Prof. Ambedkar Dukkipati
Professor, IISC Bangalore
Dr. Ambedkar Dukkipati is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and serves as the Chair of the Center for Scientific & Industrial Consultancy. His research spans several key areas, including statistical network analysis, network representation learning, and spectral graph methods. He is also actively engaged in natural language processing, knowledge graphs, and machine learning in low-data regimes, with a focus on causal inference. Additionally, Dr. Dukkipati's work explores sequential decision-making under uncertainty, deep reinforcement learning, and offline reinforcement learning. His contributions to these fields make him a leading researcher at the intersection of theoretical and applied machine learning.
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Prof. Asif Ekbal
Professor, IIT Jodhpur
Asif Ekbal is currently a Professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, IIT Jodhpur. Prior to this, he has been an Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna (March 29, 2017- April 26, 2024), and an Assistant Professor in the same department since January 27, 2011 to March 28, 2017. Before joining IIT Patna, he spent approximately 2 years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Heidelberg University, Germany and University of Trento, Italy. He has been pursuing research in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Applied Machine Learning since the last 20 years, and has made significant contributions.
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Dr. Bireswar Das
Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Dr. Bireshwar Das is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, with a distinguished academic career in theoretical computer science. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor (Feb 2020 – Present) and Assistant Professor (Jun 2010 – Feb 2020) at the IIT Gandhinagar. His research interests lie in computational complexity theory, algorithms, and algebra in computation. Dr. Das has also been a Visiting Faculty at the NISER, Bhubaneswar, and a Visiting Researcher at Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Orsay, France (Sep 2009 – Dec 2009).
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Dr. Goutam Paul
Associate Professor, ISI Kolkata
Dr. Goutam Paul is an Associate Professor at the Cryptology & Security Research Unit (CSRU) of the Indian Statistical Institute, specializing in cryptology and cybersecurity. He earned his Ph.D. in Cryptology from Jadavpur University in 2009, with research work conducted at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (2006–2008).
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Ashvin Agrawal
Principal Research SDE, Microsoft Research San Francisco
Ashvin is a researcher at Gray Systems Lab, with a focus on making complex distributed systems efficient and easy to use. His research interests include data provenance, big-data and streaming technologies. Ashvin started his career working on WiFi Security Systems and Software-as-a-Service at Mojo Networks (acquired by Arista). Later he worked on cloud computing, content management and self-serving systems at Yahoo. Prior to Microsoft he was developing in-memory data management platforms and big-data technologies at VMware/Pivotal. Ashvin received a Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK).