Photograph of Akashdeep Bansal

Akashdeep Bansal

Research Scholar (PhD)

Professional Activities

  • Presented a talk on “RAVI: Reading Assistant for Visually Impaired” at EMPOWER 2018, IIT Delhi Sonipat Campus, Sonipat, Haryana. (October 25-27, 2018)
  • Member of the EMPOWER 2018, an assistive technology conference, organizing committee. (June 2018 - October 2018)
  • Presented poster on “RAVI: Reading Assistant for Visually Impaired” at Industry Day 2018, IIT Delhi. (September 2018)
  • Founded the “assistive” research paper reading group at IIT Delhi.
  • Participated in OpenCircle at “Microsoft Accessibility Summit”, Microsoft India campus, Hyderabad. (May 30, 2017)
  • Presented a talk on “Tools and Techniques for accessing STEM content and challenges in Reading Accessibility for Visually Impaired” at the invited seminar by PwD cell, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. (May 23, 2017)
  • Presented a talk on “Accessing Mathematics with Screen Readers” at the National workshop on Tactile and Audio Graphics for the visually impaired, Indiana University gateway, Gurugram. (April 5-6, 2017)
  • Participated in Hackathon for visually impaired, International Accessibility Summit during Shaastra, TechFest of IIT Madras. (Dec 31, 2016 – Jan 3, 2017)
  • Participated in ICCHP Summer University, 15th International conference on computers helping people with special needs (ICCHP 2016), University of Linz (Austria). (July 8-12, 2016)
  • Participated in 2nd Indo-US workshop on accessibility technologies for the blind and visually impaired, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India). (Feb 12-13, 2016)

Extra Curricular Activities

  • Organized “Inclusive STEM Hackathon 2018” at IIIT Bangalore, Jan 19-21, 2018. (Jan 2018)
  • PhD student representative for CSE department: Organized Annual PhD Research Symposium 2017 and Annual Faculty-Research Scholar meet, Managed CSE/SIT PhD website, and took initiative for Research at CSE/SIT, IIT Delhi facebook page. (August 2017 - Present)
  • Member of the I-Stem (Inclusive STEM), a group of visually impaired students and professionals working towards solving challenges in inclusive STEM education system for India. (March 2017 - Present)
  • Coordinator of Accessibility@IITD community, a group of students work towards solving various accessibility to person with disability related challenges at the campus. (July 2016 - Present)
  • Managed CSE IITD Mission Top 30 facebook page, a page to connect CSE department to Alumnis. (May 2017 - July 2017)
  • President of S-Boosters Society, a technical society at undergrad college. (July 2012 – May 2014)
  • Head coordinator of Engineer’s Day Celebration’12 – A District level Technical Fest. (Sep 2012)
  • Guided the students as “House Captain” in school for 1 year. (July 2007 – May 2008)