Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2020
9:30 AM
Location: BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India
(Agenda subject to change.)
Day 1: Thursday 30th January
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome session
10:30 – 11:20 Plenary talk – Peter Druschel, Max Planck Institute
11:20 – 11:45 Tea/Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45 Panel Discussion: Cyber Security – National Policy and Preparedness
G Narendra Nath, joint Secretary, NCSC ; Subrata Rakshit, CAIR DRDO . Track Moderator : Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute;
12:45 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:45 Track : Fairness, Transparency and Privacy in Digital systems
Astha Kapoor, Aapti Institute ; Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research ; Yair Zick, National Univesity of Singapore. Track Moderator : Amit Sharma, Microsoft Research
15:45 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Privacy & Security in Healthcare
Bill Thies, Microsoft Research in conversation with Dr. Beena Thomas, Greg Moore, Microsoft Research and Rahul Panicker, Wadhwani AI
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner at Royal Orchid, Goa
DAY 2 : Friday 31st January
10:00 – 11:00 Talk: Security & Privacy around Foundational Identity for Sovereign Nations – Anadi Mishra, Architect MOSIP & Sasikumar Ganesan Security Architect, MOSIP/India Stack
11:00 – 11:20 Tea/Coffee Break
11:20 – 13:00 Track on Verification – Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi ; S P Suresh, CMI ; Aseem Rastogi, Microsoft Research. Track moderator : R Ramanujam, IMSC
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:45 Track on Cryptography – Chaya Ganesh, Indian Institute of Science ; Satya Lokam, Microsoft Research ; Vinod Prabhakaran, TIFR . Track Moderator : Kapil Vaswani, Microsoft Research
15:45 – 16:00 Closing