IIIT-D Seminar Series

Where: Unless specified, in Classroom 2
When: Unless specified, at 4pm on Thursdays
Why: To hear some interesting people; refreshments will be served
Who: All students and faculty of IIIT-D

Please look at the schedule below for the talks. If you are interested in giving a talk, suggesting a speaker, giving feedback about the talks, please write to pk[at]iiitd.ac.in.

Fall 2010 schedule

Speaker (s) Date Talk details
Prof. Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo
Dec 21, 2010
9:30 - 10:30am
Title: Biometrics Security
Abstract / Bio
Prof. Deborah Estrin, UCLA
Dec. 13, 2010
9 - 10am
Title: Participatory mHealth
Abstract / Bio
Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, Vidha Software Solutions
Nov. 4, 2010
10 - 11am
Title: Systemic Thinking for Design
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi
Oct. 28, 2010
Title: Social Media Tools for the Bottom of the Pyramid
Abstract / Bio
Prof. Andreas Zeller, Saarland University
Oct. 21, 2010
Title: Learning from 6,000 projects: Mining Models in the Large
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research
Oct 19, 2010
Tuesday
1 - 2pm

Title: Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement at Microsoft
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Mausam, University of Washington
Sept. 23, 2010
Title: Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Subodh Kumar, IIT Delhi
Sept. 9, 2010
Title: Cache Friendly Compressed Representation of Geometry
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Veena Bansal
Aug 26, 2010
Title: Experiments with Extended Technology Acceptance Model (ETAM)
Abstract / Bio
Prof. Vijay K Vaishnavi
Aug 19, 2010
Design Science Research in Information Technology
Abstract / Bio
Faculty @ IIIT-D
Aug 5, 2010
Presentations by research groups at IIIT-D: Security and Privacy, Image Analysis and Biometrics, and Theory
Prof. Somenath Biswas, IIT Kanpur
Aug 4, 2010
Wednesday
Title: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Success of the Metropolis Algorithm for Optimization
Abstract / Bio
Faculty @ IIIT-D
July 29, 2010
Presentations by research groups at IIIT-D: Software Engineering, Information Management and Data Analytics,
and Mobile and Ubiquitous computing

Spring 2010 schedule

Speaker Date Talk details
Dr. Navjyoti Singh
April 1, 2010
Title: Confluence of Humanities and Computer Science
Abstract
Dr. Mukesh Mohania
**at 3.45pm**
March 18, 2010
ACM Distinguished Lecture
Title: New Trends in Data Integration, Analytics and Business Intelligence
Bio
Dr. Jaideep Srivastava
**at 2.30pm**
March 18, 2010
Title: Social Games and Virtual Worlds as Macroscopes of Human Behavior
Abstract / Bio
Mr. Som Mittal
**at 11.30am**
March 17, 2010
Title: Indian IT-BPO Industry a catalyst for Business Transformation
Bio
Dr. S. N. Maheshwari
March 11, 2010
Title: An approach to approximate optimization of a class of Markov Random Fields encountered in Computer Vision
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Anupam Joshi
March 4, 2010
Title: Assured Information Sharing
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Sanjiva Prasad
Feb 11, 2010
Title: The ABC of next generation networks (Naming, forwarding and routing reconsidered)
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Veena Bansal
Jan 28, 2010
Title: Winning the Games Scientists Play
Abstract / Bio
Dr. Pankaj Jalote
Jan 7, 2010
Title: Post-Release Reliability Growth in Software Products
Abstract / Bio

Fall 2009 schedule

Date Talk details
Dec 18, 2009
**Friday at 2.30PM**
Title: Healthcare and Sports Monitoring using Body Wearable Sensor Devices
Speaker: Dr. Vijay Sivaraman
Abstract / Bio
Nov 12, 2009
**at 2PM**
Title: Low Power Process Variation Aware SARM Bitcell Designs
Speaker: Mr. Jawar Singh
Abstract / Bio
Nov 12, 2009
Title: TBA
Speaker: Mr. Ameet Nivsarkar, Vice President, Global Trade Development, NASSCOM
Abstract / Bio
Oct 26, 2009
**Monday**
Title: Green Energy: Policy drivers for technology innovation and adoption
Speaker: Dr. Rahul Walawalkar, Customized Energy Solutions
Abstract / Bio
Oct 22, 2009
Students research poster presentation
Title/Speaker: (1) Face recogninition/Himanshu Bhatt; (2) Mobile P2P economic models/Kuldeep;
(3) Database security and access control/Ankit Sarkar or Sangeeta; (4) Opinion mining & sentiment analysis/Denzil Correa
Sept 18, 2009
**Friday**
Title: Everything Elastic: Accenture Technology Vision
Speaker: Dr. Atul Kumar, General Manager (Research), Accenture Technology Labs, Bangalore
Abstract / Bio
Sept 17, 2009 Title: Technology Planning in India – vision for a developed nation by 2020
Speaker: Dr. Deepak Bhatnagar, Head, Centre for International Trade in Technology (CITT), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade(IIFT)
Abstract / Bio
Aug 31, 2009
**Monday**
Title: Efficient monitoring using mobile sensing platforms – From systems, theoretical foundations to in-field validation
Speaker: Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Abstract / Bio
Aug 20, 2009 Title: Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining
Speaker: Dr. Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Abstract / Bio
Aug 6, 2009 Title: The relationship between GUI generation and the teaching of introductory programming
Speaker: Dr. Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina
Abstract / Bio