About

Subhashis Banerjee is a professor of computer science at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.

Subhashis was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi from 1990 till August 2023. From June 2021 to May 2023 he was at the Ashoka University on leave from IITD. At IITD he has held the Ministry of Urban Development, Microsoft and Naren Gupta chair professorships. He was the head of the department of computer science at IIT Delhi between 2004-2007 and head of the computer services centre between 2009-2014. Subhashis was also associated with the School of Public Policy and the Centre for Transportation Research and Injury Prevention at IIT Delhi.

Subhashis’ primary areas of research are computer vision and machine learning, with a special emphasis on geometric algorithms. He has been on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Computer Vision and Computers and Graphics, and has published in leading journals and conferences. He has also worked extensively on design of computing and networking infrastructure and IT services and in developing the supercomputing infrastructure at IIT Delhi, which is one of the largest in the country. He has been an academic visitor to several universities and research laboratories all over the world.

Recently he has also developed an interest in policy issues in digitalisation and society, including digital identity, electronic voting, data and privacy protection, and fairness and reliability of machine learning algorithms.

Subhashis graduated in electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1982 and did his Master’s and PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 1984 and 1989 respectively.

Recent research

Privacy and security Elctronic voting Computational radiology Computer vision qnd machine learning

Privacy and Security in large public service applications

Governments around the world – and India in particular – are trying to build large data registries for effective delivery of a variety of public services. However, these efforts are often undermined due to serious concerns over privacy risks associated with collection and processing of personally identifiable information. While a rich set of special- purpose privacy-preserving techniques exist in computer science, they are unable to provide end-to-end protection in alignment with legal principles in the absence of an overarching operational architecture to ensure purpose limitation and protection against insider attacks. This either leads to weak privacy protection in large designs, or adoption of overly defensive strategies to protect privacy by compromising on utility.

We investigate the issues in designing an operational architecture for privacy-by-design based on independent regulatory oversight stipulated by most data protection regimes, regulated access control, purpose limitation and data minimisation.

  • Traceable mixnets. Prashant Agrawal, Abhinav Nakarmi, Mahavir Prasad Jhawar, Subodh Sharma, Subhashis Banerjee. Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium (PoPETs/PETS), July 2024. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08138).
  • On health data architecture design. Prashant Agrawal, Subodh Sharma, Ambuj Sagar, Subhashis Banerjee. Book chapter in Private and controversial: When public health and privacy meet in India. Edited by Smriti Parsheera. Harper Collins. January, 2023. (https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~suban/reports/ndhm2.pdf)
  • Elements of an accountability-based framework for privacy protection. Prashant Agrawal, Anubhutie Singh, Malavika Raghavan, Subodh Sharma, Subhashis Banerjee. 2021. (working paper)
  • An operational architecture for privacy-by-design in large public service applications. Prashant Agrawal, Subodh Sharma, Subhashis Banerjee. 2020 (working paper)
  • Privacy concerns with Aadhaar. Subhashis Banerjee, Subodh Sharma. Commun. ACM 62(11): 80, 2019.
  • Privacy and Security of Aadhaar: A Computer Science Perspective. Shweta Agrawal, Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. Economic and Political Weekly, September 2017.

Electronic voting

India’s parliamentary election is the largest in the world, with 543 constituencies and well over 1 million voters per constituency on the average, and voting is conducted electronically since 2004. However, there is considerable doubt about the integrity of both the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) used by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the procedure for maintaining and updating voters lists.

We analyse the ECI solutions from the points of view of verifiability and compliance with democratic principles. We also investigate a) the possibility of end-to-end verifiable electronic voting that can support voter-verified paper audit trails in a closely coupled manner, and b) the issues with security, integrity and privacy of electoral rolls.

Computational radiology

In collaboration with the radiology group at AIIMS, New Delhi, we investigate improved detection of breast cancer from mammograms in situations where the presentation is obscure and difficult. We also investigate using other auxiliary information to improve the accuracy of detection.

