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2024


News-event driven forecasting of commodity prices. Sunandan Chakraborty, Ashwin Venkataraman, Srikanth Jagabathula, and Lakshminarayan Subramanian. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Journal, (To appear, 2024)
Finalist in the INFORMS 2023 Data Mining Best Paper Award Competition (General Track)
Selected for MSOM iFORM Special Interest Group (SIG) Conference, 2023.


2023


Beyond The Text: Analysis of Privacy Statements through Syntactic and Semantic Role Labeling. Yan Shvartzshnaider, Ananth Balashankar, Thomas Wies, and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. 5th Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop at EMNLP , 2023 [arxiv]

Fast Kernel-based Association Testing of non-linear genetic effects for Biobank-scale data. Boyang Fu, Ali Pazokitoroudi, Mukund Sudarshan, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, and Sriram Sankararaman. Nature Communications, 2023. [link]

Predicting food crises using news streams. Ananth Balashankar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Samuel Fraiberger. Science Advances , 2023. [pdf]

Learning Conditional Granger Causal Temporal Networks. Ananth Balashankar, Srikanth Jagabathula, and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian Causal Learning and Reasoning Conference (CLeaR). 2023. [pdf]


2022


Understanding Sudden Traffic Jams: From Emergence to Impact. Ankit Bhardwaj*, Shiva R. Iyer*, Sriram Ramesh, Jerome White, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Development Engineering: Journal of Engineering in Economic Development. December 2022. [link]

Modeling Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Pollution Maps with Low-Cost Sensors. Shiva R. Iyer*, Ananth Balashankar*, William H. Aeberhard, Sujoy Bhattacharyya, Giuditta Rusconi, Lejo Jose, Nita Soans, Anant Sudarshan, Rohini Pande, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. npj Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. October 2022. [link]

Assessing the Impact of JavaScript Dead Code Elimination on Mobile Web Performance. Jesutofunmi Kupoluyi, Moumena Chaqfeh, Matteo Varvello, Russell Coke, Waleed Hashmi, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Yasir Zaki. ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC. October 2022. [link]

Using a national level cross-sectional study to develop a Hospital Preparedness Index (HOSPI) for Covid-19 management: A case study from India. Bhanu Duggal ,Mona Duggal,Aparna Panch,Mithlesh Chourase,Praveen Gedam,Pushpendra Singh,Sujata Saunik,Lakshminarayan Subramanian. PLOS ONE. July 2022. [link]

JSAnalyzer: A Web Developer Tool for Simplifying Mobile Web Pages Through Non-Critical JavaScript Elimination. Moumena Chaqfeh, Russell Coke, Jacinta Hu, Waleed Hashmi, Lakshmi Subramanian, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki. ACM Trans. Web. June 2022. [link]

Breakthroughs and Applications of Organ-on-a-Chip Technology. Mufeeda C. Koyilot, Priyadarshini Natarajan, Clayton R. Hunt, Sonish Sivarajkumar, Romy Roy, Shreeram Joglekar, Shruti Pandita, Carl W. Tong, Shamsudheen Marakkar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Shalini S. Yadav, Anoop V. Cherian, Tej K. Pandita, Khader Shameer, Kamlesh K. Yadav. Cells. June 2022. [link]

Targeted Policy Recommendations using Outcome-aware Clustering. Ananth Balashankar, Samuel Fraiberger, Eric Deregt, Marelize Gorgens, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS). June 2022. [link]

QLUE: A Computer Vision Tool for Uniform Qualitative Evaluation ofWeb Pages. Moumena Chaqfeh Waleed Hashmi, Lakshmi Subramanian, Yasir Zaki. The ACM Web Conference (WWW 2022). [pdf]

To Block or Not to Block: Accelerating Mobile Web Pages On-The-Fly Through JavaScript Classification. Moumena Chaqfeh, Muhammad Haseeb, Waleed Hashmi, Patrick Inshuti, Manesha Ramesh, Matteo Varvello, Lakshmi Subramanian, Fareed Zaffar, Yasir Zaki. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2022), Seattle, USA, June 27-29, 2022. [link]

Learning Pollution Maps from Mobile Phone Images. Ankit Bhardwaj, Shiva R. Iyer, Yash Jalan, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. IJCAI, 2022 (oral presentation). [pdf]

