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All news and updates, most recent first.

2026

Jun 9, 2026 ⚠️ OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE ON SOCIAL MEDIA IMPERSONATION: Read here.
Feb 15, 2026 I am looking for a summer research fellow (Jun-July, 2026) to work with me on Protein Representation Learning. [Apply here]

2025

Dec 26, 2025 I am in the program committee for IJCAI 2026 AI and Social Good.
Dec 1, 2025 I am joining BITS Pilani, Goa Campus as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science starting 11 Dec 2025. My primary research direction will be “AI for Science”.
Jun 3, 2025 Our Camformer paper is now published in Bioinformatics Advances.
Feb 16, 2025 Read our recent study on target-specific lead generation using LLMs and ILP: Preprint.
Jan 28, 2025 Read our recent study (Camformer) on gene regulation in yeast and XAI: Preprint.
Jan 27, 2025 Congratulations, Mohita and team for the journal accept for: Preprint.

2024

Dec 26, 2024 I am in the program committee for IJCAI 2025 AI and Social Good.
Dec 5, 2024 I talked on “Logically” Explainable Deep Learning at Cambridge AI Club: [slides].
Sep 28, 2024 I talked on Explainable Deep Learning at NIT Rourkela: [slides].
Jan 8, 2024 I am in the program committee for IJCAI 2024.
Jan 1, 2024 I am now a Postdoctoral Affiliate of Trinity College, Cambridge.

2023

Dec 9, 2023 Shreyas Bhat got a paper (preprint) accepted at AAAI-24 (Main Track).
Oct 10, 2023 I am joining the University of Cambridge, UK as a Research Associate starting Oct 2023. I will be working with Susanne Bornelöv and team.
Jul 14, 2023 Our paper on Compositional Relational Machines (CRMs) got accepted at MLJ.
Jun 21, 2023 Shreyas and Rohit got a paper accepted at ICIP 2023: [Preprint].
Apr 11, 2023 Soham got a paper accepted at EMBC 2023: [Preprint].
Mar 21, 2023 I won the Best PhD Thesis Award from my university!
Jan 4, 2023 I am now a member of the editorial board for PLOS One. Looking forward to new responsibilities in science.

2022

Dec 12, 2022 I am in the program committee for IJCAI 2023.
Oct 25, 2022 I am invited by the editor of the MethodsX journal to write a review article. I am open to collaboration on this.
Oct 10, 2022 Rishabh got a paper accepted at WACV 2023. The paper is also selected as a “Spotlight Paper”.
Oct 6, 2022 I will be talking about GNNs at AI Symposium 2022.
Aug 29, 2022 I will be giving a talk at Amity University Patna on Sep 2, 2022.
Jul 24, 2022 I will be giving a talk at IISER Pune on Jul 28, 2022.
Jul 19, 2022 I successfully defended my PhD. It is a beautiful feeling :-)
Jun 23, 2022 Woo-hoo! Next phase in career starts at UCSD from Sep 2022.
Jun 1, 2022 Read our latest research on Compositional Relational Machines (CRMs).
May 13, 2022 PhD Journey ends! I submitted my PhD thesis. Read the abstract.
Apr 20, 2022 Our paper won the “Best Short Paper Award” at ACMSE-2022. Congratulations Gunjan, Abheesht and Harshit!
Mar 25, 2022 I am in the program committee for ICANN-2022.
Feb 22, 2022 Gunjan, Abheesht and Harshit got a paper accepted at ACMSE-22: [Preprint].
Feb 15, 2022 I will be talking AI at Davis Institute for AI on Feb 25, 2022.
Jan 16, 2022 Join my course CS F425:Deep Learning at Google Classroom.
Jan 1, 2022 Adieu, 2021. Wishing you all a very happy and healthy new year 2022.

