Resource Person: Prof. Nishchal K. Verma, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Profile:
Dr. Nishchal K Verma (SM’13) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He is an awardee of Devendra Shukla Young Faculty Research Fellowship by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India for year 2013-16.
Dr. Verma’s research expertise falls under Artificial Intelligence (AI) related theories and its practical applications to many inter-disciplinary domains but not limited to machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, prognosis and health management, bioinformatics, cyber physical systems, complex and highly non-linear systems modelling, clustering, and classifications, etc. He has published more than 250 research papers and 4 Books (edited/ co-authored) in the field of AI. He has successfully completed 23 projects from various funding agencies such as The BOEING Company, USA, DST, DRDO, JCBCAT, MHRD, SERB, CSIR, IIT Kanpur, MCIT, SFTIG, VTOL, etc. He has 15+ years of experience in the field of AI. He has been serving as Associate Editor/ Editorial Board Member of various reputed journals and conferences which include IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and many more. He has also developed several AI related key technologies for The BOEING Company, USA and organized AI related workshops, conferences, seminars, short term courses, etc.
Topic 2: AIoT – AI at Device Edge for Intelligent Sensing
Resource Person: Dr. Arpan Pal, Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems, TCS Research
Profile:
Dr. Arpan Pal has more than 30 years of experience in the area of Intelligent Sensing, Signal Processing &AI, Edge Computing and Affective Computing. Currently, as Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems, TCS Research, he is working in the areas of Connected Health, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Retail and Remote Sensing.
He is on the editorial board of notable journals like ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, Springer Nature Journal on Computer Science and is on the TPC of notable conferences like IEEE Sensors, ICASSP and EUSIPCO. He has filed 180+ patents (out of which 95+ granted in different geographies) and has published 160+ papers and book chapters in reputed conferences and journals. He has also written three complete books on IoT, Digital twins in Manufacturing and Application AI in Cardiac screening. He is on the governing/review/advisory board of some of the Indian Government organizations like CSIR, MeitY, Educational Institutions like IIT, IIIT and Technology Innovation Hub. He is two times winner of Tata Group top Innovation award in Tata Innovista under Piloted technology category.
Prior to joining Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Arpan had worked for DRDO, India as Scientist for Missile Seeker Systems and in Rebeca Technologies as their Head of Real-time Systems. He is a B.Tech and M. Tech from IIT, Kharagpur, India and PhD. from Aalborg University, Denmark.
DATE AND TIME
- Date: 22 Jun 2023
- Time: 06:30 PM to 09:00 PM
HOSTS
Kolkata Section Chapter, CIS11
REGISTRATION
- Starts 11 June 2023 08:35 AM
- Ends 22 June 2023 03:00 PM
SPEAKERS
Prof. Nishchal K. Verma of IIT Kanpur
Topic: Deep Fuzzy Networks
Address:Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Kanpur, , Kanpur, India
Dr. Arpan Pal of TCS Research
Topic: AIoT, – AI at Device Edge for Intelligent Sensing
Address:TCS Research, , Kolkata, India