Workshop on Emergency Flood Planning and

Management using Unmanned

Aerial Vehicles

18 September, 2019

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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Organizing Committee

Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Prathyush P Menon, University of Exeter, UK

P B Sujit, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India

Kaushik Das, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

International Advisory Committee

David Butler, University of Exeter, UK

Pradeep Mujumdar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Christopher Edwards, University of Exeter, UK

Balamurali P, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

Paul Leinster, Cranfield University, UK

Monica Rivas Casado, Cranfield University, UK

Local Organizing Committee

Rakesh R Warier, Rudrashis Majumder, Abhishek Kashyap, Aakriti Agrawal,

Rohitkumar Arasanipalai, Sarthak J Shetty, Meenakshi Sarkar, Prabhu Pradhan,

Lima Agnel Tony, Aditya Hegde, Kuntal Ghosh, Nobin Paul, Shuvrangshu Jana,

Vidhya Sumathy, Kumar Ankit, Narayani Vedam, Suryadeep Nath, Abhishek Kumar

Singh, Amritesh Maitra, Drugakant Pushp, B Chaitanya, NS Abhinay, Rolif Lima, D

Sreeja

The workshop is held in conjunction with the annual review meeting of the

multi-university EPSRC-GCRF grant for the proposal “Emergency flood planning

and management using unmanned aerial systems” awarded to University of

Exeter and Cranfield University in UK, and Indian Institute of Science and

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in India. Funding support for

the workshop from the EPSRC-GCRF grant is gratefully acknowledged.

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Foreword

It is my privilege to welcome you all to this workshop on “Emergency Flood Planning and Management Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”. Floods cause serious disruption in normal human activity and often cause massive loss of human life and property. The workshop will showcase the applications and challenges of utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in pre- and post-flood management such as early warning system, search and rescue, data gathering, damage assessment, emergency communication, and logistics. This one day workshop will have three tracks. The first would be a series of invited lectures by eminent speakers who have distinguished themselves in areas that are directly related to the theme of the workshop and in related areas. Floods, as also many other natural disasters, engage the efforts of governments and private rescue and relief teams. They also pose problems that challenge technology development and require academic research. With this in mind, we carefully selected a mix of speakers who come with different backgrounds and experiences. We have two speakers from the academia, one from the government, two from the industry – one focusing on software products while the other in developing novel hardware, and two from private organizations which have volunteered to help flood victims and worked in flood affected areas. The talks will be followed by a poster session which will showcase many flood and drone related work related to the workshop theme and give a broad overview of the research and product development taking place in this important area. Finally, we will have a panel discussion with distinguished panelists who will discuss many important issues related to floods and usage of drones. Participation in this workshop is by invitation only. We aimed for a mix among the participants with diverse backgrounds like academics, government and industry; and involved students, young faculty, experienced researchers, and industry engineers. I trust that you will find this one day workshop, with its mix of interesting ideas, inspiring and invigorating and take back with you new ideas to address the various issues associated with this important disaster scenario, leveraging your own expertise and seeking collaborations with other participants in the workshop. In closing, let me welcome you once again and thank you all for taking time from your busy schedules to participate in this workshop. Debasish Ghose Professor, Indian Institute of Science Chair, Organizing Committee

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Welcome Note

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this Workshop. The issue of flooding is one

facing most countries around the world and the impact of a changing climate is set to

exacerbate the situation. So we look to technological developments to assist in the

prediction, management and control of the devastation and hardship that floods can

cause. In particular, we need to explore and develop the role of unmanned aerial vehicles

(drones) pre-, post- and during flood events. In this workshop we do just this with the help

of expert academics and practitioners. The event is part of an international research

project (Emergency flood planning and management using unmanned aerial systems) led

by the University of Exeter (UK) with partners Cranfield University (UK), IISc Bangalore and

IIITD Delhi. It is supported financially by the British Government under its Global Challenges

Research Fund. We look forward to the talks, the ensuing discussion and hope we can

develop future links to further develop this important and fascinating topic.

David Butler Professor, University of Exeter, UK Chair, International Advisory Committee

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Agenda: 18 September, 2019 (Wednesday)

Emergency Flood Planning and Management using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Aerospace Department Auditorium, IISc, Bangalore, India.

