🎀 ACM India Summer School 2025 – Speakers

πŸ“ IIT Gandhinagar | πŸ“† 02–13 June 2025


Prof. Rajat Moona

Director, IIT Gandhinagar
Opening the summer school with welcome remarks.


Prof. Anirban Dasgupta

Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Co-coordinator. Focuses on algorithmic foundations of ML, fairness, and networks.


Prof. Nipun Batra

Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Co-coordinator. Works on AI for sustainability, air quality, and smart sensing.


Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan

Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
Keynote speaker. Leader in mobile systems and AI for societal impact.


Dr. Manish Gupta

Director, Google DeepMind India
Keynote speaker. Focused on ML at scale and social impact applications.


Dr. Jigar Doshi

Talks on AI for public health, agriculture, and climate sustainability.


Dr. Prasant Misra

Principal Scientist, TCS Research
Expert in mobile sensing and information processing at scale.


Dr. Shailesh Deshpande

Scientist, TCS Research
Remote sensing expert; also conducting optimization labs.


Prof. Udit Bhatia

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Expert in physics-guided ML, floods, and networked infrastructure.


Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman

Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Specializes in vision-based AI including pose estimation.


Prof. Krishna Prasad

Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Researches Brain-Computer Interfaces and neuro-AI.


Prof. Manisha Padala

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Works on fairness in federated learning and adversarial ML.


Dr. Vaibhav Rajan

Scientist, Google DeepMind
Talks on ML for personalized cancer treatment and biomedical AI.


Prof. Sayan Ranu

Professor, IIT Delhi
Works on graph neural networks, GNN condensation, and pollution monitoring.


Dr. Mohit Jain

Researcher, Microsoft Research India
Focuses on HCI and AI applications in healthcare and inclusion.


Prof. Pallavi Bharadwaj

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Works on sustainable mobility and electric vehicles.


Prof. Yogesh Kumar Meena

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Specialist in accessibility technologies and inclusive design.


Prof. Vaibhav Tripathi

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Explores connectome-based predictive modeling and brain imaging.


Dr. Rishiraj Adhikary / Niladri

Jio Platforms
Talk on AI-driven solutions (exact topic TBD).


Alok Talekar

Researcher, Google DeepMind India
Lectures and labs on advanced AI techniques (topics TBD).


Prof. Manish Jain

Professor, IIT Gandhinagar (CCL Lab)
Teaches on meta-learning and β€œlearning to learn.”


Prof. Tavpritesh Sethi

Associate Professor, IIIT Delhi
Causal modeling and AI for health system preparedness.


Dr. Bimal

ISRO SAC
Talk on satellite applications (topic TBD).


(More speaker details will be added as confirmed.)