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Talks

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Jul 5, 2025

Mind Machines- Decoding Intelligence What it means to build, Understand and Trust AI Systems

Fireside chat at Sangam 2025, Bangalore

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Jul 4, 2025

AI for Bharath- a dialogue on harnessing the power of AI to drive inclusive growth and innovation across India

Invited talk at the IITM Bangalore CXO Meet at Sangam 2025 organised by IITM ACR Office at Bangalore

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Jun 4, 2025

Towards Evaluating Fairness and Explainability

Panel Discussion at Forbes India, Bangalore

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Jun 3, 2025

Safety and Ethics in India's AI Ecosystem

Panel Discussion at the 5th Stakeholder Consultation for the AI Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) in India organised by UNESCO and supported by MeiTY, New Delhi

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May 8, 2025

The AI Debate Debuting Common Myths

Fireside Chat at the Empowering Bharat with AI Literacy, AI Samarth Conclave, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

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Apr 27, 2025

Roundtable on AI and Public Health in India: Ethics, Evaluation and Scaling

the ICMR NIDHRandpart of World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi

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Apr 19, 2025

AI Research in Academia and Initiatives

Panel discussion at the Workshop: India's AI Blueprint for Strategic Autonomy on the theme India's AI Research and Model Strategy at IISC, Bengaluru

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Mar 26, 2025

Graduation Lecture

the Responsible AI Summit 2025, Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, Trichy

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Mar 14, 2025

What is the thing called AI

Keynote Lecture at Bits and Scripts II: 2nd Workshop on Computational Epigraphy Conference, IMSC

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Mar 13, 2025

Foundational Models: A New Approach to Organising and Consuming Information using AI

Invited Talk at the Puducherry Technological University

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Mar 12, 2025

Foundational Models: A New Approach to Organising and Consuming Information using AI

Library Talk at Prof. S. Parthasarathy Memorial Lecture instituted by Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) at the Centenary Building, University of Madras

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Feb 24, 2025

Towards Evaluating Trustworthiness of Natural Language Explanations

Invited Talk at Princeton University organised by Princeton Language and Intelligence

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Feb 13, 2025

What is the thing called AI

Invited Talk at the AI for Research and Education Workshop (Gen AI for Edu), Material Science Research Centre (MSRC)

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Feb 8, 2025

What is the thing called AI

Invited talk at the Breakthrough Science Society, Trivandrum

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Jan 27, 2025

Intelligence at work: What Youngsters need to know about AI

Invited talk at the New Indian Express ThinkEdu Conclave

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Jan 8, 2025

Responsible Gen AI

Invited talk at the Gen AI- ML Summit 2025 organised by CMI ALGOLABS in Taj Welling Mews, Chennai

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Jan 6, 2025

AI and Learning

Fireside Conversation organised by IITM Alumni Association at the Infosys Science Foundation, Bengaluru

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Jan 2, 2025

Building Safe and Trusted AI- Advancing India's AI Ecosystem through the India Safe and Trusted AI projects

Invited talk at the Virtual Webinar

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Dec 24, 2024

What is this thing called AI

Invited Talk at the Media Sensitization Workshop on Artificial Intelligence

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Dec 21, 2024

Responsible AI for Healthcare

Keynote talk at the Inaugural Ceremony of Unlocking the future with AI in Healthcare organized by Nanavathi Max Super Speciality Hospital, Bombay

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Dec 18, 2024

Responsible AI for Healthcare

Online talk at the 29th annual International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2024), Bangalore

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Dec 17, 2024

Generative AI

Invited Talk at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

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Dec 16, 2024

Responsible AI for Healthcare

Invited Talk at the Indo US Workshop on Harnessing AI for Healthcare transformation (HAHT-IUS 2024) organised by IIT, Hyderabad

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Dec 13, 2024

AI Connect

Roundtable discussion organised by Tamil Nadu Government with Google

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Dec 1, 2024

Fireside Chat on the topic "AI Baithak", and Panel Discussion on "Graph Learning for Social Good"

the 8th International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, CODS COMAD 2024, IIT Jodhpur

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Nov 7, 2024

AI for India?!

Fireside Chat by Technovate for India organised by Times Techie's, Pondicherry

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Oct 23, 2024

Responsible AI: The next frontiers for AI education and workforce training

Invited talk at the Mozilla Responsible Computing Challenge Conference organised by Mozilla Foundation, Kerala

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Oct 20, 2024

Going Deeper towards Artificial General Intelligence

Invited talk at the Popular Science Lecture- 82 organised by Anna Centenary Library, Chennai and Tamil Nadu Science Forum, Chennai

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Oct 18, 2024

Generative AI

Invited Talk at the 2-Day National Conference on implication of AI for Law Enforcement Agencies organised by National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar

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Oct 16, 2024

Responsible AI for Healthcare- opportunities and challenges

Welcome address and panel discussion at the 1st International Workshop on Responsible AI for Healthcare and NetZero organised by University of Hull in collaboration with IIT Madras