09:45 – 10:30 Welcome and Introductions / High Tea

10:30 – 11:00 Post-Disaster Management: Computing and Communication

Challenges

Sajal K. Das, Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor,

Computer Science Department, Missouri University of Science

and Technology

11:00 – 11:30 Adopting UAV (Drone) Technology in Mapping and

Hydrology of Flood Affected Areas

Mallikarjun B Gunge, Managing Director, Karnataka

Neeravari Nigam, Limited (KNNL), Bangalore

11:30 – 11:45 Tea Break

11:45 – 12:15 Automatic Disaster Victim Localization through Crowd-

sourcing and Convolutional Neural Networks

Pradipta Biswas, Assistant Professor, Centre for Product

Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore

12:15 – 12:45 Localizing Drone-based Disaster Response

Ruchi Saxena, Director, India Flying Labs

12:45 –13:15 Flood Modeling for India: Challenges in Reach and Scale

Ajai Tirumali, Software Engineer, Google India

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break

14:15 – 14:45 Drones for Societal Applications

Abhishek Burman, CEO, General Aeronautics

14:45 – 15:15 Drones for Rescue Operations: Experience from 2019

Karnataka Floods

Prathap NM, Founder and CEO, Aerowhale Space and

Technologies

15:15 – 16:00 Poster Session / Tea Break

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16:00 – 18:00 Panel Discussion

Role of Unmanned Systems in Flood Scenarios (Chair: Kota Harinarayana, Founder Chairman, General Aeronautics)

19:00 – 21:00 Workshop Dinner

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Sajal K. Das, Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor, Computer Science

Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Sajal K. Das is a professor of Computer Science and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013-2017. Previously, he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking at the University of Texas at Arlington. During 2008-2011, Dr. Das served the US National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director in the Computer and Network Systems Division. His

research interests include wireless sensor networks and drones, mobile and pervasive computing, crowd sensing, cyber physical systems and smart environments (smart city, smart grid, disaster management, smart health care), cloud computing, IoTs, cyber security, biological and social networks, and applied graph theory and game theory. Dr. Das has contributed significantly to these areas and published more than 300 papers in high quality journals, over 400 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, 53 book chapters, and 4 books. A holder of 5 US patents, he has directed numerous funded projects totaling over 16 million dollars. His h-index is 83 with more than 29,500 citations according to Google Scholar. He is a recipient of 10 Best Paper Awards and numerous awards for teaching, mentoring and scholarly research including the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks, and University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. Dr. Das has served as General and Program Chair of numerous conferences. He currently serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal, and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He has graduated 42 Ph.D., 32 M.S. thesis, and 9 postdocs. Dr. Das is an IEEE Fellow.

Post-Disaster Management: Computing and Communication Challenges

Following large-scale disasters like floods, earthquakes or hurricanes, existing communication (e.g., cell towers, the Internet) and other critical infrastructures (e.g., electric power lines, water distribution networks, roads, etc.) are often severely impaired. This hampers seamless exchange of information (e.g., status of survivors, relief requirements, supply chain of goods and services) between the search-rescue-relief teams and the control station monitoring a disaster area, thereby preventing post-disaster recovery operations in a timely manner. This talk will highlight the computing and communication challenges in resource-constrained post-disaster scenarios, utilizing responders equipped with wireless devices and easily deployable towers or drones for establishing temporary communication networks. Important algorithmic and optimization problems will be formulated along with small-scale pilot deployment results. The talk will be concluded with directions of future research.

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Mallikarjun B Gunge, Managing Director, Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Ltd

Mallikarjun B Gunge is the Managing Director of Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Limited (KNNL), which is a wholly owned Government of Karnataka Company, responsible for planning, investigation, estimation, execution, operation and maintenance of all irrigation projects. The Company is also entrusted with the responsibility of Rehabilitation and Resettlement of the people affected by the Project. The Company is authorised to sell water and recover revenues from individuals, groups of farmers including those in the Command Area Development Authority, towns, city

municipalities and industries. The Nigam aims at reviewing the planning and design aspects and monitoring the progress of the work and tracking field periodically by involving dedicated professional administrators, subject specialist and experienced engineers and other specialists in the field in order to clear bottle necks and ensure time bound progress of work.

Adopting UAV (Drone) Technology in Mapping and Hydrology of Flood Affected Areas

This talk will focus on effective utilisation of technology for accurate mapping and generation of watershed, simulate water level rise and preparation of flood inundation maps. It will address the issues related to reducing the need for deploying human into dangerous situations, faster response management with real time data delivery ensuring accurate service measures, providing an easier method to analyse the collected data, assessment of accurate flood discharge, and assessment of precautionary measures.

