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URL:https://cds.iisc.ac.in/events/interactive-talk-on-how-fast-can-we-comp
 ute-with-special-mentorship-session/
SUMMARY:Interactive Talk on "How Fast Can We Compute?" with Special Mentors
 hip Session
DESCRIPTION:Greetings from the IISc ACM Student Chapter!\n\nWe are thrilled
  to share that Prof. Sajal K. Das\, a renowned computer scientist\, IEEE F
 ellow\, and esteemed alumnus of IISc\, is visiting our campus as the Infos
 ys Visiting Chair Professor. During his visit\, you will have the opportun
 ity to engage with him through an intriguing talk. Renowned for his except
 ional mentorship and guidance\, Prof. Das will also host a special interac
 tive mentorship session\, which will be followed by high tea. This is a wo
 nderful chance to gain insights from a distinguished expert and connect wi
 th him personally.\n\nWe request you to express your interest by filling o
 ut this form (https://forms.office.com/r/zUf346NxW2). We look forward to y
 our enthusiastic response. Please find the abstract and details of the tal
 k below.\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Prof. Sajal K. Das\, Missouri University of Scien
 ce and Technology\nTitle: How Fast Can We Compute?\nDate/Time: 9th August
 \, 2024 (Friday) 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM\nVenue: CDS 102 Seminar Hall\n\n\n\nAb
 stract: What is Computational Thinking? Do you apply it efficiently and ef
 fectively in daily life? Do you watch movies\, read mystery books\, play a
 ny sports or games? Do you find beauty and joy in learning and problem sol
 ving? Are you motivated? What makes you happy? What is common among passio
 nate researchers\, story tellers\, movie directors\, and sports enthusiast
 s? This talk is an attempt to unfold the mystery by picking simple computa
 tional or recreational problems and solve them fast with elegance and beau
 ty.\n\nBio: Dr. Sajal K. Das is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of C
 omputer Science and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University
  of Science and Technology\, Rolla\, USA where he was the Chair of the Com
 puter Science Department during 2013-2017. Previously\, he served the US N
 ational Science Foundation as a Program Director in computer science. His 
 interdisciplinary research interests include cyber-physical systems (CPS)\
 , IoT\, drones\, cybersecurity\, machine learning\, data science\, wireles
 s and sensor networks\, mobile and pervasive computing\, smart environment
 s\, edge/cloud computing\, and applied graph theory. He has made fundamen
 tal contributions to these areas and published extensively (more than 600 
 papers) in high quality journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings\
 , 59 book chapters\, 4 books\, and 5 US patents. Dr. Das has directed over
  $24 million funded research projects. According to Google Scholar\, his h
 -index is 100 with more than 42\,500 citations. He is the founding Editor-
 in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and serves
  as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure 
 Computing\, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing\, IEEE Transactions on S
 ustainable Computing\, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking\, and ACM Trans
 actions on Sensor Networks. A founder of conferences like IEEE PerCom\, IE
 EE WoWMoM\, IEEE SMARTCOMP\, and ACM ICDCN\, he has served as the General 
 and Technical Program Chair of numerous conferences. He is a recipient of 
 12 Best Paper Awards at prestigious conferences including ACM MobiCom\, IE
 EE PerCom\, and IEEE SMARTCOMP. He also received awards of excellence for 
 teaching\, mentoring\, research\, and innovation including the IEEE Comput
 er Society’s Technical Achievement award and the University of Missouri 
 System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. He has graduat
 ed 11 postdoctoral fellows\, 51 Ph.D. students\, and 31 MS thesis and nume
 rous undergraduate research students. A Distinguished Alumnus of the IISc 
 and an Infosys Visiting Chair Professor at IISc\, Dr. Das a Fellow of the 
 IEEE\, National Academy of Inventors (NAI)\, and Asia-Pacific Artificial I
 ntelligence Association (AAIA).\n\nRegards\,\nIISc ACM Student Chapter
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