About

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Mobile Systems, University of Bamberg, Germany. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2024, where I was affiliated with the two eminent research groups, Ubiquitous and Networked Systems Lab (UbiNET) and the Complex Network Research Group (CNeRG). My research interests lie in ubiquitous sensing, mobility data analytics, privacy and trust in pervasive systems and intelligent transportation systems, driven by a passion for creating practical, human-centered solutions through data and system design. Before my doctoral journey, I earned my Master’s degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, where I graduated as the departmental topper in 2018. Beyond research, I have a deep appreciation for arts and crafts and often spend my leisure time painting - a creative pursuit that continues to inspire my academic work with balance and perspective.

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Research Activity

June 2024 - Present

Working Towards Developing Privacy and Trust-aware Smary City Solutions

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Working Towards Developing Anonymization Techniques for Securing City-wide Intermodal Trajectory Data under the supervision of Prof. Daniela Nicklas, Chair of Mobile Systems, University of Bamberg, Germany, also knows as Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany.

July 2019 - May 2024

Developing Intelligent Transportation System

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Developed a pervasive dashcam using different causal inferencing techniques for Understanding the Driving Behavior through Analysing the Interaction between Different Driving Maneuvers and On-road Objects to Sense the Driving Environment under the supervision of Prof. Bivas Mitra and Prof. Sandip Chakraborty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Thesis Title: Exploring Spatiotemporal Data for Contextual Analysis of Driving Behavior: Towards Developing Ubiquitous Platforms for Road Safety. Link

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Publication

2025

Debasree Das, Rahat Rafiq, Daniela Nicklas, “Does One Noise Fit All? Analyzing Utility in Transportation Mode-Based Anonymization”, in IEEE SmartComp 2025.

Debasree Das, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, Sajal K. Das, “Pervasive Sensing to Correlate Vehicle Driving Behavior with City-Scale Traffic Dynamics, in Pervasive Computing 2025", F E A T U R E   A R T I C L E (April-June 2025).

Lina Steger, Leonie Ackermann, Debasree Das, Alexandra Kapp, Daniela Nicklas, “Leveraging Gaussian Noise for Balancing Differential Privacy Guarantees and Utility in Mobility Reports”, in IEEE PerCom Workshops, 2025.

Bishal Bhandari, Debasree Das, “On-demand Context Aware Bus Route Profiling: A Study on Enhancing Urban Mobility”, in BTW Data Driven Smart City Science and Transferability (DaSCiT), 2025.

2024

Debasree Das, Sandip Chakraborty, and Bivas Mitra, “DriveR: Towards Generating a Dynamic Road Safety Map with Causal Contexts”, in ACM MobileHCI, vol. 2024.

Debasree Das, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra and Sajal K. Das, “Early Detection of Driving Maneuvers for Proactive Congestion Prevention”, in IEEE PerCom, vol. 2024.

2023

Sugandh Pargal, Debasree Das, Bikash Sahoo, Bivas Mitra, and Sandip Chakraborty, “GRIDS: Personalized Guideline Recommendations while Driving Through a New City”, in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS), July 2023.

Debasree Das, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, “DriCon: On-device Just-in-Time Context Characterization for Unexpected Driving Events”, in IEEE PerCom, vol. 2023.

Debasree Das, Pragma Kar, Sugandh Pargal, Sandip Chakraborty, “FreeSteer: A Smartphone Application for Detecting Anxiety in Novice Drivers through Smart Glasses”, in IEEE COMSNETS, vol. 2023.

2022.

Debasree Das, Sugandh Pargal, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, “DriBe: On-road Mobile Telemetry for Locality-neutral Driving Behavior Annotation”, in IEEE MDM, vol. 2022.

Debasree Das, Sugandh Pargal, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, “Why Slammed the Brakes On? Auto-annotating Driving Behaviors from Adaptive Causal Modeling”, in IEEE PerCom Workshops, vol. 2022.

Rohit Verma, Sugandh Pargal, Debasree Das, Tanusree Parbat, Sai Shankar Kambalapalli, Bivas Mitra, and Sandip Chakraborty,“Impact of Driving Behavior on Commuter’s Comfort During Cab Rides: Towards a New Perspective of Driver Rating”, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2022.

2021

Susanta Chakraborty, Samya Muhuri, Debasree Das,“Detection of constant member and overlapping community from dynamic literary network”, Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2021.

2019

Samya Muhuri, Debasree Das, Susanta Chakraborty,“Line Encoding Based Method to Analyze Performance of Indian States in Road Safety”, International Conference of Computational Intelligence In Pattern Recognition (CIPR 2019), 19-20 Jan, 2019.

2017

Samya Muhuri, Debasree Das, Susanta Chakraborty,“An Automated Game Theoretic Approach For Co-Operative Road Traffic Management in Disaster”, IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information System, 2017(IEEE-iNIS), 18-20 Dec, 2017, India.

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Experience

2024 - Present

Research Assistant

Currently working for Explanym funded by Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and European Union focusing explainable anonymization on human mobility data at University of Bamberg, Germany

2019 - 2024

Teaching Assistant

Worked as an Teaching Assistant in the department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur from July, 2019 to May, 2024.

May 2023 - October 2023

Visiting Scholar

Visited Computer Science department of Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA for 6 months to work on the field of Sensing Driving Behavior for Identification of Non-recurrent Driving Events hosted by Prof. Sajal K. Das.

2018 - 2019

Associate

Worked as an Associate in UI and backend development using technologies such as J2EE(Java 8, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Ajax) in Internal Project and used SmallTalk language in Visual Age SmallTalk Tool for project in Insurance domain at Cognizant Technology Solutions India Private Ltd. from September, 2018 to July, 2019.

2017 - 2018

Teaching Assistant

Worked as an Teaching Assistant in the department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur from July, 2017 to June, 2018.

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Achievements

2024

Received student travel grants from LRN COMSNETS Travel Grant, IEEE TCPP, DST SERB for participating in IEEE PerCom 2024.

2023

Received student travel grants from IEEE CS TCCC, ACM IARCS, Institute Travel Support for participating in IEEE PerCom 2023.

2022

Recieved Best Paper Runner Up Award at IEEE, MDM for the paper titled, "DriBe: On-road Mobile Telemetry for Locality-neutral Driving Behavior Annotation".

Recieved Second Winner Prize at IBM, Maitreyee for research vlog.

2018

Awarded Institute Silver Medal at IIEST, Shibpur for ranking 1st in Computer Science and Engineering Department in M.Tech., in December, 2018.

2016

Received Shri Dewang Mehta IT Award, in February, 2016

2010

Received Inspire Award Warrant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2010.

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Other Academic Roles

2021 - Present

• Serving as Co-Orgnanizer for IEEE TrustSense Workshop affiliated to IEEE PerCom (A*)
• Serving as Graduate Forum Co-Chair & TPC member for COMSNETS 2026
• Serving as Publicity Co-Chair for ICDCN 2026
• Serving as a TPC member for IEEE AIoT 2025
• Serving as a TPC member for IEEE HiPC Student Research Symposium 2025
• Serving as a TPC member for IARIA Congress 2025
• Served as a TPC member for UbiComp workshops 2025
• Served as a Co-Chair for BTW 2025 Early Career Researcher Workshop. Message from the Chairs
• Served in the CoI TPC for PerCom workshops 2025
• Served as a Web Chair for IEEE COMSNETS 2025
• Invited talk at the ACM India ARCS 2024
• Served as external reviewer for IEEE PerCom’24/25, ACM CHI’25/26, ACM CSCW’24/25, ACM MobileHCI’25/26, IEEE InfoCom’24/25, ACM ICMI’23, Elsevier PMC’22-25, IEEE TITS’21, WWW’22, AAAI’22, COMSNETS’22, CODS-COMAD’22

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