ACM India Eminent Speaker Program

The ACM India Eminent Speaker Program (ESP) provides local ACM Professional and Student chapters in India with direct access to top technology leaders and innovators who will give talks on issues that are important to the computing community.

Below is a list of available speakers. Please visit the Guidelines for Speakers and Guidelines for Chapters pages for information on the procedure.

Akanksha Agrawal
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai

Talk 1: Beyond the Input Size: A Gentle Introduction to Parameterized Algorithms
Talk 2: Research in Algorithms-What is it this fuzz about?
Talk 3: Algorithms: To improve, or not to improve, that's the question

Amod Jai Ganesh Anandkumar
Director of Research
Harman International, Bangalore

Talk 1: The Intelligent Edge - A Convergence of Hardware, Software, and Machine Learning
Talk 2: Smart Devices On Wheels: Autonomous Electric Software-Defined Vehicles
Talk 3: A Neuroscientist, a physicist, and an ML engineer meet in an Uber pool: Insights into inter-disciplinary industry research

Dushyant Behl
Research Software Engineer
IBM Research, Bangalore

Talk 1: ebpf for Networking: Warp Speed Kernel Networking
Talk 2: ebpf for Observability: Observing the kernel with a thousand paper cuts.
Talk 3: Fine Tuning LLMs: What, How and Why

Sridhar Chimalakonda
Assistant Professor
IIT Tirupati

Talk 1: What Is Software Engineering Anyway? Reflections on 50 Years of Software Engineering and the Road Ahead!
Talk 2: @TheCrossroads of AI for SE and SE for AI—What's Happening and Where Are We Going?
Talk 3: On Computing Education for 1.3 Billion Learners—Quality, Scale and Variety
Talk 4: The Lasting Contributions of Computing—Past, Present and Future

Ashish Choudhury
Associate Professor
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore

Talk 1: Yao's Protocol for Secure 2-Party Computation
Talk 2: The BGW Protocol for Perfectly Secure MultiParty Computation
Talk 3: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Consensus

Monish Darda
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Icertis

Talk 1: The Ethics of AI: Musk versus Bezos

Ajay Deshpande
Senior Director
Icertis

Talk 1: SMAC Technologies and the Future
Talk 2: The Evolution of Modern Web Applications

Gajendra Deshpande
CEO and MD
Eyesec Cyber Security Solutions Private Limited, Belagavi, Karnataka

Talk 1: Ransomware Resilience: Crafting the Shield and Sword in Cybersecurity
Talk 2: Decoding the Digital Clues: The Power of OSINT in India's Cybercrime Fight
Talk 3: The Dark Side of Design: Conquering Anti-Patterns in Software Development

Lipika Dey
Professor
Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana

Talk 1: Language Technologies for Healthcare Industry
Talk 2: Augmenting Decision Making with Causal Explanations
Talk 3: NLP applications for Sustainability Analysis

Palash Dey
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Talk 1: Computational Social Choice for Making Society Better
Talk 2: Election Prediction
Talk 3: Knapsack on Graphs

Damodar Reddy Edla
Associate Professor
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Goa

Talk 1: Brain-Computer Interface: Challenges and Applications
Talk 2: Human Computer Dialogue Systems using Natural Language Processing and Brain-Computer Interface
Talk 3: Neuro-adaptive Motor Imagery Classification for Prosthetic Device Control

Aritra Hazra
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Talk 1: Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning
Talk 2: Learning to become Experts in Playing Games
Talk 3: Formal Methods for Power Intent Verification

Gururaj H L
Associate Professor
Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Bangalore

Talk 1: Role of AI in Cyber Security
Talk 2: Decentralized Application for Crowdfunding Using Blockchain technology
Talk 3: Machine Learning and its Applications in Food Engineering

Navin Kabra
CTO
ReliScore.com

Talk 1: Which Programming Language Should You Learn and Why
Talk 2: MS, MBA, or Job: Planning Your Career
Talk 3: The Difference between Student Programmers and Professional Programmers

Sanil Kumar D.
Founder CEO (Business & Technology)
Caze Labs Private Limited, Bangalore

Talk 1: Open Source, What, Why and How (2 sessions)
Talk 2: Cloud Native Observability - State, Trends and Next
Talk 3: unBlind AI/ML and GPT

Viraj Kumar
Visiting Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Talk 1: Should Programming Pedagogy and Assessment Change in Response to Advances in Generative AI?
Talk 2: Helping Students Develop the Ability to Critique AI-Generated Code
Talk 3: Getting Started with Computing Education Research in India

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Professor
IIIT Delhi

Talk 1: Responsible & Safe AI
Talk 2: Data Science for Social Good
Talk 3: Exploring the Fascination of Research: Who, Why, Where, How, When?