2021

Dec 31, 2021 I am in the program committee for IJCAI-ECAI 2022.
Dec 24, 2021 3 TA positions open for our Deep Learning course: Apply by 31 Dec 2021.
Dec 21, 2021 Our survey got accepted at Nature Scientific Reports.
Dec 21, 2021 I am in the technical program committee for IJCNN-2022.
Dec 6, 2021 To join the next-sem course on Meta-Learning: fill this form.
Dec 5, 2021 To work on a UG project formally under APPCAIR in the next sem, fill this form.
Nov 5, 2021 I presented our works at IJCLR-21: Talk1, Talk2, Talk3
Nov 1, 2021 Atharv got a paper accepted at AAAI-22 (Student Poster Track).
Oct 8, 2021 Our paper on Transformational Machine Learning got accepted at PNAS.
Sep 21, 2021 Our paper on inclusion of symbolic domain knowledge into GNNs using MDIE got accepted at Machine Learning Journal: [Preprint].
Sep 17, 2021 I am in the (program) committee for 27th DASFAA 2022.
Sep 14, 2021 I am in the (program) committee for AAAI-CLeaR Workshop-2022.
Sep 8, 2021 Sharad and Atharv got a paper accepted at AAIP-2021.
Aug 20, 2021 Join my course CS F425:Deep Learning at Google Classroom.
Aug 18, 2021 3 TA positions open for my Deep Learning course: Apply here.
Aug 16, 2021 Our paper on domain-knowledge assisted target-specific molecule generation got accepted at ILP 2020-21 @ IJCLR: [Preprint].
Jul 24, 2021 I am selected for the ICML 2021 CompBio Fellowship.
Jul 23, 2021 Read our latest survey on incorporating domain knowledge into Deep Nets.
Jun 15, 2021 Het and Ashwin got a paper accepted at ICANN-2021.
May 25, 2021 Read our research article on symbolic domain-knowledge inclusion into GNNs [Preprint].
Mar 30, 2021 Abheesht, Harshit, Gunjan and Yash got a submission accepted at SemEval-2021 [Preprint]
Mar 23, 2021 To work on a UG project formally with TD/AS in the next sem, fill this form.
Mar 12, 2021 I am selected to participate at the Google Research Graduate Symposium 2021.
Feb 25, 2021 I am in the program committee for ICANN-2021.
Feb 19, 2021 Our paper on incorporating symbolic domain knowledge into GNNs got accepted at Machine Learning Journal: [Preprint].
Feb 10, 2021 I am looking for a student to work on an ML research problem (requirements: Python, DBMS, PostgreSQL). Email me your CV.
Jan 7, 2021 To join the next-sem course on Meta-Learning: fill this G-form.

2020

Dec 17, 2020 I am in the technical program committee for IJCNN-2021.
Aug 17, 2020 Rishab, Soundarya and Adithya got a paper accepted at TIA-2020.
Aug 13, 2020 Rohit, Shikhar, and Siddhant got a paper accepted in CAAI Trans. Int. Tech..[Preprint]
Aug 2, 2020 Rishab and Soundarya got a paper accepted at MIL3ID-2020.
Jun 29, 2020 I am now officially affiliated with APPCAIR.
Jun 28, 2020 I am in the program committee for ICANN-2020.
Apr 30, 2020 Our work in Expert Systems is listed among the top 10% most read papers.
Apr 23, 2020 I have written and posted a new blog on Git and GitHub (all you need). It also appears on medium.com.
Mar 16, 2020 I am in the newspapers for my DST-AWSAR Award: The Goan, Navhind Times, Gomantak Times.
Feb 24, 2020 I won the AWSAR Award 2019 from DST, Govt. of India (Country Rank: 9 in Best-100 Category). Read the story here.
Jan 31, 2020 Sharan got a paper accepted at ESANN-2020.

2019

Dec 31, 2019 I am in the technical program committee for IJCNN-2020.
Sep 17, 2019 I presented our paper “Discrete Stochastic Search and Its Application to Feature-Selection for Deep Relational Machines” at ICANN-2019.