TEDx, ACM Distinguished, & ACM India Eminent Speaker
01 August, 2024: GSFC University, Vadodara
600+ students, ACM India chapter inauguration and technical talk.
Title of the talk: Responsible & Safe AI consisting of {graph, machine} unlearning, RLHF, alignment problem, jail breaking, interpretability,
bias, and more.
28 June, 2024: Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), Pune
50+ Participants, including students from closeby other ACM Student chapters.
Title of the talk: Responsible & Safe AI consisting of {graph, machine} unlearning, RLHF, alignment problem, jail breaking, interpretability,
bias, and more.
27 March, 2024: Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Department of Engineering & Technology, Navi Mumbai
100+ Participants, including students from closeby other ACM Student chapters.
Title of the talk: Responsible & Safe AI
13 Dec, 2023: KL University Hyderabad Bachupally Campus
250+ Participants, including ACM Student chapter inauguration.
Title of the talk: Responsible & Safe AI: #LegalBias #Inconsistency #BiasinLLMs #MultiModalBias
April 26, 2019: PSG College of Technology.
60+ participants attended.
April 2, 2019: Rishi M.S Institute of Engineering & Technology
for Women, Hyderabad.
100+ participants attended.
Jan 9, 2019: BVRIT Hyderabad.
120+ participants attended.
October 24, 2018: VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and
Technology (VJIET), Hyderabad.
150+ participants attended.
September 20, 2018: Sasi Institute of Technology and Engineering,
Andhra Pradesh.
200+ participants attended.
July 28, 2018: Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education,
Krishnan Kovil.
140+ participants attended.
July 27, 2018: Thiagarajar College of Engineering,
Madurai.
180+ participants attended.
Mar 17, 2018: Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology,
Delhi
100+ participants attended the talk
Feb 20, 2018: BITS Pilani, Pilani
30+ participants attended the talk
Feb 16, 2018: BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
40+ participants attended the talk
Feb 15, 2018: Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
20+ participants attended the talk
Jan 25, 2018: Department of Computer Science, Bennett
University
60+ participants attended the talk
Nov 15, 2017: Shiv Nadar University, Noida
60+ participants attended the talk
Mar 8, 2017: S.A. Engineering College, Chennai
70+ participants attended the talk
Feb 22, 2017: Manav Rachna International University,
Faridabad
100+ participants attended the talk
Nov 21, 2016: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
40+ participants attended the talk
Sept 27, 2016: Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
75+ participants attended the talk
June 6, 2016: Indira Gandhi Technical University for Women, New
Delhi
50+ participants attended the workshop
Feb 17, 2016: Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, New
Delhi
100+ participants attended the talk
Sept 14, 2015: ITM University, Gurgaon
180+ participants attended the talk
July 22, 2015: Infosys Bengaluru
80+ participants attended the talk
July 22, 2015: IIIT Bengaluru
15+ participants attended the talk
March 16, 2015: Jaypee Institute of Information Technology,
NOIDA
140+ participants attended the talk
Dec 18, 2014: Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT),
Coimbatore
120+ participants attended the talk
Dec 17, 2014: PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
40+ participants attended the talk
September 13, 2014: ACM Regional Event on CyberSecurity,
Pune.
Attended by 70+ participants. Picture with a few of the
participants.
March 26, 2014: Thapar Univiersity
Talk one: Data Science for Social Good
Abstract: With increase in sage of the Internet, social media
platforms, huge amount of data is getting generated at various
level; one of the dire need of the hour is to see how we can use
this data to have societal impact. I will briefly mention some super
cool projects that we have worked on and that have made some visible
contributions to the world outside academia. All work presented in
the talk (including datasets, code, slides, recorded videos) has
related publications at
https://precog.iiit.ac.in/
Projects that I will touch upon are — Selfie deaths / KillFie
http://labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/killfie/
#GeneralElections2019
http://bit.ly/elections19(Mis)Information
/ Fake content on Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and Computing for
Medicine. We all understand, many real world problems cannot be
addressed by a single domain faculty / researcher, we need more
students & faculty to come together, hoping to generate some
interest to join hands to have an impact and make a difference. Many
of our research work is made available for public use through tools
or online services at
https://precog.iiit.ac.in/
including datasets that we have used in our research work. Our work
derives techniques from Computational Social Science, Data Science,
Statistics, and Network Science. I will be more than happy to
clarify, discuss, any of our work in detail, as required, after the
talk.
Talk two: "Privacy and Security in Online Social Media
(PSOSM)"
Abstract: With increase in usage of the Internet, there has been an
exponential increase in the use of online social media on the
Internet. Websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tinder,
YouTube, and many others have changed the way the Internet is being
used. There is a dire need to investigate, measure, and understand
privacy and security on online social media from various
perspectives (computational, cultural, psychological). Real world
scalable systems need to be built to detect and defend security and
privacy issues on online social media. I will describe briefly some
cool projects that we work on: (Mis)Information / Fake content on
Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp; Linking profiles across different
social networks; Selfie deaths and KillFies; and Manipulated
followers. Many of our research work is made available for public
use through tools or online services at
precog.iiit.ac.in
including datasets that we have used in our research work. Our work
derives techniques from Computational Social Science, Data Science,
Statistics, and Network Science. I will be more than happy to
clarify, discuss, any of our work in detail, as required, after the
talk.
