Congratulations Shivangi Singhal on winning the best poster award at IEEE BigMM19 for paper titled, “SPOTFAKE: A MULTI-MODAL FRAMEWORK FOR FAKE NEWS DETECTION”.

We are thrilled to announce that MIDAS team got the Honorable Mention Award of 2019 ICDM/ICBK KGC Contest. Congratulations to team Mehar Bhatia, Ritwik Mishra, Akash Gautam, Debanjan Mahata and Rajiv Ratn Shah.

Our team won the first prize in ACM INDIA Chapters Technology Solution Contest - 2019. It was sponsored by ICERTIS. We were awarded Rs 65,000 for being the winner of this challenge. https://t.co/SvboGpKG8v?amp=1

Congratulations Shivangi Singhal on getting selected for the TCS PhD fellowship.

Our paper titled, “Bagged Support Vector Machines for Emotion Recognition from Speech” is got accepted to the Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) journal with impact factor 4.529. Congrats authors, Anjali Bhavan; Pankaj Chauhan, Hitkul and Rajiv Ratn Shah.

We are on Facebook and Twitter now. www.facebook.com/midasIIITD and www.twitter.com/midasIIITD

Congratulations Vaishali for getting placed in Qualcomm.

A paper titled, “Harnessing AI for Speech Reconstruction using Multi-view Silent Video Feed”, got accepted in the Brave New Idea track of ACM Multimedia 2018 (approx 8% acceptance rate). Congratulation to authors: Yaman Kumar, Mayank Aggarwal, Pratham Nawal, Shin’ichi Satoh, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Roger Zimmerman.

MIDAS founder and collaborators, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Yifang Yin, and Roger Zimmermann published a full paper titled, “Learning and Fusing Multimodal Deep Features for Acoustic Scene Categorization”, in the ACM Multimedia 2018, a premier conference for multimedia research.

MIDAS students, Hitkul, Shivangi Singhal, and Himanshu Aggarwal, got selected for six months fully funded internship at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

MIDAS collaborator, Dr Debanjan Mahata, is appointed as an adjunct faculty at IIIT-Delhi.

MIDAS student, Shivangi Singhal, got selected for the ACM India Grad Cohort 2018 which will be held in IIIT Bombay.

MIDAS intern, Hitkul, enrolled for PhD under the supervision of Prof Rajiv Ratn Shah and Prof PK at IIITD.

We made our paper titled, “ #phramacovigilance - Exploring Deep Learning Techniques for Identifying Mentions of Medication Intake from Twitter”, online on Arxiv to the research community.

MIDAS founder, Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah, and collaborator, Dr. Debanjan Mahata, got their research paper, titled “Did you take the pill? – Detecting Personal Intake of Medicine from Twitter”, accepted in the special chapter of IEEE Intelligent Systems on Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis.

MIDAS founder, Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah, got selected for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum fellowship 2018 which will be held in Heidelberg, Germany.

Prof Rada Mihalcea from University of Michigan has delivered a keynote on “Multimodal Sensing of Human Behavior” in the MR2AMC workshop organized by MIDAS.

MIDAS founder, Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah, organized MR2AMC workshop in conjunction with IEEE MIPR conference at Miami, Florida, USA.

Professor Shin’ichi Satoh and Prof Henri Angelino from the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan visited MIDAS@IIITD to sign MOU between NII and IIIT-Delhi to establish research collaboration between two institutes. MIDAS founder, Prof Rajiv Ratn Shah, is the contact person at IIIT-Delhi for this research collaboration.

MIDAS students, Hitkul and Shivangi Singhal, got their research paper, titled “Aspect-Based Financial Sentiment Analysis using Deep Learning”, accepted in WWW 2018.

MIDAS founder, Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah, and collaborator, Dr. Debanjan Mahata, got their research paper, titled “Key2Vec: Automatic Ranked Keyphrase Extraction from Scientific Articles Using Phrase Embeddings”, accepted in NAACL 2018.

Our paper titled, “A Multimodal Approach to Predict Social Media Popularity “, got accepted in the MR2AMC workshop 2018

Our paper titled, “A Multimodal Approach to Predict Social Media Popularity “, got accepted in the MR2AMC workshop 2018

MIDAS workshop proposal, MR2AMC, is accepted in the IEEE MIPR conference which will be held at Miami, Florida, USA.

Shivangi Singhal joined as the first PhD student of the MIDAS lab under the supervision of Prof Rajiv Ratn Shah and Prof Tanmoy Chakraborty.

Hitkul joined as the first intern of the MIDAS lab under the supervision of Prof Rajiv Ratn Shah.

Prof Rajiv Ratn Shah founded the MIDAS lab.