Prof. Tsachy Weissman
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Founding Director, Stanford Compression Forum, Stanford University Tsachy's research focuses on Information Theory, Data Compression and Communications, Statistical Signal Processing, Machine Learning, the interplay between them, and their applications, with recent focus on applications to genomic data compression and processing. He is inventor of several patents and involved in several companies as member of the technical board. IEEE fellow, he serves on the board of governors of the information theory society as well as the editorial boards of the Transactions on Information Theory and Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory. He is founding Director of the Stanford Compression Forum.
Prof. Santanu Chaudhury
Director Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Professor Santanu Chaudhury is Director of Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur since 2018. Prior to that he has served as Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. Professor Chaudhury holds B.Tech. (Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering) and Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering) Degrees from IIT Kharagpur. He has served as Director of CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, during 2016-18. Professor Chaudhury is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Kharagpur. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), International Association Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He was awarded the INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Medal for Young Scientists in 1993. He received ACCS-CDAC award for his research contributions in 2012. A keen researcher and a thorough academic, Professor Chaudhury has about 300 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, 15 patents and 4 authored/edited books to his credit.
Prof. Isao Echizen
Director / Professor, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
Director, Global Research Center for Synthetic Media, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Professor, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Deputy Dean, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University For Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Professor, Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University For Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Prof. Sushmita Mitra
Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Sushmita Mitra is a full professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She also serves as a Member of the Inter-Academy Panel Panel for Women in STEMM. From 1992 to 1994 she was in the RWTH, Aachen, Germany as a DAAD Fellow. She was a Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Departments of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Meiji University, Japan; and Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark. Dr. Mitra received the National Talent Search Scholarship (1978-1983) from NCERT, India, the University Gold Medal in 1988, the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994 for her pioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing, the CIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship in 1996, and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship in 2018-2020. She was the INAE Chair Professor during 2018-2020. Dr. Mitra has been awarded the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship, 2021. She has more than 150 research publications in referred international journals. According to the Stanford List, Dr. Mitra is ranked among the top 2% scientists worldwide in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing.
Prof. Devi Parikh
Research Director Generative AI, Meta Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing,Georgia Tech
Prof. Devi Parikh is a Research Director in Generative AI at Meta, and an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Before this, she was a Director in the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab at Meta. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and 2009 respectively.She has held visiting positions at Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, Microsoft Research, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Facebook AI Research. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an IJCAI Computers and Thought award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, an Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, a Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech, an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award in Artificial Intelligence from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, four Google Faculty Research Awards, an Amazon Academic Research Award, a Lockheed Martin Inspirational Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech, an Outstanding New Assistant Professor award from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, a Rowan University Medal of Excellence for Alumni Achievement, Rowan University’s 40 under 40 recognition, a Forbes’ list of 20 “Incredible Women Advancing A.I. ".
Dr. Geetha Manjunath
Founder, CEO and CTO, NIRAMAI Health Analytix
Dr. Geetha Manjunath is the Founder, CEO and CTO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix, and has led the company to develop a breakthrough AI solution for detecting early stage breast cancer in a non-invasive radiation-free manner. Geetha holds a PhD from IISc and management education from Kellogg’s Chicago. She comes with over 25 years of experience in IT innovation. She has proposed and led multiple AI projects at Xerox Research and Hewlett Packard India. Before starting NIRAMAI, Geetha was a Lab Director for Data Analytics Research at Xerox India. Geetha has received many international and national recognition for her innovations and entrepreneurial work, including CSI Gold Medal, BIRAC WinER Award 2018 and is also on the Forbes List of Top 20 Self-Made Women this year. Geetha is also an inventor of 16 US patents and more pending grant. She was recently awarded the Accenture Vahini Innovator of the Year Award from Economic Times and was titled as The Woman Entrepreneur of the year 2020 by Biospectrum.
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Dr. Amal Chaturvedi
Director, Algorithm Research and Development, Computational Science Molecular Lab Systems, Roche.
Dr. Amal Chaturvedi is currently the Director of the Algorithm Research and Development group in Computational Science Molecular Lab Systems chapter, a diverse mix of computer scientists, biophysicists, engineers and signal processing engineers, at Roche. His group works on the research as well as product based algorithm development for the next generation DNA sequencer. The algorithm development ranges from biophysical modeling to feature extraction and parameter estimation for a stochastic system using a combination of signal/image processing, statistics, machine learning and deep learning techniques.
Dr. D. Ram Rajak
Senior Scientist Space Application Centre (SAC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Dr. Rajak is senior scientist at Space Applications Centre (SAC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ahmedabad, since 1991. His primary area of research has been Remote Sensing (RS) data analysis for crop monitoring, cryospheric studies and geoscience studies. He has participated in 33rd Indian Expedition to Antarctica (2013-14), in Arctic Expedition (March-April 2019) and lead two Himalayan Glacier Expeditions. He has coordinated national scale RS program, Forecasting Agricultural output using Space, Agro-meteorology and Land-based Observations (FASAL). Apart from that he has successfully completed many projects on RS applications as Project/Principal investigator/Focal Point. There are 60+ publications in the form of papers in journals and symposium along with scientific articles, books/atlas etc. to his credit.