What am I working on

Topics:

• The political economy of AI and its impact on workers/work
• The Automated Workplace: Digital Taylorism in India and abroad
• What shapes the public and academic discourse around AI and its policy?

• "A Study in Intelligence: Mapping the Impact of AI on Indian Labour", IRCC Seed Grant, Total grant: INR 20,00,000, 1 Feb 2021 to 31 Jan 2024
• "landscape analysis for Mozilla’s Responsible Computer Challenge program in India", Consultancy Project for Digital Futures Lab, Total grant: INR 6,00,000, 2 Sept 2022 to 31 Dec 2022
• "Trust and Public AI: A Policy Analysis", Project for the Trust Lab IITB, Total grant: INR 6,00,000, 1 Aug 2023 to 31 July 2024

Peer reviewed publications

• Anupam Guha. Data and Methods for Reference Resolution in Different Modalities. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maryland, 2017.
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @phdthesis{guha2017data,
    title={Data and Methods for Reference Resolution 
    in Different Modalities},
    author={Guha, Anupam},
    year={2017},
    school={University of Maryland, College Park}
  }
  

• Devasmita Jha, Shishir Kumar Jha, and Anupam Guha. A Critical Evaluation of the Indian Ride-Hailing Ecosystem and its Impact on Decent Work Standards. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 2025.
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @article{placeholder
  



• Devasmita Jha, Shishir Kumar Jha, nd Anupam Guha. Rating Systems: A Drivers’ Perspective. Economic & Political Weekly vol. 60 issue 4, (2025).
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @article{jha2025wl,
    title={(wl-6929)-Rating Systems--A Driver’s Perspective},
    author={Jha, Devasmita and Jha, Shishir Kumar and Guha, Anupam},
    journal={Economic \& Political Weekly},
    volume={60},
    number={4},
    year={2025}
  }
  



• Satyam Mohla, Bishnupriya Bagh, and Anupam Guha. A Material Lens to Investigate the Gendered Impact of the AI Industry. IJCAI 2021 Workshop on AI for Social Good.
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @conference {1548819,
  title = {A Material Lens to Investigate the 
  Gendered Impact of the AI Industry},
  booktitle = {IJCAI 2021 Workshop on AI for Social Good},
  year = {2021},
  author = {Satyam Mohla and Bishnupriya Bagh 
  and Anupam Guha}
  }
  



• Satyam Mohla, Sidharth Mohla, Anupam Guha, and Biplab Banerjee. Multimodal Noisy Segmentation based fragmented burn scars identification in Amazon Rainforest. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2020.
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @article{mohla2020multimodal,
  title={Multimodal Noisy Segmentation based fragmented 
  burn scars identification in Amazon Rainforest},
  author={Satyam Mohla, Sidharth Mohla, Anupam Guha 
  and Biplab Banerjee
  journal={2020 IEEE International Conference on
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)},
  pages={4122--4126},
  year={2020}
  }
  



• Mohit Iyyer*, Varun Manjunatha*, Anupam Guha, Yogarshi Vyas, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé III, and Larry Davis. The Amazing Mysteries of the Gutter: Drawing Inferences Between Panels in Comic Book Narratives. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
  CODE+DATA  •  Press: MIT Tech Review, Digital Trends  •  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @inproceedings{IyyerComics2016,
  Author = {Mohit Iyyer and Varun Manjunatha and 
  Anupam Guha and Yogarshi Vyas and Jordan Boyd-Graber
  and Hal {Daum\'{e} III} and Larry Davis},
  Booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision 
  and Pattern Recognition},
  Year = "2017",
  Title = {The Amazing Mysteries of the Gutter: Drawing 
  Inferences Between Panels in Comic Book Narratives},
  }
  



• Anupam Guha, Mohit Iyyer, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. "A Distorted Skull Lies in the Bottom Center..." Identifying Paintings from Text Descriptions. North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Human-Computer QA Workshop, 2016.
  DATA  •  Supplementary  •  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Guha:Iyyer:Boyd-Graber-2016,
  Author = {Anupam Guha and Mohit Iyyer 
  and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  Booktitle = {NAACL Human-Computer 
  Question Answering Workshop},
  Location = {San Diego},
  Year = {2016},
  Title = {A Distorted Skull Lies in the Bottom Center: 
  Identifying Paintings from Text Descriptions},
  }
  



• Mohit Iyyer, Anupam Guha, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Hal Daumé III. Feuding Families and Former Friends: Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Fictional Relationships. North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2016.
  CODE+DATA  •  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @inproceedings{feudingfamilies2016,
  Author = {Mohit Iyyer and Anupam Guha and 
  Snigdha Chaturvedi and Jordan Boyd-Graber and 
  Hal {Daum\'{e} III}},
  Booktitle = {North American Association 
  for Computational Linguistics},
  Location = {San Diego, CA},
  Year = {2016},
  Title = {Feuding Families and Former Friends: 
  Unsupervised Learning for 
  Dynamic Fictional Relationships},
  }
  