In a one-off problem, we also addressed detection of Covid from chest X-Ray in a hospital setting.

  • Simulation training in mammography with AI-generated images: a multireader study. Krithika Rangarajan, Veeramakali Vignesh Manivannan, Harpinder Singh, Amit Gupta, Hrithik Maheshwari, Rishparn Gogoi, Debashish Gogoi, Rupam Jyoti Das, Smriti Hari, Surabhi Vyas, Raju Sharma, Shivam Pandey, V. Seenu, Subhashis Banerjee, Vinay Namboodiri and Chetan Arora. European Radiology. August 2024. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-024-11005-x)
  • Reproducibility and Explainability of Deep Learning in Mammography: A Systematic Review of Literature. Deeksha Bhalla, Krithika Rangarajan, Tany Chandra, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. The Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging. October 2023. (10.1055/s-0043-1775737)
  • Deep learning for detection of iso-dense, obscure masses in mammographically dense breasts. Krithika Rangarajan, P Aggarwal, D K Gupta, Rohan Dhanakshirur, Akhil Baby, Chandan Paul, A K Gupta, Smriti Hari, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. European Radiology. June 2023. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-023-09717-7)
  • Building and evaluating an artificial intelligence algorithm: A practical guide for practicing oncologists. Anupama Ramachandran, Deeksha Bhalla, Krithika Rangarajan, Raja Pramanik, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. Artif Intell Cancer. Jul 28, 2022; 3(3): 42-53. (https://doi.org/10.35713/aic.v3.i3.42)
  • Ultra-high resolution, multi-scale, context-aware approach for small cancers on Mammography. Krithika Rangarajan, Aman Gupta, Saptarshi Dasgupta, Uday Marri, Arun Kumar Gupta, Smriti Hari, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. Scientific Reports 12, 11622 (2022). (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15259-7)
  • Basic principles of AI simplified for a Medical Practitioner: Pearls and Pitfalls in Evaluating AI algorithms. Deeksha Bhalla, Anupama Ramachandran, Krithika Rangarajan, Rohan Dhanakshirur, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, 2022. ISSN 0363-0188. (https://doi.org/10.1067/j.cpradiol.2022.04.003)
  • Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Chest X-Ray Assessment Scheme for COVID-19. Krithika Rangarajan, Sumanyu Muku, Amit Kumar Garg, Pavan Gabra, Sujay Halkur Shankar, Neeraj Nischal, Kapil Dev Dev Soni, Ashu Seith Bhalla Seith Bhalla, Anant Mohan, Pawan Tiwari, Sushma Bhatnagar, Raghav Bansal, Atin Kumar, Shivanand Gamanagati, Richa Aggarwal, Upendra Baitha, Ashutosh Biswas, Arvind Kumar, Pankaj Jorwal, . Shalimar, A Shariff, Naveet Wig, Rajeshwari Subramanium, Anjan Trikha, Rajesh Malhotra, Randeep Guleria, Vinay Namboodiri, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. European Radiology. January 2021. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33471219)
  • Simulation Training for Diagnostic Radiology: Use of GAN Generated Images for Resident Training in Mammography. Sneha Goswami, Ambikapathi P, Suransh Chopra, Vishwas Lathi, Krithika Rangarajan, Surabhi Vyas, Smriti Hari, Arun Gupta, Vinay Namboodiri, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. RSNA 2020.

Computer vision and machine learning

We do a variety of applications of computer vision and machine learning spanning neurosurgery, satellite imaging, 3D reconstruction, SLAM, etc..

Current course(s)

Courses taught

  • Introduction to Computer Science
  • Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Thinking
  • Discrete Structures
  • Data Structures
  • Numerical Algorithms
  • Design Practices in CS
  • Operating Systems
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • Theory of Computation
  • Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Logic and Functional Programming
  • Quantum Computation and Information
  • Computer Graphics
  • Digital Image Analysis
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • Identity, Data and Privacy
  • Fairness and Reliability of Machine Learning

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