Mausam is a Professor of Computer Science at IIT Delhi, and served as the founding head of Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence until September 2023. He is also an affiliate professor at University of Washington, Seattle. He is currently on a sabbatical working as a Visiting NLP Researcher at Bloomberg’s AI group. With an over twenty year research experience in artificial intelligence, he has, over time, contributed to many research areas such as large scale information extraction over the Web, AI approaches for optimizing crowdsourced workflows, and probabilistic planning algorithms. More recently, his research is exploring neuro-symbolic machine learning, computer vision for radiology, NLP for robotics, multilingual NLP, and several threads in intelligent information systems that include information extraction, knowledge base completion, question answering, summarization and dialogue systems. He has over 100 archival papers to his credit, along with a book, two best paper awards, and one test of time award. Mausam was awarded the AAAI Fellow status in 2024 for his sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and unusual distinction in the profession. He was also elected as a fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) — an apex body for India’s most distinguished engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists. He has had the privilege of being a program chair for two top conferences, AAAI 2021, and ICAPS 2017. He was ranked the 56th most influential NLP scholar and 64th most influential AI scholar by ArnetMiner AI2000 Ranking in 2021. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 2007 and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2001.

Vineeth N Balasubramanian is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), India, and was recently a visiting faculty at Carnegie Mellon University under the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship in 2022-23. He is also the Founding Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT-H from 2019-22. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, and computer vision with a focus on explainability, continual learning and learning with limited labeled data. His research has been published at premier venues including ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, KDD, AAAI, and IEEE TPAMI, with Best Paper Awards at recent venues such as CODS-COMAD 2022, CVPR 2021 Workshop on Causality in Vision, etc. He was the General Chair of ACML 2022 held in India, and regularly serves in senior roles for conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ECCV. He is listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2022,2023), an INSA Associate Fellow (2024), and a recipient of the Research Excellence Award at IIT-H (2022), Google Research Scholar Award (2021), NASSCOM AI Gamechanger Award (2022), Teaching Excellence Award at IIT-H (2017 and 2021), Outstanding Reviewer Award (IJCAI 2023, ICLR 2021, CVPR 2019, etc), among others.

Ramesh Raskar is the Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Camera Culture research group focused on AI, imaging, and machine learning for health and sustainability. A pioneer in computational photography, he invented femto-photography (trillion-fps imaging), corner-detecting cameras, and low-cost eye-care solutions like Netra and Catra, earning accolades including the Lemelson Prize (“Engineering Nobel” 2016) and ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award. He co-founded PathCheck for pandemic response tools and advises global ventures, blending academic research with entrepreneurial impact.