SpAice it up!
AI in Space …
Schedule
DATE: October 11, 2025
Venue: INDIAN AFFAIRS, Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore
| Time | Event |
| Tea / Coffee Break 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | |
| 11:30 AM – 11:45 AM | Welcome |
| 11:45 AM– 1:00 PM | Keynote – Dr. Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan SkyServe, Former Group Director at SAC/ISRO “Translating AI to generate actionable insights from remote sensing data” |
| Lunch Break 1:00 PM– 2:00 PM | |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Invited Talk – Prof. Yogesh Wadadekar Professor at National Centre for Radio Astrophysics “Galaxy evolution using big data and AI” |
| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Panel Discussion – “AI or not to AI that is a question: Challenges in AI for space applications” Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Moderator – Dr. Shailesh Deshpande, Principal Scientist, TCS research |
| Tea / Coffee Break 4:00 PM– 4:30 PM | |
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 August 2025, 11:59 pm AOE.
About the workshop
With more than 9000 active spacecraft orbiting earth, some capturing images of earth providing vital earth observations – at required spatial and temporal resolution, some providing critical communications and navigation infrastructure, spacetech plays a critical role in today’s information age. In this workshop space applications meet an equally fascinating modern technology: AI.
You will experience exciting talks by eminent space scientists and researchers who are actively providing efficient computing in space and intelligent analysis for environmental insights using the power of AI.
We invite research papers on interesting AI application to following broad areas:
- Intelligent sensing for earth observations
- Intelligent onboard data processing
- Generating actionable insights from earth observations
These are indicative broad areas of contributions. Any complete work or work in
progress which uses modern AI tools, techniques, and systems is welcome. Challenging
problems in the entire remote sensing value chain (that is, from sensing to data analysis
and dissemination) would be considered. Please connect with any of the co-chairs if
you have questions.
- Shailesh Deshpande, TCS Research
- Prasant Misra, TCS Research
- Supratik Mukhopadhyay, LSU, USA
Submission Instructions
Papers should be at most 4 pages, including title, abstract, figures and results, but excluding references, and not published or under review elsewhere. Papers should be prepared as per IEEE conference proceedings format. Please submit your papers through Microsoft CMT.
All accepted workshop full papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. In addition, no-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers NOT being included in the proceedings.
Panel Discussion
Title
AI or not to AI that is a question: Challenges in AI for space applications
Panelists: Dr. Arpan Pal, Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan
Moderator: Dr. Shailesh Deshpande
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan
SkyServe, Former Group Director at SAC/ISRO