Professional

Updated Oct 2025

Teaching

RIT DSCI-633 Foundations of Data Science and Analytics, RIT, Fall 2022
RIT DSCI-633 Foundations of Data Science and Analytics (Hybrid), RIT, Fall 2021
RIT DSCI-633 Foundations of Data Science (Online), RIT, Fall 2019
Industry seminar, UB Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDSE) degree program, University at Buffalo, 2018 – Present

Professional Societies

Distinguished Scientist, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013
Founding Member, HCI Professionals Association of India, 2013
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005
Life Member, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

Keynotes and Invited Talks

Building Large Scale Recommender Systems for eCommerce, Applications of Data Science: Industry Overview, Engineering Science (Data Science) MS Program, University at Buffalo, 2023, 2024, 2025 (slides)
Building Large Scale Listing Recommender Systems, University at Buffalo CDSE Days, Mar 2021
Building Large Scale Listing Recommender Systems, ROC Tech Conference, Sep 2020
Careers in Data Science seminar at Georgen Institute for Data Science, University of Rochester, Sep 2018
Data Analytics for Business Process Services, industrial survey seminar presented as part of the Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDSE) degree program at the University of Buffalo, June 2018
Neural Nets and Deep Learning, a two-part lecture delivered as part of eBay’s internal Machine Learning course for aspiring data engineers and scientists, June 2018
What does today tell you about tomorrow ? Deriving Actionable Insights using Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics, Xerox PARC Webinar organized by NineSigma, Nov 2015
The Customers Always Write: Developing Pen-based Interfaces for India, Intl. Conf. Intelligent Interactive Systems and Assistive Technologies, Coimbatore, India, Aug 2, 2013
Building Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces: Integrating Experience Design, Gesture, Speech and Context. School of CIS, Univ. of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Jul 19, 2013
Contextual, yet Global: Innovation Case Studies in Text Input, Interfaces and Analytics, Xerox Webster Research Center, Rochester, NY, USA, May 16, 2013
Contextual, yet Global: Innovation Case Studies in Text Input, Interfaces and Analytics, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA, May 14, 2013
Designing Affordable Access Devices for the Next Billion, 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2012), Kharagpur, India, Dec 28, 2012
Marrying Crowd with Cloud: Recent Trends and Research Challenges, Machine Learning Group at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Nov 6, 2012
Crowdsourced Human Computation, Sixth International Conference on Information Processing, Bangalore, India, Aug 12, 2012
Crowdsourced Human Computation: Trends and Challenges, HP-CAST (HP’s Annual High Performance Computing Event), Goa, India, May 31, 2012
Multimodal Interfaces for Human Computer Interaction, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Elements 2011, Annual Conference of Bangalore ACM SIGGRAPH, Bangalore, India, March 26, 2011
Multimodal Interfaces for Human Computer Interaction, Sriganesh Madhvanath, EmTech India 2011, Bangalore, India, March 23, 2011
Multimodal Interfaces for Human Comp. Interaction, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Marconi Conference 2011, Office Ergonomics Research Committee (OERC), Marshall, CA, USA, Jan 30, 2011
Next Generation User Interfaces: Gestural and Multimodal Interaction, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore, India, Jan 27, 2010
Innovating for the Next Billion: HCI Research at HP Labs India, Dynamic Graphics Group, University of Toronto, Nov 10, 2009
Integrating Gesture and Speech for Multimodal Interfaces, UKINIT Winter School in HCI, Bangalore, India, Feb 3, 2009
Attention-Free Handwriting-based Text Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces, CUBS, SUNY at Buffalo, May 2008
Understanding the Pen Input Modality, Workshop on W3C MMI Architecture and Interfaces, Fujisawa, Japan, Nov 17, 2007
Lipi Toolkit: A Generic Open Source Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition, Manthan Awards 2007, Sept 2007
Capturing Form Data with Coffei, National Informatics Center (NIC), Govt. of India, New Delhi, India, Mar 2007
Handwritten Gesture Recognition for Gesture Keyboard, Jan 2007
W3C InkML: Digital Ink Markup Language, IWFHR 2006, La Baule, France, Oct 2006 (with Stephen Watt)
Introduction to UPX: Unipen XML Specification, IWFHR 2006, La Baule, France, Oct 2006 (with Louis Vuurpijl)
Handwriting Recognition at HPL India, CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo, Apr 2006
Pen-power for the Emerging Markets, IIT Madras, Nov 27, 2003
hwDataset: An Application-specific Extension of Digital InkML for Handwriting Datasets, presentation to W3C MMI WG, Oct 23, 2003
Linguistic Resources for Handwriting Recognition, First Linguistic Data Consortium Workshop, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India, Aug 2003

