Bhrigu Kansra

Undergrad Researcher

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Biography

I'm a Senior year undergrad interested in Federated Learning, ASR systems, HCI. I completed my research internship at IIT Delhi under The Marconi Society's Celestini India Program where I worked on developing a solution to increase women safety by detection distress situation in audio signals on mobile platforms.

When I'm not working on my laptop, you're likely to find me reading novels or making coffee.

Interests

Human Computer Interaction
ASR systems
Federated Learning

Education

B.Tech in Information Technology, 2017-2021
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology

News

Dec 2020: Selected for BlockFITS: A Federated Data Augmentation Modelling for Blockchain Based IoVT Systems accepted in 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION (ICICC 2021)
Aug 2020: Attended Resource-aware Machine Learning - 5th International Summer School 2020 by TU Dortmund, Germany(Virtual)
Aug 2020: CrossPriv: User Privacy Preservation Model for Cross-Silo Federated Software accepted for proceedings of the The 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering .
Aug 2019: Selected for MIT India Initiative: Design, Technology and Social Innovation Workshop

Experience

Participant

Design, Technology, and Social Innovation Workshop 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) India Inititivative and S.P Mandali's We School

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Mumbai

Organised by Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) India Inititiative and WeSchool, selected in Investigation and Journalism: Telling Tangible Tales. Exposed to journalistic documentation practices such as interviewing, photo-documentation and data collection and they created artifacts that are playful, responsive and tells stories.
MENopoly, how hard can it be, a board game which is a manifestation of various stages of life that a person goes through and presents a stark contrast between how they affect the male and female players differently, representing the realities of today's era. As the players are subjected to a myriad pf life situations, its ups and own and the culmination of the journey, they are left with a lasting impact.

Summer Research Intern

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 New Delhi

Selected as an undergraduate researcher at Celestini Project India 2019.
Built a solution to tackle harassment against females using mobile microphone. Working on extracting real-time audio data feature extraction(MFCCs) using sliding windowing technique and building Machine Learning and Deep Learning models in TensorFlow to detect distress situations and deploying it in an android application using TensorflowLite and Firebase MLkit.
Celestini Project is sponsored by IIT Delhi, The Marconi Society and Google.

Participant

Delhi Design Innovation Boot Camp(DDIBC)

Sep 2018 – Oct 2018 New Delhi

Redesigned bus shelters to improve information availability and creating an user-friendly application to provide users with real-time information regarding bus routes,timings and much more by which aimed to enhance UX for Delhi’s local bus commuters.