Distinguished Lectures

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. Raghu Santanam

Arizona State University gave a talk on AI & Future of Work.

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.

Risto Miikkulainen

University of Texas gave a talk on Evolution of Neural Networks.

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. Mahan Maharaj

gave a talk on Geometry and Chaos.

Prof. Anand Teltumbde

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

Prof. Mark S Fox

gave a talk on An AI Approach to Measuring Social Good.

Prof. Nivedita Menon

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi gave a talk on Is Science a ‘Culture’? Feminist deconstruction of objectivity.

Prof. Nandini Sundar

Delhi University gave a talk on Not human, not animal: Does India have room for the Adivasi.

Padma Shri Dr. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry

gave a talk on Navigating spaces: The role of theatre in society.

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

National Institute of Standards and Technology gave a talk on Smart Networked Systems and Societies: Research Challenges.

Prof. C V R Murty,

Director, IIT Jodhpur gave a talk on Helping India Build its Own Houses.

Prof. M Valiathan Ch M

cardio-thoracic surgeon gave a talk on The Call of Ayurveda for the Scientist.

Dr. Sumit Roy

University of Washington gave a talk on White Space Networking: Integrated Sensing and Database Architecture.

Prof. R Narayana Iyengar

IISc Bangalore gave a talk on Engineering Heritage of Ancient India: Historical Overview.

Prof. Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil

Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences gave a talk on Towards a Cooperative Commonwealth of Knowledge.

Prof. Sridhara Rao Dasu

University of Wisconsin-Madison gave a talk on Discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Dr. Sandeep Pandey

Indian social activist and co-founder of Asha for Education gave a talk on Strengthening Democracy at grassroots in India.

Dr. V K Saraswat

Director General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Indian Minister of Defence gave a talk on Cyber Warfare and Cryptography.