ALCC: Migrating Congestion Control to the Application Layer in Cellular Networks. Yasir Zaki, Muhammad Khan, Shiva R. Iyer, Talal Ahmad, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Journal of Systems Research (JSYS). [link]

The need for transparent demographic group trade-offs in Credit Risk and Income Classification. Ananth Balashankar, Alyssa Lees. iConference 2022. [pdf]

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2021


High Precision Mammography Lesion Identification from Imprecise Medical Annotations. Ulzee An, Ankit Bhardwaj, Shameer Khader, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Frontiers in Big Data: Medicine and Public Health. 2021. [Full Text]

Predictive modelling of susceptibility to substance abuse, mortality and drug-drug interactions in opioid patients. Ramya Dhatri Vunikili, Benjamin S Glicksberg, Kipp Johnson, Joel Dudley, Shameer Khader, Lakshminarayan Subramanian. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Medicine and Public Health. 2021. [Full Text]

Deep Significance Clustering: a novel approach for identifying risk-stratified and predictive patient subgroups. Yufang Huang, Yifan Liu, Peter A D Steel, Kelly M Axsom, John R Lee, Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Fei Wang, Jyotishman Pathak, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Yiye Zhang. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) (oral presentation at AMIA). 2021. [Full Text]

Learning Faithful Representations of Causal Graphs. Ananth Balashankar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Conference of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2021. [pdf]

Can We Improve Model Robustness through Secondary Attribute Counterfactuals?. Ananth Balashankar, Xuezhi Wang, Ben Packer, Nithum Thain, Ed Chi, Alex Beutel. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2021. [pdf]

CollectiveTeach: A System To Generate And Sequence Web-Annotated Lesson Plans. Rishabh Ranawat, Ashwin Venkataraman, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '21).. [Full Text]

The Case for Model-Driven Interpretable Congestion Control. Muhammad Khan, Yasir Zaki, Talal Ahmad, Shiva Iyer, Anirudh Sivaraman, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR). Jan 2021. [pdf]

CONTRA: Contrarian statistics for controlled variable selection. Mukund Sudarshan, Aahlad Manas Puli, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Sriram Sankararaman, Rajesh Ranganath. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS). 2021. [link]

Enhancing Neural Recommender Models through Domain-Specific Concordance. Ananth Balashankar, Alex Beutel, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM). 2021. [pdf]

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2020


The Importance of Long-Term Care Populations in models of COVID-19. Karl Pillemer, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Nathaniel Hupert. Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). 2020. [Link] [pdf]

A Conditional Gradient Approach for Nonparametric Estimation of Mixtures of Choice Models. Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ashwin Venkataraman. Management Science. 2020. [Link] [pdf]

Sepsis in the era of data-driven medicine: personalizing risks, diagnoses, treatments and prognoses. Andrew C Liu, Krishna Patel, Ramya Dhatri Vunikili, Kipp W Johnson, Fahad Abdu, Shivani Kamath Belman, Benjamin S Glicksberg, Pratyush Tandale, Roberto Fontanez, Oommen K Mathew, Andrew Kasarskis, Priyabrata Mukherjee, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Joel T Dudley, Khader Shameer. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2020. [Link] [pdf]

Quantifying the impact of dengue containment activities using high-resolution observational data. Nabeel Abdur Rehman, Henrik Salje, Moritz U G Kraemer, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Simon Cauchemez, Umar Saif, Rumi Chunara. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2020. [Link] [pdf]

The Case for MUSIC: A Programmable IoT Framework for Mobile Urban Sensing Applications. Shiva R. Iyer, Soumie Kumar, Kate Boxer, Fatima Zarinni, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. arXiv. [Link]

Quantifying Risks of Food Insecurity by Analyzing News Media. Ananth Balashankar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Samuel Fraiberger. International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). 2020.

