India's first Drone Centre of Excellence established in Odisha to empower tribal youth and women

The centre creates pathways for employment by facilitating placements through IG Drones’ expertise and partnerships with the National Skill Development Corporation.

India’s first-ever Drone Centres of Excellence (CoEs) was established in Odisha. Under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), Member of Parliament Sujeet Kumar established the initiative in partnership with drone technology company IG Drones. 

Read the full article at: https://www.educationtimes.com/article/newsroom/99737612/india-s-first-drone-centre-of-excellence-established-in-odisha-to-empower-tribal-youth-and-women

Is groundwater contamination high in India? | Explained

The story so far: An assessment of India’s groundwater by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) found that several States are grappling with a serious problem of nitrate contamination.


The most concerning finding was that the number of districts with excessive nitrate in their groundwater rose from 359 in 2017 to 440 in 2023. This works out to nearly 56% of India’s districts having excessive nitrate in ground water, defined as having more than 45 mg/l (milligram per litre). Of the 15,239 groundwater samples collected from across the country for testing, 19.8% samples had nitrates — nitrogenous compounds — above safe limits though it must be said that this proportion has not substantially changed since 2017. In the 13,028 samples analysed in 2017 for instance, 21.6% had excessive nitrate. There are two major concerns with excess nitrate content: one is methemoglobinemia, or a reduced ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen.

Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/is-groundwater-contamination-high-in-india-explained/article69089799.ece

India Takes a Giant Leap in Genomics: Launch of Indian Genomic Data Set & IBDC Portals to Empower Global Research

 "India’s Genomic Revolution: 10,000 Whole Genome Samples Now Accessible Globally"
"Prime Minister Modi Congratulates Scientific Community as India Poised to Lead the Next Generation Revolution in Biotech"

Posted On: 09 JAN 2025 7:51PM by PIB Delhi

Making a vital move towards self-reliance in the field of genomics, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, today announced that India is no longer dependent on foreign genomic data. At the Genome India Data Conclave, held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi,

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the Indian Genomic Data Set unveiled and Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launched the ‘Framework for Exchange of Data Protocols (FeED)’ and the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) Portals, making 10,000 whole genome samples accessible to researchers across India and the globe.

Addressing the conclave, Dr. Singh proudly stated, “India has developed its own genomic data set, a monumental achievement that will fuel future medical and scientific breakthroughs. The entire collection of 10,000 whole genome samples, archived at IBDC, is now made available for research purposes not only within India but globally. This data set will serve as a critical resource for genomics research, contributing to advancements in personalized healthcare and medicine.”

The Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) will facilitate seamless access to valuable genetic information, enabling researchers to explore genetic variations and design more accurate genomic tools. The 10,000 whole genome sequencing (WGS) samples come from diverse Indian populations and provide a rich catalog of genetic variations. This initiative is set to position India as a leader in genomics, enabling the development of genomic chips tailored to the Indian demographic, thereby enhancing the precision of genetic studies.

Dr. Singh emphasized the significance of the 'GenomeIndia' project, spearheaded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), which aims to create a robust and comprehensive database of India’s genetic diversity. The data will serve as a foundation for cutting-edge research and will catalyze innovations in areas such as mRNA-based vaccines, protein manufacturing, and genetic disorder treatments. He said in India there is diversity not only in food, culture and geography but also in Genome.

The launch of the ‘Framework for Exchange of Data (FeED)’ Protocols under the Biotech-PRIDE Guidelines ensures that the high-quality, nation-specific data will be shared in a transparent, fair, and responsible manner. The Biotech-PRIDE Guidelines, introduced in 2021, are a testament to India’s commitment to ethical and secure data sharing.

Dr. Singh highlighted the impressive growth of India’s bioeconomy, which has surged from $10 billion in 2014 to over $130 billion in 2024, with projections to hit $300 billion by 2030. The Minister attributed this growth to the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the new Bioeconomy Policy, which is set to make India a global leader in biotech, positioning the country to lead the 4th industrial revolution.

