Schedule

All timings are in Indian Standard Time (IST)

Quantum Symposium (Day 1)

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Registration
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM

 

Welcome Address by various Dignitaries
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM

 

Keynote Address: Antoine Jacquier

“Quantum Computing, a new toolbox for Stochastic Analysis & Machine Learning?”

10:00 AM – 10:40 AM

 

Keynote Address: R. Vijayaraghavan

“Superconducting quantum electrical circuits: a platform for technology and fundamental science”

10:40 AM – 11:20 AM

 

Paper Presentations

Evolving Quantum Feature Maps with Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms for Robust Indoor Localization

11:20 AM – 11:35 AM

Tea/Coffee Break
11:35 AM – 12:00 PM

Keynote Address: Sai Vinjanampathy

“Designing Sensors using Randomness”

12:05 PM – 12:45 PM

 

Paper Presentations

Experimental Validation of Dequantization of Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning Models using Classical Surrogates

12:45 PM – 01:00 PM

Lunch Break
01:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Keynote Address: Tobias Haug

“Quantum Fisher information metric for quantum machine learning

02:00 PM – 02:40 PM

 

Paper Presentations

Quantum-Integrated Systems for Space Warfare: ISR, C2, and Adaptive Engagement

02:40 PM – 02:55 PM

 

Poster Session
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM

Tea/Coffee Break 

&

Poster Session
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM

Public Lecture #1: Sai Vinjanampathy

Snippets of theoretical developments over 100 years of quantum mechanics

04:30 PM – 05:15 PM

 

Public Lecture #2: Fedor Jelezko

Diamond as quantum sensors : new opportunities for everyday life

05:15 PM – 06:00 PM

 

CONFERENCE Workshops

9:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Quantum Symposium

Keynote Address: Bhaskar Kanseri

“Towards Practical Quantum Secure Hybrid Networks”

10:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Paper Presentations

Diamond sensors for nano-magnetometry of hematite particles

10:40 AM – 10:55 AM

Workshop #1 – Agentic AI

Keynote Address: Venkatesan Chakaravarthy

“Agentic frameworks for enterprise-scale software comprehension”

9:45 AM – 11:00 AM

 

Workshop #2 – EDGE-X

Keynote Address: Chetan Singh Thakur

RAMAN: An Edge AI Accelerator from High-Speed Imaging to Brain–Computer Interfaces

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

AIMLSystems Meetings

Business Centre

INDIAN AFFAIRSSIGMA 1SIGMA 3 
Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Quantum Symposium

 

Keynote Address: Fedor Jelezko

“Spin qubits in diamond”

11:30 AM – 12:10 PM

 

Keynote Address: Marcin Pawłowski

“Go to market strategy for device independent quantum cryptography”

12:10 PM – 12:50 PM

 

Paper Presentations

Krylov Quantum Selected Configuration Interaction Algorithm applied to Atomic Many Body Computations

12:50 PM – 01:05 PM

Agentic AI

Paper Presentations

  1. Directed Network Modeling with Generative AI for Driver Decision Support
  2. AutoRAG-LoRA: Hallucination-Triggered Knowledge Returning via Lightweight Adapters

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

 

Tutorial + Hands-on Session

“Zero to Production: Building Secure, Scalable MCP Servers and AI Agents with Open-Source Templates”

Tuhin Sharma
Karan Raina

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

EDGE-X

Paper Presentations

  1. Cost-Aware Fine Tuning
  2. Neuromorphic approaches for energy efficient Object Localization
  3. Voice-to-Insight: STM32-Based Audio Logging

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

 

 

Tech talk:
Edge Wizard: The Magic Wand for EffortlessAutomation

Arijit Mukherjee, TCS Research

12:30 PM – 01:00 PM

 

 

AIMLSystems Meetings

Business Centre

INDIAN AFFAIRSSIGMA 1SIGMA 3 
Lunch Break (Pool Side)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Quantum Symposium

Keynote Address: Nadia Belabas

“Divide and conquer: variations on beamsplitting in quantum optics”

02:05 PM – 02:45 PM

Keynote Address: Anand K. Jha

“Partial coherence: Applications in quantum state measurement and quantum imaging”

02:45 PM – 03:25 PM

 

 

Poster Session

03:25 PM – 04:00 PM

Agentic AI

Keynote Address: Kuldeep Yadav, SHL

“From Vision to Value: Design Patterns for Agentic AI in Production”

02:00 PM – 03:00 PM

 

Paper Presentations

  1. Unified AI-Driven Log Anomaly Detection
  2. Agentic Summarization of COBOL Programs

03:15 PM – 04:00 PM

EDGE-X

Hands-on Session: Saurabh Rawat

“TinyML Hands-on Session by STMicroelectronics”

02:00 PM – 04:00 PM

AIMLSystems Meetings

Business Centre

INDIAN AFFAIRSSIGMA 1SIGMA 3 
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Quantum Symposium

Industry Panel Session

04:30 PM – 05:45 PM

 

Best Paper Award & Closing Remarks

05:40 PM – 06:00 PM

Agentic AI

Panel Discussion—”Agents in the Real World”

Niyati Chhaya, Hyperbots

Eeshan Jain, Walmart

Kuldeep Yadav, SHL

Dr. Rekha Singhal, TCS

04:30 PM – 05:30 PM

EDGE-X

Panel Discussion—”Energy-Aware Intelligence”

Panel host: Prasant Misra

04:30 PM – 05:30 PM

AIMLSystems Meetings

Business Centre

INDIAN AFFAIRSSIGMA 1SIGMA 3 

WELCOME RECEPTION

6:45 PM – 10:00 PM

Pool Side

AIMLSystems 2025 Inauguration and Opening Remarks
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
General Co-Chairs
TPC Co-Chairs
Steering Committee Co-Chairs

Keynote Talk #1
Prof. Vineet Balasubramanian, IIT Hyderabad & Microsoft Research, India
 “Learning Beyond Prediction: Concepts, Logic, and Reasoning”
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Sigma Hall

Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Paper Sessions

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Research Track
AI Methods and Applications
Research Invited Talk: Supratik Mukhopadhyay
“AI for Science: Revolutionizing Biology, Healthcare, and Environment”
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Paper Presentations

  1. LAMA-Net: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Latent Alignment and Manifold Learning for RUL Prediction
  2. Enhancing Feature Selection Using HCVR for IoT datasets
  3. FaEmNet: A Performance-Driven Architecture for Facial Emotion Recognition

12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

Industry Track

Paper Presentation

  1. DualFormer: An Efficient Dual-domain Learning Transformer for Image Denoising
  2. MCX-Net: A Class-Specific Expert Decoder Network for Multi-Class Defect Segmentation in Photovoltaic Cells
  3. Estimating Rooftop Solar Energy Potential Using Image Segmentation
  4. EARMOR: Edge Device specific Assessment and Review of Multilingual Optical Character Recognition

11:30 PM – 12:50 PM

Demos & Exhibits
and Posters
#246: AI-Driven Data Governance: Real-Time Observability, Data Quality, and Compliance

#252: Dermatica: A Mobile Solution for Preliminary Skin Disease Diagnosis
Amazon Demo – Troubleshooting Chatbot

#248: BizEye: Broad-spectrum Intelligent Zone Eye for Abnormality Detection

#251: Ta Ka Di Mi: AI for Konnakkol and Rhythm Training

#255: PolicyBot: Reliable Q&A over Policy Documents

#254: GenSenSim: Generative Sensor Response Simulator

#249: Machine Learning-Enhanced EKF for Vehicle Localization under Sparse Observations

#244: AI-Driven Elephant Detection and Alert Systems for Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation

Sprinklr Demo

TCS Demo

Walmart Demo

IBM Demo

Microsoft Demo

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

SIGMA 1
SIGMA 3
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Lunch Break (Pool Side)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Paper Sessions

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Research Track
Industry, Operations, and Enterprise AI

Research Invited Talk: Kamiya Motwani

From Graphs to Attention Embeddings: Advancing AI-Powered Personalization in e-Commerce

02:00 PM – 02:30 PM

Paper Presentations

  1. Hybrid Co-Optimization of Mobility and Energy Systems for Enterprise Operation
  2. A Pedagogical Approach For Evaluating AIOps
  3. Multi-resolution and multi-modal temporal graphs for financial forecasting

02:30 PM – 03:30 PM

Lightning talks for posters

03:30 PM – 04:00 PM

Industry Track

Industry Invited Talk: Ms Ajita

“Inside Novi- Building the Bumble of AI Companions”

02:00 PM – 03:00 PM

Paper Presentation

  1. Mixed 2D–3D Object Recognition for Autonomous Inspection in Industrial Environments
  2. Faulty Junction Box Identification in Photovoltaic Manufacturing
  3. Adaptive NOX Emissions Forecasting for Gas Turbines via Dynamic PCA-Driven Clustering

Tutorial: AI Agents by Anupam Purwar

03:00 PM – 04:30 PM

Demos & Exhibits
and Posters

#246: AI-Driven Data Governance: Real-Time Observability, Data Quality, and Compliance

#252: Dermatica: A Mobile Solution for Preliminary Skin Disease Diagnosis
Amazon Demo – Troubleshooting Chatbot

#248: BizEye: Broad-spectrum Intelligent Zone Eye for Abnormality Detection

#251: Ta Ka Di Mi: AI for Konnakkol and Rhythm Training

#255: PolicyBot: Reliable Q&A over Policy Documents

#254: GenSenSim: Generative Sensor Response Simulator

#249: Machine Learning-Enhanced EKF for Vehicle Localization under Sparse Observations

#244: AI-Driven Elephant Detection and Alert Systems for Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation

Sprinklr Demo

TCS Demo

Walmart Demo

IBM Demo

Microsoft Demo

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

SIGMA 1
SIGMA 3
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Panel Discussion #1

Who Really Controls AI—Governments, Big Tech, or the Machines?

Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Louisiana State University, US)
Manish Gupta (Microsoft, India)
Anand Singh (Sprinklr)
Vineeth NB (Microsoft Research, India)
Prabhat Agrawal (GlobalAda, India)
Shekar Sivasubramanian (Wadhwani AI)

 

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

SIGMA HALL

 

Keynote Talk #2
Prof. Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA
AI Agenda in the Physical World”

09:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Tea/Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Paper Sessions

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Research Track
Hardware Architecture and
Efficiency for AI

Research Invited Talk: Hemangee Kapoor (Professor of CSE, IIT Guwahati)

“Accelerating Intelligence:  Efficient Hardware Designs for Neural Networks”

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Paper Presentation

  1. ArchTune: A predictive Energy Estimation Framework for LLM Inference on Edge Accelerators
  2. RI-MAC: Optimising MAC Operation using Custom RISC-V Instruction Set for Neural Network Inference
  3. Data-driven Partitioning of Aggregate GPU Power among GPU (MIG) Partitions
  4. ELM-Split: Energy-Latency-Memory Aware Splitting of DNN models in Edge-Cloud Ecosystem

11:20 AM – 12:50 PM

Lightning talks for posters
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM


Industry Track

Paper Presentation

  1. AI Driven Virtual Mock Interviews-Specialized at Context Matching
  2. M-PACE: Mother Child Framework for Multimodal Compliance
  3. RAFTAR-FM: Retrieval-Augmented, Feedback-Tuned Agentic Resolution for Facilities Maintenance
  4. QuOrA – Query Orchestration and Acceleration
  5. OptiRAG: Optimized RAG Configuration Under Performance Constraints
  6. VLMs-in-the-Wild: Bridging the Gap Between Academic Benchmarks and Enterprise Reality

11:00 AM – 01:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Demos & Exhibits
and Posters

 

#246: AI-Driven Data Governance: Real-Time Observability, Data Quality, and Compliance

#252: Dermatica: A Mobile Solution for Preliminary Skin Disease Diagnosis
Amazon Demo – Troubleshooting Chatbot

#248: BizEye: Broad-spectrum Intelligent Zone Eye for Abnormality Detection

#251: Ta Ka Di Mi: AI for Konnakkol and Rhythm Training

#255: PolicyBot: Reliable Q&A over Policy Documents

#254: GenSenSim: Generative Sensor Response Simulator

#249: Machine Learning-Enhanced EKF for Vehicle Localization under Sparse Observations

#244: AI-Driven Elephant Detection and Alert Systems for Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation

Sprinklr Demo

TCS Demo

Walmart Demo

IBM Demo

Microsoft Demo

11:30 AM – 01:00 PM

 

SIGMA 1SIGMA 3INDIAN AFFAIRS
Lunch Break (Pool Side)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Paper Sessions (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM)

Research Track
Systems Infrastructure and Trustworthy AI

Research Invited Talk: Suparna Bhattacharya (Hewlett Packard Labs)

“Designing a Foundation model OS for agentic AI, exploring systems principles and covering elements of knowledge/memory, efficiency and responsible AI.”

02:00 PM – 02:30 PM

Paper Presentation

  1. Bypassing the CPU: GPU-Centric Video Inference for Edge Offloaded Applications
  2. NISMon: Identifying the Root Cause of NIC Rx Buffer Buildup
  3. Optimal Strategies for Federated Learning Maintaining Client Privacy
  4. Know What You Don’t Know: Selective Prediction for Early Exit DNNs

02:30 PM – 03:50 PM

Lightning talks for posters
03:50 PM – 04:00 PM

Industry Track

Industry Invited Talk: Prof Gopinath

“Demystifying AI thru some History and some Philosophy” 

02:00 PM – 03:00 PM

Tutorial:  Anupam Purwar

“AI Agents” 

03:00 PM – 04:30 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Demos & Exhibits
and Posters

#246: AI-Driven Data Governance: Real-Time Observability, Data Quality, and Compliance

#252: Dermatica: A Mobile Solution for Preliminary Skin Disease Diagnosis
Amazon Demo – Troubleshooting Chatbot

#248: BizEye: Broad-spectrum Intelligent Zone Eye for Abnormality Detection

#251: Ta Ka Di Mi: AI for Konnakkol and Rhythm Training

#255: PolicyBot: Reliable Q&A over Policy Documents

#254: GenSenSim: Generative Sensor Response Simulator

#249: Machine Learning-Enhanced EKF for Vehicle Localization under Sparse Observations

#244: AI-Driven Elephant Detection and Alert Systems for Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation

Sprinklr Demo

TCS Demo

Walmart Demo

IBM Demo

Microsoft Demo

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

 

SIGMA 1SIGMA 3INDIAN AFFAIRS
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Keynote Talk #3

Prof. Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Labs, USA
The Agentic Internet Society & Economy: The Future is Here!

