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Bios:
Ketan Rajawat received his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 2007, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, in 2012. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Intelligent Systems, IIT Kanpur. His research interests are in the broad areas of optimization and machine learning, with particular emphasis on healthcare, UAVs, and signal processing. He is currently serving as a Senior Area Editor with the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He is also the recipient of the 2018 INSA Medal for Young Scientists, 2019 INAE Young Engineer Award, and 2024 Qualcomm Faculty Award.
Indranil Saha is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a professor and the head of the Department of Intelligent Systems at IIT Kanpur. Prior to joining IIT Kanpur in 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California Los Angeles in 2013. From 2005 to 2008, he was a research scientist at Honeywell, Bangalore. His research interest lies in the application of formal methods and AI techniques to embedded and cyber-physical systems and robotics. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at EMSOFT 2010, the Best Repeatability Evaluation Award at HSCC 2023, and the ACM SIGBED Frank Anger Memorial Award in 2012. At IIT Kanpur, he was a P. K. Kelkar Faculty Fellow from 2020 to 2023 and received the Excellence-In-Teaching Award in 2024.
Title: AI Research and Education at IIT Kanpur
Abstract: Ketan Rajawat and Indranil Saha from IIT Kanpur are doing a short US tour to meet the young researchers and faculty to discuss the future of AI research and education at IIT Kanpur. In this 1-2-hour interactive session, they would discuss ongoing AI research initiatives at IIT Kanpur and the vision of the newly established Department of Intelligent Systems within the Wadhwani School of AI and Intelligent Systems. This interaction is primarily about faculty hiring and the opportunities at IITK, so the researchers who intend to relocate to India will especially find it useful.