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Thu to Sat : 26-28 Oct 2017

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Keynote Speaker

Chief Guest



Prof. Yogesh Singh
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Vice Chancellor
Affiliation:Delhi Technological University
Contact Details:vcdtu@dcc.edu

Brief Profile: Prof. Yogesh Singh is the third Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University. He has been the fifth Director of Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi (December 31, 2014 to July 24, 2017) and sixteenth Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Sayjirao University of Baroda, Gujarat (July 07, 2011 to December 29, 2014). Government of Gujarat had given him the second term of Vice Chancellor, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, which he continued upto December 29, 2014. Prof. Yogesh Singh has excellent track record of quality teaching, innovation and research with 'h' index of 27 and citation index of 2481, reported by Google scholar as on August 04, 2017. He has also supervised 23 Ph.Ds in the area of Software Engineering. He is listed as the third best amongst the most productive Indian authors for participating in Software Engineering Research reported in "Indian Computer Science Research Output during 1999-2008, Qualitative Analysis" Journal of Library & Information Technology, November 2010. He has more than 250 publications in International and National Journals/Conferences.



Guest of Honour



Prof. Prem Kumar Kalra
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Director
Affiliation:Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra
Contact Details:director@dei.ac.in

Brief Profile: Presently Director at DEI, Former positions held are Director IIT Rajasthan in May 2009. As Director, in a short period of just over one year, Prof. Kalra has managed to differentiate IIT Rajasthan from the other IITs. He has a good grasp of the state of higher technical education today and clear vision of how it should be taken forward. At IIT Rajasthan, Prof. Kalra proposes to implement an inter-disciplinary model of education, with a strong focus on entrepreneurship to solve real-life societal problems. A strong believer in the value of international exchange programs, Prof. Kalra has worked tirelessly over the last one year to build relationships with top-notch educational institutions in France, Canada, USA and other nations Under the leadership of Prof. Kalra, IIT Rajasthan is developing a new campus in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. This is being designed as a truly integrated green campus with a target of zero net energy, net water and zero net waste. A high capacity Solar power plant is also being built on campus with a mix of different technologies and this plant will be used for research and development, training and consulting purposes through a National Center for Solar Energy Technologies. As part of this effort, a complete Smart Grid will also cover the campus IIT Rajasthan, under Prof. Kalra's guidance, has already announced the setting up of three Center's of Excellence, one each in the areas of ICT in Health, Energy and Water. Prof. Kalra holds a BSc in engineering from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, MTech from IIT Kanpur, and PhD from the University of Manitoba, Canada.



Keynote Speaker



Prof. Vincenzo Piuri
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Affiliation:Department of Computer Science, University degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Contact Details:vincenzo.piuri@unimi.it

Title:Computational Intelligence Technologies for Ambient Intelligence

Abstract:Adaptability and advanced services for ambient intelligence require an intelligent technological support for understanding the current needs and the desires of users in the interactions with the environment for their daily use, as well as for understanding the current status of the environment also in complex situations. This infrastructure constitutes an essential base for smart living. Computational intelligence can provide additional flexible techniques for designing and implementing monitoring and control systems, which can be configured from behavioral examples or by mimicking approximate reasoning processes to achieve adaptable systems. This talk will analyze the opportunities offered by computational intelligence to support the realization of adaptable operations and intelligent services for smart living in an ambient intelligent infrastructure.

Brief Profile: Professor Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1989). He has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at George Mason University, USA. He is Full Professor in computer engineering at the University of Milan, Italy (since 2000). His main research interests are: signal and image processing, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, theory and industrial applications of neural networks, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, fault tolerance, digital processing architectures, embedded systems, and arithmetic architectures. Original results have been published in more than 400 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He has been IEEE Past Vice President for Technical Activities (2016), IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), IEEE Director, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, and Vice President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-17), and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002) for the contributions to the advancement of theory and practice of computational intelligence in measurement systems and industrial applications. He is Honorary Professor at the Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary (since 2014), and Guest Professor at Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China (since 2014) and at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan (since 2016).