India now ranks 12th globally in biotech and 3rd in the Asia-Pacific region. The Minister also pointed out that India is the largest vaccine producer in the world and the third-largest startup ecosystem. The rapid rise of biotech startups—from just 50 in 2014 to over 8,500 in 2023—demonstrates India’s growing leadership in biotechnology and its potential to revolutionize the global bioeconomy.

Dr. Jitendra Singh further announced a future target of sequencing 10 million genomes to accelerate India’s advancements in genomics and personalized medicine. He also suggested expanding the initiative by collaborating with prominent institutions such as the Tata Memorial Hospital to enhance data enrichment efforts.

Dr. Rajesh S. Gokhale, Secretary of DBT said with Genomic Data Avialble we can counter genetic and hereditary diseases.

Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, spoke about the transformative potential of this data, emphasizing its role in the prevention and cure of genetic disorders. He also highlighted that the data generated from the GenomeIndia project would not only strengthen healthcare but also provide invaluable insights for agricultural, environmental, and industrial research.

Dr. Rajiv Bahl, Director General of ICMR; Dr. Y Narahari, CBR, IISc Bengaluru; Dr. Arvind Sahu, Executive Director RCB and senior officials from the concerned scientific ministries were present at the event, underscoring the collective effort behind the success of this project.

In his video message, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the scientific community on this achievement and laid out a roadmap for India’s future in genomics. He praised the initiative as a testament to India’s scientific prowess and its vision for the future of healthcare and biotechnology. This initiative will also develop an ecosystem which would act as Knowledge hub and Innovation Hub and contribute to make Viksit Bharat @2047. He also reiterated that Pro-people governance, Digital Public infrastructure development and Genomic Data Bank will empower India.

The ‘GenomeIndia’ project is poised to make India a global hub for genomic research, positioning the country at the forefront of the next scientific and medical revolution.

Source: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2091577

Microsoft to invest $3 billion in India, boost AI, cloud infra

BENGALURU: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced plans to invest $3 billion in India in cloud and AI infrastructure, including setting up new data centres over the next two years. He added the company is committed to training 10 million people with AI skills by 2030.
The $3-billion additional investment in India, Nadella said, would represent the single-largest expansion into the region. "The diffusion rate of AI in India is exciting. This is the golden age for systems when it comes to innovation," he told a crowd of over 3,000 developers who had gathered to listen to him in a massive exhibition centre in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

In his nearly 11 years as CEO, Nadella has transformed Microsoft with his bets on cloud computing and AI, and the infusion of a culture of collaboration, enabling the pioneering computing company to become the second in the world to touch $3 trillion in market capitalisation (the first was Apple).

A lot of Microsoft's work is today driven by its vast base of engineers in India. The company also sees India as an increasingly attractive market. "I had a chance to meet PM Modiji yesterday and it was fantastic. It's great to listen to his vision of how he wants to drive AI missions. It's the combination of the yojanas (schemes), the India Stack, the entrepreneurial energy in this country, and the demographics on both the consumer and business sides that are all coming together in a virtuous cycle," Nadella said.
Nadella said infrastructure today needs to be thought of differently from the traditional ways. "With infrastructure, there's a new formula for any country or company. I think of that formula as tokens per dollar per watt. Fundamentally, their (country or company) growth depends on how efficiently they can drive that equation," he said.


Tokens per dollar per watt is a measure of the efficiency of AI applications, essentially signifying how many tokens (units of information) can be generated per dollar spent on computing power, while also considering the energy consumption (measured in watts) required to produce those tokens. Essentially, it highlights the cost-effective and energy-efficient performance of an AI system.


