ACM India Summer School 2025 – Schedule

Location: IIT Gandhinagar | Dates: 02–13 June 2025 | Download Schedule

Session Types

Keynotes Speakers Tutorials/Labs Breaks Registration

Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Registration - - -
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Opening Remarks & Program Introduction Prof. Rajat Moona, Prof. Anirban Dasgupta, Prof. Nipun Batra IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Information Processing Techniques for Mobile Sensing at Scale Dr. Prasant Misra TCS Research Slides
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Sleep Apnea Sensing Prof. Nipun Batra IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Object Detection Tutorial Ayush Shrivastava IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides Colab NB
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote: Perspectives on Having Impact Through Research Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan Microsoft Research India Slides Video
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Remote Sensing for Sustainability Dr. Shailesh Deshpande TCS Research Slides Video
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Electric Vehicles & Battery Performance Optimization Prof. Pallavi Bharadwaj IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EV Optimization Tutorial Dr. Prasant Misra TCS Research Slides
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM VLMs Tutorial Shataxi Dubey IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides Colab NB
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Network and Optimization for Food Security Prof. Udit Bhatia IIT Gandhinagar -
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Accessibility Interfaces and Emerging Markets Prof. Yogesh Kumar Meena IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Air Quality Sensor Deployment Tutorial Zeel B Patel, Vinayak Rana, Suruchi Hardaha IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides Blog Post Colab NB
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Building Socially Impactful Solutions using AI - Public Health Dr. Jigar Doshi - Slides Video
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM AI for Pose Estimation Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Connectome-based Predictive Modeling Prof. Vaibhav Tripathi IIT Gandhinagar Video Slides
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM LLM Finetuning Tutorial Zeel B Patel IIT Gandhinagar Video Colab NB
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Building Socially Impactful Solutions using AI - Agriculture and Climate Dr. Jigar Doshi - Video
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Continuation from morning session Prof. Udit Bhatia IIT Gandhinagar -
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM AI Products for Sustainability Niladri / Dr. Rishiraj Adhikary Jio Slides Video
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PPG from Smartphone Ayush Shrivastava, Rishiraj Adhikary IIT Gandhinagar, Jio Video Slides Colab NB
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
- Holiday - - -
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM TBD Dr. Bimal ISRO SAC -
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Physics-guided machine learning for water and floods Prof. Udit Bhatia IIT Gandhinagar Slides
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM LLMs for Air Quality: Structured Reasoning Meets Zero-Shot Prediction Prof. Nipun Batra IIT Gandhinagar Slides Video
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Brain Computer Interfacing Prof. Krishna Prasad IIT Gandhinagar -
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Remote Sensing / Ag Alok Talekar Google Deepmind India Slides
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Remote Sensing / Energy <> Emissions monitoring Alok Talekar Google Deepmind India Slides
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Data, Disaggregation, Deployment: A Decade in Energy Analytics Prof. Nipun Batra IIT Gandhinagar -
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Learning to learn Prof. Manish Jain IIT Gandhinagar - CCL -
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Brick Kilns from Orbit: Detection, Benchmarking, and Compliance in South Asia Prof. Nipun Batra IIT Gandhinagar Slides
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Adversarial Attack on Fairness in FL Prof. Manisha Padala IIT Gandhinagar -
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Personalized Treatment Planning Models for Cancer Dr. Vaibhav Rajan Google DeepMind Slides
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM SSL Vision Rishabh Mondal - -
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Causal Models Prof. Tavpritesh Sethi IIIT-Delhi -
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Personalized Treatment Planning Models for Cancer Dr. Vaibhav Rajan Google DeepMind Slides
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Graph neural networks Prof. Sayan Ranu IIT Delhi -
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Graph neural networks hands-on Shubhajit Roy - -
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pollution monitoring using GNNs Prof. Sayan Ranu IIT Delhi -
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Graph condensation for low-resource environments Prof. Sayan Ranu IIT Delhi -
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Health Systems Preparedness with Data and AI Prof. Tavpritesh Sethi IIIT-Delhi -
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Remote sensing Hands-on Dr. Ujjwal Gupta ISRO SAC -
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM AI Implementation Challenges and Opportunities in Public Administration Ganesh Misra IAS Slides
Time Session Speaker Affiliation Material
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote Dr. Manish Gupta Google DeepMind -
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break - - -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM TBD Dr. Mohit Jain Microsoft Research India Slides
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break - - -
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM TBD Dr. Mohit Jain Microsoft Research India Slides
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break - - -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Convocation and Certificate Distribution / Feedback Session - - -

Presentation Materials

Slides and recordings will be added here after each session.

For each session, we will provide:

  • Slides: Direct download links
  • Recording: YouTube video links
  • Resources: Additional materials and references
  • Lab Materials: Tutorial notebooks and code

This section will be updated progressively as the summer school proceeds.