Research Area

Data Science

Data science research at CSE links scalable algorithms, sensing, climate and urban resilience, social-network analysis, scientific text, and reproducible data-driven systems.

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Research Themes

What the group works on

Sketching, sampling, and coresets for large data AI for sustainability, energy, air quality, and health Physics-guided models for climate and urban resilience Scientific text mining and social-network analytics Open benchmarks, reproducibility, and deployment-oriented data systems

Faculty

People shaping this area

Anirban Dasgupta

Professor

Data science algorithms, randomized numerical linear algebra, sketching, sampling, and information dynamics.

Nipun Batra

Associate Professor

Scalable sensing, energy analytics, air quality, health sensing, and AI for sustainability.

Udit Bhatia

Associate Professor

Physics-guided data science for urban flooding, climate extremes, resilient infrastructure, and networks.

Mayank Singh

Associate Professor

Scientific text mining, scholarly knowledge discovery, social networks, and AI-enabled research tools.

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

Streaming Coresets for Symmetric Tensor Factorization

ICML 2020 - scalable coresets and tensor factorization.

Spatially Regularized Graph Attention Autoencoder Framework for Detecting Rainfall Extremes

2024 preprint - graph learning for climate extremes.

Vartalaap: What Drives #AirQuality Discussions: Politics, Pollution or Pseudo-science?

PACM HCI 2021 - public discourse and air-quality analytics.

Physics-guided Emulators Reveal Resilience and Fragility under Operational Latencies and Outages

2025 preprint - physics-guided models for resilience.

Projects & Outputs

Representative Projects

AI Resilience and Command Centre for data-driven climate-risk management

IITGN centre focused on anticipatory urban flood and climate-risk management.

Automated Crop Mapping using time-series satellite and ancillary data

ISRO-sponsored project led by Nipun Batra.

Network-of-Network Lens to quantify resilience of coupled infrastructure systems

ANRF/SERB-supported project led by Udit Bhatia.

Development of Large Language Models based chat plugin for website-specific queries

Consultancy project led by Mayank Singh.