JSCleaner: Decluttering Mobile Web pages through Javascript Cleanup. Moumena Chaqfeh, Yasir Zaki, Jacinta Hu and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW). 2020. [Link] [pdf]

PQual: Automating Web Pages Qualitative Evaluation. Waleed Hashmi, Moumena Chaqfeh, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian and Yasir Zaki. ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST). 2020. (Demo paper) [Link] [pdf]

A Hyperlocal Mobile Web for the Next 3 Billion Users. Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Arko Chatterjee, Mukund Lal, Yasir Zaki and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM Mobicom 2020. (Demo paper) [Link] [pdf]

Forecasting Sparse Traffic Congestion Patterns using Message-Passing RNNs. Shiva R. Iyer, Ulzee An, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2020. [Link] [pdf]

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2019


Identifying Predictive Causal Factors from News Streams. Ananth Balashankar, Sunandan Chakraborty, Samuel Fraiberger, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2019. [pdf]

Learning Congestion State for mmWave Channels. Talal Ahmad, Shiva Iyer, Luis Diez, Yasir Zaki, Ramón Agüero, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. 3rd ACM MobiCom Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets). 2019. [pdf]

Going Against the (Appropriate) Flow: A Contextual Integrity Approach to Privacy Policy Analysis. Yan Shvartzshnaider, Noah Apthorpe, Nick Feamster, Helen Nissenbaum. 7th AAAI conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP). 2019.

Disaster Privacy/Privacy Disaster. Madelyn Sanfilippo, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Irwin Reyes, Helen Nissenbaum, Serge Egelman. 47th Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. 2019. [pdf]

Pareto Efficient Fairness for Skewed Subgroup Data. Ananth Balashankar, Alyssa Lees, Chris Welty, Lakshminarayan Subramanian. ICML Workshop on AI for Social Good. 2019. Best paper. [pdf]

Reconstructing the MERS Disease Outbreak from News. Ananth Balashankar, Aashish Dugar, Lakshminarayan Subramanian, Samuel Fraiberger. 2nd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS). 2019. [pdf]

Fairness Sample Complexity and the Case for Human Intervention. Ananth Balashankar, Alyssa Lees. AI-HCI Workshop at CHI 2019. 2019. [pdf]

GAIUS: A New Mobile Content Creation and Diffusion Ecosystem for Emerging Regions. Talal Ahmad, Yasir Zaki, Thomas Pötsch, Jay Chen, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). 2019. [pdf]

VACCINE: Using Contextual Integrity For Data Leakage Detection. Yan Shvartzshnaider, Zvonimir Pavlinovic, Ananth Balashankar, Thomas Wies, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Helen Nissenbaum and Prateek Mittal. 30th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW). 2019. [pdf]

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2018


A Model-based Embedding Technique for Segmenting Customers. Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ashwin Venkataraman (alphabetical order). Operations Research. 2018. [Link]

Urban Traffic Congestion Mapping Using Bus Mobility Data. Shiva Iyer, Kate Boxer, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and User Modelling for Smart Cities. 2018. [pdf]

Mammography Assessment using Multi-Scale Deep Classifiers. Ulzee An, Shameer Khader, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Machine Learning for Medicine and Healthcare (MLMH). 2018. [pdf]

Maximizing Coverage of EMS services in New York City using a Double Standard Model. Henry Dinhofer, Prateek Sappadla, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Mining Urban Data (MUD). 2018. [pdf]

Unsupervised Word Influencer Networks from News Streams. Ananth Balashankar, Sunandan Chakraborty, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing (ECONLP). 2018. [pdf]

RECIPE: Applying Open Domain Question Answering to Privacy Policies. Yan Shvartzshnaider, Ananth Balashankar, Thomas Wies, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering (MRQA). 2018. [pdf]

Linkage-Disequilibrium Regularized Support Vector Machines for Genome-Wide Association Studies. Mukund Sudarshan, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ICML/IJCAI Workshop on Computational Biology (WCB). 2018. [pdf]

Causal Inference from News Streams. Ananth Balashankar, Sunandan Chakraborty, Samuel Fraiberger, Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ICML/IJCAI/AAMAS Workshop on Machine Learning for Causal Inference, Counterfactual Prediction, and Autonomous Action (CausalML). 2018. [pdf]

Data-Driven Probabilistic Framework for Student Learning. Rishabh Ranawat, Ashwin Venkataraman, Shiva Iyer, Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ICML Workshop on AI and Computational Psychology: Theories, Algorithms and Applications (CompPsy). 2018. [pdf]