Talk three: Social Computing for Medicine
Abstract: With increase in importance of computing in healthcare,
there has been an exponential increase in use of computing
methodologies to develop better understanding of health care
systems. In the history of human lives, Health and Medicine have
never seen the importance as it has in the current scenario. Perhaps
for the first time in the history of democratic India, healthcare is
predicted to play an important role in future election manifestos as
well. I will briefly describe some cool projects that we are
currently working on - WASHKaro
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/research/c4m
to provide right information at the right time during pandemic
situations like #COVID19; use social media as a source to study
mental health & early understanding of psychological patterns of
users
http://covibes.tavlab.iiitd.edu.in/; build
transparent Agent Based Models, classical compartmental
models to allow interactions with the assumptions like lockdown,
testing, & social interventions. covision
http://covision.tavlab.iiitd.edu.in/
a system that we build to showcase these models. The talk will end
with showcasing some grand challenges that I see in this space which
can be a great starting point for students interested in pursuing
research and solving some real world problems. Many of our research
work is made available for public use through tools or online
services at
precog.iiit.ac.in
including datasets that we use for research. Our work derives
techniques from Social Computing, Computational Social Science,
Machine Learning, Statistics, and Network Science. I will be more
than happy to clarify, discuss, any of our work in detail, as
required, after the talk.
Short Academic Bio:
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK")
is a Professor of Computer Science at
IIIT-Hyderabad.
He is an Adjunct Faculty at
IIT Madras and
IIIT Delhi.
PK is a Serial Academician with formal appointments (Adjunct/Visiting) in India and
across the world, including Brazil, Europe, and USA.
He is a senate / academic council member at IIIT Una, JKLU, and LNMIIT Jaipur.
PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member
in 2021. PK is currently (from July 2024) the Vice President of ACM India Council
and has been a member since July 2020.
PK was listed in the World's 2% Scientists by Stanford University in Nov 2020.
PK is a TEDx and an ACM Distinguished & ACM India Eminent
Speaker. PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). PK's research interests include responsible & safe AI,
applied machine learning & NLP, and social network analysis. His Ph.D. thesis work on
anti-phishing at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning
startup - Wombat Security Technologies,
wombatsecurity.com. Wombat was acquired in March
2018 for USD 225 Million. Please connect with PK at
Twitter and
LinkedIn.
Academic Bio:
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK")
is a Professor of Computer Science at
IIIT-Hyderabad.
He is an Associate Researcher at
Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI - IIT Madras,
Visiting Faculty at
IIT Kanpur and
an Adjunct faculty at
IIIT Delhi. PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member
in 2021. PK
is an
ACM India Council
Member, and Chair of the Publicity & Membership Committee of ACM
India. PK is a TEDx and an ACM Distinguished & ACM India Eminent
Speaker. PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His Ph.D. thesis work on
anti-phishing research at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning
startup - Wombat Security Technologies,
wombatsecurity.com. Wombat was acquired in March
2018 for USD 225 Million. PK was
listed in the World's 2% Scientists by Stanford University in Nov
2020. He is a senate member of IIIT Una,
LNMIIT and is on various Board of
Studies / Academic Council of different institutes across the country.
He has co-authored research papers in the field of Computational Social
Science, Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Cyber Security,
Social Computing, Data Science for Social Good, amongst others.
In addition to his contributions to academia, PK is on
advisory role on various government organizations, government
committees, including a 8 member committee on Non-Personal Data by
Government of India, chaired by Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan. PK and his
students have played an integral role in developing a technology used
by many State and Central Government agencies in India. PK's research
work regularly gets featured on news media, including print, online,
and TV within India and across the world; to list a few, BBC, CBC,
CBS, CNN, Doordarshan, Economic Times, Indian Express, NBC, New
Scientist, NewYorker, Reuters, Times of India, USA Today (on 1st Feb
2021), Washington Post, and many more. PK Spear heads ACM India's
programs on improving the quality of PhD students in Computing in
India -- PhDClinic & Anveshan Setu Fellowship. In his Dean's role, he
managed a team of 15 faculty members and 10+ admin staff, including
Associate Dean of Student Affairs, overseeing hostel, sports centre,
health centre, student {well-being, clubs, mentorship program},
technical & cultural fests. He was the Founding Head of Cybersecurity
Education and Research Centre (CERC) at IIIT-Delhi. PK started and
successfully manages PreCog (precog.iiit.ac.in), a
research group at IIIT-Hyderabad.
PK can be reached at
pk.guru@iiit.ac.in.
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