Conference Organization

Co-chair, Short research paper track, INTERACT 2017, Mumbai, India, Sep 2017
Co-chair, Short research paper track, India HCI 2015, Guwahati, India, Dec 2015
Organizing committee, Xerox Innovation Conference, Webster, NY, USA, Aug 2015
Co-chair, Short research paper track, 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI 2013), Bangalore, India, Sep 2013
Expo Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2013), San Jose/Francisco, USA, 2013
Co-chair, Short research paper track, India HCI 2011: 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Bangalore, India, Apr 2011
Co-chair, Birds of a feather session on User Interfaces and Interaction, HP TechCon 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA, Apr 2011
Co-organizer, UKINIT Winter School in HCI, Bangalore, India, Feb 2009
Session Chair, W3C Workshop on W3C’s Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, Fujisawa, Japan, Nov 2007
Co-chair, Online Tamil Handwritten Character Recognition Competition, 10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-10), La Baule, France, Oct 2006

Program Committees

eBay eBay’s Research and University Partnership for Technology, 2022-25
eBay Amplify internal conference – AI/Data Science track, 2018-2019
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) – 2009-2017
Xerox Research Center India Open Innovation Conference, Bangalore, India, Jan 2016
India HCI: International Conference on Human Computer Interaction – 2010-2016
International Conference/Workshop in Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR/IWFHR) – 2006-2010
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) – 2008-2010
Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (J-MOCR-AND/MOCR) – 2009-2011
Human-Computer Interaction & Knowledge Discovery @ CD-ARES’13, Regensburg, Germany, Sep 2013
2nd International Workshop on Text Input Methods (WTIM), Mumbai, India, Dec 2012
4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), Kharagpur, India, Dec 2012
UKINIT Workshop on Expressive Interaction for Sustainability and Empowerment (EISE), London, UK, Oct 2009
International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, (ACHI) – 2009-2010
3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI’09), IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, Dec 2009
HP TechCon Asia 2008, Kobe City, Japan, Nov 2008

Reviewing

Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Late Breaking Work (LBW)
Workshop on Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR)
India HCI : International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
Intl. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
Intl. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
INTERSPEECH Show and Tell
Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP)
Intl. Workshop/Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR/ICFHR)
Intl. Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI)
Intl. Journal Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE PAMI)
Pattern Recognition Journal (PR)
Pattern Analysis and Applications (PAA)
Journal of Pattern Recognition Research (JPRR)
Behaviour & Information Technology (TBIT)
Internal corporate conferences: HP Tech Con, HP Tech Con Asia, Xerox Open, eBay Amplify

Thesis Committees

Praphul Chandra, PhD Candidate, Indian Institute of Science, (2012-2013)
Dinesh Mandalapu, PhD Candidate, Indian Institute of Science, (2010-2013)
Bharath A., PhD, BITS Pilani, 2011 (HP Labs-BITS Pilani PhD Fellow)
External examiner for Masters theses from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
Member of Jury for design diploma projects from National Institute of Design, Bangalore

Advisory Boards and Committees

Member, Industrial Advisory Board, Department of Software Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2018 – Present
Member, Industrial Advisory Board, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, 2014 – Present
Member, eBay internal advisory group on AI, 2018 – 2022
Member, Xerox University Advisory Committee (UAC), 2016
Member, R&D Advisory Committee, National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore, 2009 – 2013
Member, Board of School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, 2012 – 2013
Member, HP Labs Personal Systems Advisory Board, 2007 – 2011
Member, HP Labs Demonstrator Board, 2011
Member, HP Labs Technical Career Path (TCP) Promotions Board, 2011 – 2012
Chair, HP Labs India Patent Committee, 2007 – 2011
Member, HP Labs India Director Search committee, 2009
Founding member, UK-India Network for Interactive Technologies (UKINIT), 2006

Open Source and Standards Contributions

Co-author, W3C Ink Markup Language (InkML) Specification
Co-author, Unipen XML (UPX) Specification, International UNIPEN Foundation
Lipi Toolkit, a toolkit for online handwriting recognition (20K downloads), lipitk.sourceforge.net
InkML Toolkit, a toolkit for interpreting InkML documents, inkmltk.sourceforge.net

Awards and Honors

Manthan Award for Lipi Toolkit, 2007
NASSCOM award for Gesture Keyboard, 2007
WSJ Technology Innovation Award (Runner up – Consumer Electronics) for Gesture Keyboard, 2006
CEO’s Impact Award for contributions to engineering and work culture, NARUS Inc, 2001
NARUS Inventor Award, 2000 and 2001
IBM Research Division Award for Check Image Recognition Solution, IBM, 1998
HP Key Talent Recognition, 2009
HP Labs Master Technologist, 2005
State first in Electronics in Maharashtra Higher Secondary Examination, 1986
All India 36th in the National Joint Entrance Exam for IITs, 1986

Patents

~ 50 granted and pending in areas such as multimodal interfaces, pen and paper-based interfaces, document analysis. (Google patents)

Books, Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Deep Temporal Multimodal Fusion for Medical Procedure Monitoring using Wearable Sensors, Xitong Yang, Edgar Bernal, Qun Li, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Raja Bala, Jayant kumar, Ramesh, Palghat. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 20(1), 2018
Allograph modeling for online handwritten characters in Devanagari using constrained stroke clustering, Bharath A. and Sriganesh Madhvanath. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 13(3), 2014
HP Labs India: Innovating for the Emerging Markets: Celebrating a Successful Decade 2002-2012, Devyani Haldipur, Doncy Augustine, Ishita Sud, Ramadevi Vennelakanti, Rony Thomas, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Sudhir Dixit. HP Labs India, 2012
HMM-based lexicon-driven and lexicon-free word recognition for online handwritten Indic scripts, Bharath A. and Sriganesh Madhvanath. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 34(4), pp. 670-682, 2012
Online Handwriting Recognition for Indic Scripts, Bharath A. and Sriganesh Madhvanath. Book chapter in Indic OCR- Document Recognition and Retrieval (Springer). V. Govindaraju and S. Setlur (editors), 2009
Subspace-based and Dynamic Time Warping-based Methods for Online Handwritten Tamil Character Recognition, Deepu V. and Sriganesh Madhvanath. Vivek – Special Issue on Document Analysis, 16(2), pp 22-29, 2006
The Role of Holistic Paradigms in Handwritten Word Recognition, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(2), pp. 149-164, 2001
Syntactic Methodology of Pruning Large Lexicons in Cursive Script Recognition, S. Madhvanath, K. Sundar and V. Govindaraju. Journal of Pattern Recognition, 34(1), pp. 37-46, 2001
Holistic Verification of Handwritten Phrases, S. Madhvanath, E. Kleinberg and V. Govindaraju. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 21(12), pp. 1344-1356, 1999
Chain-code Processing for Handwritten Word Recognition, S. Madhvanath, G. Kim and V. Govindaraju. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 21(9), pp. 928-932, 1999
Reference Lines for Holistic Recognition of Handwritten Words, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju. Journal of Pattern Recognition, 32(12), pp.2021-2028, 1999
Empirical Design of a Multi-Classifier Thresholding/Control Strategy for Recognition of Handwritten Street Names, S. Madhvanath, E. Kleinberg and V. Govindaraju. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 11(6), 1997
Reading Handwritten Phrases on US Census Forms, S. Madhvanath, V. Govindaraju and S.N. Srihari. International Journal of Imaging Systems & Technology, 1996