  
  Best Paper Award


• Anupam Guha, Mohit Iyyer, Danny Bouman, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Removing the Training Wheels: A Coreference Dataset that Entertains Humans and Challenges Computers. North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2015.
  CODE+DATA  •  Video  •  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Guha:Iyyer:Bouman:Boyd-Graber-2015,
  Title = {Removing the Training Wheels: 
  A Coreference Dataset that Entertains 
  Humans and Challenges Computers.},
  Author = {Anupam Guha and Mohit Iyyer and 
  Danny Bouman and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  Booktitle = {North American Association 
  for Computational Linguistics},
  Year = {2015},
  Location = {Denver, Colorado}
  }
  



• Yezhou Yang, Anupam Guha, Cornelia Fermüller, and Yiannis Aloimonos. Manipulation Action Tree Bank: A Knowledge Resource for Humanoids. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids, 2014.
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @article{yang2014manipulation,
  Title={Manipulation Action Tree Bank: 
  A Knowledge Resource for Humanoids},
  Author={Yang, Yezhou and Guha, Anupam and 
  Ferm{\"u}ller, Cornelia and Aloimonos, Yiannis},
  Booktitle = {IEEE-RAS International Conference 
  on Humanoid Robots},
  Year = {2014}	
  }
  



• Yezhou Yang, Anupam Guha, Cornelia Fermüller, and Yiannis Aloimonos. A Cognitive System for Understanding Human Manipulation Actions.. Advances in Cognitive Systems, (ISSN 2324-8416), 2014.
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @article{yang2014cognitive,
  title={A cognitive system for 
  understanding human manipulation actions},
  author={Yang, Yezhou and Guha, Anupam and 
  Ferm{\"u}ller, Cornelia and Aloimonos, Yiannis},
  journal={Advances in Cognitive Sysytems},
  volume={3},
  pages={67--86},
  year={2014}
  }
  



• Anupam Guha, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, and Yiannis Aloimonos. Minimalist Plans for Interpreting Manipulation Actions. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013.
  [BIBTEX]
  
  

  @inproceedings{guha2013minimalist,
  title={Minimalist plans for 
  interpreting manipulation actions},
  author={Guha, Anupam and Yang, Yezhou and 
  Ferm{\"u}ller, Cornelia and Aloimonos, Yiannis},
  booktitle={Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 
  2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on},
  pages={5908--5914},
  year={2013},
  organization={IEEE}
  }
  

Reports and Policy Publications

• Anushka Jain and Anupam Guha. IFF’s Comments on Niti Aayog’s paper on "Responsible AI for All: Adopting the Framework:A use case approach on Facial Recognition Technology", Internet Freedom Foundation, November 2022.

Courses I teach at IITB

• PS 644, Advanced Topics in AI, Data, and Policy: [Spring 2025] [Spring 2024]
• PS 643, Introduction to AI, Data, and Policy: [Fall 2024] [Fall 2023]
• PS 609, Research Methodology and Design, (shared teaching): [Fall 2024] [Fall 2023] [Fall 2021]
• PS 626, AI, Data, and Policy: [Spring 2023] [Spring 2022] [Spring 2021] [Spring 2020], note: This course has changed to the courses PS 643 and PS 644
• PS 630, Technology and the Future of Workers: [Spring 2025] [Spring 2024] [Fall 2022] [Fall 2021] [Spring 2021]
• PS 610, Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods, (shared teaching): [Spring 2021]

People

1. Tisha Chakrabarti
2. Aayushi Vishnoi

1. Abhishek Sharad Mali, CPS PhD 2020 –
2. Avnika Nagar, CPS 2021 –
3. Iznallah, CPS 2021 –
4. Nikita Amar Jha, CPS conversion from MPP 2020-22
5. Purnima Rohilla, CPS conversion from MPP 2021-23

1. Hemanth O, CPS MPP 2023-25
2. Durgesh Ingle, (co-advised), CPS MPP 2023-25

1. Krish Jaiswal, CPS MPP 2022-24
2. Preeti Kumari, (co-advised), CPS MPP 2022-24
3. Koyal Sindhu, (co-advised), HSS MPhil 2021-23
4. Shadab Alam, CPS MPP 2021-23
5. Surujmoni Thakuria, CPS MPP 2021-23
6. Ojasvi Verma, (co-advised), CPS MPP 2020-23
7. Tisha Chakrabarti, CPS MPP 2020-22
8. Nikita Amar Jha, CPS MPP 2020-, converted to a PhD student
9. Anushree Choudhury, CPS MPP 2020-22
10. Taijshee Mishra, CPS MPP batch of 2019-21