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Our Analysis "Don't cross that stop line: Characterizing Traffic Violations in Metropolitan Cities"
We analysed e-challans of Ahmedabad Police in Gujrat revealed that 35,71,341 e-challans were issued out of which only 10,82,132 paid e-challans. There are 11,77,695 unique vehicles and Rs. 59,24,30,400/- is unpaid from the challans issued.
Find the full paper at:http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/pubs/Gujarat_E-Challan.pdf

in University of Maryland campus now. L to R:
Vedant, Saksham, Shaan pursing Ph.D., Ph.D., and Masters respectively, and Mansi pursuing Masters.

Indraneil Paul, our 1st Masters student at IIIT Hyderabad defends his Thesis "Insights, Analysis and Prediction of Verified Users on Twitter".
Thesis document:http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/Publications_files/indraneil-ms-thesis-sept-2019.pdf
Check the presentation: https://www.fb.com/ponnurangam.kumaraguru/videos/3191893910835900.

"The Honeymoon period!" "The tunnel without light!" "The global minima!" "The year of glory!" "So, to everyone who is thinking about a PhD: just remember that you need to get up and be the captain of your own boat. You’ll eventually learn how to sail through. There will be people around to support you both emotionally and practically. All you need is to stay resilient, ask and help will come!" says Srishti in her blog "The Highs and the Lows: The (extra)ordinary journey!" http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2019/08/30/the-highs-and-the-lows-the-extraordinary-journey/ capturing her Ph.D. life experience with us. Srishti recently graduated with Ph.D. from Precog@IIIT-D and works as Research Scientist at American Express in Delhi.

Interested in understanding how Verified accounts on Twitter differ from non-verified accounts? What is the probability of getting a non-verified account verified? Join the Masters thesis public presentation / defense of Indraneil 1630hrs IST, Sept 14, 2019. Two papers of Indraneil relevant to the thesis are "Elites Tweet? Characterizing the Twitter Verified User Network”http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/pubs/ElitesTweet-ICDE19.pdf & "What sets Verified Users apart? Insights, Analysis and Prediction of Verified Users on Twitter”http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/pubs/What_sets_Verified_Users_apart-WebSci19.pdf

Precogs received Academic Dean's Award today, at the celebrations! Congrats to all.

Look who all were in campus in the last few weeks -- 1. Saying adieu to students is always hard, Shubham Singh is heading to University of Illinois at Chicago for Ph.D. in CS, Dhruv Kuchhal to Georgia Tech for Ph.D. in CS, Shubham Gupta to Carnegie Mellon University for Masters. 2. Kanay Gupta & Sathvik students from spent some time with us. Was super fun having Precogs from & interact in person. 3. Thanks Sahar Siddiqui for stopping by, was great catching-up and hearing your internship experience in . Sahar is pursuing her Masters at New York University.

In-coming Precogs meet the current students at Georgia Tech! Nilaksh http://nilakshdas.com/ pursuing Ph.D. in CS, Vedant http://vedantswain.com/ pursuing Ph.D. in HCI. Dhruv & Varnit starting Ph.D. in CS & MS in HCI respectively. Other alums: Rohan, Mayank

Vaibhav Garg will receive Best M.Tech. Thesis Award (CSE) during Convocation on Aug 31st for his work on "Detecting Fake Profiles on Online Matrimony". Thesis:http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/Publications_files/Vaibhav_Garg_Masters_Thesis.pdf Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/precogatIIITD/detecting-fake-profiles-on-online-matrimony Video of the defense: https://www.facebook.com/ponnurangam.kumaraguru/videos/2920964184595542/ Work was done in collaboration with InfoEdge. Congratulations Vaibhav!

Ayush Shah B.Tech. receives 'J.N. Tata Endowment Scholarship for Higher Education' for doing his Master's in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Ayush joins Megha (Carnegie Mellon University) & Vedant (Georgia Tech), Yashovardhan (University of Cambridge), Shrey (CMU) & Divyansh (CMU), who received this scholarship in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively. The Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata Endowment http://www.jntataendowment.org/ was established in 1892. This scholarship is given to selected students and currently there are 5,000+ JN Tata Scholars all over the world.

The J.N. TATA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF INDIANS The JN Tata Endowment for the Higher Education of Indians has been helping Indian students since 1892 with loan scholarships for higher studies. People consider it a matter of great pride to be called a 'JN Tata Scholar'. There are now more than 5,387 JN Tata Scholars all over the world.

Vani Agarwal, Masters student #19 will defend her thesis "Multimodal Content Moderation Across Multiple Platforms with Capsule Networks and Co-Training" on June 5, 1500hrs IST. Please join us, if this topic is of interest to you.