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Hi, I am a Co-founder at Viksit Labs Foundation, where we work towards SDGs at the grassroots primarily using technology interventions.
Research Interests:
My work primarily involves evaluating and developing technologies for the underserved that bring about large-scale positive social impact. My core research areas and interests are in the domains of HCI, HAI, ICTD, AI for Social Good, and Agro-climatic forecasting & informatics.
In the past,
I have been a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the IWMI-Tata Program (ITP) of the International Water Management Institute, a CGIAR Research Institute advised by Dr Tushaar Shah, where I studied solarization of Indian agriculture, WEF nexus and groundwater usage in Indian agriculture using data from National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), India and remote monitoring data on Gujarat's Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY) - World’s largest pilot on grid-connected Solar Irrigation Pumps. Before this, I worked as a Research Investigator at IIT Kharagpur as an ICMR-IIT KGP Biodesign Fellow where I worked to identify needs in the medical sector of rural India. Before that, I interned at Microsoft Research Lab India where I was advised by Dr Kalika Bali and Dr Aditya Vashistha, where my work involved examining misinformation in rural India. I received my Master's Degree (M.Tech) in Rural Technology from IIT Guwahati in 2022 where I was advised by Prof Sudip Mitra and my Bachelor's Degree (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from IGIT, Sarang in 2016. I also worked as an Associate Consultant in Wipro Limited between my Masters and Bachelors for around 5 years.
When I am not working or writing code,
I spend time learning to play musical instruments or sing along with my guitar to rekindle my early childhood education in Hindustani Classical music. Here is my improvisation on Anandaloke Mangalaloke by Rabindranath Tagore on a guitar. When I am super bored I spend time thinking about the Collatz conjecture (3n+1).
Research and Industrial experiences:
Research and Industrial experiences:
- Co-Founder at Viksit Labs Foundation | May 2023 - Present
- Founded Viksit Labs to work on SDGs focusing on rural areas primarily using technology interventions.
- Research Intern at Microsoft Research Lab India | Jan 2025
- Human-Computer Interaction, user study on agricultural co-pilot.
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow at IWMI - CGIAR | 11 months, August 2023 - June 2024
- Study solarization and groundwater usage in Indian agriculture using the National Sample Survey (NSS) and Remote Monitoring data on the world’s largest pilot on grid-connected Solar Irrigation Pumps. Results include publication in IJAE.
- Mentor: Dr. Tushaar Shah, Emeritus Scientist - Senior Fellow, International Water Management Institute
- Research Investigator at ICMR-IIT Kharagpur, CLiMB Fellowship | 5 months, February 2023 - June 2023
- Development of medical devices for Indian needs. Performed field visits, need scoping, and identification in rural India.
- Research Intern at Microsoft Research Lab India | 6 months, June 2022 - December 2022
- Conducted research to examine misinformation in rural areas. Results include publication in PACM HCI, CSCW 2024.
- Mentors: Dr. Aditya Vashistha, Asst. Prof., Cornell University | Dr. Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Student Researcher at Agro-Eco Technology Lab, IIT Guwahati | 1 year, June 2021 - June 2022
- Conducted research on rainfall analysis and forecasting. Results include publication in a Springer book chapter.
- Mentor: Dr. Sudip Mitra, Professor - Head, SART, IIT Guwahati
- Associate Consultant at Wipro Limited, Bengaluru, India | 5 years, July 2017 - June 2022
- Conduct market research, and develop proof of concepts, and prototypes. Deliver pan-India sessions on networking.
- Mentor: Mr. Maulik Yagnik, Global Head, TSG, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Wipro Limited
🏆Awards:
🏆Awards:
- Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022
- Team lead of 5 - 3rd Place in "Hack for Positive Impact Entrepreneurs" Nov 2022
- Best MTech Thesis Award 2022
- Work on precipitation analysis and forecasting at SART, IIT Guwahati
- NRL Ideation 2021
- Team lead 2 - Among Top 4 in AI Material balance problem, final results: TBD Aug 2021
- Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge 2019
- Member of Research & Development Team of 3
- 1st in India, 2nd worldwide
- Qualified GATE 2019 in Mathematics
- All India Ranking: 581
- MHRD Scholarship by Govt. of India 2020-2022
Some Notable Projects:
Some Notable Projects:
- Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively disseminate information on groundwater governance to field staff/entry-level professionals in Civil Society organizations/agricultural extension organizations - Ongoing under Viksit Labs | 2024
- Supporters and collaborators: Dr. Aaditeshwar Seth, CoRE-Stack, IIT Delhi | Dr. Suchiradipta Banerjee - Policy Engagement Specialist, IWMI
- Organize Geo-Innovation Challenge on geospatial technologies for rural development - To be conducted December 9th-11th - Under Viksit labs | 2024
- Work done in collaboration with Dr Prashanth J, NIT Silchar. Website Link: Geo-Innovation Challenge (viksitlabs.in)
- Conversational AI Assistant for Persons with Disabilities - Affiliated with Wipro Limited | 2020 🏆
- 1st in Cisco India Partner innovation Challenge 2019 | 2nd in Global Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge 2019
- Conducted market & policy research to examine the gap between job availability & fitment for persons with disabilities (PwD). Further, developed a solution that allows PwDs to interact with industry applications using speech & minimize the gap.