Application-Level Congestion Control: Overcoming TCP's limitations in Cellular Networks. Yasir Zaki, Thomas Potsch, Talal Ahmad, Tai Liu, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Usenix Annual Technical Conference (ATC). 2018. (extended abstract) [pdf]

GreenApps: A Platform for Cellular Edge Applications. Talal Ahmad, Edwin Reed Sanchez, Fatima Zarinni, Alfred Afutu, Kessir Adjaho, Yaw Nyarko, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS). 2018. [pdf]

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2017


Wi-Fly: Widespread Opportunistic Connectivity via Commercial Air Transport. Talal Ahmad, Ranveer Chandra, Ashish Kapoor, Michael Daum, Eric Horvitz. 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets). 2017. [pdf]

Fake vs Real Goods Problem: Microscopy and Machine Learning to the Rescue. Ashlesh Sharma, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Vidyuth Srinivasan, Vishal Kanchan. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2017. [pdf]

Identifying Unreliable and Adversarial Workers in Crowdsourced Labeling Tasks. Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ashwin Venkataraman (alphabetical order). Journal of Machine Learning Resarch (JMLR). 2017. [pdf]

More than a Feeling: The MiFace Framework for Defining Facial Communication Mappings. Crystal Butler, Stephanie Michalowicz, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Winslow Burleson. 30th ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Symposium. 2017. [pdf]

xCache: Rethinking Edge Caching for Developing Regions. Ali Raza, Yasir Zaki, Thomas Potsch, Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). 2017. [pdf]

CollectiveTeach: Crowdsourcing Lesson Plans. Ashwin Venkataraman, Rishabh Ranawat, Sepehr Vakil, Jay Chen, Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Advancing Education with Data (EDU-KDD). 2017. [pdf]

Virtual Cellular ISPs. Talal Ahmad, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM MobiCom SmartObjects Workshop. 2017. (invited paper) [pdf]

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2016


Fine-Grained Dengue Forecasting using Telephone Triage Services Nabeel Abdur Rehman, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Talal Ahmad, Fahad Pervaiz, Umar Saif, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Science Advances. 08 July 2016. [pdf]

Learning Privacy Expectations by Crowdsourcing Contextual Informational Norms. Yan Shvartzshnaider, Schrasing Tong, Thomas Wies, Paula Kift, Helen Nissenbaum, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Prateek Mittal. Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016). [pdf]

Extracting Signals from News Streams for Disease Outbreak Prediction. Sunandan Chakraborty, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) 2016. [pdf]

Satellite Image Analytics, Land Change and Food Security. Sunandan Chakraborty, Zohaib Jabbar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. KDD 2016 Workshop on Data Science for Food, Energy and Water (DS-FEW). [pdf]

Alphacodes: Usable, Secure Transactions with Untrusted Providers using Human Computable Puzzles. Ashlesh Sharma, Varun Chandrasekaran, Fareeha Amjad, Dennis Shasha, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Seventh ACM Symposium on Computing and Development (ACM DEV 2016). [pdf]

The Effects of the Content of FOMC Communications on US Treasury Rates. Sunandan Chakraborty, Christopher Rohlfs, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2016. (short paper) [pdf]

Predicting Socio-Economic Indicators using News Events. Sunandan Chakraborty, Ashwin Venkataraman, Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2016. [pdf]

Crowdsourced Facial Expression Mapping Using a 3D Avatar. Crystal Butler, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Stephanie Michalowicz. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2016 (extended abstract). Best paper honorable mention. [pdf]

Crowdsourced Learning. Ashwin Venkataraman, Shiva Iyer, Kunal Gugale, Sepehr Vakil, Abhijai Garg, Jay Chen, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Lakshmi Subramanian. Collective Intelligence 2016. [pdf]

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2015


Adaptive Congestion Control for Unpredictable Cellular Networks Yasir Zaki, Thomas Pötsch, Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Carmelita Görg. Proceedings of 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). August 2015. [pdf]

Extreme Web Caching for Faster Web Browsing. Ali Raza, Yasir Zaki, Thomas Pötsch, Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 45, No. 4. October 2015. [link]

Solar vs Diesel: Where to draw the line for cell towers? Talal Ahmad, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Fareeha Amjad, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD), 2015. [pdf]

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2014


Dissecting Web Latency in Ghana. Yasir Zaki, Thomas Pötsch, Jay Chen, Talal Ahmad, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2014. [pdf]

Rethinking Privacy by Definition in Online Social Networks. Asia Pacific Workshop on Systems (ApSys) 2014. Matt Tierney, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. [pdf]

TAQ: Enhancing Fairness and Performance Predictability in Small Packet Regimes. Jay Chen, Janardhan Iyengar, Bryan Ford, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. European Conference on Computer Systems (EUROSYS), 2014. [pdf]

Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence in the Developing World. Vanessa Frias Martinez, John Quinn, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. AI Magazine, Special Issue on Computational Sustainability. [pdf]

Reputation-based Worker Filtering in Crowdsourcing. Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshmi Subramanian, Ashwin Venkataraman. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 27, 2014. [pdf]

Extraction Of (Key,Value) Pairs From Unstructured Ads. Sunandan Chakraborty, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Yaw Nyarko. Natural Language Access to Big Data, AAAI Fall Symposium, 2014, Washington, DC, USA. [pdf]

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2013


Cryptagram: Photo Privacy for Online Social Media. Matt Tierney, Ian Spiro, Chris Bregler, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), Boston. [pdf]

Interactive Web Caching for Slow or Intermittent Networks. Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. 4th ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV-4). [pdf]

Microscopic paper fingerprinting. Ashlesh Sharma, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. SPIE Newsroom in Defense & Security. [pdf]

Experiences in Designing a Mobile GIS Mapping Tool for Rural Farmers in Ghana. Sunandan Chakraborty, Tiffany Tong, Jay Chen, Afshan Aman, Talal Mufti, Yaw Nyarko, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM DEV, 2013, Cape Town, South Africa. [pdf]

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2012


Cost-aware Mobile Web Browsing. Sindhura Chava, Rachid Ennaji, Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Sept 2012. [pdf]

TrickleDNS: Bootstrapping DNS Security using Social Trust. Sriram Sankararaman, Jay Chen, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian 4th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India. (invited paper) [pdf]

Computing the Rate of Disappearance of Cropland Using Satellite Images. Sunandan Chakraborty, Scot Dalton, Yaw Nyarko, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. International Conference of Computational Sustainability (CompSust, 2012), Copenhagen, Denmark. [pdf]

Road Traffic Congestion in the Developing World. Vipin Jain, Ashlesh Sharma, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV), 2012. [pdf]

On the Feasibility and Utility of Web based Educational Lesson Plans. Sunandan Chakraborty, Jay Chen, Mangala Kanthamani, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM DEV 2012, Atlanta, USA. [pdf]

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2011


PaperSpeckle: Microscopic Fingerprinting of Paper. Ashlesh Sharma, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian and Eric Brewer. ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2011. [pdf]

WiRE: A New Rural Connectivity Paradigm. Aditya Dhananjay, Matt Tierney, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGCOMM 2011. (demo paper) Winner of Best Demo award. [pdf]

TCP Behavior in Sub-Packet Regimes. Jay Chen, Janardhan Iyengar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Bryan Ford. ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 (extended abstract). [pdf]

Design and Implementation of Contextual Information Portals. Jay Chen, Russell Power, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jonathan Ledlie. World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2011, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

Analyzing and Acceleration Web Access in a school in Peri-urban India. Jay Chen, David Hutchful, Bill Thies, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2011, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

Optimal Social-network based Sybil-resilient Node Admission Control. Nguyen Tran, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Sherman Chow. INFOCOM, 2011. [pdf]

Location Specific Summarization of Climatic and Agricultural Trends. Sunandan Chakraborty, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2011, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

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2010


Comparing Web Interaction Models in Developing Regions. Jay Chen, Aditya Dhananjay, Saleema Amhershi, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV), 2010. [pdf]

UjU: SMS Applications Made Easy. Wei Chih Lu, Matt Tierney, Jay Chen, Faiz Kazi, Alfredo Hubard, Jesus GarciaPasquel, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Bharat Rao. First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV), 2010. [pdf]

SMS-based Web Search on Low-end Mobile Devices. Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. ACM MOBICOM, 2010. [pdf]

Data Transmission over Unknown Acoustic Channels. Aditya Dhananjay, Ashlesh Sharma, Michael Paik, Jay Chen, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM MOBICOM, 2010. [pdf]

SIMbaLink: Towards a Decentralized and Sustainable Solar-based Rural Electrification System. Meredith Hasson, Nahanalei Schilling, Ariel Navarez, Sara Lee, Matt Tierney, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD), 2010. [pdf]

Improving Social Network Based Sybil-resilient Node Admission Control. Nguyen Tran, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Sherman Chow. ACM PODC, 2010. (brief announcement) [pdf]

Collusion Resilient Credit-based Reputations for Peer-to-peer Content Distribution. Nguyen Tran, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Sherman Chow. Workshop on Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (NetEcon), 2010. [pdf]

Networked Systems for Developing Regions. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Tutorial at EUROSYS, 2010. Tutorial slides: [Part-1 pdf] [Part-2 pdf]

Contextual Information Portals. Jay Chen, Trishank Karthik, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. AAAI Spring Symposium on AI for Development (AAAI), 2010, Stanford, USA. [pdf]

Document Classification for Focused Topics. Russell Power, Jay Chen, Trishank Karthik, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. AAAI Spring Symposium on AI for Development (AAAI), 2010, Stanford, USA. [pdf]

The Case for Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy. Nathan Silberman, Kristy Ahlrich, Rob Fergus, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. AAAI Spring Symposium on AI for Development (AAAI), 2010, Stanford, USA. [pdf]

Human-Enabled Microscopic Environmental Sensing and Feedback. Prabal Dutta, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. AAAI Spring Symposium on AI for Development (AAAI), 2010, Stanford, USA. [pdf]

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2009


SigNet: Low Cost Auditable Transactions using SIM cards and Mobile Phones. Michael Paik, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SOSP Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), 2009. Selected as one of the top papers from NSDR 2009 or ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2009. [pdf]

Secure Branchless Banking. Ashlesh Sharma, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Dennis Shasha. ACM SOSP Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), 2009. [pdf]

Practical, Decentralized Channel Assignment and Routing in Dual-radio Mesh Networks. Aditya Dhananjay, Hui Zhang, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGCOMM 2009. [pdf]

On the Rise and Fall of ISPs. Ashlesh Sharma, Nathan Silberman, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Nicholas Economides. Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (NetEcon), 2009. [pdf]

ELMR:Efficient Lightweight Mobile Health Records. Arvind Kumar, Jay Chen, Arthur Meacham, Amey Purandare, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM SIGMOD, 2009. (demo paper) [pdf]

RuralCafe: Web Search in the Rural Developing World. Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jinyang Li. World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2009. [pdf]

ATMosphere: A System for ATM Microdeposit Services in Rural Contexts. Michael Paik, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. IEEE/ACM Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), 2009. [pdf]

Sybil Resilient Online Content Voting. Nguyen Tran, Bonan Min, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. ACM/USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2009. [pdf]

A Two-Party Computation Model for Privacy Preserving Queries over Distributed Databases. Sherman Chow, Jie Han Lee, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Networks and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS), 2009. [pdf]

Web Browsing Behavior under Poor Connectivity. Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Kentaro Toyama. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2009 (extended abstract). [pdf]

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2008


An Adaptive High-Performance MAC for Long-Distance Multihop Wireless Networks. Sergiu Nedevschi, Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. ACM MOBICOM 2008. [pdf]

Secure Rural Supply Chain Management using Low Cost paper Watermarking. Ashlesh Sharma, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR) 2008. [pdf]

Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Networks Alive. Sonesh Surana, Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Manuel Ramos, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. ACM/USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2008. [pdf]

One More Bit is Enough. Yong Xia, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ion Stoica, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2008. [pdf]

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2007


WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High-Performance Wifi-based Long Distance Networks. Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Sonesh Surana, Anmol Sheth, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. ACM/USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2007. [pdf]

Packet Loss Characterization in Wifi-based Long Distance Networks. Anmol Sheth, Sergiu Nedevschi, Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. IEEE INFOCOM, 2007. [pdf]

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