Register for ACM India Industry Webinar on 2 February with Gautam Shroff: "Enterprise AI: Automation, Amplification, and Managing Complexity"
January 23, 2019
Following the successful launch of ACM India Industry Webinar series in December 2018, we are pleased to announce the next webinar by another technology leader on a topic of significant industry interest.
Register now https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1923889/739B2F0A17F588583697D207E21804E9 for the next session of ACM India Industry Webinar series, "Enterprise AI: Automation, Amplification, and Managing Complexity", to be presented on Saturday February 2, 2019 at 11am IST by Dr. Gautam Shroff, Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of Research, Tata Consultancy Services. All students, faculty and industry professionals are welcome to attend the webinar. Feel free to forward this communication to those who would be interested.
Note : You can also stream this webinar on your mobile device, including smartphone and tablet.
Abstract: In this webinar I shall describe how AI techniques can be applied in traditional enterprises across verticals, not only for automation but also amplification of human tasks. For example, I shall describe our experience with deploying deep-learning based knowledge assistants at scale within TCS. Next I shall give some examples of how AI and IOT are transforming manufacturing, by using deep-learning for detecting, diagnosing and sometimes predicting faults, as well as how deep-reinforcement learning can be used to manage supply chains from source to shelf, trade in inefficient markets, or even negotiate contracts. Finally I shall explain two challenges to the scaling of AI within traditional enterprises: embracing the culture of field experimentation, and figuring out how to marry mechanisms for developing and managing complex IT systems with the AL/ML paradigm.
Duration : 60 minutes (including audience Q&A)
Presenter:
Dr. Gautam Shroff is Vice President and Chief Scientist in Tata Consultancy Services and heads TCS Research. He has published 90 research papers in the areas of computational mathematics, parallel computation, distributed systems, software architecture, software engineering, big data, information fusion, virtual reality as well as artificial intelligence including machine learning, deep learning, Bayesian inference and natural language processing. He has written two books: Enterprise Cloud Computing, published by Cambridge University Press, UK, in October 2010, and The Intelligent Web, published by Oxford University Press, UK, in 2013 (paperback ed. 2015).
Prior to joining TCS in 1998, Dr. Shroff had been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (1990-91) and thereafter of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (1991-1997). He has also held visiting positions at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, and at Argonne National Labs in Chicago. He completed his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1985, and Ph.D in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY in 1990.
Host:
Dr. Hemant Pande , Executive Director, ACM India Council