Dr. Belkacem Kada
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Faculty of Engineering (Department of Aeronautical Engineering)
Affiliation:King Abdulaziz University
Contact Details:bkada@kau.edu.sa

Title: New Advances and Progress in Tactical Missiles Guidance, Navigation, and Control

Abstract: This presentation will address the breakthrough developments in the design and implementation of tactical missiles flight control systems. The guidance, navigation, and control challenges have made interception of maneuvering targets very difficult. Flight control systems of modern tactical missiles need to be designed to allow interceptors to successfully hit-to-kill highly maneuvering targets. The presentation will include modern methods and approaches for the most critical aspects of maneuvering targets interception i.e. missile flight control system design, interception strategies, and target tracking and maneuvering prediction.





Prof. Dr. Ishak Bin Aris
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Affiliation:Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Contact Details:ishak_ar@putra.upm.edu.my

Title: Impacts of IoT and ICT to Current and Future Intelligent Energy Efficient Vehicle

Abstract: Energy is very important in our daily life. Without energy we cannot sustain our lives. According to the US Energy Information Administration's (EIA's), the world energy consumption will grow by 56% between 2010 and 2040, from 524 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) to 820 quadrillion Btu. The emission of CO2 will go up to 46% and the usage of liquid fuels in transportation will go up to 38%. Transportation sector consumes about 25% of total energy production. It produces around 18% of greenhouse gases. Ground transportation is the biggest producer of the greenhouse gases in the transportation sector. In order to conserve the energy and keep the environment clean, proper steps need to be taken to overcome these problems. According to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, It is estimated that over 1 billion passenger cars travel the streets and roads of the world today. The 1 billion-unit mark was reached in 2010 for the first time ever. The current vehicle efficiency which uses the internal combustion engine as its power train is about 35 to 45%. Only 1/3 of the energy is converted to useful work, another 2/3 is wasted as heat. Furthermore, the fatalities rate due to road accidents is increasing every year. According to WHO, worldwide it was estimated in 2004 that 1.2 million people were killed (2.2% of all deaths) and 50 million more were injured in motor vehicle collisions. Automotive industry has been working very hard to rectify these problems by introducing more energy efficient and intelligent vehicles which have more passive and active safety features such as airbags, seatbelts, child constraints, electronic stability control and antilock braking systems. More light weight vehicles with strong structural integrity will also be considered for future vehicles production. It will make the vehicle safer for the users to use and help safe more energy and less air pollution. With the recent advancement in IoT, big data, embedded system, sensor technology, light weight material, smart cognitive radio networks, vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, higher efficiency and ultra-low emission internal combustion engines, intelligent converter, high performance battery and fuel cell technologies, the production of autonomous, smarter, safer, energy efficient and zero emission vehicles is possible in near future for smart cities application. Apart from vehicle technologies, other factors such as road users', well maintained road infrastructure, well maintained vehicles, drivers' attitudes and law and enforcement are also important to be considered and they should work together in order to make our world natural resources can be preserved and maintain cleaner environment and produce sustainable mobility. Future trends for sustainable mobility where research and business opportunities will also be highlighted and discussed. The impacts of IoT and big data and other emerging technologies mentioned above to the automotive industry especially intelligent energy efficient vehicle for smart cities application will be presented.

Brief Profile: Ishak Bin Aris received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University, USA in 1988. He also received his MSc and PhD in Power Electronics Engineering from University of Bradford, United Kingdom in 1991 and 1995, respectively. His areas of interest include power electronics and drive system, robotic, artificial intelligence, SOC and automotive electronics.





Prof. J. Ramkumar
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Affiliation:IIT Kanpur
Contact Details:jrkumar@iitk.ac.in

Title: World is moving to Industry 4.0

Abstract: Due to rapid change in manufacturing environment and information technology a synergy arouses from the integration of both whichwill increase the productivity of both manufacturing and service sector. In the recent times, there are major challenges faced by companies which necessities in coordination and connection of disruptive concepts like communication and network, embedded system (cyber-physical systems, adaptive robotics, cyber security, data analytics and artificial intelligences and additive manufacturing. These advancements lead to the development in coordinating and communicative technology which constituted Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is a combination of industry and internet of Things (IOT) technology. It focuses on the end-to end digitization of all physical assets and integration into digital ecosystems. Generating, analyzing and communication data seamlessly is the primary advantages. In this talk we will introduce strategic planning, key technologies and their challenges. The strategic planning includes construction of network and their integration. Finally, an example of china Industry 4.0 will be discussed.





Dr. Monojit Choudhury
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Researcher
Affiliation:Microsoft Research Lab
Contact Details:monojitc@microsoft.com

Title: Language and Society through the lenses of Social Media: Understanding Extreme Multilingualism

Abstract: Language and society are closely intertwined, each reflecting and influencing the patterns in other. Sociolinguistics study these patterns of language variation and linguistic choices made by speakers under various socio-cultural settings. Traditionally, sociolinguists have been working with small amounts of data (of the order of few 1000 utterances from 10s of speakers) collected through painstaking fieldwork. Over the last decade, the field of sociolinguistics is being revolutionized by large scale data driven studies, thanks to the availability of endless amounts of UGC on social media. Social media data is informal, conversation-like, socially grounded and often personal. This makes UGC an ideal goldmine for research in sociolinguistics. In this talk, I will discuss two of our recent sociolinguistic studies on language usage patterns in multilingual societies: (a) the extent and patterns of code-switching (mixing of more than one language in a single utterance or conversation) across languages and geographies, and (b) for Hindi-English bilingual user, what determines the choice of language (i.e., Hindi or English or code-switched?) on Twitter.

Brief Profile: Dr. Monojit Choudhury is a researcher at Microsoft Research Lab India since 2007. Dr. Choudhury's research interests lie in the intersection of cognitive science, computational linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. For the last 5 years, under the aegis of project Melange, he has been leading several efforts in Microsoft for understanding and building technology for code-switching (mixing of languages in the same conversation). Dr. Choudhury's research has focused on development of language technology for languages with lesser resources, and more recently, on making AI systems socially and culturally aware. He has more than 100 publications in top-tier conferences and journals, and has served in the program committees of ACL, EMNLP, WWW and many other conferences. He is an associate editor of ACM transactions on TALLIP, and also an adjunct faculty at IIIT Hyderabad (2017 onwards) and IIT Kharagpur (2009 & 2012). Dr. Choudhury has a B.Tech and a PhD, both in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Choudhury has been spearheading the organization of Panini Linguistics Olympiad in India, a program for introducing high school students AI, logic, linguistics and the language diversity and heritage of the world.





Prof S. N. Singh
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Vice-Chancellor
Affiliation:Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India
Contact Details:snsingh@iitk.ac.in, vc@mmmut.ac.in

Brief Profile: Prof S. N. Singh, who was born on 5th September 1966, obtained his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. More importantly, BTech from KNIT Sultanpr. Presently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He is on leave from IIT Kanpur and working as Visiting Professor at Denmark Technical University, Denmark. Before joining IIT Kanpur as Associate Professor, Dr Singh worked with UP State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer from 8-8-1988 to 13-6-1996, with Rookree University (Now IIT Rookree) as Assistant Professor from 14-6-1996 to 1-1-2001 and with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand as Assis tant Professor from 2-1-2001 to 4-4-2003. Dr Singh received several awards including Young Engineer Award 2000 of Indian National Academy of Engineering, Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee, and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), 1996. Prof Singh is receipt of Humboldt Fellowship of Germany and Otto-monsted Fellowship of Denmark.






