Keynote Speakers
Mr. Virendra Gupta
Title of the talk: Enabling ICT Transformation
Short Bio:
Virendra Gupta is Senior Vice President and
BL Head – Central R&D (CRD) BL and Head –
General Technology Division in Huawei
Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Huawei's largest
overseas R&D center focused on developing and
delivering telecom core platforms and end-to-end
telecom solutions and services for global
market.
As Central R&D BL Head, Virendra has complete
management responsibility for the Business Line
to ensure high quality, on time delivery of
deliverables to customers in line with R&D
centers objectives. Currently, as part of CRD
BL, he has responsibility for development of
core components and platforms in Network
Management, Embedded OS Middleware, Telecom
Network Protocols, Linux/OS, In Memory Database,
Licensing, Telecom Application
Server/Distributed Computing Platform, DPI/BI,
Security, IP domain and Multimedia Content
Delivery domain. Apart from this, CRD BL also
engages in Mechnical/Electrical Design activity
for Huawei Products.
As Head-GTD, He has responsibility to provide
enabling platform through GTD for engineering
and technology excellence in the R&D Center.
Under his leadership, CRD BL has delivered world
class components and platforms in these domains
for global markets with wide deployment across
the world. His teams uses agile development
methodology very widely for software
development. His business line also has been the
pioneer in adopting lean in software
development.
Prior to taking this responsibility for CRD BL,
Virendra was the head of Embedded Software
Business Unit where his responsibility included
development of core components and platforms in
Datacom (IPV6, Routing Protocols, IP Security
Protocols), Wireless LAN, Voice Protocols,
Embedded OS and Optical domains where several
protocols/products/platforms were developed and
released for world market.
Virendra has over 22 years experience in the
telecom industry, of which more than 10 years
have been with Huawei.
Virendra holds an Engineering Bachelor’s Degree
in Electrical and Electronic from National
Institute of Technology, Jaipur; Masters Degree
in Integrated Electronics from Indian Institute
of Technology, New Delhi; MBA from University of
Delhi, Faculty of Management Studies. Virendra
is also a Certified PMP (Project Management
Professional) from Project Management Institute,
USA.
Prof. Jaideep Srivastava
Title of the talk: Business Application of Social Network Analysis: A computational perspective
Short Bio:
Jaideep Srivastava is Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he directs a laboratory focusing on research in Web Mining, Social Media Analytics, and Health Analytics. He has authored over 275 papers, and his research has been supported by government agencies, including NSF, NASA, ARDA, IARPA, NIH, CDC, US Army, US Air Force, and MNDoT; and industries, including IBM, United Technologies, Eaton, Honeywell, Cargill, and Huawei Telecom. He has an active collaboration with Allina’s Center for Healthcare Innovation, where he is a Distinguished Fellow. He is on the oversight committee for healthcare information architecture for the University of Minnesota. Dr. Srivastava has significant experience in the industry, in both consulting and executive roles. He has lead a data mining team at Amazon.com, and built a data analytics department at Yodlee. He has provided technology and strategy advice to Cargill, United Technologies, IBM, Honeywell, KPMG, 3M, TCS, and Eaton, and has served as Advisor to the State Government of Minnesota and the Government of India. He holds distinguished professorships at Heilongjiang University and Wuhan University, China. Dr. Srivastava has BS from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India, and MS and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has been an IEEE Distinguished Visitor. He has given over 150 invited talks in over 30 countries, including more than a dozen keynote addresses at major conferences. He is a co-founder and President of Ninja Metrics, a social analytics company, whose goal is bring his research in this area into the commercial domain.
Dr. Harrick Vin
Title of the talk: Simplifying and Transforming Enterprise IT Environments
Short Bio:
Dr. Harrick Vin is a Vice President and the
Chief Scientist of the Tata Research Development
and Design Centre (TRDDC) at Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS), India. He is also the Global
Head for Innovation and Transformation for IT
Infrastructure Services at TCS. He is a member
of the TCS Corporate Technology Board that
oversees all R&D and innovation activities at
TCS.
Prior to joining TCS, he was a Professor of
Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at
Austin for 15 years. At UT Austin, he was the
founder of the Distributed Multimedia Computing
Laboratory and the co-founder of the laboratory
for Advanced Systems Research.
Over the past 20 years, Harrick has been
involved in developing novel solutions in
variety of areas in computing, including: one of
the first video-over-IP desktop conferencing and
collaboration system (1989); one of the earliest
system design and implementation of a
large-scale video-on-demand server and
multimedia file system (1991); one of the first
Quality-of-Service-aware Linux kernel (1996);
Internet-scale distributed caching solution
(1998); web-based content syndication and
personalization solution (1999); a digital media
entertainment gateway for homes (2002); and a
programming environment for multi-core
multi-threaded processor architectures (2005).
These innovations led to three venture-backed
startups in the US during 1999-2004.
Harrick has authored more than 125 papers in
leading international journals and conferences.
Harrick is a recipient of several awards
including the Faculty Fellow in Computer
Sciences, Dean's Fellowship, National Science
Foundation CAREER award, IBM Faculty Development
Award, Fellow of the IBM Austin Center for
Advanced Studies, AT&T Foundation Award,
National Science Foundation Research Initiation
Award, IBM Doctoral Fellowship, NCR Innovation
Award, and San Diego Supercomputer Center
Creative Computing Award. He has served on the
Editorial Board of ACM/Springer Multimedia
Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia, and IEEE Multimedia. He has been a
guest editor for IEEE Network. He has served as
the conference and program chairperson for the
premier ACM and IEEE international conferences
in the area of multimedia systems and networks;
and served as a technical program committee
member for many international conferences.
Harrick received his PhD in Computer Science and
Engineering from the University of California,
San Diego in 1993 and Bachelors in Computer
Science from the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Bombay in 1987.
Dr. S. H. Srinivasan
Title of the talk: Research Challenges in Internet Search and Advertising
Abstract: Internet has evolved a lot since its early days. The well-known Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applies primarily to content or user aspect. There are two other aspect which are less known: evolution of search and advertising. In this talk, I'll give an overview of Internet Search and Advertising and highlight current research challenges.
Short Bio:
Srinivasan Sengamedu (SHS) is the Head of Komli
Labs where he works on real-time bidding, user
modeling, and other areas related to
computational advertising.
He was Director of Audience and Search Sciences
at Yahoo Labs, Bangalore earlier where he worked
on information extraction, machine learned
ranking, pornography detection in images,
comment spam detection, etc. Most of the
technologies are powering various Yahoo
products.
He got his PhD from Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore and has held visiting positions at
UCSD and NUS.
He has published over 100 papers and has more
than 30 approved or filed patent applications.
He's generally excited about creating and
productizing advanced technologies.
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