- Identifying gaps in skill development programs for rural youth - Affiliated with Viksit Labs | 2023
- Supported the Govt. of Chhatisgarh, India by implementing a Yolo-based attendance monitoring system on underutilized CCTVs in skill-training institutes aimed at upskilling rural youth, to identify gaps and suggest plans for improving the service delivery
- Compliance Solution for Farmer Producer organizations (FPO) - Affiliated with Microsoft Research India | 2022 🏆
- 3rd in Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022
- Conducted semi-structured interviews with multiple FPO board members and CEOs to pinpoint compliance-related challenges faced by FPOs. Led a team of 5 to ideate and propose a technical solution to mitigate challenges.
- Supporting Rural Entrepreneurs in Meghalaya, India - Affiliated with Viksit Labs | 2024
- Supporting Rural entrepreneurs identified by Govt. of Meghalaya in their pursuit of establishing successful businesses and a stable livelihood in remote, resource-constrained environments by identifying and strengthening forward & backward linkages, and process optimization.
📜Publications, Conferences, and talks:
📜Publications, Conferences, and talks:
Refereed Publications and Conference Papers:
Refereed Publications and Conference Papers:
Accepted Full Paper at IndiaHCI Conference 2024, Nov 7-9, To be published in Springer, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Arnab Paul Choudhury, Nihal Patel. Lessons from Skill Development Programs - Livelihood College of Dhamtari. Pre-Print: Link
*The work was previously accepted as a poster in ACM’s COMPASS conference 2024 July 8-11
Accepted Summary Paper in the Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics (July-September 2024 issue, 79(3):661). Philip Kuriachen, Subhodeep Basu, Arnab Paul Choudhury, Shilp Verma, Tushaar Shah. Determinants of lease rents of village ponds for Aquaculture: Evidence from central Gujarat. DOI: 10.63040/25827510.2024.03.023. Link
*The work was previously accepted as a poster in ACM’s COMPASS conference 2024 July 8-11
Ananya Seelam*, Arnab Paul Choudhury*, Connie Liu*, Miyuki Goay*, Kalika Bali, and Aditya Vashistha. 2024. "Fact-checks are for the Top 0.1%": Examining Reach, Awareness, and Relevance of Fact-Checking in Rural India. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 56 (April 2024), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637333. * Equal contribution
Choudhury, A.P., Gupta, D., Mitra, S. (2023). Precipitation Analysis and Rainfall Forecasting for Kamrup Rural District. In: Mitra, S., Dasgupta, K., Dey, A., Bedamatta, R. (eds) Disaster Management and Risk Reduction: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches in the Indian Context. NERC 2022. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6395-9_19
Accepted Special Article at Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). Tushaar Shah, Shilp Verma, Rahul Rathod, Arnab Paul Choudhury, Gyan P Rai. The Case for Grid-connected Solar Irrigation Pumps: Evidence from Gujarat’s Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY). Vol. 60, Issue No. 11, 15 Mar, 2025 Link: The Case for Grid-connected Solar Irrigation Pumps | Economic and Political Weekly
Non-refereed or Lightly Refereed Reports, Presentations, Talks:
Non-refereed or Lightly Refereed Reports, Presentations, Talks:
Working paper: Arnab Paul Choudhury, Suchiradipta Bhattacharjee, Nihar Ranjan Sahoo. GWGames: Developing, and Evaluating Capabilities & Limitations of Prompt-Gaming for Groundwater Management. Link
Working paper on Solar Power for groundwater conservation. Tushaar Shah, Arnab Paul Choudhury, Rahul Rathod. Promoting Solar Power as a Water Saving Crop in India. Link
Invited as a domain expert at the Landscape Solvability workshop organized by IIT Delhi. Took part in the CoRE-Stack workshop: Landscape solvability, organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi representing Viksit Labs to ideate upon the use of digital technologies for community stewards managing natural resources. Letter of Invitation
Presented Master’s thesis on rainfall analysis and forecasting with an overview of precision agriculture at the India-Dalhousie Student Research Symposium 2022. Link: Certificate
Invited talk at "Technology Showcasing cum Kishan Mela, 2023" organized by ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Hailakandi, Letter of Invitation
Services rendered:
Services rendered:
- Reviewer for ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025
- Reviewer for the 5th Biennial African Human Computer Interaction Conference, AfriCHI 2025, ACM in-cooperation
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