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Welcome to 5 th UG Summer School

Welcome to 5 th UG Summer School. Dept. of Computer Science & Automation Indian Institute of Science. Grateful thanks. SONATA Software Ltd. for being the primary sponsor of CSA Summer School 2017. Thanks to Co-Sponsors!. Google Microsoft Research. IISc. Established 1909

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Welcome to 5 th UG Summer School

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  1. Welcome to 5thUG Summer School Dept. of Computer Science & Automation Indian Institute of Science

  2. Grateful thanks SONATA Software Ltd. for being the primary sponsor of CSA Summer School 2017

  3. Thanks to Co-Sponsors! • Google • Microsoft Research

  4. IISc • Established 1909 • Swami Vivekananda [philosophy] • Jamshedji Tata [money] • Maharaja of Mysore [land] • British Government [permission] • Only Indian institution in World Top 100 rankings • Top Indian university in recent MHRD rankings

  5. CSA @IISc • Computing activities established in 1969 by Prof I G Sarma as School of Automation • IGS Memorial Annual Lecture • Silvio Micali, 2015 [Turing awardee, 2012] • Rakesh Agrawal, 2016 [Inventor of Data Mining] • Name changed to Computer Science & Automation (CSA) in 1986

  6. CSA @IISc • Recognized as a Centre of Excellence by UGC and DST • 31 faculty members (#3 in IISc) • 10 Assistant Professors, 11 Associate Professors, 10 Professors • 259 students (#1 in IISc) • Research: PhD: 74 (ERP 11), MTech(Research): 42 • Course: MTech (CSE): 108, MTech (Systems Engineering): 35 • #71 inTimes Higher Education (THE) 2016 rankings of Top 100 CS departments world-wide • Highest ranking in India • #36 on purely research parameters !

  7. Recent Faculty Profile • 7 new faculty hired in last five years • Chandan Saha [IIT-K], Arnab Bhattacharyya [MIT], Arpita Patra [IIT-M], Bhavana Kanukurthi [Boston], Siddharth Barman [Wisconsin], Anand Louis [Georgia Tech] Vinod Ganapathy [Wisconsin] • 2 associate faculty • Partha Pratim Talukdar (CDS), Sridharan Devarajan (CNS)

  8. RESEARCH CLUSTERS @ CSA

  9. Research Topics Theoretical Computer Science Algorithms, Graph Theory, Random Projections Coding Theory, Cryptology Computational Geometry, Topology Combinatorial Geometry Automated Verification Algorithmic Algebra, Information Theory Computer Systems and Software Architecture, Power Aware Computing Operating Systems, Storage Systems, Security Database Systems, Networks Distributed Computing, Compilers Programming Languages and Tools Multi-core Programming, Software Engineering Graphics, Scientific Visualization Intelligent Systems Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Info. Retrieval Machine Learning, Convex Optimization Game Theory, Mechanism Design E-Commerce, Social Network Analysis Stochastic Systems and Optimization Cognitive Systems

  10. Major Recent Projects • IMPECS Project: Program Analysis and Applications [MPI+ DST] • Squaring the Circle: Integrating Man, Mind and Machine [UGC] • Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems • Multi-core Architectures and Computing • Inference Engines for Emerging Applications • Information Security Education & Awareness Project [DEITY] • MCASTLE (Many Core Accelerated Systems) [IISc] • Several other projects with global organizations

  11. Research Publications • 100+ publications per year • majority in the top-tier fora (CORE A*/A rankings) • made India visible on the world map in several areas • Premier Journals • SIAM, IEEE, ACM, JMLR, NC, ML, JA, TCS, JGT, JCSS, I&C, DCG, JCT, SN • Premier Conferences • STOC, FOCS, SODA, SOCG, ICALP, STACS, LFCS, ISAAC, CC, ICDE, VLDB, AAMAS, NIPS, ICML, UAI, ICDM, COLT, ICPR, IJCAI, AAAI, IJCNN, SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD, WINE, SDM, ICDAR, IEEE VIS, PLDI, POPL, ICSE, OOPSLA, CGO, EMSOFT, CASES, FORMATS, SAS, SC, FAST, HotOS, HotStorage, SIGMETRICS, PPoPP, PACT, ISCA, ASPLOS, HPCA

  12. Scientific Recognition for Students Several best paper, poster, demo awards • Top-10 video abstracts at PLDI 2015 • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA 2016 • Best Paper at CGO 2015, ICALP 2016 • Best Student Paper at CICLing 2015, ICDE 2016 • Honorable Mention ACM India Dissertation Award, 2016 • Best software demo at VLDB 2014 • …

  13. Research Highlights:Spectral Hypergraph Partitioning • Proved that non-uniform hypergraphs can be partitioned using spectral methods in a consistent way. • Such results previously known only for graphs and uniform hypergraphs. • Used matrix concentration inequalities. • Appeared in Annals of Statistics 2017.

