IRISS 2019, 6-7 February, Kerala: Call for Participation

January 28, 2019

You are cordially invited to participate in 13th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science which will be held on 6-7 February 2019 at Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India.

IRISS is an annual student seminar co-located with ACM India Annual Event. The purpose of the seminar is to provide a platform for the CS- research scholars in India to showcase their recent research work and for the potential employers from academia and industry to interact with them. It provides an opportunity for the participants to interact with their peers and experienced researchers from other institutes and industry apart from getting to listen to distinguished speakers.

Seeing the success of IRISS in the previous editions, this year it has been extended from one day to two days where-in participants will also get to listen to and interact with distinguished young researchers providing insights into future career opportunities and prospects for the students.

Below are the highlights:

  • Keynote: Prof. Vinod Prabhakaran (TIFR Mumbai)
  • Early Career Researcher Keynote: Dr. Sayan Ranu (IIT Delhi)
  • Early Career Researcher Presentations:
    Dr. Neeldhara Misra (IIT Gandhinagar)
    Dr. Piyush Rai (IIT Kanpur)
    Dr. Rohith Vallam (IBM IRL)
    Dr. Nithin Shivashankar (Mimyk)
  • Presentation by Doctoral Dissertation Award Recipients:
    Dr. Keerti Choudhary (IIT Kanpur), "Compact and Efficient Fault Tolerant Structures for Directed Graphs"
    Dr. Deepesh Data (TIFR),"Communication Complexity and Characterization Results in Secure Computation"
  • Managing a Research Career (Panel):
    Moderator: Prof. R. Ramanujam (IMSc)
    Prof. Hema Murthy, CSE (IIT-Madras)
    Dr. Shourya Roy (American Express)
    Dr. Lipika Dey (TCS)

Please refer to http://people.du.ac.in/~ngupta/IRISS2019.htm for more details.

Registration:
Early bird Registration fees for IRISS 2019 are INR 1500/- + GST INR 270/-. Total - INR 1770/-. (until 30 January). After 30 January, registration fees are INR 1800/- + GST INR 324/- Total 2124/-. Please register at this link: https://www.eventavenue.com/attReglogin.do?eventId=EVT7594.

Participants of IRISS get free registration for the ACM India Annual Event that hosts a number of talks by eminent speakers on 8 February. For more details see https://cochin.acm.org/acmindia2019/index.php.

Limited hotel accommodation is available for outstation participants at nominal cost. This will be provided on first-come-first-serve basis. Please write to below emails if you need accommodation:
Chandrashekhar Sahasrabudhe: [email protected] Binu A.: [email protected]