Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS)

Amit Baxi

Research Scientist and Manager, leading the Signals, Algorithms & Systems Research Lab, Intel India

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Amit is a Research Scientist and Manager, leading the Signals, Algorithms & Systems Lab in Intel Labs, India. Prior to Intel, he worked for about 10 years in the medical device research and development, driving the design of several critical-care medical electronics systems. After joining Intel Labs in 2005, he focused on ultra-low-power sensing systems, flexible wearable electronics platforms, embedded/IoT/wireless sensor networks, signal processing & analytics. His research led to digital/wearable health systems such as, Lifephone+ – a personal wearable health product launched in India and Flexible Bio-patch – a cuffless, continuous Blood Pressure sensing platform. Since last 5 years, he has been driving research in time-critical Edge Robotics and Automation Control Systems, with focus on end-to-end system architecture, co-design and co-optimization. He has filed 30+ patents and has 10+ peer-reviewed publications. He holds a Masters degree in Digital Design and Embedded Systems (Manipal University, India) with Bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering (Mumbai University).

Gopikrishnan Varadarajulu

Senior Technical Staff Member, Architect watsonx.data, Data & AI at IBM

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Gopi Varadarajulu is a Senior Technical Staff Member & Architect in the IBM Data and AI portfolio. He has an insider view of design & development of various IBM Data & AI technologies such watsonx, Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning & IBM Cloud Private for Data components. He has held various design & engineering responsibilities for the past 16 years and has 6 patents in the areas of Privacy, Secure Data Analysis, Database management systems and operating systems.

Nanjangud C Narendra

Principal Engineer - Research, Ericsson

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Dr. Nanjangud C Narendra (NCN) is a Principal Engineer in Ericsson Research Bangalore. Prior to joining Ericsson, he worked in Cognizant Technologies, IBM Research, HP India and Motorola India. He has about 30 years R&D experience in the Indian IT industry. His research interests span Software Engineering, Workflow Management, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things. He has published over 100 papers in international conferences and journals. He has been Program Committee member for several key conferences such as Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), IEEE International Cloud Computing Conference; he was also Program Committee for ICSOC (Industry track) in 2012 and ICSOC (Research track) in 2015. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Service Oriented Computing and Applications journal. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Israat Haque (Virtual)

Associate Professor at Dalhousie University

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Dr. Israat Haque is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, where she leads the Programmable and Intelligent Networking (PINet) Lab. She works in the areas of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) focused on the performance, security, reliability, and sustainability aspects of wired and wireless networked and distributed systems. She is also interested in applying data-driven approaches to solve practical and relevant systems problems. Dr. Haque received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Subsequently, she held an NSERC post-doctoral position at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, before joining Dalhousie University. She served as an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and is currently an Editor of the Internet of Things Series of IEEE Communications Magazine. She is also an active organizer and TPC member of conferences like IEEE ICNP, IEEE CloudNet, IFIP Networking, IEEE NetSoft, IEEE CNSM, IEEE ICC, and IEEE GLOBECOM. Dr. Haque was recognized as an ACM/IEEE N2Women Rising Star in 2021 for research and leadership contributions. She received the Digital Nova Scotia's Thinking Forward Award 2022 for training the next generation of tech talents.

Lalit Kumar Singh

NPCIL-BARC

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Dr. Lalit Kumar Singh received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). He is currently a Scientist in NPCIL-BARC, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, and has distinction of working on Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) and Light Water Reactors (LWR). He has an illustrious career and succeeded in several critical jobs assigned to him in his illustrious career, though, each of them was challenging. His assignments over the years range from design, development, testing, IV&V, related research and site validation of the safety critical computer based systems of Indian Nuclear Power Plants. He has published several research papers in journals of high impact factor like IEEE Transactions, IEEE Computer, ACM, etc. He has been invited for chief guest, keynote speeches, session chair and talks in many international conferences, short term courses, workshops & faculty development programs from many IITs, IIMs, NITs & other institutes of national importance. So far, he has delivered more than 250 talks. He is recipient of many awards like prestigious IEEE K Shankar award, publication award, group achievement award, etc. He is a reviewer of several SCI indexed journals of high impact factor. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and life member of Indian Nuclear Society. He is founder member and industrial coordinator of the proposed Center of Dependability at IIT(BHU). He is a visiting professor in IIIT Gwalior and BHU. He is in the panel of faculty assessment committee for Department of CSE, IIT Roorkee to assess their research profile and give recommendations. He is member of many selection committees, of BARC, IIITs and government universities. He is a member of editorial board of many reputed journals and guest lead editor of many special issues. He is supervising many PhD students of different IITs, NITs and is PhD thesis examiner of IITs, NITs and other reputed institutes. He is an expert member of Industrial policy formation of IIT Ropar, BoS of many autonomous institutes and member on the advisory board of many institutes/universities. He is advisory member of IEEE Bombay Section. He is adjunct Professor in BHU and IIIT Gwalior. He is a reviewer and project collaborator of Research proposals of Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS). He is also faculty of Nuclear Training Centre, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He is interfacing with other countries, like Russia, USA, France, etc. for importing nuclear reactors that are based on new technologies. His research interests are in the area of reliability, safety and security of safety critical computer based systems. So far, he has completed 33 projects of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He holds 520 rank in India in the list of World’s scientists released by AD Scientific Index.