Distinguished Lectures

Prof. Elisa Bertino
Samuel Conte Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University gave a distinguished lecture on Applying Machine Learning to to securing cellular networks

Prof. Rajesh P N Rao
University of Washington, Seattle, USA gave a distinguished lecture on The Predictive Brain: An Active Predictive Coding Framework for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Jayathi Murthy
President of Oregon State University gave a distinguished lecture on The story of a circuitous life through engineering

Dr. Paul A Rosen
Project Scientist, NISAR Mission & Principal Investigator for NASA Advanced Information System Technology gave a distinguished lecture on The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Mission – The Final Stretch Toward a New Capability for Earth Science and Applications

Dr. Natarajan Shankar
a Distinguished Senior Scientist and SRI Fellow at the SRI Computer Science Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA gave a Distinguished Lecture on Composing High-Assurance Software.

Prof. Alison Noble
University of Oxford gave a distinguished lecture on The emergence of sonography data science.

Prof. Qing Zhao
Cornell University gave a Distinguished Lecture on Random Walk on a Tree for Stochastic Optimization and Learning.

Prof. Sudip Mitra
IIT Kharagpur gave IEEE ComSoc Virtual Distinguish Lecture on e-Health: From Wearables to Diagnostic systems.

Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti
IIT Bombay gave an online KCIS distinguished lecture on Graph Neural Networks and Knowledge Graph Completion.

Prof. Devi Parikh
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech, Facebook AI Research gave an online KCIS distinguished lecture on AI for Multimodal Understanding, Creativity, and Science.

Prof. Petri Toiviainen
University of Jyväskylä gave a talk on Machine Learning in Music Research.

Prof. Amit Sheth
An educator, researcher, and entrepreneur gave a talk on Knowledge Graphs and their central role in big data processing: Past, Present, and Future.

Prof. Martin Banks
University of California, Berkeley gave a talk on Picture Perception.


Prof. Takayuki Arai
Sophia University, Japan gave a talk on Introduction to Speech Science with Vocal-tract Models.

Prof. Devi Parikh
Dalhousie University, Canada gave a talk on Applications of Experimental Psychology to Real World Problems.

Dr. Richard Socher
Chief Scientist – Salesforce gave a talk on The Natural Language Decathlon (DecaNLP).

Mr. Manoj Saxena
Executive Chairman of CognitiveScale and founding Managing Director of The Entrepreneurs’ Fund IV gave a talk on Ethics in AI Design.

Prof. Andrew Zisserman
University of Oxford gave a talk on Learning from Sight and Sound.

Prof. Alison Noble
Michigan State University gave a talk on Fingerprints 75 billion-class recognition problem.

Prof. Shmuel Peleg
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem gave a talk on Audio Visual Speech Enhancement.

Prof. Joydeep Ghosh
University of Texas, Austin gave a talk on AI/ML for Personalized Healthcare: Attaining “segments of one” from Electronic Health Records.

Prof. Rama Chellappa
University of Maryland, College Park gave a talk on The Upending of 5 decades of Computer Vision Research – Deep Representations, Big Data and GPUs.

Martin Edward Hellman
Stanford University gave a talk on The Evolution of Public Key Cryptology.


Dr. Adrian Kaehler
CEO and Founder of Giant AI, California gave a talk on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Jim Foley
Georgia Tech gave a talk on A Computer Graphics Grand Challenge: How Real is Real Enough?

Prof. Jitendra Malik
University of California, Berkeley gave a talk on Deep Visual Understanding from Deep Learning.

Mr. Thodur Madabusi Krishna
Carnatic vocalist gave a talk on Privacy and the Public Gaze – a Singer’s Reflection.

Prof. Jaime G. Carbonell
Carnegie Mellon, USA gave a talk on Advances in Machine Learning and Big Data with Industrial Applications.

Dr. P Anandan
gave a talk on How Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI are Transforming the Consumer Experience.


Prof. Anand Teltumbde
gave a talk on India’s Democratic Deficit: The Post-Colonial Assessment.


Prof. Nivedita Menon

Prof. Nandini Sundar

Padma Shri Dr. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry

Prof. Raj Reddy
Carnegie Mellon University gave a talk on Who Invented the Computer? Babbage, Atanasoff, Zuse, Turing or Von Neumann?

Mr. Ram D Sriram

Prof. C V R Murty,

Prof. M Valiathan Ch M

Dr. Sumit Roy

Prof. R Narayana Iyengar

Prof. Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil

Prof. Sridhara Rao Dasu

Dr. Sandeep Pandey

Dr. V K Saraswat


Prof. Anil Sadgopal
educationist and activist gave a talk on Neo-Liberal Assault on Education: Undoing Freedom Movement’s Aspirations and Vision of the Constitution.

Justice Yatindra Singh

Shri Vibhuti Narain Rai
writer, novelist, activist, translator, Director general of police gave a talk on Communalism and the Role of State.

Dr. V John Mathews

Shrikanth Narayanan
University of Southern California gave a talk on Enriched Spoken Language Processing and Applications.

Dr. P Namperumalsamy

Prof. P Balaram

Shri Govind Mishra

Prof. Prabhakar Raghavan

Prof. Len Bass


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Dr. Rick Rashid


Dr. Sandeep Pandey






