Projects

Synthetic Data Generation – Responsible AI Theme

Role: Research Team Member
Organization: IndiaAI–IBD, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
Duration: Feb 2025 – Present

Contributing to the development of AI tools and frameworks to enhance fairness in machine learning by generating synthetic data and mitigating biased labels.

Publications from this project:

H. C. Joshi and S. Kumar, “FairGenerate: Enhancing fairness through synthetic data generation and two-fold biased labels removal,” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Apr. 2025.
H. C. Joshi and S. Kumar, “FairPreprocessor: Better Fairness via Addressing Imbalanced Data through Synthetic Data Generation and Mitigating Biased Labels,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, doi: 10.1109/MIS.2025.3580459.

Understanding People’s Attitude Towards Food in India – VAJRA Scheme

Role: Researcher
Organization: IIT Roorkee & University of South Carolina (VAJRA Scheme, DST, Government of India)
Duration: Dec 2021 – Oct 2022

Collaborated with Prof. Sandeep Kumar (IIT Roorkee) and Prof. Biplav Srivastava (University of South Carolina) to study people’s attitudes toward food in India and its implications for designing fair AI systems.

Publication from this project:

H. C. Joshi, U. Yadav, B. Srivastava, and R. M. Singh, “Learning About People’s Attitude Towards Food Available in India and Its Implications for Fair AI-based Systems,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), Orlando, FL, USA, 2022, pp. 985–992, doi: 10.1109/ICDMW58026.2022.00128.