Indo Norwegian ICT Workshop
IIIT Hyderabad, 21 June 2016

This workshop is intended to bring together leading researchers from India and Norway to establish a high impact collaborative research initiative in rapidly growing and emerging areas of ICT with particular focus towards innovation directed to societal needs.

The workshop comprises the following themes. A session will be devoted to each of the four themes. Each session will comprise short invited talks and will conclude with a discussion of a road map highlighting the possible areas of cooperation between Norway and India. The idea is to follow up through joint calls for research proposals in the identified areas.

  • Big data and machine learning
  • Internet of things
  • Smart systems
  • ICT and society

Schedule

June 21

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 13:45 Opening ceremony
13:45 - 14:30 Opening session. Presentations from Department of Science and Technology, the Research Council of Norway, IIIT and NTNU on Indo-Norwegian collaboration and ICT

14:30 - 15:00 Tea/Coffee

15:00 - 17:00 Big data and Machine learning:

General introduction
Presentations from participants
Plenary discussion

Evening: Welcome reception/dinner at Radisson Hyderabad Hitec City Hotel hosted by Norway side

June 22

9:00 - 10:30 Internet of Things:

General introduction
Presentations from participants
Plenary discussion

10:30 - 11:00 Tea/coffee

11:00 - 12:30 Smart systems:
General introduction
Presentations from participants
Plenary discussion

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 ICT and society:
General introduction
Presentations from participants
Plenary discussion

15:00 - 15:30 Tea/coffee

15:30 – 16:30 "Business-to-business" session

16:30 – 17:15 The way forward: Presentations by the DST, RCN and Innovation Norway regarding the plans ahead, possibilities for funding for joint research projects, pilots, support for application proposals for e.g. joint EU applications, etc.

Dinner in the evening at Hotel Ellaa, hosted by India side

Norway participants are scheduled to tour Indian institutes, including IIIT Hyderabad and IIT Hyderabad on 23rd June.

Participants

Big data & machine learning

  1. Purushottam Kar , Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
  2. Sayan Ranu , Assistant Professor, IIT Madras, India
  3. Avinash Sharma, Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  4. Suryakanth , Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  5. Vasudeva Varma , Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  6. C. Krishna Mohan , Associate Professor, IIT Hyderabad, India
  7. Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad, India
  8. S. Bapi Raju , Professor, Hyderabad Central University, India
  9. Medha Atre , Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
  10. Raghavendra Ramachandra , Researcher, NTNU Gjøvik, Norway
  11. Antorweep Chakravorty , Researcher, UiS, Norway

Internet of things

  1. Anupam Basu , Professor, IIT Kharagpur, India
  2. Kamal Karlapalem , Professor, IIT Gandhinagar, India
  3. Praveen Parachuri , Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  4. Dinesh Pillaipakkamnatt , Researcher, Novartis, India, India
  5. Ilangko Balasingham , Professor, UiO/NTNU/OUS, Norway
  6. Andavilli Shankar , Researcher, Norplan, Norway
  7. Chittaranjan Hota , Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India

Smart systems

  1. Sreenivas T.V. , Professor, IISc Bangalore, India
  2. Anil Kumar Vuppala , Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  3. Akbar S.A. , Researcher, CEERI Pilani, India
  4. Kishore Kothapalli , Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  5. Sujit Gujar, Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  6. Torbjorn Svendsen , Professor, NTNU, Norway
  7. Dirk Ahlers , Researcher, NTNU IDI, Norway
  8. P Ravindran , Professor, CUTN (India), UiO, Norway

ICT & society

  1. Vikram Pudi , Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  2. Venkatesh Choppella , Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  3. Nagesh Kolagani , Associate Professor, IIIT Chittoor, India
  4. Sunil Nair , Researcher, IFE, Norway
  5. Sattanathan Subramanian , Researcher, NTNU IDI, Norway
  6. Roger Schjerva , Researcher, IKT Norge, Norway
  7. Ananya Muddukrishna , Researcher, NTNU IDI, Norway
  8. Saurabh Leekha , Researcher, HISP India, India

Government Representatives

  1. Sivaji Chadaram , DST, India
  2. Olaug Råd , RCN, Norway
  3. Merethe Sandberg Moe , RCN, Norway
  4. Inger Midtkandal , Innovation Norway, Norway

Organized by Vikram Pudi, IIIT Hyderabad, India and Torbjørn Svendsen, NTNU, Norway.