IITACB Monthly Meet - February 15, 2025

The timing of this talk could not have been better, what with all the other talk about Ai exploding around us.

Join us at Tata Hall in the IITACB Centre on Saturday, February 15, 2025 from 11.00 a.m to 12.00 p.m. as we listen to Dr Manish Gupta, Senior Director, Google DeepMind

The discussion will begin with an overview of recent advances in artificial intelligence, highlighting the high-level concepts underlying progressively narrower domains such as machine learning, deep learning, and foundation models, which have emerged as dominant paradigms over time. Dr Manish will describe the remarkable progress of these models in addressing problems related to understanding, prediction, and creativity, while also acknowledging open technical challenges such as safety, fairness, and transparency. These challenges become even more pronounced in efforts to advance Inclusive AI, particularly in addressing the needs of billions of people in the Global South.

He will include work on multilingual models aimed at democratizing information access across diverse Indian languages, healthcare solutions in settings where digital data is scarce, and the analysis of satellite imagery to support agricultural transformation and improve farmers' lives. Through these examples, Dr Manish aims to convey both the excitement surrounding AI's potential to impact the world and the compelling open problems that remain to be solved.

Please note: This is not an online event, it will be held at our Centre in Bommasandra

Date: February 15, 2025 (Saturday)

Venue: IIT Alumni Centre Bengaluru
60, KIADB, Bommasandra Industrial Area, Bommasandra, Karnataka 560099

Time: 

Interactive Session - 11.00 am to 12.30 pm

followed by lunch

Charges – Members Rs.100/- Non-members Rs.500/-

About the speaker: 
Dr. Manish Gupta is a Senior Director at Google DeepMind, leading teams conducting AI research across India and Japan. Previously, Manish has led VideoKen, a video technology startup, and the research centers for Xerox and IBM in India. As a Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Manish led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene by the then US President Barack Obama in 2009. Manish holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has co-authored about 75 papers, with more than 8,000 citations in Google Scholar and h-index of 48, and has been granted 19 US patents. While at IBM, Manish received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, an Outstanding Innovation Award and the Lou Gerstner Team Award for Client Excellence. Manish is a Fellow of ACM and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhi.