ML in India

Objectives

To create awareness about (i) long term career opportunities in ML across academia, research labs, industry, startups, government services etc. in India and (ii) ML challenges with high potential for impact in the Indian context.

Event Link: (requires NeurIPS registration) https://eventhosts.gather.town/app/8Bob4qi7GkTn3Nld/MLinIndia

Program and Schedule of the Social [Event timings in IST]

8:00 -8:15 AM [15 min]: Welcome and Ice breakers

8:15-9:15 AM [60 min]: Short talks on vision, personal journey, and sector-wise opportunities in India by eminent speakers

• K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India

• Sunita Sarawagi, Professor, IIT Bombay

• Anirban Dasgupta, Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

• Prateek Jain, Sr. Staff Research Scientist, Google Research India

• Shailesh Kumar, Chief Data Scientist, Jio

• Shruthi Viswanath, Professor, NCBS

• Vivek Raghavan, Volunteer, Building Digital Public Goods @UIDAI, ISPIRIT, EkStep,

9:15-9:45 AM [30 min]: Q & A with speakers

9:45-10:30 AM [50 min]: Informal roundtable discussions on various topics

• Opportunities in academia

  • Anchors: Abir De, R. Venkatesh Babu, Vineeth Balasubramaniam, Anirban Dasgupta, Shruthi Viswanath, Chiranjib Bhattacharya

• Opportunities in industry

  • Anchors: Indrajit Bhattacharya, Prateek Jain, Manik Varma, Samik Datta, Amit Sharma, Shailesh Kumar, Debdoot Mukherjee, Shourya Roy

• India-specific ML challenges

  • Anchors: Sunita Sarawagi, Pratyush Kumar, Partha Talukdar, Vivek Raghavan, Sandeep Juneja, Lavanya Tekumalla, Ashish Kumar Singh, Jigar Doshi, Arpita Biswas

Other activities:

• 8:00-10:30 AM: Separate virtual space for free-flowing interaction

• 9:45 -10:30 AM: Labeled virtual spaces for India-based organizations working on ML technologies

  • Google research, TCS research, Microsoft research, Amazon science, Adobe labs, HPE AI Labs,

  • IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Delhi, Ashoka University

  • Ikigai Labs, ShareChat

Participant and Community Resources

• ML Opportunities Listing

• Attendee Guide

  • Instructions on joining the Social

  • Gathertown Refresher

  • Detailed Program Schedule

  • Code of Conduct Guidelines

Organizers

IKDD – ACM India SIGKDD

Amit Sharma (Microsoft Research India)

Indrajit Bhattacharya (TCS Research)

Mitesh Khapra (IIT Madras)

Praneeth Netrapalli (Google Research India)

Raj Sharma (Goldman Sachs)

Sandeep Juneja (TIFR)

Shourya Roy (Flipkart Data Science)

Srujana Merugu (Amazon India ML)

Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)

Upinder Bhalla (NCBS)

Contact

• ml-in-india@googlegroups.com