Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
PLENARY SPEAKERS
November 2, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
8:00 – 8:40 am – Meeting Room 2 (Onsite)
Session Chair: Dr Suraj Kumar Mukti
8:00 – 8:15 am (November 2)
Dr Suraj Kumar Mukti
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
NIT Raipur
Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Dr Suraj Kumar Mukti is working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur. He has completed his Ph.D. research work at his own institute i.e. NIT Raipur under the supervision of Dr. A. M. Rawani, Director NIT Raipur. His fields of interest are Industrial Engineering & Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Management Information System, Knowledge Management, Change Management, Customer Relationship Management and Production Engineering & Technology. He is Taking care of CPDA review Committee, Institutional Start-up Cell, Anti-Ragging Committee, In-Charge Mechanical Engineering Departmental Library and Training Cell (Internal) under Career Development Centre at NIT Raipur presently. He has teaching experience of more than 18 years and also served as an Engineer at Chhattisgarh Electricity Board, in State Government. He has presented more than 20 papers in reputed journals and attended & presented research papers in many important International Conference within the country and abroad as well. He has organized many short-term training programs and other important events at his institute. He has authored three books viz. Customer Relationship Management: A Management Perspective, Execution of ERP system: A Case Study Approach and Knowledge Management: Implementation Methods and Strategies. He is lifetime member of Institute of Engineers (India), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), South Asia Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE) and many more technical and educational bodies. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards like Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Fellowship Award, Shikshak Ratna Samman etc. He is Editorial Board Member International Journal of Core Engg. and Mgt. (iJCEM) and may other reputed journals. Dr. Suraj Kumar Mukti represented NIT Raipur in Inter NIT Sports Meet at NIT Goa in 2018 and received gold medal for Table Tanis.
8:15 – 8:30 am (November 2)
Rituparna Datta
Manager, Data Science
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
Capgemini, Bangalore, India
8:30 – 8:45 am (November 2)
Dr Patanjal Kumar
Assistant Professor
Jindal Global Business School
O. P. Jindal Global University
Haryana, India
Dr Patanjal Kumar is an Assistant Professor in Jindal Global Business School, O. P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India. Dr Kumar is also an Editor of Optimal Envelope, Associate Editor of International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences (IJMEMS) and Vice President of IEOM (Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society International) New Delhi Chapter, India. Dr Kumar has completed his doctoral degree in the area of Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques from Indian Institute of Management Rohtak. Dr Kumar has a master’s degree in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Dr Kumar has secured all India 4th, 14th, and 19th rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in the year 2010, 2013, and 2015 respectively. He has completed a Bachelor of Technology with honours. Dr. Kumar is recipient of many outstanding awards such as Outstanding Teaching Excellence in SCM Award (IEOM Society International), the best research paper award (AGBA Society), and the best performer award (Bhartiya Kalyan Samiti, Varanasi, UP, India). He has also received a silver medal in Textile Technology from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow (U.P.). Dr. Kumar has taught at IIM Rohtak, UPES, The Northcap University Gurugram, VESIM Mumbai, and GLA University Mathura (India). Dr Kumar has published in leading journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part D, Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Annals of Operations Research, Business Strategy and the Environment, Applied Economics, American Business Review, Operations Management Research, Journal of Public Affairs, and so forth. He has presented his research work in various leading conferences. He has also worked on defense, policing, and public policy projects. He is currently working in the area of Sustainable Supply Chain, Supply Chain Coordination, Innovative Supply Chain, Game Theory, Optimization, Behavioral Operations Management, and Policing Research.
8:45 – 9:00 am (November 2)
Prof. Shekar Babu, Ph.D.
Founding Head, AMRITA School of Business, Bengaluru
Head, ARISE Lab
AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham University
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Adjunct Faculty, SUNY, Buffalo, USA
Prof. Shekar has 15 years of experience in academia and 15 years in Industry. Prof. Shekar Babu is the founding head of AMRITA School of Business, Bangalore. He started AMRITA School of Business, Bangalore in 2007 in collaboration with State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, USA. He was also an Adjunct Faculty at School of Management, University at Buffalo, NY, USA. He worked for 10 years as a Director of Hewlett-Packard’s Software Division, California, USA. He was responsible for managing the $1Billion revenues. He worked 5 years as a Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse (PWC), Los Angeles, California, USA. Prof. Shekar has been actively working on Sustainability, SDG and CSR projects since 2007. He led the “Education through Rural Transformation” project by implementing “Village Resource Centers (VRC)” across 5 remote locations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The VRC project was in collaboration with ISRO and with the help of corporate funding from HP, Microsoft, CTS and CISCO.
Prof. Shekar has been working with international researchers and consultants from USA, Australia and Europe on mandated CSR and Sustainability projects with focus on Indian government and private companies. He has published close to 50+ high-impact journal international conference papers. Prof. Shekar is also a guest editor is some prestigious research journals like “Sustainability Accountability Public Governance”, Industrial Marketing Management” and “Journal of Finance and Accounting”. Prof. Shekar is the Head of “AMRITA Center for Responsible Innovations and Sustainable Enterprises – ARISE” Lab. He has already secured funding of more than 2 Crores from HP, Microsoft, Cognizant, Cisco and SAN Engineering and Locomotives. The main areas of research include Technology for Social Good, Sustainability, SDGs, CSR and Ethics.
Prof. Shekar received B.E. (Electronics and Communications) degree from Bangalore University, India, M.S. (Computer Engineering) degree from California State University, Los Angeles, USA and PhD from AMRITA University, India.
9:00 – 9:15 am (November 2)
Dr Saurabh Agrawal
Associate Professor
School of Management
Delhi Technological University
India
Saurabh Agrawal is working as an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Delhi Technological University. He published many articles in national and International journals. His research interests are Supply Chain Management, Reverse Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Data Anatytics.
9:15 – 9:30 am (November 2)