Our Team

The researchers, scientists, and practitioners steering, reviewing, and organising the first edition of Conference for AI Scientists (CAISc).

Steering Committee

Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli

Director, NUS AI Institute

NUS

Computer Vision Trustworthy AI Multimedia Computing

Prof. Nagasuma Chandra

Professor, Biochemistry

IISc

Systems Biology Drug Discovery Applied Bioinformatics

Dr. Shirish Karande

Principal Scientist

TCS Research

AI for Media AI Alignment Computational Creativity

Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty

Chair Professor in AI

IIT Delhi

Applied LLMs Interpretability LLM Personalization

Dr. Palash Goyal

Research Scientist

Google

Agentic Systems AI Safety LLM Reasoning & Planning

Program Committee

Dr. Pratik Narang

Chair

Faculty, CS & Information Systems

BITS Pilani

Computer Vision Generative AI

Dr. Murari Mandal

Chair

Faculty, Computer Science

KIIT Bhubaneswar

Machine Unlearning LLMs

Prof. Durai Sundar

Chair Professor, Biochemical Engineering

IIT Delhi

Computational Bioinformatics Drug Targeting

Prof. Nita Parekh

Professor, Bioinformatics

IIIT Hyderabad

Deep Learning Medical Imaging

Dr. Wenda Li

Lecturer, Hybrid AI

University of Edinburgh

Neuro-symbolic AI AI for Maths

Dr. Vinay Chamola

Faculty, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

BITS Pilani

IoT Security Generative AI

Dr. Srinivas Rallapalli

Faculty, Civil & Biosystems Engineering

BITS Pilani

Deep Learning Agricultural AI

Dr. Manmeet Singh

Faculty, AI for Climate and Geosciences

Western Kentucky University

Geoscience AI for Climate

Dr. Tejasvi Alladi

Faculty, CS & Information Systems

BITS Pilani

Internet of Things Deep Learning

Dr. Jagat Sesh Challa

Faculty, CS & Information Systems

BITS Pilani

Big Data Analytics LLMs

Dr. Yash Sinha

Faculty, CS & Information Systems

BITS Pilani

Machine Unlearning LLM Safety

Dr. Ankan Pal

Faculty, Mathematics

BITS Pilani

Number Theory Cryptography

Dr. Saurabh Deshpande

AI Research Head

Birla AI Labs

Deep Learning Time Series

Dr. Naveen Sudharsan

Research Scientist

Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin

Climate Science AI for Climate

Ishan Gupta

Research Engineer

Netflix

Recommendation Systems Personalization

Anand Gokhale

Doctoral Researcher

UCSB

Distributed Optimization Control Systems

Organizing Committee

Dr. Dhruv Kumar

Assistant Professor, CS

BITS Pilani

Dhruv Trehan

Researcher

Lossfunk

Paras Chopra

Founder, Researcher

Lossfunk

Siddhartha Mahajan

Researcher

Lossfunk