Refereed Conferences, Workshops and Symposia

Data Science

Page-level Optimization of e-Commerce Item Recommendations, Chieh Lo, Hongliang Yu, Xin Yin, Krutika Shetty, Changchen He, Kathy Hu, Justin Platz, Adam Ilardi, Sriganesh Madhvanath. ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021), Sep 2021
Personalized Embedding-based e-Commerce Recommendations at eBay, Tian Wang, Yuri Brovman and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 2nd Intl Workshop on Industrial Recommendation Systems (IRES 2021), 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2021), Aug 2021
Zero Shot License Plate Re-Identification, Mayank Gupta, Abhinav Kumar and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2019), Hawaii, USA, Jan 2019
Transferable and Fast License Plate Re-identification using a Neural Embedding of Fisher Vectors. In 11th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2018), Hyderabad, India, Dec 2018
Parametric Synthesis of Text on Stylized Backgrounds using PGGANs, Mayank Gupta, Abhinav Kumar, Sriganesh Madhvanath. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08488, Sep 2018
Neural Signatures for Licence Plate Re-identification, Abhinav Kumar, Shantanu Gupta, Vladimir Kozitsky, Sriganesh Madhvanath, https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00282, Dec 2017
Deep Multimodal Representation Learning from Temporal Data, Xitong Yang, Ramesh Palghat, Radha Chitta, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Edgar Bernal, Jiebo Luo. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2017
Nudging Grocery Shoppers to Make Healthier Choices, Elizabeth Wayman and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015), Vienna, Austria, Sep 2015
Hybrid Active Learning for Non-stationary Streaming Data with Asynchronous Labeling, Hyunjoo Kim, Sriganesh Madhvanath, and Tong Sun. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2015), Santa Clara, CA, USA, Oct 2015

Select recent publications and blog posts by my team at eBay (full list may be found here).

Large Scale E-Commerce Model for Learning and Analyzing Long-Term User Preferences – Yonatan Hadar Yotam Eshel Michelle Hwang Bracha Shapira Guy Feigenblat, ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025), Sep 2025
Cross: Dynamic Integration of Language Models for Cross-Domain Sequential-Recommendation – Guy Hadad, Haggai Roitman, Yotam Eshel, Bracha Shapira, 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), July 2025
Enhancing eBay’s Visual Shopping Experience With Automated Image Generation And Optimization For Themes and Categories, May 2025, Jonathan Galsurkar, Zhila Aghajari, Nazmul Chowdhury, Minnie Li, Yuri M. Brovman [link]
Mercury: Agentic AI Platform for LLM Powered Recommendation Experiences at eBay, April 2025, Nazmul Chowdhury , Jonathan Galsurkar , Minnie Li , Yuri M. Brovman [link]
Page-Wise Personalized Recommendations in an Industrial e-Commerce Setting, Liying Zheng, Yingji Pan, Yuri M. Brovman. 5th Workshop on Online Recommender Systems and User Modeling (ORSUM 2022), ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022), Sep 2022
Multi-Objective Ranking for Promoted Auction Items, Ishaan Arora, Chen Xue, Jesse Lute, Dan Schonfeld, eBay Tech Blog, Sep 2022 [link]
Human mobility prediction with causal and spatial-constrained multi-task network, Menghan Wang, Marshall Wu. The 28th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2022), Aug 2022
Learning to Hash Naturally Sorts, Menghan Wang. The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022), July 2022
MP2: A Momentum Contrast Approach for Recommendation with Pointwise and Pairwise Learning, Menghan Wang, Yuchen Guo, Zhenqi Zhao, Guangzheng Hu, Yuming Shen, Mingming Gong and Philip Torr. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), Jul 2022
Multi-Relevance Ranking Model for Similar Item Recommendation, Chen Xue, eBay Tech Blog, Jun 2022 [link]
Improving Shopping Recommendations for Customers Through eBay’s Relevance Cascade Model, Chen Xue, eBay Tech Blog, Apr 2022 [link]
Building a Deep Learning Based Retrieval System for Personalized Recommendations, Yuri M. Brovman, eBay Tech Blog, Mar 2022 [link]
Relevance Constrained Re-ranking in Sponsored Listing Recommendations, Zhen Ge, Wei Zhou, Jesse Lute, and Adam Ilardi. 2021, AdKDD Workshop (AdKDD 2021), 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2021), Aug 2021

