The GRAMA Project: Game Theory, Random Processes, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for (Indian) Agriculture. KSCST 48th Anniversary Invited Talk, IAP Auditorium, IISc Campus, September 8, 2023.
Ask Heilmeier Questions for Creating High Impact Projects. Invited Talk. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, August 23, 2023
The GRAMA Project: Game Theory, Random Processes, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for (Indian) Agriculture. TCS-IIT Madras Colloquium Series in Computer Science and Engineering. IIT-Madras, April 26, 2023.
The GRAMA Project on Algorithmic Agriculture. Department of CSA Faculty Colloquium, March 27, 2023.
Data Driven Approaches for Agricultural Crop Recommendation. Keynote Talk, 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, IIIT-Hyderabad, December 20, 2022
AI as Key Enabler for Sustainable Developnent. Science Academies Lecture Programme in Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development, Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Hyderabad, December 15, 2022
Centre for Brain Research in the Service of Society. Invited Talk, IISc Global Alumni Meet, IISc, December 10, 2022
AI-Driven Farmer Collectives for Sustained Prosperity of Indian Farmers. Invited Talk, Indo-Taiwan Joint Research Centre for AI Webinar Series, IIT-Ropar, April 7, 2022
Agriculture Crop Price Prediction. Invited Talk at the 53rd APAN Meeting. Asia Pacific Advanced Network Meeting, March 10, 2022
AIML, Social Good, and Agriculture. Invited Talk at the CSIR-CSIO and IIT-Ropar Workshop on AI for Social Good. February 7, 2022
AIML in Agriculture. Keynote Talk in INAE Workshop on Technologies for Transformation of Indian Agriculture. January 10, 2022 (Online Talk)
Ballooning Multi-armed Bandits. Keynote Talk, International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Intelligence (CICBI 2022), Silchar, Assam, January 7, 2022 (Online Talk)
A Tutorial on Game Theory and Mechanism Design. CEP Course on “Advanced Topics in AI” organised by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, DRDO, November 25-26, 2021.
Blending Machine Learning with Mechanism Design. IIT-Jodhpur, Workshop on Techniques in Strategy, Decision Making, and Analysis. September 26, 2021
Ballooning Multi-armed Bandits. NITIE Arthniti Economics Lecture, August 11, 2021
AI Empowered Agriculture. National College Webinar series, National College, Basavanagudi, July 26, 2021.
Enabling Indian Farmers with AI Based Services. NABARD (National bank foe Agriculture and Rural development), July 16, 2021
Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Social Good. BITES Distinguished Lecture, Board for IT Education Standards, Bangalore, Jan 20, 2021
Ballooning Multi-armed Bandits. IEEE ANTS (Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems Conference), Kolkata, Dec. 16, 2020
Ask Heilmeier’s Questions: Towards High Impact Data Science Projects. STARS Talk (Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences), IIT-Bombay, Dec 12, 2020
John Nash: Beautiful Results from a Beautiful Mind. Invited Tech Talk. Atria Institute of Technology, July 2, 2020. (Online Talk)
John Nash: Beautiful Results from a Beautiful Mind. Structural Engineering Research Centre Technology Day Talk, May 12, 2020 (Online Talk)
Ballooning Multi-armed Bandits. CSA Faculty Colloquium. Department of CSA, IISc, January 3, 2020
Urban Water Markets based on Auctions and Blockchain Technology. Invited Talk at the Waterfuture Conference, Bangalore, September 25, 2019
Mechanism Design. Invited Talk. ICTS Course on Dynamics of Complex Systems, May 23, 2019
Why Mechanism Design is Needed for Machine Learning. Advanced Computing Endowment Lecture, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, January 11, 2019
Harnessing Game Theory for Designing Robust Blockchain Platforms, Keynote Talk, COMSNETS-2019 Workshop on Blockchains, Bangalore, January 7, 2019
Design of Trustworthy Market Platforms using Blockchains and Game Theory. Accenture India, Bangalore, May 28, 2018
Design of Trustworthy Market Platforms using Blockchains and Game Theory. World Blockchain Technology Conclave, Bangalore, March 22, 2018
Why Mechanism Design is Required for Machine Learning. IEOR Day, IIT Bomaby, Mumbai, March 17, 2018
Design of Trustworthy Market Platforms using Blockchains and Game Theory. Workshop on Blockchain Technologies. Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham. Coimbatore, March 16, 2018.