This infra, Nadella said, needs to be the highest priority. And Microsoft, he said, is innovating in every layer of it. Microsoft, which counts Air India, PwC, and Biocon as customers in India, said it's copiloting South Asia's AI transformation with 800 customers and fivefold returns for every dollar the company invests in GenAI, with 70% of its clients seeing productivity benefits.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/microsoft-to-invest-3-billion-in-india-boost-ai-cloud-infra/articleshowprint/117035643.cms

An instant decision: Entrance topper of NDA’s 1st women’s batch

 Talking about her preparations for the exam, Shanan Dhaka, who currently lives in Punjab’s Zirakpur, says she studied five hours a day for 40 days and made it a point to solve previous years’ papers.

“It was instantaneous,” says Shanan Dhaka, 19, on her decision to apply for the Army. The Haryana resident came first among women candidates — and tenth overall — in the entrance examination for the National Defence Academy (NDA), which will admit women cadets for the first time this year.

“I took inspiration to join the armed forces from my grandfather, Chanderbhan Dhaka, who was a Subedar, and my father, Vijay Kumar Dhaka, who retired as a Naib Subedar from the Army Service Corps,” Dhaka told The Indian Express. “Growing up in cantonment areas, I saw the respect being accorded to Army officers. Plus the trust everybody has in Army personnel really motivated me to join the service. It’s an opportunity to serve the nation with unparalleled pride and honour.”

To read the full article, please visit - https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/an-instant-decision-entrance-topper-of-ndas-1st-womens-batch-7983178/

Gita Gopinath to take on new role at IMF as First Deputy Managing Director

Gita Gopinath, who was scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard University in January 2022, has served as the IMF's chief economist for three years.

Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of International Monetary Fund, is being promoted as IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director, the fund announced Thursday. She will become the second-ranking official, replacing First Deputy Managing Director Geoffrey Okamoto who plans to leave the Fund early next year.

Gopinath, who was scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard University in January 2022, has served as the IMF’s chief economist for three years.

To read the full story, please visit: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/gita-gopinath-to-take-on-new-role-at-imf-as-first-deputy-managing-director-7653547/

Booklets on Cyber Safety & Security for students

 Be Safe in Cyber World: Do's and Dont's for Teachers

 Be Safe in Cyber World: Do's and Dont's for Students

For More resources, please visit the following URL:

https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=booklet-on-cyber-safetysecurity&ln=en&ln=en

Quiz on Cyber Safety & Security

October is celebrated as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) globally. In order to bring attention to Cyber Security and as a concentrated effort to stay safe and secure online, NCSAM is celebrated all over the world. It is an initiative to put conscious efforts towards ensuring better cybersecurity hygiene and incorporate stronger security measures.

With this objective, DSCI drove a month-long awareness campaign under the guidance of the National Cyber Security Secretariat. The campaign disseminated various content artifacts and reached out to 3.25 million citizens throughout the country.

Many interesting quizzes have been launched on the myGov portal to test the knowledge and readiness level of citizens around Cyber Security. The overall objective of the Quiz was to create Cyber Security awareness among citizens, to achieve a better security posture for the country, and to empower online users to remain Safe Online. 

Participate and earn reward certificates: https://quiz.mygov.in/quiz/securing-digital-space/

Source: https://www.mygov.in/

India likely to benefit as UK lifts limit on PhD level work visas

According to the most recent UK Home Office data, Indians form the largest group of highly-skilled professionals within the Tier 2 (General) category of work visas.

London: Indians are among the largest group of professionals set to benefit from a new UK government plan to remove any limit on the number of PhD-level work visas to be granted.

UK Chancellor Philip Hammond announced on Wednesday in a Budget update, referred to as the annual Spring Statement, that from later this year all such highly-qualified roles will be exempt from any cap on the numbers that can apply and come to work in Britain.

“[A] key pillar of our plan is backing Britain to remain at the forefront of the technology revolution that is transforming our economy. And to support that ambition, from this Autumn we will completely exempt PhD-level roles from the visa caps,” Hammond said in his speech in the House of Commons.