Human Computation

Mobile Interfaces for Crowdsourced Multimedia Microtasks, Navkar Samdaria, Ajith Sowndararajan, Ramadevi Vennelakanti and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In India HCI 2015, Guwahati, India, Dec 2015
Privacy Preservation for Crowdsourced Video Analytics, Ateendra Singh, Prasenjit Dey, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Kirubanandam Venkatesan. In HP Imaging and Color Symposium (hPICS) 2013, Boise, Idaho, Nov 2013
Cyber Cafes as Microtasking Hubs, Navkar Samdaria, Ajith Sowndararajan, Ramadevi Vennelakanti and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In India HCI 2013, Bangalore, India, Sep 2013
CrowdCloud: A Next Generation Analytics Platform with Human Intelligence, Geetha Manjunath, Sriganesh Madhvanath, and Praphul Chandra. In HP Tech Con 2013, Los Angeles, CA, May 2013
Crowdsourced Multimedia Analytics for Retail, Ramadevi Vennelakanti, Anbumani Subramanian, Prasenjit Dey, Serene Banerjee, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Geetha Manjunath, Saurabh Varij. In HP BI Conference 2012, Oct 2012
Using Crowd Computing to Comprehend Crowd Data, Geetha Manjunath, Bibhash Chakrabarty, Ayush Jain, Priyanka Tiwari, Maria Kumar Pamisetty, Praphul Chandra, Sriganesh Madhvanath. In HP BI Conference 2012, Oct 2012

Gestural and Multimodal Interfaces

DESI – A Virtual Classroom System for Distance Education: A Design Exploration, Rafael Roballo Wanderley, Rafael Amaral, Victor Ximenes, Devendra Tewari, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Rama Vennelakanti, In India HCI 2013, Bangalore, India, Sep 2013
Enhancing Mobile Phones to Support Collaborative Communication for Micro-entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies: User Studies and Research Directions, Rahul Ajmera, Prashanth Pandit, Shekhar Borgaonkar and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In AP-CHI 2013, Bangalore, India, Sep 2013
Comparison of Phone-based Distal Pointing Techniques for Point-Select Tasks, Mohit Jain, Andy Cockburn, and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In INTERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Sep 2013
Factors of Influence in Co-located Multimodal Interactions, Ramadevi Vennelakanti, Anbumani Subramanian, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Prasenjit Dey. In Second International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2013), Allahabad, India, Mar 2013
Freehand Pose-based Gestural Interaction: Studies and Implications for Interface Design, Dustin Freeman, Ramadevi Vennelakanti, Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2012), Kharagpur, India, Dec 2012
The Blue One to the Left: Enabling Expressive User Interaction in a Multimodal Interface for Object Selection in Virtual 3D environments, Pulkit Budhiraja and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, CA, USA, Oct 2012
Pixene: Creating Memories while Sharing Photos, Ramadevi Vennelakanti, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Anbumani Subramanian, Arun David, Ajith Sowndararajan, Prasenjit Dey. In 14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, CA, USA, Oct 2012
Designing Multiuser Multimodal Gestural Interactions for the Living Room, Ramadevi Vennelakanti, Anbumani Subramanian, Prasenjit Dey, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Ajith Sowndararajan, Ankit Shekhawat, Amit Ranjan. In 14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, CA, USA, Oct 2012
Enabling Co-present Multi-user Multimodal Interaction in the HPL MMI Framework, Prasenjit Dey, Rama Vennelakanti, Amit Ranjan, Sriganesh Madhvanath (Honorable mention). In HP Tech Con 2012, Washington, D.C, Mar 2012
Mozart: A Multimodal Interface for Conceptual 3D Modeling, Anirudh Sharma, Ankit Shekhawat, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Mark Billinghurst. In 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2011), Alicante, Spain, Nov 2011
An Exploration of Gesture-Speech Multimodal Patterns for Touch Interfaces, Prasenjit Dey, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Amit Ranjan and Suvodeep Das. In India HCI 2011: 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Bangalore, India, Apr 2011
Counting on your Fingertips – An exploration and analysis of Rich Touch patterns, Rama Vennelakanti, Anbumani Subramanian, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Sriram Subramanian. In India HCI 2011: 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Bangalore, India, Apr 2011
MozArt: An Immersive Multimodal CAD System for 3D Modeling, Anirudh Sharma and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In India HCI 2011: 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Bangalore, India, Apr 2011
An SDK for Rapid Development of Multimodal Interaction Applications, Prasenjit Dey, Amit Ranjan, Muthuselvam Selvaraj, Tarun Madan and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In HP Tech Con 2010, Apr 2010
Multimodal Integration of Speech and Gesture Input for Command and Control, Prasenjit Dey, Muthuselvam Selvaraj and Sriganesh Madhvanath, In HP Tech Con 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Apr 2009
Gesture-based Command and Control, and Navigation for Touch Interfaces, Tarun Madan, Sriganesh Madhvanath, and Dinesh Mandalapu (Honorable mention). In HP Tech Con Asia 2008, Kobe City, Japan, Nov 2008

Paper-based Interfaces

PaperWeb: Paper-triggered Web Interactions, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Geetha Manjunath, Suryaprakash Kompalli, Serene Banerjee, Sitaram Ramachandrula, Srinivasu Godavari. In Third Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV 2013), Bangalore, India, Jan 2013
PicIT: Picture-triggered IT, Suryaprakash Kompalli, Serene Banerjee, Sitaram Ramachandrula, Srinivasu Godavari, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Geetha Manjunath and Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla. In HP Imaging and Color Symposium (hPICS) 2011, Boise, Idaho, Nov 2011
Vayu Transactional User Experiences, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Vimal Sharma, Avinash Sharma, Suryaprakash Kompalli, Serene Banerjee, Nidhi Mathur, Sitaram Ramachandrula, Geetha Manjunath, Srinivasu Godavari, S Thara, A Jayakumar, Ranjeetha Venkatesh, Arun David, Preetham K Jain, Lalit Kumar Nayak. (Honorable mention), In HP Tech Con 2011, Orlando, Florida, Apr 2011

Pen-based Interfaces

GeCCo: Finger Gesture-based Command and Control for Touch Interfaces, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Dinesh Mandalapu, Tarun Madan, Naznin Rao, Ramesh Kozhissery. In 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2012), Kharagpur, India, Dec 2012
JollyMate: Assistive Technology for Young Children with Dyslexia, Jignesh Khakhar and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In ICFHR 2010: 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Kolkata, India, Nov 2010
Multimodal Collaborative Inking across Heterogeneous Devices, Muthuselvam Selvaraj and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In HP Tech Con Asia 2008, Kobe City, Japan, Nov 2008
Sharing Digital Ink in Heterogeneous Collaborative Environments, Birendra Keshari, Muthuselvam Selvaraj, Manoj Prasad A, Sriganesh Madhvanath, and Stephen M. Watt. In 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-08), Montréal, Québec, Aug 2008
Recognition of Eyes-free Handwriting Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces, Bharath A. and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-08), Montréal, Québec, Aug 2008
FreePad: Attention-free Handwriting-based Text Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces, Bharath A. and Sriganesh Madhvanath, In HP Tech Con 2008, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 2008
FreePad: A Novel Handwriting-based Text Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces, Bharath A. and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008), Canary Islands, Spain, Jan 2008
Peer-to-peer Ink Messaging across Heterogeneous Devices and Platforms, Manoj Prasad A, Muthuselvam Selvaraj and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In ACM Compute 2008, Bangalore, India, Jan 2008
Password management using Doodles, Naveen Sundar and Sriganesh Madhvanath, In International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI’07), Nagoya, Japan, Nov 2007
Indic Scripts based Online Form Filling – A Usability Exploration, Ashish Krishna, Girish Prabhu, Kalika Bali and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2005), Las Vegas, July 2005
Common Forms Framework for Electronic Ink (Coffei), Sriganesh Madhvanath, Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla, Lakshmi Kutty Cheeniyil, Rajesh Balamohan, Swaminathan Packirisami, Joan Bosch Sole, Jose Antonio Magana Mesa, Andrew Mackenzie and Eric Erickson, HP Tech Con 2005, Phoenix, Arizona, March 2005
Coffei: Common Forms Framework for Electronic Ink, Invited talk at GDIC Tech Con 2004, Bangalore, India, Oct 2004
Electronic Forms for the Emerging Markets, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Anjaneyulu KSR. In HP Tech Con 2004, Orlando, Florida, June 2004

