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Basics

Name Akanksha Singh
Label Researcher
Email akankshasingh.2540@gmail.com
Phone +91 7667328057
Url https://akankshasingh25.github.io/
Summary Researcher in machine learning and deep learning with expertise in vision and speech. My broad goal is advancing responsible AI research, with specific focus on fairness, inclusion, explainability, societal and environmental impact.

Work

  • 08.2024 - Present
    Post-Baccalaureate Fellow
    Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI), IIT Madras, India
    • Supervisor - Prof. Balaraman Ravindran
    • Leading the research and development of an explainable ensemble-based audio deepfake detection tool tailored to the Indian context, aimed at supporting fact-checkers, media organisations, and public-interest platforms.
    • Chapter author of the Grounding Responsible AI in Agriculture, a project in collaboration with Meta OpenLoop. The work explores the current applications and associated risks of AI in agriculture, identifies key gaps in its development and deployment, and examines relevant policies, regulations, and legal frameworks. The paper emphasised the importance of responsible AI through actionable technical and policy recommendations, grounded in expert interviews and comprehensive research.
  • 05.2023 - 07.2024
    External Master's Thesis Student
    Image Analysis and Biometrics (IAB) Lab, Department of CSE, IIT Jodhpur, India
    • Supervisor - Prof. Mayank Vatsa & Prof. Richa Singh
    • Created and curated a large (approx 1.3M samples) and diverse 26 generation techniques across 4 sets) bias-free benchmark multimodal multilingual deepfake dataset comprising identity-aware swaps and synthetic media.
    • Performed qualitative experiments such as BRISQUE score for visual quality and FAD for audio quality. And benchmarked existing state-of-the-art unimodal (visual and audio) and multimodal deepfake detection models.

Education

  • 08.2019 - 07.2024

    Bhopal, India

    Bachelor of Science - Master of Science (BS-MS) Dual Degree
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
    Major: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Minor: Data Science and Engineering
    • Data Science and Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision
    • Computer Science - Data Structures, Algorithms
    • Mathematics - Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics, Calculus
  • 04.2016 - 06.2018

    Bokaro, India

    All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE)
    Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City
    Sciences Stream
    • Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English, Information Practices, Physical Education

Publications

Skills

Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Python
PyTorch
Hugging Face
Git/GitHub
Bash Scripting
LaTeX
Slurm
Docker/Kubernetes

Interests

Fairness
Evalaution of bias in models and datasets
Mitigation strategies
Debiasing strategies
Model Editing
Unlearning
Membership Inference Attacks
Memorisation
Misinformation
Deepfake Detection - Audio, Vision, Text and Multimodal
Dissemination of (mis-mal-dis)information
Inclusion
Multilingual & Multicultural AI
Low-resource languages

Awards

Projects

  • 01.2023 - 03.2023
    Interpretable Deep Learning for Text Classification
    • Implemented an existing novel interpretability framework for text CNNs from scratch to linguistically motivated features. The proposed features are borrowed from existing work on text classification of shorter texts between fiction and non-fiction genres Brown Corpus).
    • The exit criteria are to corroborate our interpretability results with the baseline results obtained from the existing work using logistic regression.
  • 08.2022 - 11.2022
    Consumer Complaints: Text Classification Problem
    • Statistical and deep learning models were used to solve a multi-class nominal label classification problem
    • A vectorization and feature selection pipeline was used for statistical architecture, and hyperparameters were fed to a cross-validation grid search on 5 supervised learning models. Logistic regression gave the best results, accuracy of 85.9%.
    • For DLarchitecture, FFN, bi-directional LSTM, RNN, and transformers were used. Bi-directional LSTM gave the best results, with an accuracy of 86.5%.

Languages

Hindi
Native speaker
English
Bilingual proficiency