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Voices shaping the field

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Dr. Chayan Sarkar
Abhishek Upperwal
Data Scientist
Founder at Soket AI Labs

Data Scientist by profession and CEO by the needs. His personal vision is to advance the field of AI that can ultimately contribute towards solutions for social issues.

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Prof. Ananth Grama
Prof. Ananth Grama
Samuel D. Conte Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Purdue University, USA

IIT Roorkee alumnus and Director of Purdue's Institute for Physical AI; works on parallel & distributed computing and large-scale data analytics.

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Prof. Aniket Bera
Prof. Aniket Bera
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Purdue University, USA

Directs the IDEAS Lab; research in robotics, embodied AI, human-robot collaboration and intent-aware planning.

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Prof. Biplab Banerjee
Prof. Biplab Banerjee
CSRE and cMInDS
IIT Bombay, India

Principal Investigator of the IITB-HRTI Centre for Computer Vision, MultiModal AI and Geo-Intelligence, and serves as an AI Engineering Advisor for AWL Inc., Japan.

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Dr. Chayan Sarkar
Dr. Chayan Sarkar
Senior Scientist, TCS Research
TCS Research, India

Research in human-robot interaction, embodied AI, NLP for robotics and multi-robot systems.

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Dr. N. Hemachandra
Prof. N. Hemachandra
IEOR
IIT Bombay, India

Expert in Reinforcement Learning, Markov Decision Models, Queueing Models, and Game Theory. A co-recipient of the 2024 Google India Research Award.

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Prof. Vipin Kumar
Prof. Narayanan C Krishnan
Head MFSDSAI
IIT Palakad

Works on fundamental artificial intelligence and machine learning problems, in particular generalisability (through transfer learning, meta-learning, zero-shot learning, and few-shot learning), generative models, and explainability

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Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu
Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu
Professor & Chair, Computational and Data Sciences (CDS)
IISc Bengaluru, India

Leads the Vision & AI Lab; research in computer vision, deep learning and machine learning. Fellow of INAE.

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Prof. Rajesh Gupta
Prof. Rajesh Gupta
Distinguished Professor & Qualcomm Chair; Founding Director, HDSI
UC San Diego, USA

Dean of the School of Computing, Information & Data Sciences; research in embedded and cyber-physical systems and data science. IEEE/ACM/AAAS Fellow.

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Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya
Prof. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee
Head, MFSDSAI
IIT Guwahati, India

Also working as Head, Manekshaw Centre of Excellence for National Security Studies and Research.

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Prof. Sandeep Kumar
Prof. Sandeep Kumar
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Yardi School of AI
IIT Delhi, India

Heads the Machine Intelligence, Signals & Networks (MISN) Lab; works on machine learning, graphical models and large-scale optimization.

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Prof. Soujanya Poria
Prof. Soujanya Poria
Associate Professor, Electrical & Electronic Engineering
NTU Singapore

Leads the DeCLaRe Lab; research in large language models, multimodal AI, NLP and affective computing.

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Prof. Sriraam Natarajan
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan
Professor of Computer Science
UT Dallas, USA

Leads the StARLinG Lab; research in statistical relational learning, probabilistic & neuro-symbolic AI, and AI for healthcare.

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Prof. Tapan K. Gandhi
Prof. Tapan K. Gandhi
Professor at EED & Cadence Chair Professor of AI and Automation
IIT Delhi, India

An expert in Artificial Intelligence, computational neuroscience, brain imaging, and biomedical engineering. He is FNAE, FNASc., FAIIA, SMIEEE.

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Prof. Vipin Kumar
Prof. Vipin Kumar
Regents Professor & William Norris Chair in Large-Scale Computing
University of Minnesota, USA

A pioneer of data mining and high-performance computing; applies machine learning to global challenges such as climate and the environment.

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Prof. Vishal Monga
Prof. Vishal Monga
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Penn State University, USA

Directs the iPAL Lab; research in signal & image processing, computational imaging and interpretable deep learning. IEEE Fellow.

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