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Pradipta Biswas, Assistant Professor, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Pradipta Biswas is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing and affiliated faculty at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems of Indian Institute of Science. His research focuses on user modelling and multimodal human-machine interaction for aviation and automotive environments and for assistive technology. He set up and lead the Interaction Design Lab at CPDM, IISc. He is a Co-Chair of the IRG AVA, International Telecommunication Union and a Member of the UKRI International Development Peer Review College. Earlier, he was a Senior Research Associate at Engineering Department,

Fellow at Wolfson College and Research Associate at Trinity Hall of University of Cambridge. He is a member of the Society of Flight Test Engineers, was a professional member of the British Computer Society and Associate Fellow at the UK Higher Education Academy and Royal Society of Medicine. He completed PhD in Computer Science at the Rainbow Group of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Trinity College in 2010 and was awarded a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship in 2006. He undertook a master degree in Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Automatic Disaster Victim Localization through Crowd-sourcing and Convolutional Neural Networks A traditional remote sensing system deploy sensors in designated areas and uses a human operator to analyse and interpret sensor data. We propose to reverse the role of man and machine in such situations–augmenting a sensor network with crowdsourcing and using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to automatically analyse sensor data. The talk will present a user modelling system that can be used to develop application and device independent personalized user interfaces to collect data from victims of a disaster zone. We shall also present a modular drone payload that can automatically identify disaster victims from a drone camera using a CNN.

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Ruchi Saxena, Director, India Flying Labs

Ruchi Saxena is the Director of Caerobotics Consultancy and India Flying Labs. She is Global Health Systems and Disaster Management Consultant with over 15 years of experience in working with start-ups, healthcare corporates as well as social and humanitarian non-profit organisations. She works for auditing, training, consulting and implementing projects on healthcare ecosystem for quality and safety systems and protocols, disaster risk reduction and designing and implementing technologies such as IT systems and remote

health monitoring systems. She has worked on core process development, treatment and service quality, lean six sigma, patient safety protocols, hazards and risks assessments, disaster risk reduction, data analytics, business intelligence and measuring and designing patient experience. Her latest indulgence is application of unmanned aerial vehicles for social good applications. With her work with India Flying Labs, she is helping in creating an ecosystem for drones in healthcare, disasters, nature conservation and agriculture.

Localizing Drone-based Disaster Response

Drones can provide invaluable data before, during and after disasters Just after Nepal Earthquake the first Flying Labs was launched with an aim of localizing the disaster response using drone-based data. We will present the work done by various local experts in disasters around the world and give a glimpse of our work in India with our network of partners. We would share our idea about the UAV Rapid Response Task Force and the modus operandi of efficiently using drones for disasters.

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Ajai Tirumali, Software Engineer, Google India

Ajai Tirumali is currently a Software Engineer in the crisis response team at Google Bangalore. Ajai obtained his MTech from the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science. He worked at Cisco on networking and security. He joined Google over a decade ago and has worked on search, networking and developing products for the Indian users. Beyond computers, his interests include topics in sustainability such as energy, water and waste.

Floods forecasting for India: A product overview Google launched flood predictions for regions in Ganga and Brahmaputra basins in association with the Central Water Commission, Government of India. This initiative leverages the computational power combined with AI to provide high accuracy, high resolution riverine flood forecasts. The talk will give an overview of the forecasting process including aspects of preparation of data, modelling of water flow in large rivers and evaluation of the models including some of the challenges in this domain and the approach used to address some of them. It will also describe how the users are warned of the potential flooding. It will touch on possible applications of UAVs for both flood modelling and end-user needs during large scale flooding.

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Abhishek Burman, CEO, General Aeronautics

Abhishek Burman has close to two decades of experience in the field of aerodynamics & Aircraft design. He has played key role in Design & Development of India’s Combat Aircraft Programs at Aeronautical Development Agency and spearheaded Aerodynamics & Configuration Design towards concept study of Regional Transport Aircraft at National Aerospace Laboratories. His experience also includes Flow Physics investigations using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stealth Design, Flight Mechanics, Flight Data Analysis, Testing & Certification of Fighter Aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design, Multi-Disciplinary

Analysis & Optimization and Program Management. He is founder and CEO of General Aeronautics Pvt Ltd, a start-up company incubated at the Indian Institute of Science. Drones for Societal Applications

“Drone” which was originally envisioned as an instrument to aid human in performing D3 (Dull, Dirty & Dangerous) mission has today become a major force-multiplier to the mankind in improvising means of solving various societal problems. Solution to three such needs in Agriculture, Medical & Humanitarian Aid & Relief roles are highlighted in this talk titled “Drones for Societal applications”. The need for systems level thinking along with solution specific technological challenges shall be highlighted in the talk.

