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ACAI Lab, SAIDE, IIT Ropar

Principal Investigator: Dr. Puneet Kumar


Research Areas

Affective Computing

Affective Computing (Emotion AI)

Multimodal emotion recognition from facial expressions, speech, text and physiological signals.

Cognitive Neuro AI

Cognitive Neuro AI

Modelling attention, memory, perception and decision-making using EEG, fMRI and computational cognitive science.

Digital Health

Digital Health

AI-driven tools for mental health, wellbeing and remote physiological monitoring.

Hybrid Intelligence

Hybrid Intelligence

Human-AI collaboration systems that combine human judgement with machine intelligence at scale.

Members

Currently active researchers and collaborators at ACAI Lab, SAIDE, IIT Ropar.

MMAC

Affective Computing (Emotion AI)

Multimodal emotion recognition from facial expressions, speech, text and physiological signals.

rPPG, Micro-expression & Agentic AI for Affective Computing

Pratyush Chandra PC
Pratyush Chandra
PhD Scholar
Kushagra Rathore KR
Kushagra Rathore
PhD Scholar (Supervised by Dr. Santosh Vipparthi)
Chaitanya C
Chaitanya
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2023-27, IIT Ropar
Parv Singla PS
Parv Singla
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2025-29, IIT Ropar
Jeet Ashwar Singh JS
Jeet Ashwar Singh
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2024-28, NIT Jalandhar
Nischay Verma NV
Nischay Verma
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2024-28, NIT Jalandhar

Group Affect Recognition

Dr. Deepak Kumar DK
Dr. Deepak Kumar
Collaborator · Postdoc, KDDI Research, Japan (Ex-PhD Scholar, IIT Ropar)
Harsh Yadav HY
Harsh Yadav
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2023-27, IIT Ropar
Prateek P
Prateek
Undergraduate Researcher · IIIT Nagpur
Hemish H
Hemish
Undergraduate Researcher · SRM Chennai

Visual Speech Perception / Gaze / Lipreading

Satyarth Malik SM
Satyarth Malik
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2024-28, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
CNAI

Cognitive Neuro-AI

Modelling attention, memory, perception and decision-making using EEG, fMRI and computational cognitive science.

Emotion-Cognition Correlation Analysis

Jatin Sachan JS
Jatin Sachan
PhD Scholar
Riya Mukhara RM
Riya Mukhara
Undergraduate Researcher

Meditation Research

Winson Yang WY
Winson Yang
External Collaborator · Postdoc, Harvard Medical School / MGH
Alakhsimar Singh AS
Alakhsimar Singh
Undergraduate Researcher · NIT Jalandhar, 2022-26 batch
DigiHealth

Digital Health

AI-driven tools for mental health, wellbeing and remote physiological monitoring.

Kushagra Rathore KR
Kushagra Rathore
Research Scholar (Supervised by Dr. Santosh Vipparthi)
Huiyu Yang HY
Huiyu Yang
External Collaborator · Research Scholar, University of Oulu, Finland
Uday U
Uday
Intern (Supervised by Dr. Santosh Vipparthi)
Shivangi Sharma SS
Shivangi Sharma
Intern · UIT Shimla
HyInt

Hybrid Intelligence

Human-AI collaboration systems that combine human judgement with machine intelligence at scale.

Pratyush Chandra PC
Pratyush Chandra
PhD Scholar
Parv Singla PS
Parv Singla
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2025-29, IIT Ropar
Jeet Ashwar Singh JS
Jeet Ashwar Singh
Undergraduate Researcher · BTech 2024-28, NIT Jalandhar