157 research outputs found
Like Dadima Like Smriti
No full textWith this project, Smriti embarks upon remembrance, which is also the meaning of her name. She ventures into this territory in an attempt to not leave unnoticed the deep imprints of those closest to her. She acknowledges that her memories are fraught with biases, gaps, fictions and fact but what she attempts to stay true to is the emotion paired with the fragments of memory and a newer understanding of her relationships. She is both a purveyor of information and storyteller and is challenged by taking the mundane & every day and unravelling & reassembling these details into visible intricacies. While sorting through her grandmother's things after her death, Smriti came across a trunk full of her grandfather's clothes that her grandmother had put away after his very sudden and early demise. This project is about loss, letting go and preserving memory. The Memory Project, in large part, is an active act of remembering her grandmother (Dadima) and her father beyond the last few months of their lives, which as she witnessed was very, very hard. She refuses to let the memory of this last struggle overpower thirty-three years of her life with them. She loves her family profusely. This project is an act of love, an act of refusal to accept sadness as the story or as the end. It demands of her an emotional will that she sometimes doubt she has but she has known that strength before and she will find it again
3BHK
No full textCurator/artist. Exhibition “3BHK” in Cochin India December 11 2016 -January 3 2017. Exhiibtion, as a whole was a site specific installation in a three-bedroom apartment during Cochin Biennal. My work (collaborative with Smriti Mehra under name Famous Artist) was also a site specific installation “Aspirational Compression Suite”
Bubble in Progress: Do Not Disturb
No full textBubble In Progress: Do Not Disturb exhibition was the result of a collaboration between Leslie Johnson (Sweden), Smriti Mehra (UK) and Chinar Shah (India). The exhibition focused on the global real estate market and the increasing focus on investment versus home
Humoral and lung immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a primate model of protection
No full textAbstractRecently we reported (Mehra et al., 2013), that lung granulomas from Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated cynomolgus macaques exhibit upon challenge with M. tuberculosis a more balanced expression of α- and β-chemokines, relative to comparable samples from sham-vaccinated animals by comparative transcriptomics. Here, we studied the recruitment of immune cells to blood and lungs in M. tuberculosis-infected macaques as a function of prior BCG-vaccination. Vaccination initially enhanced the levels of both macrophages and lymphocytes in blood. In contrast, significantly more CD4+ lymphocytes were later recruited to the lungs of sham-vaccinated animals compared with earlier times/BCG vaccinated animals. BCG-vaccination had a short-lived impact on the anti-M. tuberculosis response. M. tuberculosis continued to replicate in the lung even in the wake of increased CD4+ T cell recruitment to primate lungs, indicating that immune subversive mechanisms are key to its survival in vivo
Drive By Video
No full textAn as-yet-unoccupied shopping mall was the site for a presentation of 15 artist videos in seven rooms on the ground floor. This was visible for traffic passing by on the main boulevard, as well as pedestrians and invited guests who came specifically to see the program. The videos were selected from an open call by the collaborative team that organized the event, as well as showing their own videos: Leslie Johnson, Smriti Mehra and Siddanth Shetty
Masking and Labeling Problems in Social Network Data Management
No full textOnline social networks (OSN) contain data about persons or objects including private information and user generated labels. We study two problems on managing OSN data. Data is often shared with trusted parties. Still, data has to be adapted so that it does not trivially reveal identities of the users and their interactions. We formulate this problem of “masking ” data by deliberately introducing uncertainty and trading it off with the utility of data for useful analyses. We present methods for masking static and dynamic OSN data and show high accuracy in experiments for answering a variety of queries over the masked data. User-generated labels have many uncertainties due to missing values, synonyms, and so on. The problem of Label Set Enhancing captures the task of reducing these uncertainties, by inferring missing values, replacing labels for larger concept labels and so on. We present first known, efficient, iterative solutions to this problem where the labels form a hierarchy. Our evaluations show significant benefits in using a hierarchy for reducing uncertainty in label sets in OSN data
Using dynamic time warping to improve the classical music production workflow
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-73).The current music production workflow, comprising recording, editing, mixing, and mastering music, requires a great deal of manual work for the sound engineer. This thesis aims to bring some recent advances in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) techniques to music production tools, with the goal of streamlining the current process followed by sound engineers. We explored all areas in the music production workflow (with a focus on classical music) that could benet from digital signal processing (DSP) and MIR-based tools, built and iterated on these tools, and transformed the tools into products that are beneficial and easy to use. We collaborated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) sound engineers to gather requirements for this work, which led to the identification of our two tools: an automatic marking transfer (AMT) system and an audio search (AS) system. We then collaborated with other potential users for both AMT and AS tools, including sound engineers from radio stations in the Boston area. This enabled us to identify additional workflows and finalize requirements for these tools. Based on these, we created successful standalone applications for AMT and AS.by Smriti Pramanick.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
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