Blockchain Technology for Industrial and Societal Applications. Robert Bosch Centre for Cyberphysical Systems, IISc, February 23, 2018
Mechanism Design for Modern AI Applications, Invited Talk, ACM COMPUTE, Bhopal, November 17, 2017
Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Blockchains, IBM Research Labs, July 14, 2017
Blockchain Technology for Industrial and Societal Applications, Bangalore Science Forum, July 10, 2017
Mechanism Design for Strategic Crowdsourcing Networks for Geosensing Applications. Invited Talk. Indo-US Bilateral Workshop on Large Scale Complex Network Analysis. ISI, Kolkata, December 19, 2015.
Melding mechanism design with machine learning for modern web applications. IBM Research Day, Department of CSA, IISc. November 20, 2015.
Data Science Research: Current Trends and Future Directions. Invited Talk. Workshop on Big and Open Data: Evolving Data Science Standards and Citation Attribution Practices. New Delhi, November 8, 2015.
Game Theory and Mechanism Design. Invited Talk. Adobe Research Labs. Bangalore, July 8, 2015.
The Beautiful Mind of John Nash. Invited Talk, Motorola Engineering Projects Symposium, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. Bangalore, June 28, 2015.
Solving Modern Problems in Internet Economics using Game Theory and Mechanism Design. Keynote Talk, PARCOMPTECH-2015. Bangalore, February 19, 2015.
Solving Modern Problems in Internet Economics using Game Theory and Mechanism Design. Keynote Talk, PARCOMPTECH-2015. Bangalore, February 19, 2015.
A Multi-Armed Bandit Crowdsourcing Mechanism with Incentive Compatible Learning. NMI Workshop on Stochastic Systems and Applications, IISc. Bangalore, September 26, 2014.
Solving Modern Problems at the Interface of Computer Science and Economics using Game Theory and Mechanism Design. ACCS-CDAC Foundation Day Lecture, ACCS ADCOM-2014. Bangalore, September 19, 2014.
How to realize social goals in a modern society consisting of self-interested agents? IISc Alumni Association Distinguished Lecture, IISc campus. Bangalore, July 26, 2014.
Tutorial: Game Theory and Mechanism Design. Conference on Ramanujan’s Mathematics and Information Technology (RMIT – 2014) IIIT, Bangalore, June 26, 2014.
Mechanism Design for Strategic Networks, Crowds, and Markets. Big Data Public Lecture. IISc, Bangalore, June 10, 2014.
