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Congratulations Arantxa Sanchis, our Alumni for bagging Bronze

Arantxa Sanchis

Arantxa Sanchis completed her BE INFT from SFIT in the year 2011. She achieved a Distinction during her Engineering from St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai. She was declared the Best Student of the Institute. 

She also topped her MBA in Finance from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune. Here too, she was declared the Best Student of the Institute.
In the year 2013, she was awarded with the Chancellor's Gold Medal of Symbiosis International University for all-round excellence in MBA among 5000 students across 10 Institutes in India. She won as many as 10 awards during her two years of the MBA Course. She was awarded the Sports scholarship for two years in a row by the University.

Arantxa in News.....

Billiards: Arantxa Sanchis clinches bronze

Mumbai: Arantxa Sanchis of Maharashtra clinched bronze medal in the billiards event of the 26th Ladies National Billiards & Snooker Championship in Indore. Pune-based cueist Arantxa defeated Chitra Magimairaj of Karnataka 2-1 in the race to 75 points best of three frames third place match. The former IBSF World Women’s Billiards Champion in 2015 and twice National billiards champion (2012, 2015) was engaged in a keen tussle with Chitra and scored 75-62, 72-77 and 76-58 victory to secure the spot of being third ranked player in the country. Earlier in the semi-finals, Arantxa lost to eventual champion R. Umadevi of Karnataka 0-2 (73-75, 74-79). In the quarter-finals, Arantxa had defeated Varshaa Sanjeev of Karnataka 2-1 (24-52, 51-36, 50-16).

Source: https://www.freepressjournal.in/sports/billiards-arantxa-sanchis-clinches-bronze/1453731

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)

Related Videos:

NPTEL Course on ML by Prof. Balaram Ravindran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC7V8QsPBec

Reinforcement Learning in Artificial Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67NOtMdT95I

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/

INDIA / Conference Alerts for February 2019

16th	2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Bioengineering (ICRTB 2019) Pune, India
16th	2nd International Conference on Evolving Narratives in Humanities, Management and Sustainable Development New Delhi, India
18th	IEM VOICES KOLKATA, India
18th	International Conference on Advance Research Studies in English Language, Literature, Feminism & Social Sciences 2019 New Delhi, India
20th	2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (IEEE ICECCT 2019) Coimbatore, India
20th	Training Workshop: Is you project making change? Coimbatore, India
20th	INBUSH World Era Summit 2019 NOIDA, India
21st	Game Development and Design Conference Pune, India
21st	2nd International Conference on Intelligent Sustainable Systems Palladam, India
21st	3rd International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies(IEEE Sponsored) Chennai, India
21st	5th Service Quality Excellence Summit Mumbai, India
21st	Conference on Feminist and Gender Studies: Global Perspectives –Media, Literature, and Performance Pondicherry, India
21st	International Conference on Island Literature and Environmental Humanities Poovar, India
21st	National Seminar on Debating Sustainability: Discourses on Environment and Development Bangalore, India
21st	NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN BIG DATA AND CLOUD COMPUTING 2019 Chennai, India
21st	bioConclave India 2019 Bengaluru, India
22nd	Futuristic, Resilient and Smart Urban Development Pune, India
22nd	International Conference on Fostering Economic Transformation through Inclusive Business: Innovate and Inspire Manipal, India
22nd	Trends in Modern Physics 2019 Guwahati, India
22nd	National Conference on Research Advances in Science & Technology (NCRAST 2019) Ooty, India
22nd	XII International Geographical Union Conference 2019 Panchkula, India
22nd	Concept and Canvas of Knowledge: Asian Studies from Pre-modern to Modern Times Santiniketan, India
23rd	International Conference On Spirituality beyond Repertoire: A Leadership Key to Societal Happiness and Sustained Harmony Varanasi, India
23rd	World Congress On Innovations and Research in Arts, Culture, Literature, Languages, Philosophy and Spirituality New Delhi, India
23rd	International Conference On Education, Law, Governance, Gender Studies, Humanities and Various Management Practices New Delhi, India
24th	International Conference on Research in Business (ICRB 2019) New Delhi, India
25th	Organised Higher Academics in South Asia: Changing Perspectives Kolkata, India
25th	Two Day International Conference on Expression as representation in English language and literature Tiruchirappalli, India
25th	Second International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP-2019) Gangtok, India
26th	GLOBAL ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT GIM-2019 Chandigarh, India
26th	International Conference on "Future of Libraries" Bengaluru, India
26th	International Conference on Advanced Materials for Energy Science and Technology Shillong, India
26th	International Conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and Management Jaipur, India
27th	Global leadership Research Conference Delhi/NCR, India
28th	Global Summit on Waste to Energy(GSWE-2019) New Delhi, India
28th	Second International Conference on Computing and Information Systems Chennai, India Source: https://conferencealerts.com/country-listing?country=India (Accessed on February 8, 2019)