ACM India PhD Clinic

ACM India PhD Clinic

ACM India’s PhD Clinic was launched in Sept 2020, facilitates CS PhD students from all over the country to obtain inputs and advice from diverse expert mentors located in premier academic institutions and industry. The PhD Clinic has been very successful in helping students, with some representative feedback from students:

"The way she answered the questions was so good! She shared personal experiences as well and that made me connect to her."

"He guided me in such a nice way about how to find a research topic, what areas can be there and how I should align my research in a proper manner."

"2,500+ mins, 60+ 1x1 sessions, 30+ PhD students, 10 Mentors at the CODS-COMAD, Jan 2024."

More details of the ACM India PhD Clinic program can be found here. Do not register using ACM India page.

In this edition’s CODS COMAD, we will be having Clinic sessions for PhD students and young researchers. Selected students will get travel support to attend the conference and to interact 1-n-1 with below listed mentors. It is mandatory to attend all days of the conference and the Clinic sessions for students who are getting supported by the conference.

Mentors

• Prof. Anand Mishra - Vision and Language - IIT Jodhpur
• Prof. Ankit Gangwal - Cybersecurity, Privacy - IIIT Hyderabad
• Prof. Ashutosh Modi - NLP, ML, Affective Computing, Legal NLP, Sign Language Processing, LLMs, RL+NLP, Commonsense Reasoning - IIT Kanpur
• Dr. Hemank Lamba - Computational Social Science, Data Mining, Explainability and Fairness - Dataminr Inc.
• Prof. Md. Shad Akthar - NLP, Deep Learning - IIIT Delhi
• Prof. Prerana Mukherjee - Computer Vision - JNU
• Prof. Sriram Natarajan - Reinforcement Learning, Graphical Models, Healthcare Applications - UT Dallas
• Prof. Sayan Ranu - Network Science, Graph Neural Networks, Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics - IIT Delhi
• Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian - Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Explainable AI. - IIT Hyderabad

Registration

Interested students can apply here

Timeline

Organizers

• Hemank Lamba, Dataminr
• Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), IIIT Hyderabad, India

For more details, please reach out to the track chairs at hlamba@dataminr.com