Faculty Alumni Network

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
5101 Great America Parkway,
Santa Clara, California, USA 95054
Tel: +1 408 200 1234 

 

FAN is a network and community of IIT Bombay alumni with backgrounds as researchers, university faculty, students, and administrators. The FAN 2012 Symposium will be held on Sunday, October 21, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, CA, and is open to all interested alumni and friends at no cost. The theme of FAN 2012 is "Big Data", and features eminent speakers and panelists from IIT Bombay as well as from industry and academia in the US.

 

IIT Bombay is actively recruiting faculty members in all departments. Senior IITB faculty members including the Director and several Deans will be attending this event, and FAN 2012 is a great opportunity to meet and network with attendees from North America and India.

 

 

IIT Bombay Faculty Alumni Network (FAN) 2012 Event

“Big Data” Symposium

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, CA 95054

7:30 - 8:30         Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40         Introductory Remarks by IITBHF and FAN Representatives

8:40 - 9:00         Remarks by Prof. Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay

9:00 - 10:00       Keynote: “Discovery Informatics: Research Challenges and Opportunities”

                        Dr. Vasant Honavar

                        Program Director, BIGDATA, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA 22230

                        and Professor, Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011          

10:00 - 10:30     Break

10:30 - 11:30     Keynote: “Whither Big Data?”

                        Dr. Rakesh Agarwal

                        Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research, Mountain View, CA 94043

11:30 - 12:00     “Annotating and Searching Semi-Structured Data at Web Scale”

                        Prof. S. Sudarshan

                        Institute Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,

                        IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076

12:00 - 1:00       Lunch and Chapter Leaders Meeting

1:00 - 1:30         “Beyond Jeopardy: Putting IBM Watson to Work”

                        Dr. Jayashree Subhramonia

                        Vice President, Development and Delivery, Watson Solutions
,

                        IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
, San Jose, CA 95141

1:30 - 2:00         “Efficiently Exploring Exponentially Large Feature Spaces”

                        Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan

                        Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,

                        IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076

2:00 - 2:15         Break

2:15 - 2:45         “‘Big Data’ Applications in Atmospheric and Climate Science”

                        Prof. Chandra Venkataraman

                        Institute Chair Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                        IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076

2:45 - 3:15         “Big Data Analytics for Remote Sensing Applications”

                        Prof. Surya Durbha

                        Assistant Professor, Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering,

                        IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076

3:15 - 3:30         Break

3:30 - 4:30         Panel Discussion Moderated by:

                        Prof. Deepak Phatak

                        Subrao M. Nilekani  Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,

                        IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076

6:30 - 9:30         Dinner