CALCON 2020

Abstract:
Over the past few decades, major developments in the field of biology coupled with advances in various omics technologies, e.g., genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, as well as imaging technologies have led to an explosive growth in the biological information generated by the scientific community. This necessitated the use of innovative computational approaches for analyzing biological data in order to better understand the cellular processes, disease biology and make discoveries. Computational biology and bioinformatics, areas that evolved in response to this challenge, can be viewed as the development and use of computational methods to analyze biological data. Computational methods play a major role in modeling and analyzing biological systems. The interface between biology and computer science has reached a phase where on one hand, advanced technology is challenging developers of algorithms to help analyze the data generated and on the other, the computational scientists are designing methods based on biological observations to solve difficult problems. The synergistic relationship between biology and computer science is destined to grow at an amazing pace, benefiting both the disciplines immensely.

In this talk, we will first provide an overview of molecular biology and bioinformatics. Thereafter some classical and recently developed computational methods that have been used to solve difficult problems in biology will be discussed. These include methods of sequence analysis, micro RNA target prediction, analyses of microRNA induced gene regulatory network and drug design. A few successful applications will be mentioned. The talk will conclude with a mention of some emerging areas of research in computational biology.

Bio: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay joined the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute as a faculty member in 1999, after completing her PhD from the same Institute. She is currently the Director of the Institute. Her areas of research interest include computational biology and bioinformatics, soft and evolutionary computation, pattern recognition and data mining. In these areas she has published more than 300 research articles in various journals, conferences and edited volumes. She has published six authored and edited books from publishers like Springer, World Scientific and Wiley. Sanghamitra has worked in various Universities and Institutes world-wide including in USA, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, China, Slovenia and Mexico, and delivered invited lectures in many more countries. She has received several awards and fellowships including the Bhatnagar Prize, Infosys award, TWAS Prize, DBT National Women Bioscientist Award (Young), INAE Silver Jubilee Prize, Young scientist/engineer medals of INSA, INAE and Science Congress, JC Bose Fellowship, Swarnajayanti Fellowship and Humboldt Fellowship. She is a Senior Associate of ICTP and Fellow of INSA, INAE, NASI and IEEE. She is currently a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India.

Abstract:
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) transistors are ubiquitous in all Integrated Circuit (IC) chips that are used in modern day products like computers and mobile phones. From the early days, tremendous progress has been made by the semiconductor industry to develop this technology, which has enabled billions of transistors in a typical IC chip having the size of a small postage stamp. This has resulted in powerful products and applications that were unthinkable even a few years back (Email, Internet Search, Social Media, Chats, Virtual Reality, to name a few), and has influenced the life of almost all of us in the planet earth.

In this talk, I will cover the following topics:

• CMOS transistor operation and conventional scaling
• Alternative scaling - innovations in materials and structures
• Reliability - transistor ageing and breakdown

The talk will be targeted towards undergraduate students in electronics, electrical engineering, physics, and materials science. I will also discuss about research opportunities at IIT Bombay in the area of semiconductor devices.

Bio: Souvik Mahapatra received his PhD from IIT Bombay, India in 1999. During 2000-01, he was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. Since 2002 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, and presently hold the position of full professor. His research interests are in the area of CMOS and flash memory devices and device reliability. He has published more than 150 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences, delivered invited talks in major international conferences around the world including IEEE IEDM and IEEE IRPS, and has acted as reviewers and chairs of many IEEE journals and conferences. He collaborates actively with many major semiconductor industries, is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, for contributions to CMOS transistor gate stack reliability), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS).

Abstract:
Owing to environmental issues and fast decline in the cost of solar PV systems, traditional coal fed as well as nuclear power stations those are sharing the major percentage at present are no longer the preferred/desired source of energy. Solar PV systems even a decade back were struggling due to reduced efficiency and increased cost of production. However, such systems are now cost competitive and this is set to change the Global Energy Scenario. Several countries around the world including India are having aggressive plans to make existing grids greener. While this is a great opportunity to provide power to 100% of world population through on grid and off-grid (or stand alone) systems, these pose a new set of challenges to maintain quality of service and sustainability of systems. This talk will try to identify some of these challenges and show the present state of the art technology. The current research work on new generators, new way to improve frequency dynamics of ac grids through inertia emulation, new power flow controllers for dc grids will be discussed.

Bio: Prof. Chandan Chakraborty is an IEEE Fellow, and Professor of EE Department IIT, KGP.

About the Speaker: Chandan Chakraborty received B.E and M.E degrees in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1987 and 1989 respectively and Ph.D degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Mie University, Japan in 1997 and 2000 respectively. Presently, he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research interest includes power converters, motor drives, electric vehicles and renewable energy. He is the India-side lead of the UK India Clean Energy Research Institute (UKICERI), which is a consortium of several Indian and UK institutes.
Dr. Chakraborty has received the IEEE Bimal Bose Energy Systems Award in 2019. He has served as Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IE Technology News (ITeN), a web-only publication for IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He has served as a Co-EIC of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics during 2018-19. Presently he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (JESTIE). He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and a Fellow of IEEE.

The pervasive adoption of social media has affected various social and economic aspects of human life. In the organizational context, social media has democratized the organization’s communication, reduced the role of the public relations department and rendered multivocality. It has engendered transparency, eased dissemination of information, and aided deeper involvement with stakeholders. Organizations have either adopted social media in their operations or have been left lurking. Social media adoption has its share of risks and benefits. Organizations need a sound social media strategy, backed with a sound social media governance mechanism. In this session, we will discuss an application of data analytics to the monitor organization’s social media activity.

Profile: Dr. Suparna Dhar has 24 years’ experience in the IT industry with a focus on developing IT solutions for the Fintech space and exploring emerging technologies. She did masters in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and her Ph.D. on Information Systems Management from the Department of Business Administration, Aligarh Muslim University. She is engaged as Associate Professor and In-charge at NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata. She takes interest in academic research on application, adoption, and use of emerging technologies in business; covering analytics, social media technologies, cloud computing, distributed processing, and blockchain.