Scalable Preference Aggregation in Social Networks IFCAM (Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics) Workshop on Social Networks, IISc, Bangalore January 16, 2014
Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Network Analysis Pre-Conference Tutorial, PReMI – 2013 (Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence). December 10, 2013
Game Theoretic Modeling for Internet and Network Economics Adobe Research Labs, Bangalore August 27, 2013
Game Theory Meets Computer Science Bangalore Science Forum Lecture, Bangalore July 12, 2013
Magical Algorithms for Matching Markets CSA Department Seminar (on the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for 2012) November 30, 2012
Game Theory for Social Network Analysis Workshop on Social Network Analysis (SNAW-2012), Indian statistical Institute, Kolkata, June 28, 2012
Introduction to Social Networks Workshop on Social Network Analysis (SNAW-2012), Indian statistical Institute, Kolkata, June 27, 2012
Ph.D. in Computer Science Invited Talk, P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, May 3, 2012
Game Theory and its Modern Applications Invited Talk, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, May 2, 2012
Mechanism Design for Carbon Footprint Optimization Distinguished Lecture Series, Xerox Research Centre India, Bangalore, April 20, 2012
Influence Limitation in Multi-Campaign Social Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach Invited Talk, ICTP International Workshop on Network Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, January 9, 2012
Foundations of Mechanism Design Invited Talk, Workshop on Game Theory, International Conference on Game Theory, Operations Research and their Applications (GTORA), Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai, January 3, 2012
Data Analytics with Strategic Users Invited Talk, Indo-US Workshop on Large Scale Data Analytics and Intelligent Services, Bangalore, December 19, 2011
Game Theory Meets Computer Science. Invited Talk, RNS Institute of Technology, Bangalore, September 29, 2011
Healthcare Analytics Invited Talk, Indo-French Seminar on Modelling and Analysis of Complex Systems for Communications, Health, and Sustainable Development, Bangalore September 27, 2011
Game Theory and Mechanism Design. Invited Talk, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore August 25, 2011
Game Theoretic Models for Data Analytics Invited Special Session Talk, International Conference on Frontiers of Computer Science, Bangalore August 8, 2011
Social Network Analysis Invited Talk Bangalore Science Forum, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore July 13, 2011
Game Theory Meets Computer Science. Keynote Talk, National Conference on Computing and Communications, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Bangalore May 19, 2011
Game Theoretic Models for Social Network Analysis Silver Jubilee Lecture Department of Studies in Computer Science, Mysore University, Manasa Gangotri, Mysore April 29, 2011
Game Theoretic Models for Social Network Analysis Invited Talk, Adobe Systems, Bangalore April 5, 2011
Game Theoretic Models for Social Network Analysis Tutorial, International Conference on the World Wide Web, WWW-2011, Hyderabad, March 30, 2011
Nash Stable Partitioning of Graphs and Community Detection in Social Networks Invited Talk, International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis, IEEE IMSAA – 2010, Bangalore, December 15, 2010.
Game Theory Meets Computer Science. Invited Talk, Hewlett-Packard DSAS Center, Bangalore, November 15, 2010.
Design of Mechanisms for Dynamic Environments. Invited Talk, Indo-US Workshop on New Directions in Machine Learning, Game Theory, and Optimization, Bangalore, November 12, 2010.
Mechanism Design for Incentive Compatible Crowdsourcing. Invited Talk, I-CARE (IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange Workshop). Bangalore, October 22, 2010.
Game Theoretic Models of Social Network Formation. Invited Talk, Indo-US Workshop on Cognitive Science, Bangalore, September 26, 2010.
KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) Games. Invited Talk, Google India, Bangalore, August 13, 2010.
Game Theoretic Approach to Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Keynote Talk, Workshop on Soft Computing, Reva College of Engineering, Bangalore, August 13, 2010.
Ph.D. in Computer Science. UGC Workshop on Research Trends and Directions in Computer Science, Organized by the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, July 2, 2010.
A Game Theoretic Approach to Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Keynote Talk, The 2010 Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-2010), Hyderabad, June 23, 2010.
Mechanism Design Problems in Internet and Network Economics. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, May 11, 2010.
Games, Auctions, and Market Design. Professor T.R. Natesan Endowment Lecture, Anna University, Chennai, May 5, 2010.
Social Network Formation: Game Theoretic Models IBM Smarter Planet Edge Talk Series, Bangalore October 23, 2009.
Social Networks and Their Analysis Keynote Talk, Conference on Knowledge Sciences and Information Retrieval, Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore, October 9, 2009.
Auctions and Mechanism Design. Tutorial, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2009), Bangalore, August 22, 2009.
Games, Auctions, and Market Design. Invited Talk, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, August 5, 2009.
Social Networks. Invited Talk, Bangalore Science Forum, The National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, July 24, 2009.
Games, Auctions, and Market Design. Invited Talk, The Platinum Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Hyderabad, July 2, 2009.
Game Theory and Applications. Invited Tutorial, Conference on Mathematics for Information Technology, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, June 2, 2009.
Enabling Breakthrough Applications in Mobile Commerce through the Android Platform, Invited Talk, Google-Android for Executives Conference, Bangalore, March 5, 2009.
Game Theory and Mechanism Design in Internet and Network Economics. Keynote Talk, National Conference on Computer Networks (NCCN-2009), Bangalore, February 20, 2009.
Mechanism Design in Network Economics. CITRIS Talk, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, August 29, 2008.
A Novel Bid Optimizer for Sponsored Search Auctions using Cooperative Game Theory. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, August 28, 2008.
Game Theoretic Problems in Electronic Commerce and Mechanism Design Solutions, Institute Colloquium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, April 30, 2008.
Game Theoretic Problems in Network Economics and Mechanism Design Solutions. Invited Talk,IEEE SMC Bangalaore Chapter Distinguished Seminar Series, Bangalore, February 16, 2008.
Game Theory and Mechanism Design in Services Science and Engineering. Invited Talk, IBM Workshop on SSME (Services Science, Management, and Engineering), Bangalore, June 21, 2007.
The Core and Shapley Value Analysis of Cooperative Formation of Supply Chain Networks. Invited Talk, ISB-IBM Workshop on Operations Research and Data Analytics, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, February 7, 2007.
Object Oriented Design Patterns for Mission Critical Software, Invited Tutorial, Symphony Services, Bangalore, January 25, 2007.
Object Oriented Design Patterns, Invited Tutorial, Defence Research and Development Labs, DRDL, Hyderabad, December 18, 2006.
Creating Competitive Supply Chains through Innovative Auctions. Invited Talk, The 2006 Summit on Indian Manufacturing Competitiveness: Global Manufacturing and Service Networks, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, August 3, 2006.
Game Theory and Applications in Computer Science. Bangalore Science Forum, National College, Basavanagudi, July 27, 2006
Game Theoretic Approach to Conflict Resolution and Sustained Cooperation: Contributions of Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling Symposium on Nobel Prizes-2005, Indian Institute of Science, December 23, 2005.
Design of Smart Electronic Markets. Invited Talk, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, April 28, 2005
Object Oriented Design Patterns, Invited Tutorial, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, December 9, 2004.
Game Theoretic Models for Supply Chain Design. Invited Tutorial, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, DRDO, Bangalore, August 3, 2004.
Design of B2B markets for E-Supply Chains. Invited Talk. Thyagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, June 26, 2004.
Electronic Market Design for Supply Chains. Invited Talk. National Conference on Manufacturing Excellence through IT and RFID Enabled Supply Chains. Ashok Leyland Management Development Centre, Hosur, June 12, 2004.
Design of Electronic Exchanges. IBM Software Labs (Advanced Technology Division), Bangalore June 7, 2004
Design of Smart Electronic Markets. Microsoft Academia Summit 2004, Bangalore April 15, 2004
Design Patterns for Enterprise Software Design. Tutorial Presentation, Symphony SV Services, Bangalore, March 5, 2004
Design of Smart Electronic Markets. Showcase-2004, Department of CSA, IISc, Bangalore, February 22, 2004
Foundations of Object Techology. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, February 5, 2004
Design Patterns for Large Scale Software Engineering. Invited Talk, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, January 7, 2004
Object Oriented Design Patterns. TENCON-2003, Bangalore, October 14, 2003
Foundations of Supply Chain Management. Advanced Manufacturing, Sri Venkateswara University, July 23, 2003.
Six Sigma Supply Chains. Intel India, Bangalore, June 20, 2003.
Design of Combinatorial Markets. Game Theory Workshop, IBM India Research Labs, January 12, 2003.
Auction Algorithms for Digital Economy. ICORD-2002, Anna University, Chennai, December 28, 2002.
Six Sigma Supply Chains. Motorola, Bangalore, December 23, 2002.
Six Sigma Supply Chains. Cisco, Bangalore. October 13, 2002.
Component-based Software Design. Strand Genomics, Bangalore, August 28, 2002.
Design of Secure Electronic Marketplaces. National Seminar on Information and Network Security, Indian National Academy of Engineering, LRDE, Bangalore, August 2, 2002.
Design Patterns for Design of Robust Web Applications. Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, April 23, 2002.
Queueing Network Models in Stochastic Simulations. Invited Talk. At the Workshop on Modeling and Simulation, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, April 6, 2002.
Distributed Object Computings. CDAC Workshop on CORBA for Real-Time Computing, Bangalore, April 6, 2001.
Tutorial on Petri Nets, Objects, and Simulations. Defence Research and Development (DRDL), Hyderabad, April 2001.
Matching Algorithms for B2B Commerces. Workshop on Auctions. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, March 30, 2001.
Scalable Software Architecture for E-Commerce Applicationss. Workshop on Auctions. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, March 30, 2001.
Electronic Marketplacess. IEEE Invited Tutorial. Annual Conference and Exhibition, December 22, 2000.
Software Architecture Challenges in Building Electronic Auction Houses. Oracle Corporation, October 2000.
Objects of Electronic Commerce. Seminar. At the Ashok Leyland Management Development Centre, May 20, 2000.
Six Sigma Supply Chains. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, March 10, 2000
Electronic Commerce. Invited Talk. At the AICTE Workshop on Internet Technologies and Electronic Commerce, REC-Calicut, February 26, 2000
Internet Auctions. Invited Talk. At EximSoft Private Limited, February 11, 2000
Internet Auctions. Invited Talk. At the IIMM Workshop on Electronic Commerce, February 10, 2000
Internet Auctions. Invited Talk. At the CSI Workshop on Supply Chain Management, Ashok Leyland, January 25, 2000
Six Sigma Supply Chains. Invited Talk. At the CSI Workshop on Supply Chain Management, January 24, 2000
Supply Chain Management. Invited Talk. At the International Conference on Flexible Autonomous Manufacturing Systems, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, January 11, 2000
Internet Auctions. Invited Talk. At Silicon Automation Systems, Bangalore, December 10, 1999
Internet Auctions. Plenary Talk. At the IEEE Annual Conference, Bangalore, November 26, 1999
Object Oriented Modeling for Supply Chain Management. Invited Talk. At the ORSI National Meeting, Bangalore, July 28, 1999
Auctions in Electronic Commerce. CSA-CSIC One Day Workshop on Electronic Commerce, Bangalore, July 26, 1999
Object Oriented Software Development for Space Applications. Invited Talk. At ISRO Satellite Centre, June 22, 1999
Statistical Tolerancing Approaches to Cycle Time Reduction in Supply Chain Networks. IBM Solutions Research Centre, July 2, 1998.
Modeling and Analysis of Product Design and Development Processes. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, May 5, 1998.
Process Models for Software Product Development. At the Tata Consulting Engineers, Bangalore, September 5, 1996.
Scheduling in Multiclass Queueing Networks. At the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, September 12, 1996.
Process Models for Competitive Product Development. At the Tata Research, Design, and Development Centre, Pune, August 12, 1996.
Scheduling in Computer Systems. At the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, February 2, 1996.
High Performance Scheduling Algorithms. At Bangalore (ORSI-BMA Invited Lecture), January 24, 1995.
Design and Analysis of Scheduling Policies in Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems. At the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, November 24, 1994.
Scheduling Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems. At the Tata Consulting Engineers, Bangalore, July 1993.
Performance Analysis of Computer and Communication Systems. At the Centre for Development of Telematics, Bangalore, October 1991.
Stochastic Models of Flexible Manufacturing Systems. At the Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, June 1991.
Performance Analysis of Parallel Processing Systems. At the Computer Science Department, Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, February 1991.
Modelling and Analysis of Deadlocks in Manufacturing Systems Using Petri Net Models. At the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore, June 1990.
Design and Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Invited Talk. At the Mechanical Engineering Department, Regional Engineering College, Trichy, May 1990.
An Introduction to Modelling and Analysis Using Petri Nets. At the Texas Instruments (India) Private Limited, Bangalore, April 1990.
Modelling and Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing Systems Using Petri Nets. Invited Talk. At the Production Engineering Conference, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, October 1986.