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Sep 23, 2024

Is Gen AI Sufficient for Artificial General Intelligence

Keynote Talk at Amazon Tech Conference 2024, Chennai

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Sep 14, 2024

AI and the New World Order

Keynote Speaker on Panel at Sangam 2024, Hyderabad

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Aug 22, 2024

AI for India

Keynote Speaker at the Emerging Worlds and AI!, a unique event at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

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Jul 18, 2024

The Impact of AI on the future of research and academics

Panel Discussion at Bangalore

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Jun 21, 2024

Overview of WSAIandDSAIEcosysteminIIT Madras

Invited Talk at the Global Research Partnership Meet, IIT Madras

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May 3, 2024

Three Perspectives on AI in South Asia

Panel Discussion at the 2024 Annual Symposium on Science and Technology in South Asia hosted by The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

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Mar 27, 2024

How creating its own LLM would add to India's acceleration towards being a developed nation

Panel Discussion at Business Standard Manthan, Delhi

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Mar 25, 2024

What is the thing called AI?

Invited talk at Bits and scripts: Workshop on computational Epigraphy organised by Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus

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Mar 19, 2024

Safe and Responsible AI

Invited talk on Kohli day at the Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems, IIT Hyderabad

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Mar 10, 2024

Is AI Ready for India

keynote address followed by a panel discussion on the topic perspectives of AI and way forward at the Computer society of India CSI day celebration

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Mar 5, 2024

Safe and Explainable Reinforcement Learning

Invited to talk at Indo-German Workshop on Frontiers of Robot Learning FRL 2024 IGSTC, IIT Bombay

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Dec 14, 2023

Reinforcement Learning from Structured Action and Policies

Keynote talk at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence PReMI'23

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Dec 12, 2023

Panel Discussion in "Applied AI Research and Indigenous Innovation"

Annual GPAI Research Summit

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Dec 10, 2023

Reinforcement Learning from Structured Action and Policies

Talk at Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Annual event, New Delhi

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Dec 6, 2023

The Evolving AI Landscape- Risk and Responsibilities

Panel Discussion at the Carnegie India Global Technology Summit, New Delhi

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Nov 5, 2023

AI and ML in shaping the future of oncology

Invited talk at the Third Indian Cancer Congress, Mumbai

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Sep 25, 2023

Responsible AI for Networks of the Future

Panel Discussion at the IITM, CeRAI-Ericsson Symposium on Responsible AI for networks of the Future organised by CeRAI

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Sep 14, 2023

Responsible AI for Healthcare

Keynote Address at the Inauguration of GENESIS 2023 Annual Inter-Collegiate Undergraduate Academic Conference organised by Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital

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Aug 17, 2023

Responsible AI for Healthcare

Panel Discussion at the Fifth RBCDSAI AI/ML on Health care organised by Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI), IIT Madras

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Aug 11, 2023

Introduction to Data Science and Artificial Intelligence- Ecosystem with AI

Invited talk at Purdue University

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Aug 3, 2023

Reinforcement Learning with Structured actions and policies

Invited talk at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)

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Jul 25, 2023

Combining Learning Approaches for Solving Computers

Invited to talk at the Royal Society Yusuf Hamied workshop on India and UK, New Delhi

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Jul 21, 2023

From Pixels to Actions Streamlining RL Strategies through Object detection

Keynote talk at the workshop on learning issues in visual object recognition organized in 8th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and graphics, IIT Jodhpur

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Jul 13, 2023

Impact of Large language Model- Education in the age of generative AI

Panel Discussion at the 16th International Conference on Educational data mining

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Jun 12, 2023

Auditing AI Systems

Invited talk at the SAI 20 submit (Supreme Audit Summit- 20), Goa

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Jun 6, 2023

Are Models trained on Indian legal data fair?

Invited talk at the Third RBCDSAI Conference on Deployable AI organized by Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

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May 5, 2023

The Brave New World of AI

Invited Talk, Shri K. Santhanam Memorial Lecture, Tiruchirapalli

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May 1, 2023

Are Models trained on Indian legal data fair?

Invited talk at the Ashoka University

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Apr 26, 2023

The AI debate navigating three P's

Virtual Round table by Times Techies

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Mar 30, 2023

Challenges with data science for vehicle detection in Indian traffic

Invited talk at the Indo-Japan Smart City Conference, IIT Madras

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Mar 25, 2023

ChatGPT per charcha

Invited talk at the Varahamihira Science forum, Chennai

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Mar 18, 2023

Are Models trained on Indian legal data fair?