  14. Research Highlights:Graph Embeddings and Kernel Learning • Proved the surprising cross-domain result that the Lovasz θ function is equivalent to a Kernel learning problem! • Potent consequences: • Planted clique problem can be solved by SVMs • Finding Persistent clique in Multiple Graphs • Appeared in JMLR 2013.

  15. Research Highlights:ANATOMY • Predicting performance of multi-core memory is complex due to myriad technological, design and architectural choices • ANATOMY: Queueing model for memory characteristics combined with an analytical model for extracting workload characteristics • Predicts memory latency with less than 10 percent error • Appeared in ACM Sigmetrics 2014

  16. Research Highlights: POLYMAGE • New domain-specific language and compiler for image processing pipelines. • Leverages transformation and code generation capabilities of the polyhedral compiler framework. • First model-driven compiler with automatic optimization of complex fusion, tiling and storage. • Appeared in ASPLOS 2015 • Startup company on the anvil

  17. Research Highlights:Visualization for Endoscopy Simulator • Develop a visual interface to an interactive virtual endoscopy system for training doctors on off-the-shelf hardware. • Extract a model of the upper GI tract and stomach. • Develop a 3D viewer for interactive exploration of the model. • Productized by IISc startup Mimyk.

  18. Departmental Targets • C:Creativity • Khalil Gibran: “Reality is for those who lack imagination” • Steve Jobs: “Don’t ask customers - people don't know what they want until you show it to them.” • Einstein: “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” • S: Software • Long-term visibility and impact • Vehicles for core CS concepts • A: Accountability • Are you responding sincerely to the trust reposed in you by a benevolent government and institution?

  19. Summer School

  20. Why CSAUSS? • Conceptualized and organized by CSA research students • 80+ invitees (mostly 3rd year UG students) • Diversity in location, institution, gender, background • Sikkim to Thiruvananthapuram, 40% women • Introduce you to a new experience, highlighting the joys of scholarship, conceptual strength and research • Change the way you think about Computer Science • Outreach program for future students • Opportunity for our own research students to hone their pedagogical skills for a future academic life

  21. Research Life-cycle • New Problem Definition • Creative Solutions • Analysis of Solutions • Indian research largely mired in (3), whereas Western research is successful in (1) and (2) • Failing of our educational system which emphasizes • analysis, not creativity • rote knowledge, not knowledge extension • conformity, not out-of-box thinking • herd mentality, not individuality …

  22. Need to be Goats, not Sheep! Indian Students

  23. Research is “दंगल” Constantly engage with the problem Luck favors the prepared mind (Pasteur/Hamming) Kekule discovered cyclic structure of benzene afterhaving a dream of a snake chasing each its own tail In India, we would have saidनाग पंचमी !

  24. Long-term Our fond hope is that this week’s experience will motivate many of you to pursue higher studies and a long-term career in the research arena …

  25. Program • Technical Lectures from Industry, Academia, Students • Software Demonstrations and Hands-on Sessions • Technical Quiz • GATE preparation! • Informal Interactions (Faculty and Students) • Prizes!

  26. Industry Speakers • Bill Thies, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research India • Ramasuri Narayanam, Research Scientist, IBM Research, India • Krishnendu Chaudhury, CTO Staff, Flipkart • Harit Vishwakarma,Blue Scholar atIBM Research, India • Arun Rajkumar, Research Scientist,Conduent Labs India • Sambaran Bandopadhyay, Research Engineer, IBM Research, India • Saneem Ahmed, Software Engineer, IBM Research, India

  27. Faculty Speakers • N S Kumar, PES Univ • Kavi Mahesh,  PES Univ • Vittal Rao, DESE, IISc • Kaushal Verma, Maths, IISc • Sridharan Devarajan, CNS, IISc • S P Arun, CNS, IISc • Vijay Natarajan, CSA • Vinod Ganapathy, CSA • Arpita Patra, CSA • Partha Talukdar, CSA • Jayant Haritsa, CSA

  28. Student Speakers • Aniket Basu, PhD • Arpita Biswas, PhD • Chandramouli Kamanchi, PhD • OSL Bhavana, PhD • Raghavendra G S, PhD • Shubham Gupta, PhD • Snigdha Athaiya, PhD • Suvam Mukherjee, PhD • Ullas Aparanji, PhD • Stanly Samuel, MTech (Research) • Nitesh Tripathi, MTech (Research) • Shivam Gupta, MTech (CSE) • K Shreedhar Shreeshail, MTech (CSE) • Tushar Shinde, MTech (CSE) • Abhinash Khare, Mtech (CSE)

  29. Student Organizers • Ullas Aparanji • Indu John and Co. • Faculty Advisor: Prof. Arnab Bhattacharyya

  30. JN Tata to Vivekananda[1898] It seems to me that no better use can be made of the ascetic spirit than the establishment of monasteries or residential halls for men dominated by this spirit, where they should live with ordinary decency, and devote their lives to the cultivationof sciences - natural and humanistic ...

  31. Enjoy your stay!

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