, USA, 14-16 December, 2015. \[[PDF](../papers/2015/globalsip_smart_buildings_15_camera_ready.pdf)\]
+
+## 2014
+
+
+#### NILMTK v0. 2: A Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit for Large Scale Data Sets
+
+Jack Kelly, Nipun Batra, Oliver Parson, Haimonti Dutta, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava.  
+In: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)\[[PDF](../papers/2014/batra_nilmtk_v2.pdf)\]\[[Demo notebook](https://github.com/nilmtk/nilmtk/blob/master/notebooks/BuildSys_2014_demo.ipynb)\]\[[Poster](../slides/2014/buildsys_2014_nilmtk_poster.pdf)\]\[**Best demo award**\]
+
+#### Bits and Watts: Improving energy disaggregation performance using power line communication modems
+
+Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, Puneet Jain, Kamin Whitehouse, Amarjeet Singh.  
+In: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)\[[PDF](../papers/2014/batra_plc.pdf)\]\[[Poster](../slides/2014/bits_watts_poster.pdf)\]  
+  
+
+#### NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
+
+Nipun Batra, Jack Kelly, Oliver Parson, Haimonti Dutta, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava  
+In: 5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Cambridge, UK. 2014\[[PDF](../papers/2014/batra_nilmtk.pdf)\]\[[Slides (.pptx)](../slides/2014/nilmtk_presentation.pptx)\]\[[Slides (.pdf)](../slides/2014/nilmtk_presentation.pdf)\]
+
+#### A comparison of non-intrusive load monitoring methods for commercial and residential buildings
+
+Nipun Batra, Oliver Parson, Mario Berges, Amarjeet Singh, Alex Rogers  
+Tech. report\[[PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.6595.pdf)\]
+
+#### Data Driven Energy Efficiency in Buildings
+
+Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Haimonti Dutta, Venkatesh Sarangan, Mani Srivastava  
+In: PhD. qualifiers report, IIIT Delhi\[[PDF](http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7227)\]\[[Slides (.pdf)](../slides/2014/compre.pdf)\]
+
+## 2013 and before
+
+#### It’s Different: Insights into home energy consumption in India
+
+Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava.  
+In: 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (Buildsys 2013)\[[PDF](../papers/2013/buildsys_2013.pdf)\]\[[Github](https://github.com/nipunbatra/Home_Deployment)\]\[[Dataset](http://iawe.github.io/)\]\[[Slides (.pptx)](../slides/2013/buildsys_13_slides.pptx)\]\[[Slides (.pdf)](../slides/2013/buildsys_13_slides.pdf)\]
+
+#### INDiC: Improved Non-Intrusive load monitoring using load Division and Calibration
+
+Nipun Batra, Haimonti Dutta, Amarjeet Singh  
+In: ICMLA 2013\[[PDF](../papers/2013/batra_indic_2013.pdf)\]\[[Slides (.pptx)](../slides/2013/icmla.pptx)\]\[[Slides (.pdf)](../slides/2013/icmla.pdf)\]
+
+#### Experiences with Occupancy Based Building Management Systems
+
+Nipun Batra, Pandarasamy Arjunan, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh  
+In: ISSNIP 2013\[[PDF](../papers/2013/batra_issnip_2013.pdf)\]  
+
+#### SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management
+
+Pandarasamy Arjunan, Nipun Batra, Haksoo Choi, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Mani Srivastava  
+In: Buildsys 2012\[[PDF](../papers/2013/batra_buildsys_2012.pdf)\]