Invited talk at the Web Science for Development Workshop, IIIT Bangalore

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Mar 17, 2023

Demystifying AI

Invited talk at National Symposium on Health, Data and AI, CMC Vellore

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Feb 28, 2023

Demystifying AI

Invited talk at National Science Day, GAIL, Pune

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Jan 30, 2023

Reinforcement Learning with Structured Actions and Policies

Research week with Google

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Jan 27, 2023

Reinforcement Learning- An Introduction

Invited Talk at the Conference on Next GenAI Inspiration from Brain Science, IIT Jodhpur

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Dec 12, 2022

Continual Lifelong Learning

Keynote Talk at the Continual Learning Workshop, ACML

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Sep 24, 2022

Reinforcement Learning with Structured Actions and Policies

Florence Nightingale Data Science Talk Series, IIT Palakkad

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Sep 14, 2022

Introduction to RL

Special Lecture, R&D Engineers, Pune

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Aug 26, 2022

Reinforcement Learning with Structured Actions and Policies

Invited Talk, Mila, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Aug 19, 2022

Reinforcement Learning with Structured Actions and Policies

Invited Talk, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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Aug 16, 2022

Reinforcement Learning Beyond Games

Invited talk, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

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Aug 15, 2022

India Data Commons

Invited talk at the Open Knowledge Network Workshop at KDD 2022, Washington DC USA

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Jul 4, 2022

Is AI Ready for the Real World?

Invited Talk, Ashoka University, New Delhi

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Jun 29, 2022

How does AI Impact our Everyday Life?

Panel Discussion, AI Impact series organized by Taylor and Francis, India.AI and RBCDSAI

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Jun 14, 2022

Structure and Dynamics of Networks

Invited Talk, Jackson Laboratories, Farmington, CT, USA

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May 26, 2022

Reinforcement Learning Beyond Games

Invited Talk, Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA

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Apr 8, 2022

Is AI Ready for the Real World?

Invited Talk at ADVANCE CRT, Ireland

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Mar 24, 2022

Leveraging data as the future of R&D

Panellist, OPPI Annual Summit, organized by Organisation Of Pharmaceutical Producers of India

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Mar 17, 2022

Opportunities for Online BSc Data Science & Programming students with RBCDSAI

Invited talk, hosted by Online BSc Degree

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Mar 15, 2022

Deconstructing AI Adoption

Panellist, organized by Tata Consultancy Services

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Mar 5, 2022

Atmanirbhar Bharat- Artificial Intelligence– A unique Synergy between IT and Defense

Panelist, organized by Computer Society of India and DRDO

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Mar 1, 2022

In this talk, Prof. Ravindran will discuss the real-world challenges of AI and how to foresee and tackle them.

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Dec 12, 2021

Its about using AI for social impact and how domain knowledge is more important than employing complex AI in socially relevant projects

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Dec 11, 2021

Is AI ready for the Real World

Invited Speaker, fireside chat organized by IIT Alumni Industry Interaction Centre, Chennai

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Dec 10, 2021

AI for social impact

Keynote, Tamil Nadu AI Conclave, Nunnarangu'21 organized by the Government of Tamil Nadu and Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency

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Nov 25, 2021

Introduction to deep reinforcement learning

Speaker, DRDO-CAIR Continuing education program on advanced AI topics

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Nov 23, 2021

Panel Discussion on "Responsible AI: Decode, Contextualize and Operationalize", Organized by Analytics India Magazine

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Nov 20, 2021

Panel Discussion on "University-Industry Linkage", Organized by PALS

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Nov 19, 2021

Reinforcement Learning with Structured Actions and Policies

Keynote Talk, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2021)

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Nov 9, 2021

Policy Gradient Algorithms

Speaker, AICTE- ATAL FDP on Reinforcement Learning and its applications, organized by IIT Ropar

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Sep 30, 2021

Building Tech skills for a future ready Enterprise

Panelist, Microsoft AI Innovation Series Tweetathon, organised by Forbes India

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Sep 22, 2021

Reinforcement Learning Beyond Games

Invited Talk, IITB

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Sep 15, 2021

What next for AI

Invited Talk, at the Looking Beyond 5G: Future Technology Trends Towards 6G conference hosted by ITU-APT Foundation of India (IAFI)in partnership with 5G India Forum (5GIF)

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Aug 26, 2021

Challenges in Industrialization of ML and DL

Panelist, at Converge- The future of retail tech event organized by Walmart Labs

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Aug 26, 2021

On Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Invited talk, IITM Foundations

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Aug 24, 2021

Relational representation and Reinforcement Learning

Talk at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley

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Aug 12, 2021

Artificial Intelligence & its Impact on the Health Care Sector

Panelist, SICCI Tech Roundtable

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Aug 8, 2021

Charting Paths: Reinforcement Learning and Grad School

The ML India Podcast

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Jul 30, 2021

Contextualized deep graph infomax for multi-layer networks

Invited Talk at National Conference on Communications

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Jul 27, 2021

Intro to RL

Speaker at the Online Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence organized by the Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi

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Jul 27, 2021

Trustworthy AI for Social Good: AI technologies in the Indian and U.S. contexts

Panelist, US-India Roundtable on Trustworthy AI, organized by IUSSTF

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Jul 7, 2021

Careers in Data Science

Participated in an online panel discussion for Online B.Sc. programme

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Jun 8, 2021

Relational Representations and Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Montreal Polytechnique

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May 11, 2021

Why do RL agents play games?

Keynote Talk, Second Pacific Asia Workshop on Game Intelligence and Informatics (GII), Co-located with the 25th PAKDD

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Apr 28, 2021

Towards Scaling up Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, IIT Ropar

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Apr 17, 2021

Panelist on "Research and innovation: Bridging the gap between Industry and Academia", Industry Conclave

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Mar 30, 2021

Symbolic Representations and Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, MIU Day, ISI Kolkata

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Feb 27, 2021

Why do computers learn to play games

Expert Tech Talks, NIT Suratkal

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Jan 30, 2021

Challenges and Opportunities of Academia-Industry Interaction

Building capability in academia for Industry Engagement, Virtual Workshop Organized by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India

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Jan 29, 2021

Relational Representations and Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning, IEEE Intl. Conference on Semantic Computing

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Jan 22, 2021

Influence Maximization in Unknown Social Networks: Learning Policies for Effective Graph Sampling

Keynote Speaker, Walmart Day, Walmart Labs, Bangalore

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Jan 15, 2021

Panelist on "Navigating the Exploding AI Landscape", F. C. Kohli centenary celebrations, IIIT Hyderabad

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Jan 5, 2021

WhyAI?

KeynoteTalk, Faculty Development Program organized by IITM Alumni (PALS)

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Oct 21, 2020

State of AI Research in India

Invited Speaker, Two day seminar on China's Capabilities in Disruptive Technologies: Implications & Lessons, organized by the Centre for Contemporary China Studies, Government of India

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Oct 16, 2020

Panelist, ACM India PhD Clinic

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Oct 8, 2020

In this session, Professor B. Ravindran will talk about his journey into Artificial Intelligence.

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Oct 7, 2020

Two panel discussions on "Ethics-by-Design" and "Unlocking Data for Innovation"

the Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (RAISE) summit organized by teh government of India

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Sep 26, 2020

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Sep 12, 2020

Basics of Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, AI for Everyone FDP, SJCE, Mysuru

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Sep 4, 2020

Learning to Play by Playing

Online Lecture, IIT Madras Online BSc Degree

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Jul 26, 2020

Influence Maximization in Unknown Social Networks: Learning Policies for Effective Graph Sampling

Invited Speaker, AI Symposium, BITS Pilani

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Jul 17, 2020

Why AI is much more than ML?

Asian Institute of Design Webinar

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Jul 15, 2020

State of AI and ML in India

Times Techies Webinar

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Jun 18, 2020

Towards Scaling up Reinforcement Learning

RBCDSAI's International Summit on Data Science and AI

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Jun 16, 2020

AI for Social Good

Keynote Talk, Faculty Induction Program, VIT

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May 23, 2020

This talk will help you to answer the AI questions like - Do we use AI in our daily life? Why should I learn about it?; Will AI take over Humans? Should we be excited or be worried?; What is the impact of AI on the traditional job market as we know it?

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May 6, 2020

In this talk, Prof. Ravindran will talk about how reinforcement learning differs from traditional ML and why it is the next big thing in AI?

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Mar 6, 2020

How Human is AI?

Keynote Talk, Workshop on Deep Learning for Cyber Security, SETS, Chennai

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Mar 4, 2020

Panel Discussion on Development of Start-up ecosystem for social transformation using AI, Bootcamp for Global AI Summit, TNeGA, Chennai

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Jan 28, 2020

Influence maximization in unknown social networks: Learning Policies for Effective Graph Sampling

Invited Talk, The Fourth Paradigm Conference, IISER Bhopal

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Jan 27, 2020

Data gathered from various sources ranging from Economics to Biomedical Sciences is having a huge impact on the policy decisions being made in current times and this is only going to increase in the future. An analysis of such large amounts of data gathered from diverse fields requires experts from Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Economics and Social Sciences to work together for the betterment of society. Hence, there is an immediate need to accelerate data based research in these areas. This is The Fourth Paradigm of Science, with the other three being empirical measurements, theoretical modelling and computer simulations.

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Jan 12, 2020

Lab to Market: Experiments, Challenges, Success Stories and way forward

Panel Discussion, India Science Fest, Pune

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Jan 11, 2020

Why RL is the next big thing in AI?

Invited Talk, India Science Festival, Pune

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Jan 6, 2020

Rapid proliferation of AI agents: Is India ready for growth?

Panel Discussion, Third International Joint Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (CoDS-COMAD)

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Dec 21, 2019

Putting RL to work

Plenary Talk, International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models, PSG Tech, Coimbatore

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Dec 15, 2019

Challenges with Data (science) for Vehicle Detection in Indian Traffic

Invited Talk, Smart Mobility Workshop, IIT Madras

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Dec 6, 2019

AI for Social Good

Invited Talk, IITM-RWTH Student Entrepreneurship Summit, IIT Madras

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Nov 30, 2019

On the Hardness of Interdisciplinary Research

Keynote Talk, ML4Science Workshop, IIIT Hyderabad

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Nov 29, 2019

Beyond Rewards

AI Seminar Series, IIT Hyderabad

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Nov 22, 2019

Putting RL to work

Keynote Talk, AmEx Machine Learning Summit, Bangalore

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Nov 4, 2019

What do we need from our AI policy?

Invited Talk, Consultative Meeting on Vision for AI & Data Science in India, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi

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Oct 4, 2019

Invited Panelist, Empowering AI Leadership, India Economic Summit 2019, Organized by the World Economic Forum, New Delhi

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Oct 4, 2019

Invited Panelist, AI for All, India Economic Summit 2019, Organized by the World Economic Forum, New Delhi

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Sep 22, 2019

What Next?

Invited Talk, BITS Pilani (Webinar)

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Sep 14, 2019

Looking Under the Hood

Invited Talk, Intel University Day, IIT Madras

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Sep 12, 2019

Over the past decade AI technologies have seen a 3rd revival and have captured the popular imagination yet again. In this seminar, Prof. Ravindran will briefly talk about two of the paradigms that underly much of the modern successes - deep neural networks and reinforcement learning. He will touch upon their biological motivations and also sound a note of caution about their failings.

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Sep 12, 2019

Why the Recent Excitement in AI?

Invited Talk, [24]7.ai, Bengaluru

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Aug 29, 2019

Moderated a panel discussion on "Skilling and Re-skilling for AI/ML for Manufacturing", Second RBCDSAI AI/ML Industrial Conclave, IIT Madras

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Aug 24, 2019

Why Reinforcement Learning?

Keynote Talk, IITMAA-Sangam Hackathon, IIT Madras

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Aug 21, 2019

Why the Recent Excitement in AI? [How Human is AI?]

Second Bangalore on IT Seminar, IIIT Bangalore

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Aug 19, 2019

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Keynote Talk, First Indian Process Systems Engineering Conference (IPSE), IIT Madras

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Aug 12, 2019

Beyond Rewards

Keynote Talk, Workshop on Scaling up RL (SURL), International Joint Conference on AI, Macao, China

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Aug 7, 2019

AI and Data Science Landscape in India

Invited Talk, KDD in India event, ACM SIGKDD Conference, Anchorage, Alaska

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Aug 6, 2019

Why RL?

Keynote Talk, KDD Cup Day, ACM SIGKDD Conference, Anchorage, Alaska

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Jul 12, 2019

Reinforcement Learning at Work

Invited Talk, Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms (Mila), Montreal, Canada

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Jul 11, 2019

Reinforcement Learning at Work

Invited Talk, Google Brain/DeepMind, Montreal, Canada

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Jun 13, 2019

AI has been called many things - the next stage in the evolution of intelligence, the end of the human race, the reason for the next world war, the solution to all our problems, human-like intelligence, etc. Mr. Ravindran argues that all of these do not really apply to AI, at any rate, not yet. AI is more like a toddler taking first steps, and it will be what you want it to be. Don't tag AI, it is the people that use AI that make it good or evil.

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May 20, 2019

Why the recent excitement in AI

Invited Talk, Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbour, Maine, USA

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May 17, 2019

Beyond Rewards

Invited Talk, Department of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

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May 13, 2019

A tutorial on (deep) Reinforcement Learning

IITM-Purdue Seminar Series, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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May 9, 2019

Beyond Rewards

Invited Talk, Institute for Infocomm Research, Astar Institute, Singapore

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May 3, 2019

Beyond Rewards

Department Colloquium (via Webex), Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas, USA

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Apr 22, 2019

State of AI Research in India

Fireside Chat with Kris Gopalakrishnan, IIT Madras AI colloquium

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Apr 11, 2019

AI in Transportation

Keynote Talk, Sweden India Innovation Partnership Conference on AI for All, New Delhi

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Apr 7, 2019

Untag AI

Invited Talk, TedX Lavelle Road, Bangalore

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Mar 26, 2019

Why the recent excitement in AI

Invited Talk, Naval Training Academy, Erimala, Kerala

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Feb 26, 2019

Panel Discussion on nurturing a web science ecosystem in India, First RBC DSAI Web Science Symposium, IIT Madras

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Feb 26, 2019

Looking under the Hood of Deep Neural Networks

Invited Talk, Research Seminar on Applied Machine Learning, PSG Tech, Coimbatore

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Feb 20, 2019

Beyond Rewards

Invited Talk 1st NVIDIA AI Workshop on Research, Trends and Practices Bangalore

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Feb 19, 2019

A Gentle Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, DRDO Aero India Seminar, Bangalore

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Feb 9, 2019

How Effective is AI?

Keynote Address, IQUMA-TN annual meeting, Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai

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Jan 20, 2019

Moderated the IIT Director's panel discussion on the role of IITs in AI in India Pan IIT summit, IIT Delhi

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Jan 20, 2019

Panel Discussion on the state of AI in India, Pan IIT summit, IIT Delhi

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Jan 10, 2019

An Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Tutorial, Indian Control Conference, IIT Delhi

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Jan 7, 2019

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

CCBR Workshop, IIT Madras

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Jan 3, 2019

Beyond Rewards

Invited Talk, CoDS-COMAD 2019, Kolkata

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Dec 18, 2018

Panel on Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life, Global Technology Summit, Carnegie India, Bangalore

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Dec 18, 2018

Looking Under the Hood of Deep Learning

Keynote, The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC 2018), Bangalore

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Dec 15, 2018

What Next?

