Tutorial (in person) on “Generative AI and Model Optimization” at the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025, Hyderabad, India.

Keynote Talk (in person), International SBER Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI Journey, 22 – 24 November, 2023, Moscow, Russia.

Keynote Talk (in person) at the 7th International Conference on Advanced Engineering – Theory and Applications, 8 - 10 December 2022, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam.

John McCarthy Memorial Lecture 2021, IEEE CIS Chapter Hyderabad Section, India - R10, Dec. 18, 2021.

Invited Talk (2 lectures) at the Metaheuristic Summer School (MESS 202+1) on “Learning and Optimization from Big Data”, 15 – 18 June 2021, Catania, Italy.

Plenary Talk (Virtual) at 14-th International Symposium “Intelligent Systems – 2020”, December 14–16, 2020, Moscow, Russia.

Keynote Talk at 2020 2nd International Conference on Frontiers of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (CFMAI 2020), held online during Nov. 20-22, 2020, organized by The Hong Kong Society of Robotics and Automation (HKSRA).

Keynote Talk at the 10-th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving - SocProS 2020, DECEMBER 18-20, 2020, IIT Indore, India.

Invited Talk at 21st International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2019), September 4-7, 2019 at the Department of Computer Science, West University of Timisoara, Romania.

Keynote Lecture at the 4th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA 2019), Cairo,  Egypt, March 28 - 30, 2019.

Invited Talk at Theoretical Basis of Machine Learning, The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Dec. 27 – 29, 2019.

Invited Talk at 2018 IEEE CIS Summer/ Winter School on Deep Learning and Computational Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, Dec. 5th - 7th, 2018.

Keynote Talk at 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2018), Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, Punjab, India, Dec. 21 – 23, 2018.

Keynote Talk at the 5-th International Conference on Advanced Engineering - Theory and Applications 2018, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Europe, 11 - 13 September 2018.

Keynote Talk at the 9-th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI) 2018, Shanghai, China, June 17 - 22, 2018.

Keynote talk at the 8-th International Conference on Bio-inspired Optimization Methods and Their Applications (BIOMA) 2018, Paris, France, 16-18 May, 2018.

Keynote Lecture at 7th International Conference Soft Computing for Problem Solving - SocProS 2017 December 23-24, 2017 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India.

Keynote Lecture at 13th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2017), in Guilin, China, 29-31 July 2017.

Invited talk (equivalent to a Plenary) at MENDEL 2017, the 23rd International Conference on Soft Computing, in Brno, Czech Republic, 20 - 22 June, 2017.

Keynote Lecture, 3-rd International Conference on the Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA 2017), Bilbao (Spain), 22-24 February 2017.

Invited Talk at IEEE CIS Winter School, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, Dec. 27-31, 2017.

Invited Expert Lectures at the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China, from 18th to 20th November 2017.

Invited Expert Lectures at the School of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China, from 21 - 26 November 2017.

Keynote Lecture, 15-th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2016), Zakopane, Poland, June 12-16, 2016.

Keynote Lecture at International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (ICCII 2016), JNTU Hyderabad, 28 - 30th May, 2016.

Invited Lecture at One Day Workshop on Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques, South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi, 19 March, 2016.

Invited Lecture at IEEE CIS Sponsored Summer School at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 2 - 8 March, 2016.

Keynote Lecture at SHAASTRARTH - 2016, Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology, 24 - 25 Feb., Raipur, 2016.

Invited Lecture at DocCon 2016, Organized by CSI, India and ACM Udaipur Chapter, Udaipur, Rajasthan, March 4, 2016.

Invited talk (equivalent to a Plenary) at MENDEL 2015, the 21st International Conference on Soft Computing, in Brno, Czech Republic, 23 - 25 June, 2015.

Keynote Lecture at the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA 2015), at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India, 22 - 24 Dec., 2014.

Invited Tutorial on "Evaluating the Evolutionary Algorithms for Numerical Optimization: Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Challenges", in 18-th Asia Pacific Conference on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2014), Singapore, 10-12 Nov., 2014.

Tutorial (jointly with Dr. P. N. Suganthan) on Differential Evolution at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI) 2014, Beijing, China, 6 - 11 July, 2014.

Keynote lecture on "Third decade of swarm intelligence: Looking beyond Particle Swarms and Ants" at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2013, in Singapore, April 16-19, 2013.

Invited Talk on “Static and Dynamic Single objective optimization with Differential Evolution”, at National University of Singapore, Jointly organized by IEEE CIS and SMC Chapters, Singapore, 4-th July, 2012.

Invited Talk on “Differential Evolution and Biological Data Mining”, at the 1st Computational Intelligence Colloquium on Computational Biology, organized by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, IEEE Hyderabad Section, 17-th Feb., 2012.

Tutorial (jointly with Dr. P. N. Suganthan) on “Differential Evolution: Foundation, Perspectives, and Applications”, at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2011, in Paris, France, April 11-15, 2011.

Invited Talk in National Conference on Advances in Video, Cyber Learning and Electronics (ADVICE 2010), National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Chandigarh.

Invited Lecture on “Differential Evolution: Algorithm, Analysis, and Applications to Pattern Clustering Problems”, in School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Organized by EEE, NTU and IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter, Singapore, 2009.

Invited Lecture on “Computational Swarm Intelligence: A Conceptual Journey from Insects to Robots”, in Graduate School of Computer Science, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2009.

Invited Lecture in National Conference in Computational Intelligence Applications in Power, Control and Telecom ,  Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, during March 20 - 22nd, 2009.

Invited Lecture on “Image Filtering, Enhancement, and Segmentation”, in Short term course on Digital Signal Processing (DSP - 2008), IEEE PES (Power Engineering Society), Kolkata Chapter, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University.