Document and Digital Ink Analysis

Automated Pagination and Layout Analysis of Handwritten Notes, Dinesh Mandalapu and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In International Conference on Intelligent System and Signal Processing (ISSP 2013), Gujarat, India, Mar 2013
Digital Ink To Form Alignment For Electronic Clipboard Devices, Jagannadan V. and Sriganesh Madhvanath, In 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2008), Nara, Japan, Sept 2008
Extracting Patron Data from Check Images, S. Madhvanath, S. McCauliff and K.M. Mohiuddin. In Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-99), Bangalore, India, Sept 1999

Online Handwriting Recognition

On the Significance of Stroke Size and Position for Online Handwritten Devanagari Word Recognition: An Empirical Study, A. Bharath and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In ICPR 2010: 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug 2010
Adaptation of Active-DTW Classifier for Online Handwritten Character Recognition, Vandana Roy, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Anand S, Raghunath R Sharma, In 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, Jul 2009
A Framework based on Semi-Supervised Clustering for Discovering Unique Writing Styles, Bharath A. and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, Jul 2009
A Skew-tolerant Strategy and Confidence Measure for k-NN Classification of Online Handwritten Characters, Vandana Roy and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-08), Montréal, Québec, Aug 2008
Hidden Markov Models for Online Handwritten Tamil Word Recognition, Bharath A, Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007), Curitiba, Brazil, Sept 2007
Handwritten Gesture Recognition for Gesture Keyboard, R. Balaji, V. Deepu, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Jayasree Prabhakaran. In 10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-10), La Baule, France, Oct 2006
LipiTk: A Generic Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Deepu Vijayasenan and Thanigai Murugan Kadiresan. In 10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-10), La Baule, France, Oct 2006
Handwritten Gesture Recognition for Gesture Keyboard, Deepu Vijayasenan, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Jayasree Prabhakaran. In HP Tech Con 2006, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Apr 2006
Handwritten Gesture Recognition for Gesture Keyboard, Deepu Vijayasenan, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Jayasree Prabhakaran. In HP Tech Con India 2005, Bangalore, India, Oct 2005
Lipi Toolkit: A Generic Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition, Sriganesh Madhvanath, V. Deepu, Thanigai Murugan and Sridhar Muralikrishna. In HP Tech Con India 2005, Bangalore, India, Oct 2005
Machine Recognition of Online Handwritten Devanagari Characters, Niranjan Joshi, G.Sita, A.G. Ramakrishnan, Deepu V. and Sriganesh Madhvanath, 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), Seoul, Korea, Aug-Sept 2005
An Approach to Identify Unique Styles in Online Handwriting Recognition, Bharath A., Deepu V., Sriganesh Madhvanath, 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), Seoul, Korea, Aug-Sept 2005
Prototype Learning Methods for Online Handwriting Recognition, Raghavendra B.S., Narayanan C.K., Sita G., Ramakrishnan A.G. and Sriganesh Madhvanath, 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), Seoul, Korea, Aug-Sept 2005
Online Handwriting Recognition for Tamil, H.K. Aparna, Vidhya Subramanian, Kasirajan, Vijay Prakash, V.S. Chakravarthy and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 9th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-9), Tokyo, Oct 2004
Comparison of Elastic Matching Algorithms for Online Tamil Handwritten Character Recognition, Niranjan Joshi, G. Sita, and A. G. Ramakrishnan and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 9th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-9), Tokyo, Oct 2004
Tamil Handwriting Recognition Using Subspace and DTW Based Classifiers, Niranjan Joshi, G. Sita, A. G. Ramakrishnan, Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2004), Kolkata, India, Nov 2004
Elastic Matching Algorithms for Online Tamil Character Recognition, Niranjan Joshi, G. Sita, A. G. Ramakrishnan, Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2004), Kolkata, India, Nov 2004
Principal Component Analysis for Online Handwritten Character Recognition, Deepu Vijayasenan and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 2004
Score Aggregation from Multiple Sources and Training in the Context of Lexicon Reduction using Holistic Features, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju. In Indian Conference on Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, Bangalore, India, Dec 2000
Improving Machine Recognition of Characters using Genetically Evolved Pixel Transformations, S. Madhvanath. Accepted in the Third European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2000