Presidential Address, Prof. C. Y. K. Memorial Lecture, National Institute for Quality and Reliability (NIQR), Chennai

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Dec 14, 2018

Panel on Data platform: to democratize proprietary access from industry to academia for world-class science, College of Engineering, Chennai

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Nov 28, 2018

How Human in AI?

Prof. Krishnamoorthy Srinivas Memorial Lecture, Institute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Chennai

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Nov 26, 2018

Introduction to AI

Navy Officers Training, RBC DSAI, IIT Madras, Chennai

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Nov 23, 2018

Introduction to the World of Reinforcement Learning: Applications and Challenges

Invited Talk, Datahack Summit, Bangalore

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Nov 16, 2018

Networked Data, AI and Healthcare

Intel International Centre for Transformational AI Workshop on AI for Healthcare, Bangalore

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Nov 14, 2018

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, IIITD&M, Kancheepuram

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Oct 26, 2018

Panel on AI Research in India: Solving for India, NASSCOM Product Conclave, Bangalore

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Oct 23, 2018

What Next?

Keynote, AI/ML Industry Conclave, IIT Madras, Chennai

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Oct 22, 2018

Panel on AI for India, NITI Lecture Series, New Delhi

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Oct 2, 2018

A Gentle Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai

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Sep 28, 2018

Learning Complex Policies in Deep RL

Keynote, Amazon Research Days, Bangalore

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Sep 27, 2018

Why the Recent Excitement in AI

Invited Talk, St. Gobain Research Institute, Chennai

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Sep 26, 2018

AnIntroduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

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Sep 17, 2018

Why the Recent Excitement in AI

Invited Talk, Abbott Pharma, Mumbai

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Sep 14, 2018

An Overview of Reinforcement Learning Research at the RBC DSAI

Invited Talk, TCS Innovation Labs, New Delhi

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Sep 6, 2018

An Overview of the Research at the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI

Invited Talk, Samsung India Research Network Meeting, Bangalore

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Aug 22, 2018

An Overview of the Research at the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI

Keynote talk, Mindtree Automation Day, Chennai

[Talk]

Jul 20, 2018

Learning complex policies in Deep RL

Invited Talk. Bosch Centre for AI, Stuttgart, Germany

[Talk]

Jul 15, 2018

The Deep Learning Debate, Machine Learning Debates Workshop

ICML 2018, Stockholm, Sweden

[Talk]

Jun 6, 2018

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Department Colloquium, IIIT Delhi

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May 15, 2018

A Very Gentle Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk. Axel 2018, Microsoft, Hyderabad

[Talk]

May 4, 2018

Some Experiments in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk. Borealis AI, Edmonton, Canada

[Talk]

Apr 19, 2018

Why the Recent Excitement in Artificial Intelligence?

Invited Talk. Larsen & Toubro Technology Conclave, Chennai

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Apr 7, 2018

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Faculty Development Program on Applications of Soft Computing and Machine Learning, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K

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Mar 29, 2018

Why the Recent Excitement in Artificial Intelligence: A Very Gentle Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

NPTEL-IBM Workshop on Robotic Behaviour Driven by Machine Learning, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Mar 24, 2018

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Short Term Training Program on Embedded Controller, Real Time Operating System and Wireless Sensor Network in Automation, IIT Madras

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Mar 18, 2018

Imitation Learning: Learning from Humans to act like Humans

Invited Talk, Workshop on Human Centric Robotics, IIT Jodhpur

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Feb 28, 2018

Why the Recent Excitement in Artificial Intelligence: A Very Gentle Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

IIT Madras Faculty Colloquium

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Jan 23, 2018

Some Studies using Hypergraphs for Modeling Multi-way Relations

First IBSE Symposium, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Jan 5, 2018

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Third Computational Brain Research Workshop, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Dec 14, 2017

Some Experiments with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Departmental Seminar, University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ, USA

[Talk]

Nov 22, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited talk, NVidia Developers Meet, Chennai

[Talk]

Nov 9, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited talk, Robert Bosch India, Bangalore

[Talk]

Nov 8, 2017

Why the Recent Excitement in Artificial Intelligence

Invited talk, American Chamber of Commerce, Chennai

[Talk]

Oct 25, 2017

Some Experiments with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Department Seminar, IIT Delhi

[Talk]

Oct 24, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Guest Lecture, IIT Delhi

[Talk]

Oct 24, 2017

Learning from Data

Invited Talk, Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), Chennai

[Talk]

Oct 9, 2017

Some Experiments with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Intel India Research Colloquium, Bangalore

[Talk]

Oct 7, 2017

Some Experiments with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Research Colloquium, IIIT Sri City

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Aug 24, 2017

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Victoria Alumni Meeting, Melbourne, Australia

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Aug 18, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Departmental Seminar, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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Aug 17, 2017

Enriching Encoder-Decoder Models with Better Context Representation for Natural Language Generation

Departmental Seminar, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia

[Talk]

Aug 16, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Departmental Seminar, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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Aug 16, 2017

Some Experiments with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, IBM Research, Melbourne, Australia

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Aug 14, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Departmental Seminar, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

[Talk]

Aug 10, 2017

Some Experiments with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Plenary Talk, ICML Workshop on Reinforcement Learning: Late Breaking Results, Sydney, Australia

[Talk]

Jul 14, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Speaker, IIITH Summer School on Deep Learning, Hyderabad

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Jul 3, 2017

Learning Structured Policies with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Adobe ATL, Bangalore

[Talk]

Jun 20, 2017

Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Speaker, IIT Kharagpur Summer School on Machine Learning, Kharagpur

[Talk]

Jun 10, 2017

Introduction to Data Science and AI at IIT Madras

Invited Speaker, IITM Foundation Summit, San Jose, USA

[Talk]

Jun 9, 2017

Learning Structured Policies with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, KLA Tencor, Milpitas, CA, USA

[Talk]

Jun 8, 2017

Learning Structured Policies with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Departmental Seminar, Stanford University, CA, USA

[Talk]

Mar 19, 2017

Learning Structured Policies with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Departmental Seminar, IIT Guwahati

[Talk]

Feb 26, 2017

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Indo-UK Workshop on Data Science, IISc, Bangalore

[Talk]

Jan 11, 2017

Learning Structured Policies with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Computational Brain Research Workshop, IISc Bangalore

[Talk]

Jan 8, 2017

Some Studies using Hypergraphs for Modeling Multi-way Relations

Invited Talk, COMSNETS Social Networking Workshop, Bangalore

[Talk]

Jan 3, 2017

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning: An AI Perspective

Second Computational Brain Research Workshop, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Nov 21, 2016

Learning in a Connected World

Invited Talk, NetApp, Bangalore

[Talk]

Oct 22, 2016

(Bridge) Correlational Neural Networks

Invited Talk, Research Colloquium, IIIT Sri City

[Talk]

Aug 16, 2016

Correlational Neural Networks

Invited Talk, KLA Tencor, Milpitas, CA, USA

[Talk]

Jul 19, 2016

Combining Planning and Learning for Mobile Robots

Workshop on Mobile Robotics, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Jun 29, 2016

(Bridge) Correlational Neural Networks

IITM-Purdue Seminar Series, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

[Talk]

Jun 27, 2016

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning using Spatio-Temporal Abstractions and Deep Neural Networks

Invited Talk, IBM T. J. Watson Laboratory, New York, USA

[Talk]

Mar 28, 2016

(Bridge) Correlational Neural Networks

Invited Talk, Workshop on User Generated Content, IISc, Bangalore

[Talk]

Mar 10, 2016

(Bridge) Correlational Neural Networks

Invited Talk, TRDDC, Pune

[Talk]

Feb 26, 2016

Efficient Computation of Shapley Value for Centrality in Networks

Invited Talk, IMPECS Indo-German Spring School on Algorithms for Big Data, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Jan 21, 2016

Correlational Neural Networks

Invited Talk, XRCI Open, Bangalore

[Talk]

Jan 9, 2016

Correlational Neural Networks

Invited Talk, Amazon Inc., Bangalore

[Talk]

Jan 5, 2016

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

First Computational Brain Research Workshop, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Oct 29, 2015

Deep Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, I-CARE, IBM, Bengaluru

[Talk]

Oct 27, 2015

Deep Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Mindtree, Chennai

[Talk]

Oct 20, 2015

Learning in a Connected World

IBM Day, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Oct 8, 2015

Deep Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Intel Academic Forum, New Delhi

[Talk]

Sep 20, 2015

Data Science for Smart Cities

Plenary Speaker, ADCOM 2015, IIT Madras

[Talk]

Sep 2, 2015

Making Sense of a Connected World

Invited Talk, South Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI)

[Talk]

Jun 18, 2015

An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Invited Talk, Microsoft Research Summer School, IISc, Bengaluru

[Talk]

Apr 24, 2015

Machine Learning in a Connected World

Invited Talk, YuMe, Chennai

[Talk]

Apr 17, 2015

Machine Learning in a Connected World

Invited Talk, TCS Eminence Lecture Series, Chennai

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Apr 26, 2023

In this week's edition of TimesTechies Webinars, Prof. B. Ravindran discusses the necessary guardrails needed to ensure that AI innovation is aligned with societal well-being and to minimize potential risks associated with its development and deployment.

[Podcast]

Mar 25, 2023

A 30 minute talk by Prof. B. Ravindran, followed by a 45 minute discussion involving panelists Murali Meenakshi Sundaram, Distinguished Technology & Prof. B. Ravindran of IIT Madras. This talk is a part of the monthly lecture organized by Varahamihira Science Forum.

