About

We are putting together the AI Workshop on Research, Trends and Practices which is aimed at nurturing the academic and industry syndicate where accelerated computing is the common fabric. This workshop will bring select researchers/data scientists from key consumer internet companies of India where explosive growth of diverse applications of ML in production, the continued growth in data volume, and the complexity of large-scale learning systems are emerging.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts working at the crossroads of machine learning and software engineering to learn about SOTA & other engineering techniques.

Via these workshops, we wish to cover state of the art ML and AI platforms and algorithm toolkits, as well as dive into machine learning-focused developments in distributed learning platforms, programming languages, data structures, GPU processing, and other topics. Our plan is to mold this workshop to run annually (or bi-annually even!) to help build a strong community. We hope to include CFPs in future.

Key Topics

• Deep Learning
• Computer Vision
• Generative Models
• Reinforcement Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• ML Systems Engineering and Platforms

Speakers

• Bill Dally, NVIDIA Research
• Balaraman Ravindran, IIT Madras
• Venkatesh Babu, IISc Bangalore
• Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay
• Sriram Ganapthy, IISc Bangalore
• Marc Hamilton, NVIDIA
• Mayank Vatsa, IIIT Delhi
• Vineeth Balasubramanian, IIT Hyderabad
• Richa Singh, IIIT Delhi
• Siddhartha Chaudhuri, IIT Bombay
• Alex Sergeev, Uber
• Mausam, IIT Delhi
• Abhishek Saxena, Walmart Labs
• Partha Talukdar, IISc Bangalore
• Ram Madhavan, LinkedIn

Agenda

Day 1 - 20^th Feb - Academic

• 10.00 AM - Welcome address by Vishal Dhupar

• 10.15 : 11.15 AM - Session 1 on Deep Learning & RL
  • Recent Advancements in RL - Balaraman Ravindran, IIT Madras
  • Privacy preserving in DL and adversarial learning - Richa Singh, IIIT Delhi

• 11.30 : 12.30 PM - Keynote address by Prof. Bill Dally on Hardware Enabled AI

• 13.30 : 15.30 PM - Session 2 on Computer Vision
  • Adversarial attacks on Deep Models - Venkatesh Babu, IISc Bangalore
  • Bio-metric fusion/multimodal deep learning - Mayank Vatsa, IIIT Delhi
  • Grad-CAM++: Towards Explainable Deep Learning - Vineeth Balasubramanian, IIT Hyderabad
  • Deep recursive models for 3D shape synthesis - Siddhartha Chaudhuri, IIT Bombay
• 15.30 : 17.30 - Session 3 on Language & Speech
  • Low-resolution NLP for Indic settings - Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay
  • Recent Advancements in NLP - Mausam, IIT Delhi
  • Advances in Audio Processing with DL - Sriram Ganapathy, IISc Bangalore
  • Knowledge-aware Visual Question Answering - Partha Talukdar, IISc Bangalore
• 17.30: 18.30 PM - Session 3 on ML & Systems Engineering
  • Building ML platforms at Walmart Labs - Abhishek Saxena, Walmart Labs
  • Machine Learning at LinkedIn Scale - Ram Madhavan, Linkedin
• 18.30 PM onwards - Networking Dinner at Marriott, Hebbal

Day 2 - 21^st Feb - Industry

• 09.00 : 10.00 AM - Continuation of ML & Systems Engineering
  • Going Distributed with Horovod - Alex Sergeev, Uber Engineering
• 10.00 : 12.00 Noon - Session 2 on Inferencing at Scale
  • Key learnings from serving over Billions users using GPUs - Marc Hamilton, NVIDIA and Liwei Zhao, NVIDIA
  • When GPU meets recommendation system - Shaohui Jiao, NVIDIA China
  • Deep Dive into GPU usage for inference scenarios - Tianhao Xu, NVIDIA China
• 01.00 : 02.00 PM - AI for Good & Other ML Session
  • AI for Social Good: Microsoft Research’s Perspective - Amit Sharma, MSR
• 02.00 : 02.30 PM - Final Remarks

Attending

Venue

NVIDIA Graphics Pvt. Ltd.

L6, 8th Floor, Manayata Tech Park, Nagavara, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560045

Contact

To reach out to the organisers, please write to msrinivasan AT nvidia DOT com