Overview

Time	Event
09:30 AM - 11:15 AM	Parallel Sessions with Research Talks from Students and Speakers from Industry as well as Academia
	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3	Session 4	Session 5
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break at ECE Hut
11:45 AM - 01:30 PM	Parallel Sessions with Research Talks from Students and Speakers from Industry as well as Academia
	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3	Session 4	Session 5
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM	Lunch at Main Guest House
02:30 PM - 02:40 PM	Address by Rajesh Sundaresan (Dean, EECS)
02:40 PM - 03:40 PM	Faculty Talks at Golden Jubilee Hall, ECE
03:40 PM - 04:00 PM	High Tea at ECE Hut
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM	Faculty Talks at Golden Jubilee Hall, ECE

Detailed Schedule

Session 1: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Venue: MP 20, ECE
Session Chair: Prathosh A P (ECE), Shirish Shevade (CSA) Faculty Organizer: Pandarasamy Arjunan (RBCCPS) Student Volunteers: Rankit Kachroo (CSA), Nibedita Roy (CSA), Gopinath (CSA)
Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Prashanth L A	Associate Professor, IIT Madras	Risk-sensitive Learning in a Human-based Decision Making System
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Alokendu Mazumder	PhD, CPS	Learning Low Rank Latent Spaces With Simple Deterministic Autoencoders
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Jayateja Kalla	PhD, EE	Global Variance based Classifier Alignment for Long-Tail Class Incremental Learning
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Rahul Madhavan	PhD, CSA	Freenets: Learning Layerfree Neural Network Topologies
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Thivin Anandh	PhD, CDS	FastVPINNs-TensorBased Robust Variational Physics Informed Neural Networks for Complex Geometries
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Shareef Babu	PostDoc, EE	DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments (DISPLACE)
Coffee Break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Ashok Jagannathan	Krutrim	Building LLMs in India -- Learnings and Opportunities
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	Harsh Rangwani	PhD, CDS	DeiT-LT: Distillation Strikes Back for Vision Transformer Training on Long-Tailed Datasets
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM	Debarpan Bhattacharya	PhD, EE	Dame: A Distillation Based Approach For Model-Agnostic Local Explainability
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM	Debangshu Banerjee	PhD, ECE	Bad Values but Good Behavior: Learning Highly Misspecified Bandits and MDPs
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM	B Srinath Achary	M. Tech, CPS	Adding Explainability to Visual Clustering Tendency Assessment (VAT) Methods Through Feature Importance

Session 2: Brain, Computation and Data Science
Venue: MP 30, ECE
Session Chair: Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (EE) Faculty Organizer: Ratikanta Behera (CDS) Student Volunteers: Nidhi Patidar (CSA), Harsh Gupta (CSA), Sridhar Bajpayee (CSA)
Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Neelam Sinha	Professor, Center for Brain Research	Understanding Mild Cognitive Impairment using Resting state fMRI
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Eshwar S R	PhD, CSA	Reinforcement Learning with Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Rahul NR	PhD, CPS	Transfer in Sequential Multi-armed Bandits via Reward Samples
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Arjun B S	PhD, DESE	Bridging Technology and Neurosurgery: A Multimodal Approach to Brain Tumour Delineation
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Rathin Joshi	PhD, DESE	Design And Development Of A Bimodal, Auditory Event-Related Potential Extractor System For Neonatal Hearing Screening
Coffee Break
11:45 PM - 12:00 PM	Sudhanva S Kamath	PhD, CDS	Tackling Computational Challenges In Genome Assembly
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM	Ghanshyam Chandra	PhD, CDS	Scalable Algorithms for Genome-aware Sequence-to-Graph Alignment

Session 3: Theoretical Computer Science
Venue: ECE1.07, ECE
Session Chair: Arindam Khan (CSA) Faculty Organizer: Sumit K. Mandal (CSA) Student Volunteers: Atharv Desai (CSA), Siddhartha Sarkar (CSA)
Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Sourav Chakrabarti	Professor, ISI Calcutta	Testing correctness of samplers using property testing: from theory to practice and back again
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM	KVN Sreenivas	PhD, CSA	Bin Packing under Random Order: Breaking the Barrier of 3/2
10:40 AM - 10:55 AM	Rishikesh Gajjala	PhD, CSA	No Distributed Quantum Advantage For Approximate Graph Coloring
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Mohit Garg	PostDoc, CSA	The Exchange Problem
Coffee Break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Akash Kumar	Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay	Random Walks and Graph Property Testing
12:40 PM - 12:55 PM	Aditya Subramanian	PhD, CSA	On Approximation Schemes for Stabbing Rectilinear Polygons
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM	Debajyoti Kar	PhD, CSA	Random-Order Online Independent Set of Intervals and Hyperrectangles

Session 4: Power Engineering
Venue: Golden Jubilee Hall, ECE
Session Chair: Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer (EE), Gopalaratnam Narayanan (EE) Faculty Organizer: Samir Hazra (EE) Student Volunteers: Hari Krishna (EE), Pratyush Poudel (EE), Govind Rai (EE)
Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Souvik Chattopadhyay	Assistant Professor, IIT Kharagpur	A Single-Stage Bidirectional Three-phase AC to DC Converter Employing Reduced Switching State PWM with Step-Voltage Switching for Elimination of Device Voltage Overshoot
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Roja Peri	PhD, EE	Asymmetrical Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge Converters in Input-Parallel Output-Parallel Configuration
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Syam Sundar Nair	PhD, EE	Non-Permanent Magnet-Based Electric Drives for Electric Mobility
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Neha Rajput	PhD, EE	A Multilevel Converter Testbench for High-Frequency Power Magnetics Characterization
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Aabid Ahmad Dar	PhD, EE	A relook at Zero Voltage Switching in power converters
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Himanshu Bhusan Sandhibigraha	PhD, EE	A Wide Output Range Soft-switched Single-stage Dual Active Bridge Type AC-DC Boost PFC Converter
Coffee Break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Shanthakumar MS	Hitachi Energy	Power Engineering - Renewable Integration, digital technologies - Challenges and Opportunities
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM	Milind Dighrasker	Infineon Technologies	Wireless Charging & Multiport USB PD adapters
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM	Manish Mandal	PhD, EE	Characterizing SiC MOSFETs: Energy-Based Method for Partial Hard Turn-on Loss Estimation and Circuit Parasitics Measurement in a 200kW Stack
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM	Aditya Raj	PhD, EE	Improved Direct-Coupled High-Bandwidth Voltage Amplifier for B-H Characterization of Magnetic Materials

Session 5: Signal Processing and Communications
Venue: ECE1.08, ECE
Session Chair: Sudhan Majhi (ECE) Faculty Organizer: Velpula Balaswamy (ECE) Student Volunteers: Sheetanshu Singh (ECE), Rohit Kumar Shukla (ECE), Rangam Diwakar (ECE), Satyam Sahu (ECE)
Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM	K Vasudevan	Professor, IIT Kanpur	Turbo Coded OFDM-OQAM Using Hilbert Transform
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Maria Francis	PhD, ECE	Cell-free Massive MIMO for Next-Generation Wireless Communications: Potential, Challenges & Solutions
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Swati Bhattacharya	PhD, ECE	Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection in Overloaded MIMO Systems
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Karthik Girija Ramesan	PhD, EE	Deep Learning for Tomographic Inverse Scattering with Arbitrary and Unknown Viewing Angles
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Anubhab Chowdhury	PhD, ECE	Design and Optimization of Cell-Free Systems: Channel Estimation, Duplexing Scheme, and Synchronization
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Pavan Kumar G V V R	PhD, ECE	Dictionary Learning Algorithms for CSI Feedback in Massive MIMO-OFDM FDD Systems
Coffee Break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Anindya Saha	Tejas Networks	Broadcast-Broadband Convergence
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	Suji N	PhD, ECE	Optimal Time And Power Allocation For Phase-Shift Configuration And Downlink Channel Estimation In Ris-Aided Systems
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM	Sameera Bharadwaja	PhD, ECE	Theory and Algorithms for Group Testing
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM	Satwika Bhogavalli	PhD, ECE	Waveform Design to Improve the Performance of Dual Function Radar Communication Systems

Faculty Talks
Venue: ECE Golden Jubilee Hall
All faculty Organizers Student Volunteers: Ankit Kumar Ahirwar (CSA), Praveen Nagil (CSA)
Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
02:40 PM - 03:00 PM	Ravi Prakash	Assistant Professor, CPS	Generalization of Task Parameterized Interactive Imitation Learning
03:00 PM - 03:20 PM	Chaya Ganesh	Assistant Professor, CSA	Dodging Bullets: SNARK Impossibilities and How to Avoid Them
03:20 PM - 03:40 PM	Danish Pruthi	Assistant Professor, CDS	Can ChatGPT Challenge False Assumptions?
High Tea
04:00 PM - 04:20 PM	Kiran Kumari	Assistant Professor, EE	Sliding Mode Control for Quadcopter in Presence of Disturbances
04:20 PM - 04:40 PM	Sudhan Majhi	Assistant Professor, ECE	Channel Estimator and Symbol Detector for OTFS Systems Impaired by Impulsive Noise
04:40 PM - 05:00 PM	Debayan Das	Assistant Professor, DESE	Overview of Hardware Security & Internet of Bodies