Invited Speakers
We are honored to welcome distinguished experts from academia and industry who will share their insights on Applied AI and Scientific Machine Learning.
Naganand Doraswamy
Founder at Ideaspring Capital, Co-Founder SPAN Infotech and Lexar Networks.
Interests: Entrepreneurship, venture capital, technology innovation, startups, investment strategy, and policy advocacy
Talk Title: Science and Tech entrepreneurship in India- why is now a good time
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Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
CEO, ANRF, Ex CTO, Microsoft R&D
Interests: Smarter planet technologies, Networking and wireless systems
Talk Title: AI for Science and Engineering: The new frontier
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Jiachen Yao
California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Scientific Machine Learning, Neural Operators, Generative AI
Talk Title: To be updated
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Dr. Manish Gupta
Senior Director, Google Deep Mind
Interests: Distributed Systems & Parallel Computing, Machine Intelligence, Educations Inovations, Health & Bioscience
Talk Title: To be updated
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Dr. Amith Singhee
Director, IBM Research India & Chief Technology Officer, IBM India/South Asia
Interests: AI, Hybrid Cloud, Quantum Computing, Cybersecurity, Sustainability
Talk Title: Foundation model approaches for time series and geospatial applications
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Brown University
Research Interests: Physics-informed Neural Networks, Probabilistic Scientific Computing, Stochastic Multiscale Modelling
Talk Title: Agentic Scientific Machine Learning
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California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Talk Title: To be updated
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Prof. Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy
Professor, Indian Institute of Science
Interests: Artificial Intelligence & Computational methods in Medical Imaging, Medical Image Processing, Inverse problems in Imaging, Imaging in Digital Rock
Talk Title: TANUH: Leadership in AI for India in Non-Communicable Diseases
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Prof. Siva Umapathy
Chairman, Founding Director and CEO, Gyroid Photonics
Interests: Photothermal microspectroscopy, Laser spectroscopy
Talk Title: AI applications on laser spectroscopic data towards medical diagnosis and prognosis
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Dr. Venkatakrishnan Singanallur
Senior Algorithm R&D Engineer, KLA
Research Interests: Algorithmic Computational Imaging, Machine Learning for Imaging, Multimodal Scientific Imaging
Talk Title: AI-Accelerated Physics For Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Dr. Pankaj Dayama
IBM
Research Interests: Generative AI, Edge Computing
Talk Title: Fast Foundation Models for Time Series Analysis
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Dr. Jigar Halani
NVIDIA
Research Interests: High Performance Computing, Big Data, AI Metaverse, Virtualization
Talk Title: Acceleration of Scientific Research with Gen AI
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Prof. Siddhartha Mishra
ETH Zurich
Research Interests: Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Computational Fluid and Plasma Dynamics, Applied PDEs
Talk Title: AI for Data-driven simulations in Physics
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Colonel Amit Mehna
Director AI, DGIS, Indian Army
Interests: AI In Defence
Talk Title: To be updated
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Commodore Naresh Chhabra
Indian Navy
Interests: AI In Defence
Talk Title: To be updated
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Abhishek Upperwal
Founder at Soket Labs
Interests: Large Language Models, Generative AI
Talk Title: To be updated
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Mr. Srinath Mandalapu
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Interests: Model architecture, Introduction to MaxText, Model training deep dive, Profiling and debugging, kernel optimization using Pallas/Tokamax, Post-training models using MaxText + Tunix, Serving using vLLM
Workshop on Training LLMs using TPUs
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Dr. Robert Dyro
Software Engineer, Google
Interests: Deepdive into JAX, Understanding TPUs, Kernel optimization using Pallas/Tokamax, JAX applications in Scientific Computing, JAX flexibility vs controls, High Performance serving of JAX models
Workshop on Training LLMs using TPUs
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Mr. Srikanth Kilaru
Senior Product Manager, Google
Interests: Intro to Google AI Hypercomputer, Google Resources for AI developers and researchers
Workshop on Training LLMs using TPUs
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Prof. Abani Patra
Tufts University
Interests: Computational sciences, Data-driven modelling, Adaptive finite element methods, Machine learning theory, Uncertainty quantification
Talk Title: Neural Network and ML Surrogates, Successes Failures and Transferability In Complex Physics Based Systems: Case studies of debris flow, hybrid rockets and wind turbine models
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Mr. Subramanyam Natarajan
ZenteiQ
Interests: Heat transfer & fluid mechanics, Battery systems engineering, Thermal management, High-performance simulation, CFD, Predictive diagnostics
Talk Title: Future of engineering simulation: Agentic Neural Operators in the loop
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Mr. Tosh Rayadhurgam
Meta
Interests: Engineering leadership in AI-driven systems and large-scale software development, building scalable and high-impact technologies at the intersection of AI and consumer applications
Talk Title: Searching with LLMs: From Query Understanding to Hybrid Architectures
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Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra
NIC, MeitY
Interests: Generative AI with applications in e-Governance and digital transformation, Large Language Models, Agentic AI and AI policy frameworks for ethical and explainable governance
Talk Title: AI and the Evolving Landscape: Driving India’s Digital Transformation & National Growth
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Debajyoti Sahoo
Indian Institute of Science
Interests: Unsupervised tasks, representation learning, efficient edge deployment, multi-sensor ML systems, and trustworthy AI frameworks
Talk Title: Relevance Guided Clustering For efficient Deployment of Deep Networks on Edge devices
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Dr. Ayush Maheshwari
AI Researcher, NVIDIA
Interests:Data-Efficient Machine Learning, LLMs, NLP, Deep Learning for Language
Workshop by NVIDIA on GPUs
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Dr. Manish Modani
Principal Solution Architect, NVIDIA
Interests:HPC, AI–HPC Convergence, Quantum Computing
Workshop by NVIDIA on GPUs
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