[Interview]

Mar 10, 2023

The AI industry is projected to be worth over 15 trillion dollars by 2030. The fear is that not enough debates are happening in our legislative spaces, among our policy makers, there isn't enough stakeholder input and that by the time regulation tries to catch up, the user base of this technology will be so large that any real regulation will become tough if not impossible. But are our anxieties about AI overblown, or, are we on the other hand, underestimating the dangers? To get to that we need clarity on what exactly AI is and does and could potentially do or be? The preeminent voice in India on Artificial intelligence, Dr Balaraman Ravindran who heads the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence at IIT Madras joins us on the show.

[Podcast]

Jan 28, 2022

To demystify and explain AI to school students, the IIT Madras Alumni Association hosted a talk between Professor Balaraman Ravindran and school kids, college-goers, and even business professionals. The idea was to understand everyone’s level of understanding of the technology and see their perspective along with clarifying their doubts.

[Interview]

Jul 19, 2021

Professor Balaraman Ravindran is the Mindtree Faculty Fellow and the Head of Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI (RBCDSAI), IIT Madras. In an exclusive interview with Analytics India Magazine, Prof. B Ravindran spoke about IIT Madras’ contributions to the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence and machine learning in India. Recently, researchers at the institute have developed an AI-based mathematical model to identify cancer-causing alterations in cells.

[Podcast]

Mar 19, 2021

Untangling the Web - A PODCAST OF THE WEB SCIENCE TRUST, HOSTED BY THE SONIC RESEARCH GROUP AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

[Interview]

Jul 15, 2020

Presented on “AI & ML in India,” overview of careers, industry, and research. This was a part of the Times Techies Webinars conducted on July 15, 2020.

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Feb 7, 2019

Professor B. Ravindran has an incredibly rich background in academic research, headlined by his work in reinforcement learning. His Google Scholar profile shows his research papers have been cited over 2,200+ times. He has a penchant of explaining the most complex topics in words even beginners are able to grasp. It’s just one of the many reasons his talk at DataHack Summit 2018 was a super hit among our community.

[Interview]

Oct 5, 2018

It's fascinating how conversations with AI researchers go beyond technologies and tools shaping AI. It quickly becomes philosophical and even ideological while discussing the ills of machine learning systems making decisions impacting humans and society.

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Jun 28, 2018

Last month, we took Prof. Balaraman Ravindran, professor of Reinforcement Learning at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and head of the school’s Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, to a noisy arcade at a converted airport hangar just north of Edmonton. In between Atari battles, we discussed why games are a crucial way to learn how to solve much bigger, more complex problems, the pros and cons of scalar rewards, and the natural link between RL and deep learning.

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Aug 17, 2017

What do you know about reinforcement learning and prescriptive analytics? Associate Professor Balaraman Ravindran joins us today to share his vast knowledge of this emerging field, including its history, an introductory overview, how it is different from supervised and unsupervised learning, and examples of its applications.

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Dec 15, 2021

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 63 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. All 2021 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that advance computing as a science and a profession.

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Sep 23, 2021

Indian Institute of Technology Madras has announced a partnership with Taylor & Francis Group, its publishing partnership with the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI).

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Oct 16, 2020

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Jul 20, 2020

With an increased dependence on technology after COVID-19, the time for some disruption has never been more important. With a firm eye on the future is IIT Madras with much help from its Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The institute recently launched an online BSc programme in Data Science and Programming, only highlighting how much it prioritises the course. "Faculty from ten departments of IIT Madras are part of the Robert Bosch Centre — including from several engineering departments like Computer Science, Civil, Chemical and Mechanical, Mathematics, Management Studies, Biotechnology and even Humanities," Dr Balaraman Ravindran, Head, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence told Edex.

[News]

Feb 17, 2020

Chennai-based technology institute IIT-Madras will collaborate in a project backed by search giant Google to develop AI-driven systems to predict engagement and churn in a phone-based information system meant for expectant mothers. IIT Madras has tied up with Google for its "AI for Social Good" initiative and will handle two projects with accredited NGOs in the country, Balaraman Ravindran, who heads the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, told ET on Monday.

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May 16, 2019

AI - Why the Recent Excitement? | Geography and You

Isolated events such as AI driven programmes serves to deepenits mystique. AI mimics human intelligence and are better at tasksthat demonstrably need high levels of acumen

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Jul 13, 2018

There is tremendous excitement in the air about artificial intelligence (AI) across the world today. Everyone seems to be talking about AI—from leaders of the industry, scientific thinkers, heads of state, to the grandmother next door. The subject has been widely welcomed as the salvation of humankind, and, at the same time, has invited criticism for bringing in the potential doom of humans.

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Jun 4, 2018

In a quest to demystify this tremendously arcane area of AI research, FactorDaily spoke to Professor Balaraman Ravindran, an IIT Madras professor, who is widely considered to be India's foremost reinforcement learning expert.

[News]

Oct 14, 2017

It is known that DeepMind, the company which was acquired by Google, produced an algorithm called AlphaGo that beat the world's number one at the Go game. One of the methods behind the success of AlphaGo, called deep reinforcement learning, is being further developed by IIT Madras researchers to construct their own algorithm to play not just the Go game, but for more complex tasks.