NAiBS 2023 27 January

2:30-3:30 PM IST
Santanu Chaudhury
Director, IIT Jodhpur
Professor Santanu Chaudhury, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT
Delhi, has assumed charge as Director, IIT Jodhpur, on 10 December 2018. Professor
Chaudhury holds B.Tech. (Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering) and
Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering) Degrees from IIT Kharagpur. He joined as a
Faculty Member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, in 1992. He was
Dean, Undergraduate Studies at IIT Delhi. He has served as Director of CSIR-CEERI,
Pilani, during 2016-18. Professor Chaudhury is a recipient of the Distinguished
Alumnus award from IIT Kharagpur. Professor Chaudhury is a Fellow of the Indian
National Academy of Engineers (INAE) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
He is a Fellow of the International Association Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He was
awarded the INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Medal for Young Scientists in
1993. He received ACCS-CDAC award for his research contributions in 2012. A keen
researcher and a thorough academic, Professor Chaudhury has about 300
publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, 15 patents and 4
authored/edited books to his credit.

Talk: Context and Grounding: Towards Next Gen AI

NAiBS 2023 28 January
12:00-12:50 PM IST

Richa Singh
IIT Jodhpur
Richa Singh received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from West Virginia
University, Morgantown, USA, in 2008. She is currently a Professor and Head at
Department of CSE, IIT Jodhpur. Her areas of interest are pattern recognition,
machine learning, and biometrics. She is a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR and AAIA, and a
Senior Member of ACM. She was a recipient of the Kusum and Mohandas Pai
Faculty Research Fellowship at the IIIT-Delhi, the FAST Award by the Department of
Science and Technology, India, and several best paper and best poster awards in
international conferences. She has co-edited the book Deep Learning in Biometrics
and has delivered keynote talks/tutorials on deep learning, trusted AI, and domain
adaptation in NVIDIA GTC 2021, BIOSIG2021, ICCV 2017, AFGR 2017, and IJCNN
2017. She is/was served as the Program Co-Chair of CVPR2022, ICMI2022,
IJCB2020, AFGR2019 and BTAS 2016, a General Co-Chair of FG 2021 and ISBA 2017,
and Vice President Publications of IEEE Biometrics Council. She is an Associate
Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition.

Talk: TBD