Sachin Lodha
Chief Scientist TCS

Talk 1: Fun with Algorithms
Talk 2: Privacy—Challenges and Opportunities
Talk 3: Cybersecurity — Modern Challenges and Emerging Measures

Meena Mahajan
Professor
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, HBNI, Chennai

Talk 1: Compute, Compute, Compute—How Hard Can It Get?
Talk 2: The Complexity of Formal Proofs
Talk 3: Depth-2 Threshold Circuits
Talk 4: The Fascinating World of Computational Complexity

Snehasis Mukherjee
Associate Professor
Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR

Talk 1: Engineering on Supervised Network for Training with Less Data
Talk 2: Egocentric Activity Recognition by Subject-Action Relevance
Talk 3: Analyzing Motion in Videos: Past, Present and Future

Madhavan Mukund
Professor and Dean of Studies
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai

Talk 1: Automata and Program Verification
Talk 2: Concurrent Programming: Old Problems, New Challenges

Prashant R. Nair
Associate Professor
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University

Talk 1: How to Prepare for International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)?
Talk 2: How to Win a Hackathon?
Talk 3: Building Blocks of AI, ML & Data Science
Talk 4: Internet of Everything (IoE): Rise of the Machines
Talk 5: 5G & Beyond

Krishnasuri Narayanam
Manager & Senior Research Engineer
IBM Research India, Bangalore

Talk 1: Blockchain for accelerated processing of Supply Chain
Talk 2: Overview of Blockchain interoperability
Talk 3: Carbon-aware Cloud Data Center Optimization

Vineeth Paleri
Professor
National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut

Talk 1: Software Engineering: A Methodology for Reliable Software
Talk 2: The Computing Disciplines
Talk 3: Object Orientation

Mukta Paliwal
AD, Data Science
Novartis Pharma Inc

Talk 1: AI/ML Trends from Industry
Talk 2: Supervised/Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms Using Python or R
Talk 3: Analytics in Industry: Few Insights on Role of Analytics in Smart City Development

Sikhar Patranabis
Staff Research Scientist
IBM Research India, Bangalore

Talk 1: Designing Secure Cryptographic Systems: Journey from Theory to Practice
Talk 2: Quantum-safe Cryptography: Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities in the Quantum Era
Talk 3: Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Practice: Demystifying Blockchain Rollups

R. Ramanujam
Professor
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Talk 1: Why should we learn logic, and why should we learn logic?
Talk 2: Game theory for the internet age
Talk 3: Does she know that I know that she does not know P?

Sriparna Saha
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna

Talk 1: Multimodal Information Processing: Some recent NLP applications
Talk 2: Multi-Modal Data Integration And Analysis For Cancer Prognosis Using Machine Learning Model
Talk 3: AI/ML Applications in Digital Health

Venkatesh Sarangan
Chief Scientist
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research, Chennai

Talk 1: From Power grid to an Energy Internet
Talk 2: AI/ML applications in real-world
Talk 3: AI/ML in smart grids

Kaarthik Sivakumar
Principal Engineer
Cisco

Talk 1: Security and Trust

Ronak Sutaria
Founder and CEO
Respirer Living Sciences

Talk 1: Using Climate-focused Technologies (ClimateTech) for tracking & improving air quality
Talk 2: Use of large scale emissions data from industries in context of ESG frameworks
Talk 3: Building ClimateTech startups in a non-supportive (hostile) regulatory framework in India

Gugan Chandrashekhar Mallika Thoppe
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Talk 1: Exploring the Evolution of Reinforcement Learning: From Dynamic Programming to Deep Q-Networks
Talk 2: Mastering Uncertainty: The Art and Science of Stochastic Optimization Algorithms
Talk 3: Empowering Privacy and Efficiency: A Dive into Federated Learning

Arunchandar Vasan
Principal Scientist
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chennai

Talk 1: Decision making for physical systems – An industry perspective
Talk 2: A research career in the industry

R. Venkateswaran
Professor of Practice
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune.

Talk 1: Evolution of Internet: The Past, Present and Future
Talk 2: Technology Trends – A Perspective
Talk 3: How to Write a Good Research Paper

Mudit Verma
Senior Research Engineer
IBM Research Laboratory, New Delhi

Talk 1: Observability for Microservices in Multi-Cloud Era
Talk 2: Containers and Kubernetes in Application Modernization: A Practical Exploration
Talk 3: Chaos Engineering for Better Resiliency

Abhijat Vichare
Consultant

Talk 1: How does GCC work?
Talk 2: A Framework to start writing your own OS.
Talk 3: Mathematical Modeling in Computer Science

Karthika Vijayan
Solution Consultant
Sahaj AI, Pune

Talk 1: Multilingual Conversational AI for Human Computer Interaction
Talk 2: Disambiguated Knowledge Graphs
Talk 3: Voice Conversational AI

Dr Sunil Kumar Vuppala

Talk 1: Computer Vision Overview and Real world Applications
Talk 2: Trusted AI
Talk 3: The title of the talk: AI-powered data-driven decision making

ACM India ESP Call for Speakers Open

ACM India ESP Call for Speakers Open

The ACM India Eminent Speaker Program (ESP) provides ACM chapters in India with direct access to top technology leaders, innovators and researchers who will give talks on contemporary issues. Speakers are included into the ESP Panel through an open call twice a year, and the applications are evaluated by a selection committee.

The Call for Speakers for the Feb 2025 Round is open and due by January 24, 2025. In this round, special consideration will be given to broadening the diversity of the ESP panel. Those who are interested should apply by completing the nomination form and include two letters of support. Speakers who are selected into the ESP Panel will have a 2-year term, which may be renewed. For more details and the nomination form, see the Call for Speakers page.

Distinguished Speaker Program

The list of India-based speakers who are part of ACM's Distinguished Speaker Program is available on the DSP site. ACM India chapters, conferences, academic institutions and industry organizations may also invite them directly using the DSP invitation criteria and workflow by following the individual speaker's link accessible from there.

ACM India Eminent Speaker Program

ACM India ESP Call for Speakers Open

Distinguished Speaker Program

Eminent Speaker Program Guidelines for Chapters

Eminent Speaker Program Guidelines for Speakers