SpAice it up!

AI in Space …

Schedule

DATE: October 11, 2025

Venue: INDIAN AFFAIRS, Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore

TimeEvent
Tea / Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
11:30 AM – 11:45 AMWelcome
11:45 AM– 1:00 PMKeynote – 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 PMInvited 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”
Dr. Arpan Pal,
Distinguished Chief Scientist & Research Head Embedded Devices &
Intelligent Systems
TCS Research

Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay,
Department of Environmental Sciences
LSU, USA

Dr. Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan,
SkyServe, Former Group Director at SAC/ISRO

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.

• Paper Submission Deadline: 15th Aug 2025
• Acceptance Notification: 1st Sept 2025
• Camera-Ready Deadline: 15th Sept 2025
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

Title
Translating AI to generate actionable insights from remote sensing data