ACM India Webinar Series on Education
Sessions by eminent educators on topics related to computing education
Every ACM India Education Webinar is:
- Delivered by an eminent educator on a topic such as computational thinking, pedagogy, or education technology
- Typically held on alternate Saturdays, 11 AM to noon IST
- Open to all students, faculty, and professionals
List of webinars conducted so far (register anytime for on-demand replay):
2024
- Viraj Kumar (Visiting Professor, Kotak-IISc AI-ML Centre, IISc, Bangalore) on "Simple Code-Writing Problems that GenAI cannot Solve (At Present), 26 July 2024. | PDF of webinar
- Pankaj Jalote (Distinguished Professor, IIIT, Delhi) on "Impact of GenAI on Higher Education", 30 January 2024. | PDF of Webinar
2023
- Vineet N. Balasubramanian (Professor, IIT Hyderabad, India) on "Going Beyond Continual Learning: Towards Organic Lifelong Learning", 29 June 2023. | PDF of Webinar
- Aamod Sane (Professor, FLAME University, Pune, India) on "A New CS Curriculum for Smartphone Generation," 28 January 2023. | PDF of Webinar
2022
- Barbara Ericson (Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan) on Increasing Use of Active Learning in Computing, 1 August 2022 | PDF of Webinar.
- M Balakrishnan (CSE Department, IIT Delhi, India) on Embedded Systems Design Projects for Social Impact, 25 May 2022 | Presentation
- Shriram Krishnamurthy (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, US) on Data-Centric Computing: A Challenge and an Opportunity for CS Education, 22 January 2022 | Presentation
2021
- Padmanabhan Seshaiyer (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, US) on Fostering an Inclusive Computing Culture to Enhance Pedagogical Practices, 11 September 2021 | Presentation
- N. Viswanadham (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) on Design of Healthcare 4.0 Platform Models, 21 August 2021 | Presentation
- Jayant Haritsa (Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian institute of Science) on Data Science and Astrology: Is there a Difference?, 17 July 2021 | Presentation
- Shyam Sundar Ramaswami (Senior Research Scientist with Cisco's Security Business Group) on Steganographic Exfiltration and Obfuscation—The New Invisible Cloak and Dagger for Threat Actors, 29 May 2021 | Presentation
- Abhiram G. Ranade (Past President, ACM India Council) on Competency Based Education: A Personal Perspective, 8 May 2021 | Presentation
- Neeran M. Karnik (researcher and software architect) on Cloud-Native Computing, 27 March 2021
- R. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) on Why Should We Learn Theory of Computation?, 11 March 2021 | Presentation
- Sachin Lodha (TCS's Corporate Research and Innovation team) on Privacy—Challenges and Opportunities, 28 January 2021
- Navin Kabra (Co-founder and CTO, ReliScore.com) on How to Better Prepare CS/IT Graduates for Industry, 12 January 2021
2020
- Pankaj Jalote (Distinguished Professor, IIIT Delhi) on Building a Successful and Satisfactory Academic Career, 7 November 2020
- Pankaj Jalote (Distinguished Professor, IIIT Delhi) on Preparing for a Career in IT, 19 September 2020
- Mukesh Mohania (Professor and Dean, IIIT Delhi) on Blockchain Enabled DESy Skill Chain for Decentralized Education System, 12 September 2020
- Sridhar Iyer (Professor, IIT Bombay) on Transitioning from Physical Classrooms to Online Instruction, 1 August 2020
- Jonaki Ghosh (Faculty, Lady Sri Ram College, University of Delhi) on Computational Thinking in the Mathematics Classroom, 25 July 2020
- Tim Bell (Professor, University of Canterbury) on Computer Science Unplugged and Computational Thinking—What's the Big Picture?, 27 June 2020