“From Autumn 2019, PhD-level occupations will be exempt from the Tier 2 (General) cap, and at the same time the government will update the immigration rules on 180-day absences so that researchers conducting fieldwork overseas are not penalised if they apply to settle in the UK,” he added in his statement.

According to the most recent UK Home Office data, Indians form the largest chunk of highly-skilled professionals within the Tier 2 (General) category of work visas, accounting for 54 per cent of all such visas granted in 2018.

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Indian nationals also marked the largest increase in the grant of Tier 2 visas last year, up by 6 per cent at 3,023 more visas compared to the previous year.

The UK government’s latest PhD-level visa exemption was welcomed by UK universities, who are key employers of international researchers.

“This is fantastic news for Indian researchers who would like to work in the UK, and for UK universities who thrive on bringing together a diversity of brilliant minds from around the world,” said Vivienne Stern, Director of Universities UK International, the main representative body for UK higher education institutions.

“Many of the UK’s leading researchers, in fields ranging from biomechanics to gender politics, come from India. Outside of Europe, India is the third-largest country of origin for academic staff in the UK,” she said.

Universities UK International said that despite making up only 0.9 per cent of the global population, the UK is responsible for 15.9 per cent of the world’s most highly-cited research articles.

“The achievements are made possibly as a result of the international community of researchers that work at and with UK institutions,” Stern said.

The new announcement comes soon after doctors and nurses were removed from the cap to address shortages in the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) last year.

Currently, only a limited number of visas are issued every year under the Tier 2 skilled worker section of the visa system. The government’s latest announcement is seen as the first step towards the complete removal of a cap on visas for skilled workers in 2021, when a new immigration system comes into force.

“We already issue more skilled worker visas to Indian nationals than to the rest of the world combined, and I am delighted to see many Indian students coming to study at our world-class universities,” UK immigration minister Caroline Nokes had said following a Migration Dialogue with Indian government officials in January this year.

“Under the new system, operating from 2021, we will always be open to the brightest and best from India, who wish to come to live and work in the UK,” she said.

Source: https://theprint.in/india/india-likely-to-benefit-as-uk-lifts-limit-on-phd-level-work-visas/205857/ (Accessed on 16 March, 2019)

EU, India to step up cooperation in research and innovation

India and the European Union will step up cooperation in research and innovation, according to a statement.

On areas for future cooperation, health research and bio-economy will remain high on the agenda, it said.

Jean-Eric Paquet, Director-General of Research and Innovation, European Commission, co-chaired the 12th EU-India Joint Steering Committee meeting on science and technology along with Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary of DST, here according to an official statement.

India and the EU will step up cooperation in research and innovation, Paquet said here.

To build upon the robust cooperation of the past 20 years, the EU and India intend to renew the India-EU Science and Technology Agreement for another five years, the statement said.

It was also agreed to explore new areas of cooperation to fill the knowledge gap on climate change, on renewable energy in line with Mission Innovation aiming at reducing CO2 through concentrated efforts on energy.

On artificial intelligence, importance of ethical standards was stressed, the statement said.

The EU and India acknowledged their excellent cooperation which was recently boosted by the launch of seven India-EU projects on purification of water and waste water treatment, two on vaccines and one on polar sciences, it said.

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/eu-india-to-step-up-cooperation-in-research-and-innovation/article26447711.ece (Accessed on 7 March, 2019)

20+ Best Indian Blogs To Read From Popular Indian Bloggers (2019 Edition)

Are you looking for the top bloggers and best blogs in India? This is the place where you’ll discover top Indian blogs to read in 2019.

There are only two ways to succeed in blogging: reading and implementing. If you’re not a regular reader of blogs and don’t know what’s going on around your niche, you can never create a successful blog that makes money.

Reading best blogs is a no-brainer if you want to get the latest trends in your industry. Some of my favorite blogs that I usually read are from Indian bloggers. And I like to read Indian blogs because I can relate myself with them. It’s not like that I do not read other bloggers but still love to read Indians.

To read the full article, visit
https://bloggerspassion.com/5-indian-blogs-you-must-read-always/ (Accessed on February 22, 2019)

Prof. Balaram Ravindran: AI Expert

Wizard of AI: Meet India’s foremost reinforcement learning expert

Reinforcement learning is a pretty complex topic to wrap your head around, as far as intellectual pursuits go. It’s also one of the hottest areas of AI research: MIT Technology Review picked it as one of the top 10 technologies of 2017. Reinforcement learning chalked up one of the flashiest wins for AI this decade in March 2016, when DeepMind AlphaGo beat world championship player Lee Sedol at the game Go. Sedol, after his 4-1 loss to AlphaGo said that it felt like he was playing against an alien intelligence. Many AI researchers consider reinforcement learning, or RL in short,  to be the path that will help humanity scale its highest summit: artificial general intelligence. (Park away in your mind artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for later in this story.) No wonder then, that it’s on a league of its own, in terms of ambition and hype.

To read more, visit:
https://factordaily.com/balaraman-ravindran-reinforcement-learning/ (Accessed on February 11, 2019)

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10 best ML Researchers in India

Research in AI started soon after the Indian government launched the Knowledge-Based Computing Systems (KBCS) program in conjunction with the United Nations Development program in 1991. Later, a number of nodal centres were set up to focus on various research including expert systems in IIT Madras, a speech processing centre in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, parallel processing in Indian Institute for Science, image processing in Indian Statistical Institute, and natural language processing in Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.

The top 10 names chosen by Analytics India Magazine were based on various parameters such as their PhD degree, patent papers and authored technical publications, pioneering work, knowledge and many more. We mined LinkedIn and H-Index data for the same. Here are top ten artificial intelligence and machine learning researchers presented in an alphabetical order.

Balaraman Ravindran

Professor Balaraman Ravindran of IIT Madras is one of the top Indian AI researchers in India and foremost reinforcement learning expert. He also heads Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Madras. Ravindran did his PhD research from the University of Massachusetts. According to his Google Scholar profile, his academic work, which spans over two decades, has produced 170 research papers.

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Ravindran’s AI journey began in the late 1980s when he was doing his undergraduation from Thiagarajar College. According to his LinkedIn profile, his current research interest span the broader area of machine learning, ranging from spatiotemporal abstraction in reinforcement learning to social network analysis, and data mining. Much of his work is directed toward understanding interactions and learning from them.

Ravindran is also a co-organiser of several noted data science and AI-focused conferences, seminars and workshops in India.

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri is the founding head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit at ISI, Calcutta. His research areas are:

• Optical character recognition of Indian scripts
• Design of Indian language workstation for the blind: Bharati braille system
• Natural language processing in Indian languages including electronic dictionaries, word-processing editor, morphological processor and spell-checker design
• Pattern recognition and image processing
• Image data compression
• Optical communication and dielectric waveguides

According to ISI Calcutta website, he has published about 350 research papers in various international journals and conference proceedings. He has also authored five books titled Two Tone Image Processing and Recognition, Object-Oriented Programming: Fundamentals and Applications, Computer and Information technology Dictionary, Digital Document Processing, and Sound Symbolic Words in Bangla.

Chaudhuri obtained BSc (Hons) (1969), BTech (1972) and MTech (1974) degrees from Calcutta University and a PhD degree (1980) from IIT Kanpur.

Krithi Ramamritham

Krithi Ramamritham is a chair professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. According to his website, his current research involves applying computational approaches to energy management, based on the SMART principle: Sense Meaningfully, Analyze and Respond Timely. This work explores and extends state-of-the-art database systems, real-time computing, sensor networks, embedded systems, mobile computing and smart grids.

Ramamritham did his PhD in Computer Science from University of Utah (1981) and BTech in Electrical Engineering (1976), MTech in Computer Science from IIT Madras.

Nikhil R Pal

Nikhil R Pal is a professor in the Electronics and Communication Science Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interest includes pattern recognition, medical and satellite image analysis, fuzzy sets theory, neural networks, evolutionary computation, bioinformatics, and brain science. According to Researchgate website, Pal produced 299 papers. His research paper received over 14,000 citations.

He has co-authored a book titled Fuzzy Models and Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing and Advances in Soft Computing. He also co-edited Advances in Pattern Recognition and Digital Techniques, ICAPRDT99 and Advanced Techniques in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Pal obtained his BSc (Physics) and MBA (Operation Research) degrees from the University of Calcutta and his MTech and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute.

Pushpak Bhattacharya

IIT Patna director Pushpak Bhattacharya has recently been appointed as the chairman of the committee for standardisation in AI set up by the Bureau of Indian Standards under the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs. Bhattacharya is known for his contribution to natural language processing and has several distinctions in the field.

He also heads the Natural language processing research group Centre For Indian Language Technology (CFILT) lab at IIT Bombay. His research areas are natural language processing, machine learning, cross-lingual IR and information extraction. According to his LinkedIn profile, he published more than 250 research papers and led government and industry projects of international and national importance. He has also authored a book titled Machine Translation. Bhattacharya received his BTech from IIT-Kharagpur in 1984 and did an MTech from IIT Kanpur in 1986.

Rajeev Rastogi

Rajeev Rastogi is the director of Machine Learning at Amazon, where is developing ML applications and platforms for the e-commerce giant. He has published over 200 papers and holds over 50 patents. His research paper Cure: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm For Large Databases received over 3,100 citations.

Before Amazon, he worked with Yahoo! Labs and Bell Labs Research Center in Bengaluru. Rastogi is active in the fields of databases, data mining and networking.

Rastogi received his BTech from IIT Bombay and a PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin.

Soumen Chakrabarti

Soumen Chakrabarti is a professor at IIT Bombay in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. According to his Google Scholar profile, Chakrabarti has produced 167 research papers. His current research interests include:

• Better embedding representation for passages, entities, types and relation
• Searching the annotated Web with entities, types and relations
• Graph conductance search, which is supported by IBM and Microsoft.

Chakrabarti holds eight US patents on web-related inventions. He has authored one of the earliest books on web search and mining. He also wrote a book on web search and mining called,Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data.

He has done his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur (1991) and a Master’s (1992) and PhD (1996) in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sankar Kumar Pal

Sankar Kumar Pal is a distinguished scientist and former Director of ISI, Calcutta. He has co-authored 17 books and more than 400 research publications in the areas of:

• Pattern recognition and machine learning
• Image processing
• Data mining and web intelligence
• Soft computing
• Neural nets
• Genetic algorithms
• Fuzzy sets
• Rough sets and bioinformatics

Pal ranked at 77 in Google H-Index and has been the recipient of the 2013 Padma Shri,1990 SS Bhatnagar Prize (most coveted accolade for a scientist in India) and many other prestigious awards in India and abroad.

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is the director of Indian Statistical Institute. According to the ISI website, she has authored and co-authored more than 300 research articles and has published six authored and edited books from publishers like Springer, World Scientific and Wiley. Her research interests include:

• Computational biology
• Bioinformatics
• Soft and evolutionary computation
• Pattern recognition using ML in large datasets
• Data Mining

Sanghamitra won the Infosys Prize 2017 in ‘Engineering and Computer Science’ category for her work on algorithmic optimisation and for its significant impact on biological data analysis. She was also awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Science in 2010.

Bandyopadhyay did her BTech, MTech and PhD in Computer Science from Calcutta University, IIT Kharagpur and ISI.

Sunita Sarawagi

Sunita Sarawagi is a professor at IIT Bombay. Her current research interests are deep learning, web information extraction, data integration, graphical models and structured learning. Sarawagi has published more than 130 research papers and holds four patents. She was also a visiting scientist at Google Research. She obtained her BTech in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and PhD from University of California, Berkeley.

Source: https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/top-10-machine-learning-researchers-in-india/