04:00 PM – 05:30 PM

 

Panel Discussion #2

Can We Trust ‘Responsible AI’? The Truth Behind the Buzzwords


Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research, India)

Rahul Mangharam (University of Pennsylvania, US)
Samarth Chandra (Spinor Labs, India)
Rajan A (TCS, India)
Pradyumna Chari (MIT Media Labs, US)

5:30 PM – 6:45 PM

SIGMA HALL

AIMLSystems’25 Award Ceremony & Banquet

Banquet Talk

Dr. Harrick Vin, CTO, Tata Consultancy Services
7:00 PM – 7:45 PM

SIGMA HALL

Award Ceremony
Best Papers, Best Posters, Best Demos
7:45 PM – 8:00 PM

 

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
Announcing AIMLSystems’26

COCKTAILS and DINNER
8:15 PM – 10:50 PM

POOL SIDE, Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore

 

Keynote Talk #4

Prof. Mausam, IIT Delhi

“Traditional AI/ML meets LLMs for Reasoning & knowledge tasks.”

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Paper Sessions
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Research Track
Computational Social Science and Misinformation

Research Invited Talk: Rajesh Sharma (Plaksha University, India)

“Fighting Misinformation: Characterizing, Detecting, and Mitigating False Content Online”

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

 

Paper Presentation

  1. Quantifying User-Level Coordination in the Spread of Misinformation on X (Twitter)
  2. Social Sense mobile app with Evolution Analytics and Offensiveness Severity Detection
  3. Multi-Granular Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Explainable Fact-Checking via Multi-Task Learning

12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

 

Industry Track

Paper Presentation

  1. Deep Ordinal Multi-Task Learning for Flight Price Change Prediction in Online Travel Platforms
  2. Machine Learning Based GHI and Solar Power Forecasting Using Satellite-Based Spatio-Temporal Features

11:30 AM – 12:10 PM

Industry Invited Talk: Dr Samarth Chandra

“ML for spying on business rivals and for other applications”

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

DWorkshop #3

AI in Space

Welcome

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Keynote Talk: Dr. Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan (SkyServe, Former Group Director at SAC/ISRO)

“Translating AI to generate actionable insights from remote sensing data”

11:45 AM – 01:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGMA 1SIGMA 3INDIAN AFFAIRS
Lunch Break (Pool Side)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Paper Sessions
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Research Track
Large Language Models, NLP, and Inclusive AI

Research Invited Talk: Kalika Bali (Microsoft Research, India)

Equitable AI for the Global South: Systems, Stakeholders, and the Shifting Center of Innovation

02:00 PM – 02:30 PM

 

Paper Presentation

  1. Memoria: A Modular Memory Framework for Long-Term Personalization in LLM-Based Conversational Systems
  2. QueRA: Query Synthesis and Resource Access Modelling in RAG
  3. DetectLLM: A Multimodal Fusion Approach for Detecting LLM-Generated Text
  4. IsoSignVid2Aud: Sign Language Video to Audio Conversion without Text Intermediaries

02:30 PM – 03:50 PM

Lightning talks for posters

03:50 PM – 04:00 PM

 

Industry Track

Paper Presentation

  1. Recommendation of Bundles of Ancillary Products: A Conceptual Architecture
  2. Performance and Cost Benefits of Workload-Aware Heterogeneous Deployment in Modern Applications

02:00 PM – 02:40 PM

Panel Discussion

 “Generative AI : Implications for every day customer”

Subhav Sinha, Ramkrishna, Swaroop Hangal, Moderated by Anupam Purwar

03:00 PM – 04:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop #3

AI in Space

Invited Talk: Prof. Yogesh Wadadekar (NCRA)

“Galaxy evolution using big data and AI”

02:00 PM – 03:00 PM

Panel Discussion

“AI or not to AI: Challenges in AI for space applications”

Dr. Arpan Pal, Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan

Moderator: Dr. Shailesh Deshpande

03:00 PM – 04:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGMA 1SIGMA 3INDIAN AFFAIRS
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Panel Discussion #3

“AI as Workforce: Tool, Teammate, or Threat?”


Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon, India)

Mausam (IIT Delhi, India)
Santanu Bhattacharya (MIT Media Labs, US)
Davide Bacciu (University of Pisa, Italy)
Loveleen Kolvekar (Microsoft, India)

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM

SIGMA HALL

AIMLSystems’25 Conference Closure