Handwriting Datasets and Standards

UPX: A New XML Representation for Annotated Datasets of Online Handwriting Data, Mudit Agrawal, Kalika Bali, Sriganesh Madhvanath and Louis Vuurpijl. In 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), Seoul, Korea, Aug-Sept 2005
Data Collection for Handwriting Corpus Creation in Indic Scripts, Mudit Agrawal, Ajay S Bhaskarabhatla and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In International Conference on Speech and Language Technology and Oriental COCOSDA (ICSLT-COCOSDA 2004), New Delhi, India, Nov 2004
Representation and Annotation of Online Handwritten Data, Ajay S. Bhaskarabhatla, Sriganesh Madhvanath, M. N. S. S. K. Pavan Kumar, A. Balasubramanian and C. V. Jawahar. In 9th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-9), Tokyo, Oct 2004
Experiences in Collection of Handwriting Data for Online Handwriting Recognition in Indic Scripts, Ajay S Bhaskarabhatla and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In Fourth International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004
An XML Representation for Annotated Handwriting Datasets for Online Handwriting Recognition, Ajay S Bhaskarabhatla and Sriganesh Madhvanath. In Fourth International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004

Offline Handwriting Recognition

Perceptual Features for Off-line Handwritten Word Recognition: A Framework for Heuristic Prediction, Representation and Matching, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju. In SeventhInternational Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR’98), Sydney,Australia, August 1998
The HOVER System for Rapid Holistic Verification of Off-line Handwritten Phrases, S. Madhvanath,E. Kleinberg, V. Govindaraju, and S.N. Srihari. In Fourth International Conference on DocumentAnalysis and Recognition (ICDAR-97), Ulm, Germany, August 1997
Pruning Large Lexicons using Generalised Word Shape Descriptors, S. Madhvanath, V. Krpasundar.In Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-97), Ulm,Germany, August 1997
Contour-Based Image Processing for Holistic Handwritten Word Recognition, S. Madhvanath and V.Govindaraju. In Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-97), Ulm, Germany, August 1997
Effective Reduction of Large Lexicons for Offline Cursive Word Recognition, S. Madhvanath and S.N.Srihari. In Fifth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR5), Essex,UK, Sept 1996
A Technique for Local Baseline Determination, S. Madhvanath and S.N. Srihari. In FifthInternational Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR5), Essex, UK, Sept 1996
Modes and Measures: A Framework for Parallel Word Classifier Combination, S. Madhvanath and S.N. Srihari. In Fifth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR5), Essex,UK, Sept 1996
Holistic Lexicon Reduction for Handwritten Word Recognition, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju.In Eighth SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, San Jose,Jan-Feb 1996
Reading US Census Forms, S. Madhvanath, V. Govindaraju, D.S. Lee, V. Ramanaprasad and S.N.Srihari. In Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-95),Montreal, Canada, August 1995
Serial Classifier Combination for Handwritten Word Recognition, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju.In Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-95), Montreal,Canada, August 1995
Holistic Lexicon Reduction, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju. In Third International Workshop onFrontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-III), Buffalo, May 1993
Using Holistic Features in Handwritten Word Recognition, S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju. In5th United States Postal Service Advanced Technology Conference, Washington, DC, Nov-Dec 1992