24th January 2018
Inaugural Session
09:30 – 10:30 Registration
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome / Introductory Session – Madhavan Mukund, ACM India
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote Talk: AI in the Service of Humanity – Raj Reddy, CMU
12:00 – 12:30 Q&A and Interactions
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Perception in AI
13:30 – 15:00 Short Talks: State of the Art in
A. Computer Vision – C V Jawahar, IIIT Hyderabad
B. NLP – Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay
C. Speech – Preethi Jyothi, IIT Bombay
D. Self-Driving – Shanti Swarup, MathWorks
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee / Tea Break
15:30 – 16:45 Panel Discussion: Perception & Applications
Panel moderated by Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research
Panelists: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research; Subhashis Chaudhuri, IIT Delhi; Mausam, IIT Delhi; Hema Murthy, IIT Madras
17:15 – 18:30 ACM India Research Board session
19:00 – 22:00 Summit Dinner – Hotel Radisson, Gachibowli
25th January 2018
AI & Society
9:30 – 09:45 Microsoft Research India Overview – Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research
09:45 – 10:45 Keynote Talk on AI – Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee / Tea Break
11:15 – 12:30 Panel Discussion: AI & Society
Panel moderated by P J Narayanan, IIIT Hyderabad
Panelists: P Anandan, Wadhwani Institute of Artificial Intelligence; P P Chakrabarti, IIT Kharagpur; Raj Reddy, CMU; Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology
12:35 – 14:00 Lunch
Machine Learning
14:00 – 15:00 Short Talks : State of the Art in
A. Extreme Classification – Manik Varma , Microsoft Research
B. Unsupervised Learning – Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Science
C. Deep Learning – Vineeth Balasubramanian, IIT Hyderabad
15:00 – 16:00 Model Based Machine Learning – Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research
16:00 – 16:30 Closing
Note: The above Agenda is subject to changes.