MIU Annual Workshop on
Machine Intelligence and Applications 2026

📅 March 11, 2026 (Wednesday)

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About the Workshop

It is an Annual Workshop to which we invite distinguished speakers in the field of Machine Intelligence and its applications.

Organized By

Machine Intelligence Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Venue

PJAB Auditorium,
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Distinguished Speakers

Ambedkar Dukkipati

Ambedkar Dukkipati

Professor, CSA
Indian Institute of Science

Areas of Interest: Statistics and Machine Learning
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Karthikeyan Shanmugam

Karthikeyan Shanmugam

Research Scientist
Google Deepmind

Areas of Interest: Causal Inference, Foundation Models, Bandits/RL and Explainable AI
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Aparajita Khan

Aparajita Khan

Assistant Professor, CSE
IIT (BHU) Varanasi

Areas of Interest: ML, Deep Learning, Biomedical Data Science, Medical NLP, Weather Analytics
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Debarka Sengupta

Debarka Sengupta

Professor, CB & CS
IIIT Delhi

Areas of Interest: Computational Genomics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics
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Program Schedule

Time Session / Topic & Speaker
10:30 - 11:30 Reinforcement Learning under External Influence: Guarantees, Algorithms, and Sample Complexity Ambedkar Dukkipati, Professor, IISc Bangalore
11:30 - 11:45 Break for High Tea
11:45 - 12:45 Algorithms for Fine Tuning Diffusion Models through Rewards Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
12:45 - 12:55 Felicitation Ceremony of Debarka Sengupta, Professor, IIIT Delhi
12:55 - 13:15 AI and Autonomous Agents in Clinical Management of Cancers Debarka Sengupta, Professor, IIIT Delhi
13:15 - 14:15 Break for Working Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Large Language Models for Advancing Lung Cancer Screening and Surveillance from Electronic Health Records Aparajita Khan, Assistant Professor, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
15:15 - 15:30 Break for Tea
15:30 - 16:00 Cultural Event