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Prof. Niloy Ganguly is a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Engineering. He is currently the Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Project Director of AI4ICPS at IIT Kharagpur. He is the founding member of the Complex Networks Research Group (CNeRG) of IIT Kharagpur. His research interests lie primarily in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Social Computing, and Network Science. He has published in 80 journals and 200 conferences in reputed international venues related to AI and NLP. He has guided 22 Ph.D. and 9 M.S. students during this tenure.
Soumyadeep Roy is a Ph.D student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He submitted his Ph.D thesis in October 2024. His research interests lie in Natural Language Processing and Generative AI, with a focus on medical NLP applications. He has spent 2.5 years during his Ph.D working as a Research Associate with Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl at the Leibniz AI Future Lab, L3S Research Center, Germany, focused on applying artificial intelligence to personalized medicine applications, in collaboration with the Hannover Medical School, Germany. His work has been published in prestigious venues like EMNLP, IJCAI, SIGIR, ECAI, CIKM, IEEE ICDH, WebSci, and ACM Transactions of the Web. He has been a Teaching Assistant for various courses at IIT Kharagpur and Leibniz University Hannover, such as Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
Dr. Sowmya S. Sundaram is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Mark Musen on improving the metadata of medical datasets using NLP techniques. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at L3S Research Center under the mentorship of Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl, where she worked with physicians, clinical informaticians, and NLP researchers to work on interdisciplinary research. She received her PhD from IIT Madras where she worked on mathematical question answering. Her overarching interest has been in NLP applications and alignment in the domains of mathematical reasoning, medical reasoning, fairness, and alignment with publication footprints in AMIA, ECAI, AAAI, EDBT, DMKD journal, ESWC, and so on. She delivered a tutorial on `ML for Automatic Word Problem Solving' at ECML-PKDD 2019.
Dr. Dominik Wolff leads the junior research group iXplain_CDS at Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Germany. Dominik holds a PhD from TU Braunschweig, where he focused on recommendation systems, the incorporation of tacit knowledge, and the hybridization of knowledge and data-driven models. His research focuses on explainability and interoperability in clinical decision support and biomarker identification. He focuses on synergies that arise from the combined expertise of artificial and human experts and the evaluation of AI-based systems in medicine to close the implementation gap. He is the author of over 20 scientific publications. He has extensive teaching experience and has been awarded five teaching prizes in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine.