Sunday, January 08, 2023:

Youtube link Day 1: https://youtu.be/L4yfVQ2oW6o

8:00 - 9:00: Registration – Meet and Greet (tea/coffee and light breakfast)

9:00 – 10:00: Inauguration

Welcome Address – Sukumar Ghosh and Bhabani Sinha (General Co-Chairs), Nabendu Chaki (CSE Head), Amlan Chakrabarti (AKCSIT Director)

Audio-Visual Show – Sankhayan Choudhury (Organizing Committee)

Symposium Program – Bhargab B. Bhattacharya and Sajal Das (Technical Program Co-Chairs)

Local Organizers - Pritha Banerjee and Sanjit Setua (Organizing Chairs), Rituparna Chaki and Banani Saha (Conveners)

Unveiling Statue – Prof. Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Vice Chancellor, Univ. of Calcutta

Group Photo

10:00 – 10:30: Tea/Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00: Session I (Signals and Systems)

Chairs: Bhargab B. Bhattacharya (NIT Rourkela) and Sipra Das Bit (IIEST, Shibpur)

Speakers:

P. P. Vaidyanathan (Caltech, USA) – My Signal Processing Journey

Kanad Ghose (SUNY-Binghamton) – Data Centers, Wearable Sensors and Secure Processors

Susmita Sur-Kolay (ISI Kolkata) – Challenges in Designing Quantum Computing Systems

12:00 – 13:00: Smriti Charona – I

Chairs: Bhabani P. Sinha (ex-ISI) and Jayasree Dattagupta (ex-ISI)

Speakers: Kamal K. Chakrabarti (ex-WEBEL), Bidyut B. Chaudhuri (ex-ISI), Sunil R. Das (Univ. Ottawa), Sanjib C. De Sarkar (ex-IITKGP), S. C. Dutta Roy (ex-IIT Delhi), A. K. Majumdar (ex-IITKGP), Tapan Mukherjee (ex-CU), Srimanta Mukherjee (Sydney), Banani Saha (Calcutta University)

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:30: Session II (Distributed and Mobile Computing)

Chairs: Sukumar Ghosh (Univ. of Iowa, USA) and Nabanita Das (ISI Kolkata)

Speakers:

Elad Schiller (Chalmers Univ., Sweden) – Far-more Dependable Distributed Systems

Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) – Aerial Platforms for Sustainability of Radio Access Networks

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur) – Security of Mobile and IoT Systems

15:30 – 16:00: Tea/Coffee

16:00 – 17:15: Session III (Panel on CSE Higher Education in India)

Moderators: Nandini Mukherjee (JU), Swapan Bhattacharya (ex-JU)

Panelists: Sankar K. Pal (ISI Kolkata), Partha P. Chakrabarti (IIT Kharagpur), Sukumar Nandi (IIT Guwahati), Tandra Pal (NIT Durgapur)

17:30 – 18:30: Cultural Program

18:30 – 20:30: Banquet Dinner

Monday, January 09, 2023:

Youtube link Day 2: https://youtu.be/E6d50ZLnXAA

8:00 - 9:00: Registration – Meet and Greet (tea/coffee and light breakfast)

9:00 – 10:30: Session IV (Student Research Competition)

Chairs: Rituparna Chaki (CU), Ujjwal Maulik (JU), Rajat Pal (CU), Banani Saha (CU)

-- A Brief Introduction on Research Journey - Debatosh Guha, Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Univ. of Calcutta, and President, INAE Kolkata Chapter

-- Poster Presentation and interactive Sessions with students

10:30 – 12:00: Session V (Next Era of Computing)

Chairs: Indranil Sengupta (IIT Kharagpur) and Punyasha Chatterjee (Jadavpur Univ)

Speakers:

Rupak Biswas (NASA) – Advanced Computing for NASA Science and Engineering

Balaram Sinharoy (Google) – Next Era of Computing for Planetary Scale Applications

Dipanwita Roychoudhury (IIT Kharagpur) – Energy-Efficient Blockchains for Cryptocurrency

12:00 – 13:00: Smriti Charona – II

Chairs: Subir Bhattacharya (IIM Kolkata) and Rita Das (ex-ONGC)

Speakers: Amitava Bagchi (ex-IIM Kolkata), Aditya Bandyopadhyay (ex-CU), Subir Bandyopadhyay (ex-Univ. of Windsor), Ajit Pal (ex-IIT Kharagpur), Susanta Sen (ex-Radio Physics), Atanu Rakshit (ex-IIM, Rohtak), Prasanta K. Basu (ex-Radio Physics), Gopa Sen (ex-Radio Physics), Sutripta Chanda (Entrepreneur)

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Session VI: Smart CPS/IoT and Machine Learning

Chairs: Sajal Das (Missouri Univ. of Science & Tech.) and Sushmita Mitra (ISI Kolkata)

Speakers:

Dipankar Raychoudhuri (Rutgers Univ) – Low Latency Mobile Edge Cloud Services in Next-Generation Wireless Networks

Sunita Sarwagi (IIT Bombay) – Research Challenges of Embedding Machine Learning

in Cyber-Physical Systems

Chiranjib Bhattacharya (IISc Bangalore) – Learning without Labels

Sumanta Pyne (NIT Rourkela) – Computation-in-Memory: How Memristors are Reshaping Logic, Architecture, and Machine Learning

16:00 – 17:30: Session VII (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Panel )

Moderators: Suryasarathi Barat (Executive Director, Focus R&D) and Samir Nayak (CIO, Celtic Systems, Inc.)

Panelists: Nilanjan Banerjee (Tech Entrepreneur), Sarbari Chowdhury (Social Entrepreneur, ServicePlace Inc.), Debesh Das (ex-IT Minister), Partha Pratim Das (Tech Entrepreneur, IIT Kharagpur), Susanta Misra (Founder & CEO, NICEFIT Careers and Innovations), Sudipta Sinha Roy (Chairman and MD, BEAS Consultancy and Services Pvt. Ltd. )

17:30 – 18:00: Student Awards Ceremony, Vote of Thanks, Closing Remarks

18:00 – 19:00 High Tea / Light Dinner