Banquet Talk
Prof. Ana Garcia Armada
VP Conferences, IEEE ComSoc
Welcome Address
Abstract:
Prof. Ana Garcia Armada will deliver the welcome address for the banquet, setting the stage for an evening of networking and celebration.
Prof. Ana Garcia Armada will deliver the welcome address for the banquet, setting the stage for an evening of networking and celebration.
Ana García Armada is a Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, where she leads the Communications Research Group. She has published around 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and holds several patents. She is currently serving as the Vice President for Conferences of the IEEE Communications Society.
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
CEO, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
India
India
AI For Science and Engineering & ANRF Vision
Abstract:
AI has tremendous potential to accelerate scientific discovery, the journey from “deep science” to “deep tech” and the translation of scientific & engineering research to applied products. Different categories of techniques have recently found applications in different parts of the scientific workflows. AI techniques are likely to drive fundamental changes in how HPC & numerical simulations are done, combinatorial exploration (eg: computational chemistry or biology using diffusion techniques) happens in conjunction with appropriate experimental validation, how design/modelling and operational digital twins will unfold, and how high throughput experimentation along with AI-driven experiment design and virtual lab experimentation is done. It is important to drive up adoption of AI by the scientific and engineering community, and simultaneously evolve both the tools and reimagine the workflows of science/engineering and translation.
Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) has been recently established as a statutory body with a governing board chaired by the Hon’ ble Prime Minister of India to catalyze the transformation in Research and Innovation across all stakeholders in India.
The talk will also outline the vision, principles and high level approaches ANRF will use to drive collaborations and co investments across stakeholders, and especially around a mission-mode MAHA program on AI for Science and Engineering. We invite deeper community participation from all stakeholders, and especially industry, academia, labs, foundations/philanthrophy to come together with ANRF on the journey to Viksit Bharat.
AI has tremendous potential to accelerate scientific discovery, the journey from “deep science” to “deep tech” and the translation of scientific & engineering research to applied products. Different categories of techniques have recently found applications in different parts of the scientific workflows. AI techniques are likely to drive fundamental changes in how HPC & numerical simulations are done, combinatorial exploration (eg: computational chemistry or biology using diffusion techniques) happens in conjunction with appropriate experimental validation, how design/modelling and operational digital twins will unfold, and how high throughput experimentation along with AI-driven experiment design and virtual lab experimentation is done. It is important to drive up adoption of AI by the scientific and engineering community, and simultaneously evolve both the tools and reimagine the workflows of science/engineering and translation.
Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) has been recently established as a statutory body with a governing board chaired by the Hon’ ble Prime Minister of India to catalyze the transformation in Research and Innovation across all stakeholders in India.
The talk will also outline the vision, principles and high level approaches ANRF will use to drive collaborations and co investments across stakeholders, and especially around a mission-mode MAHA program on AI for Science and Engineering. We invite deeper community participation from all stakeholders, and especially industry, academia, labs, foundations/philanthrophy to come together with ANRF on the journey to Viksit Bharat.
Shiv has been appointed by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India as CEO, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF). He was previously CTO, Energy Industry, Asia at Microsoft. Previously he was Executive General Manager of Growth Offerings at GE Power Conversion responsible for new Line of Business development in e-Mobility, Commercial & Industrial Solar and digital/AI innovations. Earlier he was at IBM Research - India, and the Chief Scientist of IBM Research - Australia. Before IBM, he was a tenured Full Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, USA. Shiv has degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (B.Tech, CS), Ohio State University (MS, PhD) and RPI (Executive MBA). Shiv is a Distinguished Alumnus Awardee of IIT Madras (2021, recognizing 0.3% of IITM's alumni over the years) & Ohio State University (2021), Fellow of the IEEE (2010), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2010), Microsoft Gold Club (2024), MIT Technology Review TR100 young innovator (1999).
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