Talk details
Title: Future research scopes for Indian aspirants in emerging areas (AI/ML/communication) as envisioned by Program Director, NSF, USA.
Speaker: Prof. Deep Medhi (Ph.D.) Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) & Curators’ Distinguished Professor Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Fellow, IEEE.
Date: 28 July 2022
Time: 7 PM (IST)
Speaker’s bio
Deep Medhi is currently serving as a Program Director in the Computer & Network Systems (CNS) Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the IPA Program; see his NSF web page. He is on leave as Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. He received B.Sc. in Mathematics from Cotton College, Gauhati University, India, M.Sc. in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India, and his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Prior to joining UMKC in 1989, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1987 to 1989, where he co-developed Facility Diverse Routing - a feature that was deployed in AT&T’s nationwide dynamic routing network. He is an honorary professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India. His research has been funded by DARPA and NSF. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers, and is co-author of two books. He is a Fellow of IEEE, recognized for his scientific contributions to optimization and the design of computer-communication networks.