Sameep Mehta
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Senior Researcher and Manager, Information and Analytics Department
Affiliation: IBM Research - India
Contact Details: sameepmehta@in.ibm.com

Title: Is it a Puppy or a Muffin ?. Resilient Analytics - A Study on various attacks on Analytics Offerings

Abstract: In this talk I will present Resilient Analytics. With the MLaaS offerings becoming very common, there is also a rise in attacks on such services. I will provide overview of various attacks, some common examples of such attacks and counter measure strategies. Bio-- Sameep Mehta is a Research Manager at IBM Research - India. He received his Ph.D. in Data Mining and Visualization from Ohio State University. His current research interests are Data Mining, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Big Data Technologies, Social Data Analytics and Knowledge Graph. He has published extensively in top conferences in Data Mining, Services and Visualization. He is a regular speaker at conferences and is PC chair for Big Data Analytics Conference 2014. He also serves as Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Delhi in the area of Data Analytics.

Brief Profile: Sameep Mehta is a Senior Researcher and Manager at IBM Research - India. He received his Ph.D. in Data Mining and Visualization from Ohio State University. His current research interests are Data Mining, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Big Data Technologies, Social Data Analytics and Knowledge Graph. He has published extensively in top conferences in Data Mining, Services and Visualization. He is a regular speaker at conferences and is PC chair for Big Data Analytics Conference 2014. He also serves as Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Delhi in the area of Data Analytics.





Dr. Kota Solomon Raju
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Principal Scientist
Affiliation: Digital Systems Group, CSIR -Central Electronics Research Institute (CSIR - CEERI), Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Contact Details: solomon@ceeri.ernet.in

Brief Profile: Dr. Kota Solomon Raju has been working as Principal Scientist in Digital Systems Group, CSIR -Central Electronics Research Institute (CSIR - CEERI), Pilani, Rajasthan, India. He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1997 from Andhra University, Master of Engineering in 2003 from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani and Ph.D. in 2008 from department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. Dr. Solomon is an advanced electronic systems design engineer. His research work focused on reconfigurable computing systems (RCS), advanced embedded systems design and wireless sensor network (WSN) based embedded systems design and included hardware/software codesign, parallelizing applications, customized computing, and high-level synthesis, ad hoc networking, Zigbee based networking, and other sensor based embedded systems, protocols design and CAD tools for electronic systems design. Apart from above R&D he also teaches /delivers lectures in System Modeling & Design languages, Wireless Sensor Network based embedded Systems Design and Real -time systems design courses for the post graduate students. He has delivered fifteen invited talks in international / national conferences /seminars/workshops. He is author and co-author of more than 42 scientific papers, published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, guided around 40 M.Tech. dissertations so far and many B.Tech, M.Sc and MCA theses. He has been guiding two Ph.D. students. He is a life member of the IETE, New Delhi.







Prof. M. M. Sufyan Beg
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Department of Computer Engineering
Affiliation: Principal, Z. H. College of Engineering and Technology, A.M.U. Aligarh, India
Contact Details: mmsbeg@eecs.berkeley.edu

Title:Tools for Effective Research

Abstract: Research requires a lot of patience and focus. One has to be at his or her efficient best to make considerable progress. Proper tools make things, while improper ones break it. The same holds for research too. We need to know what tool to be used for the situation at hand. This talk will bring out exactly this art of choosing an appropriate tool for a given problem.

