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Summer Internship Opportunities [Summer 2025]
We are actively seeking enthusiastic and passionate students for summer internship 2025. If you are interested in working with us, please fill the Google Form to express your interest.
NCVPRIPG'25 RASOI Data Challenge [July 2025]
RASOI – Recognition and Segmentation of Indian Thali using AI data challenge will be hosted by FoodComputing@Ashoka along with NCVPRIPG 20025 at National Institute of Technology Srinagar from 16th to 18th July 2025. The main themes of the challenge are object detection, food classification, and total calorie estimation.
ACM Multimedia - MMFood'25 [October 2025]
The proposal for Multi-modal Food Computing workshop was accepted by ACM Multimedia. The 1st International Workshop on Multi-modal Food Computing (MMFood'25) will be hosted in conjunction with the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM25) on 27th/28th Oct in Dublin, Ireland. 2025. The call for papers is open now, the deadline being 11th July. The details of the hackathon based on Indian food knowledge graph will be made available soon.
Centre for Data Science and Analytics - Posters [Feb. 2024]
Saransh Gupta presented posters on Food Computing Initiatives, Developments, and Research at Ashoka at Building Resilient Futures: Data Skilling for Climate and Health (a data.org event), Ashoka University (IN) on behalf of Centre for Data Science and Analytics.
Capstone Projects [Monsoon 2024]
3 students completed their senior capston projects during the monsoon semester successfully. Congratulations to all the interns!
MADiMa - Keynote Talk [Dec. 2024]
Dr. Ramesh Jain Das gave a keynote talk on Conversational Personal Food Agents at the 9th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa), Kolkata (IN).
MADiMa - Keynote Talk [Dec. 2024]
Dr. Partha Das gave a keynote talk on An AI-Driven Interoperable Food Platform for Comprehensive Dietary Management at the 9th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa), Kolkata (IN).
ICPR: MADiMa [Dec. 2024]
1 paper on Enhancing FKG.in: automating Indian food composition analysis accepted for poster, presentation and subsequent publication at the 9th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa) in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024), Kolkata (IN). Congratulations to the team!
EMNLP: NLP4DH [Nov. 2024]
1 paper on Deciphering psycho-social effects of Eating Disorder: Analysis of Reddit Posts using Large Language Model(LLM)s and Topic Modeling accepted for oral presentation and publication in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities during EMNLP 2024. Congratulations to the team!
FOIS: JOWO [Jul. 2024]
1 paper on Building FKG.in: a Knowledge Graph for Indian Food accepted for oral presentation and publication in the Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and satellite events co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024). Congratulations to the team!
Internship [Summer 2024]
15 students completed their summer internship successfully. Congratulations to all the interns!
IFH - Distinguished Lecture [Jun. 2024]
Dr. Partha Das gave a distinguished lecture on our work on FKG.in: Food Knowledge Graph in Indian Perspective while visiting the ‘Institute for Future Health’ at UC Irvine, US.
BDBio - Poster [Jun. 2024]
Saransh Gupta presented a poster on Building a knowledge graph for Indian food at the Big Data Algorithms for Biology (BDBio) Symposium hosted at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
Food Computing Course [Monsoon 2023]
12 students completed the first offering of the Food Computing course in India successfully. Congratulations to all the students!
PHN - Presentation [Oct. 2023]
Dr. Partha Das presented our initial work on Food Computing Initiatives in India: Challenges and Opportunities at the Personalized Health Navigation (PHN): Food and Nutrition (F&N) Workshop hosted at Institute of Health Data Infrastructure for All (IDIAL), Tokyo, Japan.
Internship [Summer 2023]
6 students completed their summer internship successfully. Congratulations to all the interns!
Food Computing@Ashoka University [Monsoon 2022]
Food Computing initiatives started at Ashoka University by Dr. Ramesh Jain, Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Dr. Partha Pratim Das, and Dr. Geeta Trilok-Kumar.