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Publications & Patents
USENIX OSDI
Satija, Sambhav, Apurv Mehra, Sudheesh Singanamalla, Karan Grover, Muthian Sivathanu, Nishanth Chandran, Divya Gupta, and Satya Lokam. "Blockene: A High-throughput Blockchain Over Mobile Devices." In 14th {USENIX} Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation ({OSDI} 20), pp. 567-582. 2020.
ACM ICTD
Tandon, Udayan, Lavanya Siri, Apurv Mehra, and Jacki O'Neill. "Designing a financial management smartphone app for users with mixed literacies." In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, pp. 1-5. 2019.
ACM CSCW
Hulikal Muralidhar, Srihari, Claus Bossen, Apurv Mehra, and Jacki O'Neill. "Digitizing monetary ecologies: Intended and unintended consequences of introducing a financial management app in a low-resource setting." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2, no. CSCW (2018): 1-17.
ACM CHI
Mehra, Apurv, Srihari Muralidhar, Sambhav Satija, Anupama Dhareshwar, and Jacki O'Neill. "Prayana: Intermediated financial management in resource-constrained settings." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-13. 2018.
ACM ICTD
Mehra, Apurv, Sambhav Satija, and Jacki O'Neill. "Prayana: A Journey Towards Financial Inclusion." In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, pp. 1-5. 2017.
IEEE COMSNETS
Wadhwa, Rakshit, Apurv Mehra, Pushpendra Singh, and Meenu Singh. "A pub/sub based architecture to support public healthcare data exchange." In 2015 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2015.
M4D
Rushil Khurana, Sanchit Sharma, Apurv Mehra, Daksha Yadav, Vinayak Naik and Amarjeet Singh "Jiah: Healthcare Goes Mobile" In 2012 1st International Conference on Mobile for Development (M4D), pp. 102-106. IEEE, 2012.
Patent
Sivathanu, Muthian, Nishanth Chandran, Divya Gupta, Apurv Mehra, Satyanarayana V. Lokam, Sambhav Satija, and Sudheesh Singanamalla. "Lightweight Blockchain Based on Split-Trust." U.S. Patent Application 16/510,144, filed January 14, 2021.
Patent
Chakraborty, Tusher, Apurv Mehra, Ranveer Chandra, Siddharth Prakash. "Reliable Delivery Of Digital Services." U.S. Patent Application 16/510,144, filed January 14, 2020.
Patent
Chandra, Ranveer, Manohar Swaminathan, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Zerina Kapetanovic, Deepak Vasisht, Akshit Kumar, Apurv Mehra, Avikalp Gupta, Sudipta Sinha, and Rohit Patil. "Aerial imaging of a region using above ground aerial camera platform." U.S. Patent Application 15/414,949, filed July 26, 2018.
Workshops & Invited Talks
Invited Talk
LUMS '22
Building Technology for Empowerment & Societal Impact
Apurv Mehra
Invited Talk
Blockchain Technology Demystified '21
Blockchain use cases & limitations; International Scenario & Regulations
Online Webinar, NTIPRIT
Apurv Mehra
Linux Foundation
Hyperledger GF '20
Exploring practical challenges of Blockchain for social good.
Apurv Mehra, Jacki O'Neil, Satya Lokam
Workshop
Future of Work '19
Srihari Hulikal Muralidhar (Aarhus University); Apurv Mehra, Udayan Tandon, Ding Wang, Noopur Raval, Jacki O’Neill (Microsoft Research India). "Developing Communication Tools for Gig Workers to Collectivize in India", In Future of Work, Proceedings of the CHI 2019 workshop.
Invited Talk
2018
Designing for societal impact and digital inclusion
Opportunities, Challenges and Pitfalls, Swansea University, UK
Apurv Mehra, Jacki O'Neil
Workshop
HCI for Blockchain '18
Mehra, Apurv, Satya Lokam, A. Jain, M. Sivathanu, S. Singanamalla, and J. ONeill. "Vishrambh: Trusted philanthropy with end-to-end transparency." In HCI for Blockchain, Proceedings of the A CHI 2018 workshop on Studying, Critiquing, Designing and Envisioning Distributed Ledger Technologies, Montreal, QC, Canada, pp. 21-22. 2018.
ACM ICTD
ICT Ecosystem '16
Integrating ICT ecosystem for state wide view of health services: a case study for the state of Himachal Pradesh, India
Apurv Mehra
Invited Talk
ICT Ecosystem '16
ICT-enabled Primary Healthcare Services,
Jadavpur University, India
Apurv Mehra
Awards & Mentions
Hackathon
2021
Idea: Empowering SMBs using peer to peer content delivery network
5th Place Microsoft //OneWeek Global Hackathon.
Hackathon
2017
Idea: NonCense: Using Blockchain to bring trust to charities
1st Place Angel Hack Bangalore