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About

I’m a PhD researcher at IIT Gandhinagar’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, working with Dr. Yogesh Kumar Meena in the Human-AI Interaction (HAIx) Lab. My research connects HCI, signal processing and AI to build context- and intent-aware systems. I work with touch, speech, gaze, surface EMG and EEG, including Indic-language keyboards and silent-speech decoding.

Previously, I worked in quality assurance at AlgoSec and computer-vision research at Samsung R&D. A UKRI-ISPF fellowship supported visiting research at Ulster University in Derry, UK, on BCI-driven mental-fatigue monitoring for stroke rehabilitation. My work includes papers at ETRA 2026, IndiaHCI 2025 and Information and Software Technology, a filed Indian patent application, and research showcases at two startup expos.

I’m interested in research collaborations around multimodal interfaces, assistive communication and accessible public systems.

ramanand.k@iitgn.ac.in

Research areas

  • Multimodal interaction
  • Assistive communication
  • Gaze-based text entry
  • Indic language interfaces
  • Silent speech / EMG
  • Confidence-aware fusion

Patent application

  1. 2025 · Indian patent application · Filed

    System and Method of Multimodal Elevator Control

    Inventors: Yogesh Kumar Meena, RamanandApplication no. 202521122791

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Publications

  1. 2026 Conference paper

    Towards Enhancing Visual Reasoning through Gaze-Semantic Alignment and Attention Correction

    Ramanand, Yogesh Kumar MeenaETRA ’26 · ACM · Art. 54, pp. 1–3

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    @inproceedings{ramanand2026gaze,
  author    = {Ramanand and Meena, Yogesh Kumar},
  title     = {Towards Enhancing Visual Reasoning through Gaze-Semantic Alignment and Attention Correction},
  booktitle = {Proc. 2026 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '26)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {2026},
  articleno = {54},
  pages     = {1--3},
  doi       = {10.1145/3797246.3805853}
}

  2. 2026 Journal article

    Evaluation of the Impact of Image Mutations on the Origin Classification of Digital Images

    Vaishnav Koka, Ramanand, Shouvick Mondal, Yogesh Kumar MeenaInformation and Software Technology · Vol. 194

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    @article{koka2026imagemutations,
  author  = {Koka, Vaishnav and Ramanand and Mondal, Shouvick and Meena, Yogesh Kumar},
  title   = {Evaluation of the Impact of Image Mutations on the Origin Classification of Digital Images},
  journal = {Information and Software Technology},
  volume  = {194},
  pages   = {108071},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.infsof.2026.108071}
}

  3. 2025 Conference paper

    Design and Evaluation of a Multimodal Elevator System with Gaze and Multilingual Voice Controls

    Ramanand, Yogesh Kumar MeenaIndiaHCI ’25 · ACM · pp. 118–130

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    @inproceedings{ramanand2025elevator,
  author    = {Ramanand and Meena, Yogesh Kumar},
  title     = {Design and Evaluation of a Multimodal Elevator System with Gaze and Multilingual Voice Controls},
  booktitle = {Proc. 16th Intl. Conf. of HCI Design and Research (IndiaHCI '25)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {118--130},
  doi       = {10.1145/3768633.3770133}
}