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NM Prathap, Founder and CEO, Aerowhale Space and Technologies

NM Prathap was a student of B.Sc. (CBZ) in the JSS College of Arts, Commerce and Science, in Mysore. He has taken part in many international drone expos arranged in India and abroad and won many awards. He works on sensor network for healthcare and human rescue missions. Recently, he was in the news for his exemplary volunteer service provided to the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) by using his drones to locate stranded people in remote flood affected areas. NM Prathap is founder and CEO of

Aerowhale Space and Technologies Pvt Ltd located at Bengaluru.

Drones for Rescue Operations: Experience from 2019 Karnataka Floods

This year, due to heavy monsoon rains, Karnataka, a southern state of India, faced severe flooding. Thousands of people were evacuated and more than 50 people lost their lives. Rising waters of river Krishna threatened the lives of several villagers in Athani, Belgaum district. Visual inspection was difficult. We, from the Aerowhale Space and Technologies, Bangalore, aided the rescue and evacuation process conducted by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) using our drones. Many stranded villagers, who otherwise would not have been found, were rescued because of the information provided by our drones. Additionally, drones also assisted rescue personnel in navigating the raging waters of the river. This talk will cover the experience we gained from these rescue operations along with case studies of specific operations.

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Panel Discussion

(Chair: Kota Harinarayana, Founder Chairman, General Aeronautics)

Kota Harinarayana was the Programme Director and Chief Designer of India's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, which has seen successful flight tests and is being inducted in the Indian Air Force. There are hardly any aircraft related programmes in the country that has not had the benefit of his vast experience. Recently, he turned his attention to building drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles that can be deployed in mission critical activities. Their use will range from aerial surveillance, terrain mapping and spraying of pesticides in fields to more ambitious tasks such as transporting live organs. He became the

founder chairman of the company General Aeronautics and has been the guiding spirit behind many of its innovative drone related products. He has held many positions in teh past such as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad and the President of the Aeronautical Society of India. He is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi) (bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science (master's in Aero Engineering) and IIT Bombay (PhD). He has been honoured with numerous awards the foremost among which is the prestigious Padma Shri award of the Government of India.

Theme: Role of Unmanned Systems in Flood Scenarios The panel discussion is intended to highlight various issues related to the use of drones in pre- and post-flood scenarios. Some of the issues that this panel discussion is intended to cover is related to use of drones to identify areas and regions occupied by the less privileged section of the population, where the available infrastructure is not adequate to handle emergencies engendered by floods, rapid enhancement of communication infrastructure in rural/tribal areas, building and maintaining UAV based infrastructure on a 24/7 basis, among many other relate issues. Panelists Sajal K. Das, Mallikarjun B Gunge, Pradipta Biswas, Ruchi Saxena, Abhishek Burman, Ajai

Tirumali, Prathap N M. (Invited Speakers☺

David William Rooke, Kapil Gupta (SAB Members)

David Butler, Prathyush P Menon, Christopher Edwards, Monica Rivas Casado, P B Sujit,

Pradeep Mujumdar, Debasish Ghose, (Project Partners)

Balamurali P, Kaushik Das (Industrial Partners)

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List of Posters

Land Water Boundary Detection using LIDAR Information Rohitkumar Arasanipalai and Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Drone-based Survivor Detection in Flood Scenarios Aakriti Agrawal and Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Weight-Based Trajectory Planning for Survivor Detection Sarthak J. Shetty, Rahul Ravichandran, and Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Optimal Coverage of a Flood Region Abhishek Kashyap and Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India UAV Aided Dynamic Routing of Resources in a Flood Scenario Abhishek Kashyap, Debasish Ghose, Prathyush P Menon, PB Sujit and Kaushik Das, Indian Institute of Science, University of Exeter, IIIT-Delhi, TCS Innovations Lab Game Theoretic Model Based Resource Allocation During Flood Rudrashis Majumder, Rakesh R Warier and Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Segmentation of Land-Water Boundaries and Flood Analytics using Drone-Vision Prabhu Pradhan, Sachin Shriwastav, Meenakshi Sarkar, Aakriti Agrawal, and Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Disaster Management Planning and Decision Making Architecture Shuvrangshu Jana, Abhishek Kashyap, and Debasish Ghose; Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

An Operating Decision Framework for the Use of UAVs in Flood Emergency Response Based on Experience in India and England Gloria Salmoral, Monica Rivas-Casado, Manoranjan Muthusamy, and Paul Leinster, Cranfield University, UK A Remote Sensing Based Integrated Approach to Quantify the Impact of Fluvial and Pluvial Flooding in an Urban Catchment Manoranjan Muthusamy, Monica Rivas Casado, Gloria Salmoral, and Paul Leinster, Cranfield University, UK

