Conference Program
Please find the day wise split below
08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Arrival, registrations & refreshments
Venue: (A1-005)
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09:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Welcome Address: The vision behind & a brief
history of ConfAI and an introduction to Plaksha University
Venue: (Auditorium)
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10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Opening Keynote: Perspectives on having impact through research, by Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan - Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
Venue: (Auditorium)
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Oral Presentations
Venue: (A1-002)
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Theme: Language Models and Translation
Session Chairs: Prof. Anish Roy Chowdhury, Prof. Deepak Khemani
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1. Multilingual Mathematical Reasoning: Advancing Open-Source LLMs in Hindi and English
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025 | Dr. Avinash Anand
2. Linguistically Inspired Pose-Stitching for End-to-End Sign Language Translation
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025 | Sanjeet Singh
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3. Leveraging the Cross-Domain & Cross-Linguistic Corpus for Low-Resource NMT: A Case Study On Bhili-Hindi-English Parallel Corpus
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025 | Pooja Singh
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4. Parameter Efficient Instruction Tuning of LLMs for Financial Applications
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Organisations, IJCAI 2024 | Subhendu Khatuya
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12:30 PM - 01:00 PM | Campus Tour
Venue: (Campus Wide)
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01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch​
Venue: (Dining Hall First Floor)
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02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Oral Presentations
Venue: (A1-002)
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Theme: Medical Imaging and Healthcare Applications
Session Chairs: Prof. Sandeep Manjanna, Prof. Monica Sharma
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1. Scale-Aware Adaptive Feature Quantization for Robust Medical Image Representation Learning
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2025 | Azad Singh
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2. StAlK: Structural Alignment based Self Knowledge distillation for Medical Image Classification
Knowledge-Based Systems 304, 2024 | Dr. Saurabh Sharma
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3. Healing with hierarchy: Hierarchical attention empowered graph neural networks for predictive analysis in medical data
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2025 | Shivani Gupta
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4. Bridging the Gap: Cognitive Science Perspectives and Artificial Intelligence for Prediction and Detection of Specific Learning Disabilities
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2025 | Subha Sreekumar
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03:40 PM - 04:30 PM | Invited Speaker Talk: From Controlled Datasets to Uncontrolled Worlds: The Real Test of AI, by Dr. Renu Rameshan - Principal Scientist, Vehant Technologies
Venue: (Auditorium)
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04:30PM - 04:45PM | High Tea
Venue: (A1-005)
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04:45 PM - 06:15 PM | Oral Presentations
Venue: (A1-002)
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Theme: Robustness in Computer Vision
Session Chairs: Prof. Anupam Sobti, Prof. Deepan M
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1. SENTINELKILNDB: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for OBB Brick Kiln Detection in South Asia Using Satellite Imagery
NeurIPS 2025 | Rishabh Mondal
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2. A Unified, Resilient, and Explainable Adversarial Patch Detector
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference 2025 | Vishesh Kumar
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3. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Person Re-Identification Via Individual-Preserving and Environmental-Switching Cyclic Generation
IEEE Transactions of Multimedia 2025, Dr. Astha Verma
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4. LumiNet: Multispatial Attention Generative Adversarial Network for Backlit Image Enhancement
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 2023 | Dr. Maheshkumar H Kolekar
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06:15 PM - 06:30 PM | Closing Day 1
Venue: (A1-002)
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06:30 PM - 07:30 PM | Poster Sessions & Student Demos; accompanied by Tea & Coffee
Venue: (HDFC Building First Floor)
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07:30 PM onwards | Dinner
