ACM India Annual Event

ACM India announces its annual event for the year 2023, hosted by the Oriental Institute of Science & Technology, Bhopal, on the 11th of February 2023. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery is the world’s largest educational and scientific society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM recognizes excellence in computer science and information technology through a host of prestigious awards, including the Turing Award (aka Nobel Prize in Computing). ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking. ACM India was launched in 2010 to increase ACM’s presence in the country, and has been recording a healthy growth in India over the last decade. ARCS 2023 and the ACM-W India Workshop on Women in Computer Science and Research are co-located with ACM India annual event.

Institutional Partners

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Speakers

Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser

Director, Simons Institute UC Berkeley: Turing Award 2012

Shafi Goldwasser is the Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and the C.
Yannis Ionnidis
Yannis Ionnidis

President ACM

Yannis Ioannidis is a Professor of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens.
Arjun Jain
Arjun Jain

Founder and Chief Scientist UAVIO labs

Dr. Arjun Jain is the Founder of UAVIO Labs Pvt. Ltd. Previously, he co-founded Perceptive Code LLC, a Silicon Valley startup that builds intelligence into automobiles.
Gabriele Kotsis
Gabriele Kotsis

Ex President ACM

Gabriele Kotsis is an Austrian Computer Scientist. She is full professor in computer science at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
Satya Lokam
Satya Lokam

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India

Satya Lokam is a Principal Researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Bangalore, India.
Tulika Mitra
Tulika Mitra

Provost’s chair professor of CS, National University of Singapore

Professor Tulika Mitra, Provost’s Chair Professor of Computer Science is Vice Provost (Academic Affairs) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Venkatesh Raman
Venkatesh Raman

President ACM India

Venkatesh Raman is a professor in the theoretical computer science group at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
Natarajan Shankar
Natarajan Shankar

Distinguished Scientist, SRI International: Herbrand award 2022, SRI Fellow 2009

Dr. Natarajan Shankar is a Distinguished Senior Scientist and SRI Fellow at the SRI Computer Science Laboratory.

Event Schedule

Event On 12th Feb 2023

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Welcome and opening remarks

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09:30-09:35

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ACM report by Yannis Ioannidis (President, ACM)

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09:35-09:45

Yannis Ioannidis

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ACM India report by Venkatesh Raman (President, ACM India)

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09:45-10:00

Venkatesh Raman

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Fireside chat (virtual) with Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UCB CA) hosted by Satya Lokam (Microsoft Research India)

Time (IST)

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10:00-11:15

Shafi Goldwasser

Satya Lokam

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Invited talk: Title TBA Tulika Mitra (National University of Singapore)

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11:45-12:45

Tulika Mitra

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ACM India Awards Ceremony

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14:00-15:00

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Invited talk: Autonomy at scale: where are we headed? Arjun Jain (UAVIO Labs)

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15:00-16:00

Arjun Jain

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Invited talk: Title TBA Shankar Natarajan (SRI International, CA)

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16:30-17:30

Shankar Natarajan

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