Brief Profile: Prof. M. M. Sufyan Beg obtained his B.Tech. (Electronics) degree from the Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1992 with First Rank. He obtained his M.Tech. (Microelectronics) degree from IIT Kanpur, India in 1994. Thereafter, he joined the Department of Electronics Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India as a member of the faculty. He has been a Lecturer, a Senior Lecturer and then a Reader in the Department of Computer Engineering at the same University. While on study leave from there, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in the area of Computer Technology from IIT Delhi, India in 2002. He also visited the University of California at Berkeley as a BT Fellow from November 2005 to October 2006. He served as Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi from March 2007 to January 2014. Over there, he also served as the Head of the Department of Computer Engineering from February 2008 to February 2011. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at the Aligarh Muslim University since January 11, 2014. He is also serving as the Principal of Z. H. College of Engineering and Technology since Aug. 24, 2015. Prof. Beg has published 16 book chapters and over 115 papers on a wide range of topics in Web Mining and Soft Computing. He has also been an invited lecturer at many places in U.S.A., U.K., K.S.A., Pakistan and India. Prof. Beg was awarded the University Gold Medal for standing First at B.Sc. (Engg.) Examinations (all branches combined). He has also bagged twice the Best Paper Awards and the High Quality Presentation Awards each. Prof. Beg has served as reviewer and has been on the board of many journals and conferences of repute. His current research interests are in the areas of Parallel and Distributed Processing, Soft Computing, Question Answering Systems, Natural Language Processing, Web Mining and Searching.





Prof. (Dr.) Sunil Kumar Khatri
Qualifications: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Director, Amity Institute of Information Technology
Contact Details: sunilkkhatri@gmail.com

Title: Modeling Software Reliability Growth Using ANN Approach

Abstract: Software reliability is a key part in software quality. As more and more software is creeping into embedded systems, we must make sure they don't embed disasters. Ensuring software reliability is no easy task. As hard as the problem is, promising progresses are still being made toward more reliable software. A number of factors that normally demonstrate non-linear patterns such as software development methodology, software development environment, complexity of the software, software personnel, and etc. may affect the behavior of software reliability. This imposes several limitations on existing statistical modeling methods that depend highly on the assumptions. Artificial Neural networks (ANN) models have a significant advantage over analytical models, because they require only failure history as input and no assumptions. Consequently, they have drawn attention of many researchers in recent years. It has been found that neural network methods can be applied to estimate the number of faults and predict the number of software failures as they often offered better results than existing statistical analytical models. As reliability growth models exhibit different predictive capabilities at different testing phases both within a project and across projects, researchers are finding it nearly impossible to develop a universal model that will provide accurate predictions under all circumstances. A possible solution is to develop models that don't require making assumptions about either the development environment or external parameters. Recent advances in neural networks show that they can be used in applications that involve predictions. Neural network methods may handle numerous factors and approximate any non-linear continuous function.

Brief Profile: Prof. (Dr.) Sunil Kumar Khatri is working as Director for Amity Institute of Information Technology and Additional Director for Amity Directorate of Engineering & Technology at Amity University UP, Noida, India. He is a Fellow of IETE, Sr. Life Member of CSI (India), IEEE (USA), IASCSIT (Singapore) and Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong. He is Secretary in Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), India, Convener, MDC & Member, IEEE UP Section (India) Executive Council, Past Vice-Chairman of CSI Noida Chapter and Honorary Member in Governing Council of Delhi Chapter, 3E Innovative Foundation. He has been conferred "Award of Excellence in Educational Leadership" in 2017, "IT Innovation & Excellence Award for Contribution in the field of IT and Computer Science Education" in 2012 and "Exceptional Leadership and Dedication in Research" in the year 2009. He has the recognition of being listed in Marquis Who's Who continuously for the last five years. He is conferred with Honorary Visiting Professorship by Data Analytics Institute, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia in Oct, 2015. He has established IT Institutions/Departments at various Universities/Institutions with great success and recognition. He has eight edited books, seven special issues of international journals, two patents filed, two international training projects, had written six chapters and published/presented more than 100 papers in international and national journals and proceedings. He has organized more than 40 international/national conferences/workshops/training programs and was involved in various international/national conferences in Dubai, China, Korea, UAE, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Serbia apart from India. Dr. Sunil Kumar Khatri is Editor of International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSAEM), Springer Verlag. He is in Editorial Board of several Journals from USA, Egypt, Hong Kong, Singapore and India. His areas of research are Software Reliability and Testing, Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition.