Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML – 2022)

 

December 15 – 17, 2022 | IIT Gandhinagar

The Third Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML) will be hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) between 15-17 December 2022. The symposium aims to be a forum to discuss state-of-the-art ML research through invited talks from leading experts within India and abroad. IndoML fosters mentoring of Indian Ph.D./Master students to network with their peers, seek expert guidance and develop early-stage collaborations.

IndoML aims to provide an opportunity for the faculty to engage with leading research groups in the country and conduct high-quality research leading to competitive publications. It will also provide a platform for industrial partners, including startups, working in ML-related areas to showcase their products and receive reviews/feedback as well as setup potential collaborations.

Confirmed Speakers

Anshumali Shrivastava

Anshumali Shrivastava

Rice University, US

Ashique KhudaBukhsh

Ashique KhudaBukhsh

Rochester Institute of Technology, US

Auroop R. Ganguly

Auroop R. Ganguly

Northeastern University, Boston

Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

IISC, India

DWEEPOBOTEE BRAHMA

DWEEPOBOTEE BRAHMA

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India

Kamal Choudhary

Kamal Choudhary

National Institute of Standards and Technology, US

Kapil Gupta

Kapil Gupta

Accenture, India

Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

Google, Singapore

MOHIT IYYER

MOHIT IYYER

University of Massachusetts Amherst, US

MONOJIT CHOUDHURY

MONOJIT CHOUDHURY

Microsoft Turing, India

Navveen Balani

Navveen Balani

Accenture, India

Niloy Ganguly

Niloy Ganguly

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Prasenjit Dey

Prasenjit Dey

Merlyn Mind, India

Ram Vasudevan

Ram Vasudevan

University of Michigan, US

Saikat Mukherjee

Saikat Mukherjee

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India

Somak Aditya

Somak Aditya

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Srijan Kumar

Srijan Kumar

Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia

Ujwal Gadiraju

Ujwal Gadiraju

Delft University of Technology, Netherland

Tutorials

Arnab Sinha

Arnab Sinha

Amazon, US

Tutorial – I
ABIR DE

ABIR DE

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Tutorial – II
Rishabh Iyer

Rishabh Iyer

University of Texas, Dallas, US

Tutorial – II

Venue

Building: Jibaben Patel  Memorial Auditorium, Academic Block, IITGN

Schedule 

Mentioned time is Indian Standard Time (GMT+5 hr 30 mins)

Time
(IST: GMT+5:30)

Talk

Speaker

Day 1 : Session I

Session Chair: Anirban Dasgupta

08:00 – 08:30

Anirban Dasgupta: Inaugural talk

08:30 – 09:10

Niloy Ganguly:  Distilling pre-trained knowledge to enhance property prediction for crystalline materials

09:15 – 09:50

Monojit Choudhury: T for “Terrorist”, “Tropical” or “Territorial”? Teachings Ethics to Large Language Models

10:00 – 10:40

Mohit Iyyer : Challenges in building and evaluating natural language generation systems

10:40 – 11:00

Coffee

11:00 – 11:40

Krishnamurthy Dvijotham: Reliable AI via formal verification and human-AI collaboration

Day 1 : Session II

Session Chair: Mayank Singh

11:45 – 12:25

Dweepobotee Brahma:  Econometrics and Machine Learning: Two old friends

12:30 – 14:30

Lunch + Posters Session

14:30 – 15:10

Ashique KhudaBukhsh: Reimagining Machine Translation and Text Classification to
Understand Media and Politics

15:15 – 15:55

Prasenjit Dey: Experiences and Insights from Building a Domain Specific AI Assistant

15:55 – 16:10

Coffee 

16:10 – 17:10

ABIR DE ( Part- I ) Tutorial – 2: Coresets and Combinatorial Optimization for Efficient and Robust Deep Learning 

17:10 – 18:10

Rishabh Iyer (Part- II) Tutorial – 2 : Coresets and Combinatorial Optimization for Efficient and Robust Deep Learning 

19:00

Business meeting (speakers & organizers)+Dinner

 

Registration

 

IndoML looks forward to the participation of students (category A, Fee:  INR 2500) and researchers from Industry and Academia (category B, Fee INR 5000). The two categories have a different registration process described below:

Registration for Category A (Student)

IndoML 2022 will provide travel assistance to a limited number of full-time students from degree granting institutions. The purpose of the travel grant is to promote participation of students from a diverse set of institutions as well as backgrounds. Given the excellent speakers in the symposium, this would be a unique opportunity for the Senior UG students looking for MS/ PhD applications, Masters’ students looking for PhD, and PhD students looking for postdoc opportunities. Further, PhD students who are just beginning their research formulation can expect good feedback on their thesis proposal / work in progress.

The travel grant includes 1) free accommodation, 2) food, 3) to-and-fro travel cost equivalent to the standard AC 3-tier fare.  The prospective participants will have to pay the registration fee to avail themselves of the grant. However, the entire registration fee will be refunded after the conference barring GST charges. 

The number of awards will be decided based on the available budget. 

How to submit the application

Please submit your travel grant application that includes the applicant’s information and a statement of purpose. The form is available here

  • Applicant’s Information:
    • Email Address: Your institutional email id
    • Name: Applicant’s full name
    • Current Place of Study: Name and address of the current institution
    • Program: Bachelor’s, MS, PhD, Other (specify)
    • Number of years in the program: e.g. In the second year of a 4-year program or 2nd year of a PhD program
  • Whether participating in the Datathon@IndoML
    • Yes / No
    • If Yes, provide the email address by which you have registered for Datathon 
  • Statement of Purpose:
    • Applicant’s CV mentioning his/her research interest and current accomplishments, and future research plans (Provide a viewable link via Google Drive / webpage / LinkedIn)
    • A short description of how the grant will help him/her with the research plans (not more than 5 sentences)
    • The total estimated travel cost (standard AC 3-tier to and fro) for attending indoML
    • One page proposal (optional, for MS/PhD students only, preferably thesis proposal or work-in-progress) for poster presentation. Provide a viewable link via Google Drive
  • Contact information of at least one recommender (Provide name, affiliation, email id)

Deadline

  • Please fill out the application form before midnight, September 20th, 2022, IST.
  • The decision will be made and communicated by September 30th, 2022.
  • Shortlisted candidates must pay registration fee by October 10th, 2022 to avail themselves of the scholarship.

Registration for Category B (Non-Student)

The registration for category B attendees is a three-step process. In the first step, please submit your application that includes your basic information. The form is available here. We shall process the application on a first come first serve basis and share the payment link over email. The registration fee is Rs. 5000/- which will include free meals for all the days of the conference. Once we receive the payment of INR 5000/- (non-refundable), your registration will be confirmed.

Deadline

  1. Please fill out the application form before midnight, September 28th, 2022, IST.
  2. We shall send the payment link by midnight, September 30th, 2022, IST.
  3. The registration fees need to be paid by October 10th, 2022.

FAQs

  • Will IndoML provide free accommodation to all attendees? 

The accommodation details are:

  1. For (Students) category A: Yes. IndoML will provide free hostel accommodation to all the participating students. 
  2. For (Non-Students) category B: No. There are  several nearby hotels. The list is available here
  • Will IndoML provide options for different food preferences?

Yes. IndoML provides options for different food preferences. You will receive an email to specify your food preferences. 

  • I have recently submitted by PhD/Mtech thesis, am I eligible to participate?

Yes. We look forward to your participation. If you do not fall in category B (i.e., not working in an industry/academia), please register for category A, else category B. 

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