Urban Flood Model for Bangalore City Tom K Thomas, Claris Ann Thomas, Aisha Sharma, Kanneganti Bhargav Kumar, Greeshma G Gireesh, Dhanraj Barmavath, M Sridevi Priya, Saimy Davis, Suresh Kumar Thappeta, Ila Chawla, MS Mohan Kumar, and PP Mujumdar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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Real-Time Urban Flood Monitoring and Forecasting System for Bangalore City Saimy Davis, Aisha Sharma, Tom K Thomas, Claris Ann Thomas, M Sridevi Priya, Kanneganti Bhargav Kumar, Suresh Kumar Thappeta, Chandra Rupa R, Ila Chawla, PP Mujumdar, and MS Mohan Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Drones for Societal Applications Abhishek Burman, General Aeronautics, Bangalore, India

Maintaining Connectivity in Network with Non Cooperative Mobile Agents P P Menon, C Edwards, and Y Shtessel; University of Exeter, UK, Univ. of Alabama at Huntsville, USA Emergency Flood Evacuation Route Modelling Senthil Gurusamy and David Butler, Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, UK Dual-Layer Adaptive Super Twisting Observer Design for Robust Attitude Control D M K K Venkateswara Rao, P P Menon, C Edwards and P B Sujit; University of Exeter, UK, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi ROSNet: A WMN based Framework using UAVs and Ground Nodes for Disaster Management Neelabhro Roy, Sauranil Debarshi and P B Sujit, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi Right of Way Rules based Collision Avoidance Approach Using Model Predictive Control Yogesh Kumar, Amith Manoharan and P B Sujit, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi SDRE based Cooperative Path Following Akshath Singhal, P P Menon, and P B Sujit; Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, University of Exeter, UK Localizing a Depth Measuring Sensor Rolif Lima and Kaushik Das, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, Karnataka. Interactive Data Visualization

Somnath Arjun and Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Disaster Victim Localization using CNN Abhishek Mukhopadhyay,Logasrinivasan P, Soham Chakraborty, and Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (A few late breaking posters may be included during the poster session)

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List of Participants

Kota Harinarayana, General Aeronautics, Bangalore, India

Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Mallikarjun B Gunge, Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Ltd, Bangalore, India

Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Ruchi Saxena, India Flying Labs, India

Abhishek Burman, General Aeronautics, India

Ajai Tirumali,, Google India

Prathap N M, Aerowhale Space and Technologies, India

David William Rooke, Strategic Advisory Board Member, UK

Kapil Gupta, Strategic Advisory Board Member, IIT Bombay, India

David Butler, University of Exeter, UK

Prathyush P Menon, University of Exeter, UK

Christopher Edwards, University of Exeter, UK

Monica Rivas Casado, Cranfield University, UK

Balamurali P, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

P B Sujit, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Pradeep Mujumdar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Debasish Ghose, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Kaushik Das, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

S N Omkar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Joseph Mathew, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Radhakant Padhi, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Ashwini Ratnoo, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Suresh Sundaram, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

MS Mohan Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Sachit Rao, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India

Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Dwaipayan Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Satadal Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Anoop Jain, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India

Senthil Guruswamy, University of Exeter, UK

Mohan Dasari, University of Exeter, UK

Gloria Maria Salmoral Portillo, Cranfield University, UK

Manoranjan Muthusamy, Cranfield University, UK

Sauranil Debarshi, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Akshath Singhal, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Shivansh Rathi, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

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Yogesh Kumar, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Somnath Arjun, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Aisha Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Claris Ann Thomas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Tom K Thomas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Kanneganti Bhargav Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Saimy Davis, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Rakesh R Warier, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Rohitkumar A, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Rudrashis Majumder, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Aakriti Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Sarthak J Shetty, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Aditya Hegde, Doctoral Student, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Kuntal Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Nobin Paul, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Prabhu Pradhan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Abhishek Kashyap, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Suryadeep Nath, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Kumar Ankit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Shuvrangshu Jana, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Meenakshi Sarkar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Vidya Sumathy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Narayani Vedam, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Lima Agnel Tony, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Amritesh Maitra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Amit Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Abhishek Kumar Singh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Rajashekar V S, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Sreeja D, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

B Chaitanya, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

Rolif Lima, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

Durgakant Pushp, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

NS Abhinay, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

Chinmay Shinde, Research Fellow, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

(A few more registrants may be added on the day of the workshop)