Venue: (Dining Hall First Floor)
08:30 AM - 09:20 AM | Refreshments
Venue: (A1-005)
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09:20 AM - 09:25 AM | Day 3 Opening Remarks
Venue: (A1-002)
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09:25 AM - 10:15 AM | Keynote 4 (Online): Artificial Intelligence Through The Lens of Higher Education, By Prof. Rajesh Gupta, Dean of UCSD School of Computing, Information & Data Sciences
Venue: (A1-002)
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10:25 AM - 11:35 AM | Oral Presentations
Venue: (A1-002)
Theme: Multimodal and Social Computing
Session Chairs: Prof. Pankaj Pansari, Prof. Saeed Salehi
1. ASR-FAIRBENCH: Measuring and Benchmarking Equity Across Speech Recognition Systems
Interspeech 2025 | Anand Kumar Rai
2. What is Beneath Misogyny: Misogynous Memes Classification and Explanation
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2024 | Dr. Kushal Kanwar
3. Multi-Attribute Bias Mitigation via Representation Learning
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2025 | Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi
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11:45 AM - 01:15 PM | Oral Presentations
Venue: (A1-002)
Theme: Explorations in AI - Cognitive Modeling, Environmental Intelligence, and Optimization Strategies
Session Chairs: Prof. Anish Roy Chowdhury, Prof. Tapas Pandit
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1. Regret Lower Bounds for Decentralized Multi-Agent Stochastic Shortest Path Problems
NeurIPS 2025 | Dr. Prashant Trivedi
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Cognitive Neurodynamics 2025 | Dr. Rashmi Mishra
3. Disentangling Proximate and Distal Controls on Methane Variability in South Asian Rivers Using Machine Learning
ACS ES&T Water 2025 | Sruthi S
4. JaGW: A hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for IoT workflow placement in fog computing environment,
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 2025 | Dr. Hemant Kumar Apat
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01:15 PM - 01:45 PM | Closing Remarks
Venue: (A1-002)
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1:45 PM | Lunch
Venue: (Dining Hall First Floor)
08:30 AM - 09:25 AM | Refreshments
Venue: (A1-005)
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09:25 AM - 9:30 AM | Day 2 Opening Remarks - Prof. Siddharth
Venue: (Auditorium)
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09:30 AM - 10:20 AM | Keynote 2: Beyond In-Context Learning: Rethinking Few-Shot Adaptation for Structured Tasks, by Prof. Sunita Sarawagi, Professor at IIT Bombay
Venue: (Auditorium)
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10:20 AM - 11:10 AM | Keynote 3: Learning Symbols for Trustworthy AI by Prof. Mayur Naik, Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Venue: (Auditorium)
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11:10 AM - 11:25 AM | 15 Minute Break
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11:25 AM - 12:15 PM | Invited Speaker Talk: Traditional AI/ML meets LLMs for Reasoning & Knowledge Tasks, by Prof. Mausam, Professor at IIT Delhi
Venue: (Auditorium)
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12:15 PM - 01:05 PM | Invited Speaker Talk: Ctrl+Z for GenAI: Undoing What Models Learn and Teaching them, By Prof. Mayank Vatsa, Professor at IIT Jodhpur
Venue: (Auditorium)
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01:05 PM - 02:05 PM | Lunch
Venue: (Dining Hall First Floor)
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02:15 PM - 03:05 PM | Invited Speaker Talk: Attention and Intention while Driving on Indian Roads, by Prof. C.V. Jawahar, Professor at IIIT Hyderabad
Venue: (Auditorium)
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03:05 PM - 03:55 PM | Invited Speaker Talk: Beautifully biased: Trust, Truth & Trouble in Generative AI, By Prof. Richa Singh, Professor at IIT Jodhpur
Venue: (Auditorium)
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03:55 PM - 04:45 PM | Invited Speaker Talk: Building Language Models that Learn, Remember and Reason like Experts, by Dr. Niket Tandon, Principal Research Scientist
Venue: (Auditorium)
04:45 PM - 05:10 PM | High Tea and Student Poster Presentations
Venue: (Auditorium)
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05:10 PM - 05:50 PM | Invited Speaker Talk (Online): Frontier Tech: Unlocking the pathway to Viksit Bharat, by Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow at NITI Aayog
Venue: (Auditorium)
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05:50 PM - 06:50 PM | Panel Discussion: Beyond the Hype: Core Challenges in AI Research
Venue: (Auditorium)
Panelists: Prof. C.V. Jawahar, Prof. Mausam & Prof. Sunita Sarawagi
Moderator: Prof. Siddharth
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06:50 PM - 07:00 PM | Day 2 Closing Remarks - Prof. Rajesh Sharma
Venue: (Multipurpose Hall)
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07:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Plaksha Cultural Event
Venue: (Multipurpose Hall)
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8:00 PM onwards | Gala Dinner
Venue: (Multipurpose Hall)