Time | Turing Lawn | Hodgkin Huxley Lawn | CV Raman Auditorium | Feynman Show and Tell Theatre |
10:30am-11:15am | Outside-In: Bringing the world into our brains Shubha Tole, TIFR |
What machines can and cannot see: Progress over forty years Narendra Ahuja, ITRA |
Ajanta - A Pigment of our Glorious Imagination S. Swaminathan, Tamil Heritage Trust |
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11:15am-12:00pm | Has the terminator arrived - AI becomes smarter than humans? Subbarao Kambhampati, ASU |
How do we form our memories and how do we know where to look for them? US Bhalla, NCBS |
Black holes: Beacons in our search for a quantum theory of space-time Spenta Wadia, ICTS-TIFR |
InQuizitive India - hunt for the next quiz wiz (Science Game) |
12:00pm-12:55pm | Embodied brains and disembodied minds: a neurological perspective on human nature VS Ramachandran, UCSD |
ISF TYT Talk 1 Angira Rastogi |
ISF TYT Talk 2 Anchal Varshney |
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Genomic Quirks: How our Genes make or break us? Ramesh Hariharan, Strand Life Sciences |
Teaching Machines to Read and Write Our Language Sunita Sarawgi, IIT-B |
Speculative Fiction: Imagining the Future Tashan Mehta, Author, The Liar's Weave |
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12:55pm-1:40pm | Technologies for Development: Can Cloud and AI Cross the Digital Divide? Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research India |
Humans are not alone, AI discriminates too: Controlling bias in AI Nisheeth Vishnoi, Yale |
New models of doing and funding science - What the future holds. Vivek Jayaraman, Narendra Ahuja, D. Dendukuri, Bishesh Khanal Moderated by: Pankaj Mishra |
Exhibit Talks - AI Driverless car - Ati Motors - Genetically modified flies - Science in action: CSpark Research |
BREAK | AI DRIVERLESS VEHICLE RUN | ||||
2:00pm - 2:45pm | Project Prakash: Merging Science and Service Pawan Sinha, MIT |
The Next Billion Users: Can Mobile, Internet, and AI include the masses? Payal Arora, Erasmus School of Philosophy |
Why reinforcement learning is the next big thing in AI? Ravindran Balaraman, IIT-M |
SketchPad - unleash your imagination (Science Game) |
2:45pm-3:45pm | ISF PYP Talk 1 Ankit S. Gupta |
ISF PYP Talk 2 Anubhav Mishra |
ISF TYT Talk 3 Vikas Vazhaiyal |
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Extended Intelligence: Coupling Human and Artificial Intelligence Arnav Kapur, MIT |
Do our brains use the same principles as deep learning?Rajesh PN Rao, Subbarao Kambhampati, US Bhalla, Nandini Chatterjee Moderated by: Venkatesh Murthy |
Blood on a chip: Technology for diagnostic tests at doctor's offices Dhananjay Dendukuri, Achira Labs |
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3:45pm-4:30pm | Can science tell us who we are? Mani Bhaumik, UCLA |
How did China become a science superpower in two decades? Cong Cao, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China |
Can AI democratize healthcare innovation: Learnings from Nepal Bishesh Khanal, NAAMI |
Exhibit Talks - Pollution @ your fingertip - AI to smile: Aspiring Minds - App to analyze Cough |
4:30pm-5:15pm | Can AI do more than adding dog ears to selfies - like fighting social injustice and improving society? Milind Tambe, Harvard & Google Research India(Affiliate) |
The many roads taken - life as a scientist, policymaker or entrepreneur Anna Agarwal, Ramesh Hariharan, Amit Aggarwal, Anil Sahasrabudhe Moderated by: Nisheeth Vishnoi |
AI and Art: Human Machine continuum Harshit Agrawal, Adobe Design Lab |
Elephant’s head for Ganesh – did ancient Indians know how to transplant organs? Rajesh PN Rao, VS.Ramachandran, R. Gopu, Shubha Tole Moderated by: Saurabh Chandra |
5:20pm | Keynote Remarks: Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds | |||
5:30pm-6:45pm | Should science be priority for India - the fastest growing economy? Rajan Navani, Spenta Wadia, Cong Cao, Payal Arora Moderated by Varun Aggarwal |
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7:00pm-7:45pm | Evening Program: Role of AI in changing cinema Vani Tripathi, Prahlad Kakar Moderated by: Dwarika Prasad Uniyal |
Time | Turing Lawn | Hodgkin Huxley Lawn | CV Raman Auditorium | Feynman Show and Tell Theatre |
10:15am | Opening Remarks by Venkatesh Murthy, Harvard University | |||
10:25am | Special Remarks by Manoj Kumar, Social Alpha | |||
10:35am-11:45am | Lab to Market: Experiments, Challenges, Success Stories and way forward Manoj Kumar, Taslimarif Saiyed, B. Ravindran Moderated by: Chintan Vaishnav |
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11:45am-12:30pm | Brain 2.0 - Connecting human brains and machines Rajesh PN Rao, UWash |
Should we shoot the world's deadliest messengers or just disarm them through genetic engineering? Suresh Subramani, TIGS |
GPUs – From computer games to computer vision PJ Narayanan, IIITH |
Interview Mission Mangal: Why women are not from Venus? Minnie Vaid in conversation with Niyaatii Swami |
12:30pm-1:15pm | Google AI research: Global impact and opportunity for India Manish Gupta, Google Research India |
How insects make smart decisions using past experience and internal models of the world Vivek Jayaraman, HHMI |
Do Indian public health issues differ from the world-how to prevent, diagnose and cure? Gagandeep Kang, THSTI |
Ying-Yang: science of art, art of science Harshit Agarwal, Pawan Sinha, Vijayendra Mohanty, Tashan Mehta, Moderated by: Jahnavi Phalkey |
1:15pm-2:10pm | Gene Editing: How to get science to impact society - Opportunity and Challenges Ramarao Damerla, Sanjeev Galande, Cong Cao, Sudheendra Rao Moderated by: Shambhavi Naik |
ISF TYT Talk 4 Anand Bhardwaj |
ISF PYP Talk 3 Sivaranjani S |
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Stephen Hawking's legacy in fundamental physics Rajesh Gopakumar, ICTS-TIFR |
AI to make lives better: Agriculture, Food, Waste management and more Gargi Dasgupta, IBM |
InQuizitive India - hunt for the next quiz wiz (Science Game) |
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BREAK | AI DRIVERLESS VEHICLE RUN | ||||
2:30pm-3:30pm | Machines, Medicine and You: Is Indian healthcare ready for AI? | Plenary organized by LMSAI, Harvard University Ashwin Naik, Santanu Bhattacharya, Sunita Nadhamuni, Rahul Matthan; Moderated by: Satchit Balsari |
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3:35pm-4:35pm | ISF TYT Talk 5 Nitesh Mishra |
ISF PYP Talk 4 Rajesh Thangavel Yadav |
ISF PYP Talk 5 Arush Gupta |
Exhibit Talks - Tinker with electronics - Brain Science in Action - Climate change, responsible consumption and the role of technology - Shubham Bansal, Leap Club - AI robot at your service |
Why and how to build an MIT in India? PJ Narayanan, Rajesh Gopakumar, Bharat Agarwal, Jayant B. Udgaonkar Moderated by: Pawan Sinha |
Solving problems using AI: Going beyond deep learning Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds |
Microbes in your mouth: Veg-Non Veg study using mobile DNA sequencer Ramesh Hariharan and Raja Mugasimangalam |
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4:35pm-5:20pm | Tamasoma Jyotisha Gamaya: The Men who knew Zero to Infinity R Gopu, THT & Badri Sheshadri, Synprosoft |
Is deep learning the nirvana of AI? Payal Arora, Arnav Kapur, Bishesh Khanal Moderated by: Manish Gupta |
Why science needs women? Minnie Vaid, Venkatesh Murthy, Shambhavi Naik, Karishma Kaushik Moderated by: Kavya Narayanan |
Science JAM - "60 seconds to go" (Science Game) |
5:30pm-5:45pm | Closing Ceremony and Prize Distribution | |||
6:00pm-6:45pm | Evening Program: Comedy by Nishant Tanwar |
TYT: Talk Your thesis Talks |
TYT 1: Angira Rastogi: Search for physics beyond the standard model |
TYT 2: Anchal Varshney: Mechanism to control unstart phenomena in scramjets |
TYT 3: Vikas Vazhaiyal: How to teach a robot to perform a brain surgery |
TYT 4: Anand Bhardwaj: Factor affecting lift generation in insects and birds |
TYT 5: Nitesh Mishra: Coevolution of Virus and bNAbs decoded in identical twins |
PYP: Perform Your Project Talks |
PYP 1: Ankit Santosh Gupta: Anveshan: Voice controlled robotic arm |
PYP 2: Anubhav Mishra: Controlling humans and their free will |
PYP 3: Sivaranjani S.: Battery-less UPS system using flywheel |
PYP 4: Rajesh Thangavel Yadav: Duo-vent: AI-enabled smart ventilation system |
PYP 5: Arush Gupta: KnightCryption: Algorithm inspired from sanskrit poetry |
Workshops |
Register at Info-desk |
Day 1: |
11:45-12:45: Genetically modified flies |
12:55-1:25: Tinkering Labs |
2:30-4:30: CSpark Research |
4:40-5:10: Tinkering Labs |
Day 2: |
12:30-1:00: Tinkering Labs |
1:10-2:10: Genetically modified flies |
3:35-4:35: Genetically modified flies |
4:45-5:15: Tinkering Labs |
RoundTables |
DAY 2: PhD Student Roundtable: Improving PhD programs in India |
DAY 2: Nasscom Round Table: Industry-academia research collaborations - examples of successes |